WEBVTT - TRUMP'S BASE ATTACKS HIM OVER HIS EPSTEIN COVER-UP - 7.14.25

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<v Speaker 1>Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. By

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<v Speaker 1>the way, you did notice that Trump confessed to covering

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<v Speaker 1>up the Epstein files, and Trump confessed to to being

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<v Speaker 1>in the Epstein files. You know, the Epstein files. The

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<v Speaker 1>Epstein files that Trump promised to release on day one,

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<v Speaker 1>The Epstein files with the Epstein client list that Pam

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<v Speaker 1>Bondi had on her desk and was reviewing. The Epstein

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<v Speaker 1>files that Cash Patel said included a black book under

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<v Speaker 1>direct control of the director of the FBI. The Epstein

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<v Speaker 1>files that were backed up by the Epstein suicide video.

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<v Speaker 1>The Epstein files that were backed up by the Epstein

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<v Speaker 1>sewe side video that just happened to be missing the

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<v Speaker 1>suicide minute. The Epstein files unaffected by all that because

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<v Speaker 1>all the videos were missing that particular minute. The Epstein

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<v Speaker 1>files with the missing suicide minute that it turned out

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<v Speaker 1>the Trump Department of Justice had edited to make sure

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<v Speaker 1>the missing suicide minute was missing. The Epstein files that

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<v Speaker 1>Trump told you to stop asking him about the Epstein files.

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<v Speaker 1>That wait, what Epstein files. There are no Epstein files.

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<v Speaker 1>The Epstein files that exist, but they were made by

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<v Speaker 1>never Barack Obama and the Democrats to fool you. The

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<v Speaker 1>Epstein files the ones made by Barack Obama and the Democrats,

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<v Speaker 1>even though Epstein was cleared during Bush's term by Trump's

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<v Speaker 1>future Labor secretary. The Epstein Files the ones made by

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<v Speaker 1>the Democrats, even though Epstein was arrested during Trump's first term.

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<v Speaker 1>The Epstein Files the ones made by the Democrats, even

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<v Speaker 1>though so Epstein killed himself in jail on the nine

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and second day of Donald Trump's first presidency. The

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<v Speaker 1>Epstein Files the ones not only not made by the Democrats,

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<v Speaker 1>but made by Donald Trump's Department of Justice. Oh, those

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<v Speaker 1>Epstein files. The Epstein Files that Trump is now telling

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<v Speaker 1>his cult don't exist, or do exist but don't matter,

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<v Speaker 1>or may exist, but the Democrats created them while he

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<v Speaker 1>was president, or they do exist, but don't waste your

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<v Speaker 1>energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about, least

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<v Speaker 1>of all me, Donald Trump, the guy who's in all

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<v Speaker 1>the photos with Epstein looking at the girls, or all

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<v Speaker 1>of the above, all at the same time. And here

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<v Speaker 1>is the real selling point, the real convincing moment, the

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<v Speaker 1>real point. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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<v Speaker 1>The Epstein Files the ones Trump Junior said contains the

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<v Speaker 1>Epstein client list and asked, quote, why would anyone protect

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<v Speaker 1>those scumbags? Ask yourselves these questions daily and the answer

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<v Speaker 1>becomes very apparent. You bet it does. Dopey Musk has

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<v Speaker 1>again bailed out on Trump. Didn't mention his name. That

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<v Speaker 1>will happen later. Megan Kelly immediately bailed out on Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>and Benny Johnson immediately bailed out on Trump, and Gunther

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<v Speaker 1>Eagelman bailed out on Trump, and Matt Walsh blog from

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<v Speaker 1>the Matt Walsh Blog bailed out, and dozens and dozens

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<v Speaker 1>of mid level MAGA influencers, the morons who aren't making

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<v Speaker 1>money off this, but just actually believe this crap. They

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<v Speaker 1>bailed out on Trump and Trump's own followers on truth

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<v Speaker 1>Social bailed out on Trump forty thousand comments to twelve

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<v Speaker 1>thousand reposts by mid afternoon yesterday, Trump getting ratio to

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<v Speaker 1>death on his own site, and Nick Fuentes bailed out

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<v Speaker 1>on Trump. Nick Fuentes declared MAGA dead. And finally we

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<v Speaker 1>see the kind of perfect storm required that can topple Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>perhaps not overnight, but certainly in time to lose the

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<v Speaker 1>mid terms, maybe both houses. When there is so much bullshit,

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<v Speaker 1>so many different conspiracies. Finally it has to happen inevitably, inescapably,

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<v Speaker 1>one pile of bullshit completely contradicts the other pile of bullshit.

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<v Speaker 1>And when the brainwashed and the brain dead who have

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<v Speaker 1>put us into this nightmare suddenly realize that both of

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<v Speaker 1>these things can't be true at the same time, they

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<v Speaker 1>short out they were promised pedophiles, they were promised politician pedophiles.

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<v Speaker 1>They were promised that the politicians who were covering up

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<v Speaker 1>Epstein were the pedophiles. And then one day Trump suddenly

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<v Speaker 1>decided to announce that he was the politician who was

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<v Speaker 1>covering up Epstein. And he scolded them and humiliated them

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<v Speaker 1>and yelled at them for challenging his god ordained right

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<v Speaker 1>to cover up Epstein. And they said, in their confusion,

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<v Speaker 1>but you promised us that you would reveal the pedophile

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<v Speaker 1>politicians that were covering up Epstein. And hey, wait a minute,

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<v Speaker 1>And in Maga world, seventy seven million light bulbs went

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<v Speaker 1>off over seventy seven million slightly alive heads, all at

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<v Speaker 1>the same time, as bright as the Rockefeller Center Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>Tree so o oh bright. Even the Maga morons couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>missed it. Trump just confessed, well, not seventy seven million.

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<v Speaker 1>Half of that two thirds one third, it's enough, whatever

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<v Speaker 1>it is. The other half, two thirds one third, they're

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<v Speaker 1>just dimming for now. They are bravely insisting that it's

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<v Speaker 1>more important to believe in Trump than for Trump to

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<v Speaker 1>tell them the truth or whatever it is they want

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<v Speaker 1>him to tell them. But all you need now to

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<v Speaker 1>push either group forever is to say two words, and

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<v Speaker 1>you activate their uncertainty. And the two words are Epstein Files.

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<v Speaker 1>And oh, by the way, anybody still want to contend

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<v Speaker 1>that his threat the other day to revoke the citizenship

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<v Speaker 1>of an American born thirty seven miles away from where

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<v Speaker 1>he was born was just some kind of diversion to

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<v Speaker 1>get you to stop talking about the Epstein Files, when

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<v Speaker 1>hours later he brought up the Epstein files and he

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<v Speaker 1>dared his own people to do something about it. That

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<v Speaker 1>Trump did two of his top twenty all time most

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<v Speaker 1>evil things at basically the same time does not mean

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<v Speaker 1>one has to be cover for the other. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>like human beings. That's not how Trump's mind works. It

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<v Speaker 1>just means he's evil and crazy and long term planning

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<v Speaker 1>for Donald Trump is now down to about what's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>happen five minutes from now. The threat against Rosy O'Donnell

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<v Speaker 1>was a deliberate attempt to stake his ground, to claim

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<v Speaker 1>that when he said the homegrowns are next for deportation,

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<v Speaker 1>he didn't mean some Fourteenth Amendment protected kids. Somewhere he

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<v Speaker 1>met arresting and deporting and de citizenizing Americas, Irish Americans

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<v Speaker 1>and German Americans and New York Americans and Red State

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<v Speaker 1>Americans and you Americans and me Americans. Stephen Miller's enemy

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<v Speaker 1>is brown people. Donald Trump's enemy is anybody who criticizes

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump. And as Bennie Johnson and Gunther Eagelman and

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<v Speaker 1>all the others would find out later that same evening,

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<v Speaker 1>the people who really need to worry about that are

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<v Speaker 1>not Rosy O'Donnell or me or you. Because we have

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<v Speaker 1>always stood a really huge chance of being next on

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<v Speaker 1>the Trump list. They have to worry supporters who don't

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<v Speaker 1>support quite as blindly today as they did Saturday afternoon,

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<v Speaker 1>because Benny efing Johnson is now as likely to be

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<v Speaker 1>next as I am quote, because of the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>Rose than o'donald is not in the best interests of

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<v Speaker 1>our great country. I am giving serious consideration to taking

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<v Speaker 1>away her citizenship. She is a threat to humanity and

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<v Speaker 1>should remain in the wonderful country of Ireland if they

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<v Speaker 1>want her. God bless America. There are absolutely no circumstances

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<v Speaker 1>under which Trump can take away the citizenship of anyone

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<v Speaker 1>born in this country two parents who were themselves born

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<v Speaker 1>in this country. It would be easier to take away

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<v Speaker 1>the citizenship of Baron Trump than Rosie O'Donnell. There are

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<v Speaker 1>no loopholes, there is no concierge Supreme Court trick. There's

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<v Speaker 1>no christinome cowboy hat with sequins. There is nothing to

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<v Speaker 1>give him that power. Nothing, and his mere threat to

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<v Speaker 1>try to do this immediately and finally and irrevocably disqualifies

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<v Speaker 1>him from remaining president to the rest of those in office,

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<v Speaker 1>those in his cult, those outside of it, tho on

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<v Speaker 1>the Epstein list, those not on the Epstein list, those

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<v Speaker 1>newly freed from it because of the dropping of the

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<v Speaker 1>Epstein scales from their eyes. Someone needs to make a

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<v Speaker 1>move here from the regime in power and remove Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump and put someone else in charge of this country

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<v Speaker 1>starting tonight. In fact, that's not good enough, starting today

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<v Speaker 1>before nightfall, you get him out. That's all that matters

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<v Speaker 1>for your own sake. The rest of the country has

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<v Speaker 1>understood he is a mortal danger to us. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>talking about violence here. You guys, just make up a

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<v Speaker 1>law and then Trump's no longer president. You certainly can

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<v Speaker 1>get a lido to do that for you. We have

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<v Speaker 1>been building to this point since twenty fifteen, and now

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<v Speaker 1>we are here the moment when Trump believes he is

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<v Speaker 1>above all laws and above the Constitution, and most dangerously

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<v Speaker 1>for him, above all of his own supporters. He is

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<v Speaker 1>a clear and present danger to not just the future

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<v Speaker 1>of this country, but it's immediate now and all of

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<v Speaker 1>us in it. Now that he happened to reach this

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<v Speaker 1>nature of his madness on the same day that he

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<v Speaker 1>finally blew it with his own cultish just a happy

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<v Speaker 1>coincidence for us and a metaphorically mortal wounding for him.

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<v Speaker 1>He might continue in power. I don't really expect anybody

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<v Speaker 1>to be smart in the Republican Party and remove him

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<v Speaker 1>from office peacefully. There are hundreds thousands of amoral men

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<v Speaker 1>and women whose personal power, in fact, whose personal ability

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<v Speaker 1>to avoid prison depends on him remaining in power. But

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<v Speaker 1>no one, not the most deluded cultist, can look at

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<v Speaker 1>this weekend past, at the saga of Epstein and the

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<v Speaker 1>branding of an occasionally funny woman born at Comac on

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<v Speaker 1>Long Island, as a threat to humanity. No one can

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<v Speaker 1>look at that and voluntarily now get on board with Trump.

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<v Speaker 1>If nothing else, he just hit his ceiling. There is

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<v Speaker 1>still a Trump train, what is evident today. However, out

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<v Speaker 1>there at the horizon, do you see it. That's where

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<v Speaker 1>the track runs out. The track probably washed away by

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<v Speaker 1>those Texas floods that Trump made sure Texas was not

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<v Speaker 1>prepared for. Oh and Rosie o'donald was right, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>just like I was right, just like dozens of Democratic

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<v Speaker 1>politicians were right, just like the reporters were right, just

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<v Speaker 1>like the grieving parents were right. Those dead children in Texas.

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump and Christy nom and Elon Musk and everybody

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<v Speaker 1>in Doge and everybody in Project twenty twenty five and

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<v Speaker 1>all the rest of these assholes, they all contributed to

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<v Speaker 1>those deaths. But mostly it was Trump. Donald Trump terrorist,

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump mass murderer. Thank you for your attention to

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<v Speaker 1>this matter, the true Trump attempt to distract from Epstein

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<v Speaker 1>is unfortunately to simply descend to the next level of

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<v Speaker 1>hell in the torturing of immigrants. Washington Post got the

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<v Speaker 1>new memo from the director of isis the Chinless Wonder,

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<v Speaker 1>todd lyons telling his ISIS Gestapo it can deport immigrants

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<v Speaker 1>quote with as little as six hours notice to countries

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<v Speaker 1>other than their own, even if officials have not provided

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<v Speaker 1>any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from

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<v Speaker 1>prosecution or torture. This works for Trump on two levels. Obviously,

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<v Speaker 1>it is performative it produces the kind of snuff film

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<v Speaker 1>his sadists want. On a second level, it inevitably also

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<v Speaker 1>produces confrontations and I fear increasingly dangerous ones. You already know.

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<v Speaker 1>They rated a pot farm in southern California. Seems like

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<v Speaker 1>a way to actually alienate Trump supporters, right, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>what's next rating an opioid factory. Mayor Bass of Los Angeles,

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<v Speaker 1>though avoiding specifics, reported they approached a group of workers

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<v Speaker 1>in LA who were not just utter legit, but who

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<v Speaker 1>had been contracted by and were working at the time

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<v Speaker 1>for the City of Los Angeles. I suspect this was

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<v Speaker 1>a work crew, possibly doing something on the roads or

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<v Speaker 1>on maybe a City of Los Angeles building, and Ice

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<v Speaker 1>tried to raid them, but getting almost no attention. The

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<v Speaker 1>detaining of a seventy one year old American born named

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<v Speaker 1>Rick Taylor, who was stopped and held for a time

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<v Speaker 1>at the Miami Airport at least an hour as he

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<v Speaker 1>made his way back into this country from a vacation

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<v Speaker 1>to Turkey because they saw a California sticker on his

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<v Speaker 1>suitcase or bag. That was their question to him, Are

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<v Speaker 1>you from California? They are test marketing their ability to

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<v Speaker 1>detain anybody and then make up the flimsiest excuse there

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<v Speaker 1>are undocumented immigrants in California and we are pretending that

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<v Speaker 1>that means we are being invaded. So if you're going

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<v Speaker 1>to California, how do we not know you're going there

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<v Speaker 1>to aid the imaginary invasion that we are pretending is happening.

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<v Speaker 1>Rick Taylor is not just some random seventy one year

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<v Speaker 1>old guy. Rick Taylor has run campaigns for the last

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<v Speaker 1>Republican mayor of LA. He's not only not some sort

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<v Speaker 1>of anti ice protester, he may have voted for Trump

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<v Speaker 1>and his response to this outrage did he file a complaint?

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<v Speaker 1>Did he make sure they released him and he got

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<v Speaker 1>home safely, and then file a complaint. He did not

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<v Speaker 1>he obeyed. I have seen no reporting indicating that he

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<v Speaker 1>has filed any kind of complaint. I am empathetic to

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<v Speaker 1>the first part of his conduct and not the second.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is just the start. The Trump ISIS budget

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<v Speaker 1>has only gone up like five or tenfold, literally, but

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<v Speaker 1>the entirety of the so called border security budget just

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<v Speaker 1>ballooned to one hundred and seventy billion dollars through the

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<v Speaker 1>year twenty twenty nine, which means there will not be

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<v Speaker 1>time for even the slightly not corrupt Trumpists inside this

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<v Speaker 1>scam to vet the new ISIS hires. We may soon

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<v Speaker 1>hit a point in which ISIS raids are not looking

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<v Speaker 1>for supposed gang members or violent criminals or Rick Taylors,

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<v Speaker 1>but they're looking for supposed gang members or violent criminals

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<v Speaker 1>or Rick Taylors who would like to come work for ISIS.

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<v Speaker 1>Like today, you too could be a brown shirt, no

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<v Speaker 1>experience necessary, and no morals accepted. But that part is

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<v Speaker 1>still conjectural. This part is not. Isis is already rating

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<v Speaker 1>middle and junior high school baseball practices in New York

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<v Speaker 1>City and not in the culturally deprived obvious areas either,

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<v Speaker 1>raiding baseball practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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<v Speaker 1>Not to be clear, I am not a New Yorker saying,

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<v Speaker 1>how dare they do a raid near my Cinderella Supermarket,

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<v Speaker 1>my Umbridge would be identical if it had happened anywhere

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<v Speaker 1>else in this city. This is about the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>they are already trying this stuff in Manhattan, and I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what happens if they press a point or

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<v Speaker 1>draw weapons. Human Wilder was running batting practice in Riverside

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<v Speaker 1>Park for his kids, and as the assembly member for

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<v Speaker 1>that area, Linda Rosenthal wrote in her newsletter, quote ice

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<v Speaker 1>sighting on the Upper West Side. I recently learned that

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<v Speaker 1>ICE agents approached a group of kids attending baseball practice

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<v Speaker 1>near the batting cages near West seventy first Street in

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<v Speaker 1>Riverside Park. The only thing that stood between those kids

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<v Speaker 1>Riverside Park and a Florida detention center buried deep in

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<v Speaker 1>the Everglades was a brave coach who knew the law. Unquote.

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<v Speaker 1>The coach is mister Wilder. This is New York, the

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<v Speaker 1>head of the Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy. Human Wilder has

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<v Speaker 1>a law degree from Grand Canyon University. We don't f

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<v Speaker 1>around here, kids, He tells two local micro news organizations

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<v Speaker 1>that he's out there shooting hoops with some of his

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<v Speaker 1>kids as batting practice ends, and then quoting him. When

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<v Speaker 1>I'm over there, I see people looking like federal agents

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<v Speaker 1>in a different area, but I wasn't paying much attention.

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<v Speaker 1>Next thing I know, I look back at the batting

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<v Speaker 1>cage and I see them talking to my kids. I

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<v Speaker 1>go over quickly, and the agents are asking the kids

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<v Speaker 1>inappropriate things like where they are from their country of origin.

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<v Speaker 1>So I say whoa, whoa, and I tell the officers

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<v Speaker 1>that their questions are inappropriate and that I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>tell my kids not to answer them. The officers are

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<v Speaker 1>talking to me about obstruction of justice, and I repeated

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<v Speaker 1>that the kids don't have to speak to them, and

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<v Speaker 1>as the person in charge of them right now, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to tell them not to speak to you. Then

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<v Speaker 1>they started to talk about cuffing me and that if

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<v Speaker 1>the kids were here legally, what do they have to

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<v Speaker 1>lose by answering. I told them they still have their

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<v Speaker 1>Fifth and Fourth Amendment rights and that they don't have

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<v Speaker 1>to speak to you. Or help with any investigation. One

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<v Speaker 1>of the reporters then asked, what made mister Wilder think

0:20:32.075 --> 0:20:36.595
<v Speaker 1>they were isis quote. They said they were ice and

0:20:36.675 --> 0:20:39.635
<v Speaker 1>were wearing everything. They had ice on their chest, they

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<v Speaker 1>had their guns, they had their tasers. It's all about civics.

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<v Speaker 1>If you don't know your rights, they will trample on them.

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<v Speaker 1>Knowing the law and understanding that they had no right

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<v Speaker 1>to ask anything of these kids who are American citizens

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<v Speaker 1>and don't have anything to prove to them. The officers

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<v Speaker 1>were saying, we don't know if they're American citizens, but

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<v Speaker 1>I said, it doesn't matter if they're American citizens or not.

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<v Speaker 1>They still have constitutional rights. You still violate their fourth,

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<v Speaker 1>fifth or fourteenth Amendment rights. I knew that they could

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<v Speaker 1>arrest me, but I knew that they couldn't keep me.

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<v Speaker 1>My whole thing is that I'm African American and most

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<v Speaker 1>of my kids are Latino and black. So it was

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<v Speaker 1>all about how do I get these kids home. I

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<v Speaker 1>never raised my voice. I just talked about the law

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<v Speaker 1>and I was just focused on how can I get

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<v Speaker 1>these kids to where they need to go when they

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<v Speaker 1>are in my care. This is a hero. It turns

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<v Speaker 1>out per that hero coach Euman Wilder. There were eleven kids,

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<v Speaker 1>all indeed American born, high school and junior high. Their

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<v Speaker 1>families are from Africa, South America, Mexico, it's New York.

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<v Speaker 1>We take anybody. Their families are in jeopardy here. And

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<v Speaker 1>you can see where this is going. Your isis you

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<v Speaker 1>see some kids, they're brown, You grab the kids, and

0:22:07.155 --> 0:22:11.555
<v Speaker 1>you then use the kids as bait. You hold them hostage,

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<v Speaker 1>and when the parents show up, you seize the parents.

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<v Speaker 1>It is simply child trafficking. As an aside, this is

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<v Speaker 1>where the Epstein story is truly useful in the days, weeks,

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<v Speaker 1>and months ahead. Seems like the best reaction if you

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<v Speaker 1>witness something like this with kids is to ask the

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<v Speaker 1>isis brown shirt thug gestapo if they are grabbing these

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<v Speaker 1>kids so Trump can take them to Epstein Island. The

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<v Speaker 1>truly frightening part is shades of Rick Taylor. The coach

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<v Speaker 1>was asked if any other adults besides him tried to

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<v Speaker 1>get involved, or at least to film or photograph what

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<v Speaker 1>was going on. Mind you, this is the neighborhood in

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<v Speaker 1>which I get my dogs groomed. This is not an

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<v Speaker 1>area of confrontation. It is an area of mobile phone

0:23:04.675 --> 0:23:10.515
<v Speaker 1>own stores on literally every corner of Broadway, quoting the

0:23:10.555 --> 0:23:13.155
<v Speaker 1>coach again in answer to that question. That was another

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<v Speaker 1>thing that was crazy. There were people watching and the

0:23:15.675 --> 0:23:18.155
<v Speaker 1>agents were telling them to move back, that they would

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<v Speaker 1>be arrested for interfering, and not to take pictures. The

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<v Speaker 1>worst thing is that the six or seven people who

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<v Speaker 1>were watching followed their orders. So we circle back to

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<v Speaker 1>the worst, most dangerous step any of us can take

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<v Speaker 1>in dealing with Trump's growing dictatorship. Obeying in advance. You

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<v Speaker 1>don't get violent, you don't obstruct, and you don't submit.

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<v Speaker 1>But fear is a hell of a drug. And it

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<v Speaker 1>can stop a seventy one year old man who spent

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<v Speaker 1>his life in politics among Republicans from making sure he's

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<v Speaker 1>home and dry and then raising hell. And it can

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<v Speaker 1>stop a bunch of New Yorkers who are raised to

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<v Speaker 1>be at the ready to push a mugger in front

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<v Speaker 1>of an m one bus from even filming the horror

0:24:09.915 --> 0:24:15.515
<v Speaker 1>unfolding in front of them. Do not obey in advance.

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<v Speaker 1>And a final note on all this, it all comes

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<v Speaker 1>back to the only and inevitable solution we are going

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<v Speaker 1>to get here. Eventually. We should start moving here now.

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<v Speaker 1>The Blue States are going to have to follow the

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<v Speaker 1>Gavin Newsom federal tax boycott plan that he still hasn't

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<v Speaker 1>brought up again. After the mess in southern California and

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<v Speaker 1>throughout California with the usurpation of the California National Guard,

0:24:43.235 --> 0:24:49.555
<v Speaker 1>Trump and is Gestapo Isis have all the weapons, and

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<v Speaker 1>Trump has the greatest motivation to use them. He succeeds

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<v Speaker 1>or he dies in jail, period. But we have something bigger.

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<v Speaker 1>In this sad cynical world in which there is one

0:25:01.875 --> 0:25:07.395
<v Speaker 1>magic word, we have the magic The magic word is money.

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<v Speaker 1>We have the money. The Red States do not. Unfortunately,

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<v Speaker 1>it will come to this soon or late. We are

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<v Speaker 1>going to have to get ready to defund the federal government.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for your forbearance during my vacation, during which

0:25:30.355 --> 0:25:33.995
<v Speaker 1>I was sick and my knee went south and two

0:25:33.995 --> 0:25:38.795
<v Speaker 1>of my dogs got sick. Such a nice rest. Everybody's fine, now,

0:25:38.795 --> 0:25:42.395
<v Speaker 1>don't worry. This, however, delayed my previous hope that I

0:25:42.395 --> 0:25:45.075
<v Speaker 1>would be able to announce upon return the growing of

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<v Speaker 1>the Countdown podcast footprint. I can't announce that, although I

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<v Speaker 1>am confident it's going to happen, and shortly, I will

0:25:52.675 --> 0:25:55.835
<v Speaker 1>be doing more stuff and right soon. That's all I

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<v Speaker 1>can say right now, though, if you saw the video

0:25:58.275 --> 0:26:02.675
<v Speaker 1>preview of this episode on YouTube or socials yesterday, and

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<v Speaker 1>that'll give you an idea of the starting point. So

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<v Speaker 1>also of interest here, the press secretary to el Trumpolini

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<v Speaker 1>thinks that her conference calls are being interrupted by the devil.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, she's obviously a big moron, but who knew

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<v Speaker 1>she was that big a moron? And in the mistake

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<v Speaker 1>of the week, the woman who posted that once your

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<v Speaker 1>vet bill gets past one thousand dollars, you should just

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<v Speaker 1>kill your cat or dog because cats and dogs do

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<v Speaker 1>not have souls. This raises an obvious question about what

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<v Speaker 1>happens if this woman's kids get sick. That's next. This

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<v Speaker 1>is an all new, supersized edition of Countdown?

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<v Speaker 2>Does this Countdown with Keith Oberman? Oberman still ahead on

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<v Speaker 2>this all new edition of Countdown?

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<v Speaker 1>Would you like to play in tomorrow Night's Baseball All

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<v Speaker 1>Star Game? Because that is the only stunt remaining that

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<v Speaker 1>Baseball has not tried to revive the dying Midsummer Classic.

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<v Speaker 1>They have named their newest All Star player. He has

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<v Speaker 1>played in five Major League Baseball games to this point

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<v Speaker 1>five there is an explanation. It's a bad one. Also,

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<v Speaker 1>sports games on the radio gone or soon to be first,

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<v Speaker 1>believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about. The roundup of the miss Greens, morons, undunning

0:27:58.155 --> 0:28:03.755
<v Speaker 1>Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in

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<v Speaker 1>the world. A couple of honorable mentions. First, it's's been

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<v Speaker 1>a while and they're been piling up. Linda Yakarino, who

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<v Speaker 1>used to be in broadcasting and then went to work

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<v Speaker 1>as the I don't know, chief incoming flack officer at

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<v Speaker 1>Twitter X not anymore. After two incredible years, she writes,

0:28:28.155 --> 0:28:33.955
<v Speaker 1>I decided to step down as CEO of X. She

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<v Speaker 1>will be succeeded by Grock Mecha Hitler, also from Politico,

0:28:41.315 --> 0:28:46.715
<v Speaker 1>Trump wants his skull back. Man sues to prevent the

0:28:46.715 --> 0:28:51.155
<v Speaker 1>Trump administration from seizing his seventy million year old fossilized

0:28:51.155 --> 0:28:56.075
<v Speaker 1>Tyrannosaurus skull. Planet's original complaint request. Planet doct Robert de

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<v Speaker 1>Levinski files this complaint request for declaratory judgment against defended

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<v Speaker 1>the United States. I have a fossilized to Rannosaurus batar

0:29:07.115 --> 0:29:11.635
<v Speaker 1>skull at issue. Is located in this district, and demand

0:29:11.715 --> 0:29:15.435
<v Speaker 1>for forfeiture was made. A guy has a t rex

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<v Speaker 1>skull and it's his and Trump wants it. And all

0:29:21.435 --> 0:29:26.315
<v Speaker 1>I can assume is Trump knew the guy. The nominees

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<v Speaker 1>for a Worst Person in the World, the runner up,

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<v Speaker 1>Caroline Levitt, believer in brownies and elves, with the word

0:29:33.955 --> 0:29:36.835
<v Speaker 1>lies spelled out in her first name and her last name.

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<v Speaker 1>In April this story from Washington. White House Press Secretary

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<v Speaker 1>of Caroline Levitt believes quote, evil forces were working against

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<v Speaker 1>President Trump on the campaign trail, but that he was

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<v Speaker 1>saved by the grace of God when he was shot

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<v Speaker 1>during a rally. What about that fireman in the first

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<v Speaker 1>row got killed? Was he a bad guy? Grace of

0:30:01.115 --> 0:30:05.395
<v Speaker 1>God wasn't applicable there. God didn't like that guy. God said,

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<v Speaker 1>af that guy, that's nice. Caroline Levitt told the Christian

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<v Speaker 1>Broadcasting Network in an interview released Monday that she believes

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<v Speaker 1>in spiritual warfare. On June thirtieth, the White House prayer

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<v Speaker 1>call went a cropper. White House Faith director Jenny Korn

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<v Speaker 1>remarked that they were waiting for AT and T to

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<v Speaker 1>get its act together so that Trump could talk to

0:30:30.995 --> 0:30:34.075
<v Speaker 1>the most gullible people in the world and sell them

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<v Speaker 1>whatever it is they wanted to hear. But later on

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<v Speaker 1>the call, even.

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<v Speaker 3>Though even though the Faith director said it was at

0:30:41.235 --> 0:30:44.035
<v Speaker 3>and T fault, the White House Press Secretary of Caroline

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<v Speaker 3>Levitt implied it his evil spirits quote, there is spiritual warfare,

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<v Speaker 3>as we all know. It tried to break up our

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<v Speaker 3>call today, as the President even alluded to once again,

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<v Speaker 3>just like the t Rex Skull, I assume that Trump

0:30:59.395 --> 0:31:03.915
<v Speaker 3>knows about spiritual warfare and evil because he knew the guy.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So the Faith director of the White House, which

0:31:08.555 --> 0:31:12.715
<v Speaker 1>is bad enough that there is one, believes it was

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<v Speaker 1>the phone company, but the press secretary, the former Division

0:31:16.795 --> 0:31:21.035
<v Speaker 1>III softball player and professional liar, says it was invisible

0:31:21.075 --> 0:31:28.395
<v Speaker 1>demons interfering with cell coverage, not per chance the likelihood

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<v Speaker 1>that the White House was using non secure public Wi

0:31:30.635 --> 0:31:33.635
<v Speaker 1>Fi because too cheap and too lazy to get the

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<v Speaker 1>other kinds. And it's actually surprising that this was a

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<v Speaker 1>call rather than just a you know, White House prayer.

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

0:31:48.275 --> 0:31:52.835
<v Speaker 1>Riley Gaines, now auditioning at Fox News Hey, whiney, you

0:31:52.875 --> 0:31:57.595
<v Speaker 1>can be eighty fifth best at that too. Gaines says,

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<v Speaker 1>a disturbing poll reveals growing anti semitism on the left.

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta see this. What does that poll look like?

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<v Speaker 1>This is what it looked like. In twenty seventeen, Gains

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<v Speaker 1>continued forty two percent of Democrats supported Israel. But that

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

0:32:17.995 --> 0:32:22.595
<v Speaker 1>it's about support for Israel. I understand your confusion on this,

0:32:22.715 --> 0:32:30.235
<v Speaker 1>Riley Gains. You're stupid. That'll confuse anybody criticizing Israel, Criticizing

0:32:30.395 --> 0:32:36.635
<v Speaker 1>Israel's war policy, Criticizing Israel's peace policy is criticizing a

0:32:36.755 --> 0:32:42.715
<v Speaker 1>country's policy. Anti Semitism is something else. Anti Semitism is

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<v Speaker 1>say somebody saying no estate tax, no going through the

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<v Speaker 1>banks and borrowing from in some cases a fine banker

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<v Speaker 1>and in some cases shylocks and bad people who said that. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump said that. That's anti semitism. Calling people shylocks

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<v Speaker 1>is anti semitism. Donald Trump is an anti Semite. When

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<v Speaker 1>Joe Biden used that term shylocks twenty fourteen, when he

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<v Speaker 1>was vice president the director of the ADL, the Anti

0:33:12.195 --> 0:33:16.075
<v Speaker 1>Defamation League called him out immediately said it was inappropriate

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<v Speaker 1>and wrong, and Biden said, it is inappropriate, and it

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<v Speaker 1>is wrong, and the head of the ADL is correct,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm wrong, and I apologize for it. It is

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<v Speaker 1>an anti Semitic slur, and I will not use that

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<v Speaker 1>term again. I was wrong to do so, did so immediately.

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<v Speaker 1>To this point, Donald Trump has not been asked by

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<v Speaker 1>the Washington press corps why he said an anti Semitic slur,

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<v Speaker 1>why he referred to shylocks, what he's going to do

0:33:42.475 --> 0:33:45.595
<v Speaker 1>about it? Is he going to apologize for it? Why

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<v Speaker 1>is he an anti Semite? Because the Washington news corp

0:33:49.075 --> 0:33:52.195
<v Speaker 1>covering the President has largely gone to hell in a handbasket,

0:33:52.275 --> 0:33:54.195
<v Speaker 1>and the few who have not worked for or news

0:33:54.315 --> 0:33:57.675
<v Speaker 1>organizations that are falling apart at the seams like CBS News,

0:33:57.915 --> 0:34:01.035
<v Speaker 1>ABC News and the Washington Post, and they're all terrified

0:34:01.035 --> 0:34:02.915
<v Speaker 1>that they're the ones who are going to get fired next.

0:34:03.475 --> 0:34:06.435
<v Speaker 1>It's not an excuse, but it's an explanation. But nobody

0:34:06.435 --> 0:34:10.755
<v Speaker 1>has asked Trump about his anti semitism. And Riley Gaines

0:34:10.875 --> 0:34:15.075
<v Speaker 1>is there to interpret the difference between anti semitism and

0:34:15.195 --> 0:34:18.715
<v Speaker 1>criticism of Israel, and she does not understand that there is.

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

0:34:21.835 --> 0:34:24.115
<v Speaker 1>I mean, let's give her a round of applause because

0:34:24.155 --> 0:34:27.875
<v Speaker 1>she could read the script and the teleprompter without complaining

0:34:28.035 --> 0:34:32.395
<v Speaker 1>that some transgender floor director was standing in her way.

0:34:34.035 --> 0:34:37.395
<v Speaker 2>Maybe we gains I finished eighty fifth. It's all that

0:34:37.595 --> 0:34:38.395
<v Speaker 2>guy's fault.

0:34:39.435 --> 0:34:44.075
<v Speaker 1>God, what an idiot and still not the worst the winner.

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<v Speaker 1>And we believe there is no evidence suggesting that this

0:34:48.155 --> 0:34:51.875
<v Speaker 1>is not a real thing. There is no suggestion we're

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<v Speaker 1>being trolled by some missus Betty Bowers on Twitter X

0:34:58.275 --> 0:35:03.915
<v Speaker 1>this is Caitlin Francis at missus c M Francis. There's

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

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<v Speaker 1>to this bio wife of at Jeremy Francis eighty seven

0:35:10.955 --> 0:35:16.755
<v Speaker 1>mother times four. Okay, first warning sign, homeschool advocate. I

0:35:16.875 --> 0:35:21.675
<v Speaker 1>want to make sure my children are automatically dumber than

0:35:21.715 --> 0:35:26.075
<v Speaker 1>I am by teaching them what I vaguely remember from

0:35:26.155 --> 0:35:31.155
<v Speaker 1>high school. Then there's an American flag and then on

0:35:31.315 --> 0:35:35.275
<v Speaker 1>Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is

0:35:35.435 --> 0:35:43.435
<v Speaker 1>sinking sand and the location California, USA, sinking sand. Indeed, Madam,

0:35:44.435 --> 0:35:48.235
<v Speaker 1>in any event, she also this Jeremy Francis, forty seven,

0:35:48.275 --> 0:35:51.395
<v Speaker 1>who she says is the hubby. He identifies himself on

0:35:51.475 --> 0:35:54.475
<v Speaker 1>his Twitter account as it manager at the C. A.

0:35:54.715 --> 0:36:00.155
<v Speaker 1>Rasmussen Company, which does something I don't know in Valencia, California,

0:36:00.235 --> 0:36:04.475
<v Speaker 1>So that gives you an idea where they are Valencia,

0:36:04.795 --> 0:36:08.635
<v Speaker 1>and Francis was responding to somebody who put out this

0:36:09.635 --> 0:36:12.795
<v Speaker 1>tweet extremely unpopular opinion today, But if you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>have a pet, you should always have at least ten

0:36:15.795 --> 0:36:18.595
<v Speaker 1>grand set aside for them at all times in case

0:36:18.835 --> 0:36:23.515
<v Speaker 1>of serious emergency. I think that might be a little high.

0:36:23.675 --> 0:36:25.915
<v Speaker 1>I don't know that everybody has to have ten thousand

0:36:26.035 --> 0:36:28.875
<v Speaker 1>ready to go. You should probably know where you're going

0:36:28.915 --> 0:36:31.835
<v Speaker 1>to get that much money if it's something really serious.

0:36:32.595 --> 0:36:36.555
<v Speaker 1>The happy news about almost all serious illnesses with dogs

0:36:36.555 --> 0:36:39.795
<v Speaker 1>and cats, and most serious injuries that they survive, is

0:36:39.795 --> 0:36:44.635
<v Speaker 1>that the cost of getting them well is comparatively small,

0:36:44.875 --> 0:36:49.115
<v Speaker 1>with or without insurance. That ten thousand dollars will more

0:36:49.195 --> 0:36:51.755
<v Speaker 1>than take care probably of all of your pets in

0:36:51.795 --> 0:36:55.835
<v Speaker 1>your life and give you and them added years of love.

0:36:56.995 --> 0:37:00.475
<v Speaker 1>But not if you're Caitlin Francis of California.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello.

0:37:02.715 --> 0:37:07.515
<v Speaker 1>She has retweeted this and headed. My extremely unpopular opinion

0:37:07.795 --> 0:37:10.795
<v Speaker 1>is that once a pet costs over five hundred dollars

0:37:10.795 --> 0:37:14.315
<v Speaker 1>to one thousand dollars, it's time to put them to sleep.

0:37:15.915 --> 0:37:20.275
<v Speaker 1>Caitlin Francis says, when it gets more than five hundred bucks,

0:37:20.715 --> 0:37:26.395
<v Speaker 1>kill your dog. She's homeschooling her children, four of whom

0:37:26.515 --> 0:37:29.755
<v Speaker 1>are going to turn out to be Christinome. This is

0:37:29.755 --> 0:37:34.995
<v Speaker 1>how we get Christy Nome. Home schooling was the ground

0:37:35.115 --> 0:37:38.755
<v Speaker 1>zero for the end of America. That's where it started,

0:37:38.875 --> 0:37:42.835
<v Speaker 1>where we started to teach people not to possibly be

0:37:42.955 --> 0:37:46.915
<v Speaker 1>smarter than their parents. And then there's the nightmare Samaria

0:37:47.035 --> 0:37:50.275
<v Speaker 1>scenario in which their parents are Missus c. M. Francis,

0:37:50.595 --> 0:37:53.115
<v Speaker 1>who wants you to kill your dog or cat, or

0:37:53.155 --> 0:37:57.595
<v Speaker 1>your pet, hippo or whatever you have. And then, after

0:37:57.635 --> 0:38:02.595
<v Speaker 1>an hour of being chewed up alive and appropriately so online,

0:38:02.995 --> 0:38:06.235
<v Speaker 1>she decided that what people were upset about was that

0:38:06.275 --> 0:38:09.075
<v Speaker 1>she was not clear enough about what she was talking about.

0:38:09.155 --> 0:38:11.355
<v Speaker 1>That that's not a five hundred dollars limit in terms

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<v Speaker 1>of food. Quote people determined to misunderstand, I am referring

0:38:16.795 --> 0:38:21.595
<v Speaker 1>to vet bills, not daily care. Oh that's much better,

0:38:22.195 --> 0:38:27.755
<v Speaker 1>missus CM Francis. You witch. Oh, that's much better. It's

0:38:27.795 --> 0:38:32.195
<v Speaker 1>when they're sick and dying or injured, when when one

0:38:32.195 --> 0:38:36.515
<v Speaker 1>of your homeschool kids decides to run them over with something. Oh,

0:38:36.595 --> 0:38:39.675
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna what's the estimate on this, Oh, one thousand

0:38:39.675 --> 0:38:44.475
<v Speaker 1>and one dollars. I'm sorry, sparky, nice touch, missus, CM Francis,

0:38:44.595 --> 0:38:47.995
<v Speaker 1>But thank goodness you didn't suggest giving your dog five

0:38:48.075 --> 0:38:52.355
<v Speaker 1>hundred dollars worth of food over eighteen years. There's a

0:38:52.395 --> 0:38:56.715
<v Speaker 1>C word that applies here. It isn't over yet. I

0:38:56.755 --> 0:38:58.915
<v Speaker 1>would just like to say she followed up with this

0:38:59.475 --> 0:39:04.155
<v Speaker 1>for the record, it's not that serious. Who the effort

0:39:04.195 --> 0:39:07.675
<v Speaker 1>you to deter whether or not it's serious? You pet killer?

0:39:09.195 --> 0:39:11.675
<v Speaker 1>And then finally, the dnu mont to all of this

0:39:12.315 --> 0:39:17.155
<v Speaker 1>from a woman who homeschools her kids, who has sentenced

0:39:17.195 --> 0:39:20.715
<v Speaker 1>them to a life in believing that if they are

0:39:20.835 --> 0:39:23.675
<v Speaker 1>not nice to God, the lights will go off in

0:39:23.715 --> 0:39:28.795
<v Speaker 1>the basement, that the phones shut down because oh, here's

0:39:28.835 --> 0:39:37.435
<v Speaker 1>another warfare by evil spirits, and Carol Lenevitt sees them.

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<v Speaker 1>There's the punchline to it. Animals are not people. They

0:39:41.915 --> 0:39:43.075
<v Speaker 1>do not have a soul.

0:39:43.715 --> 0:39:46.875
<v Speaker 2>Have a nice day.

0:39:48.075 --> 0:39:52.275
<v Speaker 1>The only soul that can be questioned in this occasion

0:39:52.675 --> 0:39:58.395
<v Speaker 1>is that of Caitlin Francis, but the one I love

0:39:58.435 --> 0:40:01.635
<v Speaker 1>continues to be It's not that serious. I see she's

0:40:01.915 --> 0:40:07.195
<v Speaker 1>mad at the world because she he's wrong, and there

0:40:07.195 --> 0:40:09.755
<v Speaker 1>are ways to respond to this situation that would make

0:40:09.795 --> 0:40:13.235
<v Speaker 1>things better. But of course she homeschools her kids, so

0:40:14.075 --> 0:40:16.915
<v Speaker 1>why would she know how to get out of this

0:40:17.075 --> 0:40:20.275
<v Speaker 1>jam she has created by suggesting that you should kill

0:40:20.275 --> 0:40:23.875
<v Speaker 1>your pet rather than pay a six hundred dollars Vetville bill,

0:40:23.955 --> 0:40:26.515
<v Speaker 1>or certainly a one thousand and one dollar vet bill.

0:40:28.315 --> 0:40:30.235
<v Speaker 1>I got a quick question for you to wrap this up.

0:40:30.275 --> 0:40:34.435
<v Speaker 1>Missus Francis, you're over under on killing your sick or

0:40:34.475 --> 0:40:37.875
<v Speaker 1>injured dog or cat. The one that your even homeschooled

0:40:37.995 --> 0:40:42.155
<v Speaker 1>kids love is five hundred to one thousand dollars. So

0:40:42.275 --> 0:40:46.995
<v Speaker 1>what's your over under on killing your sick kids? How

0:40:47.075 --> 0:40:51.115
<v Speaker 1>much does little Caitlin Junior? How much is she worth

0:40:51.355 --> 0:40:54.275
<v Speaker 1>if she gets sick? What was the husband's name again,

0:40:55.435 --> 0:41:00.755
<v Speaker 1>mister Caitlin Francis, Jeremy? How much is Jeremy Junior worse

0:41:01.875 --> 0:41:04.635
<v Speaker 1>when he gets hit by a bus? I'm sorry that's

0:41:04.755 --> 0:41:08.115
<v Speaker 1>gonna cost us twelve hundred and seventy four dollars to

0:41:08.155 --> 0:41:14.635
<v Speaker 1>straighten his arm out, kill him, Caitlin, like Senator Jony

0:41:14.835 --> 0:41:18.715
<v Speaker 1>Ernst said, We're all gonna die one day. Why don't

0:41:18.755 --> 0:41:23.715
<v Speaker 1>you just get another daughter? Francis two days worst person

0:41:23.795 --> 0:41:41.275
<v Speaker 1>in the world. This is Sports Senate. Wait, check that,

0:41:42.395 --> 0:41:49.595
<v Speaker 1>not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Aulberman still ahead.

0:41:49.715 --> 0:41:52.355
<v Speaker 1>In this all new edition of Countdown, things I promise

0:41:52.475 --> 0:41:55.235
<v Speaker 1>not to tell in my favorite on air jokes, including

0:41:55.275 --> 0:42:01.355
<v Speaker 1>the ones perpetrated against me. But first, from the sports

0:42:01.395 --> 0:42:10.915
<v Speaker 1>Ball Central Center newsdesk tonight, Atlanta, Georgia. You can always

0:42:10.955 --> 0:42:14.195
<v Speaker 1>depend on Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. He'll always make you

0:42:14.235 --> 0:42:18.195
<v Speaker 1>ashamed that you like the game. A rookie has been

0:42:18.275 --> 0:42:21.435
<v Speaker 1>named to the pitching staff for tomorrow Night's National League

0:42:21.475 --> 0:42:24.755
<v Speaker 1>team in the All Star Game, after he has made

0:42:24.795 --> 0:42:30.195
<v Speaker 1>exactly one, two, three, four, five big league appearances five

0:42:30.795 --> 0:42:33.635
<v Speaker 1>and one of them. In one of them, he was terrible,

0:42:34.275 --> 0:42:38.635
<v Speaker 1>and now he's an All Star. Nothing against the guy.

0:42:38.715 --> 0:42:42.395
<v Speaker 1>His name is Jacob Mizerowski, and he cried when they

0:42:42.435 --> 0:42:44.795
<v Speaker 1>told him about it, and so did a lot of

0:42:44.835 --> 0:42:47.835
<v Speaker 1>people in baseball because this is as cheap a stunt

0:42:47.915 --> 0:42:51.475
<v Speaker 1>as you could imagine, and as you could force and

0:42:51.515 --> 0:42:55.115
<v Speaker 1>fabricate and all the teams who, in a ritual as

0:42:55.115 --> 0:42:57.315
<v Speaker 1>old as time itself, have players who should be at

0:42:57.315 --> 0:42:59.395
<v Speaker 1>the All Star Game but will not be because there

0:42:59.435 --> 0:43:02.675
<v Speaker 1>is a finite number of roster spots, are enraged that

0:43:02.755 --> 0:43:06.275
<v Speaker 1>this guy is going and there guy isn't. It's not

0:43:06.475 --> 0:43:10.515
<v Speaker 1>Jacob Mizerowski's fault. I don't blame him for this. What

0:43:10.635 --> 0:43:13.555
<v Speaker 1>was he supposed to do? Say no, But trust me,

0:43:13.635 --> 0:43:16.115
<v Speaker 1>that will get lost quickly, especially if it turns out

0:43:16.315 --> 0:43:19.235
<v Speaker 1>that these first five games were his best five games

0:43:20.355 --> 0:43:22.715
<v Speaker 1>last year. And this is the root of the problem.

0:43:22.915 --> 0:43:27.675
<v Speaker 1>Baseball's number one minor league prospect, a pitcher named Paul Skens,

0:43:28.115 --> 0:43:30.915
<v Speaker 1>came up from the minor leagues early in the season,

0:43:30.955 --> 0:43:34.275
<v Speaker 1>and in his first eleven games, he won six, he

0:43:34.395 --> 0:43:38.035
<v Speaker 1>lost none. He struck out eighty nine batters in sixty

0:43:38.075 --> 0:43:41.235
<v Speaker 1>six innings. He got enormous publicity, in large part, though

0:43:41.235 --> 0:43:44.115
<v Speaker 1>Baseball will never admit this, because his girlfriend was a

0:43:44.115 --> 0:43:48.355
<v Speaker 1>famous gymnast who does a boatload of TV commercials. They

0:43:48.395 --> 0:43:51.875
<v Speaker 1>put him on the All Star team. He organically deserved it.

0:43:51.915 --> 0:43:55.635
<v Speaker 1>They had him start the game too. He probably organically

0:43:55.675 --> 0:43:59.715
<v Speaker 1>deserved that too. He certainly didn't deserve it. The problem

0:43:59.955 --> 0:44:04.235
<v Speaker 1>is Whenever something like that happens organically in baseball, baseball

0:44:04.275 --> 0:44:09.035
<v Speaker 1>immediately tries to make it happen again. As twenty twenty

0:44:09.075 --> 0:44:12.715
<v Speaker 1>four had begun, Paul Skens was the number one prospect

0:44:12.715 --> 0:44:15.555
<v Speaker 1>in baseball had been the number one prospect chosen in

0:44:15.595 --> 0:44:19.915
<v Speaker 1>the previous year's amateur draft. As twenty twenty five began,

0:44:20.355 --> 0:44:24.555
<v Speaker 1>Jacob Miserowski of the Milwaukee Brewers was the number forty

0:44:24.635 --> 0:44:29.635
<v Speaker 1>four prospect in baseball, or the number seventy two prospect

0:44:30.075 --> 0:44:32.635
<v Speaker 1>or on one list, the official one that is on

0:44:32.715 --> 0:44:37.595
<v Speaker 1>the actual baseball website. Jacob Miserowski was the ninety first

0:44:38.235 --> 0:44:43.675
<v Speaker 1>top ranked prospect in baseball, and he had been the

0:44:43.835 --> 0:44:47.395
<v Speaker 1>sixty third guy chosen in the previous year's draft, not

0:44:47.515 --> 0:44:50.315
<v Speaker 1>the first, or the second, or even anything in single

0:44:50.355 --> 0:44:54.555
<v Speaker 1>digits or load double digits. Baseball is run by a

0:44:54.555 --> 0:44:57.395
<v Speaker 1>group of men who do not like baseball, and more importantly,

0:44:57.435 --> 0:45:01.115
<v Speaker 1>do not understand baseball or why things happen. So when

0:45:01.115 --> 0:45:04.155
<v Speaker 1>they see something happen that makes some of them money,

0:45:04.755 --> 0:45:08.475
<v Speaker 1>the only reaction they are capable of is, let's make

0:45:08.515 --> 0:45:13.955
<v Speaker 1>it happen again and make more money. BDBD In twenty eleven,

0:45:14.075 --> 0:45:17.275
<v Speaker 1>on the season's final day, Tampa Bay needed to win

0:45:17.395 --> 0:45:19.755
<v Speaker 1>its game and the Boston Red Sox needed to lose

0:45:19.795 --> 0:45:23.115
<v Speaker 1>theirs for Tampa Bay to complete an unlikely September push

0:45:23.315 --> 0:45:26.355
<v Speaker 1>to make the playoffs. As those games were being played,

0:45:26.435 --> 0:45:29.595
<v Speaker 1>Saint Louis needed to win its last game and have

0:45:29.715 --> 0:45:32.595
<v Speaker 1>Atlanta lose its finale to do the same to make

0:45:32.595 --> 0:45:36.595
<v Speaker 1>the playoffs, four games nail Biers, great Theater, all at

0:45:36.635 --> 0:45:40.635
<v Speaker 1>the same time, win or go home one and out

0:45:40.795 --> 0:45:45.795
<v Speaker 1>do or die, and Baseball immediately changed its playoff structure

0:45:45.875 --> 0:45:50.155
<v Speaker 1>for the following year, adding six teams to the playoffs

0:45:50.195 --> 0:45:52.795
<v Speaker 1>for the next season and forcing them and two other

0:45:52.875 --> 0:45:57.035
<v Speaker 1>teams to play one game winner, go home one and

0:45:57.155 --> 0:46:02.755
<v Speaker 1>out do or die games. Utterly artificial, utterly forced, utterly

0:46:02.835 --> 0:46:08.395
<v Speaker 1>the way baseball has always mare marketed itself or mismarketed itself. Hey,

0:46:08.435 --> 0:46:10.995
<v Speaker 1>this worked last year. Let's force it to happen. Let's

0:46:11.035 --> 0:46:15.075
<v Speaker 1>have ties all the time's fake ties in one game playoffs.

0:46:16.635 --> 0:46:19.675
<v Speaker 1>There is rage about this, although some of it has

0:46:19.715 --> 0:46:24.195
<v Speaker 1>been walked back. Missiroski took it was expected the spot

0:46:24.235 --> 0:46:27.075
<v Speaker 1>of a Philadelphia Phillies pitcher, or maybe a San Francisco

0:46:27.235 --> 0:46:30.235
<v Speaker 1>Giants pitcher, or if you want to get creative and say, wow,

0:46:30.395 --> 0:46:32.515
<v Speaker 1>do we have to have a pitcher take the open

0:46:32.555 --> 0:46:35.115
<v Speaker 1>spot on the team? How about Juan Soto of the

0:46:35.155 --> 0:46:37.755
<v Speaker 1>New York Mets, who was the thing everybody in baseball

0:46:37.835 --> 0:46:39.635
<v Speaker 1>was trying to sell to the public over the winter

0:46:39.835 --> 0:46:42.395
<v Speaker 1>because he signed an all time record contract. Oh no,

0:46:42.515 --> 0:46:47.075
<v Speaker 1>he's old news. Let's not promote Juan Soto so we

0:46:47.115 --> 0:46:51.315
<v Speaker 1>can bring in Jacob five games, Misserroski. Let's not draw

0:46:51.435 --> 0:46:54.035
<v Speaker 1>the New York audience so we can get the Wisconsin

0:46:54.155 --> 0:46:57.595
<v Speaker 1>audience to watch the guy whose name they can't even

0:46:57.635 --> 0:47:02.075
<v Speaker 1>spell yet. In any event, one of the Philly guys,

0:47:02.755 --> 0:47:05.675
<v Speaker 1>Trey Turner, said before being in four that one of

0:47:05.675 --> 0:47:07.515
<v Speaker 1>the two pitchers that should have been on the All

0:47:07.515 --> 0:47:10.675
<v Speaker 1>Star team didn't want to go to the All Star Game.

0:47:11.515 --> 0:47:15.675
<v Speaker 1>What a joke. That's effing terrible. His teammate Nick Castellanos

0:47:15.675 --> 0:47:17.835
<v Speaker 1>had a memorable line, which he tried to walk back.

0:47:18.195 --> 0:47:22.675
<v Speaker 1>It's turning into the Savannah Bananas. That is a reference

0:47:22.715 --> 0:47:25.835
<v Speaker 1>to the traveling baseball team that plays baseball in the

0:47:25.835 --> 0:47:29.315
<v Speaker 1>same manner that the Harlem Globetrotters played basketball. Only the

0:47:29.355 --> 0:47:33.675
<v Speaker 1>Harlem Globe Trotters are funny, and you know it's it's

0:47:33.715 --> 0:47:36.395
<v Speaker 1>actually okay, it's the Baseball All Star Game. It long

0:47:36.435 --> 0:47:40.155
<v Speaker 1>ago lost any meaning, and instead of just killing it off,

0:47:40.515 --> 0:47:45.235
<v Speaker 1>they've been trying gimmicks like Jacob Miseraski for twenty five years.

0:47:46.195 --> 0:47:48.555
<v Speaker 1>Baseball will not accept the reality that the game was

0:47:48.635 --> 0:47:52.795
<v Speaker 1>priceless back when there were still two separate, distinct leagues

0:47:53.115 --> 0:47:57.075
<v Speaker 1>and you got to see maybe George Brett tried to

0:47:57.155 --> 0:48:00.435
<v Speaker 1>hit off tom sever and when some teams were on

0:48:00.515 --> 0:48:03.595
<v Speaker 1>national television only once a year, and when the All

0:48:03.595 --> 0:48:05.795
<v Speaker 1>Star Game was the only chance to see most of

0:48:05.835 --> 0:48:10.955
<v Speaker 1>the stars at baseball, especially all in one place. As

0:48:11.075 --> 0:48:16.435
<v Speaker 1>late as nineteen eighty, just before cable really happened, thirty

0:48:16.715 --> 0:48:20.915
<v Speaker 1>six million people watch the Baseball All Star Game in

0:48:20.915 --> 0:48:23.435
<v Speaker 1>the middle of the season on a weeknight in the

0:48:23.435 --> 0:48:28.675
<v Speaker 1>summer when it's nice on ABC thirty six. Last year,

0:48:29.155 --> 0:48:32.515
<v Speaker 1>Baseball could not stop patting itself on the back because

0:48:32.555 --> 0:48:37.955
<v Speaker 1>the TV ratings had gone up to almost almost seven

0:48:38.115 --> 0:48:45.795
<v Speaker 1>and a half million nineteen eighty thirty six million twenty

0:48:45.875 --> 0:48:49.595
<v Speaker 1>twenty four seven and a half million. Something appears to

0:48:49.595 --> 0:48:53.155
<v Speaker 1>be wrong with the audience. So if you want to

0:48:53.195 --> 0:48:55.515
<v Speaker 1>build in a gimmick where a rookie just up from

0:48:55.555 --> 0:48:57.555
<v Speaker 1>the minor leagues, goes to the All Star Game.

0:48:57.675 --> 0:48:58.995
<v Speaker 2>Cool, do it?

0:48:59.675 --> 0:49:03.275
<v Speaker 1>Just don't pretend it's not a gimmick. They've already created

0:49:03.275 --> 0:49:06.595
<v Speaker 1>a legends spot for the All Star Game for a

0:49:06.675 --> 0:49:10.195
<v Speaker 1>recognizable name. Or to Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers this year,

0:49:10.315 --> 0:49:12.755
<v Speaker 1>who was not good enough to make the actual team.

0:49:13.795 --> 0:49:18.475
<v Speaker 1>Have a rookie, have a bat boy, let him play

0:49:18.555 --> 0:49:22.515
<v Speaker 1>left field, have some guy out of the stands. What's

0:49:22.555 --> 0:49:28.395
<v Speaker 1>the difference. There's only seven million people watching. Just go

0:49:28.475 --> 0:49:31.275
<v Speaker 1>with it. Just say, we put Jacob Miserowski on the team,

0:49:31.475 --> 0:49:34.675
<v Speaker 1>so maybe you will buy a replica Jacob Miseerowski All

0:49:34.715 --> 0:49:37.355
<v Speaker 1>Star uniform. And we didn't put Wan Soto on the

0:49:37.395 --> 0:49:41.195
<v Speaker 1>team because you already bought a Wan Sodo replica uniform.

0:49:42.515 --> 0:49:45.395
<v Speaker 1>As a baseball historian, my problem is the game has

0:49:45.435 --> 0:49:48.955
<v Speaker 1>always tried to protect its young players, not rush them,

0:49:49.115 --> 0:49:53.635
<v Speaker 1>especially not rush them into the spotlight, especially its young pitchers.

0:49:54.675 --> 0:49:57.875
<v Speaker 1>Before Paul Skeens last year, the record for fewest games

0:49:57.915 --> 0:50:00.635
<v Speaker 1>played or pitched in before going to the All Star

0:50:00.715 --> 0:50:03.435
<v Speaker 1>Game for the first time was by Mark the Bird Fidrich,

0:50:03.715 --> 0:50:06.715
<v Speaker 1>the famous I talked to the baseball before I throw

0:50:06.755 --> 0:50:10.715
<v Speaker 1>it pitcher of the nineteen seventy six Detroit Tigers. Thirteen

0:50:10.835 --> 0:50:13.955
<v Speaker 1>games was all he'd played in the major leagues, and

0:50:14.035 --> 0:50:17.755
<v Speaker 1>he went and started the All Star Game. Fidrich was

0:50:17.795 --> 0:50:20.355
<v Speaker 1>injured the next year and was never close to an

0:50:20.355 --> 0:50:25.515
<v Speaker 1>All Star pitcher again, except for fleeting, painful innings two

0:50:25.635 --> 0:50:27.955
<v Speaker 1>or three at a time before his arm would go

0:50:28.035 --> 0:50:33.635
<v Speaker 1>bad again. Hideo Nomo, the Japanese Tornado, tied that record

0:50:33.635 --> 0:50:36.955
<v Speaker 1>of seven to fourteen games in nineteen ninety five. Within

0:50:37.075 --> 0:50:40.555
<v Speaker 1>three years, he had flamed out. The Los Angeles Dodgers

0:50:40.635 --> 0:50:44.995
<v Speaker 1>traded him to the Mets, and worst of all, when

0:50:44.995 --> 0:50:46.995
<v Speaker 1>they traded him to the Mets, they rented him the

0:50:47.035 --> 0:50:52.155
<v Speaker 1>apartment next to mine. Can you imagine anything worse than that?

0:50:53.555 --> 0:50:56.955
<v Speaker 1>The next fewest games was Dontreil Willis of the two

0:50:56.955 --> 0:51:00.035
<v Speaker 1>thousand and three Florida Marlins, and he is now, oh

0:51:00.075 --> 0:51:02.395
<v Speaker 1>my goodness, there is something worse than that. He is

0:51:02.435 --> 0:51:05.875
<v Speaker 1>now on the pregame show for Fox Sports Shorts, which

0:51:05.915 --> 0:51:11.595
<v Speaker 1>isn't quite hell, but it is at minimum purgatory. I mean,

0:51:11.635 --> 0:51:15.595
<v Speaker 1>have you ever heard of Harry Krouse? Harry Krouse was

0:51:15.635 --> 0:51:18.955
<v Speaker 1>a rookie with the nineteen hundred and nine Philadelphia A's

0:51:18.955 --> 0:51:21.595
<v Speaker 1>and they didn't have an annual All Star Game then.

0:51:21.675 --> 0:51:24.595
<v Speaker 1>But if they did, and these people of today were

0:51:24.635 --> 0:51:27.435
<v Speaker 1>running baseball, then Harry Kross would have started the nineteen

0:51:27.475 --> 0:51:30.835
<v Speaker 1>oh nine All Star Game. In his first fifteen starts

0:51:30.835 --> 0:51:33.315
<v Speaker 1>in the nineteen oh nine season, Harry Krouse had an

0:51:33.315 --> 0:51:37.915
<v Speaker 1>ERA of under one point zero zero. Harry Krouse won

0:51:38.515 --> 0:51:43.555
<v Speaker 1>fourteen of those fifteen games. He threw seven shutouts. He

0:51:43.635 --> 0:51:46.155
<v Speaker 1>won four of those games by a score of one

0:51:46.235 --> 0:51:50.555
<v Speaker 1>to nothing. His first fifteen starts, he wins four one

0:51:50.595 --> 0:51:53.555
<v Speaker 1>to nothing games and throws seven shutouts and goes fourteen

0:51:53.635 --> 0:51:58.315
<v Speaker 1>and one, and somewhere during game thirteen or fourteen, he

0:51:58.395 --> 0:52:00.795
<v Speaker 1>heard something in his arm or his shoulder. And he

0:52:00.835 --> 0:52:03.915
<v Speaker 1>would pitch in just fifty one more major league games

0:52:03.915 --> 0:52:05.635
<v Speaker 1>in his life than he was back in the miners.

0:52:05.675 --> 0:52:10.715
<v Speaker 1>Three years after his extraordinary run happens to hitters two.

0:52:11.555 --> 0:52:14.435
<v Speaker 1>They didn't have top one hundred prospects lists in nineteen

0:52:14.515 --> 0:52:17.275
<v Speaker 1>sixty six, but Jackie Warner of the Angels would have

0:52:17.315 --> 0:52:19.755
<v Speaker 1>been on them before the season began. He hit seventy

0:52:19.795 --> 0:52:22.475
<v Speaker 1>five homers in his first three minor league seasons. He

0:52:22.595 --> 0:52:25.035
<v Speaker 1>made the sixty six Angels as their opening day right

0:52:25.075 --> 0:52:28.595
<v Speaker 1>fielder and On April fourteenth, in just his second big

0:52:28.675 --> 0:52:31.435
<v Speaker 1>league game, the Angels and the White Sox were tied

0:52:31.475 --> 0:52:34.075
<v Speaker 1>one to one in the ninth and Jackie Warner homered

0:52:34.555 --> 0:52:37.555
<v Speaker 1>off future All Star Joe Horland to win the game

0:52:37.555 --> 0:52:40.635
<v Speaker 1>for the Angels two to one in the ninth. Two

0:52:40.715 --> 0:52:43.315
<v Speaker 1>days later, the Angels were losing in the seventh and

0:52:43.435 --> 0:52:46.315
<v Speaker 1>Jackie Warner hit a two run homer to beat All

0:52:46.355 --> 0:52:49.115
<v Speaker 1>Star Mudcat Grant in the Minnesota Twins three to two.

0:52:49.715 --> 0:52:52.315
<v Speaker 1>On the twenty third, in his seventh big league game,

0:52:52.635 --> 0:52:55.755
<v Speaker 1>Jackie Warner homered again in the eighth to beat future

0:52:55.795 --> 0:52:58.275
<v Speaker 1>All Star Jim Merritt and the Twins four to three,

0:52:58.555 --> 0:53:03.835
<v Speaker 1>three late game winning homers in his first seven games,

0:53:05.235 --> 0:53:07.915
<v Speaker 1>after fifteen games in the Major leagues, Jackie Warner had

0:53:07.955 --> 0:53:10.835
<v Speaker 1>five homers, thirteen runs batted in, and he was batting

0:53:10.875 --> 0:53:13.075
<v Speaker 1>three forty five. Would you have put him on the

0:53:13.115 --> 0:53:17.755
<v Speaker 1>All Star team today, he'd be leading off. They'd special

0:53:17.795 --> 0:53:20.195
<v Speaker 1>a rule in there so he could bat twice every inning,

0:53:20.875 --> 0:53:25.675
<v Speaker 1>and he'd be participating in the home run derby. Then

0:53:25.795 --> 0:53:29.395
<v Speaker 1>Jackie Warner hurt his hand. He only got sixty eight

0:53:29.435 --> 0:53:34.435
<v Speaker 1>more at bats in his life. He hit two eleven

0:53:34.755 --> 0:53:38.435
<v Speaker 1>for that season. After that great start, he was back

0:53:38.515 --> 0:53:41.835
<v Speaker 1>in the miners, having hit three game winning homers in

0:53:41.875 --> 0:53:44.195
<v Speaker 1>the first week of his life. He was back in

0:53:44.235 --> 0:53:48.595
<v Speaker 1>the miners before the first of August. Should I continue?

0:53:48.795 --> 0:53:51.795
<v Speaker 1>Billy Roar of the nineteen sixty seven Red Sox, who

0:53:51.835 --> 0:53:54.355
<v Speaker 1>was pitching a no hitter against the Yankees at Yankee

0:53:54.435 --> 0:53:56.755
<v Speaker 1>Stadium with two out in the ninth before he finally

0:53:56.755 --> 0:53:58.675
<v Speaker 1>gave up a single and had to settle for a

0:53:58.715 --> 0:54:01.995
<v Speaker 1>one hitter, a game so dominant that in those pre

0:54:02.195 --> 0:54:07.635
<v Speaker 1>satellite days, the sports director of Boston TV station Channel five,

0:54:08.395 --> 0:54:12.915
<v Speaker 1>Don Gillis, sent his intern to Logan Airport and had

0:54:12.915 --> 0:54:16.835
<v Speaker 1>the intern fly to New York to pick up a

0:54:16.955 --> 0:54:20.155
<v Speaker 1>copy of the video tape of the game. When the

0:54:20.235 --> 0:54:23.795
<v Speaker 1>videotape of the game weighed about thirty pounds, and carry

0:54:23.835 --> 0:54:28.035
<v Speaker 1>it with him back on the flight to Boston. The

0:54:28.075 --> 0:54:30.795
<v Speaker 1>tape that was made by a New York station fly

0:54:30.955 --> 0:54:33.755
<v Speaker 1>it back to Boston by hand so they could show

0:54:33.835 --> 0:54:36.675
<v Speaker 1>highlights of Billy Rohr on the eleven o'clock news, where

0:54:36.715 --> 0:54:40.595
<v Speaker 1>he was the lead story. A week later, Billy Rohor

0:54:40.675 --> 0:54:43.115
<v Speaker 1>went out and beat the Yankees again, six to one.

0:54:43.315 --> 0:54:46.315
<v Speaker 1>This time he struck out seven. His earned run averys

0:54:46.435 --> 0:54:49.155
<v Speaker 1>was zero point five to Zho he was two to zero.

0:54:49.315 --> 0:54:52.275
<v Speaker 1>He had a one hitter under his belt. Billy Roor

0:54:52.435 --> 0:54:55.755
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five would have started the All Star Game.

0:54:57.035 --> 0:55:01.235
<v Speaker 1>Problem was Billy Roor in nineteen sixty seven had already

0:55:01.315 --> 0:55:05.875
<v Speaker 1>won two thirds of all the games, would ever win.

0:55:08.195 --> 0:55:12.835
<v Speaker 1>You don't make somebody an All Star after three games,

0:55:13.475 --> 0:55:18.515
<v Speaker 1>or after one week, or after five games. You don't,

0:55:19.635 --> 0:55:23.595
<v Speaker 1>if for no other reason, then the pressure you put

0:55:23.635 --> 0:55:27.715
<v Speaker 1>on the kid. How do you know Jacob Mazerowski is

0:55:27.755 --> 0:55:32.315
<v Speaker 1>Paul Skeens. How do you know Paul Skens is Paul Skeans?

0:55:32.435 --> 0:55:35.235
<v Speaker 1>How do you know they're not both Billy Rorer or

0:55:35.275 --> 0:55:40.675
<v Speaker 1>Harry Krouse. They have always made spots for rookies who

0:55:40.675 --> 0:55:43.875
<v Speaker 1>have established themselves in the majors. Lots of rookies on

0:55:43.915 --> 0:55:46.435
<v Speaker 1>the All Star team. I've just cited a few examples,

0:55:46.475 --> 0:55:49.955
<v Speaker 1>even though they all went down in flames. On the

0:55:49.955 --> 0:55:53.795
<v Speaker 1>other hand, that idea of being established in the majors

0:55:53.915 --> 0:55:56.635
<v Speaker 1>had to be undisputed. If you were iffy, if there

0:55:56.635 --> 0:55:59.275
<v Speaker 1>were holes in your game, no you didn't go to

0:55:59.275 --> 0:56:03.955
<v Speaker 1>the All Star Game. Nolan Ryan, have you heard of

0:56:03.955 --> 0:56:06.555
<v Speaker 1>Nolan Ryan broke in with the New York Mets in

0:56:06.595 --> 0:56:11.795
<v Speaker 1>nineteen sixty six. His first All Star Game was in

0:56:11.875 --> 0:56:15.755
<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy two. And guess what his first All Star

0:56:15.835 --> 0:56:19.315
<v Speaker 1>game The debut of Nolan Ryan at the All Star

0:56:19.355 --> 0:56:21.875
<v Speaker 1>Game in his sixth big league season. Yeah, make him

0:56:21.915 --> 0:56:26.435
<v Speaker 1>wait another three years, six seasons of waiting, Compared to

0:56:26.475 --> 0:56:31.675
<v Speaker 1>Jacob Mazerowski's five games in the nineteen seventy two All

0:56:31.715 --> 0:56:36.275
<v Speaker 1>Star Game. They didn't even let Nolan Ryan pitch to

0:56:36.315 --> 0:56:44.875
<v Speaker 1>one batter. Also dateline Saint Louis on a more serious subject,

0:56:45.435 --> 0:56:47.755
<v Speaker 1>if you know a big league sports play by play

0:56:47.875 --> 0:56:50.635
<v Speaker 1>man baseball or otherwise, pardon him if he's a little

0:56:50.715 --> 0:56:58.835
<v Speaker 1>jumpy today, because it has begun. The simulcast era has begun.

0:57:00.155 --> 0:57:03.275
<v Speaker 1>The Saint Louis Blues have dismissed their twenty year veteran

0:57:03.315 --> 0:57:07.435
<v Speaker 1>play by play man, John Kelly, himself the son of

0:57:07.515 --> 0:57:09.995
<v Speaker 1>their twenty year Hall of Fame play by play man

0:57:10.115 --> 0:57:12.075
<v Speaker 1>Dan Kelly, as great a play by play man, with

0:57:12.115 --> 0:57:15.475
<v Speaker 1>as much of a big game sound as anybody in

0:57:15.515 --> 0:57:20.235
<v Speaker 1>any sport in any time. The wisdom of firing John

0:57:20.315 --> 0:57:26.515
<v Speaker 1>Kelly is one issue, but it is largely except to

0:57:26.715 --> 0:57:29.675
<v Speaker 1>those of us who compulsively watch hockey games three and

0:57:29.795 --> 0:57:32.995
<v Speaker 1>four a night. It's largely contained to Saint Louis and

0:57:33.035 --> 0:57:35.155
<v Speaker 1>the fans of the Blues, so we'll put it aside

0:57:35.155 --> 0:57:38.235
<v Speaker 1>for a moment. The bigger picture is who is going

0:57:38.275 --> 0:57:43.955
<v Speaker 1>to replace John Kelly. The answer is nobody. The Blues

0:57:44.035 --> 0:57:47.475
<v Speaker 1>are going to do a simulcast, have the same play

0:57:47.475 --> 0:57:51.915
<v Speaker 1>by play done on radio and TV. The radio guys

0:57:51.955 --> 0:57:55.075
<v Speaker 1>will do the games and they'll just put it out

0:57:55.115 --> 0:57:58.955
<v Speaker 1>with pictures on it. And this matters because it is

0:57:59.075 --> 0:58:02.555
<v Speaker 1>inevitable that this will happen almost everywhere in this country

0:58:03.515 --> 0:58:08.395
<v Speaker 1>soon or late. This is just the start. This is

0:58:08.595 --> 0:58:12.115
<v Speaker 1>just the first shock, and usually it will be the

0:58:12.115 --> 0:58:20.035
<v Speaker 1>more expensive announcer who gets the nice note. Sports play

0:58:20.075 --> 0:58:22.555
<v Speaker 1>by play on radio has been shrinking ever since TV

0:58:22.715 --> 0:58:24.755
<v Speaker 1>was introduced in the nineteen forties, but it's always had

0:58:24.755 --> 0:58:27.435
<v Speaker 1>a foothold because it wasn't like you could watch TV

0:58:27.555 --> 0:58:30.115
<v Speaker 1>when you weren't near the TV or anything like I

0:58:30.115 --> 0:58:37.995
<v Speaker 1>had a TV on your phone or something. Oops. The

0:58:38.035 --> 0:58:40.395
<v Speaker 1>beginning of the end probably came when a few years

0:58:40.435 --> 0:58:45.115
<v Speaker 1>ago ESPN gave up on ESPN Radio. I may have

0:58:45.155 --> 0:58:48.275
<v Speaker 1>mentioned once or twice that I helped found ESPN Radio.

0:58:48.515 --> 0:58:50.795
<v Speaker 1>This was a shock to me. I didn't realize it

0:58:50.835 --> 0:58:53.835
<v Speaker 1>was going to be this bad. ESPN Radio still exists,

0:58:53.835 --> 0:58:57.395
<v Speaker 1>but they basically don't run it anymore at ESPN. Four

0:58:57.475 --> 0:59:00.475
<v Speaker 1>years ago they sold their ESPN stations in New York,

0:59:00.595 --> 0:59:03.475
<v Speaker 1>LA and Chicago, and two years ago they farmed out

0:59:03.595 --> 0:59:06.595
<v Speaker 1>the whole network and the running of it to an

0:59:06.675 --> 0:59:10.555
<v Speaker 1>outside company. The outside company runs it now. ESPN Radio

0:59:10.755 --> 0:59:13.955
<v Speaker 1>is just a brand name. It has nothing more really

0:59:13.995 --> 0:59:17.355
<v Speaker 1>to do with ESPN than a sweatshirt with ESPN printed

0:59:17.355 --> 0:59:22.115
<v Speaker 1>on it. There will probably always be separate local radio

0:59:22.155 --> 0:59:26.075
<v Speaker 1>sports casts for hockey, baseball, and basketball play by play

0:59:26.115 --> 0:59:31.355
<v Speaker 1>in the biggest cities New York, LA, Chicago, and well

0:59:31.355 --> 0:59:33.595
<v Speaker 1>maybe just New York, LA and Chicago as I think

0:59:33.635 --> 0:59:40.515
<v Speaker 1>of it, Philadelphia maybe. And listen to those radio broadcasts sometime,

0:59:41.675 --> 0:59:46.595
<v Speaker 1>listen to the sponsorships, the commercials, and ask yourself, how

0:59:46.635 --> 0:59:48.515
<v Speaker 1>on the hell are they making any money on this.

0:59:49.715 --> 0:59:53.955
<v Speaker 1>I will not mention the broadcast or the sport, but

0:59:54.035 --> 0:59:57.235
<v Speaker 1>there is an excellent radio play by play team whose

0:59:57.315 --> 1:00:05.155
<v Speaker 1>games are sponsored sponsored with multiple commercials every game that

1:00:05.275 --> 1:00:13.235
<v Speaker 1>treats Pyroney's disease. I swear Pyroney's disease. And if you

1:00:13.315 --> 1:00:17.475
<v Speaker 1>don't know what I'm talking about, google it. If you

1:00:17.635 --> 1:00:21.315
<v Speaker 1>dare by yourself when nobody else can see you googling it,

1:00:22.555 --> 1:00:24.355
<v Speaker 1>don't say I didn't warn you, And don't say that

1:00:24.715 --> 1:00:29.635
<v Speaker 1>with these blues from Saint Louis. But nothing symbolizes the

1:00:29.675 --> 1:00:32.475
<v Speaker 1>future of play by play sports on the radio more

1:00:32.595 --> 1:00:44.635
<v Speaker 1>than does Pyrone's disease to the number one story on

1:00:44.675 --> 1:00:47.995
<v Speaker 1>this all new episode of the Countdown podcast. And somebody

1:00:48.195 --> 1:00:52.235
<v Speaker 1>asked me the other day my favorite joke I ever

1:00:52.355 --> 1:00:55.995
<v Speaker 1>told on the air. Since I've just crossed the threshold

1:00:56.035 --> 1:01:01.155
<v Speaker 1>of forty six years on the air, there were a

1:01:01.195 --> 1:01:04.075
<v Speaker 1>lot of jokes. I mean, holy cow, I covered George Bush.

1:01:04.275 --> 1:01:07.675
<v Speaker 1>That's eight years of jokes right there, to say nothing

1:01:07.715 --> 1:01:13.595
<v Speaker 1>of Scarborough and Matthews. Seriously, since this is the greatest

1:01:13.635 --> 1:01:19.595
<v Speaker 1>possible excuse to reuse old material that you probably have

1:01:19.715 --> 1:01:22.755
<v Speaker 1>not heard before, let me just do a few of them,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'll start with sports. The best joke that it

1:01:26.315 --> 1:01:29.475
<v Speaker 1>was ever done to me, remaining one of my favorite

1:01:29.475 --> 1:01:32.875
<v Speaker 1>episodes in my entire history, was done by the late

1:01:32.915 --> 1:01:36.035
<v Speaker 1>Bill Robinson, who was the right fielder of the New

1:01:36.075 --> 1:01:38.955
<v Speaker 1>York Yankees in nineteen sixty seven and nineteen sixty eight,

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<v Speaker 1>and later had a distinguished career with the Pittsburgh Pirates,

1:01:42.715 --> 1:01:45.755
<v Speaker 1>mostly also the Phillies, and who was managing in nineteen

1:01:45.835 --> 1:01:49.155
<v Speaker 1>ninety six the Reading Phillies, their farm team in the

1:01:49.235 --> 1:01:52.715
<v Speaker 1>Eastern League. And I wrote Bill for an autograph on

1:01:52.755 --> 1:01:55.275
<v Speaker 1>a baseball card that I needed to complete a set,

1:01:55.395 --> 1:01:58.835
<v Speaker 1>and he wrote back saying, I'm sending you this demanding

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<v Speaker 1>that you give my team a tour of ESPN as

1:02:03.315 --> 1:02:06.955
<v Speaker 1>we drive past. We go right past it on one

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<v Speaker 1>road trip to New Britain, the New Britain Red Sox

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<v Speaker 1>as they were formerly known, later the Hardware City Rock Cats.

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<v Speaker 1>I swear that's what they called the team. Hey, we're

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<v Speaker 1>in Hardware City. You want to mention that publicly anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>He said, we drive past it all the time. We

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<v Speaker 1>could just stop off and get the Nickel Tour, but

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<v Speaker 1>that's the price. But he said, if you give us

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<v Speaker 1>the Nickel Tour, I will let you be my bench

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<v Speaker 1>coach for a game at New Britain, and you can

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<v Speaker 1>wear a uniform and you can hang with the players,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'll actually have you do coach kind of stuff

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<v Speaker 1>and you can sit in the dugout and watch a

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<v Speaker 1>game with me and these guys. And we have a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of guys who'll be pretty good players, one of

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<v Speaker 1>whom was named Scott Roland, who was a third baseman

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<v Speaker 1>who is now in Baseball's Hall of Fame. That's how

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<v Speaker 1>long ago this happened. So we arranged this, and I

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<v Speaker 1>report to the Beehive, the home of the New Britain

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<v Speaker 1>Red Sox, then the Hardware City rock Cats, for God's sakes,

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<v Speaker 1>and they give me a uniform. And the only guy

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<v Speaker 1>on the team is a picture named Wayne Gomes, the

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<v Speaker 1>only guy with shoes big enough to fit my giant boats.

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<v Speaker 1>And they give me a cap somewhere, and I'm wearing

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<v Speaker 1>I think uniform number forty seven. Of course, there are

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<v Speaker 1>no pictures of this. We didn't think to send a camera.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't even think to bring a disposable cardboard camera

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<v Speaker 1>to get a shot of me in uniform. I'm actually somewhere.

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<v Speaker 1>I am listed as the bench coach of the Redding

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<v Speaker 1>Phillies of the Eastern League for one day, so it

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<v Speaker 1>was a lot of fun. It was a great evening

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<v Speaker 1>and I gained tremendous perspective. And later on, when Terry Francona,

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<v Speaker 1>then the manager of the Red Sox, twice, invited me

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<v Speaker 1>to sit with him on the bench during spring training games.

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<v Speaker 1>I had an idea of what to expect and how

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<v Speaker 1>to conduct myself, and it was educational beyond belief in

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<v Speaker 1>terms of my understanding of the game and what the

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<v Speaker 1>players and how come players never ever, ever would understand

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<v Speaker 1>that the game might seem slow from outside the field.

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<v Speaker 1>You miss fifty percent of the boredom if you're in

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<v Speaker 1>the dugout. It goes by like a basketball game, like

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<v Speaker 1>a rocket ship going back and forth from one side

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<v Speaker 1>of the field to the other. In any event, comes

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<v Speaker 1>the seventh inning and we've been sitting there and I

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<v Speaker 1>don't even remember who was leading or who was trailing,

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<v Speaker 1>or what the score was or what happened in the game.

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<v Speaker 1>But it was then that the actual purpose of my

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<v Speaker 1>being in the uniform of the Reading Phillies that day

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<v Speaker 1>was revealed to me. I was sitting between two Freading

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<v Speaker 1>Phillies players. I think they were Doug Angelie and Matt Giuliano.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure. I know it was Matt, and they

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<v Speaker 1>were engaging me in conversation. And these are two really

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<v Speaker 1>nice guys. And sports interviewers, and they had all sorts

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<v Speaker 1>of questions, and then at some point one of them

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<v Speaker 1>barks out at the umpire, Hunter Wendelstett, the son of

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<v Speaker 1>a veteran National League and they yell about a ball

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<v Speaker 1>and strike charge, and they hey, Blue, when are you

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<v Speaker 1>gonna get your guys on? Or where are you gonna

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<v Speaker 1>add your eyes? Or when when did they get installed?

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<v Speaker 1>Or so whatever it was, and Hunter Wendelstett calls time

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<v Speaker 1>out and walks over to our dugout and says, who

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<v Speaker 1>said that? And Doug Angelie and Matt Giuliano simultaneously point

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<v Speaker 1>to me, and Wendelsteat goes, you are out of the game.

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<v Speaker 1>The point of my being in a reading Phillies uniform,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks to my friend Bill Robinson, was to get me

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<v Speaker 1>ejected from a game. I didn't think they were serious

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<v Speaker 1>about it. And Robbie came over to me at one

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<v Speaker 1>point and says, you'll have to go. He's actually throwing

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<v Speaker 1>you out. And I said, I'm going to get my

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<v Speaker 1>money's worth. And I ran out onto the field and

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<v Speaker 1>started screaming at Hunter Wendel's stead. And no one could

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<v Speaker 1>hear this. They just saw me offering him my glasses,

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<v Speaker 1>the standard insult the umpire trick that was invented by

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<v Speaker 1>some manager in the year eighteen ninety two, and screaming

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<v Speaker 1>at him. What are I screaming at him? Was you're

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<v Speaker 1>a very good umpirere strike zone has been consistent throughout

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<v Speaker 1>this game. You're gonna make the major leagues despite the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that you're a NEPO higher although we didn't use

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<v Speaker 1>that term. Then blah blah blah, and you're gonna be great.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm just coming out here to make sure that

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<v Speaker 1>everybody knows that I'm not putting up with getting thrown

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<v Speaker 1>out of the game, no matter how good an umpire

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<v Speaker 1>you are. And then I left, and I thank you

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<v Speaker 1>and good night, and off I storm to some applause.

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<v Speaker 1>I might add that might have been applause because I

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<v Speaker 1>was getting thrown out of the game. So that was

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<v Speaker 1>my favorite favorite joke. It is followed up by two punchlines.

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<v Speaker 1>Number one, Hunter Wendelstett and I have gone back and

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<v Speaker 1>forth about this story. I don't know how many times

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<v Speaker 1>in the ensuing twenty nine years. But one day I

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<v Speaker 1>had not seen him in all that time, and one

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<v Speaker 1>day I was at Yankee Stadium in the front row

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<v Speaker 1>before the game started early in the season of twenty ten,

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<v Speaker 1>twenty eleven, and Wendelstett is the home plate umpire, now

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<v Speaker 1>a veteran major league umpire because he was a good umpire,

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<v Speaker 1>just as I predicted, he made the major leagues. And

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<v Speaker 1>there he was, and he's standing there surveying Yankee Stadium

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<v Speaker 1>packed with forty five thousand fans, and I'm sitting there,

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<v Speaker 1>standing there behind the screen. He doesn't see me. And

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<v Speaker 1>as soon as the anthem ends, and he's just surveying

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<v Speaker 1>the scene that he's in charge of as the home

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<v Speaker 1>plate umpire and can't start without him, I suddenly scream revenge, revenge,

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<v Speaker 1>Wendelstad's revenge. And he came over and he looked at me,

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<v Speaker 1>and suddenly he realized it was me and burst into laughter.

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<v Speaker 1>And now the game does not start on time because

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<v Speaker 1>he's coming over to talk to me. And I said,

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<v Speaker 1>go umpire, your damn game, and he said, come see

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<v Speaker 1>me in the in the in the umps room afterwards,

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<v Speaker 1>and a couple of times during the game brought me

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<v Speaker 1>over foul balls and things. He said, I know you're

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<v Speaker 1>a collector. Here take this. It was a lot of fun.

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<v Speaker 1>But the big punch line to this is Scott Roland,

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<v Speaker 1>the aforementioned future Hall of Famer all of the nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>ninety six Reading Phillies, now seven eight years later, is

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<v Speaker 1>playing for the Saint Louis Cardinals by this point, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>it's ten years later, and I see him approaching me

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<v Speaker 1>on the field, I think at Yankee Stadium. I think

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<v Speaker 1>it was an interleague game. And he came to me

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<v Speaker 1>and he said, very matter of fact, a dry, dead

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<v Speaker 1>pan kind of guy, and all he had done. I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't even know that he'd noticed. I was in the dugout.

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<v Speaker 1>He was the superstar in waiting. He didn't need Doug

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<v Speaker 1>Angelie and Matt Giuliano, he didn't need Bill Robinson. He

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<v Speaker 1>was on his way to Cooperstown. He stood in that

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<v Speaker 1>dugout and all he did was practice his golf swing,

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<v Speaker 1>I swear, and then he got up and banged out

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<v Speaker 1>three or four hits. No need whatsoever for the rest

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<v Speaker 1>of the Eastern League. They were just there as props

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<v Speaker 1>for Scott Roland. I didn't know he even saw it.

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<v Speaker 1>And he walked up to me and said, matter of factly,

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<v Speaker 1>where was it when you were on our team as

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<v Speaker 1>a coach, and they arranged to have you thrown out

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<v Speaker 1>for arguing balls and strikes and Hunter Wendelstead threw you out.

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<v Speaker 1>Was that in Reading? Was that in Connecticut? Where was it?

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<v Speaker 1>And I said, well, it was when you were with

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<v Speaker 1>Redding and it was in New Britain and he said ah,

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<v Speaker 1>I said, yeah, it was ninety six. He says, highlight

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<v Speaker 1>of my year nineteen ninety six you getting thrown out

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<v Speaker 1>of that game. I said, Scott, that was the year

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<v Speaker 1>you got called up to the big leagues for the

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<v Speaker 1>first time. And he said, deadpan, like I said, highlight

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<v Speaker 1>of my year. My best sports joke pertains to not

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<v Speaker 1>the Redding a Phillies, but the Philadelphia Phillies. This is

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty six or nineteen eighty seven, and the Atlanta

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<v Speaker 1>Braves had an outfielder named Albert Hall who didn't play

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<v Speaker 1>very often, but played mostly because he was phenomenally fast,

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<v Speaker 1>and in the days when they still did things like this,

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<v Speaker 1>when they were still enough non pitchers on a baseball

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<v Speaker 1>team to have pinch runners, he was basically a professional

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<v Speaker 1>pinch runner and defensive substitute for the Atlanta Braves. And

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<v Speaker 1>so one day he's in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's actually going to take ann at bat, and

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<v Speaker 1>we are watching in the tiny, cramped sports office the

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<v Speaker 1>closet at KTLA in Los Angeles, of which I am

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<v Speaker 1>the twenty seven or twenty eight year old sports director,

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<v Speaker 1>and we like to watch the games on satellite. We

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<v Speaker 1>like to watch the whole games. It may have had

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<v Speaker 1>something to do with the fact that we were all

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<v Speaker 1>in a couple of fantasy baseball leagues and we sort

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<v Speaker 1>of produced this four minute sportscast on the side. That

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<v Speaker 1>might have been a little factor in why we watched

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<v Speaker 1>all these games live when other networks and stations were

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<v Speaker 1>content to just accept a one minute feed from New York.

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<v Speaker 1>But we're watching this meaningless Braves Phillies game, and in

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<v Speaker 1>the seventh inning or so, Albert Hall, the light hitting

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<v Speaker 1>outfielder of the Braves, hits a really tough ground ball

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<v Speaker 1>into the hole at shortstop. Steve jelts On, also light

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<v Speaker 1>hitting defensive specialists from the Phillies, who they were convinced

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<v Speaker 1>for decades it seems, would be the next superstar would

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<v Speaker 1>be the Scott Rowland of the nineteen eighties, is playing

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<v Speaker 1>at shortstop hitting two O six and he goes after

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<v Speaker 1>this ball deep in the hole, and as he nears it,

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<v Speaker 1>he rolls, he falls, He dives to get this ball

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<v Speaker 1>and in one motion rights himself and does a spin move,

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<v Speaker 1>backing up in his own direction. It was as great

1:11:36.835 --> 1:11:40.075
<v Speaker 1>a defensive play as I've ever seen. He never really

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<v Speaker 1>got into the air, but that was the only thing missing.

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<v Speaker 1>It was almost a platform dive to get this ball.

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<v Speaker 1>And he picked the ball up and through Albert Hall,

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<v Speaker 1>who was running his legs off to get to first base,

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<v Speaker 1>threw him out by half an inch. And the word

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<v Speaker 1>came to my mind, the lyric from the most perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>quoted lyrics of all Beatles songs came to my mind,

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<v Speaker 1>and I blurted out that play has to be in

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<v Speaker 1>our show tonight. We have to run that highlight. And

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<v Speaker 1>everybody in the room looked at me and it was

1:12:13.795 --> 1:12:16.035
<v Speaker 1>like a man It was a good play. But when

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<v Speaker 1>we weren't even playing, planning to play any of the

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<v Speaker 1>Brave Firate Phillies high rade, nobody cares about this game,

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<v Speaker 1>don't you know? Now we know how many roles it

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<v Speaker 1>takes to foil the Albert Hall. It was creative genius,

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<v Speaker 1>if I must say so myself. And while I was

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<v Speaker 1>basking in the laughter that followed, the youngest guy in

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<v Speaker 1>the room was an intern named Benji. And Benji was

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<v Speaker 1>I suppose eighteen or nineteen years old at that point,

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<v Speaker 1>just starting college. And he looked at me like I

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<v Speaker 1>was from outer space. He said, what do you mean?

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<v Speaker 1>I said, the Beatles Day in the Life. Now we

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<v Speaker 1>know how many rules it takes to phil Yeah, all

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<v Speaker 1>there how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

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<v Speaker 1>Albert Hall. Everybody who saw Albert Hall play for the

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<v Speaker 1>Atlanta Braves thought of Day in the Life by the Beatles.

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<v Speaker 1>And this guy says the Beatles, and he says, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>the band Paul McCartney was in before wings itself the

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<v Speaker 1>oldest joke in the world, even in nineteen eighty six

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<v Speaker 1>or eighty seven. Only he meant it. Needless to say,

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<v Speaker 1>I was terrified that when we got on the air

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<v Speaker 1>that I'd blow the joke, but I didn't. Now we

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<v Speaker 1>know how many roles it takes to foil the Albert Hall.

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<v Speaker 1>I was also once challenged by the other sportscaster I

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<v Speaker 1>worked with in radio when the Dodgers traded their second

1:13:51.115 --> 1:13:54.915
<v Speaker 1>baseman Steve Lopes and turned over second base to a

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<v Speaker 1>rookie named Steve Sachs. We used to start our sportscast,

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<v Speaker 1>and Charlie Steiner was my boss at the RCAO Radio network,

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<v Speaker 1>and he used to incur just to do like a

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<v Speaker 1>title line, a clever headline, and then say, I'm Keith

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<v Speaker 1>Olderman with sports, unless you weren't Keith Olderman, so you

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<v Speaker 1>say blah blah blah blah blah, I'm Keith Oulderman with sports,

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<v Speaker 1>and I wrote Dodgers sack Lopes see sacks as seasoned

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<v Speaker 1>senior circuit second sacker. And the other sportscaster in the

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<v Speaker 1>room bet me five dollars. I couldn't say that without

1:14:29.475 --> 1:14:33.555
<v Speaker 1>turning one of those words into an unfortunate, scatological or

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<v Speaker 1>anatomical term. I may still have the five dollars. There

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<v Speaker 1>was one more sports joke worthy of mentioning before we

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<v Speaker 1>get to the all time greatest joke, which was a

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<v Speaker 1>news joke on the twenty second of November nineteen ninety

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<v Speaker 1>American Thanksgiving, and the use of that term will tell

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<v Speaker 1>you I'm about to talk about hockey. The Edmonton Oilers

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<v Speaker 1>were short a goaltender. They made a trade on American Thanksgiving,

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<v Speaker 1>or announced it on American Thanksgiving to get a goaltender

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<v Speaker 1>from the Minnesota north Stars, who the Minnesota north Stars,

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<v Speaker 1>who don't exist anymore. They're now the Dallas Stars. The

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<v Speaker 1>Minnesota north Stars had an extra goalie and they just

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<v Speaker 1>sent them to the Miners and they traded a defenseman

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<v Speaker 1>named Bell for this goalie. And we were at now

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<v Speaker 1>KCBS in Los Angeles and my producer and I sitting

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<v Speaker 1>there on Thanksgiving with absolutely nothing going on other than

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<v Speaker 1>college football games, which invariably bored me to tears, and

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<v Speaker 1>previews of college football games, and one or two NFL

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<v Speaker 1>games involving, as always, the last place Detroit Lions against

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<v Speaker 1>whoever was going to beat them by thirty five points,

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<v Speaker 1>and the first place, but in those days, last place

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<v Speaker 1>Dallas Cowboys, who were about to be beaten by thirty

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<v Speaker 1>five points. And this came across the wire and I said,

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<v Speaker 1>this is the lead story, and the producer said what

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<v Speaker 1>I said, The Minnesota north Stars have just traded goaltender

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<v Speaker 1>Carrie Taco to the Edmonton Oilers for defenseman Bruce Bell,

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<v Speaker 1>And as the producer laughed, I said, it's our lead

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<v Speaker 1>story it's the taco bell trade, to which the producer

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<v Speaker 1>to his everlasting credit, and I had a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>problems with him, but he earned himself a lifetime job

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<v Speaker 1>with me because of what he said next. He said,

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<v Speaker 1>the taco bell trade. He's not Joe player anymore. That's

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<v Speaker 1>the best sports joke, and I promptly stole it from him.

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<v Speaker 1>But the best of all the jokes was an MSNBC joke, which,

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<v Speaker 1>speaking of stolen, was stolen entirely from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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<v Speaker 1>I saw this joke for the first time, I believe,

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<v Speaker 1>when I was a senior in high school. We're coming

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<v Speaker 1>up on the fiftieth reunion, it's now just a month

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<v Speaker 1>and a half away.

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<v Speaker 2>And I heard this.

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<v Speaker 1>Joke in high school. Well, the first time I heard it,

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<v Speaker 1>laughed every time I've seen it since, and my laughter

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<v Speaker 1>has grown into deep appreciation because it's a joke about

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<v Speaker 1>television industry, the television news industry, and the cliches of

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<v Speaker 1>people on television, and it is perfect. And I will

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<v Speaker 1>read you the joke as it appeared on Monty Python.

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Palin is presenting the host of a kind of

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<v Speaker 1>TV magazine show, a news light show it's this in

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<v Speaker 1>Nova Scotia today. Palin, as the host, says, mister roy

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<v Speaker 1>Bent of North Walsham in Norfolk, became the first man

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<v Speaker 1>to cross the Atlantic on a tricycle. His tricycle, especially

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<v Speaker 1>adapted for the crossing, was ninety feet long, with a

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<v Speaker 1>protective steel hull, three funnels, seventeen first class cabins, and

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<v Speaker 1>a radar scanner. At this point on the screen behind Palin,

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<v Speaker 1>a head and shoulders picture of roy Bent eric idol

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<v Speaker 1>in a fisherman's head and rain spattered glasses appears. And

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<v Speaker 1>here comes the joke. Palin says, mister Bent is in

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<v Speaker 1>our Durham studios, which is rather unfortunate, as we're all

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<v Speaker 1>down here in London. I laughed for five minutes. I

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<v Speaker 1>still laugh often that long, because the construction of that sentence,

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<v Speaker 1>such and such our guest is in our studios in

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<v Speaker 1>Los Angeles, is in our studios in Katmandu, is in

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<v Speaker 1>our studios in Durham, demands at some point somebody say,

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<v Speaker 1>which is kind of too bad, because none of the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of us are. And they did it, and they

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<v Speaker 1>did it in nineteen seventy four, and for years, anytime

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<v Speaker 1>somebody would write a script for me that included an introduction,

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<v Speaker 1>as often the writers did. They did the introductions and

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<v Speaker 1>maybe the outline of some questions for some of the guests,

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<v Speaker 1>and somebody wrote, whoever it was, Dana Millbank is in

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<v Speaker 1>our Washington studios, I would go, which is rather unfortunate,

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<v Speaker 1>as we're all here in New Jersey. Well, finally, for

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<v Speaker 1>some reason, I asked one of our veteran correspondents on

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

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<v Speaker 1>if they would participate in this that we'd do a

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<v Speaker 1>whole segment about something, and I would then introduce him,

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<v Speaker 1>and we'd get the two box with me in one

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<v Speaker 1>corner him in the other, and I would do the joke,

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<v Speaker 1>and then we'd say goodbye, and then come back to

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<v Speaker 1>him later and actually do the real interview. So I

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<v Speaker 1>got to say, and I think it was my late

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<v Speaker 1>friend Howard Feinneman, but it might have been Gene Robinson,

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<v Speaker 1>and I said, mister Fyneman is in our Washington studios,

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<v Speaker 1>which is rather unfortunate as we're all up here in

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<v Speaker 1>New York. The joke was so good, not my version

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<v Speaker 1>of it, but the original one that you can see

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Palin having to stop himself from cracking up, as

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<v Speaker 1>he says, the joke a joke in which you legitimately

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<v Speaker 1>crack up because it's so funny. That's a joke, an

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<v Speaker 1>all time joke, which is rather unfortunate. As we're all

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<v Speaker 1>down here in London. I've done all the damage I

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<v Speaker 1>That's Countdown for today. Day one hundred and seventy six

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<v Speaker 1>of America held hostage again and just one two hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and eighty seven days until the scheduled end of his

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<v Speaker 1>lame duck and lame brained term, unless Putin removes him sooner,

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<v Speaker 1>does by accident. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Until then,

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