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Mark interviews radio legend Scott Shannon. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Mark Simone Show, Live from the
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  Speaker 1: w o R Life Back studios. Well, we now turn
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  Speaker 1: to the Joe DiMaggio Radio, the greatest Living DJ, the
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  Speaker 1: legend himself him laughing. All right, nobody's laughing, Scott Shannon,
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  Speaker 1: you are the greatest living news.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just sounds crazy. I'm living. I got that,
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  Speaker 2: that's true. I got that going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What a week.
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  Speaker 1: Huh yeah, So it's too much, too many things going
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  Speaker 1: on in New York. But you know I was empty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I was never a basketball fan. I don't think I've
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  Speaker 1: ever watched a basketball game in my life. But I
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  Speaker 1: got hooked on the Knicks. I'm watching every minute of
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: See a little late getting on the train. I guess yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the train left the station and you're hanging on the caboose.
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  Speaker 1: The only one who wasn't really a best job.
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  Speaker 2: There there were. There were plenty of new fans, believe me.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty three years went to eleven presidents, the Internet, smartphones, COVID,
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  Speaker 2: and finally the Knicks are on top again.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know the last time they want to? Last
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  Speaker 1: time they won the championship? The number one record was
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  Speaker 1: tie A yellow ribbon around the old oak tree.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. That it's correct. You know, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: weird too, because, uh, it's the wedding season right now,
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  Speaker 2: and every Saturday all around the country there are weddings
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  Speaker 2: planned when people and all the fans, you know, all
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks fans. When it came time to wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: we got to go to that wedding. Holy crap, and
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  Speaker 2: we were Patricia and I were like that. So a
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  Speaker 2: friend of ours, one of the marraw boys, Steve, and
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  Speaker 2: his wonderful wife Nancy. They've got six kids, good Catholics,
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  Speaker 2: and they're five of them are girls. So he spent
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money on weddings. This was his last one,
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  Speaker 2: Cassidy is their name, and it was at the Saint
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  Speaker 2: Regi's ballroom.
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  Speaker 1: You have been in that hotel, yes, right over there,
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  Speaker 1: block away.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sitting I'm thinking, what the hell am I
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  Speaker 2: going to do that? And I called the bar. There's
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  Speaker 2: a little I got a nice bar there. The king
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  Speaker 2: was this King Cold Yeah, So I called, I said,
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  Speaker 2: you guys are going any TV's ready to go for
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  Speaker 2: the game goes? So we don't have televisions in the
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  Speaker 2: King Cold Bar. Thank you for calling.
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  Speaker 1: So wait, it's twenty twenty six. You can watch on
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  Speaker 1: your phone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but that looks a little rude, wanted.
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  Speaker 2: So when I got there, I saw Steve and I said,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be offensive if ill my father. He said,
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  Speaker 2: You're not gonna have to worry about that, man, I
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  Speaker 2: got you taken care of. He had made arrangements that
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  Speaker 2: have two big screen TVs, put one on eat, one
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  Speaker 2: on each side of the bar for the up in
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  Speaker 2: the ballroom. So excellent, I looked at her. But the
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  Speaker 2: problem there was one other problem though, they had where
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  Speaker 2: I didn't go to the postgame party. Uh, they had
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  Speaker 2: those alleys, they have these extra parties. But there were
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people from different places around the country
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  Speaker 2: that came in for for the groom Max and Cassidy
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  Speaker 2: really both of the school and all that. But the
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  Speaker 2: problem is a lot of these people were they had
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  Speaker 2: to go to the postgame party and then they had
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  Speaker 2: to go to their hotel. But the problem is, if
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  Speaker 2: you recall what was going on in the streets, in
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  Speaker 2: the streets and New New York, these poor people. Couple
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  Speaker 2: from Minnesota, were you going to be all right? I said, Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't mind seeing school buses go up and
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  Speaker 2: play it. You don't have a good time?
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  Speaker 1: Well, and uh, hey, what about that the World Cup
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  Speaker 1: FIFA that I can't get into. I can't watch that.
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  Speaker 2: I got nothing on that.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know. It's like Paraguay versus Uruguay. Who
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  Speaker 1: am I supposed to root for?
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  Speaker 2: What are you? Are you going to attend the parade?
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to be you know you're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily I'll be on the air. No, i'd never been
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  Speaker 1: to the Canyon of Heroes. You've probably been in one
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  Speaker 1: of those parades.
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  Speaker 2: No, I never have. I've seen them. I'm watching them
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  Speaker 2: on TV. But it's it's going to be They say
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be the biggest ticker ta parade ever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you think there's actually no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as ticker tape anymore. They don't have stock tickets, so
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  Speaker 1: they have to buy this fake ticker tape and throw it.
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  Speaker 1: But it's now and the glitters it looks much better now.
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  Speaker 2: Do you ever look back, You ever look back at
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  Speaker 2: all the different events that were covered? I mean e
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  Speaker 2: goes way back a long time ago. Yeah, you know
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to mention something else too, and this has
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  Speaker 2: kind of got uh, I don't know, swept under the rug.
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  Speaker 2: The Songwriters Hall of Fame was what last Thursday at
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  Speaker 2: Marriott Marquis and uh, our pal Taylor Swift became the
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  Speaker 2: youngest woman to ever get inducted into the Songwriters Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it's usually Gershwin Cole Porter like people
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  Speaker 1: like that are in there. But yeah, And the time
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  Speaker 1: you met Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 2: She had a country song out called Tim McGraw and
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  Speaker 2: I was working at p LJ and her father and
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  Speaker 2: the local cool record at a local record rep called
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  Speaker 2: me at the at the at pod and said, would
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  Speaker 2: you mind if we have a new artist, can we
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  Speaker 2: just bring her by it? And I'm you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: presser that I know Scott Channing or I know the
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  Speaker 2: guy that's on the air in New York. And I said, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to put her on the air, do we?
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  Speaker 2: And I swear to god the dad came in really
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  Speaker 2: nice guys, she was sweet and they were in the
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  Speaker 2: control room and uh, and just sit and they're talking.
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, did you bring a record? Just I
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  Speaker 2: can hear what you sound like? Oh yeah, I got it.
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  Speaker 2: My dad's got it. So I played it in cute
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  Speaker 2: not on the air. I said, that's that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: That's nice. And so I and she left the room
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  Speaker 2: to make a call or something, and I asked her dad,
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  Speaker 2: I said, is it okay to play this if I
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  Speaker 2: want to on the air? Oh yeah, yeah. So we
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  Speaker 2: we played it one time. She came running back down
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  Speaker 2: the hall. You know that's on the air. My that's
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  Speaker 2: my songs. Did you mean to play it? So she
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  Speaker 2: gave me a pigu And uh, that's how that's how
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  Speaker 2: I gots because nobody, no Top forty stations were playing
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  Speaker 2: in that song, and it was just it was just fun.
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  Speaker 1: Another career you launched.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, well I was not. She would have made it
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  Speaker 2: without me. I don't worry about that.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's so funny is her? You ever know
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  Speaker 2: she shows up but all the big events, Yeah, she
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  Speaker 2: she I don't think she was a fan of the
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  Speaker 2: NIXT before. I never heard that. And then she had
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  Speaker 2: her posse you see that old thing she had that
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  Speaker 2: had the T shirts.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she's a brilliant marketer. I knows where to go,
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  Speaker 1: where to show up at just the right moments.
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  Speaker 2: She had the t sure that said Stevie Nicks like, kay,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I don't know how she got to
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  Speaker 2: be that she's I don't know. She's with the La,
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  Speaker 2: the Law and Order girl. Now, yeah, they're buddies now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh, you know do you funny thing about
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  Speaker 2: you know how that got started? Taylor named her cat
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  Speaker 2: after her character on Law and Order. Yeah, that's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: That's her name on TV. And uh, and that's the
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  Speaker 2: name of her cat. And Olivia Benson.
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  Speaker 1: I think if I get a cat, I could name
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  Speaker 1: it Lenny Briscoe after the Jerry or back.
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  Speaker 2: Ye, yes, that'd be great. And and you think about
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  Speaker 2: it for a second. Steven Spielberg introduced her with that
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  Speaker 2: at that big award ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: It was fine. Hey, Scott Shannon, there's the Barrett Media Summit.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big event every year in New York. Uh throw.
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  Speaker 1: Barrett Media is the big trade magazine radio and they
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  Speaker 1: have every major figure in radio from all over the
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  Speaker 1: country comes in and there's a Scott Shannon Award this year.
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  Speaker 1: How did that come about?
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  Speaker 2: I hadn't. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, but it's a great honor. Somebody's gonna
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  Speaker 1: win that.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice and uh and and I'm also doing a
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  Speaker 2: couple of appearances and panels. I'm gonna be with my
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  Speaker 2: my old boss, Jim Ryan, and of course one of
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  Speaker 2: my one of my friends is great DJ Broadway Bill
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  Speaker 2: Lee is going to be on the panel. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, he actually the guy who runs that whole
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  Speaker 2: thing actually started out in the sports world. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's been he's been around for a while on the
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  Speaker 2: Barrett Sheet and all that kind of stuff. But he's
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  Speaker 2: he's really excited and it's going to be obviously right
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  Speaker 2: there in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a huge event. It's three days. First days
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  Speaker 1: to Talk Radio Summit, Second Day's Sports Radio, Third Day's
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  Speaker 1: Music Radio. Just go to Barrettmedia dot com. You can.
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  Speaker 1: You can even get tickets. I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, he's got tickets. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: he I saw pictures. He came by and I saw
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  Speaker 2: some pictures of you guys hanging on together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, about two weeks ago he was here. It was
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  Speaker 1: actually here visiting our friend Tim McCarthy and then stopped
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  Speaker 1: in the studio. Oh boy, well.
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  Speaker 2: And two out of time yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, actually we are. Look at this guy, such a
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  Speaker 1: pro he knows exactly when to end the segment. We
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  Speaker 1: actually are so hey, I forgot to mention True Oldies Channel,
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  Speaker 1: which you do? You do the morning show and it's
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  Speaker 1: a great twenty four hour channel. What's the best way
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  Speaker 1: to listen to True Oldies Channel.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're on around the country on the thirty five
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  Speaker 2: forty different stations every month, and I do the morning
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  Speaker 2: show there and but you can also stream it worldwide.
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  Speaker 2: In New York it's on A ninety two three HD
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  Speaker 2: three and or you can just go to Scott Shannon
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  Speaker 2: dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you can. If you say Alexa played True Oldie Shannon,
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  Speaker 1: it'll do it right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. Yet we played the Beatles, the Stones,
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  Speaker 2: the Beach Boys, Motown, you know, things like that, the
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  Speaker 2: Tempts and the four Tops. Because what happened what's but
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  Speaker 2: what happened to radio was remember when CBSFM was in
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  Speaker 2: its heyday and then on now all these are things
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  Speaker 2: from eighty five ninety two, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want the real stuff, just Google go
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  Speaker 1: to Scott Channon dot com. True Oldie Channel. Yeah, Scott Channon,
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  Speaker 1: the legend.
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  Speaker 2: My friend.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to you soon, Bobby, take care.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you know Curtis is back. Yeah, every weekday morning
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  Speaker 1: it's curtisly what Larryman every morning six to ten on
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  Speaker 1: seven ten Woir