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

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Speaker 1: we're going to repeat every mistake from Bush and Iraq,

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Speaker 1: only this time with Trump and Iran, only this time

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Speaker 1: starting with blowing up nuclear facilities, only this time starting

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Speaker 1: with Trump making up stories about the other country wanting

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Speaker 1: to negotiate, only this time starting while the Senate has

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Speaker 1: gone home until next week, So no briefings until next week.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do this again because Trump got fomo fau

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Speaker 1: mob actually fear of missing out on bombing. When I

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Speaker 1: said that in Monday's podcast, I was serious. Fomo fomo

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Speaker 1: is what animates Trump, the dreadful existential fear he has

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Speaker 1: that something somewhere in the world is not being credited

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Speaker 1: to him. But I didn't think it was going to

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Speaker 1: be decisive. This is where the narrator says it was decisive.

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Speaker 1: We are gearing up for a strike. I think on

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Speaker 1: the Fardeaux facility. What I can see is the military

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Speaker 1: maneuvers are getting in place. That was Bret McGirk yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Brett McGirk was Obama's point man against ISIS, and then

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Speaker 1: he was Trump's point man against ISIS. So I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's grinding an axe here, Owen mix in some

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Speaker 1: of this phony, Mike Huckabee, religious ecstasy. We have to

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Speaker 1: save Israel because we have to make sure the Jews

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Speaker 1: get raptured. Fundamentalist anti Semitic bullshit, and we're here again.

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Speaker 1: New York Times quote. When he woke on Friday morning,

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Speaker 1: his favorite TV channel, Fox News, was broadcasting wall to

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Speaker 1: wall imagery of what it was portraying as Israel's military genius,

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Speaker 1: and mister Trump could not resist claiming some credit for himself. Fomo.

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Speaker 1: That's when the I was more involved than I said.

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Speaker 1: Psychosis from Trump started to seep in to his out

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Speaker 1: loud voice. By Sunday it was beginning to flower. We'd

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Speaker 1: never attack Iran, but when we do quote the US

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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the attack on Iran tonight.

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Speaker 1: If we are attacked in any way, shape or formed

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Speaker 1: by Iran, the full strength and might of the US

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Speaker 1: armed forces will come down on you at levels never

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Speaker 1: seen before. However, we can easily get a deal done

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Speaker 1: between Iran and Israel and end this bloody conflict. That's

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Speaker 1: all the possibilities In one sentence. We could blow you up,

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Speaker 1: you could blow us up, all but we could, we

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Speaker 1: could negotiate our way out of this, and by the

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Speaker 1: day before yesterday we now have complete and total control

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Speaker 1: of the skies over Iran. We Iran had good skytrackers

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Speaker 1: and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it

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Speaker 1: doesn't compare to American made, conceived and manufactured stuff. Nobody

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Speaker 1: does it better than the good old USA. We blowed

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Speaker 1: him up good. We blowed him up real good. This

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Speaker 1: is big Jim mc Trump and Billy Saal Hirak Hukabe saying,

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Speaker 1: may the Good Lord take a liking to you and

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Speaker 1: blow you up real soon. Ah, Billy saw hira Kukabe.

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Speaker 1: When Bush did this with Iraq, and yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: we didn't stop Bush about Iraq, the next Republican president

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Speaker 1: would do this in Iran. And sure enough, here we are.

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Speaker 1: When Bush did this with Iraq, he went through this long,

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Speaker 1: sometimes subtle, intricate, labyrinthine, sometimes deeply sourced series of lies

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Speaker 1: nine to eleven and the dragging in of Sadam Hussein.

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Speaker 1: He went to all that trouble when he could have

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Speaker 1: a fundamentalist confidence trickster and TV pitchman for red Grape

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Speaker 1: Circulation superfood named Mike Huckabee. Bush could have just said

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Speaker 1: it was to defend Israel. Who knew, even though the

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Speaker 1: handling snakes. The technical term for which we students of

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Speaker 1: religion use is self correcting problem for the handling of snakes.

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Speaker 1: The entirety of the mainstream defense of Israel is not

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Speaker 1: predicated on preserving Israel, but about fulfilling this madness that

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Speaker 1: all the world's Jews will be gathered in Israel and

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Speaker 1: then con and then we will have the rapture and

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Speaker 1: all the good souls will go to Heaven, and everybody

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Speaker 1: is pretty much where we are right now. Anyway. Please

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Speaker 1: note that if you read all of the fundamentalist stuff

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Speaker 1: it's very carefully written, and all it really says is

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Speaker 1: in the rapture. Well, there's lots of ways you can

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Speaker 1: achieve that, and most of them involve murder. This means

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Speaker 1: that my kakabi is involved in a religious movement that

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Speaker 1: literally wants to save Israel from Iran or anybody else,

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Speaker 1: because the only people allowed to destroy Israel are American evangelicals.

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Speaker 1: Trump not only listens to this drivel and thinks, there's

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Speaker 1: something religious. Ambassador Huckabee's text, President Trump, I'd forgotten he

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Speaker 1: mister President. God spared you and Butler pa to be

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Speaker 1: the most consequential president in a century. Maybe Ever, what

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Speaker 1: was God thinking about that poor guy got shot in

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Speaker 1: God said, you are spared that guy over there. I

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Speaker 1: don't like that guy. Some God, you got here the

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Speaker 1: decisions on your shoulders. I would not want to be

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Speaker 1: made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you, sir,

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Speaker 1: oh boy, is that true? Trump has many voices in

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Speaker 1: his head. You're right about that, Huck, but there is

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Speaker 1: only one voice that matters his voice. And Trump is

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Speaker 1: reading this, going, Hannity, I am your appointed servant in

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Speaker 1: this land and am available for you. But I do

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Speaker 1: not try to get in your presence office often because

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Speaker 1: I trust your instincts. No president in my lifetime has

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Speaker 1: forty five. I don't reach out to persuade you, only

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Speaker 1: and that voice is far more important than mine or

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Speaker 1: anyone else's. And Trump is thinking, Janine Piro, you sent

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Speaker 1: me to Israel to be your eyes, ears, and voice

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Speaker 1: and to make sure our flag flies above our embss.

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Speaker 1: My job is to be the last one to leave. Yeah, bomb,

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Speaker 1: stop draw, start dropping. Mike's going to be the last

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Speaker 1: one to leave. I will not abandon this post. Our

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Speaker 1: flag will not come down. You did not seek this moment.

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Speaker 1: This moment sought you. Who in the hell thinks that

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Speaker 1: It is my honor to serve you. Just remember to

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Speaker 1: serve man. Mike Huckabee. They printed this out. First, they

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Speaker 1: Then they made a pretty looking picture of Huckabee and Trump,

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Speaker 1: not quite looking at each other, with the words America's

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Speaker 1: future right over each of their heads. America's future Mike

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Speaker 1: words in this this thing from Huckaby, this text. This

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Speaker 1: is also the script for Mike Huckaby's TV commercial for

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Speaker 1: another snake oil called Relaxium. God put relaxium on this

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Speaker 1: earth to relax you. Two other points about the religious

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Speaker 1: ecstasy bullshit. The next level delusion after this, and millions

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Speaker 1: Israel is at war, this means Jesus will be coming

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Speaker 1: back like late Sunday, maybe in time for Britain. So

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Speaker 1: where are your crosses? Because, as the late great comic

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Speaker 1: genius Bill Hicks noted, sure, that's the first thing Jesus

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Speaker 1: What about the last sixteen wars? He didn't come back

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Speaker 1: for any of those. Does he not get the news?

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Speaker 1: Does he not get Fox News? Wherever he is? We

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Speaker 1: know Jesse Waters thinks he speaks with divine influence. Now

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Speaker 1: back on this earth, there are some practical consequences here.

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Speaker 1: Politico's Foreign affairs correspondent mentions the one thing that Trump

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Speaker 1: hasn't counted on the Iranian response quote. A former Western

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Speaker 1: intelligence official told me the spy community suspects the Islamist

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Speaker 1: regime in Tehran has sleeper cells in various countries to

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Speaker 1: carry out attacks if it feels an existential threat. The

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Speaker 1: regime could also round up Americans in Iran and effectively

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Speaker 1: hold them hostage, as it is done in the past.

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Speaker 1: So we're not only going to reenact Iraq and remember

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Speaker 1: how well and how quickly that went. We go in

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Speaker 1: declares mission accomplished. And I'm co anchoring with Chris Matthews,

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Speaker 1: and I say to him, wait, if it's mission accomplished,

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Speaker 1: why is there still fighting there? And why is the

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Speaker 1: going to reenact Iraq with a different final letter. We

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Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty, which was also

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Speaker 1: exploited by a Republican president. Rule one of war. No

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Speaker 1: being quick. The other consequences will be largely political and domestic.

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson attacked Trump. Ted Cruz attacked Carlson. Steve Bannon

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Speaker 1: attacked Fox News as not being real. Maga Josh Hawley said,

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Speaker 1: another Mid East war. It's so obviously a bad idea

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Speaker 1: not building a nuclear weapon, he said, I don't care

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Speaker 1: five years for them. And whatever the Rumsfeldian unknown unknowns

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Speaker 1: And oh yes, somebody will eventually notice that this will

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Speaker 1: be three consecutive Republican presidents who've attacked Iraq or Iran,

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Speaker 1: to have a war, because if you don't have a war,

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Speaker 1: you can't use all those expensive bombs and tanks and

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Speaker 1: So the Department of Defense needs another two billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: The point of a Republican war, neo cons Maga Bush

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Speaker 1: to transfer taxpayer money to the military industrial complex. Ike

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Speaker 1: was right, end of story. The only way Jesus Christ

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ again. We blowed them up good. We blowed

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Speaker 1: Post put this out in really great color bar graphs.

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Speaker 1: What happened two saturdays ago? Trump had a pathetic toy

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Speaker 1: tank parade in which it in retrospect clearly looks like

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00:30:18,235 --> 00:30:22,555
Speaker 1: the soldiers deliberately mailed it in to make him look bad. Meanwhile,

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00:30:23,035 --> 00:30:26,715
Speaker 1: five million or more protesters attended the No Kings marches

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Speaker 1: and rallies. And what a couple hundred people protested in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles? Maybe a thousand. There were anti ice protests

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Speaker 1: in many cities, maybe a couple thousand alls old. So

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Speaker 1: what was coverage of all these events like on the

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Speaker 1: cable networks? Well, sir, it's not just that the cable

436
00:30:47,155 --> 00:30:49,915
Speaker 1: network's got the proportions all wrong. It's that the least

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00:30:50,355 --> 00:30:55,395
Speaker 1: well proportioned, the least fair coverage was by CNN and MSNBC.

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Speaker 1: By contrast, Fox was only terrible the mentions, per the

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Speaker 1: bump data, CNN mentioned No Kings between June eighth and

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Speaker 1: June fourteenth seventy three times. That's a seven day span.

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00:31:15,355 --> 00:31:19,595
Speaker 1: Seventy three mentions of the No Kings protests. Other protests

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00:31:19,635 --> 00:31:23,435
Speaker 1: mentioned six hundred and thirty nine times, so like nine

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00:31:23,515 --> 00:31:28,315
Speaker 1: times as many on CNN MSNBC. Oh, they did much better.

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00:31:28,315 --> 00:31:30,875
Speaker 1: Instead of seventy three mentions of No Kings, they mentioned

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00:31:30,875 --> 00:31:35,395
Speaker 1: it seventy seven times, mentions of other protests six hundred

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00:31:35,395 --> 00:31:39,675
Speaker 1: and twenty five times. So the two supposed real news

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00:31:39,755 --> 00:31:44,875
Speaker 1: cable networks did a crap job, and almost identically, they're

448
00:31:44,915 --> 00:31:48,795
Speaker 1: now being programmed almost identically in terms of what they mentioned.

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00:31:48,875 --> 00:31:52,035
Speaker 1: In terms of the news, there is a decreasing difference

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Speaker 1: between the crap that drove away CNN's audience and the

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Speaker 1: crap that is now driving away MSNBC's audience Fox News.

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00:32:00,635 --> 00:32:05,035
Speaker 1: Fox News mentioned no kings, probably not favorably sixty times times,

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00:32:05,115 --> 00:32:08,675
Speaker 1: and mentioned all the other protests, including the LA protests,

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Speaker 1: only three hundred and one times. So, in other words,

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Speaker 1: the coverage of the protests, the anti ice protests and

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00:32:16,595 --> 00:32:20,795
Speaker 1: everything else only got half the bad press on Fox

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Speaker 1: that it did on CNN or MSNBC. MSNBC and CNN

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00:32:25,515 --> 00:32:28,075
Speaker 1: could not resist the pictures of smoke from LA, even

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Speaker 1: if it was smoked from a two square block area.

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Speaker 1: Bumps graphs show in that same span two hundred and

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Speaker 1: nine mentions of clashes, riots, rioting, vandalism, looting on MSNBC

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Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety one mentions of clashes, riots, rioting, bandalism,

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Speaker 1: looting on CNN. This is even though as the Post's

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00:32:46,595 --> 00:32:51,075
Speaker 1: own polling indicated American opinion about the LA protests was

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Speaker 1: split down the middle. Thirty seven percent said it was

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Speaker 1: mostly violent, thirty five percent said it was mostly peaceful.

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00:32:57,435 --> 00:33:03,955
Speaker 1: Independence went thirty five thirty three peaceful. So we don't

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Speaker 1: have any cable news left in this country. Just turn

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Speaker 1: your sets off there, as a New York sportscaster used

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Speaker 1: to say, runner up Katie Miller. Ever, wonder what kind

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Speaker 1: of messed up person would marry Steven Miller. I'll just

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Speaker 1: read this verbatim from the New York Times backgrounder. Wasn't

473
00:33:21,435 --> 00:33:24,595
Speaker 1: there a movie called The Millers where they were actually

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Speaker 1: giant cockroaches from another planet who just pretended to be humans.

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk stood before a giant American flag at a

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin political rally in March and rolled out an eye

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Speaker 1: popping allegation of rampant fraud at the Social Security Administration.

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Speaker 1: As an aside, remember Elon Musk, Scammers, he said, were

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Speaker 1: making forty percent of all calls to the agency's customer

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Speaker 1: service line. Social Security employees knew the billionaires claim had

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Speaker 1: no basis. In fact, after journalists followed up, staff members

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Speaker 1: began drafting a response correcting the record. That's when Leland Dudek,

483
00:33:59,075 --> 00:34:01,795
Speaker 1: plucked from a mid level job only six weeks earlier

484
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Speaker 1: to run Social Security because of his willingness to co

485
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Speaker 1: operate with mister Musk's Department of Government Efficiency or Douche,

486
00:34:09,435 --> 00:34:11,715
Speaker 1: got an angry call from the White House. According to

487
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Speaker 1: several people familiar with the exchange, the number is forty percent.

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Speaker 1: Insisted Katie Miller, a top administration aideh was working closely

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Speaker 1: with mister Musk. According to one of the people familiar

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Speaker 1: with the April one call, President Trump believed mister Musk.

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Speaker 1: She said, quote, do not contradict the President. So if

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Speaker 1: you're wondering why it is that Stephen Miller every day

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Speaker 1: talks and acts like he didn't sleep at all last

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Speaker 1: night and instead had spent the evening frog tied in

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Speaker 1: his own basement while somebody beat him repeatedly with oddly

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Speaker 1: shaped pieces of rubber. Well, I'm just saying, but the

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Speaker 1: winner the worst. Fresh Secretary Caroline Levitt l Ie in

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Speaker 1: her first name, l Ie in her last name, and

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Speaker 1: Sigmund Freud in her soul. As Trump tried to show

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Speaker 1: off his trade deal with the British at the g seven,

501
00:35:04,955 --> 00:35:06,955
Speaker 1: and he said it was a deal with the EU

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Speaker 1: because he doesn't know that's not the same thing EU, UK.

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Speaker 1: I see you, you see me, me talk now, President

504
00:35:16,195 --> 00:35:20,715
Speaker 1: sleepy time. Trump opened the folder with the deal with

505
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Speaker 1: the British and not the EU, and the loose pages

506
00:35:24,475 --> 00:35:29,635
Speaker 1: fell to the ground. Immediately British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

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00:35:29,835 --> 00:35:32,075
Speaker 1: bent down to pick them up. Why did he do that?

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Speaker 1: Why is the premiere of the UK reduced to picking

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Speaker 1: up the stuff Trump just dropped you? And I might

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Speaker 1: assume it's because Starmer realizes that Trump can't bend down,

511
00:35:45,275 --> 00:35:48,155
Speaker 1: But no, sir, it was because he was afraid that,

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Speaker 1: you know, Trump's security FAILANX would then open fire or

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Speaker 1: start tackling people. The day after this happened, Starmer said, quote,

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, there weren't many choices with the documents

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Speaker 1: in picking it up, because, as you probably know, there

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00:36:02,235 --> 00:36:04,715
Speaker 1: were quite strict rules about who can get close to

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Speaker 1: the president. I mean, seriously, I think if any of you,

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Speaker 1: meaning the media, had stepped forward other than me, I

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00:36:11,715 --> 00:36:14,235
Speaker 1: was just deeply conscious that in a situation like that,

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Speaker 1: it would not have been good for anybody else to

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Speaker 1: have stepped forward. Not that any of you rushed to

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Speaker 1: There's a very tightly guarded security zone around the president,

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Speaker 1: as you would expect. So just that's the end of

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Speaker 1: the quote. Translate what he's saying here. If anybody else

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Speaker 1: but him had reached down to try to pick the

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Speaker 1: papers up that Trump dropped and may or may not

527
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Speaker 1: have realized he dropped, the entirety of the American security

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00:36:40,155 --> 00:36:43,835
Speaker 1: force would have descended upon them, and knowing the quality

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00:36:43,835 --> 00:36:46,435
Speaker 1: of the people that Trump hires, they probably would have

530
00:36:46,475 --> 00:36:51,795
Speaker 1: shot first. So Keir Starmer prevented a massacre in Canada,

531
00:36:52,035 --> 00:36:57,875
Speaker 1: you know, like with Huey Long. Look it up, Huey Long.

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Speaker 1: Now to the Levitt part of this, kind of fittingly,

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00:37:02,355 --> 00:37:04,915
Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt then tweeted out a photo of Trump at

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Speaker 1: a news conference at the G seven. It was chosen,

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00:37:07,795 --> 00:37:11,275
Speaker 1: presumably because alone, of the dozens of people in the

536
00:37:11,355 --> 00:37:15,795
Speaker 1: crowded photograph, Trump is the only one clearly visible. You

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00:37:15,835 --> 00:37:19,195
Speaker 1: can see him from the head to the torso, from

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Speaker 1: the bottom of his eight foot long tie to the

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00:37:22,155 --> 00:37:26,635
Speaker 1: bottom of his seventy third chin. The problem is in

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00:37:26,675 --> 00:37:30,555
Speaker 1: this photo that Caroline Levitt put out, Trump is perfectly

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Speaker 1: placed in front of a Canadian flag with only the

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Speaker 1: left hand red bar of that flag visible, and it's

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00:37:37,915 --> 00:37:41,435
Speaker 1: right above Trump's head. So there's Trump, and right above

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00:37:41,475 --> 00:37:47,275
Speaker 1: him is this furled red thing in a conical shape.

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00:37:47,475 --> 00:37:50,675
Speaker 1: So as you look closer and closer, it is perfectly shaped.

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00:37:50,715 --> 00:37:54,475
Speaker 1: It is perfectly proportioned, it is perfectly positioned, and it

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00:37:54,515 --> 00:38:02,595
Speaker 1: looks exactly like Trump is wearing a red dunce cap. Caroline,

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00:38:02,835 --> 00:38:06,035
Speaker 1: this is a call for help, blinked. Oh no, no, make

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00:38:06,075 --> 00:38:07,995
Speaker 1: it more obvious than that. If this is a call

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00:38:08,115 --> 00:38:12,795
Speaker 1: for help, tell the truth twice Levitt two Day's other

551
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Speaker 1: worst twy saidden in the world to the number one

552
00:38:48,515 --> 00:38:51,915
Speaker 1: story on the Countdown and a story that begins a

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00:38:52,155 --> 00:38:56,395
Speaker 1: little bit in the past nineteen thirty four. I was

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00:38:56,435 --> 00:38:58,595
Speaker 1: not there for that part of it. But in nineteen

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00:38:58,635 --> 00:39:01,755
Speaker 1: thirty four, my mother, who was five years old, was

556
00:39:01,835 --> 00:39:07,195
Speaker 1: sent over to her uncle's house or apartment for the day.

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00:39:07,355 --> 00:39:10,475
Speaker 1: My grandparents needed the day off from her for some reason,

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00:39:10,515 --> 00:39:13,835
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure what it was, but her uncle, Willy,

559
00:39:13,955 --> 00:39:17,955
Speaker 1: my great uncle Willy, took her to Yankee Stadium along

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Speaker 1: with a kid that he knew who he used to

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Speaker 1: push to Yankee Stadium because the young man was in

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Speaker 1: a wheelchair. And often before the games. In nineteen thirty four,

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Speaker 1: the last season that the legendary Babe Ruth played for

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Speaker 1: the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth would see this kid

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Speaker 1: in a wheelchair and, consistent with the times, would come

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Speaker 1: over and rub his back for good luck, which seems

567
00:39:40,075 --> 00:39:41,915
Speaker 1: to us to be very crass, and also, if you're

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Speaker 1: just looking at it from a superstition point of view,

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Speaker 1: how in the world would that be good luck in

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Speaker 1: any event. So one day, for the first time, when

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Speaker 1: she was five years old and just turned five years old,

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Speaker 1: her birthday was in June, she goes with her uncle

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Speaker 1: Willy and the boy in the wheelchair to Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 1: They don't have the money to go to the games.

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Speaker 1: It's the middle of the depress, but they live in

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Speaker 1: the Bronx. They are a few blocks away from the stadium,

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Speaker 1: and they go to say hi to the players on

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Speaker 1: the way in, and sure enough, Babe Ruth says hello

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Speaker 1: to them and asks my mother at the age of five,

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Speaker 1: what her name is now. Her name was Marie, but

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Speaker 1: because her mother's name was also Marie, the family often

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Speaker 1: referred to her as Babe. I heard my grandmother referred

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Speaker 1: to my mother as Babe when my mother was forty

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Speaker 1: five years old. It was rather extraordinary in any events.

585
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Speaker 1: She says, my name is Babe, and Babe Ruth was

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Speaker 1: so delighted by this that she went back inside and

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00:40:43,715 --> 00:40:46,955
Speaker 1: got her a brand new baseball, which he gave to

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Speaker 1: my mother. The first day she went to Yankee Stadium,

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Speaker 1: she met Babe Ruth, She talked to Babe Ruth, and

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Speaker 1: Babe Ruth gave her a baseball. Needless to say, in

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Speaker 1: the ensuing sixty six years that my mother was a

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Speaker 1: Yankee fan, nothing of interest ever happened to her at

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Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. She would eventually see the Yankees win a

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Speaker 1: couple of World Series, and eventually she saw her own

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00:41:12,155 --> 00:41:15,715
Speaker 1: son reporting from the field after the World Series games

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Speaker 1: on the World Series broadcast. But nothing like getting a

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Speaker 1: baseball from Babe Ruth on your first day as a

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00:41:22,875 --> 00:41:26,395
Speaker 1: fan and meeting Babe Ruth occurred to her. There was

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Speaker 1: a brawl once between Red Sox and Yankees fans. I

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00:41:29,355 --> 00:41:31,595
Speaker 1: recall when I was ten or eleven years old. Beer

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00:41:31,795 --> 00:41:34,835
Speaker 1: was thrown and she may have gotten a few drops

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00:41:34,875 --> 00:41:37,755
Speaker 1: of beer on the shoulder of her dress. I seem

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Speaker 1: to recall that happening. That was it. Nothing else of interest, Certainly,

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Speaker 1: nothing difficult or untoward happened to my mother at Yankee

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Speaker 1: Stadium until the middle of June in the year two thousand.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees on that Saturday afternoon had a second baseman

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Speaker 1: named Chuck Knobloch, who had been a great star for

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Speaker 1: them in an extraordinary addition to their team and set

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Speaker 1: off the process by which they won preconsecutive World Series

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Speaker 1: and four in a span of five years, and almost

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00:42:11,715 --> 00:42:13,995
Speaker 1: five in a span of six years. In any event,

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00:42:14,315 --> 00:42:18,715
Speaker 1: Knoblock unfortunately had an issue throwing the ball to first base.

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00:42:19,115 --> 00:42:22,595
Speaker 1: Many second basemen, many baseball players have developed this. It's

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00:42:22,635 --> 00:42:25,435
Speaker 1: somewhat consistent with the idea of the yips in golf,

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00:42:25,475 --> 00:42:27,875
Speaker 1: where you can't sink the putt even though it's two

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Speaker 1: feet away. Four baseball players, it turns out to generally

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00:42:32,195 --> 00:42:36,435
Speaker 1: be an expression of emotional distress. Your mind is sabotaging

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00:42:36,515 --> 00:42:39,515
Speaker 1: the most fundamental thing in the game. It's stopping you

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Speaker 1: from throwing the ball. And the easier the play is,

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Speaker 1: the more familiar you are with it, the more difficult

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Speaker 1: it suddenly becomes. It happened to Chuck Knoblock. It happened

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Speaker 1: to another second baseman named Steve Sachs, and they've all

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Speaker 1: turned out. And it was a pitcher minor league pitcher

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Speaker 1: who became a writer named Pat Jordan, and they all

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00:42:55,835 --> 00:42:58,635
Speaker 1: turned out. And another one named Rick ang Keel, a

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Speaker 1: pitcher for the Saint Louis Cardinals, all of whom suddenly

627
00:43:00,995 --> 00:43:04,555
Speaker 1: lost the ability to throw the ball in the easiest

628
00:43:05,435 --> 00:43:07,995
Speaker 1: way possible, in the way in which they had the

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00:43:08,035 --> 00:43:11,915
Speaker 1: most control, couldn't throw the ball over the baseman's head,

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Speaker 1: over the catcher's head into the stands. Well, that's where

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Speaker 1: we joined Chuck naw Block, as it later turned out,

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Speaker 1: Chuck naw Block's father, who had seen every one of

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Speaker 1: his games from little league, who had gone to all

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Speaker 1: his high school games, who had traveled the country when

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00:43:26,155 --> 00:43:28,515
Speaker 1: Chuck naw Block played in the minor leagues, who'd gone

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Speaker 1: to all the road games of the Minnesota Twins and

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Speaker 1: the Yankees. Chuck naw Block's father had Alzheimer's disease and

638
00:43:34,915 --> 00:43:37,355
Speaker 1: was in the final stages of it, and sometime early

639
00:43:37,395 --> 00:43:41,275
Speaker 1: in the two thousand season lost the ability to recognize

640
00:43:41,395 --> 00:43:45,235
Speaker 1: the Yankee second basement Chuck naw Block. Well, that accelerated

641
00:43:45,275 --> 00:43:48,755
Speaker 1: a problem that would later or shortly thereafter make Chuck

642
00:43:48,875 --> 00:43:52,675
Speaker 1: naw Block an x second basement. And on this day,

643
00:43:52,795 --> 00:43:56,395
Speaker 1: in June of two thousand, I was completing the second

644
00:43:56,515 --> 00:44:00,155
Speaker 1: year of a two year, not particularly happy stint as

645
00:44:00,195 --> 00:44:03,195
Speaker 1: the host of Fox Baseball Game of the Week on

646
00:44:03,235 --> 00:44:06,035
Speaker 1: the Fox Television network. I was based in Los Angeles,

647
00:44:06,075 --> 00:44:08,715
Speaker 1: and every Saturday, I spent the whole day from six

648
00:44:08,795 --> 00:44:12,115
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning till six o'clock at night in

649
00:44:12,155 --> 00:44:15,235
Speaker 1: a studio in Los Angeles that was kept down about

650
00:44:15,275 --> 00:44:18,635
Speaker 1: thirty six degrees. Not my choice. I had to wear

651
00:44:18,635 --> 00:44:21,275
Speaker 1: a winter coat. Sometimes, when we weren't on the air,

652
00:44:21,515 --> 00:44:23,675
Speaker 1: we would do a pregame show, which, because of the

653
00:44:23,715 --> 00:44:26,555
Speaker 1: timing difference, started at ten am, and they liked to

654
00:44:26,595 --> 00:44:30,195
Speaker 1: rehearse their pregame shows madness. All the good lions had

655
00:44:30,195 --> 00:44:33,435
Speaker 1: been used and made stupid and not funny by the

656
00:44:33,475 --> 00:44:34,995
Speaker 1: time we got on the air. They would rehearse this

657
00:44:35,075 --> 00:44:38,395
Speaker 1: show two times, three times. An awful experience of my

658
00:44:38,435 --> 00:44:41,075
Speaker 1: co host was one of the worst persons in the world,

659
00:44:41,275 --> 00:44:44,075
Speaker 1: a man named Steve Lyons, who made me look like

660
00:44:44,115 --> 00:44:46,675
Speaker 1: somebody who never complained once in his life. That's the

661
00:44:46,715 --> 00:44:49,315
Speaker 1: only good aspect of working with Steve Lyons. He complained

662
00:44:49,355 --> 00:44:52,475
Speaker 1: an average of three times a minute. All right, So

663
00:44:52,595 --> 00:44:55,115
Speaker 1: Lyons and I are there doing the game of the week,

664
00:44:55,155 --> 00:44:57,515
Speaker 1: and that day the broadcast was from Los Angeles, and

665
00:44:57,555 --> 00:45:01,755
Speaker 1: it was a four pm Eastern start one pm Pacific time,

666
00:45:01,835 --> 00:45:04,635
Speaker 1: So the game and the show started a little bit late,

667
00:45:05,115 --> 00:45:08,795
Speaker 1: and we get them started, the Dodgers and whoever. It

668
00:45:08,915 --> 00:45:11,275
Speaker 1: was at Dodgers Stadium with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver

669
00:45:11,395 --> 00:45:14,355
Speaker 1: as the announcers and me in the studio, and Lions

670
00:45:14,395 --> 00:45:16,555
Speaker 1: goes away and he won't be back to the postgame show,

671
00:45:16,595 --> 00:45:21,115
Speaker 1: so everybody's happier. Somewhere in the middle of the game,

672
00:45:21,595 --> 00:45:24,555
Speaker 1: I'm watching the bank of televisions that's showing all the

673
00:45:24,595 --> 00:45:27,675
Speaker 1: other games in progress. And the Chicago White Sox are

674
00:45:27,715 --> 00:45:30,675
Speaker 1: playing at Yankee Stadium in New York. This is the

675
00:45:30,795 --> 00:45:34,115
Speaker 1: remodeled Yankee Stadium that operated between the years nineteen seventy

676
00:45:34,155 --> 00:45:37,835
Speaker 1: six and two thousand and eight. I essentially grew up

677
00:45:37,915 --> 00:45:40,835
Speaker 1: in Yankee Stadium, the original original Yankee Stadium and then

678
00:45:40,835 --> 00:45:44,035
Speaker 1: this modified, reconstructed one that reopened in nineteen seventy six,

679
00:45:44,315 --> 00:45:46,515
Speaker 1: and I knew not only every nook and cranny of

680
00:45:46,555 --> 00:45:50,515
Speaker 1: the ballpark, but I knew every camera angle, and we

681
00:45:50,595 --> 00:45:54,075
Speaker 1: had had since nineteen seventy two. My family Yankee season tickets,

682
00:45:54,195 --> 00:45:57,755
Speaker 1: which I had been paying for since about nineteen ninety two,

683
00:45:57,795 --> 00:45:59,795
Speaker 1: even though I did not live in New York. They

684
00:45:59,795 --> 00:46:03,115
Speaker 1: were for my mother, who went forty fifty times a year.

685
00:46:03,675 --> 00:46:05,955
Speaker 1: So by this point, my mother has been to since

686
00:46:05,955 --> 00:46:09,035
Speaker 1: that first game when she was greeted by Babe Ruth

687
00:46:09,115 --> 00:46:12,475
Speaker 1: at the front door of Yankee Stadium. Here, welcome to

688
00:46:12,555 --> 00:46:16,515
Speaker 1: your future. Here's a baseball for me, Babe Ruth, she

689
00:46:16,595 --> 00:46:18,755
Speaker 1: has been to at least a thousand games. She went

690
00:46:18,795 --> 00:46:22,235
Speaker 1: to more games in her life than I have, actually

691
00:46:22,315 --> 00:46:25,875
Speaker 1: literally true. And she is seated in the seats in

692
00:46:25,915 --> 00:46:29,155
Speaker 1: our seats, which have been the same one box forty

693
00:46:29,195 --> 00:46:33,035
Speaker 1: seven E since the stadium reopened in nineteen seventy six,

694
00:46:33,035 --> 00:46:35,035
Speaker 1: and this is the year two thousand, so she is

695
00:46:35,075 --> 00:46:38,955
Speaker 1: in essence celebrating her twenty fifth anniversary in those seats.

696
00:46:39,795 --> 00:46:42,075
Speaker 1: The Chicago White Sox are playing the New York Yankees.

697
00:46:42,115 --> 00:46:44,435
Speaker 1: They would rout the Yankees that day, and the Yankees

698
00:46:44,435 --> 00:46:46,075
Speaker 1: were in the middle of a funk in the middle

699
00:46:46,075 --> 00:46:48,715
Speaker 1: of the season. Do not, in small part to Chuck

700
00:46:48,755 --> 00:46:52,475
Speaker 1: Knoblock's sudden inability to throw the ball successfully from second

701
00:46:52,475 --> 00:46:54,755
Speaker 1: base to first base. He would throw it past the

702
00:46:54,795 --> 00:46:57,555
Speaker 1: first basement, over the first basement, he would drop the

703
00:46:57,595 --> 00:46:59,715
Speaker 1: ball as he threw it, it would fly out of

704
00:46:59,715 --> 00:47:02,435
Speaker 1: his hand. And of course later it proved this was

705
00:47:02,475 --> 00:47:06,075
Speaker 1: a psychological protest from deep within in his mind against

706
00:47:06,075 --> 00:47:09,075
Speaker 1: playing baseball anymore. It was too painful because his father

707
00:47:09,435 --> 00:47:12,395
Speaker 1: was so sick, and his father was so intimately connected

708
00:47:12,395 --> 00:47:15,835
Speaker 1: to the game. So now Greg Norton of the Chicago

709
00:47:15,875 --> 00:47:19,715
Speaker 1: White Sox hits a fairly tough play towards Chuck Nablock

710
00:47:20,235 --> 00:47:23,355
Speaker 1: grounds the ball to the right of the mound. Chuck

711
00:47:23,435 --> 00:47:25,515
Speaker 1: naw Block has to charge in, pick the ball up

712
00:47:25,555 --> 00:47:29,035
Speaker 1: bare handed, and while slightly off balance, throw it backwards

713
00:47:29,355 --> 00:47:33,675
Speaker 1: towards the Yankee first basement, Tino Martinez. Not an impossible play,

714
00:47:33,715 --> 00:47:36,075
Speaker 1: and not an impossible play for a good second basement,

715
00:47:36,115 --> 00:47:38,995
Speaker 1: as Chuck naw Block had been. But under the circumstances

716
00:47:39,595 --> 00:47:43,635
Speaker 1: a disaster in the making which we then saw unfold,

717
00:47:44,275 --> 00:47:46,715
Speaker 1: Chuck naw Block throws the ball. It leaves his hand

718
00:47:46,795 --> 00:47:50,435
Speaker 1: not straight, but an angle to the right of about

719
00:47:50,595 --> 00:47:53,675
Speaker 1: I don't know, fifty sixty degrees the ball shoots out

720
00:47:53,715 --> 00:47:56,835
Speaker 1: of his hand and goes nowhere near first base. It

721
00:47:56,875 --> 00:48:00,355
Speaker 1: goes into the stands behind first base, and in fact,

722
00:48:00,435 --> 00:48:03,715
Speaker 1: it goes to box forty seven E, where my mother

723
00:48:03,875 --> 00:48:07,715
Speaker 1: is seated with my high school friend and his two kids.

724
00:48:08,235 --> 00:48:11,955
Speaker 1: And my mother is sitting where the incoming throw has

725
00:48:12,115 --> 00:48:15,915
Speaker 1: just been launched. I am seeing this unfold on a monitor,

726
00:48:16,155 --> 00:48:18,755
Speaker 1: one of like nine with different games going on. But

727
00:48:18,835 --> 00:48:20,795
Speaker 1: I know Yankee Stadium, and as I said, the camera

728
00:48:20,835 --> 00:48:24,635
Speaker 1: angles intimately, so I know immediately where the ball based

729
00:48:24,675 --> 00:48:27,115
Speaker 1: on where it left now Block's hand, where it has

730
00:48:27,315 --> 00:48:30,435
Speaker 1: likely gone, and I say that may have hit my mother.

731
00:48:31,035 --> 00:48:33,275
Speaker 1: They then cut to a shot of a woman being

732
00:48:33,315 --> 00:48:37,595
Speaker 1: attended to and I say that hit my mother, and

733
00:48:37,635 --> 00:48:41,155
Speaker 1: everybody in the room laughs because they assume I'm joking,

734
00:48:41,195 --> 00:48:44,195
Speaker 1: Because what are the odds that while I am in

735
00:48:44,235 --> 00:48:46,915
Speaker 1: the studio hosting the game of the week and doing

736
00:48:46,955 --> 00:48:49,075
Speaker 1: the highlights of the games in progress. You know, when

737
00:48:49,115 --> 00:48:51,235
Speaker 1: they say now let's go back to the studio for

738
00:48:51,275 --> 00:48:54,155
Speaker 1: a Fox game break, I'm the guy doing the game breaks.

739
00:48:54,355 --> 00:48:57,235
Speaker 1: That was my job for two years. And sure enough,

740
00:48:57,675 --> 00:49:00,435
Speaker 1: I say, that's my mother, and everybody laughs, and then

741
00:49:00,475 --> 00:49:02,635
Speaker 1: they cut to a tight shot of a woman holding

742
00:49:02,635 --> 00:49:05,035
Speaker 1: her head with a little blood and her glasses have

743
00:49:05,075 --> 00:49:07,355
Speaker 1: been broken, and she looks kind of dazed and confused

744
00:49:07,515 --> 00:49:09,675
Speaker 1: and they are leading her away, and I went, that's Mom.

745
00:49:10,035 --> 00:49:12,435
Speaker 1: And now I call her on my cell phone and

746
00:49:12,475 --> 00:49:15,435
Speaker 1: you see her while she is on camera on the

747
00:49:15,475 --> 00:49:18,835
Speaker 1: local broadcast of the Yankee White Sox game. You see

748
00:49:18,835 --> 00:49:22,035
Speaker 1: her answering the phone. That's when they stopped laughing in

749
00:49:22,075 --> 00:49:25,515
Speaker 1: the studio. That's when they realized it was really my mother.

750
00:49:26,515 --> 00:49:28,315
Speaker 1: So I talked to her and she said, I'm okay,

751
00:49:28,475 --> 00:49:31,715
Speaker 1: it broke my glasses. They think maybe I should go home.

752
00:49:31,875 --> 00:49:34,355
Speaker 1: And Georgia and George's kids they want to go home

753
00:49:34,395 --> 00:49:35,955
Speaker 1: after that, and I said, did you get the ball

754
00:49:37,195 --> 00:49:39,795
Speaker 1: showing where my level of concern was? No, I'm sorry.

755
00:49:39,835 --> 00:49:42,915
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, for Christ's sake, Mom, So she's fine,

756
00:49:42,915 --> 00:49:47,675
Speaker 1: And otherwise I wouldn't have asked that question. Probably anyway,

757
00:49:47,715 --> 00:49:51,355
Speaker 1: now we're predicting this sort of situation. What do we

758
00:49:51,435 --> 00:49:53,475
Speaker 1: do with it? And is it going to be a controversy?

759
00:49:53,475 --> 00:49:54,835
Speaker 1: And I said, we have to put the highlight on

760
00:49:55,235 --> 00:49:57,115
Speaker 1: and I have to mention that it's my mother. It's

761
00:49:57,395 --> 00:49:58,795
Speaker 1: not like we're not going to show if it was

762
00:49:58,875 --> 00:50:01,195
Speaker 1: some other woman, we'd show it, wouldn't we It would

763
00:50:01,235 --> 00:50:03,075
Speaker 1: be the biggest story in baseball today. We have to

764
00:50:03,075 --> 00:50:05,075
Speaker 1: do it, and I just happen to know who it is.

765
00:50:06,155 --> 00:50:10,795
Speaker 1: So we throw to We are thrown to buy Joe

766
00:50:10,795 --> 00:50:13,515
Speaker 1: Buck and Tim McCarver, ti'me for a Fox game break.

767
00:50:14,155 --> 00:50:17,075
Speaker 1: Here's Keith Olderman in the studio, White Sox and Yankees.

768
00:50:17,155 --> 00:50:20,755
Speaker 1: Joe and Chuck now blocks throwing problem is now getting

769
00:50:20,795 --> 00:50:24,075
Speaker 1: personally picks up the Greg Norton bounder from the White

770
00:50:24,075 --> 00:50:27,475
Speaker 1: Sox Yankees in the Bronx and throws it into the

771
00:50:27,555 --> 00:50:32,395
Speaker 1: stands where right on the edit it hits my mother.

772
00:50:33,595 --> 00:50:36,315
Speaker 1: Mom's Okay, I called her. She's a gamer. She'll be

773
00:50:36,355 --> 00:50:39,955
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. She just got her lenses broken. Joe, Tim

774
00:50:40,115 --> 00:50:45,155
Speaker 1: back to you. Silence from Dodger Stadium. In the broadcast,

775
00:50:45,195 --> 00:50:48,395
Speaker 1: you just hear like birds in the background from Dodger Stadium.

776
00:50:48,555 --> 00:50:51,115
Speaker 1: For the first time in their lives, Joe Buck and

777
00:50:51,155 --> 00:50:54,595
Speaker 1: Tim McCarver have between them, nothing to say. I don't

778
00:50:54,595 --> 00:50:58,235
Speaker 1: know what to say, says Joe Buck. Is Keith kidding?

779
00:50:58,315 --> 00:51:00,435
Speaker 1: Is that one of Keith jokes? Says Tim, who is

780
00:51:00,475 --> 00:51:03,035
Speaker 1: an old friend of mine. Keith, are you still there?

781
00:51:03,275 --> 00:51:06,915
Speaker 1: I'm still here, Timmy, Are you kidding? Why would I

782
00:51:06,995 --> 00:51:09,435
Speaker 1: kid about something like that? Was that really your mother?

783
00:51:09,795 --> 00:51:12,075
Speaker 1: What are the odds against that? And I said, well,

784
00:51:12,115 --> 00:51:14,195
Speaker 1: she's been going a game since nineteen thirty four, that

785
00:51:14,235 --> 00:51:16,115
Speaker 1: first game she ever went to Babe Ruth gave her

786
00:51:16,115 --> 00:51:18,995
Speaker 1: a baseball. Nothing bad has happened in the ensuing years,

787
00:51:19,315 --> 00:51:21,355
Speaker 1: So I'd say the odds were probably about six to

788
00:51:21,435 --> 00:51:24,475
Speaker 1: five in favor. And he goes, I guess you're right.

789
00:51:24,515 --> 00:51:26,675
Speaker 1: I can't believe that was Keith's mother that got hit

790
00:51:26,755 --> 00:51:29,635
Speaker 1: by the throw by Chuck no Block. Well, give us

791
00:51:29,635 --> 00:51:32,435
Speaker 1: an update later on how she is. We'll do, Tim.

792
00:51:33,635 --> 00:51:36,355
Speaker 1: So now the story is out. It's my mother who

793
00:51:36,395 --> 00:51:42,915
Speaker 1: got hit by the ball June seventeenth, eighteenth, one of

794
00:51:42,955 --> 00:51:45,835
Speaker 1: the two days, the Saturday of that weekend two thousand.

795
00:51:46,875 --> 00:51:48,875
Speaker 1: Only the kind of thing that could happen to my mother.

796
00:51:48,955 --> 00:51:53,035
Speaker 1: But again, truly, the odds were not that impossible. The

797
00:51:53,075 --> 00:51:56,435
Speaker 1: ball's thrown behind first base. Here's a woman who's gone

798
00:51:56,435 --> 00:51:58,315
Speaker 1: to an average of forty to fifty games a year

799
00:51:58,355 --> 00:52:00,795
Speaker 1: in that stadium for twenty five years. The odds are

800
00:52:00,835 --> 00:52:02,595
Speaker 1: pretty good it's going to hit her. And if you're

801
00:52:02,595 --> 00:52:05,635
Speaker 1: getting meta and like, what are the union versal odds?

802
00:52:05,635 --> 00:52:09,075
Speaker 1: What are the metaphysical odds that she gets hit? As

803
00:52:09,115 --> 00:52:11,155
Speaker 1: I said, nothing of interest has happened to her since

804
00:52:11,195 --> 00:52:16,235
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four. She's due in any event. Just to

805
00:52:16,275 --> 00:52:18,755
Speaker 1: add to this, two of my best friends in the

806
00:52:18,795 --> 00:52:21,515
Speaker 1: world worked for the Yankees. One was the manager, Joe Tory.

807
00:52:21,835 --> 00:52:24,835
Speaker 1: The other was the head of publicity, Rick Sarone. Not

808
00:52:24,915 --> 00:52:27,995
Speaker 1: the catcher, Rick Serone, but the head of publicity, Rick Serone.

809
00:52:28,235 --> 00:52:31,875
Speaker 1: So I call Rick Serone in the office at Yankee

810
00:52:31,915 --> 00:52:35,595
Speaker 1: Stadium in the press box, because I figure he's already

811
00:52:35,595 --> 00:52:37,755
Speaker 1: figured this out and I want to give him a

812
00:52:37,795 --> 00:52:39,835
Speaker 1: heads up that I had no choice but to mention

813
00:52:40,075 --> 00:52:42,595
Speaker 1: that it was my mother, since it was my broadcast.

814
00:52:43,515 --> 00:52:44,915
Speaker 1: I call him up. I said, did you see the

815
00:52:45,075 --> 00:52:46,795
Speaker 1: now block throw? Now? I heard about it. I've been

816
00:52:46,835 --> 00:52:48,475
Speaker 1: here in the back. I didn't see who it hit.

817
00:52:49,435 --> 00:52:51,315
Speaker 1: I said, do you have any idea who it was?

818
00:52:51,875 --> 00:52:53,675
Speaker 1: He said no, Why would I have any idea who

819
00:52:53,675 --> 00:52:56,115
Speaker 1: it was? I said, why would I be calling you?

820
00:52:56,475 --> 00:52:58,075
Speaker 1: I don't know, Keith. Why would you be calling me?

821
00:52:58,155 --> 00:53:00,635
Speaker 1: I said, how many times have you sat behind first

822
00:53:00,635 --> 00:53:05,555
Speaker 1: base with me and somebody else, and he goes, wait

823
00:53:05,555 --> 00:53:07,315
Speaker 1: a minute, what are you saying? I said, how many

824
00:53:07,315 --> 00:53:10,555
Speaker 1: times did you and I go as teenage friends in

825
00:53:10,595 --> 00:53:13,795
Speaker 1: the seventies and sat behind first bit And he goes,

826
00:53:13,875 --> 00:53:16,515
Speaker 1: oh god no, I said, yep. He said that hit

827
00:53:16,555 --> 00:53:19,835
Speaker 1: your mother. I said yep. And he said, first off,

828
00:53:19,875 --> 00:53:21,715
Speaker 1: he said, did she get the ball? And I went, no,

829
00:53:21,875 --> 00:53:25,395
Speaker 1: she didn't. Oh for crying out loud, Well what you

830
00:53:25,435 --> 00:53:27,315
Speaker 1: didn't say anything about it, did you? I went, of course,

831
00:53:27,355 --> 00:53:29,835
Speaker 1: I said something they showed her on your broadcast. And

832
00:53:29,875 --> 00:53:32,675
Speaker 1: he goes, oh god no. I said, what other choice

833
00:53:32,675 --> 00:53:35,275
Speaker 1: did I have? He goes, no, you're right, You're right,

834
00:53:35,675 --> 00:53:37,195
Speaker 1: all right. I better get out there. We're going to

835
00:53:37,235 --> 00:53:39,515
Speaker 1: start getting phone calls about this, if we haven't already.

836
00:53:39,515 --> 00:53:42,355
Speaker 1: Thanks for the heads up. So now. The next day

837
00:53:43,115 --> 00:53:45,875
Speaker 1: the newspapers of New York front and back page of

838
00:53:45,915 --> 00:53:48,195
Speaker 1: the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and

839
00:53:48,235 --> 00:53:50,875
Speaker 1: the Long Island Paper News Day front and back page

840
00:53:51,115 --> 00:53:54,315
Speaker 1: some reference to my mother. Photographs in the Daily News

841
00:53:54,315 --> 00:53:58,595
Speaker 1: of her being led away. Chuck Nablock hits sportscaster's mother.

842
00:53:59,995 --> 00:54:02,355
Speaker 1: And the day after that they're still telling the story,

843
00:54:02,355 --> 00:54:05,675
Speaker 1: and there are wire stories, and it is everywhere, and

844
00:54:05,915 --> 00:54:09,155
Speaker 1: of course we mentioned it maybe once or twice an

845
00:54:09,155 --> 00:54:12,235
Speaker 1: hour on Fox Sports and on cable and on broadcast.

846
00:54:12,715 --> 00:54:17,315
Speaker 1: So now Mom is a celebrity, and I must confess

847
00:54:17,355 --> 00:54:22,395
Speaker 1: to you. Mom really liked being a celebrity. Mom was

848
00:54:22,435 --> 00:54:26,195
Speaker 1: appreciative of my success in my career. But Mom had

849
00:54:26,195 --> 00:54:28,675
Speaker 1: wanted to be a ballerina. Apparently. She told me that

850
00:54:28,755 --> 00:54:31,075
Speaker 1: I don't really buy it, but that was her story.

851
00:54:31,795 --> 00:54:36,515
Speaker 1: And she was a little jealous, resentful, just in a

852
00:54:36,755 --> 00:54:39,595
Speaker 1: manageable way most of the time. But I don't want

853
00:54:39,635 --> 00:54:44,435
Speaker 1: to bore you with my developmental problems. Emotionally, Mom was

854
00:54:44,435 --> 00:54:47,075
Speaker 1: a little jealous of not being in the spotlight, and

855
00:54:47,395 --> 00:54:51,915
Speaker 1: she gloried in this, among other things. Mom wound up

856
00:54:52,875 --> 00:54:56,875
Speaker 1: being interviewed on the pregame show for the next Saturday's

857
00:54:56,995 --> 00:55:00,075
Speaker 1: Game of the Week, and for various reasons, we could

858
00:55:00,075 --> 00:55:03,155
Speaker 1: not do a live remote interview with her. So we

859
00:55:03,195 --> 00:55:05,915
Speaker 1: sat down and I were courted the questions in Los

860
00:55:05,955 --> 00:55:09,675
Speaker 1: Angeles and on the phone asked her the questions while

861
00:55:09,835 --> 00:55:12,835
Speaker 1: she was in our ancestral home in the suburbs of

862
00:55:12,835 --> 00:55:16,875
Speaker 1: New York City, and Mom didn't really have any good answers,

863
00:55:16,995 --> 00:55:19,395
Speaker 1: so I said, why don't you just repeat the answers

864
00:55:19,395 --> 00:55:21,555
Speaker 1: that I give you. I'll give you good snarky answers,

865
00:55:21,915 --> 00:55:23,595
Speaker 1: real quick ones, and we can do this and you

866
00:55:23,635 --> 00:55:27,195
Speaker 1: can make fun of me. Okay. She had a little

867
00:55:27,235 --> 00:55:29,915
Speaker 1: trouble delivering the lines, and we actually did several takes.

868
00:55:29,915 --> 00:55:32,315
Speaker 1: So if anybody wants to call the FCC and say

869
00:55:32,475 --> 00:55:34,915
Speaker 1: that interview was not what it seemed in two thousand,

870
00:55:35,155 --> 00:55:37,235
Speaker 1: go right ahead. I don't know what you're going to

871
00:55:37,275 --> 00:55:39,075
Speaker 1: do to us about it, but go right ahead. There

872
00:55:39,115 --> 00:55:41,675
Speaker 1: were some elements of fakery to this, like I wrote

873
00:55:41,715 --> 00:55:44,435
Speaker 1: her answers for her, but there was one answer to

874
00:55:44,475 --> 00:55:47,235
Speaker 1: one of my six or seven questions that she gave

875
00:55:47,795 --> 00:55:51,035
Speaker 1: completely authentically and we did not need a second take.

876
00:55:51,035 --> 00:55:53,595
Speaker 1: And this may tell you the nature of the complicated

877
00:55:53,635 --> 00:55:57,955
Speaker 1: relationship between me and my mother and baseball and Chuck Knoblock.

878
00:55:59,475 --> 00:56:03,755
Speaker 1: I said, are you surprised that everybody's so interested in this?

879
00:56:03,915 --> 00:56:06,515
Speaker 1: And I wrote for her as an answer, No, but

880
00:56:06,555 --> 00:56:10,315
Speaker 1: I'm surprised they keep mentioning you. She had no trouble

881
00:56:10,395 --> 00:56:13,755
Speaker 1: giving that line whatsoever. She really bought into that answer.

882
00:56:14,075 --> 00:56:16,235
Speaker 1: You could see from the tape when I eventually saw

883
00:56:16,275 --> 00:56:20,035
Speaker 1: the tape that she was smiling during that one. So

884
00:56:20,235 --> 00:56:23,555
Speaker 1: in any event, Mom becomes a celebrity for several months.

885
00:56:23,595 --> 00:56:26,515
Speaker 1: This is June of two thousand, come October, when the

886
00:56:26,595 --> 00:56:28,915
Speaker 1: Yankees and Mets played in the World Series and she

887
00:56:28,995 --> 00:56:32,515
Speaker 1: was in the stands number one. My employers had given

888
00:56:32,555 --> 00:56:37,955
Speaker 1: her a Fox Sports cap to wear, and they repeatedly

889
00:56:38,035 --> 00:56:40,195
Speaker 1: showed her during the games of the World Series at

890
00:56:40,275 --> 00:56:43,915
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. So Mom became a celebrity and became very

891
00:56:43,955 --> 00:56:46,435
Speaker 1: well known for getting hit in the head with Chuck

892
00:56:46,475 --> 00:56:49,875
Speaker 1: Knoblock's throw. Joe Tory, who I mentioned, was an old

893
00:56:49,875 --> 00:56:52,395
Speaker 1: friend of mine, the first person I ever interviewed in television,

894
00:56:52,475 --> 00:56:56,035
Speaker 1: and a colleague in local sports in television in LA

895
00:56:56,115 --> 00:56:58,435
Speaker 1: when I worked there in the eighties and nineties. Joe

896
00:56:58,435 --> 00:57:00,955
Speaker 1: Tory called me up right afterwards and asked how she was,

897
00:57:01,475 --> 00:57:04,955
Speaker 1: and I said, she's fine. How's your second basement? Hey

898
00:57:04,955 --> 00:57:06,155
Speaker 1: acts like he got hit in the head with a

899
00:57:06,235 --> 00:57:09,995
Speaker 1: throw too. He's very worried. You think he did it deliberately,

900
00:57:11,115 --> 00:57:14,435
Speaker 1: And I said, Joe, you have to tell him that

901
00:57:14,475 --> 00:57:17,635
Speaker 1: I'm confident he did not do it deliberately. If he

902
00:57:17,715 --> 00:57:20,115
Speaker 1: was aiming at my mother, it would have missed. Joe

903
00:57:20,115 --> 00:57:22,435
Speaker 1: Tory laughs and later he tells me he told Noblock

904
00:57:22,475 --> 00:57:25,955
Speaker 1: that and was Noblock's first laugh of the year. All right,

905
00:57:25,995 --> 00:57:29,435
Speaker 1: So moving ahead on this story, it continued for many years,

906
00:57:30,035 --> 00:57:34,435
Speaker 1: for at least ten years, Once or twice a month,

907
00:57:34,995 --> 00:57:38,555
Speaker 1: somebody in baseball would say, was it your mother who

908
00:57:38,555 --> 00:57:42,475
Speaker 1: got hit by Chuck Knoblock's throw? Memorably, in the year

909
00:57:42,515 --> 00:57:45,155
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, the year that the Hall of

910
00:57:45,195 --> 00:57:48,595
Speaker 1: Famer Randy Johnson, the big left hander of the mostly

911
00:57:48,755 --> 00:57:52,875
Speaker 1: of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Seattle Mariners in the

912
00:57:52,915 --> 00:57:56,395
Speaker 1: Montreal Expos, he pitched one season for the Yankees, and

913
00:57:56,475 --> 00:57:59,035
Speaker 1: the Yankees got blown out in the playoffs that year.

914
00:57:59,235 --> 00:58:01,715
Speaker 1: And before the last game of the season, and this

915
00:58:01,755 --> 00:58:04,155
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite moments in the history of baseball.

916
00:58:05,595 --> 00:58:08,235
Speaker 1: Before that last game, I walk out into the Yankee

917
00:58:08,315 --> 00:58:11,035
Speaker 1: dugout and there is al Lighter, who was a friend

918
00:58:11,075 --> 00:58:14,915
Speaker 1: of mine then and now he is telling the story

919
00:58:14,955 --> 00:58:18,275
Speaker 1: of my mother and Chuck Knoblock to two other Yankee pitchers,

920
00:58:18,715 --> 00:58:22,355
Speaker 1: Scott Proctor and Randy Johnson. And I walk in and

921
00:58:22,355 --> 00:58:25,755
Speaker 1: he goes, and then Alderman's mother gets hit in the

922
00:58:25,755 --> 00:58:27,915
Speaker 1: head and he says on he's doing the highlights on

923
00:58:27,955 --> 00:58:29,675
Speaker 1: TV on the game of the week, and he said,

924
00:58:29,875 --> 00:58:32,035
Speaker 1: and I walk out, and he goes, did you hear

925
00:58:32,115 --> 00:58:34,315
Speaker 1: that I was telling the story about you? And I said, well,

926
00:58:34,315 --> 00:58:36,555
Speaker 1: only the last couple of steps. This is a coincidence.

927
00:58:36,755 --> 00:58:38,875
Speaker 1: Finish the story yourself. So now I've got the three

928
00:58:38,915 --> 00:58:41,515
Speaker 1: of them, and they're all in hysterics. Yankees lose that

929
00:58:41,595 --> 00:58:43,795
Speaker 1: last game of the playoffs. I don't know, it seemed

930
00:58:43,835 --> 00:58:45,715
Speaker 1: like it was one hundred and fifty to nothing. And

931
00:58:45,955 --> 00:58:48,835
Speaker 1: I go into the clubhouse after the game to say

932
00:58:49,035 --> 00:58:51,355
Speaker 1: goodbye for the offseason to the few players that I

933
00:58:51,435 --> 00:58:54,275
Speaker 1: knew on the team, including Al Lighter, and to Randy Johnson,

934
00:58:54,395 --> 00:58:57,275
Speaker 1: and Randy Johnson in his own deep voiced way, thank

935
00:58:57,355 --> 00:58:59,395
Speaker 1: good to see you have a good winter. And he

936
00:58:59,515 --> 00:59:03,435
Speaker 1: leaves with his little carrying case with his little wheels

937
00:59:03,435 --> 00:59:06,075
Speaker 1: on it and looks like a toy. He's six foot

938
00:59:06,115 --> 00:59:09,715
Speaker 1: ten and he has a roller case designed for maybe

939
00:59:09,755 --> 00:59:13,635
Speaker 1: his daughter. It looks like a toy. And he leaves,

940
00:59:13,715 --> 00:59:16,155
Speaker 1: and about five minutes later, I see the door to

941
00:59:16,195 --> 00:59:19,715
Speaker 1: the Yankee clubhouse open up, and in walk Randy Johnson

942
00:59:20,995 --> 00:59:23,235
Speaker 1: and he comes over to me and he said, I

943
00:59:23,355 --> 00:59:26,035
Speaker 1: forgot to say something. I was already out to my car,

944
00:59:26,075 --> 00:59:27,915
Speaker 1: and I thought I better come back in and say

945
00:59:27,915 --> 00:59:30,115
Speaker 1: goodbye to Keith and tell him, I mean, this was

946
00:59:30,155 --> 00:59:32,355
Speaker 1: a really bad week this last week, as we've been

947
00:59:32,395 --> 00:59:34,395
Speaker 1: losing and the season ended, and I just wanted to

948
00:59:34,475 --> 00:59:37,915
Speaker 1: say that telling that story about your mother really was

949
00:59:38,515 --> 00:59:41,075
Speaker 1: the highlight of the whole thing and made me smile

950
00:59:41,155 --> 00:59:43,275
Speaker 1: for the only time this month. So thank you. Have

951
00:59:43,315 --> 00:59:47,235
Speaker 1: a great winter. So that's my mother and Randy Johnson,

952
00:59:47,595 --> 00:59:49,875
Speaker 1: five years after she got hit in the head with

953
00:59:49,995 --> 00:59:52,915
Speaker 1: a throw by Chuck Knoblock the second basement of the Yankees,

954
00:59:53,195 --> 00:59:55,995
Speaker 1: one of the more remarkable moments in the history of

955
00:59:55,995 --> 00:59:58,235
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, at least as it pertains to the

956
00:59:58,235 --> 01:00:01,755
Speaker 1: Olderman family, and a kind of bookend. Mom stopped going

957
01:00:01,795 --> 01:00:05,275
Speaker 1: to the games about two thousand and five, ysaically could

958
01:00:05,275 --> 01:00:06,995
Speaker 1: not do it, but she had a good run as

959
01:00:07,035 --> 01:00:10,595
Speaker 1: a Yankee fan of about seventy seasons that essentially booke

960
01:00:10,675 --> 01:00:13,475
Speaker 1: ended by getting hit in the head with a throw

961
01:00:13,555 --> 01:00:18,675
Speaker 1: that made her famous within baseball circles and began with

962
01:00:18,835 --> 01:00:21,875
Speaker 1: her being handed to baseball at her first game ever

963
01:00:22,275 --> 01:00:24,675
Speaker 1: by Babe Ruth, who was charmed by the fact that

964
01:00:24,715 --> 01:00:28,315
Speaker 1: my mother's nickname was Babe punchline to this, to me

965
01:00:28,395 --> 01:00:30,955
Speaker 1: is one of the most avid collectors of sports memorabilia

966
01:00:30,955 --> 01:00:36,395
Speaker 1: and particularly game used baseballs. I didn't get either of

967
01:00:36,395 --> 01:00:55,355
Speaker 1: those baseballs from my mom, my god, twenty five years ago,

968
01:00:55,435 --> 01:00:59,595
Speaker 1: and the best part remains Chuck naw Block for years

969
01:00:59,635 --> 01:01:04,435
Speaker 1: thought I thought he had done it deliberately, as if

970
01:01:04,435 --> 01:01:06,475
Speaker 1: he to hit her. If he had done it deliberately,

971
01:01:07,355 --> 01:01:09,835
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. And

972
01:01:09,955 --> 01:01:13,955
Speaker 1: yes I'm not exaggerating in any of that. Mom loved that.

973
01:01:15,115 --> 01:01:18,355
Speaker 1: Mom was disappointed when that faded out. Mom thought there

974
01:01:18,355 --> 01:01:23,515
Speaker 1: would be a ceremony on the first anniversary. Thanks for listening.

975
01:01:23,555 --> 01:01:26,275
Speaker 1: Most of the Countdown music was arranged, produced, and performed

976
01:01:26,315 --> 01:01:28,835
Speaker 1: by Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel, who are our

977
01:01:28,955 --> 01:01:32,235
Speaker 1: musical directors of Countdown, and the music was produced by

978
01:01:32,275 --> 01:01:35,915
Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Mister Ray on guitars, bass and drums, Mister

979
01:01:35,995 --> 01:01:40,075
Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical

980
01:01:40,075 --> 01:01:43,915
Speaker 1: comments here by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust.

981
01:01:43,955 --> 01:01:47,515
Speaker 1: The Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren

982
01:01:47,555 --> 01:01:51,275
Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of the ESPN Inc. Is the sports music

983
01:01:51,675 --> 01:01:54,555
Speaker 1: other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.

984
01:01:55,035 --> 01:01:59,075
Speaker 1: My announcer today, fittingly with the sports theme, was my

985
01:01:59,155 --> 01:02:03,995
Speaker 1: friend Kenny Maine. Everything else was, as always, my fault.

986
01:02:04,835 --> 01:02:07,835
Speaker 1: So that's countdown for today, Day one hundred and fifty

987
01:02:07,875 --> 01:02:11,155
Speaker 1: one of America held hostage, just one three hundred and

988
01:02:11,155 --> 01:02:14,355
Speaker 1: thirteen days until the scheduled end of Trump's lame duck

989
01:02:14,435 --> 01:02:20,235
Speaker 1: lame brained term, unless Putin or Musk remove him sooner,

990
01:02:21,635 --> 01:02:25,315
Speaker 1: or he decides to ride the bomb into Iran, or

991
01:02:25,355 --> 01:02:30,355
Speaker 1: the actuarial tables remove him, or we do. The next

992
01:02:30,395 --> 01:02:33,635
Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is Monday. Until that next one, I'm Keith Olderman.

993
01:02:34,995 --> 01:02:58,675
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, good morning, good night, and good luck. Countdown

994
01:02:58,755 --> 01:03:02,475
Speaker 1: with Keith Ouldreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more

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Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or

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01:03:07,555 --> 01:03:09,395
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.