1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: leewa guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven ten WOAR. 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 2: As I continue on here in my substitution role, well 4 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 2: my new found friend, then station seven to ten woar, 5 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 2: which I hope will be all of yours, substituting for 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 2: the best guy in talk radio in the trich State area, 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 2: bar Non Mark Simone. I mean he's a smooth operator. 8 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 2: And I'll be with you until January second, the day 9 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 2: after the ball drops, you know, I'm in Times Square 10 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 2: with the Guardian Angels. And then the next day we'll 11 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 2: see about the inauguration of Johan Mandami with Bernie the 12 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 2: out the Coca Sanders standing there in city Hall. Look 13 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: a lot to deal with coming up, but a lot 14 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 2: to deal with me here and now, because is he 15 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 2: who's on the boards formerly a refugee from WABC. Used 16 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 2: to be always broadcasting Curtis No more, it's always booked 17 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: bashing Curtis so good, good that you hear? Is he 18 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 2: much better place? And as you know from my many 19 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 2: years of broadcasting, whenever the temperatures would get below freezing, 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 2: I would have a phrase that was taught to me 21 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 2: by my father Chester, who grew up in the Chicago 22 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,839 Speaker 2: area right off of Lake Michigan, when there were real 23 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 2: winters with real snow storms twenty foot more before we 24 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 2: had global warming and climate change. I know a lot 25 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: of you it's a fake fake, it's not fake global 26 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: warming and climate change. Let me tell you it is 27 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: not fake. But no hawk is talking. Now, you're not city. 28 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 2: I've heard that phrase over the years. What does that mean? 29 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 2: The hawk is talking? Actually came out of Chicago's South Side, 30 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 2: where my dad was from and his family on the 31 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 2: polar side of my family forty six in Rockwell. I 32 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,839 Speaker 2: actually spent four years going up there from ages one 33 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 2: to five and then came back to Brooklyn. But the 34 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 2: hawk was talking, I think was first said by Louis Armstrong. 35 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: That's say, play that horn. Louis from North Corona in Queens, 36 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 2: right opposite where Tony Bennet grew up, the crooner from Estoria, 37 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 2: the estorya kid. Yeah, oh they got him. You see 38 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 2: him near the house of Louis Armstrong. But Louis Armstrong 39 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 2: would come into the South Side black jazz clubs frequented 40 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 2: by whites and blacks, interracial crowd and because it felt 41 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 2: like it was forty degrees below zero wind chill fact 42 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 2: up because the winds were coming off of Lake Michigan. 43 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 2: He would say, the hawk is talking because his lips 44 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 2: which is so frozen. Like the other performers, they tell you, basically, 45 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 2: it's gonna take like five or ten minutes from my 46 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 2: lips to unfreeze. So I be able to play that 47 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 2: horn now, which probably didn't know, or maybe some of 48 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 2: you knew that Louis Armstrong probably consumed and inhaled and 49 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 2: exhaled more reef for more marijuana than anybody else during 50 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 2: the jazz era. That's what he was knowing. In fact, 51 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 2: he would actually shotgun you through the horn, which meant 52 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 2: basically he would inhale it and then exhal it through 53 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: the horn and right into your schnazola. Long before the 54 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 2: nineteen sixties, peace, love and happiness, Hate Ashbury Woodstock, half 55 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 2: a million strong up the New York State through it. Yeah, 56 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 2: a long time before the era that we called the 57 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 2: counterculture there. I grew up in the ear of the hippies, 58 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 2: era of the Hippies. Well, anyway, the hawk is talking, 59 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: and it reminded me at the times we would go 60 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 2: visit the Polish side of the family Christmas Easter. My 61 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 2: dad had put everybody in the fifty four Ford station 62 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 2: wagon Old Betsy, you know, whitewall tires, wood panels, and 63 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 2: we'd be going through all different areas. I mean, we 64 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 2: ended up going across Phillipsburg from Jersey, across the bridge 65 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 2: through Easton, which was the home of Larry Holmes world 66 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 2: champion heavyweight. Obviously not back in the early sixties when 67 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 2: we were riding through there. And then I remember Allentown 68 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 2: and Bethlehem had the US Steel Plan going. Now it's 69 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 2: a casino, and we go through Pittsburgh three ships around 70 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 2: the clock on an orange plume would hang over the 71 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 2: city because of all the steel mills. And then eventually 72 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 2: through Gary, Indiana, South Chicago, the steel mills there going 73 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 2: three shifts right into Chicago itself. That's when Steele was 74 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: king in the United States. Now you have US Steel 75 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 2: partly owned by the Japanese, partly owned by the United States. 76 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: To the Trump administration to keep all that steel being 77 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 2: made here, right boy, that's a throwback. And I remember 78 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 2: we'd go out to the sleep With compound. By then 79 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 2: they were out in Lockport, which was between Joliet had 80 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 2: that walled prison there in Chicago, and they had the subdivisions, 81 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 2: and my job was to go out and slap the hogs. 82 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, slap the hogs after the feed for the family. 83 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: And I learned there were the two of the smartest 84 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 2: animals ever, the hogs, the pigs and the crows who 85 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 2: were out there in the cornfields, you know, with these 86 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 2: scarecrows trying to scam away. My dad, in fact, when 87 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 2: he was young, had Jimmy the crow was his pet. 88 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 2: He would fly with him to and from school to 89 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 2: Sherman Park in his public school, and he would wait 90 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,919 Speaker 2: there on the window sill until my dad was ready 91 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 2: to walk home again to the south side. Forty six 92 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 2: and Brockwell, that's a little bit of that side issue. 93 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 2: But let's talk about this storm warning and the fact 94 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:24,119 Speaker 2: that many of you are you know, well, you gotta 95 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 2: sort of go back in time to remember when heavy 96 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 2: snowfalls were common and now it's an exception to the rule. 97 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 2: And I've always said, why is it different now? I 98 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 2: say global warming, climate change. Look what's happening in southern 99 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 2: California there. It's like a tsunami has hit the area. 100 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 2: But oh no, no, it's of course not you know, Okay, 101 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 2: you could have your opinion. I have my opinion. But 102 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 2: I remember it'd be like fourteen sixteen foot of snow 103 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 2: had to go out, put the chains on the tires 104 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 2: the buses, the klang klang huge, I mean, the sanitation 105 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 2: bulldozers would push the snow all to an area, you know, 106 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 2: almost like amount rushmore there on the corners. You don't 107 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 2: have that anymore. And it's interesting as we were hearing 108 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 2: these forecasts, because Nancy was driving me all through the 109 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 2: tri state area visiting her relatives. 110 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 3: Uh. 111 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 2: And also, oh, some interesting information I picked up at 112 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 2: a copper crow remember as the crow flies. That's on 113 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 2: Broadway and Olmony Capitol Land. What is that is the 114 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 2: crow flies? It's the most direct straight line distance between 115 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 2: two places. Yep, a great place, coppyler. And man, did 116 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 2: I learn a lot about how Republicans are throwing the 117 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 2: party under the bus that will not have those chains, 118 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 2: those old iron chains at all. No, no, no, no, but 119 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 2: thrown under the bush with as you know, Alice Stephonic 120 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 2: leaving the race. Oh that's gonna be operation hush hush, 121 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 2: mush much. You're not gonna want to miss it because 122 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 2: I'm connecting all the dots. As i worked my way 123 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 2: through troy Almanies, connected the Hamilton Hill, all these places 124 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 2: again with the predictions where snow. You know snow is coming. 125 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 2: What I said as the crow flies, a lot of 126 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 2: crows up there, smart animals, smart birds and anyway, I 127 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 2: said to myself, Wow. And then people coming up to me, 128 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 2: no matter where I was, because obviously I'm wearing the 129 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 2: red but Ray, the red SAT Team jacket, and they're 130 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 2: giving me all kinds of information about what I should 131 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 2: be doing with my life. Yeah, is he I'm up 132 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 2: there in Capitol Leant. Oh man, you should be on 133 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 2: WG wire. I heard you on WO off and watch 134 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 2: some morth. I said, why would I want to be 135 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 2: on WGY A ten big station up there in Albany. 136 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 2: But I'm not coming up here at Albany. I've spent 137 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 2: time in the South End in Aubury, Hilm. I'm not 138 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 2: coming up to Albany. And then on my way down 139 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 2: at one of those rest stops in the New York 140 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 2: State Thruway, you know, before we hit Marwall. You know, 141 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 2: we went from Rockland and then into New Jersey and 142 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 2: now threw Fortney over the GW bridge and I looked 143 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,079 Speaker 2: up and there was Eric Adams, a swaggerman with no plans, 144 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 2: apartment that he's lived in for years, you know, with 145 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 2: his what is no his boo, his beard, Tracy and 146 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 2: then the other girl friend, the weightlifter underneath apartment twenty 147 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 2: two eighth. I'm not going to give you the address, 148 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 2: And I said to myself, man, I've come full circle. 149 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 2: And then as we finally get into the apartment, it's 150 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 2: in the wee hours in the morning, and what does 151 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 2: my wife do, Nancy the best thing that ever happened 152 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 2: to me. She starts binge watching The Office, you know, 153 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 2: the show from Stratton, Jersey with Steve Carell as Michael 154 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 2: and Dwight and Jim. And she's got on the episode 155 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 2: which is I guess you'd call it the snowball episode 156 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 2: Classy Christmas, in which the whole concept is it's not 157 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 2: a real snowfall if it's just a dusting of snow. 158 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 2: Oh man, if you haven't seen this, you gotta you 159 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 2: gotta watch that episode. Well, one of my favorite TV shows. Again, 160 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 2: Nancy loves to binge watch, you know. As we come 161 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: into New Year's I'll be very busy, as I always am, 162 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 2: but uh never busy enough to miss Rod shirling in 163 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 2: the Twilight Zone and the non stop showing of some 164 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 2: of the greatest TV programs of all time. Speaking of 165 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 2: upstate New York state, if he was from Beington, New York, 166 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 2: Day finally put up a statue to his honor in 167 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 2: the park. Deb Boy, I'm moving in a lot of 168 00:10:54,480 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 2: different directions here because a true snow snowfall is determined 169 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,839 Speaker 2: by whether you can make snowballs, whether it's packing snow, 170 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 2: because if it's too light, you can't make a snowfall. 171 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 2: Even if there's some accumulation, it's all about packing snow. 172 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 2: And already you heard the news reports are there. They're 173 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 2: moving out there with all the rock salt. They're spreading 174 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 2: it in advance. Why why you know is he where 175 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 2: the rock salt comes from? Do you have any idea 176 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 2: underneath Detroit? When I was in Detroit, they have canyons 177 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 2: under ground in which they are mining salt rock salt 178 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 2: now for de icing, But back then when I first 179 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 2: saw it, leather, food, processing, all things underneath Detroit, a 180 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 2: thousand feet down. I don't know if people will where 181 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 2: are that that's where the salt comes from. And I'm saying, 182 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 2: why are you gonna throw salt on the ground. First 183 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 2: of all, it's gonna eat up the asphalt. Then you're 184 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 2: gonna have potholes of the size of lunar craters. And 185 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 2: then while you're driving along they already hate drivers in 186 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 2: so many places, especially New York City. Now you're undercarriage 187 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,959 Speaker 2: is gonna be thrown out all of a sudden, Your 188 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 2: bull bearings will need adjustment, your trott will end up 189 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 2: sort of becoming bent into shape. You have to end 190 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 2: up in a fender bended shop. And a lot of 191 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 2: that has to do with it's spreading rock salt to ride. 192 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,319 Speaker 2: Why not do what they do it up in Wisconsin 193 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 2: where they're used to actual snow or for lake mission 194 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. Is they spread a combination of beats, yeah, beats, 195 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 2: a brine or a cheese brine so that it doesn't 196 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 2: end up destroying the asphalt and creating those potholes which 197 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 2: become lunar craters. And by the way, then the deer 198 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 2: come out. That's the other problem in Wisconsin. The deer 199 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,439 Speaker 2: come out and they want to lick up the beets 200 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 2: and the cheese off the asphalt. And boy, we saw 201 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 2: a lot of deer on all way down coming from 202 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 2: Capital Land last night. And I know for some of 203 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 2: you you look at deer as if it's agent Orange 204 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 2: in hooves, because they eat up everything like a pac 205 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 2: Man packed woman. Don't say that to my wife, Nancy, 206 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 2: Oh my god, you'd be going to war with her. 207 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 4: Hey. 208 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 2: Look, that's just a little thumbnail sketch where I was 209 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 2: and what we were doing as a family. And also 210 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 2: the information that I learned on this lie hush hush, 211 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 2: much mush about how Key Republicans are working in tandem 212 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 2: to destroy the Republican Party as we know it in 213 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 2: New York State, New York City and actually turn it 214 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 2: into a wing of the old moderate Democratic Party. Well, 215 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 2: you don't want to go anywhere? Are you gonna go anywhere? 216 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 2: All this information that I'm bringing to you, Like Paul Revere, 217 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 2: I'm warning you in advance, doing all the groundwork, and 218 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: now it's in your place to be. Seven ten War 219 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 2: our favorite radio station in the sliewa household, and yeah, 220 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 2: our cats love listening to it too. The Voice of 221 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 2: New York. The numbers eight hundred three two one zero 222 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 2: seven ten. That's eight hundred three to two one zero 223 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 2: seven ten. The Pulse of New York. 224 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: Now on the Voice of New York, Curtis Sleewall guest 225 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: host from Marximon on seven ten war. 226 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 2: Let's talk about it being the pulse of the tri 227 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 2: state area. That's where I was in the last forty 228 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 2: eight hours since I was talking to all of U 229 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 2: s ubstooting for Mark and Grey was with the orange cone. Hell, 230 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 2: you know, if you driving around, they got the orange cones, 231 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 2: and they got the orange barrels there with the reflector 232 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 2: tape so you could see it at night. And you 233 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 2: say to yourself, that's symptomatic of the problems that we 234 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 2: have with our infrastructure wherever you see those throughout Pennsylvania, 235 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 2: New Jersey, Upstate New York, wherever we went here in 236 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 2: New York City. And Nancy had the responsibility to drive, 237 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 2: believe it or not. I don't have a driver's license. 238 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 2: I've driven before when I was a teenager. You know, 239 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 2: it took to test, obviously, no problem. The written part 240 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 2: problem was parallel parking. I had long hair at the time. 241 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 2: My cousin Lenny beans me on Chino said, Hey, just 242 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 2: put a twenty. Just put a twenty there right right, 243 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 2: so that the instructor could see it. You'll pass. I 244 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 2: wasn't going to bribe the instructor. And he did not 245 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 2: like long hair. He attributed it or you must be 246 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 2: a hip, must be part of the anti war movement. 247 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 2: And every time it would get to the parallel parking stage, 248 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 2: I would flub it. No license, but I drove for years, 249 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 2: but I don't drive now. My wife asked to do 250 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 2: all the driving, and all she asked for all she needs, 251 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 2: Like for so many of you listening wherever you are, 252 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 2: even throughout the world as you're listening, is seven to 253 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 2: ten WR because I know you are. You're contacting me. Oh, 254 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 2: listening to it in Shanghai, that was interesting. But anyway, 255 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 2: my wife, she just needs a good cup of cool feet. 256 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 2: So yesterday, as you know, a lot of places that 257 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 2: closed for Christmas, the only time of the year they closed. 258 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 2: And we're at a Starbucks and all places Troy, New York. 259 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 2: It's open and not far from Russell Stage College. Great, 260 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 2: great college. Yeah, and were you in there like an hour? 261 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 2: Just get a cup corfee and like I'm not gonna complain. 262 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 2: My wife Nancy. She's doing all the driving, but it's 263 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 2: like an hour for a cup coolfee. We could have 264 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 2: gone to one of the gas stations and she goes, 265 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 2: I ain't drinking gas station coffee, No way. And we 266 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 2: waited an hour and Nancy got her coffeeing. Oh, it 267 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 2: was like a mood elevator without that coffee. Lookout, you're 268 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 2: like like Sybil, multiple personalities, I mean, quite ease, and 269 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 2: I'm sure there are a lot of people out there 270 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 2: the same way. But she got that cup of octane, 271 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 2: that coffee, and she was good to go, and we 272 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 2: continued on our way. But there's fear, fright and hysteria 273 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 2: over the coming snow, and I'm saying it's as we 274 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 2: talk about now the segue into Zora Mandami being sworn 275 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 2: in as mayor, And I know a lot of you 276 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 2: are moaning and groaning, and you you can't get over 277 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 2: the election. He won the election. Get used to it. 278 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 2: If he does good, the city does good, we all 279 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 2: do good, the state does good, America does good. But 280 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 2: for some of you, you want the guy to crash 281 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 2: and burn. I mean every step of the way. Look 282 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 2: that's your thing, but I'll tell you this one of 283 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 2: those litmus tests used to be not just in Chicago, 284 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 2: where my dad would take us during the holidays to 285 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,199 Speaker 2: visit that side of the family, and I remember there 286 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 2: was a Mayor Blandict there. He didn't get the snow up, 287 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 2: and guess what, he lost the election in a primary 288 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 2: to Mayor Jane Burn simply because he couldn't get the 289 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 2: snow up. Had that happened in New York City, John 290 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 2: Lindsay Forest Hills, Oh, the mounds of snow, and he 291 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 2: lost the Republican line to run for reelection in sixty 292 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 2: nine to one on the Liberal line instead because of 293 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 2: the miracle Mets of sixty nine winning and him claiming 294 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 2: he was a lifelong Met fan, of which he couldn't 295 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 2: be like at that time. I only came around since 296 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 2: the early sixties. But typical political form, he lied and 297 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 2: he rode that to victory. But the point being is 298 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 2: with the snows. I remember Rudy Giuliani getting elected, and 299 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 2: I had campaigned with him when he lost first against 300 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 2: David Dinkins I eighty nine and then when he won 301 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 2: ninety three, and that first two years had more snow 302 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 2: than I ever saw before. In fact, it was that one, 303 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,959 Speaker 2: which I think it was like h January twentieth, if 304 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 2: I'm gonna remembering nineteen ninety six, so like maybe the 305 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 2: second year of his mayoralty at thirty inches in Staten Island, 306 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 2: they were twenty inches here in the city. They were 307 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 2: using like salt everywhere. It was like eleven storms that 308 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 2: clobbered us in that year. Loan, I remember it, and 309 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 2: you say to yourself, we don't have that now, and 310 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 2: so you ask yourself, well, why don't we have that. 311 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 2: We're not talking about back into the sixties or the 312 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 2: seventies as I began this program, but right back to 313 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:13,120 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six and a series of snowstorms, and now 314 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 2: we don't have them anymore. And unfortunately Eric Adams is 315 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 2: still the mayor. Is he in any country today? Is 316 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 2: he in Switzerland? Is he in the Caribbean? Western Who 317 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 2: knows that taxpayers expense? And who cares? But the city 318 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 2: claims they're ready, They got all the rock salt ready, 319 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 2: They're already putting a little salt out into the asphalt. 320 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 2: And I'm saying to myself, man, that's gonna eat up 321 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 2: you go along that FDR drivers already a mess, right 322 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 2: you go south from forty second Street, the FTERR Drive. 323 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 2: You're going down past Houston Street a mess. It's like 324 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 2: lunar crater. Hell, nobody fixes it, and this will make 325 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 2: it that much worse. But oh my god, people got 326 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 2: ready to hunker down. How will we survive? What four 327 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 2: inches six inches maybe eight inches? Imagine when it was 328 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 2: regular twenty inches thirty inches. Oh, so much to reminisce about, 329 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 2: but so much to talk about, because it's really your 330 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 2: turn to be heard. That that's really what talk radio 331 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 2: is about. And I'm gonna give you all an opportunity 332 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,880 Speaker 2: on my newfound station on what I hope will be yours. 333 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:29,919 Speaker 2: Listen to station seven ten wor to participate. So is 334 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 2: you gotta be ready? You're multitasking here this morning. Eight 335 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 2: hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's eight hundred 336 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten. And by the way, 337 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 2: if you're stun god, you know, if you dank too 338 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 2: much of the eggnog there was spiked, Hey, don't bother 339 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,959 Speaker 2: call it because I can talk my way to the 340 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 2: break of dawn. As you know, I said, Boy, what 341 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 2: a great Christmas present to be able to do it 342 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 2: here on seventy ten wor to all of you in 343 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 2: the Tri state area beyond our number's one eight hundred 344 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred 345 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten. And up next a 346 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 2: bunch of brothers who were handling those uh orange cones 347 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 2: last night told me I should be doing something else. Yeah, 348 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 2: everybody's an expert out there. Everybody tells me I voted 349 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 2: for you. How'd you vote for me in Hamilton Hill 350 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 2: in Schenectady. Well, well I would have voted for you 351 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 2: if I was in the city. You cocka down, you Pinocchio, 352 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 2: you're lying. I know you want to make me feel better. 353 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 2: But some of the brothers is he were telling me 354 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,880 Speaker 2: what I should be doing with my life now. Everybody 355 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 2: is a program director, everybody is a soothsayer. Everybody wants 356 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 2: to tell me what I should be doing here. Uh 357 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 2: when in fact, you couldn't have been more hopelessly wrong. 358 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 2: What eight hundred and three to one zero seventen. 359 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: The Voice that fights for New York literally Curtis Sleewalk 360 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: guest host for Mark Simone on sevent ten. 361 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:22,479 Speaker 2: Woor oh, you don't want to miss it. As I 362 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 2: was up in the Capitol Land area for the Christmas 363 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 2: holiday to be with Nancy and her family members. Also 364 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 2: is doing some side work getting information about how the 365 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 2: Republican leadership has thrown the party under the bus, this 366 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 2: time against Congresswoman at least staphonic for Kathy the Grifter Hockel, 367 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 2: who was in New York City meeting with key Republicans 368 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 2: lining them up because it's all about following the money. 369 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 2: It's all about follow the money. Oh, I learned a 370 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 2: lot at the Copper Crow right there on Broadway in Almany. 371 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 2: Remember as the crow flies cool and by the way, 372 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 2: the hawk is talking out there. So we'll talk about 373 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: this hysteria and fear and is sweeping the area because 374 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 2: oh my god, there might be six to eight ten 375 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 2: inches maybe more of snow. And I'm saying to myself, boy, 376 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 2: it used to be that all the time as we 377 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 2: would approach the new year. But let's go to the 378 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 2: phones right now, and it's Rob Who's calling from Montclair, 379 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 2: New Jersey. Your turn to be heard? He on seven 380 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 2: to ten, wor Rob. 381 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 3: Hey, Curtis. During that campaign, I heard you maligned a lot, 382 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 3: and I told my friends, you know, I know one 383 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 3: thing about this guy, and it tells me everything about him. 384 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,920 Speaker 3: I teach you the school when Montclair Montclair State University, 385 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 3: and many many years ago, you came with. I guess 386 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 3: it was a WABC basketball team to play the local people. 387 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 3: You probably don't even remember. Well, you got there really 388 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 3: early and I was going to teach a class and 389 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 3: I recognized you, and I said, Curtis, could you speak 390 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 3: to my class. You came, you spoke to him, You 391 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,919 Speaker 3: answered questions. You were as sweet as kind as a 392 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 3: person could be. And that tells me everything I need 393 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 3: to know about you. 394 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 2: Wow. And you remember, and I remember we got beat 395 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,719 Speaker 2: badly the leader of the team at that point basketball 396 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,719 Speaker 2: team because I was known for my sharp elbows. You 397 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 2: got into the paint. I was going to put a 398 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 2: herding on your kidneys and your ribs. Don't come into 399 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 2: the paint. You better be shooting from three point range. 400 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 2: Was Mitch Dolan, who was the general manager and Grandpoopa 401 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 2: of all the stations at that time over at WABC, 402 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,880 Speaker 2: and that guy was a sharp shooter from the outside. 403 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 2: He used to call him, Hey, you know, he's like 404 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 2: the six man off the bench. He come in, boom 405 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 2: in a knock a few back. Oh, I remember those memories. 406 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 2: That was good, Rob, that was good. Let's go if 407 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 2: we can to Ellen, who's calling also from New Jersey. 408 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 2: Your turn to be heard here at seven to ten 409 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 2: wor Ellen. 410 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,919 Speaker 4: Hi, Curtis. I am so thrilled to speak with you, 411 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 4: and so thrilled that you're back on the air. I've 412 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 4: listened to you for so many years with Angels in 413 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 4: the Morning and Curtis and Coobe, and then of course 414 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 4: I got very little sleep because I was listening to 415 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 4: on the weekends overnight on that other station, in additional 416 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 4: listening to your friend Frank overnight also. But I wanted 417 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 4: to ask you something about your father. It's been bothering 418 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 4: me for years. Do you happen to know if your 419 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 4: father was a member of the National Maritime Union. 420 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 2: YEAP for close to fifty years he was a delegate. 421 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 2: He would actually go to battle with the trustees and 422 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 2: the leader of the National Maritime Union, who was corrupt, 423 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 2: Joe Kerr. 424 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 5: I know. 425 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 4: And the reason I'm asking is because for years my 426 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 4: father had had a wholesale optical business and then he 427 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 4: lost it and he wound up working for the National 428 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 4: Maritime Union in that building where all the seamen would 429 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 4: comforted medical needs. And I worked there in the summers, 430 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 4: So chances are your father I met your father. 431 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 2: Oh yeah. And plus back then, you'd have to shape 432 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 2: up for work. So I'd go with my dad and 433 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 2: he'd have to shape up. He was a boson at 434 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 2: that time, which is like the equivalent of his sergeant. 435 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 2: You know, he's part of the union National Maritime Union, 436 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 2: but really a part of management. Also you can't win 437 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 2: for it, and he'd have to shape up like everyone 438 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 2: else to catch a ship that was going out right 439 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 2: near Fourteenth Street where you had the National Maritime Union headquarters. 440 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 2: And it's that building that makes it look like it's 441 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 2: the side of a passenger ship with all those windows. 442 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 2: No longer obviously National Maritime Union. But boy, tremendous stories 443 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 2: that my dad would tell me when he would come home. 444 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 2: He'd be shipped out eight months a year, at home 445 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 2: four months a year, and to make ancillary income, he'd 446 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 2: go out there because he was a master craftsman, and 447 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 2: he worked for my cousin Joey g to teach from 448 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 2: Howard beat you at a construction firm in order so 449 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 2: that me my older sister a leader, my younger sister 450 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 2: Maria to get all the things that we wanted or 451 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 2: didn't want, like my mother forcing me to play the 452 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 2: piano for four years. I hated that every second of 453 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 2: the day that I played. And then when it was 454 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 2: time for my recital at a nearby synagogue in Knarsi, 455 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 2: I was playing Rockmaninoff on the stage. My younger sister, 456 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 2: Maria had played, made every mistake in the world, got 457 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 2: a standing ovation, didn't bother her. My oldest sister, a 458 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 2: very accomplished pianist, and I played rockmano Off. Way through 459 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 2: is He, I forgot where I was. I walked away 460 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 2: from the piano and never came back to play the 461 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 2: piano again. I hated that my friends would be outside. Hey, 462 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 2: come on, Curtis, I gotta practice my piano. Really, are 463 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 2: you a mama Luke? Look as my mom and dad said, 464 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 2: as long as we pay the bills here and you're 465 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 2: living under our roof in our house, you'll follow our rules. 466 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 2: Or hey, you're welcome to hit the highway out there. 467 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 2: See how difficult life is. Oh, what what great role 468 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 2: models they were. They're no longer with us anyway. Let's 469 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 2: go to Glenn, who was calling from New Jersey, your 470 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 2: turn to be heard here on seven ten wo R Glene, goodbody. 471 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 5: Curtis over at the other station there where Greg Kelly 472 00:29:54,320 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 5: has been disparaging you incredible for the first hour of 473 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 5: his show. He spoke nothing about anything but Curtis and 474 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 5: Curtis this, Curtis that, and so forth. He's a loser. 475 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 5: And I had to call in and tell and tell 476 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 5: Greg that he and w R O you a debt 477 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 5: of gratitude for giving one hour of free publicity because 478 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 5: I mentioned to him two quotes. T. T. Bonham said, famously, 479 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 5: any publicity is good publicity, and Oscar Wilde said, the 480 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 5: only thing in the world worse than being talked about 481 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 5: is not being talked about. 482 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, Glenn, so you know Greg Kelly 483 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 2: never comes prepared for a show. That's why you would 484 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 2: listen to Mark Simon. That would be his show prep. 485 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 2: You would actually admit that I'm listening to Mark and 486 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 2: then taking notes. He has no Mark to listen to. 487 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 2: He hates listening to me and gives him something to 488 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 2: talk about because he'd always run out of steam. That's 489 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 2: why they had me in the bullpen. You better jump 490 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 2: in there with Greg he's rowing he's running out of 491 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 2: things to talk about because he didn't do his show prep. 492 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 2: You just don't come on the air and think think 493 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 2: you're gonna be able to do talk radio. Oh no, oh, Bob. 494 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 2: By the way, a suggestion for me by a work 495 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 2: coup at the MTA coming up, You're never gonna oh yes, 496 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 2: you might actually conceive it. This you don't want to 497 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 2: go anywhere, And I'll tell you the true nitty gritty 498 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 2: secret of what's going on behind the scenes as the 499 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 2: Republican leadership in New York State now, as they did 500 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 2: in New York City, are selling out to moderate Democrats, 501 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 2: and they did it against elist Dephonic Now More. 502 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: With New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis Leewah guest hosting 503 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: from Mark Simone on seven ten. 504 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 2: Wah No, I came out of the subway this morning. 505 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 2: I always do with the MTA money taking agency. Some 506 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 2: workers there, the brothers, and they were telling me everybody 507 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 2: is giving me advice. Yo, man, you should be on 508 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 2: Hot ninety seven. More gangs, more drugs, more drivies. No no, no, 509 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,479 Speaker 2: no no. Apparently they had a show that got wiped 510 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 2: out Ebro in the morning. I only knew the one 511 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 2: guy there, Peter Rosenberg. But hey, that's tough times. I 512 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 2: get that, but I ain't. I'm not doing hip hop radio. 513 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 2: And so while we heard you on Charlemagne the God 514 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 2: the Breakfast Glove, Yeah, during the campaign, and I could 515 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 2: kick it with people about hip hop in the streets, 516 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 2: no doubt about it. By the way, I see iHeart 517 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 2: products Charlemagne that got signed up rebooted for like Aaron 518 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 2: Judge money. Hey, he deserves. He told the great story 519 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 2: how his wife took him to his first internship. He 520 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 2: didn't have a car, he didn't have a nickel dimond 521 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 2: penny to his name at a radio station and had 522 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 2: to drive him to him from the job. Well, the 523 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 2: rest is history. And then the brothers were saying, you 524 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 2: saw Nicki MINAJATOI yeah, man, she was attacking the Muslims 525 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 2: for killing Christians in Nigeria. And the President heard it 526 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 2: and he responded, I say, you don't really think that. 527 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 2: Trump responded to Nicki Minajatin, Well, we come back right 528 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 2: here on your new place to be seven ten wor