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Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing?

Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well. Thank you. Mark, I have a proposition that I think would be best suited for Allen's Wye Bell in your next interview.

And it has to do with writing scripts for television.

Now, the major networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc., they restrict time in scripts because they have to allow for commercials.

Yeah.

Cases of channels such as HBO, You know, they run shows like the...

What's the proposal?

Well, they vary in length and they can include profanity and nudity.

So essentially, for writers, is it easier to write?

Oh, that's a good question.

Yeah, we'll ask them that next time.

You know, in the old days of the 50s, I Love Lucy, the Honeymooners, when you wrote the script for the

sitcom, it was about, I think it was 24 minutes, because you had to leave six minutes for commercials

during the half hour. Do you know that by the Seinfeld days, it was down to like 16 minutes because they kept

adding and adding commercials. So a sitcom script was really only about 16, 17 minutes. Now it's

kind of different because television is dying. There's very few viewers left on television

prime time, even primetime. So it's less commercials. So the scripts are probably getting longer now. Let's go to Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing? Thanks, thanks to Mark. Yeah, that's a good point. He just brought up to a fellow from Chicago. I mean, just think about how they wrote four complete stories and four characters in 15 or 16 minutes. It really was unbelievable.

You know, I got a lot of joy yesterday watching Martha Radich, that old hag,

have to actually give Donald Trump some credit. And it's going to, by the time he's done,

he's going to deserve that last space of Mount Rushmore, never mind the Nobel Peace Prize,

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