Mark's 11am Monologue.
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
This year’s Oscars were notably less political than in recent years, and the ratings reflect a renewed audience interest, pulling in 15 million viewers. Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel’s contract is reportedly up in six months, raising questions about his future on late-night TV duties. MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle expressed outrage over the number of people found to have had Jeffrey Epstein’s phone number. On Capitol Hill, Democrats in Congress are polling at their lowest approval ratings on record.
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| 0:00.0 | The Mark Simone show continues on 710. |
| 0:03.3 | W.O.R. |
| 0:06.9 | Well, it's St. Patrick's Day, and it's a lot of fun in New York. |
| 0:11.5 | It's a bit of a mess. |
| 0:13.7 | The parade begins around now and goes till this afternoon, and then it never ends because |
| 0:20.1 | millions of people show up for |
| 0:21.9 | this parade, and they don't just leave immediately. They linger around, throw up all over the place |
| 0:26.2 | where all sorts of green stuff invade every pub, bar, tavern, restaurant, everything. So it'll be |
| 0:33.3 | going on all day to day. Hey, the Oscars. |
| 0:42.9 | It was, I don't know, it wasn't a great Oscar ceremony. |
| 0:45.0 | It wasn't a horrendous Oscar ceremony. |
| 0:49.1 | They did tone down the political nonsense. |
| 0:51.8 | It was that one idiot yelling about free Palestine. And then it was Jimmy Kimmel, who is just an angry, angry, bitter guy. |
| 0:58.9 | Can you imagine if you had Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, and you had an angry contest? |
| 1:03.0 | He's going to be the angrier guy. |
| 1:05.2 | And then he's doing this interview that started to go viral. |
| 1:08.9 | Afterwards, there were reporters asking him something, and he just said he's exhausted. |
| 1:14.7 | Exhausted by the state of the world. |
| 1:18.1 | You're a comedian. |
| 1:20.0 | You don't have to be exhausted. |
| 1:22.9 | Johnny Carson, we were talking about him yesterday. |
| 1:25.4 | The whole Vietnam War, he's on the air, having fun every night. |
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