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The Mark Simone Show

Hour 1: The Strait of Hormuz is fully open!

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Strait of Hormuz is fully open as of today, Iran has announced, through the end of the ceasefire period. The stock market is soaring on the news, while oil prices are dropping. Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, has apologized for the harmful social media posts she made years ago. Former Governor Cuomo’s no-bail, no-jail law has contributed to a rise in major crimes in NYC by releasing repeat offenders back onto the streets, leaving the city at odds with its own residents. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews TV personality, Rhonda Shear. Rhonda’s new Up All Night preview and show airs tonight on Roku! Mark asks Rhonda how she handles the heat while living in hot, humid Florida. NYC has also experienced a stretch of unusually hot days recently. Rhonda and Mark share an observation: "Watch how people walk." It says a lot about their character. 

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0:00.0

Now, 710 WOR presents the Mark Simone Show.

0:07.0

Well, hang on, things are breaking fast.

0:14.0

Straight of Hormuz is open. It's open. Iran has opened it. We've opened it. Our blockade will remain in place. The U.S. ships will still patrol the strait. We'll have complete control of it. But it is now open. This is very bad news for Morning Joe, MS Now. Very bad news. I was watching Morning Show this morning.

0:39.3

They decided to do the whole show about how gas prices are soaring.

0:43.7

Gas prices are way up because of the Strait of Hormuz.

0:46.4

Gas prices, the whole show.

0:49.1

And about two minutes before you could finish the show, the Strait of Hormuz officially opened.

0:54.6

It is now open. The stock market is soaring right now uh it's up about 800 points as we speak

1:01.8

s and p is up to an all-time record high and uh let me see uh the dow the Dow could hit 50,000 by the end of the day it's very possible although it's a Friday and a lot of people don't want to hold that over the weekend so expected to go back to 50,000 which is just record breaking S&P 500 now at the all-time record. Stradahormuz open.

1:28.5

Now, why would Iran cave in on this?

1:30.7

They really had no choice.

1:32.0

The military operation was very brutal and very successful.

1:37.4

We took out anything and everything.

1:38.9

We took out their Navy.

1:39.9

We took out their Air Force.

1:41.4

We destroyed all their offensive capability, all their defensive

1:44.5

capability. They were just wiped out militarily. Negotiations began and then in a brilliant

1:51.4

move, I have a feeling, you know, this is probably the single most planned war in the history

1:57.3

of warfare. I know the fake news tells you the opposite, but there's never been a war

2:02.1

that's had more planning than this one. Ever since the capture of our hostages, 47 years ago,

2:08.2

the Pentagon has been preparing war plans against Iran. They've been working on these plans for 40

2:13.7

years. They have been highly, highly tweaked. They are, uh, so I have a feeling this closing

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