Now, the Guardian Angel of Talk Radio is here.

Curtis Sliwa guest hosts the Mark Simone show on 710 W0.

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

longer and nobody's been doing it better. I worked with Mark Simone over at WABC, and then he was a

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

and substitute for this legend. And having met with Tom Cuddy, who's the program director, who I knew

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.

They made no sense to me.

And they turned off the lights on the most iconic FM station with the call letters, WPLJ.

Couldn't believe that.

And Tom, then obviously was picked up by WOR.

It's been a great program director here.

And I've had an opportunity to sample all of the hosts and presenters here at WOR from Larry Menti in the morning.

It was so kind to me during the election cycle to obviously marks them all, my biggest fan,

both in 2021 when I ran for mayor against Eric Adams.

And I did warn you, didn't I say, is he, that he would be a crook and there would be chaos,

but nobody wanted to listen.

Everybody said to me, you were right, we should have listened.

Yeah, you should have listened.

And we suffered.

And as a result of his massive failure, we ended up with Johan Mandami.

We're going to get into all of that and a lot of the background that went into clearly what is the most historic.

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