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

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  Speaker 1: Now more. Mark Simos on seventeen r.
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  Speaker 2: Well Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporters should check out
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  Speaker 2: Roger Friedman, How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great. I saw a great Broadway show this week.
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  Speaker 3: You know that everyone should see. It's called Becky Shaw.
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  Speaker 3: It's a comedy playing at the Helen Hayes Theater and
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  Speaker 3: I really you would love it's everyone loves it.
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  Speaker 1: Every reviewer loved it.
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  Speaker 3: There wasn't a single one that didn't like it. And
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  Speaker 3: it's it's just absolutely hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: And you can picture me sitting through an entire Broadway show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you would like this show. It's fun, It's really fun.
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  Speaker 3: And the star of it is this guy, Alden Ehrenreich
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  Speaker 3: who played Hans Solo, you know, in that Hans.
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  Speaker 1: Solo movie that came out a few years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And he's a really good actor, but he's never really
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  Speaker 3: had a hit movie and now he's got to hit
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  Speaker 3: Broadway play. He'll be nominated for a Tony Award and
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  Speaker 3: and everyone Linda Emon, who is a very well known
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  Speaker 3: Broadway actress kind of steals the show, and she's also hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: So it's about a family, and it's also, strangely enough,
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  Speaker 3: it's about a family, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Also about dating.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just it's so many laughs that you really need.
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  Speaker 3: You need the laugh, believe me.
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  Speaker 2: So's to tell us the name again, Becky Shaw sounds good.
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  Speaker 2: Hey tell this girl.
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  Speaker 3: This actress who you don't really know, plays this Becky Shaw,
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  Speaker 3: who doesn't really come into the play for a little while,
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  Speaker 3: and you think that she's meek and mild.
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  Speaker 1: By the time the play is over, you're terrified of her.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: So, how's Broadway doing overall? How's business on Broadway?
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  Speaker 3: Business was really good? Last week Broadway was up about
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  Speaker 3: five million dollars from the week before. It's a little
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  Speaker 3: behind from last year, but it's a big, big increases.
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  Speaker 3: The shows that they're really carrying it are Harry Potter
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  Speaker 3: and The Curse Child has become such a hit because
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  Speaker 3: they brought this guy Tom Felton in from the Harry
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  Speaker 3: Potter movies and now the Harry Potter fans are like
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  Speaker 3: selling out the theater every.
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  Speaker 1: Week to see him.
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  Speaker 3: So he just signed another contract to go through November,
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  Speaker 3: because where's it going to go. They're doing just doing great,
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  Speaker 3: and Hamilton is huge, of course, and then we have
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  Speaker 3: some new shows opening right now for the Tony Awards,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll see how they're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, tell us about this Michael Jackson movie. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're like a Michael Jackson.
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  Speaker 3: I am the Michael Jackson expert. Well, it'll be interesting
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  Speaker 3: some people.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't sound like a rave review.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not allowed to review it yet. It's only
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  Speaker 3: just be shown for the first time. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 3: what's great at What's I think is going to be
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  Speaker 3: great about it is that Michael's nephew, Jermaine Jackson's son,
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  Speaker 3: Jeffar Jackson, plays him in the movie, and he looks
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  Speaker 3: a lot like him, and he can dance.
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  Speaker 1: Like him and sing like him.
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  Speaker 3: So the concert part of this movie is going to
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  Speaker 3: be fantastic. I don't know what the story is going
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  Speaker 3: to be like, but the story I do know this
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  Speaker 3: much about the story. This is only about the nineteen eighties.
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  Speaker 3: It ends when Bad, the album Bad comes out and.
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  Speaker 1: Michael's way on top.
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  Speaker 3: They don't get into anything after nineteen ninety, so there's none.
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  Speaker 1: Of the they were originally going.
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  Speaker 3: They originally filmed part of it to show Michael being
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  Speaker 3: accused of child molestation and then being exonerated, and it
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  Speaker 3: just didn't work in the movie, so they cut that
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  Speaker 3: whole part out and they've just made it about his
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  Speaker 3: great success and all the great music from the eighties,
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  Speaker 3: which I think is smart because you know, the MJ
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  Speaker 3: musical on Broadway also does the same thing. It just addresses,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the high point of Michael's career, and they
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  Speaker 3: don't get into any of the details of all the
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  Speaker 3: crazy stuff that happened. I do you know, Bubble I
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  Speaker 3: agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that a better idea? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I do know that Bubbles the chimp is in is
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  Speaker 3: in the movie, so.
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  Speaker 1: That's very exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Not everyone loves Bubbles, the real Bubbles Now the real
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  Speaker 3: one is retired. He lives in Florida and apparently apparently
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  Speaker 3: he's having a great time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 3: People got to visit him, and he's great and he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't remember anything that happened. But uh no, I think
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  Speaker 3: I think the movie will be fun. If you like
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  Speaker 3: Michael Jackson. It'll be like a great concert film.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good.
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  Speaker 1: We'll know more in a couple of weeks. We'll we'll,
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  Speaker 1: we'll know more.
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  Speaker 2: Paul McCartney tell us what he's up to.
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  Speaker 3: Huge stuff going on. He's going to be the musical
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  Speaker 3: guest on Saying I Live. I think it's May May fourteenth,
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  Speaker 3: and it's the final.
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  Speaker 1: Episode of the season, and he's promoting.
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  Speaker 3: His new album called Boys of Dungeon Lane, which will
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  Speaker 3: be out May twenty ninth. He has a single out
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  Speaker 3: right now. The single is terrific. Paulccartney. These guys, the
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  Speaker 3: guys who are last, the Rolling Stones, are announcing on
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  Speaker 3: Saturday a new album and a new single.
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  Speaker 1: They're dropping a single on Saturday the eleventh.
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  Speaker 2: And who's going to play this new single?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, the last album was fantastic and it
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  Speaker 3: did very well and it won the Grammy Award. So
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  Speaker 3: and there's nothing better than for me, there's nothing better
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  Speaker 3: than the Rolling Stones. So I'm I'm thrilled. But you
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  Speaker 3: have Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones. Paul McCartney. Ringo Starr
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  Speaker 3: also has a terrific album coming out. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: this week. And he had a very good country album
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  Speaker 3: last year. So these guys are in there. Well, Bruce's
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  Speaker 3: into this AVO.
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  Speaker 2: Now the handicap seats are on the stage.
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  Speaker 1: I did, wheelchair access is on the stage.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, and listen Gladys Knight and all those
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  Speaker 3: that gang, Patty Lapel, LaBelle, they're all out there touring
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  Speaker 3: and these people are serious about it. They're not like
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  Speaker 3: the new people, the or the generation after them.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 3: You know Sting is coming to the Metropolitan opase. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: these people want to work. Everybody wants to work, they
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  Speaker 3: want to sing, They still writing music.
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  Speaker 1: It's very exciting. I think, let them do it.
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  Speaker 3: Paul Simon's on tour, he's doing none of the big tour.
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  Speaker 3: So all of these classic guys are out there doing
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  Speaker 3: their thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's cool, No, it.
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  Speaker 2: Is, it is. Hey, these are all the old time artists.
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  Speaker 2: They always knew how. They had better work ethics, more
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  Speaker 2: disciplined than the newer people.
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  Speaker 1: And a real work ethic.
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  Speaker 3: They also they were real composers, you know, they weren't
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  Speaker 3: like these people now have teams of writers writing for them.
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  Speaker 3: These guys who were out there wrote their own songs.
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  Speaker 3: They recorded there, they orchestrated them, they you know, recorded them.
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  Speaker 3: They were the real thing, so they don't want to
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  Speaker 3: give up. I'm very excited about the Rolling Stone. I'll
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  Speaker 3: be right there on Saturday watching that announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, people don't realize how these guys were trained. If
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  Speaker 2: you were the Beatles the Cavern Club, you did like
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  Speaker 2: eight shows a day, and if you went to Hamburg, Germany,
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  Speaker 2: you perform noon to midnight. You have twelve hours a day.
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  Speaker 1: So oh yeah, yeah, yeah right, and the Stones listen.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Keith Richards has a little arthritis and he
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  Speaker 3: said he didn't want a tour. I could do a
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  Speaker 3: big tour. But I think they're going to announce before
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  Speaker 3: the end of the summer. They're going to do one
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  Speaker 3: of these things like Harry Styles is coming to Business
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  Speaker 3: Square Garden and he's just staying there for thirty shows
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  Speaker 3: instead of going to tons of cities, and they're making
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  Speaker 3: the people come to them. So I think the Stones
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  Speaker 3: will do something like that where they do like New York,
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles, London, and you'll they'll do like thirty shows
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  Speaker 3: in each place and you'll just go see it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's because Keith. We can't move Keith around too much.
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  Speaker 3: He can play the guitar like crazy, But you know
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  Speaker 3: everyone's got to sit at.
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  Speaker 2: The well, hey, will you in a minute? Left, Roger Freeman,
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  Speaker 2: tell me about the oscars. Now, what happens with the oscars?
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  Speaker 2: Next it moves to YouTube or something.
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  Speaker 3: That's well, no, the next two years, it's still that
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  Speaker 3: on YouTube the next two years of the ninety ninth
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  Speaker 3: anniversary and the hundredth anniversary, and they're staying on ABC.
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  Speaker 3: And they're going to be in March again, which is
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  Speaker 3: sort of crazy because it's too late. They should have
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  Speaker 3: had them in February this year and it's just way
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  Speaker 3: too late. By that time, no one cares that they're
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  Speaker 3: sticking with it. I think ABC is forcing them to
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  Speaker 3: do it in March. Then in twenty twenty nine, when
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  Speaker 3: you and I will be in the nursing home, they
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  Speaker 3: will have it.
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  Speaker 1: On YouTube, and who knows what that'll be like. I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea what that'll be like. I would YouTube
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  Speaker 1: doesn't care.
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  Speaker 2: I love YouTube, That's so what I watch most of
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  Speaker 2: the time. But if you're down, and do you yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if you're in Boco Tan with the eighty year old's
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  Speaker 2: going to well, how do I find this? Where is it?
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  Speaker 2: How do I see it?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: One will ever find no no one will ever find it.
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  Speaker 3: I have trouble now finding the Yankees on you know,
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  Speaker 3: Apple or Amazon, so listen, it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: That's a whole other story about the Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: Well, but anyway, the Oscars, you know, the Oscars will.
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  Speaker 1: Go on and on. This year. By the way, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of big hit movies, like big deal movies.
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  Speaker 1: So the Oscars should.
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  Speaker 3: Be interesting because we've got Steven Spielberg movie coming in June.
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  Speaker 3: We have Christopher Nolan movie coming in July. We've got
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  Speaker 3: all these big, big event movies. So they'll all be
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  Speaker 3: part of the Oscars next year.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's good to hear. Great stuff, Roger Freeman.
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  Speaker 2: You want to see more, go to his website showbiz
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  Speaker 2: for one one dot com, Showbiz for one one dot
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  Speaker 2: com check out all the time. Is always new stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us. Thank you all right,
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