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

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show Live from the wo R
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  Speaker 1: Life Back studios.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter. You should check
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  Speaker 2: out his website. There's and all sorts of news stories
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  Speaker 2: every day, Showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz for
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  Speaker 2: one one dot com. Roger Friedman, How you doing, I'm great?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Hey have you seen the movie Odyssey?
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  Speaker 3: Has in everyone seen the movie Odyssey? It's up to
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  Speaker 3: three hundred million dollars after twelve days.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. I thought it was the biggest hit.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was six hundred it was huge. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's worldwide. Oh, that's worldwide, three hundred million, United States.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a billion dollar movie at least.
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  Speaker 3: And you've seen it's gonna win. It's gonna of course,
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  Speaker 3: I've seen it. I wrote for one of the first
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  Speaker 3: reviews of it, Well it's a fabulous movie.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us, Well, what's so fabulous?
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  Speaker 3: Well, because it really takes Homer, who's three thousand years old,
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  Speaker 3: and makes him accessible. And even though some of the
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  Speaker 3: translators have complained about it, it's it's done something amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It's made people talk about Homer and talk about the Odyssey.
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  Speaker 3: You know the when you watch the Odyssey, you realize
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  Speaker 3: that every action, you know, it's a fictional story. It's
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  Speaker 3: not history. It's no, there's no history there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there's some references to things, but it's not. This was
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  Speaker 3: the story he made up three thousand years ago. He's
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  Speaker 3: like the original storyteller. And every movie, if you really
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  Speaker 3: think about it, every adventure that we know, even Shakespeare's
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  Speaker 3: adventures come from the Odyssey.
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  Speaker 1: Really, yes, they do.
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  Speaker 3: And it's so obvious when you're watching it that you think, oh, I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is really insane.
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  Speaker 1: But he was the original.
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  Speaker 3: Guy, and and Christopher Nolan has done a wonderful job
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  Speaker 3: of making it so that you'll you'll want to watch it.
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  Speaker 3: And it's really a story of a man who's trying
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  Speaker 3: to get home to his family. It's a very simple story.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, back then people are laughing. Now they're saying, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if he'd home, if Odysseus, the main character,
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  Speaker 3: had you know, been smart, the trip home would have
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  Speaker 3: taken an hour. But only you know now in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty six, but you know it took twenty years back then.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a beautiful job. Matt Damon is terrific and Hathaway.
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  Speaker 3: They're all going to get Oscar nomination.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to get like fifteen Oscar nominations for this movie,
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  Speaker 3: and they'll probably win most of them.
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  Speaker 1: There's no other movie.
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  Speaker 3: Like this in twenty twenty six, even the ones that are,
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  Speaker 3: even the ones that are coming, aren't this good. So
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  Speaker 3: it's a real event. It's sold out forever. On Imax.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get in there. You cannot get in there
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  Speaker 3: for anything. But you can go see it on seventy
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  Speaker 3: milimeter and you could see it in Dolby theaters and
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  Speaker 3: it's just fine to see it that way. You'll want
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  Speaker 3: to see it, Yeah, it's fine to see it that way,
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  Speaker 3: and you'll want to see a choice anyway. So you
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  Speaker 3: can always go back and see it in IOX, but
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  Speaker 3: you have to see that, you have to see a
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  Speaker 3: choice because there's so much going on that it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to take everything in.
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  Speaker 3: I was very happy the second time I saw it
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  Speaker 3: because I was like, oh, yeah, that and that that.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot going on on the screen, but
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  Speaker 3: it's quite the accomplishment and uh and a big hit.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, on Friday, it's going to have a little
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  Speaker 3: competition from Spider Man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, see, to me, that sounds Spider Man, that sounds
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  Speaker 2: more exciting Spider Man. Well I want to see that.
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  Speaker 2: But Homer about a guy trying to go it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: sound that exciting a guy trying to go home.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, it's it's very exciting. God, you have to
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  Speaker 3: see that. You haven't seen it yet. The Trojan Horse
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  Speaker 3: is spent. The whole thing with the Trojan Horse is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: The whole second is.
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  Speaker 2: That's where that's where the Trojan horse story comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, oh, yes, that's where Trojans come from.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's.
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  Speaker 3: Condoms, football players anything named trojan so yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, the Chargan horse part is fabulous. Helen of
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  Speaker 3: Troy is great. So all these things you know from history,
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  Speaker 3: from from fictional history are represented. You know, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's really terrific.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not it's not Good Fellaws. Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 3: It's not Good Fellaws because they don't play Leila in it.
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  Speaker 3: And there's no cocaine. Well there might be cocaine, but
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  Speaker 3: we don't know if there is. And then Spider Man
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  Speaker 3: is uh, you know, just fun, total fun, and it's
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  Speaker 3: apparently going to set a record for its opening. There's
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of about it, and I've seen it.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably the best Spider Man. There not be nine
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  Speaker 3: regular Spider Man movies in the last twenty two years,
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  Speaker 3: twenty four years, and this is the best one.
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  Speaker 1: Very nicely done.
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  Speaker 3: And I've really become a fan of John Burnhall, who's
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  Speaker 3: in The Odyssey and in Spider Man and from the Bear.
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  Speaker 1: You're known from the Bear.
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  Speaker 3: And he was just on Broadway and Dog Day Afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: a terrific actor. Tom Holland and Zendeia have chemistry off
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  Speaker 3: the charts, and of course they just got married in
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  Speaker 3: real life. So everyone wants to see this movie, and
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot of fun, and of course you'll enjoy
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  Speaker 3: it because at one point they do, for just a nanosecond,
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  Speaker 3: played the Spider Man theme song from the cartoon from
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  Speaker 3: the original Spider Man. So that always makes me happy
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  Speaker 3: when I hear that.
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  Speaker 2: No, it sounds good. Well, I've explained both of these perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: I actually now want to see The Odyssey.
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  Speaker 1: But oh no, you really have to see the Odyssey.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna love it.
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  Speaker 3: You're really gonna love It's it's you know, and have
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  Speaker 3: a nice meal before the movie, go to the restroom.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's not one of these four hour movies, is it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a three hour movie, but it doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 3: three hours. It doesn't feel like three hours. It goes
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  Speaker 3: very fast. And the last hour is so excited. Can
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  Speaker 3: I say something? The last hour of the Odyssey is
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  Speaker 3: so exciting that you have you you're thinking, as it's
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  Speaker 3: coming to an end, you're thinking, no, no, no, I
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  Speaker 3: don't want this to end.
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  Speaker 1: That's how good it is.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, yeah, I know you've inspired a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people. Now the lines will be even longer. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to see it the Imax, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: you can get untill September. That's like the first seats available.
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  Speaker 3: Now what you can see it in a seventy millimeter, it's fine.
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  Speaker 3: You can see it in the Dolby theaters. I would
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  Speaker 3: go back and see it like in New York at
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  Speaker 3: the AMC Lincoln Square. Yeah, you just go see it
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  Speaker 3: in the Dolbey Theater. It's great. I love that theater.
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  Speaker 3: That's where we saw Spider Man the other night. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, it's also a big Beatles week. Yeah, Beatles
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  Speaker 3: announcements today.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us what there's new stuff coming out, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a Rubber Soul, which was the first album
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  Speaker 3: of sort of the adult Beatles. If you think about
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  Speaker 3: how fast the Beatles went, it was seven years and
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  Speaker 3: the first three years where you know all those Ticket
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  Speaker 3: to Ride and I Want to Hold Your Hands and
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  Speaker 3: all the pop hits, and then they turned around and
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  Speaker 3: put out Rubber Soul, which was followed by A Revolver
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  Speaker 3: Sergeant Pepper, the White album Abbey Road, Let It Be.
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  Speaker 3: This all happened in a four year period and it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to imagine now. And Rubber Soul is getting an
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  Speaker 3: anniversary box set with lots of demos and outtakes that
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  Speaker 3: we've never heard. I saw John Lennon's song that nobody
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  Speaker 3: knew existed. It's a big box set that's coming out
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  Speaker 3: October second.
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  Speaker 1: I already want it.
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  Speaker 3: It's got a Blu ray disc that's separate in there
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  Speaker 3: that has the Dolby utmost sound, which is just unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: So this is going to be a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Where do I play a Blu ray disc?
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you have still I think most people
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  Speaker 3: saw DVD players. Oh don't you have a TVD player?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I think you'm mean a disc.
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  Speaker 3: Like via No, no, no, it's a disc. It's a
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  Speaker 3: metal disc. You can but they also sell listen to
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  Speaker 3: everyone has you know you and I are passed that
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  Speaker 3: were over it. But young people, everyone loves Vinyl records LPs,
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  Speaker 3: and so this is being offered in a special you know,
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  Speaker 3: LP box too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're just using them as the coasters. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're not actually listening to the fight.
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  Speaker 1: No no, no, no people.
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  Speaker 3: Really, I'm very surprised because I was thrilled when CDs
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  Speaker 3: came in in nineteen eighty three or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 3: I was very happy to move over from LPs. LPs
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  Speaker 3: were warped and they scratched, they jumped, so I was
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  Speaker 3: very happy to move over to CDs. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you have a good CD player, you're in great shape.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, and now of course everyone's streaming, but there's
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  Speaker 3: a whole world of people who want.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, hell yeah, sorry about.
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  Speaker 1: Get my technique's turntable out again.
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  Speaker 2: I still have one of those in a closet somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: That's well. Roger Friedman, great stuff, everybody. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to read more, go to his website Showbiz four one
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  Speaker 2: one dot com. There's new stories every lot, going on
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  Speaker 2: busy weekends. Yeah, so check it out show Bizz showbizfour
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  Speaker 2: one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Take care, hey, and don't forget to start Monday, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be expanding the show. It'll be nine to noon.
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  Speaker 2: I'll start at nine o'clock every day starting Monday, nine
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  Speaker 2: to noon. We're going to have an extra hour, so
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  Speaker 2: don't forget about that coming up at noon today. Buck
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  Speaker 2: and Clay great show every day noon to three, then
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  Speaker 2: at three o'clock. It's the most listened to radio show
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  Speaker 2: in America. Sean Hannity. Actually today I'll be filling in
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  Speaker 2: for Sean. He's at the Lindsey Graham funeral. Washington funeral
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  Speaker 2: was yesterday. Today is the South Carolina funeral. He's there,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll be doing the show later today from three
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  Speaker 2: to six. Then you got Jesse Kelly at six, and
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  Speaker 2: at nine o'clock you got the great Jimmy Taylor with
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  Speaker 2: a really funny show every night at nine on seven
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  Speaker 2: to ten, WR