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

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Speaker 1: I will tell you the answer to my question. It

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Speaker 1: is this, the Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.

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Speaker 1: We are not interested in the good of others. We

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Speaker 1: are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury, or

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Speaker 1: long life or happiness. Only power, pure power. What pure

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Speaker 1: power means you will understand presently. We are different from

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Speaker 1: all the oligarchies of the past in that we know

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Speaker 1: what we are doing. All the others, even those who

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Speaker 1: resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and

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Speaker 1: the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods,

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Speaker 1: but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

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Speaker 1: They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized

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Speaker 1: power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just

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Speaker 1: round the corner of their lay up paradise where human

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Speaker 1: beings would be free and equal. We are not like that.

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Speaker 1: We know that no one ever sees his power with

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Speaker 1: the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means,

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Speaker 1: it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship

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Speaker 1: in order to safeguard a revolution. One makes the revolution

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Speaker 1: in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution

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Speaker 1: is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object

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Speaker 1: of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

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Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty four by George Orwell, the pen name of

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Speaker 1: Eric Blair, published on eight June nineteen forty nine. Sometime

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Speaker 1: today or this week, Donald Trump will again prove George

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Speaker 1: Orwell eric Blair a prophet, or will prove that he

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Speaker 1: Trump read nineteen eighty four, but read it as an

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Speaker 1: instructional manual, and he will do something his advisors will

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Speaker 1: have told him this week not to do, and he

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Speaker 1: will do it. Because Trump seeks power entirely for its

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Speaker 1: own sake. That he knows no one ever seizes power

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Speaker 1: with the intention of relinquishing it at an end. That

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Speaker 1: power is not a means to Trump, that the object

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Speaker 1: of power is power. Even two fascist imbeciles who surround

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Speaker 1: him heg Seth, his secretary of Defense, and Vodka and

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Speaker 1: Garden Gnome, the secretary of dress up dolls, they will

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Speaker 1: officially tell him not to do this, that it is

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Speaker 1: not necessary, that the problem is resolving itself, that he

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Speaker 1: can take credit for that, And he will do it anyway,

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Speaker 1: because in his reptilian brain, he will think, I am

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Speaker 1: not establishing a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution.

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Speaker 1: I am making a revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

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Speaker 1: And Trump will, despite the advice, invoke the Insurrection Act

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Speaker 1: of eighteen oh seven if I'm wrong about this, If

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Speaker 1: something else in his reptilian brain tells Trump to defer

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Speaker 1: to Gnome, and hegxeth, he will only defer and delay

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Speaker 1: now because doing it later will hurt more. He will

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Speaker 1: invoke the Insurrection Act of eighteen oh seven, and then

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Speaker 1: we will be inside his dictatorship soon or late. And

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Speaker 1: that's why the most important person in this country today,

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Speaker 1: right now, the person who is most likely to be

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Speaker 1: may be Senator Lisa Murkowski, because, like so many of

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Speaker 1: us before her, Lisa Murkowski just realized what George Orwell

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Speaker 1: meant when he wrote that in his novel nineteen eighty four,

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Speaker 1: what do.

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Speaker 2: You have to say to people who are afraid.

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Speaker 3: Or are resent people who are afraid?

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Speaker 4: We are all afraid. Okay, that's what I say.

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Speaker 2: But we are where we're in it. We're in a

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Speaker 2: time at a place.

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Speaker 5: Where I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I certainly have not.

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Speaker 4: I have not been here before, and I'll tell you

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm oftentimes very anxious myself about about using my voice.

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Speaker 1: Because retaliation is really that which I suspect you have

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Speaker 1: heard before. Was at a conference in front of people

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Speaker 1: The audio is so bad there because it is the

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Speaker 1: most important thing yet said by a Republican in any

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Speaker 1: office this year, and thus Lisa Murkowski may be the

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Speaker 1: most important person in this country right now. She said

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Speaker 1: that she is afraid she has reached the exact baseline

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Speaker 1: state Trump has sought. It is the exact premise of

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Speaker 1: O'Brien's speech in the Torture Chamber to Winston Smith in

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Speaker 1: is afraid of what is next. She vows to be confrontational,

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Speaker 1: rest of us, and to her, I say, forget the

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Speaker 1: rest of us, Senator, use your voice in private, use

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Speaker 1: it among your Republican colleagues in the Senate. You and

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Speaker 1: can stop all of this cold You, Senator Murkowski, can

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Speaker 1: that his power is somehow Conservative power, or that his

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Speaker 1: somehow anything but his power, the eighteen of you can

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Speaker 1: use the threat to impeach him, to virtually fetter him,

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Speaker 1: the Senate and if necessary, the House, will vote against him.

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Speaker 1: You only need three other Senate Republicans to join you

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Speaker 1: just to rein him in thirteen others, and you can

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Speaker 1: literally destroy this man. And there is reason to hope

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Speaker 1: this might actually happen before the iron curtain of dictatorship descends. Later,

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Speaker 1: in her confession of fear at Anchorage, Lisa Murkowski hinted

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Speaker 1: at doing exactly what I just suggested.

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Speaker 2: You's charm that I am or as a young girl

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Speaker 4: And am able to affect.

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Speaker 2: Way, and I will figure out how I can do

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Speaker 6: And are so afraid.

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Speaker 1: Murkowski was driven in fear to this point, not by

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Speaker 1: the pending decision on the Insurrection Act, nor by the

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Speaker 1: rendition of an innocent Maryland father without due process, nor

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Speaker 1: by the attempted rendition of hundreds of others, nor by

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Speaker 1: summarily fired through the efforts of this stoned fascist foreigner Musk,

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Speaker 1: their bodies symbolically piling up in front of her Senate

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Speaker 1: that is exercised for its own sake. That's what has

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Speaker 1: decur that is what she is afraid of. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter if she's just afraid of the one thing and

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Speaker 1: and it is a breakthrough, and it is one lit

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Speaker 1: Party in this country right now, because Murkowski will now

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Speaker 1: find what all of us have found. Start down this

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Speaker 1: path of resistance, and you will discover there are only

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Speaker 1: two roots. There is to be presented to you, the

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Speaker 1: retaining your power. And that root goes directly over a

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Speaker 1: the bottom, it's Lindsey Graham. And then there is the

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Speaker 1: only other path utter resistance. To stop this. You must

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Speaker 1: stop this. As Trump wields power solely. In order to

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Speaker 1: wield power forever, you must become such that you resist solely,

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Speaker 1: to resist him forever, Senator, Because the voice of the

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Speaker 1: scared Senator Lisa Murkowski may be the most important voice

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Speaker 1: in the nation right now. She's going to use her charm,

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Speaker 1: She's going to have conversations. There are so many conversations

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Speaker 1: Senator Murkowski can have that can save the nation. I

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Speaker 1: don't dream of her joining the Bernie and AOC tour,

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Speaker 1: but god damn, would that be something. But there is

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Speaker 1: one advantage to having a Republican feel this way. When

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Speaker 1: Republicans don't believe in the rules the rest of us do.

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Speaker 1: Republicans have had no squeamishness for decades now about meeting

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Speaker 1: the justices of the Supreme Court. Senator, take some of

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Speaker 1: your colleagues with you, the ones who are even more

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Speaker 1: afraid than you, are too afraid to even admit it

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Speaker 1: the way you did, And go and see Amy Coney Barrett.

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Speaker 1: I will always be suspicious of Amy Coney Barrett, but

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Speaker 1: her voting record shows it is undeniable. There is a

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Speaker 1: Chief Justice Roberts. I'm not sure what's inside of him,

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Speaker 1: but it is clear he lives in abject terror of

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Speaker 1: the executive branch subsuming and perverting the judiciary. And it

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Speaker 1: looks like it has just dawned on him that Trump

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Speaker 1: the inferior courts, the district courts, the local courts on

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Speaker 1: like the idea is forming in John Robert's head that

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Speaker 1: Trump means to kill him metaphorically, of course, or worse.

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Speaker 1: Friday night, in the middle of the night, the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court took its second unmistakable shot across Trump's bow. It

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Speaker 1: anybody from the soil of the United States of America

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Speaker 1: We will get back to you, President Fatso they put

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Speaker 1: a constitutional crisis. Well, surveys say seven out of nine

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Speaker 1: members of the Supreme Court don't like this quote aarp

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Speaker 1: et al v. Trump, President of US et al. There

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Speaker 1: is before the Court an application on behalf of a

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Speaker 1: under the Alien Enemies Act. The matter is currently pending

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Speaker 1: before the Fifth Circuit. Upon action by the Fifth Circuit,

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Speaker 1: the Solicitor General is invited to file a response to

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Speaker 1: The government is directed not to remove any member of

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Speaker 1: further order of this Court. C. Twenty eight USC. One

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Speaker 1: sixty five to one a. Justice Thomas and Justice Alito

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Speaker 1: dissent from the Court's order. Statement from Justice Alito to

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Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious it was seven to two, with even

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Speaker 1: Kavanaugh and Gorsich saying no more renditions, no more, using

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Speaker 1: nineteenth century laws designed to protect the nation when it

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Speaker 1: with Muskets rendezvousing with their spies who already live here

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Speaker 1: No More Alien Enemies Act, asshole. This is especially pertinent

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Speaker 1: because last week refugees from Afghanistan here legally after working

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Speaker 1: had seven days to quote self deport in their case,

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Speaker 1: to go back to Afghanistan and get killed. These are

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Speaker 1: This is also especially pertinent because of Hegseth and Noam

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Speaker 1: Fraud great, flaming, bone headed, power hungry, stupid Gavin fraud Newsom. Resign,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, the previous one, number two in the series,

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Speaker 1: April fifteenth, twenty eleven, fourteen years to the day. I

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Speaker 1: guess my goddamned warranty on my foot expired. It should

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Speaker 1: not affect this podcast unless the little crack, the three

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Speaker 1: quarters of an inch in total lengthen just a heads

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Speaker 1: up for you or a foots up plus this hurts,

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Speaker 1: I want sympathy. Also of interest, here in an all

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Speaker 1: new edition, the memo from Hegseth the Gnome telling Trump

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Speaker 1: not to invoke the Insurrection Act. This all depends on

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Speaker 1: heg Seth still being Secretary of Defense later this week

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Speaker 1: if you missed it, The Times reported last night he

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Speaker 1: shared the bomber flight schedule times against the Huthis in

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Speaker 1: Yemen on a different signal chat. This one included the

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Speaker 1: missus Missus secretary of Vodka. Also on the chat his brother,

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Speaker 1: who works at the Pentagon. I think maybe in the

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Speaker 1: mail room, if they're smart, they'll fire Pete and replace

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Speaker 1: him with his brother so they don't have to explain

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Speaker 1: the change to Trump and they can still tell him

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Speaker 1: it's still Secretary Hegseth, missus brother and lawyer on the chat,

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Speaker 1: but surprisingly not Hegseeth's bartender. Also, Trump banning the Associated

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Speaker 1: Press from the White House led me into a conversation

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Speaker 1: about all the times I've been banned as a reporter,

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Speaker 1: and the answer appears to be I've been banned eight times.

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Speaker 1: And the Pennsylvania congressman whose heart goes out to Governor

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Speaker 1: Shapiro because of that whole, you know, attempt to incinerate

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Speaker 1: the governor and his family on passover. But says Congressman

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Speaker 1: Dan Muser, he did kind of have it coming. Maybe

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Speaker 1: next time he should tone it down and not criticize

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Speaker 1: Trump and his policies. And if you think I'm kidding,

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00:35:51,915 --> 00:35:54,875
Speaker 1: it's on radio and thus it's on tape. And then

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Speaker 1: he doubled down on Itchland Bland. That's next. This is Countdown.

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Speaker 1: This his Countdown with Keith Olboman still ahead on this

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Speaker 1: all new edition of Countdown with Trump moving into round

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Speaker 1: two of trying to ban the Associated Press. You've come

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Speaker 1: to the expert on this banning reporters? Bullshit? How many

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Speaker 1: times have I been banned? You mean this century or

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Speaker 1: in the nineteen hundreds? Next in things I've promised not

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Speaker 1: to tell, and yet I am not the world record

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00:36:56,835 --> 00:37:01,275
Speaker 1: holder in getting banned from places first, believe it or not,

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00:37:01,315 --> 00:37:03,515
Speaker 1: there are still more new idiots to talk about. The

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Speaker 1: roundup of the miss Green morons and Dunning Krueger effects

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00:37:06,315 --> 00:37:12,835
Speaker 1: specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons in the world,

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Speaker 1: the brons worse. The guy with the musk cyber truck,

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Speaker 1: that thing that, whatever else it does or doesn't do,

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Speaker 1: looks broken. The guy who has one of these twenty

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Speaker 1: first century forward edsuls without the charm, who parked it

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Speaker 1: on seventy sixth Street in Manhattan, just off Second Avenue.

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Speaker 1: Look you want to buy one of these, have fun.

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Speaker 1: Our complaint isn't with you wasting your money and possibly

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Speaker 1: having the thing blow up while you're driving it. It's

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Speaker 1: with the psycho who owns the company and is raping

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Speaker 1: the country all because he may or may not have

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Speaker 1: had botched implant surgery. But you seventy sixth Street, sir,

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Speaker 1: you have our condolences, but I must note you're going

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Speaker 1: to increase your chances of being mocked if you do

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Speaker 1: what you did and park it there and put on

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Speaker 1: the back of your musk crapper truck a large decaal

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Speaker 1: perhaps two feet wide in decal lengths reading in a

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Speaker 1: script like font Girl Dad, Girl dad on the back

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Speaker 1: of a muskmobile speaks for itself. Somebody called Child Protective Services.

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Speaker 1: Look for the guy driving around with the cyber truck

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Speaker 1: with girl dad on the back. He may be looking

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Speaker 1: out the back window, or driving it in reverse or

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Speaker 1: upside down, or how the hell could you tell? It

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Speaker 1: looks broken? The runner up worser speaking of looking broken,

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Speaker 1: Congressman Dan Mauser of Pennsylvania, who twisted the old cliche

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Speaker 1: after the attack on the official residence of the governor

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Speaker 1: of his own state, Dan Mauser, and I'm thinking I'm

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Speaker 1: mispronouncing it. Yes, I am, It's it's Muser me e User, Muser.

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Speaker 1: To twist the old cliche around, Congressman Muser praised the

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Speaker 1: attack with faint condemnation. He's on one of those fascist

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Speaker 1: radio shows where they keep playing music in the background

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00:39:36,915 --> 00:39:40,355
Speaker 1: during the interviews, just to add to the hypnotic. This

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00:39:40,475 --> 00:39:44,195
Speaker 1: is actually being emanated by the Mullahs in Iran. Quality.

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00:39:45,155 --> 00:39:51,035
Speaker 1: Here is an elected Pennsylvania congressman soft peddling an assassination

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Speaker 1: attempt by fire of the governor of his own state.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely awful. It needs to be condemned.

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Speaker 5: But you know, it just kills me.

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Speaker 1: And I hate to have to go back to this, but.

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Speaker 5: There's been so many Testa dealerships, fire bomb there was

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00:40:05,995 --> 00:40:10,275
Speaker 5: a firebomb GOP headquarters out west and and and then

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00:40:10,395 --> 00:40:12,795
Speaker 5: and I meanwhile, you got you got those on the left,

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00:40:12,835 --> 00:40:16,075
Speaker 5: you know, continuing to you know, make a kind of

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Speaker 5: you know, violent, type of hostile commentary, and this happens,

512
00:40:20,075 --> 00:40:22,515
Speaker 5: and we all jump right on board, saying this is horrible,

513
00:40:22,555 --> 00:40:27,795
Speaker 5: This needs to be condemned, but by all and you know,

514
00:40:28,075 --> 00:40:30,115
Speaker 5: so the left got to you know, looking look in

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00:40:30,115 --> 00:40:32,315
Speaker 5: the mirror here too, and our hearts go out to

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00:40:32,715 --> 00:40:35,595
Speaker 5: the Shapiro family on this, but you know, they got it.

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Speaker 5: They got to tone it down too. I mean, every

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Speaker 5: action Josh Shapiro has taken so far against the president.

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00:40:41,035 --> 00:40:43,195
Speaker 1: Has either been a lawsuit or a falsehood.

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Speaker 5: And you know that that's not helpful either, not helpful either.

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Speaker 1: I had thought at first that mister Muser meant that

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Speaker 1: liberals needed to tone it down, which is bullshit, but

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Speaker 1: at least it's not psychotic bullshit. No, no, he literally

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Speaker 1: meant Governor Shapiro was kind of asking for it, a

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Speaker 1: point he made when because his passive aggressive advocacy of

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Speaker 1: you know, burning the Jewish governor and his family to

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Speaker 1: death on Passover. That's too much even for MAGA. Now,

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00:41:19,555 --> 00:41:24,075
Speaker 1: when he posted the by now obligatory Republican clarification for

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Speaker 1: justifying attempted group murder, he doubled down on this idea

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Speaker 1: that it really is Shapiro's fault. He cited the vandalism

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Speaker 1: of Tesla's again. He cited the Trump assassination attempts again,

532
00:41:37,275 --> 00:41:40,395
Speaker 1: a reminder, half of which were in fact conducted by

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Speaker 1: Trump supporters. He said liberals had called his party fascists

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Speaker 1: and Nazis, which I think is perfectly reasonable, since the

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Speaker 1: President did keep Hitler's speeches by his bed at night,

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00:41:51,715 --> 00:41:54,515
Speaker 1: and he is acting as a fascist and Nazi would.

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Speaker 1: But he doubled down on Shapiro having asked for it.

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00:42:00,835 --> 00:42:04,275
Speaker 1: His clean up quote was. What frustrates me is when

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Speaker 1: leaders make outrageous false claims, like the governor stating President

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00:42:07,995 --> 00:42:11,795
Speaker 1: Trump's policies would make Pennsylvanians go hungry. We now know

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Speaker 1: his claims were entirely inaccurate. I'm looking at both sides

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Speaker 1: of the paper to see if there's more than just that. No,

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Speaker 1: those are his rationalizations for this, because those things are

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Speaker 1: cause and effect. Criticized Trump's policies about food kitchens, and

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00:42:30,835 --> 00:42:32,995
Speaker 1: what do you expect will happen? Somebody will try to

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Speaker 1: incinerate you, and you blame MAGA for that. Just remember

547
00:42:37,635 --> 00:42:40,715
Speaker 1: to never criticize Trump's policies again. What's the problem? And

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00:42:40,755 --> 00:42:43,555
Speaker 1: we won't fire bomb the official state residence for its

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00:42:43,595 --> 00:42:46,875
Speaker 1: governor again with you and your family in it. Probably

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Speaker 1: And when I say we, oops, I misspoke, I meant

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Speaker 1: they Representative Dan Muser pronounced like Muse, spelled like Mauser,

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Speaker 1: like the rifles the Nazis used in World War Two.

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Speaker 1: Just to keep it clear, it's Muser, but the winner

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00:43:06,875 --> 00:43:10,675
Speaker 1: the worst. It's a tie. Riley Gains, the one time

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Speaker 1: fifth rate college swimmer who has turned being a sore

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Speaker 1: loser into a full time profession. And Pam Bondi, a

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Speaker 1: bubblehead who, under the definition of the term by her

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Speaker 1: own employers the Trump administration, is herself a dei hire

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Speaker 1: as Attorney General. I mentioned this, let me say it again.

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Speaker 1: The home of the Governor Pennsylvania, a Jewish man was

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Speaker 1: firebombed in the middle of the night on Passover with

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Speaker 1: him and his family in it, by a man who

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Speaker 1: later told authorities that he went into the house and

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Speaker 1: looked for Governor Shapiro in hopes of killing him with

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Speaker 1: a hammer because he didn't like Shapiro's politics and his religion.

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Speaker 1: Open and shut hate crime, terrorism, perhaps assassination attempt and

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Speaker 1: Attorney General Pam Blondie hasn't even devoted a minute to

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Speaker 1: it publicly. Nothing might as well have said what the

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Speaker 1: anti Semite blamed them, victim Congressman Muser said, But Attorney

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Speaker 1: General Blondie and one of her twice a day appearances

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Speaker 1: on the Fox News WAFFA through the weight of the

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Speaker 1: Justice Department into the Shapiro case, new into any of

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Speaker 1: the other crimes going on, into the President repeatedly violating

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Speaker 1: the Constitution and the courts through the weight of her

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Speaker 1: Justice Department into altering high school and college swimming records

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Speaker 1: in Maine because there may have been one or two

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Speaker 1: transgendered swimmers in competition there in the last twenty five years,

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Speaker 1: might have been. The NCAA estimates there are ten transgendered

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Speaker 1: athletes in all of college sports in the whole country. Ten.

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00:44:58,995 --> 00:45:04,235
Speaker 1: Maybe there is a transgender main swimmer. Maybe there's been

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Speaker 1: one in two twenty five years. The odds would say

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Speaker 1: it's about one hundred thousand to one against. But Riley Gaines,

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Speaker 1: a mediocrity with extra eyelashes, once finished behind one of

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Speaker 1: them in a swim meet and has thus turned herself

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Speaker 1: into a living, breathing twenty four to seven martyr. And

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00:45:28,595 --> 00:45:34,555
Speaker 1: once again on Easter weekend, and this idiot Bondie goes

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00:45:34,595 --> 00:45:37,515
Speaker 1: on Fox and paints Riley Gaines as the Jesus of

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Speaker 1: college swimmers. Quote.

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00:45:39,675 --> 00:45:42,955
Speaker 6: Dalley Gaines started training for swimming when she was four

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Speaker 6: years old. She made it to the Olympics. Spoiler alert,

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Speaker 6: Riley Gaines did not make it to the Olympics, and

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Speaker 6: she had nothing to do with a transgender swimmer in

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Speaker 6: her failure. The reason she didn't go.

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Speaker 1: To the Olympics is for the fact that Riley gains sucks.

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00:46:05,315 --> 00:46:08,195
Speaker 1: The swim meet at which all of this began, At

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00:46:08,235 --> 00:46:12,155
Speaker 1: which all of this thinly veiled attack on transgender people began.

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00:46:12,475 --> 00:46:16,515
Speaker 1: When this dark undercurrent became overt was in March twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two at the NCAA Freestyle Championships. Leah Thomas of

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00:46:21,315 --> 00:46:24,835
Speaker 1: a University of Pennsylvania won. Lea Thomas was assigned mail

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Speaker 1: at birth. Riley Gaines her life destroyed by Lea Thomas.

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00:46:28,635 --> 00:46:31,035
Speaker 1: Riley Gaines was in that meet too, and she finished

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Speaker 1: fifth in the race that Lea Thomas won. Riley Gaines

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00:46:35,795 --> 00:46:39,675
Speaker 1: finished tied for fifth. If Lea Thomas had never existed

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Speaker 1: or never transitioned, Riley Gaines would have finished fifth or

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Speaker 1: maybe tied for fourth. And as to this idiocy by

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00:46:51,875 --> 00:46:54,675
Speaker 1: Attorney General Bondi, a parrot who happened to be in

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00:46:54,715 --> 00:46:57,075
Speaker 1: the right place at the time, at the right time

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00:46:57,155 --> 00:47:01,195
Speaker 1: as Matt Gates flamed out, Riley Gaines didn't go to

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Speaker 1: the Olympics. She went to the Olympic Trials. She qualified

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Speaker 1: for the twenty sixteen Olympic Trials, and at the twenty

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Speaker 1: sixteen Olympic Trials she finished eighty fifth out of one

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Speaker 1: hundred eighty fifth. She was invited then to try out

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Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty four Olympic Trials and she didn't

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Speaker 1: even make it past the qualifier event. Eighty fifth place

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Speaker 1: was her Olympic best. Her Olympic record is closer to

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Speaker 1: yours and mine than it is to people who have

617
00:47:36,715 --> 00:47:41,315
Speaker 1: gone to the Olympics her career best. Her career best

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Speaker 1: was the fifth place tied finish in the race won

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Speaker 1: by Leah Thomas, the best she ever did. The day

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Speaker 1: Riley Gaines became America's favorite fifth place martyr, the day

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Speaker 1: she was denied finishing only one spot off the metal

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Speaker 1: stand instead of two. Was the best she ever got

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Speaker 1: in big time swimming. And it didn't have a guy

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00:48:04,955 --> 00:48:08,795
Speaker 1: damned thing to do with Leah Thomas or transgendered people

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00:48:09,235 --> 00:48:13,595
Speaker 1: or MAGA or Donald Trump or liberals or American culture.

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00:48:13,635 --> 00:48:16,115
Speaker 1: It had to do with the fact that Riley Gaines

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Speaker 1: was a flash in the pan or a splash in

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00:48:19,955 --> 00:48:26,275
Speaker 1: the pool with at best eighty fifth place talent. The

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Speaker 1: Attorney General lying about Riley Gains going to the Olympics

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00:48:29,635 --> 00:48:32,595
Speaker 1: is probably low on the list of this administration's lies,

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Speaker 1: like I don't know number, just to pick a number

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Speaker 1: at random. Number maybe eighty fifth this week. But this

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00:48:42,075 --> 00:48:46,035
Speaker 1: whole fake debate, this whole scapegoating and othering and persecuting

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00:48:46,075 --> 00:48:49,275
Speaker 1: transgendered people and the debate over their role in sports

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00:48:49,555 --> 00:48:53,715
Speaker 1: is legitimate. My friend doctor Renee Richards says, so says

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00:48:53,755 --> 00:48:57,995
Speaker 1: it should be debated. But it's about literally maybe a

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Speaker 1: dozen athletes in this country. It's as if we started

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00:49:00,795 --> 00:49:05,155
Speaker 1: passing laws and threatening people and electing people over whether

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Speaker 1: it's illegal, whether it should be a federal crime to

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Speaker 1: let a baseball team somewhere use a pitcher who can

641
00:49:11,595 --> 00:49:14,435
Speaker 1: pitch with his left arm and his right arm. It's

642
00:49:14,475 --> 00:49:20,235
Speaker 1: literally that specific and small and stupid and resolvable. This

643
00:49:20,275 --> 00:49:25,715
Speaker 1: whole debate is actually about one failure, Riley effing Gains,

644
00:49:26,795 --> 00:49:30,275
Speaker 1: who's lucky she's always gotten out of the water and

645
00:49:30,435 --> 00:49:35,395
Speaker 1: remembered not to try to live there. Riley Gains is

646
00:49:35,435 --> 00:49:42,955
Speaker 1: being advocated for by another total human failure, Pam Blondie.

647
00:49:42,995 --> 00:49:50,595
Speaker 1: Pam doj Bondie and Riley I was eighty fifth gains

648
00:49:51,115 --> 00:49:56,035
Speaker 1: Today's other worst Worsens.

649
00:49:57,275 --> 00:49:58,355
Speaker 4: In the World.

650
00:50:21,795 --> 00:50:30,035
Speaker 1: Deh And finally, on this all new edition of Countdown,

651
00:50:30,115 --> 00:50:33,115
Speaker 1: I was thinking about and talking with a friend about

652
00:50:33,235 --> 00:50:37,035
Speaker 1: the banning of the Associated Press by the White House

653
00:50:37,195 --> 00:50:43,075
Speaker 1: from the White House coverage, from the White House pool coverage,

654
00:50:43,755 --> 00:50:46,675
Speaker 1: the ignoring of the court orders ordering that the Associated

655
00:50:46,675 --> 00:50:49,995
Speaker 1: Press be permitted back into White House news coverage in

656
00:50:50,075 --> 00:50:53,635
Speaker 1: place of the Daily Nazi or whoever they gave the

657
00:50:53,675 --> 00:50:56,835
Speaker 1: ap space to. And I was thinking about the premise

658
00:50:57,315 --> 00:51:02,595
Speaker 1: that this idiot ex softball player from Saint Anselm's College

659
00:51:03,195 --> 00:51:06,875
Speaker 1: who is now the press folksperson and looks like she

660
00:51:07,315 --> 00:51:10,395
Speaker 1: flunked out of an audition for the price, is right

661
00:51:10,995 --> 00:51:15,995
Speaker 1: as a card girl that she's banned the Associated Press.

662
00:51:17,395 --> 00:51:20,595
Speaker 1: I have, finally, after years of being the UPI guy

663
00:51:20,635 --> 00:51:24,355
Speaker 1: who looked at all Associated Press people as sort of

664
00:51:24,355 --> 00:51:27,635
Speaker 1: the enemy, I've become an Associated Press fan. They don't

665
00:51:27,675 --> 00:51:30,395
Speaker 1: do a great job, but they rarely screw it up.

666
00:51:30,835 --> 00:51:32,995
Speaker 1: That's about the most you could ask from the media

667
00:51:33,035 --> 00:51:35,115
Speaker 1: at the moment. And in any event, I was thinking,

668
00:51:35,115 --> 00:51:38,875
Speaker 1: we're talking about being banned as a reporter and my

669
00:51:38,995 --> 00:51:43,155
Speaker 1: friend asked me, wait, you've been banned, haven't you? And

670
00:51:43,195 --> 00:51:47,915
Speaker 1: I went, oh, my yes, And so to the number

671
00:51:47,915 --> 00:51:52,555
Speaker 1: one story on our countdown, Me and banishment. The number

672
00:51:52,595 --> 00:51:55,715
Speaker 1: of times I have been banned as a member of

673
00:51:55,755 --> 00:52:00,835
Speaker 1: the media, or I guess in other contexts, sometimes by

674
00:52:00,875 --> 00:52:04,475
Speaker 1: the media, sometimes as the media, and they all make

675
00:52:04,755 --> 00:52:07,675
Speaker 1: fairly entertaining stories, but of course you'll be the judge

676
00:52:07,675 --> 00:52:11,355
Speaker 1: of that. I think the first time I was ever banned,

677
00:52:11,395 --> 00:52:14,595
Speaker 1: I was at KTLA in Los Angeles as the sports

678
00:52:14,595 --> 00:52:17,395
Speaker 1: director of the station that carried the games of the

679
00:52:17,435 --> 00:52:20,875
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Clippers basketball team. You have to understand that

680
00:52:21,035 --> 00:52:24,115
Speaker 1: as competitive as the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team has

681
00:52:24,155 --> 00:52:25,955
Speaker 1: been in the last few years and how they have

682
00:52:26,075 --> 00:52:31,835
Speaker 1: expunged their ownership disaster of the racist Donald Sterling, this

683
00:52:32,035 --> 00:52:35,875
Speaker 1: was right after they moved to Los Angeles from San Diego,

684
00:52:36,515 --> 00:52:39,675
Speaker 1: and they were the worst team in professional sports and

685
00:52:39,795 --> 00:52:42,555
Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in professional sports history. I

686
00:52:42,595 --> 00:52:44,595
Speaker 1: have the record in front of me of how they

687
00:52:44,675 --> 00:52:47,435
Speaker 1: performed on the court the first three years that I

688
00:52:47,515 --> 00:52:51,635
Speaker 1: worked at the station that carried their games, and I

689
00:52:51,835 --> 00:52:54,795
Speaker 1: did not feel like I was obligated to make excuses

690
00:52:54,835 --> 00:52:57,755
Speaker 1: for them because the first year, they played eighty two

691
00:52:57,835 --> 00:53:01,115
Speaker 1: games and lost fifty of them and finished in fourth place.

692
00:53:01,595 --> 00:53:04,155
Speaker 1: This would turn out to be not just the high point,

693
00:53:04,355 --> 00:53:07,875
Speaker 1: but the high point by basically double. The next year,

694
00:53:07,955 --> 00:53:11,515
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six eighty seven, the Los Angeles Clippers played

695
00:53:11,515 --> 00:53:14,315
Speaker 1: eighty two games and lost seventy of them. They went

696
00:53:14,355 --> 00:53:18,235
Speaker 1: twelve and seventy. That's not very good. You only win

697
00:53:18,315 --> 00:53:22,315
Speaker 1: twelve times in a season that stretches from October into April.

698
00:53:22,955 --> 00:53:25,755
Speaker 1: It was a long winter. And then the last year

699
00:53:25,755 --> 00:53:28,475
Speaker 1: that I worked at their station, more or less eighty

700
00:53:28,515 --> 00:53:31,355
Speaker 1: seven eighty eight, they improved from twelve and seventy to

701
00:53:31,515 --> 00:53:34,515
Speaker 1: seventeen and sixty five. So there was a bad team there,

702
00:53:34,835 --> 00:53:38,835
Speaker 1: and they did stupid, stupid things, and many of them

703
00:53:38,835 --> 00:53:40,515
Speaker 1: were on the court, but it seemed like more of

704
00:53:40,595 --> 00:53:43,155
Speaker 1: them were off the court. And I used to upbraid

705
00:53:43,235 --> 00:53:46,435
Speaker 1: them every night, and I often when they were on

706
00:53:46,595 --> 00:53:49,315
Speaker 1: our air and the Lakers of Los Angeles were playing

707
00:53:49,315 --> 00:53:51,715
Speaker 1: on the same night, I would lead the sportscast with

708
00:53:51,795 --> 00:53:55,555
Speaker 1: the Lakers highlights. Now, if the Clippers won, which, as

709
00:53:55,555 --> 00:53:57,355
Speaker 1: you can tell from those numbers I just gave you,

710
00:53:57,475 --> 00:53:59,595
Speaker 1: was not very often, I would lead with them as

711
00:53:59,635 --> 00:54:02,235
Speaker 1: in my God, the Clippers won. Let's look at these

712
00:54:02,275 --> 00:54:06,755
Speaker 1: highlights before they disappear. Needless to say, at Clipper HQ,

713
00:54:06,995 --> 00:54:10,475
Speaker 1: they were not fond of me. Many attempts were made

714
00:54:10,555 --> 00:54:13,115
Speaker 1: to get me what would be the right word fired.

715
00:54:14,075 --> 00:54:18,115
Speaker 1: But finally, after one incident in I think nineteen eighty six,

716
00:54:18,355 --> 00:54:21,475
Speaker 1: the then president of the team, his name was Allan

717
00:54:21,675 --> 00:54:23,915
Speaker 1: something I can't remember. He went on to be involved

718
00:54:23,915 --> 00:54:29,755
Speaker 1: in soccer, suspended me, banned me from covering the Clippers.

719
00:54:29,875 --> 00:54:33,795
Speaker 1: And the incident was this, one of the players children

720
00:54:34,315 --> 00:54:38,355
Speaker 1: died in a tragic accident in a swimming pool, and

721
00:54:38,555 --> 00:54:41,795
Speaker 1: the Clippers for weeks had been rumored to be firing

722
00:54:41,835 --> 00:54:44,595
Speaker 1: their head coach, and an announcement was going to be

723
00:54:44,675 --> 00:54:47,275
Speaker 1: made finally about this poor guy who'd been twisting in

724
00:54:47,315 --> 00:54:49,555
Speaker 1: the wind, as the next administration would have called it.

725
00:54:49,875 --> 00:54:52,195
Speaker 1: They were going to announce this on Wednesday, and then

726
00:54:52,235 --> 00:54:56,915
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night there was this tragedy involving or Tuesday

727
00:54:56,995 --> 00:55:01,515
Speaker 1: during the day sometime one of the players children, and

728
00:55:01,555 --> 00:55:07,155
Speaker 1: the Clippers used this as a reason not to hold

729
00:55:07,155 --> 00:55:10,035
Speaker 1: the news conference about the coach. They canceled the news

730
00:55:10,035 --> 00:55:16,635
Speaker 1: conference about the coach, citing humanitarian reasons. And respect for

731
00:55:16,715 --> 00:55:21,075
Speaker 1: the tragedy. And they didn't postpone it. They didn't say

732
00:55:21,075 --> 00:55:23,475
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a moment of silence at it. They

733
00:55:23,515 --> 00:55:25,755
Speaker 1: didn't say, Okay, it's not gonna be Wednesday, will do

734
00:55:25,755 --> 00:55:30,275
Speaker 1: it Thursday. They canceled it. And they never had a

735
00:55:30,355 --> 00:55:33,235
Speaker 1: press conference about this poor coach. They just issued a

736
00:55:33,275 --> 00:55:38,075
Speaker 1: press release saying this guy who they had leaked about

737
00:55:38,195 --> 00:55:40,715
Speaker 1: every day for weeks, that he was terrible and he

738
00:55:40,835 --> 00:55:42,515
Speaker 1: was the problem, and they were going to fire him.

739
00:55:42,835 --> 00:55:45,475
Speaker 1: All these stories coming out. It went on for day

740
00:55:45,515 --> 00:55:48,915
Speaker 1: after day after day and week after week, and this

741
00:55:49,075 --> 00:55:51,875
Speaker 1: poor guy who'd been in the NBA since I don't know,

742
00:55:51,955 --> 00:55:55,395
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties, had had to read about himself this

743
00:55:55,435 --> 00:55:58,275
Speaker 1: way every day in the papers and couldn't say anything

744
00:55:58,275 --> 00:56:01,075
Speaker 1: because if he did, they'd fire him for cause and

745
00:56:01,155 --> 00:56:03,755
Speaker 1: not owe him any money. The cause being speaking to

746
00:56:03,795 --> 00:56:07,315
Speaker 1: the media without alle authorization. He had to read that

747
00:56:07,395 --> 00:56:09,435
Speaker 1: he was about to be fired, and here was going

748
00:56:09,515 --> 00:56:11,715
Speaker 1: to be the news conference at least which he'd be

749
00:56:11,715 --> 00:56:14,675
Speaker 1: able to stand up and say something about it, even

750
00:56:14,715 --> 00:56:17,835
Speaker 1: if it was just thanks for the opportunity to restore

751
00:56:17,915 --> 00:56:20,115
Speaker 1: the image of himself as a human being and not

752
00:56:20,235 --> 00:56:25,155
Speaker 1: the cause of this disastrous franchisees disasters. Instead of there

753
00:56:25,155 --> 00:56:27,835
Speaker 1: being a news conference, he had to read finally, he

754
00:56:27,875 --> 00:56:32,275
Speaker 1: had been fired in a one page press release. And

755
00:56:32,475 --> 00:56:35,755
Speaker 1: also no press conference meant the coach not only couldn't

756
00:56:35,755 --> 00:56:37,635
Speaker 1: meet the press and say whatever he wanted to say

757
00:56:37,635 --> 00:56:41,515
Speaker 1: about the Clippers and Clippers management such as it was.

758
00:56:42,035 --> 00:56:44,035
Speaker 1: And I always suspected the Clippers were run by a

759
00:56:44,035 --> 00:56:48,115
Speaker 1: couple of lawn chairs, not guys in lawn chairs, run

760
00:56:48,115 --> 00:56:52,395
Speaker 1: by actual lawn chairs. The Clippers could avoid any questions

761
00:56:52,715 --> 00:56:56,235
Speaker 1: about how they fired this guy, but only after leaking

762
00:56:56,275 --> 00:56:59,475
Speaker 1: for weeks and destroying his reputation. And they could avoid

763
00:56:59,635 --> 00:57:02,995
Speaker 1: any questions about how in a city like Los Angeles,

764
00:57:02,995 --> 00:57:05,635
Speaker 1: with the amount of money this guy Stirling had who

765
00:57:05,675 --> 00:57:08,835
Speaker 1: owned them, they could win only twenty nine games over

766
00:57:08,955 --> 00:57:13,155
Speaker 1: two seasons? How'd you do? Played one hundred and sixty games?

767
00:57:13,195 --> 00:57:16,675
Speaker 1: How'd you do one twenty nine of them? Can't have

768
00:57:16,795 --> 00:57:22,995
Speaker 1: that news conference out of respect? Well, I said, there

769
00:57:23,035 --> 00:57:25,355
Speaker 1: may have been an element of respect to it, but

770
00:57:25,395 --> 00:57:29,115
Speaker 1: that principally the Clippers had exploited the child's death to

771
00:57:29,235 --> 00:57:33,795
Speaker 1: avoid holding a news conference. It was an excuse. They

772
00:57:33,795 --> 00:57:36,795
Speaker 1: didn't plan it. It wasn't their responsibility, but they saw

773
00:57:36,875 --> 00:57:39,755
Speaker 1: the opportunity to not have to face the media or

774
00:57:39,835 --> 00:57:42,915
Speaker 1: let this coach face the media. That it was cheap,

775
00:57:43,355 --> 00:57:47,155
Speaker 1: that it was irresponsible, that it insulted their player at

776
00:57:47,155 --> 00:57:51,875
Speaker 1: a time of tragedy, that insulted his family, insulted his grief,

777
00:57:52,195 --> 00:57:55,875
Speaker 1: insulted the child's passing, and that it was like everything

778
00:57:55,915 --> 00:58:02,755
Speaker 1: else the Clippers had ever done, just another excuse. And

779
00:58:02,835 --> 00:58:06,435
Speaker 1: the Clippers erupted in ray, how dare you invoke this

780
00:58:06,595 --> 00:58:09,875
Speaker 1: poor man's dead child? And I was like, well, no,

781
00:58:09,955 --> 00:58:13,435
Speaker 1: you did that. That's what I was complaining about, and

782
00:58:13,555 --> 00:58:16,675
Speaker 1: they bann. I got a letter saying you are hereby

783
00:58:16,835 --> 00:58:21,075
Speaker 1: banned from all games and practices of the Los Angeles Clippers.

784
00:58:21,715 --> 00:58:25,115
Speaker 1: And in a PostScript from the president of this team

785
00:58:25,395 --> 00:58:27,395
Speaker 1: to the general manager, one of the all time great

786
00:58:27,435 --> 00:58:30,395
Speaker 1: basketball players for the LA Clippers, for the LA Lakers,

787
00:58:30,395 --> 00:58:33,795
Speaker 1: but then general manager of the LA Clippers, Elgin Baylor,

788
00:58:34,155 --> 00:58:37,875
Speaker 1: ps Elgin, make sure he's taken off the mailing list too.

789
00:58:38,475 --> 00:58:40,915
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, what am I going to do

790
00:58:40,995 --> 00:58:44,635
Speaker 1: without the press releases about the latest promotional night when

791
00:58:44,635 --> 00:58:49,595
Speaker 1: they're giving away socks? Well, of course number one, I

792
00:58:49,595 --> 00:58:52,475
Speaker 1: should point out with glee that what the result of

793
00:58:52,475 --> 00:58:56,315
Speaker 1: that PostScript was was that I started to receive two

794
00:58:56,355 --> 00:58:59,675
Speaker 1: of everything on the mailing list because whoever Elgin Baylor

795
00:58:59,755 --> 00:59:02,795
Speaker 1: told to remove me from the Clipper publicity mailing list

796
00:59:03,035 --> 00:59:06,035
Speaker 1: got it wrong and added my name a second time.

797
00:59:06,555 --> 00:59:09,635
Speaker 1: And as to the suspension and the denial of the

798
00:59:09,675 --> 00:59:13,955
Speaker 1: privilege of attending Clippers practices or games, as I wrote

799
00:59:14,035 --> 00:59:16,755
Speaker 1: back to the president of the team, you have made

800
00:59:16,795 --> 00:59:21,315
Speaker 1: me the envy of every other reporter in town. I

801
00:59:21,355 --> 00:59:24,315
Speaker 1: have been asked by my colleagues how they can be

802
00:59:24,395 --> 00:59:29,275
Speaker 1: suspended from Clipper basketball, hopefully for life. So that was

803
00:59:29,315 --> 00:59:32,635
Speaker 1: my first experience with the attempt to ban me from

804
00:59:32,635 --> 00:59:35,835
Speaker 1: somewhere or from some team or from something. It was

805
00:59:36,075 --> 00:59:38,955
Speaker 1: hilarious and needless to say, I put it on KTLA

806
00:59:39,075 --> 00:59:42,355
Speaker 1: Channel five News at ten, and they liked me even less.

807
00:59:43,515 --> 00:59:47,635
Speaker 1: The next time I think I was banned was after

808
00:59:47,715 --> 00:59:51,355
Speaker 1: I worked for ESPN. The first time. I actually left

809
00:59:51,635 --> 00:59:54,795
Speaker 1: ESPN in nineteen ninety seven under pretty good circumstances, given

810
00:59:54,795 --> 00:59:58,475
Speaker 1: that they had stupidly, as they later admitted, suspended me

811
00:59:58,715 --> 01:00:01,155
Speaker 1: over a joke I made about the city of Bristol,

812
01:00:01,195 --> 01:00:04,555
Speaker 1: Connecticut and what was supposedly an unauthorized appearance on the

813
01:00:04,715 --> 01:00:07,955
Speaker 1: Craig Kilbourne Show to promote a book for which they'd

814
01:00:07,995 --> 01:00:11,355
Speaker 1: given me universal permission to promote the book that Dan

815
01:00:11,435 --> 01:00:13,875
Speaker 1: Patrick and I had written about sports Center that got

816
01:00:13,875 --> 01:00:16,355
Speaker 1: to the New York Times bestseller list and added to

817
01:00:16,395 --> 01:00:19,435
Speaker 1: the patina of ESPN and Sports Center. Even as I

818
01:00:19,515 --> 01:00:22,435
Speaker 1: was leaving it, I left to go somewhere else. We

819
01:00:22,515 --> 01:00:24,875
Speaker 1: agreed on that it was mutual. As I went out

820
01:00:24,915 --> 01:00:28,475
Speaker 1: the door, we reconsidered the possibility of my doing one

821
01:00:28,515 --> 01:00:30,915
Speaker 1: show a week for them as long as they would

822
01:00:30,955 --> 01:00:33,435
Speaker 1: let me work somewhere else full time. They thought about

823
01:00:33,435 --> 01:00:37,555
Speaker 1: it and then decided against it. And when I left

824
01:00:37,595 --> 01:00:40,515
Speaker 1: under those circumstances, the vice president in charge of things there,

825
01:00:40,755 --> 01:00:43,995
Speaker 1: Howard Katz, said, look, we can't make this work. It's

826
01:00:44,035 --> 01:00:45,715
Speaker 1: not going to work. If we let people work on

827
01:00:45,755 --> 01:00:48,475
Speaker 1: other networks, we can't control you. And I said, truer

828
01:00:48,515 --> 01:00:51,355
Speaker 1: words have never been spoken. But he said, if you

829
01:00:51,395 --> 01:00:53,555
Speaker 1: want to come on as a guest on an ESPN

830
01:00:53,635 --> 01:00:56,755
Speaker 1: show or on radio, we'd love to have you. Good

831
01:00:56,795 --> 01:00:59,715
Speaker 1: luck on the new gig at NBC. What happened was

832
01:01:00,355 --> 01:01:03,355
Speaker 1: that blew it up and then turned it into nuclear war.

833
01:01:03,915 --> 01:01:07,635
Speaker 1: Was an ESPN executive decided in the fall of nineteen

834
01:01:07,675 --> 01:01:10,275
Speaker 1: ninety seven, after I left to leak the ratings of

835
01:01:10,315 --> 01:01:13,835
Speaker 1: my new MSNBC show, which were then almost non existent

836
01:01:13,875 --> 01:01:15,835
Speaker 1: because it was a terrible show and a new show

837
01:01:15,875 --> 01:01:20,355
Speaker 1: on a new network, to the USA Today sports media writer,

838
01:01:20,555 --> 01:01:22,435
Speaker 1: who of course promptly called me up and told me

839
01:01:22,595 --> 01:01:26,355
Speaker 1: that this executive had done that. This kind of enraged me,

840
01:01:27,035 --> 01:01:29,915
Speaker 1: so I took shot after shot at ESPN, and I

841
01:01:29,955 --> 01:01:32,555
Speaker 1: did it publicly, and this led to them saying he

842
01:01:32,595 --> 01:01:35,435
Speaker 1: didn't just burn the bridges, he napalmed them. And I said, no,

843
01:01:35,555 --> 01:01:38,875
Speaker 1: that's insufficient. I didn't just burn the bridges. I burned

844
01:01:38,875 --> 01:01:42,915
Speaker 1: the river, and on and on it went. Years later,

845
01:01:43,075 --> 01:01:47,395
Speaker 1: perhaps two thousand and five, it was some of those

846
01:01:47,435 --> 01:01:50,915
Speaker 1: same executives called and asked me to help Dan Patrick out.

847
01:01:50,995 --> 01:01:53,915
Speaker 1: His radio show was not doing well. They thought he

848
01:01:54,035 --> 01:01:57,355
Speaker 1: was overworked and needed a spark. They wanted it to

849
01:01:57,435 --> 01:02:01,035
Speaker 1: do better, they knew it could. He just seemed uninspired,

850
01:02:01,075 --> 01:02:02,675
Speaker 1: and they thought if they brought me on for an

851
01:02:02,715 --> 01:02:06,235
Speaker 1: hour a week, and later an hour a day, he

852
01:02:06,275 --> 01:02:09,675
Speaker 1: would perk up. He did, and I think the radio

853
01:02:09,675 --> 01:02:11,275
Speaker 1: show that he took out on his own in two

854
01:02:11,315 --> 01:02:14,795
Speaker 1: thousand and seven has largely succeeded because he perked up.

855
01:02:15,035 --> 01:02:17,275
Speaker 1: Things were at a pivotal moment in his career at

856
01:02:17,315 --> 01:02:20,035
Speaker 1: that point. I'm not claiming credit for his show, or

857
01:02:20,035 --> 01:02:22,755
Speaker 1: his work or his success. That's all his. I'm just

858
01:02:22,795 --> 01:02:25,355
Speaker 1: saying that at a critical moment, it was bad enough

859
01:02:25,395 --> 01:02:28,355
Speaker 1: that the ESPN people who were furious at me, and

860
01:02:28,395 --> 01:02:30,795
Speaker 1: it was still nuclear war, and I'd gone to work

861
01:02:30,835 --> 01:02:33,235
Speaker 1: for competition against them that was trying to do a

862
01:02:33,275 --> 01:02:37,675
Speaker 1: Fox version of SportsCenter and constantly made fun of ESPN

863
01:02:37,755 --> 01:02:40,875
Speaker 1: whenever I could, and got Fox's name and Fox Sports

864
01:02:40,915 --> 01:02:45,395
Speaker 1: News into every story about ESPN. I did that job terrifically,

865
01:02:45,475 --> 01:02:49,435
Speaker 1: I might add, although the ratings were terrible. In the

866
01:02:49,475 --> 01:02:52,275
Speaker 1: middle of that, they called and asked me to help out,

867
01:02:52,275 --> 01:02:54,315
Speaker 1: and I said yes. And that was largely the end

868
01:02:54,355 --> 01:02:57,955
Speaker 1: of the active shooting in that war. However, at some

869
01:02:58,155 --> 01:03:01,395
Speaker 1: point I said, maybe, if you want to have real fun,

870
01:03:01,555 --> 01:03:03,675
Speaker 1: why don't I come up there and do a couple

871
01:03:03,675 --> 01:03:06,595
Speaker 1: of shows in person and with him, And the executive

872
01:03:06,595 --> 01:03:09,395
Speaker 1: in charge said, and this is two thousand and six probably,

873
01:03:09,955 --> 01:03:12,795
Speaker 1: he said, well, we can't do that. You've been banned

874
01:03:12,795 --> 01:03:18,595
Speaker 1: from the ESPN campus. And I said, I have, And

875
01:03:18,675 --> 01:03:22,115
Speaker 1: apparently this was well known at ESPN, and I later

876
01:03:22,155 --> 01:03:25,155
Speaker 1: found out by many people in the industry. Folks at

877
01:03:25,235 --> 01:03:28,075
Speaker 1: NBC knew it, and nobody told me because they thought

878
01:03:28,075 --> 01:03:30,635
Speaker 1: my reaction was going to be violent. I went to

879
01:03:30,675 --> 01:03:33,235
Speaker 1: somebody at NBC Sports who knew about this and had

880
01:03:33,275 --> 01:03:36,275
Speaker 1: known about this, and apparently it had been done ten

881
01:03:36,395 --> 01:03:39,915
Speaker 1: years earlier, and nobody told me. And I said, what's

882
01:03:39,955 --> 01:03:43,355
Speaker 1: the point of suspending me or banning me from a place?

883
01:03:43,955 --> 01:03:46,275
Speaker 1: They banned me from campus and told you, but you

884
01:03:46,315 --> 01:03:48,795
Speaker 1: didn't tell me. What's the point of it. It's the

885
01:03:49,555 --> 01:03:53,395
Speaker 1: Doctor Strange love line about the doomsday device. What's the

886
01:03:53,435 --> 01:03:56,035
Speaker 1: point of having an automatic nuclear weapon if you don't

887
01:03:56,075 --> 01:03:59,835
Speaker 1: tell anybody that you have it. What's the point of

888
01:04:00,155 --> 01:04:03,315
Speaker 1: banning a guy from a campus if you don't tell him?

889
01:04:03,595 --> 01:04:06,235
Speaker 1: And they said, well, oh, they didn't want to exacerbate

890
01:04:06,275 --> 01:04:09,275
Speaker 1: the situation further, and blah blah blah, And I said,

891
01:04:10,035 --> 01:04:14,315
Speaker 1: but banning me from a television studio in the middle

892
01:04:14,315 --> 01:04:17,875
Speaker 1: of Bristol, Connecticut, that is itself a ten or twelve

893
01:04:17,875 --> 01:04:24,075
Speaker 1: minute drive from the nearest line highway line that is

894
01:04:24,195 --> 01:04:28,635
Speaker 1: wider than two lanes, what was the chance that I

895
01:04:28,715 --> 01:04:31,515
Speaker 1: was going to go there anyway? Did they think I

896
01:04:31,595 --> 01:04:34,835
Speaker 1: was going to stop by for some nostalgia. The only

897
01:04:34,915 --> 01:04:39,235
Speaker 1: time between nineteen ninety seven when I left ESPN and

898
01:04:39,635 --> 01:04:43,635
Speaker 1: went back to work there in two thousand and eighteen,

899
01:04:44,195 --> 01:04:48,835
Speaker 1: the only time I came within a fifteen minute drive

900
01:04:49,035 --> 01:04:51,115
Speaker 1: of actually getting to the campus from which I had

901
01:04:51,115 --> 01:04:53,715
Speaker 1: been banned. The only time was when I was being

902
01:04:53,955 --> 01:04:57,795
Speaker 1: chauffeured in a limo from Boston to New York for

903
01:04:57,955 --> 01:05:01,115
Speaker 1: Fox for a baseball broadcast in which I would be

904
01:05:01,355 --> 01:05:04,275
Speaker 1: in the dugout for Fox during the World Series. Because

905
01:05:04,395 --> 01:05:08,195
Speaker 1: my banishment from the ESPN campus had caused me such

906
01:05:08,835 --> 01:05:14,235
Speaker 1: professional collapse. Needless to say, my ban from the Bristol

907
01:05:14,275 --> 01:05:17,755
Speaker 1: campus was removed, and all of those problems, the nuclear

908
01:05:17,795 --> 01:05:20,315
Speaker 1: war was not only ended but paved over, and I

909
01:05:20,355 --> 01:05:22,755
Speaker 1: went back to work with The Dan Patrick Show in

910
01:05:22,795 --> 01:05:24,515
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, and then I went back to

911
01:05:24,555 --> 01:05:27,755
Speaker 1: work full time in twenty thirteen for ESPN, and it

912
01:05:27,795 --> 01:05:30,675
Speaker 1: turned out that the nuclear war and the forever wars

913
01:05:30,715 --> 01:05:34,875
Speaker 1: between Olderman and Bristol lasted sixteen years. In fact, I

914
01:05:34,915 --> 01:05:38,195
Speaker 1: went back to work for ESPN another time twenty eighteen,

915
01:05:38,475 --> 01:05:41,155
Speaker 1: and my most recent sports forays for the fan duel

916
01:05:41,195 --> 01:05:45,595
Speaker 1: sports network that's all run by three or four executives

917
01:05:45,635 --> 01:05:49,675
Speaker 1: who rehired me at ESPN twice. So that's how that

918
01:05:49,915 --> 01:05:53,995
Speaker 1: banishment ended. I think I have been banned from the

919
01:05:53,995 --> 01:05:57,435
Speaker 1: press box at Yankee Stadium at least when I'm not

920
01:05:57,635 --> 01:06:00,515
Speaker 1: on assignment from a network, and that's not likely to

921
01:06:00,555 --> 01:06:03,675
Speaker 1: happen again. I went back without incident a couple of times,

922
01:06:04,275 --> 01:06:06,315
Speaker 1: but when I have gone on to the field at

923
01:06:06,395 --> 01:06:11,115
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, there's been a guard standing behind home plate

924
01:06:11,155 --> 01:06:14,075
Speaker 1: who was only responsibility for that day was to make

925
01:06:14,115 --> 01:06:17,715
Speaker 1: sure I did not come near the Yankee dugout like

926
01:06:17,795 --> 01:06:21,115
Speaker 1: I was going to firebomb it or something. I don't

927
01:06:21,155 --> 01:06:23,035
Speaker 1: know what that was all about. I do know, and

928
01:06:23,115 --> 01:06:25,555
Speaker 1: I will tell you why they banned me, but I

929
01:06:25,595 --> 01:06:28,195
Speaker 1: do know that it was an incredible surprise to them

930
01:06:28,435 --> 01:06:31,235
Speaker 1: that after they banned me and stopped giving me sort

931
01:06:31,235 --> 01:06:34,755
Speaker 1: of courtesy credentials to the press box to just sit

932
01:06:34,835 --> 01:06:37,955
Speaker 1: there even when I wasn't on assignment for a particular game,

933
01:06:38,355 --> 01:06:41,355
Speaker 1: access to the field, when I wasn't working for ESPN

934
01:06:41,675 --> 01:06:47,395
Speaker 1: or NBC or Fox. That that was that preceded my

935
01:06:47,475 --> 01:06:50,275
Speaker 1: decision to stop buying season tickets at Yankee Stadium after

936
01:06:50,275 --> 01:06:52,875
Speaker 1: forty one years of my father and I buying season

937
01:06:52,875 --> 01:06:56,155
Speaker 1: tickets there, and they were surprised that I stopped spending it.

938
01:06:56,195 --> 01:06:59,315
Speaker 1: And this amount was in the six figures, and they

939
01:06:59,315 --> 01:07:01,635
Speaker 1: were shocked that I stopped buying the tickets. And for

940
01:07:02,515 --> 01:07:05,155
Speaker 1: eight or nine years after this, the Yankee He's kept

941
01:07:05,195 --> 01:07:09,235
Speaker 1: sending me letters and emails and phone calls. Hi, I'm

942
01:07:09,235 --> 01:07:11,595
Speaker 1: the new season ticket director. We know that you miss

943
01:07:11,635 --> 01:07:14,635
Speaker 1: your Yankee tickets. And I went, I'm not going back there.

944
01:07:14,795 --> 01:07:16,915
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go back there if you paid me to

945
01:07:16,995 --> 01:07:20,915
Speaker 1: sit there. And in fact, I have vowed and still

946
01:07:21,395 --> 01:07:24,995
Speaker 1: maintain that I will never walk into Yankee Stadium having

947
01:07:25,035 --> 01:07:28,475
Speaker 1: paid for the privilege of going in there again. You

948
01:07:28,515 --> 01:07:30,915
Speaker 1: pay me to go there, it's a job, I'll go

949
01:07:30,955 --> 01:07:34,795
Speaker 1: and do that. So what precipitated this was and I

950
01:07:34,875 --> 01:07:37,595
Speaker 1: need to set this up by saying I did indeed

951
01:07:38,035 --> 01:07:41,075
Speaker 1: take over the season tickets at Yankee Stadium from my dad,

952
01:07:41,115 --> 01:07:45,395
Speaker 1: mostly for my mom's edification in I think nineteen ninety three.

953
01:07:45,835 --> 01:07:48,755
Speaker 1: So I paid for the season tickets for thirty seasons

954
01:07:48,835 --> 01:07:52,035
Speaker 1: from when they were seventeen dollars a ticket to when

955
01:07:52,075 --> 01:07:54,915
Speaker 1: they were twenty five hundred dollars a ticket. Most of

956
01:07:54,955 --> 01:07:57,115
Speaker 1: those high end tickets went to the Make a Wish

957
01:07:57,155 --> 01:08:02,275
Speaker 1: Foundation and other charities. But that's the point. And one

958
01:08:02,355 --> 01:08:03,835
Speaker 1: of the things they used to have me do was

959
01:08:03,875 --> 01:08:06,515
Speaker 1: on Old Timer I used to assist the late great

960
01:08:06,515 --> 01:08:09,715
Speaker 1: announcer Bob Wolf, who would sit there during Old Timers

961
01:08:09,795 --> 01:08:12,155
Speaker 1: Day at Yankee Stadium when they bring back the old players,

962
01:08:12,595 --> 01:08:15,275
Speaker 1: and I would help him do the play by play

963
01:08:15,315 --> 01:08:17,355
Speaker 1: of the game. And it was a fun game just

964
01:08:17,395 --> 01:08:20,075
Speaker 1: to see the old timers pitch and swing and try

965
01:08:20,115 --> 01:08:22,515
Speaker 1: to run and hopefully not trip over the bag at

966
01:08:22,555 --> 01:08:25,995
Speaker 1: first base. And I was Bob's friend, and he relied

967
01:08:26,035 --> 01:08:28,355
Speaker 1: on me for things he couldn't see in the corners

968
01:08:28,355 --> 01:08:30,195
Speaker 1: in the outfield. And I did this for ten years

969
01:08:30,195 --> 01:08:33,155
Speaker 1: and it was great fun. Those were my Yankee players

970
01:08:33,155 --> 01:08:36,195
Speaker 1: and the guys I liked the most. And it's there's

971
01:08:36,235 --> 01:08:40,595
Speaker 1: no reason to be fanciful about this or to undersell it.

972
01:08:40,595 --> 01:08:43,115
Speaker 1: It's a hoot to get on the public address system

973
01:08:43,195 --> 01:08:46,995
Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium and talk to forty or fifty thousand people.

974
01:08:47,995 --> 01:08:50,875
Speaker 1: And one day the Yankees fired me from that job

975
01:08:51,035 --> 01:08:54,115
Speaker 1: by leaking that news to the New York Post. The

976
01:08:54,235 --> 01:08:56,915
Speaker 1: Yankees were mad at me because I had found a

977
01:08:56,995 --> 01:08:59,755
Speaker 1: guy sitting near me in the front row who was

978
01:08:59,915 --> 01:09:03,795
Speaker 1: signaling to Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees what the speed

979
01:09:03,915 --> 01:09:06,915
Speaker 1: and the nature of the preceding pitch had been, because

980
01:09:06,955 --> 01:09:09,995
Speaker 1: where he stood on the other side of me. This

981
01:09:10,035 --> 01:09:11,875
Speaker 1: guy was sitting on one side of me, and Alex

982
01:09:11,955 --> 01:09:14,115
Speaker 1: Rodriguez was standing in the on deck circle on the

983
01:09:14,155 --> 01:09:18,275
Speaker 1: other side of me. Almost a line bisecting this line

984
01:09:18,315 --> 01:09:22,115
Speaker 1: was my seat. He was telling Alex Rodriguez what that

985
01:09:22,235 --> 01:09:25,755
Speaker 1: last pitch was, because Alex Rodriguez, being perhaps the highest

986
01:09:25,755 --> 01:09:27,995
Speaker 1: paid player in baseball at the time, couldn't figure it

987
01:09:28,035 --> 01:09:31,715
Speaker 1: out on the field what that was and how fast

988
01:09:31,755 --> 01:09:34,315
Speaker 1: it was. And I took a picture of this and

989
01:09:34,395 --> 01:09:36,955
Speaker 1: published it, and it became a huge story, and the

990
01:09:37,035 --> 01:09:40,915
Speaker 1: Yankees literally got a handslap, and they assured me there'd

991
01:09:40,915 --> 01:09:44,835
Speaker 1: be no ramifications. And then right before Old Timer's Day

992
01:09:45,075 --> 01:09:49,355
Speaker 1: they dropped me as the Old Timer's Day color announcer

993
01:09:49,395 --> 01:09:52,955
Speaker 1: in the PA system. So, of course, not being one

994
01:09:52,995 --> 01:09:56,875
Speaker 1: who would leave well enough alone under any circumstances, when

995
01:09:57,075 --> 01:10:00,315
Speaker 1: the next Yankee controversy arose, and I still had a

996
01:10:00,395 --> 01:10:03,835
Speaker 1: column that appeared on the MLB website MLB dot com.

997
01:10:04,275 --> 01:10:07,075
Speaker 1: I meant mention that I didn't think Yankee management was

998
01:10:07,155 --> 01:10:09,195
Speaker 1: quite what it used to be. That when it was

999
01:10:09,235 --> 01:10:12,355
Speaker 1: my late friend George Steinbrenner running the place, there were

1000
01:10:12,435 --> 01:10:14,795
Speaker 1: lots of things wrong, and I like to point out

1001
01:10:14,795 --> 01:10:19,355
Speaker 1: what they were, but efficiency and fairly good management skills,

1002
01:10:19,395 --> 01:10:22,835
Speaker 1: and certainly an idea of when to stir the pot

1003
01:10:22,835 --> 01:10:25,435
Speaker 1: and when not to stir the pot that was pretty

1004
01:10:25,475 --> 01:10:30,195
Speaker 1: well done by George his son Hal. I wasn't sure

1005
01:10:30,355 --> 01:10:35,395
Speaker 1: that Hal Steinbrenner, as I said, was well. The phrasing

1006
01:10:35,595 --> 01:10:38,155
Speaker 1: was I'm going to need to see a paternity test.

1007
01:10:39,035 --> 01:10:43,155
Speaker 1: For some reason. The Yankees responded to this by banning

1008
01:10:43,195 --> 01:10:45,835
Speaker 1: me from the press box at Yankee Stadium, So there's

1009
01:10:45,875 --> 01:10:49,355
Speaker 1: that one. The Yankees then helped ban me from the

1010
01:10:49,435 --> 01:10:52,235
Speaker 1: MLB network when MLB Network offered me a job in

1011
01:10:52,275 --> 01:10:55,315
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, a story I've told here many times. They

1012
01:10:55,315 --> 01:10:57,715
Speaker 1: were going to give me a show, and then the

1013
01:10:57,795 --> 01:11:00,035
Speaker 1: Yankees found out about it, and the message, as I

1014
01:11:00,115 --> 01:11:02,715
Speaker 1: understood it, was, if you even talked to him further

1015
01:11:02,795 --> 01:11:06,435
Speaker 1: about this, we will shut off all the MLB network

1016
01:11:06,435 --> 01:11:09,675
Speaker 1: equipment in Yankee Stadium and we will not help fund

1017
01:11:09,755 --> 01:11:12,435
Speaker 1: the network any further so that when my agent got

1018
01:11:12,435 --> 01:11:15,635
Speaker 1: on the phone with the president of MLB Network, who

1019
01:11:15,675 --> 01:11:17,675
Speaker 1: is going to make the offer? When he said and so,

1020
01:11:17,715 --> 01:11:22,675
Speaker 1: how about Keith, the guy literally went silent, not I

1021
01:11:22,715 --> 01:11:25,395
Speaker 1: can't talk about it, Not we have to withdraw the offer.

1022
01:11:25,635 --> 01:11:27,875
Speaker 1: He literally did what the Yankees told him to do,

1023
01:11:28,075 --> 01:11:31,035
Speaker 1: to do, do not talk about this again. He took

1024
01:11:31,075 --> 01:11:34,035
Speaker 1: it perhaps a little too literally. So I got banned

1025
01:11:34,035 --> 01:11:37,755
Speaker 1: from MLB Network, which is kind of unfortunate for one

1026
01:11:37,795 --> 01:11:41,515
Speaker 1: reason only, which is that MLB Network is although they

1027
01:11:41,555 --> 01:11:44,995
Speaker 1: will be moving apparently, MLB Network is located in what

1028
01:11:45,275 --> 01:11:48,835
Speaker 1: was the original MSNBC studio, So going back there was

1029
01:11:48,875 --> 01:11:52,275
Speaker 1: always like this time travel thing, because everything was the

1030
01:11:52,355 --> 01:11:55,955
Speaker 1: same except the eighty or ninety million dollars they spent

1031
01:11:55,995 --> 01:11:58,435
Speaker 1: on improving the studios and the control rooms, all the

1032
01:11:58,475 --> 01:12:00,715
Speaker 1: technical guts of the place they spent money on that.

1033
01:12:01,075 --> 01:12:05,275
Speaker 1: They literally did not change the signs on the backs

1034
01:12:05,635 --> 01:12:09,115
Speaker 1: of the bathroom doors that told you what number to

1035
01:12:09,195 --> 01:12:13,275
Speaker 1: call in case the john overflowed. All they did was

1036
01:12:13,395 --> 01:12:16,795
Speaker 1: changed the extension, and they did this by taping a

1037
01:12:16,835 --> 01:12:20,515
Speaker 1: piece of paper with the new number over the actual plaque.

1038
01:12:20,555 --> 01:12:23,115
Speaker 1: They did not spend the three dollars on the plaque.

1039
01:12:23,515 --> 01:12:26,235
Speaker 1: I always found this entertaining, and the whole experience was

1040
01:12:26,475 --> 01:12:29,235
Speaker 1: like having a dream about your childhood home, and everything

1041
01:12:29,315 --> 01:12:33,675
Speaker 1: is exactly the same, down to each creak of each floorboard,

1042
01:12:34,035 --> 01:12:35,835
Speaker 1: except for the fact that in the middle of your

1043
01:12:35,875 --> 01:12:38,995
Speaker 1: living room there's a nuclear reactor that you never noticed before.

1044
01:12:39,435 --> 01:12:42,395
Speaker 1: Now I can't go there anymore because the Yankees banned

1045
01:12:42,435 --> 01:12:47,155
Speaker 1: me from MLB network. Similarly, I believe I've been banned

1046
01:12:47,195 --> 01:12:50,675
Speaker 1: by MSNBC. If they haven't banned me, they can give

1047
01:12:50,715 --> 01:12:53,035
Speaker 1: me a buzz. We could stop by and maybe, you know,

1048
01:12:53,475 --> 01:12:57,075
Speaker 1: join forces, which is what I would do if I

1049
01:12:57,275 --> 01:13:00,915
Speaker 1: was in the business of being anti Trump and there

1050
01:13:01,075 --> 01:13:04,075
Speaker 1: was an anti Trump asset out there who was familiar

1051
01:13:04,155 --> 01:13:07,755
Speaker 1: to my audiodians, who was willing to not even address

1052
01:13:07,795 --> 01:13:10,675
Speaker 1: the subject of bygones be bygones, but just ignore them

1053
01:13:10,755 --> 01:13:13,715
Speaker 1: because we have a bigger mutual enemy. You know, the

1054
01:13:13,755 --> 01:13:17,195
Speaker 1: Americans and the Soviet Union were allies during the Second

1055
01:13:17,235 --> 01:13:19,155
Speaker 1: World War, and then as soon as that was over,

1056
01:13:19,315 --> 01:13:21,795
Speaker 1: they went back to threatening to blow each other and

1057
01:13:21,915 --> 01:13:24,435
Speaker 1: the world to bits. I think that could be the

1058
01:13:24,475 --> 01:13:28,835
Speaker 1: relationship with MSNBC. But I've been banned by them. I

1059
01:13:28,955 --> 01:13:32,115
Speaker 1: may have been banned by CNN. Jeff Zucker insisted I

1060
01:13:32,235 --> 01:13:35,835
Speaker 1: was banned as a possible host, but not as a guest.

1061
01:13:36,315 --> 01:13:40,075
Speaker 1: But I was in fact booked and then canceled by

1062
01:13:40,115 --> 01:13:43,355
Speaker 1: a CNN show several years ago so that I might

1063
01:13:43,395 --> 01:13:46,435
Speaker 1: be banned by CNN. I know I've been banned by

1064
01:13:46,475 --> 01:13:49,515
Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert because I caught Stephen Colbert, who is a

1065
01:13:49,635 --> 01:13:55,675
Speaker 1: reprehensible human being, hiding behind a smile. Stephen Colbert changed,

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Speaker 1: or had somebody change or somebody in management changed the

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Speaker 1: introduction to a pre taped bit that I did for

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Speaker 1: him that wasn't fun. But I came over in the

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Speaker 1: morning and did this bit for him, and he changed

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Speaker 1: the intro. The intro that I heard as he introduced

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Speaker 1: me was, here's the man who's had more jobs than

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Speaker 1: you've had hot dinners. Keith Olderman and I played some

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01:14:17,875 --> 01:14:20,155
Speaker 1: sort of stupid game that they pre taped in the morning.

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Speaker 1: When I saw it on the air that night, the

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01:14:21,875 --> 01:14:24,955
Speaker 1: introduction was, here's a man who's been fired or suspended

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01:14:25,075 --> 01:14:27,395
Speaker 1: or thrown out of more jobs and you've had hot dinners.

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Speaker 1: They changed it, and they changed it after I left

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Speaker 1: the building, and I called him a weasel, and I

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01:14:32,955 --> 01:14:35,915
Speaker 1: called him a weasel in public places, and then that

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01:14:36,155 --> 01:14:38,995
Speaker 1: was the end of my Stephen Colbert career, which, by

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01:14:39,035 --> 01:14:42,875
Speaker 1: the way, I wasn't going to go back anyway. I

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01:14:42,915 --> 01:14:46,195
Speaker 1: assume I have been banned by Madison Square Garden. I

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01:14:46,275 --> 01:14:49,835
Speaker 1: have hit up the owner of the New York Nixon Rangers,

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01:14:49,875 --> 01:14:54,715
Speaker 1: the trumpist James Dolan, several times for being generally a

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01:14:54,755 --> 01:14:58,955
Speaker 1: slob and a guy who delights in humiliating the people

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01:14:58,955 --> 01:15:05,115
Speaker 1: who pay his team's salaries, the customers. Ironic that because

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Speaker 1: it was his brother who with whom I worked at

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01:15:07,395 --> 01:15:10,355
Speaker 1: CNN for many years, Pat Dolan, who was then in

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01:15:10,475 --> 01:15:13,075
Speaker 1: charge now of Cable Town or whatever it is that

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01:15:13,155 --> 01:15:15,475
Speaker 1: they owned and made all their money off of because

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01:15:15,555 --> 01:15:18,675
Speaker 1: they were in this unprofitable business when it suddenly became

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01:15:18,755 --> 01:15:21,955
Speaker 1: the only thing in town. Now that's my history, and

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01:15:21,995 --> 01:15:25,075
Speaker 1: it's obviously twenty five minutes worth of history. I've been

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01:15:25,115 --> 01:15:28,275
Speaker 1: banned a lot, that's me. But I will say this,

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Speaker 1: for all the banning that has happened to me, I

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01:15:31,875 --> 01:15:36,755
Speaker 1: need you to know this is true. I know a newscaster,

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Speaker 1: a late newscaster with whom I worked early in my career,

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Speaker 1: who was banned from going into the state of Maryland. Later,

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Speaker 1: when I went into television, I discovered a sportscaster who

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Speaker 1: was also banned from going into the state of Maryland.

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Speaker 1: And the punchline to this is the two men unrelated

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Speaker 1: both had the same name. I don't mean they both

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01:16:03,715 --> 01:16:05,795
Speaker 1: had the same first name. I mean they had the

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01:16:05,835 --> 01:16:09,675
Speaker 1: same professional name. One was the newscaster or such and such,

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01:16:09,795 --> 01:16:12,555
Speaker 1: and the other was the sportscaster such and such. So

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Speaker 1: I believe the state of Maryland has some sort of

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01:16:14,955 --> 01:16:19,075
Speaker 1: law making it illegal for people with that name to

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01:16:19,315 --> 01:16:34,115
Speaker 1: enter the state. Now that's being banned, I've done all

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

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01:16:36,755 --> 01:16:39,715
Speaker 1: and for not banning me. The Clippers one is still

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01:16:39,755 --> 01:16:42,515
Speaker 1: the best. Oh No, I can't go to see the

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01:16:42,555 --> 01:16:47,595
Speaker 1: worst team in professional sports. What will I do? I

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01:16:47,635 --> 01:16:49,955
Speaker 1: had never gone to any of their games or practices.

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01:16:50,075 --> 01:16:52,195
Speaker 1: Who would go to see their practice other than to

1115
01:16:52,235 --> 01:16:58,355
Speaker 1: try to confirm this team practices practice? We're talking about practice.

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01:16:58,555 --> 01:17:01,035
Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel, the musical directors have

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01:17:01,115 --> 01:17:04,995
Speaker 1: countdown who barely need practice. Arrange produced and performed most

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01:17:04,995 --> 01:17:08,715
Speaker 1: of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister

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01:17:08,795 --> 01:17:11,355
Speaker 1: Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. He did

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Speaker 1: all his practicing when he was a kid. It was

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01:17:13,795 --> 01:17:17,555
Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical comments

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01:17:17,715 --> 01:17:21,315
Speaker 1: are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust.

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01:17:22,235 --> 01:17:25,515
Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two,

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01:17:25,555 --> 01:17:28,635
Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis and courtesy of ESPN, Inc.

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Speaker 1: From whose campus I am not banned other music, Well,

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01:17:32,955 --> 01:17:35,555
Speaker 1: I better check that other music arranged and performed by

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01:17:35,555 --> 01:17:38,315
Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my

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Speaker 1: friend from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and Airplane

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01:17:41,835 --> 01:17:48,275
Speaker 1: Jonathan Banks. Everything else was as ever my band self fault.

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Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, Just three hundred and seventy one

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Speaker 1: days until the scheduled end of his lane duck and

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01:17:55,115 --> 01:17:58,715
Speaker 1: lame brained term, unless Musk removes him sooner, or the

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01:17:58,755 --> 01:18:03,275
Speaker 1: actuarial tables do, or Lisa Murkowski does. I'm telling a

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Speaker 1: senator the world is in your hands. The next scheduled

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Speaker 1: countdown is Thursday. If I don't break anything else or

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01:18:10,835 --> 01:18:14,395
Speaker 1: get sick again. As always bulletins, as the news warrants,

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01:18:14,635 --> 01:18:17,675
Speaker 1: remember impeach Trump. It will not work now, it will

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01:18:17,715 --> 01:18:20,835
Speaker 1: win the Democrats the midterms, and I want polling right

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Speaker 1: now on a presidential recall vote, just to see how

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Speaker 1: pissed off everybody really is. Until next time, I'm Keith Olrimman.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck Ted. Stevie.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to treat? Do you want to treat?

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01:18:54,955 --> 01:18:57,515
Speaker 1: Tell me? Do you want to treat? Yes or no?

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01:18:58,315 --> 01:19:01,915
Speaker 1: Do you want to treat? Thank you Rose? Do you

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01:19:01,955 --> 01:19:02,755
Speaker 1: want to treat.

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Speaker 6: Kit? Oh?

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01:19:05,235 --> 01:19:06,475
Speaker 1: Kitty Kit? Do you want to treat?

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Speaker 6: Kit?

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Speaker 1: Doesn't know how to bark? Hit for treats, Stevie, Stevie does. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna stop recording now you can stop barking. Countdown

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Speaker 1: with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more

1152
01:19:23,635 --> 01:19:28,595
Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or

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01:19:28,635 --> 01:19:30,475
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts