Speaker 1: Is Trump dying or something? I mean the Obama's at
Speaker 1: the DNC and the Washington Post unexpectedly fully imploding, and
Speaker 1: Trump confirming he is ready to bribe RFK in order
Speaker 1: to get him to drop out endorse him. And did
Speaker 1: you hear Trump yesterday? Did you hear him talk? He's
Speaker 1: in Howell, Michigan, where it might as well be Alabama
Speaker 1: in the year eighteen fifty five, where they marched chanting,
Speaker 1: we love Hitler, we love Trump a month ago, and
Speaker 1: he came out at the County Sheriff's office and behind
Speaker 1: him with the cops as the props, and in front
Speaker 1: of him the local fascists all named jan an irv
Speaker 1: irv with an E. And if he had had ten
Speaker 1: times the energy and ten times the focus he actually had,
Speaker 1: you would have said, what's wrong with Trump? Is he
Speaker 1: dying or something?
Speaker 2: Very very much appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Nice place, by the way, the incredible people outside. You said,
Speaker 3: the crash, and we really feel good about to say,
Speaker 3: and the area we're doing very well here. It's just
Speaker 3: got a pall that was very good. Lot e withod
Speaker 3: falls in the last couple of days. Thank you to
Speaker 3: the Livingston County Shoff's department for walking us in such
Speaker 3: a beautiful way.
Speaker 1: To get a roll of stamps and mail it. In
Speaker 1: pal quarter century ago, my ex brother in law went
Speaker 1: sudden on set by polar no previous diagnosis, then the
Speaker 1: full thing all at once. He decided he was a
Speaker 1: freeway cop in La. He was actually a minister. He
Speaker 1: started pulling other drivers over. And this was when freeway
Speaker 1: shootings were the rage in LA. And he spent twice
Speaker 1: his annual South in travel bookings for Christmas. And they
Speaker 1: hospitalized him and medicated him, and he was already in
Speaker 1: there three days, and he still had not slept, He
Speaker 1: still hadn't fully left the high end of the spectrum.
Speaker 1: And he phoned me and pretended he was not in
Speaker 1: the hospital, and he pretended he had not gone sleepless
Speaker 1: for seventy two hours, and he pretended everything was just fine.
Speaker 1: And he sounded like he had been gargling with battery acid.
Speaker 1: And he sounded better in that phone call than Trump
Speaker 1: sounded yesterday. In Ku Klux Klan City, Michigan.
Speaker 2: You know, interestingly like New York. When I left for Washington,
Speaker 2: New York was we had a very bad mayor, Deblasio
Speaker 2: but he wasn't there that long, and he couldn't ruin
Speaker 2: what took place. But we had a city that was
Speaker 2: so wonderful and so thriving, and just in a few
Speaker 2: short years that change. New York State is doing terribly.
Speaker 2: I heard the governor last night speaking so viciously and
Speaker 2: violently about me, But she doesn't speak about what they've
Speaker 2: done to destroy the state. The law enforcement has been decimated.
Speaker 2: The judges. What's gone on with the judges in New York.
Speaker 2: Nobody can There's no justice have They just have it
Speaker 2: out for the police. Nobody knows why. I don't understand why.
Speaker 2: From the common sense, I like to say the Republican
Speaker 2: Party is now the party of common sense. Conservative, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess conservative, It doesn't matter. It's the party of
Speaker 2: common sense. We want to have borders, we want to
Speaker 2: have strong police protection. We want a military they can
Speaker 2: protect us.
Speaker 1: We want great look done. If you need a nap,
Speaker 1: just curl up on the floor. It's better than this
Speaker 1: sleepwalking stuff. Holy cow. By the way, Trump spokes bubblehead
Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt explained that this new Trump, that one inaudible
Speaker 1: Jay Trump, he is presenting a message of optimism to
Speaker 1: contrast what the Democrats are doing at their convention. Look,
Speaker 1: we can argue policy all you want, mis Levitt, but
Speaker 1: one thing the Democrats are doing at their convention is
Speaker 1: remaining audible and intelligible to people who are standing more
Speaker 1: than five feet away. Have you ever heard Trump like this?
Speaker 1: My god? I mean, I don't think he's dying dying.
Speaker 1: I think there are intermediate stages between having every single
Speaker 1: thing in your presidential campaign turn against you in a
Speaker 1: matter of thirteen days two weeks and actually dying. But look,
Speaker 1: if this mumbling stuff continues at this rate, they're going
Speaker 1: to have to start putting live captions over him. Shaking
Speaker 1: off his somnambulance for a second. Trump did respond to
Speaker 1: the overture from the RFK Junior camp about dropping out
Speaker 1: if Trump would give him a role in his cabinet.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he was thinking about getting out, Trump said,
Speaker 1: But if he is thinking about getting out, certainly I'd
Speaker 1: be open to it. I would accuse Trump of lying
Speaker 1: about this. Every poll for a month has been unmistakably
Speaker 1: clear Kennedy's support has been cut by half, and that
Speaker 1: half went to Kamala Harris. And what's left is almost
Speaker 1: entirely coming at Trump's expense, and there had been talk
Speaker 1: about this last week, but maybe Trump didn't know Kennedy
Speaker 1: was thinking about it, because getting back to my original question,
Speaker 1: is Trump dying or something? Of course, it's not Kennedy
Speaker 1: who's thinking about doing any of this. He's too busy
Speaker 1: knifing bear cubs on the parkways around fun City here
Speaker 1: or something. It's this idiot Nicole Shanahan, whom he named
Speaker 1: his quote running mate unquote because she was willing to
Speaker 1: basically finance ninety percent of their nut job campaign, and
Speaker 1: because every single conspiracy theory he does not believe in,
Speaker 1: she does. And even Shanahan has figured this out, telling
Speaker 1: a podcast called Impact Theory that there's a choice between
Speaker 1: continuing which case, quote, we run the risk of a
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris and Wall's presidency as we draw votes for Trump,
Speaker 1: we draw somehow more votes from Trump, or we walk
Speaker 1: away right now and join forces with Donald Trump. Translation,
Speaker 1: bribe us and we will go away and endorse you.
Speaker 1: Based on Shanahan's comments, again, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is
Speaker 1: somewhere insisting that I don't know dangerous Wi Fi signals
Speaker 1: caused putin to go into Ukraine or something. What they
Speaker 1: apparently want for dropping out is Secretary of Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services, for him Kennedy, or for somebody they approve.
Speaker 1: Verifying as that thought is, I can answer only Secretary
Speaker 1: of Education Betsy Debos. Whatever deal Shanahan brokers with Trump,
Speaker 1: and she says she has been in contact with that
Speaker 1: campaign and it's going well, she better do it damned fast.
Speaker 1: A friend of Kennedy's has reportedly delivered boxes to election
Speaker 1: officials in Arizona, boxes containing one hundred and ten thousand
Speaker 1: ballot signatures. Only they had been gathered by a super
Speaker 1: pack supporting Kennedy, and such coordination between the actual Kennedy
Speaker 1: campaign and a super pack supporting Kennedy is wildly illegal.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, at this point, what other option
Speaker 1: does Kennedy have? The New York Times reports that the
Speaker 1: campaign itself gathered nine thousand signatures in Arizona. The number
Speaker 1: to get on the ballot in Arizona is forty two thousand.
Speaker 1: So they better act quickly with Trump, or they might
Speaker 1: have nothing to withdraw from and thus nothing to negotiate with.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, I hope somebody from the Kennedy
Speaker 1: campaign has also reached out directly to JV Vance because
Speaker 1: you know, is is Trump dying or something? Now to
Speaker 1: the self defenestration of the Washington Post and the New
Speaker 1: York Times and Politico and CNN and all the other
Speaker 1: news organizations that have disconnected their political coverage from reality
Speaker 1: and insulated their decision makers from the fact that they
Speaker 1: are burning themselves to the ground. And we'll skip for
Speaker 1: a moment. The idea that suddenly where the leaked campaign
Speaker 1: memos came from matters when eight years ago, when they
Speaker 1: were Clinton campaign memos, it didn't matter. Oh, we can't
Speaker 1: touch it. It's from Iran. The Times really did this yesterday,
Speaker 1: really did this. I thought I was reading the onion.
Speaker 1: They did it with no sense of irony, no of
Speaker 1: meta self reflection that would make you go, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll stick around for another day or two before I
Speaker 1: canceled my subscription for the third time this year. They
Speaker 1: actually printed this, you ready. Kamala Harris's tan suit was
Speaker 1: a surprising choice. Our fashion critic rights, Holy effing Christ,
Speaker 1: and they did it just as Maureen Daoud did it
Speaker 1: on Sunday. The Dems are delighted, but a coup is
Speaker 1: still a coup. That headline came exactly twenty nine days
Speaker 1: after Maureen Dawd wrote Lord Almighty Joe, let it go.
Speaker 1: And there's no meta there either. There's no second paragraph
Speaker 1: in which Dowd writes a paragraph owning up to her
Speaker 1: own mental faculties and their decline, and her own fitness
Speaker 1: for office or her own age. The Post really did
Speaker 1: it yesterday and very late Monday, as well, fact checking
Speaker 1: Biden's speech and other elements of the Democratic National Convention
Speaker 1: first night. Only it wasn't about getting the facts right.
Speaker 1: It was as if there were somebody from the Trump
Speaker 1: campaigns standing over fact checker Glen Kessler's shoulder saying, if
Speaker 1: you get this long and they've in, if you put
Speaker 1: you in jail, well verse, if you make sure you
Speaker 1: never get a dinner reservation in this town. Again, more
Speaker 1: on the thing with fact checking and the Post in moment,
Speaker 1: But first Politico did it again too, with their newsletters that,
Speaker 1: at the present rate of deterioration will be by September
Speaker 1: first or so forty percent news and sixty percent lists
Speaker 1: of birthdays, who showed up to what book party, new
Speaker 1: kids sightings of Tammy Haddad and other realizations of what
Speaker 1: used to be the self policing joke of all political
Speaker 1: reporters that the White House Correspondence Dinner was the Oscars
Speaker 1: for ugly people. That joke. Only now these same reporters
Speaker 1: who used to make that joke, they think the Oscars
Speaker 1: is the White House Correspondence Dinner for unimportant people. I
Speaker 1: was thinking that the Times, the Post, CNN, Politico, Axios,
Speaker 1: and lots of others have become utterly self referential and
Speaker 1: designed only to be read by the Times, Posts, CNN, Politico,
Speaker 1: and Axios when Meredith Schiner published a piece yesterday in
Speaker 1: the New Republic that makes this point beautifully. If I may,
Speaker 1: the headline, beware the pundit brained version of the Democratic Convention. Yep,
Speaker 1: the subheadline. As everyday Americans tune in to watch Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris receive her party's nomination, they should trust what they
Speaker 1: see with their own eyes, especially as DC's chattering class
Speaker 1: tries to gaslight them. I have to read some of
Speaker 1: what she wrote. It was as if she mined mind
Speaker 1: my own mind for this information and then wrote it
Speaker 1: better than I could quote. As this class of political
Speaker 1: elites descends on Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1: The average consumer of news needs to know they are
Speaker 1: not really coming here to workshop policy, interpret or execute
Speaker 1: progressive politics, or even discuss electoral strategy. They're coming to
Speaker 1: attend corporate sponsored happy hours, eat free meals together at
Speaker 1: the CNN Grill, and maybe, if they're really lucky, snag
Speaker 1: a selfie with John Legend. And now more than ever,
Speaker 1: we should ask who all of this, this punditry, this hobnobbing,
Speaker 1: this naval gazing, is really four to continue, Because if
Speaker 1: this summer has revealed anything, it's that, just like the
Speaker 1: scott Walkers of your we are watching the national meetia
Speaker 1: short circuit before our very eyes. They are insular, they
Speaker 1: are unprepared, and after years of watching Morning Joe and
Speaker 1: searching for their birthdays in the Politico playbook, I feel
Speaker 1: so seen. After years of watching Morning Joe and searching
Speaker 1: for their birthdays in the Politico Playbook, they do not
Speaker 1: see their role as speaking to us, but rather speaking
Speaker 1: to themselves. While this may seem ancillary to the main
Speaker 1: plotline of our national politics, the mainstream media own golding
Speaker 1: themselves out of civic relevance is a net negative for
Speaker 1: anyone who believes in the outcome of better, more representative,
Speaker 1: good government. Of course, she continues, the Beltway media are conservative.
Speaker 1: This is not a novel argument by any means. It's
Speaker 1: an industry run by increasingly reac actionary plutocrats who reliably
Speaker 1: summon their charges to lead a highly effective but how
Speaker 1: will you pay for it? Pincer movement against anything resembling
Speaker 1: liberal policy. Meanwhile, there is seemingly no sin grievous enough
Speaker 1: to earn a Republican the same sort of nullifying skepticism.
Speaker 1: The Trumpists who aided and abetted the former president's attempt
Speaker 1: to overturn a lawful election remain in the good graces
Speaker 1: of America's cable news bookers. Oh my god, I love this.
Speaker 1: Can we make it into a series? Still, we need
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that the media are conservative in the most traditional,
Speaker 1: unideological sense of the word. They are clinging to a
Speaker 1: status quo, their status quo that has not matched our reality.
Speaker 1: Since Barack Obama was elected president in two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight and the Tea Party emerged as the energized manifestation
Speaker 1: of Ronald Reagan's nineteen eighties fevered their rules, their conventional wisdom,
Speaker 1: their savvy takes, become more stale, more detached from normal life,
Speaker 1: and more cartoonish with every passing day. End quote begin applause.
Speaker 1: Tempting as it is, I have not read Miss Shiner's
Speaker 1: piece in The New Republic allowed in its entirety. I
Speaker 1: encourage you to do so, and to do so on
Speaker 1: their website, and I don't know, buy something from their advertisers.
Speaker 1: I will note I have been hitting this one point
Speaker 1: for at least ten years now that the political cognizantee
Speaker 1: have not covered Trump nor any of the consequences of
Speaker 1: his raping and pillaging of America because they still haven't
Speaker 1: figured out which reportorial template fits all of this or
Speaker 1: which news cubby hole they can stuff the whole thing into.
Speaker 1: Chuck Todd, Chris Solissa, Maggie Haberman, and Ryan Lizza don't
Speaker 1: actually exist. They are just mediocre people doing bad impressions
Speaker 1: of David Brinkley, Tom Wicker, Tim Russert, Woodward and Bernstein.
Speaker 1: They read what was written or said before, and they think, only,
Speaker 1: how can I now write that again? It had not
Speaker 1: happened by the time Miss Shiner wrote her masterpiece. But
Speaker 1: speaking of Woodward, The Washington Post actually had to be
Speaker 1: pressured into fact checking it's timid, terrified fact checking of
Speaker 1: the first nine of the convention. The Post still will
Speaker 1: not fix its assertion claiming Trump wanted Americans to inject
Speaker 1: bleach to fight COVID was quote exaggerated. It still says
Speaker 1: because Trump later contradicted himself that he didn't really mean
Speaker 1: it when he said that women who had abortions had
Speaker 1: to be punished in some way when he said it
Speaker 1: on videotape. The Post will not correct its inaccurate criticism
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden for saying Trump answered the Charlottesville white
Speaker 1: supremacist attack by saying, there are very fine people on
Speaker 1: both sides. But the Post insisted that there was no
Speaker 1: evidence that Trump ever sent love letters to dictators, with
Speaker 1: mister Kessler writing, we do not know what Trump wrote
Speaker 1: to Kim Jong un. Folks at Media Matters went appropriately not.
Speaker 1: Of course, we know what Trump wrote to Kim Jong un.
Speaker 1: Trump showed those letters to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
Speaker 1: The Washington Post fact check now has its own fact
Speaker 1: check about the Washington Post quote. Parts of the letters
Speaker 1: were revealed in a twenty twenty book by Washington Post
Speaker 1: Associate editor Bob Woodward after Trump permitted him to read
Speaker 1: the letters into his tape recorder at the White House.
Speaker 1: This article has been corrected. The problem is that's it
Speaker 1: for the corrections. The Times, Post, Politico at al are
Speaker 1: still reporting as Miss Shiner noted for each other. I
Speaker 1: was flashed back to a day thirty five years ago
Speaker 1: when I was the sports director of the CBS television
Speaker 1: station in Los Angeles and our network got the baseball contract.
Speaker 1: This is when people still wanted to watch baseball on television.
Speaker 1: I was nominated to be the host of the pregame
Speaker 1: show for the new CBS Game of the Week, a
Speaker 1: role I would later fill at NBC and Fox and Turner.
Speaker 1: The same job at four networks would have been pretty good,
Speaker 1: you have to admit that. But the guy making the
Speaker 1: call on this at CBS in nineteen eighty nine was
Speaker 1: some dult named Rick Losovita las Avita. There's a coincidence,
Speaker 1: and he and Brent Musburger interviewed me one Sunday morning
Speaker 1: because Brent was supposed to be the CBS baseball play
Speaker 1: by play man, but he did not know CBS was
Speaker 1: about to fire him. The week before the season began. Anyway,
Speaker 1: los Avita, who if I remember correctly, had been a
Speaker 1: second baseman at Harvard, rather listlessly asked me whose point
Speaker 1: of view CBS Baseball should take the batter important but myopic,
Speaker 1: ultimately an irrelevancy, the pitcher, the truly uninvolved non athlete,
Speaker 1: or perhaps the second basement at the center of all
Speaker 1: the action, captain of the defense lynchpin in any play.
Speaker 1: And I said, I think we should take the point
Speaker 1: of view of the fan. Lsavita looked at me in
Speaker 1: the eyes for the only time he would do so
Speaker 1: during the interview, and he said, with genuine surprise, the
Speaker 1: point of view of the fan? What's that? And why
Speaker 1: on earth does that matter? Bluntly? Right now, our political
Speaker 1: media is this CBS sports guy Rick Glarsovita. A couple
Speaker 1: poll notes the UVA Center for Politics. This is the
Speaker 1: Larry Sabato operation has, for the first time this cycle,
Speaker 1: moved a state from Lean's Republican to toss up. The
Speaker 1: state is North Carolina. This is in line with polling
Speaker 1: that suggests she has closed the gap on Trump and
Speaker 1: continues to improve there. Virginia Roanoke College polling a little
Speaker 1: old closed last Friday. Harris forty seven, Trump forty four
Speaker 1: in Virginia, swing state's focal data polling for I'm a
Speaker 1: four News, also a little old. It closed last Friday.
Speaker 1: Trump by two in Arizona and four in Georgia. They
Speaker 1: are tied in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Harris by four
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, Harris by six in Michigan, Harris by eight
Speaker 1: in Nevada. The electoral college map based on the Siena
Speaker 1: polls Harris three hundred and thirteen, Trump two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five ipsos, ABC unfavorables. Get a load of this.
Speaker 1: Harris favorable opinion forty seven percent, unfavorable opinion forty seven percent,
Speaker 1: less than most others, but still positive. But this is remarkable.
Speaker 1: Trump favorable opinion thirty six percent, unfavorable sixty percent. That's
Speaker 1: negative twenty four. No wonder he's m mean. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's dying. I'm just saying, is he dying? It
Speaker 1: looks sounds like he's anyway. Also of interest here the
Speaker 1: right wing responds to all of this. It's almost unbelievable,
Speaker 1: But they have gone back to blaming it all on
Speaker 1: the mastermind behind the scenes pulling the strings. A foreigner
Speaker 1: manipulating America and laying plans to continue to manipulate America
Speaker 1: for the next quarter of a century. And that foreigner's
Speaker 1: name is Barack Obama. Bertherism reborn. That's next. This is countdown.
Speaker 1: This is countdown, with Keith Oberner still ahead of us
Speaker 1: on this editionive Countdown. I walked past the bar yesterday
Speaker 1: on a beautiful day in New York. It was forty
Speaker 1: three years ago, like last month, when a bunch of
Speaker 1: us wasted an entire day trying to find the owner
Speaker 1: of the New York Yankees in hopes that for some
Speaker 1: reason he would give us some vital information. We never
Speaker 1: found him. After I gave up, I went home, I
Speaker 1: got a pizza. I walked past this bar down the
Speaker 1: street from my house, and who steps out the side
Speaker 1: door but the owner of the New York Yankees. And
Speaker 1: that's not even the most amazing parts ahead in things
Speaker 1: I promised not to tell first, there are still more
Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miscrants,
Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days
Speaker 1: those persons persons in the world, world worse Eraser had
Speaker 1: himself Jesse Waters of Fox News. This is what he
Speaker 1: said yesterday. There's a weird vibe going on. I can't
Speaker 1: figure it out. He could have stopped there and could
Speaker 1: have summarized his entire career, but he went on, there's
Speaker 1: a weird vibe going on. I can't figure it out.
Speaker 1: Barack Obama is still the godfather of this machine. He
Speaker 1: gave us Joe Biden as VP, he gave us Hillary
Speaker 1: as Secretary of State. Then he coued Joe, put all
Speaker 1: his boys with Kamala's team, and he had his wingman,
Speaker 1: holder Vett Waltz. I don't know who Waltz is. I
Speaker 1: presume he means Governor Walls, the vice presidential nominee. They've
Speaker 1: given up trying to mispronounce Kamala Harris's name, and now
Speaker 1: they've moved on to mispronouncing Walls's name. Now the guy's
Speaker 1: a young sixty three. He's going to be doing this
Speaker 1: the next twenty five years. He's definitely going to interfere
Speaker 1: with this election. By that, Waters means Obama plans to
Speaker 1: vote interfere. This is why we will be ending Johnny
Speaker 1: to Hawaii to get the truth about the birth certificate.
Speaker 1: This time we will dig deep and find out what
Speaker 1: really happened. Yeah, okay, Number one Fox just re embraced
Speaker 1: birtherism if you missed it. Number two Waters just confessed
Speaker 1: the greatest fear at Fox. The ongoing obsession now in
Speaker 1: its what seventeenth year? This idiot Waters speaking of seventeen years.
Speaker 1: He's only seventeen years younger than is Barack Obama. They
Speaker 1: really think that they will be living in a world
Speaker 1: manipulated by Barack Obama until the year two thousand and
Speaker 1: forty nine, to which I say, good, have a great time. Moron.
Speaker 1: Number three, This Johnny that Eraser had Jesse ascending to Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Johnny is a houseplant. Then again, so is Jesse Waters.
Speaker 1: The runner up worser Amy Kramer, Georgia Republican Committee woman,
Speaker 1: former TEA partier and January sixth speaker. You know this
Speaker 1: not too bright, possibly brain damaged right wing troll Jack Posobic,
Speaker 1: who's been thrown off everything. He went to the Democratic
Speaker 1: National Convention and decided to interview protesters in hopes of
Speaker 1: getting them to I don't know, I say that they
Speaker 1: were being paid by mautseetungue or I don't know, say
Speaker 1: that they have the real birth certificate for Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: who knows. They just assume that what they would do,
Speaker 1: how they would try to cheat, break the law, do
Speaker 1: immoral things. They just assumed the Democrats and the Liberals
Speaker 1: have done that, because the Democrats and the Liberals have
Speaker 1: succeeded it and they've failed, so they must just be
Speaker 1: doing more of it. That's the way they think when
Speaker 1: they think this. Pasobic, of course, promptly got a hold
Speaker 1: of two women who turned out to be Democrats who
Speaker 1: showed up there deliberately to f with Jack Posobic, to
Speaker 1: mess with his interviews. This didn't fool a lot of people.
Speaker 1: There is evidence that Jack Pisobic has realized now that
Speaker 1: the two women that he interviewed first at the Democratic
Speaker 1: National Committee protests were in fact people there looking for him.
Speaker 1: Pasobic disguised himself by wearing a facial covering, and everybody
Speaker 1: went and said, oh, he looks even dumber wearing facial
Speaker 1: clothing in any event. Amy Kramer, Georgia Republican Committee woman
Speaker 1: who wore some sort of leopard print mink to the
Speaker 1: January sixth insurrection and spoke nonsense and Gibberish played a
Speaker 1: clip of Jack Pisobic interviewing these two women who were
Speaker 1: effing with him, and she didn't realize it, and she wrote,
Speaker 1: a woman admits she's going to have an abortion on
Speaker 1: stage at the DNC. Everyone thought Laura Lumer was crazy
Speaker 1: when she said it was going to happen. Lara was right.
Speaker 1: This is sick. In no world is this okay? This
Speaker 1: woman needs counseling and mental treatment. Number one. Laura Lumer
Speaker 1: now claims that when she said that there was going
Speaker 1: to be a live abortion on stage of the Democratic
Speaker 1: National Committee, that she was being satirical. Republicans, by definition,
Speaker 1: can't be satirical because they would have to have an
Speaker 1: advanced sense of humor. And the only thing that Republicans
Speaker 1: laugh at usually is pointing at somebody who's injured themselves,
Speaker 1: or perhaps the video from the Simpsons man hit in
Speaker 1: groin by football. But this woman, Kramer, part of the
Speaker 1: January sixth Trump event, thought this was legit, that the
Speaker 1: woman was going to have an on stage abortion. The
Speaker 1: woman added, and her name was Anarchy princess with the
Speaker 1: handles satire. I'm also having a visectomy on stage. I
Speaker 1: forgot to mention that this did not deter Amy Kramer
Speaker 1: in the slightest Who is satire ap who was interviewed
Speaker 1: by Jack Pisobic and said she was going to have
Speaker 1: an on stage abortion and then added and a vasectomy
Speaker 1: satire ap Anarchy princess is no other person than the
Speaker 1: woman who keeps appearing at all of the Peter Navarro events,
Speaker 1: at his sentencing, at his hearings, the guy the woman
Speaker 1: who's interrupting him and holding up placards and saying you're
Speaker 1: going to jail, And this boneheaded insurrectionist Republican still cannot
Speaker 1: process that this was a stunt designed to embarrass Posobic
Speaker 1: and anybody who would take something this stupid seriously, people
Speaker 1: like Amy Kramer, Republican Committee woman from Georgia fifth a
Speaker 1: thick in nowhere out the fifth. Okay, this was a
Speaker 1: tea party organizer. I told you about the Tea Party
Speaker 1: when they started, we had to stop them. Then this
Speaker 1: is what they've morphed into once again, more proof of
Speaker 1: my theory that our attempts to preserve democracy do not
Speaker 1: succeed as much as do their efforts, and the stupidity
Speaker 1: of those who want to destroy democracy. They inadvertently protected.
Speaker 1: Still none of these are our winner. Our winner. Stephen L. Miller,
Speaker 1: formerly of The National Review Online, formerly of Fox News.
Speaker 1: He's been fired from a lot of places. Apparently he
Speaker 1: does a podcast now. Nothing against podcasts, but I looked
Speaker 1: at the name here, and apparently nobody listens to it.
Speaker 1: You will have seen from Monday night at the DNZ
Speaker 1: that Mallory McMorrow, the Michigan State Senator, not only got
Speaker 1: up and gave an excellent address, she brought props. She
Speaker 1: brought a giant, like five times normal size book about
Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five and held it up so everybody
Speaker 1: could see it and could identify what everybody from Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five is insisting. Is there intimate connection with
Speaker 1: the Trump plans for his next presidency. God help us
Speaker 1: if there is anything resembling one. But the prop was
Speaker 1: a giant, as I say, book that reads twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five mandate for leadership. Stephen L. Miller writes, When it's
Speaker 1: Friday class, and this is over a picture of Malory McMorrow.
Speaker 1: When it's Friday class, and you think the substitute teacher
Speaker 1: might be cool and she turns out to be a
Speaker 1: massive And then there's a four letter word that begins
Speaker 1: with C. He actually did this, Stephen L. Miller calling
Speaker 1: somebody else that Stephen L. Miller. She turns out to
Speaker 1: be a massive seaword. Hey, Stephen, do you have a mirror, because,
Speaker 1: in a remarkable coincidence, you too are a massive conker
Speaker 1: in today's competition for worst person in the world. Now
Speaker 1: from the files of things I promised not to tell,
Speaker 1: and I recently went past the building, my second professional home,
Speaker 1: and I was flooded with my memories of a place
Speaker 1: called the RKO Radio Network. This is nineteen eighty and
Speaker 1: I'm nearing my twenty second birthday, and I'm working real
Speaker 1: hard at one radio network run by the United pres
Speaker 1: International Wire Service, in my second year and making around
Speaker 1: well nearly twenty thousand dollars a year. And in September,
Speaker 1: a drunken manager had tried to get me fired, tried
Speaker 1: to fire me himself for being young. And I'll by
Speaker 1: damned if I can remember getting consecutive days off there.
Speaker 1: This was UPI in a nutshell for my first few
Speaker 1: weeks there. I thought whoever had decorated the newsroom had
Speaker 1: found the floor tiles with the ugliest design pattern in history.
Speaker 1: And then finally I saw a colleague grind his lit
Speaker 1: cigarette into that floor, and only then did I realize
Speaker 1: that was what the ugly design pattern was. Hundreds of
Speaker 1: ground out cigarettes, years and years of ground out cigarettes
Speaker 1: in the tiles. Anyway, the main advantage to working at
Speaker 1: UPI was that everybody in what was then a flourishing
Speaker 1: radio business knew UPI, and thus they knew you, and
Speaker 1: they knew you were underpaid. The top all news radio
Speaker 1: station in the country, WCBS in New York, had already
Speaker 1: asked if I might be a candidate for a coming
Speaker 1: opening in their sports department the spring. I'd actually interviewed
Speaker 1: with two vice presidents at this thing. The yachtsman Ted Turner,
Speaker 1: who owned the Atlanta Braves, was going to try to
Speaker 1: start something he called cable news Network, but they were
Speaker 1: not initially interested in me, and after meeting with them,
Speaker 1: I was certain they would never get it launched, let
Speaker 1: alone get an audience for it. I was working there
Speaker 1: literally fourteen months later. I'd also been flown to Boston,
Speaker 1: like they spent fifty five dollars on me by a
Speaker 1: radio station that really wanted me to do a morning
Speaker 1: sports shift for them, and they were offering forty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year, twice my salary, and I was ready
Speaker 1: to do it. And I was sitting in the office
Speaker 1: in Boston trying to figure out where I could live
Speaker 1: and how late I could sleep and still get there
Speaker 1: in the morning. And then the news director said, now,
Speaker 1: except if there's a big story, you can do the
Speaker 1: after noon sports cast from home over the phone, which
Speaker 1: is when I realized I was supposed to do the
Speaker 1: morning and the afternoon. I was essentially on the clock
Speaker 1: from five am to six x pm. And the forty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars would have had to go to my sister
Speaker 1: because the schedule would have killed me within three months.
Speaker 1: And then there was this RKO radio network. UPI was
Speaker 1: in the unique position of having RKO as a client,
Speaker 1: so RKO heard and used our stuff all the time.
Speaker 1: And also they had from their beginning used our UPI
Speaker 1: feed as a kind of twenty four to seven constantly
Speaker 1: flowing turned on Spigot audition service. From the time I
Speaker 1: got to UPI in July nineteen seventy nine, it seemed
Speaker 1: like one radiopaerson from UPI per month was hired away
Speaker 1: by RKO. Sometime in the early autumn of nineteen eighty,
Speaker 1: I was covering a New York Rangers game at Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden, and the guy next to me, smoking a
Speaker 1: cigar inside the garden, right in front of all the fans,
Speaker 1: turned out to be the sports director of this RKO network.
Speaker 1: In fact, he was the entirety of the RKO sports department.
Speaker 1: But we're doubling in size. I'm going to start doing
Speaker 1: weekend sports casts, and I get to hire a new
Speaker 1: person to do the weekends. It's a union shop, so
Speaker 1: it's fifty one dollars a sports cast. After there's ten
Speaker 1: a weekend, so you get twenty two for eighty dollars
Speaker 1: to reports for reports from the field, and you'd be
Speaker 1: my backup. Twenty two bucks from the field and a
Speaker 1: guarantee of five to ten weekend and you got to
Speaker 1: come in one day a week to book the stringers
Speaker 1: of the weekend games. That'd be free, but the guarantee
Speaker 1: is twenty six thousand dollars plus those twenty two dollars
Speaker 1: every time you have file a report from the field.
Speaker 1: You interested, well, I did some quick math. This was
Speaker 1: about forty percent more money for about forty percent less work,
Speaker 1: and there were no five am to six pm schedules.
Speaker 1: When the sports director called me back a few weeks
Speaker 1: later to offer me the gig, I did not hesitate.
Speaker 1: His name, by the way, was Charlie Steiner. Charlie would
Speaker 1: later be a colleague of mine at Sports Center, and
Speaker 1: then he did the Yankees games, and now he does
Speaker 1: the Dodgers games, and he's been a friend for forty
Speaker 1: two years. The network itself was also space age, shiny
Speaker 1: and new, and it had carpets, whereas UPI had the
Speaker 1: stubbed out cigarettes decorps. RKO was literally the first radio
Speaker 1: network in this country to deliver all of its programs
Speaker 1: to its stations via satellite. No more scratchy, hyper expensive
Speaker 1: phone lines. RKO came through crystal clear, and that was
Speaker 1: our pitch to the stations. All the newscasts, all the
Speaker 1: sports casts, all the features ended with the same tagline
Speaker 1: bya satellite, this is the RKO Radio Network. And then
Speaker 1: a spot for Hubba Bubba gum. For my first few
Speaker 1: weeks there. Part of the job also included doing two
Speaker 1: sportscasts today for RKO's local station WOIR. The first time
Speaker 1: I went up in the elevator to their studio. It
Speaker 1: dawned on me that it was the exact same studio
Speaker 1: where seven years before I had been invited by the
Speaker 1: great comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding along with my
Speaker 1: dad to sit and watch in amazed appreciation as Bob
Speaker 1: and Ray did their show on WR. So basically, as
Speaker 1: of December nineteen eighty, I had accomplished all of my
Speaker 1: childhood goals. The only problem with the place was the location.
Speaker 1: RKO was on the southeast corner of Times Square, probably
Speaker 1: the low watermark in the history of Times Square. It
Speaker 1: was in fourteen forty Broadway at the corner of fortieth Street.
Speaker 1: There was a back door at forty first Street and
Speaker 1: sixth Avenue, right across from Bryant Park. On those occasions
Speaker 1: when I filled in for Charlie Steiner on the weekdays
Speaker 1: for his morning show, which they would tape overnight, I
Speaker 1: would often be at the studios until two or three AM,
Speaker 1: and my walk home was a little sketchy. In point
Speaker 1: of fact, I would not walk home. I would run,
Speaker 1: I mean run run from that back door at forty
Speaker 1: first and sixth I'd pass Bryant Park on my right
Speaker 1: as fast as I could passed all the drug dealers
Speaker 1: and other folks, then dart on the north side of
Speaker 1: forty second between sixth and fifth, and once you got
Speaker 1: to that corner of fifth and forty second, you were
Speaker 1: back in civilization, with good street lights and other people
Speaker 1: on the streets, no matter how late the hour, or
Speaker 1: as we called them in New York then witnesses. Occasionally
Speaker 1: I might have to walk in Times Square itself, usually
Speaker 1: when it was daylight. What surrounded me there was about
Speaker 1: as far from today's Disneyland East Times Square as you
Speaker 1: could imagine. In fact, you could not imagine. There were
Speaker 1: porn theaters everywhere. And it wasn't just porn theaters. They
Speaker 1: were spaced part and in between them. Other businesses existed,
Speaker 1: porn peep shows, porn sex shops, and porn video rental stores.
Speaker 1: I remember always making sure I was walking on the
Speaker 1: ho outside edge of the street, nearest the gutter, on
Speaker 1: the premise that in the event somebody tried to mug me,
Speaker 1: I stood a much better chance by running right out
Speaker 1: into automobile traffic. Besides which, I used to worry that
Speaker 1: if I walked too close to the porn theaters and
Speaker 1: the shows, and the shops and the video stores. One day,
Speaker 1: I might just get stuck to the sidewalk. Time Square
Speaker 1: was so different in nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty one
Speaker 1: that I really can't imagine that the annual income made
Speaker 1: there from anything but porn and the RKO radio network
Speaker 1: was more than twenty dollars a year. In total. There
Speaker 1: was nothing else, I mean nothing. On weekends, walking over
Speaker 1: from my home on the East Side, I would decide
Speaker 1: which fast food place I'd be getting lunch from, somewhere
Speaker 1: on Fifth Avenue or Lex. I'd go to the nearest payphone.
Speaker 1: I'd call the RKO newsroom desk, and I would offer
Speaker 1: to bring in food for everybody, for the simple reason
Speaker 1: that in Time Square forty years ago, there were no
Speaker 1: restaurants open on weekends. I'll say that again, in Times
Speaker 1: Square forty years ago, on the weekends, all the restaurants
Speaker 1: that existed there were closed during the day. And forget
Speaker 1: public transportation to Times Square. I would finish my brisk,
Speaker 1: twenty five minute walk to work one night in that
Speaker 1: frigid winter of nineteen eighty eighty one and see my
Speaker 1: colleagues looking unusually pasty and drawn. You didn't take the
Speaker 1: subway in, did you, asked one of the editors, Tom Ryan.
Speaker 1: I looked at him like it was crazy. Well good.
Speaker 1: Some guy got stabbed by the stairs closest to our building.
Speaker 1: I asked if he was okay. No, he's not okay.
Speaker 1: He's dead. But they got the guys who did it.
Speaker 1: They arrested fifty one people. One guy got stabbed to death,
Speaker 1: fifty one people were arrested. I asked if they had
Speaker 1: been restaging a reenactment of the assassination of Julius Caesar. Still,
Speaker 1: the equipment was brand new and easy to use, and
Speaker 1: the staff was all young. We all had fun, and
Speaker 1: we had parties, and everybody lived in the city, and
Speaker 1: for the most part, it was a pleasure to work there,
Speaker 1: and it was way more lucrative even than Charlie Steiner
Speaker 1: had suggested. Those twenty two dollars voice reports from the field,
Speaker 1: they piled up fast. The baseball players went on strike
Speaker 1: that June nineteen eighty one, and every time I covered
Speaker 1: a bargaining session I could be certain of at least
Speaker 1: another forty four dollars. And if that doesn't sound like much,
Speaker 1: the rent on my very nice studio apartment never got
Speaker 1: higher than four hundred and ninety eight dollars a month.
Speaker 1: RKO's location also provided me with some wacky logistical problems.
Speaker 1: I filled in for Charlie on most holidays, plus I
Speaker 1: did the same thing at a local radio station WNW.
Speaker 1: This made the actual Christmas into my metaphorical Christmas. If
Speaker 1: I had to fill in for both of these operations
Speaker 1: on the same day. My schedule went like this, get
Speaker 1: into RKO in Times Square at maybe two am, tape
Speaker 1: Charlie's morning show by four am, then walk cross town
Speaker 1: very quickly to WNEW over on Third Avenue and do
Speaker 1: those sportscasts live between five thirty and nine, and then
Speaker 1: go home and maybe take a nap, but not a
Speaker 1: long one because I would have to be back at
Speaker 1: RKO by one pm to do Charlie's afternoon show, rinse
Speaker 1: repeat a lot of work. On the other hand, just
Speaker 1: one week of those days paid the rent for two months.
Speaker 1: On a wet New Year's Eve nineteen eighty one, I
Speaker 1: treated myself to a cab to go to RKO, which
Speaker 1: put me in the bizarre position of getting into a
Speaker 1: cab on the East Side at one thirty am New
Speaker 1: year's morning and saying take me to Times Square and
Speaker 1: the driver saying, you missed it, buddy, it's been nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty two for an hour and a half. Nothing like
Speaker 1: being the only person going into Times Square while one
Speaker 1: million people are leaving it drunk. Most of the sportscasts
Speaker 1: I did at Arkao or pretty textbook, But there did
Speaker 1: come the day that I walked in to fill in
Speaker 1: for Charlie who was at Wimbledon. So this is the
Speaker 1: summer of nineteen eighty one, and the newswires were full
Speaker 1: of this story of some unnamed American radio reporter getting
Speaker 1: into a brawl with a London tabloid writer at a
Speaker 1: Wimbledon press conference, and it slowly evolved that the reporter
Speaker 1: was Charlie, my boss, and we were going to have
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to cover this. At first,
Speaker 1: Charlie wanted to do it in the third person and
Speaker 1: say the reporter did this, and the reporter said that,
Speaker 1: And I said, you know, I really don't think we're
Speaker 1: going to get away with that, given how much wire
Speaker 1: copy I'm seeing here, Charlie, this is probably going to
Speaker 1: be on the front page of the New York Times
Speaker 1: in the morning. Sure, enough, it was above the fold.
Speaker 1: We're still unbeknownst to Charlie his fight took place in
Speaker 1: a corner of the Wimbledon press room, right under the
Speaker 1: camera that fed out a shot of that room twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven to every television network in the world.
Speaker 1: Sure enough. The last item on ABC's six thirty newscast
Speaker 1: that night with Peter Jennings was a feature on Charlie
Speaker 1: Steiner fighting with the British over how they broke up
Speaker 1: the John McEnroe post match press conference, and he was
Speaker 1: pissed off because that meant he wouldn't get any soundbites
Speaker 1: from McEnroe. I managed to run home from RKO and
Speaker 1: record the report by Dick Schapp, and when Charlie got
Speaker 1: back from London, I loaned it to him. This was
Speaker 1: in July nineteen eighty one. Charlie still hasn't given me
Speaker 1: the tape back. Every time I see him, he swears
Speaker 1: he's still looking for it. It's in a box somewhere.
Speaker 1: But I'm beginning to think he may not be telling
Speaker 1: me the whole truth about what happened to my video cassette.
Speaker 1: But my favorite RKO story is about Charlie's sudden and
Speaker 1: inexplicable obsession with the story. During that nineteen eighty one
Speaker 1: baseball strike I mentioned in the middle of this thing
Speaker 1: which stopped the season for fifty days and was really
Speaker 1: really the beginning of the end of that time when
Speaker 1: baseball truly mattered in this country. When every day in
Speaker 1: that strike somebody on all the TV newscast set and
Speaker 1: the baseball strike is in its twenty third day, a
Speaker 1: story broke that George Steinbrenner, the owner of the Yankees,
Speaker 1: was going to meet with Baseball Commissioner Buye. Qune and
Speaker 1: a couple of other owners who realized that the work
Speaker 1: stoppage was financial madness. As George told me years later,
Speaker 1: he was losing about a million dollars in revenue every
Speaker 1: day so that the Milwaukee Brewers could save five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in salaries every year. Well, my boss, Charlie Steiner,
Speaker 1: decided he was going to scoop the world about this
Speaker 1: secret Steinbrenner Kune meeting. So he told me to come
Speaker 1: into the office on one of my off days and
Speaker 1: work the phones. Work the phone. Sun. Two of us,
Speaker 1: me and the newly hired producer, my friend John Martin,
Speaker 1: were supposed to call everybody we knew and find out
Speaker 1: for Charlie when these guys were meeting and where and
Speaker 1: who would be there, and to not go home until
Speaker 1: we had nailed it down. Well, it was madness. I
Speaker 1: didn't know anybody in baseball, let alone anybody who knew
Speaker 1: where the owner of the Yankees was going to meet
Speaker 1: in secret with the Commissioner of Baseball, let alone who
Speaker 1: knew all that and would tell me. But I tried
Speaker 1: everybody I could think of, and had already suggested to
Speaker 1: John Martin that I was just going to start dialing
Speaker 1: ten digits at random and asking whoever answered if they
Speaker 1: knew when. After about eight hours of this, well past
Speaker 1: my dinner time, I was on the phone with some
Speaker 1: executive of some West Coast team when he said hold
Speaker 1: on a minute. I got another call, and a moment
Speaker 1: later from the adjoining room in my office, I heard
Speaker 1: John Martin say, mister Smith, Hi, this is John Martin
Speaker 1: from the RKO Radio network, and yes, RKO Radio Network, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'll hold sir. Mister Smith picked up my call again
Speaker 1: and I said, is this really two of you calling
Speaker 1: me about this crap at the same time from the
Speaker 1: same network? And I said yes, and I apologized, and
Speaker 1: I told him I was going home. If Charlie doesn't
Speaker 1: like it, I told John he can fire me, so
Speaker 1: follow me on this because I had missed dinner. When
Speaker 1: I got back to my street on the east side,
Speaker 1: I was famished. I don't know nine o'clock, ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: The last two blocks of my walk home was always identical.
Speaker 1: I'd come up Third Avenue and then hang a right
Speaker 1: at the southeast corner of Third Avenue and fifty fifth Street.
Speaker 1: I lived at the other end of fifty fifth Street
Speaker 1: and your second Avenue. But now I was going to
Speaker 1: go pick up some pizza in a very nice place
Speaker 1: on the northwest corner of this same block. I got
Speaker 1: the slices. The lights changed. Now I was crossing towards
Speaker 1: the northeast corner of fifty fifth and Third, which itself
Speaker 1: was the home of a famous New York bar, PJ. Clarks.
Speaker 1: Ordinarily I would never have been on that side of
Speaker 1: the street at that hour, but there I was. And
Speaker 1: as I slipped past the ancient front door, I saw
Speaker 1: the side exit open in a burst of bright yellow light,
Speaker 1: like in an Edward Hopper painting shoot out onto a
Speaker 1: limo waiting on fifty fifth Street. Then, as I walked,
Speaker 1: carrying my box of pizza and wearing my RKO Radio
Speaker 1: Network black jacket, who emerges from that light of that
Speaker 1: side door at PJ. Clark's, But George Steinbrenner in a tux.
Speaker 4: I gasped.
Speaker 1: I tried to summon the courage to approach Steinbrenner as
Speaker 1: he walked towards his limo and ask him about his
Speaker 1: planned meeting with Commissioner Kun And just before I admitted
Speaker 1: to myself that No, at the age of twenty two,
Speaker 1: I did not have such courage. I saw Steinbrenner stop
Speaker 1: at the limo, and I heard him yell back towards
Speaker 1: the light shining through the still open side door to
Speaker 1: Clark's Eddie, Eddie. And with that Edward Bennett Williams, the
Speaker 1: owner of the Baltimore Orioles, leaned out, also in a tux,
Speaker 1: and said, with evident exasperation, what now. George Steinbrenner shouted,
Speaker 1: what time are you and I and Chiles meeting with
Speaker 1: Bowie tomorrow? Ah. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe
Speaker 1: my luck. Williams had not seen me Steinbrenner had not
Speaker 1: seen me. Williams sighed again for the tenth time. George
Speaker 1: nine nine thirty in the morning, George nine thirty Booie's condo.
Speaker 1: I now plastered myself against the wall of Clark's. I
Speaker 1: hope they had not seen me at all, without so
Speaker 1: much as asking the question. I had learned at the
Speaker 1: Orioles owner and Chiles, Eddie Chiles, the owner of the
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers. They would be accompanying Steinbrenner to the meeting,
Speaker 1: and it would begin at nine thirty at the condominium
Speaker 1: of Commissioner Buie Kun. And I was wondering if I
Speaker 1: could try to fake Steinbrenner's voice and shout, Eddie, where's
Speaker 1: Booie's condo again? When suddenly I heard Steinbrenner say, Eddie,
Speaker 1: where's Booie's condo again? By now, Edward Bennett Williams had
Speaker 1: re lit a cigar he was holding. George write it
Speaker 1: down this time five seventy five Park five seven five.
Speaker 1: I could barely breathe. Good God, they had handed me
Speaker 1: everything but the cross street. Eddie, Eddie, what's the cross street?
Speaker 1: Williams now swore, Oh, for f's sake, George sixty third
Speaker 1: sixty third in Park, five seventy five Park at nine
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. Okay, Steinbrenner got into the limo.
Speaker 1: It squealed off, the door closed. I wrote what I
Speaker 1: had heard on the top of the pizza box and
Speaker 1: took off at a dead run to my apartment at
Speaker 1: the corner of fifty fifth and Second, pausing only to
Speaker 1: take a quick bite of pizza. I called John Martin
Speaker 1: back at the RCAO Radio Network. I got it, John said,
Speaker 1: you got what I got everything about the meeting. John said,
Speaker 1: I'll get the Boss soon. All three of us were
Speaker 1: on the phone. Charlie did not bel leave I had
Speaker 1: gotten him any information, so I laid it on thick.
Speaker 1: You're writing this down, Boss, nine thirty tomorrow morning. It's
Speaker 1: at Bowie Kune's condo at five seventy five Park. That's
Speaker 1: the corner of sixty third, of course. Then there was
Speaker 1: silence at Charlie's end of the phone. Oh and uh,
Speaker 1: Edward Bennett Williams of the Orioles and Eddie Child's of
Speaker 1: the Rangers. They'll be there too. I don't know, Charlie
Speaker 1: if it's just them or there are others, but those
Speaker 1: four will certainly be there. Booi's condo five seventy five
Speaker 1: Cross Street is sixty third. Charlie started to make a kind.
Speaker 4: Of butt butt noise. But but, but how did you
Speaker 4: find out? How on the hell did you actually find out?
Speaker 4: Why do you think it's true? I had been waiting
Speaker 4: for this for several moments, and my answer had been
Speaker 4: rehearsed in my mind at least as far back as
Speaker 4: my elevator ride up to my apartment. With the most
Speaker 4: nonchalant I had ever mustered in my life, I answered
Speaker 4: Charlie Steiner, Well, Charlie, I I ran into Steinbrenner at Clark's.
Speaker 4: I told George Steinbrenner that story once, and he laughed,
Speaker 4: like hell, I've done all the damage I can do here.
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