1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:16,715 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Hitler 2 00:00:16,795 --> 00:00:20,275 Speaker 1: exploited the Reichstag fire, and the Republicans want to exploit 3 00:00:20,315 --> 00:00:24,235 Speaker 1: the LA fire. Mass deportation meets mass stupidity as Trump 4 00:00:24,275 --> 00:00:28,195 Speaker 1: already pre fails again, and I wonder if Elon Musk 5 00:00:28,315 --> 00:00:47,475 Speaker 1: understands that MAGA now plans to kill him and eat him. 6 00:00:47,755 --> 00:00:52,315 Speaker 1: MAGA in disarray. Well, the mass deportation scheme becomes the 7 00:00:52,395 --> 00:00:56,075 Speaker 1: latest casualty of having elected a bunch of incompetent egomaniacs. 8 00:00:56,075 --> 00:00:58,275 Speaker 1: The only things they are hands on about being their 9 00:00:58,315 --> 00:01:02,675 Speaker 1: own dicks. Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, 10 00:01:03,395 --> 00:01:08,315 Speaker 1: and on Elon Musk, Tody David Sachs, and on Peter Tiel. 11 00:01:09,235 --> 00:01:11,555 Speaker 1: The point isn't whether Bannon still has a tenth of 12 00:01:11,555 --> 00:01:13,875 Speaker 1: the sway he used to have among the fascists. The 13 00:01:13,955 --> 00:01:17,155 Speaker 1: point is is less than a tenth of these slime 14 00:01:17,355 --> 00:01:21,635 Speaker 1: is the angry, violent tenth, and Bannon has escalated his 15 00:01:21,715 --> 00:01:25,115 Speaker 1: war on Musk over those h one b visus. Bannon 16 00:01:25,195 --> 00:01:28,355 Speaker 1: doesn't just want Musk exiled from the White House. Because 17 00:01:28,395 --> 00:01:31,835 Speaker 1: Bannon and the rest of the nativist lunatics hate all foreigners. 18 00:01:31,955 --> 00:01:34,435 Speaker 1: And Musk wants to not hate foreigners who can make 19 00:01:34,515 --> 00:01:37,715 Speaker 1: him more rich. Bannon now wants Musk and the others 20 00:01:37,755 --> 00:01:40,155 Speaker 1: to be the first immigrants thrown out of the country. 21 00:01:40,755 --> 00:01:44,875 Speaker 1: He actually told this to Italy's most read newspaper, Corriere 22 00:01:45,035 --> 00:01:47,795 Speaker 1: de la Sala, which is not one of the newspapers 23 00:01:47,875 --> 00:01:51,635 Speaker 1: Mussolini owned, but it did give out the Mussolini Prize, 24 00:01:51,915 --> 00:01:55,195 Speaker 1: and all this must have been Bannon's entry to the 25 00:01:55,275 --> 00:01:57,995 Speaker 1: judges in the Mussolini Prize. I am quoting, believe it 26 00:01:58,075 --> 00:02:01,915 Speaker 1: or not, Brightbart's coverage of this well, because well, the 27 00:02:01,955 --> 00:02:06,235 Speaker 1: New York Times headline would have been Bannon praises minorities. 28 00:02:06,915 --> 00:02:09,795 Speaker 1: Steve Bannon, I will do anything to keep Elon Musk 29 00:02:09,835 --> 00:02:14,235 Speaker 1: out of the White House. Rome Former Breitbart News executive 30 00:02:14,275 --> 00:02:18,035 Speaker 1: chairman Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, vowing 31 00:02:18,075 --> 00:02:20,035 Speaker 1: to have the tech billionaire kicked out of the White 32 00:02:20,075 --> 00:02:23,995 Speaker 1: House by the time Trump is inaugurated. Quote. I will 33 00:02:24,035 --> 00:02:27,235 Speaker 1: have Elon Musk run out of here by inauguration day. 34 00:02:27,635 --> 00:02:29,875 Speaker 1: He will not have a blue pass to the White House. 35 00:02:30,115 --> 00:02:32,275 Speaker 1: He will not have full access to the White House. 36 00:02:32,515 --> 00:02:35,115 Speaker 1: He will be like any other person. He is a 37 00:02:35,235 --> 00:02:39,195 Speaker 1: truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it 38 00:02:39,275 --> 00:02:43,035 Speaker 1: my personal thing to take this guy down before because 39 00:02:43,075 --> 00:02:45,795 Speaker 1: he put money in I was prepared to tolerate it. 40 00:02:46,155 --> 00:02:50,435 Speaker 1: I am not prepared to tolerate it anymore. Wait, there's more. 41 00:02:51,315 --> 00:02:53,955 Speaker 1: This thing of the H one B visas. It's about 42 00:02:53,955 --> 00:02:57,995 Speaker 1: the entire immigration system is gained by the tech overlords. 43 00:02:58,035 --> 00:03:00,595 Speaker 1: They use it to their advantage. The people are furious. 44 00:03:00,755 --> 00:03:04,075 Speaker 1: Seventy six percent of engineers working in Silicon Valley are 45 00:03:04,275 --> 00:03:08,475 Speaker 1: non Americans. No Blacks or Hispanics have any of these 46 00:03:08,595 --> 00:03:12,995 Speaker 1: jobs or any access to these jobs. Peter Teel, David Sachs, 47 00:03:13,115 --> 00:03:17,675 Speaker 1: Evon musk are all white South Africans. He should go 48 00:03:17,795 --> 00:03:21,195 Speaker 1: back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans 49 00:03:21,235 --> 00:03:24,395 Speaker 1: the most racist people on earth? White South Africans. We 50 00:03:24,515 --> 00:03:27,275 Speaker 1: have them making any comments at all on what goes 51 00:03:27,315 --> 00:03:35,915 Speaker 1: on in the United States unquote, ah, so trouble in 52 00:03:36,035 --> 00:03:41,595 Speaker 1: Maga Paradise. Well it's Maga so trouble in Maga Hell. 53 00:03:41,675 --> 00:03:44,675 Speaker 1: It does not matter whether or not Bannon succeeds in 54 00:03:44,755 --> 00:03:49,195 Speaker 1: kneecamping Muskets that he tries and that we help, because 55 00:03:49,235 --> 00:03:51,955 Speaker 1: a week before the inauguration and the entirety of the 56 00:03:51,995 --> 00:03:56,595 Speaker 1: machinery of the rage fire that fuels Maga hatred of immigrants, 57 00:03:56,675 --> 00:03:59,635 Speaker 1: especially of Hispanics. But anybody will do. Look, Bannon just 58 00:03:59,675 --> 00:04:03,715 Speaker 1: hit South Africans. The entirety of that machinery has already 59 00:04:03,755 --> 00:04:07,715 Speaker 1: broken down repeatedly. First it was the blowback against Musk 60 00:04:07,835 --> 00:04:11,835 Speaker 1: and those specialty visas and remarks by Vivek Ramaswami Nitwit. 61 00:04:12,515 --> 00:04:17,155 Speaker 1: Now CNN reports that the borders are this cartoon villain. 62 00:04:17,235 --> 00:04:21,875 Speaker 1: Tom Homan has warned Republican lawmakers that, sorry, the initial 63 00:04:21,915 --> 00:04:25,115 Speaker 1: deportation plan is not going to be like fifteen million 64 00:04:25,155 --> 00:04:28,595 Speaker 1: people or whatever it is Trump said. And it's not 65 00:04:28,595 --> 00:04:30,875 Speaker 1: going to be two million. It's not going to be 66 00:04:30,955 --> 00:04:33,595 Speaker 1: one million. It's going to be more like the way 67 00:04:33,635 --> 00:04:35,475 Speaker 1: we did math in my day. It's going to be 68 00:04:35,555 --> 00:04:42,195 Speaker 1: more like sixty thousand people. You heard me. Highlights of 69 00:04:42,275 --> 00:04:44,115 Speaker 1: a sourced story from CNN. 70 00:04:44,275 --> 00:04:44,515 Speaker 2: Quote. 71 00:04:44,555 --> 00:04:48,635 Speaker 1: Homan has privately told Republican lawmakers to temper their expectations 72 00:04:48,675 --> 00:04:54,515 Speaker 1: for the incoming administration's initial deportation operation, citing limited resources. 73 00:04:55,075 --> 00:04:57,915 Speaker 1: According to multiple sources involved in the conversations. Quote, we 74 00:04:57,955 --> 00:05:01,395 Speaker 1: are not having a discussion about twenty million deportations. We 75 00:05:01,435 --> 00:05:05,515 Speaker 1: are having a discussion about an order and priority and expectation. 76 00:05:05,995 --> 00:05:09,075 Speaker 1: GOP Rep. Darryl Isa, who was in one of the 77 00:05:09,075 --> 00:05:12,835 Speaker 1: meetings with Holman, said, quote, Holman has been telling some 78 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:14,475 Speaker 1: of the members that, hey, if you want me to 79 00:05:14,515 --> 00:05:17,515 Speaker 1: do all these things that you're talking about, this costs money, 80 00:05:17,915 --> 00:05:21,235 Speaker 1: and it's not being done with the cr continuing resolution 81 00:05:21,515 --> 00:05:26,115 Speaker 1: that's in place now. One GOP lawmaker told CNN, now 82 00:05:26,155 --> 00:05:29,235 Speaker 1: here is the math part. Quoting again, Holman said he 83 00:05:29,275 --> 00:05:31,915 Speaker 1: would need a minimum of one hundred thousand beds to 84 00:05:31,995 --> 00:05:35,955 Speaker 1: detain undocumented immigrants that would be in the prison camps, 85 00:05:36,635 --> 00:05:40,035 Speaker 1: more than doubling the forty thousand detention beds ICE is 86 00:05:40,075 --> 00:05:43,835 Speaker 1: currently funded for, and it would require more ICE agents. 87 00:05:44,355 --> 00:05:48,475 Speaker 1: The agency has around six thousand Immigration enforcement officers. Quote. 88 00:05:48,515 --> 00:05:51,035 Speaker 1: It all depends on the funding I get from the Hill, 89 00:05:51,475 --> 00:05:58,675 Speaker 1: Holman said, So the increase in deportation from Biden levels, 90 00:05:59,995 --> 00:06:04,235 Speaker 1: which the MAGA mad Men think is at least two 91 00:06:04,275 --> 00:06:10,555 Speaker 1: million immediately before Trump finishes his speech next Monday, in fact, 92 00:06:10,595 --> 00:06:15,715 Speaker 1: would be one hundred thousand minus forty thousand. That's sixty thousand. 93 00:06:15,795 --> 00:06:21,235 Speaker 1: That's sixty thousand beds in the concentration camps now, depending 94 00:06:21,275 --> 00:06:24,555 Speaker 1: on turnover in ten weeks, that could be six hundred 95 00:06:24,635 --> 00:06:29,115 Speaker 1: thousand people moved in and out. Could be if deportations 96 00:06:29,155 --> 00:06:32,195 Speaker 1: actually did anything more than ruined lives and spread fear 97 00:06:32,275 --> 00:06:34,915 Speaker 1: and violence and destroy our economy and drive up the 98 00:06:34,915 --> 00:06:37,755 Speaker 1: price of everything, if there was not a reasonable chance. 99 00:06:39,435 --> 00:06:41,555 Speaker 1: But just like last time, they're not actually going to 100 00:06:41,555 --> 00:06:45,555 Speaker 1: deport nearly anybody more than the average, because the point 101 00:06:45,595 --> 00:06:48,835 Speaker 1: of the deportations is just to scare people about foreigners. 102 00:06:49,235 --> 00:06:51,595 Speaker 1: You can't deport all the people who may or may 103 00:06:51,635 --> 00:06:55,315 Speaker 1: not be here legally. They take all the cheap, crappy jobs, 104 00:06:56,195 --> 00:07:01,795 Speaker 1: like sending food to all the rich Republicans. Maybe also 105 00:07:01,875 --> 00:07:06,795 Speaker 1: the deportations were the fascists we met along the way. 106 00:07:07,475 --> 00:07:10,155 Speaker 1: This funding that Tom Holman wants is supposed to take 107 00:07:10,155 --> 00:07:15,515 Speaker 1: place as Doge cuts two trillion dollars in ways. Oh no, 108 00:07:15,555 --> 00:07:21,235 Speaker 1: it's now down to one trillion. Maybe if Steve Bannon 109 00:07:21,315 --> 00:07:25,635 Speaker 1: doesn't kill and eat Elon Musk. Musk has already dropped 110 00:07:25,635 --> 00:07:28,755 Speaker 1: the number. He can only find one trillion to cut. 111 00:07:29,555 --> 00:07:32,795 Speaker 1: He can't find his ass with both hands. So a 112 00:07:32,835 --> 00:07:36,355 Speaker 1: week before the administration starts, a week before they even 113 00:07:36,395 --> 00:07:40,515 Speaker 1: take office, and the Trump junta has already failed at 114 00:07:40,595 --> 00:07:46,075 Speaker 1: day one mass roundup deportations. They've already failed and infuriated 115 00:07:46,075 --> 00:07:48,875 Speaker 1: the fascists who voted with all three fingers to end 116 00:07:48,955 --> 00:07:52,355 Speaker 1: legal immigration because Musk wants those h one b's because 117 00:07:52,435 --> 00:07:55,795 Speaker 1: Ramaswami called natives dumb and lazy, and now Bannon is 118 00:07:55,835 --> 00:08:01,475 Speaker 1: targeted Musk. The Trump junta has already confessed there is 119 00:08:01,515 --> 00:08:05,235 Speaker 1: no way to unilaterally lower grocery prices, instance lear even 120 00:08:05,275 --> 00:08:10,195 Speaker 1: non instantly. The universal tariffs aren't happening anytime soon. He's 121 00:08:10,195 --> 00:08:12,155 Speaker 1: not going to dig up the Panama Canal and move 122 00:08:12,155 --> 00:08:14,995 Speaker 1: it to Mari Lago on inauguration day. He ain't buying 123 00:08:15,035 --> 00:08:18,475 Speaker 1: Greenland and coercing Canada. And guess what. He didn't settle 124 00:08:18,755 --> 00:08:22,355 Speaker 1: Russia's war on Ukraine in twenty four hours before he 125 00:08:22,395 --> 00:08:25,395 Speaker 1: even took office, and he won't be able to do 126 00:08:25,475 --> 00:08:29,835 Speaker 1: it after he does. And what are Democrats doing with 127 00:08:29,915 --> 00:08:34,275 Speaker 1: this all you can eat buffet of Trump pre failures. 128 00:08:36,635 --> 00:08:36,995 Speaker 2: Nothing? 129 00:08:38,715 --> 00:08:42,315 Speaker 1: And that's as big a problem as anything else you 130 00:08:42,395 --> 00:08:44,835 Speaker 1: and I may want in America, in which we don't 131 00:08:44,955 --> 00:08:48,715 Speaker 1: do to Republicans what they do to Democrats. Too bad 132 00:08:48,755 --> 00:08:53,595 Speaker 1: for us. Our society, especially our media, is now like 133 00:08:53,635 --> 00:08:57,435 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union in the nineteen sixties, when everything that 134 00:08:57,515 --> 00:09:01,475 Speaker 1: happened bad in America from a delayed space launch to 135 00:09:01,555 --> 00:09:05,115 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty five Northeast blackout was declared by the 136 00:09:05,195 --> 00:09:12,875 Speaker 1: Russian Propaganda Office, tasks to be the fault of decadent capitalism. 137 00:09:12,955 --> 00:09:16,435 Speaker 1: Forty years ago, the Republicans perfected a very simple formula, 138 00:09:16,555 --> 00:09:20,795 Speaker 1: an American version of tasks. Whatever happens, claim credit for it, 139 00:09:21,035 --> 00:09:24,355 Speaker 1: or blame the Democrats for it, or both. Fill in 140 00:09:24,435 --> 00:09:28,915 Speaker 1: the details. Later somebody will think of something, and we 141 00:09:28,995 --> 00:09:32,435 Speaker 1: have to play the same stupid game, especially since Republican 142 00:09:32,475 --> 00:09:36,555 Speaker 1: failures are so plentiful, Republican brains are so rare, and 143 00:09:36,675 --> 00:09:40,995 Speaker 1: usually it really is their fault. No backfilling imagination required. 144 00:09:41,195 --> 00:09:42,995 Speaker 1: I don't mean do it one hundred percent of the time. 145 00:09:43,355 --> 00:09:46,035 Speaker 1: MAGA and the GOP really are selling the idea that 146 00:09:46,075 --> 00:09:49,595 Speaker 1: the southern California fire disasters don't indicate in the slightest 147 00:09:50,075 --> 00:09:54,435 Speaker 1: the burgeoning atmospheric catastrophe, but instead are all Gavin Newsom's fault. 148 00:09:56,515 --> 00:10:00,355 Speaker 1: More on this in a moment. But why aren't Democrats 149 00:10:00,395 --> 00:10:04,635 Speaker 1: blaming the wildfires on Trump's first presidency and the undermine 150 00:10:04,875 --> 00:10:12,915 Speaker 1: of forestry services and National parklands and environmental protections? Is 151 00:10:12,955 --> 00:10:17,115 Speaker 1: it true? In part? It is true? Does it matter? No, 152 00:10:17,235 --> 00:10:22,195 Speaker 1: it doesn't. The formula is simple. A something happens, b 153 00:10:22,835 --> 00:10:27,635 Speaker 1: blame Trump for it. C figure out exactly why later, 154 00:10:28,155 --> 00:10:31,315 Speaker 1: d if any of it sticks, figure out more reasons 155 00:10:31,355 --> 00:10:36,595 Speaker 1: why it's his fault. Brian Boiler writes on his site, quote, First, 156 00:10:36,595 --> 00:10:40,835 Speaker 1: do not help Republicans, not in any way on any issue. 157 00:10:41,635 --> 00:10:44,595 Speaker 1: Republicans can't pass a budget or raise the debt sealing 158 00:10:44,635 --> 00:10:47,675 Speaker 1: tough luck. Do not provide them any bailout votes on 159 00:10:47,755 --> 00:10:53,675 Speaker 1: any issue period the end. Second, make Donald Trump own 160 00:10:53,755 --> 00:10:57,035 Speaker 1: every bad outcome that happens anywhere in the world, while 161 00:10:57,035 --> 00:11:00,795 Speaker 1: paying special attention to areas where Republicans are particularly vulnerable, 162 00:11:01,195 --> 00:11:04,435 Speaker 1: like housing and Ukraine. 163 00:11:04,795 --> 00:11:05,195 Speaker 2: Starters. 164 00:11:05,235 --> 00:11:08,195 Speaker 1: Trump has set up impossible expectations. He promised to end 165 00:11:08,195 --> 00:11:11,315 Speaker 1: the war in twenty four hours starting on January twenty second. 166 00:11:11,795 --> 00:11:14,915 Speaker 1: Democrats should ask every day why the war is still ongoing? 167 00:11:16,155 --> 00:11:23,355 Speaker 1: Unquote Gabby Boyler is right. And then there's the easy stuff. 168 00:11:24,275 --> 00:11:24,595 Speaker 2: JD. 169 00:11:24,835 --> 00:11:28,115 Speaker 1: Vance has announced he is attending college football's national championship 170 00:11:28,115 --> 00:11:32,635 Speaker 1: game in New Orleans a week from today. Wait a 171 00:11:32,715 --> 00:11:37,075 Speaker 1: week from today, a week from today. Why that's a 172 00:11:37,115 --> 00:11:40,835 Speaker 1: week from today. Isn't that a week from today? Isn't 173 00:11:40,835 --> 00:11:45,275 Speaker 1: that the inauguration? I mean the game is at night, 174 00:11:46,195 --> 00:11:48,475 Speaker 1: but he still would be sworn in and then leave 175 00:11:48,715 --> 00:11:54,435 Speaker 1: Washington immediately to go watch an fing football game. What 176 00:11:54,515 --> 00:11:57,395 Speaker 1: would the Republicans have done with a vice president Tim Walls? 177 00:11:57,435 --> 00:11:59,635 Speaker 1: If he did that, they would have beaten him up 178 00:11:59,675 --> 00:12:04,195 Speaker 1: non stop, starting an hour from now and ending never 179 00:12:06,915 --> 00:12:11,475 Speaker 1: get to work. Who's paying your salary? Vice President Walls? Instead, 180 00:12:11,555 --> 00:12:14,355 Speaker 1: Vance gets to preempt the criticism by going to hyperbole. 181 00:12:14,755 --> 00:12:17,835 Speaker 1: Quote hopefully everyone is cool with me skipping the inauguration, 182 00:12:18,475 --> 00:12:21,035 Speaker 1: Beard Ough wrote, so I can go to the national 183 00:12:21,075 --> 00:12:25,915 Speaker 1: title game. Ha ha ha. So so witty, But seriously, what 184 00:12:25,915 --> 00:12:29,475 Speaker 1: would the Republicans have done with that? Tim Walls is 185 00:12:29,515 --> 00:12:32,275 Speaker 1: so irresponsible. He's not only making you pay his salary 186 00:12:32,555 --> 00:12:34,715 Speaker 1: while he goes to watch a football game, he's mocking 187 00:12:34,755 --> 00:12:37,195 Speaker 1: you for criticizing government waste. 188 00:12:40,035 --> 00:12:40,315 Speaker 2: JD. 189 00:12:40,475 --> 00:12:43,555 Speaker 1: Vance should be known from next Monday through the end 190 00:12:43,595 --> 00:12:46,395 Speaker 1: of his life as the vice president who, on the 191 00:12:46,475 --> 00:12:50,275 Speaker 1: day of his inauguration went to a goddamned college football game. 192 00:12:52,515 --> 00:12:54,715 Speaker 1: This should be repeated so often that people who live 193 00:12:54,755 --> 00:12:57,755 Speaker 1: and die for college football should be ashamed of JD. 194 00:12:57,875 --> 00:13:02,195 Speaker 1: Vans for doing this. Who is saying any of this? 195 00:13:04,195 --> 00:13:06,995 Speaker 1: I like that sound of my own voice too. I'm 196 00:13:07,035 --> 00:13:08,195 Speaker 1: not sufficient in this. 197 00:13:09,675 --> 00:13:10,035 Speaker 2: JD. 198 00:13:10,315 --> 00:13:14,355 Speaker 1: Vance is leaving as his first act as Vice President 199 00:13:14,755 --> 00:13:17,915 Speaker 1: Washington to go sit in the stands and waive a 200 00:13:17,955 --> 00:13:28,355 Speaker 1: little banner that says, Ohio State, it is our one 201 00:13:28,475 --> 00:13:33,475 Speaker 1: chance of survival. They are all that stupid Tulsey Gabbard. 202 00:13:35,195 --> 00:13:38,315 Speaker 1: Her nomination as Director of National Lack of Personal Intelligence 203 00:13:38,435 --> 00:13:41,795 Speaker 1: was foundering because firstly, she is an idiot. Secondly because 204 00:13:41,795 --> 00:13:45,035 Speaker 1: all the Republican intel hawks like Senator James Langford, were 205 00:13:45,035 --> 00:13:48,235 Speaker 1: dismayed by her previous doubts about section seven oh two 206 00:13:48,595 --> 00:13:51,235 Speaker 1: of the FISA Act. That is, the section that lets 207 00:13:51,275 --> 00:13:54,355 Speaker 1: us eavesdrop on non Americans outside the country, even if 208 00:13:54,355 --> 00:13:56,915 Speaker 1: they happen to be talking Americans in the country, like 209 00:13:57,235 --> 00:14:02,995 Speaker 1: just to pick a name at random Trump. Eight years ago, 210 00:14:03,915 --> 00:14:09,315 Speaker 1: section seven zero two was the end times among MAGA. 211 00:14:09,875 --> 00:14:13,475 Speaker 1: Now Langford and other Republicans are willing to throw Telsey 212 00:14:13,475 --> 00:14:18,915 Speaker 1: Gabbard under the bus, which could do no damage to her, 213 00:14:18,995 --> 00:14:23,395 Speaker 1: especially if it hit her hair over section seven oh two. 214 00:14:24,675 --> 00:14:31,595 Speaker 1: Mandatory support of seven oh two. Telsey no like Langford 215 00:14:31,595 --> 00:14:35,275 Speaker 1: of the others, none too subtly told her skunk hairedness 216 00:14:35,555 --> 00:14:37,755 Speaker 1: to get with the program or not get confirmed, and 217 00:14:37,795 --> 00:14:40,555 Speaker 1: Friday she endorsed section seven oh two, and Langford then 218 00:14:40,635 --> 00:14:44,675 Speaker 1: endorsed her She's going to be Director of National Intelligence 219 00:14:46,035 --> 00:14:52,435 Speaker 1: and a totally poor advertisement for her own department. As 220 00:14:52,475 --> 00:14:55,715 Speaker 1: to Pete Hegseth's nomination, I don't know a lot of 221 00:14:55,715 --> 00:14:57,315 Speaker 1: play was given to the story that he was in 222 00:14:57,355 --> 00:15:00,275 Speaker 1: trouble because the FBI was interviewing everybody he ever met, 223 00:15:00,315 --> 00:15:03,915 Speaker 1: But we want that that's what the FBI didn't do 224 00:15:04,035 --> 00:15:10,515 Speaker 1: with Drunkie Kavanaugh. I don't think the interviews mean anything, unless, 225 00:15:10,555 --> 00:15:16,355 Speaker 1: of course, the FBI finds something anything, any of the 226 00:15:16,515 --> 00:15:20,475 Speaker 1: hundred things the rumor mills contend and continue to contend, 227 00:15:20,955 --> 00:15:48,915 Speaker 1: he might have done. Now to the Republicans and the 228 00:15:48,955 --> 00:15:51,755 Speaker 1: increasingly evident truth that the MAGA fascists are trying to 229 00:15:51,755 --> 00:15:54,275 Speaker 1: take the disaster in southern California and build it into 230 00:15:54,355 --> 00:16:00,035 Speaker 1: a new template for conditioning government disaster relief on political compliance. 231 00:16:01,395 --> 00:16:07,275 Speaker 1: Exploiting a fire, where have we seen that before? And no, 232 00:16:07,475 --> 00:16:12,315 Speaker 1: I don't think the Republicans set the LA fires, but 233 00:16:12,995 --> 00:16:16,395 Speaker 1: I do always shudder at the memory of the nineteen 234 00:16:16,435 --> 00:16:20,915 Speaker 1: eighty two Boston arson nightmare, in which three cops, two firemen, 235 00:16:21,555 --> 00:16:24,915 Speaker 1: and some of their friends set at least one one 236 00:16:24,955 --> 00:16:29,795 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three fires in Boston and environs in 237 00:16:29,835 --> 00:16:32,835 Speaker 1: hopes of preventing cuts to the police and fire departments. 238 00:16:34,635 --> 00:16:38,915 Speaker 1: Don't say it's impossible, because it happened back in the 239 00:16:38,955 --> 00:16:43,715 Speaker 1: good old days. I also shuddered the other day when 240 00:16:43,755 --> 00:16:46,155 Speaker 1: I saw a climate change expert on the BBC explaining 241 00:16:46,155 --> 00:16:49,315 Speaker 1: that such an obvious and catastrophic disaster as this continuing 242 00:16:49,315 --> 00:16:52,115 Speaker 1: hell on Earth, which may well continue through the end 243 00:16:52,115 --> 00:16:56,715 Speaker 1: of this month, always awakens the doubters in a nation 244 00:16:57,035 --> 00:17:00,915 Speaker 1: to the reality of atmospheric crisis and climate change. And 245 00:17:00,955 --> 00:17:05,035 Speaker 1: I thought, you, poor bastard, you don't realize it. But 246 00:17:05,155 --> 00:17:09,515 Speaker 1: what three out of every ten Americans, maybe four, maybe 247 00:17:09,595 --> 00:17:13,195 Speaker 1: five have already been hypnotized by the Republicans and the 248 00:17:13,195 --> 00:17:16,795 Speaker 1: media into thinking that southern California burned because it became 249 00:17:16,915 --> 00:17:23,235 Speaker 1: too woke. The Republicans, including that idiot who a week 250 00:17:23,235 --> 00:17:25,435 Speaker 1: from today will be Vice President of the United States, 251 00:17:25,475 --> 00:17:31,715 Speaker 1: are making up, fabricating, misleading, lying, lying and lying blaming 252 00:17:31,795 --> 00:17:34,955 Speaker 1: a literal firestorm like the ones in Dresden in World 253 00:17:34,955 --> 00:17:39,115 Speaker 1: War two on. The Democrats and their cult members are 254 00:17:39,155 --> 00:17:42,515 Speaker 1: happy to believe because the idea is just as stupid 255 00:17:42,555 --> 00:17:46,475 Speaker 1: as they are, and it boils over with the confirmation 256 00:17:46,635 --> 00:17:50,555 Speaker 1: bias that is their mother's milk, and it allows them 257 00:17:50,595 --> 00:17:53,035 Speaker 1: to continue to live in denial of the fact that someday, 258 00:17:53,155 --> 00:17:57,035 Speaker 1: soon a metropolitan area in a red state will be 259 00:17:57,035 --> 00:18:00,475 Speaker 1: erased by a natural disaster, even after Trump sinks into 260 00:18:00,515 --> 00:18:04,315 Speaker 1: Moses like hallucinations and holds up his hand and claims 261 00:18:04,315 --> 00:18:08,035 Speaker 1: he can stop that tornado or that hurricane or those 262 00:18:08,075 --> 00:18:11,795 Speaker 1: floods simply by using the force of his superior mind 263 00:18:13,675 --> 00:18:21,715 Speaker 1: and a Bible, a Trump brand Bible, obviously, Vance, who 264 00:18:21,755 --> 00:18:25,915 Speaker 1: really is just a urine specimen jar with a beard, 265 00:18:26,715 --> 00:18:31,115 Speaker 1: and both of them full quote. Some of these reservoirs 266 00:18:31,115 --> 00:18:34,235 Speaker 1: have been dry for fifteen twenty years. The fire hydrants 267 00:18:34,235 --> 00:18:36,595 Speaker 1: are being reported as going dry while the firefighters are 268 00:18:36,595 --> 00:18:38,915 Speaker 1: trying to put out the fires. There was a serious 269 00:18:38,995 --> 00:18:41,595 Speaker 1: lack of competent governance in California. It's part of the 270 00:18:41,595 --> 00:18:45,915 Speaker 1: reason why these fires have gotten so bad. No, it 271 00:18:45,955 --> 00:18:51,955 Speaker 1: is an asshole, a complete lie, utter, unmoored, uncaring. If 272 00:18:51,995 --> 00:18:54,235 Speaker 1: it were under oath, Vance would be going to prison 273 00:18:54,275 --> 00:18:59,275 Speaker 1: for perjury. Lie, stick to trying to successfully navigate going 274 00:18:59,275 --> 00:19:04,675 Speaker 1: to a football game, you moron, Reality is too difficult 275 00:19:04,795 --> 00:19:09,715 Speaker 1: for you to deal with. JV Vance and then their 276 00:19:09,755 --> 00:19:12,555 Speaker 1: Senator Bill Haggerty of Tennessee, who is as phony as 277 00:19:12,555 --> 00:19:15,915 Speaker 1: his jet black hair when he is just seven months 278 00:19:15,955 --> 00:19:20,235 Speaker 1: younger than I am, whose biggest accomplishment in public service 279 00:19:20,275 --> 00:19:24,195 Speaker 1: to date has to be to bring a soccer team 280 00:19:24,675 --> 00:19:29,915 Speaker 1: to Nashville, Bill Haggerty yesterday, that failure of leadership in 281 00:19:29,955 --> 00:19:33,675 Speaker 1: California that's been egregious, whether it's Gavin Newsom prioritizing a 282 00:19:33,755 --> 00:19:37,155 Speaker 1: fish over his citizens, or a leader like Karen Bass 283 00:19:37,155 --> 00:19:41,195 Speaker 1: who prioritizes DEI initiatives over the readiness of first responders. 284 00:19:41,275 --> 00:19:46,035 Speaker 1: It's pathetic. What's happened here. None of that happened Grecian 285 00:19:46,075 --> 00:19:48,595 Speaker 1: formula boy, But go on, tell me more about your 286 00:19:48,635 --> 00:19:53,075 Speaker 1: area of expertise, being pathetic. Before we put funds into place, 287 00:19:53,355 --> 00:19:55,555 Speaker 1: we've got to find out exactly how we're going to 288 00:19:55,555 --> 00:19:59,075 Speaker 1: hold these leaders accountable and what sort of policy changes 289 00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:04,995 Speaker 1: are required there. It is, there's the Reichstag Fires style 290 00:20:05,075 --> 00:20:09,875 Speaker 1: exploitation I referenced earlier. You and I being human beings. 291 00:20:09,915 --> 00:20:13,155 Speaker 1: We see southern California and viscerally feel the pain and 292 00:20:13,235 --> 00:20:18,315 Speaker 1: loss and fear as certainly as if it were bad 293 00:20:18,395 --> 00:20:24,355 Speaker 1: weather going through trailer parks. Somewhere, the Maga robohumans see 294 00:20:24,395 --> 00:20:28,475 Speaker 1: only opportunity. Trump merely dipped his toe in these waters 295 00:20:28,555 --> 00:20:31,355 Speaker 1: last time, more correctly, had somebody do it for him. 296 00:20:31,355 --> 00:20:34,995 Speaker 1: He can't really move his toes on his own. But 297 00:20:35,195 --> 00:20:38,395 Speaker 1: this is a preview from Senator Haggerty. Hold the leaders 298 00:20:38,395 --> 00:20:43,635 Speaker 1: accountable and policy changes required. Those are fascists, speak cliches 299 00:20:43,955 --> 00:20:47,315 Speaker 1: for use public anger and panic to attempt to prosecute 300 00:20:47,315 --> 00:20:50,995 Speaker 1: Democrats when disasters unfold, and to demand political fealty to 301 00:20:51,075 --> 00:20:59,675 Speaker 1: Trump and the Republicans before aid is given by the government. Now, 302 00:20:59,715 --> 00:21:02,955 Speaker 1: this will lead us down a path where eventually the 303 00:21:03,035 --> 00:21:06,115 Speaker 1: resistance will have to cut off Blue state funds to 304 00:21:06,235 --> 00:21:10,195 Speaker 1: the federal regime. Whether that's done by the states themselves 305 00:21:10,315 --> 00:21:12,795 Speaker 1: or an a taxpayer strike, I don't know we will 306 00:21:12,835 --> 00:21:15,995 Speaker 1: get there. It is now inevitable if they actually try 307 00:21:16,035 --> 00:21:19,755 Speaker 1: to hold back funds in California, California will simply respond 308 00:21:20,395 --> 00:21:25,435 Speaker 1: in kind. It is unavoidable. I don't know if it'll 309 00:21:25,475 --> 00:21:27,395 Speaker 1: take a year to get to this point, or it'll 310 00:21:27,435 --> 00:21:30,315 Speaker 1: take one hundred years. But this is the route by 311 00:21:30,315 --> 00:21:36,715 Speaker 1: which the United States of America dissolves, not a civil war, 312 00:21:36,915 --> 00:21:40,755 Speaker 1: not violence, simply the states that have money and resources 313 00:21:40,795 --> 00:21:49,435 Speaker 1: saying we're not carrying you assholes anymore. But before that happens, 314 00:21:49,435 --> 00:21:53,315 Speaker 1: here's more haggardy and more somewhat comforting Republican incompetence. Quote 315 00:21:53,395 --> 00:21:56,435 Speaker 1: when Vivek Ramaswami and Elon must take a hard look 316 00:21:56,435 --> 00:21:59,595 Speaker 1: at how we effectively deploy resources here, we're going to 317 00:21:59,635 --> 00:22:04,395 Speaker 1: have to see some very real changes. Elon Elon, who 318 00:22:05,795 --> 00:22:08,755 Speaker 1: poor Haggarty is not in the Inner Party. He does 319 00:22:08,795 --> 00:22:11,475 Speaker 1: not know of Bannon's plan to make Musk the first 320 00:22:11,475 --> 00:22:14,955 Speaker 1: immigrant to be deported, but he does inadvertently raise a 321 00:22:14,995 --> 00:22:17,635 Speaker 1: philosophical and moral questions. Not that the Haggartys of this 322 00:22:17,675 --> 00:22:21,755 Speaker 1: world think about those questions anymore. But it is simply this. 323 00:22:21,835 --> 00:22:24,395 Speaker 1: If you were Elon Musk, worth four hundred and sixteen 324 00:22:24,475 --> 00:22:30,035 Speaker 1: billion dollars and rising, what would you do with this choice? 325 00:22:30,115 --> 00:22:33,595 Speaker 1: You could spend forty four billion dollars to buy Twitter, 326 00:22:34,875 --> 00:22:36,875 Speaker 1: never get any of that money back, by the way, 327 00:22:37,515 --> 00:22:42,275 Speaker 1: and start a laborrinthine heavy lift. All work, no fund, 328 00:22:42,995 --> 00:22:49,995 Speaker 1: bad Bond movie plot to gain more power and more money. 329 00:22:50,875 --> 00:22:52,795 Speaker 1: For some reason, you need more money, as if four 330 00:22:52,835 --> 00:22:55,235 Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen billion can't buy you all the ketamen 331 00:22:55,355 --> 00:22:58,715 Speaker 1: in the world, you could spend forty four billion on that. 332 00:22:58,835 --> 00:23:00,995 Speaker 1: Or you could spend forty four billion and personally give 333 00:23:01,315 --> 00:23:04,515 Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars to eight hundred and eighty thousand different 334 00:23:04,715 --> 00:23:07,715 Speaker 1: people in southern California to help them rebuild their lives, 335 00:23:08,555 --> 00:23:12,715 Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, to buy yourself unassailable goodwill 336 00:23:13,075 --> 00:23:18,635 Speaker 1: and even worship for all time. Those are your choices. 337 00:23:18,955 --> 00:23:23,075 Speaker 1: Why would you do the labyrinthine heavy lift bad Bond 338 00:23:23,235 --> 00:23:28,275 Speaker 1: movie plot instead of the charity which if you had 339 00:23:28,275 --> 00:23:32,395 Speaker 1: four hundred and sixteen billion would you choose. The correct answer, 340 00:23:32,475 --> 00:23:35,195 Speaker 1: of course, is both, because three hundred and twenty eight 341 00:23:35,195 --> 00:23:37,835 Speaker 1: billion dollars would still be the most in the world, 342 00:23:38,595 --> 00:23:40,755 Speaker 1: and in fact, you could throw another one hundred billion 343 00:23:40,755 --> 00:23:44,035 Speaker 1: into the ocean of gofundmes in Southern California and your 344 00:23:44,075 --> 00:23:56,635 Speaker 1: wallet would never ever know the difference. As I've already referenced, 345 00:23:56,675 --> 00:23:59,115 Speaker 1: we are living in the gotcha times, the whining times. 346 00:23:59,155 --> 00:24:01,755 Speaker 1: Never mind solving a problem or putting out a fire, 347 00:24:01,875 --> 00:24:04,195 Speaker 1: exploit the problem and point at the fire and tell 348 00:24:04,235 --> 00:24:06,155 Speaker 1: the mora on who is to blame for the fire. 349 00:24:08,555 --> 00:24:12,875 Speaker 1: And this is being exacerbated by the accelerating media crisis. 350 00:24:14,435 --> 00:24:17,275 Speaker 1: You have a fire in LA. You got a fire 351 00:24:17,315 --> 00:24:21,475 Speaker 1: at the New York Times? Did the Times merge with 352 00:24:21,555 --> 00:24:25,355 Speaker 1: the onion and not tell anybody? I'll just quote this 353 00:24:25,395 --> 00:24:29,075 Speaker 1: piece by a man named Santul Nrkar, which was apparently 354 00:24:29,115 --> 00:24:32,675 Speaker 1: intended as media criticism but wound up unintentionally becoming the 355 00:24:32,755 --> 00:24:37,755 Speaker 1: New York Times criticizing the New York Times quote. How 356 00:24:37,875 --> 00:24:40,035 Speaker 1: outlets on the left and right have covered the Los 357 00:24:40,075 --> 00:24:44,195 Speaker 1: Angeles wildfires. Media outlets reported similarly on the destruction caused 358 00:24:44,195 --> 00:24:46,955 Speaker 1: by the fires that raced through southern California, but partisan 359 00:24:47,035 --> 00:24:52,115 Speaker 1: publications attributed them to very different causes. Ah so it's 360 00:24:52,235 --> 00:24:57,995 Speaker 1: partisan publications. We're gonna have democratic underground here right. As 361 00:24:58,075 --> 00:25:02,195 Speaker 1: deadly wildfires raged across southern California this week, conservative and 362 00:25:02,315 --> 00:25:06,395 Speaker 1: liberal media outlets reported similarly on the law devastation, but 363 00:25:06,515 --> 00:25:10,035 Speaker 1: found vastly different culprits for it. Right wing outlets blamed 364 00:25:10,115 --> 00:25:13,395 Speaker 1: much of the devastation on Democrats. They assailed the political 365 00:25:13,475 --> 00:25:17,795 Speaker 1: leadership of California, which is heavily democratic, They also blamed 366 00:25:17,795 --> 00:25:21,155 Speaker 1: the destruction on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives undertaken in 367 00:25:21,195 --> 00:25:25,875 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Liberal outlets criticized President elect Donald J. Trump's 368 00:25:25,915 --> 00:25:29,075 Speaker 1: reaction to the fires, which they described as insensitive. Some 369 00:25:29,275 --> 00:25:37,155 Speaker 1: attributed the intensity of the fires to climate change. Where 370 00:25:37,155 --> 00:25:39,035 Speaker 1: did they get such as stupid ideas? 371 00:25:39,115 --> 00:25:39,275 Speaker 2: That? 372 00:25:40,875 --> 00:25:44,715 Speaker 1: Back to the timespiece? Breitbart, the conservative website, ran more 373 00:25:44,755 --> 00:25:47,755 Speaker 1: than a half dozen headlines on its homepage that criticized 374 00:25:47,795 --> 00:25:50,715 Speaker 1: Mayor Bass on Thursday, including one that referred to her 375 00:25:50,755 --> 00:25:53,955 Speaker 1: as missing an action in Africa while her city burned. 376 00:25:54,875 --> 00:25:58,075 Speaker 1: Another claimed she knew of the fire risk before leaving 377 00:25:58,115 --> 00:26:07,915 Speaker 1: for Ghana. The left wing news sites are MSNBC and Salon. 378 00:26:09,235 --> 00:26:12,115 Speaker 1: Those are the ones The New York Times sites. Salon, 379 00:26:12,355 --> 00:26:14,915 Speaker 1: Salon is still there. Solon owes me money from columns 380 00:26:14,915 --> 00:26:18,235 Speaker 1: from two thousand and three, there's still in business. Call me, 381 00:26:18,235 --> 00:26:23,315 Speaker 1: you owe me money, You owe me money. But their 382 00:26:23,435 --> 00:26:26,395 Speaker 1: equivalents in the arrogance bubble in which The New York 383 00:26:26,435 --> 00:26:35,155 Speaker 1: Times exists, MSNBC and Salon. Their parallels through the looking 384 00:26:35,155 --> 00:26:39,115 Speaker 1: glass are The Daily Wire and Breitbart. The Daily Wire 385 00:26:39,155 --> 00:26:44,155 Speaker 1: and Breitbart are fascist propaganda sites. I mean New York 386 00:26:44,155 --> 00:26:47,715 Speaker 1: Times you couldn't get Russia at RT and North Korea 387 00:26:47,795 --> 00:26:56,075 Speaker 1: nightly news in there instead, or at least work in 388 00:26:56,155 --> 00:27:01,915 Speaker 1: something about Mark Zuckerberg as the new leading right wing propagandist. 389 00:27:03,075 --> 00:27:07,475 Speaker 1: Turns out, before he turned Meta into Maga, he went 390 00:27:07,515 --> 00:27:12,635 Speaker 1: to Musclago to pledge fealty in person from Semaphore News. 391 00:27:12,675 --> 00:27:16,995 Speaker 1: Meta CEO Zuckerberg met with Trump at Mari Lago on Friday. 392 00:27:17,275 --> 00:27:20,915 Speaker 1: A source familiar with their encounter confirmed a Semaphore he'd 393 00:27:20,915 --> 00:27:24,995 Speaker 1: been spotted earlier at Trump's Florida compound, and the person 394 00:27:25,035 --> 00:27:27,115 Speaker 1: familiar with the meeting and a Trump aid both declined 395 00:27:27,115 --> 00:27:29,595 Speaker 1: to detail its contents. The visit comes just days after 396 00:27:29,635 --> 00:27:33,355 Speaker 1: Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes at the company that ended two 397 00:27:33,515 --> 00:27:39,275 Speaker 1: irritants to Trump and his supporters, fact checking programs and diversity, 398 00:27:39,315 --> 00:27:44,275 Speaker 1: equity and inclusion initiatives. The new metapolicy also relaxes restrictions 399 00:27:44,275 --> 00:27:48,115 Speaker 1: on speech. Zuckerberg said in a video announcing the shift 400 00:27:48,155 --> 00:27:51,155 Speaker 1: that the changes came amid too many mistakes and too 401 00:27:51,235 --> 00:27:57,195 Speaker 1: much censorship and too much time at the hair salon. 402 00:27:59,875 --> 00:28:03,115 Speaker 1: Then Zuckerberg went on with Joe Rogan, the artist formerly 403 00:28:03,115 --> 00:28:07,835 Speaker 1: known as Uncle Fester, and lamented the rise of culturally 404 00:28:07,955 --> 00:28:14,275 Speaker 1: newted companies that have sought to distance themselves from masculine energy, 405 00:28:14,315 --> 00:28:18,515 Speaker 1: adding that it's good if the culture celebrates the aggression 406 00:28:18,675 --> 00:28:23,395 Speaker 1: a bit more. No, No, it's the same Mark Zuckerberg 407 00:28:23,475 --> 00:28:27,315 Speaker 1: talking talking about masculinity. 408 00:28:27,395 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 3: I think it's another to basically say that masculinity is bad. 409 00:28:32,515 --> 00:28:34,795 Speaker 3: And I just think we kind of swung culturally to 410 00:28:34,875 --> 00:28:39,395 Speaker 3: that part of the kind of the spectrum where you know, 411 00:28:39,395 --> 00:28:42,155 Speaker 3: it's all like, Okay, masculinity is toxic, we have to 412 00:28:42,275 --> 00:28:44,355 Speaker 3: get rid of it completely. It's like, no, like, it's 413 00:28:44,995 --> 00:28:46,835 Speaker 3: both of these things are good, right, It's like, you 414 00:28:46,915 --> 00:28:50,355 Speaker 3: want like feminine energy, you want masculine energy. Like I 415 00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:53,115 Speaker 3: think that that's like you're going to have parts of 416 00:28:53,155 --> 00:28:55,115 Speaker 3: society that have more of one or the other. I 417 00:28:55,115 --> 00:28:58,635 Speaker 3: think that that's all good. But I do think the 418 00:28:58,675 --> 00:29:03,995 Speaker 3: corporate culture sort of had swung towards being this somewhat 419 00:29:04,075 --> 00:29:05,875 Speaker 3: more near dird thing. 420 00:29:06,515 --> 00:29:09,915 Speaker 1: So it's Zuckerberg going on Joe Uncle Fester Rogan and 421 00:29:09,915 --> 00:29:15,355 Speaker 1: talking masculinity and digression and by the way, the word 422 00:29:15,435 --> 00:29:21,435 Speaker 1: you wanted there was aggressiveness. Aggression is you know, usually violence, 423 00:29:24,795 --> 00:29:27,235 Speaker 1: and Zuckerberg going on there wearing his new perm that 424 00:29:27,355 --> 00:29:30,435 Speaker 1: looks like the one used by the Roman emperor Caligula. 425 00:29:31,235 --> 00:29:36,555 Speaker 1: I think ringlets nineteen seventy seven. Ringlets. Oh, and on 426 00:29:36,635 --> 00:29:39,075 Speaker 1: top of that, there was something else I can't quite convey. 427 00:29:40,035 --> 00:29:42,675 Speaker 1: I hadn't been able to pin it down until just 428 00:29:42,795 --> 00:29:45,835 Speaker 1: now when I watched the video of that clip again. 429 00:29:50,075 --> 00:29:57,235 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Holmes, the farnose con woman with the fake voice, 430 00:29:57,515 --> 00:30:01,075 Speaker 1: and Hank Fines the Third Force and the dead eyes, 431 00:30:02,715 --> 00:30:05,475 Speaker 1: and Mark Zuckerberg with the fake voice and the dead eyes. 432 00:30:07,755 --> 00:30:11,515 Speaker 1: Have we ever seen them in the same place at 433 00:30:11,555 --> 00:30:21,035 Speaker 1: the same time. Ah, The role of Mark Zuckerberg will 434 00:30:21,075 --> 00:30:26,075 Speaker 1: now be played by Elizabeth Holmes. Also of interest, here 435 00:30:26,115 --> 00:30:29,755 Speaker 1: are we in Hell because of this reason, the formerly 436 00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:33,515 Speaker 1: married couple David Shipley and Naomi Wolf. He's at the 437 00:30:33,595 --> 00:30:37,475 Speaker 1: Washington Post forcing out prize winning political cartoonists and boasting 438 00:30:37,475 --> 00:30:42,155 Speaker 1: about it. Now she's online insisting the planes spreading the 439 00:30:42,235 --> 00:30:46,075 Speaker 1: fire suppressant over the fires aren't spreading fire suppressant. They're 440 00:30:46,115 --> 00:30:54,435 Speaker 1: spreading I can't tell you, but you won't believe it. Now. 441 00:30:54,515 --> 00:31:00,995 Speaker 1: That's a tease, And that's next. This is countdown. This 442 00:31:01,435 --> 00:31:25,355 Speaker 1: is countdown, with Keith Olberman still ahead on countdown Southern 443 00:31:25,395 --> 00:31:29,715 Speaker 1: California is a blaze and apparently will remain so. Compulsive 444 00:31:29,795 --> 00:31:32,235 Speaker 1: liars will be sworn in to run the country into 445 00:31:32,315 --> 00:31:35,915 Speaker 1: the ground in one week. There is not one rebel leader, 446 00:31:36,675 --> 00:31:39,595 Speaker 1: or at least not one rebel leader who said anything 447 00:31:39,595 --> 00:31:42,115 Speaker 1: of note in the last two months, except John Fetterman, 448 00:31:42,115 --> 00:31:44,515 Speaker 1: who's gone over to the other side and thus desperately 449 00:31:44,555 --> 00:31:49,435 Speaker 1: needs a stroke recheck. But I'm still going to make 450 00:31:49,475 --> 00:31:58,195 Speaker 1: you smile with two words soccer breakdown ahead in things 451 00:31:58,235 --> 00:32:01,395 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. If you've never heard it, 452 00:32:01,955 --> 00:32:05,315 Speaker 1: please enjoy. First, there are still more new idiots to 453 00:32:05,355 --> 00:32:07,915 Speaker 1: talk about. The daily roundup of the mis grants, morons 454 00:32:07,915 --> 00:32:12,275 Speaker 1: and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst 455 00:32:12,435 --> 00:32:22,955 Speaker 1: persons in the world, The Bronze worse Joe Scybra Good God, 456 00:32:24,715 --> 00:32:27,875 Speaker 1: has no one sent him the clippings from the newspapers, 457 00:32:28,355 --> 00:32:32,515 Speaker 1: or any of the editorial blowback or any of the 458 00:32:32,595 --> 00:32:37,675 Speaker 1: responses from his viewers and his regular guests. Joe Scarborough 459 00:32:37,715 --> 00:32:44,195 Speaker 1: has now doubled down on the founding of MSNVS. He 460 00:32:44,275 --> 00:32:47,715 Speaker 1: had an argument on the air with Michael Steele in 461 00:32:47,795 --> 00:32:53,475 Speaker 1: which Michael Steele made sense, in fact, made all the 462 00:32:53,555 --> 00:32:59,115 Speaker 1: sense in the argument, Scarborough went on the air and 463 00:32:59,195 --> 00:33:03,755 Speaker 1: said that Obama's handshake with Trump ben their lighthearted conversation 464 00:33:03,955 --> 00:33:07,075 Speaker 1: was not the end of the world at the Carter funeral, 465 00:33:07,835 --> 00:33:09,675 Speaker 1: and no, it was not the end of the world. 466 00:33:09,875 --> 00:33:13,395 Speaker 1: It was something Obama should never have done under any circumstances, 467 00:33:13,435 --> 00:33:19,435 Speaker 1: because Trump is the blight on mankind who may erase 468 00:33:19,595 --> 00:33:23,555 Speaker 1: all records of the Obama presidency when the world ends 469 00:33:23,595 --> 00:33:27,315 Speaker 1: because of the crap Trump does. But it's not the 470 00:33:27,435 --> 00:33:32,875 Speaker 1: end of the world at the moment. So he got 471 00:33:32,875 --> 00:33:37,675 Speaker 1: into an argument Scarborough did, sort of defending Obama against 472 00:33:38,035 --> 00:33:42,635 Speaker 1: Michael Steele, who raised again the point of Scarborough and 473 00:33:43,195 --> 00:33:47,315 Speaker 1: missus Scarborough, this missus Scarborough heading to marri Lago and 474 00:33:47,595 --> 00:33:53,915 Speaker 1: once again switching sides for the fifth sixth time on 475 00:33:53,995 --> 00:33:57,675 Speaker 1: the issue of Trump going there and pledging fealty to 476 00:33:57,755 --> 00:34:05,275 Speaker 1: the monster. Michael Steele said, why do we have to 477 00:34:05,275 --> 00:34:10,035 Speaker 1: be sibyl to Trump? And then Scarborough denied somehow that 478 00:34:10,315 --> 00:34:12,795 Speaker 1: he'd ever said we had to be sibyl, when of 479 00:34:12,795 --> 00:34:14,795 Speaker 1: course he said, we had to open up a dialogue 480 00:34:14,835 --> 00:34:18,595 Speaker 1: and we had to talk about not just talk about Trump, 481 00:34:18,595 --> 00:34:24,475 Speaker 1: but talk to Trump. Scarborough is still rationalizing this Ordinarily 482 00:34:24,515 --> 00:34:27,075 Speaker 1: I would look at this scenario, and knowing Joe Scarborough, 483 00:34:27,115 --> 00:34:30,635 Speaker 1: I would assume he's being blackmailed. But Joe doesn't need 484 00:34:30,675 --> 00:34:34,555 Speaker 1: to be blackmailed to perform services like this for fascists. 485 00:34:34,715 --> 00:34:38,595 Speaker 1: He's done it his whole life. What he sees is 486 00:34:38,635 --> 00:34:43,515 Speaker 1: which way the wind is blowing, and hopefully it's blowing 487 00:34:43,635 --> 00:34:49,795 Speaker 1: him right off the roof. Runners up Politico this headline, 488 00:34:50,195 --> 00:34:53,555 Speaker 1: along with an extraordinary picture of one firefighter trying to 489 00:34:53,595 --> 00:34:57,475 Speaker 1: put out the blazes in California, seemingly all by himself. 490 00:34:58,755 --> 00:35:01,115 Speaker 1: There's a bunch of palm trees on the left, There's 491 00:35:01,155 --> 00:35:04,275 Speaker 1: a house. It is bright red inside the windows on 492 00:35:04,315 --> 00:35:07,595 Speaker 1: the second floor above the garage, and there is one 493 00:35:07,715 --> 00:35:14,395 Speaker 1: man holding a fire hose. And the graphic over this 494 00:35:14,555 --> 00:35:21,955 Speaker 1: picture trump Comma mush unleash on California Democrats over wildfires. Mush, 495 00:35:22,595 --> 00:35:29,235 Speaker 1: you know, elon mush. They deleted this picture and changed 496 00:35:29,275 --> 00:35:34,755 Speaker 1: it on their website. Elon mush. Why'd they delete it? 497 00:35:36,595 --> 00:35:40,275 Speaker 1: But our winner, Naomi wolf Funny I invoked her ex 498 00:35:40,355 --> 00:35:42,955 Speaker 1: husband David Shipley last week. He is the opinion editor 499 00:35:43,195 --> 00:35:46,715 Speaker 1: of the newly merged Washington Post and Penny Saber. He's 500 00:35:46,755 --> 00:35:50,435 Speaker 1: the one who killed the Antellnay's cartoon on bezos kissing 501 00:35:50,475 --> 00:35:53,955 Speaker 1: Trump's ass because it was repetitive, even though George Will 502 00:35:53,995 --> 00:35:55,955 Speaker 1: has been writing the exact same opinion column in the 503 00:35:56,035 --> 00:35:59,795 Speaker 1: Washington Post week after week since roughly April nineteen seventy four. 504 00:36:01,835 --> 00:36:04,955 Speaker 1: And then Ann tel Nay's one of the many people 505 00:36:04,995 --> 00:36:11,315 Speaker 1: to Washington Post who quit without another job lined up quit. Well, 506 00:36:11,435 --> 00:36:15,755 Speaker 1: here is that guy's ex wife, Naomi Wolf, was, among 507 00:36:15,835 --> 00:36:21,355 Speaker 1: other things, an adviser on al Gore's presidential campaign. And 508 00:36:21,475 --> 00:36:24,515 Speaker 1: once again we find out these clues a quarter century 509 00:36:24,595 --> 00:36:27,835 Speaker 1: later as to how in part we started on this 510 00:36:28,035 --> 00:36:34,355 Speaker 1: path to this effing disaster, this America of twenty twenty five. 511 00:36:34,675 --> 00:36:37,035 Speaker 1: And one of the clues was Naomi Wolf was an 512 00:36:37,075 --> 00:36:42,235 Speaker 1: adviser on Al Gore's presidential campaign. She reportedly handled political 513 00:36:42,275 --> 00:36:47,955 Speaker 1: issues and feminist issues and how Gore dressed. Sometime I 514 00:36:47,955 --> 00:36:50,995 Speaker 1: will tell you about his other advisor who became his 515 00:36:51,075 --> 00:36:55,075 Speaker 1: business partner, who was the man who actually hired me 516 00:36:55,115 --> 00:36:57,035 Speaker 1: and gave me all the money to go to current TV. 517 00:36:58,475 --> 00:37:01,875 Speaker 1: And his was the advice that throughout the two thousand campaign, 518 00:37:02,075 --> 00:37:05,315 Speaker 1: al Gore needed to stay away from Bill Clinton, who 519 00:37:05,395 --> 00:37:12,115 Speaker 1: was the most popular Democratic president since FDR. Anyway, back 520 00:37:12,155 --> 00:37:15,475 Speaker 1: to Naomi Wolf, the last quarter century has not been 521 00:37:15,555 --> 00:37:19,955 Speaker 1: kind to her. Her Twitter handle is now doctor Naomi Wolf, 522 00:37:20,235 --> 00:37:26,195 Speaker 1: eight New York Times bestsellers. I wouldn't even do that. 523 00:37:27,995 --> 00:37:32,115 Speaker 1: She has chimed in in her new way of finding 524 00:37:32,195 --> 00:37:35,795 Speaker 1: something crazy that no one is being crazy about elsewhere? 525 00:37:37,275 --> 00:37:41,715 Speaker 1: With this? Are your friends in LA not reacting to 526 00:37:41,835 --> 00:37:45,835 Speaker 1: danger in an expected way? Are they almost in a trance? 527 00:37:46,715 --> 00:37:52,235 Speaker 1: Multiple confirmations independently that suggests this is the case, including 528 00:37:52,275 --> 00:37:57,275 Speaker 1: from a therapist who says her patients are not reacting normally. Well, 529 00:37:57,275 --> 00:38:00,955 Speaker 1: that's it. Naomi Wolf knows a therapist who says this 530 00:38:00,995 --> 00:38:05,955 Speaker 1: is true. Therefore it is true. Multiple confirmations that the 531 00:38:06,195 --> 00:38:10,715 Speaker 1: entire Los Angeles and southern California community is not reacting 532 00:38:10,755 --> 00:38:15,315 Speaker 1: normally to danger. This leads her, even though it's not true, 533 00:38:15,715 --> 00:38:20,075 Speaker 1: to something even more not true. Could a mood stabilizer 534 00:38:20,115 --> 00:38:23,635 Speaker 1: of some kind be in what was sprayed? Or do 535 00:38:23,835 --> 00:38:30,075 Speaker 1: weather manipulation waves and train human thought patterns in some way? 536 00:38:30,675 --> 00:38:35,315 Speaker 1: We are there in history and must ask the questions. 537 00:38:36,955 --> 00:38:41,955 Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, we are not there in history, you, Naomi Wolf. 538 00:38:42,115 --> 00:38:44,435 Speaker 1: You are there in history as a matter of fact, 539 00:38:44,755 --> 00:38:47,555 Speaker 1: what you are in is not history. It's just you 540 00:38:47,755 --> 00:38:54,515 Speaker 1: in a hallucination. There are no weather manipulation waves, and 541 00:38:54,555 --> 00:39:00,475 Speaker 1: there is no mood stabilizer being sprayed during a disaster 542 00:39:00,555 --> 00:39:06,035 Speaker 1: in which a fire is consuming the nation's second largest city. Yeah, 543 00:39:06,075 --> 00:39:08,875 Speaker 1: the LA fires were made just as an excuse to 544 00:39:09,035 --> 00:39:16,155 Speaker 1: spray clouds of mood stabilizing drugs, something that you know 545 00:39:17,275 --> 00:39:21,955 Speaker 1: isn't The LA fires were set so that you could 546 00:39:22,035 --> 00:39:26,395 Speaker 1: spray large quantities. Who knows how much this would require, 547 00:39:26,515 --> 00:39:30,275 Speaker 1: if there were such a thing, to spray them all 548 00:39:30,315 --> 00:39:35,395 Speaker 1: over southern California instead of if somebody were to do this, 549 00:39:35,555 --> 00:39:38,995 Speaker 1: and presumably this would be Democrats who were doing this, well, 550 00:39:39,115 --> 00:39:42,155 Speaker 1: you would have a choice of spraying it over southern 551 00:39:42,155 --> 00:39:49,235 Speaker 1: California or over Magaland to make people comply or mood stabilize, 552 00:39:49,395 --> 00:39:54,475 Speaker 1: or you're using your space lasers on them. Marjorie Taylor, 553 00:39:54,595 --> 00:39:59,915 Speaker 1: Naomi Wolf. Here's the point. If these things exist, and 554 00:39:59,995 --> 00:40:04,355 Speaker 1: let me just quote them exactly again. A mood stabilizer 555 00:40:04,395 --> 00:40:08,715 Speaker 1: of kind in what was sprayed or weather manipulation waves 556 00:40:09,115 --> 00:40:13,715 Speaker 1: designed to entrain human thought patterns. We are there in 557 00:40:13,835 --> 00:40:16,555 Speaker 1: history and must ask the question. Here in history, I 558 00:40:16,595 --> 00:40:20,435 Speaker 1: have this question, why not just save all this crap 559 00:40:21,035 --> 00:40:25,275 Speaker 1: and spray them all over Naomi Wolf, whose mood has 560 00:40:25,355 --> 00:40:29,995 Speaker 1: not been stable this entire century, and who is today's 561 00:40:31,435 --> 00:40:33,195 Speaker 1: worst person. 562 00:40:33,995 --> 00:40:35,235 Speaker 2: In the world. 563 00:40:41,915 --> 00:40:54,835 Speaker 1: Mood stabilizing. See the number one story on the Countdown 564 00:40:54,835 --> 00:40:57,595 Speaker 1: and my favorite topic, me and things I promised not 565 00:40:57,755 --> 00:41:01,595 Speaker 1: to tell. You may enjoy this one enough to keep 566 00:41:01,595 --> 00:41:09,035 Speaker 1: a copy. Soccer Gary Miller was one of the backbones 567 00:41:09,075 --> 00:41:11,115 Speaker 1: of Sports Center. I had worked with him at CNN. 568 00:41:11,435 --> 00:41:16,835 Speaker 1: He was strong, confident, very loud, forceful, He hated mascots, 569 00:41:17,355 --> 00:41:20,355 Speaker 1: and he had no filter. He and Dan Patrick were 570 00:41:20,355 --> 00:41:22,955 Speaker 1: great friends in Atlanta, and then Gary and Dan left 571 00:41:22,955 --> 00:41:25,635 Speaker 1: for ESPN within months of each other nineteen eighty nine, 572 00:41:25,675 --> 00:41:28,355 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety This has been said of me, and so 573 00:41:28,475 --> 00:41:31,395 Speaker 1: I say it of Gary with affection. He suffered no 574 00:41:31,715 --> 00:41:35,715 Speaker 1: fools gladly, and though his elbows were always up, he 575 00:41:35,755 --> 00:41:37,795 Speaker 1: made sure that ninety nine percent of the time when 576 00:41:37,795 --> 00:41:40,795 Speaker 1: they bumped into somebody, that somebody had well deserved it. 577 00:41:42,075 --> 00:41:45,235 Speaker 1: As near as I can piece together, Gary was doing 578 00:41:45,275 --> 00:41:48,715 Speaker 1: the eleven PM Sports Center on Friday night, June twenty fourth, 579 00:41:48,795 --> 00:41:51,875 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. Typically, Dan and I did the eleven 580 00:41:52,035 --> 00:41:56,315 Speaker 1: Sunday through Thursday, the story of soccer's nineteen ninety four 581 00:41:56,355 --> 00:41:58,315 Speaker 1: World Cup. At least in the first week, was a 582 00:41:58,355 --> 00:42:02,475 Speaker 1: preponderance of player ejections red cards handed them by the referee. 583 00:42:03,155 --> 00:42:05,475 Speaker 1: In those days, the eleven PM's four Center included a 584 00:42:05,475 --> 00:42:07,755 Speaker 1: feature two or three minutes long on a story that 585 00:42:07,995 --> 00:42:10,275 Speaker 1: had drummed up a lot of interest during the first 586 00:42:10,435 --> 00:42:13,195 Speaker 1: show planning meeting around three point thirty PM. It was 587 00:42:13,235 --> 00:42:17,915 Speaker 1: a feature called Breakdown. It provided long form analysis in 588 00:42:17,915 --> 00:42:20,475 Speaker 1: today's when we didn't have a lot of that. Could 589 00:42:20,555 --> 00:42:23,075 Speaker 1: be a coach getting fired, could be the relative credentials 590 00:42:23,275 --> 00:42:26,795 Speaker 1: of Baseball Hall of Fame candidates, could be one fantastic 591 00:42:26,835 --> 00:42:29,955 Speaker 1: play in a game. Once we did a deadpan, serious 592 00:42:29,995 --> 00:42:34,915 Speaker 1: breakdown about injuries to mascots. A producer or the anchor 593 00:42:34,995 --> 00:42:38,315 Speaker 1: himself would write the script. They would pre record the narration, 594 00:42:38,515 --> 00:42:41,755 Speaker 1: and then the producer would edit it. This is pre digital. 595 00:42:41,795 --> 00:42:44,355 Speaker 1: It was done tape to tape. It could take hours 596 00:42:44,395 --> 00:42:48,395 Speaker 1: to edit it, and the key was to track it 597 00:42:48,475 --> 00:42:51,475 Speaker 1: to record that narration, which was done in a tiny 598 00:42:51,475 --> 00:42:55,835 Speaker 1: wood paneled room wreaking of mildew that looked and smelled 599 00:42:56,235 --> 00:43:00,915 Speaker 1: exactly like every suburban basement wreck room in America circa 600 00:43:00,955 --> 00:43:05,875 Speaker 1: October nineteen sixty five. That's where Garry Miller found himself 601 00:43:05,955 --> 00:43:08,515 Speaker 1: on the night of Friday, June twenty fourth, nineteen ninety four, 602 00:43:08,515 --> 00:43:11,235 Speaker 1: reading a script about soccer players from around the world, 603 00:43:11,315 --> 00:43:15,235 Speaker 1: none of whose names he had ever seen before, let 604 00:43:15,315 --> 00:43:21,755 Speaker 1: alone tried to pronounce. It was the Soccer Breakdown in 605 00:43:21,915 --> 00:43:28,195 Speaker 1: all senses of the word. The raw tape, the original 606 00:43:28,315 --> 00:43:31,555 Speaker 1: version of his tracking session for the script for Soccer Breakdown, 607 00:43:31,915 --> 00:43:36,915 Speaker 1: is easily the most beloved bootleg in ESPN's history. In fact, 608 00:43:37,475 --> 00:43:40,555 Speaker 1: it is so popular that there are several different cuts 609 00:43:40,755 --> 00:43:43,795 Speaker 1: of this bootleg. People have sat down with the original tape, 610 00:43:43,795 --> 00:43:47,395 Speaker 1: which runs nearly twenty minutes, and edited it down to 611 00:43:47,515 --> 00:43:51,875 Speaker 1: only the best or worst parts. Now, I'm not going 612 00:43:51,915 --> 00:43:54,275 Speaker 1: to say I have a copy of the original. I'm 613 00:43:54,315 --> 00:43:56,395 Speaker 1: simply going to note that Dan Patrick ran it on 614 00:43:56,435 --> 00:43:59,555 Speaker 1: his radio show in twenty seventeen and posted the whole 615 00:43:59,595 --> 00:44:03,715 Speaker 1: segment to YouTube. So yeah, that's where I got my 616 00:44:03,835 --> 00:44:07,675 Speaker 1: copy of it. Uh, that's my story and I'm sticking 617 00:44:07,675 --> 00:44:12,635 Speaker 1: to it. I'm going to annotate for you what happened, 618 00:44:12,995 --> 00:44:15,515 Speaker 1: So let me present this to you in three segments. 619 00:44:15,875 --> 00:44:19,035 Speaker 1: It did not start well for Gary and it got 620 00:44:19,115 --> 00:44:22,955 Speaker 1: worse from there, although mister Miller gave it its eternal 621 00:44:22,995 --> 00:44:25,675 Speaker 1: title and life by going sibilant on the s. For 622 00:44:25,755 --> 00:44:29,395 Speaker 1: the word soccer, I'll note only one thing, the acronym 623 00:44:29,555 --> 00:44:36,515 Speaker 1: of International Soccer's outfit FIFA Gary. It's pronounced FIFA. 624 00:44:37,395 --> 00:44:42,715 Speaker 4: Soccer breakdown in three two one, FIPHO Soccer's governing barty 625 00:44:43,115 --> 00:44:50,275 Speaker 4: three two one, Piphos Soccer's three two one. The red 626 00:44:50,355 --> 00:44:53,195 Speaker 4: card has become the calling card for this year's tournament. 627 00:44:53,555 --> 00:45:00,035 Speaker 4: Seven ejections for the three two one witness Romania's ian 628 00:45:00,115 --> 00:45:01,635 Speaker 4: Bladu against. 629 00:45:01,275 --> 00:45:07,115 Speaker 1: The Swiss is or through christ Ah. But that was 630 00:45:07,155 --> 00:45:10,555 Speaker 1: the easy part. Now in the script came the names 631 00:45:10,635 --> 00:45:12,995 Speaker 1: of the World Cup stars who had been given red 632 00:45:13,035 --> 00:45:15,915 Speaker 1: card ejections in the first week of the tournament. One 633 00:45:16,675 --> 00:45:19,795 Speaker 1: was the seventeen year old star of the Cameroon team, 634 00:45:20,035 --> 00:45:24,555 Speaker 1: Rigobert's Song, often referred to by his full name, Rigobert's 635 00:45:24,635 --> 00:45:27,995 Speaker 1: song Maahanog, or as it was said in the script, 636 00:45:28,635 --> 00:45:32,395 Speaker 1: Riggerbird bahanog song three. 637 00:45:32,355 --> 00:45:43,435 Speaker 4: Two one, Cameroons Wriggleberg vanumnjog three two what Cameroon's Riggelberg 638 00:45:43,515 --> 00:45:50,515 Speaker 4: byan gung zang Za Da da Bayangyang's song three two one, 639 00:45:51,035 --> 00:45:53,435 Speaker 4: Cameroon's Wriggleberg Banyang Zong. 640 00:46:00,315 --> 00:46:04,075 Speaker 2: Bayuyang song three two one three two one. 641 00:46:05,075 --> 00:46:07,595 Speaker 1: By the way, Rigobert's song is now the manager of 642 00:46:07,635 --> 00:46:10,235 Speaker 1: the Cameroon team. He's gone from being the youngest player 643 00:46:10,235 --> 00:46:11,995 Speaker 1: in the World Cup history to get a red card 644 00:46:12,435 --> 00:46:16,115 Speaker 1: to running his nation's team. I'll interject here that at 645 00:46:16,155 --> 00:46:19,235 Speaker 1: the start of this final major clip, Gary Miller says, 646 00:46:19,315 --> 00:46:22,635 Speaker 1: to somebody who has currently entered that tracking room that 647 00:46:22,715 --> 00:46:26,555 Speaker 1: smelled of mildew, get out of here. Dan Patrick said 648 00:46:27,035 --> 00:46:29,755 Speaker 1: that was him. I think he's mistaken. It doesn't matter much, 649 00:46:29,795 --> 00:46:31,595 Speaker 1: but there was no reason for Dan to have been 650 00:46:31,675 --> 00:46:34,115 Speaker 1: there on a Friday night, especially if we were not 651 00:46:34,235 --> 00:46:37,515 Speaker 1: doing the show. And also there has never been a 652 00:46:37,635 --> 00:46:42,715 Speaker 1: microphone ever. But Dan has not spoken into anyway. We 653 00:46:42,835 --> 00:46:47,275 Speaker 1: have already met Rigobert Mahanog's song. Now meet my guy, 654 00:46:48,475 --> 00:46:52,355 Speaker 1: the Italian goalie John Luca Poaliucca. 655 00:46:52,115 --> 00:46:57,555 Speaker 2: Two get out of here? Two is guilt through two? 656 00:46:58,115 --> 00:46:59,155 Speaker 2: How long is this tayed? 657 00:46:59,595 --> 00:47:07,315 Speaker 4: Three two one one one Maroon's Riggoberg Bunjang song preventing 658 00:47:07,355 --> 00:47:12,075 Speaker 4: a breakaway from Brazil's babetto a fah God Almighty, I 659 00:47:12,155 --> 00:47:17,395 Speaker 4: hate socker. Cameroon's Rigoberg Buanjungjong Song. I'm gonna try that 660 00:47:17,475 --> 00:47:23,595 Speaker 4: one last lead time two one Cameroon's riggleberg Banjungjong Song. 661 00:47:25,195 --> 00:47:30,075 Speaker 4: I hate this chalcout Bolivia's Luis Cristaldo for both on 662 00:47:30,355 --> 00:47:33,475 Speaker 4: three to one. But the most notable red card of 663 00:47:33,515 --> 00:47:39,315 Speaker 4: the tournament came an Italian goaltender, Jean Luca Palyuka Pauloca Paul. 664 00:47:39,115 --> 00:47:42,595 Speaker 1: Yuka the mother b three to one. 665 00:47:43,195 --> 00:47:45,475 Speaker 4: But the flurry of red cards thus far has toadd 666 00:47:45,555 --> 00:47:49,115 Speaker 4: coaches and players alike to control their play if they'd 667 00:47:49,155 --> 00:47:51,395 Speaker 4: like to control their fate in this tournament. 668 00:47:52,195 --> 00:47:55,595 Speaker 2: Holy sleep, that is all. 669 00:47:56,595 --> 00:48:00,635 Speaker 1: The pronunciation of rigovert Song's name is one thing. I 670 00:48:00,915 --> 00:48:04,355 Speaker 1: was delighted by how furious Gary got at Gianluca Palyuka 671 00:48:04,395 --> 00:48:06,635 Speaker 1: of the Italian team and the expletive he used to 672 00:48:06,675 --> 00:48:10,035 Speaker 1: describe him, which you may have just heard in the 673 00:48:10,195 --> 00:48:13,115 Speaker 1: days that followed. In fact, the Italian goalie's name became 674 00:48:13,275 --> 00:48:17,515 Speaker 1: shorthand for me for that expletive in question. So for 675 00:48:17,595 --> 00:48:20,795 Speaker 1: the next three years on SportsCenter and after that on 676 00:48:20,915 --> 00:48:24,275 Speaker 1: Fox Sports News, and then on my ESPN two show 677 00:48:24,915 --> 00:48:27,355 Speaker 1: and on Football night in America. And then when I 678 00:48:27,435 --> 00:48:29,995 Speaker 1: returned to Sports Center in twenty eighteen, if you heard 679 00:48:30,075 --> 00:48:33,275 Speaker 1: me say John Luca Paluca while we were showing a 680 00:48:33,315 --> 00:48:36,475 Speaker 1: player making an error or arguing with an umpire or official, 681 00:48:36,995 --> 00:48:39,795 Speaker 1: I was actually implying that the player had just said 682 00:48:42,395 --> 00:48:46,635 Speaker 1: John Luca Paaluca. There's another punchline to this story, of course, 683 00:48:46,715 --> 00:48:50,395 Speaker 1: the idea to do this soccer breakdown that so bedeviled 684 00:48:50,475 --> 00:48:52,915 Speaker 1: Gary Miller, the story of red cards in the first 685 00:48:52,955 --> 00:48:55,635 Speaker 1: week of the nineteen ninety four World Cup. The idea 686 00:48:55,795 --> 00:49:03,875 Speaker 1: to do that came from Gary Miller, never volunteer. I've 687 00:49:03,995 --> 00:49:07,355 Speaker 1: never been vinced that Gary was really happy about his immortality, 688 00:49:07,435 --> 00:49:10,395 Speaker 1: certainly not in the way my ESPN pal Steve Levy 689 00:49:10,635 --> 00:49:14,315 Speaker 1: not so secretly glorious in the day. He once tried 690 00:49:14,355 --> 00:49:16,315 Speaker 1: to say that a New England Patriots player had a 691 00:49:16,395 --> 00:49:21,435 Speaker 1: bulging disc, but didn't quite get disc right. But Gary 692 00:49:21,475 --> 00:49:23,835 Speaker 1: Miller has been a good sport about this through the 693 00:49:23,955 --> 00:49:25,955 Speaker 1: end of his ESPN career in two thousand and four 694 00:49:26,035 --> 00:49:28,595 Speaker 1: and afterwards, in his days at Channel two and Channel 695 00:49:28,675 --> 00:49:30,755 Speaker 1: nine in Los Angeles and most recently at Channel two 696 00:49:30,795 --> 00:49:34,435 Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. It isn't hard to understand why this tape 697 00:49:34,555 --> 00:49:38,675 Speaker 1: is so famous and the pleasure derived from it so enduring. 698 00:49:39,235 --> 00:49:41,795 Speaker 1: As John Clees once said about the real life hotel 699 00:49:41,875 --> 00:49:45,075 Speaker 1: manager on whom he based his character from Faulty Towers, 700 00:49:45,435 --> 00:49:49,115 Speaker 1: he had this wonderful bad temper. But there are two 701 00:49:49,315 --> 00:49:53,475 Speaker 1: more things. One, this occurred exactly a week to the 702 00:49:53,595 --> 00:49:57,435 Speaker 1: day after the OJ Simpson car chase, and people forget 703 00:49:57,555 --> 00:50:01,555 Speaker 1: now just how disturbing that was in an America, especially 704 00:50:01,635 --> 00:50:04,955 Speaker 1: sports America, like at ESPN, that with the accept of 705 00:50:04,995 --> 00:50:08,715 Speaker 1: a few of us who knew, nobody knew how rotten 706 00:50:08,755 --> 00:50:12,675 Speaker 1: a human being OJ Simpson was. So even a week later, 707 00:50:12,795 --> 00:50:16,075 Speaker 1: we all needed this laugh, and Gary gave it to 708 00:50:16,195 --> 00:50:21,235 Speaker 1: us and even larger. The essence of soccer in every 709 00:50:21,315 --> 00:50:23,955 Speaker 1: country in which it is played is that it always 710 00:50:24,075 --> 00:50:28,715 Speaker 1: allows and encourages and even demands that its fans complain 711 00:50:28,875 --> 00:50:34,235 Speaker 1: about it. And so while we cherish soccer breakdown and 712 00:50:34,515 --> 00:50:39,515 Speaker 1: three two one and Rigobert Mahananng's song and Bibto and 713 00:50:39,755 --> 00:50:43,475 Speaker 1: John Luca Paluka, to me, it is really about five 714 00:50:43,555 --> 00:50:46,675 Speaker 1: words that anybody who hates the game will say. But 715 00:50:46,795 --> 00:50:49,195 Speaker 1: there are also five words that any fan of the 716 00:50:49,275 --> 00:50:53,275 Speaker 1: sport will certainly use at some point in his life, 717 00:50:54,635 --> 00:50:58,355 Speaker 1: possibly at some point today. And they are the five 718 00:50:58,435 --> 00:51:02,715 Speaker 1: words with which I will leave you for now. A 719 00:51:02,955 --> 00:51:07,915 Speaker 1: foh God, might I hate soccer? Since I first told 720 00:51:07,955 --> 00:51:11,715 Speaker 1: you this story, I have, as I mentioned, rediscovered an 721 00:51:11,875 --> 00:51:16,395 Speaker 1: artifact that I thought was gone forever. Right after the 722 00:51:16,515 --> 00:51:21,195 Speaker 1: Soccer Breakdown saga unfolded, an ESPN colleague made me a 723 00:51:21,275 --> 00:51:25,475 Speaker 1: copy of the original raw tape of Gary and we 724 00:51:25,595 --> 00:51:28,755 Speaker 1: put it on a cassette and I couldn't find it. 725 00:51:29,795 --> 00:51:33,475 Speaker 1: There were things on it that were somehow lost from 726 00:51:33,595 --> 00:51:37,875 Speaker 1: all subsequent copies of Soccer Breakdown. So this is not 727 00:51:38,035 --> 00:51:42,275 Speaker 1: as high depth, but I think it's even more high comedy. 728 00:51:42,835 --> 00:51:47,875 Speaker 4: Soccer breakdown in three two one after a nineteen ninety 729 00:51:47,915 --> 00:51:51,275 Speaker 4: World Cup Mark FI physical play in low scores, Piphus 730 00:51:51,355 --> 00:51:55,395 Speaker 4: Soccer's three too one after a nineteen ninety World Cup 731 00:51:55,555 --> 00:52:01,555 Speaker 4: mark five three two what After a nineteen ninety World 732 00:52:01,595 --> 00:52:05,115 Speaker 4: Cup mark five physical play and low scores, Pyphus Soccer's 733 00:52:05,195 --> 00:52:07,635 Speaker 4: governing body send out a decree for the nineteen ninety 734 00:52:07,675 --> 00:52:11,035 Speaker 4: four Cup to be better police the result, the red 735 00:52:11,115 --> 00:52:13,915 Speaker 4: card has become the calling card for this year's tournament. 736 00:52:14,315 --> 00:52:20,875 Speaker 4: Seven ejections for three two one after a nineteen ninety 737 00:52:20,915 --> 00:52:24,315 Speaker 4: World Cup marked by physical play and low scores. Fifhus 738 00:52:24,395 --> 00:52:27,195 Speaker 4: Soccer's governing body sent out the decree for the nineteen 739 00:52:27,275 --> 00:52:30,515 Speaker 4: ninety four Cup to be better police. The result, the 740 00:52:30,635 --> 00:52:33,595 Speaker 4: red card has become the calling card for this year's tournament. 741 00:52:34,035 --> 00:52:36,875 Speaker 4: Seven ejections through the first twenty three matches and a 742 00:52:36,955 --> 00:52:40,155 Speaker 4: direct message that rough play will not be tolerated and 743 00:52:40,315 --> 00:52:41,635 Speaker 4: more teams will be playing. 744 00:52:41,355 --> 00:52:45,235 Speaker 2: A man down if it continues. The goal more goals 745 00:52:45,435 --> 00:52:49,955 Speaker 2: and a more palatable sell to the American public three 746 00:52:50,235 --> 00:52:50,915 Speaker 2: two one. 747 00:52:51,515 --> 00:52:53,995 Speaker 4: The results just over two and a half goals of 748 00:52:54,075 --> 00:52:56,435 Speaker 4: contests compared to two point two per game at the 749 00:52:56,555 --> 00:52:57,915 Speaker 4: nineteen ninety Cup in Italy. 750 00:52:58,395 --> 00:52:59,955 Speaker 2: Why does the red card come out? 751 00:53:00,355 --> 00:53:02,635 Speaker 4: A Fifer rule book states a player shall be sent 752 00:53:02,755 --> 00:53:05,515 Speaker 4: off the field of play and shown the red card if, 753 00:53:05,635 --> 00:53:08,955 Speaker 4: in the opinion of the referee he won is guilty 754 00:53:08,995 --> 00:53:12,715 Speaker 4: of violent conduct. Witness Romania's Ian blad you against the 755 00:53:12,755 --> 00:53:17,675 Speaker 4: Swiss is or through christ three two one. 756 00:53:18,595 --> 00:53:20,715 Speaker 2: Why does the red card come out? The fight? 757 00:53:20,795 --> 00:53:22,795 Speaker 4: The rule book states a players should be set off 758 00:53:22,835 --> 00:53:25,435 Speaker 4: the field of play and shown the red card if, 759 00:53:25,555 --> 00:53:28,515 Speaker 4: in the opinion of the referee he won is guilty 760 00:53:28,555 --> 00:53:32,315 Speaker 4: of violent conduct witness. Romania's ian Bladu against the Swiss 761 00:53:32,915 --> 00:53:35,395 Speaker 4: two is guilty of serious foul play. 762 00:53:35,835 --> 00:53:37,635 Speaker 2: Cameroons Rigoberg. 763 00:53:40,035 --> 00:53:46,195 Speaker 5: Vanumnjog Bonanjung's song prevented to break away from the betto 764 00:53:47,355 --> 00:53:52,275 Speaker 5: three to what two is guilty of serious foul play. 765 00:53:52,595 --> 00:54:00,035 Speaker 4: Cameroons Rigelberg Bayan Gung Zang Zada Da Bayangyang's song three 766 00:54:00,195 --> 00:54:04,955 Speaker 4: two one two is guilty of serious foul play. Runs 767 00:54:05,035 --> 00:54:19,715 Speaker 4: Riggleberg Banyangzong baion Young song three two one two get 768 00:54:19,795 --> 00:54:24,315 Speaker 4: out of here two is guilty through it two How 769 00:54:24,355 --> 00:54:29,715 Speaker 4: long is this tape? Two is guilty of serious foul play. 770 00:54:30,115 --> 00:54:34,675 Speaker 4: Cameroon's Riggleberg Bunyang song prevented a breakaway from Brazil's babetto 771 00:54:35,155 --> 00:54:38,915 Speaker 4: a fah God Almighty I Hate Sucker. 772 00:54:40,235 --> 00:54:42,635 Speaker 2: Two is guilty of serious foul play. 773 00:54:42,955 --> 00:54:48,155 Speaker 4: Cameroon's Riggleberg Banyuanyung song provided a breakaway from Brazil's babetto 774 00:54:48,755 --> 00:54:50,915 Speaker 4: a play both siious and faul. 775 00:54:50,835 --> 00:54:52,035 Speaker 2: Deserving of a red card. 776 00:54:52,435 --> 00:54:56,915 Speaker 4: I'm better try that one last time two one two 777 00:54:57,155 --> 00:55:01,035 Speaker 4: is guilty of serious foul play. Cameroon's Rigglebird bun Yung 778 00:55:01,195 --> 00:55:05,475 Speaker 4: Yong song prevented a breakaway from Brazil's babetto a play 779 00:55:05,555 --> 00:55:08,275 Speaker 4: both serious and foul and deserving of a red card. 780 00:55:08,795 --> 00:55:12,275 Speaker 4: Three uses foul or abusive language, can't show you that, 781 00:55:12,755 --> 00:55:17,235 Speaker 4: and four is guilty of a second cautionable I hate this. 782 00:55:18,515 --> 00:55:22,235 Speaker 4: Three uses foul or abusive language, and four is guilty 783 00:55:22,275 --> 00:55:25,355 Speaker 4: of a second cautionable offense after having received the caution. 784 00:55:25,875 --> 00:55:30,755 Speaker 4: Chalcop Bolivia's Luis Cristaldo for both on three to one. 785 00:55:31,395 --> 00:55:34,595 Speaker 4: Chalk up bolivia Is Luis Cristaldo for both on this case, 786 00:55:34,795 --> 00:55:37,315 Speaker 4: as he receives a yellow card and then uses a 787 00:55:37,435 --> 00:55:40,115 Speaker 4: foul or abusive language to draw a second yellow and 788 00:55:40,235 --> 00:55:43,155 Speaker 4: be ejected against South Korea. A tone was set in 789 00:55:43,235 --> 00:55:46,755 Speaker 4: the first match of the tournament when Bolivia's Marco Antonio 790 00:55:46,835 --> 00:55:50,195 Speaker 4: Etcheveri was ejected for this illegal kick against the Germans. 791 00:55:50,515 --> 00:55:52,835 Speaker 4: But the most notable red card of the tournament came 792 00:55:52,875 --> 00:55:55,355 Speaker 4: an Italian goaltunder Jean Luca. 793 00:55:55,235 --> 00:55:59,355 Speaker 2: Pauluca from the mother three to one. 794 00:55:59,995 --> 00:56:02,115 Speaker 4: But the most notable red card of the tournament came 795 00:56:02,155 --> 00:56:06,435 Speaker 4: when Italian goaltunder John Luca Pauloca was ejected against Norway 796 00:56:06,515 --> 00:56:09,835 Speaker 4: for a handball outside the goal where the game was 797 00:56:09,875 --> 00:56:13,635 Speaker 4: still schoolless three two one, but the most notable red 798 00:56:13,715 --> 00:56:15,955 Speaker 4: card of the tournament came with Italian goal Tuto John 799 00:56:16,035 --> 00:56:19,595 Speaker 4: Luca Paul Yucca was ejected against Norway for a handball 800 00:56:19,675 --> 00:56:22,875 Speaker 4: outside the goal area, with the game still schoolless down 801 00:56:22,915 --> 00:56:26,315 Speaker 4: a man a team's first instinct is defense an injured 802 00:56:26,395 --> 00:56:29,315 Speaker 4: Roberto Baggio, who is now a liability, even if he 803 00:56:29,515 --> 00:56:32,355 Speaker 4: is one of the world's most talented offensive players. The 804 00:56:32,435 --> 00:56:35,835 Speaker 4: gamble paid off Italy still live in this year's World Cup, 805 00:56:36,075 --> 00:56:38,355 Speaker 4: but the flurry of red cars thus far has taught 806 00:56:38,435 --> 00:56:41,995 Speaker 4: coaches and players alike to control their play if they'd 807 00:56:42,075 --> 00:56:42,235 Speaker 4: like to. 808 00:56:57,395 --> 00:56:59,195 Speaker 1: I've dot over the damage I can do here. Thank 809 00:56:59,275 --> 00:57:03,955 Speaker 1: you for listening. Brigglebert be Young Young's own, Ryan Ray 810 00:57:03,995 --> 00:57:07,715 Speaker 1: and John Phillip and Rigobert Beyon Young's song. The musical 811 00:57:07,795 --> 00:57:11,635 Speaker 1: directors of Countdown arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 812 00:57:11,995 --> 00:57:15,235 Speaker 1: Mister Chanelle handled orchestration in keyboards, Mister Ray was on 813 00:57:15,355 --> 00:57:19,195 Speaker 1: the guitars, bass and drums. He was produced by Gary Miller. 814 00:57:19,275 --> 00:57:22,875 Speaker 1: No Tko Brothers Our satirical and fifthy musical comments are 815 00:57:22,875 --> 00:57:25,875 Speaker 1: by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust The 816 00:57:25,955 --> 00:57:29,755 Speaker 1: sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written 817 00:57:29,795 --> 00:57:33,195 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music 818 00:57:33,315 --> 00:57:36,115 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My 819 00:57:36,195 --> 00:57:39,395 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend, since we're talking about Gary Miller, 820 00:57:40,195 --> 00:57:44,675 Speaker 1: Kenny Maine, Kenny Maine, the barber shaves and other customer. 821 00:57:44,875 --> 00:57:49,075 Speaker 1: Everything else was as ever, my fault. That's countdown for today, 822 00:57:49,355 --> 00:57:54,035 Speaker 1: A week until we inaugurate a constitutionally ineligible president who 823 00:57:54,195 --> 00:57:58,995 Speaker 1: is mad as an effing hatter and on the good side, 824 00:57:59,395 --> 00:58:02,155 Speaker 1: just one four hundred and sixty nine days until the 825 00:58:02,235 --> 00:58:05,835 Speaker 1: scheduled end of his lame duck term. If he lasts 826 00:58:05,955 --> 00:58:11,275 Speaker 1: that long. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. As always, 827 00:58:11,315 --> 00:58:13,475 Speaker 1: bulletins as the news warrants till the next one. I'm 828 00:58:13,555 --> 00:58:18,755 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and wait, 829 00:58:18,795 --> 00:58:42,155 Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit the post here. Good Luck. Countdown with 830 00:58:42,315 --> 00:58:46,555 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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