April Fools Day Pranks (transcript)
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Okay, welcome to the shit show. I am your host Brandon.
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And like I said, we got a lot to talk about today on this Saturday.
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We’re a little earlier than normal this week, folks.
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I know some of you that are driving in are like, “Hmm, it’s a little earlier than normal.”
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And you’re absolutely right. It is.
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We got an event coming up tonight, so I figured I’d start early.
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If you are listening to this at the normal 7 o’clock time, you are listening to the replay.
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And also, we are replayed Sunday morning and of course, the Thursday afternoon.
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Also, two folks, we have upgraded one of the mics in the studio.
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We are trying a new mic. It’s called the Shure mic.
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It’s the Shure 55.
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Those of you might recognize it. I guess it was Elvis’ favorite mic.
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They’ve been making this mic for years and they’ve never had to change it because it was just perfect the first time out of the box.
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Isn’t that great when technology works right out of the box?
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I always, as somebody who works in the technology industry, I am always astounded when things work the first time.
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It just astounds me.
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When you find your life fixing technical issues, you just kind of get used to it.
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Also, two today, I want to bring up, saw it on the internet this morning,
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the anniversary of the lead singer of Alison Chains.
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Kind of crazy if you think about it, him, Chris Cornell, all those guys really upsetting all those guys left the music industry too early with issues, addiction and all that kind of stuff.
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It’s sad to see Lane Stanley, Alison Chains, Chris Cornell,
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you obviously Kurt Cobain, all that kind of stuff, all those guys left us way too soon.
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Apparently, Lane Stanley passed away April 5th, which is when we’re recording this.
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Of course, a couple days ago was when Brandon Lee, the original crow, he passed away April 1st.
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It’s pretty crazy. A lot of people pass away in April.
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There has always been speculation that the winter months, people springtime and all that get seasonal depression.
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It’s a real thing. There’s research to warrant it.
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Yes, like I said, it’s a shame all these guys are so unbelievably great.
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Kicking it off now with Alison Chains, them bones followed by a little sound, I’m sorry, followed up by a shine down here on Helix, a rock radio.
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Alright, little Blackstone and Cherry.
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I really like those guys. I saw them with Shine Down a bunch of years over at the, I believe, oh no, I didn’t ever see them.
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I saw them once at the Scranton Cultural Center, but then I saw them another time over at Penn’s Peak, right when their first album came out.
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Blind Man at that time was their really, really big hit.
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I really like them. Shine Down, that other song I played, that is a new one. It’s a cover.
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And they’ve got the live version recorded, but they haven’t done like an in studio version yet.
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But obviously those guys can get in and do it. I like to see them maybe do a couple covers on their next album.
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The Simple Man was such an amazing cover by them back in the day. Put them on the map.
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Shine Down, one of my favorite bands, definitely just love so much of their music.
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Their sound of madness album. I can listen to the whole thing from beginning to end. It’s so unbelievable.
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Kigurl of Naut Korn coming undone.
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Alright, Remake of Dust in the Wind by Corey Taylor and Bad Omens.
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That was for the Queen of the Ring movie, which I’m not sure how that’s going.
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I saw some hype about it on TNA the other night, but I’m not 100% sure how it’s going.
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Speaking of wrestling, I still think going into mania that cards a little soft, I think.
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We have obviously the undisputed WWE match between Cody Rose Cena, triple threat match, Rain, CM Punk, Seth Rollins.
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Has potential, I think. That might be a match to the night, maybe.
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World Heavyweight Championship match Gunther and Jay, Women’s Championship Sky and Bel Air.
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And then Stratton vs. Charlotte.
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Not so far, really, I don’t think that good of a card so far. It’s good, but I don’t think it’s great.
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AJ vs. Logan Paul, that’s got potential.
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And Randy Orton vs. Kevin Owens has a lot of potential.
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And I mean, I like Cody Rose, so the Cena match is good, but I just…
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I definitely think going into mania card is just a little bit on the soft side.
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Now, and also too, we have two nights.
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I’m sure they will, you know, as we go along here, we’ll get more matches and stuff like that, but I just…
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It’s not… I wouldn’t say it’s the best card WWE has done.
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I would have… I mean, definitely last year with Cody and all that, and the year before was, I think, a little bit better card.
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I’ll still watch it because I have peacock, but it’s not what it was last year or the year before.
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I do think things are a little soft at the moment, but we’ll see.
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It’s still mania, it’s still huge, it’s still Vegas, so I think it’ll be good, but it’s…
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Like I said, I don’t… I really think they could possibly beat the card up.
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How? I don’t know, but we’ll see. We still got a couple more weeks.
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Really surprised they’re doing mania on Easter week.
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That one really is weekend. That really surprised me.
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I’m wondering if… I mean, WrestleMania always sells on anyway, but I’m wondering, since it’s a holiday weekend,
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if it’s going to be better or worse for WWE. We’ll see. I’m curious.
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Also, too, by the way, let’s not forget about TNA.
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They have a pay-per-view coming up as well.
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I’m looking forward to it, Return of Ultimate X with Moosa.
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I’m really looking forward to it.
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I really like TNA. I said last week there’s a buzz about them right now.
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I’m very much enjoying it.
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So… Oh, that was nice. Somebody just sent me an email saying, “You sound much better.”
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Yeah, I had to adjust this mic. This is a new mic. I ran it through its paces the other night,
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but again, I had to tune it.
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So, like I said, forgive the first part if you were having some hard time.
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I had to tweak the settings while the music was playing.
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Like I said, also, the other thing I wanted to bring up…
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This is going to be the first WrestleMania on Netflix.
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So, I’m very interested to see what’s going to happen there.
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So, Netflix has had their issues in the past with shows and glitching and stuff like that.
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So, I’m very curious to see what they’re going to do here and if Netflix is going to survive the load.
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I hope they do for everybody involved.
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If it glitches out and stuff like that, you can almost guarantee WWE is going to be really bent out of shape about that.
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But we’ll have to see.
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Again, I think that Paul Tyson fight with the glitch…
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I don’t think Netflix has had a lot.
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I don’t think a raw is as many people watching as that fight was.
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I mean, that literally was must-see TV that Jake Paul and Tyson fight.
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So, we’ll have to wait and see.
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WrestleMania will be the ultimate test of the live streaming capabilities of Netflix.
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Kick it off now with Enter the Sandman by Metallica.
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Such a classic. I love so much AC/DC stuff.
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I hope if they ever bring Iron Man back, they’re going to do it with a…
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And use another AC/DC song.
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That was so cool.
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Every Iron Man, they would keep bringing more AC/DC songs. That was great.
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So, this past week, April Fool’s Day.
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Some interesting news.
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April 1st, Apple, the company, turned 49 years old.
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And then, a couple days later, Microsoft had its 50th anniversary.
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So, Microsoft doing a bunch of different stuff, a bunch of events, stuff like that kind of fun little thing.
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Sales on software and stuff. Another thing too crazy.
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And then, of course, like I said, I’m waiting to see what Apple’s going to do next year.
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You know them being a consumer products company.
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They’re going to do some kind of big sale or something.
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But I thought that was pretty cool, man.
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Their anniversaries are both within the same week and Microsoft 50, Apple 49.
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I thought Apple was older than Microsoft, but apparently Microsoft’s like a year older.
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So, I thought that was pretty cool considering the two companies, how their histories are intertwined together.
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So, we are going to do now a new artist shout out.
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I try to do this every week when I can.
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We have the first band, it’s four, what we do, we play like three or four new bands in a row.
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Like they’re like kind of highlight them, shout them out.
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Echo Pilot with their single above the skies.
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Hell Rises by Ghost Riff Riders.
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Blackhand Blue has Potassium and Pulse Jetman by Paola.
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Like I said, they are four indie bands.
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This is kind of like our version of Octane’s Test Drive.
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Like I said, kicking it off with these guys.
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If you can, if you hear them and you like their music, you can find all these guys on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Loves to play some indie bands.
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It’s unbelievable how many great musicians are out there.
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And they just, you know, just need somebody to play them so they can get heard.
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Wonderful. All those guys, all those bands are wonderful.
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Every week we try to do a spotlight.
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It depends on how many indie bands reach out to us or we reach out to them or whatever.
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We try to get a couple of weeks.
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So the whole world and the internet is going crazy over this torpedo bat.
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It’s, if you’re not a sports fan, you’ve heard about it because it’s been, everybody’s been talking about it.
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Should it be banned? Shouldn’t it be banned?
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First thing, one thing I’ve learned as I’m not a huge sports fan, by the way, I would like to point that out.
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But the one thing I have learned over the years is if anybody is slow to adopt things, it’s major league baseball.
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That pitching clock, how long did that take to get it implanted?
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I’m trying to think of everything else.
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Oh, yeah, the designator hitter for the National League. How long did that take? Decades.
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Like I said, if there’s anybody to adopt something slow, it’s going to be major league baseball.
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So we will have to wait and see what happens with that silly bat.
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I mean, I don’t really think it matters. Everybody says they’re hitting better because of it.
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It could just be maybe that they’re hitting better this year.
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Like I said, major league baseball has always been one of those.
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They’re slow to adopt things. They’re slow to get rid of things between the league and the players union.
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It’s always been kind of one of those things.
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So like I said, we will wait and see.
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I remember when I was a kid and the outrage over them changing the way baseball was done when they went to the way football does it with the wild card slot and all that stuff.
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And then doing the five games, then seven and seven, all that kind of stuff.
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I remember people were like, oh, that’s not the way baseball has been done for years and they were a lot of outrage.
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Every time something in baseball changes, there’s always outrage.
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And then it’s, I don’t know, it just seems like that’s the way it is.
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Like I said, as a kid, I remember when they changed to the wild card where they do things now at the playoffs.
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You know, it’s just, like I said, professional sports and major league baseball are just, I’m not a sports guy.
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I do like baseball, but it’s just one of those things where they’ll debate about it for years, just like putting Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame.
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Poor man never got to go in the Hall of Fame.
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He passed away before they made the decision because it took so long.
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It’s baseballs I’ve noticed is a lot of politics.
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Let’s put it that way.
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Maybe not political politics, but politics, if you know what I mean, baseball politics.
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Speaking of some other things sports-wise, I’m, like I said, I’m not a big sports guy, but the UFL kicked off again this past week.
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I’m not sure how that’s doing.
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The Rock says that it’s doing okay.
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He’s one of the owners.
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You know, I really, what I’m hearing, I mean, and I didn’t know this again, if you’re a sports person, you do, but there’s no minor league in football like there is in baseball.
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So they’re saying the NFL is actually subsidizing the UFL and is using the UFL as like a minor league system.
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So, you know, the Rock has been saying, you know, it’s doing good.
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It’s doing good.
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I don’t know if it is or isn’t, but he’s still pumping money in it.
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So we will have to see what happens with that.
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The rules are a little bit different, but I do know people that are watching it.
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My friend and I were into the XFL when it first came back.
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And then of course the pandemic.
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But like I said, it’s a weird thing, but it must be doing okay.
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I got another TV deal.
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So the reason why I bring that up is the Rock actually was supposed to be there opening weekend for the UFL.
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And he posted a thing on his Instagram.
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I guess he, they had to turn around and go back because something happened with his hydraulics on his airplane.
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They had to kind of say, he said the pilot came up to him and said, listen, I’m sorry, we have to turn around.
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We can’t, you know, hydraulics are giving us an issue.
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It’s not safe.
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We got to go back.
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So he wasn’t there, but he posted a nice post on Instagram and stuff like that.
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Those kind of things happen in the air.
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You know, it doesn’t matter.
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It’s just like a car.
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Sometimes your car just breaks down.
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It just happens.
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But lucky enough, Rock is safe.
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You know, he’s a national treasure to those of us that are wrestling fans.
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So like I said, it was interesting to see him.
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I felt bad for him, but he missed the opening day of his own league, but at least he was safe.
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So I’m looking forward to seeing more what’s going to happen as WrestleMania leads up and what he’s going to, what role he’s going to play.
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You know, he’s going to do something.
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We’ll have to, you know, wait and see.
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I, like I said, I do like the Rock.
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I do like some of his movies, but I don’t know.
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I think, see, the problem is, is he, I don’t know how to explain him.
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He’s, he’s a great wrestler, but the problem is when you don’t do it every single night, you could just tell, and I hate to say it, but when he wrestled last year, he looked great.
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He did a great job.
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But you can tell he’s getting older and that is, you know, you know, 50, you know, it’s going to hit all of us eventually.
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So, uh, Belaya said, I hope I would like to see them use him.
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Uh, but maybe, I don’t know, maybe he doesn’t need to be in a match.
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Maybe I don’t know the figure.
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W we have figured out, but like I said, I’m very curious as to what his role is going to be at WrestleMania.
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And if he’s even actually going to be there now, there’s talks he might not be there because he might have some thing to do with a movie.
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We’ll have to wait and see.
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Uh, kicking it off now with, uh, Black Butterfly by Scott staff, followed by skillet and hail storm.
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All right, hail storm.
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I saw those guys opening for shine down way back in the day when before they actually their first album was actually an advanced copy.
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Um, that’s how long ago I saw those guys.
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That was pretty cool.
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Uh, so some celebrity news to talk about, not a ton of things to talk about, but some, uh, first of all, uh, Val Kilmer, man.
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Uh, it’s a shame he passed away 65 years old, too young, uh, from obviously cancer.
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He had been fighting throat cancer.
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Uh, they said since like the early 2000s.
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So, uh, we, I remember him in the saint.
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That was a great nineties movie with him in it.
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Uh, I wish that would have had a sequel, but it never did.
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Of course, Batman, Top Gun.
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Those were some of his bigger hits.
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Uh, he had a little, he was in a bunch of stuff.
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Uh, like I said, he, he was definitely, uh, you know, one of those guys like in the, the late 80s and early nineties, um, you know, really had a string of hits.
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So, uh, pretty cool.
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Uh, you just, and then he came back for Top Gun Maverick.
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Uh, and they used AI for all that first voice and stuff, but it was pretty cool.
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Uh, like I said, it’s a shame to see him pass away.
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Such a great actor, uh, played so many great roles, but, um, like I said, it was a fortunate even fighting cancer for quite some time.
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Uh, Jennifer Lawrence, uh, had her second baby that was in the news.
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Uh, so she’s a mom of two now.
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Uh, let’s see what else is in the news.
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Uh, so Shannon Larkin and Tony Rambolo, uh, turned 60.
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And they both are about to turn 60 and said they’re done touring with God smack.
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That was, uh, in the news this week.
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Uh, somebody had pointed out to me as well.
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Uh, obviously April 1st passed famous radio duo, Opie and Anthony.
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If you remember, did the whole Meraminino bit, uh, got them fired off of, I think it was W.
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WAAF or something like that or W.
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And one of those, um, they had, uh, pulled a prank and said the mayor was dead and it got them in, well fired and, you know, you know, they were told they had to leave Boston.
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So they went to New York.
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Uh, that was back in the old shock jock days.
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Um, let’s not forget as well.
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Some of the old pranks on, uh, April 1st radio pranks call in will give you a hundred grand and it’s a hundred grand candy bar.
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Uh, and of course one that I thought was pretty funny this year, uh, over at morning mashup, which is another radio show, not on our station, but on our station.
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Uh, they actually, um, to trick, uh, Nicole on the morning mashup.
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They actually switched studios with another show.
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So when she came back from the ladies room, uh, it was a completely different show and she sat down and she’s like, what’s going on?
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And they kind of went with it.
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It was pretty funny.
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So I thought that was, uh, there were, there’s always been good, uh, radio pranks.
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Uh, a couple of years ago, serious XM announced Mime Radio on April 1st.
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You know, it’s always been kind of a fun day for pranks, uh, in the, you know, the radio business.
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Uh, speaking of the radio business, uh, we all know Ryan Seacrest is over on Wheel of Fortune.
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He does his radio show in the morning and then he does that, uh, at nine.
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Uh, apparently next week is going to be I Heart Radio week for Wheel of Fortune.
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Uh, so it’ll be kind of cool.
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It’s nice to see radio, uh, I Heart Radio, which is a big one, uh, you know, kind of getting the main stage a little bit, kind of proving that it’s still around.
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Uh, obviously I Heart, uh, you know, serious XM and I think, uh, uh, Cumulus, Cumulus or Global is one of the other big ones.
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So, uh, there’s, I mean, there’s, there’s still over a thousand radio stations out there, but, uh, I Heart owns a child, big chunk, uh, Cumulus owns a huge chunk.
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Uh, so it’s nice to see that radio still gets a shout out.
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Uh, Seacrest has a huge show over on Kiss FM.
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Uh, there’s a lot of big job, big, uh, WABC out of New York is having a resurgence now.
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So, uh, I think radio is starting to make comeback.
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Serious actually launched a, uh, recently, if you have a newer vehicle, you can get Serious XM for free with ads.
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So they’re kind of doing the Spotify model.
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Uh, so that’s been interesting.
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Radio seeing a major resurgence.
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Uh, and, and those of you that are listening, uh, it’s helping us out tremendously because people are getting the attention.
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And we need to tune into Helix Rock Radio.
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We really appreciate it.
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So, uh, thank you all that listen every day.
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Uh, let’s see what else do we have in the news?
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Oh, switch to, uh, pre, well, it got announced this week.
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A lot of, it was all over YouTube, all the people were there.
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Uh, you know, the influencers and all that.
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And then switch to now announcing that it’s going to be delayed due to pre-order.
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All the pre-orders are going to be delayed because of the tariffs.
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Uh, so it was like, wow, okay.
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Um, by the way, very pricey.
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I think 450 is too expensive for the switch too.
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I think what made the switch such a huge success for Nintendo was you can get your kid a switch for like 200 bucks.
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Um, I think they’re, they’re going, getting too expensive.
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I mean, you could basically buy an Xbox or a PlayStation for almost 500.
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Uh, you know, so, uh, I think they’re kind of pricing themselves out of business a little bit.
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Uh, but let’s hope not.
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Uh, let’s see what else was in the news this week that I have sitting here on my desk.
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Uh, oh, Amazon announced that they’re going to be selling a new game.
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Uh, oh, Amazon announced that they are going to make a bid for TikTok.
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No word yet on anything else, but it was definitely trending this week.
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Uh, apparently Amazon may buy TikTok and they may, you know, they own, uh, AWS.
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So that would be a very easy thing for them to probably do.
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Uh, but that was in the news.
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I, I don’t know if about this and I say that because they have all those Alexa devices.
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So that could actually be a very good move for them.
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However, uh, those of us that follow the tech news pretty closely know that, uh, Amazon had a huge purchase of Twitch.
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I’m sorry. Yeah. Twitch and has actually said it’s never made a profit.
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It’s actually a big loss loser for Amazon.
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There’s actually even talks of them selling it.
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So, uh, that hasn’t happened yet, but they’ve talked about it a few times.
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We’ll have to wait and see what happens.
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I think this will work out better for Amazon.
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But again, when Twitch got bought by Amazon, Twitch was profitable.
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So, you know, kind of have to wait and see what happens.
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Um, I do want to say, uh, we got an email if you want us to request a song, Brandon@rockradio.live.
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Uh, she went up on the website wanted to hear Mark Tramani.
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So, uh, coming up here tomorrow, we will fail by Mark Tramanti, followed by Queen of My Salvation by Savaged.
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All right. That was City by Cherry.
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I like their music. They’re a little on the heavy side.
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Uh, my wife turned me on to them. They’re really good. I like them.
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So, some more, uh, kind of entertainment news, I guess.
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Uh, the Connors, the Roseanne spin-off.
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Final four episodes, uh, they are having a six episode finale. There’s been two already. They got four left.
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Uh, and that’s going to be it for the Connors.
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Um, I’m going to go, you know, take, going off the air.
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Uh, six seasons, pretty decent for a sitcom, especially one that got brought back.
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Uh, so I thought that was pretty cool.
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Uh, Shifting Gears, uh, Governor Knude for season two. That’s the new one with Tim Allen and Kate Denninger.
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Uh, that is, I’m pretty happy about that. I like it.
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Uh, let’s see.
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Lioness over on Paramount is apparently getting picked up in Australia and Canada on Netflix.
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Apparently Paramount doesn’t really operate in, in those areas. So they’re adding, uh, a show, you know, their show over on Netflix.
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I guess they’re licensing in those two states or those two countries.
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It’s so weird with the licensing and stuff and you can’t, some services are in this country. Some aren’t.
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It’s very, very strange.
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Uh, we’ll look at the way WWE does it. Peacock’s America writes, but Netflix is everywhere else. It’s so weird.
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Uh, let’s see. Daredevil, uh, but watching that on Disney plus, definitely digging that.
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I like where they’re going with this.
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Kind of like a mini, I don’t want to say a reboot, but, um, kind of moving kind of, I don’t want, kind of like a reset.
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Kind of like what they’re doing with Spider-Man now. That’s going to be like a reset, uh, doing the same thing with Daredevil.
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It’s been, uh, rather good. I appreciate, I really enjoy it. It’s something my wife and I watch together. It’s very good.
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Uh, also to kind of, uh, so a lot of this online, uh, apparently the studio’s down in New York where they tape, uh, all this kind of stuff.
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Uh, you know, Kelly and Ryan, I’m sorry, Kelly Ryan, Kelly and the Mark now, uh, where they tape Channel seven news for decades.
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Uh, apparently seven, I think it’s seven, yes, seven Lincoln Square, which has been, uh, a staple for ABC for years.
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Apparently everybody’s got to get out of that building and they are moving everybody down to, uh, more state of the art studio.
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Uh, they haven’t said if they’re selling the building or if they’re remodeling or what, but, uh, Kelly and Mark had to get out of there.
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Uh, they have as well, you have, like I said, the Channel seven news, which has been in there for, I mean, since I was a kid, uh, even before that probably, uh, they got to get out of there.
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Uh, Kelly and Ryan shows been in there for 37 years.
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Well, it wasn’t always Kelly and Mark. It was Kelly and Ryan, Kelly and Michael, then it was Regis and Kelly, then it was Regis and Kathy Lee.
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Uh, and it before, I didn’t know this, but apparently before it was of Regis and Kathy Lee, it was Regis and somebody else.
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I didn’t know that. Uh, but like I said, Channel seven news, uh, a lot of people had, uh, you know, like the news anchors and the, the weather people and all that.
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We’re all like, Oh my gosh, we’re moving out of this building and all that. Uh, you know, they were really upset. Uh, I think good morning America has to get out of there too.
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I think, uh, years ago that building used to be used for soap operas and stuff like that. Um, you know, that’s all changed now.
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And I wonder, I think I don’t know. There’s one or two other shots. I want to say the view is what is or was taped there.
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Um, as well. So they got to get out. So, um, I really hope they remodel it.
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Uh, hope they don’t, I mean, obviously whoever owns it can do what they want. But, um, big piece of history there is television history.
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Um, you know, it’s kind of kind of upsetting. But again, look at what they did after all these years with prices right after 50 years, they moved into a new studio because the old one was, you know, falling apart.
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Uh, it’s a shame, but it does happen. You have to remodel and keep things up. And, uh, sometimes that’s hard to do when you get shows to do, uh, every single week.
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Um, also something else entertainment news wise, uh, Kelly Clarkson show, which, uh, well, it took the time slot of Allen.
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Uh, apparently it’s up for three Webby awards. Uh, I thought that’s pretty cool. Um, I guess she’s going to be doing, I guess she’s doing all right in that time slot.
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Uh, she just celebrated her thousandth episode. So good for her and, uh, good for everybody that works on that show.
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I thought Ellen show would be much harder to replace, but I think she just had her time. You know, she peaked and then the show was doing okay.
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But, uh, you know, obviously they had all that hostile work environment stuff like that. But I’m talking about her herself. Um, as an entertainer, I mean, she had 20 years at talk show almost that was quite long for a talk show.
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Kicking it off saving able stupid girl saving able. I love their storytelling, the way they tell a story with the music.
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Uh, well, one of my favorite bands. I am going to be heading out ladies and gentlemen, but I appreciate you listening and we will see you next week on the Saturday shit show.
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