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

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Speaker 1: Trump mental illness crisis and cover up worsens this kind

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Speaker 1: of reality detachment in such different venues on such different topics,

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Speaker 1: from the West Point graduation ceremony to demanding somebody pay

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Speaker 1: him much of whatever Harvard takes in intuition in the

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Speaker 1: same weekend. From any other president at any other time,

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Speaker 1: including Trump himself seven or eight years ago, this all

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Speaker 1: would have been greeted by wall to wall television and

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Speaker 1: online coverage and banner newspaper headlines essentially, the president has

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Speaker 1: gone crazy. Instead, within twelve hours, it was all forgotten,

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Speaker 1: so our national media could ignore the extinction level event

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Speaker 1: would not instantly admit that his acuity game had slipped

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Speaker 1: night even if you are crazy, Trump posted this, I

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Speaker 1: defy you to tell me you understand everything he had

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Speaker 1: written here. I defy you to tell me that if

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Speaker 1: anybody other than this political leader had proposed in essence

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Speaker 1: charging foreign countries for buying American products, or had mistaken

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Speaker 1: fifty two million dollars for fifty two billion dollars. If

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Speaker 1: anybody else had done that, tell me that we would

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Speaker 1: not have relaunched my old show, The White House in

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Speaker 1: Crisis only there would have been a version of it

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Speaker 1: the first commercial break. I quote. Why isn't Harvard saying

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Speaker 1: that almost thirty one percent of their students are from

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Speaker 1: foreign lands? This is a well known fact. It was

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Speaker 1: repeated by the Trump administration several days earlier. And yet

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Speaker 1: those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States,

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Speaker 1: pay nothing towards their student's education, nor do they ever

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Speaker 1: intend to. They don't have to. The students have to pay.

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Speaker 1: It's why it's called tuition. Nobody told us that who's

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Speaker 1: this us? We want to know who those foreign students are.

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Speaker 1: A reasonable request, since we give Harvard billions of dollars,

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Speaker 1: But Harvard isn't exactly forthcoming. Every student in here is

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Speaker 1: in the government records. We want those names and countries.

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Speaker 1: Harvard has fifty two million dollars dollars sign fifty two

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Speaker 1: Comma zero zero zero Comma zero zero zero. That's fifty

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Speaker 1: two million. Harvard has fifty two billion. Mised your money,

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Speaker 1: misterr business Trump does not know the difference. Use it

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Speaker 1: and stop asking the federal government to continue granting money

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Speaker 1: to you. The money grants are largely for research, scientific research,

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Speaker 1: historical research, sometimes military research. Trump clearly wants an outbound

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Speaker 1: tariff on an American product education. He not only wants

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Speaker 1: international trade. They are kickbacks, kickbacks to him, personally dressed

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Speaker 1: complete with the presidential seal. For all of his public life,

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Speaker 1: can only see its price tag. No price tag, no value,

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Speaker 1: This goes hand in hand with the reality that Trump

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Speaker 1: in a little bit, but simply, Trump has never understood education.

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Speaker 1: He never tires of explaining that he is smart because

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Speaker 1: That it's all genetics, he had uncle. Well, if it's

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Speaker 1: being smart, you can't be educated. You can't be educated,

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Speaker 1: Was twelve hours after he stepped up to a podium

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Speaker 1: his true advice, when they should marry their trophy wife.

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Speaker 3: He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife.

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Speaker 3: Could you say a trophy wife. I guess we can

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Speaker 3: say a trophy Well, it didn't work out too well.

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Speaker 3: But that doesn't work out too well, I must tell

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Speaker 4: But it made him happy for a little while at least.

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Speaker 2: But he found a new wife.

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Speaker 3: He sold his little boat and he got a big yacht.

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Speaker 3: He had one of the biggest yachts anywhere in the world.

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Speaker 1: As an aside, I don't know why, it isn't clear

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Speaker 1: that was the message to the graduates of West Point.

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Speaker 1: That and something about invasions, invasions by trophy wives. I

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Speaker 1: insanity at West Point stuck to nothing. The eulogy for Chuckles,

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Speaker 1: Not much in his own words, A little song, a

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Speaker 1: little dance, a little seltzer down your paths. That Trump SoundBite,

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Speaker 1: to say nothing of the overnight demand from him of

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Speaker 1: especially the Sunday News Show hosted by Jake Tapper. Also

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Speaker 1: missing from Jake Tapper's show and the others the reality

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Speaker 1: the Tapper and his co author, Gossip writer Alex Thompson

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Speaker 1: are going to have to withdraw their book about President

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Speaker 1: Biden's acuity issues, which Trump has not only exceeded in

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Speaker 1: Lachland cart Writ's new site Breaker reports that Tapper's CNN

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Speaker 1: and more importantly, claiming that the book got none of

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Speaker 1: New Yorker screwed up the excerpt it published of Tapper's book,

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Speaker 1: Tapper's mental acuity and judgment as to Tapper's desperation to

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Speaker 1: including his human humiliating apology to Lara Trump. Lara Trump,

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Speaker 1: I'll quote Cartwright. We've also learned that Tapper's appearance on

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Speaker 1: What in the hell is wrong with Christy Nome? I mean,

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Speaker 1: Christy Nome? Because there's something wrong with Christy Nome. I

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Speaker 1: mean she's a dog murderer. Moreover, she built a book

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Speaker 1: Ten renditionees sue the Department of Homeland Security and her

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Speaker 1: they supposed to suck? Christy? What are your suggestions on

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Speaker 1: disappear from this country? And why are you doing this?

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Speaker 1: What in the hell do we think is wrong with Christinome? Now,

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Speaker 1: we could study this problem and debate it and never

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Speaker 1: come to a conclusion. I've been asking since nineteen eighty three,

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Speaker 1: first time as I reread the quotes about her taking

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Speaker 1: she does. Her training methods must have consisted telling cricket

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Speaker 1: we're not going to hang this episode in the loover,

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Speaker 1: you know, but it's okay for Memorial Day weekend. Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day weekend when we remember all the sacrifice and service

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Speaker 1: by Trump. That's the bad news. The good news is

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Speaker 1: Bill Maher has won the Worst Person in the World

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Speaker 1: honors again. He kissed Trump's ass again. That's next. This

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Speaker 1: is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead

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Speaker 1: on this edition of Countdown. Oh, it's that time of

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Speaker 1: year again. I was being interviewed recently for an oral

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Speaker 1: history of sports Illustrated magazine and we were talking about

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Speaker 1: a writer they had named Chris Ballard, and how when

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Speaker 1: he started at Sports Illustrated he briefly wrote their TV

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Speaker 1: and radio sports column that used to run every week

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Speaker 1: when people still.

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Speaker 2: Cared about TV and radio sports.

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Speaker 1: He wrote a piece about me just after he started,

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Speaker 1: where he not only contacted the company that had just

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00:32:38,635 --> 00:32:43,915
Speaker 1: fired me and asked to talk to me, and when

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Speaker 1: they said no, Keith doesn't want to talk to you,

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Speaker 1: he not only believed they had asked me, but he

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Speaker 1: put it in the magazine that I had refused to

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Speaker 1: talk to him without ever asking me, and of course

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Speaker 1: they didn't ask me. But he also he put it

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Speaker 1: in an article that asserted it as fact that I

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Speaker 1: would never again work in television. The article he wrote

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Speaker 1: was this time of year in two thousand and one.

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Speaker 1: He got laid off by Sports Illustrated in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: and I'm still here and just started working in sports

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Speaker 1: television again, my fifth network, just covering baseball. The firing

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Speaker 1: is the interesting part of the story. It was by Fox.

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Speaker 1: Later it turned out after years of rumors that I

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Speaker 1: actually did not believe. It turned out I was fired

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Speaker 1: personally by Rupert Murdoch, by the way, tick tick tick

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Speaker 1: rupert tick tick tick. Next in things I promised not

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Speaker 1: to tell first, believe it or not, there are still

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Speaker 1: more new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants,

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Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest

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Speaker 1: other worse persons in the world Lebron's worse mar Congressman

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Speaker 1: Andrew Clyde. Andy's full time job is he's in the

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Speaker 1: death business. He sells guns, he owns gun shops. He's

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Speaker 1: a death pimp. He was the one who threw the

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Speaker 1: elimination of restrictions on silencers into the budget bill and

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Speaker 1: wrote about it shall not be infringed. Is not at

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Speaker 1: the deathkin By the way, I'm actually fighting to go

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Speaker 1: further than the current bill elaminate the taxation and registration

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Speaker 1: of suppressors and short barreled farms. This is so his

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Speaker 1: guns can kill more people. And this allows me to

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Speaker 1: remind mister Clyde, who is an idiot on top of

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Speaker 1: being in the gun business and the death business and

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Speaker 1: being a death pimp, that the second Amendments, which he

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Speaker 1: refers never uses, does not include the word own. Constitution

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Speaker 1: has dozens of words in it, something like fifty or

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Speaker 1: sixty I counted them once. That are synonyms for own, owning, ownership.

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Speaker 1: It's a property document. None of these words is in

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Speaker 1: the Second Amendment. You have a right to bear, as

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Speaker 1: in carry, and use, and keep as in store in

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Speaker 1: your home guns as part of a state militia. The

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Speaker 1: Second Amendment says nothing about citizens having the right to

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Speaker 1: own guns. They may or may not have the right

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Speaker 1: to own guns, but the Second Amendment has nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with it. It's about state militias, clearly. And everybody

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Speaker 1: who has ever told you otherwise is lying. And Andrew

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Speaker 1: Clyde is lying, and the Supreme Court that found other

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Speaker 1: WordWise was lying. The Constitution says what it says, and

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Speaker 1: the people who have lied about it, like Andy Clyde,

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Speaker 1: are going to hell. Just a reminder from those of

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Speaker 1: us who can read runner up worser Tim Walls, Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Governor Tim Wallas. He's still governor, thank goodness. He of

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Speaker 1: course is getting blamed as Kamala Harris was because the

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Speaker 1: Democrats did such a half assed job solving all the

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Speaker 1: problems of twenty twenty four, and Trump didn't have to

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00:36:35,555 --> 00:36:38,075
Speaker 1: stick to any of the facts or get covered like

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Speaker 1: he was crazy, which he is, or diminished, which he is.

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Speaker 1: Governor Wallace gave the commencement speech at the University of

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Law School. Donald Trump's modern day Gestapo is scooping

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Speaker 1: folks up off the streets. They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks,

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00:36:55,675 --> 00:36:59,475
Speaker 1: being shipped off to foreign tortured dungeons. No chance to

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00:36:59,515 --> 00:37:01,355
Speaker 1: him out of defense, not even a chance to kiss

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Speaker 1: a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agent,

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Speaker 1: shoved into those vans and disappeared. Yes, correct, Well, of

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Speaker 1: course the Gestapo thing is a big deal on the

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Speaker 1: right because you're not allowed to tell the Gestapo that

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Speaker 1: they're the Gestapo. They think they're just Americans and not

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Speaker 1: the Gestapo. So why is Tim on this list? Well,

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Speaker 1: obviously because no matter what the handlers told him, and

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00:37:30,395 --> 00:37:33,075
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, and no matter what the handlers and the

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Speaker 1: consultants and all the other idiots standing in between the

517
00:37:36,635 --> 00:37:41,155
Speaker 1: Democrats saying Trump is a fascist, Trump is a Nazi.

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Speaker 1: We have to stop him, We have to save democracy

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Speaker 1: at all costs. Let's do this. Whoever told him not to?

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Speaker 1: He's on this list because he didn't use this language

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Speaker 1: during the campaign. Should have called them the Gestapo last October,

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Speaker 1: since it was obvious they had a plan to become

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Speaker 1: the Gestapo. Since that's what they did last time. And

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Speaker 1: I don't mean nineteen thirty six, I mean twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: they are the Gestapo. I have no complaints with Tim Walls.

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Speaker 1: He would have been a superb vice president, first of all,

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Speaker 1: unlike the one we have now. He would have been

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Speaker 1: a human being who did not wear eyeliner, A human

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Speaker 1: being being separate if somebody who doesn't wear eyeliner, I

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00:38:24,835 --> 00:38:27,435
Speaker 1: don't mind a vice president wearing eyeliner, the last vice

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Speaker 1: president or eyeliner. This guy pretends he's not wearing eyeliner.

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00:38:31,915 --> 00:38:35,075
Speaker 1: Just be truthful about it if you want to wear eyeliner.

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00:38:35,475 --> 00:38:40,195
Speaker 1: Eddie Izzard's belief in himself, the British comedian, He told

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Speaker 1: me once in a conversation we had that ultimately he

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Speaker 1: wanted to become Prime Minister in eyeliner. And I said,

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Speaker 1: given the history of your country, that might get you

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Speaker 1: another one or two percent of the vote. He laughed,

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Speaker 1: and then he said, you know you may be right,

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Speaker 1: Tim Walls. Yes, they're the Gestapo. Just next time we

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Speaker 1: go through this timeline say it earlier, but our winner.

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Speaker 2: Oh look he's back. It's Bill Maher.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know you're tired of Bill Maher being

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Speaker 1: on this list, So am I Who the hell am

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00:39:19,595 --> 00:39:23,755
Speaker 1: I kidding? We both love this. He deserves it, He's

545
00:39:23,955 --> 00:39:28,555
Speaker 1: earned it. Every stupid thing we all laughed at because

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00:39:28,635 --> 00:39:32,115
Speaker 1: his was the only other liberal show besides mine. We

547
00:39:32,275 --> 00:39:36,275
Speaker 1: now can pay him back for his podcast company, as

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00:39:36,315 --> 00:39:40,755
Speaker 1: we know, went under. Sadly, his own podcast did not

549
00:39:40,915 --> 00:39:44,715
Speaker 1: go under. It's still being published, and his latest guest

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Speaker 1: on it was, Oh, guess what a Trump supporter?

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Speaker 2: What a shock?

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Speaker 1: Jillian Michaels, fitness guru and Trump influencer. As we know,

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00:39:56,915 --> 00:40:01,395
Speaker 1: fitness gurus do not use peds or ever get roid rage.

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00:40:02,915 --> 00:40:03,595
Speaker 2: It's a fact.

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00:40:05,595 --> 00:40:09,435
Speaker 1: Guess what. Bill is not only having Trump supporters on

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Speaker 1: his shows again, He is defending Trump supporters again, because,

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00:40:13,915 --> 00:40:19,395
Speaker 1: like all really tiny brained people, his solution, when accurately

558
00:40:19,435 --> 00:40:23,315
Speaker 1: criticized is to put his head down and keep going

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Speaker 1: in the same direction, right off the effing cliff. Only

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Speaker 1: Bill has managed somehow to climb all the way back

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Speaker 1: to the top every once in a while and go

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Speaker 1: right off the cliff again and here he goes one

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Speaker 1: more time. Bill, Let's say it with Bill.

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Speaker 2: Splack.

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Speaker 1: Now Bill is defending Trump supporters again, not because he

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Speaker 1: is trying to save his job by going right wing

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Speaker 1: to mix in with the rest of the new right

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Speaker 1: winger propagandists like Jake Tapper under the HBO, Max CNN,

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Speaker 1: Warner Bros. Discovery Umbrella under John Malone, and David Zazz

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00:41:01,835 --> 00:41:06,155
Speaker 1: Lab twice for David Za's Lab in this show today. Now,

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Speaker 1: Bill would never sell out. He has nothing to sell out.

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Speaker 1: He never has. Bill would never sell out to keep

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Speaker 1: a show that nobody watches anymore. When whatever happened to

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Speaker 1: his podcast company going under could not possibly have had

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Speaker 1: anything to do with, you know, a lack of money

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00:41:25,035 --> 00:41:29,315
Speaker 1: on Bill's part. No, they just went out of business

577
00:41:29,315 --> 00:41:34,795
Speaker 1: because Bill was tired of it. I should have had

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Speaker 1: the fist fight with him in nineteen seventy eight, shouldn't I.

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Speaker 1: Jillian Michaels complaining about Tom Hanks and the Saturday Night

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Speaker 1: Live Magas Sketch, which was this year than the winter

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. Aren't they on hiatus already? They're talking about

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Speaker 1: it now. Jillian Michael says that whole deplorable thing you.

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Speaker 1: Bill Maher says, oh, sure, Jillian Michaels, they're still doing

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Speaker 1: that even when you listen. I've met Tom Hanks a

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Speaker 1: couple of times, and he was very kind and very lovely,

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00:42:06,235 --> 00:42:08,515
Speaker 1: and his wife was exceptionally lovely. But when he was

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Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live, Mar interrupts and says, I hated

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Speaker 1: it too, and I sat on my show. I know,

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Speaker 1: I hate it in wearing the MAGA hat, not shaking

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Speaker 1: hands with a black person, and that's when I thought,

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Speaker 1: you people don't know MAGA people. And Michaels goes, nope,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, nope, and Bill goes, I mean, they have

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Speaker 1: their issues, and I certainly have my issues with them.

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00:42:33,315 --> 00:42:38,155
Speaker 1: You do since when, but they're they're generally, I mean,

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Speaker 1: of course there's some racists everywhere who are that bad,

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00:42:40,635 --> 00:42:43,635
Speaker 1: but generally, all the MAGA people I know have no

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00:42:43,675 --> 00:42:49,715
Speaker 1: problem shaking hands with a black person. He met Trump

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Speaker 1: and he thinks MAGA people have no problem shaking hands

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Speaker 1: with a black person. Here, let me shake your hand

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Speaker 1: and then pull you into penury. To continue the Mar transcript,

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00:43:05,115 --> 00:43:08,075
Speaker 1: you're just hysterical and you're not helping. And I agree

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Speaker 1: that was not helping, and Michael's interrupts, I don't get it.

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Speaker 1: This is the part where I'm like, is this Titanic?

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Speaker 2: Who knows?

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00:43:17,795 --> 00:43:21,515
Speaker 1: Bill Maher also, But mostly what I hate is it's

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Speaker 1: what I call a zombie lie. Don't lie to me,

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00:43:25,235 --> 00:43:31,195
Speaker 1: it's a lie. Jillian Michaels, Yeah, Bill Maher, that Maga

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Speaker 1: people aren't. We won't shake hands with I get it.

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00:43:34,875 --> 00:43:37,995
Speaker 1: It's part of a skit, and it's exaggeration, and that's comedy.

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00:43:38,235 --> 00:43:41,155
Speaker 1: It's a little too delicate a subject to just make

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00:43:41,475 --> 00:43:44,075
Speaker 1: to go there for that one. So you know, look,

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00:43:44,155 --> 00:43:47,635
Speaker 1: we all in comedy step over the line sometimes, or

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Speaker 1: do one that we they want to take back. I

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00:43:49,875 --> 00:43:51,875
Speaker 1: doubt if they want to take that one back. I

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00:43:51,875 --> 00:43:54,395
Speaker 1: think they probably think it's great. But I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: as a liberal, I don't like it. Bill. You you

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00:44:02,515 --> 00:44:06,755
Speaker 1: still think you're a liberal. You still think other people

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00:44:06,875 --> 00:44:10,835
Speaker 1: still think you're a liberal. You praised Trump, you fell

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00:44:10,875 --> 00:44:15,635
Speaker 1: for Trump's Ted Bundy routine. You think anybody's still watching you?

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Speaker 1: Who's a liberal? You think anybody watching you thinks you're

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Speaker 1: a liberal. You're not a liberal. You're an aging TV

622
00:44:23,515 --> 00:44:27,115
Speaker 1: figure who ran out of the funny several years ago

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Speaker 1: and you're now doing whatever is necessary to keep your

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00:44:31,915 --> 00:44:35,515
Speaker 1: fascist bosses from firing you, to keep you on television.

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00:44:36,995 --> 00:44:39,555
Speaker 1: All this time, you think you're going into a television

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00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:41,995
Speaker 1: studio to do a show, and you find out, as

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Speaker 1: we all do, no television has gotten into you, and

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00:44:46,635 --> 00:44:51,875
Speaker 1: you are doing television show. But you're just doing whatever's

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Speaker 1: necessary to stay on TV, like Dennis Miller did. Remember

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Speaker 1: Dennis Miller who was on that HBO show before Bill

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Speaker 1: Maher Dennis Miller. Someday they'll be saying, who did that

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Speaker 1: HBO show before the guy.

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Speaker 2: Does it now? Bill? What was his name? Sclar?

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00:45:11,195 --> 00:45:16,155
Speaker 1: Bill Sklarr? Remember Bill Sklarr? Little guy pretended to be

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00:45:16,235 --> 00:45:18,675
Speaker 1: liberal all those years and then suddenly became a Trump

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00:45:18,715 --> 00:45:21,475
Speaker 1: fan and then they got criticized for it, and he

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00:45:21,555 --> 00:45:24,875
Speaker 1: got even worse. Eventually they fired him and had Jillian

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Speaker 1: Michaels hosted the show for a while, remember that. And

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Speaker 1: then David Zaslav, the executive, came down. He did the

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00:45:30,555 --> 00:45:34,835
Speaker 1: show for a while, and now they have that new guy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who could it be. There won't be

642
00:45:38,195 --> 00:45:40,715
Speaker 1: an HBO by that point. They'll have changed the name again.

643
00:45:41,635 --> 00:45:41,995
Speaker 2: Bill.

644
00:45:42,395 --> 00:45:45,235
Speaker 1: You're not a liberal, You're a whiny little ex comedian

645
00:45:45,635 --> 00:46:12,355
Speaker 1: mar two days worst person in the World, to the

646
00:46:12,435 --> 00:46:15,035
Speaker 1: number one story on the Countdown, and my favorite topic,

647
00:46:15,195 --> 00:46:18,835
Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. Over the

648
00:46:18,875 --> 00:46:22,835
Speaker 1: weekend watching hockey, I had occasion to invoke my days

649
00:46:22,875 --> 00:46:24,955
Speaker 1: hosting the Baseball Game of the Week and the World

650
00:46:25,075 --> 00:46:27,435
Speaker 1: Series for Fox, and it reminded me of the delightful

651
00:46:27,475 --> 00:46:30,915
Speaker 1: way that ended with me being paid one hundred thousand

652
00:46:30,915 --> 00:46:33,755
Speaker 1: dollars a month not to do anything. I have changed

653
00:46:33,875 --> 00:46:37,235
Speaker 1: jobs a lot, and seldom have the departures included gold

654
00:46:37,315 --> 00:46:41,195
Speaker 1: watches and going away parties, at least not going away

655
00:46:41,195 --> 00:46:44,795
Speaker 1: parties to which I was invited. But in forty three

656
00:46:44,875 --> 00:46:47,915
Speaker 1: years in radio and television, I have only actually been

657
00:46:48,035 --> 00:46:51,235
Speaker 1: fired in the traditional sense of go clean out your

658
00:46:51,275 --> 00:46:55,995
Speaker 1: desk and get out twice. Once the order was from

659
00:46:56,035 --> 00:46:58,515
Speaker 1: a drunken radio executive who did not like the fact

660
00:46:58,515 --> 00:47:02,195
Speaker 1: that I was twenty one years old, and he was overruled,

661
00:47:02,275 --> 00:47:04,395
Speaker 1: and he was sent home with a warning by his

662
00:47:04,435 --> 00:47:07,915
Speaker 1: boy hours later, and I was back on the job

663
00:47:07,955 --> 00:47:12,115
Speaker 1: forty eight hours after that. The other time, when it

664
00:47:12,195 --> 00:47:15,595
Speaker 1: actually happened, you're fired, clean out your desk, that was,

665
00:47:15,755 --> 00:47:18,715
Speaker 1: unsurprisingly at the hands of Rupert Murdoch and Fox, and

666
00:47:18,755 --> 00:47:25,315
Speaker 1: I mean Rupert Murdoch personally, or so he claims. When

667
00:47:25,355 --> 00:47:28,275
Speaker 1: I finally convinced NBC News that I was serious about

668
00:47:28,315 --> 00:47:32,195
Speaker 1: no longer hosting its Monica Lewinsky Athon in nineteen ninety eight,

669
00:47:32,235 --> 00:47:36,235
Speaker 1: the head of NBC Sports, Dick Eversoll, had an ingenious solution.

670
00:47:36,795 --> 00:47:40,275
Speaker 1: He knew his friends at Fox Sports longed to have

671
00:47:40,435 --> 00:47:44,355
Speaker 1: me front their version of SportsCenter, and so he proposed

672
00:47:44,395 --> 00:47:47,995
Speaker 1: the following NBC would give my agent ten days in

673
00:47:48,035 --> 00:47:51,275
Speaker 1: which to negotiate two deals. A deal for me to

674
00:47:51,395 --> 00:47:55,635
Speaker 1: go to LA and host Fox Sports News and Major

675
00:47:55,715 --> 00:47:59,435
Speaker 1: League Baseball on Fox, and another deal in which Fox

676
00:47:59,475 --> 00:48:04,955
Speaker 1: would pay NBC one million dollars for my contract, like

677
00:48:04,995 --> 00:48:11,755
Speaker 1: I was a mediocre baseball pitcher. Amazingly, it worked. I

678
00:48:11,795 --> 00:48:14,195
Speaker 1: got what was then a record breaking salary for any

679
00:48:14,235 --> 00:48:19,195
Speaker 1: cable sportscaster. Ever, NBC got its million, and maybe most startlingly,

680
00:48:19,355 --> 00:48:22,195
Speaker 1: NBC then asked me to stay on the air as

681
00:48:22,235 --> 00:48:27,435
Speaker 1: a lane duck at MSNBC for like six weeks. Curiously,

682
00:48:28,155 --> 00:48:31,675
Speaker 1: throughout my career, no matter how abrasive the exit, my

683
00:48:31,875 --> 00:48:35,795
Speaker 1: lane duck employers have always, for some reason trusted me

684
00:48:35,915 --> 00:48:39,675
Speaker 1: to stay on their air, even though I was leaving

685
00:48:40,675 --> 00:48:43,515
Speaker 1: in local news in Los Angeles once I did this

686
00:48:43,635 --> 00:48:44,915
Speaker 1: for three months.

687
00:48:46,195 --> 00:48:46,635
Speaker 2: Anyway.

688
00:48:47,195 --> 00:48:50,195
Speaker 1: At first, going to work at Fox Sports was a delight.

689
00:48:50,715 --> 00:48:53,715
Speaker 1: Their news guys, the evil Roger Ales and his henchman

690
00:48:53,835 --> 00:48:56,755
Speaker 1: John Moody, pitched me on doing stuff for them, maybe

691
00:48:56,795 --> 00:49:01,995
Speaker 1: co anchoring with Bill O'Reilly, I'm serious. I passed sports.

692
00:49:02,275 --> 00:49:05,315
Speaker 1: We spent money. I worked with friends. I didn't have

693
00:49:05,355 --> 00:49:08,875
Speaker 1: to talk about politics. I could narrate highlights. I could

694
00:49:08,915 --> 00:49:13,835
Speaker 1: do funny voices way downtown bang I lived on the beach.

695
00:49:14,635 --> 00:49:18,635
Speaker 1: I mean, my next door neighbor was Hawaii. Every time

696
00:49:18,675 --> 00:49:21,515
Speaker 1: there was a newspaper story about ESPN, even though our

697
00:49:21,635 --> 00:49:25,075
Speaker 1: ratings were terrible, there was also my picture in it

698
00:49:25,115 --> 00:49:29,595
Speaker 1: with a caption like challenging ESPN. It was great. But

699
00:49:29,715 --> 00:49:33,875
Speaker 1: then two things happened. The Fox guy, who knew we

700
00:49:33,955 --> 00:49:38,275
Speaker 1: needed five years at minimum just to tie ESPN in

701
00:49:38,355 --> 00:49:41,715
Speaker 1: the ratings, took me to lunch one day and said, sorry, mate,

702
00:49:41,875 --> 00:49:45,035
Speaker 1: my missus is moving back to England tomorrow without me,

703
00:49:45,435 --> 00:49:49,475
Speaker 1: so I'm going good luck. He was replaced by guys

704
00:49:49,795 --> 00:49:53,275
Speaker 1: who replaced the five year plan with a five week

705
00:49:53,435 --> 00:49:57,915
Speaker 1: plan to raise the ratings by literally one fifth of

706
00:49:58,035 --> 00:50:01,835
Speaker 1: one point. I left that meeting in which they explained

707
00:50:01,835 --> 00:50:04,715
Speaker 1: their suicidal plan and revealed that my salary represent and

708
00:50:05,195 --> 00:50:09,435
Speaker 1: an unsustainable twenty percent of their entire budget. And I

709
00:50:09,515 --> 00:50:12,475
Speaker 1: called my real estate agent and put my house on

710
00:50:12,515 --> 00:50:17,355
Speaker 1: the beach up for sale. Not long after, my doctor

711
00:50:17,395 --> 00:50:19,555
Speaker 1: gave me a physical and a warning, cut back on

712
00:50:19,715 --> 00:50:22,915
Speaker 1: work and stress and everything else, or you can have

713
00:50:22,955 --> 00:50:25,915
Speaker 1: a heart attack ten years from now. I told my

714
00:50:25,995 --> 00:50:30,435
Speaker 1: bosses this, and their response was to blackmail me. We

715
00:50:30,515 --> 00:50:32,675
Speaker 1: have a clause in your contract which allows us to

716
00:50:32,715 --> 00:50:35,075
Speaker 1: send you on the road once a week while you

717
00:50:35,115 --> 00:50:37,995
Speaker 1: are still working five days in the studio. We're going

718
00:50:38,035 --> 00:50:40,555
Speaker 1: to enforce that unless you kick back two thirds of

719
00:50:40,595 --> 00:50:44,355
Speaker 1: your salary. They put this in a document. There are

720
00:50:44,435 --> 00:50:50,475
Speaker 1: as the kids, say, receipts. So I folded to blackmail

721
00:50:50,715 --> 00:50:53,675
Speaker 1: because two thirds of three million dollars a year is

722
00:50:53,715 --> 00:50:57,155
Speaker 1: still pretty good. But I kept doing the job. In

723
00:50:57,235 --> 00:50:59,635
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, I broke a story that everybody laughed

724
00:50:59,635 --> 00:51:02,355
Speaker 1: at that Michael Jordan was unhappy in retirement and he

725
00:51:02,395 --> 00:51:04,195
Speaker 1: wanted to come back to play in the NBA, but

726
00:51:04,235 --> 00:51:07,395
Speaker 1: instead of getting a salary, he wanted an ownership stake

727
00:51:07,475 --> 00:51:11,515
Speaker 1: in a team two years later, he did exactly that.

728
00:51:12,635 --> 00:51:14,755
Speaker 1: In two thousand, I got to host the first Mets

729
00:51:14,835 --> 00:51:17,915
Speaker 1: Yankees World Series, and hosting baseball every Saturday on Fox

730
00:51:18,075 --> 00:51:20,555
Speaker 1: was a pretty good gig, and we were just gearing

731
00:51:20,635 --> 00:51:22,835
Speaker 1: up for the two thousand and one baseball season when

732
00:51:22,835 --> 00:51:26,315
Speaker 1: I got a tip on April twentieth that the owners

733
00:51:26,355 --> 00:51:29,755
Speaker 1: of the Los Angeles Dodgers had unofficially put their team

734
00:51:29,835 --> 00:51:32,395
Speaker 1: up for sale, and in fact, they were talking to

735
00:51:32,475 --> 00:51:36,715
Speaker 1: the old owners, the O'Malley family, about taking the Dodgers

736
00:51:36,835 --> 00:51:40,875
Speaker 1: off their hands, selling the Dodgers back to the son

737
00:51:40,995 --> 00:51:44,595
Speaker 1: of Walter O'Malley. This was a great scoop, but it

738
00:51:44,675 --> 00:51:49,235
Speaker 1: had great danger because the owners of the Dodgers were Fox,

739
00:51:49,875 --> 00:51:54,755
Speaker 1: my own employers. The next day, after getting this scoop,

740
00:51:54,795 --> 00:51:57,075
Speaker 1: I made about one hundred phone calls, and sure enough

741
00:51:57,075 --> 00:51:58,595
Speaker 1: I got the friend of a friend of a friend

742
00:51:58,635 --> 00:52:00,795
Speaker 1: of my agent to confirm that he and his family

743
00:52:01,075 --> 00:52:05,475
Speaker 1: were in preliminary discussions joining the O'Malley's to buy the

744
00:52:05,555 --> 00:52:10,035
Speaker 1: Dodgers from Fox. Two sources. Great scoop, and that night

745
00:52:10,075 --> 00:52:12,035
Speaker 1: I reached out to my bosses and said, what the

746
00:52:12,075 --> 00:52:15,195
Speaker 1: hell do we do here? The story is solid, The

747
00:52:15,235 --> 00:52:19,755
Speaker 1: Dodgers are for sale. But look, this is your candy store,

748
00:52:19,795 --> 00:52:21,875
Speaker 1: and I do work for you, And if you don't

749
00:52:21,875 --> 00:52:24,035
Speaker 1: want me to report this, I'm obviously not going to

750
00:52:24,035 --> 00:52:26,675
Speaker 1: report it, and I'm not going to pouch, and I'm

751
00:52:26,675 --> 00:52:29,515
Speaker 1: not going to give the story to somebody else. My

752
00:52:29,675 --> 00:52:32,635
Speaker 1: boss has replied, good for you. Why don't we all

753
00:52:32,675 --> 00:52:35,515
Speaker 1: get on the phone with the top. Rupert Murdoch has

754
00:52:35,555 --> 00:52:39,435
Speaker 1: his own Personal News Corp Public relations department. Let's see

755
00:52:39,475 --> 00:52:43,675
Speaker 1: what he says. So on Sunday, April twenty second, two

756
00:52:43,715 --> 00:52:46,115
Speaker 1: thousand and one, we got Murdoch's own PR guy on

757
00:52:46,195 --> 00:52:48,795
Speaker 1: the blower and I explained it to him. Now, mister

758
00:52:48,875 --> 00:52:51,235
Speaker 1: Murdoch has a policy about this. He never interferes in

759
00:52:51,355 --> 00:52:55,555
Speaker 1: editorial decisions, not even in sourced business stories, not even

760
00:52:55,555 --> 00:52:59,155
Speaker 1: if they involve him. So long as you make it

761
00:52:59,275 --> 00:53:02,715
Speaker 1: clear your sources are not from within the company, and

762
00:53:02,835 --> 00:53:05,595
Speaker 1: so long as you're confident in your sources, and so

763
00:53:05,755 --> 00:53:09,275
Speaker 1: long as you include our denial, you should proceed with

764
00:53:09,355 --> 00:53:14,195
Speaker 1: this Dodger story. That is what we are paying you for.

765
00:53:14,195 --> 00:53:18,755
Speaker 1: For a brief moment, I thought maybe I have misjudged

766
00:53:18,835 --> 00:53:22,035
Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch. Well, it turned out to be a very

767
00:53:22,035 --> 00:53:26,275
Speaker 1: brief moment and a very wrong moment. I reported the

768
00:53:26,315 --> 00:53:31,515
Speaker 1: story that night howls of denials. Five days later, though

769
00:53:31,555 --> 00:53:35,035
Speaker 1: the Long Beach Press Telegram newspaper had its own story said,

770
00:53:35,675 --> 00:53:40,035
Speaker 1: despite denials, Dodgers are for sale, with far more details

771
00:53:40,035 --> 00:53:43,075
Speaker 1: than I had, And that really was the end of it.

772
00:53:43,395 --> 00:53:46,675
Speaker 1: The team was unofficially for sale. Dodger fans, who hated

773
00:53:46,715 --> 00:53:49,035
Speaker 1: what Fox had done to the team seemed happy, and

774
00:53:49,115 --> 00:53:53,155
Speaker 1: the vast stinking pile of burning excrement that was Fox

775
00:53:53,235 --> 00:53:59,275
Speaker 1: and News Corp. And Murdoch sailed on unperturbed. But twelve

776
00:53:59,395 --> 00:54:01,395
Speaker 1: days after that, just before I was getting in my

777
00:54:01,475 --> 00:54:04,235
Speaker 1: car to go to the first Fox Baseball meeting for

778
00:54:04,355 --> 00:54:07,435
Speaker 1: our two thousand and one season coverage, the president of

779
00:54:07,515 --> 00:54:11,595
Speaker 1: Fox Sports, yet another Aussie called David Hill, called my

780
00:54:11,715 --> 00:54:14,795
Speaker 1: agent and told her case, not doing any baseball for

781
00:54:14,875 --> 00:54:21,275
Speaker 1: us this year. Business decision click, end of conversation. Nothing else,

782
00:54:21,915 --> 00:54:24,875
Speaker 1: no firing, no get out, no clean out your desk,

783
00:54:25,035 --> 00:54:28,915
Speaker 1: no announcement. But then two days later they turned off

784
00:54:28,915 --> 00:54:31,835
Speaker 1: my access to the Fox computer system, And four days

785
00:54:31,875 --> 00:54:35,755
Speaker 1: after that they called and canceled my cable show. And

786
00:54:35,795 --> 00:54:39,195
Speaker 1: then that night I got two weird calls from Rich Sandomir,

787
00:54:39,235 --> 00:54:42,235
Speaker 1: who was the TV sports critic and TV sports business

788
00:54:42,235 --> 00:54:45,515
Speaker 1: reporter for the New York Times. And Rich asks me, so,

789
00:54:45,755 --> 00:54:48,475
Speaker 1: did you know you got fired by Rupert Murdoch personally?

790
00:54:49,315 --> 00:54:52,715
Speaker 1: And I said, with genuine astonishment that I not only

791
00:54:52,835 --> 00:54:56,595
Speaker 1: didn't know that, but even given my thoughts about Rupert Murdoch,

792
00:54:56,675 --> 00:54:59,635
Speaker 1: I didn't believe that. Well, that's what my sources at

793
00:54:59,635 --> 00:55:02,795
Speaker 1: Fox tell me. Apparently your Dodger story really pissed him off.

794
00:55:02,835 --> 00:55:06,635
Speaker 1: But really, I said, I had cleared it through his

795
00:55:06,715 --> 00:55:10,475
Speaker 1: personal PR guy. I don't know, Rich Sandomir said, Apparently

796
00:55:10,555 --> 00:55:12,915
Speaker 1: he was on vacation and he got back like the

797
00:55:13,035 --> 00:55:14,995
Speaker 1: ninth of this month, and he read all these stories

798
00:55:15,035 --> 00:55:17,795
Speaker 1: about the Dodgers being for sale and how Fox Sports

799
00:55:17,835 --> 00:55:19,235
Speaker 1: was the first to report it, and he called up

800
00:55:19,315 --> 00:55:22,115
Speaker 1: David Hill and he told Hill to fire you immediately.

801
00:55:23,035 --> 00:55:24,915
Speaker 1: So I told Rich, this is the first I have

802
00:55:24,995 --> 00:55:27,995
Speaker 1: heard of this, and I still don't believe it, even

803
00:55:28,035 --> 00:55:30,875
Speaker 1: though the day he mentioned May ninth was the day

804
00:55:30,955 --> 00:55:33,155
Speaker 1: David Hill had called my agent and told her I

805
00:55:33,155 --> 00:55:36,955
Speaker 1: would not be doing baseball for Fox that year. An

806
00:55:36,955 --> 00:55:40,195
Speaker 1: hour later, the phone rings again, and it's Rich Sandomir again,

807
00:55:40,235 --> 00:55:43,195
Speaker 1: and he sounds shaken. I got it wrong. I don't

808
00:55:43,235 --> 00:55:45,435
Speaker 1: have any sources at Fox who told me Rupert fired

809
00:55:45,475 --> 00:55:49,755
Speaker 1: you personally. My source said that you were telling people

810
00:55:49,835 --> 00:55:53,795
Speaker 1: Rupert had fired you personally over the Dodger story. And

811
00:55:53,835 --> 00:55:58,315
Speaker 1: I gave Rich a sequence of well, kind of friendly

812
00:55:58,555 --> 00:56:01,875
Speaker 1: uh huhz And I said, no, I didn't and know

813
00:56:02,435 --> 00:56:04,235
Speaker 1: you've never been dumb enough in your life to make

814
00:56:04,235 --> 00:56:07,075
Speaker 1: the mistake you're saying you just made. And he said, well,

815
00:56:07,155 --> 00:56:09,635
Speaker 1: I never said somebody at Fox said Murdock fired Joek.

816
00:56:09,835 --> 00:56:10,075
Speaker 2: Thanks.

817
00:56:10,155 --> 00:56:13,835
Speaker 1: By the next day, they had me come into the

818
00:56:13,835 --> 00:56:17,115
Speaker 1: Fox building on Pico Boulevard and clean out my office

819
00:56:17,155 --> 00:56:20,075
Speaker 1: while a guard watched. And she was a really nice guard.

820
00:56:20,115 --> 00:56:23,195
Speaker 1: In fact, she brought donuts but a lovely way to

821
00:56:23,235 --> 00:56:26,275
Speaker 1: go out. As I packed, I thought more and more

822
00:56:26,315 --> 00:56:28,315
Speaker 1: of what had happened in the month since I had

823
00:56:28,355 --> 00:56:31,515
Speaker 1: gotten that tip about the Dodgers being for sale. As

824
00:56:31,555 --> 00:56:34,395
Speaker 1: I left the Fox lot for the last time as

825
00:56:34,435 --> 00:56:36,515
Speaker 1: an employee, I went back a couple of times to

826
00:56:36,555 --> 00:56:39,795
Speaker 1: attend table reads for the Simpsons. Table reads for the

827
00:56:39,875 --> 00:56:42,395
Speaker 1: Simpsons were much more fun than being an employee at Fox.

828
00:56:42,955 --> 00:56:45,035
Speaker 1: I called a couple of reporters I knew and my

829
00:56:45,115 --> 00:56:47,315
Speaker 1: agent and some people in the business, and we tried

830
00:56:47,355 --> 00:56:50,635
Speaker 1: to put together a timeline that made some sort of sense,

831
00:56:51,475 --> 00:56:54,355
Speaker 1: because the slow motion firing thing. May ninth, you're not

832
00:56:54,395 --> 00:56:57,995
Speaker 1: doing baseball. May eleventh, your computer won't work. May fifteenth,

833
00:56:58,075 --> 00:57:01,435
Speaker 1: your cable show is canceled. May sixteenth, clean out your office.

834
00:57:02,075 --> 00:57:07,555
Speaker 1: A week long firing made no sense until one reporter

835
00:57:07,635 --> 00:57:10,635
Speaker 1: friend said, you know, Fox called me and said, call

836
00:57:10,715 --> 00:57:14,155
Speaker 1: Keith up and provoke him, get him to call us names,

837
00:57:14,835 --> 00:57:17,115
Speaker 1: tell him about this story in that paper, calling him

838
00:57:17,235 --> 00:57:20,515
Speaker 1: washed up, get him going, And then it all clicked.

839
00:57:21,155 --> 00:57:23,635
Speaker 1: My contract ran through the end of the year two

840
00:57:23,715 --> 00:57:27,075
Speaker 1: thousand and one because Fox was firing me without any

841
00:57:27,075 --> 00:57:29,555
Speaker 1: cause or even claiming there was a cause, without any

842
00:57:29,635 --> 00:57:32,835
Speaker 1: violation of my contract or their rules. Because I had

843
00:57:32,915 --> 00:57:35,515
Speaker 1: left a trail of good behavior on the Dodger story.

844
00:57:35,875 --> 00:57:38,755
Speaker 1: They were trying to enrage me and get me to

845
00:57:38,915 --> 00:57:43,075
Speaker 1: say something nasty that itself would be a violation of

846
00:57:43,115 --> 00:57:46,235
Speaker 1: my contract so they could outright fire me and keep

847
00:57:46,275 --> 00:57:49,515
Speaker 1: the money. And the money still on the contract was

848
00:57:49,515 --> 00:57:55,195
Speaker 1: about eight hundred thousand dollars. Now, after decades of contemplating this,

849
00:57:55,355 --> 00:57:58,435
Speaker 1: I am confident that I am no crazier than the

850
00:57:58,475 --> 00:58:01,835
Speaker 1: next guy, at least not the next guy in television,

851
00:58:02,155 --> 00:58:06,515
Speaker 1: but on my worst, craziest, least rational day. If you

852
00:58:06,595 --> 00:58:10,115
Speaker 1: said you have two choices, Alderman, you can blow up

853
00:58:10,155 --> 00:58:12,235
Speaker 1: these people who are firing you, and you can make

854
00:58:12,275 --> 00:58:15,595
Speaker 1: them look bad in a newspaper for a day and

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Speaker 1: then they'll fire you and keep all the money.

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Speaker 2: They owe you.

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Speaker 1: Or you can keep your big bazoo shut for just

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Speaker 1: seven months. You can keep the eight hundred thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: and you can spend the summer doing whatever the hell

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Speaker 1: you want, and you can then spend the rest of

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Speaker 1: your natural life blowing these people up. If that's the choice,

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Speaker 1: I will always take the scenario that gives me the

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Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand dollars for doing nothing.

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Speaker 2: Always so.

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Speaker 1: On January first, two thousand and two, after the last

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Speaker 1: Fox check cleared, I began making a professional avocation out

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Speaker 1: of attacking Fox News, Fox Sports, Fox Business, Fox Murdoch,

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Speaker 1: Fox O'Reilly, Fox Tucker Carlson, whatever. And I got the

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Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand dollars. But there lingered for years this

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Speaker 1: kind of academic question of whether Rupert Murdoch had actually

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Speaker 1: fired me for having followed the rules set out by

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Speaker 1: his own personal pr guy. As usual, these things resolve

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Speaker 1: themselves when you least expect them to. Murdoch was speaking

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Speaker 1: at a Dow Jones conference in Carlsbad, California, on May

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Speaker 1: twenty eighth, two thousand and eight, seven years to the

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Speaker 1: month they got rid of me and a story came

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Speaker 1: across the wire with my name on it. The guy

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Speaker 1: interviewing him at this conference talked about whether there should

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Speaker 1: be dissenting voices on Fox quote news unquote, like that

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Speaker 1: guy who was killing it on MSNBC Keith Olderman. Now

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Speaker 1: Murdoch barked, I fired him five years ago. He was crizy,

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Speaker 1: timing was off, But there it was, Rupert Murdoch confessing

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Speaker 1: in front of a crowd that he fired me personally,

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Speaker 1: the red badge of courage in quotes. I wondered if

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Speaker 1: it still pissed him off that he had to pay

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Speaker 1: me the eight hundred thousand dollars when I didn't take

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Speaker 1: the grievance bait. Three years after that, Murdoch said it again,

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Speaker 1: like I hadn't heard it the first time. On February first,

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Speaker 1: twenty eleven, Rupert Murdoch was interviewed by his business talking

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Speaker 1: had Neil Cavudo, who for some reason asked him if

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Speaker 1: he would consider hiring me to put me on Fox News.

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Speaker 1: Now we fired him once. We don't believe in firing people. Twice,

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Speaker 1: Kavoodo replied, you called him a nut wall he was

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Speaker 1: a nut on. Well, we had him on late night

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports. There was never any such show called late

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Speaker 1: night Fox Sports. But never mind, Rupe went on, it

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Speaker 1: was impossible. I fired him. He was crazy, fired me

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Speaker 1: for following his rules, and I was the one who

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Speaker 1: was crazy. Finally, speaking of crazy, I have had for

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Speaker 1: sixty three nearly sixty four years now a love hate

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Speaker 1: relationship with the name Keith. But did you know that

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Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch's real first name is also Keith, but that

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Speaker 1: rather than call himself Keith, he voluntarily chooses to call

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Speaker 1: himself Rupert. I mean, sure, my name is Keith, but

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Speaker 1: at least my name ain't freaking.

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Speaker 2: Rupert.

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Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Tick

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Speaker 1: tick tick, Rupert, tick tick tick, thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: to this. Rather than not do a show for Memorial Day,

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Speaker 1: I pretty much had lived it. It wasn't bad. I'm

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Speaker 1: not submitting it for any ways, it's better when it's written.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanel, the

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Speaker 1: musical directors, have Countdown, arranged, produced, and performed most of

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Speaker 1: our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray

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Speaker 1: was on the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced

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Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are

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Speaker 1: by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The

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Speaker 1: sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, written

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Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music

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Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. And

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Speaker 1: my announcer today to celebrate the anniversary of my firing

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Speaker 1: by Fox was my friend Kenny Maine. Everything else was

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Speaker 1: as usual my fault. That's countdown for today, Day one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven of America held hostage. Just one,

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Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty three sixty, one hundred and twelve.

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Speaker 1: This is the ad lib part, just one three and

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Speaker 1: thirty six days till the schedule to end of his

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Speaker 1: lame duck and lame brained term, unless Putin removes him

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Speaker 1: sooner or the actuarial tables do or we do? And

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Speaker 1: speaking of the actuarial tables, win a free prize by

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Speaker 1: writing down whatever that number was I said when I

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Speaker 1: tried to say one, three hundred and thirty six and

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Speaker 1: send it to your own address. Care of you, You Town, USA.

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Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. As always bulletins, as

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Speaker 1: the news warrants, remember he's laying the groundwork now to

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Speaker 1: not leave office later. He must be stopped until next time.

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

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Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olberman is fection of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts