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Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is to the Mark Somemon Show. I'm seventen w R.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll talk to Roger in a moment. We're all
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  Speaker 2: hunting for him as we as we speak. Little controversy
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  Speaker 2: yesterday the Health and Human Services, you know, the Robert F.
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy and doctor Oz was there, Brooke Rollins for this thing.
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  Speaker 2: They redid the food pyramid. I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: good or bad. But do you know anybody actually looks
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  Speaker 2: at this food pyramid? Do you know anybody that follows
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  Speaker 2: the before you eat these say, let me check that
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  Speaker 2: food pyramid. So they want you to eat more protein.
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  Speaker 2: The good part is less sugar. That's the good part.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get back to that anyway. But Roger Friedman, the
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  Speaker 2: great entertainment reporter. His website, you should check it every day.
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  Speaker 2: There's always great stories. Showbiz for one dot com, Showbiz
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  Speaker 2: for one dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing. I'm great,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, How are you good? Hey? We haven't talked
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  Speaker 2: to a couple of weeks. I got to catch up
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  Speaker 2: on a few things. One Marty Supreme. They talked about
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  Speaker 2: it as the biggest movie of the year. It's doing okay,
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  Speaker 2: but it's it's doing great. Did you see that I
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  Speaker 2: used your picture? Yeah, and I featured you. I know
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  Speaker 2: it was great. I actually knew the real Marty Supreme, who,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, had nothing to do with this movie.
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  Speaker 2: He was the ping pong champion. But this stuff with
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  Speaker 2: the shot inspired by him. The idea movie is inspired
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  Speaker 2: by him. Yeah, but with the chasing, the women, the gangsters,
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  Speaker 2: the shootings, the car chases, none of that really happened
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  Speaker 2: with him. He was actually a pretty boring guy in
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  Speaker 2: real life. But I'm looking at the box office. It's
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  Speaker 2: always like number two or three. It's not like number
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  Speaker 2: one every week.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Avatar is out, so that's like the
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  Speaker 1: big commercial movie at the moment. But Marty Supreme is
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  Speaker 1: up to like sixteen million dollars. I think after just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. That's great. Are you kidding? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great. Yeah, I mean it's actually great. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: should go see it. When does it start streaming because
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  Speaker 2: some people wait for that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's not. It's a sixty one million. That's fantastic
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  Speaker 1: after twenty days. In the first few days were not
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  Speaker 1: really they were just in two theaters. No it's doing great.
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  Speaker 1: It won't be streaming for a long time. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to get through the awards season. You know, Tomorrow Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night is the Golden Globes. This past weekend was the
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  Speaker 1: Critics Choice Awards, which he won Timothy Challamey. And then
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have the Golden Globes. Then we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: Oscar nominations. Then we're gonna have things like the SAG Awards,
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  Speaker 1: and then finally the Oscars on March fifteenth. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you'll see Marty Supreme streaming until after March fifteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it is, but that's.
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  Speaker 1: Not bad it. Eventually it'll get there. But the two
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  Speaker 1: big movies of this Oscar season are Marty Supreme in
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  Speaker 1: one battle after another and they're going to battle for
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  Speaker 1: the Oscar. And I think one battle will win the
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  Speaker 1: Oscar and mart and Timothy Chalmer will win the Best
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  Speaker 1: Actor Award.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It is a great movie. Everybody should go
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  Speaker 2: see Marty SUPREMEU love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great movie. And it's funny because after you
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  Speaker 1: said you knew him and you had pictures, a few
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  Speaker 1: other people turned up in the papers saying that they
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  Speaker 1: had known him also, And one of them was Tina Brown,
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  Speaker 1: whose husband, Harry Evans, the famous editor, was sort of
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  Speaker 1: like my mentor. And I had no idea that Marty
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  Speaker 1: Riceman had written a second book that was never been published,
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  Speaker 1: and he wanted Harry Evans to publish at a random house.
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  Speaker 1: So he kept going to and Harry put a ping
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  Speaker 1: pong table in his basement on fifty seventh Street, and
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  Speaker 1: Marty was going over there and playing ping pong to
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  Speaker 1: the discuss of Tita Brown, who didn't like him and
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  Speaker 1: didn't want him in her house, but Harry loved it.
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  Speaker 1: And all they did was play ping pong night and day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was an incredible ping pong player. Otherwise kind
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  Speaker 2: of a dull and annoying sort of a guy, kind
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  Speaker 2: of a little sleepy.
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  Speaker 1: You could sort of see that in the movie. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: you consider to see as he got older, this would
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  Speaker 1: wear thin, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. You know that the behavior is cute
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  Speaker 2: when you're twenty two, when you're fifty two, right, that's cute.
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  Speaker 1: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing we haven't talked about, tell us about
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  Speaker 2: what you know about Nick Reiner, Rob Reiner, the whole situation.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know anything more than you do. It's such
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  Speaker 1: a tragic story because Rob Reiner, who I knew, and
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  Speaker 1: his wife Michelle, who I also knew, were just the
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  Speaker 1: greatest people. And apparently they were living with this incredible
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  Speaker 1: catastrophe in their house and didn't really know what to do,
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  Speaker 1: and they were doing the.
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  Speaker 2: Best they could.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought, well, just you know, keep giving him
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  Speaker 1: money and love and it'll turn around. And obviously the
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  Speaker 1: kid was really sick. So now he's lost his lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: His lawyer withdrew from the case this week and he's
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  Speaker 1: going to have a public defender. And the lawyer didn't
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  Speaker 1: say why, but my guess is that the brother and
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  Speaker 1: sisters would not pay for the defense. This lawyer, his
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  Speaker 1: name is Alan Jackson, probably costs one thousand dollars an
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  Speaker 1: hour or whatever. And if you it's a tragic thing.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that your sibling kills your parents and
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  Speaker 1: then comes to you and says, will you pay for
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  Speaker 1: my defense? And what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: And I think that probably they've decided they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to pay for the defense. Anyway. He's going to wind
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  Speaker 1: up in a mental hospital some kind, and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to plead insanity and and it's horrible. He's ruined all
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  Speaker 1: of their lives.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently, apparently he's officially been diagnosed with being a schizophrenic,
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  Speaker 2: and a couple of criminal lawyers told me, you have
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  Speaker 2: to withdraw because you can't deal with schizophrenics as a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: Also, you need two lawyers. Actually, right, is it too
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  Speaker 1: soon for jokes?
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  Speaker 2: But now apparently the family has said they do not
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  Speaker 2: want the death penalty. They've asked the DA and the.
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  Speaker 1: D they don't want the death penalty for their brother.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the DA has said the wishes of the
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  Speaker 2: family will be a paramount to his decision, so they
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  Speaker 2: will not seek the death penalty.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's going to go to jail for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of his life and he'll probably he'll die in jail,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe it'll be a hospital jail because he's you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously very very very sick guy. But what he's done
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  Speaker 1: is just it's unforgivable. They'll never be able to forgive
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  Speaker 1: him for this, and it must be the winding down
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  Speaker 1: of any state when a person is older is a
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  Speaker 1: very difficult thing. That you realize that Rob Bryer was
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  Speaker 1: at the height of his career, so this must be
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  Speaker 1: for these kids to have to deal with this now
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  Speaker 1: is just the worst thing ever. It's unimaginable.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's talk about Bruno Mars. It was always a
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  Speaker 2: very big deal, but somehow he got hotter than ever
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  Speaker 2: and now he's announced he's going to play stadiums. How
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  Speaker 2: did he get so much hotter all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's been hot for a while.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: He had this huge hit with Lady Gaga over the
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  Speaker 1: last year. It's a massive hit. It's called Die with
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  Speaker 1: a Smile. It's a ballad and it's actually the biggest
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  Speaker 1: record of the last year and a half. So that
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  Speaker 1: really helped him. He also had a hit with one
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  Speaker 1: of the young women from Black Pink and the Korean
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  Speaker 1: pop so it really reignited. These two things really reignited him.
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  Speaker 1: So he's made a new album that's coming out of
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  Speaker 1: February twenty seventh, and last night he dropped a new
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  Speaker 1: single and he's apparently in a fight online with one
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  Speaker 1: of his fans who said on Twitter. The fan said,
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  Speaker 1: this guy puts out the same song all the time
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  Speaker 1: and no one ever says anything, and Bertobars attacked him
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  Speaker 1: personally back on Twitter, which was hilarious. But I have
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  Speaker 1: to say the song, which I can't remember. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's called It Just Might, and it's a dance song
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  Speaker 1: and it's fun. It sounds exactly like Leo Sayer's You
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  Speaker 1: Make Me Feel Like Dancing. It's the exact same song.
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  Speaker 1: And this is not the first time Bruno Mars has
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  Speaker 1: done this. He did their song early in his career.
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  Speaker 1: I can't rye the name of it. It sounded like
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  Speaker 1: the Police w Sting. Every time I started playing, you thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Police. Bruno Mars is very good at
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  Speaker 1: sort of copying other people's styles and then adding a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of something else to make it sound new.
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  Speaker 1: But he's fun, you know, he's a fun guy. He
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  Speaker 1: has a great voice, and I don't mind him doing that.
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  Speaker 1: And Sting said at the time, I don't care, do
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want. I don't know what Leo Sayer will
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  Speaker 1: say when he hears this, but I played it. It
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  Speaker 1: dropped on Spotify about twelve thirty last night, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'd better listen to this, and I'm like, this sounds
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  Speaker 1: like something I know very much. So but he's but Bruno,
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  Speaker 1: let's see, is he I'll tell you right now.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a hit?
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  Speaker 1: Probably it's probably number one, because you know, his people
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  Speaker 1: don't even know who leos Aa was. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his fans they have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: No, he had a bunch of hits mid seventies. Is
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  Speaker 2: he still alive? I assuming of.
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  Speaker 1: Course he is. You know, I'll tell you. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you something about Bruno Mars that is smart. They booked
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  Speaker 1: him this big tour. It's number six. They booked him
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  Speaker 1: this big tour. But he's not going out on his own,
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  Speaker 1: which is really smart. He's going out with four other
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  Speaker 1: R and B stars, this girl Ray and Leon Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what you have to do now because
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  Speaker 1: people cannot fill these stadiums at these prices, so the
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  Speaker 1: tickets are so jacked up. And you've seen a lot
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  Speaker 1: of calamities of tours where you know there's like large
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  Speaker 1: empty areas of stadiums. So I think that it's Bruno Marster.
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  Speaker 1: I really want to see it, this Bruno Mars tour.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you could have large empty areas if you're met
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  Speaker 2: life jets are used to it. Giants are used to it.
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  Speaker 1: The areas well, the giants maybe you're picking up some
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  Speaker 1: steam now, aren't they.
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  Speaker 2: That's when you know you're bad when you when when
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  Speaker 2: you go four and thirteen they think it was a
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  Speaker 2: great season. You know you're in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: So you know you're only good as you're only as
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  Speaker 1: good as your last game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Roger Friedman, great stuff. Check out his website.
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  Speaker 1: to all right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go to Showbiz for one one dot com. Showbiz
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  Speaker 2: for one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for being
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  Speaker 2: with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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