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4.3 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis, reportedly has a 50/50 chance of avoiding legal trouble due to his job title. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has passed a three-year extension of the Obamacare subsidies. Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411. The film "Marty Supreme" has enjoyed an impressive run at the box office in 2025. Roger also shares his perspective as a close entertainment insider on the legal issues surrounding Rob Reiner's son, Nick Reiner, and his convictions and charges. Additionally, singer Bruno Mars has announced a major stadium tour across the USA. Julie Menin, a Jewish leader and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, has been elected as New York City Council Speaker and will be working alongside Mayor Mamdani. In other news, Luigi Mangione, accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, may avoid jail time depending on upcoming legal proceedings in New York City. Mark interviews Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. Bruce is running in this year's New York gubernatorial race. He shares updates on his campaign, discusses the state of upstate New York’s economy, and talks about how collaboration could help unite New York City's Republican Party to win more political seats.

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0:00.0	Now on the voice of New York.
0:04.0	It's the Mark Simone show on 710 WOR.
0:10.3	Hey, it's Friday.
0:11.6	That's good.
0:12.6	Got through the first week of 2006.
0:15.1	We'll get to Minneapolis.
0:16.6	We'll get to Portland.
0:17.5	We'll get to CBS.
0:18.9	We'll get to Iran.
0:20.3	The Ayatollah may be fleeing at any moment. We'll get to Portland. We'll get to CBS. We'll get to Iran. The Ayatollah may be fleeing at any moment. We'll get to Mom Donnie. We'll get to a whole lot more coming up this morning. It is the end of the first week of 2026. We made it through all of this. I see dead Christmas trees all over the sidewalks in New York. People just toss them out there in the garbage and they're lying around all over the place there.
0:42.5	So it's going to be warm today, but the rain starts later. It's going to be a very rainy weekend.
0:50.6	But whatever snow there's left out there somewhere is going to get washed away this weekend.
0:56.0	So President Trump, let's go over everything from this.
1:00.4	Minneapolis.
1:02.0	They've started to identify the ICE officer who fired the shots, his picture, his face,
1:08.3	his name all over the internet now. You know how the poor woman who got killed, his face, his name all over the internet now.
1:11.9	You know how the poor woman who got killed, they would say, well, she was a mother of a six-year-old.
1:18.1	She was a poet.
1:19.0	She was a wonderful woman.
1:21.8	She was also driving a car right into a bunch of law enforcement officers trying to terrorize them all day. It's not just
1:28.4	at that moment, but she'd been there apparently all day trying to block them, trying to interrupt
1:33.6	them, trying to troll them, going after them. I could see protesting if you're really upset about
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