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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now nine till noon weekday. Smart Simone. Only on 710WOR. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Frank in Phoenix. Frank, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Mark, my wife and I were listening to you yesterday
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  Speaker 3: talking about the jet hijacking. And she said, why can't
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  Speaker 3: they come up with some kind of way they can
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  Speaker 3: get into the cockpit that can unlock the door from outside?
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  Speaker 3: You know, after 9-11, you would think they would have
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  Speaker 3: come up with some kind of a plan, right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the problem is with 9-11 was these hijackers breaking
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  Speaker 1: into the cabin and taking over the plane. So they
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  Speaker 1: hardened the cabin so there was absolutely no way to
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  Speaker 1: get in. Mark, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead. If that pilot hadn't unlocked the door. This
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  Speaker 1: plane wouldn't have been saved, and the experts say they only...
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  Speaker 1: You're really in a hurry, aren't you? Calm down. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You might want to try a decaf coffee. Now, experts
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  Speaker 1: say another 40 seconds and the plane would have crashed.
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  Speaker 1: There would be no saving it.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, Mark, the other thing is the girl,
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  Speaker 3: they botched her execution.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: People shouldn't feel sorry for her. Her and her friends
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  Speaker 3: kidnapped the girl.
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  Speaker 1: Who said anybody feels sorry for her? Nobody feels sorry
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  Speaker 1: for her.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're all crying on the Fox News about this woman.
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  Speaker 3: She suffered and suffered. They decapitated the girl.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's the temperature in Phoenix right now?
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  Speaker 3: Mark, if you came out here now, you would say, wow,
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  Speaker 3: it's beautiful. It's only 68 degrees. But during the last
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  Speaker 3: three weeks of August. Every day it was between 108
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  Speaker 3: and 119, and one day it hit 121. It's brutal, brutal.
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  Speaker 1: When it's 121, what happens? You can't go out at all?
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  Speaker 3: After 100, you can't go out, you know? It's just
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  Speaker 3: so hot. You've got to stay in the air conditioning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in New York, when the summer's over, we're
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  Speaker 1: so sad. They don't realize in Phoenix you're thrilled when
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  Speaker 1: the summer's over.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, yes.
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  Speaker 1: You're celebrating it's over.
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  Speaker 2: You got it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks for calling. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a dry heat.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a dry heat in my oven, too. It's
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  Speaker 1: still pretty damn hot. I wouldn't want to go in
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  Speaker 1: there either.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I had a question. It's well known that
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  Speaker 2: you're Sinatra's, you're probably, I guess, easy to say your
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  Speaker 2: favorite male singer. But who's your favorite female singer of
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  Speaker 2: that year?
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  Speaker 1: Ella Fitzgerald, without question. Ella Fitzgerald, greatest female singer ever.
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  Speaker 2: And where do you stand on Peggy Lee's and Margaret
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  Speaker 2: Whiting's and people like that?
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  Speaker 1: Peggy Lee was a phenomenal singer, although a very limited
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  Speaker 1: sort of a style. Ella Fitzgerald could do anything. Peggy
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  Speaker 1: Lee was quite an incredible singer. If you're a younger person,
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  Speaker 1: you should go online and find these people. Peggy Lee,
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  Speaker 1: Ella Fitzgerald.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up, my mother controlled the radio in-house. It
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  Speaker 2: was any WAM and it was Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah
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  Speaker 2: Vaughan and Edie Gourmet and those types that she.
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  Speaker 1: Edie Gourmet, a little schmaltzy, very talented.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a little schmaltzy.
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  Speaker 1: Catskill schmaltzy kind of singing. But Peggy Lee, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she did that great classic Fever, Madonna covered it. Madonna
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  Speaker 1: was very... A lot of these singers were very inspired
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  Speaker 1: by Peggy Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because she was a real kind of... She had
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  Speaker 2: that certain style, kind of like, you know, in the
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  Speaker 2: Julie London sort of... You know, I think they looked
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  Speaker 2: better than they sang in some cases.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, although Peggy Lee, Julie London, very beautiful voice. But
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  Speaker 1: Peggy Lee, much more skilled singer, jazz singer, that sort
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  Speaker 1: of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know them? Did you interact with them?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, very well. Ella Fitzgerald used to be a
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  Speaker 1: regular on my show. Peggy Lee was a regular guest.
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  Speaker 2: On my show.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Did you, hey, did you know Robin Coulee?
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  Speaker 4: I happen to, I'm always asking.
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  Speaker 1: Very well, very well, very well.
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  Speaker 2: I saw him recently, you know, he always plays, I
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  Speaker 2: saw him recently in Murder, She Wrote episode, and he
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  Speaker 2: always plays suaves with sophisticated guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but in real life.
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  Speaker 2: Was he like that, or was he like a, hey,
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  Speaker 2: listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: No, he was very suave, but he was very, like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those guys, Steve Lawrence, all those, in
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  Speaker 1: real life, very, very funny guys, great senses of humor.
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  Speaker 1: They spent their lives working with comedians that rubbed off
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  Speaker 1: on them. They were very, very.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you watch those old Carol Burnett shows. You'll see
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  Speaker 1: Robert Goulet or Steve Lawrence in sketches.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You can see how funny they could be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He had great comic chops. There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: All right. It's 2026. We're not supposed to talk about
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  Speaker 1: Robert Goulet more than one minute.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Or Ella Fitzgerald in the same book.
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  Speaker 1: No, Ella Fitzgerald, that's different. That's a timeless legend. I'll
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  Speaker 1: agree to that. Whenever you talk to a Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 1: or any contemporary singer and you get into that, you
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  Speaker 1: find out they worship Ella Fitzgerald in those kind of scenes,
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  Speaker 1: that they secretly study them and learn from them. And
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  Speaker 1: are inspired by.
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  Speaker 2: And she had a massive output. I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, the most albums.
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  Speaker 2: The songwriter series that she did.
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  Speaker 1: The singer that holds the record for the most albums,
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  Speaker 1: Bing Crosby, 200 albums. Number two is Ella Fitzgerald, 166
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  Speaker 1: albums that she put out.
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  Speaker 3: That's incredible. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, great.
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  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Great call, Mike. Thanks for calling. Let's go to Ralph
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  Speaker 1: in Stanford. Ralph, how you doing? Good morning, Mr. Shimon. Oh, yes, Mr. Ralph.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I understand as a young man you came from the
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  Speaker 5: distant provinces of the Midwest to break into New York
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  Speaker 5: City broadcasting. How hard was that to do, and what
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  Speaker 5: was your first job?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I was from the Midwest, but I went
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  Speaker 1: to school in Boston, and while I was in college
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  Speaker 1: I worked at, first year I was at a little
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  Speaker 1: station in New Hampshire, WFTN. By my final year I
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  Speaker 1: was on the best station in New England, WPRO, and
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  Speaker 1: then I came to New York. But you've got to practice. What,
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  Speaker 1: you want to be in the radio? Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just very curious about your career because you've been
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  Speaker 5: so successful.
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  Speaker 1: Every great radio host, I think Scott Shannon, did he
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  Speaker 1: tell us this the other day? Everybody, when they were
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  Speaker 1: a little kid, like in their bedroom at home, they
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  Speaker 1: would practice doing radio shows. They would even build themselves
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  Speaker 1: a little fake radio station, and you'd practice over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. And as the great consultant Mike
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  Speaker 1: McVeigh said, it was like you had to throw the
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  Speaker 1: football through the tire a million times to practice and
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  Speaker 1: get yourself ready. But good question, Ralph. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: John and Paramus. John, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Good, Mark. How are you doing? Perfect call.
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  Speaker 1: You've got 12 people talking. I hear squeaking, engine noise.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, you had the author on.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're in a tornado. What the hell's going on?
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  Speaker 4: What are you talking about? So anyway, I read that
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  Speaker 4: really good.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: You read what? No, I left.
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  Speaker 4: All right, good. So anyway, I just finished a book
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  Speaker 4: about Roy Cohn. American, it was really good. Really good.
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  Speaker 4: Did you have any dealings with him? Did you know him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew Roy Cohn. He was the world's greatest lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: He was a genius of a lawyer. He was unbelievably brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: He was a very, very nasty guy. Could be really
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  Speaker 1: rough and tough and nasty. One reason that made him
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  Speaker 1: the greatest lawyer is... besides being an incredible lawyer in court,
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  Speaker 1: he would do whatever he had to do. He'd put
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  Speaker 1: a body in your trunk if he had to, whatever
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  Speaker 1: he had to do to win a case.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can imagine. That book was really, and the
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  Speaker 4: book is really good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And it's American Scoundrel. It's really good.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of good books about Roy Cohn.
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  Speaker 1: What's his name? Sid Zion, the great writer, wrote one too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just check all those books. Hey, by the way, there's
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  Speaker 1: a huge myth out that Donald Trump was mentored by
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  Speaker 1: Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn trained him. None of this is true.
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  Speaker 1: They knew each other, and he did use Roy Cohn
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  Speaker 1: as his lawyer in a certain period. Wasn't his mentor
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that. But they forget to point out,
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  Speaker 1: at that time, the reason Trump was using him, Roy
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  Speaker 1: Cohn was the biggest lawyer around. Everybody used him. The
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  Speaker 1: Catholic Church used him. Roy Cohn was the lawyer for
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church. He was the Cardinal's lawyer. He was
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  Speaker 1: Aristotle Onassis' lawyer. He was George Steinbrenner's lawyer. Everybody used
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  Speaker 1: Roy Cohn, and that's when Trump used him. Hey, we
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  Speaker 1: got a lot coming up. It's three hours every day now,
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  Speaker 1: nine to noon every day, three hours. Then at noon,
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  Speaker 1: you got Buck Saxton and Clay Travis. And then three o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: you got the most listened to radio show in America,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Hannity. You got Jesse Kelly at six. You got
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  Speaker 1: the very funny Jimmy Fallon. You got to listen to
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  Speaker 1: that show. You're going to be amazed by it. Every night,
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  Speaker 1: nine to midnight. It's all here on 710WOR.