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The Mark Simone Show

Hour 2

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Mark and Joe

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0:00.0

Oh, that's it. That's me. Yeah, we've got no musical intro today, Mark. We've got some major computer issues, as the listeners have no doubt heard.

0:10.0

Yes, let me explain. We're having terrible technical problems. We can't play commercials. Can't do breaks. Have to talk the whole time. So I'm signing off and Joe Bartle will be taking over.

0:17.0

Yeah, yeah. Don't you dare. So, listen, were you listening when I was talking to Ron this year? All of a sudden, she went. Yeah. But what was, I kept talking and nobody was talking back to me. So I thought I was the one off the air. Yeah. And I thought it was all my phone. I'm actually not in the station today. I'm at a secret location. But I thought I was the one that screwed up and got disconnected. But I was fine, right? Everything else got disconnected. No, it's the building that has the problem this morning. See, in a million years in radio, we've all seen every possible technical, everything go wrong. The phones don't work or the connection to me. Something doesn't work. but we've all seen every possible technical everything go wrong. The phones don't work or the connection to me.

0:56.5

Something doesn't work.

0:57.4

But we've never seen this before.

1:00.5

Everything that's played, computers or music or, I mean, commercials or music,

1:05.9

everything that's played is on a massive computer system.

1:09.6

So that has gone out.

1:11.7

The computer system has gone out.

1:13.7

So we can't play any commercials.

1:16.5

Now, here's how this works.

1:17.7

In a normal situation, if the line to Joe Bartlett went out,

1:21.2

all the management says,

1:23.4

somebody fixed that.

1:26.2

So if we can't take any calls, they say uh yeah see if you can fix the phones

1:32.2

when the thing goes out where you can't play any commercials they are in hyper panic this is

1:37.4

defcon one for them we cannot play any commercials so we're, but this is costing millions of dollars.

1:46.6

Can't play any commercials.

1:47.6

You've got to make up all these commercials.

1:50.1

And that's the thing when the...

1:51.4

So what do you think happened?

1:52.4

You think we were hacked here or something?

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