WEBVTT - THE MURDER OF ALEX PRETTI IS TRUMP'S WARNING: SUPPORT ME OR ELSE - 1.26.26

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<v Speaker 1>Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. They

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<v Speaker 1>have inadvertently confessed why Alex Pretty was murdered by Ice

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<v Speaker 1>and Border Patrol in Minneapolis Saturday. They the Trump dictatorship

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<v Speaker 1>and its terrorists, the paramilitary organization the Proud Ice Boys

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<v Speaker 1>death Squad. They murdered Alex Pretty as a warning that

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<v Speaker 1>this is what they will continue to do if local

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<v Speaker 1>leaders like Minnesota's governor do not stop thwarting the Trump dictatorship.

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<v Speaker 1>They hadn't even cleaned up the murder site yet, and

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<v Speaker 1>yet Trump's concierge, Attorney General Pambody, was already on Fox confessing.

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<v Speaker 1>What she said could someday send her to finish her

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<v Speaker 1>life in jail. But that's someday right now. What matters

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<v Speaker 1>is what her confession means to us, Her confession about

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<v Speaker 1>the letter she sent. It is an extortion letter, a

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<v Speaker 1>blackmail letter, a kidnapping letter. It is a letter promising

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<v Speaker 1>to end Trump's invasion of Minnesota, to withdraw Ice if

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<v Speaker 1>Trump's ransom demands are met. Quote, we sent Governor Walls

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<v Speaker 1>a very strong letter today, BONDI said to whichever Fox

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<v Speaker 1>meat puppet was on the air that hour, We got

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<v Speaker 1>it out, saying that he better support President Trump, he

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<v Speaker 1>better support the men and women in law enforcement, because

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<v Speaker 1>if he doesn't, we are, and that's what we're doing

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<v Speaker 1>right now. He better support President Trump. It's simple. They

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<v Speaker 1>want voter rolls and Medicare data and other showy things

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<v Speaker 1>with which to suppress minorities and fix the midterms. But

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<v Speaker 1>the big picture, the big message BONDI was too stupid

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<v Speaker 1>to finesse or dress up. It's right there. What we

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<v Speaker 1>did Saturday morning is she implied a message to Governor

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<v Speaker 1>Walls and every other governor and every other mayor and

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<v Speaker 1>every other American quote, saying that he better support President

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<v Speaker 1>Trump because if he doesn't, we are, and that's what

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<v Speaker 1>we're doing right now. Support Trump or we will well,

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<v Speaker 1>we will keep shooting your residence. Comply or your people

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<v Speaker 1>will die, or you will die. The United States of

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<v Speaker 1>America is at this moment without a functioning government. In

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<v Speaker 1>place of a government, the United States of America now

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<v Speaker 1>has a Trump terrorist organization in forced by a paramilitary

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<v Speaker 1>death squad, proud ice boys, masked gunmen, street gangs in

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<v Speaker 1>Nazi leathered trench coats. The United States of America is

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<v Speaker 1>at this moment without a functioning government, and the United

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<v Speaker 1>States of America is at this moment without a functioning constitution,

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<v Speaker 1>and the United States of America is at this moment

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<v Speaker 1>without a functioning president. We are destabilized from within by

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<v Speaker 1>state sponsored terrorism, our own state, with our own terrorist,

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<v Speaker 1>the worst terrorist this nation has ever faced. Donald John Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>he serves no one but himself, at his co conspirators,

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<v Speaker 1>and his gangs and militias and Gestapo, and for all

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<v Speaker 1>we know mercenaries which he calls homeland security and border

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<v Speaker 1>patrol and Ice, and they are rioters and provocateurs and enforcers,

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<v Speaker 1>and they are death squads. Trump serves no one but himself.

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<v Speaker 1>He protects no one but himself, and he protects those

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<v Speaker 1>who will break the laws on his behalf, his criminals,

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<v Speaker 1>his executioners. You saw what happened. The world saw what happened.

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<v Speaker 1>The video is conclusive, and what it depicts is unmistakable.

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<v Speaker 1>Alex Pretty, a nurse, a nurse at a VA hospital,

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<v Speaker 1>goes to where Ice was threatening to riot again. He

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<v Speaker 1>brought with him his gun, for which he had a permit,

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<v Speaker 1>which every right winger for half a century has claimed

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<v Speaker 1>is the most important part of the Constitution, sometimes the

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<v Speaker 1>only part of the Constitution they can even see. When

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<v Speaker 1>he got there, he saw Ice sadists pepper sprang and

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<v Speaker 1>knocking a woman to the snowy street. He filmed it.

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<v Speaker 1>He tried to help her up. They swarmed him. They

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<v Speaker 1>forced him to the ground, They beat him, They found

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<v Speaker 1>and removed the gun he was not holding. And then

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<v Speaker 1>as he fell to the ground and lay there defenseless,

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<v Speaker 1>they shot him in the head and ten times in

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<v Speaker 1>total the end. And then this subhuman witch, Christie Nome,

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<v Speaker 1>got up and before his body was cold, accused him

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<v Speaker 1>of being a domestic terrorist and of brandishing a gun.

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<v Speaker 1>And amid the obvious slanders and untruths that brand her

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<v Speaker 1>either a compulsive liar or someone impaired by brain injury

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<v Speaker 1>or vision deprivation or impairment, she told the real story here,

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<v Speaker 1>that Alex Pretty was shot because he interfered with what

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<v Speaker 1>ICE was doing in Minneapolis, with its duties, with its purpose.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you take that as the only true thing

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<v Speaker 1>she said, true monstrousness of what happens Saturday becomes even

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<v Speaker 1>worse because Christy Nome's inference, the sadistic admission she is

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<v Speaker 1>too stupid and delusional to understand she made is that

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<v Speaker 1>ICE's duties under the Trump a dvanced dictatorship are menacing

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<v Speaker 1>Americans citizens and non citizens alike and throwing them to

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<v Speaker 1>the ground and beating them and then killing them. This

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't some kind of mistake. Noome hasn't said it. None

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<v Speaker 1>of them have said it. None of them have said

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<v Speaker 1>it still that the death of Alex Pretty was even

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<v Speaker 1>a mistake, just as she and the others scums still

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<v Speaker 1>haven't said the death of Renee Good was even a mistake.

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<v Speaker 1>They continue to glory in what they did. Christin Noman,

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<v Speaker 1>Tom Holman and todd Lyons and this pile of vomit

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<v Speaker 1>in an SS trench coat. Bovino are celebrating the murders

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<v Speaker 1>of Pretty and Good and the others who have been injured,

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<v Speaker 1>and the others who have been seized, and the five

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<v Speaker 1>year olds used as bait, and the doctors who have

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<v Speaker 1>been not eyed access to the men dying of murders

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<v Speaker 1>stochastically ordered by Trump. They have been glorying in this

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<v Speaker 1>because that is what ICE's purpose is. That is what

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<v Speaker 1>Bovino's purpose is, that is what nomes purpose is. That

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<v Speaker 1>is what this dressed up street gang called Ice, barely

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<v Speaker 1>dressed up street gang is. That is what Homan is,

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<v Speaker 1>That is what Lions is, that is what the Department

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<v Speaker 1>of Justice is. This wasn't some nightmare of hatred mixed

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<v Speaker 1>with sadism, mixed with improper training. They meant for it

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<v Speaker 1>to be like this, and they mean for it to

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<v Speaker 1>be worse than this. Christy Nomes job is to get

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<v Speaker 1>Americans killed. The proud Ice boys jobs are to throw

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<v Speaker 1>Americans to the streets and beat them and killed them.

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<v Speaker 1>Their duties are to menace and throw women and the

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<v Speaker 1>elderly to the ground. And all that Nomes said is

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<v Speaker 1>an acknowledgment of every one of our enraged criticisms about

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<v Speaker 1>who they are and what they are doing. It is

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<v Speaker 1>their confirmation that not only are we correct, but that

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<v Speaker 1>we have understood their goal. They are not only terrorists,

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<v Speaker 1>they intend to be terrorists, and not just some small

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<v Speaker 1>subset of undocumented immigrants, some small number of easily slandered,

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<v Speaker 1>easily targeted other scapegoats. This is intended to terrorize all Americans,

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<v Speaker 1>and that includes those massachists who form half the base

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<v Speaker 1>of Trump's support and to whom Ice is also a

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<v Speaker 1>reminder a much more subtle reminder you want to be

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<v Speaker 1>on our side, because here is what we do to

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<v Speaker 1>people who are not on our side. And guess what,

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<v Speaker 1>mister and missus maga in your heart, you may think

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<v Speaker 1>you are one of us, and that we are what

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<v Speaker 1>you voted for, and that you are safe. But what

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<v Speaker 1>we really want you to take away from Minneapolis is

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<v Speaker 1>that you can be a white guy who works for

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<v Speaker 1>the government, and you can have a gun permit and

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<v Speaker 1>you can carry the gun in accordance with the Second Amendment.

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<v Speaker 1>We whip you into a frenzy over and we will

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<v Speaker 1>still kill you. We will still kill you. Ice DHS

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<v Speaker 1>these paramilitary gangs who then tried to destroy the evidence

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<v Speaker 1>of their murder, and the local cops had to threaten them,

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<v Speaker 1>and the city had to go to court to get

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<v Speaker 1>a restraining order to keep them from destroying the evidence.

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<v Speaker 1>Although they probably have These are terrorist organizations. The Trump

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<v Speaker 1>vance government is a terrorist organization. I have been saying

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<v Speaker 1>this since twenty sixteen, when I had to phrase it

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<v Speaker 1>as a theoretical because we were still in the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of that first goddamned election, when I had to say

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<v Speaker 1>that if Trump meant what he said in his campaign,

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<v Speaker 1>there would be concentration camps Trump concentration camps full of

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<v Speaker 1>minorities and immigrants, and there would be American born citizens

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<v Speaker 1>in there with them, or American born citizens injured or

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<v Speaker 1>in jail, because not everybody was going to go along

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<v Speaker 1>with the purging of their own neighbors. Not this time.

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<v Speaker 1>Trump is a terrorist, Gnome is a terrorist. The murderers

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<v Speaker 1>of Alex Prettier terrorist and they should all be in

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<v Speaker 1>Gitmo today. The only difference between two thousand and twenty

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<v Speaker 1>six and two thousand and sixteen is it's no longer

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<v Speaker 1>theoretical they won't become terrorists. They are terrorists now. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>there is one other difference. They are making almost no

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<v Speaker 1>effort to hide it anymore, because to hide it, to

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<v Speaker 1>deny it, is to deprive themselves of the other purpose

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<v Speaker 1>of state sponsored terrorism against America and Americans, the opportunity

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<v Speaker 1>to course and blackmail and neutralize the remaining local and

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<v Speaker 1>state governments that might still defend citizens and stand between

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<v Speaker 1>them and the murdering menace that is Trump and his thugs.

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<v Speaker 1>As much as Alex Pretti tried to stand between the

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<v Speaker 1>women on the street in Minneapolis Saturday and the oncoming

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<v Speaker 1>proud Ice boys to deny that this is the plan

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<v Speaker 1>is to hamstring Pam Bondy Gnomes response, and the best

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<v Speaker 1>theoretical explanation for her, for all of them, is that

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<v Speaker 1>they are strung out. Nome's response was appalling and infuriating,

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<v Speaker 1>and yet it was surprisingly missionary position. She's a liar,

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<v Speaker 1>she's a sadist, She's covered for Corey Lewandowski. She will

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<v Speaker 1>do whatever is required for money and power. She is

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<v Speaker 1>utterly fungible, and they could replace her tomorrow, and with

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<v Speaker 1>the perversions she has had done to her appearance, they

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<v Speaker 1>could literally replace her with somebody who looked sort of

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<v Speaker 1>like her. And if the replacement had a deviated septum,

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<v Speaker 1>you might never know the difference. Christinom is male order,

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<v Speaker 1>Christinome is basic. But Pam Bondi is in a way, far,

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<v Speaker 1>far more dangerous. Despite I have met her, despite her

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<v Speaker 1>belligerent stupidity, her response to the murder of Alex pretty

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<v Speaker 1>seemed too fast, too on the nose, too rehearsed. If

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<v Speaker 1>you told me before she started to talk on Saturday afternoon,

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<v Speaker 1>if you told me somebody instructed the ice invasion force

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<v Speaker 1>in Minnesota on Thursday or Friday, Hey kill some guy

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<v Speaker 1>tomorrow or Saturday, so BONDI can threaten to have you

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<v Speaker 1>do it again. I would argue back against your conspiracy theory,

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<v Speaker 1>but the only real heft to my argument would be

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<v Speaker 1>that these people are too incompetent to pull off a

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<v Speaker 1>conspiracy that they would want to do this. I have

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<v Speaker 1>no doubt of that. But then BONDI responded to the

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<v Speaker 1>murder by confirming the conspiracy theory. To send, she says,

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<v Speaker 1>Governor walls that extortion letter, a series of threats, a

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<v Speaker 1>series of demands, a series of orders, with the not

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<v Speaker 1>too thinly veiled threat that if they are not complied with, well,

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<v Speaker 1>there are a lot more Renee Goods and Alex Preddi's

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<v Speaker 1>out there in Minnesota. And it's not like we're short

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<v Speaker 1>of homicidal maniacs with endless AMMO and no Morality's not

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<v Speaker 1>like we're short of people who will get up and

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<v Speaker 1>lie while the video plays, proving they are lying as

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<v Speaker 1>they are lying. And it's not like we're short of

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<v Speaker 1>masochistic and sadistic maga out there who want to see

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<v Speaker 1>people murdered, because that's what masochists and sadists and trumpists

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<v Speaker 1>are Bondy, as you know, made an offer, an offer

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<v Speaker 1>that Tim Walls is not supposed to. What was that

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<v Speaker 1>phrase again, refuse it's a threat, of course, but she

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<v Speaker 1>called it an offer. We will withdraw our Ice death

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<v Speaker 1>squads from Minnesota after you give us all your medicaid

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<v Speaker 1>and food assistant records, after you repudiate your sanctuary cities,

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<v Speaker 1>after you swear to have your cops cooperate with and

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<v Speaker 1>subordinate themselves to our power military gang, and then give

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<v Speaker 1>us your voter rolls so we can prosecute you for

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<v Speaker 1>discriminating against white people. You know, white people like the

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<v Speaker 1>ones we've shot on your streets this month. The real

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<v Speaker 1>victims here, Oh no, not when we shoot them, then

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<v Speaker 1>they're not victims. Then the Ice and Border Patrol officers

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<v Speaker 1>are the real victims here because they had a camera

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<v Speaker 1>thrust towards them. And oh, by the way, with the

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<v Speaker 1>voter rolls, we can purge all the Democrats and minority

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<v Speaker 1>voters we can get away with from your voter rolls,

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<v Speaker 1>because that's the only way we will not lose the midterms,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's the only way all of us in Trump

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<v Speaker 1>terrorist organizations and such won't wind up living out our

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<v Speaker 1>worthless lives in prison, standard organized crime, standard terrorist organization,

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<v Speaker 1>standard putinesque hitlerresque dictatorship procedure, damage wound, destroy kill first,

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<v Speaker 1>then issue demands, then blame the victim, then agree to

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<v Speaker 1>stop your crimes. If your victims essentially confess to enough

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<v Speaker 1>fictition crimes to allow you to then say, we have

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<v Speaker 1>defeated the Minnesota enemy. And not only have we defeated them,

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<v Speaker 1>their evidence that they gave us now justifies us taking

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<v Speaker 1>our proud Ice boys and invading New York because in

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<v Speaker 1>New York they're doing the thing we told you they

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<v Speaker 1>were doing in Minnesota, and Minnesota just confessed standard blackmail

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<v Speaker 1>and extortion and frankly standard paramilitary dictatorship. And yet somehow

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<v Speaker 1>it is still even worse. BONDI sent the letter to Walls.

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<v Speaker 1>We assume this is true. We can't be sure. Can't

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<v Speaker 1>be sure she actually sent Walls the letter. Hell Alex

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<v Speaker 1>Pretti's family said Saturday night, nobody from ICE or DHS

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<v Speaker 1>or the Trump mafia or anybody in the government. The

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<v Speaker 1>federal government notified them that he was dead. Twelve hours later,

0:17:01.195 --> 0:17:03.235
<v Speaker 1>they still hadn't heard from them. They had found out

0:17:03.235 --> 0:17:06.155
<v Speaker 1>he was dead when an Associated Press reporter told them,

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<v Speaker 1>Pam Bondi may have sent the letter to Walls, but

0:17:10.795 --> 0:17:13.035
<v Speaker 1>she certainly sent the letter to Fox News, and as

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<v Speaker 1>they are ordered to do, they put her on the

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<v Speaker 1>air almost immediately, where this somehow even worse part happened.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not just that Bondi and her future co defendants

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<v Speaker 1>want Minnesota to turn over its voter roles and assistant

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<v Speaker 1>records and become a subsidiary of ICE. It's that she

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<v Speaker 1>let the cat out of a bag, because, as I said,

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<v Speaker 1>I've met her, she's remarkably stupid and gullible and moreover

0:17:39.475 --> 0:17:43.955
<v Speaker 1>desperate for approval. And there is nobody actually there behind

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<v Speaker 1>those eyes. It is all a performance, and a bad one,

0:17:50.475 --> 0:17:55.035
<v Speaker 1>and it all sounds truly rehearsed and unqualified and artificial.

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<v Speaker 1>And when I say artificial, I don't mean an artificial intelligence.

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<v Speaker 1>And so Bondi then went on Fox and that's when

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<v Speaker 1>she let the cat out of the bag about why

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<v Speaker 1>Alex Pretty was really murdered. And I'll read it again.

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<v Speaker 1>We sent Governor Walls a very strong letter today, we

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<v Speaker 1>got it out, saying that he better support President Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>he better support the men and women in law enforcement.

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<v Speaker 1>Because if he doesn't, we are, and that's what we're

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<v Speaker 1>doing right now. That's what we're doing right now. We

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<v Speaker 1>shot two of your citizens because you're not supporting President Trump.

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<v Speaker 1>Pretty straightforward, actually, maybe the most honest thing said in

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<v Speaker 1>the year and six days of this dictatorship from hell,

0:18:44.715 --> 0:18:53.435
<v Speaker 1>this nightmare of Trump and his moron sidekick JV there

0:18:53.475 --> 0:18:55.795
<v Speaker 1>it is you better support President Trump because if you don't,

0:18:55.835 --> 0:18:57.635
<v Speaker 1>we are. That's what we did two weeks ago when

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<v Speaker 1>we shot that woman in the face. That's what we

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<v Speaker 1>did Saturday when we killed that Second Amendment guy from

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<v Speaker 1>the VA hospital. You quote, better support President Trump. That's

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<v Speaker 1>what we're doing right now. Yep, that is what they're

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<v Speaker 1>doing right now. So how do we throw this dictatorship out?

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<v Speaker 1>And how do we make sure the terrorists have not won?

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<v Speaker 1>And how do we put Christy Noman, Pam Bondi and

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<v Speaker 1>Bovino and Gitmo. I am encouraged that the murder and

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<v Speaker 1>the threat of more murders was so obvious that even

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<v Speaker 1>Chuck Schumer noticed, But I'd like to point out that

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<v Speaker 1>his statement and those of Cortes Masto and Jackie Rosen

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<v Speaker 1>and the other senators who had wavered about voting against

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<v Speaker 1>appropriations bills that would finance DHS and ICE past Friday

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<v Speaker 1>of this week. Their statements were soft enough around the

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<v Speaker 1>edges that they may still fold as usual. Schumer wrote

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<v Speaker 1>a quote not providing the votes to proceed to the

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<v Speaker 1>appropriation's bill if the DHS funding bill is included. That

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<v Speaker 1>does not necessarily mean not funding the rest of the

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<v Speaker 1>government by somehow stripping the ICE and DHS budgets out

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<v Speaker 1>to be voted on separately and then approving them with

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<v Speaker 1>some token nonsense like better training or body cams, because

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<v Speaker 1>boy oh boy, the threat of their being video of

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<v Speaker 1>ice murdering nurses sure stopped them from murdering a nurse

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<v Speaker 1>on Saturday morning. Even if what Schumer said is not

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<v Speaker 1>the liberately designed to allow the weasels among our elected

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<v Speaker 1>representatives to eventually fund some form of, you know, Trump

0:21:12.955 --> 0:21:20.195
<v Speaker 1>run government sponsored ice terrorism, it's still insufficient. What Democrats

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<v Speaker 1>in the Senate, now that the seven traders inside the

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<v Speaker 1>House Democratic Caucus close that escape route off looking at you,

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<v Speaker 1>Marie Gluesen, camp Perez and Tom Swazi, what Democrats in

0:21:31.755 --> 0:21:35.275
<v Speaker 1>the Senate need to do is deny all funding to

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<v Speaker 1>this government. I mean, take a page from Pambondy literally

0:21:41.835 --> 0:21:46.235
<v Speaker 1>a page her letter. If you are terrified, Chuck Schumer

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<v Speaker 1>at the phrase abolish Ice, just cut off all funding

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<v Speaker 1>to the government. Cut off all funding to Trump until

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<v Speaker 1>they completely correct immigration control. Come back to us when

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<v Speaker 1>you're ready. Trump, as Adam Schiff rightly said, not another dime.

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<v Speaker 1>Shut the Trump dictatorship down. It's not like it's any

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<v Speaker 1>good in anything anyway besides killing us. Shut it down

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<v Speaker 1>for a month or six months, or until January twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty nine. Shut it the f down, because surprise, the

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<v Speaker 1>voters will back you up. You GOV polled Saturday after

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<v Speaker 1>the execution in Minneapolis, would you support abolishing Ice? Yes?

0:22:34.875 --> 0:22:38.715
<v Speaker 1>Forty six percent, No, forty one percent. That's a net

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<v Speaker 1>plus five four abolishment. Among independents, it's a net plus twelve.

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<v Speaker 1>Deep inside the demographics, they asked one group, would you

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<v Speaker 1>support abolishing Ice? Nineteen percent said yes. That group is

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<v Speaker 1>Republicans nineteen percent abolish Ice. A less weighted version of

0:23:00.755 --> 0:23:03.355
<v Speaker 1>a similar question, do you approve or disapprove of the

0:23:03.555 --> 0:23:07.595
<v Speaker 1>job Ice is doing? New York Times SIENA poll, all voters,

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<v Speaker 1>all demographics, sixty three percent disapprove of the job Ice

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<v Speaker 1>is doing. Seventy percent of independence disapproved, fifty seven percent

0:23:17.355 --> 0:23:21.355
<v Speaker 1>of white voters disapproved. Nineteen percent of Trump voters disapprove.

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<v Speaker 1>It's twenty seven points underwater. Put Ice underwater. Politico had

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<v Speaker 1>polled over the last week, is it worth risking the

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<v Speaker 1>lives of anti ICE protesters to conduct immigration enforcement? Fifty

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<v Speaker 1>one percent said no. Thirty one percent of Trump voters

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<v Speaker 1>said no. Schumer can stop having nightmares about suburban moms

0:23:48.315 --> 0:23:51.275
<v Speaker 1>and focus groups. The polls are not, in any doubt

0:23:52.235 --> 0:23:54.555
<v Speaker 1>like the video of the murder. The poles are in

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<v Speaker 1>fact easier to understand first time you look at them.

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<v Speaker 1>Abolish Ice plus five approval of ICE minus twenty seven

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<v Speaker 1>percentage of Trump voters who say ICE is too aggressive

0:24:06.795 --> 0:24:13.275
<v Speaker 1>twenty percent. And then there's everything else going on with

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<v Speaker 1>this terrorist gang. We haven't even gotten around to this

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<v Speaker 1>psycho impaired Secretary of Defense. Hegseth, writing Ice then a

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<v Speaker 1>greater than sign than the abbreviation of Minnesota. You know

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<v Speaker 1>what they have in Minnesota, Hegseth, You Neanderthal. They have

0:24:31.275 --> 0:24:38.235
<v Speaker 1>Americans meet some someday. You haven't gotten to the Deputy

0:24:38.235 --> 0:24:40.235
<v Speaker 1>Attorney General of the United States who went straight to

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<v Speaker 1>that job after being Trump's personal horror attorney going on

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<v Speaker 1>a Sunday show yesterday and saying Alex Preddie quote was

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<v Speaker 1>not protesting peacefully. He was screaming in the face of Ice.

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<v Speaker 1>He had a phone right up in ICE's face. Is

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<v Speaker 1>that protesting peacefully? What do you expect you wanted something

0:25:00.075 --> 0:25:03.155
<v Speaker 1>from the Vietnam War where he pours gasoline on himself

0:25:03.195 --> 0:25:05.595
<v Speaker 1>and lights himself on fire. That your idea of the

0:25:05.595 --> 0:25:14.035
<v Speaker 1>peaceful protest? Todd Todd Blanche's message to you is you

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<v Speaker 1>can be summarily executed by the government on the streets

0:25:17.275 --> 0:25:22.435
<v Speaker 1>of an American city for carrying a gun, or you

0:25:22.435 --> 0:25:25.475
<v Speaker 1>can be summarily executed by the government of the United

0:25:25.475 --> 0:25:27.835
<v Speaker 1>States on the streets of an American city for not

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<v Speaker 1>carrying a gun. We haven't gotten to the right wingers

0:25:39.875 --> 0:25:43.395
<v Speaker 1>denying the Second Amendment. We haven't gotten to the toy

0:25:43.475 --> 0:25:47.675
<v Speaker 1>store owners who gave out free whistles to Minnesotan's to

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<v Speaker 1>warn each other of an incoming Ice assault. ABC did

0:25:50.795 --> 0:25:53.035
<v Speaker 1>a story on them, and within a day, Ice was

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<v Speaker 1>at their door demanding their employee records and addresses. We

0:25:59.075 --> 0:26:01.995
<v Speaker 1>haven't gotten to Trump's psychotic reaction to all this, to

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<v Speaker 1>ignore it to ignore the murder done in his name,

0:26:06.475 --> 0:26:10.515
<v Speaker 1>to ignore the murder done stochastically by him, and instead

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<v Speaker 1>to write not just one of his asinine, self obsessed

0:26:13.795 --> 0:26:17.915
<v Speaker 1>posts about his effing Trump Memorial ballroom, but to make

0:26:17.955 --> 0:26:23.355
<v Speaker 1>it a double wide post, as if anybody gives a

0:26:23.515 --> 0:26:31.755
<v Speaker 1>shit about him and his shit gold ballroom. Your white trash, Donald,

0:26:33.115 --> 0:26:41.675
<v Speaker 1>your buildings are white trash, but the gold matches my hair.

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<v Speaker 1>We haven't gotten to whether there is meaning or just

0:26:45.435 --> 0:26:47.915
<v Speaker 1>grand standing. To the Republican chair of the House Committee

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<v Speaker 1>on Homeland Security demanding that the head of Ice Lions

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<v Speaker 1>shows up for a hearing and actual hearing into Minnesota

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<v Speaker 1>before the eighteenth of March, we haven't gotten to the

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<v Speaker 1>implications of Oklahoma's Republican Governor Kevin Stitt, ordinarily one of

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<v Speaker 1>the biggest dufuses around, chairman of the Governor's Association, who

0:27:08.315 --> 0:27:12.235
<v Speaker 1>said Americans don't like what they're seeing right now. Trump

0:27:12.315 --> 0:27:15.235
<v Speaker 1>is getting bad advice right now. We have to enforce

0:27:15.275 --> 0:27:17.675
<v Speaker 1>federal laws, but we need to know what is the endgame,

0:27:17.755 --> 0:27:21.235
<v Speaker 1>and I don't think it's to duport every single non

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<v Speaker 1>US citizen. Governor, my advice to you is, if you

0:27:28.515 --> 0:27:33.395
<v Speaker 1>run into any ice agents. Keep your phone down. We

0:27:33.435 --> 0:27:35.795
<v Speaker 1>haven't gotten to Ice doctoring the photos of the women

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<v Speaker 1>arrested and immediately released for going to a pro ICE

0:27:39.315 --> 0:27:43.995
<v Speaker 1>church service run by a guy from ICE. Christy Nome

0:27:44.115 --> 0:27:47.995
<v Speaker 1>even used the real photo of the one victim. The

0:27:48.035 --> 0:27:51.555
<v Speaker 1>White House took the photo, darkened the woman's skin, and

0:27:51.635 --> 0:27:55.875
<v Speaker 1>turned her face from stoic and placid to crying. Caroline

0:27:55.955 --> 0:27:59.195
<v Speaker 1>Levitt retweeted it, because Caroline Levitt isn't just a liar,

0:27:59.395 --> 0:28:03.675
<v Speaker 1>she's racist swine. We haven't talked about the attempt to

0:28:03.715 --> 0:28:06.875
<v Speaker 1>arrest Don Lemon for filming the fascist rally disguised as

0:28:06.875 --> 0:28:09.675
<v Speaker 1>a Christian service. We haven't even discussed my pal Will

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<v Speaker 1>Bunch's article for the Philly Inquirer about the three ICE

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<v Speaker 1>detainees dead at the Fort Bliss, Texas concentration Camp three

0:28:17.875 --> 0:28:23.075
<v Speaker 1>in thirty three days, or Will's observation that quote deaths

0:28:23.155 --> 0:28:26.715
<v Speaker 1>are occurring in ICE detention facilities at nearly ten times

0:28:26.755 --> 0:28:32.475
<v Speaker 1>the rate of the Biden years, or the inevitable conclusion

0:28:32.515 --> 0:28:35.355
<v Speaker 1>that we have to now say of America in twenty

0:28:35.475 --> 0:28:40.595
<v Speaker 1>twenty six, that we are now regularly hearing reports of

0:28:40.715 --> 0:28:50.275
<v Speaker 1>deaths in our concentration camps, all new edition today comic

0:28:50.315 --> 0:28:53.035
<v Speaker 1>relief at the end about a job I was ready

0:28:53.075 --> 0:28:55.395
<v Speaker 1>to take and then the job the company went out

0:28:55.435 --> 0:28:59.795
<v Speaker 1>of business. But Worst Persons is next. It is about

0:28:59.835 --> 0:29:03.835
<v Speaker 1>all those people who defended Ice after Renee Goods murder

0:29:04.155 --> 0:29:07.875
<v Speaker 1>or after the early information came out about Alex Pretty's murder.

0:29:09.275 --> 0:29:12.115
<v Speaker 1>It's about them and why after the Pretty murder they

0:29:12.195 --> 0:29:16.875
<v Speaker 1>still think somehow they still have public careers. So you're

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<v Speaker 1>on deck, Tony Diakoppel, John Fetterman, The New York Post,

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<v Speaker 1>Scott Jennings, and Steven Asmith. That's next. This is kind Down.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Countdown with Keith Oberman still ahead. On this

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<v Speaker 1>all new edition of Countdown. I recorded something new about

0:29:40.795 --> 0:29:44.955
<v Speaker 1>a job I was about to accept, and half an

0:29:44.955 --> 0:29:46.835
<v Speaker 1>hour before I was going to take it, the station

0:29:47.275 --> 0:29:52.035
<v Speaker 1>went out of business. Instead. I recorded this literally half

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<v Speaker 1>an hour before the news came in from Minneapolis on Saturday.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to include it at the end anyway, because

0:29:57.515 --> 0:30:01.235
<v Speaker 1>I sure as hell needed to break from this, and

0:30:01.315 --> 0:30:03.635
<v Speaker 1>I'm guessing you might. If you don't I get it,

0:30:03.755 --> 0:30:06.835
<v Speaker 1>don't listen. It's a okay, and it's next in things

0:30:06.915 --> 0:30:09.395
<v Speaker 1>I promised not to tell. But first let's do the

0:30:09.435 --> 0:30:15.075
<v Speaker 1>Worst Person's segment, and we'll devote it entirely to people

0:30:15.115 --> 0:30:20.435
<v Speaker 1>who supported ICE even before the murder of Alex pretty

0:30:21.795 --> 0:30:25.995
<v Speaker 1>or after it. And I just wanted to flash back

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<v Speaker 1>to an anchor I worked with in Los Angeles when

0:30:28.195 --> 0:30:31.835
<v Speaker 1>I was still doing only sports, and he came on

0:30:31.955 --> 0:30:36.195
<v Speaker 1>and did an editorial and I was at the station

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<v Speaker 1>for only a couple of weeks, I think, and it

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<v Speaker 1>was about the terrorist attack on the ocean going vessel

0:30:44.795 --> 0:30:49.075
<v Speaker 1>the Achille Loro, in which they took one of the passengers,

0:30:49.075 --> 0:30:51.715
<v Speaker 1>a man in a wheelchair, and pushed him off into

0:30:51.715 --> 0:30:57.355
<v Speaker 1>the ocean, killing him. Terrorist attack. And he did an

0:30:57.475 --> 0:31:04.195
<v Speaker 1>editorial condemning terrorism. And he explained that he didn't like

0:31:04.235 --> 0:31:06.675
<v Speaker 1>to do it atorials or commentaries because every time you

0:31:06.715 --> 0:31:09.795
<v Speaker 1>did a commentary, if it was actually controversial, fifty percent

0:31:09.835 --> 0:31:12.715
<v Speaker 1>of your audience would disagree with you. And that meant

0:31:12.715 --> 0:31:15.035
<v Speaker 1>that if you did four editorials, you'd be down to

0:31:15.155 --> 0:31:21.275
<v Speaker 1>single digits among support from your viewers. And I shuddered

0:31:21.795 --> 0:31:26.555
<v Speaker 1>and took the job anyway. Still, there are some topics

0:31:26.595 --> 0:31:30.315
<v Speaker 1>that really do sort of scream out to you. If

0:31:30.355 --> 0:31:33.675
<v Speaker 1>you get this right, you're going to have nearly one

0:31:33.715 --> 0:31:38.355
<v Speaker 1>hundred percent support If you get this wrong, you're done.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe Minnesota and ICE had the earmarks of this

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<v Speaker 1>from the beginning, from the death of poor Renee Good.

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<v Speaker 1>So they're the medalists. They are also the runners up

0:31:51.355 --> 0:31:55.995
<v Speaker 1>Jeff Earl and Elisia field Stat at the New York Post.

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<v Speaker 1>They are apparently writers there or whatever they have there.

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<v Speaker 1>The early headline for their standard Murdochian warring about Saturday's

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<v Speaker 1>murder man waving gun at fed's attempting to arrest illegal

0:32:12.395 --> 0:32:18.155
<v Speaker 1>criminal migrant in Minneapolis shot dead by agent DHS, says

0:32:18.715 --> 0:32:24.155
<v Speaker 1>by Jeff Earl and Alicia Fieldstat New York Post. He

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't waving a gun. The FEDS turned out to be

0:32:29.275 --> 0:32:34.475
<v Speaker 1>trying to attempt to arrest somebody who was cleared and

0:32:34.635 --> 0:32:39.115
<v Speaker 1>had been picked up and released by Ice several years ago.

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<v Speaker 1>Other than that great story Jeff and Alicia another runner up,

0:32:46.715 --> 0:32:51.955
<v Speaker 1>Scott Jennings, who was apparently leaving CNN to become I

0:32:51.955 --> 0:32:56.475
<v Speaker 1>don't know, Deputy Rex Commissar. I don't know. The anti

0:32:56.635 --> 0:33:00.235
<v Speaker 1>ICE propaganda war being waged by Democrats right now is

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<v Speaker 1>out of control, he said the other day. If I

0:33:04.235 --> 0:33:06.515
<v Speaker 1>were Trump, I'd be frustrated too. But he has to

0:33:06.595 --> 0:33:10.195
<v Speaker 1>uphold federal laws in all fifty states, no matter what

0:33:10.835 --> 0:33:18.675
<v Speaker 1>some secessionist angry mob in Minneapolis says Scott Jennings is

0:33:18.675 --> 0:33:24.795
<v Speaker 1>a moron. Then there's Clay Travis, nominally a sports guy.

0:33:25.035 --> 0:33:28.155
<v Speaker 1>Outkicked the coverage. I believe it was called or Clay

0:33:28.195 --> 0:33:32.875
<v Speaker 1>Travis's White Supremacist Review. I don't know what the name

0:33:32.915 --> 0:33:37.715
<v Speaker 1>of the site is. The outkicked the White Supremacists. That

0:33:37.875 --> 0:33:41.275
<v Speaker 1>clown doesn't know politics, doesn't know America, doesn't know sports.

0:33:41.475 --> 0:33:44.875
<v Speaker 1>The NBA canceled its game in Minneapolis today because the

0:33:44.955 --> 0:33:47.795
<v Speaker 1>league felt it wasn't safe to play. The NHL is

0:33:47.795 --> 0:33:51.035
<v Speaker 1>currently playing in Minneapolis and had zero issues with playing

0:33:51.075 --> 0:33:54.315
<v Speaker 1>its game. The NBA's decision was one hundred percent political.

0:33:54.515 --> 0:33:56.155
<v Speaker 1>Good for the NHL on playing.

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<v Speaker 2>Ye, how.

0:33:58.515 --> 0:34:02.955
<v Speaker 1>The uh? The NBA game, mister Travis, was in Minneapolis,

0:34:04.075 --> 0:34:06.435
<v Speaker 1>where the shoe where the murder took place. The hockey

0:34:06.435 --> 0:34:09.155
<v Speaker 1>game you referred to was in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It's

0:34:09.195 --> 0:34:13.235
<v Speaker 1>a different city. It's ten miles and one world away.

0:34:13.475 --> 0:34:17.075
<v Speaker 1>So the actual question of safety, do you play in

0:34:17.115 --> 0:34:22.155
<v Speaker 1>the Target Center in Minneapolis, literally a couple of minutes

0:34:22.155 --> 0:34:27.275
<v Speaker 1>from the murder scene. Do you play there in frigid temperatures,

0:34:27.315 --> 0:34:30.515
<v Speaker 1>with protesters out on the street and ice shooting up

0:34:30.515 --> 0:34:35.275
<v Speaker 1>the neighborhood. Do you play that game as a Paul

0:34:35.435 --> 0:34:41.075
<v Speaker 1>was to a hockey game in Saint Paul. No wonder

0:34:41.115 --> 0:34:44.675
<v Speaker 1>he veered over into politics. No shit about sports. Now

0:34:44.715 --> 0:34:50.395
<v Speaker 1>are medallists the bronze worst Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, for

0:34:50.515 --> 0:34:55.435
<v Speaker 1>whom I feel great sorrow, but enough go check in

0:34:55.555 --> 0:34:59.595
<v Speaker 1>somewhere and resign. Quote ICE agents are just doing their job,

0:34:59.675 --> 0:35:02.435
<v Speaker 1>and I fully support that. Again, he said this before

0:35:02.475 --> 0:35:05.235
<v Speaker 1>the murder of Preddy. This was after the murder Renee

0:35:05.275 --> 0:35:08.515
<v Speaker 1>good people in my party might treat them as criminals.

0:35:08.635 --> 0:35:12.155
<v Speaker 1>That's inappropriate and outrageous. You know, the fact that you're

0:35:12.155 --> 0:35:16.435
<v Speaker 1>still running around without supervision is inappropriate and outrageous. And

0:35:16.435 --> 0:35:19.555
<v Speaker 1>the fact that you pose as a Democrat is inappropriate

0:35:19.595 --> 0:35:26.195
<v Speaker 1>and outrageous. Get thee to a Nunnery the runners up

0:35:26.395 --> 0:35:29.875
<v Speaker 1>wor Sir, CBS News and the greatest network news disaster

0:35:30.075 --> 0:35:33.195
<v Speaker 1>of the last half century or more Tony da koppol

0:35:34.075 --> 0:35:38.795
<v Speaker 1>Thursday again, if you really are going to try to

0:35:38.835 --> 0:35:42.315
<v Speaker 1>take the wrong side in a what is to be

0:35:42.435 --> 0:35:47.435
<v Speaker 1>a historically important societal turning point, if you're going to

0:35:47.555 --> 0:35:53.115
<v Speaker 1>take the side of the cops in Rodney King, or

0:35:53.515 --> 0:35:55.915
<v Speaker 1>if you're going to take, say, the side of the

0:35:55.955 --> 0:36:02.435
<v Speaker 1>assassins in any political assassination, maybe maybe you should make

0:36:02.475 --> 0:36:07.395
<v Speaker 1>other career plans. Thursday, Tony da Koppel signed off the

0:36:07.915 --> 0:36:12.355
<v Speaker 1>CBS evening Barrywise Pick Me Trump, Pick Me News by

0:36:12.355 --> 0:36:16.955
<v Speaker 1>elevating quote those who want to see our immigration laws

0:36:17.155 --> 0:36:25.435
<v Speaker 1>enforced legally and peacefully and with safety for all, And

0:36:25.475 --> 0:36:28.355
<v Speaker 1>he ended with It's not my job to tell you

0:36:28.395 --> 0:36:31.795
<v Speaker 1>what to think about what happened here. No, no, of course, not,

0:36:31.995 --> 0:36:36.875
<v Speaker 1>Tony Tacoppel. Government murders two people, shoots some other in

0:36:36.915 --> 0:36:40.035
<v Speaker 1>the face, and blows a nurse's brains out with a

0:36:40.075 --> 0:36:43.675
<v Speaker 1>point blank shot to his head after they disarmed him.

0:36:43.875 --> 0:36:47.675
<v Speaker 1>But don't you dare offer any insight or opinion or

0:36:47.715 --> 0:36:50.515
<v Speaker 1>even guidance as to what the viewers might think. Let

0:36:50.555 --> 0:36:59.755
<v Speaker 1>them believe that it is not assassination and government inspired terrorism.

0:37:00.075 --> 0:37:04.035
<v Speaker 1>I mean, honest to God, I hope they have a

0:37:04.075 --> 0:37:06.195
<v Speaker 1>new one life end up to take over that show.

0:37:06.875 --> 0:37:10.955
<v Speaker 1>Maybe they could do an AI thing. Years ago, when

0:37:11.115 --> 0:37:14.075
<v Speaker 1>MSNBC went on one of the more creative shows they

0:37:14.115 --> 0:37:18.395
<v Speaker 1>ever did, featured a co host who was actually an

0:37:18.395 --> 0:37:23.235
<v Speaker 1>animated character who did half the news and reacted to

0:37:23.275 --> 0:37:26.675
<v Speaker 1>the real people. May they can have that guy come back.

0:37:27.035 --> 0:37:31.955
<v Speaker 1>He's in a box somewhere in Secaucus, New Jersey. By

0:37:31.955 --> 0:37:35.755
<v Speaker 1>the way, the reporter about TV, Joe Adalion, he noted

0:37:35.795 --> 0:37:38.595
<v Speaker 1>that Saturday night and Dacoppol was not there, so that's

0:37:38.635 --> 0:37:41.155
<v Speaker 1>not his fault. And he doesn't make any of the

0:37:41.195 --> 0:37:45.035
<v Speaker 1>decisions either. He just reads what they give him. Joe

0:37:45.075 --> 0:37:48.275
<v Speaker 1>Adalion notes that on Saturday night, the CBS Evening Weekend

0:37:48.315 --> 0:37:54.595
<v Speaker 1>News devoted nearly its entire show to weather, and it

0:37:54.675 --> 0:37:57.795
<v Speaker 1>devoted two and a half minutes to the murder of

0:37:57.875 --> 0:38:02.675
<v Speaker 1>Alex Preddi and BC mister Adallion notes, did about eight minutes.

0:38:04.075 --> 0:38:06.675
<v Speaker 1>Given the content of a newscast is now down to

0:38:06.715 --> 0:38:11.795
<v Speaker 1>sixteen eighteen minutes, two and a half minutes. But first,

0:38:12.155 --> 0:38:14.875
<v Speaker 1>oh my god, it's snow. What are we going to do?

0:38:15.715 --> 0:38:18.155
<v Speaker 1>Can we still breathe this air of its twelve degrees?

0:38:21.395 --> 0:38:24.635
<v Speaker 1>And yet there's worst the winner. And it's not like

0:38:24.715 --> 0:38:28.195
<v Speaker 1>I didn't try to warn him. I mean, I know

0:38:28.275 --> 0:38:33.355
<v Speaker 1>what passed for a working acquaintanceship, friendly acquaintanceship. I know

0:38:33.435 --> 0:38:36.155
<v Speaker 1>that's long gone, but I have tried to warn him

0:38:36.755 --> 0:38:39.475
<v Speaker 1>from the beginning when he went down this path that

0:38:39.555 --> 0:38:43.275
<v Speaker 1>he was going to destroy the successful career he had

0:38:43.795 --> 0:38:48.275
<v Speaker 1>in pursuit of a career in which he was insufficiently prepared.

0:38:49.515 --> 0:38:51.675
<v Speaker 1>That the idea of going in just doing what I

0:38:51.795 --> 0:38:54.035
<v Speaker 1>used to do when I did Sports with Dan Patrick

0:38:54.115 --> 0:38:56.195
<v Speaker 1>in two thousand and five and six and seven. I

0:38:56.235 --> 0:38:59.235
<v Speaker 1>would come in for one hour of his show at

0:38:59.235 --> 0:39:02.235
<v Speaker 1>their request at ESPN, to just have fun with Dan.

0:39:02.475 --> 0:39:04.555
<v Speaker 1>And I would come in at about one point fifty

0:39:04.755 --> 0:39:07.475
<v Speaker 1>eight for the two o'clock hour, and we'd be coming

0:39:07.515 --> 0:39:10.635
<v Speaker 1>back on at two four or two oh five, and

0:39:10.675 --> 0:39:12.755
<v Speaker 1>I'd say, what are we talking about? And he'd give

0:39:12.755 --> 0:39:15.075
<v Speaker 1>me three or four topics that they had guests lined

0:39:15.155 --> 0:39:17.515
<v Speaker 1>up on, or he wanted to talk about Barry Bonds

0:39:17.595 --> 0:39:20.355
<v Speaker 1>this and a basketball that and this thing from the

0:39:20.355 --> 0:39:21.235
<v Speaker 1>other night. Did you see that?

0:39:21.315 --> 0:39:21.475
<v Speaker 2>Yes?

0:39:21.515 --> 0:39:23.275
<v Speaker 1>I did? Okay, good, we can talk about it. And

0:39:23.315 --> 0:39:26.435
<v Speaker 1>I would then call up stories on the computer so

0:39:26.515 --> 0:39:28.955
<v Speaker 1>I had a little factual representation of what we were

0:39:28.955 --> 0:39:31.595
<v Speaker 1>talking about, and that was my entire prep and we

0:39:31.635 --> 0:39:33.755
<v Speaker 1>would kill off an hour and have a great hour

0:39:33.875 --> 0:39:37.035
<v Speaker 1>with real real time insights, because you can do that

0:39:37.115 --> 0:39:39.755
<v Speaker 1>with sports that's the point of sports. The point of

0:39:39.795 --> 0:39:43.195
<v Speaker 1>sports is not necessarily researching everything and then sitting down

0:39:43.235 --> 0:39:46.435
<v Speaker 1>and contemplating it deeply, even though occasionally I've tried that

0:39:46.515 --> 0:39:50.395
<v Speaker 1>in the past. The point of sports is you get

0:39:50.435 --> 0:39:53.235
<v Speaker 1>off the bus, you go into the bar, you sit down,

0:39:54.115 --> 0:39:56.955
<v Speaker 1>friends one, seven, and fifteen are there, and you start

0:39:57.035 --> 0:40:01.035
<v Speaker 1>talking and you say things, and if you want to

0:40:01.075 --> 0:40:05.395
<v Speaker 1>be impressive, you stick to facts. Now you can't do

0:40:05.475 --> 0:40:07.875
<v Speaker 1>that with politics, because you're going to say stupid things

0:40:07.915 --> 0:40:10.635
<v Speaker 1>and are totally untrue, especially if it's on the air,

0:40:10.955 --> 0:40:13.835
<v Speaker 1>if you're on a podcast, if you're live somewhere, if

0:40:13.835 --> 0:40:18.235
<v Speaker 1>you're Stephen A freaking Smith. It's not like I didn't

0:40:18.275 --> 0:40:24.235
<v Speaker 1>warn you. This was Stephen A. Smith after Renee Goods murder.

0:40:24.475 --> 0:40:26.715
<v Speaker 1>This was him on January eighth. Let me just read

0:40:26.755 --> 0:40:31.715
<v Speaker 1>it to you quote. I saw the video on numerous occasions,

0:40:32.355 --> 0:40:35.795
<v Speaker 1>and seeing what transpired from a lawful perspective as it

0:40:35.835 --> 0:40:39.595
<v Speaker 1>pertains to a law enforcement official, don't expect him to

0:40:39.595 --> 0:40:46.395
<v Speaker 1>be prosecuted. He was completely justified. She wrongfully tried to

0:40:46.515 --> 0:40:50.835
<v Speaker 1>drive off and wrongfully disregarded a law enforcement official, which

0:40:50.875 --> 0:40:54.035
<v Speaker 1>is exactly what ice is, and as a result lost

0:40:54.035 --> 0:40:59.875
<v Speaker 1>her life. Because of it. Some people don't understand news,

0:41:01.755 --> 0:41:04.675
<v Speaker 1>some people don't understand humanity, and some people don't understand politics,

0:41:04.755 --> 0:41:07.155
<v Speaker 1>and some people don't understand when to stay in an

0:41:07.195 --> 0:41:11.755
<v Speaker 1>area that they are successful in despite much evidence that

0:41:11.795 --> 0:41:15.035
<v Speaker 1>they don't really have any talent at it. And then

0:41:15.075 --> 0:41:18.075
<v Speaker 1>there is that rarest of persons who doesn't understand any

0:41:18.155 --> 0:41:23.835
<v Speaker 1>of that, and that would be Stephen A. Smith, Today's

0:41:24.315 --> 0:41:31.035
<v Speaker 1>worst person in the world. Back with the humorous relief next,

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<v Speaker 1>I suppose the only thing I like about January is

0:41:43.755 --> 0:41:45.755
<v Speaker 1>that it's the start of the new year. And because

0:41:45.755 --> 0:41:47.955
<v Speaker 1>of a coincidence I have nothing to do with, my

0:41:48.035 --> 0:41:50.715
<v Speaker 1>birthday is in January, so it's doubly the start of

0:41:50.715 --> 0:41:53.195
<v Speaker 1>the new year. And I get very nostalgic, and milestones

0:41:53.235 --> 0:41:56.795
<v Speaker 1>get hit, and it is now the twentieth anniversary of this,

0:41:56.875 --> 0:41:59.955
<v Speaker 1>and the fiftieth anniversary of that, and the thirtieth anniversary

0:41:59.995 --> 0:42:04.115
<v Speaker 1>of this. The fiftieth anniversary is this is the fiftieth

0:42:04.155 --> 0:42:06.515
<v Speaker 1>anniversary of the year I became sports director of my

0:42:06.635 --> 0:42:11.915
<v Speaker 1>college radio station, which to that point was an unbelievable accomplishment,

0:42:12.515 --> 0:42:15.635
<v Speaker 1>and it's now half a century ago. It was the

0:42:15.675 --> 0:42:18.835
<v Speaker 1>equivalent in terms of a time span of say, when

0:42:18.875 --> 0:42:21.075
<v Speaker 1>I was eight years old and decided to become a

0:42:21.075 --> 0:42:23.515
<v Speaker 1>sportscaster and thought, well, I'll have to become the college

0:42:23.715 --> 0:42:27.155
<v Speaker 1>radio station sports director on along the way, won't I.

0:42:27.155 --> 0:42:31.755
<v Speaker 1>If you go fifty years backwards, it's the American arrival

0:42:31.835 --> 0:42:34.395
<v Speaker 1>in the middle of the First World War. That's how

0:42:34.435 --> 0:42:36.955
<v Speaker 1>long ago fifty years is. But I wanted to talk

0:42:36.995 --> 0:42:40.315
<v Speaker 1>about something that happened thirty years ago now now that

0:42:40.355 --> 0:42:42.475
<v Speaker 1>it has a nice round number to it, and we

0:42:42.595 --> 0:42:46.195
<v Speaker 1>Americans are obsessed by this three thousand hits rather than

0:42:46.195 --> 0:42:48.835
<v Speaker 1>two nine hundred and ninety nine or three thousand and one,

0:42:49.515 --> 0:42:52.355
<v Speaker 1>thirty years instead of twenty nine or thirty one, even

0:42:52.395 --> 0:42:56.275
<v Speaker 1>though there's really not much damn difference, And like the calendar,

0:42:56.355 --> 0:42:59.035
<v Speaker 1>if anybody ever made a counting mistake, the number is

0:42:59.075 --> 0:43:03.835
<v Speaker 1>also wrong. Anyway to the number one story and the

0:43:03.995 --> 0:43:08.035
<v Speaker 1>day I they nearly quit ESPN Sports Center at the

0:43:08.075 --> 0:43:11.595
<v Speaker 1>maximum point of its fame and success, to go work

0:43:12.315 --> 0:43:17.115
<v Speaker 1>in local radio in Chicago in nineteen ninety six, I

0:43:17.115 --> 0:43:20.195
<v Speaker 1>got a call I think through my agent, but I

0:43:20.235 --> 0:43:22.595
<v Speaker 1>know I talked to the man directly, from a man

0:43:22.675 --> 0:43:25.835
<v Speaker 1>named Doug Stern, who was the general manager of a

0:43:25.955 --> 0:43:32.115
<v Speaker 1>radio station in Chicago, Illinois, and this station, which was WMVP,

0:43:32.955 --> 0:43:37.195
<v Speaker 1>was anything, but it was thirty first in the ratings

0:43:37.235 --> 0:43:40.155
<v Speaker 1>in a thirty one station market. It was an all

0:43:40.195 --> 0:43:42.915
<v Speaker 1>sports station, but it was the number two all sports

0:43:42.915 --> 0:43:46.075
<v Speaker 1>station in Chicago. And I couldn't understand why he was

0:43:46.115 --> 0:43:49.555
<v Speaker 1>calling me. He made it rather plain, rather quickly that

0:43:49.915 --> 0:43:52.395
<v Speaker 1>they were desperate to do something big to get on

0:43:52.435 --> 0:43:55.355
<v Speaker 1>the scoreboard in Chicago. And the thing they wanted to

0:43:55.355 --> 0:43:58.675
<v Speaker 1>do that was big was hire me away from SportsCenter.

0:43:59.755 --> 0:44:03.315
<v Speaker 1>Understand my relationship with ESPN, which I've begun to understand

0:44:03.355 --> 0:44:05.955
<v Speaker 1>a little bit better in the injury of decades from

0:44:05.995 --> 0:44:08.795
<v Speaker 1>the time of its height and then later the time

0:44:08.835 --> 0:44:12.395
<v Speaker 1>of my return to ESPN and Sports Center in the teens,

0:44:12.635 --> 0:44:14.555
<v Speaker 1>and so I've got a better perspective on it. But

0:44:14.635 --> 0:44:17.635
<v Speaker 1>it still boils down to this. I didn't like the

0:44:17.675 --> 0:44:20.995
<v Speaker 1>lifestyle and was wrong. It was the wrong time for me.

0:44:21.115 --> 0:44:23.275
<v Speaker 1>Nothing at all wrong with the place. I had a

0:44:23.355 --> 0:44:26.955
<v Speaker 1>wonderful house. I had a giant, seven thousand square foot

0:44:26.955 --> 0:44:29.755
<v Speaker 1>house with a heated swimming pool and like three acres

0:44:29.755 --> 0:44:33.675
<v Speaker 1>and two hundred original growth trees, and it was fantastic,

0:44:33.755 --> 0:44:36.195
<v Speaker 1>and it had a solarium, and it had a seated

0:44:36.275 --> 0:44:39.475
<v Speaker 1>swimming pool and everything you could want. The problem was

0:44:39.475 --> 0:44:43.075
<v Speaker 1>there were no sidewalks. The nearest place to go to

0:44:44.755 --> 0:44:48.075
<v Speaker 1>was a general store, I mean by foot, about thirty

0:44:48.115 --> 0:44:51.555
<v Speaker 1>five forty minutes away, which makes for a long walk

0:44:51.595 --> 0:44:55.235
<v Speaker 1>back if you're shopping. Anyway, it was a fine place.

0:44:55.435 --> 0:44:57.235
<v Speaker 1>If I wanted to raise a family, that would have

0:44:57.235 --> 0:44:59.195
<v Speaker 1>been it. Or if I'd brought a family with me,

0:44:59.315 --> 0:45:01.355
<v Speaker 1>that would have been it. Or if I'd even brought

0:45:01.355 --> 0:45:03.195
<v Speaker 1>a girlfriend with me, that would have been it. But

0:45:03.235 --> 0:45:05.555
<v Speaker 1>it was very tough to add those once you were

0:45:05.555 --> 0:45:09.635
<v Speaker 1>out there in a place where you spent most of

0:45:09.675 --> 0:45:13.035
<v Speaker 1>the time looking out the window at the far horizon

0:45:13.155 --> 0:45:15.795
<v Speaker 1>where the highway to New York went up the hill,

0:45:16.035 --> 0:45:17.795
<v Speaker 1>and then everybody had to break at the top of

0:45:17.835 --> 0:45:20.195
<v Speaker 1>the hill to go down the hill towards New York.

0:45:20.795 --> 0:45:23.875
<v Speaker 1>And there was this little red glowing light where all

0:45:23.955 --> 0:45:26.555
<v Speaker 1>those people were just far enough away that they were

0:45:26.595 --> 0:45:28.795
<v Speaker 1>going to New York and you weren't, and there was

0:45:28.835 --> 0:45:31.995
<v Speaker 1>really nothing to do. I kind of liked the job.

0:45:32.035 --> 0:45:34.475
<v Speaker 1>I had a lot of problems with management at ESPN.

0:45:34.835 --> 0:45:36.875
<v Speaker 1>I think those may have been noted somewhere, and we

0:45:36.995 --> 0:45:39.875
<v Speaker 1>largely paved those over in the ensuing years, and I'm

0:45:40.075 --> 0:45:42.795
<v Speaker 1>kind of proud of them and of me, And I'm

0:45:42.795 --> 0:45:46.675
<v Speaker 1>a Disney retiree. I just got another Disney retiree check

0:45:46.755 --> 0:45:50.435
<v Speaker 1>the other day. That's the last possible outcome I would

0:45:50.435 --> 0:45:53.235
<v Speaker 1>have believed, other than them selling me the place. But

0:45:53.355 --> 0:45:57.755
<v Speaker 1>I just didn't fit in in the environment. I liked

0:45:57.795 --> 0:45:59.995
<v Speaker 1>doing the show. I liked working with Dan Patrick. The

0:46:00.075 --> 0:46:03.195
<v Speaker 1>success was something I knew I would never recreate. It

0:46:03.315 --> 0:46:06.275
<v Speaker 1>was a pretty easy thing, considering how difficult it was.

0:46:06.715 --> 0:46:10.315
<v Speaker 1>As ludicrous and Yogi Barrow like as that sounds, he

0:46:10.355 --> 0:46:12.275
<v Speaker 1>looked out for me, I looked out for him. We

0:46:12.315 --> 0:46:15.635
<v Speaker 1>had a great producer and series of them, including Norby

0:46:15.675 --> 0:46:18.475
<v Speaker 1>Williamson who then ran the company, and Mike McQuaid who

0:46:18.475 --> 0:46:20.515
<v Speaker 1>now runs the company. We had a lot of great

0:46:20.515 --> 0:46:23.475
<v Speaker 1>people who worked there, person after person who advanced to

0:46:23.515 --> 0:46:26.835
<v Speaker 1>the top of that place. It was really high quality.

0:46:29.235 --> 0:46:31.715
<v Speaker 1>Took me four years to convince them, since I didn't drive,

0:46:31.755 --> 0:46:33.555
<v Speaker 1>that maybe they should send a car for me and

0:46:33.555 --> 0:46:35.915
<v Speaker 1>then I would never be late to anything again, rather

0:46:35.955 --> 0:46:39.035
<v Speaker 1>than relying on the two cabs in town. I mean,

0:46:39.075 --> 0:46:40.955
<v Speaker 1>if there'd been a cab that showed up on time,

0:46:41.035 --> 0:46:43.155
<v Speaker 1>I would have been happy to pay for it myself,

0:46:43.195 --> 0:46:46.195
<v Speaker 1>but there weren't any In any event, I was looking

0:46:46.275 --> 0:46:49.155
<v Speaker 1>to move on and my contract expired at the end

0:46:49.155 --> 0:46:51.515
<v Speaker 1>of nineteen ninety seven, so I was beginning to think

0:46:51.555 --> 0:46:53.875
<v Speaker 1>of what else I might do. And here comes this

0:46:53.995 --> 0:46:56.675
<v Speaker 1>call from this man in Chicago, Dougster, and what he

0:46:56.715 --> 0:47:00.515
<v Speaker 1>wants to do is pay me twice as much money

0:47:00.515 --> 0:47:03.115
<v Speaker 1>as ESPN was paying me to come and do a

0:47:03.275 --> 0:47:06.715
<v Speaker 1>radio show on him his station from say four to

0:47:06.835 --> 0:47:11.115
<v Speaker 1>seven in the afternoon for six hundred thousand dollars a year.

0:47:12.435 --> 0:47:15.395
<v Speaker 1>I was the highest paid sports center anchor and I

0:47:15.435 --> 0:47:19.635
<v Speaker 1>think the third highest non game announcer on ESPN at

0:47:19.675 --> 0:47:22.035
<v Speaker 1>the time. And I was making about three hundred thousand

0:47:22.075 --> 0:47:28.875
<v Speaker 1>dollars you heard me right, And these guys were willing

0:47:28.915 --> 0:47:30.755
<v Speaker 1>to pay me six hundred thousand dollars. And oh, by

0:47:30.755 --> 0:47:32.435
<v Speaker 1>the way, if I could get a TV job on

0:47:32.515 --> 0:47:35.155
<v Speaker 1>the side, where I worked for one of the local

0:47:35.275 --> 0:47:38.595
<v Speaker 1>Chicago stations and did the sportscasts on the six o'clock

0:47:38.635 --> 0:47:41.275
<v Speaker 1>and eleven o'clock news, and they put a camera in

0:47:41.355 --> 0:47:44.035
<v Speaker 1>my studio and we did the sportscast live on the

0:47:44.155 --> 0:47:47.915
<v Speaker 1>radio station and on the television station. That would be

0:47:47.955 --> 0:47:49.755
<v Speaker 1>fine with them, and I could make a deal for

0:47:49.795 --> 0:47:52.635
<v Speaker 1>that on my own. And the yeah, the leading guy

0:47:52.635 --> 0:47:55.315
<v Speaker 1>in Chicago's TV sports was making a little under a

0:47:55.355 --> 0:47:58.315
<v Speaker 1>million of years, so this had all kinds of lucrative

0:47:58.355 --> 0:48:01.755
<v Speaker 1>future to it. Plus on top of everything else, I

0:48:01.835 --> 0:48:03.955
<v Speaker 1>was pretty exhausted by then. It was a lot of

0:48:03.955 --> 0:48:07.115
<v Speaker 1>work at esp and they didn't make it particularly easy.

0:48:07.315 --> 0:48:08.915
<v Speaker 1>And here was a show that would start at four

0:48:08.995 --> 0:48:11.595
<v Speaker 1>conck in the afternoon that was nominally about sports, but

0:48:11.675 --> 0:48:15.435
<v Speaker 1>their model was the Imus Show. They wanted it to

0:48:15.475 --> 0:48:19.915
<v Speaker 1>be don Imus only with sports instead of politics as

0:48:19.955 --> 0:48:22.355
<v Speaker 1>the through line. But it could be about anything as

0:48:22.435 --> 0:48:25.755
<v Speaker 1>long as it was about Chicago. And I thought, well,

0:48:25.755 --> 0:48:28.555
<v Speaker 1>how about we do the plot to improve Chicago and

0:48:28.595 --> 0:48:31.755
<v Speaker 1>just always have something going on where we'd be agitating

0:48:31.795 --> 0:48:35.755
<v Speaker 1>for some improvement in the lower upper Whacker Drives. I

0:48:35.835 --> 0:48:39.275
<v Speaker 1>had never been to Chicago, so I didn't know it.

0:48:39.395 --> 0:48:41.475
<v Speaker 1>So that was the first thing. Doug Stern says, can

0:48:41.515 --> 0:48:43.315
<v Speaker 1>you take a couple of days off and come out

0:48:43.355 --> 0:48:45.075
<v Speaker 1>here and will wind you and dine you and show

0:48:45.075 --> 0:48:47.675
<v Speaker 1>you the place and convince you why this hair brain

0:48:47.755 --> 0:48:50.515
<v Speaker 1>idea of mine is actually a really good one. Do

0:48:50.595 --> 0:48:52.795
<v Speaker 1>you think ESPN would let you go, I know you're

0:48:52.875 --> 0:48:55.915
<v Speaker 1>under contract, and I said, I think they probably would.

0:48:56.275 --> 0:49:00.235
<v Speaker 1>I think they're as tired of this from their perspective

0:49:00.275 --> 0:49:05.195
<v Speaker 1>about me as I am tired of my perspective about them,

0:49:05.635 --> 0:49:08.195
<v Speaker 1>and not enmity at this point, but just like, can

0:49:08.235 --> 0:49:10.515
<v Speaker 1>we just resolve this, which is what happened the next

0:49:10.595 --> 0:49:13.955
<v Speaker 1>year when I left about three or four months earlier

0:49:14.035 --> 0:49:17.835
<v Speaker 1>than my contract expired, to go work for NBC and

0:49:18.315 --> 0:49:21.715
<v Speaker 1>alternatively then go into the news business, which was something

0:49:21.755 --> 0:49:24.795
<v Speaker 1>totally unexpected, although it was kind of foreshadowed by this

0:49:24.915 --> 0:49:27.435
<v Speaker 1>idea in nineteen ninety six. In any event, I go

0:49:27.515 --> 0:49:29.875
<v Speaker 1>to Chicago after a false start where I'm on my

0:49:29.955 --> 0:49:32.635
<v Speaker 1>way to the airport and Doug s Turn calls me,

0:49:32.675 --> 0:49:34.795
<v Speaker 1>and this is at the crack of dawn, and says,

0:49:34.835 --> 0:49:37.595
<v Speaker 1>don't come out here, don't come out here. We can't

0:49:37.595 --> 0:49:39.635
<v Speaker 1>have the meeting this week. Is there any way we

0:49:39.675 --> 0:49:42.715
<v Speaker 1>can postpone it to two days from now or whatever

0:49:42.795 --> 0:49:44.915
<v Speaker 1>it was? And I went I think so. And I

0:49:44.995 --> 0:49:47.235
<v Speaker 1>turned around and went back to my house and went

0:49:47.315 --> 0:49:50.675
<v Speaker 1>back to sleep. So I don't know why I was

0:49:50.755 --> 0:49:53.755
<v Speaker 1>so interested in this, having never been there, but I

0:49:53.795 --> 0:49:56.755
<v Speaker 1>did like one thing he mentioned. The station carried the

0:49:56.755 --> 0:50:01.835
<v Speaker 1>White Sox games, and when the White Sox would be

0:50:01.955 --> 0:50:05.835
<v Speaker 1>on at I guess seven o'clock at night local time,

0:50:06.075 --> 0:50:10.755
<v Speaker 1>sometimes six o'clock. My show would end early, so that

0:50:10.915 --> 0:50:14.275
<v Speaker 1>something like eighty or ninety times a year. It wouldn't

0:50:14.315 --> 0:50:16.275
<v Speaker 1>be a three hour show that I'd be doing. It

0:50:16.275 --> 0:50:19.395
<v Speaker 1>would be a two hour show for six hundred thousand

0:50:19.395 --> 0:50:23.555
<v Speaker 1>dollars a year. So I was very interested in seeing

0:50:23.555 --> 0:50:26.995
<v Speaker 1>what happened. Well, I get out to Chicago finally, and

0:50:27.115 --> 0:50:29.675
<v Speaker 1>as I come off the plane, a man walks up

0:50:29.715 --> 0:50:32.195
<v Speaker 1>to me and introduces himself, and it's Doug Stern, the

0:50:32.275 --> 0:50:34.715
<v Speaker 1>general manager of this radio station, has come out to

0:50:34.795 --> 0:50:37.915
<v Speaker 1>see me and greet me personally and pick me up personally,

0:50:38.075 --> 0:50:40.395
<v Speaker 1>and he takes my bags and they are They go

0:50:40.555 --> 0:50:43.955
<v Speaker 1>into full wine and dine and impress Keith. From the

0:50:44.035 --> 0:50:47.955
<v Speaker 1>moment I land. They put me up in the Drake Hotel,

0:50:47.995 --> 0:50:54.915
<v Speaker 1>which is fabulous mid century that's twentieth century Chicago, US, updated,

0:50:54.955 --> 0:50:58.075
<v Speaker 1>but with this still kind of you know, the door

0:50:58.195 --> 0:51:00.915
<v Speaker 1>is in the hotel, or you hang up your dry

0:51:00.955 --> 0:51:02.675
<v Speaker 1>cleaning and they can come and pick it up without

0:51:02.755 --> 0:51:05.355
<v Speaker 1>bothering you because there's another door on the other side

0:51:05.395 --> 0:51:09.955
<v Speaker 1>of your door. You know the palms in the gigantic

0:51:09.995 --> 0:51:13.675
<v Speaker 1>lobby that's like three blocks long. It just it just

0:51:14.355 --> 0:51:16.915
<v Speaker 1>spoke to and still modernized. We're not talking about it.

0:51:16.955 --> 0:51:19.235
<v Speaker 1>Looks like they haven't dusted it in fifty years. That

0:51:19.395 --> 0:51:21.035
<v Speaker 1>was where they put me up. And then they take

0:51:21.075 --> 0:51:22.955
<v Speaker 1>me into the radio station and I walk in the

0:51:22.955 --> 0:51:25.235
<v Speaker 1>front door and everybody who's not on the air is

0:51:25.235 --> 0:51:30.635
<v Speaker 1>standing at this station, and they're all plodding because they

0:51:30.715 --> 0:51:33.995
<v Speaker 1>understood that being at thirty first in the ratings in

0:51:34.035 --> 0:51:37.355
<v Speaker 1>the thirty one station market is not tenable long term. Please,

0:51:37.995 --> 0:51:40.875
<v Speaker 1>So now they begin to whine and dine me, and

0:51:40.915 --> 0:51:43.075
<v Speaker 1>they take me to lunch and they introduce me to

0:51:43.115 --> 0:51:46.115
<v Speaker 1>the guys who are the stars of the network of

0:51:46.155 --> 0:51:49.195
<v Speaker 1>the station as such as it was two very funny,

0:51:49.315 --> 0:51:53.275
<v Speaker 1>very upbeat guys named Harry and Spike, and Harry Tynowitz

0:51:53.315 --> 0:51:57.755
<v Speaker 1>who just died, I believe fairly recently courageous battle with

0:51:58.115 --> 0:52:01.035
<v Speaker 1>a liver transplant. And they were just great guys. And

0:52:01.075 --> 0:52:03.395
<v Speaker 1>Spike was this kind of low key guy. Oh where

0:52:03.435 --> 0:52:05.395
<v Speaker 1>you're staying? I said it. They put me up at

0:52:05.395 --> 0:52:07.915
<v Speaker 1>the Drake. Oh nice, my sister's getting married at the

0:52:07.995 --> 0:52:11.835
<v Speaker 1>Drake on Saturday. Night. I said, that's the congratulations. You

0:52:11.875 --> 0:52:15.395
<v Speaker 1>want to go? And I was like what, he said, yeah,

0:52:15.475 --> 0:52:16.995
<v Speaker 1>you want to go to I mean you're in the

0:52:16.995 --> 0:52:18.635
<v Speaker 1>hotel anyway, it's not like you have to take a

0:52:18.635 --> 0:52:21.875
<v Speaker 1>long trip. I said, tuxedo. No, no, no, you just go.

0:52:21.955 --> 0:52:23.875
<v Speaker 1>I said, well, I'm gonna go stack. Oh, I can

0:52:23.915 --> 0:52:25.635
<v Speaker 1>get you a date. In fact, I know a nice,

0:52:25.795 --> 0:52:28.675
<v Speaker 1>nice Irish girl works in the Drake and she's I

0:52:28.675 --> 0:52:30.715
<v Speaker 1>mean she's there already too, and I think she's got

0:52:30.715 --> 0:52:32.915
<v Speaker 1>Saturdays off. She was talking about going and she didn't

0:52:32.915 --> 0:52:36.115
<v Speaker 1>have a date. E you'd like her. I'm in the

0:52:36.115 --> 0:52:39.395
<v Speaker 1>place an hour and I've got a Saturday night wedding

0:52:39.795 --> 0:52:43.515
<v Speaker 1>to go to with a date who works in the

0:52:43.515 --> 0:52:47.515
<v Speaker 1>place where the wedding is. That was the start. Hour

0:52:47.675 --> 0:52:51.155
<v Speaker 1>after hour, they pulled these things off. I went, and

0:52:50.795 --> 0:52:55.555
<v Speaker 1>I went into restaurants with people, and people turned around

0:52:55.635 --> 0:52:58.955
<v Speaker 1>and from the chairs and the tables and turned around

0:52:58.955 --> 0:53:00.675
<v Speaker 1>and recognized me. And we were trying to keep this

0:53:00.755 --> 0:53:03.195
<v Speaker 1>quiet because I didn't know how ESPN was going to

0:53:03.195 --> 0:53:05.235
<v Speaker 1>react to my doing something that had said the contract

0:53:05.275 --> 0:53:07.635
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't do. They took me to a day White

0:53:07.675 --> 0:53:12.635
<v Speaker 1>Sox game. Everybody stopped in the press room. They took

0:53:12.675 --> 0:53:15.595
<v Speaker 1>me to a Chicago Bulls practice. It was during the playoffs.

0:53:15.595 --> 0:53:19.275
<v Speaker 1>This was in the spring, and nobody said anything until

0:53:19.275 --> 0:53:21.115
<v Speaker 1>I saw Dennis Rodman at the other end of the

0:53:21.155 --> 0:53:25.835
<v Speaker 1>court run down from underneath the far basket to where

0:53:25.835 --> 0:53:30.995
<v Speaker 1>I was standing with the radio guys, and he said, way,

0:53:31.755 --> 0:53:34.435
<v Speaker 1>how you doing. How's Dan? I said, good, Dennis, how

0:53:34.475 --> 0:53:36.755
<v Speaker 1>you doing great? Watch you every night? So what the

0:53:36.755 --> 0:53:39.995
<v Speaker 1>hell you doing here? You already have a job, I went, Dennis,

0:53:40.475 --> 0:53:43.795
<v Speaker 1>you don't get enough credit for your intelligence. You really don't.

0:53:44.115 --> 0:53:47.755
<v Speaker 1>And he really didn't. And I said, do you think

0:53:47.755 --> 0:53:49.875
<v Speaker 1>you could do me a favor and not tell anybody

0:53:49.875 --> 0:53:51.955
<v Speaker 1>that you saw me here? Because you just figured it out?

0:53:52.275 --> 0:53:54.515
<v Speaker 1>What are you talking with? These these clowns here from

0:53:54.555 --> 0:53:56.875
<v Speaker 1>the radio. I like these guys, but nobody listens to them.

0:53:56.915 --> 0:53:59.155
<v Speaker 1>They listen to them. If you're here, Welcome to Chicago.

0:53:59.235 --> 0:53:59.435
<v Speaker 2>Man.

0:54:00.715 --> 0:54:03.875
<v Speaker 1>Everybody I saw figured it out and we're trying to

0:54:03.955 --> 0:54:06.675
<v Speaker 1>keep this. And every one of them said, please come here.

0:54:06.715 --> 0:54:08.235
<v Speaker 1>We'd love to listen to you. What are you gonna

0:54:08.275 --> 0:54:11.475
<v Speaker 1>do afternoons? I'm not doing anything at four o'clock. I'll

0:54:11.515 --> 0:54:15.435
<v Speaker 1>listen and on and on and on, and I didn't

0:54:15.475 --> 0:54:18.315
<v Speaker 1>pull my wallet out of my pocket once during this time.

0:54:18.315 --> 0:54:20.555
<v Speaker 1>I didn't pay for anything. I didn't pay for a meal,

0:54:20.635 --> 0:54:22.875
<v Speaker 1>I didn't pay for a beer. And the reaction to

0:54:22.915 --> 0:54:25.155
<v Speaker 1>the people who did not know me was the following.

0:54:25.915 --> 0:54:28.515
<v Speaker 1>And I'd never really seen this before in my travels.

0:54:28.875 --> 0:54:30.915
<v Speaker 1>All the places that I worked, even when it was

0:54:30.955 --> 0:54:34.315
<v Speaker 1>Boston versus New York or Los Angeles versus Boston. Ultimately

0:54:34.555 --> 0:54:37.075
<v Speaker 1>the people were largely the same, but there was something

0:54:37.115 --> 0:54:39.835
<v Speaker 1>different about the Midwest. And I think it's still true largely,

0:54:39.995 --> 0:54:42.435
<v Speaker 1>but it was certainly true in nineteen ninety six. And

0:54:42.515 --> 0:54:44.355
<v Speaker 1>this was the reaction to people who didn't know me.

0:54:44.875 --> 0:54:47.995
<v Speaker 1>Who's your friend, Harry, Oh, hi, Keith, nice to meet you.

0:54:47.995 --> 0:54:50.835
<v Speaker 1>You're from out of town. Well, welcome to Chicago. Have

0:54:50.875 --> 0:54:54.715
<v Speaker 1>a beer. I don't know how many beers I had.

0:54:54.835 --> 0:54:58.555
<v Speaker 1>I know I didn't couldn't have possibly had finished all

0:54:58.595 --> 0:55:00.435
<v Speaker 1>of them, or even started most of them. Some of

0:55:00.475 --> 0:55:03.835
<v Speaker 1>them were probably still sitting on a table somewhere in

0:55:03.915 --> 0:55:06.275
<v Speaker 1>a bar in Chicago that I left in the spring

0:55:06.275 --> 0:55:08.915
<v Speaker 1>of nineteen ninety six because people kept handing me beers.

0:55:09.875 --> 0:55:11.915
<v Speaker 1>So on and on and on this went, and we

0:55:11.955 --> 0:55:13.755
<v Speaker 1>went and talked about what the show might be, and

0:55:13.795 --> 0:55:16.075
<v Speaker 1>who the sidekick might be, and how we would work

0:55:16.115 --> 0:55:19.955
<v Speaker 1>the camera if there was another station, and preliminary discussions

0:55:19.955 --> 0:55:22.675
<v Speaker 1>with two of the other Chicago TV stations, and would

0:55:22.995 --> 0:55:25.595
<v Speaker 1>ESPN really let me go when I was the centerpiece

0:55:25.755 --> 0:55:29.075
<v Speaker 1>of Sports Center, I went, you'd be surprised, and on

0:55:29.195 --> 0:55:31.995
<v Speaker 1>and on and on, and the longer I went through this,

0:55:33.115 --> 0:55:35.395
<v Speaker 1>and the real reason I realized while I was there

0:55:35.435 --> 0:55:39.155
<v Speaker 1>one morning having breakfast with somebody else they introduced me to.

0:55:40.115 --> 0:55:42.515
<v Speaker 1>While I'm there, I realized I just needed some validation

0:55:42.675 --> 0:55:45.235
<v Speaker 1>because it was a conflict at all times. I had

0:55:45.235 --> 0:55:47.235
<v Speaker 1>one vision of what ESPN should be and what Sports

0:55:47.275 --> 0:55:49.475
<v Speaker 1>Center should be, and more importantly, what my role should

0:55:49.475 --> 0:55:52.635
<v Speaker 1>be in it, and they had a different one, and

0:55:52.715 --> 0:55:55.875
<v Speaker 1>that conflict was constant, and I just needed somebody to say, no,

0:55:55.995 --> 0:55:58.595
<v Speaker 1>we like your ideas, we think you should be the

0:55:58.635 --> 0:56:00.995
<v Speaker 1>one making most of the decisions. Well, I mean, it's

0:56:00.995 --> 0:56:04.355
<v Speaker 1>our station, it's our candy store. We get the ultimate say,

0:56:04.875 --> 0:56:08.195
<v Speaker 1>but let's work out a whole sort of constitution for

0:56:08.235 --> 0:56:08.635
<v Speaker 1>the show.

0:56:08.835 --> 0:56:11.515
<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, I love these people, and they want

0:56:11.595 --> 0:56:14.035
<v Speaker 2>to pay me twice that I'm making now, and there

0:56:14.075 --> 0:56:16.755
<v Speaker 2>are other people here. I have met more people here

0:56:16.755 --> 0:56:19.275
<v Speaker 2>in Chicago in my four days here than I have

0:56:19.395 --> 0:56:23.955
<v Speaker 2>met in my four years in Bristol, Connecticut. Nothing against Bristol, Connecticut,

0:56:24.075 --> 0:56:26.115
<v Speaker 2>but they don't have any sidewalks there.

0:56:27.515 --> 0:56:30.115
<v Speaker 1>And then we went looking for apartments and the price

0:56:30.155 --> 0:56:37.395
<v Speaker 1>for apartments penthouses overlooking the lake was still, you know,

0:56:38.275 --> 0:56:41.195
<v Speaker 1>maybe double what I was paying for my house. But

0:56:41.315 --> 0:56:44.915
<v Speaker 1>my house was was in Southington, Connecticut. Again a great

0:56:44.915 --> 0:56:48.635
<v Speaker 1>place to raise a family, very economical, but sort of

0:56:48.675 --> 0:56:52.915
<v Speaker 1>like the most remote suburbs of Hartford as opposed to

0:56:53.315 --> 0:56:56.515
<v Speaker 1>I'm in downtown Chicago. I can walk to work now.

0:56:56.635 --> 0:57:00.835
<v Speaker 1>Admittedly it was I think the end of May, and

0:57:00.915 --> 0:57:03.155
<v Speaker 1>one morning it was forty one degrees and I thought,

0:57:03.195 --> 0:57:06.315
<v Speaker 1>is this the kind of life I want to? You know,

0:57:06.475 --> 0:57:08.875
<v Speaker 1>Kathy went to Cornell University. It was kind of cold

0:57:08.995 --> 0:57:10.915
<v Speaker 1>up there, and you know, you did go to the

0:57:10.995 --> 0:57:13.395
<v Speaker 1>Lake Plaster the Olympics and kind of go, but it's windy,

0:57:13.515 --> 0:57:15.275
<v Speaker 1>and that's why I walked around. It's like, yeah, that's

0:57:15.315 --> 0:57:16.875
<v Speaker 1>going to be a problem. How much did you say

0:57:16.875 --> 0:57:17.115
<v Speaker 1>it was?

0:57:17.155 --> 0:57:17.435
<v Speaker 2>Again?

0:57:19.795 --> 0:57:24.795
<v Speaker 1>So on Friday after being there, I guess five days.

0:57:24.915 --> 0:57:27.115
<v Speaker 1>I think I got there Monday. It may have been Tuesdays.

0:57:27.115 --> 0:57:29.115
<v Speaker 1>It was at least four and they whined me and

0:57:29.195 --> 0:57:31.835
<v Speaker 1>dined me and took me everywhere. Here was the schedule.

0:57:31.955 --> 0:57:36.595
<v Speaker 1>On Friday, I was doing something with the boys. Maybe

0:57:36.755 --> 0:57:40.155
<v Speaker 1>maybe another White Sox game, maybe Wrigley Field, a private tour,

0:57:40.235 --> 0:57:42.555
<v Speaker 1>I don't remember what it was, one of the museums,

0:57:42.715 --> 0:57:45.195
<v Speaker 1>a view of the lake, a view of the surrounding

0:57:45.395 --> 0:57:50.355
<v Speaker 1>neighborhoods outside of Chicago downtown. Just trips on the on

0:57:50.515 --> 0:57:57.515
<v Speaker 1>the l trains, something fun. And then like dinner with

0:57:57.635 --> 0:58:00.515
<v Speaker 1>thug Stern to tell him whether or not we would proceed,

0:58:00.915 --> 0:58:05.595
<v Speaker 1>Like was I convinced? Had they successfully want and dined me?

0:58:05.675 --> 0:58:07.755
<v Speaker 1>And should we try it? Not that I was going

0:58:07.795 --> 0:58:10.475
<v Speaker 1>to accept it and sign a contract, but just could

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<v Speaker 1>we proceed? Was I interested? And I was interested. I

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<v Speaker 1>woke up that morning going, I think this could be

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<v Speaker 1>a great deal of fun. This could be my home.

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<v Speaker 1>It'll look crazy, but this could be my home. Radio

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<v Speaker 1>is not necessarily easier than television. But bottom line is

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have to shave. It's like podcasts. What do

0:58:33.115 --> 0:58:38.515
<v Speaker 1>you like about the podcast, Keith, I don't have to shave. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So we're going to go to dinner. Doug Stern is

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<v Speaker 1>going to come by about five o'clock. He's got something

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<v Speaker 1>going on on the weekend. He wants to see if

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<v Speaker 1>he can at least get the ball rolling on, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>getting this done if I'm interested, And we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>have an early dinner and then everybody at the radio

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<v Speaker 1>station knows that this is live or die for them,

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<v Speaker 1>So we're all going to meet at a place near

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<v Speaker 1>Wrigley Field and celebrate because they're convinced. They've convinced me.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I haven't even gotten to the date yet

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<v Speaker 1>at the Drake Hotel for the wedding the next day,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm decided. It's like yeah, okay, and I'm getting dressed.

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<v Speaker 1>Doug Stearn's going to pick me up about five point

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<v Speaker 1>thirty six o'clock something outside the Drake, and the real

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<v Speaker 1>wine and dine is going to go on. And I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not going to tell him that I've already decided. I

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<v Speaker 1>want him to spend the rest of the money on me.

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<v Speaker 1>The phone rings five. If he's picking me up at

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<v Speaker 1>five thirty, it's five to twenty, Keith, it's Doug's turn. Listen. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>let me just come out and say this. The owners

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<v Speaker 1>of the radio station. Just got back from the corporate

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<v Speaker 1>meetings in New Jersey, and they've decided that the best

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<v Speaker 1>thing to do is not to spend six hundred thousand

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<v Speaker 1>dollars a year on you and keep the station going,

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<v Speaker 1>but rather simply take the station off the air and

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<v Speaker 1>rebroadcast what we do on FM. And I said, excuse me,

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<v Speaker 1>he said, yeah. I said, well, I was going to

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<v Speaker 1>tell you that I like the idea. I thought you

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<v Speaker 1>were too. I'm sorry, I literally I just hung up

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<v Speaker 1>with them. They no more spending and everybody's going to

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<v Speaker 1>get fired. And what I said, I said, all the everybody. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>don't tell them you're going. I know you're going out

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<v Speaker 1>to celebrate it. Can you just pretend for me? And

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<v Speaker 1>I said, I don't know if I've got that in me, Doug,

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<v Speaker 1>He said, well, in any event, I'm so sorry. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>talk again next week. I have to get home and

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<v Speaker 1>pack quickly because I've just taken a job in San

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<v Speaker 1>Francisco and i have to be out there tomorrow morning,

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm leaving on a red eye tonight. Thanks. I

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<v Speaker 1>hope you had a good time at least, and please

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<v Speaker 1>spend all the money you can on the station's dime

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<v Speaker 1>before you leave for Bristol on Sunday morning. Bye click.

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<v Speaker 1>So I didn't go to Chicago to become a sportscaster

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<v Speaker 1>slash talk show hosts slash maybe earlier version of my

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<v Speaker 1>political self, and certainly not the guy who went to

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<v Speaker 1>MSNBC the next year, and certainly not the guy who

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<v Speaker 1>went back to Bristol, Connecticut angrier, which always worked really

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<v Speaker 1>well for Sports Center, by the way. But the punchline

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<v Speaker 1>to this, of course, is I now still have to

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<v Speaker 1>go out and celebrate with Harry and Spike and everybody

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<v Speaker 1>else from the radio station. End. Oh goodness, gracious, I

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<v Speaker 1>knew I would be drinking in a way. I had

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<v Speaker 1>not had the volume of drink. I've discussed this before.

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<v Speaker 1>I once had I think forty beers in one day

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<v Speaker 1>and realize you could be a functional alcoholic. Avoid this

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<v Speaker 1>whenever possible. So I probably hadn't had a drink in

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of months or so, and I never had

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<v Speaker 1>a drinking problem, except I knew the potential was there,

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<v Speaker 1>and that night, the potential was going to be there

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<v Speaker 1>because I was going to have to get completely drunk.

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<v Speaker 1>It was so bad that I took several business cards

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<v Speaker 1>from the Drake Hotel, wrote my name on them and

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<v Speaker 1>a crude map of where the Drake Hotel was, because

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<v Speaker 1>I was not convinced that when I got into the

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<v Speaker 1>cab after this trauma was over going to celebrate with

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<v Speaker 1>a bunch of people, all whom are going to get

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<v Speaker 1>fired next Monday. And it's Friday night, and you're the

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<v Speaker 1>only one who knows that they're all going to get fired.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know that I was going to be able

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<v Speaker 1>to speak, And sure enough I went and went out

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<v Speaker 1>with Harry and Spike, and I couldn't keep the secret,

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<v Speaker 1>and I told them, and apparently they were the only

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<v Speaker 1>two who were retained to do what resembled what was

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<v Speaker 1>left of the radio station that wasn't a rebroadcast of FM.

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<v Speaker 1>The irony I think of it was that I believe

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<v Speaker 1>the station was then sold to ESPN. It's all jumbled,

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<v Speaker 1>and now that I think of it, I may even

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<v Speaker 1>have the call letters wrong. They were two stations there,

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<v Speaker 1>the SCORE and MVP, and I can't remember the one

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<v Speaker 1>that wasn't doing well was the one that was I

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<v Speaker 1>was going to go work for. And my prophecy came

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<v Speaker 1>true when it came time to go back to the

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<v Speaker 1>drake and go. These people are all going to get fired,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think they know that. On the other hand,

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<v Speaker 1>let's see how this date goes at the drake tomorrow.

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<v Speaker 1>I entered the cab and I said to the cab

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<v Speaker 1>driver when he said where to buddy, are you saying

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<v Speaker 1>where too, Bunny? And I said, and he went, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't understand you. And I just hold up one

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<v Speaker 1>finger and it pulled out the drink. I went and

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<v Speaker 1>we went to the drink. It's a very nice wedding.

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<v Speaker 1>On the other hand, I've done all the damage I

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<v Speaker 1>His assistant today was Kit. Everything else was as always

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<v Speaker 1>my That's countdown for today, Day three hundred and sixty

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<v Speaker 1>nine of America held hostage again just one thy ninety

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<v Speaker 1>four days, though until the scheduled end of his lame

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<v Speaker 1>duck and lame brained term, unless he is removed sooner

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<v Speaker 1>by MAGA and Epstein or affordability or Venezuela or the Ice,

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<v Speaker 1>Gestapo or Greenland or the EU and NATO. The next

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