1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,515 --> 00:00:28,675 Speaker 1: It is the commercial Your damn right gas prices are 3 00:00:28,795 --> 00:00:32,875 Speaker 1: rising again, Joe Biden, or Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama 4 00:00:33,035 --> 00:00:37,475 Speaker 1: or somebody says, as the commercial begins, because the bone 5 00:00:37,515 --> 00:00:41,955 Speaker 1: cutting Saudis and the genocidal Russians and the Republican prostitutes 6 00:00:42,035 --> 00:00:46,915 Speaker 1: here are raising your gas prices deliberately. The commercial then 7 00:00:47,035 --> 00:00:49,475 Speaker 1: runs through the rest of the Republican platform for the 8 00:00:49,515 --> 00:00:53,435 Speaker 1: mid terms, cutting social security and medicare, sun setting the 9 00:00:53,475 --> 00:00:57,035 Speaker 1: rest of the safety net, banning abortion, banning gay marriage, 10 00:00:57,275 --> 00:01:02,275 Speaker 1: banning transgender treatment, ending any further COVID treatments, keeping drug 11 00:01:02,355 --> 00:01:07,075 Speaker 1: prices high, keeping gas prices high, selling out Ukraine, helping 12 00:01:07,115 --> 00:01:11,475 Speaker 1: Putent take over Eastern Europe, eliminating free elections here, ending 13 00:01:11,515 --> 00:01:15,435 Speaker 1: the peaceful transfer of power, deporting all of the foreigners, 14 00:01:15,715 --> 00:01:22,955 Speaker 1: deputizing white supremacist militias, increasing anti semitism, rewarding insurrectionists, impeaching Biden, 15 00:01:23,115 --> 00:01:27,915 Speaker 1: impeaching Mayorcas, impeaching b Lincoln, defunding the FBI, defunding the 16 00:01:28,035 --> 00:01:33,395 Speaker 1: National Archives, defaulting on our national debts, stealing classified documents, 17 00:01:33,475 --> 00:01:38,835 Speaker 1: increasing access to guns, increasing school shootings, increasing thoughts and prayers. 18 00:01:39,875 --> 00:01:44,635 Speaker 1: They are selling the destruction of twenty one century America 19 00:01:44,995 --> 00:01:49,315 Speaker 1: to Americans, and new polling says they are winning because 20 00:01:49,715 --> 00:01:54,235 Speaker 1: gas prices are rising again, and they are winning because 21 00:01:54,315 --> 00:01:59,515 Speaker 1: nobody on the Democratic side has yet put out the commercial. 22 00:02:01,155 --> 00:02:04,875 Speaker 1: The House Republicans Study Committee plans to raise the age 23 00:02:04,875 --> 00:02:08,595 Speaker 1: of eligibility for Social Security to seventy and plans to 24 00:02:08,675 --> 00:02:11,395 Speaker 1: raise the age of eligibility for Medicare to sixty seven 25 00:02:11,475 --> 00:02:15,675 Speaker 1: and to phase in means testing. Where is the commercial 26 00:02:16,115 --> 00:02:19,155 Speaker 1: showing its chairman Jim Banks pushing an old woman in 27 00:02:19,195 --> 00:02:23,635 Speaker 1: a wheelchair down a flight of stairs. Rick Scott's Rescue 28 00:02:23,795 --> 00:02:27,475 Speaker 1: America plan calls for a new vote on all federal 29 00:02:27,555 --> 00:02:30,875 Speaker 1: legislation every five years. That's the rest of the safety 30 00:02:30,915 --> 00:02:35,035 Speaker 1: net up for grabs every five years. Where's the commercial 31 00:02:35,475 --> 00:02:39,795 Speaker 1: showing Rick Scott imploding an unemployment insurance office or burning 32 00:02:39,835 --> 00:02:44,075 Speaker 1: food snaps or cutting off school aid. Five years isn't 33 00:02:44,115 --> 00:02:47,555 Speaker 1: often enough for Ron Johnson. He wants Social Security and 34 00:02:47,595 --> 00:02:50,955 Speaker 1: Medicare to be reduced to programs that are approved every 35 00:02:51,075 --> 00:02:55,155 Speaker 1: year with annual budgets that can be cut. However, Republicans 36 00:02:55,155 --> 00:02:59,515 Speaker 1: see fit. Where is the commercial showing Ron Johnson taking 37 00:02:59,555 --> 00:03:02,315 Speaker 1: money out of the hands of people in retirement homes 38 00:03:02,475 --> 00:03:07,395 Speaker 1: and giving it to Elon must Kevin McCarthy now says 39 00:03:07,555 --> 00:03:11,995 Speaker 1: on the record, yes, he will foment another debt ceiling crisis. 40 00:03:12,075 --> 00:03:14,915 Speaker 1: He will threaten to plunge this country and the world 41 00:03:14,915 --> 00:03:18,555 Speaker 1: into financial apocalypse. He has the goal to say, you 42 00:03:18,595 --> 00:03:21,675 Speaker 1: can't just continue down the path to keep spending and 43 00:03:21,715 --> 00:03:23,955 Speaker 1: adding to the debt, even though that's exactly what the 44 00:03:23,995 --> 00:03:27,355 Speaker 1: Republicans did under Trump and raise the debt by seven 45 00:03:27,475 --> 00:03:32,315 Speaker 1: trillion dollars. Where is the commercial showing McCarthy pulling food 46 00:03:32,355 --> 00:03:35,275 Speaker 1: out of a child's hands while bankers foreclose on the 47 00:03:35,315 --> 00:03:39,795 Speaker 1: family home and McCarthy yesterday confirmed what we already knew. 48 00:03:40,075 --> 00:03:44,955 Speaker 1: Putin is just holding on in Ukraine until the mid terms. Quote, 49 00:03:45,555 --> 00:03:48,275 Speaker 1: Ukraine is important, but at the same time, it can't 50 00:03:48,315 --> 00:03:50,955 Speaker 1: be the only thing they do, and it can't be 51 00:03:51,075 --> 00:03:57,035 Speaker 1: a blank check. Where is the commercial showing Putin using 52 00:03:57,155 --> 00:04:00,955 Speaker 1: tactical nukes in Poland or standing in front of the 53 00:04:00,955 --> 00:04:06,835 Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower shaking hands with McCarthy and Trump. McCarthy yesterday 54 00:04:06,835 --> 00:04:09,835 Speaker 1: said he is opposed to any requests for new COVID funding. 55 00:04:09,995 --> 00:04:14,755 Speaker 1: Where is the commercial showing him with newspapers dated with 56 00:04:14,795 --> 00:04:18,555 Speaker 1: headlines about the resistant new COVID strain and McCarthy pulling 57 00:04:18,595 --> 00:04:23,755 Speaker 1: oxygen tubes out of patients noses and mouths. Ron Johnson said, quote, 58 00:04:23,915 --> 00:04:26,875 Speaker 1: there's a larger story to be told about January six. 59 00:04:27,075 --> 00:04:30,355 Speaker 1: They're not asking what did Nancy Pelosi know and when 60 00:04:30,355 --> 00:04:34,955 Speaker 1: did she know it? Where is the commercial showing Johnson 61 00:04:35,035 --> 00:04:38,435 Speaker 1: on his fourth of July trip to Moscow shaking Putin's 62 00:04:38,475 --> 00:04:41,035 Speaker 1: hand and hitting a Capitol policeman over the head with 63 00:04:41,075 --> 00:04:45,115 Speaker 1: a riot shield. After months of nodding along as the 64 00:04:45,155 --> 00:04:48,515 Speaker 1: other fascists said leave it up to the states, Lindsay 65 00:04:48,635 --> 00:04:53,115 Speaker 1: Graham said he will introduce national laws to make abortions 66 00:04:53,155 --> 00:04:58,235 Speaker 1: illegal after fifteen weeks. Where is the commercial showing a 67 00:04:58,395 --> 00:05:02,155 Speaker 1: back alley abortionist with bloody coat hangers in his hands, 68 00:05:02,355 --> 00:05:05,075 Speaker 1: and as he pulls off his masks, the lighting floods 69 00:05:05,115 --> 00:05:07,795 Speaker 1: his face and the abortion nous turns out to be 70 00:05:07,955 --> 00:05:13,995 Speaker 1: Lindsay freaking Graham. Marjorie Trailer Park Green and Lauren Bobert 71 00:05:14,075 --> 00:05:17,915 Speaker 1: and a dozen others are calling to defund the FBI, 72 00:05:17,995 --> 00:05:21,235 Speaker 1: and JR. Madjuski also wants to defund the c I 73 00:05:21,395 --> 00:05:25,595 Speaker 1: A where is the commercial showing the FBI purp walking 74 00:05:25,635 --> 00:05:29,315 Speaker 1: a child pornographer, and then Green and Bobert and Madjusky 75 00:05:29,475 --> 00:05:33,355 Speaker 1: swoop in to free the pedophile Ron de Santis and 76 00:05:33,475 --> 00:05:36,995 Speaker 1: too many more of these scumb to count pledged to 77 00:05:37,035 --> 00:05:42,315 Speaker 1: eliminate any remaining investigations of Trump's nuclear document Kleptomania and 78 00:05:42,355 --> 00:05:45,875 Speaker 1: the risk Trump poses to national security. Where is the 79 00:05:45,955 --> 00:05:51,035 Speaker 1: commercial showing Trump handing the fan mail that Kim Jong 80 00:05:51,195 --> 00:05:54,515 Speaker 1: un sent him to Bob Woodward and saying, oh, those 81 00:05:54,555 --> 00:05:58,475 Speaker 1: are so top secret, don't say I gave them to you. Okay? 82 00:05:59,995 --> 00:06:03,915 Speaker 1: How many more of these commercials have not been made? 83 00:06:04,715 --> 00:06:06,915 Speaker 1: Eve Bannon and a bunch of proud boys beating up 84 00:06:06,955 --> 00:06:12,075 Speaker 1: poll workers thirty seconds that's just Kanye West spewing anti Semitism, 85 00:06:12,155 --> 00:06:15,395 Speaker 1: ending with him telling Tucker Carlson, I like Trump and 86 00:06:15,555 --> 00:06:18,995 Speaker 1: I love this guy Trump marching back into the White 87 00:06:19,035 --> 00:06:22,795 Speaker 1: House surrounded by the Charlottesville Nazis. A policeman asking somebody 88 00:06:22,835 --> 00:06:25,555 Speaker 1: their religion, and when the guy says agnostic, the cop 89 00:06:25,635 --> 00:06:27,915 Speaker 1: pushes them out of the line, and the line turns 90 00:06:27,915 --> 00:06:29,955 Speaker 1: out to have been the one in which you wait 91 00:06:30,035 --> 00:06:33,915 Speaker 1: to vote. Any of the great voice mimics of our 92 00:06:33,995 --> 00:06:38,355 Speaker 1: time reading out Trump's post over the weekend, threatening American 93 00:06:38,475 --> 00:06:41,075 Speaker 1: Jews that they have to get their act together before 94 00:06:41,115 --> 00:06:49,155 Speaker 1: it's too late. Where is the commercial I get it. 95 00:06:49,915 --> 00:06:52,915 Speaker 1: We believe we are better than them, or if we 96 00:06:52,955 --> 00:06:55,955 Speaker 1: are not actually better than them, we at least can 97 00:06:55,995 --> 00:07:00,555 Speaker 1: never be as bad as them. We actually believe in diversity, 98 00:07:00,635 --> 00:07:05,555 Speaker 1: even diversity of opinions. We cannot make the notion it 99 00:07:05,675 --> 00:07:09,995 Speaker 1: is in our bones that the Trump cultists are not 100 00:07:10,155 --> 00:07:15,515 Speaker 1: lost beyond redemption, but just deeply confused Americans, and we 101 00:07:15,595 --> 00:07:20,355 Speaker 1: might yet shame them, or save them, or rescue them somehow. 102 00:07:21,315 --> 00:07:24,355 Speaker 1: We do not want to make new Willie Horton ads, 103 00:07:24,435 --> 00:07:26,595 Speaker 1: and we do not want to make the new Roger 104 00:07:26,635 --> 00:07:31,155 Speaker 1: Ales who makes Willie Horton ads. We don't want a 105 00:07:31,235 --> 00:07:34,875 Speaker 1: network like Fox News or news Max or o A. 106 00:07:35,155 --> 00:07:38,155 Speaker 1: And even if the only thing it steals from them 107 00:07:38,315 --> 00:07:41,155 Speaker 1: is the ferocity of the punch is thrown, and even 108 00:07:41,155 --> 00:07:43,635 Speaker 1: if it did stick to the truth twenty four hours 109 00:07:43,635 --> 00:07:48,475 Speaker 1: a day, we are better than they are. But the 110 00:07:48,475 --> 00:07:53,915 Speaker 1: wolf is at the door here. The Republicans worked with 111 00:07:53,955 --> 00:07:58,515 Speaker 1: the Russians to tilt in ways we may never fully understand. 112 00:07:59,435 --> 00:08:06,035 Speaker 1: The Republicans are working now with the Saudis to Hilo. 113 00:08:07,835 --> 00:08:11,755 Speaker 1: They have jumped the ethical shark and have now rationalized 114 00:08:11,955 --> 00:08:17,355 Speaker 1: anything anything by lying to themselves and lying to their cultists, 115 00:08:17,395 --> 00:08:23,755 Speaker 1: so long that they truly believe Democrats are satanic, literally satanic, 116 00:08:24,435 --> 00:08:29,275 Speaker 1: and so anything Republicans do is justifiable, as justifiable as 117 00:08:29,315 --> 00:08:33,835 Speaker 1: the Union crushing the Confederacy in the Civil War. To them, 118 00:08:33,835 --> 00:08:40,875 Speaker 1: it's Abraham Lincoln vampire killer. Any time is the right 119 00:08:40,955 --> 00:08:45,555 Speaker 1: time for principles, But this is also the time for 120 00:08:45,595 --> 00:08:51,755 Speaker 1: the principle that American democracy, American freedom, American representative government, 121 00:08:52,195 --> 00:08:55,835 Speaker 1: the safety of every minority in this country, literally, the 122 00:08:55,875 --> 00:08:58,435 Speaker 1: freedom of Europe and the rest of the world from 123 00:08:58,435 --> 00:09:02,595 Speaker 1: Putin's aggression, and the freedom from Republican appeasement of Putin, 124 00:09:03,035 --> 00:09:07,195 Speaker 1: and the environmental future of the planet are all about 125 00:09:07,435 --> 00:09:11,555 Speaker 1: to be lost in the midterms. In twenty days. We 126 00:09:11,675 --> 00:09:16,115 Speaker 1: have twenty days until the gravity gets turned off and 127 00:09:16,155 --> 00:09:19,675 Speaker 1: the bastards who nearly stole democracy right out from under 128 00:09:19,755 --> 00:09:23,035 Speaker 1: us on January six and have spent the time since 129 00:09:23,435 --> 00:09:28,555 Speaker 1: fine tuning their treason until they gain control of us, 130 00:09:28,955 --> 00:09:33,075 Speaker 1: gain control of our families, gained control of our children, 131 00:09:33,235 --> 00:09:37,435 Speaker 1: gain control of our neighbors, gain control of the world 132 00:09:38,155 --> 00:09:45,235 Speaker 1: and do whatever the hell they want to it. Where 133 00:09:45,235 --> 00:09:53,435 Speaker 1: are the commercials? Where is the urgency? Where is the fervor? 134 00:09:54,155 --> 00:09:59,715 Speaker 1: Where is the anger? Where is the sense of life 135 00:10:00,915 --> 00:10:08,275 Speaker 1: or death? Where is this symbolism, the metaphor, the equivalence 136 00:10:08,875 --> 00:10:13,155 Speaker 1: to the greatest words said by a Democratic leader in decades? 137 00:10:13,315 --> 00:10:18,955 Speaker 1: Where is the commercial that conveys the spirit of I 138 00:10:18,995 --> 00:10:22,795 Speaker 1: want to punch him out. I've been waiting for this. 139 00:10:23,315 --> 00:10:41,155 Speaker 1: I'm gonna punch him out and I'm going to be happy. 140 00:10:43,035 --> 00:10:48,795 Speaker 1: Still ahead, uncountdown. Marco Rubio opposes ballant drop boxes because 141 00:10:49,835 --> 00:10:54,315 Speaker 1: what if they blow up? The Fox nudes woman who 142 00:10:54,315 --> 00:10:57,155 Speaker 1: says Stacy Abrahams is not qualified to talk about abortion 143 00:10:57,195 --> 00:11:00,075 Speaker 1: because she's never had a child. She says this as 144 00:11:00,075 --> 00:11:02,635 Speaker 1: she sits next to one co host guy who's never 145 00:11:02,675 --> 00:11:05,155 Speaker 1: had a child. Another co host guy has never had 146 00:11:05,195 --> 00:11:07,675 Speaker 1: a child, and they all interviewed the Georgia governor, who's 147 00:11:07,675 --> 00:11:09,955 Speaker 1: a guy who's never had a child. Worse persons coming up? 148 00:11:10,395 --> 00:11:14,995 Speaker 1: Sports exactly what we need an NFL game on Black Friday. 149 00:11:15,755 --> 00:11:18,715 Speaker 1: And maybe the best advice I ever got came from 150 00:11:18,715 --> 00:11:21,315 Speaker 1: somebody I worked with for just five months and twenty 151 00:11:21,395 --> 00:11:24,675 Speaker 1: days and that ended thirty eight years ago. Today the 152 00:11:24,755 --> 00:11:29,435 Speaker 1: story of chet Curtis the mandarin of Boston TV news 153 00:11:29,515 --> 00:11:33,635 Speaker 1: and the phrase don't get used to it. That's next, 154 00:11:33,875 --> 00:11:52,675 Speaker 1: this discountdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead 155 00:11:52,755 --> 00:11:57,355 Speaker 1: on Countdown. Apparently the elections in Florida we're more explosive 156 00:11:57,355 --> 00:12:01,155 Speaker 1: than ever we knew. At the only Senate debate there, 157 00:12:01,355 --> 00:12:05,315 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio performed a public service by warning us of 158 00:12:05,395 --> 00:12:08,915 Speaker 1: all those ballot drop boxes there that keep blowing up. 159 00:12:09,275 --> 00:12:13,715 Speaker 1: Bloat up, real good, blow them up, real good. I'm 160 00:12:13,715 --> 00:12:17,555 Speaker 1: Billy Sulhirok. And in sports, one NFL owner warns another, 161 00:12:18,115 --> 00:12:22,355 Speaker 1: don't have with me first. In each edition of Countdown, 162 00:12:22,355 --> 00:12:24,395 Speaker 1: we feature dog in need who you can help. Every 163 00:12:24,395 --> 00:12:26,595 Speaker 1: dog has its day. We go to the state of 164 00:12:26,635 --> 00:12:30,875 Speaker 1: Georgia and Hitchcock. Hitchcock is a handsome little schnauser hit 165 00:12:30,955 --> 00:12:33,955 Speaker 1: by a car found by a roadside in critical condition 166 00:12:34,235 --> 00:12:38,595 Speaker 1: with what maybe temporary paralysis. His site is also at risk, 167 00:12:38,635 --> 00:12:40,635 Speaker 1: but they think with quality care he could be good. 168 00:12:41,035 --> 00:12:43,675 Speaker 1: Hounds and Pounds of New Jersey is fundraising for Hitchcock. 169 00:12:43,795 --> 00:12:45,795 Speaker 1: If you'd like to donate to help him, try their 170 00:12:45,835 --> 00:12:49,395 Speaker 1: site or Hitchcock will be the pinned tweet at my 171 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:52,475 Speaker 1: account for Dogs in Need on Twitter that Tom Jumbo 172 00:12:52,555 --> 00:12:56,275 Speaker 1: Grumbo and retweeting his story will also help him, and 173 00:12:56,315 --> 00:13:12,075 Speaker 1: I thank you very much for doing so. Postscripts to 174 00:13:12,115 --> 00:13:15,675 Speaker 1: the news, some headlines, some inside, some snark. Dateline, lake 175 00:13:15,795 --> 00:13:19,075 Speaker 1: Worth Beach, Florida. A surprise from the first and only 176 00:13:19,155 --> 00:13:23,955 Speaker 1: Florida senatorial debate when Senator Marco Rubio posited to opponent 177 00:13:24,035 --> 00:13:29,595 Speaker 1: bl Demmings previously unused rationale against ballot drop boxes. There's 178 00:13:29,635 --> 00:13:32,555 Speaker 1: danger involved in drop boxes. People need to think about it. Okay. 179 00:13:32,635 --> 00:13:34,675 Speaker 1: Imagine if someone decides, so, there's a dropbox, I'm just 180 00:13:34,675 --> 00:13:36,355 Speaker 1: gonna put some explosive in it and blow it up 181 00:13:36,355 --> 00:13:38,035 Speaker 1: and burn all of those ballots, and now those votes 182 00:13:38,035 --> 00:13:41,195 Speaker 1: don't count at all. Okay, there's there's something with elections. 183 00:13:41,195 --> 00:13:42,955 Speaker 1: There are two things that are very important. Number One 184 00:13:42,995 --> 00:13:45,915 Speaker 1: that you may laugh, but six out of every seven 185 00:13:45,955 --> 00:13:50,715 Speaker 1: people in Florida are carrying explosives. Okay, imagine someone decides, oh, 186 00:13:50,755 --> 00:13:53,795 Speaker 1: there's a Marco Rubio, I'm just gonna put some explosive 187 00:13:53,875 --> 00:13:58,195 Speaker 1: in it. He really is the dumbest person in the country. 188 00:13:58,715 --> 00:14:03,075 Speaker 1: Dateline Alexandria, Virginia. Well maybe except for John Durham. In 189 00:14:03,115 --> 00:14:06,355 Speaker 1: the last thirteen months, the Wall Street Journal editorial page 190 00:14:06,355 --> 00:14:09,795 Speaker 1: has run these headlines about the Special Council who was 191 00:14:09,835 --> 00:14:16,035 Speaker 1: supposed to I don't know obtain three consecutive death sentences 192 00:14:16,155 --> 00:14:20,555 Speaker 1: for Hillary Clinton for the Trump Russia conspiracy investigation. Quote 193 00:14:20,955 --> 00:14:24,315 Speaker 1: Durham shows how the FBI lets its informants mislead it. 194 00:14:24,715 --> 00:14:29,755 Speaker 1: Quote Durham delivers on Russia Gate. Quote Durham's FBI indictment, 195 00:14:29,915 --> 00:14:34,075 Speaker 1: and quote Durham cracks the Rusher case. Yesterday, a jury 196 00:14:34,115 --> 00:14:38,035 Speaker 1: acquitted the analyst Igor dan Chenko on all four charges 197 00:14:38,075 --> 00:14:41,395 Speaker 1: in connection to the Steel dossier. So John Durham's final 198 00:14:41,555 --> 00:14:46,995 Speaker 1: score two defendants, seven charges, six acquittals, a plea bargain 199 00:14:47,115 --> 00:14:50,195 Speaker 1: on the seventh, and the defendant got as a result 200 00:14:50,195 --> 00:15:08,835 Speaker 1: of the plea bargain probation. Nice works, Sparky, This is 201 00:15:09,315 --> 00:15:16,515 Speaker 1: Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This is Countdown 202 00:15:17,155 --> 00:15:21,355 Speaker 1: with Keith in sports just what we need. Part of 203 00:15:21,395 --> 00:15:25,835 Speaker 1: Amazons streaming deal for NFL telecasts for the two thousand 204 00:15:25,915 --> 00:15:29,315 Speaker 1: twenty three season will include a new game on the 205 00:15:29,395 --> 00:15:34,315 Speaker 1: day after Thanksgiving, which is Friday. In fact, it's Shopping's 206 00:15:34,435 --> 00:15:38,515 Speaker 1: Black Friday. Obviously this will get Amazon plenty of publicity, 207 00:15:38,555 --> 00:15:43,075 Speaker 1: but wouldn't a midday NFL game on Black Friday reduce 208 00:15:43,355 --> 00:15:46,915 Speaker 1: shopping at Amazon? And first we had the story that 209 00:15:47,235 --> 00:15:51,155 Speaker 1: Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder has not been tossed out 210 00:15:51,155 --> 00:15:53,075 Speaker 1: of the league because he has dirt on a bunch 211 00:15:53,115 --> 00:15:55,675 Speaker 1: of other owners, like Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys. 212 00:15:55,995 --> 00:15:59,355 Speaker 1: Now ESPN is reporting that the league's thirty two owners 213 00:15:59,355 --> 00:16:03,235 Speaker 1: have voted to permit their compensation committee to begin negotiations 214 00:16:03,235 --> 00:16:06,355 Speaker 1: with Commissioner Roger Goodell on a new contract. The final 215 00:16:06,475 --> 00:16:10,875 Speaker 1: vote was thirty one two Jerry Jones. The head poke 216 00:16:11,155 --> 00:16:14,875 Speaker 1: was the Loane No but even better. As the vote neared, 217 00:16:14,915 --> 00:16:17,835 Speaker 1: New England Patriots boss Robert Kraft went up to Jones 218 00:16:17,915 --> 00:16:23,515 Speaker 1: and said, quoting ESPN source, don't f with me. Jones answered, 219 00:16:23,675 --> 00:16:29,155 Speaker 1: excuse me, Craft rephrased it, don't mess with me. Apparently 220 00:16:29,195 --> 00:16:31,315 Speaker 1: that was the end of the confrontation and the brief 221 00:16:31,355 --> 00:16:56,995 Speaker 1: meeting involving Craft at least had a happy ending think 222 00:16:56,995 --> 00:17:00,195 Speaker 1: about it. Coming up the day, I witnessed fame for 223 00:17:00,235 --> 00:17:04,155 Speaker 1: the first time firsthand. Within a minute of Check Curtis's 224 00:17:04,195 --> 00:17:08,035 Speaker 1: appearance on the deserted streets of Holiday Boston, there formed 225 00:17:08,035 --> 00:17:10,595 Speaker 1: a crowd of somewhere between fifty and a hundred people. 226 00:17:10,995 --> 00:17:14,275 Speaker 1: Where they came from. I have no idea to this day. 227 00:17:14,475 --> 00:17:17,115 Speaker 1: If you told me they had emerged from the sewers, 228 00:17:17,155 --> 00:17:20,435 Speaker 1: I would have believed you his advice about what to 229 00:17:20,555 --> 00:17:24,755 Speaker 1: do with that kind of concentrated fame. Coming up first, 230 00:17:24,755 --> 00:17:27,195 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miscrants, morons, and dunning Krueger 231 00:17:27,235 --> 00:17:31,395 Speaker 1: effect specimens who constitute today's worse persons in the world. 232 00:17:31,755 --> 00:17:36,835 Speaker 1: Le bronze to Blaine Kanzatti. Blaine Kanzati, the president of 233 00:17:36,835 --> 00:17:39,995 Speaker 1: the Idaho Family Policy Council, You may have heard that 234 00:17:40,075 --> 00:17:42,395 Speaker 1: Idaho will be the first U. S state across the 235 00:17:42,395 --> 00:17:46,915 Speaker 1: finish line into full theocratic fascism. Mr Kanzatti will be 236 00:17:46,955 --> 00:17:49,915 Speaker 1: near the front of the line. Has announced that in January, 237 00:17:49,955 --> 00:17:52,435 Speaker 1: the Idaho Legislature will take up a bill that would 238 00:17:52,475 --> 00:17:57,635 Speaker 1: man quote drag performances in public venues. And it gets worse. 239 00:17:57,795 --> 00:18:03,795 Speaker 1: Mr Kanzati insists that drag is comparable to anybody blackface. 240 00:18:04,755 --> 00:18:06,915 Speaker 1: I'm waiting for the silver lining here, which is when 241 00:18:06,955 --> 00:18:09,235 Speaker 1: all the drag performers reveal the names of all the 242 00:18:09,275 --> 00:18:15,035 Speaker 1: members of the Idaho Legislature. They know the runner up. 243 00:18:15,075 --> 00:18:19,755 Speaker 1: Tutor Dixon super genius. She is the only two thousand 244 00:18:19,795 --> 00:18:24,435 Speaker 1: twenty two fascist gubernatorial candidates who portrayed Sheila Wolf in 245 00:18:24,435 --> 00:18:28,995 Speaker 1: the two thousand nine film Buddy Bebop Versus The Living Dead. 246 00:18:29,835 --> 00:18:32,675 Speaker 1: Tutor Dixon is the one who promised to end trans 247 00:18:32,715 --> 00:18:36,875 Speaker 1: women playing men's sports in Michigan high school and college outfits. 248 00:18:37,315 --> 00:18:40,315 Speaker 1: And then somebody asked for one example of it happening, 249 00:18:40,355 --> 00:18:44,355 Speaker 1: and she couldn't think of one. Wow, she's done it again. 250 00:18:44,595 --> 00:18:46,515 Speaker 1: She was asked now about how to stop the next 251 00:18:46,555 --> 00:18:49,235 Speaker 1: school shooting before it happened, and her answer was, quote, 252 00:18:49,315 --> 00:18:53,035 Speaker 1: instead of doing all this critical race training, how about 253 00:18:53,075 --> 00:18:57,835 Speaker 1: we have training on spotting the emergency before it happens. Firstly, 254 00:18:57,875 --> 00:19:04,075 Speaker 1: it's critical race theory, Buddy Bebop lady. Secondly, critical race 255 00:19:04,155 --> 00:19:12,715 Speaker 1: theory is taught in guess how many Michigan schools. That's right, None, idiot, 256 00:19:13,915 --> 00:19:18,675 Speaker 1: but our winner. Rachel Campos Duffy of Fox Nudes. She's 257 00:19:18,675 --> 00:19:20,635 Speaker 1: the one who once told her audience that the US 258 00:19:20,675 --> 00:19:24,595 Speaker 1: had caused Russia to invade Ukraine. Well, now she's topped herself. 259 00:19:24,875 --> 00:19:28,155 Speaker 1: Campos Duffy has decreed that the Democratic candidate for governor 260 00:19:28,235 --> 00:19:31,915 Speaker 1: Georgia Stacy Abrams is not qualified to talk about abortions 261 00:19:31,955 --> 00:19:35,795 Speaker 1: because she has never had a child. A flash of 262 00:19:35,835 --> 00:19:39,395 Speaker 1: discomfort seemed to form across the faces of her co 263 00:19:39,555 --> 00:19:43,795 Speaker 1: host Steve Doocey and her other co host, Brian Kilmeade 264 00:19:44,075 --> 00:19:47,435 Speaker 1: and their guests Brian Kemp and inside you just knew 265 00:19:47,475 --> 00:19:50,515 Speaker 1: they were all wondering who was going to tell Rachel 266 00:19:51,075 --> 00:19:54,555 Speaker 1: that men talk about abortions all the time. In fact, 267 00:19:54,595 --> 00:19:58,115 Speaker 1: men were talking about abortions at that very moment, even 268 00:19:58,115 --> 00:20:03,955 Speaker 1: though men have never had a child either, foxes Rachel 269 00:20:04,155 --> 00:20:07,275 Speaker 1: after nine kids, you would have thought she'd know that 270 00:20:07,795 --> 00:20:16,435 Speaker 1: camp post Duffy two Day's worst personage in the World, 271 00:20:28,435 --> 00:20:30,875 Speaker 1: number one story on the Countdown in my favorite topic, 272 00:20:30,995 --> 00:20:34,075 Speaker 1: Me and forty years ago today, my epic career as 273 00:20:34,115 --> 00:20:39,515 Speaker 1: a local Boston sportscaster ended. I did not last long there. 274 00:20:40,115 --> 00:20:42,595 Speaker 1: The station got mad at me for making jokes during 275 00:20:42,595 --> 00:20:44,995 Speaker 1: the sportscast, which raised the question why did they hire 276 00:20:44,995 --> 00:20:48,155 Speaker 1: a guy known for making jokes during the sportscast? So 277 00:20:48,195 --> 00:20:52,395 Speaker 1: I left ten days shy of six months. Last day, 278 00:20:52,555 --> 00:20:55,275 Speaker 1: right after I got back from covering the World Series, 279 00:20:55,275 --> 00:20:58,435 Speaker 1: sitting next to another young Boston TV Sports reporter named 280 00:20:58,475 --> 00:21:04,475 Speaker 1: Carl Scrimsky, and the last day was Friday, October four. 281 00:21:05,635 --> 00:21:08,675 Speaker 1: It was short, but it was not sweet. But I 282 00:21:08,715 --> 00:21:11,795 Speaker 1: did meet some extraordinary people, and I learned one extraordinary 283 00:21:11,875 --> 00:21:13,675 Speaker 1: lesson that applies to a lot more of life than 284 00:21:13,755 --> 00:21:17,395 Speaker 1: might be suggested at first plush. On the night of Friday, 285 00:21:17,515 --> 00:21:22,075 Speaker 1: July six, Chet Curtis, who with his wife Natalie Jacobson, 286 00:21:22,115 --> 00:21:25,195 Speaker 1: were the mandarins of Boston Television News, asked me if 287 00:21:25,235 --> 00:21:28,315 Speaker 1: I wanted to go with him to dinner after our 288 00:21:28,435 --> 00:21:31,595 Speaker 1: six pm newscast. The following Monday, I would move from 289 00:21:31,675 --> 00:21:34,355 Speaker 1: sports reporter and fill in at the sports desk to 290 00:21:34,515 --> 00:21:37,755 Speaker 1: anchoring the sports report every night on r eleven PM newscast. 291 00:21:38,195 --> 00:21:41,515 Speaker 1: The year before, our station, Channel five, had interviewed me 292 00:21:41,595 --> 00:21:43,475 Speaker 1: for the job of sports director, but I made a 293 00:21:43,595 --> 00:21:45,915 Speaker 1: terrible mistake. In the interview with the general manager, Jim 294 00:21:45,955 --> 00:21:49,155 Speaker 1: copper Smith. I mentioned to him that we had met 295 00:21:49,195 --> 00:21:52,235 Speaker 1: before when he was general manager of Channel five in 296 00:21:52,275 --> 00:21:56,315 Speaker 1: New York and I was an intern in their newsroom. 297 00:21:56,315 --> 00:22:00,035 Speaker 1: This peaked copper Smith's curiosity since it had happened only 298 00:22:00,115 --> 00:22:03,435 Speaker 1: five years later. That's when he found out I was 299 00:22:03,475 --> 00:22:05,955 Speaker 1: not twenty eight years old, as his news director had 300 00:22:05,955 --> 00:22:08,955 Speaker 1: told him, but I was only twenty four. So instead 301 00:22:08,955 --> 00:22:11,315 Speaker 1: he hired this guy from Florida named Lee Webb. And 302 00:22:11,355 --> 00:22:12,955 Speaker 1: all you really need to know about Lee was that 303 00:22:13,035 --> 00:22:15,915 Speaker 1: after he left the station, he became the quote newscast 304 00:22:15,915 --> 00:22:19,515 Speaker 1: your unquote on the Pat Robertson TV network, and he 305 00:22:19,595 --> 00:22:22,355 Speaker 1: started talking about what the Bible said about Ronald Reagan. 306 00:22:22,395 --> 00:22:26,555 Speaker 1: And he often used the phrases Republicans and Democrats and 307 00:22:26,755 --> 00:22:32,075 Speaker 1: fire and brimstone in the same sentence. So a year 308 00:22:32,155 --> 00:22:34,475 Speaker 1: later they had decided Webb was too dull and I 309 00:22:34,555 --> 00:22:37,235 Speaker 1: was the coming thing, and they were splitting the sportscasting 310 00:22:37,315 --> 00:22:40,475 Speaker 1: job in half. Lee would stay on the six and 311 00:22:40,555 --> 00:22:43,475 Speaker 1: I would do the eleven. And Chad Curtis, who had 312 00:22:43,515 --> 00:22:46,875 Speaker 1: been on Boston TV since, wanted to give me an 313 00:22:46,915 --> 00:22:49,395 Speaker 1: idea of what was coming for me. So he said, 314 00:22:49,555 --> 00:22:53,075 Speaker 1: Let's go to Anthony's Pier four. Kind of touristy fish place, 315 00:22:53,475 --> 00:22:55,635 Speaker 1: but beautiful and great food, but I have to stop 316 00:22:55,635 --> 00:22:57,635 Speaker 1: on my way to get a quick SoundBite for the eleven. 317 00:22:58,715 --> 00:23:01,675 Speaker 1: Sure enough, Chet drove to a downtown office building, spied 318 00:23:01,715 --> 00:23:04,435 Speaker 1: the Channel five cameraman waiting for us on the sidewalk, 319 00:23:04,795 --> 00:23:08,995 Speaker 1: parked and hopped out. Now, on any summer's Friday night, 320 00:23:09,035 --> 00:23:13,755 Speaker 1: then end. Now Boston's downtown is deserted. But this was 321 00:23:13,795 --> 00:23:16,435 Speaker 1: a Friday night, two days after July four. It was 322 00:23:16,515 --> 00:23:19,875 Speaker 1: so empty you could hear the stoplights change from red 323 00:23:19,915 --> 00:23:23,475 Speaker 1: to green. Yet within a minute of check Curtis's appearance, 324 00:23:23,755 --> 00:23:26,755 Speaker 1: there formed a crowd of somewhere between fifty and a 325 00:23:26,835 --> 00:23:31,235 Speaker 1: hundred people. Where they came from. I have no idea 326 00:23:31,395 --> 00:23:34,355 Speaker 1: to this day. If you told me they had emerged 327 00:23:34,435 --> 00:23:37,955 Speaker 1: from the sewers, I would have and would believe you. 328 00:23:38,835 --> 00:23:41,955 Speaker 1: Without being asked. They formed a neat semi circle out 329 00:23:41,955 --> 00:23:44,115 Speaker 1: of the range of the camera. Whoever the guy was 330 00:23:44,115 --> 00:23:46,995 Speaker 1: that Chet was supposed to interview, answered his questions quickly. 331 00:23:47,235 --> 00:23:50,915 Speaker 1: The cameraman repositioned himself to get the obligatory. Chet listens 332 00:23:50,995 --> 00:23:54,835 Speaker 1: intently and intelligently cutaway shots. Then he said, Okay, we're done, 333 00:23:55,355 --> 00:24:00,555 Speaker 1: and the semicircle of civilians burst into applause. A few 334 00:24:00,595 --> 00:24:04,195 Speaker 1: came over for autographs and pictures. One said to me, yeah, 335 00:24:04,235 --> 00:24:06,955 Speaker 1: the new WUTS guy, I like you. Then they all 336 00:24:07,035 --> 00:24:10,955 Speaker 1: left as stealthily as they appeared. We got back into 337 00:24:11,075 --> 00:24:17,075 Speaker 1: Chet's truck. I was laughing nervously how how how do 338 00:24:17,115 --> 00:24:19,395 Speaker 1: you get used to that? I mean, when I've gone 339 00:24:19,395 --> 00:24:22,515 Speaker 1: to the ballpark, I get a few hello's and one 340 00:24:22,635 --> 00:24:26,155 Speaker 1: or two autograph requests. But does this happen all the time? 341 00:24:26,235 --> 00:24:29,475 Speaker 1: And how do you get used to it? Chat had 342 00:24:29,515 --> 00:24:32,555 Speaker 1: a wonderful laugh. It does not happen all the time. 343 00:24:32,675 --> 00:24:34,515 Speaker 1: It'll happen a lot more to you once you start 344 00:24:34,555 --> 00:24:37,995 Speaker 1: on the eleven. But don't get used to it. That's 345 00:24:37,995 --> 00:24:39,755 Speaker 1: one of the reasons I want to have dinner with you. 346 00:24:39,915 --> 00:24:41,915 Speaker 1: And the place we're going is where I learned the 347 00:24:41,995 --> 00:24:45,515 Speaker 1: lesson I wanted to offer to you. So we go 348 00:24:45,555 --> 00:24:47,875 Speaker 1: to Anthony's. The valet was saying good to see you, 349 00:24:47,995 --> 00:24:50,315 Speaker 1: Mr Curtis. Before Chet was fully out of the truck, 350 00:24:50,955 --> 00:24:54,835 Speaker 1: his boss appeared, but evening Chat people dining outside on 351 00:24:54,875 --> 00:24:58,435 Speaker 1: the pier stared. Several waved the major d beat us 352 00:24:58,475 --> 00:25:00,555 Speaker 1: to the front door and held it open for us, 353 00:25:00,915 --> 00:25:04,995 Speaker 1: and this is your new sportscaster, Welcome to Anthony's. Chet 354 00:25:04,995 --> 00:25:08,835 Speaker 1: was more than gracious. He managed to simultaneously conveyed deep appreciation, 355 00:25:09,275 --> 00:25:11,715 Speaker 1: low key surprise at all the attention, and the sense 356 00:25:11,755 --> 00:25:14,835 Speaker 1: that nobody was bothering him in the slightest As we 357 00:25:14,995 --> 00:25:18,955 Speaker 1: entered the dining room, there was polite applause. Chet waved 358 00:25:19,555 --> 00:25:24,515 Speaker 1: almost but not quite sheepishly. We were seated at the 359 00:25:24,515 --> 00:25:27,275 Speaker 1: best table at the best angle to see the harbor. 360 00:25:27,515 --> 00:25:32,515 Speaker 1: The reserved sign the manager of Anthony's removed was comically large. 361 00:25:33,035 --> 00:25:37,275 Speaker 1: After the drinks arrived, Chent began to preach. Unless you're 362 00:25:37,275 --> 00:25:40,795 Speaker 1: an athlete, nobody, he said, gets loved on as much 363 00:25:40,795 --> 00:25:42,755 Speaker 1: in this city as people on TV, especially people on 364 00:25:42,835 --> 00:25:45,675 Speaker 1: Channel five. Now it's a little quieter than usual because 365 00:25:45,715 --> 00:25:47,915 Speaker 1: of the holiday, But when they first put me on 366 00:25:47,915 --> 00:25:50,435 Speaker 1: the eleven o'clock news eight years ago next to my 367 00:25:50,475 --> 00:25:53,475 Speaker 1: beautiful bride, if I came in here, there would be 368 00:25:53,515 --> 00:25:57,835 Speaker 1: people standing and applauding. Natalie doesn't really like that stuff, 369 00:25:57,835 --> 00:25:59,475 Speaker 1: so she sends not to go with me to the 370 00:25:59,515 --> 00:26:03,355 Speaker 1: big restaurants. But me, I'm just Chester from Amsterdam, New York, 371 00:26:03,515 --> 00:26:05,595 Speaker 1: and I worked damn hard to get here, and I 372 00:26:05,635 --> 00:26:08,355 Speaker 1: loved it. I loved every second of it. If there 373 00:26:08,395 --> 00:26:10,875 Speaker 1: was an opportunity to come here before the late newscast 374 00:26:11,235 --> 00:26:13,395 Speaker 1: or after it, or on the weekends, I was here. 375 00:26:13,795 --> 00:26:17,755 Speaker 1: I said, I loved the fish. I really loved the applause. 376 00:26:18,955 --> 00:26:21,795 Speaker 1: He laughed again. I mean we're still number one, but 377 00:26:21,875 --> 00:26:24,195 Speaker 1: maybe five years ago we had higher ratings than the 378 00:26:24,235 --> 00:26:28,235 Speaker 1: other two stations combined. There were months at a time 379 00:26:28,475 --> 00:26:30,915 Speaker 1: when I didn't pay for a drink here, not one, 380 00:26:31,875 --> 00:26:35,675 Speaker 1: and I came to depend upon that. And that's what 381 00:26:35,795 --> 00:26:38,835 Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you. Don't don't get used to it, 382 00:26:38,955 --> 00:26:42,555 Speaker 1: don't expect it, don't fail to be surprised by it, 383 00:26:42,795 --> 00:26:45,635 Speaker 1: or at least don't fail if fake being surprised by it. 384 00:26:45,635 --> 00:26:48,355 Speaker 1: Because one day it happened. It happened right here, and 385 00:26:48,435 --> 00:26:52,875 Speaker 1: I thought my career was over at the age of 386 00:26:53,795 --> 00:26:56,195 Speaker 1: I know this will surprise you. I did not listen 387 00:26:56,235 --> 00:26:59,115 Speaker 1: to a lot of advice, but Jet Curtis was bearing 388 00:26:59,155 --> 00:27:01,995 Speaker 1: his soul here, and I felt a mixture of terror 389 00:27:02,035 --> 00:27:06,275 Speaker 1: and rapt anticipation about what had happen to him. I 390 00:27:06,275 --> 00:27:09,595 Speaker 1: think this was fairly early on, he said, mid seventies. 391 00:27:10,155 --> 00:27:12,235 Speaker 1: And I drove up, just like we did just now, 392 00:27:12,515 --> 00:27:14,555 Speaker 1: and I straightened my tie and it brushed my hair 393 00:27:14,595 --> 00:27:18,435 Speaker 1: and made myself ready for my adoring public. I'm ready 394 00:27:18,435 --> 00:27:21,155 Speaker 1: for my close up, Mr de Mill. And I opened 395 00:27:21,155 --> 00:27:23,195 Speaker 1: that door, and I went to that major d stand 396 00:27:23,235 --> 00:27:24,755 Speaker 1: and I smiled, and there was a guy there. I 397 00:27:24,755 --> 00:27:27,395 Speaker 1: had never seen before, and he said, can I help you? 398 00:27:27,835 --> 00:27:30,475 Speaker 1: And I smiled and looked to that bar where Danny 399 00:27:30,555 --> 00:27:35,315 Speaker 1: always is, see him right now. No, Danny, the bartender 400 00:27:35,555 --> 00:27:38,115 Speaker 1: that day didn't even look back at me. So, just 401 00:27:38,275 --> 00:27:40,595 Speaker 1: as the sense of anxiety began to creep up on me, 402 00:27:40,635 --> 00:27:44,555 Speaker 1: I said, rather defensively, I'm ched Curtis. And the Major 403 00:27:44,635 --> 00:27:47,315 Speaker 1: D looked at me with annoyance and said, you have 404 00:27:47,315 --> 00:27:51,835 Speaker 1: a reservation. And I thought a reservation. I have an 405 00:27:51,875 --> 00:27:55,275 Speaker 1: adoring public. I said, well no, but usually Tony holds 406 00:27:55,275 --> 00:27:57,235 Speaker 1: a table for me and says, I don't have to 407 00:27:57,235 --> 00:27:59,275 Speaker 1: call in advance, and the Major D says, well, I'm sorry, 408 00:27:59,315 --> 00:28:01,355 Speaker 1: we're full without a reservation the way it will be 409 00:28:01,435 --> 00:28:06,435 Speaker 1: ninety minutes. And now I am sweating, and then there's 410 00:28:06,435 --> 00:28:08,635 Speaker 1: a tap on my shoulder, Chat says, and I think, 411 00:28:08,955 --> 00:28:12,115 Speaker 1: thank god, it's a fan of News Center five, And 412 00:28:12,195 --> 00:28:14,875 Speaker 1: instead it's somebody who just says, excuse me, fellow, can 413 00:28:14,915 --> 00:28:19,635 Speaker 1: we get through Jones party of two? And now I'm 414 00:28:19,635 --> 00:28:21,355 Speaker 1: standing there and I look around the bar, and I 415 00:28:21,355 --> 00:28:24,315 Speaker 1: look around the dining room and nobody recognizes me. Not 416 00:28:24,395 --> 00:28:28,795 Speaker 1: a waitress, not a customer, nobody. And it starts in 417 00:28:28,875 --> 00:28:31,915 Speaker 1: my head chat, I say to myself, what have you done? 418 00:28:32,235 --> 00:28:35,595 Speaker 1: What did you say on the air? Nobody knows you 419 00:28:35,755 --> 00:28:39,915 Speaker 1: at Anthony's, nobody wants to know you. Your career is over? 420 00:28:40,155 --> 00:28:43,595 Speaker 1: What did you do? And now, Keith, I am beginning 421 00:28:43,635 --> 00:28:46,075 Speaker 1: to feel faint and panicky, and I run out the 422 00:28:46,115 --> 00:28:48,235 Speaker 1: door to get back in my car, and I drive 423 00:28:48,235 --> 00:28:50,875 Speaker 1: away as fast as possible, all the while thinking what 424 00:28:50,915 --> 00:28:53,755 Speaker 1: did you do to end your career? And just as 425 00:28:53,755 --> 00:28:56,435 Speaker 1: I get to my car, another car drives out, and 426 00:28:56,595 --> 00:29:02,675 Speaker 1: outsteps in shorts and a T shirt, Anthony himself, Anthony 427 00:29:02,715 --> 00:29:06,035 Speaker 1: of Anthony's Restaurant, the founder, the owner, and he says, Chat, 428 00:29:06,075 --> 00:29:07,955 Speaker 1: what the hell's wrong with you? Your pale is a ghost? 429 00:29:08,835 --> 00:29:11,595 Speaker 1: And I stammer about my career ending and nobody inside 430 00:29:11,595 --> 00:29:16,075 Speaker 1: recognizing me anymore. And and here Chet Curtis burst into laughter. 431 00:29:16,235 --> 00:29:18,675 Speaker 1: I'm almost in tears, telling him that the major d 432 00:29:18,795 --> 00:29:20,915 Speaker 1: said I'd have to wait ninety minutes because I didn't 433 00:29:20,915 --> 00:29:23,435 Speaker 1: have a reservation. And now Anthony laughs and he says, 434 00:29:23,475 --> 00:29:27,115 Speaker 1: of course nobody recognizes you. The whole staff is at 435 00:29:27,115 --> 00:29:30,275 Speaker 1: our summer picnic. I only came in now to give 436 00:29:30,315 --> 00:29:32,315 Speaker 1: them a chance to talk about me behind my back. 437 00:29:33,115 --> 00:29:37,395 Speaker 1: Those guys in there are all per diems, freelancers. Everybody 438 00:29:37,435 --> 00:29:44,035 Speaker 1: you know is that Nantasket Beach getting drunk. Chent finally 439 00:29:44,195 --> 00:29:46,955 Speaker 1: stopped his own laughter, sipped from his beer, and very 440 00:29:47,075 --> 00:29:51,675 Speaker 1: dramatically said, so, how do you get used to being recognized? 441 00:29:52,235 --> 00:29:55,235 Speaker 1: Do not get used to being recognized, because one day 442 00:29:55,435 --> 00:29:58,475 Speaker 1: everybody you expect is going to recognize you will be 443 00:29:58,515 --> 00:30:01,635 Speaker 1: out at a picnic at Nantasket Beach getting drunk that 444 00:30:01,795 --> 00:30:04,515 Speaker 1: you don't know about, and all you will be a 445 00:30:04,715 --> 00:30:06,995 Speaker 1: bolt to figure out is that your career is over 446 00:30:07,035 --> 00:30:09,035 Speaker 1: and you should go home and jump off your roof. 447 00:30:09,515 --> 00:30:11,595 Speaker 1: So this is my advice to you as you start 448 00:30:11,595 --> 00:30:16,275 Speaker 1: the eleven o'clock news in Boston. 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