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Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Comedy, Sports, News

4.2 • 828 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

On this Thursday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid speaks on Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosting an Iftar service at City Hall to break the fast for Ramadan, followed by a report on NYC Comptroller Mark Levine testifying at the first City Council budget hearing that the city lost 38,000 private-sector jobs and faces a projected $7.3 billion two-year budget gap; he opposes raising property taxes, supports changing the state local-aid formula, and is cautious about taxing millionaires and corporations, while City Hall says the budget director will testify later because he is fasting for Ramadan. Sid then criticizes CNN’s framing and on-air wording about the ISIS-inspired terrorist attack outside Gracie Mansion last weekend, before he mocks the women of The View for claiming that the Iran war was launched by President Trump to distract from other stories such as “Savannah Guthrie” and the Epstein files. Andrew Giuliani, Arthur Aidala, Bill O'Reilly, Caroline Glick, Darrin Porcher & Joe Benigno join Sid on this Friday-eve installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got into a Genesis.
0:02.3	This is luxury.
0:03.5	Whether it's a sleek G70 or the GV80 with that third row,
0:07.7	these are high-end vehicles with payments that actually make sense.
0:12.3	Go see Michael.
0:13.5	Tell them Sid sent you.
0:14.9	Genesis of Brooklyn.
0:16.1	Find them at Genesis of Brooklyn.com.
0:19.5	Just Sid and Friends in the morning.
0:22.4	Entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
0:28.1	The future of New York, the future of the country, the future of the world is me.
0:33.3	The reason that I love Ramadan so much is for everything else that it means, for the time of reflection, the time of focus, and really a time where you understand yourself as part of something larger than just as an individual.
0:45.9	And even just having you all here today, even just sitting on the floor, the transformation of a space that I've only ever known in one way, frankly, it is a gift.
0:55.9	And it's a real joy to have you all here.
0:58.5	City Comptroller Mark Levine painting a grim picture of the city's economic future,
1:03.2	reporting that the city lost 38,000 private sector jobs over the last year.
1:08.2	Today, the city council kicked off their first budget hearing, and already there are mixed numbers.
1:13.4	Levine testifying today that the city's budget gap will now likely be $7.3 billion over two years,
1:20.5	almost $2 billion more than what the mayor's office has been projecting.
1:25.6	Levine says he is strongly against the mayor's proposal to raise property
1:29.1	taxes, pointing to how it will make the city's fiscal future even more uncertain, but he does
1:34.3	think the state should give the city more money each year by changing the local aid formula. When asked
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