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Boomer & Gio

LIRR Strike Discussed By Nordic Alien

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We talked about the LIRR workers being on strike and the impact that’s going to have on traffic. A caller wonders if Boomer is one of the Nordic aliens.

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0:00.0

I was thinking, thank God we're going south and not going east.

0:03.6

Yes, that is true because that would be a much tougher drive.

0:10.0

But yeah, hopefully it's not so bad when we leave there.

0:13.0

So for people who are watching us or maybe listening to us on the Odyssey app outside of New York that I'm not familiar with New York. The Long Island Railroad went on strike.

0:23.5

300,000 commuters daily on the Long Island Railroad. Now, imagine what that basically does to, no matter how many buses they have, no matter how many shuttles they have, how many people want to drive in now the traffic is just

0:39.2

going to be insane until this thing gets to an end yeah and people get back to work people start

0:45.9

getting their paychecks again and the railroads up and running but man it is the lifeblood of long

0:50.6

island for sure yeah and i saw the impact this morning in a huge way. I wasn't even

0:55.4

thinking about it, like an idiot. And I said, wow, there's a lot of people on the roads. Oh, that's right.

0:59.3

There's a transit strike. Got to leave early, pigs. Hey, Tommy in Amityville. Tommy, what's happening?

1:04.8

What's up, boys? Hey, Tommy. So, yesterday, I try and go to Fire Island via boat.

1:11.5

Yeah.

1:12.1

Tismet, full.

1:14.2

Ocean Bay, a mess.

1:15.8

Yeah.

1:16.2

I get the last flip at Ocean Beach, right?

1:19.0

Yep.

1:20.0

Go to the mermaid.

1:21.6

And there's this huge slip that could fit probably a 50, 60 foot boat.

1:26.9

Huge slip.

1:28.0

Yep.

1:28.7

And I'm sitting there looking out of the water, and I go, look at this boogie bastard.

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