Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including Zohran Mamdani saying he would not allow Netanyahu into NYC, the pride parade organizers once again banning LGBTQ police officers from marching in uniform, and the Big Beautiful Bill being held up in the house. Mike Kelly joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about Zohran Mamdani and how his primary win has impacted the Democratic party nationwide. Ron Ananian joinsLarry to continue talking with about the dashboard lights as he explains the ABS lights and traction control.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we had one nice day, one nice day Sunday.
Then it was rain up until then, rain off and
on on Saturday, and now it's going to start raining again.
As you just heard from Ray Stagic tonight tomorrow, it's okay.
You know why, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You know why? What did you say?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's amazing day?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Fourthly, yep, Independence Day is going to be a beautiful day.
And it's not gonna be too hot, it's not gonna
be too cold. It's going to be just right.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We have to be on Ray every single day to
make sure this does not change.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's right, because we both have not gonna be here. Everybody,
everybody should have off the fourth of July. In the
Big three new York's Democratic mayoral nominees or in mom
Donnie has become a national figure overnight, but keep saying
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something things that are concerning, things like that Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanya, who would not be welcomed to New
York if he won.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
No as mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanya,
who this is a city that our values are in
line with international law. It's time that our actions are
also Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So if he comes to New York, Mayor Zora and
Mam Donnie would have him arrested. Not all Democrats are
thrilled with Mom Donnie. New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrands still
can't get over the fact that Mom Donnie won't denounce
the phrase antifada, which means the elimination of all Jews.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Well, as a leader of a city is New York
City with eight million people, as the largest Jewish population
in the country, he should denounce it and that's it, period.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And as usual, Donald Trump gets right to the point. Ah,
he's a radical left lunatic. When Mam Donnie runs in
the fall, he running against many others, Andrew Cuomo, who
has decided after losing. It's being reported he's decided. He's
not said anything yet, but he's still in the ballot
after losing the primary to Mom Donnie that he will
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run as an independent. The Pride Parade was this weekend,
but once again, the organizer's Heritage of Pride banned LGBTQ
police officers from marching in uniform, and Commissioner tish Is livid.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I have been very clear with Heritage of Pride that
this exclusion is unacceptable and I will continue to be
outspoken on this topic until Heritage of Pride writes this wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now, there was a shooting in the West Village just
as the parade was winding down. The victims, two teenage girls,
both are in the hospital. One is in critical condition
with a gunshot wound of the head. There's no word
yet as if it had anything to do with the parade.
The Big Beautiful Bill still hasn't passed the House or
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the Senate. I should say it passed. The House has
to go back to the House and they may not
make the fourth of July deadline set by the President
because of a couple of Republicans like Tom Tillis of
North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
What's holding you back from endorsing him right now?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Well, we don't really know each other well our districts
that I've been.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Very clear with Heritage of Pride that this exclusion.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The Sean Diddy Coms trial, the jury finally gets the
case today after the defense admitted p Diddy is a
bad guy and did some bad things, but he is
still not guilty.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And you admit, well, you can't deny, and you would
deny what you can't admit. There was domestic violence, there
was jegrease, but it was recreational. There were all of
these things, but what there was it was extracty and
what there was was racketeering. And that's what the government
had to for me.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And what was that that fell from the sky A huge.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Ball, A fire just literally fell out of the sky.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That's right, a fireball seen falling from the sky over
seven to ten states. No damage, but quite a show.
We'll talk about that coming up. And you can go
to the iHeartRadio app and leave us a talk back.
And while you're there, just said war as your preseet.
You could get a highly coveted luxurious mentee in the
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morning T shirt if you were picked as talkback of
the morning. We decide that at the end of the show. Now,
let's get to mom Donnie, who was everywhere this weekend,
just everywhere this weekend, and he just said things that
were absolutely concerning about well just about every topic that
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was brought up to him. He was I will give
this to I'll give this credit to the guy. He
doesn't shy away from what he is. He doesn't lie.
He should every once in a while. It seems like
because some of his positions and what he says he's
going to do and who he says he is is frightening,
(05:14):
absolutely frightening. I agree with President Trump. He and Vicky Palladino,
who keeps telling me, don't say the word socialist, he's
a communist. He certainly is sounding more and more like that.
Let's start with the fact that Andrew Cuomo is still
in the race, and he was asked on meet the
Press if he was concerned about having to run against Cuomo,
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having to run against Sleewood, having to run against Adams.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
No, I'm not worried about any of those candidates. I'm
excited and confident about our chances in the general election
because what we saw on Tuesday is a mandate from
the New Yorkers deliver a city they can afford, not
a desire for politics of the past or politicians of
the past.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's funny that Democrats will saying democrats because AOC and
Bernie Sanders. They're all giddy about mom Donnie because he's
one of them, But same Democrats are a little worried
about him. And Kirsten Gillibrand, the Senator from New York
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the junior senator from New York is really concerned and
went off on a podcast. This is just a little
bit of it that he will not denounce the antifada.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
And when you use a word like infada to many
Jewish Americans and Jewish New Yorkers, that means you are
permissive for violence against Jews. It is a serious word.
It is a word that has deep meaning. It has
been used for wars across time and violence and destruction
and slaughter and murder against the Jews.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, and he will not denounce it. Over and over again,
he's asked, and he will not denounce it. The phrase
globalized antifada from the river to the sea, does that
make you come uncomfortable?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
No, I know people for whom those things mean very
different things. And to me, ultimately what I hear in
so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, that's what started at all. That was a podcast
that started it all when he refused to say not
only that river to the sea and antifada, he will
not denounce it. Global antifada is an elimination of Jews.
There's really no debate about that. It doesn't mean things.
Different things to different people. That's what it means. That's
what it means. And the fact that he just won't
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come out and denounce it as a mayoral candidate in
New York with the largest municipal Jewish population in the country,
is really concerning and should concern all of us that
he is that radical that he just can't come out
and say, even if he doesn't say, even if he
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wanted to claim Antifada is one thing he should say, Well,
of course I'm not for the elimination of all Jews.
Of course I'm not for violence against Jews. He won't.
He doesn't even say that. He just want He just
says he wants a quality for all people. That's what
he'll say over and over again. And I will give
Kirsten Welker a lot of credit, who I used to
work with for a while ago. I'll give her a
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lot of credit. She held his feet to the fire
un meet. The press asked him three times, gave him
three chances to denounce the antifada, and finally said to him,
why don't you just come out and denounce it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
For the people who care about the language and who
feel really concerned by that phrase, why not just condemn it.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
My concern is to start to walk down the line
of language and making clear what language I believe is
permissible or impermissible. Takes me into a place similar to
that of the president, who is looking to do those
very kinds of things, putting people in jail for writing
an op ed, putting them in jail for protesting.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And when he was asked on that same show if
he just wants to get rid of billionaires, he said, yes.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly,
it is so much money in a moment of such inequality,
and ultimately what we need more of is equality across
our city and across our state and across our country.
And I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires,
to make a city that is fairer for all of them.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That was him catching himself at the end, realizing that
he needed their money to win. So at the very
end he came around and said, oh, no, no, no, well,
you know, I still like billionaires. I just want them
to be involved in the conversation, and I want to
be able to tell them to their face, I want
you to get rid of all your wealth and give
it to everybody else. The one last thing he said.
The other controversy over the weekend is he talked about
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rich neighborhoods and giving the wealth away, but he called
them rich white neighborhoods.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
That is just an description of what we see right now.
It's not driven by race. It's more of an assessment
of what neighborhoods are being undertaxed overtax.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, it's not driven by race, except that's the only
race you mentioned. If it's not driven by race, why
mention it. I'm telling you he's got lots of problems.
It was a bad weekend for stars in concert. Beyonce
almost fell out of a flying car and another performer's
teeth fell out on stage. We'll talk about both next,
(10:21):
plus tickets to see Jackson Brown at age twenty five.
Let's talk to Mike Kelly. Mike Kelly is an award
winning columnist for North Jersey dot Com and The Record.
The story nationally and locally right now, I just saw
it everywhere this weekend is zor hand Mom, Donnie. He's
taken the nation by storm? But what does that mean
(10:43):
for the Democratic Party? Is this their blueprint going forward? Mike?
Because some seems some seem to show some trepidation with that.
What do you think, well, good morning morning.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Yes, I think Democrats all over the country are sitting there.
He's at the in the mirror and going, now what.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
For?
Speaker 9 (11:06):
You know, last November it was Kamala Harris in it,
you know, just complete meltdown.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
And uh.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
And now we've got you know, this new, this new
mayoral candidate. You know, I was thinking over the weekend,
do you remember the Tom Hanks movie Big, where he's
a little boy he suddenly becomes big and goes into
the goes into the toy store and starts giving all
kinds of advice on the kinds of toys that children
will like to play with.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
That.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
I'm sorry, but that's what I think. So han Mondami
is like, it's like big here in in politics. Uh
and and and on a serious note, he has completely
uh you know, overturned the traditional democratic way of doing things,
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uh or getting elected in New York City, and I
think that's going to spill over the borders into my
state of New Jersey. We have a gubernatorial race in
Virginia and then you know, the year after that into
the congressional races. I think this is a real you know,
it's one of those earthquake moments.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I think it is an earthquake moment because he is
so radical, he's so to the left. But you have
to give him credit. He doesn't lie about any of that.
He's full front telling you exactly the way he thinks.
A lot of how he thinks is scary. And I
loved your analogy, but I think this is more than that.
Just somebody that came out of nowhere, a little boy
becoming big. I think really there was this has all
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been planned. I mean, he's got a lot of money,
he's got a lot of support. I know he has
mommy's money and he's running on that. I guess it
is a little boy reference if you're running with mommy's money.
But he has an organization out there like I've never
seen before. There's something else going on with this race.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Well that's the other point I wanted to make. He
is the new kid on the block and the new
flavor of the week. Let's all be honest about that. However,
he's also done things in a very much old fashioned way.
He went out and he organized voters, He organized the
campaigns there, he organized they get out the vote driven.
(13:19):
And I think, you know, I don't know if your
listeners realize how important that is in getting elected, especially
in New York City where you really have to go
knocking on doors and getting people out. That's what we
call local politics. And you know, it happens in districts
all over the country for successful people. And this is
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this is his methodology, and to his credit, he figured
it out. He knows how to do it, you know.
Getting back to his politics, though, I think it's going
to be very interesting to see how a Muslim mayor
is elected in a city with a large number of
Jewish voters. If he's elected, I want to I'm going
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to be very interested to see how that transforms the
Democratic Party and actually transforms the way Democrats operate in
New York City.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Mike, if he gets elected, he can't do anything he
says he's going to do. That's the dirty little secret
in this whole thing. He can't do any of it,
and somehow he somehow skates on this.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
I think you're right. I mean, you know, the idea
of free buses sounds great, but who's going to pay
for it? The idea of government run grocery stores. Well,
I don't know about that. You know. I if the
government could just get you know, the DMV get going correctly,
to just stick to that. Okay, license plates, drivers' licenses,
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you know, filling the potholes. Now they want on grocery stores.
But you know, it's one of those kinds of things though,
that gets people to the polls and you know, free
bus rides. Sure, I'll vote, you know, that kind of thing.
That's what that's he that's what's attractive about this guy.
What I think whoever challenges him, and it looks like
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Andy Cuomo is going to try to come, you know,
come back from the dead here once again. They really
got to drill down on the practicality of what he
wants to do.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Well, they have to, I mean they tried to all
the time, and he just seems to skate on it.
And I'm not sure why they're allowing him to do that.
I think they just love the story behind it. I
want to get back to the fact that where I
don't think this is grassroots as as you think. We
were talking to a citizen journalist that has this website
of about a month two months ago when mom Donnie
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was still just starting to make waves, and he was
at a TESLA protest and he saw mom Donnie there
and he tried to talk to Mom Donnie, and as
soon as he said something negative, there were all of
these people, they had different color vests for their jobs,
going over to him, escorting him away, and then they
had these big guys security come up on them. That
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is an organization, And that was early on. So I
really have a mistrust to how grassroots this is. There.
There's something else to this guy. There's something else happening
that he is. He was too well organized and too
well funded very early on.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
Mike, Well, I've seen that happen a lot as a
journalist over the years. You know, we all think of
the left as you know, open minded and that sort
of thing. Now they're not. They're they're just as they're
just as controlling as anybody else's in many cases, and
you know, you ask a tough question in a you know,
uh uh, you know, a left wing press conference or
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that sort of thing, suddenly you get you know, uh,
you know, you get the the evil stare and that
sort of thing. And in this case, I'm not surprised
that you know, staffers from Montdami. Uh sort of surrounded
this guy and and tried to harass them or that
sort of thing. This is this, This is what happens
I think with with tough journalists and trying to ask questions.
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If this continues, I want to see what the New
York Press Corps is going to do about it. I mean,
they used to be tougher, to be honest with you.
I'm not sure how tough they were on this guy
when he was wrying. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You're right, they failed. They failed so far. Luckily they're
only halfway through the test, but so far you'd have
to give him a failing grade. Michael, I mean, Mike
always great to talk to you. Thank you so much.
Mike Kelly is an award winning columnist for The North
Jerseysey dot Com and The Record, but he likes to
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be called Michael. So you've probably noticed over the last
few weeks we have a theme going on with and
Ron and Naney, and he's taking us through a tour
of the dashboard. In all the warning lights, you know,
the ones we ignore most of the time. They just
keep flashing at us. But because we don't know exactly
what they mean. We just decide we can wait and
maybe they'll go off. Ron and Naney is host of
(17:57):
The Car Doctor, which is available weekly on the iHeartRadio app.
He's also owner of RA Automotive in Walldwick, New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Good morning, Ron, Good morning Larry.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
Thanks thanks for having me again.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Oh sure, of course. Let's talk about as we go
through all these warning lights, the anti lock break.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
Lights anti lock breaks. First of all, let's let's separate
and kill the myth. Every car has regular breaks. You know,
you step on the brake pedal, the car stops, and
then there's anti lock breaks. Anti lock breaks are really
the same break system. So if the anti lock brake
light is on, your vehicle will always have the traditional
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service break. You'll be able to stop the car, you
just won't have the added safety feature of anti lock.
Anti lock is just as the name implies. Best example,
stop your car on a pile of wet leaves, all right,
the right sides on the leaf pile, the left sides
on dry road. What happens if you don't have anti
lock The right rear wheel will stop quicker, causing that
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side of the car to slide and possibly spin. The
left side stops with normal braking force. Because it's on
a drier part of the road, anti lock sees the
change in wheel speed, it sees the wheel slowed down,
and it gently pumps the brake. Remember what Dad taught
you when he was teaching you to drive, pump the
brakes in the skid condition. Antilock brakes is sort of
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like that on your shoulder.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
And so it's an important warning light to check out, right.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
Yes, if you're used to driving with anti lock brakes
and all of a sudden that light's on and you
go into it, yeah, I don't need to fix that,
that's okay. And you go into a skid condition, then
you've got to start pumping your brakes in order to
correct the situation. If you know how to do that.
You know, certain generations know. I know to me, it
kicks in instinctively, right.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
The younger generation of drivers, I don't know if they've
been taught that, and I don't know if they're ready
for it, so they kind of rely on it. So
it's an important light to pay attention to when you
see it come on.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
What about traction control?
Speaker 10 (20:05):
So traction control, you know, antilock brakes is for stopping.
Traction control is for going. Now, most traction control lights
are two squiggly lines parallel to each other. Sometimes it's
a tire with a dotted line underneath. Every car has
a little bit of a different light. You should look
in your owner's manual to verify. But traction control will
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basically sense skid or we'll spin. Better word, we'll spin
while you're accelerating. And if you're on a piece of
ice and all of a sudden that tire speeds up,
it will slow it down to maintain traction and help
the car stay straight. All right. It might even apply
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all the brakes in some form to slow the car
down completely, because it's sense you're going into a skid.
So one's for going, one's for stopping. But they work
in conjunction with each other. Now, you can have a
dashboard warning light come on for ABS anti lock brake,
and that will a prevent the anti lock brake system
from working, and then have that turn on a traction
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control light, because if ABS isn't working, traction control goes, hey,
wait a minute, now what do I do? And it
will set a code telling you, hey, there's a problem here.
Let's look at both systems.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
So both lights go on at the same time, is
what you're saying.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
They could, Yes, sir, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And so when that happens, I think, I think it's
actually a good thing because when two lights go on,
that normally gets your attention.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
Nothing scares people more than dashboard warning lights. One they
can live with. Two they're getting nervous. Three they're on
the side of the road. So that's why a lot
of the manufacturers heck, you can have a check engine
light come on, not to change the subject, but you
can have a check engine light come on, and that'll
turn on ABS, traction control and a few others. So, yes,
you will start to see and as more of these
systems continue to grow and evolve, and they're all safety related,
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this is all about safety, you will see more and
more lights come on to try and get people's attention,
to make them aware that, hey, you've got to get
this checked out. There's no condition where an ABS or
traction control light is going to come on that should
be ignored. You should at least have it checked out
by a mechanic and have them say here's the issue,
here's what I have to fix. Et cetera, et cetera,
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et cetera.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
So here's the problem. I think that a lot of people,
when they see lights go on, think oh, this is
going to cost me a lot of money. And when
they see two go on, they think that as well.
So what let's talk about abs and traction control lights.
So they both go on. How much is that going
to cost them? If there's a problem.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
It typically takes a shop somewhere between a half hour
and forty five minutes of their time. If they're a
two hundred dollars an hour shop, it's one hundred and
fifty bucks. So the question you've got to ask yourself
is it worth one hundred and fifty dollars of your
of your life to find out why my lights are on?
At least then you know, they might even do it
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if you're a regular customer, they might even do it
as a no charge. Hey, Larry, here's what we found.
You know, it's an older car. Do you want to
fix it? Here's an approximate cost to repair. Or they
may look at it and say, here's the two fault codes.
We've got to go in and do some serious diagnosis.
It's a couple one hundred more bucks, etc. But at
least you know there's value and knowledge and power in
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knowing what the problem is. And that's half the battle today.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
So you just gave me the price for the scan.
Then you said that you have to do a deeper diagnosis,
which would be more money. What if you had to
fix it? How much is that going to run me?
Speaker 10 (23:37):
Well, it can run anywhere from A typical ABS fault
is a bad wheel speed sensor. There are four wheel
speed sensors on most vehicles, one in each corner of
the car, left front, right front, and so on. The
average wheel speed sensor runs approximately one hundred and fifty
dollars and it's somewhere around an hour to an hour
and a half of the shop's time to replace it,
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clear the code, and maybe in some cases calibrate the system.
So you could you could spend between four and six
hundred dollars to fix an ABS sensor from diagnosis beginning
to end. Now you can also have the granddaddy of
the wall headache. You can have a bad ABS controller.
ABS controller is the central brain. Prices start at two grand.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Oh oh man, this is why we ignore. But here's
the problem we should I know when the lights go on.
If you get it fixed, you might save yourself bigger
problems down the line.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Right.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
Yes, because it's a safety thing. Remember, you're getting in
most cases, you're getting an insurance deduction on your vehicle
because you have ABS breaks. I've never seen it come
up in court, but I often wonder if the ABS
system isn't working and you get into an accident and
the insurance company we're able to know, does that dissuade
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them from having to cover that vehicle? Yeah, for that
case to come
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Up, and yeah, that's the chance you're taking your absolete
write Ronanian, host of The Card Doctor, which is available
weekly on the iHeartRadio app, and owner of RA Automotive
So we had one nice day, one nice day Sunday.
Then it was rain up until then, rain off and
on on Saturday, and now it's going to start raining again.
As you just heard from Ray Stagic tonight tomorrow, it's okay.
You know why, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You know why? What did you say?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's amazing day?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Fourthly, yep, Independence Day is going to be a beautiful day.
And it's not gonna be too hot, it's not gonna
be too cold. It's going to be just right.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We have to be on Ray every single day to
make sure this does not change.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's right, because we both have not gonna be here. Everybody,
everybody should have off the fourth of July. In the
Big three new York's Democratic mayoral nominees or in mom
Donnie has become a national figure overnight, but keep saying
(00:59):
something things that are concerning, things like that Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanya, who would not be welcomed to New
York if he won.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
No as mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanya,
who this is a city that our values are in
line with international law. It's time that our actions are
also Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So if he comes to New York, Mayor Zora and
Mam Donnie would have him arrested. Not all Democrats are
thrilled with Mom Donnie. New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrands still
can't get over the fact that Mom Donnie won't denounce
the phrase antifada, which means the elimination of all Jews.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Well, as a leader of a city is New York
City with eight million people, as the largest Jewish population
in the country, he should denounce it and that's it, period.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And as usual, Donald Trump gets right to the point. Ah,
he's a radical left lunatic. When Mam Donnie runs in
the fall, he running against many others, Andrew Cuomo, who
has decided after losing. It's being reported he's decided. He's
not said anything yet, but he's still in the ballot
after losing the primary to Mom Donnie that he will
(02:14):
run as an independent. The Pride Parade was this weekend,
but once again, the organizer's Heritage of Pride banned LGBTQ
police officers from marching in uniform, and Commissioner tish Is livid.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I have been very clear with Heritage of Pride that
this exclusion is unacceptable and I will continue to be
outspoken on this topic until Heritage of Pride writes this wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now, there was a shooting in the West Village just
as the parade was winding down. The victims, two teenage girls,
both are in the hospital. One is in critical condition
with a gunshot wound of the head. There's no word
yet as if it had anything to do with the parade.
The Big Beautiful Bill still hasn't passed the House or
(03:05):
the Senate. I should say it passed. The House has
to go back to the House and they may not
make the fourth of July deadline set by the President
because of a couple of Republicans like Tom Tillis of
North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
What's holding you back from endorsing him right now?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Well, we don't really know each other well our districts
that I've been.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Very clear with Heritage of Pride that this exclusion.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The Sean Diddy Coms trial, the jury finally gets the
case today after the defense admitted p Diddy is a
bad guy and did some bad things, but he is
still not guilty.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And you admit, well, you can't deny, and you would
deny what you can't admit. There was domestic violence, there
was jegrease, but it was recreational. There were all of
these things, but what there was it was extracty and
what there was was racketeering. And that's what the government
had to for me.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And what was that that fell from the sky A huge.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Ball, A fire just literally fell out of the sky.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That's right, a fireball seen falling from the sky over
seven to ten states. No damage, but quite a show.
We'll talk about that coming up. And you can go
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morning T shirt if you were picked as talkback of
the morning. We decide that at the end of the show. Now,
let's get to mom Donnie, who was everywhere this weekend,
just everywhere this weekend, and he just said things that
were absolutely concerning about well just about every topic that
(04:51):
was brought up to him. He was I will give
this to I'll give this credit to the guy. He
doesn't shy away from what he is. He doesn't lie.
He should every once in a while. It seems like
because some of his positions and what he says he's
going to do and who he says he is is frightening,
(05:14):
absolutely frightening. I agree with President Trump. He and Vicky Palladino,
who keeps telling me, don't say the word socialist, he's
a communist. He certainly is sounding more and more like that.
Let's start with the fact that Andrew Cuomo is still
in the race, and he was asked on meet the
Press if he was concerned about having to run against Cuomo,
(05:38):
having to run against Sleewood, having to run against Adams.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
No, I'm not worried about any of those candidates. I'm
excited and confident about our chances in the general election
because what we saw on Tuesday is a mandate from
the New Yorkers deliver a city they can afford, not
a desire for politics of the past or politicians of
the past.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's funny that Democrats will saying democrats because AOC and
Bernie Sanders. They're all giddy about mom Donnie because he's
one of them, But same Democrats are a little worried
about him. And Kirsten Gillibrand, the Senator from New York
(06:16):
the junior senator from New York is really concerned and
went off on a podcast. This is just a little
bit of it that he will not denounce the antifada.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
And when you use a word like infada to many
Jewish Americans and Jewish New Yorkers, that means you are
permissive for violence against Jews. It is a serious word.
It is a word that has deep meaning. It has
been used for wars across time and violence and destruction
and slaughter and murder against the Jews.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, and he will not denounce it. Over and over again,
he's asked, and he will not denounce it. The phrase
globalized antifada from the river to the sea, does that
make you come uncomfortable?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
No, I know people for whom those things mean very
different things. And to me, ultimately what I hear in
so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, that's what started at all. That was a podcast
that started it all when he refused to say not
only that river to the sea and antifada, he will
not denounce it. Global antifada is an elimination of Jews.
There's really no debate about that. It doesn't mean things.
Different things to different people. That's what it means. That's
what it means. And the fact that he just won't
(07:30):
come out and denounce it as a mayoral candidate in
New York with the largest municipal Jewish population in the country,
is really concerning and should concern all of us that
he is that radical that he just can't come out
and say, even if he doesn't say, even if he
(07:53):
wanted to claim Antifada is one thing he should say, Well,
of course I'm not for the elimination of all Jews.
Of course I'm not for violence against Jews. He won't.
He doesn't even say that. He just want He just
says he wants a quality for all people. That's what
he'll say over and over again. And I will give
Kirsten Welker a lot of credit, who I used to
work with for a while ago. I'll give her a
(08:13):
lot of credit. She held his feet to the fire
un meet. The press asked him three times, gave him
three chances to denounce the antifada, and finally said to him,
why don't you just come out and denounce it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
For the people who care about the language and who
feel really concerned by that phrase, why not just condemn it.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
My concern is to start to walk down the line
of language and making clear what language I believe is
permissible or impermissible. Takes me into a place similar to
that of the president, who is looking to do those
very kinds of things, putting people in jail for writing
an op ed, putting them in jail for protesting.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And when he was asked on that same show if
he just wants to get rid of billionaires, he said, yes.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly,
it is so much money in a moment of such inequality,
and ultimately what we need more of is equality across
our city and across our state and across our country.
And I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires,
to make a city that is fairer for all of them.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That was him catching himself at the end, realizing that
he needed their money to win. So at the very
end he came around and said, oh, no, no, no, well,
you know, I still like billionaires. I just want them
to be involved in the conversation, and I want to
be able to tell them to their face, I want
you to get rid of all your wealth and give
it to everybody else. The one last thing he said.
The other controversy over the weekend is he talked about
(09:47):
rich neighborhoods and giving the wealth away, but he called
them rich white neighborhoods.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
That is just an description of what we see right now.
It's not driven by race. It's more of an assessment
of what neighborhoods are being undertaxed overtax.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, it's not driven by race, except that's the only
race you mentioned. If it's not driven by race, why
mention it. I'm telling you he's got lots of problems.
It was a bad weekend for stars in concert. Beyonce
almost fell out of a flying car and another performer's
teeth fell out on stage. We'll talk about both next,
(10:21):
plus tickets to see Jackson Brown at age twenty five.
Let's talk to Mike Kelly. Mike Kelly is an award
winning columnist for North Jersey dot Com and The Record.
The story nationally and locally right now, I just saw
it everywhere this weekend is zor hand Mom, Donnie. He's
taken the nation by storm? But what does that mean
(10:43):
for the Democratic Party? Is this their blueprint going forward? Mike?
Because some seems some seem to show some trepidation with that.
What do you think, well, good morning morning.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Yes, I think Democrats all over the country are sitting there.
He's at the in the mirror and going, now what.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
For?
Speaker 9 (11:06):
You know, last November it was Kamala Harris in it,
you know, just complete meltdown.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
And uh.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
And now we've got you know, this new, this new
mayoral candidate. You know, I was thinking over the weekend,
do you remember the Tom Hanks movie Big, where he's
a little boy he suddenly becomes big and goes into
the goes into the toy store and starts giving all
kinds of advice on the kinds of toys that children
will like to play with.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
That.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
I'm sorry, but that's what I think. So han Mondami
is like, it's like big here in in politics. Uh
and and and on a serious note, he has completely
uh you know, overturned the traditional democratic way of doing things,
(11:55):
uh or getting elected in New York City, and I
think that's going to spill over the borders into my
state of New Jersey. We have a gubernatorial race in
Virginia and then you know, the year after that into
the congressional races. I think this is a real you know,
it's one of those earthquake moments.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I think it is an earthquake moment because he is
so radical, he's so to the left. But you have
to give him credit. He doesn't lie about any of that.
He's full front telling you exactly the way he thinks.
A lot of how he thinks is scary. And I
loved your analogy, but I think this is more than that.
Just somebody that came out of nowhere, a little boy
becoming big. I think really there was this has all
(12:38):
been planned. I mean, he's got a lot of money,
he's got a lot of support. I know he has
mommy's money and he's running on that. I guess it
is a little boy reference if you're running with mommy's money.
But he has an organization out there like I've never
seen before. There's something else going on with this race.
Speaker 9 (12:59):
Well that's the other point I wanted to make. He
is the new kid on the block and the new
flavor of the week. Let's all be honest about that. However,
he's also done things in a very much old fashioned way.
He went out and he organized voters, He organized the
campaigns there, he organized they get out the vote driven.
(13:19):
And I think, you know, I don't know if your
listeners realize how important that is in getting elected, especially
in New York City where you really have to go
knocking on doors and getting people out. That's what we
call local politics. And you know, it happens in districts
all over the country for successful people. And this is
(13:39):
this is his methodology, and to his credit, he figured
it out. He knows how to do it, you know.
Getting back to his politics, though, I think it's going
to be very interesting to see how a Muslim mayor
is elected in a city with a large number of
Jewish voters. If he's elected, I want to I'm going
(14:03):
to be very interested to see how that transforms the
Democratic Party and actually transforms the way Democrats operate in
New York City.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Mike, if he gets elected, he can't do anything he
says he's going to do. That's the dirty little secret
in this whole thing. He can't do any of it,
and somehow he somehow skates on this.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
I think you're right. I mean, you know, the idea
of free buses sounds great, but who's going to pay
for it? The idea of government run grocery stores. Well,
I don't know about that. You know. I if the
government could just get you know, the DMV get going correctly,
to just stick to that. Okay, license plates, drivers' licenses,
(14:47):
you know, filling the potholes. Now they want on grocery stores.
But you know, it's one of those kinds of things though,
that gets people to the polls and you know, free
bus rides. Sure, I'll vote, you know, that kind of thing.
That's what that's he that's what's attractive about this guy.
What I think whoever challenges him, and it looks like
(15:09):
Andy Cuomo is going to try to come, you know,
come back from the dead here once again. They really
got to drill down on the practicality of what he
wants to do.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Well, they have to, I mean they tried to all
the time, and he just seems to skate on it.
And I'm not sure why they're allowing him to do that.
I think they just love the story behind it. I
want to get back to the fact that where I
don't think this is grassroots as as you think. We
were talking to a citizen journalist that has this website
of about a month two months ago when mom Donnie
(15:41):
was still just starting to make waves, and he was
at a TESLA protest and he saw mom Donnie there
and he tried to talk to Mom Donnie, and as
soon as he said something negative, there were all of
these people, they had different color vests for their jobs,
going over to him, escorting him away, and then they
had these big guys security come up on them. That
(16:02):
is an organization, And that was early on. So I
really have a mistrust to how grassroots this is. There.
There's something else to this guy. There's something else happening
that he is. He was too well organized and too
well funded very early on.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
Mike, Well, I've seen that happen a lot as a
journalist over the years. You know, we all think of
the left as you know, open minded and that sort
of thing. Now they're not. They're they're just as they're
just as controlling as anybody else's in many cases, and
you know, you ask a tough question in a you know,
uh uh, you know, a left wing press conference or
(16:42):
that sort of thing, suddenly you get you know, uh,
you know, you get the the evil stare and that
sort of thing. And in this case, I'm not surprised
that you know, staffers from Montdami. Uh sort of surrounded
this guy and and tried to harass them or that
sort of thing. This is this, This is what happens
I think with with tough journalists and trying to ask questions.
(17:03):
If this continues, I want to see what the New
York Press Corps is going to do about it. I mean,
they used to be tougher, to be honest with you.
I'm not sure how tough they were on this guy
when he was wrying. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You're right, they failed. They failed so far. Luckily they're
only halfway through the test, but so far you'd have
to give him a failing grade. Michael, I mean, Mike
always great to talk to you. Thank you so much.
Mike Kelly is an award winning columnist for The North
Jerseysey dot Com and The Record, but he likes to
(17:34):
be called Michael. So you've probably noticed over the last
few weeks we have a theme going on with and
Ron and Naney, and he's taking us through a tour
of the dashboard. In all the warning lights, you know,
the ones we ignore most of the time. They just
keep flashing at us. But because we don't know exactly
what they mean. We just decide we can wait and
maybe they'll go off. Ron and Naney is host of
(17:57):
The Car Doctor, which is available weekly on the iHeartRadio app.
He's also owner of RA Automotive in Walldwick, New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Good morning, Ron, Good morning Larry.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
Thanks thanks for having me again.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Oh sure, of course. Let's talk about as we go
through all these warning lights, the anti lock break.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
Lights anti lock breaks. First of all, let's let's separate
and kill the myth. Every car has regular breaks. You know,
you step on the brake pedal, the car stops, and
then there's anti lock breaks. Anti lock breaks are really
the same break system. So if the anti lock brake
light is on, your vehicle will always have the traditional
(18:41):
service break. You'll be able to stop the car, you
just won't have the added safety feature of anti lock.
Anti lock is just as the name implies. Best example,
stop your car on a pile of wet leaves, all right,
the right sides on the leaf pile, the left sides
on dry road. What happens if you don't have anti
lock The right rear wheel will stop quicker, causing that
(19:05):
side of the car to slide and possibly spin. The
left side stops with normal braking force. Because it's on
a drier part of the road, anti lock sees the
change in wheel speed, it sees the wheel slowed down,
and it gently pumps the brake. Remember what Dad taught
you when he was teaching you to drive, pump the
brakes in the skid condition. Antilock brakes is sort of
(19:25):
like that on your shoulder.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
And so it's an important warning light to check out, right.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
Yes, if you're used to driving with anti lock brakes
and all of a sudden that light's on and you
go into it, yeah, I don't need to fix that,
that's okay. And you go into a skid condition, then
you've got to start pumping your brakes in order to
correct the situation. If you know how to do that.
You know, certain generations know. I know to me, it
kicks in instinctively, right.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
The younger generation of drivers, I don't know if they've
been taught that, and I don't know if they're ready
for it, so they kind of rely on it. So
it's an important light to pay attention to when you
see it come on.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
What about traction control?
Speaker 10 (20:05):
So traction control, you know, antilock brakes is for stopping.
Traction control is for going. Now, most traction control lights
are two squiggly lines parallel to each other. Sometimes it's
a tire with a dotted line underneath. Every car has
a little bit of a different light. You should look
in your owner's manual to verify. But traction control will
(20:27):
basically sense skid or we'll spin. Better word, we'll spin
while you're accelerating. And if you're on a piece of
ice and all of a sudden that tire speeds up,
it will slow it down to maintain traction and help
the car stay straight. All right. It might even apply
(20:49):
all the brakes in some form to slow the car
down completely, because it's sense you're going into a skid.
So one's for going, one's for stopping. But they work
in conjunction with each other. Now, you can have a
dashboard warning light come on for ABS anti lock brake,
and that will a prevent the anti lock brake system
from working, and then have that turn on a traction
(21:11):
control light, because if ABS isn't working, traction control goes, hey,
wait a minute, now what do I do? And it
will set a code telling you, hey, there's a problem here.
Let's look at both systems.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
So both lights go on at the same time, is
what you're saying.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
They could, Yes, sir, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And so when that happens, I think, I think it's
actually a good thing because when two lights go on,
that normally gets your attention.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
Nothing scares people more than dashboard warning lights. One they
can live with. Two they're getting nervous. Three they're on
the side of the road. So that's why a lot
of the manufacturers heck, you can have a check engine
light come on, not to change the subject, but you
can have a check engine light come on, and that'll
turn on ABS, traction control and a few others. So, yes,
you will start to see and as more of these
systems continue to grow and evolve, and they're all safety related,
(21:58):
this is all about safety, you will see more and
more lights come on to try and get people's attention,
to make them aware that, hey, you've got to get
this checked out. There's no condition where an ABS or
traction control light is going to come on that should
be ignored. You should at least have it checked out
by a mechanic and have them say here's the issue,
here's what I have to fix. Et cetera, et cetera,
(22:19):
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
So here's the problem. I think that a lot of people,
when they see lights go on, think oh, this is
going to cost me a lot of money. And when
they see two go on, they think that as well.
So what let's talk about abs and traction control lights.
So they both go on. How much is that going
to cost them? If there's a problem.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
It typically takes a shop somewhere between a half hour
and forty five minutes of their time. If they're a
two hundred dollars an hour shop, it's one hundred and
fifty bucks. So the question you've got to ask yourself
is it worth one hundred and fifty dollars of your
of your life to find out why my lights are on?
At least then you know, they might even do it
(23:01):
if you're a regular customer, they might even do it
as a no charge. Hey, Larry, here's what we found.
You know, it's an older car. Do you want to
fix it? Here's an approximate cost to repair. Or they
may look at it and say, here's the two fault codes.
We've got to go in and do some serious diagnosis.
It's a couple one hundred more bucks, etc. But at
least you know there's value and knowledge and power in
(23:22):
knowing what the problem is. And that's half the battle today.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
So you just gave me the price for the scan.
Then you said that you have to do a deeper diagnosis,
which would be more money. What if you had to
fix it? How much is that going to run me?
Speaker 10 (23:37):
Well, it can run anywhere from A typical ABS fault
is a bad wheel speed sensor. There are four wheel
speed sensors on most vehicles, one in each corner of
the car, left front, right front, and so on. The
average wheel speed sensor runs approximately one hundred and fifty
dollars and it's somewhere around an hour to an hour
and a half of the shop's time to replace it,
(23:58):
clear the code, and maybe in some cases calibrate the system.
So you could you could spend between four and six
hundred dollars to fix an ABS sensor from diagnosis beginning
to end. Now you can also have the granddaddy of
the wall headache. You can have a bad ABS controller.
ABS controller is the central brain. Prices start at two grand.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Oh oh man, this is why we ignore. But here's
the problem we should I know when the lights go on.
If you get it fixed, you might save yourself bigger
problems down the line.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Right.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
Yes, because it's a safety thing. Remember, you're getting in
most cases, you're getting an insurance deduction on your vehicle
because you have ABS breaks. I've never seen it come
up in court, but I often wonder if the ABS
system isn't working and you get into an accident and
the insurance company we're able to know, does that dissuade
(24:54):
them from having to cover that vehicle? Yeah, for that
case to come
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Up, and yeah, that's the chance you're taking your absolete
write Ronanian, host of The Card Doctor, which is available
weekly on the iHeartRadio app, and owner of RA Automotive
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