Hour 1: Government shutdown continues.

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🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are representing Democratic lawmakers in the ongoing government shutdown. The left-wing news networks are claiming people could die if the shutdown continues for a long period of time. Mark explains why. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews journalist Liz Peek. Liz believes that Andrew Cuomo is nothing compared to Zohran Mamdani. Cuomo's reputation as governor of New York put a damper on his mayoral campaign.

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0:00.0	You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what it all means. It's Mark Simone on 710 W.O.R.
0:11.0	Hey, it's Friday. That's a good news. It's October. It's okay news. Yankees win. I'll begin tomorrow. The playoffs. That's great news. We'll get to the shutdown uh we'll get to the yankees
0:22.2	we'll get to uh andrew quomo even democrats making fun of his latest ad we'll get to uh mom
0:28.1	donnie and his words they're calling them word salads they're more like word jumbles and we'll get to
0:34.0	cracker barrel and we'll get to uh president trump some and we'll get to President Trump some interesting developments
0:38.2	what he may be up to next.
0:41.2	Let's see.
0:42.2	Let me read any one.
0:43.4	Yeah, okay.
0:44.9	Sean Diddy Combs is about to be sentenced.
0:50.1	No, nothing yet.
0:51.3	The sentence hearing is taking place now.
0:54.9	He's going to get sentenced at some point this morning.
0:57.8	Prosecutors want 11 years.
1:00.9	He wants time served, which is 14 months.
1:04.6	If you ask those criminal lawyers that do these cases all the time,
1:08.2	they're betting four years, five years will be the sentence.
1:11.3	Diddy wrote a long letter to the judge begging for mercy, apologizing, saying you sorry,
1:17.9	a thousand different ways. So we'll bring you that news. Apparently nothing is happening yet.
1:23.4	It'll be a while before they get a sentence. Now, apparently it was worse than a Taylor Swift line, the concert line.
1:33.6	There were people camping out for two days to get into this courtroom for the Sean Ditty sentencing.
1:39.6	You know, they got those professional placeholders.
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