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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. President

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Speaker 1: Shitstain is paying Iran to try to kill Americans fourteen

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Speaker 1: billion dollars he is giving to Iran fourteen billion for

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Speaker 1: oil Iran can now sell. Per Trump, what's that called again?

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Speaker 1: If you are adhering to our enemies, giving them aid

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Speaker 1: and comfort at a time of war. President Shitstain, who

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Speaker 1: celebrated the death of Robert Muller, just as he celebrated

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Speaker 1: the death of rob Reiner, who Friday said the Strait

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Speaker 1: of Hormuz would open itself, and then Saturday said he

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Speaker 1: would destroy Iran's power grid unless Iran opened it. Who

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Speaker 1: then can compaired the majority political party of this nation

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Speaker 1: to Iran, who announced he is sending his ice terrorists

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Speaker 1: into the airports now because anybody can be a TSA agent,

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Speaker 1: And apparently he forgot all about his mass deportation plan,

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Speaker 1: and who's had some sort of hallucinatory dream in which

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Speaker 1: he has decided this was quote the death of Iran.

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Speaker 1: When Iran is not only winning, but most Americans recognize

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Speaker 1: that Iran is winning. President Shitstain has freed up fourteen

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Speaker 1: billion dollars of Iranian oil that Iran can now sell

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Speaker 1: because that will lower the price of a barrel of

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Speaker 1: oil by like a dollar for like a week, and

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Speaker 1: Iran will get the money. And I don't know, I

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Speaker 1: really thought one of those fops in his college of

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Speaker 1: half baked knowledge would have tripped over Article three, Section

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Speaker 1: three clause one of the Constitution at some point in

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Speaker 1: their wasted lives. Article three, section three clause one, which reads,

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Speaker 1: treason against the United States shall consist only in levying

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Speaker 1: war against them or in adhering to their enemies giving

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Speaker 1: them aid and comfort. Giving Iran monetary aid for the

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Speaker 1: war Iran is levying against US would seem to cover

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Speaker 1: most of that definition. Also, Iran's response to the demand

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Speaker 1: to open Hormuz or he will destroy the power plants Hormus,

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Speaker 1: which President Schuldstein said would be self opening, Iran noted

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Speaker 1: that those power plants also supply the region, and destroying

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Speaker 1: them would plunge United Arab Emirates, Kuwaits Qatar and a

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Speaker 1: lot else of the Gulf into darkness. And also Iran

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Speaker 1: would respond by attacking Israel's power infrastructure. If now we're

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Speaker 1: deciding that attacking power structure is okay and attacking the

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Speaker 1: desalination plants of Iran's neighbors would also be on the table,

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Speaker 1: and that would mean having to immediately evacuate cities like

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Speaker 1: Riod and Oh yeah. Iran would then also completely close

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Speaker 1: the strait of horm Moves and oil would be what

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five dollars a barrel by Friday. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: even those in his cabinet, let alone those in his cult,

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Speaker 1: must realize that their lives are in danger because of

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Speaker 1: this disintegrating creature President Schitstain, and that this nation's only

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Speaker 1: hope is for Republicans to remove him from office now

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Speaker 1: by any non violent means available. I could spend an

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Speaker 1: hour going through all the individual ominous developments from the

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Speaker 1: Middle East and from the equally bombed, scarred surface that

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Speaker 1: is Trump's brain, But by the time you hear this,

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Speaker 1: they may have all been newly altered by new empty

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Speaker 1: threats from President Chitstain, and more importantly, by not so

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Speaker 1: empty responses by Iran, Beginning with that obvious one if

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Speaker 1: we do blow up their energy grid, a war crime,

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Speaker 1: by the way, on top of everything else that's going

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Speaker 1: to happen in the Gulf area by result of this

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Speaker 1: in addition to that they might try to take our

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Speaker 1: energy infrastructure offline by a cyber attack, to say nothing

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Speaker 1: of the reality that the average freedom seeking Iranian who

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Speaker 1: who Trump is still waiting on, is way less likely

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Speaker 1: to greet us as liberators if he can't see us,

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Speaker 1: because the entire Gulf region is pitch black and Pete

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Speaker 1: Hegseeth made it that way. Still, there are a few

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Speaker 1: particularly nightmarish scenarios developing at this hour, and they are

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Speaker 1: the following. The separation between Trump and reality is growing

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Speaker 1: and growing fast. There was yesterday's post about the quote

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Speaker 1: death of Iran as if he can decide such things

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Speaker 1: solely by thinking of them with his superior mind. There

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Speaker 1: was the earlier post declaring native cowards while he is

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Speaker 1: And not only did he attack Robert Muller in death

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Speaker 1: in death and attacked the Kennedy family after JFK's granddaughter died.

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Speaker 1: And while lots of us have refused to praise people

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Speaker 1: who have recently died who we have viewed as evil

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Speaker 1: and there is no law saying you can't say Charlie

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Speaker 1: Kirk sucked. There's no law. Yet none of us responded

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Speaker 1: to such a death as Muller's with good I'm glad

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Speaker 1: he's dead. And if any of us did, hey guess what.

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Speaker 1: We're not president. Our words are not comparable. Additionally, since

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Speaker 1: Trump posted that, He's continued to post anti Muller screeds

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Speaker 1: have let the cat out of the bag. He spent

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Speaker 1: eight years repeating the lie sculpted for him by Bill

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Speaker 1: Barr that Muller had exonerated him. Say, buddy, if if

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Speaker 1: Muller exonerated you, why are you celebrating his death? And

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Speaker 1: not only did he say that, but where were his

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Speaker 1: key cabinet members to defend him in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a war? Marco Rubio a wall heg seth Mia yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Only that fop Scott Bessant went on NBC and he

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Speaker 1: screwed the whole thing up. They asked him about the

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Speaker 1: I'm glad he's dead quote, and Bessant launched into his

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Speaker 1: standard diletant Wine, insisting that Trump's insane petulance was understandable

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Speaker 1: given quote what may have been an illegal raid on

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Speaker 1: his home at marri Lago. They were going through his

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Speaker 1: thinks Robert Muller had ordered the search, when in fact

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Speaker 1: it happened four years after the Mueller Report, and the

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Speaker 1: search was ordered by Merrick Garland and Judge Reinhart and

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Speaker 1: not Mueller. Besn't ignored her, and he again said, I

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Speaker 1: think given one has been done to him, and she

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Speaker 1: corrected him again, and this idiot still for a third time,

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Speaker 1: in fact, insisted Muller and Jack Smith were the same person.

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Speaker 1: The crazy has been coming down so fast. You already

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Speaker 1: forgot about this other thing too. You already forgot about this,

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Speaker 1: didn't you this from way back when in ancient history?

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Speaker 1: Last Thursday? Why didn't you tell your USh in you

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Speaker 1: in Asia like you can about the war before? I

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Speaker 1: thinking you on? So we are very confused about who

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Speaker 1: knows better about surprise than Japan? Hey, why didn't you

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Speaker 1: tell me about Pearl Harbor? Right? He's escab? Do you

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Speaker 1: believe in surprise, I think much more so than us.

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Speaker 1: With the new Prime Minister of Japan cringing next to him,

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Speaker 1: this episode is still a soul shaking crisis in Japan

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Speaker 1: right at this moment. Now, as you know, I'm a

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Speaker 1: glass half full guy. Me. I'm just happy Trump said

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Speaker 1: this with her here and not the Chancellor of Germany

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Speaker 1: lost in this disaster, as yet another sign of Trump's

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Speaker 1: accelerating mental crisis. Six years ago, in their book A

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Speaker 1: Very Stable Genius, Philip Rucker and Carol Lennig reported that

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Speaker 1: when Trump went to Pearl Harbor in twenty eighteen, he

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Speaker 1: knew where he was. He had heard the words Pearl

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Speaker 1: and Harbor before. He just didn't know what had happened there.

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Speaker 1: He knew it was a battle, and as they approached

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Speaker 1: Trump asked his Chief of staff John Kelly, Hey, John,

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Speaker 1: what's this all about? What's this a tour of? Again?

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Speaker 1: I'll be the optimist here. Trump did not ask Kelly, quote,

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Speaker 1: who is this Pearl Harbor? Anyway? So Trump is nuts,

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Speaker 1: more nuts than he was Friday and the people defending him,

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Speaker 1: like Besson, also appear to be nuts. No, Jack Smith's

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Speaker 1: a different person, which brings us to the second point.

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Speaker 1: Bessant is on TV on the war. They also had

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Speaker 1: Julia's sugar Baker on that would be Secretary of Agriculture

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Speaker 1: Rollins and poor dense lost Sean Duffy, Where the hell

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Speaker 1: are Rubio and Hegseeth and even those random passers by

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Speaker 1: Trump has turned to to try to resolve the war.

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Speaker 1: He stupidly started people like this jerk off, Steve Whitkoff,

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Speaker 1: and this other jerkoff, Jared Kushner, and the official jerk off,

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Speaker 1: Howard Lutnick. Never mind the A team, He didn't have

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Speaker 1: an A team. Where's the F team? While the White

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Speaker 1: House is leaking like a sib that it's tried to

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Speaker 1: get a Ceaspire deal with Iran, and its demands are

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Speaker 1: basically what Trump turned down just before he bombed it

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Speaker 1: tore up the Obama Kerrey treaty with Iran last term.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, by the way, Iran keeps saying, we don't

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Speaker 1: want to see spire. We're not done with you yet.

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Speaker 1: Trump the third point of importance Trump's inability to stick

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Speaker 1: to one plan for more than twelve hours. It's not

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Speaker 1: simply the practical application of Richard Nixon's old Madman theory,

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Speaker 1: where Henry Kessinger was told to convince the Soviets that

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Speaker 1: This isn't a madman theory. This is a madman fact.

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Speaker 1: Since Friday, President Shitstein has said the war's over. It

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Speaker 1: was basically one Iran is dead. He would bomb Iran's

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Speaker 1: also said the Straight would open itself and that it

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Speaker 1: was all quote winding down. This while the UAES Foreign

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Speaker 1: Minister told Marco Rubio his country has prepared for nine

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Speaker 1: more months of this war, and the president of United Airlines,

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Speaker 1: who is after all in the oil and gas consumption business,

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Speaker 1: next year. The fourth point, there is not only no

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Speaker 1: before he started the war, Trump had the Department of

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Speaker 1: these morons like Bessant, who really, when he goes on

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Speaker 1: Louis the fourteenth was big. There was nobody there to

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Speaker 1: tell all of them that if everything is a blaze

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Speaker 1: in the Middle East, the UAE, Saudi Iraq, Kuwait, Guitar

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Speaker 1: others would have nowhere to ship or store the oil

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Speaker 1: They have a place to store it in the interim.

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Speaker 1: It's called under the ground, meaning that if the war

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Speaker 1: World Series. And they still think the trees in part

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Speaker 1: of this. Sure, we just take the Iranian oil that's

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Speaker 1: stuck at sea embargoed, and we take off the embargo

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Speaker 1: and then we let it sail into Indian and Chinese ports,

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Speaker 1: and the money magically somehow does not get to Iran

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Speaker 1: because the Chinese will certainly let us mess with their

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Speaker 1: in Tehran. At the moment, they still think the trees

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Speaker 1: in part giving Iran fourteen billion dollars in the middle

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Speaker 1: This monkey in a suit. Vesson actually said, in essence,

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Speaker 1: we are jiu jitsuing the Iranians. We are using their

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Speaker 1: own oil against them. No, Scott, so we are using

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Speaker 1: their oil against us to kill Americans fighting a war

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Speaker 1: against Iran. Nah could be worse. Scott Perry could be

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Speaker 1: the Treasury Secretary rather than Scott Bessant, the fascist congressman.

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Speaker 1: Perry thinks we can bill Iran for the bombs we

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Speaker 1: are dropping on Iran. Quote. I would actually like to

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Speaker 1: see Iran pay for this, whether it's twenty billion or

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Speaker 1: two hundred billion, whatever it is. Look, they've been at

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Speaker 1: war with us for forty seven years and it's finally

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Speaker 1: being ended by the President, which is awesome, but it

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Speaker 1: comes at a cost. They have resources, they could pay

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Speaker 1: Look, this means one thing. ICE will not be terrorizing

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Speaker 1: Also of interest here, the deliberate sabotage of CBS News

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Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith

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Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on this all new edition of Countdown. Sure,

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Speaker 1: the Ellisons and that putts Barry Weiss are turning CBS

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Speaker 1: into the Bizarrest podcasting system, but The first reason they

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Speaker 1: are all going to hell is they just killed off

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Speaker 1: CBS Radio, one of my many alma maters KNX in

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Speaker 1: La CBS Network Radio nineteen eighty seven to ninety one

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Speaker 1: and one of my foremost inspirations, and long before I

436
00:30:23,835 --> 00:30:27,635
Speaker 1: worked there, their chief newsmen in radio in New York

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00:30:28,155 --> 00:30:33,075
Speaker 1: single handedly convinced me I wasn't just kidding myself when

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00:30:33,075 --> 00:30:34,875
Speaker 1: I thought I could get a career out of this.

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00:30:35,755 --> 00:30:38,035
Speaker 1: It was one of the most dramatic events of my life.

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00:30:38,355 --> 00:30:42,875
Speaker 1: And it was just a letter, the lew Adler letter.

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Speaker 1: Next in things I promised not to tell about why

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00:30:46,515 --> 00:30:49,315
Speaker 1: the Ellisons and Barry Weiss are going to hell for

443
00:30:49,515 --> 00:30:53,915
Speaker 1: killing CBS Radio news. In the interiom, we always have

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00:30:54,115 --> 00:30:56,955
Speaker 1: more new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the

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Speaker 1: miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute

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00:31:00,635 --> 00:31:06,955
Speaker 1: today's other worst persons in the world, the bronze worse.

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00:31:07,715 --> 00:31:11,915
Speaker 1: You know what an eggcorn is? Eggcorn, as in egg

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00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:16,235
Speaker 1: and corn. It's a malepropism that kind of makes sense,

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00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:21,395
Speaker 1: but not really egg corn. If you don't say egg

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00:31:22,195 --> 00:31:25,395
Speaker 1: fully and you just say eggcorn, it sounds like acorn,

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00:31:26,315 --> 00:31:32,115
Speaker 1: like extreme court or Doggy Dog World. Well, here's a

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Speaker 1: new one. It's new to me. I find it is

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Speaker 1: on some extant eggcorn lists. It was about Jack Hughes,

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00:31:39,955 --> 00:31:42,275
Speaker 1: the Olympic hockey hero who threw it out the window

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00:31:42,515 --> 00:31:46,275
Speaker 1: by demanding they give him the puck from the Golden

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00:31:46,355 --> 00:31:50,195
Speaker 1: Goal instead of leaving it on permanent display for all

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00:31:50,315 --> 00:31:53,075
Speaker 1: time at the Hockey Hall of Fame, where he could

458
00:31:53,155 --> 00:31:55,595
Speaker 1: always go spend some of his money and visit it.

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00:31:56,235 --> 00:31:59,075
Speaker 1: And then somebody from his team, the New Jersey Devil's

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00:31:59,075 --> 00:32:02,475
Speaker 1: evidently got to him and said Jack xnay on the

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00:32:02,555 --> 00:32:07,075
Speaker 1: Red Gray, and he pretended to apologize. This is about

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00:32:07,235 --> 00:32:09,715
Speaker 1: Jack Hughes, or as I like to call him, Jacques

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00:32:09,715 --> 00:32:14,195
Speaker 1: cues on Twitter X from a guy who is named

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00:32:14,795 --> 00:32:18,555
Speaker 1: Chris nine five zero zero zero three, but his handle

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00:32:18,715 --> 00:32:23,435
Speaker 1: is at Chris three zero two seven nine five, so

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00:32:23,595 --> 00:32:28,275
Speaker 1: I'm assuming he's a robot with a split personality problem. Anyway, Chris,

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Speaker 1: whatever your number is, if that is your real number,

468
00:32:32,555 --> 00:32:35,835
Speaker 1: I own up to it myself. He writes. I wanted

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Speaker 1: him Jack Hughes and his pre Madonna ass off the

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Speaker 1: team prior to Milan. I wanted him and his pre

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Speaker 1: Madonna ass off the team. Pr new word capital M

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Speaker 1: A D O n NA. Calling Jack Hughes a pre

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Speaker 1: madonna is it's wonderful. It's just it's wonderful. They used

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Speaker 1: to call Jose Canseco that the rudder up worser. Peter

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00:33:12,715 --> 00:33:16,755
Speaker 1: Navarro talk about a pre madonna, the ex con member

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00:33:16,835 --> 00:33:20,155
Speaker 1: of both Trump administrations. He's obnoxious, he's tiny, he's loud,

477
00:33:20,395 --> 00:33:24,875
Speaker 1: he's stupid, and most importantly, he's always wrong. He is

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00:33:24,915 --> 00:33:28,435
Speaker 1: supposed to be some sort of economic advisor. He's not

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00:33:28,515 --> 00:33:32,075
Speaker 1: gotten anything right about the economy, and he first appeared

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Speaker 1: in the middle of it in twenty seventeen. He's always wrong, obnoxiously,

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00:33:36,435 --> 00:33:40,795
Speaker 1: loudly and stupidly wrong. This is from the Wall Street

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00:33:40,835 --> 00:33:47,675
Speaker 1: Journal just eleven days ago. An opinion commentary US by

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Speaker 1: Peter Navarro, March twelfth, twenty twenty six, posted at five

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Speaker 1: seventeen pm Eastern dummy time, from Peter Navarro, headline Iran

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Speaker 1: war will lower energy prices. Oh lower it to five

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Speaker 1: foot four Peter, the risk of regime violence has long

487
00:34:09,195 --> 00:34:11,955
Speaker 1: been baked into the global price of oil and gas

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00:34:12,115 --> 00:34:17,915
Speaker 1: and everything else. So when we don't get rid of

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00:34:17,915 --> 00:34:21,235
Speaker 1: that regime and the price gets baked back in and

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00:34:21,275 --> 00:34:24,035
Speaker 1: the price has gone up because we destroyed the distribution

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00:34:24,195 --> 00:34:26,515
Speaker 1: system and it got so bad that Trump had to

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00:34:26,595 --> 00:34:29,675
Speaker 1: start funding Iran and the United States in the middle

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00:34:29,675 --> 00:34:32,755
Speaker 1: of the same war. So the prices will go up again.

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Speaker 1: So you're not only wrong about the Iran war will

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00:34:36,715 --> 00:34:39,115
Speaker 1: lower energy prices, but you're going to be wrong about

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00:34:39,115 --> 00:34:42,715
Speaker 1: it again. Shouldn't you have the Wall Street Journal delete

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00:34:42,755 --> 00:34:49,075
Speaker 1: this pete speaking of which, just delete your career. Peter

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00:34:49,195 --> 00:34:54,595
Speaker 1: is thinking, nailed it. But our winners, Oh, look, it's

499
00:34:54,635 --> 00:34:58,035
Speaker 1: Barry Wise and the Ellisons again. They've done it once more.

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00:34:58,235 --> 00:35:00,475
Speaker 1: They have yet to be pressed for why the problems

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00:35:00,475 --> 00:35:04,475
Speaker 1: at CBS have accelerated after the changes they made disupposedly

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00:35:04,715 --> 00:35:07,955
Speaker 1: stop the problems at CBS began to take effect. Of course,

503
00:35:08,635 --> 00:35:12,755
Speaker 1: they didn't do any of this to fix things. They

504
00:35:12,755 --> 00:35:16,035
Speaker 1: brought Barry Weiss in to destroy CBS and then take

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00:35:16,075 --> 00:35:19,075
Speaker 1: the rap for it and leave only its name and

506
00:35:19,195 --> 00:35:25,195
Speaker 1: slap the skeletal name, the vestigial name, the walking undead

507
00:35:25,355 --> 00:35:31,515
Speaker 1: name CBS onto Barry Weiss's moronic, fascist bullshit, like Bezos

508
00:35:31,555 --> 00:35:35,675
Speaker 1: did to The Washington Post for Trump, like David Zaslav

509
00:35:36,275 --> 00:35:39,355
Speaker 1: did for CNN and Trump, And of course now the

510
00:35:39,355 --> 00:35:42,235
Speaker 1: Ellisons are going to buy CNN and do it again

511
00:35:42,315 --> 00:35:47,395
Speaker 1: because CNN doesn't quite suck enough yet, though, I dare

512
00:35:47,435 --> 00:35:50,355
Speaker 1: you watch that Abby Philip crap some night and then

513
00:35:50,395 --> 00:35:51,995
Speaker 1: come back to me and tell me it doesn't suck

514
00:35:52,115 --> 00:35:56,675
Speaker 1: enough yet, or Jake Tapper anyway, part of the mass

515
00:35:56,715 --> 00:36:00,075
Speaker 1: layoffs at CBS Friday, so their corporation could afford to

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00:36:00,075 --> 00:36:03,075
Speaker 1: pay this Nitwitwiss one hundred and fifty million dollars for

517
00:36:03,155 --> 00:36:06,875
Speaker 1: her website for dummies, the free Press. It's called that

518
00:36:06,875 --> 00:36:10,075
Speaker 1: because it's free of thought, free of good writing, free

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00:36:10,115 --> 00:36:13,075
Speaker 1: of journalism, and free of quality. Part of the mass

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00:36:13,155 --> 00:36:17,075
Speaker 1: layoffs so they could do this. They are shuttering CBS Radio,

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00:36:17,835 --> 00:36:21,835
Speaker 1: and particularly they are shuttering CBS Radio News, the place

522
00:36:21,915 --> 00:36:27,795
Speaker 1: where American broadcast journalism was born. That's where it started.

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00:36:27,995 --> 00:36:31,635
Speaker 1: Before that, it was occasionally the reading of headlines on radio.

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00:36:31,755 --> 00:36:35,035
Speaker 1: And then CBS got tired of being restricted by the

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00:36:35,035 --> 00:36:38,235
Speaker 1: wire services as to what they could actually report, and

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00:36:38,315 --> 00:36:43,595
Speaker 1: they invented, at William Paley's insistence, their own news operation

527
00:36:43,955 --> 00:36:48,515
Speaker 1: was in breadth and scope, the equivalent of United Press

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00:36:48,515 --> 00:36:51,795
Speaker 1: of International News of the Associated Press. But they did

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00:36:51,835 --> 00:36:54,875
Speaker 1: it just for themselves and their stations and their key

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00:36:54,915 --> 00:36:57,475
Speaker 1: people also had to be able to read on the air.

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Speaker 1: That was where Murrow started and everybody who followed it.

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00:37:03,075 --> 00:37:06,675
Speaker 1: That is where American broadcast journalism was born. CBS News,

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00:37:06,955 --> 00:37:10,115
Speaker 1: NBC copied that, then ABC and Mutual and all the

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00:37:10,155 --> 00:37:13,835
Speaker 1: others in CNN and everybody since and me and everybody

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00:37:13,875 --> 00:37:16,675
Speaker 1: else in the business now and they have just wiped

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00:37:16,715 --> 00:37:20,635
Speaker 1: it out. I will be talking about this next in

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00:37:20,715 --> 00:37:22,595
Speaker 1: things I promise not to tell, as I may have

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00:37:22,635 --> 00:37:26,355
Speaker 1: alluded to earlier. But for now, this sure is working

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00:37:26,395 --> 00:37:29,955
Speaker 1: well for them because they don't want money. They just

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00:37:29,995 --> 00:37:34,075
Speaker 1: want Trump to I don't know. I don't know what

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00:37:34,115 --> 00:37:36,515
Speaker 1: they want of him anymore. I don't know what they

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00:37:36,555 --> 00:37:38,475
Speaker 1: want him to do or what he thinks he can

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00:37:38,555 --> 00:37:44,515
Speaker 1: do not destroy them. Well, he destroys things deliberately, and

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00:37:44,555 --> 00:37:47,315
Speaker 1: then of course he destroys things accidentally because he's an idiot.

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00:37:47,675 --> 00:37:49,435
Speaker 1: How are you going to avoid that? No, no, no, no,

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00:37:49,555 --> 00:37:52,235
Speaker 1: you have to destroy his presidency. That's your only option.

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00:37:52,435 --> 00:37:55,315
Speaker 1: Ellison's if you want to survive Bezos, if you want

548
00:37:55,315 --> 00:37:57,395
Speaker 1: to survive Musk, you're on the wrong side of this

549
00:37:57,435 --> 00:38:00,315
Speaker 1: equation because this idiot you're backing is going to accidentally

550
00:38:00,395 --> 00:38:07,115
Speaker 1: blow you to effing smithereens accidentally in any event. New

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00:38:07,235 --> 00:38:11,235
Speaker 1: ratings from the CBS Evening News and CBS Mornings are in,

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00:38:11,355 --> 00:38:13,035
Speaker 1: and it begins to look like it would be a

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00:38:13,035 --> 00:38:16,715
Speaker 1: good move to save money by not putting the lights

554
00:38:16,755 --> 00:38:21,995
Speaker 1: on in the studios anymore. Got it, candles. The Mornings

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00:38:22,035 --> 00:38:25,995
Speaker 1: are now down to six hundred and eighty eight thousand viewers.

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00:38:26,075 --> 00:38:29,835
Speaker 1: That's average for the week of March ninth. The Today

557
00:38:29,955 --> 00:38:33,355
Speaker 1: Show is just under three million, and like everything else

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00:38:33,395 --> 00:38:36,955
Speaker 1: in broadcast television, it's dying. This is nothing compared to

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00:38:36,955 --> 00:38:39,395
Speaker 1: what it was ten years ago, let alone thirty years ago.

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00:38:40,435 --> 00:38:44,195
Speaker 1: But CBS is getting to the end faster, CBS where

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00:38:44,235 --> 00:38:48,675
Speaker 1: you can watch Gail King vsh Gail King disintegrate just

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00:38:48,715 --> 00:38:52,115
Speaker 1: a little bit more every morning. They are down five

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00:38:52,115 --> 00:38:55,355
Speaker 1: percent in total viewers and two percent in the demo

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Speaker 1: that's viewers under fifty five compared to the week before,

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00:39:00,235 --> 00:39:02,875
Speaker 1: so they lost five percent of their audience in one week.

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Speaker 1: They're down ten percent in two total viewers and down

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00:39:06,395 --> 00:39:10,715
Speaker 1: eighteen percent in that demo year to year, So the

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00:39:10,915 --> 00:39:14,595
Speaker 1: week of March ninth, twenty twenty five, they had ten

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Speaker 1: percent more viewers. CBS Mornings, the only morning show that

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00:39:19,395 --> 00:39:24,035
Speaker 1: declined in both of those categories since last year. Meanwhile,

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00:39:24,355 --> 00:39:27,355
Speaker 1: on the Tony de Koppel Comedy Half Hour and I'm

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00:39:27,395 --> 00:39:31,475
Speaker 1: Almost Crying Show and CBS Evening News, they have fallen

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00:39:31,595 --> 00:39:35,355
Speaker 1: under four million viewers. The last time that happened, Paramount

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00:39:35,435 --> 00:39:39,355
Speaker 1: fired the anchors of the CBS Evening News. The overall

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00:39:39,395 --> 00:39:41,795
Speaker 1: audience for the program for the five days ending March

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00:39:41,875 --> 00:39:45,875
Speaker 1: thirteenth was at about three million, eight hundred and thirty thousand,

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00:39:46,635 --> 00:39:51,195
Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty eight thousand in the demo. But

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00:39:51,275 --> 00:39:56,035
Speaker 1: the real nightmare baby yet to come. At Breaker, Lachlan

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00:39:56,115 --> 00:40:01,035
Speaker 1: Cartwright reports that Barry Weiss really, really, really wants to

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00:40:01,035 --> 00:40:04,635
Speaker 1: fix that morning show by bringing in a new vibe

581
00:40:04,755 --> 00:40:09,595
Speaker 1: Brant young co host to take over for poor vs. Gaale.

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00:40:10,355 --> 00:40:15,435
Speaker 1: To quote Lachlan Cartwright, the Free Presses founder latest obsession

583
00:40:16,275 --> 00:40:21,355
Speaker 1: trying to hire ESPN broadcaster Stephen A. Smith, who inked

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00:40:21,395 --> 00:40:24,555
Speaker 1: a five year, one hundred million dollar plus contract extension

585
00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:28,955
Speaker 1: with ESPN just last March for the rebooted Breakfast Show.

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00:40:31,915 --> 00:40:33,195
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, him.

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00:40:33,035 --> 00:40:33,435
Speaker 2: I got him.

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00:40:33,435 --> 00:40:34,835
Speaker 1: I got him, My god, him, my god, Oh my god.

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00:40:34,835 --> 00:40:36,595
Speaker 1: This is perfect. Oh my god. Oh my god, Oh

590
00:40:36,675 --> 00:40:39,595
Speaker 1: my god, my god, You're trying to kill CBS while

591
00:40:39,595 --> 00:40:42,275
Speaker 1: the rest of us are trying to save ESPN from itself.

592
00:40:42,435 --> 00:40:47,235
Speaker 1: Please please, please, please, please make this happen. Please. Stephen A. Smith,

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00:40:47,275 --> 00:40:51,115
Speaker 1: the CBS in the Mornings pulled off ESPN, where he's

594
00:40:51,155 --> 00:40:54,155
Speaker 1: annoying as f but he can't really do any harm

595
00:40:54,235 --> 00:40:57,595
Speaker 1: other than a reputation of almost whoever worked there precluded

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00:40:58,275 --> 00:41:01,235
Speaker 1: from this vanity run for president, or more likely from

597
00:41:01,315 --> 00:41:05,995
Speaker 1: being manipulated because Stephen A. Smith is really really not smart,

598
00:41:06,835 --> 00:41:10,955
Speaker 1: more likely being prevented from being manipulated into running as

599
00:41:10,955 --> 00:41:14,155
Speaker 1: a stalking horse to pull votes away from the twenty

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00:41:14,195 --> 00:41:17,755
Speaker 1: twenty eight Democratic candidate. Oh my god, oh my god,

601
00:41:17,795 --> 00:41:19,755
Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my god, can you imagine it?

602
00:41:19,795 --> 00:41:21,355
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, Oh my god, Oh

603
00:41:21,355 --> 00:41:25,395
Speaker 1: my god, Oh my god. This is the CBS Morning

604
00:41:25,515 --> 00:41:32,155
Speaker 1: Show with Stephen A. Smith. Oh my god, oh my god.

605
00:41:32,195 --> 00:41:35,155
Speaker 1: Can you bring this McAfee guy along too? Oh my god,

606
00:41:35,155 --> 00:41:41,675
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, Oh my god. This

607
00:41:41,755 --> 00:41:47,195
Speaker 1: is the CBS Morning Show with Gail King reporting from

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00:41:47,275 --> 00:41:50,795
Speaker 1: VS Stephen A. Smith and the stupid guy in the

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00:41:50,875 --> 00:42:00,795
Speaker 1: sleeveless T shirt and Charles Carrault on the road. Please, please,

610
00:42:00,915 --> 00:42:05,155
Speaker 1: please make this happen. Please, somehow make it happen. Stephen A.

611
00:42:05,235 --> 00:42:09,595
Speaker 1: Smith on the CBS mornings, Oh please, This is how

612
00:42:09,675 --> 00:42:11,715
Speaker 1: much I want to see this. I will get up

613
00:42:11,755 --> 00:42:16,715
Speaker 1: and watch it. That's how much I want this to happen.

614
00:42:17,875 --> 00:42:22,595
Speaker 1: I will wake up. I can't even say the early

615
00:42:23,715 --> 00:42:29,075
Speaker 1: to watch Stephen A. Smith try to do a news

616
00:42:29,195 --> 00:42:36,395
Speaker 1: morning show. However, the Ellisons and Barry Weiss, I know,

617
00:42:36,475 --> 00:42:38,875
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith in the mornings the CBS won't happen.

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00:42:38,915 --> 00:42:46,155
Speaker 1: But Feller can dream. Candy Today's other worse persons in

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00:42:46,195 --> 00:42:59,955
Speaker 1: the world. As I have mentioned, if there was any

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00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:03,155
Speaker 1: doubt that the Ellisons and their fascist broadcasting company in

621
00:43:03,195 --> 00:43:06,355
Speaker 1: this dim ball buffo Barry Weiss, are going to hell,

622
00:43:06,955 --> 00:43:09,915
Speaker 1: they removed that doubt last Friday with the news that

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00:43:09,995 --> 00:43:13,315
Speaker 1: among the lethal cuts they are taking to CBS is

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00:43:13,355 --> 00:43:17,435
Speaker 1: the elimination of CBS Radio News. This would be worse

625
00:43:17,515 --> 00:43:20,715
Speaker 1: if Barry Weiss had any idea that journalism in this

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00:43:20,795 --> 00:43:23,595
Speaker 1: country had begun any earlier than the day she first

627
00:43:23,595 --> 00:43:27,475
Speaker 1: correctly managed to count her toes, which I believe was

628
00:43:27,595 --> 00:43:31,795
Speaker 1: last year. But the gist is there is no iconography

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00:43:31,915 --> 00:43:35,995
Speaker 1: in broadcasting history in this country equivalent to CBS News,

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00:43:36,835 --> 00:43:41,635
Speaker 1: and CBS News began with CBS Radio News. I have

631
00:43:41,715 --> 00:43:49,955
Speaker 1: worked for them all. NBC had Caltonborne and Huntley and Brinkley. ABC. Well,

632
00:43:49,995 --> 00:43:54,475
Speaker 1: ABC was actually just NBC's second network. Did you know

633
00:43:54,555 --> 00:43:57,635
Speaker 1: that NBC in the thirties had two radio networks, Red

634
00:43:57,675 --> 00:44:00,715
Speaker 1: and Blue, and it was forced to spin off the

635
00:44:00,755 --> 00:44:05,435
Speaker 1: Blue network in the forties cause antitrust. That's what A is.

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00:44:05,955 --> 00:44:11,635
Speaker 1: It's really NBC Junior. There are other legends in other venues,

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00:44:11,635 --> 00:44:14,875
Speaker 1: but none of them put together, amounted to what CBS

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00:44:15,115 --> 00:44:20,435
Speaker 1: has provided to this day to American journalism. Murrow, sever

639
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Speaker 1: Id Hatlitt, Douglas Edwards, Cronkite rather, Alan Jackson, David Jackson,

640
00:44:26,555 --> 00:44:33,955
Speaker 1: Dallas Townsend, Robert Trout, Charles Osgoode. The list is almost endless,

641
00:44:34,835 --> 00:44:38,195
Speaker 1: and all on it have two things in common, radio

642
00:44:39,115 --> 00:44:42,835
Speaker 1: and New York. How many people now trying to save

643
00:44:42,955 --> 00:44:47,075
Speaker 1: this nation were inspired to try via broadcast journalism because

644
00:44:47,075 --> 00:44:50,515
Speaker 1: of CBS News and those names and the successors to

645
00:44:50,555 --> 00:44:53,795
Speaker 1: those names. I cannot begin to guess how many were,

646
00:44:53,835 --> 00:44:57,195
Speaker 1: in particular launched by the flagship station of that operation,

647
00:44:57,475 --> 00:45:01,635
Speaker 1: WCBS Radio in New York. I also cannot estimate, but

648
00:45:01,715 --> 00:45:05,715
Speaker 1: I can recount how one of them went from hoping

649
00:45:05,755 --> 00:45:09,275
Speaker 1: to succeed in that business to being confident he could

650
00:45:09,515 --> 00:45:13,315
Speaker 1: because of one small gesture from one big man at

651
00:45:13,355 --> 00:45:18,195
Speaker 1: that station, which the previous geniuses who ran CBS Radio

652
00:45:18,355 --> 00:45:22,075
Speaker 1: took off the air just canceled it one day in

653
00:45:22,075 --> 00:45:26,315
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, to the number one story on the

654
00:45:26,355 --> 00:45:33,515
Speaker 1: Countdown and the Adler Letter. Sunday, April eighth, nineteen seventy nine,

655
00:45:33,795 --> 00:45:36,475
Speaker 1: I had just survived a nine or ten hour drive

656
00:45:36,595 --> 00:45:39,955
Speaker 1: in a blizzard, right after my friend's dad had helpfully

657
00:45:39,995 --> 00:45:44,075
Speaker 1: removed his snow tires. I had lived to resume my

658
00:45:44,235 --> 00:45:48,275
Speaker 1: desperate bid to graduate college two months hence and get

659
00:45:48,315 --> 00:45:52,515
Speaker 1: a job somewhere in radio in three months, hence, against

660
00:45:52,555 --> 00:45:54,835
Speaker 1: all odds, amid all the snow and the mess and

661
00:45:54,915 --> 00:45:57,795
Speaker 1: the three sixties on the highways of the central Southern Tier,

662
00:45:58,635 --> 00:46:02,395
Speaker 1: I was still alive. I had walked the last five

663
00:46:02,475 --> 00:46:06,155
Speaker 1: minutes through the snow drifts to my apartment, and as

664
00:46:06,195 --> 00:46:08,515
Speaker 1: I reflected that it was only six hours until my

665
00:46:08,555 --> 00:46:10,635
Speaker 1: next class, guess what I was going to cut it.

666
00:46:11,795 --> 00:46:16,515
Speaker 1: I then stomped off the snow on my porch. Two seven, Delaware, Avenue, Ithaca,

667
00:46:16,515 --> 00:46:18,995
Speaker 1: New York. And I opened the door and I dumped

668
00:46:18,995 --> 00:46:21,395
Speaker 1: my bag inside, and then I reached back out under

669
00:46:21,395 --> 00:46:24,755
Speaker 1: the porch into the mailbox, and I saw it. I

670
00:46:24,875 --> 00:46:30,355
Speaker 1: saw it almost immediately peeking out. The return address on

671
00:46:30,435 --> 00:46:38,035
Speaker 1: the letter read Adler WCBS, CBS Radio, a division of CBS, Inc.

672
00:46:38,675 --> 00:46:41,715
Speaker 1: Fifty one West fifty second Street, New York, New York,

673
00:46:41,795 --> 00:46:51,395
Speaker 1: one zero zero one nine. And I could barely breathe

674
00:46:51,715 --> 00:46:59,675
Speaker 1: the Adler letter, and it was addressed to me and

675
00:46:59,795 --> 00:47:06,555
Speaker 1: Lou Adler. Its author was Radio News in New York City.

676
00:47:06,795 --> 00:47:08,475
Speaker 2: You're listening the news radio eighty eight.

677
00:47:08,555 --> 00:47:09,795
Speaker 1: This is WCBS.

678
00:47:09,835 --> 00:47:10,315
Speaker 2: Good Morning.

679
00:47:10,315 --> 00:47:11,435
Speaker 1: I'm Lou Adler, Good morning.

680
00:47:11,435 --> 00:47:14,475
Speaker 2: I'm Jim Donnaling Donn. A breezy, comfortably cool day today,

681
00:47:14,555 --> 00:47:17,475
Speaker 2: the high fifty eight to sixty two, clear skies overnight

682
00:47:17,515 --> 00:47:20,795
Speaker 2: and a low forty one to forty six. Beautiful day.

683
00:47:20,795 --> 00:47:23,475
Speaker 2: Tomorrow mostly sunny, very pleasant to high fifty nine to

684
00:47:23,555 --> 00:47:27,395
Speaker 2: sixty four, and Friday pretty nice, hazy sun continued quite mild,

685
00:47:27,475 --> 00:47:30,355
Speaker 2: high in the upper sixties, clear and fifty two degrees

686
00:47:30,595 --> 00:47:33,875
Speaker 2: at six forty eight. Among the stories we're watching, they're

687
00:47:33,915 --> 00:47:36,755
Speaker 2: still walking that last mile in the long long New

688
00:47:36,835 --> 00:47:40,315
Speaker 2: York City newspaper strike. Lawyers for the striking pressmen and

689
00:47:40,395 --> 00:47:42,515
Speaker 2: for the New York Times and the Daily News are

690
00:47:42,555 --> 00:47:46,035
Speaker 2: going over contract language line by line this morning. The

691
00:47:46,195 --> 00:47:49,115
Speaker 2: paper is still hoping to be able to publish Sunday editions.

692
00:47:49,435 --> 00:47:51,395
Speaker 2: Ard Athens is at the talks, and we'll be hearing

693
00:47:51,395 --> 00:47:54,595
Speaker 2: from him. Two hundred technical and professional employees at Lincoln

694
00:47:54,675 --> 00:47:55,755
Speaker 2: Hospital in the box.

695
00:47:56,275 --> 00:47:59,595
Speaker 1: Lou Adler had begun on WCBS the year I was born.

696
00:48:00,435 --> 00:48:03,035
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty seven, the station went all news, and

697
00:48:03,155 --> 00:48:06,115
Speaker 1: it immediately became the best all news station in the country.

698
00:48:06,315 --> 00:48:09,515
Speaker 1: Lou Adler co anchored the mornings, and eight years earlier

699
00:48:09,515 --> 00:48:13,035
Speaker 1: he had become the station's news director. He was the best.

700
00:48:13,555 --> 00:48:16,835
Speaker 1: His co anchor, Jim Donnelly, was the best. His sportscaster

701
00:48:16,915 --> 00:48:19,835
Speaker 1: at Engles was the best. His reporters were the best.

702
00:48:19,915 --> 00:48:22,555
Speaker 1: His weatherman was the best, His traffic guys were the best.

703
00:48:22,715 --> 00:48:26,995
Speaker 1: His jingles were the best. I listened daily in high school,

704
00:48:27,515 --> 00:48:29,755
Speaker 1: and when I was home from college, I did not

705
00:48:29,915 --> 00:48:34,435
Speaker 1: take literal notes, only mental ones. My college graduation, if

706
00:48:34,475 --> 00:48:37,315
Speaker 1: I made it, was seven weeks away. I had never

707
00:48:37,355 --> 00:48:39,555
Speaker 1: worked on television in any form, but I had been

708
00:48:39,595 --> 00:48:42,595
Speaker 1: on radio two or three thousand times by then, and

709
00:48:42,635 --> 00:48:45,075
Speaker 1: I thought I was pretty good at it. In the

710
00:48:45,155 --> 00:48:48,475
Speaker 1: preceding months, I had flooded every radio station in every

711
00:48:48,555 --> 00:48:51,395
Speaker 1: major market in the Northeast with a demo tape and

712
00:48:51,435 --> 00:48:54,155
Speaker 1: a resume. I figured I might as well start in

713
00:48:54,155 --> 00:48:57,675
Speaker 1: my home of New York and not eliminate a potential job,

714
00:48:57,755 --> 00:49:00,115
Speaker 1: no matter how long a long shot it might have been.

715
00:49:01,035 --> 00:49:03,675
Speaker 1: If I wasn't good enough to work there, I concluded,

716
00:49:03,715 --> 00:49:06,275
Speaker 1: I should let the people you ran New York's radio

717
00:49:06,315 --> 00:49:09,955
Speaker 1: stations decide that, since that's what they were paid to do.

718
00:49:12,155 --> 00:49:15,835
Speaker 1: To this point, they had decided that. By not responding,

719
00:49:16,995 --> 00:49:19,635
Speaker 1: I got a few nibbles from some of the smaller stations,

720
00:49:19,635 --> 00:49:22,275
Speaker 1: But as April eighth turned to April ninth, I had

721
00:49:22,395 --> 00:49:26,635
Speaker 1: no job prospects. Other friends were getting offers in Waterbury, Connecticut,

722
00:49:27,155 --> 00:49:31,195
Speaker 1: and Laconia, New Hampshire. Thought of which and nothing against

723
00:49:31,235 --> 00:49:35,195
Speaker 1: either of those cities filled me with terror. And now,

724
00:49:35,275 --> 00:49:38,995
Speaker 1: after this ordeal by snow and without snow tires, after

725
00:49:39,035 --> 00:49:42,955
Speaker 1: the wnw woo oo's and Georgia's father's near fatal decision

726
00:49:42,955 --> 00:49:45,515
Speaker 1: to remove those winter tires, here in my hand was

727
00:49:45,555 --> 00:49:48,155
Speaker 1: a letter from the man who was, to my mind

728
00:49:48,155 --> 00:49:52,035
Speaker 1: the best radio newscaster I had ever heard. Obviously it

729
00:49:52,075 --> 00:49:55,035
Speaker 1: would be a rejection. But even in that moment, even

730
00:49:55,075 --> 00:49:58,835
Speaker 1: at my age twenty years two months and change, I

731
00:49:59,035 --> 00:50:02,395
Speaker 1: was awe struck not only that lou Adler had replied,

732
00:50:02,795 --> 00:50:06,475
Speaker 1: but that he alone, of all I had written to,

733
00:50:06,795 --> 00:50:10,355
Speaker 1: he had been the one who replied. I believe I

734
00:50:10,435 --> 00:50:14,035
Speaker 1: did not remove my parka before opening the envelope. I

735
00:50:14,115 --> 00:50:16,915
Speaker 1: did put on one lamp in my apartment, and I

736
00:50:17,035 --> 00:50:21,715
Speaker 1: read WCBS, CBS Radio, a division of CBS Inc. Fifty

737
00:50:21,755 --> 00:50:23,875
Speaker 1: one lest fifty two Street, New York, New York, one

738
00:50:23,995 --> 00:50:25,955
Speaker 1: zero zero one nine two one two nine seventy five

739
00:50:25,995 --> 00:50:29,715
Speaker 1: four three two one April third, nineteen seventy nine, mister

740
00:50:29,795 --> 00:50:32,915
Speaker 1: Keith Olderman, two hundred and seven Delaware Avenue, Atica, New York,

741
00:50:32,955 --> 00:50:37,635
Speaker 1: one four eighty five. Oh, dear mister Olderman, this will

742
00:50:37,675 --> 00:50:40,515
Speaker 1: reply to your letter of March twenty seventh, with which

743
00:50:40,515 --> 00:50:44,195
Speaker 1: you included a tape of your sports work on WVBRFM.

744
00:50:45,675 --> 00:50:47,875
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's hard to know what a man can do

745
00:50:47,995 --> 00:50:53,155
Speaker 1: by listening to a brief tape. I stopped wait a

746
00:50:53,235 --> 00:50:59,195
Speaker 1: man wait, which which oh me I'm just a kid.

747
00:50:59,555 --> 00:51:01,475
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's hard to know what a man can do

748
00:51:01,555 --> 00:51:03,435
Speaker 1: by listening to a brief tape, but I must tell

749
00:51:03,435 --> 00:51:06,515
Speaker 1: you I was excited by what I heard of yours.

750
00:51:07,395 --> 00:51:11,155
Speaker 1: I think you have exceptional talent and poise considering your

751
00:51:11,195 --> 00:51:14,995
Speaker 1: age and experience. You read well, and you write well,

752
00:51:15,035 --> 00:51:17,955
Speaker 1: and you know how to use tape. If the short

753
00:51:18,035 --> 00:51:21,115
Speaker 1: tape is truly representative of what you can do, and

754
00:51:21,155 --> 00:51:24,115
Speaker 1: if your knowledge of sports is broad, and if you

755
00:51:24,155 --> 00:51:27,275
Speaker 1: can perform under pressure well, then I feel you have

756
00:51:27,315 --> 00:51:33,155
Speaker 1: an excellent future in this industry. By this point, my

757
00:51:33,235 --> 00:51:35,955
Speaker 1: heart was beating so furiously I could hear it. I

758
00:51:36,035 --> 00:51:38,555
Speaker 1: was this close to hearing it make the woo woo sound.

759
00:51:39,675 --> 00:51:41,635
Speaker 1: I think it might be a good idea for us

760
00:51:41,675 --> 00:51:44,035
Speaker 1: to meet. Let me know when you can make it

761
00:51:44,075 --> 00:51:46,635
Speaker 1: to New York. I have nothing here for you, and

762
00:51:46,675 --> 00:51:48,995
Speaker 1: I know of nothing solid. But if I feel as

763
00:51:49,035 --> 00:51:52,035
Speaker 1: strongly about your potential after we meet as I do now,

764
00:51:52,235 --> 00:51:57,475
Speaker 1: a meeting certainly could do you no harm. Sincerely, Lewis

765
00:51:57,635 --> 00:52:07,555
Speaker 1: c Adler, Director News, Operations and Programs LCA slash PEP George,

766
00:52:07,715 --> 00:52:09,875
Speaker 1: I screamed into the phone. Can we drive back to

767
00:52:09,915 --> 00:52:15,115
Speaker 1: the city right now? He swore, I read George the letter.

768
00:52:15,395 --> 00:52:18,675
Speaker 1: He paused, No, we shouldn't go tonight. You're not going

769
00:52:18,715 --> 00:52:20,555
Speaker 1: to see him tomorrow. Wait till you get your appointment.

770
00:52:20,595 --> 00:52:22,595
Speaker 1: But Jesus, this is like the manager of the Yankees

771
00:52:22,755 --> 00:52:24,795
Speaker 1: asking you to stop by the stadium and bring your

772
00:52:24,795 --> 00:52:29,275
Speaker 1: glove and bat just in case. I think I got

773
00:52:29,275 --> 00:52:31,955
Speaker 1: to sleep at sunrise. I had read the Adler letter

774
00:52:32,075 --> 00:52:34,995
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty times, and not until the fifteenth or

775
00:52:35,035 --> 00:52:37,475
Speaker 1: so did I stop expecting it to have turned back

776
00:52:37,515 --> 00:52:43,955
Speaker 1: into some courteous form letter rejection. Badly xeroxton slightly offsetter. Slowly,

777
00:52:44,195 --> 00:52:46,475
Speaker 1: it dawned on me that my own assessment of my

778
00:52:46,635 --> 00:52:51,435
Speaker 1: radio skills were not predicated on ego or even the

779
00:52:51,475 --> 00:52:54,475
Speaker 1: context of what else I could hear in Ithaca, which

780
00:52:54,515 --> 00:52:57,235
Speaker 1: was then the three hundred and fifty first largest radio

781
00:52:57,275 --> 00:53:00,555
Speaker 1: market in the country. Good but still three hundred and

782
00:53:00,555 --> 00:53:05,635
Speaker 1: fifty first. I cannot now describe the sense of validation

783
00:53:05,795 --> 00:53:09,955
Speaker 1: except to say that I have seriously considered not taking

784
00:53:09,995 --> 00:53:12,275
Speaker 1: Lou Adler up on his offer to meet him at

785
00:53:12,315 --> 00:53:16,395
Speaker 1: CBS World headquarters, black Rock itself, where Bill Paley would

786
00:53:16,435 --> 00:53:20,915
Speaker 1: be working upstairs, because short of offering me a job

787
00:53:20,995 --> 00:53:23,795
Speaker 1: there really was no chance mister Adler could do or

788
00:53:23,835 --> 00:53:27,595
Speaker 1: say anything more that could make me feel better or

789
00:53:27,635 --> 00:53:30,955
Speaker 1: more confident that my dream of becoming a sportscaster would

790
00:53:31,035 --> 00:53:34,995
Speaker 1: not lead me to starvation or to Laconia, New Hampshire.

791
00:53:36,995 --> 00:53:41,195
Speaker 1: In fact, in person, Lou Adler found more things to say.

792
00:53:41,315 --> 00:53:43,355
Speaker 1: If I had an opening for a sportscaster right now,

793
00:53:43,395 --> 00:53:46,875
Speaker 1: I would seriously consider you for it. I would hesitate

794
00:53:46,955 --> 00:53:49,315
Speaker 1: because of your age and your lack of practical experience,

795
00:53:49,675 --> 00:53:52,635
Speaker 1: and then I'd probably do it anyway. He was as

796
00:53:52,755 --> 00:53:56,315
Speaker 1: warm and supportive and informal as his letter had been,

797
00:53:56,315 --> 00:53:59,155
Speaker 1: structured and serious and tempered. Let me take you on

798
00:53:59,195 --> 00:54:02,675
Speaker 1: a tour. We saw the live studios, the production studios,

799
00:54:02,715 --> 00:54:06,635
Speaker 1: the writers area. I wasn't just speechless again, I was breathless.

800
00:54:07,595 --> 00:54:10,155
Speaker 1: And you should probably recognize this man by voice, if

801
00:54:10,155 --> 00:54:14,555
Speaker 1: not by sight. Keith Olderman, meet our sports director. Ed Engles, ed,

802
00:54:15,355 --> 00:54:20,595
Speaker 1: this is Keith. This is the fellow with the tape.

803
00:54:20,915 --> 00:54:23,755
Speaker 1: Ed Engles took a moment that his eyes widened. Hi,

804
00:54:24,395 --> 00:54:27,635
Speaker 1: what a tape, Jesus, Lou, don't tell me you've hired him?

805
00:54:27,795 --> 00:54:31,835
Speaker 1: Did you fire me? I must admit I thought for

806
00:54:31,875 --> 00:54:34,835
Speaker 1: a second it might have happened. I did not shrink

807
00:54:35,035 --> 00:54:39,795
Speaker 1: entirely from that fantasy. Lou Adler laughed, No, Eddie. Then

808
00:54:39,795 --> 00:54:44,235
Speaker 1: he paused, it was irresistible. Not yet. We went back

809
00:54:44,235 --> 00:54:46,955
Speaker 1: to Lou Adwer's office. Have you got any job prospects?

810
00:54:47,595 --> 00:54:49,635
Speaker 1: I explained that a month earlier, thanks to a chain

811
00:54:49,675 --> 00:54:52,515
Speaker 1: of recommendations that stretched from my internship at Channel five

812
00:54:52,595 --> 00:54:56,035
Speaker 1: Television the year before through a young ABC sports executive

813
00:54:56,115 --> 00:54:59,795
Speaker 1: named Bob Eiger. I think it was to a friend

814
00:54:59,835 --> 00:55:01,355
Speaker 1: of a friend of a friend of a friend. I

815
00:55:01,395 --> 00:55:05,035
Speaker 1: had met everybody at the radio network of United Presenter National,

816
00:55:05,035 --> 00:55:06,675
Speaker 1: and I was supposed to go back and see them

817
00:55:07,115 --> 00:55:11,395
Speaker 1: about working their freelance as summer vacation relief for the

818
00:55:11,475 --> 00:55:14,555
Speaker 1: year ahead in sports and in news. Oh, that would

819
00:55:14,595 --> 00:55:17,555
Speaker 1: be ideal for you, Lou Adwer said. It's a tough

820
00:55:17,555 --> 00:55:20,235
Speaker 1: place to work. They don't pay well at UPI, but

821
00:55:20,275 --> 00:55:22,875
Speaker 1: it's here in the city, and every other radio station

822
00:55:22,915 --> 00:55:25,595
Speaker 1: in this country will hear you on the feed. That's

823
00:55:25,595 --> 00:55:28,515
Speaker 1: where we hired ed from at Ingles. So if we

824
00:55:28,595 --> 00:55:31,595
Speaker 1: have an opening, he smiled broadly, I can poach you

825
00:55:31,635 --> 00:55:33,595
Speaker 1: and get you here in less than two weeks, can I,

826
00:55:36,955 --> 00:55:40,075
Speaker 1: Mister Adwer then suggested that CBS station in Atlanta would

827
00:55:40,075 --> 00:55:42,435
Speaker 1: be needing a sportscaster in a few months. I'll stay

828
00:55:42,435 --> 00:55:44,195
Speaker 1: on top of that. They already have a copy of

829
00:55:44,195 --> 00:55:46,075
Speaker 1: your tape. I hope you don't mind. I made several

830
00:55:46,115 --> 00:55:49,435
Speaker 1: copies of your tape. If UPI does not work out,

831
00:55:49,555 --> 00:55:52,035
Speaker 1: I am confident you will be offered a job in Atlanta,

832
00:55:52,115 --> 00:55:54,635
Speaker 1: and maybe quite a few other jobs. I hope I've

833
00:55:54,635 --> 00:55:56,435
Speaker 1: been of some help. Stay in touch. It's one of

834
00:55:56,475 --> 00:55:58,355
Speaker 1: the privileges of this job to be able to help.

835
00:55:58,355 --> 00:56:01,515
Speaker 1: But frankly, you're not going to need that much help.

836
00:56:04,155 --> 00:56:06,515
Speaker 1: I may have taken the train back to my folks house,

837
00:56:06,595 --> 00:56:11,075
Speaker 1: or I may have just walked the twenty miles or floated.

838
00:56:11,835 --> 00:56:14,835
Speaker 1: The UPI job worked out full time two months later,

839
00:56:15,315 --> 00:56:18,875
Speaker 1: at the first game I covered for money, I walked

840
00:56:18,915 --> 00:56:21,955
Speaker 1: into the press box at Chase Stadium and there was

841
00:56:22,155 --> 00:56:25,755
Speaker 1: ed ingles. Thank god you went to UPI. The way

842
00:56:25,835 --> 00:56:28,075
Speaker 1: Adler went on about you, I seriously wondered if he

843
00:56:28,115 --> 00:56:30,315
Speaker 1: was planning to bring you in and kick me out.

844
00:56:31,235 --> 00:56:35,035
Speaker 1: The Atlanta offer Lou Adler arranged came I turned it down.

845
00:56:35,475 --> 00:56:37,435
Speaker 1: About a year later, I got a call from Adler's

846
00:56:37,435 --> 00:56:40,115
Speaker 1: assistant saying they were going to need a new afternoon

847
00:56:40,115 --> 00:56:42,915
Speaker 1: sportscaster at WCBS, and would I send a new tape.

848
00:56:43,715 --> 00:56:46,075
Speaker 1: But by that fall, when the job opened, Lou Adler

849
00:56:46,275 --> 00:56:50,115
Speaker 1: was leaving WCBS to become news director and vice president

850
00:56:50,155 --> 00:56:53,995
Speaker 1: of another New York radio station, wor his successor would

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Speaker 1: a punchline. In two thousand and six or two thousand

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Speaker 1: Lou Adler. He began just as formally as he had

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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine. He actually felt it was necessary

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Speaker 1: to remind me about his letter. He said he watched

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Speaker 1: he told them the story. Proudly, he said. He asked

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Speaker 1: for fun. Lou wrote back again within minutes. He had

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Speaker 1: or not they knew it to Lou Adler, as I

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Speaker 1: always will. Lou Adler died five years ago at the

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Speaker 1: age of eighty eight. There are letters and photos in

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Speaker 1: my home. They are from Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Biden,

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Speaker 1: and Lou Adler. The first thing you see when you

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Speaker 1: light switch. I've done all the damage I can do here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, Burn and Hall, Barry Weiss. Our

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Speaker 1: musical directors have Countdowner, John Phillip Scheneil on keyboards and

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Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments. The sports music is the

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Speaker 1: Old Olderman Show theme from ESPN two. It was written

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Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis. It appears courtesy of ESPN Inc.

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Speaker 1: Till they hear what I said about Steven me Smith.

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

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Speaker 1: And my announcer today is my friend Larry David. This

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Speaker 1: program was produced by Ted and Stevie and Rose and Kit.

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Speaker 1: Ted is training new assistance. Everything else was as always

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Speaker 1: my fault. That's Countdown for today, Day four hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty eight of America held hostage again, just one thirty

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Speaker 1: five days until the scheduled end of his lame duck

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Speaker 1: whichever side he's supporting in the war with Iran or well,

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Speaker 1: I'm putting my money on the ghost of Robert Mueller.

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Speaker 1: The next schedule Countdown is Thursday. Bulletin says the news

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Speaker 1: merits until the next edition. I'm Keith Oulderman. Good morning,

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

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