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Speaker 1: man handling of Jimmy Kimmel and the blackmailing of ABC

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Speaker 1: may turn out to be the biggest gift this year

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Speaker 1: to the Democrats. And if that is not a big

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Speaker 1: enough plot twist, I am hearing from multiple sources that,

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Speaker 1: at least right now, ABC thinks Jimmy Kimmel will stay

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Speaker 1: on the air and will return on the air in

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Speaker 1: the same show as early as later this month, maybe

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Speaker 1: even this week. Kirk the Trump self impeaching memo to

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Speaker 1: BONDI he tweeted in a stupor a lot more momentarily.

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Speaker 1: But is Kimmel news first and a caveat. I'll believe

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Speaker 1: it when I see it. However, these are the landmarks

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Speaker 1: my sources pointed at, and a couple I thought of

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Speaker 1: my own self. First, they haven't fired him. Second, they

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Speaker 1: actually haven't said anything about him. ABC has not said

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Speaker 1: anything about Jimmy Kimmel since that one sentence announcement about

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Speaker 1: taking him off the air. Third, he hasn't said anything

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Speaker 1: about ABC good, bad, or indifferent. Can you imagine me

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Speaker 1: in this?

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Speaker 2: Fourth?

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Speaker 1: Remember the Sinclair owned local stations that started all the

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Speaker 1: trouble the next Star stations, the ones who were bribing

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Speaker 1: Trump and the FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr by demanding kimmelby

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Speaker 1: sidelined so Trump and Carr would waive the rules and

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Speaker 1: let Sinclair buy more than the legal limit of local

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Speaker 1: TV stations. Remember their plan after the Kimmel suspension to

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Speaker 1: run a Arly Kirk tribute last Friday Night in Kimmel's timeslot.

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Speaker 1: What happened to that? They didn't run it. They didn't

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Speaker 1: put it on the Sinclair stations. They put it on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: no other explanation, They just didn't run it. Why didn't

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Speaker 1: they run it? They won? Fifth, what happened to the

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Speaker 1: Sinclair demand that Kimmel apologizes and pays a bribe, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: make a donation to Kirk's scam Turning Point Company Incorporated? Sixth,

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Speaker 1: how much grief did ABC take and how much grief

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Speaker 1: much that no human mind can estimate it. And Seventh,

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Speaker 1: how could you possibly put all the Kimmel and Kirk

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Speaker 1: all you need is cash. The resurrection of Jimmy Kimmel.

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Speaker 1: It has been rumored almost since ABC yanked him. Variety

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Speaker 1: had a piece over the weekend about peace feelers. CNN

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Speaker 1: they took him off, led not by chairman Bob Iger,

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Speaker 1: who really did destroy himself over this, no matter how

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Speaker 1: whom they report called Kimmel that day quote, everyone deeply

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Speaker 1: temperature was still warm, before the temperature turned ice cold

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Speaker 1: for Disney and Bob Eiger. And that was also before

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Speaker 1: anybody realized that any scenario in which Jimmy Kimmel returns

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Speaker 1: Kimmel and for ABC and a defeat for Trump and

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Speaker 1: a defeat for fascism, and especially a defeat for Brendan Carr,

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Speaker 1: who could get fired over this. And one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons they realized this was you gov hold on this

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Speaker 1: whole story On Thursday, the margin of adults thinking Kimmel's

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Speaker 1: monologue on Monday was acceptable was forty three to thirty

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Speaker 1: more than one third who were opposed to it. Half

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Speaker 1: and forty two percent said they strongly disapproved of it,

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Speaker 1: by our margin of forty three to twenty six. Responding

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Speaker 1: way quote, forty three to twenty six adults thought that

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Speaker 1: was unacceptable. Again, I believe it when I see Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Kimmel on my TV on Channel seven. Still, that's what

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Speaker 1: everybody is telling me. So why how well? Given that

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Speaker 1: last week Trump boasted he had avenged Charlie Kirk by

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Speaker 1: articles saying that Jimmy Kimmel has been canceled that were

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Speaker 1: fccs Goebbels, Brendan Carr, May in fact, go into history

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Speaker 1: shut down Fox and Murdoch and Sinclair, take away all

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Speaker 1: made this almost mandatory, and it has awakened in liberals

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Speaker 1: something we always and sorely lack imagination. Remember, not every

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Speaker 1: maga has a brain, but every other maga has a podcast.

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Speaker 1: And as they were recording them and celebrating the downfall

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Speaker 1: of Jimmy Kimmel, it hit them what government censorship could

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Speaker 1: mean for them. These are the only circumstances in which

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Speaker 1: right or wrong, it's not even what they can get

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Speaker 1: under true government supervision in a world where cut turn

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Speaker 1: it's awakened the right and the realization that they just

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Speaker 1: handed out rocks and said, please, please, everybody hit conservative

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Speaker 1: media in the groin with your rocks. The Trump FCC

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Speaker 1: blackmailing of ABC and the bullying of Jimmy Kimmel maybe

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Speaker 1: the Epstein fliles. Just the immediate blowback against Trump and

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Speaker 1: Carr and for Kimmel from the right has been, I'm sorry, shocking, refreshing. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Rand Paul went on this Week on ABC instead of

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Speaker 1: the Kimmel disaster quote absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got

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Speaker 1: no business weighing in on this. The FCC should have

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. Sinclair pulled out. They were

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Speaker 1: disgusted by the comment. That's their rights, but the government's

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Speaker 1: got no business in it, and the FCC was wrong

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Speaker 1: to weigh in. No, the same, Ran Paul, and I'll

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Speaker 1: fight any attempt by the government to get involved with speech.

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Speaker 1: And I played these clips from Ted Cruz on his podcast,

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Speaker 3: I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put

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Speaker 3: itself in the position of saying, we're going to decide

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Speaker 3: what speech we like and what we don't, and we're

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Speaker 3: going to threaten to take you off air if we

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Speaker 3: right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, Yeah, but when it

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Speaker 3: regret it. And and and so again. I like Brendan Carr,

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Speaker 3: but we should not be in this business. We should

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Speaker 3: denounce it. It's fine to say what Jimmy Kimmel said

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Speaker 3: was deplorable, it was disgraceful, and he should be off air,

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Speaker 3: but we shouldn't be threatening government power to force him

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Speaker 3: going to cancel ABC's license. We're gonna take him off

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Speaker 3: say he threatens it. He says, we can do this

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Speaker 3: And I got to say, that's right out of goodfellows.

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Speaker 3: That that that that that that's right out of a

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Speaker 3: mafioso coming into a bar going nice by you have here,

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Speaker 1: And that was Ted Cruz and not me. Scott Adams

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Speaker 1: Gilbert podcast quote I'm on Jimmy Kimmel's side. Unquote Ben Shpiro.

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Speaker 1: telling local affiliates that their licenses will be removed if

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Speaker 1: Why because one day the shoe will be on the

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Speaker 1: other foot. If Democrats win the presidency and you got

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Speaker 1: a Democrat in charge of the FCC, you got Adam

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Speaker 1: Schiff in charge of the FCC. Please God, Please God,

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Speaker 1: Please God. You know which affiliates are going to get threatened,

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Speaker 1: all of the Fox affiliates. You know what's gonna happen,

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Speaker 1: Ben Shapiro, you have unsuspected depth. With the perspective of

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Speaker 1: just a few days, this became such an obvious own

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Speaker 1: goal that not only is Trump denying Brendan Carr did this,

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Speaker 1: with it. Quote, Listen, the guy has been a jerk. No,

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Speaker 1: he's talking about Kimmel, not his father. Listen, the guy

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Speaker 1: has been a jerk. He hasn't been funny. But honestly,

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Speaker 1: I think the network used this as a way to

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Speaker 1: had to say that because Dadams promised the exact opposite

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Speaker 4: After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts

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Speaker 1: Oops. Just say oops and get out now. Just roll

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Speaker 1: through the list of the great intellects of MAGA and

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Speaker 1: they are one hundred percent on this issue, and they're

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Speaker 1: Unquote Stephen Miller, April fifteenth, twenty twenty two. Congratulations, Brendan Carr.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Miller just called you a fascist. This is even

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Speaker 1: worse than that. The Attorney General of Missouri sued the

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Speaker 1: then surgeon general for alleged government suppression of the anti

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Speaker 1: Court listened to this from an amicus brief challenging any

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Speaker 1: Perhaps most disconcerting of all is the pressure applied to

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Speaker 1: italics upon citizens speech. That plan clashes with the Court's

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Speaker 1: clear declaration that government may not quote prescribe what shall

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Speaker 1: Amicus brief was filed by H. Turning Point USA and

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. The Claremont Institute filed a similar brief in

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Speaker 1: that case, and it has the name on it John Eastman.

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Speaker 1: a shutout the forfeit score. The unanimous opinion was written

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Speaker 1: by Sonya Soda Mayor. Quote, Government officials cannot attempt to

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Speaker 1: coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views

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Speaker 1: that the government disfavors. You want more. What Brendan Carr

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Speaker 1: did was not only self harm, it may have been

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Speaker 1: illegal when the New Republic, quoting Ana Gomez, one of

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Speaker 1: the three FCC commissioners, the only one appointed by a

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Speaker 1: democratic president, quote, what the administration is doing violates the

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Speaker 1: First Amendment and the Communication Acts. This administration is increasingly

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Speaker 1: Cass please well, by the way, Russia violated Estonian airspace

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Speaker 1: now fighter jets not drones this time, and Poland had

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Speaker 1: to scramble its jets again after another incursion. Trump slept

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Speaker 1: through that MAGA is concerned only about one thing. When

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Speaker 1: is Charlie Kirk coming back from the dead? And don't

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Speaker 1: shout at me about that you think I made up

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Speaker 1: that idea. I have lost count of how many social

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Speaker 1: media posts there are right this minute asking if that's possible,

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Speaker 1: or saying, oh, wouldn't it be great if he came

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Speaker 1: back from the dead during the thing you didn't maybe tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: The canonization of Saint Charlie of Kirk is the only

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Speaker 1: thing they have left here. The Kirk memorial couldn't even

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Speaker 1: break the NFL's hold on Sunday afternoon trending topics on

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Speaker 1: social media, but they are in full Jesus mode here.

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Speaker 1: A spokesman for Kirk's turning point in Doctrination Group actually

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Speaker 1: put out a statement transforming the lack of an exit

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Speaker 1: wound into a miracle, not a metaphor not like a

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Speaker 1: miracle or kind of almost No, a miracle, and he

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Speaker 1: quoted a surgeon. Now the surgeon is anonymous, and he's

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Speaker 1: being quoted by a spokesman who needs turning point USA

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Speaker 1: to continue. Even without Charlie Kirk, Fox ran this as

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Speaker 1: a major story yesterday. Are you ready? Even in death,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk may have saved lives. The surgeon explained that quote,

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Speaker 1: I've seen wounds from this caliber many times, and they

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Speaker 1: always just go through everything. This would have taken a

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Speaker 1: moose or two down, an elk, et cetera. It was

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Speaker 1: an absolute miracle that someone else didn't get killed. The

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Speaker 1: doctor described, kirk bone is quote so healthy and quote

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Speaker 1: so impressive that he's like the man of steel. All Right,

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Speaker 1: anybody recognized the problem with saying he's the man of

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Speaker 1: steel when he's not living anymore. Back to this fantasy

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Speaker 1: from Fox News, the spokesman concluded, quote, even in death,

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Speaker 1: Charlie managed to save the lives of those around him. Remarkable, miraculous. Ah.

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Speaker 1: Of course, they are helped by morons like Thomas Cardinal

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Speaker 1: Dolan of New York. First, the Cardinal said he'd never

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Speaker 1: heard of Charlie Kirk, and then he said on Fox

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Speaker 1: that he had looked at some videos, apparently in order

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Speaker 1: to get the guest shot on Fox. Guess which videos

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Speaker 1: he looked at? He looked at the Bible ones or

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Speaker 1: did he look at the we should stone transgendered people

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Speaker 1: and execute Biden and force twelve year olds to watch

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Speaker 1: public executions with guillotineans and the ones about the great

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Speaker 1: Replacement theory? Which ones do you think he watched? Cardinal

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Speaker 1: Gullible added, this guy is a modern day Saint Paul.

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Speaker 1: He was a missionary. He's an evangelist, he's a hero.

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Speaker 1: He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when

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Speaker 1: he said the truth will set you free. Also, Stone

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Speaker 1: a transgendered person today, he said, Cardinal Dolan. Also, you

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Speaker 1: know that Charlie Kirk called Pope Francis a Marxist and

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Speaker 1: suggested Pope Francis was a heretic, right, and that Kirk's

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Speaker 1: first religious mentor was Jerry Folwell, Junior, Jerry, have I

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Speaker 1: introduced you to my wife? And if so? Can I

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Speaker 1: watch Fallwell Junior? They're not doing this well, the canonization

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Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk. There's Congressman Mike Collins of Georgia blasting

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Speaker 1: the fifty eight Democrats who did not vote yes on

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Speaker 1: the motion condemning the Kirk murder. And that's when somebody

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Speaker 1: told Congressman Mike Collins that he also did not vote

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Speaker 1: yes on the motion condemning the Kirk murder. Congressman Collins

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Speaker 1: walked off the House floor without casting a vote. He said,

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Speaker 1: it was a mistake, Mike, You bet your ass it

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Speaker 1: was a mistake. But the winner the all time Lou

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Speaker 1: Lou kat Kerr, who is a troubled woman who says

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Speaker 1: she is a prophetess. She says she was brought to

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Speaker 1: heaven to watch Kirk's ascension. She does not stop to

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Speaker 1: explain why they went to such trouble to bring her there,

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Speaker 1: and yet still nobody in the afterlife will help her

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Speaker 1: at all with her purple red nightmare hair. But she

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Speaker 1: did explain that Charlie Kirk's reward in the afterlife was

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Speaker 1: a quiver with a thousand arrows of light and a

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Speaker 1: large ice cream cone. She says she saw him eating

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Speaker 1: an ice cream cone in heaven.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, there are so many many terrible, terrible jokes

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Speaker 2: available here. I don't even have to lean forward in

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Speaker 2: my chair to grab the worst of them. But I

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Speaker 2: won't make any of them because I won't make any

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Speaker 2: of them even.

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00:34:31,515 --> 00:34:40,355
Speaker 1: About Charlie Kirk. Now, I'll make them about Nancy Mace.

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Speaker 1: Also of interest here add me to the list. I

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00:34:43,195 --> 00:34:45,715
Speaker 1: think Nancy Mace has announced she's going to end my

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Speaker 1: career or she's going to end her career. It was

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Speaker 1: a little unclear, Like everything else, she says. This would mean, though,

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Speaker 1: if it's me, it's now forty one years in a row,

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00:34:56,515 --> 00:34:59,035
Speaker 1: that somebody has made a threat to end my career

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Speaker 1: and I'm still here eating ice cream and they are

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Speaker 1: all gone. In fact, some of them are dead. It's

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Speaker 1: a general manager in Boston audios. See you. That's next.

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Speaker 2: Oh there's ice cream in heaven large cones.

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Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith old woman

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Speaker 1: still ahead on this edition of Countdown. Good old Nancy Mace,

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Speaker 1: half congresswoman, half plastic inflatable doll has retweeted me saying

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk and Sinclair Broadcasting are both going to hell

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00:36:04,115 --> 00:36:07,475
Speaker 1: if thet nothing else this week. Attacking Charlie Kirk as

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Speaker 1: a guaranteed way to end your career, she wrote apart

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Speaker 1: from Nancy leaving a few words out there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I get what she means, but technically she's saying the

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Speaker 1: left has has already learned this, and it's I'm not

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00:36:24,275 --> 00:36:27,595
Speaker 1: sure what she wrote. Anyway. What are you gonna do, Nancy?

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Speaker 1: Get me fired from Current TV, get me fired from

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Speaker 1: my Disney pension. I'm independent. I literally work for nobody,

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Speaker 1: and I have all the money I need for the

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Speaker 1: rest of my life until I linger to like one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two plus Nancy. People have been threatening

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Speaker 1: to end my career since literally nineteen eighty four. He

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Speaker 1: will never again work in this business. The Boston executive

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Speaker 1: said to my agent, guess what he's dead now. A

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Speaker 1: young writer who wrote My career was over in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and one in a national magazine just starting there.

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Speaker 1: He's already retired and I could die before this finishes posting.

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Speaker 1: But professionally, right now, I'm still here and all of

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Speaker 1: them are not. Goodbye, Nancy, Good evening, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the end of my career. Well not yet anyway. Next

536
00:37:20,755 --> 00:37:23,115
Speaker 1: in things I promised not to tell first, believe it

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00:37:23,155 --> 00:37:25,275
Speaker 1: or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about.

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00:37:25,275 --> 00:37:28,555
Speaker 1: The roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning kruegerffect specimens

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00:37:28,875 --> 00:37:35,355
Speaker 1: who constitute today's other worst persons in the world, The brons,

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Speaker 1: Congress and Randy Fine. Now, every time I think they

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Speaker 1: found the dumbest person in America and elected them to Congress,

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Speaker 1: we locate a dumber one. Now it's Randy Fine. Now,

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Speaker 1: I've slimmed down, but I've been overweight my whole life

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Speaker 1: since they took my tonsils out when I was six.

545
00:37:54,595 --> 00:37:58,995
Speaker 1: In retrospect, that was a mistake. Swallowing was difficult. Then

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00:37:59,035 --> 00:38:01,555
Speaker 1: one day it was not difficult at all, and the

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00:38:01,595 --> 00:38:06,075
Speaker 1: food began to flow night and day. So I genuinely

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Speaker 1: start here talking about Congressman Fine in a place of concern.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not going to pretend to you. I don't

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Speaker 1: end in a place of concern. But Congressman Fine is

551
00:38:17,515 --> 00:38:22,715
Speaker 1: like three hundred, three hundred and fifty pounds. He's a

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00:38:22,755 --> 00:38:24,395
Speaker 1: big guy. I want to tell you I saw him

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Speaker 1: sitting on the George Washington Bridge dangling his feet in

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00:38:27,115 --> 00:38:30,715
Speaker 1: the water. Hey, I'll tell you so. Fine goes on

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00:38:30,795 --> 00:38:34,035
Speaker 1: CNN and bash is Kimmel quote. We live in a

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Speaker 1: world where a meaningful percentage of people now believe violence

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Speaker 1: is legitimate as in aside Randy, who did that? Yes, Randy,

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00:38:44,995 --> 00:38:48,715
Speaker 1: it was Trump. I got to flash back to bo

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Speaker 1: Jack Horseman there, Randy, is this your fault? Dana Bash?

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Speaker 1: And this might as well have been the lead story today.

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Speaker 1: Dana Bash actually pushed back against Randy Fine, which, again,

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Speaker 1: if you've ever seen him, it's quite an accomplishment. Quote

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00:39:04,355 --> 00:39:09,275
Speaker 1: kim didn't legitimize violence. Fine kept throwing his weight around

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Speaker 1: those comments, blaming MAGA for the death of Charlie Kirk. Well,

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00:39:13,035 --> 00:39:17,355
Speaker 1: Bash interrupted him again, that's not what Kimmel said. Fine

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Speaker 1: still finished. I gasped when I read it. Randy is

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00:39:23,155 --> 00:39:26,755
Speaker 1: one fat guy to another. That gasp that may have

568
00:39:26,795 --> 00:39:31,315
Speaker 1: been caused by something else. See Your Doctor Runner up

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Speaker 1: worser Stephen A. Smith. Steven A. Smith has decided he

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Speaker 1: is a political commentator. He does a show called an

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Speaker 1: XM radio show called straight Shooter. Now that's offensive in

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Speaker 1: light of Charlie kirk and in the background of the

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Speaker 1: video version of this, there's the capitol. So that makes

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Speaker 1: him a political commentator. Again, I don't have any objection

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Speaker 1: to anybody going sports to politics. That would be like

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Speaker 1: me saying, hey, Randy Fine is a big guy. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's a bit like, No, I get it. I did that,

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Speaker 1: I know. But the call in line for people calling

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Speaker 1: into the Stephen A. Smith Straight Shooter Show, the number

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Speaker 1: ends in one of the letter equivalents P O t US,

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Speaker 1: so it's you dial whatever the number is potus. Problem

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Speaker 1: is Steve is not doing the work on this to

583
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Speaker 1: use the kids phrase, tell me you didn't actually see

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Speaker 1: the Jimmy Kimmel references to Kirk. Without telling me you

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Speaker 1: didn't actually see the Jimmy Kimmel references to Kirk, the.

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Speaker 4: Only thing that I would say, as it pertains to

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Speaker 4: Jimmy Kimmel was where was the joke?

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Speaker 2: Because you're a late night host and obviously.

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Speaker 4: That has a comedic attachment attachment to it.

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00:40:47,235 --> 00:40:54,355
Speaker 1: Where was the joke? Obviously it wasn't anything funny about that. However, No,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a joke. You're right about that. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: a joke on a late night show. Surprise, like when

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Speaker 1: Letterman did the first show after nine to eleven and

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00:41:03,355 --> 00:41:06,515
Speaker 1: he didn't make any jokes. You just back tears and

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00:41:06,635 --> 00:41:12,035
Speaker 1: the shows that were done after every assassination, and you know,

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00:41:12,075 --> 00:41:14,595
Speaker 1: the night after Martin Luther King was killed, that Johnny

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Speaker 1: Carson didn't do jokes, and then you know they postponed

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Speaker 1: these show. When you know Charlie Kirk gets shot, you

599
00:41:20,355 --> 00:41:23,435
Speaker 1: don't go for the joke, even if you're Jimmy Kimmel.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't supposed to be a joke. Stephen does not

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Speaker 1: get this. Stephen thinks the controversy is that whatever was

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Speaker 1: said about Kimmel or by Kimmel about Kirk wasn't funny.

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00:41:34,835 --> 00:41:37,235
Speaker 1: That's what he thinks was wrong. That's what he really thinks.

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Speaker 1: This is about. Where is the joke. Steve doesn't doesn't

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Speaker 1: doesn't get this. He went on at length to blame Kimmel.

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Speaker 1: I ha note Stephen is after all, paid by the

607
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Speaker 1: people who caved on Kimmel, people like Bob Iger. Steven

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Speaker 1: is a company man. Steven explained that Jimmy's failure was

609
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Speaker 1: he didn't understand quote the game that he is playing.

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00:42:03,835 --> 00:42:05,915
Speaker 1: Steven is a very very simple view of the world,

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Speaker 1: as evidence by thinking that everything is a game, and

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Speaker 1: that every political show is like every sports show, where

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Speaker 1: the point is how much time can you kill without

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Speaker 1: saying anything? That's Stephen a Smith's specialty. I mean, honest

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00:42:19,395 --> 00:42:21,955
Speaker 1: to god, he's one of the all time greats. You

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Speaker 1: have one idea and stretch it out the three hours

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00:42:24,275 --> 00:42:29,675
Speaker 1: a day, that's pretty good. That's his specialty. Anyway, Steve's

618
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Speaker 1: naivete and his unwillingness to do the work, like read

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Speaker 1: the quotes, watch the videotape, just have somebody pull it

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Speaker 1: up on your gold plated machine for you. His unwillingness

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Speaker 1: to do the work is going to be terribly exposed

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Speaker 1: in the weeks and months to come, as will the

623
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Speaker 1: fact that all those rumors about people encouraging him to

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Speaker 1: run for president as a Democrat, they were all started

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00:42:53,635 --> 00:42:57,835
Speaker 1: by by him. How do we know this because, as

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Speaker 1: I mentioned, the number for the telephone call in line

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Speaker 1: for listeners ends in botus. He chose that, Steve, you

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00:43:06,555 --> 00:43:09,115
Speaker 1: need to be a little more subtle. Your political audience

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Speaker 1: is not as dumb as your sports audience is. Holy crap,

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Speaker 1: But our winner the worst. Speaking of naive Vanity Fair

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Speaker 1: magazine editor Mark Guiducci, We've already been through this with

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Speaker 1: Mark about the new editor there breaking in by trying

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Speaker 1: to put Milania Trump on the cover of Vanity Fair

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Speaker 1: and the Vanity Fair staff, which leans a little to

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Speaker 1: the left, threatening to walk out. It was thought their

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Speaker 1: response might lead this guy Mark to reel himself in

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Speaker 1: a little bit. It did not. Last week he named

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Speaker 1: a new West Coast editor for Vanity Fair, responsible for

639
00:43:48,155 --> 00:43:51,435
Speaker 1: some writing and for quote editing stories across platforms and

640
00:43:51,475 --> 00:43:56,355
Speaker 1: topic areas, with a focus on events, industries and culture

641
00:43:56,475 --> 00:44:02,435
Speaker 1: of the Pacific region. And the new editor is Alivia Newsy.

642
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Speaker 1: She's back now. Look, she's the mother of my dogs,

643
00:44:09,355 --> 00:44:12,075
Speaker 1: at least the two oldest dogs. So I'm not being

644
00:44:12,155 --> 00:44:15,915
Speaker 1: cynical or ironic or anything when I say I will

645
00:44:15,955 --> 00:44:18,315
Speaker 1: always value her for that and my introduction to the

646
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Speaker 1: world of dogs, and if she's ever in real trouble,

647
00:44:22,435 --> 00:44:25,395
Speaker 1: I'll help, no questions asked. I offered that last year,

648
00:44:26,515 --> 00:44:28,395
Speaker 1: reached out to her agent and said, I don't know

649
00:44:28,435 --> 00:44:31,195
Speaker 1: what help I could be, probably none. If she can

650
00:44:31,235 --> 00:44:34,435
Speaker 1: think of anything, it's hers. I do have to figure

651
00:44:34,435 --> 00:44:37,315
Speaker 1: out what to tell the dogs, because when we broke up,

652
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Speaker 1: I told Rose and Stevie that Olivia had gone to

653
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Speaker 1: live on a farm upstate. But she wants to make

654
00:44:44,675 --> 00:44:52,355
Speaker 1: a comeback after the whole RFK Junior disaster. I'm fine

655
00:44:52,355 --> 00:44:55,555
Speaker 1: with it. Maybe she learned something from a mistake everybody

656
00:44:55,595 --> 00:44:58,395
Speaker 1: does eventually after mistake number nine hundred, one hopes one

657
00:44:58,395 --> 00:45:01,155
Speaker 1: would learn from that mistake. Any who, she did what

658
00:45:01,235 --> 00:45:04,435
Speaker 1: I always recommend in that situation, she waited. She waited

659
00:45:04,675 --> 00:45:09,915
Speaker 1: nearly a year plus. Selfishly. This lets me remind people

660
00:45:09,915 --> 00:45:14,195
Speaker 1: that it turned out who knew that when we broke up?

661
00:45:14,235 --> 00:45:19,955
Speaker 1: I was too young for her. However, the reaction in

662
00:45:19,995 --> 00:45:24,395
Speaker 1: writing circles has not been as forgiving two writers on

663
00:45:24,515 --> 00:45:29,675
Speaker 1: Blue Sky. These guys made me gfaw Andrew Dignan or Dingion.

664
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Speaker 1: Maybe Vanity Fair bringing Newsy on to cover the all

665
00:45:34,875 --> 00:45:41,155
Speaker 1: important who's sending first traps southeast to members of Trump's cabinet?

666
00:45:41,315 --> 00:45:46,915
Speaker 1: Beat oh oh, oh, man, I can see this is

667
00:45:46,955 --> 00:45:54,835
Speaker 1: going away soon. And then Colin Dicky uh, obviously an

668
00:45:54,835 --> 00:45:59,075
Speaker 1: expert on this subject. I'm sorry, Vanity Fair. Hiring Newsy

669
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Speaker 1: is such a effing gut punch to all the great

670
00:46:02,155 --> 00:46:06,795
Speaker 1: underemployed journalists out there who don't sext with their sources, which,

671
00:46:06,875 --> 00:46:10,435
Speaker 1: to be fair, is pretty much everyone except Olivia Nowsy.

672
00:46:11,475 --> 00:46:14,475
Speaker 1: Oh oh, and you thought I had complaints about her?

673
00:46:15,035 --> 00:46:20,555
Speaker 1: My goodness, Oh Mark, what if I just cut out

674
00:46:20,595 --> 00:46:24,355
Speaker 1: the pretense and named her West Coast sexting editor Guiducci,

675
00:46:25,555 --> 00:46:30,875
Speaker 1: good luck with being Olivia's boss, Today's other worst person

676
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Speaker 1: in the world.

677
00:46:34,915 --> 00:46:36,075
Speaker 2: Call me anytime.

678
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Speaker 1: Oh so, here we go again. As I mentioned an

679
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Speaker 1: offhand comment or retweet by plastic Woman Congresswoman Nancy mace Of,

680
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Speaker 1: I forgot Stupidville has now joined the list of people

681
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Speaker 1: who have promised to end my career or how I

682
00:47:17,115 --> 00:47:21,035
Speaker 1: should know that if you criticize Charlie Kirk, sat Charlie

683
00:47:21,035 --> 00:47:24,675
Speaker 1: of Kirk, your career is over. All I can say

684
00:47:24,795 --> 00:47:29,835
Speaker 1: is madam, take a number. We'll call you when we

685
00:47:29,915 --> 00:47:33,595
Speaker 1: are ready. I'm still dealing with the other three or

686
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Speaker 1: four dozen people who have told me in the last

687
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Speaker 1: forty one years that my career is now over. To

688
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Speaker 1: our number one story on the countdown, and good evening,

689
00:47:43,875 --> 00:47:47,635
Speaker 1: and welcome to the end of our careers, or more

690
00:47:47,675 --> 00:47:51,755
Speaker 1: particularly the end of my career. No, I'm not retiring.

691
00:47:51,795 --> 00:47:54,915
Speaker 1: I'm just quoting myself from nineteen ninety three in the

692
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Speaker 1: launch of ESPN two and the subject of career ending announcements.

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Speaker 1: Career ending announcements. Recently, a colleague of mine told me

694
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Speaker 1: he was done, and I had to go through all

695
00:48:07,435 --> 00:48:11,555
Speaker 1: of the times I have been told I was done.

696
00:48:11,635 --> 00:48:15,515
Speaker 1: The first one was in nineteen eighty four. This would

697
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Speaker 1: be in a previous century that I know. To a

698
00:48:17,875 --> 00:48:20,715
Speaker 1: lot of younger listeners, seems like it might as well

699
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Speaker 1: be eighteen eighty four. I have told before the story

700
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Speaker 1: of my limited career in Boston, for which I waited

701
00:48:26,995 --> 00:48:29,715
Speaker 1: about a year to start and lasted about half as

702
00:48:29,795 --> 00:48:32,955
Speaker 1: long because I went to work at the wrong place,

703
00:48:33,075 --> 00:48:36,635
Speaker 1: in the wrong city, outside in the wrong suburb of Boston,

704
00:48:36,915 --> 00:48:40,755
Speaker 1: with the wrong boss, where they said, don't make any jokes,

705
00:48:40,755 --> 00:48:42,395
Speaker 1: and I said, what did you hire me for? And

706
00:48:42,435 --> 00:48:45,275
Speaker 1: I left very very quickly, and then they tried to

707
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Speaker 1: fire me while I was filling out the terms of

708
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Speaker 1: my contract and staying there until they could get a replacement.

709
00:48:51,155 --> 00:48:53,555
Speaker 1: And the whole thing went up in flames. And the

710
00:48:53,595 --> 00:48:56,595
Speaker 1: result of this was that the news director of the

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Speaker 1: station Channel five in Boston, a man who actually answered

712
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Speaker 1: to the name Philip Scribner Balboni, went to the Boston

713
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Speaker 1: Globe TV sportswriter when they had such things as TV sportswriters,

714
00:49:08,355 --> 00:49:10,955
Speaker 1: and said, oh, it was such a shame about Keith.

715
00:49:10,995 --> 00:49:14,435
Speaker 1: He was potentially such a major talent. I will not

716
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Speaker 1: deny that the use of that phrase did inspire me

717
00:49:18,275 --> 00:49:21,475
Speaker 1: to some degree to get cracking on my career. On

718
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Speaker 1: the other hand, I didn't work for nearly a year later,

719
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Speaker 1: as I was taking care of some family business back

720
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Speaker 1: home and sort of put everything about my own interest

721
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Speaker 1: on the shelf. Off the record, the general manager of

722
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Speaker 1: the station I had worked for, a man named James Coppersmith,

723
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Speaker 1: said to my agent something that made Balbony's statement look

724
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Speaker 1: like a compliment. Coppersmith said, he will never again work

725
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Speaker 1: in our business. That got me motivated. I believe I

726
00:49:47,315 --> 00:49:51,355
Speaker 1: read recently that Coppersmith died. In any event, I worked

727
00:49:51,355 --> 00:49:55,115
Speaker 1: again in his business. The punchline to this one, and

728
00:49:55,155 --> 00:49:58,715
Speaker 1: they all have punchlines, is that at some point around

729
00:49:58,835 --> 00:50:03,195
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, I got an email at MSNBC

730
00:50:03,835 --> 00:50:08,075
Speaker 1: and the return of was Philip Scribner Balboni, and there

731
00:50:08,155 --> 00:50:10,955
Speaker 1: was a great email from my old brief news director

732
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Speaker 1: Boston Channel five in Boston, who explained that I had

733
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Speaker 1: been potentially such a major talent and was quoted on

734
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Speaker 1: the record as saying that. And now he was saying

735
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Speaker 1: how he watched Countdown every night and was so proud

736
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Speaker 1: to have been in there at the start of my career.

737
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Speaker 1: Not a word about the other part, about the oh,

738
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Speaker 1: potentially such a major talent. I guess he meant it

739
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Speaker 1: in the past future, perfect sense of the I don't know,

740
00:50:36,995 --> 00:50:40,475
Speaker 1: my grammar education is not what it should be. But

741
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Speaker 1: he managed to wriggle out of it. Never made any

742
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Speaker 1: reference to it. And the one thing about surviving repeated

743
00:50:46,475 --> 00:50:51,155
Speaker 1: announcements that your career is over is to never really

744
00:50:51,155 --> 00:50:53,715
Speaker 1: go back and criticize the people who were wrong about it,

745
00:50:53,795 --> 00:50:57,275
Speaker 1: because they know they were wrong, and your success is

746
00:50:57,395 --> 00:51:00,595
Speaker 1: the best answer. Nevertheless, this all came up, and I

747
00:51:00,635 --> 00:51:03,475
Speaker 1: thought i'd retell it to you because I had to

748
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Speaker 1: retell it to a friend who recently told me his

749
00:51:05,955 --> 00:51:08,635
Speaker 1: career was over. But as I said, that was just

750
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Speaker 1: the first time that had ever happened in a fully

751
00:51:11,155 --> 00:51:14,195
Speaker 1: professional setting. In two thousand and one, and I was

752
00:51:14,395 --> 00:51:17,835
Speaker 1: just reading this, I guess about a year ago. I

753
00:51:17,955 --> 00:51:21,675
Speaker 1: came across it somewhere online. I was reading it for

754
00:51:21,915 --> 00:51:24,475
Speaker 1: a punchline in and of itself. It was a piece

755
00:51:24,595 --> 00:51:28,155
Speaker 1: in Sports illustrated by a man named Chris Ballard, I believe,

756
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Speaker 1: and Chris Baward wrote an article about my being fired

757
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Speaker 1: by Fox Sports, which he wrote as I had resigned

758
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Speaker 1: from Fox Sports, and went on to explain that I

759
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Speaker 1: did not respond as Sports Illustrated's request by emails and

760
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Speaker 1: phones for comment. I never received any of them because

761
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Speaker 1: it never occurred to him that when they fired me

762
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Speaker 1: and told everybody I had resigned, they cut off my

763
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Speaker 1: access to my email and my phone, and they said

764
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Speaker 1: to him when he wanted to talk to me, oh,

765
00:51:57,155 --> 00:51:59,235
Speaker 1: just send him an email. He'll get back to you.

766
00:51:59,315 --> 00:52:01,475
Speaker 1: And I didn't, and thus he made me look like

767
00:52:01,515 --> 00:52:04,955
Speaker 1: a jerk. In any event, The article explained in two

768
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Speaker 1: thousand and one that having gone through ESPN and now

769
00:52:08,475 --> 00:52:13,875
Speaker 1: ESPN's sort of mini me rival, Fox Sports News, that

770
00:52:13,915 --> 00:52:15,835
Speaker 1: there was nothing left for me to do in the business.

771
00:52:15,955 --> 00:52:18,755
Speaker 1: I had tried news briefly in nineteen ninety seven and

772
00:52:18,875 --> 00:52:22,195
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight. Clearly my career in both fields was over.

773
00:52:22,515 --> 00:52:25,355
Speaker 1: I could not possibly work again in television, in news

774
00:52:25,515 --> 00:52:29,355
Speaker 1: or in sports. We're now coming up next year if

775
00:52:29,395 --> 00:52:32,755
Speaker 1: I get to it. Well, it's been twenty three, twenty

776
00:52:32,795 --> 00:52:37,795
Speaker 1: four year. Okay. I recently saw this article and was

777
00:52:37,835 --> 00:52:41,675
Speaker 1: inspired to look for it online because Chris Ballard was

778
00:52:41,835 --> 00:52:48,275
Speaker 1: retiring from Sports Illustrated and I'm still here one question

779
00:52:48,315 --> 00:52:50,475
Speaker 1: that came up as I was retelling the story of

780
00:52:50,515 --> 00:52:53,395
Speaker 1: my various career ending moments that did not in fact

781
00:52:53,515 --> 00:52:56,875
Speaker 1: end my career from my friend who's very worried about this,

782
00:52:57,875 --> 00:53:00,715
Speaker 1: was how I managed not to have my career. And

783
00:53:01,195 --> 00:53:07,115
Speaker 1: when Ballard's premise was not completely wrong, he was certainly

784
00:53:07,115 --> 00:53:10,315
Speaker 1: looking at what he thought happened in television. He was

785
00:53:10,355 --> 00:53:13,595
Speaker 1: not the TV sports writer for Sports Illustrated for very long.

786
00:53:13,635 --> 00:53:16,275
Speaker 1: It was not a natural subject for him. Most people

787
00:53:16,315 --> 00:53:20,035
Speaker 1: who did this job thought that it involved simply watching

788
00:53:20,075 --> 00:53:22,515
Speaker 1: sports on TV and then writing what they thought as

789
00:53:22,555 --> 00:53:26,195
Speaker 1: opposed to understanding an industry or its complexities, or its

790
00:53:26,235 --> 00:53:31,715
Speaker 1: parameters or its sort of weird voodoo customs. In any event,

791
00:53:32,275 --> 00:53:35,195
Speaker 1: I said, well, look, it's not very difficult to survive

792
00:53:35,275 --> 00:53:38,315
Speaker 1: these things. You just have to acknowledge that perhaps your

793
00:53:38,435 --> 00:53:42,315
Speaker 1: next job, after some sort of cataclysmic departure from an

794
00:53:42,555 --> 00:53:45,755
Speaker 1: ESPN or a Fox Sports or an MSNBC or wherever else,

795
00:53:46,195 --> 00:53:48,915
Speaker 1: perhaps it's not going to pay you quite as much

796
00:53:48,995 --> 00:53:53,035
Speaker 1: as the last one did. And so, when my agent

797
00:53:53,075 --> 00:53:55,075
Speaker 1: and I began to look around for more work in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and one, and I might add that after

799
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Speaker 1: Fox fired me, they had to pay me for another

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00:53:59,355 --> 00:54:01,715
Speaker 1: eight months at one hundred thousand dollars a year. And

801
00:54:01,835 --> 00:54:05,595
Speaker 1: if you can't survive on a job requires you to

802
00:54:05,715 --> 00:54:08,515
Speaker 1: do nothing for eight months and pays you eight hundred

803
00:54:08,555 --> 00:54:11,795
Speaker 1: thousand dollars that you can salt away. If you can't

804
00:54:11,835 --> 00:54:14,715
Speaker 1: survive on that and enjoy your life while you're doing it,

805
00:54:15,115 --> 00:54:19,875
Speaker 1: you're doing things wrong. In any event, what I said

806
00:54:19,995 --> 00:54:22,075
Speaker 1: was just the next job. Just take a job that

807
00:54:22,595 --> 00:54:24,595
Speaker 1: allows you to do what you can do and do

808
00:54:24,675 --> 00:54:27,955
Speaker 1: it well, and you will succeed in it. You have

809
00:54:28,115 --> 00:54:30,835
Speaker 1: talent a lot of other people don't. You will be

810
00:54:31,195 --> 00:54:33,795
Speaker 1: low costs, so they're much more likely to overlook anything

811
00:54:33,795 --> 00:54:36,995
Speaker 1: that happened in the past, and most importantly, if it

812
00:54:37,075 --> 00:54:39,315
Speaker 1: is successful, you can then hold them up on the

813
00:54:39,315 --> 00:54:43,555
Speaker 1: second contract negotiation. So I went first to CNN after

814
00:54:43,595 --> 00:54:46,675
Speaker 1: the Fox Sports experience started to work for them for

815
00:54:47,075 --> 00:54:50,035
Speaker 1: not a lot of money, and although they did not

816
00:54:50,195 --> 00:54:53,075
Speaker 1: ultimately exercise this, they signed me to a contract to

817
00:54:53,115 --> 00:54:55,915
Speaker 1: do the eight PM show on CNN for a certain

818
00:54:55,995 --> 00:54:58,195
Speaker 1: large amount of money, and there were two finalists they

819
00:54:58,235 --> 00:55:00,395
Speaker 1: wanted us lined up in advance, and they made the

820
00:55:00,395 --> 00:55:04,475
Speaker 1: clever decision to choose Connie Chung instead of me, but

821
00:55:05,115 --> 00:55:08,875
Speaker 1: they had sort of reauthorized me. They had re established me.

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Speaker 1: By it was well known within the industry that I

823
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Speaker 1: was the runner up for the job at eight o'clock,

824
00:55:14,115 --> 00:55:17,075
Speaker 1: and within six months of them saying, nah, we think

825
00:55:17,155 --> 00:55:19,595
Speaker 1: Connie's the right person to lead us into the future here,

826
00:55:19,875 --> 00:55:22,435
Speaker 1: within six months of that, I was doing the eight

827
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Speaker 1: o'clock show on MSNBC for in fact, twice what the

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Speaker 1: agreement had been at CNN, And within three years they'd

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Speaker 1: signed me to a new deal that was worth three

830
00:55:31,195 --> 00:55:33,675
Speaker 1: times that more than I had ever made in my life.

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Speaker 1: So the key thing to it is to be flexible financially.

832
00:55:37,315 --> 00:55:39,715
Speaker 1: You sock them for the money while you're successful. And

833
00:55:39,755 --> 00:55:43,235
Speaker 1: then by the way, once again, if you can't succeed

834
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Speaker 1: in the business, if you can't succeed in life, when

835
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Speaker 1: you have received in one year anything north of three

836
00:55:52,195 --> 00:55:55,315
Speaker 1: million dollars in one year, four million dollars, maybe I

837
00:55:55,355 --> 00:55:58,195
Speaker 1: forget what the actual financial floor is. But if you've

838
00:55:58,235 --> 00:56:01,155
Speaker 1: made that much money in one year and can't live

839
00:56:01,475 --> 00:56:06,035
Speaker 1: basically off that and simply in interest from the bank

840
00:56:06,275 --> 00:56:08,715
Speaker 1: that that will provide you, if you can't do that,

841
00:56:10,235 --> 00:56:13,635
Speaker 1: you must have some sort of addiction to drugs, because

842
00:56:13,955 --> 00:56:17,715
Speaker 1: guess what, you can go a long way still. I mean, yeah,

843
00:56:17,835 --> 00:56:20,835
Speaker 1: it's true, four million dollars is what it used to be,

844
00:56:20,915 --> 00:56:23,715
Speaker 1: but guess what it is now. It's still really good.

845
00:56:24,835 --> 00:56:27,115
Speaker 1: I never failed to see one of these articles in

846
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Speaker 1: which somebody who's lost a job paying in you know,

847
00:56:30,355 --> 00:56:33,275
Speaker 1: the tens of millions of dollars, and I always finished.

848
00:56:33,275 --> 00:56:37,035
Speaker 1: Now It's like, yes, he's finished. Now he can sit

849
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Speaker 1: on a beach, he can hire somebody to do his

850
00:56:39,715 --> 00:56:42,595
Speaker 1: exercise for him. He can sit on a beach and

851
00:56:43,955 --> 00:56:46,435
Speaker 1: eat the money, and it won't make a difference. He

852
00:56:46,475 --> 00:56:49,595
Speaker 1: doesn't have to do it again in any event. So

853
00:56:49,915 --> 00:56:53,355
Speaker 1: the pattern here that I have described already has continued

854
00:56:53,395 --> 00:56:56,075
Speaker 1: in subsequent years, even after I came back from the

855
00:56:56,115 --> 00:56:59,035
Speaker 1: dead after my experience in Boston, where I was dubbed

856
00:56:59,115 --> 00:57:02,875
Speaker 1: the dark prints of TV Sports and was winning awards

857
00:57:02,875 --> 00:57:06,115
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles the next year. Although, to be fair,

858
00:57:06,475 --> 00:57:08,955
Speaker 1: after that quote in nineteen eighty four about how I

859
00:57:08,995 --> 00:57:11,755
Speaker 1: was potentially a great talent, I did get down to

860
00:57:11,795 --> 00:57:14,755
Speaker 1: about my last one hundred dollars in the bank, and

861
00:57:14,875 --> 00:57:18,955
Speaker 1: actually I actually had to borrow money from my dear

862
00:57:19,035 --> 00:57:22,235
Speaker 1: sister to get on the bus to take me to

863
00:57:22,355 --> 00:57:25,195
Speaker 1: the airport in New York so I could take the

864
00:57:25,235 --> 00:57:28,195
Speaker 1: flight to Los Angeles to start my job there. That's

865
00:57:28,235 --> 00:57:30,795
Speaker 1: how close I cut it. Another week and I would

866
00:57:30,795 --> 00:57:33,795
Speaker 1: have been borrowing money for food. That's where I was.

867
00:57:34,115 --> 00:57:36,435
Speaker 1: But you have to be willing to walk that tight

868
00:57:36,515 --> 00:57:39,435
Speaker 1: rope to pull this off in any event. So that

869
00:57:39,595 --> 00:57:42,315
Speaker 1: was Boston became the Los Angeles job, and the Los

870
00:57:42,355 --> 00:57:44,715
Speaker 1: Angeles job. When they eliminated that, it's like, well, his

871
00:57:44,795 --> 00:57:48,275
Speaker 1: career is over now. The next job was ESPN. ESPN

872
00:57:48,355 --> 00:57:51,395
Speaker 1: led to NBC. When that didn't work out and I

873
00:57:51,515 --> 00:57:53,475
Speaker 1: pushed to get out of there, they sold me to

874
00:57:53,515 --> 00:57:55,395
Speaker 1: Fox for a million dollars and they paid me a

875
00:57:55,395 --> 00:57:57,035
Speaker 1: lot of money and continued to pay me a lot

876
00:57:57,075 --> 00:57:58,995
Speaker 1: of money even after they stopped putting me on TV.

877
00:58:00,155 --> 00:58:02,675
Speaker 1: And that led to a doldrum period where I got

878
00:58:02,675 --> 00:58:05,155
Speaker 1: to read about the guy who's now retired from Sports

879
00:58:05,195 --> 00:58:08,835
Speaker 1: Illustrated explaining what network will sign him now, what team

880
00:58:08,915 --> 00:58:12,315
Speaker 1: will sign him now? Whither Keith? This is two thousand

881
00:58:12,355 --> 00:58:15,115
Speaker 1: and one. I was forty two years old. It's like

882
00:58:15,155 --> 00:58:18,475
Speaker 1: I get nostalgic reading that, going, yeah, you were forty

883
00:58:18,515 --> 00:58:20,955
Speaker 1: two years old. They fired you at that point people

884
00:58:20,955 --> 00:58:23,835
Speaker 1: thought your career was over. Yeah, but I was forty two.

885
00:58:24,915 --> 00:58:29,315
Speaker 1: My hair was dark most places in any event, So

886
00:58:29,555 --> 00:58:32,875
Speaker 1: that led into the MSNBC job, and the MSNBC job,

887
00:58:33,235 --> 00:58:36,395
Speaker 1: as sort of messy as that ended, the second one,

888
00:58:36,435 --> 00:58:40,515
Speaker 1: anyway led to the Current TV job, and as disastrous

889
00:58:40,555 --> 00:58:43,235
Speaker 1: as that was, since it was kind of a confidence trick,

890
00:58:44,155 --> 00:58:46,835
Speaker 1: there was a day where between the money I got

891
00:58:46,875 --> 00:58:49,115
Speaker 1: for leaving NBC and the money I got for joining

892
00:58:49,115 --> 00:58:51,875
Speaker 1: Current TV, I made sixty eight million dollars in one day.

893
00:58:52,515 --> 00:58:54,635
Speaker 1: I had to sew a lot of people afterwards to

894
00:58:54,675 --> 00:58:57,035
Speaker 1: get all of it, but I got just about all

895
00:58:57,075 --> 00:59:00,635
Speaker 1: of it. In any event, I'm now boasting back to

896
00:59:00,675 --> 00:59:03,475
Speaker 1: the point of this whole story. An old friend of

897
00:59:03,515 --> 00:59:05,675
Speaker 1: mine came in when I was doing the videos for

898
00:59:05,835 --> 00:59:09,355
Speaker 1: GQ The Closer and The Resistance in twenty sixteen. In

899
00:59:09,395 --> 00:59:12,475
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, came in to watch me do this and

900
00:59:12,555 --> 00:59:16,835
Speaker 1: started to ask very very graciously and very gently about, well,

901
00:59:16,875 --> 00:59:19,595
Speaker 1: isn't this something of a come down for you from

902
00:59:19,755 --> 00:59:23,435
Speaker 1: the MSNBC experience where you had a staff, And I said, well,

903
00:59:23,435 --> 00:59:28,635
Speaker 1: first off, the MSNBC experience consisted of two cameramen and

904
00:59:28,715 --> 00:59:32,755
Speaker 1: a floor director and me and sometimes a guest in

905
00:59:32,795 --> 00:59:37,435
Speaker 1: a studio. The staff, whereas they were all certainly dedicated

906
00:59:37,435 --> 00:59:40,435
Speaker 1: to the project, consisted of basically a core of six

907
00:59:40,555 --> 00:59:44,035
Speaker 1: or seven people. It never really felt like a big deal.

908
00:59:44,155 --> 00:59:46,915
Speaker 1: I know it had more influence than I was ever

909
00:59:47,035 --> 00:59:51,395
Speaker 1: led to understand, but it wasn't like, oh, well, you

910
00:59:51,435 --> 00:59:53,875
Speaker 1: know those movies that you did with Richard Burton and

911
00:59:53,875 --> 00:59:57,115
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Taylor and Tom Cruise, and now you're just sitting

912
00:59:57,115 --> 01:00:00,235
Speaker 1: at home with a camera. It didn't have that feel

913
01:00:00,275 --> 01:00:02,715
Speaker 1: in the slightest. And I said to him, did you

914
01:00:02,755 --> 01:00:05,395
Speaker 1: see the thing from CBS News the other day? And

915
01:00:05,395 --> 01:00:07,595
Speaker 1: he went, what thing from CBS News? I said, don't

916
01:00:07,635 --> 01:00:09,675
Speaker 1: you have the Google at the New York Times? And

917
01:00:09,715 --> 01:00:15,115
Speaker 1: he said yes. I said, Google, Social Flow, Facebook, and

918
01:00:15,195 --> 01:00:18,235
Speaker 1: he did on his phone and he read this political

919
01:00:18,235 --> 01:00:20,875
Speaker 1: pundit Keith Alderman found a way to channel concerns about

920
01:00:20,915 --> 01:00:24,035
Speaker 1: mister Trump. This is July twenty seventeen, started hosting a

921
01:00:24,075 --> 01:00:27,315
Speaker 1: series of political commentary and special interviews titled The Resistance

922
01:00:27,355 --> 01:00:30,515
Speaker 1: with Keith Olderman, with the first episode featured on GQ

923
01:00:30,715 --> 01:00:35,875
Speaker 1: on November sixteenth, twenty sixteen, reaching fifty four million people

924
01:00:36,155 --> 01:00:40,395
Speaker 1: equivalent to one in six Americans, And I said, look,

925
01:00:40,995 --> 01:00:44,315
Speaker 1: I understand that if you measure things solely by the

926
01:00:44,355 --> 01:00:47,315
Speaker 1: idea that I'm on your TV every night, Well, yeah,

927
01:00:47,395 --> 01:00:50,075
Speaker 1: that the doing a video and coming into a studio

928
01:00:50,155 --> 01:00:52,475
Speaker 1: that isn't really designed for TV and there's an echo

929
01:00:52,555 --> 01:00:54,675
Speaker 1: in it might seem like the end of my career.

930
01:00:54,835 --> 01:00:59,035
Speaker 1: Fifty four million people saw that video and interacted with

931
01:00:59,115 --> 01:01:02,315
Speaker 1: it in some kind. They either forwarded it, or watched it,

932
01:01:02,635 --> 01:01:05,475
Speaker 1: or put a comment on it, or sometimes all three.

933
01:01:05,635 --> 01:01:10,435
Speaker 1: That was, in fact the number one political video or

934
01:01:10,515 --> 01:01:13,955
Speaker 1: story on Facebook in the period of time after Donald

935
01:01:13,995 --> 01:01:17,515
Speaker 1: Trump's election. I think that's something of a success. And

936
01:01:17,555 --> 01:01:19,835
Speaker 1: I said, by this point, I don't need the damn money.

937
01:01:19,955 --> 01:01:22,595
Speaker 1: The money I'm making from doing this is going to

938
01:01:22,675 --> 01:01:26,595
Speaker 1: dog charities. Okay, So we could go on at length

939
01:01:26,635 --> 01:01:29,555
Speaker 1: about other small versions of that. I once went back

940
01:01:29,595 --> 01:01:31,395
Speaker 1: and forth with this guy who now is one of

941
01:01:31,395 --> 01:01:34,875
Speaker 1: the people at Puck News who insisted that I had

942
01:01:34,915 --> 01:01:38,915
Speaker 1: not been negotiating with the then chairman of NBC Jeff Schell,

943
01:01:39,115 --> 01:01:43,195
Speaker 1: about returning to MSNBC in twenty nineteen twenty and twenty one,

944
01:01:43,515 --> 01:01:47,035
Speaker 1: because NBC News had insisted it wasn't true. And I said,

945
01:01:47,075 --> 01:01:49,875
Speaker 1: who told you that, and they said a spokesman. And

946
01:01:49,915 --> 01:01:52,155
Speaker 1: I said to this guy, his name was Dylan Byers,

947
01:01:52,595 --> 01:01:54,875
Speaker 1: I said, well, who was the spokesman. Well, it's just

948
01:01:55,115 --> 01:01:56,915
Speaker 1: supposed to be a spokesman, I said. So. They wouldn't

949
01:01:56,915 --> 01:01:59,235
Speaker 1: even put their own name on it, not even a

950
01:01:59,355 --> 01:02:03,235
Speaker 1: made up name Jim Jones, NBC News spokesman, which would

951
01:02:03,235 --> 01:02:06,195
Speaker 1: have been, by the way, appropriate name for a series

952
01:02:06,235 --> 01:02:09,835
Speaker 1: of NBC News spokespeople. They didn't even do that. And

953
01:02:09,875 --> 01:02:12,355
Speaker 1: he said no. They were insistent, there's never been any

954
01:02:12,395 --> 01:02:14,875
Speaker 1: contact between you and Jeff Shell. And I went hang on,

955
01:02:15,515 --> 01:02:18,555
Speaker 1: and I called up from my phone twenty three emails

956
01:02:18,555 --> 01:02:22,115
Speaker 1: and texts from Jeff Shell. I photo shot at them,

957
01:02:22,155 --> 01:02:24,355
Speaker 1: I screen shotted them and gave him to the guy.

958
01:02:24,755 --> 01:02:27,395
Speaker 1: And I don't think this guy Buyers has recovered since

959
01:02:27,955 --> 01:02:32,395
Speaker 1: his worldview was totally destroyed. He was writing a story

960
01:02:32,435 --> 01:02:35,235
Speaker 1: about how I had deteriorated to the point where I

961
01:02:35,315 --> 01:02:39,035
Speaker 1: was hallucinating about being in contact with Jeff Shell from

962
01:02:39,155 --> 01:02:43,155
Speaker 1: NBC News or from NBC about returning to NBC News

963
01:02:43,235 --> 01:02:46,275
Speaker 1: and MSNBC when we were deep into negotiations about it,

964
01:02:46,475 --> 01:02:49,235
Speaker 1: and we're delayed only by the pandemic. And as I

965
01:02:49,315 --> 01:02:52,915
Speaker 1: pointed out here before the vetos of certain people working

966
01:02:52,955 --> 01:02:55,755
Speaker 1: on the air at MSNBC, most of whose careers I started.

967
01:02:55,915 --> 01:02:59,675
Speaker 1: But that's another story which I've already discussed. His whole

968
01:02:59,755 --> 01:03:03,915
Speaker 1: worldview was shattered by this because should do be He

969
01:03:04,035 --> 01:03:08,675
Speaker 1: could not comprehend that an NBC News spokesperson would lie

970
01:03:08,755 --> 01:03:11,195
Speaker 1: to him, And he really said this. He said, I

971
01:03:11,235 --> 01:03:13,795
Speaker 1: don't understand why would they lie to me? And I said,

972
01:03:13,835 --> 01:03:15,995
Speaker 1: you don't have to understand that the idea that they

973
01:03:16,035 --> 01:03:18,195
Speaker 1: would not put their own name on this statement might

974
01:03:18,235 --> 01:03:21,275
Speaker 1: have suggested to you that they were lying to you. Oh,

975
01:03:21,515 --> 01:03:23,515
Speaker 1: I'll keep that in mind. Well, he didn't keep that

976
01:03:23,555 --> 01:03:25,955
Speaker 1: in mind. But that's again another story about Dylan Byers,

977
01:03:25,955 --> 01:03:31,315
Speaker 1: and we'll get to him somedayday too, somewhere soon. Somebody

978
01:03:31,435 --> 01:03:34,635
Speaker 1: asked towards the end of July twenty twenty four about

979
01:03:34,675 --> 01:03:37,675
Speaker 1: my recent comeback and how I'd just gotten back into

980
01:03:37,715 --> 01:03:41,715
Speaker 1: political commentary now with the new podcast, and I said,

981
01:03:42,235 --> 01:03:47,075
Speaker 1: it's two years old. On August first, it was approaching

982
01:03:47,155 --> 01:03:52,235
Speaker 1: five hundred episodes. We're doing like a million listens a week,

983
01:03:52,355 --> 01:03:58,275
Speaker 1: a million audience participants a week. I mean, it's challenging

984
01:03:58,355 --> 01:04:02,395
Speaker 1: certain hours on CNN for total audience. Good God, what

985
01:04:02,435 --> 01:04:06,475
Speaker 1: do you mean recent comeback? But this is, as I said,

986
01:04:06,555 --> 01:04:09,075
Speaker 1: if I had ten million dollars for every time somebody

987
01:04:09,075 --> 01:04:15,395
Speaker 1: told me my career was over, A career is sort

988
01:04:15,435 --> 01:04:19,275
Speaker 1: of over because I'm now of advanced years and now

989
01:04:19,355 --> 01:04:23,315
Speaker 1: I've done something that I really didn't understand until the

990
01:04:23,395 --> 01:04:27,715
Speaker 1: year twenty eleven, until I left MSNBC to go to

991
01:04:27,795 --> 01:04:31,475
Speaker 1: Current TV, and there was built into this transfer a

992
01:04:31,555 --> 01:04:34,115
Speaker 1: three month period of time where I could not work

993
01:04:34,195 --> 01:04:38,115
Speaker 1: anywhere in television. I had not had such a period

994
01:04:38,115 --> 01:04:41,395
Speaker 1: of time except for the aforementioned period when I was

995
01:04:41,435 --> 01:04:44,075
Speaker 1: taken care of family members who were in trouble in

996
01:04:44,155 --> 01:04:47,355
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five after the Boston experience, I hadn't had

997
01:04:47,355 --> 01:04:50,155
Speaker 1: such a length of time without being on the air somewhere.

998
01:04:50,435 --> 01:04:52,675
Speaker 1: And in fact, during that period in nineteen eighty five,

999
01:04:52,715 --> 01:04:55,395
Speaker 1: I did a lot of freelance work just to get

1000
01:04:55,395 --> 01:04:58,035
Speaker 1: the cash that I didn't have to borrow from my sister,

1001
01:04:58,075 --> 01:05:01,555
Speaker 1: who was, by the way, seventeen years old at the time. Yeah, Jen,

1002
01:05:01,795 --> 01:05:06,035
Speaker 1: have you got a twenty Yeah, I need to go

1003
01:05:06,035 --> 01:05:09,155
Speaker 1: buy a cigar. In any event, the point of this

1004
01:05:09,435 --> 01:05:12,515
Speaker 1: was until twenty eleven, i'd really not had a day

1005
01:05:12,675 --> 01:05:16,395
Speaker 1: or at least a week without deadlines media deadlines. You

1006
01:05:16,475 --> 01:05:18,355
Speaker 1: have to have this written by eight o'clock because the

1007
01:05:18,355 --> 01:05:20,995
Speaker 1: show is starting with or without you. I hadn't had

1008
01:05:20,995 --> 01:05:23,675
Speaker 1: a day or a week without those since I was

1009
01:05:23,715 --> 01:05:27,275
Speaker 1: sixteen years old. I was to my shock. I found

1010
01:05:27,355 --> 01:05:30,435
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed not having those deadlines. And when we

1011
01:05:30,475 --> 01:05:32,635
Speaker 1: went back on the air in Current TV in June

1012
01:05:32,675 --> 01:05:36,995
Speaker 1: of twenty eleven, I was kind of disappointed, not because

1013
01:05:37,075 --> 01:05:39,875
Speaker 1: the studio was actually not a studio but more like

1014
01:05:39,915 --> 01:05:43,035
Speaker 1: a you know, a portal to Hell and not that

1015
01:05:43,195 --> 01:05:45,395
Speaker 1: part of it, which was disappointing, but not as much

1016
01:05:45,435 --> 01:05:49,475
Speaker 1: as I really enjoyed, you know, not shaving every weekday

1017
01:05:49,515 --> 01:05:54,035
Speaker 1: and not having to write, you know, ten thousand words

1018
01:05:54,075 --> 01:05:58,035
Speaker 1: a day, and not having to read the twelve seconds

1019
01:05:58,035 --> 01:06:01,995
Speaker 1: of script inside the twelve second window before the sound hit,

1020
01:06:02,715 --> 01:06:04,835
Speaker 1: and just the number of deadlines I suddenly did and

1021
01:06:04,835 --> 01:06:07,675
Speaker 1: a half. So since twenty eleven, I decided to cut

1022
01:06:07,715 --> 01:06:11,115
Speaker 1: back to four days work a week generally speaking, that's

1023
01:06:11,195 --> 01:06:15,955
Speaker 1: my concession to my mid sixties. And as I was

1024
01:06:15,995 --> 01:06:19,635
Speaker 1: preparing this to tell you this story, in light of

1025
01:06:19,675 --> 01:06:21,795
Speaker 1: the experience I had with my friend who thought his

1026
01:06:21,875 --> 01:06:24,515
Speaker 1: career was over, and I was reciting this, I realized

1027
01:06:24,515 --> 01:06:27,035
Speaker 1: that I had left out in telling him the story,

1028
01:06:27,195 --> 01:06:29,955
Speaker 1: and I have deliberately left it out of the chronological

1029
01:06:30,075 --> 01:06:33,395
Speaker 1: order of these tales of the actual first time I

1030
01:06:33,515 --> 01:06:36,155
Speaker 1: was told my career was over, I had forgotten completely

1031
01:06:36,835 --> 01:06:40,155
Speaker 1: about the day that the sports director what was then

1032
01:06:40,195 --> 01:06:44,515
Speaker 1: a prominent radio station told me that not only would

1033
01:06:44,555 --> 01:06:47,515
Speaker 1: he and the news director there not hire me, even

1034
01:06:47,555 --> 01:06:49,275
Speaker 1: though I had been told I was a candidate for

1035
01:06:49,315 --> 01:06:51,595
Speaker 1: a sports job there, but he told me that I

1036
01:06:51,635 --> 01:06:55,595
Speaker 1: would never get a job in radio or television of

1037
01:06:55,675 --> 01:06:59,915
Speaker 1: any prominence because of my attitude. No one will ever

1038
01:06:59,995 --> 01:07:04,955
Speaker 1: hire you. His name was Ernie Jackson, and I believe

1039
01:07:05,595 --> 01:07:07,995
Speaker 1: he left the town we were in to get a

1040
01:07:08,075 --> 01:07:11,395
Speaker 1: job selling airtime on a radio station in Cincinnati, and

1041
01:07:11,435 --> 01:07:13,235
Speaker 1: after that, I don't know what the hell happened to him.

1042
01:07:13,635 --> 01:07:16,035
Speaker 1: The news director was a guy named Bob Lynch, and

1043
01:07:16,115 --> 01:07:19,435
Speaker 1: he shortly thereafter moved to a job that I think

1044
01:07:19,475 --> 01:07:23,475
Speaker 1: he spent his entire professional career at traffic reporter in

1045
01:07:23,515 --> 01:07:26,795
Speaker 1: a plane above the beautiful city of Rochester, New York

1046
01:07:27,795 --> 01:07:31,435
Speaker 1: the date that mister Jackson, on mister Lynch's behalf told

1047
01:07:31,435 --> 01:07:34,355
Speaker 1: me that my career was over. The first time I

1048
01:07:34,435 --> 01:07:37,875
Speaker 1: was told you will never again work in this business,

1049
01:07:38,355 --> 01:07:40,635
Speaker 1: the first good evening and welcome to the end of

1050
01:07:40,675 --> 01:08:01,275
Speaker 1: my career, was October nineteen seventy seven. I've done all

1051
01:08:01,315 --> 01:08:05,795
Speaker 1: the damage I can do here, and yet thank you

1052
01:08:05,835 --> 01:08:09,075
Speaker 1: for listening. Most of our countdown music was arranged, produced,

1053
01:08:09,115 --> 01:08:11,995
Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel. Our

1054
01:08:12,075 --> 01:08:15,595
Speaker 1: musical directors have countdown. Neither of their careers is over.

1055
01:08:15,995 --> 01:08:19,195
Speaker 1: It was produced by Tko Brothers. Mister Ray on the guitars,

1056
01:08:19,195 --> 01:08:23,515
Speaker 1: bass and drums, mister Chanelle handling, orchestration and keyboards. Our

1057
01:08:23,635 --> 01:08:26,395
Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball

1058
01:08:26,435 --> 01:08:29,955
Speaker 1: stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust, who's also heard that same

1059
01:08:30,035 --> 01:08:33,595
Speaker 1: message and whose career is also not over. The Olberman

1060
01:08:33,715 --> 01:08:37,155
Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy

1061
01:08:37,235 --> 01:08:40,875
Speaker 1: of ESPN, Inc. Is the sports music I can't speak

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Speaker 1: to mister Davis. I don't know him personally, but ah,

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Speaker 1: how many times has ESPN been declared dead since nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy nine and it's still here. Other music arranged and

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Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns allowed. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're still in business. Individually, They're all still in business,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think the group performs anymore, so maybe

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Speaker 1: their career is over. My announcer today was my friend

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Speaker 1: Johnny Banks from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. His

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Speaker 1: career ate over everything else was as always my fault.

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Speaker 1: So that's countdown for today. Day two hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: six of America held hostage again, just twenty seven days

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Speaker 1: until the scheduled end of Trump's lame duck lame brained term,

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Speaker 1: unless he is removed sooner by MAGA than Jeffrey Epstein

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Speaker 1: or Tom I put the hoe in home Man, or

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Speaker 1: the pavement on Trump's hand or whatever. The next scheduled

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Speaker 1: countdown is Thursday. Until then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith

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