1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:21,755 --> 00:00:26,435 Speaker 1: So now finally we see what Elon Musk is doing 3 00:00:26,475 --> 00:00:30,995 Speaker 1: to Twitter and why to him. It turns out Twitter 4 00:00:31,155 --> 00:00:34,555 Speaker 1: is another CNN where fascists see a benchmark kind of 5 00:00:34,755 --> 00:00:38,075 Speaker 1: neutral media outlet, hate it and fear it because it 6 00:00:38,115 --> 00:00:43,555 Speaker 1: platforms criticism of fascists, bulwarks against fascism, and so they 7 00:00:43,595 --> 00:00:46,515 Speaker 1: simply buy it to mute it and turn it into 8 00:00:46,555 --> 00:00:49,475 Speaker 1: fascist propaganda while pretending they are merely defending what is 9 00:00:49,515 --> 00:00:54,595 Speaker 1: to them just another brand name called quote free speech unquote. 10 00:00:55,555 --> 00:00:59,435 Speaker 1: And finally, yesterday as the fight Musk picked with Apple 11 00:00:59,835 --> 00:01:03,115 Speaker 1: morphed into the fight Apple and Google nay, now pick 12 00:01:03,195 --> 00:01:07,555 Speaker 1: with him? These cats all leaped from the proverbial bag 13 00:01:07,995 --> 00:01:10,155 Speaker 1: because yesterday was also the day that two of the 14 00:01:10,195 --> 00:01:14,275 Speaker 1: most crass, most disingenuous, most venal Republican politicians in this 15 00:01:14,355 --> 00:01:20,595 Speaker 1: country leaped to defend one billionaire monopolist against a different 16 00:01:20,635 --> 00:01:24,635 Speaker 1: billionaire monopolist. It was the day the fascist began to 17 00:01:24,835 --> 00:01:30,755 Speaker 1: repay Elon Musk and free speech Incorporated. First would be 18 00:01:30,835 --> 00:01:39,195 Speaker 1: Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Stop Elon Musk, leave Fridney alone. Then 19 00:01:39,315 --> 00:01:43,395 Speaker 1: would be Republican presidential nominee Ron Descent and Elon Musk 20 00:01:43,475 --> 00:01:47,075 Speaker 1: knows that's not a winning formula, and so he's providing 21 00:01:47,115 --> 00:01:50,635 Speaker 1: free speech. Free speech, and Elon Musk in the same 22 00:01:50,715 --> 00:01:55,195 Speaker 1: sentence to Elon Musk, free speech is roughly equivalent to 23 00:01:55,235 --> 00:01:59,875 Speaker 1: meaning free sandwich with every twelve purchase. More of what 24 00:01:59,995 --> 00:02:02,915 Speaker 1: Dissantis and McCarthy said and what their involvement means for 25 00:02:02,955 --> 00:02:06,115 Speaker 1: the actual future of actual speech in this country and 26 00:02:06,195 --> 00:02:09,995 Speaker 1: the new Google and Twitter thing shortly, but there is 27 00:02:10,035 --> 00:02:13,075 Speaker 1: a second dimension to both the destruction of CNN and 28 00:02:13,115 --> 00:02:16,835 Speaker 1: the destruction in real time of Twitter, which became evident 29 00:02:16,915 --> 00:02:21,515 Speaker 1: yesterday that maybe what creatures like Musque are camouflaging when 30 00:02:21,515 --> 00:02:24,475 Speaker 1: they beat their chests so loudly about the brand name 31 00:02:24,515 --> 00:02:29,155 Speaker 1: that is quote free speech. When ultra conservative media Robert 32 00:02:29,195 --> 00:02:32,515 Speaker 1: Baron John Malone bought CNN and hired a hatchetman like 33 00:02:32,635 --> 00:02:35,715 Speaker 1: Chris Licked to gut its successful shows and push its 34 00:02:35,755 --> 00:02:39,155 Speaker 1: conservative talent, Malone didn't say I have money, so I'm 35 00:02:39,155 --> 00:02:43,035 Speaker 1: buying CNN to kill it. Malone first softened up the 36 00:02:43,075 --> 00:02:46,595 Speaker 1: target by saying CNN needed to get back to neutrality 37 00:02:46,715 --> 00:02:52,315 Speaker 1: like Brett Bears newscast, exactly the way Elon Musk bought 38 00:02:52,355 --> 00:02:55,955 Speaker 1: Twitter and said his presidential preferences someone quote sensible and 39 00:02:56,075 --> 00:03:01,675 Speaker 1: centrists like Rhondo Santis. The third example, by the way, 40 00:03:01,675 --> 00:03:04,555 Speaker 1: to complete the Brett Bear and Ron De Santis sub 41 00:03:04,715 --> 00:03:07,715 Speaker 1: said of whitewashed right wing extremists would be if either 42 00:03:07,795 --> 00:03:10,595 Speaker 1: Malone or Musk now said that they were really in 43 00:03:10,635 --> 00:03:13,395 Speaker 1: love with musicians and actors who just stayed out of politics, 44 00:03:13,555 --> 00:03:17,835 Speaker 1: like Ted Nugent and James Woods. Musk has in fact 45 00:03:17,915 --> 00:03:20,355 Speaker 1: gone a little further even than Malone, and I think 46 00:03:20,435 --> 00:03:23,235 Speaker 1: yesterday was a real watershed moment in understanding how and 47 00:03:23,275 --> 00:03:27,515 Speaker 1: why by buying Twitter and reinstating all the white supremacists 48 00:03:27,555 --> 00:03:32,315 Speaker 1: and anti Semits and misogynists and anti Baxers or all 49 00:03:32,315 --> 00:03:34,355 Speaker 1: of them at the same time like Trump, and claiming 50 00:03:34,355 --> 00:03:36,875 Speaker 1: that in doing so he was merely restoring free speech. 51 00:03:37,515 --> 00:03:40,515 Speaker 1: Like the CNN case, it's not just eliminating the liberal 52 00:03:40,555 --> 00:03:44,395 Speaker 1: content on a neutral media outlet. It is first positioning 53 00:03:44,435 --> 00:03:49,235 Speaker 1: that outlet as a dangerous, one sided, rigged plot against 54 00:03:49,275 --> 00:03:55,035 Speaker 1: the right, against justice, against freedom, and then claiming, just 55 00:03:55,115 --> 00:03:57,595 Speaker 1: like Malone and the New CNN, that Twitter two point 56 00:03:57,635 --> 00:04:04,035 Speaker 1: oh is centrist, balanced, corrective. It is moving the proverbial 57 00:04:04,195 --> 00:04:07,115 Speaker 1: over in window in a way never dreamt of before. 58 00:04:07,155 --> 00:04:09,675 Speaker 1: In Twitter's case, it's trying to tell four hundred million 59 00:04:09,835 --> 00:04:13,595 Speaker 1: users that what two months ago was the far right 60 00:04:13,995 --> 00:04:16,675 Speaker 1: is now the center, and what two months ago was 61 00:04:16,715 --> 00:04:21,035 Speaker 1: the center is now the far and dangerous left. Did 62 00:04:21,115 --> 00:04:25,035 Speaker 1: Musk design this play? Did he wildly overspend on Twitter 63 00:04:25,075 --> 00:04:30,235 Speaker 1: intentionally just to manipulate its politics? Did he plan this well? 64 00:04:30,275 --> 00:04:35,115 Speaker 1: Does anything Musk do look planned? It is entirely possible 65 00:04:35,115 --> 00:04:37,675 Speaker 1: and much less paranoid and much more in keeping with 66 00:04:37,715 --> 00:04:40,595 Speaker 1: the reputation Musk is building for himself as a fire 67 00:04:40,635 --> 00:04:44,075 Speaker 1: hose that the firefighters have lost control of. To assume 68 00:04:44,075 --> 00:04:46,995 Speaker 1: he did not plan this, that this was opportunistic, a 69 00:04:47,075 --> 00:04:53,955 Speaker 1: window of opportunity, and overton window of opportunity. Sorry to 70 00:04:54,075 --> 00:04:56,155 Speaker 1: the Apple and Google part of the story. Now the 71 00:04:56,195 --> 00:04:59,555 Speaker 1: Apple saga, I think you know quoting a Musk tweet. 72 00:04:59,635 --> 00:05:03,835 Speaker 1: Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate 73 00:05:03,875 --> 00:05:08,235 Speaker 1: free speech in America? Which is so stupid? It could 74 00:05:08,235 --> 00:05:11,835 Speaker 1: have been written by Sarah palin On behalf of Donald 75 00:05:11,875 --> 00:05:16,755 Speaker 1: Trump as the Spider Man. Writer Dan Slot replied, Hey, 76 00:05:16,835 --> 00:05:19,275 Speaker 1: Elon Musk, I want to start a new podcast if 77 00:05:19,315 --> 00:05:21,875 Speaker 1: you personally don't promise to give me a billion dollars 78 00:05:21,875 --> 00:05:25,195 Speaker 1: in advertising for it. You are stifling my free speech 79 00:05:25,355 --> 00:05:31,195 Speaker 1: and are supporting tyranny unquote. Not only applaud Mr Slot's response, 80 00:05:31,235 --> 00:05:33,595 Speaker 1: but I advise Musk that I will defend him on 81 00:05:33,595 --> 00:05:36,315 Speaker 1: this subject for half a billion dollars in advertising on 82 00:05:36,355 --> 00:05:42,395 Speaker 1: this podcast Your turn again. Sorry so. Musk also claims 83 00:05:42,435 --> 00:05:45,115 Speaker 1: Apple is threatening to remove the Twitter app from its 84 00:05:45,155 --> 00:05:48,475 Speaker 1: app store and disingenuously claims they won't tell him why, 85 00:05:48,475 --> 00:05:51,715 Speaker 1: when it's obvious it's about Musk dissolving, you know, all 86 00:05:51,835 --> 00:05:55,475 Speaker 1: content moderation and restoring the worst of the wild West 87 00:05:55,515 --> 00:05:58,315 Speaker 1: attitudes that the site needed years to find a way 88 00:05:58,355 --> 00:06:02,995 Speaker 1: to tame, and Apples stopping advertising is hardly unprecedented in 89 00:06:02,995 --> 00:06:06,515 Speaker 1: this last month of mayhem. Media Matters reported that half 90 00:06:06,515 --> 00:06:10,315 Speaker 1: of Twitter's top one hundred advertisers bailed out during this 91 00:06:10,435 --> 00:06:14,955 Speaker 1: past month alone, after, as another Twitter put it, fragile, 92 00:06:15,035 --> 00:06:20,875 Speaker 1: narcissist buys criticism factory. Musk, the super genius businessman, knows 93 00:06:20,915 --> 00:06:24,195 Speaker 1: exactly how to get those advertisers back, of course, threaten 94 00:06:24,275 --> 00:06:29,315 Speaker 1: them his next battle. His next threat may involve Google. 95 00:06:29,995 --> 00:06:34,195 Speaker 1: Axios reported yesterday that Google, quote like Apple, enforces content 96 00:06:34,275 --> 00:06:37,875 Speaker 1: moderation policies for app eligibility in its Google Play Store, 97 00:06:38,195 --> 00:06:41,435 Speaker 1: which serves Android devices, but as if now, the company 98 00:06:41,435 --> 00:06:44,515 Speaker 1: has yet to contact Twitter about any potential violations or issues, 99 00:06:44,715 --> 00:06:49,475 Speaker 1: a source told Axios. Still, the source said Google is 100 00:06:49,755 --> 00:06:55,915 Speaker 1: monitoring developments around content moderation changes at the company. Twitter 101 00:06:56,475 --> 00:07:00,515 Speaker 1: end quote. It is conceivable Apple or Google or both 102 00:07:00,595 --> 00:07:04,475 Speaker 1: could drop the Twitter app. The virtual monopolies or practical 103 00:07:04,675 --> 00:07:07,235 Speaker 1: coopolies tend to give the benefit of the doubt to 104 00:07:07,315 --> 00:07:11,675 Speaker 1: other virtual monopolies or practical duopolies. In short, corporations stick 105 00:07:11,795 --> 00:07:15,275 Speaker 1: up for the other corporations. But for right now, Musk 106 00:07:15,395 --> 00:07:18,595 Speaker 1: is suddenly the latest poster boy for Republican self martyrdom 107 00:07:18,675 --> 00:07:23,715 Speaker 1: over the quote free speech unquote brand name. The GOP 108 00:07:24,155 --> 00:07:27,595 Speaker 1: is the party of bitching and moaning and self identifying 109 00:07:27,635 --> 00:07:31,955 Speaker 1: as the real victim here. So Musk's florid hyperbole about 110 00:07:31,995 --> 00:07:34,835 Speaker 1: how whether or not somebody gives him a billion dollars 111 00:07:34,835 --> 00:07:37,395 Speaker 1: in ad money is a battle full the future of 112 00:07:37,435 --> 00:07:42,275 Speaker 1: civilization is exactly what fascists like Kevin McCarthy and Rhonda 113 00:07:42,355 --> 00:07:47,075 Speaker 1: Santis want to be asked about by the media. Yesterday, 114 00:07:47,155 --> 00:07:50,715 Speaker 1: somebody went so far as to team McCarthy up even 115 00:07:50,755 --> 00:07:53,715 Speaker 1: more perfectly than just a simple question. The question he 116 00:07:53,795 --> 00:07:57,235 Speaker 1: was asked was about the government looking at what Twitter 117 00:07:57,395 --> 00:08:01,595 Speaker 1: is doing about disinformation and reopening its Pandora's box. The 118 00:08:01,635 --> 00:08:05,115 Speaker 1: government looking at Twitter, and McCarthy was able to turn 119 00:08:05,235 --> 00:08:09,475 Speaker 1: the Umbridge machine up to eleven. That is offensive to me. 120 00:08:10,155 --> 00:08:13,395 Speaker 1: Government's gonna go after someone that wants to have free speech? 121 00:08:14,995 --> 00:08:17,875 Speaker 1: What do they have to look at Twitter about? Do 122 00:08:17,955 --> 00:08:20,915 Speaker 1: they want to go more after American public about whether 123 00:08:20,955 --> 00:08:24,155 Speaker 1: they can have an opinion on something. I think the 124 00:08:24,155 --> 00:08:26,315 Speaker 1: American public have spoken on this. I think our First 125 00:08:26,315 --> 00:08:29,795 Speaker 1: Amendment stands up, and I think they should stop picking 126 00:08:29,795 --> 00:08:34,035 Speaker 1: on Elon Musk listening to Kevin McCarthy short version or 127 00:08:34,155 --> 00:08:36,995 Speaker 1: long version right there. It is, of course difficult to 128 00:08:37,035 --> 00:08:40,715 Speaker 1: get past that ludicrous conclusion after a month of self 129 00:08:40,715 --> 00:08:45,155 Speaker 1: inflicted financial defenistration worthy of Kanye West. Poor Elon Musk 130 00:08:45,315 --> 00:08:48,955 Speaker 1: is only worth a hundred and ninety one billion dollars 131 00:08:49,755 --> 00:08:54,355 Speaker 1: and none of his electric cars have spontaneously combusted yet today, 132 00:08:54,875 --> 00:08:58,275 Speaker 1: I think. But the other part of McCarthy's clip there 133 00:08:58,355 --> 00:09:02,435 Speaker 1: is equally stupid. I think our First Amendment stands up 134 00:09:02,675 --> 00:09:05,355 Speaker 1: would be apt and relevant if mccarth the or anybody 135 00:09:05,355 --> 00:09:08,755 Speaker 1: else agreed that the government should have some mild regulatory 136 00:09:08,795 --> 00:09:11,595 Speaker 1: control over what he is ultimately just a new form 137 00:09:11,715 --> 00:09:15,035 Speaker 1: of a mass media network. But it doesn't. The First 138 00:09:15,035 --> 00:09:19,955 Speaker 1: Amendment has nothing to do with Twitter. Most of McCarthy's 139 00:09:19,995 --> 00:09:23,755 Speaker 1: vast catalog of idiotic remarks can be easily explained. He's 140 00:09:23,795 --> 00:09:27,115 Speaker 1: an actual idiot. He's an actual idiot who does not 141 00:09:27,155 --> 00:09:31,115 Speaker 1: seem to process reality all that well. Anything Ron des 142 00:09:31,155 --> 00:09:34,515 Speaker 1: Santis says, on the other hand, could be base stupidity, 143 00:09:34,515 --> 00:09:37,115 Speaker 1: but it is more likely to be yet another electoral 144 00:09:37,275 --> 00:09:40,955 Speaker 1: scam that he's trying to cobble together. Inside that fascist 145 00:09:41,075 --> 00:09:44,195 Speaker 1: head of his, you can see the little lines moving 146 00:09:44,235 --> 00:09:47,755 Speaker 1: on behind his eyeballs. In that fascist head of his, 147 00:09:47,835 --> 00:09:50,355 Speaker 1: monopolistic corporations who give him money are free to do 148 00:09:50,395 --> 00:09:53,595 Speaker 1: whatever they want wave the flag on their behalf, and 149 00:09:53,755 --> 00:09:57,515 Speaker 1: monopolistic corporations which do not give him money should be 150 00:09:57,555 --> 00:10:01,395 Speaker 1: investigated by the House of Representatives. When you also hear 151 00:10:01,435 --> 00:10:06,275 Speaker 1: reports that Apple is threatening to remove Twitter from the 152 00:10:06,315 --> 00:10:11,115 Speaker 1: app store because Elon Musk is actually opening it up 153 00:10:11,515 --> 00:10:15,395 Speaker 1: for free speech and is restoring a lot of accounts 154 00:10:15,435 --> 00:10:21,395 Speaker 1: that were unfairly and illegitimately suspended for putting out accurate 155 00:10:21,435 --> 00:10:24,555 Speaker 1: information about COVID. That's like one of the main things 156 00:10:24,595 --> 00:10:28,395 Speaker 1: that's being reinstated. And Twitter, the old regime and Twitter 157 00:10:28,515 --> 00:10:32,035 Speaker 1: their response was to try to just suffocate the dissent, 158 00:10:32,635 --> 00:10:35,915 Speaker 1: and and and Elon Musk knows that's not a winning formula, 159 00:10:36,035 --> 00:10:39,475 Speaker 1: and so he's providing free speech. And so if Apple 160 00:10:39,595 --> 00:10:44,835 Speaker 1: responds to that by nuking them from from the app store, 161 00:10:45,275 --> 00:10:46,875 Speaker 1: you know, I think that that would be a huge, 162 00:10:46,955 --> 00:10:50,675 Speaker 1: huge mistake, and it would be a really raw exercise 163 00:10:50,755 --> 00:10:54,315 Speaker 1: of monopolistic power that I think would merit a response 164 00:10:54,835 --> 00:10:58,835 Speaker 1: from the United States Congress. Guy gets elected governor of Florida, 165 00:10:58,875 --> 00:11:01,635 Speaker 1: and now he thinks he owns Congress too. By the way, 166 00:11:01,635 --> 00:11:05,275 Speaker 1: that statement about when you hear reports the reports are 167 00:11:05,275 --> 00:11:09,395 Speaker 1: from Elon Musk, those are not reports. Reports are from 168 00:11:09,475 --> 00:11:13,035 Speaker 1: NBC or even Fox News. A report from Elon Musk. 169 00:11:14,835 --> 00:11:18,755 Speaker 1: It's just a statement by Elon Musk. Anyway, we have 170 00:11:18,835 --> 00:11:22,755 Speaker 1: the first glimmer finally of understanding breaking over the horizon. Musk, 171 00:11:22,915 --> 00:11:26,555 Speaker 1: by plan or unhappy accident, is doing the Republicans bidding 172 00:11:26,595 --> 00:11:30,315 Speaker 1: by neutering a liberal friendly media outlet and turning it 173 00:11:30,355 --> 00:11:33,715 Speaker 1: into a fascist propaganda website under the guise of free 174 00:11:33,755 --> 00:11:37,675 Speaker 1: speech TM, and now he has begun to be rewarded 175 00:11:37,715 --> 00:11:41,275 Speaker 1: by the politicians for having done so. But what does 176 00:11:41,475 --> 00:11:45,755 Speaker 1: Musk get out of this. He can't become president. It 177 00:11:45,795 --> 00:11:49,115 Speaker 1: seems unlikely. He wants to be senator or even a governor, 178 00:11:49,995 --> 00:11:53,355 Speaker 1: perhaps the kingmaker of the Republican Fascist Party, since you 179 00:11:53,435 --> 00:11:55,955 Speaker 1: can take the boy out of apartheid South Africa, But 180 00:11:56,035 --> 00:11:59,195 Speaker 1: as Musk has repeatedly revealed, you can't take apartheid South 181 00:11:59,235 --> 00:12:02,915 Speaker 1: Africa out of the boy. Maybe it's just more money, 182 00:12:02,955 --> 00:12:06,595 Speaker 1: more friendly deals from the govern bit more ironic, given 183 00:12:06,715 --> 00:12:10,675 Speaker 1: De Santis is self serving, can't more Republican endorsement of 184 00:12:10,755 --> 00:12:14,955 Speaker 1: Musk getting to enjoy another quote really raw exercise of 185 00:12:14,955 --> 00:12:20,075 Speaker 1: monopolistic power. Those answers await. But for now, at least 186 00:12:20,075 --> 00:12:23,915 Speaker 1: we know there is a developing De Santis McCarthy Musk nexus, 187 00:12:24,275 --> 00:12:28,195 Speaker 1: prearranged or ad hoc to shut off Twitter the way 188 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:31,595 Speaker 1: John Malone has shut off CNN, and we know that 189 00:12:31,635 --> 00:12:35,395 Speaker 1: it's meaning probably lies somewhere between Musk's assertion, namely quote 190 00:12:35,715 --> 00:12:38,635 Speaker 1: this is a battle for the future of civilization. The 191 00:12:38,795 --> 00:12:41,915 Speaker 1: free speech is lost even in America. Tyranny is all 192 00:12:41,955 --> 00:12:46,475 Speaker 1: that lies ahead somewhere halfway probably between that and from 193 00:12:46,475 --> 00:12:49,195 Speaker 1: the opposite end of the spectrum, the realization that's so 194 00:12:49,235 --> 00:12:52,635 Speaker 1: far based just on his free speech tweets. All that 195 00:12:52,715 --> 00:12:54,955 Speaker 1: Elon Musk is trying to do in this battle for 196 00:12:54,995 --> 00:12:58,195 Speaker 1: the future of civilization is to make the world safe 197 00:12:58,795 --> 00:13:16,115 Speaker 1: for caffeine free diet coke. Still ahead, Elmer is going 198 00:13:16,195 --> 00:13:19,595 Speaker 1: to the big House. Elmer Stewart Rhodes, leader of the 199 00:13:19,635 --> 00:13:23,795 Speaker 1: Oath Keepers, convicted along with an associate of sedition the 200 00:13:23,995 --> 00:13:27,675 Speaker 1: Trump told us to do January six, defense didn't work out. 201 00:13:28,595 --> 00:13:31,955 Speaker 1: Marjorie Trailer Park Green, proving she earns that nickname every day. 202 00:13:32,275 --> 00:13:37,755 Speaker 1: She actually compares COVID nineteen transmission to farting through her underwear. 203 00:13:38,635 --> 00:13:40,835 Speaker 1: She's going to be chair of the House Subcommittee on 204 00:13:40,875 --> 00:13:44,635 Speaker 1: Homeland farts, isn't she Also, she claims to have denounced 205 00:13:44,675 --> 00:13:47,675 Speaker 1: Nick Fuente's after speaking at one of his events and 206 00:13:47,715 --> 00:13:50,195 Speaker 1: taking a selfie with him. She should stick to farts 207 00:13:51,195 --> 00:13:53,395 Speaker 1: and in things I promised not to tell we are 208 00:13:53,515 --> 00:13:56,115 Speaker 1: about at the anniversary of the day they wanted to 209 00:13:56,675 --> 00:14:02,195 Speaker 1: fire Jimmy Kimmel and replace him with me. Now that 210 00:14:02,835 --> 00:14:16,315 Speaker 1: is a tease that's next. This is Countdown. This is 211 00:14:16,395 --> 00:14:25,115 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead on Countdown. Finally, Marjorie 212 00:14:25,155 --> 00:14:28,075 Speaker 1: Trailer Park Green has found a topic matching her level 213 00:14:28,115 --> 00:14:34,435 Speaker 1: of class and intelligence and expertise. Farts passing through thick 214 00:14:34,515 --> 00:14:38,315 Speaker 1: underwear and this is simple. My boss called one day 215 00:14:38,315 --> 00:14:41,515 Speaker 1: and said, we may have to fire Jimmy Kimmel. Can 216 00:14:41,555 --> 00:14:45,395 Speaker 1: you replace him? 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They think if they can 226 00:15:13,995 --> 00:15:15,595 Speaker 1: get him through the next few days, he'll make it 227 00:15:16,035 --> 00:15:19,675 Speaker 1: simple issue. They need our donations. You can find Meatball 228 00:15:19,835 --> 00:15:23,835 Speaker 1: on Cuddly or on my Twitter and a retweet will 229 00:15:23,875 --> 00:15:42,835 Speaker 1: also help. I thank you and Meatball. Thanks you. Post 230 00:15:42,835 --> 00:15:45,795 Speaker 1: scripts to the news some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 231 00:15:45,795 --> 00:15:49,235 Speaker 1: some predictions. Date Line Washington. The codification of same sex 232 00:15:49,235 --> 00:15:53,835 Speaker 1: and interracial marriage passes the Senate six the same twelve 233 00:15:53,835 --> 00:15:57,835 Speaker 1: Republicans voted yes who voted yes in the earlier procedural vote. 234 00:15:57,995 --> 00:16:00,035 Speaker 1: House will now try to get it done. House will 235 00:16:00,075 --> 00:16:03,435 Speaker 1: also vote on two bills today to preclude the pending 236 00:16:03,555 --> 00:16:06,555 Speaker 1: railroad strike. The it's would utilize the government's right to 237 00:16:06,595 --> 00:16:09,515 Speaker 1: impose a settlement on both sides. The second would give 238 00:16:09,515 --> 00:16:12,915 Speaker 1: the workers seven days of paid leave during a year 239 00:16:12,955 --> 00:16:16,435 Speaker 1: they had asked for four. Date Line Washington. We procede 240 00:16:16,435 --> 00:16:18,755 Speaker 1: this story with a tweet from January twenty three of 241 00:16:18,795 --> 00:16:22,155 Speaker 1: this year from former newsman Brit Hume. You know how 242 00:16:22,195 --> 00:16:26,035 Speaker 1: old he is. He's two hundred and six Hume Rights quote. 243 00:16:26,435 --> 00:16:29,435 Speaker 1: Here's a thought. Let's base our view on whether or 244 00:16:29,475 --> 00:16:32,635 Speaker 1: not in one six was an insurrection on whether those 245 00:16:32,715 --> 00:16:36,075 Speaker 1: arrested or charged with insurrection. So far none has been. 246 00:16:36,835 --> 00:16:40,195 Speaker 1: And guess what. Hume Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and 247 00:16:40,275 --> 00:16:44,955 Speaker 1: his Florida flunkey Kelly Meg's both convicted yesterday of seditious 248 00:16:44,995 --> 00:16:49,635 Speaker 1: conspiracy maximum sentenced twenty years. Regrettably, there is no maximum 249 00:16:49,675 --> 00:16:54,715 Speaker 1: sentence for the despicable brit Hume and Dateline Elba, also 250 00:16:54,755 --> 00:16:58,435 Speaker 1: known as Mari Lago. First, Mitch McConnell said anybody tolerating 251 00:16:58,435 --> 00:17:01,555 Speaker 1: the anti semitism and hate of Nick Twente's would never 252 00:17:01,595 --> 00:17:05,195 Speaker 1: be elected president. Then Kevin McCarthy lied to the media 253 00:17:05,515 --> 00:17:09,675 Speaker 1: by claiming Donald Trump had condemned Fuentes quote four times. 254 00:17:10,075 --> 00:17:13,515 Speaker 1: The correct answer is none. Then Trump issued his fourth 255 00:17:13,555 --> 00:17:17,275 Speaker 1: different statement about his dinner with Fuentes and Kanye West. 256 00:17:17,395 --> 00:17:20,075 Speaker 1: Quote I had never heard of Nick Fuentes. I had 257 00:17:20,115 --> 00:17:22,835 Speaker 1: no idea what his views were, and they weren't expressed 258 00:17:22,835 --> 00:17:25,195 Speaker 1: at the table in our very quick dinner, or it 259 00:17:25,235 --> 00:17:30,755 Speaker 1: wouldn't have been accepted. And then Trump condemned Mitch McConnell. 260 00:17:31,435 --> 00:17:50,355 Speaker 1: He has still not condemned Nick Fuentes. This is Sports Center. Wait, 261 00:17:50,555 --> 00:17:58,595 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith in 262 00:17:58,835 --> 00:18:01,995 Speaker 1: Sports US over Iran one nothing to advance to the 263 00:18:01,995 --> 00:18:04,555 Speaker 1: next round of the World Cup. Goal by Christian Pulis, 264 00:18:05,115 --> 00:18:08,395 Speaker 1: who wound up in the hospital after a pelvic contusion 265 00:18:08,435 --> 00:18:10,915 Speaker 1: when he ran into the Iranian goalie. He says he 266 00:18:10,955 --> 00:18:13,795 Speaker 1: will be able to play Saturday in the game against 267 00:18:13,795 --> 00:18:16,955 Speaker 1: the Netherlands. Despite mounting pressure. It looks like the crashing 268 00:18:16,955 --> 00:18:20,315 Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers will also start quarterback Aaron Red Rodgers 269 00:18:20,395 --> 00:18:23,115 Speaker 1: this weekend against the Bears if he is healthy enough. 270 00:18:23,355 --> 00:18:26,355 Speaker 1: The Pack four and eight. The self destructing Rodgers has 271 00:18:26,355 --> 00:18:29,075 Speaker 1: looked terrible, but it does not look like the team 272 00:18:29,155 --> 00:18:31,675 Speaker 1: is yet ready to bench him and go instead with 273 00:18:31,795 --> 00:18:35,955 Speaker 1: Jordan's Love his backup. Rogers hurt, his rib already had 274 00:18:36,035 --> 00:18:39,355 Speaker 1: a broken thumb. He might need more of that ayahuasca 275 00:18:39,475 --> 00:18:41,755 Speaker 1: tea that he boasted of taking, the stuff with the 276 00:18:41,755 --> 00:18:45,635 Speaker 1: hallucinogen d M T in it, or maybe the Packers 277 00:18:45,675 --> 00:18:49,435 Speaker 1: coaches should The Gulf Wars could end for Tiger Woods. 278 00:18:49,435 --> 00:18:51,515 Speaker 1: He says. The p g A and the Live Tour 279 00:18:51,875 --> 00:18:55,915 Speaker 1: also known as the Saudi Blood Money League, could coexist 280 00:18:56,075 --> 00:18:59,275 Speaker 1: if two conditions are met, if each group drops its 281 00:18:59,475 --> 00:19:02,035 Speaker 1: suit against the other, and if the l I V 282 00:19:02,275 --> 00:19:06,915 Speaker 1: people remove the ex per Riya player Greg Norman, who 283 00:19:06,995 --> 00:19:11,475 Speaker 1: is their current pariah CEO. Golf people do not like 284 00:19:11,595 --> 00:19:15,395 Speaker 1: Greg Norman, and he might be the thinking man's baseball player, 285 00:19:15,435 --> 00:19:18,395 Speaker 1: but Joey Vato's brain nous may not transfer to a 286 00:19:18,475 --> 00:19:22,915 Speaker 1: real sport. Chess, Vado revealed he had entered his first 287 00:19:23,035 --> 00:19:27,035 Speaker 1: chess tournament at the Annex Chess Club in his native Toronto. Monday. 288 00:19:27,315 --> 00:19:29,715 Speaker 1: He asked his followers to wish him luck His team, 289 00:19:29,715 --> 00:19:32,915 Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds probably wrote good luck King. And then 290 00:19:32,995 --> 00:19:37,315 Speaker 1: yesterday Vatto gave us an update, revealing quote, I got 291 00:19:37,355 --> 00:19:53,595 Speaker 1: flattened by a nine year old ahead. This is the 292 00:19:53,635 --> 00:19:57,675 Speaker 1: anniversary approximately of the day. My boss called me at 293 00:19:57,675 --> 00:19:59,395 Speaker 1: home and asked me if I could replace this other 294 00:19:59,435 --> 00:20:02,795 Speaker 1: guy they were about to fire Jimmy Kimmel. Things I 295 00:20:02,835 --> 00:20:05,715 Speaker 1: promised not to tell. Coming up first, the daily roundup 296 00:20:05,755 --> 00:20:08,235 Speaker 1: of the misgrants, morons and done in Krueger effect specimens, 297 00:20:08,235 --> 00:20:13,835 Speaker 1: who constitute today's worst persons in the world. The bronze. 298 00:20:14,315 --> 00:20:17,835 Speaker 1: I'm giving it to Tennessee Knitwit Senator Marsha Blackburn again 299 00:20:18,035 --> 00:20:20,795 Speaker 1: for the same thing as yesterday. She put out a 300 00:20:20,835 --> 00:20:25,355 Speaker 1: baking video inadvertently calling or maybe advertently calling for cooks 301 00:20:25,355 --> 00:20:28,715 Speaker 1: to burn down their own homes by not removing the 302 00:20:28,755 --> 00:20:31,675 Speaker 1: wax paper before sticking the cookie dough into an oven 303 00:20:32,035 --> 00:20:38,595 Speaker 1: preheated to three five degrees coom. I'm going into reruns 304 00:20:38,595 --> 00:20:41,115 Speaker 1: on this one because in retelling that story, yesterday. I 305 00:20:41,155 --> 00:20:42,955 Speaker 1: was reminded of the time when I was a kid 306 00:20:43,595 --> 00:20:45,755 Speaker 1: and my parents took me with them to a movie 307 00:20:45,795 --> 00:20:47,835 Speaker 1: that I had no interest in, and to shut me up, 308 00:20:48,075 --> 00:20:51,715 Speaker 1: they got me a box of Mini Reese's peanut butter cups. 309 00:20:52,195 --> 00:20:54,075 Speaker 1: When the film ended and the lights came up, my 310 00:20:54,115 --> 00:20:56,515 Speaker 1: mother said, Okay, let's clean up the mess. And after 311 00:20:56,555 --> 00:21:00,795 Speaker 1: a moment, she said, wait, where are all the rappers, 312 00:21:01,555 --> 00:21:07,475 Speaker 1: the little wax paper brown rappers? And I said what rappers? 313 00:21:08,195 --> 00:21:10,515 Speaker 1: And she and my dad looked at me in horror 314 00:21:10,595 --> 00:21:14,715 Speaker 1: because I had eaten the rappers. I said, I thought 315 00:21:14,715 --> 00:21:18,435 Speaker 1: they were supposed to be crunchy. I did have an excuse. 316 00:21:18,475 --> 00:21:22,875 Speaker 1: I was seven. The runner up, herschel Walker revealed yesterday, 317 00:21:22,995 --> 00:21:25,475 Speaker 1: a week before the end of the runoff vote, he's 318 00:21:25,555 --> 00:21:29,555 Speaker 1: lived in Texas for seventeen years and the quote home 319 00:21:29,755 --> 00:21:32,355 Speaker 1: unquote he owns in Georgia, where he is running for 320 00:21:32,355 --> 00:21:35,035 Speaker 1: the Senate in a week's time. He has rented it 321 00:21:35,075 --> 00:21:41,155 Speaker 1: to other people for seventeen years. CNN later found video 322 00:21:41,275 --> 00:21:46,035 Speaker 1: of him from January talking to Georgia Republicans and saying quote, 323 00:21:46,595 --> 00:21:50,555 Speaker 1: I live in Texas unquote, and then adding quote as 324 00:21:50,595 --> 00:21:53,115 Speaker 1: I was sitting in my home in Texas. I was 325 00:21:53,155 --> 00:21:57,515 Speaker 1: sitting in my home in Texas. A genius, a political genius. 326 00:21:57,555 --> 00:22:01,555 Speaker 1: I tell you this, of course makes herschel. All right, 327 00:22:01,635 --> 00:22:07,115 Speaker 1: say it with me now, Walker Texas Ranger. Well whatever, 328 00:22:07,195 --> 00:22:29,835 Speaker 1: let's dance through the herschel. Thank you, Nancy Faust. But 329 00:22:29,955 --> 00:22:33,875 Speaker 1: our winner, Marjorie Trailer Park Green. If you somehow didn't 330 00:22:33,915 --> 00:22:37,475 Speaker 1: see it, she tweeted quote I can't believe I'm reading this. 331 00:22:37,555 --> 00:22:40,875 Speaker 1: By the way, she tweeted quote, so many people still 332 00:22:40,955 --> 00:22:44,035 Speaker 1: wearing masks. I just want to ask you. If a 333 00:22:44,075 --> 00:22:49,675 Speaker 1: pair of underwear, really thick ones, high quality cotton can't 334 00:22:49,715 --> 00:22:52,755 Speaker 1: protect you from a fart, then how will a mask 335 00:22:52,915 --> 00:22:57,315 Speaker 1: protect you from COVID? This is the kind of free speech. 336 00:22:57,355 --> 00:23:00,715 Speaker 1: Elon Musk is there to defend on behalf of America 337 00:23:00,995 --> 00:23:07,795 Speaker 1: and God and diet PEP see caffeine free as somebody 338 00:23:07,835 --> 00:23:10,195 Speaker 1: who wore a mask in a doctor's office the day 339 00:23:10,235 --> 00:23:13,755 Speaker 1: before yesterday. There's so much wrong in this statement. I 340 00:23:13,755 --> 00:23:16,835 Speaker 1: don't know where to begin, and so much dumb. Let's 341 00:23:16,875 --> 00:23:20,395 Speaker 1: start with this. A mask does not protect you from COVID. 342 00:23:20,675 --> 00:23:24,675 Speaker 1: It protects everybody else in case you have COVID. I 343 00:23:24,715 --> 00:23:28,755 Speaker 1: thought even the functionally illiterate like Green understood this by 344 00:23:28,795 --> 00:23:33,995 Speaker 1: now after nearly three years. Secondly, COVID is a virus 345 00:23:34,075 --> 00:23:38,755 Speaker 1: transferred in droplets. Gas is a gas, which is why 346 00:23:38,795 --> 00:23:42,475 Speaker 1: they call it gas, So the physics is all different. 347 00:23:43,315 --> 00:23:47,235 Speaker 1: Got it? Hone? Thirdly, why is this idiot talking about 348 00:23:47,315 --> 00:23:50,475 Speaker 1: a pair of underwear really thick ones, high quality cotton. 349 00:23:51,795 --> 00:23:54,475 Speaker 1: Why is she talking about protection from farts? Why is 350 00:23:54,515 --> 00:23:58,395 Speaker 1: she talking about farts? Why is she in Congress? Why 351 00:23:58,435 --> 00:24:01,555 Speaker 1: isn't she in here? Seven of the third grade? I mean, 352 00:24:01,595 --> 00:24:04,115 Speaker 1: there is the theory that she does these stupid things 353 00:24:04,155 --> 00:24:08,035 Speaker 1: like calling the gastopo that gaspacho and tweeting about farts 354 00:24:08,435 --> 00:24:12,475 Speaker 1: to draw attention to herself, or maybe to obscure the 355 00:24:12,515 --> 00:24:15,115 Speaker 1: evil things she does, like getting Kevin McCarthy to insist 356 00:24:15,235 --> 00:24:17,875 Speaker 1: she had already denounced Nick Twente's, even though there was 357 00:24:17,915 --> 00:24:21,275 Speaker 1: this selfie of her that's still on Twitter with Twente's 358 00:24:21,315 --> 00:24:25,115 Speaker 1: and Michelle Malkin, Remember Michelle Malkin, And it was at 359 00:24:25,115 --> 00:24:28,435 Speaker 1: the Nick Fuente's anti Semitism conference that she spoke at, 360 00:24:29,355 --> 00:24:31,955 Speaker 1: and then she went on Twitter and denounced Twente's, which 361 00:24:31,995 --> 00:24:34,435 Speaker 1: kind of confirmed McCarthy was lying when he had said 362 00:24:34,795 --> 00:24:38,555 Speaker 1: she'd already denounced Twente's, so it's either one of those 363 00:24:38,715 --> 00:24:45,035 Speaker 1: or she's just a moron. Whatever the answer, she's Marjorie, 364 00:24:45,435 --> 00:24:48,235 Speaker 1: How can a mask stop COVID if it can't stop 365 00:24:48,235 --> 00:24:52,195 Speaker 1: me from saying stupid things like this? Green to Day's 366 00:24:53,435 --> 00:25:16,035 Speaker 1: worse person. He lord its own to the top of 367 00:25:16,035 --> 00:25:18,795 Speaker 1: the countdown in our number one story and my favorite topic, 368 00:25:18,875 --> 00:25:21,715 Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. And I'm 369 00:25:21,755 --> 00:25:25,235 Speaker 1: not exactly sure when this happened. It happened in l 370 00:25:25,275 --> 00:25:26,915 Speaker 1: a And it was sunny and warm that day, so 371 00:25:26,955 --> 00:25:29,195 Speaker 1: it could have been the fourth of July or Christmas, 372 00:25:29,275 --> 00:25:32,835 Speaker 1: who knows, but I'm guessing it was around this time 373 00:25:32,875 --> 00:25:34,595 Speaker 1: of the year because it was during the National Football 374 00:25:34,675 --> 00:25:38,075 Speaker 1: League season of And it happened when I was working 375 00:25:38,115 --> 00:25:40,635 Speaker 1: for Fox Sports and finally getting around of what the 376 00:25:40,635 --> 00:25:43,715 Speaker 1: story is. It was the day they almost fired Jimmy 377 00:25:43,835 --> 00:25:48,515 Speaker 1: Kimmel and hired me to replace him. I answered the 378 00:25:48,515 --> 00:25:50,155 Speaker 1: phone at my home and at the other end, an 379 00:25:50,195 --> 00:25:55,075 Speaker 1: Australian voice asked, quote, can you replace Kimmel? Relax? ABC 380 00:25:55,235 --> 00:25:56,955 Speaker 1: is not trying to replace Jimmy Kimmel. This is twenty 381 00:25:56,995 --> 00:25:58,955 Speaker 1: three years ago, but I think of it every time 382 00:25:58,995 --> 00:26:02,435 Speaker 1: I see a sportscast, particularly a sports broadcast of a 383 00:26:02,515 --> 00:26:05,395 Speaker 1: ball game, in which one of the sports casters talks 384 00:26:05,435 --> 00:26:08,635 Speaker 1: about the point spread or asks a colleague if they're 385 00:26:08,635 --> 00:26:13,275 Speaker 1: taking the over or the under? Can you replace Jimmy Kimmel? 386 00:26:14,315 --> 00:26:17,555 Speaker 1: Not the ads. The ads for sports gambling have become 387 00:26:17,675 --> 00:26:20,595 Speaker 1: more ubiquitous than for drugs. I'm supposed to ask my 388 00:26:20,675 --> 00:26:23,315 Speaker 1: doctor about the ads in which the smoothly read list 389 00:26:23,355 --> 00:26:27,515 Speaker 1: of mild side effects may cause horrific death is longer 390 00:26:27,555 --> 00:26:30,115 Speaker 1: than the sales pitch itself, and you wind up not 391 00:26:30,235 --> 00:26:33,755 Speaker 1: wanting to touch the bottle, let alone take the pill. 392 00:26:34,515 --> 00:26:38,315 Speaker 1: It's not the ads for sports gambling. Sports itself is 393 00:26:38,355 --> 00:26:41,595 Speaker 1: now fully in bed with gambling. The National Football League 394 00:26:41,635 --> 00:26:47,035 Speaker 1: has seven official NFL sports betting partners, seven which may 395 00:26:47,035 --> 00:26:49,115 Speaker 1: be more than the number of good teams it has 396 00:26:49,155 --> 00:26:53,315 Speaker 1: this year. And all the leagues now let their broadcasts 397 00:26:53,435 --> 00:26:56,955 Speaker 1: run ads for wagering, or even stories about the odds 398 00:26:57,075 --> 00:27:00,235 Speaker 1: on that game, or they even provide methods to bet 399 00:27:00,275 --> 00:27:02,675 Speaker 1: on the game you're watching while you are watching it. 400 00:27:03,635 --> 00:27:05,995 Speaker 1: And I do not know who was most surprised by that, 401 00:27:06,355 --> 00:27:11,915 Speaker 1: Pete Rose, Me, Jimmy Kimmel, or the Australian guy. On 402 00:27:11,955 --> 00:27:15,995 Speaker 1: the other end of the phone. He was David Hill, 403 00:27:16,355 --> 00:27:20,275 Speaker 1: the co president of Fox Sports, and he had a problem. 404 00:27:20,315 --> 00:27:22,595 Speaker 1: In those days, Jimmy Kimmel was the announcer on a 405 00:27:22,635 --> 00:27:26,155 Speaker 1: comedy game show, and he did TV promos for Fox, 406 00:27:26,195 --> 00:27:29,715 Speaker 1: but his biggest visibility came from a short segment he 407 00:27:29,755 --> 00:27:32,715 Speaker 1: did every week for the Fox NFL Sunday pregame show. 408 00:27:33,035 --> 00:27:37,195 Speaker 1: He picked winners and losers for the games that day. 409 00:27:37,235 --> 00:27:41,395 Speaker 1: To do only this, he basically walked a tight rope. 410 00:27:41,715 --> 00:27:45,235 Speaker 1: No references to gambling were permitted. No over unders, no 411 00:27:45,395 --> 00:27:48,915 Speaker 1: point spreads. He could say underdog, but he could not 412 00:27:48,995 --> 00:27:53,475 Speaker 1: say dog because the NFL still believed it could not 413 00:27:53,675 --> 00:27:58,315 Speaker 1: as much as acknowledge that even one fan was betting 414 00:27:58,355 --> 00:28:01,715 Speaker 1: money on an NFL game now or at any point 415 00:28:01,755 --> 00:28:06,955 Speaker 1: in the past. And your replaced, Jimmy moll. I mean, 416 00:28:06,995 --> 00:28:09,155 Speaker 1: it was, after all, just thirty seven years since two 417 00:28:09,235 --> 00:28:13,635 Speaker 1: of the NFL's biggest stars, Paul Horning and Alex Carris, 418 00:28:13,795 --> 00:28:18,155 Speaker 1: had been suspended for gambling on NFL games. It had 419 00:28:18,195 --> 00:28:21,515 Speaker 1: only been about half that long since the retired Baltimore 420 00:28:21,555 --> 00:28:24,715 Speaker 1: Colts star Bubba Smith had wildly claimed that there was 421 00:28:24,755 --> 00:28:27,355 Speaker 1: only one reason his nineteen sixty nine Colts could have 422 00:28:27,435 --> 00:28:30,515 Speaker 1: famously lost the Super Bowl to the underdog Jets of 423 00:28:30,635 --> 00:28:33,795 Speaker 1: Joe Willie Namath. The Colts must have bet on the 424 00:28:33,915 --> 00:28:39,195 Speaker 1: Jets and throwing the game and not told him. And 425 00:28:39,275 --> 00:28:42,035 Speaker 1: it was only about a decade since investigative reporter Dan 426 00:28:42,115 --> 00:28:44,675 Speaker 1: Moldea had written one of the greatest sports books I've 427 00:28:44,715 --> 00:28:49,155 Speaker 1: ever read, called Interference, which detailed how the NFL was basically, 428 00:28:49,715 --> 00:28:53,515 Speaker 1: you know, founded by bookies and some of the current 429 00:28:53,515 --> 00:28:57,435 Speaker 1: owners were the sons and grandsons of bookies, and how 430 00:28:57,475 --> 00:29:00,435 Speaker 1: the league really didn't end its recurring problem with you know, 431 00:29:01,395 --> 00:29:06,875 Speaker 1: fixing games and shaving points spreads for bookies until about 432 00:29:08,515 --> 00:29:11,435 Speaker 1: the NFL was kind of sensitive about gambling, even when 433 00:29:11,475 --> 00:29:14,035 Speaker 1: compared to Baseball, which had banned the guy with the 434 00:29:14,115 --> 00:29:18,635 Speaker 1: second highest career batting average ever banned him for life 435 00:29:19,155 --> 00:29:23,915 Speaker 1: over gambling in and then banned it's all time leader 436 00:29:23,915 --> 00:29:30,275 Speaker 1: in bass hits for life over gambling in. So it's 437 00:29:30,315 --> 00:29:33,795 Speaker 1: ten years after Pete Rose was banned in. I was 438 00:29:33,795 --> 00:29:37,035 Speaker 1: doing Baseball and their version of Sports Center for Fox Sports, 439 00:29:37,595 --> 00:29:39,915 Speaker 1: and the co president of the network, David Hill, called 440 00:29:39,955 --> 00:29:41,435 Speaker 1: that day and said, and I'll spare you the fake 441 00:29:41,475 --> 00:29:45,275 Speaker 1: Australian accent this time mine, not Hills. Can you replace 442 00:29:45,355 --> 00:29:48,875 Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel? The NFL may ban him from our broadcast 443 00:29:48,995 --> 00:29:53,635 Speaker 1: because he used the words points spread on our show 444 00:29:53,715 --> 00:29:57,275 Speaker 1: last Sunday, and then he kept using all these insider 445 00:29:57,355 --> 00:30:00,395 Speaker 1: gambling terms on some radio show yesterday. I think he 446 00:30:00,435 --> 00:30:08,035 Speaker 1: even said vigorish, vigorish, No, oh, not vigorish. What David 447 00:30:08,115 --> 00:30:10,035 Speaker 1: Hill then asked me to do was drop everything, not 448 00:30:10,235 --> 00:30:14,075 Speaker 1: do that night's cable sportscast, and instead think up and 449 00:30:14,155 --> 00:30:16,795 Speaker 1: then write up a two to three minute bit that 450 00:30:16,915 --> 00:30:19,715 Speaker 1: could be funny and could also pick winners and losers. 451 00:30:20,075 --> 00:30:22,915 Speaker 1: That I would do and would replace Jimmy Kimmel on 452 00:30:23,075 --> 00:30:25,635 Speaker 1: the next edition of Fox NFL Sunday a couple of 453 00:30:25,715 --> 00:30:30,315 Speaker 1: days later, after the league banned Kimmel for life. For 454 00:30:30,435 --> 00:30:33,795 Speaker 1: God's sakes, though he said, do not use the word vigorish. 455 00:30:35,955 --> 00:30:37,995 Speaker 1: Fox Sports was in such a panic that day that 456 00:30:38,075 --> 00:30:39,835 Speaker 1: they did not want me to waste time by coming 457 00:30:39,875 --> 00:30:42,555 Speaker 1: into the office to write up the winners and Losers segment. 458 00:30:42,755 --> 00:30:45,275 Speaker 1: They wanted me to write the bit from home, email 459 00:30:45,355 --> 00:30:47,875 Speaker 1: it to them all, and then come in While all 460 00:30:47,915 --> 00:30:50,075 Speaker 1: the executives were debating whether or not it was okay, 461 00:30:50,715 --> 00:30:53,115 Speaker 1: a crew and a producer and one of my suits 462 00:30:53,515 --> 00:30:56,395 Speaker 1: would be waiting for me, and we would record the 463 00:30:56,435 --> 00:30:58,635 Speaker 1: thing as soon as the bosses agreed to the script, 464 00:30:58,835 --> 00:31:01,115 Speaker 1: and then they would submit the taped test run to 465 00:31:01,195 --> 00:31:05,515 Speaker 1: the NFL. I wrote the script. There were actually a 466 00:31:05,715 --> 00:31:08,995 Speaker 1: couple of laughs based on such thin gruel as the 467 00:31:09,075 --> 00:31:11,955 Speaker 1: fact that the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons was named 468 00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:14,555 Speaker 1: Christian Chandler and I had once dated a girl named 469 00:31:14,635 --> 00:31:19,595 Speaker 1: Chris Chandler. Prize winning this was not, but it didn't 470 00:31:19,675 --> 00:31:21,355 Speaker 1: use the word vigorish, and I got it done in 471 00:31:21,355 --> 00:31:23,875 Speaker 1: about an hour. I was getting in the car when 472 00:31:23,995 --> 00:31:26,955 Speaker 1: Hill called back, Okay, stand down on this. We think 473 00:31:26,995 --> 00:31:29,115 Speaker 1: we've resolved it with Jimmy in the league, but we 474 00:31:29,195 --> 00:31:32,435 Speaker 1: won't forget what you did for us. And they didn't. 475 00:31:32,715 --> 00:31:35,755 Speaker 1: They sent me some champagne and um like six months later, 476 00:31:35,795 --> 00:31:37,635 Speaker 1: they tried to blackmail me into taking a pay cut. 477 00:31:37,715 --> 00:31:40,795 Speaker 1: Lovely people at Fox. I don't know what the full 478 00:31:40,835 --> 00:31:43,395 Speaker 1: backstory was on the Kimmel deal. For all I know, 479 00:31:43,515 --> 00:31:45,955 Speaker 1: the whole thing was just a ruse to scare Jimmy 480 00:31:46,035 --> 00:31:49,795 Speaker 1: into not using the word vigorish. I have seen him 481 00:31:49,795 --> 00:31:52,835 Speaker 1: since nine or two thousand. But I do know that 482 00:31:52,995 --> 00:31:55,595 Speaker 1: the leagues and their television partners used to be so 483 00:31:55,995 --> 00:31:59,435 Speaker 1: terrified of any link to gambling that they were willing 484 00:31:59,515 --> 00:32:02,715 Speaker 1: to feed the rumor mill by telling me Jimmy Kimmel 485 00:32:02,755 --> 00:32:05,395 Speaker 1: was about to get suspended by the nf fill just 486 00:32:05,555 --> 00:32:09,355 Speaker 1: for saying point spread and vigoroush And now the NFL 487 00:32:09,435 --> 00:32:13,395 Speaker 1: has seven official gambling partners, even while an x NFL 488 00:32:13,475 --> 00:32:17,395 Speaker 1: coach accused one of the franchises of tanking. And if 489 00:32:17,435 --> 00:32:21,835 Speaker 1: there's anything that should terrify sports gamblers more than tanking, Frankly, 490 00:32:21,915 --> 00:32:37,875 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I've done all the 491 00:32:37,955 --> 00:32:40,115 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. 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So that is countdown for this the SI 508 00:33:35,195 --> 00:33:38,555 Speaker 1: four day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the 509 00:33:38,635 --> 00:33:42,235 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Arrest him now 510 00:33:42,395 --> 00:33:45,995 Speaker 1: while we still can a new addition tomorrow. Until then, 511 00:33:46,035 --> 00:33:48,755 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 512 00:33:48,915 --> 00:34:00,115 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of 513 00:34:00,235 --> 00:34:03,675 Speaker 1: I heart Radio. For more podcasts from I heart Radio, 514 00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:07,355 Speaker 1: visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 515 00:34:07,515 --> 00:34:08,795 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.