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Mark interviews legendary DJ Scott Shannon. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: His job, make it all makes sense. He's marks alone
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  Speaker 1: on sevent teno.
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  Speaker 2: Well with us right now, the greatest living DJ in
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  Speaker 2: the world, that legend, the man himself, Scott Shannon True
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  Speaker 2: Oldies Channel. You can listen to him there and of
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  Speaker 2: course you can see the great documentary about Z one
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  Speaker 2: hundred from Worse to First. And he's on the line now,
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  Speaker 2: Scott Shannon, how you doing.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark, and a happy Saint Patrick's Day to
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  Speaker 1: all of our Irish friends. Today should be a great day.
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  Speaker 1: You're having a great show today and I'm happy to
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  Speaker 1: be on it.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot where did you do Saint Patrick's Day? Every year?
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  Speaker 2: Used to have a.
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  Speaker 1: Biggins had always had some kind of goofy remote broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: When I was working with Todd we go out to
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  Speaker 1: Jersey somewhere Long Island and have you know, she Leley
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  Speaker 1: shaken good time.
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  Speaker 2: So what'd you think of the oscars?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they had some. You know, it's kind of weird
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  Speaker 1: because nobody that you know, us lay people, we had
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  Speaker 1: no idea what movies were, you know, what the who
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  Speaker 1: the stars were, what movies were. We knew a couple
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  Speaker 1: of them, but not that many. I mean, I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was grab Michael Jordan was great for Sinners, and
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  Speaker 1: I felt bad for Diane Warren. You know her, You've
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  Speaker 1: known her for a long time, right, Yeah, she's she's
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  Speaker 1: now a record holder, she had the loft, she's got
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  Speaker 1: the longest Oscars losing streak. She's she's been nominated seventeen
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  Speaker 1: times and hasn't won one award yet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, listen, Susan Lucy had the same problem with
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  Speaker 2: those stupid Emmys and she finally one.
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  Speaker 1: So but she, Diane wrote, has written some of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest songs ever in the Z forty era, and very
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  Speaker 1: nicely due. So someday I think she'll get on there.
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  Speaker 1: I think she'll win something. By the way, I got
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  Speaker 1: to a shout out to my Pali Mazilli and his
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  Speaker 1: wife Danny. They had moved to Florida a few years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and today they're selling their house and they're moving back
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  Speaker 1: to Westchester or Greenwich. I can't believe it. They're packing
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: And that's good to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Peter. There.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you go back and forth Florida, New York. But
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  Speaker 2: there are people moving back. They've had enough of Florida,
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  Speaker 2: aren't There are a few?
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, you don't see that many. It's it is
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  Speaker 1: kind of weird. I mean, especially if if you don't
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  Speaker 1: like snow. It's not a good ide. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: don't want to move back there, and Lee just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: take it anymore. Danny could stay, but Lee wants to
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  Speaker 1: get the heck out of here. You know, he's going
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  Speaker 1: into the Mets Hall of Fame very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so hey talk about our friend Ernie and ASTs
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  Speaker 2: who we lost. Funerals later today for Ernie Anasts.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he lived for a long time at
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  Speaker 1: a place you and I know pretty well, Westchester Country Club,
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  Speaker 1: and he lived right off the South Course for quite
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  Speaker 1: some time. He was such a gentleman and so nice
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  Speaker 1: to everybody. I was. I I'd been on his show
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  Speaker 1: several times when he had the Friday Show whatever he'd
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  Speaker 1: called me, and I remember I had to do my
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  Speaker 1: duty as a New York City morning man when he
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  Speaker 1: had that little faux paw. Remember when he was talking
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  Speaker 1: about the chicken. And the funny thing about it was
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  Speaker 1: he didn't even know that he put the f in
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  Speaker 1: where the p goes and he said it and that
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  Speaker 1: he thought I was pretty fun. Well, it takes a
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  Speaker 1: happy man he thought, he said, pluck a chicken, and
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  Speaker 1: who who was the sidekick at the time. The funny
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  Speaker 1: thing about it was a look on her face. She
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  Speaker 1: froze and I mean there were so many memes offline
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  Speaker 1: with her picture. And then he came back something. Now,
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  Speaker 1: somebody told him after they went into a commercial break
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  Speaker 1: that he had said that, and he said, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: you know how he is, he said, so he went
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  Speaker 1: back on kind of apologize some somewhahow some a bad
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  Speaker 1: word managed to get on the here. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where it came from. It was pretty funny, but that
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  Speaker 1: was That was probably the only time I've ever seen him, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, mix up and a little bit worried about
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  Speaker 1: what happened. Pretty smooth operator, wasn't he.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember he called me that night. He goes,
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  Speaker 2: what do I do? I said, nothing, enjoy it, it'll go away.
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  Speaker 1: Let it go. You know, he's he had such a
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  Speaker 1: great track record. One mistake like that certainly didn't tarnish it. No.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you know back in the good old days, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you come on the air every morning, you talk about
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  Speaker 2: something on TV last night that we all saw. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: saw it. You can't do that anymore. There's fifteen million
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  Speaker 2: things on television streaming everything. There's nothing that everybody watches anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You hit her on the head man. It's just even
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  Speaker 1: though the series that my wife watches, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: Yellows Stone and all that, you see, some people that's
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  Speaker 1: their life. They love those Oh please, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: would never dream of watching an episode without my husband
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  Speaker 1: with me or my wife. But then you run into
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  Speaker 1: people have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Even American Idol, you know that used to be an
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  Speaker 2: a whole nation would watch that, the whole country would
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  Speaker 2: be voting, do you nowadays? So a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: don't even know town anymore.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of American I got a buddy
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  Speaker 1: on there, a kid that I've followed his career for
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe ten years now. His name is
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  Speaker 1: Jake Thistle. He was on last night. He did a
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  Speaker 1: huet Lewis song called the Power of Love. Are you
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  Speaker 1: aware of Jake's adventure? No, he's twenty one years old.
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  Speaker 1: He's been singing since he was seven or eight years old,
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  Speaker 1: doing gigs. I mean, the guy he knew he was
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  Speaker 1: one of those people like you and me. We knew
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  Speaker 1: what we wanted to do, and this guy wants to
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  Speaker 1: be a singer, guitar player, songwriter. He's twenty one, he
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  Speaker 1: graduated from Rutgers and he's on Idol and he's very popular.
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  Speaker 1: The girls loved this guy. Remember we used to do this,
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  Speaker 1: Todd and I used to do this Blightdale Children's Hospital
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  Speaker 1: show every year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, on our last show that we did from there
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  Speaker 1: back in well, Todd went with me. Then I was
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  Speaker 1: over CBSF But back in twenty twenty two, Jake performed
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  Speaker 1: for the kids of Blightdale and I've known him ever
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  Speaker 1: since then. The guy's great. You gotta see him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So even nowadays, you know, you could be the
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  Speaker 2: biggest star in music, number one, fifteen number one records
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  Speaker 2: in a row, and half the way doesn't know who
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  Speaker 2: you are anymore. People over forty don't know who you are.
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  Speaker 2: It's a string now. I think.
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  Speaker 1: I still try to stay up, but you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: that's not the kind of music I'm playing now. I
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  Speaker 1: play sixties and seventies on my on my show. But nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: I have no clue to some of these people. I say,
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  Speaker 1: who the heck is that I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you want to listen to Scott chenn True
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  Speaker 2: Oldies Channel, what's the best way to listen here in
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  Speaker 2: New York?
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  Speaker 1: Not in your Alexa? Just go Alexa plays Scott Channon's
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  Speaker 1: True Oldies. Yeah, over there on HD three ninety two
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  Speaker 1: point three FM. HD three And if you've got an
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  Speaker 1: ac rail. Some people don't even know they have an
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  Speaker 1: HD radio in their car. By the way, I got
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  Speaker 1: to mention this to you. We've missed you the other night.
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  Speaker 1: You usually show up at these events. There was a
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  Speaker 1: big party at the Plaza Hotel, you know, for the
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting Foundation Awards. Galla and I saw your friend Cancer Madds.
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  Speaker 1: He asked me where you were.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know about it. They keep it a secret.
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  Speaker 2: They don't tell anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I never had big awards. Steven A. Smith got up there.
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  Speaker 1: He got a big award from ESPN. Judge Judy got
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  Speaker 1: an award. She announced she's retiring and her son is
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  Speaker 1: going to take over the show.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, that doesn't sound good.
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  Speaker 1: It looks so funny. You know, she's even shorter now
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  Speaker 1: than she was before when she was on TV all
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  Speaker 1: the time. And she's standing next to Steven H. Smith.
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  Speaker 1: She looked like his little daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Scott Shannon, great stuff listening to him on the
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  Speaker 2: True Oldiest channel. And I think you're it's also on
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  Speaker 2: the iHeart app right, you can get the True Oldies Channel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd say we're on iHeart. Of course we are. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's True Oldies. You can listen on your phone True
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  Speaker 1: Oldies Channel at iHeart dot com.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, Scott Channon, we'll do it again soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Bye, Mark, you're talking to you b Saint Patrick's Day.
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  Speaker 2: Take care. Thanks. Yeah, we'll get back to Saint Patrick's
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  Speaker 2: Day in a little while. Don't forget the parade's gonna
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  Speaker 2: snarl up traffic every which way.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The Buck and Clay will be here today at noon
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  Speaker 2: right after the news. You got Sean Handy, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the Irish on the show on the station today,
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  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity three to six, and don't forget to Jesse
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  Speaker 2: Kelly six o'clock and the great Jimmy Fayla every night
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  Speaker 2: at nine. And Curtis is back. You can now hear
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  Speaker 2: him every morning on seven to ten. W R