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Mark interviews radio icon Scott Shannon. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: I slugged into everything New York. Mark Simone on sevent
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  Speaker 1: ten w Well, Scott Shannon, the radio legend, the greatest
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  Speaker 1: living d Jamie. This guy, the greatest program director. You know.
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  Speaker 1: This guy created the Morning Zoo, He created Z one hundred,
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  Speaker 1: he created all sorts of stuff. Number one morning man
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  Speaker 1: in New York for decades. He's still on the air
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  Speaker 1: on the True Oldies channel. And he's with us now.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Shannon, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Happy to be here with Mark Simone, the always napper
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  Speaker 2: radio rapper, the wor powerhouse Jock.
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  Speaker 1: I never liked that term, jock. You like it, right, Jock?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't mind. I remember when I first came
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  Speaker 2: to New York and my friend Ross Britton was with
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  Speaker 2: me on and I picked him up because he had
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  Speaker 2: been let loose by WABC radio. Yeah, they were doing
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  Speaker 2: talk radio. Remember when they did talk radio?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was on their back now.
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  Speaker 2: And then. But he used to say, don't call me
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  Speaker 2: a DJ. I'm talent here in New York. You're not
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  Speaker 2: a jockey or talent. I said, no, no, your talent.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a freaking DJ. And don't you He'll forget it,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. Yeah, oh, he had an agent and everything.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know what I was doing. I just stumbled
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  Speaker 2: in from Tampa and got pretty lucky, I guess. But
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  Speaker 2: last night the iHeart Radio Music Awards in Hollywood, and
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  Speaker 2: of course you know who the big winner was, Gilbert O.
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor swelled, Oh yeah, yeah, well but but wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: She really shook the place up when she showed up
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  Speaker 2: for the first time at any awards, bank winner, any
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  Speaker 2: awards ceremonies. She had her fiance Travis Kelcey with her.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I think we have the clip. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: and probably also feels very happy and confident and free
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  Speaker 1: because that's the way that I get to feel every
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  Speaker 1: single day of my life because of my fiance.
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  Speaker 2: Who's here to That's a pretty good endorsement for Travis.
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  Speaker 1: Huh yeah, well, one career ending, another one starting.
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  Speaker 2: But he makes me feel free. It's pretty good. That
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  Speaker 2: was the first time they have ever appeared at, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of those ceremonies.
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  Speaker 1: How long do you give this marriage?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's since you know, I'm on the positive side,
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  Speaker 2: I think they'll be fine. I mean, I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: when before he met her, he was a real goofball
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  Speaker 2: and Playboy, and he kind of calmed down quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: And hey, he's got Taylor and they're going to get
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  Speaker 2: married and it's gonna hopefully they'll live happily ever after him.
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  Speaker 2: But she got seven awards last night, the most anybody
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  Speaker 2: ever got. And I don't know, maybe I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how many. I don't know how many, you know, heavy
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  Speaker 2: competitors she was up against.
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  Speaker 1: But the big.
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  Speaker 2: News in the music world is a new Paul McCartney album.
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  Speaker 2: This one's a little bit different than the ones he's
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  Speaker 2: done before, because this time he goes back in time
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  Speaker 2: and talks about himself and meeting John Lennon and the
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  Speaker 2: fact that they grew up together. The name of the
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  Speaker 2: albums The Boys of Dungeon Lane, and it's all about
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  Speaker 2: meeting together and sticking together writing all those songs. And
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  Speaker 2: he's got fourteen tracks on this album. You can get
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  Speaker 2: away with nine or ten easily these days, but he's
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  Speaker 2: got fourteen tracks. Comes out May twenty ninth, and the
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  Speaker 2: first single from the album is kind of like snuck out.
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  Speaker 2: It's called the Days We Left Behind. Here's a little
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  Speaker 2: clip problem you like it?
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  Speaker 1: Here he is.
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  Speaker 2: Glad you like it.
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  Speaker 1: That's McCartney playing right, so far, so good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it flashes back, but I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: got it's got a great theme to it, and it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's him kind of I guess, pouring forth
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  Speaker 2: about him growing up when they were kids, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, you saw the the series where he took back.
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  Speaker 2: He went back and showed everybody where he lived and
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  Speaker 2: some of the pubs he would sing in and all
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing. I think this is going to
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  Speaker 2: be probably the best album he's done in a few years.
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  Speaker 1: Well all right, but he didn't set the bar very
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  Speaker 1: high album wise in the last few years. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't mean I'm not picking on him. It's just when
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  Speaker 1: you're the superstar legend Elder Statesman Mick Jagger, Billy Joel
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  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney, you can tour the world and it's incredible,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not going to have hit albums anymore, are you? No?
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  Speaker 2: You know now, That's what I remember. Billy actually told
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  Speaker 2: me this when uh he was talking to Elton John
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  Speaker 2: and and and Elton John's I'm busy working on my
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  Speaker 2: new album, Billy and Billy said, once you just open
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  Speaker 2: up the window and piss out and throw all your
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  Speaker 2: money out the window. He said, no, you know, he said,
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  Speaker 2: people want to hear our old songs, Elton and you know,
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  Speaker 2: and that's how that's how most you see people like
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  Speaker 2: you know, def Leopard, they work hard. They put this
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  Speaker 2: new album out. He probably didn't even know without there,
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  Speaker 2: did you.
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  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney, Where is this going to get played? This album?
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't need. No, they're not going to play it
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  Speaker 2: on Z one hundred and it's not an oldie so
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  Speaker 2: you can't play it on my network. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'll play it a couple of times and enjoy it,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope it turns out. You know, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: he's Paul McCartney. He's going to sell albums. There's no
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  Speaker 2: doubt about it. That's that's and this is good. And
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  Speaker 2: he's really working on a marketing this one because it's very
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  Speaker 2: special to him. And you can get it, get it
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  Speaker 2: in vinyl. He's got seven different color vinyl albums you
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  Speaker 2: can order. Okay, I know, don't pick your color, all right,
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  Speaker 2: So tell you So you're down with Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody should tell him. Maybe it's twenty twenty six, maybe
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  Speaker 1: tell him let him know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will you know what. I think it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a number one album. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're the expert. Hey, the right, Great, that's yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: That was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: People have messed up the national anthem before, but this
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  Speaker 1: guy is a big Broadway star. To be on Broadway
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  Speaker 1: every night, you've got to be good at memorizing lyrics.
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  Speaker 1: What happened?
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  Speaker 2: He was George? I think he played George Washington, didn't he?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think that Christopher Jackson his name. He's got a
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  Speaker 2: Tony on his mantel at home, and he's he's he
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  Speaker 2: didn't lanthem at the Yankees before. He knows what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: But he had a little bit of a glitch at
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  Speaker 2: City Field. Here's what it sounded like.
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  Speaker 1: What's so proudly? We had the twilight last?
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  Speaker 2: To me?
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  Speaker 1: Who sprawl strives, hand rides, stars through the pap Fine,
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  Speaker 1: what's so proudly? Wors gyre? Crowd booing a little there?
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  Speaker 2: So well, I got to tell you something. He came.
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  Speaker 2: He really handled it well. He he talked to TMS Sports.
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  Speaker 2: He said that will not keep him from doing the
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  Speaker 2: national anthem in the future. He said, I've done the
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  Speaker 2: national anthem countless times. And stadiums around the country. Today
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  Speaker 2: was a beautiful opening day, and I was thrilled to
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  Speaker 2: be there. He said. Look, he says, I'm human, but
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  Speaker 2: I won't hesitate to step up to a microphone and
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  Speaker 2: pay tribute to those that we honor with the anthem.
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  Speaker 2: So you know it does happen.
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  Speaker 1: He played George Washington and Hamilton, but in his defense,
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  Speaker 1: when George Washington was present, there was no national anthem.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't written until years later.
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  Speaker 2: But he's not really George.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well that's true.
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  Speaker 2: But I gotta tell you the greatest story that I've
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  Speaker 2: seen in a long time happened what last week? It
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  Speaker 2: was a guy the Quadra is a quadruple amputee who
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  Speaker 2: happens to also be a professional corn hole player. What
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  Speaker 2: he Yeah, you mustn't missed this Dayton Weber. He's like
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven years old. He's got no arms and no
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  Speaker 2: lab and he hadn't had him. He had some kind
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  Speaker 2: of fever when he was a kid, and an infection
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  Speaker 2: and all that. They took off his arms and legs.
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  Speaker 2: But he doesn't let that stop him. He actually goes
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  Speaker 2: to the firing range. He can shoot a gun. He
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  Speaker 2: plays cornhole. He loves it. But Sunday night in Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: he was riding along, right, He's driving the damn car.
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  Speaker 2: Remember he's got no arms and no lady. He's driving
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  Speaker 2: the car. He's got a guy riding shotgun, two guys
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  Speaker 2: in the back seat. Somehow he got into an argument
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  Speaker 2: with the guy in the front seat with him. He
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  Speaker 2: pulled out a gun and shoots him while he's driving
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  Speaker 2: down the road. He kills him. So so.
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  Speaker 1: A car with. What does he drive the car with?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe he's driving a Tesla. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: one of those self drive cars. But listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: He pulls over. The two guys in the backseat are
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  Speaker 2: all ready to their pants. He just shot a guy.
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  Speaker 2: He murdered a guy in the front seat. He tells
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  Speaker 2: him to get out and take the body with him.
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  Speaker 2: They said, no, tell you what. We're going to get out,
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  Speaker 2: but we're not taking the body. They take off running
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know how long they ran, but they
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  Speaker 2: ran into a cop car and he thought they told
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  Speaker 2: them what was going on. Now. This is Dayton Weber.
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  Speaker 2: The guy he shot was Braderick Michael Wells twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: Bout twenty seven and then what happened. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how he did this either. He pulled into a residential
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  Speaker 2: area and somehow managed to get the body out of
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  Speaker 2: the front seat into some guy's yard.
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  Speaker 1: All right, sounds like an episode of Breaking Bad. Sounds
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  Speaker 1: like Walter White Waiter.
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  Speaker 2: Wait minu, it's not over yet. He keeps driving. He
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  Speaker 2: drives the Charlottesville, Virgini and no one's caught him yet.
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  Speaker 2: He checked in and check it, and he went into
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  Speaker 2: the emergency room at the hospital. He needed treatment for something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it was, and that's where the
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  Speaker 2: cops got him. But I mean, think about that just
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  Speaker 2: for a second. It's hard to even drive a car.
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  Speaker 2: And then he shoots a guy and then he pulled
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  Speaker 2: him out of the car and dumps him in somebody's yard.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Hey, Scott Shannon, we're out of time. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: to continue this. We'll do it again soon. Hey, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to listen to the True Oldies Channel, it's
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  Speaker 1: the best music from the sixties and seventies, True Oldiest Channel.
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  Speaker 1: It's a ninety two point three HD three right, yep, And.
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  Speaker 2: You can always download the iHeart app.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you get it there, Ihard app you get
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  Speaker 1: the true oldiest channel. Hey, and take a look at
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  Speaker 1: the documentary about Z one hundred. It's phenomenal, worse the first.
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  Speaker 1: It's on Amazon Prime. Scott Shannon, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Audios and Eagles take care.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, don't forget Curtis's back. Every morning it's Curtis Lee
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  Speaker 1: and Larry Minty right here on sevent ten. Woir