FULL SHOW: Curtis Sliwa returns to the airwaves; NYC subway crime.

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Former Republican candidate for Mayor of NYC and radio host Curtis Sliwa makes his return to the radio airwaves on 710 WOR, starting today, filling in for Mark Simone until January 2, 2026! Curtis discusses how he is spending his time after losing the mayoral race to mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. The Guardian Angels, Sliwa’s organization that helps the homeless, fights crime, and more, continues to be active in NYC and beyond. Curtis also breaks down recent events at his former radio station, which happens to be 710 WOR’s direct competitor. Curtis takes calls and speaks with listeners who are excited to hear him back on the air after his hiatus to run for mayor. Curtis Sliwa fills in for Mark Simone and delves into the reasons why U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik has dropped out of the 2026 gubernatorial race in New York. Is President Trump to blame for Elise dropping out? Curtis takes your calls on Elise Stefanik’s decision to leave the race and discusses listener perspectives.

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0:00.0	Now, the Guardian Angel of Talk Radio is here.
0:05.2	Curtis Sliwa guest hosts the Mark Simone show on 710 W0.
0:19.9	Wow, this is a early Christmas present for me to be back on talk radio and the station that I listen to all the time now, WOR, and to be substituting for the best talk show hosts in all of New York City, Mark Simone. Nobody's been doing it
0:38.9	longer and nobody's been doing it better. I worked with Mark Simone over at WABC, and then he was a
0:46.9	competitor against me. So is nobody who knows talk radio better than Mark Simone. So it's a real honor to be able to come in
0:57.6	and substitute for this legend. And having met with Tom Cuddy, who's the program director, who I knew
1:04.9	at WPLJ, I remember what happened when Cumulus, who owned a cluster of stations there, decided that they wanted to get out of the business in New York.
1:14.7	They made no sense to me.
1:16.2	And they turned off the lights on the most iconic FM station with the call letters, WPLJ.
1:23.4	Couldn't believe that.
1:25.4	And Tom, then obviously was picked up by WOR.
1:29.5	It's been a great program director here.
1:32.1	And I've had an opportunity to sample all of the hosts and presenters here at WOR from Larry Menti in the morning.
1:41.7	It was so kind to me during the election cycle,
1:45.4	to obviously Marks him all, my biggest fan,
1:48.0	both in 2021 when I ran for mayor against Eric Adams.
1:52.0	And I did warn you, didn't I say,
1:54.5	is he, that he would be a crook and there would be chaos,
1:58.7	but nobody wanted to listen.
2:00.6	Everybody said to me, you were right, we should have listened.
2:02.9	Yeah, you should have listened.
2:04.5	And we suffered.
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