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Speaker 1: In Mark on demand by setting up preset for his

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Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: Now back to Mark Simon.

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Speaker 3: On w R.

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Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Patricia

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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. Patricia, how you doing?

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Speaker 4: Oh, dear Mark, listen. I wrote to the President and

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Speaker 4: I you know, I said that I love him, you know.

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Speaker 5: Stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: But I also.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely mentioned you. You got me through the pandemic. I

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Speaker 4: mean you got me through the craziest times where I thought,

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Speaker 4: what dall is going on? I got the most beautiful

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Speaker 4: letter back from the President. Don't think he doesn't know

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Speaker 4: what you do for the New Yorkers. God bless you, Mark.

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Speaker 4: I love you.

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Speaker 1: What did he say?

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Speaker 4: Thank you for you? I mean, I'm just powerful. Thank

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Speaker 4: you for your letter. It was you know, it was.

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Speaker 1: Kind of powerful. Thank you for your letter. What a response?

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Speaker 4: Are you making fun of me? That's none nice?

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Speaker 1: A little hellottle?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's a letter all keep until the

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Speaker 4: day I die. Yeah, And I thank you for everything

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Speaker 4: you have done for us.

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Speaker 1: Well, I thank you. I thank you for listening. You're

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Speaker 1: a good friend of ours and thanks for listening.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you so much more.

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Speaker 1: All right, take care thanks. You know, if you write

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Speaker 1: a letter to the president, to any president, you'll get

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Speaker 1: a letter back. I don't know if he sees it

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Speaker 1: or if he writes it, but it's a great thing

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Speaker 1: to do. Now, if you go over there, two blocks

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Speaker 1: and around the corner, there's a shirt maker and it's

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Speaker 1: a smart thing to do. This shirt maker writes to

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Speaker 1: every president whoever's in office, and sends like four shirts,

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Speaker 1: and a letter comes back from the president. It's not

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Speaker 1: really from the President's somebody in the White House. Dear

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Speaker 1: so and so, thank you for the shirts. I love them.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to wear them all the time. So then

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Speaker 1: he puts these up. Now the president has never seen

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Speaker 1: the letter, never seen the shirts. He puts them up

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Speaker 1: in his window with a big sign. Shirt maker to

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Speaker 1: four presidents. So yeah, I just gave a lot of

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Speaker 1: people a lot of ideas, right, and you'll get a

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Speaker 1: letter back. Let's go to Bill and Lafayette, New Jersey. Bill,

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Speaker 1: how you doing.

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Mark?

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Speaker 5: You know you were talking about the Oscars last night,

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Speaker 5: which I did not watch. When talent used to be

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Speaker 5: real talent, when you used to have Jonathan Winter's Johnny Carson,

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Speaker 5: like you said, and the good. I don't know if

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Speaker 5: you remember the first Today Show was Hunted by Dave

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Speaker 5: Garaway and then Jack Barr. But you had to have

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Speaker 5: Gun Will Travel, you had Mickey Mouse, Ed Sullivan, Gun Smoke,

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Speaker 5: Lassie Rin Tintin.

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Speaker 1: Well, I gotta be honest. You know some of those

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Speaker 1: shows they weren't. They called it the Golden Age that

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Speaker 1: Lassie I never understood. I mean there was about this

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Speaker 1: kid who kept falling down a well. This kid got

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Speaker 1: stuck under a tree every two seconds. The kid had

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Speaker 1: to be rescued by Lassie. The dog was smarter than

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what it was about. It was

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Speaker 3: about innocence and kids today that were my that are

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Speaker 3: eight nine ten. Back then, I was allowed to keep

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Speaker 3: my innocence and not be soiled by the crap that you.

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Speaker 5: Seev on TV today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. That's a very good point.

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Speaker 1: You know, there was an innocence to it. You know,

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Speaker 1: like Breaking Bad is a brilliant show. It's as good

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Speaker 1: as anything ever on television. But you're right, it's so dirty, disgusting, horrifying.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you watch a few episodes of that, you

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Speaker 1: have nightmares all night. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,

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Speaker 1: how you doing, Good morning, Mark, that's Mike.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you on some of those old shows. I

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Speaker 2: watch them down here, Bailey and Boy, some of them

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Speaker 2: are really rotten there, so stiff and stilted. But getting

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Speaker 2: back to the Oscars, by the way, I think Ed

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Speaker 2: is Ed Harris, who, to your point, nobody remembers as

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Speaker 1: Oh I know who he was.

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Speaker 1: It was a pretty good actor. Glengarry, Glenn row Us

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Speaker 1: and all the right stuff I think was right.

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Speaker 2: The right stuff. I was thinking of Polity Team, the

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Speaker 2: right stuff. Okay, but you know you're you're an m C,

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Speaker 2: and you know, you know, when Hope did it and

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Speaker 2: mcs to these events. They moved it along, you know.

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Speaker 2: They know they're playing to like a dumb, needy, vapid audience,

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Speaker 2: and they kept this stuff simple and it was much

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's just it was different back then.

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Speaker 1: We all knew who everybody was. Today it's all fragmented.

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Speaker 1: You don't know who any of these people are.

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Speaker 2: That's true, a really good point. I don't know who

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, thanks for calling. That's the problem.

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Speaker 1: It's so fragmented. You don't know who anybody is anymore,

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Speaker 1: even when you watch it. If you start watching the

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Speaker 1: series and you love it, you tell people about it,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. They'll tell you

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Speaker 1: about the series they're watching. You never heard of that one.

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Speaker 1: It's a real problem now. Same thing with the radio.

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Speaker 1: Look at podcasts. Many podcast there are I think it's

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Speaker 1: two million now. There are two million podcasts out there

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Speaker 1: right now. By the way, this show ends up this

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Speaker 1: of those two million. But there's two million podcasts and

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Speaker 1: nobody can keep track of all of them. You know.

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Speaker 1: The other thing we're talking about, that golden age of television,

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Speaker 1: Cause you watch I Love Lucy and The Dick Van

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Speaker 1: Dyke Show, and you ed saw me. Wow, it was

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Speaker 1: a golden age till you're forgetting there were hundreds of

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Speaker 1: the crop from the fifties and the sixties. In the seventies,

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Speaker 2: Boy were they great.

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Speaker 1: But go back to actually the nineteen seventies, ninety percent

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Speaker 1: of what was on television was so horrifying it could

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Speaker 1: never be real anywhere. It was just bad, cheesy stuff. Hey,

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Speaker 1: the greatest columnist in the country, Michael Goodwin, he'll be

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Speaker 1: with us next, and he'd been in the second hour.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to Johnny Carson, the side of him. You

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that coming up in the second hour.

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