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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump

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Speaker 1: won handily in Iowa last night looks like around fifty percent,

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Speaker 1: Hailey around twenty percent, But the real headline is he

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Speaker 1: also used Iowa to remind us that, if returned to power,

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Speaker 1: he has no intention of giving it up when his

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Speaker 1: term would expire in twenty twenty nine. First, the win

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Speaker 1: as metaphor. He celebrated and boasted in Clive, Iowa, while

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Speaker 1: the future cried in pain. And we did a job late. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: nobody has done a long long We didn't have terrorists,

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Speaker 1: we didn't have people polling into it. That baby is

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Speaker 1: us all now about Trump's implication that he would stay

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Speaker 1: four years and beyond, which barely earned a PostScript in

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Speaker 1: the media's interminable self congratulatory surface skim from the Caucuses

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Speaker 1: last night and Sunday, because first, the horror of the

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Speaker 1: thing is more than your average political reporter can accept,

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Speaker 1: because that person still lives in the world of He's

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Speaker 1: not going to eat my face. And secondly, because of

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Speaker 1: what is either Trump's mental deficiency or his greatest skill,

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Speaker 1: he phrased this thing so vaguely that his remarks at

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Speaker 1: Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa were plausibly deniable except for

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Speaker 1: one small detail. I made the commitment. Then we kept

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Speaker 1: anything to say about it, and that we have a

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Speaker 1: good chance of saying for four years, we'll have a

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Speaker 1: lot to say about it. Four years and beyond four

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Speaker 1: years and beyond in power, four years and beyond in

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Speaker 1: influencing whether Iowa goes first in the GOP primary, Mary

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Speaker 1: something else. It is that sleight of hand of ambiguity,

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Speaker 1: the Trump loophole, and we know exactly where on Trump

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Speaker 1: here at least the ambiguity is irrelevant. Whatever he said

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Speaker 1: in Indianola, he means four years and beyond in power.

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Speaker 1: Because remember, after Bill Barr whitewashed the Muller Report for him,

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Speaker 1: he floated the idea that two years should be added

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Speaker 1: because he had been thwarted, And when that did not fly,

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Speaker 1: he said that the election could go ahead as scheduled

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Speaker 1: against the two term limit because he'd been hoaxed. Since

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Speaker 1: he lost in twenty twenty, he has repeatedly said the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election should be held earlier because the

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Speaker 1: last one was so unfair to him, and we aren't

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Speaker 1: even two weeks out from one. One of his lawyers

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Speaker 1: bluntly stated that so what if he'd been disqualified under

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Speaker 1: the insurrection clause of the fourteenth Amendment? He should still

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Speaker 1: be president because the people said so. It should be

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Speaker 1: the entire nation who determines who they want for president,

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Speaker 1: whether they're guilty of insurrection or not. It's up to

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Speaker 1: the people. That was Christina Bob on the third of

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Speaker 1: this month. And if you put all of it together,

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Speaker 1: it is Trump saying not just the fourteenth Amendment does

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Speaker 1: not apply to him, but the twenty second Amendment limiting

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Speaker 1: And Article two of the Constitution scheduling a presidential election

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Speaker 1: not just declaring himself above those laws, but he's signaling

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Speaker 1: all of it clearly to his cult and yet fuzzing

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Speaker 1: it up just enough that he doesn't get arrested. Moreover,

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Speaker 1: it is clearer now than it has ever been, even

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Speaker 1: when he talked about terminating the entire Constitution, that if

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Speaker 1: returned to power, Trump will not again make what he

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Speaker 1: now clearly views as the biggest mistake of his presidency,

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Speaker 1: which was leaving office. He will be what he thinks

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Speaker 1: what the rest of the world thinks is a dictator

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Speaker 1: until he dies. To get him out of there, we

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Speaker 1: will have to go in and get him. This cannot

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Speaker 1: be hammered home too often. This cannot be campaigned on

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Speaker 1: too often. This cannot be the entirety of a Biden

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Speaker 1: out there every day with simmering rage, so often and

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Speaker 1: Times notices it. Trump's strategy is to manipulate the laws,

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Speaker 1: and manipulate the Constitution, and manipulate the courts, and regain

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Speaker 1: means of removing him, and to enforce his will with

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Speaker 1: violence dressed up as law and order and democracies. Strategy

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Speaker 1: in return, is, to paraphrase the ex Republican Congressman Peter Meyer,

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Speaker 1: to wait for Trump to die. Sure that outcome is satisfying.

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Speaker 1: Sure some of his supporter's whistling past graveyards is satisfying,

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Speaker 1: like the Maga idiot who boasted yesterday about how manly

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Speaker 1: And sure it's satisfying that the answer to the question

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Speaker 1: hundred and six. And sure, some of his blunders and

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Speaker 1: real change in the odds here. Waiting for him to die, nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: ain't a strategy. He has visions of firing every federal

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Speaker 1: official who is not personally loyal to him. He wants

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Speaker 1: He wants to invoke the Insurrection Act, maybe on day one,

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Speaker 1: and he wants to use the military to slaughter his opponents.

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Speaker 1: We have visions of really big protests and a strongly

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Speaker 1: worded letter to the editor that Jeff Bezos doesn't publish. Oh,

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Speaker 1: and he is still stochastically terrorizing the justices of the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court about the cases about his eligibility that is

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Speaker 1: coming before them Simpson College, Sunday. We're going to make

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Speaker 1: those decisions very soon, and I hope they do the

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Speaker 1: Court justice who he appointed for life, well, obviously the

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Speaker 1: Trump threat is to end that life if the threat

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Speaker 1: against him is not disturbing enough. Trump long ago entered

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Speaker 1: the pre messianic phase of all this, in which the

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Speaker 1: idea that others should willingly die so he can live

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Speaker 1: becomes something he can say aloud. Again, his actual skill

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Speaker 1: is ambiguity. This demand that Iowa caucus goers go despite

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Speaker 1: blizzards and hypothermia and death could be dismissed as hyperbole,

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Speaker 1: as humor, accept listen to it carefully. Trump seems to

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Speaker 1: have stopped trying to sell the ambiguous option that this

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Speaker 1: is quote humor. You must go caucus tomorrow for in

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Speaker 1: the first step. We're at a first step. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: do it. We're going to do a big and gun

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Speaker 1: the young You can't sit home if he's sick as

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Speaker 1: political science fiction outcomes long since postulated by those of

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Speaker 1: us wondering what the surprise twist ending to this nightmare

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Speaker 1: timeline could be involves Trump finally going too far, even

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Speaker 1: Is there such a thing as Trump going too far?

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Speaker 1: If he went full Jim Jones, if he did to

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Speaker 1: them literally what he did to that idiot vivek Ramaswami figuratively. Here,

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Speaker 1: I spilled mine. If he did that, would that stop them?

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Speaker 1: Would the full Colligula stop him? You know where he

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Speaker 1: declares himself a living God. Would that turn the cult

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Speaker 1: God as we are one movement, one people, one family,

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Speaker 1: and one glorious nation under God. Again, Trump in Iowa

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Speaker 1: and by the way Trump uses the word God, the

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Speaker 1: or is supposed to me. It's like dogs. He has

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Speaker 1: have to produce id to buy groceries. If you do

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Speaker 1: that doesn't talk, sooner or later you will say something

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Speaker 1: different invoking of the Insurrection Act, under which he canceled

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Speaker 1: Haley was careful not to endorse Trump yesterday, careful not

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Speaker 1: Trump has given them what he gives their cult voters

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Speaker 1: as well, power and more importantly, power to be rewarded

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Speaker 1: for being terrible people. Then, speaking of terrible people, Dean Phillips,

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Speaker 1: who is putting him in the most positive light possible?

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Speaker 1: Who is the dog in the bowler hat? In the

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Speaker 1: this is Fine fire meme? Dean Phillips held a Twitter

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Speaker 1: x Space's conversation with Elon Musk and the Harvard ignored me,

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to burn it down, guy Bill Ackman.

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Speaker 1: And in this Phillips mused about giving the two of

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Speaker 1: He thought this because apparently it's important to mister Phillips

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Speaker 1: HARP to rig the Iowa Caucus looks like weather manipulation

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Speaker 1: to me. HARP is a program HAARP at the University

427
00:30:46,515 --> 00:30:48,835
Speaker 1: of Alaska. It was formerly at the Department of Defense.

428
00:30:48,875 --> 00:30:51,955
Speaker 1: It studies the upper part of the atmosphere, the ionosphere,

429
00:30:52,035 --> 00:30:55,755
Speaker 1: and naturally. Because it's fairly complicated and you probably have

430
00:30:55,875 --> 00:30:59,635
Speaker 1: to not be a moron like Laura Lumer to understand

431
00:30:59,675 --> 00:31:02,955
Speaker 1: the premise of it, she and the other paranoids think

432
00:31:02,955 --> 00:31:08,115
Speaker 1: it is used to con control the weather. Two things

433
00:31:08,115 --> 00:31:11,355
Speaker 1: about people like her always strike me. First, this is

434
00:31:11,355 --> 00:31:14,555
Speaker 1: akin to what I said earlier about Marge Green. If

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00:31:14,595 --> 00:31:18,035
Speaker 1: they do believe that Joe Biden has the controls in

436
00:31:18,075 --> 00:31:22,275
Speaker 1: his hands to manipulate the weather, why do they think

437
00:31:22,315 --> 00:31:25,155
Speaker 1: he would keep this quiet rather than just say you

438
00:31:25,235 --> 00:31:27,515
Speaker 1: will do what I say, or you will get eight

439
00:31:27,555 --> 00:31:31,675
Speaker 1: feet of snow tomorrow? Or more positively, why wouldn't he

440
00:31:31,715 --> 00:31:34,555
Speaker 1: send rainstorms to put out wildfires and then take all

441
00:31:34,555 --> 00:31:38,035
Speaker 1: the credit. But secondly, and more importantly, I'm seeing a

442
00:31:38,075 --> 00:31:42,555
Speaker 1: slight inconsistency here. Laura Lumer and the other clowns don't

443
00:31:42,555 --> 00:31:47,235
Speaker 1: believe in climate change or that humans can impact the climate,

444
00:31:47,515 --> 00:31:50,555
Speaker 1: even with centuries of pollution. But they do believe that

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00:31:50,635 --> 00:31:54,315
Speaker 1: the US government can control the weather and manipulate it

446
00:31:54,355 --> 00:31:58,435
Speaker 1: on a city by city basis on a few hours notice.

447
00:31:58,875 --> 00:32:05,155
Speaker 1: In other words, they're morons. Laura, Climate change is real,

448
00:32:05,635 --> 00:32:13,155
Speaker 1: Climate manipulation is real. Lumer. Two days, worst person in

449
00:32:13,195 --> 00:32:37,875
Speaker 1: the world, Mine and men and rain frog to the

450
00:32:37,955 --> 00:32:40,515
Speaker 1: number one story on the countdown and my favorite topic,

451
00:32:40,635 --> 00:32:44,595
Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. The website

452
00:32:44,715 --> 00:32:48,275
Speaker 1: The Athletic has reported that my old friends at ESPN

453
00:32:48,395 --> 00:32:53,515
Speaker 1: had for years been gaming the system at the Sports

454
00:32:53,675 --> 00:32:58,235
Speaker 1: Emmy Awards, bribing voters, now trying to push the voting

455
00:32:58,275 --> 00:33:01,715
Speaker 1: by nominating stories about the judges or about the places

456
00:33:01,715 --> 00:33:05,275
Speaker 1: they were from. Now otherwise tampering with the process of

457
00:33:05,315 --> 00:33:09,035
Speaker 1: who got nominated or who won, or anything like that. No,

458
00:33:10,235 --> 00:33:15,315
Speaker 1: their crime was adding to the list of nominees fictional names,

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00:33:15,875 --> 00:33:19,195
Speaker 1: so that if their shows won, they would be able

460
00:33:19,235 --> 00:33:22,795
Speaker 1: to get extra trophies that could be re engraved and

461
00:33:22,915 --> 00:33:26,115
Speaker 1: given to people who were not eligible to win those

462
00:33:26,195 --> 00:33:31,075
Speaker 1: Emmy Awards. Those people were the hosts and reporters of

463
00:33:31,155 --> 00:33:35,395
Speaker 1: the show. Rather incredibly, until the last few years, if

464
00:33:35,395 --> 00:33:38,155
Speaker 1: a network submitted one of its shows for Best Studio

465
00:33:38,235 --> 00:33:42,555
Speaker 1: Sportscast or one of several other categories, virtually everybody who

466
00:33:42,555 --> 00:33:46,275
Speaker 1: worked on the show was eligible. NBC won the Emmy

467
00:33:46,355 --> 00:33:49,915
Speaker 1: for the Outstanding Live Sports Special in twenty twenty two,

468
00:33:50,235 --> 00:33:54,075
Speaker 1: and NBC in its submission listed all the executives, the producers,

469
00:33:54,475 --> 00:33:59,915
Speaker 1: the directors, the associate producers, everybody down to the stage managers,

470
00:34:00,355 --> 00:34:07,675
Speaker 1: literally three hundred and sixty five different sportspeople, and if

471
00:34:07,675 --> 00:34:09,515
Speaker 1: they shelled out the money or if the network did

472
00:34:09,555 --> 00:34:13,475
Speaker 1: it for them, they all got an actual Emmy award,

473
00:34:14,595 --> 00:34:20,035
Speaker 1: not one anchor or reporter among them. Now, obviously this

474
00:34:20,155 --> 00:34:23,635
Speaker 1: concerns me far more than it does you. And don't

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00:34:23,635 --> 00:34:25,755
Speaker 1: get me wrong, I do not begrudge any of those

476
00:34:25,795 --> 00:34:28,795
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five winners their Emmys, including the

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00:34:28,915 --> 00:34:31,555
Speaker 1: nine stage managers. And it looks like I worked with

478
00:34:31,635 --> 00:34:34,595
Speaker 1: like three of them and they were great. Counting them up,

479
00:34:34,635 --> 00:34:38,075
Speaker 1: I saw literally dozens of names of friends and former colleagues,

480
00:34:38,115 --> 00:34:41,915
Speaker 1: and they were all great. But the National Academy of

481
00:34:41,955 --> 00:34:45,275
Speaker 1: Television Arts and Sciences did not permit adding even just

482
00:34:45,355 --> 00:34:49,355
Speaker 1: the lead anchors and reporters from the twenty twenty two

483
00:34:49,355 --> 00:34:53,435
Speaker 1: Olympics or any other nominated Best Show if they were

484
00:34:53,595 --> 00:34:58,235
Speaker 1: on the air. The official explanation for this curiosity was

485
00:34:58,475 --> 00:35:02,915
Speaker 1: they didn't want anybody quote double dipping getting an award

486
00:35:02,955 --> 00:35:07,715
Speaker 1: for Best Anchor, Best Reporter and getting another Emmy if

487
00:35:07,755 --> 00:35:12,515
Speaker 1: the show they were anchoring one best show. There are

488
00:35:12,675 --> 00:35:16,275
Speaker 1: just five different categories for people on the air in

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00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:19,275
Speaker 1: the Sports Emmys. That's it. Three hundred and sixty five

490
00:35:19,395 --> 00:35:22,435
Speaker 1: Emmys were given out to the producers and stage managers

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00:35:22,435 --> 00:35:25,955
Speaker 1: from the Olympics, and five were given out to all

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00:35:26,035 --> 00:35:28,835
Speaker 1: the people on the air at the Olympics on the

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00:35:28,955 --> 00:35:33,635
Speaker 1: NBA broadcasts, football play by play, sportscenters, postgame shows, pardon

494
00:35:33,675 --> 00:35:39,355
Speaker 1: the interruptions, baseball, curling, darts, whatever. Now, practically speaking, that

495
00:35:39,475 --> 00:35:43,475
Speaker 1: is not literally true because of the ESPN dodge, which

496
00:35:43,475 --> 00:35:45,675
Speaker 1: I will grant is hilarious and which I'll get to

497
00:35:45,715 --> 00:35:47,995
Speaker 1: in a moment. But there was also the dodge used

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00:35:48,035 --> 00:35:52,195
Speaker 1: by MLB Network and other operations over the years. In

499
00:35:52,235 --> 00:35:55,755
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, when it show MLB Tonight won the Emmy

500
00:35:55,795 --> 00:36:00,235
Speaker 1: for Best Daily Live Sports Series, MLB Network submitted the

501
00:36:00,315 --> 00:36:04,595
Speaker 1: name of sixty three different producers. Among them were Great

502
00:36:04,675 --> 00:36:08,075
Speaker 1: Big Am Singer, and that's a coincidence. There's also a

503
00:36:08,115 --> 00:36:11,435
Speaker 1: Greg Amsinger who was the primary anchor of MLB Tonight.

504
00:36:11,875 --> 00:36:16,275
Speaker 1: And then there's a producer named Bob Costas huh, and

505
00:36:16,355 --> 00:36:20,755
Speaker 1: another producer named Peter Gavins. And my friends Ron Darling

506
00:36:20,835 --> 00:36:25,035
Speaker 1: producer and ex Yankees manager, Joe Girardi producer and Harold

507
00:36:25,075 --> 00:36:28,355
Speaker 1: Reynolds producer who I've known for thirty three years, and

508
00:36:28,475 --> 00:36:33,195
Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of famers Maedro Martinez producer and Jim Tomy producer.

509
00:36:33,555 --> 00:36:36,395
Speaker 1: Why once nearly ran over with a golf cart in Arizona,

510
00:36:36,435 --> 00:36:39,995
Speaker 1: But I'll tell that story some other time. Heydro Martinez,

511
00:36:40,315 --> 00:36:43,675
Speaker 1: who I got started in television at Turner in twenty thirteen,

512
00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:48,155
Speaker 1: won an Emmy in twenty twenty as a producer of

513
00:36:48,315 --> 00:36:51,275
Speaker 1: MLB Tonight, not as an analyst, because you couldn't give

514
00:36:51,275 --> 00:36:55,595
Speaker 1: an Emmy to an analyst, even if he was the

515
00:36:55,635 --> 00:36:59,355
Speaker 1: best thing on MLB Tonight, if he was. No Emmy's

516
00:36:59,395 --> 00:37:01,995
Speaker 1: for those lousy talent. Didn't they get enough honors as

517
00:37:01,995 --> 00:37:03,995
Speaker 1: it is, We're given out five of them and money.

518
00:37:04,035 --> 00:37:07,075
Speaker 1: Don't they get all of money? And you know what,

519
00:37:07,195 --> 00:37:10,715
Speaker 1: that's fine too. From my first day in television August third,

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00:37:10,835 --> 00:37:15,475
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, somewhere around one two pm, the fourth

521
00:37:15,595 --> 00:37:18,275
Speaker 1: or fifth hour of my television career, I thought, and

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00:37:18,315 --> 00:37:20,555
Speaker 1: I think I said it aloud to the producer, that

523
00:37:20,675 --> 00:37:24,635
Speaker 1: I did not understand why anybody would work in television

524
00:37:24,675 --> 00:37:28,475
Speaker 1: if they were not on the air. If the job

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00:37:28,675 --> 00:37:32,995
Speaker 1: fills the yawning maw of your insatiable ego, you know,

526
00:37:33,195 --> 00:37:37,115
Speaker 1: like it does mine, that's great, makes sense. Being on

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00:37:37,195 --> 00:37:39,555
Speaker 1: TV has given purpose to the lives of lots of

528
00:37:39,635 --> 00:37:42,595
Speaker 1: us who would otherwise have spent our entire lives just

529
00:37:42,675 --> 00:37:46,395
Speaker 1: standing in front of a mirror, talking to ourselves, maybe

530
00:37:46,395 --> 00:37:49,955
Speaker 1: holding a microphone as we did so, a microphone that

531
00:37:50,115 --> 00:37:55,315
Speaker 1: was not plugged into anything. But there are only two

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00:37:55,355 --> 00:37:58,235
Speaker 1: things that ever bring any attention to these Sports Emmy

533
00:37:58,315 --> 00:38:02,115
Speaker 1: Awards and the News Emmys and the Entertainment Emmys. How

534
00:38:02,155 --> 00:38:05,715
Speaker 1: many awards go to each network? And who won those

535
00:38:05,875 --> 00:38:11,155
Speaker 1: five little awards for best Sports Personalities. Maybe once in

536
00:38:11,195 --> 00:38:14,195
Speaker 1: a while, an unlikely show will win for Best Studio Show,

537
00:38:14,435 --> 00:38:16,395
Speaker 1: and it will get a little attention on Twitter for

538
00:38:16,475 --> 00:38:20,555
Speaker 1: like three hours, But otherwise nobody writes up those three

539
00:38:20,675 --> 00:38:23,755
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five different trophies given out to NBC's

540
00:38:23,795 --> 00:38:28,075
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two Olympic non on air staff. And I

541
00:38:28,075 --> 00:38:30,275
Speaker 1: think there is a little hypocrisy here because the on

542
00:38:30,315 --> 00:38:34,235
Speaker 1: air people are used for publicity such as it is,

543
00:38:35,195 --> 00:38:37,715
Speaker 1: while there was this horrible fear that they might win

544
00:38:37,835 --> 00:38:42,355
Speaker 1: too many awards for just one show, or that adding

545
00:38:42,395 --> 00:38:44,195
Speaker 1: them to the list of the real nominees would make

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00:38:44,195 --> 00:38:46,715
Speaker 1: the lists too long. I mean, three hundred and sixty

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00:38:46,755 --> 00:38:50,355
Speaker 1: five Olympic Emmy Award winners is just right, but three

548
00:38:50,475 --> 00:38:56,235
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five would have been a nightmarish embarrassment. Anyway. Finally,

549
00:38:56,275 --> 00:38:59,875
Speaker 1: to the Athletic report on how ESPN gained the system

550
00:38:59,955 --> 00:39:04,275
Speaker 1: until the rule about quote talent unquote was changed for

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00:39:04,835 --> 00:39:07,515
Speaker 1: leave twenty twenty three. I'll quote a part of the

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00:39:07,555 --> 00:39:12,395
Speaker 1: Athletic story. The Emmy administrators quote uncovered a scheme that

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00:39:12,435 --> 00:39:15,115
Speaker 1: the network used to acquire more than thirty of the

554
00:39:15,195 --> 00:39:20,475
Speaker 1: coveted statuettes for on air talent ineligible to receive them

555
00:39:21,115 --> 00:39:25,475
Speaker 1: since at least twenty ten. ESPN inserted fake names in

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00:39:25,515 --> 00:39:28,355
Speaker 1: Emmy entries, then took the awards won by some of

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00:39:28,355 --> 00:39:32,315
Speaker 1: these imaginary individuals, had them re engraved, and gave them

558
00:39:32,355 --> 00:39:39,435
Speaker 1: to on air personalities. Oohoo. Describing this as fraud and

559
00:39:39,555 --> 00:39:43,715
Speaker 1: as ill gotten Emmys, Katie Strang of the Athletics somehow

560
00:39:43,755 --> 00:39:47,635
Speaker 1: managed to sleuth out this clever, almost indecipherable series of

561
00:39:47,915 --> 00:39:53,035
Speaker 1: immoral substitutions. Quoting her again, names similar to the names

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00:39:53,035 --> 00:39:56,795
Speaker 1: of on air personalities and with identical initials were listed,

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00:39:56,875 --> 00:40:02,115
Speaker 1: all under the title of associate producers. Miss Strang gave

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00:40:02,155 --> 00:40:04,435
Speaker 1: the fake names and then helpfully followed the fake names

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00:40:04,475 --> 00:40:08,115
Speaker 1: with parentheses which contained the real names of those evil

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00:40:08,195 --> 00:40:11,955
Speaker 1: talent who by fraud and deception and trickery and another

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00:40:12,075 --> 00:40:18,595
Speaker 1: disregard for the sacred sanctity of the Emmy Awards took

568
00:40:18,715 --> 00:40:23,235
Speaker 1: possession of young, unsuspecting and vulnerable trophies that they did

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Speaker 1: not deserve. Quote Kirk Henry parenthesis, Kirk Herbstreet, Lee Clark parenthesis,

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Speaker 1: Lee Corso, Dirk Howard parenthesis, Desmond Howard and Tim Richard parentheses,

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00:40:43,435 --> 00:40:50,435
Speaker 1: Tom Ronaldi, Stephen Ponder parentheses, Sam Ponder and Gene Wilson,

572
00:40:51,355 --> 00:40:56,275
Speaker 1: Gene Wojatowski, Chris Fulton, Chris Fowler, Tell Fowler, I can

573
00:40:56,275 --> 00:41:02,515
Speaker 1: hear him? And Shelley Saunders Shelley Smith. How did anyone

574
00:41:02,555 --> 00:41:07,515
Speaker 1: ever figure out these aliases reflective of evil masterminds at ESPN?

575
00:41:07,795 --> 00:41:11,755
Speaker 1: My god, did the athletic hire the World War Two

576
00:41:11,915 --> 00:41:15,595
Speaker 1: codebreakers from Bletchley Park? Who would have ever believed the

577
00:41:15,795 --> 00:41:21,235
Speaker 1: Dirk Howard and Desmond Howard were the same person? I

578
00:41:21,275 --> 00:41:24,675
Speaker 1: bet some of those crack MLB Tonight MLB Network producers

579
00:41:24,675 --> 00:41:28,155
Speaker 1: could have done that detective work. Producer Pedro Martinez perhaps,

580
00:41:28,635 --> 00:41:37,635
Speaker 1: or producer Jim Tomay or producer Bill Ripkin Cow's brother. Seriously,

581
00:41:37,675 --> 00:41:40,915
Speaker 1: don't those names seem a little too obvious? I mean,

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00:41:40,955 --> 00:41:43,435
Speaker 1: if you're trying to trick somebody into thinking the award

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00:41:43,515 --> 00:41:47,235
Speaker 1: is not for Sam Ponder? Why do you write, Steven Ponder?

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00:41:50,275 --> 00:41:53,555
Speaker 1: Somebody observed on social media that these names sound like

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00:41:53,595 --> 00:41:56,035
Speaker 1: the names in a sports video game when you can't

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00:41:56,035 --> 00:41:59,355
Speaker 1: get the rights to the real players' names. Why is

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00:41:59,395 --> 00:42:05,515
Speaker 1: the Kansas City quarterback named Patrick your Holmes. The Emmys

588
00:42:06,555 --> 00:42:09,235
Speaker 1: did not crack down on MLB network, as near as

589
00:42:09,275 --> 00:42:11,915
Speaker 1: I know anyway, It certainly wasn't mentioned in the athletic piece.

590
00:42:12,595 --> 00:42:14,995
Speaker 1: It did not crack down on MLB network listing all

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00:42:15,035 --> 00:42:17,395
Speaker 1: of its on air guys as producers so they could

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00:42:17,395 --> 00:42:21,035
Speaker 1: get trophies. Doesn't it seem plausible that the use of

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00:42:21,075 --> 00:42:24,195
Speaker 1: the phony names and phony is doing a lot of

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00:42:24,195 --> 00:42:27,075
Speaker 1: work in this sentence, the use of the barely phony

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00:42:27,155 --> 00:42:31,075
Speaker 1: names was the Emmy committee looking the other way as

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00:42:31,315 --> 00:42:33,315
Speaker 1: ESPN tried to get a couple of trophies for its

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00:42:33,355 --> 00:42:38,395
Speaker 1: reporters and anchors. I mean thirty over thirteen years, that's

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00:42:38,395 --> 00:42:41,755
Speaker 1: not a lot. The problem here is somebody at the

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00:42:41,795 --> 00:42:46,315
Speaker 1: Emme's found out called ESPN on it. ESPN made those

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00:42:46,395 --> 00:42:50,395
Speaker 1: on air people give the trophies back. And there is,

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00:42:51,155 --> 00:42:53,835
Speaker 1: at least in the Athletics article, the implication that maybe

602
00:42:53,875 --> 00:42:57,435
Speaker 1: a couple of producers were fired by ESPN for doing this.

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00:43:00,075 --> 00:43:03,435
Speaker 1: It's madness. And there are two other serious components to this,

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00:43:03,635 --> 00:43:05,355
Speaker 1: and obviously one of them is going to be about me.

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00:43:06,395 --> 00:43:10,675
Speaker 1: I have been nominated for like fifteen Emmys over the years,

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00:43:10,715 --> 00:43:16,075
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, local Sports Network, Sports Network News, I

607
00:43:16,115 --> 00:43:19,955
Speaker 1: have never won. I am the Susan Lucci of Sports

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00:43:20,075 --> 00:43:24,795
Speaker 1: and News Emmys. Actually that is a bad comp Susan

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00:43:24,875 --> 00:43:27,715
Speaker 1: Lucci finally won an Emmy in nineteen ninety nine. Me

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00:43:27,835 --> 00:43:33,195
Speaker 1: I am oh since nineteen eighty one. Now, there are

611
00:43:33,235 --> 00:43:36,715
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons for this, none of which really matters,

612
00:43:37,275 --> 00:43:40,035
Speaker 1: but the primary of which is roll of the dice.

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00:43:40,915 --> 00:43:44,275
Speaker 1: I got nominated against Bob Costas twice in three years

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00:43:44,315 --> 00:43:46,515
Speaker 1: in the nineties, and who's going to win that battle?

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00:43:46,715 --> 00:43:50,515
Speaker 1: He would he did. Then he came over sheepishly and

616
00:43:50,555 --> 00:43:53,395
Speaker 1: he apologized why the guys who are only on once

617
00:43:53,395 --> 00:43:55,155
Speaker 1: a week like me are pitted against the guys who

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00:43:55,195 --> 00:43:59,075
Speaker 1: are on every night like you. I can't understand if

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00:43:59,075 --> 00:44:01,235
Speaker 1: Bob had not been a great friend of mine before that.

620
00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:04,955
Speaker 1: He sealed it with that remark. On the other hand,

621
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of corruption in the Local Emmys.

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00:44:08,795 --> 00:44:11,955
Speaker 1: They are judged by panels in other cities, or at

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00:44:12,035 --> 00:44:14,275
Speaker 1: least they were when I was in local news, and

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00:44:14,395 --> 00:44:17,635
Speaker 1: in early nineteen eighty eight, apparently the news director of

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00:44:17,675 --> 00:44:22,275
Speaker 1: the NBC affiliated station in Toledo, Ohio found out that

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00:44:22,315 --> 00:44:26,075
Speaker 1: any voters in Toledo would be voting on that year's

627
00:44:26,115 --> 00:44:32,995
Speaker 1: awards for Los Angeles. So somebody thought, let's game this system.

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Speaker 1: The award submitted by KNBC in Los Angeles for Best

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Speaker 1: Sports Reporting for nineteen eighty eight was about Morgana, the

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00:44:40,835 --> 00:44:44,355
Speaker 1: Kissing Bandit, the buxom dancer who used to run onto

631
00:44:44,395 --> 00:44:47,555
Speaker 1: the field during baseball games and kiss the players, and

632
00:44:47,675 --> 00:44:54,115
Speaker 1: she lived in Toledo, Ohio. So sure enough, that year,

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00:44:54,155 --> 00:44:57,235
Speaker 1: the guy at CANBC in Los Angeles beat me out

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00:44:57,355 --> 00:45:00,835
Speaker 1: for Best Local TV Sports Reporting in Los Angeles because

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00:45:00,995 --> 00:45:06,555
Speaker 1: he had submitted a report consisting entire of Benny Hill's

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00:45:06,555 --> 00:45:10,675
Speaker 1: style sight gags in which Morgana, the Kissing Bandit of Toledo,

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Speaker 1: Ohio chased him around. All I had in my lousy

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Speaker 1: million dollars to Edmonton for Wayne Gretzky. Great report, loser,

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Speaker 1: I know, what kind of reporting is that compared to

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Speaker 1: MORGANA The Kissing Bandit So anyway, when they gave him

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Speaker 1: up and left. But I'm not a bad loser, just

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Speaker 1: a vengeful one one year I was really pissed about

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Speaker 1: not getting an Emmy. In nineteen ninety nine and two thousand,

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Speaker 1: in addition to five nights a week on the Fox

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Speaker 1: Cable version of Sports Center, I also hosted the pregame

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Speaker 1: of the week. These were, to say, the least arduous

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Speaker 1: a beautiful day in southern California, And it was made

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Speaker 1: doubly arduous by my analyst, Steve Lyons, as sleazy and

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Speaker 1: as disagreeable man as anybody with whom I have ever worked.

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Speaker 1: Steve Lyons made homophobic jokes on the air. He criticized

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Speaker 1: a Jewish player for not playing on Yam Kipper. He

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Speaker 1: implied a Latino manager had stolen his wallet. Later, his

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Speaker 1: career ended after a domestic battery charge. And when he

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Speaker 1: wasn't doing all that, Lions Mastered and Specialized in one

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Speaker 1: other thing complaining. I mean, the makeup artist on our

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Speaker 1: show once thanked me for never complaining, and I said,

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Speaker 1: but I complain all the time, and she said, not

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Speaker 1: even close anyway. Two years of this. The first year,

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, the winner for the Emmy for Best

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Speaker 1: Live Studio Sports Show was not SportsCenter, was not the

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Speaker 1: NFL Today on CBS. It was Fox MLB pregame me

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Speaker 1: and Lions. He did not get an Emmy. I did

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Speaker 1: not get an Emmy. The producers got emmys. To their credit.

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Speaker 1: The people at Fox said they were going to try

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Speaker 1: to get me one, and they did not succeed. It

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Speaker 1: was against the rules, and we had not thought of

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Speaker 1: the little bit of a dec here and putting me

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Speaker 1: in as an associate producer under the name Teeth Alderman.

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Speaker 1: The next year, two thousand, the winner for the Emmy

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Speaker 1: for the Best Studio Analyst was Steve Lyons. He got

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Speaker 1: an Emmy. My boss on the show said, not only

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Speaker 1: should I have gotten his Emmy, but quote, you should

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Speaker 1: have gotten a second one for carrying that buffoon on

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Speaker 1: your back every week. But personal whining aside. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: what would happen if I won an Emmy now for

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Speaker 1: some reason. I mean, you think anybody would ever remember that.

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Speaker 1: If I am remembered, it'll be for not ever winning

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Speaker 1: an Emmy. I keep coming back to this idea, finally

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Speaker 1: corrected in twenty twenty two, that the awards are for

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Speaker 1: the producers and not those whiny free madonnas the talent.

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Speaker 1: When I was twenty nine, I moved from one LA

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Speaker 1: TV station to another. In fact, it was just a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks after that Gretzky story that lost out

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Speaker 1: to MORGANA the Kissing Bandit. The news station was KCBS,

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Speaker 1: and I already knew everybody there because for three years

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Speaker 1: I had been popping by their station every day to

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Speaker 1: do afternoon drive sportscasts on their all news radio station,

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Speaker 1: and I had gotten to know and delight in knowing

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Speaker 1: the company of one of my fellow K and X

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Speaker 1: and soon to be KCBS sportscasters, Gil Stratton. Gil had

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Speaker 1: been the first sports guy on the local news in

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Speaker 1: LA in nineteen fifty four, and he did the by

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Speaker 1: play for the Rams games on the CBS network, and

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Speaker 1: they wanted him to move to New York to be

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Speaker 1: the face of CBS Sports are you kidding? Gil told them,

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Speaker 1: I'm from New York. Why would I leave LA to

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Speaker 1: move back to New York? In LA, Gil was the

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Speaker 1: star until he retired to Hawaii to run his own

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Speaker 1: radio station about nineteen seventy six. It didn't go well,

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Speaker 1: And now again we're in nineteen eighty eight. He was

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Speaker 1: back in LA, but at the bottom of the LA

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Speaker 1: Sports totem pole Saturday mornings on radio. He was the backups,

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Speaker 1: backup on television. And Gil did not care. Beats a

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Speaker 1: real job, he used to tell me with a smile. Plus,

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Speaker 1: I make more now in this building than I did

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Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, even adjusted for inflation. Anyway, if the

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Speaker 1: name Gil Stratton seems vaguely familiar to you, or maybe

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Speaker 1: more than vaguely, it was because he was also an actor.

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Speaker 1: I hope you have seen the movie Stalog seventeen, one

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Speaker 1: of the all time classics about prisoners in a World

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Speaker 1: War Two military prison camp in Germany. If you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen it, turn off the podcast, go watch the movie,

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Speaker 1: then come back to me. Stalag seventeen William Holden is

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Speaker 1: the star. His right hand man is Gil Stratton. Gil

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Speaker 1: was also in the Wild One with Marlon Brando and

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Speaker 1: in Girl Crazy with Judy Garland, in about two dozen

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Speaker 1: TV series, and he spent a year as a lead

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Speaker 1: join Channel two as sports director and nominally as Gill's boss,

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Speaker 1: Gil sat me down in the lunch room and said

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Speaker 1: he wanted to warn me about something you need to know.

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Speaker 1: He said that the executives here are the biggest bunch

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Speaker 1: of prima donnas I have ever seen. The general manager

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Speaker 1: sent me on an assignment for the station, and they

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Speaker 1: had gotten everything wrong. Wrong city, wrong building, wrong day,

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Speaker 1: wrong person to interview. When I got back and told

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Speaker 1: him I had managed to get him a spite all

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Speaker 1: the screw ups, but that was going to be it,

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Speaker 1: he burst into tears. Gil laughed, and while I'm at it,

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Speaker 1: you're young enough. Maybe you still believe that we are

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Speaker 1: the prima donnas. Take it from me. I've been doing

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Speaker 1: this and Hollywood and Broadway for forty seven years. The

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Speaker 1: producers and the studio executives and the TV executives have

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Speaker 1: created this fiction that we are all impossibly difficult to

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Speaker 1: work with, and we are all ego, and it's them.

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Speaker 1: They are the prima donnas. Listen, I rode motorcycles, Gil said,

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Speaker 1: with Brando, I chased girls with Holden. I kissed Judy

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Speaker 1: Garland flush on the lips. And they were all supposed

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Speaker 1: to be prima donnas. And none of them, not even

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Speaker 1: Judy Garland on her worst day, was as much of

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Speaker 1: a prima donna as the blasted general manager of this

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Speaker 1: television station. So needless to say, there is an existential

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Speaker 1: dispute here. We get the money and the fame, or

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Speaker 1: what's left of the money and the fame now that

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Speaker 1: television is dying in exchange for which we get all

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Speaker 1: the potshots. And the athletic piece about the fake names,

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Speaker 1: and I left out Eric Andrews, which apparently was code

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Speaker 1: for Aaron Andrews. They changed one letter genius. I mean,

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Speaker 1: as unsolvable as the sphinx. Who would ever know that

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Speaker 1: Eric Andrews was supposed to be Aaron Andrews. The athletic

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Speaker 1: piece about the fake name contained one anonymous pot shot

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Speaker 1: that really underscored the everlasting lie that Gil Stratton told

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Speaker 1: me about so many years ago. Quote. When asked why

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Speaker 1: people at the network would scheme to secure trophies for

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Speaker 1: on air talent, one person involved in the ESPN Emmy

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Speaker 1: submission process in recent years said quote, you have to

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Speaker 1: remember that those personalities are so important and they have egos.

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Speaker 1: Tell me again, who submitted a list of three hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty five NBC producers and directors and stage managers

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Speaker 1: for an Emmy for one Olympics. Was it Judy Garland

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Speaker 1: on her worst day? Or was it an off air

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Speaker 1: television executive. Spoiler alert, It wasn't Judy Garland. I've done

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Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown.

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Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip s Chanelle arranged, produced,

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Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars,

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Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including

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Speaker 1: some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by

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Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Ulderman

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Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy

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Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are

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Speaker 1: by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our

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Speaker 1: announcer today is my friend Larry David, and everything else

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Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this, the

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Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety fifth day until the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four US presidential election, and the one thousandth one and

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Speaker 1: six days since Dementia J. Trump's first attempted coup against

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Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of this nation. Use the Fourteenth Amendment,

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Speaker 1: the Insurrection Act, and the justice system to stop him

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Speaker 1: from doing it again while we still can. The next

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Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news warrants and

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Speaker 1: the voice permits. And it was pretty good today till

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Speaker 1: whenever I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,

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Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production

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Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

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