Welcome to the Eric Mattaxas show.

I'm the announcer and Eric is the host, but they name the show after the host.

You have no idea who I am, do you? Well, do you? Mommy? Papa? Do you know who I am?

Mommy? Now your host, Eric Mataxis. Folks, this is what we like to call Hour 2. Don't ask me why we call it Our 2. We just do. I want you to know that I'm continuing my conversation right now with Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels. If you want to see more about him, there's a film called Vigilante. I recommend it

because you need to know his story. We're going to have John Zmirak for the rest of this hour.

You don't want to miss Zmirak. He's in Twitter jail right now. Curtis Slewa, we met because Phil

Boyce, the head of Salem, said, I want to try out Eric Metaxus on the radio.

Why don't I pair him with Curtis Slewa?

And I remember when he said that to me, I laughed.

I said, are you sure?

I don't know.

Curtis, you know, he's a little different from me.

We're both New Yorkers or whatever.

But that's how I got to know you at least,

and I got to know Eric Hansen, which was great.

But you are a lifelong New Yorker.

I didn't ask you, where did you grow up?

What was your story before you found of the Guardian Angels?

I grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn, right?

By East New York, and it was where the wise guys lived, all the Italian guys.

So when you thought of Fear City, you thought of Canarsie, East New York, which led me to have

battles at a very young age with members of the Banana, Colombo, Lucases, Genevice, Gambito crime families.

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