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

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Speaker 1: Trump is not qualified to continue as commander in chief.

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Speaker 1: Never mind the politics, never mind his instability, never mind

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Speaker 1: his corruption, never mind his unidentified illness, never mind any

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Speaker 1: of the details. Just militarily, just making decisions that will

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Speaker 1: get American troops killed. Just about this war in Iran.

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Speaker 1: Trump is not qualified to continue as commander in chief,

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Speaker 1: and he needs to resign at least his command. Today.

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Speaker 1: Trump is personally losing the war in Iran. Trump is

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Speaker 1: personally turning Iran in to instant processed Vietnam. If we

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Speaker 1: do not want the United States to lose this war,

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Speaker 1: to be materially hurt by this moron's buccaneering bullshit, and

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Speaker 1: we don't we all live here, he has to go

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Speaker 1: at least his commander in chief. It is more important

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Speaker 1: right now than impeaching him or send him off on

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Speaker 1: his path to the penitentiary. Iran could never in a

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Speaker 1: million years harm this country as much as Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has harmed it. In the last two weeks, Iran warned

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Speaker 1: Trump they would block the Strait of Hormuz. They warned

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Speaker 1: him in two Thoy nineteen. Trump's pet General Dan Cain

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Speaker 1: told Trump Iran would block the Strait of Hormuz. Trump

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Speaker 1: told his advisors told Kin, the chairman of the Joint

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Speaker 1: chief Trump told them he heard them when they warned

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Speaker 1: him that Iran would block the Strait of Hormuz and

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Speaker 1: hit everybody else's ships with drones and missiles and mines,

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Speaker 1: and that just planes and bombs would not open up

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Speaker 1: told his team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing

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Speaker 1: the straight, and even if Iran tried, the US military

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Speaker 1: could handle it. Trump did it anyway because he knows better.

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Speaker 1: He knows better than reality. He knows better than the

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Speaker 1: chairman of the Joint effing Chiefs. He knows better than

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Speaker 1: the guy holding the gun at his head. And now

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Speaker 1: he's screwed, and we're screwed, and he's so screwed, and

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Speaker 1: we're so screwed that Trump on Saturday had to scream

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Speaker 1: for help from effing China. Save me, China, Save me England,

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Speaker 1: Save me England, even after I said a week ago

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Speaker 1: that Ubrits only wanted to help now that the war

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Speaker 1: had already been won. Help me, even though after you

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Speaker 1: do help me. I'll still take all the credit, and

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Speaker 1: I'll say you didn't help me until it was needed.

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Speaker 1: Help me send ships, ships, ships that, by the way,

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Speaker 1: will still do no good. Because Trump still doesn't understand

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Speaker 1: the twenty first century. Trump humiliates us by asking South

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Speaker 1: Korea to save us at Hormuz, and one hour later,

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Speaker 1: the US Embassy in Baghdad tells all Americans to get

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Speaker 1: the hell out of Iraq because Trump has lost all

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Speaker 1: control of this war on the ground, because he is

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Speaker 1: an amateur and an idiot and a schoolyard bully who

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Speaker 1: And he still convinces himself and still tries to convince

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Speaker 1: the rest of us that he is God here and

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Speaker 1: as he lies, he has to make up a compliment

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Speaker 1: about himself. In the lie NBC quote, the President said

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Speaker 1: several countries have committed to helping secure the straight, but

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Speaker 1: he declined to name any of them, quoting Trump, They've

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Speaker 1: not only committed, but they think it's a great idea.

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Speaker 1: Big strong countries right with tears in their eyes, Fatso

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Speaker 1: saying sir it's a great idea. Yeah, the countries are Lilliput,

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Speaker 1: Panem and Gilead. Get out of this war. Get out

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Speaker 1: of it now, pull the US resources and personnel out

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Speaker 1: as stealthily as you can. Tell Net and Yahoo you

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Speaker 1: are on your own pal, and then Trump, do the

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Speaker 1: only thing you do well, lie, save this from turning

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Speaker 1: into in processed Vietnam. Do as much as you can

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Speaker 1: to get Iran to reopen horm moves and reconstruct Harg Island.

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Speaker 1: Because it's not just oil at one hundred and three

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Speaker 1: the area whose shipping is now affected by horm moves.

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Speaker 1: And what has already happened to oil is now going

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Speaker 1: to happen to food. So Trump's ten dollars gallon of

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Speaker 1: gas will be accompanied by a ten dollars strawberry soon

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Speaker 1: rather than late. Instead, Trump is now threatening to go

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Speaker 1: back and destroy what's left the oil infrastructure at Harg Island,

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Speaker 1: as he actually said quote just for fun, and he

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Speaker 1: is insisting the Iranians want to cease fire, but he

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Speaker 1: doesn't think we've won enough yet, even as their foreign

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Speaker 1: minister says, quote no, we never asked for a ceasefire,

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Speaker 1: unquote and quote we have never asked even for negotiation.

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Speaker 1: We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes.

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Speaker 1: And Trump set his idiots like his foppish buffoon Chris

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Speaker 1: and that is May. Oh no, says Trump, quote Iran

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Speaker 1: is about to surrender. The essence of this is, of course,

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Speaker 1: Trump does not understand quality, only quantity. We sank all

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Speaker 1: their boats, We shot down all their planes. We hit

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Speaker 1: five thousand targets, seven thousand targets. Within two days, it'll

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Speaker 1: be totally decimated. Eleventy billion targets, by the way, within

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Speaker 1: two days, it'll be totally decimated. The two days are up.

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Speaker 1: Let me check my watch. Now. We are losing in Iran.

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Speaker 1: And Trump has two choices right now, one of which

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Speaker 1: he cannot understand. He either gets out of the Middle

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Speaker 1: multi year, possibly multi decade commitment. The JP Morgan assessment

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Speaker 1: of this, and nobody is more willing to invest in

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Speaker 1: killing American soldiers if it means higher investment payoffs than

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Speaker 1: is JP Morgan. The JP Morgan assessment is a succinct

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Speaker 1: attempt to waive this country off this madness before even

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Speaker 1: a win would turn into a loss. This could transform

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Speaker 1: into a multi year war if we use Russia Ukraine

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Speaker 1: as a proxy. Iran is two point seven times larger

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Speaker 1: than Ukraine. And don't worry, Trump is preparing for that.

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Speaker 1: He is preparing for forever war in Iran. The Wall

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Speaker 1: Street Journal reported the USS Tripoli and the thirty first

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Speaker 1: Marine Expeditionary Unit are being moved from the Pacific to

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Speaker 1: the Middle East. That's eight hundred combat infantry with stealth

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Speaker 1: fighter jets anti tank and mortar equipment. The first Marine

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Speaker 1: Expeditionary Force is already there. They are the ones that

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Speaker 1: attacked Harg Island, which escalated this disaster a little further.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Hamburger Hill twenty twenty six faster And even

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Speaker 1: if there were some value to Trump's amateur but I

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Speaker 1: went to the New York Military Academy Reform School in

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four, or pinheaded strategic suggestion, Let's just escort

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Speaker 1: every single oil tanker through the Strait like this was

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Speaker 1: Farragut going through Memphis. Even if that would work, it

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Speaker 1: having destroyed the military facility on that Harg Island, he

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Speaker 1: on Harg Island just for fun. Remember that's what he said.

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Speaker 1: And now you're one hundred and three on the way

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Speaker 1: go to three hundred and three dollars. Because this idiot

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Speaker 1: Iran's ability to ship its oil through the facility on

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Speaker 1: ability to ship their oil through that facility. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: blow it up. Did you ever think of the possibility

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Speaker 1: that we are in what you're planning to blow up? Moron,

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Speaker 1: ass clown, amateur, brain dead moron in chief. This is

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Speaker 1: the military idiot who quote was very surprised that Iran's

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Speaker 1: surprise I had of this whole thing, even though every

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Speaker 1: analyst in this country and abroad said, if you attack

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Speaker 1: will attack all their Middle Eastern rivals. They told him this,

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Speaker 1: Dan Cain told him this, and if he missed it,

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Speaker 1: and oh boy, did he miss it. Trump should read okay,

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Speaker 1: have somebody read to him. Senator Chris Murphy's online briefing

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Speaker 1: Hormuz stays closed for any length of time, global recession

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Speaker 1: then becomes likely per the world's economists, and what happens,

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Speaker 1: if the Strait remains closed for even a month, sustained

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Speaker 1: Russia and China. Ice work Trump. Oh. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Goldman Sachs confirms shipping insurance is up one thousand percent.

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Speaker 1: Oil flow in the Strait of Hormuz is off just

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Speaker 1: a little, just down from nineteen million, five hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: it's down by eleventy billion percent. Number of tankers going

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Speaker 1: through the straight last Thursday zero. Back to Senator Murphy,

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Speaker 1: he notes, yes, Iranian proxies in Lebanon already have struck

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Speaker 1: the night that still matters here. The hoo'sies in Yemen

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Speaker 1: has fear bongered. He says there are seventeen hundred Iranians

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Speaker 1: these alleged sleeper prospects, seventeen hundred of them, and your

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Speaker 1: What else has the Commander in creep Trump actually done

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Speaker 1: about this? Well, he's committed war crimes. When brill cream

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Speaker 1: boy hegseth got up and recited every war cliche ever

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Speaker 1: went by so fast you may have missed its implications,

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Speaker 1: like apparently he did, because he's a psycho or buzzed

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Speaker 1: or high or just stupid or whatever he is. Quote

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Speaker 1: no quarter unquote for the enemy. You know what that means.

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Speaker 1: No quarter means take no prisoners or kill any opponents,

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Speaker 1: any enemy who surrender. That's what no quarter means. And

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Speaker 1: it is an internationally recognized war crime to do that,

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Speaker 1: and has been for centuries. And Trump's PlayStation secretary of

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Speaker 1: Defense just told the world that's our policy, a war crime,

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Speaker 1: and his gang are held liable for all this. Seth

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Speaker 1: Justice at the Hague happily right now, Pete Hegseth is

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Speaker 1: probably in a padded room somewhere because at his big

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Speaker 1: banners were fake news, and he specifically attacked one. He

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Speaker 1: specifically attacked quote war widening. What was one of the

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Speaker 1: news banners on TV news yesterday. Quote Mideast war intensifies.

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Speaker 1: You know what show that was on Fox and Friends weekend.

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Speaker 1: The show Pete Hegseth used to host, not war widening,

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Speaker 1: Ellison in October twenty fifteen. Nobody knows why, and it's

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Speaker 1: unlikely anybody's going to find out why. This is one

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Speaker 1: of the guys who now runs CBS and will probably

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Speaker 1: run CNN. Number two of the four stories about CBS

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Speaker 1: and CBS News. The guy who would have, although I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna last that long, would have likely

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Speaker 1: been put in charge of CNN from a presidential standpoint.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Shell, the president of CBS paramount who's fired as

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Speaker 1: the president of NBC over a woman reporter who lied

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Speaker 1: to me about our negotiations that lasted a year and

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Speaker 1: a half to bring me back to MSNBC, and his

437
00:32:31,755 --> 00:32:35,315
Speaker 1: explanation in public was Keith should have known I was lying.

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Speaker 1: I'm a liar. He has now been sued, Jeff Shell has.

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Speaker 1: The details are a little murky, but it appears he's

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Speaker 1: been sued for non payment of services by a crisis

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Speaker 1: management guy, a crisis management guy that Jeff Shell evidently

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Speaker 1: hired during the sexual harassment case at NBC. In other words,

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Speaker 1: he's in trouble over this woman and he's about to

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Speaker 1: get fired, and his right reputation is going to be ruined.

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Speaker 1: So he hires a crisis management guy and that doesn't pay. Hey,

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00:33:04,835 --> 00:33:07,835
Speaker 1: the crisis management guy. So the crisis management guy sus

447
00:33:07,875 --> 00:33:11,515
Speaker 1: him and creates another crisis. That's crisis management, all right, Jeff,

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00:33:12,555 --> 00:33:15,835
Speaker 1: Do you see what happens? Do you see what happens

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Speaker 1: when I get along with an executive like I did

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Speaker 1: with Jeff Shell at Fox. I mean, there has to

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Speaker 1: be something wrong with the executive if I get along

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00:33:24,755 --> 00:33:31,995
Speaker 1: with him that well. The National Inquirer, meanwhile, in story

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Speaker 1: number two, reports that Tony Dakoppel has quote held discrete

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Speaker 1: conversations with high profile media figures unquote about a new job.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily believe in the National Inquirer, but this

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Speaker 1: also tracks Jacoppel became the anchor of the CBS Evening

457
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Speaker 1: News seventy three days ago before it went to hell

458
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Speaker 1: in a handbasket at high speed. So actually I believe

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Speaker 1: this one, even though I don't believe the source. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: number three, Radar Online says to Coppel's boss, the idiot

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Speaker 1: Barry Weiss has now turned her magic hiring wand in

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Speaker 1: the direction of Joe Rogan that Barry Weiss wants Joe

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Speaker 1: Rogan to appear on Sixty Minutes to make up for

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Speaker 1: the loss of Anderson Cooper. Now, I bought this story,

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Speaker 1: hookline and sinker until I read a quote attributed to

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Speaker 1: an unnamed media executive. Here's the quote. You're bringing Rogan

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Speaker 1: and you immediately gain a core connection to over fifty

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Speaker 1: percent of the country. He speaks to viewers who feel

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Speaker 1: ignored or mocked by legacy media. That could solve the

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Speaker 1: ratings and credibility problems of CBS overnight. Unquote. Well, of course,

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Speaker 1: of course it couldn't solve the ratings and credibility problems

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Speaker 1: of CBS Overnight because the people who would watch him

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Speaker 1: on CBS would never watch CBS in the first place,

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Speaker 1: and most of them would, in fact, never find out

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Speaker 1: that he's on CBS. The bifurcation of America media is complete.

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00:35:05,115 --> 00:35:09,475
Speaker 1: It will not be reversed in our lifetimes. Although do

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Speaker 1: I think Barry Weiss has thought about hiring him for

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Speaker 1: sixty Minutes? Why not? I mean, think about it. Don

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Speaker 1: Hewitt put Andy Rooney? Have you ever knowniced On? At

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Speaker 1: the end of the Sixty Minutes of nineteen seventy eight,

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Speaker 1: he was a summer replacement for the debate segment they

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Speaker 1: used to have at the end of sixty minutes called

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Speaker 1: point Counterpoint, and people said, who, what's with those eyebrows?

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Speaker 1: The guy who used to be Harry Reasoner's writer. You're

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Speaker 1: putting them on at the end of sixty minutes him Why?

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00:35:46,915 --> 00:35:49,395
Speaker 1: Of course, there is still the dream scenario if you

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Speaker 1: put all of these stories together. This is the CBS

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Speaker 1: Evening News with Joe Rogan, but the winner the worst

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Speaker 1: Brian kill me. When I met him in two thousand

490
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Speaker 1: and one, I had just been offed by Fox. Stay

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Speaker 1: tuned for the story of how Rupert Murdoch fired me,

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Speaker 1: and Brian's little morning show on Fox News was just

493
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Speaker 1: beginning to take off, and he wanted me to come on,

494
00:36:19,715 --> 00:36:21,395
Speaker 1: and I had to explain to him they probably didn't

495
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Speaker 1: want me on the show, but he still wanted my advice.

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Speaker 1: He wanted my advice on how to get off the

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Speaker 1: stupid morning news show and get back into sports. If

498
00:36:29,675 --> 00:36:32,755
Speaker 1: only I had found some way to help him, if

499
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Speaker 1: only I had succeeded, although they would have found another idiot.

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Speaker 1: A lot of idiots will say and do anything just

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Speaker 1: to be on TV. I mean, look at the people

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Speaker 1: who are on there with him. Steve Doocey, and this

503
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Speaker 1: guy Jones or whatever his name is. Anyway, this past week,

504
00:36:50,915 --> 00:36:54,035
Speaker 1: kill me did the latest in his series of flatulent laps,

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00:36:54,075 --> 00:36:58,155
Speaker 1: sitting interviews with Trump for his radio show, and Brian

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Speaker 1: kill Mead has made one of the great names screw

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Speaker 1: ups of our time. All you need to remember, and

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Speaker 1: it's quick. All you need to remember here is the

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Speaker 1: idiot senator from Oklahoma who Trump wants to have succeed

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Speaker 1: the idiot governor from the Wilderness as the head of

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Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Sert Security. The idiot senator is

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Speaker 1: named Mark Wayne Mullen, Mark Wayne. One word, Mark Quayne,

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Speaker 1: Mark m A R k w A y n E

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Speaker 1: Mark Wayne. That's all you need to know and kill

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Speaker 1: me It either doesn't know it or he forgot it.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about immigration. Why is Senator John Waynemullen the

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Speaker 1: right pick?

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Speaker 3: Just so fantastic, guys, got it, He's got what it takes.

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Speaker 2: I think he's going to do a fantastic chow.

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Speaker 4: John Waynemullen, John Wayne Mullin, John Wayne Mullen pill groom and.

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Speaker 1: Trump didn't even didn't even blink, John Wayne, John Wayne

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Speaker 1: Mullin Brian. Obviously he meant John Wayne Gacy Mullen, Today's

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Speaker 1: other worse person.

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Speaker 5: And the world.

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Speaker 1: Haven't done this for a while. Every dog has its day.

526
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Speaker 1: My request to you to help me with a dog

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Speaker 1: in need. And I know doing this every show kind

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Speaker 1: of war you guys out, So I have limited it

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Speaker 1: to two. I don't remember the last time I did this,

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Speaker 1: but this is special, This is close to my heart.

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Speaker 1: It is about not just a senior Maltese, but two

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Speaker 1: of them. Two senior Malteses, bonded girls who appear to

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Speaker 1: have been rescued from a life in a puppy mill.

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00:39:24,515 --> 00:39:26,715
Speaker 1: They are safe with each other, they are wonderful, they

535
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Speaker 1: are healthy, and they need a home together. They can't

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Speaker 1: be split up. By the way, if adopting two dogs

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Speaker 1: seems like a lot to you, let me assure you

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Speaker 1: it is worth the extra effort. And the extra effort

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Speaker 1: is only about fifty percent. It's not double and adopting

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Speaker 1: a senior dog. Senior dogs know how to be dogs already,

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Speaker 1: and they recognize when you're helping them, and the moment

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Speaker 1: they begin to thank you will be as special a

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Speaker 1: moment as you will have in your life. So these two.

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Speaker 1: These two girls are fostered in Centerville, Pennsylvania, which is

545
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Speaker 1: about an hour south of Eerie and real close to

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Speaker 1: almost everywhere in the Northeast, everywhere from Cleveland to East

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Speaker 1: my Tie and Soria. The guess is they're ten years old.

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Speaker 1: They are gentle, they are shy. They will need a patient,

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Speaker 1: calm home. But once they accept that home, they'll be

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Speaker 1: like puppies. Soria is deaf, you'd never know it. She

551
00:40:25,995 --> 00:40:30,195
Speaker 1: reads hand signs. She gets along fabulously, and she's very playful.

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Speaker 1: They have a puppy pen in their foster home. It

553
00:40:32,995 --> 00:40:35,595
Speaker 1: is their safe space. Anything that goes wrong, as long

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Speaker 1: as they can get back into their puppy pen, they're happy.

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Speaker 1: All the vaccines are up to date, their chip, they've

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Speaker 1: got their shots, they've had their dentals. They are great

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Speaker 1: adoptable dogs. I would take them in a moment, but

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Speaker 1: that would give me six Anyway, if you're within driving

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Speaker 1: range of Centreville, Pennsylvania, like I said, a big area.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're two hours from Cleveland, you're six seven

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Speaker 1: from New York. You can apply to adopt them. If

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Speaker 1: you want to see them, there's video. You can go

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Speaker 1: to Instagram. Just type in my tie m Ai t

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Speaker 1: Ai Maltese, My time Maltese, and it's the first video

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Speaker 1: that will come up. Or go to American Maltes Rescue

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Speaker 1: dot org American Maltese Rescue dot org and look for

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Speaker 1: the story of my Tie and Soria and I'll put

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Speaker 1: all this stuff on my socials too. My tie, thanks you,

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Speaker 1: and Soria, thanks you, and I thank you to the

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Speaker 1: number one story on the countdown on my favorite topic,

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Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. Over the

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Speaker 1: weekend watching hockey, I had occasion to invoke my days

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Speaker 1: hosting the baseball Game of the Week and the World

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Speaker 1: Series for Fox, and it reminded me of the delightful

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Speaker 1: way that ended with me being paid one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars a month not to do anything. Now I have

577
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Speaker 1: changed jobs a lot, and seldom have the departures included

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Speaker 1: gold watches and going away parties, at least not going

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Speaker 1: away parties to which I was invited. But in forty

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Speaker 1: three years in radio and television, I have only actually

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Speaker 1: been fired in the traditional sense of go clean out

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Speaker 1: your desk and get out twice. Once the order was

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Speaker 1: from a drunken radio executive who did not like the

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Speaker 1: fact that I was twenty one years old and he

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Speaker 1: was overruled, and he was sent home with a warning

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Speaker 1: by his bosses hours later, and I was back on

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Speaker 1: the job forty eight hours after that. The other time,

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Speaker 1: when it actually happened, You're fired, clean out your desk.

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Speaker 1: That was, unsurprisingly at the hands of Rupert Murdoch and Fox,

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Speaker 1: and I mean Rupert Murdoch personally, or so he claims.

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Speaker 1: When I finally convinced NBC News that I was serious

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Speaker 1: about no longer hosting its Monica Lewinsky Athon in nineteen ninety,

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Speaker 1: the head of NBC Sports, Dick Eversoll, had an ingenious solution.

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Speaker 1: He knew his friends at Fox Sports longed to have

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Speaker 1: me front their version of SportsCenter, and so he proposed

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Speaker 1: the following NBC would give my agent ten days in

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Speaker 1: which to negotiate two deals. A deal for me to

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Speaker 1: go to LA and host Fox Sports News and Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball on Fox, and another deal in which Fox

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Speaker 1: would pay NBC one million dollars for my contract, like

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Speaker 1: I was a mediocre baseball pitcher. Amazingly, it worked. I

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Speaker 1: got what was then a record breaking salary for any

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Speaker 1: cable sportscaster. Ever, NBC got its million, and maybe most startlingly,

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Speaker 1: NBC then asked me to stay on the air as

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Speaker 1: a lane duck at MSNBC for like six weeks. Curiously,

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Speaker 1: throughout my career, no matter how abrasive the exit my

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Speaker 1: life a duck, employers have always for some reason trusted

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Speaker 1: me to stay on their air, even though I was

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Speaker 1: leaving in local news in Los Angeles once I did

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Speaker 1: this for three months. Anyway. At first, going to work

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Speaker 1: at Fox Sports was a delight. Their news guys, the

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Speaker 1: evil Roger Ales and his henchman John Moody, pitched me

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Speaker 1: on doing stuff for them, maybe co anchoring with Bill O'Reilly,

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Speaker 1: I'm serious. I passed sports. We spent money. I worked

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Speaker 1: with friends. I didn't have to talk about politics. I

616
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Speaker 1: could narrate highlights. I could do funny voices. Way downtown

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Speaker 1: Bang I lived on the beach. I mean, my next

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Speaker 1: door neighbor was Hawaii. Every time there was a newspaper

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Speaker 1: story about ESPN, even though our ratings were terrible, there

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Speaker 1: was also my picture in it with a caption like

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Speaker 1: challenging ESPN. It was great. But then two things happened.

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Speaker 1: The Fox guy who knew we needed five years at minimum,

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Speaker 1: just to tie ESPN in the ratings. Took me to

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Speaker 1: lunch one day and said, sorry, mate, mo missus is

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Speaker 1: moving back to England tomorrow without me, so I'm going

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Speaker 1: good luck. He was replaced by guys who replaced the

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Speaker 1: five year plan with a five week plan to raise

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Speaker 1: the ratings by literally one fifth of one point. I

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Speaker 1: left that meeting in which they explained their suicidal plan

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Speaker 1: and revealed that my salary represented an unsustainable twenty percent

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Speaker 1: of their entire budget, and I called my real estate

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Speaker 1: agent and put my house on the beach up for sale.

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Speaker 1: Not long after, my doctor gave me a physical and

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Speaker 1: a warning, cut back on work and stress and everything else,

635
00:45:54,715 --> 00:45:57,155
Speaker 1: or you can have a heart attack ten years from now.

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Speaker 1: I told my bosses this, and their response was to

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Speaker 1: blackmail me. We have a clause in your contract with

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Speaker 1: which allows us to send you on the road once

639
00:46:06,515 --> 00:46:09,275
Speaker 1: a week while you are still working five days in

640
00:46:09,315 --> 00:46:12,235
Speaker 1: the studio. We're going to enforce that unless you kick

641
00:46:12,315 --> 00:46:15,595
Speaker 1: back two thirds of your salary. They put this in

642
00:46:15,635 --> 00:46:20,115
Speaker 1: a document. There are, as the kids say, receipts. So

643
00:46:21,875 --> 00:46:25,475
Speaker 1: I folded to blackmail because two thirds of three million

644
00:46:25,515 --> 00:46:29,075
Speaker 1: dollars a year is still pretty good, but I kept

645
00:46:29,075 --> 00:46:31,235
Speaker 1: doing the job. In nineteen ninety nine, I broke a

646
00:46:31,235 --> 00:46:33,995
Speaker 1: story that everybody laughed at that Michael Jordan was unhappy

647
00:46:34,035 --> 00:46:36,195
Speaker 1: in retirement and he wanted to come back to play

648
00:46:36,195 --> 00:46:38,515
Speaker 1: in the NBA, but instead of getting a salary, he

649
00:46:38,595 --> 00:46:42,395
Speaker 1: wanted an ownership stake in a team. Two years later,

650
00:46:43,195 --> 00:46:46,475
Speaker 1: he did exactly that. In two thousand, I got to

651
00:46:46,475 --> 00:46:49,515
Speaker 1: host the first Mets Yankees World Series, and hosting baseball

652
00:46:49,555 --> 00:46:52,315
Speaker 1: every Saturday on Fox was a pretty good gig. And

653
00:46:52,355 --> 00:46:54,275
Speaker 1: we were just gearing up for the two thousand and

654
00:46:54,315 --> 00:46:57,195
Speaker 1: one baseball season when I got a tip on April

655
00:46:57,275 --> 00:47:01,035
Speaker 1: twentieth that the owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers had

656
00:47:01,115 --> 00:47:04,195
Speaker 1: unofficially put their team up for sale, and in fact,

657
00:47:04,235 --> 00:47:07,635
Speaker 1: they were talking to the old owners, the O'Malley family,

658
00:47:07,915 --> 00:47:12,035
Speaker 1: about taking the Dodgers off their hands, selling the Dodgers

659
00:47:12,115 --> 00:47:15,915
Speaker 1: back to the son of Walter O'Malley. This was a

660
00:47:16,035 --> 00:47:19,715
Speaker 1: great scoop, but it had great danger because the owners

661
00:47:19,715 --> 00:47:26,275
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers were Fox, my own employers. The next day,

662
00:47:26,355 --> 00:47:29,155
Speaker 1: after getting this scoop, I made about one hundred phone calls,

663
00:47:29,195 --> 00:47:30,835
Speaker 1: and sure enough I got the friend of a friend

664
00:47:30,875 --> 00:47:32,675
Speaker 1: of a friend of my agent to confirm that he

665
00:47:32,795 --> 00:47:37,275
Speaker 1: and his family were in preliminary discussions joining the O'Malley's

666
00:47:37,555 --> 00:47:41,075
Speaker 1: to buy the Dodgers from Fox two sources great scoop,

667
00:47:42,115 --> 00:47:44,435
Speaker 1: And that night I reached out to my bosses and said,

668
00:47:44,515 --> 00:47:47,355
Speaker 1: what the hell do we do here? The story is solid,

669
00:47:47,795 --> 00:47:51,595
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are for sale. But look, this is your

670
00:47:51,675 --> 00:47:54,235
Speaker 1: candy store, and I do work for you, and if

671
00:47:54,235 --> 00:47:56,275
Speaker 1: you don't want me to report this, I'm obviously not

672
00:47:56,395 --> 00:47:58,835
Speaker 1: going to report it, and I'm not going to pouch

673
00:47:59,115 --> 00:48:00,955
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to give the story to somebody else.

674
00:48:02,155 --> 00:48:05,115
Speaker 1: My boss has replied, good for you. Why don't we

675
00:48:05,155 --> 00:48:08,035
Speaker 1: all get on the phone with the top Rupert Murdoch

676
00:48:08,075 --> 00:48:11,915
Speaker 1: has his own personal News Corp Public relations department. Let's

677
00:48:11,955 --> 00:48:16,195
Speaker 1: see what he says. So on Sunday, April twenty second,

678
00:48:16,235 --> 00:48:18,715
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, we got Murdoch's own PR guy

679
00:48:18,755 --> 00:48:21,195
Speaker 1: on the blower and I explained it to him. Now,

680
00:48:21,275 --> 00:48:23,875
Speaker 1: mister Murdoch has a policy about this. He never interferes

681
00:48:23,875 --> 00:48:27,875
Speaker 1: in editorial decisions, not even in sourced business stories, not

682
00:48:28,035 --> 00:48:31,715
Speaker 1: even if they involve him. So long as you make

683
00:48:31,795 --> 00:48:34,875
Speaker 1: it clear your sources are not from within the company,

684
00:48:35,315 --> 00:48:38,155
Speaker 1: and so long as you're confident in your sources, and

685
00:48:38,235 --> 00:48:41,795
Speaker 1: so long as you include our denial, you should proceed

686
00:48:41,875 --> 00:48:44,395
Speaker 1: with this Dodger story. That is what we are paying

687
00:48:44,435 --> 00:48:50,355
Speaker 1: you for. For a brief moment, I thought maybe I

688
00:48:50,475 --> 00:48:54,355
Speaker 1: have misjudged Rupert Murdoch. Well, it turned out to be

689
00:48:54,395 --> 00:48:58,355
Speaker 1: a very brief moment and a very wrong moment. I

690
00:48:58,475 --> 00:49:03,995
Speaker 1: reported the story that night, howls of denials. Five days later,

691
00:49:04,035 --> 00:49:06,675
Speaker 1: though the long the Beach Press Telegram newspaper had its

692
00:49:06,675 --> 00:49:11,515
Speaker 1: own story said, despite denials, Dodgers are for sale, with

693
00:49:11,755 --> 00:49:15,075
Speaker 1: far more details than I had, And that really was

694
00:49:15,155 --> 00:49:17,835
Speaker 1: the end of it. The team was unofficially for sale.

695
00:49:18,195 --> 00:49:20,435
Speaker 1: Dodger fans, who hated what Fox had done to the

696
00:49:20,475 --> 00:49:24,155
Speaker 1: team seemed happy, and the vast stinking pile of burning

697
00:49:24,235 --> 00:49:29,555
Speaker 1: excrement that was Fox and NewsCorp and Murdoch sailed on unperturbed.

698
00:49:30,475 --> 00:49:33,875
Speaker 1: But twelve days after that, just before I was getting

699
00:49:33,875 --> 00:49:36,115
Speaker 1: in my car to go to the first Fox Baseball

700
00:49:36,195 --> 00:49:39,395
Speaker 1: meeting for our two thousand and one season coverage, the

701
00:49:39,435 --> 00:49:43,195
Speaker 1: president of Fox Sports, yet another Aussie called David Hill,

702
00:49:43,875 --> 00:49:46,875
Speaker 1: called my agent and told her case not doing any

703
00:49:46,915 --> 00:49:52,475
Speaker 1: baseball for us. This year business decision click, end of conversation.

704
00:49:53,315 --> 00:49:57,155
Speaker 1: Nothing else, no firing, no get out, no clean out

705
00:49:57,195 --> 00:50:01,155
Speaker 1: your desk, no announcement. But then two days later they

706
00:50:01,155 --> 00:50:03,915
Speaker 1: turned off my access to the Fox computer system. And

707
00:50:04,035 --> 00:50:06,115
Speaker 1: four days after to that they called and canceled my

708
00:50:06,235 --> 00:50:10,315
Speaker 1: cable show. And then that night I got two weird

709
00:50:10,475 --> 00:50:13,515
Speaker 1: calls from Rich Sandomir, who was the TV sports critic

710
00:50:13,555 --> 00:50:16,555
Speaker 1: and TV sports business reporter for the New York Times.

711
00:50:16,835 --> 00:50:19,355
Speaker 1: And Rich asks me, so, did you know you got

712
00:50:19,395 --> 00:50:23,515
Speaker 1: fired by Rupert Murdoch personally? And I said, with genuine

713
00:50:23,515 --> 00:50:27,475
Speaker 1: astonishment that I not only didn't know that, but even

714
00:50:27,515 --> 00:50:31,235
Speaker 1: given my thoughts about Rupert Murdoch, I didn't believe that. Well,

715
00:50:31,275 --> 00:50:33,755
Speaker 1: that's what my sources at Fox tell me. Apparently your

716
00:50:33,755 --> 00:50:37,835
Speaker 1: Dodger story really pissed him off. But really, and I said,

717
00:50:37,995 --> 00:50:41,235
Speaker 1: I had cleared it through his personal PR guy, I

718
00:50:41,315 --> 00:50:44,075
Speaker 1: don't know, Rich Sandomir said, apparently he was on vacation

719
00:50:44,355 --> 00:50:46,635
Speaker 1: and he got back like the ninth of this month,

720
00:50:46,675 --> 00:50:48,635
Speaker 1: and he read all these stories about the Dodgers being

721
00:50:48,675 --> 00:50:51,035
Speaker 1: for sale and how Fox Sports was the first to

722
00:50:51,035 --> 00:50:52,995
Speaker 1: report it, and he called up David Hill and he

723
00:50:53,035 --> 00:50:56,595
Speaker 1: told Hill to fire you immediately. So I told Rich,

724
00:50:56,675 --> 00:50:58,395
Speaker 1: this is the first I have heard of this, and

725
00:50:58,475 --> 00:51:01,315
Speaker 1: I still don't believe it, even though the day he

726
00:51:01,435 --> 00:51:04,835
Speaker 1: mentioned May ninth was the day David Hill had called

727
00:51:04,835 --> 00:51:06,595
Speaker 1: my agent and told her I would not be doing

728
00:51:06,635 --> 00:51:10,755
Speaker 1: baseball for Fox that year. An hour later, the phone

729
00:51:10,835 --> 00:51:14,075
Speaker 1: rings again and it's Rich Sandomir again, and he sounds shaken.

730
00:51:14,755 --> 00:51:16,715
Speaker 1: I got it wrong. I don't have any sources at

731
00:51:16,715 --> 00:51:19,875
Speaker 1: Fox who told me Rupert fired you personally. My source

732
00:51:20,915 --> 00:51:23,515
Speaker 1: said that you were telling people Rupert had fired you

733
00:51:23,595 --> 00:51:27,635
Speaker 1: personally over the Dodger story. And I gave Rich a

734
00:51:27,675 --> 00:51:33,355
Speaker 1: sequence of well, kind of friendly uh huhs, and I said, no,

735
00:51:33,675 --> 00:51:36,315
Speaker 1: I didn't and know you've never been dumb enough in

736
00:51:36,355 --> 00:51:38,555
Speaker 1: your life to make the mistake you're saying you just made.

737
00:51:39,035 --> 00:51:41,155
Speaker 1: And he said, well, I never said somebody at Fox

738
00:51:41,195 --> 00:51:45,075
Speaker 1: said Murdock fired Joe. Okay, thanks. By the next day,

739
00:51:45,115 --> 00:51:48,195
Speaker 1: they had me come into the Fox building on Pico

740
00:51:48,235 --> 00:51:51,075
Speaker 1: Boulevard and clean out my office while a guard watched.

741
00:51:51,355 --> 00:51:53,275
Speaker 1: And she was a really nice guard. In fact, she

742
00:51:53,355 --> 00:51:57,235
Speaker 1: brought donuts but a lovely way to go out. As

743
00:51:57,275 --> 00:51:59,475
Speaker 1: I packed, I thought more and more of what had

744
00:51:59,475 --> 00:52:01,755
Speaker 1: happened in the month since I had gotten that tip

745
00:52:01,795 --> 00:52:04,795
Speaker 1: about the Dodgers being for sale. As I left the

746
00:52:04,835 --> 00:52:08,075
Speaker 1: Fox lot for the last time as an employee, I

747
00:52:08,115 --> 00:52:10,395
Speaker 1: went back a couple of times to attend table reads

748
00:52:10,395 --> 00:52:13,355
Speaker 1: for the Simpsons. Table reads for the Simpsons were much

749
00:52:13,395 --> 00:52:16,035
Speaker 1: more fun than being an employee at Fox. I called

750
00:52:16,035 --> 00:52:18,515
Speaker 1: a couple of reporters I knew, and my agent and

751
00:52:18,555 --> 00:52:20,315
Speaker 1: some people in the business, and we tried to put

752
00:52:20,315 --> 00:52:24,515
Speaker 1: together a timeline that made some sort of sense. Because

753
00:52:24,555 --> 00:52:27,795
Speaker 1: the slow motion firing thing. May ninth, you're not doing baseball.

754
00:52:28,035 --> 00:52:30,915
Speaker 1: May eleventh, your computer, it won't work. May fifteenth, your

755
00:52:30,915 --> 00:52:34,115
Speaker 1: cable show is canceled. May sixteenth, clean out your office.

756
00:52:34,755 --> 00:52:40,235
Speaker 1: A week long firing made no sense until one reporter

757
00:52:40,355 --> 00:52:43,315
Speaker 1: friend said, you know, Fox called me and said, call

758
00:52:43,435 --> 00:52:46,835
Speaker 1: Keith up and provoke him, get him to call us names,

759
00:52:47,555 --> 00:52:49,835
Speaker 1: tell him about this story in that paper, calling him

760
00:52:49,955 --> 00:52:53,235
Speaker 1: washed up, get him going. And then it all clicked.

761
00:52:53,875 --> 00:52:56,395
Speaker 1: My contract ran through the end of the year two

762
00:52:56,435 --> 00:52:59,755
Speaker 1: thousand and one because Fox was firing me without any

763
00:52:59,795 --> 00:53:02,275
Speaker 1: cause or even claiming there was a cause, without any

764
00:53:02,355 --> 00:53:05,555
Speaker 1: violation of my contract or their rules. Because I had

765
00:53:05,595 --> 00:53:08,235
Speaker 1: left a trail of good behavior on the Dodger story,

766
00:53:08,595 --> 00:53:11,475
Speaker 1: they were trying to enrage me and get me to

767
00:53:11,635 --> 00:53:15,795
Speaker 1: say something nasty that itself would be a violation of

768
00:53:15,795 --> 00:53:18,955
Speaker 1: my contract, so they could outright fire me and keep

769
00:53:18,995 --> 00:53:22,195
Speaker 1: the money. And the money still on the contract was

770
00:53:22,235 --> 00:53:27,915
Speaker 1: about eight hundred thousand dollars. Now, after decades of contemplating this,

771
00:53:28,075 --> 00:53:31,155
Speaker 1: I am confident that I am no crazier than the

772
00:53:31,155 --> 00:53:34,515
Speaker 1: next guy, at least not the next guy in television.

773
00:53:34,875 --> 00:53:39,235
Speaker 1: But on my worst, craziest, least rational day, if you

774
00:53:39,315 --> 00:53:42,835
Speaker 1: said you have two choices, Alderman, you can blow up

775
00:53:42,875 --> 00:53:44,955
Speaker 1: these people who are firing you, and you can make

776
00:53:44,955 --> 00:53:48,275
Speaker 1: them look bad in a newspaper for a day and

777
00:53:48,315 --> 00:53:50,355
Speaker 1: then they'll fire you and keep all the money they

778
00:53:50,355 --> 00:53:55,235
Speaker 1: owe you. Or you can keep your big bazoo shut

779
00:53:55,515 --> 00:53:58,675
Speaker 1: for just seven months. You can keep the eight hundred

780
00:53:58,715 --> 00:54:02,355
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, and you can spend the summer doing whatever

781
00:54:02,355 --> 00:54:04,435
Speaker 1: the hell you want, and you can then spend the

782
00:54:04,475 --> 00:54:08,355
Speaker 1: rest of your natural life blowing these people up. If

783
00:54:08,395 --> 00:54:13,035
Speaker 1: that's the choice, I will always take the scenario that

784
00:54:13,115 --> 00:54:16,435
Speaker 1: gives me the eight hundred thousand dollars for doing nothing.

785
00:54:17,635 --> 00:54:23,035
Speaker 1: Always so. On January first, two thousand and two, after

786
00:54:23,035 --> 00:54:26,395
Speaker 1: the last Fox check cleared, I began making a professional

787
00:54:26,435 --> 00:54:30,795
Speaker 1: avocation out of attacking Fox News, Fox Sports, Fox Business,

788
00:54:30,875 --> 00:54:35,875
Speaker 1: Fox Murdoch, Fox, O'Reilly, Fox, Tucker Carlson, whatever, and I

789
00:54:35,955 --> 00:54:40,275
Speaker 1: got the eight hundred thousand dollars. But they're lingered for years,

790
00:54:40,315 --> 00:54:43,195
Speaker 1: this kind of academic question of whether Rupert Murdoch had

791
00:54:43,355 --> 00:54:48,315
Speaker 1: actually fired me for having followed the rules set out

792
00:54:48,355 --> 00:54:53,275
Speaker 1: by his own personal pr guy. As usual, these things

793
00:54:53,355 --> 00:54:57,195
Speaker 1: resolve themselves when you least expect them to. Murdoch was

794
00:54:57,235 --> 00:55:00,715
Speaker 1: speaking at a Dow Jones conference in Carlsbad, California, on

795
00:55:00,835 --> 00:55:05,195
Speaker 1: May twenty eighth, two thousand and eight, seven years to

796
00:55:05,275 --> 00:55:07,475
Speaker 1: the month they got rid of me, and a story

797
00:55:07,515 --> 00:55:10,595
Speaker 1: came across the wire with my name on it. The

798
00:55:10,635 --> 00:55:14,355
Speaker 1: guy interviewing him at this conference talked about whether there

799
00:55:14,355 --> 00:55:18,115
Speaker 1: should be dissenting voices on Fox quote news unquote, like

800
00:55:18,195 --> 00:55:21,155
Speaker 1: that guy who was killing it on MSNBC Keith Olderman.

801
00:55:21,955 --> 00:55:26,515
Speaker 1: Now Murdoch barked if fired him five years ago. He

802
00:55:26,755 --> 00:55:31,195
Speaker 1: was crizy, timing was off, But there it was Rupert

803
00:55:31,235 --> 00:55:35,955
Speaker 1: Murdoch confessing in front of a crowd that he fired

804
00:55:35,995 --> 00:55:41,395
Speaker 1: me personally. The red badge of courage in quotes, I

805
00:55:41,435 --> 00:55:43,155
Speaker 1: wondered if it still pissed him off that he had

806
00:55:43,195 --> 00:55:44,995
Speaker 1: to pay me the eight hundred thousand dollars when I

807
00:55:44,995 --> 00:55:49,675
Speaker 1: didn't take the grievance bait. Three years after that, Murdoch

808
00:55:49,875 --> 00:55:52,115
Speaker 1: said it again like I hadn't heard it the first time.

809
00:55:52,875 --> 00:55:57,155
Speaker 1: On February first, twenty eleven, Rupert Murdoch was interviewed by

810
00:55:57,195 --> 00:56:00,795
Speaker 1: his business talking had Neil Cavudo, who for some reason

811
00:56:00,875 --> 00:56:03,835
Speaker 1: asked him if he would consider hiring me to put

812
00:56:03,835 --> 00:56:07,435
Speaker 1: me on Fox News. Now we fired him once. We

813
00:56:07,515 --> 00:56:12,675
Speaker 1: don't believe in firing people twice. Kabudo replied, you called

814
00:56:12,715 --> 00:56:15,435
Speaker 1: him a nut lad. He was a nut on. Well,

815
00:56:15,595 --> 00:56:18,595
Speaker 1: we had him on late night Fox Sports. There was

816
00:56:18,635 --> 00:56:21,235
Speaker 1: never any such show called late night Fox Sports. But

817
00:56:21,315 --> 00:56:24,995
Speaker 1: never mind, Rupe went on, It was impossible I fired him.

818
00:56:25,075 --> 00:56:31,075
Speaker 1: He was crazy, fired me for following his rules, and

819
00:56:31,275 --> 00:56:36,755
Speaker 1: I was the one who was crazy. Finally, speaking of crazy,

820
00:56:37,315 --> 00:56:40,715
Speaker 1: I have had for sixty three nearly sixty four years now,

821
00:56:40,795 --> 00:56:45,075
Speaker 1: a love hate relationship with the name Keith. But did

822
00:56:45,115 --> 00:56:49,515
Speaker 1: you know that Rupert Murdoch's real first name is also Keith,

823
00:56:50,315 --> 00:56:55,235
Speaker 1: But that rather than call himself Keith, he voluntarily chooses

824
00:56:55,995 --> 00:57:01,835
Speaker 1: to call himself, Rupert. I mean, sure, my name is Keith,

825
00:57:02,835 --> 00:57:23,195
Speaker 1: but at least my name ain't freakin' Rupert. That all

826
00:57:23,235 --> 00:57:25,475
Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening.

827
00:57:26,795 --> 00:57:32,035
Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch fired me personally and boasted about it. Couldn't

828
00:57:32,275 --> 00:57:39,155
Speaker 1: keep quiet. I won. Our musical directors have countdown to

829
00:57:39,195 --> 00:57:43,595
Speaker 1: John Phillip Chanel on keyboards, handling orchestration, and Brian Ray

830
00:57:43,675 --> 00:57:46,755
Speaker 1: on guitars, bassed drums, and of course the whole vibe

831
00:57:46,835 --> 00:57:50,595
Speaker 1: of the thing, and their work is produced by Tko Brothers.

832
00:57:51,075 --> 00:57:54,115
Speaker 1: Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever and never

833
00:57:54,155 --> 00:57:57,955
Speaker 1: herself fired by Rupert Murdoch, is responsible for the satirical

834
00:57:57,955 --> 00:58:01,435
Speaker 1: and pithy musical comments when we play the sports music

835
00:58:01,515 --> 00:58:04,835
Speaker 1: as we did today. That's the old theme from the

836
00:58:04,875 --> 00:58:08,755
Speaker 1: old Alderman Show on ESPN two. It was written by

837
00:58:08,795 --> 00:58:12,235
Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. The show is

838
00:58:12,235 --> 00:58:16,275
Speaker 1: from twenty thirteen to fifteen. Other music arranged and performed

839
00:58:16,315 --> 00:58:18,475
Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed and keeping with the

840
00:58:18,515 --> 00:58:22,995
Speaker 1: sports theme, My announcer today was my friend Kenny Maine.

841
00:58:23,075 --> 00:58:27,075
Speaker 1: This program was produced by Ted. Everything else was, as

842
00:58:27,115 --> 00:58:30,595
Speaker 1: always my fault. That's countdown for today, Day four hundred

843
00:58:30,635 --> 00:58:34,555
Speaker 1: and twenty one of America held hostage again, just one

844
00:58:35,275 --> 00:58:38,115
Speaker 1: fifty one days until the scheduled end of Trump's lame

845
00:58:38,275 --> 00:58:41,435
Speaker 1: duck and lame brained term, unless he is removed sooner

846
00:58:41,515 --> 00:58:48,555
Speaker 1: by the Strait of horror moves. The next scheduled countdown

847
00:58:48,595 --> 00:58:53,235
Speaker 1: is Thursday bulletins as the news merits until the next one.

848
00:58:53,595 --> 00:58:59,555
Speaker 1: I'm John Wayne Mullen, Good morning, afternoon, goodnight, and good luck.

849
00:59:07,195 --> 00:59:10,555
Speaker 1: John Wayne mollin Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production

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