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The Mark Simone Show

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4.3 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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You’ll be surprised to hear who just graduated from Rutgers Business School - Mark says to check it out. If Mamdani’s budget hadn’t passed, your NYC property taxes could have gone up. Film critic and journalist Rex Reed passed away. Mark also asks: Why are so many anti-Semitic protesters wearing masks? Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews author Ann Coulter. Ann says Mamdani and some New Yorkers are happy as long as the rich pay more. Mark asks if illegal immigrants have paid their fair share. Mark and Ann also talk about how colleges have changed and how to bring them back to less political focus.

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0:00.0	The Mark Simone Show, delivering the news before it's news on 710 W.O.R.
0:12.6	Hey, well, we got a lot to get to this hour.
0:15.8	The president is in China.
0:18.3	Big grand red carpet entrance.
0:20.5	It was pretty, a big ceremony. A lot of people
0:24.7	cheering and waving with flags and all arranged by the Chinese government. And they're all,
0:30.9	look at them. They're all waving their flags in unison. You've got to do it just right. Otherwise,
0:34.7	you end up in a gulag over there. But president was a long flight. They did a layover in Alaska. Air Force One landed in Alaska for, I don't know exactly why. Was it to refuel? I'm not sure. But pick who up? Jensen Hogg, the Vindia CEO. Oh, oh. They picked up Jensen Hogg, the Nvidia CEO?
0:57.7	That's pretty amazing.
1:00.4	That's pretty intense.
1:01.7	You know, usually all these 16 CEOs, they may be the richest, most powerful guys in the world, but, you know, they told be here at the Air Force Base in Washington, D.C.
1:12.4	And meet the plane and you'll get on there.
1:14.5	You come meet us and you'll come on the plane.
1:17.1	But that's pretty impressive.
1:19.7	The president lands Air Force One to pick somebody up.
1:23.3	No way.
1:24.8	So the big banquet is tonight.
1:26.8	Now, when I say tonight, I'm not sure.
1:29.3	I think that's tomorrow morning our time.
1:31.5	It's many hours away.
1:33.5	It's the time difference is like staggering over there.
1:36.7	So we'll see what happens at the banquet.
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