1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Remember 2 00:00:22,435 --> 00:00:29,195 Speaker 1: Madison Cawthorn, Madison Cawthorn, the ex congressman, the crazy kid 3 00:00:29,195 --> 00:00:31,835 Speaker 1: who went to see Hitler's Eagle's nest and said it 4 00:00:31,875 --> 00:00:37,555 Speaker 1: was on his bucket list. Remember Madison Cawthorn. Remember Madison 5 00:00:37,595 --> 00:00:40,595 Speaker 1: Cawthorn when he described his shock that here he was 6 00:00:40,635 --> 00:00:43,675 Speaker 1: elected to the House of Representatives and he'd found that 7 00:00:44,075 --> 00:00:47,755 Speaker 1: it was fueled by drug based orgies. And he said 8 00:00:47,795 --> 00:00:50,475 Speaker 1: all he found in Washington were anti drug leaders who 9 00:00:50,515 --> 00:00:53,035 Speaker 1: turned out to be less war on drugs and more 10 00:00:53,075 --> 00:00:57,155 Speaker 1: plain old I'm on drugs. I hate to think of 11 00:00:57,195 --> 00:01:00,955 Speaker 1: Madison Cawthorn for a moment, Let alone think of Madison 12 00:01:00,995 --> 00:01:05,235 Speaker 1: Cawthorn for a moment as a truth teller. But what 13 00:01:05,275 --> 00:01:09,995 Speaker 1: would best explain this? Exactly? From Trump's town hall on 14 00:01:10,155 --> 00:01:11,115 Speaker 1: Fox last night? 15 00:01:11,355 --> 00:01:14,555 Speaker 2: In recent days, you seem to issue a warning that 16 00:01:14,795 --> 00:01:17,035 Speaker 2: if in the courts and even the US Supreme Court, 17 00:01:17,115 --> 00:01:21,035 Speaker 2: if they didn't treat you fairly, that maybe there would 18 00:01:21,075 --> 00:01:23,715 Speaker 2: be bedlam in the country. Use that word bedlam in 19 00:01:23,755 --> 00:01:26,915 Speaker 2: the country. Can you say tonight that political violence is 20 00:01:27,035 --> 00:01:28,155 Speaker 2: never acceptable? 21 00:01:28,475 --> 00:01:31,115 Speaker 3: Well, of course that's right, and of course I'm the 22 00:01:31,115 --> 00:01:33,635 Speaker 3: one that had very little of it. Take a look 23 00:01:33,675 --> 00:01:37,115 Speaker 3: at wars again. I didn't start, I wasn't involved in wars. 24 00:01:37,155 --> 00:01:39,315 Speaker 3: We beat the hell out of Isis. We won one 25 00:01:39,395 --> 00:01:43,235 Speaker 3: hundred percent. We brought our troops back home. Look at 26 00:01:43,235 --> 00:01:45,275 Speaker 3: the violence that we've had, look at the violence we 27 00:01:45,315 --> 00:01:46,555 Speaker 3: have recently. 28 00:01:46,915 --> 00:01:49,155 Speaker 2: But when you say bedlam, what do you mean? I 29 00:01:49,155 --> 00:01:49,955 Speaker 2: think said bedlam? 30 00:01:49,955 --> 00:01:51,755 Speaker 3: I think you look at Joe Biden's bedlam. 31 00:01:51,955 --> 00:01:55,435 Speaker 1: Of course that made no sense. Trump said that if 32 00:01:55,475 --> 00:01:58,075 Speaker 1: he did not get his way, there would be bedlam 33 00:01:58,195 --> 00:02:02,155 Speaker 1: in this country. Asked about what he meant by bedlam 34 00:02:02,155 --> 00:02:05,955 Speaker 1: in this country and about political violence once he talked 35 00:02:05,955 --> 00:02:10,155 Speaker 1: about wars. The problem isn't that it didn't make any sense. 36 00:02:10,235 --> 00:02:14,275 Speaker 1: The problem is that, clearly it makes sense to him, 37 00:02:15,115 --> 00:02:19,675 Speaker 1: What specifically could be wrong with someone who thinks when 38 00:02:19,755 --> 00:02:22,915 Speaker 1: they say that that they are making sense that everyone 39 00:02:22,955 --> 00:02:27,235 Speaker 1: will understand. It's not like that from Trump, his stand 40 00:02:27,315 --> 00:02:30,515 Speaker 1: alone in some way. The day began yesterday at the 41 00:02:30,595 --> 00:02:34,635 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden hearings yesterday, and there was a subtext there 42 00:02:34,715 --> 00:02:37,915 Speaker 1: that I thought seemed to get lost behind all of 43 00:02:37,955 --> 00:02:41,955 Speaker 1: the stupidity. All the Republicans behaved as if they were 44 00:02:41,995 --> 00:02:45,715 Speaker 1: not just stupid, not just staggering under the weight of 45 00:02:45,755 --> 00:02:52,915 Speaker 1: their delusions of grandeur, but hallucinating. Is it that simple? 46 00:02:53,755 --> 00:02:56,675 Speaker 1: You saw the Wall Street Journal story on Elon Musk 47 00:02:57,555 --> 00:03:00,755 Speaker 1: consuming more drugs, according to the Wall Street Journal, than 48 00:03:01,835 --> 00:03:05,715 Speaker 1: the state of New Mexico. And you've heard by now 49 00:03:05,715 --> 00:03:08,675 Speaker 1: that Hitler and the Nazi leadership were all on speed 50 00:03:08,835 --> 00:03:12,155 Speaker 1: and other drugs throughout World War Two. It's all documented 51 00:03:12,675 --> 00:03:15,755 Speaker 1: by the Nazi physicians who gave them their Nazi drugs 52 00:03:16,435 --> 00:03:24,035 Speaker 1: that help make them Nazi. And then yesterday we saw 53 00:03:24,075 --> 00:03:27,955 Speaker 1: what we saw at the Hunter Biden hearings. There was 54 00:03:28,075 --> 00:03:31,515 Speaker 1: Nancy Mace, the congresswoman who had boasted Giddaly last summer 55 00:03:31,555 --> 00:03:35,835 Speaker 1: about reaching the prayer breakfast on time, but only by 56 00:03:35,955 --> 00:03:40,915 Speaker 1: fending off mourning sex with her boyfriend. She reached this 57 00:03:41,035 --> 00:03:44,075 Speaker 1: hearing on time and not only focused on Hunter Biden's 58 00:03:44,155 --> 00:03:49,755 Speaker 1: quote balls, but she then accused him of white privilege. 59 00:03:49,875 --> 00:03:54,395 Speaker 1: He's white, she's white. I'm just gonna guess she meant 60 00:03:54,955 --> 00:04:00,715 Speaker 1: male privilege or white male privilege. But no, no, that's 61 00:04:00,795 --> 00:04:02,275 Speaker 1: not what Nancy May said. 62 00:04:02,675 --> 00:04:05,675 Speaker 4: You are the epitome of white priviled, coming into the 63 00:04:05,715 --> 00:04:09,915 Speaker 4: Oversight Committee spitting in our face ignoring a congressional subpoena 64 00:04:09,955 --> 00:04:12,275 Speaker 4: to be deposed. What are you afraid of? 65 00:04:12,395 --> 00:04:13,475 Speaker 5: You have no balls? 66 00:04:13,835 --> 00:04:16,355 Speaker 1: As we have fumbled for answers about what the hell 67 00:04:16,435 --> 00:04:19,555 Speaker 1: happened to this country, specifically, what the hell happened to 68 00:04:19,595 --> 00:04:23,955 Speaker 1: the Republican Party specifically? What the hell is it with 69 00:04:23,995 --> 00:04:28,435 Speaker 1: people like Nancy Mace? Why are they in such thrall 70 00:04:28,595 --> 00:04:32,115 Speaker 1: to loser Jay Trump, who, for brain chemistry reasons or 71 00:04:32,635 --> 00:04:37,075 Speaker 1: other chemistry reasons or whatever, is clearly utterly and constantly 72 00:04:37,475 --> 00:04:41,795 Speaker 1: detached from reality. Could it be that simple miss true? 73 00:04:41,875 --> 00:04:47,875 Speaker 1: Is this a joke? Seriously? Is this hearing a joke? 74 00:04:49,395 --> 00:04:54,235 Speaker 6: This is a committee that now cares about subpoena compliance, 75 00:04:55,235 --> 00:04:59,955 Speaker 6: and we're going to hold somebody in contempt for subpoena compliance. 76 00:05:00,155 --> 00:05:06,355 Speaker 6: That's really interesting because to me, it seems like you 77 00:05:06,435 --> 00:05:09,595 Speaker 6: believe we all had our memories wiped six hundred and 78 00:05:09,635 --> 00:05:12,995 Speaker 6: eight days ago when you failed to honor your own subpoena. 79 00:05:13,675 --> 00:05:15,875 Speaker 6: But I have to ask, how dumb do you think 80 00:05:15,875 --> 00:05:19,355 Speaker 6: the American people are that you would seek to hold 81 00:05:19,355 --> 00:05:23,395 Speaker 6: someone in contempt when you are six hundred and eight days, 82 00:05:23,995 --> 00:05:28,195 Speaker 6: fifteen hours, twenty one minutes, and forty seven seconds out 83 00:05:28,235 --> 00:05:30,595 Speaker 6: of compliance of your own subpoena. 84 00:05:30,795 --> 00:05:34,035 Speaker 1: Well, you know what Eric Swallwell heard wiping the floor 85 00:05:34,035 --> 00:05:36,715 Speaker 1: there with Jim Jordan. You know what might explain that, 86 00:05:37,995 --> 00:05:40,955 Speaker 1: you know, you know what might explain the entire Congressional 87 00:05:40,955 --> 00:05:45,835 Speaker 1: career of Chairman James Comer. I mean this with Jared Moskowitz. 88 00:05:45,875 --> 00:05:48,355 Speaker 1: If the hearing had been a boxing match, it would 89 00:05:48,395 --> 00:05:52,515 Speaker 1: have been stopped and their referees and the State Board 90 00:05:52,555 --> 00:05:55,915 Speaker 1: would have made all the Republicans provide urine samples. 91 00:05:56,195 --> 00:06:01,595 Speaker 5: The witness accepted the Chairman's invitation. It just so happens 92 00:06:01,595 --> 00:06:05,755 Speaker 5: the witness is here. If the committee wants to hear 93 00:06:06,555 --> 00:06:11,155 Speaker 5: from the witness, and the Chairman gave the witness that option, 94 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:14,955 Speaker 5: then the only folks that are afraid to hear from 95 00:06:14,955 --> 00:06:19,275 Speaker 5: the witness with the American people watching, are my friends 96 00:06:19,275 --> 00:06:21,155 Speaker 5: on the other side of the aisle. I don't know 97 00:06:21,155 --> 00:06:23,475 Speaker 5: if there's a proper motion, mister Chairman, but I'll make 98 00:06:23,515 --> 00:06:26,595 Speaker 5: a motion. Let's vote. Let's take a vote. Who wants 99 00:06:26,635 --> 00:06:31,595 Speaker 5: to hear from Hunter? Right now? Today? Anyone come on, 100 00:06:31,835 --> 00:06:32,835 Speaker 5: who wants to hear from Hunter? 101 00:06:35,675 --> 00:06:39,715 Speaker 1: No one? And of course the PS, the resistance Hunter 102 00:06:39,755 --> 00:06:43,875 Speaker 1: Biden shows up, they won't let him testify, they decide 103 00:06:43,915 --> 00:06:47,715 Speaker 1: to hold him in contempt for not testifying, and while 104 00:06:47,915 --> 00:06:51,675 Speaker 1: they won't let him testify, Marjorie Taylor Green starts shouting 105 00:06:51,715 --> 00:06:54,275 Speaker 1: and trying to get him to testify, so he gets 106 00:06:54,355 --> 00:06:59,195 Speaker 1: up and leaves. Now, what would explain Barney rubbles stunt 107 00:06:59,275 --> 00:07:02,155 Speaker 1: doubles actions here? TITLM and sim's expired. 108 00:07:02,235 --> 00:07:04,475 Speaker 5: Cherwoke and asmsus Green from Georgia for fevern. 109 00:07:05,915 --> 00:07:06,995 Speaker 2: Thank you mister chairman. 110 00:07:07,875 --> 00:07:11,315 Speaker 4: Excuse me hunter, apparently you're afraid of my words and 111 00:07:11,835 --> 00:07:12,595 Speaker 4: why you. 112 00:07:15,435 --> 00:07:15,675 Speaker 6: All? 113 00:07:17,555 --> 00:07:20,035 Speaker 4: I like to reclaim my time, mister chairman. 114 00:07:20,155 --> 00:07:23,635 Speaker 1: Verst their bubble and then the network's cut away to 115 00:07:23,795 --> 00:07:27,435 Speaker 1: cover the departure of the President's son, and Ms Green 116 00:07:27,515 --> 00:07:31,475 Speaker 1: did not get her airtime. The President's son now recommended 117 00:07:31,515 --> 00:07:35,995 Speaker 1: for a contempt of Congress proceeding, recommended by people who 118 00:07:36,315 --> 00:07:40,715 Speaker 1: also ignored subpoenas because given a choice, as he was, 119 00:07:40,795 --> 00:07:43,675 Speaker 1: of an in private deposition or a public hearing, the 120 00:07:43,715 --> 00:07:46,675 Speaker 1: President's son chose the latter and was then told, oh, sorry, 121 00:07:47,315 --> 00:07:50,635 Speaker 1: we don't have that on the menu anymore. While that 122 00:07:50,915 --> 00:07:55,315 Speaker 1: was unfolding, Marjorie Taylor Green then showed blown up photos 123 00:07:55,315 --> 00:08:00,955 Speaker 1: of him naked again in an investigation about his father. 124 00:08:02,995 --> 00:08:09,115 Speaker 1: Why would anybody do something like that without looking too 125 00:08:09,155 --> 00:08:13,075 Speaker 1: closely at whatever is actually wrong with Marjorie Taylor Green specifically, 126 00:08:13,715 --> 00:08:17,835 Speaker 1: what are the generic options for that kind of behavior 127 00:08:17,875 --> 00:08:25,755 Speaker 1: on a generic basis stupidity, corruption, a pornography addiction And 128 00:08:25,795 --> 00:08:28,515 Speaker 1: it's marked now German point of parliamentary. 129 00:08:28,115 --> 00:08:35,275 Speaker 4: Out showing proof of man Act violations. Democrats should should 130 00:08:35,275 --> 00:08:39,195 Speaker 4: not be offended by pictures that blackout. 131 00:08:38,795 --> 00:08:44,115 Speaker 7: If I've been recognized they should be offended parliament, mister 132 00:08:44,795 --> 00:08:47,275 Speaker 7: stake your boy, thank you kindly. Mister Terminal, July twenty 133 00:08:47,315 --> 00:08:49,035 Speaker 7: sixth I sent you a letter about the last time 134 00:08:49,075 --> 00:08:53,555 Speaker 7: this happened, when the General Lady introduced before this committee 135 00:08:53,555 --> 00:09:00,235 Speaker 7: without any notice to anyone uh nude photos pornographic images 136 00:09:00,515 --> 00:09:06,315 Speaker 7: that were completely irrelevant to the purpose of the hearing itself. 137 00:09:06,635 --> 00:09:09,955 Speaker 7: And my question to you is are members allowed to 138 00:09:10,795 --> 00:09:16,435 Speaker 7: simply put up sensationalistic of wiistic pornographic images if they're 139 00:09:16,515 --> 00:09:20,755 Speaker 7: not relevant to the actual object of the legislative proceeding. 140 00:09:21,035 --> 00:09:22,755 Speaker 7: I want to parliamentary ruling on. 141 00:09:22,755 --> 00:09:28,915 Speaker 1: That, mister Askin. That's probably part of the questioning for 142 00:09:28,915 --> 00:09:31,315 Speaker 1: for mister Biden violations of the man AC. 143 00:09:31,355 --> 00:09:32,755 Speaker 4: Miss Green's lead on that issue. 144 00:09:32,755 --> 00:09:34,955 Speaker 7: You know, this is the committee. 145 00:09:34,955 --> 00:09:36,995 Speaker 1: These pictures have already been entered into the record. 146 00:09:37,315 --> 00:09:39,595 Speaker 7: So in other words, that you have accepted the idea 147 00:09:39,675 --> 00:09:44,635 Speaker 7: that members can introduce irrelevant actually based how aristic? 148 00:09:44,715 --> 00:09:47,435 Speaker 1: How is this irrelevant? How does it relate to Joe Biden? 149 00:09:47,715 --> 00:09:50,835 Speaker 6: How does it relate to We're not doing a criminal 150 00:09:50,835 --> 00:09:54,115 Speaker 6: investigation of Hunter fighting point of order, mister chairman. 151 00:09:54,235 --> 00:09:57,435 Speaker 1: Point of order testified in the FBI. And I haven't 152 00:09:57,475 --> 00:10:00,355 Speaker 1: even gotten around to the conduct of the House Republican's 153 00:10:00,475 --> 00:10:08,835 Speaker 1: chief theater critic Lauren Bobert two on the aisle. It's 154 00:10:08,875 --> 00:10:12,675 Speaker 1: worth one in the hand something. 155 00:10:14,315 --> 00:10:14,715 Speaker 4: I know. 156 00:10:15,515 --> 00:10:20,595 Speaker 1: These evil idiots could just be evil idiots. Madison Cawthorn, 157 00:10:23,315 --> 00:10:28,075 Speaker 1: just another evil idiot pending further information. That has to 158 00:10:28,115 --> 00:10:30,235 Speaker 1: be the assumption. Evil and idiocy can take you a 159 00:10:30,275 --> 00:10:32,595 Speaker 1: long way in the Republican Party. But I was talking 160 00:10:32,635 --> 00:10:35,155 Speaker 1: yesterday with somebody about how at the climax of the 161 00:10:35,275 --> 00:10:39,835 Speaker 1: steroid drug problem in baseball circa two thousand and five, 162 00:10:39,955 --> 00:10:42,995 Speaker 1: two thousand and six, when a star like Mark McGuire, 163 00:10:43,035 --> 00:10:46,515 Speaker 1: who broke the home run record, told Congress he was 164 00:10:46,555 --> 00:10:49,915 Speaker 1: not there to talk about the past, and another star 165 00:10:50,035 --> 00:10:52,915 Speaker 1: wagged his finger and said he never did steroids, and 166 00:10:52,915 --> 00:10:55,875 Speaker 1: it turned out he did steroids, and a third pretended 167 00:10:55,915 --> 00:10:58,755 Speaker 1: not to speak English. And then a book came out 168 00:10:58,795 --> 00:11:02,755 Speaker 1: from jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics, who said he 169 00:11:02,835 --> 00:11:06,595 Speaker 1: used to do steroids, and so did everybody else, and 170 00:11:06,675 --> 00:11:08,675 Speaker 1: it had taken him months to find a publisher because 171 00:11:08,675 --> 00:11:10,475 Speaker 1: nobody believed it and didn't want to take the risk. 172 00:11:10,555 --> 00:11:14,995 Speaker 1: And it was all true, and worse was true, and 173 00:11:15,115 --> 00:11:23,555 Speaker 1: jose Canseco was the truth teller, and suddenly, God help me. 174 00:11:26,275 --> 00:11:34,835 Speaker 1: I'd like to hear more from Madison Cawthorn, please Now, 175 00:11:34,915 --> 00:11:37,275 Speaker 1: if I sound a little raspy, or if you notice 176 00:11:37,275 --> 00:11:39,555 Speaker 1: that there are only small segments of me and a 177 00:11:39,555 --> 00:11:42,155 Speaker 1: lot of soundbites in this I have been fighting a 178 00:11:42,235 --> 00:11:46,875 Speaker 1: cranky throat since Christmas and it's been getting more cranky. 179 00:11:46,955 --> 00:11:49,555 Speaker 1: It's not serious. I'm fine. I don't even have a fever. 180 00:11:49,995 --> 00:11:53,595 Speaker 1: The throat's been examined. It's just that my voice vanishes 181 00:11:53,675 --> 00:11:56,235 Speaker 1: on me. From time to time. It'll sound like this, 182 00:11:56,315 --> 00:12:01,475 Speaker 1: and then it'll sound like bye. You don't know this 183 00:12:01,595 --> 00:12:04,875 Speaker 1: because I recorded this podcast and I can re record 184 00:12:05,035 --> 00:12:08,395 Speaker 1: anytime I need to. But that involves an awful lot 185 00:12:08,435 --> 00:12:11,955 Speaker 1: of talking, and my eent wants me to rest the 186 00:12:12,075 --> 00:12:15,635 Speaker 1: voice as best I can, So I'm gonna go gargle, 187 00:12:15,915 --> 00:12:18,275 Speaker 1: and then I'll read you the worst person's list, including 188 00:12:18,315 --> 00:12:22,995 Speaker 1: how anyway you slice it. ESPN fired Aaron Rodgers yesterday. 189 00:12:23,395 --> 00:12:25,075 Speaker 1: If you'd be so kind as to listen to the 190 00:12:25,075 --> 00:12:30,235 Speaker 1: commercials in the interim, that's next. This is countdown. This 191 00:12:30,355 --> 00:12:54,995 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith Auberman. Time for the daily roundup 192 00:12:54,995 --> 00:12:58,155 Speaker 1: of the misgrants, morons, and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who 193 00:12:58,195 --> 00:13:04,395 Speaker 1: constitute two days worse persons in the world, the Bronze worse. 194 00:13:04,955 --> 00:13:07,395 Speaker 1: For years, the states that have been the most arrogant 195 00:13:07,395 --> 00:13:10,315 Speaker 1: and the most xenophobic about immigrants have been the same 196 00:13:10,355 --> 00:13:15,755 Speaker 1: ones who suddenly found shortages in their supply of manual labor. 197 00:13:16,235 --> 00:13:19,275 Speaker 1: I recall more than a decade ago, most of Georgia's 198 00:13:19,275 --> 00:13:23,435 Speaker 1: onion and watermelon crops rotted in the fields, and the 199 00:13:23,475 --> 00:13:27,315 Speaker 1: state lost millions of dollars of income because the state 200 00:13:27,555 --> 00:13:34,435 Speaker 1: was approximately eleven thousand migrant labors short. Well, Sir, Indiana 201 00:13:34,475 --> 00:13:36,395 Speaker 1: State Rep. Joanna King is not going to let that 202 00:13:36,475 --> 00:13:39,915 Speaker 1: happen in her state. She has introduced legislation that would 203 00:13:39,955 --> 00:13:43,555 Speaker 1: starting in July. Let kids quit school in Indiana at 204 00:13:43,555 --> 00:13:47,395 Speaker 1: the age of fourteen fourteen, as long as they have 205 00:13:47,435 --> 00:13:50,635 Speaker 1: finished the eighth grade, so they could go to work 206 00:13:50,795 --> 00:13:58,555 Speaker 1: as farm laborers, because the nineteenth century was terrific. The 207 00:13:58,675 --> 00:14:02,555 Speaker 1: runner up Worser courtesy the excellent website Popular Information, the 208 00:14:02,715 --> 00:14:07,715 Speaker 1: Escambia County School District in the Florida Panhandle. So what's 209 00:14:07,755 --> 00:14:09,995 Speaker 1: the next step. If you've already started banning books in 210 00:14:10,035 --> 00:14:13,675 Speaker 1: Florida and trying to essentially ban students in Indiana and 211 00:14:13,715 --> 00:14:16,795 Speaker 1: send them to go work in the fields, don't worry, 212 00:14:16,835 --> 00:14:21,675 Speaker 1: Sun'll be sunset soon. You do what they did in Escambia, 213 00:14:22,195 --> 00:14:25,755 Speaker 1: just to make sure they didn't violate HB One six ' nine, 214 00:14:25,875 --> 00:14:28,675 Speaker 1: the Ron De Santis Bill that gives residents the right 215 00:14:28,755 --> 00:14:31,595 Speaker 1: to remove any book from a library that depicts or 216 00:14:31,675 --> 00:14:36,115 Speaker 1: describes sexual conduct. The Scambia County has removed from its 217 00:14:36,195 --> 00:14:44,275 Speaker 1: library the dictionary, actually three different dictionaries and two the 218 00:14:44,355 --> 00:14:51,675 Speaker 1: sources and eight encyclopedias because they describe sexual conduct. Yeah, 219 00:14:51,675 --> 00:14:53,675 Speaker 1: I got bad news for you, geniuses. You know what 220 00:14:53,715 --> 00:14:57,355 Speaker 1: other book describes sexual conduct and therefore you damn well 221 00:14:57,395 --> 00:15:02,555 Speaker 1: better ban it immediately. I believe the title is the 222 00:15:02,555 --> 00:15:08,795 Speaker 1: the Bible, but our winners the worst. Pat McAfee, star 223 00:15:08,995 --> 00:15:12,635 Speaker 1: of the new Big Sleeveless Pat Show on ESPN, and 224 00:15:12,755 --> 00:15:17,675 Speaker 1: his cohort Aaron Rodgers of the New York Jets and ESPN. Well, well, 225 00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:20,435 Speaker 1: just of the New York Jets. He's off ESPN at 226 00:15:20,555 --> 00:15:23,515 Speaker 1: least for now. Actually, he only played four snaps for 227 00:15:23,515 --> 00:15:26,395 Speaker 1: the New York Jets. So it's Aaron Rodgers, formerly of 228 00:15:26,435 --> 00:15:29,995 Speaker 1: the New York Jets and formerly of ESPN. After a 229 00:15:29,995 --> 00:15:34,795 Speaker 1: week of controversies generated entirely by McAfee and Rogers themselves 230 00:15:35,275 --> 00:15:39,555 Speaker 1: for money, centering on defaming their Disney colleague Jimmy Kimmel 231 00:15:39,875 --> 00:15:43,995 Speaker 1: and slamming key ESPN executives by name, one who they 232 00:15:44,235 --> 00:15:46,995 Speaker 1: like and one who they do not like, and now 233 00:15:47,075 --> 00:15:51,675 Speaker 1: the backlash starting, in which the ESPN football writer Dan 234 00:15:51,715 --> 00:15:54,515 Speaker 1: Graciano went on the ESPN Radio Morning show yesterday and 235 00:15:54,515 --> 00:15:58,155 Speaker 1: described Aaron Rodgers as quote obviously a liar and a 236 00:15:58,275 --> 00:16:03,035 Speaker 1: narcissistic con artist who is bad for everything he touches. Unquote. 237 00:16:03,075 --> 00:16:07,595 Speaker 1: After all that this guy sleeveless, McAfee announced that Aaron 238 00:16:07,675 --> 00:16:11,635 Speaker 1: Rodgers will not appear again on the ESPN Show for 239 00:16:11,675 --> 00:16:13,915 Speaker 1: the rest of this National Football League season, even though 240 00:16:13,955 --> 00:16:16,555 Speaker 1: McAfee is paying Rogers more than a million dollars a 241 00:16:16,595 --> 00:16:19,835 Speaker 1: year to appear on the show during the National Football 242 00:16:19,915 --> 00:16:25,875 Speaker 1: League season. So Aaron Rodgers got fired, and McAfee insisted, 243 00:16:25,915 --> 00:16:28,635 Speaker 1: and a lot of off the record sources insisted, and 244 00:16:28,915 --> 00:16:31,675 Speaker 1: ESPN insisted that this was McAfee's call, in which case 245 00:16:31,675 --> 00:16:35,995 Speaker 1: it was McAfee throwing Aaron Rodgers under the bus. And 246 00:16:36,075 --> 00:16:40,755 Speaker 1: I approve, but it doesn't matter. It's the proverbial distinction 247 00:16:40,835 --> 00:16:43,315 Speaker 1: without a difference, big sleeveless Pat might very well have 248 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:46,715 Speaker 1: made the actual phone call, Hey Aaron, you're not on anymore. 249 00:16:46,715 --> 00:16:49,475 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go way out on a limb now. 250 00:16:49,555 --> 00:16:53,195 Speaker 1: Somebody who worked at ESPN full time on three separate 251 00:16:53,195 --> 00:16:58,435 Speaker 1: occasions in two different centuries, and freelance another two times, 252 00:16:58,635 --> 00:17:01,755 Speaker 1: and all that over the span of five different decades, 253 00:17:02,595 --> 00:17:06,315 Speaker 1: I'm going to bet that some at ESPN gave Pat 254 00:17:06,395 --> 00:17:11,515 Speaker 1: McAfee this choice. Pat. Aaron Rodgers used the anti semitic 255 00:17:11,675 --> 00:17:14,435 Speaker 1: puppet imagery again Tuesday and then went off on a 256 00:17:14,475 --> 00:17:18,275 Speaker 1: ten minute anti vax rant. And we have somehow convinced 257 00:17:18,315 --> 00:17:21,155 Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel not to sue him yet and not to 258 00:17:21,235 --> 00:17:25,275 Speaker 1: sue you yet, Pat, so so you fire Aaron Rodgers 259 00:17:25,635 --> 00:17:27,675 Speaker 1: or we will do it for you. And if we 260 00:17:27,755 --> 00:17:32,115 Speaker 1: have to do it for you, you're gone too. The 261 00:17:32,235 --> 00:17:35,595 Speaker 1: problem is Pat McAfee should have known to do this 262 00:17:35,795 --> 00:17:39,515 Speaker 1: a week ago, not a day ago. And ESPN should 263 00:17:39,555 --> 00:17:41,435 Speaker 1: have known this was going to happen because this is 264 00:17:41,475 --> 00:17:44,075 Speaker 1: almost exactly what happened with Rush Limbaugh when they hired 265 00:17:44,155 --> 00:17:47,235 Speaker 1: him twenty years ago. And all that means that you 266 00:17:47,275 --> 00:17:50,995 Speaker 1: can almost bet that something like this will happen on 267 00:17:51,155 --> 00:17:58,555 Speaker 1: Pat McAfee's show again real soon, Big Shirtless Pat and Aaron. 268 00:17:59,035 --> 00:18:01,675 Speaker 1: At least he lasted longer on ESPN than he did 269 00:18:01,755 --> 00:18:08,035 Speaker 1: with the Jets Rogers two days. Worst persons in the world. 270 00:18:36,995 --> 00:18:39,275 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here on countdown. 271 00:18:39,315 --> 00:18:43,115 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening this time. It's literally damaged to myself. 272 00:18:43,155 --> 00:18:45,515 Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, my ent agreed to let me 273 00:18:45,595 --> 00:18:49,235 Speaker 1: keep talking provided I cut back today. So you've just 274 00:18:49,275 --> 00:18:53,115 Speaker 1: heard the streamlined version. I'm not Lloyd austining you here. 275 00:18:53,155 --> 00:18:56,355 Speaker 1: I'm not sick. There's nothing seriously wrong structurally. They're not 276 00:18:56,395 --> 00:18:59,795 Speaker 1: worried about my throat. It's just everything is strained from 277 00:18:59,835 --> 00:19:05,195 Speaker 1: projecting while sick, don't get better, Thanks for your indulgence. Countdown. 278 00:19:05,275 --> 00:19:07,995 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanel arranged, produced, 279 00:19:08,035 --> 00:19:10,915 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray on guitars, 280 00:19:10,955 --> 00:19:14,195 Speaker 1: based on drums, Mister Chanelle on orchestration and keyboards. It 281 00:19:14,315 --> 00:19:17,995 Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music performed and arranged 282 00:19:18,035 --> 00:19:21,355 Speaker 1: by No Horns Allowed sports music. The Olberman theme from 283 00:19:21,555 --> 00:19:24,915 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN Inc. 284 00:19:25,275 --> 00:19:28,475 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments from Nancy Faust The 285 00:19:28,515 --> 00:19:31,515 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever and our announcer today was 286 00:19:31,515 --> 00:19:34,075 Speaker 1: my friend Richard Lewis, and everything else was pretty much 287 00:19:34,155 --> 00:19:37,355 Speaker 1: my fault. So that's countdown for this, the three hundredth 288 00:19:37,475 --> 00:19:41,115 Speaker 1: day until the twenty twenty four US presidential election and 289 00:19:41,195 --> 00:19:44,515 Speaker 1: the one thousan ninety ninth day since dementia Jay Trump's 290 00:19:44,515 --> 00:19:47,835 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 291 00:19:47,915 --> 00:19:51,235 Speaker 1: United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, the Insurrection Act, and 292 00:19:51,275 --> 00:19:54,235 Speaker 1: the justice system to stop him from doing it again 293 00:19:54,795 --> 00:19:58,355 Speaker 1: while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 294 00:19:58,795 --> 00:20:00,995 Speaker 1: I want to raise the possibility that I'm going to 295 00:20:01,075 --> 00:20:03,275 Speaker 1: skip it based on the throat, So if there isn't 296 00:20:03,275 --> 00:20:06,595 Speaker 1: one showing up in your mailbox, don't be surprised or 297 00:20:06,635 --> 00:20:11,435 Speaker 1: alarmed until next time. Whenever next time is. As the 298 00:20:11,435 --> 00:20:13,435 Speaker 1: news anchor at the station I interned for in nineteen 299 00:20:13,475 --> 00:20:15,515 Speaker 1: seventy eight used to say, thank you for your time 300 00:20:15,555 --> 00:20:18,595 Speaker 1: this time till next time. I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, 301 00:20:18,635 --> 00:20:33,875 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 302 00:20:33,915 --> 00:20:38,955 Speaker 1: Alreman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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