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Speaker 1: the way, you did notice that Trump confessed to covering

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Speaker 1: in the Epstein files. You know, the Epstein files. The

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Speaker 1: direct control of the director of the FBI. The Epstein

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Speaker 1: suicide minute. The Epstein files unaffected by all that because

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Speaker 1: all the videos were missing that particular minute. The Epstein

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Speaker 1: the Trump Department of Justice had edited to make sure

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Speaker 1: Trump told you to stop asking him about the Epstein files.

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Speaker 1: That wait, what Epstein files. There are no Epstein files.

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Speaker 1: The Epstein files that exist, but they were made by

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Speaker 1: never Barack Obama and the Democrats to fool you. The

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Speaker 1: even though Epstein was cleared during Bush's term by Trump's

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Speaker 1: was president, or they do exist, but don't waste your

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Speaker 1: energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about, least

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Speaker 1: of all me, Donald Trump, the guy who's in all

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Speaker 1: The Epstein Files the ones Trump Junior said contains the

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Speaker 1: Epstein client list and asked, quote, why would anyone protect

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Speaker 1: becomes very apparent. You bet it does. Dopey Musk has

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Speaker 1: And in Maga world, seventy seven million light bulbs went

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Speaker 1: demons interfering with cell coverage, not per chance the likelihood

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Speaker 1: that the White House was using non secure public Wi

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Speaker 1: Fi because too cheap and too lazy to get the

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Speaker 1: other kinds. And it's actually surprising that this was a

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Speaker 1: call rather than just a you know, White House prayer.

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Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth's signal Chat runner up worser good Old Whiney Gains,

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Speaker 1: Riley Gaines, now auditioning at Fox News Hey, whiney, you

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00:31:52,875 --> 00:31:57,595
Speaker 1: can be eighty fifth best at that too. Gaines says,

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Speaker 1: a disturbing poll reveals growing anti semitism on the left.

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Speaker 1: I gotta see this. What does that poll look like?

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Speaker 1: This is what it looked like. In twenty seventeen, Gains

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Speaker 1: continued forty two percent of Democrats supported Israel. But that

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Speaker 1: has completely flipped. Ah, so it's not about an anti semitism,

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Speaker 1: it's about support for Israel. I understand your confusion on this,

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Speaker 1: Riley Gains. You're stupid. That'll confuse anybody criticizing Israel, Criticizing

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Speaker 1: Israel's war policy, Criticizing Israel's peace policy is criticizing a

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Speaker 1: country's policy. Anti Semitism is something else. Anti Semitism is

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Speaker 1: say somebody saying no estate tax, no going through the

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Speaker 1: banks and borrowing from in some cases a fine banker

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Speaker 1: and in some cases shylocks and bad people who said that. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump said that. That's anti semitism. Calling people shylocks

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Speaker 1: is anti semitism. Donald Trump is an anti Semite. When

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden used that term shylocks twenty fourteen, when he

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Speaker 1: was vice president the director of the ADL, the Anti

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Speaker 1: Defamation League called him out immediately said it was inappropriate

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Speaker 1: and wrong, and Biden said, it is inappropriate, and it

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00:33:19,515 --> 00:33:22,035
Speaker 1: is wrong, and the head of the ADL is correct,

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Speaker 1: and I'm wrong, and I apologize for it. It is

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Speaker 1: an anti Semitic slur, and I will not use that

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Speaker 1: term again. I was wrong to do so, did so immediately.

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Speaker 1: To this point, Donald Trump has not been asked by

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Speaker 1: the Washington press corps why he said an anti Semitic slur,

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Speaker 1: why he referred to shylocks, what he's going to do

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Speaker 1: about it? Is he going to apologize for it? Why

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Speaker 1: is he an anti Semite? Because the Washington news corp

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Speaker 1: covering the President has largely gone to hell in a handbasket,

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Speaker 1: and the few who have not worked for or news

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Speaker 1: organizations that are falling apart at the seams like CBS News,

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Speaker 1: ABC News and the Washington Post, and they're all terrified

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Speaker 1: that they're the ones who are going to get fired next.

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Speaker 1: It's not an excuse, but it's an explanation. But nobody

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Speaker 1: has asked Trump about his anti semitism. And Riley Gaines

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Speaker 1: is there to interpret the difference between anti semitism and

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Speaker 1: criticism of Israel, and she does not understand that there is.

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Speaker 1: And even if she did, she's just reading an effing script.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's give her a round of applause because

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Speaker 1: she could read the script and the teleprompter without complaining

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Speaker 1: that some transgender floor director was standing in her way.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we gains I finished eighty fifth. It's all that

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Speaker 2: guy's fault.

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Speaker 1: God, what an idiot and still not the worst the winner.

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Speaker 1: And we believe there is no evidence suggesting that this

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Speaker 1: is not a real thing. There is no suggestion we're

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Speaker 1: being trolled by some missus Betty Bowers on Twitter X

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Speaker 1: this is Caitlin Francis at missus c M Francis. There's

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Speaker 1: a picture of her. She doesn't look insane, but listen

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Speaker 1: to this bio wife of at Jeremy Francis eighty seven

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Speaker 1: mother times four. Okay, first warning sign, homeschool advocate. I

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Speaker 1: want to make sure my children are automatically dumber than

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Speaker 1: I am by teaching them what I vaguely remember from

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Speaker 1: high school. Then there's an American flag and then on

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Speaker 1: Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is

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Speaker 1: sinking sand and the location California, USA, sinking sand. Indeed, Madam,

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Speaker 1: in any event, she also this Jeremy Francis, forty seven,

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Speaker 1: who she says is the hubby. He identifies himself on

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Speaker 1: his Twitter account as it manager at the C. A.

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Speaker 1: Rasmussen Company, which does something I don't know in Valencia, California,

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Speaker 1: So that gives you an idea where they are Valencia,

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Speaker 1: and Francis was responding to somebody who put out this

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Speaker 1: tweet extremely unpopular opinion today, But if you're going to

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Speaker 1: have a pet, you should always have at least ten

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Speaker 1: grand set aside for them at all times in case

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Speaker 1: of serious emergency. I think that might be a little high.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that everybody has to have ten thousand

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Speaker 1: ready to go. You should probably know where you're going

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Speaker 1: to get that much money if it's something really serious.

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Speaker 1: The happy news about almost all serious illnesses with dogs

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Speaker 1: and cats, and most serious injuries that they survive, is

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Speaker 1: that the cost of getting them well is comparatively small,

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Speaker 1: with or without insurance. That ten thousand dollars will more

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Speaker 1: than take care probably of all of your pets in

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Speaker 1: your life and give you and them added years of love.

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Speaker 1: But not if you're Caitlin Francis of California.

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Speaker 2: Hello.

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Speaker 1: She has retweeted this and headed. My extremely unpopular opinion

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Speaker 1: is that once a pet costs over five hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: to one thousand dollars, it's time to put them to sleep.

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Francis says, when it gets more than five hundred bucks,

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Speaker 1: kill your dog. She's homeschooling her children, four of whom

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Speaker 1: are going to turn out to be Christinome. This is

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Speaker 1: how we get Christy Nome. Home schooling was the ground

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Speaker 1: zero for the end of America. That's where it started,

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Speaker 1: where we started to teach people not to possibly be

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Speaker 1: smarter than their parents. And then there's the nightmare Samaria

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Speaker 1: scenario in which their parents are Missus c. M. Francis,

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Speaker 1: who wants you to kill your dog or cat, or

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Speaker 1: your pet, hippo or whatever you have. And then, after

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Speaker 1: an hour of being chewed up alive and appropriately so online,

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Speaker 1: she decided that what people were upset about was that

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Speaker 1: she was not clear enough about what she was talking about.

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Speaker 1: That that's not a five hundred dollars limit in terms

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Speaker 1: of food. Quote people determined to misunderstand, I am referring

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Speaker 1: to vet bills, not daily care. Oh that's much better,

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Speaker 1: missus CM Francis. You witch. Oh, that's much better. It's

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Speaker 1: when they're sick and dying or injured, when when one

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Speaker 1: of your homeschool kids decides to run them over with something. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna what's the estimate on this, Oh, one thousand

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Speaker 1: and one dollars. I'm sorry, sparky, nice touch, missus, CM Francis,

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Speaker 1: But thank goodness you didn't suggest giving your dog five

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars worth of food over eighteen years. There's a

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Speaker 1: C word that applies here. It isn't over yet. I

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Speaker 1: would just like to say she followed up with this

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Speaker 1: for the record, it's not that serious. Who the effort

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Speaker 1: you to deter whether or not it's serious? You pet killer?

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Speaker 1: And then finally, the dnu mont to all of this

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Speaker 1: from a woman who homeschools her kids, who has sentenced

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Speaker 1: them to a life in believing that if they are

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00:39:20,835 --> 00:39:23,675
Speaker 1: not nice to God, the lights will go off in

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Speaker 1: the basement, that the phones shut down because oh, here's

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00:39:28,835 --> 00:39:37,435
Speaker 1: another warfare by evil spirits, and Carol Lenevitt sees them.

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Speaker 1: There's the punchline to it. Animals are not people. They

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Speaker 1: do not have a soul.

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Speaker 2: Have a nice day.

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Speaker 1: The only soul that can be questioned in this occasion

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Speaker 1: is that of Caitlin Francis, but the one I love

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00:39:58,435 --> 00:40:01,635
Speaker 1: continues to be It's not that serious. I see she's

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Speaker 1: mad at the world because she he's wrong, and there

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Speaker 1: are ways to respond to this situation that would make

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Speaker 1: things better. But of course she homeschools her kids, so

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Speaker 1: why would she know how to get out of this

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Speaker 1: jam she has created by suggesting that you should kill

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Speaker 1: your pet rather than pay a six hundred dollars Vetville bill,

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Speaker 1: or certainly a one thousand and one dollar vet bill.

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Speaker 1: I got a quick question for you to wrap this up.

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Speaker 1: Missus Francis, you're over under on killing your sick or

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Speaker 1: injured dog or cat. The one that your even homeschooled

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Speaker 1: kids love is five hundred to one thousand dollars. So

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Speaker 1: what's your over under on killing your sick kids? How

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Speaker 1: much does little Caitlin Junior? How much is she worth

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Speaker 1: if she gets sick? What was the husband's name again,

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Speaker 1: mister Caitlin Francis, Jeremy? How much is Jeremy Junior worse

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Speaker 1: when he gets hit by a bus? I'm sorry that's

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Speaker 1: gonna cost us twelve hundred and seventy four dollars to

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Speaker 1: straighten his arm out, kill him, Caitlin, like Senator Jony

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Speaker 1: Ernst said, We're all gonna die one day. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you just get another daughter? Francis two days worst person

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Speaker 1: in the world. This is Sports Senate. Wait, check that,

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Speaker 1: not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Aulberman still ahead.

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Speaker 1: In this all new edition of Countdown, things I promise

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Speaker 1: not to tell in my favorite on air jokes, including

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Speaker 1: the ones perpetrated against me. But first, from the sports

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Speaker 1: Ball Central Center newsdesk tonight, Atlanta, Georgia. You can always

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Speaker 1: depend on Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. He'll always make you

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Speaker 1: ashamed that you like the game. A rookie has been

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Speaker 1: named to the pitching staff for tomorrow Night's National League

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Speaker 1: team in the All Star Game, after he has made

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Speaker 1: exactly one, two, three, four, five big league appearances five

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Speaker 1: and one of them. In one of them, he was terrible,

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Speaker 1: and now he's an All Star. Nothing against the guy.

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Speaker 1: His name is Jacob Mizerowski, and he cried when they

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Speaker 1: told him about it, and so did a lot of

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00:42:44,835 --> 00:42:47,835
Speaker 1: people in baseball because this is as cheap a stunt

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Speaker 1: as you could imagine, and as you could force and

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Speaker 1: fabricate and all the teams who, in a ritual as

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Speaker 1: old as time itself, have players who should be at

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Speaker 1: the All Star Game but will not be because there

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Speaker 1: is a finite number of roster spots, are enraged that

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Speaker 1: this guy is going and there guy isn't. It's not

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Speaker 1: Jacob Mizerowski's fault. I don't blame him for this. What

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Speaker 1: was he supposed to do? Say no, But trust me,

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Speaker 1: that will get lost quickly, especially if it turns out

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Speaker 1: that these first five games were his best five games

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Speaker 1: last year. And this is the root of the problem.

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Speaker 1: Baseball's number one minor league prospect, a pitcher named Paul Skens,

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Speaker 1: came up from the minor leagues early in the season,

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Speaker 1: and in his first eleven games, he won six, he

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Speaker 1: lost none. He struck out eighty nine batters in sixty

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Speaker 1: six innings. He got enormous publicity, in large part, though

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Speaker 1: Baseball will never admit this, because his girlfriend was a

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Speaker 1: famous gymnast who does a boatload of TV commercials. They

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Speaker 1: put him on the All Star team. He organically deserved it.

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00:43:51,915 --> 00:43:55,635
Speaker 1: They had him start the game too. He probably organically

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Speaker 1: deserved that too. He certainly didn't deserve it. The problem

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00:43:59,955 --> 00:44:04,235
Speaker 1: is Whenever something like that happens organically in baseball, baseball

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Speaker 1: immediately tries to make it happen again. As twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four had begun, Paul Skens was the number one prospect

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Speaker 1: in baseball had been the number one prospect chosen in

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Speaker 1: the previous year's amateur draft. As twenty twenty five began,

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Speaker 1: Jacob Miserowski of the Milwaukee Brewers was the number forty

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Speaker 1: four prospect in baseball, or the number seventy two prospect

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Speaker 1: or on one list, the official one that is on

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Speaker 1: the actual baseball website. Jacob Miserowski was the ninety first

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Speaker 1: top ranked prospect in baseball, and he had been the

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Speaker 1: sixty third guy chosen in the previous year's draft, not

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Speaker 1: the first, or the second, or even anything in single

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Speaker 1: digits or load double digits. Baseball is run by a

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00:44:54,555 --> 00:44:57,395
Speaker 1: group of men who do not like baseball, and more importantly,

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00:44:57,435 --> 00:45:01,115
Speaker 1: do not understand baseball or why things happen. So when

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Speaker 1: they see something happen that makes some of them money,

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Speaker 1: the only reaction they are capable of is, let's make

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Speaker 1: it happen again and make more money. BDBD In twenty eleven,

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00:45:14,075 --> 00:45:17,275
Speaker 1: on the season's final day, Tampa Bay needed to win

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Speaker 1: its game and the Boston Red Sox needed to lose

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00:45:19,795 --> 00:45:23,115
Speaker 1: theirs for Tampa Bay to complete an unlikely September push

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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. As those games were being played,

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00:45:26,435 --> 00:45:29,595
Speaker 1: Saint Louis needed to win its last game and have

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Speaker 1: Atlanta lose its finale to do the same to make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, four games nail Biers, great Theater, all at

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Speaker 1: the same time, win or go home one and out

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Speaker 1: do or die, and Baseball immediately changed its playoff structure

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Speaker 1: for the following year, adding six teams to the playoffs

641
00:45:50,195 --> 00:45:52,795
Speaker 1: for the next season and forcing them and two other

642
00:45:52,875 --> 00:45:57,035
Speaker 1: teams to play one game winner, go home one and

643
00:45:57,155 --> 00:46:02,755
Speaker 1: out do or die games. Utterly artificial, utterly forced, utterly

644
00:46:02,835 --> 00:46:08,395
Speaker 1: the way baseball has always mare marketed itself or mismarketed itself. Hey,

645
00:46:08,435 --> 00:46:10,995
Speaker 1: this worked last year. Let's force it to happen. Let's

646
00:46:11,035 --> 00:46:15,075
Speaker 1: have ties all the time's fake ties in one game playoffs.

647
00:46:16,635 --> 00:46:19,675
Speaker 1: There is rage about this, although some of it has

648
00:46:19,715 --> 00:46:24,195
Speaker 1: been walked back. Missiroski took it was expected the spot

649
00:46:24,235 --> 00:46:27,075
Speaker 1: of a Philadelphia Phillies pitcher, or maybe a San Francisco

650
00:46:27,235 --> 00:46:30,235
Speaker 1: Giants pitcher, or if you want to get creative and say, wow,

651
00:46:30,395 --> 00:46:32,515
Speaker 1: do we have to have a pitcher take the open

652
00:46:32,555 --> 00:46:35,115
Speaker 1: spot on the team? How about Juan Soto of the

653
00:46:35,155 --> 00:46:37,755
Speaker 1: New York Mets, who was the thing everybody in baseball

654
00:46:37,835 --> 00:46:39,635
Speaker 1: was trying to sell to the public over the winter

655
00:46:39,835 --> 00:46:42,395
Speaker 1: because he signed an all time record contract. Oh no,

656
00:46:42,515 --> 00:46:47,075
Speaker 1: he's old news. Let's not promote Juan Soto so we

657
00:46:47,115 --> 00:46:51,315
Speaker 1: can bring in Jacob five games, Misserroski. Let's not draw

658
00:46:51,435 --> 00:46:54,035
Speaker 1: the New York audience so we can get the Wisconsin

659
00:46:54,155 --> 00:46:57,595
Speaker 1: audience to watch the guy whose name they can't even

660
00:46:57,635 --> 00:47:02,075
Speaker 1: spell yet. In any event, one of the Philly guys,

661
00:47:02,755 --> 00:47:05,675
Speaker 1: Trey Turner, said before being in four that one of

662
00:47:05,675 --> 00:47:07,515
Speaker 1: the two pitchers that should have been on the All

663
00:47:07,515 --> 00:47:10,675
Speaker 1: Star team didn't want to go to the All Star Game.

664
00:47:11,515 --> 00:47:15,675
Speaker 1: What a joke. That's effing terrible. His teammate Nick Castellanos

665
00:47:15,675 --> 00:47:17,835
Speaker 1: had a memorable line, which he tried to walk back.

666
00:47:18,195 --> 00:47:22,675
Speaker 1: It's turning into the Savannah Bananas. That is a reference

667
00:47:22,715 --> 00:47:25,835
Speaker 1: to the traveling baseball team that plays baseball in the

668
00:47:25,835 --> 00:47:29,315
Speaker 1: same manner that the Harlem Globetrotters played basketball. Only the

669
00:47:29,355 --> 00:47:33,675
Speaker 1: Harlem Globe Trotters are funny, and you know it's it's

670
00:47:33,715 --> 00:47:36,395
Speaker 1: actually okay, it's the Baseball All Star Game. It long

671
00:47:36,435 --> 00:47:40,155
Speaker 1: ago lost any meaning, and instead of just killing it off,

672
00:47:40,515 --> 00:47:45,235
Speaker 1: they've been trying gimmicks like Jacob Miseraski for twenty five years.

673
00:47:46,195 --> 00:47:48,555
Speaker 1: Baseball will not accept the reality that the game was

674
00:47:48,635 --> 00:47:52,795
Speaker 1: priceless back when there were still two separate, distinct leagues

675
00:47:53,115 --> 00:47:57,075
Speaker 1: and you got to see maybe George Brett tried to

676
00:47:57,155 --> 00:48:00,435
Speaker 1: hit off tom sever and when some teams were on

677
00:48:00,515 --> 00:48:03,595
Speaker 1: national television only once a year, and when the All

678
00:48:03,595 --> 00:48:05,795
Speaker 1: Star Game was the only chance to see most of

679
00:48:05,835 --> 00:48:10,955
Speaker 1: the stars at baseball, especially all in one place. As

680
00:48:11,075 --> 00:48:16,435
Speaker 1: late as nineteen eighty, just before cable really happened, thirty

681
00:48:16,715 --> 00:48:20,915
Speaker 1: six million people watch the Baseball All Star Game in

682
00:48:20,915 --> 00:48:23,435
Speaker 1: the middle of the season on a weeknight in the

683
00:48:23,435 --> 00:48:28,675
Speaker 1: summer when it's nice on ABC thirty six. Last year,

684
00:48:29,155 --> 00:48:32,515
Speaker 1: Baseball could not stop patting itself on the back because

685
00:48:32,555 --> 00:48:37,955
Speaker 1: the TV ratings had gone up to almost almost seven

686
00:48:38,115 --> 00:48:45,795
Speaker 1: and a half million nineteen eighty thirty six million twenty

687
00:48:45,875 --> 00:48:49,595
Speaker 1: twenty four seven and a half million. Something appears to

688
00:48:49,595 --> 00:48:53,155
Speaker 1: be wrong with the audience. So if you want to

689
00:48:53,195 --> 00:48:55,515
Speaker 1: build in a gimmick where a rookie just up from

690
00:48:55,555 --> 00:48:57,555
Speaker 1: the minor leagues, goes to the All Star Game.

691
00:48:57,675 --> 00:48:58,995
Speaker 2: Cool, do it?

692
00:48:59,675 --> 00:49:03,275
Speaker 1: Just don't pretend it's not a gimmick. They've already created

693
00:49:03,275 --> 00:49:06,595
Speaker 1: a legends spot for the All Star Game for a

694
00:49:06,675 --> 00:49:10,195
Speaker 1: recognizable name. Or to Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers this year,

695
00:49:10,315 --> 00:49:12,755
Speaker 1: who was not good enough to make the actual team.

696
00:49:13,795 --> 00:49:18,475
Speaker 1: Have a rookie, have a bat boy, let him play

697
00:49:18,555 --> 00:49:22,515
Speaker 1: left field, have some guy out of the stands. What's

698
00:49:22,555 --> 00:49:28,395
Speaker 1: the difference. There's only seven million people watching. Just go

699
00:49:28,475 --> 00:49:31,275
Speaker 1: with it. Just say, we put Jacob Miserowski on the team,

700
00:49:31,475 --> 00:49:34,675
Speaker 1: so maybe you will buy a replica Jacob Miseerowski All

701
00:49:34,715 --> 00:49:37,355
Speaker 1: Star uniform. And we didn't put Wan Soto on the

702
00:49:37,395 --> 00:49:41,195
Speaker 1: team because you already bought a Wan Sodo replica uniform.

703
00:49:42,515 --> 00:49:45,395
Speaker 1: As a baseball historian, my problem is the game has

704
00:49:45,435 --> 00:49:48,955
Speaker 1: always tried to protect its young players, not rush them,

705
00:49:49,115 --> 00:49:53,635
Speaker 1: especially not rush them into the spotlight, especially its young pitchers.

706
00:49:54,675 --> 00:49:57,875
Speaker 1: Before Paul Skeens last year, the record for fewest games

707
00:49:57,915 --> 00:50:00,635
Speaker 1: played or pitched in before going to the All Star

708
00:50:00,715 --> 00:50:03,435
Speaker 1: Game for the first time was by Mark the Bird Fidrich,

709
00:50:03,715 --> 00:50:06,715
Speaker 1: the famous I talked to the baseball before I throw

710
00:50:06,755 --> 00:50:10,715
Speaker 1: it pitcher of the nineteen seventy six Detroit Tigers. Thirteen

711
00:50:10,835 --> 00:50:13,955
Speaker 1: games was all he'd played in the major leagues, and

712
00:50:14,035 --> 00:50:17,755
Speaker 1: he went and started the All Star Game. Fidrich was

713
00:50:17,795 --> 00:50:20,355
Speaker 1: injured the next year and was never close to an

714
00:50:20,355 --> 00:50:25,515
Speaker 1: All Star pitcher again, except for fleeting, painful innings two

715
00:50:25,635 --> 00:50:27,955
Speaker 1: or three at a time before his arm would go

716
00:50:28,035 --> 00:50:33,635
Speaker 1: bad again. Hideo Nomo, the Japanese Tornado, tied that record

717
00:50:33,635 --> 00:50:36,955
Speaker 1: of seven to fourteen games in nineteen ninety five. Within

718
00:50:37,075 --> 00:50:40,555
Speaker 1: three years, he had flamed out. The Los Angeles Dodgers

719
00:50:40,635 --> 00:50:44,995
Speaker 1: traded him to the Mets, and worst of all, when

720
00:50:44,995 --> 00:50:46,995
Speaker 1: they traded him to the Mets, they rented him the

721
00:50:47,035 --> 00:50:52,155
Speaker 1: apartment next to mine. Can you imagine anything worse than that?

722
00:50:53,555 --> 00:50:56,955
Speaker 1: The next fewest games was Dontreil Willis of the two

723
00:50:56,955 --> 00:51:00,035
Speaker 1: thousand and three Florida Marlins, and he is now, oh

724
00:51:00,075 --> 00:51:02,395
Speaker 1: my goodness, there is something worse than that. He is

725
00:51:02,435 --> 00:51:05,875
Speaker 1: now on the pregame show for Fox Sports Shorts, which

726
00:51:05,915 --> 00:51:11,595
Speaker 1: isn't quite hell, but it is at minimum purgatory. I mean,

727
00:51:11,635 --> 00:51:15,595
Speaker 1: have you ever heard of Harry Krouse? Harry Krouse was

728
00:51:15,635 --> 00:51:18,955
Speaker 1: a rookie with the nineteen hundred and nine Philadelphia A's

729
00:51:18,955 --> 00:51:21,595
Speaker 1: and they didn't have an annual All Star Game then.

730
00:51:21,675 --> 00:51:24,595
Speaker 1: But if they did, and these people of today were

731
00:51:24,635 --> 00:51:27,435
Speaker 1: running baseball, then Harry Kross would have started the nineteen

732
00:51:27,475 --> 00:51:30,835
Speaker 1: oh nine All Star Game. In his first fifteen starts

733
00:51:30,835 --> 00:51:33,315
Speaker 1: in the nineteen oh nine season, Harry Krouse had an

734
00:51:33,315 --> 00:51:37,915
Speaker 1: ERA of under one point zero zero. Harry Krouse won

735
00:51:38,515 --> 00:51:43,555
Speaker 1: fourteen of those fifteen games. He threw seven shutouts. He

736
00:51:43,635 --> 00:51:46,155
Speaker 1: won four of those games by a score of one

737
00:51:46,235 --> 00:51:50,555
Speaker 1: to nothing. His first fifteen starts, he wins four one

738
00:51:50,595 --> 00:51:53,555
Speaker 1: to nothing games and throws seven shutouts and goes fourteen

739
00:51:53,635 --> 00:51:58,315
Speaker 1: and one, and somewhere during game thirteen or fourteen, he

740
00:51:58,395 --> 00:52:00,795
Speaker 1: heard something in his arm or his shoulder. And he

741
00:52:00,835 --> 00:52:03,915
Speaker 1: would pitch in just fifty one more major league games

742
00:52:03,915 --> 00:52:05,635
Speaker 1: in his life than he was back in the miners.

743
00:52:05,675 --> 00:52:10,715
Speaker 1: Three years after his extraordinary run happens to hitters two.

744
00:52:11,555 --> 00:52:14,435
Speaker 1: They didn't have top one hundred prospects lists in nineteen

745
00:52:14,515 --> 00:52:17,275
Speaker 1: sixty six, but Jackie Warner of the Angels would have

746
00:52:17,315 --> 00:52:19,755
Speaker 1: been on them before the season began. He hit seventy

747
00:52:19,795 --> 00:52:22,475
Speaker 1: five homers in his first three minor league seasons. He

748
00:52:22,595 --> 00:52:25,035
Speaker 1: made the sixty six Angels as their opening day right

749
00:52:25,075 --> 00:52:28,595
Speaker 1: fielder and On April fourteenth, in just his second big

750
00:52:28,675 --> 00:52:31,435
Speaker 1: league game, the Angels and the White Sox were tied

751
00:52:31,475 --> 00:52:34,075
Speaker 1: one to one in the ninth and Jackie Warner homered

752
00:52:34,555 --> 00:52:37,555
Speaker 1: off future All Star Joe Horland to win the game

753
00:52:37,555 --> 00:52:40,635
Speaker 1: for the Angels two to one in the ninth. Two

754
00:52:40,715 --> 00:52:43,315
Speaker 1: days later, the Angels were losing in the seventh and

755
00:52:43,435 --> 00:52:46,315
Speaker 1: Jackie Warner hit a two run homer to beat All

756
00:52:46,355 --> 00:52:49,115
Speaker 1: Star Mudcat Grant in the Minnesota Twins three to two.

757
00:52:49,715 --> 00:52:52,315
Speaker 1: On the twenty third, in his seventh big league game,

758
00:52:52,635 --> 00:52:55,755
Speaker 1: Jackie Warner homered again in the eighth to beat future

759
00:52:55,795 --> 00:52:58,275
Speaker 1: All Star Jim Merritt and the Twins four to three,

760
00:52:58,555 --> 00:53:03,835
Speaker 1: three late game winning homers in his first seven games,

761
00:53:05,235 --> 00:53:07,915
Speaker 1: after fifteen games in the Major leagues, Jackie Warner had

762
00:53:07,955 --> 00:53:10,835
Speaker 1: five homers, thirteen runs batted in, and he was batting

763
00:53:10,875 --> 00:53:13,075
Speaker 1: three forty five. Would you have put him on the

764
00:53:13,115 --> 00:53:17,755
Speaker 1: All Star team today, he'd be leading off. They'd special

765
00:53:17,795 --> 00:53:20,195
Speaker 1: a rule in there so he could bat twice every inning,

766
00:53:20,875 --> 00:53:25,675
Speaker 1: and he'd be participating in the home run derby. Then

767
00:53:25,795 --> 00:53:29,395
Speaker 1: Jackie Warner hurt his hand. He only got sixty eight

768
00:53:29,435 --> 00:53:34,435
Speaker 1: more at bats in his life. He hit two eleven

769
00:53:34,755 --> 00:53:38,435
Speaker 1: for that season. After that great start, he was back

770
00:53:38,515 --> 00:53:41,835
Speaker 1: in the miners, having hit three game winning homers in

771
00:53:41,875 --> 00:53:44,195
Speaker 1: the first week of his life. He was back in

772
00:53:44,235 --> 00:53:48,595
Speaker 1: the miners before the first of August. Should I continue?

773
00:53:48,795 --> 00:53:51,795
Speaker 1: Billy Roar of the nineteen sixty seven Red Sox, who

774
00:53:51,835 --> 00:53:54,355
Speaker 1: was pitching a no hitter against the Yankees at Yankee

775
00:53:54,435 --> 00:53:56,755
Speaker 1: Stadium with two out in the ninth before he finally

776
00:53:56,755 --> 00:53:58,675
Speaker 1: gave up a single and had to settle for a

777
00:53:58,715 --> 00:54:01,995
Speaker 1: one hitter, a game so dominant that in those pre

778
00:54:02,195 --> 00:54:07,635
Speaker 1: satellite days, the sports director of Boston TV station Channel five,

779
00:54:08,395 --> 00:54:12,915
Speaker 1: Don Gillis, sent his intern to Logan Airport and had

780
00:54:12,915 --> 00:54:16,835
Speaker 1: the intern fly to New York to pick up a

781
00:54:16,955 --> 00:54:20,155
Speaker 1: copy of the video tape of the game. When the

782
00:54:20,235 --> 00:54:23,795
Speaker 1: videotape of the game weighed about thirty pounds, and carry

783
00:54:23,835 --> 00:54:28,035
Speaker 1: it with him back on the flight to Boston. The

784
00:54:28,075 --> 00:54:30,795
Speaker 1: tape that was made by a New York station fly

785
00:54:30,955 --> 00:54:33,755
Speaker 1: it back to Boston by hand so they could show

786
00:54:33,835 --> 00:54:36,675
Speaker 1: highlights of Billy Rohr on the eleven o'clock news, where

787
00:54:36,715 --> 00:54:40,595
Speaker 1: he was the lead story. A week later, Billy Rohor

788
00:54:40,675 --> 00:54:43,115
Speaker 1: went out and beat the Yankees again, six to one.

789
00:54:43,315 --> 00:54:46,315
Speaker 1: This time he struck out seven. His earned run averys

790
00:54:46,435 --> 00:54:49,155
Speaker 1: was zero point five to Zho he was two to zero.

791
00:54:49,315 --> 00:54:52,275
Speaker 1: He had a one hitter under his belt. Billy Roor

792
00:54:52,435 --> 00:54:55,755
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five would have started the All Star Game.

793
00:54:57,035 --> 00:55:01,235
Speaker 1: Problem was Billy Roor in nineteen sixty seven had already

794
00:55:01,315 --> 00:55:05,875
Speaker 1: won two thirds of all the games, would ever win.

795
00:55:08,195 --> 00:55:12,835
Speaker 1: You don't make somebody an All Star after three games,

796
00:55:13,475 --> 00:55:18,515
Speaker 1: or after one week, or after five games. You don't,

797
00:55:19,635 --> 00:55:23,595
Speaker 1: if for no other reason, then the pressure you put

798
00:55:23,635 --> 00:55:27,715
Speaker 1: on the kid. How do you know Jacob Mazerowski is

799
00:55:27,755 --> 00:55:32,315
Speaker 1: Paul Skeens. How do you know Paul Skens is Paul Skeans?

800
00:55:32,435 --> 00:55:35,235
Speaker 1: How do you know they're not both Billy Rorer or

801
00:55:35,275 --> 00:55:40,675
Speaker 1: Harry Krouse. They have always made spots for rookies who

802
00:55:40,675 --> 00:55:43,875
Speaker 1: have established themselves in the majors. Lots of rookies on

803
00:55:43,915 --> 00:55:46,435
Speaker 1: the All Star team. I've just cited a few examples,

804
00:55:46,475 --> 00:55:49,955
Speaker 1: even though they all went down in flames. On the

805
00:55:49,955 --> 00:55:53,795
Speaker 1: other hand, that idea of being established in the majors

806
00:55:53,915 --> 00:55:56,635
Speaker 1: had to be undisputed. If you were iffy, if there

807
00:55:56,635 --> 00:55:59,275
Speaker 1: were holes in your game, no you didn't go to

808
00:55:59,275 --> 00:56:03,955
Speaker 1: the All Star Game. Nolan Ryan, have you heard of

809
00:56:03,955 --> 00:56:06,555
Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan broke in with the New York Mets in

810
00:56:06,595 --> 00:56:11,795
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six. His first All Star Game was in

811
00:56:11,875 --> 00:56:15,755
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two. And guess what his first All Star

812
00:56:15,835 --> 00:56:19,315
Speaker 1: game The debut of Nolan Ryan at the All Star

813
00:56:19,355 --> 00:56:21,875
Speaker 1: Game in his sixth big league season. Yeah, make him

814
00:56:21,915 --> 00:56:26,435
Speaker 1: wait another three years, six seasons of waiting, Compared to

815
00:56:26,475 --> 00:56:31,675
Speaker 1: Jacob Mazerowski's five games in the nineteen seventy two All

816
00:56:31,715 --> 00:56:36,275
Speaker 1: Star Game. They didn't even let Nolan Ryan pitch to

817
00:56:36,315 --> 00:56:44,875
Speaker 1: one batter. Also dateline Saint Louis on a more serious subject,

818
00:56:45,435 --> 00:56:47,755
Speaker 1: if you know a big league sports play by play

819
00:56:47,875 --> 00:56:50,635
Speaker 1: man baseball or otherwise, pardon him if he's a little

820
00:56:50,715 --> 00:56:58,835
Speaker 1: jumpy today, because it has begun. The simulcast era has begun.

821
00:57:00,155 --> 00:57:03,275
Speaker 1: The Saint Louis Blues have dismissed their twenty year veteran

822
00:57:03,315 --> 00:57:07,435
Speaker 1: play by play man, John Kelly, himself the son of

823
00:57:07,515 --> 00:57:09,995
Speaker 1: their twenty year Hall of Fame play by play man

824
00:57:10,115 --> 00:57:12,075
Speaker 1: Dan Kelly, as great a play by play man, with

825
00:57:12,115 --> 00:57:15,475
Speaker 1: as much of a big game sound as anybody in

826
00:57:15,515 --> 00:57:20,235
Speaker 1: any sport in any time. The wisdom of firing John

827
00:57:20,315 --> 00:57:26,515
Speaker 1: Kelly is one issue, but it is largely except to

828
00:57:26,715 --> 00:57:29,675
Speaker 1: those of us who compulsively watch hockey games three and

829
00:57:29,795 --> 00:57:32,995
Speaker 1: four a night. It's largely contained to Saint Louis and

830
00:57:33,035 --> 00:57:35,155
Speaker 1: the fans of the Blues, so we'll put it aside

831
00:57:35,155 --> 00:57:38,235
Speaker 1: for a moment. The bigger picture is who is going

832
00:57:38,275 --> 00:57:43,955
Speaker 1: to replace John Kelly. The answer is nobody. The Blues

833
00:57:44,035 --> 00:57:47,475
Speaker 1: are going to do a simulcast, have the same play

834
00:57:47,475 --> 00:57:51,915
Speaker 1: by play done on radio and TV. The radio guys

835
00:57:51,955 --> 00:57:55,075
Speaker 1: will do the games and they'll just put it out

836
00:57:55,115 --> 00:57:58,955
Speaker 1: with pictures on it. And this matters because it is

837
00:57:59,075 --> 00:58:02,555
Speaker 1: inevitable that this will happen almost everywhere in this country

838
00:58:03,515 --> 00:58:08,395
Speaker 1: soon or late. This is just the start. This is

839
00:58:08,595 --> 00:58:12,115
Speaker 1: just the first shock, and usually it will be the

840
00:58:12,115 --> 00:58:20,035
Speaker 1: more expensive announcer who gets the nice note. Sports play

841
00:58:20,075 --> 00:58:22,555
Speaker 1: by play on radio has been shrinking ever since TV

842
00:58:22,715 --> 00:58:24,755
Speaker 1: was introduced in the nineteen forties, but it's always had

843
00:58:24,755 --> 00:58:27,435
Speaker 1: a foothold because it wasn't like you could watch TV

844
00:58:27,555 --> 00:58:30,115
Speaker 1: when you weren't near the TV or anything like I

845
00:58:30,115 --> 00:58:37,995
Speaker 1: had a TV on your phone or something. Oops. The

846
00:58:38,035 --> 00:58:40,395
Speaker 1: beginning of the end probably came when a few years

847
00:58:40,435 --> 00:58:45,115
Speaker 1: ago ESPN gave up on ESPN Radio. I may have

848
00:58:45,155 --> 00:58:48,275
Speaker 1: mentioned once or twice that I helped found ESPN Radio.

849
00:58:48,515 --> 00:58:50,795
Speaker 1: This was a shock to me. I didn't realize it

850
00:58:50,835 --> 00:58:53,835
Speaker 1: was going to be this bad. ESPN Radio still exists,

851
00:58:53,835 --> 00:58:57,395
Speaker 1: but they basically don't run it anymore at ESPN. Four

852
00:58:57,475 --> 00:59:00,475
Speaker 1: years ago they sold their ESPN stations in New York,

853
00:59:00,595 --> 00:59:03,475
Speaker 1: LA and Chicago, and two years ago they farmed out

854
00:59:03,595 --> 00:59:06,595
Speaker 1: the whole network and the running of it to an

855
00:59:06,675 --> 00:59:10,555
Speaker 1: outside company. The outside company runs it now. ESPN Radio

856
00:59:10,755 --> 00:59:13,955
Speaker 1: is just a brand name. It has nothing more really

857
00:59:13,995 --> 00:59:17,355
Speaker 1: to do with ESPN than a sweatshirt with ESPN printed

858
00:59:17,355 --> 00:59:22,115
Speaker 1: on it. There will probably always be separate local radio

859
00:59:22,155 --> 00:59:26,075
Speaker 1: sports casts for hockey, baseball, and basketball play by play

860
00:59:26,115 --> 00:59:31,355
Speaker 1: in the biggest cities New York, LA, Chicago, and well

861
00:59:31,355 --> 00:59:33,595
Speaker 1: maybe just New York, LA and Chicago as I think

862
00:59:33,635 --> 00:59:40,515
Speaker 1: of it, Philadelphia maybe. And listen to those radio broadcasts sometime,

863
00:59:41,675 --> 00:59:46,595
Speaker 1: listen to the sponsorships, the commercials, and ask yourself, how

864
00:59:46,635 --> 00:59:48,515
Speaker 1: on the hell are they making any money on this.

865
00:59:49,715 --> 00:59:53,955
Speaker 1: I will not mention the broadcast or the sport, but

866
00:59:54,035 --> 00:59:57,235
Speaker 1: there is an excellent radio play by play team whose

867
00:59:57,315 --> 01:00:05,155
Speaker 1: games are sponsored sponsored with multiple commercials every game that

868
01:00:05,275 --> 01:00:13,235
Speaker 1: treats Pyroney's disease. I swear Pyroney's disease. And if you

869
01:00:13,315 --> 01:00:17,475
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm talking about, google it. If you

870
01:00:17,635 --> 01:00:21,315
Speaker 1: dare by yourself when nobody else can see you googling it,

871
01:00:22,555 --> 01:00:24,355
Speaker 1: don't say I didn't warn you, And don't say that

872
01:00:24,715 --> 01:00:29,635
Speaker 1: with these blues from Saint Louis. But nothing symbolizes the

873
01:00:29,675 --> 01:00:32,475
Speaker 1: future of play by play sports on the radio more

874
01:00:32,595 --> 01:00:44,635
Speaker 1: than does Pyrone's disease to the number one story on

875
01:00:44,675 --> 01:00:47,995
Speaker 1: this all new episode of the Countdown podcast. And somebody

876
01:00:48,195 --> 01:00:52,235
Speaker 1: asked me the other day my favorite joke I ever

877
01:00:52,355 --> 01:00:55,995
Speaker 1: told on the air. Since I've just crossed the threshold

878
01:00:56,035 --> 01:01:01,155
Speaker 1: of forty six years on the air, there were a

879
01:01:01,195 --> 01:01:04,075
Speaker 1: lot of jokes. I mean, holy cow, I covered George Bush.

880
01:01:04,275 --> 01:01:07,675
Speaker 1: That's eight years of jokes right there, to say nothing

881
01:01:07,715 --> 01:01:13,595
Speaker 1: of Scarborough and Matthews. Seriously, since this is the greatest

882
01:01:13,635 --> 01:01:19,595
Speaker 1: possible excuse to reuse old material that you probably have

883
01:01:19,715 --> 01:01:22,755
Speaker 1: not heard before, let me just do a few of them,

884
01:01:23,195 --> 01:01:26,235
Speaker 1: and I'll start with sports. The best joke that it

885
01:01:26,315 --> 01:01:29,475
Speaker 1: was ever done to me, remaining one of my favorite

886
01:01:29,475 --> 01:01:32,875
Speaker 1: episodes in my entire history, was done by the late

887
01:01:32,915 --> 01:01:36,035
Speaker 1: Bill Robinson, who was the right fielder of the New

888
01:01:36,075 --> 01:01:38,955
Speaker 1: York Yankees in nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty eight,

889
01:01:39,075 --> 01:01:42,675
Speaker 1: and later had a distinguished career with the Pittsburgh Pirates,

890
01:01:42,715 --> 01:01:45,755
Speaker 1: mostly also the Phillies, and who was managing in nineteen

891
01:01:45,835 --> 01:01:49,155
Speaker 1: ninety six the Reading Phillies, their farm team in the

892
01:01:49,235 --> 01:01:52,715
Speaker 1: Eastern League. And I wrote Bill for an autograph on

893
01:01:52,755 --> 01:01:55,275
Speaker 1: a baseball card that I needed to complete a set,

894
01:01:55,395 --> 01:01:58,835
Speaker 1: and he wrote back saying, I'm sending you this demanding

895
01:01:58,995 --> 01:02:03,235
Speaker 1: that you give my team a tour of ESPN as

896
01:02:03,315 --> 01:02:06,955
Speaker 1: we drive past. We go right past it on one

897
01:02:07,235 --> 01:02:11,915
Speaker 1: road trip to New Britain, the New Britain Red Sox

898
01:02:12,075 --> 01:02:15,835
Speaker 1: as they were formerly known, later the Hardware City Rock Cats.

899
01:02:16,475 --> 01:02:19,315
Speaker 1: I swear that's what they called the team. Hey, we're

900
01:02:19,315 --> 01:02:23,755
Speaker 1: in Hardware City. You want to mention that publicly anyway,

901
01:02:23,915 --> 01:02:26,195
Speaker 1: He said, we drive past it all the time. We

902
01:02:26,195 --> 01:02:28,755
Speaker 1: could just stop off and get the Nickel Tour, but

903
01:02:28,955 --> 01:02:31,715
Speaker 1: that's the price. But he said, if you give us

904
01:02:31,755 --> 01:02:35,755
Speaker 1: the Nickel Tour, I will let you be my bench

905
01:02:35,875 --> 01:02:39,195
Speaker 1: coach for a game at New Britain, and you can

906
01:02:39,235 --> 01:02:41,915
Speaker 1: wear a uniform and you can hang with the players,

907
01:02:41,915 --> 01:02:44,635
Speaker 1: and I'll actually have you do coach kind of stuff

908
01:02:44,795 --> 01:02:47,435
Speaker 1: and you can sit in the dugout and watch a

909
01:02:47,475 --> 01:02:49,715
Speaker 1: game with me and these guys. And we have a

910
01:02:49,755 --> 01:02:52,035
Speaker 1: couple of guys who'll be pretty good players, one of

911
01:02:52,035 --> 01:02:54,715
Speaker 1: whom was named Scott Roland, who was a third baseman

912
01:02:54,715 --> 01:02:56,955
Speaker 1: who is now in Baseball's Hall of Fame. That's how

913
01:02:56,995 --> 01:02:59,555
Speaker 1: long ago this happened. So we arranged this, and I

914
01:02:59,715 --> 01:03:04,315
Speaker 1: report to the Beehive, the home of the New Britain

915
01:03:05,795 --> 01:03:10,955
Speaker 1: Red Sox, then the Hardware City rock Cats, for God's sakes,

916
01:03:12,035 --> 01:03:14,515
Speaker 1: and they give me a uniform. And the only guy

917
01:03:14,555 --> 01:03:17,235
Speaker 1: on the team is a picture named Wayne Gomes, the

918
01:03:17,235 --> 01:03:20,475
Speaker 1: only guy with shoes big enough to fit my giant boats.

919
01:03:20,995 --> 01:03:23,075
Speaker 1: And they give me a cap somewhere, and I'm wearing

920
01:03:23,195 --> 01:03:25,475
Speaker 1: I think uniform number forty seven. Of course, there are

921
01:03:25,515 --> 01:03:28,355
Speaker 1: no pictures of this. We didn't think to send a camera.

922
01:03:28,835 --> 01:03:32,195
Speaker 1: I didn't even think to bring a disposable cardboard camera

923
01:03:32,235 --> 01:03:35,915
Speaker 1: to get a shot of me in uniform. I'm actually somewhere.

924
01:03:35,995 --> 01:03:39,275
Speaker 1: I am listed as the bench coach of the Redding

925
01:03:39,395 --> 01:03:43,115
Speaker 1: Phillies of the Eastern League for one day, so it

926
01:03:43,275 --> 01:03:45,595
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. It was a great evening

927
01:03:45,675 --> 01:03:50,315
Speaker 1: and I gained tremendous perspective. And later on, when Terry Francona,

928
01:03:50,395 --> 01:03:52,675
Speaker 1: then the manager of the Red Sox, twice, invited me

929
01:03:52,915 --> 01:03:56,195
Speaker 1: to sit with him on the bench during spring training games.

930
01:03:56,355 --> 01:03:58,075
Speaker 1: I had an idea of what to expect and how

931
01:03:58,155 --> 01:04:02,155
Speaker 1: to conduct myself, and it was educational beyond belief in

932
01:04:02,235 --> 01:04:04,155
Speaker 1: terms of my understanding of the game and what the

933
01:04:04,155 --> 01:04:08,675
Speaker 1: players and how come players never ever, ever would understand

934
01:04:09,035 --> 01:04:12,515
Speaker 1: that the game might seem slow from outside the field.

935
01:04:12,595 --> 01:04:15,595
Speaker 1: You miss fifty percent of the boredom if you're in

936
01:04:15,675 --> 01:04:19,155
Speaker 1: the dugout. It goes by like a basketball game, like

937
01:04:19,155 --> 01:04:21,955
Speaker 1: a rocket ship going back and forth from one side

938
01:04:21,995 --> 01:04:24,835
Speaker 1: of the field to the other. In any event, comes

939
01:04:24,875 --> 01:04:26,675
Speaker 1: the seventh inning and we've been sitting there and I

940
01:04:26,715 --> 01:04:29,315
Speaker 1: don't even remember who was leading or who was trailing,

941
01:04:29,435 --> 01:04:31,795
Speaker 1: or what the score was or what happened in the game.

942
01:04:32,115 --> 01:04:34,875
Speaker 1: But it was then that the actual purpose of my

943
01:04:35,035 --> 01:04:37,475
Speaker 1: being in the uniform of the Reading Phillies that day

944
01:04:38,475 --> 01:04:42,435
Speaker 1: was revealed to me. I was sitting between two Freading

945
01:04:42,555 --> 01:04:47,355
Speaker 1: Phillies players. I think they were Doug Angelie and Matt Giuliano.

946
01:04:47,435 --> 01:04:49,315
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I know it was Matt, and they

947
01:04:49,315 --> 01:04:51,835
Speaker 1: were engaging me in conversation. And these are two really

948
01:04:51,915 --> 01:04:54,795
Speaker 1: nice guys. And sports interviewers, and they had all sorts

949
01:04:54,835 --> 01:04:58,435
Speaker 1: of questions, and then at some point one of them

950
01:04:58,835 --> 01:05:02,795
Speaker 1: barks out at the umpire, Hunter Wendelstett, the son of

951
01:05:02,835 --> 01:05:08,395
Speaker 1: a veteran National League and they yell about a ball

952
01:05:08,515 --> 01:05:12,475
Speaker 1: and strike charge, and they hey, Blue, when are you

953
01:05:12,515 --> 01:05:15,035
Speaker 1: gonna get your guys on? Or where are you gonna

954
01:05:15,395 --> 01:05:18,235
Speaker 1: add your eyes? Or when when did they get installed?

955
01:05:18,355 --> 01:05:21,875
Speaker 1: Or so whatever it was, and Hunter Wendelstett calls time

956
01:05:21,915 --> 01:05:24,835
Speaker 1: out and walks over to our dugout and says, who

957
01:05:24,955 --> 01:05:30,195
Speaker 1: said that? And Doug Angelie and Matt Giuliano simultaneously point

958
01:05:30,395 --> 01:05:35,635
Speaker 1: to me, and Wendelsteat goes, you are out of the game.

959
01:05:37,835 --> 01:05:40,515
Speaker 1: The point of my being in a reading Phillies uniform,

960
01:05:40,555 --> 01:05:43,155
Speaker 1: thanks to my friend Bill Robinson, was to get me

961
01:05:43,195 --> 01:05:47,955
Speaker 1: ejected from a game. I didn't think they were serious

962
01:05:47,995 --> 01:05:49,755
Speaker 1: about it. And Robbie came over to me at one

963
01:05:49,755 --> 01:05:51,915
Speaker 1: point and says, you'll have to go. He's actually throwing

964
01:05:51,955 --> 01:05:53,235
Speaker 1: you out. And I said, I'm going to get my

965
01:05:53,275 --> 01:05:55,355
Speaker 1: money's worth. And I ran out onto the field and

966
01:05:55,395 --> 01:05:58,675
Speaker 1: started screaming at Hunter Wendel's stead. And no one could

967
01:05:58,715 --> 01:06:01,955
Speaker 1: hear this. They just saw me offering him my glasses,

968
01:06:02,355 --> 01:06:06,115
Speaker 1: the standard insult the umpire trick that was invented by

969
01:06:06,115 --> 01:06:09,715
Speaker 1: some manager in the year eighteen ninety two, and screaming

970
01:06:09,755 --> 01:06:11,955
Speaker 1: at him. What are I screaming at him? Was you're

971
01:06:11,995 --> 01:06:15,195
Speaker 1: a very good umpirere strike zone has been consistent throughout

972
01:06:15,195 --> 01:06:17,875
Speaker 1: this game. You're gonna make the major leagues despite the

973
01:06:17,915 --> 01:06:20,315
Speaker 1: fact that you're a NEPO higher although we didn't use

974
01:06:20,315 --> 01:06:22,675
Speaker 1: that term. Then blah blah blah, and you're gonna be great.

975
01:06:22,715 --> 01:06:24,395
Speaker 1: And I'm just coming out here to make sure that

976
01:06:24,435 --> 01:06:26,795
Speaker 1: everybody knows that I'm not putting up with getting thrown

977
01:06:26,795 --> 01:06:28,355
Speaker 1: out of the game, no matter how good an umpire

978
01:06:28,435 --> 01:06:30,355
Speaker 1: you are. And then I left, and I thank you

979
01:06:30,435 --> 01:06:33,595
Speaker 1: and good night, and off I storm to some applause.

980
01:06:33,635 --> 01:06:35,795
Speaker 1: I might add that might have been applause because I

981
01:06:35,835 --> 01:06:38,755
Speaker 1: was getting thrown out of the game. So that was

982
01:06:38,795 --> 01:06:42,755
Speaker 1: my favorite favorite joke. It is followed up by two punchlines.

983
01:06:43,155 --> 01:06:47,475
Speaker 1: Number one, Hunter Wendelstett and I have gone back and

984
01:06:47,515 --> 01:06:49,715
Speaker 1: forth about this story. I don't know how many times

985
01:06:49,795 --> 01:06:54,475
Speaker 1: in the ensuing twenty nine years. But one day I

986
01:06:54,515 --> 01:06:56,275
Speaker 1: had not seen him in all that time, and one

987
01:06:56,355 --> 01:06:58,835
Speaker 1: day I was at Yankee Stadium in the front row

988
01:06:58,915 --> 01:07:02,955
Speaker 1: before the game started early in the season of twenty ten,

989
01:07:03,035 --> 01:07:08,075
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, and Wendelstett is the home plate umpire, now

990
01:07:08,155 --> 01:07:11,235
Speaker 1: a veteran major league umpire because he was a good umpire,

991
01:07:12,115 --> 01:07:14,155
Speaker 1: just as I predicted, he made the major leagues. And

992
01:07:14,195 --> 01:07:18,115
Speaker 1: there he was, and he's standing there surveying Yankee Stadium

993
01:07:18,235 --> 01:07:22,315
Speaker 1: packed with forty five thousand fans, and I'm sitting there,

994
01:07:23,075 --> 01:07:25,995
Speaker 1: standing there behind the screen. He doesn't see me. And

995
01:07:26,075 --> 01:07:28,915
Speaker 1: as soon as the anthem ends, and he's just surveying

996
01:07:28,995 --> 01:07:31,155
Speaker 1: the scene that he's in charge of as the home

997
01:07:31,235 --> 01:07:38,595
Speaker 1: plate umpire and can't start without him, I suddenly scream revenge, revenge,

998
01:07:38,715 --> 01:07:43,035
Speaker 1: Wendelstad's revenge. And he came over and he looked at me,

999
01:07:43,115 --> 01:07:45,955
Speaker 1: and suddenly he realized it was me and burst into laughter.

1000
01:07:46,155 --> 01:07:48,795
Speaker 1: And now the game does not start on time because

1001
01:07:48,795 --> 01:07:50,675
Speaker 1: he's coming over to talk to me. And I said,

1002
01:07:50,795 --> 01:07:54,755
Speaker 1: go umpire, your damn game, and he said, come see

1003
01:07:54,795 --> 01:07:56,755
Speaker 1: me in the in the in the umps room afterwards,

1004
01:07:56,755 --> 01:07:58,475
Speaker 1: and a couple of times during the game brought me

1005
01:07:58,515 --> 01:08:00,675
Speaker 1: over foul balls and things. He said, I know you're

1006
01:08:00,675 --> 01:08:02,995
Speaker 1: a collector. Here take this. It was a lot of fun.

1007
01:08:03,635 --> 01:08:06,315
Speaker 1: But the big punch line to this is Scott Roland,

1008
01:08:06,315 --> 01:08:09,235
Speaker 1: the aforementioned future Hall of Famer all of the nineteen

1009
01:08:09,315 --> 01:08:13,075
Speaker 1: ninety six Reading Phillies, now seven eight years later, is

1010
01:08:13,115 --> 01:08:15,955
Speaker 1: playing for the Saint Louis Cardinals by this point, maybe

1011
01:08:15,955 --> 01:08:18,995
Speaker 1: it's ten years later, and I see him approaching me

1012
01:08:19,115 --> 01:08:22,355
Speaker 1: on the field, I think at Yankee Stadium. I think

1013
01:08:22,355 --> 01:08:24,315
Speaker 1: it was an interleague game. And he came to me

1014
01:08:24,395 --> 01:08:28,235
Speaker 1: and he said, very matter of fact, a dry, dead

1015
01:08:28,315 --> 01:08:31,435
Speaker 1: pan kind of guy, and all he had done. I

1016
01:08:31,435 --> 01:08:34,395
Speaker 1: didn't even know that he'd noticed. I was in the dugout.

1017
01:08:34,435 --> 01:08:37,635
Speaker 1: He was the superstar in waiting. He didn't need Doug

1018
01:08:37,755 --> 01:08:41,155
Speaker 1: Angelie and Matt Giuliano, he didn't need Bill Robinson. He

1019
01:08:41,275 --> 01:08:44,515
Speaker 1: was on his way to Cooperstown. He stood in that

1020
01:08:44,635 --> 01:08:47,435
Speaker 1: dugout and all he did was practice his golf swing,

1021
01:08:47,795 --> 01:08:50,475
Speaker 1: I swear, and then he got up and banged out

1022
01:08:50,515 --> 01:08:54,075
Speaker 1: three or four hits. No need whatsoever for the rest

1023
01:08:54,115 --> 01:08:57,795
Speaker 1: of the Eastern League. They were just there as props

1024
01:08:58,115 --> 01:09:00,875
Speaker 1: for Scott Roland. I didn't know he even saw it.

1025
01:09:01,035 --> 01:09:02,995
Speaker 1: And he walked up to me and said, matter of factly,

1026
01:09:04,795 --> 01:09:08,515
Speaker 1: where was it when you were on our team as

1027
01:09:08,515 --> 01:09:11,475
Speaker 1: a coach, and they arranged to have you thrown out

1028
01:09:11,475 --> 01:09:14,595
Speaker 1: for arguing balls and strikes and Hunter Wendelstead threw you out.

1029
01:09:14,755 --> 01:09:20,195
Speaker 1: Was that in Reading? Was that in Connecticut? Where was it?

1030
01:09:20,195 --> 01:09:21,795
Speaker 1: And I said, well, it was when you were with

1031
01:09:21,915 --> 01:09:26,195
Speaker 1: Redding and it was in New Britain and he said ah,

1032
01:09:26,235 --> 01:09:29,955
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, it was ninety six. He says, highlight

1033
01:09:30,035 --> 01:09:32,555
Speaker 1: of my year nineteen ninety six you getting thrown out

1034
01:09:32,555 --> 01:09:35,195
Speaker 1: of that game. I said, Scott, that was the year

1035
01:09:35,235 --> 01:09:36,875
Speaker 1: you got called up to the big leagues for the

1036
01:09:36,915 --> 01:09:41,315
Speaker 1: first time. And he said, deadpan, like I said, highlight

1037
01:09:41,355 --> 01:09:48,435
Speaker 1: of my year. My best sports joke pertains to not

1038
01:09:48,515 --> 01:09:50,795
Speaker 1: the Redding a Phillies, but the Philadelphia Phillies. This is

1039
01:09:50,875 --> 01:09:53,955
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six or nineteen eighty seven, and the Atlanta

1040
01:09:54,075 --> 01:09:58,195
Speaker 1: Braves had an outfielder named Albert Hall who didn't play

1041
01:09:58,275 --> 01:10:01,635
Speaker 1: very often, but played mostly because he was phenomenally fast,

1042
01:10:01,675 --> 01:10:03,795
Speaker 1: and in the days when they still did things like this,

1043
01:10:03,955 --> 01:10:06,475
Speaker 1: when they were still enough non pitchers on a baseball

1044
01:10:06,515 --> 01:10:10,115
Speaker 1: team to have pinch runners, he was basically a professional

1045
01:10:10,155 --> 01:10:13,675
Speaker 1: pinch runner and defensive substitute for the Atlanta Braves. And

1046
01:10:13,795 --> 01:10:17,475
Speaker 1: so one day he's in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies,

1047
01:10:17,675 --> 01:10:20,315
Speaker 1: and he's actually going to take ann at bat, and

1048
01:10:20,355 --> 01:10:23,275
Speaker 1: we are watching in the tiny, cramped sports office the

1049
01:10:23,315 --> 01:10:26,515
Speaker 1: closet at KTLA in Los Angeles, of which I am

1050
01:10:26,675 --> 01:10:29,195
Speaker 1: the twenty seven or twenty eight year old sports director,

1051
01:10:29,395 --> 01:10:31,675
Speaker 1: and we like to watch the games on satellite. We

1052
01:10:31,795 --> 01:10:33,795
Speaker 1: like to watch the whole games. It may have had

1053
01:10:33,795 --> 01:10:35,435
Speaker 1: something to do with the fact that we were all

1054
01:10:35,475 --> 01:10:38,315
Speaker 1: in a couple of fantasy baseball leagues and we sort

1055
01:10:38,355 --> 01:10:41,795
Speaker 1: of produced this four minute sportscast on the side. That

1056
01:10:41,955 --> 01:10:44,315
Speaker 1: might have been a little factor in why we watched

1057
01:10:44,315 --> 01:10:47,395
Speaker 1: all these games live when other networks and stations were

1058
01:10:47,435 --> 01:10:50,675
Speaker 1: content to just accept a one minute feed from New York.

1059
01:10:51,355 --> 01:10:54,515
Speaker 1: But we're watching this meaningless Braves Phillies game, and in

1060
01:10:54,555 --> 01:10:57,915
Speaker 1: the seventh inning or so, Albert Hall, the light hitting

1061
01:10:57,955 --> 01:11:01,515
Speaker 1: outfielder of the Braves, hits a really tough ground ball

1062
01:11:01,595 --> 01:11:06,555
Speaker 1: into the hole at shortstop. Steve jelts On, also light

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01:11:06,635 --> 01:11:09,795
Speaker 1: hitting defensive specialists from the Phillies, who they were convinced

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Speaker 1: for decades it seems, would be the next superstar would

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01:11:13,195 --> 01:11:17,235
Speaker 1: be the Scott Rowland of the nineteen eighties, is playing

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01:11:17,235 --> 01:11:19,955
Speaker 1: at shortstop hitting two O six and he goes after

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01:11:19,995 --> 01:11:23,035
Speaker 1: this ball deep in the hole, and as he nears it,

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01:11:24,075 --> 01:11:29,035
Speaker 1: he rolls, he falls, He dives to get this ball

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Speaker 1: and in one motion rights himself and does a spin move,

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Speaker 1: backing up in his own direction. It was as great

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01:11:36,835 --> 01:11:40,075
Speaker 1: a defensive play as I've ever seen. He never really

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01:11:40,115 --> 01:11:42,435
Speaker 1: got into the air, but that was the only thing missing.

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01:11:42,555 --> 01:11:46,635
Speaker 1: It was almost a platform dive to get this ball.

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01:11:46,715 --> 01:11:49,155
Speaker 1: And he picked the ball up and through Albert Hall,

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01:11:49,315 --> 01:11:51,915
Speaker 1: who was running his legs off to get to first base,

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01:11:52,115 --> 01:11:55,875
Speaker 1: threw him out by half an inch. And the word

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01:11:56,035 --> 01:12:00,315
Speaker 1: came to my mind, the lyric from the most perhaps

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01:12:00,435 --> 01:12:05,675
Speaker 1: quoted lyrics of all Beatles songs came to my mind,

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01:12:05,835 --> 01:12:08,995
Speaker 1: and I blurted out that play has to be in

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01:12:09,075 --> 01:12:12,115
Speaker 1: our show tonight. We have to run that highlight. And

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01:12:12,155 --> 01:12:13,755
Speaker 1: everybody in the room looked at me and it was

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01:12:13,795 --> 01:12:16,035
Speaker 1: like a man It was a good play. But when

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01:12:16,075 --> 01:12:18,195
Speaker 1: we weren't even playing, planning to play any of the

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01:12:18,275 --> 01:12:21,595
Speaker 1: Brave Firate Phillies high rade, nobody cares about this game,

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Speaker 1: don't you know? Now we know how many roles it

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01:12:27,195 --> 01:12:33,635
Speaker 1: takes to foil the Albert Hall. It was creative genius,

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01:12:33,635 --> 01:12:36,595
Speaker 1: if I must say so myself. And while I was

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01:12:36,715 --> 01:12:39,795
Speaker 1: basking in the laughter that followed, the youngest guy in

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01:12:39,835 --> 01:12:43,475
Speaker 1: the room was an intern named Benji. And Benji was

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01:12:43,555 --> 01:12:46,315
Speaker 1: I suppose eighteen or nineteen years old at that point,

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Speaker 1: just starting college. And he looked at me like I

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01:12:49,355 --> 01:12:52,195
Speaker 1: was from outer space. He said, what do you mean?

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01:12:52,355 --> 01:12:56,475
Speaker 1: I said, the Beatles Day in the Life. Now we

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01:12:56,555 --> 01:12:59,035
Speaker 1: know how many rules it takes to phil Yeah, all

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01:13:00,075 --> 01:13:04,355
Speaker 1: there how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

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Speaker 1: Albert Hall. Everybody who saw Albert Hall play for the

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01:13:08,195 --> 01:13:11,275
Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves thought of Day in the Life by the Beatles.

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01:13:11,595 --> 01:13:18,075
Speaker 1: And this guy says the Beatles, and he says, oh,

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01:13:18,475 --> 01:13:25,155
Speaker 1: the band Paul McCartney was in before wings itself the

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01:13:25,275 --> 01:13:27,715
Speaker 1: oldest joke in the world, even in nineteen eighty six

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01:13:27,835 --> 01:13:31,795
Speaker 1: or eighty seven. Only he meant it. Needless to say,

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Speaker 1: I was terrified that when we got on the air

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01:13:35,915 --> 01:13:38,995
Speaker 1: that I'd blow the joke, but I didn't. Now we

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Speaker 1: know how many roles it takes to foil the Albert Hall.

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Speaker 1: I was also once challenged by the other sportscaster I

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01:13:47,395 --> 01:13:51,035
Speaker 1: worked with in radio when the Dodgers traded their second

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01:13:51,115 --> 01:13:54,915
Speaker 1: baseman Steve Lopes and turned over second base to a

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01:13:54,995 --> 01:13:59,355
Speaker 1: rookie named Steve Sachs. We used to start our sportscast,

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01:13:59,435 --> 01:14:03,595
Speaker 1: and Charlie Steiner was my boss at the RCAO Radio network,

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01:14:03,835 --> 01:14:05,675
Speaker 1: and he used to incur just to do like a

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01:14:05,715 --> 01:14:09,195
Speaker 1: title line, a clever headline, and then say, I'm Keith

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01:14:09,195 --> 01:14:13,555
Speaker 1: Olderman with sports, unless you weren't Keith Olderman, so you

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01:14:13,555 --> 01:14:16,155
Speaker 1: say blah blah blah blah blah, I'm Keith Oulderman with sports,

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01:14:16,275 --> 01:14:21,915
Speaker 1: and I wrote Dodgers sack Lopes see sacks as seasoned

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01:14:22,075 --> 01:14:26,195
Speaker 1: senior circuit second sacker. And the other sportscaster in the

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01:14:26,235 --> 01:14:29,155
Speaker 1: room bet me five dollars. I couldn't say that without

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01:14:29,475 --> 01:14:33,555
Speaker 1: turning one of those words into an unfortunate, scatological or

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01:14:33,635 --> 01:14:39,435
Speaker 1: anatomical term. I may still have the five dollars. There

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01:14:39,515 --> 01:14:42,155
Speaker 1: was one more sports joke worthy of mentioning before we

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Speaker 1: get to the all time greatest joke, which was a

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01:14:44,315 --> 01:14:48,795
Speaker 1: news joke on the twenty second of November nineteen ninety

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01:14:48,875 --> 01:14:52,195
Speaker 1: American Thanksgiving, and the use of that term will tell

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Speaker 1: you I'm about to talk about hockey. The Edmonton Oilers

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01:14:56,755 --> 01:15:01,395
Speaker 1: were short a goaltender. They made a trade on American Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: or announced it on American Thanksgiving to get a goaltender

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01:15:05,235 --> 01:15:08,075
Speaker 1: from the Minnesota north Stars, who the Minnesota north Stars,

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01:15:08,075 --> 01:15:11,235
Speaker 1: who don't exist anymore. They're now the Dallas Stars. The

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Speaker 1: Minnesota north Stars had an extra goalie and they just

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01:15:14,195 --> 01:15:16,715
Speaker 1: sent them to the Miners and they traded a defenseman

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Speaker 1: named Bell for this goalie. And we were at now

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01:15:20,075 --> 01:15:23,195
Speaker 1: KCBS in Los Angeles and my producer and I sitting

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01:15:23,275 --> 01:15:27,155
Speaker 1: there on Thanksgiving with absolutely nothing going on other than

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01:15:27,195 --> 01:15:30,875
Speaker 1: college football games, which invariably bored me to tears, and

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01:15:31,195 --> 01:15:34,595
Speaker 1: previews of college football games, and one or two NFL

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01:15:34,635 --> 01:15:39,315
Speaker 1: games involving, as always, the last place Detroit Lions against

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01:15:39,435 --> 01:15:41,675
Speaker 1: whoever was going to beat them by thirty five points,

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01:15:41,875 --> 01:15:44,835
Speaker 1: and the first place, but in those days, last place

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01:15:44,955 --> 01:15:47,395
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, who were about to be beaten by thirty

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01:15:47,395 --> 01:15:50,635
Speaker 1: five points. And this came across the wire and I said,

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01:15:50,915 --> 01:15:55,035
Speaker 1: this is the lead story, and the producer said what

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01:15:55,595 --> 01:16:00,675
Speaker 1: I said, The Minnesota north Stars have just traded goaltender

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01:16:01,115 --> 01:16:08,275
Speaker 1: Carrie Taco to the Edmonton Oilers for defenseman Bruce Bell,

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01:16:09,875 --> 01:16:12,595
Speaker 1: And as the producer laughed, I said, it's our lead

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01:16:12,755 --> 01:16:17,755
Speaker 1: story it's the taco bell trade, to which the producer

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01:16:18,075 --> 01:16:20,875
Speaker 1: to his everlasting credit, and I had a lot of

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01:16:20,915 --> 01:16:23,995
Speaker 1: problems with him, but he earned himself a lifetime job

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01:16:24,075 --> 01:16:28,075
Speaker 1: with me because of what he said next. He said,

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01:16:28,435 --> 01:16:35,715
Speaker 1: the taco bell trade. He's not Joe player anymore. That's

1149
01:16:35,755 --> 01:16:38,595
Speaker 1: the best sports joke, and I promptly stole it from him.

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01:16:40,155 --> 01:16:43,235
Speaker 1: But the best of all the jokes was an MSNBC joke, which,

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01:16:43,315 --> 01:16:48,755
Speaker 1: speaking of stolen, was stolen entirely from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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01:16:49,675 --> 01:16:52,515
Speaker 1: I saw this joke for the first time, I believe,

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01:16:52,595 --> 01:16:55,755
Speaker 1: when I was a senior in high school. We're coming

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01:16:55,835 --> 01:16:59,995
Speaker 1: up on the fiftieth reunion, it's now just a month

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01:17:00,035 --> 01:17:00,795
Speaker 1: and a half away.

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01:17:02,075 --> 01:17:02,875
Speaker 2: And I heard this.

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01:17:02,955 --> 01:17:06,235
Speaker 1: Joke in high school. Well, the first time I heard it,

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01:17:06,995 --> 01:17:10,115
Speaker 1: laughed every time I've seen it since, and my laughter

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01:17:10,235 --> 01:17:13,555
Speaker 1: has grown into deep appreciation because it's a joke about

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01:17:13,595 --> 01:17:17,995
Speaker 1: television industry, the television news industry, and the cliches of

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01:17:18,035 --> 01:17:22,755
Speaker 1: people on television, and it is perfect. And I will

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01:17:22,795 --> 01:17:25,275
Speaker 1: read you the joke as it appeared on Monty Python.

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01:17:25,555 --> 01:17:28,275
Speaker 1: Michael Palin is presenting the host of a kind of

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Speaker 1: TV magazine show, a news light show it's this in

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01:17:36,155 --> 01:17:40,555
Speaker 1: Nova Scotia today. Palin, as the host, says, mister roy

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01:17:40,755 --> 01:17:43,995
Speaker 1: Bent of North Walsham in Norfolk, became the first man

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Speaker 1: to cross the Atlantic on a tricycle. His tricycle, especially

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01:17:48,075 --> 01:17:50,915
Speaker 1: adapted for the crossing, was ninety feet long, with a

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01:17:50,915 --> 01:17:55,635
Speaker 1: protective steel hull, three funnels, seventeen first class cabins, and

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Speaker 1: a radar scanner. At this point on the screen behind Palin,

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01:17:59,995 --> 01:18:03,595
Speaker 1: a head and shoulders picture of roy Bent eric idol

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01:18:03,795 --> 01:18:09,795
Speaker 1: in a fisherman's head and rain spattered glasses appears. And

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01:18:09,955 --> 01:18:14,555
Speaker 1: here comes the joke. Palin says, mister Bent is in

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01:18:14,635 --> 01:18:19,995
Speaker 1: our Durham studios, which is rather unfortunate, as we're all

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01:18:20,035 --> 01:18:25,075
Speaker 1: down here in London. I laughed for five minutes. I

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01:18:25,315 --> 01:18:29,755
Speaker 1: still laugh often that long, because the construction of that sentence,

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Speaker 1: such and such our guest is in our studios in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, is in our studios in Katmandu, is in

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Speaker 1: our studios in Durham, demands at some point somebody say,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of too bad, because none of the

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01:18:44,955 --> 01:18:47,155
Speaker 1: rest of us are. And they did it, and they

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01:18:47,155 --> 01:18:51,635
Speaker 1: did it in nineteen seventy four, and for years, anytime

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01:18:51,715 --> 01:18:54,995
Speaker 1: somebody would write a script for me that included an introduction,

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01:18:55,115 --> 01:18:58,075
Speaker 1: as often the writers did. They did the introductions and

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01:18:58,155 --> 01:19:00,955
Speaker 1: maybe the outline of some questions for some of the guests,

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01:19:01,115 --> 01:19:07,435
Speaker 1: and somebody wrote, whoever it was, Dana Millbank is in

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01:19:07,475 --> 01:19:10,555
Speaker 1: our Washington studios, I would go, which is rather unfortunate,

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01:19:10,555 --> 01:19:14,355
Speaker 1: as we're all here in New Jersey. Well, finally, for

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01:19:14,435 --> 01:19:18,435
Speaker 1: some reason, I asked one of our veteran correspondents on

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Speaker 1: April Fool's Day, probably about two thousand and seven or eight,

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01:19:24,475 --> 01:19:26,875
Speaker 1: if they would participate in this that we'd do a

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Speaker 1: whole segment about something, and I would then introduce him,

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01:19:29,795 --> 01:19:31,635
Speaker 1: and we'd get the two box with me in one

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01:19:31,635 --> 01:19:34,315
Speaker 1: corner him in the other, and I would do the joke,

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01:19:35,715 --> 01:19:39,635
Speaker 1: and then we'd say goodbye, and then come back to

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Speaker 1: him later and actually do the real interview. So I

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Speaker 1: got to say, and I think it was my late

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01:19:43,715 --> 01:19:47,075
Speaker 1: friend Howard Feinneman, but it might have been Gene Robinson,

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Speaker 1: and I said, mister Fyneman is in our Washington studios,

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01:19:53,235 --> 01:19:57,915
Speaker 1: which is rather unfortunate as we're all up here in

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01:19:58,035 --> 01:20:14,515
Speaker 1: New York. The joke was so good, not my version

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01:20:14,555 --> 01:20:16,835
Speaker 1: of it, but the original one that you can see

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01:20:16,875 --> 01:20:20,715
Speaker 1: Michael Palin having to stop himself from cracking up, as

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01:20:20,755 --> 01:20:24,275
Speaker 1: he says, the joke a joke in which you legitimately

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01:20:24,675 --> 01:20:28,915
Speaker 1: crack up because it's so funny. That's a joke, an

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01:20:28,995 --> 01:20:33,355
Speaker 1: all time joke, which is rather unfortunate. As we're all

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Speaker 1: down here in London. I've done all the damage I

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Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Most of our

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Speaker 1: countdown music was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian Ray

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Speaker 1: and John Phillips Chanel, our musical directors of Countdown. It

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Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Mister Ray on guitars, bass

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Speaker 1: and drums, Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical

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Speaker 1: and pithy musical comments are by the Mess Baseball Stadium

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Speaker 1: organist ever Nancy Faust. The Olderman theme from ESPN two

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Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. That's

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Speaker 1: the sports music. Other music is arranged and performed by

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Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my

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Speaker 1: friend Larry David. Everything else was as always my fault.

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Speaker 1: That's Countdown for today. Day one hundred and seventy six

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Speaker 1: of America held hostage again and just one two hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty seven days until the scheduled end of his

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Speaker 1: lame duck and lame brained term, unless Putin removes him sooner,

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Speaker 1: or the actuarial tables do, or we do, or Ice

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Speaker 1: does by accident. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Until then,

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Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck.

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

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

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