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00:01:00.040 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:01:05.640 It is indeed the Anthony Cumia Show. Another wonderful Sunday. And before anything, I must say

00:01:13.880 that last week, filling in for Brian Kilmeade with the great Sid Rosenberg was such a blast.

00:01:22.480 Such a great time.

00:01:24.320 And, you know, the videos and sound clips that went out there.

00:01:28.320 I mean, your guys out there, your support was amazing.

00:01:32.620 We're getting incredible numbers on these things.

00:01:34.800 Just two guys having a good time doing radio.

00:01:39.280 Boy, and the really ironic, funny, I don't know which term you'd choose,

00:01:46.300 is that between the two of us, we have done such reprehensible things.

00:01:54.700 We should have no careers at all, none, relegated to some far-off Bastille somewhere.

00:02:05.360 Yet, here we are, doing broadcast radio in the number one market in the country.

00:02:12.740 It is insane.

00:02:15.480 But what a great time.

00:02:16.980 I want to thank everybody over there and Sid, of course.

00:02:20.860 Just a great time.

00:02:22.480 He's a busy guy always.

00:02:24.320 Oh, my God.

00:02:25.700 I'm exhausted.

00:02:26.500 I follow him on social media, and it's exhausting.

00:02:30.540 I'm here in Staten Island.

00:02:33.440 You're like, what?

00:02:34.900 Then he's in Jersey.

00:02:36.880 He's shaking hands.

00:02:38.700 I did all that stuff back in the old Opie and Anthony days and stuff.

00:02:44.000 It was fun.

00:02:46.180 And for the most part, the fans were, you know, majority dudes, party guys, things like that.

00:02:53.260 Sid, he does a show where, you know, he's kind of got to be respectable.

00:02:58.100 He's kind of got to be a respectable guy.

00:03:00.840 He was sitting down.

00:03:01.720 I can't wait to hear how his meeting with Mayor Adams went.

00:03:06.380 He was doing that after the shows we did.

00:03:11.200 So I don't know.

00:03:12.460 I'm curious to hear how that went, but he's dignitaries and politicians.

00:03:17.840 It just all looks so exhausting.

00:03:20.060 So I think it was pretty fun for both of us to hook up last week

00:03:24.540 and do a few shows together.

00:03:27.260 A lot of fun.

00:03:28.340 I like Sid.

00:03:30.260 You just heard me yammering about the problems in New York City,

00:03:35.660 the crime, the murders, the assaults,

00:03:39.820 All the fun things that make New York, New York.

00:03:43.620 And it's abominable.

00:03:47.480 You know, you had this doctor being pushed onto the train tracks by some degenerate.

00:03:55.180 And then, right after that story, I just saw that a man was stabbed in the neck on a New York City subway.

00:04:05.760 just got into some altercation with somebody,

00:04:11.120 which, I mean, on the subway, I wouldn't argue whatever it was.

00:04:17.880 Whatever it was.

00:04:19.840 Here, is this heads or tails?

00:04:22.060 You flip a coin and you go, well, it's obviously heads.

00:04:24.820 Nope, it's tails.

00:04:25.860 All right, I agree wholeheartedly.

00:04:28.760 Please don't stab me in the throat or throw me on the train tracks.

00:04:32.540 so any arguments you're getting into on a subway you're just looking for trouble you got to tuck

00:04:40.920 that pride away sometimes and just walk away because you don't know you don't know which

00:04:47.620 mental patient is going to come running out after you and um like i said uh curtis is going to be on

00:04:55.520 the uh this very program a little later on in the show i think about nine somewhere around there

00:05:01.380 And we're going to talk about all this because this has been going on since the Giuliani administration, really.

00:05:09.660 Bloomberg had some things going on.

00:05:11.620 But if you recall, Bloomberg's the one that wussed out on stop and frisk.

00:05:19.000 And then I get a lot of people ask me, Anthony, you're a freedom-loving guy.

00:05:23.800 you're a first amendment guy and you know you don't you don't appreciate um uh this this

00:05:31.520 governmental oppression authority taking your rights away uh yeah i don't see stop and frisk

00:05:40.100 as that sorry i don't i think when you get into a situation where you're you're part of a community

00:05:48.680 in a city and there is an element roaming that city that means nothing more than to do you harm 0.96

00:05:57.420 they just want to hurt you kill you perhaps rob you rape you whatever it may be 0.93

00:06:04.560 they're not good they're not good people and they carry weapons and they use them 0.99

00:06:11.760 some 17 year old just got arrested for firing off some rounds in times square

00:06:18.680 where I believe that is a restricted gun zone.

00:06:23.080 If you're a licensed gun owner that jumped through all the hoops

00:06:26.920 and years and money to get a pistol license in New York City,

00:06:31.200 you can't carry a gun there.

00:06:34.440 We only want the criminals, 0.98

00:06:37.540 the people that could not possibly legally own a gun,

00:06:42.620 when they get their hands on a gun,

00:06:45.380 they take it wherever they want, Governor Hoke.

00:06:48.560 Michael, Mayor Adams.

00:06:51.460 So a 17-year-old shot a few people, and he's, I guess they're holding him on $400,000 bail,

00:07:00.180 which is amazing in New York.

00:07:01.700 I'm amazed he got any bail at all.

00:07:03.700 Oh, go home.

00:07:05.140 Sleep it off.

00:07:05.880 We'll call you when your case comes up.

00:07:09.020 But that's $40,000 cash.

00:07:13.360 $400,000 bond is $40,000 cash.

00:07:16.640 Eh, you know, you go to a bail bondsman, something like that.

00:07:20.380 You could be out.

00:07:21.920 That should be no bail, and not no bail like they let you out.

00:07:25.220 No possible way to get out of jail.

00:07:27.900 This guy takes a gun.

00:07:29.440 Do you know what a citizen, a legal law-abiding citizen goes through

00:07:33.520 when they are caught with a gun in one of these restricted gun zones?

00:07:38.580 Or let's say you're out of state.

00:07:40.700 This happens a lot in New York.

00:07:43.140 You're out of state, resident.

00:07:46.500 You've gone through all the hoops you have to go through in your state.

00:07:51.120 Your state's pistol permit is valid in many other states in the union.

00:07:56.060 But you don't know.

00:07:58.180 You didn't do your due diligence and check New York State

00:08:01.980 and realize that New York does not have a reciprocation with any other state

00:08:07.480 as far as gun licenses go.

00:08:09.540 uh and then you you go on a trip to new york you take your gun with you and uh now you're going

00:08:17.880 into your tourist so you want to go into the empire state building and they hit you with

00:08:22.600 that metal detector and go oh what's this oh it's a gun uh you're under arrest you're under arrest

00:08:28.960 and there's mandatory i think it's one year mandatory sometimes two depending on the um

00:08:37.360 circumstances but you're in rikers island you're in rikers island meanwhile one border away let's

00:08:47.960 say pennsylvania two borders one if you go north and uh you're you're a criminal you've committed

00:08:56.600 a gun crime meanwhile you know 17 year old who couldn't possibly own a gun legally shoots up a

00:09:03.600 place and they let him out you know you could possibly be let out on bail a lot of these guys

00:09:08.180 with weapon charges you they let him out they have pending weapons charges they'd already been

00:09:14.460 arrested they've been let out they commit another crime and they let him out again and that's why

00:09:23.600 new york is the way it is and uh you know uh de blasio was just a disaster he's the one

00:09:33.360 that really, really brought New York back to that 70s, 80s, 90s vibe

00:09:40.120 of just a horrible, dystopian nightmare.

00:09:47.540 And, you know, Curtis, he's one of these guys, he's been in New York, he's seen it all.

00:09:54.460 There is nothing any New Yorker has seen that Curtis hasn't seen

00:09:58.520 and understands because he is a New Yorker

00:10:01.460 and he's been through this nonsense himself.

00:10:05.480 And, you know, you hear him talking.

00:10:07.160 It's all common sense stuff.

00:10:09.800 No one wants a high-crime city.

00:10:12.940 No one makes excuses for a high-crime city.

00:10:16.620 Well, we understand there's some crime, but, you know,

00:10:19.560 maybe psychiatrists going out on police calls instead of cops,

00:10:24.680 social workers.

00:10:25.760 this is what people like mandani want to do they don't want to look at the problem

00:10:35.200 face it understand it and do something about it we need to arrest these people and for some of

00:10:44.400 the simple you know oh it's a victimless crime like turnstile jumping you know i was just talking

00:10:50.940 about that the fact that that's a barrier when you arrest people when you have cops stationed

00:10:57.940 at the turnstiles in subway stations and arresting turnstile jumpers they're not as eager to jump

00:11:07.020 that turnstile anymore and you know who's jumping the turnstiles it's not people going to work

00:11:12.240 i don't think there's ever been a guy in a suit in a briefcase that's like i gotta i gotta save

00:11:18.620 me a couple of bucks and jump this turnstile it's thugs criminals mental patients and those

00:11:27.680 are the ones i would love if they had some kind of statistic i could look at that would let me know

00:11:34.900 how many people that have pushed other people onto the train tracks paid the fare to get onto

00:11:44.300 that subway platform because right now i'm going to make a guess zero never none of them have ever

00:11:52.300 paid the fare to get on the platform to push someone in front of a train it has never happened

00:11:58.500 they follow someone in they jump the turnstile they open that emergency door which all of them

00:12:04.120 seem to be open now anyway and uh you know that's got to stop giuliani did that the the quality of

00:12:12.620 uh uh crimes the issues that were going on the broken window policy i think they call it and it's

00:12:19.400 it's going after people that are committing these what you would call nuisance crimes

00:12:25.460 because it's it nips it in the bud as they say and it stops uh the the um domino effect

00:12:34.240 where it leads to bigger and more terrible crimes.

00:12:38.900 Keep thugs and the homeless and the mental patients 0.89

00:12:44.180 out of the subway system. 0.99

00:12:45.940 You're going to have less crime on the subway.

00:12:48.640 And if that means putting cops at turnstiles

00:12:50.340 and having them arrest, yes, handcuff, arrest,

00:12:54.740 bring down to the station, book them, arrest,

00:12:58.360 turnstile jumpers, things will get better down in the subway.

00:13:02.880 That's how you do it.

00:13:04.960 You don't go, oh, we need more money.

00:13:06.860 We need more cop.

00:13:07.580 We need more sensitivity.

00:13:08.820 We need more social workers.

00:13:10.520 We need to understand the homeless. 0.98

00:13:13.880 No.

00:13:15.380 Arrest people.

00:13:16.420 It's what Giuliani did.

00:13:18.000 It was some of the safest times we ever, ever had in this city.

00:13:21.840 All right, just getting started.

00:13:23.580 We're taking your calls.

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00:13:28.560 And plenty more.

00:13:30.260 And Curtis Sliwa a little later in the show.

00:13:32.400 as we continue with the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:13:36.160 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:13:42.820 It's the Anthony Cumia Show, entertaining and informative

00:13:46.960 on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:13:50.160 And I'm Anthony Cumia. That makes sense.

00:13:54.120 Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the red nose, the curly red wig,

00:13:59.660 the white face paint, the big shoes, the horn that goes, quack, quack.

00:14:05.340 It's Clown of the Week.

00:14:07.600 The Anthony Cumia Show presents the Clown of the Week.

00:14:14.100 I don't know why she's still around.

00:14:17.920 What is she doing? 0.99

00:14:20.000 She's old. 1.00

00:14:21.560 She's senile. 0.97

00:14:23.140 She's Nancy Pelosi. 0.99

00:14:24.560 Yes, Clown of the Week, Nancy Pelosi. 0.92

00:14:26.940 See, this is a topic that really hits home with a lot of people because people have kids. 0.93

00:14:33.640 They don't like the idea of kids being abused.

00:14:40.380 And what we've seen over the course of the past few years is this insanity of thinking a child can determine what their sexuality is,

00:14:53.640 what their gender is, and the adults, the parents, the community will celebrate that

00:15:01.440 and go through whatever they have to, pills, shots, implants, surgeries, horrible mastectomies 1.00

00:15:11.340 on healthy breasts. 0.75

00:15:14.220 It's pure insanity.

00:15:16.120 And the only light at the end of the tunnel here is that it seems to be coming a something that's passe, something that seems old now.

00:15:27.260 Like, oh, you believe in that?

00:15:29.600 That's crazy.

00:15:31.120 We don't we don't we don't do that anymore.

00:15:34.080 Even the nuts are kind of steering away from that whole thing.

00:15:38.220 Happens very quickly.

00:15:39.480 Trump got elected, he got inaugurated, and you saw this societal turn, this ideological turn that the country is taking.

00:15:52.080 And I don't know if it's so much a turn in that people didn't like this ever, but the people that normally remain quiet, that's who we are.

00:16:03.660 We're patient to a fault.

00:16:06.280 We're very busy keeping our lives going and working and raising families

00:16:11.920 and doing the right thing as citizens.

00:16:15.200 So we really don't have time to go out into the streets

00:16:18.840 and yell like a bunch of monkeys in the street about things.

00:16:24.920 But when things hit a certain level, you have to say something.

00:16:30.800 And this is one of those topics.

00:16:32.140 people are so fed up with the idea that this went on for as long as it did and um some of the old

00:16:40.660 folks they don't know it's it's over and nancy pelosi is one of those old folks and uh here's

00:16:48.420 a clip of her kind of getting behind it backing this sexual surgery for kids and um let's let's 0.99

00:16:57.780 listen to her, her fine words. How is your office responding to the pauses in gender affirming care

00:17:04.180 here in California? Well, that is something that I'm working for at the national level. And we

00:17:10.680 have, what can I say, are hoping that we can have gender affirming here for our trans kids.

00:17:22.960 and that it's a it's a sad thing for us i'm not totally um i don't know what um i don't know what

00:17:32.320 effect we can have nationally with what we have going on in the white house and in the congress

00:17:38.140 it's really very sad if you were there outside our door we have a trans flag outside of our door in 0.67

00:17:46.100 the Congressional Office Building.

00:17:50.700 We have the trans flag, as do some of our other colleagues.

00:17:53.900 But that view is not necessarily shared by people on the other side of the aisle. 0.95

00:18:03.220 Boy, if it was a visual medium here, you would have seen a lunatic. 0.50

00:18:09.140 Pelosi's done. 0.99

00:18:10.320 She's got her head shaking like crazy.

00:18:12.980 She can't find the words.

00:18:15.020 She's stuttering and muttering. Look at you, stuttering, muttering. And what she says is is insane.

00:18:22.680 And again, they all know the proper language to use.

00:18:27.880 You know, when when when a normal person would look at the facts of these kids being taken to various hospitals, clinics, medical centers, Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory, we call it what it is.

00:18:44.280 This is gross, disgusting abuse of kids. 0.58

00:18:49.280 This is mangling them. 0.97

00:18:52.080 And they call it gender-affirming care because, and again, they change words around like this in terms all the time

00:19:02.860 Because the actual term, mangling, mutilating children's sexual organs and changing their sexuality before their, even through puberty, that doesn't sound good.

00:19:19.140 That's not going to catch a lot of people and make them feel good about it.

00:19:23.320 But gender affirming care, it's got affirming, which is not a nasty word, care. 1.00

00:19:32.860 Care. Everyone wants to be cared for. It's like abortion. They don't say abortion rights. Really? The mental patients in the streets with the blue hair, they say that. But most of it is reproductive rights. Rights is good. Everyone wants their rights. Reproductive. You're you're you're the right to reproduce. No, no, no. 0.75

00:19:56.340 it's the right to you know kill your unborn child that's the right that's the one that uh that they

00:20:05.920 want so when someone like uh pelosi talk even though she's got some type of uh dementia i don't

00:20:14.160 doubt or maybe it's alcohol induced whatever it may be uh even she has it ingrained in her in

00:20:21.920 what's left of our brain to say things in certain ways where it sounds more palatable to people it's

00:20:29.260 a lie is what it is it's a misrepresentation of what it actually is and the democrats liberals

00:20:35.360 they are so for kids deciding their gender before they could decide anything anything else i've seen

00:20:46.460 kids that were young enough where you put a brownie or a cookie and a stack ten thousand

00:20:53.200 dollars next to it and go which one would you choose and the kid picks the cookie they're too 0.99

00:20:59.580 stupid to know the ten thousand dollars buys a lot of a lot of cookies but they're they they're 0.99

00:21:05.940 they're not mature enough their brain hasn't developed enough but that kid the same age kid 1.00

00:21:11.380 they would say is completely able to decide what gender they are at at that age and and not just

00:21:22.460 play playtime decide put a dress on whatever the kid wants to play with a doll uh they want to

00:21:29.080 take them somewhere or her and and change their body chemistry and cut off body parts it is so 1.00

00:21:38.940 reprehensible and so disgusting and this nancy pelosi and her ilk are all for it they are are 0.93

00:21:50.100 champions of it and they think anybody trying to stop this is is a terrible person we know 0.85

00:21:57.520 we know who's on the right side and who's on the wrong side of history here

00:22:02.240 back in moments don't go anywhere anthony cumia show

00:22:05.480 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

00:22:11.740 it's the anthony cumia show entertaining and informative on the red apple podcast network

00:22:20.340 yes indeed the anthony cumia show uh like i said curtis lee we're coming up in moments

00:22:30.760 stick around for that lots to talk about the state of new york is new york city is a disaster

00:22:37.460 and uh curtis is the only guy i hear that's talking sense addressing real problems with

00:22:46.300 real solutions not this run around the and and throw out these uh pat lines and

00:22:55.100 uh beating around the bush constantly it's frustrating frustrating and i don't even live

00:23:01.880 there anymore i don't even live in new york i have to visit though so for one weekend a month

00:23:07.780 i would like a a nicer friendlier more pleasant new york city uh clown of the week almost went

00:23:16.120 to adam schiff again this guy could be clown of the year every single week could be adam

00:23:22.880 Schiff. This is a Trump saying that he wants a new census. The whole census thing here in this

00:23:33.340 country has just been taken over and bastardized from what it was supposed to be. They're counting 0.68

00:23:39.540 people that don't belong here, illegals. And the census is what gets you seats, 1.00

00:23:47.740 republican or democrat seats um in in uh your states and uh a lot a lot of stuff

00:23:56.480 is dependent on the census and the results of that census now of course the democrats 0.91

00:24:03.120 would love for the census to include anybody that has their ass in america when the census 0.97

00:24:13.160 comes around whoever it is doesn't matter they cross the southern border they're in a denny's 0.98

00:24:19.880 in texas yeah you fill it out now but i'm going back home to guadalajara that doesn't matter

00:24:28.220 fill it out you're here you're now here's the uh census uh trump has this insane idea

00:24:35.800 that the census which could determine the representation uh should just be american

00:24:45.120 citizens i know i know whoa i know it's crazy it is crazy just to say but that's what trump wants

00:24:56.080 to do now of course adam schiff being the lying sack that he is i don't think i've ever heard him

00:25:04.740 being honest even if things aren't a blatant lie when he gives a speech or a comment or whatever

00:25:10.640 it is uh it's it's not an honest assessment of what he's talking about so uh adam schiff

00:25:19.380 he insists that making a census that just includes american citizens is unconstitutional now

00:25:28.980 their argument again is in the wording anytime they look at the wording of our past leaders

00:25:37.260 our forefathers other people that have created very influential and effective and huge

00:25:45.220 legislation in this country they always try to interpret it so it goes their way like the

00:25:53.180 second amendment you know a militia they always think the militia means that you have to be in

00:26:00.900 the army to bear arms which is completely against what the second amendment is there for it's an

00:26:08.560 armed population and armed people and armed armed citizenry that if the the unfortunate

00:26:16.260 circumstance ever came about where they would have to pick up arms against the government

00:26:20.640 why would only the army of the government be allowed to have weapons?

00:26:26.940 So that's obviously a dishonest and twisted interpretation of the Second Amendment.

00:26:35.760 Thank God the Supreme Court ruled differently than that.

00:26:40.400 And we are, as citizens, allowed to bear arms.

00:26:44.280 so uh with the census they they believe that people the term people that was used

00:26:51.780 uh is the same as as citizens and it means anybody so an illegal that's here is a person

00:27:00.320 and since it says a censor a census of the people they think it means anybody back then

00:27:09.020 the people were american citizens we the people you know the constitution of the united states

00:27:18.200 and the bill of rights and uh refers to the people those are the american citizens americans

00:27:26.440 the people it doesn't just mean anyone that comes in here but again they bastardized it twisted it

00:27:34.200 and turned it to their own agenda and now we're arguing over this no this is american citizens

00:27:44.160 uh being counted and having that information broken down to see what representation is

00:27:53.360 necessary what has to be changed what changed in 10 years where uh we need some more representation 0.55

00:28:00.720 in this area maybe not as much in this area and of course because illegals uh are overwhelmingly

00:28:08.920 democrat of course they want illegal aliens on the census more seats for them so um

00:28:19.320 let's listen to adam schiff and his take saying this is unconstitutional

00:28:25.620 You're in the Belvoir, very south of the Belvoir. How does a family of four live in a one-bedroom apartment?

00:28:31.740 Now it looks like Adam Schiff really did a bad thing. They have him. Now let's see what happens.

00:28:40.380 It's not up to me. I stay out of it purposely. But it's mortgage loan fraud. It's a big deal.

00:28:47.880 He defrauded banks and insurance companies and the federal government.

00:28:53.100 But it's very simple.

00:28:54.720 It's mortgage loan fraud.

00:28:55.920 And you're right.

00:28:56.900 That's a lot of people to live in a one-bedroom apartment, right?

00:28:59.740 But he put it down.

00:29:00.940 But he has a lot of other things far worse than that.

00:29:03.020 So, you know, Adam Schiff, they have him 100% on mortgage fraud.

00:29:09.820 Now, if there's anybody else in this room except you, you would have no problem.

00:29:14.440 but anybody else in this room

00:29:16.440 you'd have a problem

00:29:18.020 I'd have a problem

00:29:19.040 alright I screwed that up

00:29:23.600 I screwed it up I didn't have the clip

00:29:25.740 I had the Trump mortgage fraud clip

00:29:27.360 but the clip I was referencing

00:29:30.320 I guess I didn't send it over

00:29:31.740 my mistake

00:29:32.460 my mistake

00:29:33.820 yeah well I said it anyway

00:29:37.900 Adam Schiff says

00:29:39.400 it's unconstitutional

00:29:40.880 but they don't even want to hide it anymore

00:29:44.660 If they ever did really want to hide it, they didn't.

00:29:49.460 It seems like in the old days it wasn't as obvious.

00:29:52.500 We all knew that they wanted anyone that was going to be a Democrat voter to to be allowed to come in this country illegally or not.

00:30:04.020 and uh since trump and his administration did a miraculous job of turning off that tap 0.80

00:30:12.520 that stream of illegals that were crossing the border in record numbers not hyperbole there

00:30:19.000 more illegals crossed that border under joe biden than any other administration ever in history

00:30:26.500 and never never once did they try to slow that down if anything they made it easier

00:30:34.820 These caravans of illegals were crossing the border from Central America, South America, Mexico, and nothing was done.

00:30:45.120 And they went through all the excuses. 0.62

00:30:47.400 We got a bill, a bipartisan bill.

00:30:50.540 It would stop the flow.

00:30:55.400 And everybody with any sense in their head was saying, no, you don't need a bill.

00:31:02.100 You're the president. Close the border.

00:31:03.900 can't do that and and the uh cnn and msnbc were saying can't do that the republicans didn't sign 0.97

00:31:12.560 the bill meanwhile the bill was full of all kinds of garbage that would have done nothing

00:31:17.680 to slow down the crossings at the border we got more border patrol yeah to do paperwork 0.93

00:31:25.240 to let these illegals come into the country and give them a court date which they never 0.98

00:31:31.300 go-to so again it was all nonsense all bull all garbage because then trump comes in and within 0.98

00:31:40.300 months statistically zero statistically zero percent illegals crossing the border so it could 0.98

00:31:51.140 have been done they chose not to do it and everyone knows why because they need voters 0.93

00:31:58.320 legal or not goes hand in hand with the id they don't want voter id why would you let illegals 0.88

00:32:07.540 come into this country in record numbers right then you put them on airplanes that they don't 0.66

00:32:13.900 have to pay or anything and you distribute them all over the country little towns like springfield 0.77

00:32:22.040 ohio of course you got the somalis up there in uh minnesota and all these little enclaves of

00:32:29.920 illegals and uh uh immigrants that they've let in uh legally but all under democrat rule

00:32:37.080 and then you you come up with this amazing plan that you don't have to show id to vote

00:32:43.760 oh you have to do it for every single other thing that means anything in this country but voting

00:32:50.440 what is that it's an insignificant thing isn't it so when you tie things like that together 0.97

00:32:56.680 you cannot come up with a different conclusion than they are trying to get votes from illegals

00:33:05.600 who they're they've let pour over this border and shutting the border is great but you know 0.95

00:33:13.060 we're flooded now we got to turn the bilge pumps on and start pumping this garbage out

00:33:20.100 and now that trump's been doing that trying to the best of his ability uh he gets crucified for 1.00

00:33:27.880 that too and anyone that supports him is a nazi you're racist xenophobic oh illegals i mean i 0.99

00:33:36.240 mean undocumented i mean visitors i mean wonderful people they're the only ones that'll clean your 1.00

00:33:42.320 toilets then they come out with all the some of the most racist stuff you've ever heard

00:33:46.720 who's gonna clean your toilet mr trump well that's a little much but that's where we are

00:33:54.720 and anyone that thinks any different any different you're uh you're really not uh not being honest

00:34:03.140 uh this is what they do this is what they do when uh it comes to trying to win elections

00:34:11.480 i don't think democrats can really win elections um legitimately i don't think it could be done

00:34:19.520 uh i got another clip here i guess we could get to this it's a government governor hokul

00:34:25.960 and she's speaking about texas this redistricting gerrymandering no one even knows what that means

00:34:32.560 i mean it's a tough thing to even talk about on radio shows and news tv news shows because it's

00:34:40.880 not a very exciting uh topic um and most people don't even know what it is this redistricting

00:34:49.940 redistricting drawing new lines on a state map of of districts and um they just try to divvy up

00:34:59.280 the other party's district so that they don't get as much representation and uh that's what

00:35:06.320 they been doing i was looking at a map of uh i think it was illinois and um the districts were

00:35:13.860 very big and blocky you know they were like different districts in the state of illinois

00:35:20.500 and then they showed what it's like today and these things are shaped like like organisms

00:35:28.000 like paramecium and they're just all over the place with tentacles of one district reaching in

00:35:37.380 and some of these districts are literally parts of them one street wide because they just needed

00:35:44.360 that street to divvy up these this district into two districts uh so that they would uh get more

00:35:54.340 seats it really is underhanded and dastardly but it's not a sexy topic no one really cares about

00:36:02.780 it which is kind of sad because it is pretty important but uh let's listen to hochel not even 0.97

00:36:08.160 so much what she's saying here she's pretty much letting us know that they want illegals to vote

00:36:13.840 but uh she uses these uh old west analogies because she's talking about texas and it's just

00:36:19.640 douchey. Here's the great New York Governor Hochul. These brave public servants are taking

00:36:26.780 a stand, a strong stand, against a blatant power grab that's happening in their state as we speak.

00:36:33.540 And this will have implications, not just in Texas, but for our entire nation and its future.

00:36:38.920 I have newsflash for Republicans in Texas. This is no longer the Wild West. We're not going to

00:36:45.660 tolerate our democracy being stole in a modern-day stagecoach hoist by a bunch of law-breaking

00:36:51.860 cowboys. Americans don't want a system that's stacked against them. They believe in fairness.

00:36:56.500 It's fundamental. Rigging the system is un-American. But here they are, flagrantly breaking the rules 0.96

00:37:02.480 so they can hold on to power. With that power, they're going to inflict even more pain. But here

00:37:06.680 in New York, we will not stand on the sidelines with the timid souls who don't care, will not

00:37:11.400 invest their their heart and soul into this battle and that's why the gloves are off and i say bring 1.00

00:37:17.840 it on they're all tough i love the democrats the yeah bring it on who's that idiot down from uh 0.99

00:37:25.760 texas beto beto o'rourke what's his name is that it beto beto what's that yeah beto o'rourke okay 0.99

00:37:38.080 I got it right.

00:37:38.640 My little earphone friend told me.

00:37:40.980 Yeah, yeah, Beto, he's a tough guy.

00:37:43.380 He's cursing.

00:37:45.020 You know, I saw him talking the other day.

00:37:47.420 Yeah, when we finally get this car back, meaning, you know, the administration,

00:37:52.560 when we finally get this car back, we're going to drive it like we stole it.

00:37:55.580 Well, that's usually how you win elections.

00:37:57.880 That's how you get the proverbial car of the administration, of the presidency,

00:38:02.900 of the House and the Senate.

00:38:05.740 And so, again, they get so tough and they use this violent rhetoric, this underlying violent tone. 1.00

00:38:12.420 We're going to kick their ass. We're going to beat them up. 1.00

00:38:15.140 We're going. And you can't say anything as a Republican when they try to even use some type of analogy,

00:38:21.660 like like Trump, when he said if Biden or Camilla, whatever it was, gets elected.

00:38:27.560 And he was talking about Wall Street and Ford Motor Company, Detroit, the car industry, that it would be a bloodbath.

00:38:35.740 if they get elected and they twisted it around to mean trump is threatening that there'll be

00:38:41.360 blood in the streets if he doesn't get elected they actually said this uh which is quite the

00:38:47.360 stretch meanwhile these people are it sounds pretty much literal when they're saying yeah 0.99

00:38:53.900 let's kick their ass we gotta beat them we're gonna drive this car like we stole it uh so you 0.99

00:38:58.820 know they they turn into tough guys which uh is pretty funny because we all know they're not and 1.00

00:39:05.360 they can only win by some form of deceiving the people whether it's you know giving them that

00:39:13.160 little sprinkle of uh charity right before an election you know the uh the college um tuition

00:39:21.920 the loan student loaned student loan um forgiveness remember that one and then it's just like well

00:39:30.700 maybe we can't do that after the election it's like when you feed your fish you know you get a

00:39:36.240 little that tetra nasty smelling fish food and you sprinkle it on top and the fish go oh look up here

00:39:42.860 that's what they do every election they sprinkle a little fish food it gets their interest they vote

00:39:48.940 and then they're back in the gravel eating their own feces that's uh that's how it works

00:39:55.200 they're they're they're every single one of their campaigns is based on deceit whether it's

00:40:02.460 using different terminology to cover what something really is or blatant lies that we see

00:40:10.580 happen shift with that whole russia collusion thing how he isn't out of of politics at all

00:40:19.420 is amazing to me he was on shows on news shows in front of hearings saying there is absolute proof

00:40:30.460 absolute proof that donald trump and russia colluded to win the 2016 election

00:40:37.180 and he said he saw the proof and they will put it out there and and what whatever came to that

00:40:45.620 absolutely nothing because he was lying and now you know that's coming out and hopefully

00:40:53.320 something will come of it but you know no one pays no one pays in this country you don't get

00:40:59.460 any politician that actually has to face the music of what they uh did oh we're gonna censure you

00:41:08.160 what please not a censure and then they're censured and all right back to your committee

00:41:16.960 bank to say it's all fake little hand slapping disgusting why don't anything ever happen to

00:41:25.500 these people all right we're going to be back in moments uh stick around for more of the anthony

00:41:30.840 cumia show it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

00:41:39.240 it's the anthony cumia show entertaining and informative on the red apple podcast network

00:41:47.820 the anthony cumia show curtis sliwa coming up in moments so stick around for that uh in the

00:41:57.020 Meantime, 800-848-9222 for your calls.

00:42:02.600 Let's talk to Steve in Manhattan.

00:42:05.420 What's up, Steve?

00:42:07.080 All right, and I dare anyone to go around the dial, go to the satellite and try to find something better than this.

00:42:14.040 You're coming right back here, baby.

00:42:15.760 Love it.

00:42:16.440 Thank you, Steve.

00:42:18.600 You can use that as a promo if you like.

00:42:20.540 I'll do that.

00:42:21.500 Thank you.

00:42:22.300 Yeah.

00:42:23.440 I'm talking about all those things you brought up.

00:42:25.580 is identified and is on the money.

00:42:27.540 But I just want to bring up something

00:42:28.600 because there's economic terrorism 0.90

00:42:30.700 that's done by China

00:42:32.700 and obviously by Russia

00:42:34.280 and inside this country.

00:42:35.880 But there's also eco-environmental terrorism too.

00:42:39.600 I'm a firm believer

00:42:40.580 down in the Everglades 1.00

00:42:42.680 that the Russians and the Chinese 0.64

00:42:44.260 were throwing the Burmese pythons down there

00:42:46.640 and the Nile crocodiles

00:42:47.880 to throw the whole thing out of balance,

00:42:50.180 the nature down there.

00:42:51.740 I mean, how do you rebalance that?

00:42:53.160 You cut loose a couple of hundred leopards 0.58

00:42:54.900 and jaguars i mean i'm convinced that someday the russians will drop a woolly mammoth and a uh 1.00

00:43:01.540 t-rex into the hokey finokis really throw the whole thing out of balance it's all terrorism 0.81

00:43:06.800 you know i don't know steve i don't know about that i think um especially florida the everglades 0.74

00:43:12.980 they're a pretty resilient ecosystem down there and i think if anything was introduced um unless

00:43:18.940 it was in such insane numbers that everyone would know it i think its own um ecological

00:43:25.640 checks and balances would take care it's it's like it's the closest thing to dinosaurs in the

00:43:30.980 prehistoric era in florida you won't find any place closer to the mesozoic or jurassic eras 1.00

00:43:38.560 but i do agree that china and russia and other countries are uh uh terrorizing our technology 0.98

00:43:46.820 our intellectual property computers which now run everything so water power um our power grid is one 0.96

00:43:55.300 of the most important things ever if you've ever been in a hurricane or a natural disaster where

00:43:59.820 the power goes out for a little while you got a few days and every day that ticks by you see people

00:44:06.380 getting more angry more frustrated uh their lack of uh unity and that uh giving spirit and sharing

00:44:14.740 goes away i saw it happen in new york we had a hurricane up there uh long island got hit pretty

00:44:21.200 hard and for the first three days people were very courteous at the gas stations there were only a few

00:44:27.140 gas stations running because they had uh generators and they would be like oh you were here first go

00:44:31.620 ahead after three days on that fourth day people started going hey where are you going back of the

00:44:37.780 line and i'm convinced i would give society 10 maybe 10 days without power to really start

00:44:47.060 turning into the animals that we are two weeks if a parent can't get his kid uh his his uh

00:44:54.980 prescription or the power is out and maybe somebody needs a respirator at home or whatever 0.89

00:45:02.340 it might be you will see us come apart at the seams and china knows this and i believe they 0.98

00:45:10.120 have the power to to get rid of our uh power system at least localized enough to really cause 0.96

00:45:19.000 some problems in this country uh there steve right if you cut the power the food and the water

00:45:24.480 i mean you could turn man into a beast but i know during sandy there were a lot of banners hung that

00:45:29.260 said in this neighborhood here we respect the second amendment yeah yes so the thing is um i

00:45:35.680 was in some of those neighborhoods i went around and uh it was horrible more horrible than when

00:45:39.780 you saw on tv or in pictures what sandy did to those neighborhoods but also if we don't get 0.61

00:45:45.340 these illegals out of this country folks uh they win because they're going to have the census and 0.94

00:45:50.040 all these illegals they move all over the place so wherever they live they're going to send like 0.98

00:45:54.180 20 census applications 1.00

00:45:56.200 and who knows who's going to fill them out

00:45:58.160 and send them in.

00:45:59.740 They have to be thrown

00:46:02.140 out of here. The countries they come from 1.00

00:46:04.100 have to be held responsible. Those leaders 0.97

00:46:06.280 folks, you realize they're sending murderers 1.00

00:46:08.260 and rapists in here to murder and rape 1.00

00:46:10.340 our children, our family members 1.00

00:46:12.260 and our friends? To me, is that not

00:46:14.200 an act of war? I believe that's an act of war.

00:46:16.580 Now Steve, I don't know

00:46:18.240 Steve. I've heard

00:46:19.660 from the Democrats that these are some of the

00:46:22.120 most wonderful people, family-oriented.

00:46:24.740 They work harder than any American, some snotty American kid would,

00:46:30.120 and they do the jobs no American would do.

00:46:32.620 So how dare you, Steve, talk so ill of them?

00:46:36.140 Well, I'm just speaking the truth.

00:46:37.380 That's the only thing.

00:46:38.340 And I'll leave you with this.

00:46:39.460 My slogan for Curtis four years ago was Curtis or Detroit,

00:46:44.160 and he has to have big, really, voter registration drives,

00:46:48.620 Have a million Republicans move it to Frank Morano's house and Curtis will win the election.

00:46:54.280 I hear you, man.

00:46:55.660 That's what I'd like to say.

00:46:57.180 Thank you, Steve.

00:46:58.860 There goes Steve from Manhattan.

00:47:01.200 That's great.

00:47:02.200 Yeah, he gets it.

00:47:03.300 You know, people get it.

00:47:05.240 They understand what's going on.

00:47:06.840 It's just this feeling that you don't have the power to really do anything about it.

00:47:12.620 So I don't know.

00:47:15.140 I don't know where we go with this.

00:47:18.160 And like I said, I'd love to see Curtis win.

00:47:21.220 He's a common sense guy.

00:47:23.260 He's been around New York.

00:47:24.240 Some of these guys, it's like, who, Mamdani?

00:47:26.660 Where was Mamdani when Curtis was down in the subways with the Guardian Angels

00:47:30.680 because there was a problem?

00:47:33.440 And he took the reins and said, hey, there's a problem with crime in the subways.

00:47:37.540 Why don't we do something as people?

00:47:40.560 And he was called vigilante and this and that.

00:47:43.740 But, you know, that's a take the bull by the horns kind of guy.

00:47:47.320 And that's really what you want to see in this day and age.

00:47:50.920 So we'll talk to Curtis in moments.

00:47:52.980 Stick around, Anthony Cumia Show.

00:48:00.420 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:48:07.080 It's the Anthony Cumia Show, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:48:13.480 it is indeed the anthony cumia show glad you're uh joining us this sunday evening

00:48:22.160 per usual uh my guest tonight just awesome i've done shows with him uh it was a lot of fun

00:48:31.100 he's a great guy he's a new york guy he knows the city uh like not many other i gotta be honest i

00:48:40.400 I don't profess to be much younger than Curtis, but I kind of grew up, not as a kid, you know, my 20s and 30s, watching what he was doing in New York.

00:48:52.160 And always, sometimes you laugh, chuckle, and most of the time you go, good, someone's finally doing something.

00:48:59.220 My guest, how are you this evening, Curtis?

00:49:01.920 Oh, I couldn't feel better.

00:49:03.980 You know, Friday night, I'm under the Kosciuszko Bridge. 0.90

00:49:06.960 And remember, Antony, don't be saying Kosciuszko like the other Garvons out there.

00:49:11.800 That's the way they used to say it. 0.96

00:49:13.120 Oh, the Kosciuszko.

00:49:15.760 Kosciuszko.

00:49:16.260 First time I heard it said the proper way was on a traffic report.

00:49:21.320 I think it was on Winds or something.

00:49:22.680 And it goes, Kosciuszko.

00:49:23.920 And I'm like, what?

00:49:24.840 That's right.

00:49:25.620 They build a new bridge?

00:49:26.640 I never heard of that one.

00:49:27.480 So underneath the bridge, finally, after five times trying and running into every bureaucratic delay by the Adams administration, before that, during the lockdown and pandemic, Cuomo out in the Hamptons tried to stop them from having a concert.

00:49:44.780 We were there, myself and my wife, Nancy.

00:49:47.740 The chain smokers.

00:49:48.680 That's right.

00:49:49.040 We're into EDM, electronic dance music.

00:49:52.340 And I mean, the music was flowing.

00:49:55.280 This song, Closer, Paris, Don't Let Me Down, Take Away Addiction.

00:49:59.620 And actually, my wife knows all the words.

00:50:02.720 She's lip syncing them with the crowd.

00:50:04.560 I know some of the words.

00:50:06.160 We had such a great time.

00:50:07.860 And then they tweeted us, the chain smokers, Curtis and Nancy Sleewa, for being there.

00:50:14.520 Now, it doesn't get any better than that.

00:50:16.920 Come on, Anita. 0.92

00:50:17.760 No, no.

00:50:19.160 That's good because, you know, you're known and people, they're pulling for you, Curtis.

00:50:24.460 Well, also, they hated Cuomo because of the lockdown and pandemic and Adams for making it so difficult to have a concert, not because Adams doesn't like to change smokers.

00:50:34.560 He probably doesn't even know who they are.

00:50:36.340 Yeah.

00:50:36.820 But the regulations that exist in this city to do anything, Anthony, which is why people like yourself have decided we're out of here.

00:50:46.160 You're down in South Carolina where like half of New York City has moved.

00:50:50.660 Yeah.

00:50:51.300 A lot of people have left New York because of things like, you know,

00:50:54.020 the things most people go, taxes, I can't take the expense,

00:50:58.380 the lack of rights that you have.

00:51:01.400 They've just infringed on your rights, this and that.

00:51:04.220 But regulation is a huge thing.

00:51:06.540 The amount of red tape you've got to go through to do anything.

00:51:10.280 There was one time I lived in Roslyn out on Long Island,

00:51:13.560 and I wanted to chop a tree down in what I thought was my yard.

00:51:19.060 I bought the house.

00:51:20.440 I pay the taxes.

00:51:21.960 I wanted to cut a tree down.

00:51:23.160 And silly me, I went through all of the legalities that one would go through when you have to do something, thinking it would be simple.

00:51:30.320 The amount of money I had to pay various people to cut a tree down in my own yard was criminal. 0.65

00:51:38.960 A tree inspector, a tree doctor had to come and examine the tree to see if it was healthy.

00:51:47.060 and then that would have been more money or more forms that had to be filled out.

00:51:52.060 It's gotten to the point of being so oppressive

00:51:55.780 that I don't know how anyone is even left in that state 0.74

00:51:59.700 except for the lunatics that are pushing people in front of trains.

00:52:02.960 Anthony, you committed arboricide? 0.94

00:52:06.320 I did, arboricide.

00:52:07.560 You killed a tree?

00:52:10.040 A tree grows in Brooklyn.

00:52:11.800 That's the book we all read in, like, second grade.

00:52:15.460 I know.

00:52:16.160 You killed a tree?

00:52:17.700 I love nature.

00:52:18.960 I love trees.

00:52:19.880 I love the beauty of trees.

00:52:21.680 But the leaves were falling in my pool, Curtis.

00:52:24.820 I can't have this.

00:52:25.920 Oh, excuse me.

00:52:29.680 You didn't have a pool boy there?

00:52:32.040 I couldn't stand the leaves in the pool.

00:52:35.260 So I got rid of the tree.

00:52:36.660 No, it was dead.

00:52:37.760 It was half dead anyway.

00:52:39.200 One of the branches were broken off.

00:52:40.620 It was all hollow and like sawdust inside.

00:52:42.240 Actually, Anthony, one day, when time permits,

00:52:45.380 but you need to get program director Kevin Drush on to talk about how he was a pool boy

00:52:51.300 for the owner-operator of WVOX in Westchester for many years.

00:52:55.720 Is this a titillating, sexy story of a pool boy?

00:52:58.900 It involved pleasurization, the likes of which I couldn't imagine Kevin would indulge it.

00:53:08.500 Yeah.

00:53:09.500 I went through a pool cleaning phase in my earlier days.

00:53:12.720 Oh, you did?

00:53:12.940 My early 20s out on Long Island.

00:53:15.380 vacuuming people's pools and they you know they were all they had huge houses and you wanted

00:53:21.740 something to drink a drink of water and they'd be like yeah the hose is right there and you're

00:53:25.300 drinking hot water out of the hose like you're an illegal alien right who was at home depot you

00:53:31.580 know standing there for day labor to clean the pool getting my cardio when i see the suv pull up

00:53:38.200 oh my so you're the pool boy now what causes that silt on the bottom of the pool i can never figure

00:53:45.180 out you gotta cut your trees down around your pool there oh the silt at the bottom i i don't

00:53:52.600 know you gotta you gotta because when i finally did get my own pool then i had other people like

00:53:58.660 me come over and do the work so i don't know what actually was wrong with it i just had to vac it

00:54:03.820 out i didn't know what caused it oh so there you were in your blue collar working class man yes

00:54:09.740 You didn't have calluses on your tuchus.

00:54:14.680 You had calluses on your hand for doing a hard day's work for almost no pay.

00:54:20.780 Yes, and you know how that is.

00:54:22.660 You did the same thing.

00:54:23.660 Oh, yeah.

00:54:24.120 And how many people in government, and, you know, I'll bring it over to the entertainment field in some respect.

00:54:31.700 How many of them don't even know what it's like to go to a job you can't stand, be in conditions?

00:54:37.540 You know, I also did HVAC, and being in attics in the middle of the summer, it's 130 degrees up there.

00:54:44.580 You're banging your head against the shingle nails poking through into the attic, and you're hating life.

00:54:51.140 And all you're doing is thinking, God, I've got to get out of this.

00:54:54.940 I've got to do something else.

00:54:56.600 I have these dreams and aspirations, and you work toward them.

00:55:00.180 And when it pans out, it is an amazing thing.

00:55:02.940 But you will never, ever look back and, you know, take it for granted.

00:55:09.060 You know, be humble.

00:55:09.640 Hold on a second.

00:55:10.220 I'm really interested in this attic boy.

00:55:13.340 You're up there.

00:55:15.660 You got all the insulation, all the fibers that you're breathing in that you're going to get cancer from, you know, years from now.

00:55:23.760 Did you find any bats or skeletons up there in the attics?

00:55:27.900 There were bats a few times.

00:55:30.180 mice you know it was out on long island so it wasn't like i was doing uh city tenements or

00:55:35.840 anything i gotta tell you i'm a kid insulation was terrible i'm a kid i'm in the back of the

00:55:40.560 canasi cemetery the only secular cemetery in the city every other cemetery is religious it was

00:55:46.440 actually owned by the city and i'm hanging upside down in those elm trees because during the day

00:55:52.860 the bats were sleeping you know they're nocturnal yeah and so i'm hanging upside down and i'm loving

00:55:58.480 I'm climbing those trees, and I'm looking at the bats, and I jostled one of the branches,

00:56:04.240 and the bat woke up and bit me right in my stomach.

00:56:08.660 Oh, no.

00:56:10.060 You really got to think that's going to be a problem.

00:56:13.140 I fall out of the tree.

00:56:15.520 There's like an emergency.

00:56:17.020 You know, my cousins, Joey G, the Cheech from Howard Beach, Lenny Beans, Bianchino.

00:56:21.880 Oh, my God, you got bit by a bat.

00:56:24.220 Rabies, rabies.

00:56:25.400 Yep, that's the first thing you think.

00:56:26.880 They drag me to Brookdale, the ER, you know, first in line, the guys who got shot.

00:56:32.040 Then in line, the guys who got stabbed.

00:56:33.860 Then the ones who got bit by bats or rats.

00:56:37.340 And they give me 12 horse needles right in my belly button.

00:56:40.880 I mean horse needles.

00:56:42.620 And they say, if you don't take these needles, there's a very good chance that in the middle of the night, you're going to be foing from the mouth.

00:56:51.120 And there's nothing we could do for you then.

00:56:53.820 You're gone.

00:56:54.560 We've got to call in the priest with the last strike, the investments.

00:56:58.760 As kids, we all learned that from cartoons, by the way.

00:57:02.320 Oh, what about the wild packs of dogs that would be roaming the neighborhoods

00:57:06.600 and they'd be foaming from the mouth and everybody would say,

00:57:10.360 oh my God, rabies, stay away from them.

00:57:13.960 That was a scary thing as a kid.

00:57:17.000 Remember, Anthony, remember when you would see a praying mantis

00:57:20.400 and they would say, don't touch that praying mantis.

00:57:23.080 If you kill that praying mantis, people in Washington are going to know, and they're going to come and put you in federal prison for five years if you bother a praying mantis.

00:57:34.040 And I would say, how would they know?

00:57:36.020 It's a protected species.

00:57:38.660 They knew somehow, because as a kid, you were petrified of that.

00:57:43.020 Every kid heard it.

00:57:44.380 There was no Internet.

00:57:46.040 How the hell did every kid in this country know that it was illegal?

00:57:51.740 You go in a prison if you kill a praying mantis.

00:57:55.800 But somehow we all knew it.

00:57:57.100 It all blended in.

00:57:58.480 The praying mantis, their colors would match the leaf or the branch they were on.

00:58:04.120 So you might have jostled the praying mantis and you would pray to God.

00:58:07.980 Oh, please, I hope the praying mantis doesn't die.

00:58:11.040 I can't do time in federal prison.

00:58:13.900 The knock on the door.

00:58:15.000 FBI is your son home.

00:58:17.580 The other one, Anthony, if you kept a book one day over from the blue-haired matron and you didn't make it to the night depository box by 12 midnight, she shows up the next day like with a warrant to come in the house to check any books.

00:58:35.980 I don't care if we're matchbooks, comic books, S&H Green Stamp books, you know, where you used to cut your tongue, slapping them in there to get that toaster oven, you know, at the S&H Green Stamp store.

00:58:50.740 Oh, God.

00:58:51.920 Whoa, it was.

00:58:53.040 We had a pretty twisted thought about the world back then and laws.

00:58:58.500 We knew there were consequences.

00:59:00.780 Yes, yes.

00:59:01.840 Maybe that was a good thing.

00:59:03.260 like over the over uh use of consequence that that wouldn't ever happen was probably better

00:59:10.380 than this what we have now where no one thinks there's going to be consequence because they

00:59:14.680 haven't seen any you know people are able to do these things these days that uh you know we see

00:59:20.680 what goes on in a lot of these stores where people walk in it's not shoplifting i don't call it

00:59:27.260 shoplifting it's strong-arm robbery there's a threat of violence if you try to stop somebody

00:59:32.420 from taking stuff out of a store these days.

00:59:36.180 And they load up bags.

00:59:38.120 They don't run in, grab something, run out.

00:59:40.260 They take their time.

00:59:41.940 The only people that would do that are people that absolutely know

00:59:44.720 there's no consequence to it.

00:59:47.240 And consequence is the only thing that's going to curtail this, Curtis.

00:59:50.600 And we have these elected officials, police departments, the DAs, the AGs,

00:59:58.600 all these judges that just refuse to put consequence on people's actions.

01:00:05.720 I have to admit to you, something that I did as a 7-year-old child.

01:00:11.780 Uh-oh, here it comes.

01:00:13.000 We went to visit my uncle Jimmy Scavone and Lucy Scavone, my aunt.

01:00:19.780 They had moved to Hollandale right outside North Miami Beach.

01:00:24.120 And, you know, that was back at the time where Jackie Gleason,

01:00:27.320 the most watched entertainment show on the weekend.

01:00:30.820 He did a show from down there.

01:00:31.560 And at the end, he would say, come on down to Miami Beach.

01:00:34.380 And, like, half of New York City did.

01:00:35.960 Yeah, yeah.

01:00:36.980 So my aunt says, let's go shopping at the local Piggly Wiggly. 0.91

01:00:41.860 Piggly Wiggly.

01:00:43.340 Not Wall Bombs.

01:00:44.800 Not A&P. 0.90

01:00:45.900 Not Bohack.

01:00:47.100 Nope.

01:00:47.600 Not Passmore. 0.54

01:00:49.680 Piggly Wiggly.

01:00:51.020 Yeah.

01:00:51.260 I knew that was going to be an adventure.

01:00:53.400 So she's walking around, and I see her tasting some of the grapes. 0.97

01:00:59.760 And I ratted out my own aunt. 1.00

01:01:02.160 Whoa! 1.00

01:01:03.640 In an Italian family.

01:01:06.420 I ate the Parmesan cheese.

01:01:08.960 I went up to a guy. 0.99

01:01:10.480 I said, she shouldn't be doing that. 1.00

01:01:13.100 She's eating the grapes. 1.00

01:01:15.640 My Aunt Lucy was so embarrassed.

01:01:18.840 and the manager comes over to me and goes,

01:01:22.140 kid, you're like a junior sheriff down here in Dade County.

01:01:27.920 We should make you a junior sheriff. 0.99

01:01:29.940 You're like a narc. 0.98

01:01:31.980 You narc'd out your aunt for eating the grapes. 0.99

01:01:35.280 She was tasting them.

01:01:36.680 She wanted to see which of the table grapes she wanted to get.

01:01:39.640 Right. 1.00

01:01:39.980 Do you know she put me in the back of that car and she goes, 0.91

01:01:44.300 My, you, you are O.P. Curtis.

01:01:49.380 I'm your aunt.

01:01:50.760 I am the sister, the oldest sister of your mother, Francesco.

01:01:54.800 What did I do to deserve this?

01:01:56.880 And I said, you ate the grapes without paying for them.

01:02:00.880 And to this day, I think I was right, Anthony.

01:02:03.860 Yeah, but, you know, there's certain cultural things, Curtis, 0.95

01:02:07.740 where it might seem like you're being a rat.

01:02:11.100 You know, you don't want to rat out your family. 0.68

01:02:13.420 Hold on a second.

01:02:14.300 Cultural, this reminds me of Andrew Cuomo. 0.91

01:02:17.400 This is the fourth anniversary when he fled Albany because he feared impeachment for slapping fannies. 1.00

01:02:24.880 He was just being Italian. 1.00

01:02:26.540 Yeah, remember that was his excuse. 0.97

01:02:28.400 It was my cultural, a cultural influence.

01:02:32.200 Now, I knew his daddy, Mario, and Andrew is no Mario.

01:02:36.920 In fact, when I see Andrew on the stage of the debate, because there are going to be two debates for May,

01:02:42.160 I'm going to say, Andrew, I knew your father, Mario.

01:02:45.160 You're no Mario.

01:02:46.340 Why don't you go get your shine box right now, huh?

01:02:48.740 Oh.

01:02:49.320 Huh, Andrew?

01:02:50.260 Brutal.

01:02:51.020 But the fact was he sexually harassed 13 women, denied it.

01:02:56.860 You know, they all worked for him.

01:02:58.100 They all worshipped him, including a state trooper. 0.98

01:03:01.220 He said no, and then he not only was slapping fannies, he was killing grannies. 0.98

01:03:06.640 And the guy is back. 0.89

01:03:09.080 He's like, this is like a nightmare. 0.89

01:03:10.860 He's like a zombie who comes back from the dead, the political dead.

01:03:17.120 It's amazing.

01:03:18.340 I thought he was done for.

01:03:20.500 He doesn't seem to have much traction as far as this mayoral race goes.

01:03:25.060 You know, you have a buzz about you.

01:03:27.880 People are talking about you.

01:03:30.140 No one's talking about Cuomo.

01:03:33.700 But, hey, Curtis, you know how this is.

01:03:35.920 I've got to take a break, but we'll be right back.

01:03:38.080 You know how this is.

01:03:39.080 What?

01:03:39.360 We're squeezing in here for breaks.

01:03:42.080 It's regular radio.

01:03:43.460 You know how it is.

01:03:44.700 We'll be back in moments with more of Curtis Sliwa on the Anthony Cumia Show.

01:03:50.900 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

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01:03:59.900 Entertaining and informative.

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01:04:06.120 The Anthony Cumia Show.

01:04:07.680 We are here tonight with the great Curtis Sliwa, Republican mayoral candidate for obviously the mayor of New York.

01:04:15.920 And Curtis, I got to ask you this because I get I'm checking my feed during the breaks.

01:04:20.260 And one thing people keep bringing up, they think you should drop out and endorse Adams because they're saying, oh, my God, Danny's going to win if Curtis doesn't drop out and back Adams.

01:04:35.640 I don't see it that way.

01:04:37.680 I see this as Adams and Cuomo and Mamdani divvying up only the Democrat votes.

01:04:47.000 I think any Republican would vote for you.

01:04:50.400 I think it would be very hard-pressed if you dropped out that Republicans would even go out to vote in November for this. 0.98

01:04:57.460 I honestly believe that if every Republican got off their ass and actually did vote, we would have Curtis Sliwa as the mayor in New York in November. 0.96

01:05:08.480 What do you say to these people that are asking you or demanding you drop out and back Adams? 0.99

01:05:13.920 First off, Anthony, that was a brilliant political analysis.

01:05:19.040 Thank you.

01:05:19.920 It really was, because you got it.

01:05:22.560 There are four people in this race that everybody knows. 0.62

01:05:25.840 At least everybody knew the three a long time ago, okay?

01:05:28.720 Cuomo, Adam Sliwa, and Zoran Mandami.

01:05:32.260 Not even his neighbors knew who he was six months ago.

01:05:35.660 Now he's an international infamous person who was a combination of Che Guevara and Yassar Arafat.

01:05:43.960 You know, a combination of both.

01:05:45.400 And he loves it.

01:05:46.120 He loves it.

01:05:46.620 So six weeks ago, there was intense pressure.

01:05:50.420 You got to drop out.

01:05:51.280 You got to drop out.

01:05:53.020 Then all of a sudden, I was the only one to get $2 million in matching funds.

01:05:57.560 Matching funds, yep.

01:05:58.740 Not even Zorhan.

01:06:00.500 Adams got zilch, and Cuomo got zilch.

01:06:04.020 And in the last four polls, I'm the only one who's surging.

01:06:09.140 Zorhan has sort of plateaued out.

01:06:11.860 Cuomo is sort of like slowly receding like his hairline.

01:06:15.920 And Adams has crashed and burned.

01:06:18.000 He's down to 7%.

01:06:19.060 He's done.

01:06:19.800 Let's be real here. 0.93

01:06:20.780 Well, look, when he sat on that sofa of Fox and Friends and Tom Holman, the head of ICE, says, boy, when I get back here, if I see the NYPD are not working with ICE, I'm going to stick my boot up your tuchus.

01:06:39.980 And Eric didn't even blink, didn't even say anything. 0.97

01:06:43.780 That was it for him and the black community.

01:06:45.600 All the black communities I've been campaigning in, they tell me that was a defining moment when they realized that Eric Adams, in order to avoid going to jail for political corruption...

01:06:57.160 He's compromised by the federal government at this point.

01:07:00.360 I know, but I mean, I get it.

01:07:02.860 Cool Hand Luke, I love that movie.

01:07:04.360 Remember, you got Paul Newman.

01:07:06.160 Yes, boss, yes, boss.

01:07:08.620 And he uses that as a ruse to escape from the sheriff.

01:07:12.700 But in this case, Tom Homan reminded me of that sheriff.

01:07:16.780 And Eric Adams reminded me of Paul Newman.

01:07:20.260 But it wasn't a ruse.

01:07:21.840 It wasn't an attempt to extricate himself.

01:07:24.260 No, he'd been broken.

01:07:25.620 Oh, my God.

01:07:26.560 What we've got here is failure to communicate.

01:07:30.300 Yes, yes.

01:07:31.120 I love it.

01:07:32.060 He was dead.

01:07:32.640 Dead on arrival.

01:07:33.600 So the whole campaign is based on you've got to be out in the streets,

01:07:38.200 you've got to be in the subways, which none of those candidates are.

01:07:40.800 No, they go to these fundraisers and these hoity-toity.

01:07:44.040 Where was Cuomo?

01:07:45.060 Around the Hamptons with Howard Stern?

01:07:48.520 Where was he?

01:07:50.060 Where are you?

01:07:50.760 You're underground in New York City in those wretched subways.

01:07:54.780 Yeah, and that's the perfect focus group because you know, Anthony,

01:07:58.640 when you get into a subway car, anybody could be in that car.

01:08:02.600 Any race, any background, whether they're locals, tourists,

01:08:06.740 emotionally disturbed, homeless, millionaires will sometimes

01:08:10.040 take a quick ride down to wall street yeah you're all in the doors closed and now there's no escape

01:08:16.140 Anthony so you get somebody giving you the finger and somebody patting you so hard on the back you

01:08:21.580 got to go for a chiropractic adjustment but a whole bunch of people asking you questions the

01:08:26.480 way it should be and boy if you don't answer the question you know you you vacillate you do uh the

01:08:33.320 pivot and shift they're going to nail you right there and it's a great way if you want a focus

01:08:38.820 group and it's uh obviously you have to worry about all the crime there but you know the city

01:08:43.340 has said it's the safest the subway has ever been in subway history tell that to the doctor in the

01:08:50.680 er got thrown in the tracks at 50th street on the one train it's 7 30 at night in front of a whole

01:08:56.840 bunch of tourists yeah and he hasn't been caught yet well i saw the description it said a guy

01:09:03.300 a tall, wearing a

01:09:05.240 backpack and a white t-shirt, so

01:09:07.280 they should get him any day now.

01:09:08.940 Now, hold on a second.

01:09:10.920 The most important element of that description

01:09:13.280 is, what's the color of his

01:09:15.460 skin? Oh, stop.

01:09:17.700 Because I don't see color.

01:09:19.980 I don't see color.

01:09:21.480 Anthony, that's a great description,

01:09:23.640 but that

01:09:25.240 could be a white guy, black guy, maybe

01:09:27.180 a guy with olive complexion,

01:09:29.160 a guy who has acne, you know,

01:09:31.280 and never used Clearasil as a kid.

01:09:33.300 you know help us the guy is on the lam and the city just keeps saying you know we've just had

01:09:40.540 the safest july in subway oh they crow about how safe the city is in the subways are and meanwhile

01:09:46.520 a guy just got another guy i thought it was a story from two weeks ago i checked it was today's

01:09:51.440 date stabbed in the neck on the subway just uh a few hours ago uh altercation on the train why you

01:09:58.900 would argue with anyone on the subway is beyond me but uh it's it's out of control curtis and and

01:10:06.880 i'm the only one who can get it back because i'm the only one who has been patrolling those subways

01:10:12.680 with the guardian angels for now 46 years i know what needs to be done i know how it's been done 0.76

01:10:19.460 before and it's not a difficult process but if you uh decide to go with adams or homo or uh

01:10:27.300 Zohan Mandami, these are guys who don't ride the subway. 0.98

01:10:30.940 How are they going to know what to do?

01:10:32.520 We'll take up this in the next segment.

01:10:35.560 Anthony Cumia Show, back in minutes.

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01:10:53.320 yes anthony comey a former former shock jock i've been rehabilitated uh my guest this evening

01:11:02.960 of course curtis sliwa the only person uh fit suited qualified enough to be the mayor

01:11:12.280 of new york city curtis and not only that but seems to have been certified for this position

01:11:18.160 by the chain smokers themselves. 0.62

01:11:20.680 Yes, yes.

01:11:21.860 There is a song that I think is pertinent to our audience here, Anthony,

01:11:27.160 and that is Don't Let Me Down.

01:11:30.560 Don't let me down out there.

01:11:32.860 Republicans, it's time to come home.

01:11:35.020 We have a real opportunity to get this city back on track,

01:11:39.040 like we did when Rudy got elected mayor and then Bloomberg for 12 years

01:11:42.800 and Pataki was the governor for 12 years.

01:11:45.000 We had no chaos, no corruption with Republicans.

01:11:48.160 We went back to the Democrats, de Blasio, Cuomo, Adams, and all we've had is chaos and corruption since.

01:11:55.060 How fast, too.

01:11:56.380 It all goes downhill.

01:11:57.800 It's so difficult to come back from the, I mean, look at the 90s.

01:12:05.100 Look at the 90s New York City.

01:12:08.320 I mean, murders at their all-time high, crime.

01:12:12.420 And Giuliani gets in there.

01:12:14.240 It took him a while.

01:12:15.540 And he was despised.

01:12:17.560 don't don't think of uh post 9-11 rudy giuliani america's mayor that everyone loved him uh he was

01:12:25.020 hated as the mayor because he had a job to do he knew what it was and he didn't let uh popular

01:12:31.760 opinion sway him crime needed to be stopped he cleaned up the areas of times square you know

01:12:38.060 some people don't like it they like the gritty old times square but it made it into a tourist

01:12:42.960 attraction and brought so much revenue into this city now i look at tourists that come into new

01:12:49.160 york city and go are you out of your mind you got your kids here you're wheeling your luggage down

01:12:54.620 the sidewalk this is insanity and we were at a point uh what was juliani doing that you might

01:13:03.380 adopt some of the things i was talking earlier about this um quality of life and and these uh

01:13:09.360 the broken window policy, keeping cops down there in the subway by the turnstile

01:13:13.720 so these nuts can't even get on the platforms.

01:13:16.900 What are some of your ideas about making New York a little safer there, Curtis?

01:13:20.640 Well, let me explain one thing from the news headlines.

01:13:23.940 There was a 17-year-old thug at 1.30 in the morning in Times Square

01:13:28.040 off of like 44th, 45th and Broadway,

01:13:32.180 and he pulls out a gun and he starts shooting people.

01:13:34.620 All right, Curtis, wait, wait, couldn't happen.

01:13:36.560 It's a gun-free zone, Times Square, I know.

01:13:38.680 Well, actually, the reason it was created, a gun-free zone from 40th Street North to 50th Street,

01:13:46.460 along the corridor, Broadway and 7th Avenue, was by Governor Hochul and Eric Adams

01:13:51.480 against people who had a legal permit to carry.

01:13:59.040 Yes.

01:13:59.540 So if you were legally licensed, which is a very difficult thing to get anywhere in New York.

01:14:05.180 The money and time it takes, forget about it.

01:14:08.440 But you would, this sign meant you.

01:14:11.340 Now, the guy who always carries an illegal handgun, which is 99.9% of the troublemakers who end up firing their firearms,

01:14:20.880 they're reading that, if they can read, and it apparently does not apply to them, Anthony.

01:14:26.620 No, of course not. 0.98

01:14:27.760 They feel they have a license to carry an illegal handgun in Times Square and kill or shoot as many people as possible. 0.93

01:14:35.800 Now, at 17, they raised the age.

01:14:39.560 Cuomo raised the age.

01:14:40.760 So you have to be 18 to be charged as an adult.

01:14:44.040 So this guy tries to murder people, and he will be charged as a juvenile under the old Cuomo law.

01:14:50.600 Remember, no cash bail Cuomo.

01:14:52.580 That means whatever you do, you're going to get cut loose.

01:14:56.460 It's reform, though, Curtis.

01:14:58.080 It's bail reform.

01:14:59.500 So it's a good thing, right?

01:15:01.040 They're reforming something.

01:15:02.540 And then Zohan Mandami, the man who said, I want more social workers, not cops.

01:15:08.460 He wins the Democratic primary, and now he is escorted wherever he goes by armed NYPD police officers who drive him around in a gas-burning guzzler.

01:15:20.900 I think it's a General Motors SUV.

01:15:25.180 And he's loving every second of it because when he was over there

01:15:28.080 reminiscing about the life and times of Idi Amin in his home country of Uganda,

01:15:33.680 he had the commandos there with the AK-47s fully loaded,

01:15:38.260 couldn't make a phone call on his land gentried premises.

01:15:43.180 Right, right.

01:15:44.100 So it's sort of like, do as I say, not as I do. 1.00

01:15:46.500 These are sanctimonious hypocrites. 1.00

01:15:48.980 They all are. 1.00

01:15:50.620 It's especially on the Democrats.

01:15:52.420 You know, the Republicans aren't all saints themselves, but the Democrats, I was just talking earlier about their deceit, their deceitful way of putting things and wording certain things.

01:16:04.580 When they come up with a bill, it sounds like a great thing.

01:16:07.120 The Safety Act in New York.

01:16:09.620 And meanwhile, it takes away your right to bear arms, your Second Amendment right.

01:16:14.400 But they put the names on it like they're helping you.

01:16:18.480 They're doing a favor as they rip away your rights.

01:16:22.960 Now, Tommy, let me take you back to something of great importance to me.

01:16:26.720 And I know you, when we last spoke, you had just brought a puppy dog into your life.

01:16:32.660 Am I correct?

01:16:33.660 Yes.

01:16:34.260 Dallas, Belgian Malinois. 1.00

01:16:37.080 We have the time and space and motivation, energy and resources to take care of a Malinois the way they need to be. 1.00

01:16:43.420 because they are, they call them meat missiles.

01:16:46.560 They're special forces and police dogs.

01:16:49.660 But the smart as a whip, he's being trained so quickly.

01:16:55.640 My girl Missy knows how to train these dogs, and it's amazing to watch.

01:17:01.740 And I love animals.

01:17:03.300 Yeah, and you sure.

01:17:04.320 But while you were down there, we had a horrific story here

01:17:08.220 that unfortunately happens far too often.

01:17:10.260 him so you had this young thug who at 4 30 in the morning is kicking a pit bull to death

01:17:16.480 drags it along the street in south ozone park it's all on video and then sets the dog on fire

01:17:23.980 and runs away turns out the guy is caught by cops in the 110th precinct days later i had brought a

01:17:31.240 whole posse of animal welfare people out there we were giving out information that would lead to his

01:17:36.200 capture and he was captured and he was cut loose no cash bail oh my god this young guy went to

01:17:43.300 canisius on a basketball scholarship right sort of a michael vick type you know just right yeah

01:17:49.620 towards animals and that's the other thing is i am running on the uh protect animals independent

01:17:56.340 line no kill shelters animal abusers go to jail and that resonates with people no matter whether

01:18:02.760 you voted for Trump, you voted for Harris, you're independent, conservative, liberal,

01:18:07.740 it doesn't matter, and mostly women, because if you're not taking care of animals, you're 0.75

01:18:12.960 not taking care of people, and look how many homeless and emotionally disturbed people 1.00

01:18:16.400 we have here.

01:18:17.720 Curtis, I've spoken with a lot of people, and I hear people that have critiques of you,

01:18:25.800 and one of the things that I don't understand, because I say, no, Curtis is the guy, this

01:18:30.780 is the guy we need in new york city right now and they go oh what him and his cats and it's like

01:18:36.620 d if you don't have empathy for a a help a completely helpless animal a cat a kitten

01:18:45.160 what kind of human being are you like that is it i i judge people's character on how they feel and

01:18:53.500 treat animals uh because they are probably the most innocent things you'll find most people

01:19:01.160 most human beings and i love seeing these videos when they see an animal in distress and they help

01:19:07.120 it and you just you don't know this person from a hole in the wall but you go damn that is that's

01:19:14.060 what people should be that's how a human being is supposed to act and some people look at it as 0.95

01:19:21.340 detrimental to your platform and who who the hell would think that way about about animals and what

01:19:30.680 have you heard they did they did four years ago when i ran against eric adams they made fun of me

01:19:36.080 and my wife now the cat guy right that was during the lockdown and pandemic so the shelters were not

01:19:42.280 taking in uh animals being surrendered and i don't blame them people were dying left and right of

01:19:48.820 this virus that we really didn't know anything about they were terrified okay so my wife went

01:19:53.900 down to the shelter and as people would come in and surrender cats she'd say please don't give

01:19:59.520 them into the shelter they're going to euthanize them yeah see because the people were of the

01:20:03.940 belief no if i surrender the cat or the dog they'll find them a good home because yeah everyone

01:20:09.380 thinks that doesn't happen not in new york uh after a certain number of days they kill them

01:20:14.800 and so my wife would bring them back to the house she would get them the shots from the vet the vet

01:20:20.440 visit she would socialize them and then adopt them out in twos so the reporters wanted to come over

01:20:26.260 and visit us see we lived in very simple uh one room apartment and they made fun of us as if we

01:20:33.240 were hoarders uh i will never forgive them for that and now all of a sudden it's very much in

01:20:39.100 vogue very much of all because during the national election uh so much was made of peanut the squirrel

01:20:46.860 oh my god and it kills peanut right and his pal freddie the raccoon remember

01:20:52.760 that the evil animal welfare agents of kathy hokal came you know with their jack boots on 0.70

01:21:00.620 kicked in the door the husband and wife okay they were making porno films on the side that's their

01:21:06.840 business but they had an animal sanctuary there they took the peanut the squirrel and freddie

01:21:14.420 the raccoon because somebody in texas called and claimed that they thought they had rabies

01:21:21.200 so they take them away they bring them to albany the test for rabies for an animal is you chop

01:21:26.860 off the head you gotta take the brain out yeah there's no uh living test for so now think about

01:21:32.440 They didn't have rabies.

01:21:33.740 So how do you put them all back together again?

01:21:36.260 The husband and wife, they said, we'll send the bodies back.

01:21:39.840 They won't.

01:21:41.380 That is evil.

01:21:43.440 Yeah.

01:21:43.900 If these people are rescuing animals in the wild who would normally die from injuries and not asking anything from the taxpayers, we should be helping them.

01:21:54.140 Like my wife.

01:21:55.020 And there are tens of thousands of animal rescues that are out there, mostly women, some men.

01:22:00.640 they spend their own money they go out there whatever the weather morning noon and night

01:22:06.920 they risk their lives to protect animals and that is a humanitarian thing to do and we are a better

01:22:13.540 society because of it it's a great judgment of character and everybody that is into rescuing

01:22:20.200 animals and caring for them and even if you're just somebody that sees an animal on the side

01:22:24.960 of the road and decides i need to help this it is a great judge of character they're just

01:22:32.300 good people they're good-hearted it's it's an instant way to tell if someone's good-hearted

01:22:38.540 you want to talk to a rich in connecticut he wants to talk about you on the animal

01:22:41.820 rich you're on with anthony kumia and curtis sliwa yes hi i'm a supporter of curtis going

01:22:50.360 back for two election cycles and just an admirer because he's a deep New Yorker. He understands

01:22:57.720 New York in a deep way more than almost anybody else. So he's a candidate that any voter in New

01:23:04.620 York could be proud to vote for. And I think for Curtis to win, you have to attract the Democrat

01:23:12.940 voters, the union voters, to your animal welfare line and and then label Mondavi, which is what he is, San Francisco 2.0, a variety of programs, some that Cuomo instituted and have failed wherever they've been instituted.

01:23:38.240 Well, you know, I've studied both Zohan Mondavi and obviously Anthony Cuomo and Eric Adams.

01:23:45.240 Now, there's no doubt Mondavi is the most extreme, but he is sort of like Coca-Cola and Cuomo and Eric Adams are Diet Coke because they believe in many of the same things. 0.92

01:23:57.420 To give an example, Anthony, they believe illegal aliens should vote. 0.90

01:24:01.720 I say no. 1.00

01:24:03.020 They believe in a sanctuary city, all three of them.

01:24:05.640 I say no.

01:24:06.620 There are clear differences.

01:24:08.820 But in the other area of animal welfare, they have no position.

01:24:13.000 In fact, Andrew Cuomo had this Siberian Husky.

01:24:18.200 And when I asked the question, whatever happened to the Siberian Husky, man's best friend, we were told, both I and my wife, mind your own business.

01:24:27.180 Uh-oh.

01:24:28.000 Now.

01:24:28.680 Sounds grim.

01:24:29.540 Could be, you know, the Siberian Husky.

01:24:33.060 They didn't fix the Siberian Husky like Biden with his German shepherds.

01:24:37.900 Remember? 0.72

01:24:38.640 All right.

01:24:39.080 The German shepherds.

01:24:40.120 He was fighting Secret Service agents. 0.60

01:24:41.660 Because they didn't fix them.

01:24:43.420 Anybody would know that.

01:24:44.940 And apparently, Andrew Cuomo never fixed the Siberian Husky who became a nemesis to other people.

01:24:52.020 And now all of a sudden on the campaign trail, they said, can we find out what happened to man's best friend, the Siberian Husky?

01:24:58.680 we're not at liberty to say.

01:25:01.880 Curtis, I got to also ask you about,

01:25:05.240 because I don't understand the controversy behind the handsome cab thing,

01:25:10.340 the horse-drawn carriages in New York.

01:25:12.880 And the part of the controversy I don't understand is,

01:25:15.760 what does it do for New York City that is so good,

01:25:20.640 that makes money, like all the things politicians want.

01:25:23.260 They want money and power, two things. 0.97

01:25:25.300 How the hell do a bunch of fat tourists from Germany being hauled around by this poor animal on the busy city streets of New York? 0.98

01:25:34.760 How does that actually help New York? 0.96

01:25:36.620 Aside from this archaic image that people think is so important, it is a cruel practice.

01:25:44.260 I can't stand it.

01:25:46.180 And I know you are against it, as is your beautiful wife, Nancy.

01:25:51.560 What is going on with this?

01:25:53.180 And why can't we just get it stopped?

01:25:55.980 Let me make this a domestic issue since you maligned the Germans. 0.92

01:26:01.040 There were some fat German tourists.

01:26:04.260 There are many tourists from Iowa and Nebraska where they spend their life battling at the salad bar over who's going to get the macaroni salad or the potato salad. 0.99

01:26:15.300 To them, that's salad.

01:26:17.020 So you're right.

01:26:17.740 They're real porkers. 0.99

01:26:19.500 And they come to New York and they get in that carriage. 0.80

01:26:22.040 It weighs 100 pounds to begin with.

01:26:24.240 And now the poor horse, whose head is already down,

01:26:27.700 and you can see the horse is suffering,

01:26:30.300 has got to schlep around the park about 1,200 pounds of additional weight.

01:26:37.220 They're injured.

01:26:38.840 They're older.

01:26:40.100 They're not being cared for.

01:26:41.560 They're being tortured. 1.00

01:26:42.500 It's barbarian. 1.00

01:26:43.920 Anthony, there are now third-world countries, 0.99

01:26:46.040 like in Bombay, in Monterey, in Santo Domingo.

01:26:49.460 So they used to have horse-drawn carriages for their tourists.

01:26:52.600 They now have the mechanized carriages where the carriage drivers still are employed.

01:26:57.880 So it's not like they lost their job.

01:26:59.800 Right, right.

01:27:00.520 But there is something about this sex in the city thing.

01:27:04.440 You know, they say, oh, see all the times in the episodes and sex in the city.

01:27:09.460 Curtis, it's romantic.

01:27:11.320 I mean, meantime, the poor horse is dying.

01:27:14.300 They keep them in garages, car garages.

01:27:17.660 Car garage, parking garage, like you park your car.

01:27:20.180 The guy comes, he gives you a ticket, takes the car.

01:27:22.660 That's where these horses are.

01:27:24.480 What a great setting for a majestic beast like a horse.

01:27:29.640 Terrible.

01:27:30.320 Right.

01:27:30.760 And there are replacements, and I and my wife and others are dedicated to making sure that stops.

01:27:36.700 Now, when I'm mayor, unlike de Blasio, who promised he would end it but knew he didn't have the executive power to do it,

01:27:42.900 he took everybody's money, you know, contributions.

01:27:44.540 What does it take to end it if he didn't have the executive power?

01:27:47.340 You have to go to the city council, you have to have a vote on it, and what you do with the city council men or women, even though most would disagree with my politics, is you say, okay, this is an important issue to me.

01:28:00.080 To me, right. 0.89

01:28:00.800 You need discretionary funds to look good in your community so we could put your freaking name on a garbage can and it makes it seem like you bought the garbage can for your residents when in fact it's us, the taxpayers. 0.97

01:28:14.940 Right, right. 0.95

01:28:15.420 So what do you need from us?

01:28:17.300 What discretionary funds do you need?

01:28:19.220 Do you need a fountain?

01:28:20.800 Do you need a new playground?

01:28:23.120 What do you need in your community?

01:28:24.900 And you give them something, and then they give you something.

01:28:29.240 Then they give you something.

01:28:30.100 And you are saying, and I'm going to look them in the eyes and say,

01:28:32.920 look, there are many things we need in this city, but this is undone business.

01:28:38.060 De Blasio promised he would stop this barbaric hat, but he took everybody's money. 0.98

01:28:42.900 At night, he was smoking Maui Waui and Hindu Kush on the back porch with his grifter wife, 0.95

01:28:48.220 Charlayne, you know, of Gracie Mansion. 0.86

01:28:50.380 We want to right to wrong.

01:28:52.520 Please, I'll help you get your discretionary funds.

01:28:56.480 You got to help me on this vote.

01:28:58.060 We must end this barbaric behavior or I'm going to name and shame all of you.

01:29:05.420 You know, do you know Elon Musk at all?

01:29:08.280 Have you had any contact with him?

01:29:09.820 Well, I haven't done Ecstasy O'Malley coming out there in that wing-ding world in Silicon Valley.

01:29:17.020 No, I've never met Elon Musk. 0.65

01:29:18.280 Okay, well, maybe something could be done because here's what I see.

01:29:22.740 Not just this autonomous cart that drives you around, a fully mechanical AI horse.

01:29:30.720 It looks like a horse.

01:29:32.520 Maybe futuristic, though, chromium with lights for eyes.

01:29:36.760 and that's a Tesla horse that rides you around New York City

01:29:41.880 with sensors on it and everything.

01:29:44.000 I'd be all for that.

01:29:45.220 I think it's cooler than a horse.

01:29:47.580 You mean like Mr. Ed that we grew up with?

01:29:49.780 Yes, Mr. Ed.

01:29:50.800 It talks, and it doesn't make Park Avenue or where the Central Park North, is it?

01:30:02.400 No, Central Park South, right there.

01:30:04.380 They're near billionaires road.

01:30:06.060 They call it billionaires road.

01:30:07.300 Yeah.

01:30:07.740 It smells. 0.61

01:30:08.980 Do you know when those horses take dumps, that smells for blocks.

01:30:13.660 No, no, no.

01:30:14.060 Wait a second.

01:30:14.660 Hold on.

01:30:16.160 You're part Italian, right, Anthony?

01:30:18.060 Of course.

01:30:19.020 Let me tell you something.

01:30:19.680 I ended up, remember when flight TWA 800 went down in the Mauritius? 0.99

01:30:25.460 Oh, abonanamo.

01:30:26.440 And it's still up for grabs as to how it came down, was a shot down.

01:30:31.500 I went out there with a guy named Joel Santista-Bahn who had his boat.

01:30:37.380 We went out there.

01:30:38.440 I got not only poison ivy, I got poison oak.

01:30:42.660 You know the combination of both.

01:30:44.920 My Aunt Mary, bless her soul, said there's only one relief.

01:30:51.520 You got to get some horse chips right outside of the Plaza Hotel.

01:30:55.760 You put them in the bathtub, in the book house,

01:30:58.220 a little warm water and you lay in there and i said come on aunt mary i'm gonna that she says

01:31:06.560 you want to keep suffering because you know your skin bubbles up you want to keep suffering on

01:31:10.820 your own or do you want relief this works this is from body this is what your grandfather fidele

01:31:16.280 bianchino used to do that that is some old country stuff right there that worked anthony

01:31:22.920 It cured me of the poison ivy and the poison oak.

01:31:29.540 Amazing.

01:31:30.300 Horse chips.

01:31:30.980 Who knew?

01:31:31.460 I'll recommend it to my doctor.

01:31:34.540 Curtis, I'm going to take another break.

01:31:36.580 You want to hang out?

01:31:37.820 We're talking, man.

01:31:38.640 Sure.

01:31:39.400 To the break of dawn like Eric Adams at a nearby club.

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01:33:08.120 We are hanging out this evening with Curtis Sliwa.

01:33:10.860 Sliwa, sorry.

01:33:12.860 Curtis Sliwa.

01:33:14.640 the, of course, Republican mayoral candidate here in New York City.

01:33:20.860 And, Curtis, let's talk to Chris in Ronkonkoma.

01:33:23.740 He wants to talk about the homelessness problem.

01:33:26.760 Chris, you're on with Anthony and Curtis.

01:33:30.900 What's up, Aaron?

01:33:31.840 How are you doing?

01:33:32.440 I got a call a couple of months ago asking about the Mannix and the Cannon pictures on the shelf.

01:33:37.360 Ah, I love Mannix, Cannon, Barnaby Jones.

01:33:40.420 Heroes in Ronkonkoma.

01:33:41.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:33:41.740 I was asking about it.

01:33:42.660 Anyway, yeah, I had taken my daughter to a Yankee game two weeks ago,

01:33:47.500 and I've never done that before.

01:33:49.380 Normally I would be a passenger in the car or whatever, 0.87

01:33:51.280 but she had some tickets. 0.50

01:33:52.380 I said, come on.

01:33:53.020 So we tried doing the subway routine.

01:33:54.700 Oh, man, for Yankee games, that's brutal.

01:33:58.140 Let me tell you something.

01:33:59.120 I took the LIRR from out here to Herald Square Station there,

01:34:04.020 and then up there, that subway was brutal, man.

01:34:07.040 I mean, it was brutal.

01:34:08.240 It was packed.

01:34:08.980 It was 110 degrees in there.

01:34:10.540 All right, no problem.

01:34:11.780 When we got out of the game, we got a little lost.

01:34:15.760 We were looking around at the sites and this and that.

01:34:17.740 The worst thing you could do is get lost around Yankee State.

01:34:22.660 Not crazy lost, but just, you know, we're like, come on, we'll go down this road.

01:34:26.980 And then let me tell you something.

01:34:28.340 I mean, this is part I'm not really joking about.

01:34:31.780 We must have walked past 30 people sleeping on the sidewalk.

01:34:36.500 Yeah, yeah.

01:34:37.780 And it's all normal.

01:34:39.060 No one wants to do anything about it.

01:34:41.880 It's just how it is.

01:34:43.660 It's part and parcel of New York City.

01:34:45.560 It was like, yeah, it was crazy.

01:34:48.580 I was like, some people, you could tell, they were sitting on, like, a kid's chair,

01:34:53.040 like a beanbag chair, and they had everything they owned surrounding them.

01:34:56.660 And then there was other people that were just, like, just walking down the street

01:34:59.120 and just, like, laid down on the street.

01:35:00.940 Yeah, it is quite amazing.

01:35:04.960 Yeah, Chris.

01:35:06.140 Go ahead.

01:35:07.200 Yeah, Chris, thanks, man.

01:35:08.740 This is like bonfires of the vanities.

01:35:11.960 You know, you make a wrong turn off the Cross Bronx Expressway.

01:35:16.120 Now, the reason they sleep on the streets, because I'm a cognoscente of this kind of behavior with homeless,

01:35:22.340 is if they go into a shelter, it's Darwinian, survival of the fittest.

01:35:27.120 They're not going to survive inside a shelter.

01:35:29.000 So they'd rather sleep on the subway or sleep in the streets.

01:35:32.420 And, boy, that's a bad choice to begin with.

01:35:35.060 But you know what?

01:35:36.400 He said Yankee Stadium, and I said, you know,

01:35:39.620 they just had an old-timers game.

01:35:41.760 Yep.

01:35:42.080 Derek Jeter would not go.

01:35:44.140 Why?

01:35:44.660 Yet, Mariano Rivera was there.

01:35:46.800 That's why we should have had the song by the Chainsmokers,

01:35:50.380 who love Curtis and Nancy now that we went to their concert the other night

01:35:54.960 under the Kostrushko Bridge and played the song Closer

01:35:59.140 because he popped his Achilles tendon in the old-timers game.

01:36:05.560 No, did he hurt himself?

01:36:07.280 I didn't see him.

01:36:08.820 Oh, man.

01:36:09.740 In the old-timers game.

01:36:11.300 But Jeter didn't want to play.

01:36:13.940 Probably had good reason.

01:36:15.380 Was he there?

01:36:16.280 No, no.

01:36:17.480 They had him on the big teleprompter.

01:36:20.580 Let me tell you something, though.

01:36:21.980 I think in an old-timers game, maybe Jeter isn't even old enough for that yet.

01:36:28.600 Maybe that's why he didn't want to do it.

01:36:30.340 Maybe 10 more years he could be in the old-timers game.

01:36:33.860 But think of it.

01:36:34.460 But Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer of all time,

01:36:38.900 throws a few pitches in the old-timers game

01:36:41.500 and somehow pops his Achilles tendon.

01:36:45.520 That's a shame.

01:36:46.960 Maybe Jeter knew something.

01:36:49.120 Maybe he knew something.

01:36:50.260 He feels like, you know, you wake up in the morning,

01:36:52.800 you slept wrong, and your whole left side hurts.

01:36:55.700 Maybe you don't want to get out on the diamond

01:36:57.400 and try to do some of those shortstop magic.

01:37:01.200 Sounds like that's happened to you before, Andy.

01:37:03.060 Come on.

01:37:04.220 Oh, yeah, Curtis, you don't know what that's like?

01:37:06.440 Yeah, and I take a Bengay bath. 0.73

01:37:09.260 Who's Ben?

01:37:10.680 And who's? 1.00

01:37:11.640 Well, I'm not going to find out who's gay. 1.00

01:37:14.020 But anyway, the Bengay bath where you just load up on the Bengay 1.00

01:37:18.440 and nobody comes near you all day long.

01:37:20.620 Nah, nah, you smell like peppermint or whatever the hell that stuff is.

01:37:24.240 Did you see Johnny Damon was out there with the? 0.85

01:37:27.520 Yeah, Johnny Damon throws like a little girl. 0.98

01:37:30.080 He throws from center field, and then Gita would have to play short center, 0.99

01:37:35.220 and then they would throw it.

01:37:36.440 It took about three relays before he could get it home.

01:37:39.020 But he was a great ball player, John.

01:37:40.500 Oh, he was.

01:37:41.140 But you see he grew his hair back long, but it's all gray now.

01:37:44.700 They made him cut it when he joined the Yankees from the Sox, 0.99

01:37:47.880 and it's so funny now because he's like, yeah, screw you. 0.69

01:37:50.420 I'm going to have long hair. 0.98

01:37:51.480 Dude, you're 60.

01:37:52.720 I don't even know how old the guy is, but maybe a haircut's in order.

01:37:56.380 I don't know.

01:37:57.060 We'll be back in minutes.

01:37:58.160 Curtis sticking around

01:38:00.300 If you want me

01:38:02.180 I do want you

01:38:03.300 Back in moments with Curtis

01:38:05.320 It's the Anthony Cumia Show

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01:38:19.780 The Anthony Cumia Show

01:38:24.420 On a wonderful Sunday evening

01:38:26.740 And we have the pleasure of speaking with Curtis Sliwa, Republican mayoral candidate for New York City.

01:38:36.520 Curtis, I got to I got to ask you about.

01:38:41.940 Actually, I want to play a clip.

01:38:43.520 It's been Danny.

01:38:44.480 Now, this guy has said for years defund the police.

01:38:48.760 He was part of that whole thing.

01:38:50.140 and he's trying to clean up his image a little bit

01:38:53.980 because that was that radical left, anti-cop, pro-BLM, all that nonsense.

01:39:02.000 And now he's trying to clean himself up,

01:39:03.920 but he's using language that is so obvious to anybody

01:39:08.940 that wants to look a little deeper than just the surface

01:39:11.920 that he still has these same beliefs.

01:39:15.040 Here he is speaking, I don't even know,

01:39:17.700 He was with Liz Warren at the time, so I take that for what it's worth.

01:39:23.960 But here's Danny talking about the police and what he would do with the NYPD.

01:39:31.040 Let's give it a listen, and then I want to hear your take on it.

01:39:34.180 We know it is one that also comes from listening to officers themselves.

01:39:39.580 200 officers are leaving the department every month.

01:39:43.700 A leading cause of their departure is forced overtime.

01:39:46.180 and the fact that every year we ask them to take on additional responsibilities.

01:39:51.940 We are making it more and more difficult for them to respond to the very responsibilities

01:39:56.300 that drew them to the job in the first place.

01:39:58.700 And I think about the seven major categories of crime as listed in CompStat.

01:40:02.680 That is not the full extent of what we ask officers to do.

01:40:05.600 The NYPD receives 200,000 mental health calls every year.

01:40:09.080 How can they be expected to respond to that and to this?

01:40:12.220 New Yorkers rightfully have concerns around public safety,

01:40:14.520 and I want to empower police officers.

01:40:16.180 to respond to serious crime and hire the mental health professionals to respond to mental health

01:40:21.680 calls yeah could you read between the lines was it all that tough uh curtis to see what he was 0.63

01:40:29.980 saying there they're leaving because morale is so low with the old timers i saw a clip the other day

01:40:36.660 there was some cop he seemed to be maybe in his uh 40s this guy's been on the job for quite some

01:40:42.480 time i could hear him counting the days left till retirement he was in a group of thugs and

01:40:49.080 cops that really didn't look like cops let's just be honest here and uh this is why people are

01:40:57.440 leaving the department what's your take on mamdani's ideas for the mypd and what maybe would

01:41:03.260 you do different well when sohan mandami came back from his trip to mecca medina somehow how

01:41:10.360 It turned out to be Uganda, the land of Idi Amin, who would eat his enemies, the cannibal.

01:41:18.340 And then if his belly was filled, he would feed them to the crocodiles in the Nile. 0.93

01:41:23.260 No lover of Jews, that's for sure. 0.92

01:41:25.500 The Raider and Debbie, right?

01:41:27.480 Debbie, yes.

01:41:28.920 So here he is.

01:41:30.440 He wants to use Etch-A-Sketch and somehow say, what I said when I was younger was just acts of youthful indiscretion.

01:41:38.360 Because I feel the police officer's pain, forced overtime.

01:41:43.500 First off, the first five years when you're a cop,

01:41:47.820 you're probably living in your mom or dad's basement,

01:41:51.100 sleeping on a Castro convertible because you cannot even afford an apartment,

01:41:55.000 never mind a house.

01:41:56.180 Yeah, you've got to live in New York.

01:41:57.540 You are willing to do all the overtime you can

01:42:01.120 because generally you don't have a family, you don't have kids at that point.

01:42:05.020 So he knows nothing about nothing.

01:42:06.820 And he's talking about all these 911 calls that come because we have a lot of emotionally disturbed people, domestic calls.

01:42:16.360 First off, if you send mental health care persons, personnel, into a domestic situation, women will die, children will die.

01:42:28.960 And the social worker will probably die.

01:42:31.560 Yeah.

01:42:31.780 It is the most dangerous situations.

01:42:34.120 I and the guardian angels have oftentimes been the first to arrive at a domestic violence situation.

01:42:40.560 It's generally men beating up the women folk, beating up the children. 0.97

01:42:45.260 Right.

01:42:45.660 And then when all of a sudden you slam the guy, the family turns on you.

01:42:51.160 You can't win.

01:42:52.700 It's a losing situation.

01:42:55.260 And then cops come in and do the real heavy lifting on that. 0.97

01:43:00.200 You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. 0.98

01:43:02.520 Absolutely. 0.98

01:43:03.040 He has no idea what he's talking about because, remember, he was a trust fund baby.

01:43:07.460 He knows nothing about these things.

01:43:09.360 Right.

01:43:09.760 But notice how he talks.

01:43:11.240 And I am speaking to all men out there.

01:43:14.060 If you have a beard and you look like Zohan Mandami, like Mike Lola, the congressman now from Westchester,

01:43:22.040 I can even notice he looks like Zohan Mandami. 0.97

01:43:25.660 You better get a straight edge razor and cut it off. 0.99

01:43:30.400 Right?

01:43:30.920 I associate the beard has become synonymous with Zorhan Mandami.

01:43:34.580 Yeah, yeah.

01:43:35.800 J.D. Vance, vice president, that scruff's got to go.

01:43:39.960 I'm sorry.

01:43:41.080 You like the clean cut, your politicians clean cut, no beards?

01:43:45.300 No, it's just with the sort of photobombing we've had of Zorhan Mandami.

01:43:50.280 Yeah, yeah.

01:43:51.240 I associate the beard with a guy who, A, is a communist, check the box, socialist, check the box, anti-Semite, check the box.

01:44:00.920 And I'm saying to myself, if you're opposed to Zohan Mandami,

01:44:05.240 why would you be wearing a beard unless there were religious reasons for that?

01:44:09.780 And I know most of you guys out there, you're wearing a beard because you think it's cool, it's hip.

01:44:15.040 You know, it makes you that much more attracted to the femme fatales.

01:44:18.960 Let me tell you, I see a beard now.

01:44:20.960 I see Zohan Mandami Jr. 1.00

01:44:23.020 So it's a wink to Islam. 1.00

01:44:26.340 Why not? 1.00

01:44:26.940 You see how he dresses. 1.00

01:44:28.000 He looks like the Iranians do. 1.00

01:44:29.720 You know how they have the jacket and the white shirt that's open at the collar? 1.00

01:44:33.240 Yeah, yeah, it almost looks like pajamas.

01:44:35.020 Yeah, it's the same look, Mike Lawler, you support me, you're a great guy,

01:44:40.920 but you've got to shave that beard off.

01:44:42.480 I can't tell you how many people have come up to me of late and said,

01:44:45.680 you know, I don't know if Mike Lawler is Mike Lawler or if he's Zohan Mandami.

01:44:49.360 You know, Curtis, obviously you were in New York during one of the worst times ever, 9-11.

01:44:58.700 And I mean, what's this? We're talking 24 years ago. It was it's in just ingrained in my mind.

01:45:08.580 I remember every second of that day and the subsequent days, the horrors of driving past the pile, smelling all that stuff.

01:45:17.660 and just everybody being so sad.

01:45:23.380 And did we ever, ever think that an Islamic extremist communist

01:45:31.440 would be in the lead right now, God forbid, I hope it doesn't last, 0.88

01:45:37.440 but in the lead right now to be mayor of that same city, New York,

01:45:41.280 that saw that atrocity?

01:45:43.180 It didn't surprise me because I've seen the changing of the leaves

01:45:47.340 from the time that Bernie Sanders ran against Hillary,

01:45:51.080 and he was never a Democrat.

01:45:52.620 They let him in the party.

01:45:54.140 And basically he won the primary.

01:45:57.100 He won the primaries and the caucuses.

01:45:59.000 If not for the superdelegates in Philadelphia,

01:46:01.240 it would have been Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump.

01:46:03.760 That they just seem to come up with.

01:46:05.540 Ah, we need these superdelegates.

01:46:07.280 Let's get him out of here.

01:46:08.940 Then you had AOC, all our crazy, 1.00

01:46:11.240 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 1.00

01:46:12.920 leader of the Socialists of America,

01:46:14.700 better known as Sandra Ocasio from the very affluent areas of Westchester County.

01:46:21.380 She's no Jenny from the block.

01:46:23.260 Now, she doesn't have great genes either, and I'm not talking genetically.

01:46:26.640 I'm talking her genes. 0.99

01:46:27.780 She went from the Jordache look to the mom jeans look these days.

01:46:33.500 Getting a little, I don't know.

01:46:35.180 Oh, it's the red lipstick.

01:46:36.500 Come on, Anthony.

01:46:37.800 You know it's the red lipstick. 1.00

01:46:38.660 Guys swoon over her. 1.00

01:46:40.120 Oh, they love her.

01:46:41.140 Oh, my God.

01:46:42.100 Well, look who they got to compare to. 1.00

01:46:44.420 with the rest of the women and generally women uh in politics you know especially if they're angry 1.00

01:46:51.180 right they don't look that good when they're angry when they're happy they look good but 1.00

01:46:55.360 she actually looks good when she's angry because she's angry all the time that's all we've seen

01:47:01.400 right and in her district up in the bronx they did an analysis who voted for trump during the

01:47:06.740 election who voted for aoc in in bronx and queens do you know a lot of people who voted for trump

01:47:12.340 voted for AOC in that same election. Those people just like celebrity. I think they just like

01:47:19.300 people that they go, oh, I've seen this person. I know this person. I've heard him say two words.

01:47:23.960 Let me vote for him. I have the solution of how we are going to turn these millennials and Gen Zers 1.00

01:47:30.500 who, by the way, Anthony, they are the majority of the population, the majority of the voters. Now,

01:47:36.200 I am recruiting Chad Lopez, our own Chad Lopez, who I don't know if you know is a DJ of electronic dance music.

01:47:45.960 I did not know that.

01:47:47.560 I never would have guessed that.

01:47:49.180 And a very good one.

01:47:50.020 He's actually gone down to Brazil.

01:47:51.960 You know, I have Guardian Angels in Rio de Janeiro.

01:47:54.200 They love electronic dance music.

01:47:56.940 Apparently, he DJed about a 12-hour concert down there.

01:48:01.960 And then the head of Goldmine Sax, the CEO, David Solomon, is also a DJ of electronic dance music.

01:48:09.700 It's a natural mood elevator.

01:48:11.920 And I'm going to kick all of this off every Friday night this summer.

01:48:15.400 It's EDM with the Slee was based on our successful appearance at the Chainsmokers concert under the Kosciuszko Bridge.

01:48:24.880 Kosciuszko.

01:48:25.480 Where are you doing this?

01:48:26.880 I am going to the old Brooklyn Mirage that they just closed in Williamsburg.

01:48:31.960 This was a great venue, an outdoor venue.

01:48:34.420 They closed it for a number of reasons.

01:48:37.040 And right in front of that sign that says Bushwick,

01:48:39.760 where all the millennials and Gen Zers hang out,

01:48:42.700 I'm going to have my DJ equipment,

01:48:44.760 and I am going to put out my Spotify list of the best EDM songs.

01:48:50.020 I cannot wait to see clips of this.

01:48:51.740 That's how you get them over to your side.

01:48:54.120 You know they want to be entertained.

01:48:56.360 You know they don't want to listen to politics.

01:48:59.120 Come on, let's face it on a Friday, Saturday night.

01:49:01.300 You think, Anthony, they're interested in politics

01:49:03.780 or they're interested in getting the groove to their move?

01:49:06.780 Time to loosen up.

01:49:08.480 That's right.

01:49:09.040 A natural mood elevator.

01:49:11.800 I get you.

01:49:12.240 DJ Curtis Lewa.

01:49:13.460 Do you dance, Curtis?

01:49:14.560 Oh, yes.

01:49:15.320 Do you move to the music?

01:49:17.320 Oh, Pastels and Bay Ridge.

01:49:19.540 I used to dance there back when Sid Rosenberg was a fixture there,

01:49:23.600 except the Bath Avenue boys.

01:49:25.220 I didn't know they sold drugs there.

01:49:27.740 Sid was.

01:49:28.700 Let me tell you something.

01:49:29.900 The cocaine flowed there, and nothing good happened.

01:49:34.300 If Sid was there, no doubt.

01:49:35.820 He loved pastels.

01:49:37.380 A lot of people did.

01:49:38.380 But after 12 midnight, nothing good ever happens in a club.

01:49:42.600 So I would do my Saturday night fever routine, my John Travolta routine. 1.00

01:49:48.020 A lot of the guys are real govons. 1.00

01:49:50.140 They don't dance, but their ladies are there, 1.00

01:49:52.740 and the ladies are dancing with one another. 1.00

01:49:55.800 So naturally, I figured they want to dance with a guy 0.99

01:49:58.780 unless they happen to like the same sex, which is not often true in those kind of discos.

01:50:04.080 So I'd be dancing like a whirling dervish.

01:50:07.240 The next thing I know, a guy would punch me right in the nose. 1.00

01:50:12.500 My cousins would grab me into the female bathroom 1.00

01:50:16.580 and be going into their pockets to get quarters out.

01:50:20.320 Now, do you know what for, Anthony Cumia?

01:50:22.820 Quarters? Let's see.

01:50:25.160 The blood is gushing all over my polyester waffle weave flame return shirt.

01:50:29.640 Okay, okay.

01:50:30.140 My bell-bottom pants, my platform shoes.

01:50:32.720 They're going in to buy tampons to soak up the blood.

01:50:35.760 To shove it up my nose.

01:50:37.760 Yeah, yeah. 0.64

01:50:38.460 Which is what professional fighters do.

01:50:41.020 Yes.

01:50:41.780 The corner guy, when all of a sudden you've been hitting the nose and you're bleeding

01:50:45.640 because they'll call the fight if you continue to bleed.

01:50:48.740 Right, it looks bad.

01:50:49.900 You've got to wave it off.

01:50:51.160 They put the tampons up there.

01:50:53.620 It absorbs the blood. 1.00

01:50:55.640 Naturally, you got to get all the ladies out of the bathroom first 1.00

01:50:58.620 because they're going to think you're weird. 1.00

01:51:00.500 And then they're hunting for quarters.

01:51:02.140 I can't tell you.

01:51:03.500 Recently, I had to go for a nasal examination,

01:51:05.880 and the young doctor said, wow, you've had a lot of damage in there.

01:51:09.880 How did it remain so straightened out?

01:51:11.640 And I said, Doc, believe it or not,

01:51:13.960 this has nothing to do with the Minnesota governor, Tampon Tim.

01:51:21.260 Tampons.

01:51:21.660 When they would hit me in the nose and, you know, your nose was like either fractured or broken, you got to snap it back.

01:51:27.960 You put it in there, it absorbs the blood.

01:51:30.960 No, it's great.

01:51:32.100 Oh, thank God.

01:51:32.640 It's better than, you know, a compress.

01:51:34.800 Thank God they found quarters in their pocket.

01:51:36.940 If they didn't, you know, my nose would be like this now.

01:51:40.660 I'd be talking like one of those wise guys where you say, hey, did somebody hit you?

01:51:45.500 And they say, what do you mean that somebody hit me?

01:51:49.120 Of course they have.

01:51:49.900 Look at my nose.

01:51:51.000 Can't you tell?

01:51:52.380 All right, all right, look, I'm bored with it, all right?

01:51:54.800 I'm running for mayor, and I dance.

01:51:56.700 I go down and dance at the disco every Saturday night, all right?

01:52:00.920 And two slices of pizza put together.

01:52:02.640 Two slices of pizza.

01:52:04.180 I work at the paint company.

01:52:06.280 Every day I work to make money, and I blow it all at the disco, all right, all right?

01:52:10.620 And then my hair, every hair in place.

01:52:15.060 Now, that's why, now, ladies and gentlemen, let me be completely honest.

01:52:18.120 this beret has become an issue in this campaign yes i see people saying that too to wear the

01:52:23.980 beret or not to wear the beret and i obviously i wear the beret most of the time uh when i'm in

01:52:28.760 the streets and the subways where the real peeps are but when the wealthy people want to talk to

01:52:33.880 me or the heavy hitters i go in without the beret it takes them like five minutes to even know who

01:52:38.980 i am recognize i don't care if you wear a top hat i don't care if you wear a propeller beanie

01:52:45.140 You are the guy, Curtis.

01:52:47.480 We're going to take a break.

01:52:49.220 I'll let you go.

01:52:50.300 I'll let you run.

01:52:51.460 I'm sure you've got mayoral things to do.

01:52:54.140 No, I've got my platform shoes on.

01:52:55.980 I'm ready.

01:52:56.660 Oh, God.

01:52:57.160 The Bee Gees.

01:52:58.740 Oh, my God.

01:53:00.060 Was that not the greatest soundtrack of all time?

01:53:02.860 We're going to go to the Brooklyn Bridge and dance, all right?

01:53:06.060 Don't jump off the bridge.

01:53:07.680 That's the Verrazano Bridge you got on.

01:53:09.940 Of course, the Verrazano Bridge.

01:53:12.300 That was it.

01:53:14.480 Ah, Curtis, I love you, man.

01:53:17.700 I'm pulling for you.

01:53:18.720 I am supporting you, and I tell everybody.

01:53:22.240 Well, let me tell you how to support me.

01:53:23.640 Get out there and vote.

01:53:24.720 Yes.

01:53:26.460 Sliwa4NYC.com.

01:53:29.760 Sliwa4NYC.com. 0.89

01:53:30.680 And don't throw nickels around like manhole covers.

01:53:33.660 I could use some of that money.

01:53:34.960 I raised more money than anyone else, including Zorhan, this last cycle,

01:53:38.980 and got $2 million in matching funds.

01:53:41.000 And they match it, so it's two for one.

01:53:43.120 I get a little more, and I'm the winner.

01:53:46.020 Come on, people.

01:53:47.260 Let's do it.

01:53:48.260 Curtis, I love you, brother, and I love what you're doing

01:53:51.400 and continued support, and I'd love to have you on again soon.

01:53:56.300 You name it, I'm here.

01:53:58.380 Let's do it.

01:53:59.700 All right.

01:54:00.360 Thank you, Curtis Sliwa, and we'll be back in minutes

01:54:04.260 with more of the Anthony Cumia Show.

01:54:08.440 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:54:13.120 it's the anthony cumia show entertaining and informative on the red apple podcast network

01:54:21.560 the anthony cumia show thank you so much to uh curtis lewa for uh popping on here uh gotta

01:54:31.780 support him if you're a republican i don't understand these republicans that are like

01:54:35.840 Drop out, Adams.

01:54:38.740 Look at New York City under Adams' tenure so far.

01:54:44.040 You want that to continue?

01:54:46.440 And look, for the people saying it doesn't matter.

01:54:49.280 If he runs, it's just giving the election to Mom Danny.

01:54:54.240 I'm not of that school of thought.

01:54:57.460 I'm from the school of thought that if you're passionate about somebody

01:55:01.140 and you want something, you don't compromise like that.

01:55:05.840 oh leave we want you we like your ideology we like your policies we like what what you want to

01:55:13.720 do with new york because it's exactly what we want less crime less corruption somebody in office that

01:55:20.860 knows new york but drop out and let the guy that screwed up this city during his term as mayor

01:55:29.960 Adams let him because he's got the best shot instead of really running for it and trying 0.99

01:55:35.920 for the big win as they call it the big win get these Republicans off their ass and to the voting 0.98

01:55:47.120 booths in November if every registered Republican in New York actually in New York City actually 0.99

01:55:55.660 voted on election day it would not even be close they're divvying up the vote between cuomo adams

01:56:04.740 and mamdani no republican in their right mind is going to vote for adam so oh oh curtis drops out

01:56:13.100 now republicans are going to go oh thank god he dropped out now i could go vote for adams

01:56:19.180 or cuomo they're not going to vote they're just not going to go out

01:56:22.860 it's that's the way this works so curtis stays in as a republican it's not on him to drop out

01:56:34.000 it's on the republicans to get up and vote for curtis leeway in november and you'd have

01:56:42.760 curtis leeway as your mayor you want adams you want mom danny you want cuomo then don't 1.00

01:56:49.020 You sit on your ass, watch TV, and bitch and complain about your taxes, crime, 1.00

01:56:55.080 every other thing that sucks about New York City. 1.00

01:57:00.280 What are you doing? 0.87

01:57:02.680 All right.

01:57:03.880 Another thing I absolutely want to talk about,

01:57:07.720 the Howard Stern thing has been such big news.

01:57:12.140 It's the only buzz Howard has had in years about his show,

01:57:16.520 And it's literally him quitting or getting fired, retiring, whatever you want to call it.

01:57:25.200 Sirius XM Satellite Radio, who I used to be employed under, is making little hints that $100 million a year isn't quite balancing out to what Howard's bringing in these days.

01:57:46.520 Uh, at one time, Howard was bringing in 20 million listeners a day, 20 million.

01:57:54.800 Uh, I just read that it's down to about 250,000 listeners a day, which is just insane that drop off.

01:58:07.200 And for a company to go, hey, here's your contract, here's another half a billion dollars for a five-year deal, they're just not going to do it.

01:58:20.000 Now, I've heard other things.

01:58:21.880 You know, E-Rock, who is in the know in radio, says that perhaps Howard put this whole story out there himself to try to get interest up and see if people would be like,

01:58:34.340 oh no Howard's got to stay in or try to use it as leverage against Sirius but all I see if that

01:58:41.540 was him that did it all I see the only leverage it gave was to Sirius because 99% of the comments

01:58:52.860 I've read on social media about this story that Sirius does not want him anymore at least not 0.99

01:58:59.600 doesn't want him at 100 million a year uh every one of those the comments are yeah he sucks yeah 0.92

01:59:08.420 he's done this isn't the howard of old he's overstayed his welcome uh but truth be told 0.62

01:59:18.020 he he is done he's 71 and look age isn't really the only thing that that's gonna um get you out

01:59:27.640 of radio

01:59:30.340 and of actually

01:59:32.560 being a personality

01:59:35.080 that people want to tune into.

01:59:36.600 But he's just,

01:59:38.320 I don't know,

01:59:39.680 he's gotten to the point

01:59:40.680 where he's irrelevant.

01:59:44.840 He had Joe Biden on 1.00

01:59:46.320 and kissed his ass 1.00

01:59:47.660 while he was obviously senile. 1.00

01:59:52.040 And we'll be back in moments

01:59:53.960 with more.

01:59:54.580 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

02:00:01.200 it's the anthony cumia show entertaining and informative on the red apple podcast network

02:00:09.760 the anthony cumia show continuing with the uh howard stern thing because trump addressed it

02:00:17.260 trump had something to say about howard and uh stephen colbert and the fact that colbert was

02:00:22.980 canceled i think howard uh or or trump wants to kind of take responsibility for that and i said

02:00:32.540 it before a lot of things a lot of things attitudes ideology maybe not ideology but

02:00:38.500 the attitudes of americans have really changed or at least the people that had any

02:00:45.760 bit of common sense are being heard right now they're the ones being heard they're the ones

02:00:52.540 kind of dictating policy the idea that a child uh of seven nine twelve years old can decide their 0.99

02:01:03.620 sexuality and the parents are happier uh than a pig in in crap as they say to take them to a doctor 0.99

02:01:13.740 and have them mutilated and drugged and whatnot that that enough people said enough 0.99

02:01:21.600 They always have said enough, but it just wasn't being heard under this Trump administration.

02:01:28.900 Not that Trump had anything to do with it, but the fact that he was elected kind of gave people more confidence to speak out about this.

02:01:36.780 And it gave the people that were pushing it less confidence.

02:01:41.740 But that's how it goes.

02:01:43.480 And I think another one of these things is entertainment.

02:01:46.260 I think these late night talk shows are dinosaurs.

02:01:50.760 and Colbert and Kimmel.

02:01:55.800 Fallon is just kind of,

02:01:58.520 I really don't have any animosity toward Fallon.

02:02:01.580 I think he'll do whatever management tells him to do.

02:02:04.740 And I really think they didn't see Fallon as a guy

02:02:08.360 that could, like a pit bull, go after Trump politically.

02:02:12.760 So they just told him, like, really just leave this stuff alone.

02:02:16.640 Crack an egg over Sidney Sweeney's head.

02:02:20.760 Everyone will laugh, and that's the Tonight Show now.

02:02:24.520 That's your show.

02:02:26.760 So things have changed.

02:02:29.780 Things have definitely changed.

02:02:31.820 And I think people are trying to link this change and Trump to the recent story we heard about Howard.

02:02:43.820 Serious, it's been said that they don't want to re-sign Howard.

02:02:48.460 I don't think Howard's going anywhere.

02:02:50.160 I think he would absolutely take $20 million a year.

02:02:54.660 Oh, believe me, he'll be in poverty.

02:02:58.000 Imagine relegated to only $20 million a year.

02:03:03.240 What do you do?

02:03:05.020 Snap benefits, they've taken that away.

02:03:06.860 Imagine Howard trying to buy soda or candy and not being able to

02:03:12.520 because Snap has recently said, you can't do that.

02:03:15.960 Only $20 million.

02:03:17.180 so people are going oh he wouldn't take that from a hundred million a year to 20 million he'll take

02:03:23.960 it howard's addicted to the microphone and that's not necessarily a bad thing i would have trouble

02:03:32.260 i wouldn't want to stop doing this myself i know there are a lot of people that continue to talk

02:03:39.760 into a microphone regardless of who or more importantly who isn't listening there are people

02:03:46.340 out there that had huge radio careers that uh you know there's 30 people listening to them

02:03:52.960 and they continue doing it because there's this addiction to attention and that microphone

02:03:58.340 and i think uh howard has that i think he's a little delusional as to where he is right now

02:04:03.740 he was the greatest radio personality ever that is undeniable uh people have accused me of going

02:04:15.040 Oh, you don't know how it started this or he was huge.

02:04:18.940 And what you're saying is you're jealous.

02:04:21.540 You're one of like, I've never I've always been a fan of Howard years ago.

02:04:27.260 And I've never said he didn't deserve every accolade he got in radio broadcasting.

02:04:35.540 But as time goes on and as you change as a person or not even change,

02:04:41.340 maybe the the camouflage of who you presented yourself as on air uh comes away it falls down

02:04:50.880 and people start seeing you for who you really are and i think more older people do that they

02:04:57.200 don't feel committed to a character anymore and they're like screw this i'm just gonna be me

02:05:02.500 and the howard that is me is um he's really a we always knew he was a weirdo but this whole

02:05:10.720 uh political thing like alienating half of your audience is is telling people that if you're a 0.98

02:05:18.820 MAGA supporter he not only wants you to not listen but he he wants you to die 0.84

02:05:25.200 uh unvaccinated people he said if they go to the hospital they should be kicked out and made to die 0.87

02:05:31.820 at home uh he was a shill a political shill for the left for the past few years and the uh straw

02:05:40.580 that broke the camel's back was that disgusting interview with joe biden it looked like he put on

02:05:49.000 a relative suit that was too big for him to you know show respect and then he just crowed about

02:05:57.600 the amazing job joe biden did and how um unbelievably qualified he was he went on to say

02:06:06.420 how the Biden family was an amazing group of people

02:06:11.100 and that Joe showed he cared.

02:06:14.260 And that's what we need.

02:06:15.300 He called Joe the father of our country.

02:06:19.540 It was so incredibly embarrassing

02:06:23.160 that this was the guy who had the KKK guy on, 0.57

02:06:28.660 who had Gilbert Gottfried on,

02:06:31.200 and Gilbert would interrupt Robin's news

02:06:34.580 in such a hilarious, horrible way that you could not breathe

02:06:40.700 while you were listening to it.

02:06:43.100 I sat in my truck at a job site that I was supposed to start working at 8,

02:06:48.160 and I did not get out of the truck until 11, praying the show would end.

02:06:53.680 They kept coming back and doing more, and Gilbert's on,

02:06:57.200 and Jackie, and Fred, and I'm dying laughing.

02:07:02.560 I am not leaving that truck.

02:07:04.580 And then to see that interview, that kiss-ass propaganda interview with Joe Biden, that was the last straw.

02:07:15.020 And I think I'm not alone here.

02:07:16.840 That really turned off hardcore Stern fans from years ago.

02:07:22.560 Because how big Stern was back in the 90s especially, that created such a bond and such a loyalty in the audience

02:07:32.940 that it took a long time for people to throw that out.

02:07:38.040 I know a lot of people that said, yeah, I know it's not different,

02:07:40.420 but he's growing.

02:07:41.920 He's maturing.

02:07:42.840 He's changing as a radio guy.

02:07:46.140 You can't do the shock jock thing and get older.

02:07:48.780 But if you change into what he changed into,

02:07:52.740 I don't care how hardcore a fan you are,

02:07:55.620 you're just not going to enjoy what he's doing,

02:07:57.860 and you're going to look at him and go, who is this guy?

02:08:00.580 this isn't that guy

02:08:03.960 so i think we're going through a time in in america that that type of entertainer is

02:08:14.500 looked down upon you know we we saw what the democrats did we saw what happened under the

02:08:21.180 biden administration and uh for howard this you know free speech advocate for so many years first

02:08:29.500 amendment crucified by the fcc remember that he put out a whole thing the fcc was censoring him

02:08:36.440 and and then he actually said i don't care about your free speech to people that were

02:08:42.980 talking about uh perhaps the covid vaccine wasn't as good as they say it was and some of the um

02:08:52.020 oppressive laws that were being uh put in place during covid uh people were speaking out about

02:08:59.200 that and howard said i don't care about your free speech and that just crushed people this is the

02:09:07.220 free speech guy let me say what i want to say on the air f the fcc all that so um trump had

02:09:17.520 something to say about colbert and then talked about stern because he had done his show a few

02:09:22.520 times. Let's let's listen to Trump talking about these guys. I've got an entertainment based

02:09:30.140 question for you. A few weeks ago, Stephen Colbert announced that he was leaving his show.

02:09:34.720 Howard Stern announced that he have been Sirius XM radio or parting ways. Do you think that hate

02:09:41.900 Trump business model that's been in the entertainment business is going out of business

02:09:47.280 because it's not popular with the American people? Well, it hasn't worked and it hasn't

02:09:51.520 worked really for a long time and i would say pretty much from the beginning colbert has no

02:09:56.240 talent i mean i could take anybody here i could go outside on the beautiful streets and pick a

02:10:01.840 couple of people that do just as well or better they get higher ratings than he did he's got no

02:10:05.880 talent fallon has no talent kimmel has no talent they're next they're going to be going i hear

02:10:11.000 they're going to be going i don't know but i would imagine because they get where you know

02:10:15.180 colbert has better ratings than kimmel or fallon you know that uh howard stern is the name i haven't

02:10:21.000 heard i used to do a show we used to have fun but i haven't heard that name in a long time what

02:10:25.200 happened he got terminated yeah they're in a separate way because i think what they're offering

02:10:29.220 salary-wise is real low for what he's getting you know when he went down

02:10:32.900 you know when he went down no before when he endorsed hillary clinton he lost his audience

02:10:40.100 people said give me a break he went down when he endorsed hillary clinton

02:10:44.560 yeah that was it it really exposed him i don't know what happened the guy was always

02:10:53.200 you know howard was always kind of an odd fish and um i think covid broke him i think covid

02:11:02.500 really broke him there were a couple of things um one of them was covid the other one was this

02:11:08.140 just need, need to be accepted by the Hollywood community.

02:11:14.780 When he was an outcast, as far as Hollywood went,

02:11:19.820 and every Hollywood star, they hated him.

02:11:23.280 They all wanted to be on his show to promote whatever they were doing

02:11:26.880 because they knew he was the number one guy.

02:11:29.900 Some of them, biting off their nose despite their face,

02:11:33.080 wouldn't go on his show to promote what they were doing

02:11:36.040 because they hated him so much.

02:11:37.280 But there were a few that came on and said, you know, yeah, I'm going to talk to this guy because I'm going to get to more people than I could with any other show. 0.74

02:11:46.780 But most of the time, the Hollywood community, you know, degenerates, perverts, pedos, they they would shun Howard because his opinion of Hollywood was exactly like everyone else's regular people, not showbiz people. 0.54

02:12:05.060 and we're like god this guy's awesome he's crapping all over this uh elite wonderful 0.97

02:12:13.740 glitterati hollywood people and then we saw oh god no he wants to be one of them

02:12:25.700 that was the whole thing every time he was bitching about them in his head he was like

02:12:33.920 Why don't they like me?

02:12:36.380 I'm popular.

02:12:38.400 And when that finally came out and his listeners, his fans, his passionate didn't miss a minute of the show, fans kind of went, uh, this is uncomfortable.

02:12:54.060 He wants to be out in the Hamptons at some exclusive party with all the big, Jennifer Aniston, Jimmy Kimmel.

02:13:08.580 Look, I'm hobnobbing.

02:13:09.820 I'm hobnobbing, Robin.

02:13:13.700 And that was it.

02:13:16.920 That was it.

02:13:18.180 People went, oh, no, he's the guy.

02:13:20.900 He's one of them.

02:13:22.680 He's always been one of them, but what he was doing on the air

02:13:26.920 was chasing away the people he most wanted to hang out with.

02:13:32.280 So that was about that.

02:13:36.020 Really, that was quite the dive.

02:13:40.020 And now, no one's really listening to his show.

02:13:43.520 Let's be honest.

02:13:45.040 Even the hardcore Stern fans, I get messages from them,

02:13:48.620 social media and whatnot, and they're like,

02:13:50.920 you wish you were Howard.

02:13:53.480 And it's like, you know, years ago,

02:13:54.900 everybody in radio wished they were Howard.

02:13:58.640 If you were in radio and people called you a Howard wannabe,

02:14:02.440 that's different than a Howard copycat

02:14:05.240 or a Howard you're ripping him off.

02:14:07.580 You want to be in this business that you're in

02:14:10.640 and be as successful as you can,

02:14:12.940 be the biggest that there is,

02:14:16.120 then, yeah, yeah, wannabe.

02:14:18.560 but those days are long gone this is a guy now who's aging out you know there's no real

02:14:27.600 argument about that and uh he's just lost touch in every single way with that audience that was

02:14:38.100 so passionate about uh him and and his show and what he talked about his guests i mean when uh

02:14:47.500 there was a woman her name was marcy turk she took over howard's show over at sirius xm and she uh

02:14:55.820 i don't know why howard decided to take everything she said as gospel but one of the things was you

02:15:05.480 have to rebuild your image into this thing that hollywood will accept you're not going to get a um

02:15:12.900 a network uh gig with america's got talent or anything like that if people remember 0.85

02:15:21.300 that you did blackface and you use the n-word and you were terribly sexist and misogynistic

02:15:30.780 and homophobic so you need to completely get rid of everything you did so a lot of the funniest 0.74

02:15:39.580 shows ever 0.64

02:15:41.420 were relegated to

02:15:44.000 the trash heap.

02:15:46.260 Like I said, Gilbert, a lot of

02:15:47.920 Artie Lang stuff.

02:15:50.340 Some of these

02:15:51.000 some of these

02:15:53.640 shows were

02:15:55.080 the most memorable shows

02:15:57.880 you'd ever heard. And they involved

02:15:59.800 you know, a lot of racial

02:16:02.020 stuff, a lot of sexual stuff.

02:16:04.620 That's what we listen to.

02:16:06.800 And be proud 0.99

02:16:08.080 of your legacy in that way it was during your most popular time in radio but instead this woman

02:16:16.020 at Sirius XM convinced him to try to wipe that out so it never existed and I think that was another

02:16:25.700 thing that drastically hurt Howard as far as his fan base goes they love that all the Billy West

02:16:34.520 material when billy would come on and do marge shot um she was uh an owner of uh what team was

02:16:46.720 that do you remember uh there the indians cleveland indians and and billy west would do it was some of

02:16:56.640 the most horrifically racist stuff but you want to talk hilariously funny the way he did it and

02:17:05.560 hearing jackie laughing and fred and it was such a guy thing and then robin's there to try to you

02:17:14.500 know rein it in oh the cincinnati reds i'm sorry yeah it was the cincinnati reds mike yeah she was

02:17:23.040 It was so frigging funny.

02:17:27.760 And to just disavow that that ever happened, not only move on, like moving on is one thing.

02:17:36.460 I get it.

02:17:37.860 You have to play to whatever's going on in the world at that time.

02:17:44.560 And if that type of humor isn't fashionable, you could change it up a little bit.

02:17:52.100 you realize who you are and what you're doing and go,

02:17:56.700 all right, maybe not now.

02:17:57.840 But to disavow it like it never happened so you could get America's Got Talent

02:18:04.220 and sit next to the anointed Hollywood people, it was sad.

02:18:14.680 That was a sad moment. 0.80

02:18:16.140 he went on the view to plug one of his books and it was embarrassing just sucking up to those 1.00

02:18:27.540 hags on the view so there's plenty of reasons why howard isn't worth 100 million dollars a year for 0.99

02:18:37.820 a five-year contract anymore but i think his addiction to that microphone will not allow him

02:18:44.200 to give it up when his contract is up at the end of the year.

02:18:48.720 We'll see.

02:18:50.340 The mystery continues.

02:18:51.880 Back in moments with more of the Anthony Cumia Show.

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02:19:15.440 Thank you for tuning in on this beautiful Sunday evening, per usual, Sunday nights.

02:19:23.580 I'm checking my social media here.

02:19:26.700 And again, see, this is what I get when I talk about Stern.

02:19:31.520 This is the anomaly.

02:19:33.940 This is the most rare of the rare comments. 0.99

02:19:37.420 Most of them are, yeah, that sucks. 0.98

02:19:40.140 Why did he do that? 1.00

02:19:41.460 He stinks now.

02:19:42.380 But every so often you get a guy that I have to believe hopped in Doc Brown's DeLorean from 1995, 0.58

02:19:53.480 transported himself to right now, heard what I said, and was like,

02:19:58.680 this guy's awesome.

02:20:00.980 What are you talking about?

02:20:03.540 Havahama.

02:20:04.600 This guy's name is Havahama.

02:20:06.640 You're beating up Stern.

02:20:08.640 You couldn't shine his shoes.

02:20:11.460 He is the number one radio guy of all time.

02:20:13.960 I'm not a fan of his either. 0.99

02:20:15.260 But you should talk about the normal crap you spit out, not him. 0.99

02:20:21.420 Huh? 0.99

02:20:23.160 He's not a fan, but he's behind him.

02:20:28.440 He's supporting him.

02:20:30.360 I should talk about it. 0.99

02:20:31.660 Well, I do talk about the normal crap I spit out. 0.99

02:20:36.740 I do. 0.99

02:20:37.580 That's my show.

02:20:38.460 So, again, you know, people still have this idea that it's the 1990s and he's awesome.

02:20:50.500 I'll tell you, the worst move Howard Stern made was going to satellite radio.

02:20:56.820 It really was.

02:20:58.300 There was this mystique about how dirty, how inappropriate, how rule breaking he could be with FCC rules and regs in place and having that PD and GM ragging on him.

02:21:16.920 And it made him the underdog, even though he was unbelievably successful, it still put him in the position of underdog.

02:21:26.720 My boss is trying to screw me over.

02:21:30.360 My boss is trying to keep me from doing what I want to do to entertain you. 0.93

02:21:37.560 So all the listeners like, yes, screw that boss guy.

02:21:41.920 And then he went to Sirius XM and he had carte blanche to do and say whatever he wanted.

02:21:49.840 And it took a little of that allure away.

02:21:53.300 You know, sometimes the situation you're in enhances what you're doing.

02:22:01.480 And I think broadcast radio was Stern's best place to be.

02:22:07.900 Anyway, that's how I feel.

02:22:11.780 We'll take a call here.

02:22:14.380 Joaquin.

02:22:15.520 Joaquin, PA, talk about MAGA.

02:22:17.780 What's up?

02:22:19.000 Hey, Anthony.

02:22:20.340 First thing is I got a tongue twisted for you.

02:22:22.360 But Stern went from irreverent to irrelevant.

02:22:26.340 Yeah.

02:22:26.840 Hard time sitting that one out.

02:22:28.600 Yeah, they sound similar, but they're worlds apart, man.

02:22:32.160 You know, as soon as he became a COVID tyrant, forget it. 0.99

02:22:36.160 I call him Howard the Coward then because that's just ridiculous. 0.89

02:22:39.720 Him and Arnold Schwarzenegger and all these guys that carried on about COVID 0.94

02:22:43.220 and the vaccines and everything.

02:22:44.420 Oh, yeah, wear your mask. 0.91

02:22:46.100 I put the mask on my goat.

02:22:48.440 Yeah, it was just too much.

02:22:50.760 I can be proud of myself.

02:22:51.920 I didn't wear the mask unless I did it to get past the guards at the door. 0.98

02:22:55.220 You know, then I took it off, and I just didn't buy none of that crap. 0.97

02:22:59.080 Didn't wear a mask. 0.98

02:22:59.880 I didn't get vaccinated.

02:23:01.160 I made a fake vaccination card, not for, like, important things, but, hey, look, I'm crazy. 0.99

02:23:08.540 I wanted to get into a goddamn restaurant, you know. 0.97

02:23:11.920 I wanted to go to a restaurant. 0.99

02:23:14.300 So I took out my fake COVID vaccine card and went in.

02:23:20.260 yeah i wasn't getting vaccinated screw that you know i want to also make a comment about the

02:23:27.120 horses the unfortunate thing is is that if they shut that down the odds are that most of those

02:23:31.640 horses probably will wind up getting euthanized yeah they might wind up getting bought by by

02:23:36.180 kill buyers that managed to you know trade them a couple i i understand look joaquin i understand

02:23:42.340 that but there won't be another generation of them and another and another i feel bad

02:23:49.400 I feel bad that the horses will probably meet an untimely end if they shut down the carriages in New York.

02:23:59.060 But then that'll be it.

02:24:00.800 It's like, oh, these are the last killer whales we're going to have at SeaWorld.

02:24:05.120 But unfortunately, they're still going to be caged up in those tanks.

02:24:09.800 We can't let them out because, you know, they're not used to a natural environment.

02:24:14.980 Well, that does suck, but it's the end of it, at least.

02:24:19.580 It's done. 0.63

02:24:20.340 You know, that's a very interesting point that you just made, I have to admit.

02:24:24.660 Thank you.

02:24:25.600 That counts as mine pretty damn good.

02:24:27.980 You know, the one thing I do want to say is how this is all happening, unfortunately, with Mandami.

02:24:32.580 Cuomo is just as bad as Mandami.

02:24:34.420 Of course. 0.94

02:24:35.120 It's just about an equal mist, okay?

02:24:36.760 Yes. 0.93

02:24:37.820 Everybody that's out there saying, oh, Cuomo to stop Mandami, you've got to be kidding me, you know? 0.97

02:24:42.440 And Curtis is the only option when it comes down to that.

02:24:44.940 And, you know, the problem is, is unfortunately, you know something, conservatives have allowed themselves to get bullied, you know, for the longest time now.

02:24:52.960 And we've never met the left with, you know, veracity, you know, their attacks.

02:24:58.280 No.

02:25:00.400 When they call us Nazis, you know, and we should have counted that right away.

02:25:05.040 We've just allowed that to go on. 0.98

02:25:06.620 This is ridiculous. 0.85

02:25:07.740 And I do want to say one more thing about these Republicans who are deep states. 0.86

02:25:11.200 They say they want to start a new party, Christy Todd Whitman, you know.

02:25:14.660 Oh, yeah. That's ridiculous. When Elon Musk, he ran to the arms of Mike Pence and said that we needed a new party, the American party. 0.98

02:25:22.180 Yeah, we have to start learning that not everybody that has an R next to their name is not necessarily, you know, an America first conservative Republican.

02:25:31.040 No, a lot of politicians in there.

02:25:33.900 Doesn't matter, D or R, they're politicians, and they're, by nature, corrupt, self-centered, self-serving.

02:25:42.340 So, yeah, those are the people we'd love to get out.

02:25:45.200 Right, Joaquin?

02:25:46.560 Exactly.

02:25:47.860 All right, thanks for the call, brother.

02:25:50.800 There goes Joaquin.

02:25:51.800 I like that guy.

02:25:53.960 Man, all right, thank you, everyone, for tuning in.

02:25:57.420 I adore you.

02:25:58.540 You know that.

02:25:59.280 We'll be back next week.

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