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BONUS RADIO: Let Them Eat Cake in Ruffles and Ribbons...In Music City · That KEVIN Show

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Speaker 1: From the birthplace of radio's greatest era. Now from New
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Speaker 1: York It's Radio Night Live with Kevin McCullough. Unlike anything
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Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, Welcome in. It's just after seven o'clock. Kevin McCullough,
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Speaker 2: glad to be with you. Christine Nicholas is back, and
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Speaker 2: you know what, Christine, it's turning into a regular occasion
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Speaker 2: on which I am now seeing you multiple times a week,
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Speaker 2: so I know this is getting to be kind of fun.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for the invite, By the way, earlier this week,
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Speaker 2: we got to go sail around the tall ships of
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Speaker 2: New York and see them up close, a little more
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Speaker 2: up close than we saw him on Saturday, including the
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Speaker 2: Amerigo Vespucci, which is being set around my house with
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Speaker 2: great emphasis. My half Italian wife and my one fourth
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Speaker 2: Italian kids running around the house going Amergo Vespucci, the
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Speaker 2: most beautiful boat in the world.
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Speaker 3: They say that, Well, I loved spending time with your family.
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Speaker 4: What a beautiful family. You have never been.
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Speaker 2: Been around the spawn before, so this was like a
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Speaker 2: first time for nab both and I was like, Lord,
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Speaker 2: just please let him be good tonight.
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Speaker 4: No, they were exceptional.
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Speaker 3: I mean, look, this is this was a wonderful cruise,
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Speaker 3: and thank you to Morgan and to Travis and to
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Speaker 3: Ben and Connor, all the wonderful folks from sail Forth
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Speaker 3: and New York City Water Cruises that really gave us
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Speaker 3: this wonderful front row seat to these beautiful ships that
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Speaker 3: are now fortunately no longer in our harbor. They're heading
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Speaker 3: up to Boston right now, many of the tall ships.
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Speaker 3: But this was just such a wonderful week that we
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Speaker 3: had to kick off the celebrations for July fourth, and
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Speaker 3: then to be able to get on the water and
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Speaker 3: see these boats up close and have a fabulous meal
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Speaker 3: by the way too, So it gives you a bit
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Speaker 3: of a glimpse of what New York City water cruises
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Speaker 3: can do. They operate out of Peer thirty six. They
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Speaker 3: have three different operations. They are going to be launching
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Speaker 3: a sunset cruise I think Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, so
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Speaker 3: for the weekends we'll maybe we'll have Mergan on or
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Speaker 3: Travis on to talk more about that, to give the details,
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Speaker 3: because I think they're ironing them out. But that's going
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Speaker 3: to be exciting because what better place to see the
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Speaker 3: sunset than the majestical skyline of New York City.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I've seen a few of them from dinner cruises,
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Speaker 2: and there's nothing like being on the water as that
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Speaker 2: goes down, and especially if you get to go past
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Speaker 2: Lady Liberty at some point. That's that's always fun and
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Speaker 2: amazing pool and getting to do so with the beautiful
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Speaker 2: tall ships in port really was special. So thank you
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Speaker 2: for making that happen. And Charlotte could not have been
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Speaker 2: more tickled than to get to spend some time with
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Speaker 2: you and miss ab You're like booking her for like
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Speaker 2: modeling gigs and stuff, and I'm like, does Christie ever
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Speaker 2: just like turn it off? Like what do you do
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Speaker 2: to relax? Like just through the yellow pages, I can.
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Speaker 4: See the talent. I can see the talent, and she's
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Speaker 4: got it. My goodness. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But by the way, I mean, she is really interested
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Speaker 3: in seeing more shows. So I would recommend the Harry
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Speaker 3: Potter Curse Child. And her eyes grew real wide when
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Speaker 3: I mentioned that, because I got to see that last
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Speaker 3: week and shout out.
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Speaker 2: To the entire series, which was Mom's thing. Before you
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Speaker 2: watch the movies, before you see the musical, you need
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Speaker 2: to read the entire series. And so she's completed that
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Speaker 2: task a couple of times over and I think she's
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Speaker 2: going to be excited to see Chirstchild.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. That has a lot of twists and turns in it,
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Speaker 3: and it's really beautiful and Megan Burn is one of
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Speaker 3: the stars in that. Our good friend Jerry Byrne, who
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Speaker 3: is you know, been very involved with Gary Sinise Foundation,
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Speaker 3: involved with Veterans Causes, the Marine Corps, just an amazing
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Speaker 3: American who we often have on during the Veterans day time.
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Speaker 3: But his daughter is one of the stars in Chris Child.
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Speaker 2: She played what role?
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Speaker 3: Oh, I knew you were going to ask me that
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Speaker 3: she played the headmaster, the headmistress.
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Speaker 4: And she plays two.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to tell you the other one because
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Speaker 3: you'd be shocked, but you know, the good in the
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Speaker 3: bad Maggie Smith. Yeah, it's surprising because she's so young,
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Speaker 3: and it's amazing how you know the makeup can make it.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's what they do, right, I mean, that's what
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Speaker 2: they're used to. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. And then the other one she wants to see
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Speaker 3: is Amaze with Jamie Allen, who.
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Speaker 2: We're going a week from tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: Oh really, okay, terrific.
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Speaker 2: We've got our tickets where uh yeah, yeah. Jamie came
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Speaker 2: on the syndicated show and we talked about it to
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Speaker 2: the whole nation and he's really excited. And you know,
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Speaker 2: there's a piece of me that's still a kid when
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Speaker 2: I get around magicians, like I just how'd they do that?
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Speaker 2: It just like fascinates me.
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Speaker 4: He's not just only a magician, he's a mentalist.
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Speaker 3: He's a an entertainer. And by the way, I believe
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Speaker 3: he's going to be at our grand opening for House
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Speaker 3: of Spells, which is going to be on July.
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Speaker 2: You were also my kids with and now I guess
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Speaker 2: put that on the calendar.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I would love for them to be there. I
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Speaker 3: know it may not work that date, but there'll be
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Speaker 3: a lot of things.
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Speaker 4: So House of.
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Speaker 3: Spells, I'll just give folks a little bit of a
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Speaker 3: peak sneak if you know where Model's was on forty
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Speaker 3: second Street, so it's west two thirty four west forty seconds,
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Speaker 3: so right before you get to the Port Authority bus terminal,
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Speaker 3: very busy traffic area. But this is a twenty thousand
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Speaker 3: square foot retail immersive experience and it's all about the
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Speaker 3: mystical spells, the fandom. It's really going to be fantastic,
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Speaker 3: and Jamie Allen is going to join us when we
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Speaker 3: either cut the ribbon or maybe make the ribbon disappear.
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Speaker 3: We're not quite sure what Jamie's planning on doing on
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Speaker 3: the twenty ninth, but Tom Harris from Times Square Alliance
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Speaker 3: will be there because it is one of the largest
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Speaker 3: retail establishments opening in Times Square. There's been a bunch
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Speaker 3: opening in Times Square, but they're all about like four
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Speaker 3: thousand square feet. This one's twenty thousand square feet.
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Speaker 2: So you and it's a magnet like he somehow he
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Speaker 2: just gets people to come to Times Square and just
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Speaker 2: buy stuff. Stay.
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Speaker 3: Well, they had the Pokemon Go Convention or I don't know.
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Speaker 3: It was insane last night when I was going to
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Speaker 3: see this off Broadway show last night, which we're going
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Speaker 3: to hear more about in our show because Francine Lefreck
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Speaker 3: is going to be in our is going to be
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Speaker 3: our special guest. Who's the producer of Music City, Beautiful Show.
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Speaker 4: Beautiful show.
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Speaker 2: Rhyme was a bit of a challenge to find the
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Speaker 2: Pokemon's around.
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, But it was beautiful to see
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Speaker 3: all these young kids, you know, young kids, teenagers, fandom kids,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 4: Mix that in with the World Cup folks.
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Speaker 3: Mix that in with the folks here that are still
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Speaker 3: enjoying the bi centennial because yesterday was also a very
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Speaker 3: special day, Kevin.
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Speaker 4: July ninth was the first time in New.
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Speaker 3: York City that the Declaration of Independence was red, So
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Speaker 3: we did a bit of a reenactment yesterday where it
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Speaker 3: was red originally at City Hall Park was before the troops.
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Speaker 3: General George Washington directed his leaders to read it in
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Speaker 3: different cities around the same time. So five pm they
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Speaker 3: read this, of course when you actually read it aloud,
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Speaker 3: as we did with twelve different historians. Elected Council member
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Speaker 3: Chris Marte. We had the guys from the Cuney Gotham Center,
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Speaker 3: Peter Christian Eigner and Ted Knutsen, who created this Echoes
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Speaker 3: of Revolution. We've had former City Council member Ken Fisher.
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Speaker 3: We had Tonio Burgess, who represents the federal two fifty.
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Speaker 4: I got to read because.
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Speaker 3: It was on representing the Governor's two fifty for the
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Speaker 3: New York State. Julie Kocher was there from New York
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Speaker 3: City Tourism. Just a terrific mix of folks. We read
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Speaker 3: the Declaration of Independence, which is a very passionate document
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Speaker 3: that really sets forth why these grievances, these injustices, this
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Speaker 3: oppression from King George the Third made us separate and
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Speaker 3: declaring our separation. And after the troops, I think there
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Speaker 3: were eight thousand assembled heard these words. They then marched
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Speaker 3: down Broadway. They went to Bowling Green, which still exists.
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Speaker 3: It's a beautiful park in Lower Manhattan, right below where
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Speaker 3: the bull is on Broadway, and they took down, they toppled.
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Speaker 4: They said, lead statue.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, get a rope, they pulled it down, they chopped
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Speaker 3: it up, They turned that lead into bullets, and guess what.
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Speaker 3: Those bullets took care of a lot of our problems.
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Speaker 3: They started, you know, the Revolutionary War here in New
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Speaker 3: York City.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's just another We're going to have about what
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Speaker 2: eight years, eight nine years.
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Speaker 4: Of Yeah, we were an occupied city for seven and
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Speaker 4: a half years.
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Speaker 2: There'll be more, there'll be more thresholds along the way
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Speaker 2: to mark two fifty. But July ninth the very important one,
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Speaker 2: and mister Eigner was kind enough to come on my
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Speaker 2: National show yesterday as well, and he really gave us.
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Speaker 2: We just went history, like from the top boom, just
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Speaker 2: right into the history of it. And of course I'm
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Speaker 2: just sitting there like soaking it all in because I'm
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Speaker 2: a geek that way. When we come back, we're going
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Speaker 2: to talk about music city, not necessarily Nashville, but not
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Speaker 2: not Nashville. We'll tell you and if there's some hot
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Speaker 2: wings included, we'll let you know.
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Speaker 3: About his brod.
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Speaker 1: From New York. It's Radio night Life with Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back. It is the Friday edition of Radio night Live.
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Speaker 2: We call that fun Friday. Around these parts, she's Christine Nicholas.
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Speaker 2: I'm Kevin McCullough. And after I don't know a little
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Speaker 2: bit of an exhale, Christine, we took the two fifty
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Speaker 2: thing to the max. We're still going to celebrate two fifty,
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Speaker 2: but we've just been blowing out everything for two fifty
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Speaker 2: in recent days. And it's fun to get back to
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Speaker 2: Broadway and kind of the everyday fun stuff that we
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Speaker 2: have in New York.
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Speaker 4: It is, indeed, and remember there's a lot of great.
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Speaker 3: Offerings on off Broadway, and that's what I wanted to
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Speaker 3: talk to you about.
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Speaker 5: Today.
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Speaker 3: I had the pleasure to go see a new off
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Speaker 3: off Broadway musical.
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Speaker 4: It's called Music City.
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Speaker 3: It's playing at the Saint Luke's, which is really for anyone.
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Speaker 3: It feels like Broadway because it's on forty sixth Street,
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Speaker 3: just west of Eighth, but it's at like a church basement.
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Speaker 3: But when you walk in to Music City, you feel
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Speaker 3: like you're walking into Music City, which, of course, Kevin
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Speaker 3: you know as a musician, is Nashville.
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Speaker 4: So and it's one of those honky tonk bars.
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Speaker 3: They've set it up like that and it's a wonderful
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Speaker 3: story and we have with us the producer Francine Leftfreck,
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Speaker 3: who is a dear friend. So I'm so glad that
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Speaker 3: we've reconnected through off Broadway. Franccene in her early years
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Speaker 3: was very much involved with producing Broadway shows, off Broadway
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Speaker 3: shows and has been spending most of for a recent
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Speaker 3: time really helping so many women just being with entrepreneurship
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Speaker 3: through her a not for profit, Same Sky.
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Speaker 4: You really should look that up.
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Speaker 3: It's a beautiful not for profit. It has become a
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Speaker 3: jewelry business. Gorgeous jewelry. By the way, Kevin, Hint, hint.
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Speaker 3: If Amy's listening tonight, but we can.
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Speaker 2: Get down Tuesday, so you know it's never too late.
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Speaker 3: But Francine, welcome to Radio Night Live, and tell us
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Speaker 3: what inspired you to get behind this really fun show,
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Speaker 3: Music City the musical.
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Speaker 5: What inspired me was talent, talent, talent.
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Speaker 6: I am a sucker for talent, and when I see it,
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Speaker 6: it speaks to a very deep place in me and
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Speaker 6: I can't get it out of my head. And this troop,
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Speaker 6: which started at Bedlam Theater, was so talented. Every aspect
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Speaker 6: of it just reaped of this talent that you couldn't
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Speaker 6: get out of your head, and it became like a
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Speaker 6: little bit of an obsession.
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Speaker 5: And when it was in a tiny, tiny.
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Speaker 6: Theater a church on the third floor on West eighty
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Speaker 6: sixth Street, and I got to see it, I just
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Speaker 6: and it was supposed to have a very short run.
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Speaker 5: As you know, my.
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Speaker 6: Philanthropy in me said I have to keep this show
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Speaker 6: running and you know, support this talent, which we did
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Speaker 6: for three months. And then I said, well, if you
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Speaker 6: want to go to off Broadway, please let me know.
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Speaker 6: And here I am at the Saint Luke's Church with
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Speaker 6: this show that everyone should see because the talent is
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Speaker 6: extraordinary and if you see some of these actors, like
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Speaker 6: Stephen Michael Spencer, he will be historic.
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Speaker 5: I mean, that's how good he is. He is, I mean,
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Speaker 5: but the talent is such.
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Speaker 6: They play musical instruments, they play multiple parts, and it's
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Speaker 6: an immersive experience. So you walk in and you arrive
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Speaker 6: at the Wicked Tickle Bar in the middle of East Nashville,
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Speaker 6: and you immediately succumb to where you are.
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Speaker 5: You don't think you're in New York anymore.
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Speaker 6: You're at a table in chairs, having a beer or
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Speaker 6: a drink and experiencing this unbelievable music and fabulous singing
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Speaker 6: and immersive experience that you don't get in other places.
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Speaker 5: In fact, there's an open mic.
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Speaker 6: That starts the show, and I heard last night like
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Speaker 6: a twelve year old girl sang and she just knocked
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Speaker 6: that out of the park. So for people that want
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Speaker 6: to have that big break, you can sing on Broadway
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Speaker 6: at Music City.
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Speaker 2: Francine, I have to admit, when it comes to musicals
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Speaker 2: as a whole, I'm a big fan. But a few
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Speaker 2: years ago there was a little show that was based
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Speaker 2: on a movie called Once that had an incredible run
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Speaker 2: on Broadway. I think it won Best Musical its first year.
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Speaker 2: And the stuff that made that show separate from everything
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Speaker 2: else that was on Broadway was this immersive factor that
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Speaker 2: you're talking about, the way you were in the pub
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Speaker 2: and the musicians were playing. And if it captures even
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Speaker 2: ten percent of that kind of magic, every person that
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Speaker 2: comes to New York I will take to see this
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Speaker 2: show because I am just a sucker for the real
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Speaker 2: stuff being played in real time.
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Speaker 6: I didn't think this would happen to me, but frankly,
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Speaker 6: I can't see the show enough.
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Speaker 2: And you've probably seen it more anybody else.
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Speaker 6: And my husband says to me, when are we going
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Speaker 6: with the show again. It's shocking how many shows have
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Speaker 6: you seen that you actually.
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Speaker 5: Say, I can't wait to see it again. I can't
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Speaker 5: wait to see it again.
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Speaker 3: I well, I want to stay again because the music
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Speaker 3: is so good Kevin, and they're all original songs, but
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Speaker 3: you know, you feel like you're watching Blake Shelton or
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Speaker 3: you know, Leanne like some of these up and like
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Speaker 3: not up and coming, but as they were up and coming.
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Speaker 3: It's really a story about the talent that Francine mentions
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Speaker 3: and this open mic night that takes place. The owner
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Speaker 3: of the bar, you know, the fictional bar, is just
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Speaker 3: a fabulous She's an amazing actor, and she brings you
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Speaker 3: in and when you first walk in, they treat you
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Speaker 3: like you're at like a Nashville dive bar, and you're
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Speaker 3: not quite sure. And there are a couple of surprises
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Speaker 3: with the open mic, where like we had this young
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Speaker 3: girl and she had an audition next week. She was
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Speaker 3: in town, so she wanted to practice the audition.
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Speaker 4: It was so lovely.
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Speaker 3: The audience really got behind her and it was beautiful.
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Speaker 3: And then you had another piano player who happened to
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Speaker 3: be sitting next to us. He's from Indiana, and we
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Speaker 3: got to meet him and just chit chat with him,
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Speaker 3: and then they called him up.
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Speaker 4: And then there was a third guy.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to blow it, but you know, he
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Speaker 3: seemed a little off right, but he ends up being
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Speaker 3: sort of the villain in the show. Right, So, like
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you're in the show. So it
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Speaker 3: goes from like amateur night with people that sign up,
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Speaker 3: and I know, Kevin's got a daughter, Charlotte, who is
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Speaker 3: an amazing singer and an aspiring young actress, and this
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Speaker 3: little girl reminded me a lot of Charlotte, And then
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, the show takes off. It just
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Speaker 3: rolls right into it. So that to me, I thought
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Speaker 3: was very clever and different.
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Speaker 2: Princin does the does the story also contain a degree
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Speaker 2: of a narrative? I think the other thing that was
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Speaker 2: very charming about something like once is you had you
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Speaker 2: had the group making the record, which was part of
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Speaker 2: the storyline, but then there was also this relational stuff.
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Speaker 2: Is it is it a narrative like that or is
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Speaker 2: it like a just a talent show night.
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Speaker 6: At the It's actually a very very strong narrative and
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Speaker 6: a wonderful, challenging story love at a wonderful love affair,
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Speaker 6: a Faustian kind of a plot, and a lot of
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Speaker 6: decisions that the actors have to make. The story involves
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Speaker 6: what would you do to have a career really in Nashville?
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Speaker 5: And how much do you have to pay? And a
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Speaker 5: lot of moral questions.
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Speaker 2: But I actually know a ton of people that have
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Speaker 2: gone through that machinery because I've worked in the music
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Speaker 2: industry for a long time on the other side of
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Speaker 2: the life, and I cannot wait to see this now.
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Speaker 2: I haven't seen it, and I'm sorry that I haven't,
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Speaker 2: but we will go see it. By the way, we've
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Speaker 2: got to take a quick break. Francine's going to stay
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Speaker 2: with us. But if Zachary Stewart says Music City returns
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Speaker 2: and it's better than ever, you got to go see it.
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Speaker 2: There's just no other there's just no other explanation for that.
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Speaker 2: She's Christy Nicholas on Cavin McCullum.
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Speaker 1: We're coming right back, and now I'm from New York
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Speaker 1: back to radio night Life.
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Speaker 2: Here's Kevin McCalla. Welcome back. It's that radio night Live show.
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Speaker 2: That's what it is. She's Christine Nicholas. I'm Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 2: It's fun Friday. We're talking about Music City, which, as
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Speaker 2: you may guess from the name, is about a place
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Speaker 2: in Nashville, specifically East Nashville. And our guest is Francine Lefreck,
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Speaker 2: who is one of the producers in Francine, it's been
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Speaker 2: a joy to have you on the show and talking
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Speaker 2: about this. When you when you when you have criteria
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Speaker 2: in front of you and you're saying do I want
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Speaker 2: to be involved in this project or not? Is talent
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Speaker 2: the overriding thing that usually gets you to pull out
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Speaker 2: the check book? I mean, and if so, there was
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Speaker 2: something about this that just spoke to you in a
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Speaker 2: way that nothing else had for a while.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm I mean the music.
20:02
Speaker 6: The music was recorded a number of the songs by
20:05
Speaker 6: Blake Shelton and Keith Urban. The music and the ability
20:13
Speaker 6: to put the music together, the musicology of it as
20:18
Speaker 6: it were, I mean, are so powerful that I have
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Speaker 6: a sickness now where I can't stop humming the songs
20:26
Speaker 6: in my head, and I have a jukebox in my
20:30
Speaker 6: head and I don't know which song is going to
20:32
Speaker 6: come on. I have no control over it, and it's
20:35
Speaker 6: out of control and it keeps going and going and going,
20:38
Speaker 6: and all I want to do sing the lyrics and
20:41
Speaker 6: go because that's how.
20:42
Speaker 5: Good the music is.
20:43
Speaker 6: So it's the full package, Kevin, to answer your question,
20:48
Speaker 6: it's the full package, and this show had it, and
20:51
Speaker 6: I really haven't seen anything. You know, when you see
20:54
Speaker 6: talent like that, it's like lightning striking. Now, if you remember,
20:59
Speaker 6: in my history, I produced the show nine, and the
21:03
Speaker 6: show My One and Only, and the original Crimes of
21:08
Speaker 6: the Heart and Noises Off, and a lot of amazing shows,
21:13
Speaker 6: and each one had that formula, each one had that
21:18
Speaker 6: wow factor.
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Speaker 5: And you know, I.
21:20
Speaker 6: Remember casting Holly Hunt in Crimes of the Heart. You know,
21:25
Speaker 6: I just remember all of these things.
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Speaker 2: So basically, you're warning us we need to be ready
21:30
Speaker 2: to be humming these tunes for a long time after
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Speaker 2: the show.
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Speaker 5: It's a sickness that we all get.
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Speaker 3: So well, it's a good one to have had.
21:40
Speaker 5: It's a good sickness. It's a good sickness because it helps.
21:45
Speaker 3: I mean, I saw Lauren Lolow Pritchard last night as
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Speaker 3: the lead. She is the understudy, and you would think, well,
21:52
Speaker 3: it's a she was fantastic the voice. And this is
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Speaker 3: the type of talent that they have performing in this
21:59
Speaker 3: show music. Because if you're the understudy and you can
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Speaker 3: perform the way she did, I can only imagine if
22:04
Speaker 3: I go back and you know, and I see, I'm
22:08
Speaker 3: trying to see.
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Speaker 5: Who she's now taken over the part. Ah, we lost
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Speaker 5: the we lost the lead two nights before the first preview.
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Speaker 6: Oh well, and Lolo, who starred in Spring Awakenings, who's
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Speaker 6: a great talent, literally flew on a Tuesday night, learned
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Speaker 6: the show Wednesday and Thursday, when in the show on
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Speaker 6: a Friday, and since that time has been doing an
22:37
Speaker 6: unbelievable job.
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Speaker 5: And she's a great singer. And I don't know how
22:41
Speaker 5: they do it.
22:42
Speaker 6: How do you learn an entire show with eleven songs,
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Speaker 6: you know, in two and a half days.
22:48
Speaker 5: Can you explain that to me?
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Speaker 4: I don't know. Well, they're also musicians. She's playing the
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Speaker 4: piano and you had the other guitar.
22:56
Speaker 5: They do everything.
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Speaker 6: They played the violin, the piano, the guitar, and it's
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Speaker 6: it's it's that kind of talent that makes you excited
23:05
Speaker 6: and proud and proud to be an American. And you know,
23:10
Speaker 6: proud of our history and legend of music and what's
23:15
Speaker 6: going on in Nashville, and it's it's great.
23:19
Speaker 2: So it's playing now. And do we know how long
23:22
Speaker 2: it's currently slated to be there?
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm hoping.
23:25
Speaker 6: I'm hoping it lasts as long as The Fantastics, which
23:29
Speaker 6: was forty.
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Speaker 2: Years Okay, very good.
23:33
Speaker 5: You know if you go go big or go home?
23:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I like I like you. You're my kind
23:38
Speaker 2: of girl, Friencceine, this is cool stuff. Musiccitythemusical dot com
23:42
Speaker 2: is the website Music City the Musical And again it's
23:45
Speaker 2: at Saint Luke's and there are shows this weekend two
23:50
Speaker 2: and seven thirty on Saturday, two and seven pm on Sunday,
23:54
Speaker 2: and I'm going to have to get there, Francine. I
23:57
Speaker 2: just I'm such a geeked out music fan and I
24:02
Speaker 2: love stuff that's really well done. I love immersive stuff,
24:04
Speaker 2: I love live stuff. So you've got you've got me
24:06
Speaker 2: and my family written all over this and we will
24:08
Speaker 2: we will definitely be doing that.
24:10
Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 6: The reviews said best music on Broadway without any competition.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, well, and as I said at the beginning
24:20
Speaker 2: of this, if Zachary Stewart says it's the best ever.
24:23
Speaker 2: You got to go see it, because Zach doesn't hand
24:24
Speaker 2: out those words very often. Thank you for being with us, Francine.
24:28
Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
24:29
Speaker 5: And I can't wait to hear what you think.
24:33
Speaker 2: I will send. I'll make sure I email you and
24:35
Speaker 2: give you my thoughts on it.
24:36
Speaker 5: I would love to hear.
24:38
Speaker 2: We'll do a review maybe on the show as well.
24:40
Speaker 2: All Right, we got a lot more to get to.
24:42
Speaker 2: A little place called the Frick is calling us. We'll
24:45
Speaker 2: go there next.
24:51
Speaker 5: What a little Moonlight Can Do.
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Speaker 1: It's Radio Night Life.
24:54
Speaker 5: Here's Kevin mccollor.
24:57
Speaker 6: What a little moon like can do.
24:59
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fun Friday. It's Radio night Live. She's
25:02
Speaker 2: Christine Nicholas. I'm Calvin McCullough and Christine. We're really excited
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Speaker 2: about our next guest. My bride was asking me weeks ago, hey,
25:09
Speaker 2: can we can you get somebody on from the Frick
25:11
Speaker 2: to talk about the Marie Antoinette stuff and leave it
25:14
Speaker 2: to ab a little engine that can. She just goes
25:17
Speaker 2: and gets some and so I'm gonna give you the
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Speaker 2: honors of introducing our guests. But we're really looking forward to.
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Speaker 3: This fantastic and thanks so much, first time on Radio
25:25
Speaker 3: Night Live. Yfulu, the Anpullet curatorial fellow at the Frick
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Speaker 3: Collection and the organizer of Ruffles and Ribbons fashion plates
25:36
Speaker 3: from the time of Marie Antoinette. This is very exciting.
25:40
Speaker 3: This is something that we haven't seen before. So walk
25:44
Speaker 3: us through the exhibit and what inspired the timing of
25:48
Speaker 3: having it now as we are celebrating our two hundred
25:51
Speaker 3: and fifty So I'm.
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Speaker 7: Just curious, Well, it's I will actually return to the
25:57
Speaker 7: American to fifty because actually there's a great point of
26:02
Speaker 7: connection between the exhibition and the celebration. So the show
26:08
Speaker 7: really came about because we just had our wonderful big
26:12
Speaker 7: oil painting exhibition Thomas Ginsborough the Portraiture, the fashion of portraiture,
26:17
Speaker 7: So we really want to examine in a closer detail
26:21
Speaker 7: the exquisite fashions of the late eighteenth century, where that
26:26
Speaker 7: when that painter was working. And we have three hundred
26:31
Speaker 7: and seventy original fashion plates from the late eighteenth century
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Speaker 7: in our library collection, and we thought it was an
26:38
Speaker 7: amazing opportunity to finally showcase them to compliment the oil
26:43
Speaker 7: painting exhibition, but also to allow our audience to have
26:47
Speaker 7: a better understanding of the many eighteenth century portrait paintings
26:51
Speaker 7: that we have in the collection. So the elevator pitch
26:55
Speaker 7: of these prints would be that they are the ancestors
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Speaker 7: of fashion magazine. So during the late eighteenth century, Marie
27:04
Speaker 7: Antoinette became the ultimate fashion icon. Everyone in the French
27:08
Speaker 7: court was we're looking at her for fashion inspiration, and
27:12
Speaker 7: then all the other courts in Europe, even in America,
27:15
Speaker 7: they were looking at the French court for fashion inspiration.
27:19
Speaker 7: So France, in particular Paris and Versailles became the fashion
27:23
Speaker 7: capital of the world. So then ladies around the world
27:26
Speaker 7: wanted to know what was the latest trends, so then
27:29
Speaker 7: they were looking for things to stay informed. So that's
27:33
Speaker 7: how these fashion images were created.
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Speaker 2: It's not really that different when you think about, like
27:39
Speaker 2: in the era of Princess die in Kate Middleton, I
27:42
Speaker 2: hear a lot of you know, women in that kind
27:45
Speaker 2: of age range talk about you know, oh, what is
27:48
Speaker 2: she wearing this season and that sort of thing. That
27:51
Speaker 2: still kind of holds true for the fashion taste of
27:55
Speaker 2: today exactly.
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Speaker 7: And also in the eighteenth century, the entire fashion industry,
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Speaker 7: including textile fashion boutiques everything. They were heavily controlled by
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Speaker 7: the state because they recognized how big of the revenue
28:12
Speaker 7: the fashion industry brought into the state. So then they
28:15
Speaker 7: really utilized Marie Antoinette's celebrity to the fullest advantage. She
28:22
Speaker 7: was basically a walking billboard for the French fashion industry,
28:26
Speaker 7: so the more fashions she put on, the more they
28:29
Speaker 7: could sell to other countries. Obviously, that had an implication
28:33
Speaker 7: that later on during the revolution, because of how visible
28:36
Speaker 7: her fashions and her spendings on luxury was, that she
28:39
Speaker 7: became this kind of scapegoat for the kind of unraveling
28:45
Speaker 7: of the monarchy. So there is a very interesting, multi
28:49
Speaker 7: layered history to the fashion of the time.
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Speaker 3: So there are twenty four hand colored engravings that depict
28:55
Speaker 3: the French fashion in the late eighteenth century.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and then there are many.
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Speaker 3: Other artifacts what must like if you want to give
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Speaker 3: us the version that we have to definitely see. In
29:07
Speaker 3: addition to the plates, the fashion plates tell us a
29:12
Speaker 3: little bit more about what to expect.
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Speaker 4: To the exhibit.
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Speaker 7: When you walk in and pay attention to the first
29:17
Speaker 7: two fashion plates that greet you, it's two images related
29:21
Speaker 7: to Marie Antoinette. The first one is her in a
29:24
Speaker 7: royal court gown. That was the first time the French
29:27
Speaker 7: Queen ever appeared in a fashion publication, so that's the
29:30
Speaker 7: first time the queen has had done it. And then
29:34
Speaker 7: right next to it is the Queen in the informal
29:37
Speaker 7: casual daywear. So this very casual, toned down chemise that
29:42
Speaker 7: later became known as the Queen's chimise. That really started
29:46
Speaker 7: the trend for women around the world to wear wide
29:48
Speaker 7: column dresses that later became a part of the revolutionary fashion.
29:53
Speaker 7: Even so, we really just by looking at the first
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Speaker 7: two images you get a great sense of the te layered,
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Speaker 7: maltifaceted nature of her fashion and how influential it was.
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Speaker 2: For people that haven't been to The Frick explain kind
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Speaker 2: of what the mission of the Frick is.
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Speaker 7: So The Frick was founded by Henry Clay Frick, who
30:17
Speaker 7: was a business tycoon who got his start in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
30:22
Speaker 7: dealing in coal and the steel industry, and then he
30:26
Speaker 7: moved to New York and he was influenced by contemporary
30:29
Speaker 7: art collectors like the Vanderbilts and JP Morgan in particular,
30:33
Speaker 7: and he really wanted to leave a legacy of this
30:36
Speaker 7: public museum after he passed away. So he designed this
30:40
Speaker 7: mansion both as his residence and also especially the first
30:46
Speaker 7: world was designed with a museum in mind. So he
30:50
Speaker 7: passed away in nineteen nineteen, and then his daughter and
30:53
Speaker 7: wife continued to live there until in nineteen thirty one,
30:56
Speaker 7: and when the wife, Adelaide, passed away, the daughter, Helen
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Speaker 7: clay Frick, decided to expand and renovate the entire space,
31:04
Speaker 7: which led to the opening of the museum in nineteen
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Speaker 7: thirty five.
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Speaker 3: Right, and then I believe, wasn't it just reopened again?
31:10
Speaker 3: Didn't they close it for a major renovation recently?
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Speaker 7: Yes, So during the COVID a few years we closed
31:17
Speaker 7: the museum and we had this extensive renovation renovation project.
31:23
Speaker 7: So one of the big things is that we opened
31:26
Speaker 7: up the entire second floor, which used to be our offices,
31:29
Speaker 7: and now the entire second floor is open to the
31:32
Speaker 7: public for the first time in almost a century, and
31:35
Speaker 7: you can walk through all of the rooms to see
31:38
Speaker 7: even more things on display now.
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Speaker 3: And that must have been able to expand the collection
31:43
Speaker 3: so much more so that.
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Speaker 7: Yes, that's with the yes. So with the renovation we
31:48
Speaker 7: have the new Lauder special exhibition space as well, so
31:54
Speaker 7: we don't have to take down our old master paintings
31:57
Speaker 7: whenever we want to have a big exhibition. So every
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Speaker 7: time now that the visitor comes back to the Frick,
32:03
Speaker 7: they will expect to find their favorite pieces always there
32:08
Speaker 7: to greet them.
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Speaker 2: Very cool. All right, IFULU, thank you so much for
32:13
Speaker 2: what you're doing. And my bride is a big Marie
32:18
Speaker 2: Antoinette and fashion fan all around, so I have a
32:21
Speaker 2: feeling I might have a feeling. I'm gonna come see
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Speaker 2: you face to face very soon.
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Speaker 7: Yes, looking forward to it.
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Speaker 2: We'll do that. But thanks for spending some time with us.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Christine and Kevin, you got it.
32:31
Speaker 2: When we come back, Christine's got a whole list of
32:33
Speaker 2: fun things for you to do this weekend. Don't go anywhere.
32:41
Speaker 1: Once again from New York here's Radio night Life and
32:44
Speaker 1: Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Kevin McCullough. Glad to have you with us.
32:49
Speaker 2: We're talking about all things fun on Fun Friday. Christine Nicholas,
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Speaker 2: my partner in crime on this. We're here with another
32:56
Speaker 2: weekend in front of us. Christine, what should we be doing?
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Speaker 3: Well, we should be heading to see music City if
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Speaker 3: you can, thank you francying Lefrack. We really love that
33:04
Speaker 3: and wishing you the best with this off Broadway hit show.
33:07
Speaker 3: More information on that could be found at music citythmusical
33:10
Speaker 3: dot com, or head over to Saint Luke's Theater on
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Speaker 3: West forty sixth.
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Speaker 4: Street to the box office pick up some tickets.
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Speaker 3: They've got some shows this weekend Saturday and Sunday two
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Speaker 3: pm mattinees and seven pm evening shows. And thank you
33:25
Speaker 3: so much for the information from Yfulu from the Frick Collection.
33:30
Speaker 3: My goodness, what a beautiful show. I definitely want to
33:32
Speaker 3: get to see that. The Ruffle Show Hours of Operation
33:36
Speaker 3: over at the Frick ten thirty to five thirty this weekend,
33:39
Speaker 3: and for more information just go to Frick dot org.
33:43
Speaker 3: I'd love for you to sail the harbor and see
33:46
Speaker 3: what Kevin and I saw, but the big boats won't
33:48
Speaker 3: be around. But there's so much more to see, so
33:51
Speaker 3: you know, go to nycwater Cruises dot com nycwater Cruises
33:56
Speaker 3: to book your adventure. And thanks again to Morgan, Travis
34:00
Speaker 3: Connor and Ben. What a wonderful experience we all had together.
34:04
Speaker 3: Just such a beautiful we were on the Grand Mariner,
34:06
Speaker 3: which is one of the largest yachts that they have,
34:09
Speaker 3: but they also have the Luisa of the Seas, which
34:12
Speaker 3: is beautiful and that's a bit of a higher end
34:15
Speaker 3: experience if you will. But you can check out their website.
34:18
Speaker 3: They have all different types of tours. I want to
34:21
Speaker 3: give a shout out to our fellow radio night Liver
34:23
Speaker 3: your Tuesday Travel Tuesday with Linda Perillo. She of course
34:28
Speaker 3: is still working on her book. Your payment method has
34:31
Speaker 3: been declined. She's got a couple of New Jersey based
34:35
Speaker 3: book signing There's one Saturday, July eighteenth from five thirty
34:39
Speaker 3: pm at the Barnes and Noble in Clark Commons. There's
34:42
Speaker 3: one later in the month Friday July thirty first in
34:45
Speaker 3: Milbourne at the book House and then Saturday, September nineteenth
34:52
Speaker 3: the Barnes and Noble in Woodland Park, New Jersey.
34:54
Speaker 4: And by the way, she's going to come up with us.
34:56
Speaker 3: We're going to be doing a remote up on Arthur
34:58
Speaker 3: Avenue on two Tuesday, September one with Linda Perilla. So
35:03
Speaker 3: we'll start it off with a book party and then
35:04
Speaker 3: we're going to go right into our remote, which I'm
35:06
Speaker 3: very excited about Radio Nightline will finally be on Arthur
35:10
Speaker 3: Avenue with Peter Modonia, all of our friends up there,
35:13
Speaker 3: John Kelvelly from the from the Zoo. We hope to
35:16
Speaker 3: have the new president. She's not so new anymore, but
35:19
Speaker 3: she's really fascinating of Forlordham University. So put that on
35:23
Speaker 3: your calendar's folks. It looks like we're going to be
35:25
Speaker 3: at Mario's, but we're still ironing out the details, but
35:28
Speaker 3: that's going to be fun.
35:29
Speaker 4: And by the way, Little Italy still exists.
35:32
Speaker 3: If you saw what Paul had to put out that
35:39
Speaker 3: Little Italy in the Bronx and Little Italy downtown, they
35:42
Speaker 3: still exist and we are very proud of it. Staten
35:45
Speaker 3: Island is also the largest county in the nation of
35:48
Speaker 3: Italian Americans. We're very proud of our heritage. There's also
35:53
Speaker 3: Irish Americans. There's if you look at Brooklyn and Borough Park,
35:57
Speaker 3: very proud Jewish Americans. But somehow now that we missed
36:01
Speaker 3: the map of the immigration clusters for New York City,
36:06
Speaker 3: so don't take that word for it.
36:07
Speaker 2: Just coming to our Irish we're depleted as well. So
36:10
Speaker 2: my people were gone to your people were gone. My
36:13
Speaker 2: people were gone. Yes, my Jewish friends were gone. Everybody
36:16
Speaker 2: was gone. Who did he have left? Like Latinos, I
36:21
Speaker 2: don't know.
36:21
Speaker 3: Like, is that it great to celebrate It's great to
36:24
Speaker 3: celebrate all immigration because we are a nation that people
36:28
Speaker 3: are trying to get in, not trying to get out,
36:30
Speaker 3: unlike you know, so many other countries. And that's what.
36:34
Speaker 2: Those nobody's ever lost their life trying to leave America.
36:38
Speaker 2: That's just not how it works. Christine, great show as always,
36:42
Speaker 2: Thank you for being here. Friends, join us next week
36:45
Speaker 2: and we will see you then