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The Mark Simone Show

Hour 1: New federal holidays!

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone. Some California wildfire responses have faced criticism after claims that access restrictions in certain protected areas were due to liberals' limited early firefighting efforts, though these allegations are still under review, and officials cite weather and dry conditions as key factors in the fires’ spread. President Trump signed an executive order making Dec. 24 and Dec. 26 federal closure days for 2025, giving federal workers additional time off around Christmas without permanently changing the holiday calendar. Ken takes your calls!  Crude oil prices have dropped to under $55 a barrel. Gas has fallen below $3.00 in most parts of the country. Gas prices falling could help the consumer save more money in the future. 

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0:00.0

now the mark simone show on seven 10 w o r filling in for mark here's ken rosado and a very good morning

0:09.2

to you the end of the week is here yes please excuse the frog in my throat i was on a plane the other

0:14.3

day and of course everybody around me was hacking up a lung and i said i'm going to get something i

0:19.7

know it.

0:38.5

So with me, it settles in my vocal cords. It always has. And don't worry about it. It doesn't hurt. It feels fine. It just sounds kind of weird. So I don't think, who is this? It's Brenda Vicaro coming to you live. Anyway, it's good to be here. Six days till Christmas, you could feel the spirit in the air. Three more days of Hanukkah.

0:39.9

Mark is off today.

0:37.5

Hope you enjoy your time off brother

0:41.6

Ken Rosado in and we have a lot to talk about first up did you guys hear about

0:45.8

what is going on in Los Angeles it is unbelievable now with the fires that

0:52.2

they had there earlier in the year, apparently firefighters wanted

0:57.1

to go in to investigate this one section of the mountain where there was smoke, but because of

1:04.1

environmentalists wackos who control that part of California, the California State Parks

1:10.6

had restricted firefighting operations

1:14.2

in an area that is designated an avoidance area. See, because in the mind of a liberal

1:20.1

environmentalist, in an environmentalist brain, you don't matter. Humans come 97th on the list of importance it's about

1:29.6

the uga-uga fish and the Malauqua tree and nature and earth and you are

1:35.9

scum you shouldn't even be here how dare you be part of the world you human

1:41.4

so this is the liberal environmentalist mind at work. And so as a result,

1:47.0

the fire where the firefighters wanted to go in and investigate the smoke, it was allowed to

1:52.2

fester. And that is likely what led to a much larger fire that resulted in deaths and billions of

1:59.3

dollars of property damage, destroying a good chunk of that

2:02.8

beautiful part of Southern California. Once again, liberals destroying a beautiful thing because

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