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

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Speaker 1: The worst part of this week of Elon musk madness

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Speaker 1: is this, the mother of his children does have an

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Speaker 1: alleged stalker. There is a risk to her and the kids.

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Speaker 1: Musk could have gotten help from the media rather than

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Speaker 1: attack it and blame it. And he could have added

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Speaker 1: a level of privacy for her by giving the Elon

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Speaker 1: jet account kid an internship or a little more money.

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Speaker 1: But Musk apparently decided he was going to argue with

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Speaker 1: the kid over the price. And even though Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: suspended my Twitter account, subjected me to ridicule, mocked my

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Speaker 1: efforts to rescue dogs on youth and asial lists at

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Speaker 1: city pounds, and in front of an online audience of

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Speaker 1: as much as one and twenty million, literally accused me

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Speaker 1: of a crime. I am going to in large part

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Speaker 1: defend him or at least empathize with him. A stalker

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Speaker 1: can unhinge you. I know this, I had one for

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Speaker 1: five years. I was stalked in l a war on

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Speaker 1: that in a moment first on his status at Twitter,

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk has apparently voted himself off Twitter Island. They

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Speaker 1: say lawyers are often told to never ask a question

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Speaker 1: to which they do not know the answer. Well, Elon

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Speaker 1: Muski is not a lawyer, and unless he's lying, he's

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Speaker 1: not going to be the head of Twitter anymore either.

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Speaker 1: At six twenty p m. Eastern Time last night, hours

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Speaker 1: after he stood in a private box at the World

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Speaker 1: Cup in Doha next to Jared Kushner surrounded by unidentified

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Speaker 1: men in Middle Eastern Garb, hours after he posted new

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Speaker 1: or most other social media sites, and then retracted those rules.

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Speaker 1: Hours after he lied about reinstating the accounts of at

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Speaker 1: least a dozen reporters and commentators myself included, Musk posted

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Speaker 1: yet another Twitter poll, Should I step down as head

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Speaker 1: Within an hour and three million votes, Yes step Down

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Speaker 1: was cleaning the clock of No. Fifty eight percent to

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Speaker 1: million level. A little after midnight Eastern Yes get Out

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Speaker 1: was still up fifty six to forty four. But of course,

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Speaker 1: if Mike pent stands up for the good of our

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Speaker 1: constitution and does the right thing, Musk can still win

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Speaker 1: the election. This all, of course, mainlines back to the

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Speaker 1: middle of last week, when Elon Musk lost his very

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Speaker 1: loose grip on both reality and himself, and went from

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Speaker 1: insisting he was such a free speech absolutist that he

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Speaker 1: to promising to sue the kid who ran it, to

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Speaker 1: in solidarity with those reporters, to defaming all of us

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Speaker 1: by accusing us of doxing and then tweeting quote turns

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Speaker 1: out that's a criminal offense, and then suspending another phalanx

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Speaker 1: that story seems to explain Lawrence's suspension and that of

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Speaker 1: her colleague Drew Harwell, and the entire crazy, panicky, disturbed

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Speaker 1: Harwell wrote last night in The Washington Post that there

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Speaker 1: was quote a confrontation between a member of Elon Musk's

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Speaker 1: Elon Jet account had last located the jets whereabouts. Unquote.

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Speaker 1: The Post even got confirmation from the alleged stalker himself

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Speaker 1: that he believes the singer Grimes, the mother of two

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Speaker 1: her Instagram posts, and that he was indeed the person

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Speaker 1: who had encountered the Musk car last Tuesday, of whom

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Speaker 1: and we need to support people who are being stalked

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Speaker 1: The power structure in Los Angeles often seems to the

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Speaker 1: Angeles Times itself once published details of a condo I

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Speaker 1: Scapegoating people who could have helped is nearly as indefensible

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Speaker 1: days before anybody did write about it, And bluntly, if

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Speaker 1: Musk was willing to pay the kid who ran the

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Speaker 1: Grimes was not Jack Sweeney, and it wasn't Ryan McK

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Speaker 1: it wasn't me, and it wasn't anybody else who was suspended.

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Speaker 1: The person who most helped the stalker was Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: if you are worth the hundred and sixty three billion

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Speaker 1: and sixty three billion dollars. After posting his poll, Musk

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Speaker 1: Friedman wrote, fun suggestion, Elon Musk, let me run Twitter

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Speaker 1: Musk replied, you must like pain a lot. One catch.

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Speaker 1: May still want the job end quote, and the newspaper

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Speaker 1: head of Elon Musk's family office approached Twitter's shareholders on

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Speaker 1: He offered new shares in the company at fifty four

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Speaker 1: significant stakeholders in Musk's Tesla company argued with him on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: and the third largest investor, Leo Cogwan, wrote, quote, Elon

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Speaker 1: hired hand. He is our employee. Unquote Elon Musk's behavior

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Speaker 1: created remarkable upheaval. Musk thought he could shut down all

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Speaker 1: discussion of where his jet was and why. Instead, his

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Speaker 1: efforts created the so called streisand effect, a spilled out

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Speaker 1: version of the link to the elon jet at the

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Speaker 1: website Mastodon got me suspended, but screenshots of that spelled

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Speaker 1: Twitter files Flunkey's, attacked him. The old regime at Twitter,

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Speaker 1: I opposed it in both cases. Musk promptly unfollowed her.

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Speaker 1: Seth Meyers show writer sal Genteel mocked him by writing,

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Speaker 1: the heart stopping story of Grimes as Stalker. The audio

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Speaker 1: funny without knowing it, right winger and former candidate for

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Speaker 1: governor of California. No, seriously, he spied the drama fire

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Speaker 1: on Twitter and hurried down to the Chevron for extra

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Speaker 1: gas courting Larry Elder. If Adolph Hitler mout say tongue

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Speaker 1: and Emil and Musk were walking down the street and

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Speaker 1: you gave an American lefty a gun with two bullets,

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Speaker 1: he'd put both in elon Musk gross enough by itself,

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Speaker 1: but then Musk replied and miss both times. Funny dog.

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Speaker 1: One thing. Musk never objected to the image of him

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Speaker 1: walking down the street with Hitler and Mao. The runner

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Speaker 1: up Marjorie Trailer Park Green again. Do you remember this

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Speaker 1: from her? I would have won January sixth speech. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we moved from Target and CBS to Walmarch Marjorie Trailer

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Speaker 1: Park Green riding on Trump's website. Walmart, many of your

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Speaker 1: customers in my district are reaching out to me about

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Speaker 1: sex toys being sold in your Dalton store. Yes, it

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Speaker 1: was customers who reached out to Marge. It's not her

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Speaker 1: just because she knows that all the sex toys are

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Speaker 1: being sold at these three stores and where in the stores.

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Speaker 1: To resume the quote, They're extremely upset and absolutely hard

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Speaker 1: find that sex toys are being sold openly right next

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Speaker 1: to children's toothbrushes. This is grooming. Well it's not grooming,

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Speaker 1: but that's not the point. See what Marge is actually

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Speaker 1: upset about is she's offended by the presence of toothbrushes

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Speaker 1: in her sex toy aisle clean up on Aisle seven.

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Speaker 1: But our winner Chris Licked, chairman and chief executive officer

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Speaker 1: of CNN Worldwide, who when we were at MSNBC together,

455
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Speaker 1: I thought used to eat paste. Big New York Times

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Speaker 1: profile yesterday, in which Licked spent about twenty paragraphs emphasizing

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Speaker 1: that he's the real victim here and insisting that when

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Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert tried to talk him out of taking the

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Speaker 1: CNN job, he told Colbert, no, this is a calling.

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Speaker 1: Let me read your paragraph ten of the article by

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Speaker 1: James B. Steward at The Times quote. A chorus of

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Speaker 1: media pundits has pounced on every tidbit of bad news.

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Speaker 1: Mr Licht's early programming efforts aimed at repositioning the network

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Speaker 1: as broader and less partisan, have prompted howls of criticism,

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Speaker 1: Oh of criticism, with former MSNBC host and former colleague

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Speaker 1: Keith Olberman publicly calling Mr Licht a quote TV fascist

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Speaker 1: after he moved Don Lemon, a liberal host, from a

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Speaker 1: primetime slot to a revamped morning show. How of criticism,

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Speaker 1: to which Licked answered, quote the uninformed vitriol, especially from

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Speaker 1: the left has been stunning. Dude, we worked in adjoining

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Speaker 1: offices for like four years. Mine is thoroughly informed vitriol.

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00:32:02,955 --> 00:32:06,195
Speaker 1: But seriously, and let me just turn the music down

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Speaker 1: just for a second here. Seriously, Chris, for the sake

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Speaker 1: of the fact that I used to work at CNN,

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Speaker 1: and someday, very soon, you too will also be able

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Speaker 1: to say that you used to work at CNN. May

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00:32:18,195 --> 00:32:23,555
Speaker 1: I offer helpful vitriol, Chris Licked? Maybe just hear me out.

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00:32:23,795 --> 00:32:26,915
Speaker 1: Maybe you should post a Twitter poll that reads, should

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Speaker 1: I step down his head of CNN? I will abide

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Speaker 1: by the results of this pole, Chris, What do you

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Speaker 1: mean nobody voted no Licked Today's worst person? How the

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Speaker 1: betrill in the world to the number one story on

483
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Speaker 1: the Countdown? And my favorite topic, me and things I

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Speaker 1: promised not to tell, and I knew that someday this

485
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Speaker 1: would come in handy. I mean, how many people do

486
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Speaker 1: you know who are involved in the apartheid Clyde drama

487
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Speaker 1: at Twitter? Who can say to you, ah, I know,

488
00:33:15,475 --> 00:33:19,115
Speaker 1: this doesn't even make my list of my top three suspensions.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the thing with Muscus just stupid. It is

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Speaker 1: defamatory and it's CD, but it's not dramatic because each

491
00:33:29,115 --> 00:33:31,915
Speaker 1: time he tweets something else, it gets more and more

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Speaker 1: stupid and less and less connected to reality. And trust me,

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Speaker 1: the main storyline with my suspension by Twitter is not

494
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Speaker 1: my suspension with Twitter. It's the psycho drama going on,

495
00:33:44,875 --> 00:33:49,435
Speaker 1: the arguments among the many voices inside Elon Musk's head

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Speaker 1: for real drama and thus real fun. I give you

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Speaker 1: up I, ESPN and MSNBC two thousand and ten. Which

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Speaker 1: of these suspensions will you be talking about? Sorrow? So

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Speaker 1: my third favorite suspension in the countdown up I United

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Speaker 1: pres International, whose radio network was called up I Audio,

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Speaker 1: where I broke in as a full time broadcaster summer nine.

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Speaker 1: The sports director Sam Rosen still the voice of the

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Speaker 1: New York Rangers on television. Was half listening to an

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Speaker 1: audition tape of my college broadcasts with me in the

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Speaker 1: room with him in March of that year, and then

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Speaker 1: Sam suddenly was completely listening to it. He stopped the

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Speaker 1: tape and he said to me, you do this every day.

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Speaker 1: I nodded, and he said, six months ago, first opening here.

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Speaker 1: In seven years. We listened to two hundred tapes. The

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Speaker 1: guy we hired, his tape wasn't half as good as yours.

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Speaker 1: Great feeling and a terrible one at the same time.

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Speaker 1: But four months later, on the second of July, their

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Speaker 1: senior sportscaster quit effective in two weeks. Because the holiday

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Speaker 1: was a Wednesday, July four, they had no chance to

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Speaker 1: hire somebody who already had a job, or anybody who

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Speaker 1: didn't already live in New York. An entire week of

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Speaker 1: interviewing and choosing was lost to the calendar. I had

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Speaker 1: graduated a month before, and the phone rang at my

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Speaker 1: folks house in the suburbs, and stand Sabik, who ran

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Speaker 1: the radio network, asked, tired of sitting around the town

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Speaker 1: pool yet? I said, yes, be here Thursday at noon.

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Speaker 1: You're hired. And I'm mentioning him for a reason which

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Speaker 1: we will find out in just a moment. Now. It

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Speaker 1: did not hurt that up I was a union shop

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Speaker 1: and the union paid based on experience, and because I

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Speaker 1: had been a stringer four u p I, I was

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Speaker 1: granted sixteen days of experience. Thus they could pay me

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Speaker 1: sixteen thousand, five hundred and twenty eight dollars for my

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Speaker 1: first year rather than just sixteen thousand, five hundred. By

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Speaker 1: the following September, when I was twenty one years old,

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Speaker 1: up I had already had me joined Rosen and Sabik

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Speaker 1: covering the nineteen eighty Lake Plastic Winter Olympics, and had

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Speaker 1: America not boycotted the Summer Games that year, I would

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Speaker 1: have gone to Russia to cover the Summer Games nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty alone. I still remember filling out the Soviet questionnaire,

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Speaker 1: and in particular one question what size boat deck shoe

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Speaker 1: is applicant wearing? Expected as it was, they were sending

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Speaker 1: me to cover in the World Series by myself in

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Speaker 1: a few weeks. As this story unfolds, which was pretty cool,

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Speaker 1: I had also been written up already in Sports Illustrated

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Speaker 1: because I had begun to collect recordings of athletes who

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Speaker 1: continually said, you know, during their answers. I made it

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Speaker 1: into a contest most you knows by an athlete per second.

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Speaker 1: This is also relevant to the story. The Canadian broadcasting

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Speaker 1: companies Radio Network read this thing in Sports Illustrated, and

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Speaker 1: they called me if I could do a long interview

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Speaker 1: with them and play a couple of the clips. Stand Sabic,

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Speaker 1: my boss's boss, said yes to the interview, but note

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Speaker 1: of the clips. We paid five dollars each for those,

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Speaker 1: he said, in complete seriousness. I said that was silly,

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Speaker 1: and Stan laughed, and I laughed, and he said that's silly.

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00:37:04,035 --> 00:37:08,155
Speaker 1: And the answer still know that was Stan. One afternoon,

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Speaker 1: the Canadian producer called again to see if I could

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Speaker 1: persuade them to run the clips or otherwise they might

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Speaker 1: have to cancel the interview. As I was talking to him,

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Speaker 1: Stan Sabik walked past the desk I was sitting at.

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Speaker 1: He was in a bad mood about something else, and

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Speaker 1: he also heard things wrong and jumped to the wrong conclusion.

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Speaker 1: He decided that I was promising the Canadians the clips

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Speaker 1: when I was only promising them, and I would ask

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Speaker 1: him again. So now Stan yelled at me for real.

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Speaker 1: Now I had had three interviews with other potential employers

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Speaker 1: in Boston and New York in the preceding three months.

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Speaker 1: And while I was grateful to Stan and Sam and

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Speaker 1: U p I, I was making exactly five dollars a

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Speaker 1: month more than I was spending, even while on a

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Speaker 1: strict budget, and they were treating me pretty rough. So

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Speaker 1: I was ready to leave you, p I, and so

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Speaker 1: I yelled back at Stan. Finally I realized in the

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Speaker 1: midst of this yelling that Stan had misunderstood what had happened.

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Speaker 1: Why are you yelling at me? Yelled? I didn't promise

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Speaker 1: them the tape. I promised them I'd ask you again

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Speaker 1: about the tape. Stand calmed down just enough, but he

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Speaker 1: was still very loud when he said, okay, Christ Sorry,

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Speaker 1: why didn't you say that earlier? Last thing I ate

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Speaker 1: is a screaming match with you. You're louder than I am.

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Speaker 1: And he walked away, laughing. I did not know where

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Speaker 1: he went. Turned out he was going down to take

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Speaker 1: a walk on Fort Street to cool off, but before

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Speaker 1: he could get to the elevator, his boss yelled out

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Speaker 1: from his office at Stand. His boss was the general

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Speaker 1: manager of the network, Frank Shortino, and Frank had just

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Speaker 1: gotten back from lunch, and at lunch Frank never had

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Speaker 1: anything to eat, if you get my drift, but that

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Speaker 1: he was all that yelling about sabic stand started to explain,

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Speaker 1: but once he mentioned my name, Frank Shortino shot past

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Speaker 1: him and went to find me. Frank was about twice

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Speaker 1: my age, and bluntly that fact piste him off. He

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Speaker 1: found me in the splain small editing room where Sam

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Speaker 1: rose and had listened to my tape in March the

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Speaker 1: previous year, and Frank actually grabbed me by the shoulder.

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Speaker 1: You you don't give no lip to no managers. You

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Speaker 1: pack your stuff up and get the hell out of you.

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Speaker 1: You're fighted. After I recovered from the contact, high off

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Speaker 1: the alcohol on his breadth, I found myself starting to

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Speaker 1: lunge towards him. Frank was doubt was a better fighter

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Speaker 1: than I would be, but I was half a foot

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Speaker 1: taller and I was ready to go. I stopped myself

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Speaker 1: in lest time than it took to read this sentence,

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Speaker 1: and I walked past him, got my stuff and went home.

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Speaker 1: And as I wondered where I would get the October

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Speaker 1: rent from the phone rang it was Sam Rosen. Don't

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Speaker 1: do anything, just be cool, the union will never let

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Speaker 1: this happen. I was astonished. Really, yeah, the the wire

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Speaker 1: Guild is useless about money, but job insecurity. Please, he

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Speaker 1: can't fire you because he doesn't like you, because you're

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Speaker 1: one and I don't know if you're noticed. But he

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Speaker 1: was drunk, Sam paused, I mean even for him, he

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Speaker 1: was drunk. Just stay cool. I had the next two

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Speaker 1: days off anyway, so there wasn't much else for me

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Speaker 1: to do but stay cool. The phone rang early on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: and it was the union shop steward. They had just

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Speaker 1: had their third hearing about me, and he wanted to

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Speaker 1: report that I had not been fired, that I had

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Speaker 1: been suspended, but then I should report to work as

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Speaker 1: scheduled on Thursday, and that while u p i S

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Speaker 1: personnel director was going to write a warning letter to

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Speaker 1: put in my file about the argument with Stan Sabic,

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Speaker 1: and write another letter that would go into Shortino's file too.

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Speaker 1: They had managed to compromise about something crucial. They insisted

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Speaker 1: you had to be punished in some way. The shop

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Speaker 1: steward said, so Monday, when you got fired, you will

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Speaker 1: be considered suspended but paid for that day, but it

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Speaker 1: will be counted against you. As a day off. Best

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Speaker 1: I could do, I laughed. I was grateful. Wait there's more,

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Speaker 1: he said. You should know that the human resource guy

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Speaker 1: sent Shortino home Monday afternoon for being drunk at work,

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Speaker 1: for firing you without cause. He's also being charged with

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Speaker 1: the day off. Now that was a great suspension. The

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Speaker 1: second best suspension I've ever had was one I've already

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Speaker 1: mentioned here previously. In two thousand and ten, for the

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Speaker 1: third consecutive time I anchored the elections for MSNBC. We

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Speaker 1: were focused that year entirely on the Senate and the

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Speaker 1: governor's races. That made no sense to me, but I

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Speaker 1: didn't make that call, but it had been the plan

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Speaker 1: also since our first meeting about election night, which had

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Speaker 1: happened in August or September. Don't discuss the House, or

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Speaker 1: for that matter, the Rand Paul blowout win for the

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Speaker 1: Senate in Kentucky. So I was at the anchor desk

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Speaker 1: for the mid terms, and in seven or eight hours

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Speaker 1: on the year, I did not mention one House race

642
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Speaker 1: or candidate. Everything was fine. MSNBC had its best election

643
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Speaker 1: night ratings ever. And then somebody called one of the

644
00:41:56,555 --> 00:42:00,155
Speaker 1: political websites to say, who Alverman made campaign donations to

645
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Speaker 1: some Democrats in the House races and did that Democratic

646
00:42:03,115 --> 00:42:07,515
Speaker 1: senator race in Kentucky. And they called NBC public Relations,

647
00:42:07,515 --> 00:42:10,635
Speaker 1: and NBC public Relations called the president of MSNBC, and

648
00:42:10,715 --> 00:42:12,715
Speaker 1: he called me in my car on the way home

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00:42:12,755 --> 00:42:14,955
Speaker 1: from the show, and I said, yeah, that's true. A

650
00:42:14,995 --> 00:42:16,875
Speaker 1: friend of mine asked me to donate to those three

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Speaker 1: campaigns because their candidates had received death threats a lot

652
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Speaker 1: of them, and each of them had gone into debt

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Speaker 1: buying extra security. One of them was the campaign of

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Speaker 1: Congresswoman Gabby Gifford's and the friend who convinced me to

655
00:42:30,755 --> 00:42:33,955
Speaker 1: donate to her campaign and to try to buy off

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Speaker 1: some of her security debts was Arizona State Representative Kirsten Cinema.

657
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Speaker 1: So the MSNBC president, who didn't know those details, said,

658
00:42:44,355 --> 00:42:46,235
Speaker 1: this looks bad. I know it's your right to do it.

659
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Speaker 1: It's not like we're gonna suspend you or anything stupid

660
00:42:48,355 --> 00:42:50,875
Speaker 1: like that, and and this is sort of our fault too,

661
00:42:50,875 --> 00:42:53,595
Speaker 1: but it just looks bad. Can can you say something,

662
00:42:53,875 --> 00:42:57,035
Speaker 1: anything you can do? And I said, yeah, it does

663
00:42:57,075 --> 00:43:00,835
Speaker 1: look bad. You're right, I'll apologize on the show tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: And I know I don't have to. I'll voluntarily stop

665
00:43:04,395 --> 00:43:08,355
Speaker 1: any campaign contributions as long as I'm doing the newscast

666
00:43:08,475 --> 00:43:11,115
Speaker 1: or the show or the anchoring of the elections or whatever.

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00:43:11,555 --> 00:43:13,915
Speaker 1: Let me think about it. And he said great, and

668
00:43:13,955 --> 00:43:16,915
Speaker 1: I said great. And he asked me about the Mets.

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Speaker 1: And I went home and wrote the apology that night

670
00:43:19,475 --> 00:43:21,195
Speaker 1: and I sent it to him and he said that's great,

671
00:43:21,435 --> 00:43:23,995
Speaker 1: and I said great. And I said, also, it's great.

672
00:43:23,995 --> 00:43:25,915
Speaker 1: I already have part of tomorrow show written. And that

673
00:43:25,995 --> 00:43:30,355
Speaker 1: was it. The next morning, without a hearing, without a

674
00:43:30,355 --> 00:43:34,355
Speaker 1: phone call, without an email, without any warning, his boss,

675
00:43:34,835 --> 00:43:39,555
Speaker 1: the president of NBC News, this hysterical teenager disguised as

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Speaker 1: an adult named Steve Cappus. Steve Cappus puts out a

677
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Speaker 1: press release in which he angrily suspends me indefinitely without

678
00:43:49,035 --> 00:43:53,915
Speaker 1: pay and specifies it is for violations of the NBC

679
00:43:53,995 --> 00:43:58,555
Speaker 1: News Employee rule Book. The NBC News employee rule book

680
00:43:58,555 --> 00:44:03,515
Speaker 1: says NBC News employees cannot make donations to political campaigns.

681
00:44:05,395 --> 00:44:09,075
Speaker 1: NBC had a huge problem that Steve Kappus did not

682
00:44:09,275 --> 00:44:13,355
Speaker 1: know or intentionally had forgotten Number one. Within hours, there

683
00:44:13,395 --> 00:44:16,515
Speaker 1: was a petition on social media demanding my reinstatement two

684
00:44:16,595 --> 00:44:21,275
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand signatures. Then NBC tried to get

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00:44:21,355 --> 00:44:23,795
Speaker 1: Chris Hayes to fill in for me that night. I

686
00:44:23,835 --> 00:44:25,995
Speaker 1: have a lot of problems with Chris's work since then,

687
00:44:26,035 --> 00:44:29,275
Speaker 1: but to his eternal credit in my book, he refused

688
00:44:29,315 --> 00:44:32,195
Speaker 1: to sit in for me. He was not under contract then,

689
00:44:32,435 --> 00:44:35,235
Speaker 1: and he told the MSNBC management that suspending me was

690
00:44:35,315 --> 00:44:40,155
Speaker 1: stupid and unjustified. Even people at Fox News went on

691
00:44:40,195 --> 00:44:43,315
Speaker 1: the air that night and said this is absurd. I

692
00:44:43,355 --> 00:44:46,075
Speaker 1: believe one of the quotes was, are we supposed to

693
00:44:46,075 --> 00:44:49,875
Speaker 1: be surprised Keith Alderman is a Democrat? And is he

694
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Speaker 1: not allowed to donate because he does a liberal commentary

695
00:44:53,355 --> 00:44:57,835
Speaker 1: show on a liberal network. Well what they didn't know, though,

696
00:44:57,995 --> 00:45:00,075
Speaker 1: was at NBC there was a lot of shushing and

697
00:45:00,075 --> 00:45:05,115
Speaker 1: worrying because everybody at NBC News made political donations. They

698
00:45:05,195 --> 00:45:09,115
Speaker 1: just hid them by donating in their wife's name or

699
00:45:09,155 --> 00:45:11,675
Speaker 1: the kid's name or whoever. I was the only one

700
00:45:11,675 --> 00:45:15,355
Speaker 1: who had ever been honest about it. But this guy

701
00:45:15,435 --> 00:45:18,195
Speaker 1: Cappus dug in and demanded that I'd be suspended for

702
00:45:18,235 --> 00:45:21,475
Speaker 1: a month without pay at least. And all this was

703
00:45:21,555 --> 00:45:24,355
Speaker 1: public and well documented and the next thing I knew,

704
00:45:24,595 --> 00:45:29,395
Speaker 1: that petition was disseminated on of all places, Twitter, two

705
00:45:29,635 --> 00:45:34,675
Speaker 1: signatures before nightfall. What everybody did not know was the

706
00:45:34,795 --> 00:45:39,475
Speaker 1: part that occurred inside thirty Rock. That afternoon, NBC lawyers

707
00:45:39,555 --> 00:45:42,595
Speaker 1: called up this kid, Steve Campus, and said, as I

708
00:45:42,635 --> 00:45:46,795
Speaker 1: was told, you, idiot, have you ever read his contract?

709
00:45:47,155 --> 00:45:52,675
Speaker 1: You suspended him for violating the NBC News employee rule book. Listen,

710
00:45:52,795 --> 00:45:58,315
Speaker 1: Moron Alderman is not an NBC News employee. We wrote

711
00:45:58,355 --> 00:46:02,275
Speaker 1: the contract, so it specifically declares several different times, on

712
00:46:02,435 --> 00:46:06,475
Speaker 1: several different pages, that he is not an employee, that

713
00:46:06,515 --> 00:46:11,875
Speaker 1: he's an independent contractor. Remember, and now Cappus screams at

714
00:46:11,915 --> 00:46:14,395
Speaker 1: the lawyers and he says, why did you do that?

715
00:46:14,955 --> 00:46:18,875
Speaker 1: And the lawyers say, we did that us, And you

716
00:46:19,155 --> 00:46:22,635
Speaker 1: remember you told us that we should do that so

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00:46:22,755 --> 00:46:26,195
Speaker 1: you could save money from your news budget, because if

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00:46:26,275 --> 00:46:29,995
Speaker 1: Keith wasn't an NBC News employee, you would not have

719
00:46:30,075 --> 00:46:36,355
Speaker 1: to pay him health insurance and dental. Apparently. There was

720
00:46:36,395 --> 00:46:40,195
Speaker 1: then a very long silence, followed by the repeated use

721
00:46:40,195 --> 00:46:44,555
Speaker 1: of the phrase breached the contract, and the lawyers saying

722
00:46:44,555 --> 00:46:48,155
Speaker 1: there were now four options for Cappus, one reinstate the

723
00:46:48,235 --> 00:46:51,675
Speaker 1: non employee immediately and hope we don't get sued by

724
00:46:51,755 --> 00:46:56,635
Speaker 1: him to reinstate the non employee, immediately, apologize and write

725
00:46:56,675 --> 00:47:00,835
Speaker 1: a new contract. Three end the show, pay the non

726
00:47:00,955 --> 00:47:04,595
Speaker 1: employee the fifteen or sixteen million dollars you owe him

727
00:47:04,795 --> 00:47:07,195
Speaker 1: for the remainder of the contract, and hope we don't

728
00:47:07,235 --> 00:47:10,795
Speaker 1: get sued for damages beyond that. Or four, throw a

729
00:47:10,875 --> 00:47:13,915
Speaker 1: lot of money in the air at him and negotiate

730
00:47:13,955 --> 00:47:17,995
Speaker 1: a settlement and end the show in the short term.

731
00:47:18,035 --> 00:47:20,235
Speaker 1: What happened was they told me on a Friday I

732
00:47:20,315 --> 00:47:23,915
Speaker 1: was suspended. On Tuesday, I was back on the air,

733
00:47:24,235 --> 00:47:27,235
Speaker 1: and just like at U P I, they couldn't even

734
00:47:27,355 --> 00:47:30,715
Speaker 1: dock my pay or charge me days off for Friday

735
00:47:30,875 --> 00:47:36,515
Speaker 1: or Monday. I got a four day weekend morons, making

736
00:47:36,555 --> 00:47:42,275
Speaker 1: this even wilder. Hours after I was non suspended, Al

737
00:47:42,475 --> 00:47:46,915
Speaker 1: Gore called me. Al owned a struggling TV network called Current,

738
00:47:46,955 --> 00:47:49,955
Speaker 1: and he said, what NBC doing is illegal, and if

739
00:47:49,955 --> 00:47:51,875
Speaker 1: you suthe them, you could own the place. But I

740
00:47:51,915 --> 00:47:53,515
Speaker 1: think I have a better idea that can be the

741
00:47:53,555 --> 00:47:57,475
Speaker 1: start of something big. Bring countdown to Current TV. We'll

742
00:47:57,515 --> 00:48:00,795
Speaker 1: give you fifty million dollars plus bonuses, plus a piece

743
00:48:00,835 --> 00:48:07,715
Speaker 1: of the network, you'll be an owner. Well, that didn't

744
00:48:07,715 --> 00:48:11,155
Speaker 1: work out from a programming sense, kind of worked out

745
00:48:11,195 --> 00:48:14,395
Speaker 1: from a money sense. Anyway, years later, I was talking

746
00:48:14,435 --> 00:48:17,475
Speaker 1: to the new owners of NBC Comcast about going back there,

747
00:48:17,515 --> 00:48:20,795
Speaker 1: and their head of All News division said, yeah, Cappus.

748
00:48:20,875 --> 00:48:23,955
Speaker 1: I had to fire him, she said, after he told

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00:48:23,955 --> 00:48:26,675
Speaker 1: me to my face he would never take orders from

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Speaker 1: a woman. So that's two of them. That still is

751
00:48:30,275 --> 00:48:33,715
Speaker 1: not my favorite suspension. This one is in the spring

752
00:48:33,755 --> 00:48:37,555
Speaker 1: of nine, a book about Sports Center that Dan Patrick

753
00:48:37,595 --> 00:48:40,875
Speaker 1: and I had written came out, and the publicists asked

754
00:48:40,995 --> 00:48:44,675
Speaker 1: us to get written approval and permission from ESPN that

755
00:48:44,715 --> 00:48:47,635
Speaker 1: we could promote the booking almost any fashion other than

756
00:48:48,075 --> 00:48:51,795
Speaker 1: like appearing on other TV sports shows. The executive vice

757
00:48:51,795 --> 00:48:54,275
Speaker 1: president of the ESPN, Howard Kats, was great about it.

758
00:48:54,315 --> 00:48:56,395
Speaker 1: He wrote a memo, he signed it, he had the

759
00:48:56,395 --> 00:48:59,315
Speaker 1: head of human resources sign it, and off we went

760
00:48:59,755 --> 00:49:03,075
Speaker 1: with permission to promote the show anyway we needed to.

761
00:49:04,115 --> 00:49:07,595
Speaker 1: And Cray Kilborn, who used to share the desk with

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00:49:07,635 --> 00:49:11,995
Speaker 1: me and the computer because it was two sportscasters per

763
00:49:12,035 --> 00:49:16,235
Speaker 1: computer in those days. Kilborn had just recently left ESPN

764
00:49:16,235 --> 00:49:18,715
Speaker 1: to become the first host of the Daily Show on

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00:49:18,835 --> 00:49:21,835
Speaker 1: Comedy Central. He asked me to come on with him

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00:49:21,955 --> 00:49:24,275
Speaker 1: to promote the book. He told me we would pre

767
00:49:24,355 --> 00:49:26,795
Speaker 1: tape the interview then they'd run it in a week

768
00:49:26,875 --> 00:49:29,635
Speaker 1: or so, so I had some time before then. I

769
00:49:29,715 --> 00:49:32,995
Speaker 1: had to warn ESPN that the interview was coming. We

770
00:49:33,035 --> 00:49:35,755
Speaker 1: went out to dinner afterwards, and that same night, to

771
00:49:35,915 --> 00:49:38,715
Speaker 1: my shock, the interview ran on the show and I

772
00:49:38,835 --> 00:49:41,755
Speaker 1: called Kilborn back up, and he said the guest for

773
00:49:41,875 --> 00:49:46,635
Speaker 1: tonight show bailed out Saren Kal In the interview Kilborn

774
00:49:46,795 --> 00:49:50,395
Speaker 1: and remember this is a comedy show. He gave me

775
00:49:50,475 --> 00:49:54,315
Speaker 1: his standard stick, this five question quiz, and one of

776
00:49:54,315 --> 00:49:57,355
Speaker 1: the questions was and he said, this one is the

777
00:49:57,435 --> 00:50:02,235
Speaker 1: most gun Fransinkan town on the East coast. Craig had

778
00:50:02,235 --> 00:50:05,755
Speaker 1: not left ESPN happily, and hey did every minute of

779
00:50:05,755 --> 00:50:07,635
Speaker 1: it to such a degree that he made me look

780
00:50:07,675 --> 00:50:11,395
Speaker 1: like a big, big loyal fan. So, of course, to

781
00:50:11,555 --> 00:50:14,595
Speaker 1: him being on his comedy show, I answered the question

782
00:50:14,915 --> 00:50:17,035
Speaker 1: when is the mouse gone? For Sankin town on the

783
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Speaker 1: East coast with Bristol, Connecticut, I didn't really feel that way.

784
00:50:22,795 --> 00:50:26,195
Speaker 1: Of course, Bristol was remote and a little grim, and

785
00:50:26,395 --> 00:50:28,795
Speaker 1: boy didn't get out of snow. But it was a

786
00:50:28,835 --> 00:50:31,835
Speaker 1: pleasant enough place, and I always been treated well there

787
00:50:31,875 --> 00:50:34,555
Speaker 1: by the natives, and even I recognized that if I

788
00:50:34,595 --> 00:50:36,315
Speaker 1: had had a family, it would have been a great

789
00:50:36,355 --> 00:50:39,715
Speaker 1: place to live, and still is. What I had said

790
00:50:39,795 --> 00:50:44,515
Speaker 1: was obviously a joke. This is not, however, how the

791
00:50:44,555 --> 00:50:48,195
Speaker 1: local newspaper viewed it. They put it on page one

792
00:50:48,795 --> 00:50:51,955
Speaker 1: with a color picture of me and a five column

793
00:50:51,955 --> 00:50:57,475
Speaker 1: headline like ESPNS Alderman Semicolon Bristol, most godforsaken town on

794
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Speaker 1: East Coast. When I got back from my time off

795
00:51:01,315 --> 00:51:03,995
Speaker 1: there a day or two later, boss has called me

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00:51:03,995 --> 00:51:05,915
Speaker 1: into the office of the vice president in charge of

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Speaker 1: Sports Center, man named John Walsh. And John Walsh accused

798
00:51:09,235 --> 00:51:12,195
Speaker 1: me of going on Killborn show without permission, and I

799
00:51:12,275 --> 00:51:14,755
Speaker 1: handed him the note his boss had written for me

800
00:51:14,795 --> 00:51:18,235
Speaker 1: about promoting the Sports Center book. John Walsh was very

801
00:51:18,275 --> 00:51:22,795
Speaker 1: surprised by that note. Well, he finally said, there's also

802
00:51:22,875 --> 00:51:25,155
Speaker 1: this other matter of these recordings you made for Major

803
00:51:25,235 --> 00:51:29,915
Speaker 1: League Baseball without our authorization. Now that stumped me for

804
00:51:29,955 --> 00:51:32,955
Speaker 1: a second. I didn't know what he meant. Then I remembered,

805
00:51:33,555 --> 00:51:37,355
Speaker 1: and I said, the public service announcements, the ones they're

806
00:51:37,395 --> 00:51:39,795
Speaker 1: running on the stadium scoreboards in like four or five

807
00:51:39,835 --> 00:51:43,955
Speaker 1: of the ballparks, the ones that are against chewing tobacco.

808
00:51:44,355 --> 00:51:49,275
Speaker 1: The public service messages that I voiced against cancer, and

809
00:51:49,315 --> 00:51:52,515
Speaker 1: Walt said, yes, that's what I mean. They were going

810
00:51:52,555 --> 00:51:57,555
Speaker 1: to suspend me for doing them without permission. The next

811
00:51:57,595 --> 00:52:00,915
Speaker 1: forty eight hours was basically just me pleading with everybody

812
00:52:00,955 --> 00:52:03,675
Speaker 1: I knew in management to not reveal that they were

813
00:52:03,715 --> 00:52:08,755
Speaker 1: suspending me for doing anti cancer public service announcements. I said,

814
00:52:08,795 --> 00:52:12,115
Speaker 1: either don't mention the cancer part, or don't say it's

815
00:52:12,115 --> 00:52:15,355
Speaker 1: a suspension. Say it's a vacation. You and I can

816
00:52:15,435 --> 00:52:18,715
Speaker 1: talk about it as a suspension, but don't tell anybody

817
00:52:18,755 --> 00:52:23,715
Speaker 1: about it being suspension, because otherwise you're gonna look kind

818
00:52:23,715 --> 00:52:25,795
Speaker 1: of stupid and far worse than that. You were going

819
00:52:25,875 --> 00:52:28,275
Speaker 1: to look. How can I phrase this? You're going to

820
00:52:28,395 --> 00:52:33,755
Speaker 1: look like you are pro cancer. Sure enough, they suspended

821
00:52:33,795 --> 00:52:37,835
Speaker 1: me and announced it with pay, but they charged me

822
00:52:37,875 --> 00:52:40,355
Speaker 1: the two weeks vacation time, which was fine because I

823
00:52:40,395 --> 00:52:45,275
Speaker 1: was leaving anyway. And every newspaper in America fried them

824
00:52:45,395 --> 00:52:48,395
Speaker 1: for it. Some fried them for not being able to

825
00:52:48,395 --> 00:52:50,875
Speaker 1: take a joke like the one I did on Killborn Shell.

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00:52:51,235 --> 00:52:54,075
Speaker 1: Others fried them for being you know, like I said,

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00:52:54,155 --> 00:52:57,435
Speaker 1: pro cancer. I was in New York City during the

828
00:52:57,475 --> 00:53:01,435
Speaker 1: suspension and a cab driver approached me. The cabs slowed down,

829
00:53:01,635 --> 00:53:04,235
Speaker 1: the guy backed up a little, and the driver leaned out,

830
00:53:04,315 --> 00:53:07,075
Speaker 1: leaned out the passenger window, and he shouted, what the

831
00:53:07,075 --> 00:53:09,555
Speaker 1: hell is wrong with those eddiots? You work for an ESPN?

832
00:53:09,555 --> 00:53:15,315
Speaker 1: Why in favor of cancer? The ESPN folks asked my

833
00:53:15,435 --> 00:53:17,875
Speaker 1: agent to ask me to come back to work earlier

834
00:53:17,915 --> 00:53:20,355
Speaker 1: than planned so they could somehow wriggle out of this.

835
00:53:20,435 --> 00:53:22,555
Speaker 1: And I said, I will need an apology, and I

836
00:53:22,595 --> 00:53:25,755
Speaker 1: will need the two weeks vacation back, and I will

837
00:53:25,795 --> 00:53:28,715
Speaker 1: need ESPN to make a donation to the group I made,

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00:53:28,755 --> 00:53:33,435
Speaker 1: the anti chewing tobacco, anti cancer p s A S four,

839
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Speaker 1: and I will need one of you to say, yeah,

840
00:53:36,675 --> 00:53:42,595
Speaker 1: you told us so. So this thing with Musk and

841
00:53:42,635 --> 00:53:45,035
Speaker 1: Twitter where they wouldn't let me back on the website

842
00:53:45,195 --> 00:53:48,195
Speaker 1: until I deleted the tweet that they had made invisible

843
00:53:48,835 --> 00:53:52,155
Speaker 1: and then declared that kind of tweet would be automatically erased.

844
00:53:53,115 --> 00:53:55,955
Speaker 1: But now everybody was sharing the screenshots of that tweet.

845
00:53:56,915 --> 00:54:00,275
Speaker 1: The streisand effect as moronic as this one is. I'm

846
00:54:00,315 --> 00:54:05,235
Speaker 1: afraid sorry, Imo, I'm afraid it just does not measure

847
00:54:05,315 --> 00:54:07,995
Speaker 1: up to getting fired and finding out that they suspended

848
00:54:07,995 --> 00:54:09,955
Speaker 1: the guy who tried to fire me. At u p I,

849
00:54:10,435 --> 00:54:12,995
Speaker 1: we're getting something like sixty million dollars because the NBC

850
00:54:13,115 --> 00:54:16,475
Speaker 1: guy didn't realize suspending me would breach the contract, or

851
00:54:16,475 --> 00:54:18,715
Speaker 1: the one at ESPN where the company made itself look

852
00:54:18,955 --> 00:54:26,395
Speaker 1: pro cancer. This with Musk is literally only fourth rate,

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Speaker 1: Musical comments from Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever.

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Speaker 1: Our announcer today was Richard Lewis. Everything else is pretty

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Speaker 1: much my fault. So let's countdown for this the seven

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Speaker 1: day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically

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Speaker 1: we still can more countdown tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith Olberman.

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