Hour 1: Zohran Mamdani’s characteristics.

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Republican Candidate Curtis Sliwa was on fire in last night's NYC mayoral debate. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews TV personality Rhonda Shear. She doesn't trust Zohran Mamdani's smirk when he speaks about issues regarding NYC. Rhonda gives us an update on one of her TV series, "Up All Night," which is making a comeback.

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0:00.0	Now, 710 WOR presents the Mark Simone show.
0:06.5	Hey, it's Friday.
0:07.7	We've got a lot to get to.
0:08.9	We'll go over the mayoral debate in just a second.
0:11.3	We'll get to President Trump meeting with Zelensky today in the White House.
0:16.0	Then also, at the end of the day, end of the afternoon, heading to Mar-a-Lago for the first time. We'll get to John Bolton. By the way, this is not lawfare. They keep, oh, it's lawfare going on. Lawfare is when you get indicted in four cities at the same time. Bolton, as Joe Pesci would say in Casino, this guy was begging to be made an example of.
0:37.9	So we'll get to him coming up.
0:39.7	We'll get to Letitia James,
0:42.2	even more dirt coming out about her family.
0:44.9	A lot of stuff to get to.
0:46.4	Last night's debate,
0:50.0	Curtis won the debate.
0:52.4	Now, here's the only problem.
0:53.5	I don't know if anybody noticed.
0:55.1	That's the problem.
0:56.2	Curtis was great, but there was no clear moment, knockout punch, incredible moment, nothing super viral.
1:04.9	And the real problem, this is Channel 4, WNBC TV, and they did this last time very biased when it comes to running debates.
1:13.5	They should never be allowed to do a debate.
1:15.4	So the moderators were very careful to keep any attention away from Curtis.
1:20.9	They tried to give Curtis as little time as possible.
1:23.8	At one point in the debate, he actually said to them, you guys are trying to marginalize me.
1:27.4	You're trying to keep me out of this
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