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Roger Friedman, how you doing?

Good morning.

How are you?

Good.

Hey, I'm looking at your site right now.

Grammy Awards ratings are down this year. Why would that be?

I don't know. It's a little funny, but you know, it was only down a short, a small, it was down 9%, so it's not a lot.

It's still a higher, the finishing number this year was still higher than it's been the last five years.

And it could be that the show ran four hours, which was just completely out of control.

And, you know, at 11 o'clock, the numbers drop off.

So I think it's just the length, which was untenable.

But it was a good show. It was highly praised. I thought it was terrific. length, which was untenable. But it was a good show.

It was highly praised.

I thought it was terrific.

I was sitting in the room, and there really were no boring spots in it.

Everybody was pretty excited to see the winners and to see Beyonce win best album was terrific.

So it was worth getting to the end. But you're right're right. I love the Grammys, but I got to be honest, there were a couple of times I just put on Goodfellas or everybody loves Raymond for a half hour and went back to it. Why can't they, why can't you just do it in two hours? I don't know why they couldn't get it under control. I didn't know why I couldn't get it under control this time.

But part of it had to do with the fundraising because they were doing this massive fundraising.

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