May 31, 2024 • 10 mins
Shelli Sonstein is cohost of the Q104.3 Morning Show here in New York and on June 9 she is doing the Tunnels to Towers event! For more info head to T2T.org.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mister ran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
No, I don't know where you were.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
On September eleventh, two thousand and one, we were in
the studio watching it all happen as planes flew into
the World Trade Center towers and they were hit and
then they fell and something we'll never forget. But you
know what, there is this incredible organization that was born
from such a tragic, tragic situation. It's called Tunnels to
(00:25):
Towers and every year they have the Tunnels to Towers
Tower Climb, which happens every year every year since twenty
fifteen of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation has held this
tower climb at one World Observatory, at one World Trade Center.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You've seen it. Beautiful, beautiful building.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
And it's all because of this incredible, incredible angel named
Stephen Siller. He was an FDNY firefighter who was assigned
to Brooklyn's I Believe Squad one. He just finished his shift.
He's on his way to play golf with his brothers.
I think, as the story goes, he got word over
his scanner an airplane had hit the North Tower of
the World Trade Center and he turned around with back
(01:07):
strapped with sixty pounds of gear on his back, he
raced on foot through the tunnel, got to the Twin Towers.
He gave up his life while saving others, and so
we honor him every day every year with this Tunnel
to Towers Foundation climb. And our our angel who is
representing us every year, Shelley Sunsteen. And she's here with
(01:29):
us now. Hi, Shelley, Hi, Elvis.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You can't call me an angel warrior?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Maybe Okay, see, I can't believe she does. She's in
better shape than anybody I know.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Daniel Go feel her legs. Okay, legs is h rgone
a problem?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
If we all feel your legs, you have my permission.
I give you permission to touch me. But seriously, I mean,
this is when I do this, Elvis, Danielle scary. You
know I'm thinking, Gandhi, I'm sorry, there, you are looking beautiful,
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I am thinking of the three hundred and forty three
f DAN Wires who were running up those stairs at
the World Trade Center and lost their lives trying to
save people that day, three hundred and forty three that day.
And every time I think that I'm out of breath,
(02:32):
too out of breath to go on, I think of them.
But I also think of the three hundred and sixty
three FDN wires who have died since. More than three
forty three have died since of nine eleven illnesses, And
I just think of the first responders we continue to lose,
like NYPD Detective Jonathan Dillar of Massapequa Park, just a
(02:57):
routine traffic stop tunnel to towel wards, paid off his
family's mortgage days later. They do this all over the country.
They did this for the four marshals in Charlotte who
died just a couple of months ago trying to serve
an arrest warrant. They do this all over the country.
(03:19):
They build smart homes for catastrophically wounded veterans. I mean,
they're and they they're just amazing. They're just amazing. And
on Charity Navigator, look it up. This is how you
see how charities are really rated, so that you could
see who to donate to. They get one hundred percent.
Frank Siller, who by the way, raised his brother Stephen
(03:44):
because they lost their parents at an early age. Frank
Siller takes zero salary. He's the head of Tunnel to Towers.
This is an organization that is worthy of your support,
your donations, and that's why I'm here. You know, to
go to Q one of four to three dot com.
We're right on the front page. Please make a donation.
(04:07):
This is an organization that's worthy of your money. And
I know there are so many out there, but this
is why I do.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It without doubt, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And you uh, by the way, if you want to
run up these stairs, you good luck, I mean, because
they can only accept so many people, and Shelley always
gets in. Our friend Greg Charles does it every year
as well, and we're so so fortunate to have you
as our representative. And like you said, you can go
to Q one O four three dot com if they
(04:36):
put the link background, or simply you can go to
T the number two T dot org T two t
dot org if you want to donate. And you're right,
I mean, this organization they take care of so many
people who are so worthy. Absolutely, And how many stairs
are you climbing?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Is the Remember no, I don't know the number of stairs.
I know they haven't written down, but it's one hundred
and four stories, which is so appropriate because you know
I represent Q one oh four point three point three.
How long did it take You know, my best time,
Danielle was thirty five minutes.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
And this year really yeah, I mean I don't run.
I mean there are athletes to do this all over
the world. I don't run. My secret is, you know,
I'm just climbing the steps one at a time and
you use the handrail to pull yourself up, so you're
using your whole body.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah. Yeah, But anyway, it's such a good cause and
that's why I do it, although I always do. Oh,
I'm sorry, no, no, please go ahead. I forgot what
I was going to say. I get so nervous before
the climb. I really do, because I'm always worried that, oh,
what if I can't do it this year? What if
(05:53):
I'm not going to you know, may will do it.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You'll be fine. How many years have you been involved
with the Tonal Towers Walk up the Stairs?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I have done it six of their seven years.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
How long have you been How long have you been
in a QBANO four for three twenty years?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
How long have you been with Jim Kerr.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It'll be forty seven years? This coming again so amazing
into a studio.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It is so cool.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
That's that is so crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Now other than our own producer Sam, and Shelley's the
only one in the building who also wears Birkenstocks.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yes show. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Do you know the other day I was at a
five K and there were these firefighters running the five
k in their heavy outfits and equipment and stuff because
they wanted to show people how hard it was, and
they finished the five k. I could not believe.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It is insane impressive.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I can't even drive. I can't even drive five k.
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, look, Shelley, as our representative, as we do every year,
we must make contribution. So in your honor, we would
like to donate ten thousand dollars Oh my God foundation
and give the Silver Family our love, seriously, because they
were just amazing. And while you're here, by the way,
(07:19):
did you watch on TV without without comment, the the
outcome from the Donald Trump trial Downtown?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Sure, so, I.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Don't know what year this is, but they don't let
cameras in there, so they have courtroom artists drawing these crazy,
outlandish photos of President Trump and everyone else in there.
I mean, it's so silly. I heard that you know
someone who does it for a living.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh yeah, Liz William she's one of my dearest friends,
and she's her work is actually in the Library of Congress.
She is so outstanding at what she does, and it's
so difficult because you have to stake your claim early
in the morning, getting the right seat, trying to figure
where am I going to get my so called money shot,
(08:06):
and it's very, very stressful. It's she is phenomenal. She
drew my wedding.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Could Shelley, could you not afford a photographer's.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The sketch Book of the Pictures?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Okay, hold on, hold on? What's your name again.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Shelley, Liz Williams, Elizabeth Williams.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Is there any way for us to have her come
to the show and draw us like we're in the
like court room, we're on trial or something, that we
pay her top dollar?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
She would love to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I would love that because I mean those drawings they
never really they look like caricatures.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You would you would pay for it a carnival.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
She's good at it, Like she might be too good
if she's in the Library of Congress.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
This could actually be artwork, Like thank what the hell
is that stick figure? Stuff?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I know, but to be honest, I mean the drawings
that they were. They were showing on TV yesterday of
President Trump. They made his hair a little more outlandish
than it. Yeah, I don't think they were extremely accurate.
But I would love to have her come in if
you can get her in here.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But Shelley, thank you so much for representing us at
the climb this weekend. And when I'm back in New York,
I can't wait to feel your thighs.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Bad to say that her arms, I mean, I sometimes
I see you in the We're talking in the bathroom, Michael,
what are you doing. I don't understand what you're doing.
But she she eats, well, she she does everything she's
supposed to do. Put it that way.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But there is that wine.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And a girl.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
We knew you, we knew you had some positives going
on for you. Well, Shelley, thank you so much for
coming and you know we love you.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh, thank you, and you are the angel again.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Go to Q and A four three dot com or
T two the number two T T two t dot
org to support Shelley as well, and uh good luck
every time.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
The Mercedes Ben's Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Julipa, do you love.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Being a redhead? And how much die do you see
in the shower?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I love being a redhead. The maintenance is a nightmare.
It does look like I've murded someone every time I
get into the shower. Everything you love about Mercedes, the style,
the comfort, de tech, the choice.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's now available in a full range of evs.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
The vehicles are all electric, The feeling is all Mercedes.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The choice is all yours.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Learn more at mbusa dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Slash eq Elvista ran in the morning show
Mister ran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
No, I don't know where you were.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
On September eleventh, two thousand and one, we were in
the studio watching it all happen as planes flew into
the World Trade Center towers and they were hit and
then they fell and something we'll never forget. But you
know what, there is this incredible organization that was born
from such a tragic, tragic situation. It's called Tunnels to
(00:25):
Towers and every year they have the Tunnels to Towers
Tower Climb, which happens every year every year since twenty
fifteen of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation has held this
tower climb at one World Observatory, at one World Trade Center.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You've seen it. Beautiful, beautiful building.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
And it's all because of this incredible, incredible angel named
Stephen Siller. He was an FDNY firefighter who was assigned
to Brooklyn's I Believe Squad one. He just finished his shift.
He's on his way to play golf with his brothers.
I think, as the story goes, he got word over
his scanner an airplane had hit the North Tower of
the World Trade Center and he turned around with back
(01:07):
strapped with sixty pounds of gear on his back, he
raced on foot through the tunnel, got to the Twin Towers.
He gave up his life while saving others, and so
we honor him every day every year with this Tunnel
to Towers Foundation climb. And our our angel who is
representing us every year, Shelley Sunsteen. And she's here with
(01:29):
us now. Hi, Shelley, Hi, Elvis.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You can't call me an angel warrior?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Maybe Okay, see, I can't believe she does. She's in
better shape than anybody I know.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Daniel Go feel her legs. Okay, legs is h rgone
a problem?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
If we all feel your legs, you have my permission.
I give you permission to touch me. But seriously, I mean,
this is when I do this, Elvis, Danielle scary. You
know I'm thinking, Gandhi, I'm sorry, there, you are looking beautiful,
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I am thinking of the three hundred and forty three
f DAN Wires who were running up those stairs at
the World Trade Center and lost their lives trying to
save people that day, three hundred and forty three that day.
And every time I think that I'm out of breath,
(02:32):
too out of breath to go on, I think of them.
But I also think of the three hundred and sixty
three FDN wires who have died since. More than three
forty three have died since of nine eleven illnesses, And
I just think of the first responders we continue to lose,
like NYPD Detective Jonathan Dillar of Massapequa Park, just a
(02:57):
routine traffic stop tunnel to towel wards, paid off his
family's mortgage days later. They do this all over the country.
They did this for the four marshals in Charlotte who
died just a couple of months ago trying to serve
an arrest warrant. They do this all over the country.
(03:19):
They build smart homes for catastrophically wounded veterans. I mean,
they're and they they're just amazing. They're just amazing. And
on Charity Navigator, look it up. This is how you
see how charities are really rated, so that you could
see who to donate to. They get one hundred percent.
Frank Siller, who by the way, raised his brother Stephen
(03:44):
because they lost their parents at an early age. Frank
Siller takes zero salary. He's the head of Tunnel to Towers.
This is an organization that is worthy of your support,
your donations, and that's why I'm here. You know, to
go to Q one of four to three dot com.
We're right on the front page. Please make a donation.
(04:07):
This is an organization that's worthy of your money. And
I know there are so many out there, but this
is why I do.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It without doubt, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And you uh, by the way, if you want to
run up these stairs, you good luck, I mean, because
they can only accept so many people, and Shelley always
gets in. Our friend Greg Charles does it every year
as well, and we're so so fortunate to have you
as our representative. And like you said, you can go
to Q one O four three dot com if they
(04:36):
put the link background, or simply you can go to
T the number two T dot org T two t
dot org if you want to donate. And you're right,
I mean, this organization they take care of so many
people who are so worthy. Absolutely, And how many stairs
are you climbing?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Is the Remember no, I don't know the number of stairs.
I know they haven't written down, but it's one hundred
and four stories, which is so appropriate because you know
I represent Q one oh four point three point three.
How long did it take You know, my best time,
Danielle was thirty five minutes.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
And this year really yeah, I mean I don't run.
I mean there are athletes to do this all over
the world. I don't run. My secret is, you know,
I'm just climbing the steps one at a time and
you use the handrail to pull yourself up, so you're
using your whole body.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah. Yeah, But anyway, it's such a good cause and
that's why I do it, although I always do. Oh,
I'm sorry, no, no, please go ahead. I forgot what
I was going to say. I get so nervous before
the climb. I really do, because I'm always worried that, oh,
what if I can't do it this year? What if
(05:53):
I'm not going to you know, may will do it.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You'll be fine. How many years have you been involved
with the Tonal Towers Walk up the Stairs?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I have done it six of their seven years.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
How long have you been How long have you been
in a QBANO four for three twenty years?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
How long have you been with Jim Kerr.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It'll be forty seven years? This coming again so amazing
into a studio.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It is so cool.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
That's that is so crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Now other than our own producer Sam, and Shelley's the
only one in the building who also wears Birkenstocks.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yes show. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Do you know the other day I was at a
five K and there were these firefighters running the five
k in their heavy outfits and equipment and stuff because
they wanted to show people how hard it was, and
they finished the five k. I could not believe.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It is insane impressive.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I can't even drive. I can't even drive five k.
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, look, Shelley, as our representative, as we do every year,
we must make contribution. So in your honor, we would
like to donate ten thousand dollars Oh my God foundation
and give the Silver Family our love, seriously, because they
were just amazing. And while you're here, by the way,
(07:19):
did you watch on TV without without comment, the the
outcome from the Donald Trump trial Downtown?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Sure, so, I.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Don't know what year this is, but they don't let
cameras in there, so they have courtroom artists drawing these crazy,
outlandish photos of President Trump and everyone else in there.
I mean, it's so silly. I heard that you know
someone who does it for a living.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh yeah, Liz William she's one of my dearest friends,
and she's her work is actually in the Library of Congress.
She is so outstanding at what she does, and it's
so difficult because you have to stake your claim early
in the morning, getting the right seat, trying to figure
where am I going to get my so called money shot,
(08:06):
and it's very, very stressful. It's she is phenomenal. She
drew my wedding.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Could Shelley, could you not afford a photographer's.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The sketch Book of the Pictures?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Okay, hold on, hold on? What's your name again.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Shelley, Liz Williams, Elizabeth Williams.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Is there any way for us to have her come
to the show and draw us like we're in the
like court room, we're on trial or something, that we
pay her top dollar?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
She would love to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I would love that because I mean those drawings they
never really they look like caricatures.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You would you would pay for it a carnival.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
She's good at it, Like she might be too good
if she's in the Library of Congress.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
This could actually be artwork, Like thank what the hell
is that stick figure? Stuff?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I know, but to be honest, I mean the drawings
that they were. They were showing on TV yesterday of
President Trump. They made his hair a little more outlandish
than it. Yeah, I don't think they were extremely accurate.
But I would love to have her come in if
you can get her in here.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But Shelley, thank you so much for representing us at
the climb this weekend. And when I'm back in New York,
I can't wait to feel your thighs.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Bad to say that her arms, I mean, I sometimes
I see you in the We're talking in the bathroom, Michael,
what are you doing. I don't understand what you're doing.
But she she eats, well, she she does everything she's
supposed to do. Put it that way.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But there is that wine.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And a girl.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
We knew you, we knew you had some positives going
on for you. Well, Shelley, thank you so much for
coming and you know we love you.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh, thank you, and you are the angel again.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Go to Q and A four three dot com or
T two the number two T T two t dot
org to support Shelley as well, and uh good luck
every time.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
The Mercedes Ben's Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Julipa, do you love.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Being a redhead? And how much die do you see
in the shower?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I love being a redhead. The maintenance is a nightmare.
It does look like I've murded someone every time I
get into the shower. Everything you love about Mercedes, the style,
the comfort, de tech, the choice.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's now available in a full range of evs.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
The vehicles are all electric, The feeling is all Mercedes.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The choice is all yours.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Learn more at mbusa dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Slash eq Elvista ran in the morning show
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