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Speaker 1: an answer to the dulling normalcy of most things of life.

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Speaker 1: You know, the mindless repetition that can sometimes be our

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Speaker 1: day to day gets blown out of the water. On

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Speaker 1: open lines, you never know what's going to happen. Robert

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Speaker 1: is in Houston on a wildcard line on Coast to

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Speaker 1: Coast AM. Robert, Hey, I made the big time at last.

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Speaker 1: You had so now what? Well, I was wondering if

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Speaker 1: you saw the short called Night at the Garden and

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Speaker 1: if you're familiar with it, tell me about Night at

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Speaker 1: the Garden. Well, I was flipping through TV one night

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Speaker 1: late and it was a series of shorts, not just

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Speaker 1: that one, that were on and I saw it and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I had heard of these things. But

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Speaker 1: when you see it or you it's different. When is

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Speaker 1: this the Nazi rally thing? Yes, sir, I read about this,

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Speaker 1: so this is about the right the famous the footage

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Speaker 1: they found recently or rediscovered from the nineteen thirty nine

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Speaker 1: rally at Madison Square Garden. Yeah, I read about it.

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Speaker 1: Didn't burn it because it's pretty sick and uh, it's

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Speaker 1: hard to believe that it's in American soil, shot on

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Speaker 1: American soil. There's a part in there where a protesters.

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Speaker 1: Uh there's a protesters beaten up. Yeah, yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: the I saw. I'm so funny you mentioned it because

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Speaker 1: I didn't really I was reading it, but I was

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Speaker 1: sort of distracted by something else. So, um, this is

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's nominated for an oscar, right, I hope

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Speaker 1: it wins. Yeah, I think, well, it's the trip seeing it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've always heard these things, but when you

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Speaker 1: see it, it's different. U. Um. The reason I called

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Speaker 1: was I got a story on my phone that you

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Speaker 1: know how you get little stories, click on it to

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Speaker 1: yes or no. But it was about how I forget

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Speaker 1: when network they banned they're not going to show the

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Speaker 1: commercial for it, they pulled it or whoever. I don't

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Speaker 1: know who it was. I don't remember, somebody knows, But

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Speaker 1: did you know that? So I looked this up as

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Speaker 1: you were talking. So this story appeared on Indie Wire

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Speaker 1: about the short A Night at the Garden, and it

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Speaker 1: says here that since we published the following story, we

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Speaker 1: received this statement from a spokesperson for Fox News. The commercial,

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Speaker 1: the commercial in question was a local ad buy, so

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a national Fox News ad by it would

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Speaker 1: be a local affiliate, which was done through the regional

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Speaker 1: cable system, not through the network at the national level.

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Speaker 1: We have no control over what airs locally, so that

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Speaker 1: the story was then that that it was a local buy,

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Speaker 1: not a national one. And what was happened is what

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Speaker 1: the commercial guy spiked. Is that what it was, and

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Speaker 1: people were prevented the commercial from airing, which promoted the movie.

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Speaker 1: Is that the story? No, well I don't know details

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Speaker 1: of the story. Which made a big thing. Was the

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Speaker 1: CEO or whoever a Fox said? Well, he just for

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Speaker 1: no reason. He didn't give a reason. He just said,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to show it, or we're not going

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Speaker 1: to show the commercial, okay like that. So it wasn't

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Speaker 1: national Fox. It was the local some local guy who

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Speaker 1: said that. Yeah, yeah, so that was it? Well fair enough,

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Speaker 1: well it really I'm so glad you brought this up

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Speaker 1: because I sort of stuck in my mind to go

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Speaker 1: back and figure that out, because I remember, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't alive for it, but I've seen and heard

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Speaker 1: about this famous night and at the time to see

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Speaker 1: this weird. Yeah, I want to think here in the

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Speaker 1: Twilight Zone. You they show a marquee and stuff and

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Speaker 1: it sys right there like Nazi rally tonight, right, and

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Speaker 1: then inside if I remember I only saw it, well

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Speaker 1: I saw it twice. But um, if I remember right,

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Speaker 1: they have huge posters. Man, I hope I'm not wrong.

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Speaker 1: They have huge posters of George Washington. Yeah. I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say, no, it's exactly George Washington. It's behind the podium.

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Speaker 1: I've seen that. You've seen that picture, and so they

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Speaker 1: tied in George Washington to basically making him out to

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Speaker 1: be like a proto Nazi and it is so typical

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Speaker 1: of I think of how people twist the American message

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Speaker 1: like that in the Great American Experiment. You know, well,

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Speaker 1: I've never been this, well I've never been in New York,

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Speaker 1: much less the garden. But it's packed. Yeah, this was

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Speaker 1: the original garden. So there's been several Madison Square gardens. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know this. It was either this was the

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Speaker 1: either the first one or the second one. Back at

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Speaker 1: the time when it was actually not even what was it.

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Speaker 1: It was called originally Madison Square Garden Bowl. That's what

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Speaker 1: it was called. Originally, they dropped bowl and it just

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Speaker 1: became Madison Square Garden. But um, yeah, okay, I'm so glad,

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Speaker 1: so let's root for that for for the oscars coming up.

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Speaker 1: And and and it's an amazing story. I'm glad you raise

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Speaker 1: with a lot of different shorts and I watched them

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Speaker 1: all and that one I'm like, wow, that was kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, weird, But I'm glad somebody it's American history,

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Speaker 1: like it or not, that's exactly well, we need to

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Speaker 1: always learn from it. This country helped some of the Nazis. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they gave him a free pass to come help us

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Speaker 1: out right. They don't teach you, they don't teach you

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Speaker 1: that in high school. Well, you know, it's funny. And

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Speaker 1: and thank you, Robert. I appreciate everything you're saying. Um,

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Speaker 1: I would say when they say, you know, they don't

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Speaker 1: teach that, I think that it's there. It's not hidden information.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just not emphasized. So, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: remember reading about as a kid Nazi scientists coming to

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Speaker 1: the United States and helping with the rocket program, but

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Speaker 1: they were always sort of softened. So the story the

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Speaker 1: history on. It was was back soft pedaled in a

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Speaker 1: way to be that they were somehow not mean Nazis,

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Speaker 1: and they were Nazis only by name, they weren't real

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Speaker 1: Nazis and all these other things which we know now

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Speaker 1: to be totally false. They were completely aware of the

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Speaker 1: slave labor that was going into the building of the

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Speaker 1: Nazi nuclear program, for example, or some of the other

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Speaker 1: you know, the rocketry they were doing the experiments with

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Speaker 1: the V two and the other things, and they knew

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Speaker 1: very darned well that it was that these were all

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Speaker 1: Jewish slave laborers who would die on the job every day.

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Speaker 1: They weren't oblivious to it, but that was part of

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Speaker 1: how it was sold to the American people at the time,

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Speaker 1: so that part was hidden from us, but they were

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Speaker 1: teaching it. They just kind of put, you know, Werner

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Speaker 1: von Brown and other people in kind of a different

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Speaker 1: light than I think he if we're going to look

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Speaker 1: at the harsh light of history, we should be we

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Speaker 1: should be considering to Robert's point though, two, I just

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Speaker 1: want to say, and I'll look forward to seeing this

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Speaker 1: um this short again night at the Garden, is that

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Speaker 1: there was that actually presents sort of a time when

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Speaker 1: journalism was flummixed over covering that because the pressure was

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Speaker 1: on to say, hey, where American as you you know,

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Speaker 1: we're not any different, we just have different views. You

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Speaker 1: have to cover our views. And it wasn't at the

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Speaker 1: time in nineteen thirty nine, they really tried to be

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Speaker 1: sort of objective about the way they were covering the

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Speaker 1: growth of the American Nazi movement, and an in effect,

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Speaker 1: you know, played right into the Nazi movement's hands by

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Speaker 1: making them seem no different than a democrat or a

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Speaker 1: republican or an independent. And it wasn't until the horrors

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Speaker 1: really of World War Two that a lot of those

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Speaker 1: people ended up getting a come upance for that period

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Speaker 1: and journalist began to treat the Nazi conversation very differently.

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