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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WR.

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Speaker 2: Here again is Larry Minty with the WR Saturday Morning

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Speaker 2: show from Curtis.

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Speaker 3: Leiwa is a New York icon, founder of the legendary

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Speaker 3: Guardian Angels, former mayoral candidate, and larger than life broadcaster,

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Speaker 3: and he joins me Monday morning for Curtis Sliwa and

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Speaker 3: Larry Minty in the morning. Here's Curtis to talk about

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Speaker 3: the show. Curtis, I am so excited about this partnership.

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Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for coming to seven to ten WR.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: I had to interrupt my patrol of downtown if the

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Speaker 2: New York after I spoke at Cornell University, because you're right,

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Speaker 2: this is big. I am coming to the oldest talk

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Speaker 2: radio station continuously running in New York City and the

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Speaker 2: best talk radio station, so it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Get any better than that.

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Speaker 2: Joining with you, Larry and the crew there at WOOR,

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Speaker 2: I come back to what people have been asking to

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Speaker 2: do ever since I lost the election on November fourth,

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Speaker 2: A lot of people said when are you getting back?

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Speaker 1: When are you getting back to talk radio on as

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Speaker 1: I would.

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Speaker 2: Tell him consistently, well, it'll never be WABC. That's a

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Speaker 2: station that will never see nor hear from me again.

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Speaker 2: I'm a wo which should be the listener's place to

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Speaker 2: be in the mornings and throughout the rest of the day.

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Speaker 3: And I understand that the station you mentioned, WABC, has

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Speaker 3: been doing everything and anything to try to get you back,

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Speaker 3: but you're a man of your word.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and their ratings have plummeted as would be expected. Look,

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Speaker 2: I was part of that WABC contact with all the

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Speaker 2: different owners for thirty five years, so I have a

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Speaker 2: large following and they've sort of lost their way. It's

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Speaker 2: become a station of hate, something that I almost felt

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Speaker 2: towards the end of the campaign when I was allowed

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Speaker 2: to come on and make a few appearances, that I'd

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Speaker 2: have to take a hot shower because I felt soiled

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Speaker 2: from everything that was being said.

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Speaker 1: It's not really what talk radio should be.

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Speaker 2: And now I get a chance to do it right

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Speaker 2: with you, Larry, in which it's not going to be

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Speaker 2: an echo chamber because you know me, Larry, there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of opinions that I have that will.

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Speaker 1: Disagree with you and some members of the audience. But

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Speaker 1: that makes you great talk radio.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I'm kind of expecting that. But since we're

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Speaker 3: talking about WABC, I kind of save this to when

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Speaker 3: you came on that loud mouth in the morning that

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Speaker 3: they have over there. I never talk about him, but

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Speaker 3: I'm only going to talk about him now because zorin

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Speaker 3: Mom Donnie is talking about him. When he called him.

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Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna repeat what he said, Zora, Mam

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Speaker 3: Donni can repeat it. But he used in Islam islamophomic

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Speaker 3: term to talk about him and called him a cockroach.

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Speaker 3: I'll play what Mom Donnie had to say, just a

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Speaker 3: portion of it, and then you can respond.

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Speaker 4: To be called animals insects, to be called a jihadest

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Speaker 4: mayor to be called a cockroach. This language is both

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Speaker 4: painfully familiar to me as a Muslim New Yorker, but

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Speaker 4: also as someone who was born in East Africa.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he seemed genuinely hurt by this, and he even

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Speaker 3: seemed to tear up at the time. You got to

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Speaker 3: know Zor and Mom Donnie when you were running against him,

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure you were cordial with him. What do

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Speaker 3: you think about this controversy?

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Speaker 2: Now, this is typical because at WABC they have a

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Speaker 2: shock jockey in the morning, and that's all he wants

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Speaker 2: to do is agitate people. And he's gone at Zorhan

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Speaker 2: before claiming that he would be all happy if there

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Speaker 2: were another attack in nine to eleven. That's when Andrew

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Speaker 2: Como was at his side and they were laughing like

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Speaker 2: giddy kids in the schoolyard.

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Speaker 1: That was wrong.

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Speaker 2: And they're referring to our newly elected mayor as a

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Speaker 2: Muslim cockerroach that Sid Rozenberg not realized. This is what

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Speaker 2: Nazis called Jews before enduring the Holocaust, and even up

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Speaker 2: until this day, those who are sympathetic to the Nazi

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Speaker 1: Well, how were you digulous? And the management and ownership.

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Speaker 2: Support that they don't even like pull us Jane and

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Speaker 2: say he once you apologize that that's the wrong terminology.

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Speaker 1: I'm not in favor of Sohaman Dommy.

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Speaker 2: I'm opposed to almost everything he's in favor of, but

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Speaker 2: I refuse to use that kind of language.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Larry, we live in an.

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Speaker 2: Area where there are now Muslims, millions of them, many

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Speaker 2: of them who listen to talk radio. I know because

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Speaker 2: I'm at the coffee wagons every day, the uber drivers,

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Speaker 2: the cab drivers, the store road. It's the bodega owners,

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Speaker 2: and they're conservative, and they listen to talk radio and

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Speaker 2: they're always asking me what's going on at WABC, and

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, hey, I am not with them anymore. They

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Speaker 2: were synonymous in the end for always bashing Curtis and

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Speaker 2: always blaming Curtis for the loss of the election, of

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Speaker 2: Cromo's election, which he has only himself and by the way,

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Speaker 2: they have him now on on Sundays. I was listening

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Speaker 2: to Mark Simone yesterday with Rob Askerino, who's also.

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Speaker 1: On WR on the weekends.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't stop laughing so hard as they were talking

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Speaker 2: how boring Andrew Como is as a talk show hold

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Speaker 2: and he could be a professor up here at Cornell

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Speaker 2: and put the class asleep after like the first ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: The guy just doesn't understand. Talk radio people.

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Speaker 3: Are loud and ignorant when they have no depth, when

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Speaker 3: they have no understanding, when they have low intelligence. And

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Speaker 3: I think that's what's happening over there. He's trying to

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Speaker 3: cover up for his own faults and his own insecurities,

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Speaker 3: and that's why he's so loud like that. That's not

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Speaker 3: what this show is going to be about. What is

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Speaker 3: your expectation for the new show.

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Speaker 2: Discussion on the issues, you know, because they're going to

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Speaker 2: be times to we agree, Larry, they're going to be

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Speaker 2: times to we disagree. And obviously you have a tremendous

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Speaker 2: wide range of listeners. Back, one person already came up

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Speaker 2: to me right here in downtown. It's said, hey, I

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Speaker 2: just heard he came out of one of these juris.

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Speaker 1: So it's just sure you're going to be on.

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Speaker 2: Wo what that's the power of the WOOR Sound one

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Speaker 2: of the original licensed stations. And remember the longest running

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Speaker 2: talk radio station and obviously the best talk radio station

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Speaker 2: with a phenomenal lineup followed by Mark Simone.

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Speaker 1: Nobody has better than Marchamone.

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Speaker 2: So we got a real dynamic group of people here,

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Speaker 2: and we don't we don't have to become shot shocks.

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Speaker 2: We don't have to become hateds like they become a WABC.

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Speaker 2: But yet to understand, Larry, ever since I left on

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Speaker 2: that momentous morning when I said I will never return

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Speaker 2: for what you have done to me.

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Speaker 1: Remember, they have suffered in the ratings.

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Speaker 2: So you want ratings, quick ratings, quick clicks, you say

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Speaker 2: outrageous things, That's what influencers do, but that's not what

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Speaker 2: you should be doing on talk radio.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but people long for intelligent talk, and I think

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Speaker 3: that's what we're going to deliver to them. I can't

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Speaker 3: wait for this, just personally, I've always considered you a friend.

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Speaker 3: You were great to me when I was at the

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Speaker 3: other station, and I really appreciate that. And congratulations to you,

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Speaker 3: and congratulations to our listeners because they're going to get

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Speaker 3: some tremendous talk radio. Curtis. I can't wait.

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Speaker 2: Oh. I can't thank Tom Cuddy enough, who I worked

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Speaker 2: for years over when Cumulus had a whole group of

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Speaker 2: enough to reach out to me, gave me the opportunities

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Speaker 2: marked it to substitute. And now I also join in

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Speaker 2: the stable of great talk show hosts at w R

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Speaker 2: The Rock, Rabbed all American Conservative Reason from Franklin Square,

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Speaker 2: Long Island, Sean Annity in the afternoon, Jimmy Baalow, who

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Speaker 2: makes me, gives me so many belly labs, this is great.

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Speaker 1: One last question before I go back to trolling downtown Ithaca.

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Speaker 2: What excuse on day five will we giving for starting

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Speaker 2: a war with Iran, Larry, can you explain that.

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Speaker 1: To me, because every day it's a different excuse.

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Speaker 3: Let's save it for Monday. But they all make sense,

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Speaker 3: don't they. We'll talk about her on Monday. The Great

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Speaker 3: Curtis Lee were joining us on Monday for Curtis Lee

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Speaker 3: and Larry Menti on the Morning Cannot Wait.

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Speaker 1: This has been a podcast from wor