Hour 1: Mamdani's budget.

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 34 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 takes your calls! 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.

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0:00.0	now 710 WOR presents the mark simone show
0:06.0	hey so a lot going on today we'll get to crazy Stephen Colbert he's all upset we'll get to the Epstein. 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.
0:26.2	We'll get to President Trump.
0:27.5	We'll get to JFK Jr.
0:31.2	Hey, it's four weeks until spring.
0:33.3	Four weeks until spring.
0:34.6	And only two weeks until daylight saving time two weeks and then it'll
0:40.9	be light out till 6.30, 615, 630. So we'll get to, well, let's get to it right now. Mayor, Mom,
0:48.1	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. He is suddenly confronted with a $12 billion budget gap, and he said he can't believe it that he finds out
1:15.3	there's a $12 billion budget gap.
1:17.2	He can't believe that this is all of a sudden been discovered this $12 billion budget gap.
1:23.6	What is he talking about?
1:24.8	Everybody knew about this a year ago, two years to eric adams a year and a half ago
1:28.8	now we're getting people from all over the globe
1:31.0	have made their minds up that they're going to come
1:33.0	through the southern part of the border
1:35.2	and coming to new york city
1:37.0	and everyone is saying
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