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Speaker 1: President Biden and his campaign team and his party disciplined

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Speaker 1: team can handle Trump and the electorate and the news

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Speaker 1: conferences and the debates as efficiently as they have turned

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Speaker 1: are going to win the election in a landslide. It's over.

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Speaker 1: You never say it's over, especially not with Biden headed

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Speaker 1: for a news conference tomorrow as the NATO summit in

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Speaker 1: Washington concludes, in which literally two bad answers are one

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Speaker 1: really bad answer could end his candidacy on the spot,

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Speaker 1: or at worst before noon on Friday. But for now,

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Speaker 1: and skipping for a moment, the obviously larger question over

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Speaker 1: whether this signals the start of demock receives going out

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Speaker 1: over yesterday afternoon Mikey Sheryl of New Jersey. Number of

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Speaker 1: down on the record none. Number of ex presidents who

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Speaker 1: number of former Speakers of the House who reportedly told

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Speaker 1: friends in private, she's deeply uneasy with his continued candidacy,

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Speaker 1: shows you just how untough the Democrats on Capitol Hill

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Speaker 1: really are. The debate was two weeks ago tomorrow, and

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Speaker 1: an army of slow moving ants. Juan Vargas of California

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Speaker 1: stupidest thing I've ever seen a circular firing squad. Semaphore

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Speaker 1: News asked an attendee to the congressional meeting off the

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Speaker 1: The answer that is an insult to funerals. Now, there's

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Speaker 1: just one problem and all this success from Team Biden,

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Speaker 1: problem that's been solved, is the one Joe Biden had

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Speaker 1: or has out here on the going out of business

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Speaker 1: sale floor. The Cook Political Report just moved Arizona and

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Speaker 1: Georgia and Nevada from toss up to lean Republican, and

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Speaker 1: just moved Minnesota, Nebraska second, and New Hampshire from likely

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Speaker 1: Democrat to lean Democrat. And if you want some disastrous metaphors,

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Speaker 1: there is new polling from Wisconsin. And while the incumbent

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Speaker 1: Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin leads her Republican challenger, who is

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Speaker 1: besides the number six, the polling was sponsored by AAARP,

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Speaker 1: Now he says, whether or not I have concerns is

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Speaker 1: that at least three Democratic senators told their conclave that

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Speaker 1: Biden is in big trouble, not be because of his stumbles,

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Speaker 1: exactly what point do we stop thinking that at any

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Speaker 1: that deals with winning the election. They see this problem

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Speaker 1: as an insurrection within the party to stamp out that

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Speaker 1: entire question seems to be looked at as well. The

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Speaker 1: voters will figure it out. They'll realize, oh PS Project

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Speaker 1: the voters, they expect, will realize and figure it out.

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Speaker 1: his watch. Elected Trump and a third to half of

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Speaker 1: them think Rush Limbaugh and Andrew Breitbart were not drug

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Speaker 1: And yes, only occasionally do I stop and think that

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg comparison must have already

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Speaker 1: she should retire. Damn you for saying that. But I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking instead of a Charles Adams cartoon I saw when

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Speaker 1: in between rounds of a boxing match, and the guy

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Speaker 1: full speed ahead. Now. I don't know if you hear

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Speaker 1: It's probably the fact that the real field temperatures here

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Speaker 1: He's not running for president, Marco Rubio said, our candidate's

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Speaker 1: he knows nothing about it. The terrifying fact about the

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Speaker 1: any interest to him? As a fatal narcissist. This is

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Speaker 1: estate can exist for a thousand years, presumably because some

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Speaker 1: of the people there can exist for a thousand years.

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Speaker 1: But my favorite part of this remains I'll be in

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Speaker 1: there with my fingers crossed. Honest to goodness, based on

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Speaker 1: Alcore's experience with Ted Williams, I don't want you to

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Speaker 1: suggest to them that they should cross your fingers or

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Speaker 1: do anything else unusual with your body. A runner up

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Speaker 1: worser speaking of frozen heads. Brian Stelter, formerly of The

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Speaker 1: New York Times, formerly of CNN, Brian Stelter was one

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Speaker 1: of the best TV writing bloggers of all time. With

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Speaker 1: The Times, he was also an excellent blogger, and with

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Speaker 1: CNN he was an even better blogger. He has written

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Speaker 1: on threads in what is a continuing and desperate attempt

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Speaker 1: to get The Times to rehire him. Quote for everyone

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Speaker 1: who said, why hasn't the New York Times editorial board

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Speaker 1: called for Trump to step aside? Here it is in

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Speaker 1: Tonight's editorial. This is from Monday Night Trump. Of course,

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Speaker 1: he quotes it, should also withdraw from this race, not

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Speaker 1: least because of his own cognitive deficiencies and incessant line

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Speaker 1: on threads. Stelter put together a thread of various quotes

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Speaker 1: from this article, this opinion piece in The New York

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Speaker 1: Times that seemed to support the thesis that oh sure,

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Speaker 1: they're not just calling up for Biden to withdraw. They've

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Speaker 1: also called for Trump to withdraw. Look, it's in the editorial,

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Speaker 1: and Brian was the good guy who pointed it out.

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Speaker 1: We should rehire him. Wasn't he a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: around here? He broke a lot of stories that were

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Speaker 1: fed to him by Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC,

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Speaker 1: who played him like a two dollars banjo. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: said the quiet part out loud again. I'm so sorry, Brian.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I'll read you again what he wrote,

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Speaker 1: just not the quote, but what he said for everyone

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Speaker 1: who said, why hasn't the New York Times editorial board

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Speaker 1: called for Trump to step aside? Here it is in

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Speaker 1: tonight's editorial. Trump of course, also with Trump and blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah. That was in the twentieth paragraph of the piece.

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Speaker 1: Twenty paragraphs in they say, Oh, by the way, Trump

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Speaker 1: is also crazy and has cognitive deficiencies and lies incessantly.

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Speaker 1: Paragraph twenty. The first nineteen paragraphs are just about Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four references to Joe Biden by name and a

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Speaker 1: photo of him at the top that has been distorted

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Speaker 1: so that it looks like he's what's the guy Russell

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Speaker 1: Crowe in a beautiful mind with all the numbers and

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Speaker 1: letters swirling around his head. That's what they made the

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Speaker 1: president look like. But this is also about Trump. Down there,

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Speaker 1: down there in paragraph twenty. Down there, if you're still

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Speaker 1: reading it, paragraph twenty, The Times is completely fair. Oh no, no,

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Speaker 1: they're not. They haven't decided this is their Watergate. They're

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Speaker 1: still trying to make up for the fact that they

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Speaker 1: finished second in Watergate in nineteen seventy three and seventy four.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, the title of the article, the

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Speaker 1: opinion piece, the op ed. The editorial from The New

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Speaker 1: York Times that Stelter cites here is proving that they

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Speaker 1: asked Trump to step aside. The Democratic Party must speak

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Speaker 1: the plain truth to the president. Brian miss New York

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Speaker 1: Times is not going to date you, but our winner

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Speaker 1: and speaking of people who will someday be formerly of CNN,

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Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and Dana Bash or as Trump called them

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Speaker 1: on Sean Hannity's show, Jake and Dana. Jake and Dana

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Speaker 1: were pretty good. I thought they were fair. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you do anything involving Donald j pedophilia, what pedophilia Trump.

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Speaker 1: If you do anything involving Donald King Kong Trump, Donald

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Speaker 1: convicted fellon Trump. If you do any anything with him

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Speaker 1: in a media setting and he comes back and says

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Speaker 1: you were fair, that means he perceived you had your

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Speaker 1: thumbs and your hands and arms and your ass on

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Speaker 1: the scales in his benefit, because nothing else is fair.

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Speaker 1: The world exists to make Donald Trump feel like he's

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Speaker 1: in charge of it. And if he says Jake and

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Speaker 1: Dana were pretty good, I thought they were fair, that

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Speaker 1: means you suck. That means you failed. That means I

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Speaker 1: will continue to assert what I said live immediately after

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Speaker 1: the debate. There were three stories in the debate. The

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Speaker 1: number three story was Joe Biden's cognitive performance, which was

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Speaker 1: not good and no one will defend it. Number two,

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Speaker 1: the second most important story was Trump lied every thirty

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Speaker 1: five seconds. And number one was that CNN, led by

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Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, never fact checked him once,

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Speaker 1: never pushed back one on any of his lies, never

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Speaker 1: corrected him in the least. Still, the big story, Jake

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Speaker 1: and Dana, well, they were pretty good according to Trump.

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Speaker 1: Proves my point. Jake Tapper and Dana and or Dana

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Speaker 1: Bash praised by Trump. Good evening and welcome to the

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Speaker 1: end of your careers. Two days worst persons in the

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Speaker 1: world that kind of hurt to the number one story

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Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things

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Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. And I do not exactly

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Speaker 1: remember what caused me to think of this story, except

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Speaker 1: for the fact that it has lurked always just beneath

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Speaker 1: the front of my mind since it first happened. In

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Speaker 1: October nineteen ninety nine, I was finishing my first year

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Speaker 1: as the principal anchor and senior correspondent for Fox Sports News,

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Speaker 1: Fox's first attempt to challenge ESPN. I was the host

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Speaker 1: of the Game of the Week on the Fox broadcast network, Baseball,

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Speaker 1: and things had gone pretty well. The guy who hired

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Speaker 1: me recognized it would be five years before we had

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Speaker 1: enough credibility to maybe say we were getting forty percent

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Speaker 1: of ESPN's audience. He had quit and moved back to England,

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Speaker 1: and he had been replaced by another guy who said

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Speaker 1: he would raise the ratings in five weeks or everybody

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Speaker 1: would get fired. My direct boss had hired a clown

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Speaker 1: named Chris Myers to be the top anchor for Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports News and spent something like two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars to lure him away from ESPN, not knowing

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Speaker 1: that ESPN was actually trying to get Myers to leave

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Speaker 1: without having to fire him. None of my direct boss's

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Speaker 1: bosses had told my direct boss that they were hiring

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Speaker 1: me for three million dollars to be the top anchor

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Speaker 1: for Fox Sports News. Myers was bitterly resentful about this,

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Speaker 1: I mean more so than usual, and his boss, who

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Speaker 1: had chained himself to Myers, was even more bitterly resentful.

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Speaker 1: Myers began to demand anything they gave me. They built

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Speaker 1: me a small wardrobe cabinet so when I moved to

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Speaker 1: LA I could keep some clothes and some valuables in

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Speaker 1: my office until I got my own home. Well, the

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Speaker 1: next thing I knew they had built one for Myers,

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Speaker 1: I poked my head in his office one day when

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Speaker 1: he was not there. It was an exact duplicate of mine.

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Speaker 1: The only thing he had in his wardrobe cabinet was

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Speaker 1: one lone bent hangar. Myers co anchored with Steve Lyons,

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Speaker 1: who was proudly doing homophobic jokes on our air. Lions

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Speaker 1: worked the Baseball Show with me every Saturday on Big Fox,

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Speaker 1: and I always thought I was the biggest complainer in

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Speaker 1: the world until I met Lyons and like the second

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Speaker 1: morning he left the makeup room and the hairstylist said

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Speaker 1: she was preparing to kill him, but before she did

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Speaker 1: and the police came, she wanted to thank me for

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Speaker 1: never complaining. Despite all this, we were somehow getting enormous

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Speaker 1: amounts of publicity. Every time anybody wrote an article about

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Speaker 1: ESPN or Sports Center or Dan Patrick, they devoted at

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Speaker 1: least a third, sometimes a half of the article to

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Speaker 1: me and Fox Sports News and my former partnership with

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Speaker 1: Dan and our publicity department did nothing with any of

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Speaker 1: this free publicity. Millions of dollars worth of free publicity,

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Speaker 1: No commercials boasting about all the good press, no advertising

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Speaker 1: about all the good press. Nothing. Plus, just to round

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Speaker 1: it out, I had a stalker who advised me that

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Speaker 1: she was not surprised I had not responded to her

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Speaker 1: in her five years of phone calls and letters. I

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Speaker 1: just needed time and anyway. She knew I was talking

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Speaker 1: to her during the show in Code and she would

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Speaker 1: be coming out to La to marry me or kill me.

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Speaker 1: She had decided which and all I could think was,

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Speaker 1: she's going to kill me, and the makeup artist is

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Speaker 1: going to kill Lions, and you know what that means.

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Speaker 1: That means Myers will wind up getting to do the

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Speaker 1: Baseball Show by himself. So things are going great. Nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety nine was the last World Series that Fox did

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Speaker 1: not televise, but we sent a full crew anyway to

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Speaker 1: cover it wall to wall for our fledgling cable network

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Speaker 1: and Fox Sports News, and I was the anchor. I

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Speaker 1: don't think they sent Lions or Myers. And with me

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Speaker 1: there were two of our cable only analysts, the former

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Speaker 1: Red Sox and Rangers manager Kevin Kennedy and the former

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Speaker 1: Dodgers second baseman Steve Sachs. I liked them both. We

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Speaker 1: worked well together. They had utterly different styles. After our

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Speaker 1: live shots from the field at Turner Field in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: following Game one of that World Series, our producer Eric

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Speaker 1: Weinberger gathered us in the Fox luxury suite down the

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Speaker 1: first base line and he asked us what our news

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Speaker 1: were to improve what had been kind of a sloppy

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Speaker 1: Game one effort. And I said, well, the monitor off

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Speaker 1: which I have to narrate the highlights that needs to

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Speaker 1: be adjusted. And mind you, we're going on there two

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Speaker 1: minutes after the game. I have not seen the highlights,

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Speaker 1: nor could I, nor do I know which highlights have

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Speaker 1: been chosen. I am ad libbing on top of ad libbing,

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Speaker 1: and the only monitor, which is black and white and

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Speaker 1: about four inches in diameter, this had been placed on

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Speaker 1: the dirt next to the braves Dugout. I had literally

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Speaker 1: had to drop to my hands and knees the second

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Speaker 1: the highlights started to play. To have any chance at all,

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Speaker 1: I said, just put the monitor on a stool or

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Speaker 1: a chair, or the wall, or have somebody hold it

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Speaker 1: up near my face. Weinberger said, okay. Kevin Kennedy said

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Speaker 1: that the Fox scopes the pre produced in depth analyzes

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Speaker 1: of pitch sequences or defensive positionings the inside base inside baseball,

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Speaker 1: he kind of needed to see at least some of

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Speaker 1: them before going on the air with them, maybe during

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Speaker 1: the commercial breaks, or he would have no idea what

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Speaker 1: to tell the audience, as was evidenced after game one.

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Speaker 1: Weinberger said, okay, absolutely, and then he said to Sax

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Speaker 1: and what do you need Steve, and Sax said utterly,

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Speaker 1: sincerely and with as much concern as I had had

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Speaker 1: for the Monitor and Kennedy had had for the Fox scopes.

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Speaker 1: Sax said, you got any more of these cookies? These

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Speaker 1: are great. What I had not told Weinberger was something

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00:39:41,275 --> 00:39:46,715
Speaker 1: he already knew. I had to get more sleep. Fox

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Speaker 1: had put us in a hotel in suburban Buckhead, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: the Swiss Hotel, which I guess has been a Weston

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Speaker 1: for twenty years. Nice enough place, big rooms, and the

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Speaker 1: one they put me in the first night was next

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Speaker 1: to a party or a meeting of some kind. I

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Speaker 1: mean there were it sounded like like twenty or thirty

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Speaker 1: people in there, ordinary sized room, same as mine. I

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Speaker 1: called the desk, Sorry, no other rooms available. They would

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Speaker 1: call my neighbors and make sure they would quiet down

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Speaker 1: before bedtime, and they did. And then at two am

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Speaker 1: I discovered what kind of party or meeting it was

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Speaker 1: and why twenty people were in the room in an

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Speaker 1: ordinary size room. In what started it as a dream

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Speaker 1: and then turned into literally unbelievable reality, I heard a

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Speaker 1: loud Southern voice say, if we are going to win

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Speaker 1: this competition, we're gonna have to be the best chorus

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Speaker 1: that ever left North Carolina. And they began to sing

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Speaker 1: gospel mostly, which is fine, except not at two am.

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Speaker 1: Make that now three am, the night before Game one

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Speaker 1: of the World Series, which I have to cover on

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Speaker 1: live TV. Oh, and they'd get thirty or forty seconds

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Speaker 1: into one of the hymns, and the director, who had

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Speaker 1: a voice like the PA system at Turner Field, only

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00:41:07,915 --> 00:41:12,355
Speaker 1: way clearer, would stop them and yell at them and

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Speaker 1: make them start from the beginning. They were competing in

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Speaker 1: the morning, and he had decided they were going to

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Speaker 1: spend the night, the whole night that night practicing. I

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00:41:25,435 --> 00:41:27,835
Speaker 1: called the desk and I made a few sharp edged

643
00:41:27,875 --> 00:41:31,715
Speaker 1: remarks about being on national television and how many opportunities

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00:41:31,755 --> 00:41:36,435
Speaker 1: I would have to bankrupt the Buckhead Swiss Hotel and

645
00:41:36,475 --> 00:41:39,995
Speaker 1: the Swiss Hotel chain generally. And suddenly they found me

646
00:41:40,075 --> 00:41:43,955
Speaker 1: another room to move to, and I gathered my stuff

647
00:41:44,315 --> 00:41:47,315
Speaker 1: and trudged a few floors and scattered my stuff in

648
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Speaker 1: the new room, and I fell onto the bed and

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00:41:50,035 --> 00:41:52,075
Speaker 1: I went right to sleep, and I got a solid

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Speaker 1: two or three minutes. And that's when the bathroom phone

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00:41:57,675 --> 00:42:01,635
Speaker 1: began to ring, not the main phone in the room,

652
00:42:01,715 --> 00:42:06,475
Speaker 1: just the one in the bathroom. Picked it up and

653
00:42:06,515 --> 00:42:10,755
Speaker 1: there was a dial tone, and it kept ringing, one

654
00:42:10,835 --> 00:42:15,155
Speaker 1: hundred rings, two hundred rings. I disconnected the phone line

655
00:42:15,195 --> 00:42:19,515
Speaker 1: from the wall. It kept ringing. I thought, I have

656
00:42:19,595 --> 00:42:21,595
Speaker 1: to be on one of two TV shows. Either I'm

657
00:42:21,635 --> 00:42:27,395
Speaker 1: on Candid Camera or The Twilight Zone. The phone is alive.

658
00:42:27,595 --> 00:42:30,035
Speaker 1: I've disconnected it from the wall and it's still ringing.

659
00:42:30,995 --> 00:42:34,795
Speaker 1: It is now five am. I still have a chance

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00:42:34,835 --> 00:42:37,475
Speaker 1: to get a full night's sleep, in full day's sleep

661
00:42:37,515 --> 00:42:39,875
Speaker 1: before the game, but the rest of the day will

662
00:42:39,915 --> 00:42:44,355
Speaker 1: be erased. I called the desk. My god, we still

663
00:42:44,355 --> 00:42:46,155
Speaker 1: have one of those phones in one of the rooms.

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Speaker 1: I thought we'd removed all of them. I'll send the electrician.

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00:42:50,635 --> 00:42:53,275
Speaker 1: He got there surprisingly fast. He did not bother with

666
00:42:53,355 --> 00:42:55,875
Speaker 1: any niceties, and he simply did what I would have done.

667
00:42:55,955 --> 00:42:58,115
Speaker 1: He yanked the whole thing out of the wall and

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00:42:58,155 --> 00:43:01,995
Speaker 1: took it with him. I closed the door behind him,

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00:43:02,035 --> 00:43:04,275
Speaker 1: and I could hear it as he moved back down

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00:43:04,315 --> 00:43:07,795
Speaker 1: the hall towards the elevator. The phone was still ringing.

671
00:43:07,875 --> 00:43:12,435
Speaker 1: It was a possessed phone. As the sun began to

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00:43:12,595 --> 00:43:15,555
Speaker 1: rise and I crawled back into bed, I remembered something.

673
00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:18,275
Speaker 1: Vital I called my new friend at the front desk

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00:43:18,315 --> 00:43:21,595
Speaker 1: again and I pleaded with him. Upon my arrival. The

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00:43:21,715 --> 00:43:25,035
Speaker 1: night before, which seemed like three or four decades earlier,

676
00:43:25,275 --> 00:43:29,075
Speaker 1: I had sent over a suit to be pressed. Please,

677
00:43:29,675 --> 00:43:32,955
Speaker 1: could you make sure they do not deliver it until

678
00:43:32,995 --> 00:43:37,355
Speaker 1: I call? I have to sleep, guaranteed, sir, you get

679
00:43:37,355 --> 00:43:41,595
Speaker 1: some sleep now. The knock came at eight thirty am,

680
00:43:41,955 --> 00:43:47,715
Speaker 1: Ballet Service. I shout, go away. A moment later the

681
00:43:47,715 --> 00:43:52,715
Speaker 1: phone rings Ballet Service. Minutes after that the phone rings again. Hi,

682
00:43:52,795 --> 00:43:54,675
Speaker 1: this is the Ballet manager. We want to make sure

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00:43:54,715 --> 00:43:58,195
Speaker 1: did you get your suit? I emitted a string of

684
00:43:58,235 --> 00:44:04,635
Speaker 1: popular Anglo saxon expletives. I had now been violently awakened

685
00:44:04,755 --> 00:44:07,515
Speaker 1: so many times by so many different means that my

686
00:44:07,635 --> 00:44:11,075
Speaker 1: vision had blurred. I called the desk. I asked for

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00:44:11,115 --> 00:44:13,995
Speaker 1: the fat number of the general manager's office, and, in

688
00:44:13,995 --> 00:44:16,955
Speaker 1: those days before the universality of email, I wrote the

689
00:44:16,995 --> 00:44:21,635
Speaker 1: general manager a crisp and enraged letter, summarizing to her

690
00:44:22,315 --> 00:44:25,715
Speaker 1: my night in her hell with elevators, and explaining I

691
00:44:25,715 --> 00:44:28,795
Speaker 1: would be checking out and going anywhere a cab could

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Speaker 1: take me, a Motel six, a YMCA, a safe looking

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00:44:33,115 --> 00:44:37,675
Speaker 1: bus stop. When I finally woke to my own alarm

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00:44:37,755 --> 00:44:41,115
Speaker 1: around two in the afternoon, I found a note slipped

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00:44:41,195 --> 00:44:45,235
Speaker 1: under my door. It was as apologetic as anything I

696
00:44:45,275 --> 00:44:48,475
Speaker 1: have ever read, and it had this sentence in it.

697
00:44:48,595 --> 00:44:50,955
Speaker 1: I know we cannot undo the harm we have done

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00:44:50,995 --> 00:44:53,475
Speaker 1: to you, but I would offer you this by way

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00:44:53,475 --> 00:44:58,675
Speaker 1: of apology. At eight pm this evening, the presidential suite

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00:44:58,795 --> 00:45:04,635
Speaker 1: will become available. Please try it just tonight with our compliments.

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00:45:05,235 --> 00:45:08,435
Speaker 1: We will pack and move your belongings in your absence,

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00:45:08,675 --> 00:45:11,875
Speaker 1: and my assistant will stay tonight until you return from

703
00:45:11,875 --> 00:45:17,955
Speaker 1: the game and will personally escort you to the suite. Okay, well,

704
00:45:17,955 --> 00:45:20,995
Speaker 1: I had to give that a shot, didn't I. The

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00:45:21,035 --> 00:45:24,995
Speaker 1: Presidential suite at the Swiss Hotel and Buckhead, Georgia was

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00:45:25,035 --> 00:45:29,835
Speaker 1: not what I expected. The front doors, there were two

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00:45:29,915 --> 00:45:35,475
Speaker 1: of them, opened onto a dining table which seated twenty eight.

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00:45:36,675 --> 00:45:40,635
Speaker 1: A few feet away from this twenty eight seater, well

709
00:45:40,795 --> 00:45:44,035
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty or forty feet was the baby grand

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00:45:44,115 --> 00:45:48,035
Speaker 1: piano in the next room. To the left, just a

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00:45:48,075 --> 00:45:52,115
Speaker 1: few minutes walk away was the kitchen and the conference room,

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00:45:52,435 --> 00:45:57,795
Speaker 1: which had the big table. Each of the bedrooms had

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00:45:57,835 --> 00:46:02,875
Speaker 1: a fireplace, so did the living room. There were four bedrooms.

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00:46:03,275 --> 00:46:07,275
Speaker 1: There was a sauna, There was a hot tub. There

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00:46:07,355 --> 00:46:10,555
Speaker 1: was a second hot tub out on the balcony. There

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00:46:10,635 --> 00:46:13,835
Speaker 1: was a walk in closet larger than the first room

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00:46:13,875 --> 00:46:16,915
Speaker 1: they had given me. There was a door in the

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00:46:16,955 --> 00:46:19,875
Speaker 1: back of the walk in closet that led to a

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00:46:20,075 --> 00:46:26,795
Speaker 1: second walk in closet. I thought immediately of two things.

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00:46:27,355 --> 00:46:30,195
Speaker 1: I called all the women I had dated in the

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00:46:30,235 --> 00:46:33,915
Speaker 1: preceding year to see if any of them wanted to

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00:46:33,995 --> 00:46:36,595
Speaker 1: fly to Atlanta at my expense, even if it was

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00:46:36,675 --> 00:46:40,875
Speaker 1: just to see the presidential suite. I called women I

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00:46:40,915 --> 00:46:44,035
Speaker 1: had known from when I occasionally worked in Atlanta sixteen

725
00:46:44,115 --> 00:46:48,235
Speaker 1: years earlier. I then thought, we all right, practically here,

726
00:46:48,595 --> 00:46:51,315
Speaker 1: we can hold the pre production meeting for Game two

727
00:46:51,395 --> 00:46:54,755
Speaker 1: of the World Series in well, either in the living

728
00:46:54,835 --> 00:47:00,035
Speaker 1: room with the twenty eight seat dining table or in

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00:47:00,115 --> 00:47:04,275
Speaker 1: the conference room with the thirty six seat table. Hell,

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00:47:04,675 --> 00:47:08,155
Speaker 1: the whole Game two of the World Series in this suite.

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00:47:08,315 --> 00:47:10,995
Speaker 1: My only concern with that, in a suite so big

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00:47:11,035 --> 00:47:13,315
Speaker 1: it should have had its own ZIP code, was that

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00:47:13,355 --> 00:47:16,075
Speaker 1: there was an excellent chance Steve Sachs would get lost

734
00:47:16,235 --> 00:47:20,115
Speaker 1: in it and we would never find him. And then

735
00:47:20,155 --> 00:47:22,475
Speaker 1: I thought, no, they'll probably charge me extra for such

736
00:47:22,515 --> 00:47:28,835
Speaker 1: a wonderful bonus the Buckhead, Georgia, Swiss Hotel and its

737
00:47:28,915 --> 00:47:31,755
Speaker 1: general manager, whose name is lost in the folds of history,

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00:47:31,795 --> 00:47:34,035
Speaker 1: had cemented a place in my travel hall of fame,

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00:47:34,435 --> 00:47:36,915
Speaker 1: and we were discussing that during the pre production with

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00:47:36,955 --> 00:47:40,715
Speaker 1: our Fox Sports news crew at noon on Sunday before

741
00:47:40,835 --> 00:47:43,835
Speaker 1: Game two, munching on the six plates of free food

742
00:47:43,915 --> 00:47:48,515
Speaker 1: they had sent up, when the doorbell rang, I say, doorbell.

743
00:47:49,035 --> 00:47:55,075
Speaker 1: It sounded like the bells at Notre Dame in Paris. There,

744
00:47:55,275 --> 00:47:58,995
Speaker 1: to my surprise, outside the double doors were three hotel

745
00:47:59,035 --> 00:48:03,475
Speaker 1: staffers with luggage carts. For a moment, I thought they

746
00:48:03,515 --> 00:48:07,435
Speaker 1: had come to give us free rides to the lobby.

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00:48:08,235 --> 00:48:12,355
Speaker 1: I expressed my surprise at their presence. Well, said the staffer,

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00:48:12,355 --> 00:48:15,115
Speaker 1: who turned out to be the other assistant to the

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00:48:15,115 --> 00:48:20,355
Speaker 1: hotels general manager. You're checking out today, I smiled, No, no, no, Tomorrow.

750
00:48:20,435 --> 00:48:23,075
Speaker 1: Game two is tonight. We're checking out tomorrow, tomorrow morning.

751
00:48:24,235 --> 00:48:30,915
Speaker 1: Suddenly the bell station manager looked sad, even remorseful. Oh,

752
00:48:30,955 --> 00:48:34,115
Speaker 1: for God's sakes, we got that wrong too. I'm afraid

753
00:48:34,115 --> 00:48:37,035
Speaker 1: we need the presidential suite for an actual president tonight.

754
00:48:38,075 --> 00:48:41,755
Speaker 1: I can move you to the governor's suite, he said. Hopefully,

755
00:48:44,515 --> 00:48:47,155
Speaker 1: they packed my stuff as I instructed the Fox staff

756
00:48:47,195 --> 00:48:49,915
Speaker 1: to eat all of the food on the platters and

757
00:48:49,995 --> 00:48:53,195
Speaker 1: to stuff anything they could not eat into their pockets.

758
00:48:54,195 --> 00:48:56,835
Speaker 1: I tried to sneak in a quick sauna, but the

759
00:48:56,875 --> 00:49:01,235
Speaker 1: staff said there was a certain element of hurry up involved. Finally,

760
00:49:01,275 --> 00:49:03,995
Speaker 1: we all paraded down the hall to the Governor's suite.

761
00:49:04,235 --> 00:49:06,755
Speaker 1: And why Burger and I were speculating that this would

762
00:49:06,755 --> 00:49:10,275
Speaker 1: only have one conference table and only one hot tub,

763
00:49:10,595 --> 00:49:13,155
Speaker 1: and it would all be indoors, and there would be

764
00:49:13,155 --> 00:49:16,675
Speaker 1: no balcony, and we'd all be like Cinderella when the

765
00:49:16,715 --> 00:49:19,235
Speaker 1: clock struck midnight, and we get there and the assistant

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00:49:19,235 --> 00:49:22,195
Speaker 1: to the General Manager opens the door to the Governor's

767
00:49:22,235 --> 00:49:25,275
Speaker 1: suite with great ceremony, and they're five feet in from

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00:49:25,315 --> 00:49:28,715
Speaker 1: the vestibule. Perfectly placed on the ratty and bright blue

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00:49:28,795 --> 00:49:31,875
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one nylon rug that might once have been

770
00:49:31,875 --> 00:49:35,795
Speaker 1: the artificial turf at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, was the

771
00:49:35,835 --> 00:49:40,395
Speaker 1: biggest carpet stain I have ever seen in my life,

772
00:49:40,755 --> 00:49:47,315
Speaker 1: easily ten feet in diameter, causable only by the spilling

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00:49:47,355 --> 00:49:54,475
Speaker 1: of nuclear waste or by a murder. So I said

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00:49:54,515 --> 00:49:58,315
Speaker 1: to the chagrined assistant to the general manager who was

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00:49:58,395 --> 00:50:02,555
Speaker 1: putting down a fresh towel to cover the stain, and

776
00:50:02,675 --> 00:50:07,555
Speaker 1: to whom it was apparently news that his Governor's suite

777
00:50:07,595 --> 00:50:11,835
Speaker 1: feature to stain the size of the chalk outline of

778
00:50:11,915 --> 00:50:19,435
Speaker 1: where the body had fallen. So I asked him, when

779
00:50:19,515 --> 00:50:36,395
Speaker 1: does the chorus arrive for practice? I swear to goodness

780
00:50:36,475 --> 00:50:39,315
Speaker 1: there are pictures of me at the Baby Grand piano

781
00:50:39,835 --> 00:50:43,835
Speaker 1: pretending to play. I've done all the damage I can

782
00:50:43,875 --> 00:50:46,515
Speaker 1: do here, mostly to my own respiratory system. Thanks for

783
00:50:46,595 --> 00:50:50,355
Speaker 1: listening and bearing with me. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray

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00:50:50,395 --> 00:50:53,315
Speaker 1: and John Phillip Schanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of

785
00:50:53,315 --> 00:50:56,515
Speaker 1: our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums,

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00:50:56,515 --> 00:50:59,475
Speaker 1: and mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, and it was

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00:50:59,475 --> 00:51:02,115
Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. And I have to have a

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00:51:02,155 --> 00:51:04,435
Speaker 1: conversation with the producers of this show because I have

789
00:51:04,475 --> 00:51:07,675
Speaker 1: never recorded a generic last segment that I can just

790
00:51:07,755 --> 00:51:09,955
Speaker 1: plug in when I'm not feeling well, So I have

791
00:51:09,995 --> 00:51:12,075
Speaker 1: to do a new one for every show because I

792
00:51:12,155 --> 00:51:14,395
Speaker 1: put all these dates and times in it, because I'm

793
00:51:14,395 --> 00:51:18,875
Speaker 1: a genius. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions

794
00:51:18,995 --> 00:51:21,875
Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The

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00:51:21,875 --> 00:51:25,195
Speaker 1: sports music is the Oberman theme from ESPN two, written

796
00:51:25,235 --> 00:51:29,195
Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis, appearing courtesy of ESPN inc. Our

797
00:51:29,235 --> 00:51:32,235
Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss. The

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00:51:32,315 --> 00:51:35,555
Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my

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00:51:35,595 --> 00:51:39,195
Speaker 1: friend Tony Kornheiser. Everything else was pretty much my fault

800
00:51:40,435 --> 00:51:43,355
Speaker 1: except the rest. I'd like to blame on society. That's

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00:51:43,395 --> 00:51:45,835
Speaker 1: countdown for this, the one hundred and nineteenth day until

802
00:51:45,835 --> 00:51:49,755
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election, the two hundred and

803
00:51:49,835 --> 00:51:54,515
Speaker 1: eightieth day since convicted felon Donald J. Insanity, Trump's first

804
00:51:54,515 --> 00:51:58,235
Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.

805
00:51:58,635 --> 00:52:00,555
Speaker 1: And that's right. I couldn't even get through the entire

806
00:52:00,595 --> 00:52:05,595
Speaker 1: closing segment in one take. Use the September eighteen sentencing hearing.

807
00:52:05,755 --> 00:52:08,675
Speaker 1: Use the mental health system. You've got it, mister president.

808
00:52:08,955 --> 00:52:13,795
Speaker 1: Use presidential immunity. You don't just give up. You don't say, well,

809
00:52:13,915 --> 00:52:18,355
Speaker 1: Hitler won the election, So here are the keys. If

810
00:52:18,395 --> 00:52:23,235
Speaker 1: you don't do it, he will use presidential immunity to

811
00:52:23,235 --> 00:52:25,555
Speaker 1: stop Trump from doing it again while we still can.

812
00:52:26,435 --> 00:52:30,875
Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins as the news warrants,

813
00:52:30,915 --> 00:52:33,955
Speaker 1: although as mentioned earlier, maybe not. I'll check in with

814
00:52:33,955 --> 00:52:36,875
Speaker 1: my respiratory system in the afternoon. I suspect it's in

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00:52:37,315 --> 00:52:40,075
Speaker 1: one other room in the house somewhere. Until then, I'm

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Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good

817
00:52:43,475 --> 00:53:04,315
Speaker 1: luck to me. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production

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Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

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