WEBVTT - MAKE SURE ELON MUSK NEVER LEAVES TRUMP'S SIDE AGAIN! - 4.3.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:25.555 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Protect 0:00:25.555 --> 0:00:32.835 Elon Musk at all costs, also indict Elon Musk now. 0:00:33.835 --> 0:00:39.635 Also don't let Elon Musk leave the White House. Yeah. 0:00:39.675 --> 0:00:42.675 I know someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and 0:00:42.755 --> 0:00:47.595 still remain fully functional. I'm an artist. Since Tuesday night, anyway, 0:00:47.955 --> 0:00:51.795 three opposing viewpoints. For two days now, I've been wondering 0:00:51.795 --> 0:00:55.115 whether to try to get Elon Musk arrested in Wisconsin 0:00:55.435 --> 0:00:58.675 or to send him a gift basket of ketamin and acid, 0:00:59.275 --> 0:01:02.155 all the while fearing that Politico is right, and even 0:01:02.195 --> 0:01:06.155 Trump now realizes Musk couldn't be helping us more if 0:01:06.195 --> 0:01:10.035 he were actually George Soros in a Musk mask. And 0:01:10.075 --> 0:01:13.595 Trump has told cabinet members they're going to phase Musk 0:01:13.755 --> 0:01:16.755 out by the end of May. And first the Press 0:01:16.795 --> 0:01:20.835 Secretary of Softball Scholarships denied this, but by late yesterday 0:01:20.835 --> 0:01:24.075 the fascists were leaking it out via Murdoch's New York Post. 0:01:24.395 --> 0:01:31.915 Musk is on the way out. No no, no, no 0:01:33.875 --> 0:01:37.195 more Musk. Give him all the drugs that he can do, 0:01:37.515 --> 0:01:39.835 because all he wants to do is all he wants 0:01:39.875 --> 0:01:45.155 to do is dance. While wearing a cheesehead and shaking 0:01:45.235 --> 0:01:50.515 the Trump cult out of its hypnotized coma. Sure, it's 0:01:50.555 --> 0:01:54.555 a felony to offer people money to vote or to 0:01:54.755 --> 0:01:58.435 not vote, or to vote your way. And sure he 0:01:58.515 --> 0:02:03.195 offered two giant, one million dollar checks, and sure he 0:02:03.275 --> 0:02:07.675 offered twenty dollars bill for selfies holding up photos of 0:02:07.715 --> 0:02:12.795 the unabashed fascist maga judge candidate at the polling places 0:02:12.955 --> 0:02:18.355 where it is illegal to campaign like that. On the 0:02:18.395 --> 0:02:20.635 other hand, if all that didn't win us the Wisconsin 0:02:20.675 --> 0:02:23.355 Supreme Court election, I don't know what could have. Oh wait, 0:02:24.355 --> 0:02:26.875 maybe it was when Musk went on Fox and said, 0:02:27.395 --> 0:02:30.915 losing this judge race has good chance of causing Republicans 0:02:31.155 --> 0:02:34.635 to lose control of the House. You lose control of 0:02:34.635 --> 0:02:41.275 the House, there will be non stop impeachment hearings and subpoenas. 0:02:42.515 --> 0:02:48.915 And America, Real America, Democracy America heard that and said, yes, 0:02:49.355 --> 0:02:53.435 goddamn it, yes exactly, You sir, are the son of 0:02:53.475 --> 0:02:56.355 a bitch we've been looking for all this time. Yes, 0:02:56.835 --> 0:03:02.395 Republicans lose the House, NonStop impeachment hearings and subpoenas. Woo 0:03:02.435 --> 0:03:10.395 effing ooh send that man some horse. I think Elon 0:03:10.515 --> 0:03:13.595 Musk doesn't really know it yet, couldn't understand it if 0:03:13.595 --> 0:03:19.035 he did, can't intuitively process America or any polyglot society. 0:03:19.555 --> 0:03:23.035 Is so far inside his own bubble that he never 0:03:23.115 --> 0:03:26.235 has to confront anybody who would tell him any of this. 0:03:26.635 --> 0:03:35.875 But he maybe our way out of Trump. What we 0:03:35.915 --> 0:03:40.755 saw Tuesday night was America versus Elon Musk, Democracy versus 0:03:40.755 --> 0:03:46.395 Elon Musk, Life versus Elon Musk. Just when the anti 0:03:46.555 --> 0:03:50.155 Trump message has been repeated so often that it barely 0:03:50.275 --> 0:03:54.515 registers with you and me, worn down with a decade 0:03:54.515 --> 0:03:57.515 of that stupid son of a bitch Trump, and that 0:03:57.635 --> 0:04:00.115 stupid son of a bitch Trump somehow finds an even 0:04:00.195 --> 0:04:03.275 stupider son of a bitch named Musk, and Musk has 0:04:03.315 --> 0:04:07.395 all of Trump's failures, us that apartheid accent and the 0:04:07.435 --> 0:04:11.595 pastiness of the ozempic attic and the on stage rhythm 0:04:11.675 --> 0:04:15.195 of a victim of Saint Vitas's dance. Can we run 0:04:15.195 --> 0:04:18.435 against Elon Musk? Not only in Wisconsin? Please? Can we 0:04:18.515 --> 0:04:23.555 run against Elon Musk everywhere? You know what Elon Musk's 0:04:23.715 --> 0:04:29.995 disapproval number is among Democrats in Wisconsin? Now, it's ninety 0:04:30.635 --> 0:04:36.795 seven percent ninety seven percent. You can't get ninety seven 0:04:36.835 --> 0:04:39.275 percent of Democrats to agree. How to spell the word 0:04:39.395 --> 0:04:46.155 Democrats ninety seven percent disapproval. He's ninety four points underwater 0:04:46.235 --> 0:04:54.395 on approval. More Musk spending, more millions, more Musk outspending. 0:04:54.515 --> 0:04:57.755 George sorows ten to one. I want Musk in every 0:04:57.835 --> 0:05:00.915 House and Senate race in this country next year. I 0:05:00.955 --> 0:05:03.875 want him trying to buy the school Board of Hastings 0:05:03.915 --> 0:05:06.035 on Hudson News, New York. I want him in a 0:05:06.115 --> 0:05:10.115 cheesehead in Wisconsin, and in foam cowboy hats in Texas, 0:05:10.355 --> 0:05:13.635 and in Gulf of America, trucker caps near the Gulf 0:05:13.675 --> 0:05:19.875 of Mexico. And now he may be leaving the White House, 0:05:21.315 --> 0:05:25.675 there is still hope. The Musk is on the way 0:05:25.715 --> 0:05:31.435 out story evolved this way yesterday. Yesterday morning, Politico reported 0:05:31.515 --> 0:05:34.475 quote Trump has told his inner circle, including members of 0:05:34.475 --> 0:05:37.955 his cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in 0:05:37.995 --> 0:05:41.355 the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, 0:05:41.875 --> 0:05:47.235 ubiquitous cheerleader, and Washington hatchetman, and that this would be 0:05:47.235 --> 0:05:50.035 pegged to the deadline to terminate the so called special 0:05:50.075 --> 0:05:53.715 government employees. They're only allowed one hundred and thirty days. 0:05:54.035 --> 0:05:57.275 That would be May thirtieth, unless the drugs were to 0:05:57.315 --> 0:06:02.115 put somebody in suspended animation or something. I guess that, however, 0:06:02.235 --> 0:06:05.595 is just the excuse. This is not tied to SGE 0:06:05.795 --> 0:06:08.555 one hundred and thirty day limits. It's tied, in fact 0:06:08.835 --> 0:06:13.675 to Elease Steffanic Politico again quote. Trump is increasingly mindful 0:06:13.675 --> 0:06:17.155 of next year's midterms and making sure he doesn't jeopardize 0:06:17.195 --> 0:06:20.355 his House majority. He's kept a careful eye on the 0:06:20.355 --> 0:06:25.315 town haul outrage over DOGE, even as Republicans have chalked 0:06:25.315 --> 0:06:29.915 those scenes up to coordinated liberal stagecraft. His discussions about 0:06:29.995 --> 0:06:33.155 next steps for Musk came just days before he grew 0:06:33.235 --> 0:06:36.235 so worried about the GOP's narrow House margin that he 0:06:36.355 --> 0:06:40.955 withdrew New York Rep Elise Staffhanic's nomination to be Ambassador 0:06:40.995 --> 0:06:44.595 to the UN. This has nothing to do with one 0:06:44.635 --> 0:06:48.195 hundred and thirty days. This has something to do with 0:06:48.275 --> 0:06:53.475 a two vote margin. By late afternoon yesterday, one Trump 0:06:53.555 --> 0:06:56.875 minion had told another Trump minion to print in The 0:06:56.875 --> 0:06:59.915 New York Post a story headline, the real reason behind 0:06:59.915 --> 0:07:03.595 Elon Musk's departure from DOGE and why it was always 0:07:03.675 --> 0:07:09.275 part of the plan. H that's the story that sentence 0:07:09.315 --> 0:07:12.675 repeated again and again with different constructions, that it was 0:07:12.715 --> 0:07:16.635 always to be four months and out. White House sources 0:07:16.675 --> 0:07:19.195 said the plan has always been to let Musk return 0:07:19.395 --> 0:07:27.195 to civilian life after his SGE status expires. Bullshit. This 0:07:27.235 --> 0:07:31.395 is the first time they've mentioned this, and anyway, as 0:07:31.435 --> 0:07:36.155 I said, there is hope Politico. One senior Administration official said, 0:07:36.195 --> 0:07:38.915 Musk is likely to retain an informal role as an 0:07:38.915 --> 0:07:42.715 advisor and continue to be an occasional face around the 0:07:42.715 --> 0:07:47.995 White House crowds. Oh thank Jesus. Another caution that anyone 0:07:47.995 --> 0:07:51.275 who thinks Musk is going to disappear entirely from Trump's 0:07:51.355 --> 0:08:00.755 orbit is fooling themselves. Gat. I promise I won't fool myself. 0:08:01.115 --> 0:08:04.995 Keep them around photo ops, not think of substance. Just 0:08:05.155 --> 0:08:10.075 keep his great uncontrollable ego and his perpetual fugue state 0:08:10.355 --> 0:08:13.515 front and center often enough that the Democrats can keep 0:08:13.595 --> 0:08:16.835 running against him until at least the midterms. And if 0:08:16.875 --> 0:08:21.595 Trump stops pushing Musk, if Musk stops blowing up like 0:08:21.675 --> 0:08:25.395 some of his own rockets, we have to take over. 0:08:25.755 --> 0:08:29.435 We then have to keep rebuilding the link between the 0:08:29.515 --> 0:08:34.675 two of them, shackled to a corpse, each of them, 0:08:35.115 --> 0:08:40.515 Musk and Trump, Musk and Trump, Trump and Musk, Trusk 0:08:40.755 --> 0:08:47.595 and Mump, Truck and Mumps. Yeah. I want Elon Musk 0:08:47.635 --> 0:08:51.035 indicted in Wisconsin because I want them all indicted in 0:08:51.115 --> 0:08:56.435 Wisconsin and forty nine other states. I want Steven Miller 0:08:56.475 --> 0:09:01.635 on the next plane to fing L Salvador. But more 0:09:01.675 --> 0:09:05.115 than that, I want Elon Musk to win all our 0:09:05.315 --> 0:09:08.635 races for us. And if he's gonna do that, he's 0:09:08.635 --> 0:09:11.675 gonna need our help one way or the other in 0:09:11.915 --> 0:09:17.795 for more still it, dude, he's gonna need that little 0:09:17.915 --> 0:09:22.115 extra to keep him campaigning twenty four to seven. The 0:09:22.155 --> 0:09:25.235 Trump part is easy. Just keep Trump convinced Musk is 0:09:25.395 --> 0:09:27.995 funneling attention to Trump, and Trump will make sure he 0:09:28.075 --> 0:09:32.715 grabs him whenever possible. But Musk himself, Musk's gonna need 0:09:32.755 --> 0:09:35.875 all the drugs he can find, So won't you help? 0:09:36.195 --> 0:09:38.915 Won't you gather all the drugs you can find and 0:09:39.075 --> 0:09:44.515 send them on to him? More Musk all, Musk, all 0:09:44.595 --> 0:09:50.875 the time, Musk today, Musk tomorrow, Musk forever. I want 0:09:51.035 --> 0:09:55.755 Musk's face with that crooked eyes unfocused. The stuff just 0:09:55.915 --> 0:10:04.355 kicked in smirk of his visible at every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, headhouse, outhouse, doghouse, 0:10:04.955 --> 0:10:35.155 white house in America. In mind of the first ten 0:10:35.195 --> 0:10:37.555 minutes of today's podcast, I would like to point out 0:10:37.555 --> 0:10:40.235 that I was the breaking news anchor for MSNBC, and 0:10:40.315 --> 0:10:43.675 for one week about twenty years ago, every night I 0:10:43.755 --> 0:10:46.155 was on for six hours talking about how the pope 0:10:46.235 --> 0:10:51.875 was dying. Not with that inflection, all right, let me 0:10:51.875 --> 0:10:54.355 explain some of the other headlines. Briefly. Trump's day of 0:10:54.395 --> 0:10:58.795 Liberation actually means his liberation from paying taxes. That is 0:10:58.835 --> 0:11:01.635 the substance to this, though the root cause in Trump's 0:11:01.715 --> 0:11:06.515 brain dead head for tariffs is far dumber. Ten percent 0:11:06.595 --> 0:11:11.235 tariffs on all training partners, fifty four percent on China, 0:11:11.475 --> 0:11:14.155 twenty four percent for the European Union, which Trump still 0:11:14.155 --> 0:11:17.195 thinks is a country, twenty six on India, et cetera. 0:11:18.075 --> 0:11:21.955 After hours, Gee whiz, who would have expected this? The 0:11:21.995 --> 0:11:26.195 market crashed, which is not just the standard response from 0:11:26.275 --> 0:11:30.195 betrayed Trump's supporters. I didn't expect him to eat my face. 0:11:30.715 --> 0:11:34.875 This is something beyond that. This is other leopards learning 0:11:34.915 --> 0:11:39.675 that the leopard eating faces party are also cannibals and 0:11:39.755 --> 0:11:45.115 will eat leopards faces too. This will not end well 0:11:45.195 --> 0:11:50.315 for Trump, and just how not well, we will get 0:11:50.315 --> 0:11:53.995 an idea very quickly. I might actually watch the opening 0:11:53.995 --> 0:11:57.355 bell of the stock market for the first time in 0:11:57.475 --> 0:12:06.515 my life, just to see if some fascists CEO unfurls 0:12:06.555 --> 0:12:14.155 a flag that reads impeach Trump today, tariffs or madness. 0:12:14.355 --> 0:12:17.875 Of course, they will destroy tourism to this country, probably 0:12:17.955 --> 0:12:22.475 raise domestic prices five to ten percent, kill international trade, 0:12:22.635 --> 0:12:27.635 destroy American farming, worldwide depression absolutely possible now. And the 0:12:27.755 --> 0:12:31.715 ultimate reason for doing this as he learned to mimic 0:12:31.875 --> 0:12:35.595 human behavior, which is, as we know, not natural to Trump. 0:12:35.955 --> 0:12:39.595 Trump obviously and very early on in his existence, became 0:12:39.635 --> 0:12:44.755 fixated with the idea and the color of gold. He 0:12:44.795 --> 0:12:48.395 doesn't really understand gold. He does not know the difference 0:12:48.435 --> 0:12:55.355 between gold and gold plate, or gold plastic and gold rustolium, 0:12:55.635 --> 0:12:58.795 which is why his buildings look like that's so cheap, 0:12:59.515 --> 0:13:02.595 and why his bronzer looks so bad, and why his 0:13:02.715 --> 0:13:06.555 hair looks so fake. That's one of the reasons people 0:13:06.595 --> 0:13:11.035 who knew him believed in the pee tape. The color 0:13:13.035 --> 0:13:16.795 so the eighteen nineties he found out and apparently relatively 0:13:16.875 --> 0:13:20.715 recently or he just remembered it recently. Were called the 0:13:20.875 --> 0:13:28.035 Gilded age guilded gold cupboard, and it sort of looks 0:13:28.075 --> 0:13:33.555 like the word gold guild, gold, gold, guild, gold good, 0:13:33.755 --> 0:13:38.555 eighteen nineties good, eighteen nineties gold rich, super rich. No 0:13:38.755 --> 0:13:42.355 taxes in the eighteen nineties, only tariffs. So bring back tariffs, 0:13:42.355 --> 0:13:46.355 big tariffs, big beautiful tariffs, bingo fifty four percent tariff 0:13:46.395 --> 0:13:52.235 on Chinese goods, because this human like multi celled parasite 0:13:52.955 --> 0:14:00.635 once learned gold good. Okay, the disappearing by our government 0:14:00.635 --> 0:14:03.755 of Kilmar Abrego, Garcia. They sent a man who was 0:14:03.835 --> 0:14:06.675 legally entitled to be here, whom this country in fact 0:14:06.795 --> 0:14:10.915 ruled during Trump's first presidency. We were protecting from going 0:14:10.955 --> 0:14:13.355 back to El Salvador because he would be tortured and 0:14:13.515 --> 0:14:16.835 killed there, and Trump sent him back because of what 0:14:16.875 --> 0:14:19.955 they now claim is a clerical error by Ice, which 0:14:19.995 --> 0:14:22.755 it cannot correct because it can't force El Salvador to 0:14:22.835 --> 0:14:26.595 return him, which is bullshit, because all it has to 0:14:26.635 --> 0:14:28.955 do is threaten to cut the money off going to 0:14:29.035 --> 0:14:33.155 the corrupt Al Salvador strong man, and mister Abrego will 0:14:33.195 --> 0:14:36.835 be home for breakfast. And if Tom Holman and Pete 0:14:36.875 --> 0:14:41.155 Hegseth and the insufferable child JV. Vance and that inflatable 0:14:41.275 --> 0:14:45.195 rubber device known as Christy Nome claim they can't extract him, 0:14:45.635 --> 0:14:47.515 you go to them and you say you get him 0:14:47.555 --> 0:14:51.755 back or you have to go get him personally. They 0:14:51.875 --> 0:14:55.195 are still doing this deliberately to that man and others 0:14:55.395 --> 0:14:58.595 because it's part of the plan and there is no 0:14:58.835 --> 0:15:04.395 legal retribution against these scumbags, especially this deviant flotation device. 0:15:04.475 --> 0:15:07.515 No home. That will be too extreme and it will 0:15:07.555 --> 0:15:11.835 come soon or late. Hope you got a good look 0:15:11.835 --> 0:15:16.035 at that prison. Christy or mister Abrigo was in line 0:15:16.075 --> 0:15:21.035 looking for day labor in twenty nineteen and the cops 0:15:21.075 --> 0:15:25.315 picked him up and they claimed a confidential informant who 0:15:25.355 --> 0:15:27.755 may or may not have ever existed, said he was 0:15:27.755 --> 0:15:31.435 in the MS thirteen gang in another state in which 0:15:31.435 --> 0:15:34.515 the man never lived. And they claim this because he 0:15:34.595 --> 0:15:38.675 was wearing Chicago Bulls clothing, which is really bad news 0:15:38.835 --> 0:15:44.115 for like Michael Jordan, I want Tom Holman and Christy 0:15:44.195 --> 0:15:46.715 Noman JD. Vance who was still slandering this man. I 0:15:46.755 --> 0:15:49.675 want them in the El Salvador in prison instead of 0:15:49.715 --> 0:15:52.475 mister Abrigio and in twenty twenty nine, I want the 0:15:52.515 --> 0:15:54.675 President to say, oh, while they're in there now, I'm sorry, 0:15:54.715 --> 0:15:57.035 there's nothing we can do about getting them back. They're 0:15:57.115 --> 0:16:01.435 out of our control now, the president twenty twenty nine, 0:16:01.635 --> 0:16:08.675 President Booker, Sure, that's fine. President Okasio Cortes, President President. 0:16:08.715 --> 0:16:12.315 Whoever is narking on Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth, I'll 0:16:12.315 --> 0:16:16.755 take him. That is not over. Leaks last week about 0:16:16.755 --> 0:16:21.115 Hegzeth bringing the wife to sensitive international intelligence meetings, Leaks 0:16:21.195 --> 0:16:25.115 this week about Waltz and staff using Gmail for technical 0:16:25.155 --> 0:16:30.275 conversations and for his schedule. Once again, amateurs like Waltz 0:16:30.315 --> 0:16:34.315 and Hegseeth don't realize that your schedule tells the spies 0:16:34.955 --> 0:16:39.155 when you will be somewhere and when other people will 0:16:39.155 --> 0:16:42.195 be somewhere, in case you know they want to blow 0:16:42.315 --> 0:16:45.795 you up or just to access all the places you 0:16:45.955 --> 0:16:49.635 won't be. And don't tell me that your Gmail is secure. 0:16:50.435 --> 0:16:54.355 I once heard from the Gmail people that the Russian 0:16:54.395 --> 0:17:00.875 State actors had hacked my Gmail. Waltz and Hegseth is 0:17:00.915 --> 0:17:04.395 not over, and the third term stuff is not over. 0:17:04.435 --> 0:17:07.235 Again a reminder, this is not going to be a 0:17:07.315 --> 0:17:10.835 bid to let any president get a third term. This 0:17:10.915 --> 0:17:15.755 will only be Trump, not Obama, not Clinton, not Bush, 0:17:16.195 --> 0:17:19.555 just Trump and Grover Cleveland, who's been dead since nineteen 0:17:19.555 --> 0:17:24.035 to eight, whether on the non consecutive terms bullshit or 0:17:24.075 --> 0:17:27.475 some other bullshit. Sam Alito dreams up and Lawrence tribe 0:17:27.515 --> 0:17:29.995 has another hole in the defensive line. They can drive 0:17:30.035 --> 0:17:32.555 a mac truck through, just to haunt your dreams a 0:17:32.555 --> 0:17:36.395 little further, quoting him. Anyone discounting a third Trump term 0:17:36.555 --> 0:17:39.035 per the twenty second Amendment and the twelfth Amendment is 0:17:39.115 --> 0:17:43.475 thinking magically. The twenty second doesn't bar serving a third term, 0:17:43.795 --> 0:17:47.955 only being elected three times. The twelfth doesn't bar running 0:17:48.035 --> 0:17:52.515 for VP unless ineligible to serve as president. But Trump 0:17:52.595 --> 0:18:00.155 isn't ineligible qed. So like last year, the easiest scenario 0:18:00.755 --> 0:18:05.595 Trump runs, says, try and stop me, and his Supreme 0:18:05.635 --> 0:18:11.675 Court doesn't. And Trump can almost taste this. I mean, 0:18:11.795 --> 0:18:14.475 listen to him. He's dying to say it. 0:18:14.675 --> 0:18:18.475 You we're not joking about a third term, about possibly 0:18:18.475 --> 0:18:21.115 planning a third term? Does that mean you're not planning 0:18:21.155 --> 0:18:21.995 to leave Amason. 0:18:22.315 --> 0:18:24.115 I'm not looking at that, but I'll tell you I 0:18:24.155 --> 0:18:27.675 have had more people asking me do have a third term, 0:18:27.715 --> 0:18:29.915 which is in a way at the fourth term because 0:18:29.955 --> 0:18:33.115 the other election, the twenty twenty election, was totally rigged, 0:18:34.155 --> 0:18:36.035 So it's actually sort of a fourth term in a 0:18:36.035 --> 0:18:37.955 certain way. I just don't want the credit for the 0:18:38.035 --> 0:18:41.155 second because Biden was so bad. He did such a 0:18:41.235 --> 0:18:44.195 man job, and I think that's one of the reasons 0:18:44.235 --> 0:18:44.955 that I'm popular. 0:18:45.035 --> 0:18:55.995 If you wander the truth and from what passes for 0:18:56.155 --> 0:19:00.835 our news media and our serene political discourse, Bill Maher 0:19:01.995 --> 0:19:05.395 has lost whatever small amount of self control he had left. 0:19:05.875 --> 0:19:10.555 Oh my god, just as mar is killing off every 0:19:10.795 --> 0:19:14.995 last one of his fans with his tiny, bare hands, 0:19:16.275 --> 0:19:21.955 Bill thinks he's some kind of healing deity from Fox 0:19:23.435 --> 0:19:27.155 and the statesman who made all this happen, Ambassador kid Rock. 0:19:29.115 --> 0:19:33.195 Trump took mar at the White House Monday night to 0:19:33.275 --> 0:19:37.075 see the Lincoln bedroom and to see a copy of 0:19:37.115 --> 0:19:41.915 the Gettysburg Address. Bill, I hate to break this to 0:19:41.995 --> 0:19:45.475 you at this late date, but as a member of 0:19:45.515 --> 0:19:47.755 the class of Cornell seventy nine, and you as a 0:19:47.755 --> 0:19:49.955 member of the class of Cornell seventy eight, you do 0:19:50.075 --> 0:19:52.955 know that Cornell has had a copy of the Gettysburg 0:19:52.955 --> 0:19:56.675 Address hand copied by Lincoln at the request of Ambassador 0:19:56.755 --> 0:20:00.555 George Bancroft. They've had it since the nineteenth century. Was 0:20:00.595 --> 0:20:04.595 in a house at Cornell Bancroft's grandson, and then they 0:20:04.715 --> 0:20:08.675 bought it back and it was donated and they keep 0:20:08.715 --> 0:20:11.195 it right now under URIs Library and they show it 0:20:11.235 --> 0:20:14.395 to classes at Cornell, but of course you never went 0:20:14.435 --> 0:20:17.595 to class, and they also show it though they show 0:20:17.595 --> 0:20:23.515 it to alumni. They like, Oh okay, ego, trip over. 0:20:23.715 --> 0:20:26.955 This is the operative part from Fox. Kid Rock said 0:20:26.995 --> 0:20:29.315 that he told mar before the meeting some of this 0:20:29.395 --> 0:20:31.275 Hollywood stuff, it would be great for you to get 0:20:31.315 --> 0:20:33.915 thrown out, probably be great for you to double down. 0:20:33.955 --> 0:20:38.435 You know, I can't stand this guy, mar kid Rock said, 0:20:38.435 --> 0:20:42.675 told him, I'm not going to sabotage something that could 0:20:42.675 --> 0:20:49.515 potentially bring us and other people together. Oh my god, 0:20:49.555 --> 0:20:52.235 it's the beginning of the predicted two thousand years of 0:20:52.355 --> 0:20:56.075 universal peace when Bill Maher and Donald Trump are brought 0:20:56.115 --> 0:21:02.155 together and they unzip and stage an actual battle with 0:21:02.235 --> 0:21:09.155 their tiny little egos. And I'm going to to advertize 0:21:09.235 --> 0:21:15.755 something that could potentially bring other people together. There, Oh god, Bill, 0:21:15.835 --> 0:21:17.955 for crying out loud. If you just tell the truth 0:21:17.955 --> 0:21:20.715 and say, look, my new boss is this idiot david'saz 0:21:20.795 --> 0:21:24.235 lab of Warner Bros. Discovery and the fascists who now 0:21:24.275 --> 0:21:27.475 own CNN and HBO and him. And if I don't 0:21:27.475 --> 0:21:29.835 go as far pro Trump as I can, they'll fire 0:21:29.875 --> 0:21:33.675 me and they'll replace me with with Chris Cuomo or 0:21:33.675 --> 0:21:37.035 somebody who's an even bigger whore than I am. Just 0:21:37.115 --> 0:21:39.395 admit it and we go fine, we got it. Go ahead, 0:21:39.395 --> 0:21:45.835 nobody's watching anyway. Chris Cuomo on stage on Long Island 0:21:46.315 --> 0:21:49.875 with what used to be Bill O'Reilly and the new 0:21:49.955 --> 0:21:56.795 giant of American political analysis, Stephen A. Smith. Three Americans. 0:21:57.195 --> 0:22:01.835 They called this. This is how little Stephen A. Smith 0:22:01.915 --> 0:22:05.515 knows of the world going on around him. He attacked 0:22:05.555 --> 0:22:10.595 Bill O'Reilly on stage, which, trust me, was pretty much 0:22:10.595 --> 0:22:14.955 exhausted by the year twenty eleven. Quote. You and I 0:22:15.035 --> 0:22:17.275 hey got into it when we were on Cuomo's show 0:22:17.275 --> 0:22:20.515 a couple of weeks ago. Steve Bannon comes on national 0:22:20.555 --> 0:22:23.875 television with a straight face first and then smirk thereafter, 0:22:24.075 --> 0:22:27.075 talking about violating the Constitution of the United States, the 0:22:27.115 --> 0:22:31.475 twenty second Amendment two terms. He said three. Chris Cromo says, yo, 0:22:31.675 --> 0:22:35.395 you understand what the twenty second amendment says right. He said, yeah, No, 0:22:35.555 --> 0:22:41.795 we're working on it. Everybody just glosses over it. That's right, Steven, 0:22:42.035 --> 0:22:44.835 everybody's been glossing over it. No, but nobody's been talking 0:22:44.875 --> 0:22:49.555 about Trump's claims plots to get a third term. Nobody's 0:22:49.555 --> 0:22:52.195 been mentioning this other than all of us who've been 0:22:52.235 --> 0:22:56.755 saying it since twenty fifteen, or the actual movement within 0:22:56.835 --> 0:23:01.835 the conservative ranks and the quote unquote scholarly reinterpretations of 0:23:01.875 --> 0:23:04.595 the twenty second Amendment that began on the far rid 0:23:05.795 --> 0:23:08.235 in twenty twenty three to get them a third term. 0:23:08.475 --> 0:23:13.835 Just you, you're the first one who noticed. Steven also 0:23:13.915 --> 0:23:17.635 reports there's something called the National Basketball Association. Thank you 0:23:17.675 --> 0:23:19.515 for mentioning that, Stephen. None of the rest of us 0:23:19.675 --> 0:23:24.915 new although I'm beginning to smell a new host for 0:23:25.115 --> 0:23:32.515 HBO Real Time with Steven A. Smith, or put them 0:23:32.555 --> 0:23:36.315 on MSNBC in the mornings, God knows it's that, or 0:23:36.355 --> 0:23:43.075 cartoons in black and white from Oliver Darcy's status. The 0:23:43.235 --> 0:23:49.915 quarter one ratings are in for cable news. MSNBC averaged 0:23:49.995 --> 0:23:55.155 one point two million viewers in prime time, down eighteen 0:23:55.275 --> 0:23:59.795 percent year over year. CNN averaged five hundred and fifty 0:23:59.835 --> 0:24:02.955 eight thousand viewers in prime down six percent over the 0:24:03.035 --> 0:24:08.995 same period. One interesting nugget. I'm told that CNN's News 0:24:09.435 --> 0:24:14.595 Central beat MSNBC's Morning Joe in the Advertiser coveted at 0:24:14.675 --> 0:24:17.155 twenty five to fifty four demographic for the first time 0:24:17.195 --> 0:24:22.995 since twenty twenty two, a sign Oliver is really in 0:24:23.075 --> 0:24:26.515 self control. Here a sign that the Joe Scarborough and 0:24:26.555 --> 0:24:30.275 Mika Brazinski led show still hasn't recovered after the marri 0:24:30.355 --> 0:24:35.475 Lago pilgrimage aimed at cozying up to Trump. Let me 0:24:35.555 --> 0:24:38.875 give you a quick pro tip. It's not going to recover. 0:24:39.395 --> 0:24:43.195 They're going to have to fire Joe Scarborough, or at 0:24:43.275 --> 0:24:46.515 least bring in a new Joe Scarborough, somebody else playing 0:24:46.555 --> 0:24:50.995 the role of Joe Scarborough, Caul Lawrence, o'donald, Joe Scarborough. 0:24:52.595 --> 0:24:58.315 Who will notice the difference except Mika. Maybe. The Morning 0:24:58.395 --> 0:25:02.835 Joe ratings have always been bad. They are what a 0:25:02.875 --> 0:25:05.835 loss leader. That's a very niche audience. Everybody in that 0:25:05.995 --> 0:25:10.715 niche It's like the White House Correspondence dinner with more 0:25:10.795 --> 0:25:14.955 lights and better food. I might add that's true, but 0:25:15.115 --> 0:25:18.995 below CNN, this is how bad it is. I have 0:25:19.195 --> 0:25:23.875 been in television since nineteen eighty one. I started at 0:25:23.875 --> 0:25:26.995 CNN in nineteen eighty one, in its second full year, 0:25:28.475 --> 0:25:32.275 And as I'm reading this, I went, wait, CNN's morning 0:25:32.275 --> 0:25:36.515 show is called News Central. Since when I didn't even 0:25:36.515 --> 0:25:38.755 know the name of the show, and it's now beating 0:25:38.795 --> 0:25:42.835 Morning Joe. The name of the CNN Morning show could 0:25:42.835 --> 0:25:46.075 have been CNN Tonight, and I would have went, oh, 0:25:46.275 --> 0:25:56.395 it's awesome, it's novel below. CNN is amazing, but the 0:25:56.635 --> 0:26:00.995 MSNV Morning Show is not sufficient to explain the overall 0:26:00.995 --> 0:26:06.155 collapse here. Averaging one point zero two million in primetime 0:26:08.155 --> 0:26:14.515 total viewers in primetime, that's like what we were doing 0:26:14.515 --> 0:26:20.435 in two thousand and four. The new company and whoever 0:26:20.595 --> 0:26:24.475 is buying it or going to buy it wants this. 0:26:24.915 --> 0:26:27.995 That's the point. They're tanking it. They're tanking it the 0:26:28.035 --> 0:26:33.955 way Warner Bros. Tanked CNN and Mar whether he knows 0:26:33.995 --> 0:26:38.835 it or not, the way Mar is tanking. There's one 0:26:38.915 --> 0:26:41.435 more move MSNBC can make to seal the deal. Now. 0:26:41.435 --> 0:26:44.275 It's not Stephen A. Smith. I think he should be 0:26:44.355 --> 0:26:48.115 doing the CBS Evening News. Actually Chuck Todd in the mornings. 0:26:49.275 --> 0:26:53.195 I'm serious, No, I'm not serious. But there was a 0:26:53.235 --> 0:26:56.515 New York Times story yesterday about Chuck a scoop they claimed. 0:26:56.635 --> 0:26:58.595 I've read it three times. I still don't get it, though. 0:26:58.595 --> 0:27:00.915 I think now, if you told me that Chuck Todd 0:27:00.915 --> 0:27:04.155 has spent all this time writing all those bad headlines 0:27:04.155 --> 0:27:07.075 in the New York those both sidesist headlines, I would 0:27:07.115 --> 0:27:11.875 believe you. And the payoff was this thirteen fourteen paragraph 0:27:11.955 --> 0:27:16.355 story about I still don't know what this story is about. Quote. 0:27:16.755 --> 0:27:19.595 After leaving the corporate home of Meet the Press in January, 0:27:20.515 --> 0:27:25.875 he got fired. Mister Todd is embarking on a career 0:27:25.875 --> 0:27:30.475 as a media entrepreneur. He has a podcast and a 0:27:30.555 --> 0:27:37.915 YouTube channel. I've had a podcast for two and a 0:27:37.955 --> 0:27:42.275 half years. I've had a YouTube channel for five years. 0:27:42.635 --> 0:27:45.995 And guess what I am not. I'm not a media entrepreneur. 0:27:46.715 --> 0:27:51.435 I have a podcast and a YouTube channel. This makes 0:27:51.475 --> 0:27:54.395 me part of the majority in this country. I believe. 0:27:55.075 --> 0:27:57.515 He has a podcast and a YouTube channel and plans 0:27:57.555 --> 0:28:00.795 to hire other hosts for a podcast and video network 0:28:00.835 --> 0:28:04.955 focused on politics and culture. He also said that he 0:28:04.995 --> 0:28:07.555 was working with an advisor from a major financial firm 0:28:07.715 --> 0:28:12.875 to build or acquire a company focused on community news. 0:28:14.675 --> 0:28:18.075 Mister Todd's business plan, the Times goes on, calls for 0:28:18.115 --> 0:28:21.755 a constellation of local sites owned by their communities, like 0:28:21.835 --> 0:28:25.595 his beloved Green Bay Packers, and anchored by coverage of 0:28:28.515 --> 0:28:38.995 local youth sports, local ute sports utes. The growing popularity 0:28:38.995 --> 0:28:42.955 of athletics and their importance to families who view them 0:28:42.955 --> 0:28:46.115 as a gateway to college make them an ideal subject 0:28:46.115 --> 0:28:49.435 to build around. No matter your politics, mister Todd said, 0:28:49.715 --> 0:28:53.395 you care about local coverage of your child's latest game. 0:28:56.035 --> 0:28:59.835 Like all parents. Chuck thinks everybody else is also a parent. 0:29:00.435 --> 0:29:03.835 The number of kids in scholastic sports in this country 0:29:04.035 --> 0:29:08.275 is approximate lee one hundred and seventy five million. No, 0:29:08.355 --> 0:29:14.475 it's eight million, eight million kids high school and grammar 0:29:14.515 --> 0:29:20.555 school sports and college eight million. If a quarter of 0:29:20.755 --> 0:29:26.635 all parents of scholastic athletes in this country use Chuck's 0:29:26.995 --> 0:29:34.515 network of websites, that's four million people. If it's a brilliant, 0:29:34.595 --> 0:29:38.995 almost total success, the ceiling is four million people. Maybe. 0:29:39.475 --> 0:29:42.755 And here is here is what he thinks that's worth. 0:29:43.835 --> 0:29:45.835 Quote mister Todd and the bank he is working with 0:29:45.955 --> 0:29:49.915 there eyeing a purchase that could cost up to two 0:29:50.355 --> 0:30:05.155 billion dollars. He said. He declined to say whether he 0:30:05.195 --> 0:30:10.075 had lined up any backers or specify the company they 0:30:10.075 --> 0:30:14.755 were looking at, but he ruled out major newspaper publishers. 0:30:15.875 --> 0:30:17.995 You know what major newspapers you could get for two 0:30:17.995 --> 0:30:24.355 billion dollars, all of them. That's two billion dollars for 0:30:24.755 --> 0:30:32.115 podcasts or websites about high school sports scores or podcasts 0:30:32.195 --> 0:30:36.595 where the first guest is as his first podcast guest 0:30:36.755 --> 0:30:42.555 was John Fetterman. Couldn't get Chris Cuomo and Steven A. 0:30:42.635 --> 0:30:49.195 Smith two billion dollars for podcasts, Chuck for two billion dollars, 0:30:49.555 --> 0:30:59.995 you better be getting two billion podcasts. Ah. Also of interest, 0:30:59.995 --> 0:31:03.635 here we're going to talk about Chuck. I'm going to 0:31:03.675 --> 0:31:07.675 talk about Chuck about when I hit the wall and 0:31:07.715 --> 0:31:09.995 had enough of him. It's going on six years now. 0:31:10.035 --> 0:31:13.555 I'm very proud I was a trendsetter because this is 0:31:13.595 --> 0:31:15.915 the way he thinks. He thinks he can get two 0:31:15.955 --> 0:31:19.115 billion dollars to go into this new field of podcasting 0:31:19.435 --> 0:31:24.035 about high school sports. Everybody has a kid playing sports. 0:31:26.275 --> 0:31:29.395 Also Ahead, one of the worst human beings of the 0:31:29.395 --> 0:31:40.195 twentieth century is now dead. He transcends the stories of transphobia, politics, sports, fascism, television, 0:31:40.235 --> 0:31:45.195 News Renee Richards and Tucker Carlson. He's part of all 0:31:45.235 --> 0:31:49.555 of those stories and he's dead. And I unapologetically say 0:31:49.755 --> 0:31:54.955 I'm glad because I'm a believer in for whom the 0:31:55.035 --> 0:31:58.955 Bill tolds. But I will remain until my death unconvinced 0:31:59.155 --> 0:32:03.075 this guy was ever actually for one minute, a human being. 0:32:04.315 --> 0:32:10.755 That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith 0:32:10.755 --> 0:32:35.435 Alberman still ahead. In this new edition of Countdown. Well, 0:32:35.875 --> 0:32:41.275 I mentioned Chuck Todd podcast billionaire. He owns a mansion 0:32:41.315 --> 0:32:44.155 and a yacht. He's going to start a two billion 0:32:44.195 --> 0:32:52.275 dollar podcast network based on high school sports scores or something. 0:32:53.315 --> 0:32:55.435 I wasn't quite clear. And I read the article one 0:32:55.515 --> 0:32:58.395 hundred and thirteen times, but it has to be true. 0:32:58.395 --> 0:33:00.435 It's in the New York Times. And I think we 0:33:00.555 --> 0:33:03.555 finally now know who's been writing all those headlines in 0:33:03.595 --> 0:33:06.275 the New York Times the few plague years. It's been 0:33:06.395 --> 0:33:10.515 Chuck Todd. Have I ever told you my Chuck Todd story? 0:33:11.315 --> 0:33:14.315 Actually I have, Well a fat I'm gonna tell it 0:33:14.355 --> 0:33:18.355 to you again in Things I promised not to tell 0:33:19.035 --> 0:33:22.195 next first, believe it or not, there's still more new 0:33:22.275 --> 0:33:25.235 idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscrants, morons 0:33:25.435 --> 0:33:28.995 and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other 0:33:29.395 --> 0:33:33.635 Worst Persons in the World. Here are the nominees the 0:33:33.675 --> 0:33:38.115 Bronze Worst BBC News. Now I'm kind of soft pedaling 0:33:38.195 --> 0:33:40.675 this because if I thought it was not an accident, 0:33:41.355 --> 0:33:45.435 just one of those things, I would have led the 0:33:45.555 --> 0:33:48.315 show with it. As you know, there are at least 0:33:48.395 --> 0:33:51.555 twenty five hundred people dead in me on Mar after 0:33:51.555 --> 0:33:55.395 the horrible earthquake that was so destructive at knockdown buildings 0:33:55.675 --> 0:33:59.235 in Thailand, one of the most affected cities in me 0:33:59.355 --> 0:34:01.715 on Mar, and details are still being withheld by the 0:34:01.755 --> 0:34:08.155 military dictatorship. There is Mandalay. If you know anything about Mandalay. 0:34:08.515 --> 0:34:11.515 If you've heard the name of the city of Mandalay, 0:34:11.875 --> 0:34:16.075 it's probably from a song. There is a Rudyard Kipling 0:34:16.155 --> 0:34:20.635 poem on the Road to Mandalay from eighteen ninety that 0:34:20.715 --> 0:34:23.035 they set to music twenty years later, and it is 0:34:23.715 --> 0:34:30.515 classic British imperialist cornball nonsense, with lyrics centered around on 0:34:30.595 --> 0:34:34.915 the Road to Mandalay. I won't say the whole thing, 0:34:34.955 --> 0:34:38.155 but it's on the Road to Mandalay where the flying 0:34:38.435 --> 0:34:42.435 Fishies play and the dawn comes up like thunder outer 0:34:42.635 --> 0:34:48.195 China crossed the Bay on the road to Mandalay. Then 0:34:48.195 --> 0:34:50.515 there was another song called the Road to Mandalay by 0:34:50.595 --> 0:34:53.795 Robbie Williams, like twenty years ago, and the same lyric 0:34:53.915 --> 0:34:58.235 is in that totally different context on the Road to Mandalay. 0:34:59.595 --> 0:35:02.315 So this is the key to the thing that there 0:35:02.355 --> 0:35:05.875 are songs that have been sung for literally one hundred 0:35:05.875 --> 0:35:10.915 and fifteen years that have this lyric on the Road 0:35:11.035 --> 0:35:18.915 to Mandalay. So the BBC's otherwise extraordinary report, including hard 0:35:18.955 --> 0:35:22.595 to smuggle out video of mean mar after the earthquake. 0:35:23.235 --> 0:35:26.995 Their report on Tuesday from their correspondent somehow reporting from 0:35:27.035 --> 0:35:31.395 behind the lines, opened with that reporter narrating video of 0:35:31.475 --> 0:35:35.355 the destruction that was shot from a moving vehicle, and 0:35:35.435 --> 0:35:40.955 he began with the opening line was on the road 0:35:41.155 --> 0:35:47.755 to Mandalay. And I've bet a million viewers worldwide involuntarily 0:35:47.795 --> 0:35:52.475 thought where the flying fishies play. It's not what you 0:35:52.515 --> 0:35:56.755 want to think during a terrible earthquake aftermath, but there 0:35:56.755 --> 0:35:59.955 it is. As I said, I'm sure it had to 0:35:59.995 --> 0:36:03.395 have been accidental. So I'm leaving the reporter's name out, 0:36:03.595 --> 0:36:07.835 but somebody still should said no, no, just erase that 0:36:08.355 --> 0:36:11.875 opening line or cut out the on, so he just 0:36:11.955 --> 0:36:16.955 says the road to Mandalay. I mean, that's kind of 0:36:16.995 --> 0:36:20.755 an invocation of the line, but it's not. I'm going 0:36:20.835 --> 0:36:24.235 to start this tragic story with a quotation from a 0:36:24.355 --> 0:36:30.435 song from two songs to be fair, As I said, 0:36:30.675 --> 0:36:33.955 I'm sure it's an accident. The reporter, not a native 0:36:34.075 --> 0:36:39.915 English speaker, was in fact on the road to Mandalay. 0:36:40.755 --> 0:36:44.235 The runner up worser Matt Taibi, who has no such excuse. 0:36:44.595 --> 0:36:46.795 You remember him when he was an independent journalist before 0:36:46.795 --> 0:36:49.075 he became a stooge for Elon Musk, who then did 0:36:49.195 --> 0:36:52.315 Musk's bidding, then got banished by Musk, and is now 0:36:52.315 --> 0:36:55.995 on the fringes of right wing conspiracy theory. It's a shame. 0:36:56.035 --> 0:36:58.755 He was a good kid. He did good work for 0:36:58.835 --> 0:37:01.275 me on Countdown. His dad was a great reporter. He's 0:37:01.315 --> 0:37:06.595 turned into like Joe paranoia. In a great illustration of 0:37:06.595 --> 0:37:10.475 what democrats should do when the fascists stage their show 0:37:10.515 --> 0:37:16.315 hearings in Congress over bullshit, California Congressman Sidney Kamliger Dove 0:37:16.755 --> 0:37:21.235 decided to have Matt tayebe for lunch here. They have 0:37:21.395 --> 0:37:24.635 called him to testify, as they turned the first hearing 0:37:24.675 --> 0:37:28.915 of the sub Committee on South and Central Asia into 0:37:28.955 --> 0:37:34.155 instead hearing on how conservatives are censored. This is the 0:37:34.195 --> 0:37:37.875 fifth of these hearings they've already had into how they 0:37:37.915 --> 0:37:44.195 never get to talk at hearings. After this from Congresswoman 0:37:44.275 --> 0:37:47.995 Kamlegger Dove, I don't think Matt Tayibi will be willing 0:37:48.035 --> 0:37:51.435 to testify at any more of these goddamned hearings. 0:37:52.235 --> 0:37:57.075 Majority is relitigating a made up conspiracy theory about a 0:37:57.115 --> 0:38:00.275 part of the State Department that no longer exists. To 0:38:00.395 --> 0:38:04.395 distract from the dumpster fire foreign policy. This administration is 0:38:04.435 --> 0:38:09.275 per suing and elevating a serial sexual harasser as their 0:38:09.315 --> 0:38:13.675 star witness in the process. Mister Chair, I request unanimous 0:38:13.715 --> 0:38:17.235 consent to enter into the record two articles about the 0:38:17.275 --> 0:38:21.195 Republican witness, Matt Taybee. The first is a Chicago Reader 0:38:21.315 --> 0:38:25.155 article entitled twenty years ago in Moscow, Matt Taybe was 0:38:25.195 --> 0:38:29.515 a misogynist a whole and possibly worse, and a Washington 0:38:29.555 --> 0:38:33.235 Post article titled the two expat bros Who terrorized women 0:38:33.355 --> 0:38:37.795 correspondence in Moscow with out ob check. This hearing could 0:38:37.875 --> 0:38:39.875 not be more out of touch with the concerns of 0:38:39.915 --> 0:38:44.835 everyday Americans. People's retirement savings are being decimated as Trump's 0:38:44.915 --> 0:38:49.075 arbitrary temper tariffs tank the stock market. They are staring 0:38:49.115 --> 0:38:51.875 down the barrel of cuts to their Social Security and 0:38:51.995 --> 0:38:54.915 Medicare because the Republican majority wants to give a tax 0:38:54.955 --> 0:38:58.315 break to billionaires like Elon Musk, who have deep financial 0:38:58.355 --> 0:39:01.875 ties to our adversaries. Meanwhile, Trump is siding with Putin, 0:39:01.915 --> 0:39:05.075 against our national security interests, and risking the lives of 0:39:05.115 --> 0:39:08.675 American soldiers. In a signal group chat, I've been to 0:39:08.755 --> 0:39:12.395 the State Department, and I do have concerns about censorship. 0:39:12.595 --> 0:39:16.155 Censorship of the employees who are terrified to say the 0:39:16.235 --> 0:39:19.395 wrong thing, to say anything, or have the wrong word 0:39:19.435 --> 0:39:22.435 in their job title, and be terminated by an administration 0:39:22.555 --> 0:39:26.915 that publicly relishes punishing people for their speech. If we 0:39:26.955 --> 0:39:29.715 want to talk about censorship, we should begin with Trump's 0:39:29.795 --> 0:39:32.955 unprecedented assault on the First Amendment and rule of law. 0:39:33.475 --> 0:39:37.275 Hey, Matt, we're all those clippings in the Twitter files, hobro. 0:39:39.915 --> 0:39:42.475 We'll help you scoop the rest of your reputation up 0:39:42.515 --> 0:39:44.915 with this spoon in this terreen and you can just 0:39:44.955 --> 0:39:48.515 carry it out with you, but the winner the worst 0:39:48.955 --> 0:39:52.515 a man named Richard Carlson. You've never heard of Richard Carlson, 0:39:52.555 --> 0:39:55.915 but a long time ago he was a scumbag posing 0:39:55.955 --> 0:39:59.595 as a journalist in TV in California, mostly San Diego 0:39:59.675 --> 0:40:02.475 and La. As The New York Times noted the other day, 0:40:02.515 --> 0:40:07.075 Carlson quote collaborated with another journalist, Lance Brisson, on an 0:40:07.155 --> 0:40:10.795 expose for Look Magazine in nineteen sixty nine that accused 0:40:11.035 --> 0:40:14.435 Mayor Joseph Alioto of San Francisco of having ties to 0:40:14.555 --> 0:40:20.195 mafia figures. Mister Alioto sued Looks owner Cowell's Communications for libel. 0:40:20.595 --> 0:40:25.195 In nineteen seventy seven, six years after Look magazine had folded, 0:40:25.395 --> 0:40:29.075 and following four trials in federal court, a judge awarded 0:40:29.115 --> 0:40:32.795 mister Alioto three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in damages. 0:40:33.155 --> 0:40:37.475 Mister Carlson and brister Berson were not defendants. In nineteen 0:40:37.555 --> 0:40:42.395 seventy five, mister Carlson exposed a transgender automobile executive on 0:40:42.475 --> 0:40:45.835 TV in Los Angeles, even though the real story was 0:40:46.315 --> 0:40:50.555 all the lies about her claims about her special car 0:40:50.635 --> 0:40:53.875 that got I don't know seventy miles per gallon so 0:40:53.955 --> 0:40:58.115 She sued two and when Carlson testified against her, he 0:40:58.195 --> 0:41:02.035 continually referred to this woman as he and him after 0:41:02.035 --> 0:41:04.195 he got fired in La After that he had to 0:41:04.195 --> 0:41:08.035 move down to San Diego as a sportscaster. Somebody told 0:41:08.115 --> 0:41:10.635 him that the doctor who had just won a local 0:41:10.715 --> 0:41:14.715 women's tennis tournament was also transgender, so he phoned her 0:41:14.755 --> 0:41:17.515 and said he was going to expose her on his sportscast. 0:41:17.915 --> 0:41:20.995 She replied, mister Carlson, I am a private person. You 0:41:21.035 --> 0:41:25.235 can't do that. He replied, doctor Richards, you were until 0:41:25.275 --> 0:41:29.315 you won that tournament in La Joya yesterday. She pleaded 0:41:29.315 --> 0:41:31.915 with him to respect her privacy. He went on the 0:41:31.915 --> 0:41:35.795 air anyway and announced a man has just won the 0:41:35.875 --> 0:41:39.635 La Joya women's tennis tournament. She hurriedly called a news 0:41:39.675 --> 0:41:42.555 conference and had to explain not just her story to 0:41:42.595 --> 0:41:46.155 the media, but the promise of and premissive transsexuals and 0:41:46.195 --> 0:41:50.075 transgenders as a whole, because then people didn't really understand 0:41:50.075 --> 0:41:54.715 what it was all about. Her name is doctor Renee Richards, 0:41:54.755 --> 0:41:57.115 and to this day she remains not only one of 0:41:57.155 --> 0:41:59.995 the very best doctors I've ever had the privilege to consult, 0:42:00.475 --> 0:42:03.915 she's eyes specialist, although she just retired at the age 0:42:03.915 --> 0:42:07.355 of ninety. Eye muscles and eye muscle surgery the best 0:42:07.355 --> 0:42:11.195 in the world, probably, I've known her forty three years. 0:42:11.555 --> 0:42:13.915 But she's also one of the best and funniest people 0:42:13.915 --> 0:42:15.995 I've ever known, And she taught me more about what 0:42:16.035 --> 0:42:18.715 it is like when one of us does a story 0:42:18.755 --> 0:42:22.995 on somebody taught me, Yeah, it's my story, but guess what, 0:42:23.115 --> 0:42:26.155 it's their life. You've got to try to consider that. 0:42:26.835 --> 0:42:29.115 I am happy to say I had the privilege of 0:42:29.155 --> 0:42:33.595 informing Renee Richards that Richard Carlson is now dead. He 0:42:33.715 --> 0:42:38.675 died March twenty fourth. She was dignified and restrained and 0:42:38.795 --> 0:42:40.915 did not even make a big deal out of the 0:42:40.915 --> 0:42:46.355 fact that she won. I did. Maybe she didn't because 0:42:46.435 --> 0:42:51.635 she and the rest of the world knew that this bad, unqualified, unprincipled, unsuccessful, 0:42:51.835 --> 0:42:56.635 hate filled dead bastard did something even worse than involuntarily 0:42:56.675 --> 0:43:00.475 outing transsexual women and then trying to make up excuses 0:43:00.755 --> 0:43:04.315 for some public right to know for doing so. About 0:43:04.435 --> 0:43:10.275 ten Richard Carlson did something worse than that, because Richard 0:43:10.315 --> 0:43:13.995 Carlson was the father of Tucker Carlson, probably more of 0:43:14.035 --> 0:43:17.955 a fascist and probably more unhinged and dangerous even than 0:43:17.955 --> 0:43:22.475 his sick, dead father. I would add that under ordinary circumstances, 0:43:22.515 --> 0:43:27.115 it is disturbing to feel oneself expressing anything but sadness 0:43:27.275 --> 0:43:30.595 at the death of another human being or at the 0:43:30.635 --> 0:43:33.595 mourning of those humans they have left behind. But you 0:43:33.595 --> 0:43:36.555 would first have to convince me that Richard and Tucker 0:43:36.635 --> 0:43:40.875 Carlson were ever human beings before I would feel that way. 0:43:41.435 --> 0:43:43.875 I feel none of what I normally do, none of 0:43:43.875 --> 0:43:48.115 this for whom the bell tolls stuff that bell is 0:43:48.155 --> 0:43:52.835 not tolling for me. Richard Carlson left television a year 0:43:52.875 --> 0:43:57.315 after he outed Renee. He later told San Diego Magazine 0:43:57.315 --> 0:44:02.875 that he considered television news quote insipid, sophomoric, and superficial. Oddly, 0:44:02.995 --> 0:44:05.395 that's a pretty good summary of his life, and his 0:44:05.555 --> 0:44:09.915 sons put it this way. Renee Richards was twice the 0:44:09.995 --> 0:44:15.075 man that Richard Carlson ever was, and probably two hundred 0:44:15.115 --> 0:44:20.595 times the woman. Richard Dick Carlson, and the name Dick 0:44:20.955 --> 0:44:24.355 was just a remarkable coincidence. I will note that though 0:44:24.355 --> 0:44:27.115 he died on March twenty fourth, his son announced it 0:44:27.155 --> 0:44:30.955 over last weekend, and it got wide public play this 0:44:31.115 --> 0:44:38.835 past Monday, which was the National Transgender Day of Visibility. 0:44:39.875 --> 0:44:44.155 Revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to 0:44:44.315 --> 0:44:52.995 eat cold. Dick Carlson Today's worst person in the world. Well, 0:44:53.035 --> 0:44:55.475 not really. He's not here anymore, is he. So at 0:44:55.555 --> 0:45:15.635 least that corner of this country is now better. It 0:45:15.715 --> 0:45:18.075 is unlikely that you have ever been able to do 0:45:18.195 --> 0:45:21.035 anything about Chuck Todd, so I wanted to tell you 0:45:21.075 --> 0:45:23.595 of the day that I did do something about him. 0:45:23.635 --> 0:45:27.915 That day was August eleventh, twenty nineteen. I knew Chuck 0:45:27.955 --> 0:45:30.955 for about fifteen years, early in his career, when he 0:45:31.035 --> 0:45:34.195 was with the DC Insider publication the Hotline. He was 0:45:34.275 --> 0:45:37.595 a frequent guest on Countdown, and in two thousand and seven, 0:45:37.595 --> 0:45:40.395 when Tim Russert was thinking of hiring him at NBC News, 0:45:40.755 --> 0:45:44.035 mine was one of dozens of temperatures Tim took. As 0:45:44.115 --> 0:45:46.595 Chuck later wrote to me, quote, you certainly were a 0:45:46.595 --> 0:45:49.395 tremendous advocate and cheerleader for me over the years, and 0:45:49.475 --> 0:45:52.795 I don't forget that. Yeah, well that wasn't true. He 0:45:52.835 --> 0:45:54.955 forgot it, all right, But I'm veering away from the 0:45:55.035 --> 0:45:57.795 main story. In two thousand and eight, a couple of 0:45:57.875 --> 0:46:02.195 Washington political types started a fantasy football league. If you 0:46:02.235 --> 0:46:05.635 don't think fantasy football leagues are important, you should know 0:46:05.675 --> 0:46:10.635 that last spring, a major league baseball player in uniform 0:46:10.955 --> 0:46:14.515 walked up to another Major League baseball player in uniform 0:46:14.835 --> 0:46:18.075 on a Major League baseball field with thousands of people 0:46:18.155 --> 0:46:21.435 already in the stands, and he slapped him in the 0:46:21.515 --> 0:46:25.995 face over a roster move that the second player had 0:46:26.035 --> 0:46:29.675 made in their fantasy football league. The second guy had 0:46:29.715 --> 0:46:32.715 managed to retain the rights to an injured player, and 0:46:32.755 --> 0:46:34.995 the first guy was upset about this. So six months 0:46:35.035 --> 0:46:38.435 after their fantasy season ended, this major league baseball player 0:46:38.475 --> 0:46:41.475 walked up and slapped the other Major League baseball player. 0:46:43.475 --> 0:46:47.995 If slaps or duels or kidnappings are not everyday occurrences 0:46:48.035 --> 0:46:51.195 in fantasy football, they do represent the kind of baseline 0:46:51.235 --> 0:46:54.235 intensity of the thing. So when I and others were 0:46:54.275 --> 0:46:57.515 approached about this Washington centric league in two thousand and eight, 0:46:57.515 --> 0:47:00.315 it was already a big deal, even before we were 0:47:00.355 --> 0:47:04.115 all sworn to secrecy, because a spot in the league 0:47:04.155 --> 0:47:09.035 was being for some DC guy named Barack Obama. It 0:47:09.075 --> 0:47:12.275 turned out he did not join our league, some excuse 0:47:12.355 --> 0:47:15.755 about too much work, when obviously he was just afraid 0:47:15.835 --> 0:47:19.275 of my fantasy football skills. But some people in his 0:47:19.315 --> 0:47:21.675 white house did join the league, and I still will 0:47:21.675 --> 0:47:24.195 not identify them, because the premise of this league was 0:47:24.275 --> 0:47:26.795 the first rule of fantasy football club is you do 0:47:26.875 --> 0:47:29.715 not talk about fantasy football club. I will say that 0:47:29.795 --> 0:47:32.515 Chuck Todd, like me, was an original player. We call 0:47:32.555 --> 0:47:36.395 ourselves owners because we are nuts and it's a fantasy. 0:47:36.395 --> 0:47:40.595 It's in the title Fantasy Football Fantasy Football Owners. And 0:47:40.715 --> 0:47:42.995 one year, I think it was twenty ten, I had 0:47:42.995 --> 0:47:45.715 assembled in this league, mostly by accident, a team that 0:47:45.835 --> 0:47:49.955 was almost perfect. It literally lost one game all season, 0:47:50.395 --> 0:47:52.275 and that was in the middle of the year to 0:47:52.475 --> 0:47:55.395 Chuck Todd's team. And the night after I lost to 0:47:55.515 --> 0:47:58.195 Chuck Todd's team, he was giving a speech I think 0:47:58.235 --> 0:48:01.795 at the University of Virginia, and witnesses called to tell 0:48:01.875 --> 0:48:05.195 me that he began his speech by saying, I have 0:48:05.275 --> 0:48:07.035 much to tell you, but first I have to tell 0:48:07.035 --> 0:48:08.875 you that I am in a fantasy football league with 0:48:08.955 --> 0:48:11.035 Keith Lderman, and he has a great team this year, 0:48:11.075 --> 0:48:13.355 and this week I upset him by a final score 0:48:13.355 --> 0:48:15.315 of one hundred forty three to one hundred and forty 0:48:15.355 --> 0:48:17.835 one or whatever the score was. I thought it was 0:48:18.315 --> 0:48:22.035 pretty dumb. But by twenty ten, Chuck was the NBC 0:48:22.115 --> 0:48:25.675 News White House correspondent, and we all cringed whenever we 0:48:25.755 --> 0:48:27.395 saw he was going to be on with one of 0:48:27.475 --> 0:48:31.955 us on MSNBC. See, some people respond well to pressure 0:48:31.995 --> 0:48:35.315 and success, and some people do not, and some people 0:48:35.355 --> 0:48:39.435 become entirely different people. So when Chuck violated the prime 0:48:39.515 --> 0:48:42.315 directive of this fantasy football league and talked about it, 0:48:42.795 --> 0:48:45.795 I shrugged. The other guys in the league did not. 0:48:46.315 --> 0:48:49.755 Chuck was actually punished. The commissioner of the league ordered 0:48:49.795 --> 0:48:51.875 that he had to skip his fourth choice in the 0:48:51.875 --> 0:48:56.995 following year's player draft. Chuck was berefed. He believed this 0:48:57.035 --> 0:49:01.475 would destroy his chances. He apologized to me every week, 0:49:01.515 --> 0:49:03.635 and finally I said, you know, guys, maybe this is 0:49:03.675 --> 0:49:06.595 too much. And as the supposed victim in the equation, 0:49:06.755 --> 0:49:09.715 I got final say and Chuck got to keep his 0:49:09.835 --> 0:49:14.395 fourth draft choice. By twenty sixteen, Chuck was because Tim 0:49:14.475 --> 0:49:17.955 Russeer died, Tom Brokaw retired, and David Gregory flamed out. 0:49:18.475 --> 0:49:20.675 Chuck was the host of Meet the Press. He was 0:49:20.715 --> 0:49:23.875 also political director of NBC News, another part of Russer's 0:49:23.875 --> 0:49:27.595 old portfolio, but whereas Tim was a master who could 0:49:27.595 --> 0:49:30.795 convince the Republicans, he was ordering that I be punished 0:49:30.795 --> 0:49:33.115 for what I said, when in fact he would be 0:49:33.155 --> 0:49:35.715 calling me and asking me what stupid, meaningless thing I 0:49:35.755 --> 0:49:38.675 could think of to tell the Republicans. He was punishing 0:49:38.715 --> 0:49:43.835 me with or four. He was sublime, subtlety, not Chuck. 0:49:44.355 --> 0:49:48.115 No subtlety there. In twenty sixteen, Chuck was preparing to 0:49:48.155 --> 0:49:51.715 not name my ex lib in girlfriend Katie Turr as 0:49:51.755 --> 0:49:54.675 the new NBC White House correspondent, even though she had 0:49:54.715 --> 0:49:58.555 suffered as the primary NBC correspondent covering the Trump campaign, 0:49:59.035 --> 0:50:01.395 and out of nowhere, Chuck emails me that he's going 0:50:01.435 --> 0:50:03.075 to be in New York and he wants to take 0:50:03.075 --> 0:50:06.035 me to dinner. I had known him more than a 0:50:06.075 --> 0:50:08.435 decade by then, we had never as much as shared 0:50:08.435 --> 0:50:10.755 pieces of the same pizza. I had not seen him 0:50:10.755 --> 0:50:12.915 in the flesh in more than five years, and I 0:50:12.995 --> 0:50:15.715 knew as we sat down that Chuck's idea was to 0:50:15.795 --> 0:50:18.915 get me to tell Katie that she was not going 0:50:18.955 --> 0:50:20.875 to be White House correspondent so he did not have to. 0:50:21.355 --> 0:50:23.875 He kept bringing it up, what do you think Katie 0:50:23.875 --> 0:50:28.035 would think? And then I'd switch the topic to fantasy football, 0:50:28.315 --> 0:50:30.035 and then he'd say, but let me ask you about 0:50:30.075 --> 0:50:31.955 Katie in the White House job. We did this for 0:50:32.035 --> 0:50:36.595 ninety minutes, and finally I said, Okay, Chuck, I've avoided 0:50:36.635 --> 0:50:39.675 it long enough. Maybe I could call her and soften 0:50:39.715 --> 0:50:42.195 the blow for her. And that's when he said, well, 0:50:42.595 --> 0:50:44.435 I'm going back to DC tonight, so if I want 0:50:44.475 --> 0:50:49.195 to catch that last train, I better leave. Bye. Chuck 0:50:49.275 --> 0:50:52.515 is not subtle. I'll spare you the other crap from 0:50:52.515 --> 0:50:54.915 the fantasy league. Suffice to say, I was reminded of 0:50:54.915 --> 0:50:57.715 how annoyingly and obviously he used to conduct himself when 0:50:57.715 --> 0:51:00.995 I read that last May, one of Chuck's guest bookers 0:51:01.035 --> 0:51:04.915 for the now no longer on TV Meet the Press Daily, Joe, 0:51:05.355 --> 0:51:08.595 had emailed the office of Alaska Congressman Don Jung, hoping 0:51:08.595 --> 0:51:10.475 to get Young to appear the next day, which would 0:51:10.515 --> 0:51:13.835 have been the ultimate great guest get because Don Jung 0:51:13.915 --> 0:51:18.715 had died two months earlier. Anyway, this fantasy football league 0:51:18.755 --> 0:51:21.075 was fun and unique in that there had only been 0:51:21.115 --> 0:51:24.835 one change in its composition in all that time. Chuck's 0:51:24.835 --> 0:51:27.955 team defeated mine in the Fantasy Football super Bowl one year, 0:51:29.235 --> 0:51:32.555 and mostly he was just annoying, like he was on 0:51:32.595 --> 0:51:36.115 the air, nothing worse than that. And then on June nineteenth, 0:51:36.155 --> 0:51:41.635 twenty nineteen, Representative Alexandria Ocazio Cortes AOC ripped the Trump 0:51:41.675 --> 0:51:45.355 administration's migrant policies. She said, quote, the United States is 0:51:45.435 --> 0:51:47.795 running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is 0:51:47.835 --> 0:51:50.995 exactly what they are. They are concentration camps. End quote. 0:51:51.475 --> 0:51:55.035 Chuck went on MSNBC and said the following in response, quote, 0:51:55.235 --> 0:51:57.875 you can call our government's detention of migrants many things, 0:51:57.875 --> 0:52:00.035 depending on how you see it. It's a stain on 0:52:00.075 --> 0:52:03.835 our nation, maybe a necessary evil to others to deal 0:52:03.875 --> 0:52:06.955 with an unten situation, perhaps, but do you know what 0:52:06.995 --> 0:52:09.555 you can't call it. Chuck then played the clip of 0:52:09.595 --> 0:52:13.035 AOC calling it concentration camps, and Chuck resumed, if you 0:52:13.075 --> 0:52:15.515 want to criticize the shameful treatment of people at our 0:52:15.555 --> 0:52:17.995 southern border, fine, you'll have plenty of company, but be 0:52:18.155 --> 0:52:23.875 careful comparing them to Nazi concentration camps, because they're not 0:52:23.915 --> 0:52:26.915 at all comparable. In the slightest A lot of people 0:52:27.355 --> 0:52:32.515 me included, were stunned. Ocasio Cortes never mentioned the Nazis 0:52:33.035 --> 0:52:36.635 and concentration camps did not begin with the Nazis or Hitler. 0:52:36.915 --> 0:52:39.595 They began with the British in the Boer War in 0:52:39.635 --> 0:52:42.315 South Africa at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 0:52:42.435 --> 0:52:44.635 Yet here was Chuck putting a word in her mouth, 0:52:44.955 --> 0:52:47.795 and that word was Nazi, and then he attacked her 0:52:47.835 --> 0:52:50.955 for something she never said. He lied about her. He lied, 0:52:51.315 --> 0:52:55.235 Chuck Todd made it up on the news. I was 0:52:55.315 --> 0:52:58.315 furious enough to email him that night. I thought by 0:52:58.355 --> 0:53:01.355 now somebody at NBC would have pointed out that concentration 0:53:01.475 --> 0:53:05.835 camps and Nazi death camps are not the same. But no, 0:53:06.155 --> 0:53:09.395 NBC had simply tweeted out the clip of Chuck lying 0:53:09.435 --> 0:53:12.715 about the congresswoman and putting the word Nazi in her mouth, 0:53:12.995 --> 0:53:16.715 as if it were something NBC News should be proud of. 0:53:18.195 --> 0:53:22.595 Chuck was furious at me. He emailed back, quote, come on, 0:53:22.795 --> 0:53:24.795 own up, that she invoked the wrong image and should 0:53:24.795 --> 0:53:27.035 have simply walked the imagery back. And I wrote him 0:53:27.035 --> 0:53:29.035 back that the person who had to walk back imagery 0:53:29.075 --> 0:53:32.435 here was him, since he had said Nazi and she 0:53:32.555 --> 0:53:36.675 had not said Nazi. On my angriest day, he now replied, 0:53:36.795 --> 0:53:38.675 I'd like to think I treated you with more respect 0:53:38.715 --> 0:53:42.115 than this. Sad I feel like we won't recover from this, 0:53:42.155 --> 0:53:45.155 and we had recovered from a lot. I wrote back 0:53:45.195 --> 0:53:47.195 to Chuck that we weren't going to recover from anything 0:53:47.195 --> 0:53:50.395 if he insisted that all concentration camps were Nazi death 0:53:50.475 --> 0:53:54.075 camps and that somebody who never said Nazis owed somebody 0:53:54.075 --> 0:53:59.235 else an apology for what not saying Nazis. There was 0:53:59.275 --> 0:54:01.795 no getting past the reality that Chuck had no idea 0:54:01.795 --> 0:54:04.915 that he was one hundred percent in the wrong here, 0:54:05.115 --> 0:54:09.715 historically wrong, factually wrong, ethically wrong, not a leg to 0:54:09.835 --> 0:54:14.275 stand on. So I of course began to contemplate the 0:54:14.315 --> 0:54:19.435 year ahead in fantasy football. I couldn't face it. I'm sorry, 0:54:19.755 --> 0:54:22.635 I let real life and fantasy sports mix, and I 0:54:22.795 --> 0:54:26.555 just I just couldn't spend another autumn having to deal 0:54:26.635 --> 0:54:30.395 with Chuck Todd. Chuck had often said that he was 0:54:30.435 --> 0:54:32.755 now just too busy to play in the league anymore, 0:54:33.315 --> 0:54:36.035 and he would have to leave it this year. So 0:54:36.195 --> 0:54:40.115 on August eleventh, twenty nineteen, more in sadness than an anger, 0:54:40.195 --> 0:54:42.955 I asked the commissioner of the league if Chuck was 0:54:42.995 --> 0:54:46.155 coming back for the twenty nineteen season. I don't know, 0:54:46.755 --> 0:54:49.595 maybe not, was the answer. I said, Look, this is 0:54:49.715 --> 0:54:52.595 not him or me. I'm not asking you to not 0:54:52.795 --> 0:54:55.275 let him come back. It's not like that. But if 0:54:55.315 --> 0:54:57.115 he tells you one way or the other, let me know, 0:54:57.155 --> 0:54:59.995 because I just can't stand another year of him. He 0:55:00.115 --> 0:55:02.235 takes all the fun of it out of it for me. 0:55:03.035 --> 0:55:05.555 I understand, said the commissioner. It's a but why do 0:55:05.635 --> 0:55:08.995 it if it's not fun. At eight am on the 0:55:08.995 --> 0:55:12.515 morning of August fourteenth, twenty nineteen, the official email notifying 0:55:12.515 --> 0:55:15.635 everybody of the new fantasy football season went out. I 0:55:15.755 --> 0:55:19.755 was not listed among the players. Nineteen minutes later, I 0:55:19.795 --> 0:55:22.635 got an email from Chuck Todd's subject line, it's just 0:55:22.675 --> 0:55:26.555 a game content quote just play. I won't speak to you, 0:55:26.755 --> 0:55:29.155 and please do me the same courtesy. Grow the f 0:55:29.315 --> 0:55:32.155 up and know I am not editing this. He really wrote, 0:55:32.835 --> 0:55:36.435 grow the f up. I wrote back that I thought 0:55:36.475 --> 0:55:38.955 he'd become part of the problem that imperils our nation 0:55:39.355 --> 0:55:40.915 and I didn't want to have anything more to do 0:55:40.995 --> 0:55:44.075 with him. I ended it with quote, do not contact 0:55:44.115 --> 0:55:49.595 me again. At ten thirteen am, he contacted me again. Amazing, 0:55:49.635 --> 0:55:51.795 how you believe what you believe about me? I'm sorry 0:55:51.875 --> 0:55:56.395 for ever helping you get credibility. I did not reply. 0:55:56.595 --> 0:56:00.235 At ten eighteen, he wrote me again again, I'm happy 0:56:00.315 --> 0:56:02.115 to never speak with you again. I'd prefer to pretend 0:56:02.155 --> 0:56:06.675 you don't exist. Don't make me care about you. No, boy, 0:56:07.275 --> 0:56:09.675 when Chuck Todd asks you to not make him care 0:56:09.755 --> 0:56:12.635 about you, you are in deep and dangerous waters. Boy. 0:56:13.635 --> 0:56:16.275 Another Chuck email at ten twenty nine, you are truly 0:56:16.315 --> 0:56:18.875 a tiny little man. I don't even feel sorry for 0:56:18.915 --> 0:56:21.875 you anymore. You have done this to yourself, and here 0:56:22.555 --> 0:56:24.635 I made a mistake. I did not ask him what 0:56:24.715 --> 0:56:27.595 he felt sorry for me about and what I had 0:56:27.635 --> 0:56:30.955 done to myself. I assume it was about losing the 0:56:30.955 --> 0:56:34.715 twenty eighteen Fantasy Football super Bowl to him At eleven 0:56:34.715 --> 0:56:38.075 oh nine, another email quote, you deliberately misinterpreted what I 0:56:38.115 --> 0:56:41.355 said shot first, and then rationalized the mistaken shot with 0:56:41.435 --> 0:56:46.875 some convoluted, full of bleef explanation. This presumably was the 0:56:46.875 --> 0:56:51.195 silly little detail about him lying and saying Representative Ocasio 0:56:51.275 --> 0:56:54.795 Cortes had referred to Nazi concentration camps. Then he wrote 0:56:55.795 --> 0:56:59.395 that what she said quote evokes Gash Chambers, and I 0:56:59.435 --> 0:57:03.195 think that's where we should leave it. A fantasy sports 0:57:03.275 --> 0:57:06.235 league is just a fantasy sports league, And having been 0:57:06.235 --> 0:57:09.915 in various kinds of them since nineteen good God eighty five, 0:57:10.555 --> 0:57:13.635 I often wonder if they aren't a kind of therapeutic, 0:57:13.675 --> 0:57:18.315 cathartic pressure valve for our inner demons. I do know this. 0:57:18.995 --> 0:57:21.875 You find out a lot about the other people in 0:57:21.915 --> 0:57:26.355 a fantasy sports league. So when that baseball player slapped 0:57:26.395 --> 0:57:29.115 the other baseball player over the reserve running back that 0:57:29.115 --> 0:57:32.075 he kept on his roster, and most people said, I 0:57:32.235 --> 0:57:35.555 just don't understand why he slapped him, I said, oh, 0:57:36.275 --> 0:57:57.115 I understand why he slapped him. Chuck Todd, billionaire. I've 0:57:57.155 --> 0:57:58.835 done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 0:57:58.875 --> 0:58:01.955 for listening. 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Everything else was, as ever, 0:58:35.515 --> 0:58:40.435 pretty much my fault one plug before I go on 0:58:40.475 --> 0:58:44.635 October seventh of this year, at eleven fifteen pm Eastern daylight, 0:58:45.075 --> 0:58:48.675 it will be the exact fiftieth anniversary of the day 0:58:48.715 --> 0:58:52.635 I made my debut on an actual radio station that 0:58:52.755 --> 0:58:58.915 people paid money to put commercials on. WVBRFM, the student owned, 0:58:59.315 --> 0:59:03.995 student run commercial station at Cornell, now the community owned 0:59:03.995 --> 0:59:08.995 commercial stateation of Cornell and Ithaca, New York and Tompkins County, 0:59:08.995 --> 0:59:14.155 and the World Online operating from the palatial Olberman Cornelius 0:59:14.155 --> 0:59:18.115 Studios on East Buffalo Street, Ithaca, New York. And if 0:59:18.115 --> 0:59:22.235 October seventh is my fiftieth anniversary, that means that this Saturday, 0:59:22.275 --> 0:59:25.955 April fifth is the date that my friend John Rudan 0:59:26.155 --> 0:59:31.475 is celebrating his fiftieth anniversary hosting wvbr's oldie show Rock 0:59:31.555 --> 0:59:35.035 and Remnants. Only John was able to keep his show 0:59:35.075 --> 0:59:39.035 on WVBR, whereas Mind was canceled in nineteen seventy nine. 0:59:39.435 --> 0:59:42.315 So congrats, John, You're a better man than I am, 0:59:42.635 --> 0:59:45.395 and I hope that's a new windbreaker by now Rock 0:59:45.435 --> 0:59:53.595 and remnants the Big Five. Oh Saturday Night WVBRFM. Be there, Aloha. 0:59:55.195 --> 0:59:57.795 That's countdown for today, Just one three hundred and eighty 0:59:57.915 --> 1:00:00.115 nine days until the scheduled end of his lame duck 1:00:00.315 --> 1:00:04.155 and lame brained term, unless Musk removes him sooner. Please 1:00:04.235 --> 1:00:08.195 don't move Musk Trump, Please leave Musk. Put him out 1:00:08.195 --> 1:00:10.475 there every day, have him stand next to you during 1:00:10.515 --> 1:00:13.595 the speeches, have him there all the time, all the time. 1:00:13.715 --> 1:00:17.115 We want him there all the time. Seven ninety seven 1:00:17.115 --> 1:00:22.635 percent disapproval in Wisconsin, ninety seven percent. The next scheduled 1:00:22.635 --> 1:00:26.395 countdown is Monday, or as we're calling it here, Musk Day. 1:00:27.275 --> 1:00:30.675 Tuesday is also going to be Musk Day. Wednesday will 1:00:30.675 --> 1:00:34.395 be Musk Day. You get the point. As always, bulletins, 1:00:34.435 --> 1:00:37.395 as the news warrants, remember im peach Trump. It won't 1:00:37.395 --> 1:00:40.995 work now, it will win the Democrats the midterms, if 1:00:40.995 --> 1:00:47.435 there are midterms, if they're just Musk terms. Until next time, 1:00:47.435 --> 1:00:50.035 I'm Keith Overman. 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