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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: As of January four, two one, the Secret Service knew

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Speaker 1: of direct and dire and time specific threats against Speaker

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Speaker 1: did nothing about them and notified no one, not the Speaker,

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Speaker 1: not Biden, not anyone else until two days later, late

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Speaker 1: on the afternoon of January six, one, after the attempted

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Speaker 1: coup was quelled. Thus we are greeted today with another

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Speaker 1: simple question and another simply terrifying one. Yesterday, the simple

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Speaker 1: and simply terrifying question was, has the Office of the

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Speaker 1: Inspector General at Homeland Security become politically corrupted and become

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Speaker 1: nothing less than a threat to the nation and to

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Speaker 1: sell loyal to Trump? Today, the simple and simply terrifying

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Speaker 1: question is, has the Secret Service become politically corrupted and

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Speaker 1: become nothing less than a threat to the nation and

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Speaker 1: to sell loyal to Trump? Crew? Citizens for Responsibility and

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Speaker 1: Ethics in Washington has two jaw dropping new reports. Now

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Speaker 1: it has obtained emails, including an email from the Secret

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Speaker 1: Service confirming that the Secret Service had discovered an account

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Speaker 1: on the right wing app Parlor posting a series of

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Speaker 1: violent threats against lawmakers, specifically against Nancy Pelosi, as early

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Speaker 1: as December thirty one, two thousand twenty. The post on

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Speaker 1: the Parlor app made a direct lethal threat against Nancy Pelosi.

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Speaker 1: It added it would be carried out. On January six,

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Speaker 1: accounts with the same name Aim appeared on Twitter, Me,

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Speaker 1: we bitch, Shoot, YouTube, and Facebook, and much of the

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Speaker 1: violent language was repeated on those platforms. Two among the

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Speaker 1: believe it or not less explicit less threatening messages from

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Speaker 1: this account January second quote, Biden will die shortly after

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Speaker 1: being elected. Patriots are gonna tear his head off. Prison

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Speaker 1: is his best case scenario unquote. The paper trail of

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Speaker 1: the emails shows the Secret Service had all this and

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Speaker 1: Time on January six, when finally it's sent the parlor

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Speaker 1: nightfall during the coup, quoting this impossibly stupid email. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: the U. S. Secret Service is passing notification to the

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Speaker 1: US Capitol Police regarding discovery of a social media threat

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Speaker 1: directed towards speaker Nancy Pelosi. End quote. They held this

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Speaker 1: take place, and the Secret Service told nobody. The same

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Speaker 1: parlor account that threatened Pelosi on the fourth also gave

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Speaker 1: tips to the insurrectionists keep MAGA gear hidden until after

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Speaker 1: checking in to hotels. Read one. We're all on a

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Speaker 1: mission to save America. Lone wolf attacks are the way

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Speaker 1: to go. Stay anonymous, stay alive, guns up, patriots end quote.

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Speaker 1: These are not vague rumors or reports or thoughts about

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Speaker 1: Secret Service in activity after it was aware of vague

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Speaker 1: and fast evidence and there are only two options extraordinary

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Speaker 1: stupidity and incompetence at all levels of the Secret Service

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Speaker 1: or collaboration with the coup by elements in the Secret Service.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, the emails and the other communications obtained by

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Speaker 1: The National Capital Region Threat Intelligence Consortium the n t

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Speaker 1: and repeated those warnings in emails, the FBI, the Capitol Police,

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Speaker 1: the DC Metropolitan Police, the Secret Service. All that happened

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Speaker 1: on January six wasn't just known to these supposed protectors

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Speaker 1: Adam Waffen. The U. S. Marshal Service warned the Secret

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Speaker 1: of other politicians and sketching the insurrection plans to bring firearms.

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Speaker 1: One we now know Donald Trump tried to help, demanding

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Speaker 1: in writing. We already know that this Inspector General at

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security, Joseph Kufari, and Homeland Security oversees the Secret Service.

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Speaker 1: We already know that after Secret Service wiped all its

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Speaker 1: the assistant director of Training at the Secret Service, Tony

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Speaker 1: time to lead the goddamn coup in person. But this

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Speaker 1: man or NATO's journey seems to define the extraordinary and

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Speaker 1: imminent danger a politicized and corrupt Secret Service represents to

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Speaker 1: President Biden and the nation or NATO. Was a Secret

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Speaker 1: and with him on January and then you know what happened.

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Speaker 1: He went right back to the Secret Service, where he

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Speaker 1: still has oversight of all training and employee development. Secret

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Speaker 1: to train new agents, to train new agents protecting Joe

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Speaker 1: favor of democracy, protecting them right now, trained by a

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Speaker 1: Trump Lackey Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has

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Speaker 1: systemic corruption in the Secret Service, from the self dealing

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Speaker 1: And who is acting on what crew has uncovered. Who

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Speaker 1: Apparently the mantra of letting the system correct itself, letting

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Speaker 1: madness in America. There are just two groups right now,

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Speaker 1: people desiring to regain power by any means legal or not, peaceful,

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Speaker 1: planning and scheming and conspiring and leaving paper trails and

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Speaker 1: an amazing array of new polls, and they are all

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Speaker 1: on MSN see the Tails Ahead and things I promised

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Speaker 1: the New York Pound. Bluestone is there. He loves frisbee

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Speaker 1: What's the score? Boys? What did bugs Bunny do? The

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Speaker 1: polls Unidos US polling California Latino voters they support Biden

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Speaker 1: forties and early fifties was named H. R. Bockage b

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Speaker 1: A U K H A g E. He called himself

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Speaker 1: just Backage on the air, and he was already a

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Speaker 1: star news reporter in this country when they invented radio,

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Speaker 1: he had covered World War One for several newspapers. He'd

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Speaker 1: gone to work for ABC Radio's predecessor, the NBC Blue Network.

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Speaker 1: It was just a distinction to keep you clear that

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Speaker 1: it wasn't the NBC Red network. They didn't talk blue

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Speaker 1: or anything. Unfortunately, Backage was on ABC's TV News and

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Speaker 1: he did this daily fifteen minute news round up on

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Speaker 1: ABC Radio, and then he went on vacation. So they

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Speaker 1: asked that kid from Chicago, Paul Harvey, to fill in

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Speaker 1: for Backage. Backage was sixty two, and it was sure

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Speaker 1: great that he had covered World War One, but that

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Speaker 1: was literally an entire world war before the one everybody

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Speaker 1: was still talking about in n ABC executives like the young, brash,

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Speaker 1: dramatic Paul Harvey, and so when Backage came back, they

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Speaker 1: fired him. They gave Paul Harvey, Backage is show, but

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Speaker 1: you weren't allowed to know that it's It's not on

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Speaker 1: the web except in a transcript of the oh bit

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Speaker 1: I did when Paul Harvey died. It's not in his

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Speaker 1: Wikipedia page. Although here's another secret. Every couple of years

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Speaker 1: I put it in there just to see how quickly

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Speaker 1: somebody else removes it. This was Paul Harvey's terrible, dark,

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Speaker 1: evil secret. His big break was the guy he was

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Speaker 1: filling in for got fired. I don't think, having studied

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Speaker 1: this as best I could, that Paul Harvey got hr

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Speaker 1: Backage fired, nor did my boss at ABC think that.

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Speaker 1: But over fifty years, Paul Harvey began to believe not

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Speaker 1: only that people would believe he got Bockage fired, but

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Speaker 1: that someday God would avenge poor Bockage, and on that

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Speaker 1: one day, Paul Harvey would get fired and be replaced

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Speaker 1: by some guy who filled in for him while he

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Speaker 1: was on vacation. Convinced, convinced they would fire him from

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Speaker 1: a show that made forty four million dollars a year

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Speaker 1: and would be lucky to make four million a year

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Speaker 1: with anybody else, even me. Thus, Paul Harvey never took

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Speaker 1: all the vacation time ABC owed him, not even in

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Speaker 1: year fifty eight of his tenure at the network, And

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Speaker 1: he got up at three thirty every morning to get

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Speaker 1: to the studio or one thirty when he was broadcasting

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Speaker 1: from his other home in Arizona, because he was convinced

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Speaker 1: that ABC would someday bockage him. Thus, there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of us who filled in for him, no one

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Speaker 1: for very long. I believe I may have been the

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Speaker 1: only liberal to do so. I know Paul Harvey liked

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Speaker 1: my style and was worried more about that than any

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Speaker 1: political point of view. But we never really confirmed that

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Speaker 1: because one day, the same boss who told me the

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Speaker 1: story about backage had a great idea, if they gave

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Speaker 1: it enough lead time, maybe somebody could succeed Paul Harvey

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Speaker 1: whenever he went. However he left the show, maybe they

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Speaker 1: could make four million a year or god willing, four

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Speaker 1: and a half million a year. But the key to

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Speaker 1: the plan was the replacement had to become a familiar

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Speaker 1: voice to Paul harvey listeners. Well, how to do that?

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Speaker 1: Paul did five days a week live and a sixth

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Speaker 1: day on tape. The solution a Sunday edition of his

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Speaker 1: show called You're Ready Paul Harvey News and Comment with

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Speaker 1: Keith Alderman. Just like that seems reasonable. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: wasn't even sure I wanted to succeed Paul Harvey, or

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Speaker 1: that succeeding him would mean very much. As short form

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Speaker 1: terrestrial radio was vanishing before our eyes, But what the hell?

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Speaker 1: All was going well until they decided it was time

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Speaker 1: to mention it to Paul Harvey. As the ABC executive

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Speaker 1: recounted it to me, there was a long pause on

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Speaker 1: the phone, and then Paul Harvey said, in that staccato voice,

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Speaker 1: this is what will now happen. You will fly to

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Speaker 1: Chicago tomorrow with a new contract for me, Paul Harvey.

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Speaker 1: This contract will be for the same terms and length

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Speaker 1: as the current one, but it will include one paragraph

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Speaker 1: spelling out that Keith Olberman will never again appear on

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Speaker 1: Paul Harvey News and Comment, and another paragraph spelling out

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Speaker 1: that there will never be a seventh day of Paul

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Speaker 1: Harvey News and Comment with or without Paul Harvey or

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Speaker 1: I resign good day. Paul knew in his heart his

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Speaker 1: time had come Backage is revenge Paul Harvey's. Paul Harvey

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Speaker 1: was at the door, so he had to kill him.

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Speaker 1: You gotta control your origin stories, which brings me back

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Speaker 1: to Meadow and the time that The New York Times

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Speaker 1: interviewed me two thousand, seventeen eighteen about getting her started

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Speaker 1: on her own show. They were clear on a and

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Speaker 1: then a day or two later, the reporter called me

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Speaker 1: back and was astonishingly sorry. But they had mentioned some

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Speaker 1: of this to Matadow and she had said she would

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Speaker 1: not do the interview with them were I to be

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Speaker 1: mentioned in the story period, No Matdow, no real point

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Speaker 1: to the story. So out went my quotes and all

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Speaker 1: references to me. And by the way, the quotes were

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Speaker 1: all positive because I was still gullible back then. I

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Speaker 1: was only fifty eight years old. The irony is that

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Speaker 1: one of the people who prevented Rachel Maddow from getting

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Speaker 1: her own show for a year was named Phil Griffin.

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Speaker 1: He was the NBC executive in charge of MSNBC, first

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Speaker 1: as vice president or vice executive something I don't know,

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Speaker 1: then as president from two thousand six to two thousand

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Speaker 1: twenty one. He had formerly been the executive producer of

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Speaker 1: my first show on MSNBC. Even more amazingly, he had

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Speaker 1: been my first producer on my first day in my

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Speaker 1: first job in TV at Sea in in nine through

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Speaker 1: through through night four. We had a joint going away

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Speaker 1: party when he left for NBC and I left for

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Speaker 1: local news in Boston on March thirtieth, night four, well

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Speaker 1: March thirtieth nine four in the first eight or ten

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Speaker 1: hours or so of March thirty one. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: hard for me to remember. Anyway, it was Griffin who eventually,

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Speaker 1: after a year, got behind the idea and took the

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Speaker 1: corporate rap for putting Matadow on MSNBC after that work

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Speaker 1: had fired her as a contributor two years earlier. But

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Speaker 1: it was also Phil Griffin when I originally pitched him

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Speaker 1: on the idea of a Rachel Meadows show at nine

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Speaker 1: PM following my own show July August two thousand seven.

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Speaker 1: This was it was Griffin who said, quote Buddy, no way,

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Speaker 1: who's gonna watch her do the news? Unquote The president

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Speaker 1: of Rachel Meadows new production company which I offered the

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Speaker 1: chance to own the new version of Countdown on MSNBC

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Speaker 1: is Phil Buddy, Who's gonna watch her do the news? Griffin?

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Speaker 1: He like Rachel, like Paul Harvey. It's very good at

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Speaker 1: managing his origin story, believe it or not. All that

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Speaker 1: was the preface to what I wanted to say here,

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Speaker 1: because what I got out of MSNBC for hiring Rachel

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Speaker 1: Maddow out of my own pocket and beating them all

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Speaker 1: over the head for a year trying to convince them

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Speaker 1: to give her her own show. Was the privilege of

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Speaker 1: announcing her hiring. I did so on my show, and

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Speaker 1: a few hours earlier I had done it on the

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Speaker 1: liberal website Daily Coast, and I did it at exactly

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Speaker 1: five oh five pm Eastern daylight time, Tuesday, August two

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Speaker 1: thousand eight, fourteen years ago Friday. It is still there

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Speaker 1: on the Daily Coast website. You can find it. This

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Speaker 1: is part of what I wrote. Rachel gets her own

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Speaker 1: MSNBC show was the headline, and then happy now quoting myself.

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Speaker 1: The network will be formally announcing this tomorrow, but I

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Speaker 1: am pleased to inform you in this fully authorized leak

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Speaker 1: that as of Monday, Septemer eight, our mutual friend miss

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Speaker 1: Mattow will become host of her own show on MSNBC

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Speaker 1: at nine pm Eastern Time. And yes, we will be

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Speaker 1: making another unofficial announcement of this on tonight's edition of Countdown.

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Speaker 1: My guest to analyze the Rachel Maddow news will be

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Speaker 1: Rachel Meadow. Let me answer the key questions in advance.

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Speaker 1: Then there's some giddy jokes wrapped around a couple of

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Speaker 1: salient truths. Quoting again four Yes, I had something to

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Speaker 1: do with it. Five, Yes, you had something to do

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Speaker 1: with it. Six Yes. This is why I never really

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Speaker 1: responded to any of the forty seven comments that all

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Speaker 1: pretty much read and get Rachel her own show. Knit

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Speaker 1: went eleven. No, I have no idea who will start

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Speaker 1: guesting hosting a countdown? Took me five years to find her.

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Speaker 1: Damn it. Why didn't I think of this? She can't

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Speaker 1: be the guest house anymore. I knew I'd forgotten something.

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Speaker 1: End quote August two thousand eight. Three days later, Paul

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Speaker 1: Harvey died And now, oh you don't know arrest thought

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Speaker 1: little Sorry, I've done all the damage I can do here.

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Speaker 1: This is where I ask you to rate and review

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Fib tell them it's outstanding, and you listen

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Speaker 1: to it on a loop for hours days even. The

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Speaker 1: Countdown theme from Beethoven's Ninth arranged, produced and performed by

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Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle, and

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Speaker 1: my thanks to them as always. All orchestration and keyboards

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Speaker 1: by John Philip Shanelle, guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray,

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Speaker 1: Produced by T k O Brothers. The Countdown theme is

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Speaker 1: not performed live. The other Beethoven. Selections have been arranged

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Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed our sports music.

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Speaker 1: The Olderman ESPN two theme was written by Mitch Warren

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Speaker 1: Davis and has heard here courtesy of ESPN Incorporated. Musical

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Speaker 1: comments now and then by Nancy Faust, the best baseball

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Speaker 1: stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my and Stevie

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Speaker 1: Van's Aunt And that is countdown for this the five

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Speaker 1: eight ninth day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against

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Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States. A new

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Speaker 1: episode tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is

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