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Hour 1: Canada vs the USA's trade war is heating up. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what
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  Speaker 1: it all means. It's Mark Simone on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, well, it's a beautiful day today. Wednesday, beautiful. Tomorrow, rain.
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  Speaker 2: Got a lot to get to today. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton talk and look back and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: memories and get to that. And we'll get to last night.
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  Speaker 2: Big victory for Republicans for what they call MAGA. Big victory.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to Bruce Blakeman and Kathy Hochul. Hochul's got
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  Speaker 2: some problems, some big problems, and it's only getting worse
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  Speaker 2: for her. We'll get to all of that. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to Hillary Clinton. I think she's running in 2028. She
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  Speaker 2: made some very surprising comments. Anyway, we'll get to all
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  Speaker 2: of that. Coming up, we'll get to the battle with
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  Speaker 2: Canada and a whole lot more. Dolly Parton in a second.
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  Speaker 2: Last night, Darlene Graham, sister of Lindsey Graham, won And
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  Speaker 2: one big, it was supposed to be really tight. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that tight. President Trump was down there campaigning for her.
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  Speaker 2: He put in almost a million dollars into her campaign.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got a $ 400 million war chest he
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  Speaker 2: can use in the midterms. But one thing about these
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  Speaker 2: primary races, when President Trump goes down there or the
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  Speaker 2: RNC or the MAGA donut, when they go down there,
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  Speaker 2: And it's a good trial test run for whatever they
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  Speaker 2: want to do in the midterms. So you've got to
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  Speaker 2: be on your game for the midterm elections. And they're
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  Speaker 2: testing stuff out. They're road testing it in these primary races.
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  Speaker 2: And they sent an operation down there to work phone
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  Speaker 2: banks to, you know, what they call the ground game
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  Speaker 2: for Darlene Graham. And it worked. So then they go
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  Speaker 2: over it. They see exactly what worked, what didn't, what
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  Speaker 2: messages worked, what ads worked, what texts worked, you know,
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  Speaker 2: fine-tuning that ground game. So more and more of these races,
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  Speaker 2: and then they're ready to go for the midterms. Big
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  Speaker 2: victory last night. Darlene Graham's sister, Lindsey Graham, wins.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: President, Lindsey truly loved you and viewed you as one
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  Speaker 4: of his closest friends. I appreciate that bond and appreciate
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  Speaker 4: all that you've done for our country. Our victory would
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  Speaker 4: not have been possible without you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so now she had that big gaffe in the debate.
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  Speaker 2: where she was asked about Taiwan, and she said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about foreign policy. I just don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It sounded terrible, but she handled it so well in
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  Speaker 2: the days afterwards, saying, look, I'm not a professional politician.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a real, honest person, and that registered with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people. And she's running against Norman, who's a
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  Speaker 2: real professional career politician, and Ralph Norman, been there forever,
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  Speaker 2: and she kept using this I've done more in 20
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  Speaker 2: days than he's done in 20 years. And that kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff registers. People don't like professional politicians. So it
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  Speaker 2: was a great victory for her.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Lindsay, for your service to South Carolina and
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  Speaker 4: to this country. It's just not the same without you here.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, it was a lot of sentiment for
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  Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham. Now, this Norman, Ralph Norman, never trust a
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  Speaker 2: guy with two first names. That's an important rule in life.
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  Speaker 2: Ralph Norman, again. Never trust a guy with two first names. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't know what hit him, and he's got to
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  Speaker 2: figure out how to very quickly get on that Trump bandwagon.
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  Speaker 2: And he can have a pretty good relationship with Trump,
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  Speaker 2: but he's got to get back in there. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the president got involved. He has that right.
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  Speaker 5: That's his prerogative.
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  Speaker 6: As I told, I never, well, y'all, his policies are good.
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  Speaker 5: I never understood why he got in this race to beat.
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  Speaker 5: You know, but it is what it is, and I'll
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  Speaker 5: accept it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the guy, but he sounds a little
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  Speaker 2: wormy to me. Well, you know, that sounds like that
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  Speaker 2: southern sheriff kind of guy you don't trust.
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  Speaker 5: We did this for service, and I hate it for
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  Speaker 5: the state. But the public, South Carolina, made the decision.
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  Speaker 5: We had $ 8 million spent against us. We couldn't come
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  Speaker 5: up with that much money.
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  Speaker 7: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Now, see, the other problem Norman had, he was being
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  Speaker 2: backed by Nikki Haley, who everybody hates. Nobody can stand
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  Speaker 2: Nikki Haley. Big enemy of President Trump. So the Nikki
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  Speaker 2: Haley backing didn't help. The sincere, genuine, warm sort of
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  Speaker 2: darling grandma was great. So it was a great victory
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  Speaker 2: last night for President Trump. So Dolly Parton, I guess
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  Speaker 2: we got the word about 2 o'clock, 2.15. It was
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  Speaker 2: just shocking. She had power. Sad she had some medical troubles.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't realize it was cancer and that it was
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  Speaker 2: very serious. But nobody thought she'd pass away that fast.
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  Speaker 2: And even her own family said they just weren't expecting this.
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  Speaker 2: They were caught off guard. You know, this is kind
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  Speaker 2: of gruesome, but when I know somebody's going to die,
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  Speaker 2: I start looking, because I have a million interviews with everybody,
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  Speaker 2: I start looking for the interview with them. And if somebody,
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  Speaker 2: it's their 100th birthday, you know, I start going, let
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  Speaker 2: me get this interview ready just in case. Because you've
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  Speaker 2: got to dig through thousands of, recordings and find it.
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  Speaker 2: So it never, in a million years, would have occurred
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  Speaker 2: to me, let's go find the Dolly Parton interviews. It never,
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  Speaker 2: I just never thought she would pass away. But she
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  Speaker 2: had her, I think it was her nephew. This guy
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  Speaker 2: was great. And she apparently had prepared for this. She
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  Speaker 2: told the family exactly what she wanted said, what kind
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  Speaker 2: of funeral she wanted. And the nephew, he was just great. Hey, everyone.
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  Speaker 8: My name is Brian Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, And
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  Speaker 8: I'm representing the Parton and Owens family today, announcing the
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  Speaker 8: passing of my Aunt Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean. Sister, sis,
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  Speaker 8: aunt granny to one generation and Gigi to the next.
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  Speaker 8: This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago,
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  Speaker 8: before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As
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  Speaker 8: her head of security for more than two decades, a
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  Speaker 8: role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined
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  Speaker 8: the heaviness of this moment, but haven't truly felt it
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  Speaker 8: until now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy just sounded so wonderful. Like her, just warm,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely genuine, sincere. You know, one thing about Dolly Parton,
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  Speaker 2: it was a great success story, but it was a
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  Speaker 2: real American story. Growing up in a one-room cabin and
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  Speaker 2: becoming the biggest star possible. But the nephew was great.
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  Speaker 8: Dolly has lived in the light and is in the
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  Speaker 8: arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl. her parents, and
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  Speaker 8: countless others who have watched her and longed for her
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  Speaker 8: to meet them in the heavens. She has always been
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  Speaker 8: on your television, your record player, your CD, and on
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  Speaker 8: your phone playlist, becoming an extended part of your family
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  Speaker 8: whether you liked it or not. Our family and the
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  Speaker 8: team she has entrusted with her legacy will work diligently
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  Speaker 8: to ensure her spirit will live with us forever. Dolly
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  Speaker 8: called me and said she wants to rest in a
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  Speaker 8: beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life wearing
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  Speaker 8: heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable And have
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  Speaker 8: some rest.
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  Speaker 2: That's something. She would dress normally when no one was
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  Speaker 2: going to see her. But it was television. It was
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  Speaker 2: an appearance. It was out in public. She wore all
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  Speaker 2: that rhinestone. It was just constant rhinestone. And she had
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  Speaker 2: these things that were, I don't even know how you
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  Speaker 2: put them on. I mean, they were the most complicated
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  Speaker 2: with this going this way and that way and rhinestones
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  Speaker 2: and this and that. You know, I was at Fox.
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  Speaker 2: There's a nice sound technician that puts the microphone on
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  Speaker 2: you before you go on the air. She comes in, uh,
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  Speaker 2: sticks her hand in your jacket and puts the backpack
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  Speaker 2: on your belt. And she just sticks her hand in
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  Speaker 2: your coat. And, uh, I said, do you ever have
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  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton? Oh yeah. She was a guest here many times.
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  Speaker 2: How'd you put the microphone on her with that? What
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  Speaker 2: she was wearing. And she said, I just looked at
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  Speaker 2: all the rhinestone and this, and I didn't know where
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  Speaker 2: the hell to put the microphone in the, her staff
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  Speaker 2: guy obviously knew this is a constant problem and said, here,
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  Speaker 2: just give it to me. I know how to put
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  Speaker 2: it on. So, She just had this whole image of
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  Speaker 2: the rhinestone, the stuff, the hair, all of this. Listen
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  Speaker 2: to this quote from her.
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  Speaker 6: I want people to know there's some brains beneath the
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  Speaker 6: wig and a heart beneath the boobs. And I think
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  Speaker 6: people are beginning to see that.
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  Speaker 2: So the boobs were, when she first got famous, she
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  Speaker 2: said the boobs were a constant source of jokes. Lots
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  Speaker 2: and lots of jokes. There were Dolly Parton jokes everywhere
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  Speaker 2: about that. And then the big moment was one night
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  Speaker 2: she's on with Johnny Carson. This is when she first
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  Speaker 2: became a star. And it was a memorable moment for
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Carson. This would play on the Best Of show
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  Speaker 2: every year.
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  Speaker 9: Have you always been rather zoftic?
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  Speaker 6: What would they call that where you grew up in Tennessee?
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  Speaker 9: I can't say.
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  Speaker 4: Healthy?
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  Speaker 10: Healthy, I guess.
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  Speaker 6: Blues and me. What did you ask me just before that? Oh, well, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I've always been pretty well-blessed. People are always asking if
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  Speaker 6: they're real.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I would never. I would never, you see. No,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to ask.
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  Speaker 3: I would not.
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  Speaker 6: I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: I have certain guidelines.
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  Speaker 2: But I would give about a year's pay to peek
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  Speaker 2: under there. Big memorable moment in her career. Now, the music,
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  Speaker 2: of course. You know, and the amazing thing is you
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  Speaker 2: talk to really young people, even kids, they all know
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  Speaker 2: her music. The movie, 9 to 5, still running all
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  Speaker 2: over the place. It was a great, great film. The song,
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  Speaker 2: what a great song. And in the early days of
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  Speaker 2: cable and all the movie channels, this was the movie
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  Speaker 2: they ran all the time. So I'll younger generation saw
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  Speaker 2: it and people still watch. It's an incredible movie because
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  Speaker 2: it's so outdated in a wonderful way. It's about sexual harassment.
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  Speaker 2: They got the, it was Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda
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  Speaker 2: and Dolly Parton. And they're working for, was it Dabney Coleman?
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  Speaker 2: Who's a great guy in real life, but in the movie,
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  Speaker 2: the nastiest, most awful boss. And he was, sexually harassing
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  Speaker 2: them left and right. And it was a great script.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, the greatest line, one of Dolly Parton's greatest
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  Speaker 2: movie line, and one of the greatest lines ever in
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  Speaker 2: a movie, was her finally standing up and to the boss,
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  Speaker 2: confronting him about all the sexual harassment. Listen to this
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  Speaker 2: great line.
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  Speaker 10: Look, I got a gun out there in my purse
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  Speaker 10: and up to now I've been forgiven and forgetting because
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  Speaker 10: of the way I was brought up.
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  Speaker 11: But I'll tell you one thing.
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  Speaker 10: If you ever say another word about me or make
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  Speaker 10: another indecent proposal, I'm going to get that gun of
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  Speaker 10: mine and I'm going to change you from a rooster
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  Speaker 10: to a hand with one shot.
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  Speaker 2: But, uh, she was an amazing, amazing person. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Did a lot of interviews and talked a lot. She
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  Speaker 2: was a very smart woman. She was a great businesswoman,
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  Speaker 2: very generous, great philanthropist.
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  Speaker 6: For me, the Dolly Parton star is accomplishing every possible
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  Speaker 6: thing that I can. I want to mean something. I
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  Speaker 6: don't want to just be some joke. I don't want
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  Speaker 6: to be the all-American joke, you know, just with the
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  Speaker 6: boobs and the hair and the tight belts or whatever.
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  Speaker 6: I want to be a meaningful, artistic person.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You can't find anybody anywhere. Anybody, any co-star, anybody that
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  Speaker 2: ever worked with her, anybody that'll ever say a bad
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  Speaker 2: word about her. There's no bad anything. She's one of
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  Speaker 2: the handful of people, celebrities, that are exactly the same
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  Speaker 2: off the air as on the air.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I've worked hard and I had a lot
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  Speaker 6: of dreams. I've worked not only for myself but for
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  Speaker 6: other people. And it's like now I want to enjoy,
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  Speaker 6: really enjoy the more simple things rather than just going
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  Speaker 6: full blast.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so many great songs. And Kenny Rogers, the duets,
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. All the movies with Sylvester Stallone, of course,
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  Speaker 2: all the great co-stars. Anyway, we'll get back to Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about her throughout the program. An amazing, amazing
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  Speaker 2: American story. And, hey, Bruce Blakeman press conference today, 2 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Now watch this, because Kathy Hochul has got some problems,
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  Speaker 2: and they're only going to mount. Her crazy, she's trying
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  Speaker 2: to walk this tightrope. between being a left-wing Mamdani sort
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  Speaker 2: of extremist and a moderate Democrat. She's not either. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: knows what she is. It's just a professional politician pretending.
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  Speaker 2: And she's not that skilled a politician to walk this tightrope.
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  Speaker 2: She's trying to hang on to the Mamdani crowd. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: you got to win a lot of New York. You
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  Speaker 2: got to win 35% of New York to win the state.
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  Speaker 2: So she's trying to do that, but you're going to
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  Speaker 2: lose upstate. So the problem is ICE, which is just
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  Speaker 2: a rock solid, good, normal law enforcement agency. It's a
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  Speaker 2: task force that's arresting people who have committed crimes. In
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  Speaker 2: this case, the crime would be illegal alien. And specifically
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  Speaker 2: now they're going after criminals, illegals who are committing crimes.
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  Speaker 2: So you couldn't have a better cause, a better thing,
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  Speaker 2: but she's trying to score points with the crazy left wing.
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  Speaker 2: So she's, She and their crazy legislature, they got a
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  Speaker 2: law now that your locals are not allowed to cooperate
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  Speaker 2: with ICE. Can you imagine that? Imagine passing a law,
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  Speaker 2: you're not allowed to cooperate with the FBI. Not allowed
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  Speaker 2: to cooperate with ICE. So, of course, this is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's insane. It's irrational. It's illogical. Now, a number of
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  Speaker 2: counties are getting together and they're suing because they want
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  Speaker 2: to cooperate with ICE. They want illegal criminals, robbers, rapists,
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  Speaker 2: gang members. murderers they want them picked up and taken
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  Speaker 2: out of their territory, out of their county. Nobody's better
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  Speaker 2: at this than Bruce Blakeman. Blakeman has been so good
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  Speaker 2: about this. He set up a whole task force to
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  Speaker 2: help ICE, give them whatever they need. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 12: We have the most comprehensive agreement with ICE in the
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  Speaker 12: United States. I've dedicated 50 jail cells to ICE. And
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  Speaker 12: I've dedicated 10 detectives from our Nassau County Police Department
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  Speaker 12: to ICE. And we're doing it because we want to
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  Speaker 12: make our community safer. And we've done that. We have
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  Speaker 12: the safest county in America, according to U.S.
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  Speaker 2: News & World Report. Yeah, and he's right. It's a
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  Speaker 2: logical thing to do. I'd say there's a couple of
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  Speaker 2: gang members, dangerous criminals, illegals. ICE is going to come
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  Speaker 2: in and arrest them and take them away. If you
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  Speaker 2: let the local police help out, lend them jail cells,
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  Speaker 2: lend them some local cops, they can send five guys
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  Speaker 2: in to do it. If you refuse to cooperate with ICE,
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  Speaker 2: they got to send 50 guys in to do it.
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  Speaker 2: They need a whole big infrastructure to help these guys
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  Speaker 2: make the arrest. And there's nothing Kathy Oka can do
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  Speaker 2: legally to stop them from doing that. It's federal law.
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  Speaker 2: Federal law always supersedes local law. So she's crazy. This
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  Speaker 2: is going to blow up in her face. She's Sticking
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  Speaker 2: her guns on this.
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  Speaker 3: Local police will assist ICE only if a real crime
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  Speaker 3: has been committed. But on civil immigration matters, ICE is
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  Speaker 3: on their own. Let me be clear. Any police department
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  Speaker 3: or sheriff's office that disobeys this law, that maintains any
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  Speaker 3: agreement with ICE, will face legal action.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, this is going to blow up in her face.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to use this against me. Just this line.
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  Speaker 3: Local police will assist ICE... only if a real crime
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  Speaker 3: has been committed.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to see that in a lot of commercials.
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  Speaker 2: This left-wing kook doesn't believe breaking into the country, coming
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  Speaker 2: here illegally, doesn't believe that's actually a crime. She thinks
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  Speaker 2: that's not illegal. So you're going to see that used
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  Speaker 2: against her a lot. Hey, we'll get back to this.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get back to Dolly Parton. We'll get to the
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  Speaker 2: Trump battle with Canada that really heated up yesterday. And
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  Speaker 2: a lot more just ahead. Mark Simone here, 9 to noon.
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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show. Now 9 till noon weekdays.
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  Speaker 11: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, well, this just breaking. You know that a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of attorney generals of various states got together and they
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  Speaker 2: were suing Facebook, Instagram. That's Meta. The company is Meta. Big,
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  Speaker 2: massive lawsuit accusing them of deliberately setting the algorithm to
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  Speaker 2: try to addict people and that it was particularly effective
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  Speaker 2: with kids, easily impressionable kids were getting addicted. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't understand this lawsuit because every business does that. Radio, television,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: we all do that. We lay out the program with
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  Speaker 2: little ways of keeping you listening longer. That's the whole idea.
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  Speaker 2: Every business does that. And when they build the supermarket,
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  Speaker 2: they lay out where everything is to keep you in
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  Speaker 2: there longer. You don't realize it, but a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people just run in to get eggs or milk or something.
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  Speaker 2: That's never in the front. You notice it's always in
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  Speaker 2: the furthest, in the back of the supermarket. That's to
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  Speaker 2: make sure you have to go through the whole supermarket
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  Speaker 2: so you get something else. You ever been to Stu Leonard's?
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  Speaker 2: It's great. One of the great supermarkets in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Stu Leonard's in Norwalk. Well, they're all over the place, but-
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  Speaker 2: It's a wonderful supermarket, but it's a maze. When you
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  Speaker 2: walk in there and start going around, you can't get out.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to go all the way through to the end.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: It's brilliant. Same thing. That's what Meta does. They set
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: the algorithm to keep you watching. So if you're watching,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: you like something, some post, and you click on it, well,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: it just immediately shows you 20 more just like it.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: So I don't know how they could lose this lawsuit.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: You could probably just argue that, but I guess children
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: are getting addicted. But these attorneys general, a number of
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: states got together. It was a massive lawsuit. And this
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: just breaking. It just happened. Meta is settling the lawsuit.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: They're not going to continue the lawsuit. They want to
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: settle out of court. They'll pay to settle it. We're
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: getting word that they'll pay $ 13 billion. $ 13 billion to
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: give you. An idea of how well Meta does give
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: you an idea of how wealthy these tech companies are.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Mark Zuckerberg, probably the lawyers are talking to him, and
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: they're in the conference room, and they're going over the case,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and he goes, well, hey, I just settled it. What
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: is it, $ 13 billion? Hey, I just settled it. $ 13
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: billion is pocket change to them. Absolutely nothing. And these attorney,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you know, if you're an attorney general, you're just a politician.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: If you can walk away with a big victory. You'll
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: take it. You'll take it. Even if it's not the
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: right thing to do, you'll take a victory. It sounds good. Oh,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: and now I actually made a pretty good deal. It's
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: 13 billion, 7% paid now. And then they've worked out
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: a payment plan, but that's the end of that lawsuit.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: So it's good news for everybody. Just, just get rid
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: of it that way. So, hey, the fight with Canada
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: is going on. There's the, Believe it or not, each province,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: you know, there's Ontario, there's Quebec, these provinces, each one
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: has a premier. And there's a guy named Ford who's
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: the premier of Ontario. You couldn't sound more socialist than
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: a premier. So apparently he and Trump went at it yesterday.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Remember Ford had that brother Rob Ford? He was that
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Canadian politician who got in all kinds of scandal. He
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: was quite the oddball, weird, strange guy. I guess Trump
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: brought him up. Ford did not like that. Uh, they
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: got into a clash.
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: We're going to fight with everything we have. And, uh,
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: you know, something, I have more courage, more brains in
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: my baby toe than he has in his whole body.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Uh, I know you're saying it's got a kind of
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: a Tim Waltz quality to him. He's got that Tim
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Waltz kind of sound to him. Don't worry. Trump has
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: plenty of courage. Remember when that bullet hit him and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: he just jumped up and pumped his fist? That's pretty courageous.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: So Ford actually kind of used it. I think he
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: wants to run for prime minister of Canada. So that's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: why he's playing this up. He's treating us worse than
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the communist China. And I just want to make.
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: Sure that we have a fair deal for both sides
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: because right now, It's hurting American workers and it's hurting
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: Canadian workers. We're the number one customer in the world
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: to the U.S.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if everything went wrong with our relationship with Canada,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: we'd be just fine. It's Canada. The whole economy would
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: collapse without America cooperating. And Ford knows. Things got a
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: little heated.
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: It got a little personal yesterday between the president and myself.
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: But I want to make a deal, a good deal
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: for the American people, a good deal for the Canadians.
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: And we're the two greatest countries in the world. We're
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: each other's number one customer. And it's time to get
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: back to the table and let's negotiate a fair deal.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Ah, you see, there you go. He's like Meta. You're
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: going to fight this to the end. Okay, we'll settle.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: He's willing to settle. Meta settled for $ 13 billion. This
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: guy's got about $ 1. 50 to settle with, but they'll patch
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: it up. Hey, the Strait of Hormuz has been open
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: for months. Partially open. Partially open. southern corridor. So it's
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: been about 35, 40 percent open. But I think they're
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: about to open the whole thing because yesterday they cleared
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: the final mine out of there. You know, the problem
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: is the Iranians would fire rockets, missiles, drones from the shore.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: But that's really easy to take care of. Now, the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: other problem was they had put mines, a lot of
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: mines in in the bottom of the Strait of Hormuz,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: but we have all kinds of, there were mine sweeping ships,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: but now we got all these super high-tech mine detecting
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: drones and we can find the drone, they can find
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: the mines and then we can go in there and
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: get them out. It's a slow process, but they got
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: it done. It's now completely clean. The Strait of Hormuz
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: has no more mines in it. It's going to be
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: much easier to use. Now you say, well, they could
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: put them back. Not really. We got the Space Force
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: watching the Strait, watching everything. If they try to put
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: anything in there, we'll see it. There'll be zero tolerance.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: So the Strait of Hormuz, we've gotten 400 tankers through
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: there in the last couple of months. That's a lot
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: of tankers. Nine million barrels a day coming through. So
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: they'll probably increase that to about 14, 15 million barrels
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: a day. Pre-war was 20 million barrels a day. So
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: it's partially open now, about 35% open. Expected to be
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: about 75% open within a week or two. Hey, we've
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: got a lot to get to. We'll get back to
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton. We'll get to Hillary's crazy comments and more.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Coming up, it's Mark Simone here. 9 to noon every weekday.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: 9 to noon on 710WOR. It's the Mark Simone Show.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: Wow!
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a beautiful day today. It's going
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: to be a sunny day today. Rain tomorrow, but a
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: sunny day today. Don't forget, it's 9 to noon every day.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: You know, the reason they were such a push to
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: expand this show to an extra hour is we do
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: very well with commercials. As you can hear, advertisers do
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: very well on this show. We've got a great, very, very,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: very upscale sort of audience that they like. So couldn't
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: get all the commercials in in two hours. And we
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: had advertisers waiting to get on, and there was this
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: push to make it three hours. And we've done three hours.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: And I said, are you sure you have enough advertisers
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: to fill three hours? Well, I think we've answered that question.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Listen to some of these breaks. Plenty of advertisers. But hey,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: President Trump was a huge Dolly Parton fan. He really
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: loved Dolly Parton. He's a country music fan, but really
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: had a lot of respect for Dolly Parton, ordered all
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: The flags and all the U.S. government buildings all over America,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: half staff. It started last night at 6 o'clock. And
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: expect him to come up with something, some sort of
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: big tribute to Dolly Parton that he'll want to do.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: You know, she had this thing about politics. She wanted
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: nothing to do with politics. Just personally, and she also
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: knew career-wise, it was a very smart thing to stay
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the hell away from politics. from politicians. That's why you
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: never see her with any politicians. There were a number
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: of times the Clintons wanted to do something with her.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Not a campaign rally, but just have her together with
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the Clintons for something and they would take a picture.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: She would avoid it. She just did not want to
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: have anything to do with politics. She loved President Trump,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: but she stayed the hell away from him. Did not
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: want to be associated with anything political or any politicians.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Because she knew, career-wise... If you take a side, you'll
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: lose half your audience. Stephen Colbert, are you listening to this?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: She knew it was smart to avoid anything political. Let's
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: take some calls. Let's go to beautiful Garden City, one
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: of the most beautiful suburbs in America. Let's go to
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Keith in Garden City. Keith, how are you doing?
• 25:35
  Speaker 11: Pretty good, Mark. Thanks for taking my call. Love the
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: extra hour. Yes, sir. I was calling about the data centers.
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: Somebody told me that golf courses use more water than
• 25:46
  Speaker 11: data centers. And I don't know if you know any
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: truth to that. I have three golf courses in my
• 25:51
  Speaker 11: town and no shortage of water.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Garden City, you got the Garden City Country Club, the
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: golf club, that old club been there 100 years. You
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: got the Wyndham has a golf club, right? And what's
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: the other one?
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: The Cherry Valley.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Cherry Valley, that's right.
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: So I think Garden City would be good for a
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: data center. We'll put it right on 7th Street next
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: to Ivorone.
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: No, no.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Where Tony's Tacos are.
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: Maybe in that parking lot. You're making me hungry. You know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 11: the Chinese, they spent all this money convincing these people
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: that these data centers are bad. They do the same thing.
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: They back any candidate that's anti-mining because they want to
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: control all the minerals. And we as Americans, we fall
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: for these fake crises. I remember as a kid on
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: Long Island, they said aerosol cans were going to kill
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: the ozone layer. You know how many how many hairspray
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: cans were used up in the 80s on Long Island?
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: What do we use today? Aerosol cans are still here today.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: No, you're right. And it's a very, very good point.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: You know, there's always this is a democratic tactic. They
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: do this all the time. They've always done this. It's
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the way they campaign. It's the way they run. Media
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: jumps in and helps them, too. They have to always
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: create a boogeyman, something they're fighting, a boogeyman. This whole
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: tactic started with the French Revolution. They did it then.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Ann Coulter wrote a book about it called Demonic. Is
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: she on later? Yeah, she's on later today. We'll ask
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: her about it. They always create this boogeyman that they're
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: battling against. It was nuclear plants before. Now it's data centers.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: They've replaced the nuclear plants. And they always do this.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: They're fighting the mega extremists. Nobody knows who the hell,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: who are these MAGA extremists or the MAGA people? Nobody
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: knows who you're talking about. You remember, uh, every, every, uh, campaign,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: the last one, it was, uh, the alt-right. Nobody knew
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: what the hell the alt-right was. And then at one
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: point it was QAnon, which was some chat group on
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: the internet, but they were battling QAnon and they were
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: always battling these different forces. Let's go to Paul Roslin,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: another great suburb, Roslin, Long Island. Paul, how you doing?
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: Good morning, Mark. How are you?
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: Good. I just wanted to mention to you that Dolly
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: Parton was played tremendously on 106.7 many years ago.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Light FM?
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah. No, it wasn't Light FM. It was WKHK, Kick FM.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right. You know, it used to be a
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: country station, WKHK. And it was a country station. It
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: was like 14th place. And then they became Light FM.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: It became the number one station in New York. It's
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: right down the hall there, right at the end of
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: our hall. That's Light FM.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: I know. They brought in all these DJs from the South,
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: and the station didn't last, obviously, because there wasn't country music.
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: It wasn't so popular then.
• 28:46
  Speaker 11: No.
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: I remember listening to it when they did have it,
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: and I think it was your company that had it, right?
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Well, it was country under a different company.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: Right, under a different company. But anyway, she was really incredible.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: What a personality.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: You're in Roslyn, New York. Hey, the Jolly Fisherman is gone,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: but it's about to become an incredible new restaurant. I know.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: I don't know what it's going to become yet.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's going to be unbelievable. Gillis Pole, the Pole Brothers.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: These guys are the greatest restaurant.
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: Right, the Pole Brothers. They own everything.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Well, they're the best restaurant guys probably in America, but
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: definitely in Long Island.
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: You're not kidding. God, they are unbelievable. But I listen
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: to you every day, and you are absolutely sensational. Just
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: keep doing what you're doing.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks. Thanks for calling. Yeah, Light FM was WKHK.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Remember the big country station was WHN, AM 1050, WHN,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: the country station, with Del DeMontreau and all. those sort
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: of guys. And Larry Kenney. Remember Larry Kenney? Great guy.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: And then it switched to.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: Sports.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Remember? Yeah. It became WFAN. That was where the original
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: WFAN was. So some people thought, well, there's a need
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: for a country station. We'll create a country station on FM.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: And it never quite works in New York. Whenever they
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: do a country show, they can't figure out why it
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: doesn't work in New York. Well, walk around Manhattan. You
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: don't see a lot of McLeod cowboy hats here. I mean,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: it's not a country city. I mean, I love country music.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: And there are people. If you go way out in
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Long Island, you'll find some country fans. But if you're
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: in Roslyn and Manhasset, there's not a lot of country
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: fans there. You know, when you see those people, you go,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: how are you? They're not big country listeners. So it
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: didn't work. It became Light FM, which, by the way,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: was controversial at the time. Nobody understood the format. Light FM?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: You just play light music? What kind of music? It
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: became the number one station. It is still today, right now,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: down the hall. That station is the number one highest rated,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: most listened to station in America. Number one radio station.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: And always has been for like a million years. You know,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: right on this floor, In the morning, right now, we
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: reach about, I don't know, like 22 million people or something.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: You got Charlemagne over there. He's got like 8 million listeners.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: You got Elvis Duran down the hall. He's probably got
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: 9 million listeners, 10 million listeners. You got Light FM,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: the number one single most listened to morning show station
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: in America. You got Q104. It's like the number three
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: station in New York. You got, what else is here?
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: KTU is one of the great stations. Yeah. I'm missing something.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: That's it, I think. Well, of course, WOR. See, we
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: get the other, we get an older audience, but it's
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: the very, very upscale audience. That's the big reason people
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: advertise here. It's a very upscale audience. That's why they say, ah,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: all I hear are gold companies. Well, the reason the
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: gold companies are here, they're not looking for you to
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: buy something for $ 3. They're looking for a real investor. So,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: This is the kind of station where you can get
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: that kind of action. Hey, it's 9 to noon every
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: day now. I'm on 9 to noon, three hours, 9 a.m.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: till noon every day. We'll get back to Dolly Parton.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: We've got a lot to talk about with her. We'll
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: get to Hillary Clinton going crazy with her comments, and
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: it looks like she's running in 2028. But we'll get
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: to all of that coming up. And then don't forget,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: at noon, it's Buck, Sexton, and Clay Travis. That's one
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: of the most listened to radio shows in America, millions
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: of listeners. Then at 3 o'clock, we have the single
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: most listened to radio show in America. It's like 16.5
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: million listeners. Sean Hannity, 3 o'clock. And then you've got
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Jesse Kelly at 6. And you've got the very funny
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon every night, 9 to midnight, here on 710WOR.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekdays.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: Only on 710WOR.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's going to be a really nice day today.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Beautiful summer day, sunshine, like low 80s, real feel like 79.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a beautiful day today. Maybe the
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: nicest day of the summer. Now, tomorrow looks cloudy with
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: a lot of rain here and there. And it should
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: be a little better on Friday. But you only got
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: this week and then next week. And then it's Labor Day.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I know, it's hard to believe. But hey, in the
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: next hour, we'll get back to Dolly Parton. You know,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: a lot of people ask about the variety shows. It
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: was a big part of television, 50s and 60s, the
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: variety shows. What happened to them? Why can't they try
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: it again? Well, the last person ever to try it
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: was Dolly Parton. And we'll get to that and more
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: coming up right after the news on 710WOR.