Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Mazi Pilip | Nassau County Legislator Joins Sid Live In-Studio to Commemorate Three Years Since Oct. 7th Attack on Israel
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Tomorrow is October 7th, and this is a brave, beautiful
- 0:03Speaker 1: lady who fought for Israel in the IDF, and she's
- 0:07Speaker 1: actually wearing her pin. She wears it everywhere. It's the
- 0:10Speaker 1: American flag and the Israeli flag. And you, what was
- 0:15Speaker 1: your exact job with the IDF again, Mazi?
- 0:19Speaker 2: I was part of the paratrooper brigade.
- 0:21Speaker 1: Paratrooper, is that right?
- 0:22Speaker 2: Brigade. I was in charge of the guns, basically.
- 0:25Speaker 1: In charge of the guns.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Wow, you are one tough lady, huh? So guns don't
- 0:30Speaker 1: scare you. Guns don't scare you. No. No. Have you
- 0:33Speaker 1: fired every type of gun, a handgun, a rifle, an
- 0:37Speaker 1: assault weapon, every type of gun you've fired, right?
- 0:40Speaker 2: Definitely. You have to be expert in every type of guns.
- 0:44Speaker 1: You know what? It's funny you say that, Marzi, because
- 0:47Speaker 1: when people talk about this airplane, for example, that the
- 0:50Speaker 1: Israeli passengers literally commandeered, they landed the plane, they took
- 0:55Speaker 1: out the bad guy. I say, wait a second. Now, look,
- 0:58Speaker 1: Americans are brave, too. United Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 9-11.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Those were very brave souls. I don't want to discount Americans.
- 1:06Speaker 1: I am America first, but I am Israel second. And
- 1:09Speaker 1: all you kids at seven years old, men and women
- 1:12Speaker 1: like you, you're trained to do things like the passengers
- 1:17Speaker 1: did on that Dubai flight. Isn't that correct?
- 1:20Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. The entire nation, the nation of Israel, is
- 1:23Speaker 2: really we trained to survive, basically. And what we saw
- 1:27Speaker 2: a week ago, those brave guys and women who realized
- 1:31Speaker 2: they are in danger. And instead of freaking out, basically,
- 1:35Speaker 2: they took an action to control the entire situation. And
- 1:38Speaker 2: they were able to save their lives and the people's lives,
- 1:40Speaker 2: over 174 passengers. This is incredible. And this is really
- 1:45Speaker 2: living history. In Israel, you know, you're ready all the time.
- 1:48Speaker 1: You're ready.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Your mind is ready. And it's sad. But at the
- 1:52Speaker 2: same time, that's a reality.
- 1:53Speaker 1: Yeah. 174 in the air. If, God forbid, this guy
- 1:56Speaker 1: crashed into the airport like he wanted to do, they
- 1:58Speaker 1: could have killed who knows how many people. So if
- 2:00Speaker 1: you were on that plane, I know it's hard to
- 2:02Speaker 1: say because you weren't, but my guess is because you're
- 2:05Speaker 1: so courageous and tough, if you were on that plane,
- 2:08Speaker 1: you would have been in the cockpit, yes? You would
- 2:10Speaker 1: have physically beaten the crap out of that co-pilot.
- 2:13Speaker 2: At that point, you don't have nothing to lose. You
- 2:16Speaker 2: just have to fight for your lives. And that's all.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Yes.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Especially when you're facing a terrorist. I mean, there is
- 2:22Speaker 2: not time to play around.
- 2:23Speaker 1: You got to do what you got to do.
- 2:24Speaker 2: You have to take them down.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you quickly before we get to
- 2:27Speaker 1: the local politics, because you're a big star out on
- 2:29Speaker 1: Long Island. Big star. Tomorrow is October the 7th. And
- 2:32Speaker 1: you and I have gotten very close the last couple
- 2:35Speaker 1: of years. I always say I have very few regrets
- 2:37Speaker 1: on this radio show because I'm great at it.
- 2:40Speaker 3: But.
- 2:40Speaker 1: You're one of mine, because the first time you ran
- 2:42Speaker 1: against Swazi, I should have been more enthusiastic for you.
- 2:45Speaker 1: And I've gotten to know you better since then, and
- 2:47Speaker 1: I think you're an amazing lady. And you should have
- 2:49Speaker 1: won that, to be honest. But October 7th is coming
- 2:53Speaker 1: up tomorrow. What are your thoughts?
- 2:56Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just, for me, it's like it just happened yesterday, basically.
- 3:01Speaker 2: October 7th is full of pain for so many of us.
- 3:04Speaker 2: A lot of bad memories. Um, we trying, I am
- 3:09Speaker 2: personally trying to recover from it. Um, I remember the
- 3:13Speaker 2: day that my friend just walked in and telling me
- 3:15Speaker 2: like on Shabbat, you know, Israel is under attack and
- 3:17Speaker 2: I thought he's joking. And then the next things you know, is, um,
- 3:21Speaker 2: it's real. And so many lives got lost that day.
- 3:25Speaker 2: So it was a very painful, painful, um, moment. And
- 3:30Speaker 2: for three years, you know, you, you living this, you
- 3:32Speaker 2: meeting the hostages, you meeting soldiers. or parents who lost
- 3:36Speaker 2: their loved one. And then I even last visit in
- 3:41Speaker 2: Israel this summer, I met a couple of my cousins
- 3:46Speaker 2: who fought during the last three years. So when you
- 3:49Speaker 2: see it all, it's just hard to believe. It's like
- 3:52Speaker 2: it doesn't go away from you. But at the same time,
- 3:55Speaker 2: you see a nation, a strong nation, a nation who
- 4:00Speaker 2: realized more than ever, listen, you don't trust nobody anymore.
- 4:04Speaker 2: You know, if you know that area where the terrorists attack,
- 4:07Speaker 2: you know, next to Gaza, the most peaceful people you
- 4:10Speaker 2: can imagine, the people who was helping the Gazan people. Yeah.
- 4:14Speaker 1: They gave them jobs.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Exactly. So how you can even trust going forward?
- 4:19Speaker 1: You can't.
- 4:19Speaker 2: You cannot.
- 4:20Speaker 1: No. And it's not really a one day event. It's
- 4:22Speaker 1: kind of like 9-11 in that respect. We still have
- 4:24Speaker 1: people getting sick and dying today, which is really horrible.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Same thing. You know, they talk about the 1300 that
- 4:29Speaker 1: died that day. I got news for you. A lot
- 4:32Speaker 1: of hostages were murdered after that day. Look at Hersh Goldberg,
- 4:35Speaker 1: for example. He was one of six that were executed.
- 4:38Speaker 1: That was after October the 7th. And how many terrorist
- 4:41Speaker 1: attacks do we see in Judea and Samaria specifically, which
- 4:45Speaker 1: people call the West Bank? Just last week, somebody was murdered.
- 4:48Speaker 1: So that was not a one-day attack either, kind of
- 4:52Speaker 1: like 9-11. Three years later, people are still getting killed
- 4:54Speaker 1: in Israel. 100%.
- 4:55Speaker 2: It's a scary situation. It's really, they're living this tough
- 4:59Speaker 2: life of like everywhere you go, you are in danger.
- 5:03Speaker 2: And then sometimes, you know, I wonder those losers, Mamdani,
- 5:07Speaker 2: you know, blaming Israel left and right and blaming us
- 5:10Speaker 2: for everything. And that's not right because when you have
- 5:14Speaker 2: a terrorist want to take you down, okay, you have
- 5:18Speaker 2: to protect yourself.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Of course.
- 5:20Speaker 2: And then if they start the job, one thing I
- 5:22Speaker 2: promise you, the Israelis knows how to finish the job.
- 5:24Speaker 1: That's right. Mamdani really is a piece of garbage.
- 5:27Speaker 2: He is a garbage.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Garbage, right?
- 5:29Speaker 2: I agree 100%.
- 5:29Speaker 1: One big garbage pail that Mamdani and he You know,
- 5:33Speaker 1: he's got people walking around in the streets that come
- 5:35Speaker 1: up to me at the ferry, on the subway. They
- 5:37Speaker 1: recognize me. They go, what is your issue? What is
- 5:40Speaker 1: your problem? You're making it worse, Sid. You're making it worse.
- 5:43Speaker 1: The mayor doesn't hate Jewish people. Look at the video
- 5:46Speaker 1: he put out. I mean, are you being serious?
- 5:48Speaker 2: He is a total liar. The entire campaign he ran
- 5:53Speaker 2: was all lies. He lies to the New Yorkers. And
- 5:56Speaker 2: he keeps lying. He thinks we're going to believe him.
- 6:00Speaker 1: People do, though.
- 6:01Speaker 2: It's sad. It's really sad. And I am really asking
- 6:04Speaker 2: and I'm expecting from New Yorkers to open your eyes.
- 6:08Speaker 2: I believe in American people. You are smart. Open your eyes.
- 6:12Speaker 2: You have a liar, a liar who lied to you
- 6:15Speaker 2: and he continues to lie to you. Time really to
- 6:18Speaker 2: get ready for this coming election November. We have opportunity
- 6:22Speaker 2: with Bruce Blakeman to kick Governor Hochul because Governor Hochul
- 6:26Speaker 2: serving just one person who is Mamdani. And time for
- 6:31Speaker 2: us to wake up, to realize what's going on, and
- 6:33Speaker 2: stop buying these lies and do something about our lives.
- 6:37Speaker 1: Right. And I know you campaigned with Bruce a couple
- 6:39Speaker 1: of days ago. Today he'll be campaigning with Mr. Salt
- 6:42Speaker 1: out of Rockland County, Mike Lawler, and our friend Lou
- 6:45Speaker 1: Bernadette Castro. We'll be with Blakeman and Mike Lawler today.
- 6:48Speaker 1: And Bruce is doing a terrific job, you know. I
- 6:51Speaker 1: know there was one poll that said he was down 19%.
- 6:54Speaker 1: That's going to be up. You can't trust those people, okay? No.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Even the other lefty-leaning poll, Sienna, was down to single digits. McLaughlin,
- 7:02Speaker 1: you trust him the most. His poll was 4%. And people, Democrats,
- 7:07Speaker 1: we've seen three now in the last couple of weeks.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Bonnie Lautenberg, Frank Lautenberg, great man. He died. She's with Bruce.
- 7:15Speaker 1: Then he got Bob Holden, maybe the best city council
- 7:18Speaker 1: member ever. Now he's got Deborah Messing, who hates Trump,
- 7:22Speaker 1: hates him. Will and Grace actress. She's with Bruce Blakeman.
- 7:25Speaker 1: So you show me a Republican who Democrats like, and
- 7:29Speaker 1: I'll show you a guy that can win.
- 7:30Speaker 2: 100%. You know, this election is not about Democrats or Republicans.
- 7:34Speaker 2: It's really not. It's about what's good for the New Yorkers.
- 7:38Speaker 2: And if you see You know, there is a momentum.
- 7:41Speaker 2: People really want a change. And Bruce Blackmun has been
- 7:44Speaker 2: a great leader in Nassau County. He got taxes. He
- 7:48Speaker 2: supports our law enforcement. He turned Nassau County the safest
- 7:50Speaker 2: county in the country. There is a proven record of
- 7:54Speaker 2: a leader who doesn't just talk the way Mamdani and
- 7:58Speaker 2: the hawk was talking. He's a man of action. Now
- 8:01Speaker 2: New Yorkers have the chance to elect Bruce Blackmun to
- 8:05Speaker 2: be our next governor-elect. And somebody who cares about us
- 8:09Speaker 2: is not about just cheap politics, about taking an action.
- 8:12Speaker 2: This is the man with the proven record. And I
- 8:14Speaker 2: do believe New Yorkers will wake up this November and
- 8:17Speaker 2: we can elect together Bruce Blakeman to be our next governor.
- 8:21Speaker 1: I agree with you. This is the amazing Mozzie Pillop,
- 8:23Speaker 1: who's what a beautiful. Morgan David, that is. Now, what
- 8:27Speaker 1: is that? Is that diamonds? And what else?
- 8:29Speaker 2: It's a diamond. And this is from, I mean, it's
- 8:32Speaker 2: not expensive diamond.
- 8:33Speaker 1: It looks very expensive. Don't wear that on the train.
- 8:36Speaker 1: Give me a favor.
- 8:37Speaker 2: I don't go with expensive things at all. But this
- 8:39Speaker 2: is for my birthday. My birthday is coming soon. When
- 8:41Speaker 2: is your birthday? From my husband.
- 8:42Speaker 1: When is your birthday?
- 8:43Speaker 2: October 14th.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Next week. Yes. Well, happy birthday.
- 8:47Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
- 8:47Speaker 1: Your husband's a lovely guy. I've met your husband at
- 8:49Speaker 1: the National Coliseum. Did you buy that? Did he buy that?
- 8:52Speaker 1: Here or in Israel, that piece?
- 8:53Speaker 2: This is from here. Yeah, okay.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Because I buy a lot of my stuff in Israel.
- 8:56Speaker 1: There's one store. It's hilarious. I stayed the first time
- 8:59Speaker 1: I went. I've been back five times since the war started.
- 9:02Speaker 1: But I stayed at this hotel. It's called the Herbert Samuel.
- 9:05Speaker 1: You know it? In Jerusalem, you know it. Trust me. Yes, yes.
- 9:07Speaker 1: And there's a store right across the street. I call
- 9:10Speaker 1: it the Herbie Sammy. Right across the street from the
- 9:11Speaker 1: Herbie Sammy. And it's one of those Israeli merchandise stores.
- 9:16Speaker 1: And I met this young girl there. She's a Colombian Jew.
- 9:20Speaker 1: My wife and I met her. Danielle loves her, too.
- 9:22Speaker 1: And we bought a couple of items our first trip.
- 9:24Speaker 1: So every time I go back to Israel, and I
- 9:26Speaker 1: was back in June this year to speak at JNS.org
- 9:29Speaker 1: with Bibi and Mark Levin, I buy something from her
- 9:32Speaker 1: every time. So I have a lot of stuff like that. Yeah.
- 9:34Speaker 1: That Danielle wears and Ava wears and Gabe wears and
- 9:38Speaker 1: I wear. Yes. That I get at that store.
- 9:40Speaker 2: You definitely can find unique stuff in Israel.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Gorgeous stuff. Tell me about this Senate race too. Scott's
- 9:46Speaker 1: high on this guy running. Is that District 7?
- 9:49Speaker 2: Yes, this is Savannah. We have Jake running to be
- 9:53Speaker 2: our next state senator. He's an incredible leader. He has
- 9:57Speaker 2: been in the state assembly in the last four years.
- 10:01Speaker 2: He's fighting anti-Semitism. He's there to cut taxes and to
- 10:05Speaker 2: serve New Yorkers, to serve Long Islanders. So he's running
- 10:08Speaker 2: with me, having Bruce Blakeman on top of the tickets
- 10:11Speaker 2: and the entire Republican team. We're going to have a
- 10:13Speaker 2: great victory.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Great day. What is his last name again, Scotty?
- 10:16Speaker 2: Blumenkrantz, there you go.
- 10:18Speaker 1: He's so Jewish, Jake Blumenkrantz.
- 10:20Speaker 2: Great leader.
- 10:21Speaker 1: I love him.
- 10:21Speaker 2: Young and smart.
- 10:22Speaker 1: There you go. Tell me about these other two congressional races.
- 10:26Speaker 1: These are important, Marzi, very important. We'll start with Janine Driscoll.
- 10:30Speaker 1: I like her a lot. She's running against Gillum. Gillum
- 10:32Speaker 1: beat my dear friend Anthony D'Esposito. I'm still mad about that.
- 10:35Speaker 1: But I'm happy Anthony stuck with the Labor Department, even
- 10:38Speaker 1: though I think he was a great congressman. And Peter
- 10:40Speaker 1: King always tells me that Janine's going to win. What
- 10:43Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that race?
- 10:44Speaker 2: Janine is incredible. She's really a powerhouse, a strong woman.
- 10:48Speaker 2: And again, it's not politics. With her, it's really how
- 10:52Speaker 2: to serve better the residents of Long Island. And she's
- 10:56Speaker 2: going to win.
- 10:57Speaker 1: She's very common sense, right, Margie?
- 10:59Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. It's all about common sense.
- 11:01Speaker 1: She's like a mom. She's like a nice mom. You know,
- 11:03Speaker 1: her kid's a nice kid. He's friends with my daughter
- 11:05Speaker 1: and my son. And he worked, I know, for Bruce
- 11:07Speaker 1: over the summer as well. And I like her. I
- 11:09Speaker 1: like her personality.
- 11:10Speaker 2: She is smart. She's courageous, and she's going to do
- 11:13Speaker 2: a great job. She's going to win big time.
- 11:15Speaker 1: She's going to win?
- 11:15Speaker 2: Big time.
- 11:16Speaker 1: The other kid running, who I like a lot, because
- 11:18Speaker 1: every time he speaks at a rally, he calls me out.
- 11:20Speaker 1: I love that. Bruce always does that. Did it twice
- 11:22Speaker 1: with Trump. So does Michael Petri. That's why I like him.
- 11:26Speaker 1: But I like him anyway. He's a very, very smart guy,
- 11:28Speaker 1: and he's got an opportunity, like you did, for the
- 11:30Speaker 1: second straight time to beat Tom Suozzi. He's got good momentum, too.
- 11:34Speaker 1: And the president really likes him. What are your thoughts
- 11:36Speaker 1: on Mike Lepetri?
- 11:37Speaker 2: Mike Lepetri is great, and he was very close last time.
- 11:41Speaker 2: And again, time to say goodbye to Swazi.
- 11:44Speaker 1: That's it?
- 11:45Speaker 2: Enough. Enough is enough. We need fresh mind. People really
- 11:49Speaker 2: care for Long Islanders.
- 11:52Speaker 1: He's got a lot of money and a lot of friends.
- 11:54Speaker 1: I know that. And when you meet Tom, I've seen
- 11:56Speaker 1: him a couple of times. He's very nice to me.
- 11:59Speaker 1: He actually texted me sometime over the summer. He goes,
- 12:03Speaker 1: and I never talk to this guy, never. I get
- 12:05Speaker 1: a text, Swazi. I go, what is this about? He goes,
- 12:08Speaker 1: I'm at the barber. I'm getting my hair done on
- 12:10Speaker 1: Long Island, and the barber loves you. I want you
- 12:12Speaker 1: to know that. I said, okay, great, Tom. Thank you
- 12:14Speaker 1: very much. So my point is, he's kind of a,
- 12:17Speaker 1: when you meet him, he's a nice guy. But what
- 12:19Speaker 1: has he really done for Long Islanders? What has he done? Nothing.
- 12:22Speaker 2: Nothing.
- 12:22Speaker 1: He's made a lot of money. Oh, wow.
- 12:24Speaker 2: That's for sure, 100%. You know, it's again, the same talk,
- 12:28Speaker 2: cheap politics, empty promises. We don't want empty promises. We
- 12:33Speaker 2: want an action. And we have great leaders right now
- 12:36Speaker 2: running on Long Island. This is, again, the opportunity for
- 12:39Speaker 2: New Yorkers in general, from Bruce Blakeman all the way down, Republicans,
- 12:43Speaker 2: and really to have a better chance here.
- 12:45Speaker 1: I want my friend talking about Long Island. He lives
- 12:48Speaker 1: in Great Neck. You're the queen of Great Neck. You're
- 12:50Speaker 1: the biggest star in Great Neck. That's it. Great Neck
- 12:52Speaker 1: begins and ends with Marzipan. That's it. But my dear
- 12:56Speaker 1: friend Abraham Harmer lives there. I told him, go work
- 13:00Speaker 1: for Bruce, and I called Bruce, and he's working for Bruce.
- 13:02Speaker 1: But I think he should run one day for office.
- 13:04Speaker 1: What do you think?
- 13:05Speaker 2: Oh, definitely.
- 13:05Speaker 1: He's a loudmouth Syrian Jew. That mother effer, he doesn't
- 13:08Speaker 1: take crap from anybody. I love him.
- 13:10Speaker 2: He's energetic. He's smart. He's a leader.
- 13:13Speaker 1: He should do it, right?
- 13:15Speaker 2: We're going to convince him.
- 13:15Speaker 1: We're going to push him. He's a lawyer. He makes
- 13:18Speaker 1: a lot of money. He's worried about that. I go,
- 13:19Speaker 1: don't worry about it, okay? What about you? What is
- 13:21Speaker 1: your future? What are you looking at? What do you think?
- 13:23Speaker 2: So, as you know, I'm running for re-election in November
- 13:26Speaker 2: again with Bruce. The same seats. The legislating seats. Yes, exactly.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Right.
- 13:30Speaker 2: For now, you know, I love what I'm doing. And
- 13:33Speaker 2: the future, God knows.
- 13:34Speaker 1: You're going to win that. But do you have any
- 13:36Speaker 1: intention maybe running for Congress again, something like that?
- 13:38Speaker 2: Let's see. The future will show. At this point, as
- 13:41Speaker 2: I said, I love what I'm doing, but thank you
- 13:43Speaker 2: for being always there for me.
- 13:45Speaker 1: I love you. Come on, come on. Everybody, I mean,
- 13:46Speaker 1: I'm telling you, folks, I go to Long Island, she's
- 13:48Speaker 1: a big star. No disrespect to Bruce Blakeman or LaPetrie
- 13:51Speaker 1: or Driscoll or Joe Cairo or Peter King. Marzi Pillop
- 13:55Speaker 1: is the star of Long Island and deservedly so. You're terrific.
- 13:58Speaker 1: It's great to see you.
- 13:59Speaker 2: The same. Thank you so much.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Thank you. And Scott, you look great too. Mr. Aventura.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Now look at this guy. He's friends with the mayor
- 14:04Speaker 1: of Howie. He loves everybody.
- 14:06Speaker 3: All right.
- 14:08Speaker 1: Come meet me at Moe's. No, Howie. I'm here for
- 14:10Speaker 1: two days. I'm not going to Moe's. Margie Pearl, great
- 14:13Speaker 1: to see you.
- 14:14Speaker 2: I love you.
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