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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. These

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Speaker 1: eight are quizzlings, tradeorse, cowards, capitulators, collaborators, fakes, frauds, enablers, betrayers, failures,

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Speaker 1: political prostitutes. Last night, eight senators, nominal Democrats, voted to fold,

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Speaker 1: without any pressure, without any bribe, without any anything. They

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Speaker 1: voted to kick millions of Americans off Obamacare in order

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Speaker 1: to reopen and fund the government to reopen it for

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Speaker 1: only three months. Mind you, So we have to go

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Speaker 1: through this again in exchange, not for magic beans this time,

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Speaker 1: but just for the promise of a vote in which

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Speaker 1: they might get magic beans, A vote on the healthcare subsidies,

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Speaker 1: which they will win if half a dozen Republicans defy Trump,

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Speaker 1: a vote on magic beans, which they will lose. Eight

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Speaker 1: of them, six Democrats, the independent Angus King of Maine,

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Speaker 1: who caucused with Democrats until last night, apparently, and John Fetterman.

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Speaker 1: You cannot recall a senator in Pennsylvania and anyway, that

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Speaker 1: would not be enough for Fetterman. He should be institutionalized,

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Speaker 1: or worse, he should be sold on waivers to Maga.

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Speaker 1: His mind is that unsound, f you Fetterman. The other

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Speaker 1: traders whose careers in the Senate, in the Democratic Party,

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Speaker 1: in public life must now end are Senator Dick Durbin

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Speaker 1: of Illinois. Senator Limp Dick Durbin never someone to sit

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Speaker 1: around and fight when an opera tunity would arise to

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Speaker 1: give in. Senator Maggie Hassen of New Hampshire, who, in

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Speaker 1: betraying America, had the nerve to say she was doing

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Speaker 1: so to quote, make sure the government is functioning and

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Speaker 1: continue the fight to a realistic platform to get the

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Speaker 1: premium tax cuts done. If that is not successful, then

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Speaker 1: shame on the Republican Party and shame on Donald Trump. No,

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Speaker 1: shame on you, miss Hassen, you useless clown. Republicans do

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Speaker 1: not feel shame. Trump has no human emotions, You have

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Speaker 1: no intelligence. You have been played by shameless people who

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Speaker 1: you think will feel shame. Get the f out. Senator

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Speaker 1: Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire, who for most of us,

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Speaker 1: and Maggie Hassen are not the same person. They might

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Speaker 1: as well be. What do you say to your colleagues

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Speaker 1: who say this isn't a fight, this is a capitulation.

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Speaker 1: She was asked last night. She answers, we have a

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Speaker 1: guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date, which you imbecile, you

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Speaker 1: are certain to lose. You traded a stalemate where the

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Speaker 1: other side was beginning to crack for a total defeat.

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Speaker 1: Get the f out of our party, Senator Catherine Cortes Mastow,

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Speaker 1: it's our responsibility to work not only here amongst ourselves,

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Speaker 1: but across the aisle, to solve these problems for the Americans,

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Speaker 1: make their lives a little bit easier. I gather, Senator

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Speaker 1: Cortez Mastow, You've never actually been to the Senate or

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Speaker 1: to Washington, where there is no isle. There's just a

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Speaker 1: moat full of swamp creatures that Trump owns, and there

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Speaker 1: is no problem solving to be done with the other side.

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Speaker 1: The other side is just a series of whores for Trump,

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Speaker 1: whores for Trump with which you are now attached. Senator

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Speaker 1: Jackie Rosen of Nevada quote, Senate Republicans need to work

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Speaker 2: Un quote.

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Speaker 1: I hate to break this to you, Senator Jackie, but

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Speaker 1: they won't. You have deluded yourself, You have sold your

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Speaker 1: constituents out your only honorable course is to resign your

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Speaker 1: office today. And lastly, there is Senator Tim Kine of Virginia,

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Speaker 1: who has been essentially a zombie since he went through

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Speaker 1: an entire presidential campaign without ever really noticing once that

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Speaker 1: Counting Fetterman, there are seven nominal Democrats there, and they

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Speaker 1: must be primaried and defeated must be The seven and

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Speaker 1: Angus King are dead to us. They are not progressives,

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Speaker 1: they are not pragmatists. They are not even moderates. They

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Speaker 1: careers must be ended now. Durban, Kane, Fetterman, shen Cortes, Mascow, Hassen, Rosen,

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Speaker 1: and King now done forgotten. Let us hear their names

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Speaker 1: no more. And as to the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,

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Speaker 1: who voted against this bill the rare occasion where he

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Speaker 1: voted correctly, this bill will now sail through the House

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Speaker 1: and give Trump what he wants and gut Obama Care

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Speaker 1: and then we get to do this all over again

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Speaker 1: in February, when they're Republicans will have seen only Democratic

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Speaker 1: who could not keep even half of these bereft, disingenuous, untrustworthy,

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Speaker 1: this role must come to an end. One of the

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Speaker 1: responsibilities of Senate leadership is to make wandering members of

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Speaker 1: to do with their careers, but they must realize at

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Speaker 1: all times that, no matter how good and just you

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Speaker 1: and already leader. Which did not happen, Chuck Schumer, You

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Speaker 1: presided as your party, got a promise of a vote

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Speaker 1: on extending the Obamacare subsidies, a promise of a vote,

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Speaker 1: a promise for a vote, which you will lose. Getting

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Speaker 1: now it is also the same thing as getting a

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Speaker 1: promise from Durban, Kane, Feederman, Shaheen, Cortes, Mascow, Hassen, rosenand King,

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Speaker 1: and to hell with each of them. As if this

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Speaker 1: could be more infuriating than it already is. There is

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Speaker 1: also this fact. It is more evident now than it

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Speaker 1: has been at any point in the past, that Trump's

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Speaker 1: mind is gone. He is at his most vulnerable position.

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Speaker 1: His mental health now down to about a zero on

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Speaker 1: the Washington effing Post has noticed. It is so bad.

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Speaker 1: The Washington Post even put it on its front page.

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Speaker 1: He's hyping weight loss drugs in the Oval office and

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Speaker 1: how he and he alone can bring down their price.

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Speaker 1: And a weight loss patient there to extol weight loss

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Speaker 1: Trump's wonderfulness. Collapses, folds, drops slow motion like a deflating

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Speaker 1: loss patient fates at weight loss meeting It's like the

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Speaker 1: bit in the Jack Nicholson pictured Chinatown, where the corner

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Speaker 2: Mettle of a drought. The water commissioner drowns only an la. Trump,

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Speaker 2: whose mind is gone, gets up, looks at the guy

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Speaker 2: on the floor, looks away, stares forward, totally pissed off.

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Speaker 2: How dare he interrupt my latest attempt to rip off America?

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Speaker 2: Photos taken while they carry the poor deflated tube man

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Speaker 2: out of the Oval meeting resumes. Trump sits down. He does, not, however,

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Speaker 2: office read the Washington Post headline. A Washington Post analysis

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Speaker 2: one of Trump whose mind is gone with one eye closed,

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Speaker 2: almost see the snoring quote. The president displayed a constellation

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Speaker 2: awake during a work meeting. He closed his eyes, he

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Speaker 2: The Washington Post The Broken Fascist, Quizzling Bezos. Washington Post

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Speaker 2: even writes that after Gordon the weight loss guy exited

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Speaker 2: hour later, with Trump noticeably perkier, but still caught on

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Speaker 2: camera at moments with his eyes closed. The article is amazing.

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Speaker 2: What's also amazing is that writers Dan Diamond and Jam

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Speaker 2: Readers still work for The Washington Post. It's amazing that

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Speaker 2: they are still unindicted by Trump's corrupt, morally bankrupt Department

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Speaker 2: of Justice. Maybe that's because Trump, whose mind is gone,

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Speaker 1: Look, don't don't. Don't get me wrong, Nodding off in

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Speaker 1: a meeting is hardly conclusive, self contained proof that your

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Speaker 1: Trump's quick trip to Sleepy Town, his quick role as

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Speaker 1: Because Trump's mind is gone, and sudden sleep, bordering on

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Speaker 1: increasingly erratic. He's been increasingly erratic since December nineteen eighty three.

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Speaker 1: And of course, since he only watches television that feeds

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Speaker 1: his mind is gone again. I am reminded of a

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Speaker 1: His mind is gone Trump is Jim Pearsall. When it

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Speaker 2: His mind is gone.

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Speaker 1: Every week now he says something about lowering food prices

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Speaker 1: rehabilitate them through reward based training. Punchline, This goober Mizelle

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Speaker 1: Know it? Do trump ists and MAGA look at JV

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Speaker 1: In the nominations, Vance is the Republican favorite. Now the

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Speaker 1: Vance polls thirty five percent, and second at twenty eight

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Speaker 1: Six out of ten of the police are also in

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Speaker 1: favor of amending the constitution to allow a third term.

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Speaker 1: Even though thirteen states can in effect veto any constitutional amendment,

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Speaker 1: There is no lawful basis for an order that directs

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Speaker 3: Oh this is Sports Senate. Wait check that not anymore.

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Speaker 1: Couch cushions.

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Speaker 1: Two things. The marriage between legalized sports gambling and the

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Speaker 2: Collect the entire series. What is this over here? This

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Speaker 1: Also of interest here back to that fateful Oval Office

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Speaker 1: neither of these things constituted the dumbest thing said that

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Speaker 1: Tay himself good old doctor Oz once again, trumpsts mister

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Speaker 1: math book is our friend. Wait till you hear this.

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Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown.

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Speaker 3: This is Countdown with Keith Oberman.

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Speaker 2: Still ahead.

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Speaker 1: On this episode of Countdown, I'm reminded that Randolph Churchill,

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Speaker 1: Winston Churchill's son once proudly wrote an article called why

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Speaker 1: I'm Not a Socialist. I am going to offer you

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Speaker 1: the equivalent of that in podcast form, Why I'm Not

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Speaker 1: a Hockey Announcer. I know you think of this often

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Speaker 1: and wonder what the truth is. The truth is I

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Speaker 1: was trying to be one and then they pulled the

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Speaker 1: rugout from under me. So I pulled the rugout from

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Speaker 1: under them. The story of the Ithacus Stars and Why

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Speaker 1: I'm Not a Hockey announcer coming up next in Things

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Speaker 1: I Promised Not to Tell First, Believe it or not,

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Speaker 1: there's still more new idiots to talk about. The roundup

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Speaker 1: of the mis grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens

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Speaker 1: who constitute today's other.

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Speaker 2: Worst persons in the world.

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Speaker 1: Sharing the bronze in the media division Politico and The

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Speaker 1: New York Times. We do the Times first, per the

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Speaker 1: Sill newsletter from Lachland Cartwright breaker. He found this in

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Speaker 1: the New York Times quarterly profit statement, in which on

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Speaker 1: their earnings call last week, they announced they had four

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty thousand new digital subscribers. As he pointed out,

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Speaker 1: it was the biggest quarterly gain since The Times started

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Speaker 1: disclosing that metric a few years ago. And it's a

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Speaker 1: very large number, he writes, when you consider the Times

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Speaker 1: that only averaged two hundred and forty eight thousand new

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Speaker 1: subscribers per quarter going all the way back to the

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Speaker 1: start of twenty twenty two. How did it manage, he asks,

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Speaker 1: to increase subscribers by more than forty six percent in

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Speaker 1: just one earnings period. Well, Sir Lachland Cartwright found on

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Speaker 1: page twelve of the third quarter results press release, that's right,

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Speaker 1: he reads this stuff Times.

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Speaker 2: That the Times.

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Speaker 1: Started marketing a family subscription plan, not a higher price,

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Speaker 1: earlier in the year like the Flick's family plan. One

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Speaker 1: build account includes separate identities, as he writes, for each

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Speaker 1: family member. And it started to take off mostly because

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Speaker 1: people like to play games. And here's what it is,

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Speaker 1: even though it's one subscription. As he found in the

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Speaker 1: Times quarterly statement quote, each family subscription is priced higher

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Speaker 1: than a comparable individual subscription, and is counted as one

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Speaker 1: build subscriber and one additional subscriber to reflect the additional

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Speaker 1: entitlements in these subscriptions. The footnote in tiny print reveals

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Speaker 1: the additional subscribers represented approximately two percent of total digital

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Speaker 1: only subscribers at the end of third quarter twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: As he writes Voila, the Times new double counting method

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Speaker 1: magically added two hundred and thirty five thousand new subscribers,

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Speaker 1: more than half of the four hundred and sixty thousand

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Speaker 1: it claimed at the top of Tuesday's earning release. In

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Speaker 1: other words, when they were averaging two hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: eight thousand new subscribers every quarter, this new accounting method

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Speaker 1: allowed them to double that figure to make it look

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Speaker 1: like they had double the new subscribers than they actually do.

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Speaker 1: All the books that are fit to cook. That's my quote,

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Speaker 1: not cartwrights. Then there's Politico. I have often suggested that

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Speaker 1: most of Washington media is like this. It's not just

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Speaker 1: that they look in the wrong end of the telescope.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, fifty

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Speaker 1: two weeks a year, fifty three weeks a year if

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Speaker 1: they could arrange it. It's not just that, but they

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Speaker 1: insist they're doing it correctly, and they have welded these

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Speaker 1: telescopes to the eyeballs of everybody who works in the

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Speaker 1: Washington Press Corps. But it's politically true universally, but particularly

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Speaker 1: true at Politico. There are lots of things that you

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Speaker 1: can point to about the election of Zoron Mam Danny

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Speaker 1: as mayor of New York. There are many things, whether

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Speaker 1: you're opposed to it or you believe it's the greatest

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Speaker 1: thing since slice bread. I happen to point at one thing,

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Speaker 1: which is I think the guy is going to show

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Speaker 1: up to work, unlike the last four mayors, maybe five.

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Speaker 1: I like the idea that he's not seventy five years old.

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Speaker 1: I like the idea that he's a wonk and a

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Speaker 1: nerd and he wants to do the job. I just

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Speaker 1: want somebody to do the job, just the job. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how many of these things he's going to

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Speaker 1: get done that he's promised. Good luck to him. Many

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Speaker 1: of them make sense. The worst of them are like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that probably won't happen, but go ahead, try try The

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Speaker 1: last guy all he tried to do is get free

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Speaker 1: upgrades on trips to Turkey. The cheapest crook in America.

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Speaker 1: You can buy the mayor of New York for five

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars if you pay cash three percent off. But

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Speaker 1: my point is not about It's not about any mayor

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Speaker 1: past or present or future. It's about how Politico the

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Speaker 1: lens through which they see the Mamdani election. This was

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Speaker 1: after Mamdanni's election. They wrote this start your day with

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Speaker 1: the man of the moment, New York City Mayor Alexora

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Speaker 1: and Mamdani, who spoke with Politico's Joe Anuda for four

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Speaker 1: and a half questions to unpack Tuesday's results. It's the

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Speaker 1: final question half question that's the most revealing in democratic

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Speaker 1: circles at least. So this is what about socialism, about

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Speaker 1: the future of the party, about the about the nature

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Speaker 1: of getting elected mayor of New York, How to be

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Speaker 1: a thirty mid thirties mayor, how to look towards managing

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Speaker 1: a city with almost as many people in it as

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Speaker 1: Abigail Spanberger just found out as the whole state to Virginia. No, no,

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Speaker 1: this is what they think. What Politico thinks is the

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Speaker 1: story of the election of this man as mayor of

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Speaker 1: New York. Lightning round our man, Joe says, with what

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Speaker 1: can only be a gleam in his eye? First off,

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Speaker 1: he should have been fired at that spot right there,

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Speaker 1: Lightning round. This is one of the great cliches of journalism,

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Speaker 1: people asking lightning round questions. It's relatively new, Probably nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 2: Was the first time I heard it used in a

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Speaker 2: political context.

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Speaker 1: It's from my experience from a game show called Password

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Speaker 1: with Alan Ludden, Betty White's late husband. Lightning round, our

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Speaker 1: man Joe says, with what can only be a gleam

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Speaker 1: in his eye? That actually, that might be an infection.

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Speaker 1: Here's what they think is the most important question to

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Speaker 1: ask zaraon mom Donni. He takes into that period of

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Speaker 1: time of transition between his election and becoming mayor.

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Speaker 2: Of New York.

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Speaker 1: Quote, should Chuck Schumer face a challenge in twenty twenty eight? Seriously,

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Speaker 1: that's what you ask him. If that's your fifth most

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Speaker 1: important question, you should be fired. If you think it's

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Speaker 1: your first most important question, you should be fired and

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Speaker 1: leave the industry. And I don't I mean media, not

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Speaker 1: just news media, ma'am. Donnie finally answers for himself. I'm

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Speaker 1: focused on this transition, my brother. But thank you, and

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Speaker 1: then and then here's the insight. This is what makes

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Speaker 1: Politico Politico, sometimes writes the editor, silence is the loudest

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Speaker 1: noise of all. Oh my god, you got abused and

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Speaker 1: hosed for asking a stupid quot question. And you think

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Speaker 1: the fact that the guy wouldn't answer it is some

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Speaker 1: sort of great revelation. And I mean, we're not even

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Speaker 1: talking about the merits of whether or not Chuck Schumer

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Speaker 1: should face a challenge in twenty twenty eight. You know

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Speaker 1: how I feel about Chuck Schumer. Why the hell you're asking, ma'am, Donnie.

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Speaker 1: That man just a historic election to become mayor of

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Speaker 1: New York, which hasn't had a mayor at some point

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Speaker 1: in the Bloomberg administration when he violated the city charter

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Speaker 1: and the votes by the city twice by the residents

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Speaker 1: who said you can't have a third term, and he

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Speaker 1: had a third term. Anyway, we haven't had a mayor

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Speaker 1: in like twenty years.

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Speaker 2: Here, you think.

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Speaker 4: Chuck Shermer should face a challenge in twenty twenty eight,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I would be if the child journalists who

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Speaker 4: always appears in these things and does interviews at age

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Speaker 4: nine of hockey players and political candidates and newly elected

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Speaker 4: mayors of New York asked do you.

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Speaker 1: Think Chuck Schumer should face a challenge in twenty twenty eighth?

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Speaker 1: The kid should have been fired?

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Speaker 2: All right, I'll stop now.

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Speaker 1: Runner up worser Gianni Infantino, the head of World football,

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Speaker 1: or as we in the real sports country call it soccer.

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Speaker 1: Johnny Infantino was the replacement for I'm forgetting if it

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Speaker 1: was directly. He succeeded the guy who went to prison,

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Speaker 1: who had like sixteen apartments in New York City and

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Speaker 1: used to sleep in a different one every night because

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Speaker 1: he was convinced people were trying to kill him. Johnny

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Speaker 1: Infantino was considered the clean guy, the reform candidate. You've

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Speaker 1: seen him. Trump thinks his name is Johnny. That's Johnny.

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Speaker 1: H I'm that's sick. This is the NPR account of

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Speaker 1: what he's done. Now see if you can see where

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Speaker 1: this is going. In fact, raise your hand when you

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Speaker 1: know where this story is going. FIFA has announced the

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Speaker 1: creation of a Peace Prize, which it plans to award

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Speaker 1: at the draw for the World Cup on December five

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Speaker 1: in Washington, the draw being who plays who The award

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Speaker 1: called the FIFA Peace Prize. Ah, that's going on on

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Speaker 1: a limb there. We'll quote recognize exceptional actions for peace,

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Speaker 1: soccer's governing body said Wednesday, because when I think peace,

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Speaker 1: I think the World Cup. When I think peace, I

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Speaker 1: think guys who when they break into a brawl on

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Speaker 1: the soccer pitch fight with their feet. I think FIFA

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Speaker 1: for international peace Prizes. Now, admittedly the Nobel Peace Prize

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Speaker 1: was started by the guy who perfected dynamite. In an

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Speaker 1: increasingly unsettled and divided world, it's fundamental to recognize the

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Speaker 1: outstanding contribution of those who work hard to end conflicts

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Speaker 1: and bring people together in a spirit of peace, FIFA

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Speaker 1: president Jiohnny Infantino said. FIFA said, the award, which Infentino

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Speaker 1: will present this year. Can you now guess who it's

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Speaker 1: going to, will be bestowed annually on behalf of fans

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Speaker 1: from all around the world. That's right, He's going to

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Speaker 1: give it to Trump, isn't he? He has been polishing

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump for years now. The World Cup is in America.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody's heard about that. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if anybody's going to hear about it when it happens,

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Speaker 1: but they're going to give Donald Trump the FIFA Peace Prize,

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Speaker 1: and he is so sick in the head that he's

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Speaker 1: going to think it's a big deal, and he will

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Speaker 1: then claim and I think this is the evil genius

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Speaker 1: in the Infantino decision here. I think he will then

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Speaker 1: claim Trump that is that he has won this award

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Speaker 1: every time it's ever been given out. But it's not

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Speaker 1: al timate, but our winner. One of his employees, doctor Oz.

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Speaker 1: You may remember Doctor Oz from such farces as his

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Speaker 1: run for the Senate in Pennsylvania and the tone deaf

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Speaker 1: video he made that he shot of himself in a supermarket,

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Speaker 1: actually had a crew shooting him in a supermarket, complaining

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Speaker 1: about the price of vegetables to put in crude detays.

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Speaker 1: His wife wanted to make cru detays like everybody. Everybody

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Speaker 1: on earth knew what a crup detay was, and everybody

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Speaker 1: on earth went shopping for the components of a crue

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Speaker 1: de tay every day, so that when he said she

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Speaker 1: wanted to make a crue de tay, well, you'll hear

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Speaker 1: the clip in a moment, but he's topped himself. He

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Speaker 1: is now head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid,

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Speaker 1: but he is still a moron the Crewe detay first

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Speaker 1: and what turns out to be his crude understanding of

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Speaker 1: mathematic X.

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00:46:05,315 --> 00:46:07,235
Speaker 2: Second, there's some grocery shopping.

642
00:46:07,235 --> 00:46:10,635
Speaker 5: I'm at weg nurse and my wife wants some vegetables

643
00:46:10,755 --> 00:46:14,355
Speaker 5: for crude to day. Right, So here's a broccoli that's

644
00:46:14,395 --> 00:46:16,595
Speaker 5: two bucks. We thought it was one hundred and twenty

645
00:46:16,635 --> 00:46:19,555
Speaker 5: five billion pounds. As president, our estimate based on the

646
00:46:19,715 --> 00:46:22,395
Speaker 5: company numbers as well, is Americans will lose one hundred

647
00:46:22,395 --> 00:46:25,075
Speaker 5: and thirty five billion pounds by the midterms.

648
00:46:25,835 --> 00:46:29,475
Speaker 1: You heard him first, he said it right. They thought

649
00:46:29,515 --> 00:46:34,035
Speaker 1: that with ozempic and the other drugs that were getting

650
00:46:34,035 --> 00:46:36,795
Speaker 1: people hooked on rather than teaching them how to eat

651
00:46:36,835 --> 00:46:40,755
Speaker 1: correctly or even close to correctly. I speak as somebody

652
00:46:40,795 --> 00:46:42,995
Speaker 1: who's fought this battle my whole life. I understand it.

653
00:46:43,035 --> 00:46:46,195
Speaker 1: But it's guess what happens in twenty years when they

654
00:46:46,235 --> 00:46:48,195
Speaker 1: find out what the long term side effects are and

655
00:46:48,235 --> 00:46:50,635
Speaker 1: the drugs. We thought it was one hundred and twenty

656
00:46:50,715 --> 00:46:53,395
Speaker 1: five million pounds that would be lost, and then of

657
00:46:53,395 --> 00:46:57,475
Speaker 1: course he wanted to impress Trump, and in his haste

658
00:46:57,475 --> 00:47:01,675
Speaker 1: to do that, he insisted, as you just heard, Americans

659
00:47:01,675 --> 00:47:05,835
Speaker 1: will lose one hundred and thirty five bill billion pounds

660
00:47:05,995 --> 00:47:10,715
Speaker 1: by the midterms billion. Now, depending on your account of

661
00:47:10,755 --> 00:47:14,995
Speaker 1: our population, three hundred and thirty plus or minus million,

662
00:47:15,875 --> 00:47:19,955
Speaker 1: that would be each person loses somewhere between three hundred

663
00:47:19,995 --> 00:47:23,435
Speaker 1: and ninety nine pounds and four hundred and three pounds.

664
00:47:25,435 --> 00:47:30,995
Speaker 1: So you've got till midterms to drop one fifth of

665
00:47:31,035 --> 00:47:36,835
Speaker 1: a ton each of you, including the new born. How

666
00:47:36,835 --> 00:47:39,875
Speaker 1: big is your baby? Well minus three hundred and ninety five.

667
00:47:40,155 --> 00:47:42,355
Speaker 1: This is the same math that allows Trump to claim

668
00:47:42,395 --> 00:47:47,035
Speaker 1: he lowered prices by eleventy billion percent. Only Memet, Oz

669
00:47:47,115 --> 00:47:48,995
Speaker 1: is not supposed to be this much of a moron,

670
00:47:49,195 --> 00:47:51,115
Speaker 1: and yet he is because you can take the cruditae

671
00:47:51,195 --> 00:47:54,675
Speaker 1: out of Oz, but you can't take the oz out

672
00:47:54,675 --> 00:47:59,235
Speaker 1: of the one hundred and thirty five billion pounds. Nice work, fella,

673
00:47:59,635 --> 00:48:02,955
Speaker 1: doctor Memetz. So who could lose four hundred and three

674
00:48:02,995 --> 00:48:06,275
Speaker 1: pounds do you think I mean? Besides, it's Trump Oz

675
00:48:06,715 --> 00:48:30,555
Speaker 1: two days hotter, worst person. And I mentioned recently that

676
00:48:30,635 --> 00:48:32,835
Speaker 1: one of the things I wanted to do, In fact,

677
00:48:32,835 --> 00:48:36,035
Speaker 1: my original career goal in broadcasting was to become play

678
00:48:36,035 --> 00:48:38,995
Speaker 1: by play announcer of the New York Yankees. The second one,

679
00:48:39,035 --> 00:48:40,995
Speaker 1: and the one I actually tried to work on for

680
00:48:41,035 --> 00:48:43,035
Speaker 1: a while, was to become play by play announcer of

681
00:48:43,115 --> 00:48:46,995
Speaker 1: the New York Rangers hockey team. My high school, Hackley,

682
00:48:47,275 --> 00:48:51,235
Speaker 1: had a hockey team and a radio station, not that

683
00:48:51,315 --> 00:48:53,915
Speaker 1: anybody listened to us, and we had a sports director.

684
00:48:54,195 --> 00:48:56,595
Speaker 1: His name was Chris Berman, and he did the basketball games,

685
00:48:56,595 --> 00:48:58,795
Speaker 1: and one day put out an ad for somebody to

686
00:48:58,835 --> 00:49:01,635
Speaker 1: do the hockey games. And the requirement was do you

687
00:49:01,675 --> 00:49:05,275
Speaker 1: own your own cassette tape recorder? And I've played you

688
00:49:05,355 --> 00:49:07,755
Speaker 1: the tapes of what I sounded like long before my

689
00:49:07,835 --> 00:49:10,635
Speaker 1: voice even began to change. The play by play wasn't

690
00:49:10,675 --> 00:49:12,715
Speaker 1: bad for a thirteen year old kid, And I have

691
00:49:12,795 --> 00:49:15,715
Speaker 1: to say the next year, nineteen seventy three, when the

692
00:49:15,715 --> 00:49:19,115
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Penguins job opened for play by play radio guy,

693
00:49:19,835 --> 00:49:22,195
Speaker 1: I had the nuts to actually send them a tape

694
00:49:22,315 --> 00:49:24,235
Speaker 1: and say, look, I know my voice is a little high,

695
00:49:24,275 --> 00:49:28,275
Speaker 1: but think of the novelty aspect. So I always wanted

696
00:49:28,315 --> 00:49:29,915
Speaker 1: to do hockey play by play. And then I went

697
00:49:29,915 --> 00:49:31,995
Speaker 1: to Cornell, which might as well have had a professional

698
00:49:31,995 --> 00:49:34,795
Speaker 1: hockey franchise, and that's still true. Lina Rink is one

699
00:49:34,795 --> 00:49:38,115
Speaker 1: of the great sporting event locales in the world, certainly

700
00:49:38,115 --> 00:49:42,435
Speaker 1: in college hockey, and it always sold out, and the

701
00:49:42,475 --> 00:49:45,115
Speaker 1: team was competitive and number one in the IVY League

702
00:49:45,155 --> 00:49:48,435
Speaker 1: and the national Championship contender. And the rights to the

703
00:49:48,475 --> 00:49:52,315
Speaker 1: games were owned by Cornell and immediately, of course dispersed

704
00:49:52,355 --> 00:49:55,995
Speaker 1: to the two radio stations Cornell University, Inc. Own so

705
00:49:56,035 --> 00:49:58,715
Speaker 1: we never got close to doing play by play of

706
00:49:58,755 --> 00:50:02,315
Speaker 1: Cornell hockey. I once asked my friend who was the

707
00:50:02,315 --> 00:50:04,675
Speaker 1: general manager of those stations, Don Martin, who I've talked

708
00:50:04,795 --> 00:50:06,875
Speaker 1: about here before as one of the most important people

709
00:50:06,875 --> 00:50:10,515
Speaker 1: I ever met in broadcasting. I asked him, could we

710
00:50:10,595 --> 00:50:13,435
Speaker 1: do the JV Games? Could we do the women's games? No,

711
00:50:13,715 --> 00:50:16,275
Speaker 1: because you'll get advertising for it. I know you'll do

712
00:50:16,315 --> 00:50:18,155
Speaker 1: a good job. You'll be taking bread out of the

713
00:50:18,195 --> 00:50:20,075
Speaker 1: food of my announcers. And I was like, yeah, but

714
00:50:20,595 --> 00:50:24,115
Speaker 1: I'm asking for like one slice of bread. You're gonna

715
00:50:24,155 --> 00:50:29,355
Speaker 1: go far, but not in Ithaca. So anyway, one day

716
00:50:30,195 --> 00:50:33,115
Speaker 1: a fellow named Al Goldstein, who had come to us

717
00:50:33,155 --> 00:50:36,275
Speaker 1: I believe from Berkeley, California, and was twenty eight years

718
00:50:36,315 --> 00:50:40,115
Speaker 1: old and long past college days or college radio days.

719
00:50:40,395 --> 00:50:43,955
Speaker 1: Moved to Ithaca, New York to try to become a

720
00:50:44,075 --> 00:50:49,115
Speaker 1: radio sportscaster, newscaster, radio salesman, and had heard had done

721
00:50:49,155 --> 00:50:53,755
Speaker 1: research on this and had determined that WVBR, the student

722
00:50:53,995 --> 00:50:58,875
Speaker 1: owned professional radio station at Cornell University, was the best

723
00:50:59,115 --> 00:51:04,035
Speaker 1: training ground for radio in the country. Al was known

724
00:51:04,075 --> 00:51:08,675
Speaker 1: as weird as and long before Yankovic, and he was

725
00:51:08,795 --> 00:51:12,115
Speaker 1: a delightful guy. And he used all the southern or

726
00:51:12,115 --> 00:51:16,315
Speaker 1: northern California lingo that none of us understood, happening in

727
00:51:16,475 --> 00:51:19,235
Speaker 1: Gnarley and all these other things, long before they became

728
00:51:19,315 --> 00:51:22,435
Speaker 1: famous things. I was like, what did I'll just say

729
00:51:22,435 --> 00:51:25,635
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but whatever. He works hard. So he

730
00:51:25,715 --> 00:51:28,035
Speaker 1: did sports cast, and he did newscast, and he became

731
00:51:28,075 --> 00:51:30,995
Speaker 1: a salesman because we sold advertising on the radio station.

732
00:51:31,675 --> 00:51:33,995
Speaker 1: And one day he came to me he said, you know, Ko,

733
00:51:34,075 --> 00:51:38,395
Speaker 1: I've been talking to uh a lot of my clients

734
00:51:38,435 --> 00:51:42,155
Speaker 1: out there, and they I just mentioned the Ethnica stars

735
00:51:42,475 --> 00:51:44,915
Speaker 1: and their eyes light up, like why aren't they on

736
00:51:44,955 --> 00:51:47,795
Speaker 1: the radio. I mean, like, I know it's not Cornell hockey, man,

737
00:51:47,995 --> 00:51:50,995
Speaker 1: but they Cornell Hockey gets four thousand people if the

738
00:51:51,155 --> 00:51:53,395
Speaker 1: Stars get eighteen hundred year. There's a lot of people

739
00:51:53,555 --> 00:51:56,115
Speaker 1: people want to hear, why don't we do the games?

740
00:51:56,275 --> 00:51:59,555
Speaker 1: I'd get it sponsored immediately, and I went say that

741
00:51:59,595 --> 00:52:02,195
Speaker 1: part again, and he went through it again, and I said,

742
00:52:02,235 --> 00:52:05,955
Speaker 1: why don't we? So we all knew the president of

743
00:52:05,955 --> 00:52:08,675
Speaker 1: the Ithaca Stars. It was, I believe, a car salesman.

744
00:52:08,715 --> 00:52:11,035
Speaker 1: His name was Bob Toddy. We called him up and

745
00:52:11,075 --> 00:52:14,275
Speaker 1: said how much for the rights to broadcast your games?

746
00:52:14,275 --> 00:52:17,115
Speaker 1: Would do it on an experimental basis, and he went

747
00:52:17,275 --> 00:52:22,075
Speaker 1: first ones free, and I said, I think my colleagues

748
00:52:22,115 --> 00:52:25,035
Speaker 1: here will agree to that, and sure enough we scheduled

749
00:52:25,235 --> 00:52:29,515
Speaker 1: a broadcast of the Ithaca Stars versus somebody. The Ethica

750
00:52:29,555 --> 00:52:32,235
Speaker 1: Stars would be made up of Cornell graduates who did

751
00:52:32,235 --> 00:52:34,635
Speaker 1: not make it in professional hockey, or had played professional

752
00:52:34,675 --> 00:52:37,355
Speaker 1: hockey and lived in the area came back to Ithaca.

753
00:52:37,435 --> 00:52:39,635
Speaker 1: In other words, if you were a Cornell hockey star

754
00:52:39,635 --> 00:52:41,475
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy two and did not make a career

755
00:52:41,475 --> 00:52:43,515
Speaker 1: of it, you could become an Ehaicca Stars star in

756
00:52:43,595 --> 00:52:46,155
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, which is when we are in the

757
00:52:46,195 --> 00:52:49,075
Speaker 1: history of semi pro hockey in this country.

758
00:52:49,515 --> 00:52:50,115
Speaker 2: And they did.

759
00:52:50,155 --> 00:52:52,995
Speaker 1: They drew two thousand and a game at line of rink.

760
00:52:53,035 --> 00:52:55,635
Speaker 1: They almost often when it would be a team like

761
00:52:55,675 --> 00:53:00,035
Speaker 1: the Montreal former Canadians, they would fill the place out.

762
00:53:00,355 --> 00:53:04,035
Speaker 1: People like their hockey and Ethica New York. The ice

763
00:53:04,075 --> 00:53:08,675
Speaker 1: is already the the rank is fantastic. So we put

764
00:53:08,715 --> 00:53:10,675
Speaker 1: Al out on this and I was like, we'll try it,

765
00:53:10,715 --> 00:53:13,635
Speaker 1: and I'll do the games, and the program director, Glen Cornelius,

766
00:53:13,675 --> 00:53:17,035
Speaker 1: he'll be the he'll be my color man, and we'll

767
00:53:17,075 --> 00:53:19,075
Speaker 1: have somebody host in between periods, and we'll have a

768
00:53:19,075 --> 00:53:21,115
Speaker 1: reporter and we'll you know, maybe we'll get some wireless.

769
00:53:21,155 --> 00:53:23,395
Speaker 1: But Al came back in twenty four hours and said

770
00:53:23,435 --> 00:53:26,635
Speaker 1: sold it out. I was like, but I figured out

771
00:53:26,635 --> 00:53:28,595
Speaker 1: how many availabilities we'd have and how many spots, and

772
00:53:28,635 --> 00:53:30,995
Speaker 1: we were going to have a waiting list. We've already

773
00:53:30,995 --> 00:53:32,875
Speaker 1: taken in like twenty thousand dollars for this. I went,

774
00:53:32,915 --> 00:53:34,915
Speaker 1: are you out of your mind? He goes, no, man,

775
00:53:34,995 --> 00:53:38,235
Speaker 1: let's go ahead. Don't tell Toddy this will be demanding money.

776
00:53:38,315 --> 00:53:40,235
Speaker 1: But I bet if we do, you know, we could

777
00:53:40,275 --> 00:53:42,195
Speaker 1: do ten games before the end of their season. I

778
00:53:42,235 --> 00:53:45,275
Speaker 1: was like, let's go. So we now begin to promote

779
00:53:45,275 --> 00:53:47,995
Speaker 1: this thing on WVBR coming up on Saturday night, and

780
00:53:48,155 --> 00:53:50,755
Speaker 1: Glenn Cornelius and I go to a Corneill hockey practice

781
00:53:50,795 --> 00:53:53,275
Speaker 1: and we do a practice broadcast of a game, and

782
00:53:53,315 --> 00:53:55,955
Speaker 1: We're like, this isn't bad, and I'm thinking, maybe I

783
00:53:55,995 --> 00:53:58,995
Speaker 1: could still become a hockey play by play man and

784
00:53:59,075 --> 00:54:01,595
Speaker 1: my voice is changing, maybe I can send the tape

785
00:54:01,635 --> 00:54:06,515
Speaker 1: to the Pittsburgh Penguins again. So now this is Monday

786
00:54:06,595 --> 00:54:09,355
Speaker 1: or Tuesday, and then the broadcast is coming up on Saturday.

787
00:54:09,395 --> 00:54:13,075
Speaker 1: And we went wall to wall every commercial break on WVBR,

788
00:54:13,115 --> 00:54:16,675
Speaker 1: every newscast, every sports cast, every disc jockey show, even

789
00:54:16,675 --> 00:54:20,195
Speaker 1: the public affairs broadcasts. In the breaks, it was don't

790
00:54:20,195 --> 00:54:22,755
Speaker 1: forget to listen to the other guitars they're premiering on

791
00:54:22,915 --> 00:54:26,355
Speaker 1: WVBR with Keith Olverman and Glenn Cornelias, and we had

792
00:54:26,395 --> 00:54:30,235
Speaker 1: five announcers, and we literally rented wireless mics.

793
00:54:29,955 --> 00:54:30,835
Speaker 2: And we had this whole thing.

794
00:54:30,875 --> 00:54:33,635
Speaker 1: We had a scoreboard show planned and a studio. It

795
00:54:33,715 --> 00:54:37,755
Speaker 1: was just it was network level excess.

796
00:54:40,755 --> 00:54:43,435
Speaker 2: On Friday afternoon, I walked into the radio station and

797
00:54:43,515 --> 00:54:46,195
Speaker 2: Al Goldstein was sitting at the desk in the newsroom

798
00:54:46,195 --> 00:54:48,475
Speaker 2: that I usually used, in my chair in front of

799
00:54:48,515 --> 00:54:52,875
Speaker 2: my typewriter Ashen and Al had what would have been

800
00:54:52,875 --> 00:54:55,075
Speaker 2: politely referred to as a ruddy complexion, and he was

801
00:54:55,115 --> 00:54:57,995
Speaker 2: white as a sheet. And I said, what's wrong? He goes,

802
00:54:58,075 --> 00:55:01,435
Speaker 2: what's go inside? Man, Let's go inside. And we went

803
00:55:01,475 --> 00:55:04,515
Speaker 2: into a studio and he went, they canceled the game.

804
00:55:05,155 --> 00:55:09,555
Speaker 2: I went, what our game? Our game tomorrow night? It's canceled.

805
00:55:10,395 --> 00:55:14,035
Speaker 2: I said, what do you mean? It's canceled the Apparently

806
00:55:14,075 --> 00:55:16,835
Speaker 2: there's a they forgot they forgot to rent the rink.

807
00:55:17,435 --> 00:55:19,195
Speaker 2: So what do you mean they forgot to rent the rink?

808
00:55:20,195 --> 00:55:22,315
Speaker 2: They think the Stars have been in business for twenty years.

809
00:55:22,515 --> 00:55:25,115
Speaker 2: Suddenly he forgets to rent rent the rink. Yeah, there's

810
00:55:25,155 --> 00:55:27,795
Speaker 2: a JV women's hockey practice and they won't interrupt it.

811
00:55:27,835 --> 00:55:28,555
Speaker 1: They won't change it.

812
00:55:28,875 --> 00:55:34,995
Speaker 2: There's no game Saturday. Man. I I can't remember the

813
00:55:35,035 --> 00:55:37,835
Speaker 2: rest of that day. I do know from having gone

814
00:55:37,835 --> 00:55:40,955
Speaker 2: and listen to the tape that at some point I

815
00:55:41,075 --> 00:55:43,355
Speaker 2: decided that there was a very simple solution to this

816
00:55:43,795 --> 00:55:46,115
Speaker 2: that more than likely my old friend Don Martin from

817
00:55:46,275 --> 00:55:52,275
Speaker 2: whcuat enough of Mythica, had prevailed upon Bob Toddy, the

818
00:55:52,275 --> 00:55:56,395
Speaker 2: general manager of the Ethica Stars, to not have any

819
00:55:56,435 --> 00:55:59,635
Speaker 2: game that would be broadcast on WVBR and the mention,

820
00:55:59,755 --> 00:56:01,795
Speaker 2: by the way, when we called Bob Toddy and did

821
00:56:01,795 --> 00:56:05,995
Speaker 2: the nineteen seventy eight equivalent of WTF on his backside,

822
00:56:07,035 --> 00:56:10,035
Speaker 2: he said, I'm I've also rethought the whole idea. We're

823
00:56:10,075 --> 00:56:11,835
Speaker 2: not going to do any more games on radio. So

824
00:56:11,995 --> 00:56:14,035
Speaker 2: we haven't done any goddamn games on radio because you

825
00:56:14,155 --> 00:56:15,915
Speaker 2: just forgot to rent the rink. What kind of business

826
00:56:15,955 --> 00:56:18,795
Speaker 2: are you in? Do you sell cars that don't have wheels?

827
00:56:19,155 --> 00:56:20,075
Speaker 2: I hung up on them.

828
00:56:20,715 --> 00:56:22,435
Speaker 1: I was just the same then when I was twenty

829
00:56:22,515 --> 00:56:25,075
Speaker 1: years old. In fact, I was still nineteen. I'm very

830
00:56:25,075 --> 00:56:27,915
Speaker 1: proud of that. In any event, we solved this one

831
00:56:27,955 --> 00:56:29,755
Speaker 1: pretty clearly. I went on the air that night and

832
00:56:29,755 --> 00:56:31,635
Speaker 1: I said, we have breaking news from the world of

833
00:56:31,955 --> 00:56:35,235
Speaker 1: semi pro hockey. It's sad news, particularly in light of

834
00:56:35,235 --> 00:56:37,995
Speaker 1: the fact that we were intending to bring you the

835
00:56:38,035 --> 00:56:40,835
Speaker 1: Ithaca Stars game tomorrow night here on WVBRS. You may

836
00:56:40,875 --> 00:56:43,515
Speaker 1: have heard in the three thousand advertisements we do for today,

837
00:56:44,315 --> 00:56:50,915
Speaker 1: we have bad news. The Ithaca Stars have gone bankrupt.

838
00:56:51,635 --> 00:56:58,155
Speaker 1: Don't mess with the nineteen year old olderman. Thank you

839
00:56:58,235 --> 00:57:13,955
Speaker 1: very much. I've done all the damage I can do here,

840
00:57:13,995 --> 00:57:20,195
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Yes, yes, I lied to the audience.

841
00:57:20,875 --> 00:57:27,235
Speaker 1: Yes I suspect I was lied to by at least

842
00:57:27,235 --> 00:57:30,075
Speaker 1: two major organizations in the city of Ethica, New York.

843
00:57:30,555 --> 00:57:33,475
Speaker 1: I felt it was justified I might do the same

844
00:57:33,515 --> 00:57:33,995
Speaker 1: thing now.

845
00:57:36,035 --> 00:57:36,555
Speaker 2: So there.

846
00:57:38,115 --> 00:57:41,035
Speaker 1: Most of our countdown music was arranged, produced, and performed

847
00:57:41,035 --> 00:57:43,995
Speaker 1: by Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel, the musical directors

848
00:57:44,035 --> 00:57:47,355
Speaker 1: of Countdown, and it was produced by TKO Brothers. Mister

849
00:57:47,475 --> 00:57:50,315
Speaker 1: Ray was on guitars, bass and drums, and mister Schanale

850
00:57:51,235 --> 00:57:55,475
Speaker 1: was kind enough to handle orchestration and keyboards. Our pithy

851
00:57:55,555 --> 00:57:58,675
Speaker 1: and satirical musical comments are by the best baseball stadium

852
00:57:58,715 --> 00:58:02,355
Speaker 1: organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman

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Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy

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Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Some other music arranged and performed by

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Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. And my announcer today was

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Speaker 1: my friend Stevie van Zant. Everything else was as always

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Speaker 1: my fault. That's countdown for today. Day two hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety four of America held hostage again, just sixty nine

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Speaker 1: days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and

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Speaker 1: lame brained term unless he is removed sooner by Maga

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Speaker 1: and Epstein or whatever that is on his hand, or

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Speaker 1: a bad escalator or tail and all, or his jet

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Speaker 1: made out of poop, or or the next Alzheimer's test.

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Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Until then, I'm Keith Oulderman.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with

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