Hour 2: Should the United Nations be defunded?

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill squared off in their last debate in the gubernatorial race for New Jersey's next governor. Both candidates had heated moments during debates over their ideas and past task performances. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews host of Fox Across America on WOR Weeknights, Jimmy Failla. Jimmy was at the Yankee game last night and let us know how the energy in the stadium was. Is it fair for Lyft to show the driver how the passenger tips? Failla gives his opinion on this.

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0:00.0	Mark Simone.
0:01.4	On 710, W.O.R.
0:06.8	Hey, we'll get to Israel.
0:08.3	We'll get to California.
0:10.1	We'll get to the UN and a lot more coming up.
0:12.8	Jimmy Falo will be with us later this hour.
0:15.1	This is actually, it's Thursday.
0:16.5	This is actually the first real actual autumn day, fall day. I mean, not on the calendar, but it actually, for the first time, actually feels like fall. It's nippy outside. It's chilly. It's 53 degrees right now. Look at that. Temperature right now, 53. Let me see. It'll go up to 60 degrees. That's it. It'll hit 60 at 3 o'clock. Then it's right back into the 50s. First actual fall like day to day in New York City. So that was good news. We just heard on the newscast about the United Nations getting rid of a quarter, 25% of their forces.
0:56.0	They call them UN peacekeeping force. They've never kept any peace anywhere.
1:00.0	They're those idiots with the blue helmets. They're the most useless people in the world.
1:04.0	They're blaming the U.S. cutting funding to the U.N.
1:08.0	Well, if you're going to defund something, it's not the police. Defund the UN. There's nothing
1:12.6	more deserving of defunding than the United Nations. They're the most useless, anti-Semitic
1:19.4	VIP lounge for dictators. Just close the whole thing. Get it out of New York.
1:25.1	Yankees lost last night. Heartbreaking. Well, you know what?
1:28.4	It wasn't heartbreaking.
1:29.4	You could see it coming, couldn't you?
1:32.2	You didn't really think they were going to pull this off.
1:35.0	It's not just, it's not the same Yankees from years ago.
1:38.7	Outside of a couple of players, it's not Yankee quality.
1:42.4	Now, Bad Bunny was at the game uh three rows back behind home plate
1:48.1	and at one point when they all when they sang god bless america and the whole audience stood
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