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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show continues on 710 WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's hour number two. That's right. If you still
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  Speaker 2: haven't heard, we start at nine o'clock now. Nine to
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  Speaker 2: noon every day. It's a three hour show now. Nine
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  Speaker 2: to noon. We'll get to Dolly Parton coming up. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to Bruce Blakeman coming up. President Trump wants to
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  Speaker 2: redo the Kennedy Center. It's crumbling inside. It's decaying. It's
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  Speaker 2: falling apart. Naturally, whatever he says, the Democrats, the media,
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  Speaker 2: the media Democrat complex go nuts saying he's crazy. It's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with the Kennedy Center. Well, they're just saying that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's the expert. He actually is an expert
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  Speaker 2: on this. In fact, when he first got back to
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  Speaker 2: Washington as president and went inside the Kennedy Center, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: really inside, like underneath the into the basement, everywhere. He's
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  Speaker 2: a professional builder. This is what this guy does for
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  Speaker 2: a living. He could see all the problems and it's
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  Speaker 2: literally just crumbling. It's in need of total repair. And
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  Speaker 2: as long as you got one of the greatest builders
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  Speaker 2: in the world in office, good time to fix it
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  Speaker 2: when you got him there because he'll get it done right.
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  Speaker 2: And if government does it, it'll take 15 years. If
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  Speaker 2: he does it, it'll take about 12 weeks and it'll
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  Speaker 2: get done. So the left going crazy, trying to stop it.
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  Speaker 2: And then, you know, he can be a little obnoxious
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  Speaker 2: with the gold all over the walls and his name
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  Speaker 2: on everything. It drives people crazy. It doesn't bother me,
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  Speaker 2: but it drives people crazy. So he wants to put
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  Speaker 2: his name somewhere on the Kennedy Center. It was going
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  Speaker 2: to be the Kennedy Trump Center, and then they went crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think he made it the John F.
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy Center, refurbished by Donald Trump. They don't want his
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  Speaker 2: name on the building. They're going crazy. over that it
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  Speaker 2: makes them absolutely nuts and you know whenever he says
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  Speaker 2: anything you people you media fake news uh democrats you
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  Speaker 2: go nuts you go insane but what you don't know
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  Speaker 2: is when he sees you go nuts and insane he
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  Speaker 2: doubles down he does it more when he sees it's
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  Speaker 2: driving you crazy he does it 12 more times just
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  Speaker 2: to make you nuts but uh the real thing is
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  Speaker 2: uh These Democrats, all these media people today, they really
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  Speaker 2: have no idea who John F. Kennedy was. They know
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  Speaker 2: the name. They don't know anything about him. If they
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  Speaker 2: really knew about Kennedy, they'd want his name off the building.
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  Speaker 2: If they knew that Kennedy stood for exactly everything Trump
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  Speaker 2: stands for. In fact, I could make the case that
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy was much more MAGA, much more conservative than Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And he was in many ways. He was a very
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  Speaker 2: conservative guy. Kennedy was anti-abortion. Trump's not. Kennedy was anti-abortion.
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy was quite the hawk, quite the military intervention sort
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  Speaker 2: of guy. Trump's not, despite Iran. But Kennedy was the
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  Speaker 2: guy that escalated like crazy in Vietnam. Again, he was
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  Speaker 2: very anti-abortion. Kennedy was a big tax cutter. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: it was Kennedy that really showed Reagan what you could
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  Speaker 2: do with those tax cuts, and that's where Trump learned it.
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  Speaker 2: So Kennedy was everything Trump was everything. And then if
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  Speaker 2: you talk about, uh, uh, the Kennedy family, why, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the yell and scream Trump, how dare he
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  Speaker 2: appoint his lawyer attorney general Kennedy appointed his brother, the
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  Speaker 2: attorney general, his young kid brother was the attorney general. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: if they, if they ever, ever knew about Joe Kennedy,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Kennedy was like the, the most, uh, deadly, devious fixer, behind-the-scenes,
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  Speaker 2: dirty fixer ever in politics. And when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: rigging elections and stuff, Kennedy was the king of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: His father, Joe Kennedy, they were amazing at that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they bought the West Virginia primary. They bought off Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, had there been a recount, Nixon most likely
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  Speaker 2: would have won in 1960. So if these media Democrats...
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  Speaker 2: If they ever knew about the real John F. Kennedy,
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  Speaker 2: if they ever actually studied it, they'd want his name
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  Speaker 2: off the building too. It would become the Barack Obama
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  Speaker 2: Center for the Performing Arts. So Dolly Parton, what a
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  Speaker 2: great star and beloved by everybody. Nobody anywhere on this
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  Speaker 2: earth can say a bad thing about her. Nobody. She
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  Speaker 2: is a wonderful person.
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  Speaker 1: I've worked hard and I had a lot of dreams.
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  Speaker 1: I've worked not only for myself but for other people.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like now I want to enjoy, really enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the more simple things rather than just going full blast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the last few years were tough. Her husband, Carl,
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  Speaker 2: very ill. And she took good care of him. You know,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, big Dolly Parton fan. And twice he tried
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  Speaker 2: to give her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Twice he
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do it. One time it was the pandemic,
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  Speaker 2: so they couldn't arrange anything. And the last time he
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  Speaker 2: tried to do it, her husband, Carl, was just too sick.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't want to leave him. Didn't want to leave him.
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  Speaker 2: But also, as I told you before, last hour, she
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  Speaker 2: had this thing about staying the hell away from anything political.
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  Speaker 2: She did not want to be near any president's politicians.
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  Speaker 2: She did not want to be in photographs with them.
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  Speaker 2: She just thought it was, career-wise, it was dumb to
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  Speaker 2: get involved politically, to take a side either way. Stephen Colbert,
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  Speaker 2: are you listening to that? She just thought it was
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  Speaker 2: a stupid thing to do. And she was right. Absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: And the music at Dolly Parton lives on forever. Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she sold 100 million records. 100 million records.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course, she built Dollywood. You know, 100
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  Speaker 2: million people visited Dollywood. And she had an amazing career. Now,
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  Speaker 2: people that were around watching TV in the 50s and
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  Speaker 2: 60s and into the 70s, they often ask, What happened
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  Speaker 2: to the variety show? The variety show was such an
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  Speaker 2: important part of television, 50s and 60s. The Ed Sullivan show,
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  Speaker 2: of course, was a monstrous show. And then all the
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  Speaker 2: great variety shows. Remember the Dean Martin show and the
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  Speaker 2: Perry Como show and the Andy Williams show and the
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  Speaker 2: Carol Burnett show. And these were so important, these variety shows.
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  Speaker 2: And they just died. They tried to keep it going
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  Speaker 2: in the 70s with younger rock and roll types. There
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  Speaker 2: was a Sonny and Cher variety show. There was the
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  Speaker 2: Tony Orlando variety show. And let's not forget the Glenn
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  Speaker 2: Campbell show on Sunday nights, Mothers Brothers. The variety show
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  Speaker 2: was such an important part of television. And the variety
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  Speaker 2: show was everything. You'd have a comedian. You'd have a singer.
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  Speaker 2: You'd have a rock and roll band. You'd have a
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  Speaker 2: standard singer. You'd have, you know, you watch Ed Sullivan.
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  Speaker 2: You'd see the Rolling Stones followed by Jack Jones, followed
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  Speaker 2: by Jackie Vernon. You'd followed by the Bolshoi Ballet. Followed
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  Speaker 2: by soupy sales. I mean, it was just an incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Format.
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  Speaker 2: And then it died. Now, if you ask all the
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  Speaker 2: TV producers and all the TV executives, what happened? Why'd
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  Speaker 2: you stop doing? A lot of them blame the remote control. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is hard to believe, but before 1968, most people
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a remote control for their TV. Younger people go, what? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you were sitting over there in that chair. The TV
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  Speaker 2: was over there. If you wanted to change the channel,
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  Speaker 2: you had to get up and walk over the TV.
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  Speaker 2: But then they invented the remote control like around 67, 68,
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  Speaker 2: and then by 69, 70, everybody had a new TV
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  Speaker 2: and had a remote control. So if you're watching the
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  Speaker 2: variety show and it goes from a ballet to a comedian,
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  Speaker 2: when it's through something you didn't like, you change the channel.
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  Speaker 2: So once that remote was invented, Tougher to do variety.
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  Speaker 2: And then the problem is the music. Everything just splintered up.
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  Speaker 2: And remember, part of the variety shows you could watch
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  Speaker 2: with your parents. It was something for them, something for you.
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  Speaker 2: But that all changed by the 70s. Everybody splintered up
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  Speaker 2: into different groups. And by then, the kids had their
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  Speaker 2: own TV in their room. Everything had changed. So the
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  Speaker 2: variety show was dead by the 80s. It was gone.
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  Speaker 2: It was gone. Now, there was a huge TV producer,
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  Speaker 2: Nick Vanoff. He was a great guy, and he began
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  Speaker 2: as the Tonight Show producer with Steve Allen. He produced
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the great variety shows, the Perry Como Show,
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  Speaker 2: the Hollywood Palace. He created that. And by the late 80s,
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  Speaker 2: there was no such thing as a variety show. But
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  Speaker 2: Nick Vanoff, he was a great guy. I used to
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  Speaker 2: spend a lot of time with him. We'd always talk
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  Speaker 2: about the variety shows, and he always said, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to bring them back. I'm going to bring them back.
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  Speaker 2: And he tried in the mid-80s. Remember, it was called
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  Speaker 2: The Big Show, and it It was big. It had
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  Speaker 2: an ice skating rink. It had a swimming pool. It
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  Speaker 2: had a thousand dance. It lasted about half a year.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't work. So the last time he tried, Nick
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  Speaker 2: Banoff was a very powerful guy in Hollywood, so nobody
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  Speaker 2: was going to do a variety show. But he convinced
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  Speaker 2: ABC in the late 80s, I think it was 1988,
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  Speaker 2: he convinced them one more time to try the variety show,
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  Speaker 2: and he said he had the perfect star to do it,
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  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton. And they said, because she had quite an
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  Speaker 2: appeal to younger people, older people, city slickers, country people.
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  Speaker 2: He said, she's perfect. So it was the last variety
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  Speaker 2: show ever on television. Big budget. ABC was done in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: Major guest stars every week. The Dolly Parton Variety Show, 1988, ABC.
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  Speaker 2: She was great on it. The show was great. No
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  Speaker 2: better producer than Nick Vanoff. And it just bombed. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't work. Nobody was going to watch a variety show anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I think it lasted, was it half a year? I
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  Speaker 2: don't even think it lasted a year. Half a year.
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  Speaker 2: And that was it. That was the final attempt to
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  Speaker 2: bring back the Variety Show and give Dolly Parton credit
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  Speaker 2: for that. You know, if you listen to the radio now,
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  Speaker 2: every station, it's the same thing with radio. If you
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  Speaker 2: went back into the 60s and you put on the
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  Speaker 2: big top 40 station, if you were listening to Cousin
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  Speaker 2: Brucie or Dan Ingram, they'd play The Beatles, they'd play
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  Speaker 2: Tony Bennett, whoever had a hit record. They'd play a
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  Speaker 2: ballad by Frank Sinatra. If it was a hit record,
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  Speaker 2: then they'd play... Led Zeppelin, whoever had a hit record,
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  Speaker 2: it was variety, but there's no such thing in radio.
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  Speaker 2: Now you go down to, uh, go down the hall there.
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  Speaker 2: Light FM plays only this kind of music. KTU only
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  Speaker 2: plays this music. Q104 only plays. So you still got
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  Speaker 2: the same variety. You just got to change the channel
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  Speaker 2: to get it. Some people would argue it's better this
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  Speaker 2: way because now I can control the mixture. If I
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  Speaker 2: want light, I go here. If I feel like some uptempo,
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  Speaker 2: I go here. So, uh, It's just a different world.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's different. And now it's splintered even more. Now there's streaming.
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  Speaker 2: There's 4,000 million different channels. So when people say to you, hey,
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  Speaker 2: have you been watching Goats Country? And you go, what? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you got to watch. They tell you some show you
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  Speaker 2: never heard of. Well, I don't know. Can I just?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: You have to watch from the beginning. It's five seasons.
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  Speaker 2: You got to watch from the beginning. So it's like
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  Speaker 2: 50 hours. I'm not going to watch this. So remember, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: next day you talk about what you saw in Seinfeld
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  Speaker 2: last night. Now you can't talk to anybody because they
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  Speaker 2: don't know the show you're watching. You don't know the
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  Speaker 2: show they're watching. It's a whole different world. Hey, Hillary
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  Speaker 2: Clinton is up to something. She's speaking at the Hamptons Institute.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell that is. Is that
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  Speaker 2: in the Hamptons? That's where she belongs, in the Hamptons,
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  Speaker 2: talking to people out of work. The Hamptons is like
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  Speaker 2: one big unemployment office. They're very wealthy, but nobody does
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  Speaker 2: anything all day. And if you're in the Hamptons, they
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  Speaker 2: have a fundraiser, a gala, every Friday night, every Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big fundraiser for a big, important cause. But
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  Speaker 2: if you study it, every cause is only benefiting them.
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  Speaker 2: It's for the Southampton Arts Center. It's for the Southampton Playhouse.
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  Speaker 2: It's for the Southampton Library. They never raise money for
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  Speaker 2: the Police Athletic League or the Red Cross or the
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  Speaker 2: Salvation Army. It's always just for them. Whatever the money
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  Speaker 2: goes to, it's only benefiting them. But she was speaking
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  Speaker 2: out there about, she was asked about the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 2: and about this crazy socialism. And she kind of shocked
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  Speaker 2: the audience because she didn't denounce it. In fact, she said,
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  Speaker 2: it's a great thing, this socialism. It's an experiment. It's
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  Speaker 2: a way to reach the younger people. She was embracing it.
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  Speaker 2: She was actually saying this was a wonderful experiment and
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  Speaker 2: it's great and we're reaching out this way. Now, why
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  Speaker 2: would she all of a sudden embrace this? She doesn't
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  Speaker 2: like socialist nonsense. She doesn't like this stuff. Well, because
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  Speaker 2: I think she's running in 2028. She thinks she's figured
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  Speaker 2: that I'm not going to be able to get there
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  Speaker 2: without embracing these people. It's too big a part of
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. Now, you're talking about people who want
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of prisons, have no borders, have socialism,
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  Speaker 2: seize wealth, go after wealthy people. The first people they
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  Speaker 2: target would be the Clintons. So she's getting a lot
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  Speaker 2: of flack. Now, some people are saying she's insane. She's nuts.
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  Speaker 2: I think she's just desperate. She'll just do anything to
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  Speaker 2: get back in the game. And it sounds like she's
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  Speaker 2: running in 2028. And you got to remember, she's delusional.
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  Speaker 2: She's not real, not realistic. She's been living alone, like
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  Speaker 2: the woman in Sunset Boulevard, just living in this big
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  Speaker 2: house all by herself for eight years, drinking all day.
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  Speaker 2: So she's got, she's out of touch with the world.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Clinton, He's better at keeping in touch with the
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  Speaker 2: real world. She's not. She's totally out of it. All
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  Speaker 2: she does is watch MSNBC. So she's thinking nobody is
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  Speaker 2: really in front for 2028. There's no frontrunner. It could
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  Speaker 2: be me. I could make a comeback. She's actually embracing
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  Speaker 2: this socialism. Keep an eye on this. It's just going
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  Speaker 2: to get worse for her. Hey, we'll take some calls
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  Speaker 2: coming up. 800-321-0710 is the number. And don't forget, it's
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  Speaker 2: 9 to noon every day. We start at 9 now.
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