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Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mister New York. Hey, that's marks among seven ten war Well.
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  Speaker 2: Roger Friedman is the great entertainment reporter, and he's got
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  Speaker 2: this wonderful website called Showbiz for one one dot com.
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  Speaker 2: You should check it every day. There's all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: great stories, new stuff all the time. Showbiz for one
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  Speaker 2: one dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm great? How are you this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Very good? Hey? Tell us about Billy Crystal makes a
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  Speaker 2: big announcement yesterday new Broadway showing.
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  Speaker 3: No. Well, he was on Stephen Colbert last night, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: he came to say goodbye to Stephen Colbert because he's
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  Speaker 3: going off the air next month. And the Colbert shows
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  Speaker 3: from the Ed Sullivan Theater where Billy got his start
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  Speaker 3: on Ed Sullivan.
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  Speaker 1: So he came.
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  Speaker 2: He was on it Sullivan.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he was at the very end of the
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  Speaker 1: Ed Sullivan Show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he must have been so young.
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  Speaker 1: He was pretty young.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, he came back.
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  Speaker 3: He came back to do a little stick to celebrate
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  Speaker 3: the fiftieth.
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  Speaker 1: Not the fiftieth, his.
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  Speaker 3: Anniversary of having been there first and now to be last.
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  Speaker 3: And then he announced that he's doing a Broadway show
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  Speaker 3: this fall. It's a one man show. You know, he's
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  Speaker 3: done so many great one man shows, like seven hundred Sundays,
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  Speaker 3: and this one's called eight sixty and it's about everything
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  Speaker 3: that happened to him in LA the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 3: with the fires and all the rest of it. So
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  Speaker 3: it'll be for twelve weeks this fall. You know, it'll
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  Speaker 3: be funny. In fact, the minute the tickets go on sale,
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  Speaker 3: which I think is April twenty eighth, they'll sell out completely,
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  Speaker 3: like in the first hour, because you know, we love him.
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  Speaker 1: It's a real New Yorker.
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  Speaker 2: When they say limited run twelve weeks, that's so in
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  Speaker 2: case it doesn't work, they can close and hopefully it
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  Speaker 2: takes off, and then they extend it, right so it
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  Speaker 2: could run for well.
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  Speaker 3: In his case, it's not gonna you know, it's not
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  Speaker 3: going to not take off. It's going to be it'll
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  Speaker 3: be sold out immediately. So the question is, well he
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  Speaker 3: stay for any time after that, and he may take
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  Speaker 3: a break and then come back, because that's exhausting. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Billy Crystal is not twenty five anymore. Neither am I.
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  Speaker 2: He did seven hundred Sundays for a long time, right.
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  Speaker 3: He did he did, so hopefully he'll do it, and
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  Speaker 3: he seems pretty into it.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. The best was Larry David, who said
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  Speaker 2: it's a dream to be on Broadway. Then he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: show after about six weeks of the same lines every night,
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  Speaker 2: he can't wait to get the hell out of there.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, Larry David's show was a play and it was
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  Speaker 3: no good so and he's not I don't think he
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  Speaker 3: really likes stand up anymore because of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 1: He's so used to being in the show.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, Yes, a lot of people find Broadway grueling,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when they get there, they think it'll be
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun. And this is why you see
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  Speaker 3: a lot of Hollywood stars come into plays, especially around
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  Speaker 3: Tony time, and the play is just for a two
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  Speaker 3: month run or a three month run and that's it.
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  Speaker 3: We have a lot of that going on right now.
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  Speaker 3: But Billy Crystal will be great tonight on Broadway. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, I'm going to see Adrian Brodie in the
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  Speaker 3: Fear of thirteen and he has, you know, won the
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  Speaker 3: Oscar this year just recently, and he has two Oscars
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  Speaker 3: for Best Actor and.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be really exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Now, there are some people who just go to Broadway
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  Speaker 2: all the time. They got every playbill. They just can't
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  Speaker 2: wait for the next brother they do. And there are
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  Speaker 2: other people that can't sit through those things for as I.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, some of them are. They're hard to sit there
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  Speaker 3: if they're bad. Yeah. I used to try to go
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  Speaker 3: to every single thing, but of course it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: do anymore. And this has been a busy season right now,
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  Speaker 3: but it's a good season. So and I told you
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  Speaker 3: last week there's a great play that's just opened called
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  Speaker 3: Becky Shaw. There's a lot of terrific stuff going on, so.
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  Speaker 1: That's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be good Sunday night. What the show that opened,
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  Speaker 2: the Titanic Titanic. Yeah, I saw this off Broadway. It's
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  Speaker 2: been around for a while. It's like a parody of Titanic.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of wild, it's very broad.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's a it's a parody of the Titanic movie.
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  Speaker 3: And they have the main character is Celene Dion, So
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  Speaker 3: they have an actress who plays Celine Dion and they
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  Speaker 3: sing you know that song my Heart goes on from
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  Speaker 3: the show from the movie, and they carry very campy.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's not a it's not a like a you know,
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  Speaker 3: a new musical. It's a it's like a Forever Broadway
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great idea comedy version of Titanic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, especially if you love Titanic or you
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  Speaker 3: love Selene day Odd.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely the thing to say. Yeah, it's definitely the
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  Speaker 1: thing to say.
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  Speaker 3: Aren't you excited? Aren't you excited about Madonna? She announced
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  Speaker 3: the new album this morning.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta be honest, I'm not that thrilled. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: it's Madonna. It's on the it's almost sixty eight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's on the Nursing Home label. It's Madonna. Let me
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  Speaker 2: ask you a question, who the hell's going to play it?
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  Speaker 2: Where's it going to get played?
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  Speaker 3: It's not gonna get played, well, get played in dance.
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  Speaker 3: It's a dance album. It's a sequel to her two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and five album Confessions on a Dance Floor, And
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be, you know, for clubs. It's going
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  Speaker 3: to be for dance clubs. And we'll see if there's
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  Speaker 3: a song for the radio. It's very hard for older
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  Speaker 3: or any older artists, not just Madonna, to get played
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  Speaker 3: on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: You know Madonna, that's forty years ago. If I went
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  Speaker 2: down to Z one hundred and I said I got
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  Speaker 2: the new Madonna album, They're all going to go, who.
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  Speaker 3: I do?
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  Speaker 1: That's a problem. Well on her.
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  Speaker 3: One compromise will be that I think that she's releasing
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  Speaker 3: a single with Sabrina Carpenter, who is the number one
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  Speaker 3: you know Madonna like kid of this generation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 3: Although she's a lot cleaner, but apparently she's got a
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  Speaker 3: do it coming with Sabrina Carpenter, and we may see it.
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  Speaker 3: Are the people out of Coachella in California may hear
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  Speaker 3: it this.
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  Speaker 1: Weekend because Sabrina Carpenter is doing her.
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  Speaker 3: Second show, and I guess Madonna is rumored to be
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  Speaker 3: showing up with her and doing the song, So we'll
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  Speaker 3: hear what it is.
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  Speaker 2: She thinks they're going to play this in clubs, they
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  Speaker 2: would know who the hell she is in these clubs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they know who she is in the club.
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  Speaker 2: If Madonna went to a club, the twenty eight year
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  Speaker 2: old bouncer is not going to know who she is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, that's that's her world.
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  Speaker 2: Those songs were forty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Literally, I know, I know, But that's her world.
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  Speaker 3: That's her world, and we're more excited about earth Wind
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  Speaker 3: and Fire coming.
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  Speaker 2: So I love them. You know, I knew them. Fire
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  Speaker 2: was a friend of mine. I'm kidding, what's that?
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  Speaker 3: A Fire was a friend of yours.
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  Speaker 1: Not earth.
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  Speaker 2: Wind I met once, but.
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  Speaker 3: That was the guy who had your job before. No
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  Speaker 3: earth Wind and Fires coming to the Beacon Theater on
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  Speaker 3: June third to open the Tribeca Film Festival. There's a
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  Speaker 3: documentary about them, and then they're going to play on
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  Speaker 3: stage with the Roots, and let me tell you, that
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  Speaker 3: is huge. That's going to be huge. The only problem
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  Speaker 3: is I talked to Yeah, you get all excited earth
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  Speaker 3: Wind and Fires come on, and then these guys come
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  Speaker 3: out with walkers and canes and you realize.
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  Speaker 1: This is wow. They're they're in very good shape.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I've seen earth Wind and Fire perform
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  Speaker 3: a few times at like, you know, various functions. I
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen the been a full concert in a while.
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  Speaker 3: But they're they're terrific. And I had a long talk
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  Speaker 3: with Verdin White as the leader of the group, the
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  Speaker 3: guy with the tall and skinny, guy with the long hair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: He's an amazing guitarist and he's an amazing singer, and
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  Speaker 3: they've never been more revved up. In fact, they're going
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  Speaker 3: on tour with Lionel Richie. So then after they do
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  Speaker 3: the speaking show, then they do a Madison Square garden
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  Speaker 3: show I think in July, so they're they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be all over the place and they're hotter than ever.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone loves that song. September, they had a lot of
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  Speaker 3: great songs. They really Yeah, hey, Will, got in a
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  Speaker 3: minute left tell me about There's a big new documentary
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  Speaker 3: on Lauren Michaels.
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  Speaker 2: What's the deal with that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's great, It's opening on Friday. I wrote about
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  Speaker 3: it on Showbiz for on One the other day. They
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  Speaker 3: had a big, great premiere at Alice Tully Hall last week.
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  Speaker 3: And this is the first time that Laurene Michaels in
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  Speaker 3: fifty years really has talked about anything. He never gives
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  Speaker 3: interviews and he didn't want to do this one either,
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  Speaker 3: but he was convinced finally after two years of prodding,
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  Speaker 3: because they had interviewed everybody else from Saturday Night Live,
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  Speaker 3: so then finally he had to give in. And what's
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  Speaker 3: interesting about it is, you know he's seventy nine, and
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  Speaker 3: he's been doing the show for you know, fifty one years,
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  Speaker 3: and he's not going to retire. He's going to stay
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  Speaker 3: there till he can't do it anymore. And he's in
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  Speaker 3: good shape, not wood, and he loves the show, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, he created it, and he's a little concerned
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  Speaker 3: actually that there won't be a show once he's gone.
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  Speaker 3: We thought that maybe he was going to turn over
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  Speaker 3: the reins to someone like Seth Myers or Tina Fey,
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  Speaker 3: but no, no. In fact, I think when he said
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  Speaker 3: that in the film and then he said it to
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  Speaker 3: me again at dinner after the screening, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: people like said and Tina and Colin just all went
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  Speaker 3: what because they all thought maybe they would get it.
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  Speaker 3: And now he's like, nope, I'm not leaving.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, it'll go off the year.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. Same reason as Colbert Network TV
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  Speaker 2: viewership is way down. It's cheaper to just run an
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  Speaker 2: old game show there or sell the time. They'll they'll
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  Speaker 2: just put a movie on her.
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  Speaker 1: I don't run reruns of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, problem is that's it's a little topical. But
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  Speaker 2: you can edit your way around that, but.
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  Speaker 3: They run reruns now at ten o'clock on Saturday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's a are recent but anyway, it's not going anywhere
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  Speaker 3: for the moment. I think he'll, you know, if he's
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  Speaker 3: seventy nine, I think he'll probably From looking at him,
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  Speaker 3: he looks like he's in great shape.
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  Speaker 1: Knock quoiod. It'll go another five years, So he's not
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, Roger Freeman, great stuff. Everybody read his website.
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  Speaker 2: There's new stuff all the time. Showbiz for one one
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  Speaker 2: dot com, Showbiz for one one dot com. Roger Friedman,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for being with us. Thank you, take care. Hey,
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