Mark's 10am Monologue.

The Mark Simone Show

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4.3 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Governor Kathy Hochul has blamed the LIRR strike on President Trump, and Mark breaks down why. Should congestion pricing be suspended due to the LIRR strike? Hochul may also be using the strike to attack Republican candidate Bruce Blakeman, since he represents Long Island, an area where the strike is frustrating many voters. During President Trump’s visit, burner phones had to be used by him and other top CEOs because of China’s security systems. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has seized $500 million of Iran’s cryptocurrency assets over the past few days.

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0:00.0	You just heard the news.
0:02.6	Now you'll find out what it all means.
0:05.6	It's Mark Simone on 710 W-O-R.
0:11.0	Hey, it's Monday, but it's a great Monday because this is going to be a three-day weekend coming up.
0:16.7	Memorial Day this coming weekend.
0:18.3	We've got a lot to get to you.
0:19.6	You're not going to believe this.
0:20.6	The people that run this climate change hoax are confessing, admitting it may not be true.
0:28.5	We'll get to that coming up. We'll get to President Trump and China. The real truth, not the Sunday show fake news truth.
0:35.8	We'll get to pathetic little Colbert. His final week is news truth we'll get to a pathetic little Colbert his final week is here
0:40.2	we'll get to 2028 we'll get to the long island railroad strike of course uh actually let's get to
0:48.1	that first uh long island railroad on strike uh, apparently they're back in the negotiations.
0:55.4	They had walked out.
0:57.0	Everybody had walked out.
0:58.5	But the MTA people are back in there.
1:01.3	MTA run by Jano Lieber, who's just a pompous ass.
1:06.0	Very, very tough to get anything done with that guy.
1:08.7	Just an awful, awful guy.
1:10.2	He's the guy Hokel put in there.
1:12.2	Hokel, of course, a total disaster,
1:14.1	totally incapable of negotiating anything.
1:17.4	And it's caused nothing but headaches for hundreds of thousands of people in Long Island
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