Hour 2: Details on Elise Stefanik dropping out.

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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 Red Beret has returned to radio.
0:04.6	Curtis Lewa, guest host the Mark Simone show on 710 WOR.
0:14.7	Doesn't get any better than this,
0:20.7	be on this iconic radio station where the call letters, the only place I know of in
0:27.3	American, I've been on most stations from time to time, it's only three letters.
0:33.1	W-O-R.
0:35.7	Oh, and I remember the time that I had to carry all the items from Bob Grant,
0:41.5	the King of Talk Radio, from the studios of W-A-B-C where he had been fired by Bob Iger of Disney,
0:49.0	when Disney owned W-A-B-C and other talk radio stations. Why would they be in the talk radio
0:53.7	business?
0:54.6	It's controversial, but they were.
0:57.7	And nobody would help Bob Grant, who had helped so many people at WABC.
1:03.2	Nobody could touch Bob Grant.
1:05.9	And so I said, I'll bring it over.
1:09.1	And I took some of the hand trucks.
1:12.2	I made trips back and forth from W.A.B.C., which was the 17th floor, 2-Pen Plaza, right
1:18.7	by Madison Square Garden, up to 1440 Broadway.
1:22.2	And everybody was amazed that I would do that.
1:24.3	They say, you know, if Bob Hger hears about this, he'll fire you.
1:29.5	You know what words I gave in his direction.
1:32.8	I said, are you kidding?
1:34.5	Are you kidding?
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