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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This hour of programming on seven ten do WOR. He's
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former Westchester County executive Rob Astorena on seven ten WR.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh, it's good to be with you, bom Joel rob
Astorino here on seven ten WOR. Okay, So I'm gonna
give a warning. If there's a significant amount of time
with dead Air, it's because it's because I fell asleep
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on the air. I was in Rome this past week.
I got there Monday morning, flew overnight Sunday, and with
the six hours ahead, the body just doesn't get used
to it in that quick of a time. So we
were doing some work for Newsmax in preparation for the
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day the Pope dies whenever that is. But you know,
like a media organization, we prepare. So I had some meetings,
you know, right near the Vatican, and we did some
interviews which will air at some point, and of course
they ate a lot and drank a lot. I mean,
it's Rome, and I had some downtime so I was
able to walk around that beautiful city and I've been there.
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I think this was like my tenth time. So I've
been to Rome plenty of times and I love it.
It's very hard to not love Rome or anywhere in Italy.
But I could not get to sleep at night. Every
night I'm battling. You know, it's so bad. If you've
ever had this, You're lying in bed in a hotel
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and I'm staring at the ceiling all night. No matter
what I did, I couldn't fall asleep. And then you
got to get up and have a normal day. And
it's hard with the six hour difference to even say
touch at home, because you know, it's like ten in
the morning. I'm like, oh, I'll call my wife. H wait,
it's four in the morning back at home, and the
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same thing, you know, at nine o'clock or six o'clock
here at night, it's midnight where I was, so everything
gets thrown off. And then I got back last night.
So it was a very fast turnaround. It was a
good trip. I enjoyed every second of it. But this
is the first, Bruce, Is this not the first time
I've ever had coffee while I'm on the air. It's
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it's radio, Bruce. You can't shake your head. They don't
see that hop on the mic. He hates going on
the radio, which is why I ask him questions, you know,
want to get on. This really is the first time
I'm having coffee just to kind of stay awake. But
that is the honest truth, It is right. I mean
usually I'll drink a little water, but I'm just feeling
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the jet lag. So I'm gonna make it through, no problem.
And I'd love to take your calls a little later
one one hundred and three two one zero seven ten.
I will tell you more about my ro own trip later,
so make sure you stick around. And I didn't get
to see Trump's speech because it happened at three am,
is when he went on three am Rome time, and
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I wasn't staying up, but I was kind of off.
I couldn't really sleep, but it was uh so I
guess what he was an hour and a half because
he always speaks long. So it was three to four
thirty in the morning, so I didn't see it. I
did see highlights of it and read about it in
our hotel. They they had what do they have? They
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had uh RII, which is the Italian network, and they
have Trump derangement syndrome wherever you go. Now I can
understand some Italian and I can read it. Hard to
speak it because I haven't done it in a long time.
But there was this one political show and they all
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had Trump derangement syndrome in Italian and you could just
tell because they were talking about Ukraine and the meeting
he had with Zelenski and a picture like MSNBC in Taiano,
and that's what it was. You had. You had this
woman going and just exploding, just exploding, and it was
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actually fun to watch because you could just imagine, like
Rachel Maddow trying to speak Italian, That's what it would
sound like. And my daughter, who is in she's studying
in Spain this semester, but she's actually in London this weekend.
She said that the airbnb that she and her her
friends went to when they checked in, the owner said
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to them, oh, are you coming here to escape Trump?
And she looks at them, They're like what, And he
thinks that every American going over And by the way,
this is not isolated, that people are trying to get
out of America fast because Donald Trump is in office.
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This is serious. There's someone I know very well a
family member who is looking They're looking into purchasing property
in Ireland so they could escape when basically, you know,
Trump makes America the Third Reich again, this is it's
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it's a sickness. Clearly, there's no rational thought anymore. And
if you saw the speech, you now know where the
Democrats are. The greatest thing about Trump losing was that
it brought everything to the top. Everyone is now able
to see where both sides stand and how deranged the
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Democratic Party has become. That speech, that the reaction from
the Democrats that they couldn't stand for a thirteen year
old cancer victim because he was invited by Donald Trump,
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this adorable kid, DJ Daniel, who had thirteen brain surgeries
and his life goal if he lived, was to go
into law enforcement. And so he was invited by the President,
and of course Donald Trump introduced him. The kids stood up.
It was such an emotional moment, and Donald Trump made
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him an honorary member of the Secret Service. Who didn't
get a little teary eyed, who wouldn't feel great, And
every Democrat in that chamber, I think there was like
an exception of Fetterman. They refused to stand on every
single person that Donald Trump recognized, including by the way,
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the first lady. They are so disrespectful. Just remember Nancy
Pelosi ripping up his speech behind him that time. It's
so despicable. There's something bigger than you, by the way, Democrat,
it's the United States, and it's the Office of the Presidency,
it's the office of the Speaker, it's Congress. It's bigger
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than you. But we've been able to see them now
in full display. The spotlight is on and America is
really aghast at what they're seeing because remember, we've been
lied to by so many in the media and the
Democrats gaslighting us all for Trump in his first term,
for Biden, why he was there and so is now. Thankfully,
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Trump's election this time was the political enema that this
country needed. And I say that because you just imagine
what an enema is, right, It is flushing out all
of the crap. And it's good. It is really good
that we get to see the Democratic Party as they
truly are, that response or lack thereof. And then al
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go this buffoon from Texas with his cane sitting there
screaming and yelling. I mean, do you remember when the
guy from South Carolina, one of the Republicans when he yelled,
you lied to Obama during that speech. Even Republicans said
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at that time that was disrespectful and to me, it's
not the right time or place. But now there's no
decorum anymore. And these Democrats, I mean, these women dressing
in their pink you know in the past, the handsmade
tailed costumes. They're so ridiculous. Now that they've lost all credibility,
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which is a good thing. Let them keep going down
this path because the average person, now, even some Democrats
are so uncomfortable with where they are. AOC is going
to be the face of the party. Please, on TikTok,
you see these video, Choose your fighter. I honestly do
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hope they stay on this path because it's going to
be pretty easy to pick up congressional seats in a
year and a half when it normally would be very difficult.
If history plays out, Republicans are going to lose the
House in the midterm, not if the Democrats keep playing
the game they're playing, refusing to stand for a thirteen
year old with cancer. Keep doing it, please, you're making
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life very very easy screaming and yelling against any potential
cut by Doge or any of the administration. I mean, seriously,
I've been through this on a much different level. But
when I was county executive, you want to take a
pencil out of the budget, they would scream and yell
that I'm killing kids and killing grandma all that stuff.
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That's what they do. You're kind of used to it,
but that's what they do. But this is going beyond.
And then MSNBC, which can't figure out why it's lost
forty percent of its primetime audience, where Nicole Wallace and
Rachel Maddow blow a gasket because Trump quote exploited this
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kid and these guests. Every president since I don't know when,
every president, at least before at least so Reagan I know,
has always invited guests and talked about them and used
them to illustrate something. And it's always a respectful applause
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for the person. Maybe once in a while they disagree
and they would be a tepid response. But to sit
on your hands, it's just it's so unbelievable. But again,
thank you, thank you for showing your cards. Keep doing it.
Learn nothing from this last election. We really really thank you.
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But it's not isolated as I mentioned, this is why
their reaction when Trump, who does things, okay, in an
unorthodox way, but he gets people to move because if
it were up to Europe, especially like with Ukraine, if
it were up to Europe, they would just talk, they
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would talk and talk and talk, and meanwhile millions of
Ukrainians and Russians are getting slaughtered and there would be
no end in sight. Literally, there was a blank check
from the Biden deministration to Zelensky and Ukraine, and even
Zelensky can't tell you where some of that money went.
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So they just want to pick our pockets. And we're
supposed to sit there and say, yes, sir, whatever you say,
no problem. But when Donald Trump pushes them, he's pushing
them for us. He's actually standing up for us, which
hasn't been done forever, it seems like, certainly not by
the Democrats. So I mean, I'm loving what I'm seeing
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on the dose stuff. Okay, you know, sometimes they go
too fast, too far, but that's I'd rather that than
total inaction, which is what we're so used to. At
least somebody is speaking up for me as a taxpayer.
And what he just did with Columbia University thank God.
The Democrats have been absolutely silent, and Jews make up
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a bulk of that party. By the way, to this,
to my dying breath, I'll never understand how a Jew
in New York or a Jew in America, especially with
a link or love towards Israel, can sit there and
be part of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party who
sits there now with an anti anti Semitic cancer and
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tumor growing in its party, has looked you in the
eye and says we hate you, we hate you, we
love jumas that wants to kill you. And you've got
so many Democrats in the in New York, many of
whom are Jewish, and they keep writing checks and they
keep saying thank you, May I have another. I don't
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get it. I don't understand it. And the Democrats, the
leaders just keep taking advantage. But I love what he
did with Columbia. Columbia allowed all you know, many many colleges,
you pen, there's so many of them. But Columbia right
here allowed violence on its campus, allowed anti Semitic protests.
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You can say that's free speech. But when they crossed
the line and threatened people, so Trump just pulled four
hundred million dollars four hundred million dollars by the way,
through the Department of Education going to Columbia University for
what like. They need it. They have a fifteen billion
dollar endowment. They could live without it. They shouldn't have
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it in the first place. So look, he's You may
not agree with everything he does, you may not agree
how he does it, but he is doing it for
the right reasons, and we're going to come out of
this much better than when he got into it and
had to deal with all this meth. I mean, it's
just a what he's trying to clean up. It's it's
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almost unimaginable. It's like the US went through one massive
hurricane or a tornado blew through. Our government left it
in rubble, and he's got to come in here in triage,
and he's got to come in here and clean it
all up. And he's doing it and it's not easy.
It's messy, and there's going to be intense blowback as
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we're getting, but he keeps going forward, and for that,
I say thank you, mister President. One hundred three two
one zero seven ten. One hundred three two one zero
seven ten. I'll talk a little bit about Mayor Adams
and the Paul Clement report that came out. So the
guy that the judge said, oh, I need before I
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can dismiss this case, I need somebody to write a
report to tell me why I shouldn't so. Paul Clement,
who is a conservative, he was a solicitor general at
one point under George Bush. He just finalized his report
and said basically, well, Judge, you basically have no right
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to not dismiss the case if the Justice Department is
not going to move forward. He goes, but what you
should do is dismiss this case with prejudice, which means
that the case cannot be resuscitated once it's dismissed, so
it won't be hanging over Adams. For him, that's a
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great thing, and it kind of takes away the what
the argument is that this is a deal between Adams
and the DOJ or the Trump administration. Either way, New
York City will win because Eric Adams is trying to
move forward on working with the DOJ and working with
Ice to get these violent illegals who are criminals out
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of New York and that that gets him on the
most hated man in New York list, because this is
how crazy it's gotten. If Trump says one thing, Democrats
must go one hundred eighty degrees different, and then you
got this fraud. I'm just looking on TV Governor Newsom,
who of course wants to set himself up as you know,
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the the mainstream moderate Democrat is now breaking with his
party on transgender athletes. After of course, he just spent
the last five ten years totally screwing girls and women
in California by allowing trans men to dress up as
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a woman and put them in sports. What a bunch
of fraudsters anyway, one hundred three to one zero seven
to ten, one hundred and three two one zero seventy ten, Bruce,
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All right, e let us go to zephones one eight
hundred and three two one zero seven ten. We will
start with Chris and Bethpage, Long Island.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Hey, Chris, Hey Rob love you show. First of all,
remember this meloton and gummies. Bring them with you next
time on the road. I've been taking them for over
a year. You take two a night. No, you know what?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Here's here. I know some people take melatonin. Melatonin I've tried.
It gives me the craziest dreams. Like it's like LSD
FA me or something. If I never took LSD or anything.
But I'm assuming this is what it's like. I get wacky,
wacky dreams. So it doesn't work for me. I can't.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
No good, Okay, I totally agree.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
I totally agree with you. It's funny. I've gotten so
used to the wacky dreams now they don't even face
me anymore. But it's so right. You're so right. But anyhow, Rob,
I always like to draw sports analogies with the political scenarios.
So back in the early eighties, I went to Shamana
High School on Long Islands and I was a big
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Ranger fan. I still am. All my friends, most of
my Islander fans in the early eighties.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Now, okay, won four Cups in a row. Excuse me,
they won four Cups in a row.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Then the fifth year they lose to Edmonton in the
Stanley Cup pounds, if you remember, right. So I, like
an idiot come into school and go aha, take that,
take that or whatever, like an idiot range of fan
and they're like, dude, we got four rings. You ever
want anything since nineteen forty, Go back into the little
hole you crawled out if you got nothing to say.
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That's what I feel about the Democratic Party right now.
They're like the range of fans in the early eighties.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
They have.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
This is the lowest I've seen them. They have no leadership.
That speech the other night was a total embarrassment. I
had friends who hate Trump at work. I went in
the next day. They were like, oh my god, this
is bad. This like they were admitting this is bad.
So my question to you is, and it's a tough one,
where do they go from here? Like, seriously do they
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I think they have to look at a governor in
like a southern state or something like maybe Brasher from Kentucky.
They really got to tack back to the mill. That's
what I feel. But I knowing them, they're so crazy
they probably won't.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, good call, and I thank you for Chris. So, look,
this is what Newsom is trying to do. He is
such a slickback fraud, so he is trying to take
anybody's steps, knowing he can't run again, positioning himself even
though California is an utter disaster, it will be so
easy to run against him. But oh, he's a good
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looking guy, and he's gonna say what he needs to say,
just like Cuomo. Cuomo's looking at becoming mayor because it's
an easy path, and he's gonna sound like he's gonna
sound like he never had anything to do with the
destruction of this city, even though it was his hand
and his pen that signed all the legislation that gave
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us no cash bell and everything else which ruined this place.
You hate the congestion pricing, Now you can thank Andrew Cuomo.
I mean, there's a long list, but he's going to
pretend that, you know, it was nothing to do with him,
just like Gavin Newsom's going to do. So they can't
figure out should they be the Trump derangement syndrome resistance,
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which worked last time. But we're in a different time
now and there is no leader right now in the
Democratic Party. And I think, you know, Basher and Kentucky
is a good example where it's sort of like Clinton.
You know, back then, Bill Clinton was this kind of
middle of the road, sensible guy, and that's how he
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portrayed himself and he won. He won the primaries, and
he obviously won the presidency, and he worked with Gingrich
and they got things done and that's why they had success.
This is a different Democratic Party. They are completely off
the rails, and a core of that party now is socialist,
anti Semitic, anti America. I mean that there's a lot
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of them that just hate this place more than anything,
and I mean that's what spits out of MSNBC and
even CNN too many times. But they're rudderless right now,
and they they kind of tip where they're going because
their new chair of the DNC is a total left,
left wing whack job from Minnesota, so they didn't learn.
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I mean, Fetterman is the Vetterman was a lunatic and
he's now he's now really the only voice in the wilderness,
and he's it for the Democrats, and they hate him.
And look, I think Fetterman is trying to preserve himself
because when he runs, I think in two years he's
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in Pennsylvania, which just you know, went Donald Trump, and
I mean, he's trying to figure out how to get
through his next election. But at least he's sensible. Sometimes
this party's really it's it's beyond crazy. And again, as
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I said earlier, keep doing it, folks, if you're the Democrats,
you're on the right path. Stay on this path, keep
doing it. Keep keep denigrating a thirteen year old with cancer,
that is the way to go. Keep you know what,
you're right. You should defend spending taxpayer dollars on studies
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of how to make mice transgender. You're on the right path.
You keep doing that. Please one hundred and three two
one zero seventy ten. Rob Astarino here, Andrew and Stanhope,
how are you? Andrew?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
That's everyone's top issue in America, changing mice transgender You're right?
How different than Bill Clinton who would do what Feederman's
doing and moderates. And it was actually Dick Morris that
coined the term try that. He said, Okay, what do
the Republicans like? What do the crossover most Americans? What
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do the Democrats? So you have to go along with
the Republicans and then you could pick one of your
things be in the fire. But they're doing the opposite.
But I want to say the blow up with Lizinski,
I would tell him not only the money and the
weapons we want back, but give us the sheets Obama
gave you and wash them and also fabric softener and
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mail them back. You don't even get the sheet. Yep.
He didn't like that.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
But I just want to say, real.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Quick, on a serious note with him, Lizinski, as bad
as it was, I think the mistake that he made
was not talk about when he said we feel it,
we could feel it. I think if he said you're
a NATO country, so Russia may invade Poland or you know, Estonia,
and that's like invade in the US, so like, But
he didn't say that, he didn't articulate it. And even
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when he said about you know, security, he said that
in the beginning, and Trump didn't react or get mad.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
So if he had.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Said NATO, I think the whole thing would have been different.
But he cooked his own goose, but he came crawling back.
The left didn't like that, especially right before the speech.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Well apparently, and thanks for the call. Apparently he was
getting his advice from some Democrats before that speech. I
mean that is that's like, okay, I don't know how
to read the room. I have no idea what's happening
in America. So let me talk to Chuck Schumer and
some of these resistance Democrats who absolutely hate Trump. Let
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me let me pick their brains and see what they think,
instead of going to some of the Republicans like Graham
and others, like how should I handle this meeting? What
should I say? It's just again, you know, you never
see that in public that happens. That kind of blow
up happens behind closed doors. So Net Yahoo and Trump
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or Biden to Net yaw. They had those kind of
screaming matches, maybe not screaming, but certainly tension filled meetings
with the door shut. You don't do it in public.
This was played out for everyone to see, and it
was kind of I mean, yeah, it was enjoyable, it
was great TV, but it was also a real lesson
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in know what you're walking into, be prepared. So less
he was not prepared because he's not used to being
told no. He's gotten anything and everything he's wanted from
Europe and from the US. But now there's a new
guy in town who says, I'm thinking a little bit
different here. You know, we're cutting stuff in America and
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you want us to just keep writing you billions and
billions of dollars and you can't even tell us where
some of this money goes. And by the way, Ukraine
is a corrupt country, always has been. Now all of
a sudden it's they're like America in seventeen seventy six.
Give me a break. And because I say that, and
because anyone says that, it doesn't mean oh for Russia,
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oh I'm pro putin. Yeah. Stupid. That's a stupid response
from ignorant people. You can question both, and certainly you
can question where a money goes and how it's being spent.
And three two one zero seven to ten. Dave in Mahwah,
New Jersey. Hi, Dave, Hey, Rob, how are you today? Good?
Speaker 7 (31:23):
It's great to have this show for four pm on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
I just wanted to say, you know, I used to
give the Democrats credit. I thought they were very smart, cunning,
great fighters, knew how to you know, even if they
had a cheat, they knew how to win. Right now,
they are like they're running around like chickens without a head.
They have no plan. They it's just unbelievable to see
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the ridiculousness of these individuals.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I know, it's totally unbelievable, and it's it's great to watch.
As I said, you know, they are imploding and I
don't know how long it's gonna take to build up
because they have no direction. They only know one They
only know one way, and that is scream and yell
about Donald Trump. But you know they've been calling him
hitler now for eight years. It didn't work. The American
(32:19):
people didn't buy it. They re elected him. They don't
understand where we are right now. We're in March of
twenty twenty five. Just for you Democrats out there, it
is March twenty twenty five. The elections were last November.
Trump won because the American people said, I don't really
like the way Biden and the Democrats are running things,
(32:40):
so I'm gonna take a chance with this guy again
who we voted against last time, and I really don't
like personally, but I'm gonna go with him. And you
still think it's October of last year. You keep making
a losing case. Go ahead, keep doing it, please please.
I know some and has something to say in New Jersey. Hey, Sondra.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Hi Rob, I was thinking about what you were talking
about the show early on regarding DJ. You know, I
was thinking about, first of all, that poor boy had
thirteen surgery. It's probably one every year of his life.
And it shocked me that of all people, Jamie Raskin,
who had a bat with Campton's shelf, didn't stand up
for this boy, and even even Citizen he should have
(33:26):
stood up too. He had a stroke and he should
have been humble and kind. I at least those two,
and then I wanted to say something about Al Green.
We all know why he was asked to leave because
of inappropriate behavior. Do you know what I learned last
night that he's pulling the race part. He has a
nerve to say that Mike Johnson asked him to believe
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to leave because of his skin color. Is that an
outrage or what?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's all again, that's that's their playbook. Their playbook is
one page. And that's kind of it. It's racism, it's hitler,
it's all part of the Trump arrangement syndrome. But it's
it's like it's it's worn out, it's nobody. Yeah, many
times when I was on CNN for three years, I
was the Republican on CNN War one of them. Scott Jennings,
(34:12):
who's doing great, he was one of them with me
and a couple others. And every time I was on
the air during Trump's first term, it was all about
racism and how how would I be a part of
this racist party, this white supremacist party, this Trump who
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hates every minority. That's all they would say. They haven't
marched on, they haven't figured it out. It doesn't work anymore.
And you know, when you're called a racist every night,
which basically I was. It just completely loses its meaning.
The first time, I was like, oh my god, I'm
not that, but that's what they do. They say that
so you get defenseless and defense defensive both and you're
(34:58):
going to the corner and you don't know how to react.
I would laugh every time they would call me that
or say I would just like laugh literally on camera.
I would laugh, and I'm like, Okay, now when you're done,
I'm gonna come right at your juggler. I'm coming. I'm
gonna take my fingers and I'm gonna put them so
deep into your eyes, and I'm gonna answer the question
(35:18):
the way it should be answered. And you may not
want to hear it, and maybe your audience doesn't want
to hear it, but you're gonna get it. And I
remember so many times I would be coming home from
CNN and I would get the most vile, the most
vile messages on X or Twitter at the time, or
even Facebook from these sickos that would I mean, there
(35:43):
were times where we literally had to alert the police
because you know, there was some concern that one of
these nut jobs is gonna show at my house and
potentially do what they said they wanted to do or
have done, and some of it was about my kids
or my wife. You could say everything you want about me,
I could really give a crap, but you know, the
(36:04):
horrible things that they would say, they would want to
happen to my wife or children. This is how sick
they are. But they do that because a they're you know,
they're demented. But they also tried to take your ability
to have a cogent conversation. And they don't want any
of that because they I mean for most of us
(36:25):
now we're starting to realize those who are coming late
to the party, unlike me and some others, you know what,
there's two genders. You know what, Americans really don't care
about transgender mice. This is this is them and and
like we've been onto this nonsense and most Americans that's
not where they are. One three two, one zero seven ten.
(36:49):
Bobby and Morris Park, how are you? Bobby?
Speaker 5 (36:53):
All right?
Speaker 6 (36:54):
Rob?
Speaker 8 (36:54):
And Sondra is a doll and we could listen to
on every show, But I want to tell you, Rob,
you're in big comp beneacause francessa sports guys fell asleep
on the air and so you're a and you got
no competition in his hour. Believe me when I tell you.
And just one thing quickly about sports before I get
to the meat and potatoes. Tommy DeVito signed a new
(37:15):
contract with the Giants, and we're all happy about that.
And I always said Tommy has pocket presence. Look what
happens to a great quarterback with no offensive line. Exhibit
A is the Super Bowl right now, getting now, rob
getting back to the to the speech and everything. People
have to realize. For years, the left wing lunatics would
(37:35):
scare our more seasoned Americans all social Security, it's gonna
go away in erging, but they would never ever talk
about running out of welfare checks. Now, I said this
all along, but the hard left wing in this country
have been pillaging social Security, giving out money, fraud, all
kinds of nonsense going on there. We know there's a
(37:57):
lot of people on there who are have probably done
one hundred years ago or whatever. And we know there's
people who use phony Solid Security numbers and also phony
tax id numbers, and it basically pillage the Solid Security fund.
That's all Trump is trying to do is get it back.
And if he does, get it back to where it
really is what a true audit. But they can have
more money for our seniors deserve it. You want a
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seventy five year old, the eighty year olds to go
back to work because they can't afford the crazy tax
increases that the left wing wants to put into this country. Now,
I just want to finish up with this rob because
they do an excellent show. You have no competition. Would
you have Curtis Lee where as a guest? I think
that you two going at it would be great.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yeah, I would have Curtis. I mean, I've known curse forever.
I like Curtis I just as I've said. I mean,
I think he's got a very slim chance of winning
just because of the makeup of the demographics and six
to one Democrat, so by you know, by virtue of
being a Republican whoever that is, it's going to be
very very hard. But yeah, I mean I've known it
(39:00):
is forever. Let me sneak in another call or two here,
Michael and Oyster Bay. Hi, Michael, how are you.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
A couple of things? I like the analogy of the chickens,
but I would say, more like chickens with bird flu,
we should just basically eliminate the whole party politically. Though
politically my other point was Donald Trump is a genius
what he's doing with the tariffs and the USAID and Zelensky.
He's defunding the illegal funding streams of the deep state
(39:28):
and the Democrat He's going to bankrupt them and then
they're gonna have nothing. Yes, brilliant, that's why he's doing
it all. At the same time, I love it.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
No, it's a great point, Michael, because what's happening what
the Democrats do. And Lise Elden from Long Island, the
EPA administrator, I mean, he just pointed out they've parked
billions of dollars in a JP Morgan account on the
last couple of days of the Biden administration, and they
were handing these out all over the place, all these departments,
(39:56):
all to left wing organizations. But that's what they do.
They my tax dollars, they feed it to left wing
organizations who then hire. In a roundabout way, these organizations
are the foot soldiers of the Democratic Party. So all
these protests you're seeing, these demonstrations that get out the vote,
all that's basically my tax dollars used to bring out
(40:21):
a democratic electorate. So it is, it's it's genius what
he's doing. Absolutely all right, Nino, I got to make
you the last call here. How are you, Nino from
Allentown's organization?
Speaker 6 (40:32):
Go ahead, Neino, Hey, hey, listen, No is my body.
He wants me to keep it brief. Five quick points.
One ben return America. So also I want to bring
up God rest and told him that twenty six year
old cop who was murdered the other one, God heal him,
and that fourteen year old thug should never see the
(40:52):
light of day. Also, I was the only thing I
left out in a Trump's speech, Rob was he didn't
mention the veterans. Now, he helped us more than all
the presidents after Reagan, and even more than Reagan and
the Guard. And I know he'll help us again, but
he has to push while he has the iron, when
he has his party the majority. And let's help those
(41:14):
that help the veterans because of war. And let's get
also let's get Hollywood. Three sixty old time radio shows.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Bango. All right, So I got to the airport. You know,
I want to talk about Rome when I come back here.
But for whatever reason, Newsmax which sent me out there Newsmax.
They need to get an account, a corporate account with
Lero's point to point, because they ordered an uber fine.
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And I mean my ride out there was you know,
in a minivan that smelled, but that's okay. But coming
back yesterday at Kennedy, which if you know Kennedy, it's
just a mob scene outside, you know, looking for your
uber or whatever. And the one that showed up first
of all, he calls me he's at the wrong terminal
and and I cannot understand him on the phone. I
(42:11):
cannot understand, you know, obviously he was from India with
a very deep Indian accent. I can't figure out where
he is or what he's saying. And he's like twenty
minutes later he shows up. I'm like, you know what,
none of this would have happened if it was Liro's
point to point. They are unbelievable. I mean, seriously, I
wouldn't have. They would have been there inside the terminal
or waiting at a point outside where I'd know where
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there would be. They would they would be a clean car.
The chauffeurs are screened, background checks, liability insurance, impeccable fleet,
not getting into something that smells and this place, this
car that I had an Ubert stunk. Anyway, you're coming
back from the airport. Going to the airport, get yourself
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tell you about my Italy trip.
Speaker 5 (43:22):
In just a moment.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
We'll be right back one one hundred three to two
one zero seven ten. Mark that number down for next
week and every week, because I love when you call up.
All right, I'll be right back. Thank you Bruce for
reminding me. Yeah tonight, of course, daylight saving time. That's
actually what it is, officially, daylight saving time, not savings time.
But anyway, I always say savings, but it's actually wrong.
(43:45):
Put your clock ahead tonight before you go to bed,
or clocks if you still have I do we have
wall clocks, you know, and as they always say, and
it's a good reminder, make sure tonight to check your
smoke alarm and your co two alarms. You know, the
batteries there do that like twice a year. Makes sense.
So I'm in Rome this week. If you heard earlier,
(44:08):
and you know, we're doing some stuff because obviously Pope
Francis is not doing well. You have not seen video
or photos of the Pope since he's been in the hospital.
I mean, this could be a weekend at Bernie's thing.
I hate to say that, but you don't know. And
he did have a quick audio release a couple of
(44:30):
days ago. Didn't sound good and was only like ten seconds.
But every day they release a statement twice a day
on how he slept overnight, and then in the evening
came out about an hour ago on his condition and
this saying he's getting a little bit better, but it's
still guarded. Blah blah blah blah. So anyway, you know,
(44:51):
I was. I certainly was talking to some cardinals that
I've known, and the thinking is this is not just
from them, other people I talked to, and the thinking
is that the Pope is certainly not doing well. He's
probably doing worse than their admitting. He's eighty eight. He
(45:12):
has half of a lung gone from when he was
a kid, and you know, this could either be a
kind of slow decline or something like he had last
week where it was a and it was tough too.
You have I don't remember the exact term, but he
had an episode which was very dangerous. So, I mean,
(45:35):
obviously we do pray for the pope, but when there's
a conclave when the pope dies, it's called seede vicante
a vacant seat. So when the pope dies, there's that interregnum.
They call it the time between a pope when he
dies and when the new pope is elected in the conclave.
So during that time you have the nine days of morning,
(45:59):
that's the ma and the funeral, and then they call conclave,
which might be a week or two after that. So
I'm going back to Rome whenever that is, if it's
soon or hopefully maybe later. And so we were doing
some prep and everything. But Rome is just an amazing city.
Just obviously just if you've never been there, that's got
(46:20):
to be on your bucket list. And Saint Peter's Basilica.
So I was there for ash Wednesday. Now Here, as
you know, when you go for ash Wednesday, the priest
with his thumb will say a little prayer and then
do the sign of the Cross with the ashes on
his thumb onto your forehead, and it's pretty visible. So
(46:42):
my colleague actually was at the Vatican and went into
Saint Peter's. He waited forty minutes online to get into
the Basilica, but he also got his ashes there. I
was walking around Rome and so I said, yeah, I
don't want to walk over to the Vatican and wait online.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
So I went.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
I found a church. It was Saint Augustine, the Basilica
of Saint Augustine. Every church is beautiful, by the way
enroll and it's like every other block there's another church.
There's actually two churches on the Via de la concei Lazione,
which is the street that you see that leads into
the Colonnades and into Saint Peter's. There's actually two churches
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on that one little block before you even get to
Saint Peter's. And so but anyway I was. I went
to Saint Augustine's, so I'm online. It was an Italian mass.
I sat there for it, and then at the right point, obviously,
you get online to get your ashes. So I'm online
and I see every person that's walking away after they
(47:40):
get their little prayer and the ashes, and they're walking
towards me to go back to their seat, and I
don't see anything on their forehead. I'm like, what's going
on up there that the priest forgot? Did you forget
to like mix the water and the ashes, Like what
is happening. It wasn't until I got up to the
person in front of you that I saw what was
happening over there. It's a tradition. They don't put it
(48:03):
on your forehead. They sprinkle the ashes on your head,
so actually into your hair. So it was kind of weird,
maybe a little maybe nice.
Speaker 8 (48:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
I don't know how what to.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Think of it, because I'm only used to being here
where the ashes get put on your forehead. But it
was really, really wonderful, and here's something to think about.
So why is Saint Peter's not the cathedral? Why is
it the basilica? A basilica, by the way, is a
basically an honorary major church, but not a cathedral. The
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cathedral in each diocese is where the bishop resides, where
it's the bishop's church. The Bishop of Rome is the pope,
he's actually the Bishop of Rome. But Saint Peter's is
not a cathedral. It's it's a basilica. It's and it's monstrous.
If you've ever been there, it's just stunning. And I
(48:57):
was able to go downstairs to the cat combs, and
you know where the popes are buried. Fantastic. Anyway, I
will get back there soon, maybe not too soon, hopefully,
but I have more. I've ran out of time. There's
other funny things that happened in Rome. Rest assured, I
ate and drank very well the last four days. It's
(49:22):
been good with you again. Another week together. Let's do
it again next Saturday. I'll be rested. I don't know.
I'm gonna go home tonight just maybe pass out.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Anyway, I look forward to being with you next Saturday
one to three on Newsmax, and of course four to
five right here on seven to ten WR and every
Friday morning at seven am with Larry MENTI on his show,
See you next week. Turn your clocks ahead tonight, Okay, Chow.
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Oh, it's good to be with you, bom Joel rob
Astorino here on seven ten WOR. Okay, So I'm gonna
give a warning. If there's a significant amount of time
with dead Air, it's because it's because I fell asleep
(00:43):
on the air. I was in Rome this past week.
I got there Monday morning, flew overnight Sunday, and with
the six hours ahead, the body just doesn't get used
to it in that quick of a time. So we
were doing some work for Newsmax in preparation for the
(01:04):
day the Pope dies whenever that is. But you know,
like a media organization, we prepare. So I had some meetings,
you know, right near the Vatican, and we did some
interviews which will air at some point, and of course
they ate a lot and drank a lot. I mean,
it's Rome, and I had some downtime so I was
able to walk around that beautiful city and I've been there.
(01:25):
I think this was like my tenth time. So I've
been to Rome plenty of times and I love it.
It's very hard to not love Rome or anywhere in Italy.
But I could not get to sleep at night. Every
night I'm battling. You know, it's so bad. If you've
ever had this, You're lying in bed in a hotel
(01:47):
and I'm staring at the ceiling all night. No matter
what I did, I couldn't fall asleep. And then you
got to get up and have a normal day. And
it's hard with the six hour difference to even say
touch at home, because you know, it's like ten in
the morning. I'm like, oh, I'll call my wife. H wait,
it's four in the morning back at home, and the
(02:07):
same thing, you know, at nine o'clock or six o'clock
here at night, it's midnight where I was, so everything
gets thrown off. And then I got back last night.
So it was a very fast turnaround. It was a
good trip. I enjoyed every second of it. But this
is the first, Bruce, Is this not the first time
I've ever had coffee while I'm on the air. It's
(02:28):
it's radio, Bruce. You can't shake your head. They don't
see that hop on the mic. He hates going on
the radio, which is why I ask him questions, you know,
want to get on. This really is the first time
I'm having coffee just to kind of stay awake. But
that is the honest truth, It is right. I mean
usually I'll drink a little water, but I'm just feeling
(02:48):
the jet lag. So I'm gonna make it through, no problem.
And I'd love to take your calls a little later
one one hundred and three two one zero seven ten.
I will tell you more about my ro own trip later,
so make sure you stick around. And I didn't get
to see Trump's speech because it happened at three am,
is when he went on three am Rome time, and
(03:11):
I wasn't staying up, but I was kind of off.
I couldn't really sleep, but it was uh so I
guess what he was an hour and a half because
he always speaks long. So it was three to four
thirty in the morning, so I didn't see it. I
did see highlights of it and read about it in
our hotel. They they had what do they have? They
(03:32):
had uh RII, which is the Italian network, and they
have Trump derangement syndrome wherever you go. Now I can
understand some Italian and I can read it. Hard to
speak it because I haven't done it in a long time.
But there was this one political show and they all
(03:53):
had Trump derangement syndrome in Italian and you could just
tell because they were talking about Ukraine and the meeting
he had with Zelenski and a picture like MSNBC in Taiano,
and that's what it was. You had. You had this
woman going and just exploding, just exploding, and it was
(04:17):
actually fun to watch because you could just imagine, like
Rachel Maddow trying to speak Italian, That's what it would
sound like. And my daughter, who is in she's studying
in Spain this semester, but she's actually in London this weekend.
She said that the airbnb that she and her her
friends went to when they checked in, the owner said
(04:41):
to them, oh, are you coming here to escape Trump?
And she looks at them, They're like what, And he
thinks that every American going over And by the way,
this is not isolated, that people are trying to get
out of America fast because Donald Trump is in office.
(05:01):
This is serious. There's someone I know very well a
family member who is looking They're looking into purchasing property
in Ireland so they could escape when basically, you know,
Trump makes America the Third Reich again, this is it's
(05:21):
it's a sickness. Clearly, there's no rational thought anymore. And
if you saw the speech, you now know where the
Democrats are. The greatest thing about Trump losing was that
it brought everything to the top. Everyone is now able
to see where both sides stand and how deranged the
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Democratic Party has become. That speech, that the reaction from
the Democrats that they couldn't stand for a thirteen year
old cancer victim because he was invited by Donald Trump,
(06:04):
this adorable kid, DJ Daniel, who had thirteen brain surgeries
and his life goal if he lived, was to go
into law enforcement. And so he was invited by the President,
and of course Donald Trump introduced him. The kids stood up.
It was such an emotional moment, and Donald Trump made
(06:26):
him an honorary member of the Secret Service. Who didn't
get a little teary eyed, who wouldn't feel great, And
every Democrat in that chamber, I think there was like
an exception of Fetterman. They refused to stand on every
single person that Donald Trump recognized, including by the way,
(06:47):
the first lady. They are so disrespectful. Just remember Nancy
Pelosi ripping up his speech behind him that time. It's
so despicable. There's something bigger than you, by the way, Democrat,
it's the United States, and it's the Office of the Presidency,
it's the office of the Speaker, it's Congress. It's bigger
(07:09):
than you. But we've been able to see them now
in full display. The spotlight is on and America is
really aghast at what they're seeing because remember, we've been
lied to by so many in the media and the
Democrats gaslighting us all for Trump in his first term,
for Biden, why he was there and so is now. Thankfully,
(07:36):
Trump's election this time was the political enema that this
country needed. And I say that because you just imagine
what an enema is, right, It is flushing out all
of the crap. And it's good. It is really good
that we get to see the Democratic Party as they
truly are, that response or lack thereof. And then al
(07:59):
go this buffoon from Texas with his cane sitting there
screaming and yelling. I mean, do you remember when the
guy from South Carolina, one of the Republicans when he yelled,
you lied to Obama during that speech. Even Republicans said
(08:20):
at that time that was disrespectful and to me, it's
not the right time or place. But now there's no
decorum anymore. And these Democrats, I mean, these women dressing
in their pink you know in the past, the handsmade
tailed costumes. They're so ridiculous. Now that they've lost all credibility,
(08:45):
which is a good thing. Let them keep going down
this path because the average person, now, even some Democrats
are so uncomfortable with where they are. AOC is going
to be the face of the party. Please, on TikTok,
you see these video, Choose your fighter. I honestly do
(09:05):
hope they stay on this path because it's going to
be pretty easy to pick up congressional seats in a
year and a half when it normally would be very difficult.
If history plays out, Republicans are going to lose the
House in the midterm, not if the Democrats keep playing
the game they're playing, refusing to stand for a thirteen
year old with cancer. Keep doing it, please, you're making
(09:30):
life very very easy screaming and yelling against any potential
cut by Doge or any of the administration. I mean, seriously,
I've been through this on a much different level. But
when I was county executive, you want to take a
pencil out of the budget, they would scream and yell
that I'm killing kids and killing grandma all that stuff.
(09:53):
That's what they do. You're kind of used to it,
but that's what they do. But this is going beyond.
And then MSNBC, which can't figure out why it's lost
forty percent of its primetime audience, where Nicole Wallace and
Rachel Maddow blow a gasket because Trump quote exploited this
(10:15):
kid and these guests. Every president since I don't know when,
every president, at least before at least so Reagan I know,
has always invited guests and talked about them and used
them to illustrate something. And it's always a respectful applause
(10:36):
for the person. Maybe once in a while they disagree
and they would be a tepid response. But to sit
on your hands, it's just it's so unbelievable. But again,
thank you, thank you for showing your cards. Keep doing it.
Learn nothing from this last election. We really really thank you.
(10:59):
But it's not isolated as I mentioned, this is why
their reaction when Trump, who does things, okay, in an
unorthodox way, but he gets people to move because if
it were up to Europe, especially like with Ukraine, if
it were up to Europe, they would just talk, they
(11:20):
would talk and talk and talk, and meanwhile millions of
Ukrainians and Russians are getting slaughtered and there would be
no end in sight. Literally, there was a blank check
from the Biden deministration to Zelensky and Ukraine, and even
Zelensky can't tell you where some of that money went.
(11:43):
So they just want to pick our pockets. And we're
supposed to sit there and say, yes, sir, whatever you say,
no problem. But when Donald Trump pushes them, he's pushing
them for us. He's actually standing up for us, which
hasn't been done forever, it seems like, certainly not by
the Democrats. So I mean, I'm loving what I'm seeing
(12:06):
on the dose stuff. Okay, you know, sometimes they go
too fast, too far, but that's I'd rather that than
total inaction, which is what we're so used to. At
least somebody is speaking up for me as a taxpayer.
And what he just did with Columbia University thank God.
The Democrats have been absolutely silent, and Jews make up
(12:29):
a bulk of that party. By the way, to this,
to my dying breath, I'll never understand how a Jew
in New York or a Jew in America, especially with
a link or love towards Israel, can sit there and
be part of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party who
sits there now with an anti anti Semitic cancer and
(12:54):
tumor growing in its party, has looked you in the
eye and says we hate you, we hate you, we
love jumas that wants to kill you. And you've got
so many Democrats in the in New York, many of
whom are Jewish, and they keep writing checks and they
keep saying thank you, May I have another. I don't
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get it. I don't understand it. And the Democrats, the
leaders just keep taking advantage. But I love what he
did with Columbia. Columbia allowed all you know, many many colleges,
you pen, there's so many of them. But Columbia right
here allowed violence on its campus, allowed anti Semitic protests.
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You can say that's free speech. But when they crossed
the line and threatened people, so Trump just pulled four
hundred million dollars four hundred million dollars by the way,
through the Department of Education going to Columbia University for
what like. They need it. They have a fifteen billion
dollar endowment. They could live without it. They shouldn't have
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it in the first place. So look, he's You may
not agree with everything he does, you may not agree
how he does it, but he is doing it for
the right reasons, and we're going to come out of
this much better than when he got into it and
had to deal with all this meth. I mean, it's
just a what he's trying to clean up. It's it's
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almost unimaginable. It's like the US went through one massive
hurricane or a tornado blew through. Our government left it
in rubble, and he's got to come in here in triage,
and he's got to come in here and clean it
all up. And he's doing it and it's not easy.
It's messy, and there's going to be intense blowback as
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we're getting, but he keeps going forward, and for that,
I say thank you, mister President. One hundred three two
one zero seven ten. One hundred three two one zero
seven ten. I'll talk a little bit about Mayor Adams
and the Paul Clement report that came out. So the
guy that the judge said, oh, I need before I
(15:02):
can dismiss this case, I need somebody to write a
report to tell me why I shouldn't so. Paul Clement,
who is a conservative, he was a solicitor general at
one point under George Bush. He just finalized his report
and said basically, well, Judge, you basically have no right
(15:23):
to not dismiss the case if the Justice Department is
not going to move forward. He goes, but what you
should do is dismiss this case with prejudice, which means
that the case cannot be resuscitated once it's dismissed, so
it won't be hanging over Adams. For him, that's a
(15:43):
great thing, and it kind of takes away the what
the argument is that this is a deal between Adams
and the DOJ or the Trump administration. Either way, New
York City will win because Eric Adams is trying to
move forward on working with the DOJ and working with
Ice to get these violent illegals who are criminals out
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of New York and that that gets him on the
most hated man in New York list, because this is
how crazy it's gotten. If Trump says one thing, Democrats
must go one hundred eighty degrees different, and then you
got this fraud. I'm just looking on TV Governor Newsom,
who of course wants to set himself up as you know,
(16:31):
the the mainstream moderate Democrat is now breaking with his
party on transgender athletes. After of course, he just spent
the last five ten years totally screwing girls and women
in California by allowing trans men to dress up as
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a woman and put them in sports. What a bunch
of fraudsters anyway, one hundred three to one zero seven
to ten, one hundred and three two one zero seventy ten, Bruce,
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So we're getting to the calls right now. One one
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All right, e let us go to zephones one eight
hundred and three two one zero seven ten. We will
start with Chris and Bethpage, Long Island.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Hey, Chris, Hey Rob love you show. First of all,
remember this meloton and gummies. Bring them with you next
time on the road. I've been taking them for over
a year. You take two a night. No, you know what?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Here's here. I know some people take melatonin. Melatonin I've tried.
It gives me the craziest dreams. Like it's like LSD
FA me or something. If I never took LSD or anything.
But I'm assuming this is what it's like. I get wacky,
wacky dreams. So it doesn't work for me. I can't.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
No good, Okay, I totally agree.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
I totally agree with you. It's funny. I've gotten so
used to the wacky dreams now they don't even face
me anymore. But it's so right. You're so right. But anyhow, Rob,
I always like to draw sports analogies with the political scenarios.
So back in the early eighties, I went to Shamana
High School on Long Islands and I was a big
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Ranger fan. I still am. All my friends, most of
my Islander fans in the early eighties.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Now, okay, won four Cups in a row. Excuse me,
they won four Cups in a row.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Then the fifth year they lose to Edmonton in the
Stanley Cup pounds, if you remember, right. So I, like
an idiot come into school and go aha, take that,
take that or whatever, like an idiot range of fan
and they're like, dude, we got four rings. You ever
want anything since nineteen forty, Go back into the little
hole you crawled out if you got nothing to say.
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That's what I feel about the Democratic Party right now.
They're like the range of fans in the early eighties.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
They have.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
This is the lowest I've seen them. They have no leadership.
That speech the other night was a total embarrassment. I
had friends who hate Trump at work. I went in
the next day. They were like, oh my god, this
is bad. This like they were admitting this is bad.
So my question to you is, and it's a tough one,
where do they go from here? Like, seriously do they
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I think they have to look at a governor in
like a southern state or something like maybe Brasher from Kentucky.
They really got to tack back to the mill. That's
what I feel. But I knowing them, they're so crazy
they probably won't.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, good call, and I thank you for Chris. So, look,
this is what Newsom is trying to do. He is
such a slickback fraud, so he is trying to take
anybody's steps, knowing he can't run again, positioning himself even
though California is an utter disaster, it will be so
easy to run against him. But oh, he's a good
(24:31):
looking guy, and he's gonna say what he needs to say,
just like Cuomo. Cuomo's looking at becoming mayor because it's
an easy path, and he's gonna sound like he's gonna
sound like he never had anything to do with the
destruction of this city, even though it was his hand
and his pen that signed all the legislation that gave
(24:53):
us no cash bell and everything else which ruined this place.
You hate the congestion pricing, Now you can thank Andrew Cuomo.
I mean, there's a long list, but he's going to
pretend that, you know, it was nothing to do with him,
just like Gavin Newsom's going to do. So they can't
figure out should they be the Trump derangement syndrome resistance,
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which worked last time. But we're in a different time
now and there is no leader right now in the
Democratic Party. And I think, you know, Basher and Kentucky
is a good example where it's sort of like Clinton.
You know, back then, Bill Clinton was this kind of
middle of the road, sensible guy, and that's how he
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portrayed himself and he won. He won the primaries, and
he obviously won the presidency, and he worked with Gingrich
and they got things done and that's why they had success.
This is a different Democratic Party. They are completely off
the rails, and a core of that party now is socialist,
anti Semitic, anti America. I mean that there's a lot
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of them that just hate this place more than anything,
and I mean that's what spits out of MSNBC and
even CNN too many times. But they're rudderless right now,
and they they kind of tip where they're going because
their new chair of the DNC is a total left,
left wing whack job from Minnesota, so they didn't learn.
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I mean, Fetterman is the Vetterman was a lunatic and
he's now he's now really the only voice in the wilderness,
and he's it for the Democrats, and they hate him.
And look, I think Fetterman is trying to preserve himself
because when he runs, I think in two years he's
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in Pennsylvania, which just you know, went Donald Trump, and
I mean, he's trying to figure out how to get
through his next election. But at least he's sensible. Sometimes
this party's really it's it's beyond crazy. And again, as
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I said earlier, keep doing it, folks, if you're the Democrats,
you're on the right path. Stay on this path, keep
doing it. Keep keep denigrating a thirteen year old with cancer,
that is the way to go. Keep you know what,
you're right. You should defend spending taxpayer dollars on studies
(27:29):
of how to make mice transgender. You're on the right path.
You keep doing that. Please one hundred and three two
one zero seventy ten. Rob Astarino here, Andrew and Stanhope,
how are you? Andrew?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
That's everyone's top issue in America, changing mice transgender You're right?
How different than Bill Clinton who would do what Feederman's
doing and moderates. And it was actually Dick Morris that
coined the term try that. He said, Okay, what do
the Republicans like? What do the crossover most Americans? What
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do the Democrats? So you have to go along with
the Republicans and then you could pick one of your
things be in the fire. But they're doing the opposite.
But I want to say the blow up with Lizinski,
I would tell him not only the money and the
weapons we want back, but give us the sheets Obama
gave you and wash them and also fabric softener and
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mail them back. You don't even get the sheet. Yep.
He didn't like that.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
But I just want to say, real.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Quick, on a serious note with him, Lizinski, as bad
as it was, I think the mistake that he made
was not talk about when he said we feel it,
we could feel it. I think if he said you're
a NATO country, so Russia may invade Poland or you know, Estonia,
and that's like invade in the US, so like, But
he didn't say that, he didn't articulate it. And even
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when he said about you know, security, he said that
in the beginning, and Trump didn't react or get mad.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
So if he had.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Said NATO, I think the whole thing would have been different.
But he cooked his own goose, but he came crawling back.
The left didn't like that, especially right before the speech.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Well apparently, and thanks for the call. Apparently he was
getting his advice from some Democrats before that speech. I
mean that is that's like, okay, I don't know how
to read the room. I have no idea what's happening
in America. So let me talk to Chuck Schumer and
some of these resistance Democrats who absolutely hate Trump. Let
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me let me pick their brains and see what they think,
instead of going to some of the Republicans like Graham
and others, like how should I handle this meeting? What
should I say? It's just again, you know, you never
see that in public that happens. That kind of blow
up happens behind closed doors. So Net Yahoo and Trump
(29:58):
or Biden to Net yaw. They had those kind of
screaming matches, maybe not screaming, but certainly tension filled meetings
with the door shut. You don't do it in public.
This was played out for everyone to see, and it
was kind of I mean, yeah, it was enjoyable, it
was great TV, but it was also a real lesson
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in know what you're walking into, be prepared. So less
he was not prepared because he's not used to being
told no. He's gotten anything and everything he's wanted from
Europe and from the US. But now there's a new
guy in town who says, I'm thinking a little bit
different here. You know, we're cutting stuff in America and
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you want us to just keep writing you billions and
billions of dollars and you can't even tell us where
some of this money goes. And by the way, Ukraine
is a corrupt country, always has been. Now all of
a sudden it's they're like America in seventeen seventy six.
Give me a break. And because I say that, and
because anyone says that, it doesn't mean oh for Russia,
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oh I'm pro putin. Yeah. Stupid. That's a stupid response
from ignorant people. You can question both, and certainly you
can question where a money goes and how it's being spent.
And three two one zero seven to ten. Dave in Mahwah,
New Jersey. Hi, Dave, Hey, Rob, how are you today? Good?
Speaker 7 (31:23):
It's great to have this show for four pm on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
I just wanted to say, you know, I used to
give the Democrats credit. I thought they were very smart, cunning,
great fighters, knew how to you know, even if they
had a cheat, they knew how to win. Right now,
they are like they're running around like chickens without a head.
They have no plan. They it's just unbelievable to see
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the ridiculousness of these individuals.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I know, it's totally unbelievable, and it's it's great to watch.
As I said, you know, they are imploding and I
don't know how long it's gonna take to build up
because they have no direction. They only know one They
only know one way, and that is scream and yell
about Donald Trump. But you know they've been calling him
hitler now for eight years. It didn't work. The American
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people didn't buy it. They re elected him. They don't
understand where we are right now. We're in March of
twenty twenty five. Just for you Democrats out there, it
is March twenty twenty five. The elections were last November.
Trump won because the American people said, I don't really
like the way Biden and the Democrats are running things,
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so I'm gonna take a chance with this guy again
who we voted against last time, and I really don't
like personally, but I'm gonna go with him. And you
still think it's October of last year. You keep making
a losing case. Go ahead, keep doing it, please please.
I know some and has something to say in New Jersey. Hey, Sondra.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Hi Rob, I was thinking about what you were talking
about the show early on regarding DJ. You know, I
was thinking about, first of all, that poor boy had
thirteen surgery. It's probably one every year of his life.
And it shocked me that of all people, Jamie Raskin,
who had a bat with Campton's shelf, didn't stand up
for this boy, and even even Citizen he should have
(33:26):
stood up too. He had a stroke and he should
have been humble and kind. I at least those two,
and then I wanted to say something about Al Green.
We all know why he was asked to leave because
of inappropriate behavior. Do you know what I learned last
night that he's pulling the race part. He has a
nerve to say that Mike Johnson asked him to believe
(33:48):
to leave because of his skin color. Is that an
outrage or what?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's all again, that's that's their playbook. Their playbook is
one page. And that's kind of it. It's racism, it's hitler,
it's all part of the Trump arrangement syndrome. But it's
it's like it's it's worn out, it's nobody. Yeah, many
times when I was on CNN for three years, I
was the Republican on CNN War one of them. Scott Jennings,
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who's doing great, he was one of them with me
and a couple others. And every time I was on
the air during Trump's first term, it was all about
racism and how how would I be a part of
this racist party, this white supremacist party, this Trump who
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hates every minority. That's all they would say. They haven't
marched on, they haven't figured it out. It doesn't work anymore.
And you know, when you're called a racist every night,
which basically I was. It just completely loses its meaning.
The first time, I was like, oh my god, I'm
not that, but that's what they do. They say that
so you get defenseless and defense defensive both and you're
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going to the corner and you don't know how to react.
I would laugh every time they would call me that
or say I would just like laugh literally on camera.
I would laugh, and I'm like, Okay, now when you're done,
I'm gonna come right at your juggler. I'm coming. I'm
gonna take my fingers and I'm gonna put them so
deep into your eyes, and I'm gonna answer the question
(35:18):
the way it should be answered. And you may not
want to hear it, and maybe your audience doesn't want
to hear it, but you're gonna get it. And I
remember so many times I would be coming home from
CNN and I would get the most vile, the most
vile messages on X or Twitter at the time, or
even Facebook from these sickos that would I mean, there
(35:43):
were times where we literally had to alert the police
because you know, there was some concern that one of
these nut jobs is gonna show at my house and
potentially do what they said they wanted to do or
have done, and some of it was about my kids
or my wife. You could say everything you want about me,
I could really give a crap, but you know, the
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horrible things that they would say, they would want to
happen to my wife or children. This is how sick
they are. But they do that because a they're you know,
they're demented. But they also tried to take your ability
to have a cogent conversation. And they don't want any
of that because they I mean for most of us
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now we're starting to realize those who are coming late
to the party, unlike me and some others, you know what,
there's two genders. You know what, Americans really don't care
about transgender mice. This is this is them and and
like we've been onto this nonsense and most Americans that's
not where they are. One three two, one zero seven ten.
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Bobby and Morris Park, how are you? Bobby?
Speaker 5 (36:53):
All right?
Speaker 6 (36:54):
Rob?
Speaker 8 (36:54):
And Sondra is a doll and we could listen to
on every show, But I want to tell you, Rob,
you're in big comp beneacause francessa sports guys fell asleep
on the air and so you're a and you got
no competition in his hour. Believe me when I tell you.
And just one thing quickly about sports before I get
to the meat and potatoes. Tommy DeVito signed a new
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contract with the Giants, and we're all happy about that.
And I always said Tommy has pocket presence. Look what
happens to a great quarterback with no offensive line. Exhibit
A is the Super Bowl right now, getting now, rob
getting back to the to the speech and everything. People
have to realize. For years, the left wing lunatics would
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scare our more seasoned Americans all social Security, it's gonna
go away in erging, but they would never ever talk
about running out of welfare checks. Now, I said this
all along, but the hard left wing in this country
have been pillaging social Security, giving out money, fraud, all
kinds of nonsense going on there. We know there's a
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lot of people on there who are have probably done
one hundred years ago or whatever. And we know there's
people who use phony Solid Security numbers and also phony
tax id numbers, and it basically pillage the Solid Security fund.
That's all Trump is trying to do is get it back.
And if he does, get it back to where it
really is what a true audit. But they can have
more money for our seniors deserve it. You want a
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seventy five year old, the eighty year olds to go
back to work because they can't afford the crazy tax
increases that the left wing wants to put into this country. Now,
I just want to finish up with this rob because
they do an excellent show. You have no competition. Would
you have Curtis Lee where as a guest? I think
that you two going at it would be great.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yeah, I would have Curtis. I mean, I've known curse forever.
I like Curtis I just as I've said. I mean,
I think he's got a very slim chance of winning
just because of the makeup of the demographics and six
to one Democrat, so by you know, by virtue of
being a Republican whoever that is, it's going to be
very very hard. But yeah, I mean I've known it
(39:00):
is forever. Let me sneak in another call or two here,
Michael and Oyster Bay. Hi, Michael, how are you.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
A couple of things? I like the analogy of the chickens,
but I would say, more like chickens with bird flu,
we should just basically eliminate the whole party politically. Though
politically my other point was Donald Trump is a genius
what he's doing with the tariffs and the USAID and Zelensky.
He's defunding the illegal funding streams of the deep state
(39:28):
and the Democrat He's going to bankrupt them and then
they're gonna have nothing. Yes, brilliant, that's why he's doing
it all. At the same time, I love it.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
No, it's a great point, Michael, because what's happening what
the Democrats do. And Lise Elden from Long Island, the
EPA administrator, I mean, he just pointed out they've parked
billions of dollars in a JP Morgan account on the
last couple of days of the Biden administration, and they
were handing these out all over the place, all these departments,
(39:56):
all to left wing organizations. But that's what they do.
They my tax dollars, they feed it to left wing
organizations who then hire. In a roundabout way, these organizations
are the foot soldiers of the Democratic Party. So all
these protests you're seeing, these demonstrations that get out the vote,
all that's basically my tax dollars used to bring out
(40:21):
a democratic electorate. So it is, it's it's genius what
he's doing. Absolutely all right, Nino, I got to make
you the last call here. How are you, Nino from
Allentown's organization?
Speaker 6 (40:32):
Go ahead, Neino, Hey, hey, listen, No is my body.
He wants me to keep it brief. Five quick points.
One ben return America. So also I want to bring
up God rest and told him that twenty six year
old cop who was murdered the other one, God heal him,
and that fourteen year old thug should never see the
(40:52):
light of day. Also, I was the only thing I
left out in a Trump's speech, Rob was he didn't
mention the veterans. Now, he helped us more than all
the presidents after Reagan, and even more than Reagan and
the Guard. And I know he'll help us again, but
he has to push while he has the iron, when
he has his party the majority. And let's help those
(41:14):
that help the veterans because of war. And let's get
also let's get Hollywood. Three sixty old time radio shows.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Bango. All right, So I got to the airport. You know,
I want to talk about Rome when I come back here.
But for whatever reason, Newsmax which sent me out there Newsmax.
They need to get an account, a corporate account with
Lero's point to point, because they ordered an uber fine.
(41:48):
And I mean my ride out there was you know,
in a minivan that smelled, but that's okay. But coming
back yesterday at Kennedy, which if you know Kennedy, it's
just a mob scene outside, you know, looking for your
uber or whatever. And the one that showed up first
of all, he calls me he's at the wrong terminal
and and I cannot understand him on the phone. I
(42:11):
cannot understand, you know, obviously he was from India with
a very deep Indian accent. I can't figure out where
he is or what he's saying. And he's like twenty
minutes later he shows up. I'm like, you know what,
none of this would have happened if it was Liro's
point to point. They are unbelievable. I mean, seriously, I
wouldn't have. They would have been there inside the terminal
or waiting at a point outside where I'd know where
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there would be. They would they would be a clean car.
The chauffeurs are screened, background checks, liability insurance, impeccable fleet,
not getting into something that smells and this place, this
car that I had an Ubert stunk. Anyway, you're coming
back from the airport. Going to the airport, get yourself
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yourself there and not have to worry about it. Leros
point to point. Great, folks, all right, I got to
tell you about my Italy trip.
Speaker 5 (43:22):
In just a moment.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
We'll be right back one one hundred three to two
one zero seven ten. Mark that number down for next
week and every week, because I love when you call up.
All right, I'll be right back. Thank you Bruce for
reminding me. Yeah tonight, of course, daylight saving time. That's
actually what it is, officially, daylight saving time, not savings time.
But anyway, I always say savings, but it's actually wrong.
(43:45):
Put your clock ahead tonight before you go to bed,
or clocks if you still have I do we have
wall clocks, you know, and as they always say, and
it's a good reminder, make sure tonight to check your
smoke alarm and your co two alarms. You know, the
batteries there do that like twice a year. Makes sense.
So I'm in Rome this week. If you heard earlier,
(44:08):
and you know, we're doing some stuff because obviously Pope
Francis is not doing well. You have not seen video
or photos of the Pope since he's been in the hospital.
I mean, this could be a weekend at Bernie's thing.
I hate to say that, but you don't know. And
he did have a quick audio release a couple of
(44:30):
days ago. Didn't sound good and was only like ten seconds.
But every day they release a statement twice a day
on how he slept overnight, and then in the evening
came out about an hour ago on his condition and
this saying he's getting a little bit better, but it's
still guarded. Blah blah blah blah. So anyway, you know,
(44:51):
I was. I certainly was talking to some cardinals that
I've known, and the thinking is this is not just
from them, other people I talked to, and the thinking
is that the Pope is certainly not doing well. He's
probably doing worse than their admitting. He's eighty eight. He
(45:12):
has half of a lung gone from when he was
a kid, and you know, this could either be a
kind of slow decline or something like he had last
week where it was a and it was tough too.
You have I don't remember the exact term, but he
had an episode which was very dangerous. So, I mean,
(45:35):
obviously we do pray for the pope, but when there's
a conclave when the pope dies, it's called seede vicante
a vacant seat. So when the pope dies, there's that interregnum.
They call it the time between a pope when he
dies and when the new pope is elected in the conclave.
So during that time you have the nine days of morning,
(45:59):
that's the ma and the funeral, and then they call conclave,
which might be a week or two after that. So
I'm going back to Rome whenever that is, if it's
soon or hopefully maybe later. And so we were doing
some prep and everything. But Rome is just an amazing city.
Just obviously just if you've never been there, that's got
(46:20):
to be on your bucket list. And Saint Peter's Basilica.
So I was there for ash Wednesday. Now Here, as
you know, when you go for ash Wednesday, the priest
with his thumb will say a little prayer and then
do the sign of the Cross with the ashes on
his thumb onto your forehead, and it's pretty visible. So
(46:42):
my colleague actually was at the Vatican and went into
Saint Peter's. He waited forty minutes online to get into
the Basilica, but he also got his ashes there. I
was walking around Rome and so I said, yeah, I
don't want to walk over to the Vatican and wait online.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
So I went.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
I found a church. It was Saint Augustine, the Basilica
of Saint Augustine. Every church is beautiful, by the way
enroll and it's like every other block there's another church.
There's actually two churches on the Via de la concei Lazione,
which is the street that you see that leads into
the Colonnades and into Saint Peter's. There's actually two churches
(47:19):
on that one little block before you even get to
Saint Peter's. And so but anyway I was. I went
to Saint Augustine's, so I'm online. It was an Italian mass.
I sat there for it, and then at the right point, obviously,
you get online to get your ashes. So I'm online
and I see every person that's walking away after they
(47:40):
get their little prayer and the ashes, and they're walking
towards me to go back to their seat, and I
don't see anything on their forehead. I'm like, what's going
on up there that the priest forgot? Did you forget
to like mix the water and the ashes, Like what
is happening. It wasn't until I got up to the
person in front of you that I saw what was
happening over there. It's a tradition. They don't put it
(48:03):
on your forehead. They sprinkle the ashes on your head,
so actually into your hair. So it was kind of weird,
maybe a little maybe nice.
Speaker 8 (48:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
I don't know how what to.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Think of it, because I'm only used to being here
where the ashes get put on your forehead. But it
was really, really wonderful, and here's something to think about.
So why is Saint Peter's not the cathedral? Why is
it the basilica? A basilica, by the way, is a
basically an honorary major church, but not a cathedral. The
(48:36):
cathedral in each diocese is where the bishop resides, where
it's the bishop's church. The Bishop of Rome is the pope,
he's actually the Bishop of Rome. But Saint Peter's is
not a cathedral. It's it's a basilica. It's and it's monstrous.
If you've ever been there, it's just stunning. And I
(48:57):
was able to go downstairs to the cat combs, and
you know where the popes are buried. Fantastic. Anyway, I
will get back there soon, maybe not too soon, hopefully,
but I have more. I've ran out of time. There's
other funny things that happened in Rome. Rest assured, I
ate and drank very well the last four days. It's
(49:22):
been good with you again. Another week together. Let's do
it again next Saturday. I'll be rested. I don't know.
I'm gonna go home tonight just maybe pass out.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Anyway, I look forward to being with you next Saturday
one to three on Newsmax, and of course four to
five right here on seven to ten WR and every
Friday morning at seven am with Larry MENTI on his show,
See you next week. Turn your clocks ahead tonight, Okay, Chow.
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