Hour 1: Winter Storm preparations!

The Mark Simone Show

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4.3 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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A major winter storm is expected to hit the tri-state area this weekend, with the potential for significant snowfall. The Discussion follows on media coverage of the Trump Administration, including claims about overlooked accomplishments and skepticism surrounding recent political polling. Mark also covers immigration enforcement, highlighting a case involving a 5-year-old asylum seeker detained as ICE expands operations in Minnesota. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews Roger Friedman of Showbiz 411. Roger shares his thoughts on this year’s Oscar nominations, a new Frank Sinatra documentary streaming on Fox Nation, and the latest news from Broadway.

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0:00.0	Live from Midtown, Manhattan.
0:03.1	Here comes the Mark Simone show on 710 W-O-R.
0:08.7	Well, hey, it's Friday.
0:10.1	A lot of stuff to get to.
0:11.8	There's these fake news.
0:13.3	It's really cranked it up.
0:14.5	Faking, fake, fake stories.
0:16.8	There's a fake story out there about ICE detained a five-year-old child.
0:20.6	We'll get to that. We'll get to the Jack Smith hearings. We'll get to... How do you say this? I can never know it. Mahmoud Khalid has been thrown out of the country. We'll get to that. We'll get to Davos, Ukraine, Putin. There's news. We'll get to Greenland and more. Now, as far as the storm, this is the first
0:41.6	real big, huge test of Mamdani as mayor. This has happened in the past where a new mayor came
0:49.2	in, I think, with Lindsay, and just as soon as he got there, a major snow snowstorm and he was unable to get the streets
0:55.5	cleared especially in the outer boroughs and it really hurt him so we'll see mom
1:00.9	donnie is already got he's doing these press conferences where he puts on the snow jacket you know
1:05.6	the you know that field jacket that windbreaker thing where it says mayor on it.
1:11.1	It's got a big logo on the side.
1:14.2	Now, here's the good news.
1:16.2	This kind of stuff is usually handled by the director of emergency management.
1:21.3	That's who's going to do this.
1:23.4	Well, luckily, the director of emergency management has been there for years.
1:28.4	He is leaving.
1:29.2	He gave his resignation, but he's got two weeks left, so he'll be there for this storm.
1:34.6	So he'll be handling it, and the team under him, his deputy emergency management people, all pretty good.
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