The Anthony Cumia Show - February 02, 2026


Dirty Snow, Dirty Politics ｜ 02-01-26

Topics
snow problem with Mamdani
Hosted by
Anthony Cumia
Mentioned
Zoran Mamdani Safer Ontario Best Western Adams Biden
Bad Bunny, Bad Outfit ｜ 01-25-26 Rosie The Mean Leprechaun ｜ 02-01-26

Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

138.7

Word count

940

Sentence count

53

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

sentences flagged


Summary

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Zoran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City on New Year's Eve, but he's already running out of options. The snow is falling, and the garbage is piling up, and there's a mountain of it.

Transcript

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Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
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00:01:10.960 I started
00:01:11.940 off telling the New York audience
00:01:14.040 about the snow problem
00:01:15.780 with Zorn Mamdani. He hasn't really
00:01:17.960 done his job.
00:01:19.880 His first job as mayor
00:01:21.640 really is like
00:01:23.840 Like, oh, my God, there's a snowstorm, and we need to make sure we get this taken care of.
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00:01:36.520 And fail.
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00:01:42.580 And this could have something to do with the $12 billion deficit that New York City has.
00:01:50.900 12 billion dollars in the hole 12 billion dollars they don't have this is just for new york city by
00:01:58.740 the way this isn't the state 12 billion dollar deficit and uh amazingly enough it's just about
00:02:05.180 the same amount of money that mayor adams said they would burn through housing clothing and
00:02:12.540 feeding illegal aliens in new york city which they had done for many years and uh even mayor
00:02:22.040 adams realized that this was uh something that was unsustainable you just can't do this there's 0.83
00:02:30.880 not enough money to take care of all these people that are contributing nothing they're a burden
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00:03:04.900 cannot do this and now memdani gets in there with all of his pie in the sky free buses and
00:03:13.060 grocery stores and all that other fun stuff and uh he's he's 12 billion in the hole right from the
00:03:20.840 get-go so maybe looking over some of those books he realized uh maybe i could cut a few corners
00:03:29.680 here on snow removal and trash removal not put out as many trucks not give people the overtime
00:03:37.160 you know kind of rein in that budget a little bit but he still talks about free child care and fast
00:03:45.620 free buses but uh you guys up in new york city are sitting there surrounded by mountains of snow
00:03:52.000 and garbage and um there was something uh a post that came up right before showtime
00:03:59.580 it's a guy he's on a bullhorn at gracie mansion the residence residence of uh the uh mayor of 0.88
00:04:08.780 new york zoram and danny and he's yelling in the megaphone hey we supported you we voted for you
00:04:14.040 we believed in you what did you do you're screwing up you're not doing what you need to do
00:04:20.540 So not even a month or about exactly a month, I guess, from his swearing in on New Year's Eve, there are already people, supporters, yelling at him because they can't get around.
00:04:39.320 The garbage is piling up.
00:04:41.540 I mean, the only saving grace is that it's nine degrees in New York.
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00:04:56.680 and that is a whole other kind of nightmare.
00:05:00.360 So they don't have that part of it,
00:05:02.700 but it's a small consolation when you open your door
00:05:07.740 to your apartment building or what have you,
00:05:09.520 and there is a mountain of garbage,
00:05:13.240 and then behind the mountain of garbage is a mountain of dirty snow and perhaps your car is
00:05:20.980 still buried in that dirty snow because the few plows that did come through well they just threw 0.77
00:05:26.860 the snow right into your driver's side door so um there you go there you go mem danny supporters
00:05:35.060 his first mission, his first important task as mayor of New York,
00:05:42.200 and he completely dropped the ball.
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