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Opening Segment 8/27/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Curtis Lewa and Larry Mendte in the morning on 710WOR,
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  Speaker 1: The Voice of New York. Well, before we start, I
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  Speaker 1: have to tell you, Larry and Natalie and all of
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  Speaker 1: our listeners, you know, I roam the streets in the
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  Speaker 1: wee hours in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you think I saw going to work this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Who's that? Our own Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Gil. Harry Styles.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. He wouldn't be up there.
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  Speaker 3: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Gil Lederman. Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm at the coffee truck getting a cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 2: You see my coffee right here, right? With the old
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  Speaker 2: Greek cup there. And who's walking down the street? It's Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Gillian.
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  Speaker 2: He starts early in his office.
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  Speaker 3: Early. How early are you talking about? What time was this?
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  Speaker 1: I think he opens his office by 6. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've gone there before, early in the morning. But he
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  Speaker 1: was bright-eyed, bushy-tailed. We're having a conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Like 4.30, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm having my cup of coffee before I came here.
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  Speaker 2: So I just want to give a shout-out to Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Gil. But again, as I'm waiting for my coffee and
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  Speaker 1: everything else, what do you think people are talking to
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  Speaker 1: me about?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about Dolly? Dolly Parton? Dolly, why
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  Speaker 2: she was so great? She was so wonderful. And normally.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in a place like New York City, when
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  Speaker 1: you're walking around at 4 in the morning with emotionally
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  Speaker 1: disturbed homeless people, people who are, like, really angry that
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  Speaker 1: they have to.
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  Speaker 2: Get up and go to work, nothing negative about Dolly.
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  Speaker 1: I have yet to detect anybody saying anything negative about
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 3: We learned a couple of things since yesterday, and one
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  Speaker 3: that's getting a lot of attention and may be the
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  Speaker 3: most fascinating is that she has a secret song that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be released. Yes. Of course he does.
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  Speaker 2: In what, 20 years?
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  Speaker 1: 2045?
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  Speaker 2: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: You have a secret song locked away in Dollywood that
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  Speaker 3: will be released in 2045.
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  Speaker 4: That's the truth. No, seriously. When we, we do a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things at Dollywood, and one year we thought
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  Speaker 4: about that. They asked me if I would write a
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  Speaker 4: song that nobody would ever hear. I'll be dead.
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  Speaker 3: Gone.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I might not be, because I'll be 99.
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  Speaker 1: You know me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do that.
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  Speaker 3: I might still be hopping around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll be 99. You know me.
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  Speaker 3: That makes it sad, doesn't it? But anyway, there's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a new song by Dolly Parton out in 2045.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you see, when you said that, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: paying full attention. I thought you were talking about the
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  Speaker 1: secret sauce of McDonald's, you know, Ray Kroc for the
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  Speaker 1: Big Mac. You know, the Mac sauce. I got it.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you think that? Well, because I was, remember,
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  Speaker 1: a McDonald's night manager. I was told you only use
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  Speaker 1: the secret sauce, the Mac sauce, on the Big Macs,
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  Speaker 1: and you never give away the ingredients. Never.
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  Speaker 2: You take that to your grave.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, do you know it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but I will never reveal it.
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  Speaker 1: Although you can buy tubs of it in supermarkets now,
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  Speaker 1: which is so ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: And you talked about her, something else that I found yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: you talked about her yesterday, and we both did, about
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  Speaker 3: how she never got into politics, ever. As a matter
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  Speaker 3: of fact, if she was ever invited to anything she
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  Speaker 3: thought might be political at all, she said no. And
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  Speaker 3: here she is in an interview when she's being pressed
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  Speaker 3: on politics. We have a president of the United States
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  Speaker 3: who said those things on that bus.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not addressing that. I do not get into that.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, I have my opinion about everybody and everything.
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  Speaker 4: But I learned a long time ago, keep your damn
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  Speaker 4: mouth shut if you want to stay in show business.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not in politics. I'm an entertainer.
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  Speaker 3: And yet you're also a role model.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about people. So if you are deciding you may
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  Speaker 4: want to ask me something more serious, don't, because I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to. Oh my.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh.
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  Speaker 2: There's nobody like her.
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  Speaker 5: She could get away with that. Somebody else would sound
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  Speaker 5: angry and nasty by saying, Nope, not going to answer it.
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  Speaker 5: She just sounded adorable and endearing. I just can't take it.
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  Speaker 2: How can I be Dolly?
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  Speaker 5: I want to be her.
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  Speaker 2: Well, go to Dollywood. Why don't you go to Dollywood?
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  Speaker 5: No, seriously? I never thought of going. I'm not a
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  Speaker 5: music person in the first place, but I am going
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  Speaker 5: to go. I definitely am going to go. You know,
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  Speaker 5: they broke the website. You could not get on it
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  Speaker 5: the day she passed away. So many people were jumping on.
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  Speaker 5: And my daughter and her friends want to go. I'm like, really?
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  Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, we love her.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder how many people feel the exact same way
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  Speaker 3: you feel. You answered the question a second ago by
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  Speaker 3: saying that the website was jammed up. Yeah. But I'd
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  Speaker 3: love to hear from people if anybody else out there
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  Speaker 3: was inspired by this to go to Dolly World, to
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  Speaker 3: listen to some Dolly Parton songs. You just go to
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  Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app and leave us a talkback. You could
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  Speaker 3: win a Curtis Lewin, Larry Mendte in the morning t-shirt.
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  Speaker 3: That's going to be awarded every day to our favorite
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  Speaker 3: talk back in the morning. And don't forget, the best
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  Speaker 3: talk back of the week takes on the Sea Crane Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Sea Crane Radio is to deliver the reception and clarity
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  Speaker 3: you deserve.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what's amazing?
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  Speaker 1: Not only a great businesswoman, a great philanthropist, started Dolly World,
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  Speaker 1: so many other things. In the midst of the lockdown
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  Speaker 1: and pandemic, coming up with the money for the vaccine
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  Speaker 1: research that was critical to saving lives. We can go
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  Speaker 1: on and on and on. But she knew early on
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  Speaker 1: for her to be accepted, that part of her could
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  Speaker 1: not be revealed. She had to have that self-deprecation, the wigs,
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  Speaker 1: the platinum wigs, the six-inch stiletto heels that oftentimes made
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  Speaker 1: her look like the madam of a brothel. Like, remember
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  Speaker 1: that movie she was in with Burt Reynolds when she
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  Speaker 1: was the madam of the brothel? I'm trying to remember
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  Speaker 1: the name of that. That was a great movie. She
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  Speaker 1: did so many great movies. That's right, right. Whorehouse of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, And she understood that. And that was her pathway.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm saying to myself late last night, who's comparable?
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  Speaker 1: Because that was a different era. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: be that way any longer.
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  Speaker 2: But who is comparable? And I said, right in our backyard.
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  Speaker 2: I love Lucy. Lucille Ball. She came from Jamestown, New York,
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  Speaker 2: little town upstate. Poor family.
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  Speaker 1: At the age of 14, she was hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: a greaser at the time. He was like 21 years old. Now, imagine,
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  Speaker 1: she's 14, he's 21. The family is saying, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to get her out of here. It's like she's with
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  Speaker 1: the Fonz of Jamestown, New York, if there was even
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  Speaker 1: a Fonz. And they said, what do you want to do, Lucy?
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  Speaker 1: I want to be a chorus girl.
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  Speaker 2: I want to dance. I want to sing.
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  Speaker 1: I have all this talent. Well, you've got to go
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  Speaker 1: to New York City. So she goes to New York City.
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  Speaker 1: And right away, you know, the teacher who's teaching her,
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  Speaker 1: you know, acting and dancing and all that says, you got.
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  Speaker 2: To have an angle. You can't be bright. They're not
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  Speaker 2: going to accept you. You're a bright young lady. You
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  Speaker 2: got to be ditzy. You got to be comedic.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, everybody here has either blonde hair
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  Speaker 1: or brown hair. She had brown hair at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Try being a redhead. down that many redheads in show business. So, boy,
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  Speaker 1: she was out there. She had that chorus girl. She
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  Speaker 1: became a B-grade movie starlet in Hollywood and all those
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  Speaker 1: B movies. She never made it to the A stage.
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  Speaker 1: And then she met Desi Arnaz, you know, the band leader,
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  Speaker 1: the Cuban band leader. Back then, band leaders were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, they were the big thing. They were like
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  Speaker 1: the Harry Styles at the time. And Desi Arnaz had
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  Speaker 1: quite the following. So CBS, they're just getting involved in TV.
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  Speaker 2: She goes, I have this idea.
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  Speaker 1: Me and my husband, Desi Arnaz, the band leader, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about in our home.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: America is not going to go for this guy who
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  Speaker 1: has this thick accent who's Cuban.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go with an American guy to do that. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it. I'm going to take
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  Speaker 1: it on the road. And she went on the road
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  Speaker 1: and it was received really well in Vaudeville. And she
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  Speaker 1: comes back to CBS. They said, Lucy, we told you. No,
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  Speaker 1: we ain't doing it with Desi Arnaz. America will not
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  Speaker 1: go for that accent. And the guy from Cuba, she says, well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what? Then we're not going to do it. And
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  Speaker 1: he thought about it and thought about it. And they
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  Speaker 1: fold it just like remember when Dolly Parton was approached
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  Speaker 1: by Elvis Presley and his manager, Colonel Parker, and they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to use her song and they didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: give it a right. You know, say you should be honored.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Elvis, you know, blue suede shoes wants to do.
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  Speaker 1: And she was honest.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: But that's my song. Those are my rights. And she
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't give him the song. So all this stubbornness leads
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  Speaker 1: to something. We saw it with Stallone and Rocky. He
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  Speaker 1: wrote the script. Hollywood said, no, no, we don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to do it. He said, well, then you can't
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  Speaker 1: have the script. Chaz Palminteri, Bronx Tale. We don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to do it. We want you to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't do it. And yet, if you hold
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  Speaker 1: out for what you believe in.
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  Speaker 2: There's success.
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  Speaker 1: And then she goes on number one sitcom in America,
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  Speaker 1: I Love Lucy. Her husband is cheating on her like
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  Speaker 1: there's no tomorrow. He's seen with every starlet imaginable. So
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  Speaker 1: she goes, I'll fix your wagon. So they start Desilu Productions, right?
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  Speaker 1: She divorces him.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Kicks him out. Said, I had it with you.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know they created Mission Impossible, Star Trek? So
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  Speaker 2: many shows. It was her. It was her.
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  Speaker 1: She devised having more than one camera on set. She
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  Speaker 1: was brilliant, but that never came out in terms of
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  Speaker 1: her acting, her dancing, her performance as America's sweetheart, Lucille Ball,
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  Speaker 1: the person you wanted to be next door, to be
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  Speaker 1: your next door neighbor, the redhead, the ditzy redhead. Somewhat
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  Speaker 1: similar in terms of the rives. And bulletproof to criticism.
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  Speaker 1: Bulletproof to criticism as Dolly Parton was. Look, Dolly Parton
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of the Deep South with the Holy Rollers,
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  Speaker 1: the Southern Baptists, embraced the LGBTQ.
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  Speaker 2: Community and didn't get any blowback.
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  Speaker 1: Most drag queens, if you ask them who you want
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  Speaker 1: to dress up as, they'll tell you Dolly Parton. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of the South. You could do that
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  Speaker 1: in Greenwich Village. You could do that in West Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: Try doing that in the hills of Tennessee. with the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Rollers up there. Yeah, at that point, she was
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  Speaker 1: so big at that point, though. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's too big to fail almost. You can't go after
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  Speaker 1: somebody when they're that big. And as you pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: she was that self-deprecating. No, that's a pretty good one.
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  Speaker 3: If you can think of any others, someone else that
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  Speaker 3: has been universally loved and beyond criticism. Lucille Ball is
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  Speaker 3: a great one. Maybe you have another one. Give us
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  Speaker 3: a talk back. Go to the iHeartRadio app and look
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  Speaker 3: for the talk back session. We're going to be playing
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  Speaker 3: them next. We're also going to be talking about, well,
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  Speaker 3: they say these celebrity deaths come in threes, right? Well,
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  Speaker 3: the very next day, Tim Curry, the actor from many
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  Speaker 3: movies home alone 2 he was on broadway for a
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  Speaker 3: long time with with uh what was it little house
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  Speaker 3: of horrors that i got that one wrong that's not.
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  Speaker 1: It you mean little shop of horrors yeah it's not
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  Speaker 1: it no i know the horror picture show the rocky
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  Speaker 1: horror yeah you know i'm sure you see i know
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  Speaker 1: larry you never went 12 midnight to your local theater.
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  Speaker 2: I did rocky horror oh yeah Which character did you mimic?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't mimic characters. I watched other people mimic characters.
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to watch the event. But I've gone
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  Speaker 3: a couple of times. A couple of times? Oh, there
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  Speaker 3: are things we're learning here about Larry. Because once you go,
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  Speaker 3: you've got to take someone else to go. You have
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  Speaker 3: to say, oh, you've got to see this. You've got
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  Speaker 3: to see this. And so, yeah, no, I've been a
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  Speaker 3: couple of times. You ever been?
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  Speaker 1: One time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. One time only. Why are you making that face?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just suggesting that you like that artsy-fartsy stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't artsy-fartsy at all. It was a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: kids spraying water and shooting each other with stuff and
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  Speaker 3: yelling out during the show.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay, Larry. It's okay. You're getting weird.
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  Speaker 3: Plus a chance to see Chicago at age 25.