FULL SHOW: The blockade is working; Why does the fake news lie so much?
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You just heard the news. |
| 0:02.0 | Now you'll find out what it all means. |
| 0:05.0 | It's Mark Simone on 710 W.O.R. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, well, we got a lot to get to today. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll get to that. We'll give you all the latest in Iran. |
| 0:17.0 | It's not bad. It's not bad. It looks pretty good. |
| 0:20.0 | We'll get to Crazy Mom |
| 0:21.5 | Donnie and the curse that he started now on two different teams. We'll get to a lot of |
| 0:28.1 | democratic world corruption being uncovered right now and a lot of legal action about to be taken. |
| 0:36.1 | So let's start with Iran. Anytime you have negotiations, there are bumps in the road. It's up and down. And anytime you're negotiating with terrorists, lunatics, that's sort of a country. Going to be a lot of bumps in the road. So that's what it is now. Nothing bad. In fact, look at this. Stock market's about to hit 50,000, an all-time high. So people have |
| 0:55.9 | confidence. Oil's down about $10 since the beginning of the week. Strait of Hormuz are closed. |
| 1:03.6 | Iran is claiming there are some confirmations that they fired on some boats, not our boats, |
| 1:09.0 | but some little vessels in the Straits of Hormuz. |
| 1:11.6 | This is actually good. You want that Straits of Hormuz closed as long as possible. |
| 1:16.6 | As long as it's shut, we're fine. It doesn't affect us in any way. We get no oil from the Straits of Hormuz. |
| 1:23.6 | As long as it shut, Iran has no income of any kind. Its entire economy is brought to a standstill |
| 1:31.5 | with the straight closed. They get about $500 million a day in revenue, straight to Hormuz, |
| 1:38.8 | $500 million a day. That's like $15 billion a month, and that's what they live on. |
| 1:45.2 | And they've got a huge payroll. |
| 1:46.7 | I mean, besides the country and keeping the economy going, they got a big payroll. |
| 1:52.0 | Even at IRGC, that Republican Guard, that's almost 200,000 people that have to be paid every week. |
| 1:59.4 | Now, they got a little cash on hand. That's what they're using. |
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