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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Paul from Whitestone, Queens, called Mark to explain how gay bath houses played a significant role in the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, especially in the context of Ed Koch’s leadership during that time. Vincent from Brooklyn, NY, phoned in to respond to Mamdani’s comments about the LGBTQ community, sharing his perspective on the issue.

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0:00.0	The Mark Simone show
0:02.1	On 710 WOR
0:04.8	Hey, let's take some calls.
0:07.6	Let's go to Norman in Long Island.
0:10.1	Norman, how you doing?
0:12.6	Yeah, hi, Mark.
0:13.8	How are you?
0:14.4	Good.
0:16.6	I have a question for you.
0:17.9	I really love everything that Trump does,
0:21.4	but I don't understand why he keeps saying he wants to make a deal.
0:25.4	He's not buying a hotel.
0:27.5	We didn't make a deal with the Japanese at the end of World War II.
0:31.8	Well, actually, we did.
0:33.3	Actually, we did.
0:34.3	We ended the war.
0:36.4	You defeated them, and that's it well it's not like you're buying
0:40.1	a store or something with a deal okay well that's a point but uh a better way to do it i mean we could
0:47.0	just go in there wipe out the whole country and you know remember in japan you had to drop
0:51.0	bombs on hiroshima kill millions of this is a better way to do it in this situation.
0:56.8	And he's a dealmaker.
0:58.1	This is what he does best.
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