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Okay, we're gonna That was October twenty second, nineteen eighty six,
Jane Dornacker on WNBC doing traffic reports and her helicopter malfunctioned.
She hit the water and died, and I just it
flashed back to me like it was yesterday. I was
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listening to WNBC that day. I remembered so well, and
it was live on the air for all of us
to hear, and I just flashed back when unfortunately that
family from Spain this week on the tourist helicopter, that
beautiful family of five and the pilot, and we still
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don't know why it happened, but for something so tragic
like that, they just got off the plane from Spain.
They were coming to celebrate his wife's birthday and his
daughter's birthday. They checked into the hotel and then they
went and did one of those helicopter tours around the
island of Manhattan, and in an instant, their lives ended,
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and it was it's just so sad, and I'm trying
to think of the I mean, it's one thing to
be killed instantly, it's another to die the way they died,
and with the tragedy of the helicopter malfunctioning and then
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literally snapping in half as they're buckled into a seat,
falling to the water, and then panicking not only on
the way down, but of course being submerged and you
can't get out and you know your family is there,
and they all died, and it was just horrific, horrific.
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But I remembered that day of Jane Dornacher back in
nineteen eighty six, and I bring that up because I
used to fly in a helicopter doing traffic reports, and
I always knew, I always knew I worked for Metro
Traffic and Shadow Traffic way back when it was actually
was like one of my first real jobs. I didn't
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make any money somehow, it cost me to drive from
Westchester to Teeterborough and I was making I don't know
what it was, seven dollars an hour or whatever the
minimum was back then. And I still remember being excited
every day to go to Teetersborough. And primarily I was
in a fixed wing Sesna A says No. One one
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fifty two, and those were these little two seaters where
you know, I'm in the passenger seat, my pilot and
were kind of shoulder to shoulder. There's not a lot
of room there. But I basically learned how to fly
that little Sesna and I wish, I wish it was
a regret of mine because with all the hours I
was doing, three and a half hours a day, taking
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off at ten in the morning, flying around doing traffic reports.
I think at the time it was for WFAN. I
did some other stuff for like WABC. I don't know
if I was on WAWAR, I don't know if I
did stuff for them and WPLJ, and it was just
it was. It was so much fun. It was so
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interesting to be a thousand feet up or two thousand
feet up and seeing New York City and the entire
metropolitan area. I got to know the roads, and especially
doing morning drive. You know'd get up at four in
the morning, get in the car, get to Teeterborough, and
we would lift off in the morning at five point thirty.
If I was doing the helicopter, it was for the
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drive time, so it was morning driver afternoon drive. Loved it.
I mean, it's just a unique view of New York
and especially the morning you're up there and you just
see New York City kind of get out of bed
and stretch. The sunrises, and then it just becomes a
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hustle and bustle, and you could feel the anxiety and
stress of people stuck in traffic. And remember back then
we didn't have iPhones, so you didn't you didn't say, hey, Siri,
what's traffic like on the BQE. And you didn't have
you know, you didn't have ways and everything else. It
was important those traffic reports, and I was a lifeline
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for people to get to work on time. You know,
am I gonna go this way or that way? What's
happening at the GWB inbound and it was so it
was just great. But I always knew in the back
of my head in that plane because I did learn
basically to fly it. I learned how to take off
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and land. And my regret was that I didn't log
my flight hours because I would have gotten a free
pilot license while at work because the pilot was an instructor.
So stupid me. But I always knew that God forbids
something went wrong, that we could land that plane anywhere.
It was like a Volkswagon with wings. Honestly say, you
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could land it anywhere. And yeah, right, an apology here,
very late, but an apology. I used to get sick sometimes.
I used to get airsick because some days I would
go from the helicopter to the plane, two very different motions.
The helic helicopter was kind of all, you know, left
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and right, up and down a little bit of everything.
The plane was a little more steady but kind of
bounce up and down a little bit. And now you know,
sometimes I'd go from both with a little break in between,
and my stunt, I would get sick. I really would
get sick. And in the plane you can open up
the window and throw up, and I would. Now maybe
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it was in the back of my head that I
was going to run for county executive one day, So
I never ever, ever threw up over Westchester. I did,
and right now, I apologize if you are in Nassau County.
There were times where things that were coming down out
of the sky were not from God. It was from me,
and I deeply apologize for that. But I, honest to God,
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knew that I was safe in that plane, or at
least I felt safe. But on the other hand, I
knew in that helicopter if something went wrong, I was
dead and it was not going to be a fun death.
It was going to be a tragic way to go.
And there was nothing you could do about it because
you just had to trust your pilot, and I did,
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and you just had to hope that everything went well.
And it did. But there was one time where I
got really scared. And the one thing with the planes
that we were in and the helicopters, it's called THEFR
visual flight, So you have to see the pilot has
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to see in order to fly IFR, which is your
jets and you know some other planes. That's instrument, so
you could actually fly like in fog or in inclement weather,
and you would rely on the instruments to get you
to where you're gonna go. That wasn't the case with
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the chopper. You had to see. And so we were
one day we took off from Teterborough and we're doing
our stuff and all over the place, and we ended
up out in Queens somewhere towards Kennedy and the weather
all of a sudden started to turn. And that was
the one thing. You could fly in rain. You could
actually fly in snow, and I mean ideally you on
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a nice day, but you could. But you can't fly
in fog. And all of a sudden that fog started
to come in and quick, and we were out in
Queens needing to get over back to land at Teeterborough.
And remember this was like the early nineties. So we're
flying across and I said to the pilot, you know
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where are we and he goes, we're coming into Long
Island City and I said, don't forget the City Court
building or the City Bank building. I guess it was right,
and he says, oh yeah, And next thing we know
we are coming right on it and all of a sudden,
a huge like right turn and we avoid it. And
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that was the last time I was in a helicopter.
I said, no, no, thank you very much. I will
do my traffic reports in the plane or I'm done.
And again I realized this if something I mean, obviously
a crash into a building, even in the plane, we
were going to be dead. But the point is helicopters
I always knew, and so it just I had those
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flashbacks of me and I had that flashback of Jane
Dornacker dying on the air the other day when that
horrible accident and that that family from Spain and the
pilot were killed. Hopefully they figure out what it is.
The NTSB is there. They're saying it could be a
whole bunch of things. It could be because they have
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to explain how that held this helicopter. It split in half.
And I can tell you know, going up and down
like the East River is dangerous. The East River is narrow.
We got the buildings on both sides, but you also
have winds that that flip right out at you. The
East River is not fun. Hudson is great, Hudson is
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wide open. No no real issues there but they're saying
it could be well, they're not rolling out I mean,
pilot error potentially, but they're not ruling out potentially a
drone that it hit a drone. Now, I don't know
if that would explain why it, you know, lobbed in half,
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but it might explain what happened. Who knows. We'll wait
to hear. Anyway, I said, I pray for these the
family and the and the UH and the pilot. But
I just it was a flashback for me and I
wanted to share that with you. Bill Maher, did you
see Bill this week if you didn't, And I'm gonna
play the audio because I think it's amazing. So Bill Maher,
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of course a liberal Democrat, even though he says he's
a centrist, but yeah, he's basically liberal, although he's really
kind of drifted over because he calls out the lunacy
on the left. So good for him. So Bill Maher
was invited to the White House. He was invited to
have dinner with Kid Rock, I think a couple other
people and Donald Trump. And that's a great thing about Trump,
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by the way, you could really tick him off, be
a moron, an a hole, and he still has a
pretty big heart, and I've gotten to know him through
the years. I was fortunate enough to play golf with him.
It was just me and Donald Trump in the golf cart,
you know, for eighteen holes. And he's He's a character,
there's no question about it. But I've been in the
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Oval with him. I've been in his private dining area
off the Oval. I've been at events with him. He
called me out on stage one completely shocked me. But
I've gotten to know I don't know him, you know.
I can't say I hang out with him all the time,
but I've gotten to know him, and I know people
know him very very well. I've gotten to know the
family a little bit, certainly Eric more than the rest.
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And he's just he is a guy you would love
to hang out with because he is fun. He's the
guy you'd want to have a beer with. And so
he invites Bill Maher, and Bill Maher goes, and then
he talks about it on his show about how he
actually enjoyed being with Trump and it's flipping out the left.
And so I'm gonna play a little bit of what
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Bill Maher.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Said first Good Sign before I left for the Capitol,
I had my staff collect and print out this list
of almost sixteen different insulting epithets that the President has
said about me, things like stupid, dummy, low life, dummy,
Slee's bag, sick said, stone cold cracy, really a dumb guy,
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fired like a dog, his show is dead.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
It was sixty.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
I brought this to the White House because I wanted
him to sign it, which he did, which he did
with good humor. And I know, as I say that,
millions of liberal sphincters just tightened.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
So that kind of sets it up. And then he
talks about what his dinner was actually like, play that Bruce.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
When I got there, that guy wasn't living there. Now
does Trump want respect? Of course, who doesn't. My friend
said to me, what are you gonna wear to the
White House? I said, I don't know, but I'm not
gonna dress like Zelensky. I'll tell you that it's much
more self aware. And he lets on in public. Look,
I get it. It doesn't matter who he is at
a private dinner with a comedian. It matters who he
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is on the world stage. I'm just taking as a
positive that this person exists, because everything I've ever not
liked about him, was I swear to God absent at
least on this night. With this guy, I never felt
I had to walk on eggs around him. And honestly,
I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never
feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able
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to talk with Donald Trump. That's just how it went down.
Make of it what you will.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Me.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
I feel it's emblematic of why the Democrat is so
unpopular these days.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Interesting stuff, and boy did he speak the truth there,
and good for him. Notice though he said he voted
for Clinton and Obama, he didn't say he voted for Biden.
I don't know if that was a slip of the
tongue he forgot, or maybe a little truth came out.
I don't know, but I thought that was really interesting.
And you compare that now to a survey that I saw,
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I think it was yesterday or this week, and this
is outright frightening. And it really explains why Bill Maher
would say what he just said, because over fifty percent
of self identified Democrats in a poll said that they
think it's justified. Listen to this. Fifty percent of self
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identified Democrats in a poll said it is justified to
assassinate Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Let that sink in
for just a second. How insane and dangerous is that.
That's not like five percent way out of the range there,
that's over fifty percent. So just think about every other
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Democrat that you meet or friends with or family in
their head they're thinking, and if they were being honest,
like I guess the others were, that it's fine, totally
acceptable for the president of the United States, the current
president whom they disagree with, Donald Trump or Elon Musk,
who they may even hate more, to be assassinated, to
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be killed. We got big problems in this country, and
that's one of the biggest ones. Rob Astarino here on
seven to ten wor I wanted to I mentioned this
in the promos, so if you heard it during the
week I got. I got stopped by several people's Oh
oh oh, I can't wait to call you up on
this one because I got a story too. One eight
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what it's about. So the other day, I'm driving from
my house down my block and it comes down a
little hill and I'm at a stop sign. It's a
four way stop. No, Actually, it's a two way stop
across the street and there's a main road, so I'm
gonna make a right onto the main road. Across the street.
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There's a car that's waiting for traffic and he's making
a left, so I have the right of way. I'm
making a right turn. This guy is going across traffic
making a left onto a main road. Obviously he doesn't
have the right of way, and you know he's waiting
and waiting, waiting. So anyway, I do the courteous thing,
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which is I wave him on, go ahead, you go,
I'll wait for you. Make that left turn. Now, if
somebody did that to me, I'm there in his spot,
I'm making a left turn and he does that, I
would do what I would give a little wave. That's
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very nice to you. I've never met you, but thank
you for doing that. I appreciate that show a little appreciation,
a little common courtesy. Thank you. What does this guy do?
He just makes his left turn. He stares at me,
makes his left turn like it was his right. And I, honestly,
I a lot of things just go off my back.
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It really pisses my wife off because nothing bothers me.
But those are things that actually bother me because I
didn't have to do what I did. It's like, you know,
when I hold open a door for somebody and they
just walk right through without acknowledging or saying thank you.
That pisses me off too. So I'm wondering. I'm sure
there's a lot of people right now driving and listening
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to this show seven WR I'm sure something maybe just
happened to you on your little drive wherever you're going.
One in hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
Bad etiquette while driving, and I hope you're not one
of them. And I hope if somebody lets you go
or or another situation, that you're courteous, because maybe a
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little road rage a and a bad thing. There are
times where I certainly certainly would love to just beat
the living daylights out of somebody, but we don't because
most of us are you know, we have self control,
and it's the wrong thing to do. One hundred three
to two one zero seven ten. If you would like
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Make sure you listen and tell a friend. All right,
So I'll give you one more scenario of what really
annoys me. And I've taken these rides.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Last year my wife and I drove out all the
way out to Arkansas to see my son. I was
there last Monday and Tuesday and Sunday, and I'm thinking
of our ride, and you know what really annoys me?
And it happens all over the place, especially on the
interstates where it gets to two lanes, and then you
have these tractor trailers who are supposed to be in
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the right lane, but the ones that not only go
in the right lane. But then they go like side
by side with another trucker in the left lane, and
they they're like doing the same fifty five miles an
hour when I'm trying to do seventy five and trying
to get past, and then all of us are stuck
behind them in a caravan waiting for one of these
morons to get out of the way. They've got the
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big horn. I don't stick in the right lane. Two
one zero seven ten. All right, let's start with Steven Flushing.
How are you, Steve doing okay?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Doing okay? I like your stories that everybody cover feels
the same way you do it everything.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
So you I tell you they're driving right.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Plussing queens. And there's a few things. They're just two
things that really bother me. One is every five blocks
you've got a traffic cam going on. So if you're
going over it, I think it's thirty six at this point,
but they say twenty five, you're grabbing a ticket right away.
So now that puts everybody driving at nineteen number one,
which drives me mad. But if you have you notice
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that by parks they have a stop they don't have
a stop sign. It's a sign with a small stop
sign in it with an arrow pointing to a person.
Have you seen that.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
That means stop if there's a person wanting to cross
the street.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That's okay, that's very confusing. It's either stops on that
or not.
Speaker 12 (23:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
No, no, it's just sign, but a small It's a
white sign with a small red stop sign with a
person pointing to that person saying stop if there's a
person wanting to cross the street. Mainly by parks or
sometimes by schools, but everybody stops even when there isn't
anybody there, and it just drives me crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Steve, thank you for the call. I've never seen that.
I gotta I gotta be on the lookout for that.
I mean you're supposed to you're supposed to yield for
pedestrians anyway, if somebody's walking across with a stroller, you're
not going to accelerate to take them out. It's not
a video game, Matt. In the Bronx, you're on seven
to ten w R.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Hey, Matt, Uh, Yeah, pretty much. You know, with regard
to UH traffic and UH like, for example, condestined pricing,
I think it's desperation. Then in terms of like getting
so many revenue sources, uh, you know, just basically penalizing
people for you know, wanting to utilize public services, you know.
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And then so far as that, you know, if you're
looking Europe, they have a BTU tax in places like
London for example, you know, to reduce traffic. You know,
the in certain certain congested areas, they took the nactually
tax you for using a motor vehicle. But it doesn't
really lead to efficiency, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Now, the whole congestion pricing thing, MATT is going to
be a boondoggle. All it is is making your wallet lighter.
It's it's sucking the all the money out of your pocket,
and it's not going to reduce traffic in any measurable way.
It didn't anywhere else they've done it. Maybe there's a
slight bump now, but there's probably real excuses for wide
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traffic is down a little bit. Alan and Elmont, how
you doing, Alan.
Speaker 13 (25:48):
Rob You got an excellent show. And before I get
to the meeting potatoes. In nineteen seventy seven, there was
a Heli pad on top of the pan Am building. Yeah,
helicopter made the perfect landing but within two or three
minutes of the landing landing, the landing gear collapse, turning
the helicopter over, striking the people getting out of the helicopter.
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Blades fell out into the street, and it was a
horrible situation. Also, w o R had a Vietnam veteran
who was a helicopter pilot and a pilot at w R,
George met everybody in this audience members. George. Now, the
thing is, I really believe this are people who keep
using the words and the names Pelosi and Fauci are
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useful idiots. People say, come here legally, are useful.
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Look at all the people.
Speaker 13 (26:34):
That they're going after now who hate America. They came
here legally. They clowned up in Columbia University. And that's
why I questioned people that you just named a lot
of people with that. Yeah, that's why we are in
the situation we are in. There's a host I call
him Big Bird, the Tower of Jelly, Jesse Kelly. I
tried to explain this to whom he kept saying, Foucy, Fouchy, Fouci,
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Anthony Wiena, I call him Tony Hotorg. You have a
very am doing the show here.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Might do a show here Alan Alan, Alan, It's not Alan,
It's what's what was his name? Last weekend traffic? Keep it.
It's like I have attention deficit disorder listeners sometimes and
three two one zero seven ten. Oh you can't say that,
Yeah I can. Donna and Huntington, Long Island, Hey Donna,
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how are you good?
Speaker 12 (27:27):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
What really gets me into the high is when you're
in a row of you know, traffic, and somebody's trying
to get dampicked it side road and you you do
the courtiest thing and you let them in, and they don't.
It's almost like what you said, they don't even bother,
like acknowledging that you let them go in front of you. Wait,
and then another thing I can't stand is when somebody's
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hitting you at night with their headlights on and they
start like honking tailgate and you let them. Then I
let them buy, I let them go by me, and
then I and then when I'm really annoyed, I do
things that I couldn't do. I start doing the same
thing to them.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Sometimes you got.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
A crappy connection, unfortunately, but uh, Donna, thanks for the call.
Call back anytime. Yeah, the high beams That's another annoying
thing when when people don't turn off their high beams
or they drive right behind you. You're going fast, like
there have been times when I've been doing you know,
above the speed limit. Let's just put it that way,
and there's somebody and I'm going fairly fast in the
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left lane, and there's somebody coming up trying to do
much much faster and doing the old high beams like
riding my tail one eight hundred and three two one
zero seven ten. Let's go to Andrew and Stanhope, New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Hi, Andrew, but I think you have every one beat
because you're actually throwing up on people from the house.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Never on Jersey though Andrew never did it, over stand Hope.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
But I did some work in training with the Fox
News helicopter good Day New York, which launce out of
New Jersey Fairfield. But I the truth was I couldn't
hack it, like speaking of throwing up a little bit
windy day, a bad day like today, and I almost
threw up, but you couldn't open the door. So, like
you said, back then there were an iPhones, So I
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was going to throw up in this map box and
like the plastic box but I held it, you know,
I held tough. They were going to actually land in
New York and held apart coort there and let me off.
But I fought through it. But it is definitely sad.
I thought of that reporting right away. And Bill Maher,
it's good that he's moderating. But my joke is HBO
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fans attention, mister Bill Maher, the most Caucasian man in
the world. I always used to think of that when
I would see him.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, hey, thanks for the call, Andrew rob Astorino here
seven to ten WR one three two one zero seven ten.
Let's go to Rockland County. Ernest may I call you Ernie?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Go ahead, Ernest, Yes, sir, thank you. I appreciate it.
The gentleman that was just speaking about the cameras. People
need to know that this is a country of law.
There's fifty four titles Title Law that protect the taxpayers.
They don't even know it. But as far as cameras go,
television ticket cameras, they are by definition outlaw. And what
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is that criminal? New York Criminal Procedure Law one five
zero point zero zero is only a police officer can
hand out an appearance ticket. The federal law that violates
is the Driver's Privacy Protection Act and that's the DPPA
and that came out in nineteen ninety four and they
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had three years to comply, and nobody's ever complied. And
what is that? Your information, your FOE graph, your social
Security number, your driver's license, all of that is forwards
highly restricted personal information. So under Title eighteen US Code
two seven two one, that's the Driver's Privacy Protection Act,
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nobody can take your picture and send you a ticket.
And that's federal criminal title law. So all of this
that's going on is violation of federal law. But yet
nobody knows it. And that's what's so shocking. Nobody knows
the laws that protect them in this country.
Speaker 13 (31:34):
You can't tell it.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Take somebody's license plate and send them a ticket for money.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Don't do it, Ernest, thanks for calling. That's interesting. I
got to yeah, I see sometimes the state and local
laws conflict. But I mean the problem is if you
get one of these red light tickets or speed tickets,
I mean, and like in Yakers, they're everywhere. If you
don't put your indicator on to make a right turn,
let's say, you can get banged. But who's not gonna
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that's the problem. Who's not going to send you your
money in and when you get this ticket because yeah,
and you're right, they have the photo of you on
on that ticket. But nobody, nobody's gonna just like not
do it because they're gonna they're gonna come after you
or suspend your your license. Maybe they're getting away with it.
Maybe they shouldn't. Interesting David Peakskill You're on seven to
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ten w l R Hi.
Speaker 12 (32:26):
Dave Hi Rob. The reason of polas is also for
the red light cameras. I remember one time going to
I'm not gonna stay the town or the city, but anyway,
I'm making a right turn on red after stopping, and
all of a sudden, I see a flesh well I
look up, I backtrack, I go, what the heck was that? Well,
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they put up a no turn on red sign and
they put up a camera just like that, And I
used to go that way every time. Then afterwards another
time I'm driving through uh and I get stopped behind
a truck and you can't see it. All of a sudden,
I start going because you can't really see over the
size of the truck, and I get a red light ticket. Okay,
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I mean it's it's nonsense. So now I'm leaving. I'm
leaving from work and I'm going down a little bit
of a hill and I says, oh, i'd better stop.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
I do.
Speaker 12 (33:18):
I't want to get another red light ticket. So all
of a sudden, some guy behind me hits me from behind.
I got out of the car. I go, hey, what's
going on? He goes, Oh, I'm sorry. He goes, I
was reaching for something. I didn't realize you were stopping.
Stopping because of the red light camera. Yeah, anyway, So
next thing I know, I get hit from behind. I
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go out and look at the car. And you know
how it is with insurance, you don't want to report
an accent if you don't have to, right, So he says,
you know what, it looks good. I have a nice day.
Speaker 11 (33:48):
I go home.
Speaker 12 (33:48):
I can't open my truck. Pust me a couple hundred
dollars to go to a place to have a fixed.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yeah, Dave, thank you for the call. No, these red
light cameras that there, they are, trust me, they're not
for safety. Fused when I was county executive to put
them up on any county. I wanted nothing to do
with them nothing, because I know exactly what they're there for.
And then you have cities and jurisdictions that are putting
them up everywhere because it's a revenue stream. That's all
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it is. Matt in Westchester County, Hi, Matt, how are
you doing?
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Uh?
Speaker 12 (34:20):
Hi? Rob?
Speaker 13 (34:20):
My biggest problem now is these scooters tailgating cars. They
also on the scooters, when you're making a turn, they
make the turn with you. They no, they have absolutely
oblivious to any kind of driving etiquette. And also when
you're at a red light, they make white urns. They
could slamp into your car. These illegal aliens break every
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traffic lawry in New York State and they get away
with it. So somebody just got a parking ticket or
a moving violation, they should be outraged. You're getting the
ticket and they're getting a way free.
Speaker 12 (34:51):
To driving on the sidewalks.
Speaker 13 (34:52):
They're terrifying old people. Go bu County.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, that's true. Sondra in New Jersey, how are you?
Speaker 14 (35:00):
I bet you don't hear any I'm home today, getting
ready to pass over, but I wanted to come on
the helicopter thing. And also my reaction was the driving
with the helicopter situation. You know, I lost my cousin
on the pan Am flight and he died instantly. What
you described earlier in your show was the first question
(35:24):
I had in my mind when this happened. Did they suffer?
And the way you described it, they did, and it
breaks my heart. So the latest I looked on the
computer because I'm home today, The latest speculation they have
is it's called a Jesus nut. Yeah, during Vietnam, right,
and they think that could have been defective, or it
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wasn't tightened up enough, or for some reason it shared
and that's how the main roader came off and caused
the helicopter to split in half. So that could be
the latest speculation on that. But as far as driving goes,
you know, my mother once said, the one who has
the last word ends up in the grave. So when
I drive, no matter how angry I get, I don't
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play around. When I'm in my car, let them have,
let them have the last say, and I'll go along
and fiddle. But my husband, But regarding passengers, when I'm
a passenger in the car and my husband gets angry,
he stops cursing and he says, and who do you
think suffens me. I say, Michael, do you really think
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they hear what you're saying?
Speaker 9 (36:30):
Cut it out?
Speaker 14 (36:31):
You know he thinks they hear it when he's getting
angry at them. So and the point is, I go
with the flow. You want to get ahead of me,
get ahead of me, you want to whatever you want
to do. I don't want to have the last word
because I don't want to end up in an accident.
You know That's how I feel good.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Point Sondra, thank you and happy passover to you and Michael,
Chris and Bethpage. You get the last word, Chris, how
are you?
Speaker 8 (36:55):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (36:55):
I'll say, hey, Rob very quickly. That's Steve from Manhattan's
been on twice a right now?
Speaker 12 (37:00):
You know that right?
Speaker 11 (37:01):
How does he get through the close scritty? It's brutal,
But anyhow, Three quick things. Number One, people in the
left hand lane who don't belong there. I understand there's
feel limits. But people that are going fifty miles to
forty five miles an hour in the left hand lane
when I'm driving on the New York threw away. It's ridiculous.
And that happens a lot, and I always wonder what
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are they doing in the left lane that drives me nuts.
Speaker 12 (37:24):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (37:25):
Number one. Number two people obviously that are on their
cell phones at lights. That happens all the time now,
and then the light turn screen and guess what they're
playing with their phone. It's that's a joke with the
cell phone, all right. And then lastly, right on red.
You know, I learned this in a class I was
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taking a driver's class. You don't have to make a
right on red if you're there, So if you're there,
you don't have to make one, but it would be
beneficial to the people behind you if you're in that
right lane, if you did make the right the right turn. Yeah.
But anyhow, those are the sweet things that I wanted
to say.
Speaker 12 (38:02):
That annoint me.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Thank you, Chris, I appreciate it. And I'll leave you
with this. And then we're gonna get Anthony Morante, who
is a counselman in Yonkers. He's also a CPA. So
I know tax Day is coming up next week, Tax Day,
April fifteenth. You may have already filed, but or if
you haven't hit send yet, Anthony Moranti is gonna give
you a couple tips that you may not have thought about.
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So you just keep it right here. One more thing.
So you know, when you're stuck in traffic and you
look on your left or maybe on your right, wherever
in between cars comes this motorcycle. I am so tempted
to just time it perfectly and open the door. I
want to be in a crappy car, so I don't care.
But he's coming out, weaving in and out Buba but
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breaking every rule, not waiting like the rest of us.
When he gets right to that point, I want to
open the door and let him slam right into it.
It's not I know that's not, but that's kind of
how I feel. All Right, I'm gonna give you a
couple of tax tips. Don't go away, Anthony Moranti next
right here on seven to ten wor.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
When you're a smart speaker to work, tell her to
play seven to ten wr on iHeartRadio anytime. She's the
rob Astarino Show on seven ten woor.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
But before I talked taxes with Councilman Anthony Moranti of
Yonkerslero's point to point. So last Sunday, I went to Memphis.
I flew into Memphis and then met my son who
was in the Air Force. He came in from Little
Rock two hours. We walked up and down Beal Street.
We had some good Southern barbecue and then went into
(39:46):
a blues bar. Then we drove back. We had fun.
We went to Hot Springs the next day, which is
really cool. But how did I get to the airport
and back? Welero's point to point, they're the best. In fact,
they got voted best Look, best limo Service, Best Ground
Transportation in Westchester Magazine. They are very very good. I
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wouldn't call a taxi. I wouldn't call, you know, one
of the ride shares. I mean you can, but I've
said it. I mean that, you know, you don't know
who's gonna pull up. And I certainly wouldn't want my
daughter or my wife getting into some uber, you know, downtown,
and I just it's not what I want. I want.
(40:30):
If I'm gonna have somebody pick them up, it's gonna
be Leros. If I'm going to the airport, it'sleros. If
we're gonna have a night on town, it's liros. They've
got the big ones, the sedans, or of course they've
got you know, the chauffeurs that come their screen, their
background checks, big liability insurance and peccable vehicles. Go with
Liros call them up one eight hundred and eighty two
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Liros one eight hundred eighty two l E ro Os
or go to leros tg dot com. All right, it
is tax time April fifteenth, that's next week. You got
to have your taxes in where you get banged. I
hate doing taxes. I don't get it. I'm not stupid
to math, but you know it's like, you know, you
put your they line fourteen says do this. Then if
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you do that, go to line forty eight, subtract line thirty.
I don't want to deal with it, and I don't
know what I can take or what I can't take.
So that's why you should have a good tax preparer,
and if you want a great one, not a good one,
a great one. Anthony Moranti, who just happens to be
a Republican councilman in Yonkers, the only Republican left there
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on the council. Anthony, how are you?
Speaker 9 (41:36):
I'm good, Rob? How are you? This beautiful Saturday afternoon?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah? What a what a horrible day?
Speaker 9 (41:42):
So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Give me some tax tips?
Speaker 9 (41:45):
Good day to do, Good day to do. Your taxes.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Rob it is it's a good day for somebody to
finalize their taxes. So let's just say somebody is preparing
their taxes there, and let's just say let's take a
senior citizen for instance, Okay, no longer working, so security pension,
you know, not a lot of income or offset. What's
the best way for somebody like that to get the
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maximum amount of write offs or to not have to
pay to not have to pay Donald or Kathy.
Speaker 9 (42:16):
Well, you know again, to to to get your to
get your right offs. I mean a senior citizen. There
isn't much left over there, but your in your description
over there, because again, they they have their ten ninety nine,
they got their interests, they got their dividends, they got
their brokerage. You know what what they what they want
to do is basically make sure that they do they
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have a mortgage anymore. We're hoping they don't have one
at this particular point in time. So you got to,
you know, if you're gonna make sure you're gonna file
your tax return depending on what you have, because most
people at that time don't may not have. But if
you do have a mortgage, make sure you get your
mortgage statement out did you did you pay real estate taxes?
Make sure you take it, take advantage of any deductions
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that that you may have. You have contributions. Seniors are
very prone to taking making good contributions to so we
make the list of contributions. See at that point you
put it all together and we find out if you
qualify for itemizing, and then we find or you find
out if you get a standard deduction. That's the that's
we put it all in the soup. And like you
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said that, it's a we let the computer do do
the math for us.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
What about volunteering. A lot of theaters volunteers, So let's
just say they, you know, every week they volunteer at
the I don't know, public library or something. Can is
there anything like about volunteering you can write off?
Speaker 9 (43:37):
Well, you know there there is a mileage limit that
you know they can from driving back and forth. I mean,
if they if they do contribute any of their own money, absolutely,
But if there's there's a mileage that that that could
be up to I believe and again I don't have
too many mileage guys, but I would probably say there's
about the you know, I think it's like the you know,
fifteen twenty sets a mile or something that they're allowed
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to get on their on their own contributed mileage.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
So okay, now we'll take a scenario of a family. Right,
mom and dad, they are taking mortgage deductions because they
live in the house, they pay property taxes. You know,
they got another twenty years to go before they pay
off that hours. But they have kids. So tell me
how mom and dad can save some money with their offspring.
Speaker 9 (44:27):
Well, well again, well let's let's find out what age
we got everybody over here, because again I was just
taking a look at some stuff. I was asking myself
some of the other questions. You know, when people walk in,
are they contributing to five twenty nine plans so that
they don't especially in New York five twenty nine, make
sure they get that ten thousand dollars deduction there.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
That's the college savings.
Speaker 9 (44:47):
The college savings. But then you go on the other
side of the spectrum, are they in college? Okay, if
they are in college, make sure, you know, you get
the kids to go on their portals and come up
with their forum ten ninety eighty out what what what
do they paid for college? And make sure you get
those benefits. Take the you get the American Opportunity Credit
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for the for the first four years up to twenty
five hundred. If they you know, they qualify because the
government give it and the governments take it away. If
you make too much money, you know, you know, you know,
it's a then you have the lifetime learning credit of
a ten percent ten percent up up to two thousand
dollars for kids above and beyond the undergrad So we
got to make sure we get all that, you know,
all that into place. That's that's important, not to forget
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to get those deductions.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
In Anthony Morante with us on seven ten w R
he happens to be a CPA and also a yanker's
counselman and a very good one. Okay, so you just
you just triggered something. So now let's go back to
the senior or grandma and grandpa. They write checks to
A five twenty nine for their grandkids, can they write
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that off?
Speaker 12 (45:56):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (45:57):
They can? Absolutely, all right, So that I would absolutely
if if a grandmark grandpa was doing that, that's that's
God bless God bless.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Them, which by the way, is a great gift. That
that's something that they should be doing. It's beneficial to them.
It's certainly beneficial in the long run to the parents,
to which would be their kids, and to and to
their grandkids. You know, that's that's a win all the
way around. Because let me tell you something, folks, I
got one in college right now and another on the
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way in two years. We've been saving, not enough, but
we've been saving since they were born in five twenty nine.
It ain't cheap, and college ain't cheap. It's never gonna
get cheaper.
Speaker 9 (46:39):
Well, it's it's it's it's a great benefit. You can't
go wrong with the five twenty nine. You know, you put,
you know, put ten grand in the account instead of
going straight to the school if you're in a seven
percent you know bracket there, you know, you just saved
yourself for seven hundred bucks, but just by changing good
from one pocket to the other. Yeah, instead of going
directly to the school. It's it's a great benefiting and
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why shouldn't why shouldn't grandma and grandpa take to take
advantage of that opportunity also, but mostly mostly I see
it mostly done by parents, you know, grandma's and grandpa's.
We gotta we got to push them a little more.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
How about home improvement.
Speaker 9 (47:19):
Oh yes, okay, well you're you're, you're, you're now you're
now going into a couple of different categories over here,
because right now, most regular home improvements are are items
that you would add to the value of your house
that you you would reduce your capital gain on on
the sale. There are some some improvements that we've talked
about lately. We talked about this last year sometime. And
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with regard to getting the energy credits, there's a lot
of people that went out and you know, bought new
boilers and these these ductless systems that qualify for for credits.
You can get a good six six hundred twelve hundred
dollar credit if you bought the right piece of equipment.
That's a that's a that's a great available available, not
it's a credit. Let's make sure it's a credit, not
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a deduction, whereas a direct a dollar for a dollar
rite off against your tax return. So if you made
some certain improvements, some insulation stuff, that definitely bring that
cost to your preparer, and make sure that you get
your energy credits.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Anthony Morante, he's a CPA and he's the councilman, and
Yonker's really the only one left. He's a Republican out
of the seven member board, so he's keeping them on.
Est Anthony, I'm sure you're buried as tax days coming up.
Good luck and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 9 (48:31):
Thank you very much for the opportunity. Good luck to
everybody in the April fifteenth. Let's not forget those tax returns.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
Because they won't forget about you. The federal government trusts me.
So tomorrow is well, Passover starts now. Passover starts tonight,
and then of course tomorrow is Palm Sunday, the triumphant
return of Jesus into Jerusalem, which begins of course our
Holy week, the Passion on Well tomorrow are going to do.
Tomorrow's a long readings in church, and then you have
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on Thursday the washing of the feet. But that of
course is the last Supper, Good Friday on Friday, which
of course when Jesus was nailed to the cross, and
that's really the whole reason for everything about his life
and why we as Christians believe in Jesus. And then
of course Easter Sunday coming up, So enjoy this week.
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Enjoy it's one of the times where Judaism and Christianity
kind of overlap. So have a blessed holiday. Thanks for
being with me. I will be back here next Saturday
at four o'clock and of course one to three on
Saturdays on Newsmax. Enjoy the week, everybody. Thanks to Noah,
thanks of course to Bruce, and thank you for listening.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
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Join.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
There wasn't need an ACT at southbound on the major
giggin at the Mashalloop Parkway and act earlier there was
a car fire at Hudson and Canal Street.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
It has been cleared about heading to New Jersey outbound Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Als A lot better for you in New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Gets the.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Okay, we're gonna That was October twenty second, nineteen eighty six,
Jane Dornacker on WNBC doing traffic reports and her helicopter malfunctioned.
She hit the water and died, and I just it
flashed back to me like it was yesterday. I was
(01:14):
listening to WNBC that day. I remembered so well, and
it was live on the air for all of us
to hear, and I just flashed back when unfortunately that
family from Spain this week on the tourist helicopter, that
beautiful family of five and the pilot, and we still
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don't know why it happened, but for something so tragic
like that, they just got off the plane from Spain.
They were coming to celebrate his wife's birthday and his
daughter's birthday. They checked into the hotel and then they
went and did one of those helicopter tours around the
island of Manhattan, and in an instant, their lives ended,
(01:58):
and it was it's just so sad, and I'm trying
to think of the I mean, it's one thing to
be killed instantly, it's another to die the way they died,
and with the tragedy of the helicopter malfunctioning and then
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literally snapping in half as they're buckled into a seat,
falling to the water, and then panicking not only on
the way down, but of course being submerged and you
can't get out and you know your family is there,
and they all died, and it was just horrific, horrific.
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But I remembered that day of Jane Dornacher back in
nineteen eighty six, and I bring that up because I
used to fly in a helicopter doing traffic reports, and
I always knew, I always knew I worked for Metro
Traffic and Shadow Traffic way back when it was actually
was like one of my first real jobs. I didn't
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make any money somehow, it cost me to drive from
Westchester to Teeterborough and I was making I don't know
what it was, seven dollars an hour or whatever the
minimum was back then. And I still remember being excited
every day to go to Teetersborough. And primarily I was
in a fixed wing Sesna A says No. One one
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fifty two, and those were these little two seaters where
you know, I'm in the passenger seat, my pilot and
were kind of shoulder to shoulder. There's not a lot
of room there. But I basically learned how to fly
that little Sesna and I wish, I wish it was
a regret of mine because with all the hours I
was doing, three and a half hours a day, taking
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off at ten in the morning, flying around doing traffic reports.
I think at the time it was for WFAN. I
did some other stuff for like WABC. I don't know
if I was on WAWAR, I don't know if I
did stuff for them and WPLJ, and it was just
it was. It was so much fun. It was so
(04:10):
interesting to be a thousand feet up or two thousand
feet up and seeing New York City and the entire
metropolitan area. I got to know the roads, and especially
doing morning drive. You know'd get up at four in
the morning, get in the car, get to Teeterborough, and
we would lift off in the morning at five point thirty.
If I was doing the helicopter, it was for the
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drive time, so it was morning driver afternoon drive. Loved it.
I mean, it's just a unique view of New York
and especially the morning you're up there and you just
see New York City kind of get out of bed
and stretch. The sunrises, and then it just becomes a
(04:54):
hustle and bustle, and you could feel the anxiety and
stress of people stuck in traffic. And remember back then
we didn't have iPhones, so you didn't you didn't say, hey, Siri,
what's traffic like on the BQE. And you didn't have
you know, you didn't have ways and everything else. It
was important those traffic reports, and I was a lifeline
(05:16):
for people to get to work on time. You know,
am I gonna go this way or that way? What's
happening at the GWB inbound and it was so it
was just great. But I always knew in the back
of my head in that plane because I did learn
basically to fly it. I learned how to take off
(05:39):
and land. And my regret was that I didn't log
my flight hours because I would have gotten a free
pilot license while at work because the pilot was an instructor.
So stupid me. But I always knew that God forbids
something went wrong, that we could land that plane anywhere.
It was like a Volkswagon with wings. Honestly say, you
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could land it anywhere. And yeah, right, an apology here,
very late, but an apology. I used to get sick sometimes.
I used to get airsick because some days I would
go from the helicopter to the plane, two very different motions.
The helic helicopter was kind of all, you know, left
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and right, up and down a little bit of everything.
The plane was a little more steady but kind of
bounce up and down a little bit. And now you know,
sometimes I'd go from both with a little break in between,
and my stunt, I would get sick. I really would
get sick. And in the plane you can open up
the window and throw up, and I would. Now maybe
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it was in the back of my head that I
was going to run for county executive one day, So
I never ever, ever threw up over Westchester. I did,
and right now, I apologize if you are in Nassau County.
There were times where things that were coming down out
of the sky were not from God. It was from me,
and I deeply apologize for that. But I, honest to God,
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knew that I was safe in that plane, or at
least I felt safe. But on the other hand, I
knew in that helicopter if something went wrong, I was
dead and it was not going to be a fun death.
It was going to be a tragic way to go.
And there was nothing you could do about it because
you just had to trust your pilot, and I did,
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and you just had to hope that everything went well.
And it did. But there was one time where I
got really scared. And the one thing with the planes
that we were in and the helicopters, it's called THEFR
visual flight, So you have to see the pilot has
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to see in order to fly IFR, which is your
jets and you know some other planes. That's instrument, so
you could actually fly like in fog or in inclement weather,
and you would rely on the instruments to get you
to where you're gonna go. That wasn't the case with
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the chopper. You had to see. And so we were
one day we took off from Teterborough and we're doing
our stuff and all over the place, and we ended
up out in Queens somewhere towards Kennedy and the weather
all of a sudden started to turn. And that was
the one thing. You could fly in rain. You could
actually fly in snow, and I mean ideally you on
(08:34):
a nice day, but you could. But you can't fly
in fog. And all of a sudden that fog started
to come in and quick, and we were out in
Queens needing to get over back to land at Teeterborough.
And remember this was like the early nineties. So we're
flying across and I said to the pilot, you know
(08:55):
where are we and he goes, we're coming into Long
Island City and I said, don't forget the City Court
building or the City Bank building. I guess it was right,
and he says, oh yeah, And next thing we know
we are coming right on it and all of a sudden,
a huge like right turn and we avoid it. And
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that was the last time I was in a helicopter.
I said, no, no, thank you very much. I will
do my traffic reports in the plane or I'm done.
And again I realized this if something I mean, obviously
a crash into a building, even in the plane, we
were going to be dead. But the point is helicopters
I always knew, and so it just I had those
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flashbacks of me and I had that flashback of Jane
Dornacker dying on the air the other day when that
horrible accident and that that family from Spain and the
pilot were killed. Hopefully they figure out what it is.
The NTSB is there. They're saying it could be a
whole bunch of things. It could be because they have
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to explain how that held this helicopter. It split in half.
And I can tell you know, going up and down
like the East River is dangerous. The East River is narrow.
We got the buildings on both sides, but you also
have winds that that flip right out at you. The
East River is not fun. Hudson is great, Hudson is
(10:21):
wide open. No no real issues there but they're saying
it could be well, they're not rolling out I mean,
pilot error potentially, but they're not ruling out potentially a
drone that it hit a drone. Now, I don't know
if that would explain why it, you know, lobbed in half,
(10:44):
but it might explain what happened. Who knows. We'll wait
to hear. Anyway, I said, I pray for these the
family and the and the UH and the pilot. But
I just it was a flashback for me and I
wanted to share that with you. Bill Maher, did you
see Bill this week if you didn't, And I'm gonna
play the audio because I think it's amazing. So Bill Maher,
(11:06):
of course a liberal Democrat, even though he says he's
a centrist, but yeah, he's basically liberal, although he's really
kind of drifted over because he calls out the lunacy
on the left. So good for him. So Bill Maher
was invited to the White House. He was invited to
have dinner with Kid Rock, I think a couple other
people and Donald Trump. And that's a great thing about Trump,
(11:30):
by the way, you could really tick him off, be
a moron, an a hole, and he still has a
pretty big heart, and I've gotten to know him through
the years. I was fortunate enough to play golf with him.
It was just me and Donald Trump in the golf cart,
you know, for eighteen holes. And he's He's a character,
there's no question about it. But I've been in the
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Oval with him. I've been in his private dining area
off the Oval. I've been at events with him. He
called me out on stage one completely shocked me. But
I've gotten to know I don't know him, you know.
I can't say I hang out with him all the time,
but I've gotten to know him, and I know people
know him very very well. I've gotten to know the
family a little bit, certainly Eric more than the rest.
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And he's just he is a guy you would love
to hang out with because he is fun. He's the
guy you'd want to have a beer with. And so
he invites Bill Maher, and Bill Maher goes, and then
he talks about it on his show about how he
actually enjoyed being with Trump and it's flipping out the left.
And so I'm gonna play a little bit of what
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Bill Maher.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Said first Good Sign before I left for the Capitol,
I had my staff collect and print out this list
of almost sixteen different insulting epithets that the President has
said about me, things like stupid, dummy, low life, dummy,
Slee's bag, sick said, stone cold cracy, really a dumb guy,
(12:55):
fired like a dog, his show is dead.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
It was sixty.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
I brought this to the White House because I wanted
him to sign it, which he did, which he did
with good humor. And I know, as I say that,
millions of liberal sphincters just tightened.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
So that kind of sets it up. And then he
talks about what his dinner was actually like, play that Bruce.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
When I got there, that guy wasn't living there. Now
does Trump want respect? Of course, who doesn't. My friend
said to me, what are you gonna wear to the
White House? I said, I don't know, but I'm not
gonna dress like Zelensky. I'll tell you that it's much
more self aware. And he lets on in public. Look,
I get it. It doesn't matter who he is at
a private dinner with a comedian. It matters who he
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is on the world stage. I'm just taking as a
positive that this person exists, because everything I've ever not
liked about him, was I swear to God absent at
least on this night. With this guy, I never felt
I had to walk on eggs around him. And honestly,
I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never
feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able
(14:07):
to talk with Donald Trump. That's just how it went down.
Make of it what you will.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Me.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
I feel it's emblematic of why the Democrat is so
unpopular these days.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Interesting stuff, and boy did he speak the truth there,
and good for him. Notice though he said he voted
for Clinton and Obama, he didn't say he voted for Biden.
I don't know if that was a slip of the
tongue he forgot, or maybe a little truth came out.
I don't know, but I thought that was really interesting.
And you compare that now to a survey that I saw,
(14:40):
I think it was yesterday or this week, and this
is outright frightening. And it really explains why Bill Maher
would say what he just said, because over fifty percent
of self identified Democrats in a poll said that they
think it's justified. Listen to this. Fifty percent of self
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identified Democrats in a poll said it is justified to
assassinate Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Let that sink in
for just a second. How insane and dangerous is that.
That's not like five percent way out of the range there,
that's over fifty percent. So just think about every other
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Democrat that you meet or friends with or family in
their head they're thinking, and if they were being honest,
like I guess the others were, that it's fine, totally
acceptable for the president of the United States, the current
president whom they disagree with, Donald Trump or Elon Musk,
who they may even hate more, to be assassinated, to
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be killed. We got big problems in this country, and
that's one of the biggest ones. Rob Astarino here on
seven to ten wor I wanted to I mentioned this
in the promos, so if you heard it during the
week I got. I got stopped by several people's Oh
oh oh, I can't wait to call you up on
this one because I got a story too. One eight
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what it's about. So the other day, I'm driving from
my house down my block and it comes down a
little hill and I'm at a stop sign. It's a
four way stop. No, Actually, it's a two way stop
across the street and there's a main road, so I'm
gonna make a right onto the main road. Across the street.
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There's a car that's waiting for traffic and he's making
a left, so I have the right of way. I'm
making a right turn. This guy is going across traffic
making a left onto a main road. Obviously he doesn't
have the right of way, and you know he's waiting
and waiting, waiting. So anyway, I do the courteous thing,
(16:54):
which is I wave him on, go ahead, you go,
I'll wait for you. Make that left turn. Now, if
somebody did that to me, I'm there in his spot,
I'm making a left turn and he does that, I
would do what I would give a little wave. That's
(17:14):
very nice to you. I've never met you, but thank
you for doing that. I appreciate that show a little appreciation,
a little common courtesy. Thank you. What does this guy do?
He just makes his left turn. He stares at me,
makes his left turn like it was his right. And I, honestly,
I a lot of things just go off my back.
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It really pisses my wife off because nothing bothers me.
But those are things that actually bother me because I
didn't have to do what I did. It's like, you know,
when I hold open a door for somebody and they
just walk right through without acknowledging or saying thank you.
That pisses me off too. So I'm wondering. I'm sure
there's a lot of people right now driving and listening
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to this show seven WR I'm sure something maybe just
happened to you on your little drive wherever you're going.
One in hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
Bad etiquette while driving, and I hope you're not one
of them. And I hope if somebody lets you go
or or another situation, that you're courteous, because maybe a
(18:20):
little road rage a and a bad thing. There are
times where I certainly certainly would love to just beat
the living daylights out of somebody, but we don't because
most of us are you know, we have self control,
and it's the wrong thing to do. One hundred three
to two one zero seven ten. If you would like
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to tell me what it is that really ticks you
off while you're driving, so we can rack them up
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coming up on fourth. I'm here every Saturday at four o'clock.
Make sure you listen and tell a friend. All right,
So I'll give you one more scenario of what really
annoys me. And I've taken these rides.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Last year my wife and I drove out all the
way out to Arkansas to see my son. I was
there last Monday and Tuesday and Sunday, and I'm thinking
of our ride, and you know what really annoys me?
And it happens all over the place, especially on the
interstates where it gets to two lanes, and then you
have these tractor trailers who are supposed to be in
(22:34):
the right lane, but the ones that not only go
in the right lane. But then they go like side
by side with another trucker in the left lane, and
they they're like doing the same fifty five miles an
hour when I'm trying to do seventy five and trying
to get past, and then all of us are stuck
behind them in a caravan waiting for one of these
morons to get out of the way. They've got the
(22:55):
big horn. I don't stick in the right lane. Two
one zero seven ten. All right, let's start with Steven Flushing.
How are you, Steve doing okay?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Doing okay? I like your stories that everybody cover feels
the same way you do it everything.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
So you I tell you they're driving right.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Plussing queens. And there's a few things. They're just two
things that really bother me. One is every five blocks
you've got a traffic cam going on. So if you're
going over it, I think it's thirty six at this point,
but they say twenty five, you're grabbing a ticket right away.
So now that puts everybody driving at nineteen number one,
which drives me mad. But if you have you notice
(23:38):
that by parks they have a stop they don't have
a stop sign. It's a sign with a small stop
sign in it with an arrow pointing to a person.
Have you seen that.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
That means stop if there's a person wanting to cross
the street.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That's okay, that's very confusing. It's either stops on that
or not.
Speaker 12 (23:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
No, no, it's just sign, but a small It's a
white sign with a small red stop sign with a
person pointing to that person saying stop if there's a
person wanting to cross the street. Mainly by parks or
sometimes by schools, but everybody stops even when there isn't
anybody there, and it just drives me crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Steve, thank you for the call. I've never seen that.
I gotta I gotta be on the lookout for that.
I mean you're supposed to you're supposed to yield for
pedestrians anyway, if somebody's walking across with a stroller, you're
not going to accelerate to take them out. It's not
a video game, Matt. In the Bronx, you're on seven
to ten w R.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Hey, Matt, Uh, Yeah, pretty much. You know, with regard
to UH traffic and UH like, for example, condestined pricing,
I think it's desperation. Then in terms of like getting
so many revenue sources, uh, you know, just basically penalizing
people for you know, wanting to utilize public services, you know.
(24:58):
And then so far as that, you know, if you're
looking Europe, they have a BTU tax in places like
London for example, you know, to reduce traffic. You know,
the in certain certain congested areas, they took the nactually
tax you for using a motor vehicle. But it doesn't
really lead to efficiency, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Now, the whole congestion pricing thing, MATT is going to
be a boondoggle. All it is is making your wallet lighter.
It's it's sucking the all the money out of your pocket,
and it's not going to reduce traffic in any measurable way.
It didn't anywhere else they've done it. Maybe there's a
slight bump now, but there's probably real excuses for wide
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traffic is down a little bit. Alan and Elmont, how
you doing, Alan.
Speaker 13 (25:48):
Rob You got an excellent show. And before I get
to the meeting potatoes. In nineteen seventy seven, there was
a Heli pad on top of the pan Am building. Yeah,
helicopter made the perfect landing but within two or three
minutes of the landing landing, the landing gear collapse, turning
the helicopter over, striking the people getting out of the helicopter.
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Blades fell out into the street, and it was a
horrible situation. Also, w o R had a Vietnam veteran
who was a helicopter pilot and a pilot at w R,
George met everybody in this audience members. George. Now, the
thing is, I really believe this are people who keep
using the words and the names Pelosi and Fauci are
(26:30):
useful idiots. People say, come here legally, are useful.
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Look at all the people.
Speaker 13 (26:34):
That they're going after now who hate America. They came
here legally. They clowned up in Columbia University. And that's
why I questioned people that you just named a lot
of people with that. Yeah, that's why we are in
the situation we are in. There's a host I call
him Big Bird, the Tower of Jelly, Jesse Kelly. I
tried to explain this to whom he kept saying, Foucy, Fouchy, Fouci,
(26:56):
Anthony Wiena, I call him Tony Hotorg. You have a
very am doing the show here.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Might do a show here Alan Alan, Alan, It's not Alan,
It's what's what was his name? Last weekend traffic? Keep it.
It's like I have attention deficit disorder listeners sometimes and
three two one zero seven ten. Oh you can't say that,
Yeah I can. Donna and Huntington, Long Island, Hey Donna,
(27:25):
how are you good?
Speaker 12 (27:27):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
What really gets me into the high is when you're
in a row of you know, traffic, and somebody's trying
to get dampicked it side road and you you do
the courtiest thing and you let them in, and they don't.
It's almost like what you said, they don't even bother,
like acknowledging that you let them go in front of you. Wait,
and then another thing I can't stand is when somebody's
(27:50):
hitting you at night with their headlights on and they
start like honking tailgate and you let them. Then I
let them buy, I let them go by me, and
then I and then when I'm really annoyed, I do
things that I couldn't do. I start doing the same
thing to them.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Sometimes you got.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
A crappy connection, unfortunately, but uh, Donna, thanks for the call.
Call back anytime. Yeah, the high beams That's another annoying
thing when when people don't turn off their high beams
or they drive right behind you. You're going fast, like
there have been times when I've been doing you know,
above the speed limit. Let's just put it that way,
and there's somebody and I'm going fairly fast in the
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left lane, and there's somebody coming up trying to do
much much faster and doing the old high beams like
riding my tail one eight hundred and three two one
zero seven ten. Let's go to Andrew and Stanhope, New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Hi, Andrew, but I think you have every one beat
because you're actually throwing up on people from the house.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Never on Jersey though Andrew never did it, over stand Hope.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
But I did some work in training with the Fox
News helicopter good Day New York, which launce out of
New Jersey Fairfield. But I the truth was I couldn't
hack it, like speaking of throwing up a little bit
windy day, a bad day like today, and I almost
threw up, but you couldn't open the door. So, like
you said, back then there were an iPhones, So I
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was going to throw up in this map box and
like the plastic box but I held it, you know,
I held tough. They were going to actually land in
New York and held apart coort there and let me off.
But I fought through it. But it is definitely sad.
I thought of that reporting right away. And Bill Maher,
it's good that he's moderating. But my joke is HBO
(29:46):
fans attention, mister Bill Maher, the most Caucasian man in
the world. I always used to think of that when
I would see him.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, hey, thanks for the call, Andrew rob Astorino here
seven to ten WR one three two one zero seven ten.
Let's go to Rockland County. Ernest may I call you Ernie?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Go ahead, Ernest, Yes, sir, thank you. I appreciate it.
The gentleman that was just speaking about the cameras. People
need to know that this is a country of law.
There's fifty four titles Title Law that protect the taxpayers.
They don't even know it. But as far as cameras go,
television ticket cameras, they are by definition outlaw. And what
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is that criminal? New York Criminal Procedure Law one five
zero point zero zero is only a police officer can
hand out an appearance ticket. The federal law that violates
is the Driver's Privacy Protection Act and that's the DPPA
and that came out in nineteen ninety four and they
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had three years to comply, and nobody's ever complied. And
what is that? Your information, your FOE graph, your social
Security number, your driver's license, all of that is forwards
highly restricted personal information. So under Title eighteen US Code
two seven two one, that's the Driver's Privacy Protection Act,
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nobody can take your picture and send you a ticket.
And that's federal criminal title law. So all of this
that's going on is violation of federal law. But yet
nobody knows it. And that's what's so shocking. Nobody knows
the laws that protect them in this country.
Speaker 13 (31:34):
You can't tell it.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Take somebody's license plate and send them a ticket for money.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Don't do it, Ernest, thanks for calling. That's interesting. I
got to yeah, I see sometimes the state and local
laws conflict. But I mean the problem is if you
get one of these red light tickets or speed tickets,
I mean, and like in Yakers, they're everywhere. If you
don't put your indicator on to make a right turn,
let's say, you can get banged. But who's not gonna
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that's the problem. Who's not going to send you your
money in and when you get this ticket because yeah,
and you're right, they have the photo of you on
on that ticket. But nobody, nobody's gonna just like not
do it because they're gonna they're gonna come after you
or suspend your your license. Maybe they're getting away with it.
Maybe they shouldn't. Interesting David Peakskill You're on seven to
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ten w l R Hi.
Speaker 12 (32:26):
Dave Hi Rob. The reason of polas is also for
the red light cameras. I remember one time going to
I'm not gonna stay the town or the city, but anyway,
I'm making a right turn on red after stopping, and
all of a sudden, I see a flesh well I
look up, I backtrack, I go, what the heck was that? Well,
(32:48):
they put up a no turn on red sign and
they put up a camera just like that, And I
used to go that way every time. Then afterwards another
time I'm driving through uh and I get stopped behind
a truck and you can't see it. All of a sudden,
I start going because you can't really see over the
size of the truck, and I get a red light ticket. Okay,
(33:09):
I mean it's it's nonsense. So now I'm leaving. I'm
leaving from work and I'm going down a little bit
of a hill and I says, oh, i'd better stop.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
I do.
Speaker 12 (33:18):
I't want to get another red light ticket. So all
of a sudden, some guy behind me hits me from behind.
I got out of the car. I go, hey, what's
going on? He goes, Oh, I'm sorry. He goes, I
was reaching for something. I didn't realize you were stopping.
Stopping because of the red light camera. Yeah, anyway, So
next thing I know, I get hit from behind. I
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go out and look at the car. And you know
how it is with insurance, you don't want to report
an accent if you don't have to, right, So he says,
you know what, it looks good. I have a nice day.
Speaker 11 (33:48):
I go home.
Speaker 12 (33:48):
I can't open my truck. Pust me a couple hundred
dollars to go to a place to have a fixed.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yeah, Dave, thank you for the call. No, these red
light cameras that there, they are, trust me, they're not
for safety. Fused when I was county executive to put
them up on any county. I wanted nothing to do
with them nothing, because I know exactly what they're there for.
And then you have cities and jurisdictions that are putting
them up everywhere because it's a revenue stream. That's all
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it is. Matt in Westchester County, Hi, Matt, how are
you doing?
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Uh?
Speaker 12 (34:20):
Hi? Rob?
Speaker 13 (34:20):
My biggest problem now is these scooters tailgating cars. They
also on the scooters, when you're making a turn, they
make the turn with you. They no, they have absolutely
oblivious to any kind of driving etiquette. And also when
you're at a red light, they make white urns. They
could slamp into your car. These illegal aliens break every
(34:42):
traffic lawry in New York State and they get away
with it. So somebody just got a parking ticket or
a moving violation, they should be outraged. You're getting the
ticket and they're getting a way free.
Speaker 12 (34:51):
To driving on the sidewalks.
Speaker 13 (34:52):
They're terrifying old people. Go bu County.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, that's true. Sondra in New Jersey, how are you?
Speaker 14 (35:00):
I bet you don't hear any I'm home today, getting
ready to pass over, but I wanted to come on
the helicopter thing. And also my reaction was the driving
with the helicopter situation. You know, I lost my cousin
on the pan Am flight and he died instantly. What
you described earlier in your show was the first question
(35:24):
I had in my mind when this happened. Did they suffer?
And the way you described it, they did, and it
breaks my heart. So the latest I looked on the
computer because I'm home today, The latest speculation they have
is it's called a Jesus nut. Yeah, during Vietnam, right,
and they think that could have been defective, or it
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wasn't tightened up enough, or for some reason it shared
and that's how the main roader came off and caused
the helicopter to split in half. So that could be
the latest speculation on that. But as far as driving goes,
you know, my mother once said, the one who has
the last word ends up in the grave. So when
I drive, no matter how angry I get, I don't
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play around. When I'm in my car, let them have,
let them have the last say, and I'll go along
and fiddle. But my husband, But regarding passengers, when I'm
a passenger in the car and my husband gets angry,
he stops cursing and he says, and who do you
think suffens me. I say, Michael, do you really think
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they hear what you're saying?
Speaker 9 (36:30):
Cut it out?
Speaker 14 (36:31):
You know he thinks they hear it when he's getting
angry at them. So and the point is, I go
with the flow. You want to get ahead of me,
get ahead of me, you want to whatever you want
to do. I don't want to have the last word
because I don't want to end up in an accident.
You know That's how I feel good.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Point Sondra, thank you and happy passover to you and Michael,
Chris and Bethpage. You get the last word, Chris, how
are you?
Speaker 8 (36:55):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (36:55):
I'll say, hey, Rob very quickly. That's Steve from Manhattan's
been on twice a right now?
Speaker 12 (37:00):
You know that right?
Speaker 11 (37:01):
How does he get through the close scritty? It's brutal,
But anyhow, Three quick things. Number One, people in the
left hand lane who don't belong there. I understand there's
feel limits. But people that are going fifty miles to
forty five miles an hour in the left hand lane
when I'm driving on the New York threw away. It's ridiculous.
And that happens a lot, and I always wonder what
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are they doing in the left lane that drives me nuts.
Speaker 12 (37:24):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (37:25):
Number one. Number two people obviously that are on their
cell phones at lights. That happens all the time now,
and then the light turn screen and guess what they're
playing with their phone. It's that's a joke with the
cell phone, all right. And then lastly, right on red.
You know, I learned this in a class I was
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taking a driver's class. You don't have to make a
right on red if you're there, So if you're there,
you don't have to make one, but it would be
beneficial to the people behind you if you're in that
right lane, if you did make the right the right turn. Yeah.
But anyhow, those are the sweet things that I wanted
to say.
Speaker 12 (38:02):
That annoint me.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Thank you, Chris, I appreciate it. And I'll leave you
with this. And then we're gonna get Anthony Morante, who
is a counselman in Yonkers. He's also a CPA. So
I know tax Day is coming up next week, Tax Day,
April fifteenth. You may have already filed, but or if
you haven't hit send yet, Anthony Moranti is gonna give
you a couple tips that you may not have thought about.
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So you just keep it right here. One more thing.
So you know, when you're stuck in traffic and you
look on your left or maybe on your right, wherever
in between cars comes this motorcycle. I am so tempted
to just time it perfectly and open the door. I
want to be in a crappy car, so I don't care.
But he's coming out, weaving in and out Buba but
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breaking every rule, not waiting like the rest of us.
When he gets right to that point, I want to
open the door and let him slam right into it.
It's not I know that's not, but that's kind of
how I feel. All Right, I'm gonna give you a
couple of tax tips. Don't go away, Anthony Moranti next
right here on seven to ten wor.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
When you're a smart speaker to work, tell her to
play seven to ten wr on iHeartRadio anytime. She's the
rob Astarino Show on seven ten woor.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
But before I talked taxes with Councilman Anthony Moranti of
Yonkerslero's point to point. So last Sunday, I went to Memphis.
I flew into Memphis and then met my son who
was in the Air Force. He came in from Little
Rock two hours. We walked up and down Beal Street.
We had some good Southern barbecue and then went into
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a blues bar. Then we drove back. We had fun.
We went to Hot Springs the next day, which is
really cool. But how did I get to the airport
and back? Welero's point to point, they're the best. In fact,
they got voted best Look, best limo Service, Best Ground
Transportation in Westchester Magazine. They are very very good. I
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wouldn't call a taxi. I wouldn't call, you know, one
of the ride shares. I mean you can, but I've
said it. I mean that, you know, you don't know
who's gonna pull up. And I certainly wouldn't want my
daughter or my wife getting into some uber, you know, downtown,
and I just it's not what I want. I want.
(40:30):
If I'm gonna have somebody pick them up, it's gonna
be Leros. If I'm going to the airport, it'sleros. If
we're gonna have a night on town, it's liros. They've
got the big ones, the sedans, or of course they've
got you know, the chauffeurs that come their screen, their
background checks, big liability insurance and peccable vehicles. Go with
Liros call them up one eight hundred and eighty two
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Liros one eight hundred eighty two l E ro Os
or go to leros tg dot com. All right, it
is tax time April fifteenth, that's next week. You got
to have your taxes in where you get banged. I
hate doing taxes. I don't get it. I'm not stupid
to math, but you know it's like, you know, you
put your they line fourteen says do this. Then if
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you do that, go to line forty eight, subtract line thirty.
I don't want to deal with it, and I don't
know what I can take or what I can't take.
So that's why you should have a good tax preparer,
and if you want a great one, not a good one,
a great one. Anthony Moranti, who just happens to be
a Republican councilman in Yonkers, the only Republican left there
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on the council. Anthony, how are you?
Speaker 9 (41:36):
I'm good, Rob? How are you? This beautiful Saturday afternoon?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah? What a what a horrible day?
Speaker 9 (41:42):
So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Give me some tax tips?
Speaker 9 (41:45):
Good day to do, Good day to do. Your taxes.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Rob it is it's a good day for somebody to
finalize their taxes. So let's just say somebody is preparing
their taxes there, and let's just say let's take a
senior citizen for instance, Okay, no longer working, so security pension,
you know, not a lot of income or offset. What's
the best way for somebody like that to get the
(42:08):
maximum amount of write offs or to not have to
pay to not have to pay Donald or Kathy.
Speaker 9 (42:16):
Well, you know again, to to to get your to
get your right offs. I mean a senior citizen. There
isn't much left over there, but your in your description
over there, because again, they they have their ten ninety nine,
they got their interests, they got their dividends, they got
their brokerage. You know what what they what they want
to do is basically make sure that they do they
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have a mortgage anymore. We're hoping they don't have one
at this particular point in time. So you got to,
you know, if you're gonna make sure you're gonna file
your tax return depending on what you have, because most
people at that time don't may not have. But if
you do have a mortgage, make sure you get your
mortgage statement out did you did you pay real estate taxes?
Make sure you take it, take advantage of any deductions
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that that you may have. You have contributions. Seniors are
very prone to taking making good contributions to so we
make the list of contributions. See at that point you
put it all together and we find out if you
qualify for itemizing, and then we find or you find
out if you get a standard deduction. That's the that's
we put it all in the soup. And like you
(43:19):
said that, it's a we let the computer do do
the math for us.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
What about volunteering. A lot of theaters volunteers, So let's
just say they, you know, every week they volunteer at
the I don't know, public library or something. Can is
there anything like about volunteering you can write off?
Speaker 9 (43:37):
Well, you know there there is a mileage limit that
you know they can from driving back and forth. I mean,
if they if they do contribute any of their own money, absolutely,
But if there's there's a mileage that that that could
be up to I believe and again I don't have
too many mileage guys, but I would probably say there's
about the you know, I think it's like the you know,
fifteen twenty sets a mile or something that they're allowed
(43:58):
to get on their on their own contributed mileage.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
So okay, now we'll take a scenario of a family. Right,
mom and dad, they are taking mortgage deductions because they
live in the house, they pay property taxes. You know,
they got another twenty years to go before they pay
off that hours. But they have kids. So tell me
how mom and dad can save some money with their offspring.
Speaker 9 (44:27):
Well, well again, well let's let's find out what age
we got everybody over here, because again I was just
taking a look at some stuff. I was asking myself
some of the other questions. You know, when people walk in,
are they contributing to five twenty nine plans so that
they don't especially in New York five twenty nine, make
sure they get that ten thousand dollars deduction there.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
That's the college savings.
Speaker 9 (44:47):
The college savings. But then you go on the other
side of the spectrum, are they in college? Okay, if
they are in college, make sure, you know, you get
the kids to go on their portals and come up
with their forum ten ninety eighty out what what what
do they paid for college? And make sure you get
those benefits. Take the you get the American Opportunity Credit
(45:08):
for the for the first four years up to twenty
five hundred. If they you know, they qualify because the
government give it and the governments take it away. If
you make too much money, you know, you know, you know,
it's a then you have the lifetime learning credit of
a ten percent ten percent up up to two thousand
dollars for kids above and beyond the undergrad So we
got to make sure we get all that, you know,
all that into place. That's that's important, not to forget
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to get those deductions.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
In Anthony Morante with us on seven ten w R
he happens to be a CPA and also a yanker's
counselman and a very good one. Okay, so you just
you just triggered something. So now let's go back to
the senior or grandma and grandpa. They write checks to
A five twenty nine for their grandkids, can they write
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that off?
Speaker 12 (45:56):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (45:57):
They can? Absolutely, all right, So that I would absolutely
if if a grandmark grandpa was doing that, that's that's
God bless God bless.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Them, which by the way, is a great gift. That
that's something that they should be doing. It's beneficial to them.
It's certainly beneficial in the long run to the parents,
to which would be their kids, and to and to
their grandkids. You know, that's that's a win all the
way around. Because let me tell you something, folks, I
got one in college right now and another on the
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way in two years. We've been saving, not enough, but
we've been saving since they were born in five twenty nine.
It ain't cheap, and college ain't cheap. It's never gonna
get cheaper.
Speaker 9 (46:39):
Well, it's it's it's it's a great benefit. You can't
go wrong with the five twenty nine. You know, you put,
you know, put ten grand in the account instead of
going straight to the school if you're in a seven
percent you know bracket there, you know, you just saved
yourself for seven hundred bucks, but just by changing good
from one pocket to the other. Yeah, instead of going
directly to the school. It's it's a great benefiting and
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why shouldn't why shouldn't grandma and grandpa take to take
advantage of that opportunity also, but mostly mostly I see
it mostly done by parents, you know, grandma's and grandpa's.
We gotta we got to push them a little more.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
How about home improvement.
Speaker 9 (47:19):
Oh yes, okay, well you're you're, you're, you're now you're
now going into a couple of different categories over here,
because right now, most regular home improvements are are items
that you would add to the value of your house
that you you would reduce your capital gain on on
the sale. There are some some improvements that we've talked
about lately. We talked about this last year sometime. And
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with regard to getting the energy credits, there's a lot
of people that went out and you know, bought new
boilers and these these ductless systems that qualify for for credits.
You can get a good six six hundred twelve hundred
dollar credit if you bought the right piece of equipment.
That's a that's a that's a great available available, not
it's a credit. Let's make sure it's a credit, not
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a deduction, whereas a direct a dollar for a dollar
rite off against your tax return. So if you made
some certain improvements, some insulation stuff, that definitely bring that
cost to your preparer, and make sure that you get
your energy credits.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Anthony Morante, he's a CPA and he's the councilman, and
Yonker's really the only one left. He's a Republican out
of the seven member board, so he's keeping them on.
Est Anthony, I'm sure you're buried as tax days coming up.
Good luck and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 9 (48:31):
Thank you very much for the opportunity. Good luck to
everybody in the April fifteenth. Let's not forget those tax returns.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
Because they won't forget about you. The federal government trusts me.
So tomorrow is well, Passover starts now. Passover starts tonight,
and then of course tomorrow is Palm Sunday, the triumphant
return of Jesus into Jerusalem, which begins of course our
Holy week, the Passion on Well tomorrow are going to do.
Tomorrow's a long readings in church, and then you have
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on Thursday the washing of the feet. But that of
course is the last Supper, Good Friday on Friday, which
of course when Jesus was nailed to the cross, and
that's really the whole reason for everything about his life
and why we as Christians believe in Jesus. And then
of course Easter Sunday coming up, So enjoy this week.
(49:24):
Enjoy it's one of the times where Judaism and Christianity
kind of overlap. So have a blessed holiday. Thanks for
being with me. I will be back here next Saturday
at four o'clock and of course one to three on
Saturdays on Newsmax. Enjoy the week, everybody. Thanks to Noah,
thanks of course to Bruce, and thank you for listening.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
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