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The Mark Simone Show

Hour 2: The layoffs continue at CBS News.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Democrats and Republicans keep voting down agreements to end the government shutdown. Fed Chair Jerome Powell lowered interest rates by a quarter point yesterday. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews WOR weeknight host Jimmy Failla. Jimmy thinks Andrew Cuomo should tone down his opinions about what he would do if Zohran Mamdani became the next mayor. CBS News is continuing to lay off its staff who have strong progressive views on the station.

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0:00.0

The Mark Simone Show on 710 W.O.R.

0:06.5

A very rainy day today.

0:08.8

It's going to be this horrible all day, nothing but rain and wind all day.

0:12.5

It'll be gone by tomorrow.

0:13.6

Tomorrow night's Halloween.

0:14.9

So everything will clear up for that.

0:18.5

Even the Washington Post, the left-wing liberal Washington Post, big editorial

0:23.9

today telling Democrats, time to end the shutdown, stop holding the government hostage. Schumer,

0:31.4

the king of the shutdown, it says in the Washington Post. Schumer has allowed the shutdown to drag on

0:37.0

because he's worried about

0:39.2

fending off a primary challenger in 2028. Now, a lot of people close to Schumer say he will

0:45.5

just give up. He will not even try to run in 2028. He'll just give up. Just give up. And that

0:53.9

leaves him a few years.

0:55.4

You know, he's an older guy.

0:56.8

Time to wrap it up anyway.

0:59.2

Probably he went from the little Ben Franklin glasses to the big,

1:03.0

Swifty Lazark, how type of glasses, the Mr. Magoo glasses.

1:07.9

Time probably to just, if he's, you know, people say, I don't even remember this,

1:13.4

but they say when he started 40-something years ago in Congress,

1:17.2

that he was a man of principal and he was a principled guy and he would do the right thing.

1:21.0

I don't even remember this, but if that's the case, you know,

1:25.0

go back to that for your last couple of years.

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