Hour 1: Change for MSNBC.

The Mark Simone Show

Mark Simone

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4.4 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC is changing its name to "MS NOW" due to NBCUniversal's spinoff. Today is the big day at the White House for President Trump as he meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a potential deal. Zelensky was told to wear a suit or not have a meeting. Mark Takes Your Calls. Mark interviews New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin. Michael isn't too confident about what could happen over the war with Russia and Ukraine. Democrats may be scared if Mamdani wins in the NYC mayoral race; he could be the face of the party.

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0:00.0	You just heard the news.
0:02.5	Now you'll find out what it all means.
0:05.6	It's Mark Simone on 710 W-O-R.
0:10.9	What it means?
0:12.0	I don't know what it means.
0:13.5	We got a lot to get to today.
0:15.3	It's the final two weeks of summer.
0:18.3	Yeah, I hate to say that.
0:19.7	Summer actually goes until September 22nd, but it's really till
0:22.5	Labor Day, and then it's not the same anymore. So we'll get to the summit. We'll get to the fake
0:27.1	news coverage. We'll get to Mom Donnie. We'll get to Adam Schiff and Letitia James. Looks
0:32.7	like they are going to get indicted. We'll get to, well, we've got all kinds of things to get
0:36.2	to today. We'll get to D.C. And news just announced this morning, MSNBC, that fake news network,
0:45.2	was tossed out by NBC. NBC wants nothing to do with MSNBC anymore. It's an embarrassment.
0:53.8	It's a problem. It's a crazy lunatic network. So they have thrown MSNBC anymore. It's an embarrassment. It's a problem.
0:54.7	It's a crazy lunatic network.
0:56.6	So they have thrown MSNBC the hell out of the company.
1:01.6	That happened many months ago.
1:03.1	They've also been told to get out of the building.
1:05.3	They're looking for space now, for their own space.
1:08.0	And they've also been told, get NBC out of your name.
1:12.4	You can't use the phrase NBC anymore.
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