Hour 2: Are Mamdani and Trump good friends now?

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Mark discusses the possibility that President Trump may be including a schedule via text with Mayor Mamdani in his daily life and duties, providing insight into how information is communicated among officials. In other news, María Corina Machado has nominated Trump for the Nobel Committee Prize. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer visited the White House yesterday for a private meeting with the President. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews comedian Jackie Martling, who keeps the show lively with his trademark humor and jokes.

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0:00.0	It's the Marks Among Show on 710 WOR.
0:08.3	Well, hey, we've got a lot to talk about this hour.
0:11.6	New Jersey.
0:12.8	How do you get rid of Phil Murphy?
0:15.1	How do we get rid of Phil Murphy?
0:16.8	Can we have to call in an exterminator or an exorcist?
0:20.3	This guy just doesn't leave. He's term limited out. But here he is. He's all over the place talking about this and that. He's with some AI pro, some this program. Just go away. He was governor for eight years, got absolutely nothing accomplished. At the end of his eight years, it's still the ridiculously high taxes.
0:37.9	Things are still out of control in New Jersey. Nothing got fixed. The budget is totally out of
0:42.1	control. And here he is sounding off. You wake up in the second Trump administration trying to
0:48.0	balance two opposite realities. Number one, always standing up for our values, our communities under attack.
0:58.0	On the other hand, you're trying like heck not to start World War III with these guys in Washington.
1:03.7	What a blowhard. Standing up for your values, what are your values? Ridiculously high taxes,
1:09.4	unbelievably high property tax, a budget that's quadruple what it should be, wasting money, bloat, fraud, that's your values, you're fighting for. The guy will not go away. Doesn't he have a big gavilla in Italy? Go there. Leave us alone for a while.
1:25.7	Hey, it's a three-day weekend. Monday is Martin Luther King Day. I think
1:30.0	Curtis will be here filling in for me. Yeah, on Monday, Martin Luther King Day, that'll be great.
1:36.1	Hey, the movie Marty Supreme, it's a great movie. It's doing very, very well. I think it's up to
1:42.0	about 90 million at the box office already. A phenomenal
1:46.7	movie. If you haven't seen it, go see Marty Supreme. You love it. Now, there was a real
1:51.5	Marty Supreme. And if you check out my Instagram today, there's a picture of me with him. We were
1:57.0	good friends back in the 90s. The real Marty Supreme was a guy named Marty Reisman,
2:02.5	and he was the world champion ping pong player, champion of the world in the 50s and 60s.
2:08.4	Now when I knew him, it was later in the 90s, but he was retired from all that.
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