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

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Speaker 1: repeat myself because I'm right. File motions to impeach Trump today,

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Speaker 1: Move to impeach Trump today, and keep moving to impeach

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Speaker 1: Trump every day through next year's midterms. Impeachment is undefeated.

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Speaker 1: It is undefeated in American history. House Democrats, he handed

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Speaker 1: you twelve, maybe fifteen new impeachment counts on Friday Night alone,

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Speaker 1: blatantly brazenly illegal dismissals of departmental inspector general, just as

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Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five promised, and eliminating the school's safety board,

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Speaker 1: elimination of oversight, elimination of legal protections against the mass

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Speaker 1: murder of children in school. In the old days, you

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Speaker 1: might have responded to this by having Trump arrested. Now

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Speaker 1: you are limited by the Supreme Court to impeachment bills

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Speaker 1: that will all fail, except they will ultimately succeed because

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Speaker 1: impeachment is undefeated. Impeach him for the Friday Night massacre.

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Speaker 1: Impeach him for circumventing the fourteenth Amendment. He just ramped

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Speaker 1: up the migrant arrest quote at a fifteen hundred a

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Speaker 1: day and started raids in Chicago yesterday Impeach him for

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Speaker 1: violating the Fourth Amendment. Impeach him for seizing Native Americans.

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Speaker 1: Impeach him for seizing an army veteran and for his

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Speaker 1: gestapo then questioning that veteran service. Impeach him for releasing

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Speaker 1: sixteen hundred thugs and criminals, and for violate his oath

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Speaker 1: to defend the country. Impeach him for illegally dismissing the

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Speaker 1: anti mass shooting school safety Board. Impeach him now, impeach

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Speaker 1: him later, then impeach him a couple of more times,

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Speaker 1: and give him an extra slice of impeachment to carry

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Speaker 1: him through the weekend. And if I hear one more

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Speaker 1: blowback to my previous call to impeach him, no matter

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Speaker 1: the outcome, one more headshake from a cowardly Democrat, and

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Speaker 1: especially one more factually inaccurate claim that impeachment doesn't work

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Speaker 1: because it's never removed a president, one more self absorbed

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Speaker 1: loser saying impeach Yeah, sounds good. How did it work

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Speaker 1: out for us last time? Pretty effing well. Actually, the

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Speaker 1: mere talk of impeaching Trump helped the Democrats win the

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Speaker 1: House in twenty eighteen and break trump tripartheid control of government.

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Speaker 1: The first actual impeachment was followed by keeping the House

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and after the Georgia election, taking the

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Speaker 1: Senate in twenty twenty, and oh, by the way, taking

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Speaker 1: the White House in twenty twenty. The second impeachment crushed

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Speaker 1: any lingering attempt by Trump to overthrow the Biden government

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Speaker 1: in waiting in twenty twenty one, and it provided the

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Speaker 1: impetus for the January sixth prosecutions and the prosecution of Trump,

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Speaker 1: which Merrick Garland so thoroughly sabotaged. Impeachment works. Merrick Garland

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Speaker 1: is the thing that failed. Bottom line, impeach him again.

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Speaker 1: It is one of our darkest secrets as a nation,

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Speaker 1: something we have lied to ourselves about. But impeachment works.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats voted on articles of impeachment against Nixon in

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. Before they were finished, he resigned. They

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Speaker 1: kept the House and the Senate in the mid terms

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Speaker 1: three months later, and they won the White House two

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Speaker 1: years later, And they kept the House two years later,

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Speaker 1: and they kept the Senate two years later. The Republicans

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Speaker 1: launched the official Clinton impeachment inquiry in October nineteen ninety eight,

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Speaker 1: after months of having the media softened the nation up.

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Speaker 1: First official Clinton impeachment inquiry begins October nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 1: November nineteen ninety eight. They kept the Senate, they kept

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Speaker 1: the House. They impeached him, They kept the Senate. In

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Speaker 1: the House in two thousand and they took the White

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Speaker 1: House first Trump impeachment. Democrats then kept the House, took

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Speaker 1: the Senate, took the presidency. Number of presidents removed from

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Speaker 1: office none of three. Number of times the parties that

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Speaker 1: did the impeachment won the next election thirteen out of thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen out of thirteen House, Senate, White House, US. I

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Speaker 1: think we should write a letter instead, a really mean letter.

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Speaker 1: I mean, in fact, never mind thirteen of thirteen. You

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Speaker 1: can argue it's really fourteen out of fourteen because the

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Speaker 1: Republican that Republicans impeached in eighteen sixty eight, President Andrew Johnson,

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Speaker 1: was actually a Democrat, and the goal was to hamstring

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Speaker 1: him from implementing his pro Confederacy agenda and especially to

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Speaker 1: keep him running as an incumbent. And it worked. It

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Speaker 1: just doesn't get understood. In the one second most elected

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Speaker 1: Democrats will give to analyze it. Either way, impeachment is undefeated.

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Speaker 1: Start now, You'll love it. It is a long term strategy,

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Speaker 1: and it is half neuwt Gingrich, half Muhammad Ali. No,

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Speaker 1: you are not going to knock out your opponent with

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Speaker 1: one and no, you are not going to avoid getting

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Speaker 1: bruised in the process. But each time you hit back,

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Speaker 1: they get bruised too. And if you are in this

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Speaker 1: fight and you are not convinced that you will ultimately

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Speaker 1: I'm tougher than Trump is, and you are tougher than

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Speaker 1: Trump is, and so even is Hakeem Jeffries. But if

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Speaker 1: Akeem Jeffries and other prominent Democrats think the strategy is

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Speaker 1: to issue a press release after every time Trump does

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Speaker 1: to this country exactly what Putin would have done to

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Speaker 1: this country, they have to go. This is Trump in

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Speaker 1: the middle of his war against the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: We have been attacked again by Trump. And the answer

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Speaker 1: is not press releases. It's impeachment bills and walkouts and

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Speaker 1: strike in the Blue States and making the next two

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Speaker 1: years as infuriating for him and infuriating for every whore

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Speaker 1: who supports him. You are not going to defeat him

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Speaker 1: until next year at the earliest, but you can make

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Speaker 1: his life and their worthless lives almost as miserable as

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Speaker 1: they intend to make ours. Let's get busy. Hit back.

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Speaker 1: And if you're not ready to hit back, Leader Jeffries, resign,

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Speaker 1: turn it over to AOC. She is clearly ready to

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Speaker 1: metaphorically knee them all in the groin. She is the

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Speaker 1: wartime conciliari. And guess what, kids, this is wartime? Or

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Speaker 1: if AOC has too many rough edges for you, or

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Speaker 1: not enough experience, if you want nice, put Bishop Marianne

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Speaker 1: Edgar Buddy in charge of the Democratic Party. I'm goddamned serious.

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Speaker 1: Forgive me, bishop, because this is where we are ethically

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Speaker 1: right now in this country. Lindsey Graham says the dismissals

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Speaker 1: of the Inspectors General are illegal, but so what quote.

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Speaker 1: I'm not losing a lot of sleep. So if you're

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Speaker 1: looking for some kind of regret and atonement from the fascists,

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Speaker 1: forget it. Trump has also escalated his version of the

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Speaker 1: Onschluss again over the weekend. I think the people of

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Speaker 1: Greenland want to be with US. I really don't know

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Speaker 1: what claim Denmark has to Greenland, but it would be

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Speaker 1: a very unfriendly act if they didn't allow unquote Trump

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Speaker 1: to seize Greenland. He has moved towards seizing other countries,

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Speaker 1: or buying other countries, or crushing other countries economically because

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Speaker 1: Trump Land, Trump Land uber Alles, and nobody is saying

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Speaker 1: anything about it. It is, after all, the Hitler playbook,

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Speaker 1: like the one he kept on his bedstand. First you

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Speaker 1: sublimate your own nation, and then you start thrilling them

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Speaker 1: by sublimating other nations. And there doesn't have to be

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Speaker 1: a through line. There has to be no consistency to this.

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Speaker 1: It's just rage, it's just bloodlust. While Marco Rubio, the

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Speaker 1: new Secretary of comovers is talking about the Taliban holding

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Speaker 1: have to re invade Afghanistan, Trump just abandoned forty thousand

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Speaker 1: immoral hypocrisy of all that correct answer is none of

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Speaker 1: the above. Trump now also wants everybody moved out of Gaza.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for those of you who voted against Harris as

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Speaker 1: about that, they may have to do more bad afghand

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Speaker 1: of than Marco Rubio said, well, checking his hair in

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Speaker 1: the mirror. After Trump demanded an apology from Bishop Buddy,

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Speaker 1: his really weird Vice President of the United States, JV

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Speaker 1: himself has taken us into an entirely new domestic area too.

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Speaker 1: JV Vans has threatened the Catholic Church. Now'll just repeat

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Speaker 1: that JV. Vance has threatened the Catholic Church because it's

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Speaker 1: Bishop of Washington had the nerve to talk about Trump's

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Speaker 1: evil to his face. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops,

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Speaker 1: Vance said, needs to actually look in the mirror a

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Speaker 1: one hundred million to resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried

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Speaker 1: about humanitarian concerns or are they actually worried about their

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Speaker 1: bottom line. Any Republican Catholics recognize this little sequence of

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Speaker 1: of the kirchen Kompf when Hitler went out to take

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Speaker 1: as part of his bureaucracy of dictatorship. This is what

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Speaker 1: that is. This is what it is, baby, the opening

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Speaker 1: pretty well. This is just another sign of what's to come.

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Speaker 1: Whoever and whatever you are, to whichever group you belong,

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Speaker 1: you're next. And all the Republicans are silent because power

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Speaker 1: and money are their only gods and their only codes.

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Speaker 1: And Lindsey Graham said he's not losing any sleep over it.

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Speaker 1: And the Democrats, oh, well, they know what to do

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Speaker 1: per CBS. The Democrats are introducing a resolution in the

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Speaker 1: resolved that the Senate disapproves any pardons for individuals who

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Speaker 1: That'll do it. Ah Yo, You'll get Senate Republicans on

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Speaker 1: the record now supporting the assault on Capitol police officers,

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Speaker 1: which they're voters will applaud. That'll show those damn Republicans

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Speaker 1: night coup. The Congressman said, to overthrow legally protected independent

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Speaker 1: inspectors General is an attack on transparency and accountability. You

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Speaker 1: hacks will harm every American. Goddamn right now, Jerry introduce

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Speaker 1: a bill to impeach him for doing this. Every Democratic

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Speaker 1: representative should introduce at least one impeachment measure in the

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Speaker 1: next two years. Flood Congress with them, turn it into

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Speaker 1: nothing else, disrupt all House business sabotage the cameras. If

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Speaker 1: you have to throw things, agitate, agitate, agitate, Except for

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Speaker 1: the hourly impeachment bill. Reach out to Mike Johnson, get

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Speaker 1: and ask him about instead his self prostitution for Trump

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Speaker 1: about a new January sixth committee and wants a show

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Speaker 1: trial with not very much to it. Think of that

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Speaker 1: running embarrassment James Comer was about the Biden family. From

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Speaker 1: That was all it was supposed to do, and it worked.

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Speaker 1: That's what Johnson wants. Don't give it to him. You

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Speaker 1: should go bipartisan with him on this. Democrats support a

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Speaker 1: new January sixth committee. Why, I don't know. Put some

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Speaker 1: teeth into this thing. Johnson and Trump want to relitigate

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Speaker 1: January sixth. Think about that for a second. They want

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Speaker 1: to go through everything in January sixth again. God damn it.

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Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffrey should volunteer to carry Mike Johnson into the

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Speaker 1: House on his own shoulders if he's willing to reltigate

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Speaker 1: January sixth, he should volunteer to co chair the thing

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Speaker 1: with Mike Johnson. Let's go through this again. Let's swear

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Speaker 1: in Liz Cheney and Adam kinsing are his expert witnesses,

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Speaker 1: and go through all the evidence again. Put Trump's coup

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Speaker 1: on trial one more time, and sure, let Cash Patel

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Speaker 1: to relitigate January sixth, just after Trump succeeded in gaslighting

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Speaker 1: proud to have written that myself, sir, Congratulations about Lauren.

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00:33:50,115 --> 00:33:54,395
Speaker 1: What a pair of hands for a Grandma Bobert. Now

426
00:33:54,435 --> 00:33:58,155
Speaker 1: to third place worser, and it's Trump. I will remind

427
00:33:58,195 --> 00:34:00,435
Speaker 1: you again that for all the arrogance of this old

428
00:34:00,915 --> 00:34:04,915
Speaker 1: stretched out balloon of a man golfing every day on

429
00:34:05,235 --> 00:34:09,555
Speaker 1: your and my dime, we are here, in fact safest

430
00:34:09,915 --> 00:34:12,715
Speaker 1: when he's out there doing that, because it's not just

431
00:34:12,795 --> 00:34:17,355
Speaker 1: the evil, it's the stupidity. Now he's always been trending

432
00:34:17,395 --> 00:34:21,435
Speaker 1: towards this next destination, but he's now fully engaged in

433
00:34:21,515 --> 00:34:26,075
Speaker 1: the world. What we used to call spoonerisms, malaprops, wrong names,

434
00:34:26,115 --> 00:34:30,275
Speaker 1: wrong words, Freudian slips, dreams. He had that he thinks

435
00:34:30,315 --> 00:34:33,995
Speaker 1: really happened. Guesses that have to be right because he's

436
00:34:34,035 --> 00:34:40,435
Speaker 1: guessing it, but especially those wrong names. And el Duche

437
00:34:40,595 --> 00:34:43,595
Speaker 1: has clearly had too many Benny's in his life.

438
00:34:43,635 --> 00:34:47,075
Speaker 2: He's a crooked guy, a totally crooked politician. And so

439
00:34:47,155 --> 00:34:50,715
Speaker 2: he's pardoned, and some other people are pardoned. And these

440
00:34:50,715 --> 00:34:55,075
Speaker 2: are crooked politicians, every one of them. Bennie Johnson, what

441
00:34:55,195 --> 00:34:57,195
Speaker 2: he did is incredible. I mean, he was the leader

442
00:34:57,195 --> 00:34:58,355
Speaker 2: of the committee and he did it.

443
00:34:59,075 --> 00:35:03,835
Speaker 1: Idiot Benny Thompson. Benny Thompson was the chairman of the

444
00:35:03,915 --> 00:35:10,595
Speaker 1: January sixth committee, not Bennie Johnson, the real January sixth committee,

445
00:35:10,635 --> 00:35:13,155
Speaker 1: not the new one. Like I said earlier, Oh please, please, please,

446
00:35:13,195 --> 00:35:15,435
Speaker 1: please please please let there be a new one. Please

447
00:35:15,515 --> 00:35:19,195
Speaker 1: relitigate this, please, Unless this was a Freudian slip and

448
00:35:19,315 --> 00:35:22,955
Speaker 1: Trump really wants to indict the most simpering, foppish, just

449
00:35:22,995 --> 00:35:27,035
Speaker 1: playing stupid of as many sycophantic social media whorees. Who

450
00:35:27,115 --> 00:35:34,755
Speaker 1: is Bennie Johnson. It's Benny the runners up the National

451
00:35:34,795 --> 00:35:40,155
Speaker 1: Football League and commissioner Roger Goodell. Now Baseball has kept

452
00:35:40,195 --> 00:35:46,075
Speaker 1: idiot commissioners in place for impossibly long stretches. Hockey two

453
00:35:46,315 --> 00:35:50,275
Speaker 1: several of them, Basketball not so much. Probably that explains

454
00:35:50,275 --> 00:35:52,675
Speaker 1: why the NBA went from something founded by all the

455
00:35:52,715 --> 00:35:55,435
Speaker 1: hockey owners in the mid nineteen forties so they could

456
00:35:55,475 --> 00:35:58,115
Speaker 1: get a few fans to spend some money in the

457
00:35:58,115 --> 00:36:01,955
Speaker 1: hockey arenas that they owned on off nights. And that

458
00:36:02,035 --> 00:36:05,275
Speaker 1: really is how professional basketball in this country actually got

459
00:36:05,315 --> 00:36:09,355
Speaker 1: started for real, how it went from that to dominating

460
00:36:09,395 --> 00:36:14,515
Speaker 1: the winter sports like oh hockey. But football has had

461
00:36:14,555 --> 00:36:17,915
Speaker 1: this guy Goodell in place for what will soon be

462
00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:22,355
Speaker 1: twenty years, and he is on an incredible winning streak

463
00:36:22,395 --> 00:36:26,035
Speaker 1: that makes Tom Brady look like the backup quarterback on

464
00:36:26,075 --> 00:36:30,955
Speaker 1: a semi pro team. Roger Goodell in twenty years nearly

465
00:36:31,235 --> 00:36:35,395
Speaker 1: has never done the right thing. New England Patriots vice

466
00:36:35,395 --> 00:36:39,875
Speaker 1: president of content Fred Kersh and honestly, what content could

467
00:36:39,875 --> 00:36:44,115
Speaker 1: the Patriots have without Bill Belichick? Anyway, He told a

468
00:36:44,195 --> 00:36:49,035
Speaker 1: Patriots centric podcast that the team had an account on

469
00:36:49,235 --> 00:36:52,195
Speaker 1: blue Sky, but it was ordered by the league Roger

470
00:36:52,195 --> 00:36:56,555
Speaker 1: Goodell commissioner to shut that account down because blue Sky

471
00:36:56,755 --> 00:37:00,955
Speaker 1: is not quote an approved social media platform for the NFL.

472
00:37:01,115 --> 00:37:05,395
Speaker 1: Yet Goodell, who literally always gets it wrong, did a

473
00:37:05,475 --> 00:37:08,475
Speaker 1: deal with Musk and X and his egor Linda yek

474
00:37:08,555 --> 00:37:14,435
Speaker 1: Garino to create an NFL portal on X last fall,

475
00:37:14,795 --> 00:37:18,115
Speaker 1: just as X clearly began its death rattle. You don't

476
00:37:18,115 --> 00:37:20,235
Speaker 1: believe it's a death rattle. The Wall Street Journal says

477
00:37:20,275 --> 00:37:23,395
Speaker 1: the banks who loaned Elmo the money to buy Twitter

478
00:37:23,435 --> 00:37:25,995
Speaker 1: and destroy it are going to sell off some of

479
00:37:26,035 --> 00:37:29,475
Speaker 1: the thirteen billion they loaned him, So the loans are

480
00:37:29,515 --> 00:37:32,275
Speaker 1: for sale, which is going to mean a lot of

481
00:37:32,275 --> 00:37:35,955
Speaker 1: trouble for Musk going forward. One of the reasons they're

482
00:37:35,955 --> 00:37:37,755
Speaker 1: going to do this, according to The Wall Street Journal,

483
00:37:37,835 --> 00:37:40,835
Speaker 1: which is not exactly a left wing media outlet, is

484
00:37:40,875 --> 00:37:43,475
Speaker 1: that they have an email the banks do that Musk

485
00:37:43,595 --> 00:37:47,515
Speaker 1: sent to his remaining employee slash Slaves over there, that

486
00:37:47,595 --> 00:37:53,155
Speaker 1: in part reads, our user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive,

487
00:37:53,555 --> 00:37:58,755
Speaker 1: and we're barely breaking even. Alas the old saw is true,

488
00:37:59,195 --> 00:38:02,555
Speaker 1: being a Nazi will make you money early, but it's

489
00:38:02,715 --> 00:38:06,835
Speaker 1: just not a long term investment strategy, ask Eva Brown.

490
00:38:08,715 --> 00:38:11,195
Speaker 1: But back to the NFL, and it's unfortunate dim bulb

491
00:38:11,235 --> 00:38:14,635
Speaker 1: of a commissioner. Goodell has straight outside of the Muskrat catacombs,

492
00:38:14,635 --> 00:38:17,395
Speaker 1: though it has some kind of an arrangement with the

493
00:38:17,435 --> 00:38:23,235
Speaker 1: other Trump fell Later Mark the terrified Mark Zuckerberg to

494
00:38:23,355 --> 00:38:28,995
Speaker 1: go on the absolutely useless Threads platform. Gee, maybe Zuck

495
00:38:29,075 --> 00:38:33,195
Speaker 1: can get Roger Goodell a virtual reality helmet. How's that

496
00:38:33,275 --> 00:38:35,955
Speaker 1: working out for you, Zuck? Is that why your hair

497
00:38:36,035 --> 00:38:38,155
Speaker 1: looks like that because you wore the helmet too long?

498
00:38:39,515 --> 00:38:43,035
Speaker 1: The NFL on the social media cutting edge. It will

499
00:38:43,075 --> 00:38:47,075
Speaker 1: be on my Space any day now. But our winner

500
00:38:47,155 --> 00:38:50,595
Speaker 1: Noah Cindergard, one time All Star and still the only

501
00:38:50,675 --> 00:38:52,435
Speaker 1: pitcher to win a World Series game for the New

502
00:38:52,475 --> 00:38:55,675
Speaker 1: York Mets since the year two thousand. He also was

503
00:38:55,715 --> 00:38:58,515
Speaker 1: the live in dugout guest for the Mets Yankees game.

504
00:38:58,515 --> 00:39:00,915
Speaker 1: I did the play by play for on ESPN in

505
00:39:00,915 --> 00:39:04,075
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and he was outstanding and very funny and

506
00:39:04,235 --> 00:39:08,875
Speaker 1: very with his time. However, as we all knew even then,

507
00:39:09,315 --> 00:39:14,315
Speaker 1: Noah may not have the sharpest breaking balls in the league.

508
00:39:14,835 --> 00:39:17,435
Speaker 1: If you get my drift, he has now proved that

509
00:39:17,795 --> 00:39:22,675
Speaker 1: in spades. Cinderguard, unemployed since Cleveland cut him in August

510
00:39:22,715 --> 00:39:26,155
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, shared a photo of himself at a

511
00:39:26,195 --> 00:39:30,595
Speaker 1: black tie event. In the foreground of this photo, Robert F.

512
00:39:30,715 --> 00:39:36,515
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior, now happily in the photo, Kennedy is wearing

513
00:39:36,595 --> 00:39:43,235
Speaker 1: pants with him, Kennedy's hostage, I'm sorry, Kennedy's wife, also Cinderguard,

514
00:39:43,595 --> 00:39:46,075
Speaker 1: and some other people who may or may not be lunatics.

515
00:39:46,875 --> 00:39:52,755
Speaker 1: Cindergard added to this the hashtag mahaha, which they think

516
00:39:52,795 --> 00:39:55,675
Speaker 1: stands for Make America Healthy again, but which actually stands

517
00:39:55,675 --> 00:39:59,955
Speaker 1: for make America hell again. It's used by Kennedy to

518
00:40:00,075 --> 00:40:04,155
Speaker 1: push his anti vaccine, anti science, anti not dying of diseases.

519
00:40:04,195 --> 00:40:08,635
Speaker 1: We had a lit dominated pro polio, pro hallucinogenic drugs,

520
00:40:08,675 --> 00:40:13,915
Speaker 1: pro covid, pro on camera masturbation agenda, the one he

521
00:40:13,995 --> 00:40:16,715
Speaker 1: is pushing as nominee to head Health in Human Services,

522
00:40:16,835 --> 00:40:20,115
Speaker 1: presuming he's not too stoned to forget he was appointed

523
00:40:20,155 --> 00:40:22,915
Speaker 1: to the job, or he didn't just decide to stay

524
00:40:22,955 --> 00:40:28,395
Speaker 1: home and play with himself. An athlete, especially a baseball player,

525
00:40:28,475 --> 00:40:32,435
Speaker 1: especially a washed up pitcher, going fascist is nothing new.

526
00:40:33,155 --> 00:40:36,955
Speaker 1: It's probably a large majority of them. But Noah's Cindergard

527
00:40:37,115 --> 00:40:43,035
Speaker 1: endorsing Bobby Kennedy's lunatic health policies is particularly stupid, even

528
00:40:43,075 --> 00:40:46,235
Speaker 1: for a fascist picture or in his case, an X picture,

529
00:40:46,555 --> 00:40:49,475
Speaker 1: because in twenty eighteen, Noahs Cindergard had to miss a

530
00:40:49,555 --> 00:40:52,795
Speaker 1: start and go on the injured list because of rashes

531
00:40:52,835 --> 00:40:57,355
Speaker 1: and mouthsores after he contracted the virus that almost always

532
00:40:57,395 --> 00:41:05,635
Speaker 1: affects only children hand foot and mouth disease. It's handfoot

533
00:41:05,635 --> 00:41:08,235
Speaker 1: and mouth disease. You get it with play do dough

534
00:41:09,675 --> 00:41:13,115
Speaker 1: handfoot and mouth disease. Noah Cindergard becoming the first major

535
00:41:13,155 --> 00:41:16,715
Speaker 1: league player since like eighteen seventy seven to catch this

536
00:41:17,195 --> 00:41:22,555
Speaker 1: by simply not washing his freaking hands. So naturally, this

537
00:41:22,715 --> 00:41:31,355
Speaker 1: imbecil is endorsing that imbecile. Noah, make America contagious again, Cinderguard.

538
00:41:31,915 --> 00:41:51,395
Speaker 1: Today's worse worse that I know. So finally, I've been

539
00:41:51,435 --> 00:41:55,195
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the apt artistic for one of

540
00:41:55,235 --> 00:41:58,755
Speaker 1: a better term metaphor or imagery for where we are

541
00:41:58,875 --> 00:42:02,675
Speaker 1: in the United States of assholes right now. And I

542
00:42:02,755 --> 00:42:05,675
Speaker 1: think where we are is the same feeling you get

543
00:42:06,035 --> 00:42:10,835
Speaker 1: when you wake up from anesthesia during a medical procedure.

544
00:42:13,235 --> 00:42:15,115
Speaker 1: All right, it may not be perfect, but I think

545
00:42:15,115 --> 00:42:19,155
Speaker 1: it does get it kind of close. And it's important

546
00:42:19,155 --> 00:42:22,915
Speaker 1: to think about metaphors because art, and I don't want

547
00:42:22,955 --> 00:42:24,715
Speaker 1: to call that art, but you know what I mean.

548
00:42:24,795 --> 00:42:29,155
Speaker 1: Creativity helps us process evil, helps us get through evil.

549
00:42:30,075 --> 00:42:32,395
Speaker 1: Some of the best paintings, some of the best literature

550
00:42:33,155 --> 00:42:37,795
Speaker 1: written in prison, written in times of social upheaval. You know,

551
00:42:37,875 --> 00:42:40,195
Speaker 1: the whole speech by Orson Wells from the Third Man

552
00:42:40,315 --> 00:42:43,235
Speaker 1: about the cuckoo clock and the med cheese and Da

553
00:42:43,275 --> 00:42:46,155
Speaker 1: Vinci and all the rest of that. So I think

554
00:42:46,195 --> 00:42:48,475
Speaker 1: that's where we are. It's as if we have all

555
00:42:48,555 --> 00:42:55,075
Speaker 1: awakened from a medical procedure, from anesthesia during the procedure.

556
00:42:56,115 --> 00:42:58,755
Speaker 1: There may be another reason this is on my mind

557
00:42:58,755 --> 00:43:02,635
Speaker 1: as I hit my sixty sixth birthday today. It's that

558
00:43:02,875 --> 00:43:07,875
Speaker 1: I'm having a medical pressure tomorrow. And the last time

559
00:43:07,915 --> 00:43:12,395
Speaker 1: I had it, I woke up from it during anesthesia

560
00:43:14,395 --> 00:43:16,275
Speaker 1: to the top of the countdown and the number one

561
00:43:16,315 --> 00:43:18,315
Speaker 1: story and things I promised not to tell. And as

562
00:43:18,315 --> 00:43:22,035
Speaker 1: you know, I never like to talk about myself, but

563
00:43:22,195 --> 00:43:26,195
Speaker 1: this was one of the more extraordinary events of my

564
00:43:26,395 --> 00:43:31,035
Speaker 1: long and stupid medical history. Normally, the stories I tell

565
00:43:31,075 --> 00:43:35,475
Speaker 1: you are of my own direct physical stupidity, running into

566
00:43:35,515 --> 00:43:39,315
Speaker 1: subway trains for no particular reason headfirst when they weren't moving.

567
00:43:39,355 --> 00:43:46,675
Speaker 1: But I was falling off small cliffs, filming television commercials

568
00:43:46,675 --> 00:43:52,195
Speaker 1: for fast food, and famously cracking my pelvis, just a

569
00:43:52,195 --> 00:43:55,035
Speaker 1: hairline crack, but it required three months of cane and

570
00:43:55,115 --> 00:44:00,835
Speaker 1: anti inflammatories while walking down the street. And it wasn't

571
00:44:00,835 --> 00:44:03,915
Speaker 1: even much of an incline as I was walking down it.

572
00:44:04,715 --> 00:44:10,275
Speaker 1: But this one was something different. This was waking from

573
00:44:10,395 --> 00:44:15,355
Speaker 1: anesthesia in the middle of a medical procedure, while I

574
00:44:15,435 --> 00:44:17,835
Speaker 1: was still under and while they were still doing the

575
00:44:17,875 --> 00:44:22,555
Speaker 1: medical procedure. I have it written down somewhere. It's two

576
00:44:22,595 --> 00:44:26,275
Speaker 1: thousand and three, four five, somewhere in that range. So

577
00:44:26,355 --> 00:44:28,835
Speaker 1: I am in my late forties and I am being

578
00:44:30,475 --> 00:44:33,155
Speaker 1: overcome by what turned out to be nothing more serious,

579
00:44:33,195 --> 00:44:39,955
Speaker 1: although it's a serious problem than reflux, indigestion, heartburn as

580
00:44:39,955 --> 00:44:43,395
Speaker 1: it used to be colloquially known acid reflux, and it

581
00:44:43,435 --> 00:44:46,995
Speaker 1: was affecting my ability to talk. I didn't get most

582
00:44:47,035 --> 00:44:50,355
Speaker 1: of the pain or discomfort. It just caused my throat

583
00:44:50,395 --> 00:44:53,715
Speaker 1: to tighten up and I got very hoarse. And I

584
00:44:53,795 --> 00:44:56,235
Speaker 1: was a regular smoker of cigars and pipes at the time,

585
00:44:56,235 --> 00:44:58,995
Speaker 1: and I thought the worst, and happily it was not that,

586
00:45:00,155 --> 00:45:02,715
Speaker 1: and happily I quit doing the cigars and the pipes

587
00:45:02,795 --> 00:45:07,515
Speaker 1: twenty years ago anyway, But here's what happened. I went

588
00:45:07,555 --> 00:45:09,995
Speaker 1: in for an endoscopy to find out why my stomach

589
00:45:10,115 --> 00:45:15,035
Speaker 1: was being somewhat uncooperative. It was a highly reputable operation

590
00:45:15,675 --> 00:45:18,355
Speaker 1: in a highly reputable part of what used to be

591
00:45:18,355 --> 00:45:21,795
Speaker 1: called Saint Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York, where I

592
00:45:21,835 --> 00:45:25,275
Speaker 1: would later get my appendix removed on an emergency basis.

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00:45:25,595 --> 00:45:28,915
Speaker 1: That also wasn't my fault. Although not really noticing that

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00:45:28,995 --> 00:45:31,875
Speaker 1: the pain I had in my stomach was more than constipation,

595
00:45:32,075 --> 00:45:34,475
Speaker 1: and waiting two days until I was, as my friend

596
00:45:34,555 --> 00:45:37,995
Speaker 1: John Clees pointed out, once technically dying of septocemia, that

597
00:45:38,195 --> 00:45:41,875
Speaker 1: was my fault. This was different. This was a kind

598
00:45:41,915 --> 00:45:46,115
Speaker 1: of routine medical procedure, no routine quality to it when

599
00:45:46,155 --> 00:45:49,395
Speaker 1: they give you an anesthetic, but it was a mild anesthetic,

600
00:45:49,435 --> 00:45:52,235
Speaker 1: and it was a professional operation. And there were twenty

601
00:45:52,275 --> 00:45:54,115
Speaker 1: people lined up in front of me in a whole

602
00:45:54,235 --> 00:45:58,475
Speaker 1: series of endoscopy and of course, colonoscopy suites, And thus

603
00:45:58,955 --> 00:46:02,795
Speaker 1: the air was filled with the wonderful smell of drugged

604
00:46:02,835 --> 00:46:06,795
Speaker 1: up people emitting gas. Everybody else seemed to be having

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00:46:06,875 --> 00:46:10,475
Speaker 1: no problem whatsoever with their endoscopy or colonoscopy. People would

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00:46:10,475 --> 00:46:13,075
Speaker 1: be wheeled out of these various rooms where they performed

607
00:46:13,075 --> 00:46:19,515
Speaker 1: those procedures, happily unconscious or nearly so emitting very very

608
00:46:19,635 --> 00:46:23,595
Speaker 1: loud emissions of gas. It was almost kind of entertaining.

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00:46:23,635 --> 00:46:25,835
Speaker 1: As I sat there waiting to be the next one

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00:46:25,875 --> 00:46:29,795
Speaker 1: in line, I was greeted by the I guess he

611
00:46:29,915 --> 00:46:34,795
Speaker 1: was an anesthesiologist. I had some doubts afterwards, and another

612
00:46:35,355 --> 00:46:38,435
Speaker 1: nurse perhaps two guys, who walked me through what they

613
00:46:38,435 --> 00:46:40,675
Speaker 1: were going to do, and gave me the initial sedative

614
00:46:40,675 --> 00:46:44,955
Speaker 1: and then had me lie down and piped in via

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00:46:45,155 --> 00:46:50,555
Speaker 1: a shunt in my arm, a nice cooling anesthesia, and

616
00:46:50,675 --> 00:46:56,795
Speaker 1: before you knew what happened, it was lights out anesthesia.

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00:46:56,835 --> 00:46:58,715
Speaker 1: By the way, if you've never gone through a procedure

618
00:46:58,715 --> 00:47:01,515
Speaker 1: in which you've had, it is really kind of like

619
00:47:02,515 --> 00:47:06,195
Speaker 1: a recording that you stopped up. You hit pause and

620
00:47:06,315 --> 00:47:11,315
Speaker 1: come back hours later, minutes later, some cases days later,

621
00:47:11,355 --> 00:47:13,635
Speaker 1: and then hit record again. You go back and look

622
00:47:13,675 --> 00:47:17,035
Speaker 1: at it, and you have nothing between one twenty one

623
00:47:17,075 --> 00:47:19,675
Speaker 1: pm and five thirty pm. I mean, it just stops.

624
00:47:20,395 --> 00:47:22,355
Speaker 1: You don't have a sense of time moving. It's not

625
00:47:22,475 --> 00:47:24,835
Speaker 1: like sleep, it's not like any of that. You're out

626
00:47:24,875 --> 00:47:26,715
Speaker 1: and then you're back, and then you look and you

627
00:47:26,755 --> 00:47:28,595
Speaker 1: say what time is it? And they say whatever time

628
00:47:28,635 --> 00:47:31,635
Speaker 1: it is, and you're surprised because it seems like five

629
00:47:31,675 --> 00:47:35,675
Speaker 1: minutes that time they took out my appendix after it

630
00:47:35,715 --> 00:47:38,595
Speaker 1: blew up. I literally thought they hadn't done it yet,

631
00:47:38,635 --> 00:47:41,195
Speaker 1: and it had been two and a half hours between

632
00:47:41,235 --> 00:47:45,075
Speaker 1: them putting me out and them waking me up in

633
00:47:45,155 --> 00:47:48,795
Speaker 1: any event, So I am lying there, but I don't

634
00:47:48,835 --> 00:47:53,635
Speaker 1: know I'm lying there. I am in some other bed

635
00:47:53,915 --> 00:48:02,995
Speaker 1: bath and beyond, and I am suddenly back. My eyes

636
00:48:03,035 --> 00:48:07,835
Speaker 1: are closed, but I'm hearing very clearly. I recognize one

637
00:48:07,835 --> 00:48:11,195
Speaker 1: of the voices. It's it's a doctor I just saw,

638
00:48:11,235 --> 00:48:16,755
Speaker 1: I met an anesthetic guy. I feel some tightness in

639
00:48:16,795 --> 00:48:21,995
Speaker 1: my neck, but there's no sense of panic. I think

640
00:48:22,075 --> 00:48:26,035
Speaker 1: I'm lying down. I'm not concerned very much by this.

641
00:48:27,275 --> 00:48:31,715
Speaker 1: It's well, it sounds like it feels like I'm having

642
00:48:31,795 --> 00:48:35,315
Speaker 1: one of those I've been abducted by an alien spacecraft moments.

643
00:48:35,875 --> 00:48:38,035
Speaker 1: I don't know where I am. There's something going on

644
00:48:38,115 --> 00:48:40,475
Speaker 1: with my body. I'm not fully awake, but I can

645
00:48:40,515 --> 00:48:45,795
Speaker 1: hear people talking, and I know they don't mean me harm,

646
00:48:45,835 --> 00:48:48,635
Speaker 1: and I hear with this kind of tone to it.

647
00:48:49,275 --> 00:48:51,835
Speaker 1: At this kind of distance, I hear one of the

648
00:48:51,835 --> 00:48:55,155
Speaker 1: guys say to the other guy, Yeah, don't you know

649
00:48:55,155 --> 00:48:58,595
Speaker 1: who that is. That's Keith Olberman. Keith, the one who

650
00:48:58,715 --> 00:49:02,435
Speaker 1: left SportsCenter. Yeah, the guy who quit Sports Center. That's

651
00:49:02,595 --> 00:49:05,235
Speaker 1: that's who that is. I want to why he left

652
00:49:05,235 --> 00:49:07,395
Speaker 1: Sports Center. That must be the best job in the world.

653
00:49:08,435 --> 00:49:10,755
Speaker 1: We'll have to ask him after he after he gets up.

654
00:49:10,755 --> 00:49:13,675
Speaker 1: I wonder why he left Sports Center. Well, needless to say,

655
00:49:15,115 --> 00:49:17,955
Speaker 1: they were talking about me, so there probably was no

656
00:49:18,115 --> 00:49:20,835
Speaker 1: anesthesia in the world that could keep me from not

657
00:49:20,995 --> 00:49:23,995
Speaker 1: hearing that, no matter where I was during this procedure,

658
00:49:24,595 --> 00:49:27,355
Speaker 1: which was apparently going fine and normally, and they didn't

659
00:49:27,355 --> 00:49:31,595
Speaker 1: think anything was wrong until I answered their question. I said,

660
00:49:32,395 --> 00:49:37,835
Speaker 1: as I remember, and they confirmed afterwards. I said, oh,

661
00:49:39,475 --> 00:49:43,035
Speaker 1: karkach and I hear one of the guys say, did

662
00:49:43,075 --> 00:49:46,355
Speaker 1: he say something? Did he? I think I heard him too,

663
00:49:46,475 --> 00:49:48,995
Speaker 1: Did he say, what, mister Olderman? Can you hear us?

664
00:49:49,635 --> 00:49:58,675
Speaker 1: And I said, ha, hi, Well what I hahn here?

665
00:49:59,115 --> 00:50:05,075
Speaker 1: You hurry hurry? Well, oh my god, you coming down

666
00:50:05,075 --> 00:50:08,275
Speaker 1: to the anesthesia. And that's when I realized where I

667
00:50:08,395 --> 00:50:10,115
Speaker 1: was and what was being done to me. There was

668
00:50:10,155 --> 00:50:14,635
Speaker 1: a hose down my throat. They were doing the endoscopy,

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00:50:15,195 --> 00:50:17,715
Speaker 1: and then they promised me, oh, well, we'll give you

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00:50:17,755 --> 00:50:21,195
Speaker 1: some more anesthesia right away. I'm sorry we misgauged how

671
00:50:21,275 --> 00:50:24,675
Speaker 1: much you needed. I guess we guess your weight wrong.

672
00:50:27,315 --> 00:50:29,635
Speaker 1: It's like I wonder how often this happens in this place?

673
00:50:29,675 --> 00:50:31,955
Speaker 1: That was my main thought. And then I asked a

674
00:50:31,995 --> 00:50:36,995
Speaker 1: fairly logical question, given that I was until recently out cold,

675
00:50:37,795 --> 00:50:44,115
Speaker 1: until it wore off prematurely, I said, how louck longer?

676
00:50:45,435 --> 00:50:50,915
Speaker 1: And the guy said how much longer? Aha? And he

677
00:50:50,995 --> 00:50:54,275
Speaker 1: said about a minute a half, about ninety seconds. Then

678
00:50:54,315 --> 00:50:59,275
Speaker 1: we're going to be removing it. And I said, I good,

679
00:50:59,715 --> 00:51:06,275
Speaker 1: You're good. Oh ah ah ah. I conveyed to them

680
00:51:06,315 --> 00:51:08,755
Speaker 1: that there was no reason to increase the anesthetic if,

681
00:51:09,035 --> 00:51:11,955
Speaker 1: after all, all they were going to do was remove

682
00:51:12,355 --> 00:51:16,075
Speaker 1: the endoscope. The problem if you've ever had an endoscopy

683
00:51:16,155 --> 00:51:18,835
Speaker 1: or anything else like that in which they put a

684
00:51:18,995 --> 00:51:23,555
Speaker 1: tube or a camera or both, or god knows garden

685
00:51:23,675 --> 00:51:28,675
Speaker 1: hose down your throat, the problem is when they put

686
00:51:28,755 --> 00:51:30,955
Speaker 1: it in, not when they take it out. In fact,

687
00:51:31,075 --> 00:51:33,435
Speaker 1: when they take it out is a sense of universal

688
00:51:33,515 --> 00:51:36,995
Speaker 1: relief in your body as you relax, as your throat relaxes,

689
00:51:37,555 --> 00:51:40,995
Speaker 1: as your mouth relaxes, as you hear the little pop

690
00:51:41,075 --> 00:51:44,755
Speaker 1: when the thing comes out and you go ah. So

691
00:51:44,955 --> 00:51:49,195
Speaker 1: I convinced them there was no particular reason to give

692
00:51:49,235 --> 00:51:52,755
Speaker 1: me any more anesthesia, and they pulled the damn thing

693
00:51:52,795 --> 00:51:56,715
Speaker 1: out of my throat stomach stomach first, I guess, very

694
00:51:57,075 --> 00:52:00,355
Speaker 1: very very slowly, and I could feel it, and I

695
00:52:00,395 --> 00:52:02,635
Speaker 1: would not describe this as the most pleasant feeling in

696
00:52:02,675 --> 00:52:07,235
Speaker 1: the world. But each centimeter that they took the thing,

697
00:52:07,835 --> 00:52:12,355
Speaker 1: or whatever small division there is of that, each division

698
00:52:12,395 --> 00:52:14,875
Speaker 1: they took the thing, or distance they took the thing

699
00:52:15,035 --> 00:52:18,515
Speaker 1: up out of my throat, it felt better, and I

700
00:52:18,675 --> 00:52:20,475
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, we're almost done here and I won't

701
00:52:20,475 --> 00:52:23,875
Speaker 1: be lying around emitting gas like everybody else. They wheeled

702
00:52:23,875 --> 00:52:27,195
Speaker 1: out of this place. My memory came back almost immediately.

703
00:52:27,395 --> 00:52:30,195
Speaker 1: All the things that had happened in my mind five

704
00:52:30,275 --> 00:52:33,915
Speaker 1: minutes before but were probably half an hour before, were

705
00:52:34,035 --> 00:52:36,915
Speaker 1: immediate past memories. They were clear as a bell, and

706
00:52:37,155 --> 00:52:40,715
Speaker 1: I was now eyes open and looking around and going, well,

707
00:52:40,715 --> 00:52:42,595
Speaker 1: I'm just going to keep my eyes closed so I

708
00:52:42,715 --> 00:52:44,955
Speaker 1: don't see this thing come out of my mouth and

709
00:52:45,035 --> 00:52:49,035
Speaker 1: start gagging. At the very end, it kind of was

710
00:52:49,155 --> 00:52:54,035
Speaker 1: like a reverse version of the movie Alien. Oh no,

711
00:52:54,235 --> 00:52:57,435
Speaker 1: actually it was the not reverse version of the movie Alien.

712
00:52:57,555 --> 00:53:00,475
Speaker 1: Wasn't it because the alien comes out of the victim's body.

713
00:53:02,075 --> 00:53:03,755
Speaker 1: So I didn't want to watch that, but it didn't

714
00:53:03,755 --> 00:53:10,395
Speaker 1: feel particularly pleasant. It was relief. So now they pull

715
00:53:10,475 --> 00:53:13,395
Speaker 1: a thing out and I'm fine, and they go, sorry

716
00:53:13,435 --> 00:53:16,035
Speaker 1: about that. Gee, I'm really I mean, I don't know

717
00:53:16,075 --> 00:53:18,635
Speaker 1: how we got those calculations wrong. Do you weigh a

718
00:53:18,675 --> 00:53:21,515
Speaker 1: lot more than it says here? And I was like, no,

719
00:53:21,715 --> 00:53:24,235
Speaker 1: that's my weight? Oh geez, well, I don't know. Maybe

720
00:53:24,675 --> 00:53:28,155
Speaker 1: are you Are you one of those super aware people,

721
00:53:28,315 --> 00:53:33,715
Speaker 1: those people, I said, yes, probably somebody who hears every

722
00:53:33,795 --> 00:53:38,195
Speaker 1: noise in the room. Yes, that's me, particularly if you're

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00:53:38,235 --> 00:53:41,075
Speaker 1: talking about me and why I left ESPN, which at

724
00:53:41,115 --> 00:53:45,235
Speaker 1: that point had happened seven years before, eight years before.

725
00:53:47,675 --> 00:53:50,395
Speaker 1: I was not in a bad mood. It really hadn't

726
00:53:50,435 --> 00:53:55,515
Speaker 1: amounted to anything other than a surprise. But these guys,

727
00:53:55,995 --> 00:53:58,075
Speaker 1: I think, clearly thought I was going to sue them

728
00:53:58,115 --> 00:54:00,835
Speaker 1: for every penny the hospital had and they had, and

729
00:54:00,955 --> 00:54:02,635
Speaker 1: I had no interest in that. I just wanted to

730
00:54:02,675 --> 00:54:05,155
Speaker 1: go home and get the results of the end to scope.

731
00:54:07,115 --> 00:54:10,555
Speaker 1: So now I begin to sit up, because why should

732
00:54:10,555 --> 00:54:13,115
Speaker 1: I be lying there? Now that the hose, the garden

733
00:54:13,195 --> 00:54:15,755
Speaker 1: hose has been retracted and put back on the wall

734
00:54:16,595 --> 00:54:21,435
Speaker 1: under the shed or wherever they keep it. And they said,

735
00:54:21,475 --> 00:54:23,035
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't get up. What are you doing?

736
00:54:23,395 --> 00:54:27,755
Speaker 1: I said, what, why not? And the anesthesiologist said, well,

737
00:54:27,795 --> 00:54:31,315
Speaker 1: you're you're just coming up from the anesthesia. And I said, clearly,

738
00:54:31,875 --> 00:54:35,195
Speaker 1: I just came up from the anesthesia like four minutes ago.

739
00:54:36,275 --> 00:54:39,995
Speaker 1: Oh you have a point there. Well, all right, don't

740
00:54:40,075 --> 00:54:42,435
Speaker 1: don't sit up fully. Let's just adjust this thing. And

741
00:54:42,475 --> 00:54:44,235
Speaker 1: they pushed a button and it became kind of like

742
00:54:44,315 --> 00:54:47,795
Speaker 1: a reclining chair. And so I sat there for a

743
00:54:47,875 --> 00:54:50,035
Speaker 1: while and I said can I go home now? And

744
00:54:50,155 --> 00:54:53,635
Speaker 1: they went, okay, just stand up slowly in here so

745
00:54:53,755 --> 00:54:56,475
Speaker 1: we can see that you can do it. And of course,

746
00:54:56,955 --> 00:54:59,595
Speaker 1: because I am one of those people who I forget

747
00:54:59,635 --> 00:55:02,995
Speaker 1: the technical term for it is super aware and super

748
00:55:03,075 --> 00:55:06,235
Speaker 1: responsible and super every back to normal, and let's see

749
00:55:06,235 --> 00:55:08,315
Speaker 1: how things are going on in the adjoining county to

750
00:55:08,355 --> 00:55:11,275
Speaker 1: make sure everything is going on. Okay, there, I'm the

751
00:55:11,435 --> 00:55:17,035
Speaker 1: hyperaware guy. Wait, I would say to myself while asleep,

752
00:55:17,595 --> 00:55:20,315
Speaker 1: I think I just heard some movement twenty floors below

753
00:55:20,395 --> 00:55:23,555
Speaker 1: me in this hotel. Let's check that out. Wake up.

754
00:55:25,755 --> 00:55:32,555
Speaker 1: So I went home, having had an endoscopy and having

755
00:55:32,635 --> 00:55:35,675
Speaker 1: had that thing that in other medical procedures is the

756
00:55:35,755 --> 00:55:37,515
Speaker 1: worst thing that can happen to you short of them

757
00:55:37,635 --> 00:55:40,715
Speaker 1: killing you, which is you wake up from the anesthesia

758
00:55:41,995 --> 00:55:45,475
Speaker 1: while they have the scalpel on you or whatever. And

759
00:55:45,635 --> 00:55:48,635
Speaker 1: again i'll refer back to what I just mentioned. There

760
00:55:48,795 --> 00:55:54,075
Speaker 1: is a theory about alien abductions. You've heard this, the

761
00:55:54,515 --> 00:55:58,355
Speaker 1: idea of what people are mistaking for being abducted by

762
00:55:58,395 --> 00:56:01,635
Speaker 1: a UFO that when they see those humans with the

763
00:56:01,715 --> 00:56:05,115
Speaker 1: big bug like heads and you can't see their mouths,

764
00:56:05,195 --> 00:56:08,275
Speaker 1: but they're talking to you, and you know telepathically that

765
00:56:08,355 --> 00:56:10,195
Speaker 1: they don't mean you any harm. What it is is

766
00:56:10,355 --> 00:56:15,875
Speaker 1: a half remembered moment during partial anesthesia from an operating theater,

767
00:56:16,595 --> 00:56:19,155
Speaker 1: or perhaps while you were getting an endoscopy and you

768
00:56:19,275 --> 00:56:23,075
Speaker 1: woke up from it. Who are these aliens? Because we

769
00:56:23,195 --> 00:56:26,275
Speaker 1: know they weren't educated in any medical facility on this planet.

770
00:56:28,795 --> 00:56:32,035
Speaker 1: In any event, I went home. It turned out I

771
00:56:32,115 --> 00:56:34,835
Speaker 1: didn't have things like celiac disease. I didn't have other

772
00:56:35,235 --> 00:56:38,355
Speaker 1: major things that needed extensive treatment. I just needed like

773
00:56:39,915 --> 00:56:43,835
Speaker 1: prescription strength pepsid. And I got this story to tell

774
00:56:43,875 --> 00:56:48,595
Speaker 1: you of the day I woke up because they were

775
00:56:48,715 --> 00:56:52,355
Speaker 1: talking about me and why I left ESPN while giving

776
00:56:52,395 --> 00:56:56,835
Speaker 1: me an endoscopy, thinking I couldn't hear them because I

777
00:56:56,995 --> 00:56:59,315
Speaker 1: left that job while they stayed at their jobs and

778
00:56:59,515 --> 00:57:03,315
Speaker 1: did not give me enough anesthesia, so I woke up

779
00:57:03,515 --> 00:57:08,235
Speaker 1: in the middle of it. So always ask the anesthesiologist

780
00:57:09,035 --> 00:57:13,395
Speaker 1: if he's sure that he's giving you enough so you

781
00:57:13,475 --> 00:57:18,075
Speaker 1: don't wake up from it. Incidentally, when I had this

782
00:57:18,275 --> 00:57:22,475
Speaker 1: procedure in two thousand and three four five, the next

783
00:57:22,515 --> 00:57:26,835
Speaker 1: time I was at that hospital undergoing a procedure, which

784
00:57:26,955 --> 00:57:32,515
Speaker 1: was the aforementioned appendictomy, I said to the anesthesiologist. As

785
00:57:32,555 --> 00:57:34,275
Speaker 1: I lay down on the table and the surgeon and

786
00:57:34,355 --> 00:57:36,555
Speaker 1: I talked about David Wright and the New York Mets

787
00:57:36,635 --> 00:57:39,395
Speaker 1: in baseball. I said to the this is the anesthesiologist.

788
00:57:39,475 --> 00:57:40,835
Speaker 1: Let me tell you a quick story about something that

789
00:57:40,835 --> 00:57:43,395
Speaker 1: happened to me in this building two years ago. Please

790
00:57:43,475 --> 00:57:45,035
Speaker 1: make sure you give me enough. I don't want to

791
00:57:45,075 --> 00:57:47,675
Speaker 1: wake up with this. There's actual knives involved. And he

792
00:57:47,915 --> 00:57:50,555
Speaker 1: just laughed, and the next thing I knew, it was

793
00:57:50,595 --> 00:57:54,835
Speaker 1: two and a half hours later. There is one PostScript

794
00:57:54,915 --> 00:58:01,395
Speaker 1: to this. Tomorrow, I am going in for an endoscopy,

795
00:58:02,715 --> 00:58:07,235
Speaker 1: and all I can say is I'll talk to you

796
00:58:07,355 --> 00:58:23,515
Speaker 1: later to borrow a phrase from a past life that

797
00:58:23,635 --> 00:58:28,715
Speaker 1: they were asking about that one that story really deserves this.

798
00:58:31,715 --> 00:58:33,435
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank

799
00:58:33,475 --> 00:58:37,795
Speaker 1: you for listening. May all your medical procedures be uninterrupted

800
00:58:37,875 --> 00:58:44,275
Speaker 1: by questions about your past career moves. Oh Brian Ray

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00:58:44,315 --> 00:58:48,435
Speaker 1: and John Phillip Shanelle, the musical directors of Countdown, arranged, produced,

802
00:58:48,475 --> 00:58:52,155
Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration

803
00:58:52,275 --> 00:58:55,515
Speaker 1: in keyboards, mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums,

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00:58:55,515 --> 00:58:59,075
Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and

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00:58:59,155 --> 00:59:02,915
Speaker 1: fithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever.

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00:59:03,035 --> 00:59:07,435
Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. Music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two.

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00:59:07,875 --> 00:59:10,875
Speaker 1: It was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc.

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00:59:11,475 --> 00:59:14,595
Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.

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Speaker 1: And my announcer today was my friend Nancy Faust. Everything

810
00:59:18,835 --> 00:59:23,355
Speaker 1: else was, as ever, my fault. So that's count down

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Speaker 1: for today, Just four hundred and fifty five days until

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00:59:26,675 --> 00:59:30,155
Speaker 1: the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term.

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00:59:31,195 --> 00:59:34,555
Speaker 1: As to our scheduled I'm going to keep this at

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00:59:34,595 --> 00:59:36,435
Speaker 1: two a week for now because I'm not ready to

815
00:59:36,475 --> 00:59:39,395
Speaker 1: commit to more. But I am decided on keeping it

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00:59:39,555 --> 00:59:44,435
Speaker 1: going until further notice. I did a long interview last

817
00:59:44,435 --> 00:59:46,795
Speaker 1: week with The Washington Post and the topic was again,

818
00:59:47,115 --> 00:59:50,555
Speaker 1: what should MSNBC do now, as if there were any

819
00:59:50,715 --> 00:59:53,315
Speaker 1: choices involved in this, and my answer was, as always,

820
00:59:53,475 --> 00:59:56,115
Speaker 1: a build a statue of me in front of thirty

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00:59:56,235 --> 01:00:00,275
Speaker 1: rock and b double down. You now have almost a

822
01:00:00,355 --> 01:00:03,995
Speaker 1: true monopoly on actual news that isn't just pandering to Trump.

823
01:00:04,235 --> 01:00:08,995
Speaker 1: Everybody else gave up and ran away. But I emphasized

824
01:00:08,995 --> 01:00:10,995
Speaker 1: to the reporter that the audience is not ready to

825
01:00:11,075 --> 01:00:14,635
Speaker 1: start watching every day again, and I said, I'm pretty

826
01:00:14,675 --> 01:00:18,395
Speaker 1: sure that's true of this podcast too, So we'll play

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Speaker 1: the podcast by ear. Maybe I can do more. Right now,

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01:00:22,675 --> 01:00:24,995
Speaker 1: I don't want to do more. I will be here

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Speaker 1: at least twice a week, barring and dyscopic mishaps. So

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Speaker 1: the next scheduled countdown is Thursday. As always, Boltons as

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01:00:35,595 --> 01:00:39,995
Speaker 1: the news warrants, remember, impeach Trump. It won't work now,

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Speaker 1: it will win the Democrats the midterms. Impeachment is undefeated

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Speaker 1: till next time. I'm Keith Olberman, good morning, good afternoon,

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

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Speaker 1: Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio,

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Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get

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Speaker 1: your podcasts.