October 29, 2025 • 6 mins
Jeri in New Jersey called Mark to ask him if Andrew Cuomo really wants to be mayor or if he is faking it. David in Passaic, NJ, calls Mark to reminisce about how the Democrats destroyed NYC's economy in the 1970s.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're listening to the Mark Simone Show, Hey, let's
take some calls. Let's go to Mike and Long Island. Mike,
how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, Mark, good morning, Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I got a question to you. In this city, we
probably have fifty percent. I don't know what the numbers
are of voters that are completely uneducated. Don't follow. What
city you're talking about?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
New York City.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well you're not in New York City, Okay, but it
even though the rest, well you can't you're just making
up statistics fifty percent or not on an He can't
just make up I don't. You can't just make up
stuff like that. Let's go to Jerry in New Jersey. Jerry,
how you doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Mark?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Let me check you're good. They don't really care. They
just say how you're doing, but they don't the answered yes,
go ahead, Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You believe that Andrew Andrew Clomo really wants to be
mayor after being CEO. I think they're dusting him off
to see if he could run against AOC and take
Schumer's seat in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, No, obviously, when your
governor mayor is a big step down. Although it's more
fun to be mayor. Actually, nobody wants to go to
Albany mayor. You're in city Hall, you live in Gracie mansion.
It's nicer than the governor's mansion, better located. But you're right,
you're right. He's plotting his whole life. He's been plotting
(01:25):
to be president.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, did you see him with Stephonicus governor if she
said you'll never serve again.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's a good point. Yeah, that's the problem with colommeall.
You don't. You never know what he's really up to.
But the argument is, Mom, Donnie is so horrible, so horrible,
you'd vote for him. It's like, this is like the
worst mess New York has ever gotten into, and you
Democrats got us into this with your primary there without
(01:55):
anybody you'd want to vote for. It was Mom Donnie
and then the lowest to worst people in the world,
to Brad Lander types and the worst people have you
ever seen? In the primary in Cuomo couldn't even beat them.
He got wiped out in his own primary. But we'll see.
We got six days left until the election. Let's go
to rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich how you doing.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Thanks Mark.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
A couple of things.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Any connection the fact that us AID got defunded. Now
the Democrats are broke and they're all screaming if they
will need money.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That's pretty coincidental. Up, Yeah, that could be that us
AID was basically just a slush fund. It was to
bribe people all over the place, and a lot of
Democrats profited off of this. Shutdown is not going well
for Democrats. Republicans, their messaging is very good on this.
The problem is Trump controls the White House, so he
(02:46):
makes the shutdown is not painful. Remember when Obama was
president and he did the shutdown, he tried to make
it deliberately as painful as possibly. Closed everything, even though
he didn't have to. They closed monuments World War Two,
monuments that didn't require any staffing. There was no reason
(03:06):
to close him. He just wanted to make it look painful,
so he had them closed and the yellow police tape
was put all around him and they were closed up
just so everywhere it looked was a symbol of closure,
even though there was no reason to close those things.
Let's go to David and Passaic. David, how you doing,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I want to reminisce what will happened on the Montdani.
In the late seventies, property valleys went down, taxes went up.
There was a lot of fires in the South, Bronx
had gangs, even have Gerald Ford told New York City
dropped dead, remember that.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, that was more mid seventies. That was under a
beam and.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
A beam right in. The Financial Review Board took over
and the city was bankrupt. Garbage was all over the streets.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, no way. Which party was that? Oh yeah, it
was Democrats there once again they don't do good at running.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know who got to start? Then go to sleeve
in the subways. That's when he started the Angels Angels.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, back then, there was quite a year. There's a
big mini series about nineteen seventy seven. It was an
incredible year. You're right. It was fires and crime, and
it was the sun of Sam summer, and it was
the Yankees and Reggie. It was quite that. It's somewhere
online you can find that nineteen seventy seven. It's a
documentary series. But it is fascinating to watch. Go back
(04:30):
and watch it if you can. I guess how bad
could mom Downy be? Probably? Well, remember we went through
this with the Blasio who was it didn't declare himself
as socialist, but he was pretty much a socialist. Anyway,
let's take some calls. Let's go to line too. You're
on the air. How you doing? Oh, hey, Mark Good,
(04:52):
it's trumb from Hey. Anybody who believes that nine to
eleven was about Islamophobia should never be mayor of New York. Yeah. Well,
it's like he's like the Muslim house Sharpton. I guess
you know. Sharpton always plays the race card even when
it doesn't apply, and he's playing that Islamophobia card when
(05:12):
it doesn't apply. There's not this has never been a
problem in New York City. New York City is a
Muslim city. It's eleven percent Muslim. The Jewish population is
only eleven percent. You get the same number with Muslims,
eleven percent. And if you talk to the NYPD and
look over all the data, there's not an a tax
on Muslims. It's not happening. Attacks on Jews, yes, yes,
(05:35):
in great numbers, Anti Semitic attacks by the thousands for
the last couple of years. You've seen them all over
the news. And if you look through NYPD data, it's
tons of anti Semitic attacks, anti Muslim attacks. You will
not find any in the city. It really doesn't happen. Obviously,
it was something people thought about right after nine to eleven,
(05:56):
but it didn't result in much of anything. Hey, when
we come back, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter, he'll
be with us. Next, we'll get back to the mayoral race. Hey,
we'll talk to Bruce Blakeman later. He's got a lot
to say about mom Donnie. He's also the guy you
should vote for Nassau County best County Executive in America.
But all of that's coming up on seven to ten.
Wor
If you're listening to the Mark Simone Show, Hey, let's
take some calls. Let's go to Mike and Long Island. Mike,
how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, Mark, good morning, Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I got a question to you. In this city, we
probably have fifty percent. I don't know what the numbers
are of voters that are completely uneducated. Don't follow. What
city you're talking about?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
New York City.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well you're not in New York City, Okay, but it
even though the rest, well you can't you're just making
up statistics fifty percent or not on an He can't
just make up I don't. You can't just make up
stuff like that. Let's go to Jerry in New Jersey. Jerry,
how you doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Mark?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Let me check you're good. They don't really care. They
just say how you're doing, but they don't the answered yes,
go ahead, Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You believe that Andrew Andrew Clomo really wants to be
mayor after being CEO. I think they're dusting him off
to see if he could run against AOC and take
Schumer's seat in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, No, obviously, when your
governor mayor is a big step down. Although it's more
fun to be mayor. Actually, nobody wants to go to
Albany mayor. You're in city Hall, you live in Gracie mansion.
It's nicer than the governor's mansion, better located. But you're right,
you're right. He's plotting his whole life. He's been plotting
(01:25):
to be president.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, did you see him with Stephonicus governor if she
said you'll never serve again.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's a good point. Yeah, that's the problem with colommeall.
You don't. You never know what he's really up to.
But the argument is, Mom, Donnie is so horrible, so horrible,
you'd vote for him. It's like, this is like the
worst mess New York has ever gotten into, and you
Democrats got us into this with your primary there without
(01:55):
anybody you'd want to vote for. It was Mom Donnie
and then the lowest to worst people in the world,
to Brad Lander types and the worst people have you
ever seen? In the primary in Cuomo couldn't even beat them.
He got wiped out in his own primary. But we'll see.
We got six days left until the election. Let's go
to rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich how you doing.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Thanks Mark.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
A couple of things.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Any connection the fact that us AID got defunded. Now
the Democrats are broke and they're all screaming if they
will need money.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That's pretty coincidental. Up, Yeah, that could be that us
AID was basically just a slush fund. It was to
bribe people all over the place, and a lot of
Democrats profited off of this. Shutdown is not going well
for Democrats. Republicans, their messaging is very good on this.
The problem is Trump controls the White House, so he
(02:46):
makes the shutdown is not painful. Remember when Obama was
president and he did the shutdown, he tried to make
it deliberately as painful as possibly. Closed everything, even though
he didn't have to. They closed monuments World War Two,
monuments that didn't require any staffing. There was no reason
(03:06):
to close him. He just wanted to make it look painful,
so he had them closed and the yellow police tape
was put all around him and they were closed up
just so everywhere it looked was a symbol of closure,
even though there was no reason to close those things.
Let's go to David and Passaic. David, how you doing,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I want to reminisce what will happened on the Montdani.
In the late seventies, property valleys went down, taxes went up.
There was a lot of fires in the South, Bronx
had gangs, even have Gerald Ford told New York City
dropped dead, remember that.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, that was more mid seventies. That was under a
beam and.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
A beam right in. The Financial Review Board took over
and the city was bankrupt. Garbage was all over the streets.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, no way. Which party was that? Oh yeah, it
was Democrats there once again they don't do good at running.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know who got to start? Then go to sleeve
in the subways. That's when he started the Angels Angels.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, back then, there was quite a year. There's a
big mini series about nineteen seventy seven. It was an
incredible year. You're right. It was fires and crime, and
it was the sun of Sam summer, and it was
the Yankees and Reggie. It was quite that. It's somewhere
online you can find that nineteen seventy seven. It's a
documentary series. But it is fascinating to watch. Go back
(04:30):
and watch it if you can. I guess how bad
could mom Downy be? Probably? Well, remember we went through
this with the Blasio who was it didn't declare himself
as socialist, but he was pretty much a socialist. Anyway,
let's take some calls. Let's go to line too. You're
on the air. How you doing? Oh, hey, Mark Good,
(04:52):
it's trumb from Hey. Anybody who believes that nine to
eleven was about Islamophobia should never be mayor of New York. Yeah. Well,
it's like he's like the Muslim house Sharpton. I guess
you know. Sharpton always plays the race card even when
it doesn't apply, and he's playing that Islamophobia card when
(05:12):
it doesn't apply. There's not this has never been a
problem in New York City. New York City is a
Muslim city. It's eleven percent Muslim. The Jewish population is
only eleven percent. You get the same number with Muslims,
eleven percent. And if you talk to the NYPD and
look over all the data, there's not an a tax
on Muslims. It's not happening. Attacks on Jews, yes, yes,
(05:35):
in great numbers, Anti Semitic attacks by the thousands for
the last couple of years. You've seen them all over
the news. And if you look through NYPD data, it's
tons of anti Semitic attacks, anti Muslim attacks. You will
not find any in the city. It really doesn't happen. Obviously,
it was something people thought about right after nine to eleven,
(05:56):
but it didn't result in much of anything. Hey, when
we come back, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter, he'll
be with us. Next, we'll get back to the mayoral race. Hey,
we'll talk to Bruce Blakeman later. He's got a lot
to say about mom Donnie. He's also the guy you
should vote for Nassau County best County Executive in America.
But all of that's coming up on seven to ten.
Wor
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