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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
And away we go. Good to have you with me.
Rob Astorino here on seven ten wo R. And if
you're like flipping around the dial, remember how we used
to have to do that with the actual dials. You'd
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(00:46):
you know where I'm talking about. Welcome. I'm glad you're here,
Stay here, Stay here. Every Saturday, there's zero reason to
listen to another station at four o'clock, especially, and there's
a hell of a lot of reasons to wr especially
right now seven seven ten Saturdays, four pm. This is

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the show. And I'm glad you're with me. I really am.
And one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten
is the number to call. One eight hundred three to
two one zero seven ten. I'll take you up till
five and it's good to be with you. Could be
back here in our studios looking right across seeing Bruce
and Noah. Last week, I was in Florida doing the

(01:30):
show from our Newsmax studios in West Palm Beach, actually
Boca right off. You know, there's a lot of New
Yorkers that are so familiar with Southeast Florida because you know,
you got a place there, or you always go there
the Snowbirds, and it would be exit seventy four off
ninety five ya motto road, I guess it is. Anyway,

(01:51):
that's where our Newsmax studios are in Florida, and of
course here in the city we're on third and forty ninth.
So when I get off the air at three clock
off Newsmax, I walk across totally unprepared, by the way
for winter. Yesterday morning, at six am, the phone rings
in the house and I'm like, who is calling? And

(02:12):
I pick it up and it was the recorded message
from our school district saying that there was gonna be
a two hour delay, and I'm like, what for what?
And I get out of bed. I opened the curtains
and I'm like, what the blank snow? We had snow.
A lot of people didn't, but we had it, and

(02:33):
we're right in the middle of Westchester, and it was
that heavy stuff. In fact, like the the cover on
the pool sunk, that's how heavy it was. So I'm
not ready for winter. Last week I'm in eighty degree
weather in South Florida. Now I'm walking across town in
I literally just have like a light pullover over my

(02:56):
button down shirt, no jacket, because I'm like, I'm not
ready for this. I think this is the last week
can get away with that. I don't know. Anyway, I'm
glad you're with me, and you know what, and I'm
going to talk about Trump and the cabinet and more so,
I want to talk about what's going to happen with
this deportation stuff, which is one hundred necessary. And the

(03:21):
left is just flipping out and they're almost by the way.
I'm looking at MSNBC and I've been watching some CNN
and now the New York Times. There is no mandate.
That's that's their message. Now, there is no mandate for
Donald Trump. He barely won. In fact, he really didn't win.
That'll be next week. He barely won, and so you know,

(03:42):
stop all of this celebration and talk of a mandate.
He has no mandate to do anything that's the left
right now. But before again to that, I just as
a parent, you'll understand this. So we're at the age
where two are out, one is still left. Our son,

(04:02):
as we've talked about, is in the Air Force, our
daughter is away at Quinnipiac, and our other one is
in tenth grade, and so you know, it's like somewhat
empty nest. But this weekend we were so lucky. Our
son came home, our daughter came home from school, and
of course there are other ones still lives there. So

(04:23):
it was the five of us together as parents with
our three children. And it's been so nice. When are
they leaving? No, I mean, it's so nice to have them.
And it's like a reminder our son, like with his
bad habits and like his smelly feet, and you miss it,
you actually miss it. So it's so good to have

(04:44):
them all back in the house. And we just watched
a movie the other night, and we had our parents
over yesterday for dinner. The grandparents were over, so it
was a really nice time. And those are the moments
that you kind of forget. It wasn't that long ago.
They were just all kind of you know, growing up,
and you're wiping their snots off their nose. But now

(05:05):
they're out and doing their own things. So it's nice
to have everybody here. And thankfully we've raised our kids
to be good little conservatives. Our son voted absentee from
the military base, our daughter came home from Quinnipiac and
voted early voting. And our other daughter, I mean, I mean,
it's we already told her, if you go away to

(05:26):
college and you come back some liberal, you have no
bed anymore in this home. So she we're working on
her and she'll be fine. So I'm watching all of
this stuff right now on how the left is reacting
to the reality. I mean, they were like shell shocked
the last couple of weeks, but now that Donald Trump
is announcing his cabinet and they can't figure it out, like,

(05:50):
oh my god, wait a minute, this is a reality.
This guy's going back into the White House. Their heads
are blowing up. They can't handle it. It's so great.
I love it. I can't wait for the fights this Thursday.
It won't be in my house. We're going to my
mother's and just about it. I literally I think everyone
that's gonna be there. I don't have twenty five thirty people.

(06:10):
Everyone is a conservative, But I can't wait for these
mixed families where they're gonna be throwing mashed potatoes at
each other on Thursday because some of them can't handle
the fact that Donald Trump is going back into the
White House. And you know, the cabinet picks have been
very interesting. The Matt Gates one was, you know, a

(06:31):
little bit off the wall, and unfortunately, I think Gates
did the right thing by falling on the sword and
not forcing either Donald Trump to withdraw it or to
have to go to the mat for Matt and literally
going through And this is how it works, folks. There
was I still think if he's stuck with Gates or

(06:54):
Gates stuck in there, that in the end it would
get really hot and really horrible. But other than Collins
and Rakowski, every other Republican senator probably would have had
a difficult time. Well maybe Mitch McConnell, I don't know.
Maybe you would have thrown a hand grenade, I don't know,
but it would have been really hard for them to
vote no against Donald Trump, the incoming president with a

(07:17):
huge MAGA movement, to vote no on any of his nominees.
Whether you like them or not. But Gates took himself
out of the equation. I think that's a good thing.
Pambondi is great, by the way. The weird thing for
me is I actually know a lot of these people,
A lot of these cabinet people. I know because obviously

(07:37):
Leezelden going in as EPA administrator, Elise Staphonic. She and
I when I ran in fourteen, when I ran for
governor against Cuomo, Elise was running for the first time
in the North Country for Congress. So we got to
know each other. Every time I would go up there,
we would campaign together, and we became friends and good friends,

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and you know, we text all the time. And I'm
so happy at her ascension in Congress, but even happier
for her now to go over as UN ambassador. But
even people like Doug Collins, who I work with that
Newsmax Doug. You know, Doug would fly up to New
York and do stuff from the studio, and we got
to know each other and we would text each other.
And he's on my show a lot. He's going in

(08:19):
as the you know, as the Secretary of the Veterans Affairs.
So there's a lot of them. So it's kind of cool,
even those staffing up in the White House to run
the White House. So I'm excited for the next four years.
I think it's going to be great, and I'm excited
to watch these far leftists just lose their lose their stuff.

(08:42):
And it's already happening. They're just going berzerko, which is
so fun to watch. And so now, as I said,
the mandate is no longer a mandate. Trump barely barely
won and and the resistance has started. They've already there
already plotting out what they're going to do to push

(09:03):
back on everything that Donald Trump proposes. You have to
go back four years think about how nutty it was
for those you go back eight years. Really, for the
four years that Trump was president, he was the illegitimate
president according to Hillary Clinton and the rest of them.

(09:23):
They did literally just about everything humanly possible to thwart
everything he tried to do, and then they threw impeachment
at him, but they also threw the Russian investigator. They
literally did everything to stop him, and you the will
of people. So when they were able through COVID to
change the rules of the game in the middle of

(09:46):
the game, with voting and how we vote. They did
it here in New York, they did it a lot
of places, and then when Biden get in there, they
try to fundamentally change everything about this country. They open
the floodgates on the Southern boy order that now they
can't understand why people said, whoa, whoa, whoa, Oh my god,
what the frick is going on in this country? And thankfully,

(10:11):
and understand why I'm saying this, Thankfully the economy was
bad over the last four years, because if the economy
were humming along, if people didn't if you weren't so
concerned about how to pay the bills, and inflation wasn't raging,
and it wasn't so expensive at the gas pump, they'd

(10:32):
get away with this stuff. Because generally speaking, if things
are going well, the incumbent and Joe Biden, would have
had every reason to run because his numbers wouldn't have
been so horrible. They would have put that mummy up there,
and even with that horrible debate performance, he probably could
have won based on things going well, and even Kamala Harris,

(10:56):
if things were going well, probably would have won. I
hate to say it, but because things weren't going well,
and Donald Trump was able to seize on things that
are so bad and things that we see with our
own eyes. For instance, I just walked across town and
in that fifteen minute walk one two three, I saw
at least four I think a fifth one, but at

(11:19):
least four homeless illegal alien families. And it's sad, sitting
against buildings with signs out help me feed me. They don't.
They obviously are not from here. And yet that was

(11:40):
a reminder of how bad things have become under Democratic
party rule in our cities, but also the consequences of
an open border. So I saw that, You saw that,
and it was hard to say it wasn't happening, even
though they tried to gaslight us. That's why Donald Trump
was able to win because the Democrats have gone They've

(12:01):
gone crazy, period. So now they're going to try to
stop everything and pretend like you know, it was so
bad under Donald Trump, and if you remember how literally
how crazy it was, and but that's where they were
able to get away with things. Donald Trump is going
to stop this period. So here's the question, and I'll

(12:24):
get to your calls in a minute. One hundred and
three two one zero seven ten. But think about this
for a second. You got this problem, it's a bad
problem with illegal immigration. Good fifteen million people over the
last four years have come into this country. How do
you get rid of them? Donald Trump promised to deport

(12:44):
as many as possible. What is that going to look like?
So now the left is completely sounding the alarms and
scaring people and they haven't even started yet. Wait till
the videos of you know, people rounding up as ice
agents actually start removing some people, they are gonna go
crazy and make it look twenty times worse than it is.

(13:09):
I mean, go back to the kids in cages, which
were was not kids in cages, and whatever they were
in was because Obama put it up. But that didn't matter.
So they're going to ramp up at the highest volume
possible and the tears are gonna flow, and they're gonna

(13:30):
tell you he's a monster. I told you so, They're
gonna tell you this is illegal.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Nope.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
So but how do you get rid of them? And
there's two things here at play. You have to remove them,
but then there's gonna be lawsuits, there's gonna be what
we're already seeing right now. The resistance. As I said,
look at the imbeciles in Denver, Boston, La. Los Angeles
just voted to become a sanctuary city. After all that

(13:56):
we've seen and after the collapse of these cities, LA
just said up, yeah, we're gonna We're actually gonna make
it a sanctuary city. And then Boston Woo the mayor.
What a moron she is. She's just saying right now, Nope,
there is no way I am going to let anybody
take away our residents. It's not illegal aliens as they are.

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It's not even migrants anymore now they are just flat
out residents. Next they'll call them almost citizens. And then
you got the mayor of Denver. Denver, by the way,
has spent tens of millions of dollars tax dollars local
Denver money, and they've had to cut the police force,
they've had to cut garbage, they've had to cut services
to pay for illegal aliens camping out everywhere. They can't

(14:44):
handle the problem. And what did that mayor just say?
We will force a resistance with our own police department
and her own citizens, and it'll be like Tienamen Square
if you try to come in here and take away
our migrants. Okay, So this is what we will now
be dealing with starting January twentieth. So it ain't going

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to be easy because you know the media is going
to be there to track and they're all everyone with
their little iPhones are going to track every ICE agent,
anyone in a uniform that is going to try to
remove people who shouldn't be here. They could be they
could be the the most hideous, disgusting human beings like
we've seen that killed Lake and Riley and everybody else.

(15:27):
It doesn't matter. And so watch what happens. They're gearing
up and they're going to try to change public opinion
as fast as possible to stop Donald Trump in his tracks.
So what does it look like? So now they're trying
to make it look like you're going to have tanks
rolling into New York City, rolling into Newark, rolling into

(15:48):
any place that has illegal aliens, and the Army is
going to come out in their camouflage with their AK
forty seven's, they are fifty you know, the semi automatic
and automatic weapons. Let's just shoot everybody. Then they're bazookahs
and you know, the helicopters are going to swarm down.
That's what they're going to make it look like and

(16:09):
they're going to try to prevent ICE agents from doing
what they're supposed to do. And some of these cities
are going to say, you cannot use our law enforcement,
our police department to back up ICE. They're going to
make it more dangerous, but that's their goal. One thing
that has to happen. There needs to be lawsuits filed
now now on something that's going to happen because of

(16:32):
the consequences of this. In five years. Here's what I'm
talking about. In five years, we're going to start the
process of the Census Bureau going out and with their
little clipboards counting every head that is in this country.
I didn't say citizen. I set every head. And that's
been their goal since day one, because in five years,

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when they count heads and all these heads that are
here that aren't supposed to be are gonna be counted,
and that means these blue states and these blue cities
are gonna become more populous, and they're gonna get more
federal aid, more congressional representation, and they're gonna become more
powerful and more electoral College votes. So yes, you need

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to start removing people immediately and subsequently you also need
to file lawsuits to get to the Supreme Court to
say what is the definition who is counted in the census?
Is it a citizen that is legally supposed to be here?
Or is it anyone that has to be answered that

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is really consequential one in hundred three to two one
zero seven ten. One hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Your calls since you got my opinions, your calls are
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Speaker 4 (17:57):
Rob on seven to ten.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
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I said, great, call in. Go ahead, feel free to
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me and everybody else one hundred and three two one
zero seven ten. I'll get to your calls in just
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(19:49):
let's go to the phones and we'll start on Long
Island and Carry. You're on the rob Astarino Show.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
Hi, Carry, Hi, and Hi, thanks for having me today.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
So I don't know if you heard.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
The Board of Regents is added again trying to come
in and bust up the suburbs. They have instituted an
emergency regulation for all school districts to come up with
a regionalization plan and basically they want to put boards
of education on the side and they want each both
seeds superintendent across the state to put the commissioners, edicts, initiatives,

(20:25):
anything they want into our school districts without our say,
share resources, no matter about taxes. They want us to
be able to share for educational equity. They're claiming it's
a huge disaster, and there's been a great, big outcry.
I'm not sure if you've seen any of the coverage
where obviously the media is not really holding our side.

(20:45):
But Bruce Blakeman had a great conference. We've got some
great state senators.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Well, I, first of all, I didn't know about that.
I'm glad because it's important and this is what Donald
Trump has to do with HUD because it's SIMP or
the Education Department. Get rid of education and get rid
of HUT too. But they love to wipe out the suburbs.
They like to extend the cities. They hate private property,

(21:12):
the left and so yes, they'll do it through our schools,
they'll do it in our communities. They'll try to do
it through zoning. They'll put carrots out there. But really
what they love to do is use the stick. So,
and I've said this before. I remember when I was
on the town board at Mount Pleasant, we were the
only community out of forty three municipalities in Westchester back

(21:34):
in the nineties to not take a dime of Community
Development Block grant money from the federal government through HUT.
Why because we actually read the fine print and it
said if you do you want to take this money
for a playground or whatever, then we have the right
to do X Y Z including you know, go through
your zoning, come in and have a say on everything.

(21:57):
Were like a ah, and you know what, it can
back to bite everybody. About fifteen years after that and
we went through, of course, the whole HUT battle that
I fought as County executive in Westchester, and we won
thanks to Donald Trump. Being in office. But that's the
stuff that they left loves to do, Ted and Paramus.

(22:18):
You are on seven to ten. Wor Hey Ted, paid Rob.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Let's see with you and your experience what can be
done to reverse the incentives to the state local communities
for retaining these border crashers.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Okay, so good call, thanks Ted. One one hundred and
three two one zero seven ten If you want to
call too. Here's the thing they have to do. They
the federal government the way that they deal with partnerships.
Remember in our constitution we have the we're supposed to
be in an equal partnership between the federal government and

(23:02):
the state governments. Right states are supposed to do X,
Y and Z the tenth Amendment. And this is why
they should get rid of. The Education Department never should
have been created in nineteen seventy nine to begin with.
And if you ever had to deal with like college aid,
like I've been already twice and will next year be
dealing a third time, have fun dealing with that THAPSA

(23:24):
report and application and student loans and all this other stuff.
It's just as it was never supposed to be. And
now I hope they'd get rid of the Education Department's
totally unnecessary. But what they can do, and this was
how if you remember the speed limit, the speed limit

(23:44):
in New York was what sixty. The way they got
all of the states to conform to a fifty five
mile an hour speed limit way back when I think
this was in the early eighties was to give or
take away federal aid. So if you wanted to have
a fifty five mile an hour speed limit like the
federal government wanted, you would get a bunch of highway aid,

(24:05):
which they all wanted. If you didn't, and nobody did,
so they all took the money. If you didn't, then
you were going to get penalized. Well, you know what,
we have to start untangling ourselves from this unholy alliance
between the state and federal governments. The federal government and
I can't wait to see what the vike Ramaswami and

(24:28):
Elon Musk come up with. They have so many easy
pickings in the federal government everywhere, I mean literally everywhere,
and some are going to be much harder to do
a lot of it's gonna be hard. They don't realize it.
I realized it when I got into office. This is
not like the Vike starts his own company, elon must

(24:49):
start to their own company. It's very easy to sit
down in a corporate board or as a CEO and
say this is what I'm gonna do with my private
company or even a public company. This is what I'm
gonna do, and and starting Monday, we're gonna have layoffs.
We're gonna have this, that and the other thing. This
is that we're gonna restructure. Can't do that in government.

(25:10):
You've got laws, you've got rules and regulations, you've got
the courts, you've got unions. You've got so many obstacles
you could identify it. And some will be able to
be done administratively, but a lot of stuff they're gonna
meet a lot of resistance and pushback, and it's not
gonna be easy. But I hope to God they do it.

(25:32):
And I hope to God the President and I have
no doubt that his intentions will be to strip a
lot of these agencies and departments from things that he
never should be in, and that will save a lot
of money. But it also it'll take the foot of
the federal government off our necks. You know what a

(25:52):
state or community you don't need federal dollars to do anything.
If it's really important to build that playground, if it's
really important to have additional social services, then do it
with your own tax dollars. But once you get in
bed with the federal government, they basically own you. It's like,
you know, go to the go to the loan shark,
good luck. You want to pay twenty five percent interest

(26:13):
and then have that gun at your at the temple
of your head if you don't pay up in time. Okay,
that's what you're getting into, So don't get into it.
One hundred and three two one zero seven to ten.
Stay in Jersey and Steve, you're on the Rob Astarno Show.

Speaker 7 (26:27):
Hi, Steve, Hey, Rob, Rob, I'm gonna I'm going to
disagree with you on Gates. They should have went to
the mat with him. Now, let's no pun intended. What
the fifty three hang tight or even fifty one or
fifty van breaks the tie? He's in all right?

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Now?

Speaker 7 (26:47):
What was the problem with Gates? Nothing to do with
these unfounded sexual allegations against the minor. He would have
been he'd be in jail already if that were agreed.
What it is got he was a bonehead taken out
Kevin McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy was a more effective speaker for
no other reason. Follow the money trail fundraising was down
under Mike Johnson.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Now that aside.

Speaker 7 (27:08):
You see what's happening Rob, because they bailed on him.
Now they're going after Hagas Saith. They've already started trying
to dig up their un Bondie. This is why you
stand firm. You go on offense and you say no,
we're going to stand tight, and if we have to
go on recess and appoint these people, we're going to
do it all right, because this is we're in uncharted territory.
We're doing with a party of no, an American communist party,

(27:30):
which is what he leads, which is what leading the
Democrats a week republican party on the base here, Rob,
on the base, We're not going to continue to support
a party that goes weak need.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
I think no, I look, I agree and Steve, as
I said earlier, I think if he's stuck with him,
or if Gates stayed in there in the end, it
would have gotten through. Because it's very hard to tell
the president of your own party no on his picks
for his cabinet. But it's even harder for the incoming

(28:03):
president during his transition, when he's at the peak of
his power, for them to say no. So I do
think as distasteful as it might have been and as
scared as they would have been, I think they would
have had to vote for him, and I think they
would have. But whatever Gates said, no, you didn't want
to put Trump through that. So it is what is. Look,

(28:24):
Trump has shown he's got the you know what's to
stick with somebody. Look at Brett Kavanaugh. They tried to
take that guy out every which way, totally gave him
a hit job. And you know what, you think Bush
would have stayed with him?

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Please, No, Trumps stuck with him, and I'm glad he's good.
I'm glad he did. And I think Trump would have
stayed with Gates if Gates didn't want to. Maybe Gates
didn't want to go through it either, who knows. I mean,
it's not fun. Rob Astrino here on seven to ten,
wo r Andrew and Stanhope, how are you? A lot
of Jersey calls to go ahead, Andrew, how are you doing?

Speaker 3 (29:02):
You're right with the Education Department. We don't need it.
I think it was Dennis Prager that said it best
that everything the left touches it destroyed. Yeah, like they
make everything worse. And it was good seeing Sunny houstin
and the view going down because she was against school
choice and everything she was saying was a lie that

(29:23):
funds were going to be cut. No, funds aren't being cut.
They would go directly to the states. And then she
said that it's usually more affluent parents that get the
tax vouchers. No, it's not the affluent parents that their
kids go to good schools, like in Long Island where
you are, or parts of New Jersey. It's the inner city,
mostly minority parents that take their kids out of the

(29:45):
failing schools in Nowark and East Orange and they send
them to like Livingston, New Jersey, to the parents that
are wealthier in Livingston and some in Millbourn that all
have good public school systems. It's almost like going to
a private school. If you go to those public schools,
they're highly ranked and they don't take their kids out
of Livingston or Summit. They're already in the good school. Yeah,

(30:08):
it's the kids that are in the failing schools that
it helps. So it's kind of like a new form
of Democrat segregation, because they were Jim Crow segregationists, and
now it's like because it affects minorities more so, it's
like a new form of segregation, keeping them in the
failing schools.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yep, you're right, Andrew. Thank you for the call. So
we've got a couple of lines open here. Now's the
time if you want to sneak in one eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten here on the Rob
ast Reno Show. Let's go to Joe in Manhattan.

Speaker 8 (30:40):
Hi Joe, Happy Thanksgiving to you, Rob and to your family.
And you're great, you're great workers. I spoke to you,
and you're correct. You're absolutely correct. Matt Gets would not
have been the attorney general. Sure, you were right in that. Also,
pressure was put on hire New York City Mayor Giuliani

(31:02):
off the radio for exposing your twenty twenty election Proud.
But when is all this nonsense going to be fixed?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Well, I think it'll be fixed when Donald Trump gets
in there, because they'll have the keys to everything. They'll
be able to go through all of the electronic files,
all the paperwork that never saw the light of day.
They'll get a chance to start questioning people and firing people. Honestly,

(31:30):
you know, if I'm take that, I just said the
bad word, because you know what they should. They should absolutely,
I meant to say crapping. We can say crapping, but
I said the S words. So we had to dump me.
I had to actually get dumped. Yeah, thank you, Bruce.

(31:54):
That's I get all excited because I'm really I'm angry
at what's going on right now? Oh my god? All right,
let me go back to the calls here. We got
a lot of new callers, which is great. What's one
to eight there? Who is it that? Kathy? Is that Kathleen?

Speaker 7 (32:13):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Kathy?

Speaker 9 (32:15):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (32:16):
How are you good? Where are you from Westchester?

Speaker 2 (32:20):
What you're doing?

Speaker 10 (32:23):
I'm driving in duff Ferry going home?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
So what's going on?

Speaker 10 (32:29):
I would like to know why it is so hard
to fire government employees, because I've worked in union environments
and it's hard, but it's not impossible. As the manager,
you have to hold people accountable.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Yeah, my experience has.

Speaker 10 (32:48):
Been that nobody's held the manager is accountable for holding
their subordinate's accountable. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Well I can tell you because I've had to fire
government employees. It's not easy because they have due process,
they have contractual rights, first in, first out all I mean,
all these seniority rules, and then obviously the union gets involved.
So it's not easy. I mean, I've had clear cut
cases of total insubordination. It wasn't even a question. I mean,

(33:19):
it was in emails of so many egregious things, and
this process took years to get rid of people, or
sometimes we weren't allowed to get rid of them. That's
how bad it is. Because you've got judges, you've got
hearing officers. It's not that easy, which is why I'm
saying it's not going to be that easy. Even though

(33:43):
Musk and Ramaswami and others are going to identify a
lot of things wait to see the federal bureaucracy and
too many, unfortunately Republicans and Democrats who are going to
circle the wagon because they're not going to want this
agency to be cut or whatever it happens. And it's

(34:03):
gonna be hard, but I hope they do it because
it's absolutely necessary. One hundred and three two one zero
seven ten.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yeah, I got your calls. I'm glad new callers too
coming in. So hold off, don't go away. I'm gonna
get your calls in just a moment. But I have
to tell you about Toyota City, which is part of
the Integrity Automotive Group family, like with Nissan City, and
it's the same thing. Man, go into Toyota City and say,

(34:32):
I love that new car smell, I want that one,
and they'll say all right. And you'll say, and by
the way, you know that one hundred dollars bill, I
want five of them off because I know astor Reno.
And they say, all right, five hundred dollars off. Any
vehicle and stock. Any Toyota you want is gonna be there. Look,
there's a million Toyota places, right, it's a matter of

(34:54):
going to the right one. It's a matter of going
to the place that a friend recommends, and I'm your friends,
so go there, or that has a great reputation. So
just go on Toyota cityany dot com and you can
look up the vehicle, see if it's in stock, call
them up or better yet, stop by. They were like
really friendly people. They don't bite Toyota City in Mamernick

(35:18):
Toyota cityny dot com and unlike yeah, Bruce, just reminded me,
unlike me, they won't curse. I still can't believe I
did that, and I have the dump button right in
front of me, and I just like I was so on.
I was amazed at myself that I said the S
word thankfully, Noah, I mean quick to hit that dump button.

(35:40):
I mean, it's really not that bad of a word.
I even hear I heard that word on CNN. I
hear it on TV at night. Anyway, we try to
keep it clean. I got your calls coming up in
just a moment one A one hundred three two one
zero seven ten. You know what I think is happening.
I think a lot of people are switching over from
that other rotten show on that other station. They're finding

(36:02):
us now because people are telling people about us, and
that's how we're building a massive audy. I love it.
I mean I see all these new callers, and I
see our all friends who have been with us. We'll
get to you just a bit. Rob Astrino here on
seven to ten wo.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Seven TAR presents the Rob as Dono Show.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Baby come Back. I love that song. I'm back next week.
I'm here every Saturday, four o'clock, so make sure they
gotta give me another hour. It's very hard to get
through all of these callers, all of my opinions in
just one hour. Do you think you can work on that, Bruce? Bruce,

(36:44):
Oh yeah, I'll be here. Oh yeah, I'm not going away.
And my Dolphins play against Green Bay on Thanksgiving night,
so I gotta I gotta finish my food and bolt
out of my mother's house from in Danbury and get
home so I can be in my Dolphin's sweatshirts and
go crazy. All right, now, let's see one and three, two,
one zero seven, ten, Let's go to try to make

(37:06):
your calls quick because I want to get to as
many as possible, a lot of new people, and I
love that. So, Jim Hartsdale in Westchester, how are you, Jim?

Speaker 11 (37:17):
I am well. I'd like to talk a bit about
the mass deportation issue and how it can be affected
using the current laws that are on the books.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, turn your radio down. That's the first rule of
calling into a radio show, because we're on a delay,
which is how you didn't hear my s word real
quick ahead, Jim.

Speaker 11 (37:42):
Okay, So where I'm where I'm coming from is first
of all, is first of all the.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Hold on, Jim, I gotta let you go because you're
getting all messed up listening to the show in a delay,
which is why I said turn it so if you're
on hold, turn your radio down, Jim callback next week,
All right, Lewis in a story of Queens. Hey, how
are you?

Speaker 12 (38:06):
I am a super trouper, but I have two complaints
about the nominees. The first one is mister Robert Kennedy.
I think he is really an extremist. He's going to
control our food or medicines, and he's going to destroy
the faun of eating. Believe me to me, he's a
decrebly left over for on the Kennedy family and he

(38:30):
shouldn't be appointed for any position whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Well, it is a look. I can't thoroughly argue against that,
because I mean, he's a Kennedy, he's a democratic whole life.
But I will say give him a shot in that
research what he has said, because what the left is
doing now, remember he used to be hero of the left.
Now they despise him. They very much twisted a lot

(38:55):
of his positions on vaccinations, for instance. Now they're saying,
you know, literally there was a Washington Post. I think
Jennifer Rubin, she's a columnist, you know, far a nutjob,
and she wrote that Republicans are literally, think of the
word literally, Republicans are literally going to kill your kids

(39:16):
because of the appointments of Donald Trump and Donald Trump himself.
Nothing gets done with the snap of a finger, but
questioning what's in our food and water. Like we're having
a big debate right now about fluoride in water. Yorktown
in Westchester just banned fluoride. There was just a big
federal lawsuit that said to the EPA, hey, wait a minute,

(39:39):
there's a lot of science, now study this issue, because
fluoride is having at least the links scientifically now having
there's a link between child brain development negatively and fluoride
which is in our water toothpaste. So we're going to
have these conversations that we should be having all along.

(40:00):
Not that everything's gonna change, but that food pyramid, by
the way, it's like it's been in there forever. It's
have we gotten thinner? We're a fat I won't say it.
We are a fat country. So no, no, we're not healthier.
We should look at everything with fresh eyes. One hundred
and three to two, one zero, seven to ten, Will

(40:21):
on Long Island. See that's how you know, Rob, that's
how you know Will that that I'm a New Yorker,
Because if somebody were substituting from you know, Kansas City,
they'd be like Will in Long Island. No, it's on
Long Island.

Speaker 9 (40:36):
Go ahead, Will, Thank you very much, Rob, I'm calling
about I always called Donald Trump the master of the
unforced error. The latest one is Tulsey Gabbard. Yeah, why
do we need this moron? What is special about her?
What does she know about intelligence? The fact that she's
been so attracted to Russia.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Poughton, it's just holding Well.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Look, one of the things about Trump is he does
like loyalty. Tulsea Gabbard Again, she went after her own party,
and you can say that she's seen the light on
some of this stuff. Historically, she's been a pretty liberal Democrat.
And his pick for Labor secretary too, is a little

(41:21):
bit of a head scratcher Republican who just lost in Oregon.
A congresswoman, but she's pretty pro union, and that one
concerns me a little bit. But here's the thing. No
cabinet secretary the way it works. You have Cabinet secretaries
that run the departments, but there are White House liaisons

(41:45):
directly from the White House the Chief of Staff to
these departments, and nothing gets done without the sign off
by the White House and the President. So they might
propose to do things, or they might have been give assignments, whatever,
but nothing gets done until the White House signs off
on it. So it's not like RFK Junior if he

(42:06):
gets nominated what she has been and then he gets
confirmed and he becomes the secretary of HHS and he
walks in there and all of a sudden goes crazy
and bans vaccines. It's not happening. There are processes to this,
so you know, don't worry. If you're worrying, you can

(42:26):
question some of these and you know I have you
can question them. But I also I'm a believer that
the executive should pick his or her team and work
with whom he wants. Leroy in Bloomfield, New Jersey, Hey, Leroy, Hi.

Speaker 13 (42:45):
Rob, I also want you to have another hour. By
the way, no thank you in terms of that. But
I've been basically a in journalism for the past forty
years and it's disgusting in terms of the coverage right now,
and especially now, if you look at the difference between
the Trump's picks and Biden's picks, I don't remember the

(43:06):
scrutiny that's been going on with Biden picks. And by
the way, I was looking this up ironically, you know
what day Maryork Garland was announced is chosen for an
attorney general? When January sixth?

Speaker 7 (43:21):
Really look it up.

Speaker 13 (43:23):
So but it's just, you know, basically it comes down
to this. When Trump picks somebody, the news media, the
bulk of it, ninety nine percent of it, make a
mountain out of molehill. If it's a Democratic pit, they
make a mole out of mountain. So it's it's it's
just the coverage is I'm so disgusted. And at one time,

(43:44):
you know, the news media was objective and now today
it's basically they're an arm of the DNC. It's just
And all you have to do is watch the Sunday
morning shows and see the difference between how a person
who's a Democrat and Republican is interviewed. I mean it's
if you're a Republican, you're interrupted every minute or two. Well, Democrat,

(44:07):
they just listen to you.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
I don't know why you're watching those stupid shows anymore,
but thank you so much for the call and dial
up next week. I just want to remind you by
the way you should be. You should be following me
on my social media on Facebook, on x Instagram, all
those at rob Astarino. And if you can't listen on
the radio in your car or whatever, just call, you know,

(44:30):
listen on seven to ten wr dot com or get
the iHeart app. You got to download that onto your phone.
You can listen on that as well. Let me sneak
in two quick calls. Here Bob in Great Neck again
on the island.

Speaker 14 (44:45):
Good Bob, Yes, yes, I were big fans of yours, Robin.
Glad that you're on Newsmax as well as War and
hope it expands wherever you can because you're a great
voice and you have a great dumb button associate there too.
But quick question for you, that's very very intense and
very worrisome. Biden has shown himself to be feeble. He

(45:08):
had to drop out of his own race for presidency,
yet he's still at the controls of power. What kind
of emergency measures are there? Number One? To find out
who's really calling the shots, because it's probably not him,
because there have been one hundred and eighty degree reversals
on a couple of things with the missiles, with the
landlines in the Ukraine. And you know, is there some

(45:29):
emergency measure that that can be done, you know, since
we don't have the control of the House of Representatives
of emergency impeachment or what could be done? Well, Fifth
Amendment it takes too long.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yeah, no, I mean it is what it is. I mean,
this is the guy who was in Were they in
Brazil or Peru this week at a summit and they
had their pictures taken And did you see where they
put the President of the United States of America in
this photo far right up top, not the prominent spot

(46:07):
down below, in the middle where every US president has
always been and should always be. They put Joe Biden
on like the backbench. This guy represents the United States
of America. Now that's all you need to know about
how we're viewed and how he is viewed around the world.
You think Trump would Trump would have knocked everybody down,

(46:31):
and rightfully so, to be in that front row in
the middle where America should be. Uh, Maureen, you got
like fifteen seconds from South Carolina because I love that State.
Go ahead moreen Yes.

Speaker 6 (46:46):
In terms of not keeping track of people that come
into this country. My husband and I go to Anguilla,
which is a BWY British West indeed, and when you
go there you have to show what airline you're coming from,
what time is your flight, how are you getting there
because you usually have to take a serial from Saint Martin,

(47:07):
How are you getting around the island, where are you staying,
how long he's going to be there. I mean, it's
just so self con and they have every right to
control the role.

Speaker 10 (47:17):
Of course.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
No, it's I don't know why state is so embarrassed
about doing that.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
No, they're not embarrassed. It's by design, as I talked
about earlier, to bring in as many people as possible,
you know, maybe to vote. It's really more about just
creating chaos and setting up the census in five years.
Uh So tonight I'm going out with some friends, Sheila's
friend that she grew up with, Joe and Marisa, and

(47:44):
we are going to Pelham to Sergio's restaurante. I haven't
been there. I've been to Sergio's other place, the Saw
Pit in Portchester, which is phenomenal, and I think too
Tabella in Scarsdale right in Eastchester. So we're gonna have fun. People.
I do not talk about a restaurant or anything, even

(48:05):
Toyota City and Nissan City unless I really believe in it.
I have been to places, restaurants or whatever that I
don't mention on the air, even though they were very nice,
maybe even give us a free wine. But I didn't
think it was that great, and so I'm not going
to mention it on the air. So if I don't
talk about Sergio's next week, it's because it wasn't good.

(48:27):
But I highly doubt that. I highly doubt that this
place has a very good reputation. And as I said,
there are other place in Portchester's phenomenal. So if by
some chance you going to Sergio's and Pelham tonight, make
sure you come up and say hello. All right, I
am sorry to Steve and Sandra and others who called
who I didn't get a chance to get on. I
will get you next week. We're back here every Saturday

(48:48):
at four. Make sure you tune in, and I really
appreciate you coming on. There's so many things I didn't
get to, including Daniel Jones no longer a giant, bye bye,
and Aaron Rodgers looking like a one hundred and ten
year old Anyway, Army tonight Notre Dame Yankee State, and
that should be fun. Have a happy Thanksgiving. I will
talk to you the day after Black Friday next Saturday.

(49:10):
Take care.

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