1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,319 Speaker 1: Sleewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten. 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 2: Woor oh yeah, let's do it day two. 4 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 3: As I sit in for Mark Simon, I mean, this 5 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 3: is the guy who's smooth. Remember that song by Shah 6 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 3: Day nineteen eighty four. I remember hearing it in London 7 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 3: first time when I organized the Guardian Angels, their smooth operator. 8 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 3: Nobody's smoother in this business, this thing of ours, this 9 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 3: is the business we have chosen talk radio. Nobody's done 10 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 3: it longer than Mark Simone locally. But I'm sort of 11 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 3: the tagalong thirty five years and to be thirty and 12 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 3: now at the radio station where it all started for me, 13 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 3: not as a host but as a guest. When I 14 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 3: got the bug TV bug was rom Perum. That was 15 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 3: before WOR Radio seven ten, when I was interviewed by 16 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 3: Arlen Francis who had the midday show, when I was 17 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 3: the newspaper Boy of the Year, havn't gotten an award 18 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 3: from Richard Nixon, And I remember the studios they have 19 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 3: fourteen forty Broadway. I think I'm not trying to remember 20 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 3: if rom Perum was actually on Channel nine. I think 21 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 3: it was at the TV studios in Midtown Manhattan, not 22 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 3: far from where the ball is going to drop. Welcoming 23 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 3: in the new year and the change over from the 24 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 3: missing in action mayor the swaggerman with no Plan Eric Adams, 25 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 3: who got windyned in pocket lined over the years. Thank god, 26 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: he'll be gone. Has he gotten back yet? Is he 27 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 3: from this perpetual vacation, his travels around the world at 28 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 3: taxpayer's expension, sort of like Matt Lauer, remember before he 29 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 3: got the boot at NBC. Where's Matt Lawa today? Where's 30 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 3: Eric Adams today? On our dime? We're paying for all that. 31 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 3: We'll get into all of that. And then also uh 32 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 3: oh boy. At the dysfunctional home of WABC, the former 33 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 3: house of always broadcasting critics Sliwa, now always bashing Curtis Sliwa, 34 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 3: one of their hosts just he lost it yesterday. Greg Kelly, 35 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 3: Oh my god, he just went on and on. People 36 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 3: were telling me on the streets of Coney Island, listen 37 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 3: to him. This guy, he's having an episode. He certainly was. 38 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 3: Wow And in fact, he used words that I heard 39 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 3: that hadn't been said to me on the radio since 40 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 3: back in nineteen ninety two, I had on as a 41 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 3: guest of Angels in the Morning, where I was hosting 42 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 3: with my wife at that time, Lisa and al Lisa 43 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 3: Evers at Channel five, guy named Louis Kasman who was 44 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 3: like the adopted son of John Gottisenia, and he was 45 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 3: coming on to defend John gottisin You have been found 46 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 3: guilty for the final time triple life without parole because 47 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 3: of the rat Sami de Bolgravano and the memory's tapes 48 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 3: of conversations they had had over the Ravennight Social club 49 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 3: in Italy where he was ordering the executions of his 50 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 3: fellow Gambino crime family members. And Louis Kasman was on 51 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 3: the air and he was defending him, and it was 52 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 3: a very heated discussion, and I remember what Louis Kasmin said. 53 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 3: He said, Curtis, you better keep your mouth shut if 54 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 3: you know what's good for you. And soon after, remember 55 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 3: I got shot five times with the hollow point bullets 56 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 3: in the back of that yellow cab on my way 57 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 3: to WABC. We'll get into that later on. Oh you 58 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 3: know what I missaid, Well, yesterday the Moe Green there 59 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 3: at WABC. Yeah, Greg Kelly's like Mo Green from The Godfather, 60 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 3: you know, tough guy, tough guy, except these Irish not Jewish. 61 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 3: He said exactly the same thing he announces on the microphone, 62 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 3: and I heard it for myself. Curtis, keep your mouth shut. 63 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 3: If you know what's good for you. What do you 64 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 3: think you mean by that? Is that that foe for 65 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 3: gazy rage because he has anger management issues. Well, look, 66 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 3: I'm gonna get into it. We'll do the deep dive. 67 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 3: Dysfunctional former family at WABC tries to still haunt me 68 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 3: to this day even though I'm at the station. You 69 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 3: should all be listening to now War seven ten, the 70 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 3: absolute best with Larry Mente in the morning and then 71 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 3: obviously Mark Simon, my very dear friend in the afternoons. 72 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 3: For many many years, Sean Hannity, the rock ribbed all 73 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 3: American conservative voice of reason from Franklin Square along Island 74 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 3: doesn't get any better. And the whole panoply of shows 75 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 3: that you get here as opposed to where you may 76 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 3: have been. But let's talk about what occurred yesterday. And 77 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 3: I want to give credit to Natalie the wr team 78 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 3: here producer in the morning, who also does the news 79 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 3: from time to time, and she spoke to everybody here 80 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,559 Speaker 3: at seven ten yesterday morning before my debut and talked 81 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 3: about how I am The Gardian Angels would be out 82 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 3: at Coney Island Stillwell Avenue to commemorate, memorialize the death 83 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 3: of the Debbie Kowom, also known as Dobrina Kowam from 84 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 3: Little Falls, New Jersey. You say, who's that? Well, a 85 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 3: year ago the whole world knew, at least for the 86 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 3: first nine days when she could not be identified because 87 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 3: she was burnt so badly, turned into a human torch 88 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 3: by an enemy of society. It came to this city 89 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 3: with the royal red carpet rolled out for him by 90 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 3: Joe Biden, biorchist Harris and yeah, oh yeah, at that 91 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 3: time the Biden of Brooklyn, Eric Adams, So we'll be 92 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 3: talking about him also later on today the house smiuse 93 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 3: said he was for twenty two years as a cop 94 00:06:55,560 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 3: in the NYPD. And it seems like in one year's time, 95 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 3: the memory of the most heinous, horrific crime in the 96 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 3: New York City subway system, in fact, in New York 97 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 3: City's history, involving one victim, just wiped from the memory cells. 98 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 3: Credit though to Natalie for bringing that to the surface 99 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 3: of what we would do. I'll get into that momentarily. 100 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 3: And also to the New York Posts Catherine don Levy, 101 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 3: a reporter who had covered this horror a year ago. 102 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 3: They're now doing a video broadcast to sort of remind people, 103 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 3: because it just seems the rest of the media and 104 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 3: most people from them, it's out of sight, out of mind. 105 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 3: Part of that is due to what the City of 106 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 3: New York does not want you to know about. All 107 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 3: the crime in the subway. Look at it, all the 108 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 3: series of stabbings that have occurred of late, all the 109 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 3: homeless and emotionally disturbed. They're still living in the system. 110 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 3: I know. Coming here this morning, I ran into so 111 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 3: many of them, some who I know personally. So we 112 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 3: eulogized Debrina Kwam on the anniversary that horrible death. We 113 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 3: had the reath out. We had pictures people were passing 114 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 3: by a very crowded station where the F train D 115 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 3: train merges with the N and Q. Nobody knew, and 116 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:43,439 Speaker 3: we said to say her name. Nobody knew. And there 117 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 3: are so many thousands of homeless and emotionally disturbed out there. 118 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 3: They won't be home for Christmas. Their home is an 119 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 3: unsafe shelter, a subway car, a subway station, a platform, 120 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 3: a park, or the streets, and they all have a 121 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 3: unique story. His DeBie Kwalms the age of fifty seven, 122 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 3: she had become homeless, destitute, and clearly was emotionally disturbed 123 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 3: when she was set on fire on that f train 124 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 3: on the morning of December twenty second of last year, 125 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 3: at seven thirty. Where was she? From? Little Falls, New Jersey. 126 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 3: Grew up in a small white house. A father work 127 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 3: assembly line at the GM factory in Lynden, no longer operational, 128 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,319 Speaker 3: her mother at a bakery store. She had her sister 129 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 3: and brother. An all American upbringing. She was a cheerleader, 130 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 3: mispopularity at Passaic Valley Regional High School, worked in Perkins, 131 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 3: a pancake house as a hostess, got so many of 132 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 3: her friend's jobs there. She was always the life of 133 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 3: the party and as so many of her former schoolmates said, 134 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 3: she was a bright light. Then unfortunately got dimmed like 135 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 3: so many out there. She went on to Montclair State College, 136 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 3: which is right there in Little Falls, got a job 137 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 3: at Sharp Electric and Malwa and Mirk the pharmaceutical company, 138 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 3: and from time to time, we'd go out with her 139 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 3: girlfriends to Vegas of the Caribbean and have a nice, 140 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 3: nice holiday like some of you are having now for 141 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 3: Christmas and New Years. And she meets a guy, and 142 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 3: you know what happened. Something cracked. She began to fall 143 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 3: into an abyss, last known to be working in Atlantic City. 144 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 3: And then, if you follow the timeline, getting arrested from 145 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 3: time to time all along the Jersey Shore for drunken 146 00:10:54,120 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 3: and disorderly conduct. When no lifelines, she was falling into 147 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 3: Dante's inferno. And then she went back home. She was 148 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 3: searching for her mother. She pounded on that door. A 149 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 3: woman answered the door. She said, I want my mommy. 150 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 3: I want my mommy. I want my mommy. And the 151 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 3: woman who had just recently bought the house from Dobrina's 152 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 3: mother and father, said, I don't know where they are. 153 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 3: I have a realtor's card. Maybe he can track them down. 154 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 3: I want my mommy. She's crying, she's disheveled. The woman 155 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 3: goes and finds the card. She returns to the door 156 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 3: and the next thing she knows to bring and kowamas 157 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 3: running down the block screaming, mommy, mommy, crying. She came 158 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 3: home from Christmas, at least she thought. She soon ended 159 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 3: up over a Grand Central terminal. Almost outreach unit brought 160 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 3: her up to a woman's shelter in the South Bronx. 161 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 3: How crazy is that this woman was from Little Falls, 162 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 3: New Jersey. Soon they took everything from her. She fled. 163 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 3: Where to homeless people go when they flee in the winter, 164 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 3: they go into the subway, so that becomes their home. 165 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 3: And it was for many days until this Monthster found 166 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 3: her set her on fire. Was there a commemoration, a 167 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 3: memorialization yesterday at city Hall? No any other fifty one 168 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 3: city council members, No Jessica Tish the police commissioner, no 169 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 3: one police president, no MTA headquarters. 170 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 2: No. 171 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 3: They want that image wiped from our mindsets. It'll never 172 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 3: be white from my mindset. Imagine for so many of you, 173 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 3: how many of your cheer and her grandchildren are coming 174 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 3: home with your parents or grandparents for Christmas and New Years, 175 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 3: and they want to see their mommy. Those are like 176 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 3: her last words that we know of mommy. Where's my mommy? 177 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 3: And yesterday Natalie brought this to your attention here wor 178 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 3: the New York Posts. Catherine don leaving and the rest 179 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 3: of the world wanted to remain oblivious. Not I in 180 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 3: the Guardian Angels. No, we want a memorial placed at 181 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 3: that very spot on the f train station to represent 182 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 3: the many thousands of homeless and emotionally disturbed some of 183 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 3: them buried in Pottersfield, you know where that is. A 184 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 3: million bodies are buried there, nameless, faceless individuals. They all 185 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 3: had stories and at least I was able to tell 186 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 3: Debbie Kwalms say her name. No, they won't, but we will. 187 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 3: We will remember. We should always remember. Our number is 188 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 3: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. That's 189 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 3: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. On 190 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 3: this Your Place to be seven ten War. 191 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: Streets, Smart straight talk Curtis Leeward, guest host for Mark 192 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: Simone on sevent ten. 193 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 3: Woar back in the rain this morning on my way 194 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 3: here to the studios, my new favorite station, and it 195 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 3: should be yours wor seven ten gives you all you need. 196 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 3: I ran across I was homeless and emotionally disturbed persons 197 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 3: that are everywhere, especially when it's inclement weather down in 198 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 3: the subways, and it sort of brought me to the 199 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 3: point of this problem wasn't dealt with with Comrade Bill 200 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 3: de Blasio, the part time mayor, the dope from Park Slope, 201 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 3: smoking Mawi Wowie and Hindu Cush at night on the 202 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 3: back porch of Gracie Mansion with his grift to wife Charlene. 203 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 3: Wasn't dealt with by this swaggerman with no plan, Eric Adams, 204 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 3: whose only contribution was tonight life in that he would 205 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 3: be at every club till the break of dawn instead 206 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 3: of being the mayor. And now at Fosters are on 207 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 3: Mandami who gets sworn in on January first. I don't 208 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 3: think he'll have a grip on it, but it's interesting. 209 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 3: While I was thinking about that, I said to myself, 210 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 3: she whiz Greg Kelly, former colleague over at WABC, talk 211 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 3: about anger man many issues, Oh my god, he he 212 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 3: always has them, but he we all carry some baggage 213 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 3: in all life. He went ballistic yesterday. He was like 214 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 3: Moe Green from The Godfather. Remember was the enforcer for 215 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 3: Buggsy Siegel the Hymen Ross Syndicate Maya Lansky and he's 216 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 3: like going off and screaming about me and just out 217 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 3: of control, which half the time he is. Look great, guys, 218 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 3: served the United States Submarine Corps up there and the 219 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 3: fly zone in Iraq. Told so many of our of 220 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 3: the listeners that weapons of mass destruction and all of 221 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 3: that was a disaster. Okay, he got like a lot 222 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 3: of good attributes. Great wife, great family. Had a problem 223 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 3: a while back. We all had problems. I was lucky 224 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 3: he had a His dad was the police Commissioner, Ray Kelly, 225 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 3: best relief commissioner we've ever had in New York City, 226 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 3: longest serving, and he was able to extricate himself, cleaned up, 227 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 3: no more booze hound, no more chasing skirts, you know, 228 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 3: found God, got back on track. We've all had stories 229 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 3: like that. But yesterday, oh my god, I think I've 230 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 3: gotten under his skin. You know what it was last 231 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 3: week when I was being interviewed by Mark Smohm preceding 232 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 3: this substitution I'll be here till January second, I talked 233 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 3: about how he was great for Greg Kelly because Greg 234 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 3: Kelly would actually sit in a side room and listen 235 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 3: to Mark Simone from ten to twelve. That was like 236 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 3: his show prep. I said, it was the equivalent of 237 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 3: oh remember the greatest Italian comedian of all time grew 238 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 3: up in my household listening to those records. Pat Cooper, 239 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 3: Pascual le Vito Caputo. Well, I met later on in life, 240 00:17:58,240 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 3: and he would tell me, yeah, watch, I'm gonna go 241 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 3: up there, I'm gonna do my routine and look at 242 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 3: all these other comedians. They're gonna be stealing my lines 243 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 3: and writing them on napkins. And it was true, some 244 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 3: of the best comedians. So I'm I'm I'm patting Mark 245 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 3: Simon on the bat. He's not the only person that 246 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:24,439 Speaker 3: has had his materials utilized and recycled again by others. 247 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 3: He's that good. But apparently Greg Kelly took great umbrage 248 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 3: to that. It's like, well, it's a fact, so it 249 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 3: will help you do a better program. You listen to 250 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 3: Mark Simon and you go on your own program and 251 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 3: you basically repeat what he said like comedians often do. 252 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 3: Oh man, he just went eplectic. Hey, yesterday, he's saying police, 253 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 3: you know somebody I know, Well, I think he was 254 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 3: referring to his own dad. Ray Kelly, you know, never 255 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 3: thought highly of Curtis Lee and the Guardian Angels. No 256 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 3: police ever did. Hey, God, you know this is very 257 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 3: similar to Andrew evilized como. Remember in that debate. When 258 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 3: I turned to Andrew, evilized Como was Armandami on the 259 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 3: stage the first mayoral NBC debate, and I looked at 260 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 3: Andrew and I said, Andrew, I knew your father, Mario. 261 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 3: You know Mario Como. Hey, I know you're listening. Kelly, 262 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 3: you know you know Ray Kelly. Greg, I know your father, 263 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 3: Ray Kelly. Your father, Ray Kelly. We've been at boxing 264 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 3: Mattress together because he was a Commissioner of boxing for 265 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 3: the State of New York. We've been to dinner together, 266 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 3: We've discussed public safety strategies on a wide level of things. 267 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 3: I've been at public events with him. He couldn't be 268 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 3: more of a fund well you, oh my god. And 269 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 3: what I what I couldn't quite understand is why at 270 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 3: the very end of his diatribe, which it's easy radio 271 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 3: to do if you're doing a full hour, Gotta understand, 272 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 3: Greg always had problems finishing his shift. That's why they'd 273 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 3: asked me to stay in the bullpen warming up there. 274 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 3: They jump in with him because he'd run out of 275 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 3: gas for whatever reason. I don't know, if his mind 276 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 3: was wandering. Whatever he said, tough time, you know, focusing focusing. 277 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 3: But then he ends his diatribe and he says, Curtis, 278 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 3: keep your mouth shut, if you know what's good for you. 279 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 3: I said to myself the last time I was said 280 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 3: to me on air at that same WABC Angels in 281 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 3: the morning, when I was doing mom Talk, when John 282 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 3: Gotti's senior had been found guilty for the fourth time 283 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:57,640 Speaker 3: while on trial because of Sammy the Bullgravano was underbores 284 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 3: riding him out the memory X tapes about his ordered executions. 285 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 3: Lewis Kasman, supposedly his adopted son from the garment industry 286 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 3: Jewish kid from Long Island, turned out to be a 287 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 3: rat himself eating the parmesan cheese. Later on he's on 288 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 3: that phone. I'll never forget his words, Curtis, keep your 289 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 3: mouth shut, if you know what's good for you. Soon 290 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 3: after June nineteenth and nineteen ninety two, I got shot 291 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,399 Speaker 3: five times with hollow point bullets in the back of 292 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 3: a yellow cab on my way to WABC to do 293 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 3: the morning show, on the orders of John Gotti Senior 294 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 3: to John Gotti Junior and the Gambato crime family. Michael 295 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 3: Leonardi did twenty years for that, and I survived and 296 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 3: I know, look, Greg Kelly, he's not the Gambino crime family. 297 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 3: But hey, don't be a forget you see tough guy. 298 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 3: Real tough guys don't have to act like they're tough. 299 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 3: Trust me, I'm a legitimate tough guy. We'll go to 300 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 3: your calls up next eight hundred three two one zero 301 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 3: seven ten at this your place to be from now 302 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 3: on seven ten WAR Talk Radio with Street Crack. 303 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 1: Literally Curtis Leewad joined sevent ten WR to guess ohs 304 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: from Mark Zamore. 305 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, as I continue on till January twod here for 306 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 3: Mark Zimone. I appreciate the time at my newfound radio station, 307 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 3: but I've listened to over the years from time to time, 308 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 3: and now I listen to it all the time. I 309 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 3: asso shoot you at seven ten War. A lot of 310 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 3: alumni WABC here that dysfunctional family. Is he our board 311 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 3: operator here he fled the dysfunction as did Crash in 312 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,120 Speaker 3: the mornings with Larry MENTI as a real savant from 313 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 3: Morris Park, the Bronx, and I know to some of 314 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 3: you it sounds like Nicchco Corleone. I'm settling all scores. 315 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:20,159 Speaker 3: I am, little by little by little, by little. But 316 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,159 Speaker 3: you have a right to know and you have a 317 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 3: right to be heard. So let's go first to Sean, 318 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 3: who's patiently on the line from Rockland County. Your turn 319 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 3: to be heard here at seven to ten w O 320 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 3: watch on Welcome. 321 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 4: Home, Curtis, and those out the clowns at the other station. 322 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 5: I don't listen to hit out anymore. 323 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 4: They just. 324 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 3: Fake guy. See you got an here thirty five years. 325 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 3: You can tell fake fake voice. I know who that is. 326 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 3: Come on, this is Curtis sleeve pro style here. Let's 327 00:23:55,560 --> 00:24:00,439 Speaker 3: go to Bob, who's calling from Montfel. Your turn to 328 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 3: be heard here at w or seven ten. 329 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 6: Bob, Thank you Curtis, and welcome back to what it's 330 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 6: no longer woman only radio. Thank goodness. And I just 331 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 6: want to say thank you to you and your wife 332 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 6: because those of us who know your history and we 333 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 6: lived it, we saw through the other people at the 334 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,119 Speaker 6: other station. You know Greg Kelly, obviously he's got like 335 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 6: an anger problem, too much estrogen. And there's another guy 336 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 6: talk about Rockland County dominic. 337 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 3: Carter. 338 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 6: I wish you would send the angels up to Rockland County. Curtis. 339 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 6: It is out of control. It is out of control 340 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 6: and he lives with his head you know where. Wow, Well, 341 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 6: thank you, thank you, thank you. You know I live 342 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 6: in New Jersey. Thank you, Curtis. 343 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, but all I need you to do is just 344 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 3: continue to listen to here seven ten W or Bob. 345 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 3: You don't need to get adjida to all of them. Hey, look, 346 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 3: in talk radio, you have a lot of eccentric characters. 347 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 3: I've certainly worked with them. I've certainly been called eccentric myself. 348 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 3: I've had my ups, my downs, but I think almost 349 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 3: all of them are well known to people. But sometimes 350 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 3: when you have an anger management issue, there are substances 351 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,400 Speaker 3: out there that can keep that in check. Hey, look, 352 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 3: it's healthy, it's healthy. Let's go if we can to John, 353 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 3: who's calling from Staten Island. Your turn to be heard 354 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 3: here at seven to ten W. John. 355 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 5: Hey, Curtis, I'm so happy to hear you back on 356 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 5: the radio. We've met a few times, so I'm so 357 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 5: happy to be talking to here. WABC is definitely a 358 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 5: dysfunctional family dominic. Carter shows up to work grumpy every 359 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 5: single day. Lionel Square listened to the microphone. Sid Rosenberg 360 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 5: only cares about himself, toy's me Me, Me, Me Me, 361 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,880 Speaker 5: I am Gray and Greg Kelly. He takes calls from 362 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,439 Speaker 5: the wack o people who sent him books and they 363 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,719 Speaker 5: wrote down a name to the wrong wrong people, Like 364 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 5: what kind of operation do they got going on? 365 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 6: Over? 366 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 3: He look John, John, that's their thing. 367 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:25,239 Speaker 1: Uh. 368 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,399 Speaker 3: If you're not happy with their broadcast, now you have 369 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 3: a place to come to. Maybe I was the sheepherder 370 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 3: and you were sheep for many years and that's all 371 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 3: you listen to. Well, now you have an opportunity to 372 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 3: come on over and graves on this talk radio field. 373 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 3: Maybe my substituting for Mark Simon will encourage more people 374 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 3: to do that. I would suggest now that we're in 375 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 3: the age of social networking, text it out, email it out, 376 00:26:55,800 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 3: phone it out, get the word out of that any 377 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 3: longer and more choices, And this is my choice. So 378 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 3: I know for many of you who followed me in 379 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 3: talk radio for what it'll be thirty six years in January, 380 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 3: you're welcome on over. Listen to seven to ten wor 381 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 3: as much as is humanly possible. And remember, unlike years 382 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 3: and years ago where it was live and local, that's it. 383 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 3: If you missed the broadcast, you couldn't recover it. Remember 384 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 3: the great Bob Grant, nobody better, King of Tark Radio 385 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,479 Speaker 3: would do his opening monologue. You could never recapture that. 386 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 3: The whole Tri state area would stop to listen to 387 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 3: that opening monologue at three. Now, if you missed the program, 388 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,959 Speaker 3: you can catch it on podcasts. See that's something that 389 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 3: never occurred before. Let's go if we can to uh Vic, Well, 390 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 3: I believe is calling from Pennsylvania. Your turn to be 391 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 3: heard here at seven to ten, w or Vic. 392 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 4: Great to hear you, Curtis. Curtis, I want to tell 393 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 4: you a quick story. You know, I used to listen 394 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 4: to Sid and if it wasn't for Bernie, he would 395 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 4: be nothing. But what a phone, the biggest phone he 396 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,439 Speaker 4: could be. Well, they're all phonies there, but he seems 397 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 4: to be the biggest one. Talk about ego, you know 398 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 4: what I mean. And at one point I called up 399 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 4: when they were taking calls, he stopped taking calls to 400 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 4: let him know he had bad now Trump. And guess 401 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 4: what he said, Oh that's not true. I never bad 402 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 4: now Trump a big liar. But man, could you imagine 403 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 4: being in a foxhole with any of these guys? I 404 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 4: can't imagine it. 405 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 3: No, no, no, I tell you, I tell you one 406 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 3: thing straight up there. It was a much better show 407 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 3: when Bernard McGirk was with him because it was ik 408 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 3: ying and the yang, because when it's just said, it's 409 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 3: II me me, it's all about said looking. I think 410 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 3: he said this himself many times. He has low self esteem. 411 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 3: He's paranoid, neurotic. A lot of people in talker adio 412 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 3: that's the case. But Bernard was the ying to his yang. 413 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 3: Bernard was given an opportunity to do a program at 414 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 3: WABC what Imus clearly was in his latter years. Without 415 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 3: Bernard McGirk, Imus could not function. I was in the 416 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 3: broadcast studio. I saw how Bernie would feed him lines. 417 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 3: Bernie read the books, wasn't Imus, And towards the end 418 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 3: of Imus's career it was so obvious. But it was 419 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 3: Bernard mcgirk's wish to have his own show. 420 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: You know. 421 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 3: Imus didn't want that. Oh no, oh no, the show 422 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 3: following Imus in the morning. Bernard McGirk said it should 423 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 3: be my opportunity and he was right after all those years, 424 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 3: and he said, if you can only bring sid Rosenberg 425 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 3: up from Florida. He had just been fired. I think 426 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 3: for like the third or fourth time. Nothy's wrong with that. 427 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 3: That's how you know how long you've been in talk radio, 428 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 3: how many times you've been fired. But he was not 429 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 3: on the radio. Bernie said, I want Sid to be 430 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 3: with me. And I remember going down Hollywood, Florida at 431 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 3: the hard Rock We had a Guardian Angel conference of 432 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 3: the Floridian Guardian Angels, and I told the general manager 433 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 3: there I would go down and just do a little 434 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 3: background check on city. Had had some problems. And I 435 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 3: talked to a lot of people down there and said, oh, no, no, no. 436 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 3: His days of gallimantin cavorting getting into trouble, which he's 437 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 3: admitted is over. He's on the straight and arrow. I 438 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 3: came back, I gave the report. I remember walking into 439 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 3: the office of Chad Lopez. He had on his desk 440 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 3: a contract to hire Mike Lupeka, the great sports writer 441 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 3: for the Daily News but horrible on the radio ESPN. 442 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 3: You know it's not his medium. I said, you can't 443 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 3: do that, you can't sign that. That'll destroy WABC. I said, 444 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 3: come on, do this for Bernard McGirk. He's never asked 445 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 3: for anything other than that, and that's what happened. They 446 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 3: got that opportunity h mid Morning and then eventually the 447 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 3: Morning Show. And it's unfortunate that Bernard McGirk is no 448 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 3: longer with us because that was the ying to Sid Yang, 449 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 3: that was his wingman. Sid was Bernard's wingman, and Bernard 450 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 3: was certainly sid Rosenberg's wingman. In God's Father reference. When 451 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 3: you talk about Sid Rosenberg, think of Tessio. 452 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, though Beret is back. Curtis leewa guest host 453 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: the Mark Simone Show on seven ten, woo. 454 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 3: Is Erek Adams swaggerman with no plan? Is he back 455 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 3: yet from vacationing at our tach Bears expense? Where is 456 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 3: Eric Adams this morning? As he plays out the clock? 457 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 3: It's interesting The Anti Defamation League has issued a report 458 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 3: on some of the people affiliated which are on Mandami 459 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 3: the incoming mayor as having had relationships with Schooly Louis 460 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 3: Farakhan in the Nation of Islam. Question, is shuld that 461 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 3: eliminate you from consideration of having any place in government period? 462 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 3: Well it should have eliminated Eric Adams from ever becoming 463 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 3: mayor of the City of New York. I wonder you 464 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 3: when I ran against him in twenty twenty one. Remember 465 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 3: and those two debates. I said he is crooked and 466 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 3: there will be chaos, and oh boy, was I right. 467 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 3: But he won't go away quietly. He just vacations at 468 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 3: taxpayers expense. And now all of a sudden he's the 469 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 3: first to question people's credentials when in fact, you couldn't 470 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 3: have been any more supportive of Schooy Louis fara Khan 471 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 3: back in the nineties and the early two thousand period. Yeah, yeah, 472 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 3: I know, I know. So what is a good litmus 473 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 3: test relationship to fra Khan? I think every rapper would 474 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 3: have to be excluded because look at their Instagram and 475 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 3: who's their ninety two year old Schooy Louis Farrakhan and 476 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 3: the worst anti Semite in America.