Hour 2: AI Companionship.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Curtis Sliwa fills in for Mark Simone. How do you feel about AI dating cafés? Curtis discusses reports claiming that 72% of teens have turned to AI for companionship and what that could mean for the future of relationships. What is Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s official theme song? Curtis gives his opinion on what he is seeing so far with how Mamdani is handling homelessness and the mentally ill population in New York City. Scientists are pushing to reopen Nirvana's Kurt Cobain case years later. Curtis takes your calls on AI cafés, Zohran Mamdani’s performance on homelessness, and more!

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0:00.0	Now, the Guardian Angel of Talk Radio is here.
0:05.0	Curtis Sliwa guest hosts the Mark Simone show on 710 W0.
0:14.3	Oh, God, excruciating music here.
0:19.8	You know, since this is my final hour of substitution for Mark Simone, by the way, smooth
0:25.6	operator, Mark Simone.
0:27.8	And based on what I last said as we went out on the top of the hour, when you go and talk
0:32.9	radio from doing talk TV to talk radio, you're always a disaster.
0:38.1	But if you go from talk radio to do TV, you're a success.
0:42.0	Look at Mark Simone.
0:42.9	He made the transition.
0:44.4	And the rock-ribbed all-American conservative voice of region from Franklin Square,
0:48.5	Long Island, Sean Hannity, radio first, then TV.
0:52.3	It's different.
0:54.0	It's totally different.
0:55.8	And you don't hear many talk show hostesses.
0:59.9	Now, if in this season of, you must refer to me as I identify myself today, Dizzy Is He?
1:09.0	So I could be a he, she, they, right? Let's just say I felt like
1:13.2	a woman today, and I was a female hostess talk show. Why would I want to sound like all the guys?
1:20.1	Why would I want to sound like an echo chamber of all the guys reading from the same talking points?
1:25.4	You would need to break out a tribute to one of the
1:30.0	greatest of all time, Lynn Samuels. Oh, eclectic as she was, WABC, WBAI, also the producer
1:39.6	and phone screener for Matt Drudge, another great talk show host who was driven out of the business at
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