October 5, 2025 • 11 mins
Mindy and Robert Cooperman discuss the government shutdown!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Never looks so good.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Well, that's true. This is echoing in my ear. Folks,
we have difficult I'm taking this off.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
He's just like Boots. He fills in for Boots and
he's already complained about something.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Complains. It's hurting my ears.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
But I think they're getting so much feedback, do we know?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I don't know. People give me feedback. It's usually negative.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
No, you're still getting some feedback, am I?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
This is better? Like they just two. We can do that,
but I don't think that would be exceptionally good radio.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hi, everybody, Boots is out, Robert Cooperman. The Robert Cooperman
is in filling in his seat.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now. It takes a lot to fill in Boots his seat,
and fortunately I have a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So you know, when I've promoted, I put on my
Facebook page that you would be here today. And I
don't know how other ways to describe you other than
you are one of the most entertaining people that's on
the airwaves with us. You're so quick witted, but you're
a New Yorker. We have to be something that is
it that you've just learned by nature?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You have to be quick witted when you're in New
Yorker because you have to because the mugger is only
by you a few minutes, you know, a few seconds,
so you have to get the words in first. Also,
I'm Jewish and we have to We're very quick witted people.
My family was very funny, so you know, it's just
it's just something I've honed over time to be very
quick witted.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's a big time of the year for the Jewish.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, we just had our high holy holidays. That's right.
We had Russia Shana, and then we had Young Kipper
where I fast for twenty five hours.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Wait a minute, you didn't is it? I thought it
was kippo?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What's the correct Hebrew pronunciation? And is jam kipoor? If
it's the Yiddish pronunciation, it's young Kipper?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And what is the actual reason for the celebration For
anyone who's listening, it's a day.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's a day of atonement. So it's when you reflect
back on the year and you, uh, you know, atone
for the sins that you have perpetrated throughout the year.
And my mother always told me that God is keeping
the book of life, and that he writes down in
the book if you're going to have a good year
(02:04):
if you're going to pass away. He knew these things
ahead of time. And every time I try to go
read that book, it's the library. It's taken out and
I can't get it. So I don't know what this
means means, but it's it's the Jewish holiday where old
Jews become Jews. It's kind of like Easter. Everybody runs
to Yes, I fast, I fast and it's twenty five hours.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
How did you do that?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
How did I do that? A by not eating?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
No time hard for you?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You don't think about it. Ice water, it's no, you're not.
It is ice and water, well ice when my pregnant
the the if they give ice chips to pregnant women
when they're having been But because you can have ice,
oh no. But basically this is it. If you you
can have maybe a little something to eat or water.
(02:52):
If you are taking medicine, you're supposed to take you medicine. Also,
if you don't feel well during the fast, you should
not continue to fast. But I feel fine, uh, and
I fasted for twenty five hours. And it really is
mind over matter.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You know what anything in life really is? Mind over matter,
That's right. That's right.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And my mother, do they have a second to tell
you this? My mother used to keep and like this
asbestos pad or whatever it was made of, on top
of a flame in our house. And it's called a bleahs,
it's called the Black and it keeps water hot water,
(03:32):
water from New York. It keeps water hot. And I
always wondered, like why, why who the heck would want
warm water? Oh I'm dying here, I'm stopping. Give me
some warm water. But uh, it's just so maybe you
could make a little soup or something, or just have
something hot if you need it. And we never used it,
We never needed to use the water, but she always
had it there.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Black so interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's a great name to her. Well, probably just transliteration,
it's b L e H. Black.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, see, you just gave us a wealth of information. Anyway,
we're so glad you are here today. We appreciated You're
always fun, great conversations, and we'll tell people exactly why
you were with us every month. Because Robert has done
something that no one else has done in the entire nation.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
That is true.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So i'll hear more about that coming up in three
o'clock hour. He thought, maybe that he was going to
be doing the show by himself because he knew he
was filling in for Boobs. And I was like coming
in like a hot flame.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That I blinked and you were in your seat, but
you were coming from the.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
From Indian Lake. So I know your kids don't live
in town.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
They do not, They live in California and Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
My son will be twenty four on Wednesday. Wow. We've
never not celebrated his birthday together because he's always been
home right, well, he's not living in home. He's living
in Strongsville area. Oh really, So this will be the
first birthday that I won't be with him on his
exact birthday. Will be twenty four years old on Wednesday.
So we celebrated it at the lake House this weekend,
(05:04):
and it was just great having him and his girlfriend
there and Randy. In fact, we were to the last
second playing pickleball, all of us together, and I gotta go, Yeah, yeah,
I gotta go. I've got a show to do. Have
you ever played pickle ball? I have not, Robert, this
is like exploding over the country.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I know, I know, and it's been around for a while.
I thought I read something that a guy invented it
in the forties, but it's only taken off now. Something
like that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I mean, you could play because you don't have to
run much.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That would be perfect. If I could play by just
standing there. I would rather do that because we have
smaller well I'm Jewish, so we have kosher dill pickleball.
Of course, you guys got a little extra glic in it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
But it's something that really a lot of older people
are doing because you don't run so much and the
courts are small. No, you do run a little bit.
You don't run so much in doubles, but you still
have to run to get the ball. It's just the
courts are smaller. But I'm telling you what, this is
a craze that has just been going on for a
couple of years now, and I thought, maybe, yeah, it's
just a little bad thing. But but it's growing and
(06:05):
growing and growing, and yes, it is very my stomach,
That's what I'm saying. To see, even you could play pickleball.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Right, I mean it's this like square kind of battle
right and hitting.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You think of a wrapp racket, racket ball racket. It's
the size of the Okay, the you think of a
whiffle ball.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Close in it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
That's the pickleball, and it's just a smaller you think
of tennis, but on a smaller court, dense court.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So it really really be willing to try it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So that's why I didn't mean to give you a
heart failure, like you're going to have to be doing
the show. I'd never let you down.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But he did not hear it. Like folks, it would
have been terrible a living and you'd be turning it off.
Finances would have been perfect. We'll see, well, a chance
to prove showed up.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
He was like darn.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I was like, oh man, there goes to Robert Cooperman show.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You should have your own show.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I would love it. Why don't you help me do that.
I'd love to have my own show.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You got to earn it, buddy, I've listened.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I've earned it at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I've earned it at this point in this stage in
your life. So the big thing that's going on right
now is the government shut down. What are your thoughts?
What are your opinions?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
My thought opinion, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So it hasn't affected you.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Has that affected me? It doesn't shut down Medicaid payments.
It doesn't shut down Social security payments. It doesn't shut
down the armed forces, It doesn't shut down the Post's office,
which who needs that anyway. It doesn't shut down the
air traffic controllers. Now I understand as time goes by
it could really affect these things. But the people who
need the help, you know, in the in the safety
(07:44):
net that this country provides, they still get it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Who do you blame for the shutdown?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
The Democrats? So not if I didn't even hesitates.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Senator Kennedy was standing up in Congress trying to explain
to people what the Democrats want to put back in
to the funding. And I want for you to take
a listen to this. When he refers to the girl
in Congress, he was referring to AOC, So listen to
the sound as he is trying to explain to people
why the Republicans are not allowing the Democrats to get
(08:16):
their way, whether or not say no, we don't want this,
go ahead, Chris, producer, Chris, he's in Zambia.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We put that, took that out. The congress woman says,
we're gonna shut down government till you put that back in.
We found five hundred thousand dollars of American taxpayer money
for electric buses in Rwanda. We found three point six
million dollars for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups
(08:48):
for male prostitutes in Haiti. Can you not I'm not
making the subject was in the budget under President Biden.
We took it out. Youngress woman in case show Cortez
in the socialist wing, the Moon wing of the Democratic
Party says we're going to shut down govern until you
put it back in. I'll just read you a few
(09:10):
more that we took out. They are demanding we put
back in six million dollars for media organizations for the Palestinians,
eight hundred and thirty three thousand dollars for transgender people
and the paul three hundred thousand dollars for a pride
parade in Lesuku, eight hundred and eighty two thousand dollars
(09:30):
for social media and mentorship in Serbia four point two
million dollars. We took it out. The congresswoman and the
socialist wing of their party says, we've got to put
that at the back in for that open government.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And there you go, and he goes on all nine dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
From lesbian, jay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people in
the Western Balkans and Uganda.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Wow. I didn't know there were any in the Western Balkans.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And you go, I mean look at all that.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Wow, And that's like what Doage was doing.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And it does exactly. But it doesn't really matter what
your political affiliation is when you hear that, how can
you defend wanting to fund all that?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Because these people who want to defend it are what
they consider citizens of the world. So they have no
interest in the United States borders. That's very obvious with
what Biden did with our borders. They have no interest
in that. They are interested in being this world unity thing.
So to them, people in Rwando one, yeah, Rwanda people
(10:34):
and people in the Balkans and people in wherever they are,
they're all just part of this human community that knows
no boundaries and that knows no you know, I can't
think of the word, but it doesn't know them.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
That's why you don't have your own show. Okay, well
you will be right.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I guess that's it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
But really we want your opinion on the government shutdown.
Has it affected you yet? Do you know people who
it's affecting six one four, eight, two one nine eight
six six one four eight two one nine eight eight six.
Just let us know your thoughts, your opinions. We also
have sound coming up from former President Clinton. Yes, God,
very good. All right, we'll tell you why we're gonna
(11:12):
play that. You're listening to our own six' TEN wtv and
always protected by The Undefeated tattletale
Never looks so good.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Well, that's true. This is echoing in my ear. Folks,
we have difficult I'm taking this off.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
He's just like Boots. He fills in for Boots and
he's already complained about something.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Complains. It's hurting my ears.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
But I think they're getting so much feedback, do we know?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I don't know. People give me feedback. It's usually negative.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
No, you're still getting some feedback, am I?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
This is better? Like they just two. We can do that,
but I don't think that would be exceptionally good radio.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hi, everybody, Boots is out, Robert Cooperman. The Robert Cooperman
is in filling in his seat.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now. It takes a lot to fill in Boots his seat,
and fortunately I have a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So you know, when I've promoted, I put on my
Facebook page that you would be here today. And I
don't know how other ways to describe you other than
you are one of the most entertaining people that's on
the airwaves with us. You're so quick witted, but you're
a New Yorker. We have to be something that is
it that you've just learned by nature?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You have to be quick witted when you're in New
Yorker because you have to because the mugger is only
by you a few minutes, you know, a few seconds,
so you have to get the words in first. Also,
I'm Jewish and we have to We're very quick witted people.
My family was very funny, so you know, it's just
it's just something I've honed over time to be very
quick witted.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's a big time of the year for the Jewish.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes, we just had our high holy holidays. That's right.
We had Russia Shana, and then we had Young Kipper
where I fast for twenty five hours.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Wait a minute, you didn't is it? I thought it
was kippo?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
What's the correct Hebrew pronunciation? And is jam kipoor? If
it's the Yiddish pronunciation, it's young Kipper?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And what is the actual reason for the celebration For
anyone who's listening, it's a day.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's a day of atonement. So it's when you reflect
back on the year and you, uh, you know, atone
for the sins that you have perpetrated throughout the year.
And my mother always told me that God is keeping
the book of life, and that he writes down in
the book if you're going to have a good year
(02:04):
if you're going to pass away. He knew these things
ahead of time. And every time I try to go
read that book, it's the library. It's taken out and
I can't get it. So I don't know what this
means means, but it's it's the Jewish holiday where old
Jews become Jews. It's kind of like Easter. Everybody runs
to Yes, I fast, I fast and it's twenty five hours.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
How did you do that?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
How did I do that? A by not eating?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
No time hard for you?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You don't think about it. Ice water, it's no, you're not.
It is ice and water, well ice when my pregnant
the the if they give ice chips to pregnant women
when they're having been But because you can have ice,
oh no. But basically this is it. If you you
can have maybe a little something to eat or water.
(02:52):
If you are taking medicine, you're supposed to take you medicine. Also,
if you don't feel well during the fast, you should
not continue to fast. But I feel fine, uh, and
I fasted for twenty five hours. And it really is
mind over matter.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You know what anything in life really is? Mind over matter,
That's right. That's right.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And my mother, do they have a second to tell
you this? My mother used to keep and like this
asbestos pad or whatever it was made of, on top
of a flame in our house. And it's called a bleahs,
it's called the Black and it keeps water hot water,
(03:32):
water from New York. It keeps water hot. And I
always wondered, like why, why who the heck would want
warm water? Oh I'm dying here, I'm stopping. Give me
some warm water. But uh, it's just so maybe you
could make a little soup or something, or just have
something hot if you need it. And we never used it,
We never needed to use the water, but she always
had it there.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Black so interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's a great name to her. Well, probably just transliteration,
it's b L e H. Black.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, see, you just gave us a wealth of information. Anyway,
we're so glad you are here today. We appreciated You're
always fun, great conversations, and we'll tell people exactly why
you were with us every month. Because Robert has done
something that no one else has done in the entire nation.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
That is true.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So i'll hear more about that coming up in three
o'clock hour. He thought, maybe that he was going to
be doing the show by himself because he knew he
was filling in for Boobs. And I was like coming
in like a hot flame.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That I blinked and you were in your seat, but
you were coming from the.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
From Indian Lake. So I know your kids don't live
in town.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
They do not, They live in California and Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
My son will be twenty four on Wednesday. Wow. We've
never not celebrated his birthday together because he's always been
home right, well, he's not living in home. He's living
in Strongsville area. Oh really, So this will be the
first birthday that I won't be with him on his
exact birthday. Will be twenty four years old on Wednesday.
So we celebrated it at the lake House this weekend,
(05:04):
and it was just great having him and his girlfriend
there and Randy. In fact, we were to the last
second playing pickleball, all of us together, and I gotta go, Yeah, yeah,
I gotta go. I've got a show to do. Have
you ever played pickle ball? I have not, Robert, this
is like exploding over the country.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I know, I know, and it's been around for a while.
I thought I read something that a guy invented it
in the forties, but it's only taken off now. Something
like that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I mean, you could play because you don't have to
run much.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That would be perfect. If I could play by just
standing there. I would rather do that because we have
smaller well I'm Jewish, so we have kosher dill pickleball.
Of course, you guys got a little extra glic in it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
But it's something that really a lot of older people
are doing because you don't run so much and the
courts are small. No, you do run a little bit.
You don't run so much in doubles, but you still
have to run to get the ball. It's just the
courts are smaller. But I'm telling you what, this is
a craze that has just been going on for a
couple of years now, and I thought, maybe, yeah, it's
just a little bad thing. But but it's growing and
(06:05):
growing and growing, and yes, it is very my stomach,
That's what I'm saying. To see, even you could play pickleball.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Right, I mean it's this like square kind of battle
right and hitting.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You think of a wrapp racket, racket ball racket. It's
the size of the Okay, the you think of a
whiffle ball.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Close in it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
That's the pickleball, and it's just a smaller you think
of tennis, but on a smaller court, dense court.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So it really really be willing to try it.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So that's why I didn't mean to give you a
heart failure, like you're going to have to be doing
the show. I'd never let you down.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But he did not hear it. Like folks, it would
have been terrible a living and you'd be turning it off.
Finances would have been perfect. We'll see, well, a chance
to prove showed up.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
He was like darn.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I was like, oh man, there goes to Robert Cooperman show.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You should have your own show.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I would love it. Why don't you help me do that.
I'd love to have my own show.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You got to earn it, buddy, I've listened.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I've earned it at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I've earned it at this point in this stage in
your life. So the big thing that's going on right
now is the government shut down. What are your thoughts?
What are your opinions?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
My thought opinion, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So it hasn't affected you.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Has that affected me? It doesn't shut down Medicaid payments.
It doesn't shut down Social security payments. It doesn't shut
down the armed forces, It doesn't shut down the Post's office,
which who needs that anyway. It doesn't shut down the
air traffic controllers. Now I understand as time goes by
it could really affect these things. But the people who
need the help, you know, in the in the safety
(07:44):
net that this country provides, they still get it.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Who do you blame for the shutdown?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
The Democrats? So not if I didn't even hesitates.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Senator Kennedy was standing up in Congress trying to explain
to people what the Democrats want to put back in
to the funding. And I want for you to take
a listen to this. When he refers to the girl
in Congress, he was referring to AOC, So listen to
the sound as he is trying to explain to people
why the Republicans are not allowing the Democrats to get
(08:16):
their way, whether or not say no, we don't want this,
go ahead, Chris, producer, Chris, he's in Zambia.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We put that, took that out. The congress woman says,
we're gonna shut down government till you put that back in.
We found five hundred thousand dollars of American taxpayer money
for electric buses in Rwanda. We found three point six
million dollars for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups
(08:48):
for male prostitutes in Haiti. Can you not I'm not
making the subject was in the budget under President Biden.
We took it out. Youngress woman in case show Cortez
in the socialist wing, the Moon wing of the Democratic
Party says we're going to shut down govern until you
put it back in. I'll just read you a few
(09:10):
more that we took out. They are demanding we put
back in six million dollars for media organizations for the Palestinians,
eight hundred and thirty three thousand dollars for transgender people
and the paul three hundred thousand dollars for a pride
parade in Lesuku, eight hundred and eighty two thousand dollars
(09:30):
for social media and mentorship in Serbia four point two
million dollars. We took it out. The congresswoman and the
socialist wing of their party says, we've got to put
that at the back in for that open government.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And there you go, and he goes on all nine dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
From lesbian, jay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people in
the Western Balkans and Uganda.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Wow. I didn't know there were any in the Western Balkans.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And you go, I mean look at all that.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Wow, And that's like what Doage was doing.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And it does exactly. But it doesn't really matter what
your political affiliation is when you hear that, how can
you defend wanting to fund all that?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Because these people who want to defend it are what
they consider citizens of the world. So they have no
interest in the United States borders. That's very obvious with
what Biden did with our borders. They have no interest
in that. They are interested in being this world unity thing.
So to them, people in Rwando one, yeah, Rwanda people
(10:34):
and people in the Balkans and people in wherever they are,
they're all just part of this human community that knows
no boundaries and that knows no you know, I can't
think of the word, but it doesn't know them.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
That's why you don't have your own show. Okay, well
you will be right.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I guess that's it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
But really we want your opinion on the government shutdown.
Has it affected you yet? Do you know people who
it's affecting six one four, eight, two one nine eight
six six one four eight two one nine eight eight six.
Just let us know your thoughts, your opinions. We also
have sound coming up from former President Clinton. Yes, God,
very good. All right, we'll tell you why we're gonna
(11:12):
play that. You're listening to our own six' TEN wtv and
always protected by The Undefeated tattletale
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