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Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz 411. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Live from the w o R Life Back Studios, bill
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simon, show well, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter.
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  Speaker 1: You should check his website, Showbiz for one one dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Showbiz for one one dot COM's new stuff every day.
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  Speaker 1: Up there, Roger Friedman, How you doing, I'm great. How
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  Speaker 1: are you good? I've been hearing about this. Steven Spielberg
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  Speaker 1: film Day of Disclosure. This is like the film disclosure day,
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  Speaker 1: Disclosure Day, Disclosure Day, disclosure.
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  Speaker 2: Loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I heard a big blockbuster every it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the biggest. But you said it didn't do so well
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  Speaker 1: at the box office.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't. It's having a soft opening so far, which
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised by. But the weather was terrible last night.
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  Speaker 2: And this weekend we've got the World Cup and everyone's
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  Speaker 2: going to watch the NBA tomorrow night. No one's gonna
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  Speaker 2: go to the movies. Everyone's gonna be watching the Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's a great movie and everyone should
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  Speaker 2: get up to see it tonight. I loved it. Emily
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  Speaker 2: Blunt is terrific and the story is really really good.
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  Speaker 2: And if you loved ET and Close Encounters of the
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  Speaker 2: Third Kind, this is sort of the unofficial third part
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  Speaker 2: of that story, where the whole revelation of what the
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  Speaker 2: government has been keeping from us about UFOs for the
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  Speaker 2: last seventy nine years is exposed finally, And it's great.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was great. It was very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Not Spielberg. I would imagine. It's a big budget film.
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  Speaker 1: But there wasn't a lot of publicity or marketing about this,
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  Speaker 1: was there.
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  Speaker 2: No, there wasn't. I don't know why either. Universal was
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  Speaker 2: very strange about the way they marketed this movie. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't do much in New York. They just had really
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  Speaker 2: their big screenings in LA They held it here till
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  Speaker 2: the last minute Monday night. There was a premiere here
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  Speaker 2: in New York, but it was on the small side. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know. I don't know why. I can't
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  Speaker 2: explain it, and no one can explain it to me.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter because the movie is terrific and
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  Speaker 2: it would be terrible if people didn't get out and
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  Speaker 2: see it, because I think once they do see it,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to they'll they'll want to go back and
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  Speaker 2: see it again. I'd like to see it a second time.
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  Speaker 2: Really the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because the story is it's not complicated, but
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  Speaker 2: there's things in it good that are going on that
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  Speaker 2: you'd like to go back and see again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you don't know, it's the new Spielberg movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Disclosure Days. It's about we find out there
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  Speaker 1: are aliens.
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  Speaker 2: From find out the aliens have been have been here
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  Speaker 2: for seventy nine years. Oh and and and I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to give it away, but it's worth getting to
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  Speaker 2: the end of this movie. It's very cool at the end, well,
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  Speaker 2: very very cool these aliens. What I can tell her
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  Speaker 2: By the ending, Tom Holman shows up and rounds them
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  Speaker 2: all up, these aliens. How did the Tony.
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  Speaker 1: Awards do.
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  Speaker 2: The Tony Awards? You know, they did all right. They
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  Speaker 2: did the same numbers as they did last year. But
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  Speaker 2: people were a little disappointed because they thought they would
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  Speaker 2: do better. They had no competition this year. Last year
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  Speaker 2: they had the NBA Finals against them. This year they
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  Speaker 2: had nothing all night. And I don't know why the show.
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  Speaker 2: I was at the show at Radio City and it
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  Speaker 2: was a very good show. It's very well produced, but
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  Speaker 2: maybe the order of it was a little weird. There's
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  Speaker 2: a new producer involved, and the order of the show
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  Speaker 2: is a little weird. They were giving out awards sort
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  Speaker 2: of randomly. But I'll tell you, Pink was the host
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  Speaker 2: and she was fabulous. She did the opening number, was
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  Speaker 2: great and had like one hundred and seventy people on
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  Speaker 2: stage at Radio City, and then she came back later
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  Speaker 2: and did the anniversary of the musical Chicago, and it
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  Speaker 2: was like, everybody said, she should go right into the
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  Speaker 2: show on Broadway. She's perfect. So she was great, and
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of terrific people coming and going
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  Speaker 2: on stage. Julia Luis Dreysis was there, and Bernadette Peters.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there was a great tribute to the Book
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  Speaker 2: of Mormon that was a lot of fun. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't know the numbers were as good as they were
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  Speaker 2: last year, so the same number of people watched. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, right now we're in this great time on Broadway.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of terrific shows. Ragtime won a
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  Speaker 2: lot of awards the other night, and that is the
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  Speaker 2: show everybody wants to see at Lincoln Center. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to close in August, so we have to rush
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  Speaker 2: in there and go see it. And there's just a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good shows playing right now.
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  Speaker 1: How's Broadway doing money? Wise, is that everything's good.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, everything's good. Money wise, it's good. It's also
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  Speaker 2: we're right in that period between the school holiday school
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  Speaker 2: holiday season, the numbers were way up and they'll be
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  Speaker 2: back up again as soon as school is out and
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  Speaker 2: and all summers should be very very good.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Roger Freeman, let me ask you about this Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Swift all of a sudden, you know, yeah, she said,
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  Speaker 1: the football game gets a ton of attention. Suddenly, she said,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of football games getting a ton of attention.
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  Speaker 1: Why was she all of a sudden at a Knicks game?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's ever seen her at a Knicks game before?
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  Speaker 2: Well, she I checked, I went back and looked. She
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  Speaker 2: went to two Knicks games in twenty fourteen. Then she
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  Speaker 2: went to it at the Garden, so that's twelve years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And then and who knows why she went then? And
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  Speaker 2: then she went last year she went with her fiancee,
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  Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey to a Cavaliers game in Cleveland against the
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  Speaker 2: Knicks because he's a big Cavaliers fan. So why was
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  Speaker 2: she sitting in the front row with her girlfriends two
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  Speaker 2: nights ago. Well, the word is that she's getting married
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  Speaker 2: in Madison Square, Garden on July third. They're actually taking
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  Speaker 2: the garden is closed for six days, which is very unusual,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to take over I don't know, five
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  Speaker 2: hundred on the floor and put on their put on
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  Speaker 2: a wedding and they say this is the only secure
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  Speaker 2: place they can do it. So I can think she
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  Speaker 2: came to look at her wedding venue the other night.
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  Speaker 2: That's basically I don't know if she tried the food
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  Speaker 2: for I don't know. It's all have hot dogs for
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  Speaker 2: the catering. Yeah, but if she really has this wedding
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  Speaker 2: at the garden, that's why she was there. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the only thing that makes any sense, because why is
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  Speaker 2: she up and dancing at a Knicks game. On the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, she gave them good luck. You know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: she'll go out to San Antonio tomorrow night and continue
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  Speaker 2: to give them good luck. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she got her publicity.
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  Speaker 2: That's it for the She got her publicity. She's had
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  Speaker 2: a big week. Actually, on Monday she was at the Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: She also did the Disney premiere in La for Toy
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  Speaker 2: Story five because she has the song from the movie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Last and last night she was at the Songwriters Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame, where she gave a twenty minute acceptance speech
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  Speaker 2: as the youngest female to be inducted in the Songwriters
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. And Steven Spielberg, who we were just
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  Speaker 2: talking about, inducted her, which was very strange because we
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  Speaker 2: didn't even think she knew him, but somehow they got
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  Speaker 2: together and he came and gave her a beautiful induction.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So this has been Taylor Swift Week all week and
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  Speaker 2: the wedding will be next.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Roger Freeman, I saw this video some of it
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  Speaker 1: did of the you know, Stephen Colbert is gone, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently they've cleaned out the Ed Sullivan Theater. So somebody
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  Speaker 1: did a video of the whole theater. It's like almost
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  Speaker 1: back to ed Sullivan. They totally cleaned out. Is there
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  Speaker 1: any word on what's going to happen with the Ed
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan Theater? Will CBS keep it? Rumors?
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  Speaker 2: I know it, Yeah, I don't know if CBS is
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  Speaker 2: going to keep it. People have suggested that it become
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  Speaker 2: a Broadway theater, but it's actually not big enough to
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  Speaker 2: be a Broadway theater. A Broadway theater seats a thousand
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  Speaker 2: people and there's not there aren't a thousand seats in
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  Speaker 2: that theater. There's no way to get them in. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't made for that, it was made for TV. It
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  Speaker 2: was made for Ed Sullivan. It's only been a TV theater.
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  Speaker 2: So it's unclear what they're going to do. But hopefully
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  Speaker 2: they'll keep it. CBS will keep it. You know, CBS
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  Speaker 2: isn't such flux right now with new owners and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of contentiousness where it comes to the news side.
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  Speaker 2: We're hearing about sixty minutes, losing a lot of correspondence.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of bad stuff going on. So everything
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  Speaker 2: is sort of up in the air there, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: they haven't decided yet what they want to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you could turn it back into Broadway, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've been in there. That stage comes way
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  Speaker 1: out into the ice. Think could cut it back to normal,
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  Speaker 1: put another few hundred seats in.
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  Speaker 2: They might be able to. I mean, the main thing
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  Speaker 2: that everybody wants us for it to remain a theater.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what we want. And we want to keep
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  Speaker 2: on Solivan the name on it because obviously it's been
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  Speaker 2: so important. So we'll see what happens. But hopefully it'll
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  Speaker 2: stay the same. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, it says Mick Jagger will be on the Today
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  Speaker 1: Show tomorrow. What is Mick Jagger running around doing the
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  Speaker 1: Today Show for? Oh, Mick Jagger.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So we had the Paul McCartney album, which we've
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  Speaker 2: discussed a lot, you and I, and now the Rolling
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  Speaker 2: Stones are coming with their album on July sixteenth, and
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  Speaker 2: Mick is starting to do the publicity for it and
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  Speaker 2: I have listened to it. They actually sent me this
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  Speaker 2: album pretty early and I've spent the last couple of
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  Speaker 2: days listening to it and I got to tell you
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  Speaker 2: it's great. And there's a song on there called mister
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  Speaker 2: Charm that's definitely going to be a hit. They've already
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  Speaker 2: put out two really good singles, but this one's going
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  Speaker 2: to be. This one's going to be the one. And
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  Speaker 2: the album is called Foreign Tongues. It's coming in like
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  Speaker 2: fifteen different varieties of vinyl colors and packaging and everything
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  Speaker 2: and the CD and it's really a great summer album.
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  Speaker 2: It really rocks. And the production is terrific. You know
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  Speaker 2: this one guy, his name is Andrew Watt. He produced
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  Speaker 2: the McCartney album, He produced this Rolling Stones album and
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  Speaker 2: the one from a couple of years ago called Hackney Diamonds.
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  Speaker 2: He's really got a knack for producing these legacy artists
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  Speaker 2: and it's really worth getting them. The McCartney album's terrific.
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  Speaker 2: I kept it in my car going like crazy, and
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  Speaker 2: the Stones album is totally it's a beach hit. But
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  Speaker 2: that mister Charm is going to be a big one.
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  Speaker 1: A beach hit the Stones. That have to be an older,
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  Speaker 1: elderly Florida beach for them.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't know. If I were on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Riest Beach and I had the radio on, I'd
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  Speaker 2: be listening to mister Charm. That would be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you got twenty five year olds going, who the.
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  Speaker 2: Hell is that you're listening to? Yeah, yeah, I know
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  Speaker 2: they want to hear Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This new guy there is a new guy, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: his name is Malcolm Todd. Everyone who's listening to us
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  Speaker 2: is probably too old for Malcolm Todd, but he's young.
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  Speaker 2: He's twenty two and he is the hot guy for
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  Speaker 2: this summer. Yeah, he's going to be the pop stud,
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  Speaker 2: the big he'll be bigger than Biaber this summer.
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  Speaker 1: Very good guy, Malcolm Todd, remember the name to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: just some stories. There's a lot more up there, and
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  Speaker 1: there's new stories.
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  Speaker 2: And go see Sting at the opera. I saw him
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  Speaker 2: this week. Oh yeah, yeah, it was fabulous. The place
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  Speaker 2: was packed. It was packed with celebrities. The opera is fabulous.
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  Speaker 2: And it's called the Last Ship and it's at it's
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  Speaker 2: just there through Sunday. It's just eight more performances or
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  Speaker 2: seven more performances.
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  Speaker 1: All right, everybody goes totally worth it, and you want
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  Speaker 1: to know everything, you just go to Roger Friedman's website,
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  Speaker 1: showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz for one one
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us. Thank you, right,
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  Speaker 1: take care, uh hey, don't forget uh Buck and Clay
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