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Speaker 1: Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis

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Speaker 1: Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten.

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Speaker 2: Woor oh yeah, let's do it day two.

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Speaker 3: As I sit in for Mark Simon, I mean, this

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Speaker 3: is the guy who's smooth. Some of that song by

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Speaker 3: Shah Day nineteen eighty four. I remember hearing it in

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Speaker 3: London first time when I organized the Guardian Angels, their

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Speaker 3: smooth operator. Nobody's smoother in this business, this thing of ours,

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Speaker 3: this is the business we have chosen talk radio. Nobody's

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Speaker 3: done it longer than Mark Simone locally, but I'm sort

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Speaker 3: of the tagalog thirty five years and to be thirty

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Speaker 3: and now at the radio station where it all started

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Speaker 3: for me, not as a host but as a guest.

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Speaker 3: When I got the bug TV bug was rom Perum.

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Speaker 3: That was before WOR Radio seven ten, when I was

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Speaker 3: interviewed by Arlen Francis who had the midday show, when

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Speaker 3: I was the newspaper Boy of the Year having gotten

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Speaker 3: an award from Richard Nixon. And I remember the studios

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Speaker 3: they have fourteen forty Broadway. I think I'm not trying

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Speaker 3: to remember if rom Perum was actually on Channel nine

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Speaker 3: I think it was at the TV studios in Midtown Manhattan,

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Speaker 3: not far from where the ball is going to drop.

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Speaker 3: Welcoming in the new year and the change over from

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Speaker 3: the missing in action mayor the swaggerman with no plan

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Speaker 3: Eric Adams, who got wine dined in pocket lined over

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Speaker 3: the years. Thank god, he'll be gone. Has he gotten

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Speaker 3: back yet? Is he from his perpetual vacation, his travels

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Speaker 3: around the world at taxpayer's expension, sort of like Matt Lauer,

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Speaker 3: remember before he got the boot at NBC. Where's Matt

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Speaker 3: Lawa today? Where's Eric Adams today? On our dime? We're

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Speaker 3: paying for all that. We'll get into all of that.

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Speaker 3: And then also, uh oh boy. At the dysfunctional home

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Speaker 3: of WABC, the former house of always broadcasting critics Sliwa,

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Speaker 3: now always bashing critics Sliwa, one of their hosts just

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Speaker 3: he lost it yesterday. Greg Kelly, Oh my god, he

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Speaker 3: just went on and on. People were telling me on

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Speaker 3: the streets of Coney Island, listen to him, this guy,

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Speaker 3: he's having an episode. He certainly was. Wow And in fact,

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Speaker 3: he used words that I heard that hadn't been said

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Speaker 3: to me on the radio since back in nineteen ninety two,

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Speaker 3: I had on as a guest of Angels in the Morning,

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Speaker 3: where I was hosting with my wife at that time,

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Speaker 3: Lisa and al Lisa Evers at Channel five, guy named

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Speaker 3: Louis Kasman who was like the adopted son of John Gottisenia,

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Speaker 3: and he was coming on to defend John gottisin You,

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Speaker 3: who have been found guilty for the final time triple

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Speaker 3: life without parole because of the rat Sami de Bolgovano

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Speaker 3: and the memory X tapes of conversations they had had

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Speaker 3: over the Ravennight Social club in Italy where he was

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Speaker 3: ordering the executions of his fellow Gambino crime family members.

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Speaker 3: And Louis Kasman was on the air and he was

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Speaker 3: defending him, and it was a very heated discussion, and

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Speaker 3: I remember what Louis Kasmin said. He said, Curtis, you

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Speaker 3: better keep your mouth shut if you know what's good

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Speaker 3: for you. And soon after remember I got shot five

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Speaker 3: times with the hollow point bullets in the back of

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Speaker 3: that yellow cab on my way to WABC. We'll get

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Speaker 3: into that later on, you know what to missaid? Well,

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Speaker 3: yesterday the mow Green there at WABC. Yeah, Greg Kelly,

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Speaker 3: he's like Mo Green from the Godfather. You know, tough guy,

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Speaker 3: tough guy, except these Irish not Jewish. He said exactly

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Speaker 3: the same thing he announces on the microphone, and I

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Speaker 3: heard it for myself. Curtis, keep your mouth shut. If

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Speaker 3: you know what's good for you. What do you think

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Speaker 3: you mean by that? Is that that foe for Gazy

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Speaker 3: rage because he has anger management issues? Well, look, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna get into it. We'll do the deep dive. A

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Speaker 3: dysfunctional former family at WABC tries to still haunt me

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Speaker 3: to this day even though I'm at the station. You

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Speaker 3: absolute best with Larry Mente in the morning and then

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Speaker 3: obviously Mark Simon, my very dear friend in the afternoons

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Speaker 3: for many many years, Sean Hannity, the rock ribbed all

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Speaker 3: American conservative voice of reason from Franklin Square along Island

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Speaker 3: doesn't get any better. And the whole panoply of shows

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Speaker 3: I want to give credit to Natalie the wr team

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Speaker 3: at seven ten yesterday morning before my debut and talked

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Speaker 3: at Coney Island Stillwell Avenue to commemorate, memorialize the death

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Speaker 3: of the Debbie Kowom, also known as the Marina Kowam

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Speaker 3: from Little Falls, New Jersey. You say, who's that? Well,

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Speaker 3: by Joe Biden, bioarchist Harris and yeah, oh yeah, at

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Speaker 3: that time the Biden of Brooklyn, Eric Adams, So we'll

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Speaker 3: be talking about him also later on today. The house

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Speaker 3: mouse said he was for twenty two years as a

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Speaker 3: year's time the memory of the most heinous, horrific crime

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Speaker 3: New York City's history, involving one victim, just wiped from

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Speaker 3: the memory cells. Credit though, to Natalie for bringing that

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Speaker 3: to the surface of what we would do. I'll get

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Speaker 3: Catherine don Levy, a reporter who had covered this horror

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Speaker 3: a year ago. They're now doing a video broadcast to

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Speaker 3: sort of remind people, because it just seems the rest

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Speaker 3: to what the City of New York does not want

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Speaker 3: Look at it, all the series of stabbings that have

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Speaker 3: still living in the system. I know. Coming here this morning,

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Speaker 3: I ran into so many of them, some who I

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Speaker 3: know personally. So we eulogized de Brina Kwam on the

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Speaker 3: Nobody knew. And there are so many thousands of homeless

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Speaker 3: and emotionally disturbed out there. They won't be home for Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Their home is an unsafe shelter, a subway car, a

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Speaker 3: subway station, a platform, a park, or the streets, and

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Speaker 3: they all have a unique story. His DeBie Kwalms the

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Speaker 3: age of fifty seven, she had become homeless, destitute, and

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Speaker 3: clearly was emotionally disturbed when she was set on fire

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Speaker 3: second of last year, at seven point thirty. Where was

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Speaker 3: she from? Little Falls, New Jersey? Grew up in a

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Speaker 3: all American upbringing. She was a cheerleader, mispopularity at Passaic

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Speaker 3: Valley Regional High School, worked in Perkins, a pancake house

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Speaker 3: She was always the life of the party and as

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Speaker 3: so many of her former schoolmates said, she was a

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Speaker 3: She went on to Montclair State College, which is right

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Speaker 3: there in Little Falls, got a job at Sharp Electric

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Speaker 3: time to time we go out with her girlfriends to

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Speaker 3: what happened. Something cracked. She began to fall into an

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Speaker 3: abyss last known to be working in Atlantic City. And then,

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Speaker 3: Maybe he can track them down. I want my mommy.

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Speaker 3: She's crying, she's disheveled. The woman goes and finds the card.

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Speaker 3: She came home for Christmas, at least she thought. She

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Speaker 3: soon ended up over a Grand Central terminal. Almost outreach

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Speaker 3: Little Fools, New Jersey. Soon they took everything from her.

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Speaker 3: She fled. Where to homeless people go when they flee

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Speaker 3: in the winter, they go into the subway, so that

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Speaker 3: this Monthster found her set her on fire. Was there

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Speaker 3: a commemoration, a memorialization yesterday at city Hall? No any

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Speaker 3: other fifty one city council members, No Jessica Tish the

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Speaker 3: They want that image white from our mindsets. It'll never

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Speaker 3: how many of your grandchildren are coming home with your

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Speaker 3: words that we know of mommy. Where's my mommy? And

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Speaker 3: New York Posts, Catherine don Leaving and the rest of

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Speaker 3: the world wanted to remain oblivious, not I in the

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Speaker 3: Guardian Angels. No, we want a memorial placed at that

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Speaker 3: many thousands of homeless and emotionally disturbed some of them

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Speaker 3: buried in Pottersfield, you know where that is. A million

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Speaker 3: bodies are buried there, nameless, faceless individuals. They all had stories,

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Speaker 3: will remember. We should always remember. Our number is eight

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Speaker 3: hundred three to two one zero seven ten. That's eight

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Speaker 1: Streets, Smart straight talk Curtis Leeward, guest host for Mark

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Speaker 1: Simone on sevent ten.

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Speaker 3: Woar back in the rain this morning on my way

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Speaker 3: here the studios my new favorite station, and it should

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Speaker 3: be yours wor seven ten gives you all you need.

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Speaker 3: I ran across those homeless and emotionally disturbed persons that

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Speaker 3: point of this problem wasn't dealt with with comrade Bill

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Speaker 3: de Blasio, the part time mayor, the dope from Park Slope,

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Speaker 3: back porch of Gracie Mansion with his grift of wife.

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Speaker 3: Charlane wasn't dealt with by this swaggerman with no plan,

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Speaker 3: Eric Adams, whose only contribution was tonight life in that

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Speaker 3: he would be at every club till the break of

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Speaker 3: dawn instead of being the mayor. And now at Fosters

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Speaker 3: I don't think he'll have a grip on it, but

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Speaker 3: it's interesting. While I was thinking about that, I said

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as I continue on till January, tewod here for

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Speaker 6: Bob, Thank you Curtis, and welcome back to what it's

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Speaker 4: Hey, Curtis, I'm so happy to hear you back on

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Speaker 5: Great to hear you. Curtis, Curtis, I want to tell

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Speaker 3: up from Florida. He had just been fired I think

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Speaker 3: for like the third or fourth time, not they're wrong

428
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 3: with that. That's how you know how long you've been

429
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 3: in talk radio, how many times you've been fired. But

430
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 3: he was not on the radio. Bernie said, I want

431
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 3: Sid to be with me. And I remember going down Hollywood,

432
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 3: Florida at the hard Rock We had a Guardian Angel

433
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 3: conference of the Floridian Guardian Angels, and I told the

434
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 3: general manager there I would go down and just do

435
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 3: a little background check on city. Had had some problems.

436
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 3: And I talked to a lot of people down there

437
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 3: and said, oh, no, no, no. His days of gallimantin

438
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 3: cavorting getting into trouble, which he's admitted is over. He's

439
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 3: on the straight and arrow. I came back, I gave

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00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 3: the report. I remember walking into the office of Chad Lopez.

441
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 3: He had on his desk a contract to hire Mike Lupeka,

442
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 3: the great sports writer for the Daily News but horrible

443
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 3: on the radio ESPN. You know it's not his medium.

444
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 3: I said, you can't do that, you can't sign that.

445
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 3: That'll destroy WABC. I said, come on, do this for

446
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 3: Bernard McGirk. He's never asked for anything other than that,

447
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 3: And that's what happened. They got that opportunity mid morning

448
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 3: and then eventually the Morning Show. And it's unfortunate that

449
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 3: Bernard McGirk is no longer with us because that was

450
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 3: the ying to Sid Yang, that was his wingman. Sid

451
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 3: was Bernard's wingman, and Bernard was certainly sid Rosenberg's wingman.

452
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 3: In Godfather reference. When you talk about Sid Rosenberg, think

453
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 3: of Tessio. Oh yeah, though, Beret is back.

454
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: Curtis Sleeva guest hosts The Mark Simone Show on seven ten.

455
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 3: Wal is Erek Adams swagger man with no plan? Is

456
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 3: he back yet from vacationing at our tax bears expense?

457
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 3: Where is Eric Adams this morning? As he plays out

458
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 3: the clock? It's interesting the Anti Defamation League has issued

459
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 3: a report on some of the people affiliated, which are

460
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 3: I'm Mandami the incoming mayor as having had relationships with

461
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 3: schooly Louis Farakhan in the Nation of Islam. Question is

462
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 3: should that eliminate you from consideration of having any place

463
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 3: in government period? Well, it should have eliminated Eric Adams

464
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 3: from ever becoming mayor of the City of New York.

465
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 3: I wonder you when I ran against him in twenty

466
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 3: twenty one, remember in those two debates, I said he

467
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 3: is crooked and there will be chaos, and oh boy,

468
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 3: was I right. But he won't go away quietly. He

469
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 3: just vacations at taxpayers expense. And now all of a

470
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 3: sudden he's the first to question people's credentials when in fact,

471
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 3: you couldn't have been any more supportive of Schooy Louis

472
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 3: Fara Khan back in the nineties and the early two

473
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 3: thousand period. Yeah yeah, I know, I know. So is

474
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 3: a good litmus test relationship to fra Khan. I think

475
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 3: every rapper would have to be excluded because look at

476
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 3: their Instagram and who's their ninety two year old Schooy

477
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 3: Louis Farrakhah and the worst anti Semite in America. Now

478
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 3: the Red.

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Speaker 1: Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall guest host the

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Speaker 1: Mark Simone Show on seven ten Woo.

481
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Speaker 3: This is the place that you should be all the

482
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 3: time to get your talk radio information, news, and most importantly, entertainment,

483
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 3: because that's what talk radio should be. If it's good

484
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 3: talk radio, if it's not entertaining, hmm wow, see you later.

485
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 3: And that's those are your options. Nowadays you have so

486
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 3: many options to be able to listen, to look at

487
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 3: read many many more than when we were all growing up.

488
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 3: I remember in the wee hours of the morning, I

489
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 3: would be listening to a little Sony transistor radio underneath

490
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 3: the pillow in my room in Canarsi being raised by

491
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 3: my father, Chester merchant seaman close to fifty years my

492
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 3: mother Francesca, dental technician, and they would sort of patrol

493
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 3: the area. Wonder if I was listening, Remember the smell

494
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 3: from that Sony transistor radio. I'd be listening to long

495
00:34:54,920 --> 00:35:00,760
Speaker 3: John Nevilew and Candy Jones. Oh hey had me believing

496
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 3: that Candy Jones was a CIA agent. And you could

497
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 3: actually dig a hole all the way from Bayon, New Jersey,

498
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 3: the gateway to the world, down to Peeking Red China.

499
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 3: There Malchi tongue. They actually had your believe in that.

500
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 3: That's great. Theodore of the Mind. Now person I never

501
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 3: listened to, but was a fixture here wor for years.

502
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 3: Gene Shepherd. A lot of people said over the years, Wow,

503
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 3: you got a lot of Gene Shepherd in you. You

504
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 3: could take sort of a story and build a narrative

505
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 3: around it and sort of transition us almost in a

506
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 3: time machine to a date, place and time different than now.

507
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 3: And once I listened to a few of the old tapes. Boy,

508
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 3: that was a real great compliment, and that was overnight radio.

509
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,959
Speaker 3: Good Overnight radio is theodre of the mind. Lousy overnight radio,

510
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 3: as if you try to do normal talk radio and

511
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:03,479
Speaker 3: it colls flat. One of the things I remember talking

512
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:08,439
Speaker 3: about when I did late night radio at the dysfunctional

513
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 3: station of WABC, which used to be always broadcasting Curtis.

514
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 3: Now it's always blaming and always batching Curtis. Well, I

515
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 3: remember when Scooey Louis Farrakhon came on with it couple

516
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 3: take a couple of nightline. I was talking about the

517
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 3: mothership connection that was circling the world and how many

518
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 3: little jet planes would be emerged and what we clearly understood,

519
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 3: and just listening to his diatribe. This guy, that's why

520
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 3: I call him Scooey Louis Furrikin. And yet he's had

521
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 3: his followers over the years, and now even though he

522
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 3: has somehow survived till ninety two. And you don't want

523
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 3: to miss it, I'm going to tell you a story

524
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 3: where the Grim Reaper could have took him away and

525
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 3: should have in a much earlier time, because, believe it

526
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 3: or not, even at the age of ninety two, the bile,

527
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 3: the anti Semitism continues to pour from his lips. You know,

528
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 3: he's the old school anti Semite. The new Jack, I

529
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 3: guess is Nazi boy. I think he fontes right, that's

530
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 3: the new Jack. But old school O G right, O

531
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 3: G fairy can. But it's now a litmus tests. And

532
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 3: I truly believe if you did a survey in the

533
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 3: African American community of the most respected black African American

534
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 3: figure in America today, first, without a doubt, at Barack

535
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 3: Obama talk about being a smooth operator, like the Shade

536
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 3: song smooth. In fact, if I think if he ran

537
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 3: against Donald Trump, he'd beat Donald Trump nationally, that's how

538
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 3: much love there is for Barack Obama. I mean he

539
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 3: was good. Uh, you know, would come out number two. No,

540
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 3: not not out slim, shady, sharping, No, it would be

541
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 3: Lewis Farakhun. Yes, the legacy of hate continues. It's almost

542
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 3: like a litmus test. I know for a lot of

543
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 3: you you don't follow the world of rap, but I

544
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 3: certainly have. And you look on the Instagram pages some

545
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 3: of the big time rappers, some of them have gone mainstream,

546
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 3: some of them who are doing cartoons, some of them

547
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 3: who are promoting Fortune five hundred products. Some of them

548
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 3: who have escaped going to jail themselves, like Snoop Doggie

549
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 3: Dog who did a drive by shooting in Los Angeles

550
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 3: and a jury all of a sudden said, seeming to

551
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 3: suffer a little dementia, little Alzheimer's. See, I can't quite

552
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:57,439
Speaker 3: connect the dots. Well. He has gone on to become

553
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 3: a superstar in Hollywood, even though he does puff puff

554
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 3: pass all the time. I mean he's in a let's

555
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 3: face it a drug induce psychosis. This guy love Farra

556
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,439
Speaker 3: Can still does right Instagram. There's Snoop Dogg with fire

557
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 3: Can Llo cool Jay right mainstream artist TV shows there

558
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 3: he is the Farra Khannas and she broke my heart

559
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 3: when I saw Chaka Khan Choka Choka Chokka Cohn performing

560
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 3: for Schooy Louis Farakhan. Oh, you go right on down

561
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 3: the line. Kendrick Lamar, was it ice q Iced t

562
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 3: Ice trave and l ice one of the Ice is there.

563
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 3: They're on Fat Joe. It's almost like an insistence. And

564
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 3: when you go to the Instagram site, you gotta be

565
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 3: a picture somewhere of the most virulent anti Semite that

566
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,439
Speaker 3: is approaching one hundred years old. Soon they'll probably live

567
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 3: to them because of all the hate in the bile

568
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 3: that he has ninety two still kicking it. Oh you

569
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 3: know what I mean, the story of how the grim

570
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 3: Reaper could have taken him away, but unfortunately he survived

571
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 3: for another hateful day. Well, now the Anti Defamation League

572
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 3: they're vetting out people who have been appointed to incoming mayors.

573
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 3: Are on Mondami's transitional team. One of them is a

574
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 3: lawyer who has a history of praising and associating with

575
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 3: far Kain, and the question is should that exclude him

576
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 3: from consideration. I don't fault the ADL for vetting these appointees.

577
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 3: That's that's what transparency is. That's that's what should be

578
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 3: taking place, especially when we just went through the anniversary

579
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 3: of the Dreyfus affair. We're the French captain now for

580
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 3: Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans,

581
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 3: sentence to life imprisonment and Devil's Islands, and it turned

582
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 3: out it was the result of severe anti Semitism. Oh yeah,

583
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 3: oh yeah, and the term is Jacque's. In fact, I

584
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 3: think that pedophile on a pedestal. Roman Polanski did a

585
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 3: movie about this. I think so after he escaped to Paris.

586
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 3: In fact, little brief side the bar here, I was

587
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 3: named the Grand Marshall of the annual Pulaski Day parade

588
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 3: for Polish Americans. Up Fifth Avenue you go to the

589
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 3: mass verst at Tank Patrick's Cathedral. I'm coming out with

590
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 3: the tucks and tails and my red beret, and a

591
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 3: tourist bus pulls up from San Diego, where I've had

592
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 3: guardian angels down in Balboa Park gas light district over

593
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 3: in southeast San Diego, some relatively tough areas. People get

594
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 3: off to the bus. They're gonna go on to Saint

595
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,240
Speaker 3: Patrick's Cathedral. They recognize me, they come running up, Curtis,

596
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 3: I didn't know that Polish Americans have a parade to

597
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 3: honor Roman Polanski. No, it's Pulaski. General Pulaski well not

598
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 3: only went into the Deep South and fought regular British

599
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 3: troops in the American Revolution, but they actually have this

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00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 3: huge tomb in statue to him in Savannah, Georgia. You

601
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 3: go throughout the South where I've been Arkansas, you go

602
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 3: to Georgia, you go to Tennessee. They have Pulaski County.

603
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 3: They don't even teach the kids in the schools why

604
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 3: the county was named after Pulaski. In fact, they unearthed

605
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 3: his tomb recently because they said he was a harmaphrodite.

606
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 3: You know what that is is he look it up?

607
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 3: Look it up, go google it. Why would you take

608
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 3: the guy's body out? He was one of the reasons

609
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 3: we won the American Revolution. As we approach our two

610
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty, the anniversary this coming year, an onearthed

611
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 3: his body try to determine if he was a hamafrodite.

612
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,320
Speaker 3: And then, of course it was Kaysjewsco, not Cassiasco, General

613
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 3: Kyjewsco who helped George Washington and convinced him that West

614
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 3: Point should become the college for not just the United

615
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 3: States military, but for engineering, against the will of Thomas Jefferson,

616
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 3: the fellow Virginian of George Washington, who wanted that to

617
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 3: be VMI. Yep, cause jewsto they don't teach you that

618
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 3: in school. But anyway, I mean there was people were

619
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 3: thinking getting off of that tour bus from San Diego

620
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 3: that that parade, the annual Pulaski Day parade, was not

621
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 3: an honor of General Pulaski, but in honor of Roman Polanski.

622
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 3: So the Dreyfish affair, which was based on the Protocols

623
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 3: of the Elders of Zion, which was merculated by the

624
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 3: Cizar of Russia and fed anti Semitism, which has been

625
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 3: a problem for so many decades and has re ad

626
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 3: it's ugly head up again as it always does. But

627
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 3: the one fixture of anti Semitism that has been around

628
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 3: forever and ever is Scooy Louis Farak. And so coming up,

629
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 3: gotta discuss a little bit about Eric Adams, swaggerman with

630
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 3: no plan, who's been traveling around the world at taxpayer's expense.

631
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 3: What was he in Israel? Uzbekistan? He probably can't even

632
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 3: find Whuzbeka stent on a map. Then recently in Mexico.

633
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 3: And we're paying for all this stuff, right, we're paying

634
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 3: for this. This guy was hopelessly corrupt, should have been

635
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 3: actually put in jail, put on trial for corruption. I

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Speaker 3: know all about it. And you remember, do you remember

637
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Speaker 3: is the piece in the monopoly game that we all

638
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Speaker 3: hope that we would get under the Christmas tree as

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Speaker 3: a president from santy Claus, remember missed the monopoly in

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Speaker 3: his tuxedo as he flies out of an open bird cage.

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Speaker 3: That was the corrupt Eric Adams at that annual Alsmith

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Speaker 3: didn't remember where. Trump suggested openly for the first time

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Speaker 3: that he was a victim of law fare, the over

644
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Speaker 3: extending reach of Joe Biden's Department of Justice, instead of

645
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Speaker 3: not realizing as anybody else would, that he got booted

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Speaker 3: out of a prison cell which he would have shared

647
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Speaker 3: with gold bars Bobby Menendez the center of New Jersey

648
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Speaker 3: in his striped convict uniform instead. And now he's acting

649
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Speaker 3: like he did nothing wrong. It's interesting. Three key figures

650
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Speaker 3: on the political scene. Eric with Discraciada never did anything wrong.

651
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Speaker 3: Andrew Evliskromo never did anything wrong. Donald Trump never did

652
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Speaker 3: anything well, they never did anything wrong. They're the perfect people.

653
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Speaker 3: Everything was perfect, perfect, except that's not the case. And

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Speaker 3: I was amazed that last week. I guess he took

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Speaker 3: a pit stop here, you know, and being mayor uh,

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Speaker 3: he decided to bury a time capsule to be dug

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Speaker 3: up in ten years, as if anything that went on

658
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Speaker 3: in his corrupt and chaotic administration which led to the

659
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Speaker 3: election of Zorhan Mandami should be put in a capsule

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Speaker 3: and buried and then brought up in ten years for

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Speaker 3: everybody to take a look at. And I would say

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Speaker 3: the first thing was probably a wad of cash in

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Speaker 3: a red envelope stuffed inside of an open bag of

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Speaker 3: hers sour cream and onion ripple potato chips. That his

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Speaker 3: very dear grifter and bag lady. Oh my god, Oh

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Speaker 3: she was so bad, this woman in attempting to bribe

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Speaker 3: Katie honan of the city. Oh man, it's like he's

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Speaker 3: trying to reinvent history. But his love affair with Fhara

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Speaker 3: Khan goes back quite a bit. In fact, in the

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Speaker 3: nineties he decided that he would run for Congress against

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Speaker 3: Major Owens because Major Owens, along with David Dinkins, the mayor,

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Speaker 3: said no, Fara Khan should not speak in New York

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Speaker 3: And at that time Eric Adams took money from the

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Speaker 3: Nation of Islam, had a Nation of Islam members collecting

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Speaker 3: signatures to qualify him to run, and was endorsed by

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Speaker 3: Schooie Louis fara Khan and used to hang out with

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Speaker 3: his very dear friend Conrad Muhammed at the Nation of

678
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Speaker 3: Islam Mosquin, Harlem. Now, people didn't want to talk about

679
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Speaker 3: that in the election of twenty twenty one. They basically

680
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Speaker 3: took the etcher sketch out And if you ever asked

681
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:18,439
Speaker 3: Eric Adams about Scooy Louis Farakhan, he would sitestep that issue. Look,

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Speaker 3: he's not an anti Semite, Eric Adams, there's no doubt

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Speaker 3: about it. But he did have a major love affair

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Speaker 3: with Scooy Louis Farakhan. That's well noted. But people didn't

685
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Speaker 3: want to talk about it then. So the question is

686
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Speaker 3: any kind of relationship that you had or you have

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Speaker 3: with Skooy Louis Farakhana the Nation of Islam, should that

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Speaker 3: immediately disqualify you from having anything to do with the

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Speaker 3: government the boy A lot of people in government would

690
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Speaker 3: now have to recuse themselves and may have to look

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Speaker 3: for a different occupation. Our numbers one eight hundred and

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Speaker 3: three to two one zero seventy ten. That's one eight

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Speaker 3: hundred eighty three two one zero seven ten on this

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Speaker 3: your place to be from now on sevent ten WR.

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Speaker 1: The Pulse of New York on the Voice of New York,

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Speaker 1: Curtis Sleewald Guess host marks them on on seven ten WR.

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Speaker 3: I have a suggestion for the outgoing Eric Adams Swagerman

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Speaker 3: with no plan got wine dying the pocket line so

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Speaker 3: that Bob Barker remember the price is right. He got

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Speaker 3: his price and then he dropped out of the mayoral

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Speaker 3: race in September and he's been moaning and groaning ever

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Speaker 3: since and traveling around the world at taxpayer's expense. Apparently

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Speaker 3: he's meeting with Kathy Hockel today. Maybe Kathy Hochel can

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Speaker 3: do for him what was done for the one hundredth

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Speaker 3: Mayor of New York City a long time ago. I

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Speaker 3: think it was actually in nineteen fifty for William O'Dwyer.

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Speaker 3: He was the one hundredth Mayor of New York City

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Speaker 3: corrupt when he had been Brooklyn DA from nineteen forty

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Speaker 3: to nineteen forty five. He was in the back pocket

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Speaker 3: of murder incorporated the Jewish mob run by Lepke and

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Speaker 3: the Italian faction of Albert Anastasia and quick Kid Twist Drellers,

712
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Speaker 3: who was a hitman. If you looked at his LinkedIn

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Speaker 3: page at the time, let's there, what is your occupation?

714
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Speaker 3: Hitman for Murder Incorporated, which was out of Brownsville, and

715
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Speaker 3: he decided to be a rat eat the parmesan chief.

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Speaker 3: So they were housing him at the Half Moon Hotel

717
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Speaker 3: in Coney Island, sixth floor. Six detectives from William O'Dwyer's

718
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Speaker 3: DA's office in Brooklyn, and suddenly Albert Twistdrelers proved that

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Speaker 3: men could not fly because somehow he fell or was

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Speaker 3: pushed out of that sixth floor window. He had already

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Speaker 3: testified against six members of Murder Incorporated, all of whom

722
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Speaker 3: got the juice in the caboose in sing sing old

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Speaker 3: sparky Jews and Italians. And then the last one he

724
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Speaker 3: was going to testify against was Albert Anastasia. Well, he

725
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Speaker 3: never made it to the witness stand. And so this

726
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Speaker 3: all came back to haunt William O'Dwyer as mayor. They

727
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 3: were going to indict him, convict him, when all of

728
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Speaker 3: a sudden the phone rang from the White House. It

729
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Speaker 3: was President Truman at that time, said, you know, we're

730
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Speaker 3: desperately in need of a US ambassador to Mexico. Desperate

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Speaker 3: and I want you to leave being mayor. We're going

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Speaker 3: to give you a ticket tape parade to the Canyon

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Speaker 3: of Heroes. Yeah, ticker tape parade for this crook. And

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Speaker 3: he went on to become the ambassador to Mexico eventually

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Speaker 3: to come back and help put together the first Israel

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Speaker 3: Day Parade, which there's a question as to whether Zorahnmandami

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Speaker 3: will participate as mayor. We know that ain't happening, or

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Speaker 3: if he would cancel it. I don't think he'll do that,

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Speaker 3: but that's for another day. Maybe what should have been

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Speaker 3: done when Kathy Hokel had Eric Adams on the ropes,

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Speaker 3: Remember she could have fired him. A governor has the

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Speaker 3: right to fire a mayor. Now it's never been done

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Speaker 3: before close, but they didn't quite do it, and she

744
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,399
Speaker 3: could have fired him, but he held on basically did

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Speaker 3: whatever she asked. Yes ma'am, Yes ma'am, Yes ma'am. Now

746
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Speaker 3: you remember Tom Homan when Eric Adams was singing sitting

747
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Speaker 3: on that sofa there Fox and Friends in the morning

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Speaker 3: and Tom Holman is talking to the crew there and

749
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Speaker 3: he says, Eric Adams on National TV, and if I

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Speaker 3: come back here, Eric and I find out the NYPD

751
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 3: is not working with ICE. I will put my boot

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Speaker 3: up your butt. And Eric Adams proud, righteous, your old

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Speaker 3: Asiatic black man, right, didn't even blink. I have seen

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Speaker 3: that video over and over every time I go into

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Speaker 3: an African American community, they said, could you believe what

756
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 3: the brother did here? He didn't even object to that.

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00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 3: He didn't even turn to Tom Holman and say, don't

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Speaker 3: use that language towards me, because he knew they had

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Speaker 3: him by the short hairs. That the only reason he

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Speaker 3: got that get out of jail pass was because he

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Speaker 3: promised to cooperate with ICE, even though the sanctuary city

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Speaker 3: laws here in New York City, which I oppose, say

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Speaker 3: that you cannot. But he was looking in there and

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Speaker 3: he will never ever overcome that in the African American

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Speaker 3: community because he had sold them wolf tickets. You know,

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Speaker 3: at some point I got to discuss Atlantic City. Now

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00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 3: that we have the three casinos, including the Resorts World

768
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Speaker 3: that got one of them, Cassino there, remember Yonkers at

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Speaker 3: the Track got it there. They decided they didn't want

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Speaker 3: to go for the full license. Three to in Queens,

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Speaker 3: one in the Bronx, and talk about how that may

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Speaker 3: be the last now in the coffin for Atlantic City,

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Speaker 3: which is a place that Eric Adams could have easily

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Speaker 3: been the mayor of since so many of them have

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Speaker 3: been indicted five since nineteen eighty one, including the most

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Speaker 3: recent one Marty Smalls Junior for voter fraud. Hoh shocking. Oh,

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Speaker 3: you don't want to go anywhere. Oh, by the way,

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Speaker 3: I did promise you we will go to the phone

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Speaker 3: so your voice could be you heard at your newfound

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Speaker 3: station for some your old friend seven ten wor are

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Speaker 3: numbers one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten

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Speaker 3: a's one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten

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Speaker 3: the voice that fights for New York.

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Speaker 1: Literally, Curtis leewa guest hose for Mark Simone on sevent

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Speaker 1: ten woor.

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Speaker 3: Has promised, it's your turn to be heard here and

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Speaker 3: when I'm hoping so many of you will turn to

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Speaker 3: seven to ten WOR for all your talk radio content

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Speaker 3: as I have. Let's go to UH if we can. Mike,

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Speaker 3: who's calling from Long Island? Your turn to be heard

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Speaker 3: here at seven ten wor Mikey.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Curtis, are you don't It's great to hear you

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Speaker 7: back on the radio. I'm an old Kanassie boy at

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Speaker 7: a store on Avenue Well and Kanasi. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 7: you used to shop there many years ago. My wife

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Speaker 7: and I saw it. It's about fifty years ago we

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Speaker 7: started it. And I remember how you used to help

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Speaker 7: that community when mister Shopton had his march down Avenue

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Speaker 7: Well and Press Realty was doing all of his things.

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Speaker 7: And listen, I just want to tell you, I thank

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Speaker 7: you for everything you've done in the past and how

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00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:23,400
Speaker 7: certain people were promoting Cuolo to be a mayor with

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Speaker 7: his background. He's a criminal. Politics is a dirty business. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 7: you were trying to do the right thing. And even

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Speaker 7: though my vote wouldn't count, I did contribute to your

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Speaker 7: running for election. And you're a brooklynman and everything you've

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Speaker 7: done be proud of. And I'm proud to know that

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Speaker 7: you're from a neighborhood I grew up in. I just

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Speaker 7: wanted to thank you.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you, Kanashi, all road lead to Kanarshi

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Speaker 3: the good and I might add the bad. Give me

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Speaker 3: an idea. Avenue L Best Peach of Paula, the original

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Speaker 3: pizza of Avenue L still there street is Channel twelve,

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Speaker 3: the news outlet used to be like a bull hack,

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Speaker 3: a war bomb supermarket no more. And got to tell

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Speaker 3: you they were the little Casey's on one side of

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Speaker 3: Avenue L, the Gambinos on the other side. They used

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Speaker 3: to have to run the gauntlet and the Avenue L

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Speaker 3: boys who were total degenerates. But I survived that. It

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00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 3: was like running through an Apache line from time to

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Speaker 3: time because I would not avoid going down Avenue L. Oh, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Andrew evilized Cromo. How many of them are out there

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Speaker 3: and they keep You know these bots, they're like they're

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Speaker 3: like the wave of drones. They get used in the

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Speaker 3: war between Russia and the Ukraine. Right, they come in bots, spots, spots,

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Speaker 3: and so you split the vote in the New York

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Speaker 3: mayor's race to guarantee that more crime could happen, right, Curtis, Right,

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Speaker 3: you took money from Zorhan. You know these and you

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Speaker 3: could tell where they being generated from countries all over

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00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 3: the world, and they come in and waves waves, And

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Speaker 3: it all started with Cuomo and their supporters of Cuomo.

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Speaker 3: By the way, where is he? Oh yeah, he probably

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00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 3: slid it under his rock in the Hampton's hanging out

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Speaker 3: with all of his billionaire friends. The influencers, the insiders.

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Speaker 3: They got him nowhere. Maybe he should run for mayor

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Speaker 3: of Southampton, since he spent all of his time in Southampton.

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Speaker 3: Let's go if we can. To Ann, who's calling from

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Speaker 3: Staten Island. Your turn to be heard here on seven

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Speaker 3: to ten, wor Ann, Well, let's see.

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Speaker 8: I'm my sister, and Merry Christmas to you and your

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00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 8: sweet wife who we met. Well, they met at a

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Speaker 8: fundraiser at the Belvidere with the field and we gave

843
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 8: to your campaign. We miss you. Greg Kelly's Onhinge. You

844
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 8: should see the station for Slander because you're excellent and

845
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Speaker 8: you should be the mayor. And we're heartbroken for you,

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Speaker 8: but you know what you do so much good. I

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Speaker 8: wish your good health and happiness and financy. I missed

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Speaker 8: the Animal show. ABC should go down the tubes, and

849
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 8: I have been listening now a few months to OH.

850
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 8: I used to listen to Handity too, and I'm back

851
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 8: with them. I enjoyed them. And Greg Kelly's a total disgrace.

852
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 8: I think he's nuts.

853
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Speaker 3: Well, he is a little bots, a little titched, but

854
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 3: you know he is doing what free speech allows you

855
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 3: to do in America. He has a right to do that.

856
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 3: Men have died in battle for us to have free

857
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 3: speech and also to be able to vote, which two million,

858
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand people did in this last mayoral campaign,

859
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,919
Speaker 3: a record that hadn't been seen since nineteen sixty five,

860
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 3: since I was all of eleven years old. And so

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Speaker 3: unfortunately John Lindsay get elected mayor of the City of

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00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 3: New York. By the way, I'm pretty sure, don't we

863
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 3: have here Wor the Dog Smart radio show? Don't we

864
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 3: have that? I think a w OR? I mean it

865
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:12,479
Speaker 3: used to be on the weekends here Wor you would

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Speaker 3: have all the shows that would talk about gardening, talking

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Speaker 3: about finance, investments, retirement, animals. I mean that was a

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Speaker 3: fixture that I would listen to. Bernie Meltzer, Oh yeah,

869
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 3: oh wow, what a following he had, Old Bernie, But no,

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Speaker 3: Ann is right. Best thing they ever happened in my

871
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Speaker 3: life was when I met Nancy. We got married, and boy,

872
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 3: she is a animal rescuer, like so many of the

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Speaker 3: listeners here, a wr RN throughout the Tri state area

874
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 3: and throughout the country, and without her I could not

875
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 3: have survived many many ordeals. I owe everything that I

876
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 3: am or I have at this point in my life

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Speaker 3: to my beautiful wife Nancy, and they don't get any

878
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 3: better than that. You know, as Mahatma Gandhi said, is

879
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 3: society that takes care of its animals will take care

880
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 3: of its people. But a society that does not take

881
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,160
Speaker 3: care of its animals will not take care of its people.

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01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 3: And that's exactly what we have in New York City.

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01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 3: As I began the show telling you about the year

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Speaker 3: anniversary of the horrible, horrific death of Debrina Kwam at

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Speaker 3: the subway station in Coney Island on the F train

886
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 3: when she was set up into a human torch, and

887
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 3: how a year later they won't even say her name

888
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 3: because they don't even remember her name. Well, we did

889
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 3: that yesterday and I want to aploy w or Natalie

890
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 3: in the morning for introducing that in the news the

891
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 3: New York Posts for covering it. But many people out

892
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 3: there just have no idea what happened. Let's go to Sergio,

893
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 3: who's calling from New Jersey. Your turn to be heard

894
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 3: here at seven to ten, wa.

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Speaker 9: Sergil Hi Curtis, I was wondering if you can elaborate

896
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 9: on Bob Grant one time. Apparently he took some tile

897
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,840
Speaker 9: expensive towels on the studio and you had to go

898
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 9: and mediate for him to bring him back.

899
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Speaker 3: Let me correct you. The king of talk radio, Bob Grant,

900
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 3: who is my mentor, was the reason that I'm in

901
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 3: talk radio because when I was first on the air

902
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 3: at the old WABC, they didn't want to have me

903
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 3: on the air, and he said, you gotta have Curtis

904
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 3: on the air because he knows where all the bones

905
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 3: buried and who buried them. And he had the force

906
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 3: in the talk radio world at that time that his

907
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 3: wish basically became the command of the suits, the big markers.

908
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 3: But he was a kleptomaniac in many many ways, no

909
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 3: doubt about it. I think you're conflating two separate stories.

910
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 3: But let me tell you the best one that I

911
01:02:56,840 --> 01:03:01,040
Speaker 3: was personally involved in. He was given a loaner Cadillac

912
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 3: back then in order to promote somebody purchasing a new

913
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 3: car used car. They have a new fangled expression now

914
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 3: pre owned car. You know, for used cars, they would

915
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 3: give you a loaner car. And Bob Grant, I think

916
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 3: it was in Englewood, was promoting Cadillacs from Englewood everybody

917
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 3: back then. They wanted to the El Dorado, they wanted

918
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 3: the Fleetwood, the Seville. He had a car and his

919
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 3: driver would take him back and forth to Manalapan on

920
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:33,800
Speaker 3: the Jersey Shore where he was living, and you have

921
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:35,919
Speaker 3: to give it back after a certain point of time.

922
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 3: And the program director there, John Manelli, was intimidated by Bob,

923
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:43,960
Speaker 3: as he could intimidate many, and Bob wouldn't give the

924
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 3: Cadillac back. So John Manelli said, he's your friend. Go

925
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 3: in there and tell them there are new rules in

926
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 3: the business. You can't schnore like a lot of radio

927
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 3: people did, both AM and FM four years schnore free stuff.

928
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 3: It's called pay for play, and we could get in trouble.

929
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 3: So I said, I got it, John. I went in there.

930
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 3: It took me maybe an hour and a half to

931
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 3: convince the King of talk radio, Bob Grant, responsible for

932
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 3: my career, to give me the keys and that we

933
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:18,320
Speaker 3: would get it back to the Cadillac dealership before they

934
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 3: would report that to the FCC to be in violation

935
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 3: of pay for play. But man, it was not easy.

936
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 3: It's Bob Grant. Back then, the king of talk radio

937
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 3: thought I'm entitled to the treasures like so many others.

938
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 3: And if you listen to me up until January second,

939
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 3: as I substitute for Mark Simone, you're gonna hear a

940
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 3: lot of other stories you had no idea about that

941
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:47,120
Speaker 3: I want to share with you about this thing of ours,

942
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 3: talk radio, because this is the business that we have chosen.

943
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 1: Now more with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis Leewa

944
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: toasting from Mark Timone on seven ten.

945
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 3: Woo you know, yes it is. I was leaving the

946
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:12,200
Speaker 3: studios here day number one of my substitution for Mark

947
01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 3: Simone until January second. And oh I got a lot

948
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 3: of other great stories to share with all of you.

949
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 3: And that's why you got to listen every day or

950
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,680
Speaker 3: get it on the podcast. But I heard the voice

951
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:29,160
Speaker 3: of Brett Winterble, who's substituting up next for the boys.

952
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 3: I said, that's bretton Winterble, that's boy Limbaugh. He used

953
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:37,080
Speaker 3: to be the phone screener for the Great Rush Limbaugh.

954
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 3: We used to share facilities at the old WABC seventeen

955
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 3: four high above Madison Square Garden and Brett was great,

956
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 3: always wanted to be in talk radio. And he used

957
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 3: to live in Morris Park in the Bronx. Take the

958
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 3: two of the five chain up there, say really Bretton,

959
01:05:57,200 --> 01:06:02,400
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, live up here, family, updates family. And he's

960
01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:05,120
Speaker 3: gone on to become a great talk show host in Charlotte,

961
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 3: where they had like two attacks on their light rail system.

962
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 3: Two not one, the one you knew about the Ukrainian

963
01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 3: immigrant woman, no no, no, no two another recent one.

964
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 3: I think it was an illegal alien. And he's urged

965
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 3: me to bring the Guardian Angels down to Charlotte, which

966
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna have to do it. All the

967
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 3: Yankees who were fleeing down there, everybody from up north

968
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 3: in our area was moving down to that area. Unfortunately,

969
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 3: the crime is skyrocketing. But he's a great talent, and

970
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 3: there's been a lot of young upcoming talk radio show

971
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 3: hosts and hostesses who've unfortunately not had that opportunity. But

972
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna enjoy bread. And that's another guy

973
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:51,040
Speaker 3: out there, the liberty loving Latino Rich Valdez, who actually

974
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 3: was the only one to listen to me for four

975
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:55,240
Speaker 3: years that I wasted in my life over at AM

976
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 3: ninety seventy. The answer when I think Rich Valdez was

977
01:06:57,840 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 3: the only one who listened to me. I did morning

978
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 3: drive and afternoon drive and now substituting at Woor where

979
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 3: my radio life began back when Arlene Francis, the midday hostess,

980
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 3: interviewed me as the newspaper Boy of the Year in

981
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy one. I've had the bug ever since. And boy,

982
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 3: I hope you'll be listening tomorrow our Christmas Eve extravaganza

983
01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 3: coming up, and stay with me until January second, because

984
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 3: I got a lot of radio talk radio gifts to

985
01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 3: leave for all of you under the Christmas tree.