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Speaker 1: Mister new George Marks or well.

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Speaker 2: Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter. His website Showbiz for

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Speaker 2: one one, lots of stories, new stuff every day. Keep

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Speaker 2: checking it showbiz for one one dot com Roger Friedman,

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Speaker 2: how you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm great, Good morning, and I can't believe it.

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Speaker 3: March begins a Sunday, right or sooner or Monday? Yea hey, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I never asked you. Uh, we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 3: You must have known Epstein or met him.

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Speaker 4: No, no, I saw him once. I never met him.

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Speaker 4: I might have nodded at him, I never I know.

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Speaker 4: I didn't shake hands.

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Speaker 1: You do well.

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Speaker 3: I hate to break it to you. You're in the

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Speaker 3: Epstein files. I don't know if you know that. I'm

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Speaker 3: in there too. I know I but you're in there

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Speaker 3: because somebody, somebody wrote him. Peggy Single wrote him and said,

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Speaker 3: would you like to meet Roger Friedman? So it's nothing.

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Speaker 1: She said, come join us for dinner.

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Speaker 4: And I remember that dinner where I said to Peggy,

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Speaker 4: I don't think we should do that, and we didn't.

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Speaker 1: He never showed up.

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Speaker 4: I saw him once with a very tall, thin girl

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Speaker 4: with long brown hair and a dress that stopped at

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Speaker 4: her waist, and I had no idea how old she was.

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Speaker 4: I didn't think that she was under eighteen. I thought

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Speaker 4: she was probably eighteen or nineteen. You know, I didn't

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Speaker 4: know how old she was. He was a terrible guy.

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Speaker 4: I'm just I just put up a story on show,

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Speaker 4: his hororine one about him. He was a hypochondriac and

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Speaker 4: obsessed with cancer, and he thought that he had cancer,

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Speaker 4: and he got involved with this bizarre alternative cancer hospital

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Speaker 4: in California.

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Speaker 1: And if you go on.

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Speaker 4: The website, I pulled out a lot of stuff from

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Speaker 4: the files talking about the bizarre agreement he signed with them.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he lived in a strange world. And he

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Speaker 4: had his finger in every pie. He had his finger

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Speaker 4: literally in every pie. I mean cancer. He was funding

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Speaker 4: cancer research. You know, he was involved in so many

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Speaker 4: different things that you can't believe. And it's amazing. He

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Speaker 4: was like a cancer that ran through the society.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been reading the files a lot. He was

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Speaker 3: one of those guys who thought he was a political expert.

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Speaker 3: He didn't know what the hell he was talking about,

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Speaker 3: and he thought he was a medical expert, and he

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Speaker 3: didn't know what the ally was talking about but he

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Speaker 3: just keep writing chext to everybody, so they'd sit there

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Speaker 3: and nod and pretend they were listening to him. But

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Speaker 3: did you ever actually talk to me? You know, he

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Speaker 3: always dressed it kind of look trying to dress like

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Speaker 3: he was the Duke of Windsor. And then when he

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Speaker 3: talked to you, go, how are you? You know, with

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Speaker 3: that voice, it didn't work.

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Speaker 4: Now, the one time I saw him, he was wearing

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Speaker 4: just like, you know, like a workshirt kind of thing

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Speaker 4: and jeans. He wasn't really dressed up, but I didn't

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Speaker 4: really talk to him. I kind of looked at him, like,

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Speaker 4: what the hell are you doing here? And I knew

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Speaker 4: I didn't want anything to do with But this was

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Speaker 4: already late in the game. You know, let's say this

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Speaker 4: was twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen. And you know, as

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Speaker 4: I've been saying to people, remember Howard Rubinstein, of course,

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Speaker 4: the great PR guy. He was Jeffrey's PR person, and

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Speaker 4: he was also the person who represented the Post, the

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Speaker 4: New York Post, So Howard would block the Post from

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Speaker 4: running anything really bad about Epstein for years. So we

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Speaker 4: didn't really know in New York the extent of what

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Speaker 4: he was doing until it was too late. You know,

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Speaker 4: when he was doing when he was doing his crimes

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Speaker 4: in Palm Beach, Florida, the news never really traveled up here.

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Speaker 4: I mean it was sort of like it was a

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Speaker 4: vague or distant. It was in the Palm Beach Post.

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Speaker 4: But who cared and in he wasn't getting the bad

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Speaker 4: publicity he should have been getting. But that's because he

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Speaker 4: has so much help from Rubinstein keeping everything out of

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Speaker 4: the press.

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Speaker 3: Roger Fittman, let's talk about somebody else we knew, JFK Junior.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's talking about Hi now because of this new mini series.

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Speaker 1: Have you watched it?

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Speaker 4: Oh god, yeah, it's it's terrible. It's really terrible. It's

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Speaker 4: not accurate, it's terrible, it's a it's exploitive.

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Speaker 1: I saw Lisa Depello, who worked for JFK.

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Speaker 4: At George Magazine, wrote something fun yesterday online I think

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Speaker 4: on her sub stack where she said she started watching

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Speaker 4: it started laughing. So at least she has a sense

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Speaker 4: of humor. But you know, it's a bizarre thing to

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Speaker 4: do to people, to do these movies where such a

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Speaker 4: tragic thing happened, and the story's been told over and

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Speaker 4: over and over. This was completely unnecessary. I have no

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Speaker 4: idea what the ratings are. Oh, but it was silly huge,

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Speaker 4: That's what I thought.

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Speaker 3: This thing is huge?

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Speaker 1: Is it huge?

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Speaker 3: It's huge. It's like the most popular streaming thing right now.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's talking, Oh wow. Yeah, I thought it was the

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Speaker 3: silliest thing I ever saw. And I knew John a

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Speaker 3: little bit. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I never knew Carolyn, but I knew John a little

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Speaker 1: bit and he was a great guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well I knew him too. And this is not

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Speaker 3: accurate this show. You may love it, but it's not

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Speaker 3: the real story at all. Hey, it looks like Paramount

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Speaker 3: is going to take over Warner Brothers, Discovery, Netflix is

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Speaker 3: bout out, So what does that mean, Paramount whatever, It's

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Speaker 3: going to be the biggest.

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Speaker 4: Conglomerate in one family, yea, one family David and Larry Ellison.

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Speaker 1: The father is Larry, the son is David.

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Speaker 4: They're going to own HBO, CNN, CBS, They're going to

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Speaker 4: own all of this media. And you know, Larry Ellison,

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Speaker 4: the father is in business with Donald Trump, and the

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Speaker 4: son David Ellison has already said that he would make

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Speaker 4: it make CBS more conservative, and in doing that he's

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Speaker 4: taken to Tony Jakoppel's CBS Evening News, and the ratings

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Speaker 4: have collapsed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, collapsed. Viewers have left.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's whatever. You change the format, even in the

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Speaker 3: radio station, you lose all your audience. You've got to

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Speaker 3: go get a new one. But have you noticed all

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Speaker 3: three evening all three of them look alike. They're identity,

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Speaker 3: they're identical. Yeah, they're identical. And the correspondence on their

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Speaker 3: shows look like them too.

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Speaker 1: So it's just it's just.

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Speaker 4: Like an army of white guys with dark hair, all

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Speaker 4: telling the same story all night long. And I was

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Speaker 4: a big fan of Nora O'Donnell. I'd like to see

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Speaker 4: her come back somehow. But it's kind of crazy. And

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Speaker 4: I really like Lesterholt, but it's it's kind of crazy

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Speaker 4: what's happened. But you know what's happening is the news.

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Speaker 4: The audience for the news is shrinking anyway. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 4: not much audience for that, for the nighttime news in

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Speaker 4: the first place, because people are consuming a lot of

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Speaker 4: their okay, thank you, the people are consuming the news

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Speaker 4: on TikTok, on Instagram, in little clips. You know, it's

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Speaker 4: a much different world than we were used to where

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Speaker 4: you sat for half an hour and watched the news.

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Speaker 4: Now I watch Tony Dakoppel just because I don't like him,

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Speaker 4: and I watched the first fifteen minutes. After that, I

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Speaker 4: can't take anymore.

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Speaker 3: Hey, before we run out of time. We had this

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Speaker 3: terrible two blizzards snow. The weather was what happened? How

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Speaker 3: is Broadway affected and the movies and all of that by.

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Speaker 4: This, well, they were Saturday and Sunday was a terrible

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Speaker 4: day for movies in theater, and particularly Broadway.

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Speaker 1: Sunday.

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Speaker 4: You know, they canceled all the night time, all the

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Speaker 4: seven o'clock shows, and even it even went into Monday too,

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Speaker 4: where people didn't show up.

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Speaker 1: So Broadway took a big hit.

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Speaker 4: They were down I think two million dollars this past

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Speaker 4: week from the week before because of all of that.

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Speaker 4: And uh, and the movies took a hit too, although

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Speaker 4: the big movies like Crime one oh one and Goat,

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Speaker 4: they still they still pulled an audience. So the box

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Speaker 4: office wasn't too bad for movies, but it was. It's

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Speaker 4: bad for theater because you people are not going to

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Speaker 4: schlep into New York. It's a crawl over black ice.

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Speaker 4: You know and dirty snow to see a show, do

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, restaurants were empty too. It was a huge economic

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Speaker 3: loss both those blizzards.

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Speaker 4: But three weeks a good night to see a show

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Speaker 4: that you couldn't get into if you lived in town

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Speaker 4: and you could take the subways of the show, you

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Speaker 4: could see something that was sold out previously.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, Roger Friedman, great stuff. Everybody. Check out his website

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Speaker 3: showbiz for one dot com. There's new stories all the time,

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Speaker 3: show biz for one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks

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Speaker 3: for being with us. Thank you all right, take care. Hey,

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Speaker 3: coming up, don't forget Buck Sexton, Klay Travis. They do

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Speaker 3: a great show every day at twelve noon. And Buck

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Speaker 3: has a great new book out. He's going to be

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Speaker 3: with us in the next hour. We'll tell you all

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Speaker 3: about it. Should get his new book. It's on Amazon. Still,

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Speaker 3: don't forget. At three o'clock, the most listened to radio

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Speaker 3: show in America, Sean Hannity got Jesse Kelly. At six,

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Speaker 3: you got Jimmy Fala every night, great show every night

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Speaker 3: at nine o'clock, nine to midnight every weeknight on seven

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