FULL SHOW: Calm down Stephen Colbert; Mamdani may hurt NYC's financial state.
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's speech about balancing NYC's budget raised a lot of eyebrows when Zohran Mamdani mentioned a default plan that would include raising property taxes for middle-class New Yorkers if his original plan to tax the wealthy doesn't go through. Late-night host Stephen Colbert went on a rant at CBS for canning an interview with Trump critic James Talarico. Mark interviews Boston radio host Howie Carr. Howie begins by arguing that the Obama Administration was a massive failure. Mark and Howie analyze how the Clintons are reacting to the files and also how the testimony could go. Our Charity Auction winner for hunger, Irving Goldfarb from NJ, joined Mark in the studio to discuss his business and the aspirations of Mark's show. Rosie O'Donnell has come back to the USA after she said she wasn't, due to President Trump, and came to visit her family. The John F. Kennedy Jr. miniseries is performing well with viewers. Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. Ann explains the reason she said a few years ago that former Senator Joseph McCarthy gets a bad rap. Former President Bill Clinton has historically invoked it as a negative benchmark for political attacks, labeling aggressive, partisan, or smear-based tactics as "McCarthyism." He notably used this comparison to criticize Republicans in 1992, 2012, and 2026 and make them look bad. Ann wrote about all this and explained in detail what she saw and meant about how Bill Clinton navigated his political career to bash McCarthy's actions and put him as the reason Republicans are the way they are today.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, 710 WOR presents the Mark Simone show. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, so a lot going on today. |
| 0:18.9 | We'll get to Crazy Stephen Colbert. |
| 0:20.4 | He's all upset. We'll get to the Epstein Files. We'll get to Crazy Stephen Colbert. He's all upset. |
| 0:22.2 | We'll get to the Epstein Files. |
| 0:24.3 | We'll get to the kidnapping. |
| 0:26.3 | We'll get to President Trump. |
| 0:27.6 | We'll get to JFK Jr. |
| 0:31.2 | Hey, it's four weeks until spring. |
| 0:33.2 | Four weeks until spring. |
| 0:34.9 | And only two weeks until daylight saving time two weeks and then it'll be |
| 0:41.1 | light out till 6.30, 6.15, 6.30. So we'll get to, well, let's get to it right now. Mayor, Mom, |
| 0:48.2 | Donnie, you Democrats, you voted for this guy, you Democrats, you stuck us with this mom, Donnie. |
| 0:56.3 | I guess he's a nice guy, but he looks like a total in over his head, incompetent, bungling |
| 1:02.8 | cuck who has no idea what to do. |
| 1:05.7 | He is suddenly confronted with a $12 billion budget gap, and he said he can't believe it that he finds out there's a $12 billion budget gap. |
| 1:17.3 | He can't believe that this is all of a sudden been discovered this $12 billion budget gap. |
| 1:23.7 | What is he talking about? |
| 1:24.8 | Everybody knew about this a year ago, two years. |
| 1:27.1 | Listen to Eric Adams a year and a half ago. Now we're getting |
| 1:29.4 | people from all over the globe have made |
| 1:31.5 | their minds up that they're going to come through |
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