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New polling shows mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo picking up more traction since Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the race. The tension in the Middle East may affect NYC's elections.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mark Simone Show on sevent ten.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wr Hey, it's just very stranger. You know, it's cold out,
Hockey seasons started. Football games are on Thursday night and
Monday night. It's just very strange. It's really autumn. I
can feel it now. And I look every time you
go on the store first display, you see Halloween candy everywhere.
It's only a matter of time. It's going to happen.

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Very soon. You're gonna walk into a store and there'll
be some Christmas display there. It's in fact, I just
I just a friend of mine just texted me from Paris.
They're putting up Christmas lights on the shows. That'll say
right now as we speak, Walmart is doing it already.
But that's okay, that's okay. The faster this happens, the
quicker we get to spring. So Columbus Day is Monday.

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This is a holiday that was really on the outs
for a while, but not now. President Trump putting out
a proclamation about Columbus Day is going to make it
a very big deal. Columbus Day Parade will be here
in New York on Monday. So just remember that. Snarling
up traffic all over Midtown on Monday let's get to
the mayoral race. New polling shows that with Eric Adams

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dropping out of the race, Cuomo picks up a few votes,
about eighty percent more than I thought. About eighty percent
of the Adams vote has gone to Cuomo. About twenty
percent went to Mom Donnie. Now, these poles aren't that accurate.
These are these dopey college polls. But it shows Cuomo
picking up a little, but not enough to really come

(01:31):
close to Mom Donnie. Mom Donnie still has a big lead.
Curtis picked up a little. The matching funds were handed
out and matching funds yesterday. Cuomo got almost two million
in matching funds. That's from the campaign finance board. Curtis
got a million four in matching funds. Mom Donnie got

(01:54):
I think a million two in matching funds. Now Curtis
has been spending money. I'll give them credit. Those ads
are all over the place. If you're watching the Yankee
playoff game, Curtis ran ads in the game. If you're
watching Good Day New York this morning, there were ads
for Curtis TV ads. I'm Donnie not doing much advertising,
but if he does, it's not TV, it's social media.

(02:16):
That's the most important battleground right now. Cuomo doing a
lot of interviews and if you listen to him in
these interviews, the problem is he's awful in debates. He's
a terrible debater. He's slow, and he talks like this.
So I'm listening to some of these. He's done some
long interviews podcasts, radio shows, and if you listen to them,

(02:41):
you ask the guy a question and then he takes
a long time to answer and it's like a five
minute answer. He's great on a podcast podcast, you got
to fill an hour. This guy's perfect. Ask him anything.
He talks for eight minutes with a talks slow, runs
down the clock. But you can't do that in a debate.

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And you gotta be like mam Donnie in a debate,
you gotta be rapid fire, like boom boom boom. You
hit the guy with stuff and then they go to
Cuomo for a response and he goes, mister, mom, Donnie
may think that uh, And already the audience says, so
he's not good in the debate. Curtis is a great debater.
Now the big development this is where the race will

(03:24):
be decided Thursday night, the first mayor Old debate. There'll
be another one six days later, but Thursday night, the
first mayor Old debate that is coming Thursday night. It'll
be Mam Donnie'll be he's good. Into the debate, he's
very good. Curtis will be very good. Curtis could hit
him with a knockout punch. You never know. Anything's possible.

(03:45):
He may not, but anything's possible. Cuomo will talk slow
and it won't work, and he'll look old and tired
compared to these two. And so if Curtis can land
some blows and really make a difference, that could turn
the race around. Now it's possible that Curtis is very good,
but nothing changes. And then now New York is famous.

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New York City is famous for in its mayoral races,
the whole thing can change in the last couple of weeks.
We've seen that before many times in New York City,
where whatever race way, the race is headed, in the
last couple of weeks, it just all changes. It can
all change very fast in New York City. I don't
know exactly why, but here is where that does happen.
So it could be the debate shakes everything up and

(04:32):
things change. It could be that nothing changes, and then
you're on track to have a Mamdani victory. Cuomo, we know,
is not the one guy that can't beat Mamdani is Cuomo.
We've seen it in the primary. He got just slapped
around by him in two debates. He lost by a
lot of votes in the primary. So Thursday night, if

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anything's going to change, that's where it'll change. Now. Mamdani's
been doing a lot of interviews, and the other thing
is Mam Donnie's been sort of hedging. He normally was
given clear answers, but Buck Sexton texting, you love Buck.
Your Cuomo is excellent, Thank you very much. You know,

(05:17):
I'm listening to these radio interviews and here's the other thing.
You know, you're dealing with a weasel. When they talk,
they ask themselves questions and answer like, what about the
nursing homes? Did you get kill ten thousand people? A
lot of people ask me about the nursing homes? Look,

(05:37):
do I think I made a mistake? Maybe? Do I
think I might have done things differently? Maybe he's been
saying that a lot lately. First, he tried this explanation
about the nursing homes. It's the dumbest decision ever in
the history of decisions. Can you imagine people have got
the virus they just tested positive, you send them into

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the nursing home where these old, vulnerable people are living.
It was the dumbest thing ever. So he's tried for
the last week this explanation of well, other states did
it too, We're not the only plenty of states did it. Yeah,
but it wasn't the same and it wasn't like this here.
I mean, this was a he killed ten thousand people.

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The decision was genocidal. So he's now doing this I
wouldn't call it an apology. Look, did I make a mistake?
Would I do it differently? Maybe? Yes. And he's doing
this fudging thing where he says, look, I still have
nightmares at night. I can remember all my conversations with

(06:43):
those families. He says that a lot. Now, in all
my conversations with these families, I'd like to find somebody.
Please find one family that he had. Yet there's no
family that says they've ever had a conversation with Cuomo.
He's changed his tune on bail ref Hey, our friend
Sid interviewed him this morning, and Sid at one point,

(07:04):
good for sid. He brought up Kathy Hokel. You know,
Kathy Holt has been a horrible governor, and he said,
she's terrible. You picked her. You're the one that gave
us Kathy Hokel, you know, the lieutenant governor. You picked her.
And Cuomo said, yeah, you re elected her. So that's

(07:26):
a good comeback, very snappy comeback, first time its history
was made. Clomo actually had a snappy comeback. But he's
going to get hit with all this stuff and Curtis
will pound away on him. So if anything's going to change,
it'll change thirsty. Oh. Now here's another factor with this
peace agreement in the Middle East. This affects the mayoral race.
It's going to effect a few elections around the country.

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A lot of these races are all about how horrible
israel Is and Gaza people are starving being slought. Well,
now that that's over, this kind of takes that issue
off the table, and it was a big one from Amdani.
So he's going to lose this issue. In fact, if
he tries this again, the suffering and the Palestinians, the

(08:08):
suffering in Gaza, if he tries pulling that, you can
point out well then thank Trump, He's the one that
solved the problem. He's bringing that problem to a complete conclusion.
And there's a lot of governor's races for that. That's
a big issue, you know, Israel Palestine. So it's a
tough thing, this peace agreement, because it's brilliant, it's wonderful,
it's an amazing negotiation, an amazing accomplishment by Trump. It's

(08:32):
tough for the Democrats because they have to actually try
to say something nice. Chuck Schumer White, I mean, he
was so his classes were fogging up, but he had
to say something.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
If disagreement is implemented, then finally, after two years of
immense suffering, the hostages could soon be free. There could
be a ceasefire, and the victims of this painful conflict
can start to rebuild their lives.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, now they're waiting to see exactly how this unfolds.
Does it actually work? So this weekend they can't really
go after the present because we don't know. We've got
to see will this really work? Will it be done?
So let's say it everything goes well. On the weekend,
Trump goes to Egypt, they make the deal. Everything signed Monday,
they released the hostages Tuesday. There's a big ceremony for

(09:19):
the hostage. This will be great. Then it's after that
the media has to try to figure out how to
attack Trump on this. They will find a way. How
will they attack them? I don't know. Well, maybe listen
to the Schumer thing.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Again, I disagreement is implemented then finally after two years.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
So maybe that'll be the attack line. If he could
do this, why didn't he do this two years ago?
Why did he wait two years to do this? They'll
try something like that. They'll try a few things to
see what sticks. Hey, Jimmy Kimmel's done a bunch of interviews. Kimmel,
he was on Bloomberg. So when it comes to the
big lie, he told that's how he got in all
the trouble. He lied about the Charlie kirkshooter, claiming it

(09:58):
was a maga guy. Total total distortion, total fake news.
He can't admit that though he's on this Bloomberg interview
and he said, well, it was mischaracterized. I was distorted
what I said. Now we can see the clip. He
out and out lied. He deliberately lied on the show.
But he's a mischaracterized the store so he just won't

(10:20):
give in on this. Now. The other thing is he
said he would love to have Donald Trump on his show,
So he basically invited Trump to come on his show.
Now you might say, well, that's great, he should do that.
Trump would be great. He can handle Kimmel. This would
be he should definitely do well. He said. The problem is,
why would Kimmel do this because in all the controversy
when he came back on the air, he got six

(10:41):
point five million viewers, not as usual one million. He
got six and a half million. He was suddenly number one,
He suddenly had great ratings. Well it took a few days,
but it quickly went back to one million. He lost
the whole bounce that he got. He lost it all
and went back to his miserable ratings. So that's why
he wants to have Trump on because then he could

(11:01):
go to twenty million or what's the all time record
late night television. I think it was Johnny Carson tiny
Tim's wedding nineteen sixty nine that went to forty nine million.
That's the all time record for a late night show.
He thinks he could do that with Trump. So if Trump,

(11:21):
you know, he'd want to do it, but he wouldn't.
Why help Kimmel, Why help Kimmel. So he should say
to him, I'll do an interview with you, but let's
do it on the Sean Hannity Show. Let's do it on.
Let's do it on Fallon, give fallon the ratings. But
we'll see if anything comes to that invitation. Hey, a

(11:44):
lot of people in the Senate are going to be
suing Jack Smith, that bug eyed weirdo with the cape.
You know, he got their phone records, their phone calls.
But turning out, he got a lot of stuff. He
went into everybody's phone, got their GPS. He can see
everywhere they went, everywhere they went. You know, I'll see

(12:05):
you go into your iPhone. There's a lot of stuff
in there. There's got medical records, most people have their medications.
There's all kinds of personal information in there. So they're
going to sue this guy like crazy. He's speaking of
medical You know a lot of people love taking ozampic.
There's three of them. There's a what's the other one,
Manjaro's Zeppa. There's like a bunch of these. The problem

(12:26):
with is ozambic. You get what's called ozempic face. It
starts looking old. Your face looks old, and it starts sagging.
It you get they call it ozembic face. Now d
disappointing out. You'll get ozembic teeth. It plays around with
your the healthier teeth and your gums. Now apparently there's
another discovery they've just come up with. Uh, if you're
on ozampic and then you need medical imaging, you know,

(12:49):
a cat scan, an MRI, it can distort the results
and give you false results, and you can get misdiagnosed.
With a long explanation as to why, too complicated. But
that's another problem to those in pigs. Hey, oh hey,
a great a great guy died yesterday, Shelley Fireman. He
was one of the great restaurant tours in New York.

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He was ninety three. Right over there he tried to
read De Larte. That was one of his restaurants, Red Eye, Grill, Fiorrella,
right across from Lincoln Center. Through the years, Bond forty
five in the theater disc This guy was a great
restaurant owner, a very colorful guy in real life. And
I'm leaving that there's a bunch of restaurants he owned

(13:32):
ninety three just died yesterday, but I saw him not
long ago. He was in the restaurant, holding the meeting,
working at ninety three, in fact, fifty seventh three. He
just opened this new restaurant, the Paris Bistro, Paris Bar,
whatever it's called. But he's ninety two opening a brand
new restaurant. That's the way you gotta be, Cape working,
never stop. Hey, when we come back, we'll take some calls.

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