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Mark interviews TV personality Rhonda Shear. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mark simone mr new york now three hours every weekday
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  Speaker 1: from nine till noon on 710 wor well ronda sheer
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  Speaker 1: of course you know her from up all night and
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  Speaker 1: uh she's written a great book that you should read
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  Speaker 1: a big big bestseller uh now uh also she runs
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  Speaker 1: a huge fashion empire just go to ronda sheer.com RhondaShear.com.
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  Speaker 1: She's got a Roku channel and all of that. Rhonda Shear,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Mark, that's so sweet. The best intro ever. And that
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  Speaker 2: gentleman just said that you need more interesting guests, and
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  Speaker 2: you have me. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't listen to him. What does he know?
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  Speaker 2: But wait, I was a politician. I ran for office
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  Speaker 2: when I was 22 in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. luckily you didn't get elected because you
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  Speaker 1: would have not had this great show business career that
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  Speaker 1: you had.
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  Speaker 2: No, but do you know, this is really, this is
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  Speaker 2: how old I am, but I was the first woman
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  Speaker 2: and the youngest person to ever run in the state
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  Speaker 2: of Louisiana. And I don't know if you, do you
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  Speaker 2: remember governor Edwin Edwards back in new Orleans?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, name sounds familiar. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He was literally like the father of the state. Cause
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  Speaker 2: he like slept with every, every person that was long
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  Speaker 2: before the me too.
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  Speaker 1: Really? While he was in office.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he was a silver fox, gorgeous. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he really was. And he was 42 when he was elected.
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  Speaker 2: You have to look him up because he's legendary. He
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  Speaker 2: went to jail, he had a reality show. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: he brought gambling to New Orleans and Louisiana. He was
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  Speaker 2: 42 and I was at my junior senior prom. And
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  Speaker 2: literally they were having a political party next door, like
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  Speaker 2: different rooms, like in a convention center. And I was
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  Speaker 2: standing outside and my date wasn't around with a couple
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  Speaker 2: of friends. And he had one of his little henchmen
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  Speaker 2: come up to me and say, the governor would like
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  Speaker 2: to meet you and get your phone number. Wow. And
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  Speaker 2: like a fool, I gave it to him because I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know better. I was 16. And that started this
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  Speaker 2: whole relationship, not a relationship, of him calling me and
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  Speaker 2: sending me flowers and telling me that my name was,
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  Speaker 2: that he was in Florida and he was writing my
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  Speaker 2: name in the sand and the waves were washing it away.
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  Speaker 2: You see, guys can get away with stuff.
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  Speaker 1: This is while he's in office?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God, look up Edwin Edwards.
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  Speaker 1: So while he's in office, he's calling a 16-year-old.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And he's probably calling a million other women. Oh, gosh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was jokes about him because he was
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  Speaker 2: movie star handsome. And he really, I mean, literally brought
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  Speaker 2: gambling and so much. He was a big gambler. Gorgeous, funny,
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  Speaker 2: Cajun accent. Very sexy. But, you know, back then, you
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  Speaker 2: know how you had phone lines and somebody else could
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  Speaker 2: pick up the other extension in another world?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So he would call me up and he would go
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  Speaker 2: by the name Bandito. Bandito? That's like Carlos Danger.
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  Speaker 1: With Anthony Weiner. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. So I would have my parents. I'd be giggling.
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  Speaker 2: You're 16, and it's hysterical when some older man, even
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  Speaker 2: though he was very handsome... was calling you so I'd
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  Speaker 2: say mom dad pick up your phone they'd all be
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  Speaker 2: listening and he'd be telling me all this BS about
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  Speaker 2: my name and the waves and I must come to
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  Speaker 2: the mansion in Louisiana and he's got gifts for me
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  Speaker 2: and I must go to LSU Baton Rouge because he
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  Speaker 2: will make me queen of the campus and which is
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  Speaker 2: why I didn't go there and I went to Loyola
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  Speaker 2: University but this is all true and it's actually in
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  Speaker 2: my book I mean I have a whole thing yeah
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  Speaker 2: well the.
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  Speaker 1: Book's called up all night right yes yeah you got
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  Speaker 1: to get the book and read all these stories But
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  Speaker 1: I like the Bill Clinton approach where you just get
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  Speaker 1: her in a hotel room and drop your pants. Remember
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  Speaker 1: with Paula Jones?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, of course I do.
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  Speaker 1: But that's Bill Clinton. He was just pulled on his pants. Here,
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  Speaker 1: take a look.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? This all went on, Mark. This
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  Speaker 2: all went on. I mean, I guess I was like that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, okay. I have to say this really quickly.
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  Speaker 2: So when I was Miss Louisiana and I went up
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  Speaker 2: to the state capitol to make a speech on young
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  Speaker 2: women in politics or young people in politics. So I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know, this is before I knew anything about that.
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  Speaker 2: I was too naive to know that Edward Edwards was
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  Speaker 2: going to hit on me. So it was all men
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  Speaker 2: because there was no women in the Senate at the capitol.
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  Speaker 2: our Congress people. So anyway, I get up in front
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  Speaker 2: and I make this speech and it's so cute. And
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  Speaker 2: at the very end, and I go, and my parents
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  Speaker 2: are there and I'd like to thank Governor Edwards for
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  Speaker 2: making this all possible. And I got this huge laugh
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  Speaker 2: and a standing ovation. And I realized then I basically
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  Speaker 2: was saying, I made this, they knew, they knew his
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  Speaker 2: whole womanizing thing. He hit on everybody. So when I
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  Speaker 2: said that it was hysterical, but that was my first
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  Speaker 2: big laugh And I think at that point on, at
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  Speaker 2: the tender age of 17, is why I got into
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  Speaker 2: comedy later on.
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  Speaker 1: So this governor, didn't it ever come out? Didn't anybody
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  Speaker 1: ever do stories about his womanizing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Please. You will get the biggest kick. I'm surprised that
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  Speaker 2: you don't remember that because you know all this stuff. Legendary.
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  Speaker 2: Edwin Edwards. And like I said, devastatingly handsome. And had
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  Speaker 2: a reality show recently. Not so many years ago. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he passed away not that long ago, married a much
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  Speaker 2: younger woman, and had another child in his 80s.
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  Speaker 1: All right, but wait a minute. This line of his,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm putting your name in the sand here
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  Speaker 1: in Florida. This doesn't really work on anybody, does it,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of line?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're 16 years old, and you have your parents
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  Speaker 2: on the other phone, and you're laughing hysterically. Of course not.
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  Speaker 2: And then, you know, I was in all these pageants
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  Speaker 2: at that time. So he pulls up to one of
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  Speaker 2: the pageants I was in, and my first cousin who's
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  Speaker 2: from New York, she's with me. And he's in a
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  Speaker 2: state car, a state Louisiana trooper car, and he's in
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  Speaker 2: the backseat. And the trooper comes out, or his bodyguard,
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  Speaker 2: and says, Governor Edwards would like you to get in
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  Speaker 2: the backseat of the car with him. Now, my cousin's
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  Speaker 2: walking around. I get into the backseat. He totally starts
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  Speaker 2: to try to make out with me. And I'm laughing hysterically.
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  Speaker 2: This is why I use comedy as a defense my
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  Speaker 2: entire career.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but wait, isn't there a driver in this car?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the driver got out and I got in. He says,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a baby. Seriously, I'm totally underage. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: guess I was 17 at that point because I was
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  Speaker 2: old enough to go into the Miss Louisiana pageant. And
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  Speaker 2: my cousin's walking around and she doesn't know. We still
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  Speaker 2: laugh about this to the day. She's a New Yorker
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  Speaker 2: and she's she had her arm in a cast and
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  Speaker 2: she's walking around. the state troopers walking around, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: in the backseat of the car with the governor. You'd
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  Speaker 2: think these guys wouldn't have gotten in trouble, right?
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  Speaker 1: All right, but the governor's pawing you. How did you
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  Speaker 1: get out of there?
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  Speaker 2: Pawing me? I laughed in his face. I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was the funniest thing I ever saw because you're a baby.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some old man, even though he's good-looking, but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's old enough to be your father.
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  Speaker 1: And did he smell like Old Spice?
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  Speaker 2: No, he was really hot. He really was. And then
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  Speaker 2: later on when I went to the pageant, In Miss Louisiana,
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  Speaker 2: my sister was my chaperone and my sister was beautiful
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  Speaker 2: and a little older than me. He hit on her too.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Except I told my sister, you should have gone to
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  Speaker 2: bed with him because you had nothing to lose. You
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  Speaker 2: were newly divorced. And maybe I would have won the pageant. See,
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  Speaker 2: I would get in so much trouble saying this in
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  Speaker 2: front of women. I mean, because back then you could
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  Speaker 2: have a sense of humor about this.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. There was nothing you could do. I
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  Speaker 1: Googled this guy, Edwin Edwards. He's okay looking. He's not
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  Speaker 1: that handsome.
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  Speaker 2: Look at him in his youth.
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  Speaker 1: I am. He's not that handsome. Yes, he was. He was.
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  Speaker 2: He had the slick. He had that slick tongue, that
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  Speaker 2: Cajun accent. And he would tell joke after joke, and
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  Speaker 2: he charmed everyone. But you've got to look up, like,
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  Speaker 2: the stories about– he would laugh about– okay, one more
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  Speaker 2: story because I never got out of town. I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe this was my show. But anyway, I'm doing a
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  Speaker 2: commercial years later doing my Up All Night Days. And
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  Speaker 2: so I'm in my 30s. I'm in New Orleans, and
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  Speaker 2: it was for Barks Root Beer, which is a big
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  Speaker 2: local root beer. And they have all these celebrities.
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  Speaker 1: They have me.
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  Speaker 2: They have him. They've got the Coach of the Saints,
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  Speaker 2: all these different local celebrities in New Orleans. And they
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  Speaker 2: had me whisper something in his ear about the soft drink.
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  Speaker 2: And we're on live mic, okay? But he doesn't realize.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a lavalier. I've got a lavalier on. We're
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  Speaker 2: getting ready to shoot the bit, and he says to me,
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  Speaker 2: and I can't say the word, but you can fill
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  Speaker 2: in the blanks. He goes, you know, I should have
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  Speaker 2: you when... I had the chance. Well, he never had
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  Speaker 2: the chance, but he should have, you know what, blanked
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  Speaker 2: when he had the chance. And the entire, the sound man,
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  Speaker 2: the cameraman, every person in the studio turned around and
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  Speaker 2: looked at me and just went, oh. He literally just
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  Speaker 2: said that on a live mic.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, it says he served four terms as governor. He
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  Speaker 1: got through four terms without ever any scandal? Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: There was so much scandal. They loved him. If he
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  Speaker 2: was alive right now, he'd win again. That's Louisiana politics, Warwick. Oh, salacious.
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  Speaker 2: They were fabulous.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, I'm going to go read about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go watch video of this guy.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to. Really and truly. And I'll send you
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  Speaker 2: some pictures. I sent you a couple of pictures just
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  Speaker 2: now because I'm coming to town. Last announcement before you
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  Speaker 2: throw me off. And your other person says, why don't
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  Speaker 2: you have a politician on? But you can say I
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  Speaker 2: was a politician. And I lost by 135 votes.
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  Speaker 1: You're coming to New York?
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming to New York and I want, and I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm inviting you right now in front of all of
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  Speaker 2: your listeners to be, I want you not only to
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  Speaker 2: be a guest, but I want to do a special
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  Speaker 2: with you, Mark and Rhonda's tour of New York. I
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  Speaker 2: had a cute name for it. I can't remember it,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, of you telling me all the legendary
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  Speaker 2: spots of New York and about the legendary comics, because
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  Speaker 2: you and I just did that very briefly. I think
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  Speaker 2: it would be an amazing special.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Rhonda Shearer was here a few weeks ago and
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  Speaker 1: we were outside and I said, That spot right there
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  Speaker 1: is where the theater was, where they did The Honeymooners.
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  Speaker 1: This is where they did this show.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. He is amazing when he gets into it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, everybody knows your listeners love you,
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  Speaker 2: as we all do. But your stories about Legendary New
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  Speaker 2: York and the Friars Club, you know, it's... be lost.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to do that with you and my
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  Speaker 2: team's behind it. So I just want you to know
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  Speaker 2: that I'm inviting you now so that everybody will watch it.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll give you first billing. It'll be Mark and Rhonda.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I like it. I like it. Before... We only
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  Speaker 1: got like a minute left. You're doing a Roku channel?
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  Speaker 1: Where could everybody watch it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a Roku app.
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  Speaker 1: You can just.
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  Speaker 2: You have to download it on either a Roku device
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  Speaker 2: or a Roku Fire Stick. You download Up All Night
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  Speaker 2: Network and you will see the most amazing program of
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  Speaker 2: your favorite films, comedy specials. I think I told you
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  Speaker 2: we just got Jackie the Joke Man's documentary. We are just...
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  Speaker 2: really fabulous program along with the new up all night. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: we're showing, you know, just great films from, from the
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  Speaker 2: era that I was hosting and also new filmmakers. So,
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  Speaker 2: and we're inviting people to submit, uh, you know, material
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  Speaker 2: if they're filmmakers or documentary makers, we want, we want
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  Speaker 2: your projects. So just go to Rhonda sheer.com and you
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  Speaker 2: can find out all, all the information.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Rhonda sheer.com and get her book up all night.
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  Speaker 1: So I can read this Edwin Edwards story in there.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'll send you Edward Edwards. You will love it.
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  Speaker 2: I think we should do the movie, you and I,
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  Speaker 2: and you can be Edwin and I can be 16-year-old Rhonda.
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  Speaker 2: And we can AI it. It'll be fabulous. And everyone
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  Speaker 2: will hate it.
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  Speaker 1: I have the book at home. I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: read this again. But it's Up All Night, Rhonda Shearer's book.
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  Speaker 1: Just go to rhondashearer.com. You can get everything there. And
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  Speaker 1: Rhonda Shearer, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Mark. A blast as usual. Thanks, honey.
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  Speaker 1: Take care. Bye. Take care. Coming up later today, the
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  Speaker 1: Carnegie Deli reopens. I'm looking at the TV screen. They're
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  Speaker 1: doing a piece on it. They're showing how Larry Hagman
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  Speaker 1: went there. I used to go there with Larry Hagman. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not, J.R. Ewing, Mr. Texan, liked pastrami
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  Speaker 1: on rye. Anyway, we'll get to the Carnegie and more
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