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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's more more mister New York on seven ten wr Hey.
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  Speaker 1: Look for the stock market it hit fifty thousand in
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  Speaker 1: the next couple hours. It will most likely happen and
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  Speaker 1: setting all time records in S ANDP. But look for
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  Speaker 1: the stock market to break the fifty thousand mark before
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  Speaker 1: the day is over. Oil is down about eight dollars
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  Speaker 1: right now. A lot going on Iran. You know, this
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  Speaker 1: is a fascinating situation. By blocking the straits of Hormose,
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  Speaker 1: they've completely cut off their revenue. They have no money.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fascinating situation. Way back in the Iranian Revolution
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  Speaker 1: in the late seventies, some of you were around back then.
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  Speaker 1: The Iranian Revolution caused all kinds of you know, we
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  Speaker 1: were battling Iran, the US Iran they cut off our
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  Speaker 1: oil and it was terrible. We had tremendous gas shortages
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  Speaker 1: in the United States. And if you around back then,
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  Speaker 1: you remember there were gas lines that would go for blocks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about this. You had to wait in
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  Speaker 1: line for gasoline, and sometimes you had to wait an
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  Speaker 1: hour or two hours in line to get gas. And
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  Speaker 1: back then, a big problem with people would actually run
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  Speaker 1: out of gas while in the line and couldn't move
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  Speaker 1: their car. It got so bad that we had to
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  Speaker 1: do gas rationing. This is in nineteen seventy nine in America.
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  Speaker 1: Gas rationing. And remember you had to have it was
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  Speaker 1: even an odd If you had an even number at
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  Speaker 1: the end of your license plate, you could only buy
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  Speaker 1: gas on an even day. Odd numbers could buy on
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  Speaker 1: odd days. It was unbelievable. And there were many times
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  Speaker 1: with those long gas lines, the gas stations would run
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  Speaker 1: out of gas and they would have these big no
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  Speaker 1: gas signs they would put up. And now here's another
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  Speaker 1: problem that happened back then. Back then gas was twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine cents a gallon, thirty nine cents a gallon, forty
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  Speaker 1: nine cents a gallon. Maybe in a crisis it could
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  Speaker 1: go to sixty cents a gallon eighty cents again, so
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  Speaker 1: there were only two digits on the price on the
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  Speaker 1: gas pump, just two digits for the gas price. So
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  Speaker 1: the price of gas went up so much. When they
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  Speaker 1: cut our supply back in seventy nine and we had
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  Speaker 1: so little gas, the price of gas ran up the pump.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have enough numbers on the pump. They were
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  Speaker 1: unable to display a price over ninety nine cents a gallon,
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  Speaker 1: so the only thing they could do was sell by
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  Speaker 1: the half gallon, so you could buy a half a
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  Speaker 1: gallon of gas. Back then, it was so out of Hey,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, that's why they created the fifty five
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  Speaker 1: mile an hour speed limit. It used to be. Was
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  Speaker 1: it seventy five? Yeah, I think you go seventy Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was seventy speed limit on the highways used to be.
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  Speaker 1: They reduced it to fifty five. Now people think that
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  Speaker 1: was to make it safer. It was not. That was
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  Speaker 1: done by the Department, by the government. That was done
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  Speaker 1: in seventy nine to conserve gas. So that's why they
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  Speaker 1: created the fifty five mile an hour speed them. That
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  Speaker 1: was originally just a conserve gas. Hey. Also, this whole crisis,
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  Speaker 1: this led to the creation of the US Department of
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  Speaker 1: Energy in nineteen seventy seven. So here's the beauty of
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  Speaker 1: all this, of what's going on in Iran right now.
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  Speaker 1: We have completely destroyed every We've destroyed their military. We
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  Speaker 1: have got the straight of horn Moose close, which means
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  Speaker 1: they have absolutely no revenue coming in. And believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, right now you're going to love this. We
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  Speaker 1: have created gas lines in Iran. Remember, we're the biggest
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  Speaker 1: oil producer in the world. We now produce fourteen million
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  Speaker 1: barrels a day thanks to Donald Trump and is opening
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  Speaker 1: up the drilling. Under Biden, we were doing four million
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  Speaker 1: barrels a day. Now we're doing fourteen million a day.
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  Speaker 1: That's more than anybody in the world. Saudi Arabia only
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  Speaker 1: does eight million a day. So we've actually caused gas
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  Speaker 1: lines in Iran. That is great. You know, here's an
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  Speaker 1: interesting thing about this crazy mayor, Mom Donnie. They had
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  Speaker 1: this very solemn ceremony at the World Trade Center Memorial
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  Speaker 1: when Prince King Charles was here, When King Charles was here,
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  Speaker 1: and it was Talaya wreath. It was a very solemn ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: And Mom Donnie has no business anywhere near any nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven anything, since he pretty much supported the other
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  Speaker 1: side on that. So Mayor Bloomberg was there. Michael Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: came and basically hosted. He was the one that was
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  Speaker 1: with King Charles and Queen Camilla. He was the one
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  Speaker 1: escorting them around. He was the one Mayor Bloomberg, former
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bloomberg. He was the one that laid the wreath
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  Speaker 1: with him at the Memorial. Now this week we had
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  Speaker 1: the met Gala. It's tradition that the mayor be at
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  Speaker 1: the met Gala. It used to be quite a prestigious event.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be the most elegant affair with the
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  Speaker 1: biggest names in business and society. In recent years it
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  Speaker 1: turned into basically a Halloween clown show. It's all crazy music, artists,
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  Speaker 1: all the society business though they're not there anymore. So
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  Speaker 1: but Mayor mom Donnie wouldn't go. He refused to go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's one hundred thousand a ticket, it's three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand a table. It's a ridiculous elitist so he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't go. They got Mayor Bloomberg to go. They got
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  Speaker 1: Michael Bloomberg to come. So this is twice now he's
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  Speaker 1: had to represent the city in these kind of events.
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  Speaker 1: So he had to represent mom Donnie at World Trade Center,
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  Speaker 1: he had to represent him at the met Gala. So
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty silly mayor who can't do his own work
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  Speaker 1: like the older guy, the adult, a real mayor has
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  Speaker 1: to come in and fill in for him at these things.
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  Speaker 1: Hey y, we had the sad news earlier. Ted Turner
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  Speaker 1: passed away at the age of eighty seven. Ted Turner.
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  Speaker 1: He was a fascinating guy. He suffered from all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of mental things and depression and all kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: He was on all kinds of medication for it. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean a couple of times I m ced Luncheon's
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  Speaker 1: Dinners where he was the speaker and we couldn't find him.
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  Speaker 1: We'd go backstage and he was asleep, his head on
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  Speaker 1: the table in the middle of the day. But a
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  Speaker 1: great guy. He created CNN first he had He was
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  Speaker 1: in all kinds of businesses. His father committed suicide and
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  Speaker 1: he took over the business, which was just some sort
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  Speaker 1: of advertising down in the Georgia. One of the things
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  Speaker 1: he inherited was a local TV station, and he decided
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  Speaker 1: he'll take his little local TV station and make it
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  Speaker 1: a superstation. Nobody had done anything like that before. He
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  Speaker 1: called it a superstation, and he was a great salesman,
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  Speaker 1: and he went around the country and got it on
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  Speaker 1: all the cable systems. So suddenly his little local TV
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  Speaker 1: station in Atlanta was seen nationally everywhere. It was called
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  Speaker 1: WTBS Turner Broadcasting System, and back then you could watch
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  Speaker 1: WTBS or TBS or whatever they called it. This little
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  Speaker 1: superstation was on your cable system wherever you were, and
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  Speaker 1: they had unbelievably great programming. Why they had leave it
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  Speaker 1: to beaver reruns in the middle of the day. It
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  Speaker 1: was great stuff. So he became very successful with that,
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  Speaker 1: and then in nineteen eighty one eighty two, he decided
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  Speaker 1: to create a cable network that would be all news
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. Now, remember this is hard to imagine,
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  Speaker 1: but before that, before nineteen eighty two, if you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to watch the news on TV, you put on the
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  Speaker 1: local news at six o'clock and the network news at
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  Speaker 1: six thirty, and you could watch the local news at
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  Speaker 1: eleven at night, and that was it. That was the
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  Speaker 1: news on TV. There was no other place you could
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  Speaker 1: go on television anywhere to get the news. And during
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  Speaker 1: the day when you're watching the soap operas in the
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  Speaker 1: game show, sometimes at the end of the hour, right
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  Speaker 1: before the hour they'd have, they'd cut away for like
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  Speaker 1: a minute update or NBC News update with Edwin Newman,
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  Speaker 1: or who's the woman Nancy Dickerson a little one minute
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  Speaker 1: Updore that was it. There was no other place to
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  Speaker 1: get news on TV. So when he decided he would
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  Speaker 1: do a twenty four hour day news network. Everybody told
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  Speaker 1: him he was crazy. There's not enough news to do.
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  Speaker 1: What are you going to do all day? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look at the Huntley Brinkley, look at the Walter Cronckett.
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  Speaker 1: The half hour. They give you all the news. What
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna do the rest of the day. How
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  Speaker 1: you going to fill the other twenty three hours? So
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  Speaker 1: it seemed, but he always said, they do it on
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  Speaker 1: the radio. They got WIS in New York, WCBS to
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  Speaker 1: get to these all news stations in various cities do
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  Speaker 1: very well. So that's where he got the idea to
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  Speaker 1: do that twenty four hours a day, and CNN debuted.
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  Speaker 1: There was CNN, it was the cable news network. It
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  Speaker 1: seemed crazy. In eighty two. The original anchors were remember
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  Speaker 1: Bernard Shaw and you know, I can't remember the names.
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  Speaker 1: They were all the original anchors, and it did nothing
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  Speaker 1: but twenty four to seven news. They got lucky because
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things happened, bigger news events happened, so
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  Speaker 1: it was just luck. They were major Africa of the
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  Speaker 1: original major news stories where it did very very well
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  Speaker 1: with those, and then they got the idea at nine
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  Speaker 1: o'clock at night, We'll break from the news do a
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  Speaker 1: talk show at nine o'clock at night. And they hired
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  Speaker 1: doctor Sonya what was her name, doctor Sonya Friedman. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's like a radio psychologist TV second. So she did
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  Speaker 1: a nine o'clock show and it was pretty successful. But
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  Speaker 1: this is one of those cases, this happens at broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: where she decides, my husband will be my agent, which
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  Speaker 1: you never want to do. That never works. That's always
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  Speaker 1: a disaster. That's how Suzanne Summers couldn't stay on two's
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  Speaker 1: company or three's company. You want a real agent. You
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  Speaker 1: want the William Morris office, our CIA and professional agents.
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  Speaker 1: They know these executives at the network. They deal with
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  Speaker 1: them all the time. They can work together. You bring
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  Speaker 1: in your husband. He gets into a fight with Ted Turner.
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  Speaker 1: He's yelling at Ted Turner. He's threatening Ted Turner. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Ted Turner knew the radio host Larry King. He had
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  Speaker 1: been on a show a lot. He thought Larry King
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  Speaker 1: was pretty good. So he called Larry King right after
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  Speaker 1: the husband is yelling and leaves his office. He said, hey, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: could you do a nine o'clock TV talk show for
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  Speaker 1: an hour? Every night, and Larry was stunned. He goes, well,
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  Speaker 1: when would you want me to start? He goes, like tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, I can't stand this, husband, I got a fire.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to throw her off the air immediately
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  Speaker 1: and put somebody else on. So it was tough for
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  Speaker 1: Larry King to because he's already doing that late night
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  Speaker 1: radio show. But they he offered him a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Larry King did it, and it became Now, remember there's
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  Speaker 1: no Fox, there's no MSNBC, there's nothing else on, no
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  Speaker 1: other cable news. It was just Larry King all alone
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  Speaker 1: at nine o'clock at night. It became so big that show.
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  Speaker 1: It had millions and millions of viewers, and it was
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  Speaker 1: anything and everything. One night it was George Burns, the
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  Speaker 1: next night it was Ted Kennedy. It could be anything.
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  Speaker 1: Next night it'd be a show on abortion it was.
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  Speaker 1: And then Bill Clinton is running for president and he
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  Speaker 1: becomes a takes the lead just by doing Larry King.
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  Speaker 1: There was the famous ross perrot al gore to became
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing. Presidents would do this show. World leaders
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  Speaker 1: would come undue Larry King. It was unbelievable. Now years
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  Speaker 1: later they would create Fox and msnbcing it be Hannity,
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow and Larry King. It couldn't compete against him,
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  Speaker 1: so they eventually dropped the show. But he had an
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  Speaker 1: incredible run for twenty something years. But good for Ted Turner.
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  Speaker 1: He created all of that. It was an amazing thing. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of television, Stephen Colbert is going off the air.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what it is? Two weeks May twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: you're in the final two weeks, Stephen Colbert. This awful
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  Speaker 1: cancer on America, this hate filled, nasty, wormy guy with
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  Speaker 1: the glasses. He's going off the air in two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when Johnny Carson announced he was leaving. It was
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  Speaker 1: the final year, and every major star in the world
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  Speaker 1: came back to do one more Carson. It was a
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  Speaker 1: year of superstars. Well, this will be two weeks. They
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  Speaker 1: got Obama, He's going to do it. That's about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the list here. Sally Field. Enough, seventy
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  Speaker 1: five percent of the audience is not going to know
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  Speaker 1: who she is. But okay, she was Gidget, the Sally
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  Speaker 1: Field Bert Reynolds, she was the flying nun. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're going to talk about that but again,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that seems to be the guest list
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  Speaker 1: so far. They can't get any big names. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you'll see George Clooney in those types. But Colbert May
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  Speaker 1: twenty first will be the final light, apparently preparing some
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  Speaker 1: sort of emotional final show. So we'll see. It's May
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  Speaker 1: twenty first, it's only two weeks from now. That'll be
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  Speaker 1: the actually two weeks from tomorrow, that'll be the end
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  Speaker 1: of Colbert. Hey, the Rolling Stones have a new album
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  Speaker 1: coming out. It's called Foreign Tongues. They had a big
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  Speaker 1: event yesterday in Brooklyn, all of them on stage taking questions.
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  Speaker 1: The audience mostly media, radio people, a lot of iHeart there,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Kerr, Maria Muldo, Carol Miller, all those people were there.
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  Speaker 1: So it's twenty twenty six. Now, these guys are like
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  Speaker 1: ninety five. We love the Rolling Stones. I know Q
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  Speaker 1: one oh four, which is the biggest classic rock station
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  Speaker 1: in the world, right down the hall. I'm sure they'll
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  Speaker 1: play this, but I don't know who's going to play
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  Speaker 1: this album nowadays. You know, if this were nineteen seventy six,
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  Speaker 1: they'd be on Z one hundred, they'd be on ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine xt they'd be on everything. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So they're releasing the single. I don't even know who's
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  Speaker 1: going to play the album the single. Who's going to
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  Speaker 1: play the single? The single is called something Stars? What
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  Speaker 1: the hell is it called in the stars? Because I
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  Speaker 1: think that are magnificent. Do you like the lyrics? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know either. I can't tell one thing they're singing.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's be on. It sounds great, it's really good.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like twenty twenty six. I don't know. If
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  Speaker 1: you didn't know who this was, if I didn't say
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  Speaker 1: Rolling Stones, if I just took this audio down down
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  Speaker 1: the hall, that's the one hundred, the program director is
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  Speaker 1: right there, the music director. I said, hey, listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: You think he'd say, oh, we got to put that
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  Speaker 1: on there. I don't know who's going to play this,
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  Speaker 1: But the thing I noticed, you go back the old
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  Speaker 1: Rolling Stones boy, that Mick Jagger voice was so clear
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  Speaker 1: and so prominent. But you know, when you get to
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  Speaker 1: be what is he ninety eight? When you get to
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  Speaker 1: be older, the voice isn't quite there? Is it me?
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  Speaker 1: Or are they bringing up the instrumental tracks to cover
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  Speaker 1: the voice up? I don't know. They seem to be
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  Speaker 1: bearing his voice. That's not the mix they would have
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  Speaker 1: used thirty years ago. You know the other problem they got.
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  Speaker 1: We go down the hall to some of these these
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  Speaker 1: We have all the top music station of the world
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  Speaker 1: down there, and the greatest DJs. But they're twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: they're twenty nine, they're thirty two. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: they know who the Rolling Stones are. We could go
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  Speaker 1: out on the street and stop people under thirty, stop
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  Speaker 1: people under thirty five. I don't know if they know
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  Speaker 1: who the Rolling Stones are. But it's good stuff. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I hope they do well anyway. Hey, we'll take some calls.
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  Speaker 1: Next eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is
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  Speaker 1: the number. Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten