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Speaker 1: And now the guardian Angel of talk radio is here.

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Speaker 1: Curtis Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven

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Speaker 1: ten WOO.

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Speaker 2: And this I final weeks up stooding for Mark Simon.

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Speaker 2: Nobody better in the business. What a smooth operator. Think

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Speaker 2: of that song by Shada nineteen eighty four, Think of

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Speaker 2: that in nineteen eighty four. It's going to come back

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Speaker 2: when I talk about the two books being written by

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Speaker 2: Bernard about Bernard Gets that are being published at the

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Speaker 2: same time the beginning of this year, forty one years

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Speaker 2: since the Subway Gunman. So we're going to connect all

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Speaker 2: the dots. But thanks to Mark Simon for giving me

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Speaker 2: this opportunity, Tom Cuddy, the program director, who I've known

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Speaker 2: for years from his stage over at WPLJ, and of

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Speaker 2: course the iHeart group of station's largest in the nation

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Speaker 2: doesn't get any better than this. This is like a

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Speaker 2: second birthday present for me, because I got the Christmas

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Speaker 2: present which was substituting the first week. This will be

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Speaker 2: my Birthday present March twenty six aries fire. You know,

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Speaker 2: I don't go over under, I go right through. And

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Speaker 2: who would have ever thought that I would have made

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Speaker 2: it to seventy two years old. So I got my

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Speaker 2: Christmas present substituting for Marquere and I'm getting my pre

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Speaker 2: birthday present. And then yesterday, because it's always busy in

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Speaker 2: my life, huge article came out. It had been done

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Speaker 2: weeks ago when it came out now and all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, my phone was like blowing up from Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, everybody out there on the West coast, Hollywood

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Speaker 2: that I've known over the years, I've met over the years,

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Speaker 2: was calling me about this article the Hollywood Reporter. That's

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Speaker 2: the bible for their business out there. So whether it's movies, TV,

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Speaker 2: whether it's streaming music, whatever it is, that's their bible.

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Speaker 2: And the article was Curtis Leewoo just wants you to know,

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Speaker 2: wants to know where are you from? Because that's what

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Speaker 2: I always asked, right is he? I asked you where

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Speaker 2: you're from from the Bronx. He said, No, Jersey, what

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Speaker 2: high school to go to? I always have these series

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Speaker 2: of questions because it tells me a lot about who

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Speaker 2: so is a huge article. And I got this one

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Speaker 2: call from a guy. Now all of a sudden, he's

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Speaker 2: interested in Courtius slave walk. Can I do this? Can

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Speaker 2: I do that? Okay? You know they're all they're all

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Speaker 2: schmoozing you. Uh, they're pulling your chain and chewing your shorts.

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Speaker 2: And he's like, hey, you remember me. Remember I grew

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Speaker 2: up in benson Hurst. Yeah, I remember you. Oh man,

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Speaker 2: I got I got ideas of we can do. I said, really, really, okay, Uh,

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Speaker 2: could you share a few with me? And he goes

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Speaker 2: on and on things he'd never be able to do

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Speaker 2: in a month of Sundays. But he's schnoring me. He

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Speaker 2: shnoring me, okay. And I know this guy because in

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Speaker 2: the midst of this mayoral election he became a Cuomo sexual.

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Speaker 2: He donated a lot of money from Hollywood to Cuomo

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Speaker 2: and he called me a clown. He thinks I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: forget that, right. So he's going on and on. He's

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Speaker 2: on the roll, doing this typical routine they do out

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Speaker 2: in Hollywood. And I said, cause you hold a second,

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Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta take a call from mister click.

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Speaker 2: And I hung up the phone on him. The guy

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Speaker 2: assumed that there was a break. He calls me right

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Speaker 2: back and I said, yeah, I had a great conversation

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Speaker 2: with mister Click. I'm sorry it took me a little

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Speaker 2: bit of time to get back to your call, but

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Speaker 2: I want you to be able to talk to mister

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Speaker 2: Click now and then hung up on him. You think

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Speaker 2: that's do not You think he finally understood that you

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Speaker 2: don't play with Curtis Lee, right, you don't stroke me

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Speaker 2: and think I'm not gonna remember. I don't forgive and

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Speaker 2: I don't forget. Oh, by the way, I hope Greg

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Speaker 2: Kelly is listening over at WABC because his show prep

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Speaker 2: was always marked simone the best in the business, and

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Speaker 2: he's sort of been a dollar short in a day late,

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Speaker 2: not having a routine to be able to pick pocket from.

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Speaker 2: But that's okay. Why wouldn't you listen to mark someone

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Speaker 2: the best in the business. I certainly have over the years.

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Speaker 2: But let's talk about yesterday, because it was a Hollywood day.

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Speaker 2: My wife, Nancy, as you know animal welfare activists, was

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Speaker 2: quest for by the loss of Bridgiet Buddo. Now, obviously

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Speaker 2: my wife is a millennial. She didn't know Bridge Bardeux

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Speaker 2: from her Liberated sex Bomb era of movies that she

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Speaker 2: remember Barbarella. Yeah, okay, but no, let's stick to Bridget

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Speaker 2: Bardous that one film and God Created Woman. Right now,

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Speaker 2: to them, right God Created Woman. It opens up with

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Speaker 2: her sun bathing in the new This is nineteen fifty six.

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Speaker 2: Think about that, nineteen fifty six, and later she emerges

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Speaker 2: from the sea in a clinging wet dress. I'll never

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Speaker 2: with the paparazzi chasing her all over. Remember this is

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Speaker 2: the era Marilyn Monroe, so many other sex bombs, but

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Speaker 2: there was a certain fair about Bridshard Bardell. So she's

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Speaker 2: at the can Film Festival right there off the Mediterranean.

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Speaker 2: She's in demand, and at the top of her movie

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Speaker 2: making career, she walks away from it. She goes to

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Speaker 2: Sanchope and she sets up an animal welfare sanctuary. She

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Speaker 2: goes out to the Arctic and she confronts these barbarians

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Speaker 2: who are clubbing baby seals to death. Confronts them. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure some of them are like Brigard Bardeaux my day.

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Speaker 2: Who would ever think you would see Bridget Bardeaux at

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Speaker 2: the North Pole. But she was a fighter for animal welfare,

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Speaker 2: and she consistently railed against laboratory experiments against animals which

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Speaker 2: are being filtered out in the Trump administration in the

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Speaker 2: Pentagon also and other federal agencies. Imagine it's still and

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Speaker 2: you know, testing on beagles.

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Speaker 3: Like that that udscraciata Dr Fauci testing on beagles, sending

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Speaker 3: them off to Tunisia, third world country, and then putting

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Speaker 2: Fleas eat the skin off their heads. For what purposes

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Speaker 2: we spent money on that? It was never explained, doctor Fauci,

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Speaker 2: you will burn in hell for that and many other things.

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Speaker 2: By the way, he's a boy from Bench and her

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Speaker 2: screw up pharmacy. Uh then went to Regi's the most

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Speaker 2: prestigious of Jesuit high schools, better than the one I

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Speaker 2: many many reasons. All right, let's stick with it with

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Speaker 2: Bridgard parte. And then she says, I don't care about

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Speaker 2: my past glory. I am taking every franc every euro

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Speaker 2: animal snowkill shelters Spain and neutering. Now, her politics was

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Speaker 2: extreme right. She was a follower of Lapenn. She hated Muslims.

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Speaker 2: She was cited for that many times for hate speech.

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Speaker 2: But yesterday, for those in the animal welfare community, it

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Speaker 2: was a reminder how so many who have done so

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Speaker 2: well in Hollywood in a movie making and in TV

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Speaker 2: their money to animal welfare. Now, the complete opposite of

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Speaker 2: Richard Bardow at that time was Dori Stay. She was

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Speaker 2: America's sweetheart. Remember Doris Stay. I remember seeing her in

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Speaker 2: Pillow Talk I think it was nineteen sixty with Rock Hudson.

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Speaker 2: Who know that Rock Hudson was gay, but he was.

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Speaker 2: These were great movies, but she was America's sweetheart. And

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Speaker 2: then while doing a film in about nineteen seventy one,

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Speaker 2: she saw some people abusing animals and immediately I think

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Speaker 2: she was doing the film The Man who Knew Too Much.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy one, she established actors and others for animals,

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Speaker 2: no de fur, no defer, and who joined the Mary

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Speaker 2: Tyler Moore, Angie Dickenson, Jane Meadows, and of course Bob

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Speaker 2: Barker the price is right. If he saw you Warring

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Speaker 2: wearing a fur, he would have punched your schnaz right

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Speaker 2: down your throat. And this became her passion. She lived

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Speaker 2: by Karmel by the Sea, you know Clint Eastwood where

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Speaker 2: he became mayor Karmel by the Sea, a lifelong Republican,

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Speaker 2: died at ninety seven, bequeathed all of her wealth to

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Speaker 2: her animal sanctuary. And then, of course there was Betty White.

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Speaker 2: Betty White died at about a hundred. I never forget

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Speaker 2: seeing her on phil Donague in the afternoons and she

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Speaker 2: giving her a hard time. Yeah, look, Betty White, Golden

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Speaker 2: Girls Hot in Cleveland, the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Betty

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Speaker 2: White an institution, bequeathed all her money to her animal

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Speaker 2: Wildlife fund. And then, oh yeah, for the guys out there,

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Speaker 2: there's Wakie Phoenix. Remember that great movie, the first one,

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Speaker 2: the Joker, not not the second one with Oh god,

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Speaker 2: The second movie could not touch the first one. That

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Speaker 2: was classic. So here's Joaquin Phoenix. He's receiving the Academy award. Uh,

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Speaker 2: he's speaking gibberish up who knew where his mind was,

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Speaker 2: like so many of these actors and actresses. And the

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Speaker 2: very next day he's out rescuing as she was known

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Speaker 2: to do animals in factory farms. He would actually go there.

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Speaker 2: He would say to those in charge of the farmers,

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Speaker 2: you want for that new born calf? Spending his wealth

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Speaker 2: to do that great actor? So many others, and think

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Speaker 2: of it, people make fun of you. Would you make

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Speaker 2: fun of Doris Day? Would you make fun of Betty White? Well,

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Speaker 2: is looney Kazuni from parts on own great actor, no

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Speaker 2: doubt about it. And Bridget Bardeux, who when they said

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Speaker 2: are you a recluse, she said, no, I'm not a recluse.

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Speaker 2: I would rather deal with animals than with people. And

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Speaker 2: then the most recent maybe we'll get to it in

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Speaker 2: this week when I'm substituting for Mark Simoon. Pigeons, which,

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Speaker 2: in my mind, Street pigeons should be the official bird

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Speaker 2: of New York city. Right, Oh man, you get such battles.

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Speaker 2: Some people say they're nothing more than rats with wings.

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Speaker 2: You know, they put up spikes on their windows cells. Hey,

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Speaker 2: you don't want pigeons coming on your window cells. Put

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Speaker 2: up plastic owls. That's like a natural nemesis to them.

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Speaker 2: and they put up scarecrows and keeps the crows who

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Speaker 2: have very smart. Pigeons very smart, but they will not

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Speaker 2: a plastic owl in. And boy, a tremendous controversy raging

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Speaker 2: because another great actress actually came to the support of pigeons,

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Speaker 2: the actress Sarah Paulson. She did a podcast in what

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Speaker 2: she was saying, we shouldn't be torturing these street pigeons.

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Speaker 2: They're a part of our New York City heritage and legacy,

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Speaker 2: and they are and they have performed so many services

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Speaker 2: for us over the decades, without which we might have

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Speaker 2: suffered enormously. And I grew up with pigeons on the

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Speaker 2: roof of my grandfather and grandmother's house in Knarci. My

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Speaker 2: uncle Vincenz used to have a pigeon coop There were

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Speaker 2: a lot of pigeon coops back then, so I nurtured them,

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Speaker 2: I fed them, I trained them Boston Bulldies and Homer's

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Speaker 2: so I have a direct infinity for pigeons. But boy,

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Speaker 2: you talk about mixing ammonian bleach and my own wife.

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Speaker 2: I'm so proud of her, Nancy, who stood up to

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Speaker 2: a comrade build a blasio back then, the part time mayor,

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Speaker 2: the dope from Park Slope, when he said, if you

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Speaker 2: feed pigeons, we are gonna find you and my wife Nancy,

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Speaker 2: in classic Clint Eastwood terminology, turned to build a blasio

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Speaker 2: on the steps of city Hall when he was mayor

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Speaker 2: unfortunately for eight years, and said make my day as

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Speaker 2: she and others began feeding the pigeons right there. Oh

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Speaker 2: you can see all that. Just go to act Curtis Sliwer.

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Speaker 2: It's all posted there. But what a day following the

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Speaker 2: Call eight hundred three to two one zero seventy ten

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Speaker 2: It's Phil calling from Queen's Welcome to Seven to ten

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Speaker 4: Hey, best wishes her great happy new year. Thank you

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Speaker 5: For peaceful protests at his inauguration.

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Speaker 4: If you notice, he has a closed party. He's capturing

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Speaker 2: Hockey and I appreciate that. Phil understand this. I ain't

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Speaker 2: my god, let's get rid of it. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: you can't deport people just because he are Muslim. Okay,

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Speaker 2: them have this celebrations or nieces. Okay, let's see what

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Speaker 5: To hear you back on the air. Curtis, I live

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Speaker 5: You were rather swimming meet at Brooklyn Prep. My school

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of remember that my school, Manta Christie,

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Speaker 2: Let's be talking about what's happening out there. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to Frank. I call it Little Dublin. He's calling from

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Speaker 6: Hi Curtis, Minnesota is not the only place that has

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Speaker 6: have set up to send money to their hacks in

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Speaker 6: the community. There's nothing going on at those places other

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Speaker 6: than stealing the money.

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Speaker 2: Well look, look, we've had medicaid mills here for you years,

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Speaker 2: in all different kinds of communities. They go in, they

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Speaker 2: write your script doctors whatever you want, and you become

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Speaker 2: a pill freak and they charge the taxpayers. And this

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Speaker 2: gone on for years. And oh the Somalians are ripping

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Speaker 2: them off in Minnesota. No, no, no, no, New York,

432
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Speaker 2: New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. They get taken into all these places,

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Speaker 2: don't ask surprise. There is no oversight. There is no

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Speaker 2: oversight to most of the government. What they do is

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Speaker 2: they tax us from the cradle to the grave, and

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Speaker 2: there's no oversight. And then occasionally they determine, oh there's

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Speaker 2: corruption there. Let's see how many people actually get prosecuted

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Speaker 2: and the fall through the cracks, and how many politicians

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Speaker 2: elected officials should go down for the count on that.

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Speaker 2: Our numbers one eight hundred and three to two, one

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Speaker 2: zero seven ten. For many of you, I know you

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Speaker 2: used to listen to WABC, which I was on always

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Speaker 2: broadcasting Curtis became always blaming Curtis for the election of Zohanmandami.

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Speaker 2: It's just just not the case. I understand that from

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Speaker 2: some people very close to Andrew Cuomo over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: I call them como sexuals that as the new year

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Speaker 2: is upon us, he's still crying. If only Curticians jomped down,

448
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 2: it could have been the mayor. Come on you, mama, Luke,

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Speaker 2: it's over. Just stay out in the Hamptons with your

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Speaker 2: billionaire friends. Just leave the subways and streets to me.

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Speaker 2: I got some stories about that coming up.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: With the end of the Metro card, the scammers were

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Speaker 2: out in force this morning in the subways, taking advantage

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Speaker 2: of tourists and the empty money taking agency. They don't care.

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Speaker 2: They don't care. They rip us off. Might as well

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Speaker 2: rip off the tourists too.

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Speaker 1: And now more with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis

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Speaker 1: Leewah guest hosting from Mark Simone on sevent ten woor.

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Speaker 2: So, now you've heard a lot about the phasing out

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Speaker 2: of the metro card to do your swipe into the

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Speaker 2: subway system, and obviously they're going to, uh, what can

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Speaker 2: we call that? The tap and run, you know, with

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Speaker 2: your debut card, your credit card and the Omni card.

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Speaker 2: I'm a token guy myself, I try. I love it

466
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Speaker 2: when during the age of crack in the eighties you

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Speaker 2: had the token suckers. They would actually go up to

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Speaker 2: the portal where you put your subway token in. They

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Speaker 2: would stuff it with paper or paper clips so that

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Speaker 2: if we get caught, you wouldn't be able to go

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Speaker 2: through the turnstiles. You'd scream over to the boardop, excuse me,

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Speaker 2: to the token booth clerk who was always asleep in

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Speaker 2: the booths. Hey, yeah, go ahead through, and then then

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden the crackhead would come and suck

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Speaker 2: the token right out of the portal and then sell

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Speaker 2: it to people for like half price. I mean that

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00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,959
Speaker 2: used to be all over the place. So then they

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Speaker 2: went metro card and then guys would bend the Metro

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Speaker 2: card and sell you swipes there because they figured out

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Speaker 2: how to steal money from us through the MTA money

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Speaker 2: taking agency. There's always been rusters, just like you have

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Speaker 2: the turnstiles. Now they say, oh we have flippers here,

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Speaker 2: we have guardrails here, and people are still avoiding paying

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Speaker 2: the fare. It's fair evasion galore everywhere I go. But

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Speaker 2: this morning, on my way here to war seven to ten,

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the these guys, these hustlers, and they're

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Speaker 2: taking advantage of tourists in the subway because where they

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Speaker 2: in front of the machine that would give them their

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Speaker 2: final Metro card or their Omni card right to get

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Speaker 2: into the subway. So these huss that you give me

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Speaker 2: the money and I'll swipe you win. I go up

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Speaker 2: to them and say, yo, man, get the hell out

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Speaker 2: of this station again. Talking with clerk's doing nothing, not

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Speaker 2: my business as tourists are getting ripped off. And then

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Speaker 2: the guy has the nerve to say to me, I

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Speaker 2: voted for you. Could all of you do me a favor.

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Speaker 2: If all of you who have come up to me

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Speaker 2: actually voted for me, I would be sworn in as

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Speaker 2: the mayor and not Zoran Mandami. This coming January. First,

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Speaker 2: please stop it already. Most of you did not vote

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Speaker 2: for me, but I guess you feel like, Oh, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna make them feel good. Yeah, I voted for you.

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Speaker 2: What And then I ask you where you from? And

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Speaker 2: you tell me Scarsdale in Westchester. How did you do that?

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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere. Up next, the Republican leadership do not

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Speaker 2: want Republicans to win citywide, a statewide ever again in

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Speaker 2: New York State. I'm gonna connect all the dots for

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Speaker 2: you now.

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Speaker 1: The Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall guest

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Speaker 1: host The Mark Simone Show on sevent ten woor.

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Speaker 2: I had my Christmas present last week substooting for Mark Simon.

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Speaker 2: He's the best in the business. And then I get

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Speaker 2: my pre birthday gift substooting for Mark this week up

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Speaker 2: until the second and that birthday March twenty six. I'll

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Speaker 2: be seventy two, and I know more about New York

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Speaker 2: City and politics and anybody alive. There's no doubt about it.

517
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Speaker 2: I challenge anybody because I know where all the bones

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Speaker 2: are buried in who bury them? And I don't mince

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Speaker 2: my language. We are going to get into subject matter

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Speaker 2: that is of incredible importance to all of you if

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Speaker 2: you happen to live within New York State, and the

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Speaker 2: same philosophy could be coming to a state where you

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Speaker 2: live or near you. Because I've spent incredible amount of

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Speaker 2: time since losing the election to Zoran Mondomi, and yes

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Speaker 2: he is the may he won fair and square. He

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Speaker 2: is going to have his celebration after he is sworn

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Speaker 2: in by Bernie the out the Coca Sanders, originally from Brooklyn,

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Speaker 2: who went to Madison High School, which is also where

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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer went. By the way, update on Chuck Schumer.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a lot of you are not gonna like it.

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Speaker 2: But the masters of the universe, the billionaires, they just

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Speaker 2: can't stop themselves from getting involved in things they know

533
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Speaker 2: absolutely nothing about. Big story, We're gonna get into it

534
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Speaker 2: in this hour. It's how Elon Musk decides to weigh

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Speaker 2: in on the new fire commissioner, who he claims, as

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Speaker 2: a result of Zarhon Mondami's appointment, that people will die

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Speaker 2: as a result. Now he knows nothing at all about

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Speaker 2: New York City. He happens to see somebody else who

539
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Speaker 2: posted this, who themselves know nothing at all about the

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Speaker 2: history of the fire Department and fire commissioners in New

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Speaker 2: York City, and he reposts it and obviously he's in

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Speaker 2: charge of accent. He's getting millions of hits like he

543
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Speaker 2: somehow knows all about this about the only thing he

544
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Speaker 2: doesn't know is how to put out those fires from

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Speaker 2: his Tesla batteries in his electric cars, because when they

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Speaker 2: go on fire, Oh, it takes words to put him out.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't even yet figured that out. But we'll talk

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Speaker 2: about that momentarily, because he couldn't be more hopelessly wrong.

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Speaker 2: And once again, I'll explain it from a historical performance.

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Speaker 2: Most of the fire commissioners of late most I'm not

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Speaker 2: just talking about those appointed by Eric Adams Swaggerman with

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Speaker 2: no plan and I can't wait for him to get

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Speaker 2: get out of here, get out of our lives.

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Speaker 7: But prior yeah, let's see Bloombert Giuliani think it's nobody's

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Speaker 7: even mentioning all the fire commissioners who served for those

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Speaker 7: mayors who had never put out a waste paper basket fire.

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Speaker 2: But do you think that a guy like Elon Mosk,

558
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Speaker 2: who's omnipotent, thinks he knows everything like all those billionaires

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Speaker 2: and millionaires because they've succeeded in business. They're very wealthy.

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Speaker 2: You think he'll apologize, of course not they do. Like

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Speaker 2: Trump yesterday, I had to turn it off in the

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Speaker 2: wee hours of the morning. He's he's standing there with

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Speaker 2: Zelensky and he's saying, yeah, Russia really wants to see

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Speaker 2: the Ukraine succeed. Man, they's no way. Yeah, if Russia

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Speaker 2: takes over the Ukraine again. By the way, the Ukraine

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Speaker 2: gave up it's nuclear arsenal. They had more nuclear weapons

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Speaker 2: than anyone else other than the United States, and the

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Speaker 2: old Soviet Union isn't. Back in nineteen ninety one, Bill

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Speaker 2: Clinton was president and he convinced him give up your

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Speaker 2: nuclear payload. Yeah, how did that work out? But when

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Trump is saying, oh, yeah, Russia.

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Speaker 2: I just spoke to Putin earlier today on the phone, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Russia really wants to see the Ukraine succeed. And I'm like,

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Speaker 2: Zelensky say something. Of course, Ain' isn't gonna say anything

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Speaker 2: because nobody can ever challenge Donald Trump. I believe you

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Speaker 2: challenge authority no matter who's in charge. And when somebody

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Speaker 2: makes absolutely ridiculous comments, you must challenge it, like when

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Speaker 2: Trump said that it was the Ukraine that started the war.

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Speaker 2: How many Republicans challenge him. We're getting into Republican leadership,

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Speaker 2: and how so many Republicans are just afraid to challenge

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Speaker 2: authority at any level, local, regional, state, national. It's not

582
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Speaker 2: you know it. Don't make a big deal about it.

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Speaker 2: I always make big deals about it, because I believe

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Speaker 2: you have to question authority, especially when it doesn't make sense,

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Speaker 2: like that ridiculous statement yesterday of mar Lago where the

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Speaker 2: President says, yeah, Zonski, Russia really wants you to be

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Speaker 2: successful in the Ukraine, and Zelenski, you bite your tongue,

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Speaker 2: don't say anything, or Trump and the administration will go

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Speaker 2: on a rampage against you, all right, pu Teta side.

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Speaker 2: As you know, I've spent a lot of time bisecting

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Speaker 2: and dissecting the fact that Republican leadership here in the

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Speaker 2: state of New York has decided they want a UNI party,

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Speaker 2: they don't want a two party system. They have convinced

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Speaker 2: themselves and they have convinced a lot of the Republican

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Speaker 2: registered voters that Republicans cannot win a city wide election

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Speaker 2: or a state wide election Now for some of you,

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Speaker 2: you may say, well, that sounds pretty personal. It is

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Speaker 2: because I went through that from the highest levels of

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Speaker 2: the White House to Elon Musk himself as soon to

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Speaker 2: be a trillionaire, the world's richest guy, to a guy

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Speaker 2: named Akman. Who the hell is this guy? Ackman? Every

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Speaker 2: day he was tweeting Curtis, you can't win, drop out,

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Speaker 2: drop out, drop out travel and you know how that went.

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Speaker 2: And then in the waning days of the campaign, Republican

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Speaker 2: leaders Republicans decided vote for slendamivofa Cuomo. U Discratsiata in

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Speaker 2: every which way. I mean, we could spend the rest

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Speaker 2: of this program just talking about what a disgrace that

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Speaker 2: guy was, because in their minds, there are two parties

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Speaker 2: in New York State. Now there are moderate Democrats and

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Speaker 2: there are socialist Democrats, and Republicans don't have a chance

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Speaker 2: to beat them citywide or in statewide elections. Now put

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Speaker 2: my election aside. Still with at least Stephonic we talked

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Speaker 2: about her last week. Suddenly she drops out and says,

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Speaker 2: not only is she dropping out of a Republican primary

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Speaker 2: against Bruce Plateman, but she's not gonna run for reelection

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Speaker 2: in the House. We lose a superstar because Republican leadership

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Speaker 2: was working behind the scenes to throw her under the bus.

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Speaker 2: You see, as much as Donald Trump, the President, threw

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Speaker 2: her under the bus. The worst part was is that

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Speaker 2: Alista Phonic had put together a campaign team mostly from

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Speaker 2: upstate New York, people that she knew, people that she trusted.

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Speaker 2: And the Park Avenue crowd down here, most of whom

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Speaker 2: are not Republicans, but they act like they can tell

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Speaker 2: Republicans what to do. And it's not Park Avenue in

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Speaker 2: Brooklyn and Park Avenue in the Bronx, which they've never

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Speaker 2: traveled to. It's Park Avenue in Manhattan. Decided there's nobody

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Speaker 2: from downstate involved in Alista phonics campaign. We're gonna go

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Speaker 2: all on board with Bruce Blakeman because Bruce Blakeman is

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Speaker 2: a winner. This is what they said. And he won

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Speaker 2: very convincingly the Nassau County executive position re election against

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Speaker 2: his Democratic opponent. And then I hear them tell the yeah,

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Speaker 2: and he's a winner. He's a winner said. If you've

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Speaker 2: been around long enough in politics, you've probably lost more

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Speaker 2: than you won. Remember, Donald Trump was an exception to

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Speaker 2: the rule. Of twenty sixteen, he's on the stage the

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Speaker 2: announcements the president. He shot Hillary Rodham. Clinton was in

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Speaker 2: a fetal position at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, spent

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Speaker 2: maybe a month in a fetal position that couldn't accept

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Speaker 2: the fact that she had lost. Very unusual. So I'm saying, look,

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Speaker 2: I know Bruce Blakeman. I like the guy, But let's

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Speaker 2: face it, who would you want to be running against

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Speaker 2: Kathy Hockel. I mean, I remember Bruce Blakeman. He ran

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Speaker 2: for state Controller as a Republican ninety eight against Carl

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Speaker 2: McCole loss. He ran for the Nassau County Legislature ninety

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Speaker 2: nine loss, ran for the US Senate special election twenty ten,

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Speaker 2: remember when Hillary decided she would become Secretary of State

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Speaker 2: and he lost the primary to Joe the Aguardi. And

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Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen he ran for the House and lost

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Speaker 2: to Kathleen Rice. So that doesn't disqualify him, because you know,

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Speaker 2: people say, well, well you got all no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 2: If you can run, he should run. But why did

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden you notice people of great influence

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Speaker 2: surround Kathy Hokel and we're meeting with her and they

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Speaker 2: have come to the conclusion, and I know because people

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Speaker 2: have shared the conversations with me that rather than put

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Speaker 2: all of their fiscal resource and support behind Bruce Blakeman,

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Speaker 2: that they're actually going to work for Kathy Hokel to

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Speaker 2: get reelected because she'll keep Zora Mandami and the Democratic

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Speaker 2: Socialist in check. Yeah. Right, but they figure they'll have

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Speaker 2: more control with her because they don't think a Republican

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Speaker 2: can win. This is coming off the mayoral election, and

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Speaker 2: by the way, President Donald Trump did Elie Stefaniki disservice,

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Speaker 2: throwing her under the bus on a number of occasions

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Speaker 2: that led to her unexpected dropping out. Although I kind

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Speaker 2: of felt it, I kind of felt it was coming.

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Speaker 2: And now we have what you're really not going to like,

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Speaker 2: and that's why we got to stop this. I was

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Speaker 2: at a major gathering of Republicans yesterday in Midtown and

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Speaker 2: I broke the news to all of them who had

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Speaker 2: gathered for their holiday party, is that there are Republican

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Speaker 2: leaders now, and there are Republican business people Park Avenue

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Speaker 2: people who are meeting with Chuck Schumer despise loath Right

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Speaker 2: the lowest of ratings of any major political figure in

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Speaker 2: the country, it's down to about twenty eight percent. And

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Speaker 2: they have come to the conclusion that if he decides

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Speaker 2: to run for reelection, and let's face it, all these

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Speaker 2: guys and gals, that's why you need term limits. It's

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Speaker 2: until death do they part. They'll run forever. Get the

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Speaker 2: defibriator next to them. They could be in the ICU.

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Speaker 2: They want to run. But if Chuck Schuma decides to run,

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Speaker 2: already Republican leaders and people, you know, the Acmans of

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Speaker 2: the world, who know nothing about politics. You know, they

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Speaker 2: know a lot about Wall Street, a lot about hedge funds.

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Speaker 2: They've done very well in business, but they know nothing

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Speaker 2: about nothing when it comes to politics because they made

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Speaker 2: all the wrong choices. Are now meeting privately with Chuck

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Speaker 2: Schumer and saying, you know, you probably can't win a

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Speaker 2: Democratic primary if you run like CuMo, but they'll probably

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Speaker 2: either be AOC running against you in a Democratic primary,

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Speaker 2: or if she decides to run for the presidency the

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Speaker 2: Democratic primary, there'll be somebody else from the socialist wing

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Speaker 2: of the Democratic Party and you'll lose. But then in

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Speaker 2: the general election, we'll do like we did for Cromo.

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Speaker 2: We'll get Republicans to support you independence Conservatives and moderate

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Speaker 2: Democrats to stop a socialist from becoming a US Senate.

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Speaker 2: He's entertaining that why would they be doing that, because

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Speaker 2: they have already cast their lot into a UNI party.

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Speaker 2: They don't think that Republicans can win in statewide elections

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Speaker 2: or city wide elections. So they are the masters of

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Speaker 2: the universe. They think they know everything, and they know

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Speaker 2: nothing about nothing, as you will learn when we discuss

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Speaker 2: the how can we be kind to him? The very

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Speaker 2: eccentric Elon Musk who decided to tweet his way into

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Speaker 2: New York politics a second time, because remember he had

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Speaker 2: tweeted to his massive following on x a vo for

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Speaker 2: SLEI is a voasamandami voa Cuomo. Why wouldn't he He

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Speaker 2: got a billion dollars from the Buffalo billion and did

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Speaker 2: nothing up there, a billion dollars to do nothing, and

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Speaker 2: seven Cuomo cronies went to jail for that cause he

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Speaker 2: likes Cuomo. But now he's tweeted into something that he

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Speaker 2: knows nothing about the fire department in New York City.

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Speaker 2: And you will not have heard this analogy from anybody.

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Speaker 2: That's why I know where all the bones are buried

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Speaker 2: and who buried them? Right now on my station, at

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Speaker 2: the station that I listened to along with Nancy seven

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Speaker 2: ten woar and it should be yours too. Our numbers

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Speaker 2: one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten one

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Speaker 1: Curtis leewa guest host for Mark Simone on sevent ten woo.

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Speaker 2: Well, well Ellen Musk. I'll be kind to him. He's eccentric,

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Speaker 2: done very well in his businesses, no doubt. But I

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Speaker 2: predict since our theme today has been Hollywood because of

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Speaker 2: the story in the Hollywood Reporter about me today, Curtis

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Speaker 2: Leewo just wants to know where you're from. But we

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Speaker 2: know where Elon Musk is from. He's from South Africa.

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Speaker 2: He convinced the President of the United States we was

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Speaker 2: friends with and he was no longer friends with, and

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Speaker 2: he was friends with the Afrikaaners are under siege in

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Speaker 2: South Africa and that they should be the only people

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Speaker 2: able to come into the United States. Well, number one,

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Speaker 2: that's wrong. I had Guardian angels in Cape Town. There's

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Speaker 2: crime everywhere, and the people who are the victims of

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Speaker 2: the crime of most are Black Africans. In South Africa

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Speaker 2: will save that for a different thing. But remember it's

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Speaker 2: a year since those Remember he took out that chainsaw.

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Speaker 2: He was going to cut all the waste. Well what waste?

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Speaker 2: He did nothing. We're spending more money than ever before,

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Speaker 2: thirty eight trillion dollar debt and it's growing. Both parties responsible.

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Speaker 2: But let's talk about what he decided to do. Yesterday,

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Speaker 2: somebody had tweeted out there that with zarn Mondami's appointment

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Speaker 2: of Lilian mon as a brand new fire commissioner, that

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Speaker 2: people will die. So he knows nothing about this, but

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Speaker 2: he decides, Hey, I'm going to pimp that ride and

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Speaker 2: actually millions ended up looking at it on accident. I'm

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Speaker 2: saying to myself, Hell, I'm ask you, you don't know anything

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Speaker 2: about the fire department. You have these electric batteries of

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Speaker 2: you as Tesla batteries. When they go on fire, it

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Speaker 2: takes hours to put them out. Very difficult, I might add.

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Speaker 2: But let's deal with the substance of what he said.

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Speaker 2: And everybody immediately, well, you know, Eric Adams, he had

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Speaker 2: two fire commissioners, Laura Kavanaugh and Tucker, who were not firefighters.

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Speaker 2: That is true. I didn't really like either, but You know,

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Speaker 2: the fire department is a department that can run on

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Speaker 2: its own. They don't need a fire commissioner. You know

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Speaker 2: everything there civil service. You work your way up. It's

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Speaker 2: not as political as the Police Apartment and other agencies.

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Speaker 2: But let me give you an idea of all the people.

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Speaker 2: Maybe if somebody can alert Elon Musk all the people

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Speaker 2: who have served as fire commissioner in New York City

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Speaker 2: under different mayors. Can we go back to David Dinkins.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't that Eric Adams favorite mayor? Not Rudy right, David? Okay,

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Speaker 2: Charlie Hines was the fire commissioner. Charlie Hines. I never

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Speaker 2: knew Charlie Hines to be a firefighter. He ended up

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Speaker 2: becoming the King's County DA. Remember he was a special

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Speaker 2: prosecutor assigned by Mario Cuomo to deal with the Howard

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Speaker 2: Beach situation. That was a volatile, racially charged situation. Love

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Speaker 2: that that was Charlie Hines. Was he a firefighter?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 2: Then in the aftermath of nine to eleven, Michael Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: was elected because we said we needed a businessman. Who

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Speaker 2: did he appoint to be the fire commissioner? Nickis Scapetta.

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Speaker 2: Now I had had conversations with Nicholas Scapetta down in

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Speaker 2: Metro Tech. I would run a stickball contest every year

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Speaker 2: between the firefighters and the NYPD. Boy. This guy was

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Speaker 2: quite a stickball player. He had gone to Seward Park

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Speaker 2: High School. Told me he had lived in an orphanage

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Speaker 2: for a while. His mother had been put into jail

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Speaker 2: for stealing welfare checks for a while, speaking about Somalia

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Speaker 2: and Minnesota, and then when she was released, the family

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Speaker 2: was brought back together. I think a great guy. He

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Speaker 2: had served under four different mayors, Department of Investigation, Deputy Mayor.

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Speaker 2: He served under Rudy Giuliani and put the child welfare

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Speaker 2: agency back together again and was having problems, and then

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg made him the fire commissioner. He had never put

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Speaker 2: out a fire before. You know what, because the guy

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Speaker 2: who had served before him, Tommy van Essen, was the

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Speaker 2: ultimate firefighter A. He was the president of the firefighter

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Speaker 2: his union. Rudy decided to make him his fire department commissioner.

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Speaker 2: He was the whirling Dutchman again, very good stickball player.

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Speaker 2: I saw him play from Ozone Park. But the men

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Speaker 2: and the women hated him because they said he was

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Speaker 2: responsible for the faulty new digital radios, the broken repeater systems,

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Speaker 2: the crowded channel congestion, the plague firefighting during the attack

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Speaker 2: of nine to eleven, and that many of the firefighters

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Speaker 2: who were up in towers won in towers two had

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Speaker 2: no radio communication at all with their colleagues, and more

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Speaker 2: importantly any of the Office of Emergency Management personnel or

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Speaker 2: the cops. So they hate Tommy Vanessen. Now could you

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Speaker 2: get any more of a firefighter than Tommy van Essen?

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Speaker 2: Actually fought fires, was the head of the union, the UFA,

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Speaker 2: and went on to become the fire commissioner. Wait doesn't

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Speaker 2: stop there. Who also became fire commissioner under Rudy Howard's safer.

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Speaker 2: That's one tough jew from the Bronx. He joined the DEA.

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Speaker 2: He was busting drug dealers. You know, we're talking now.

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, Trump wants to go after the

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Speaker 2: president of Columbia. He's a drug dealer. But he freed

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Speaker 2: the former president of Honduras who he had in jail

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Speaker 2: for being a drug dealer. All right, well, we'll talk

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Speaker 2: about that maybe tomorrow. Howard's Safe for one tough Jew

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Speaker 2: went on to become the police commissioner after Bill Bratton,

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Speaker 2: but was first the commissioner of the fire Department in

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Speaker 2: New York never put out a fire. So do you

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Speaker 2: think Elon Musk, facing all of this ack Act going

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Speaker 2: back at him blowback, would pull that tweet and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: I made a mistake. I should never have waked into

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Speaker 2: that conversation about who should be the fire commis. By

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Speaker 2: the way, Lillian Bunsenira thirty one years with the EMS,

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Speaker 2: they're like add seventy percent of their responses to fire

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Speaker 2: calls at ems Man, they got one of the toughest

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Speaker 2: jobs in the city, along with correctional officers. It's like

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Speaker 2: a perpetual nine to one one call. It can't even

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Speaker 2: stop to get a cup of coffee. They're racing from

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Speaker 2: one call to another, many of them emotionally disturbed persons.

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk, stay in your lane. Another example from Ackman

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Speaker 2: to Elon Musk, where billionaires the masters of the universe,

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Speaker 2: talk about things as if there are authorities and they

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Speaker 2: know nothing about nothing. But do you think Elon Musk

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Speaker 2: will apologize? Of course he won't. Our numbers one eight

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Speaker 2: place to be from now on as it is for

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Speaker 2: me and Nan See sevent ten war the Voice of New.

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Speaker 1: York Curtis Slaywad joined sevent ten WOOR to guest os

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Speaker 1: from Mark Samore.

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Speaker 2: Well, well I got some snail mail here. That's good

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Speaker 2: to see. And right away I went to is he

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Speaker 2: who was a little dizzy or board operator also escape

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Speaker 2: eat from WABC, not his place to be? And I say,

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Speaker 2: is he, We're friends right from our WABC days. Once

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Speaker 2: you open it up, who knows? You know? I got

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Speaker 2: many many enemies out there, as many of the listeners know.

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Speaker 2: Could take me back to like remember two thousand and one,

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Speaker 2: supposedly some guy in Trenton was selling sending out mail

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Speaker 2: that had cipro in it, or possibly Sippro not zipro.

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Speaker 2: Excuse me antras the antrax sports remember you inhale those

847
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Speaker 2: that's it. You're dead on a I remember at the

848
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Speaker 2: time the Pataki administration decided for he and his staff

849
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Speaker 2: to be on the safe side because they were getting

850
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 2: nefarious mail along with people over at the Fox News

851
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 2: Channel and some other places that they would take cipro

852
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Speaker 2: as a prophylactic, you know, to prevent it. God forbid

853
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Speaker 2: they did Inhale any of those anthrax spores. I said,

854
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Speaker 2: is he you know, just you know, for old time sake? No,

855
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Speaker 2: it's quite all right, Quite all right, Curtis, friendship only

856
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 2: goes so far, h is he? You weren't going to

857
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 2: touch that, were you? But it does remind me about

858
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Speaker 2: George Vataki, the greatest governor we've had in our lifetime,

859
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 2: without a doubt, three terms, no corruption, no chaos, beat

860
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Speaker 2: Mario Cuomo, who thought he was on his way possibly

861
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 2: to becoming the first Italian American president of the United States.

862
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 2: And nobody knew who George Battacky was. Nobody knew there

863
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 2: were six Republicans vying to run against Mario Cromo at

864
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 2: that time, seeking a fourth term, and he superseded them.

865
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Speaker 2: He had been the mayor of p skill Semimen state senator.

866
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Speaker 2: I remember giving a speech for him at the Yale

867
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Speaker 2: Club on the day that I got fired in the

868
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Speaker 2: morning Angels in the morning with my wife Lisa at

869
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Speaker 2: the time. But he had committed to his campaign manager

870
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Speaker 2: I would go to the Yale Club speak on his behalf.

871
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 2: There were eight people there, four family members and four

872
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 2: of his Yale graduate friends. That was it, and he

873
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 2: beat Marioconmo and turned out to be our greatest mayor.

874
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 2: He does a great story. The chauffeur knows everything I know.

875
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 2: There's a phone calls of blazing. I'll get to them momentarily.

876
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 2: The chauffeur knows everything. You know. Who was the chauffeur

877
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 2: for Nelson Rockefeller for a while, the world's richest man,

878
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 2: former Governor George Batacki and his job When Nelson Rockefeller

879
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 2: was traveling the state and spending time at a five

880
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 2: star hotel, you know, meeting up with as many gumatas

881
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 2: Jeudge Fortaki had to bring him a bottle of Dubena

882
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 2: and Oreo cookies. The world's richest man at that time

883
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 2: was drinking Dubenat tells you all you need to know.

884
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 2: The chauffeurs know everything. Let's get to the phones. I

885
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 2: don't want to delay any longer. It's Norman who's calling

886
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 2: from Long Island. Your turn to be heard at seven

887
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 2: to ten?

888
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 8: Wor Hi, Curtis, I'm also Canarsie boy. I grew up

889
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 8: in Bayview, and I had some famous people in my class,

890
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 8: like Jim McMillan, the basketball player John Brockington who played

891
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 8: for the Packers.

892
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 5: But I have I have.

893
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Speaker 8: Two questions for you. One question, do you think we

894
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 8: can somehow where the Republicans can get find Alista Flonic

895
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 8: to run for Senate against Schuma?

896
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 2: Uh? First off, you would think so. Now you had

897
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 2: mentioned McMillan went to Columbia, but he went to Jefferson first,

898
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 2: right in Pennsylvania Avenue. Along with Right.

899
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 8: I had him in my class in Jefferson. He was

900
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 8: in my chemistry class.

901
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 2: Right. And then then you mentioned the great running back

902
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 2: John Brockington, Well, I think went on to uh run right,

903
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 2: went to Green Bay Green Bay Packers, and you failed

904
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 2: to mention they're great. Coach Moe Finkelstein, Oh yeah, Mo,

905
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 2: I had Bo.

906
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 8: He's my health teacher. He used to walk around. You

907
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 8: had to buy tickets for the football game every week.

908
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 8: I mean we didn't learn any health there. We used

909
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 8: to watch the films from the games.

910
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 2: What they used to have was the game of the

911
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 2: week will be on Channel eleven. High school, whether it

912
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 2: was PSA, L or CHSL And Jefferson was a powerhouse then,

913
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 2: so they on a lot. You know who the broadcaster was,

914
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 2: Marty Klickman, who was broadcasting New York Giant football games.

915
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 2: Marty Klickman. And do you know who was on the sidelines?

916
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:14,919
Speaker 2: Who is the reporter on the sidelines? Not the way

917
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 2: they do it now, some drop dead gorgeous woman that

918
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 2: they go to, you know during the breaks, Elston Howard

919
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 2: who had been the catcher MVP for the New York Yankees.

920
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 2: This is what you used to get high school football

921
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 2: broadcasts on Channel eleven Saturday mornings, and you'd always see

922
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 2: Mo Finkelstein. You'd see all the said Marty clickman, Mo,

923
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 2: tell us, how did you beat boys and girls high

924
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 2: this week? Tell us? And Mo would go on and

925
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 2: on and on. Boy, those are great memories. But I

926
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 2: know that's not why you were called.

927
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:51,280
Speaker 8: Football was king with Mo.

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01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 2: That's for sure. All the memories. By the way, who

929
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 2: was the other famous alumni of the projects, so with

930
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 2: two others. One went on not to own but to

931
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 2: run Starbucks three times three times? And I have no

932
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 2: love for this guy. I'll share that with you momentarily.

933
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:21,920
Speaker 2: And another great NBA ball player. I went to Canarsie

934
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 2: High school went on to success with the Detroit Pistons

935
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Speaker 2: and the LA Lakers and became quite a broadcaster and

936
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Speaker 2: handle the sports talk show. A little bit of trivia

937
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:37,520
Speaker 2: here one eight hundred and three to two one zero

938
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 2: seven ten. Let's go if we can to Mike, who

939
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 2: I believe is calling from Long Island, your turn to

940
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 2: be heard here at seven ten wor Mikey.

941
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Speaker 6: Hike Curtis.

942
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Speaker 8: I'm glad to hear you back on the radio. I

943
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 8: want to weigh in on the new fire commissioner.

944
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Speaker 2: Now, can you speak up a bit, Mikey, speak up

945
01:02:59,600 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 2: a bit.

946
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

947
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

948
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 8: Kavanaugh on the Adams was the first DEI commissioner. She

949
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 8: couldn't handle the job, so they had that retired chief.

950
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 8: I shall come back to run things now. I know

951
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 8: the same thing is gonna happen with this thing that

952
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 8: he's gonna put I mean, listen, I don't know. Hopefully

953
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:22,440
Speaker 8: she'll be good, but if not, I hope defied. It's

954
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 8: active and retired elicited to me. Do not step up

955
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 8: to run the department for this guy. Mendanny. If he

956
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 8: wants this to be the commissioner, let him do it now.

957
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 8: Let her run it well, whatever it is, But you

958
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 8: named those other commissioners, but they had they were credible

959
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 8: administrators who hold.

960
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 2: On the incredible administrators. But again, what did Ellen Musk

961
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 2: tweet out as a result of Lillian bon Signori being

962
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 2: a signed fire commissioner by Johan Mandami thirty one years

963
01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:03,240
Speaker 2: EMS people will yet I just went to a litany

964
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:08,480
Speaker 2: of former fire commissioners who served under Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg,

965
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 2: and none of them had ever even put out a

966
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:19,440
Speaker 2: waste paper basket, but they were good administrators. Well is

967
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 2: that what makes say fire commissioner? And by the way,

968
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,400
Speaker 2: the fire department can run on itself. Again, it's civil

969
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:30,919
Speaker 2: service to the highest level. The political appointment is the

970
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 2: fire commissioner. But I will tell you this, she deserves

971
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:40,000
Speaker 2: an opportunity. And again I speak on behalf of EMS

972
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 2: workers that I know work real hard constant calls. They

973
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 2: don't have enough personnel. They only make about thirty five

974
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 2: thousand to start, They don't have pay parody with the

975
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 2: other uniform services who started about fifty two thousand. They

976
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 2: have to deal with everybody that nobody else wants to

977
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 2: deal with to take to the hospital. Many of them

978
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 2: don't want to go to the hospital, and they fight

979
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 2: them in the back of the wagon. How do I know,

980
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 2: Iron Guardian angels have had to go in there and

981
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:13,440
Speaker 2: help the EMS people who immediately have to fight with somebody.

982
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 2: They just put an IV into their arm and as

983
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 2: soon as they drop that patient off, they're running to

984
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:23,840
Speaker 2: another nine to one. But oh no, Elon Muska, he's

985
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 2: an expert, right, He's gonna turn out to be the

986
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 2: Howard Hughes of our generation. Watch. Very successful in business,

987
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 2: but very eccentric.

988
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 1: Two the Beret is Batch Curtis leewa guest host The

989
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:43,480
Speaker 1: Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.

990
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 2: Woo. And as we approach the starting the new year,

991
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 2: the dropping of the ball in Times Square, I've met

992
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 2: many people from Mexico City to Montreal to Lagos, Nigeria

993
01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 2: who were here to watch. If you're from New York,

994
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 2: you're really gonna be down there in the manners, of

995
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:07,080
Speaker 2: course not. We'll talk about that as we get closer

996
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 2: to the end of the week. But I want to

997
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 2: give a shout out because so often we in talk

998
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 2: radio are negative about political figures and what they promised

999
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 2: to do and don't do. I gotta give a shout

1000
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 2: out to Vinnie Ignizio. Now some of you might know

1001
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 2: him in Staten Island. He was the assemblyman, he was

1002
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 2: city council member. And in the election of twenty twenty one,

1003
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 2: I remember when I was going to vote. Remember I

1004
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 2: had that little kit in my hand, Gizmo, who Nancy

1005
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 2: had rescued from the shelter like she's rescued dozens of

1006
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 2: others who would have been euthanized. And Gizmo became the

1007
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 2: most famous cat in the world. It was featured on

1008
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:49,440
Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert went viral. They made fun of me, but

1009
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 2: Gizmo became a star. Remember they wouldn't let me take

1010
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 2: Gizmo in to vote. But when I did go in

1011
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,479
Speaker 2: to vote, when Nancy writing me a brand High school

1012
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 2: on the Upper West Side, the machine was not working,

1013
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 2: the scanning machine, so they had to call with the

1014
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 2: call a engineer on call. The engineer showed up like

1015
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Speaker 2: a half hour later, and instead of adjusting things so

1016
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:20,280
Speaker 2: that it could accept my ballot, remember the ballot had

1017
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Speaker 2: to be filled out on both sides. The engineer in

1018
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Speaker 2: front of all the TV cameras that were there to

1019
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:32,760
Speaker 2: record my vote. Karate chopped the machine. The director of

1020
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 2: the Board of Elections said, man, you can't do that.

1021
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 2: And that's when Vinnie Ignizio was hired as the deputy

1022
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 2: executive director of the Board of Elections and said to me, oh,

1023
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 2: we're going to reform things from these missteps, and he

1024
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 2: delivered on that promise. Do you realize we just went

1025
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 2: to an election cycle where there were two million, one

1026
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 2: hundred thousand votes casts. There haven't been that many votes

1027
01:07:57,080 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 2: casts since nineteen sixty five, the election to John Lindsay

1028
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 2: and no problems. And I haven't heard anybody out there,

1029
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 2: not in the media or anyone else praise those people

1030
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 2: I've been at odds with it before who did an

1031
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:16,519
Speaker 2: absolutely outstanding job to process that vote. So my breve's

1032
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:19,479
Speaker 2: off to Vintie Ignisio and everyone who was involved in

1033
01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 2: that long election process to determine who the next mayor

1034
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:25,840
Speaker 2: of the City of New York was. Any other down

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Speaker 2: ballot votes that you made