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Hour 1: Ransom note info. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Marx Somemore Live from the wr Life Back studios.
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Speaker 2: Hey, now you know it's summer. Wegot to mention that.
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Speaker 2: I guess it's officially summer now. The first day of
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Speaker 2: summer was Sunday. The other thing is Sunday was the
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Speaker 2: longest day of the year. You know, light out till
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Speaker 2: almost nine o'clock. It starts getting darker earlier every day now,
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Speaker 2: So to enjoy it while you can, Well, you get
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Speaker 2: a lot to get to. Today, we'll be talking about
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Speaker 2: Clive Davis at great length. We'll get to Iran, We'll
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Speaker 2: get to this crazy new book, this New York Times
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Speaker 2: Maggie Haberman hit piece on Donald Trump. It's actually pretty funny.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're up to their old tricks. It's right
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Speaker 2: out of the old playbook. We'll get to we'll get
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Speaker 2: to that. This a terrible story about the anti Semitism
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Speaker 2: in New York. Hey, Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie's mother. There's
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Speaker 2: been strange breakthroughs in the case. Strange in that why
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Speaker 2: are they just figuring this out? Now? You know it
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Speaker 2: was the local police that don't seem to know what
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Speaker 2: the hell they're doing. But the FBI then got involved.
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Speaker 2: But Nancy Guthrie is now believed to be dead. It's
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Speaker 2: believed that she did not last long after the kidnapping.
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Speaker 2: She was kidnapped and then they think it was just
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Speaker 2: within a day or so that she died. She couldn't
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Speaker 2: survive the kidnapping. But they're looking back at ransom notes,
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Speaker 2: and there's a certain ransom note or two from the
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Speaker 2: same place that they believe are the kidnappers. Now, why
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Speaker 2: they didn't know this back then, it still hasn't been explained.
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Speaker 2: But apparently in one of the ransom notes they knew
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Speaker 2: stuff that only the kidnappers could know. They correctly identified
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Speaker 2: a broken floodlight in the back of her home, and
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Speaker 2: they knew details about the Apple watch she was wearing
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Speaker 2: that only the kidnapper could know. So they're going back
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Speaker 2: and looking at this, at these notes, they've got the
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Speaker 2: IP addresses. Now, again, these are these local yogl law
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Speaker 2: enforcement people who don't know what the hell they're doing,
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Speaker 2: but they're trying to track the IP address and they
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Speaker 2: have to trace it through a string of proxy servers
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Speaker 2: that could lead back to the suspects. Now, apparently one
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Speaker 2: time these kidnappers asked for a bitcoin a ransom in bitcoin.
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Speaker 2: Authorities dropped a small amount of money into that bitcoin account,
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Speaker 2: and the reason they did that is said they could
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Speaker 2: just just a little money in there, just so they
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Speaker 2: could trace the money and see where it went. Now
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Speaker 2: I think what happened here just guessing, But at the time,
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Speaker 2: I remember they went public with stuff I didn't know,
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Speaker 2: and I don't think the kid knew that bitcoin is traceable.
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Speaker 2: The whole idea of bitcoin. You use that so it's
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Speaker 2: totally anonymous, nobody can find out anything. But authorities did
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Speaker 2: reveal that they can trace bitcoin. There are ways to
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Speaker 2: do it. They can trace it right back to you.
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Speaker 2: So that's why they put a tiny amount so they
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Speaker 2: could start tracing it back to the kidnappers. When this
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Speaker 2: was made public in all the news stories that bitcoin
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Speaker 2: was traceable, and the kidnappers saw them deposit little tiny
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Speaker 2: amount in the bitcoin, they might have figured out that
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Speaker 2: they were trying to trace them and then gave up
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Speaker 2: on attempts to collect their ransom. So, even though these
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Speaker 2: were the kidnappers, she died. I assumed they buried her somewhere.
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Speaker 2: They must have, because she's never been found. But I
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Speaker 2: guess they just gave up trying to collect their ransom.
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Speaker 2: Savannah Guthrie has put out all kinds of statements today
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Speaker 2: begging them to reveal at least where she is, just
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Speaker 2: so they can I owe that and get some closure here.
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Speaker 2: So we'll see. This New York City coffee shop story
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Speaker 2: is the most awful, ugly story.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: This representative Congressman Dan Goldman, who's the slimiest weasel ever.
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Speaker 2: But but put that aside. He's Jewish Dan Goldman, and
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Speaker 2: he's the supporter of Israel. Despite the fact that he's
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Speaker 2: a crazy left wing Democrat, he's a supporter of Israel.
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Speaker 2: Not a big supporter, but a basic basically supports Israel.
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Speaker 2: So he goes into the local coffee shop in Brooklyn, Williamsburg.
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Speaker 2: This is his usual coffee shop in his neighborhood. It's
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Speaker 2: called Poetica Coffee, and he buys a cup of coffee.
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Speaker 2: I guess the guy didn't recognize him at first. They
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Speaker 2: later figured out it was Dan Goldman, the congressman, and
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Speaker 2: on their social media they apparently issued a refund nine
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Speaker 2: dollars and eighty two cents for the coffee. First of all,
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Speaker 2: they should probably be charged with something there, some kind
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Speaker 2: of that's a robbery. Nine dollars and eighty two cents
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Speaker 2: for a cup of coffee. But they put up a
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Speaker 2: bitter Facebook post attacking Goldman saying they were gave the refund.
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Speaker 2: They put the money back onto his credit card because
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Speaker 2: they don't want to take money from anybody that supports genocide,
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Speaker 2: saying Israel commits genocide, which of course is idiotic anti
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Speaker 2: Semitic talk. But they then put this just ugly anti
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Speaker 2: semitic stuff up on their Facebook. Here at Poetica, we
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Speaker 2: don't serve racists, fascists, homophobes, genocide enablers. It goes on
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Speaker 2: and on. It's just idiotic stuff. Too bad we didn't
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Speaker 2: recognize you right away, or we would have turned you away.
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Speaker 2: We don't need your money. It's probably coming from Apac anyway.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy your loss on Tuesday, today's primary day. There's a
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Speaker 2: good chance he could lose today. Don't ever come into
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Speaker 2: Poetica again. Well this is the worst anti Semitic coffee shop. Now,
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Speaker 2: you might say, well, it might could be the employee.
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Speaker 2: You should be right now, the owner himself, the owner
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Speaker 2: of the coffee shop, has come out and backed this
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Speaker 2: up and said things even worse He's compared Israel to
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Speaker 2: Nazi Germany. It's absolutely disgusting. This is the worst racism,
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Speaker 2: anti semitism discrimination. This coffee shop should be shut down immediately.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully it'll be picketed left and right until it goes
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Speaker 2: out of business. It's Poetica Poetica Coffee in Brooklyn. The
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Speaker 2: reporters talked to Attorney General Letitia James, who should step
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Speaker 2: in immediately and shut this down. She had nothing to
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Speaker 2: say about it. Mayor Mom Donnie, who should have the
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Speaker 2: Department of Consumer Affairs and all that goes shut them down,
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Speaker 2: did not respond for comment. It's a complete violation of
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Speaker 2: New York's human rights laws. This coffee should be shut
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Speaker 2: down immediately. But you got Mamdani and Letitia James knowing
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Speaker 2: them to look the other way on this. Now, the
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Speaker 2: good news is you got the President Trump in office.
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Speaker 2: His Justice Department is looking into it. Harmi Dillon has
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Speaker 2: been assigned to this coffee shop. I mean, it's the
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Speaker 2: worst case of discrimination imaginable. Hopefully they will the FEDS
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Speaker 2: will come in and charge them federally with something absolutely
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Speaker 2: disgusting story. So now the Iran deal looks like they're
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Speaker 2: going to be signing it. The President of Iran is
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Speaker 2: on his way to Pakistan to sign JD vance signed
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Speaker 2: first for US, then the president of the Iranian Parliament.
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Speaker 2: Next step is President Trump signs it, and the President
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Speaker 2: of Iran signs it. So that'll be happening. And part
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Speaker 2: of the deal is we're not given the money. We're
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Speaker 2: just releasing some of their money back to them. And
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Speaker 2: part of the deal is we can say where they
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Speaker 2: spend it. In other words, they can't just go spend
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Speaker 2: it on weapons. They got to spend it on their
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Speaker 2: own population. They got to spend it on wheat and
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Speaker 2: barley and that kinds of feed people. And according to
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Speaker 2: the deal, they will buy all that from American farmers.
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Speaker 4: President Trump, if the sanctions go out, money is going
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Speaker 4: to be put into this country. All that money's coming
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Speaker 4: back in the form of purchases of food, which they
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Speaker 4: desperately need. They have ninety one million people, they can't
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Speaker 4: feed them. So the money that we lived is going
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Speaker 4: to go to our farmers.
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Speaker 2: All right, that's pretty good. And now, if you don't
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Speaker 2: like the Iran deal, and that's most people, they hate
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Speaker 2: this deal. But this doesn't mean anything. This is like
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Speaker 2: round four of a fifteen round fight. This deal. You
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Speaker 2: may not like it, it might whatever. It's just for
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Speaker 2: a month or two, we're going to be in this deal.
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Speaker 2: I'm not really supposed to say this, but one of
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Speaker 2: the reasons we're in this deal, this is also a
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Speaker 2: stalling tactic. You know, we had to cease fire and
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Speaker 2: we've been stalling for a month, and now this will
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Speaker 2: stall for another couple of months. One of the things
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Speaker 2: that's doing for us it's given us time to re arm.
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Speaker 2: We used a lot of missiles, we used a lot
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Speaker 2: of bombs. We used a lot of missiles. We used
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Speaker 2: a lot of drones in the attack on Iran. So
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Speaker 2: we need to re arm, restock the supply. It takes
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Speaker 2: a while to build them, and this has given us
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Speaker 2: time to totally restock for the next invasion which will
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Speaker 2: be coming. One thing that really got to Iran was
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Speaker 2: the blockade. It shut them down.
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Speaker 4: I think the blockade was more impactful than dropping bombs.
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Speaker 4: If you want another truth, it was, like I said.
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Speaker 2: They call it the steel wall. Nobody got through it.
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Speaker 4: Now one ship got through able to go to Iran.
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Speaker 3: They got through.
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Speaker 4: We wanted them to go through.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so they did keep a part of the straight
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Speaker 2: open what they call the Southern Route, which is along
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Speaker 2: the Oman coast that was open. Ships have been coming
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Speaker 2: through there. They brought one hundred million gallons of oil
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Speaker 2: out in the last couple weeks. By the way, the
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Speaker 2: price of oil, let's just check, is dropping dramatically. Last
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Speaker 2: time I looked, oh, it was seventy three. Now it's
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Speaker 2: seventy two dollars a barrel. Seventy two dollars a barrel
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Speaker 2: average price at the pumps now, I was about three seventy.
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Speaker 2: Expected to hit three point fifty pretty soon. Oil dropping.
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Speaker 2: It was one hundred and ten of barrel. Now it's
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Speaker 2: seventy two. Of course, there's no mention of that anywhere
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Speaker 2: by the fake news, that it's down almost forty dollars
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Speaker 2: a barrel. No mention of that from the fake news,
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Speaker 2: but they like to keep that quiet. Hey, this new book,
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Speaker 2: it's two New York Times morons. It's Maggie Haberman and
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Speaker 2: Jonathan Swan. And if you see them on a television
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Speaker 2: show like Morning Joe This Morning, you'll see them on
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Speaker 2: other shows. There's no more Colbert to go on, but
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Speaker 2: you know they'll be on the Sunday shows and they
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Speaker 2: look brilliant. You know, she's got the big glasses and
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Speaker 2: look smart. He's got sort of a British accent. It
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Speaker 2: sounds very smart. They're two absolutely idiots. It's the dumbest
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Speaker 2: book ever written. It's all nonsense, and it's got this
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Speaker 2: ridiculous title. What's it called, don't you remember? Is it
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Speaker 2: Revenge something? But the subtitle is The Imperial Presidency of
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump. The Imperial Presidency. Now this is history repeating itself.
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Speaker 2: Back when Nixon was president, they had Nixon Derangement syndrome.
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Speaker 2: They all hated him, and Dan Rather was the leading critic.
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Speaker 2: He wrote a book called The Imperial Presidency, The Imperial
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Speaker 2: Presidency of Richard Nixon. Well, here's a new one, the
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Speaker 2: Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. But I watched these two
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Speaker 2: idiots on Morning Joe, and I got to give him credit.
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Speaker 2: They make the most preposterous cases with straight faces. He's
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Speaker 2: talking about the Trump prosecuting people that are enemies, and
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Speaker 2: she actually said, we have never seen a president ever
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Speaker 2: ever prosecute his political enemies. We just saw four years
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Speaker 2: of the worst example whatever, where they were they in
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Speaker 2: a coma for four years. So it's just ludicrous. Would
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Speaker 2: give them credit. They say this nonsense with a straight face.
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Speaker 2: Look there they are again on MS whatever the hell
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Speaker 2: it's called. Uh yeah, you're gonna see a lot of them.
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Speaker 2: They'll be they'll be the stars of the Sunday shows.
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Speaker 2: They'll they'll promote this book like crazy. Well, let's talk
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Speaker 2: about Clive Davis for a couple of minutes. We'll do
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Speaker 2: it again later this hour with Roger Friedman, who knew
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Speaker 2: Clive very well. Uh, he was a friend of mine.
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Speaker 2: He was an amazing obviously you know about his talent.
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Speaker 2: They said he had the golden ears. He discovered the
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Speaker 2: longest list of people. Nobody's discovered more big names over
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Speaker 2: more decades than Clive Davis, from Janice Joplin to Bruce
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Speaker 2: Springsteen to Barry Manilow to Whitney Houston. And I mean,
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Speaker 2: you shouldn't even star this list because I'll never remember
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Speaker 2: all the names. Engineered the comeback of Santana, Rod Stewart,
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Speaker 2: you can go on and on and on with all
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Speaker 2: these names. I remember being in his office a long
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Speaker 2: time ago. This was back when he was running Arister Records.
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Speaker 2: This would be a late eighties, early nineties, believe or not,
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Speaker 2: everybody still used cassettes. You remember cassettes, the forty five
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Speaker 2: minute cassette. There was a ninety minute cassette. It was
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Speaker 2: even a one twenty cassette, one hundred and twenty mines. Well,
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Speaker 2: I was in his office. I'm looking at there's a
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Speaker 2: stack of cassettes from the floor to the ceiling. That
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Speaker 2: must have been literally five hundred cassettes stacked up. And
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Speaker 2: there were like ten more rows, so there must have
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Speaker 2: been five thousand cassettes stacked up. I never said anything
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Speaker 2: like in my life, even in a radio station, we
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Speaker 2: never had that many cassettes. I said, I.
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Speaker 3: Said, what are all those cassettes?
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Speaker 2: He said, those are unknown artists that send me tapes
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Speaker 2: that there band or themselves. And I looked at him.
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Speaker 2: It was literally five thousand cassettes. I said, you're not
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Speaker 2: gonna listen to all of those, are you? And he
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Speaker 2: looked at me like I was crazy. He said, are
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Speaker 2: you kidding? Of course, he said the next Beatles could
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Speaker 2: be in there. Of course, I'm gonna listen to every
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Speaker 2: one of them. That's how devoted he was. Dedicated. He
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Speaker 2: was had an incredible ear. I loved like asking him
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Speaker 2: about certain artists like why this guy wasn't bigger, or
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Speaker 2: why this guy didn't really do and he could explain
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Speaker 2: it to you musically in incredible, like mathematical detail, exactly
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Speaker 2: what was wrong with the way they did stuff, the tempo,
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Speaker 2: the pacing, the phrase, and he could explain it to
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Speaker 2: you so precisely. Had an incredible ability not just to
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Speaker 2: pick talent, but to pick songs and all of that stuff.
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Speaker 2: And the one thing I really admired about him, you know,
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Speaker 2: I love I've spent my whole life going out every
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Speaker 2: night to a million is told, whatever hour. This guy,
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Speaker 2: in his nineties would do that more than I ever could.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't keep up. I mean, I really admire guys
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Speaker 2: like that. Frank Sinatra was the other one, but he
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Speaker 2: only lived to eighty two. But even at seventy eight,
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Speaker 2: this guy, you couldn't keep up with him. He was
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Speaker 2: out all night till literally seven in the morning. I
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Speaker 2: remember Tom Dreesen said to him once he was leaving,
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Speaker 2: and Sinatra goes, where you're going, He goes cemetery, and
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Speaker 2: he said, for what he goes to see? All the
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Speaker 2: other guys that try to keep up with you. That
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Speaker 2: was Clive, and it was unbelievable, the energy, and he'd
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Speaker 2: have just till the end. I mean he every weekend
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Speaker 2: he had a house in Pound Ridge. He would invite
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Speaker 2: forty people to his house, literally forty people to his
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Speaker 2: house every weekend and it was just NonStop activity for
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Speaker 2: two days. I didn't like to go to those because
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Speaker 2: you'd get a schedule as soon as.
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Speaker 3: You got up.
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Speaker 2: There a detailed, like blow by blow schedule. It's like
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Speaker 2: Saturday seven to nine, breakfast, nine to ten, rest time,
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Speaker 2: ten o'clock, meet the bus, We're going to this, and
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Speaker 2: then we'll go into detail every moment of the day
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Speaker 2: what you had to do. And then at night he
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Speaker 2: would have a thing called Poundridge's Got Talent where everybody
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Speaker 2: had to perform. Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, or
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Speaker 2: sometimes it'd be charades. It was a little crazy, but
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Speaker 2: he just loved to keep busy, he loved activity. Had
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Speaker 2: a great partner. His name is Greg Schieffer. Wonderful guy,
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Speaker 2: very talented guy. And I mean you'll never see a
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Speaker 2: lot of people, think you'll never see anybody else like it.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about it more with Roger Friedman in a
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Speaker 2: couple of minutes. We'll take some calls next eight hundred
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Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
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Speaker 2: how you doing?
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Speaker 5: Good morning? Mark all as well?
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Speaker 2: That's good?
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Speaker 5: I yes it is. There's two great parts of this
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Speaker 5: Dan Goldman coffee shop story. One, it's great when liberals
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Speaker 5: get bitten in the rear end by their own side.
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Speaker 5: I like Goldman.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: The other is that it illustrates the self righteousness of
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Speaker 5: these liberals. The coffee shop is fighting racism, Islamophobia, homophobia
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Speaker 5: by selling coffee. It's like, it's such a great disconnect
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Speaker 5: it is.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it would be funny, but the ugly, disgusting
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Speaker 2: anti semitism in that coffee shop. I don't know why that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, well we know why we got these crazy
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Speaker 2: left wing people. Mayor and the Attorney General. That coffee
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Speaker 2: shop should be shut down by noon today.
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Speaker 3: Just close immediately.
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Speaker 5: And it's ironically that's in Williamsburg, which is like, you know,
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Speaker 5: the quintessential Jewish neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, not so much anymore.
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Speaker 5: The demographic at least it was, I guess it isn't anymore.
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Speaker 5: It's all hipsters now, I guess.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, demographics is changing. All right, Mike, thanks for calling.
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Speaker 2: Yeah that hopefully a Trump administration comes in and just
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Speaker 2: arrest those people. HARMI Dylon Department of Justice is on
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Speaker 2: the case as we speak.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to.
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Speaker 2: Paul roslind Heights. Paul, how you.
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Speaker 6: Doing, big, good morning, Martawoa good good. So with the
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Speaker 6: Iran deal, I love Trump.
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Speaker 2: I think he's yeah, I don't like the Iran Deal.
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Speaker 6: No, I think I want to know what you think
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Speaker 6: about it. He's placating them, but after the midterm election.
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Speaker 2: He's going to the best advice I can give you,
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Speaker 2: don't even think about it. Don't even worry about it.
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Speaker 2: He knows what he's doing. This is like a ninety
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Speaker 2: seven different chess moves. Don't even this is like the
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Speaker 2: round four of a fifteen round four. Don't even worry
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Speaker 2: about Let him figure it out. He'll figure out.
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Speaker 6: I'm putting my money on Trump though.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thanks for calling. Don't even think about
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Speaker 2: the irandial is a little temporary thing. It's one step
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Speaker 2: in a million steps. He's got this all mapped out
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Speaker 2: in his head. Let him handle it. That's what you're
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Speaker 2: paying him for. Let's go to Frank and Staten Island. Frank,
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Speaker 2: how you doing?
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Speaker 3: Good morning?
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Speaker 7: Mark?
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Speaker 3: Yes, Frank, I'm a pro pro pro Trump fan.
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Speaker 7: You could do no wrong.
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Speaker 8: What assessed me? We're giving Baldy reconstruction. What's that going
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Speaker 8: to affect our prices here? Back in the seventies we
19:33
Speaker 8: gave reed to Russia and bread went sky high. We
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Speaker 8: pay for guests. Now we're gonna pay for food.
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Speaker 2: No, I think you're conflating about eight different things. You
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Speaker 2: don't have to worry about it. It'll it'll be fine.
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Speaker 2: Everything will be fine. Let's go to Mike in New Jersey. Mike,
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Speaker 2: how you're doing?
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Speaker 3: Hey?
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Speaker 2: I could love you live without their Grateful But it's
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Speaker 2: an amazing ear that he had. He could you know
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Speaker 2: certain guys could just you know, know certain things. He
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Speaker 2: knew every type of music from hip hop rap to
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Speaker 2: the Grateful Dead. You couldn't be uh more arranged than
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Speaker 2: Clive Davis had. Yeah, amazing, amazing. Ear let's go to
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Speaker 2: uh Jerry and Grantich. Jerry, how you doing.
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Speaker 7: I'm doing well? Thank you, Mark uh Mark. I wonder
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Speaker 7: why Fox News gives so much airtime to this guy
20:38
Speaker 7: from Texas, to this guy from Maine. You know, even
20:43
Speaker 7: Godfeldt puts his picture. They gave us so much time.
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Speaker 2: Well, people like hearing about it. They like making fun
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Speaker 2: of the guy. They like laughing at the guy. They
20:52
Speaker 2: like attacking the guy.
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Speaker 7: But they know, but they don't put any anybody else
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Speaker 7: in the opposition. They don't they don't show who the
20:58
Speaker 7: runs against them. I mean, they'll get to that, you know.
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Speaker 7: I object to that. I don't like to see them.
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Speaker 2: You know, but it is a business. You got to
21:10
Speaker 2: you gotta do what people want. It is a business.
21:13
Speaker 2: You got to serve the customers.
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Speaker 7: Well, anyway, I don't think it's fair. I don't think
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Speaker 7: it's nice.
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Speaker 2: You can't win. They attack Platt and they're like crazy,
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Speaker 2: he's mad about it. Well, don't worry. They know what
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Speaker 2: they're doing over there at Fox. He's tving that way.
21:29
Speaker 2: And one reason Fox is number one is they know
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Speaker 2: what they're doing. You know, people don't realize nowadays when
21:36
Speaker 2: we talk about ratings, they have like minute by minute,
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Speaker 2: second by second ratings. They can see exactly where people
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Speaker 2: tune out. You know, like when you're streaming, we can
21:46
Speaker 2: not only tell exactly who's listening, we can tell if
21:49
Speaker 2: you turn the volume up or down. It's very scientific.
21:53
Speaker 2: So if something's not working, a story is not good,
21:56
Speaker 2: word goes out immediately, stop covering this. If people love
21:59
Speaker 2: a certain state recovered more. Every every good network does
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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. Hey, when we come back, Roger Friedman,
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Speaker 2: the Great Entertainment Reporter, we'll talk some more about Clive
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Speaker 2: Davis and other matters. Coming up on seven ten WR.
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Speaker 1: Mark Simone on sevent ten WR.
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Speaker 2: Well, Roger Friedman, the Great Entertainment Reporter, has this wonderful
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22:27
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Speaker 2: how you doing well?
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Speaker 9: I'm okay, but you know, of course we're mourning our
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Speaker 9: great friend today Clive Davis, which seems.
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Speaker 3: Hard to believe.
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Speaker 9: I know he was ninety four years old, but you know,
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Speaker 9: we could have used this. We thought he'd go to
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Speaker 9: one hundred, you know, But this was the great music executive,
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Speaker 9: music mogul who discovered Whitney Houston and brought up us
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Speaker 9: an incredible, as he said, soundtrack of Our Lives at
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Speaker 9: Columbia Records, Janis Joplin's, Simon and Garfunkel, Earth Wind and Fire, Billy, Joel,
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Speaker 9: Ruce Springsteen, and then he started his own Aristo Records
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Speaker 9: with Barry Manilow and revived Aretha Franklin and Dion Warwick
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Speaker 9: and Carly Simon and just had hit after hit for
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Speaker 9: you know, sixty years.
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Speaker 3: Really amazing.
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Speaker 2: Now, you know, everybody in the music business, is there anybody,
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Speaker 2: any music executive ever on the same level as Clive Davis, Well, nobody.
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Speaker 2: I can't think of anybody.
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Speaker 9: Well, the only person, and even he would say it,
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Speaker 9: I think the only person he would say was Barry
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Speaker 9: Gordy from Motown, because Barryet was his good friend and
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Speaker 9: came to his Grammy parties every year. I'm at Erdigan
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Speaker 9: was at Atlantic Records. But there was no one like Clive, Yeah,
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Speaker 9: no one.
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Speaker 3: This is a difference.
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Speaker 2: Though Harry Gordy was strictly the lowtown sound, a'm at
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Speaker 2: Erdigan was more you know, that was kind of like
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Speaker 2: rhythm and blues kind of you know, yep, drifters kind
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Speaker 2: of stuff.
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Speaker 3: Clive.
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Speaker 9: Clive had an incredible rage we look what I what
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Speaker 9: I wrote yesterday was if you realized that in nineteen
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Speaker 9: seventy five he looked at Barry Manilow and Patty Smith,
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Speaker 9: two people who could not have been more different, and
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Speaker 9: signed them both up and they've each lasted fifty years.
24:37
Speaker 9: I mean, that's amazing. I mean, Patti Smith was the
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Speaker 9: punk princess of nineteen seventy five, and Barry Manilow was,
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Speaker 9: you know, complete soft rock, elevator music kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: You know, the older women.
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Speaker 9: Loved him, and the two of them are still as
24:53
Speaker 9: big as ever. And Clive saw that, you know, and
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Speaker 9: earth Wind and Fired just had a documentary at HBO
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Speaker 9: there touring. He was the one who brought them to relevance. Santana,
25:08
Speaker 9: you see. Bruce Springsteen. Bruce Springsteen posted a beautiful Ulissia yesterday,
25:14
Speaker 9: and I'm sure he'll speak at club's funeral, Billy Joel said,
25:20
Speaker 9: you know, Clive signed him, and that's it. Even Simon
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Speaker 9: and garfunk called Bridge over Troubles of Water would not
25:27
Speaker 9: have been a hit except that Clive said, put that
25:31
Speaker 9: out as a single. And he had incredible forty five
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Speaker 9: rpm ears. He had gold ears for listening to music
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Speaker 9: and things that you would say, things that you and
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Speaker 9: I would say, oh, that'll be a hit, and he
25:45
Speaker 9: would say, no, no, but this will be a hit.
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Speaker 3: And he knew it. He just knew it.
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Speaker 9: And he loved Whitney Houston and he took such good
25:55
Speaker 9: care of her, and she was so sick and he
25:57
Speaker 9: was so attentive to her. And he was so good
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Speaker 9: to all his artists, you know. And you see they're
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Speaker 9: posting on Twitter and Instagram. All the artists who who
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Speaker 9: knew him are just you know, our Garfunkle just said
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Speaker 9: beautiful things about him today on social media and you
26:17
Speaker 9: know they're all the same mind. It's amazing, yeah, and
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Speaker 9: incredible energy. You go out every night to a million things.
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Speaker 9: Ninety he was ninety four. He was already planning Fourth
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Speaker 9: of July stuff, Fourth of July dinners parties. Oh yeah,
26:31
Speaker 9: well we just had Memorial Day.
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Speaker 3: I went.
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Speaker 9: I was lucky enough to go to his house with
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Speaker 9: your former w R celebrity Mark Michael Riedle, and we
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Speaker 9: went up to his house and Poundridge for a Memorial Day.
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Speaker 3: And he always does.
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Speaker 9: Memorial Day weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and one hundred
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Speaker 9: people come and stay, some stay at his house, some
26:55
Speaker 9: stay at airbnbs whatever, and everyone's saying and then everyone
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Speaker 9: comes the house for barbecues and talent shows and big
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Speaker 9: sit down dinner. And so I was lucky I went
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Speaker 9: on the Saturday night and he was in fine form.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 9: It was absolutely no different than the last fifty years
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Speaker 9: where he would, you know, just get up and introduce
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Speaker 9: everybody and talk about music. It was lovely. And it's
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Speaker 9: a huge loss. It's a huge loss because now we.
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Speaker 3: Have you know, AI music.
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Speaker 9: We have you know, fake singers and things, and which
27:37
Speaker 9: is it's just the opposite of what he did.
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Speaker 2: Hey, the Grammy Awards, you would actually go out there
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Speaker 2: every year. He would have a pre Grammy party. Would
27:46
Speaker 2: you say that that pre Grammy party was the single
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Speaker 2: most crowded room you've ever been in your life.
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Speaker 9: This the pre Grammy party is the night before the
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Speaker 9: Grammys at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. It used to be
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Speaker 9: at the Beverly Hills Hotel but got kicked out because
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Speaker 9: they got so big. And then they would have, you know,
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Speaker 9: the audience was packed with celebrities, and then on stage
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Speaker 9: he would have like fifteen different acts come up and perform,
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Speaker 9: you know, either current hits or past hits, and the
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Speaker 9: place and Nancy Pelosi would be there, and it's at
28:22
Speaker 9: one point Kevin McCarthy.
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Speaker 3: Used to come. It was when he was in the Congress,
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Speaker 3: and lots of.
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Speaker 9: Sports stars, movie stars came. Everybody was there and this
28:35
Speaker 9: was just we just he just had the fifty first one.
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Speaker 9: He called it the fiftieth, but it was the fifty
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Speaker 9: first one this past January.
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Speaker 3: It was.
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Speaker 9: It was completely insane, and yeah, the room is totally packed.
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Speaker 9: The fire marshal is possibly coming in saying, you have
28:50
Speaker 9: too many people in here.
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Speaker 3: You've got to get rid of them.
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Speaker 9: And the security guy who runs the place, Bill Mancini,
28:59
Speaker 9: who's with Live for years, he's always like explaining to
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Speaker 9: the fire marshal, these are famous people.
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Speaker 3: We can't get rid of it.
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Speaker 9: And and I don't know, I don't know what will
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Speaker 9: happen now, because this is this was like a bigger
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Speaker 9: thing than the Grammys. Everyone would go like I was
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Speaker 9: going out, I was still going out to La. I
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Speaker 9: would say, well, we'll go to Clive's and then of
29:21
Speaker 9: course we'll go to the Grammys. You know, it's like
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Speaker 9: the Grammys were the secondary thing. But this is, uh,
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Speaker 9: this is always what. This is always what it's been
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Speaker 9: for years and years and years. I once went to
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Speaker 9: he once had he'd love to give parties and concerts.
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Speaker 9: This is a long time ago when Whitney Houston was
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Speaker 9: really at her prime and she and Aretha did a
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Speaker 9: show together, private show together for him to raise money
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Speaker 9: for the UJA, and no one filmed it. We didn't
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Speaker 9: have phones with cameras, don and all that stuff. And
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Speaker 9: I always used to say to Clive, no one filmed this.
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Speaker 9: I can't believe it. We're the only people ever remember it.
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Speaker 9: But it was so amazing. But every show he did
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Speaker 9: was like that. He signed Prince. When Prince left Warner Brothers,
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Speaker 9: he went to Clive and had a big hit with
30:13
Speaker 9: him and we had a listening session where we all
30:16
Speaker 9: got to meet Prince.
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Speaker 3: The other thing that Clive loved We used to joke
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Speaker 3: about this.
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Speaker 9: You know, in the recording industry, they give you a
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Speaker 9: plaque if you have a gold record, right, and it says,
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Speaker 9: you know, nine million copies sold, ten million copies sold.
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Speaker 9: So you'd get a phone call in the afternoon, Clive
30:37
Speaker 9: would like you to come over to the office at
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Speaker 9: seven o'clock. He's going to give the Grateful Dead their
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Speaker 9: platinum albums. Clive would like you to come over tomorrow.
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Speaker 9: Rod Stewart's getting his platinum albums gold albums, and it
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Speaker 9: was hysterical. You'd meet on a rooftop, you'd meet in
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Speaker 9: a dining room and he would have tons of media
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Speaker 9: come in and he would say, we're so proud to.
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Speaker 3: Get about these. I never saw so.
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Speaker 9: Many gold records given out in my life. And that
31:06
Speaker 9: also went out for years.
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Speaker 2: Any word on a funeral memorial service something like.
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Speaker 9: That, now, yeah, I mean, I think it's going to
31:13
Speaker 9: be at the beginning of next week. I'm not sure
31:17
Speaker 9: where it's going to be. And originally, you know, they
31:20
Speaker 9: were going to do it this week, and then so
31:22
Speaker 9: many stars called in and said we want to be
31:25
Speaker 9: there that they had to put it. Usually, you know,
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Speaker 9: he was Jewish and in the Jewish tradition, you're buried
31:32
Speaker 9: right away. But so many people called in and said
31:34
Speaker 9: we want to be there. So I think whatever it
31:37
Speaker 9: is is going to be quite a production, which is
31:41
Speaker 9: exactly what he would want. I mean, he would he
31:43
Speaker 9: would he would want the biggest concert or with the
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Speaker 9: biggest you know whatever, and with lots of speeches. You know,
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Speaker 9: Clive's a memorial day up in Westchester. After the dinner
31:58
Speaker 9: he showed, he said, oh, we finally found the footage
32:02
Speaker 9: from Arista Records fifteenth anniversary in nineteen eighty nine. So
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Speaker 9: I was the only person there besides Clive who had
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Speaker 9: been to this thing. And I said, I stood up
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Speaker 9: and I said, you know, this concert went on for
32:15
Speaker 9: six hours at Radio City. It had every star you
32:19
Speaker 9: can imagine, and there was no food at Radio City.
32:23
Speaker 9: And at one point Deborah Mitchell, who was another gospel
32:26
Speaker 9: colonist at the time, she and I ordered pizza. We
32:29
Speaker 9: ordered we ordered out pizza into Radio City and sat
32:34
Speaker 9: sat there because it was like, you know, Whitney and
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Speaker 9: Aretha and the Grateful Dead and Dion Warwick and Haul
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Speaker 9: of Oates and Carly Simon. I mean, it was incredible,
32:46
Speaker 9: but just I know, we're finishing up. He was my
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Speaker 9: great friend for forty years and I was so honored
32:52
Speaker 9: to be considered his friend and it was an incredible experience.
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Speaker 2: Roger Freeman, you were the perfect guest for today to
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Speaker 2: talk about him. We'll have to do a part two
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Speaker 2: to this, but everybody goes yeah, go read the rest
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33:12
Speaker 2: with us. Thank you, take care. Hey, don't forget Buck
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33:31
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33:33
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33:36
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33:40
Speaker 2: So we got a lot to get to in the
33:42
Speaker 2: next hour. We'll get back to the Iran deal. We'll
33:44
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33:49
Speaker 2: a few interesting races. We'll get to that, and we'll
33:52
Speaker 2: get to Maison Square Garden, the death of the guy
33:55
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33:58
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