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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This hour of programming on seven to ten woar he
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former Westchester County Executive Rob astar Rita on seven ten.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Ah, Yeah, the unofficial start of summer right now, Memorial
Day weekend. How do you not like go back and
forth listening for this song like you're on a surfboard.
I don't know how you do it. It's impossible.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I think.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I saw the Beach Boys in concert twice once I
actually introduced them. They were at the It was their
fiftieth anniversary tour, which was probably like ten years ago.
They're still touring. I think we're giving away tickets to
see the Beach Boys here on seven to ten war.
But they were touring and it was the fiftieth anniversary.
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They came to the Westchester County Center. And one of
the nice things that I got to do was County
Executive when we had some of these big events and
we had some pretty big guests that would come through
the county or go to the County Center and perform,
and the Beach Boys at one point came and so
I had a chance to talk to them all before
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the concert backstage, gave them the proclamation naming it Beach
Boy's Day whenever it was, and it was a lot
of fun. And then I would go out on stage
and introduce them and it was just a lot of fun.
And then I saw them what a couple of years
ago we were out at Jones Beach, and I mean,
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it's just like they're getting older and older, just like
all these artists, and you know, they're like not singing anymore. Basically,
they're just lip syncing. And you're going to see somewhat
cadavers on stage lip syncing, and then you think you're
at a concert with whom I it is. Now It's
not the case with Billy Joel. He's actually well he's
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off for the next four or five months, but he
actually sings and performs. But like Frankie Valley, have you
ever seen him? Frankie Valley is it's like Joe Biden.
It's a It's it's like going to a wax theater.
He's out there and he's basically just standing there and
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lip syncing. And he's not always lip syncing good, but anyway,
it's summertime, even though it doesn't feel like it. I
woke up this morning, he was chilly. The sun's out
now at least, but not a good beach day. But anyway,
I hope you're having a good weekend, the start of
your Memorial Day weekend, and please let's just get let's
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just start with this. It is Memorial Day weekend. Yes,
it's a time for all of us to have fun.
And you get Monday off. You probably took yesterday off,
so you have a four day weekend. You're doing whatever
you're gonna do. And I would just ask at one
point over this weekend, or certainly on Monday, that you
just pause at any point in the day and just
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say a little prayer for all of those men and
women who served in our country and died for our
country willingly. I'm sure they were scared as heck when
it was happening, when they were in the middle of battle.
Nobody wants to be doing that, but they did, and
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I just want to thank them and their souls for
doing what they did and make God bless them. And also,
of course you might as well. It's fleet week. I'm
sure you're seeing the sailors around wherever you are, if
you see somebody in uniform that's active duty, say thank you,
or a veteran, say thank you. Okay, it's all kind
of wrapped up, even though it is remembering those who
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fought and served and died for our country. Okay. So
one in one hundred and three to two one zero
one eight hundred and three to two one zero seven
ten is the number here on the rob ast Doreno Show.
Welcome to all who are just tuning in for the
first time. Make sure you put it in your Google
calendar so it comes up on your phone every Saturday.
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Have it go off at like three forty five so
you don't miss a minute. I want to talk about
a whole bunch of things today, and first of all,
I want to talk about Andrew Cuomo, but I want
to get to this whole nonsensical thing by Mayor Adams,
whom I like. But let me tell you, I hope
this never happens, and if he gets thrown out of
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office it probably won't, but if he gets re elected
it might, and I hope, I hope the city Council
denies him. But he wants to totally rip up Fifth
Avenue and just restrict it for cars and make it
more pedestrian. Just sick of this stuff. But hey, I'll
get into that, and a whole bunch of other things.
Big news about the penny, the one cent gone? Did
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you know that?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Let me get to Andrew Croomo for second and the
mayor's race, because I've said this for months and months.
People told me no, no, no, no, no, he ain't
gonna be mayor with everything that happened with COVID and
no cash bail and just the arrogance of Cuomo, it
will never happen. And I said, to say that kind
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of thing means you don't understand politics. And Andrew Cuomo,
first off, has name recognition. Andrew Cuomo has been the
Attorney General of New York. He was Governor of New York.
It doesn't matter how he resigned because Democrats, especially which
control this state, have a short memory and it only
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goes one way, and that's against Republicans. So even though
they hated his guts, and they do, which is why
they got rid of him, there was a pretense for
the Albany Democrats who hated him personally, those in the
Assembly and send it. I know trust me. I know
I spoken to many of them. I dealt with him
when I was county executive. I got a story about
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that in a moment. But here's a guy who has
had plenty of comebacks, who can raise a gazillion dollars
and he already has, who will stab his mother in
the face if it meant he can get re elected.
And trust me, he's got the knife out right now.
I think Matilda is wrapped in a chair. But this
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is how he operates. He is he is a serpent
and he's not happy unless he is stinging or biting somebody.
So for him to be out of office for so long,
I'm sure it was like a personal hell for him.
And this is his way. He's smarter. He's a smart guy.
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I will never take that away from him. He is
one of the most cunning and the smartest politicians you
will ever find. Cuomo grew up with his dad. His
father was cunning, totally overrated by the way. As governor,
and Andrew Clomo kind of had the lay of the land.
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Early knew what levers to pull, ran his dad's campaign,
you know, walked around like a peacock as a teenager,
and in his twenties when his dad was the governor,
knew how to get away with everything and did, and
knew that no matter what in this state, a Democrat
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can totally f up, which he did personally, politically, governmentally,
and the benefit of the doubt goes to that democrat.
Never the case with a Republican, of course, But Andrew
Cuomo knows when to strike and knew that this was
his last chance to get back, and he saw it
as a great opportunity. You have a very weak mayor
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who now is not even running in a Democratic primary.
He's going to run as an independent, that in and
of itself is very difficult, possible with a big split, possible,
probably not going to win. And you've got a Republican
party in the city that's fairly weak. Curtis Lee was
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running okay, He's not going to raise money unfortunately, because
the business community and others don't think he has a
chance to win. He can come across as a clown
at times. I would love for Curtis to winning. He's
just not going to, I don't think, but who knows.
Maybe in the split again. And then he got another
independent in Walden, and now you got the Democratic field,
which of course is the big bet, and that's the
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safe bet because in this city it is overwhelmingly blue,
filled with morons galore that will run into a wall
for a Democrat. They're just blind. So Cuomo has the lead,
and I've said from the beginning, I just don't see
him losing because in a crowded field, he's already got
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a built in thirty thirty five percent of the vote
period and he's going to be forgiven. And in the
field he's in with the Wakadus to his left, it's
perfect for him. And then, of course, no matter what
happened with COVID, and now that he is being investigated by,
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of all people, Janine Piro, whom I love. I've known
Janine forever because she was district attorney and a judge
in Westchester, and of course we've known each other for
a very long time, and she and Cuomo hate each other.
She and Cuomo ran against each other, I if you
remember that, but she ran for attorney general and lost
to Cuomo by like twenty points. That was back in
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six and so if we remember, it was a couple
of weeks before election day in that race, and look
these two were like dogs on a bone, right, and
Cuomo knows how to really screw people. And weeks before
that election, all of a sudden, word leaked out that
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federal prosecutors were investigating Janine Piro over allegations that she
was working with or asked help from a New York
City commissioner, a police commissioner to kind of record her
husband at the time because she thought he was having
an affair. So this all came out. It was orchestrated
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to sink her, and he won that race. So she
will do whatever she can if she can, to sink him.
But here's the problem. In a state like New York,
being investigated, being targeted by Donald Trump and his Department
of Justice is a badge of honor. You run against Trump,
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no matter what he now you think it's a liability.
It's not. For Cuomo. This is the greatest thing that
could have happened to him, because he's sitting here saying
I'm going up against Donald Trump, blah blah blah, and
it deflects all of the negative publicity he's been getting
about the COVID deaths in the nursing homes. And he lied, period,
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He'd absolutely lied about that, lied to Congress. But that
investigation will definitely die. It won't go anywhere, I don't think.
And if it does, it's going to be too late anyway,
because the primaries in June. So he's going to get
away with it again, literally get away with murder. And
he he can kind of look like the adult in
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the room right now against all these lunatics, I mean, honestly,
like Brad Lantern, Scott Stringer, Zohamandami Adrian Adam, I mean,
what a field. And so he knew the crazies on
the left is they're gonna all just kind of be
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all over the place, a little to her, little to him,
and he's gonna have his solid block and with this
whole rank choice voting nonsense, he'll just keep winning and
winning and get over the fifty percent threshold and he's
going to be the next mayor. I hate it, but
it's going to be true. You know it. I know it.
And that's just the way it's going to be in
New York City. And of course the big money is
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plowing in on Andrew Cuomo. The business community, they have
no morals or ethics anyway, they have no principles. I've
known a lot of these big donors. I've known these
business people in New York City, and when I was
running against Cuomo in fourteen for governor, I would meet
with them. They would tell me how much they hated
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him personally, how he would threaten them, how he was
he had this state on the wrong direction, how he
was taxing us, all of these things. And then the
next thing, I would see them all at the Andrew
Cuomo fundraiser, and I would look at the financial disclosures
and there they are maxing out to this guy give
them forty thousand a person. So they talk out of
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both sides of the mouth. But they did it because
they were afraid, and they had opportunities to give to
me or you know, in subsequent campaigns and in legal
ways where their name might not have been on it,
and they could have helped the cause to get rid
of them, and they didn't. So every time I hear
these people, you know, oh, they're getting screwed again, I'm like,
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screw you. Who cares. You're part of the problem too.
You're just as bad. You got no cajones zero, so
you deserve what you get. So we're going to get
a term of Andrew Cuomo most likely. I mean, if
I had to put my whole house on it, it's
on him to win, and the disaster awaits us. That's
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just what it's gonna be. Period. And so I there
was a time in what year was it, I guess
twenty twelve big issues we were dealing with, both on
the county level in Westchester and around the state and
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the state was the pensions. And I mean, it's like
just honey and gold for all of these state employees.
So they have this pension system where they get everything,
and it's far more expensive than it was ever thought
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to be, and we're just drowning in this. And so
in twenty twelve, Cuomo rightfully was saying, we can't afford
this anymore. So he was making a proposed change to
the pension system for new employees only whoever would start once.
This was Tier six they call it. So any new
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employee that started under tier six, their pensions would you know,
thirty forty years from now, they would contribute a little
bit more. And the retirement age for them was raised
I think it was by a year to sixty three. Okay,
So the union too, an apoplectic, but I and others
well Bainly me, but there were some Democratic county executives
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because they were dealing with this too. We were backing
him on this, and so was Michael Bloomberg, who was
the mayor at the time. So Bloomberg and I went
up to Albany together one day and Steve Bolone, who
was the county executive and suffered at Suffolk at the time.
The three of us went on Bloomberg's private plane, flew
up to Albany and we were going to lobby the
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Assembly members and senators to back this bill. So we
go up there and now I stuck my neck out
for the governor. I'm a Republican, he was a Democrat.
We kind of hated each other, but I thought he
was right on this and it was important. So we
go up there and we lobby and it works. Eventually
they pass it, and it was big and it was
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the right thing to do. So what is this fraud?
Now that he's running for mayor Cuomo who pushed all this,
he's already he's denying the fact about no cash Bell.
He had nothing to do with it, the COVID debts,
He completely and utterly lied that he forced nursing homes
totally ill equipped to take COVID patients elderly and set
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them to their death. Let's just be honest. And among
so many other things, the sexual harassment, everything else, he
just was, you know, salivating in front of the United
Federation of Teachers the other day at a forum and
wants their backing. So of course he sells himself out,
and he was saying that that's ancient history. And now
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he's going to lobby to get his reform unraveled at
go back to the old system. What a suck up. Anyway,
that's gonna be your new mayor. That's gonna be the
new guy. One two, one zero zero seven ten lots
to talk about. I want to talk about Mayor Adams
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in this whole Fifth Avenue nonsense. And a new poll
came out too, by the way, Hochel and potentially Elis Stephonic,
congress woman from upstate New York, and it was pretty
pretty good for her for Stefanic. So a lot to
talk about, including the penny. I got some leftover notes
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from my trip in Rome covering the Pope for NEWSMAX.
But I want to hear your calls, either about Cuomo
or whatever's on your mind. Kind of catch up stuff
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One hundred three two one zero seven ten. The Rob
ask Reno Show, rolling right along. It's Bruce. Everybody was
just really curious. You know, last week was kind of
tough for you, and it was wondering how you were doing.
Hold on, am I gonna get hold on? I gotta
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I'm sad, I'm sad. I'm back sad. So this is
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we'll take a break. We'll come back. I got live
commercials to do too. Take a break, Go after yourself.
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Bruce Springsteen. Never again are we playing Bruce Springsteen on
this show ever? And I hope you never download anything
that he's ever recorded. I heard the Stone Pony got
calls in Jersey from folks they were they had a band,
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and there was another place in Jersey I think that
had a Springsteen cover band coming in and they had
to get rid of them. They had to cancel them
because people were irate. Good good. You know Springsteen's seventy five.
He made a gazillion dollars off you and me, and
I'm I've never honestly been a real big Springsteen fan, truthfully,
I haven't. I just think all his music sounds the same.
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There's a couple songs I like, but to me, I'm not,
I'm not a I don't. I don't know if I
would even go, quite honestly to a Springsteen concert if
I got free tickets, I might, but not now screw him.
So that's the last time you'll hear Springsteen on this air,
at least four to five on Saturdays. I hope they
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one and three, two, one zero seven ten. We'll start
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with Jose and the BX Jose and the Bronx. How
are you when is that?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Nobody cares. Uh, Let's go to Sondra, Hi, Sandra and Jersey,
how are you?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Hiah? Listen to your speak about Cromo. And the first
thing he said is he has name recognition. I says
to myself and started and our pittwa. But but I'll
know you and I agree.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
This Croola's gonna win.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
And I remember Dublasio had an interview with someone that
might have been with you, I don't know who.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
So he said he won't be a good mayor because
he doesn't know how to be a mayor.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
He knows how to be a governor.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
But I'm already thinking my life he's gonna win.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
So now, how do you think he's gonna be?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Let's say he wins.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Can he reindent himself?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Can he is he gonna go work and make all
of us go broke?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I mean, what do you think is gonna happen when
he wins?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Rob Law and you know, well, so the Deblasio interview
was with me on this show, and yes, uh, he
is the biggest chameleon. So he he's a Gumby. Remember,
he'll bend any way he needs to. So Cuomo will
be woke if he has to. He'll be left of
the leftist if he needs to. And then he'll he'll
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you know, dart to the right into the center. He'll
be whatever he needs to be. And I think he's
going to be a horrible mayor. I think he's gonna
hate it, by the way, because the mayor is subservient
to the governor. The governor and the state really control
a lot of what New York City can do. And
then he's got to deal with the city council and
they don't like him, and they're far left. So I
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think it's just this rehab tour. And maybe he wants
to run for governor again. Maybe he wants to take
on Schumer for Senate. I could see that happening. That
would be fun. Schumer Cuomo AOC that would be great.
One two, one zero seven ten. Here on the Rob
ast Reno Show, let us go to Steve in New
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Jersey High Steve.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Hey, Rob probably want to just expand a little bit
on what something you said, but I'll in my own
take why the Republicans can't win in New York City.
They don't take the time to field a candidate who
gets a message that resonates with the people. All Right,
if I was in New York, i'd vote for mister Sliva,
(25:11):
all right. So I don't sound like I'm knocking on him,
but to use your words, and I agree with you.
Why go with the guy, right who's a bit of
a clown at times and can't raise money? Right, So
there's an unable he realized he gets a lot, He
got a lot of airtime up the dial there, well,
three years to make his message right. And he other
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than he'd be tough on law enforcement. He really doesn't
explain to the people how he would run the city,
how he would make it better. He doesn't do that right. Instead,
he spends a lot of time thirty five years on radio,
forty five years in the garden, in the Guardian angels.
You know. And but the Republicans just looked at the
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at the voter data. The last two elections, you had
record low turnout, yet literally an average of twenty four
percent turning out. A good candidate with a good message,
properly funded, could win. A Republican could win in New
York City. But Unfortunately it's not, mister Sleeve, it just isn't. No,
I just don't see it. No, I think it read that.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I mean, I mean anything you could add to that.
But I just I don't understand why the Republican Party
they do the same thing they've up until the selection,
they've been doing it here in Jersey, in California.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
The day because you know what it is, Steve, and
I'll let you go. Here's what happens. There is a
defeatist attitude right now in the Republican Party in New
York City, somewhat in the state. And it just happens
because they kept losing. But yeah, they keep putting up
bad candidates. And when you keep putting up bad candidates,
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this is what you get. And it makes it where
good candidates don't want to come in because there's really
no party infrastructure, you know, I mean, it's a chicken
and egg thing. Sometimes it's do you do you have
to win first to build a party, or do you
have to build a party in order to win? Well?
Sometimes you know, you catch lightning in a bottle. I
might be example a of that. When I won in
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Westchester in oh nine, nobody thought we were gonna win.
We were down three to one, but we kind of
built a big campaign, raised a lot of money, and
we won. And after we won, all of a sudden
there was a Republican Party in Westchester. We raised a
lot of money into it, we ran good candidates, and
we won it all over the place. And that happens.
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But by and large, you know, losing begets losing. And
it's just like, Okay, who wants to run? Nobody raises
their hands, So you don't get great candidates. I mean,
why isn't there a wonderful businessman or somebody of stature
in this city willing to run. Well, part of it
is they don't want to go through the crap that
any candidate has to go through. Now, and I love
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the other thing. Now a Cuomo law fair. Oh, it's
law fair election interference. Okay, yeah, that's that's their new
rallying cry. Now that mcgiver moron, the congresswoman in Newark
that got arrested. Cuomo, that's now that. Now it's when
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Trump is there, it's law fair against them. But when
they did this to every Republican and specifically to Trump,
it was nobody's against the law. Nobody's above the law. Yeah, okay,
one hundred and three two one zero seven ten, one
hundred and three to two one zero seven ten. Rob
astarno here al in yankes al. How are you hey?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Good? Rob? Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Go ahead, good.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
I wanted to say, you know, you gave Andrew Cuomo
real run for his money as governor.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
You really ran a great race.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
If you had more money and monetary coming from Washington,
you probably could have defeated him.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Well, you know who screwed us. You know, I'll say
this because I mean you could google this. Who screwed
me the most was Chris Christy Governor. Chris Christy was
the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, and he got
a deal with Cuomo with the bridge gate because Cuomo
had that over his head, and Chris Christy publicly screwed me.
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In fourteen, we had a lot of momentum and we
had a real chance to beat Cuomo that year as
it was, I mean, with one hand tied behind her back.
We still we only lost by I think it was
twelve points or something. When we were losing by thirty
five in every poll. So we had a chance with money,
we might have beaten them, but Christy screwed us. But anyway, sorry,
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go ahead.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Yeah, no, I agree with you fully. I remember now
a repe left when you brought that up. Yeah, well,
in records the Curtis and Andrew Clomo. The problem for
Curtis as you know, being you know, an elected official.
Curtis's problem that's in numbers game. Republicans are just not
there anymore. The Queens people who had money, they went
to Long Island. The demographics have changed. He's just running
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an uptill battle.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
That's true. But and here's the butt you you can't,
especially in a four way race, you can win with
thirty five percent of the vote forty The rank choice
voting screws things up. But you can put coalitions together.
It is a lot harder at a place like New
York City than it is statewide, and it's obviously a
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lot harder in this state than it is nationwide. But
it can be done. But it starts with good candidates.
It starts with money, and the money ain't there, and
unfortunately the apparatus isn't there either for the party. I
hate to say it. Let's go to Long Island, Chris
and Bethpage High Chris Christopher.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Yeah, I think we'd cut off accent.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Good you're on now?
Speaker 8 (30:59):
Oh hey, so Rob, Yes? Would I want to talk
about the state of New York. You know, I think
the governorship is totally winnable next year. I love Mike
wall I'd love to see him going or at least
the phonic Obviously, either one will destroy I think Katy Hope.
Will they debate, It'll be it'll be ugly. And I'm
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noticing one thing though. Outside of the city, which of
course is huge and it means everything, I think the
rest of the state is pretty red. I live in
Long Island. Boy, there's Trump stuff everywhere. I didn't see
one Kamala harrising. We have four represent We're the reason
why the House is red is because of one island,
you know. Yeah, And I'm just saying, plus, if you
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remember we elected I don't know how George Santos a
couple of years ago. Nobody checked into him. But that's
how desperate we are to put a Republican in there.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
And Santos is still he was. He was tweeting something
the other day. I mean, I hate to say this,
to George, but shut up, stop all right, have some
humble pie. You're going to prison. Just you gotta fade
away and rehab yourself. But he doesn't give up. Chris,
thank you for the call. So yeah, I won forty
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six of sixty two counties in New York State and
lost because the five boroughs Staten Island, unfortunately that year
went for Cuomo. I hope they learned their lesson. But
statn Island's become a lot more Republican Nassau County at
that time. Again, I got screwed by a lot of Republicans.
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In fourteen, Christy led the way. But here at home, Mangano,
who is the county executive in Nassau, publicly endorsed Cuomo.
Mangano's in jail right now. And there were others that
either behind my back or publicly, and so we couldn't win.
They all helped Cuomo. They were afraid of Cuomo and
(32:54):
the cut deals with Cuomo. But that's kind of the
issue too. And you're right through that time. Between then
and now, a lot of Republicans have moved down south,
have died or there. You know, there's just so many
less of us now, unfortunately, and the Democrats have become
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further and further to the left, crazier and crazier, and
they would rather they would never ever ever vote for
a republican period. One three, two, one zero seven ten.
All righty, let me see here, oh Liros point to point.
So I have to go down to DC Wednesday and
come back on Thursday, and you betcha, I'm taking Liros
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to La Guardia because my time is valuable. I want
to make sure they show up at my house on
time or at the airport on time. I don't want
to have to get off the plane, get the uber
app out and hope that they're there, and hope I
get into a car that doesn't stink like throw up.
So that's why I call Leros point to point. And
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you know, I don't. I prefer not to use a
ride share if I don't have to, or a taxi.
And they're good at what they do. Safety is their
number one priority. Their drivers are dressed well, present well,
they've got liability insurance, their background checks. They're good. Okay,
So get to the airport or go on the night
on you know, a night on a town. Don't drink
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and drive, have fun call liros point to point best
bet liros TG dot com, liros l E r O
s TG dot com, or I mean you could call
them one eight hundred and eighty two liros whatever you
want to do. A couple more of your calls I
can try to get to but I have other things
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to talk about, including say goodbye to the Penny, and
a few other interesting things, including the Pope's childhood home.
So don't go anywhere, rob Estarino here on seven to
ten wo R. I'll tell you about the Penny in
just a moment, but first I want to tell you
about Dominick's Restaurant on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. Costs
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you a couple pennies, not a lot, for a great meal,
a great Italian meal in the little Italy section Arthur
Avenue in the Bronx. I love this place. I'm thinking of.
You know, my wife actually is up. So we bought
a trailer. My wife bought a trailer, you know, like
an RV thing, a camper thirty two feet long. So
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she's actually isn't like a midlife crisis. I don't know,
but anyway, we got a trailer, so she is up.
With my daughter right now, fixing this thing up and
preparing it for the summer, which is actually pretty cool.
We've always kind of liked doing this. We go up
to one particular area and a beach and so, you know,
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it's nice. You can get away, just take the car
and go. It's not too far and you can just
like go when you want, and it's big enough where
you could have fun. So anyway, I'm home alone tonight,
so I'm deciding, and even until tomorrow, she's not coming
back to tomorrow night, so I'm trying to figure out
where to eat because we've got all these options. You know,
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we've got great sponsors like the Pleasantville Diner. We've got
Benjamin Steakhouse and now Dominic's, and I don't know what
to do. I might go to Dominicks, so I haven't
been there in a while, but they've got great food,
great pasta dishes. Tomorrow if I go, They've got their
own Sunday specials like lasagna. They've got beef brazole, which
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is like a football, it is so big. They got
the pasta combos, got fresh fish, they got the chicken,
the chops, all that good stuff. So head over to
Dominic's on Arthur Avenue. Of course, no credit cards are
checks accepted cash only. Go say hi to Charlie at
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Dominick's Restaurant on Arthur Avenue. Penny the penny is gone,
and I will tell you about that in just a moment.
Let me take a few more calls here. First one
is George right in New York City. Hey George, how
are you?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Oh hi, Rob, You're great boy.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
You're talking about art the revenue. I'm getting hungry just
thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
I might go over there and get some to eat.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Man, oh man.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
I love that place, as the.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
Thing is with New York City. And I'm here in
New York City and I think about moving, But I
don't want to move because I still love the city,
but I hate what's.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Going on in it.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
I always said there are people leaving Republicans, leaving conservatives.
You hit it out in Brooklyn and Queens where we
had a lot of votes of conservative people. They're all gone.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Now.
Speaker 7 (37:44):
Curtis runs a horrible campaign, but he has to get
not only the Republican line because nobody else wants it,
but he has to get another line too, because I
can tell you and you know you're a student. There
are people in New York City who will never vote
for a Republicans, but they're fighting by the crime. Curtis,
if he lets Cuomo steal the crime issue, which.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Is insane with the Nobel War and everything be insane
if he steals it. But it's going to be a
four way race. Curtis better run a better line. And
Chris from Betpage is really stem from Manhattan.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
The diois.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Walter and Yonkers. How are you, Walter? You're on seven
to ten wr.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
I was gonna talk politics, but now that you're talking, Benjamin,
where I have to sometimes sometime in a near future
go and Dominis were my dad and grandpa when I
was an anty bitty kid two thirds of a century ago.
They would walk up to Dominics on Fridays and come
back with fries and fried scallops. They were terrific. I
got to get there.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Ah, good for you. Yes, and maybe you might see
me there and they, by the way. The thing I
like about that.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I don't also see an a pleasant Rold diner someday too.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
See. I love this car. You have very good Walter.
You can meet me at all of our dining spots.
Go ahead, Walter, what's up politics?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Bad mouthing and the Republicans. No, I'm a maga person.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
No, not bad mouthing. I'm telling you I've been through.
I'm a lifelong Republican. I ran and won as a
Republican telling people what the truth is.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Right now, and I've been voting Republican all the way through.
But the term that I have for the established, the
cutlass establishment types is the FERP for effing useless Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Ferps. Yeah, unfortunately, you know, I can tell you this.
When I was County executive, we had a legislature and
it was Democrats controlled the legislature. But I was able
to get a lot done because we did a coalition.
But I had as many problems from Republicans that I
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did as from Democrats. Because in the end, as you're
seeing in Congress right now in the House, and we're
going to see it again in the Senate, they all
get squeamish, they've got no backbone alleyfish, and when it
really comes down to it, they don't want to cut
a thing because they're so afraid of being criticized. But
they know what they got to do. But they're so afraid,
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and then they cut their deals. They cut deals with Democrats,
they cut it withever. So I totally get it. I
mean I get it, and it's very frustrating because this
country's going down the tubes. Trump is doing everything he
can to write the ship. He has support, but almost
not enough. And it just squeaked by in the House
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that the Senate is going to screw it up and
do away with some of the real important things and
they can go a lot further on Medicaid and a
whole other things, and I don't know if they will,
and I'm concerned. But anyway, Walter, I appreciate your call
one in one hundred and three to two one zero
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and then I come over here across town and entertain
you for fifty five minutes. So the penny is gone, Gonzo,
Goodbye to the penny. I mean it's still gonna be around.
There's plenty of them. But the Treasury Department Scott Bessen,
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obviously with the blessing of Donald Trump, has decided to
not order any more of the blank coins that they
make into the penny. So it makes fiscal sense because
it literally costs four times what it cost what the
value of a penny is. It costs four cents to
make a penny. That makes no sense, and honestly, who
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cares anymore. I mean, they're gonna round it up. So
everyone saying, well, you know this is gonna hurt the
middle class. Come on, I mean, really, do you want
to walk around with like fourteen pennies in your pocket.
I don't what do you do when you see a penny?
Do you do? You really stop traffic and go get
the penny? No, it's it's almost valueless at this point.
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So they're gonna round up or they're gonna round down.
I'm sure they're gonna round up, but the penny is
gonna be gone because as of next year, they will
no longer produce new pennies. Now. I think there's like
fourteen billion pennies in circulation right now. But the interesting
thing is, I think it's something like sixty percent of
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the coins the pennies in circulation aren't in circulation. They're
sitting in jars. Nobody's using them. So they're already taking
them out of circulation and not using them, So why
produce more? And it's interesting if you know about the penny,
it came out of the coinage Jack of nineteen of
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seventeen ninety two, and originally, if you see the old
coins of the old pennies, the picture is not of
a president. It was a woman with flowing hair, and
that was to symbolize liberty, because you know, we just
came from a monarchy. So they didn't want a king
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on the currency. But it wasn't until nineteen oh nine
where Lincoln adorned the penny to honor him for his
one hundredth birthday. So that's that's where it is. Pennies.
As of next year, they'll stop producing them. You just
have to carry around the coins, you know. When I
was in Europe for almost a month or so with
the with my vacation, but then of course covering the
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Pope's funeral Francis and then the conclave, nobody it's like,
you still have euro coins, but they're annoying too. They've
got the dollar coins and I think the two the
dollar euro coin, the one and the two, and then
they've got I think fifty fifty, twenty ten and five.
(44:35):
And you know, you're walking around with all these darn coins.
They use them more there than they do here. And
the money but kind of everyone now is just using
these banking apps or Apple pay or whatever, or credit cards,
and I just don't. You're not gonna have money anymore.
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You're not gonna walk around with cash. But it is
that's a good idea, and I have it. It is
a good idea to stow away cash, to have some
cash for the day when everything collapses and it becomes
it just becomes, you know, the living dead situation, and
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there's like money is valuable if you have it, so
you can trade it. But at some point, you know,
you gotta be careful. If the whole system goes down,
cash is going to be king or gold. William Devane
tells me all the time on TV buy gold. You
gotta listen to him.
Speaker 5 (45:34):
Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
This whole thing with Fifth Avenue is so friggin annoying.
So Mayor Adams wants to spend four hundred and two
dollars four hundred and two million dollars of New York
City taxpayer money for this bird brained idea of ripping
up Fifth Avenue from Brian Park to Central Park. It's
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almost a mile stretch, and it would reduce the number
of traffic lanes from five to three. So you think
traffic is horrible a midtown anyway, you know, it was
always bad, but you can get through it. Then of
course they cut off pedestrian lane. They made pedestrian lanes
bicycle lanes. This is the whole Bloomberg nonsense. And now
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bus lanes, and now of course there's congestion. You're taking
away lanes because they hate cars. The left hates cars
because cars represent freedom. I don't have to be stuck
going on a schedule of a subway or a bus
packed with other people. I could be my own car,
doing what I want to do. Listening to this show.
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And now they're just restricting more and more lanes in
New York City. And so they're gonna make bigger sidewalks
on both sides of Fifth and the sidewalks are gonna
be from fifteen feet to twenty five feet. They're gonna
plant two hundred and thirty trees. So this is supposed
to start in twenty twenty eight if the city Council
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gives the funding. Here's one time when I'm rooting for
the New York City Council, as brainless as they are
to figure out that this is not good. And between
congestion pricing, between taking away lanes for cars, between costing
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like sixty dollars to park your car for a half hour,
I don't know who wants to come into New York
City anymore. No normal person can afford going into New
York City anymore. You come in and let's just say
you're gonna walk around, maybe go to a show, go
to a dinner, whatever. Park the car. Even if you're
taking Metro North, it ain't cheap. If you're taking a
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family of four, let's say it's not cheap. So no
matter what you do, if you're coming into New York City,
you're already down several hundred dollars just about before anything.
And that's before walking around smelling urine, smelling pot, and
maybe get and beaten over the head. So they make
it worse and worse for anyone to want to come
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into the city. You want to live in the city,
go right ahead. But I'm becoming less and less inclined
of doing whatever I have to do for my extra
income and enjoying a day in the city. It's just
it's like it's becoming less worth it to me. I'll
go sit in that trailer that my wife just not. Oh,
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we got to get out of here. Yes, thank you
to the cadets, Thank you to those serving, Thank you.
We appreciate everything. And this is about those who have died.
Though today is the beginning of a three day weekend Monday,
Memorial Day, say a prayer. Say a prayer to those
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who have fought and served and gave their life for
this country. And while you're out, you might as well
say a prayer for the Knicks too, because they're pretty
much dead as well. Down two games to nothing, they
blew two games of the Garden, and now they got
to go to Indiana. Good luck anyway, have a great weekend,
Be safe and joy I'll be back here next Saturday
at four o'clock. Join me, won't you? Take care? Everybody?
Speaker 1 (49:10):
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former Westchester County Executive Rob astar Rita on seven ten.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Ah, Yeah, the unofficial start of summer right now, Memorial
Day weekend. How do you not like go back and
forth listening for this song like you're on a surfboard.
I don't know how you do it. It's impossible.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I think.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I saw the Beach Boys in concert twice once I
actually introduced them. They were at the It was their
fiftieth anniversary tour, which was probably like ten years ago.
They're still touring. I think we're giving away tickets to
see the Beach Boys here on seven to ten war.
But they were touring and it was the fiftieth anniversary.
(01:00):
They came to the Westchester County Center. And one of
the nice things that I got to do was County
Executive when we had some of these big events and
we had some pretty big guests that would come through
the county or go to the County Center and perform,
and the Beach Boys at one point came and so
I had a chance to talk to them all before
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the concert backstage, gave them the proclamation naming it Beach
Boy's Day whenever it was, and it was a lot
of fun. And then I would go out on stage
and introduce them and it was just a lot of fun.
And then I saw them what a couple of years
ago we were out at Jones Beach, and I mean,
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it's just like they're getting older and older, just like
all these artists, and you know, they're like not singing anymore. Basically,
they're just lip syncing. And you're going to see somewhat
cadavers on stage lip syncing, and then you think you're
at a concert with whom I it is. Now It's
not the case with Billy Joel. He's actually well he's
(02:03):
off for the next four or five months, but he
actually sings and performs. But like Frankie Valley, have you
ever seen him? Frankie Valley is it's like Joe Biden.
It's a It's it's like going to a wax theater.
He's out there and he's basically just standing there and
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lip syncing. And he's not always lip syncing good, but anyway,
it's summertime, even though it doesn't feel like it. I
woke up this morning, he was chilly. The sun's out
now at least, but not a good beach day. But anyway,
I hope you're having a good weekend, the start of
your Memorial Day weekend, and please let's just get let's
(02:45):
just start with this. It is Memorial Day weekend. Yes,
it's a time for all of us to have fun.
And you get Monday off. You probably took yesterday off,
so you have a four day weekend. You're doing whatever
you're gonna do. And I would just ask at one
point over this weekend, or certainly on Monday, that you
just pause at any point in the day and just
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say a little prayer for all of those men and
women who served in our country and died for our
country willingly. I'm sure they were scared as heck when
it was happening, when they were in the middle of battle.
Nobody wants to be doing that, but they did, and
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I just want to thank them and their souls for
doing what they did and make God bless them. And also,
of course you might as well. It's fleet week. I'm
sure you're seeing the sailors around wherever you are, if
you see somebody in uniform that's active duty, say thank you,
or a veteran, say thank you. Okay, it's all kind
of wrapped up, even though it is remembering those who
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fought and served and died for our country. Okay. So
one in one hundred and three to two one zero
one eight hundred and three to two one zero seven
ten is the number here on the rob ast Doreno Show.
Welcome to all who are just tuning in for the
first time. Make sure you put it in your Google
calendar so it comes up on your phone every Saturday.
(04:15):
Have it go off at like three forty five so
you don't miss a minute. I want to talk about
a whole bunch of things today, and first of all,
I want to talk about Andrew Cuomo, but I want
to get to this whole nonsensical thing by Mayor Adams,
whom I like. But let me tell you, I hope
this never happens, and if he gets thrown out of
(04:37):
office it probably won't, but if he gets re elected
it might, and I hope, I hope the city Council
denies him. But he wants to totally rip up Fifth
Avenue and just restrict it for cars and make it
more pedestrian. Just sick of this stuff. But hey, I'll
get into that, and a whole bunch of other things.
Big news about the penny, the one cent gone? Did
(05:01):
you know that?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Let me get to Andrew Croomo for second and the
mayor's race, because I've said this for months and months.
People told me no, no, no, no, no, he ain't
gonna be mayor with everything that happened with COVID and
no cash bail and just the arrogance of Cuomo, it
will never happen. And I said, to say that kind
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of thing means you don't understand politics. And Andrew Cuomo,
first off, has name recognition. Andrew Cuomo has been the
Attorney General of New York. He was Governor of New York.
It doesn't matter how he resigned because Democrats, especially which
control this state, have a short memory and it only
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goes one way, and that's against Republicans. So even though
they hated his guts, and they do, which is why
they got rid of him, there was a pretense for
the Albany Democrats who hated him personally, those in the
Assembly and send it. I know trust me. I know
I spoken to many of them. I dealt with him
when I was county executive. I got a story about
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that in a moment. But here's a guy who has
had plenty of comebacks, who can raise a gazillion dollars
and he already has, who will stab his mother in
the face if it meant he can get re elected.
And trust me, he's got the knife out right now.
I think Matilda is wrapped in a chair. But this
(06:33):
is how he operates. He is he is a serpent
and he's not happy unless he is stinging or biting somebody.
So for him to be out of office for so long,
I'm sure it was like a personal hell for him.
And this is his way. He's smarter. He's a smart guy.
(06:54):
I will never take that away from him. He is
one of the most cunning and the smartest politicians you
will ever find. Cuomo grew up with his dad. His
father was cunning, totally overrated by the way. As governor,
and Andrew Clomo kind of had the lay of the land.
(07:15):
Early knew what levers to pull, ran his dad's campaign,
you know, walked around like a peacock as a teenager,
and in his twenties when his dad was the governor,
knew how to get away with everything and did, and
knew that no matter what in this state, a Democrat
(07:37):
can totally f up, which he did personally, politically, governmentally,
and the benefit of the doubt goes to that democrat.
Never the case with a Republican, of course, But Andrew
Cuomo knows when to strike and knew that this was
his last chance to get back, and he saw it
as a great opportunity. You have a very weak mayor
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who now is not even running in a Democratic primary.
He's going to run as an independent, that in and
of itself is very difficult, possible with a big split, possible,
probably not going to win. And you've got a Republican
party in the city that's fairly weak. Curtis Lee was
(08:22):
running okay, He's not going to raise money unfortunately, because
the business community and others don't think he has a
chance to win. He can come across as a clown
at times. I would love for Curtis to winning. He's
just not going to, I don't think, but who knows.
Maybe in the split again. And then he got another
independent in Walden, and now you got the Democratic field,
which of course is the big bet, and that's the
(08:44):
safe bet because in this city it is overwhelmingly blue,
filled with morons galore that will run into a wall
for a Democrat. They're just blind. So Cuomo has the lead,
and I've said from the beginning, I just don't see
him losing because in a crowded field, he's already got
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a built in thirty thirty five percent of the vote
period and he's going to be forgiven. And in the
field he's in with the Wakadus to his left, it's
perfect for him. And then, of course, no matter what
happened with COVID, and now that he is being investigated by,
(09:31):
of all people, Janine Piro, whom I love. I've known
Janine forever because she was district attorney and a judge
in Westchester, and of course we've known each other for
a very long time, and she and Cuomo hate each other.
She and Cuomo ran against each other, I if you
remember that, but she ran for attorney general and lost
to Cuomo by like twenty points. That was back in
(09:53):
six and so if we remember, it was a couple
of weeks before election day in that race, and look
these two were like dogs on a bone, right, and
Cuomo knows how to really screw people. And weeks before
that election, all of a sudden, word leaked out that
(10:14):
federal prosecutors were investigating Janine Piro over allegations that she
was working with or asked help from a New York
City commissioner, a police commissioner to kind of record her
husband at the time because she thought he was having
an affair. So this all came out. It was orchestrated
(10:36):
to sink her, and he won that race. So she
will do whatever she can if she can, to sink him.
But here's the problem. In a state like New York,
being investigated, being targeted by Donald Trump and his Department
of Justice is a badge of honor. You run against Trump,
(10:58):
no matter what he now you think it's a liability.
It's not. For Cuomo. This is the greatest thing that
could have happened to him, because he's sitting here saying
I'm going up against Donald Trump, blah blah blah, and
it deflects all of the negative publicity he's been getting
about the COVID deaths in the nursing homes. And he lied, period,
(11:21):
He'd absolutely lied about that, lied to Congress. But that
investigation will definitely die. It won't go anywhere, I don't think.
And if it does, it's going to be too late anyway,
because the primaries in June. So he's going to get
away with it again, literally get away with murder. And
he he can kind of look like the adult in
(11:43):
the room right now against all these lunatics, I mean, honestly,
like Brad Lantern, Scott Stringer, Zohamandami Adrian Adam, I mean,
what a field. And so he knew the crazies on
the left is they're gonna all just kind of be
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all over the place, a little to her, little to him,
and he's gonna have his solid block and with this
whole rank choice voting nonsense, he'll just keep winning and
winning and get over the fifty percent threshold and he's
going to be the next mayor. I hate it, but
it's going to be true. You know it. I know it.
And that's just the way it's going to be in
New York City. And of course the big money is
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plowing in on Andrew Cuomo. The business community, they have
no morals or ethics anyway, they have no principles. I've
known a lot of these big donors. I've known these
business people in New York City, and when I was
running against Cuomo in fourteen for governor, I would meet
with them. They would tell me how much they hated
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him personally, how he would threaten them, how he was
he had this state on the wrong direction, how he
was taxing us, all of these things. And then the
next thing, I would see them all at the Andrew
Cuomo fundraiser, and I would look at the financial disclosures
and there they are maxing out to this guy give
them forty thousand a person. So they talk out of
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both sides of the mouth. But they did it because
they were afraid, and they had opportunities to give to
me or you know, in subsequent campaigns and in legal
ways where their name might not have been on it,
and they could have helped the cause to get rid
of them, and they didn't. So every time I hear
these people, you know, oh, they're getting screwed again, I'm like,
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screw you. Who cares. You're part of the problem too.
You're just as bad. You got no cajones zero, so
you deserve what you get. So we're going to get
a term of Andrew Cuomo most likely. I mean, if
I had to put my whole house on it, it's
on him to win, and the disaster awaits us. That's
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just what it's gonna be. Period. And so I there
was a time in what year was it, I guess
twenty twelve big issues we were dealing with, both on
the county level in Westchester and around the state and
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the state was the pensions. And I mean, it's like
just honey and gold for all of these state employees.
So they have this pension system where they get everything,
and it's far more expensive than it was ever thought
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to be, and we're just drowning in this. And so
in twenty twelve, Cuomo rightfully was saying, we can't afford
this anymore. So he was making a proposed change to
the pension system for new employees only whoever would start once.
This was Tier six they call it. So any new
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employee that started under tier six, their pensions would you know,
thirty forty years from now, they would contribute a little
bit more. And the retirement age for them was raised
I think it was by a year to sixty three. Okay,
So the union too, an apoplectic, but I and others
well Bainly me, but there were some Democratic county executives
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because they were dealing with this too. We were backing
him on this, and so was Michael Bloomberg, who was
the mayor at the time. So Bloomberg and I went
up to Albany together one day and Steve Bolone, who
was the county executive and suffered at Suffolk at the time.
The three of us went on Bloomberg's private plane, flew
up to Albany and we were going to lobby the
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Assembly members and senators to back this bill. So we
go up there and now I stuck my neck out
for the governor. I'm a Republican, he was a Democrat.
We kind of hated each other, but I thought he
was right on this and it was important. So we
go up there and we lobby and it works. Eventually
they pass it, and it was big and it was
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the right thing to do. So what is this fraud?
Now that he's running for mayor Cuomo who pushed all this,
he's already he's denying the fact about no cash Bell.
He had nothing to do with it, the COVID debts,
He completely and utterly lied that he forced nursing homes
totally ill equipped to take COVID patients elderly and set
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them to their death. Let's just be honest. And among
so many other things, the sexual harassment, everything else, he
just was, you know, salivating in front of the United
Federation of Teachers the other day at a forum and
wants their backing. So of course he sells himself out,
and he was saying that that's ancient history. And now
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he's going to lobby to get his reform unraveled at
go back to the old system. What a suck up. Anyway,
that's gonna be your new mayor. That's gonna be the
new guy. One two, one zero zero seven ten lots
to talk about. I want to talk about Mayor Adams
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in this whole Fifth Avenue nonsense. And a new poll
came out too, by the way, Hochel and potentially Elis Stephonic,
congress woman from upstate New York, and it was pretty
pretty good for her for Stefanic. So a lot to
talk about, including the penny. I got some leftover notes
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from my trip in Rome covering the Pope for NEWSMAX.
But I want to hear your calls, either about Cuomo
or whatever's on your mind. Kind of catch up stuff
here one in one hundred and three to two one
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One hundred three two one zero seven ten. The Rob
ask Reno Show, rolling right along. It's Bruce. Everybody was
just really curious. You know, last week was kind of
tough for you, and it was wondering how you were doing.
Hold on, am I gonna get hold on? I gotta
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take a drink of water. Okay, we'll get through this.
I'm sad, I'm sad. I'm back sad. So this is
like great radio radio. The host is hacking away. All right, Bruce,
we'll take a break. We'll come back. I got live
commercials to do too. Take a break, Go after yourself.
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Bruce Springsteen. Never again are we playing Bruce Springsteen on
this show ever? And I hope you never download anything
that he's ever recorded. I heard the Stone Pony got
calls in Jersey from folks they were they had a band,
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and there was another place in Jersey I think that
had a Springsteen cover band coming in and they had
to get rid of them. They had to cancel them
because people were irate. Good good. You know Springsteen's seventy five.
He made a gazillion dollars off you and me, and
I'm I've never honestly been a real big Springsteen fan, truthfully,
I haven't. I just think all his music sounds the same.
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There's a couple songs I like, but to me, I'm not,
I'm not a I don't. I don't know if I
would even go, quite honestly to a Springsteen concert if
I got free tickets, I might, but not now screw him.
So that's the last time you'll hear Springsteen on this air,
at least four to five on Saturdays. I hope they
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don't play it on any other show either. Here on
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All right, couple calls here, Let me go to that
one and three, two, one zero seven ten. We'll start
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with Jose and the BX Jose and the Bronx. How
are you when is that?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Nobody cares. Uh, Let's go to Sondra, Hi, Sandra and Jersey,
how are you?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Hiah? Listen to your speak about Cromo. And the first
thing he said is he has name recognition. I says
to myself and started and our pittwa. But but I'll
know you and I agree.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
This Croola's gonna win.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
And I remember Dublasio had an interview with someone that
might have been with you, I don't know who.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
So he said he won't be a good mayor because
he doesn't know how to be a mayor.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
He knows how to be a governor.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
But I'm already thinking my life he's gonna win.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
So now, how do you think he's gonna be?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Let's say he wins.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Can he reindent himself?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Can he is he gonna go work and make all
of us go broke?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I mean, what do you think is gonna happen when
he wins?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Rob Law and you know, well, so the Deblasio interview
was with me on this show, and yes, uh, he
is the biggest chameleon. So he he's a Gumby. Remember,
he'll bend any way he needs to. So Cuomo will
be woke if he has to. He'll be left of
the leftist if he needs to. And then he'll he'll
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you know, dart to the right into the center. He'll
be whatever he needs to be. And I think he's
going to be a horrible mayor. I think he's gonna
hate it, by the way, because the mayor is subservient
to the governor. The governor and the state really control
a lot of what New York City can do. And
then he's got to deal with the city council and
they don't like him, and they're far left. So I
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think it's just this rehab tour. And maybe he wants
to run for governor again. Maybe he wants to take
on Schumer for Senate. I could see that happening. That
would be fun. Schumer Cuomo AOC that would be great.
One two, one zero seven ten. Here on the Rob
ast Reno Show, let us go to Steve in New
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Jersey High Steve.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Hey, Rob probably want to just expand a little bit
on what something you said, but I'll in my own
take why the Republicans can't win in New York City.
They don't take the time to field a candidate who
gets a message that resonates with the people. All Right,
if I was in New York, i'd vote for mister Sliva,
(25:11):
all right. So I don't sound like I'm knocking on him,
but to use your words, and I agree with you.
Why go with the guy, right who's a bit of
a clown at times and can't raise money? Right, So
there's an unable he realized he gets a lot, He
got a lot of airtime up the dial there, well,
three years to make his message right. And he other
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than he'd be tough on law enforcement. He really doesn't
explain to the people how he would run the city,
how he would make it better. He doesn't do that right. Instead,
he spends a lot of time thirty five years on radio,
forty five years in the garden, in the Guardian angels.
You know. And but the Republicans just looked at the
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at the voter data. The last two elections, you had
record low turnout, yet literally an average of twenty four
percent turning out. A good candidate with a good message,
properly funded, could win. A Republican could win in New
York City. But Unfortunately it's not, mister Sleeve, it just isn't. No,
I just don't see it. No, I think it read that.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I mean, I mean anything you could add to that.
But I just I don't understand why the Republican Party
they do the same thing they've up until the selection,
they've been doing it here in Jersey, in California.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
The day because you know what it is, Steve, and
I'll let you go. Here's what happens. There is a
defeatist attitude right now in the Republican Party in New
York City, somewhat in the state. And it just happens
because they kept losing. But yeah, they keep putting up
bad candidates. And when you keep putting up bad candidates,
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this is what you get. And it makes it where
good candidates don't want to come in because there's really
no party infrastructure, you know, I mean, it's a chicken
and egg thing. Sometimes it's do you do you have
to win first to build a party, or do you
have to build a party in order to win? Well?
Sometimes you know, you catch lightning in a bottle. I
might be example a of that. When I won in
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Westchester in oh nine, nobody thought we were gonna win.
We were down three to one, but we kind of
built a big campaign, raised a lot of money, and
we won. And after we won, all of a sudden
there was a Republican Party in Westchester. We raised a
lot of money into it, we ran good candidates, and
we won it all over the place. And that happens.
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But by and large, you know, losing begets losing. And
it's just like, Okay, who wants to run? Nobody raises
their hands, So you don't get great candidates. I mean,
why isn't there a wonderful businessman or somebody of stature
in this city willing to run. Well, part of it
is they don't want to go through the crap that
any candidate has to go through. Now, and I love
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the other thing. Now a Cuomo law fair. Oh, it's
law fair election interference. Okay, yeah, that's that's their new
rallying cry. Now that mcgiver moron, the congresswoman in Newark
that got arrested. Cuomo, that's now that. Now it's when
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Trump is there, it's law fair against them. But when
they did this to every Republican and specifically to Trump,
it was nobody's against the law. Nobody's above the law. Yeah, okay,
one hundred and three two one zero seven ten, one
hundred and three to two one zero seven ten. Rob
astarno here al in yankes al. How are you hey?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Good? Rob? Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Go ahead, good.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
I wanted to say, you know, you gave Andrew Cuomo
real run for his money as governor.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
You really ran a great race.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
If you had more money and monetary coming from Washington,
you probably could have defeated him.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Well, you know who screwed us. You know, I'll say
this because I mean you could google this. Who screwed
me the most was Chris Christy Governor. Chris Christy was
the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, and he got
a deal with Cuomo with the bridge gate because Cuomo
had that over his head, and Chris Christy publicly screwed me.
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In fourteen, we had a lot of momentum and we
had a real chance to beat Cuomo that year as
it was, I mean, with one hand tied behind her back.
We still we only lost by I think it was
twelve points or something. When we were losing by thirty
five in every poll. So we had a chance with money,
we might have beaten them, but Christy screwed us. But anyway, sorry,
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go ahead.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Yeah, no, I agree with you fully. I remember now
a repe left when you brought that up. Yeah, well,
in records the Curtis and Andrew Clomo. The problem for
Curtis as you know, being you know, an elected official.
Curtis's problem that's in numbers game. Republicans are just not
there anymore. The Queens people who had money, they went
to Long Island. The demographics have changed. He's just running
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an uptill battle.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
That's true. But and here's the butt you you can't,
especially in a four way race, you can win with
thirty five percent of the vote forty The rank choice
voting screws things up. But you can put coalitions together.
It is a lot harder at a place like New
York City than it is statewide, and it's obviously a
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lot harder in this state than it is nationwide. But
it can be done. But it starts with good candidates.
It starts with money, and the money ain't there, and
unfortunately the apparatus isn't there either for the party. I
hate to say it. Let's go to Long Island, Chris
and Bethpage High Chris Christopher.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Yeah, I think we'd cut off accent.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Good you're on now?
Speaker 8 (30:59):
Oh hey, so Rob, Yes? Would I want to talk
about the state of New York. You know, I think
the governorship is totally winnable next year. I love Mike
wall I'd love to see him going or at least
the phonic Obviously, either one will destroy I think Katy Hope.
Will they debate, It'll be it'll be ugly. And I'm
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noticing one thing though. Outside of the city, which of
course is huge and it means everything, I think the
rest of the state is pretty red. I live in
Long Island. Boy, there's Trump stuff everywhere. I didn't see
one Kamala harrising. We have four represent We're the reason
why the House is red is because of one island,
you know. Yeah, And I'm just saying, plus, if you
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remember we elected I don't know how George Santos a
couple of years ago. Nobody checked into him. But that's
how desperate we are to put a Republican in there.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
And Santos is still he was. He was tweeting something
the other day. I mean, I hate to say this,
to George, but shut up, stop all right, have some
humble pie. You're going to prison. Just you gotta fade
away and rehab yourself. But he doesn't give up. Chris,
thank you for the call. So yeah, I won forty
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six of sixty two counties in New York State and
lost because the five boroughs Staten Island, unfortunately that year
went for Cuomo. I hope they learned their lesson. But
statn Island's become a lot more Republican Nassau County at
that time. Again, I got screwed by a lot of Republicans.
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In fourteen, Christy led the way. But here at home, Mangano,
who is the county executive in Nassau, publicly endorsed Cuomo.
Mangano's in jail right now. And there were others that
either behind my back or publicly, and so we couldn't win.
They all helped Cuomo. They were afraid of Cuomo and
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the cut deals with Cuomo. But that's kind of the
issue too. And you're right through that time. Between then
and now, a lot of Republicans have moved down south,
have died or there. You know, there's just so many
less of us now, unfortunately, and the Democrats have become
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further and further to the left, crazier and crazier, and
they would rather they would never ever ever vote for
a republican period. One three, two, one zero seven ten.
All righty, let me see here, oh Liros point to point.
So I have to go down to DC Wednesday and
come back on Thursday, and you betcha, I'm taking Liros
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to La Guardia because my time is valuable. I want
to make sure they show up at my house on
time or at the airport on time. I don't want
to have to get off the plane, get the uber
app out and hope that they're there, and hope I
get into a car that doesn't stink like throw up.
So that's why I call Leros point to point. And
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you know, I don't. I prefer not to use a
ride share if I don't have to, or a taxi.
And they're good at what they do. Safety is their
number one priority. Their drivers are dressed well, present well,
they've got liability insurance, their background checks. They're good. Okay,
So get to the airport or go on the night
on you know, a night on a town. Don't drink
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and drive, have fun call liros point to point best
bet liros TG dot com, liros l E r O
s TG dot com, or I mean you could call
them one eight hundred and eighty two liros whatever you
want to do. A couple more of your calls I
can try to get to but I have other things
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to talk about, including say goodbye to the Penny, and
a few other interesting things, including the Pope's childhood home.
So don't go anywhere, rob Estarino here on seven to
ten wo R. I'll tell you about the Penny in
just a moment, but first I want to tell you
about Dominick's Restaurant on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. Costs
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you a couple pennies, not a lot, for a great meal,
a great Italian meal in the little Italy section Arthur
Avenue in the Bronx. I love this place. I'm thinking of.
You know, my wife actually is up. So we bought
a trailer. My wife bought a trailer, you know, like
an RV thing, a camper thirty two feet long. So
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she's actually isn't like a midlife crisis. I don't know,
but anyway, we got a trailer, so she is up.
With my daughter right now, fixing this thing up and
preparing it for the summer, which is actually pretty cool.
We've always kind of liked doing this. We go up
to one particular area and a beach and so, you know,
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it's nice. You can get away, just take the car
and go. It's not too far and you can just
like go when you want, and it's big enough where
you could have fun. So anyway, I'm home alone tonight,
so I'm deciding, and even until tomorrow, she's not coming
back to tomorrow night, so I'm trying to figure out
where to eat because we've got all these options. You know,
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we've got great sponsors like the Pleasantville Diner. We've got
Benjamin Steakhouse and now Dominic's, and I don't know what
to do. I might go to Dominicks, so I haven't
been there in a while, but they've got great food,
great pasta dishes. Tomorrow if I go, They've got their
own Sunday specials like lasagna. They've got beef brazole, which
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is like a football, it is so big. They got
the pasta combos, got fresh fish, they got the chicken,
the chops, all that good stuff. So head over to
Dominic's on Arthur Avenue. Of course, no credit cards are
checks accepted cash only. Go say hi to Charlie at
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Dominick's Restaurant on Arthur Avenue. Penny the penny is gone,
and I will tell you about that in just a moment.
Let me take a few more calls here. First one
is George right in New York City. Hey George, how
are you?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Oh hi, Rob, You're great boy.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
You're talking about art the revenue. I'm getting hungry just
thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
I might go over there and get some to eat.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Man, oh man.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
I love that place, as the.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
Thing is with New York City. And I'm here in
New York City and I think about moving, But I
don't want to move because I still love the city,
but I hate what's.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Going on in it.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
I always said there are people leaving Republicans, leaving conservatives.
You hit it out in Brooklyn and Queens where we
had a lot of votes of conservative people. They're all gone.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Now.
Speaker 7 (37:44):
Curtis runs a horrible campaign, but he has to get
not only the Republican line because nobody else wants it,
but he has to get another line too, because I
can tell you and you know you're a student. There
are people in New York City who will never vote
for a Republicans, but they're fighting by the crime. Curtis,
if he lets Cuomo steal the crime issue, which.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
Is insane with the Nobel War and everything be insane
if he steals it. But it's going to be a
four way race. Curtis better run a better line. And
Chris from Betpage is really stem from Manhattan.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
The diois.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Walter and Yonkers. How are you, Walter? You're on seven
to ten wr.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
I was gonna talk politics, but now that you're talking, Benjamin,
where I have to sometimes sometime in a near future
go and Dominis were my dad and grandpa when I
was an anty bitty kid two thirds of a century ago.
They would walk up to Dominics on Fridays and come
back with fries and fried scallops. They were terrific. I
got to get there.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Ah, good for you. Yes, and maybe you might see
me there and they, by the way. The thing I
like about that.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I don't also see an a pleasant Rold diner someday too.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
See. I love this car. You have very good Walter.
You can meet me at all of our dining spots.
Go ahead, Walter, what's up politics?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Bad mouthing and the Republicans. No, I'm a maga person.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
No, not bad mouthing. I'm telling you I've been through.
I'm a lifelong Republican. I ran and won as a
Republican telling people what the truth is.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Right now, and I've been voting Republican all the way through.
But the term that I have for the established, the
cutlass establishment types is the FERP for effing useless Republican Party.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Ferps. Yeah, unfortunately, you know, I can tell you this.
When I was County executive, we had a legislature and
it was Democrats controlled the legislature. But I was able
to get a lot done because we did a coalition.
But I had as many problems from Republicans that I
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did as from Democrats. Because in the end, as you're
seeing in Congress right now in the House, and we're
going to see it again in the Senate, they all
get squeamish, they've got no backbone alleyfish, and when it
really comes down to it, they don't want to cut
a thing because they're so afraid of being criticized. But
they know what they got to do. But they're so afraid,
(40:10):
and then they cut their deals. They cut deals with Democrats,
they cut it withever. So I totally get it. I
mean I get it, and it's very frustrating because this
country's going down the tubes. Trump is doing everything he
can to write the ship. He has support, but almost
not enough. And it just squeaked by in the House
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that the Senate is going to screw it up and
do away with some of the real important things and
they can go a lot further on Medicaid and a
whole other things, and I don't know if they will,
and I'm concerned. But anyway, Walter, I appreciate your call
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you for fifty five minutes. So the penny is gone, Gonzo,
Goodbye to the penny. I mean it's still gonna be around.
There's plenty of them. But the Treasury Department Scott Bessen,
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obviously with the blessing of Donald Trump, has decided to
not order any more of the blank coins that they
make into the penny. So it makes fiscal sense because
it literally costs four times what it cost what the
value of a penny is. It costs four cents to
make a penny. That makes no sense, and honestly, who
(42:22):
cares anymore. I mean, they're gonna round it up. So
everyone saying, well, you know this is gonna hurt the
middle class. Come on, I mean, really, do you want
to walk around with like fourteen pennies in your pocket.
I don't what do you do when you see a penny?
Do you do? You really stop traffic and go get
the penny? No, it's it's almost valueless at this point.
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So they're gonna round up or they're gonna round down.
I'm sure they're gonna round up, but the penny is
gonna be gone because as of next year, they will
no longer produce new pennies. Now. I think there's like
fourteen billion pennies in circulation right now. But the interesting
thing is, I think it's something like sixty percent of
(43:08):
the coins the pennies in circulation aren't in circulation. They're
sitting in jars. Nobody's using them. So they're already taking
them out of circulation and not using them, So why
produce more? And it's interesting if you know about the penny,
it came out of the coinage Jack of nineteen of
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seventeen ninety two, and originally, if you see the old
coins of the old pennies, the picture is not of
a president. It was a woman with flowing hair, and
that was to symbolize liberty, because you know, we just
came from a monarchy. So they didn't want a king
(43:50):
on the currency. But it wasn't until nineteen oh nine
where Lincoln adorned the penny to honor him for his
one hundredth birthday. So that's that's where it is. Pennies.
As of next year, they'll stop producing them. You just
have to carry around the coins, you know. When I
was in Europe for almost a month or so with
the with my vacation, but then of course covering the
(44:12):
Pope's funeral Francis and then the conclave, nobody it's like,
you still have euro coins, but they're annoying too. They've
got the dollar coins and I think the two the
dollar euro coin, the one and the two, and then
they've got I think fifty fifty, twenty ten and five.
(44:35):
And you know, you're walking around with all these darn coins.
They use them more there than they do here. And
the money but kind of everyone now is just using
these banking apps or Apple pay or whatever, or credit cards,
and I just don't. You're not gonna have money anymore.
(44:56):
You're not gonna walk around with cash. But it is
that's a good idea, and I have it. It is
a good idea to stow away cash, to have some
cash for the day when everything collapses and it becomes
it just becomes, you know, the living dead situation, and
(45:16):
there's like money is valuable if you have it, so
you can trade it. But at some point, you know,
you gotta be careful. If the whole system goes down,
cash is going to be king or gold. William Devane
tells me all the time on TV buy gold. You
gotta listen to him.
Speaker 5 (45:34):
Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
This whole thing with Fifth Avenue is so friggin annoying.
So Mayor Adams wants to spend four hundred and two
dollars four hundred and two million dollars of New York
City taxpayer money for this bird brained idea of ripping
up Fifth Avenue from Brian Park to Central Park. It's
(45:57):
almost a mile stretch, and it would reduce the number
of traffic lanes from five to three. So you think
traffic is horrible a midtown anyway, you know, it was
always bad, but you can get through it. Then of
course they cut off pedestrian lane. They made pedestrian lanes
bicycle lanes. This is the whole Bloomberg nonsense. And now
(46:18):
bus lanes, and now of course there's congestion. You're taking
away lanes because they hate cars. The left hates cars
because cars represent freedom. I don't have to be stuck
going on a schedule of a subway or a bus
packed with other people. I could be my own car,
doing what I want to do. Listening to this show.
(46:40):
And now they're just restricting more and more lanes in
New York City. And so they're gonna make bigger sidewalks
on both sides of Fifth and the sidewalks are gonna
be from fifteen feet to twenty five feet. They're gonna
plant two hundred and thirty trees. So this is supposed
to start in twenty twenty eight if the city Council
(47:02):
gives the funding. Here's one time when I'm rooting for
the New York City Council, as brainless as they are
to figure out that this is not good. And between
congestion pricing, between taking away lanes for cars, between costing
(47:22):
like sixty dollars to park your car for a half hour,
I don't know who wants to come into New York
City anymore. No normal person can afford going into New
York City anymore. You come in and let's just say
you're gonna walk around, maybe go to a show, go
to a dinner, whatever. Park the car. Even if you're
taking Metro North, it ain't cheap. If you're taking a
(47:44):
family of four, let's say it's not cheap. So no
matter what you do, if you're coming into New York City,
you're already down several hundred dollars just about before anything.
And that's before walking around smelling urine, smelling pot, and
maybe get and beaten over the head. So they make
it worse and worse for anyone to want to come
(48:05):
into the city. You want to live in the city,
go right ahead. But I'm becoming less and less inclined
of doing whatever I have to do for my extra
income and enjoying a day in the city. It's just
it's like it's becoming less worth it to me. I'll
go sit in that trailer that my wife just not. Oh,
(48:27):
we got to get out of here. Yes, thank you
to the cadets, Thank you to those serving, Thank you.
We appreciate everything. And this is about those who have died.
Though today is the beginning of a three day weekend Monday,
Memorial Day, say a prayer. Say a prayer to those
(48:47):
who have fought and served and gave their life for
this country. And while you're out, you might as well
say a prayer for the Knicks too, because they're pretty
much dead as well. Down two games to nothing, they
blew two games of the Garden, and now they got
to go to Indiana. Good luck anyway, have a great weekend,
Be safe and joy I'll be back here next Saturday
at four o'clock. Join me, won't you? Take care? Everybody?
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