What is Mamdani talking about? (Full Show)

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rejecting more people. Even legal immigration is iffy at this point. If you bring people in that are ungrateful to be here, what's the sense of that? How does that help us? All right. Let me play Zohran Mamdani. Then I want to talk about this Joe Kent character who has resigned and the media gone to town with this, particularly on the left. even though he identifies or he's got people around him that are the proud boys and those types, which are out of bounds. He was the head of counterterrorism. He had to resign. One of the people in the same department said, no, he was going to be fired. That's why he's resigning. He's a big time leaker. And you know who this points to, and I know I'm going to have to tread very carefully, Tulsi Gabbard. who is not on board with any of this. And to me, I get the appeal of Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat, female, attractive, military. But I don't think any fan of Israel. And this guy, Joe Kent, said he resigned because this war is driven by Israel. Here we go. It won't stop. And he's the top guy when it comes to counterterrorism. So let's start with Zohran Mamdani. So Zohran Mamdani's at Gracie Mansion with her representative. I think she's either a former prime minister or president, whatever, in Ireland, and a lefty. And they're talking about oppression and suppression and all this. And on this day, I mean, just think of this ingrate. He can't allow the Irish to have a day to celebrate. For example, we're doing that. The side question today is something associated with Ireland, the Irish person, place, or thing. And I already saw, when I started to Google it, John Philip Holland, who is the first, is credited with being the first inventor of the submarine way back in 1897 that was practical and actually used. I think, yeah, they had a submarine, but it sunk and it didn't come up. Remind me, I'm ready to talk about being going down on the diving bell off the Atlantic City pier. Never do that. So this guy was the actual inventor and he was Irish, John Philip Holland of the submarine. Things like that. Don't you think that should be done celebrating the Irish and how far they've come in America? Despite Joe Biden, leave him out. Here's Zohran Mamdani, though, taking a different turn in the road. I say this as over the past few years, as we've witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there has been deafening silence from so many. For those who have long cared about universal human rights and the extension of them to Palestinians, silence, however, is nothing new. For Palestinians are so often left to weep alone. What day is this again? Former President Robinson has never been silent. Not when she was president, not when she was High Commissioner for Human Rights, and not in the decades since. As she once said, commemoration is a moral act. Her solidarity is many things, unwavering, sincere, and chief among them, Irish. Irish solidarity is no coincidence.

Who can better understand those who weep than those who have been made to weep for so long? The story of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City, is at one time a story of oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination. As we know, it was on Irish soil that the British Empire developed their colonial project. So much of the exploitation later imposed elsewhere across the world was first honed in the plantations of Ireland. When I think of the Irish, I do not think first of oppression. I think of resistance. I think of unity. I think of corned beef and 96-minute Troy Parrot goals and the Pogues fairy tale of New York. Above all, I think, of that solidarity. When Irish immigrants arrived in New York City, they were so often barred from employment and from housing. Signs plastered across storefronts, read help wanted, no Irish need apply. And yet while Irish New Yorkers were, in the poetry of Ivan Boland, long suffering in the bruised-colored dusk of the new world, they did not grow discouraged. They banded together. They organized. They formed labor movements that endure to this day. It was Irish hands that helped to build so much of the city that we recognize today. The skyscrapers that pierced clouds, the tunnels carved through bedrock. And we can see an example of that legacy in the incredible labor leaders that we have with us today, both in this room and beyond this room. And as we celebrate St. Patrick's Day together, and as I belatedly acknowledge our state, Brian Brett Kavanaugh as well.

We celebrate not just a day of revelry, but a day of continued obligation to one another, to a better world, to all those who still weep. And I want to thank President Robinson again for joining us. I want to thank the people of Ireland who have taken a past of suffering and used it to fight for a future of justice. And I want to thank every Irish New Yorker for helping make this city into what it is today. All right. So there you have it from Zohran Mamdani, Jim Kenney, Dolan. There are big differences. I laid some of them out. And if you're Irish, we'd give you a primacy on this day. We'd love to hear from you. When you start to hear this type of thing, what the Irish really suffered and overcame versus the continued victimhood that we hear about people that are here illegally, people that don't want to speak the language. People that can't succeed. 855, 839, 1210. Now, this Joe Kent guy, head of counterterrorism. He wrote this morning, I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation. This moron was the head of counterterrorism. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation. Hey, buddy, how about all the people they've killed through acts of terror? How about what happens if they get a nuclear weapon? It's not just us. It's the entire world. It's clear we started this war due to pressure from Israel and quote, it's powerful American lobby. Spoken like a true Tucker Carlson, spoken like a true proud boy sympathizer. When his wife died sadly in service to the country, He talked about losing his devoted wife, beloved wife, Shannon, in a war manufactured by Israel. Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, once again. Now, how is the war going? Well, Israel and the United States in a concerted action took out two more of the leadership. One, who was the principal guy, as the president said, in murdering people in the streets to put down the rebellion. But on the other hand, the clock is ticking. Gas station I told you about, not the one in Chestnut Hill. I haven't even been by there today. God knows what they're going to be. The one that is a block away from where I get on the drive heading into town, Lincoln Drive. $4.39 a gallon. Yesterday, I told you, $3.99, would the four come out? Oh, it came out, and they must have just seen. Leave one nine up, put it three up there. 4.39 a gallon. Oof. I know. Have you seen four? I'd push the car wherever I'm going rather than stop there. I'm not stopping there. You know, I'm in a gas desert or something. I'm not going there. The one in Chestnut Hill, I'd blow it up. You know, it's cheaper. The car. 855, 839, 12, 10. Have you seen $4 a gallon wherever you're going? Let me know if you're... happening upon it right now. All right, as I said, the other thing is Zohran Mamdani, Gaza, Kenny, the Irish. How is that the Irish always get roped into? Because the story is so lyrical, the story is so poetic. The story is the American dream. The story is overcoming and suffering and discrimination without a doubt. It's not the story, though, of illegal immigration. I don't get it.

But they're going to use it. These people on the left, and Dolan uses it. Kenny certainly used it. Zohran Mamdani jumped even more. He's using it for Gaza. He's using the Irish to get to Gaza on St. Patrick's Day. Wow. That takes guts. God knows what'll do with the Italians. Well, you know, they formed the mob to protect themselves. The mob was okay. Yeah, right. That's why they did it. All right now. We'll take calls. 8, 5, 5, 8, 3, 9, 12, 10. Let me hit you with the side question, too. Then we'll get to your calls coming up. So, someone, something associated with the Irish. As I mentioned, this guy who invented the sub, you know, all the usual, you're not going to win with. It's even if we don't blurt all them out. Guinness, of course. At one point on St. Patrick's Day, I used to read this column from Father Greeley. about how the Irish as a group had the highest college degree rate, you know, first in their generation doing that, a real sign of overcoming. And look, nothing wrong with the labor unions when they started. I take that point. Now, though, they're insidious. They're very, I mean, the principals and administrators' labor union in Philadelphia this morning honored Larry Krasner as a trailblazer. What a trailblazer? Getting people killed? Come on. 855, 839, 12, 10, grab a line. Those calls coming up. We've got some great guests. I'll tell you about two. Henry, how about yours? Yeah, so I got a few to take off the board here. How about the first one I'll take off is the color green? Yes. Notably something that you and Kirk are not wearing today on all days of St. Patrick's Day. What's up with that? Yeah, I should have, but I'm not a big fan of green as my primary color, if you notice. I understand. I know you like your blacks there, but dark green wouldn't. I also like blues, you know, but yeah, I just. A dark green? You don't have that in your repertoire here? I do have one, but I'm not, yeah, I should have. I kind of forgot. I'm not asking you to dress up like a leprechaun here. Yeah, I know. Both do you guys need a pinch. Like, seriously. The green is a little iffy as a color for me. You would have a green shirt on in there or whatever you doing? Yeah, I got it. So I got a green t-shirt on. Okay. fleece here is green and white. Oh, very nice. I thought it was the Eagles, but we'll count that. Yeah, we'll count that too. Another one I'm going to take off here is their potato chips over there, as they'd call them crisps. The brand Tato, when I was over in Northern Ireland a few years ago, I noticed that no matter what convenience store you're in, every sort of crisp, they have the original flavor, they have salt and vinegar, but the one flavor that each brand of crisps were available was the flavor of prawn cocktail. And I just couldn't get over that. Prawn cocktail chips are a big thing over and cross in Ireland. And then finally, I'll take off someone associated with Ireland. How about Oscar-winning actor for his performance in Oppenheimer, Killian Murphy? All right. Very good.

For the record, I had a Green Bay Packer sweatshirt, but I don't want to get attacked by people from the real estate down the hall. You put it on just in there to honor the Irish. Good point. That's a good point. So I'm going to take off just one because I can't think of anything at the moment. But how about Irish Celtic music? My mom had it on blast all night long last night. She is full Irish. By the way, I'm not a fan. The president has a white shirt on. I'm not a fan of the green tie than with a blue shirt. I don't know why people do that. There's several that do it. I'm not seeing it. What do you want him to wear then? Well, no. I'm saying he has a white shirt on. That's fine. I said if it's a blue shirt with the green tie. Not with the green tie. I don't get that. I feel like today maybe get a pass, but if you do it like tomorrow, people are like, what's wrong with you? Overall. Right. Today, oh, yeah, for St. Patrick's sake. And is it green? It's dark green. Yeah, the prime minister does have the dark green. Yeah. The gold looks even green. There's some leprechauns running around with gold there. All right. 855, 839, 12, 10. So what do we make of Joe Kent slash Tulsi Gabbard? Is that going to happen next? And are the Tucker Carlson's, Megyn Kelly's, and the others? winning this battle with a guy like Kent, high-ranking, counterterrorism, dropping out, I can't stand here another day. Trump is betrayed. Israel, Israel, Israel. All right, so we have that going on. And the media running with that. They can't wait to get this guy on MSNBC, CNN. All right? He's got a, you know, military background that's good, but he's got when he ran for office stuff that's not good. And I am so tired. of the attacks on Israel around this. It's anti-Semitic ultimately. That's what we're facing. All right, 439 we see, though. I'm looking for people in the force. That's what I'm looking. You see anywhere you are. I may have to ask those guys, how do they raise it 40 cents? Armus Straits. It's an immigrant group that runs it there. So, you know. I have to ask, I'm not going anywhere near there. This is, that's the most I've seen it raised overnight. Like, we don't have a gas shortage here. How did you go up about 45 cents or 40 cents at least? 855, 839, 12, 10. Hit us on the side. Don't let them take all the good ones outside the box a little bit. And if you're Irish, love to hear from you. Every St. Patrick's Day, we see this. particularly with people like Kenny, sadly Cardinal Dolan and Zohran Mamdani today really goes afield. You know, it's fine, the part where he talked about the Irish overcoming. What do they have to do with Gaza? Well, it's oppression suffering. It's not oppression suffering. The Irish were oppressed. People in Gaza are not oppressed, other than by Hamas, which you support. 855, 839, 12-10. Gone South has been a podcast about crime in the American South, but for our new season, we're widening the lens. Follow and listen to Gone South Season 5, wherever you get your shows. Tom, Giordano, on Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. All right, happy St. Patrick's Day, and if you are Irish on this day, in addition to all the great stuff that happens, every tinhorn politician and...

Sorry, bishops and cardinals, they want to glom onto the Irish. And essentially they're saying, how dare you if you're Irish, Italian, Polish, you know, the immigrant experience, particularly the Irish, though, who were primarily first suffered the most straight on, that you are closing the doors, you're pulling up the ladder to those that are coming here? Well, how about the fact that they don't want to assimilate and they're coming here illegally by and large? How dare you? Kenny is one of the biggest proponents of this. And it allows these guys, including Dolan, to do two things at once. They establish their cred, they're ethnic, they're connected, they're Irish, and yet they get it. And the rest of the Irish people, they don't get it. That's what they're doing with this. Beautiful political play, is it not? Where's the validity in any of that? Why should the Irish identify with those here legally or those in Gaza, some of whom are innocents without a doubt? But the genocide it's happening is their own, Hamas, Iran, and the like. What does Israel have to do with it? We have this show Kent quitting. I don't think Tulsi Gabbard is in these meetings. I wouldn't have her in these meetings. So I know we can be enamored with Tulsi Gabbard. I give me the reasons why people get enamored, but she's suspect in some areas. And this guy who worked under her is very suspect and now is out there as a battering ram against the Trump administration saying, see, even a guy on the inside, he knows this. Israel did all this. Trump, it's like George Bush. Trump is an evil genius, and he's stupid at the same time. Remember that narrative with Bush? It's even more so with Trump. Doesn't know what he's doing, but he's malevolent at every level, controlling the world, all at the same time. Also looking, can you tell me, I may have to stop in and ask these guys, 439. The one over in Chestnut Hill, if you're driving by there, are they going to counter? Is there going to be a bidding war? They were 419, but 439 today, all of a sudden, it was 399 yesterday. Nothing got worse. Nothing happened here that I can see that's out of line. Taking out, the New York Times says, well, Are we going to get to a ceasefire? You took out a reasonable man. You got to be kidding me. The guy in charge of mowing down women in the streets that Israel and the United States took out and Salamani, the military side, these are the reasonable people in Iran? I don't think so. See how they would have done it. It's reasonable to murder people protesting in the streets. But deep down, I think, how many do we have to kill? Religious fanaticism does that mean they don't care about that? They will continue to fill these roles. They hit our embassy yesterday. They're crippled here, but it's like Japan. They suck you in because of the cost of what it will be to finally put them down. And even then, who's going to be in charge afterward? We're not going to occupy them.

We're not going to engage in that. Flight Japan. We're not going to hit them with a nuclear weapon. So how do we keep them from doing what they're doing is very, very difficult. But as far as militarily, there's no doubt the achievements. All right, Al is in Mullica Hill. He's first in today on Talk Radio 12. Hey, Al. How you doing, Dom? You know, I just wrote past a couple of gas stations over here in Jersey on Route 45, and it's 3.49, but then down the street, it's up to 399 and 389. I think some of these places are really gouging people. But people have to remember this. When Biden was in, and the prices went up sky high, even past this. It was for no good reason. It was because of stupidity on his part. Well, wait a minute, though. I don't remember $4. You remember $4? I don't remember that. Oh, yes. Okay, I don't remember paying $4 for it. I could have been off on that. Yeah, it was $4. Yeah, I'm with that on this one. Okay. And then secondly, I don't know if people know this or not, but there was a law passed in New Jersey a few years back that whenever gas prices go down, the sales tax on gas automatically goes up. Right. So I guess when they start lowering the prices again, they're going to kill us again with some more sales tax on our gasoline, which is total stupidity. They don't vote on it anymore. It's an automatic thing, and we've got to get rid of that. Absolutely. Thank you. I have to look up. What was the highest under Biden say here in Pennsylvania, Jersey, probably during the summertime of one of the Biden years? It was at high. But when I saw 439 this morning and remember, this angle is going to be used, these are independent decisions. Look. I'm not in favor of a law or anything like this. Don't buy it from them. I will not buy it from these guys. I mean, sometimes I'm thinking, do I have enough to get home easily and all that come by? Now I'm going to have to play more. I'm never buying from them. To jump into 439 now is outrageous. And I get it. A nickel here, there, one side of the street, the other side of the street. Go figure what they're thinking. I don't know. But to jump up by 40 cents overnight, there's nothing that's happened here. If anything, it's getting better, you would think. And I think we have to set an over and underdate here, okay, because I hear these, in no calculus of mine, I hear people talking, well, you know, if it's like this Memorial Day, what are you talking about Memorial Day? That's as bad as Jackie Heinrich asking the other day about $200 a barrel for oil. I don't see that happening. I mean, anything's possible in the world. But what is going to provoke that to have that happen? And Trump's not going to sit there and not find an off ramp to Memorial Day. Could it bleed into April? I didn't think so originally, but okay, that's possible.

But with the upside of President Trump and what we've done on energy, I don't see why it would climb this much. Now, the argument's probably, well, if it weren't for that, we'd already be at five. All right, 855, 839, 12, 10, you can get in. And this guy, Joe Kent, MSNBCs of the world already be having him on, they're the ones that were attacking him, are saying, are you kidding me. This guy's way out there to the right. He's with the proud boys, et cetera. And now suddenly he's embraced. Well, he'll be embraced by Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson right now, they're probably putting cold compresses on him. Oh, my God, I got to get this guy on. And what is it the heart of it? Anti-Israel at best and anti-Semitic stuff at worst. That's exactly what's going on here. How long will Tulsi Gabbard be there? We'll see. But claiming this was no threat, people on Twitter who have lost loved ones to the religious fanatics in Iran who have murdered Americans around the world, they're the most angry with this guy. How dare you? What are you talking about? They're not an imminent threat. They're an imminent threat to the world, which is a threat to us and particularly toward Americans throughout the world. 855, 839, 12, 10, you get on board. The only thing I'm not sure about with this, and I do see a little bit of it, I think they got all a little juiced up on thinking, hey, look at what we did in Venezuela. By the way, I don't see in the baseball classic tonight. I don't see any rooting interest. You know, we don't have anything against Venezuela that I can think of. They're all fired up because for their country, this is the biggest deal imaginable. And you can see the Latin American countries, one sort or another, are playing all out. The American team, even though talented, you know, it doesn't have as much at stake. I don't think we're going to be fired up. I don't think if we were playing Italy, people were going to be rooting for Italy, other than as a Cinderella story, you know, that particularly if Noah was pitching. All right, 855, 839, 12, 10, though, and get you on board. My eye is on the debate on the SAVE Act coming up today. How does that turn out? And also, we have a couple of other. Big stories breaking around this, but the big one is this Joe Kent guy quitting because it's now being used to undercut the situation that we're in. And I just, knowing Trump and Trump's actions and pace, there's no way we'll be on on Memorial Day and talking about, wow, this has been over six weeks, seven weeks, whatever it is, when do we get out of this? It'll happen suddenly. There'll be some box he can check and say, we did it and move on. Lance in South Philly. He's on Talk Radio 12. Hello, Lance. Hey, Dom, Aaron Gobra. Oh, there you go. Absolutely. A little old-school Irish Gaelic for you. It means Ireland forever. Sure. But that's not my answer. Okay.

I'm going and leave my buddies alone down at the Sanoco at the drive at Wittenhouse. Lance, are you going over there now, what I told you, 440, 439? I might go over there and tell him that Dom is protesting. Well, yeah, you want to tell them, come on. You know, well, nothing should happen to them people make their own decision. But Lance, 40 cents overnight. I don't know why he raised that price. And I go there probably 15 times a month because I got to go up and down the drive. Okay. Actually, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go over there today and actually ask them why they did it. And then I'll call you tomorrow. Oh, absolutely. Sure. I'm going to go today for you. But let other callers get in. I'm going to go with William Mahalo. A self-taught, no college degree, civil engineer came from Ireland with nothing. If it wasn't for him, Los Angeles wouldn't have water. Very good one. That's a good one. They named the drop after him. Mahalind Drive. Absolutely. That's a biggie. Yep. There's a name. Thank you, Lance. It just always comes through on this. I don't know if he's looking stuff up or somehow and another. He just puts it together. Yeah, I don't know. I didn't know that. That's great. I didn't know it was named after him either. I didn't know about the Irish guy in the submarine. 855-3-9-12-10. You can get it. Look, people have to make your own decision. But when I saw that coming in today, I may stop in and ask him, come on. You know, you got a prime spot right before people go on the drive. It's one of only a few right off the drive for quite a length there. I'm trying to think of any other right off the drive. Can't think of any. But what happened that would propel that? It's a global problem. These other countries are hurting in America. I mean, we're building an oil refinery in Texas now, first time in 50 years, because we're energy independent pretty much. So I thought around the edges here this would be bad. So are people juicing up unnecessarily? Maybe. Maybe they have the reasons. I don't know about their supplier. But 855-839-12-10, you get in. Watch, this is going to give the media a week or two with this Joe Kent guy. They're going to now bill him as a guy, military record. That's true. He served honorably even heroically. His wife, the same thing, killed by ISIS in Syria. But right away, when he quits, Israel made us do this. He's a victim of the Tucker Carlson syndrome. And how is it that we won overwhelmingly in 2024? And all these major podcasters can do is engage in stuff that's both childish and destructive. I'm talking to ones that have literally millions, maybe even double figure of millions of followers. Why are people following Megyn Kelly has discredited herself to a level? Tucker Carlson.

is idiotic at this point, talking about demons and spells. Is it my theory? For some, conspiracies better than sex. You say enough wild stuff. You catch on a little bit. You just go wilder. And the wild thing is now Trump is a puppet of Benjamin Netanyahu. The left says he's a puppet of Vladimir Putin. That's a lot of puppeteering. 855, 839, 12, 10. You grab a line, hit us on the side question, but watch for a lot more with this Joe Kent guy. And I think some point around 1 o'clock we're going to see the debate on the Save Act. I don't have high hopes for it. Scott Presler, though, is on it unbelievably. And if anybody can push some levers to get this, he's got it front page again. He's revived it. Let's see what happens today. Hey, one thing I really appreciate about my guy, my dentist, Dr. Bentz for 11 years, is he just doesn't tell you, all right, Tom, this is the only thing we can do. That's it. You got to do it my way or the highway. No, no, no. He offers multiple solutions, even for the smallest thing. Okay, we can go this long term where we can do this. And for convenience and great dentistry, Ben's dental group has not just one, but two, board-certified prostodontists with Dr. Bence and his daughter, Dr. Emily Bens. This is very rare. It's a small number of people that are board-certified prostodontas. And they will take you on the journey. Say you're thinking about a dental implant. You've been told about that. Well, this is where you want to go. And you want to go there because Dr. Bent says the finest in imaging, the finest in taking a look, see, the finest in figuring out how to do this in an efficient manner for you. So I had great success with one done last March. I can speak to that and all the things that he put into it to make it a success. If you want to get started with great dental health and a great smile, Well, I know where to go. Dr. Benz. Make that call now. 610272-672-6949. Schedule that consultation. 610 272-6949. You can visit Benz, B-E-N-T-Z Dental Group.com. Benz Dental Group. Say it with a smile. I'm Jenna Fisher and I'm Angela Kinsey. And we have the podcast Office Ladies. Every Wednesday we'll be sharing even more exclusive stories and lots of laughs. Follow and listen to Office Ladies on the free Odyssey app and wherever you get your podcast. Tom Chirdano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, Dom Gerdano's show. I'm looking at Gas Buddy. It says the gas station I'm talking about is 50 cents higher than surrounding gas stations. But we wouldn't include that one in Chestnut Hill. God knows what they're at. They were 419 yesterday. I saw 439 and 910s this morning coming in from 199 yesterday. What happened? I mean, $3.99 yesterday. What happened? What was the change? Nothing. It's a decision. People have a right.

To make that decision, if you're driving by, I just want to, I didn't notice because I was only noticed as I was driving by or the normal lines there. I mean, it's a busy station. Are people still gone in until they look it up and go, whoa, wait a minute. What the heck is happening here? 855, 839, 12, 10. And hit us with something associated with the Irish with Ireland. I'm looking at a story today that was printed Newsweek as it in Al Jazeera. And the guy writing in Al Jazeera talks about how well the military mission is going against Iran. And I think that's fair. But then says, does that matter, though? What do you have to do for that to matter that you get what you want there? And Trump's in a tough spot now, spelling out exactly what it is that we want there. He's not going to do that. He's going to weave because if he does, the media is going to say he never got there no matter what happens. They just won't give it up. But it's maddening to me. And we're working on, we have Alan Weston on Thursday. We're working on other people. I realize there's got to be some, it seems to arrive at this with the strait of Hormuz. It comes down to this, that you're having people afraid, they're not insured if their vessel is blown up. And the vessels going through there, carrying oil or anything else, could be incredibly pricey. In other words, If you can't get insurance, if they're not going to say, hey, you know the risk here. If you go through there, we're not insuring this. It's in the contract. And it's $100 million. I've heard crazy numbers. They're not going to do it. How can we insure them, given the drones and everything else, high speed boats that are going to fly out of nowhere and attack them, that they will not be blown up? And I think this is where a lot of the oil to the rest of the world and where the game is, will they help protect against this? Can you protect against it? And have commercial vehicles go through because those commercial vehicles are not insured, they're insured, but they're not insured against what is something obvious here. And if you get blown up, oh, well, you're going to have to deal with that. All right, let's go to Phil in Delaware. Phil is in on Talk Radio 12 Tech. Hey, Phil. Hey, good afternoon to you. Hey, good afternoon, Phil. I spent the last hour trying to learn how to say happy New Year's in Gaelic. Oh, okay. There's always tomorrow. I'll practice. We got all year till the next new year for me to get it right. You know what? Henry likes a foreign language. If anybody knows Happy New Year in Finnish, for example, please bring it on. Yeah, Burmese as well. I'm sure in Greek, Drew or Zenos knows it. Okay, so Burmese is my next target then. Okay.

So I wanted to tell you, since I travel all over the East Coast, about two and a half weeks ago, I stopped at one of the Jersey rest stop gas stations and decided to sleep over. And I swear, I went to sleep. It was $3.4. And when I woke up, it was like $3.42. And like you said, What happened? Yeah. In what, eight hours? Yeah, this is, and according to gas, buddy, they're 50 cents higher than the neighboring gas stations around there. So, whoa, what's going on? And Delaware is the lowest out of the three, and I saw one today at 338 a gallon. That's pretty good, given everything, yeah. So come visit us. Okay. What's your Irish? Have a great... Well, Phil, what's your Irish on the side? The only thing I could honestly come up with was Rabbit. Every time I went to a restaurant and said I'd like something Irish and authentic, they kept going towards Rabbit. Oh, man. That's it. That's pretty bad. Thank you. Their cuisine is not, I don't think. That well known. You know, I can't name the, you know, tremendous cuisine. I think it's too similar to like British food a lot of times. That's where I was going and that's the worst. Oh, just the worst. I really got some good stuff. I like like the blood pudding. Oh, just to name me. What's in blood pudding? It's essentially sausage. Oh, yeah. Oh, and pudding. But it's not like pudding like you think it is. Okay. It's more just like finely minced kind of. sausage made from like the blood dripping. Well, you know, it gives me a chance to go on my annual rant against Scrapple, which usually gets me in trouble. Yeah, you're in big, you're in hot water. Exactly right. All right. Coming up, we're going to talk with one of our favorites. Well, a couple of them, one from the Heritage Foundation, but we're going to talk with Kirsten Fleming, who does features for the New York Post. And I think she's on the Zohran Mamdani desk, but she wrote several pieces not only about the Oscars and the aftermath of it and why. I think she's interviewed some of these people, but the OZNPEC, look, this sunken completely, who's that up there? Look, if you miss the end of the show yesterday, went off on the amount of trash they left behind. I mean, it was almost like a typical movie theater or worse. It's a big time event. Don't they have people going around and breaks in a show and throwing track? No, no, I'm not picking that up. That's for the little people to do. You're talking about the environment and you cannot leave a theater looking half decent. It's not the same thing, I realize. But it just shows the smugness and the arrogance of this. How do you get that way? Well, we'll ask her about that. But keep the calls coming. 855, 839, 12, 10. And I guess would you go into a gas station that suddenly overnight? I told you yesterday, it was really on the high side. It was 399. Now it's 439 today. Why would you go in there? I get it. It's close to the drive. Uh-oh. You know, I don't have that much gas. Anything can happen. By the time I go home today, God, what might it be?

Why do people do that? You mean to say you can't make it to another gas station? Is it really that big of it? Ah, it's only 40 cents. Well, it adds up over the course of time, does it not? 855, 839, 1210. Tom Giudano, weekdays, noon till 3, from Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. All right, it is Dom Time, one of our favorites. She's in a catbird seat. I mean, you've got to love with the New York Postas. And they just are born under a lucky star, Zohran Mamdani there. Oh, God, what we would do. We got Cheryl Parker. Come on, she misspelled Eagles. This guy is rapping today at Gracie Mansion about Gaza on St. Patrick's Day and connecting it. But Kirsten Fleming is the features person there. She's done all kinds of things. And she's got a lot to say about the Oscars slash OZempec, that look that's out there. She had a great quote about the Oscars. Come on. What people want is just showbiz, baby. That's all. You're not getting that anymore, Kirsten. Kirsten joins us here in Philadelphia on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Kirsten, welcome. Thanks for joining today. Thanks for having me. How's it going? Well, well, very well. So we let off the show today with all that's going on because... I wanted to ask you, St. Patrick's Day in New York, the three eyes are huge. When you run from there, you have to visit all three countries. They're big spectaculars. I think of St. Patrick's Day being the biggest of all. Is that right? Yeah, St. Patrick's Day is super-duber important. I think he learned from not going to inflation Bishop Hicks, Archbishop Hicks. So it's a no-brainer. This guy is, Gaza is his son. You know, he just, it all, he can't talk about anything without connecting it to Gaza. And I think it's such a shame because the St. Patrick's Day parade is always a day of celebration of the Irish, what they did when they came here, it became Americans, built this city with their hands, rose to prominence in so many different fields. and he just wants to talk about oppression, like he's such a downer. What a cynical way to view of the world. Yeah, the argument is we're not going to waste another chance to make people miserable. It's fine to celebrate them in a manner that you talked about. One of my favorite films, Gangs of New York, for example, has all of this in it. And what they overcame is true. You can make mention of that, but then you go on to the fun stuff associated with it. Yeah, but he does this a lot. You know, I was out at his rally right before the election, and it was such a dim view of New York. It was just all about oppression and the people who are, you know, stuck in this one position and they can't get ahead. And it's like, hold on a second. No, no, no, immigrants, the story of immigrants in New York is about possibility.

And, you know, he always forgets that. He just cannot stop talking about being downtrodden. But that's his theme. You know, he really does have, I think, behind that smile a very negative view that pulls everybody down because he's a big equity guy, right? He's about socialism. He wants everyone to be the same. He doesn't want to highlight the progress and the beautiful things that... people from other countries, people who are second generation, first generation, third generation built in this city. And that's why it's the greatest city in the world because people come here and they overcome everything with sharp elbows, with a positive attitude and with an eye on ingenuity. And so that is a, this is a place that always celebrated that. And I feel like he just wants to drag it down and be like, look at how terrible this is and oppression, oppression, oppression. think it takes like a really beautiful day, St. Patrick's Day in New York City, and it just, it turns it into a very cynical reflection of how he views the world. You put it, well, that's exactly that New York's spirit. So, Kirsten, have you interviewed any of the people we might say, or A or B listeners? Because I wanted to bring that into what we see with the Oscars and why the same tin ear that he has. They bring to what is supposed to be a celebration of you, interviewed any of them. What's your take of being in that bubble and why they are the way they are? You know, I think that it's been a while since I have interviewed celebrities, to be fair. I spent a lot, most of the celebrities that I've interviewed, I always did a lot in sports. So a lot of, like, athletes who became celebrities off the field. Some showbiz stuff, a lot of models. I think that the tenor changed in this world, like in 2016, it became more about, again, this idea of, like, overcoming an oppression and all of this stuff. So it was like, again, less positive. And I think that people, they can't, Trump has broken so many people's brains. And, you know, when you just make everything about him and about how this world is so terrible. And that's just what rules the entertainment world. And I feel like when you make it all about Trump and this administration, you just sort of give him more power if you hate him so much. But. That's the tenor to me. Right. And one of the guys I was thinking of, I think, did a film on Vladimir Putin, and then he immediately went past that, and he started talking about Trump in the same turns. There are real things in the world, like the Iranian female Olympic team. that people are not reaching out to that could be celebrated what they face and what we face in Iran. I mean, there's always going to be that type of stuff that Hollywood can get into, but it cheapens it when we start going toward, not just Trump, but like Petty Annie and calling that tyranny. Yeah, I mean, it's such a privilege of you in the world, right? Especially with the Iranian women who they're facing...

very real consequences. Their families are facing real consequences. And not a word from the soccer world is a very progressive world. I mean, you see in the European League, you know, everyone's kneeling for, to end racism. And, you know, there's an uproar every time any microaggression happens from the crowd, you know. And I think that these people really view themselves as victims, right? And there are these amazing athletes. It's all virtue signaling because look at these brave women. And it's not just the women's national soccer team. I mean, Iran really targets off their athletes. So it's a theme with them. And yet we hear nothing because if they do, that means that by proxy, they're aligning themselves with Trump. Exactly. So it just, it really rings. so empty and you know the hypocrisy is very strong but right and and you had a great line there you talked about some of the elements that used to be there in the Oscars and look some of the mystique has gone social media and all that that's some of the downside so many shows totally we're all trying to get them they do interviews now I didn't you didn't know these people back then so we thought they were glamorous all the time. And we do talk about that what we need at the Oscars, we want showbids, some clever lines, people that look great, and something that is like, you know, bigger than life on the screen, that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. And escapism, you know, I think that's what the magic of movies has always been. You know, you just don't want the lectures. And Conan O'Brien, who I think is awesome and doesn't usually miss. I thought he was... He really fumbled after a pretty good start. And... It's just, the whole thing, the memoriam was beautiful. Of course, we lost so many irreplaceable talents, Diane Keaton, Catherine O'Hara. I mean, it was a year for tremendous loss. But, yeah, like, we don't need to see five actors get on stage and give these long speeches. It was almost a five-minute, I think, segment about the casting directors. You know, I understand that behind the scenes, there's all these people who make this magic happen. But a lot of award shows, they don't televise those. They do separate ceremonies to celebrate that, you know? So it's like it just becomes very navel easily and inside baseball. Right. Well, you know what? I would, we have a mind melt here. I was thinking that Robert DeValle didn't get enough stature there. I would, I would elongate what they do with the immemorial in the years where you have stars like that. It really connects more so than just every pedestrian award that comes up, you know, that we don't know about. Go with that. Go with the big. That's what people are interested in. The stars.

Yeah, absolutely. And at a time when stars were stars. Yes. Because it's like you said, we didn't know too much about them. And social media to really reveal themselves. And they were all probably a bunch of coops anyway. But they knew how to pull it together and be A-lifters and be mysterious. And it was, I don't know, life was much more meaningful back then. Yeah. Kirsten, the OZempec thing is perfect. uh it's look for somebody who's obese you know of course and it might be life threatening and if they use this because we don't know what's happening the risk of it and the overkill of this the overly thin hollowed the face that's hollowed out who's advising people to say you look great by doing that i think we're in an era of like mass body dysmorphia You know, like the faces have changed so much because everyone's having their bugle fat removed. And so like what we're seeing on the screens and what we're seeing, it's just changed. Like the faces are different. The bodies are different. And so it kind of, I think, hypnotizes us and it changes the beauty standards of like what is actually real. Like if you look back at one of my friend's daughters is 12 and she's watching friends. And I'm like, do you notice that they have like real faces? as opposed to this stuff you watch today. And she's like, oh, yeah, yeah. I'm like, look, their lips are normal. Their noses are normal. You know, like, it really has shifted from what we see. So. I think that, like, we have lost touch with what the real human face looks like. And, you know, you talk about, like, Joan Rivers, right? She was the one who would have been calling all this stuff out. Oh, my goodness. And God bless her. She went through so much plastic surgery. She said they should donate her body to Tupperware, and she loved being thin. But she understood that she was an anomaly and she was chasing something and she was extremely self-aware. And she just used humor to diffuse all this. And after coming off of this whole body positivity movement, it became so taboo to say anything about anyone's body. You can't, you can't, it's healthy at any size. You can't say anything mean about or even point something out that might not be the healthiest thing. And so here we are, the pendulum shifting to the too skinny. We can't say anything about that either. Yeah, I can just picture Joan Rivers. I don't remember of being on it. On the View. Picture John Rivers on the view. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. They should be so lucky. Yeah, exactly. They should be so lucky. Yeah, she was amazing. She was amazing. So, Kirsten, what's next for you? What are you writing about doing next? Right now, I'm working on a column about Rachel Vegler, who was the Snow White Star. She recently gave an interview to Harper's Bazaar, UK, in which she's 24 years old, and she is half-Columbian, half-Columbian, half-Polish, grew up in New Jersey, and she bemoans the fact that there was no one that looked like her growing up in big media. So, you know, although she was as a Latino woman, she had no one.

to look up to. So she found it within herself. So really amazing erasure of Eva Longoria, Eva Mendez, Jennifer Lopez. I mean, the list could go on, Jessica Alba. So anyway, it's sort of a peek into the mindset. Excellent. So we find you in the pictures section online or buy the paper in New York Post. What days do you write? Or it depends. It depends. Whatever the days dictate, so I'm all over the map. All right. Well, Kirsten, thank you for being with us here again. Really appreciate it. Thanks a much, John. Have a good one. All right. Kirsten Fleming, just her take on it, even though it's a few days late with the Oscars, is so spot on. And Zohran Mamdani, today just, again, celebrate the Irish. Why does it have to be misery? Why does it have to be Gaza all the time? Well, because if you hate Jews, that's what you're going to come back to. Just like that's what I see in this, and I've got one calling yet, you don't understand how major this is with the media running with this in the war situation here. This Joe Kent guy, look, great military experience. Then he runs for office. He's pound around with the prow boys and the like. All right, they put him in there, counterterrorism with Tulsi Gabbard. And he quits today saying there was no threat, no imminent threat to us. Define that, Joe. I love to get this guy on the show, and he's an honored military guy. But this is Tucker Carlson derangement syndrome. Megyn Kelly, Israel, Israel, Israel. The longer this goes on, the more they're going to spew that. And there's an audience for that. And that's what this guy swept up into. Now, the Trump administration, I admire them. one of their guys in the same department went after him and called him a loser and said he was about ready to be fired. In other words, they're not saying, oh, personnel matter. We're not going to comment on this. You're not getting away with that what he's espousing here that Trump just did this because of Israel. They're going after him. And it's tough when you have that kind of honored military service and his wife also to have to go after this guy. But this is big time. This is about undermining the war effort. And the media has invested in both undermining the economy and undermining what we're doing in Iran. I think it's a fair point to say, how does this end? In other words, what's the accomplishment? And I don't know, I don't hear people here on the station calling in on that at all. Is it too difficult because you're on pins and needles saying, hey, come on, Tom. We don't want to think about that. We know we had to stop them, but there doesn't seem to be an outcome here other than it's going to make it more difficult for them over the period of the next three to five years. I got to tell you, if I'm in charge on that, I can't accept that. Here's the reason. I just can't take thinking I'm going to wake up one day and they have a nuclear weapon. It's almost irrational. But if I'm in that line of work, I don't think you could convince me that unless we take out the leadership that is driving for this, you're not going to be able to convince me they're not going to get it by hook or by crook.

I can't go to sleep a night with that. That's what you want in someone that's on top of this. Imagine on your watch, you wake up and, ha, ha, they have a nuclear weapon. We didn't care with Bill Clinton because he didn't care. And we saw what happened with North Korea. We could have stopped that. Now, you can't do anything with them. They're fanatics in a bizarro world kind of way in North Korea. But these guys are religious fanatics. This is religious fanaticism. This is the Japanese in World War II. The Germans came to their senses. They were gone after Hitler. There wasn't that sort of maybe the last two years of the war. Japanese, no, right up to the end. The emperor, he's God. That's it. We'll do anything. By any reporting that I can find, that's the way it was. Now, that doesn't mean all the people in Iran are like that. But it means there's enough of a hardcore. How many do you have to take out? We took out two more of the Israelis and Americans overnight. One guy, the leader, in charge of the internal security. The alleged gay son might be on life support or severely wounded. I don't see much of a change, though. I don't see them offering up that we have some way here we'll give up wanting a nuclear weapon and trying to get it. And that's what I want, that they cannot get a nuclear weapon. I want the assurity as close to what mere mortals can get on that. I'm lying. I want complete assurity. They can't do it. I want experts to tell me, nope, they cannot do this. Is that too much to ask after all this? That's what it's about. Yes, there are terrorism around the world. Yes, the people. Yes, they're ballistic missiles. Yes, yes, yes. The biggest thing is they cannot get a nuclear weapon. And I think people forget that because you've got to stare evil like this in the face to realize they would use it. Okay, phone lines. Hit us on the side question. 855-839, 12-10. That's how you get. Hey, it's Jen Hatmaker. Here's what I've learned in midlife. Joy isn't the reward you earn after all the work is done. Joy is the work. That's what this new series on For the Love is all about. The sacred yes. It's choosing delight, rest, and pleasure on purpose. Because saying yes to yourself, that's the thing that finally lets you fill your table with everybody else. Come find your sacred yes with me. Follow and listen to For the Love wherever you get your podcasts. There. Tom Chiodano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. Okay, it is time, 855, 839, 12, 10. This Save America Act, Scott Presler pulling out all the stops. Supposed to be President Trump is going to go over to Capitol Hill to speak. So it tells you the seriousness of this as far as the importance. There's going to be doing debates.

Scott Presler will be on Thursday because I think there could be a vote on the filibuster and talking filibuster and all that sometime today and tomorrow. But the cynicism of the groups they line up to say how badly this is going to hurt them. Now the latest, Native Americans could be the hardest hit by the Save America Act. The legislation poised to get a vote in the Senate. is a top priority, and they would be unable to comply with this in some way, shape, or form. Well, again, we go back to this, living on the reservation, making that choice. They're independent countries, but they can vote. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. So we're going to not try to curtail. non-citizens and those that are here illegally and those that are just not registered to vote and those that are double voting, whatever they're doing, to give us security in this, we're not going to do that because people on reservations or whatever they're called today are going to be having difficulty around this. It's a perfect example of what Democrats can do, Henry, let's fire up. Here is Bob Casey Jr. Remember him? Longtime Senator, Attorney General, remember his father. Listen to him when it came to drop boxes. Remember drop boxes for mail-in balloting. And we were saying, look, I don't want any drop boxes with this. But okay, if it's in the official government office with someone watching it, et cetera, that's bad enough. Listen to what Bob Casey Jr. wanted as far as the number of drop boxes. Give me one second to pull. Okay. All right. So he was, I don't know if he was running at that point for the Senate, but he was in a bitter debate over expanding all these drop boxes, which in Philadelphia in the average election, I don't know. They could be up to 30 by this point. How are you going to have eyes on that all the time? And there have been feelings. That's where you can cheat with mail-in balloting. That's where you can stuff this. That's where the nonsense can go on. So Casey was ready to unleash with that. All right, we're looking for... All-time Irish associations with the Irish. Let me take a call, then we'll play you Bob Casey Jr. Happy St. Patrick's Day, Bob Casey. Let me go to Greg in the Northeast. Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Greg. Hi, Dominic, guys. First of all, let's, Zohran Mamdani, he's just a communist, Islamist skank. That's all we can say about because he cannot see. And he cannot see above his hatred for anybody that's not a communist or a socialist or a Islamist. That's all there is to it. And now to go to the about the Bob Casey thing, every one of these, I don't even know what you're going to say about it, but all the Pennsylvania governors, Josh Shapiro being one, they should bring back what exactly they said about school choice. They should bring out what they said about.

rights for religious rights, and they should bring back what, especially Josh Shapiro, what he said about the Ellen Greenberg case. Remember the lady was stabbed 20 times? Yeah, I hope that that comes up when the election gets started a lot more. It's very suspicious, without a doubt. Or how about the fact that he's trying to steal his neighbor's land? It doesn't get more suspicious than that. No, that's just four or five things. Now, I believe that they're going to use it. They just don't want to throw it out there too early because then, you know, time always, time cures all, as they always say. So let's wait a little bit longer. But, yeah, that's why I go with that. When I hear Casey, all you do is you start to yawn. That was the most boring man that ever governed. He was a snooze fest. Anything he said. You had to read it to understand. Well, we'll stay in there, and I'll get your reaction. Then you can give me your side. Here's Bob Casey Jr., though, Greg. He's sort of fired up on this one. Why we need drop boxes out there in every farm in Pennsylvania. You know, a lot of people back in 2020 said, oh, yes. You know, in Pennsylvania, you had a big turnout for president in 2016. But that turnout's going to go way down because it's a reelection and there's a pandemic and people won't vote and people will be afraid to vote. We went from about 6 million votes in 2016 to almost 6.9 million votes. Now, that didn't happen in our state just because people were more interested. It happened because we had pathways by way of a change in state law to allow them to vote, being able to vote early. Being able to vote by way of a mail-in ballot. Having a drop box. What if you're 90 years old and you live in a rural area in Pennsylvania? What if you live in a rural area and you can't get to the county election bureau to drop off your mail-in ballot? Shouldn't you have a drop box? If you're 90 years old and you want to vote? What if you live on a farm? What if you're running a farm? Oh, God. And you've got a busy life. You're running a small business. Shouldn't you have the opportunity to vote or should you just be restricted to one day in the year? Yes. One day every year for a general election. And if you can't get to vote that day, then you're not able to vote. Why would we go back to those days? All right, Greg, your response, pretty compelling, pretty fired up, didn't you think? Yeah, first of all I had to keep myself, pinching myself to stay awake. But that being said, ask that same 9-year-old if they went to the voted in person every year before that when they were able to. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. He's another one. He's just, he's so bored. I can't even listen to him. I'm thank God he's gone. If you're Josh Shapiro's worse. My side, Dom, is every in movies and shows, TVs, movies, comedies, dramas, the priest was always Irish. in Mash, the quiet man, the Three Stooges, trading places, the exorcist. Every priest was always Irish and always had a drink in his hand, but mostly we'll go with the priest.

The Irish priest, yes. It's a state. What do you mean? Where's that guy from? He's a Barowski and he's a priest. That's not happening in this. People never abide in it, but how it get me, O'Connell over here. All right. 855-839-12. Yeah, that's actual stuff from Bob Casey, Jr., about why you need more drop boxes. And I think it's apropos of how crazed Democrats will be today on the Save Act. I'm shocked that John Thune is actually pressured into taking some kind of action. And mainly President Trump wants it and Scott Presler there again. He told us yesterday he'd still be knocking on doors all over Capitol Hill today. So that's there. Hey, if you're ready to move around this season as we get into better weather. Walk farther, exercise stronger, stay motivated for spring activities, but your stamina isn't keeping up. Listen closely. Rescue oracine is formulated to help you feel energized and stay active without caffeine jitters. And right now, listeners can buy one, get one free. Just use that code, my energy. Your body runs on ATP, the natural energy that powers every muscle, every step. But as we age, ATP production slows down, along with endurance and recovery. Rescue Orazine features research-backed ingredients that support ATP production at the cellular level, helping you power through workouts, get outside more, and stay consistent with your fitness goals. Just go to RES-Q.com, use that code, My Energy, buy one bottle of oracine, get one free, or call a product consultant at 80026-alive, 800-262-5483. Don't wait to spring forward with lasting energy. Shop or a scene at R-E-S-Q.com. And remember, use that code, my, my, energy. Lemonade. Fresh squeeze, lemonade. Lemonade? Lemonade? Oh, nuts. Is your business struggling to be seen, not reaching the right customers? Yeah. Odyssey's here to help. You're one-stop shop for digital marketing. Wait, really? With targeted digital media, plus SEO, SEM, social, OTT, and more. We help your business reach the right audience and drive results. Whoa, hey, one at a time. Stop missing out on valuable customers. Visit Digitallocalads.com to learn more about our local advertising solutions. That's digital local ads.com. Okay, people. Mine starts here. Tom Chirdano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone. We haven't heard from the Irish enough with all these people. It's cultural appropriation. You take the Irish, and then you make a point about people here illegally, or in the case of Zohran Mamdani, we played. Maybe I'll play it again in the 2 o'clock hour. Let off with it today. At Gracie Mansion with the former president of Ireland, who's a lefty, woke. making the point that the Irish should know better and would know better about Gaza. What? I mean, he said things that the Irish accomplished in New York, but he just moved away from the spirit of the whole thing to tell us that somehow or another, what about Gaza? All right, President Trump is speaking on Capitol Hill right now, and it is around the SAVE Act.

and the movement forward. I am surprised that we're even getting this far with John Thune and some of the rhinos there. And I don't know if they have the 50 votes. It may come down to JD Vance to get it to be that they have to do a talking filibuster. And at any moment, we'll start to see that breakout on the Senate floor apparently. That's where the debate will be. Now, some of this is to draw the Democrats into having to make arguments about why we can't do this. And they've always been against the photo ID. They've kind of given that up now, and they're resorting to the citizen issue. And the photo ID part is still strong on the part of Republicans, but Republicans are realizing Pennsylvania's had instances of this of non-citizens voting, particularly from various countries that there seem to be some pathways to doing that. How many? It's not our job. It's not our job. What is the requirement in an election of illegal voters? Does it have to be 100? Does it have to be a thousand? Does it have to be a majority that would make a difference? No. It's illegal. We have laws against this. And also, everybody knows we're trying to instill the idea of integrity in elections. And we're not going to get that integrity unless what? Unless people are buying in and seeing these holes closed up. We've been through this how many times? Thanks to Linda Kearns. Thanks to Scott Presler. There was more buy-in with the mail-in ballot because we're going to have that until we get rid of Josh Shapiro. Let's go to Robert and Ben Salem on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Robert. Hey, Dom Henry, good to talk to you guys today. Same here. Happy St. Patty's Day. And, Dom, I can assure you that while Zohran Mamdani is a supreme clown, we don't care if you appropriate our culture. You know, to do it too well with it. All right. I'm also with you in that I cannot see it taking... more than a couple weeks to secure the straight of war moves. And we seem to be falling into this thing of political minutia all the time that's generated by the mainstream media just to keep Trump off balance. Still wait and see, but I don't think it'll take as long. It's not going to take tomorrow day. I'll be shocked if it does. And finally, I would hope today would go with the talking filibuster before they scrapped a filibuster. You know what I mean? Yeah, I don't want to scrap the filibuster. Just like I don't want car running around saying he's going to take licenses away because of what they're doing on the war because I think Democrats, Robert, are even looking at how can they get at podcasters in the future? They don't like the podcasting meme now. They don't have control. And if they can do something to...

quote, regulate that to really put the fear of God in it, I think that's what they're going to try if they get back in power. Well, I wouldn't be surprised as just the act of making them work for the filibuster will end the argument sooner so they can reach a quorum. But my answer to the side question, and you touched on it and even dawn did in the prior show, what was dealt with when the Irish came over, and there is a bar down on Tarz Avenue that still has one of them signs Irish need not apply. It's an Irish bar, so, you know, that's all good. But I think what really encapsulated that was the movie Gangs from New York. I really thought it was a great movie because it was loosely based on real characters about a real dynamic. The guy Valens, his name was John Morrissey and William Cutting. His real name was William Poole, but everything else is fairly accurate and within the timeline. But just the graphic way that it shows reality instead of Hollywood cleaning it up for the big screen really hit home with me. It's one of the movies that I can watch, you know, several times every now and then, you know what I mean? I agree with you and how accurate it was when they said put down the rioters. They're fine cannonballs in there. Oh, yeah. It wasn't that raw diamond. Oh, my God. Yeah. It was a different, different time, man. Life was so cheap in five points. It wasn't even funny. Great show today. It's been great for the last week, Don. You're on a roll. I really appreciate you, Matt. Thank you, Robert. Thanks very much. Yeah, Gangs of New York is spectacular. That is top-notch stuff. Where are we going to see here in Pennsylvania? And we're having Ryan McKenzie, Henry, on tomorrow, right? I think he's tomorrow. Yeah, he's on tomorrow because he's one of the four targeted. So I wanted to mention this to you. The inquires got a big piece. Democrats, meaning the inquire too, they want to hold Republicans accountable because they say 300,000 people. Now, I think that's a gross overestimate. 300,000 Pennsylvanians could lose Medicaid. Democrats want voters to know who's responsible. Well, you may remember. A lot of this Medicaid stuff, why was it? Remember the opportunity or what the law is now? You're not going to get Medicaid. You're usually a single, unemployed somehow or another male. In perfectly good health or in enough that you can work. You're going to volunteer or work 40 hours a month. Remember that whole thing? And I think that's still where it landed. And I think the lion's share, those who refuse to do that, or they were using frauds for Medicaid. They weren't a real person. They were making it up and getting the benefit. That's where these numbers are going. But I'm going to ask McKenzie, because I know he's very sensitive to dealing with this tomorrow.

about dealing with that. That's how they're going to come after them. They're coming after Bob Harv-Degross Harvey is in here, saying, yes, Brian Fitzpatrick voted for this before he voted against it in the end. Prices at nursing homes will go up for everyone. And Medicaid, what is it that's so difficult? I'll ask McKenzie that tomorrow, get more expertise. Nick Shirley, remember the guy that broke up the whole thing. We got a lot of footage of him in the two o'clock hour. He's in Van Nuys, and he's in the middle of this godforsaken place with a hundred hospices, supposedly there. And they're a hole in the wall. They're not there. It's a fraud. Imagine how low using fraud around hospices that are fake. And autism that's fake. Remember that in Minnesota? Seizing on those two things. Why? Because there are hot items that are hard to trace. And he confront some of these guys that are driving high-end Teslas, $100,000 cars, all parked in this rubble-like parking lot because the office is there. There's no hospice. They're milking the system for millions. This is Van Nuys. Dr. Oz was on with it. I forget what he said. How many hospices are within a four-block area. maybe as many as 100. What is it with Medicaid that makes it so, and it seems to have this cabal of different immigrant groups? He says in this thing, they're Armenian, that take over these areas. It was the Somalis in Minnesota. And they milk them for millions and millions and millions of dollars. And the system in California and Minnesota, and I bet in Philadelphia, it covers it up. I mean, we got to know there's got to be massive fraud here in Philadelphia in addition to what we see playing out in California and in Minnesota. All right. So we'll have more of that coming up. But first, boy, we've got a couple goblins. I'm flipping coins and the better one today. We don't know what happened with the woman we played you yesterday, whether she got fired or not in the Philadelphia suburb. I'm still looking for that. But we do have another one. Now, these two women are getting in the face of ice agents playing music and all sorts of contortions. It's kind of like teasing the Buckingham guards or works. YouTube.com slash 1210 WPHT. We'll have that for you coming up on Talk Radio 12. Hi, my name is Lloyd Lockridge, and I'm the host of a new podcast from Odyssey called Family Lore. In this podcast, I'm going to have people on to tell unusual and sometimes far-fetched stories about their families. I've heard my whole life that she invented the margarita. And then we're going to investigate those stories and find out how much of it is true. He gets a patent one month before the Wright brothers. Oh, my God. Please follow and listen to FamilyLore, an Odyssey podcast, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows. Oh, 10. Dom Giardano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. Could this year get any fucking whew?

Progressive women. Your words are garbage and you're a bad person at this point. Gone wild. All right, we have a very good candidate today. Here's the description of this progressive woman gone wild. Or women there, I believe. They're dancing, singing, and grinding on an ice agent as a form of protest. YouTube.com slash 1210 WPHD. And in the chat, we'd like to know. Each time we play one of these progressive women, where you would rate them. I'm not sure which one. The woman yesterday, the nurse, is if true in the Philadelphia suburbs, a menace, that something that has to be done about. That was just incredible. And the newest part of this, at least the ones verbalizing, taking the time, they're wishing the Iranians killed Trump. and Americans and do it right. And one of them even put up on Twitter a map of where to find Trump and circling the golf course and a time and all. My goodness. All right. So here's a little bit of this ice agent like a Buckingham Palace Guard trying to fend off these progressive women gone wild.

Let's exchange the experience. It seems to be they want some kind of hill to be gone on here. So, again, they come in all varieties. And there's any number of them in the Philadelphia area. And I think the No Kings thing is happening again soon. So there will be just a tremendous surge. That one can quite figure out, though, why so many are nurses. That seems to be almost the prime or... They're like a pre-K or some kind of teacher of small children or nanny or something like that. That seems to be a driving force. All right. At 2 o'clock, we're going to talk with Laura Reese, who we had on before and is at the Heritage Foundation on all these issues of immigration. And there's one that the Trump administration is trying mightily on. And that is all these people that, and Zenos is with us, he's online. Let me go to Zenos because I wanted to ask him about being naturalized what he had to go through. They want to make it much more rigorous because too many people are naturalized citizens and yet they're attacking us. Can we screen that out? Let's go to Zeno. Say Zenos, if you don't mind, when you became a naturalized citizen, how difficult was it? Well, Dom, it took about five years. Okay. And the only reason why it took about five years was because of my mother, usually was seven to eight years because my mother, I believe, when she was born here, my mother. Okay. And it didn't take a long time, but it was rigorous, but, and me and my brother, we were sworn in the judge's quartered down Cherry Street. But, you know, you had to know your president's, and I knew all that stuff with history and everything. But it took about five years, and it took my dad a little bit longer. But, you know, but it was about five years. But you had to know some kind of stuff. You just didn't walk in the door. Oh, here I am, an American citizen. There was a lot of questions asked. Yeah, here's the thing. The question I would like them to try to, you know, this would cause trouble, you obviously are one of the most grateful people imaginable that couldn't be anybody better to welcome into the country. But can we screen out these people that just don't want to assimilate? They're not grateful. They're doing this to become a citizen, but some on another, they're not grateful about it. Well, Dom, you know what? They did screen you. They screamed my father. They even screamed my mother because my mother was raised in Greece. She got trapped there doing the second ward. And you know, there was no TWA airplane to hop on to come to Philadelphia. And she was trapped there. And some of those Nazis were looking for American hostages.

And they had to hide my mother. Okay. But yeah, there was a lot of, you know, intense training, you know, with the background and with Greece, you know, there was a lot of communist activity. And, you know, because my parents came here in the 50s. My dad wanted to go to Australia. My mother says, I'm not going down. You go down there. I'm going to America. Good choice. Zinos, what's your side today? My sign today, Dom, is, you know what, with all the talking, oh, is the police officer. He's always an Irishman, and his name always happens to be Muldoon. All right, thank you, see. Go ahead. Yeah, and one other thing, Dom, when Casey was talking, he made it sound like it's 1880 out in Pennsylvania where you've got to climb on a wagon or a mule to get around. It's one of my favorite cuts of all time. Thank you very much. Top 10, you know. Well, let's, he keeps on getting more. Let's say now he's 90s. He's on a tractor all day. What the hell is he supposed to do when he says, imagine just having one day to vote. Okay. You can get absentee ballot. We still have that then, Bobby. All right. Coming up, as I said from the Heritage Foundation, we're going to talk about what I just talked about with Zenos, which is Trump administration trying to figure out a way to get people that we really want to be into the country and to foster assimilation. The citizenship tests, much more difficult they're making it now than Zenos just talked about, even more intense than that. She'll lay it out and give us her thoughts on failure to assimilate. Why is it so difficult? The Irish assimilated. Why can't others? All straight ahead on Talk Radio 12-10. Domjiudano, weekdays noon till 3. From Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. Dom Chirdano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. All right, it is Dom time. So on St. Patrick's Day, I play it for you again in a little bit. Zohran Mamdani strikes, glimming on to the Irish, a group that has succeeded against all odds tremendously in America. And our friends at the Heritage Foundation set out some of the things they're interested on right now with their experts. First time I talked with Laura Reese, it was on a national show. And it was about an immigration issue. I forget which issue. But the Trump administration now, they have a guy who wants to make the naturalization ceremony, the test, et cetera. More about actually knowing English, immersing in English. And I think they're also trying to figure out a way to have people that are grateful to be here. So what's the reason why people like these two punks from Bucks County turn on America in gratitude? They're living in two million-dollar houses. We've been through all this. Is it just as simple as religious fanaticism and can't do anything about that?

Well, let's play the odds. What should we do to really get people that want to be here, not just that they don't attack us, but that they're grateful. Is that too much to ask? Let's go to Laura on Talk Radio 1210 with Dom Gerdano. Hey, welcome back. Thanks for joining us today. Thank you for having me. So I saw some of the stuff that you're talking about and what the Trump administration is doing. Does that sit well with you? Is that doable? What should we be doing to try to filter better legal immigration? Yes, and just some background. We average about 700,000 aliens naturalized each year. That's a lot. And many administrations have viewed it as almost a contest. You know, the more we naturalize, the better. But this is absolutely not something that should be rushed, nor should the standards be watered down just to get higher grant numbers. Because as we now see, it doesn't serve well to fellow Americans. So what's required? You have to have been a lawful permanent resident or a green card holder. It's the same thing for a number of years. You have to have resided continuously in the U.S. during that time. You have to be a person of good moral character attached to the principles of the U.S. Constitution and be well disposed to the good order and happiness of the U.S. You need to take a civics test and an English test. And the aspects to the test are two, the bars are too, it's too low. And while this Trump administration has raised it somewhat, there needs to be a lot more substance. So for example, now you do an oral civics test of possibly 20 questions out of a published list of 128 questions. It used to be 100. The administration raised it to 128 questions. And you have to answer 12 of those 20 correct to pass. And if you fail, if you get nine wrong, then you fail. And you can take it again. For the English ability to read and write, you only have to read one sentence out of three sentences and write one sentence out of three sentences. It's too simple. But also... That doesn't get to are you attached to the principles of the U.S. Are you well disposed to the good order and happiness?

The Trump administration has restarted something that was done decades ago, and that's going out into the neighborhood of naturalization applicants to see, are you flying a flag of, or are there signs up on your house about, you know, from the river to the sea or hands off Iran, et cetera, et cetera. Do your neighbors know you? Are you involved in civic organizations, those sorts of questions? But also, to both get a better sense of does this applicant both understand English and can they speak it, but also to get to that belief system and their background. to ask questions about do they support the U.S. government? Do they support communism or totalitarian government? Do they support aspects of Sharia law? Should it be illegal for someone of your religion to be able to convert to a different religion? Those sorts of questions. And so it serves a dual purpose. And we can then deny naturalization to those who should not get it. Yeah, that is exactly what I want. Do you have any sense of how many they're denying for what you just laid out? I don't have that number right now. Okay. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services does report that. I just don't have it off the top of my head. Do you think it has to be, you know, with what we've seen play out? Now, what do we do? Again, we can't work miracles. These two kids from Bucks County, their parents were naturalized. Their big successes. One home is $2 million. They own five or ten properties. The other is about $1.5 million. And yet they turn and boldly try to kill people with incendiary devices in front of hundreds of cops. Yeah, and this is something we've seen both in first generation immigrants and then also their next generation. And it's due to lack of assimilation, which... was the requirement and supported, you know, 100 years ago and a little bit more recently, you know, more recently. But the left has worked very hard to make assimilation a bad word, to make the melting pot phrase, bad phrase, and focus all on multiculturalism. The other factor we now have to deal with is Internet, social media, and ease of travel. And so someone here can become radicalized online. So we really need to redesign what students are taught in school to get back to assimilation and for love of country, loyalty to their fellow Americans. But also...

Frankly, you know, people who are applying for these immigration benefits and getting it from repeat offending countries against America. They deserve continued scrutiny, you know, even after something is granted. And denaturalization is possible, but it is difficult. It is slow. The numbers are low. From 1990 to 2017, for example, the Justice Department averaged 11 denaturalization cases per year. In 2025, Trump's DOJ brought 13 cases. but they are asking DHS to refer 100 to 200 cases per month to DOJ, but the implementation is slow. Do they have the resources? That's the thing. They seem like they have the will. They're starting to concentrate on this. Is it a resource thing or is it just, we've got a million things here. This is important. I'm thrilled that they're looking to do what you just said, that number per month, at least trying to do that. That's lessening the odds of people that might go off and want to kill us. Yeah, it is resource intensive. You need dedicated staff because they have to go back through the files and the old applications and figure out was there fraud in the underlying applications such that they were never really eligible. And then you've got a file in federal court, you know, which all have lengthy dockets themselves. and get a ruling. And then even if an alien is denaturalized, it doesn't necessarily make them deportable. This is something I think Congress needs to close the gap. It just reverts them to their prior status, which was that lawful permanent resident or green card holder. But then they need... a ground of removability to then actually deport them. So a crime or terrorism, I mean, fraud is a ground to become deportable. But there's all kinds of exceptions. And so it is, it's not a given that someone who is denaturalized will then be deported. In fact, that's not even the default. Wow. What's next for you? What are you working on now? What's the issue? I'm glad to talk about this because this is happening right now. What else would be helpful in your view? Right now, focusing on mass deportations and trying to convince some in the administration and on Capitol Hill that they should not shy away from this. This is something President Trump ran on, promised. Americans voted for it.

And so Republicans won on this issue. They need to act like it and not revert to going on defense about it because somehow they are told by paid consultants that they'll lose independence if they talk about mass deportations or if they move beyond criminal aliens with, you know, rap sheets. We've got at least 20 million deportable aliens in this country, and we need to stay on offense. So it is possible for the administration to conduct a million deportations this year, and when those numbers go up, so too will self-deportation numbers go up. because it's a risk calculus for deportable aliens. And if they see that the risk is high, that they will be deported by ICE, then the reward is low, and you'll see more people self-deport. But we've got to get this administration and Republicans on the Hill back on offense. Well, I agree. But I can imagine what they tell you, is it as simple as I see it. If Holman is in charge, more workman-like. And saying, we're going after the criminal background, but you're on the table if you're here illegally versus Bovino and Kristi Noem and what went on in Minnesota, which was hostile territory. What else do they need to do in order to get the buy-in going again with the Trump administration and Congress, do you think? Well, they need to... fully use workside enforcement. And it seems that each time a reasonably large workside enforcement activity is done, like the Hyundai plant, then you get, you know, business lobbyists, et cetera, coming out, decrying it, and then sometimes even the president, you know, publicly regretting it. And work is still the number one incentive for people to come to the U.S. illegally and to stay here illegally. We cannot just take the tool of workside enforcement off the table. The law since 1986 has been it is unlawful to knowingly hire someone who is here illegally. That needs to be enforced. Absolutely. Every time I talk with you, I feel more encouraged, but I realize what we're up against here. So thank you, as always. Thanks for coming on today. Thanks so much. All right. There's Laura Reese here on Talk Radio 1210, and you heard what she said. Let's read the tea leaves here. Inside the Trump administration, inside Congress, even Republicans, after what went on in Minnesota as we've been talking about. They think independence, they didn't vote for mass deportation. Yes, they did. Trump said it again and again and again. Yet the message you get is, now, Tom Homan does it well. We're going after the worst of the worst, but you're on the table if you're out there and you're illegal. Oh my God, we do that. We're going to get killed in the midterms. Democrats don't have any. They're going down Broadway with whatever issue they think, like supporting illegal aliens. They're going down Broadway with it.

Now, they do have Trump hatred on their side for turnout. And you heard what she said toward the end here. You have people that are very reluctant to be doing this. You don't hear that even at times from the president. She mentioned the work site. Of course, that's the place that you would go with this. All right, phone lines are 855, 833, 9, 12, 10, AT&T, and Verizon Wireless, all that you would need do is just to push pound 1210. But right now, it is time for... It's dogs. Money Melody. Razzola Money Gone. All right, today we're playing for a pair of tickets to Mozart's Requiem on April 9th at the Kimmel Center's Marion Anderson Hall, courtesy of Ensemble Arts, Philadelphia. That's a great space. Tickets are available at Ensembleartsfilly.org. Okay, Henry. Yeah, Dom. So side question, day we're asking for people, things associated with Ireland, Irish culture. So that's exactly what I'm going to give you today. I'm going to give you an Irish artist. born in Belfast to a shipyard electrician. This artist has a lot of mainstream success over the years with one particular hit song. I won't say what, obviously. But this person got their influence partially because their father had the largest record collection in Northern Ireland growing up as a boy. So I'm going to play you this Northern Irish artist. I want to know who this is covering Frank Sinatra's. That's life. Let's take a listen. Oh, stop it. Stop it. It's killing me. At least it wasn't my way. Oh, God. Yeah, Dom, this person has been knighted. for their services to the music industry and tourism in Northern Ireland and is also in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Want this cover artist from Northern Ireland. We're just talking about denaturalization. I might D take him out of the Hall of Fame here for this if this doesn't stop. Oh, that's the second song. At least he didn't do my way. You can't do this one. I think it's the secondary song or tertiary. I'm not sure. What's an atra? You got to be really careful doing this. Oh, God. You can't. I can't take it. My way would have been. That's it. All right. So hit us with that. You get the belt for today. And you also get the tickets for Mozart's Requiem. You do that at 855, 839, 12, 10. The Save America Act, Fox touting faces key Senate vote test vote coming up. We'll bring you that if it's.

The dragon is out. I thought by now, what do they do all day in the Senate? Well, we don't have any time. Let's get the debate going. Let's have the key test vote. And then let's move on to the other votes here to get this going. 855-839-1210. Tom Chirado on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. It's the money melody. Where has all the money gone? Show me to my... Okay. A Sinatra cover is always tricky business with me. This is a secondary song, at least. Not my way. But here is the attempt. And, Henry, we're looking for what? We want this northern Irish cover artist. He's a knight. He's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Here we go. Son of a shipyard electrician, Dom. All right. Let's go to Matt in Valley Forage. All right, Matt, what's your answer today? My answer would be Van Morrison. All right. I will put you on hold. I mean, we like Van Morrison for several other things he's done recently, but... I'm kind of surprised he would take this on. I think this is territory that Henry, how would you grade this one? You're the cover artist of the day. He's definitely going for it. I've got to give him props for that. He's putting his spin on it. Right. He's doing it his way. Yes. So I actually don't think it's probably as bad as you think it is. I don't mind it. It is a bit much, a bit over the top. Well, I just think certain things to me are indelible that I respect from a particular artist. You know, it'd be a good. top 10 and somebody else doing it oh god you can put a little bit in your own style but you got to keep a flow i guess it's not as bad as somebody 35 sing in my way oh you just i feel like you just put a lot of soul into this one yeah is is it's it's to identify take something more minor although i did like um Taylor Swift doing M&M when she was very young. We used to play that one. Yeah, 16. Joe Pesci doing something we used to play too. It was like, oh, my God. Okay, a couple things. So President Trump's on Capitol Hill. They are starting the debate shortly. On the Save Act. Of course, Chuck Schumer telling us, you know, it's going to be harder to vote than it is to get a gun. How many times? It's one of them going to say, as Joe Biden used to say, you know, back in the day, it was like getting a cannon. Remember that whole stuff to shoot deer and all? Always shooting deer. But Mike Johnson is there with President Trump, of course, on Capitol Hill. And Trump said, whoa, wait a minute on St. Mike Johnson now started talking about his Sicilian roots. I find that to be incredibly suspicious. Are you seeing Mike Johnson, the speaker, with that background in any way, shape, or form? I'm not seeing that. Our fact checkers are working on this. Get CNN on it. All right. That's just way out there, to put it mildly.

All right, here is Emerito Cut 21. Zohran Mamdani today, I let off with this, but I think it's worthy to see where he goes with this, and we broke it down. Several people, Jim Kenny, remember that guy, La Miserables, the mayor of Philadelphia, Cardinal Dolan, and a whole host of others around St. Patrick's there, whenever they get the opportunity, they go after the Irish and they make the point. The Irish are either, A, just like people that came here illegally now, which is false, or the Irish, of all the ethnic groups, pretty much, they ought to understand this oppression of people coming in illegally. How can the Irish oppose this? And usually I have people calling in on St. Patrick's Day wound up, and I understand why. They're taking something legit of overcoming this. Irish need not apply, that kind of stuff, a matter of pride in doing it the right way and overcoming to levels that are unprecedented, other than the second Irish American president Joe Biden. The first took a lot to get there. But to link that to illegal behavior is ridiculous. Zohran Mamdani takes it to another step. He gets there. and links it to people in Gaza. People in Gaza that are suffering, they're just like the Irish experience. Now, think about that. The genocide in Gaza. He begins with that on a day with the former president of Ireland in New York, and we had on Kirsten Fleming, where St. Patrick's Day is this huge deal. I would argue it's bigger than Columbus Day. It's bigger than the annual. The only thing it seems to rival, and I'm only going by Seinfeld, appears to be the Puerto Rican Parade Day, you know, with the tie up, that whole thing they did. I'm not sure if that's factual or not. That seems to be huge in New York. They're big, they're the capital of this, although Philadelphia is a great Irish Day parade, too. Listen to Zohran Mamdani, though, the grievance. The Gaza people, they're just like the Irish. I say this as over the past few years, as we've witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there has been deafening silence from so many. For those who have long cared about universal human rights and the extension of them to Palestinians, silence, however, is nothing new. For Palestinians are so often left to weep alone. Yet former President Robinson has never been silent, not when she was president, not when she was High Commissioner for Human Rights, and not in the decade since. As she once said, commemoration is a moral act. Her solidarity is many things, unwavering, sincere, and chief among them, Irish. Irish solidarity is no coincidence. Who can better understand those who weep than those who have been made to weep for so long? The story of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City, is at one time a story of oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination. As we know, it was on Irish soil that the British Empire developed their colonial project. So much of the exploitation later imposed elsewhere across the world was first honed in the plantations of Ireland. And yet when I think of the Irish, I do not think first of oppression.

I think of resistance. I think of unity. I think of corned beef and 96-minute Troy Parrot goals and the Pogues fairy tale of New York. Above all, I think of that solidarity. When Irish immigrants arrived in New York City, they were so often barred from employment and from housing. Signs plastered across storefronts read help wanted. No Irish need apply. And yet while Irish New Yorkers were, in the poetry of Ivan Boland, long suffering in the bruised-colored dusk of the new world, they did not grow discouraged. They banded together. They organized. They formed labor movements that endure to this day. It was Irish hands that helped to build so much of the city that we recognize today. The skyscrapers that pierced clouds, the tunnels carved through bedrock. And we can see an example of that legacy in the incredible labor leaders that we have with us today, both in this room and beyond this room. And as we celebrate St. Patrick's Day together, and as I belatedly acknowledge, our state, Brian Brett Kavanaugh as well.

We celebrate not just a day of revelry, but a day of continued obligation to one another, to a better world, to all those who still weep. And I want to thank President Robinson again for joining us. I want to thank the people of Ireland who have taken a past of suffering and used it to fight for a future of justice. And I want to thank every Irish New Yorker for helping make this city into what it is today. Okay, so he does lionize a bit there, the Irish in New York, but the main thrust beginning and end is Gaza. And if you're Irish, you're called to understand that more to bond with it. It's the same kind of thing going on. Just think about that. Now, are there any glowing words about the people trying to resist in Iran from this guy or anything about Israel? No, and they never will be. His mind is fixated on things like Gaza. Even on St. Patrick's Day, robbing from that to start the narrative over here of the Irish what they did and how they should, and the person he has there should be in solidarity with people in Gaza. Not even the illegals. That's Dolan and Kenny. Now it's Gaza. Rather than giving the Irish their own day without attachment to all these left-wing fantasies and nonsense. I'm watching John Thune speak ahead of the key Save Act vote. My God. Well, Tom Cotton saw it, but the people around him. It's a Hall of Fame Rhino Day here watching this. What hope do we have at the end of this day that we move forward? Well, I think the vote is tomorrow, but they're having a test vote of sorts. Today, after debate, Scott will be with us. It's booked for Thursday. We may have to ring the bell for tomorrow. I don't know. I don't see him pacing the hall out in front of John Thune there, but I'm sure he's there on Capitol Hill. All right, I'm coming to more of your calls with Dom. Hit us with something associated with the Irish. It's not Gaza, Mayor. Try something different. Just for once. Try to get outside your grievance, your victimhood. and that kind of connection, and just celebrate that the Irish did it the way they fought tooth and nail in their own solidarity, and they achieved in America beyond belief. Yeah, I know it was one of the Kennedys, but okay, the Italians haven't gotten there yet. We'll see. 855-839. 12 tech. Tom Chirdano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. All right, it is Dom time. Coming to your calls here. A lot of folks want to get in, something associated with the Irish or Ireland. By the way, the other thing today that's being duped out, not just the Save Act, is what's happening at the airports. We'll talk tomorrow with Henry who's headed off on a trip. There were, on Sunday, there were more than 111 incidents where shortages threatened operational integrity situations at DHS described as hotspots. Travelers across the country reported lengthy TSA waiting times that snake through the airports. Some working three or four hours became the standard. And the callout.

number reached an astounding 55%. I believe that was in Atlanta, or it may have been Houston. Let's see. It's a little bit dark here. No, Houston's International Airport had a 55% callout rate of TSA on Saturday, which DHS described as the highest since the department's funding lapse. It's got to be one the highest of all time. 55% of their agents are out. So you can imagine what that does to what is a process that is necessary, but incredibly difficult to start with. Philadelphia had an incident once, I think it was an Eagles game or something, and Philadelphia's airport was renowned as bad. And it was some number like that that was ridiculous and poor people are straight. You know, that was it. Well, what are you going to do? They're calling out. 55% though, only 45% reporting. I'm sure they must have some emergency people or administrators, but maybe not. And there it was gargantuan. So if you've traveled recently, I're looking forward to that. I was talking to Henry about it. The planning of this gets to be dicey. And you have people facing real trauma. And it's not, here's the bottom line. And I made that point. And I think I was right. I really respect Senator McCormick, one of the times he was on. I saw it again today. ICE is covered. The big, beautiful bill covers the funding of ICE. So you're not going to stop the funding of ICE. This is a political stunt to say we're going to extract from Republicans. No masks, for example. If they do that, then I don't know what I would do going. They have to be able to wear a mask. We're not sending them out there without the mask, given what would happen to their wives and kids and families and the whole deal. So we'll see how this continues to develop. And there's also the issue, not just with that, but there's the issue of terrorist attack, worry him in about that, and just the whole infrastructure being ground to a halt. I have a cut. I'm not going to play it now, tomorrow maybe. I'm talking about, well, maybe we should just shut down airports. Now, it seems extreme. Can you imagine America is shutting down airports? That was somebody in the Trump administration. I wouldn't even be putting that out there publicly. But this is a major problem, and it's not going to impact ice from operation. Their base is telling them this is like us with Iran. Their base is telling them they have to extract from ice something unbelievable, like no mask. Otherwise, they're going to keep this shut down. And it's reaching a fever. 55%. Think about that. All right, Tom and Rosemott here on Talk Radio 1210. Hey, Tom. Hey, Dom. So I've tried to think, what is the most Irish thing of all, especially in America? Okay. It is the grudge, Dom. We can hold a grudge better than any culture on earth at any time in our history. My parents are both dead. I'm sure they're still mad about something. In terms of when we say we forgive and forget, no, we don't. We just file it away. You'll hear about 10, 20 years from now.

It is the grudge, Dom. That's why they say Irish Alzheimer's is where you forget everything but a grudge. He's not wrong. My mom does the exact. You know, I would just say the Italians chip in, you know, the vendettas and all. That's renowned. And you know how I am about the grudge. I'm a big supporter of the grudge. I know that goes against everything religiously, et cetera. And Philadelphia, not sure if it's the Irish alone. We are the capital of the grudge. Somebody does something second string quarterback from where. I mean, I still have a grudge. I used to like Tom Brady. He won't shake Nikki Foll's hand. That's it. I might have to take him out as the greatest player ever. Let me just say that. When we go to confession, we don't even confess the grudge because we have a dispensation because the Pope knows exactly who we are. Brilliant as usual. So what are you doing at St. Patrick's Day, Tom? I put on a green tie for one court hearing, and now I'm back to just billing and loving life. Does that help? You've got to wear the green tie as a judge Irish, things like that now? It was not an Irish judge, and I'm expecting the result that I deserve. Thank you, Tom. All-time great caller. He just must be on a little bit of a downtime on St. Patrick's Day. That's a good one, the grudge. And I think that's pretty much true. Italians have been data. I don't know about the polls and other groups. But, you know, the Vendetta, I mean, Godfather, too. It's all based on that when he goes back and he goes, oh, I don't hear so well. He leans into the year, bang, that's it. Yeah. You were right about the sports one where, like, I was watching the World Baseball Classic the other day, and Philippe Almont was started pitching for Canada. The Phillies, right. And he played for the Phillies, and the rage I used to get watching him pitch for the Phillies just, you know, flooded back in me. I was like, this guy. Was he in better shape? No. Okay. I think he was literally like just a guy, like, all right, we need another guy on the team. Hey, you played professional baseball. You know, I think you retired seven years ago. Like, you want to be on the team? Yeah, that's a strange guy to be on the team. So, yeah, Philadelphia sports grudges are legendary. Look, I know the grudge. We can bring on a psychiatrist to Tom and say, oh, it ruins your life. And I don't know. There's something about a. Let's call it a rivalry then, not just a grudge. Yes, I will forgive, but I will never forget. We all know that's true with a lot of people. I think Rose like that, without a doubt, oh, yes, I'll forgive this, but I'm not forgetting that. It will come up at the appropriate time. The Earl of Tacconi on Talk Radio 12, Tech. Hey, Earl. Hey, Dom. Can I mention something real quick about Iran? Yeah, sure. Yeah, you played a clip the other day that really irritated me. It was Karl Rove saying that Donald Trump doesn't have a plan. Karl Rove doesn't have the right to say that he doesn't have a plan. Exactly. Because.

We all know that 9-11 was perpetrated by Saudis who trained in Afghanistan, but they were primarily funded through Iran. So Karl Rove and the Bush administration, we sent troops into Iraq, and we sent troops into Afghanistan. Well, guess what country is right in the middle between Iraq and Afghanistan? Iran. Now, while we have troops in the Middle East, they're being maimed and they're being killed by IEDs. Guess what language is written on those bombs? Farsi. The Iranians are supplying weapons that are killing and maiming American soldiers. Coroner and the administration had the opportunity to eliminate Iran who've been killing Americans since the 80s through proxy wars and by supplying weapons to terrorists, and he didn't do it. So he doesn't have the right to say that someone didn't have a plan because it's the whole time during Operation Iraqi Freedom and during freedom. I'm saying, when are we coming into Iran? And he didn't do it. To your point. What they're saying is you can't do this to Iran. There's no plan that will work. That's what they're saying here. That's exactly what they're saying. And I'm saying, yes, it is difficult to get what you want in Iran, but it's necessary. So, Earl, what's the Irish Association today? I was planning on going with blazing saddles and the orange roof on Howard Johnson's outhouse, but there have been so many good answers today. I decided I'm going to be competitive today. So I'm going to go with the American Southern accent, which actually is based on the Scotch Irish immigrants who immigrated to the Appalachians and to the South. And there's something online that says that the Southern accent is actually closer to what colonial English was like. then let the English actually speak today. All right. Thanks, sir. Well, look, it's a very pleasing accent, the Irish accent. The Southern, yeah, takes a long time. That's the only problem. The Irish accent is pleasing? Oh, I think it is. Yeah. And you cut that thing today of the current woman who didn't call it St. Patrick, just Patrick, the current president. I still thought she had a pleasing accent, even though she was saying gibberish. It's not rough. It's lyrical kind of. I don't know. I don't know if it sounds. I think it does sound kind of rough to me. Well, I'm down on the British accent. Every time I hear it. It's due to the golf channel and all. And it's just overdone. Everything is enunciated fully. It's a golf match. You know, put a little dialogue in there, not so much the precision of the English language of the British accent. You might want to say, it gets to be annoying after a while. It's exhausting. I feel like Irish is just like a more like, I don't know, rigid British though. Ah, it seems more lyrical to me. Rougher. All right. Right to Henry McMaster here at the station, everybody that's Irish, which is half of the Philadelphia area at times. I'd still say it's probably towards the bottom. I mean, obviously like Scottish, Welsh, those are tough. All right, do we all agree. Mike Johnson is lying about a Sicilian background. That's just not possible with that guy. That guy says white bread from the south as you're going to find Sicilian and Mike Johnson and Trump's going to find. I'm not even close. I'm not buying it.

Yeah, something like that. Yeah. That would be a weird combination. How did the Sicilian end up in the mob there with them? Yeah, they kidnap him in Louisiana. All right, 855, 839, 12, 10. All right, we have the Big Save Act vote. By the time these guys get to their chairs, I don't know if they're debating or taking the test vote. We'll bring it to you, though, if there actually is a vote at this point. And we'll certainly talk about it tomorrow. Lightning round, though. Next, Talk Radio 1210. Tom Chiodano on Talk Radio 1210, WPHT. The time has come for the final test. We usually call us the lightning round. All right, that's it. Hit us with that all-time association. So here he is. Right on brand. Some of the Irish, Ireland figure, Joe of Exton. Hey, Joe, welcome in. Do you think of yourself? Yes, Tom. Hello, and top of the afternoon to you. Thank you, Joe, for the accident. Anyway, the author James Joyce left Ireland and took up residence. in the Italian city of Trieste, where he penned a novel, which he titled Dubliners. Joe, are you a fan of Joyce? He's a little bit morbid for me. I mean, he's a great writer. I can see that, but there's a bit of morbidity to be there with this guy. Well, I read some of him, not very much. So I... I don't have a definite opinion. All right, Joe. Thank you. Top of the evening to you, too, going forward. Jesse, Trexillill on Talk Radio 12th. Hey, Jesse, what are you after that? Hey, Dom, how you doing? Good. You know, my mother was brought over here in 1925 from Ireland by her uncle, who had to put his house up for collateral to bring her and her sister over. When they came over, he had three small children. He was two to five. and their aunt died in childbirth so there was four kids a newborn three kids two to five and my mother said to her i'll raise your children and told her ground here she was in a country she wasn't familiar with the city she wasn't familiar with she never lived in the city in her life She raised those children without welfare, without food stamps, without any help from anybody else, no free baby formula or anything. You know guys like Kenny and Dolan saying illegal immigrants today are just, they're just like the Irish back in the day. Are you kidding me? It is such an insult and this commie running New York, Jesse, to then jump to Gaza. with this. It's endless. I don't see this on Columbus Day. They don't seem to do that. They just attack Columbus. See, the Irish didn't make victims of themselves when they came here. They moved forward. They suffered, but they moved forward. Exactly right. Well, here's the answer to my question. The man who created one of the most iconic terror figures in literature and in film, Dracula,

was a man named Brom Stoker who grew up in a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Gotcha. Good one. I had the Irish submarine guy today, though. That might be the best. Joe in Columbus on Talk Radio 12. Hi, Joe. Hey, Dom, happy St. Patrick's Day. Thank you. And happy New Year. No, no, no, it's one of the other here. Two things could be true at the same time. That's exactly right. No way. We're not celebrating two holidays or once. Yes. Hey, I'd like to piggyback Jesse for one second. that, this, that by and Dami, you know, debacle, you know, he doesn't realize, or maybe he does realize that, you know, Dom, I think we've all, from our forefathers, have told us that they came here knowing they had to make a contribution. Now these people have been invited in this country convinced that they can come here with a promise of entitlement. And that's the big difference that I've noticed. I would agree. Or, Joe, the buy-in, the assimilation happens. People love the country. Too many people come here because it's just a job and they send the money back to the old country. They don't buy it. And one of the reasons is you couldn't be moving back and forth. You got here. You were here. That was it. You had to become Americanized, so to speak. Yeah, but there was a sense of... responsibility. Sure. Absolutely. Building better. You know, you have to prove yourself. You don't have to prove yourself anymore. All you do is backstroke across the river, I guess. My side answer is probably the greatest band in all the land, including McNamara's band. And if you ever saw their walkout and their... The school's footage on their pregame band, it's all inspiring. They keep going back to the intro of the fight song and play like a champion today. And that's the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Thank you, Joe. Joe's big, Notre Dame and the Dallas Cowboys. Oh, man. Yikes. All right. Yeah, that's tough. Let me go to Gary in Newtown. Gary, what's yours?

I'll be St. Patrick's. I'm still recovering from a weekend of illness, but as a fifth generation, Irish-American, happy St. Patty's Day. Thank you. It's a beautiful day, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for on the streets that have no name in the name of love. I can live or live without you. You, too. 22 Grammy Awards. That's the greatest Irish-American band ever. All right. Thank you very much. All right. I have somebody in my mind now. These were outstanding. But Kirk, what do you say? I'm going with time with Rosemont with a grudge. What do you say, Henry? I like the grudge answer. I also like Lance South Philly's with William Mulholland. I like Greg in the Northeast with the Irish priest. I also like the girl's answer with the southern accent, the originations. They were all brilliant. I got to go with the grudge, though. It was the call, too. Now, Lance in South Philly, we may have to have more tomorrow on this. I only have about 30 seconds. So, Lance, thank you. You went to the gas station on Rittenhouse. What did they tell you? Well, one sleutie black lady says she didn't care. An older black man said he's not joyriding. And when I went inside, the guy said it was Trump's fault. Oh, jeez. Oh, my God. And he says politicians don't pay for gas. But, Dom, a lot of high-end cars pulled up. And they got gas. I've seen two Mercedes. One escalate and infinity. Unbelievable. They don't care about the guys. They're paying it. We got to flesh this out tomorrow. Lance, thank you so much. That's what makes talk rate. He goes over there and he says they raise it 40 cents. I wasn't making up. I'm going on the way home. How much can it be by the time I get to Rittenhouse? We'll see tomorrow. Thanks to Henry and Kirk for producing afternoon show. Next, Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. Tom Goudano, Weekdays, noon till 3. From Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. How We Made Your Mother is the How I Met Your Mother rewatch podcast with me, Josh Radner, and Siri's co-creator Craig Thomas. Follow How We Made Your Mother wherever you get your podcasts.