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The Mark Simone Show

Mark's 11am Monologue.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Staying in the middle about politics is the secret sauce to being a successful late night TV talk show host. USA Today is claiming Trump's press conference at the White House yesterday was a "Mental Decline" kind of event. Beef prices are high because of a nationwide cattle shortage.

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0:00.0

Insight from the inside.

0:03.0

This is 710 W.O.R. Mark Simone Show.

0:11.0

It's going to be another hot day today. Actually, this will be the hottest day of the week, probably. 90 degrees today.

0:16.0

So, Colbert is leaving. You don't hear much about it anymore.

0:23.0

It was all we were talking about a week and a half ago.

0:25.3

Now, it's back to where he was.

0:27.8

Jimmy Fallon had Greg Gutfeld on his show last week.

0:31.2

At the end of the week, Jimmy Fallon invited a Fox News host, a very successful one, Greg Gutfeld on.

0:40.1

This upset a lot of crazy left-winger,

0:42.4

Democrats, somebody from Fox News was up.

0:45.5

But the night Gutfeld was on, Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show rating soared to a multi-year high way up, almost double on the

0:58.0

Gutfeld visit. So I guess he should do more of that. You know, it's a lot of funny Fox News

1:05.8

people. You could have Jimmy Fallow next. You could have a lot of those people on. Now,

1:10.7

the number will actually grow in the coming days because a lot of people watch the Tonight Show or Fallon on YouTube, and that's not that night. It's the next day, the next day, the next day, the next day, the next day. So even on YouTube, it is the week's single most viewed clip by a large

1:31.5

margin. You got to remember, Gutfeld with his late night show on Fox has double the audience

1:37.5

of the Tonight Show. So you're talking about a guy with a much bigger audience and in his own show,

1:42.5

Gutfeld plugged the Tonight Show appearance

1:44.8

and talked about it, which will make his audience go look at it, plus the Fallon audience.

1:50.1

So that's how you get double the ratings you normally get.

1:54.4

And as Johnny Carson used to explain to people, and he was the king of late night,

1:58.5

and he was the all-time champion with an incredible

2:02.4

30-year run don't get partisan because you'll lose half the country that's the idea to appeal to

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