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Speaker 1: The Beret is back.

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Speaker 2: Curtis leewa guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven ten.

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Speaker 1: Woo back to save talk radio.

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Speaker 2: That's the mission I've been given so many people telling me, Oh,

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Speaker 2: you gotta come back, you gotta come back on the air.

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Speaker 2: This stuff is killing me out there. You know, like

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Speaker 2: a guy like Greg Kelly over at WABC, what's he

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Speaker 2: gonna do? Mark Simon's away today, will be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: And that's Greg Kelly's show prep. Without Mark Simone, He's

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Speaker 2: got nothing to talk about. He basically repeats everything that

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Speaker 2: Mark said on his show. Oh enough enough, we gotta

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Speaker 2: go to the phones. I promised you that. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to Jane, who's calling from Connnecticut. Your turn to be heard?

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Speaker 2: He on the voice in New York WA seven and Jane.

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Speaker 3: Hi, good morning, Curtis. How are you?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I hear you.

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Speaker 2: Find I'm fired up back here where I need to

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Speaker 2: be on talk radio. I got the orders from head quarters,

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Speaker 2: my wife.

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Speaker 3: That is great. Thank you so much, Curtis. Curtis, I

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Speaker 3: just wanted to tell you I'm a Connecticut resident. As

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Speaker 3: you had stated, I would have voted for you had

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Speaker 3: I been in New York I admire you. I've admired

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Speaker 3: you for a long time. I love what you were doing,

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Speaker 3: what you have continued to do, you and your lovely life, Nancy.

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Speaker 3: You know your support for everything, the things that New

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Speaker 3: York City needs. And because I do work in New York,

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Speaker 3: I'm very close to the issues that affect to New York.

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Speaker 3: So I've just got to tell you I admire you.

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Speaker 3: So I just wanted to call and tell you that today.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Thank you very much, Jane.

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Speaker 2: Although enough of this, I would have voted for you,

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Speaker 2: Dizzy Izzy if everybody who's come up to me in

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Speaker 2: the subways and streets because I'm there every day.

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Speaker 1: Uh oh, I voted for you.

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Speaker 2: If they had voted for me, I would have been

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Speaker 2: the mayor of the City of New York and we

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Speaker 2: would have been in a much better shape.

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Speaker 1: Right, but please don't glaze me. Wait a second.

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Speaker 2: That's that's for the millennials and Gen zee Is, people

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Speaker 2: who are my generation, right, you baby boomers out there.

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Speaker 2: You probably think I'm talking about glazed donuts. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: that's the term that has made me uber popular with

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Speaker 2: the millennials in Gen z Is. I say, don't be

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Speaker 2: glazing me, because a lot of people do and on

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Speaker 2: this format here, w R.

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Speaker 1: Don't be glazing me.

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Speaker 2: Huh, don't be pulling my chain and chewing my shorts.

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Speaker 2: That's the way we would have said it in the

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Speaker 2: old neighborhood. By the way, curling, you know, Olympic sport,

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Speaker 2: Winter Olympic sport couldn't be any more boring, like some

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Speaker 2: of talk radio I've listened to lately, And so my

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Speaker 2: wife was asking me about it.

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Speaker 1: I said, it's like bacchi.

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Speaker 2: You know, my grandfather if he Dela Bianchino played Bacci

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Speaker 2: with the other gumbas in Kanarsi, you know, they'd be

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Speaker 2: smoking a crooked Italian cigars at theanobla, they be speaking

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Speaker 2: their dialect, cursing one another. It was boring with bachi.

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Speaker 2: It's boring with curling. Oh, we got to under this

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Speaker 2: boring repetition of talk radio. It's like God, be curious,

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Speaker 2: challenge your doughty, ask questions. Don't be sequel fans, Tody's

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Speaker 2: and lackeys, and allow for other points of you to

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Speaker 2: be hurt. That's the American way. Let's go to Chris,

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Speaker 2: who's calling from Beth Page. Your turn to be heard

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Speaker 2: here seven to ten w or R Chris.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Curtis, I got an even money bet with a

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Speaker 4: friend that somehow Steve from Manhattan sneaks onto the air

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Speaker 4: in some way today anyhow. But I know you're good

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Speaker 4: at rooting him out anyhow, Curtis. The reason I called was,

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Speaker 4: I vote it for Trump. I like Trump, and I

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Speaker 4: disagree with you most of us, I'd say, like ninety

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Speaker 4: percent of us. Aren't these lackeys that everything he says.

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Speaker 4: We think he's stupid a lot of stuff. We voted

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Speaker 4: for his policies. He's got great economic policies. He closed

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Speaker 4: the border, gas is cheaper, you know, you go on

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Speaker 4: and on with his great policies. He's a great president,

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Speaker 4: I think. But he's not a good human being. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 4: I would never hang out with the guy. He sounds

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Speaker 4: like a more on half the time. But I like

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Speaker 4: his policies and that's what we vote.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, that's that's extraordinarily fair.

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Speaker 2: Chris, like wanting to take over Canada, wanting to take

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Speaker 2: over Greenland, Like, really, do you think if he had

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Speaker 2: said that, let's say, in the campaign against first Biden

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Speaker 2: and then Harris the bifer kated campaign do you think

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Speaker 2: if he had said, oh, when I become president, we're

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Speaker 2: going to take over Canada, We're going to take over Greenland.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he would have won that an election?

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Speaker 4: Not at all? Okill no, but that's but that's him,

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Speaker 4: you know him art of the deal. He's hung out

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Speaker 4: with him, you know his deal. He does what he

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Speaker 4: can to get what he wants and then he goes

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Speaker 4: bats And that's you know, I do that, I know,

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Speaker 4: but but.

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Speaker 2: You see, problem is now, if you believe that we

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Speaker 2: have to have balance in government and Republicans and I

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Speaker 2: am a Republican, we need to win the midterm elections,

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Speaker 2: those kinds of attitudes are going to be hurtful to

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Speaker 2: the ability to maintain the majority. And you know, if

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Speaker 2: the Democrats Hakeem Jeffries becomes a speaker he loves for that,

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Speaker 2: you imagine the schmuck to putch CHUCKI Chi Schumer returning

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Speaker 2: his majority leader of the Senate. Oh my god, that

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Speaker 2: guy is an advertisement for term limits. And it's not

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Speaker 2: just him. They're Republicans senators there. What are they going

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Speaker 2: to be one hundred years old until death? Do us

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Speaker 2: part term limits for everyone? Let's go if we can

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Speaker 2: to at this point, I believe it is Sophie who's

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Speaker 2: calling from Connecticut. Your turn to be hurt here on

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Speaker 5: Sophie, good morning, Courtis we spoke years and years ago.

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Speaker 5: I am also polish that you have Polish in Connecticut,

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Speaker 5: as you know. The reason I'm calling. I listening to

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Speaker 5: what was happening the election and how wrong it was.

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Speaker 5: And I'm very concerned about the power of w ABC

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Speaker 5: owner into this whole election and political issues. Even this morning.

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Speaker 2: I know sobe They bashed me all the time. It's

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Speaker 2: over three months. Dominic Carter wouldn't have a show unless

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Speaker 2: he spent half of it bashing me and blaming me

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Speaker 2: for Johann Mandami, and they.

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Speaker 1: Had no impact.

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Speaker 2: First they supported Eric Adams right the Swagerman with no

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Speaker 2: plan to cook. Then they supported Andrew evilized Como Facha

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Speaker 2: Brutta that he lost too.

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Speaker 1: So don't think they're all that powerful.

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you just based on the people who

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Speaker 2: come up to me who identify themselves as WABC listeners,

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Speaker 2: they say, I miss you on WABC.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I get that.

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Speaker 2: And since the mayor's race has ended, I listen less

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Speaker 2: and less to WABC and tune into other stations. And

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Speaker 2: that's true. You look at the ratings they have plummeted

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Speaker 2: at WABC. Time spent listening is down noticeably. They run around,

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Speaker 2: pat each other on the back so hard they'll have

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Speaker 2: to go for a chiropractic adjustment.

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Speaker 1: But it's not good talk radio, it really is.

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Speaker 2: That's why my wife has finally said to me, your

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Speaker 2: job is to get back into action and that thing

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Speaker 2: that you've done for thirty five years, talk radio with

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Speaker 2: everything else that I'll be doing because I have a

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Speaker 2: mission to save talk radio and make it come telling

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Speaker 2: and interesting and non predictable. Why should I listen to

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Speaker 2: a show today what I know they're gonna say the

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Speaker 2: same thing today that they said last week, that they're

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Speaker 2: gonna say next week, which is bored