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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Now back to the Mark Simone show on woor Hey.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take some calls. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave,
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  Speaker 3: how you doing.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing very well. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Mark.
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  Speaker 1: I have a proposition that I think would be best
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  Speaker 1: suited for Allen's y Bell in your next interview, and
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  Speaker 1: it has to do with writing scripts for television. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the major networks ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. They restrict time
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  Speaker 1: and scripts because they have to allow for commercials. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: anles such as HBO, you know they run shows like this.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's the proposal.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they vary in length and they can include profanity
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  Speaker 1: and nudity. So essentially, for writers, is the easier to write.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question. Yeah, we'll ask him that next time.
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  Speaker 3: You know, in the old days of the fifties, I
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  Speaker 3: Love Lucy the Honeymooners, when you wrote the script for
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  Speaker 3: the sitcom about I think it was twenty four minutes
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  Speaker 3: because they had to leave six minutes for commercials during
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  Speaker 3: the half hour. Do you know that by the Seinfeld
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  Speaker 3: days it was down to like sixteen minutes because they
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  Speaker 3: kept adding and adding commercials, so a sitcom script was
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  Speaker 3: really only about sixteen seventeen minutes. Now it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: different because television is dying. There's very few viewers left
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  Speaker 3: on television primetime, even primetime, so it's less commercials, so
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  Speaker 3: the scripts are probably getting longer. Now let's go to
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  Speaker 3: Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks thanks to Mark. That's a good point he just
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  Speaker 4: brought up to get fellows from Chicago. I mean, just
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  Speaker 4: think about how they roll four complete stories for four
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  Speaker 4: characters in fifteen or sixteen minutes. Early was unbelievable. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I got a lot of joy, you say, watching Martha
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  Speaker 4: raditshot old hag. Have to actually give Donald credit some
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump some credit, and it's gone by the time
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  Speaker 4: he's done. He's going to deserve that last space of
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  Speaker 4: Mount Rushmore. Never mind an Nobel Peace Prize. Put him
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  Speaker 4: on the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, idea, that's president we have all right knowing him.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently you can't put somebody on Mount Rushmore. They keep
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  Speaker 2: explaining to you, who knows, maybe it's just partisan nonsense,
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  Speaker 2: that the the rock you can't you can't carve anything.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing Trump, he'll start a second Mount Rushmore somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: He'll do a second Mount Rushmore. He'll put Reagan, he'll
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  Speaker 2: put himself. Actually a good idea, Actually, a good idea,
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  Speaker 2: second Mount Rushmore. Let's go to Pat in Westchester. Pat,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Mark? You have terrific guests on you have each week?
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  Speaker 5: Liz s peak, Miranda divine. The one thing that you
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  Speaker 5: were talking about Trump derangement syndrome. And I think some
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  Speaker 5: of it could be jealousy if you look at that
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  Speaker 5: he has a beautiful wife, he's amassed billions of dollars
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  Speaker 5: in wealth, and he's a national icon and you know,
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  Speaker 5: a world icon. So it could be an a jealousy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's jealous because you look at
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  Speaker 3: these Trump haters. There are all these old hag women
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  Speaker 3: that live on the Upper West Side. They don't want
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  Speaker 3: to be in a glitzy Trump Tower apartment, they don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be married to a supermodel. They're I think
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  Speaker 3: Miranda divine. If you didn't hear last hour, it was fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: Will follow up on this. She's been talking to a
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  Speaker 3: psychiatrist like doctor Keith Ablau and it's daddy issues. It's
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  Speaker 3: a super strong, forceful, dominant male that they can't stand.
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  Speaker 3: And if you look back on presidents, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: you have to put on this fake formality, and Paul
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  Speaker 3: you can't just you know, be an outrageous kind of
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  Speaker 3: guy like Trump is. You can't in real life. That's
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  Speaker 3: where it comes. But could she might have put her
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  Speaker 3: finger on it. You know, every great politician, no matter
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  Speaker 3: how strong, and they are great presidents, Bill Clinton, they
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  Speaker 3: show a lot of vulnerability and the humbleness. And George
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  Speaker 3: Bush could look very vulnerable at times, humble. And Obama,
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  Speaker 3: yeah he could look humble at times and show some
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  Speaker 3: vulnerability and self deprecating and all that. But they all
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  Speaker 3: could do that. But not Trump. There's no vulnerability anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the roughest, toughest, strongest, the most masculine, dominating.
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  Speaker 3: It just sets off those women. They can't deal with it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Alan Yonkers. Al, how you doing.
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  Speaker 4: Good?
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  Speaker 6: Mark? Thanks for taking my call. You know, I just
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  Speaker 6: wanted your personal opinion. You know, I saw Mike Lawler
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  Speaker 6: when he stopped the minority leader Jefferies, and not that
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  Speaker 6: it was a political stunt. I just thought it was
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  Speaker 6: inappropriate because of security reasons. As you know, the minority
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  Speaker 6: leader being in the leadership has Secret Service protection, and
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  Speaker 6: I just started to put the Secret Service in uncomfortable positions.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, would you agree or do?
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  Speaker 3: There's no security problem. They can protect him. But what
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  Speaker 3: it was is, you know how we tell you don't
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  Speaker 3: argue with Democrats. If you got a friend who hates
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  Speaker 3: don't argue because it'll be like that lawler Jeffrey's conversation.
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  Speaker 3: You're just yelling at each other for twenty minutes. You're
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  Speaker 3: not going to change their mind. Don't even bother. It's
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  Speaker 3: like arguing with a statue. I mean, don't bother. Don't
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  Speaker 3: argue with him. So when they say to hey, it
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  Speaker 3: happens to me all the time. I was with this
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  Speaker 3: group of entertainment business people and one of them says,
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  Speaker 3: this is the worst nightmare we've ever lived through this Trump.
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  Speaker 3: I can't sleep at night. And it looked at me
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  Speaker 3: and go, yeah, me too, me too. Just yes, I'm
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  Speaker 3: to death. Change the subject, get out of there, don't
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  Speaker 3: even try to argue with them. Whatever they think. Just
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  Speaker 3: let it go. Hey, today would have been John Lennon's
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  Speaker 3: eighty fifth birthday. It would have been eighty five today.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting some people you just never saw
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  Speaker 3: them get old. A lot of them you see. You
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  Speaker 3: know Billy Joel, you see them now, you wouldn't if
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  Speaker 3: you can't. He came in a time machine from nineteen
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  Speaker 3: seventy eight to now, you wouldn't recognize Billy Joe's it did.
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  Speaker 3: Totally different looking. McCartney obviously looks his age, well not really,
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  Speaker 3: but he looks older, but he still looks like McCartney,
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  Speaker 3: still sounds like McCartney. But if you die young, people
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  Speaker 3: never see you age. It's like Jack Kennedy, John F. Kennedy.
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  Speaker 3: We always see him as young, dynamic president. We never
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  Speaker 3: saw him get like Ted Kennedy, old and plump and boom.
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  Speaker 3: So John Lennon would have been eighty five years old today. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: when we come back, Ed Rollins will be with us,
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  Speaker 3: the greatest political analyst, the Dean himself. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 3: him next on seven to ten wor