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Ken interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz 411. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 2: The Mark Simone Show, live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
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  Speaker 2: Guest hosting for Mark today, here's Ken Rosato. And it
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  Speaker 2: is good to be with you. Once again, we have
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  Speaker 2: breaking news. If you didn't catch it right before our break,
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  Speaker 2: a judge has declared a mistrial or is about to
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  Speaker 2: declare a mistrial, we should say, in the Clancy trial.
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  Speaker 2: He is staying the case for an hour to give. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: So there has been a mistrial declared, but pending the
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  Speaker 2: one-hour stay. We'll see what happens at the one-hour stay.
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  Speaker 2: It is not likely to make any difference here. It'll
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  Speaker 2: be a mistrial, which means that the whole thing is
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  Speaker 2: will retry the case if this, in fact, ends up happening.
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  Speaker 2: So we'd love to know what you have to say
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  Speaker 2: about it. 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710. 710WOR, The Voice of New York.
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  Speaker 2: This is Ken Rosato in for Mark. And the Labor
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  Speaker 2: Day holiday weekend is here. And you are going to
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  Speaker 2: having your 19th hot dog. and uncle Joe's hamburgers. It
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  Speaker 2: have that uncle Joe. I, you know, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 2: the people in the booth. They're all laughing because they've
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  Speaker 2: had that burger and just take one bite. And they're like,
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  Speaker 2: how's the burger? It tastes like crap. Oh, this is delicious.
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  Speaker 2: Just delicious. It's raw. And it's a nasty. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So you will want to instead go catch the movies
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  Speaker 2: and a guy who knows more about the movies than anyone.
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  Speaker 2: I know Roger Friedman of showbiz 411 here with some
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  Speaker 2: ideas of what to check out. Also, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I check out your site all the time. You also
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  Speaker 2: do a lot on news that's happening. So before we
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  Speaker 2: get to the movies, what do you think about this trial?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I.
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  Speaker 3: Feel like if you kill your three children, you should
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  Speaker 3: go to jail. I mean, even for a week. I
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  Speaker 3: don't understand how you could not. But I guess there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of sympathy for her. And, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 3: she'll get out of it completely. But don't you agree?
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  Speaker 2: I totally agree.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you kill even one child, I think
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  Speaker 3: you go to jail. By the time you got to
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  Speaker 3: the third one, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: We had a woman called from North Carolina. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if she's a lawyer or not, but she sure
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  Speaker 2: sounds like it. And she was talking about, even she,
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  Speaker 2: she was saying how some people were just saying, oh,
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  Speaker 2: she deserves a death penalty, even though she can't get
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  Speaker 2: it in Massachusetts. But the woman did say, when all
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  Speaker 2: was said and done, she said, I think she deserves
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  Speaker 2: to be convicted of manslaughter. And that would be up
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  Speaker 2: to 20 years behind bars. And that kind of makes
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  Speaker 2: sense to me because now that takes into account the psychosis.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's sort of a charge or conviction, rather,
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of people would have accepted. But this
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  Speaker 2: is kind of a surprise, I think, with the amount
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  Speaker 2: of evidence, don't you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, with the amount of evidence and also that she's
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  Speaker 3: sitting there in a wheelchair, which makes her very sympathetic.
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  Speaker 3: um and i feel bad for her about the wheelchair
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  Speaker 3: but it's too bad i'm sure there's wheelchair it's handicap
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  Speaker 3: accessible in jail um and the other thing is they
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  Speaker 3: keep saying that there's one juror who's causing the problem
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  Speaker 3: is that it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah apparently that was the case we'll know more i'm
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  Speaker 2: sure because that person is now free to talk to
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  Speaker 2: the media they don't have to but they're right and
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  Speaker 2: you know that person is going to come and talk
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  Speaker 2: at some point.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah they'll someone will pay them for their story
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  Speaker 3: um No, so, you know, it'll make a great movie
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  Speaker 3: one day. These are the kinds of things that used
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  Speaker 3: to make great movies of the week on TV. Remember
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  Speaker 3: those movies of the week?
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  Speaker 2: I sure did. And, of course, Roger Friedman of Showbiz411,
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  Speaker 2: always going there. That was the best segue ever, Roger.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you very much. Let's talk about it then.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of things happened. First of all, in the
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  Speaker 2: box office— Spider-Man crossing $ 900 million today. Even as we speak.
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  Speaker 3: It's happening right now.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a great film.
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  Speaker 3: It is. But I mean, to get to a billion
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  Speaker 3: dollars for a domestic film, people will have had to
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  Speaker 3: have seen it two or three times. So there must
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  Speaker 3: be people who have even seen it more than that.
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  Speaker 3: But they do love it. And it is really good.
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  Speaker 3: And it's really been a phenomenon all summer. But just
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  Speaker 3: like the Odyssey, the Odyssey actually is now going back
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  Speaker 3: into IMAX theaters and is picking up box office and
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  Speaker 3: heading towards $ 600 million. which is incredible for a three-hour
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  Speaker 3: movie based on a poem from 3,000 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And a little poetic interpretation, the way they did the movie.
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  Speaker 2: But nonetheless, you know what I'm really happy about The
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  Speaker 2: Odyssey doing so well? Because the director took so much
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  Speaker 2: painstaking time in shooting the way he shot it and
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  Speaker 2: getting the special machine so you don't hear the noise
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  Speaker 2: with it. I mean, to go through that effort and
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  Speaker 2: spend all that money, you want there to.
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  Speaker 3: Be a reward.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise, it would die with him. You know, it would
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  Speaker 2: never be done again. Now we might see some amazingly
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  Speaker 2: shot films.
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  Speaker 3: I think it'll encourage studios and filmmakers to really try
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  Speaker 3: and do unusual things. We're going to see, the Odyssey
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  Speaker 3: is going to, I'm getting all this, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: start to get pelted now around Labor Day with Oscar information.
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  Speaker 3: what's coming for the fall, what's going to win awards,
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  Speaker 3: what's going to be nominated. But really, The Odyssey is
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  Speaker 3: going to win everything next March. I can't imagine that
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  Speaker 3: it'll take home fewer than 10 Oscars. It's just really
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  Speaker 3: the film of the year. So that's very exciting. Coyote vs.
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  Speaker 3: Acme is my favorite movie right now. And you haven't
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  Speaker 3: gone to see that yet.
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  Speaker 2: No, I have not. But I am going to check
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  Speaker 2: it out because you just said you love it.
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  Speaker 3: No, I love it. And people who see it love it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the story about this movie was that Warner
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  Speaker 3: Brothers canceled after it was made. They looked at it
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  Speaker 3: and said, no, we're going to put it on the shelf,
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  Speaker 3: take a tax write-off, and you'll never see it again.
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  Speaker 3: And a huge campaign started to revive it. And finally,
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  Speaker 3: this very little company called Ketchup Entertainment found $ 50 million
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  Speaker 3: and paid Warner Brothers so that they could release it.
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  Speaker 3: And today it's at $ 22 million after just a week.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to earn this money back easily. And it's
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  Speaker 3: so much fun. It's really a great movie. And it's
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  Speaker 3: like Who Framed Roger Rabbit. You know, it's live action,
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  Speaker 3: and then it's animation. And the live action people, that
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  Speaker 3: cast is led by Will Forte and John Cena, because
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  Speaker 3: the Wile E. Coyote sues the Acme Company for all the.
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  Speaker 3: Things that they've sold him that have not helped blow
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  Speaker 3: up the Roadrunner. And it's great. I keep joking. I
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  Speaker 3: keep joking that best actor is going to, they're fighting
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  Speaker 3: Roadrunner and Wiley Cotter fighting over who's going to be
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  Speaker 3: best actor and who's going to be supporting out there.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, Bugs Bunny has a big part in
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  Speaker 3: the movie and it's sort of the showstopper. But it's
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  Speaker 3: just really so much fun. And with all the stuff
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  Speaker 3: going on around us in the world, we need a
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  Speaker 3: little fun. And this is it.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. Hey, listen, on Showbiz 411, you also write
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  Speaker 2: about George Michael, the Faith Tour concert film. I think
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  Speaker 2: George Michael was one of the more impressive musicians of
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  Speaker 2: our time and just did not get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the applause that he deserved. because he was successful with
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  Speaker 2: certain groups of people, but not everyone, but he wrote
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  Speaker 2: his music. Well, he sang great. He, he was a
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  Speaker 2: very talented person.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was very talented. And I think also, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he undermines himself because he had so many drug problems
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  Speaker 3: and arrests and things like that. And his, his career
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  Speaker 3: sort of, uh, wound up being more about scandal than
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  Speaker 3: being music. Sadly, this, uh, But sadly, but this concert
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  Speaker 3: film is really great. And I think it's coming out
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  Speaker 3: this week or next week. It's coming soon. And I
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  Speaker 3: think just like how Michael Jackson's movie has done so well,
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  Speaker 3: I think you're going to see a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: sort of all of a sudden say, oh, I love
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  Speaker 3: all these songs from George Michael. So that that's going
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  Speaker 3: to do very well, I think.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you there. I really think so, too.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be checking it out for sure. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: over on CBS Mornings, Nora O'Donnell is going to be
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  Speaker 2: joining the show with Gayle King. I know Gayle King.
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  Speaker 2: I've never met Nora, but I think she's a phenomenal anchor.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about the pairing?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a strange time at CBS, you know, how
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  Speaker 3: this all started. Nora O'Donnell was anchoring the CBS Evening
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  Speaker 3: News a year and a half ago, and then they
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  Speaker 3: pulled her off and gave it to those two guys.
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  Speaker 2: Tony DeCoppo. Oh, no, you mean Maurice Dubois, who's also,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, an extremely nice man. I know him well.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, they both are. They both are. But the
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  Speaker 3: show that they gave them was very poorly produced. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: watched it. And then Nora O'Donnell was sort of cut
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  Speaker 3: loose within CBS, and she was doing pieces on 60
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  Speaker 3: Minutes and didn't seem to know what she was doing.
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  Speaker 3: And in the interim, there's been all these other changes.
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  Speaker 3: So now she's going to join Gayle King, and we'll
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  Speaker 3: see what happens. Gayle King and Nora O'Donnell hosting a
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  Speaker 3: show together would have been like Barbara Walters. and Diane
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  Speaker 3: Sawyer at the same time in the old days. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: they were very competitive.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I can imagine. As you said, I'm laughing having
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  Speaker 2: worked with them both.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think Gayle, to tell you the truth,
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  Speaker 3: is too pleased with this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: There was nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: Gayle, listen, if I may. Gail will be the queen
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  Speaker 2: bee on the set. She won't let anyone else not be.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, as long as you understand
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  Speaker 2: that you are, you are the Gail, that is Gail
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  Speaker 2: show you're coming into. Everything will be great. If there
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  Speaker 2: is any kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of, I don't understand that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: As long as she's getting a check.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, listen, when I joined her, she moved to Washington.
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  Speaker 3: She moved to Washington to do the news. And then
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  Speaker 3: now she's had to move back here, which is really crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Because listen, if I may, when I joined the set
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  Speaker 2: on Channel 7 with Laurie Stokes, I knew that I
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  Speaker 2: was joining Laurie Stokes' show. And I remember the general
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  Speaker 2: manager saying, no, you are co-equal anchors. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: to myself, I am not. First of all, I respected
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  Speaker 2: Laurie Stokes more. So I acknowledged that she was there
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  Speaker 2: first and that she was a great anchor. And guess what?
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  Speaker 2: Day one, when I deferred to Laurie, we became best
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  Speaker 2: friends thereafter because I respect her. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: got to, you have to have that mutual respect. And
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  Speaker 2: we've been friends, like I said, 25 years as a result.
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  Speaker 2: So let's see if that happens.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we love Laurie Stokes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 3: And you're absolutely right. But I don't know how this
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  Speaker 3: will play out on CBS. But everything at CBS right
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  Speaker 3: now is up in the air. They're going to have
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  Speaker 3: a whole new kind of 60 minutes starting very shortly,
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  Speaker 3: you know, within the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I think in this era, they should lower it, make
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  Speaker 2: it 57 and a half minutes and see if they can.
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  Speaker 2: Save me a couple of bucks in the process. I
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  Speaker 2: might as well at this point. Roger Friedman, we're out
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  Speaker 2: of time. I could talk to you all day about
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  Speaker 2: this stuff. Roger Friedman of Showbiz411. If you haven't checked
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  Speaker 2: out the website, where have you been? Just spell it out. Showbiz411. com.
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  Speaker 2: He has everything up there, everything entertainment and news. We
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  Speaker 2: thank you for coming on this morning. Happy Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Ken.
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  Speaker 2: Always appreciate you. Thank you, sir. All right, Ken Rosato
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  Speaker 2: in for Mark on your Friday. When we come back,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take your calls at 800-321-0710 on WOR.