Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including early voting in NYC getting underway with a new leader in the polls, and assassination of two political officials. Ari Hoffman speaks with Larry from Tel Aviv about the war between Israel and Iran as Iran has begun shooting missiles at Tel Aviv. Ron Ananian joins us to talk about how serious it is when the airbag light is on in your car dashboard.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning till you hope you had a great weekend.
If your dad, hope you had a wonderful Father's day.
To drive in this morning, there's going to be some fog,
so be careful, also some rain. As a matter of fact,
it's probably going to rain off and on for the
next three days. Just keep saying to yourself the mantra
is keep saying to yourself over and over again. We
need the rain, We need the rain, We need the rain.
(00:21):
I know it doesn't help a lot, but hopefully we'll
get a dry weekend coming up. In the Big Three.
It is the start of the war everyone feared. Israel
and Iran are trading air strikes with no end in sight.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
This a series of strikes is not going to end
today or tomorrow, but only at a period of time
which may take weeks, when we are absolutely certain that
the nuclear infrastructure with the intention of weaponizing and threatening
Israel is terminated.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And shocking news from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netya, who
said in an interview with Fox News that iron was
behind both assassination attempts on President Trump through poxes.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yes, through their intel. Yes they want to kill him.
Look is enemy number one. He's a decisive leader. He
never took the path that others took to try to
bargain with him in a way that is weak, giving them,
giving them basically a pathway to a rich uranium, which
means a pathway to the bomb.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
We're going to talk with ABC's Jordana Miller live from
Jerusalem in just about a half an hour. Early voting
has started in New York. Today will be day three
and a new poll show socialist Zorin mom Danni in
the lead for the first time.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
His campaign is simple because he basically says, I'll give
you everything free and then don't worry.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He will tax the rich people and you're not a
rich person.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So no.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And the No Kings protest across the country that's come
and gone. In some cities there was violence and police
officers injured, but in New York, very few incidents.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Well, we always respect and protect the right to peaceful protests.
There would be zero, zero tolerance for crime, blocking traffic,
graffiti or disolarly behavior.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, that message from Eric Adams and Commissioner Jessica Tish
that got through. Few incidents, but even fewer results. Just
a lot of people who lost the last election walking
along and together and howling in the wind. And police
in Minnesota, after a massive manhunt, caught the assassin who
killed a Minnesota politician and her husband and seriously wounded
(02:41):
another politician and his wife. He had a hit list
to try and kill a whole lot more.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
It's a sad and somber day. It's a sad and
somber Father's day because we're all shaken by the horrifying
shootings murders that occurred in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
In custody as fifty seven year old Vance Bolter, America's
first military parade is arousing success as the American Army
celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth year of service to country.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Thank you to the greatest, fiercest, and bravest fighting force
ever to stride the face of this earth, the United
States Army, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And Pope Leo speaks to a full house at White
Soxfield in Chicago, his hometown.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
We have to look beyond our own, if you will,
egotistical ways. We have to look for ways of coming
together and promoting a message of hope.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
America's Pope is from Chicago, as you know, and he
wowed the faithful with a message of hope and love,
and he told teenagers that they have to get more
involved in the church. There were a lot of schools
that made it to White Sox Stadium. So just a
wonderful day. By the way, if you want to get
involved in today's show, would love to hear from you.
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Just go to the iHeart Radio app and leave us
a talkback at seven to ten WR you find that section,
then you find the talkback microphone and that's how you
leave us a message. We'll be playing them in the
next segment. Well it's kind of shocking, isn't it. I've
been saying from the very beginning, Hey, watch this guy.
(04:28):
Watch this guy. Even when he was like at two percent,
watch him. He's rising in the polls. He's a he
does great videos, he's a good politician, and he there's
a certain segment of the population, and there's a lot
of them in Manhattan, especially that he resonates with his
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message of hey, we're gonna give you a lot of
stuff for free, and we're gonna tax the rich, which
is the dumbest strategy in the world because the rich
will just leave and there goes your tax spase. But
the political poll has mam Donni zorin Mamdanni now up
five points. Now in every other poll, even the most
(05:10):
recent polls, every other poll, Cuomo is still ahead. There's
even been a recent poll that had him up twelve points.
But even in those polls, nobody hits fifty percent. And
in this ridiculous system in New York of rank choice voting,
the stupidest idea in the world, there's a reason nobody
else does it by the eighth vote, by the eighth round.
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Even in when he's ahead in twelve points, Cuomo just
beats mam Donni by two points. So seriously, this is
political strategist to say this is anybody's race, But this.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Really shows as that this is a toss of race.
Andrew Cuomo can be beaten. And look when the emperor
doesn't have the full amount of clothes. To all the
constellation of democratic organizations, labor union's activists elect to officials
who don't like Andrew Cuomo. Now that they see that
he can be beaten, to all of them come out right.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That's what's going to happen over the next couple of days.
There's going to be all these factions getting out the
vote to beat Cuomo.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Donnie's people are extremely well organized, extremely well organized. I
don't know where he's getting his money, and I don't
know where this organization is from. But if you ever
see him out there, there's a team, a huge, big
team of people supporting him. And I think it's just
the socialist liberal faction in this city. They want him
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in there, and they're going to be pushing him. But
here's the thing. In a primary election, you have a
lot of power because not many people come out and vote.
The voting is going to be down in the twenties
or thirty percent if that, and so your vote is
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that much more important. Early voting started Saturday. Today will
be the third day. Just make or you vote if
you want to stop Zorin Mamdani, who is going to
be First of all, he has very little experience, and
experience matters. He's never run anything this big. He did
very little when he was in the Assembly. He was
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only there a short time. He had like six bills
that he sponsored and only one of them passed. He's
a great speaker, he's got a nice smile. He says
all the right things about giving everything from free for free,
including free bus service in the city. But he doesn't
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have the money for it, and he's going to raise taxes.
He's going to raise taxes so high, and he's victim friendly,
so he's not going to be great when it comes
to crime in the city. He is a nightmare for
the City of New York. And I'm saying all this
about the primary, realizing the primary doesn't really matter that much,
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but you do need to send a message, and so
I do hope you get out to vote. I don't
even care who else you vote for, just don't vote
for Zorain Mamdani. Early voting is extremely important.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
So early voting is incredibly important in New York because,
first of all, you don't have to think about it again,
and let me tell you that is very important for
most New Yorkers. But it also helps make sure that
there aren't long lines at the polls on election day,
and especially when there's a an election as important as
the mayoral election this year.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
There's not going to be long lines. Unfortunately, nobody comes
out and votes, and I get it. I understand why,
because there's ridiculous election laws in New York City. Ridiculous
so Andrew Cuomo, even if he loses, is still running
in the fall. He still will be on the ballot
as an independent z or in Mamdani if he loses,
(08:53):
will still be on the ballot. So what does the
primary mean? What does it do? And then there's gonna
be there's gonna be Curtis Sliwa who's gonna be on
the ballot, And there's Eric Adams on the ballot. And
Eric Adams decided not even to run in the primary.
So the primary used to become meaningless. And then you
(09:15):
have that stupid rank choice voting and they're all cross
endorsing each other and saying, make me number one, make
me number two. It is the silliest system in the country,
and yet it's what we have. But if you want
to send a Zori mom Donnie a message, and somehow
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you're a Democratic voter listening to this show, get out
and vote for anybody but Mom Donnie. And if you
have him a ballot, leave him off your ballot. Now,
let's get right out to Ariy Hoffman, associated editor of
The New York Sun, who is still in Israel as
the missiles are coming in. I hope you're well. I
(10:00):
I know that your safety was probably in jeopardy there
for a little bit. Can you can you bring us
up to date and tell us about your experience.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Absolutely, And hi everyone, I'm actually speaking to you from
a bomb shelter right now. Larry. You know, basically, we've
seen a real intensification of the war between Israel and
Iran over the last few days. Last night, Tel Aviv,
which of course is not Israel's capital, but is it's
kind of New York, let's say, right at the Cultural Center.
(10:32):
It's sort of where where the where the cool young
people go, has been under sustained rocket fire. I just
did to walk around the neighborhood here and saw, you know,
lots of rubble, lots of restaurants. You know, Israelies are resilient,
so people are out. It's a beautiful day, lots of
people are on the beach playing volleyball. But you know,
(10:55):
things have things have definitely been intense here. And I
think the main thing people have to know is that
while Israel is engaging in really extraordinarily precise operations against
Iran's military leadership, it's nuclear facilities and it's military facilities,
Iran is really lobbing ballistic missiles discriminately and at civilian
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and heavily populated civilian centers.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Put us in the position that you were in and
what other people are in in Tel Aviv. Tell us,
were you fearful? Did you see fear in other people's faces?
Or are they getting used to this by now?
Speaker 8 (11:34):
Yeah, I mean, I think from talking to folks, and
of course I'm usually you know, in New York. I
mean people are used to rocket fire, you know, from
whether it be from Gaza or Huti's and Yemen. But
the sort of level of this has been really new
sophistication the Iranians can bring to bear, and it might
be helpful just to kind of fill people in on
what it actually feels like. Right, Generally the bombings have
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been overnight, so anywhere from a eleven PM to five am.
The first thing that happens is you get alert on
your phone. Imagine the most annoying alarm clock in the world,
and that tells you that you have to be on alert.
So from that moment, you're not sleeping, you're kind of
finding your way to near a bomb shelter. Every building
is supposed to have one, but sometimes it might be
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across the street, let's say, and then you get a
subsequent alert when you have a minute and a half
to get to safety, and that that happens when the
bombs are already in the air, have already been launched
from Iran. Then you have to shelter in place until
you get the all clear. And you know, these bomb
shelters are you know, pretty by necessity, pretty grim places, concrete, underground,
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no cell service usually. You know, I've seen people sleeping
in them. Their old people, dogs, young people, have to
all all have to get themselves, get themselves to safety.
So you know, then once you get the all clear louder,
you then have you go back and you try to
get some sleep. But of course, as you can imagine,
you know, unless you let's you have ice water in
your veins, you know your nerves are going to be
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jangled and fleet might not come so easily.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I guess I'm confused when you hear that there's twenty
four dead, because I know that you just explained it
very well, that you get an alert and the sirens
go off and there are bomb shelters everywhere. Are these
people that just can't make it to the bomb shelters
or have been through this so many times, they don't
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go to the bomb shelters. Do we know how those
people died?
Speaker 8 (13:33):
Yeah, we do, And that's a great question. And it's
a mix of things. The first thing to say is
Israel generally is protected by the iron dome system. Right,
so the number of rockets who make it even into
kind of the atmosphere above Israel is a small percentage
of the total. But it's not you know, it's not.
The system isn't one hundred percent successful, and so even
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if it's ninety five percent or ninety percent successful, you're
still going to have some rockets. So you know, I
think some of it, honestly is non compliance, Larry. I
mean it's you know, people are complacent. They say, well,
I'm comfortable. I'll only get to a shelter if I
hear a boom. I spoke to one person who who
that's what he said. He said, you know, I can't
be running out of bed every five minutes. You know,
I'll do it when I have to. The other is
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some people are just unlucky. I mean, you know that
yesterday overnight saw a direct hit on a shelter and
and those people unfortunately died I mean there's only so much,
you know, so much protection you can have against a
hunk of metal, you know, hurdlings through the atmosphere.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Why are you there, Eric?
Speaker 8 (14:36):
Yeah, so I was here just to sort of cover
some some other stories and lots, like lots of other folks.
I was sort of I was sort of stuck. You know,
It's things change so quickly. I Thursday night was is
the weekend night here, the big weekend, and every everyone
was excited. It's the summer, It's everyone was going out.
And then all of a sudden, you know, the war
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began that evening. So I've been speaking to people from
all over the world, from Gibraltar, from Zambia, from elsewhere,
all of whom are here. Remember the airport is closed,
and I think what we're going to see first is
Israel make efforts to bring its own suitians back from abroad,
especially fighting age men who might be needed to patrol
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the borders, and then eventually start to start to fly
people out.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
See you want over there for another story, and you
suddenly find yourself a war correspondent. Are you going to
be staying there for the duration or are you coming home?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Well?
Speaker 8 (15:33):
You know, I I eventually I'll come home, But at
the moment, I'm like like a lot of other folks
and just just here. You know, obviously with this level
of rocket fire, you know, operating an airport is impossible,
you know, on two levels. One, you know, lots of
people congreing on airport is of course itself a target,
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and the other is is having planes flying through the
air I just saw somewhere that this is the longest
Israel's airspace has been closed since the War of Independence
in nineteen forty eight. So no doubt about it that
this is a this is a real war.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
No. I think that we all understand that now, you
better than the rest of us. So you have no
idea when you'll be able to get out of there.
I'm sure a lot of people there are in your
same position.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Yeah, yep, here here for as long as as long
as it takes.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Wow. Well, Riy, I really appreciate you talking to us today.
I hope we're able to talk to you again soon.
And stay safe, my friend. We're all thinking about you.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Ariy Hoffman, Associate editor of The New York Sun. Can
you imagine he was over there to cover another story?
And now he's a war correspondent and he was actually
reporting from there from the bunker while missiles were coming in.
So wow, we're so oud to be able to have
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him on our air and we're so proud to be
affiliated with them in any way. Well, over the past
few weeks, we've been taking a tour of your dashboard
and trying to figure out what all of those warning
lights mean, and how about the airbag lights. That's what's
up next that. Ron and Aian is the host of
The Car Doctor, which is available weekly on the iHeartRadio app.
(17:22):
He's also owner of R Automotive in Waldwick, New Jersey.
Good morning, Ron, how are you?
Speaker 10 (17:30):
Good morning Larium Great.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Let's talk about it. The airbag light.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
The airbag light. This is a biggie. This is and
this seems to be the one everybody ignores because it
doesn't affect the way the car runs, It doesn't affect tires,
it's not about engine operation. It's this annoying red light,
orange light that came on the dashboard. I don't know
what it means. I'll just keep driving now. It may
not say airbag. It may say SRS Supplemental restraint system.
(18:00):
It may be orange, it may be red. You should
open up the owner's manual and identify which light on
the dashboard for your particular car is the airbag light.
But it's it's critical. I can't stress how critical it is.
Because when they design cars for safety, and this is
the biggie, all right, When they design cars for safety,
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they design crush zones. Are you familiar with the term
crush zone?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
First time I've heard it, So.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
Crush zone. If you ever watch a NASCAR race, You
ever watch a NASCAR race and you see how the
cars break apart on an accident, that's the crush zone.
They've determined that when the car gets hit from this
angle that angle, that's how it's going to come apart,
but keep the passenger compartment intact and keep the people
person inside safe. They've taken that technology and they've applied
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that to the automobiles we drive every day. So now
they create a crush zone idea. They now put seat
belts in and they design air bags. It's a supplemental restraint.
It's there to work with a seat belt. So when
your air bag light comes on, your car's air big
system will not work in the event of an accident.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You know, I was told I was told by an
automotive guy just recently and well within the last couple
of years. When I say recently, that he goes, remember
all the Volvo commercials, how safe they are and how
safe they were, and people bought Volvos for that reason.
He said, sure, all the cars are safe. Now, that's
what he told me.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
They are. They're a lot safer. There are some that
is not as safe as others. But they still need
that air bag, they still need the seatbelt, you still
need all the components as designed to be operating because
when that airbag light is on, that means there's a
problem in the system and they won't allow that big
to deploy.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Here's a term I've heard for the first time. What
are stored codes.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Stored codes means that well, cars have start store all
cars have stored codes engine controllers. But in terms of
an airbag where looking for are there any faults in
the system in history? But you won't see it. Let
me explain it this way. You won't see an air
bag system with a history fault code. Why is that?
Because they're always stored, They're always there. They take air
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bag faults and failure. So seriously, it's an instantaneous check.
Remember in some of our previous conversations, I would say
that it would take the right operating conditions and the
right temperature and the right length of time for the
engine to run before it would set a fault code.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
YEP.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
In the case of an air bag, that decision is
made the moment you turn on the key and energize
the car and start it up. It's looking at its
circuits for continuity, resistance and all the other tests it does,
and it does it in a microsecond and decide airbag's
working good, air bags not working bad, store a code
and turn on a light.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You know, it's fascinating. I heard recently also that AI
is now involved in keeping our cars safer. How does
that work?
Speaker 10 (20:58):
AI? They're using A to help design some of the
systems and some of the you know, positioning and placement.
They're using AI a lot in the development of the automobile.
They're also using it in the diagnosis of some of
these systems. You're now seeing a little as a little aside.
You're now seeing and it's starting at the dealership level
where some dealership techs are now walking around with with
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with goggles on, and just like you would have a
heads up display in front of your vehicle, like Corvette's Cadillacs,
some of those have heads up displays to show you,
you know, spinometer and critical gauges and so forth. We're
now using AI in the in the in the glasses
that display an image in front of us. If we're
looking at a car for wiring and the wiring is
right in front of us as we work, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I think sometimes a lot of people don't trust these
warning lights because they go and get them checked out
and they're told, oh, you know, that's nothing, don't worry
about it, that's nothing. They't worry about it. But the
airbag light, I guess would be different.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
Air bag light is different. Air bag light is complete,
is absolutely going to impair and prevent that vehicle from
being as safe as it possibly can be as designed.
You know, I always say, you know, I order repair
is so expensive, Larry.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Why is that?
Speaker 10 (22:11):
Because sometimes people just don't know how to diagnose, and
they either guess or they tell you don't worry about it.
So you've you've got to you've got to come to
the realization that if that light is on. I don't
care what system we're talking about, but it particularly airbags.
If that light is on, there's a problem.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
And that's as specifically with the airbag or all the
different warning lights that go on, well, all.
Speaker 10 (22:32):
The different warning lights we want to pay attention to.
But but air bags. See air bags. Let everybody cheat
because the car still runs, all right, everybody gets out.
You know, some people will get out that that role
of black electrical tape and just hey, I fixed it. Uh,
they don't, They don't, They don't. They don't see the
problem until they until when and if heav't forbid, they
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get into an accident, and then then then they find
out the air bag doesn't deploy. Remember the Takata airbag
re call, and I think it's still going on from
ten years ago. The problem with those cars, and that
was spread across so many vehicle manufacturers around the world.
Takata just had such issues. But all those vehicles with
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the airbags on, people were given loaners when they were
available because those vehicles were unsafe to drive, the air
bags wouldn't operate.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Is there any kind of legality in not paying attention
to your airbag, your air bag not working?
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Well, that's a great question, and I don't have the
answer to that. I remember when airbags first came out,
Mercedes actually started it. To their credit, Mercedes, older Mercedes.
You will find the air bag is date coded because
the first initial thought was after ten years were going
to require all air bags to be replaced. But when
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they found out what it would cost, everybody kind of
balked at that and we sort of slid that idea
under the table because realize how an airbag works in
an airbag car. You ever see an airbag go off?
I have, Oh, it's it's you know, I've seen them
deployed in class. When we go to safety class, that
air bagel that air bag will go twenty five thirty
feet in the air. It's crazy. It goes off like
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a shotgun shell when they set them off.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And it goes off so quickly. I mean the fact
that it can prevent you in an accident from hitting
that dashboard, which is what you or your steering wheel,
and that's what prevents serious accidents. That's it's really amazing
that it can happen that quickly.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Right, It's sort of one of the reasons and we
should mention this you're driving your car. How do you
drive your car?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Larry?
Speaker 10 (24:33):
Do you drive one hand two hands? Do you crush
your left to your right or you know?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Are you?
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It varies if there's no cars around. On one hand
that if there's cars around, I usually go to two hands.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
You know.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
They always say that, you know you should have your
hands at ten and two yep, and not in front
of the hornpad because if that airbag goes off, it'll
slam your forearm into your chest. It might break your
forearm and may not be able to do the job
it's designed. You got to remember it. You've got a
projectile in front of you. You've got an explosive force
in front of you. You've got to be aware of that.
Not to freak everybody out on a Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, you just freaked me out. I'm not going to
be driving that way anymore. Ten and two, ten and
two from now on. If if the I have to
get my earbag fixed, is my car going to be
out for a while.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
It depends on depends on the part, depends on what
it needs. You should at least find out a lot
of cars. It's it's not a big deal. A lot
of cars, believe it or not, the seat belt goes bad.
Seat belts are sort of many air bags in a
sense that they have an explosive charge in them. In
the event of an accident, it will lock you in
place and prevent you from slamming forward or sideways. So
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sometimes the seat belt goes bad again, it's part of
the air bag system. Honda's had a pile of those.
We recently had a car within the last eight months
where we had an older Honda Civic needed a seat
belt and they don't make the part anymore. It was
a twenty year old Honda. We had a scrounge and
we found one. But up until then I had to
explain to the customer be aware. I don't know what
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to tell you. I can't get you a seat belt.
The airbag light's on, it's not going to work in
the event of an accident, and it's complicated. You should
at least get it checked out. Don't ignore it, would
be my answer, and be aware of what we're dealing
with and consider getting it repaired. And it's not going
to fail inspection, at least not in New Jersey. I
think it should, but it doesn't. But from a safety perspective,
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that vehicle is not as safe as the manufacturer designed.
That that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
All right, great advice. I'm sure there's people out there
right now that have the airbag light on that you've
just maybe saved their lives. Ron and Nadian hosted The
Car Doctor, which is available weekly on the iHeartRadio app
and owner of our Automotive in Waldwick, New Jersey. Talk
to you again next week.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Ron, Thanks Larry be Well
And good morning till you hope you had a great weekend.
If your dad, hope you had a wonderful Father's day.
To drive in this morning, there's going to be some fog,
so be careful, also some rain. As a matter of fact,
it's probably going to rain off and on for the
next three days. Just keep saying to yourself the mantra
is keep saying to yourself over and over again. We
need the rain, We need the rain, We need the rain.
(00:21):
I know it doesn't help a lot, but hopefully we'll
get a dry weekend coming up. In the Big Three.
It is the start of the war everyone feared. Israel
and Iran are trading air strikes with no end in sight.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
This a series of strikes is not going to end
today or tomorrow, but only at a period of time
which may take weeks, when we are absolutely certain that
the nuclear infrastructure with the intention of weaponizing and threatening
Israel is terminated.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And shocking news from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netya, who
said in an interview with Fox News that iron was
behind both assassination attempts on President Trump through poxes.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yes, through their intel. Yes they want to kill him.
Look is enemy number one. He's a decisive leader. He
never took the path that others took to try to
bargain with him in a way that is weak, giving them,
giving them basically a pathway to a rich uranium, which
means a pathway to the bomb.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
We're going to talk with ABC's Jordana Miller live from
Jerusalem in just about a half an hour. Early voting
has started in New York. Today will be day three
and a new poll show socialist Zorin mom Danni in
the lead for the first time.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
His campaign is simple because he basically says, I'll give
you everything free and then don't worry.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He will tax the rich people and you're not a
rich person.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So no.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And the No Kings protest across the country that's come
and gone. In some cities there was violence and police
officers injured, but in New York, very few incidents.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Well, we always respect and protect the right to peaceful protests.
There would be zero, zero tolerance for crime, blocking traffic,
graffiti or disolarly behavior.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, that message from Eric Adams and Commissioner Jessica Tish
that got through. Few incidents, but even fewer results. Just
a lot of people who lost the last election walking
along and together and howling in the wind. And police
in Minnesota, after a massive manhunt, caught the assassin who
killed a Minnesota politician and her husband and seriously wounded
(02:41):
another politician and his wife. He had a hit list
to try and kill a whole lot more.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
It's a sad and somber day. It's a sad and
somber Father's day because we're all shaken by the horrifying
shootings murders that occurred in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
In custody as fifty seven year old Vance Bolter, America's
first military parade is arousing success as the American Army
celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth year of service to country.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Thank you to the greatest, fiercest, and bravest fighting force
ever to stride the face of this earth, the United
States Army, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And Pope Leo speaks to a full house at White
Soxfield in Chicago, his hometown.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
We have to look beyond our own, if you will,
egotistical ways. We have to look for ways of coming
together and promoting a message of hope.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
America's Pope is from Chicago, as you know, and he
wowed the faithful with a message of hope and love,
and he told teenagers that they have to get more
involved in the church. There were a lot of schools
that made it to White Sox Stadium. So just a
wonderful day. By the way, if you want to get
involved in today's show, would love to hear from you.
(04:07):
Just go to the iHeart Radio app and leave us
a talkback at seven to ten WR you find that section,
then you find the talkback microphone and that's how you
leave us a message. We'll be playing them in the
next segment. Well it's kind of shocking, isn't it. I've
been saying from the very beginning, Hey, watch this guy.
(04:28):
Watch this guy. Even when he was like at two percent,
watch him. He's rising in the polls. He's a he
does great videos, he's a good politician, and he there's
a certain segment of the population, and there's a lot
of them in Manhattan, especially that he resonates with his
(04:48):
message of hey, we're gonna give you a lot of
stuff for free, and we're gonna tax the rich, which
is the dumbest strategy in the world because the rich
will just leave and there goes your tax spase. But
the political poll has mam Donni zorin Mamdanni now up
five points. Now in every other poll, even the most
(05:10):
recent polls, every other poll, Cuomo is still ahead. There's
even been a recent poll that had him up twelve points.
But even in those polls, nobody hits fifty percent. And
in this ridiculous system in New York of rank choice voting,
the stupidest idea in the world, there's a reason nobody
else does it by the eighth vote, by the eighth round.
(05:34):
Even in when he's ahead in twelve points, Cuomo just
beats mam Donni by two points. So seriously, this is
political strategist to say this is anybody's race, But this.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Really shows as that this is a toss of race.
Andrew Cuomo can be beaten. And look when the emperor
doesn't have the full amount of clothes. To all the
constellation of democratic organizations, labor union's activists elect to officials
who don't like Andrew Cuomo. Now that they see that
he can be beaten, to all of them come out right.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That's what's going to happen over the next couple of days.
There's going to be all these factions getting out the
vote to beat Cuomo.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Donnie's people are extremely well organized, extremely well organized. I
don't know where he's getting his money, and I don't
know where this organization is from. But if you ever
see him out there, there's a team, a huge, big
team of people supporting him. And I think it's just
the socialist liberal faction in this city. They want him
(06:32):
in there, and they're going to be pushing him. But
here's the thing. In a primary election, you have a
lot of power because not many people come out and vote.
The voting is going to be down in the twenties
or thirty percent if that, and so your vote is
(06:52):
that much more important. Early voting started Saturday. Today will
be the third day. Just make or you vote if
you want to stop Zorin Mamdani, who is going to
be First of all, he has very little experience, and
experience matters. He's never run anything this big. He did
very little when he was in the Assembly. He was
(07:13):
only there a short time. He had like six bills
that he sponsored and only one of them passed. He's
a great speaker, he's got a nice smile. He says
all the right things about giving everything from free for free,
including free bus service in the city. But he doesn't
(07:36):
have the money for it, and he's going to raise taxes.
He's going to raise taxes so high, and he's victim friendly,
so he's not going to be great when it comes
to crime in the city. He is a nightmare for
the City of New York. And I'm saying all this
about the primary, realizing the primary doesn't really matter that much,
(08:00):
but you do need to send a message, and so
I do hope you get out to vote. I don't
even care who else you vote for, just don't vote
for Zorain Mamdani. Early voting is extremely important.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
So early voting is incredibly important in New York because,
first of all, you don't have to think about it again,
and let me tell you that is very important for
most New Yorkers. But it also helps make sure that
there aren't long lines at the polls on election day,
and especially when there's a an election as important as
the mayoral election this year.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
There's not going to be long lines. Unfortunately, nobody comes
out and votes, and I get it. I understand why,
because there's ridiculous election laws in New York City. Ridiculous
so Andrew Cuomo, even if he loses, is still running
in the fall. He still will be on the ballot
as an independent z or in Mamdani if he loses,
(08:53):
will still be on the ballot. So what does the
primary mean? What does it do? And then there's gonna
be there's gonna be Curtis Sliwa who's gonna be on
the ballot, And there's Eric Adams on the ballot. And
Eric Adams decided not even to run in the primary.
So the primary used to become meaningless. And then you
(09:15):
have that stupid rank choice voting and they're all cross
endorsing each other and saying, make me number one, make
me number two. It is the silliest system in the country,
and yet it's what we have. But if you want
to send a Zori mom Donnie a message, and somehow
(09:36):
you're a Democratic voter listening to this show, get out
and vote for anybody but Mom Donnie. And if you
have him a ballot, leave him off your ballot. Now,
let's get right out to Ariy Hoffman, associated editor of
The New York Sun, who is still in Israel as
the missiles are coming in. I hope you're well. I
(10:00):
I know that your safety was probably in jeopardy there
for a little bit. Can you can you bring us
up to date and tell us about your experience.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Absolutely, And hi everyone, I'm actually speaking to you from
a bomb shelter right now. Larry. You know, basically, we've
seen a real intensification of the war between Israel and
Iran over the last few days. Last night, Tel Aviv,
which of course is not Israel's capital, but is it's
kind of New York, let's say, right at the Cultural Center.
(10:32):
It's sort of where where the where the cool young
people go, has been under sustained rocket fire. I just
did to walk around the neighborhood here and saw, you know,
lots of rubble, lots of restaurants. You know, Israelies are resilient,
so people are out. It's a beautiful day, lots of
people are on the beach playing volleyball. But you know,
(10:55):
things have things have definitely been intense here. And I
think the main thing people have to know is that
while Israel is engaging in really extraordinarily precise operations against
Iran's military leadership, it's nuclear facilities and it's military facilities,
Iran is really lobbing ballistic missiles discriminately and at civilian
(11:16):
and heavily populated civilian centers.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Put us in the position that you were in and
what other people are in in Tel Aviv. Tell us,
were you fearful? Did you see fear in other people's faces?
Or are they getting used to this by now?
Speaker 8 (11:34):
Yeah, I mean, I think from talking to folks, and
of course I'm usually you know, in New York. I
mean people are used to rocket fire, you know, from
whether it be from Gaza or Huti's and Yemen. But
the sort of level of this has been really new
sophistication the Iranians can bring to bear, and it might
be helpful just to kind of fill people in on
what it actually feels like. Right, Generally the bombings have
(11:57):
been overnight, so anywhere from a eleven PM to five am.
The first thing that happens is you get alert on
your phone. Imagine the most annoying alarm clock in the world,
and that tells you that you have to be on alert.
So from that moment, you're not sleeping, you're kind of
finding your way to near a bomb shelter. Every building
is supposed to have one, but sometimes it might be
(12:18):
across the street, let's say, and then you get a
subsequent alert when you have a minute and a half
to get to safety, and that that happens when the
bombs are already in the air, have already been launched
from Iran. Then you have to shelter in place until
you get the all clear. And you know, these bomb
shelters are you know, pretty by necessity, pretty grim places, concrete, underground,
(12:41):
no cell service usually. You know, I've seen people sleeping
in them. Their old people, dogs, young people, have to
all all have to get themselves, get themselves to safety.
So you know, then once you get the all clear louder,
you then have you go back and you try to
get some sleep. But of course, as you can imagine,
you know, unless you let's you have ice water in
your veins, you know your nerves are going to be
(13:03):
jangled and fleet might not come so easily.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I guess I'm confused when you hear that there's twenty
four dead, because I know that you just explained it
very well, that you get an alert and the sirens
go off and there are bomb shelters everywhere. Are these
people that just can't make it to the bomb shelters
or have been through this so many times, they don't
(13:27):
go to the bomb shelters. Do we know how those
people died?
Speaker 8 (13:33):
Yeah, we do, And that's a great question. And it's
a mix of things. The first thing to say is
Israel generally is protected by the iron dome system. Right,
so the number of rockets who make it even into
kind of the atmosphere above Israel is a small percentage
of the total. But it's not you know, it's not.
The system isn't one hundred percent successful, and so even
(13:55):
if it's ninety five percent or ninety percent successful, you're
still going to have some rockets. So you know, I
think some of it, honestly is non compliance, Larry. I
mean it's you know, people are complacent. They say, well,
I'm comfortable. I'll only get to a shelter if I
hear a boom. I spoke to one person who who
that's what he said. He said, you know, I can't
be running out of bed every five minutes. You know,
I'll do it when I have to. The other is
(14:18):
some people are just unlucky. I mean, you know that
yesterday overnight saw a direct hit on a shelter and
and those people unfortunately died I mean there's only so much,
you know, so much protection you can have against a
hunk of metal, you know, hurdlings through the atmosphere.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Why are you there, Eric?
Speaker 8 (14:36):
Yeah, so I was here just to sort of cover
some some other stories and lots, like lots of other folks.
I was sort of I was sort of stuck. You know,
It's things change so quickly. I Thursday night was is
the weekend night here, the big weekend, and every everyone
was excited. It's the summer, It's everyone was going out.
And then all of a sudden, you know, the war
(14:57):
began that evening. So I've been speaking to people from
all over the world, from Gibraltar, from Zambia, from elsewhere,
all of whom are here. Remember the airport is closed,
and I think what we're going to see first is
Israel make efforts to bring its own suitians back from abroad,
especially fighting age men who might be needed to patrol
(15:20):
the borders, and then eventually start to start to fly
people out.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
See you want over there for another story, and you
suddenly find yourself a war correspondent. Are you going to
be staying there for the duration or are you coming home?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Well?
Speaker 8 (15:33):
You know, I I eventually I'll come home, But at
the moment, I'm like like a lot of other folks
and just just here. You know, obviously with this level
of rocket fire, you know, operating an airport is impossible,
you know, on two levels. One, you know, lots of
people congreing on airport is of course itself a target,
(15:56):
and the other is is having planes flying through the
air I just saw somewhere that this is the longest
Israel's airspace has been closed since the War of Independence
in nineteen forty eight. So no doubt about it that
this is a this is a real war.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
No. I think that we all understand that now, you
better than the rest of us. So you have no
idea when you'll be able to get out of there.
I'm sure a lot of people there are in your
same position.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Yeah, yep, here here for as long as as long
as it takes.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Wow. Well, Riy, I really appreciate you talking to us today.
I hope we're able to talk to you again soon.
And stay safe, my friend. We're all thinking about you.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Ariy Hoffman, Associate editor of The New York Sun. Can
you imagine he was over there to cover another story?
And now he's a war correspondent and he was actually
reporting from there from the bunker while missiles were coming in.
So wow, we're so oud to be able to have
(17:00):
him on our air and we're so proud to be
affiliated with them in any way. Well, over the past
few weeks, we've been taking a tour of your dashboard
and trying to figure out what all of those warning
lights mean, and how about the airbag lights. That's what's
up next that. Ron and Aian is the host of
The Car Doctor, which is available weekly on the iHeartRadio app.
(17:22):
He's also owner of R Automotive in Waldwick, New Jersey.
Good morning, Ron, how are you?
Speaker 10 (17:30):
Good morning Larium Great.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Let's talk about it. The airbag light.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
The airbag light. This is a biggie. This is and
this seems to be the one everybody ignores because it
doesn't affect the way the car runs, It doesn't affect tires,
it's not about engine operation. It's this annoying red light,
orange light that came on the dashboard. I don't know
what it means. I'll just keep driving now. It may
not say airbag. It may say SRS Supplemental restraint system.
(18:00):
It may be orange, it may be red. You should
open up the owner's manual and identify which light on
the dashboard for your particular car is the airbag light.
But it's it's critical. I can't stress how critical it is.
Because when they design cars for safety, and this is
the biggie, all right, When they design cars for safety,
(18:21):
they design crush zones. Are you familiar with the term
crush zone?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
First time I've heard it, So.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
Crush zone. If you ever watch a NASCAR race, You
ever watch a NASCAR race and you see how the
cars break apart on an accident, that's the crush zone.
They've determined that when the car gets hit from this
angle that angle, that's how it's going to come apart,
but keep the passenger compartment intact and keep the people
person inside safe. They've taken that technology and they've applied
(18:48):
that to the automobiles we drive every day. So now
they create a crush zone idea. They now put seat
belts in and they design air bags. It's a supplemental restraint.
It's there to work with a seat belt. So when
your air bag light comes on, your car's air big
system will not work in the event of an accident.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You know, I was told I was told by an
automotive guy just recently and well within the last couple
of years. When I say recently, that he goes, remember
all the Volvo commercials, how safe they are and how
safe they were, and people bought Volvos for that reason.
He said, sure, all the cars are safe. Now, that's
what he told me.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
They are. They're a lot safer. There are some that
is not as safe as others. But they still need
that air bag, they still need the seatbelt, you still
need all the components as designed to be operating because
when that airbag light is on, that means there's a
problem in the system and they won't allow that big
to deploy.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Here's a term I've heard for the first time. What
are stored codes.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Stored codes means that well, cars have start store all
cars have stored codes engine controllers. But in terms of
an airbag where looking for are there any faults in
the system in history? But you won't see it. Let
me explain it this way. You won't see an air
bag system with a history fault code. Why is that?
Because they're always stored, They're always there. They take air
(20:13):
bag faults and failure. So seriously, it's an instantaneous check.
Remember in some of our previous conversations, I would say
that it would take the right operating conditions and the
right temperature and the right length of time for the
engine to run before it would set a fault code.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
YEP.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
In the case of an air bag, that decision is
made the moment you turn on the key and energize
the car and start it up. It's looking at its
circuits for continuity, resistance and all the other tests it does,
and it does it in a microsecond and decide airbag's
working good, air bags not working bad, store a code
and turn on a light.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You know, it's fascinating. I heard recently also that AI
is now involved in keeping our cars safer. How does
that work?
Speaker 10 (20:58):
AI? They're using A to help design some of the
systems and some of the you know, positioning and placement.
They're using AI a lot in the development of the automobile.
They're also using it in the diagnosis of some of
these systems. You're now seeing a little as a little aside.
You're now seeing and it's starting at the dealership level
where some dealership techs are now walking around with with
(21:20):
with goggles on, and just like you would have a
heads up display in front of your vehicle, like Corvette's Cadillacs,
some of those have heads up displays to show you,
you know, spinometer and critical gauges and so forth. We're
now using AI in the in the in the glasses
that display an image in front of us. If we're
looking at a car for wiring and the wiring is
right in front of us as we work, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I think sometimes a lot of people don't trust these
warning lights because they go and get them checked out
and they're told, oh, you know, that's nothing, don't worry
about it, that's nothing. They't worry about it. But the
airbag light, I guess would be different.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
Air bag light is different. Air bag light is complete,
is absolutely going to impair and prevent that vehicle from
being as safe as it possibly can be as designed.
You know, I always say, you know, I order repair
is so expensive, Larry.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Why is that?
Speaker 10 (22:11):
Because sometimes people just don't know how to diagnose, and
they either guess or they tell you don't worry about it.
So you've you've got to you've got to come to
the realization that if that light is on. I don't
care what system we're talking about, but it particularly airbags.
If that light is on, there's a problem.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
And that's as specifically with the airbag or all the
different warning lights that go on, well, all.
Speaker 10 (22:32):
The different warning lights we want to pay attention to.
But but air bags. See air bags. Let everybody cheat
because the car still runs, all right, everybody gets out.
You know, some people will get out that that role
of black electrical tape and just hey, I fixed it. Uh,
they don't, They don't, They don't. They don't see the
problem until they until when and if heav't forbid, they
(22:54):
get into an accident, and then then then they find
out the air bag doesn't deploy. Remember the Takata airbag
re call, and I think it's still going on from
ten years ago. The problem with those cars, and that
was spread across so many vehicle manufacturers around the world.
Takata just had such issues. But all those vehicles with
(23:14):
the airbags on, people were given loaners when they were
available because those vehicles were unsafe to drive, the air
bags wouldn't operate.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Is there any kind of legality in not paying attention
to your airbag, your air bag not working?
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Well, that's a great question, and I don't have the
answer to that. I remember when airbags first came out,
Mercedes actually started it. To their credit, Mercedes, older Mercedes.
You will find the air bag is date coded because
the first initial thought was after ten years were going
to require all air bags to be replaced. But when
(23:49):
they found out what it would cost, everybody kind of
balked at that and we sort of slid that idea
under the table because realize how an airbag works in
an airbag car. You ever see an airbag go off?
I have, Oh, it's it's you know, I've seen them
deployed in class. When we go to safety class, that
air bagel that air bag will go twenty five thirty
feet in the air. It's crazy. It goes off like
(24:10):
a shotgun shell when they set them off.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And it goes off so quickly. I mean the fact
that it can prevent you in an accident from hitting
that dashboard, which is what you or your steering wheel,
and that's what prevents serious accidents. That's it's really amazing
that it can happen that quickly.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Right, It's sort of one of the reasons and we
should mention this you're driving your car. How do you
drive your car?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Larry?
Speaker 10 (24:33):
Do you drive one hand two hands? Do you crush
your left to your right or you know?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Are you?
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It varies if there's no cars around. On one hand
that if there's cars around, I usually go to two hands.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
You know.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
They always say that, you know you should have your
hands at ten and two yep, and not in front
of the hornpad because if that airbag goes off, it'll
slam your forearm into your chest. It might break your
forearm and may not be able to do the job
it's designed. You got to remember it. You've got a
projectile in front of you. You've got an explosive force
in front of you. You've got to be aware of that.
Not to freak everybody out on a Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, you just freaked me out. I'm not going to
be driving that way anymore. Ten and two, ten and
two from now on. If if the I have to
get my earbag fixed, is my car going to be
out for a while.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
It depends on depends on the part, depends on what
it needs. You should at least find out a lot
of cars. It's it's not a big deal. A lot
of cars, believe it or not, the seat belt goes bad.
Seat belts are sort of many air bags in a
sense that they have an explosive charge in them. In
the event of an accident, it will lock you in
place and prevent you from slamming forward or sideways. So
(25:43):
sometimes the seat belt goes bad again, it's part of
the air bag system. Honda's had a pile of those.
We recently had a car within the last eight months
where we had an older Honda Civic needed a seat
belt and they don't make the part anymore. It was
a twenty year old Honda. We had a scrounge and
we found one. But up until then I had to
explain to the customer be aware. I don't know what
(26:03):
to tell you. I can't get you a seat belt.
The airbag light's on, it's not going to work in
the event of an accident, and it's complicated. You should
at least get it checked out. Don't ignore it, would
be my answer, and be aware of what we're dealing
with and consider getting it repaired. And it's not going
to fail inspection, at least not in New Jersey. I
think it should, but it doesn't. But from a safety perspective,
(26:26):
that vehicle is not as safe as the manufacturer designed.
That that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
All right, great advice. I'm sure there's people out there
right now that have the airbag light on that you've
just maybe saved their lives. Ron and Nadian hosted The
Car Doctor, which is available weekly on the iHeartRadio app
and owner of our Automotive in Waldwick, New Jersey. Talk
to you again next week.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Ron, Thanks Larry be Well
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.