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Episode #3944 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive November 2000 · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another Radio Archive Hour here from the world-famous
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Speaker 1: Radio Hall of Fame Phil Henry Show and our website philhenryshow.com.
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Speaker 1: We've got thousands of hours of archive material there, and
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Speaker 1: we are featuring today the month of November 2000 because
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Speaker 1: it was a weird, wild, wacky month, including a presidential
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Speaker 1: election that was disputed and a lot of weird asses
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Speaker 1: just sounding off on stuff. We have Art Griego with us,
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Speaker 1: the private pilot. He was a commercial pilot. He turned private,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think business has gotten much better for
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Speaker 1: old Art, but anyway, He's on to talk about Wayne
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Speaker 1: Newton and Tony Orlando suing each other. And I didn't
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Speaker 1: know that they sued each other. Maybe they didn't sue
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Speaker 1: each other. Maybe Art is creating all of this. But
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Speaker 1: he manages to tie in male sexuality, naturally, into this discussion.
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Speaker 1: Here's Art Griego sounding off on Tony Orlando and Wayne Newton.
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Speaker 1: So this is a smaller version of what's going on
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Speaker 1: between Gore and Bush is actually happening right now.
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Speaker 2: Between Wayne Newton and Tony Orlando. Wayne Newton, he of
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Speaker 2: Donka Shane.
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Speaker 3: Tony Orlando, he of Knock Three Times, and, of course,
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Speaker 3: Tie Yellow Ribbon.
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Speaker 2: The two once shared a theater in Branson, Missouri, the
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Speaker 2: country music mecca in southwest Missouri. Orlando sued Newton in
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Speaker 2: April of 99 for more than $ 15 million, accusing him
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Speaker 2: of wrongfully throwing him out of the business in 98
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Speaker 2: and damaging his reputation. Newton countersued for $ 20 million, saying
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Speaker 2: Orlando had disseminated false information about him. The case is
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Speaker 2: scheduled to go to trial next spring, but the federal
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Speaker 2: judge handling it ordered the singers to explore a settlement.
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Speaker 2: No settlement was reported from their Wednesday meeting. On the
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Speaker 2: line is Art Griego. Art is a private pilot. He
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Speaker 2: is at Santa Monica Airport right now. But, Art, you
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Speaker 2: also coordinate entertainment for a private pilots association, correct?
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Speaker 4: That's correct, Joe.
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Speaker 3: And what is the name of your group?
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Speaker 4: Yes, Phil, we are called the Santa Monica Cloudbusters, and
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Speaker 4: we have two annual events, our Spring Dance and Winter
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Speaker 4: Harvest Ball, which happens in January. And we, of course,
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Speaker 4: are watching this. The whole country is looking at the
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Speaker 4: Gore and Bush thing, but we are also watching what's
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Speaker 4: going to happen with Wayne Newton and Tony Orlando because
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Speaker 4: they're two great entertainers, and they do so much for charity.
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Speaker 4: They do perform at a variety of private functions across
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Speaker 4: the country.
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Speaker 2: So tell me why you guys are interested in the
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Speaker 2: Wayne Newton, Tony Orlando legal problems. You're a pilot, but
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Speaker 2: you're the entertainment coordinator for a private pilots association. Seems
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Speaker 2: like a long way to run from a Wayne Newton,
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Speaker 2: Tony Orlando lawsuit.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think when I look at this from
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Speaker 4: the standpoint of a professional, I feel bad because we're
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Speaker 4: losing two great artists. As long as this lawsuit goes on,
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Speaker 4: I don't think we're going to see these two very
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Speaker 4: fine performers performing on stage. They're tied up in court
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Speaker 4: for a long time, and they can't tour. Rock and
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Speaker 4: roll suffers.
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Speaker 2: Do you call these guys rock artists? That's kind of interesting.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about Tony Orlando and Wayne Newton. Do you
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Speaker 2: call them rock artists?
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Speaker 4: I do, Phil. I think at the very core they're
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Speaker 4: rock and roll artists, yes. I don't think your listeners
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Speaker 4: are confused by that at all. I think they understand it.
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Speaker 3: Well, how do you say that Tony Orlando is a
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Speaker 3: rock artist?
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Speaker 4: I don't understand.
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Speaker 3: Because I'll tell you what I think. Tony Orlando, to me,
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Speaker 3: is a middle-of-the-road, he's a pop artist.
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Speaker 4: No, I think you get an awful lot from Tony.
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Speaker 4: At the very core, these are rock and rollers. Tony Orlando,
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Speaker 4: Wayne Newton. Have you ever seen Wayne Newton's day show?
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Speaker 3: No, I have not.
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Speaker 4: Well, let me suggest you go and watch Wayne Newton.
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Speaker 4: He'll take the paint right off the walls. And Tony
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Speaker 4: Orlando the same way. These guys work, they sweat, they
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Speaker 4: rock out, and they are something else. I asked your
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Speaker 4: engineer if he could get up a couple of songs. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: he did.
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Speaker 3: Craig, did you get those two songs? We got a
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Speaker 3: Wayne Newton song.
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Speaker 4: I think what I could do is give an example
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Speaker 4: of what I'm talking about. You used to be a
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Speaker 4: disc jockey, Phil.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a disc jockey, and I started in
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Speaker 2: the business back when Tony Orlando actually had a couple
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Speaker 2: of hit records on the charts. And I do remember,
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Speaker 2: in fact, I started the business the year Tie Yellow
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Speaker 2: Ribbon was a number one hit. And I have a
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Speaker 2: hard time reconciling his music with the label of rock
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Speaker 2: and roll.
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Speaker 4: Well, they make, rock and roll, I think, Phil, is
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Speaker 4: any music that makes a very natural, makes your hips swing,
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Speaker 4: you know. And I can think of Tie Yellow Ribbon, hey,
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Speaker 4: Tie Yellow Ribbon. Right away I can feel my hips
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Speaker 4: swinging to that. And if your engineer is ready.
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Speaker 3: Okay, have you got the song?
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Speaker 4: This is Phil. Does he have it, Phil?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we have the Tony Orlando song, yeah.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 4: I think it's like Elvis Presley with the hips. When
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Speaker 4: you hear this song, the hips start to swing. I
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Speaker 4: don't know if you're a rock and roll fan per se.
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Speaker 3: Well, I have been in my life.
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Speaker 4: All right, listen to this. And if you could keep up.
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Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead, Craig. Play the song. Can you hear that?
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Speaker 4: Yes, I can, bro. I can, I can.
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Speaker 6: Hey, girl, what you doing down there?
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Speaker 7: Dancing alone every night while I live above you.
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Speaker 4: This music, bro.
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Speaker 3: See, to me, that's kind of lightweight.
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry?
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Speaker 3: To me, that's kind of lightweight.
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Speaker 4: No, I think what you got there is... See, I
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Speaker 4: can really, I can feel.
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Speaker 3: All right, kill the music.
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Speaker 4: I can feel, I can literally feel, and if I
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Speaker 4: can say this, and I don't mean to offend, what
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Speaker 4: I can say.
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Speaker 3: Well, you can feel what?
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Speaker 4: Well, I can feel my butt cheeks going back and
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Speaker 4: forth when I hear that. If the answer is no.
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Speaker 4: Where does it go? Boom, boom, boom, two, three, four.
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Speaker 7: You need to meet me.
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Speaker 8: In the hallway.
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Speaker 4: I got to tell you something. My loins are on fire.
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Speaker 4: And that's why I.
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Speaker 3: But I still don't think you can call that rock
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Speaker 3: and roll.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think a lot of your listeners would disagree
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Speaker 4: with that, Phil. All right.
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Speaker 2: Our number, by the way, is 1-800-449-8686. Tony Orlando of
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Speaker 2: Tire Yellow Ribbon and Wayne Newton of Donkashane fame.
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Speaker 3: They're suing each other.
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Speaker 2: On the line with me, Art Griego, who's an entertainment
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Speaker 2: coordinator for a private pilots association. you say these guys
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Speaker 2: are at their heart and soul, rock and roll. So
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Speaker 2: what if they are?
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Speaker 4: Well, because they are at their very soul, rock and roll,
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Speaker 4: I think we need to help these two great artists
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Speaker 4: through a period of time now where they're going to
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Speaker 4: be financially strapped. These guys still right now, if they're
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Speaker 4: not working, are financially strapped. And I think because they
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Speaker 4: have given us some sounds that I think are revolutionary.
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Speaker 4: I think Knock Three Times is pre-punk. I think it's
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Speaker 4: pre-New Wave.
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Speaker 3: You think Knock Three Times is.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Knock on the pipes. It's an attitude thing. You know,
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Speaker 4: come on, bitch. Knock on the pipes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, man.
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Speaker 4: Well, it is. It's a real attitude thing, fellas. That's
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Speaker 4: all I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: All right. The next example.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm sorry. Okay.
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Speaker 3: What do you mean, come on, bitch?
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Speaker 4: Well, he's saying, hey, I got a pipe for you.
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Speaker 9: One floor below me.
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Speaker 4: One floor. Now, the next song is Darker Shame. This
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Speaker 4: is where jazz rock was born.
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Speaker 3: Jazz rock.
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Speaker 4: I really believe it. Yeah.
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Speaker 8: What Blood, Sweat, and.
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Speaker 4: Tears tried to do, what Chicago Transit Authority tried to do,
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Speaker 4: what Spirit tried to do, what later on Spyro Gyro
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Speaker 4: tried to do, and in some small measure, Stone Temple Puppets,
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Speaker 4: I think it all points to this. Let's listen.
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Speaker 9: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: It just sounds like a gay man singing.
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Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
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Speaker 2: It sounds like a 14-year-old boy or something singing a song.
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Speaker 4: Can you feel the jazz?
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Speaker 2: Well, I sense that there is a jazz rhythm there, yeah.
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Speaker 4: That's what I'm talking about. Phil, what we are asking
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Speaker 4: and proposing, and we would like Congress... to deal with
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Speaker 4: some kind of legislation where we could pass an emergency
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Speaker 4: penny a CD tax on every CD sold in the country.
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Speaker 4: And that would go to offset a lot of the
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Speaker 4: money being lost by Wayne Newton and Tony Orlando.
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Speaker 3: You want a tax of a penny a CD.
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Speaker 4: That's correct.
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Speaker 3: On every CD sold?
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Speaker 4: That is correct. Tony Orlando and Wayne Newton, Phil... As
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Speaker 4: long as they are not making music, they're not getting paid.
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Speaker 4: They have house payments that probably run for anywhere from
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Speaker 4: $ 20, 000 to $ 100, 000 a month. They have car payments. Their
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Speaker 4: cars alone probably run about $ 20, 000 a month. As long
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Speaker 4: as they're not performing, they do not have income. And
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Speaker 4: I think these two great artists who brought so much
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Speaker 4: joy to us and really gave rock and roll... A
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Speaker 4: much-needed boost in the early 70s could benefit.
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Speaker 2: Hey, girl, what you doing down there?
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Speaker 4: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: Here is Miami on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello. How you doing? Yes, sir.
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Speaker 3: This is Louie from Miami.
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: Listen, I want to give you my opinion about the.
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Speaker 9: Song from Tony Orlando.
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Speaker 4: I think you're 100% right. It's just a soft melody.
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Speaker 9: And I got the Kanga beat on it. I used
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Speaker 9: to play the Kanga since I'm six years old.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think at the heart and soul, though, this
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Speaker 4: is a pure rock and roll artist, though.
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Speaker 6: No, get out of here, you know?
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Speaker 4: You know, he had a great... show. What do you know?
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Speaker 4: I don't understand what you mean.
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Speaker 3: Well, he had a great show on TV.
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Speaker 4: I'm 45 years old. You remember about Orlando?
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Speaker 3: This gentleman, he agrees with me that it's not.
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Speaker 4: This is rock and roll. Do you know rock and roll,
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Speaker 4: or you've come from where? Mexico or something? Well, I
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Speaker 4: come from Cuba, sir. Oh, okay. They didn't have.
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Speaker 7: Okay, but listen.
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Speaker 5: Santana, Santana's a rock and roll.
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Speaker 8: Huh?
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Speaker 4: Santana, you know?
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Speaker 3: Santana, yeah, Carlos Santana, who is from.
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Speaker 4: Carlos Santana, you know? I know Carlos myself. All right, well, this,
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Speaker 4: I think, inspired a lot of what Santana did. Exactly. Okay.
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Speaker 6: So, you know, but Tony Orlando, he's not a rock
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Speaker 6: and roller.
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Speaker 4: He's just a fellow guy, you know? What about this?
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Speaker 4: This is jazz. Do you know jazz? What? You know
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Speaker 4: Rick Correa? Okay, you know jazz, right?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, a little bit, yeah.
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Speaker 9: This is jazz rock.
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Speaker 4: That's jazz rock?
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Speaker 7: Well, I don't understand what's so funny.
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Speaker 4: You're from Cuba, right? I'm from Cuba, yeah. The only
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Speaker 4: thing you're familiar with is calypso, not rock, so please don't,
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Speaker 4: you know, no offense, but don't tell me about my
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Speaker 4: own country's music.
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Speaker 8: Excuse me for leaving, you know.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you're telling me about, I'm coming from here.
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Speaker 4: You're from Cuba. Great Calypso stuff. Music is international, Phil.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think you just hear it. You know what
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Speaker 3: rock is.
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Speaker 9: And you're telling me this is a blistering rock.
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Speaker 4: You want me to beat my what?
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Speaker 7: Rock is tun-tu-ta, tun-tu-ta, tun-tu-ta.
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Speaker 5: Any musician knows it's tun-tu-ta, you know?
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Speaker 4: Rock is a basic four. Yeah. Four, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You know, if you can't, that'll blister the paint right
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Speaker 4: on the walls of your family room.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, for your call. I mean, we got
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Speaker 3: a debate here.
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Speaker 4: Well, Phil, I think if you want to get Americans
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Speaker 4: on the phone, that would be a nice step in
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Speaker 4: the right direction if we're going to discuss music. All right.
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Speaker 4: Hold on. 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: I can bang my.
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Speaker 4: I can bang my head to this stuff. I mean,
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Speaker 4: what do you want me to tell you?
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Speaker 3: It's a difference of opinion.
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Speaker 2: But if you're asking people to donate a penny per
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Speaker 2: CD sold to contribute to keep these guys in the money,
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Speaker 2: I mean, maybe they will. But to say that they're
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Speaker 2: two rock icons, you know, I don't know. I bet
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Speaker 2: that's what makes a horse race, difference of opinion.
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Speaker 4: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: Art Griego is talking about the legal problems of.
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Speaker 2: Wayne Newton, who sang this song. And Tony Orlando, who
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Speaker 2: sang this song. They're suing each other. He wants a
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Speaker 2: tax of a penny a CD to help them pay
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Speaker 2: for their cars every month.
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Speaker 6: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 2: 1-800-449-8686. Phil Henry here. We're talking to Art Griego of
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Speaker 2: Santa Monica Cloudbusters, a private pilots organization. He's the entertainment director.
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Speaker 2: And you have some interest in this lawsuit between Tony
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Speaker 2: Orlando and Wayne Newton.
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Speaker 3: Why? Why in particular, these two guys?
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Speaker 4: Well, Phil, because, again, these guys are two core rock
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Speaker 4: artists of the 60s and 70s. And also because, I'll
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Speaker 4: be honest with you, we wanted to hire them for
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Speaker 4: our Cloudbuster, for our Winter Harvest Ball, and they are
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Speaker 4: not going to be available because of this lawsuit.
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Speaker 3: And are they making money now?
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Speaker 4: My understanding is that neither man is getting any income
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Speaker 4: because of these lawsuits, and that's why we've proposed to
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Speaker 4: tax one penny per CD so that we can get
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Speaker 4: some money to them. You have to understand, Wayne Newton,
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Speaker 4: I can just give an example here, he's got... A
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Speaker 4: possibility that he has a $ 35, 000 a month house payment,
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Speaker 4: another $ 35, 000 to $ 40, 000 a month for cars. His wife has,
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Speaker 4: the rumor is that there's a Lord & Taylor account
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Speaker 4: that's up around $ 10, 000 a month. Shoes, that's another $ 5, 000
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Speaker 4: a month. A wardrobe, that runs anywhere from $ 50, 000 to
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Speaker 4: $ 100, 000 a month. He keeps a kennel for his dogs.
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Speaker 4: That's another $ 50, 000 a month. These are guys who have
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Speaker 4: given to us. I think it's time we give back.
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Speaker 2: All right, we're talking about Wayne Newton and Tony Orlando
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Speaker 2: suing each other, and as a result, they may be
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Speaker 2: in some financial distress. We were giving examples of their music,
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Speaker 2: and we'll play it a little bit later on.
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Speaker 4: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: Two artists that Art describes as core rock artists from
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Speaker 2: the 60s and 70s.
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Speaker 3: Vista on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello.
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Speaker 3: Hi.
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Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 9: I got one word to say.
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Speaker 4: Wah.
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Speaker 9: I'm not going to pay for these guys.
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Speaker 4: Who's your favorite group? Who's your favorite group?
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Speaker 9: My favorite group?
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Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 9: I don't really have one, but I guess I would
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Speaker 9: have to say maybe Boston or the Rolling Stones.
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Speaker 4: All right. The Rolling Stones, Boston, all of these groups
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Speaker 4: flow from what Wayne Newton was able to do and
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Speaker 4: what he was able to create. So if you like
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Speaker 4: groups like the Rolling Stones, you have to doff your cap.
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Speaker 4: and give a little how do you do and thank
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Speaker 4: you to Wayne Newton, who was a major influence on
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Speaker 4: Mick Jagger. If you listen to this.
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Speaker 9: There's no way that I'm going to pay a dust.
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Speaker 4: Oh, you want to be selfish?
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Speaker 9: No, there's no way I'm going to pay for them
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Speaker 9: because they got their panties in a twist and they're
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Speaker 9: in a lawsuit.
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Speaker 4: Again, this isn't, hold on for a minute. What do
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Speaker 4: you mean panties in a twist? Does that mean he's queer?
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Speaker 9: The what?
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Speaker 4: Does that mean this guy's queer?
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Speaker 9: No, I never said that.
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Speaker 4: Well, you said panties and a twist.
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Speaker 9: If they're in a lawsuit over some quarrel that they
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Speaker 9: have with each other, I'm not going to fund it.
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Speaker 4: These are two artists who are understandably upset. They're a
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Speaker 4: sensitive band when you're an artist. You do live close
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Speaker 4: to the edge. And right now, how are they supposed
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Speaker 4: to pay for their cars?
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Speaker 9: Use the money that they've made if they're such great
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Speaker 9: artists and they've made such great money then use the
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Speaker 9: money you've made.
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Speaker 8: Do you like jazz pardon me do you like jazz
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Speaker 8: yes do you like to dance do i like to
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Speaker 8: dance yes yes all right i'm gonna.
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Speaker 4: Go out on a limb i'm a good deal.
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Speaker 8: Older than you how old are you i'm 18 all right.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a shot i'm going way out on
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Speaker 4: a limb i'm 40 years old But I'd love to
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Speaker 4: take you dancing to something like this.
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Speaker 3: All right, Art. Yes, sir. We probably don't want to
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Speaker 3: be doing that. I mean, she's a legal woman, but.
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Speaker 4: These are two artists who've been paralyzed by a lawsuit.
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Speaker 4: We're asking for relief. All right.
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Speaker 3: Ma'am, we appreciate your call. Thank you. The point you're
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Speaker 3: making is they're rich enough, huh?
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Speaker 8: Yes, they made their money.
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Speaker 4: You don't know anything about them. I don't? No, I mean,
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Speaker 4: they're broke. How do you make a $ 25, 000 a month
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Speaker 4: car payment?
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Speaker 9: Then sell the car.
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Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
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Speaker 7: Give the car back.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, right. Oh, sure. Yeah. Uh-huh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: that's a real good solution.
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Speaker 9: If you can't afford it, don't have it.
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Speaker 4: Are you out of your mind?
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Speaker 9: No, they're out of their minds.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Did you hear her, Phil?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard her. It makes sense.
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Speaker 4: Makes sense? Sell the car and stifle their creativity?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Sell the car.
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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you very much. What's wrong with that?
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Speaker 4: What's wrong with what?
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Speaker 3: Selling the car.
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Speaker 4: Oh, right. That's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: All right. I mean, Garden Grove on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello. Hey, Phil.
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Speaker 10: How you doing?
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 5: Hey, I want to know how much did... Wayne Newton
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Speaker 5: makes for that commercial for Bud Light. Didn't that help
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Speaker 5: him out?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but that went into a lot of the legal
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Speaker 4: expenses he has. Look, there's nothing new about getting a
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Speaker 4: legal fund going for people, sir. There's nothing new about
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Speaker 4: helping people out with their legal expenses. What is wrong
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Speaker 4: with that?
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Speaker 5: There's nothing wrong for people that need it, but I
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Speaker 5: think that someone that supposedly has this high of a
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Speaker 5: house and a car payment should probably end up driving
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Speaker 5: a Toyota.
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Speaker 4: What about giving something back to him? He's given to you.
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Speaker 4: Why don't you give back to him?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and he got paid for doing a job, just
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Speaker 5: like all of us.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but what are you giving back to him? He
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Speaker 4: gave to you.
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Speaker 5: Well, when he goes on Social Security, I'll be giving
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Speaker 5: to him.
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Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question. Have you ever seen
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Speaker 4: Wayne Newton perform? Nope. Okay, so you've never really paid
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Speaker 4: any money to him. No. And yet you get the
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Speaker 4: benefit of his music every day.
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Speaker 5: Not unless I listen to it.
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Speaker 4: You're listening to it right now. Radio 3. No, it's not.
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Speaker 7: Okay, you're listening to it now.
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Speaker 4: What are you going to pay?
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Speaker 7: I'm not paying a cent.
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Speaker 4: All right, hold.
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Speaker 3: On for a minute.
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Speaker 10: 1-800-449.
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Speaker 3: Get out of here with that.
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Speaker 4: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: 1-800-449-8666.
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Speaker 2: We're talking with Art Griego with the Santa Monica Cloudbusters.
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Speaker 2: He's the entertainment coordinator. Tony Orlando and Wayne Newton are
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Speaker 2: locked in a legal battle. That may mean they're not performing,
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Speaker 2: which means that they're not getting income. As two core
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Speaker 2: rock artists of the 60s and 70s, Art, you're saying
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Speaker 2: basically we should be giving back to them?
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Speaker 4: Phil, I think it is time that we give back
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Speaker 4: to Tony and to Wayne a little piece of the
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Speaker 4: joy that they gave to us. And again, when you
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Speaker 4: hear a song like Donka Shane, which is a core
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Speaker 4: jazz rock song of.
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Speaker 7: The 60s, and you hear his.
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Speaker 4: Voice, and I am a straight man, I am not
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Speaker 4: in any way heterosexual, but I am oddly attracted to,
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Speaker 4: you know, his voice.
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Speaker 3: Well, he was very young when he sang this.
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Speaker 4: I understand that. Also, Tony Orlando. So I think a
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Speaker 4: penny per CD to help these men offset their legal
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Speaker 4: costs is as well as the cost of keeping their
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Speaker 4: home going, whether it's a heated swimming pool or whatever
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Speaker 4: it is they need, to pay back to Tony and
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Speaker 4: to Wayne what they've given us, I don't think it's
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Speaker 4: a bad thing.
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Speaker 3: All right. Well, you're calling them two core rock artists.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I am, Phil.
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Speaker 2: All right. I've got a little problem with that.
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Speaker 4: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: San Antonio on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello.
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Speaker 10: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: I think that's ridiculous as far as that's.
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Speaker 4: Concerned, you know.
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Speaker 7: You know, these guys have made a lot of money
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Speaker 7: over the.
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Speaker 6: Years, and for us to fund a legal battle that
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Speaker 6: they can't afford is crazy. If he has a $ 25, 000
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Speaker 6: car payment a month, you know, he should have thought
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Speaker 6: about that before he entered this legal battle. And, you know,
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Speaker 6: it's all going towards the attorneys anyway.
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Speaker 4: He does win this lawsuit.
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Speaker 6: He's going to pay the people back that has funded
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Speaker 6: this lawsuit for him.
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Speaker 4: Well, wait a minute. In your life, you've smiled and
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Speaker 4: you've tapped your toe to a Wayne Newton song.
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Speaker 6: That has nothing to do with it.
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Speaker 4: Well, are you giving back to Wayne?
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Speaker 6: The fact being is that if he cannot be financially
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Speaker 6: responsible for his own lawsuits, I'll be damned if I'm
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Speaker 6: going to make any payments for him.
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Speaker 4: Oh, so in other words, you danced the night away
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Speaker 4: to a Wayne Newton song, but now he's on his
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Speaker 4: ass and you don't want to help him. Exactly. Well,
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Speaker 4: I think that's selfish. Well, that's your opinion, but, you know.
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Speaker 7: I think it's, is he going.
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Speaker 6: To refund us when he wins this lawsuit?
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Speaker 4: This is a gift. This is a one-time gift. But
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Speaker 4: I think if you look at the upside, once the
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Speaker 4: legal problems are solved, Wayne and Tony are back on
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Speaker 4: stage making the place rock again.
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Speaker 6: I think there's a lot, I think there's, you know,
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Speaker 6: if anybody donated a penny for a lot better causes
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Speaker 6: than a frivolous lawsuit between two artists, that should have
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Speaker 6: thought about this a little bit better before they got
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Speaker 6: into it.
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Speaker 4: Are you a rock fan?
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Speaker 7: It's really not my problem.
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Speaker 4: Are you a rock fan? Yes. Well, then it is
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Speaker 4: your problem. No, it isn't.
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Speaker 6: That's irrelevant whether I'm a rock fan, a jazz fan,
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Speaker 6: a blues fan, or anything. The fact being is that
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Speaker 6: they're asking me to fund something for them before they
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Speaker 6: even thought about it.
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Speaker 4: I think the problem here is that most people dislike
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Speaker 4: Wayne Newton, not because he's a great rock artist, but
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Speaker 4: because Wayne made, I think, a lot of straight men
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Speaker 4: question their sexuality.
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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, maybe you need to go see someone
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Speaker 6: about that.
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Speaker 4: That has nothing to do with.
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Speaker 7: It for me. I mean, for my opinion.
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Speaker 4: Oh, really? Yes. You want me to believe that?
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Speaker 6: Yeah. I don't care whether you believe it or not.
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Speaker 4: I mean.
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Speaker 9: That doesn't get a little temp.
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Speaker 4: Going, huh?
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Speaker 3: All right, now you're going overboard.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, really. I'm talking about two great rock artists.
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Speaker 3: Would you knock it off with the rock artist? Listen
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Speaker 3: to this. What's rock about that?
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Speaker 4: I told you it's jazz rock.
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Speaker 7: Well, you entitled to your opinion, but, you know, it'll
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Speaker 7: be a cold day.
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Speaker 6: In hell before I fund Wayne Newton, One Penny, or
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Speaker 6: Tony Orlando.
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Speaker 7: And why should we fund.
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Speaker 6: Both artists that are in a lawsuit against each other?
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Speaker 7: Am I understanding that correct?
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: So you want us to fund both sides of a
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Speaker 6: lawsuit that are against each other?
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think that, you know, that's asinine.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, we need to end the pain. We
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Speaker 4: need to end the pain.
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Speaker 6: Well, how much are you going to get for this lawsuit?
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Speaker 4: I am kicking in what I can.
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Speaker 6: And how much is that?
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Speaker 4: I recently got a check for $ 1, 000.
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Speaker 6: Okay, well, keep it coming then.
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Speaker 4: Well, what about you?
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Speaker 6: You're tapping your toe.
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Speaker 4: Tell me you're not tapping your toe right now. Are you?
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Speaker 6: I've got nothing against Wayne Newton at all.
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Speaker 7: I mean, he's been in Vegas for many years.
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Speaker 6: He's made a lot of money. You know, I've seen
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Speaker 6: him in television and movies.
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Speaker 8: I mean, for you to ask a common.
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Speaker 6: Guy to chip in for his frivolous lawsuit against Tony Orlando.
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Speaker 7: and to fund both sides of it, it's all going
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Speaker 7: towards attorneys anyway. So I think we need to have.
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Speaker 4: The pain, the pain of being deprived of the genius
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Speaker 4: of their tapping your toe or tapping your hip. If
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Speaker 4: he's such a.
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Speaker 6: Genius, then he should have figured out this monetary situation
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Speaker 6: before he got into it.
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Speaker 4: Right. And that's really all I've got to say.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much for your call, sir. I appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: I think you're getting a fair cross-section of opinion here.
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Speaker 2: Most people think it's a total load that you want
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Speaker 2: to fund. They're suing each other. Did you hear what
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Speaker 2: he said? They're suing each other. Why do you want
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Speaker 2: to pay for both of their legal defenses?
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Speaker 4: Because they're both hurting right now. I think they're both
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Speaker 4: in pain, and I think they both need help.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to need help if I've got to keep
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Speaker 2: hearing that.
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Speaker 4: You hear that voice, and you don't have a tent going.
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Speaker 3: No, I do not have a tent going. Blackwell, Oklahoma,
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Speaker 3: on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello. Hello.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 4: Hi.
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Speaker 10: I just want to know what's going to stop other
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Speaker 10: artists from suing each other if this penny per CD
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Speaker 10: comes through.
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Speaker 4: I mean, what else? That's a good question, but I
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Speaker 4: don't care about other artists. All I care about are
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Speaker 4: two ignored rock legends like Tony Orlando and Wayne Neal.
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Speaker 4: They need support. I just want to hold Wayne. I
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Speaker 4: want to hold him. Well, go hold him. I said it.
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Speaker 10: You know, go hold him.
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Speaker 4: Well, what do you mean?
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Speaker 10: I mean, if that's who you want to help out,
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Speaker 10: go help him out.
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Speaker 4: Tony Orlando, you're from Oklahoma, right? Yes. Are you part Indian?
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Speaker 10: I happen to be, yes.
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Speaker 4: Okay, then you should have an affinity for Tony Orlando's music.
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Speaker 4: If you look at him, I'd swear the guy's an Indian.
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Speaker 10: Well, that really does not matter to me. I don't really,
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Speaker 10: I mean, I've listened.
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Speaker 4: To their music.
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Speaker 3: What are we talking about here?
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Speaker 4: We're just talking about, it sucks.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, you know.
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Speaker 4: Okay, then you think rock and roll sucks. Thank you.
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Speaker 4: Thanks for your opinion. I'd like to be an art
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Speaker 4: sandwich between two slices of Tony and Wayne.
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Speaker 10: Well, when I think of all-time rock and roll, I
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Speaker 10: think of Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's true, but also, you guys are not rock
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Speaker 4: and roll. All right, listen to.
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Speaker 8: This for just a second.
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Speaker 4: Tony Orlando influenced a lot of Native American tribal chants.
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Speaker 4: A lot of the Native American tribal chants you hear
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Speaker 4: today come from.
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Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
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Speaker 4: I swear to God.
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Speaker 10: You don't think they had those back before the settlers
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Speaker 10: even came? You don't think they had Indian chants?
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm talking about the better ones. Okay?
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Speaker 3: Do you understand what he's saying? What?
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Speaker 4: What am I saying that's difficult?
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Speaker 3: What do you mean Tony Orlando influenced tribal Indian chants?
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Speaker 4: Just what I said.
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Speaker 10: Well, if anything.
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Speaker 4: Let me ask you something. Is your ass moving right now?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. All right, get out of here. Listen, pal, good luck.
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Speaker 4: What can I put you down for?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, put me down for a couple of bucks, okay?
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Speaker 4: You're a very generous guy.
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