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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Curtis explains to Mark the reason he will not drop out of the race, even though he is being pressured to. What plan is usually executed on the last day before election day?

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0:00.0

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0:08.4

Now back to the Mark Simone show on WOR.

0:12.8

I was thinking of how to introduce Curtis.

0:14.8

Well, what am I think?

0:15.5

You don't have to introduce him.

0:16.5

Everybody knows him.

0:17.6

Everybody loves Curtis Sleeway.

0:18.9

He's the Republican candidate for mayor. Make sure you get out there and vote tomorrow. And he's with us right now loves Curtis Slewa. He's the Republican candidate for mayor.

0:21.3

Make sure you get out there and vote tomorrow, and he's with us right now.

0:24.5

Curtis Slewa, how you doing?

0:27.0

I'm doing great. I'm in Brooklyn, crisscrossing the five boroughs, heading to Staten Island.

0:32.6

And I got to tell you, there's a lot of energy out there, Mark, a lot of love. And as you said, everybody loves Curtis. Now, I just got to get them to vote for me. Yeah, and you can vote for them tomorrow. There's no voting today, but tomorrow, hey, I got to ask you this is a very important question. Did you watch Saturday Night Live? Did you see the sketch they did? Yes, I did. I didn't watch it live.

0:54.7

Obviously, I watched it in the wee hours in the morning.

0:57.4

As you know, Mark, having been my colleague for years, I love satire.

1:03.2

I love parodies.

1:05.1

And that's exactly what Saturday Night Live is.

1:08.1

Take it or leave it.

1:09.4

It has no impact on the campaign uh well actually it brought up

1:13.4

the fact that your former uh your former life your bravery courage standing up to the mob no matter what

1:19.3

they did to you you didn't back down they portrayed koomo as uh kind of a sleazy politician

1:24.9

they did the mondami as a guy who can't deliver anything so So take it as a compliment. It was pretty good for you. That's true. It pretty much came across that if you were a young woman, if you were under 30, Cuomo would be flirty with you. So I got a good belly laugh out of that. Yeah. Now, let me ask you, again, the mob, they tried to kill you numerous times. They shot you. They did everything. You didn't back down. So why would a billionaire think you're going to back down if he tries to bribe you out of the race? Well, because, Mark, as some have said to me, come on, Curtis. Everybody has a price. The final offer was $10 million.

2:02.8

Drop out of the race, $10 million.

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