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Speaker 1: Mister New York Mark Simone on seven.

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Speaker 2: Wo r Well entertainment reporter Roger Friedman. He runs the

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Speaker 2: great website Showbiz for one one dot com. A lot

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Speaker 2: of good stories, new stuff every day, Showbiz for one

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Speaker 2: one dot com. Roger Friedman.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, I'm great?

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Speaker 3: How are you this morning?

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Speaker 2: I'm good? Hey. Oscar nominations came out this week. What

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Speaker 2: do you think?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: I think they were. There were too many surprises. There

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Speaker 3: were things I was happy about. The big snub was Wicked.

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Speaker 3: The second Wicked movie got nothing.

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Speaker 2: Why is that well?

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Speaker 3: Because I think the Academy thought they got a lot

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Speaker 3: last year. Yeah, and that's enough already, and it was

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Speaker 3: basically the same movie. So ari other Grande's fans were

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Speaker 3: very upset that she wasn't nominated for Best Supporting Actress,

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Speaker 3: but she you know, she did well at the Golden

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Speaker 3: Globes and I think that was appropriate. We have a

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Speaker 3: lot of great nominees. I'm really excited about Ethan Hawke

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Speaker 3: being nominated Best Actor for Blue Moon, which is just

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Speaker 3: a terrific little film, and of course Timothy Challomany and

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Speaker 3: Leonardo DiCaprio are in that. But the big news is

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Speaker 3: that Sinners has really built up a following. They had

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Speaker 3: sixteen nominations, the most ever for any movie.

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Speaker 2: Wow, now, why is that good?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you haven't seen it.

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Speaker 2: No, I see one movie every ten years.

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Speaker 3: Sinners is Actually it's an interesting movie because it's sort

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Speaker 3: of like a vampire movie in a way. It's a

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Speaker 3: horror film, but it's not a horror film. It's a

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Speaker 3: film about social studies sort of. And music gorgeous R

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Speaker 3: and B and blues music from Tennessee, from Memphis, and

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Speaker 3: it's just a great, great film.

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Speaker 1: And Michael B.

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Speaker 3: Jordan plays two parts in it and he was nominated

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Speaker 3: for He plays the twin brothers and he was nominated

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Speaker 3: for Best Actor, and they got del Roy Lindo was

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Speaker 3: nominated for Best Supporting Actor at seventy three. It's his

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Speaker 3: first nomination ever and he's such a fabulous actor. So

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Speaker 3: I think that Sinners may be a spoiler when we

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Speaker 3: get to the actual show.

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Speaker 2: What about my favorite movie, Marty Supreme.

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Speaker 3: Marty Supreme did very well and Timothy Challamy is nominated

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Speaker 3: for playing Marty and I think he's probably going to win.

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Speaker 3: So your old friend Marty can be very proud from

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Speaker 3: the grave that things have worked out so well for

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Speaker 3: that movie, which is now at about seventy five million dollars,

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Speaker 3: which is pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So but what about Best Picture? You don't think it'll

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Speaker 2: win Best Picture?

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Speaker 3: No, I think it's either one Battle after another, which

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Speaker 3: is sort of my choice. I lean toward that or

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Speaker 3: Sinners one.

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Speaker 1: Or the other.

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Speaker 3: The other great movie is Hamnet, but I think that

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Speaker 3: these other two are in overwhelm it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so how many people what percentage actually still goes

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Speaker 2: to a movie theater rather than streaming, actually goes and

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Speaker 2: sits in the theater and watches movies.

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Speaker 3: Now you know what it's The box office is way

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Speaker 3: up from last year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think people found a lot of these movies very,

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Speaker 3: very enjoyable and have made an effort to go to theater.

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Speaker 3: Which is interesting because people were saying, oh, theaters are over.

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Speaker 3: You know, Netflix is going to buy Warner Brothers and

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Speaker 3: then they're going to put all their movies on Netflix.

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Speaker 3: But no, actually the box office is up year to year.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, and if you haven't been to a theater

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Speaker 2: while many of them now they have these reclining leather.

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Speaker 1: Seats, they got great seats.

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Speaker 2: Liquor licenses, they got more food, candy, waiters, waitresses. It's

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Speaker 2: pretty good.

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Speaker 3: I have to be careful about that because if I

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Speaker 2: Well, but it does make a difference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's really it's good. And uh, it's good.

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Speaker 3: Now, of course we're going to have Milania Trump's movie

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Speaker 2: Hey, let me ask you something about that. It was

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Speaker 2: done by Brett Ratner, the big Hollywood producer. Wasn't he

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Speaker 2: kind of blacklisted? Wasn't he me tooed out of Hollywood?

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Speaker 2: How does he get back in action?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Got he got back into action because nobody else want

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Speaker 3: me to direct this movie.

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Speaker 2: And still it's Amazon. Why would they get involved with

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Speaker 1: No, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I like Brett, I know him a long time,

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Speaker 3: We've been friends for years, but I do worry about

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Speaker 3: his association with this Also, as I as I've been reporting,

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Speaker 3: there's almost been no advanced sale for this movie.

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Speaker 1: No one is buying tickets. And it was very funny.

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Speaker 3: For some reason, on the website for the movie, it

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Speaker 3: came up that I could choose buying seats in Dixon City, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever hear Dixon City coming back.

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Speaker 2: I could see you there. I think it'd fit right in.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of it before.

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Speaker 2: Let's be honest. Let's be honest. I would guess you

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Speaker 2: don't own a Maga hat.

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Speaker 3: I don't own a maga but red is not my color.

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Speaker 3: And also the hats never look good on me. Even

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Speaker 3: the Yankee hats still look good on me. Hey, just

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Speaker 3: I can't make it work.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of documentaries, tell us about because this is the

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Speaker 2: one I'm looking forward to. Tell us about the mel Brooks documentary.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's so great.

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Speaker 3: It started last night and tonight is part two on HBO,

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Speaker 3: and then it's going to be running all weekend. And

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Speaker 3: in our snowstorm, we're going to have a lot of

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Speaker 3: fun watching the Melbrokes movie. He's ninety nine years old,

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Speaker 3: he's got every marvel and he looks great. And the movie,

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Speaker 3: the documentary in two parts, tells the whole story of

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Speaker 3: his career, you know, his even his life before in

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Speaker 3: Bancroft and his first marriage and it had three kids

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Speaker 3: from the first marriage, and he was working on your

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Speaker 3: and he was having a lot of trouble and then

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Speaker 3: you know, and then finally he wrote the producers, and

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Speaker 3: the producers in nineteen sixty eight got him an Oscar

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Speaker 3: for the screenplay and it sent his career soaring. And

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Speaker 3: then we have all those great movies from the seventies,

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Speaker 1: And the movie.

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Speaker 3: Joan Apatow hosts the documentary and he does a great job,

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Speaker 3: and there's lots of interviews with various people who've known

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Speaker 3: Mel over the years, including Rob Reiner, who is, you know,

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Speaker 3: the son of his best friends. And Rob Reiner is

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Speaker 3: it's really tragic to watch him because he's so you

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Speaker 3: about this terrible thing that's happened.

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Speaker 1: But Rob Reiner's in it.

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Speaker 3: And Ben Stiller and lots of cool people, but it's

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Speaker 3: mostly Mel talking, you know, at ninety nine about this

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Speaker 3: incredible career that he's had. And so it's well worth

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Speaker 3: watching both nights. Tonight is the second night.

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Speaker 2: And it's on HBO. HBO, so go watch. Hey, you

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Speaker 2: know what you should go watch. There's an incredible new

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Speaker 2: Sinatra documentary. Also two parts I saw that you did. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's on Fox Nation. That's their streaming service. You have

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Speaker 1: I know that's all right.

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Speaker 3: I love Sinatra. I'll see anything with Sinatra. I don't

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Speaker 2: But that documentary is pretty good, pretty well done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was an HBO documentary several years ago, maybe

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Speaker 3: ten years ago. There was a great HBO documentary about Sinatra.

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Speaker 3: That's worth finding on their pay per view. But I'll

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Speaker 3: watch anything about you know that. We'll watch anything about

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Speaker 3: frand Sinatra.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but go watch this one. It's on the Fox Nation.

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Speaker 2: It's called I don't like the title. It's called The

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Speaker 2: Echoes of an Icon. It's just a new Sinatra. It's great. Hey,

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Speaker 2: we only got like a forty seconds. How's Broadway doing?

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Speaker 3: Broadway's booming and Harry Potter of all things. Harry Potter

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Speaker 3: has been around for several years. It started out as

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Speaker 1: It's never really been a success.

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Speaker 3: But Tom Felton, who played a part in the Harry

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Speaker 3: a week in sales. It's huge, and it was number

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Speaker 3: Everyone is crazy now about Harry Potter and the Curse Child.

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Speaker 3: And it's definitely I remember it from the opening. The

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Speaker 3: magic in it and the special effects are fabulous, so

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Speaker 3: it's worth checking out. But when this guy came in,

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Speaker 3: if they just bring in one person every few months

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Speaker 2: Well, Roger, you've Friedman great stuff. If you want more,

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Speaker 3: Oh you know what I'm doing today? Mark, just something

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Speaker 3: I'm going to a workshop of a musical about Dion.

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Speaker 2: Woon and the Belmonts.

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Speaker 1: Dion de Mucciucci.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a great guy, terrific guy. All right, Well let's.

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Speaker 3: Call the Wanderer and uh and today the show giving

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Speaker 3: a little preview of it today, So I'll tell you

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about it next week. Roger Friedman, thanks for

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