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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This hour of programming on seven ten DOBR. He's sponsored
by Toyota City and Mamaranac and Nissan. City of port Chester,
proud members of the Integrity Automotive Group. Now former Westchester
County executive Rob Astoria on seven ten double UAR.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome Rob Astorino here on seven ten wo R. It's
great to have you as the countdown for Santa is Wow,
it's underway. He's got to be packing up final final
list there going through. I hope you're on the on
the good one, not the bad one. Only you know,
I don't know, maybe you're on the good one. I
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hope you are. And I hope you stay with me
for this hour and you're able to call in. And
one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is
the number. One eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Couple things to talk about today, but I wanted to
talk about Ricky Henderson, who, as you heard Lisa say,
and we just played the audio from that day May first,
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nineteen ninety one, when he broke lou Brock's record for
most stolen bases. And I mean, if you grow up
in New York or you lived in this in this
area for a long time, and you got a chance
to see Ricky Henderson play with the Yankees or the Mets.
He was just phenomenal, such an amazing athlete, leadoff hitter,
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and just it was so exciting anytime you got on base,
you just you just couldn't wait for this guy to
turn on the speed. He just was unbelievable. And I
had a chance, you know, I in the eighties and
into the nineties, I was actually covering the Yankees and
Mets a lot, you know, at Yankee Stadium and at
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Shay So I got to know a lot of these players,
not well, but I got to know them and talk
to them a lot, you know, on the field and
VP batting practice or in the dugout before the game.
And Henderson was always so much fun to talk to
because he just he loved baseball, he loved doing what
he did, and he was just one of those one
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of those good guys you know, that would spend time
talking and laughing and smiling. And there were a whole
bunch of them. And those were not great Yankee teams
by the way back in the mid eighties. They stunk,
you know, And then then they had cho Walter come
in and they started to build up what would become
in the nineties the great teams that Joe Torre took over.
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But we had some lean years, you know, with Henderson.
Dave Winfield was on that team and so many others.
But it was so great going to Yankee Stadium and
just watching or Shay and watching this guy lead off,
get to first base, either by a walk or a hit,
and then just burn rubber and it was so exciting,
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so much fun. He spent most of his career with
the Oakland A's, but he was in the All Star
Game ten times. He was an American League MVP, and
he ended up with one four hundred and six stolen bases,
still a record that stands. So I mean, he also
runs scored. He had twenty two ninety five and leadoff
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home runs eighty one. They called him a man of
steel steal and man was he fun to watch. So
rest in peace to Ricky Henderson. A sad day for baseball.
So let's see, all right, I'm going to talk about
drones for like two minutes. That's it. Even I'm getting
bored with these stupid drones. And there's something new each
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week it's crazy, it's something new. So today, apparently there
was a Coast Guard, one of the Coast guardsmen who
was on that ship, one of the Coast Guard cutters
off the shores of New Jersey. He basically said that
the government is clearly hiding something because he as a
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member of the military. They saw these drones come from
come from shore, follow for fifteen minutes, follow the Coast
Guard cutter ship that they're on about one hundred feet
in the air, and no matter where the ship went,
no where, No matter where this Coastguard ship went, the
drones followed and they had no idea what was above them.
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They could not track it. And then all of a
sudden gone and he goes, you know, you cannot tell
me that our federal government is not lying or covering
up something. I mean, here's a guy in the military
saying this, And now the FAA is shutting down, you know,
the airspace, which they should have done six weeks ago.
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If you've got these things hovering over Newark Airport or
hovering over a nuclear power plant or a military base,
nothing good is happening or can happen. Not a good
outcome if these things are up there and potentially causing
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causing problems. So it's just it's it's crazy that we're
now continuing to talk about this in a way where
we still have no answers. We get the you know,
these snot noses down in the White House and elsewhere
looking at us with contempt and telling us that we
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don't know the difference between a star, an airplane, a helicopter,
and a drone. Now, once in a blue moon, that
might be the case, but these planes are also drones.
You have drones that are fixed wing that act like
a plane, but then they act like a helicopter too,
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And those are drones and the very big, and they
have payload and they can do a lot of things.
And if this were happening, let's just say for a second,
this were happening by a private company, we would know
about it because that company has to file with the FAA,
they have to be licensed drone instructors, and this a
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company whatever wouldn't want to be in trouble. So they
would raise their hand and say, no, it's us doing
something unless unless it's something nefarious. And look, the easy
explanation is it's probably our own government doing something that
they don't want us to know. But okay, just tell us, Okay,
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calm down, everybody. It is a secret operation we're doing.
We can't explain what it is. There really and truly
is no harm. It's a mission, it's a practice, whatever,
But just own it and tell us they're not doing that.
So now, of course, everyone has their own ideas of
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what it could be. It's Iranian, it's Russian, it's Chinese.
Who knows. I don't know, I really don't, but we're
getting no answers, and it's still just the craziest thing
in the world. All Right, I'm not gonna drone on
about drones. I'm done with drones, Bruce. Next week, if
I'm talking about drones, shut me up, close the mic,
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go to a commercial. Do not allow me to talk
about drones again next week unless its less one of
those lands and there really is a green monster on
it or some other bombshell revelation. Otherwise, forget it. So
I started to talk about this last week, but then
we had to talk about the drones, and I know
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you wanted to because the phone lines were jammed, but
I got I wanted to talk about this last week
because it happened to me. So I'm gonna talk about
it now because I got to know what you're thinking
on this. So let me set it up for a
second and three two, one zero seven ten. This has
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happened a bunch of times, but the recent one was
a week ago. I go to a bagel store here
in Manhattan and I order a bagel with strawberry cream cheese.
The first question should be how much do you think
this cost? And the insanity is it was seven dollars
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for a freaking bagel with strawberry cream cheese. Let that
sink in for a second. A bagel with strawberry cream
cheese is seven dollars, all right? So I get online
and the guy behind the counter, you know, what do
you want? Okay? I say? I tell him I want
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a bagel with strawberry cream cheese.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So now I go to the cashier and the guy
who actually cut the bagel and put the cream cheese
and toasted it and put it into the bag and
then hands it to the cashier to give to me,
she says seven dollars, I said, okay. She turns the
thing around. You know that electronic register that shows what
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it is and it says seven dollars and then it
defaults to how much tip do you want to give us?
And the default is twenty five percent. Now, look, I'm
not a cheapo. I tend to overtip people because I
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used to be a waiter when I was growing up.
I worked at Pizza Hut, I worked at Pizza and Brew.
There are still a few of them, I think in
Westchester El Tourito. Do you remember El Toedo? I don't know.
There was one across county in Yonkers, but I worked
there for a while. And so, I mean, I know
what it's like to be a waiter and in the
service industry and you're hoping for tips, and it's not easy,
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not fun, but you actually had to work for it.
You actually, you know, you took the order, You had
a little rapport with people who were out to eat,
You brought them their food, you were out there beckon call.
I understand that. But we're so far gone with tipping now.
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So I get there and by the I think this
was started before COVID. It was it was exasperated during COVID,
where everyone and their mother expected a tip for like,
you know, we are heroes. You saw those signs. We're heroes.
Heroes because we went to work and what I want
to tip?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I mean, in the first couple of months in COVID,
everyone was like, eh, I give this guy a tip,
all right, peep whatever. But after a while it's like,
get to work. No, you don't get a tip for that.
So seven dollars and they turned around and it says
how much tip would you like to give? And it
put twenty five percent, And I'm like, first of all,
twenty five percent tip. You don't get twenty five percent
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tip period. Maybe i'd give you, like I don't know,
a dollar and if there were a jar there, but
I'm not gonna give you twenty five percent. I'm not
giving you twenty five I'm not even giving you anything
because you didn't do anything. This is the person that
wrings it up. And so when I declined the tip
and she saw that and she gave me the nastiest look.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I don't tip acause society says I have to, all right.
I mean, I'll tip that somebody really deserves the tip,
if they really put forth the effort, I'll give them
something extra. But I mean it's tipping automatically for the birds.
I mean, as far as I'm concerned, they're just doing them.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Job, thank you exactly, And that's what I thought. But
she looked at me. So I got such a nasty
gram and I didn't know whether I should have been
like embarrassed that I didn't give her a tip, or like,
screw you. You just charged me seven dollars. I know
it's not you, but I just got charged seven dollars
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for a stupid bagel with cream cheese, and you didn't
do anything. And so I, you know, I that was it.
I did, and I left, and I could, I know,
I could feel as I'm walking out, like like I
did something wrong and I didn't. But this whole tipping thing, don't,
I don't. We're well, you're like crazy right now. So
all right, my mailman who I he's there every day,
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he's great, he's in the bad weather, he's been with
us forever. And technically, technically you're not allowed to give Nora.
Is he or she allowed to take a gratuity because
they're a federal employee or quasi federal employees, So you're
not technically allowed to give your mailman or male woman
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a tip. But of course we all do, and yeah,
they expect it, and that's fine. Our garbage guys they're great.
I love them. They're they're there all the time. They
do the recycling, they do the garbage. Not a job
I would want to do. They do it, and they
do it well, and they've been there forever. And they
will pick up anything. If I put a dead body
out there, they will.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Pick it up.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
They really and truly will. And there are some people
I would like to wrap in a carpet and put
out at the curb, and they would take them anything
I put out there. They're just they're great. So yeah,
we tip them. And I remember growing up, I think
like our neighborhood, we used to give the sanitation people
like a six pack of beer. Literally we would leave
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a six pack of butt or something out there and
they were happy. Now, of course you gotta give them
a lot of money, and good money, and again I'm
totally fine with that. I would overtip them because they're great.
But everywhere you go now and when you go out
to dinner now, I forget it. A dinner for like
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four if you have a couple of drinks at really,
any restaurant is gonna is gonna knock you back four
or five hundred dollars. Probably it's not cheap, and then
you're putting twenty percent on top, so it's really expensive.
But I don't know where this whole tipping thing goes anymore.
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Are you supposed to tip the the guy who cuts
your hair? I guess I don't know. I went to
the car wash the other day and as I'm going
into the beginning of the wash, the guy who just
sprays sprays the car. He's got a tip jar, spray
the jar and hit the button to make me go
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through the car wash. He ain't doing anything, he's hitting
the button and he wants a tip. At least the
guy when I finish, who you know, dries it with
by hand and a towel. I'll give him something. He's
actually freezing and working. I feel bad, but I I
don't know if it's me. Tell me if I'm wrong.
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But how far off are we on hold this tipping thing?
Everyone now wants something.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
They deliver it, they deliver.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Would tip a wood guy? I didn't know there was
a fireplace.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Look look at look at this, there's a garden.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
A garden.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I can't believe a garden.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Would I have to get a gardener? Yeah, you tip him.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You can tip a garden.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
You can tip a garden. You don't need.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Jerry.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
You can barbecue.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Back here the liver, the call shirts ian.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
The same guy delivers the wood.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Oh, then I got a tip him.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, all right. One hundred three two one zero seven ten.
One hundred three two one zero seven ten. On this
tipping thing, who do you tip? And who sho you
not tip?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And I'll tell you know what, if I went to
Nissan City in Portchester, I'd probably give them a tip.
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any vehicle in stock Okay, all right, your call's next
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one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten one
eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. The
rob Astorino Sheer Show on seven ten WR.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Rob Aso on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, we always got to get reminded by a cartoon
what Christmas Day is really all about. Huh. Well, let's see,
we've got Benjamin's Steakhouse. If you still don't know what
you're gonna do for Christmas or Christmas Eve or New
Year's or New Year's Eve, my suggestion is give Benjamin's
a call. They've got a beautiful location in White Plains
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and also two in midtown Manhattan, right next to Grand Central.
My daughter came in with me today, my fifteen year old,
and you know, it's freezing outside and she came in
with her boyfriend. So we all took the train together,
and I'm trying to tell her at home, she's got
these jeans that they all wear with holes all over
the jeans, and I said to her, I'm like Ashland,
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it's freezing out. You're gonna be walking in New York City.
It might be windy, it's just it's cold out. Put
put something like that covers your whole leg and you know,
she'd rather be stylish than warm. Which it took her
about fifteen minutes to realize that her father was right,
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because she is now. I called her on the way
over here after News Max and she is freezing. Yeah,
that's what you get for not listening to your father.
So Benjamin's a great place if you want to go
out for Christmas Eve or New Ye's Eve or whatever.
They're open for the holidays and it's not too late.
You can make your reservations. Go to benjamin Steakhouse dot com.
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They have great food, really good food. And here's where
I don't mind tipping the waiters at a high class restaurant,
a really nice restaurant like Benjamin's, because they work it.
You get great food and you expect to tip. You
expect the waiter and the staff to be tipped. So
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head over to Benjamin's. You could also take pictures by
the way with Santa and Missus Claus. You ever wonder
what they did before Christmas? That's what they do. They
go to Benjamin's. They want to take pictures with all
little kids. Sure they do. And you can get as
many pictures as you want. You can. It's great. So
head over to Benjamin Steakhouse Benjamin Steakhouse dot com because
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you know, Benjamin Steakhouse is a cut above the rest.
All right, let me take some of your calls here
one eight hundred and three two, one zero seven ten.
Let us start with sal in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Hi, Sal Hey, Guysano, Bonataylee, And let's pray every hour
on the hour that Christ keeps Trump safe and competent
and in office. Bob, he's the only one that stopped
the destruction of American veterans by our own government. But
the bottom line is these drones are bigger than cars
and SUVs, and Biden and Harris are disgraced. They don't
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know what it's all about. And the bottom line is this.
Remember we used to have civil air defense teenagers, teens, twenties,
guy gals of every race, and they were on the
government helping us. We had now had to stop this
sorder of six billion dogs in church.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Ah Jesus, all right, all right, every week, come on,
stop it, all right, let's go back to the phones.
One hundred three two one zero seven ten. Sondra doesn't
pull this nonsense. Hi, Sandra, how are you?
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Oh? Merry Christmas?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Rob, Thank you Rob.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
I wanted to talk about tippings, you know, because I
knew last week you were going to do it. So
I thought about it, and two instances in my life
come to mind. One when I was in college. One summer,
I went to Harvard summer school, you know, and my
mother put me with the dorm and the food is
all taken care of, this and that a little allowance,
and she said, you're on your own. So I got
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a little job at a little restaurant called as you
Like It. And I loved it there because you met
a lot of people. And I remember there was a
professor there sitting for I would say, about three hours, Rob,
and he ordered brownies with ripped cream and coffee, and
I didn't he was sitting there a long time and
he finished his brownies in his corfee, so I was nice.
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I gave him more brownie with whipped cream and I
kept filling up his corpy for a long time. Maybe
three hours later, he gets up and he leaves, and
he didn't leave a tip, and I was very, very surprised.
And then one day I remember walking in Cambridge and
coursing the avenue and next to me, who do you
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think was right next to me? That professor. Well, I'm
gonna tell you the truth. I did say something, but
my sister didn't want me to say I said anything.
I did say, you know, I remember you, You're the
professor that didn't leave me a tip. I did say
I was gonna say to you. I didn't say anything,
but I really did, so I did say something. Okay.
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So then the next thing, more recently in my life,
and this is all about appreciation. I played the piano
and I wanted to overcome being afraid in front of
people to play. So I got a little opportunity to
play at a restaurant. So the owner put this big, big,
big jar on the piano, and I remember when people
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would leave and they put something in the jar. I said, wow,
they really like how I play. I'm so happy. And
when someone would pass by and not leave anything, I
felt hurt. I felt, Wow, they didn't appreciate my music.
So those are my two stories. Appreciation is important. I
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get my nails done every Saturday on this day when
I call you, and the person who takes care of me,
he's the best. And I gave him a very big tip.
And my sister even said, wellhy so much because I
appreciate him. I appreciate how he takes care of my
hands and whatever. You know what I mean. So that's
my story, rob on tipping.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Good for you, Sondra, Thank you so much. Have a
wonderful holiday. I just got a text from a very
good friend of mine who said they just had a baby,
and congratulations to them. And so at the hospital, they
have a professional photographer that works at the hospital and
takes pictures, professional pictures of the parents with their newborn child.
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And what do you think happens when you pay so
these packages that the cheapest package starts at three hundred
dollars and it goes up to one thousand dollars, and
trust me, insurance ain't picking that one up. So if
you want these professional pictures of you at the hospital
with your newborn, three hundred to one thousand dollars, and
the photographer has a default of a twenty percent tip. Okay, yeah,
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we're getting ale out of hand. Here a little story,
and then I'll take more of your calls. One eight
hundred and three to two one zero seven ten. One
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. I remember,
just like Sander was saying. I remember I mentioned earlier
that I worked at Elteredo, which was a Mexican restaurant
at the Cross County Mall in Ancors. I was either
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in high school or college at the time, I can't remember,
but I remember I was working. It was a it
was an afternoon shift and then I had to do
the nighttime shift, so I had to do a double.
And it was like three thirty or four in the afternoon,
a time when it should be like very light and
you could sit down, relax, have something to eat before
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the evening rush starts. And you appreciate that little break
when you're doing a double, because I was working from
like eleven in the morning and scheduled till like midnight
or whatever. And I remember this family came in and
I think they were the only table I had at
that moment, and they it was like a big table
of like six or seven, and I'm running back and forth.
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They had me doing a million different things, going back
and forty and change. Just real pain in the asses.
And I just I worked so hard on that table,
and I was with a smile every time they asked
for something else, like couldn't you have asked me for
a spoon two minutes ago when you asked me to
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get you a fork? But whatever, I did it. And
I remember, I think the tip that the check was
one hundred dollars, right around one hundred dollars. This is
why I remember. I still remember this and think about this.
This is going you know, a long time ago, but
it was one hundred dollars. And I remember they left
one dollar. And so they're leaving, and normally I wouldn't
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say anything, but I still remember. I'm like, so they're
walking out and getting ready to leave, and I'm like,
you know, what the hell of it? And I went
up to them. I said, you know, sir, I hate
to even mention this, but your check was one hundred dollars,
and I did I worked a lot and you left
me one dollar?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Did I do something wrong? And I still remember this
guy saying to me, no, that's what you're worth. I mean,
I was like, are you kidding me? So obnoxious, so unnecessary,
but you know, that's what it was. We worked for
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our money, and sometimes you'd get bad tips. Sometimes I'd
get good tips. But tips again, as it says, tips
used to be called to insure proper service, tips to
insure proper service. And I worked and I should have
got a good tip, but I didn't. But that was
part for the course. But now everyone wants something and
expects something, and we've gone way too far. And two
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one zero seven to ten. Joe in Oceanside, New Jersey,
ocean Side, Jersey, Right, hey, Joe.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yes, yes, rob uh yeah. I used to work at
Russo's on the Bay. I was a bartender. So I
got to tell you a story. One day, I go
to the end and I'm with my wife's family. They
were all tying and they don't like to see me drink.
So the bar caught right next to me and I
tell the bartender, I go listen, every time my glass
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is empty, can you please fill it up? And I
gave him fifty dollars. I was drinking at the time,
Killer one, you know, vodka, So he said okay, So
now the whole night goes through, he sees my glasses empty,
he doesn't kill it up once, So now the evenings
all over.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
No, wait, you already gave him fifty dollars. You already
gave him fifty.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
I gave him fifty as a pre tip. He didn't
fill my glass one. So at the end, my wife's like, Joe, Joe,
don't make a scene. I'm like, no, no, you guys go.
I got to talk to this guy.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
So I said to him, Hold Joe, hold on, Joe, Joe,
Wait a minute, Joe, one second. Do you need a
lawyer for this? Is this like statue limitations over? This
guy end up in a dumpster?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
No, no, no, you're gonna love this. I tell him.
I go, I go. You gotta be the worst spottender
in the world. I've seen this as an old tiny
wedd and he really didn't get that much in tips.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I go.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
But you taught me a valuable lesson never to beat
us essence stupid again. And you know, I couldn't believe it,
because if somebody gave me a fifty dollars tip every
time their glass was half full, I'd have it filled
all the way to the top.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
I mean I was the best at that with this guy. Yeah,
it was the worst worst feeling in my life. Did
you give me a drink? And my wife said go
get a drink and I wouldn't do it. It was
just just you know, the principle.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Joe, have a merry Christmas. All right, thanks for calling in.
Let's go you Pamela in Patterson, New Jersey or on
the Rob Estrino Show. Hi, pam Hi.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
Yeah, you know, I know inflation and everything, but everybody
but anybody is opening up shops. Try to get a
bagel in New Jersey. I paid like just about six
bucks for a bagel a while ago, and.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
It was terrible.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
I mean, did they understand that you can't throw bagels
in a bin and keep them buy an open door address.
They're going to go stale and rubbery instantly if they
weren't that way to begin with. And then when you
go to get like Taylor Ham and Egg, Hello, this
is not Taylor Ham. Taylor is a brand and it's
a better brand of Ham this is. But yet they
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want their seven eight dollars for at least New Jersey prices,
although sometimes it's put one place. Whatever the girl feels
like charging, oh, nine dollars for that sandwich, I said,
excuse me, it was seven dollars just three days ago.
But I don't think.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
It's that bad.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
And you want to put that through that I don't
think so.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, well, I appreciate the call. Have a merry, merry Christmas.
Thanks for listening, and uh yeah, hopefully that sandwich comes
down to four dollars when Donald Trump gets in. Let's
go to let's see Maddie, is that seaford?
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Yes, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, just lower your radio because we're getting the delay. Okay,
turn it off.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
So I have a tip about something, because you know,
tipping is really his payment and at sometimes with the
virtuity because I know your success during the account executive
George Ramer race the sales pats, you know in twenty nineteen,
and I have to throw more tips. Well, I gave
my family like money for Christmas. I have my when
I go to my program on Tuesdays and Thursdays, West Beeberlo,
(30:22):
I have a job coach. As a native of the
country of Georgia, I don't give them tips. I don't
give the intern. Missave a hand who is a student
Sacred Heart University. I don't give her a tip because
but I do appreciate the fact to give them gifts
and money. And I know Virutinitia government, Blen Youngkin did
the same thing. Thank you, God, bless you.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Robin all right, thank you.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
You know the other thing too, Like when I was
growing up, we never gave the bus driver a tip.
We didn't give our teachers a gift for Christmas. So
I just it just never happened. Now every it's like
my daughter hits us up right around Christmas. I'm like,
I need, I need, I need something for and then
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like the list goes on for a whole page. I'm like,
what are you talking about? Even if I got a
gift card from Duncan or so, for each one of these,
that's like five hundred dollars for the gym teacher, for
your coach. We used to get them when I was
coaching Cyo basketball. We're volunteers for our own kids, and
they would all the parents thought it was necessary to
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give us gifts and they would like round up money
and I'm like, no, stop, please, we're doing this because
we want to do this. And three two, one zero
seven ten let's go to valerie in Jackson Heights, Queen's
High Valerie.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Hi, Rob, I just want to mention two things about tipping.
I've been I've been a waitress for my three four decades,
my whole life. So for twenty five years I worked
in the hotel right across the street from mcguardia Airport.
And the one thing about working as a server is
that we are so underpaid. Like when I used to
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work in the coffee shop, like back in the sixties
and seventies, they used to pay me like two dollars
an hour. How can I survive on that? Which is like,
you know, let the restaurant want to pay the proper
salary and forget about the tipping. But that's number one.
Number two. So when I did work in the hotel,
I waited on many celebrities. The best celebrity I ever
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waited on was John Gotti, and the worst celebrity I
ever waited on was Prince who left me like a
forty eight cent tip after him and his bodyguard ran me.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Oh that's horrible. John Gotti, I would expect to give
good tips and cash, no question about it.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Oh yeah, he was. He was the best and like
I said, and Prince, they were terrible. To me, they
were terrible. And when people when he passed away, people
were saying, oh my god, he was so generous and
blah blah blah. But I was like, oh no, not
to me, so anybody. That's my story. But I just
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think now I know servers are getting better salaries than
what I've gotten because now I'm retired. But I don't
know back in the days when we used to have
to work for two dollars an hour, I don't know.
I'm glad they raising the pay scale.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah, we want to know what John Gotti ordered.
Speaker 9 (33:25):
Oh, he came in with three other people. I think
one was I don't know if I could say their
names because I don't even know if they're still alive.
But I was in the kitchen one evening, prepping up
for dinner, and my coworkers were saying, Oh, now you've
better get out there, John Gott he's waiting for you. Yeah,
yeah right.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Did he put his back against the wall.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Yeah no, No, he kept my whole section clear, and
he was and he didn't even know where he was
at because at that time the hotel was New Guardia
area and they ordered one of everything on the menu.
They ordered like family style, bring one dish and or
empty dishes. And so they ordered one of everything on
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the menu, the veal, but chicken, the steak.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I got the veal. Oh good, Oh my god, Dowie,
I appreciate it. That's a great story. Thanks so much,
and have a have a great Christmas.
Speaker 9 (34:21):
Okay, Happy holiday?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Rod, all right? One hundred and three two one zero
seven to ten Steve in Central Jersey.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Hi, Steve, Hey, Rob, and Merry Christmas. To Rob. Two
quick points before I get to my main point. W
O R should give you the three to five spot.
You will click kick the collective pushes your competition up
the dial. I got a good too, I got a
good tip story, but not today it'll be too long.
We'll get to my main point. There's my Christmas wish.
(34:50):
All right. I want the American people, the American people
to demand truth about what's going on in the world,
right I only gonna get only gonna get their folks
if we demand tooth thing further. We demand transparency in
our government when necessary. Rob, I no, you don't want
to talk about the drones, all right, but we're not
getting the skinny, the true skinny here, and we're not
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until Donald unfortunately till Donald Trump is sworn and on
January the twentieth. That's got to stop. For four years
now we've been lied to. And then this gets to
my second point. We've got to demand we've got to
demand that the media do part of their job by
calling truth to power, as they haven't done the past
two years, particularly not just with these drones, but as
it's coming out, Joe Biden was incompetent from the day
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he was sworn in noon January twenty twenty of twenty one.
All Right, so people, folks, you're tired of being lied to.
The onus is on us. But Rob, anything you have
to add would be greatly would be greatly appreciated. Sorr.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Go ahead, all right, Steve, thanks, thanks for the call. No, obviously,
the Wall Street Journal just did a great article, by
the way, if you can look it up about the
lie that we've had over the last four years, and
people in the Biden administration now admitting it that Joe
Biden in the twenty twenty campaign was losing it mentally.
They were so aware of it. In fact, they had
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Joe Biden campaign more than Joe Biden in Iowa and
other places. And over the last four years, even cabinet
secretaries had hardly no access to Joe Biden because he
was incapable. He was sleeping, or he couldn't he couldn't
grasp things. That's frightening. That's what the twenty fifth Amendment
(36:30):
is actually for. And they screamed and yelled for four
years about the twenty fifth Amendment when Donald Trump was
there because they had TDS. And now, of course nobody
says anything about the twenty fifth Amendment with a guy
who actually should have the twenty fifth Amendment triggered because
Joe Biden was completely he was completely out to lunch
(36:52):
for four years. It's sad, but let's face it. You
elect somebody to run the country. He didn't run the
country like the deputy whomever or the chiefest staff or whatever.
Let's sneak another call in here. One hundred three two
one zero seven ten. Deborah from Rockaway, Beach, Hi dab.
Speaker 11 (37:12):
Hi Rob, how are you?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (37:15):
I waitress about nine years and a very busy diner
in Brooklyn. I have two stories. One morning I was
waitressing and I took care of one table then recruiters
came in, you know, police recruiters with their CEO. So
I turned on towards them taking their order, and the
table behind me starts unwrapping my apron. So now I
(37:40):
look at the poor recruiter and I go, sir, don't
do that. Well, the kid's face just dropped and the
commanding officer coorded and he goes, what is he doing?
I said, he's done doing my apron. But the poor recruiter,
I thought he was going to just pull through the
floor because I was just so like so upset. And
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the other time I took care of the table. Man
and woman came in, and the guy thought he was
a jokester. And he says to me, you know what
the differences between the prostitute and a waitress. And I
was mortified. I just looked at him and he said,
you all work on tips. I said, I'll tell you something, sir,
do me a favor. Don't leave me a tip. His
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wife was so upset. I will say one thing, when
you go into a restaurant, a dinah, make sure this
is what I do to show my appreciation. I not
only tip the waiter a waitress. I wait for them
to have time. I bring it to them and I
thank them very very much for their service because they
do work very, very hard and they don't get paid enough.
(38:46):
And I appreciate you taking my phone call.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Thanks Debrah. Have a wonderful holiday. All right, So I
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know what I hate. I was so I'm in the
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around to see if I wanted to get my wife
some perfume and you know what, after a while, it
all smells the same every I couldn't take it anymore
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after like the fourth one, it all just melds into
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(41:02):
I gotta come back here, and I got some other
things to talk about, so don't go away. The rob
as Reno Show continues.
Speaker 9 (41:09):
Seven to ten.
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Speaker 2 (41:15):
This is a rhetorical question. But when you order something
to go from a restaurant and you go pick it up,
are you supposed to tip the guy at the register
who gives it to you? I don't know. I mean
they always ask for the tip. I'm not so sure
in that one. I really don't know what to do
about that. I think I usually do leave them a tip,
but not like the twenty percent. I'll give them something,
(41:35):
but a lot less. I don't I actually I don't
know what to do on that one.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Anyway, something a society says I have to exactly, all right,
I mean I'll tip it. Somebody really deserves it, top. Yeah,
they really put forth the effort. I'll give them something extra.
But I mean it's tipping automatically. It's for the birds.
Totally mean, as far as i'mkinson, they're just doing.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Their job exactly. Oh my fordum Rams won today basketball
eighty seven eighty three over Alpenny. So they are eight
and five. Let's start. Okay, So if you're still wondering,
like if you're in Manhattan, perfect time, if you're going
around and seeing the tree, or you're coming in to
see the buildings all beautified by Christmas lights and the
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stuff in the windows. Might I suggest you stop by
Lovely Angeletto's Restaurant, David Bernioli's Great Place on the Second
Avenue and forty eighth Street, forty seventh actually second and
forty seventh, eight ninety second Avenue. Really great place, nice
(42:36):
Italian restaurant. It's all set for Christmas and New Year's.
They've got their little private rooms too. Tonight Saturday nights
at seven thirty, they've got their opera nights, believe it
or not, where they have real singers come in. This
isn't like cheesy karaoke. This is listening to great singers.
It's nice. This is just a nice restaurant. So I
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would say, look up Angeletto's restaurant and they've got like
I had the lasagna there, and I love lasagna, but
their lasagna is very different, very light. They got broccoli
and sausage in one of them. They've got another lasagna
with zucchini and a fresh Muzzadel It's really very good,
very very very good. I love the pastas, but they've
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got some really good dishes that you don't find elsewhere.
So head over to for real traditional Roman restaurant because
David Barnioli is from there. Go over to Angeletto's on
Second Avenue and forty seventh Street in Manhattan. All right,
So my son is coming home tonight. I got to
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pick him up LaGuardia at like eleven o'clock tonight. He's
flying in from Little Rock. And if you've heard me,
he's in the Air Force. So he's coming home for
a week. His girlfriend who lives with him out there,
he's she's coming home. So it's really nice. The kids
are all going to be together and and and my
wife and I were joking about this. It's like a
(44:06):
tornado is coming back into town tonight. Because you're if
if you ever have a boy, if you had a boy,
you know what I'm talking about, different than a girl
in raising them, right, And this was this was the
kid who literally would come home from school with two
different shoes and they weren't his, they weren't they weren't
(44:27):
his sneakers, And like, what are you what are you wearing.
He's like, I don't know, I lost my sneakers. How
do you lose it? But this is him. You will
appreciate that you had a son and he's in the
Air Force, so yes, he's protecting us. Anyway, he's coming
home tonight and we're obviously we can't wait to see him.
Speaker 6 (44:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
But it's so funny because you know, it's like you're
a kid. It's like you're you know, you're your little
boy and now he's a man and all this other stuff.
But there they're still the same. They're still the same.
They still take one hour showers, they still just want
to eat, eat, eat, they still leave their clothes everywhere.
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And it's like after a day or two, my wife
and are like, uh, Wednesday, going back. But anyway, we're
looking forward to having him and the girls, of course,
and it's a great time. Christmas is so fun I
just love the pictures. We have all the pictures around
the house through the years, when we would take the
kids when they were little to the gallery of mall
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and white planes to sit with Sanna, and you just
have every year in sequence, and you know, you kind
of see us getting a little older in the pictures,
but the kids obviously growing up, but just the magic
of them sitting on Santa's lap. And when they're very little,
you know, they scream and yell there they're so scared,
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but then they're so excited when they're older, I mean,
not like eighteen years old, but when they're like, you know,
six or seven, they're so excited about Sanna and what
he will bring. And I just love the month of
December because when they were growing up and Santa was
very special, you just held that over their head, like
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you're gonna do the dishes, what do you mean, No,
Sanna's watching. And then they go to the dishes, right,
You're gonna go to bed, What do you mean, Sanda's watching?
And then we'd have the elf on the shelf, which
was just as great moving the elf all over the place,
but the elf is watching for Santa, and it was
just it's spectacular. I don't know why we didn't think
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about that years ago. Anyway. I hope you have a
beautiful Christmas. I hope you have a wonderful Hanukkah. Hanukkah
and Christmas on the same day. Hankkah starts only the
fifth time since nineteen hundred, they've overlapped pretty cool the
festival lights and the birth of Jesus. So I truly
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hope you get time with your family. Take a little
breather next week. Enjoy the surroundings, enjoy the season, enjoy holiday,
enjoy the lights on the tree, enjoy the moments with
your family. And thank you so much for being with
me each week, setting your time at four o'clock to
be with me. I love it. I'll be back next week.
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I hope you are with me too. So for Bruce,
for Noah, and even Bob. Have a blessed Christmas, everybody,
This hour of programming on seven ten DOBR. He's sponsored
by Toyota City and Mamaranac and Nissan. City of port Chester,
proud members of the Integrity Automotive Group. Now former Westchester
County executive Rob Astoria on seven ten double UAR.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome Rob Astorino here on seven ten wo R. It's
great to have you as the countdown for Santa is Wow,
it's underway. He's got to be packing up final final
list there going through. I hope you're on the on
the good one, not the bad one. Only you know,
I don't know, maybe you're on the good one. I
(00:46):
hope you are. And I hope you stay with me
for this hour and you're able to call in. And
one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is
the number. One eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Couple things to talk about today, but I wanted to
talk about Ricky Henderson, who, as you heard Lisa say,
and we just played the audio from that day May first,
(01:10):
nineteen ninety one, when he broke lou Brock's record for
most stolen bases. And I mean, if you grow up
in New York or you lived in this in this
area for a long time, and you got a chance
to see Ricky Henderson play with the Yankees or the Mets.
He was just phenomenal, such an amazing athlete, leadoff hitter,
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and just it was so exciting anytime you got on base,
you just you just couldn't wait for this guy to
turn on the speed. He just was unbelievable. And I
had a chance, you know, I in the eighties and
into the nineties, I was actually covering the Yankees and
Mets a lot, you know, at Yankee Stadium and at
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Shay So I got to know a lot of these players,
not well, but I got to know them and talk
to them a lot, you know, on the field and
VP batting practice or in the dugout before the game.
And Henderson was always so much fun to talk to
because he just he loved baseball, he loved doing what
he did, and he was just one of those one
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of those good guys you know, that would spend time
talking and laughing and smiling. And there were a whole
bunch of them. And those were not great Yankee teams
by the way back in the mid eighties. They stunk,
you know, And then then they had cho Walter come
in and they started to build up what would become
in the nineties the great teams that Joe Torre took over.
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But we had some lean years, you know, with Henderson.
Dave Winfield was on that team and so many others.
But it was so great going to Yankee Stadium and
just watching or Shay and watching this guy lead off,
get to first base, either by a walk or a hit,
and then just burn rubber and it was so exciting,
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so much fun. He spent most of his career with
the Oakland A's, but he was in the All Star
Game ten times. He was an American League MVP, and
he ended up with one four hundred and six stolen bases,
still a record that stands. So I mean, he also
runs scored. He had twenty two ninety five and leadoff
(03:23):
home runs eighty one. They called him a man of
steel steal and man was he fun to watch. So
rest in peace to Ricky Henderson. A sad day for baseball.
So let's see, all right, I'm going to talk about
drones for like two minutes. That's it. Even I'm getting
bored with these stupid drones. And there's something new each
(03:45):
week it's crazy, it's something new. So today, apparently there
was a Coast Guard, one of the Coast guardsmen who
was on that ship, one of the Coast Guard cutters
off the shores of New Jersey. He basically said that
the government is clearly hiding something because he as a
(04:07):
member of the military. They saw these drones come from
come from shore, follow for fifteen minutes, follow the Coast
Guard cutter ship that they're on about one hundred feet
in the air, and no matter where the ship went,
no where, No matter where this Coastguard ship went, the
drones followed and they had no idea what was above them.
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They could not track it. And then all of a
sudden gone and he goes, you know, you cannot tell
me that our federal government is not lying or covering
up something. I mean, here's a guy in the military
saying this, And now the FAA is shutting down, you know,
the airspace, which they should have done six weeks ago.
(04:52):
If you've got these things hovering over Newark Airport or
hovering over a nuclear power plant or a military base,
nothing good is happening or can happen. Not a good
outcome if these things are up there and potentially causing
(05:13):
causing problems. So it's just it's it's crazy that we're
now continuing to talk about this in a way where
we still have no answers. We get the you know,
these snot noses down in the White House and elsewhere
looking at us with contempt and telling us that we
(05:35):
don't know the difference between a star, an airplane, a helicopter,
and a drone. Now, once in a blue moon, that
might be the case, but these planes are also drones.
You have drones that are fixed wing that act like
a plane, but then they act like a helicopter too,
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And those are drones and the very big, and they
have payload and they can do a lot of things.
And if this were happening, let's just say for a second,
this were happening by a private company, we would know
about it because that company has to file with the FAA,
they have to be licensed drone instructors, and this a
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company whatever wouldn't want to be in trouble. So they
would raise their hand and say, no, it's us doing
something unless unless it's something nefarious. And look, the easy
explanation is it's probably our own government doing something that
they don't want us to know. But okay, just tell us, Okay,
(06:41):
calm down, everybody. It is a secret operation we're doing.
We can't explain what it is. There really and truly
is no harm. It's a mission, it's a practice, whatever,
But just own it and tell us they're not doing that.
So now, of course, everyone has their own ideas of
(07:01):
what it could be. It's Iranian, it's Russian, it's Chinese.
Who knows. I don't know, I really don't, but we're
getting no answers, and it's still just the craziest thing
in the world. All Right, I'm not gonna drone on
about drones. I'm done with drones, Bruce. Next week, if
I'm talking about drones, shut me up, close the mic,
(07:23):
go to a commercial. Do not allow me to talk
about drones again next week unless its less one of
those lands and there really is a green monster on
it or some other bombshell revelation. Otherwise, forget it. So
I started to talk about this last week, but then
we had to talk about the drones, and I know
(07:45):
you wanted to because the phone lines were jammed, but
I got I wanted to talk about this last week
because it happened to me. So I'm gonna talk about
it now because I got to know what you're thinking
on this. So let me set it up for a
second and three two, one zero seven ten. This has
(08:05):
happened a bunch of times, but the recent one was
a week ago. I go to a bagel store here
in Manhattan and I order a bagel with strawberry cream cheese.
The first question should be how much do you think
this cost? And the insanity is it was seven dollars
(08:28):
for a freaking bagel with strawberry cream cheese. Let that
sink in for a second. A bagel with strawberry cream
cheese is seven dollars, all right? So I get online
and the guy behind the counter, you know, what do
you want? Okay? I say? I tell him I want
(08:49):
a bagel with strawberry cream cheese.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So now I go to the cashier and the guy
who actually cut the bagel and put the cream cheese
and toasted it and put it into the bag and
then hands it to the cashier to give to me,
she says seven dollars, I said, okay. She turns the
thing around. You know that electronic register that shows what
(09:15):
it is and it says seven dollars and then it
defaults to how much tip do you want to give us?
And the default is twenty five percent. Now, look, I'm
not a cheapo. I tend to overtip people because I
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used to be a waiter when I was growing up.
I worked at Pizza Hut, I worked at Pizza and Brew.
There are still a few of them, I think in
Westchester El Tourito. Do you remember El Toedo? I don't know.
There was one across county in Yonkers, but I worked
there for a while. And so, I mean, I know
what it's like to be a waiter and in the
service industry and you're hoping for tips, and it's not easy,
(10:00):
not fun, but you actually had to work for it.
You actually, you know, you took the order, You had
a little rapport with people who were out to eat,
You brought them their food, you were out there beckon call.
I understand that. But we're so far gone with tipping now.
(10:20):
So I get there and by the I think this
was started before COVID. It was it was exasperated during COVID,
where everyone and their mother expected a tip for like,
you know, we are heroes. You saw those signs. We're heroes.
Heroes because we went to work and what I want
to tip?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I mean, in the first couple of months in COVID,
everyone was like, eh, I give this guy a tip,
all right, peep whatever. But after a while it's like,
get to work. No, you don't get a tip for that.
So seven dollars and they turned around and it says
how much tip would you like to give? And it
put twenty five percent, And I'm like, first of all,
twenty five percent tip. You don't get twenty five percent
(11:01):
tip period. Maybe i'd give you, like I don't know,
a dollar and if there were a jar there, but
I'm not gonna give you twenty five percent. I'm not
giving you twenty five I'm not even giving you anything
because you didn't do anything. This is the person that
wrings it up. And so when I declined the tip
and she saw that and she gave me the nastiest look.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I don't tip acause society says I have to, all right.
I mean, I'll tip that somebody really deserves the tip,
if they really put forth the effort, I'll give them
something extra. But I mean it's tipping automatically for the birds.
I mean, as far as I'm concerned, they're just doing them.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Job, thank you exactly, And that's what I thought. But
she looked at me. So I got such a nasty
gram and I didn't know whether I should have been
like embarrassed that I didn't give her a tip, or like,
screw you. You just charged me seven dollars. I know
it's not you, but I just got charged seven dollars
(12:00):
for a stupid bagel with cream cheese, and you didn't
do anything. And so I, you know, I that was it.
I did, and I left, and I could, I know,
I could feel as I'm walking out, like like I
did something wrong and I didn't. But this whole tipping thing, don't,
I don't. We're well, you're like crazy right now. So
all right, my mailman who I he's there every day,
(12:23):
he's great, he's in the bad weather, he's been with
us forever. And technically, technically you're not allowed to give Nora.
Is he or she allowed to take a gratuity because
they're a federal employee or quasi federal employees, So you're
not technically allowed to give your mailman or male woman
(12:43):
a tip. But of course we all do, and yeah,
they expect it, and that's fine. Our garbage guys they're great.
I love them. They're they're there all the time. They
do the recycling, they do the garbage. Not a job
I would want to do. They do it, and they
do it well, and they've been there forever. And they
will pick up anything. If I put a dead body
out there, they will.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Pick it up.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
They really and truly will. And there are some people
I would like to wrap in a carpet and put
out at the curb, and they would take them anything
I put out there. They're just they're great. So yeah,
we tip them. And I remember growing up, I think
like our neighborhood, we used to give the sanitation people
like a six pack of beer. Literally we would leave
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a six pack of butt or something out there and
they were happy. Now, of course you gotta give them
a lot of money, and good money, and again I'm
totally fine with that. I would overtip them because they're great.
But everywhere you go now and when you go out
to dinner now, I forget it. A dinner for like
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four if you have a couple of drinks at really,
any restaurant is gonna is gonna knock you back four
or five hundred dollars. Probably it's not cheap, and then
you're putting twenty percent on top, so it's really expensive.
But I don't know where this whole tipping thing goes anymore.
(14:04):
Are you supposed to tip the the guy who cuts
your hair? I guess I don't know. I went to
the car wash the other day and as I'm going
into the beginning of the wash, the guy who just
sprays sprays the car. He's got a tip jar, spray
the jar and hit the button to make me go
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through the car wash. He ain't doing anything, he's hitting
the button and he wants a tip. At least the
guy when I finish, who you know, dries it with
by hand and a towel. I'll give him something. He's
actually freezing and working. I feel bad, but I I
don't know if it's me. Tell me if I'm wrong.
(14:47):
But how far off are we on hold this tipping thing?
Everyone now wants something.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
They deliver it, they deliver.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Would tip a wood guy? I didn't know there was
a fireplace.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Look look at look at this, there's a garden.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
A garden.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I can't believe a garden.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Would I have to get a gardener? Yeah, you tip him.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You can tip a garden.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
You can tip a garden. You don't need.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Jerry.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
You can barbecue.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Back here the liver, the call shirts ian.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
The same guy delivers the wood.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Oh, then I got a tip him.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, all right. One hundred three two one zero seven ten.
One hundred three two one zero seven ten. On this
tipping thing, who do you tip? And who sho you
not tip?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And I'll tell you know what, if I went to
Nissan City in Portchester, I'd probably give them a tip.
That's my tip to you. Go to Nissan City in Portchester.
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(16:23):
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any vehicle in stock Okay, all right, your call's next
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one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten one
eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. The
rob Astorino Sheer Show on seven ten WR.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Rob Aso on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, we always got to get reminded by a cartoon
what Christmas Day is really all about. Huh. Well, let's see,
we've got Benjamin's Steakhouse. If you still don't know what
you're gonna do for Christmas or Christmas Eve or New
Year's or New Year's Eve, my suggestion is give Benjamin's
a call. They've got a beautiful location in White Plains
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and also two in midtown Manhattan, right next to Grand Central.
My daughter came in with me today, my fifteen year old,
and you know, it's freezing outside and she came in
with her boyfriend. So we all took the train together,
and I'm trying to tell her at home, she's got
these jeans that they all wear with holes all over
the jeans, and I said to her, I'm like Ashland,
(17:41):
it's freezing out. You're gonna be walking in New York City.
It might be windy, it's just it's cold out. Put
put something like that covers your whole leg and you know,
she'd rather be stylish than warm. Which it took her
about fifteen minutes to realize that her father was right,
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because she is now. I called her on the way
over here after News Max and she is freezing. Yeah,
that's what you get for not listening to your father.
So Benjamin's a great place if you want to go
out for Christmas Eve or New Ye's Eve or whatever.
They're open for the holidays and it's not too late.
You can make your reservations. Go to benjamin Steakhouse dot com.
(18:28):
They have great food, really good food. And here's where
I don't mind tipping the waiters at a high class restaurant,
a really nice restaurant like Benjamin's, because they work it.
You get great food and you expect to tip. You
expect the waiter and the staff to be tipped. So
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head over to Benjamin's. You could also take pictures by
the way with Santa and Missus Claus. You ever wonder
what they did before Christmas? That's what they do. They
go to Benjamin's. They want to take pictures with all
little kids. Sure they do. And you can get as
many pictures as you want. You can. It's great. So
head over to Benjamin Steakhouse Benjamin Steakhouse dot com because
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you know, Benjamin Steakhouse is a cut above the rest.
All right, let me take some of your calls here
one eight hundred and three two, one zero seven ten.
Let us start with sal in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Hi, Sal Hey, Guysano, Bonataylee, And let's pray every hour
on the hour that Christ keeps Trump safe and competent
and in office. Bob, he's the only one that stopped
the destruction of American veterans by our own government. But
the bottom line is these drones are bigger than cars
and SUVs, and Biden and Harris are disgraced. They don't
(19:47):
know what it's all about. And the bottom line is this.
Remember we used to have civil air defense teenagers, teens, twenties,
guy gals of every race, and they were on the
government helping us. We had now had to stop this
sorder of six billion dogs in church.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Ah Jesus, all right, all right, every week, come on,
stop it, all right, let's go back to the phones.
One hundred three two one zero seven ten. Sondra doesn't
pull this nonsense. Hi, Sandra, how are you?
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Oh? Merry Christmas?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Rob, Thank you Rob.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
I wanted to talk about tippings, you know, because I
knew last week you were going to do it. So
I thought about it, and two instances in my life
come to mind. One when I was in college. One summer,
I went to Harvard summer school, you know, and my
mother put me with the dorm and the food is
all taken care of, this and that a little allowance,
and she said, you're on your own. So I got
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a little job at a little restaurant called as you
Like It. And I loved it there because you met
a lot of people. And I remember there was a
professor there sitting for I would say, about three hours, Rob,
and he ordered brownies with ripped cream and coffee, and
I didn't he was sitting there a long time and
he finished his brownies in his corfee, so I was nice.
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I gave him more brownie with whipped cream and I
kept filling up his corpy for a long time. Maybe
three hours later, he gets up and he leaves, and
he didn't leave a tip, and I was very, very surprised.
And then one day I remember walking in Cambridge and
coursing the avenue and next to me, who do you
(21:25):
think was right next to me? That professor. Well, I'm
gonna tell you the truth. I did say something, but
my sister didn't want me to say I said anything.
I did say, you know, I remember you, You're the
professor that didn't leave me a tip. I did say
I was gonna say to you. I didn't say anything,
but I really did, so I did say something. Okay.
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So then the next thing, more recently in my life,
and this is all about appreciation. I played the piano
and I wanted to overcome being afraid in front of
people to play. So I got a little opportunity to
play at a restaurant. So the owner put this big, big,
big jar on the piano, and I remember when people
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would leave and they put something in the jar. I said, wow,
they really like how I play. I'm so happy. And
when someone would pass by and not leave anything, I
felt hurt. I felt, Wow, they didn't appreciate my music.
So those are my two stories. Appreciation is important. I
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get my nails done every Saturday on this day when
I call you, and the person who takes care of me,
he's the best. And I gave him a very big tip.
And my sister even said, wellhy so much because I
appreciate him. I appreciate how he takes care of my
hands and whatever. You know what I mean. So that's
my story, rob on tipping.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Good for you, Sondra, Thank you so much. Have a
wonderful holiday. I just got a text from a very
good friend of mine who said they just had a baby,
and congratulations to them. And so at the hospital, they
have a professional photographer that works at the hospital and
takes pictures, professional pictures of the parents with their newborn child.
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And what do you think happens when you pay so
these packages that the cheapest package starts at three hundred
dollars and it goes up to one thousand dollars, and
trust me, insurance ain't picking that one up. So if
you want these professional pictures of you at the hospital
with your newborn, three hundred to one thousand dollars, and
the photographer has a default of a twenty percent tip. Okay, yeah,
(23:41):
we're getting ale out of hand. Here a little story,
and then I'll take more of your calls. One eight
hundred and three to two one zero seven ten. One
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. I remember,
just like Sander was saying. I remember I mentioned earlier
that I worked at Elteredo, which was a Mexican restaurant
at the Cross County Mall in Ancors. I was either
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in high school or college at the time, I can't remember,
but I remember I was working. It was a it
was an afternoon shift and then I had to do
the nighttime shift, so I had to do a double.
And it was like three thirty or four in the afternoon,
a time when it should be like very light and
you could sit down, relax, have something to eat before
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the evening rush starts. And you appreciate that little break
when you're doing a double, because I was working from
like eleven in the morning and scheduled till like midnight
or whatever. And I remember this family came in and
I think they were the only table I had at
that moment, and they it was like a big table
of like six or seven, and I'm running back and forth.
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They had me doing a million different things, going back
and forty and change. Just real pain in the asses.
And I just I worked so hard on that table,
and I was with a smile every time they asked
for something else, like couldn't you have asked me for
a spoon two minutes ago when you asked me to
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get you a fork? But whatever, I did it. And
I remember, I think the tip that the check was
one hundred dollars, right around one hundred dollars. This is
why I remember. I still remember this and think about this.
This is going you know, a long time ago, but
it was one hundred dollars. And I remember they left
one dollar. And so they're leaving, and normally I wouldn't
(25:31):
say anything, but I still remember. I'm like, so they're
walking out and getting ready to leave, and I'm like,
you know, what the hell of it? And I went
up to them. I said, you know, sir, I hate
to even mention this, but your check was one hundred dollars,
and I did I worked a lot and you left
me one dollar?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Did I do something wrong? And I still remember this
guy saying to me, no, that's what you're worth. I mean,
I was like, are you kidding me? So obnoxious, so unnecessary,
but you know, that's what it was. We worked for
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our money, and sometimes you'd get bad tips. Sometimes I'd
get good tips. But tips again, as it says, tips
used to be called to insure proper service, tips to
insure proper service. And I worked and I should have
got a good tip, but I didn't. But that was
part for the course. But now everyone wants something and
expects something, and we've gone way too far. And two
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one zero seven to ten. Joe in Oceanside, New Jersey,
ocean Side, Jersey, Right, hey, Joe.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yes, yes, rob uh yeah. I used to work at
Russo's on the Bay. I was a bartender. So I
got to tell you a story. One day, I go
to the end and I'm with my wife's family. They
were all tying and they don't like to see me drink.
So the bar caught right next to me and I
tell the bartender, I go listen, every time my glass
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is empty, can you please fill it up? And I
gave him fifty dollars. I was drinking at the time,
Killer one, you know, vodka, So he said okay, So
now the whole night goes through, he sees my glasses empty,
he doesn't kill it up once, So now the evenings
all over.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
No, wait, you already gave him fifty dollars. You already
gave him fifty.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
I gave him fifty as a pre tip. He didn't
fill my glass one. So at the end, my wife's like, Joe, Joe,
don't make a scene. I'm like, no, no, you guys go.
I got to talk to this guy.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
So I said to him, Hold Joe, hold on, Joe, Joe,
Wait a minute, Joe, one second. Do you need a
lawyer for this? Is this like statue limitations over? This
guy end up in a dumpster?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
No, no, no, you're gonna love this. I tell him.
I go, I go. You gotta be the worst spottender
in the world. I've seen this as an old tiny
wedd and he really didn't get that much in tips.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I go.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
But you taught me a valuable lesson never to beat
us essence stupid again. And you know, I couldn't believe it,
because if somebody gave me a fifty dollars tip every
time their glass was half full, I'd have it filled
all the way to the top.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
I mean I was the best at that with this guy. Yeah,
it was the worst worst feeling in my life. Did
you give me a drink? And my wife said go
get a drink and I wouldn't do it. It was
just just you know, the principle.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Joe, have a merry Christmas. All right, thanks for calling in.
Let's go you Pamela in Patterson, New Jersey or on
the Rob Estrino Show. Hi, pam Hi.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
Yeah, you know, I know inflation and everything, but everybody
but anybody is opening up shops. Try to get a
bagel in New Jersey. I paid like just about six
bucks for a bagel a while ago, and.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
It was terrible.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
I mean, did they understand that you can't throw bagels
in a bin and keep them buy an open door address.
They're going to go stale and rubbery instantly if they
weren't that way to begin with. And then when you
go to get like Taylor Ham and Egg, Hello, this
is not Taylor Ham. Taylor is a brand and it's
a better brand of Ham this is. But yet they
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want their seven eight dollars for at least New Jersey prices,
although sometimes it's put one place. Whatever the girl feels
like charging, oh, nine dollars for that sandwich, I said,
excuse me, it was seven dollars just three days ago.
But I don't think.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
It's that bad.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
And you want to put that through that I don't
think so.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, well, I appreciate the call. Have a merry, merry Christmas.
Thanks for listening, and uh yeah, hopefully that sandwich comes
down to four dollars when Donald Trump gets in. Let's
go to let's see Maddie, is that seaford?
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Yes, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, just lower your radio because we're getting the delay. Okay,
turn it off.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
So I have a tip about something, because you know,
tipping is really his payment and at sometimes with the
virtuity because I know your success during the account executive
George Ramer race the sales pats, you know in twenty nineteen,
and I have to throw more tips. Well, I gave
my family like money for Christmas. I have my when
I go to my program on Tuesdays and Thursdays, West Beeberlo,
(30:22):
I have a job coach. As a native of the
country of Georgia, I don't give them tips. I don't
give the intern. Missave a hand who is a student
Sacred Heart University. I don't give her a tip because
but I do appreciate the fact to give them gifts
and money. And I know Virutinitia government, Blen Youngkin did
the same thing. Thank you, God, bless you.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Robin all right, thank you.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
You know the other thing too, Like when I was
growing up, we never gave the bus driver a tip.
We didn't give our teachers a gift for Christmas. So
I just it just never happened. Now every it's like
my daughter hits us up right around Christmas. I'm like,
I need, I need, I need something for and then
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like the list goes on for a whole page. I'm like,
what are you talking about? Even if I got a
gift card from Duncan or so, for each one of these,
that's like five hundred dollars for the gym teacher, for
your coach. We used to get them when I was
coaching Cyo basketball. We're volunteers for our own kids, and
they would all the parents thought it was necessary to
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give us gifts and they would like round up money
and I'm like, no, stop, please, we're doing this because
we want to do this. And three two, one zero
seven ten let's go to valerie in Jackson Heights, Queen's
High Valerie.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Hi, Rob, I just want to mention two things about tipping.
I've been I've been a waitress for my three four decades,
my whole life. So for twenty five years I worked
in the hotel right across the street from mcguardia Airport.
And the one thing about working as a server is
that we are so underpaid. Like when I used to
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work in the coffee shop, like back in the sixties
and seventies, they used to pay me like two dollars
an hour. How can I survive on that? Which is like,
you know, let the restaurant want to pay the proper
salary and forget about the tipping. But that's number one.
Number two. So when I did work in the hotel,
I waited on many celebrities. The best celebrity I ever
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waited on was John Gotti, and the worst celebrity I
ever waited on was Prince who left me like a
forty eight cent tip after him and his bodyguard ran me.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Oh that's horrible. John Gotti, I would expect to give
good tips and cash, no question about it.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Oh yeah, he was. He was the best and like
I said, and Prince, they were terrible. To me, they
were terrible. And when people when he passed away, people
were saying, oh my god, he was so generous and
blah blah blah. But I was like, oh no, not
to me, so anybody. That's my story. But I just
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think now I know servers are getting better salaries than
what I've gotten because now I'm retired. But I don't
know back in the days when we used to have
to work for two dollars an hour, I don't know.
I'm glad they raising the pay scale.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah, we want to know what John Gotti ordered.
Speaker 9 (33:25):
Oh, he came in with three other people. I think
one was I don't know if I could say their
names because I don't even know if they're still alive.
But I was in the kitchen one evening, prepping up
for dinner, and my coworkers were saying, Oh, now you've
better get out there, John Gott he's waiting for you. Yeah,
yeah right.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Did he put his back against the wall.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Yeah no, No, he kept my whole section clear, and
he was and he didn't even know where he was
at because at that time the hotel was New Guardia
area and they ordered one of everything on the menu.
They ordered like family style, bring one dish and or
empty dishes. And so they ordered one of everything on
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the menu, the veal, but chicken, the steak.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I got the veal. Oh good, Oh my god, Dowie,
I appreciate it. That's a great story. Thanks so much,
and have a have a great Christmas.
Speaker 9 (34:21):
Okay, Happy holiday?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Rod, all right? One hundred and three two one zero
seven to ten Steve in Central Jersey.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Hi, Steve, Hey, Rob, and Merry Christmas. To Rob. Two
quick points before I get to my main point. W
O R should give you the three to five spot.
You will click kick the collective pushes your competition up
the dial. I got a good too, I got a
good tip story, but not today it'll be too long.
We'll get to my main point. There's my Christmas wish.
(34:50):
All right. I want the American people, the American people
to demand truth about what's going on in the world,
right I only gonna get only gonna get their folks
if we demand tooth thing further. We demand transparency in
our government when necessary. Rob, I no, you don't want
to talk about the drones, all right, but we're not
getting the skinny, the true skinny here, and we're not
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until Donald unfortunately till Donald Trump is sworn and on
January the twentieth. That's got to stop. For four years
now we've been lied to. And then this gets to
my second point. We've got to demand we've got to
demand that the media do part of their job by
calling truth to power, as they haven't done the past
two years, particularly not just with these drones, but as
it's coming out, Joe Biden was incompetent from the day
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he was sworn in noon January twenty twenty of twenty one.
All Right, so people, folks, you're tired of being lied to.
The onus is on us. But Rob, anything you have
to add would be greatly would be greatly appreciated. Sorr.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Go ahead, all right, Steve, thanks, thanks for the call. No, obviously,
the Wall Street Journal just did a great article, by
the way, if you can look it up about the
lie that we've had over the last four years, and
people in the Biden administration now admitting it that Joe
Biden in the twenty twenty campaign was losing it mentally.
They were so aware of it. In fact, they had
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Joe Biden campaign more than Joe Biden in Iowa and
other places. And over the last four years, even cabinet
secretaries had hardly no access to Joe Biden because he
was incapable. He was sleeping, or he couldn't he couldn't
grasp things. That's frightening. That's what the twenty fifth Amendment
(36:30):
is actually for. And they screamed and yelled for four
years about the twenty fifth Amendment when Donald Trump was
there because they had TDS. And now, of course nobody
says anything about the twenty fifth Amendment with a guy
who actually should have the twenty fifth Amendment triggered because
Joe Biden was completely he was completely out to lunch
(36:52):
for four years. It's sad, but let's face it. You
elect somebody to run the country. He didn't run the
country like the deputy whomever or the chiefest staff or whatever.
Let's sneak another call in here. One hundred three two
one zero seven ten. Deborah from Rockaway, Beach, Hi dab.
Speaker 11 (37:12):
Hi Rob, how are you?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (37:15):
I waitress about nine years and a very busy diner
in Brooklyn. I have two stories. One morning I was
waitressing and I took care of one table then recruiters
came in, you know, police recruiters with their CEO. So
I turned on towards them taking their order, and the
table behind me starts unwrapping my apron. So now I
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look at the poor recruiter and I go, sir, don't
do that. Well, the kid's face just dropped and the
commanding officer coorded and he goes, what is he doing?
I said, he's done doing my apron. But the poor recruiter,
I thought he was going to just pull through the
floor because I was just so like so upset. And
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the other time I took care of the table. Man
and woman came in, and the guy thought he was
a jokester. And he says to me, you know what
the differences between the prostitute and a waitress. And I
was mortified. I just looked at him and he said,
you all work on tips. I said, I'll tell you something, sir,
do me a favor. Don't leave me a tip. His
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wife was so upset. I will say one thing, when
you go into a restaurant, a dinah, make sure this
is what I do to show my appreciation. I not
only tip the waiter a waitress. I wait for them
to have time. I bring it to them and I
thank them very very much for their service because they
do work very, very hard and they don't get paid enough.
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And I appreciate you taking my phone call.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Thanks Debrah. Have a wonderful holiday. All right, So I
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no matter what type of vehicle, this is the place.
It's right in Mamarnick off ninety five or it's really
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right on Route one, pretty convenient off two eighty seven
and ninety five. And again, what I like about these
guys and they are friendly. They've become my friends, and
I am We're all in one family, the Integrity Automotive Group,
because I got my vehicle from these guys and they
are They're just terrific. Really, I mean customer service, you
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know what I hate. I was so I'm in the
store the other day. I was in Macy's and a
few other places I can't stand. Like, I was sniffing
around to see if I wanted to get my wife
some perfume and you know what, after a while, it
all smells the same every I couldn't take it anymore
(39:51):
after like the fourth one, it all just melds into
one smell, and I had to walk away. But you
have all these people stopping every three feet perfume, perfume,
smell smell, I uh stop stop. That happens at auto
dealerships too, but not there. And I like that because
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I'll look, if I want that car, I'll tell you
I want the damn car. Just let me kind of
walk around the lot and look, I don't need sixteen
hundred people coming up my you know what telling me
do you want that? We got a good deal? Hey, hey,
come movie, I got a good deal. I'll a deal.
You don't get that stuff over there. So go to
Toyota City in Mamaronik or like it's really easy. Put
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on your your computer Toyota cityany dot Com and all
the inventory and everything you need to know is right there.
You can call them up, make an appointment, or just
stop by Toyota cityany dot Com because they have transparency,
efficiency and respect. That's what you get. Our good friends
within the Integrity Automotive Garup and Toyota City all right,
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I gotta come back here, and I got some other
things to talk about, so don't go away. The rob
as Reno Show continues.
Speaker 9 (41:09):
Seven to ten.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Double R Present The Rob as Dono Show.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
This is a rhetorical question. But when you order something
to go from a restaurant and you go pick it up,
are you supposed to tip the guy at the register
who gives it to you? I don't know. I mean
they always ask for the tip. I'm not so sure
in that one. I really don't know what to do
about that. I think I usually do leave them a tip,
but not like the twenty percent. I'll give them something,
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but a lot less. I don't I actually I don't
know what to do on that one.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Anyway, something a society says I have to exactly, all right,
I mean I'll tip it. Somebody really deserves it, top. Yeah,
they really put forth the effort. I'll give them something extra.
But I mean it's tipping automatically. It's for the birds.
Totally mean, as far as i'mkinson, they're just doing.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Their job exactly. Oh my fordum Rams won today basketball
eighty seven eighty three over Alpenny. So they are eight
and five. Let's start. Okay, So if you're still wondering,
like if you're in Manhattan, perfect time, if you're going
around and seeing the tree, or you're coming in to
see the buildings all beautified by Christmas lights and the
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stuff in the windows. Might I suggest you stop by
Lovely Angeletto's Restaurant, David Bernioli's Great Place on the Second
Avenue and forty eighth Street, forty seventh actually second and
forty seventh, eight ninety second Avenue. Really great place, nice
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Italian restaurant. It's all set for Christmas and New Year's.
They've got their little private rooms too. Tonight Saturday nights
at seven thirty, they've got their opera nights, believe it
or not, where they have real singers come in. This
isn't like cheesy karaoke. This is listening to great singers.
It's nice. This is just a nice restaurant. So I
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would say, look up Angeletto's restaurant and they've got like
I had the lasagna there, and I love lasagna, but
their lasagna is very different, very light. They got broccoli
and sausage in one of them. They've got another lasagna
with zucchini and a fresh Muzzadel It's really very good,
very very very good. I love the pastas, but they've
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got some really good dishes that you don't find elsewhere.
So head over to for real traditional Roman restaurant because
David Barnioli is from there. Go over to Angeletto's on
Second Avenue and forty seventh Street in Manhattan. All right,
So my son is coming home tonight. I got to
(43:44):
pick him up LaGuardia at like eleven o'clock tonight. He's
flying in from Little Rock. And if you've heard me,
he's in the Air Force. So he's coming home for
a week. His girlfriend who lives with him out there,
he's she's coming home. So it's really nice. The kids
are all going to be together and and and my
wife and I were joking about this. It's like a
(44:06):
tornado is coming back into town tonight. Because you're if
if you ever have a boy, if you had a boy,
you know what I'm talking about, different than a girl
in raising them, right, And this was this was the
kid who literally would come home from school with two
different shoes and they weren't his, they weren't they weren't
(44:27):
his sneakers, And like, what are you what are you wearing.
He's like, I don't know, I lost my sneakers. How
do you lose it? But this is him. You will
appreciate that you had a son and he's in the
Air Force, so yes, he's protecting us. Anyway, he's coming
home tonight and we're obviously we can't wait to see him.
Speaker 6 (44:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
But it's so funny because you know, it's like you're
a kid. It's like you're you know, you're your little
boy and now he's a man and all this other stuff.
But there they're still the same. They're still the same.
They still take one hour showers, they still just want
to eat, eat, eat, they still leave their clothes everywhere.
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And it's like after a day or two, my wife
and are like, uh, Wednesday, going back. But anyway, we're
looking forward to having him and the girls, of course,
and it's a great time. Christmas is so fun I
just love the pictures. We have all the pictures around
the house through the years, when we would take the
kids when they were little to the gallery of mall
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and white planes to sit with Sanna, and you just
have every year in sequence, and you know, you kind
of see us getting a little older in the pictures,
but the kids obviously growing up, but just the magic
of them sitting on Santa's lap. And when they're very little,
you know, they scream and yell there they're so scared,
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but then they're so excited when they're older, I mean,
not like eighteen years old, but when they're like, you know,
six or seven, they're so excited about Sanna and what
he will bring. And I just love the month of
December because when they were growing up and Santa was
very special, you just held that over their head, like
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you're gonna do the dishes, what do you mean, No,
Sanna's watching. And then they go to the dishes, right,
You're gonna go to bed, What do you mean, Sanda's watching?
And then we'd have the elf on the shelf, which
was just as great moving the elf all over the place,
but the elf is watching for Santa, and it was
just it's spectacular. I don't know why we didn't think
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about that years ago. Anyway. I hope you have a
beautiful Christmas. I hope you have a wonderful Hanukkah. Hanukkah
and Christmas on the same day. Hankkah starts only the
fifth time since nineteen hundred, they've overlapped pretty cool the
festival lights and the birth of Jesus. So I truly
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hope you get time with your family. Take a little
breather next week. Enjoy the surroundings, enjoy the season, enjoy holiday,
enjoy the lights on the tree, enjoy the moments with
your family. And thank you so much for being with
me each week, setting your time at four o'clock to
be with me. I love it. I'll be back next week.
(47:19):
I hope you are with me too. So for Bruce,
for Noah, and even Bob. Have a blessed Christmas, everybody,
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