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Speaker 1: this is newer and dumber, so let's save for a

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Speaker 1: moment the self defenestration of former Special counsel and perhaps

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Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior identifying his top two picks to

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Speaker 1: be his vice presidential running mate, Aaron Rodgers and Jesse

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Speaker 1: and that weirdo who used to play Roseanne on The

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Speaker 1: Roseanne Show. I guess they're two main stream. The New

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Speaker 1: York Times scoop this, and the fact that the domain

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Speaker 1: name Kennedy Rogers dot com was registered last week. Aaron

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Speaker 1: perfect with the hallucinating New York Jets quarterback as his

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Speaker 1: viv RFK Junior could christen their ticket the brain Damage Party.

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Speaker 1: And if you're asking, how could you be vice president

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Speaker 1: of the United States and quarterback of the New York

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Speaker 1: of Vice President Rogers. Hell, he could be back in

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Speaker 1: the Vice Presidential Residents at the Naval Observatory by halftime.

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Speaker 1: Perfect Team. The vice president with no connection to the

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Speaker 1: real world and an admission he has used hallucinogens, and

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Speaker 1: may or may not know. He's just a stalking horse

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Speaker 1: for Trump with Aaron Rodgers, four time football Most Valuable Player.

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Speaker 1: Somehow could not translate that into a job as a

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Speaker 1: streaming show run by ESPN. Perfect Team, and now we

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Speaker 1: will swear in the vice president. Oh no, he torre's

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Speaker 1: achilles standing up. Damn. The best part of this is

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Speaker 1: The New York Times ruined its own scoop by taking

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Speaker 1: this parade of Stoner's seriously quote, the involvement of mister

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Speaker 1: Rogers or of mister Ventura could add star power and

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Speaker 1: independent zeal to mister Kennedy's outsider bid. Sure so could

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Speaker 1: the combination of President RFK Junior and Vice President Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump Junior or or President RFK Junior and hear me

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Speaker 1: out President RFK Junior and Vice President RFK Senior. Huh Yeah.

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Speaker 1: As to Ventura, who could not beat out somebody named

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Speaker 1: who hasn't been governor of Minnesota since two thousand and three,

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Speaker 1: who hasn't been on television since MSNBC fired him in

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Speaker 1: October two thousand and three after like five episodes of

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Speaker 1: a weekend show called Jesse Ventura's America. To this day,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Ventura insists and says he was fired by MSNBC

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Speaker 1: at eight pm on MSNBC starting eight months before he

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Speaker 1: did an I outlasted George W. Bush friend in fact,

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Speaker 1: been better than Joe Scarborough. Jesse Ventura got fired at

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Speaker 1: MSNBC because he couldn't do the television part of the television.

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Speaker 1: I mean, his questions were okay, and he could bluster

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Speaker 1: is Jesse Ventura's America. Okay, Governor, what do you have?

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Speaker 1: And okay, governor, time to take a quick break. This

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Speaker 1: is Jesse Ventura's America. Please, and to introduce the guests

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Speaker 1: the President Biden special counsel mister Herr yesterday, where exactly

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Speaker 1: before his hearing yesterday was over, HER's head had clearly

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Speaker 1: this Sunday, when Mark McGuire said he wasn't there to

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Speaker 1: paint an indelible picture of a confused, delusional, dysfunctional, dishonest

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Speaker 1: Except Robert K. Hurr turned out to be a fraud

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Speaker 1: Biden entirely by memory without ever consulting the transcript of

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Speaker 1: his interview with Biden, I would believe you. And again.

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Speaker 1: Then the hearings started. As soon as they realized what

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Speaker 1: say I predicted this here yesterday. The Republicans turned quickly

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Speaker 1: already dead meme. But the kill shot came courtesy Representative

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Speaker 1: Madeline Dean of the Pennsylvania Fourth It's so bad you

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Speaker 2: Your report on page two oh eight says that mister

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Speaker 2: Biden couldn't come up with the date the year of

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Speaker 2: his son Bo Biden's death, when in fact, in the transcript,

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Speaker 2: it shows that you asked him the month and do

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Speaker 2: you know what he said, mister Her, he said, oh God,

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Speaker 2: memory was pretty firm on the month and the day.

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Speaker 3: Congress Roman, I don't believe that's correct with respect to

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Speaker 1: Happy to look. Huge mistake, Bobby Her from.

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Speaker 2: The transcription, page eighty two, the words are President.

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Speaker 2: God, May thirtieth.

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Speaker 1: This is what Robert K. Her, who will be lucky

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Speaker 1: wrote in his report about President Biden quote he did

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Speaker 1: And that turns out to have been an utter fabrication.

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Speaker 1: The transcript the transcript of Robert HER's interview over two

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Speaker 1: The transcript shows her asks Biden about where he kept

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Speaker 3: Though?

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Speaker 1: What month did Bo die? Oh? God, May thirtieth. One

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Speaker 1: that because Robert Khurr was contradicted by Robert k Herr's

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Speaker 1: I cannot shake the idea that it was in April,

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Robert Hurr had a transcript of

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Speaker 1: what Biden had said about his son bo and his death.

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden didn't, So her is not just another corrupt

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, where the committee Republicans enraged

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Speaker 1: been released by the Department of Justice. Dan Bishop, republican

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Speaker 1: all of North Carolina who should not be allowed out

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Speaker 1: of her house unless she's wearing a leash, Michelle Morrow,

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Speaker 1: and in this context she's both dumb and dumber. The

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Speaker 1: runner up worser and continuing this theme, Republican State Senator

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Speaker 1: Anthony Kern of Arizona, who has hit the nail on

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Speaker 1: the head with what is along with this country half

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Speaker 1: of the nation idiots, measurable, factually provable boneheads. Senator Kern

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Speaker 1: has introduced Arizona Senate Bill fourteen seventy seven, which will

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Speaker 1: fix all that in his state. It will establish the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Grade Challenge Board, which will allow any student at

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Speaker 1: any Arizona Public university to demand that their instructor reevaluate

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Speaker 1: their exam grade, or even their entire course grade, if

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Speaker 1: the student files an allegation of bias, not racial bias,

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Speaker 1: not religious bias, not gender bias, not LGBTQ bias, only

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Speaker 1: political bias. This is the gist of our unsolvable national problem.

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Speaker 1: Half the country believes it cannot possibly be wrong, it

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Speaker 1: cannot possibly be stupid, it cannot possibly have gotten a

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Speaker 1: C minus in geometry has to be because the teacher

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Speaker 1: is a liberal. It was Oliver Cromwell who said, I

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Speaker 1: beseech you in the bowels of Christ to think it

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Speaker 1: possible you may be mistaken. But of course, these idiot

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Speaker 1: students in Arizona, for whom the bias board grade challenge

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Speaker 1: as being established, they've never heard of Oliver Cromwell or

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Speaker 1: Oliver Hardy or Laurence Olivier because they're so smart they

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Speaker 1: don't need to know who those people are. And if

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Speaker 1: the answer on the exam is Oliver Cromwell and they

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Speaker 1: instead write Carrie Lake and they get a C minus,

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Speaker 1: it's because the professors two woke. The system is biased

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Speaker 1: against me, which is true. The system is biased against them.

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Speaker 1: It's supposed to be because they're stupid, and some people

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Speaker 1: are irredeemably stupid. But now this system is broken and

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Speaker 1: they can vote themselves smart. And I don't know how

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Speaker 1: to fix this. More importantly, I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: weed out the really stupid people, like the Arizona State

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Speaker 1: Senator Anthony Kern, who is stupid, and his colleagues in

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Speaker 1: the Senate, in the state House, the Republicans in Arizona

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Speaker 1: who approved his bill happily. They did not approve it

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Speaker 1: by a big enough margin to override the upcoming governor

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Speaker 1: veto after which they will say the governor vetoed it

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Speaker 1: because she's a liberal and their conservatives, and we start

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Speaker 1: the whole cycle over again. No, she vetoed it because

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Speaker 1: you're idiots. But the winner the worst, Speaking of idiots,

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Speaker 1: Governor Christy Nome of South Dakota, who has done a

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Speaker 1: personal testimonial commercial for some cosmetic dentistry place in Texas.

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Speaker 1: This is four minutes and fifty one seconds on Twitter

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Speaker 1: in which she talks about how they gave her a

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Speaker 1: new smile and she's so grateful because they're orthodontic. Uncle

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Speaker 1: would not fix her teeth when she was a kid

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Speaker 1: and she's always suffered because of that and total loss

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Speaker 1: of well, I guess credibility is the right word here.

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Speaker 1: She looks straight into the camera for four minutes and

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Speaker 1: fifty one seconds and ad libs about her smile and

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Speaker 1: how perfect it is now. I mean, she didn't have

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Speaker 1: much credibility to start with, but she's now governor infomercial.

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Speaker 1: I mean six years ago, Governor Teeth launched a campaign

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Speaker 1: in South Dakota. Christy Nome's campaign against crystal meth and

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Speaker 1: Christy Nomes named it meth. We're on it. This is

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Speaker 1: an advertising genius right here, and if you don't agree,

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Speaker 1: it's because you're woke. As an aside, can we start

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Speaker 1: calling these ads on Twitter what they have now? Become spam?

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Speaker 1: Governor Christy do you kiss your husband with that infomercial

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Speaker 1: mouth of yours? And Corey Lewandowski gnome two days worst person.

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Speaker 4: And now.

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Speaker 1: To the number one story on the countdown and my

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Speaker 1: favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell.

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Speaker 1: The website The Athletic has reported that my old friends

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Speaker 1: at ESPN had for years been gaming the system at

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Speaker 1: the Sports Emmy Awards, bribing voters now trying to push

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Speaker 1: the voting by nominating stories about the judges or about

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Speaker 1: the places they were from. Now otherwise tampering with the

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Speaker 1: process of who got nominated or who won, or anything

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Speaker 1: like that. No, their crime was adding to the list

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Speaker 1: of nominees fictional names, so that if their shows won,

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Speaker 1: they would be able to get extra trophies that could

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Speaker 1: be re engraved and given to people who were not

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Speaker 1: eligible to win those Emmy awards. Those people were the

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Speaker 1: hosts and reporters of the show. Rather incredibly, until the

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Speaker 1: last few years, if a network submitted one of its

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Speaker 1: shows for Best Studio Sportscast or one of several other categories,

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Speaker 1: virtually everybody who worked on the show was eligible. NBC

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Speaker 1: won the Emmy for the Outstanding Live Sports Special in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and NBC in its submission listed all

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Speaker 1: the executives, the producers, the directors, the associate producers, everybody

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Speaker 1: down to the stage managers. Literally three one hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty five different sportspeople, and if they shelled out the

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Speaker 1: money or if the network did it for them, they

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Speaker 1: all got an actual Emmy award, not one anchor or

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Speaker 1: report among them. Now, obviously this concerns me far more

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Speaker 1: than it does you. And don't get me wrong, I

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Speaker 1: do not begrudge any of those three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: five winners their Emmys, including the nine stage managers. And

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Speaker 1: it looks like I worked with like three of them,

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Speaker 1: and they were great. Counting them up, I saw literally

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Speaker 1: dozens of names of friends and former colleagues, and they

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Speaker 1: were all great. But the National Academy of Television Arts

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Speaker 1: and Sciences did not permit adding even just the lead

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Speaker 1: anchors and reporters from the twenty twenty two Olympics or

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Speaker 1: any other nominated Best Show if they were on the air.

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Speaker 1: The official explanation for this curiosity was they didn't want

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Speaker 1: anybody quote double dipping getting an award for Best Anchor,

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Speaker 1: Best Reporter and getting another Emmy if the show they

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Speaker 1: were anchoring one best show. There are just five different

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Speaker 1: categories for people on the air in the Sports Emmys.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Three hundred and sixty five Emmys were given

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Speaker 1: out to the producers and stage managers from the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: and five were given out to all the people on

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Speaker 1: the air at the Olympics on the NBA broadcasts, football

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Speaker 1: play by play, sports centers, postgame shows, pardon the interruptions, baseball, curling, darts, whatever. Now,

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Speaker 1: practically speaking, that is not literally true because of the

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Speaker 1: ESPN dodge, which I will grant is hilarious and which

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Speaker 1: I'll get to in a moment. But there was also

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Speaker 1: the dodge used by MLB Network and other operations over

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Speaker 1: the years. In twenty twenty, when it showed MLB Tonight

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Speaker 1: won the Emmy for Best Daily Live Sports Series, MLB

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Speaker 1: Network submitted the name of sixty three different producers among

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Speaker 1: them were Greg Amsinger, and that's a coincidence. There's also

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Speaker 1: a Greg Amsinger who was the primary anchor of MLB Tonight.

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Speaker 1: And then there's a producer named Bob Costas, other producer

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Speaker 1: named Peter Gammons. And my friends Ron Darling producer and

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Speaker 1: ex Yankees manager, Joe Girardi producer and Harold Reynolds producer

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Speaker 1: who I've known for thirty three years, and Baseball Hall

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Speaker 1: of famers Maedro Martinez producer and Jim Tomy producer. Why

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Speaker 1: once nearly ran over with a golf cart in Arizona,

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell that story some other time. Heydro Martinez,

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Speaker 1: who I got started in television at Turner in twenty thirteen,

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Speaker 1: won an Emmy in twenty twenty as a producer of

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Speaker 1: MLB Tonight, not as an analyst, because you couldn't give

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Speaker 1: an Emmy to an analyst, even if he was the

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Speaker 1: best thing on MLB Tonight, if he was. No Emmy's

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Speaker 1: for those lousy talent. Didn't they get enough honors as

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Speaker 1: it is? We're given out five of them and money?

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Speaker 1: Don't they get all the money? And you know what,

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Speaker 1: that's fine too. From my first day in television. August third,

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, somewhere around one two pm, the fourth

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Speaker 1: or fifth hour of my television career, I thought, and

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Speaker 1: I think I said it aloud to the producer, that

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Speaker 1: I did not understand why anybody would work in television

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Speaker 1: if they were not on the air. If the job

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Speaker 1: fills the yawning maw of your insatiable ego, you know,

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Speaker 1: like it does mine, that's great, makes sense. Being on

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Speaker 1: TV has given purpose to the lives of lots of

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Speaker 1: us who would otherwise have spent our entire lives just

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Speaker 1: standing in front of a mirror talking to ourselves, maybe

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Speaker 1: holding a microphone as we did so, a microphone that

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Speaker 1: was not plugged into anything. But there are only two

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Speaker 1: things that ever bring any attention to these Sports Emmy

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Speaker 1: Awards and the News Emmys and the Entertainment Emmys. How

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Speaker 1: many awards go to each network and who won those

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Speaker 1: five little awards for best Sports Personalities. Maybe once in

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Speaker 1: a while, an unlikely show will win for Best Studio Show,

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Speaker 1: and it will get a little attention on Twitter for

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Speaker 1: a lo like three hours, But otherwise nobody writes up

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Speaker 1: those three hundred and sixty five different trophies given out

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Speaker 1: to NBC's twenty twenty two Olympic non on air staff.

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Speaker 1: And I think there is a little hypocrisy here because

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Speaker 1: the on air people are used for publicity such as

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Speaker 1: it is, while there was this horrible fear that they

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Speaker 1: might win too many awards for just one show, or

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Speaker 1: that adding them to the list of the real nominees

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Speaker 1: would make the lists too long. I mean, three hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty five Olympic Emmy Award winners is just right,

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Speaker 1: but three hundred and eighty five would have been a

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Speaker 1: nightmarish embarrassment anyway. Finally, to the Athletic report on how

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Speaker 1: ESPN gained the system until the rule about quote talent

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Speaker 1: unquote was changed for I believe twenty twenty three. I'll

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Speaker 1: quote a part of the Athletic story. The Emmy administrators

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Speaker 1: quote uncovered a scheme that the network used to acquire

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Speaker 1: more than thirty of the coveted statuettes were on air

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Speaker 1: talent ineligible to receive them since at least twenty ten,

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Speaker 1: ESPN inserted fake names in Emmy entries, then took the

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Speaker 1: awards won by some of these imaginary individuals, had them

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Speaker 1: re engraved, and gave them to on air personalities oohoo,

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Speaker 1: describing this as fraud and as ill gotten Emmys. Katie

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Speaker 1: Strang of the Athletics somehow managed to sleuth out this clever,

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Speaker 1: almost indecipherable series of immoral substitutions, quoting her again. Names

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Speaker 1: similar to the names of on air personalities and with

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Speaker 1: identical initials were listed, all under the title of associate producers.

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Speaker 1: Miss Strang gave the fake names and then helpfully followed

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Speaker 1: the fake names with parentheses which contained the real names

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Speaker 1: of those evil talent who, by fraud and deception and

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Speaker 1: trickery and another disregard for the sacred sanctity of the

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Speaker 1: Emmy Awards, took possession of young, unsuspecting and vulnerable trophies

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Speaker 1: that they did not deserve. Quote Kirk Henry parenthesis, Kirk Herbstreet,

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Speaker 1: Lee Clark parenthesis, Lee Corso, Dirk Howard parenthesis, Desmond Howard

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Speaker 1: and Tim Richard parentheses, Tom Ronaldi, Stephen Ponder parentheses, Sam

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Speaker 1: Ponder and Gene Wilson, Gene Wojatowski, Chris Fulton, Chris Fowler,

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Speaker 1: Tell Fowler, I can hear him? And Shelley Saunders Shelley Smith.

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Speaker 1: How did anyone ever figure out these aliases reflective of

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Speaker 1: evil masterminds at ESPN. My god, did the Athletic hire

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Speaker 1: the World War Two codebreakers from Bletchley Park? Who would

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Speaker 1: have ever believed the Dirk Howard and Desmond Howard were

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Speaker 1: the same person. I bet some of those crack MLB

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Speaker 1: tonight MLB network producers could have done that detective work.

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Speaker 1: Producer Pedro Martinez perhaps, or producer Jim Tomay or producer

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Speaker 1: Bill Ripkin Col's brother. Seriously, don't those names seem a

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Speaker 1: little too obvious? I mean, if you're trying to trick

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Speaker 1: somebody into thinking the award is not for Sam Ponder,

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Speaker 1: why do you write Steven Ponder? Somebody observed on social

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Speaker 1: media that these names sound like the names in a

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Speaker 1: sports video game when you can't get the rights to

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Speaker 1: the real players' names. Why is the Kansas City quarterback

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Speaker 1: named Patrick your Holmes. The Emmys did not crack down

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Speaker 1: on MLB network as near as I know anyway. It

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Speaker 1: certainly wasn't mentioned in the Athletic piece. It did not

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Speaker 1: crack down on MLB network listing all of its on

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Speaker 1: air guys as pus so they could get trophies. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: it seem plausible that the use of the phony names

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Speaker 1: and phony is doing a lot of work in this sentence,

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Speaker 1: the use of the barely phony names was the Emmy

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Speaker 1: committee looking the other way as ESPN tried to get

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Speaker 1: a couple of trophies for its reporters and anchors. I

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Speaker 1: mean thirty over thirteen years. That's not a lot. The

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Speaker 1: problem here is somebody at the Emmy's found out called

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Speaker 1: ESPN on it. ESPN made those on air people give

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Speaker 1: the trophies back. And there is, at least in the

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Speaker 1: Athletics article, the implication that maybe a couple of producers

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Speaker 1: were fired by ESPN for doing this. It's madness. And

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Speaker 1: there are two other serious components to this, and obviously

647
00:44:52,475 --> 00:44:54,755
Speaker 1: one of them is going to be about me. I

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00:44:54,795 --> 00:44:58,915
Speaker 1: have been nominated for like fifteen Emmys over the years,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five local sports network, Sports Network News. I

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Speaker 1: have never I am the Susan Lucci of sports and

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Speaker 1: News Emmys. Actually that is a bad comp Susan Lucci

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Speaker 1: finally won an Emmy in nineteen ninety nine. Me I

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Speaker 1: am oh since nineteen eighty one. Now, there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of reasons for this, none of which really matters.

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Speaker 1: But the primary of which is roll of the Dice.

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Speaker 1: I got nominated against Bob Costas twice in three years

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Speaker 1: in the nineties, and who's going to win that battle?

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Speaker 1: He would he did. Then he came over sheepishly and

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Speaker 1: he apologized. Why the guys who are only on once

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Speaker 1: a week like me are pitted against the guys who

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Speaker 1: are on every night like you. I can't understand if

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00:45:47,315 --> 00:45:49,475
Speaker 1: Bob had not been a great friend of mine before that.

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00:45:49,795 --> 00:45:53,235
Speaker 1: He sealed it with that remark. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of corruption in the local Emmys.

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Speaker 1: They are judged by panels in other cities, at least

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Speaker 1: they were when I was in local news. And in

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Speaker 1: early nineteen eighty eight, apparently the news director of the

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Speaker 1: NBC affiliated station in Toledo, Ohio found out that any

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Speaker 1: voters in Toledo would be voting on that year's awards

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Speaker 1: for Los Angeles. So somebody thought, let's game this system.

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Speaker 1: The awards submitted by KNBC in Los Angeles for Best

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Speaker 1: Sports Reporting for nineteen eighty eight was about morgana, the

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Speaker 1: Kissing Bandit, the Buxom dancer who used to run onto

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Speaker 1: the field during baseball games and kiss the players, and

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Speaker 1: she lived in Toledo, Ohio. So sure enough that year

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Speaker 1: the guy at CANBC in Los Angeles beat me out

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Speaker 1: for Best Local TV Sports Reporting in Los Angeles because

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Speaker 1: he had submitted a report consisting entirely of Benny Hill's

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Speaker 1: style site gags in which Morgana The Kissing Bandit of Toledo,

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Speaker 1: Ohio chased him around. All I had in my house

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Speaker 1: submission was the day I exclusively broke the story that

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Kings were trading five players and fifteen

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Speaker 1: million dollars to Edmonton for Wayne Gretzky. Great report, loser,

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Speaker 1: I know what kind of reporting is that compared to

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Speaker 1: Morgana The Kissing Bandit. So anyway, when they gave him

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Speaker 1: that award, my girlfriend and my agent and I stood

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Speaker 1: up and left. But I'm not a bad loser, just

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Speaker 1: a vengeful one. One year I was really pissed about

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Speaker 1: not getting an Emmy. In nineteen ninety nine and two thousand,

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Speaker 1: in addition to five nights a week on the Fox

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Speaker 1: cable version of Sports Center, I also hosted the pregame

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Speaker 1: and postgame shows wrapping around the Fox Network Baseball game

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Speaker 1: of the week. These were, to say the least arduous

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Speaker 1: days six am to six pm on a Saturday, invariably

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Speaker 1: a beautiful day in southern California. And it was made

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Speaker 1: doubly arduous by my analyst, Steve Lyons, as sleazy and

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Speaker 1: as disagreeable man as anybody with whom I have ever worked.

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Speaker 1: Steve Lyons made homophobic jokes on the air. He criticized

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Speaker 1: a Jewish player for not playing on Yam Kipper. He

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Speaker 1: implied a Latino manager had stolen his wallet. Later, his

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Speaker 1: career ended after a domestic battery charge. And when he

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Speaker 1: wasn't doing all that, Lions mastered and specialized in one

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Speaker 1: other thing, complaining. I mean, the makeup artist on our

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Speaker 1: show once thanked me for never complaining, and I said,

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Speaker 1: but I complain all the time, and she said, not

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Speaker 1: even close anyway. Two years of this. The first year,

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, the winner for the Emmy for Best

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Speaker 1: Live Studio Sports Show was not SportsCenter, was not the

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Speaker 1: NFL Today on CBS. It was Fox MLB pregame me

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Speaker 1: and Lions. He did not get an Emmy. I did

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Speaker 1: not get an Emmy. The producers got Emmys. To their credit.

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Speaker 1: The people at Fox said they were going to try

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Speaker 1: to get me one, and they did not succeed. It

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Speaker 1: was against the rules, and we had not thought of

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Speaker 1: the little bit of a dec here and putting me

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Speaker 1: in as an associate producer under the name Teeth Alderman.

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Speaker 1: The next year, two thousand, the winner for the Emmy

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Speaker 1: for the Best Studio Analyst was Steve Lyons. He got

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Speaker 1: an Emmy. My boss on the show said, not only

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Speaker 1: should I have gotten his Emmy, but quote, you should

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Speaker 1: have gotten a second one for carrying that buffoon on

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Speaker 1: your back every week. But personal whining aside. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: what would happen if I won an Emmy now? For

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Speaker 1: some reason? I mean, you think anybody would ever remember that?

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Speaker 1: If I am remembered, it'll be for not ever winning

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Speaker 1: an Emmy. I keep coming back to this idea finally

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Speaker 1: corrected in twenty twenty two that the awards are for

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Speaker 1: the producers and not those whiny free madonnas the talent.

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Speaker 1: When I was twenty nine, I moved from one LA

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Speaker 1: TV station to another. In fact, it was just a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks after that Gretzky story that lost out

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Speaker 1: to MORGANA The Kissing Bandit. The news station was KCBS

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Speaker 1: and I already knew everybody there because for three years

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Speaker 1: I had been popping by their station every day to

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Speaker 1: do afternoon drive sportscasts on their all news radio station,

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Speaker 1: and I had gotten to know and delight in knowing

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Speaker 1: the company of one of my fellow kN X and

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Speaker 1: soon to be KCBS sportscasters, Gil Stratton. Gil had been

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Speaker 1: the first sports guy on the local news in LA

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Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty four, and he did the play by

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Speaker 1: play for the Rams games on the CBS network, and

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Speaker 1: they wanted him to move to New York to be

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Speaker 1: the face of CBS Sports. Are you kidding? Gil told them,

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Speaker 1: I'm from New York. Why would I leave l to

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Speaker 1: move back to New York? In La, Gil was the

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Speaker 1: star until he retired to Hawaii to run his own

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Speaker 1: radio station about nineteen seventy six. It didn't go well,

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Speaker 1: and now again we're in nineteen eighty eight. He was

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Speaker 1: back in LA, but at the bottom of the LA

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Speaker 1: sports totem pole Saturday mornings on radio. He was the backups,

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Speaker 1: backup on television and Gil did not care. Beats a

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Speaker 1: real job, he used to tell me with a smile. Plus,

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Speaker 1: I make more now in this building. Than I did

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Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, even adjusted for inflation. Anyway, if the

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Speaker 1: name Gil Stratton seems vaguely familiar to you, or maybe

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Speaker 1: more than vaguely, it was because he was also an actor.

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Speaker 1: I hope you have seen the movie Stalog seventeen, one

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00:51:53,675 --> 00:51:56,075
Speaker 1: of the all time classics about prisoners in a World

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00:51:56,075 --> 00:51:59,515
Speaker 1: War two military prison camp in Germany. If you haven't

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00:51:59,515 --> 00:52:01,595
Speaker 1: seen it, turn off the podcast, go watch the movie,

761
00:52:01,595 --> 00:52:05,835
Speaker 1: then come back to me. Stalog seventeen. William Holden is

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Speaker 1: the star. His right hand man is Gil Stratton. Gil

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Speaker 1: was also in the Wild One with Marlon Brando and

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Speaker 1: in Girl Crazy with Judy Garland, in about two dozen

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Speaker 1: TV series, and he spent a year as a lead

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Speaker 1: in a Broadway musical. The day before I was to

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Speaker 1: join Channel two as sports director and nominally as Gill's boss,

768
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Speaker 1: Gil sat me down in the lunch room and said

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Speaker 1: he wanted to warn me about something you need to know.

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Speaker 1: He said that the executives here are the biggest bunch

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Speaker 1: of prima donnas I have ever seen. The general manager

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Speaker 1: sent me on an assignment for the station and they

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Speaker 1: had gotten everything wrong. Wrong city, wrong building, wrong day,

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Speaker 1: wrong person to interview, When I got back and told

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Speaker 1: him I had managed to get him a SoundBite despite

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Speaker 1: all the screw ups, but that was going to be it,

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Speaker 1: he burst into tears. Gil laughed, and while I'm at it,

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Speaker 1: you're young enough, maybe you still believe that we are

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00:53:06,795 --> 00:53:10,875
Speaker 1: the prima donnas. Take it from me. I've been doing

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Speaker 1: this and Hollywood and Broadway for forty seven years. The

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Speaker 1: producers and the studio executives and the TV executives have

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00:53:18,755 --> 00:53:22,795
Speaker 1: created this fiction that we are all impossibly difficult to

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Speaker 1: work with, and we are all ego, and it's them,

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Speaker 1: they are the prima donnas. Listen, I rode motorcycles, Gill said,

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Speaker 1: with Brando, I chased girls with Holden. I kissed Judy

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Speaker 1: Garland flush on the lips. And they were all supposed

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Speaker 1: to be prima donna's and none of them, not even

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Speaker 1: Judy Garland on her worst day, was as much of

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Speaker 1: a prima donna as the blasted general manager of this

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Speaker 1: television station. So, needless to say, there is an existential

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00:53:53,835 --> 00:53:57,915
Speaker 1: dispute here. We get the money and the fame, or

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00:53:57,915 --> 00:53:59,995
Speaker 1: what's left of the money and the fame now that

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00:54:00,035 --> 00:54:03,675
Speaker 1: television is dying in exchange for which we get all

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Speaker 1: the potshots and the Athletic piece about the fake names,

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Speaker 1: and I left out Eric Andrews, which apparently was code

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Speaker 1: for Aaron Andrews. They changed one letter genius. I mean,

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00:54:15,595 --> 00:54:18,595
Speaker 1: as unsolvable as the sphinx. Who would ever know that

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Speaker 1: Eric Andrews was supposed to be Aaron Andrews. The Athletic

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Speaker 1: piece about the fake name contained one anonymous pot shot

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Speaker 1: that really underscored the everlasting lie that Gil Stratton told

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Speaker 1: me about so many years ago. Quote. When asked why

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Speaker 1: people at the network would scheme to secure trophies for

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Speaker 1: on air talent, one person involved in the ESPN Emmy

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Speaker 1: submission process in recent years said, quote, you have to

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Speaker 1: remember that those personalities are so important and they have egos.

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Speaker 1: Tell me again, who submitted a list of three hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty five NBC producers and directors and stage managers

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Speaker 1: for an Emmy for one Olympics. Was it Judy Garland

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Speaker 1: on her worst day or was it an off air

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Speaker 1: television executive. I've done all the damage I can do here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and

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Speaker 1: John Phillip Schaneale arranged, produced, and performed most of our music.

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Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, and

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Speaker 1: mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, and it was produced

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Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. And I'm only sorry we did not

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Speaker 1: win Political Podcast of the Year award because they would

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Speaker 1: have gotten statues too. Probably, I don't know how this works.

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Speaker 1: And when I say I'm only concerned because it affects them,

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Speaker 1: I'm lying. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions,

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Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The

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Speaker 1: sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written

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Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. And frankly,

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Speaker 1: the way things have been going in Bristol, the Podcast

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Speaker 1: of the Year Political Podcast of the Year award would

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Speaker 1: have been like a big highlight of the year for them.

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Speaker 1: So I'm sorry on their behalf too, only on their behalf.

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Speaker 1: And when I say only on their behalf, I'm lying.

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Speaker 1: Our satirical and fifthy musical comments are by Nancy Faust,

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Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever, so she didn't need

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Speaker 1: the award. Our announcer today was my friend Stevie van

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Speaker 1: zandt like he needs awards. Everything else was pretty much

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Speaker 1: my fault. So that's countdown for this two hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty eighth day before the twenty twenty four presidential election

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Speaker 1: and the one one hundred and sixty third day since dementia.

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Speaker 1: J Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government

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Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, the not

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Speaker 1: Regularly Given elector objection option, the Insurrection Act, the justice system,

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Speaker 1: the mental health system to stop him from doing it

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Speaker 1: again while we still can. And as we list countdowns,

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Speaker 1: what is it like the thirty third day before the

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Speaker 1: premiere of The Robert k. Her Show on Flomax Newsmax. Sorry,

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00:57:12,435 --> 00:57:14,595
Speaker 1: you know, when you turn sixty five you actually shouldn't

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Speaker 1: make jokes about Flomax. Keith. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Bulletins is the news warrants, A steady stream of bulletins

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Speaker 1: as the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Ulrimman, Good morning,

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

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Speaker 1: Olremman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio,

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Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get

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Speaker 1: your podcasts,