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

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Speaker 1: finally told dementia Jay Trump that he's been calling Biden

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Speaker 1: Obama for the last few months. So he has fabricated

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Speaker 1: a backstory that whenever he has made this cognitive gaff

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Speaker 1: it has been quote sarcastic unquote, so he could indicate

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Speaker 1: that others may actually be running things at the White House.

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Speaker 1: And just to sell this excuse even harder, Trump has

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Speaker 1: now begun to do the one thing that could most

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Speaker 1: easily give back his poll numbers lead, particularly his improving

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Speaker 1: numbers with minorities, the one thing that could most easily

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Speaker 1: destroy Trump's arguments about inflation under Biden, the one thing

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Speaker 1: that would be the first answer to the Biden campaign

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Speaker 1: team's prayers. Trump has attacked Obamacare. He has insisted he

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Speaker 1: and the Republicans should never give up on terminating Obamacare,

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Speaker 1: just when most people had forgotten that the organizing principle

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Speaker 1: of the Republican Party for a decade was repealing Obamacare,

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Speaker 1: that Republican after Republican had stepped on this same rake,

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Speaker 1: that the whack of that rake ended the career of

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Speaker 1: Republican after Republican. Just when most people had forgotten that

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Speaker 1: Trump's most abject, most easily understood and digested failure was

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Speaker 1: his inability to do anything about Obamacare. That he announced

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Speaker 1: he would be putting his new replacement for Obamacare in

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Speaker 1: within two weeks, and that was on July nineteenth, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: And that was one hundred and seventy five weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: just when most people had forgotten that he has promised

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Speaker 1: to repeal and replace Obamacare at least twenty nine times,

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Speaker 1: just when Trump was showing surprising support from Blacks and Hispanics,

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Speaker 1: he has promised to destroy Obamacare, which is approved by

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Speaker 1: nearly eighty percent of Blacks and nearly seventy percent of Hispanics.

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Speaker 1: And because of Obamacare, the rate of the uninsured among

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Speaker 1: those two groups has dropt roughly in half since twenty ten.

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Speaker 1: Just when Trump and Biden and the events of mankind

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Speaker 1: had tilted the entire profile of the election into things

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Speaker 1: that favored Trump, Trump just brought back from the dead

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Speaker 1: what might be the last issue in which Democrats completely

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Speaker 1: kick republican ass An NBC poll in September two months

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Speaker 1: ago said Democrats are trusted over Republicans on healthcare by

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Speaker 1: two to one. To sum it up, as an unnamed

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Speaker 1: Biden advisor told NBC, it's almost perfect. I don't know

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Speaker 1: about the adjective. It may be perfect. It's almost perfect

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Speaker 1: that Trump would pick the one thing they haven't really

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Speaker 1: put front haend center, which we know is incredibly unpopular,

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Speaker 1: and say, yeah, I'm gonna do this too. Unquote and

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Speaker 1: whoever he is. The unnamed advisor went on to say

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Speaker 1: that Trump had opened the door to Biden campaigning not

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Speaker 1: just on the tough for many to digest issues of

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Speaker 1: democracy and freedom, but on the thing that really helped

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Speaker 1: beat Trump in twenty twenty. Look what this idiot is

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Speaker 1: going to do to your insurance bills and your healthcare

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Speaker 1: program which you now like, and how many seniors Trump

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Speaker 1: will make choose between food and medicine and guests who

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Speaker 1: was in front of a microphone before nightfall, my predecessors,

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Speaker 1: once again, God love him, call for cuts that could

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Speaker 1: rip away health insurance for tens of millions of Americans

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Speaker 1: and Medicaid. They just don't give up. But guess what,

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Speaker 1: we won't let these things happen and dementia. Jay did

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Speaker 1: all that to try to cover up the fact that

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Speaker 1: he as our British cousins would say, is going potty,

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Speaker 1: And do not suppose for a one minute that Trump

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Speaker 1: will realize what an unforced error he has made. Sure

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Speaker 1: he should have just ignored it. He should never have

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Speaker 1: brought up calling Biden Obama. He should have just taken

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Speaker 1: the win, because despite the obviousness of his mental decline,

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Speaker 1: every time Trump forgets who is president and who was

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Speaker 1: president is cult ROAR's approval at that because just the

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Speaker 1: name Obama is red meat to them, even if they

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Speaker 1: don't buy into this newest trumpest conspiracy theory that Obama

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Speaker 1: is really still running things. But of course for Trump

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Speaker 1: to ignore that is like asking him to ignore the

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Speaker 1: pee tape, which he also can't do, which he also

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Speaker 1: brought up again in the last two weeks twice, which

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Speaker 1: he also crossed the protesteth too much line about seven

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Speaker 1: years ago. When silence is the best option, he must

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Speaker 1: make noise. It is how Trump's brain is miswired. And

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Speaker 1: so we have all this reminding anybody who didn't notice

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Speaker 1: that he has been calling Biden Obama, digging up the

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Speaker 1: plague packed cadaver of an Obama care repeal and tying

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Speaker 1: of every Republican in the country, and now starting up

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Speaker 1: this Obama is actually president conspiracy. Of course, there is

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Speaker 1: every chance he didn't start this Obama is actually president

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theory back on Obamacare followed. Indeed, the post included

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Speaker 1: a screenshot from another moronic editorial from the Wall Street Journal,

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Speaker 1: the Murdoch Wall Street Journal, and yesterday's pee wee hermanesque

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Speaker 1: I meant to do that explanation of conflating Biden and

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Speaker 1: Obama again was posted at eight eight am. Thus, it

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Speaker 1: followed by exactly forty four minutes the honking of one

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Speaker 1: of Trump's absolute favorite propagandists, the human deviated septum herself,

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Speaker 1: Maria Bartiromo of Fox News, who was asking a guest,

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Speaker 1: hello's winning the show here? Does Biden know what's going on?

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Speaker 1: Or is he being directed by President Obama? So now

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Speaker 1: we have the Obama chicken and the Obama egg, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know which is first. Did Trump hear about

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Speaker 1: his having called Biden Obama? And so he thought up

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Speaker 1: this remarkable that's because Obama running things thing. And then

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Speaker 1: he got the word out to two of the ugliest

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Speaker 1: in advance before he said anything. Or did he really

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Speaker 1: just look at the Journal editorial and say, ah, damn,

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Speaker 1: I forgot to destroy this thing everybody loves. I'll do

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Speaker 1: that now. Or did he hear Bartiromo ask her who

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Speaker 1: a convenient alibi. The answer, of course, is who cares.

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Speaker 1: The point, unfortunately, is that while you and I lose

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Speaker 1: sleep over the whole democracy versus dictatorship issue, this election

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Speaker 1: is likelier to be decided by the cost of healthcare

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Speaker 1: plans period costs of lots of things, but healthcare plans,

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Speaker 1: and as damnable as that is, this is one we

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Speaker 1: cannot even entirely assign to Trump's poisoning of America and

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Speaker 1: the utter moral corruption of the new Republican Party. Cheap

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Speaker 1: gas has always been more important, decisively, more important to

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Speaker 1: a huge percentage of Americans, more important than whether or

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Speaker 1: not their neighbors vote, or whether or not anybody ever votes. Ever, again,

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Speaker 1: the exact percentage may have been moved by Trump, but

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Speaker 1: he didn't move it that much. Self interest is the

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Speaker 1: American way, and for half a century it has been

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party's modus operandi. Hell Huey Long was on

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Speaker 1: a trajectory to challenge FDR for the presidency before he

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Speaker 1: got shot. And when George Wallace got thirty two percent

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Speaker 1: Wallace was not only a registered Democrat running as an independent,

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Speaker 1: but four years later George Wallace ran for the Democratic nomination.

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, this was playing out while

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Speaker 1: this country actually elected a thug named Richard Nixon and

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Speaker 1: then re elected him. You and I know that if

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Speaker 1: Trump wins this election, it'll be the last election we

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Speaker 1: Trump constantly and defectively. I'm the whole dictatorship thing and

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Speaker 1: connected to the idea that under Dictator Trump, inflation is

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Speaker 1: going to go wild again because Dictator Trump is going

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Speaker 1: to slap a ten percent tax on anything you buy

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Speaker 1: eliminate your healthcare plan and replace it with something worse

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Speaker 1: that costs you more. Do that successfully effectively, and he's

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Speaker 1: dead and the Republicans are dead. And guess what, dementia, Jay,

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Speaker 1: if you lose two straight presidential elections and two straight

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Speaker 1: midterms and nearly all the off year elections in between.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what kind of cult you've got there.

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Speaker 1: The people with the money are not going to underwrite

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Speaker 1: mister personality over here, whether he's Trump or Jesus H.

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Speaker 1: Christ fresh off the cross. And oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post reported yesterday that paddic is beginning to

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Speaker 1: set in at the RNC because as of twenty eight

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Speaker 1: days ago, the RNC reported having in the bank nine million,

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Speaker 1: now going to have to waste lots of that on

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Speaker 1: defense because Trump just handed Biden a complete one hundred

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Speaker 1: he could not just let it go. No, he had

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Speaker 1: to mean Obamama because he's smarter than everybody else, in fact,

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Speaker 1: the show. And so they have to defeat Obama again.

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Speaker 1: And that starts by hand me that magic marker. I'll

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Speaker 1: write it here on the map, defeating Obamacare. And so

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Speaker 1: what if it failed the first twenty nine attempts to

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Speaker 1: charm as they say, thanks Obama. Back to Maria Bartiromo.

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Speaker 1: And given how personally invested in the insanity she was

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Speaker 1: and is, it is kind of amazing that Fox did

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Speaker 1: not fire her after the Dominion disaster. But they didn't.

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Speaker 1: And here she is just about one rabbit hole over

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Speaker 1: from saying that no, Obama isn't pulling Biden's strings, it's JFK.

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Speaker 1: They still got plenty of evil, but the entire premise

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Speaker 1: of the Fox perpetual motion propaganda machine. And remember it's

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Speaker 1: been running NonStop since the new Speaker of the House,

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Speaker 1: and dishonest and terroristic as Fox got, it always left

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Speaker 1: who is an enduring nitwit, an impossibly empty headed person,

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Speaker 1: The reporter was, of course a Fox News reporter. In fact,

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Speaker 1: last Saturday, when all this started, that reporter himself went

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Speaker 1: on the air and said that President Brden quote continues

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Speaker 1: Then he played a tape of himself yelling the question,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't quite capture the degree of dishonesty involved. I

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Speaker 1: was immediately sent back into the original Manchurian Candidate movie

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Speaker 1: when Senator Iceland complains that his wife keeps changing the

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Speaker 1: the confusion over how many is the point, as Angela

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Speaker 1: Lansbury delivers the line impeccably. Are they saying are there

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Speaker 1: any Communists in the Defense Department? No, of course not,

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Speaker 1: They're saying how many Communists are there in the Defense Department.

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Speaker 1: The premise here is that the Fox reporter Lucas Tomlinson,

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Speaker 1: the New York twenty first, has congratulated herself on it, quote,

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Speaker 1: I fought to lift President Trump's gag order and one,

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Speaker 1: but the fight doesn't end here. Together, we can protect

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Speaker 1: all Americans' First Amendment. Blah blah blah blah blah. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to tell if Stefanic is the dumbest person alive

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Speaker 1: or she just thinks her constituents are. But a congresswoman,

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Speaker 1: any representative, doesn't have a damn thing to do with

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Speaker 1: judges lifting gag orders. Judges appointed by Biden and Obama.

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Speaker 1: By the way, in a criminal trial, she might as

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Speaker 1: well have been claiming, I fought for the sunrise to

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Speaker 1: happen this morning, and one, and together we can ensure

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Speaker 1: more sunrises in the days to come. Oh God, why

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Speaker 1: did I give her that idea? Dateline New York. Once again,

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Speaker 1: if you are paying for The New York Times, however

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Speaker 1: much you actually pay for it, in whatever format, you

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Speaker 1: are paying too much. It's not all the news that's

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Speaker 1: fit to print. It's all the news, except our writers

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Speaker 1: want to save some for more money later. Jonathan Swan

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Speaker 1: and Maggie Haberman of the Times have signed a deal

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Speaker 1: to write what Axios calls the definitive book about Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's final act in public life, to be published in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. So that means anything you read in

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Speaker 1: The Times, or from Swan or from Haberman in any

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Speaker 1: other venue between now and then, just assume that, like

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Speaker 1: Haberman last time, or Bob Woodward or anybody else who

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Speaker 1: wrote a Trump book, you are not being told everything.

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Speaker 1: They know. They are saving news for their book and

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Speaker 1: the big payday yet to come, or worse yet, like

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Speaker 1: many of them, they have made a deal with Trump

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Speaker 1: for him to tell them the truth, and they'll sit

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Speaker 1: on the truth until after the election, sometime in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five, by which time if they do sit on it,

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Speaker 1: and I actually recommend that these two do sit on it,

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Speaker 1: Trump may have seized power again and he may have

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Speaker 1: begun to lock up people he doesn't like, like Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Swan and Maggie Haberman. Because you know what, guys, you

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Speaker 1: don't make deals with the devil, you morons. You know

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Speaker 1: what this makes you guys, are we know what you

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Speaker 1: are here? Yes, we're just arguing about the bill. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Nancy Faust still ahead of us on an all new

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Speaker 1: edition of Countdown AI. Artificial Intelligence at SI. It has

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Speaker 1: come for you sports writers, at least some of the

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Speaker 1: sports writers at the once great Sports Illustrated SI. They

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Speaker 1: don't actually exist. This contrasts to my start in the business,

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Speaker 1: when not only did we exist, but we were so

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Speaker 1: competitive that the guy from my radio network's chief rival

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Speaker 1: network would not help me save my own job at

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Speaker 1: the Olympics when my bosses had gotten me drunk. Woo

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Speaker 1: things I promise not to tell. Coming up first time

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Speaker 1: for the daily roundup of the misgrints, morons and dunning

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Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's They's worst worst persons

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Speaker 1: in the World on Worst. Charlie Hurt Fox News contributor,

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Speaker 1: the one with the hive ice. His nickname is butt Butt.

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Speaker 1: Hurt Fox has had a year long fixation on the

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Speaker 1: idea that Joe Biden and the Liberals not only want

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Speaker 1: to ban gas stoves, but are banning gas stoves and

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Speaker 1: have already started to remove gas doves from people's homes,

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Speaker 1: none of which is true, quoting Charlie butt hurt. They

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Speaker 1: do want to take away the gas stoves, and in

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Speaker 1: fact they are taking away the gas doves because they

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Speaker 1: hate us, They hate joyfulness, they hate pies unquote. I thought,

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Speaker 1: if after forty four years in public life, there was

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Speaker 1: one thing certain about me, universally agreed to by Americans

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Speaker 1: of all creeds, races, ages, political persuasions, if they agreed

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Speaker 1: on one thing, it was that, clearly, I love pies.

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Speaker 1: Worser Former speaker Kevin McCarthy turns out he's not just

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Speaker 1: a moron in the current moment, he's also a moron historically.

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Speaker 1: McCarthy participated in one of the famous Oxford Union debates

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Speaker 1: addressing whether American foreign policy has been a force for

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Speaker 1: good or for evil in the world, and he answered

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Speaker 1: for good and jabbing a finger at the Englishman, he said,

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Speaker 1: and he posted this video to Twitter, and he's wearing

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Speaker 1: a tux and he sounds real sincere quote, thank for

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Speaker 1: one moment in every single war that America has fought,

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Speaker 1: we have never asked for land afterward, except were enough

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Speaker 1: to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for

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Speaker 1: freedom unquote, Except for after the Spanish American War when

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Speaker 1: we took Puerto Rico from Spain, the Philippines and Guam

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Speaker 1: and uh and after the American Samoa Civil War, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't American Samoa then we took. We took the land

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Speaker 1: and made it American Samoa, and the and the Panama

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Speaker 1: Canal Zone which became our land till we gave it back,

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Speaker 1: even though we only backed the war there. We didn't

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Speaker 1: send anybody a fight. And of course the Mexican War

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Speaker 1: of eighteen forty eight, which we beat Mexico, and then

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Speaker 1: literally we took half of Mexico's country, including all of California,

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Speaker 1: which means that in that war that America fought, we

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Speaker 1: literally asked for the land that became the twentieth Congressional

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Speaker 1: District of California, which Kevin McCarthy represents, and he doesn't

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Speaker 1: even know its history, let alone the whole country's. We

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Speaker 1: never asked for any land, well except the state I

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Speaker 1: come from, though, but our winners the worst, the Oxford Union.

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Speaker 1: I don't know when Kevin McCarthy spoke. He didn't say

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Speaker 1: that in the video he posted so proudly making an

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Speaker 1: idiot out of himself. I think he might have spoken

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Speaker 1: last Thursday, or maybe the previous one, or who knows when.

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Speaker 1: But in September Lewis Wilson, the assistant to the president

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Speaker 1: of the Oxford Union Society, and Disha Hedde, its president,

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Speaker 1: invited me to participate in one of its Oxford Union

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Speaker 1: debates with the question this House fears the return of

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Speaker 1: Trump's America. We wrote back and forth about arrangements and

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Speaker 1: logistics and speeches or were they going to be ad

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Speaker 1: libs and transportations, and whether or not they take me

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Speaker 1: on a tour of the campus there at Oxford. I

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Speaker 1: called my dog sitter. I was ready to go. We

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Speaker 1: arranged for it to be November sixteenth, the date they

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Speaker 1: asked for. I planned my trip to England, and that

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Speaker 1: was the last I heard from them. They never followed up.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, it wasn't a big deal. Obviously I

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Speaker 1: could have done more about it in the last two months.

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Speaker 1: But it became a big deal when I found out

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Speaker 1: that one or the other they took Kevin McCarthy instead.

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Speaker 1: Because they got McCarthy insisting America has never asked for

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Speaker 1: land after it warks up his own hometown and his

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Speaker 1: own own home Congressional district instead of me, and what

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Speaker 1: had struck me instantly when they told me what that

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Speaker 1: question was as the best possible way anybody could start

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Speaker 1: their reply to the question, This house fears the return

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Speaker 1: of Trump's America, which would have been you fear the

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Speaker 1: return of Trump's America, the Oxford Union Society. You got

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Speaker 1: what you're paid for. Today's worst bosons in the world

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Speaker 1: of the the number one story on the Countdown and

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Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell, And before I tell

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Speaker 1: my part of it, I've heard this story about Sports

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Speaker 1: Illustrated and its staff of sports writers, some of whom

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Speaker 1: don't exist. It was the website Futurism that apparently uncovered this.

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Speaker 1: Whether it was the images of the writers that tipped

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Speaker 1: them off and that blank stare in the eyes, or

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Speaker 1: the sentences attributed to the writers, like the one about

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Speaker 1: volleyball warning that the sport quote can be a little

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Speaker 1: tricky to get into, especially without an actual ball to

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Speaker 1: practice with. Or maybe it was the fact that Sports

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Speaker 1: Illustrated might have claimed that it had a new writer

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Speaker 1: named Drew or Tease, but he had absolutely no social

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Speaker 1: media profile whatsoever. Or maybe it was that if you

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Speaker 1: clicked on the profile of Drew or tees. It directed

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Speaker 1: you instead to the page of somebody else named Sora

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Speaker 1: Tanaka Fitness grew on the product reviews team, and then

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Speaker 1: her page disappeared, and suddenly it was like the old

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Speaker 1: Twilight Zone episode where three astronauts come back from space

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Speaker 1: and one of them starts feeling weird and then he

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Speaker 1: picks up a new and he lets at a scream

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Speaker 1: because the headline reads two astronauts return from space and

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Speaker 1: suddenly he disappears. That's what happened at Sports Illustrated. Futurism

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Speaker 1: reports that the work of Drew Ortiz and have unnamed

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Speaker 1: other Sports Illustrated writers was in fact generated by artificial intelligence,

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Speaker 1: and the picture of Drew Ortiz on his profile page

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Speaker 1: it was available for licensing from a site that sells

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Speaker 1: AI generated headshots. He's a quote neutral, white young adult

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Speaker 1: male with short brown hair and blue eyes. Sora Tanaka's

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Speaker 1: head is apparently available from the same site. It's creepy,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of sad. I mean, Drew Ortiz has a

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Speaker 1: look in his eyes like why don't I exist? And

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Speaker 1: soon it will be everywhere because sports reporters who don't

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Speaker 1: exist cost way less than sports writers who do actually

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Speaker 1: not that way less. When I broke in in nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy nine, I was paid sixteen five hundred dollars by

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Speaker 1: United Press International, and it was a union job based

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Speaker 1: on seniority, and I didn't really have any five days

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Speaker 1: a week of work usually about thirty five sportscasts, all

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Speaker 1: of which I had to write, and I had to

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Speaker 1: edit material and literally cut audio tape, and I had

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Speaker 1: reporting assignments to do, etc. All the training in the world,

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Speaker 1: mind you, but to be honest, by the end of

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Speaker 1: the sixth or seventh month, I was so tired. I

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Speaker 1: sure felt like I too had been generated by artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking of when I read this

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Speaker 1: story about Sports Illustrated. That and the fact that for

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Speaker 1: one year in nineteen ninety eight, I wrote a weekly

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Speaker 1: baseball column for Sports Illustrated and the whole thing is

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Speaker 1: very sad what has happened to that magazine. But honestly,

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Speaker 1: when I broke in, I guess I would have actually

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Speaker 1: appreciated having an artificial intelligence doppelganger second Keith Olberman, who

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Speaker 1: could generate scripts for my UPI sportscasts, or do the

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Speaker 1: reporting for me, or get up early in the morning,

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Speaker 1: especially that one day, six months into my first job,

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Speaker 1: when I awoke at the nineteen eighty Winter Olympics in

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Speaker 1: Lake Placid, New York. The alarm goes off. It is

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Speaker 1: pitch black in my room at the Swiss Acres Motel.

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Speaker 1: It is Valentine's Day, and I am still drunk. Keith

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Speaker 1: knew he was in trouble, but I was also twenty

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Speaker 1: one years old, and in fact, my twenty first birthday

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Speaker 1: had only been eighteen days earlier. So somehow I survived, showered, dressed, packed,

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Speaker 1: and I mean I packed two cassette tape recorders, four

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Speaker 1: sets of batteries, an audio processing machine that weighed like

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Speaker 1: fourteen pounds. The nine volt batteries it took, I think

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Speaker 1: it was a dozen of them, a telephone, a backup telephone,

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Speaker 1: twelve assorted patch cords, two loose leaf notebooks, about eight pens,

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Speaker 1: two microphones, two extra pair of socks. Then I got dressed,

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Speaker 1: two full sets of thermal underwear, shirts, sweaters, snow pants,

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Speaker 1: snow shoes because it was eleven degrees below zero that morning.

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Speaker 1: I got something quick to eat at the commissary and

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Speaker 1: I made it out somehow to the line for the

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Speaker 1: bus from the Lake Placid Olympics Center to the Lake

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Speaker 1: Placid Transportation Center to Lake Placid's own white Face Mountain,

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Speaker 1: then onto the snow track the open penned mountain tractor

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Speaker 1: that went up the side of Whiteface Mountain and took

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Speaker 1: me to the finish line of the nineteen eighty Olympic

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Speaker 1: Men's downhill ski final still drunk. That is how a

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Speaker 1: reporter covered the Olympics nearly forty three years ago. You drank,

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Speaker 1: you woke up, you went, You stood near the finish line,

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Speaker 1: and when the skiers completed their runs, you hiked or

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Speaker 1: wobbled over to them and you took out your microphone

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Speaker 1: or your pen and you interviewed them, like two minutes

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Speaker 1: after they had finished hurtling towards you down the hill.

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Speaker 1: You could see almost nothing of the race from there.

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Speaker 1: There were no TV monitors. Basically, your only clue was

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Speaker 1: the sound of the crowd that would give you about

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Speaker 1: thirty seconds worth of warning that the skier was coming

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Speaker 1: over the near horizon and you should be prepared to

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Speaker 1: flee just in case he or she wiped out. Also,

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Speaker 1: you were on top of a mountain at the dead

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Speaker 1: there had already been four inches of new snow since

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Speaker 1: part came in Handy, my boss is at my first job,

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Speaker 1: the thousand station radio network called United pres International Audio,

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Speaker 1: had decided the night before to teach me how to

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Speaker 1: drink while on assignment. My bosses were the bureau manager

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Speaker 1: for that part of UPI, the late Stan Sabik, who

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Speaker 1: the network, who not only somehow survived being my first boss,

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Speaker 1: as the television voice of the New York Rangers hockey

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Speaker 1: team and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame. So

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Speaker 1: I guess my reputation is a tough employee is wildly overrated,

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Speaker 1: or at least Sam thinks. So Sam and Stan kept

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Speaker 1: me drinking at the motel until two am, knowing full

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Speaker 1: well that I had to get on the six am

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Speaker 1: bus to go cover the men's downhill, because it was

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Speaker 1: the two of them who had assigned me to go

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Speaker 1: cover the men's downhill, and bluntly, I was surprisingly pleased

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Speaker 1: with myself that freezing morning, because I had indeed learned

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Speaker 1: how to drink while on assignment. I had somehow found

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Speaker 1: the phone jack for the UPI phone buried under all

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Speaker 1: the new snow, which of course was buried under all

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Speaker 1: the old snow, attached the phone to it, got in

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Speaker 1: a dial tone, called the office, checked the alligator clips

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Speaker 1: with which I would feed the tape, and all was

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Speaker 1: the cassette recorder. I didn't have one fat lot of

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Speaker 1: good two cassette tape machines gonna do you without a

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Speaker 1: cassette to sticking one of them. I looked forlornly around

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Speaker 1: the base of Whiteface Mountain, twelve hundred feet above sea level.

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Speaker 1: As we were. There was a surprisingly nice chalet and

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Speaker 1: a decent restaurant, but there were no radio shacks or

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Speaker 1: other electronics stores. There was, however, one other radio guy,

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Speaker 1: Jack Briggs, from the Associated Press Radio Network, the nominal

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Speaker 1: arch rival to our own UPI Audio. I knew Jack

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Speaker 1: a little. He was a nice guy. I went and

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Speaker 1: explained my plight, making sure to blame my bosses for

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Speaker 1: my predicament. Oh man, he said, his breath turning into

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Speaker 1: first steam and then ice cubes. I'm so sorry, but

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Speaker 1: I can't give you a cassette. I'm sorry, you're UPI

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Speaker 1: and I'm ap Oh how, I laughed. That was a

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Speaker 1: great line to say to a rookie reporter, still drunk,

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Speaker 1: thanks to the initiation rituals of his own bosses, the

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Speaker 1: possessor of one great buzz but zero audio cassettes, Jack

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Speaker 1: Briggs could tell I thought he was kidding. That's when

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Speaker 1: he said, I'm not kidding. Look, if my boss, Shelby

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Speaker 1: Whitfield ever found out, he'd fire me. I suddenly wasn't

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Speaker 1: drunk anymore, not at all. My boss will will fire me.

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Speaker 1: Briggs was adamant. I can't run the risk of Shelby

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Speaker 1: finding out. I have to confess. I shouted, how the

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Speaker 1: hell is he gonna find out? Jack? I think subconsciously

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Speaker 1: I was hoping to create an avalanche, which would have

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Speaker 1: been a better solution than the one I was faced with.

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Speaker 1: I said to him, there's you and there's me. And

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Speaker 1: we're on top of a goddamn mountain and Shelby Whitfield.

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Speaker 1: Your boss is in Washington, DC, and he's a drunk,

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Speaker 1: and he's probably more drunk than I am, and he'd

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Speaker 1: probably thank you for helping me to drink more. Briggs

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Speaker 1: would not budge. I told him I would pay him.

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Speaker 1: I told him I would give him the cassette back

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Speaker 1: after I fed my boss the interviews over the phone,

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Speaker 1: so there'd be no evidence and he wouldn't even have

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Speaker 1: to do any interviews. No good, I'm sorry, and I

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Speaker 1: know you're going to tell this story about me for

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Speaker 1: a while. As he walked away from me, I shouted

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Speaker 1: after him. Forever. Turned out there was no radio shack

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Speaker 1: and no camaraderie, but there was a West Coast newspaper

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Speaker 1: reporter top the mountain who heard some of this conversation.

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Speaker 1: I guess I yelled a little loudly at mister Briggs.

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Speaker 1: Some guy standing next to a Saint Bernard told me

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Speaker 1: to quiet down. He mentioned something else about the avalanches,

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Speaker 1: or maybe I dreamed that part. I don't know. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: the West Coast newspaper guy said he had a micro

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Speaker 1: cassette machine and he would loan it to me and

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Speaker 1: I could give it back to him at the media

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Speaker 1: center that day or the next one. But I had

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Speaker 1: to do him a favor because there was this really

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Speaker 1: cute reporter in our UPI bureau and he really wanted

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Speaker 1: to be introduced to her. And I said, I can

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Speaker 1: promise you nothing but a handshake, and he understood, and

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Speaker 1: that's how I did not get fired. But of course,

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Speaker 1: a story like this has punchlines, and this one has

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Speaker 1: two of them. The first is two years and a

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Speaker 1: couple of months later, Shelby Whitfield asked me to lunch.

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Speaker 1: He had left the Associated Press to run the sports

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Speaker 1: department at the ABC Radio network, back when that was

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Speaker 1: not only a thing, but a big thing. We went

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Speaker 1: called Shun Lee, and Shelby Whitfield interviewed me for a

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Speaker 1: job when that kind of job paid eighty thousand a

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Speaker 1: year in my very nice studio apartment in a very

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Speaker 1: a month later, in an interesting twist, I found out

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Speaker 1: that jobs didn't exist. I was mentioning the interview in

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Speaker 1: there was another kid reporter named Howie Rose, and how

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Speaker 1: he is still working. He does the New York Mets

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Speaker 1: games on the radio. And how he said, wait, they

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Speaker 1: for that damn Whitfield to go drink his lunch on

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Speaker 1: ABC's tab. Anyway, before we started the interview for the

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Speaker 1: job I did not know did not exist at ABC.

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Speaker 1: I told Shelby Whitfield the white Face Mountain, can I

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Speaker 1: borrow a cassette Jack Briggs story? And Shelby's exact reply was,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Was I going to find out? There

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Speaker 1: was you and there was him, and you were on

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Speaker 1: top of a goddamn mountain and I was in Washington.

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Speaker 1: Only he didn't say goddamn At Briggs, he added, always

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Speaker 1: trying to suck up to me, I got to tell

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Speaker 1: you something I actually once promised I wouldn't tell you

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Speaker 1: if we ever met. This. When the Olympics were over

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Speaker 1: and came back to the office, he told me what happened.

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Speaker 1: He expected me to be happy or give him a

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Speaker 1: bonus or something, and I called him a little snitch.

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Speaker 1: Only Shelby didn't say snitch, just a word that rhymed

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Speaker 1: with it. The other punch line is from nineteen ninety two,

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Speaker 1: and remember this happened at the nineteen eighty Olympics. I

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Speaker 1: early to launch their radio network, a story I've told

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Speaker 1: here before. And there I find a friend of mine

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Speaker 1: since my radio days who I had not seen in

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Speaker 1: a year or so, and he says, hey, last month,

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Speaker 1: I was at an NBA game in Washington. I ran

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Speaker 1: int at Jack Briggs. He heard you were going to ESPN.

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Speaker 1: He asked me if you were still telling that story

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Speaker 1: about the time you got stuck on Whiteface Mountain without

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Speaker 1: and he wouldn't give you a spare. And I told

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Speaker 1: him you were, and I smiled, and I replied, I

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Speaker 1: hope you remembered to use the word forever. I've done

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

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Speaker 1: Countdown has come to you from the Vin Scully Studios

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Speaker 1: at the Olberman Broadcasting Empire headquarters in New York Countown.

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

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Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration

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Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums,

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

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Speaker 1: other Beethoven songs, were arranged and performed by Noah Horns allowed.

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Speaker 1: Here's J. D. Roberts to introduce the latest Beethoven tune.

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Speaker 1: The sports music is courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And it

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Speaker 1: was written by Mitch Warren Davis, and we call it

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Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two. I mean, I know

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Speaker 1: I don't really need to cast stones, having come from

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Speaker 1: a sports background, but I had trained in news before

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Speaker 1: kind of practicing to do news before I did news.

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Speaker 1: This guy was spinning discs one day and anchoring the

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Speaker 1: news in Toronto the next. You thought, the Canadians at standards.

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Speaker 1: Where was I in the sign off? Yes? The sports

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Speaker 1: music Curtis VSPN Inc. Written by Mitch Warren Davis, called

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Speaker 1: the Olderman theme our satirical and pithy more mythy Our

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Speaker 1: satirical and mythological. Musical comments are by Nancy Faust. The

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Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever, and who talks better than

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Speaker 1: I do. Our announcer today was my friend Richard Lewis,

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Speaker 1: and everything else was obviously my fault. That's countdown for this,

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Speaker 1: the one thy fifty seventh day since dementia Jay Trump's

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Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the

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Speaker 1: United States. Convict him now while we still can, but

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Speaker 1: not until after he calls Biden Obama again. The next

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Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin says the news warrants till then.

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Speaker 1: I'm Keith Oulderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and

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

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