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Speaker 1: The Fred Show is on Friend's Fun.

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Speaker 2: Fact Fred's Fun.

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Speaker 1: Learn so much, guys, did you know there's a song

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Speaker 1: by Randy Newman that was almost banned. It was almost banned,

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Speaker 1: It wasn't actually in the state of Maryland. It's called

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Speaker 1: short People. This is from I Believe nineteen seventy seven.

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Speaker 1: Let me play you this song for a second. You

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Speaker 1: got to understand the actual meaning here. But here it is.

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Speaker 1: This is a Randy Newman song called short Peoples, Got

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Speaker 1: No Reason to live? The disrespect Brandy is the song.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the short King's out there now. It's important

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Speaker 1: to realize that the song is mad to be a

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Speaker 1: satirical take on short sighted people and intolerance and prejudice.

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Speaker 1: But the State of Maryland didn't take conling to the tune.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy eight, a delegate tried to introduce legislation

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Speaker 1: to make it illegal to play the song on the radio,

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Speaker 1: proposing a five hundred dollars fine. However, his effort was unsuccessful.

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Speaker 1: The Assistant Attorney General deemed that the move would be

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Speaker 1: a violation of the First Amendment. So he's not talking

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Speaker 1: about actual short people. He's talking about short sighted people

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Speaker 1: who were you know, not open minded to different kinds

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Speaker 1: of things. So there, that's not what he say it right.

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Speaker 1: Oh you say you're taking him literally. Yes, he said

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Speaker 1: short people. Why didn't hear nothing about a side? Well,

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Speaker 1: we didn't hear the whole song. Oh well you look

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Speaker 1: at you go band the song anyway, I hope I

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Speaker 1: do not have to pay five hundred bucks now more

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Speaker 1: preadshew next