Todd Shapiro | CEO of Manhattan and Long Island based Public Relations Firm | 03-23-26
Sid & Friends In The Morning
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to sit and friends in the morning. I'm Jake Novak filling in. We have a packed house here, including owner-operator John Katzmatidis, Judge Richard Weinberg, George Venezuelas, former FBI chief here in New York, and also Ed Cox, Chairman of the Republican Party. If you're just joining us, major, major breaking story here in New York, and it's really a national story as well. A crash at LaGuardia Airport, a regional jet crashing into a Port Authority fire truck at 1130 |
| 0:23.4 | around that time last night. |
| 0:25.6 | LaGuardia completely shut down. |
| 0:27.0 | Two people dead in this accident, the pilot and the co-pilot. |
| 0:30.4 | John, we're about to talk to someone who's got a lot to say about this kind of stuff. |
| 0:33.7 | Well, I mean, Todd Shapiro, PR man, extraordinaire. |
| 0:40.2 | I mean, New York, Florida, I mean, |
| 0:48.3 | everywhere, and it represents a lot of unions, represents a lot of people in Albany. And he's on an airplane three times a week. Well, Todd Shapiro, what do you have to say this morning? Well, I got to tell you |
| 0:53.6 | something. Last night, exactly at 1130, I was in West Palm Beach last night. |
| 1:01.0 | I was taking the airplane. |
| 1:03.6 | I was taking Delta at 845, sorry, the 830 flight yesterday. I was supposed to go into, I was supposed to go into LaGuardia and I switched the last minute to Kennedy. |
| 1:18.8 | And I got to tell you something, even so, you know, before the accident happened, the TSA lines are so bad, so terrible today. |
| 1:27.1 | I mean, even, you know, West Palm Beach, which is. The TSA lines are so bad, so terrible today. |
| 1:36.5 | I mean, even, you know, West Palm Beach, which is like probably the best airport in the world, it's, you know, it's the size of a phone booth. |
| 1:42.3 | But it's the most easiest, and as you use the word civilized, to get through an airport. |
| 1:44.7 | But, you know, try other airports. Try Newark. But, you know, try other airports. |
| 1:45.6 | Try Newark. |
| 1:47.3 | Try, you know, try Kennedy. |
| 1:49.0 | Try Atlanta. |
| 1:53.1 | These airports, you know, are horrible today, especially what's going on today. |
| 1:54.7 | I mean, hours and hours and hours. We're going to talk about that because I understand what President Trump is doing. |
| 1:58.9 | He's taking some of the ICE agents and lending them to |
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