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Speaker 2: Well, we'll talk to Roger in a moment. We're all

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Speaker 2: hunting for him as we as we speak. Little controversy

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Speaker 2: yesterday the Health and Human Services, you know, the Robert F.

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Speaker 2: They redid the food pyramid. I don't know if it's

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Speaker 2: good or bad. But do you know anybody actually looks

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Speaker 2: at this food pyramid? Do you know anybody that follows

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Speaker 2: the before you eat these say, let me check that

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Speaker 2: food pyramid. So they want you to eat more protein.

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Speaker 2: The good part is less sugar. That's the good part.

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Speaker 2: We'll get back to that anyway. But Roger Friedman, the

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Speaker 2: great entertainment reporter. His website, you should check it every day.

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Speaker 2: There's always great stories. Showbiz for one dot com, Showbiz

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Speaker 2: for one dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing. I'm great,

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Speaker 2: Good morning, How are you good? Hey? We haven't talked

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Speaker 2: to a couple of weeks. I got to catch up

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Speaker 2: on a few things. One Marty Supreme. They talked about

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Speaker 2: it as the biggest movie of the year. It's doing okay,

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Speaker 2: but it's it's doing great. Did you see that I

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Speaker 2: used your picture? Yeah, and I featured you. I know

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Speaker 2: it was great. I actually knew the real Marty Supreme, who,

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Speaker 2: by the way, had nothing to do with this movie.

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Speaker 2: He was the ping pong champion. But this stuff with

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Speaker 2: the shot inspired by him. The idea movie is inspired

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Speaker 2: by him. Yeah, but with the chasing, the women, the gangsters,

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Speaker 2: the shootings, the car chases, none of that really happened

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Speaker 2: with him. He was actually a pretty boring guy in

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Speaker 2: real life. But I'm looking at the box office. It's

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Speaker 2: always like number two or three. It's not like number

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, Avatar is out, so that's like the

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Speaker 1: big commercial movie at the moment. But Marty Supreme is

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Speaker 1: up to like sixteen million dollars. I think after just

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. That's great. Are you kidding? Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's wonderful.

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Speaker 2: It's a great. Yeah, I mean it's actually great. Everybody

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Speaker 1: Oh it's not. It's a sixty one million. That's fantastic

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Speaker 1: after twenty days. In the first few days were not

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Speaker 1: really they were just in two theaters. No it's doing great.

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Speaker 1: It won't be streaming for a long time. It's got

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Speaker 1: to get through the awards season. You know, Tomorrow Sunday

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Speaker 1: Critics Choice Awards, which he won Timothy Challamey. And then

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have the Golden Globes. Then we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: and then finally the Oscars on March fifteenth. I don't

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Speaker 1: Not bad it. Eventually it'll get there. But the two

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Speaker 1: one battle after another and they're going to battle for

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Speaker 2: It is. It is a great movie. Everybody should go

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Speaker 2: see Marty SUPREMEU love it.

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Speaker 1: It's a great movie. And it's funny because after you

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Speaker 1: So he kept going to and Harry put a ping

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Speaker 1: And all they did was play ping pong night and day.

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Speaker 1: And I think that probably they've decided they're not going

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Speaker 1: No, he's going to go to jail for the rest

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Speaker 2: Hey, let's talk about Bruno Mars. It was always a

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Speaker 2: very big deal, but somehow he got hotter than ever

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Speaker 1: of his fans who said on Twitter. The fan said,

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Speaker 1: it's called It Just Might, and it's a dance song

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Speaker 1: and it's fun. It sounds exactly like Leo Sayer's You

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Speaker 1: And this is not the first time Bruno Mars has

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Speaker 1: But he's fun, you know, he's a fun guy. He

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Speaker 1: Probably it's probably number one, because you know, his people

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Speaker 1: I really want to see it, this Bruno Mars tour.

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Speaker 2: Well, you could have large empty areas if you're met

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Roger Friedman, great stuff. Check out his website.

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Speaker 2: And then there's new stories every day Showbiz four week.

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Speaker 1: a story about the Golden Globes, which are this Sunday,

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