Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Musk
Speaker 1: has attacked Trump. Musk had already ghosted Trump. Now Musk
Speaker 1: is attacking Trump. At this point it is still passive aggressive,
Speaker 1: but it is unmistakable an attack by Musk on Trump.
Speaker 1: How is that possible? Who could have ever foreseen that?
Speaker 1: Relying on a chemicaled up, psychologically impaired, persistently overpromising, compulsive
Speaker 1: sperm donor who may have been the victim of a
Speaker 1: botched penile implant. Who could have ever foreseen that could
Speaker 1: be a bad thing? But he's exactly like my oldest son.
Speaker 1: Musk has ghosted Trump. More importantly, Musk's money is going
Speaker 1: to ghost Trump and bluntly, without Musk's money two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five million dollars in the election, thank you
Speaker 1: Citizens United and Floyd Abrams. Without Musk's money and musks
Speaker 1: tech bro vote and musks we'll be on maus next
Speaker 1: week vote and Musk's white supremacist apartheid vote, Trump probably loses.
Speaker 1: Musk has ghosted Trump and is starting to attack Trump,
Speaker 1: and Trump can't say a word because unless Musk bank
Speaker 1: rolls it, Trump will not be able to subvert the
Speaker 1: Constitution and run for a third term. And unless Musk
Speaker 1: bank rolls it, a Trump successor will never get off
Speaker 1: the ground. And unless Musk bank rolls it, the Republicans
Speaker 1: will lose the House next year and maybe the Senate too.
Speaker 1: All Trump has been able to do thus far is
Speaker 1: the really sad site of publishing without comment. A screenshot
Speaker 1: of a Musk tweet thanking and praising Trump, and the
Speaker 1: tweet is from May twenty eighth. Musk's response was to
Speaker 1: pin to his feed a tweet from an expert. It's
Speaker 1: from a woman in Vegas who shows herself in a
Speaker 1: string bikini grilling burgers. So next Trump Supreme Court justice nominee.
Speaker 1: It encourages conservatives to go to the comment sections at
Speaker 1: Fox News and quoting this magic chef. Almost every comment
Speaker 1: is in agreement with Elon. To see so many vehemently
Speaker 1: disagreeing with Trump is wild. Then there are screenshots, screenshots
Speaker 1: of comments, not burgers or buns. It is a passive
Speaker 1: aggressive attack on Trump by Musk. Ya a second party
Speaker 1: with burgers and buns and screenshots. But make no mistake,
Speaker 1: it's an attack and this is the best part. Trump
Speaker 1: cannot trash Musk in return as much as he wants to,
Speaker 1: no doubt, as much as Musk attacks the House for
Speaker 1: Trump's budget bill and it's two point four trillion dollar
Speaker 1: add to the deficit without mentioning Trump, even though it's
Speaker 1: Trump's bill and those idiots in the House like Mike
Speaker 1: Johnson are just Trump's slaves, as much as Musk is
Speaker 1: still protecting Trump from himself. In this manner, Trump has
Speaker 1: to do the most difficult thing in the world for him.
Speaker 1: Shut himself up, keep his mouth closed and his fingers
Speaker 1: off the phone. Trump may yet snap, he may lash
Speaker 1: out at Musk. Lord knows, there's never been anybody else
Speaker 1: Trump has ever been betrayed by, or even insufficiently supported by,
Speaker 1: that he hasn't lashed out at. But strategically, the entirety
Speaker 1: of Trump World has got to be focusing itself on
Speaker 1: pouring fresh buckets of ice water over Trump every twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: because if he comes back at Musk, Maga is suddenly broke.
Speaker 1: Trump is already facing Musk's Trumpean barrage of tweets the
Speaker 1: other night, thirteen of them, about as many yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 1: demanding that America vote out all the congressmen who voted
Speaker 1: for the budget bill, and guess who they are. They're Republicans.
Speaker 1: Shame on those who voted for it. You know you
Speaker 1: did wrong. Fire all politicians who betrayed the American people,
Speaker 1: and the memes of kill the bill. Despite what The
Speaker 1: New York Times posited the other night, the Democrats don't
Speaker 1: have to consider taking Musk back, whatever that means. Musk
Speaker 1: just did all we could ever ask for him. He
Speaker 1: just endorsed every Democratic congressional candidate, and before that, he
Speaker 1: endorsed every potential primary of every sitting Republican house member.
Speaker 1: And we haven't even gotten to the Senate yet. Musk
Speaker 1: just this week doubled the cost of electing Republicans next
Speaker 1: year and shut off his own money spigot. And if
Speaker 1: you're wondering about the principles involved, these are not complex
Speaker 1: matters of finance or deficit as a percentage of GDP,
Speaker 1: or the sustainability of the debt sealing system. It's simple.
Speaker 1: The rich, and especially the especially rich, all eventually see
Speaker 1: their lives ruined by the same monomania. The more money
Speaker 1: they make, the more time they waste, and the more
Speaker 1: pain they feel at having to give any of that
Speaker 1: money to anybody else, especially as part of taxes, especially
Speaker 1: as part of some kind of responsibility delio about mankind,
Speaker 1: where mankind asks for like a dollar dollar back for
Speaker 1: every million, these guys get to keep money. It's all
Speaker 1: Musk is, it's all Trump is, it's all Scott besson is,
Speaker 1: It's all all of them are. This is about them
Speaker 1: paying less taxes because at trillion dollars is not going
Speaker 1: as far as it used to anyway. Thanks ghosting, Elmo,
Speaker 1: Thanks passive aggressive Elmo for kneeing Trump in the groin.
Speaker 1: And we will get back to you if we need
Speaker 1: you at any of the Democratic events. Who in the
Speaker 1: hell am I kidding? Musk has also and more obviously
Speaker 1: ghosted the Republican Party in whole, especially the House Republicans.
Speaker 1: But the real issue is Trump who. And remember the
Speaker 1: quote is in the Wall Street Journal from the very
Speaker 1: same White House officials who got Trump to chase Musk
Speaker 1: out in the first place. Trump, who finally realized the
Speaker 1: eleven dy trillion in cuts Musk promise was another one
Speaker 1: of Musk's hallucinations, his most vivid fantasies from his most
Speaker 1: profound fugue states. Trump finally asked was it all bullshit?
Speaker 1: Oh my yes, you mean even you were too disconnected
Speaker 1: to realize it was all bullshit, that it was bullshit,
Speaker 1: that it was all bullshit, that everything Musk says is bullshit.
Speaker 1: The new reporting on this is limited and controlled. The
Speaker 1: leak to its stenographer at Politico, dash of Burns is quote,
Speaker 1: the West Wing is perplexed, unenthused, and disappointed. You bet
Speaker 1: your ass and over on Capitol Hill. Why Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: is in shock that Lyle Lanley didn't return his calls
Speaker 1: about the new Springfield mono rail. Well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: I called Elon last night and then answered it. But
Speaker 2: I hope to talk to him today. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: not you know, it's very friendly and we and we've
Speaker 2: laughed about our differences on policy before we'll disclosure. Elan
Speaker 2: and I had a great conversation about a half hour
Speaker 2: long talk on Monday this week, Monday morning, and we
Speaker 2: talked about the big Beautiful bill because he made he
Speaker 2: I think he was trying to make a joke a
Speaker 2: couple of days earlier. It can't be big and beautiful,
Speaker 2: And I started the conversation, Oh yes it can, my friend,
Speaker 2: It's very beautiful. I talked to President Trump, you know,
Speaker 2: all the time, multiple times a day. Obviously we've talked
Speaker 2: about this. He's as you know, he's not He's not
Speaker 2: delighted that Elon did a one to eighty on that.
Speaker 2: But look, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3: In twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Everybody can draw their own conclusions about that, okay, But
Speaker 2: I look forward to talking to my friend about it again,
Speaker 2: and I'm not upset about it.
Speaker 1: All right, Mike, you fed up, you trusted musk. By
Speaker 1: the way, Mike Johnson talks and sounds like a guy
Speaker 1: who should be saying, well, traffic is backed up throughout
Speaker 1: the corridor after that explosion at the rhubarb factory. Now
Speaker 1: here are the Statler brothers. And I love the Statler brothers.
Speaker 1: Got then, King, don't tell me some other headlines. Trump
Speaker 1: says he's talked to Putin for ninety minutes, largely about Ukraine,
Speaker 1: says Putin has says he will now have to avenge
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian tax on air bases in Russia. Oh no,
Speaker 1: what's he gonna do, Donnie start bombing Ukrainian civilians. Trump
Speaker 1: is an utter fool, a Russian simp. Never mind whether
Speaker 1: Putin or Zelenski wants peace. If Trump wanted peace, he
Speaker 1: should be right now congratulating Ukraine on the best incursion
Speaker 1: into Russias Napoleon reached Moscow. He should be saying, Look,
Speaker 1: if Russia wants peace, this is simple. Remove Putin. Trump
Speaker 1: has also attacked Columbia University again. Do you see what
Speaker 1: happens when you try to appease He is now trying
Speaker 1: to get its accreditation removed, alleging discriminatory admission policies, trying
Speaker 1: to turn it into not a university. It is not
Speaker 1: too late, Claire, kill your deal. Sue him for one
Speaker 1: hundred trillion dollars. Carl Harvard, Trump's guy in charge of
Speaker 1: pardoning those who tried to overthrow democracy for him, has
Speaker 1: a new target. He wants to pardon the fake electors.
Speaker 1: The written analysis of the May Outlook for US agricultural
Speaker 1: trade from the US Department of Agriculture was ready to
Speaker 1: go on May twenty ninth, but it predicted an increase
Speaker 1: in the nation's farm goods trade deficit to a record
Speaker 1: no last forty nine billion. We can't have that, so
Speaker 1: Trump didn't release the written part. A redacted version was
Speaker 1: released Monday, of this week, no written part, the part
Speaker 1: with the trade deficit still has not been released because,
Speaker 1: says a USDA spokesman, it's undergoing internal review by Winston Smith,
Speaker 1: you know six zero seven nine Smith w at the
Speaker 1: Ministry of Truth. Smith six oh seven nine will also
Speaker 1: be looking at the Florida meteorologists who apologize to his
Speaker 1: viewers the other day because he would not be able
Speaker 1: to warn them anymore about hurricanes because the government isn't
Speaker 1: telling anybody what it knows about hurricanes. So good luck
Speaker 1: Florida and the Office of Management and Budget. Where the
Speaker 1: evil moron behind Project twenty twenty five, the ironically named
Speaker 1: RUSS Vote high. It is boasting on social media about
Speaker 1: the money it has cut from PBS and you know,
Speaker 1: keeping American kids from starving and quote four million dollars
Speaker 1: saved for Lagome Systems research. It helpfully attached a photo
Speaker 1: of six or seven types of legomes beans Legome Systems research. Oh,
Speaker 1: what's that sounds French? It's how to breed healthier and
Speaker 1: more durable beans and other innovations and also improving upon
Speaker 1: some past innovations like from seven thousand years ago. One
Speaker 1: of them was called corrop rotation. We are deliberately destroying
Speaker 1: knowledge so that Trump will not be so stupid compared
Speaker 1: to everybody else. And by the way, he is complaining
Speaker 1: now internally according to several reports about a the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court justice, he does not like who he thinks is weak,
Speaker 1: thinks is not upholding his agenda. Catanji Brown, Jackson, so
Speaker 1: tom Ore, Noop, Amy Coney, Barrett, Okay, who's gonna break
Speaker 1: it to him now? Story time, Nearly four decades ago,
Speaker 1: I was preparing to get back into television after a
Speaker 1: long hiatus taking care of my family. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: leave the details of this out, which is too bad
Speaker 1: in one way, because my gratitude to the news director
Speaker 1: who took a chance on me all those years ago
Speaker 1: is endless and boundless, and I always think of him
Speaker 1: at this time of the year because it happened at
Speaker 1: this time of year. But there was one drawback to
Speaker 1: the job, and it is relevant to our current political system.
Speaker 1: The one drawback was hinted at to me by members
Speaker 1: of the sports department at this TV station long before
Speaker 1: I even signed the contract. The station had another sportscaster
Speaker 1: he did the weekends, who's described to me not just
Speaker 1: as the dumbest person any of them there had ever met,
Speaker 1: but very possibly the dumbest person who had ever lived.
Speaker 1: We eventually fired him after he mispronounced the same hockey
Speaker 1: name thirty one weeks in a row. Then after he
Speaker 1: tried to sneak some woman into a team's press box
Speaker 1: and decided the best place to stash her was the
Speaker 1: seat that in fact belonged to the general manager of
Speaker 1: that team, And they then refused to give him any
Speaker 1: more press credentials. And I believe the last I heard
Speaker 1: he had not worked in sports television since. And this
Speaker 1: was like, well again, like four decades ago. He was
Speaker 1: offered another job. I know that after about two years
Speaker 1: of unemployment, a good one, working with a guy who
Speaker 1: did a national sports cast. But the story I heard
Speaker 1: was as they were about to draw up the contract
Speaker 1: and they were congratulating him on getting the job. He
Speaker 1: had a good voice, and he looked like a Greek god,
Speaker 1: and he fits suits really well. He said, oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, I never fly business class. It has to
Speaker 1: be first. And they said, well, the guy who does
Speaker 1: this national sports cast you'll be working with, he doesn't
Speaker 1: even fly first. And this guy shrugged and I guess
Speaker 1: he's somewhere now, still waiting for them to send him
Speaker 1: the contract with the first class airfare guarantee in it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the point he was on the air one night with
Speaker 1: the fellow who preceded me as the sports director of
Speaker 1: this station, and my predecessor was live from Chicago, and
Speaker 1: as they wrapped up the segment, the dumb guy asks
Speaker 1: my predecessor, by the way, do you have a good
Speaker 1: view of the ocean from your hotel. My predecessor realizes
Speaker 1: he's not joking, he's serious, and he looks at him
Speaker 1: like huh, And finally he says, oh, the lake, Lake Michigan.
Speaker 1: You mean, do I have a good view of the
Speaker 1: lake from my hotel? And the guy back in the studio,
Speaker 1: the dumb one says, yeah, the ocean, Lake Michigan. Ocean,
Speaker 1: Lake Michigan. I mention him, and I'm going to pretend
Speaker 1: I've forgotten his name, even though when we fired him,
Speaker 1: the entire sports department came in to the office, many
Speaker 1: of them on their nights off, for a party highlighted
Speaker 1: by the moment at which we went outside and painted
Speaker 1: over his name on his parking spot, and a mighty
Speaker 1: roar went up from the crowd, and I mention him
Speaker 1: at length because every time I read another story about
Speaker 1: Trump and this group of absolute idiots he has picked
Speaker 1: to run this country into the ground, I think of
Speaker 1: that weekend sportscaster, and I keep waiting to hear he's
Speaker 1: been nominated as Secretary of Geography or the head of
Speaker 1: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that isn't supplying the
Speaker 1: hurricane reports anymore, or he's been elected senator from somewhere,
Speaker 1: because these people may actually be dumber than he was.
Speaker 1: What you will hear first is Senator Mark Wayne Mullen
Speaker 1: of Oklahoma. Mark Wayne one word dropped out of Missouri
Speaker 1: Valley College, but later got an associate degree in construction
Speaker 1: technology from Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. And I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to demean construction. My dad's architectural career was
Speaker 1: intertwined with it. But that's that's some academic resume item
Speaker 1: for a guy who you will hear trying to complain
Speaker 1: to the Secretary of Lack of Education Linda McMahon about
Speaker 1: how academic standards have fallen in this country, but doesn't
Speaker 1: know the difference between the words was and were twice,
Speaker 1: He shows he does not know the difference between was
Speaker 1: and were. What was we ranked in reading and math
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: What what was we ranked nationally in math and in
Speaker 1: reading in nineteen seventy nine?
Speaker 3: We were very very low on the totem pole.
Speaker 1: We're number one in nineteen seventy nine? What was we ranked? Senator?
Speaker 1: If you wanted to emphasize educational deterioration, you could have
Speaker 1: just held up a picture of yourself. If you notice,
Speaker 1: he also got the word nationally wrong, he meant internationally.
Speaker 1: Doesn't know the difference, Mark Queen. The look on the
Speaker 1: face of Linda McMahon, who infamously said that the acronym
Speaker 1: for artificial intelligence was pronounced A one. That look was
Speaker 1: almost ineffable. It may have been produced by her realization that,
Speaker 1: for the first time ever, she was not the stupidest
Speaker 1: person in the room. After Senator, associate degree in construction Tech,
Speaker 1: I give you the endless fountain of stupidity and falsehoods.
Speaker 1: That is the press secretary with the word lie contained
Speaker 1: in both her first and last names. The centerfielder from
Speaker 1: a Division three softball program, Caroline Levitt.
Speaker 4: President Chump sounded the alarm over these reckless Biden policies
Speaker 4: for years. Law and order is back in America under
Speaker 4: President Chump. For example, just before Congress enacted the original
Speaker 4: Chump tax cut.
Speaker 1: You heard it, President Chump. I'll play it again in
Speaker 1: a moment, President Chump. Caroline Levitt is not only an
Speaker 1: amazing perpetual motion lying machine, she's rapidly also turning into
Speaker 1: a mispronunciation machine. Let's listen again to it, and then
Speaker 1: connected to her greatest mispronunciation hit when she mispronounced the
Speaker 1: name of Hitler.
Speaker 4: Chump tax cuts at the end of twenty seventeen, Adolf Hilter.
Speaker 1: What was we ranked nationally in ed ucation? Caroline? Is
Speaker 1: it okay if we all compare Chump to Hilter? What
Speaker 1: was the Harry Potter premise where they turned all of
Speaker 1: the people in charge of the government into the stupidest
Speaker 1: people in the world and they all destroyed the government
Speaker 1: by being stupid. But this required, of course, wizards and wands,
Speaker 1: And we don't need wizards and wands. We just find
Speaker 1: the stupidest people in the world and put them in charge.
Speaker 1: But the truth leaks out around the corners President jump,
Speaker 1: do you have a good view of the ocean. Also
Speaker 1: of interest, here the beat goes on. A Fox News
Speaker 1: expert says, the real story in Trump's post about Biden
Speaker 1: being clone executed and turned into a robot is that
Speaker 1: it raises the possibility that during the last administration, the
Speaker 1: nation was run by a cable of unelected officials. You
Speaker 1: heard me, she said, cable that's next. This is Countdown,
Speaker 1: George Carolin. The pleasure to have you here. Thank you.
Speaker 1: This is the best news show ever. I toilet to
Speaker 1: one of your producers, and I want you to know
Speaker 1: that I've seen them all and it's just for especially
Speaker 1: the first thirty five minutes. Thank you. It's just unparalleled.
Speaker 1: I got bad news between you and I. We got
Speaker 1: six minutes to completely screw that in my back. Yeah
Speaker 1: that is good. Hey, if he said that about you
Speaker 1: and your newscast, you'd keep playing it too. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: keeps me going. Doing this podcast is often like gargling,
Speaker 1: flaming chainsaws, indulgement sail ahead on this edition of Countdown.
Speaker 1: I was telling somebody the other day that I think
Speaker 1: I have now met every kind of crazy person in
Speaker 1: media management. I met the drunk who came back from
Speaker 1: lunch drunk one day and drunk fired me, mostly because
Speaker 1: I was twenty one and I wasn't drunk, and they
Speaker 1: wound up reprimanding him for being drunk and apologizing to me.
Speaker 1: I turned down a job with an executive from Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden, who then decided to try to talk me
Speaker 1: out of turning the job down by calling me up
Speaker 1: at my home and swearing at me and threatening me.
Speaker 1: He thought this would encourage me to go work for him.
Speaker 1: But the weirdest of them all, I have decided as
Speaker 1: I approached my half century mark in this business, was
Speaker 1: the head of MSNBC, and he reached his weirdness apex
Speaker 1: twenty one years ago tomorrow, when he wanted to postpone
Speaker 1: the news so he could do an anniversary feature he
Speaker 1: had worked on all week the news he wished to
Speaker 1: postpone that Ronald Reagan had just died. Can't we talk
Speaker 1: about it later? Next? In Things I promised not to tell,
Speaker 1: And this was the guy who chased me around the
Speaker 1: studios one day and threatened to kill me. That wasn't
Speaker 1: nearly as weird as this day, the anniversary of which
Speaker 1: is tomorrow first, believe it or not, there's still more
Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the mis grants,
Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other
Speaker 1: worst persons in the world The Bronze. Stephen Chung, Trump
Speaker 1: spokesman and resident center of the lowest bar in spokesperson history. Honestly,
Speaker 1: sometimes I think he's a plant. I don't mean a
Speaker 1: Democratic plant. He was planted by Democrats. I sometimes think
Speaker 1: he's a house plant. Chung reposted a viral clip and
Speaker 1: added to it quote must watch. Don't believe the legacy
Speaker 1: media's biased reporting. Americans overwhelmingly support Trump's agenda. The viral
Speaker 1: clip that Chung tweeted to prove that the legacy media
Speaker 1: was biased in its reporting, and you should never listen
Speaker 1: to the legacy media. And the legacy media is biased.
Speaker 1: So don't ever believe a word you see on the
Speaker 1: legacy media. Don't ever do it. It's the legacy media
Speaker 1: there against Trump. The clip he sent it was a
Speaker 1: segment from CNN, which the last time I checked was
Speaker 1: legacy media, even though its legacy is kind of dying.
Speaker 1: The runner up a tie between former New Hampshire Governor
Speaker 1: Chris Sanunu, A Putts, and Abby Phillip, the CNN host
Speaker 1: of the new show Let's Let Republicans Lie for an
Speaker 1: hour hour with Abby Philip, She is now in her
Speaker 1: third year of being in totally over her head. In
Speaker 1: a segment about Trump's insane post in which it was
Speaker 1: clear he was saying Biden had been cloned, then executed,
Speaker 1: then replaced by a robot. In twenty twenty, Sununu, who's
Speaker 1: a Potts, incidentally said that everybody is to blame in
Speaker 1: this and the Democrats boost conspiracy theories to and Abby Phillip,
Speaker 1: who is down to ninety eight thousand viewers in the
Speaker 1: ad demo, then read a tweet by Trump claiming the
Speaker 1: Fake News had photoshopped a photo and thus claimed there
Speaker 1: was a fake Milania or a Milania double or something.
Speaker 1: So it's all the same. Two notes. Who photoshopped the
Speaker 1: photo of Milania? Abby? Was that Biden who did that?
Speaker 1: Or Kamala or somebody who worked for them, or the
Speaker 1: Democratic National Committee or the head of some housecroup that
Speaker 1: belongs to the Democrats, or with some random account on
Speaker 1: Twitter or on truth social that Trump found. You're using
Speaker 1: Trump's evidence to support Trump's bullshit argument. The ninety eight
Speaker 1: thousand Demo viewers is actually a shock because it's so high.
Speaker 1: The second note, even Trump wasn't saying the Democrats had
Speaker 1: done this. He said the News had done this. You
Speaker 1: as assumed it has something to do with the Democrats, abbey.
Speaker 1: The Democrats don't own the News. And you know how
Speaker 1: we know that because if the Democrats owned the News,
Speaker 1: or if Democrats or liberals owned CNN, they would have
Speaker 1: gotten rid of Abby Phillip by now, and certainly the
Speaker 1: asshole Scott Jennings would be back doing whatever he used
Speaker 1: to do, full time cooking fahdas somewhere or knishes. But
Speaker 1: the winner, Kaylee McGee white, someone from the Washington Examiner.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I could just stop there and
Speaker 1: go to the break right there saying the names Kaylee
Speaker 1: and Washington Examiner. That's enough to win worst person in
Speaker 1: the World. Wait, there's more. That's also Kaylee McGee white
Speaker 1: of one of the American Federation of Women, Federation of
Speaker 1: Women federations and whatever. There's ten million of these fascist
Speaker 1: think tanks. They all involved the same six words, just
Speaker 1: listed in a different order. Federation Women Tank think Anyway,
Speaker 1: Fox brought her on to discuss the Trump cloned executed
Speaker 1: robot story with the anchor John Roberts. Incidentally, John used
Speaker 1: to be In addition to being a VJ in Canada,
Speaker 1: John was then a news reporter in Canada and the
Speaker 1: United States and anchored the news on CBS on the weekends.
Speaker 1: Now he's just another Trump whore reading propaganda. He read
Speaker 1: Trump's insane post and says, I know Trump's sense of humor.
Speaker 1: I'm as humor hum Oh you are, I know Trump's
Speaker 1: sense of humor. I'm sure he was just trolling. And
Speaker 1: Miss Kaylee McGhee white, who they put on Fox. Evidently
Speaker 1: because they like Kaylee's on Fox. Hey, order up some
Speaker 1: more Kaylee's. They grow them on the Kaylee farm in
Speaker 1: South Dakota. Call Christy, she must know where the Kaylees are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Kayley farm. It's near the Christie Ranch. Anyway, Kayley
Speaker 1: said the real issue was being obscured here by all
Speaker 1: of the nonsense about the tweet. The real issue to
Speaker 1: Kayley McGee white was that, namely, who was running the
Speaker 1: country during the Biden presidency quote. Was it a clone?
Speaker 1: She began to giggle. Was it a cable of White
Speaker 1: House and fishes. A cable, she said, a cable. She
Speaker 1: meant the word cabal. She thinks the word cabal is
Speaker 1: pronounced cable, cabal, cabal, And apparently every time she's ever
Speaker 1: heard it from one of her friends over there at
Speaker 1: the American Federation of Kayley's, they pronounced it cable. Why
Speaker 1: not cabell? Was it a clown? Was it a cabelle
Speaker 1: of White House officials? Was it a cabelle of White
Speaker 1: House officials? Now on cable? She also says, Kaylee McGee white,
Speaker 1: she is a fellow at the Steamboat Institute, which seems
Speaker 1: like a rather unfortunate thing to admit about on the self. Realistically,
Speaker 1: Kaylee McGhee at the mercy of a cable of Wyatt
Speaker 1: House officials White Today's other worst person.
Speaker 3: In the world. Came all a fun fun.
Speaker 1: Two my favorite topic me and Things I Promised Not
Speaker 1: to tell and d Day plus sixty. It was June sixth,
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, and MSNBC's new president Rick Kaplan
Speaker 1: needed to make a mark on the network for his
Speaker 1: new bosses, and he decided this was gonna be it.
Speaker 1: On June six, two thousand and four, Maybe the last
Speaker 1: even numbered anniversary of D Day, where we'd have a
Speaker 1: lot of people left who were there. We'd turned the
Speaker 1: network all D Day. June six, two thousand and four
Speaker 1: basically was going to be June sixth, nineteen forty four,
Speaker 1: relived Tom Brokaw live on the visius of Normandy and
Speaker 1: Somebody there and Somebody here and his main two MSNBC
Speaker 1: news anchors, me and Lester Holt, anchoring two hour blocks
Speaker 1: devoted to the anniversary, and then switching off, and he
Speaker 1: came back, and I would go away, and then I'd
Speaker 1: come back and he would go just wal toall. I'm
Speaker 1: Rick Kaplan, and I used to produce for Walter Cronkite
Speaker 1: to not only lock in his new gig at MSNBC,
Speaker 1: but set himself up for his next goal executive in
Speaker 1: charge of the Today Show or NBC Nightly News or
Speaker 1: something bigger than that little crapshack we ran at MSNBC.
Speaker 1: For my part, I was dispatched first to interview one
Speaker 1: of the surprisingly large number of soldiers and sailors and
Speaker 1: airmen who survived D Day and went on to fame.
Speaker 1: There were actors Charles Derning and James Dewhan, Scotty on
Speaker 1: Star Trek and the author J. D. Salinger and Seaman's
Speaker 1: second Class Yogi Bearra. I met Yogi at his museum
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, and I swear to God he and
Speaker 1: his son demanded a friendly bribe to do the interview.
Speaker 1: And what they wanted was my copy of the nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty three tops Yogi Bearra baseball card. Seriously, that's the
Speaker 1: toughest one to fined. Yogi said, we never have enough
Speaker 1: of them here. I always enjoyed Yogi, but he had
Speaker 1: to say about his nineteen sixty three baseball card and
Speaker 1: its relative scarcity than he did about the D Day
Speaker 1: invasion and his chief on his rocket launcher boat telling
Speaker 1: him to keep his head down or he might get
Speaker 1: to watch it fly off his neck. Anyway, the bar
Speaker 1: interview was fine, and it was done, and we edited
Speaker 1: like fifteen very very short answers into about two minutes
Speaker 1: of not bad narrative. And I had written a couple
Speaker 1: of other D Day features, and I'd written some other
Speaker 1: scripts on Friday, and by Sunday we were all crammed
Speaker 1: into the main MSNBC conference room in Secaucus, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: everybody working a sixth day and you would have thought
Speaker 1: this guy, Rick Kaplan, president of the network, was leading
Speaker 1: the actual invasion of Normandy, not merely a cable TV
Speaker 1: network coverage of the sixtieth anniversary. Thereof, Kaplin was waxing
Speaker 1: poetic about how important this was for us, and how
Speaker 1: it would put us on the map against CNN and Fox,
Speaker 1: and how he had covered all the contingencies. And that's
Speaker 1: when people's phone started vibrating, ringing. Kaplan was still enjoying
Speaker 1: the sound of his own voice as these phones gradually
Speaker 1: drowned him out. When one of the producers finished whispering
Speaker 1: into his BlackBerry and then said, excuse me, Rick, we
Speaker 1: have a problem. Ronald Reagan has just died. Without a word,
Speaker 1: twenty people at that conference table rose and then froze,
Speaker 1: realizing that before they abandoned this meeting to go get
Speaker 1: on the air as quickly as possible, and then to
Speaker 1: lay out what would be rolling coverage till at least
Speaker 1: midnight of Reagan's death and life and reaction to it
Speaker 1: till further notice. We couldn't just start. We basically had
Speaker 1: to wait for the president of the network, who was
Speaker 1: sitting there, Rick Kamplan, to say Okay, we'll figure out
Speaker 1: the D Day stuff later. It's Reagan Day. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Except he didn't say that, looking crestfallen, looking like a
Speaker 1: kid who's had his toys stolen and then broken. As
Speaker 1: he watched Rick Kamplan swept the room with his gaze,
Speaker 1: he stopped on me. Thanks, couldn't we just uh, couldn't
Speaker 1: we just do uh half an hour of Reagan and
Speaker 1: then half an hour of my D Day and then
Speaker 1: half an hour And he trailed off, and I said, Rick,
Speaker 1: it's a two term president. I mean, I think he
Speaker 1: was full of crap, but apparently a lot of American
Speaker 1: thinks he's some sort of icon. And by the way,
Speaker 1: it just it just happened like eleven minutes ago. It
Speaker 1: didn't happen sixty years ago. I'm sorry. He was almost
Speaker 1: literally pouting, But what about all my D Day coverage?
Speaker 1: President of the network? And I said, well, we can
Speaker 1: run those pieces throughout the day tomorrow. They won't just disappear.
Speaker 1: We don't have to go degos the tapes. Okay, we
Speaker 1: realized that the president of the news network was not
Speaker 1: going to be any use helping us cover the first
Speaker 1: big breaking news story of his presidency because it couldn't
Speaker 1: bear to change his plans to accommodate breaking presidential news.
Speaker 1: This was at the end of month three of the
Speaker 1: Rick Kaplan MSNBC presidency. He was already on the ropes
Speaker 1: with us. He would later be the guy who chased
Speaker 1: me around the studios because he was squeamish and I'd
Speaker 1: mentioned blood on the air and he thought I was
Speaker 1: trying to sabotage his great show with Rita Cosby. He
Speaker 1: would soon be the network president who did not know
Speaker 1: what was live on TV and what was on delay.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that story in a minute too. However,
Speaker 1: the Rick Kaplan story starts in the men's room at MSNBC.
Speaker 1: It is February seventeenth, two thousand and four, at one
Speaker 1: of those moronic corporate speak town halls. The bosses have
Speaker 1: just introduced Rick Kaplan as the new president of the network.
Speaker 1: Kaplan speaks for an hour without interruption. He does not
Speaker 1: mention that he was the president of CNN when it's
Speaker 1: nineteen year streak at number one in the cable news
Speaker 1: ratings came to an abrupt end. He does, however, mention
Speaker 1: that he is six feet seven inches tall, but he
Speaker 1: does not seem to be six feet seven inches tall.
Speaker 1: As this nonsense ends, I rush into the men's room
Speaker 1: and find, to my amusement, Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, Jesse Ventura,
Speaker 1: lesterr Holt, and one unoccupied yurinoll. As I moved to
Speaker 1: occupy it, it dawns on me that Ventura, the former
Speaker 1: professional wrestler, is the shortest man in the bathroom, at
Speaker 1: six feet two. All five of us are silent. Finally,
Speaker 1: Matthews says it helen hell can. He says six foot seven.
Speaker 1: He's barely taller than I am, and I'm six four.
Speaker 1: Oh are you slightly taller than me? You're slightly shorter
Speaker 1: than me? How is he six seven? Everybody keeps looking forward,
Speaker 1: of course, into the wall in front of us. I'm
Speaker 1: six three and a half. Lester's your height? I saw
Speaker 1: you standing with him? You tour even. What are you six'?
Speaker 1: Five lester, says uh huh and. Flushes scarborough chimes, In
Speaker 1: i'm just over sixty. Four we're almost. Eyed, aye he's
Speaker 1: not six. Seven, Finally ventura, Speaks i've been thrown around
Speaker 1: a ring by guys who're six. Seven this guy's not
Speaker 1: six seven from the. Sink Lester holt now, says have
Speaker 1: any of you known anybody our height who lies and
Speaker 1: says they're? Taller matthews, again who lies about their? Height
Speaker 1: eye flush this guy, does, gentlemen we are in trouble
Speaker 1: here for the presidency Of Rick kamplan AT. Msnbc that
Speaker 1: might have been, SORRY i can't resist it the high water.
Speaker 1: Mark later On, Friday march, fifth two thousand and, four
Speaker 1: who had been there three, weeks assemble the hosts and
Speaker 1: producers of the primetime shows on the. Network that would
Speaker 1: have been, Me, Scarborough Dan, abrams our, staffs the New
Speaker 1: jersey staff Of Chris matthew's. Show and he told us
Speaker 1: that the next day was going to Be. Monday somebody
Speaker 1: From scarborough's staff helpfully corrected, him Mister, Kaplan i'm, sorry
Speaker 1: tomorrow Is. Saturday kaplan sternly explained he was now president
Speaker 1: of this, network and we all. Sucked and if he
Speaker 1: said today Was friday and tomorrow Was, monday then today
Speaker 1: Was friday and tomorrow Was. Monday he wanted to see
Speaker 1: us react to sudden changes in our. Plans we were
Speaker 1: being told we were being called into work a sixth
Speaker 1: day tomorrow for no. Reason kaplin then started yelling at,
Speaker 1: Us you guys don't get. It you're all working. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: anybody who doesn't come in is. Fired we are going
Speaker 1: to do the whole pro primetime. Lineup your breaking news
Speaker 1: is today's breaking, news the guilty verdict in The Martha stewart.
Speaker 1: Case start booking your, guests because tomorrow it Is, monday Not.
Speaker 1: Saturday just on my, Staff saturday was supposed to be
Speaker 1: my reporter's engagement, party a surprise party thrown by one
Speaker 1: of my producers for his wife's, birthday and the day
Speaker 1: another producer was closing on buying a. HOUSE i have
Speaker 1: a vague memory of what we put on the. AIR
Speaker 1: i have a stronger memory of the new president OF
Speaker 1: msnbc losing the staffs of all four of his primetime
Speaker 1: shows on his fifth day on the job and never
Speaker 1: ever getting them. Back kaplan then went to a corkboard
Speaker 1: on our office wall on which our show rundown was.
Speaker 1: Displayed he ordered producers to move segments, around and he
Speaker 1: berated me for not having anticipated his whims and at
Speaker 1: one point he, screamed, stop what the hell are you?
Speaker 1: Doing and he got up and he grabbed the push,
Speaker 1: pin which held up an index card bearing the name
Speaker 1: of a. Guest you don't use green pins with yellow index.
Speaker 1: Cards you use yellow pins with yellow index. Cards what
Speaker 1: kind of a newsman are? You can't imagine how this
Speaker 1: guy choked away CNN's monopoly on cable news. RATINGS i
Speaker 1: was reminded recently that, later On december, eighth two thousand and,
Speaker 1: five seventeen years, ago, tomorrow he did one of the
Speaker 1: most unintentionally funniest THINGS i have ever. WITNESSED a plane
Speaker 1: slid off the runway At Midway airport In. Chicago nothing
Speaker 1: funny about, that, obviously But kaplan called into our control
Speaker 1: room demanding we changed something about our live coverage that
Speaker 1: he didn't. Like we promptly made the. Change he was.
Speaker 1: Right five minutes later he called in and started swearing
Speaker 1: at one of our. PRODUCERS i told you to change.
Speaker 1: That f, you you're, Fired and the producer, said we
Speaker 1: changed it five minutes. Ago when you called, in, Silence,
Speaker 1: rick are you watching the network on some sort of?
Speaker 1: Delay are you watching ON tvo or? Something silence. Again
Speaker 1: finally he, Said, okay good, work see you tomorrow and hung.
Speaker 1: Up he didn't know he was watching it on a.
Speaker 1: Delay kaplan was also one of these forget the mean
Speaker 1: THING i said. Yesterday god KNOWS i have kind of.
Speaker 1: Guys By, monday he had heard people laughing at some
Speaker 1: of my on air jokes and his front runner instincts took.
Speaker 1: Over he called me and the producer in for a.
Speaker 1: MEETING i have only one criticism of your. Show the
Speaker 1: which of these? Stories who you be talking? About? Thing is?
Speaker 1: Genius the fifth, story the fourth, story then the third.
Speaker 1: Story it's original and. FRESH i. HESITATED i almost said to, him,
Speaker 1: yeah this whole counting. Thing we just invented. That the
Speaker 1: music is, genius the graphics are. Genius you're a, genius
Speaker 1: but you're missing something, obvious something. Genius after each one
Speaker 1: of these, stories after you thank your, guest you should
Speaker 1: do a list of the things you didn't tell us
Speaker 1: about those. Stories so like after the fifth, story you should,
Speaker 1: say now here are the other five things we didn't
Speaker 1: tell you about the fifth, story get it a full
Speaker 1: screen graphic and you telling, People and then four things
Speaker 1: for the fourth story and three for the. THIRD i
Speaker 1: thought for a, moment AND i, said, okay but what
Speaker 1: happens if we make those graphics, up and then a minute,
Speaker 1: beforehand the guest brings up one of those things we
Speaker 1: claim we didn't tell. You when he just told, you
Speaker 1: we had Lost Rick caplin's attention by that. Point, hmmm he.
Speaker 1: Grunted for a, SECOND i thought his eyes were pointing
Speaker 1: outwards in different, directions but he snapped himself back into this.
Speaker 1: Reality huh could. Happen you'll figure it out, anyway too
Speaker 1: late to do it, today figure it out and do it. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: thanks the producer AND i had to then explain to
Speaker 1: the staff Of countdown that from now, on for every
Speaker 1: story they had to deliberately leave out one or two
Speaker 1: or three or four or five facts or, details something
Speaker 1: interesting enough to be made into a full screen, graphic
Speaker 1: but not interesting enough to be included in their scripts
Speaker 1: or the interviews with the. Guests SUDDENLY i thought a
Speaker 1: lot of people's eyes were pointing outwards in different. Directions
Speaker 1: the line, Producer Greg, kordick who was in charge not
Speaker 1: of content but of timing things and making sure things
Speaker 1: like graphics got, made, said matter of, factly this will
Speaker 1: add five hours to everybody's, workday and so it. Did
Speaker 1: after the next day's, show when we listed the top
Speaker 1: five things we didn't tell you about today's fifth story
Speaker 1: and the top four things we didn't tell you about
Speaker 1: today's fourth, story et. Cetera and we had to shorten
Speaker 1: all the scripts and shorten each interview just to make
Speaker 1: room for all of this extraneous. Crap greg the producer,
Speaker 1: said people here will be quitting By thursday and dying By.
Speaker 1: Monday AND i, said you're. Right plus it ruins the
Speaker 1: interviews and it weakens the. Show don't do it tomorrow
Speaker 1: With kaplan, Yells i'll take the. Eight so now It's.
Speaker 1: Wednesday and not only DON'T i hear anything From kaplan
Speaker 1: about The tuesday show and his the top five things
Speaker 1: we didn't tell you about today's fifth, Story, jazz but
Speaker 1: after The wednesday show when we don't do, It i'm
Speaker 1: sitting there waiting for an enraged phone call because we
Speaker 1: Didn't thursday morning at, Home i'm waiting for an enraged.
Speaker 1: Email thursday, Afternoon i'm waiting for an Enraged kaplan in. Person.
Speaker 1: Nothing he never said a. Word the week passes, nothing a,
Speaker 1: month two, months it's, summer. Nothing the rest of two
Speaker 1: thousand and four flies by. Nothing we did it, Once
Speaker 1: we never did it. Again and then he never said.
Speaker 1: Anything it is Now january two thousand and, five and
Speaker 1: he still hasn't said. Anything And i'm told By Phil,
Speaker 1: griffin my first producer in television sports and sixteen years
Speaker 1: later of my first producer in television, news who has
Speaker 1: since become the vice president OF, msnbc That kaplan wants
Speaker 1: to see us in his. Office it's not a big.
Speaker 1: Deal phil, says he's in a good. Mood he just
Speaker 1: wants to make us feel like we have input into his.
Speaker 1: Decisions this is a what do you think? Meeting, NOW
Speaker 1: i have to ask you to carefully picture the layout
Speaker 1: Of Rick kaplan's office AT msnbc in the year two
Speaker 1: thousand and. Five envision a law, long narrow. Room BASEBALL'S
Speaker 1: mlb network now operates, there and they have cleverly Turned
Speaker 1: kaplan's office into a wardrobe, room perfect since it was
Speaker 1: really just a long. Closet, Anyways Rick, kaplan who was
Speaker 1: six foot five but lied and said he was six foot,
Speaker 1: seven sat at the very back of this. Room so
Speaker 1: you come in the front, door you turn to your,
Speaker 1: right and maybe thirty thirty five forty feet away from,
Speaker 1: you in the farthest, corner facing his computer on his.
Speaker 1: Desk Flush against the left hand wall is the president OF.
Speaker 1: MSNBC a few feet into the room is where you.
Speaker 1: Sit halfway between these two. Points against the right hand
Speaker 1: wall is where another executive can. Sit So Phil griffin sits.
Speaker 1: THERE i am just inside the. Door he is fifteen
Speaker 1: feet ahead of me to the. Right Rick kamplan is
Speaker 1: thirty feet or forty feet ahead of me to the.
Speaker 1: Left picture this, carefully the way these chairs and desks are.
Speaker 1: Arranged if you're me And Phil griffin is looking at,
Speaker 1: You Rick kaplan can only see the back Of Phil
Speaker 1: griffin's head and not his. Face if they are both
Speaker 1: looking at, you they cannot see each. Other, weird seemingly
Speaker 1: trivial turned out to be. Essential we begin this meaningless
Speaker 1: meeting and talk about guests and, graphics, fonts And kaplan
Speaker 1: talks about how much the ratings have gone up in
Speaker 1: his year as. President and, FINALLY i, SAY i do
Speaker 1: have one. SUGGESTION i think the show is going to
Speaker 1: be very, successful AND i think if we want to
Speaker 1: make any, changes we should make them now before it becomes.
Speaker 1: Successful AND i, SAY i have never heard anybody say
Speaker 1: they like the fifth, story fourth, story third, story. Stuff
Speaker 1: if you want to continue the name countdown because people
Speaker 1: know it by, now that's, GREAT i. Guess but the
Speaker 1: five four three two one numbering is a conceit and
Speaker 1: it's a lot of extra work for, everybody AND i
Speaker 1: think we should kill it. Now caplan is, ghast he is.
Speaker 1: Pale he is not, angry he is just. Stunned but
Speaker 1: you can't do. That five four three two one is
Speaker 1: part of the reasons the ratings went. Up the ratings
Speaker 1: went up WHEN i came up with the idea of
Speaker 1: the top five things we didn't tell you about today's
Speaker 1: top five, stories and the top four things we didn't
Speaker 1: tell you about today's number four, story et. Cetera we
Speaker 1: can't stop. That that's why people Watch my. Idea took
Speaker 1: me a split second to even remember what the hell
Speaker 1: was he was talking. ABOUT i had forgotten the whole
Speaker 1: five things we didn't tell You albatross weeks after the
Speaker 1: one show we did, it and then the staff rebelled
Speaker 1: AND i, said screw, it And i'll take the. Heat
Speaker 1: AND i was about to say this out loud WHEN
Speaker 1: i suddenly realized That Phil, griffin fifteen feet away on
Speaker 1: the right his face turned to me and thus invisible To,
Speaker 1: kaplan thirty feet away on the, left was making his
Speaker 1: eyes as wide as, possible And phil was looking right
Speaker 1: at at me and silently mouthing the word, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no all the while keeping his head completely, still So
Speaker 1: kaplan didn't know he was talking to me. SILENTLY i
Speaker 1: Got phil's. MESSAGE i dropped the. SUBJECT i didn't say.
Speaker 1: It the meeting ended maybe two minutes, later With kaplan
Speaker 1: saying keep up the good, work and ushering us out by,
Speaker 1: saying and keep up with the tough five things we
Speaker 1: didn't tell you about today's five fifth. Story oh that's
Speaker 1: what's making it really. Cook when we were out of
Speaker 1: earshot Of Rick, Kaplan griffin thanked me for being able
Speaker 1: to read his panicked. LIPS i used an oath to
Speaker 1: liven up my. Question what the blank was that all?
Speaker 1: About And griffin, said now you know what every day
Speaker 1: of my life has. Become it's not worth it to
Speaker 1: try to correct. Him he believes what he, believes and
Speaker 1: he won't be checked or. Contradicted AND i, said we
Speaker 1: only did the five things we didn't tell you a thing,
Speaker 1: once only. Once it's like a year. Later how in
Speaker 1: the hell could he possibly think we're still doing. It
Speaker 1: griffin laughed like a soldier on A World War one
Speaker 1: battlefield who has just run out of. Bullets, see that's the, problem.
Speaker 1: Buddy he only WATCHES msnbc here in the, office the
Speaker 1: place he's renting it doesn't have. Cable president OF msnbc
Speaker 1: doesn't have cable at. Home On june, sixth two thousand and,
Speaker 1: six they Fired Rick kaplan as the president OF. Msnbc
Speaker 1: they let him. Resign they also let him keep his,
Speaker 1: secret the darkest of secrets for him and FOR, msnbc,
Speaker 1: that for his two years on the, throne the president
Speaker 1: of an all news cable channel did not have. Cable
Speaker 1: i've done all the DAMAGE i can do. Here thank
Speaker 1: you for. Listening Rick. Kaplan it could be A broadway.
Speaker 1: Show his, career just the. SPARTS i witnessed at least
Speaker 1: eighty five minutes of unbelievable entertainment LIKE i don't, know
Speaker 1: like you can't take it with you kind of, humor
Speaker 1: NonStop kaufman kind of humor from the nineteen twenties and,
Speaker 1: thirties totally. Unbelievable most of our countdown. Music i'll do
Speaker 1: a special On Rick, kaplan one of these, Days maybe Next.
Speaker 1: Tuesday most of our countdown music was, arranged, produced and
Speaker 1: performed By Brian ray And John Phillips shaneil our musical
Speaker 1: directors Have. Countdown it was produced By Tko. Brothers Mister
Speaker 1: ray was on the, guitars bass and. Drums Mister chanelle
Speaker 1: handled orchestration and. Keyboards our satirical and pithy musical comments
Speaker 1: are by the best baseball stadium organist, Ever Nancy. Faust
Speaker 1: The olberman theme for ME espn two appears courtesy OF, Espn.
Speaker 1: Inc it's the sports. Music it was written By Mitch Warren.
Speaker 1: Davis other music arranged and performed by the Group No Horns.
Speaker 1: Allowed and my announcer today was my late Friend George.
Speaker 1: Carlin none of this is his. Fault everything else was
Speaker 1: as always my, fault Although george did. Help that's countdown for.
Speaker 1: Today Happy, Birthday, Sis happy Belated. Birthday Kit. Day one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven Of america held hostage just one
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty six days until the scheduled end
Speaker 1: Of trump's lame duck and lame brained term Unless putin
Speaker 1: removes him, sooner or the actuarial tables, do or his
Speaker 1: new enemy musk does ah. AnyWho the next scheduled countdown Is.
Speaker 1: Monday no results yet from The tuesday special episode. Experiment
Speaker 1: as you can see see it seems to have had
Speaker 1: an effect on my ability to contain myself in the
Speaker 1: Regular thursday, episode for WHICH i apologize and or thank
Speaker 1: you for your. Compliments as, always bulletins as the news,
Speaker 1: warrants and Remember trump is laying the groundwork now to
Speaker 1: not leave office, later so he must be, stopped so
Speaker 1: we will till the next one On Keith. Ulderman good,
Speaker 1: morning good, afternoon good, night and wait for.
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