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A National Anthem Fail · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Lisa and I were in Vegas, Mike, like twenty eleven
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  Speaker 1: or something, so Tony Bennett saw Tony Bennett. He was
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  Speaker 1: eighty five. Wow, And listen, we talk about people who
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  Speaker 1: can still sing and those who kind of can't, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he not only could he, but close
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  Speaker 1: to the finale, he did something in a hall. It's
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  Speaker 1: one of these Vegas rooms. It holds about two thousand.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a good size if there's not a stadium,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a good size room. And he puts the
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  Speaker 1: microphone down on a stool and does a song with
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  Speaker 1: no microphone and fills the room with that legendary voice
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  Speaker 1: of his that the audience just went so quiet you
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  Speaker 1: could hear a pin drop, but they didn't need to
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  Speaker 1: because the power of Tony Bennett's voice filled that room
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  Speaker 1: without the need of a microphone. It was remarkable. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so glad I got a chance to see him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned those who, you know, get to a
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  Speaker 2: certain age and who can still sing, and then those
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  Speaker 2: who can't. Tell me you saw the rendition of the
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  Speaker 2: national anthem at the first women's professional baseball game.
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  Speaker 1: Now, mar when Martha Reeves of Marthina Reeves and the
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  Speaker 1: Van Della's fame, and I was.
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  Speaker 2: Waiting for you. I figured you'd rush to her defense
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  Speaker 2: and bless her heart. I mean, she's I think she's
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  Speaker 2: got to be eighty five, right, Yeah, but Mark, that
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  Speaker 2: was that was the worst. I mean, it was awful
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  Speaker 2: and people couldn't believe it. They I mean, if you
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen it, or I'm gonna play it on the
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  Speaker 2: show today, but.
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  Speaker 1: Believe that the I mean, does anybody vet? Anybody? Does anybody?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you go to Martha Reeves and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'd like you to do the national anthem? Uh, you
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  Speaker 1: assume she can and belt it out a little bit?
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  Speaker 2: Can you just know Martha Reves? Yea, she can do it?
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  Speaker 2: For it. Look, and it's a hard song to sing.
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  Speaker 2: I've asked anybody I've actually performed the National Anthem before,
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  Speaker 2: and it's it's a it's a big, wide ranging song.
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  Speaker 2: It's not easy. But that one, she was just sort
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  Speaker 2: of off the rails and the audience they all look
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  Speaker 2: so puzzled. Well, first of all, it's a metaphor do
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  Speaker 2: we really need women's professional baseball?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, listen, I think listen if you
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  Speaker 1: put if you put something out there and people can
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  Speaker 1: either attend or not, I mean my first answer would
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  Speaker 1: be why not. I mean, if there's anything that is yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean w n B A whether they're you know,
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  Speaker 1: woke cult that they got going.
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  Speaker 2: But this is kind of metaphor, isn't it. This is
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a metaphor, like it might be
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  Speaker 2: off to a bat. I look the w n B
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  Speaker 2: as crashed. I remember back in the day when you know,
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  Speaker 2: women's sports became a thing, and it's I'm kind of
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  Speaker 2: like you, It's like, okay, sure, why not? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: knock yourself out. But this national anthem rendition, if people
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  Speaker 2: haven't heard it, it's it's like, pretty, can we play
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  Speaker 2: a few seconds? I'm gonna ask you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask, well, come on, you got people listening
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  Speaker 1: to us today driving number one.
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  Speaker 2: I love Martha Reeves and I.
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  Speaker 1: You do this.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it.
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  Speaker 1: I love I love the country, and it didn't. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't do the country any favors. Come on for third,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seconds. Come on, I'm let me just do it,
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  Speaker 1: just do me a large, let me do me one favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, all right, twenty seconds hit it?
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  Speaker 2: Y oh see come you see bye but bye?
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  Speaker 1: What so proud? But why nastly? Now? In fairness, the
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  Speaker 1: backup singers are much better? But what but what? But
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  Speaker 1: you may have been asking them to do the impossible,
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  Speaker 1: asking them to harmonize, harmonize with what?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Note is that there's no harm I just wonder, I
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  Speaker 1: just wonder how did this even come to pass? How
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  Speaker 1: did somebody think this would be a good idea without
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  Speaker 1: knowing it? But listen, let's not.
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  Speaker 2: Very clearly they clearly they clearly they clearly missed the rehearsal.
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  Speaker 1: Well speak Speaking of which, though, Yes, when did you
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  Speaker 1: do this? You said you've knocked out an anthem in public?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did it in a Mina League game about
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  Speaker 2: twenty years ago. I did it. I think I did
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  Speaker 2: it for a football I mean I've done it a
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  Speaker 2: couple of times, and then I like to do it
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  Speaker 2: sometimes a different like these town hall rallies that sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we do. I mean, I'll do God Bless America or
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  Speaker 2: the Star Spangled ben. I love doing God Bless America. Yeah, yeah, yeah, when.
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  Speaker 1: You did the sporting event or when it was like okay,
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  Speaker 1: here you go, bam national anthem?
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  Speaker 2: Do it?
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  Speaker 1: Did you have to remind yourself what the words were,
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  Speaker 1: not because you don't know them, but because and maybe
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  Speaker 1: not so much you because you're a seasoned performer with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stage experience. I remember when I was
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  Speaker 1: speaking of my days at BAP, we did a big
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  Speaker 1: we were doing one of the Sean Hannity Freedom Concerts,
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  Speaker 1: and so we were deeply involved with at me Hal
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  Speaker 1: Jay all my buddy's on BAP, and they told it.
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  Speaker 1: They told Halle said, would you like to do the
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  Speaker 1: pledge of allegiance? He said absolutely, moments before walking out
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  Speaker 1: I think the Allen event Center with a crowd of
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  Speaker 1: about ten thousand, they went to hell and they said,
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  Speaker 1: do the pledge of allegiance right now?
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  Speaker 2: For me to do it right now?
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  Speaker 1: He said, what, Just do it right now, because when
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  Speaker 2: I saw. I saw Bruce Willis. God bless him, who's
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  Speaker 2: he wore an earpiece because he couldn't memorize his lines,
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  Speaker 2: and so they were somebody was feeding him lines off stage.
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