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Speaker 1: Donald Trump does not own the White House. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: does not own the United States of America. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: does not own the world. Nothing Trump has done in
Speaker 1: sending in thugs and military to attack people that did
Speaker 1: not vote for him in cities and states that do
Speaker 1: not support him is legal. Nothing Trump has done in
Speaker 1: having his nosferatu Stephen Miller threatened Governor Pritzker of Illinois
Speaker 1: with seditious conspiracy is legal. Nothing Trump has done in
Speaker 1: his attempt to begin ethnic cleansing of Hispanics in this
Speaker 1: country Gestapo like raids, kidnappings, deportations is legal. Nothing Trump
Speaker 1: has done in sending so called election monitors to interfere
Speaker 1: in the voting in California and Jersey on behalf of
Speaker 1: the MAGA is legal. Nothing Trump has done to enable
Speaker 1: the passive self neutering of the House and Senate is legal.
Speaker 1: Nothing Trump has done to let him say, supposedly jokingly
Speaker 1: for The New York Times yesterday, I'm the Speaker and
Speaker 1: the President is legal. Nothing Trump has done in his
Speaker 1: demolition against destruction of attack on the East Wing of
Speaker 1: the White House is legal. Nothing Trump has done in
Speaker 1: murdering citizens of other nations in international waters without evidence
Speaker 1: and without a declaration of war, without any congressional oversight.
Speaker 1: None of that is legal. Nothing he has done to
Speaker 1: send battleships to Latin America is legal. Nothing he has
Speaker 1: done to accept money from international sources for himself and
Speaker 1: his family is legal. Nothing he has done to try
Speaker 1: to buy the election for the fascist Malay in Argentina
Speaker 1: is legal. Nothing Trump has done in selling one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty million dollars worth of influence in the army
Speaker 1: to someone aptly described as a weirdo Nepo baby is legal.
Speaker 1: Almost nothing about the Trump administration, about his presidency, about
Speaker 1: his forming unilateral dictatorship, is legal, and thus it is
Speaker 1: time to cut him off financially, to take the one
Speaker 1: measure that will force an end to this trumpion madness
Speaker 1: for the Blue States to follow up on Governor Newsom's suggestion,
Speaker 1: on the suggestion of others including me in this forum,
Speaker 1: and stop transmitting federal taxes from the States to the
Speaker 1: National Treasury until Trump resigns as president period. We must
Speaker 1: have a state led tax payment boycott, and it must
Speaker 1: be led by governors and other state officials, so that
Speaker 1: there can be no attempt by Trump or his enablers
Speaker 1: and flunkies and whorees to prosecute or further threaten democracy
Speaker 1: loving civilians. For more than our two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: years as a nation, we have proudly recited the phrase
Speaker 1: no taxation without representation, and it is pastime to apply
Speaker 1: it here. And it is essential that governors like Newsom
Speaker 1: and Pritzker and Hokel and others in the majority states
Speaker 1: protect their citizens who are being subject to taxation without
Speaker 1: representation and without democracy, and for them the governors to
Speaker 1: take responsibility for these acts. The state of California must
Speaker 1: refuse to send any funds it can control to Washington.
Speaker 1: The state of Illinois must refuse to send any funds
Speaker 1: it can control to Washington. The state of New York
Speaker 1: must refuse to send any funds it can control to Washington.
Speaker 1: And if it wrecks the world economy, so be it.
Speaker 1: That will be better than what we have now and
Speaker 1: what is coming under Trump. Donald Trump is now a
Speaker 1: rogue dictator. He is almost completely and fully outside the law.
Speaker 1: He is engorging himself with public funds. He is insisting
Speaker 1: the government fix the twenty twenty election when it was
Speaker 1: his government and everybody he has demanded be prosecuted for it,
Speaker 1: except as FBI director was not in the government in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. That's how effing crazy this ass whole is.
Speaker 1: He is destroying not just government buildings without any legal authorization,
Speaker 1: He is destroying symbols of the American nation without any
Speaker 1: legal authorization. He is deranging our public discourse. He is
Speaker 1: destroying our public safety. He is threatening the lives of
Speaker 1: everyone in this country and the only that works in America.
Speaker 1: Right now, money used as a weapon must be used
Speaker 1: to freeze him where he stands so that this nation
Speaker 1: can roll back the years and decades of damage he
Speaker 1: has done. Now now, now dfund Donald Trump. That quote
Speaker 1: I mentioned from the New York Times story yesterday, quote,
Speaker 1: I'm the speaker and the president, mister Trump has joked.
Speaker 1: According to two people who heard the remark, that may
Speaker 1: be the least surprising news item of the year. But
Speaker 1: seeing Maga go on the record in that Time story,
Speaker 1: Steve Bannon is quoted. Representatives Kylie and Van Dine are
Speaker 1: quoted seeing him go on the record to carve up
Speaker 1: Mike tiny flaccid Johnson suggests Trump is not only forcing
Speaker 1: this impotent Johnson to do all the dirty work, but
Speaker 1: then blaming him for the inevitable results. I have no
Speaker 1: sympathy for Johnson. This is the hell he has created
Speaker 1: for himself. It's just interesting, as in, He's going to
Speaker 1: throw Johnson overboard soon, isn't he. We're going to go
Speaker 1: through all that again with the Speaker of the House. Now,
Speaker 1: the headline today should not be that. It should be
Speaker 1: this story that Trump is sending election observers to New
Speaker 1: Jersey and California. It's straight up Jim Crow Southern voter intimidation.
Speaker 1: But I can understand and give a pass to the
Speaker 1: fact that it's difficult to pick out the headline from
Speaker 1: this kaleidoscope of shit Trump drops on us all every day.
Speaker 1: I'm beginning to suspect the video was not AI hell,
Speaker 1: I didn't lead with the election observers. Plus, it is
Speaker 1: tough when you realize Trump announces he's building an arc
Speaker 1: the election observers in a moment, let's let's let's let's
Speaker 1: talk arc. I don't know if he's crazy enough to
Speaker 1: think he's building Noah's arc. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: crazy enough to think he's building a space arc like
Speaker 1: Musk wants. I don't know if he's crazy enough to
Speaker 1: think the word arch A R C H, common everyday
Speaker 1: English word like the thing he wants to build to
Speaker 1: march troops through in DC. The arc to Trump, I
Speaker 1: don't know which crazy it is. He thinks it's arc
Speaker 1: as in French, but it's arch. But he says he's
Speaker 1: building an R and he's going to illegally spend some
Speaker 1: of the illegal money for the illegal ballroom on this
Speaker 1: illegal arc. You think I'm exaggerating.
Speaker 2: You know, we're building the arc, and maybe we use
Speaker 2: it for the arc. Looks like we might. You know,
Speaker 2: we're going to be building the arc now. We've raised
Speaker 2: a lot of money for the ballroom, so maybe we'll
Speaker 2: But the ARC is going to be incredible for Washington, DCA,
Speaker 2: so maybe we use it for the arc.
Speaker 1: So you're building an arc, hi, buddy? Okay, how many
Speaker 1: things a week does Trump say that we get anybody
Speaker 1: else in this country forcibly committed. Then there is the
Speaker 1: latest on the ballroom and the destruction of part of
Speaker 1: the White House. You know, Trump bringing to fruition the
Speaker 1: nine to eleven terrorist plot of Osama bin Laden the
Speaker 1: new ballroom and airplane hangar. It's going to cost two
Speaker 1: hundred million. Oh no, t oh no, three hundred Oh,
Speaker 1: I said three hundred and fifty. But it's privately funded
Speaker 1: with corporate bribes, meaning it's fine because it's privately funded.
Speaker 1: But of course No Kings is a communist plot because
Speaker 1: some of the logistics for it were privately funded. Privately
Speaker 1: funded communism. Plus, what is the problem about how much
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost? A woman named Cheryl Cassone on Fox,
Speaker 1: who once was an actual CNBC business reporter and is
Speaker 1: now at the I'll say anything to stay in the
Speaker 1: TV business stage, emitted this perfectly symmetrical sophistry in defense
Speaker 1: of what are certain to be endless cost overruns on
Speaker 1: the only building big enough to house Trump's ego quote
Speaker 1: that going after him about the cost. Initially he said
Speaker 1: it was going to be two hundred million. Now it's
Speaker 1: like three hundred million. Oh no, construction cost, You're higher
Speaker 1: than what the original budget or quote was shocking. Let's
Speaker 1: call the National Guard in give me a break unquote
Speaker 1: national Guard, you say, miss Cassone. Interesting reference. Trump does
Speaker 1: call in the National Guard for everything else. Why isn't
Speaker 1: he calling in the National Guard here? It's only fifty
Speaker 1: seventy five percent over the cost Social Security has been
Speaker 1: cut passive aggressively. Starting in January, the cost of living
Speaker 1: adjustment will be two point eight percent. The average annual
Speaker 1: increase in the last decade had been three point one percent,
Speaker 1: so it's ten percent less and with inflation at three percent,
Speaker 1: Trump has just made seventy one million Americans ten percent poor.
Speaker 1: Seventeen million Americans will pay thirty percent more for the
Speaker 1: Trump version of Obamacare. He makes billionss arches and ballrooms.
Speaker 1: We pay thousands. We sent twenty billion to try to
Speaker 1: save Milay of Argentina without even getting a guarantee that
Speaker 1: he's going to get a grown up haircut, one that
Speaker 1: would make him not look like the late great comedian
Speaker 1: Marty Allen. Google Marty Allen. It'll be worth it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's declared he can kill people at whim, murder them,
Speaker 1: but happily they're just foreigners right now. Anyway, if you
Speaker 1: are declaring war against these cartels, and Congress is likely
Speaker 1: to approve of that process, why not just ask for
Speaker 1: a declaration of war.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for
Speaker 2: a declaration of war. I think we're just going to
Speaker 2: kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're going to kill them.
Speaker 1: You know, they're going to be like dead. He can't.
Speaker 1: By the way, those will be war crimes. All the
Speaker 1: next president has to do is turn him over to
Speaker 1: the International Court. I really would like to see one
Speaker 1: of the hopefuls on the democratic side swear right now
Speaker 1: that they will turn him over to the international Court.
Speaker 1: This whole idea about moderation and don't run against Trump
Speaker 1: is bullshit. It is deliberately designed by people whose money
Speaker 1: depends on the infrastructure of politics continuing unchanged. Doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if we're fascist, communist, democratic, doesn't matter who's in charge,
Speaker 1: just as long as all of their jobs at the
Speaker 1: Washington Post still exists or at the State Department. There
Speaker 1: is a deep state. It is not nefarious. It is
Speaker 1: simply self preserving. Do not say, oh, we need to
Speaker 1: be moderate Democrats, don't run against Trump. The guy who
Speaker 1: says I will put Trump behind bars, come hell or
Speaker 1: high water is the one who gets the nomination. And
Speaker 1: I'm using guy generally. Man, woman, I don't care. Speaking
Speaker 1: of which, there's Harmeit Dillon, who also should be turned
Speaker 1: over to the International Court. One of the worst of
Speaker 1: the Trumpsts, a tenth rate lawyer used to represent Tulsey
Speaker 1: skunk Air Gabbard is now in charge of civil rights
Speaker 1: at the DOJ that would be protecting white people from
Speaker 1: laws the civil rights It's her department that will be
Speaker 1: asked to monitor polling sites in Passaic County, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: and five California counties La, Orange, Kern, Riverside, and Fresno
Speaker 1: to quote insure transparency, ballot security and compliance with federal law.
Speaker 1: In other words, those counties that did not vote Republican
Speaker 1: and Trump wants monitors there will they be accompanied by
Speaker 1: the National Guard, and the monitors and whoever is with
Speaker 1: them will intimidate Democratic voters. Just a coincidence that California
Speaker 1: will be voting on redrawing the election map. In recent elections,
Speaker 1: we have received reports of irregularities in these counties that
Speaker 1: we fear will undermine either the willingness of voters to
Speaker 1: participate in the election or their confidence in the announced
Speaker 1: results of the election, writes the MAGA GOP chairwoman Korn
Speaker 1: Rankin of California. I'll translate that from MAGA to English.
Speaker 1: The irregularities are Republicans can't win in those counties. There
Speaker 1: aren't enough of them. This is how voting works. You
Speaker 1: have more votes, you win. So the translation is we
Speaker 1: can't win, so we have to fix the election. You
Speaker 1: want to send election observers into New Jersey to find
Speaker 1: out why the Republicans keep running candidates even worse than
Speaker 1: the Democrats find in New Jersey, I'll listen to that intervention.
Speaker 1: As to California, korn Rankin, shove it up up your ass.
Speaker 1: One note from twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: The DOJ wanted to send monitors to actual troubled voting areas.
Speaker 1: They were prevented prevented by local officials local Republican officials
Speaker 1: in Missouri and Florida. As to California and Jersey, governor's
Speaker 1: Newsom and Murphy should get on the jump here, call
Speaker 1: out the National Guard in their states and arrest the
Speaker 1: quote election observers as soon as they get off the plane,
Speaker 1: or if they're not going by plane, climb out of
Speaker 1: the closest HARMEI Dylan Sewer in a totally different kind
Speaker 1: of election observation Here is my observation about the main
Speaker 1: Senate election. Graham Plattner had to drop out last week.
Speaker 1: He did not. He has to drop out even more
Speaker 1: this week. Yes, he has a Nazi tattoo. He's covered
Speaker 1: it up. Now, the Nazi tattoo did not bother as
Speaker 1: many many people as I thought it was gonna. I
Speaker 1: had to admit surprise there. I'm not easily surprised anymore.
Speaker 1: But how about this? Does this bother anybody? It looks
Speaker 1: like he lied about not knowing it was a Nazi
Speaker 1: symbol in his tattoo on his body. Get out. His
Speaker 1: supporters renounced him, including Bernie Sanders, renounce Graham Plattner. Graham
Speaker 1: Platner has no judgment, no hesitation to lie his way
Speaker 1: out of a problem. We already have enough people like that.
Speaker 1: CNN reported that he knew about it more than a
Speaker 1: decade ago, talked about it, wrote about it online. I'll
Speaker 1: just read the k file report quote. Jewish Insider first
Speaker 1: reported about the former acquaintance who recalled Platner referring to
Speaker 1: the image as my totin cough unquote in a joking way.
Speaker 1: More than a decade ago. CNN spoke with that same
Speaker 1: acquaintance who reiterated the recollection. CNN also spoke with an
Speaker 1: acquaintance of Platner for more than a decade ago, who
Speaker 1: said Platner spoke about his tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol.
Speaker 1: A second person told CNN that they learned of the
Speaker 1: tattoo years ago from the acquaintance, who told them that
Speaker 1: Platner had described it as a Nazi style design. CNN
Speaker 1: also reviewed a text chain between the acquaintance and another
Speaker 1: person discussing Platner's Nazi liank tattoo several months ago before
Speaker 1: the story became public, using to continue the CNN report
Speaker 1: his longtime Reddit handle p Hustle. The former Marine infantryryman
Speaker 1: and future Democratic Senate hopeful, also argued in a twenty
Speaker 1: twenty online discussion that SS lightning bolt tattoos were a
Speaker 1: culture marker within Marine Scout sniper units, not an expression
Speaker 1: of white supremacist ideology. When commenters in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: thread described the lightning bolts as a Nazi or racist symbol,
Speaker 1: Platnir dismissed the criticism, writing that outsiders quote have no
Speaker 1: idea what they're talking about, and added I will be
Speaker 1: sure to inform the black guys I know with bolts
Speaker 1: that they're Nazis now, so the symbol he didn't know
Speaker 1: was believed to be was interpreted as was a Nazi
Speaker 1: symbol he was denying was a Nazi symbol five years
Speaker 1: ago and making reference to the word Nazi. If somehow
Speaker 1: you still don't think this is disqualifying or that there's
Speaker 1: some kind of other explanation, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: The guy's response to the story breaking was to cover
Speaker 1: it up figuratively first then literally, So what's the next story,
Speaker 1: and what's he going to do about that story? And
Speaker 1: who knows that story? Right now? Who knows that story
Speaker 1: and is just saving it so it can be used
Speaker 1: at the right moment to give us another six years
Speaker 1: of Susan fing Collins Now another edition of It's called
Speaker 1: a news medium because it's neither rare nor well done.
Speaker 1: Bill Maher, Olivia newsy Comcast, Cheryl Hines, Brett Bhar, Brett
Speaker 1: Behar first to CBS to do the CBS Evening News,
Speaker 1: the latest ratings at Fox for the Brett Baer News
Speaker 1: Propaganda caston eight hundred and sixty two thousand viewers. Latest
Speaker 1: CBS Evening News viewership three million, six hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: one thousand. If there is one move to make to
Speaker 1: kill off the CBS Evening News before the end of
Speaker 1: the year, maybe it is to alienate the audience which
Speaker 1: agrees with its producers, whether or not you or I do.
Speaker 1: Aliena the audience which agrees with its producers that the
Speaker 1: CBS Evening News is a good and politically accurate or
Speaker 1: politically neutral newscast. Alienate them by putting on someone scene
Speaker 1: as a right wing nutjob who is quoted in the
Speaker 1: lawsuits which Fox had to settle for umpteen million dollars
Speaker 1: as an unapologetic, utterly biased right wing propagandist. TV executives
Speaker 1: experienced TV executives, not the dozens of Barry Weiss's who
Speaker 1: have been put in charge only to fail almost immediately,
Speaker 1: the ones who come and go every eighteen months or so.
Speaker 1: Somewhere in television. They have always believed that an audience
Speaker 1: can be picked up and moved from one network to
Speaker 1: the other without losing any viewers. It's madness. This is
Speaker 1: why they hired Megan Kelly at NBC. Look at all
Speaker 1: those viewers will get years before they'd hired Rita from
Speaker 1: Fox News on the weekends and said, look at her
Speaker 1: numbers on the weekends. They're bigger than our numbers on
Speaker 1: the week We'll put her on MSNBC and she'll get
Speaker 1: those numbers. She didn't get those numbers because she was
Speaker 1: any good. She got those numbers because she was on Fox.
Speaker 1: It is madness. We're gonna move that audience from one
Speaker 1: network to another. We're gonna move Brett Beher's audience to CBS.
Speaker 1: It's like deciding you're gonna move a river by picking
Speaker 1: up the water in the palms of your hands. Thirty
Speaker 1: years ago, when ESPN launched ESPN two, the thought was
Speaker 1: all the younger viewers in America, all the sports fans
Speaker 1: under say thirty five, they're gonna go watch the new
Speaker 1: hip ESPN two. You can tell it's hip, it has
Speaker 1: two in it. Well, just before we launched ESPN two,
Speaker 1: the executive who postulated this, who, by the way, was
Speaker 1: not originally television. He was a newspaper and magazine guy.
Speaker 1: He had many good eydea is, but probably ninety seven
Speaker 1: out of one hundred of them were disasters. The other
Speaker 1: three put them in the Hall of fame. But this
Speaker 1: executive postulated that it would be a great idea that
Speaker 1: we should start a network for fans under thirty five.
Speaker 1: He asked me if I knew which program in all
Speaker 1: of television Hall already had that audience. Which program, he
Speaker 1: asked me, in all of television has the audience with
Speaker 1: the highest percentage of its viewers who are under thirty five.
Speaker 1: I said, I assumed that had to be some show
Speaker 1: on MTV, and the executive laughed and proudly said, No,
Speaker 1: it's your show, the eleven PM SportsCenter. I thought for
Speaker 1: a second, and then I said, wait, that's the show
Speaker 1: you're taking me off to go do this You already have.
Speaker 1: We already have the audience under the age of thirty five,
Speaker 1: and they're watching me on the show I'm doing now.
Speaker 1: They live at SportsCenter, and you're going to start at
Speaker 1: ESPN two, and you're kicking them out of SportsCenter and
Speaker 1: kicking me out of SportsCenter and expecting us to go
Speaker 1: watch this new thing. Most of them don't even get
Speaker 1: on their cable systems. You already have these viewers, and
Speaker 1: you just told them to get lost, and you just
Speaker 1: paid me more money to go do this other show
Speaker 1: to get the audience we already have. He paused, and
Speaker 1: then a blank look crossed his face, which was pretty
Speaker 1: blank to begin with, and he said, hmm, I have
Speaker 1: to go make a few phone calls. I was back
Speaker 1: on SportsCenter seven months later. I know Bret Bhar a
Speaker 1: little bit. He's not a journalist. He thinks he's a journalist.
Speaker 1: He might be tempted to go anchor the CBS Evening
Speaker 1: News because Cronkite did, unless he thinks about it. And
Speaker 1: while he is not a journalist, he's also not a moron.
Speaker 1: I am not convinced I can say that about Barry
Speaker 1: Weiss and the people who just took over CBS News, who,
Speaker 1: if they put a right wing ideologue in the anchor chair,
Speaker 1: will be able to lose even more money more quickly
Speaker 1: than anybody believes possible. Meanwhile, over at NBC, Comcast has
Speaker 1: been identified as one of the firms playing for Trump's
Speaker 1: ballroom and memorial airplane hangar, paying and playing, but playing
Speaker 1: that makes NBC News and MSNBC and CNBC and all
Speaker 1: the rest untrustworthy. That is what Bob Eiger bought for
Speaker 1: ABC News. Then he swerved away somewhat anyway over the
Speaker 1: Kimmel and Disney plus subscriptions disaster. He may have avoided
Speaker 1: the acts CBS has not. It already went there irretrievably.
Speaker 1: But the question is comcast in. They're right on the precipice.
Speaker 1: Does a company, especially a company that does news for
Speaker 1: money in many different venues, does it have the right
Speaker 1: to pay a bribe in order to avoid unjustifiable and
Speaker 1: retaliatory prosecution. I'm not sure the answer is no. If
Speaker 1: there is no other way to save yourself from getting shot,
Speaker 1: do you give the hold up man the money? The
Speaker 1: key is, is there no other way? Bill Maher In
Speaker 1: the New York Mayor's race, my old college frenemie has
Speaker 1: endorsed the sheep in sheep's clothing. Andrew Cuomo may not
Speaker 1: be that exciting, mar said, and that inspirational, but for
Speaker 1: a party that said we want to go back to normal,
Speaker 1: he's kind of normal. Yeah, yeah, Bill, You hear the
Speaker 1: word normal a lot when people mention Cuomo. Guests then
Speaker 1: pointed out that Cuomo resigned as governor of New York.
Speaker 1: A federal investigation concluded that he had been a sex
Speaker 1: pest or worse to at least thirteen female staffers. Plus
Speaker 1: there were all those dead people in the nursing homes.
Speaker 1: That's not normal for a governor. Bill mar said, Oh no,
Speaker 1: I did my own research before having Cuomo on his show.
Speaker 1: Quote a lot of it's kind of bullshit. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe he was a little too handsy, a little too Italian,
Speaker 1: a little too touchy. You know. Why would Bill Maher
Speaker 1: defend Cuomo and dismiss all of that and those thirteen
Speaker 1: women with the phrase maybe he was a little too handsy. Well,
Speaker 1: take a guess. Also, it's time to confess for the
Speaker 1: last six or seven years that I would go to
Speaker 1: LA to appear on Bill Mahers show, like the yearsenty
Speaker 1: ten to twenty seventeen, I did it. I did it because,
Speaker 1: as many of my fellow guests would admit to one another,
Speaker 1: but only out of earshot. Maybe we're in the parking
Speaker 1: lot going to have a smoke or something. We went
Speaker 1: because because they spent money, they would fly us round
Speaker 1: trip from the East Coast first class. Hell. I used
Speaker 1: to plan my business trips and vacations around it. I'm sorry. Plus,
Speaker 1: back to the hands the part when I went on
Speaker 1: his old ABC show. An acquaintance who was one of
Speaker 1: the producers who had called me and asked me to
Speaker 1: be on it, told me, whatever I did, do not
Speaker 1: shake Bill's hand before we taped. He's he's probably uh.
Speaker 1: Took her a long time to get the rest of
Speaker 1: her remark out. He he's probably uh just warmed up,
Speaker 1: if you get my meaning. But they flew us first
Speaker 1: class on the same subject and not the airplane part.
Speaker 1: How do insane confidence men and alleged on camera masturbators
Speaker 1: like Robert Kennedy Junior survive? Let alone succeed because a
Speaker 1: thousand people on the fringes do nothing about him. One
Speaker 1: of those people is Cheryl Hines. She went on the
Speaker 1: podcast of the Almost as Strange, wife of Stephen Miller
Speaker 1: Katie Miller, who asked her about quote rumors or speculation
Speaker 1: about her marriage. Miller was asking about how much her
Speaker 1: husband f surround.
Speaker 2: Ms.
Speaker 1: Hines, who I do not know, answered in perfect Stepford
Speaker 1: wife manner. I think you always have to consider the source, right,
Speaker 1: So that's where I start. Then Miller asked about my
Speaker 1: ex Olivia. The denial doubled quote. Bobby had been running
Speaker 1: for president and it was an exhausting year and a
Speaker 1: half of headlines and rumors and articles in chaos, and
Speaker 1: at that time I thought, Okay, this is more chaos
Speaker 1: and more rumors, and it was a lot. I don't
Speaker 1: know this person, don't know their intentions. I could guess,
Speaker 1: but I won't, but you can if you want. Cheryl
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you know her. It matters that Kennedy
Speaker 1: knows her and how he knows her. How close to
Speaker 1: the Biblical knows is this? And consider the source. You're
Speaker 1: married to Bobby Kennedy Junior, possibly the worst source in
Speaker 1: America next to Trump. But consider the source. I don't.
Speaker 1: I think perhaps I've noted here that I'm not attacking
Speaker 1: my ex, but I'm certainly not carrying water for her.
Speaker 1: But consider the there's a publisher putting out her book.
Speaker 1: The publisher can be sued if any of her allegations
Speaker 1: are untrue, and she is going to go into the
Speaker 1: whole Kennedy thing. And then there's her more recent ex
Speaker 1: whom she did sue, who she tried to get arrested,
Speaker 1: and then something happened and suddenly she wasn't suing him,
Speaker 1: and she was quote leaving her job, and oh, the
Speaker 1: FBI was no longer involved, and we all know what
Speaker 1: that something had happened had to have been to get
Speaker 1: her to drop all the theatrics. That's something that had
Speaker 1: to have happened that provided all those exquisite details and
Speaker 1: quotes about her interactions with Kennedy and all the I
Speaker 1: want to impregnate you stuff and the other stuff that
Speaker 1: led me to say, I'm still grossed out. And I
Speaker 1: lived with her for three years. Somebody has a transcript
Speaker 1: of or more likely a recording of them on on
Speaker 1: FaceTime or some part of the body time. Hey, you
Speaker 1: also of interest here, Anna Paulina Luna? Could she be
Speaker 1: the dumbest Republican congresswoman? What do your rankings look like?
Speaker 1: How is your bracket? Could she really be dimmer than McCain,
Speaker 1: McLain that was a Freudian slip, Bobert Green and the others?
Speaker 1: Could she be dumber than them combined? Let's ask the
Speaker 1: California congressman with whom Anna Paulina Luna had an online
Speaker 1: fight over the funds for No Kings. All right, we
Speaker 1: can't ask the California congressman with whom she had an
Speaker 1: online fight over the funding for No Kings Because, unbeknownst
Speaker 1: to Anna Paulina Luna, the California congressman with whom she
Speaker 1: had an online fight over the funding for No Kings,
Speaker 1: does not actually exist. He's a satirical character and she
Speaker 1: doesn't know this. That's next. This is Countdown. This is
Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oberman still ahead on this episode of Countdown.
Speaker 1: The anniversary was last week, in fact, the twenty fifth anniversary,
Speaker 1: and it was during the World Series. And today this
Speaker 1: is still during the World Series. And after a number
Speaker 1: of years in which this saga had cooled in importance,
Speaker 1: it seems to have reasserted itself as a part of baseball.
Speaker 1: Loar that I was in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees, through Mike Piazza
Speaker 1: of the New York Mets, broken bat at Mike Piazza
Speaker 1: during the World Series, or didn't throw it at him,
Speaker 1: or threw it at me in the Yankee dugout. And
Speaker 1: it all ends with Mike Piazza threatening to sue me.
Speaker 1: And next in Things I promised not to tell but
Speaker 1: so long that I will start it immediately after the
Speaker 1: end of Worse Persons, Then there'll be a commercial and
Speaker 1: then part two. First Believe it or Not there are
Speaker 1: still more new idiots to talk about the roundup of
Speaker 1: the miscreants, morons and Dunn Kruger effects specimens who constitute
Speaker 1: two Day's other worst persons in the world World. We
Speaker 1: have a tie at bronze for worse Ice in DC
Speaker 1: with Oh no, you want details. American Isis arrested a
Speaker 1: man named Sam O'Hara in a raid in DC at
Speaker 1: Logan Circle. He was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music.
Speaker 1: The Imperial March arrested. The ACLU has sued on his
Speaker 1: behalf because guess what, satire is still legal. Also, if
Speaker 1: you're wearing masks, how do we know you're not members
Speaker 1: of the Imperial thing? From Star Wars. But it's what
Speaker 1: they wrote about Ice that I'm quoting here point four.
Speaker 1: The law might have tolerated government conduct of this sort
Speaker 1: a long time ago in a galaxy far far away,
Speaker 1: but in the here and now, the First Amendment bars
Speaker 1: of government officials from shutting down peaceful protests, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. I just like the formal use of the
Speaker 1: only part of Star Wars I stayed to see. Yes,
Speaker 1: you're looking at the guy who walked out in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven. I'm not saying I was physically triggered. I
Speaker 1: just didn't really. It did give me a headache. I
Speaker 1: just didn't like it. But I still find the reference
Speaker 1: to it in illegal Action reassuringly funny. We may all
Speaker 1: be making our jokes inside concentration camps where the guards
Speaker 1: where logos with Donald Trump's face on them, but at
Speaker 1: least we'll still be having fun. That's tied with somebody
Speaker 1: who'll be there in her little Ilsis she Wolf of
Speaker 1: the SS outfit? Kaylee mcinaney smiling all the way through.
Speaker 1: Kaylee macinaney, one of Trump's lying, lying lawyer and laying
Speaker 1: things gefflingen Flungen Kaylee macinaney, one of Trump's lying liars
Speaker 1: from the first time around. No, I'm not doing a
Speaker 1: second take on this, smiling all the way through as
Speaker 1: she always does, because Jesus saydist This is the reaction
Speaker 1: to Trump trashing the economy, particularly the economy for food,
Speaker 1: particularly the economy for lower income television viewers and the
Speaker 1: elderly people like my age and older who watch a
Speaker 1: lot of Fox News. Not that I do, but they do,
Speaker 1: and smiling all the way through this I cannot possibly
Speaker 1: even if I played this clip and risked a lawsuit
Speaker 1: from Fox in playing it, I could not possibly possibly
Speaker 1: convey to you Kayley mcinnaney's desperate smile all the way
Speaker 1: through this everything sign they have a gun of my work.
Speaker 1: They're gonna shoot. They're gonna put me in the concentration
Speaker 1: crip too, Kaylee mcinnaney quote one tried and true brand
Speaker 1: is making a big comeback as consumers tighten their wallets.
Speaker 1: Hamburger Helper, the mix of mac and cheese and ground
Speaker 1: beef is seeing a surge in sales. Isn't that great?
Speaker 1: People are starving to death already. Isn't that great? And
Speaker 1: you helped Daily mcahaney the runner up, the priceless Anna
Speaker 1: Paulina Luna, who, if she did not exist, would have
Speaker 1: to be created. This may be the dumbest person in America.
Speaker 1: I know. I keep going back and forth among the
Speaker 1: various members of the House of Representatives, in the Republican Caucus,
Speaker 1: in the House, in the Senate, and I keep saying, no, no, Ultimately,
Speaker 1: it's still Bobert, No, No, It's it's McLean from Michigan,
Speaker 1: who once demonstrated in the past week the idea that
Speaker 1: there were protesters. She demonstrated this by moving her arm arms.
Speaker 1: She bawled up her fists and did her little arm march.
Speaker 1: Lisa McClean absolute IQ none detected but the original one maybe,
Speaker 1: Anna Paulina my Hoff Luna. Anna Paulina posted this at Rep.
Speaker 1: Jack Kimball asked me for receipts, but blocked me before
Speaker 1: I could respond. Weird flex So here are the receipts.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 1: Anna Paulina Luna posted that there were receipts showing the
Speaker 1: No King's protests were backed by dollars signed two hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety four million by the Sarrows Foundation buffet. I
Speaker 1: presume Jimmy Aclu indivisible and planned parenthood. This wasn't grassroots,
Speaker 1: It was a billionaire funded. She doesn't say what it was.
Speaker 1: She just has a picture of herself grabbing my mind
Speaker 1: and looking intently like her car is on fire in
Speaker 1: the parking lot. And this Rep. Jack Kimball of the
Speaker 1: fifty fourth District of California wrote, this is large. Anna
Speaker 1: Paulina has foung proof that No Kings marchers were paid
Speaker 1: nearly forty two cents each for participating. So she reposted
Speaker 1: all of this a screenshot of what Jack Kimball wrote
Speaker 1: in response to hers and just turned it into a
Speaker 1: fight and said that Jack Kimball asked her for receipts,
Speaker 1: which he did not. But the most interesting part, of course,
Speaker 1: is there is no representative Jack Kimball. The giveaway is, Anna,
Speaker 1: you never met him, and he's supposedly a Republican and
Speaker 1: he's from the fifty fourth district of California. And I
Speaker 1: know for people like Anna Paulina Luna, the number fifty
Speaker 1: four is might as well be the same as two
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four million. It's an inestimably large number.
Speaker 1: It's double or triple her IQ fifty four the fifty fourth.
Speaker 1: There is no fifty fourth congressional district. Jack Kimball is
Speaker 1: one of the oldest satirical accounts on Twitter x and
Speaker 1: she fell for it. But a screenshot is forever Congratulations
Speaker 1: on reclaiming your crown. Here's your crown, moron, but our
Speaker 1: winner as always Cuomo. I'm sure you heard something about this.
Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo's self defenestration campaign continues apace, right down to
Speaker 1: election day. He's going to make sure that nobody in
Speaker 1: the city of New York, other than possibly in Staten Island,
Speaker 1: thinks well of him. Ever again, he will bring down
Speaker 1: his brother, who is already pretty much down as it is.
Speaker 1: He will bring down his late father's name. There will
Speaker 1: be a bid to remove his late father's name from
Speaker 1: what is actually the tap and Z Bridge connecting Terrytown,
Speaker 1: New York, and Rockland County across the Hudson. They will
Speaker 1: do it. He is destroying the Cuomo family name, and
Speaker 1: his father was actually a very good governor Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 1: According to reporter Nick Garber, talking to conservative radio host
Speaker 1: sid Rosenberg this morning, sid Rosenberg, you may have seen
Speaker 1: has the darkest ten of anybody who was not injured
Speaker 1: in some sort of radiation accident. Cuomo asked this in
Speaker 1: an interview about the man who's going to defeat him
Speaker 1: in the mayoral election, as he defeated him in the
Speaker 1: mayoral primary. Zoraon Mamdani quote, God forbid another nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine ma'm donni in the seat, sid Rosenberg,
Speaker 1: scumbag looks like a burn victim. Sid Rosenberg replies, he'd
Speaker 1: be cheering. Cuomo paused and chuckled before saying that's another problem.
Speaker 1: I was here on nine to eleven, and I was
Speaker 1: here in the months after nine to eleven, and I
Speaker 1: have been here, in fact in this city. I got
Speaker 1: back from Los Angeles in late June or the beginning
Speaker 1: of July of two thousand and one, and I have
Speaker 1: lived here ever since without interruption. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: been away for more than three weeks at a span
Speaker 1: since then. And the one thing that has not happened
Speaker 1: in this city since then has been problems created by
Speaker 1: people of the Muslim faith of all the religions in
Speaker 1: this city that have done the most to try to
Speaker 1: outreach to other groups, to try to heal the wounds,
Speaker 1: and practically speaking, to invest their money in the areas
Speaker 1: that were blighted after nine to eleven. Members of the
Speaker 1: Islamic faith. I just I don't get the enmity. It's
Speaker 1: probably from people who were not adults on nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: who have now conflated everything because of scumbags like Trump
Speaker 1: and scumbags like Andrew Cromo. Andrew Como is not a Democrat.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a Republican. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he has any convictions whatsoever. Though I think he
Speaker 1: should have been convicted of something. I just think to
Speaker 1: say this about somebody who is likely to be the
Speaker 1: next mayor of New York indicates a total lack of
Speaker 1: responsibility or interest in anybody alive except himself. I think
Speaker 1: he should go to hell. All I know for sure
Speaker 1: about his convictions and how you would describe Andrew Cuomo
Speaker 1: is the following. He is Andrew Cuomo two Day's worst
Speaker 1: person in the world. Before the World Series ends, I
Speaker 1: have to tell this thing I promise not to tell,
Speaker 1: because by the time of the next one of these segments,
Speaker 1: no matter how long it lasts, the World Series will
Speaker 1: be over. So here is our number one story things
Speaker 1: I promise not to tell my favorite topic me and
Speaker 1: the series will be over, which is more than I
Speaker 1: can say for this story, which is chronologically and in
Speaker 1: terms of storytelling time, the longest one of these I
Speaker 1: can not only imagine having told, but ever telling. It
Speaker 1: started on the night of October twenty second, two thousand
Speaker 1: and it ended well. I'll let you know if and
Speaker 1: when it ever ends. I was enjoying the second night
Speaker 1: of one of my childhood dreams come true. I was
Speaker 1: the host, not just of the telecast of the World Series.
Speaker 1: But it was an all New York City series, a
Speaker 1: Mets versus Yankee series, a subway series. I'd literally dreamt
Speaker 1: of it since nineteen sixty seven. The manager of the
Speaker 1: Yankees had been the first person I ever interviewed on TV.
Speaker 1: Fifteen years earlier, I had worked with him in TV.
Speaker 1: He was a friend of mine. I had just covered
Speaker 1: the Mets through their playoff run and knew all of
Speaker 1: their players. My face had been on an advertisement in
Speaker 1: dead center field in the Mets Stadium for the entirety
Speaker 1: of the year before, and the players all knew me
Speaker 1: my name. Where we were that night, Yankee Stadium was
Speaker 1: not only where I saw my first baseball game, but
Speaker 1: was about seven eighths of a mile from the hospital
Speaker 1: in which I had been born, and my first home
Speaker 1: was four subway stops away. The night before this event,
Speaker 1: as I hosted the start of the first game of
Speaker 1: this Keith of palooza, I was supposed to introduce the
Speaker 1: public address announcer of Yankee Stadium, Bob Sheppard, whose voice
Speaker 1: I had heard nearly every day since I was eight
Speaker 1: years old, so he could then introduce the players and
Speaker 1: this epic World Series would begin, and it dawned on
Speaker 1: me in the seconds before I was supposed to do
Speaker 1: this that I literally had the power to stop the
Speaker 1: two thousand World Series from ever happening if I just
Speaker 1: kept talking and never actually said, here is Bob Shephard. Well,
Speaker 1: I could delay it briefly until they cut my mic
Speaker 1: off and then fired me on the spot. Anyway, this
Speaker 1: was Game two, and now that our pregame show was over,
Speaker 1: and I had waved to my mother, who had seen
Speaker 1: her first game at Yankee Stadium just ooh sixty six
Speaker 1: years previously, and she was seated in the family seats
Speaker 1: that were just nine rows up from our on field set.
Speaker 1: I had crawled into the position I would assume for
Speaker 1: the entire game as the dugout reporter. I was hunched
Speaker 1: over on a stool, squeezed between the far end of
Speaker 1: the Yankee dugout and our Fox Sports first base camera.
Speaker 1: A thin chicken wire fence separated me from the dugout himself.
Speaker 1: In fact, it was a formality. I was more or
Speaker 1: less in the dugout players, coaches, and that night, as
Speaker 1: I settled in, my friend, the Yankee manager, all came
Speaker 1: over to say hello. Roger Clemens of the Yankees, who
Speaker 1: I had also known since we were both rookies in
Speaker 1: Boston Sports in nineteen eighty four. He lasted, I didn't
Speaker 1: Roger Clemens had struck out the first two Mets hitters.
Speaker 1: Clemens was a strange man about whom I had heard
Speaker 1: a strange tale of teammates in a college summer baseball
Speaker 1: league who were all wearing their wallets in their uniform
Speaker 1: pants back pockets during a game because one of them
Speaker 1: explained to a friend of mine, we have this crazy
Speaker 1: kid Clemens from Texas on this team, and we don't
Speaker 1: trust him. In Boston, I had found him a little nervous,
Speaker 1: little standoffish, but doing his best to be professional. But
Speaker 1: by now there were rumors swirling around Roger Clemens about
Speaker 1: amphetamines and performance enhancing drugs, and you knew not to
Speaker 1: talk to him before or after a game unless you
Speaker 1: had to, and if you had to, you chose your
Speaker 1: words very carefully, then made sure that whatever you did,
Speaker 1: you had to start with something mundane, like the score
Speaker 1: of the game, and if you could let him bring
Speaker 1: up anything controversial or complex, he would then probably do it.
Speaker 1: So now, as this game continued, after two batters had
Speaker 1: struck out, Lee Mazzilli, the former Mets star now Yankees coach,
Speaker 1: another friend of mine, was on the other side of
Speaker 1: a little fence, and as Mets superstar Mike Piazza stepped
Speaker 1: in as the third batter of the game, Mozilly leaned
Speaker 1: in and said, conspiratorily, let's see if Roger flips him again.
Speaker 1: In Midsummer two thousand, Roger Clemens had beamed Mike Piazza
Speaker 1: with a fastball. There was a hospital visit involved. Nobody
Speaker 1: was convinced it had not been intentional, or that Clemens
Speaker 1: would not do it again, even though it was the
Speaker 1: World Series. Mozilli and I leaned forward. Piazza was a
Speaker 1: deeply complicated guy too. During the playoffs, he had walked
Speaker 1: up to me and asked me if it was true
Speaker 1: I was from New York, and then he quizzed me
Speaker 1: about the relative merits of the suburbs, and then he
Speaker 1: wanted to know if I had really taken up residence
Speaker 1: in his favorite southern California hotel, and we talked for
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes about that. The next night I saw him smiled,
Speaker 1: said heloon, and he looked at me like I had
Speaker 1: just sworn a vendetta against his family. For a long
Speaker 1: time I thought it was me until about ten years later,
Speaker 1: the great Vin Scully said that Piazza was with the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and when they were both together there in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: Vin had had the identical experience with Piazza. Best friends
Speaker 1: on the team bus one day, and then no indication
Speaker 1: Piazza remembered even meeting him the next I mean that
Speaker 1: was Ben Sculley. Clemens, as it turned out, did not
Speaker 1: throw a baseball at Piazza, but instead pitched him inside
Speaker 1: in on his hands, and Piazza tried to stop a
Speaker 1: swing that was half self defense, but instead the odd
Speaker 1: angle and the force of the pitch shattered Piazza's bat.
Speaker 1: The ball veered to the right, describing a circle into
Speaker 1: foul territory. The head of the bat shot out towards
Speaker 1: Clemens on the mound. A second piece flew briefly into
Speaker 1: the infield. Piazza was left holding just the handle, and
Speaker 1: it looked as foolish as that sounds. But lost in
Speaker 1: this description is the fact that all happened at once,
Speaker 1: and even from our signe angle in the Yankee dugout
Speaker 1: it looked to Mozillion me as if Piazza's bat had
Speaker 1: simply exploded, like it was a trick device of some sort.
Speaker 1: I saw Clemens reach for the baseball. I thought it
Speaker 1: was the baseball right in front of him, and then
Speaker 1: just as quickly he and I at the same moment,
Speaker 1: realized it was not the baseball. It was the barrel
Speaker 1: of the bat, which was slightly rounded, just a little
Speaker 1: darker than a baseball, but could in the heat of
Speaker 1: an instant following a bat explosion, it could be mistaken
Speaker 1: for a ball. So far, so good. But right then Clemens,
Speaker 1: realizing it was part of a bat and not a ball,
Speaker 1: promptly threw that part of the bat at me. Jesus Mas,
Speaker 1: I said to Mizilly, why did Clemens throw that bat
Speaker 1: barrel at me? The Yankee coach looked incredulously at me.
Speaker 1: He didn't throw it you. He threw it at me.
Speaker 1: That's what it looked like. We were lined up perfectly.
Speaker 1: Roger Clemens had thrown the barrel of Mike Piazza's bat, say,
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty feet instead of just six or
Speaker 1: seven feet, he would have hit either me or Lee
Speaker 1: Mozilly in the Yankee dugout as it was, since nobody
Speaker 1: knew exactly what was happening. Piazza had started to run
Speaker 1: down to first base in case the ball was fair.
Speaker 1: He didn't know where the ball was either. For that
Speaker 1: initial split second, you really couldn't tell which flying object
Speaker 1: was the ball, and also whether the ball was fair
Speaker 1: or foul. So Roger Clemens's throw certainly looked like it
Speaker 1: was aimed at Piazza as Piazza went down the first
Speaker 1: baseline and as Piazza took umbrage, and there was another
Speaker 1: split second of confusion when it looked like Piazza might
Speaker 1: charge out to the mound to try to sock Clemens
Speaker 1: for this and for the Midsummer beating. I said to Missilly, wait,
Speaker 1: did he throw that bat at Piazza? Miszilly just shook
Speaker 1: his head. I don't think so. Whun hell knows. He's
Speaker 1: been here two years. I haven't figured out anything he's
Speaker 1: done so far. As the umpires then got involved, Clemens
Speaker 1: repeatedly tapped his own chest, and not in a bragging way,
Speaker 1: but in a kind of what looked like that's on
Speaker 1: me way. Two bat boys collected the three main pieces
Speaker 1: of the bat and a bunch of smaller shards, some
Speaker 1: of them smaller than a toothpick. The Fox play by
Speaker 1: play man threw it to me in the dugout well,
Speaker 1: I said, I can tell you the Yankee dugout doesn't
Speaker 1: know what happened or why. Joe Missilly laughed quietly and
Speaker 1: then hit me in the arm. While I was on
Speaker 1: the air, I postulated that Clemens was looking for a
Speaker 1: ball hit back to him, instead found the piece of
Speaker 1: the bat, and then discarded that piece of the bats
Speaker 1: so he could keep looking for the ball. That he discarded,
Speaker 1: it kind of where Piazza was running, might have been delivered,
Speaker 1: might have been a coincidence. I do remember suggesting that
Speaker 1: if Clemens had really aimed the bat at Piazza, that
Speaker 1: from that distance, with the strength and accuracy of a
Speaker 1: major league pitcher, he clearly would have hit him with it.
Speaker 1: Piazza then promptly grounded out to end the inning, and
Speaker 1: as Clemens came back towards the Yankee dugout where Mozilly
Speaker 1: and I were, he again stopped to talk to the umpire,
Speaker 1: who was Charlie Reliford. Over the noise of fifty six
Speaker 1: thousand fans, at Yankee Stadium. I couldn't hear a damn thing,
Speaker 1: but it sure looked like Clemens was again saying that
Speaker 1: was on me. I asked Mizillly if he could find
Speaker 1: out if that's what Clemens was doing, And half an
Speaker 1: inning later, Missilly reported that Clemens indeed thought for a
Speaker 1: second it was the ball, and that he threw it,
Speaker 1: and that it was on him, and that it was
Speaker 1: not intentional and it was not directed at Piazza. Now
Speaker 1: I did something kind of stupid. I suggested to my
Speaker 1: bosses that I should go ask the commissioner Baseball, who
Speaker 1: in a World Series game had the power to eject
Speaker 1: any player for any reason, although that power had not
Speaker 1: actually been used since nineteen thirty four. What he thought
Speaker 1: of all this? The producer said yes, And I thought
Speaker 1: me and my big mouth, I now had to crawl
Speaker 1: out of that little space between camera and dugout, and
Speaker 1: I mean literally crawl hands and knees to exit back
Speaker 1: into the seats via where the groundskeepers kept all the
Speaker 1: extra dirt. I knew where in the stands the commissioner
Speaker 1: was sitting. I went there. I got to him, I
Speaker 1: asked him. He assured me there was no discipline coming
Speaker 1: for Clemens, and they'd look at the tape of the
Speaker 1: game again that night or in the morning. But he
Speaker 1: really didn't think Clemens had tried to hit Piazza with
Speaker 1: the bat. Well, they would look at the tape and
Speaker 1: they decided both that Clemens did not try to hit
Speaker 1: Piazza with the bat and that he should be fined
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars for I don't know, not trying to
Speaker 1: hit him with the bat. So I made it back
Speaker 1: to the dugout, reversing my crawl like I was recreating
Speaker 1: the movie The Great Escape. As it turned out, Piazza's
Speaker 1: little squib shot that caused all the trouble with the
Speaker 1: exploding bat was about the hardest thing they hit off
Speaker 1: Clemens all night. Over eight innings, he struck out nine
Speaker 1: Mets batters, he walked none, he gave up only two hits,
Speaker 1: and he only hit one batter. And then, incredibly, after
Speaker 1: Clemens left the game, the Yankees almost blew a six
Speaker 1: to nothing lead. In the ninth inning, a Met outfielder
Speaker 1: named Jay Payton hit a three run homer off future
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera, and the Mets had a
Speaker 1: chance to tie the game or go ahead off Rivera
Speaker 1: in the top of the ninth and then he got
Speaker 1: out of it, and the final score was six to
Speaker 1: five Yankees. And with the game over now it was
Speaker 1: Keith interviews Clemens' time. I went to the pre arranged
Speaker 1: spot at the other end of the Yankee dugout, where
Speaker 1: another friend of mine, the Yankees PR director, had guaranteed
Speaker 1: me he would go in get Clemens and they would
Speaker 1: emerge after Clemens left the clubhouse to do what was
Speaker 1: a contractually obligated interview with Fox and me. Apparently, Roger
Speaker 1: Clemens started making his way towards me the moment the
Speaker 1: Yankees finally won that game. Unfortunately, at that exact moment,
Speaker 1: security closed the only runway from the Yankee dugout to
Speaker 1: the clubhouse so that a dignitary could use it as
Speaker 1: an exit from his seats. The dignitary was Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,
Speaker 1: noted front running Yankees fan and ticket freeloader. And while
Speaker 1: Fox literally delayed the start of every newscast on every
Speaker 1: one of its stations in the country, even on the
Speaker 1: West Coast, and Joe Buck and Tim McCarver kept showing
Speaker 1: replays again and again, and promising my interview with Roger Clemens,
Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani took his goddamn time leaving the field. His
Speaker 1: idiot son Andrew grabbed some dirt from the field. I
Speaker 1: half expected him to eat it. Instead, he stuffed it
Speaker 1: in his jacket pockets. Giuliani now waited for his entire entourage,
Speaker 1: one of his wives, some of his I guess they
Speaker 1: were friends, assorted political riff raff, and as my producer
Speaker 1: screamed in my ear, where is Clemens? Giuliani waited until
Speaker 1: they were all together on the field, and finally he
Speaker 1: marched them down into the dugout and up through the runway.
Speaker 1: And after all this delay, Clemens came out and finally
Speaker 1: I could ask him about throwing the bat shard at
Speaker 1: or near piazza. And at that moment I remembered what
Speaker 1: I had learned about Clemens in Boston. If you started
Speaker 1: an interview with something controversial, he might very well walk away. If,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, you did the boring game outcome question,
Speaker 1: he would answer anything you asked, and he might even
Speaker 1: bring up anything controversial himself. But you had to do
Speaker 1: the stupid game stuff first, So which was harder work. Roger,
Speaker 1: I asked eight innings of two hit ball or watching
Speaker 1: the Mets nearly tie it in the ninth. His answer
Speaker 1: was not bad, but he did not bring up the bat.
Speaker 1: So I asked another question about what he thought of
Speaker 1: his performance in that game. Well, that did it. He
Speaker 1: started talking about having to overcome his emotions in the
Speaker 1: first inning, and now I could say, well, since you
Speaker 1: brought up the emotions the bat throwing incident, did you
Speaker 1: throw that piece of broken bat at Mike Piazza. There
Speaker 1: is a freeze frame from that interview in which Roger
Speaker 1: Clemens eyes are bugged wide open. Well, Glemons basically confirmed
Speaker 1: what the guys in the dugout had told me. He
Speaker 1: had told them. You can believe him or not, but
Speaker 1: he thought the thing he grabbed was the ball, and
Speaker 1: when it wasn't, he threw it away just in case
Speaker 1: the ball was somewhere else near him and he had
Speaker 1: to have a free hand with which to pick it up.
Speaker 1: He explained the chest taps he was indeed saying to
Speaker 1: the umpire Umpire Charlie, as Clemens called him, accompanying his
Speaker 1: apologies to the umps for throwing the bat. He said
Speaker 1: he didn't even know where Piazza was at the point
Speaker 1: he threw the bat. It was as straight and nonpartisan
Speaker 1: and frankly, as informative an interview as I've ever conducted. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: everybody else in that stadium, everybody else in that city,
Speaker 1: everybody else in the Tri State area, was convinced of
Speaker 1: one of only two things. Roger Clemens had tried to
Speaker 1: impale Mike Piazza with a shard of his own bat,
Speaker 1: or the Mets were crybabies who could not tell that
Speaker 1: Clemens obviously did not try to impale Mike Piazza with
Speaker 1: his own bat. There was no middle ground. I found
Speaker 1: this out specifically the next day when the TV sports
Speaker 1: columnist of the New York Times, Rich Sandomir, who was
Speaker 1: a friend of mine, called to interview me about the interview.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you ask him about the bat first? Nobody
Speaker 1: cared about how he pitched he threw a bat Piazza.
Speaker 1: I said, you're a Met fan, and I explained the
Speaker 1: theory of not making Clemens end an interview before he
Speaker 1: said what you needed to know. I went through the
Speaker 1: whole thing I just recited here. It was amazing to
Speaker 1: see those few days, how every sports reporter and columnist
Speaker 1: in New York self identified as either a Met fan
Speaker 1: or ex Met fan, or a Yankee fan or ex
Speaker 1: Yankee fan. And you can still see it today as
Speaker 1: this story from twenty two years ago is recollected by others.
Speaker 1: They wrote what they felt as kids Clemens was the victim,
Speaker 1: or Clemens tried to kill Mike Piazza like he was
Speaker 1: a dracula, and they had the wooden steak to go
Speaker 1: through his heart. Meanwhile, we learned recently from Joe Torri,
Speaker 1: the Yankee manager, another one of my friends, that they
Speaker 1: all hid something from us that night, the thing about emotions.
Speaker 1: After the incident in the first inning, Roger Clemens went
Speaker 1: back to the Yankee clubhouse and started to cry. This
Speaker 1: might have had something to do with embarrassment or grief.
Speaker 1: But since he had noted that he had had to
Speaker 1: check his emotions, I always thought, well, he might have
Speaker 1: been a little overamped for that game, naturally or otherwise.
Speaker 1: All right, So before I present anything else out of
Speaker 1: chronological order, let me go back to the I thanked
Speaker 1: Roger Clemens for the interview and threw it back to
Speaker 1: Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in the Fox booth because
Speaker 1: this is when the real trouble started. They were pretty
Speaker 1: much done for the night, but I had another two
Speaker 1: hours to go in a live postgame show on Fox's
Speaker 1: cable Sports network. We had about four minutes until that
Speaker 1: show started, and it suddenly occurred to me that although
Speaker 1: this was not the most important event in the history
Speaker 1: of the World Series, the bat would become part of
Speaker 1: the iconography of baseball. I had been at Yankee Stadium
Speaker 1: often enough over the years to know the two kids
Speaker 1: who ran the visiting clubhouse, and right then they were
Speaker 1: still packing up the Mets bats and equipment, and the
Speaker 1: Mets dugout, so I ran over and asked the senior
Speaker 1: of them what happened to the pieces of the Piazza bat.
Speaker 1: The answer to that question has haunted me for twenty
Speaker 1: two years. It resulted in me being threatened with a
Speaker 1: lawsuit by Mike Piazza. The owner of the Boston Red
Speaker 1: Sox said he was threatened by Piazza over the same bat.
Speaker 1: And then came the moment during that World Series that
Speaker 1: Mike Piazza confronted me and we talked about restaurants. The
Speaker 1: rest of this crazy story after this, So back to
Speaker 1: our number one story on the countdown and the saga
Speaker 1: of the night in the two thousand World Series and
Speaker 1: all the nights since, when the bat of Mike Piazza
Speaker 1: of the Mets shattered should be and Roger Clemens of
Speaker 1: the Yankees picked up the barrel of that bat and
Speaker 1: tossed it at him, or just tossed it away having
Speaker 1: mistaken it for a baseball, or made up a story
Speaker 1: that he had mistaken it for a baseball. And I
Speaker 1: was in the Yankee dugout as the reporter, and I
Speaker 1: was hosting the game for Fox, and I interviewed Clemens afterwards,
Speaker 1: and then before our two hour postgame show on Cable,
Speaker 1: I went over to the Met dugout and asked the
Speaker 1: clubhouse attendant there what happened to the pieces of Piazza's bat. Well.
Speaker 1: The guy explained that Bobby Valentine, the Mets manager, had
Speaker 1: asked that one of the pieces go to a friend
Speaker 1: of his in the stands, and he, the clubhouse attendant,
Speaker 1: had handed it to the guy. A second piece he
Speaker 1: believed was kept by the Yankees. He wasn't sure about that.
Speaker 1: The third piece, the handle was where was it. Where
Speaker 1: is it? He asked the other attendant. It's here in
Speaker 1: the garbage, the kid said. I did a double take
Speaker 1: the garbage. Yeah, the kid said, under the dugout bench,
Speaker 1: and there it was, stuffed in amid all the empty
Speaker 1: bags of sunflower seeds and the crushed gatorade cuffs. I said,
Speaker 1: what happens to it? Now? Gets thrown out? They clean
Speaker 1: out the dugouts first, so I said, look, can I
Speaker 1: borrow it? This would make a great prop for our
Speaker 1: postgame show? And the attendant says sure, and he pulls
Speaker 1: it out of the pile and hands it to him,
Speaker 1: just about seven inches of a baseball bat, and all
Speaker 1: there is is Piazza's uniform number thirty one written in
Speaker 1: magic marker on the bottom. Listen. I said, I won't
Speaker 1: be able to bring this back to you for like
Speaker 1: two hours. We're on for two hours. Will you still
Speaker 1: be in the clubhouse? And he said, are you kidding?
Speaker 1: We have to be here at eight. He and I'll
Speaker 1: be out of here in ten minutes. And I said,
Speaker 1: you want me to bring it back to you for
Speaker 1: game three? And he says, garbage. You're going to bring
Speaker 1: back garbage? Throw it out, keep it whatever, what do
Speaker 1: I care? So I use the bat fragment as a
Speaker 1: prop in the show repeatedly, and I stuck it in
Speaker 1: my shoulder bag, and I thought, I'm not a scrounger,
Speaker 1: but this is a valuable piece of memorabilia and I'd
Speaker 1: like to keep it. So either I'll auction it off
Speaker 1: for charity and bid against myself or something, or I'll
Speaker 1: make a donation to a baseball charity and I'll keep it.
Speaker 1: And that was it. And two days later, as the
Speaker 1: World Series shifted from Yankee Stadium to Shay Stadium, I
Speaker 1: got a phone call from one of the PR guys
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports. Did you see the paper? And I said, no,
Speaker 1: not yet. And he says, Piazza told the guy from
Speaker 1: Newsday that you stole his bat and he wants it back.
Speaker 1: And I said, what if I hadn't asked about it, it
Speaker 1: would be on a garbage scale right now, being towed
Speaker 1: out to be dumped in the Atlantic Ocean. And he says,
Speaker 1: maybe so, but Piazza told this John Hayman, He's going
Speaker 1: to sue you to get it back. So now I
Speaker 1: go to the ballpark with extra excitement on my plate.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for Mike Piazza to tell me he's going
Speaker 1: to sue me. So I go out onto the field.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering how long it's going to be before I run
Speaker 1: into Piazza, And like two minutes after I step on
Speaker 1: the field, I turn around and he's walking towards me.
Speaker 1: He looks at me and he says, hey, Keith wild
Speaker 1: One the other night, huh say listen, when you lived
Speaker 1: at Shutters, did you ever eat at Ivy at the
Speaker 1: Shore in Santa Monica? Nothing about the bat. We're talking
Speaker 1: about restaurants in Santa Monica, California. And I say, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but did you ever eat at Shae Jay's. And a
Speaker 1: big smile from Piazza, Oh, man, I love Shade Jay's.
Speaker 1: I love Jay. Give me your number this winter when
Speaker 1: I'm home, Let's go eat at Shaye Jay's. And I said,
Speaker 1: I'll pay for it and I'll order the sand dabs.
Speaker 1: Now we're talking about sand dabs, how to prepare sand
Speaker 1: dabs at a restaurant. And then he says, hey, sorry,
Speaker 1: I gotta go ahead, have a good show. That was it.
Speaker 1: He's in the paper threatening to sue me. We see
Speaker 1: each other on on the field. He starts the conversation.
Speaker 1: No mention of suing me, not one word. Next day
Speaker 1: in the paper, more Piazza quotes about how he's going
Speaker 1: to sue me for stealing his bat. Next night, Game
Speaker 1: four of the World Series, we're just about to go
Speaker 1: on the air with the pregame show, and now Piazza
Speaker 1: comes over again, coming in from the outfield to the dugout,
Speaker 1: and he says, hey, this must be really cool to
Speaker 1: do what you guys are doing. Have a great show.
Speaker 1: And by now the only thing I can think of.
Speaker 1: He does not know I'm the same Keith Olberman. He
Speaker 1: keeps threatening to sue. So the World Series ends and
Speaker 1: the Yankees beat the Mets, and if you look for it,
Speaker 1: there's this photo of the traditional postgame awarding of the
Speaker 1: World Series Trophy and the Most Valuable Player award and
Speaker 1: its commissioner, Bud Selig and Derek Jeter, the Yankees and me,
Speaker 1: and just before it happened, George Steinbrenner was the owner
Speaker 1: of the Yankees. He's crying, leans in and I give
Speaker 1: him a hug and reassure him. And he asked me
Speaker 1: if my mother went to the game, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, my mother she'd never come to Shay Stadium.
Speaker 1: She hates it more than you do. And he says,
Speaker 1: I love her more than ever before. Now, So the
Speaker 1: series ends, and it's not been that greatest series, but
Speaker 1: it's been exciting and it was the dream from my childhood.
Speaker 1: And the Yankees have won and my friends are happy.
Speaker 1: And I've not heard another word about this lawsuit, nothing
Speaker 1: from Mike Piazza. And I told the Fox people, well,
Speaker 1: if I'm not going to hear anything more from them,
Speaker 1: it's easy. I'm going to keep the bat and I'm
Speaker 1: going to donate twenty five thousand dollars to this charity,
Speaker 1: the Baseball Assistance Team, which helps ex ball players in
Speaker 1: financial need, because A I'm not a scrounger. B it's
Speaker 1: a great cause. C that's actually much more than the
Speaker 1: bat handle would be worth on the open market. And
Speaker 1: D the acronym for the Baseball Assistance Team is bat
Speaker 1: bat and that's perfect. It's about Piazza's bat, you get it.
Speaker 1: And then nothing for a month, whereupon Fox gets another
Speaker 1: letter now from Piazza's agent fellow named Manzan and he
Speaker 1: threatens to sue again, and that's the end of it.
Speaker 1: Never heard from him again. So now it's the next year,
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, and I'm back in New York
Speaker 1: working for CNN doing the news, and I go to
Speaker 1: a Mets game and I see Piazza and I give
Speaker 1: him a big smile and I offer my hand and
Speaker 1: I say, still all of those sand dabs from shayj
Speaker 1: And he just stares at me and walks right past me.
Speaker 1: And I see a cop I know who works next
Speaker 1: to the Mets dugout, and the cop says, Mike has
Speaker 1: been asking him about me? Is that Keith Olderman the
Speaker 1: one who stole my bat? So now I'm not just
Speaker 1: keeping the bat. I want to sue Mike Piazza for
Speaker 1: being a pain in the ass. And then nine to
Speaker 1: eleven happens, and ball players are doing charity things, and
Speaker 1: sportscasters and newscasters are doing charity things, and I think, well,
Speaker 1: this is the time when the baseball season resumes. I
Speaker 1: throw the bat handle in my bag and I go
Speaker 1: out to a Mets game and I go up to
Speaker 1: Piazza's locker before the game, and I pull the bat
Speaker 1: chart out and I say, take this, Mike, auction it
Speaker 1: off for charity. Let's do some good with this, or
Speaker 1: if it's too much trouble, you sign it and I'll
Speaker 1: auction it off. We can leave my name out of it,
Speaker 1: whatever you want, however you want to do it. And
Speaker 1: he looks at me like I've just insulted his mother
Speaker 1: and says, no, it's too complicated, and he turns away,
Speaker 1: and I think to myself, this is the strangest athlete
Speaker 1: I have ever met. And just before the season ends,
Speaker 1: I go to another Mets game. Now this time it's
Speaker 1: one of his teammates who takes me aside and says,
Speaker 1: you know, Piazza never stops talking about you stealing his
Speaker 1: bat from the Clemens game last year. He says, he
Speaker 1: still wants to sue you. Didn't you try to give
Speaker 1: him the bat back in the clubhouse to auction off.
Speaker 1: Didn't I see that? And I say, yeah, I did,
Speaker 1: and he refused to take it. And the guy laughs
Speaker 1: and he says, great player, excellent catcher. I love him,
Speaker 1: strangest player I have ever met. Comes two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: nothing happens. See Piazza at several Mets games. Nothing happens.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and three, nothing happens. Now I can't pin
Speaker 1: the year down on this. It's one of the Red
Speaker 1: Sox Yankees' playoffs series either too thousand and three. We're
Speaker 1: two thousand and four and I'm leaving the field as
Speaker 1: they're clearing the media off just before the game starts,
Speaker 1: and I'm going out through the Red Sox dugout, literally
Speaker 1: at the same spot where the kid handed me Piazza's
Speaker 1: bat handle three or four years earlier, where the trouble
Speaker 1: all began. And I see the new owner of the
Speaker 1: Red Sox team approaching from the other end of the dugout,
Speaker 1: Keith John Henry, Nice to meet you. Have you got
Speaker 1: a minute? And I said, well, yeah, they're kicking the
Speaker 1: media off the field, so and he laughs and he
Speaker 1: says I can take care of that. And he yells
Speaker 1: at the plane clothes coop and he says he's with
Speaker 1: me and the cop nods and John Henry, the owner
Speaker 1: of the Red Sox, and I sit down on the
Speaker 1: Red Sox bench before the start of a Red Sox
Speaker 1: Yankees playoff game, and there are no other reporters out there,
Speaker 1: and I think, Okay, what did I say about the
Speaker 1: Red Sox? What is he pissed off about? Instead? John
Speaker 1: Henry says, can I ask you about Mike Piazza And
Speaker 1: I laugh and I say, sure, what about him? And
Speaker 1: he says, you have part of his bat from the
Speaker 1: World Series with Clemens right, And I say yeah, and
Speaker 1: he says, tell me the whole story. So I do
Speaker 1: what you've just heard, and John Henry says, that's what
Speaker 1: I was told, Thank you, huh. I thought it was me.
Speaker 1: So that other piece of the bat that was handed
Speaker 1: to a friend of Bobby Valentine's during that game, that
Speaker 1: friend is a great friend of mine. And after nine
Speaker 1: to eleven he said, wouldn't it be great to get
Speaker 1: Mike Piazza to sign this and then we can auction
Speaker 1: it off for the victims' families or the cops or
Speaker 1: some other charity. And he gives me the bat and
Speaker 1: I call the Mets and they approach Mike and they
Speaker 1: call me and they say, Mike loves the idea and
Speaker 1: I should come to one of the spring training games
Speaker 1: and he'll sign it. So the next March, I go
Speaker 1: to one of the Mets spring training games and I
Speaker 1: go up to him in the clubhouse and I introduce
Speaker 1: myself and he looks at me like I'm from Mars
Speaker 1: and I say, well, I brought the bat and he
Speaker 1: says what bat? And I explained that we had arranged
Speaker 1: to have him sign the bat from the World Series
Speaker 1: for a nine to eleven charity and he erupts at me,
Speaker 1: I'm not signing that bat? Sure for charity? You think
Speaker 1: I was born yesterday? And say something to John Henry,
Speaker 1: owner of the Red Sox, like welcome to the club.
Speaker 1: Did he threaten to sue you too? And he laughs
Speaker 1: and says yes. That's the next part of the story.
Speaker 1: So while we're trying to straighten that out, his agent
Speaker 1: calls me and asks if I will give them the
Speaker 1: bat to auction off for charity, and I say sure,
Speaker 1: and I go to another Mets game and I go
Speaker 1: to the clubhouse and I have the bat again. Now
Speaker 1: Piazza says, no, I can't take the bat because of
Speaker 1: pending litigation, but if I want him to, he'll sign
Speaker 1: it for me. All I have to do is come
Speaker 1: back a couple of weeks later. So this is what
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask Keith. Is he the strangest ballplayer
Speaker 1: you've ever met? Or is it just me? There's one
Speaker 1: more part to this. Flash forward to twenty fourteen, I
Speaker 1: still have the Piazza batthandle the one I unsuccessfully tried
Speaker 1: to give back to Piazza. The middle portion, the one
Speaker 1: John Henry unsuccessfully tried to give back to Piazza, has
Speaker 1: been sold, with the proce going to charity. So where
Speaker 1: is the third piece, the barrel of the bat, the
Speaker 1: part that Clemens through at Piazza if you're a Met
Speaker 1: fan or was unfairly accused of throwing at Piazza if
Speaker 1: you're not a Met fan? And the answer finally arrives
Speaker 1: in a sports memorabilia auction catalog that year. While one
Speaker 1: of the visiting bat boys was handing the middle part
Speaker 1: of the bat to a friend of Bobby Valentine and
Speaker 1: John Henry's in the stands, the barrel, which landed near
Speaker 1: the Yankee dugout, was scooped up by the Yankee bat boy,
Speaker 1: who put it in the pile of Yankee broken bats.
Speaker 1: And as it turned out, right at that point, the
Speaker 1: Yankee strengthen conditioning coach Jeff Mangold, who was on the bench, said,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, that's the pile of broken bats they're
Speaker 1: going to throw out. They shouldn't throw it out. It's history.
Speaker 1: And he grabs that part of the Piazza bat and
Speaker 1: puts it up in his home office. And now it's
Speaker 1: fourteen years later and he wants to auction it off
Speaker 1: for charity. So he auctions it off, and I think, well, hell,
Speaker 1: it should be alongside the other piece of the bat.
Speaker 1: My other piece of the bat, the handle, win the auction.
Speaker 1: There it is on my wall, complete with a baseball
Speaker 1: card showing Roger Clemens about to throw the barrel. Reasons
Speaker 1: left to your imagination, two thirds of the famous bat.
Speaker 1: I'll sell it someday, I'm sure, but I'll always have
Speaker 1: the memories, my memories and John Henry's memories. And if
Speaker 1: you're wondering, No, unlike John Henry and I, that Yankee
Speaker 1: strength coach Jeff Mangold never tried to give it back
Speaker 1: to Piazza, or get it signed by Piazza, or auctioned
Speaker 1: off for charity with Piazza, which means that, on top
Speaker 1: of everything else, Jeff Mangold is smarter than John Henry
Speaker 1: and I put together. Yes, the story took three hours,
Speaker 1: but I think you'll agree it was worth it. Hello. Hello,
Speaker 1: you're still there. Hello, HELLI I've done all the damage
Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Most of
Speaker 1: our countdown music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian
Speaker 1: Ray and John Phillip Schanel. Our musical directors have Countdown
Speaker 1: and it was produced by TKO Brothers. Mister Ray was
Speaker 1: on the guitars, bass and drums. Mister Chaneale handled orchestration
Speaker 1: and keyboards. Our satirical and fifty musical comments are by
Speaker 1: my friend and the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust.
Speaker 1: The Olderman theme from ESPN two written by Mitch Warren
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Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.
Speaker 1: My announcer today, keeping with the baseball theme was Tony Kornheiser.
Speaker 1: Everything else was as always my fault. That's countdown for today.
Speaker 1: Day two hundred and eighty one of America held hostage again,
Speaker 1: just eighty two days until the scheduled end of his
Speaker 1: lame duck and lame brained term unless he is removed
Speaker 1: sooner by Maga and Epstein, or that patch of pavement
Speaker 1: on his hand, or a stuck escalator or a kopathy
Speaker 1: test or tail and all, or his jet made out
Speaker 1: of poop, or the arc he's building. He's building an arc.
Speaker 1: He thinks he's pronounced arc. He thinks arch is arc.
Speaker 1: Now he's fine, He's fine. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday.
Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,
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