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 ram in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You know, I don't know where you were. 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,
(00:24):
tragic situation. It's called Tunnels to 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 3 (00:42):
You've seen it. Beautiful, beautiful building.
Speaker 2 (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 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 strapped
(01:08):
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.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hi, Elvis Soul.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You can't call me an angel warrior?
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Maybe Okay, see, I can't believe she does. She's in
better shape than anybody I know.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, daniel go feel her legs. Okay, legs is h
argeting a problem? If we all feel your legs, you
have my permission.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I give you permission to touch me. But seriously, I mean,
this is when I do.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
This of Danielle scary.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You know, I'm thinking, Gandhi, I'm sorry, there you are
looking beautiful, Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I am thinking of the three hundred and forty three
FDN 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 Towl Howards 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.
(03:39):
Frank Siller, who by the way, raised his brother Stephen
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
(04:02):
go to Q one A four to three dot com.
We're right on the front page. Please make a donation.
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 3 (04:13):
It without doubt, you know.
Speaker 2 (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 uh, 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
(04:36):
they 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 3 (04:56):
Is there a number?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
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.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Three point three. How long did it take?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You know? My best time, Danielle was thirty five minutes
and this year really yeah, I mean I don't run.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I mean there are athletes that do this all over
the world. I don't run.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
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 using your whole body.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
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 I'm not going to
(05:54):
you know, maybe will do it.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
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 3 (06:05):
Wow. How long have you How long have you been
in a Q.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And A four from three twenty years?
Speaker 3 (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 3 (06:23):
It is so cool.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That is so crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Now other than our own producer, Sam, Shelley's the only
one in the building.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
It also wears birkenstocks. Y. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (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 3 (06:50):
It is insane impressive. I can't even drive. I can't
even drive five K. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, look, Shelley, as our representative, as we do every year,
we must be contribution. So in your honor, we would
like to donate ten thousand dollars, oh.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
My god, to.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Foundation and give give the Silver Family our love seriously,
because they were just amazing. And while you're here, by
the way, did you watch on TV without without comment
the uh, the outcome from the Donald Trump trial downtown? Sure, so,
(07:29):
I 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.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean you, it's so silly. I heard that you
know someone who does it for a living.
Speaker 4 (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 it 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 2 (08:16):
Could Shelley, could you not afford a photographer?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
She's got the Sketch Book of Pictures?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Okay, hold on, hold on? What's your name against.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Shelley Liz Williams, Elizabeth Williams.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Is there any way for us to have her come
to the show and draw us like we're in the
like we're court room, you know, we're on trial or
something that we.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Pay her top dollar?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
She would love to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I would love that.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Because I mean those drawings they never really they look
like caricatures.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
You would you would pay for it a carnival.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
She's good at it, Like she might be too good.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
If she's in the Library of Congress, this could actually
be artwork, Like thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What the hell is that stick figure stuff?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Well?
Speaker 2 (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 commit if you
can get her in here.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (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 1 (09:32):
Is bad to say that her arms.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
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 eats well, she
she does everything she's supposed to do. Put it that way.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
But there is that wine at 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 in. You know we love you.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh, thank you, and you are the angel the Stram
all again.
Speaker 2 (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 fun.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
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Speaker 2 (10:20):
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Speaker 1 (10:22):
The maintenance is a nightmare. It does look like I've
murded someone every time I get into the shower.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
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Speaker 1 (10:43):
Slash Eq Elvis ran in the Morning Show
Mister ram in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You know, I don't know where you were. 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,
(00:24):
tragic situation. It's called Tunnels to 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 3 (00:42):
You've seen it. Beautiful, beautiful building.
Speaker 2 (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 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 strapped
(01:08):
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.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hi, Elvis Soul.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You can't call me an angel warrior?
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Maybe Okay, see, I can't believe she does. She's in
better shape than anybody I know.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, daniel go feel her legs. Okay, legs is h
argeting a problem? If we all feel your legs, you
have my permission.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I give you permission to touch me. But seriously, I mean,
this is when I do.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
This of Danielle scary.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You know, I'm thinking, Gandhi, I'm sorry, there you are
looking beautiful, Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I am thinking of the three hundred and forty three
FDN 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 Towl Howards 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.
(03:39):
Frank Siller, who by the way, raised his brother Stephen
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
(04:02):
go to Q one A four to three dot com.
We're right on the front page. Please make a donation.
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 3 (04:13):
It without doubt, you know.
Speaker 2 (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 uh, 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
(04:36):
they 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 3 (04:56):
Is there a number?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
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.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Three point three. How long did it take?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You know? My best time, Danielle was thirty five minutes
and this year really yeah, I mean I don't run.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I mean there are athletes that do this all over
the world. I don't run.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
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 using your whole body.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
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 I'm not going to
(05:54):
you know, maybe will do it.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
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 3 (06:05):
Wow. How long have you How long have you been
in a Q.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And A four from three twenty years?
Speaker 3 (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 3 (06:23):
It is so cool.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That is so crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Now other than our own producer, Sam, Shelley's the only
one in the building.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
It also wears birkenstocks. Y. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (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 3 (06:50):
It is insane impressive. I can't even drive. I can't
even drive five K. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, look, Shelley, as our representative, as we do every year,
we must be contribution. So in your honor, we would
like to donate ten thousand dollars, oh.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
My god, to.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Foundation and give give the Silver Family our love seriously,
because they were just amazing. And while you're here, by
the way, did you watch on TV without without comment
the uh, the outcome from the Donald Trump trial downtown? Sure, so,
(07:29):
I 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.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean you, it's so silly. I heard that you
know someone who does it for a living.
Speaker 4 (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 it 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 2 (08:16):
Could Shelley, could you not afford a photographer?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
She's got the Sketch Book of Pictures?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Okay, hold on, hold on? What's your name against.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Shelley Liz Williams, Elizabeth Williams.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Is there any way for us to have her come
to the show and draw us like we're in the
like we're court room, you know, we're on trial or
something that we.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Pay her top dollar?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
She would love to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I would love that.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Because I mean those drawings they never really they look
like caricatures.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
You would you would pay for it a carnival.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
She's good at it, Like she might be too good.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
If she's in the Library of Congress, this could actually
be artwork, Like thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What the hell is that stick figure stuff?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Well?
Speaker 2 (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 commit if you
can get her in here.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (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 1 (09:32):
Is bad to say that her arms.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
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 eats well, she
she does everything she's supposed to do. Put it that way.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
But there is that wine at 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 in. You know we love you.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh, thank you, and you are the angel the Stram
all again.
Speaker 2 (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 fun.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Mercedes Ben's Interview Lounge Julipa.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Do you love being a redhead and how much didn't
see in the shower?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I love being a redhead.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
The maintenance is a nightmare. It does look like I've
murded someone every time I get into the shower.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Everything you love about Mercedes, the style, the comfort, de tech,
the choice. It's now available in a full range of evs.
The vehicles are all electric. The feeling is all Mercedes.
The choice is all yours. Learn more at mbusa dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
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