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

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Speaker 1: we start, I want to make sure you know about this,

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Speaker 1: this taxpayer funded FBI Olympic jock sniffing yesterday. Though I

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Speaker 1: assume you do. That is the sound of you and

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Speaker 1: I paying for Cash Patel, okay, crash Patel to go

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Speaker 1: to the Olympics in Italy yesterday and go into the

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Speaker 1: US hockey team dressing room after the gold medal was

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Speaker 1: won and pretend like he was on the team and

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Speaker 1: swill beer with the boys and dance his little cringe

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Speaker 1: cross eyed dance with them wearing his little USA sweater

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Speaker 1: and have his press flag indignantly insist he was there

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Speaker 1: on business, supervising one hundred American agents at the Land

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Speaker 1: Joint Operations Center, protecting all the American tourists. And they

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Speaker 1: just had to have the FBI director there among the

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Speaker 1: one hundred agents present, and and and this probably cost

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Speaker 1: us four hundred thousand dollars. But at least we didn't

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Speaker 1: pay for him to go see his girlfriend quote sing

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Speaker 1: unquote again, Yet we did pay to underscore Cash Battel's

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Speaker 1: amazing hypocrisy. Ron Philipkowski found this. It's from three years ago.

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Speaker 1: And if the name he uses here doesn't ring a bell,

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Speaker 1: Chris Ray was Cash Hotel's predecessor as director of the FBI.

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Speaker 1: He was, in fact, the last director of the FBI

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Speaker 1: who did any directing of the FBI or investigating as

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Speaker 1: part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation where pretty much

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Speaker 1: anything besides spending our goddamned money on permanent road trips.

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Speaker 2: I'm not the defund everything guy. I'm just saying Chris

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Speaker 2: Ray doesn't need a government funded G five jet to

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Speaker 2: go to vacation. Maybe we ground that plane fifteen thousand

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Speaker 2: every time it takes off.

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Speaker 1: This is thought for now. Patel gets away with this.

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Speaker 1: If the cards fall correctly, this will end in a

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Speaker 1: couple of years with a future director not of the FBI,

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Speaker 1: but of the DOJ prosecuting him and putting him in

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Speaker 1: prison for misappropriation of public funds. Cash Pattel starring in

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Speaker 1: the FBI. That's FBI fanboy international. He stole one thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars per family per household with illegal tariffs last year.

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Speaker 1: That's one hundred and thirty five billion. It'll be least

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Speaker 1: that muchar before they can stop it. From the tarrace

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Speaker 1: that's another one hundred and thirty five billion, ten billion

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Speaker 1: from the Treasury for this Board of Peace that he's

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Speaker 1: in charge of for life. Ten billion more's demanding from

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Speaker 1: the Justice Department for prosecuting him for insurrection just because

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Speaker 1: he was guilty of insurrection. There's another four hundred million

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Speaker 1: for building his ballroom. I don't want to see his

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Speaker 1: ball room, so okay, if it's four hundred million to

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Speaker 1: build his ballroom, it's what to destroy the East Wing,

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Speaker 1: dump that part of the White House, the White House

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Speaker 1: onto the East Potomac Golf Links because he's trying to

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Speaker 1: take that over and make it another Trump golf course.

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Speaker 1: So it's going to be more to clean that up

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Speaker 1: and clean up the East Potomac Golf Links. That's what

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Speaker 1: another four hundred million. Then when we destroy the Trump

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Speaker 1: Memorial Ballroom in January twenty twenty nine and rebuild the

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Speaker 1: East Wing the way it was, that'll be what another

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Speaker 1: half billion. So so far that's one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: five billion, one hundred and thirty five ten ten two

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Speaker 1: fifths of one twenty fifth to one half one carry

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Speaker 1: the for it's to two hundred and ninety one billion,

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Speaker 1: three hundred million dollars Donald Trump has stolen from us

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Speaker 1: to under ninety one point three billion that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: owes you and me, and we are getting it back.

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Speaker 1: What we should do is declare January twentieth, twenty twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: Trump Day, in which Congress authorizes simply seizing all Trump

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Speaker 1: family financial assets and dispersing them immediately to the citizens

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Speaker 1: of the United States Trump Purge Day. Because my figure

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Speaker 1: here to D ninety one point three billion. That's just

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Speaker 1: on the tariff money he stole from us and the

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Speaker 1: illegal destruction of the White House. We haven't gotten to

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Speaker 1: the lawsuits over psychological and reputational damage to the United

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Speaker 1: States of America internationally and every citizen of the United

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Speaker 1: States America. And of course we haven't even gotten to

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Speaker 1: the money filched by Ouda and Kusy and Kushne. Let's

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Speaker 1: just even it out here, round it up, call it

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Speaker 1: a trillion dollars. Let's just say Donald Trump has already

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Speaker 1: stolen a trillion dollars from us, on top of everything

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Speaker 1: he's done to destroy democracy, destroy this position of this

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Speaker 1: country in this world, favor the Russians, act on behalf

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Speaker 1: of other tyrants and nations. Just the money he's stolen

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Speaker 1: a trillion dollars from it and we want it back.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say Donald Trump is the greatest thief in

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Speaker 1: American history. Let's just round it up and say, Trump,

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Speaker 1: you're going to give all of it back, because, to

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Speaker 1: quote the great George C. Scott in the Paul Newman

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Speaker 1: Jackie Gleason pool movie The Hustler, you owe me money.

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Speaker 1: He owes us the money because this weekend passed was

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Speaker 1: the weekend when Trump got his comeuppance. Well, they got

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Speaker 1: a come upance. The come upance upences later on Friday,

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Speaker 1: as you know, three of the members of his concierge

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court rebelled and struck down his usurpation of Congress's

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Speaker 1: tariff privileges. He immediately went nuts, that is more nuts,

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Speaker 1: and started swearing uncontrollably during a governor's meeting. Trump responded

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Speaker 1: to having the unappealable decision of the High Court go

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Speaker 1: against him by trying to figure out a way around it,

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Speaker 1: and as usual, by simply announcing he had found owned

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Speaker 1: a way around it and it was perfectly legal, and

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Speaker 1: he was applying a ten percent global tariff because the

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Speaker 1: court said that was okay. When the Court said no

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Speaker 1: such thing. He also explained everything was still just fine

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Speaker 1: with his genius economic plan except at the explosive economy

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Speaker 1: that had already made us the hottest country in the world,

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Speaker 1: like that was a thing, like that was all that

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Speaker 1: mattered in the world profits for business men, that while

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Speaker 1: it had already made us the hottest in something, it

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Speaker 1: would really only start to impact actual Americans later. That

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Speaker 1: later used to be after he had been in office

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Speaker 1: for a year, which was a month ago. Then it

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Speaker 1: became the second quarter of twenty six, which starts April one.

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Speaker 1: Then it was the third quarter. Now quote you'll start

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Speaker 1: to see the results in a year from now. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: that was Friday night, then Saturday. Somebody explained to him

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Speaker 1: that the new ten percent tariff was not in fact

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Speaker 1: authorized by the Supreme Court or anybody else, but there

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Speaker 1: was a fifteen percent tariff permissible on a limited basis

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty days one hundred and fifty days

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Speaker 1: only under Section one hundred and twenty two of the

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Speaker 1: Trade Act of nineteen seventy four. So Saturday he changed

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Speaker 1: Friday's tariff, which was changed from Thursday's tariff to Saturday's

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Speaker 1: tariff and from ten percent to fifteen percent. Problem with that,

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Speaker 1: of course, as was widely noted by my old friend

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Speaker 1: Neil Kachow and others on Sunday, is that when Trump's

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Speaker 1: lawyers went to the Supreme Court to defend the tariffs

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Speaker 1: by fiat that they struck down on Friday, they defended

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Speaker 1: those tariffs by writing quote, nor does one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty two have any obvious application here? Where the concerns

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Speaker 1: the President identified in declaring an emergency arise from trade deficits,

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Speaker 1: which are conceptually distinct from balance of payments deficits. So

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Speaker 1: if anybody wants to go to court to challenge Saturday's

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Speaker 1: is face Trump's lawyers and quote Trump's lawyers to them.

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Speaker 1: Trump's biggest problem right now isn't the two hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety one point three billion at least he owes us,

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Speaker 1: or the tariff mess he has to unravel, or the

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Speaker 1: small detail that he has a special trade deal with

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Speaker 1: the United Kingdom that guarantees them a ten percent tariff.

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Speaker 1: But he just raised all tariffs of fifteen percent, or

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Speaker 1: the fact that his lead tariff supporters right now are

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Speaker 1: President McKinley, who died in nineteen hundred and one, and

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Speaker 1: Special Adviser Peter Navarro, who thinks that Dow Jones is

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Speaker 1: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik. And you know who Howard Lutnick is.

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Speaker 1: He's Epstein's brand. His biggest problem is that between what

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Speaker 1: the court did and the fact that Trump had to

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Speaker 1: reverse course Friday, then re reverse course Saturday, and will

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Speaker 1: it is now obvious to even the most ardent and

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Speaker 1: There is nobody at the wheel. As the poem from

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Speaker 1: the British magazine Punch that Winston Churchill loved in his

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Speaker 1: The axles creak, and the coupling strain for the pace

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Speaker 1: is hot and the points are near and sleep hath

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Speaker 1: in vain for death is in charge of the clattering Train.

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Speaker 1: That was first published on October fourth, eighteen ninety, so

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Speaker 1: Trump probably read it new when it came out. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't just that Trump was enfeebled by three of the

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Speaker 1: worst villains in Supreme Court history, two of whom he appointed.

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Speaker 1: It was that they came as close as anybody yet

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Speaker 1: has no clothes or, in this case, no plan. Trump's petulant, stupid,

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Speaker 1: and most importantly impotent response to the ruling was so

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Speaker 1: childish even for him, that even the Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 1: editorial board noticed quote Trump owes the Supreme Court an apology.

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Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal has now written to the individual

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Speaker 1: justices he smeared on Friday, and the institution itself. Mister

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Speaker 1: Trump doubtless won't offer one. But his rant in response

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Speaker 1: worst moment of his presidency. Well, first of all, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't still can't top that day he tried to inspire

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Speaker 1: a duly elected president from taking office, and he forever

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Speaker 1: broke our whole peaceful transition of power thingy. But it

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Speaker 1: now maybe into the mud and snow covered mess that

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Speaker 1: and two other notes on this. There is, as ever,

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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is viewed rather the way trind hockey

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Speaker 1: hockey folks still expect the refs to not call a

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Speaker 1: managing the game unquote. Individual decisions of right or wrong

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Speaker 1: or a dental rearrangement were lost years ago, and we

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Speaker 1: got this crap instead. It's now big picture of this

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Speaker 1: and balanced opportunities that the Court goes this same line

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Speaker 1: of thinking, only ruled against tariffs so that when it

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Speaker 1: The next Roe v. Wade level bomb would probably be

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Speaker 1: could easily throw the midterms to MAGA. And sam Alito

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Speaker 1: Putin and Trump. Wow, Boris Johnson, a good idea. Finally,

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Speaker 1: Boris Johnson, you have unsuspected depth and concluding the invisible

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Speaker 1: thread of news, the Byron Donald's story, the Byron Donald's

432
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Speaker 1: story is courtesy of one of the British tabloids, the

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Speaker 1: kind for which Boris Johnson once wrote, In this case,

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Speaker 1: it's the Daily Mail, and it's from the first wife

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Speaker 1: of the hapless Trump whore, Congressman Byron Donald's. She is

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Speaker 1: named Bisa Hall, and she was married to him from

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine to two thousand and two when one

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00:29:08,915 --> 00:29:11,075
Speaker 1: day it turned out he had a pregnant girlfriend and

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Speaker 1: he thought he'd liked to be married to her instead.

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Speaker 1: We discovered this when the second Missus Daniels posted a

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day message on Insta which inadvertently revealed she had

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Speaker 1: started dating him while he was still married to Besa Hall.

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00:29:27,595 --> 00:29:31,635
Speaker 1: Because missus Donald's, the second is apparently just as careless

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Speaker 1: as Byron is. What she revealed is not just stupid,

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Speaker 1: but it may summarize everything you need to know about

446
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Speaker 1: the Florida con man and the Trump he serves. Besa

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Speaker 1: Hall says when she met Byron Daniels at Florida A

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Speaker 1: and M University, he had a Jamaican accent. Byron Donalds

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Speaker 1: is from Crown Heights in Brooklyn. It's still possible my

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Speaker 1: mother's aunt by marriage had a Scottish Brugue and she

451
00:30:02,675 --> 00:30:07,795
Speaker 1: was from the Bronx anyway, Bezus says, when Byron asked

452
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Speaker 1: her out quote, he absolutely did have a Jamaican accent.

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00:30:12,035 --> 00:30:15,995
Speaker 1: Then plot twist quote, it was gone within a few days.

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Speaker 1: He said that he used the fake accent because he

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Speaker 1: wanted to stand out. There were a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: at our university from New York, but very few from Jamaica.

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Speaker 1: If you're thinking, what an asshole. Yeah, but she married

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Speaker 1: him because her in state scholarship had run out and

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Speaker 1: the only way to stay in school cheaply was to

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Speaker 1: marry a state resident. So whenever you see Byron Daniels,

461
00:30:46,475 --> 00:30:49,195
Speaker 1: keep your ears open. You never know what he'll be

462
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Speaker 1: pretending to be next. Right now, he's an ardent Trumpist,

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Speaker 1: so no Jamaican lilt. Now. That accent he's using is

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Speaker 1: the one he uses when he pretends to be an American,

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Speaker 1: which leads us to one last in person note, no, sorry,

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Speaker 1: that wasn't Trump calling into c Span as John Baron

467
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. I guess for a second, if you listen

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Speaker 1: to it for the first second, it's a vague possibility,

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Speaker 1: and then you go the voice is too high the

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Speaker 1: comments are much too much about other people rather than

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Speaker 1: about himself. And most tellingly, what he says. What John

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Speaker 1: Baron says on c SPAN before they hang up on him,

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Speaker 1: what he says is coherent. So how could you ever

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Speaker 1: mistake that? For Trump?

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Speaker 4: This is sports Senate Wait, check that not anymore. This

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Speaker 4: is countdown with Keith Ulberman in sports Ball tonight. I

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Speaker 4: hope you enjoyed the greatest hockey game of the last

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Speaker 4: two weeks. I mean, a good overtime game for the

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Speaker 4: gold medal.

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Speaker 1: That's great. The US and finally winning a gold medal

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Speaker 1: in an Olympics not held in the United States. They

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Speaker 1: didn't emphasize that during the celebration, did they. The US

483
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Speaker 1: also finally proving it can win a gold medal in

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Speaker 1: an Olympics. I don't cover ending a forty six year streak,

485
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Speaker 1: but at what price was that really worth shutting down

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Speaker 1: the National Hockey League for two weeks? I mean, if

487
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Speaker 1: you're not a hockey fan, why do you care? I

488
00:32:49,195 --> 00:32:51,595
Speaker 1: guess it was good Sunday Morning TV, but they had

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Speaker 1: to shut down the whole National Hockey League for two weeks.

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Speaker 1: As I have discussed here previously, they subjected Sydney Crosby,

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Speaker 1: one of the top three players of this century, to

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Speaker 1: an injury, the captain of the Canadian and the Pittsburgh Penguins,

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Speaker 1: an injury that was bad enough that he missed the

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Speaker 1: gold medal game. How hurt is he for that to

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Speaker 1: have happened? He's what thirty nine thirty eight is his career?

496
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Speaker 1: In jeopardy? Did you just trade Sydney Crosby's career or

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Speaker 1: at least his effectiveness for one game on a Sunday

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Speaker 1: morning in February after an exciting seven game tournament when

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Speaker 1: they used to play sixty one game pre tournament schedules,

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Speaker 1: and it broke the leg of Kevin Fiala, which probably

501
00:33:36,595 --> 00:33:40,475
Speaker 1: kills the LA Kings playoff chances. Morrissey. If Winnipeg got hurt,

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Speaker 1: this altered the regular season for what amounted to the

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Speaker 1: National Hockey League All Star Game, and it counted for

504
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Speaker 1: something more than an All Star game because they tried

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Speaker 1: hard enough to get hurt, which is the problem, but

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Speaker 1: it didn't really count for all that much. And once again,

507
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Speaker 1: this is why they don't try so they don't get hurts,

508
00:34:04,355 --> 00:34:07,515
Speaker 1: because the regular season is what counts. Don't have All

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Speaker 1: Star games. It will not bring in new hockey fans.

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Speaker 1: As I said, I covered Lake Placid in nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: and among the relevant parts of that in addition to

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Speaker 1: me boasting about it, nineteen eighty did not bring in

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Speaker 1: new hockey fans, not long term. I hope they will

514
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Speaker 1: not do this again. I suspect they will because TV

515
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Speaker 1: ratings me as a hockey fan, I would rather have

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Speaker 1: two weeks of really good National Hockey League games in

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Speaker 1: the middle of February, during that hockey window after the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl games that matter towards the playoffs, rather than

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00:34:47,355 --> 00:34:53,395
Speaker 1: one overtime thriller and a bunch of blowouts and Sidney

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Speaker 1: freaking Crosby getting hurt. Who why is that worth a

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00:34:58,475 --> 00:35:02,115
Speaker 1: US gold? I don't get it. I just don't get it.

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Speaker 1: Also of interest here back to maga marriages, like Byron

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00:35:09,715 --> 00:35:15,955
Speaker 1: Donald's man again with this Katie Miller. The stupidity bloopers

524
00:35:16,235 --> 00:35:19,875
Speaker 1: are too many now to not believe that they are

525
00:35:19,915 --> 00:35:23,235
Speaker 1: in fact Freudian cries for help from her. She has

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00:35:23,315 --> 00:35:27,755
Speaker 1: done it again, a malapropism while she is trying to

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Speaker 1: compliment herself or her man. The little pocket Nosferatu that's next.

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Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith old Woman

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Speaker 1: still ahead on this volume of countdown. Ah, baseball is

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Speaker 1: underway because spring training games should start in February before

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Speaker 1: the Olympics come to an end. I don't know who

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Speaker 1: decided that, but here we are, so now before the

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Speaker 1: end of February. It's time. As it turns out, from

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Speaker 1: my annual answer to the annual question, Hey buddy, why

535
00:36:26,995 --> 00:36:31,835
Speaker 1: aren't you on the baseball channel MLB Network, the answer

536
00:36:31,955 --> 00:36:35,915
Speaker 1: is I'm not because the New York Yankees reportedly threatened

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00:36:36,195 --> 00:36:41,315
Speaker 1: to cut all the electricity to the MLB network equipment

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00:36:41,315 --> 00:36:44,795
Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium if the MLB Network hired me. Because

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00:36:44,835 --> 00:36:47,395
Speaker 1: the son of George Steinbrenner, who owns the team now

540
00:36:47,515 --> 00:36:51,395
Speaker 1: is a moron with skin thinner than the finest Napa

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00:36:51,515 --> 00:36:57,155
Speaker 1: Valley grapes. Sorry, how the two sewer pipes broke outside

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00:36:57,195 --> 00:37:00,555
Speaker 1: your stadium on the first day of spring training Saturday,

543
00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:05,475
Speaker 1: flooding your clubhouse full of well, let's just call it fluid.

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Speaker 1: The story of the day MLB Network ghosted me. Next

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Speaker 1: in things I promise not to tell first, However, we

546
00:37:14,515 --> 00:37:18,075
Speaker 1: always have more new idiots to talk about. That would

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00:37:18,115 --> 00:37:20,115
Speaker 1: be the roundup of the miss Grants, morons and dunning

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

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Speaker 1: the world. The bronze worse Mark Zuckerberg. I don't think

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00:37:32,235 --> 00:37:36,195
Speaker 1: he's ever made this list before, probably because his baseline

551
00:37:36,355 --> 00:37:40,875
Speaker 1: worseness would always win him fifth or sixth place. Anyway,

552
00:37:41,515 --> 00:37:44,155
Speaker 1: plus this event, this is last week now, I think

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00:37:44,275 --> 00:37:47,475
Speaker 1: last Wednesday? Did you see this? I did not see

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00:37:47,475 --> 00:37:50,475
Speaker 1: it as it happened. He is one of the defendants

555
00:37:50,555 --> 00:37:53,355
Speaker 1: in a lawsuit in California in which the social media

556
00:37:53,435 --> 00:37:57,915
Speaker 1: monsters are charged with deliberately making their product addictive to

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00:37:58,035 --> 00:38:03,035
Speaker 1: teens whose brains have not fully formed yet. You think

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00:38:03,755 --> 00:38:07,555
Speaker 1: companies like Menta spend tens of millions at least on

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00:38:07,835 --> 00:38:11,515
Speaker 1: consumer stuff and public relations and lobbying and how to

560
00:38:11,635 --> 00:38:14,595
Speaker 1: deal with things like lawsuits. And yet, in his bubble,

561
00:38:14,955 --> 00:38:18,755
Speaker 1: in his separate universe, constructed out of his vanity, his money,

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00:38:18,795 --> 00:38:22,915
Speaker 1: and his terror of whatever it is he's hiding being revealed,

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00:38:23,555 --> 00:38:27,795
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg thinks this was a good idea. When he went

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Speaker 1: to testify, Zuck and his security bros were all wearing

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Speaker 1: glasses weird, clunky, bad looking nerd glasses, and Judge Carolyn

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Speaker 1: Cule saw them come into her courtroom in these glasses

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00:38:45,235 --> 00:38:48,755
Speaker 1: and freaked out because she recognized or was told what

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Speaker 1: they were. They were wearing Meta AI glasses complete with

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Speaker 1: built in cameras and microphones in her courtroom, and they

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00:38:58,355 --> 00:39:03,435
Speaker 1: thought that would be okay, because our billionaires have completely

571
00:39:03,475 --> 00:39:06,915
Speaker 1: detached from reality and they think they own us, and

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00:39:06,995 --> 00:39:09,755
Speaker 1: they own the courts and they own the governments, and

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Speaker 1: this is not going to end well for them. It

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Speaker 1: just isn't. Maybe not today, maybe not fifty years from now,

575
00:39:17,515 --> 00:39:22,355
Speaker 1: but history teaches us how not well it always ends

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00:39:22,395 --> 00:39:28,035
Speaker 1: for these turds who ultimately only have money. Judge Coole

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Speaker 1: ordered them to take the glasses off and turn the

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Speaker 1: glasses off and then send one of the bodyguards out

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Speaker 1: of the jury room the chambers with all of the

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Speaker 1: glasses that we're recording audio and video, and she added,

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Speaker 1: quote this is very serious a reminder. I speak to

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Speaker 1: you as somebody who made a lot of money in

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Speaker 1: his life, not ten figure money, not nine, but pretty

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Speaker 1: high eight five percent of the money you make in

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Speaker 1: your lifetime, if it's that kind of money, five percent

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00:40:04,155 --> 00:40:09,075
Speaker 1: is skill, maybe five percent of it is timing, and

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Speaker 1: ninety percent of it is luck. If it were otherwise, Zuckerberg,

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Speaker 1: you'd be smart enough not to wear your goddamn recording

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Speaker 1: classes into a courtroom. On the other hand, there is

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Speaker 1: a chance those might be the only six pairs of

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00:40:23,235 --> 00:40:29,755
Speaker 1: those pos Ai glasses. Meta Souled the runner up worser.

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00:40:30,035 --> 00:40:31,915
Speaker 1: At the other end of the spectrum, there are dumb

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Speaker 1: people who don't know that they're just there because of luck.

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Speaker 1: Kid Rock. Did you know he isn't just a Trump whore?

595
00:40:41,515 --> 00:40:44,715
Speaker 1: But apparently he plays music of some kind? Did you

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Speaker 1: know this? I didn't know this. I just thought he

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00:40:47,555 --> 00:40:50,755
Speaker 1: was this unwashed looking guy who stood around Trump a

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00:40:50,795 --> 00:40:53,915
Speaker 1: lot to make Trump look a little less disgusting looking.

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Speaker 1: You want to look less disgusting, hang around with a

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Speaker 1: bunch of disgusting looking people like Kid Rock, And people

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Speaker 1: buy tickets to watch him play music of some sort?

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Speaker 1: What is it? Is it a ukulele? Is it a zither?

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00:41:05,915 --> 00:41:11,155
Speaker 1: Is he a zither player? I guess they buy tickets

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Speaker 1: to watch him play the way people buy tickets to

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Speaker 1: watch Demolition Derby. Anyway, the price has become a story,

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Speaker 1: the price of the tickets, because this people's rocker is

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Speaker 1: charging five thousand dollars for some front row tickets, except

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Speaker 1: he disputes this, and he's angry about the reporting that

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Speaker 1: says he charges five thousand dollars. Let me read you

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Speaker 1: the hell he's dying on, in which he explains he's

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Speaker 1: not charging five thousand dollars for front row tickets, and

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00:41:39,075 --> 00:41:42,355
Speaker 1: then he quickly reveals he is charging five thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: for front row tickets. Listen to this carefully. At kid

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Speaker 1: Rock writes, here we go again. The fake liberal media

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Speaker 1: says I'm charging five thousand dollars for front row tickets.

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00:41:54,275 --> 00:41:57,715
Speaker 1: They know, damn well, that's not the full story. Those

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Speaker 1: are extremely limited first class seats. Like I explained, four

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Speaker 1: tickets per row first five rows, only five k per

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Speaker 1: seat Row one, four k row two, three k row three,

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Speaker 1: two k row two for one k row five again,

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Speaker 1: only four seats in rows one through five, twenty first

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Speaker 1: class seats in venues that hold fifteen k to twenty

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Speaker 1: five k people. Well, that clears it up. He's not

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Speaker 1: charging five thousand dollars a ticket for front row seats.

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00:42:31,555 --> 00:42:34,635
Speaker 1: He's charging five thousand dollars a ticket for front row seats,

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00:42:34,995 --> 00:42:39,515
Speaker 1: four thousand dollars for row two seats three thousand dollars

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00:42:39,515 --> 00:42:45,075
Speaker 1: for row three seats, et cetera. He's mad that reporters

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Speaker 1: did not give the full pricing schedule for fifteen thousand seats,

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Speaker 1: like he's selling fifteen thousand tickets. By the way, Well done, genius.

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Speaker 1: You prove that liberal media is lying about you by

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Speaker 1: confirming it's telling the truth about you. You are selling

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Speaker 1: tickets for five thousand dollars in the front row. Kid shlock,

633
00:43:09,315 --> 00:43:12,915
Speaker 1: but the winner the worst, boy, oh boy, oh boy.

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Speaker 1: Every week we get a better idea, a better answer

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Speaker 1: to that rhetorical question, who on God's green Earth would

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00:43:20,675 --> 00:43:25,475
Speaker 1: actually get married to Stephen Miller? And why? And now

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00:43:25,515 --> 00:43:27,715
Speaker 1: we know? And every week we find out a little

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00:43:27,755 --> 00:43:30,555
Speaker 1: bit more about the why part. Why did this Katie

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00:43:30,555 --> 00:43:34,275
Speaker 1: Miller marry Stephen Miller? Well they were made for each other,

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00:43:35,995 --> 00:43:41,715
Speaker 1: not made well, just made for each other. She does

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Speaker 1: a podcast, she does a lot of social media, and

642
00:43:44,595 --> 00:43:48,715
Speaker 1: there is one Freudian slip for podcast or post. It

643
00:43:48,915 --> 00:43:53,955
Speaker 1: is amazing the number of mistakes, the number of screams

644
00:43:53,995 --> 00:43:57,755
Speaker 1: from inside her soul that this woman makes. It's amazing.

645
00:43:58,075 --> 00:44:02,555
Speaker 1: The latest she has decided that birth control leads to

646
00:44:02,755 --> 00:44:10,315
Speaker 1: increased infertility in women. Birth control leads to increased infertility

647
00:44:10,475 --> 00:44:15,675
Speaker 1: in women. Wow, you have figured that out for yourself. Ah, Katie.

648
00:44:15,795 --> 00:44:19,355
Speaker 1: But that's just the background, that's just the context. Listen

649
00:44:19,395 --> 00:44:24,395
Speaker 1: to the Freudian Dunning Krueger Apex moment blooper in here

650
00:44:25,635 --> 00:44:32,635
Speaker 1: as she chastises educating educational education of a thing. Quote

651
00:44:33,475 --> 00:44:38,275
Speaker 1: as countries get richer, women become more education and have

652
00:44:38,395 --> 00:44:44,275
Speaker 1: increased career opportunity. As countries get richer, women become more education.

653
00:44:47,515 --> 00:44:51,515
Speaker 1: She's taking the anti education at point of view. You

654
00:44:51,555 --> 00:44:59,395
Speaker 1: wouldn't want women to become more education, ms. Miller. My god,

655
00:45:00,195 --> 00:45:03,635
Speaker 1: it sounds like you need to become more education, Katie.

656
00:45:03,715 --> 00:45:06,555
Speaker 1: There are fewer chills chldren being born because women are

657
00:45:06,555 --> 00:45:10,715
Speaker 1: too smart, and I'm fighting back by being dumber Miller,

658
00:45:11,315 --> 00:45:15,995
Speaker 1: Today's other worst person.

659
00:45:17,195 --> 00:45:17,955
Speaker 4: And the world.

660
00:45:34,995 --> 00:45:38,475
Speaker 1: The owners of at least five different Major League Baseball

661
00:45:38,475 --> 00:45:40,795
Speaker 1: teams have tried to get me fired over the years

662
00:45:40,835 --> 00:45:45,275
Speaker 1: and won. The New York Yankees kind of succeeded. On

663
00:45:45,315 --> 00:45:49,395
Speaker 1: November twenty six, twenty twelve, my agent followed the instructions

664
00:45:49,395 --> 00:45:52,635
Speaker 1: of Tony Petiti, then the president of the TV publicity

665
00:45:52,715 --> 00:45:55,995
Speaker 1: channel owned by Major League Baseball MLB Network, and called

666
00:45:56,035 --> 00:45:58,555
Speaker 1: Petiti to finalize a deal by which I would join

667
00:45:58,595 --> 00:46:02,075
Speaker 1: the channel to do a daily show, probably at five

668
00:46:02,075 --> 00:46:03,755
Speaker 1: point thirty at night. It was going to be Weird

669
00:46:04,795 --> 00:46:08,355
Speaker 1: Network and its sister hockey channel, NHL Network originate in

670
00:46:08,395 --> 00:46:12,515
Speaker 1: the same studios in caucas New Jersey that MSNBC used

671
00:46:12,875 --> 00:46:15,315
Speaker 1: every day from the day I started there in October

672
00:46:15,395 --> 00:46:18,915
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven through the day in October two thousand

673
00:46:18,915 --> 00:46:21,435
Speaker 1: and seven when NBC finally moved us to New York City.

674
00:46:22,195 --> 00:46:25,235
Speaker 1: I had been asked to do something for MLB Network

675
00:46:25,315 --> 00:46:27,315
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine,

676
00:46:27,355 --> 00:46:29,875
Speaker 1: before it ever got on the air. The request came

677
00:46:29,915 --> 00:46:33,275
Speaker 1: directly from the then Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Selig. He

678
00:46:33,355 --> 00:46:36,595
Speaker 1: also asked me to write for Baseball's website, MLB dot com.

679
00:46:36,635 --> 00:46:39,555
Speaker 1: We actually got that done, but the TV show was

680
00:46:39,595 --> 00:46:42,755
Speaker 1: impossible because of my schedule until I was a free

681
00:46:42,755 --> 00:46:46,235
Speaker 1: agent in the fall of twenty twelve. So I was

682
00:46:46,275 --> 00:46:48,355
Speaker 1: invited in the fall of twenty twelve to do a

683
00:46:48,355 --> 00:46:51,155
Speaker 1: couple of guest appearances at MLB Network, and they went

684
00:46:51,235 --> 00:46:54,995
Speaker 1: well except for this crazy deja vu kind of thing

685
00:46:55,035 --> 00:46:56,555
Speaker 1: that hit me when I went into the building and

686
00:46:56,595 --> 00:47:00,315
Speaker 1: found that While Baseball had spent sixty million dollars to

687
00:47:00,475 --> 00:47:04,075
Speaker 1: upgrade all the technical stuff in the studio designs, they

688
00:47:04,115 --> 00:47:09,195
Speaker 1: had not touched anything else from the MSNBC era. The

689
00:47:09,275 --> 00:47:13,675
Speaker 1: carpet tiles were the same, the ping pong table in

690
00:47:13,715 --> 00:47:17,355
Speaker 1: the breakroom was the same. The signs on the back

691
00:47:17,395 --> 00:47:20,195
Speaker 1: of the bathroom door telling you who to call if

692
00:47:20,235 --> 00:47:24,995
Speaker 1: the john overflows were the same. It was like having

693
00:47:25,035 --> 00:47:27,795
Speaker 1: a dream where you're back in your childhood home and

694
00:47:27,835 --> 00:47:30,795
Speaker 1: everything is exactly the way it was, including the creeks

695
00:47:30,835 --> 00:47:33,555
Speaker 1: and the floorboards, except oh, by the way, there's a

696
00:47:33,635 --> 00:47:35,915
Speaker 1: nuclear reactor in the middle of your den, and you

697
00:47:36,035 --> 00:47:40,755
Speaker 1: keep saying, where did that come from? Anyway, The guest

698
00:47:40,755 --> 00:47:44,235
Speaker 1: appearances on MLB Network went well, and this guy Petit,

699
00:47:44,435 --> 00:47:46,915
Speaker 1: the president, asked if I would fill in for two

700
00:47:46,955 --> 00:47:49,355
Speaker 1: days on their new morning show the week of Thanksgiving

701
00:47:49,395 --> 00:47:51,555
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. I certainly knew how to get to the building.

702
00:47:52,035 --> 00:47:54,835
Speaker 1: I did the shows with Brian Kenny and Ken Rosenthal

703
00:47:55,155 --> 00:47:58,355
Speaker 1: and Bob Costas's son Keith, and Alana Rizzo, and we

704
00:47:58,395 --> 00:48:01,635
Speaker 1: had a good time. And Tony Petiti, the president of

705
00:48:01,715 --> 00:48:04,435
Speaker 1: MLB Network, attended the meetings that we would have before

706
00:48:04,475 --> 00:48:08,395
Speaker 1: and after each show. I mean full staff meetings, fifteen

707
00:48:08,515 --> 00:48:11,835
Speaker 1: or so people standing around a bunch of cubicles, and

708
00:48:11,955 --> 00:48:15,395
Speaker 1: in front of all of them, Tony Pazziti began asking

709
00:48:15,435 --> 00:48:17,515
Speaker 1: me if I thought my new show for MLB Network

710
00:48:17,555 --> 00:48:19,875
Speaker 1: would do better at five or five thirty, and if

711
00:48:19,915 --> 00:48:21,755
Speaker 1: I agreed with him that I should work only during

712
00:48:21,755 --> 00:48:25,675
Speaker 1: the baseball season and spring training and playoffs and winter meetings,

713
00:48:25,915 --> 00:48:28,155
Speaker 1: and then stay fresh by taking the rest of the

714
00:48:28,235 --> 00:48:31,235
Speaker 1: year off. He asked me if there were people on

715
00:48:31,275 --> 00:48:33,475
Speaker 1: the staff of the morning show who I would like

716
00:48:33,515 --> 00:48:35,275
Speaker 1: to work with. I mean, this is in front of

717
00:48:35,315 --> 00:48:38,635
Speaker 1: all of the staff of the morning show. He warned

718
00:48:38,635 --> 00:48:40,395
Speaker 1: me they couldn't pay me the kind of salary I

719
00:48:40,435 --> 00:48:42,075
Speaker 1: was used to, and I said that happily, the kind

720
00:48:42,075 --> 00:48:44,355
Speaker 1: of salary I was used to meant I did not

721
00:48:44,515 --> 00:48:47,035
Speaker 1: need the kind of salary I was used to. He

722
00:48:47,075 --> 00:48:49,075
Speaker 1: told me to remind my agent to call him the

723
00:48:49,115 --> 00:48:52,315
Speaker 1: Monday after Thanksgiving. He wished me a happy Turkey, and

724
00:48:52,435 --> 00:48:55,755
Speaker 1: everybody left, and everybody heard his plans, and a couple

725
00:48:55,755 --> 00:48:58,315
Speaker 1: of the producers asked me if I was recommending them

726
00:48:58,355 --> 00:49:03,555
Speaker 1: to be on my new show on MLB Network. So

727
00:49:03,635 --> 00:49:05,835
Speaker 1: how come I don't have a new show on MLB Networker,

728
00:49:05,875 --> 00:49:08,035
Speaker 1: how come we're not celebrating the tenth anniversary of my

729
00:49:08,075 --> 00:49:12,795
Speaker 1: new show on MLB network. Well, on Monday afternoon, my

730
00:49:12,915 --> 00:49:15,315
Speaker 1: agent calls me and says he's just gotten off the

731
00:49:15,315 --> 00:49:18,955
Speaker 1: phone with Tony Pettiti and it was the strangest conversation

732
00:49:19,075 --> 00:49:22,515
Speaker 1: he had had since he became an agent. No, let

733
00:49:22,515 --> 00:49:25,595
Speaker 1: me rephrase that, he said, because it wasn't a conversation,

734
00:49:25,635 --> 00:49:28,475
Speaker 1: it was an attempted conversation. I kept asking him what

735
00:49:28,595 --> 00:49:30,915
Speaker 1: he told me to call him about, and he would

736
00:49:30,955 --> 00:49:35,955
Speaker 1: then say nothing. Initially I did not understand what you

737
00:49:35,995 --> 00:49:39,635
Speaker 1: mean he said nothing. My agent said he meant literally that.

738
00:49:40,235 --> 00:49:42,715
Speaker 1: I say, so, Tony, what's your offer to Keith? And

739
00:49:42,715 --> 00:49:45,435
Speaker 1: then there was silence, and I thought the phone call

740
00:49:45,475 --> 00:49:47,835
Speaker 1: had dropped out. So I said, Tony, are you there?

741
00:49:48,235 --> 00:49:51,315
Speaker 1: And he say sure, I am so Again I asked him,

742
00:49:51,355 --> 00:49:54,595
Speaker 1: you know what's your offer to Keith? And again literally silence,

743
00:49:55,235 --> 00:49:57,875
Speaker 1: only this time I can hear him breathing. I tried,

744
00:49:57,955 --> 00:50:02,555
Speaker 1: like ten different ways, are we talking about Keith? Now? Silence?

745
00:50:02,955 --> 00:50:06,355
Speaker 1: Is there a reason you're being silent about Keith? Tony? Silence?

746
00:50:06,595 --> 00:50:09,275
Speaker 1: If I changed the subject, talked about somebody else, he

747
00:50:09,475 --> 00:50:12,275
Speaker 1: was his normal self. If I mentioned your name, he

748
00:50:12,355 --> 00:50:16,155
Speaker 1: went silent. The next day, the agent calls me back.

749
00:50:17,435 --> 00:50:19,235
Speaker 1: Petiti just did this again with me on the phone.

750
00:50:19,235 --> 00:50:21,595
Speaker 1: He wouldn't speak, literally, wouldn't say any words in any

751
00:50:21,675 --> 00:50:26,995
Speaker 1: language if I mentioned your name. Took me a long

752
00:50:27,275 --> 00:50:31,155
Speaker 1: time to find out what had actually happened. The next

753
00:50:31,155 --> 00:50:33,755
Speaker 1: baseball season, after I'd gone back to work at ESPN,

754
00:50:34,195 --> 00:50:36,995
Speaker 1: I'm at a game. There's one of the MLB network

755
00:50:36,995 --> 00:50:39,675
Speaker 1: officials whom I'd met on my two days before Thanksgiving

756
00:50:39,675 --> 00:50:43,275
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, and this person comes up to me and apologizes.

757
00:50:44,035 --> 00:50:46,955
Speaker 1: We all heard what happened. It's so embarrassing. Patiti is

758
00:50:46,995 --> 00:50:50,435
Speaker 1: such a coward. The Yankees got to him and another club,

759
00:50:50,475 --> 00:50:52,595
Speaker 1: I never found out which one. There was some kind

760
00:50:52,595 --> 00:50:55,515
Speaker 1: of conference call a Monday after Thanksgiving to tell the

761
00:50:55,515 --> 00:50:57,475
Speaker 1: teams about your new show, and whoever was on the

762
00:50:57,515 --> 00:51:00,515
Speaker 1: call for the Yankees went ballistic. He said something like,

763
00:51:00,595 --> 00:51:02,715
Speaker 1: if you put him on MLB Network, we will disable

764
00:51:02,755 --> 00:51:05,475
Speaker 1: your cameras at Yankee Stadium and never let any of

765
00:51:05,475 --> 00:51:10,555
Speaker 1: you inside the building again. Instantly I knew why the

766
00:51:10,635 --> 00:51:14,955
Speaker 1: Yankees would have done that. I was and my father

767
00:51:15,035 --> 00:51:18,275
Speaker 1: before me, a season ticket holder for forty two years

768
00:51:18,275 --> 00:51:20,875
Speaker 1: for Yankee games, and for ten of those years I

769
00:51:20,955 --> 00:51:23,515
Speaker 1: was also one of the two announcers who did a

770
00:51:23,595 --> 00:51:26,715
Speaker 1: kind of play by play over the public address system

771
00:51:26,755 --> 00:51:30,195
Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium on Old Timer's Day. And then one

772
00:51:30,235 --> 00:51:33,835
Speaker 1: day in twenty eleven, I tweeted a photo of a

773
00:51:33,955 --> 00:51:37,075
Speaker 1: Yankee employee in the stands giving some sort of hand

774
00:51:37,275 --> 00:51:41,555
Speaker 1: signals to Alex Rodriguez in the on deck circle. The

775
00:51:41,595 --> 00:51:45,315
Speaker 1: guy was clearly telling Alex Rodriguez what the last pitch

776
00:51:45,435 --> 00:51:49,715
Speaker 1: had been. It wasn't cheating, it was helping a supposed

777
00:51:49,835 --> 00:51:53,875
Speaker 1: superstar who apparently could not figure out for himself from

778
00:51:53,955 --> 00:51:58,355
Speaker 1: on the field what the last pitch had been. I

779
00:51:58,395 --> 00:52:01,475
Speaker 1: tweeted the photo. Major League Baseball called the Yankees and

780
00:52:01,475 --> 00:52:03,595
Speaker 1: told them to cut it out. The Yankees and a

781
00:52:03,715 --> 00:52:07,275
Speaker 1: Rod looked stupid in the newspapers, and the Yankees management

782
00:52:07,275 --> 00:52:09,275
Speaker 1: said they were not mad at me. And then three

783
00:52:09,275 --> 00:52:12,155
Speaker 1: months later, days before Old Timer's Day, they leaked to

784
00:52:12,195 --> 00:52:15,635
Speaker 1: the papers that I had been fired as Old Timer's

785
00:52:15,715 --> 00:52:18,315
Speaker 1: Day play by play man because I had tweeted that

786
00:52:18,355 --> 00:52:20,875
Speaker 1: photo of Alex Rodriguez and the guy in the stands.

787
00:52:21,675 --> 00:52:25,595
Speaker 1: So rather naturally, my response was to not renew my

788
00:52:25,715 --> 00:52:28,115
Speaker 1: season tickets, and my tickets were right behind home plate

789
00:52:28,315 --> 00:52:30,875
Speaker 1: and they cost like four hundred thousand dollars a year,

790
00:52:31,195 --> 00:52:34,235
Speaker 1: and relax, I gave about seventy percent of them to

791
00:52:34,275 --> 00:52:37,635
Speaker 1: make a wish. But the Yankees, being the Yankees, were

792
00:52:37,715 --> 00:52:40,275
Speaker 1: furious that I would not give them four hundred thousand

793
00:52:40,275 --> 00:52:43,995
Speaker 1: dollars a year anyway, so they told MLB Network if

794
00:52:44,075 --> 00:52:46,475
Speaker 1: MLB Network gave me a show, they would unplug MLB

795
00:52:46,595 --> 00:52:51,475
Speaker 1: networks cameras. Actually they did more than that. I asked

796
00:52:51,475 --> 00:52:54,755
Speaker 1: my friend, the MLB network official, the real puzzler of

797
00:52:54,835 --> 00:52:59,515
Speaker 1: the saga, why this MLB Network President Tony Petiti literally

798
00:52:59,915 --> 00:53:03,515
Speaker 1: would not speak, would not say anything, not even deals

799
00:53:03,635 --> 00:53:08,275
Speaker 1: off to my agent. Oh, the official said, the Yankees

800
00:53:08,275 --> 00:53:11,195
Speaker 1: were specific about that if you say anything to him

801
00:53:11,275 --> 00:53:14,555
Speaker 1: or his people, we will get you fired. So Fetidi

802
00:53:14,595 --> 00:53:16,915
Speaker 1: took it literally. He said, if you called or your

803
00:53:16,955 --> 00:53:21,995
Speaker 1: agent called, to just give you the silent treatment. These

804
00:53:22,035 --> 00:53:25,955
Speaker 1: are adults, mind you, and they say that on air.

805
00:53:26,075 --> 00:53:30,075
Speaker 1: Talent are the prima donnas. As I said, the Yankees

806
00:53:30,355 --> 00:53:33,035
Speaker 1: are the closest of five different teams who tried to

807
00:53:33,555 --> 00:53:36,475
Speaker 1: have actually gotten me fired sort of. When I was

808
00:53:36,475 --> 00:53:39,515
Speaker 1: in local News in Los Angeles. Jackie Autrey, the woman

809
00:53:39,555 --> 00:53:42,115
Speaker 1: who went from being Gene Autry's banker to being his

810
00:53:42,195 --> 00:53:44,795
Speaker 1: second wife, tried to get me fired from my station

811
00:53:44,875 --> 00:53:48,115
Speaker 1: in LA because I had criticized their team, the California Angels.

812
00:53:48,715 --> 00:53:50,635
Speaker 1: She tried again a few years later after I got

813
00:53:50,635 --> 00:53:54,715
Speaker 1: to ESPN. Then there were the Tampa Bay Rays, well,

814
00:53:54,755 --> 00:53:57,595
Speaker 1: the Devil Rays at that point, whose first owner, Vince Namoli,

815
00:53:58,035 --> 00:54:00,515
Speaker 1: was convinced I had a vendetta against his team and

816
00:54:00,595 --> 00:54:04,715
Speaker 1: was making up stories about them that were accidentally true.

817
00:54:04,755 --> 00:54:08,675
Speaker 1: He could not conceive that somebody in his organization who

818
00:54:08,675 --> 00:54:12,315
Speaker 1: he paid, actually hated him so much that this person

819
00:54:12,355 --> 00:54:15,595
Speaker 1: called me up and volunteered to feed me anything bad

820
00:54:15,675 --> 00:54:18,675
Speaker 1: that went on there. But that is exactly what happened.

821
00:54:19,515 --> 00:54:21,755
Speaker 1: So that's the Yankees, the Angels, and the Rays, and

822
00:54:21,835 --> 00:54:25,075
Speaker 1: there's a mystery fifth team that was also involved in

823
00:54:25,115 --> 00:54:27,715
Speaker 1: the MLB network thing. And then there were the Chicago

824
00:54:27,795 --> 00:54:31,755
Speaker 1: White Sox. One of their co owners, Eddie Einhorn, was

825
00:54:31,795 --> 00:54:34,115
Speaker 1: a big fan of mine, but for forty four years

826
00:54:34,595 --> 00:54:36,635
Speaker 1: the team has been run by the other co owner,

827
00:54:36,755 --> 00:54:40,835
Speaker 1: Jerry Rhinsdorf, and Jerry Reinsdorf was one of the key

828
00:54:40,875 --> 00:54:43,475
Speaker 1: figures in the strike that killed the nineteen ninety four

829
00:54:43,515 --> 00:54:47,995
Speaker 1: baseball season. During that terrible winter that followed, my sources

830
00:54:48,035 --> 00:54:51,195
Speaker 1: in the Baseball Players Association showed me a copy of

831
00:54:51,275 --> 00:54:54,595
Speaker 1: their offer to the owners. The owners were led by Rhinsdorf,

832
00:54:54,915 --> 00:54:57,955
Speaker 1: and in the player's offer, they were willing to actually

833
00:54:57,995 --> 00:55:03,275
Speaker 1: negotiate one of the players Union's sacred cows, salary arbitration.

834
00:55:03,835 --> 00:55:07,435
Speaker 1: They were willing to cut it or maybe eliminate it outright.

835
00:55:08,035 --> 00:55:11,755
Speaker 1: But after complaining about salary arbitration for twenty years, the

836
00:55:11,835 --> 00:55:16,195
Speaker 1: owner's committee, led by this Reinsdorf idiot, turned the players down.

837
00:55:17,435 --> 00:55:20,515
Speaker 1: Apparently most of the owners did not know that Rhinsdorff

838
00:55:20,515 --> 00:55:24,355
Speaker 1: had passed on a chance to eliminate salary arbitration, a

839
00:55:24,475 --> 00:55:29,075
Speaker 1: kind of automatic inflation thing within baseball contracts. And they

840
00:55:29,115 --> 00:55:31,395
Speaker 1: came down on Hinsdorff like a ton of bricks. What

841
00:55:31,435 --> 00:55:34,395
Speaker 1: do you mean you turned down the chance to stop

842
00:55:34,595 --> 00:55:39,515
Speaker 1: salary arbitration. So naturally he blamed me, and he called

843
00:55:39,595 --> 00:55:42,035
Speaker 1: up ESPN and he demanded they fire me, which to

844
00:55:42,115 --> 00:55:46,955
Speaker 1: their credit, they never did do. Revenge is a dish

845
00:55:47,035 --> 00:55:49,995
Speaker 1: which people of taste prefer to eat cold goes the

846
00:55:50,075 --> 00:55:54,715
Speaker 1: old Italian proverb. Reinsdorf is today despised within baseball. He

847
00:55:54,755 --> 00:55:58,355
Speaker 1: has once again ruined the Chicago White Sox. The Tampa

848
00:55:58,395 --> 00:56:02,515
Speaker 1: Bay Rays owner name Oli sold the team unknowingly, obviously

849
00:56:02,835 --> 00:56:05,755
Speaker 1: to a man named Stuart Sternberg, who turned out to

850
00:56:05,755 --> 00:56:07,795
Speaker 1: be married to a friend of mine from college. So

851
00:56:07,835 --> 00:56:09,635
Speaker 1: whenever the Rays would come into New York, I would

852
00:56:09,635 --> 00:56:11,915
Speaker 1: sit with Stu and his wife Lisa in their box.

853
00:56:12,195 --> 00:56:16,835
Speaker 1: Their eldest son interned for me MLB network, which started

854
00:56:16,835 --> 00:56:19,755
Speaker 1: out pretty good, is now just a propaganda machine in

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Robert Manfred and mister Renege on the offer Petiti

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Speaker 1: They'd say, that's not a good team, as opposed to now,

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Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. It is. It is the most raw, raw,

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Speaker 1: League and the NBA and the National Hockey League and

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseballs is the most like North Korean news.

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Speaker 1: But I have a good theme on their show. Any who,

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Speaker 1: the shame is It really was at the beginning, really good.

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Speaker 1: It was probably better than watching live games. And now,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, not as a hostage. Thank you. I've

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Speaker 1: fired that one and they would have I did the stories.

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Speaker 1: Keith always gets fired. Keith does not always get fired.

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Speaker 1: or quit in the middle of a show. I've done all.

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Speaker 1: You know how we worked that out with bud Selig.

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Speaker 1: Bud Selig when he offered me that job that MLB

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Speaker 1: later backed out of, bud Selig called me and said,

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Speaker 1: before you go on and erupt against something that we're doing,

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Speaker 1: call me so I can at least explain it to you.

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Speaker 1: All I ask is that you put my side of

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Speaker 1: the story in your rant. That's all I want. And

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Speaker 1: I went, that's fine. Not with this Manfred guy. That's

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Speaker 1: not what they want. And I know this guy Tony

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Speaker 1: Pettiti who was literally frightened into silence at the end there.

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Speaker 1: He's like commissioner of one of the college leagues. So

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Speaker 1: less of an ethical background in sports than MLB network

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Speaker 1: commissioner of the Big Something. I've lost track. They used

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Speaker 1: Big East, the Big East Conference used to not have

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Speaker 1: nothing east about Nebraska. Well, I guess there's East Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: Where was I? Oh? Saying goodbye? I've done all the

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Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening, especially

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Speaker 1: if you work for MLB network. I'll keep your secret.

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Speaker 1: is responsible for the satirical and pithy musical comments whenever

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Speaker 1: we play the sports music. It's the old Alderman Show

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Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two what was written by Mitch Warren

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Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed

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Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today is

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Speaker 1: my friend Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad. This program was

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Speaker 1: produced by Ted. Everything else was as always my fault.

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Speaker 1: That's Countdown for today. Day four hundred of America held

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Speaker 1: hosage again, but just one thy sixty three days until

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Speaker 1: the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term,

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Speaker 1: unless he is removed sooner by himself or by our

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Speaker 1: friends the Supreme Court. John Roberts and I have the

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Speaker 1: same birthday. Did I ever mention that the next scheduled

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Speaker 1: countdown is Thursday? Bulletins is the news merits until the

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Speaker 1: next one. I'm Keith Ouldreman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,

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

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