Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. By
Speaker 1: the way, you did notice that Trump confessed to covering
Speaker 1: up the Epstein files, and Trump confessed to to being
Speaker 1: in the Epstein files. You know, the Epstein files. The
Speaker 1: Epstein files that Trump promised to release on day one,
Speaker 1: The Epstein files with the Epstein client list that Pam
Speaker 1: Bondi had on her desk and was reviewing. The Epstein
Speaker 1: files that Cash Patel said included a black book under
Speaker 1: direct control of the director of the FBI. The Epstein
Speaker 1: files that were backed up by the Epstein suicide video.
Speaker 1: The Epstein files that were backed up by the Epstein
Speaker 1: sewe side video that just happened to be missing the
Speaker 1: suicide minute. The Epstein files unaffected by all that because
Speaker 1: all the videos were missing that particular minute. The Epstein
Speaker 1: files with the missing suicide minute that it turned out
Speaker 1: the Trump Department of Justice had edited to make sure
Speaker 1: the missing suicide minute was missing. The Epstein files that
Speaker 1: Trump told you to stop asking him about the Epstein files.
Speaker 1: That wait, what Epstein files. There are no Epstein files.
Speaker 1: The Epstein files that exist, but they were made by
Speaker 1: never Barack Obama and the Democrats to fool you. The
Speaker 1: Epstein files the ones made by Barack Obama and the Democrats,
Speaker 1: even though Epstein was cleared during Bush's term by Trump's
Speaker 1: future Labor secretary. The Epstein Files the ones made by
Speaker 1: the Democrats, even though Epstein was arrested during Trump's first term.
Speaker 1: The Epstein Files the ones made by the Democrats, even
Speaker 1: though so Epstein killed himself in jail on the nine
Speaker 1: hundred and second day of Donald Trump's first presidency. The
Speaker 1: Epstein Files the ones not only not made by the Democrats,
Speaker 1: but made by Donald Trump's Department of Justice. Oh, those
Speaker 1: Epstein files. The Epstein Files that Trump is now telling
Speaker 1: his cult don't exist, or do exist but don't matter,
Speaker 1: or may exist, but the Democrats created them while he
Speaker 1: was president, or they do exist, but don't waste your
Speaker 1: energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about, least
Speaker 1: of all me, Donald Trump, the guy who's in all
Speaker 1: the photos with Epstein looking at the girls, or all
Speaker 1: of the above, all at the same time. And here
Speaker 1: is the real selling point, the real convincing moment, the
Speaker 1: real point. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 1: The Epstein Files the ones Trump Junior said contains the
Speaker 1: Epstein client list and asked, quote, why would anyone protect
Speaker 1: those scumbags? Ask yourselves these questions daily and the answer
Speaker 1: becomes very apparent. You bet it does. Dopey Musk has
Speaker 1: again bailed out on Trump. Didn't mention his name. That
Speaker 1: will happen later. Megan Kelly immediately bailed out on Trump,
Speaker 1: and Benny Johnson immediately bailed out on Trump, and Gunther
Speaker 1: Eagelman bailed out on Trump, and Matt Walsh blog from
Speaker 1: the Matt Walsh Blog bailed out, and dozens and dozens
Speaker 1: of mid level MAGA influencers, the morons who aren't making
Speaker 1: money off this, but just actually believe this crap. They
Speaker 1: bailed out on Trump and Trump's own followers on truth
Speaker 1: Social bailed out on Trump forty thousand comments to twelve
Speaker 1: thousand reposts by mid afternoon yesterday, Trump getting ratio to
Speaker 1: death on his own site, and Nick Fuentes bailed out
Speaker 1: on Trump. Nick Fuentes declared MAGA dead. And finally we
Speaker 1: see the kind of perfect storm required that can topple Trump,
Speaker 1: perhaps not overnight, but certainly in time to lose the
Speaker 1: mid terms, maybe both houses. When there is so much bullshit,
Speaker 1: so many different conspiracies. Finally it has to happen inevitably, inescapably,
Speaker 1: one pile of bullshit completely contradicts the other pile of bullshit.
Speaker 1: And when the brainwashed and the brain dead who have
Speaker 1: put us into this nightmare suddenly realize that both of
Speaker 1: these things can't be true at the same time, they
Speaker 1: short out they were promised pedophiles, they were promised politician pedophiles.
Speaker 1: They were promised that the politicians who were covering up
Speaker 1: Epstein were the pedophiles. And then one day Trump suddenly
Speaker 1: decided to announce that he was the politician who was
Speaker 1: covering up Epstein. And he scolded them and humiliated them
Speaker 1: and yelled at them for challenging his god ordained right
Speaker 1: to cover up Epstein. And they said, in their confusion,
Speaker 1: but you promised us that you would reveal the pedophile
Speaker 1: politicians that were covering up Epstein. And hey, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: And in Maga world, seventy seven million light bulbs went
Speaker 1: off over seventy seven million slightly alive heads, all at
Speaker 1: the same time, as bright as the Rockefeller Center Christmas
Speaker 1: Tree so o oh bright. Even the Maga morons couldn't
Speaker 1: missed it. Trump just confessed, well, not seventy seven million.
Speaker 1: Half of that two thirds one third, it's enough, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. The other half, two thirds one third, they're
Speaker 1: just dimming for now. They are bravely insisting that it's
Speaker 1: more important to believe in Trump than for Trump to
Speaker 1: tell them the truth or whatever it is they want
Speaker 1: him to tell them. But all you need now to
Speaker 1: push either group forever is to say two words, and
Speaker 1: you activate their uncertainty. And the two words are Epstein Files.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, anybody still want to contend
Speaker 1: that his threat the other day to revoke the citizenship
Speaker 1: of an American born thirty seven miles away from where
Speaker 1: he was born was just some kind of diversion to
Speaker 1: get you to stop talking about the Epstein Files, when
Speaker 1: hours later he brought up the Epstein files and he
Speaker 1: dared his own people to do something about it. That
Speaker 1: Trump did two of his top twenty all time most
Speaker 1: evil things at basically the same time does not mean
Speaker 1: one has to be cover for the other. It's not
Speaker 1: like human beings. That's not how Trump's mind works. It
Speaker 1: just means he's evil and crazy and long term planning
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump is now down to about what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen five minutes from now. The threat against Rosy O'Donnell
Speaker 1: was a deliberate attempt to stake his ground, to claim
Speaker 1: that when he said the homegrowns are next for deportation,
Speaker 1: he didn't mean some Fourteenth Amendment protected kids. Somewhere he
Speaker 1: met arresting and deporting and de citizenizing Americas, Irish Americans
Speaker 1: and German Americans and New York Americans and Red State
Speaker 1: Americans and you Americans and me Americans. Stephen Miller's enemy
Speaker 1: is brown people. Donald Trump's enemy is anybody who criticizes
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. And as Bennie Johnson and Gunther Eagelman and
Speaker 1: all the others would find out later that same evening,
Speaker 1: the people who really need to worry about that are
Speaker 1: not Rosy O'Donnell or me or you. Because we have
Speaker 1: always stood a really huge chance of being next on
Speaker 1: the Trump list. They have to worry supporters who don't
Speaker 1: support quite as blindly today as they did Saturday afternoon,
Speaker 1: because Benny efing Johnson is now as likely to be
Speaker 1: next as I am quote, because of the fact that
Speaker 1: Rose than o'donald is not in the best interests of
Speaker 1: our great country. I am giving serious consideration to taking
Speaker 1: away her citizenship. She is a threat to humanity and
Speaker 1: should remain in the wonderful country of Ireland if they
Speaker 1: want her. God bless America. There are absolutely no circumstances
Speaker 1: under which Trump can take away the citizenship of anyone
Speaker 1: born in this country two parents who were themselves born
Speaker 1: in this country. It would be easier to take away
Speaker 1: the citizenship of Baron Trump than Rosie O'Donnell. There are
Speaker 1: no loopholes, there is no concierge Supreme Court trick. There's
Speaker 1: no christinome cowboy hat with sequins. There is nothing to
Speaker 1: give him that power. Nothing, and his mere threat to
Speaker 1: try to do this immediately and finally and irrevocably disqualifies
Speaker 1: him from remaining president to the rest of those in office,
Speaker 1: those in his cult, those outside of it, tho on
Speaker 1: the Epstein list, those not on the Epstein list, those
Speaker 1: newly freed from it because of the dropping of the
Speaker 1: Epstein scales from their eyes. Someone needs to make a
Speaker 1: move here from the regime in power and remove Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and put someone else in charge of this country
Speaker 1: starting tonight. In fact, that's not good enough, starting today
Speaker 1: before nightfall, you get him out. That's all that matters
Speaker 1: for your own sake. The rest of the country has
Speaker 1: understood he is a mortal danger to us. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about violence here. You guys, just make up a
Speaker 1: law and then Trump's no longer president. You certainly can
Speaker 1: get a lido to do that for you. We have
Speaker 1: been building to this point since twenty fifteen, and now
Speaker 1: we are here the moment when Trump believes he is
Speaker 1: above all laws and above the Constitution, and most dangerously
Speaker 1: for him, above all of his own supporters. He is
Speaker 1: a clear and present danger to not just the future
Speaker 1: of this country, but it's immediate now and all of
Speaker 1: us in it. Now that he happened to reach this
Speaker 1: nature of his madness on the same day that he
Speaker 1: finally blew it with his own cultish just a happy
Speaker 1: coincidence for us and a metaphorically mortal wounding for him.
Speaker 1: He might continue in power. I don't really expect anybody
Speaker 1: to be smart in the Republican Party and remove him
Speaker 1: from office peacefully. There are hundreds thousands of amoral men
Speaker 1: and women whose personal power, in fact, whose personal ability
Speaker 1: to avoid prison depends on him remaining in power. But
Speaker 1: no one, not the most deluded cultist, can look at
Speaker 1: this weekend past, at the saga of Epstein and the
Speaker 1: branding of an occasionally funny woman born at Comac on
Speaker 1: Long Island, as a threat to humanity. No one can
Speaker 1: look at that and voluntarily now get on board with Trump.
Speaker 1: If nothing else, he just hit his ceiling. There is
Speaker 1: still a Trump train, what is evident today. However, out
Speaker 1: there at the horizon, do you see it. That's where
Speaker 1: the track runs out. The track probably washed away by
Speaker 1: those Texas floods that Trump made sure Texas was not
Speaker 1: prepared for. Oh and Rosie o'donald was right, by the way,
Speaker 1: just like I was right, just like dozens of Democratic
Speaker 1: politicians were right, just like the reporters were right, just
Speaker 1: like the grieving parents were right. Those dead children in Texas.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Christy nom and Elon Musk and everybody
Speaker 1: in Doge and everybody in Project twenty twenty five and
Speaker 1: all the rest of these assholes, they all contributed to
Speaker 1: those deaths. But mostly it was Trump. Donald Trump terrorist,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump mass murderer. Thank you for your attention to
Speaker 1: this matter, the true Trump attempt to distract from Epstein
Speaker 1: is unfortunately to simply descend to the next level of
Speaker 1: hell in the torturing of immigrants. Washington Post got the
Speaker 1: new memo from the director of isis the Chinless Wonder,
Speaker 1: todd lyons telling his ISIS Gestapo it can deport immigrants
Speaker 1: quote with as little as six hours notice to countries
Speaker 1: other than their own, even if officials have not provided
Speaker 1: any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from
Speaker 1: prosecution or torture. This works for Trump on two levels. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it is performative it produces the kind of snuff film
Speaker 1: his sadists want. On a second level, it inevitably also
Speaker 1: produces confrontations and I fear increasingly dangerous ones. You already know.
Speaker 1: They rated a pot farm in southern California. Seems like
Speaker 1: a way to actually alienate Trump supporters, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: what's next rating an opioid factory. Mayor Bass of Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: though avoiding specifics, reported they approached a group of workers
Speaker 1: in LA who were not just utter legit, but who
Speaker 1: had been contracted by and were working at the time
Speaker 1: for the City of Los Angeles. I suspect this was
Speaker 1: a work crew, possibly doing something on the roads or
Speaker 1: on maybe a City of Los Angeles building, and Ice
Speaker 1: tried to raid them, but getting almost no attention. The
Speaker 1: detaining of a seventy one year old American born named
Speaker 1: Rick Taylor, who was stopped and held for a time
Speaker 1: at the Miami Airport at least an hour as he
Speaker 1: made his way back into this country from a vacation
Speaker 1: to Turkey because they saw a California sticker on his
Speaker 1: suitcase or bag. That was their question to him, Are
Speaker 1: you from California? They are test marketing their ability to
Speaker 1: detain anybody and then make up the flimsiest excuse there
Speaker 1: are undocumented immigrants in California and we are pretending that
Speaker 1: that means we are being invaded. So if you're going
Speaker 1: to California, how do we not know you're going there
Speaker 1: to aid the imaginary invasion that we are pretending is happening.
Speaker 1: Rick Taylor is not just some random seventy one year
Speaker 1: old guy. Rick Taylor has run campaigns for the last
Speaker 1: Republican mayor of LA. He's not only not some sort
Speaker 1: of anti ice protester, he may have voted for Trump
Speaker 1: and his response to this outrage did he file a complaint?
Speaker 1: Did he make sure they released him and he got
Speaker 1: home safely, and then file a complaint. He did not
Speaker 1: he obeyed. I have seen no reporting indicating that he
Speaker 1: has filed any kind of complaint. I am empathetic to
Speaker 1: the first part of his conduct and not the second.
Speaker 1: And this is just the start. The Trump ISIS budget
Speaker 1: has only gone up like five or tenfold, literally, but
Speaker 1: the entirety of the so called border security budget just
Speaker 1: ballooned to one hundred and seventy billion dollars through the
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty nine, which means there will not be
Speaker 1: time for even the slightly not corrupt Trumpists inside this
Speaker 1: scam to vet the new ISIS hires. We may soon
Speaker 1: hit a point in which ISIS raids are not looking
Speaker 1: for supposed gang members or violent criminals or Rick Taylors,
Speaker 1: but they're looking for supposed gang members or violent criminals
Speaker 1: or Rick Taylors who would like to come work for ISIS.
Speaker 1: Like today, you too could be a brown shirt, no
Speaker 1: experience necessary, and no morals accepted. But that part is
Speaker 1: still conjectural. This part is not. Isis is already rating
Speaker 1: middle and junior high school baseball practices in New York
Speaker 1: City and not in the culturally deprived obvious areas either,
Speaker 1: raiding baseball practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Speaker 1: Not to be clear, I am not a New Yorker saying,
Speaker 1: how dare they do a raid near my Cinderella Supermarket,
Speaker 1: my Umbridge would be identical if it had happened anywhere
Speaker 1: else in this city. This is about the fact that
Speaker 1: they are already trying this stuff in Manhattan, and I
Speaker 1: don't know what happens if they press a point or
Speaker 1: draw weapons. Human Wilder was running batting practice in Riverside
Speaker 1: Park for his kids, and as the assembly member for
Speaker 1: that area, Linda Rosenthal wrote in her newsletter, quote ice
Speaker 1: sighting on the Upper West Side. I recently learned that
Speaker 1: ICE agents approached a group of kids attending baseball practice
Speaker 1: near the batting cages near West seventy first Street in
Speaker 1: Riverside Park. The only thing that stood between those kids
Speaker 1: Riverside Park and a Florida detention center buried deep in
Speaker 1: the Everglades was a brave coach who knew the law. Unquote.
Speaker 1: The coach is mister Wilder. This is New York, the
Speaker 1: head of the Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy. Human Wilder has
Speaker 1: a law degree from Grand Canyon University. We don't f
Speaker 1: around here, kids, He tells two local micro news organizations
Speaker 1: that he's out there shooting hoops with some of his
Speaker 1: kids as batting practice ends, and then quoting him. When
Speaker 1: I'm over there, I see people looking like federal agents
Speaker 1: in a different area, but I wasn't paying much attention.
Speaker 1: Next thing I know, I look back at the batting
Speaker 1: cage and I see them talking to my kids. I
Speaker 1: go over quickly, and the agents are asking the kids
Speaker 1: inappropriate things like where they are from their country of origin.
Speaker 1: So I say whoa, whoa, and I tell the officers
Speaker 1: that their questions are inappropriate and that I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell my kids not to answer them. The officers are
Speaker 1: talking to me about obstruction of justice, and I repeated
Speaker 1: that the kids don't have to speak to them, and
Speaker 1: as the person in charge of them right now, I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell them not to speak to you. Then
Speaker 1: they started to talk about cuffing me and that if
Speaker 1: the kids were here legally, what do they have to
Speaker 1: lose by answering. I told them they still have their
Speaker 1: Fifth and Fourth Amendment rights and that they don't have
Speaker 1: to speak to you. Or help with any investigation. One
Speaker 1: of the reporters then asked, what made mister Wilder think
Speaker 1: they were isis quote. They said they were ice and
Speaker 1: were wearing everything. They had ice on their chest, they
Speaker 1: had their guns, they had their tasers. It's all about civics.
Speaker 1: If you don't know your rights, they will trample on them.
Speaker 1: Knowing the law and understanding that they had no right
Speaker 1: to ask anything of these kids who are American citizens
Speaker 1: and don't have anything to prove to them. The officers
Speaker 1: were saying, we don't know if they're American citizens, but
Speaker 1: I said, it doesn't matter if they're American citizens or not.
Speaker 1: They still have constitutional rights. You still violate their fourth,
Speaker 1: fifth or fourteenth Amendment rights. I knew that they could
Speaker 1: arrest me, but I knew that they couldn't keep me.
Speaker 1: My whole thing is that I'm African American and most
Speaker 1: of my kids are Latino and black. So it was
Speaker 1: all about how do I get these kids home. I
Speaker 1: never raised my voice. I just talked about the law
Speaker 1: and I was just focused on how can I get
Speaker 1: these kids to where they need to go when they
Speaker 1: are in my care. This is a hero. It turns
Speaker 1: out per that hero coach Euman Wilder. There were eleven kids,
Speaker 1: all indeed American born, high school and junior high. Their
Speaker 1: families are from Africa, South America, Mexico, it's New York.
Speaker 1: We take anybody. Their families are in jeopardy here. And
Speaker 1: you can see where this is going. Your isis you
Speaker 1: see some kids, they're brown, You grab the kids, and
Speaker 1: you then use the kids as bait. You hold them hostage,
Speaker 1: and when the parents show up, you seize the parents.
Speaker 1: It is simply child trafficking. As an aside, this is
Speaker 1: where the Epstein story is truly useful in the days, weeks,
Speaker 1: and months ahead. Seems like the best reaction if you
Speaker 1: witness something like this with kids is to ask the
Speaker 1: isis brown shirt thug gestapo if they are grabbing these
Speaker 1: kids so Trump can take them to Epstein Island. The
Speaker 1: truly frightening part is shades of Rick Taylor. The coach
Speaker 1: was asked if any other adults besides him tried to
Speaker 1: get involved, or at least to film or photograph what
Speaker 1: was going on. Mind you, this is the neighborhood in
Speaker 1: which I get my dogs groomed. This is not an
Speaker 1: area of confrontation. It is an area of mobile phone
Speaker 1: own stores on literally every corner of Broadway, quoting the
Speaker 1: coach again in answer to that question. That was another
Speaker 1: thing that was crazy. There were people watching and the
Speaker 1: agents were telling them to move back, that they would
Speaker 1: be arrested for interfering, and not to take pictures. The
Speaker 1: worst thing is that the six or seven people who
Speaker 1: were watching followed their orders. So we circle back to
Speaker 1: the worst, most dangerous step any of us can take
Speaker 1: in dealing with Trump's growing dictatorship. Obeying in advance. You
Speaker 1: don't get violent, you don't obstruct, and you don't submit.
Speaker 1: But fear is a hell of a drug. And it
Speaker 1: can stop a seventy one year old man who spent
Speaker 1: his life in politics among Republicans from making sure he's
Speaker 1: home and dry and then raising hell. And it can
Speaker 1: stop a bunch of New Yorkers who are raised to
Speaker 1: be at the ready to push a mugger in front
Speaker 1: of an m one bus from even filming the horror
Speaker 1: unfolding in front of them. Do not obey in advance.
Speaker 1: And a final note on all this, it all comes
Speaker 1: back to the only and inevitable solution we are going
Speaker 1: to get here. Eventually. We should start moving here now.
Speaker 1: The Blue States are going to have to follow the
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom federal tax boycott plan that he still hasn't
Speaker 1: brought up again. After the mess in southern California and
Speaker 1: throughout California with the usurpation of the California National Guard,
Speaker 1: Trump and is Gestapo Isis have all the weapons, and
Speaker 1: Trump has the greatest motivation to use them. He succeeds
Speaker 1: or he dies in jail, period. But we have something bigger.
Speaker 1: In this sad cynical world in which there is one
Speaker 1: magic word, we have the magic The magic word is money.
Speaker 1: We have the money. The Red States do not. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it will come to this soon or late. We are
Speaker 1: going to have to get ready to defund the federal government.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your forbearance during my vacation, during which
Speaker 1: I was sick and my knee went south and two
Speaker 1: of my dogs got sick. Such a nice rest. Everybody's fine, now,
Speaker 1: don't worry. This, however, delayed my previous hope that I
Speaker 1: would be able to announce upon return the growing of
Speaker 1: the Countdown podcast footprint. I can't announce that, although I
Speaker 1: am confident it's going to happen, and shortly, I will
Speaker 1: be doing more stuff and right soon. That's all I
Speaker 1: can say right now, though, if you saw the video
Speaker 1: preview of this episode on YouTube or socials yesterday, and
Speaker 1: that'll give you an idea of the starting point. So
Speaker 1: also of interest here, the press secretary to el Trumpolini
Speaker 1: thinks that her conference calls are being interrupted by the devil.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's obviously a big moron, but who knew
Speaker 1: she was that big a moron? And in the mistake
Speaker 1: of the week, the woman who posted that once your
Speaker 1: vet bill gets past one thousand dollars, you should just
Speaker 1: kill your cat or dog because cats and dogs do
Speaker 1: not have souls. This raises an obvious question about what
Speaker 1: happens if this woman's kids get sick. That's next. This
Speaker 1: is an all new, supersized edition of Countdown?
Speaker 2: Does this Countdown with Keith Oberman? Oberman still ahead on
Speaker 2: this all new edition of Countdown?
Speaker 1: Would you like to play in tomorrow Night's Baseball All
Speaker 1: Star Game? Because that is the only stunt remaining that
Speaker 1: Baseball has not tried to revive the dying Midsummer Classic.
Speaker 1: They have named their newest All Star player. He has
Speaker 1: played in five Major League Baseball games to this point
Speaker 1: five there is an explanation. It's a bad one. Also,
Speaker 1: sports games on the radio gone or soon to be first,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to
Speaker 1: talk about. The roundup of the miss Greens, morons, undunning
Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in
Speaker 1: the world. A couple of honorable mentions. First, it's's been
Speaker 1: a while and they're been piling up. Linda Yakarino, who
Speaker 1: used to be in broadcasting and then went to work
Speaker 1: as the I don't know, chief incoming flack officer at
Speaker 1: Twitter X not anymore. After two incredible years, she writes,
Speaker 1: I decided to step down as CEO of X. She
Speaker 1: will be succeeded by Grock Mecha Hitler, also from Politico,
Speaker 1: Trump wants his skull back. Man sues to prevent the
Speaker 1: Trump administration from seizing his seventy million year old fossilized
Speaker 1: Tyrannosaurus skull. Planet's original complaint request. Planet doct Robert de
Speaker 1: Levinski files this complaint request for declaratory judgment against defended
Speaker 1: the United States. I have a fossilized to Rannosaurus batar
Speaker 1: skull at issue. Is located in this district, and demand
Speaker 1: for forfeiture was made. A guy has a t rex
Speaker 1: skull and it's his and Trump wants it. And all
Speaker 1: I can assume is Trump knew the guy. The nominees
Speaker 1: for a Worst Person in the World, the runner up,
Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt, believer in brownies and elves, with the word
Speaker 1: lies spelled out in her first name and her last name.
Speaker 1: In April this story from Washington. White House Press Secretary
Speaker 1: of Caroline Levitt believes quote, evil forces were working against
Speaker 1: President Trump on the campaign trail, but that he was
Speaker 1: saved by the grace of God when he was shot
Speaker 1: during a rally. What about that fireman in the first
Speaker 1: row got killed? Was he a bad guy? Grace of
Speaker 1: God wasn't applicable there. God didn't like that guy. God said,
Speaker 1: af that guy, that's nice. Caroline Levitt told the Christian
Speaker 1: Broadcasting Network in an interview released Monday that she believes
Speaker 1: in spiritual warfare. On June thirtieth, the White House prayer
Speaker 1: call went a cropper. White House Faith director Jenny Korn
Speaker 1: remarked that they were waiting for AT and T to
Speaker 1: get its act together so that Trump could talk to
Speaker 1: the most gullible people in the world and sell them
Speaker 1: whatever it is they wanted to hear. But later on
Speaker 1: the call, even.
Speaker 3: Though even though the Faith director said it was at
Speaker 3: and T fault, the White House Press Secretary of Caroline
Speaker 3: Levitt implied it his evil spirits quote, there is spiritual warfare,
Speaker 3: as we all know. It tried to break up our
Speaker 3: call today, as the President even alluded to once again,
Speaker 3: just like the t Rex Skull, I assume that Trump
Speaker 3: knows about spiritual warfare and evil because he knew the guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the Faith director of the White House, which
Speaker 1: is bad enough that there is one, believes it was
Speaker 1: the phone company, but the press secretary, the former Division
Speaker 1: III softball player and professional liar, says it was invisible
Speaker 1: demons interfering with cell coverage, not per chance the likelihood
Speaker 1: that the White House was using non secure public Wi
Speaker 1: Fi because too cheap and too lazy to get the
Speaker 1: other kinds. And it's actually surprising that this was a
Speaker 1: call rather than just a you know, White House prayer.
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth's signal Chat runner up worser good Old Whiney Gains,
Speaker 1: Riley Gaines, now auditioning at Fox News Hey, whiney, you
Speaker 1: can be eighty fifth best at that too. Gaines says,
Speaker 1: a disturbing poll reveals growing anti semitism on the left.
Speaker 1: I gotta see this. What does that poll look like?
Speaker 1: This is what it looked like. In twenty seventeen, Gains
Speaker 1: continued forty two percent of Democrats supported Israel. But that
Speaker 1: has completely flipped. Ah, so it's not about an anti semitism,
Speaker 1: it's about support for Israel. I understand your confusion on this,
Speaker 1: Riley Gains. You're stupid. That'll confuse anybody criticizing Israel, Criticizing
Speaker 1: Israel's war policy, Criticizing Israel's peace policy is criticizing a
Speaker 1: country's policy. Anti Semitism is something else. Anti Semitism is
Speaker 1: say somebody saying no estate tax, no going through the
Speaker 1: banks and borrowing from in some cases a fine banker
Speaker 1: and in some cases shylocks and bad people who said that. Oh,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump said that. That's anti semitism. Calling people shylocks
Speaker 1: is anti semitism. Donald Trump is an anti Semite. When
Speaker 1: Joe Biden used that term shylocks twenty fourteen, when he
Speaker 1: was vice president the director of the ADL, the Anti
Speaker 1: Defamation League called him out immediately said it was inappropriate
Speaker 1: and wrong, and Biden said, it is inappropriate, and it
Speaker 1: is wrong, and the head of the ADL is correct,
Speaker 1: and I'm wrong, and I apologize for it. It is
Speaker 1: an anti Semitic slur, and I will not use that
Speaker 1: term again. I was wrong to do so, did so immediately.
Speaker 1: To this point, Donald Trump has not been asked by
Speaker 1: the Washington press corps why he said an anti Semitic slur,
Speaker 1: why he referred to shylocks, what he's going to do
Speaker 1: about it? Is he going to apologize for it? Why
Speaker 1: is he an anti Semite? Because the Washington news corp
Speaker 1: covering the President has largely gone to hell in a handbasket,
Speaker 1: and the few who have not worked for or news
Speaker 1: organizations that are falling apart at the seams like CBS News,
Speaker 1: ABC News and the Washington Post, and they're all terrified
Speaker 1: that they're the ones who are going to get fired next.
Speaker 1: It's not an excuse, but it's an explanation. But nobody
Speaker 1: has asked Trump about his anti semitism. And Riley Gaines
Speaker 1: is there to interpret the difference between anti semitism and
Speaker 1: criticism of Israel, and she does not understand that there is.
Speaker 1: And even if she did, she's just reading an effing script.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's give her a round of applause because
Speaker 1: she could read the script and the teleprompter without complaining
Speaker 1: that some transgender floor director was standing in her way.
Speaker 2: Maybe we gains I finished eighty fifth. It's all that
Speaker 2: guy's fault.
Speaker 1: God, what an idiot and still not the worst the winner.
Speaker 1: And we believe there is no evidence suggesting that this
Speaker 1: is not a real thing. There is no suggestion we're
Speaker 1: being trolled by some missus Betty Bowers on Twitter X
Speaker 1: this is Caitlin Francis at missus c M Francis. There's
Speaker 1: a picture of her. She doesn't look insane, but listen
Speaker 1: to this bio wife of at Jeremy Francis eighty seven
Speaker 1: mother times four. Okay, first warning sign, homeschool advocate. I
Speaker 1: want to make sure my children are automatically dumber than
Speaker 1: I am by teaching them what I vaguely remember from
Speaker 1: high school. Then there's an American flag and then on
Speaker 1: Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is
Speaker 1: sinking sand and the location California, USA, sinking sand. Indeed, Madam,
Speaker 1: in any event, she also this Jeremy Francis, forty seven,
Speaker 1: who she says is the hubby. He identifies himself on
Speaker 1: his Twitter account as it manager at the C. A.
Speaker 1: Rasmussen Company, which does something I don't know in Valencia, California,
Speaker 1: So that gives you an idea where they are Valencia,
Speaker 1: and Francis was responding to somebody who put out this
Speaker 1: tweet extremely unpopular opinion today, But if you're going to
Speaker 1: have a pet, you should always have at least ten
Speaker 1: grand set aside for them at all times in case
Speaker 1: of serious emergency. I think that might be a little high.
Speaker 1: I don't know that everybody has to have ten thousand
Speaker 1: ready to go. You should probably know where you're going
Speaker 1: to get that much money if it's something really serious.
Speaker 1: The happy news about almost all serious illnesses with dogs
Speaker 1: and cats, and most serious injuries that they survive, is
Speaker 1: that the cost of getting them well is comparatively small,
Speaker 1: with or without insurance. That ten thousand dollars will more
Speaker 1: than take care probably of all of your pets in
Speaker 1: your life and give you and them added years of love.
Speaker 1: But not if you're Caitlin Francis of California.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 1: She has retweeted this and headed. My extremely unpopular opinion
Speaker 1: is that once a pet costs over five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: to one thousand dollars, it's time to put them to sleep.
Speaker 1: Caitlin Francis says, when it gets more than five hundred bucks,
Speaker 1: kill your dog. She's homeschooling her children, four of whom
Speaker 1: are going to turn out to be Christinome. This is
Speaker 1: how we get Christy Nome. Home schooling was the ground
Speaker 1: zero for the end of America. That's where it started,
Speaker 1: where we started to teach people not to possibly be
Speaker 1: smarter than their parents. And then there's the nightmare Samaria
Speaker 1: scenario in which their parents are Missus c. M. Francis,
Speaker 1: who wants you to kill your dog or cat, or
Speaker 1: your pet, hippo or whatever you have. And then, after
Speaker 1: an hour of being chewed up alive and appropriately so online,
Speaker 1: she decided that what people were upset about was that
Speaker 1: she was not clear enough about what she was talking about.
Speaker 1: That that's not a five hundred dollars limit in terms
Speaker 1: of food. Quote people determined to misunderstand, I am referring
Speaker 1: to vet bills, not daily care. Oh that's much better,
Speaker 1: missus CM Francis. You witch. Oh, that's much better. It's
Speaker 1: when they're sick and dying or injured, when when one
Speaker 1: of your homeschool kids decides to run them over with something. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna what's the estimate on this, Oh, one thousand
Speaker 1: and one dollars. I'm sorry, sparky, nice touch, missus, CM Francis,
Speaker 1: But thank goodness you didn't suggest giving your dog five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars worth of food over eighteen years. There's a
Speaker 1: C word that applies here. It isn't over yet. I
Speaker 1: would just like to say she followed up with this
Speaker 1: for the record, it's not that serious. Who the effort
Speaker 1: you to deter whether or not it's serious? You pet killer?
Speaker 1: And then finally, the dnu mont to all of this
Speaker 1: from a woman who homeschools her kids, who has sentenced
Speaker 1: them to a life in believing that if they are
Speaker 1: not nice to God, the lights will go off in
Speaker 1: the basement, that the phones shut down because oh, here's
Speaker 1: another warfare by evil spirits, and Carol Lenevitt sees them.
Speaker 1: There's the punchline to it. Animals are not people. They
Speaker 1: do not have a soul.
Speaker 2: Have a nice day.
Speaker 1: The only soul that can be questioned in this occasion
Speaker 1: is that of Caitlin Francis, but the one I love
Speaker 1: continues to be It's not that serious. I see she's
Speaker 1: mad at the world because she he's wrong, and there
Speaker 1: are ways to respond to this situation that would make
Speaker 1: things better. But of course she homeschools her kids, so
Speaker 1: why would she know how to get out of this
Speaker 1: jam she has created by suggesting that you should kill
Speaker 1: your pet rather than pay a six hundred dollars Vetville bill,
Speaker 1: or certainly a one thousand and one dollar vet bill.
Speaker 1: I got a quick question for you to wrap this up.
Speaker 1: Missus Francis, you're over under on killing your sick or
Speaker 1: injured dog or cat. The one that your even homeschooled
Speaker 1: kids love is five hundred to one thousand dollars. So
Speaker 1: what's your over under on killing your sick kids? How
Speaker 1: much does little Caitlin Junior? How much is she worth
Speaker 1: if she gets sick? What was the husband's name again,
Speaker 1: mister Caitlin Francis, Jeremy? How much is Jeremy Junior worse
Speaker 1: when he gets hit by a bus? I'm sorry that's
Speaker 1: gonna cost us twelve hundred and seventy four dollars to
Speaker 1: straighten his arm out, kill him, Caitlin, like Senator Jony
Speaker 1: Ernst said, We're all gonna die one day. Why don't
Speaker 1: you just get another daughter? Francis two days worst person
Speaker 1: in the world. This is Sports Senate. Wait, check that,
Speaker 1: not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Aulberman still ahead.
Speaker 1: In this all new edition of Countdown, things I promise
Speaker 1: not to tell in my favorite on air jokes, including
Speaker 1: the ones perpetrated against me. But first, from the sports
Speaker 1: Ball Central Center newsdesk tonight, Atlanta, Georgia. You can always
Speaker 1: depend on Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. He'll always make you
Speaker 1: ashamed that you like the game. A rookie has been
Speaker 1: named to the pitching staff for tomorrow Night's National League
Speaker 1: team in the All Star Game, after he has made
Speaker 1: exactly one, two, three, four, five big league appearances five
Speaker 1: and one of them. In one of them, he was terrible,
Speaker 1: and now he's an All Star. Nothing against the guy.
Speaker 1: His name is Jacob Mizerowski, and he cried when they
Speaker 1: told him about it, and so did a lot of
Speaker 1: people in baseball because this is as cheap a stunt
Speaker 1: as you could imagine, and as you could force and
Speaker 1: fabricate and all the teams who, in a ritual as
Speaker 1: old as time itself, have players who should be at
Speaker 1: the All Star Game but will not be because there
Speaker 1: is a finite number of roster spots, are enraged that
Speaker 1: this guy is going and there guy isn't. It's not
Speaker 1: Jacob Mizerowski's fault. I don't blame him for this. What
Speaker 1: was he supposed to do? Say no, But trust me,
Speaker 1: that will get lost quickly, especially if it turns out
Speaker 1: that these first five games were his best five games
Speaker 1: last year. And this is the root of the problem.
Speaker 1: Baseball's number one minor league prospect, a pitcher named Paul Skens,
Speaker 1: came up from the minor leagues early in the season,
Speaker 1: and in his first eleven games, he won six, he
Speaker 1: lost none. He struck out eighty nine batters in sixty
Speaker 1: six innings. He got enormous publicity, in large part, though
Speaker 1: Baseball will never admit this, because his girlfriend was a
Speaker 1: famous gymnast who does a boatload of TV commercials. They
Speaker 1: put him on the All Star team. He organically deserved it.
Speaker 1: They had him start the game too. He probably organically
Speaker 1: deserved that too. He certainly didn't deserve it. The problem
Speaker 1: is Whenever something like that happens organically in baseball, baseball
Speaker 1: immediately tries to make it happen again. As twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four had begun, Paul Skens was the number one prospect
Speaker 1: in baseball had been the number one prospect chosen in
Speaker 1: the previous year's amateur draft. As twenty twenty five began,
Speaker 1: Jacob Miserowski of the Milwaukee Brewers was the number forty
Speaker 1: four prospect in baseball, or the number seventy two prospect
Speaker 1: or on one list, the official one that is on
Speaker 1: the actual baseball website. Jacob Miserowski was the ninety first
Speaker 1: top ranked prospect in baseball, and he had been the
Speaker 1: sixty third guy chosen in the previous year's draft, not
Speaker 1: the first, or the second, or even anything in single
Speaker 1: digits or load double digits. Baseball is run by a
Speaker 1: group of men who do not like baseball, and more importantly,
Speaker 1: do not understand baseball or why things happen. So when
Speaker 1: they see something happen that makes some of them money,
Speaker 1: the only reaction they are capable of is, let's make
Speaker 1: it happen again and make more money. BDBD In twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: on the season's final day, Tampa Bay needed to win
Speaker 1: its game and the Boston Red Sox needed to lose
Speaker 1: theirs for Tampa Bay to complete an unlikely September push
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. As those games were being played,
Speaker 1: Saint Louis needed to win its last game and have
Speaker 1: Atlanta lose its finale to do the same to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs, four games nail Biers, great Theater, all at
Speaker 1: the same time, win or go home one and out
Speaker 1: do or die, and Baseball immediately changed its playoff structure
Speaker 1: for the following year, adding six teams to the playoffs
Speaker 1: for the next season and forcing them and two other
Speaker 1: teams to play one game winner, go home one and
Speaker 1: out do or die games. Utterly artificial, utterly forced, utterly
Speaker 1: the way baseball has always mare marketed itself or mismarketed itself. Hey,
Speaker 1: this worked last year. Let's force it to happen. Let's
Speaker 1: have ties all the time's fake ties in one game playoffs.
Speaker 1: There is rage about this, although some of it has
Speaker 1: been walked back. Missiroski took it was expected the spot
Speaker 1: of a Philadelphia Phillies pitcher, or maybe a San Francisco
Speaker 1: Giants pitcher, or if you want to get creative and say, wow,
Speaker 1: do we have to have a pitcher take the open
Speaker 1: spot on the team? How about Juan Soto of the
Speaker 1: New York Mets, who was the thing everybody in baseball
Speaker 1: was trying to sell to the public over the winter
Speaker 1: because he signed an all time record contract. Oh no,
Speaker 1: he's old news. Let's not promote Juan Soto so we
Speaker 1: can bring in Jacob five games, Misserroski. Let's not draw
Speaker 1: the New York audience so we can get the Wisconsin
Speaker 1: audience to watch the guy whose name they can't even
Speaker 1: spell yet. In any event, one of the Philly guys,
Speaker 1: Trey Turner, said before being in four that one of
Speaker 1: the two pitchers that should have been on the All
Speaker 1: Star team didn't want to go to the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: What a joke. That's effing terrible. His teammate Nick Castellanos
Speaker 1: had a memorable line, which he tried to walk back.
Speaker 1: It's turning into the Savannah Bananas. That is a reference
Speaker 1: to the traveling baseball team that plays baseball in the
Speaker 1: same manner that the Harlem Globetrotters played basketball. Only the
Speaker 1: Harlem Globe Trotters are funny, and you know it's it's
Speaker 1: actually okay, it's the Baseball All Star Game. It long
Speaker 1: ago lost any meaning, and instead of just killing it off,
Speaker 1: they've been trying gimmicks like Jacob Miseraski for twenty five years.
Speaker 1: Baseball will not accept the reality that the game was
Speaker 1: priceless back when there were still two separate, distinct leagues
Speaker 1: and you got to see maybe George Brett tried to
Speaker 1: hit off tom sever and when some teams were on
Speaker 1: national television only once a year, and when the All
Speaker 1: Star Game was the only chance to see most of
Speaker 1: the stars at baseball, especially all in one place. As
Speaker 1: late as nineteen eighty, just before cable really happened, thirty
Speaker 1: six million people watch the Baseball All Star Game in
Speaker 1: the middle of the season on a weeknight in the
Speaker 1: summer when it's nice on ABC thirty six. Last year,
Speaker 1: Baseball could not stop patting itself on the back because
Speaker 1: the TV ratings had gone up to almost almost seven
Speaker 1: and a half million nineteen eighty thirty six million twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four seven and a half million. Something appears to
Speaker 1: be wrong with the audience. So if you want to
Speaker 1: build in a gimmick where a rookie just up from
Speaker 1: the minor leagues, goes to the All Star Game.
Speaker 2: Cool, do it?
Speaker 1: Just don't pretend it's not a gimmick. They've already created
Speaker 1: a legends spot for the All Star Game for a
Speaker 1: recognizable name. Or to Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers this year,
Speaker 1: who was not good enough to make the actual team.
Speaker 1: Have a rookie, have a bat boy, let him play
Speaker 1: left field, have some guy out of the stands. What's
Speaker 1: the difference. There's only seven million people watching. Just go
Speaker 1: with it. Just say, we put Jacob Miserowski on the team,
Speaker 1: so maybe you will buy a replica Jacob Miseerowski All
Speaker 1: Star uniform. And we didn't put Wan Soto on the
Speaker 1: team because you already bought a Wan Sodo replica uniform.
Speaker 1: As a baseball historian, my problem is the game has
Speaker 1: always tried to protect its young players, not rush them,
Speaker 1: especially not rush them into the spotlight, especially its young pitchers.
Speaker 1: Before Paul Skeens last year, the record for fewest games
Speaker 1: played or pitched in before going to the All Star
Speaker 1: Game for the first time was by Mark the Bird Fidrich,
Speaker 1: the famous I talked to the baseball before I throw
Speaker 1: it pitcher of the nineteen seventy six Detroit Tigers. Thirteen
Speaker 1: games was all he'd played in the major leagues, and
Speaker 1: he went and started the All Star Game. Fidrich was
Speaker 1: injured the next year and was never close to an
Speaker 1: All Star pitcher again, except for fleeting, painful innings two
Speaker 1: or three at a time before his arm would go
Speaker 1: bad again. Hideo Nomo, the Japanese Tornado, tied that record
Speaker 1: of seven to fourteen games in nineteen ninety five. Within
Speaker 1: three years, he had flamed out. The Los Angeles Dodgers
Speaker 1: traded him to the Mets, and worst of all, when
Speaker 1: they traded him to the Mets, they rented him the
Speaker 1: apartment next to mine. Can you imagine anything worse than that?
Speaker 1: The next fewest games was Dontreil Willis of the two
Speaker 1: thousand and three Florida Marlins, and he is now, oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, there is something worse than that. He is
Speaker 1: now on the pregame show for Fox Sports Shorts, which
Speaker 1: isn't quite hell, but it is at minimum purgatory. I mean,
Speaker 1: have you ever heard of Harry Krouse? Harry Krouse was
Speaker 1: a rookie with the nineteen hundred and nine Philadelphia A's
Speaker 1: and they didn't have an annual All Star Game then.
Speaker 1: But if they did, and these people of today were
Speaker 1: running baseball, then Harry Kross would have started the nineteen
Speaker 1: oh nine All Star Game. In his first fifteen starts
Speaker 1: in the nineteen oh nine season, Harry Krouse had an
Speaker 1: ERA of under one point zero zero. Harry Krouse won
Speaker 1: fourteen of those fifteen games. He threw seven shutouts. He
Speaker 1: won four of those games by a score of one
Speaker 1: to nothing. His first fifteen starts, he wins four one
Speaker 1: to nothing games and throws seven shutouts and goes fourteen
Speaker 1: and one, and somewhere during game thirteen or fourteen, he
Speaker 1: heard something in his arm or his shoulder. And he
Speaker 1: would pitch in just fifty one more major league games
Speaker 1: in his life than he was back in the miners.
Speaker 1: Three years after his extraordinary run happens to hitters two.
Speaker 1: They didn't have top one hundred prospects lists in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty six, but Jackie Warner of the Angels would have
Speaker 1: been on them before the season began. He hit seventy
Speaker 1: five homers in his first three minor league seasons. He
Speaker 1: made the sixty six Angels as their opening day right
Speaker 1: fielder and On April fourteenth, in just his second big
Speaker 1: league game, the Angels and the White Sox were tied
Speaker 1: one to one in the ninth and Jackie Warner homered
Speaker 1: off future All Star Joe Horland to win the game
Speaker 1: for the Angels two to one in the ninth. Two
Speaker 1: days later, the Angels were losing in the seventh and
Speaker 1: Jackie Warner hit a two run homer to beat All
Speaker 1: Star Mudcat Grant in the Minnesota Twins three to two.
Speaker 1: On the twenty third, in his seventh big league game,
Speaker 1: Jackie Warner homered again in the eighth to beat future
Speaker 1: All Star Jim Merritt and the Twins four to three,
Speaker 1: three late game winning homers in his first seven games,
Speaker 1: after fifteen games in the Major leagues, Jackie Warner had
Speaker 1: five homers, thirteen runs batted in, and he was batting
Speaker 1: three forty five. Would you have put him on the
Speaker 1: All Star team today, he'd be leading off. They'd special
Speaker 1: a rule in there so he could bat twice every inning,
Speaker 1: and he'd be participating in the home run derby. Then
Speaker 1: Jackie Warner hurt his hand. He only got sixty eight
Speaker 1: more at bats in his life. He hit two eleven
Speaker 1: for that season. After that great start, he was back
Speaker 1: in the miners, having hit three game winning homers in
Speaker 1: the first week of his life. He was back in
Speaker 1: the miners before the first of August. Should I continue?
Speaker 1: Billy Roar of the nineteen sixty seven Red Sox, who
Speaker 1: was pitching a no hitter against the Yankees at Yankee
Speaker 1: Stadium with two out in the ninth before he finally
Speaker 1: gave up a single and had to settle for a
Speaker 1: one hitter, a game so dominant that in those pre
Speaker 1: satellite days, the sports director of Boston TV station Channel five,
Speaker 1: Don Gillis, sent his intern to Logan Airport and had
Speaker 1: the intern fly to New York to pick up a
Speaker 1: copy of the video tape of the game. When the
Speaker 1: videotape of the game weighed about thirty pounds, and carry
Speaker 1: it with him back on the flight to Boston. The
Speaker 1: tape that was made by a New York station fly
Speaker 1: it back to Boston by hand so they could show
Speaker 1: highlights of Billy Rohr on the eleven o'clock news, where
Speaker 1: he was the lead story. A week later, Billy Rohor
Speaker 1: went out and beat the Yankees again, six to one.
Speaker 1: This time he struck out seven. His earned run averys
Speaker 1: was zero point five to Zho he was two to zero.
Speaker 1: He had a one hitter under his belt. Billy Roor
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five would have started the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: Problem was Billy Roor in nineteen sixty seven had already
Speaker 1: won two thirds of all the games, would ever win.
Speaker 1: You don't make somebody an All Star after three games,
Speaker 1: or after one week, or after five games. You don't,
Speaker 1: if for no other reason, then the pressure you put
Speaker 1: on the kid. How do you know Jacob Mazerowski is
Speaker 1: Paul Skeens. How do you know Paul Skens is Paul Skeans?
Speaker 1: How do you know they're not both Billy Rorer or
Speaker 1: Harry Krouse. They have always made spots for rookies who
Speaker 1: have established themselves in the majors. Lots of rookies on
Speaker 1: the All Star team. I've just cited a few examples,
Speaker 1: even though they all went down in flames. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, that idea of being established in the majors
Speaker 1: had to be undisputed. If you were iffy, if there
Speaker 1: were holes in your game, no you didn't go to
Speaker 1: the All Star Game. Nolan Ryan, have you heard of
Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan broke in with the New York Mets in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six. His first All Star Game was in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two. And guess what his first All Star
Speaker 1: game The debut of Nolan Ryan at the All Star
Speaker 1: Game in his sixth big league season. Yeah, make him
Speaker 1: wait another three years, six seasons of waiting, Compared to
Speaker 1: Jacob Mazerowski's five games in the nineteen seventy two All
Speaker 1: Star Game. They didn't even let Nolan Ryan pitch to
Speaker 1: one batter. Also dateline Saint Louis on a more serious subject,
Speaker 1: if you know a big league sports play by play
Speaker 1: man baseball or otherwise, pardon him if he's a little
Speaker 1: jumpy today, because it has begun. The simulcast era has begun.
Speaker 1: The Saint Louis Blues have dismissed their twenty year veteran
Speaker 1: play by play man, John Kelly, himself the son of
Speaker 1: their twenty year Hall of Fame play by play man
Speaker 1: Dan Kelly, as great a play by play man, with
Speaker 1: as much of a big game sound as anybody in
Speaker 1: any sport in any time. The wisdom of firing John
Speaker 1: Kelly is one issue, but it is largely except to
Speaker 1: those of us who compulsively watch hockey games three and
Speaker 1: four a night. It's largely contained to Saint Louis and
Speaker 1: the fans of the Blues, so we'll put it aside
Speaker 1: for a moment. The bigger picture is who is going
Speaker 1: to replace John Kelly. The answer is nobody. The Blues
Speaker 1: are going to do a simulcast, have the same play
Speaker 1: by play done on radio and TV. The radio guys
Speaker 1: will do the games and they'll just put it out
Speaker 1: with pictures on it. And this matters because it is
Speaker 1: inevitable that this will happen almost everywhere in this country
Speaker 1: soon or late. This is just the start. This is
Speaker 1: just the first shock, and usually it will be the
Speaker 1: more expensive announcer who gets the nice note. Sports play
Speaker 1: by play on radio has been shrinking ever since TV
Speaker 1: was introduced in the nineteen forties, but it's always had
Speaker 1: a foothold because it wasn't like you could watch TV
Speaker 1: when you weren't near the TV or anything like I
Speaker 1: had a TV on your phone or something. Oops. The
Speaker 1: beginning of the end probably came when a few years
Speaker 1: ago ESPN gave up on ESPN Radio. I may have
Speaker 1: mentioned once or twice that I helped found ESPN Radio.
Speaker 1: This was a shock to me. I didn't realize it
Speaker 1: was going to be this bad. ESPN Radio still exists,
Speaker 1: but they basically don't run it anymore at ESPN. Four
Speaker 1: years ago they sold their ESPN stations in New York,
Speaker 1: LA and Chicago, and two years ago they farmed out
Speaker 1: the whole network and the running of it to an
Speaker 1: outside company. The outside company runs it now. ESPN Radio
Speaker 1: is just a brand name. It has nothing more really
Speaker 1: to do with ESPN than a sweatshirt with ESPN printed
Speaker 1: on it. There will probably always be separate local radio
Speaker 1: sports casts for hockey, baseball, and basketball play by play
Speaker 1: in the biggest cities New York, LA, Chicago, and well
Speaker 1: maybe just New York, LA and Chicago as I think
Speaker 1: of it, Philadelphia maybe. And listen to those radio broadcasts sometime,
Speaker 1: listen to the sponsorships, the commercials, and ask yourself, how
Speaker 1: on the hell are they making any money on this.
Speaker 1: I will not mention the broadcast or the sport, but
Speaker 1: there is an excellent radio play by play team whose
Speaker 1: games are sponsored sponsored with multiple commercials every game that
Speaker 1: treats Pyroney's disease. I swear Pyroney's disease. And if you
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm talking about, google it. If you
Speaker 1: dare by yourself when nobody else can see you googling it,
Speaker 1: don't say I didn't warn you, And don't say that
Speaker 1: with these blues from Saint Louis. But nothing symbolizes the
Speaker 1: future of play by play sports on the radio more
Speaker 1: than does Pyrone's disease to the number one story on
Speaker 1: this all new episode of the Countdown podcast. And somebody
Speaker 1: asked me the other day my favorite joke I ever
Speaker 1: told on the air. Since I've just crossed the threshold
Speaker 1: of forty six years on the air, there were a
Speaker 1: lot of jokes. I mean, holy cow, I covered George Bush.
Speaker 1: That's eight years of jokes right there, to say nothing
Speaker 1: of Scarborough and Matthews. Seriously, since this is the greatest
Speaker 1: possible excuse to reuse old material that you probably have
Speaker 1: not heard before, let me just do a few of them,
Speaker 1: and I'll start with sports. The best joke that it
Speaker 1: was ever done to me, remaining one of my favorite
Speaker 1: episodes in my entire history, was done by the late
Speaker 1: Bill Robinson, who was the right fielder of the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees in nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty eight,
Speaker 1: and later had a distinguished career with the Pittsburgh Pirates,
Speaker 1: mostly also the Phillies, and who was managing in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety six the Reading Phillies, their farm team in the
Speaker 1: Eastern League. And I wrote Bill for an autograph on
Speaker 1: a baseball card that I needed to complete a set,
Speaker 1: and he wrote back saying, I'm sending you this demanding
Speaker 1: that you give my team a tour of ESPN as
Speaker 1: we drive past. We go right past it on one
Speaker 1: road trip to New Britain, the New Britain Red Sox
Speaker 1: as they were formerly known, later the Hardware City Rock Cats.
Speaker 1: I swear that's what they called the team. Hey, we're
Speaker 1: in Hardware City. You want to mention that publicly anyway,
Speaker 1: He said, we drive past it all the time. We
Speaker 1: could just stop off and get the Nickel Tour, but
Speaker 1: that's the price. But he said, if you give us
Speaker 1: the Nickel Tour, I will let you be my bench
Speaker 1: coach for a game at New Britain, and you can
Speaker 1: wear a uniform and you can hang with the players,
Speaker 1: and I'll actually have you do coach kind of stuff
Speaker 1: and you can sit in the dugout and watch a
Speaker 1: game with me and these guys. And we have a
Speaker 1: couple of guys who'll be pretty good players, one of
Speaker 1: whom was named Scott Roland, who was a third baseman
Speaker 1: who is now in Baseball's Hall of Fame. That's how
Speaker 1: long ago this happened. So we arranged this, and I
Speaker 1: report to the Beehive, the home of the New Britain
Speaker 1: Red Sox, then the Hardware City rock Cats, for God's sakes,
Speaker 1: and they give me a uniform. And the only guy
Speaker 1: on the team is a picture named Wayne Gomes, the
Speaker 1: only guy with shoes big enough to fit my giant boats.
Speaker 1: And they give me a cap somewhere, and I'm wearing
Speaker 1: I think uniform number forty seven. Of course, there are
Speaker 1: no pictures of this. We didn't think to send a camera.
Speaker 1: I didn't even think to bring a disposable cardboard camera
Speaker 1: to get a shot of me in uniform. I'm actually somewhere.
Speaker 1: I am listed as the bench coach of the Redding
Speaker 1: Phillies of the Eastern League for one day, so it
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. It was a great evening
Speaker 1: and I gained tremendous perspective. And later on, when Terry Francona,
Speaker 1: then the manager of the Red Sox, twice, invited me
Speaker 1: to sit with him on the bench during spring training games.
Speaker 1: I had an idea of what to expect and how
Speaker 1: to conduct myself, and it was educational beyond belief in
Speaker 1: terms of my understanding of the game and what the
Speaker 1: players and how come players never ever, ever would understand
Speaker 1: that the game might seem slow from outside the field.
Speaker 1: You miss fifty percent of the boredom if you're in
Speaker 1: the dugout. It goes by like a basketball game, like
Speaker 1: a rocket ship going back and forth from one side
Speaker 1: of the field to the other. In any event, comes
Speaker 1: the seventh inning and we've been sitting there and I
Speaker 1: don't even remember who was leading or who was trailing,
Speaker 1: or what the score was or what happened in the game.
Speaker 1: But it was then that the actual purpose of my
Speaker 1: being in the uniform of the Reading Phillies that day
Speaker 1: was revealed to me. I was sitting between two Freading
Speaker 1: Phillies players. I think they were Doug Angelie and Matt Giuliano.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I know it was Matt, and they
Speaker 1: were engaging me in conversation. And these are two really
Speaker 1: nice guys. And sports interviewers, and they had all sorts
Speaker 1: of questions, and then at some point one of them
Speaker 1: barks out at the umpire, Hunter Wendelstett, the son of
Speaker 1: a veteran National League and they yell about a ball
Speaker 1: and strike charge, and they hey, Blue, when are you
Speaker 1: gonna get your guys on? Or where are you gonna
Speaker 1: add your eyes? Or when when did they get installed?
Speaker 1: Or so whatever it was, and Hunter Wendelstett calls time
Speaker 1: out and walks over to our dugout and says, who
Speaker 1: said that? And Doug Angelie and Matt Giuliano simultaneously point
Speaker 1: to me, and Wendelsteat goes, you are out of the game.
Speaker 1: The point of my being in a reading Phillies uniform,
Speaker 1: thanks to my friend Bill Robinson, was to get me
Speaker 1: ejected from a game. I didn't think they were serious
Speaker 1: about it. And Robbie came over to me at one
Speaker 1: point and says, you'll have to go. He's actually throwing
Speaker 1: you out. And I said, I'm going to get my
Speaker 1: money's worth. And I ran out onto the field and
Speaker 1: started screaming at Hunter Wendel's stead. And no one could
Speaker 1: hear this. They just saw me offering him my glasses,
Speaker 1: the standard insult the umpire trick that was invented by
Speaker 1: some manager in the year eighteen ninety two, and screaming
Speaker 1: at him. What are I screaming at him? Was you're
Speaker 1: a very good umpirere strike zone has been consistent throughout
Speaker 1: this game. You're gonna make the major leagues despite the
Speaker 1: fact that you're a NEPO higher although we didn't use
Speaker 1: that term. Then blah blah blah, and you're gonna be great.
Speaker 1: And I'm just coming out here to make sure that
Speaker 1: everybody knows that I'm not putting up with getting thrown
Speaker 1: out of the game, no matter how good an umpire
Speaker 1: you are. And then I left, and I thank you
Speaker 1: and good night, and off I storm to some applause.
Speaker 1: I might add that might have been applause because I
Speaker 1: was getting thrown out of the game. So that was
Speaker 1: my favorite favorite joke. It is followed up by two punchlines.
Speaker 1: Number one, Hunter Wendelstett and I have gone back and
Speaker 1: forth about this story. I don't know how many times
Speaker 1: in the ensuing twenty nine years. But one day I
Speaker 1: had not seen him in all that time, and one
Speaker 1: day I was at Yankee Stadium in the front row
Speaker 1: before the game started early in the season of twenty ten,
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, and Wendelstett is the home plate umpire, now
Speaker 1: a veteran major league umpire because he was a good umpire,
Speaker 1: just as I predicted, he made the major leagues. And
Speaker 1: there he was, and he's standing there surveying Yankee Stadium
Speaker 1: packed with forty five thousand fans, and I'm sitting there,
Speaker 1: standing there behind the screen. He doesn't see me. And
Speaker 1: as soon as the anthem ends, and he's just surveying
Speaker 1: the scene that he's in charge of as the home
Speaker 1: plate umpire and can't start without him, I suddenly scream revenge, revenge,
Speaker 1: Wendelstad's revenge. And he came over and he looked at me,
Speaker 1: and suddenly he realized it was me and burst into laughter.
Speaker 1: And now the game does not start on time because
Speaker 1: he's coming over to talk to me. And I said,
Speaker 1: go umpire, your damn game, and he said, come see
Speaker 1: me in the in the in the umps room afterwards,
Speaker 1: and a couple of times during the game brought me
Speaker 1: over foul balls and things. He said, I know you're
Speaker 1: a collector. Here take this. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But the big punch line to this is Scott Roland,
Speaker 1: the aforementioned future Hall of Famer all of the nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety six Reading Phillies, now seven eight years later, is
Speaker 1: playing for the Saint Louis Cardinals by this point, maybe
Speaker 1: it's ten years later, and I see him approaching me
Speaker 1: on the field, I think at Yankee Stadium. I think
Speaker 1: it was an interleague game. And he came to me
Speaker 1: and he said, very matter of fact, a dry, dead
Speaker 1: pan kind of guy, and all he had done. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know that he'd noticed. I was in the dugout.
Speaker 1: He was the superstar in waiting. He didn't need Doug
Speaker 1: Angelie and Matt Giuliano, he didn't need Bill Robinson. He
Speaker 1: was on his way to Cooperstown. He stood in that
Speaker 1: dugout and all he did was practice his golf swing,
Speaker 1: I swear, and then he got up and banged out
Speaker 1: three or four hits. No need whatsoever for the rest
Speaker 1: of the Eastern League. They were just there as props
Speaker 1: for Scott Roland. I didn't know he even saw it.
Speaker 1: And he walked up to me and said, matter of factly,
Speaker 1: where was it when you were on our team as
Speaker 1: a coach, and they arranged to have you thrown out
Speaker 1: for arguing balls and strikes and Hunter Wendelstead threw you out.
Speaker 1: Was that in Reading? Was that in Connecticut? Where was it?
Speaker 1: And I said, well, it was when you were with
Speaker 1: Redding and it was in New Britain and he said ah,
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, it was ninety six. He says, highlight
Speaker 1: of my year nineteen ninety six you getting thrown out
Speaker 1: of that game. I said, Scott, that was the year
Speaker 1: you got called up to the big leagues for the
Speaker 1: first time. And he said, deadpan, like I said, highlight
Speaker 1: of my year. My best sports joke pertains to not
Speaker 1: the Redding a Phillies, but the Philadelphia Phillies. This is
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six or nineteen eighty seven, and the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Braves had an outfielder named Albert Hall who didn't play
Speaker 1: very often, but played mostly because he was phenomenally fast,
Speaker 1: and in the days when they still did things like this,
Speaker 1: when they were still enough non pitchers on a baseball
Speaker 1: team to have pinch runners, he was basically a professional
Speaker 1: pinch runner and defensive substitute for the Atlanta Braves. And
Speaker 1: so one day he's in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies,
Speaker 1: and he's actually going to take ann at bat, and
Speaker 1: we are watching in the tiny, cramped sports office the
Speaker 1: closet at KTLA in Los Angeles, of which I am
Speaker 1: the twenty seven or twenty eight year old sports director,
Speaker 1: and we like to watch the games on satellite. We
Speaker 1: like to watch the whole games. It may have had
Speaker 1: something to do with the fact that we were all
Speaker 1: in a couple of fantasy baseball leagues and we sort
Speaker 1: of produced this four minute sportscast on the side. That
Speaker 1: might have been a little factor in why we watched
Speaker 1: all these games live when other networks and stations were
Speaker 1: content to just accept a one minute feed from New York.
Speaker 1: But we're watching this meaningless Braves Phillies game, and in
Speaker 1: the seventh inning or so, Albert Hall, the light hitting
Speaker 1: outfielder of the Braves, hits a really tough ground ball
Speaker 1: into the hole at shortstop. Steve jelts On, also light
Speaker 1: hitting defensive specialists from the Phillies, who they were convinced
Speaker 1: for decades it seems, would be the next superstar would
Speaker 1: be the Scott Rowland of the nineteen eighties, is playing
Speaker 1: at shortstop hitting two O six and he goes after
Speaker 1: this ball deep in the hole, and as he nears it,
Speaker 1: he rolls, he falls, He dives to get this ball
Speaker 1: and in one motion rights himself and does a spin move,
Speaker 1: backing up in his own direction. It was as great
Speaker 1: a defensive play as I've ever seen. He never really
Speaker 1: got into the air, but that was the only thing missing.
Speaker 1: It was almost a platform dive to get this ball.
Speaker 1: And he picked the ball up and through Albert Hall,
Speaker 1: who was running his legs off to get to first base,
Speaker 1: threw him out by half an inch. And the word
Speaker 1: came to my mind, the lyric from the most perhaps
Speaker 1: quoted lyrics of all Beatles songs came to my mind,
Speaker 1: and I blurted out that play has to be in
Speaker 1: our show tonight. We have to run that highlight. And
Speaker 1: everybody in the room looked at me and it was
Speaker 1: like a man It was a good play. But when
Speaker 1: we weren't even playing, planning to play any of the
Speaker 1: Brave Firate Phillies high rade, nobody cares about this game,
Speaker 1: don't you know? Now we know how many roles it
Speaker 1: takes to foil the Albert Hall. It was creative genius,
Speaker 1: if I must say so myself. And while I was
Speaker 1: basking in the laughter that followed, the youngest guy in
Speaker 1: the room was an intern named Benji. And Benji was
Speaker 1: I suppose eighteen or nineteen years old at that point,
Speaker 1: just starting college. And he looked at me like I
Speaker 1: was from outer space. He said, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: I said, the Beatles Day in the Life. Now we
Speaker 1: know how many rules it takes to phil Yeah, all
Speaker 1: there how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
Speaker 1: Albert Hall. Everybody who saw Albert Hall play for the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves thought of Day in the Life by the Beatles.
Speaker 1: And this guy says the Beatles, and he says, oh,
Speaker 1: the band Paul McCartney was in before wings itself the
Speaker 1: oldest joke in the world, even in nineteen eighty six
Speaker 1: or eighty seven. Only he meant it. Needless to say,
Speaker 1: I was terrified that when we got on the air
Speaker 1: that I'd blow the joke, but I didn't. Now we
Speaker 1: know how many roles it takes to foil the Albert Hall.
Speaker 1: I was also once challenged by the other sportscaster I
Speaker 1: worked with in radio when the Dodgers traded their second
Speaker 1: baseman Steve Lopes and turned over second base to a
Speaker 1: rookie named Steve Sachs. We used to start our sportscast,
Speaker 1: and Charlie Steiner was my boss at the RCAO Radio network,
Speaker 1: and he used to incur just to do like a
Speaker 1: title line, a clever headline, and then say, I'm Keith
Speaker 1: Olderman with sports, unless you weren't Keith Olderman, so you
Speaker 1: say blah blah blah blah blah, I'm Keith Oulderman with sports,
Speaker 1: and I wrote Dodgers sack Lopes see sacks as seasoned
Speaker 1: senior circuit second sacker. And the other sportscaster in the
Speaker 1: room bet me five dollars. I couldn't say that without
Speaker 1: turning one of those words into an unfortunate, scatological or
Speaker 1: anatomical term. I may still have the five dollars. There
Speaker 1: was one more sports joke worthy of mentioning before we
Speaker 1: get to the all time greatest joke, which was a
Speaker 1: news joke on the twenty second of November nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: American Thanksgiving, and the use of that term will tell
Speaker 1: you I'm about to talk about hockey. The Edmonton Oilers
Speaker 1: were short a goaltender. They made a trade on American Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: or announced it on American Thanksgiving to get a goaltender
Speaker 1: from the Minnesota north Stars, who the Minnesota north Stars,
Speaker 1: who don't exist anymore. They're now the Dallas Stars. The
Speaker 1: Minnesota north Stars had an extra goalie and they just
Speaker 1: sent them to the Miners and they traded a defenseman
Speaker 1: named Bell for this goalie. And we were at now
Speaker 1: KCBS in Los Angeles and my producer and I sitting
Speaker 1: there on Thanksgiving with absolutely nothing going on other than
Speaker 1: college football games, which invariably bored me to tears, and
Speaker 1: previews of college football games, and one or two NFL
Speaker 1: games involving, as always, the last place Detroit Lions against
Speaker 1: whoever was going to beat them by thirty five points,
Speaker 1: and the first place, but in those days, last place
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, who were about to be beaten by thirty
Speaker 1: five points. And this came across the wire and I said,
Speaker 1: this is the lead story, and the producer said what
Speaker 1: I said, The Minnesota north Stars have just traded goaltender
Speaker 1: Carrie Taco to the Edmonton Oilers for defenseman Bruce Bell,
Speaker 1: And as the producer laughed, I said, it's our lead
Speaker 1: story it's the taco bell trade, to which the producer
Speaker 1: to his everlasting credit, and I had a lot of
Speaker 1: problems with him, but he earned himself a lifetime job
Speaker 1: with me because of what he said next. He said,
Speaker 1: the taco bell trade. He's not Joe player anymore. That's
Speaker 1: the best sports joke, and I promptly stole it from him.
Speaker 1: But the best of all the jokes was an MSNBC joke, which,
Speaker 1: speaking of stolen, was stolen entirely from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Speaker 1: I saw this joke for the first time, I believe,
Speaker 1: when I was a senior in high school. We're coming
Speaker 1: up on the fiftieth reunion, it's now just a month
Speaker 1: and a half away.
Speaker 2: And I heard this.
Speaker 1: Joke in high school. Well, the first time I heard it,
Speaker 1: laughed every time I've seen it since, and my laughter
Speaker 1: has grown into deep appreciation because it's a joke about
Speaker 1: television industry, the television news industry, and the cliches of
Speaker 1: people on television, and it is perfect. And I will
Speaker 1: read you the joke as it appeared on Monty Python.
Speaker 1: Michael Palin is presenting the host of a kind of
Speaker 1: TV magazine show, a news light show it's this in
Speaker 1: Nova Scotia today. Palin, as the host, says, mister roy
Speaker 1: Bent of North Walsham in Norfolk, became the first man
Speaker 1: to cross the Atlantic on a tricycle. His tricycle, especially
Speaker 1: adapted for the crossing, was ninety feet long, with a
Speaker 1: protective steel hull, three funnels, seventeen first class cabins, and
Speaker 1: a radar scanner. At this point on the screen behind Palin,
Speaker 1: a head and shoulders picture of roy Bent eric idol
Speaker 1: in a fisherman's head and rain spattered glasses appears. And
Speaker 1: here comes the joke. Palin says, mister Bent is in
Speaker 1: our Durham studios, which is rather unfortunate, as we're all
Speaker 1: down here in London. I laughed for five minutes. I
Speaker 1: still laugh often that long, because the construction of that sentence,
Speaker 1: such and such our guest is in our studios in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, is in our studios in Katmandu, is in
Speaker 1: our studios in Durham, demands at some point somebody say,
Speaker 1: which is kind of too bad, because none of the
Speaker 1: rest of us are. And they did it, and they
Speaker 1: did it in nineteen seventy four, and for years, anytime
Speaker 1: somebody would write a script for me that included an introduction,
Speaker 1: as often the writers did. They did the introductions and
Speaker 1: maybe the outline of some questions for some of the guests,
Speaker 1: and somebody wrote, whoever it was, Dana Millbank is in
Speaker 1: our Washington studios, I would go, which is rather unfortunate,
Speaker 1: as we're all here in New Jersey. Well, finally, for
Speaker 1: some reason, I asked one of our veteran correspondents on
Speaker 1: April Fool's Day, probably about two thousand and seven or eight,
Speaker 1: if they would participate in this that we'd do a
Speaker 1: whole segment about something, and I would then introduce him,
Speaker 1: and we'd get the two box with me in one
Speaker 1: corner him in the other, and I would do the joke,
Speaker 1: and then we'd say goodbye, and then come back to
Speaker 1: him later and actually do the real interview. So I
Speaker 1: got to say, and I think it was my late
Speaker 1: friend Howard Feinneman, but it might have been Gene Robinson,
Speaker 1: and I said, mister Fyneman is in our Washington studios,
Speaker 1: which is rather unfortunate as we're all up here in
Speaker 1: New York. The joke was so good, not my version
Speaker 1: of it, but the original one that you can see
Speaker 1: Michael Palin having to stop himself from cracking up, as
Speaker 1: he says, the joke a joke in which you legitimately
Speaker 1: crack up because it's so funny. That's a joke, an
Speaker 1: all time joke, which is rather unfortunate. As we're all
Speaker 1: down here in London. I've done all the damage I
Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Most of our
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Speaker 1: and John Phillips Chanel, our musical directors of Countdown. It
Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Mister Ray on guitars, bass
Speaker 1: and drums, Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical
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Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my
Speaker 1: friend Larry David. Everything else was as always my fault.
Speaker 1: That's Countdown for today. Day one hundred and seventy six
Speaker 1: of America held hostage again and just one two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty seven days until the scheduled end of his
Speaker 1: lame duck and lame brained term, unless Putin removes him sooner,
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Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck.
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