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Speaker 1: serious stuff. First, Yes, Trump Wednesday had about as mad

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Speaker 1: And let's go all through that in a moment too.

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Speaker 1: But I have been obsessing first about the new Trump

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Speaker 1: Special Council, Jack Smith, and a profile in The Washington

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Speaker 1: out the clock. Quoting Jeffrey Cortes, who served as the

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Speaker 1: always there for us. This Jeffrey Cortes and the three

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Speaker 1: to say I have a copy of the original. I'm

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Speaker 1: whole segment to YouTube. So yeah, that's where I got

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Speaker 1: sticking to it. I'm going to annotate for you what happened.

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Speaker 1: So let me present this to you in three segments.

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Speaker 1: It did not start well for Gary, and it got

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Speaker 1: worse from there. Although Mr Miller gave it its eternal

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Speaker 1: title and life by going sibilant on the s for

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Speaker 1: the words soccer, I'll know it only one thing, the

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Speaker 1: acronym of International Soccer's outfit f I f A Gary,

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Speaker 1: It's pronounced FIFA Soccer Breakdown. In three to one FIFA

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Speaker 1: Soccer's governing Party three to one FIFA Soccers three two one.

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Speaker 1: The red card has become the calling card for this

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Speaker 1: year's tournament. Seven ejections for three to one witness Romania's

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Speaker 1: ian blad you against the Swiss is or through christ Uh.

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Speaker 1: But that was the easy part. Now in script came

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Speaker 1: the names of the World Cup stars who had been

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Speaker 1: given red card ejections in the first week of the tournament.

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Speaker 1: One was the seventeen year old star of the Cameroon team,

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Speaker 1: Riggerbert's Song, often referred to by his full name Riggerbert's

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Speaker 1: Song bahog or as it was said in the script,

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Speaker 1: Riggerbird Bahong song three to one Cameroons, Riggleberg three to Cameroons,

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Speaker 1: Riggleberg byan Ganzanza Da Da byan Young Song three to

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Speaker 1: one Cameroons, Riggleberg Banyang song by on Young Song three

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Speaker 1: to one, three to one. By the way, Riggerbert's Song

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Speaker 1: and being the youngest player in the World Cup history

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Speaker 1: to get a red card to running his nation's team.

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Speaker 1: I'll interject here that at the start of this final

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Speaker 1: major clip. Gary Miller says, to somebody who has clearly

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Speaker 1: entered that tracking room that smelled of mildew, get out

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Speaker 1: of here. Dan Patrick said that was him. I think

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Speaker 1: he's mistaken. It doesn't matter much, but there was no

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Speaker 1: reason for Dan to have been there on a Friday night,

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Speaker 1: especially if we were not doing the show. And also

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Speaker 1: there has never been a microphone ever, but Dan has

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Speaker 1: not spoken into anyway. We have already met Riggerbert Bhano song.

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Speaker 1: Now meet my guy, the Italian goalie John Luca Polyuka

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Speaker 1: to get out of there, too, is guilty through too

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Speaker 1: How long is this tape? Three to one? One one

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Speaker 1: Cameron's Riggelberg Bunyan song provided a breakaway from Brazil's Babetta

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Speaker 1: a Bah God Almighty, I hate soccer, Cameroon's Riggleberg Bunyon

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Speaker 1: Young song, I'm better try that one last time. Two

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Speaker 1: one Cameroon's Riggleberg bun Yon Young song, I hate this

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Speaker 1: chalk up Bolivia's Luis Christaldo for both and three to one.

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Speaker 1: But the most notable red card of the tournament came

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Speaker 1: on Italian goaltender Jean Luca Palyuka, Paul Yoka, Paul Yucca

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Speaker 1: from three to one. But the flurry of red cars

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Speaker 1: thus far as Todd, coaches and players alike to control

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Speaker 1: their play if they'd like to control their fate in

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Speaker 1: this tournament. Holy, that is all. The pronunciation of Riggerbert's

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Speaker 1: song's name is one thing. I was delighted by how

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Speaker 1: furious Gary got at Gianluca Pallyuka of the Italian team

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Speaker 1: and the expletive he used to describe him. Richard may

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Speaker 1: have just heard. In the days that followed, in fact,

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Speaker 1: the Italian goalie's name became shorthand for me for that

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Speaker 1: expletive in question. So for the next three years on

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Speaker 1: Sports Center and after that on Fox Sports News, and

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Speaker 1: then on my ESPN two show and on Football Night

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Speaker 1: in America, and then when I returned to Sports Center

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Speaker 1: in two thousand eighteen, if you heard me say John

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Speaker 1: Luca Polyuca while we were showing a player making an

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Speaker 1: error or arguing with an umpire or official, I was

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Speaker 1: actually implying that the player had just said, uh, John

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Speaker 1: Luca Polyuca. There's another punch line to this story, of course,

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Speaker 1: the idea to do this soccer breakdown that's so bedeviled

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Speaker 1: Gary Miller. The story of red cards in the first

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Speaker 1: week of the nine World Cup. The idea to do

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Speaker 1: that came from Gary Miller, never volunteer. I've never been

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Speaker 1: convinced that Gary was really happy about his immortality, certainly

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Speaker 1: not in the way my ees and pal Steve Levy

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Speaker 1: not so secretly glories in the day. He once tried

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Speaker 1: to say that a New England Patriots player had a

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Speaker 1: bulging disk, but didn't quite get disc right. But Gary

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Speaker 1: Miller has been a good sport about this through the

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Speaker 1: end of his ESPN career in two thousand four and afterwards.

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Speaker 1: In these days at Channel two and Channel nine in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles and most recently at Channel two in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: it isn't hard to understand why this tape is so

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Speaker 1: famous and the pleasure derived from it so enduring. As

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Speaker 1: John Klees once said about the real life hotel manager

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Speaker 1: on whom he based his character from Faulty Towers, he

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Speaker 1: had this wonderful bad temper. But there are two more things. One,

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Speaker 1: this occurred exactly a week to the day after the O. J.

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Speaker 1: Simpson car chase, and people forget now just how disturbing

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Speaker 1: that was in in America, especially sports America, like at ESPN, that,

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Speaker 1: with the exception of a few of us who knew,

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Speaker 1: nobody knew how rotten a human being O. J. Simpson was,

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Speaker 1: so even a week later we all needed this laugh,

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Speaker 1: and Gary gave it to us and even larger. The

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Speaker 1: essence of soccer in every country in which it is

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Speaker 1: played is that it always allows, and encourages and even

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Speaker 1: demands that its fans complain about it. And so while

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Speaker 1: we cherish soccer breakdown and three to one and Rigor

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Speaker 1: Bert Bahan on Song and Babetto and John Luca Paluka,

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Speaker 1: to me, it is really about five words that anybody

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Speaker 1: who hates the game will say. But there are also

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Speaker 1: five words that any fan of the sport will certainly

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Speaker 1: use at some point in his life, possibly at some

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Speaker 1: point today. And they are the five words with which

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Speaker 1: I will leave you for now. A fah God, Almighty,

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Speaker 1: I hate soccer. Don't sleep on babette too. I've done

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

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Speaker 1: If you're not following or subscribed or whatever, please do so.

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Speaker 1: In fact, stop a passer by on the street and

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Speaker 1: get them to subscribe as well. Here are our credits.

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Speaker 1: Most of the music, including our theme from Beethoven's ninth

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Speaker 1: was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and John

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Speaker 1: Philip Channel. They are the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration

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Speaker 1: and keyboards by John Philip Channel, guitars, bass and drums

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Speaker 1: by Brian Ray, produced by T K O Brothers. Other

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Speaker 1: Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed.

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Speaker 1: The sports music is the Alderman theme from ESPN two,

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Speaker 1: and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc.

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Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever,

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Speaker 1: and in light of Gary Miller's cameo here, our announcer

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Speaker 1: today was Kenny Maine. Now everything else is pretty much

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Speaker 1: my fault. So that's countdown for this the six seventh

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Speaker 1: day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically

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Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Arrest him now while

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Speaker 1: we still can. New episodes resumed next week. Until then,

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Speaker 1: I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, good luck,

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Speaker 1: and Happy Thanksgiving. Countdown with Keith old Woman is a

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Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio, visit the I Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.