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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: Monday, after a terrific weekend in Southern California, KFI AM

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Speaker 2: six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app wrapping up

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Speaker 2: Martin Luther King Day. There were parades gatherings around the

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Speaker 2: nation and in Southern California. We've talked about a lot

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Speaker 2: of different stuff. Tonight, Billionaire tax billionaires leaving. Talked about

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Speaker 2: Dolly Parton's birthday. She's eighty. By the way, We got

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Speaker 2: a talkback on that. On the iHeartRadio app. You can

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Speaker 2: leave us a talk back. The upper right hand part

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Speaker 2: Any person who's on iHeart you can leave them a

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Speaker 2: talkback anyway. This is something related to Dolly.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Mark, this is Carla about fifty five years ago

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Speaker 3: in Houston, Texas, when I was living there.

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Speaker 2: Thank I just have to say, Karma is a cool name.

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Speaker 2: I don't think i've heard the if you you run

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Speaker 2: across it, Karma, Karma. Oh Karma. Oh you think she

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Speaker 2: said Carmen.

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Speaker 3: Replay it all right, Hey, Mark, this is Carla.

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Speaker 2: It's Karma, Carla, Carla, Carla, Karma's pretty cool, though. I

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Speaker 2: think a cool DJ name Carla.

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Speaker 4: Wasn't there a.

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Speaker 5: Pussy dole called Karma or something?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about that. If you named your

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Speaker 2: daughter Karma, then you would be saddling her with a

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Speaker 2: lifetime of people telling her Karma's a bitch. No, you

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Speaker 2: hope that she's not a bitch.

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Speaker 5: And there's an actress Charisma Carpenter. What if she had

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Speaker 5: no charisma whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: It's exactly right. I mean, you can't, you know. It's

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Speaker 2: one of those things you gotta. You're really you're really

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Speaker 2: leaning into it anyway.

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Speaker 5: It's nominative determinism.

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Speaker 3: I see, Mark, this is Carla about.

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Speaker 2: So it's it's it's not it's Carla. You're saying that

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Speaker 2: it sounds like Carla. I think it's Carla. Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry about that.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Mark, this is Carla right now. About fifty five

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Speaker 3: years ago in Houston, Texas, when I was living there,

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Speaker 3: I saw Dolly Parton perform with Porter wagoner Oh Wow

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Speaker 3: stage at the Coliseum downtown Houston. She was dynamite and

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Speaker 3: I had never seen anyone with like a ten inch waistline.

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Speaker 3: She was just a doll.

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Speaker 2: She It's true was like some kind of physics experiment. Amazing,

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Speaker 2: all that talent, just wild and Johnny Carson never missed

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Speaker 2: an opportunity, Yeah, to make joke crack about it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: when you watch that stuff now, it's cringe worthy.

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Speaker 4: I think Mark, it's Cindy and the Ie And I'm

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Speaker 4: so happy you're on tonight. Love listening to you. Hope

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Speaker 4: you pick up this spot permanently. You should listen to

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Speaker 4: Dolly parton CD rock Star because it's all rock songs

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Speaker 4: and she sings with Steven Tyler, Steing, Lizzo, all kinds.

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Speaker 2: Of oh wow that you love it. I will. I

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Speaker 2: will definitely check it out. Thanks for that, I really will.

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Speaker 2: I'll check it out tonight. Really really cool. This talkback

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Speaker 2: says guys sounds drunk, So now I have to listen

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Speaker 2: to it all right, Yes, Slazer jel it. That's a

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Speaker 2: pretty start, good candidate, it's a strong start, Yes, Lazer jel.

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Speaker 2: I want to start every single show with this with that.

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Speaker 2: It's you new drop.

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Speaker 6: Yeah it really is, Yes, Lazer Jelan set time again.

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Speaker 6: Oh man, Oh this guy is wonderful. I want him

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Speaker 6: to start every show.

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Speaker 2: I want.

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Speaker 6: This is a drop, Yes, Slazer jel yes, Set time again,

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Speaker 6: Welcome to the Mark Topson Show.

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, I want that entire thing. I want that

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Speaker 2: entire thing, all right, not, I won't stop it again.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, Yes Slazer jel yes, set time again.

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Speaker 6: Welcome to the Mark Topson Show, The Happy Place on Earth.

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Speaker 2: Please enjoy your stay.

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Speaker 1: Hey brother, I love a show. Michael Knuckle love you show.

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Speaker 2: See Michael is having more fun than any of us.

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Speaker 2: Very very cool. But that would be a really awesome

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Speaker 2: drop for your show. Dude, will you you lifted for me?

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Speaker 2: I'll try to do that. Yeah, I just need that

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Speaker 2: first part, which says Ladies of Yellowen Hell.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, time again, Welcome to the Mark tops and Show.

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Speaker 2: That's it. That's all I need. That's really pretty great.

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Speaker 7: And uh hi Mark, this is cutting from Long Beach.

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Speaker 7: It makes my heart happy when you're on the air

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Speaker 7: at the seven o'clock hour. I really appreciate hearing what

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Speaker 7: you have to say. And I absolutely love your voice.

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Speaker 7: Oh thank I have a little crush on you.

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Speaker 2: Well there you go. Everybody needs a crush and I'm

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Speaker 2: very happy even Wow, this is all going to start

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Speaker 2: going to your head. I don't know. I crushes evaporate

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Speaker 2: pretty quickly. There is big trouble in the Beckham family apparently.

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Speaker 2: Now I don't follow this moment to moment the way

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Speaker 2: many do, but there is apparently controversy with the Beckhams.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to turn to you on this, Nikki, because

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Speaker 2: I think you follow this closely. The Brooklyn Beckham is

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Speaker 2: slamming the Beckham parents.

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Speaker 8: I think coming into us this evening, Brooklyn Beckham saying

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Speaker 8: he doesn't want to reconcile with his family. This happened

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Speaker 8: in an explosive social media post a little earlier this evening.

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Speaker 8: It's the first time he's broken his silence on the

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Speaker 8: long running family feud with his parents that's been heavily

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Speaker 8: documented in newspapers. Our arts and Entertainment corosspondent Katie Spencer

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Speaker 8: is here and if you Shoby's Watcher, you'll be well

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Speaker 8: aware of the rumored fracture within the Beckham family, and

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Speaker 8: neither side has said anything about it up until this point.

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Speaker 8: We've got to be very careful about what we say

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Speaker 8: here because, as I said, it's an explosive.

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Speaker 9: Statement from the outlandish clay.

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Speaker 2: Now this is David Beckham's family, right, We're talking about.

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Speaker 5: The Yeah, Brooklyn is the oldest son.

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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, and he's married to the Peltch Nicola Peltz.

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Speaker 5: She is I want to be actress. She doesn't appear

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Speaker 5: in a whole lot. But her father is a billionaire

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Speaker 2: No, that's a very good business to be in.

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Speaker 5: And she's a little bit older than him. I think

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Speaker 5: she's like thirty one thirty two and he's in his twenties.

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Speaker 5: And they got married about three years ago. As it's

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Speaker 5: been a strain on the Beckham family ever since.

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Speaker 2: So they don't like her.

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Speaker 5: They don't like her, but the story, the narrative has

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Speaker 5: been that she turned the sheet and him against the

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Speaker 5: Beckham posted a bunch of statements on his Instagram trying

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Speaker 5: to set the records straight, and he's said some He's

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Speaker 5: made some wild claims against his parents.

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Speaker 9: Claims that he is making online as well. I think

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Speaker 9: the reason that it's been so noticeable the Brooklyn Beckham

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Speaker 9: hasn't been a part of the sort of family dynamic

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Speaker 9: is because over the years, the publicity surrounding the Beckhams

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Speaker 9: is they present a united front. The whole family turnout

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Speaker 9: And since the eldest son of the Beckhams has been married,

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Speaker 9: he hasn't really popped up at a lot of these

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Speaker 9: I mean, he is married to Nicola Peltz, who is

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Speaker 9: the daughter of a billionaire, and they now live in

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Speaker 9: America over the summer. In particular, though a lot of

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Speaker 9: the stories that were written about in the papers, with

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Speaker 9: the fact that he was noticeably absent from significant events

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Speaker 9: like his dad's fifty year there was no comment made

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Speaker 9: when his dad was knighted, just as at Christmas, the

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Speaker 9: paper's reported that he blocked his mom for liking quite

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Speaker 9: as sort of innocuous, innocent post that he'd made about

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Speaker 9: cooking in the press, though that has been interpreted as

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Speaker 9: his wife controlling him if you like. And he has

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Speaker 9: made this extraordinary six page statement saying that the narrative

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Speaker 9: that his wife is controlling him is completely backwards, that

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Speaker 9: he feels that he has been controlled by his parents.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the whole thing is wearying. Let me just ask

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Speaker 2: you what does he do?

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Speaker 5: He does nothing.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting that because he's way up in social media

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Speaker 2: and all about it, and anybody who's got that kind

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Speaker 5: He's a wanna be chef, so he likes to post

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Speaker 5: cooking videos.

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Speaker 2: No, that's okay, okay.

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Speaker 5: Well, one of the things he said in his statement was,

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Speaker 5: I do not want to reconcile with my family. I'm

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Speaker 5: not being controlled. I'm standing up for myself for the

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Speaker 5: first time in my life. And he went on to

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Speaker 5: say that that his family tried to get him to

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Speaker 5: sign away his name the rights to his name prior

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Speaker 5: to the wedding, and he refused to budge, and so

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Speaker 5: the relationship fell apart because they wanted to make or

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Speaker 5: to continue to make money off his name. And so

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Speaker 5: he's Brooklyn Beckham, but on social media he goes by

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Speaker 5: Beckham Pelt, so he's kind of taken his wife wah wow.

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Speaker 5: And he's also claiming, because his mom's a fashion designer,

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Speaker 5: that at the eleventh hour she pulled out of making

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Speaker 5: the wedding dress for Nicola and she had to scramble

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Speaker 5: because she his mother refused to make one for her

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Speaker 5: and he's also saying that they had the whole thing

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Speaker 5: planned for their wedding. They had, you know, the first

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Speaker 5: dance of husband and wife, and then at the last

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Speaker 5: minute Beckham Victoria cut in to have the first dance

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Speaker 5: with him, and she was being very inappropriate with him

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Speaker 5: on the dance floor.

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Speaker 2: Man, well, uh, sounds like they're hitting some white water

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Speaker 2: in their relationship with the family. Wishing them the best.

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Speaker 2: They need a heavy dose of Wendy Walsh on the weekend,

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Speaker 2: you know they they need, they need a therapist. You'll

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Speaker 2: fix them right up. Yeah, doctor, doctor Wendy. Is he

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Speaker 2: carrying a grudge possibly for being named Brooklyn?

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Speaker 5: I mean it could be worse. He could be named Queen's.

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Speaker 2: I suppose Brooklyn Beckham though it sounds like something you'd

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Speaker 2: pay Hooker extra to. You know what, I'll take the

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Speaker 2: Brooklyn Beckham. I'll throw a flag on that. There's nothing

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Speaker 2: wrong with the name Brooklyn. Would you name We're getting

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Speaker 2: into child abuse territory here calling your child Brooklyn.

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Speaker 10: No, you're not.

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Speaker 2: Brooklyn is a name, and there's they're supermodels named Brooklyn.

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Speaker 2: That's not the name of a human being. You're you

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Speaker 2: need to get out of that house more and get out.

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Speaker 2: There are lots of It's a perfectly mainstream name. Names

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Speaker 2: have evolved. You need to get out. How bored do

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Speaker 2: you have to be to give your child the name

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Speaker 2: of how dare you? How dare you? I'm calling a

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Speaker 2: halt to this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: Mark Thompson. Here we are hanging out on a Monday night.

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Speaker 2: I guess there's a big cub. There was the championship

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Speaker 2: college game tonight, Miami versus Indiana. If you're recording it

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Speaker 2: spoiler alert, Well maybe I just shouldn't even give the result.

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Speaker 2: I never know. You know, I don't want to get

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Speaker 2: into trouble. So you didn't have it in your news,

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Speaker 2: did you?

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Speaker 10: No?

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. Okay, Okay, So I'm going to those

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Speaker 2: who are interested, those who are listening, who may be recording,

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Speaker 2: I'm leaving it to you. We've covered everything else but

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Speaker 2: that tonight, everything from Dolly Parton's birth day to the

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Speaker 2: billionaire tax in California to the Greenland flex on the

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Speaker 2: part of the president, and now we turn to Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: This guy is one of those people that you read about.

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Speaker 2: In fact, you can read about it, And he's been

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Speaker 2: written about as someone who gets things done when you

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Speaker 10: Mark. I don't know if you're talking about me or

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Speaker 10: somebody else. I don't know. It seems otherworldly, but I'll

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Speaker 2: You have quite a resume, and you've dealt with so

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Speaker 2: Can you can you speak to that?

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Speaker 10: Not too many, only about three hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 10: Well what happened, Well, you can write it off as

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Speaker 10: unintentional mistake by the DMV. While we're briefly on the

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Speaker 10: is not a public agency in any state or any

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Speaker 10: just universally reviled, hated, disrespected. All of that doesn't matter

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Speaker 10: what state you're in. However, I'm here to tell you

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Speaker 10: I can tell you since the pandemic, it's been a

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Speaker 10: This happened California is the director of the d m

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Speaker 2: Right you're saying that, look, this is they they've got

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Speaker 2: It's going to be this horribly long process that's just

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Speaker 10: When you're there. The caricature of the d m V

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Speaker 10: has always been when you're there, you will be served

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Speaker 10: by people that don't want to help you. That's the

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Speaker 10: old caricature of what the DMV was. And from the

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Speaker 10: very different thing. In California. This was a glitch that

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Speaker 10: nobody intended. And I know for myself, I have hundreds

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Speaker 2: And this is what you do.

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Speaker 10: I want to make sure that. I want to make

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Speaker 2: You know, now that you say it, I'm thinking back

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Speaker 2: you know, a much longer ride. Now it has nothing

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Speaker 2: with the appointments. I find that hasn't been as bad.

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Speaker 2: That's been my experience in the last couple of I'm

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Speaker 10: Well, it's considerably better just since COVID, and I think

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Speaker 10: COVID taught all administrative agencies. I deal with with passports,

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Speaker 10: I deal with with all DMD and a lot of

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Speaker 10: the people that that I deal with are public people,

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Speaker 10: and those public people need it's my responsibility. And there

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Speaker 10: And I wish I had a better answer as far

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Speaker 2: When we come back, I wonder if you're can to

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Speaker 2: just because you're talking about DMV and our time is limited,

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Speaker 2: will you please think about this, Please tell the story

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Speaker 2: don't say who it is. Don't say who it is.

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Speaker 2: But one of the great payoffs is who it is.

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Speaker 10: But you know who I'm talking nineteen eighty three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, That to me is one of the great Hollywood

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Speaker 2: you ask me who it is. It doesn't matter who

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Speaker 2: love that story. Will you tell it next? Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 2: It's filled with explorers. Yeah, please clean it up, all right.

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Speaker 2: Brad Herman our guest. He is the man in Hollywood,

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Speaker 2: and we continue with him next.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: Mark Thompson here Monday night in Los Angeles. We're talking

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Speaker 2: to someone one who is truly an institution in a

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Speaker 2: part of Los Angeles life that you may or may

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Speaker 2: not be acquainted with, and that's kind of getting things

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Speaker 2: done through the system. Bureacracy of Los Angeles. He's one

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Speaker 2: can oftentimes be a laborious process which passports or DMV

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Speaker 2: and the bureaucracy of almost anything. Brad Herman is many

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Speaker 2: a piece, and an article has been written about him.

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Speaker 2: But I remember one story, Brad Herman, and I love

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Speaker 2: the story, and I'm so delighted that you'll tell it,

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Speaker 2: because it was when you were sort of working, you

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Speaker 10: Just out of college in my mid twenties and very green,

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Speaker 10: I worked for a wonderful entertainment attorney who at that

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Speaker 10: to you name it. It was just a it was

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Speaker 2: Yeah. He was a super he was like a super

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Speaker 10: His name was, his name was ed Hook Stratton and

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Speaker 10: whatever I learned about doing things in an exceptional way

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Speaker 10: that I didn't learn from my parents. I learned from

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Speaker 10: ed my parents taught me with love and patience and

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Speaker 10: eviscerating me, usually in front of a network executive where somebody,

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Speaker 10: and he'd say, I love you, babe, and he'd just

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so go ahead. Uh. So, here you are, this

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Speaker 10: What behind the ear is very green, no self confidence?

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Speaker 10: And I was told, here's an address, go to this

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Speaker 10: I ask for? It's none of your bleeping business. What

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Speaker 10: Just get up there and stop asking me stupid questions. Mark,

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Speaker 10: Is that the way I told you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think he told you to come into the

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Speaker 10: I see what he said, efing go there, and e

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Speaker 10: fing shut up and don't speak unless you're efing spoken to.

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Speaker 10: So I walk into I drive to the address in

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Speaker 10: I pushed the button, I announced myself. They open the gates.

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Speaker 2: Oh it was a lady answered the door. He's like,

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Speaker 10: Is that what the estate manager? The estate manager, it's

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Speaker 2: And it's just and she only said mister, So there

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Speaker 10: I I had no idea who it was. And the

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Speaker 10: And I said, nice to meet you, sir.

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Speaker 2: Well what what what did he look like? And what

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Speaker 10: Well, he looked like somebody who I might have recognized,

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Speaker 10: Well, he was balding, balding, okay, without a hair piece

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Speaker 10: Had he looked kind of familiar? His eyes looked kind

434
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Speaker 10: of familiar. But I had no idea who this guy was.

435
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,239
Speaker 10: I just knew I was petrified and I couldn't get

436
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Speaker 10: out of there fast enough to be honest with you.

437
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Speaker 10: And no, I didn't have the Mark Thompson radio voice

438
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,719
Speaker 10: and all of that confidence of Bravado. I was absolutely right.

439
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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah. So I look.

440
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Speaker 10: At him and I said, Hi, my name is Brad.

441
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 10: I'm here to help you. Ed wants me to handle

442
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 10: some things for you. He said, Hi, my name is Francis.

443
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 10: And I looked at him and he shook my hand

444
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 10: and it was Francis Albert Sinatra. It was Frank Sinatra.

445
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 2: That's just so wow.

446
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 10: And I'm looking at him, I saying, what the hell

447
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,959
Speaker 10: am I doing here? How did I get here? And

448
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 10: how am I going to get myself out of this?

449
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 10: So I look at him and I said, what am

450
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 10: I here to help you with today? Sir? He said, well,

451
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 10: you're going to take me to the DMV. I got

452
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 10: pulled over recently on Losienaga and the cop said, you know,

453
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 10: we know who you are, we know where to find you,

454
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 10: but we've got a problem here. Your license has expired.

455
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,239
Speaker 10: And I said, sir, may I take a look at

456
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 10: your license? Please? She takes out his wallet, she hands

457
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Speaker 10: me the Keep in mind, this is nineteen eighty three.

458
00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 10: The licenses in nineteen eighty three were still kind of paper,

459
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 10: but it was colored paper, so you know, the face

460
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 10: and the print were whatever color they needed to be.

461
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 10: But the license he handed me in nineteen eighty three

462
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 10: was a black and white wax paper e kind of

463
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 10: a license. So well, like a credit card, like a

464
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 10: credit card, like the new ones, yeah, the current one.

465
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 10: And I looked at this and I said, sir, is

466
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Speaker 10: this the date that your license expired? Yeah, I expired

467
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 10: a while ago. I don't worry about those kind of things.

468
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 10: And I said, expired in nineteen seventy two. Yeah, it's

469
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 10: been a while, roughly, I said, so a while constitutes

470
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Speaker 10: about eleven years. And I looked at him and I thought, well,

471
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 10: I'm really going to be fired now. He said, yeah,

472
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 10: you got a sense of humor. Yeah, that's all right,

473
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 10: it's been a couple of Years's leave it at that.

474
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 10: He said, So, you're going to take me to the

475
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 10: DMV today and I'm going to get my license, right.

476
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 10: I said, well, that's the first i've heard of it.

477
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 10: But I'm on my way with you, and we're on

478
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 10: our way there now, and I called my then girlfriend's

479
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 10: mother who worked at the DMV in Santa Monica. Back

480
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 10: in the days when you could call the DMV and

481
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 10: actually get a person that ship is sailed, they don't

482
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Speaker 10: do that anymore.

483
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Speaker 2: So so you had kind of you kind of you

484
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Speaker 2: had them sort of the phone the runway you were

485
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Speaker 2: coming in steep with with a special dignitary and you

486
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Speaker 2: do you go in through the I only have by

487
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 2: the way, I only have another minute. So do you

488
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 2: go in through the main entrance or are you going

489
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Speaker 2: through the back entrance in Santa Monica, the back entrance.

490
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 10: I'll make it quick back entrance. And he said, I

491
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 10: guess I'm going to take a test today. I hope

492
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Speaker 10: I pass. And the woman looks at and said, I'm

493
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 10: going to send Brad back there with you. But she

494
00:28:56,040 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 10: looks at him and she says, but no cheating. And

495
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 10: he turns around and he says, sweetheart, and he grabs

496
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 10: her hand and kisses her hands. I wouldn't think of it,

497
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 10: So she said, no cheating. So she turns around and

498
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 10: walks out, and just before she opens the door and

499
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 10: leaves the room, she turns around and winks at me

500
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 10: and him, knowing that she was still in the room,

501
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 10: said all right, kid, get cracking on that test. I said,

502
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 10: you expect me to take the test for you. Ah, there,

503
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 10: see what you gotta do. And that's the end of

504
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 10: the story.

505
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 2: And you you you so Frank Sinatra got the driver's

506
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 2: license and you, having taken the exam for him, made

507
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Speaker 2: it happen. I love that story, you are.

508
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 10: Asked, Mark, I'm sorry. The last component of this quickly

509
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 10: is she came in to grade the test and he said,

510
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 10: how'd I do? And she said, you only miss three?

511
00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 10: Said what do you mean? He only missed three?

512
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 2: So that's great.

513
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 10: That's the true story.

514
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 2: That is wonderful, all of it. Uh, Brad, that is terrific. Listen, Uh,

515
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 2: if if people do people get a hold of how

516
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 2: do you get clients people get ahold of you have

517
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 2: a website or anything like that, or is it just

518
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 2: they have to sort of know you and get referred

519
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: to you?

520
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 10: Well, I'll give I'll give you my email address. All right,

521
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Speaker 10: your listeners, it's my initials. B j H Management spilled

522
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Speaker 10: out at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 2: BJH Management at gmail dot.

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Speaker 10: Com dot com.

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Speaker 2: Brad, thanks for spending a few minutes with us. We

526
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 2: loved it. This is a great ride man, you really

527
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 2: you know, you kind of know where the bodies are

528
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 2: buried here in La and it's uh.

529
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Speaker 10: I'm here for you and for any of your listeners.

530
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 10: It's not about the money. If I can help, I will.

531
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Speaker 10: You don't have to be famous, you don't have to

532
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 10: be wealthy. I'm happy to help.

533
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, my friend new Year, and thanks for

534
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Speaker 2: joining us tonight on Kofi brad Herman. Everybody, we are

535
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Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

536
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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: You know Nori is next. What up, George?

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Speaker 10: We're going to talk about geo engineering and little weather

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Speaker 10: manipulation and then consciousness and just have some fun on

540
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Speaker 10: Coast to Coast Marco.

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Speaker 2: This is my show Wall to wall coming up on

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Speaker 2: Coast to Coast. I'm loving to George. Thank you, look

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Speaker 2: forward to it. You got it all right? Wow? Everything

544
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Speaker 2: I want. Amazon taking on sax fifth Avenue could it be?

545
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Speaker 11: And sax Neman, Marcus and the discount brands like sax

546
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Speaker 11: Off Fifth and Last Call are also still open. That's

547
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Speaker 11: because Chapter eleven bankruptcy means that SAX is going to

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Speaker 11: try to get money so that it can stock its

549
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Speaker 11: shelves and pay employees. They are not liquidating yet, so

550
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Speaker 11: you're not seeing the liquidation sales yet.

551
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Speaker 2: But listen to what's actually happening with Amazon and SAX.

552
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 11: To Amazon taking aim at the recent bankruptcy filing by

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Speaker 11: SAS after the e commerce giant invested hundreds of millions

554
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Speaker 11: of dollars in the department store company.

555
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Speaker 1: This is a.

556
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Speaker 11: Battle between Amazon and Sacks, as the online retail giant

557
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Speaker 11: takes on the iconic department store group that just filed

558
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Speaker 11: for bankruptcy. Amazon invested half a billion dollars in SAS.

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Speaker 11: That was back in twenty twenty four when SAX bought

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Speaker 11: its rival Niman Marcus for nearly three billion dollars. As

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Speaker 11: part of that deal, SAX started selling clothes and beauty

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Speaker 11: products from some luxury brands like Dulce Gamana right on Amazon,

563
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Speaker 11: and it agreed to back Amazon and pay them almost

564
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Speaker 11: one billion.

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Speaker 3: Dollars over eight years.

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Speaker 11: Well, now Amazon is saying in a court filing that

567
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Speaker 11: the investment in SAS is worthless because SAX has now

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Speaker 11: declared Chapter eleven bankruptcy. So what does this all mean

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Speaker 11: for shoppers. For now, what it means is SAX will

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Speaker 11: remain open. Its storefront is still available on Amazon and

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Speaker 11: Sax Nman, Marcus, and the discount brands like sax off

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Speaker 11: Fifth and Last Caller also still open. That's because Chapter

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Speaker 11: eleven bankruptcy means that SAX is going to try to

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Speaker 11: get money so that it can stock its shelves and

575
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Speaker 11: pay employees. They are not liquidating yet, so you're not

576
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Speaker 11: seeing the liquidation sales yet, but we could soon see

577
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Speaker 11: some stores closed. SAX says it has three hundred and

578
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Speaker 11: twenty million dollars in outstanding gift cards. Maybe you've got

579
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Speaker 11: all the holidays, now is the time to use that.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's like a little fact thrown in at the end.

581
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Speaker 2: That's wild. Three hundred and twenty million in outstanding gift

582
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Speaker 2: cards to Sacks Fifth Avenue, And this is the inevitable

583
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Speaker 2: end for so many retailers. It's just incredibly hard to

584
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Speaker 2: maintain inventory, pay that rent. You've seen it happen in

585
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Speaker 2: California with Macy's, and here is SAS flirting with the

586
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Speaker 2: same fate. This on this day in which Valentino passes away.

587
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Speaker 2: I told you also that I would mention to you one.

588
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 2: I think it's kind of an interesting story related to

589
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 2: another designer, and that designer is Halston. You know, one

590
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 2: of the moves that now we're not so shocked by,

591
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Speaker 2: but through the years it's become something we're not shocked by. Originally,

592
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Speaker 2: it was very shocking to see high end designers like

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Speaker 2: a Valentino, like a Halston, like a door to see

594
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Speaker 2: them move into the consumer category, like you know, when

595
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Speaker 2: you and I could all of a sudden have access

596
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Speaker 2: to their stuff. And the real breakthrough to take on

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Speaker 2: retail was done by Halston. Halston was this guy who

598
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Speaker 2: signed a licensing deal worth a billion dollars with a

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Speaker 2: retail chain. And the retail chain and wait for it,

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Speaker 2: for those who don't remember, was j C. Penny. So

601
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Speaker 2: you have this, you know, incredibly accessible brand j C. Penny, Right,

602
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 2: you don't feel like you're not intimidated by j C.

603
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 2: Penny's kind of a discount brand, and you have this

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Speaker 2: high end designer, Halston, who signs this licensing deal. It

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Speaker 2: was called Halston three this line. And by the way,

606
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Speaker 2: if you want to see a great documentary, which is

607
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 2: the only reason I know this, I believe it's two parts.

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Speaker 2: There's a Holston documentary. You can find it honest, say

609
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 2: HBO Max or what you may have to Maybe it's

610
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 2: Amazon Prime, you'll have to knock around. Maybe it's Netflix,

611
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Speaker 2: but it's not a Holston. There's a dramatic version of

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00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 2: this story with its Halston, and then there's also a documentary.

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00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 2: The documentary is what I'm recommending anyway. So what happens

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Speaker 2: when the Halston line is taken over is a bunch

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Speaker 2: of people come into Halston's world that aren't the high end,

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Speaker 2: you know, shimmering luxury brand folk. They're bankers and they're

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Speaker 2: bean counters and their accountants and they're from j. C.

618
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Speaker 2: Penny world, and they're like, how do we get the

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Speaker 2: most out of this high end line from Halston. So

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Speaker 2: they're sitting down to all of these meetings regularly to

621
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Speaker 2: kind of bring this Halston line along to make money

622
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Speaker 2: in the j. C. Penny world. And Halston's not even

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Speaker 2: showing up to these meetings because he's like he's a

624
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Speaker 2: high end guy. He's like, Hey, I'm a Houston I

625
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 2: don't need to show up to this stuff. You guys

626
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: just paid me a billion dollars. You guys are work

627
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 2: it out, so beyond the controversy that's associated with this,

628
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 2: and one of the controversies was that he had cheapened

629
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Speaker 2: his brand by making this deal with jac Penny. That's

630
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 2: kind of the big controversy. But the Bean County controversy

631
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Speaker 2: was all the ways that Halston was wasting money because

632
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 2: he's used to live in large so he's living this

633
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: big bang in life and his company's paying for it.

634
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 2: And now the bean Counters they cruise in and one

635
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 2: of the things, and this is the thing I remember,

636
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 2: the bean head bean Counter says, how come we're paying

637
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 2: Halston three thousand dollars a night for dinner? Where is

638
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 2: he eating that it's three thousand dollars a night. And

639
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 2: here is the explanation. Halston likes food from this specific

640
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:48,439
Speaker 2: Manhattan restaurant and they and the bean Encounter interrupts and goes,

641
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 2: I get it. You can look, you can eat anywhere

642
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 2: in Manhattan at any restaurant. It doesn't cost three thousand

643
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 2: dollars a night. They said, no, no, no, no no.

644
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 2: The food is then loaded onto a plane and the

645
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Speaker 2: plane is flown out to his place in the Hamptons,

646
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Speaker 2: and that's why it's three thousand dollars and the bean

647
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 2: counter said, yeah, well that's stopping now. And that was

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the later years for Halston and his brand,

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Speaker 2: and the relationship soured after that. But I'll never forget

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Speaker 2: through the entire documentary that one fact. I just thought, Wow,

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Speaker 2: what a reveal. Three thousand bucks a night, not for

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Speaker 2: the food, for flying the food to the Hamptons. So

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Speaker 2: another fun night. Thank you, guys, and thank you for

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Speaker 2: giving me the new intro to whatever show I ever do.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Leasa jealous, it's that time again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome to the Mark Topson Show. I'm loving it.

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Speaker 2: You and I are going to be buddies, my friend.

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Speaker 12: Oh and just so everyone knows, and to Mark Hunner's

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Speaker 12: The Light. You can catch the documentary on to b

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Speaker 12: and the Roku channel for free. Oh that's cool, so

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Speaker 12: hauston documentary. It's worth a watch. I'm not even interested

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Speaker 12: in fashion. I watched it because Courtney was interested in

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Speaker 12: and so I sat there and I just really loved it.

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Speaker 2: So you should check it out. But all right, thanks

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Speaker 2: all Nicky, Mark, Steph, all of you listening. You can

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Speaker 2: check out my show on YouTube. If you are into

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Speaker 2: politics and news, there's a lot of that stuff. Otherwise,

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Speaker 2: I'll just see you here next time. KFI AM six

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