1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: Now the guardian Angel of Top Radio is here. Curtis 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:09,319 Speaker 1: Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven ten. 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 2: Woar well, well this is it last time around that 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 2: I'll be substituting here for Mark Simon. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 3: He's back on Monday the fifth. But every time I 6 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 3: come here, I meet alumni from where I used to 7 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 3: be WABC. Is he the board up here crash so 8 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 3: many others who fled like refugees from a station that 9 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 3: has become synonymous now with always blaming Curtis for Zorroonmandami 10 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 3: being the mayor and always bashing Curtis. But anyway, so 11 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 3: is he patronizes me this morning? Oh don't don't do 12 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 3: that to me, please, A very busy New Year's Eve, 13 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 3: very busy New Year's dam. I'm going to get into 14 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 3: it momentarily, by the way, you want to make a 15 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 3: New Year's what a promise elected officials at the MTA 16 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:17,559 Speaker 3: money taking agency, the most inept of the many state 17 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 3: agencies in New York. How about cleaning the subway cars, 18 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 3: the number two, three, and number one that are so 19 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 3: thick with flotsam and jetsam dirt that it was shameful 20 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 3: that I had to explain to tourists who were here 21 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 3: in New York City why we can't clean our subway cars. 22 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 3: I mean filthy dirty. Oh no, but you know our 23 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 3: business here is just to raise the fair and take 24 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:52,279 Speaker 3: more money and provide no service. That's number one, number 25 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 3: two our New Year's resolution from the Sliwa family, we 26 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 3: posted it. You look at all my social network and 27 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 3: just go to act Curtis Lee, it's all there. And 28 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 3: Nancy and I said we want for New Years to 29 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 3: be a time we're all stray and shelter animals will 30 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 3: have a loving home. And there were people who attacked 31 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 3: us for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, haters, man, they hate 32 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 3: animals again. Mahatma Gandhi said, a society that does not 33 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 3: take care of its animals does not take care of 34 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 3: its people. How many homeless and emotionally disturbed persons that 35 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 3: I see today on the way to the studios of 36 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 3: wo or more that I could count on my fingers 37 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 3: and toes. Let that be said, And then the hawk 38 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 3: is talking out there. It's cold. I want to give 39 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 3: a shout out to the Guardian Angels because they were 40 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 3: at Coney Island yesterday for the annual polar Bear plunge. 41 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 3: Thousands on the beach who went running in to the surf, 42 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 3: some of them suffering from exposure. But hey, they were 43 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 3: out there. I gotta tell you that they were not 44 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 3: talking politics. They were saying, the hawk is talking. It 45 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 3: is cold out here, and yet they made the annual plunge. Meantime, 46 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 3: we might as well play from all the sad sack 47 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 3: reports of the inauguration yesterday at City Hall of Zorhan. 48 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 3: You know, ri Em, it's the end of the world 49 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 3: as we know it. Oh, it's over, My god. How 50 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: many months of a campaign did we have where Zorhan 51 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 3: was out there every day, every day? Right, He whopped 52 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 3: Cuomo in the primary, he beat me in Cuomo in 53 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 3: the general election. And yet people were shocked because all 54 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 3: of a sudden he gave a speech after he took 55 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 3: the oath on a Quran. Oh that's it, at the 56 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 3: end of the world. We'll get into that momentarily. Some 57 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 3: of my friends were like, freaking out, a Koran. You 58 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 3: know what that means, Curtis, Well, what does that mean? 59 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 3: Tell me, Well, let's get to what he actually said. 60 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 3: He said, I was elected as a democratic socialist and 61 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 3: I will govern as a democratic socialist. Shocking right. He 62 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 3: said that every step of the way, all through the campaign, 63 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 3: were you not listening? Were you not listening? Well, let's 64 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 3: face it, most New Yorkers have no idea what a 65 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 3: communist is a socialist. If I took one hundred people 66 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 3: put them up along the wall, they have no idea. 67 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 3: A socialist is not a communist. Okay, It's almost like 68 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 3: I have to take everybody to school. And then naturally 69 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 3: when Bernie the out the Coca Sanders graduate of Madison 70 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 3: High School not far away sitting there, shiver me, Timbers, 71 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 3: was Chuck E Chees, Schumer, schmuck, the Putts who got 72 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 3: up halfway and left. He went to Madison High School. 73 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 3: I can run down a whole litany of people went 74 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 3: to Madison High School. What Bernie Brooklyn boy went to 75 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 3: Brooklyn College. You know the rest of the story. So 76 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,559 Speaker 3: he swears him in on the frigid steps of city Hall, 77 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 3: and then the crowd start screaming tax, the ridge tax, 78 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 3: the ridge tax, the ridge. Isn't that what Zaran said 79 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 3: all dren the campaign and said, he said, I don't 80 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 3: even believe there should be billionaires. Are you forgetting that? 81 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 3: People elected this guy on three issues, freeze the rent 82 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 3: city buses, for free universal childcare, all right, and he 83 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 3: engine all of them yesterday. Now. Meantime, while everybody was 84 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 3: determining that this is it, it's over, people were like 85 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 3: getting in touch with me. And see, wait a second, 86 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 3: I'm reading the New York Post. Here it says that 87 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 3: you made a surprise appearance at Mandami's inaugural block party. 88 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 3: That's right, because I wasn't invited with the elites at 89 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 3: city Hall. I certainly wasn't invited like Eric Adams, who 90 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 3: one moment people may boom me. I don't know if 91 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 3: they want to be there. Oh god, what a crook. 92 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 3: The best thing about the dropping of the ball, I mean, 93 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 3: the absolute best thing was the way Andy Cohen went 94 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 3: off on him with Anderson there Anderson Cooper and just said, 95 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 3: get out of here, you cook, your corrupt, You're horrible. 96 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 3: I mean, he just went off. I thought we could 97 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 3: revive a game, you know, instead of the Wheel of 98 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 3: Fortune you or by merv Griffin with Pat Sajack and 99 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 3: Vana White. I think came about in seventy five, although 100 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 3: I think the first host, correct me if I'm wrong, 101 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 3: was Chuck woolry. I think could be wrong. I didn't 102 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 3: ask for you, is he man? Just stop patronizing me, 103 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 3: do me a favor? Huh? That really bothers me. And 104 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 3: we could call it the wheel of corruption. City Hall 105 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 3: for sale under Eric Adams as he left twenty nine 106 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 3: indictments right either members of his administration, top aids, allies, donors, 107 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 3: including himself, and he's in moaning and going on and 108 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 3: do nothing wrong. Well, you know, I don't generally like 109 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 3: Andy Cohen. Obviously he had been bending his elbow, he 110 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 3: was half in the bag. But I give him the applause. 111 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 3: Thank god. That is the best thing getting rid of 112 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 3: the crook Eric Adams. And by the way, I warned 113 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 3: everybody when I ran against him at twenty twenty one, 114 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 3: is he You were there, You remember at the time 115 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 3: I said, this guy's a crook and this guy is 116 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 3: corrupt and we will have chaos. Was that wrong? They 117 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 3: had a survey on his way out. It said zero 118 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 3: percent of all those surveyed said he did nothing good. 119 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 3: I would give him, on one credit, the best night 120 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 3: light mayor we've ever had since Jimmy Walker, because that's 121 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 3: all he would do is go to a nearby club 122 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 3: to the break of dawn. It didn't matter what burrow 123 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 3: until four in the morning. Him and Jimmy Walker had that. 124 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 3: By the way, if you're watching any movies, you watch 125 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 3: the Bob Hope movie about the other corrupt mayor Jimmy Walker. 126 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 3: Really good performance. And that's the white version of this 127 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 3: swaggerman with no plan Eric Adams. Ooofa. That made me 128 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 3: feel good. But then all of these people say, how 129 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 3: come you went? How come you stood in line with 130 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 3: all the Zorinistas. Because I don't just base what I 131 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 3: say on what I hear in the news or I 132 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 3: see on TV or I scrolled to. I like to 133 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 3: be there in person. And so I came out of 134 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 3: the subway and I was online with all the Zorinistas. Yea, 135 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 3: the people who elected Mandami Meyer, not the elites at 136 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 3: city Hall. And I waited my turn to get in 137 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 3: and watch. I was online at twelve. Didn't get into that. 138 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 3: What they called that, I guess they said it was 139 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 3: going to be a block party. There was no no 140 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 3: real party, poorly organized. I didn't get in till two thirty, 141 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 3: that's how long the lines were. And oh boy, people 142 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 3: were saying, how come. All these Zorinistas were hide fiving 143 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 3: you because they under stud I'm standing out there with 144 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 3: all them, you know, like a real person, not up 145 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 3: in the suites in the streets like I always am, 146 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 3: subways in streets and having a lot of conversations all 147 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 3: city and State. Was that they can believe it, big 148 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 3: article on the Wall Street Journal, Q and A with me. 149 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 3: You know at the end of the year, if you 150 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 3: get a chance, you gotta read these really good But 151 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 3: the main thing is I was saying to h those 152 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 3: who hates or On and a lot of my fellow 153 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 3: Republicans who are attacking. In fact, this was some of 154 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 3: the really crazy stuff Curtis to disease are On and 155 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 3: his wife rom the night before. You saw how they 156 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 3: went down into that subway that's underneath City Hall, the 157 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 3: first subway ever created in a vast subway system. That 158 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 3: is really an architect who will wonder he's got the 159 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 3: terror courtA Tiles brash shand of Lee is to say, 160 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 3: distinctly European appearance. I actually him credit. Remember the other 161 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 3: day I said, Wow, if I had been lucky enough 162 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 3: to been elected mayor, I would have never thought of that. Good, good, idea. 163 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 3: So that's where he had his original swearing in. Once 164 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 3: the ball dropped in Times Square. Do you know what's 165 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 3: happened since people come up to me and they say, oh, man, 166 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 3: you know he got sworn in on the Koran. I said, yeah, 167 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 3: he's a Muslim. Did you you find that surprising? He 168 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 3: said that every day of the way. I think he 169 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 3: visited every mosque in the five boroughs. Surprise, surprise. Yeah. 170 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 3: But by him being sworn in down in that subway tunnel, 171 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 3: it was a secret message to Hamas that I got 172 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 3: your back, that I support you. I said, you really 173 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 3: believe that crap? Oh yeah, yeah, it's all subliminal. It's messaging. 174 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 3: I said's just a great location, a great venue. Oh no, no, 175 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 3: you don't. You don't understand chritis. I said, well, let 176 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 3: me get back to this whole like of being sworn 177 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 3: in on a Qur'an. I said, you realize that we've 178 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 3: had presidents who are not sworn in on a Bible. 179 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 3: In fact, they weren't sworn on any religious book. What 180 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 3: I remembered, you folks out there can correct me wrong 181 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 3: if I'm wrong, because you know I will admit when 182 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:25,959 Speaker 3: I'm wrong. I will fess up when I mess up, 183 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 3: and feel free to do so, because that's really what 184 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 3: talk radio is. It's your turn to be heard. Eight 185 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 3: hundred three two one zero seven ten eight hundred three 186 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 3: two one zero seventy ten. If I remember from my 187 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 3: history lessons, Thomas Jefferson ever got sworn in as president 188 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 3: on a Bible. The guy who followed them, John Quincy Adams, 189 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 3: he believed separation of church in state. He got sworn 190 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 3: in on a book of laws. He refused to be 191 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 3: sworn in on a Bible. Franklin Pierce, another president of laws. 192 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 3: I'm not being sworn in on the Bible. And Calvin Coolidge, 193 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 3: one of our worst presidents, was a Puritan, and he said, 194 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 3: I'm not being sworn in on a Bible. Yeah. But 195 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 3: Curticiz's different. He was sworn in on a Koran. He's 196 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,839 Speaker 3: a Muslim, and anybody voting for him not realize he 197 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 3: was a Musclim. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But Curtage, this is 198 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 3: not right. I said, excuse me, Do I not remember 199 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 3: a visit that Johann Mandami took to the White House? 200 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 3: You remember that visit? Right? Oh? Man? Now, Cami Mandamie, 201 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 3: I can't wait to take all the money from the city. 202 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,680 Speaker 3: You can't be electing this guy, this communist, right, Remember 203 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 3: it wasn't Trump saying that like every day, and then 204 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 3: all of a sudden, I love fest. A love fest 205 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 3: was like Barney, I love you, you love me. Oh, 206 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 3: we're gonna be helping him. We agree on a lot 207 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 3: more than I thought. I think he'll do a great job. 208 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 3: I'd be comfortable living in New York City with Mondamie 209 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:15,439 Speaker 3: is Maya who said that Donald Trump. Oh, they're the best, 210 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 3: the best. He's gonna be fine. Hey, Zoon, you wanna 211 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 3: call me a fascist, don't worry, call me a fascist. 212 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 3: We got played ladies and gentlemen. And so when I 213 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 3: turned to Maga people and Republicans, I say, you know, 214 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 3: the president is embracing By the way, did the President 215 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 3: put out a tweet on truth social condemning Joran Mondamie's 216 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 3: swearing in by burning the out the Coca Sanders with 217 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 3: AOC they did? He No, he's embraced the guy. Oh no, no, no, 218 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 3: But there's a strategy here, Curtis. You gotta understand that 219 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 3: he's gonna let Zoron let his guard down. He doesn't 220 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 3: really mean it. What do you mean he doesn't really 221 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 3: mean it. He said it before the world. Oh you'll 222 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 3: see Curtis, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you you you gets like 223 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 3: you keep believing that, all right, you keep believing that 224 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 3: the President said on November twenty first, in the White House, 225 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 3: with zor unerstanding right there, the better he does, the 226 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 3: happier I am. And by that, by the way, hours 227 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 3: before that, the House of Representatives had passed a resolution 228 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 3: denouncing the horrors of socialism. All the Republicans that you 229 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 3: hear from here at WOR and other stations, and eighty 230 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 3: six Democrats. So you figured that zarn MONDAMMI was gonna 231 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 3: catch a verbal beat down, and in fact it was 232 00:15:56,160 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 3: a love fest. So ladies and gentlemen, and don't get 233 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 3: on my case. This is what you do to respect 234 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 3: the process, the change of one party to another party, 235 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 3: one political ideology to another political ideology. That's what our 236 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 3: American democracy is about. So I didn't get invited to 237 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 3: the inauguration. I just showed up to the block party 238 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 3: so I could share some of my experiences with all 239 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 3: of you and see for myself. Because I challenge authority. 240 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 3: I don't care if it's Trump Zorhan, Democrats, business leaders, 241 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 3: cultural leaders. I don't just repeat and regurgitate whatever I 242 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 3: hear from the people I like. I challenge authority, and 243 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 3: there's nobody out there who's gonna give you a better 244 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 3: analysis of what took place yesterday in the freezing cold. 245 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 3: And by the way, really didn't matter because most of 246 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 3: the zoronista's young millennials gen zas. If they had been older, 247 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 3: oh boy, it would have been ice cube. Hell. Our 248 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 3: numbers one eight hundred and three to one zero seventy ten. 249 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 3: That's one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. 250 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 3: While online, I was alerting all these Zorinistas that artificial 251 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 3: intelligence is coming for you. We're gonna talk about that later. 252 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 3: I'm gonna do my tribute to Bernard McGirt that I 253 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 3: used to do every year at WABC that they never do. 254 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 3: I mean, that was a radio guy. And we're gonna 255 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 3: talk about the crime of the century. Up next, Bitcoin cryptocurrency. 256 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 3: I call it crime coin and the biggest Ponzi scheme 257 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 3: that has ever existed in American history. And some of 258 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 3: you are being lured into it because Trump, who said 259 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 3: it was bitcrime at one time, then got all that 260 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 3: money from the crypto monsters, and now he's the number 261 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 3: one advocate of crime coin one eight hundred three two 262 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 3: one zero sevent. 263 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: Ten Street Smart Straight Talk Curtis leewa guest host for 264 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,879 Speaker 1: Mark Simone on sevent ten woor. 265 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 3: But I tell you, is he stopped glazing me. Huh. 266 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 3: Don't patronize me, huh. Now I'm gonna teach everybody something 267 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 3: about crime coin aka bitcoin, the biggest Ponzi scheme ever, 268 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 3: Bernie Madoff, he can't touch this anyway. The other night, 269 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 3: before New Year's Eve, before the ball dropped, they're running 270 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 3: across some of these young millennials. You know, they're all 271 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 3: into bigcoin. You know they're financial advisors. So let me 272 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 3: ask you a question. Who created crime coin aka bitcoin? 273 00:18:54,400 --> 00:19:00,159 Speaker 3: I don't know. Sato Shi Nakamoto, Hi Hi hi Ho 274 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 3: Shi na Kamoto. I didn't know that. You know, nobody 275 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,880 Speaker 3: ever saw this guy. They claim he created this electronic 276 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:15,239 Speaker 3: care system mind like one million bitcoin, and then all 277 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 3: of a sudden, nobody hears from them, nobody sees them, 278 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 3: And in twenty eleven, three years later, he goes, I 279 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 3: moved on to other things. Ha moved on to other things. 280 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 3: That's a racket. So he created this bitcoin and first 281 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 3: blockchain database that pave the way for cryptocurrency and what 282 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 3: I call a Ponzi scheme. And right away the FBI 283 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 3: and Interpol were warning us that organize international crime is 284 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 3: gonna lawn the money through bitcoin and beware this wallet exploitation. 285 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 3: And so I'm talking to these folks and yeah, yeah, 286 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 3: but it's the coming way. Man. You can make a 287 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 3: lot of money. Ponzi schemes make a lot of money too. 288 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 3: Remember Bernie Madoff and Sam Blake Minfried. Remember the guy 289 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,959 Speaker 3: who looked like he fell out of his bunk, that 290 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 3: FTX boy who is in prison, but no doubt he's 291 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 3: probably gonna try to seek a pardon like the guy 292 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 3: who funded him into business originally. And this is what's 293 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 3: got my blood boiling with Donald Trump now, who at 294 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 3: first used to call bitcoin crin coin, used to say 295 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 3: it was a scam, it was a Ponzi scheme, And 296 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 3: all of a sudden, he has become the first crypto president. 297 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 3: He's ended regulations, he launched a trump Coin, He's linking 298 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 3: crypto to the stock market world, liberty financial Oh boy, well, 299 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 3: all this money borrowing for crypto and then there'll be 300 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 3: a crash and then and everybody will say that's what happens. 301 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 3: It's a gamble on Wall Street. No, no, no is 302 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 3: a difference. It was this guy Jao who actually put 303 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 3: Sam Bankman Freed into business at FTX. He's the richest 304 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 3: man in crypto. He admitted to a federal government that 305 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 3: he did money laundering that allowed terrorists and other criminals 306 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 3: to move money on finance. They sent him to jail, 307 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 3: and guess who pardoned him, Donald Trump, the crypto president 308 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 3: who owns his own crypto empire with his family. And 309 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 3: it's now called what is that, liberty, liberty world, liberty, 310 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 3: financial outrage. Oh you can't say that, Yes, I can 311 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 3: come on. Any of you out there, know this is 312 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 3: a Ponzi scheme. People are gonna be lord in now 313 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,239 Speaker 3: that the president and his family are all involved, and 314 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 3: you know they're giving their sanctifying it, and they're gonna 315 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 3: be investing money, and then the crypto criminals are gonna 316 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 3: rip them off. In fact, they're gonna use what they 317 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 3: call a wrench attack. The thief enters your house or 318 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 3: your place of business. It's like being hitting ahead with 319 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 3: a wrench until you give up the password. You know 320 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 3: what that is? You have any ideas? He study up 321 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 3: on it, because your generation is getting all geeked up, 322 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 3: you know. Oh yeah, Bitcoin douche coin. Yeah, so these steams, 323 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,239 Speaker 3: many of them degenerate gamblers because they're young, and you know, 324 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 3: they're on FANDU and they're gambling away money they don't have. 325 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 3: There's still millions from bitcoin users. They empty their crypto wallets, 326 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 3: they under the money and then they laugh about it. 327 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 3: But are you being told about that? Ladies and gentlemen, 328 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 3: do you ask about that? Do you challenge authority? Do 329 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 3: you say, why is the most powerful man in the world, 330 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 3: the President of the United States and his family, getting 331 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 3: involved in his business that appears to be by anyone 332 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 3: looking at it, a Ponzi scheme. Oh but you can't 333 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 3: say that, Yes I can. I'm an American citizen. I 334 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 3: have a right to challenge authority, as all of you should. 335 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 3: And when I'm giving the opportunity to do talk radio, 336 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 3: I don't do talk radio like everybody else. You know, 337 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 3: they get their talking points, whether they're on the left 338 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,360 Speaker 3: of the right, God forbid, they actually question their gods. 339 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 3: Zorhanmandamis he's now you know he's going to a form 340 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 3: of idolatry, Donald Trump idolatry. You dare question anything that 341 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 3: doesn't make sense? Oh you're a call me whatever you want, 342 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 3: because I am Curtis Leewer. And when he doesn't sound 343 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 3: right and it looks crooked, look at Eric Adams, the 344 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 3: most crooked mayor of all time. And I told you 345 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 3: about that when I ran against him in twenty twenty one. 346 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 3: And thank god Andy Cohen when the ball dropped in 347 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 3: Times Square, reiterated that I get the hell out of here. 348 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 3: Eric Adams. He has left a stain on the soul 349 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 3: of this city. And I told you about that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 350 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 3: It's I'm on, dummy. I was elected as a democratic 351 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 3: socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist. Isn't 352 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 3: that what He's at every step of the way. Shocked? 353 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 3: And the President has said nothing, but it stole his virtues. 354 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 3: Wake up. I number's one eight hundred and three two 355 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 3: one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three two 356 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 3: one zero seven ten. 357 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: Talk Radio with Street Crag literally Curtis Sliwad joined sevent 358 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: ten wor to guess those from Mark Samos. 359 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 3: It's right. You know you have guests or callers. I 360 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 3: don't want them glazing me either, you know, patronizing me. 361 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 3: Really what you want as a guest who is an adversary? 362 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:30,120 Speaker 3: And then you have a discussion likewise with callers who 363 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 3: needs this Barney talk all the time? I love you, 364 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 3: you love me? You know. You go to MSNBC, it's 365 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 3: all the same people. It's like they're in their court, 366 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 3: acquire same thing Fox News Channel. The whole idea is 367 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 3: you get different points of view and you come to 368 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 3: your own conclusion. What's wrong with that? Oh no, it's 369 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 3: got to be all I love you, you love me. Get 370 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 3: out of here. That's that's not Curtis Sleeverer. Anyway, let's 371 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 3: go to the phones. First up, it's in Brooklyn. Your 372 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 3: turn to be heard here on sevent ten wor Curtis. 373 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 4: I just want to tell you from that other station 374 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 4: they censored me, going back to the month of October 375 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 4: when they started to ramp up their rhetoric against you. 376 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 4: I think you know who I am, and I was 377 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 4: one of your biggest cheerleaders, not only on that station 378 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 4: but everywhere. They would not take my calls. I tried 379 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 4: to point out to everyone. I did a deep dive 380 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 4: into the details of all of these so called polls, 381 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 4: and I explained to them how there was no way 382 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 4: that Cuomo could ever win that election, and because of that, 383 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 4: they stopped taking my calls and I stopped listening to 384 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 4: that station. 385 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 3: Good good, Well, let me tell you, Jacqueline, for many 386 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 3: of you, and I know you're out there because you 387 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 3: come up to me all the time. You're texting me, 388 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 3: you're sending me emails, all of that. Good. Hey, you 389 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 3: don't need to go back to that back and Curtis stuff. 390 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 3: You stay right here seven ten w what right? You 391 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 3: got enough good talk here to satisfy your needs. Don't 392 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 3: be a massive kiss and go back there. By the way, 393 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 3: updates when I do my tribute to Bernard mcgirka, they 394 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 3: never do with WABC any longer. Is that the guy 395 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 3: in the morning, you know, Sid Tessio. He's planning to 396 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 3: move to Florida. Oh yeah, yeah, they're hurts you a 397 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,120 Speaker 3: get right there out of here. They're not gonna stay 398 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 3: and fight. No, no, no, no, they don't believe improved. 399 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 3: Don't move. They want out. Look, you're free to go. 400 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 3: This is the greatness of America. If you're not happy 401 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 3: in our trach state area here or anywhere you move around, 402 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 3: it's called migration. It's what's made America great. I don't 403 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 3: fault any of you if you do that. I've chosen no, no, no, no, 404 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 3: I improve, I don't move. I fight for what I 405 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 3: know is right. Unsure. I'm ondami is going to initiate 406 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 3: ate something that I'm in opposition to with others. It's 407 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 3: to the barricades, right out of them? Me? Is that 408 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 3: up to the barricades? See got a place you can come. 409 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 3: They don't need to go to WABC, always bashing Curtis 410 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:21,919 Speaker 3: and obviously where the talk show hosts and hostesses are 411 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 3: all preparing to abandon ship. Oh I know I have 412 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 3: it on good authority. Let's go to Russ who's calling 413 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 3: from White Plains. Your turn to be heard here at 414 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 3: WABC lost toys down there? Did they not know that 415 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 3: you sacrificed an Ivy League education for freedom from Jackson Tis? 416 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 3: I mean, Curtis your crusader. Oh stop placing me. Here's 417 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 3: another one patronizing me. I did not sacrifice an Ivy 418 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 3: League education. Let's get the record straight. I was going 419 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 3: to Brooklyn Prep. I was a senior there. Jesuit High 420 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 3: School was the last year they were open, seventy two. 421 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 3: I was the student government president. We took a pleb 422 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 3: site not to wear the jacketson ties, which were part 423 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 3: of the tradition. I tried to enforce the plever site. 424 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 3: The Jesuit's warned me, say, there will be consequences for 425 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 3: your actions. Why do you think your mom and dad 426 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 3: and other parents worked so hard so their kids can 427 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 3: come and get a good Jesuit education. Part of it 428 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 3: is the discipline of wearing a jacket in tie. But hey, 429 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 3: as in the sixties the counter culture, don't trust anybody 430 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 3: over thirty. Challenge authority, as I always dot. But the 431 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 3: best lesson that I ever got taught was there are 432 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 3: consequences for your actions. Uh. The headmaster was a guy 433 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,959 Speaker 3: named Father Alexander. It was a prefect of discipline. Always 434 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 3: hated me. They marched me to my locker. I had 435 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 3: a clearer out. I thought everybody else would join me, 436 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 3: right to a walk out. They looked at me as 437 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 3: if I was a member of the Leper college. And 438 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 3: I never heard from any of them. And I headed 439 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 3: home to Canarsy and I never looked back, never looked back. 440 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 3: Spent a few weeks in Canarsie High School, pretty good 441 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 3: local high school, but that was it. I had it 442 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 3: one out, started working. I was pumping gas, packing shelves 443 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 3: at NAP and A and P, and then ended up 444 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 3: going up to the Bronx where I became the night 445 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 3: manager of Mickey D's. And that's where I started the 446 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 3: Guardian Angels. So I never finished high school technically, never 447 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 3: got a GED. I did have a partial scholarship that 448 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 3: was being offered to me from Brown in Providence because 449 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 3: they had just set up an environmental studies program. I 450 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 3: had started some of the first recite kling centers all 451 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 3: over the country, although right there in Brooklyn, and they 452 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 3: wanted to give me a half scholarship, which I probably 453 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 3: would have taken if I graduated. But I my decisions 454 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 3: caused me to suffer the consequences. And this is what 455 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 3: you have to learn and teach your children and grandchildren 456 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 3: growing up. And sometimes you have to learn the hard way. 457 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 3: There are consequences for your actions, and that's the way 458 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 3: it should be. Let's go to Leonora's calling from Connecticut. 459 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 3: Your turn to be heard on what I Hope is 460 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 3: your favorite station seven to ten w or Leoni. 461 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 5: It absolutely is, especially now that you're on it. Curtis, 462 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 5: I just want you to know I checked out for 463 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 5: the holidays. I didn't know where you were when I 464 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 5: put on War, and there you are. I freaked out. 465 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 5: I can't believe it. I'm thrilled you' here in. Anybody 466 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 5: who's who was pissed off that you didn't drop out 467 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 5: of that race can go spin because anybody who knows 468 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 5: you knows that you are not going to back down. 469 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 5: And I'm proud you didn't. Mcdonmie was gonna win no 470 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 5: matter what. Cuomo was never gonna take it. I don't 471 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 5: care who was paying him or what was going on. 472 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 5: Mcdonmie was gonna take it. And I am proud you're 473 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 5: on w O War And I'm so excited to start 474 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 5: my new year out this way. So keep it going, Curtis. 475 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 3: All right, Well, remember remember Leonora. For everyone who's just 476 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 3: listening now, I'm only here's upstanding for Mark Simon, the 477 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 3: best in the business. I mean, this guy's the smooth operator. 478 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,959 Speaker 3: All right. I've worked side by side with Mark Simon. 479 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 3: I competed against Mark Simon. There were none betic, none 480 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 3: better than the business and the person who is jumping 481 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 3: up and down looking forward to Mark's return on Monday. 482 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 3: The fifth is Greg Kelly over at WABC, because I'd 483 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 3: walk in. I'd walk into that studio. BB's sitting there 484 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 3: snacking off of Mark Simone's shows, taking off all kinds 485 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 3: of notes. That's how we would do a show prep, 486 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 3: which is a pretty good idea, especially when you're like 487 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 3: Greg Kelly and you don't do any show prep and 488 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 3: you think you could sit there for three hours and 489 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 3: just do a stream of consciousness. Now it doesn't work. 490 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 3: So he'd be taking notes, you know, like comedians would 491 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 3: be stealing lines from one another. By the way, we're 492 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,240 Speaker 3: gonna be talking about AI in the next hour, let 493 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 3: me quantify it. It's like Joe Biden. It's a plagiarism 494 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 3: machine that steals and plunders all kinds of information. So 495 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 3: like comedians used to steal from one another, and Greg 496 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 3: Kelly steals from the best in the business, Mark Simon. 497 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 3: Not they're wrong with Dad. I know you're listening now, Greg, 498 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 3: You're disappointed because you the kind of stuff I'm talking about, 499 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 3: you wouldn't be picking my pocket. But It's okay. Mark's 500 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 3: coming back on Monday. You'll have somebody to do your 501 00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 3: show prep for you. Up next, gotta pay tribute to 502 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 3: one of the greats. I know he's on every Monday 503 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 3: with Larry Mente Warner Wolf. Oh, what a great story 504 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 3: about Warner Wolf still kicking it down to Fort Myers. 505 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 3: And then the tribute to Bernard McGirt that they don't 506 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 3: even do a WABC any longer, I mean, the most 507 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 3: loyal person ever ever in this thing of ours. 508 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:37,240 Speaker 6: Radio Now more with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis 509 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 6: Slaywah guest hosting from Mark Simone on seven ten wo 510 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,320 Speaker 6: wo oh. 511 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. 512 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,760 Speaker 3: I look forward a Monday morning when Warner Wolf joins 513 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 3: Larry Minty as he does every Monday. I'm down there, 514 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 3: I think Fort Myers and Naples, Florida. I remember the 515 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,280 Speaker 3: last I heard big time from Warner not him personally, 516 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 3: but scrolling through I saw the news that Warner Wolf 517 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 3: had decided to go out to the sign outside of 518 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,840 Speaker 3: his home in an uh you know, a compound, a 519 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 3: gated community where it was a homeowner's association and take 520 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 3: down the sign plantation. He didn't want it, thought that 521 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 3: they lived on a plantation. He didn't like the connotation, 522 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,960 Speaker 3: and they locked him up and he fought it and 523 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:31,799 Speaker 3: asked Warner Wolf a great, okay, let's go to the videotape. Well, 524 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 3: you need to know about Warner Wolf's He spent many 525 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,479 Speaker 3: years with him at WABC. That was a tough job 526 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 3: getting him over there because he no longer was doing 527 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 3: sports on television. Tim McCarthy, who was our general manager 528 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,280 Speaker 3: at that time, comes to me, I'm doing the morning 529 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 3: program with Ron Koby, whose mommy is a coming the 530 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,280 Speaker 3: predecessor to zoron mondomi. If you want to know anything 531 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:03,359 Speaker 3: about zoraon Mondomie, he's ron Coooby. Except now you could 532 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 3: get elected Maya saying that back then they'd want to 533 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,640 Speaker 3: lock you up. But anyway, the point is, Tim McCarthy says, 534 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 3: I got a great addition in the morning show, what 535 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 3: a Wolf wants to do sports for you guys in 536 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,879 Speaker 3: the morning. I said, Oh man, it doesn't get any 537 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 3: better than that. Oh, ron Koby, Well he'll cut into 538 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:24,040 Speaker 3: talk time, I said, trust me, Ron, people would much 539 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,399 Speaker 3: rather listen to Warner Wolf than you and me, because 540 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,880 Speaker 3: he doesn't just talk sports. He'll talk about whatever's on 541 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,040 Speaker 3: his mind. I said, you know, Warner Wolf both made 542 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 3: his moans in radio before television. I said, his parents 543 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:42,799 Speaker 3: were out in vaudeville. This guy's a great entertainer. No, no, no, Well, 544 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:47,440 Speaker 3: eventually I was able to hold sway. Warna joined us. 545 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,799 Speaker 3: What a great combination, and I will never forget one 546 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:54,239 Speaker 3: of the greatest talk radio moments. He's describing how he 547 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,360 Speaker 3: and his wife had gone on a tour of Europe 548 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,359 Speaker 3: and I don't know if they were visiting Paris at 549 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 3: the time or Vienna. One of those balconies were Hitler, 550 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,839 Speaker 3: after taking over the country with the Nazis, had come 551 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 3: out onto the balcony, and you know there were cheering 552 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 3: tens of thousands of Vshi or Nazi sympathizers. And Warner said, 553 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,640 Speaker 3: I walked out towards the balcony. I could imagine Adolf 554 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:26,279 Speaker 3: Hitler standing there, and I had a twenty two, and 555 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,920 Speaker 3: I walked up behind him and I pulled the trigger 556 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:34,080 Speaker 3: and I blew his brains out. I don't care if 557 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,719 Speaker 3: they would have shot me dead right there his body. Guy, 558 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:41,399 Speaker 3: I said, you actually says yes, I've had that that 559 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 3: that thought when I was there with my wife and 560 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,480 Speaker 3: I thought about him many times, if only somebody had 561 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:52,680 Speaker 3: done that when this monster was rising up. Man, I 562 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:59,080 Speaker 3: was riveting talk radio. It was so good. And then 563 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:05,080 Speaker 3: of how, of course his emphasis on sports talking about 564 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,840 Speaker 3: other issues of the day. I'll never forget. He's up 565 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,240 Speaker 3: at a gym like fifteen nine Street, Columbus Circle nearby. 566 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,759 Speaker 3: He lived there, and he'd be working out in the 567 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,719 Speaker 3: public gym and guess who would come in and work 568 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 3: out next one Madonna. Yeah. And the guy was like 569 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 3: a Germapholbe. He would never open up the bathroom with 570 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,840 Speaker 3: his hands. You'd always have tissue paper and toilet paper 571 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,160 Speaker 3: and you know, bounty towels, just like some of you 572 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 3: out there Germa folks. He would never talk on on 573 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,920 Speaker 3: he doesn't touch it. And if I remember correctly, he 574 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 3: said I never drank water. It's like a Drummond Derry, 575 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,840 Speaker 3: you know, a one hum camel never drank water. What 576 00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:51,239 Speaker 3: a great personality. Best thing that ever happened to me 577 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,080 Speaker 3: in radio was bringing Warre a wolf on board, who, 578 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,680 Speaker 3: by the way, remember had been with Imus in the 579 00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:03,240 Speaker 3: morning doing sports when the World Trade Center was attacked 580 00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,399 Speaker 3: on nine to eleven, And he didn't lived too far 581 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 3: away and he gave great commentary as to what was transpiring. Unfortunately, 582 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:20,480 Speaker 3: too many people never were exposed to warn a Wolf, 583 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,600 Speaker 3: not only in terms of his great ability on television 584 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 3: doing sports, but how vaudevillian he was, what a great entertainer, 585 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,960 Speaker 3: what great stories he could tell, which is everything that 586 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:37,680 Speaker 3: makes radio great. It isn't just regurgitating what was in 587 00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:42,160 Speaker 3: the news. Anybody could do that. It's connecting the dots 588 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,919 Speaker 3: and relating it to stories that not only you grew 589 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:51,440 Speaker 3: up with, but maybe you were personally involved with. And 590 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:56,680 Speaker 3: the fact that you can turn to wr and he 591 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,560 Speaker 3: won a Wolf with Larry MENTI in the Morning is 592 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:04,200 Speaker 3: truly blessing of talk radio, because if you're listening to 593 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,880 Speaker 3: WABC always bashing Curtis, you end up listening to the 594 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,480 Speaker 3: Eye and Me guy. You know, Sid Rosenberg, it's all 595 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:17,160 Speaker 3: about him. He thinks he knows everything about sports. At 596 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 3: that time, it was Warner Wolfe who was doing the 597 00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,359 Speaker 3: sports on the I Miss in the Morning Show, and 598 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:27,239 Speaker 3: the guy who made that show work was its executive producer, 599 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:32,640 Speaker 3: Bernard McGirk. I will share with you some stories up next. 600 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,600 Speaker 3: I do it. I did it every year when I 601 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,680 Speaker 3: was at WABC, when he used to be always broadcasting 602 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:42,239 Speaker 3: Curtis because they didn't do it, which they should have. 603 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,600 Speaker 3: This guy knew more about radio, the ins and outs. 604 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,560 Speaker 3: He would be a consigliary with the guests off I 605 00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 3: miss when Imus would blow up. He'd booked the guests. 606 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:58,120 Speaker 3: He'd read the books. That's why he was a constant 607 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,000 Speaker 3: reader of books. And he would speak to I Miss 608 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:05,280 Speaker 3: in the headphones, and I Miss would repeat what Bernie said, 609 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:09,399 Speaker 3: and then I Miss, in a break, would scream unmentionables 610 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,719 Speaker 3: to Bernie and his staff. Oh yeah, yeah, you don't 611 00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:16,400 Speaker 3: want to go anywhere. Attribute to Bernard McGirt, one of 612 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,880 Speaker 3: the great voices in all of talk radio.