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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: How many votes to the Republicans hold without electing a

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Speaker 1: Speaker of the House before a journeying Again, no man

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Speaker 1: can say, for no mere mortal can count that high.

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Speaker 1: Four developments of note besides all that crap, one Matt Slap,

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Speaker 1: one of the evil political scientists behind all of this crap,

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Speaker 1: organizer of the two thousand Brooks Brothers riot head of Spack,

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Speaker 1: was accused last night by a staffer from herschel Walker's

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Speaker 1: Senate campaign of quote sustained and unwanted and unsolicited unquote

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Speaker 1: sexual contact. The man says Schlap brought him drinks at

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Speaker 1: two different bars that he was then driving Slap back

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Speaker 1: from the second of them when Schlap allegedly groped his

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Speaker 1: crotch and fondled him. This was all reported by The

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Speaker 1: Daily Beast two around eight o'clock last night. Politico, the

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Speaker 1: Washington Post, other news organizations reported there was a potential deal.

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Speaker 1: Politico even quoted Ralph Norman of South Carolina saying there

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Speaker 1: was a deal on paper, but insisting he still needed

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Speaker 1: to see how it was written and see what it is,

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Speaker 1: which is what on paper means. This was also at

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Speaker 1: least the third time on Thursday alone that reputable news organizations,

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Speaker 1: citing reputable news sources, reported the possibility of a compromise.

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Speaker 1: Things were complicated by several reports that at least four

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Speaker 1: Republican members elect were to leave Washington Friday to attend

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Speaker 1: to urgent personal business and we don't know where the

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Speaker 1: hell that stands. And there was an earlier report by

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's aptly named House reporter Billy House that the tail

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Speaker 1: Band twenty had a way of climbing down from the

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is out on, via a proposed rules change

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Speaker 1: which would allow them to not have to vote for

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Speaker 1: a different candidate, nor to vote merely present to signify

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Speaker 1: their opposition to McCarthy, but which would permit them to

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Speaker 1: vote quote hell no ah, which would be considered a

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Speaker 1: present vote and thus lower the number of votes McCarthy

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Speaker 1: would need for election. And no, doctor. I know it

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Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but I'm not making it up. Mr Gates

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Speaker 1: votes hell no. The third Development Congress and Don Bacon

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Speaker 1: now time for the Republicans to give the Tallepan twenty

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Speaker 1: an ultimatum get out of McCarthy's way, or McCarthy's best

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Speaker 1: option is to cut a deal with the Keem Jeffreys

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Speaker 1: and the Democrats. Bacon must have precipitated a lot of

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Speaker 1: pants pooping in the control room when he went on

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Speaker 1: Fox News to say this quote. If these twenty refused

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Speaker 1: to be part of the team and don't come on board,

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Speaker 1: we have no other choice but to go across the

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Speaker 1: aisle and start negotiating. Bacon did not offer prime trading

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Speaker 1: material like I mentioned here yesterday, the debt limit, bearing

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Speaker 1: the maga's killing off, the Fauci Gazzi, Biden Ghazi, Laptop

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Speaker 1: Gazi Gazzi Gazi investigations, etcetera. But nor were his ideas

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Speaker 1: completely meaningless. Offering to cut committee ratios from four seat

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Speaker 1: McCarthy's best bet might be, you know, actually governing. Quoting Bacon, again,

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Speaker 1: see if we can come up with a bipartisan House.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, we need to do that. If

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Speaker 1: the U. S. House and of a Democrats Senate that's

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Speaker 1: to the President and get his signature, it's not gonna work.

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Speaker 1: In the end. To get things done, you're going to

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Speaker 1: we can build a structure that reflects that. From the

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Speaker 1: beginning unquote, No, Congressman Bacon has not disappeared near as

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Speaker 1: I know. Why do you ask? And the fourth development, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump lost another election. He placed last on ballot

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Speaker 1: the support of somebody named Byron Donalds. However, peel back

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Speaker 1: the cover photo of this Republican fiasco and the scene

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Speaker 1: is quite different. No, it's still a fiasco, but it's

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Speaker 1: a different fiasco. In clutch time, when it has really counted,

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Speaker 1: the far right Republicans have been giving incontrovertible evidence that

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Speaker 1: they are idiots. The match schl up story is obviously

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Speaker 1: that headline. But Andy Biggs, Dan Bishop Gates, Marjorie Trailer

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Speaker 1: each made slaps of themselves yesterday, several of them on

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Speaker 1: against their will? Certainly not conservative unquote well, obviously, Senator,

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Speaker 1: the one that's happing now. Also being failed by Dr

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Speaker 1: Freud was Matt Gates himself. He essentially gave Kevin McCarthy

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Speaker 1: two options withdraw from the race outright or agreed to

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Speaker 1: House quote straight jacket. Unquote. Sorry, if you're Matt Gates,

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Speaker 1: Carolina's Dan Bishop. This is a semi spoiler alert for

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Speaker 1: this SoundBite. The people who start chanting during this are

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Speaker 1: the Democrats, and what they're chanting is their leader, Jeffrey's

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Speaker 1: Congressman Dan Bishop, Hakim Hakim. Once again, you can try

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Speaker 1: ask match lap the George Santos rank. There's another hint

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Speaker 1: The Daily Beast again reporting that New York court records

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Speaker 1: show that not only was Santos or as he's also known,

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Speaker 1: world of sports is it going on here? Ask match Lap.

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Speaker 1: But weirdest of all was what befell Marjorie Taylor Green

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Speaker 1: Rules must expel Marjorie Taylor Green when this evidence comes

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Speaker 1: Marjorie Trailer Park Green. Who you got in that one?

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Speaker 1: hold it in, ask Matt slap still ahead. Trump sued

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Speaker 1: Elvis Auditorium Box Office, five fifteen, Montgomery Straight, Syracuse one

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Speaker 1: three two o two. That's Elvis Live at the War

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Speaker 1: Memorial in Syracuse, August A, kid, you have a deviated septum.

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Speaker 1: Actually it's not bad for age eighteen. Anyway, there were

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Speaker 1: that lovely summer of nineteen seventy seven who just assumed

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Speaker 1: who just told me that They assumed that that commercial

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Speaker 1: So at least we knew they were listening. So this

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Speaker 1: is how this turns out. We did a nightly half

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Speaker 1: hour newscast called World Report at five thirty every day,

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Speaker 1: and it was a good newscast, and that title was

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Speaker 1: neither ironic nor undeserved. We were affiliated with ABC Radio.

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Speaker 1: We ran the Howard Cosell sports commentary every night, We

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Speaker 1: had a stock report, we had local reporters. I did

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Speaker 1: a sports cast, and our news director and my friend

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Speaker 1: of forty seven years, Peter shack Now, who was still

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Speaker 1: Pete had just gone into our main announced booth, and

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Speaker 1: I was just polishing my sports copy when every bell

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Speaker 1: on our United Press International Wire Service teletype machine went off.

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Speaker 1: And this is where that timeless question I mentioned several

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Speaker 1: in five PM, I think, datelined Memphis, Tennessee, urgent music

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Speaker 1: legend Elvis Presley dead, aged forty two. As the clanging

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Speaker 1: of the bulletin bells faded in the background, I ripped

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Speaker 1: the death notice off the wire and sprinted. And I

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Speaker 1: could still sprint. Then to Pete's announced booth. The sweep

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Speaker 1: hand of the giant clock right in front of him,

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Speaker 1: so giant it was twice the size of my head.

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Speaker 1: Was nearing the twelve. I think this is your new lead, Pete.

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Speaker 1: I'll run in whatever else they send, and I jammed

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Speaker 1: the door open and closed. He read the copy, looked

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Speaker 1: up at me, listened as the dish jockey introduced him,

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Speaker 1: and pausing only to separate the wise crack from his

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Speaker 1: actual broadcast, he says, does this mean you don't get paid?

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Speaker 1: Good evening? I'm Peter shack Now, and this is world report.

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Speaker 1: Elvis Presley has died, a bulletin report from United Press International, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: I then raced into our main studio to physically remove

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Speaker 1: Memorial Auditorium in Syracuse Saturday, August PM. Tickets priced more

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Speaker 1: like the Elvis Memorial, Am I right? So that was

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Speaker 1: my concern, It was not Peter shack Now. Well. I

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Speaker 1: was frantically looking for my Elvis commercial card and we

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Speaker 1: were playing an ABC News report from cars Bonn at

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Speaker 1: Russell Spur in Hong Kong. Pete spoke over an intercom

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Speaker 1: from the announced booth and he asked me again, now, seriously,

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Speaker 1: does this mean you don't get paid for the commercials?

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Speaker 1: Guess what, it's sure as hell did mean I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: get paid to this day now, forty five freaking years.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Elvis is dead, maybe he's alive. Maybe he can

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Speaker 1: be found sitting home all alone, age seven. If you

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Speaker 1: can't come around, at least please telephone. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I don't care. All I know is Elvis Presley, you

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Speaker 1: aw my money. And I should mention my friend Peter

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Speaker 1: Shack now in there who issued that memorable quote. He

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Speaker 1: has just retired after twenty five years at CNBC and

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Speaker 1: many years before that at almost as many places as

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Speaker 1: I've worked. We worked together at a couple of them, actually,

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Speaker 1: And how old Peter is. He's two hundred and six.

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Speaker 1: Countdown has come to you from the studios of the

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