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March 27, 2025 67 mins

SEASON 3 EPISODE 113: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): The reason Trump’s Team of Idiot Rivals sent each other their war plans on Signal wasn't to keep them secret from the Senate, or from future investigations it was to keep them secret from TRUMP.

They no longer TRUST Trump.

They no longer think Trump UNDERSTANDS what’s going on.

There WAS a work-around – AROUND TRUMP. They are CUTTING TRUMP OUT.

I'm NOT defending any of these sloppy, stupid, dangerous, morons. But behind their blithering incompetence is the WHY. WHY did they conduct this Signal Chat? Because they have established at least one Ghost Mechanism to allow Trump’s cabinet to try to get something done without him destroying the world (yet) and if THAT’S the case the POINT of this is: you have a president whose own people think he is now a complete FEEB, that he can not function, and cannot be trusted not to do something at least disastrously stupid, IF that thing requires him to do anything more than blather for 40 minutes and morph slowly into Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

We need a whole new president, like, later today. This guy’s nuts.

Also, they can all be charged with espionage under 18 U-S Code 793 “Gathering, transmitting or LOSING defense information."And a German newspaper found live mobile numbers and email addresses for Waltz and Gabbard and Hegseth. I’ll circle back to that. Also Waltz and Gabbard and Hegseth are three of the biggest idiots in this nation’s history.

And I’m going to go further out on a limb and answer the MOST intriguing, MOST unaddressed question of this entire mess: why in the hell would the name of the editor of The Atlantic pop up automatically in the auto-composition in the phone of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz? Huh? Is MY name in there too? How about Jasmine Crockett? Goldberg was in Waltz's phone because Waltz put him there, and Waltz is denying it because Trump will fire him if he believes that's true.

The other issues here are all valid and intriguing and as a story, boy did they hit the cloud just right and we got 77 inches of snow, this story has TWICE as much engagement world wide as any other news story this year. But the NEWS here is, this is NOT a Trump plan to keep reality from America. THIS is an AMERICAN plan to keep reality… from TRUMP.

B-Block (31:30) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: American governments mishandle information as if that's what they were hired. It's been true since the Confederacy dropped Robert E. Lee's battle plans on the ground in Maryland in 1862. It was true when the Bush Administration spent a day unable to send me an email, and instead wound up revealing to me all the people inside NBC News that Bush could count on to give him favorable coverage.

C-Block (51:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: A Pennsylvania legislator is dumber than she looks. She's touting her career 100% Score from...The John Birch Society. Steve Bannon has finally been broken - he is caveating his own violent imagery. And Bill Maher keeps growing, keeps innovating, keeps finding new ways to make an idiot out of himself. This one involves Kid Rock and Trump.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The

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reason Trump's team of idiot rivals messaged each other their
war plans on might as well have been AOL Instant
Messenger or Yahoo Pager or I Kremlin. The reason wasn't
to keep these communications secret from the Senate or from
future investigations or from the Democrats. It was to keep

(00:47):
them secret from Trump. They no longer trust Trump, they
no longer think Trump understands what's going on. There was
a work around around Trump. They are cutting Trump out.
That is the only and the inescapable conclusion to all this. Also,

(01:11):
they can all be charged with espionage under eighteen US
Code seventy nine to three gathering, transmitting or losing defense
information Paragraph F. I'll circle back to this, And if
you miss this, a German newspaper found live mobile numbers
and email addresses for Waltz and Gabbard and Hegseth. I'll

(01:31):
circle back to that. Also, Waltz and Gabbert and Hegseth
are three of the biggest idiots in the history of
this country, but paramount and completely ignored so far near
as I can tell. The real lesson of the Yeah man,
it's Yemen Emoji party is they are cutting Trump out.
Either he is as exactly bonkers as we've all thought

(01:54):
he was getting, or they've all decided the only part
of the job he's putting any effort into anymore is
the blah blah blah speech part. And they are convening
on signal, which might as well be an app you
get free with the purchase of a lot of porn,
because there is no chance Trump has any idea how
it works, just as when asked Monday, he had no

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idea what the messaging scandal was, and he had no
idea who Jeffrey Goldberg was, and he could barely remember
what the Atlantic was long enough to take a really
low energy dig at its circulation numbers. Trump is going potty,
and his cabinet knows it. And before he tells them

(02:36):
to go blow up Yemen, they are finding a place
to meet without him to actually discuss blowing up Yemen.
And I might add, nearly everybody on these texts that
we've seen except Hegseth discussed it kind of rationally, and
I mean even Vance made sense until he started to
talk jinguist isolationist nonsense with hegg Seth. I mean, read

(02:56):
those texts. The bully boy in eyeliner, that's vance in public,
threatening and swearing and blustering. The guy in the text
seems to think about things. And I'm going to go
out further on a limb and answer the most intriguing,
most unaddressed question of this entire mess. Why in the
hell would the name of the editor of The Atlantic

(03:17):
pop up automatically in the auto composition in the phone
of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. I mean, huh, it's
my name in there too. How about Jasmine Crocketts. Now
there might be a reason a textbook, standard issue liberal
Goldberg or people like Goldberg at least would be in
Mike Waltz's phone, or whoever's phone Mike Waltz would have

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been using. Mike Waltz used to be a defense policy
director for Rumsfeld at the Pentagon and Gates at the Pentagon,
and Bob Gates was Secretary of Defense for three years
under Obama. Bob Gates new liberal people, and Bob Gates
used to actually ask liberals their opinions on defense stuff
because the world was like that back then, in the

(04:03):
old days. Even Rumsfeld did that occasionally. Jeffrey Goldberg's number
may have been in Mike Waltz's phone, may have been
used often enough that it popped up automatically in Mike
Waltz's phone because he asked his opinion on something once,
and that if you are Mike Waltz, is the last

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thing you want Trump or any of these psychopaths who
work for Trump to know. Guess what. I'm not the
first person to have noticed this, certainly not the last
person to have noticed this. Even Politico noticed it in
an aside yesterday. Trump's quote chief concern during multiple conversations
with Waltz has been why his NSA would have Goldberg's

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number in the first place. Indeed, some corners of Maga
world have been a wash with unevidenced theories that Waltz
was already leaking to the Atlantic, which may explain Waltz's
eager denials on Fox. Eager is the plight word for insane.
This whole thing insecure as it is, illegal, as it is,

(05:09):
moronic as it is folks need to be fired as
it is is indeed about keeping everything off the books,
off the books that Trump can see. By the way,
there's a second critical point here that has been entirely overlooked.
I've heard it hourly since Monday. Isn't it lucky? The

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Jeffrey Goldberg was the outsider on this chat and just
him and nobody else. Well, who in the hell said
that's true? How do we know Goldberg was the only
person on there who shouldn't have been on there? How
do we know his name didn't pop up when Mike
Waltz hit the name of some other media figure. I
don't know, Brit Hume or somebody our David Muir, I

(05:52):
don't know. How do we know there weren't forty seven
reporters on the chat? How do we know there weren't
twenty two former national security advisors on the chat? How
do we know who Waltz and these other clowns are
running their plans pass to make sure Trump doesn't get
out in front of them and order the bombing of
Kansas City or something. The other issues here are all

(06:13):
valid and intriguing, And as a story, boy, did they
hit the cloud just right? We got seventy seven and
a half inches of snow here. This story has twice
as much engagement worldwide as any other news story this year.
But the news news here is there is at least

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one ghost mechanism in place to allow Trump's cabinet members
to try to get something done without destroying the world yet.
And if that's the case, the point of this is
you have a president whose own people think he is
now a complete feb that he cannot function, that he
cannot be trusted, that he cannot be trusted not to

(06:57):
do something at least disastrously stupid if that thing requires
him to do anything more than blather for forty minutes
and more slow into glorious Wanson as Norma Desmond and
Sunset Boulevard. We need a whole new president like later today.
The one we have now is nuts, positively definitely nuts,

(07:22):
and his own people know it. I'm not defending any
of them. I'm not defending what they did. None of
these people are qualified for their jobs. None of them
are really smart. None of them are honest. If they
were honest, they probably wouldn't even try this. None of
them are worth the oil with which to fry them

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to hell. But this, surprisingly enough, is not a Trump
plan to keep reality from America. This is an American
plan to keep reality from Trump. And here comes the

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espionage eighteen US Code seventy nine three, and a preface
that to be guilty of espionage, you have to be
charged with espionage, and the person who would charge the
other people on the list with espionage is probably the
most subservient of Trump's slaves, his attorney general. Still it's there,

(08:48):
and the statute of limitations is ten years, So hey
you nineteen lawyer up eighteen US Code seventy nine three. Gathering, transmitting,
or losing defense information. And as I seem to recall
having mentioned three years ago, it does not have to

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be classified information. Another red herring. It only has to
be defense information that's in the code. Transmitting or losing
defense information. Whoever being entrusted with or having lawful possession
or control of any document, writing, code, book, signal, book, sketch, photograph, photographic, negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note,

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or information relating to the national defense one, through gross negligence,
permits the same to be removed from its proper place
of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust,
or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or two
having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from

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its proper place of custody, or delivered to anyone in
violation of its trust, or lost or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed,
and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction,
or destruction to his superior officer shall be fined under
this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

(10:18):
Since Pam Bondy isn't going to charge them today, and
even if she did, she could probably still find a
way to get the case in front of Eileen, nobody
gets convicted on my watch, Cannon. The real worry for
people like Mike Waltz, is Trump still being interested in
this story later today. The longer they all go without

(10:40):
letting him get distracted by something, and I'm betting Stephen
Miller is willing to tell him he needs to invade
Australia today, the longer Trump's compulsion to make somebody else
hurt builds up. The panic in Waltz's decreasingly coherent explanations
for how Jeffrey Goldberg's name got in his effing phone

(11:03):
book is obvious he is at the stage where he
first suggested it was an accident. Then it was an
aids doing. Maybe then that thing that happens when you
enter somebody's name but somebody else's number, which sounds great
until you remember that never happens. Then the thing where
the mystery phone name gets quote sucked into your phone unquote.

(11:25):
Mike Waltz is about an hour away from claiming Jesus
put it there. Why also, would Goldberg have done this?
The idea that he has somehow done something wrong here
or in fact done something is madness. Why would he

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scheme his way onto this signal group and then publish
what he found there, thus incriminating himself, but not publish
all of it and in fact leave the good stuff
out at first? What does it say that Waltz and

(12:08):
heg Seth and the rest of them, He implicates, all
of them would be stupid enough to use a public
message app that Jeffrey Goldberg could hack his way into.
I mean, it's that easy, and it's his fault that

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you picked it. Even if he did hack his way
in somehow, or he sweet talked his way, what do
you do? Did he sweet talk Christy Noom like all
the other boys do. Achham's Razor explains that Goldberg was
in Waltz's phone because Waltz put him there. So let's

(13:02):
go to the phones and I mean that, would you
like some of Waltz's old phones. Der Spiegel can get
them for you. It's a complicated story. It does not
translate well from the original German. What does. But the
gist is their staffers at this German news magazine we're

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able to beg borrow and steal live active phone numbers
and emails for all of these trumpest clowns, including the
Big three of Defense. I'll just read the first two
and a half grafts. You'll get the idea. Private contact
details of the most important security advisors to US President
Donald Trump can be found on the internet. Der Spiegel

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reports reporters, forgive me, we're able to find mobile phone numbers,
email addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials.
To do so, the reporters used commercial people search engines
along with hacked customer data that has been published on
the web. Those affected by the leaks include National Security

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Advisor Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard, and
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Scoll. Most of these numbers
and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some
of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like
Instagram and LinkedIn unquote terrific one more detail quote. National

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Intelligence Director Gabbard was seemingly more careful with her data
than her two male colleagues. She apparently had her own
data blocked in the commercial contact search engines that contained
the data of Hegseth and Waltz, but her email address
was to be found on WikiLeaks and Reddit. Gabbard's email
address is available in more than ten leaks. One of

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those also contains a partial telephone number, which when completed,
leads to an active WhatsApp account and a signal profile.
A signal profile they found a tulsy Gabbard's signal profile.

(15:13):
Well done, Dirshpiegel. Just when you think human speech has
become advanced enough to describe how dumb Tulsi Gabbard is
the DNI, the Director of National Intelligence, as a signal
profile connected to a phone number that is available on

(15:37):
the Internet. Well, let me correct that DNI, National Intelligence
Director of no Intelligence, doesn't know who has her phone,
doesn't know where she was, doesn't know where anybody is
the time.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Mister Whitkoff was actually in Russia during this chat discussion?

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Was he not?

Speaker 2 (15:59):
I was not aware of that. Was he on his
personal phone at the time. I don't know what's my
understanding that he was indeed in Russia? Director Dabberd, You
were also traveling during this discussion? Correct?

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yes? And where were you?

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I was traveling through the Asia Pacific region. I don't
recall which country I was in at that time. You
don't remember the country.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
I'd have to go back and look at the schedule. Okay,
how about now, Telsey, do you know what country you
were in? Now? And for ten points? So you can
move on to the lightning round? Is it Hawaii or Hawaii?
Thank you? You're welcome. Okay. So why else should nineteen

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Trump appointees be fired or prosecuted or both? Well, I
only have nineteen reasons so far, but I've been busy.
You heard the first three, the phones and the espionage,
and what a dope Gabbard is the others. Four signal
is a way to have off the books conversations. The

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conversations can self erase at a week and can be
adjusted in Project twenty twenty five, like you needed something
else hanging off this gigantic story. In Project twenty twive,
it says, use signal for these communications, so there are
no records. Good idea worked out well so far for you.

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Number five, But the National Security Agency put out a
memo last month specifically saying, do not use signal. It's vulnerable.
Why do you think it's vulnerable because all of your
accounts are in the files of Der Spiegel. Six. This chat,

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this edition of Signal Gate, came after that warning, and
in it there's a reference to a previous signal chat.
So America's alleged intelligence kingpin ignored their own advice about
protecting intelligence. Seven. Trump's in house Russian Steve Whitcoff, was

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on the chat, reportedly at or near the Kremlin. Eight
Here's something Senator Kelly noted. Department of Defense policy prohibits
discussion of even controlled unclassified information on unsecured devices. He asked, Gabbard,
are you aware of that? She said, looking very stern,

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I haven't read that policy. CIA Director Ratface. I'm sorry, Ratcliff,
I'm not familiar with the DoD policy. Number nine. The
White House says none of this was classified, meaning Goldberg
of course could publish it, and then they accused Goldberg
of publishing classified material. It's got to be one of

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the other kids. Ten Senator King targets, weapons, attack sequences,
and timing were all discussed. Gabbard again says nothing's classified. Again,
this is a red herring. It's like saying there's a
difference between war plans and battle plans. You can go
to prison for losing non classified plans. All it says

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is defense information. Right now, included among the things you
could go to jail for for losing that his defense
information would be Tulcy Gabbard's phone number. What are he
in for, ma'am I lost my phone? How many years
did you get? Nine point eleven? On Tuesday, Senator Warner

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hit another nail on the head, and the idea is
somehow well, none of this was classified, but we can't
talk about it here in the Senate. You can't have
it both ways. When even Senator Warner has got you,
you've been gott twelve. Ratcliffe now adds that signal has
been deemed permissible for senior officials. Waltz, he said, sent

(20:08):
a signal message to conduct coordination for this if that
was Waltson, not somebody who owns what was Waltz's phone?
In two thousand and two, number thirteen, the Press Secretary
her moron lady, the center fielder answering for the president.

(20:31):
She lied Caroline Levitt, no war plans were discussed. Gabbard
testified that there was discussion around targets. So, okay, what's
a war plan? What's a war? A war is something
where you tried to target things, people, buildings, And the
director of no Intelligence says there was a discussion around

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targets that would be war plans. Levitt said there were
no war plans. Levitt light or perhaps she was just
misinformed and is a moron. Fourteen Your CIA director rat
face and by the way, he looks like Steve Carell
an anchorman, doesn't he He says he can't recall if
the timing of the strikes or if delaying a month

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was in the chat, even though that seems to have
been the whole point of the chat. Fifteen The Defense
Secretary didn't get the message initially that the White House
had authenticated the chat, and he was continuing to pretend
that it was all fabricated. You're talking about a deceitful
and highly discredited so called journalist, he said, putting more
brill cream in his hair, and they posted it. His

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office posted it online, to which brit Hume brit Hume,
for crying out loud, answered Hegsith's you're talking about a deceitful,
highly discredited so called journalist by writing, Oh, for God's sake,
the administration has already confirmed the authenticity of the message.
Sixteen They individually and as a group have now done

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everything they have ever accused Hillary Clinton of, except they've
done it several times each in one week. Seventeen. The
context of all this was the big show they made
last week of Trump removing security clearances of the Bidens
and everybody else he doesn't like because nominally they can't

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be trusted with secret information. Because we can't let the
Bidens have secret information, we have to keep that for
Tulsey Gabbard to give away. Eighteen Adam Kinsinger wrote, three
days ago Trump took away my non existent security clearance
at the same time as cabinet was texting up secret
plans with a member of the media on board. Kind

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of sums it up. And nineteen the Danu Mont the
final touch. Elon Musk is investigating what happened, meaning Elon Musk,
and God knows how many more of his slave boys
will be getting access to defense information they should not have.

(23:07):
Once again, let me go way out on a limb here.
Mike Waltz is an idiot. Jd Vance is an idiot,
Pete Hegseth is an idiot, Marco Rubio idiot, Telsea Gabbard
two idiots, John Ratcleff idiot who looks like Corell and Anchorman,
Scott Bessant idiot, Susie Wils's idiot, Steve Whitcoff idiot, Stephen

(23:29):
Miller idiot, Joe Kent idiot, Alex Wong idiot, Brian McCormick idiot,
Walker Barrett idiot, Dan Katz idiot, Mike need Him idiot.
Jacob last name unconfirmed, less of an idiot because at
least he keepped his last name unconfirmed. Make him the
new director of National Intelligence. Hey, Jacob, come over here,
You're in charge now, For the one millionth time in

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this series alone, the democracy is preserved less by our
exertions to save it than it is by the stupidity
of those who seek to destroy it. The reason, as
I know I noted before that I suspected something even
more was going on behind the scenes is the texts
made too much sense. Nearly as important as the fact

(24:13):
that they sent them to Jeffrey Goldberg and not the
wrestler known simply as Goldberg is the fact that a
lot of the group chat here, which was not sent
to Johann Goldberg, who performed the Bach Goldberg variations calmly
and even dare I say, intelligently examines how dumb it
was to bomb Yemen and be in such a hurry

(24:35):
about it, and how little key players in that administration
believe it was anything more than a publicity or strategy stunt.
Roger Sollenberger the Daily Beast pointed this out first, and
it was a smart find. Let me quote Goldberg, not
the lead character in the old Jeff Garland sitcom v. Goldbergs.
Let me quote Jeffrey Goldberg quoting what the morons sent him.

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At this point, a fascinating policy discussion commenced. The account
labeled jd Vance responded at eight sixteen t I am
out for the day doing an economic event in Michigan.
But I think we are making a mistake Vance was
indeed in Michigan that day. The Vance account goes on
to state three percent of US trade runs through the Suez,
forty percent of European trade does. There is a real

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risk that the public doesn't understand this or why it's necessary.
The strongest reason to do this is, as Potus said,
to send a message. The Vance account then goes on
to make a noteworthy statement considering that the vice president
has not deviated publicly from Trump's position on virtually any issue.
I am not sure the president is aware. There's your

(25:40):
tip off. I am not sure the president is aware
how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe. Right now,
there's a further risk that we see a moderate to
severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support
the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself,
but there is a strong argument for delaying this a month,
doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where

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the economy is et CERG goes on a person identified
in signal as Joe Kent. Trump's dominie to run the
National counter Terrorism Center is named Joe Kent wrote at
A twenty two there is nothing time sensitive driving the timeline,
we'll having the exact same options in a month. At
this point, the previously silent SM joined the conversation. Is

(26:26):
he bald? Does he hate everybody? Is he sniveling? I
think I know who SM is. As I heard it,
the President was clear green light. But we soon make
clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return.
We also need to figure out how to enforce such
a requirement. Eg. If Europe doesn't remunerate, then what if
the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost?

(26:47):
There needs to be some further economic gain expected in
return the disagreement. The relatively calm discussion about this being
an unnecessary, rushed event underscore is something whoever is making
the calls like hey, why do you say we go

(27:08):
bomb Yemen? And just whoever is convincing Trump to do
something like this was presumably not actually on that group chat,
because to go back to the beginning, they had this
chat on a public board at MySpace. I think so

(27:31):
that Trump would not know and they could figure out
how to keep him out of this because he's gone nuts.
Also of interest here even more on this cataclysm, with
the reminder that mishandling. Communications is apparently the first thing

(27:54):
they ask you. If you are good at, we're bad
at if you want to go into government. Hey see
this pile of papers? Can you screw this up? The
Bushies once spent a day failing to email me, and
instead wound up revealing to me their secret roster of
people they would go to at NBC whenever they needed

(28:18):
a favor or to get the news slanted in Bush's favor.
It's a history as old as time itself. And in
unrelated news, Bill Maher is an idiot. No, I mean
in a new way. That's next. This is Countdown. This

(28:41):
is Countdown with Keith Olberman postscripts to the news, some headlines,
some updates, some snarks, still ahead of course, worst persons,
and the joy that is Bill Mahr going to the

(29:02):
White House, because if anybody can smell a change in
the wind, it's Bill Maher. I should have had that
fifth fight with him in nineteen seventy eight. First, this
is the Countdown podcast, and these are the places where
there's news. Eight line the White House aka the Ship

(29:27):
of Fools. I was going to do a bulletin for
you Monday night about Trump's College of rival morons, led
by National Security Advisor Waltz, sending via a messaging app
their plans to bomb hoosey rebels in Yemen to two
Cabinet secretaries, two intelligent directors, the White House Chief of Staff,
the Deputy White House Chief of Staff, the Middle East

(29:48):
Special Envoy, the Counter Terrorism Center Director, the Vice president,
the editor of The Atlantic, several Major League Baseball players,
and of course a dead letterbox in Antarctica because his
name apparently popped up Autumnmatically, when Waltz typed in the
initials JG, they say now for Jamison Greer Instead, it

(30:12):
turned out to be Jeffrey Goldberg's easiest explanation is, as
I suggested earlier, that's right, Mike Waltz knows Jeffrey Goldberg
and may have already leaked to him. I guess we
should just be happy the autocorrect typed in a milk
toast boringly responsible mild liberal like Jeffrey Goldberg instead of say,
whoopee Goldberg or Rube Goldberg. But of course that was Monday,

(30:35):
and it was widely enough covered that you didn't need
a gratuitous, obvious, immediate update from me. The Radiance of
the Trump administration's stupidity and culpability, and as I noted earlier,
the dawning realization that Trump is not making the decisions
here anymore. The messages are on signal or WhatsApp or
telegram or I Kremlin or wherever, so they can keep

(30:58):
them from Trump. This gigantic shit show shined magnificently on
its own with no added help from me for three days. However,
I can add a little background to this, a little history,
like one hundred and sixty three years worth. Hillary Clinton

(31:20):
may turn out to have been the former governmental figure
the most skilled at keeping confidential communications confidential. Seriously, Put
an email in front of an administration staffer, any administration,
any century, and they would screw it up. Put a
phone call in front of an administration staffer, and they

(31:41):
would screw it up. Put literally a handwritten note in
front of an administration staffer, and they did screw it up.
Nixon's phone calls were all recorded for about five years,
and only one or two low level members of his
staff even suspected anything until John Dene figured it out.
Hell Robert E. Lee's special Order Numbnumber one nine one

(32:05):
from September ninth, eighteen sixty two, detailed the South's invasion
of Maryland, except somebody he gave it to dropped it.
Dropped it on a campground at Frederick, Maryland, and a
Northern corporal found it on the ground four days later,
and suddenly the North had general These invasion plans at

(32:28):
the opposite end of the importance spectrum, but with the
same degree of utter incompetence and stupidity. I have my
own personal experience I'd like to share with you about
this topic about a president's trusted aids, about the fact
that none of them could type the proverbial Shakespearean tome

(32:51):
if they had five thousand monkeys with them and typewriters.
Unlike Trump's, who couldn't keep his secrets secret, George Bush's
trusted aids literally could not help but keep them secret.
They could not manage to successfully send an email to me.
It took them hours, perhaps days, to figure out how

(33:13):
to send me an email. The thing wouldn't work, no
matter how many times they hit it over the head
with something. And by the time they did figure it out,
they had inadvertently wound up giving me the list of
everybody at NBC whom they trusted, and whom therefore I
knew from that moment forward, I could not. On Monday,

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May third, two thousand and four, my executive producer phoned
me at home and said, we got Ambassador Joe Wilson.
He'll be on the show tomorrow. Within hours, the communications
office of the White House of George W. Bush began
a desperate, ceaseless, tireless effort to send me one email
with talking points about Ambassador Joe Wilson, which repeatedly hille

(34:04):
variously failed to get through to me because none of
them could spell my name correctly. By late in the
evening of May third, and throughout the morning of May
the fourth, I got calls and forwarded emails from people
throughout NBC who had received emails of their own from
the Bush White House Communications Office, all of them with
attachments addressed to Keith Oberman without the L, Keith Olberman

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with only one N, Kaieth Olberman Keith spelled wrong, and
even Keith Overman with a V. This was actually truly
the first day I believed I was having an impact
on the Bush White House, and also the first day
I realized they were incredibly stupid. There Democracy still had

(34:48):
a slim chance. The Internet had been operating at more
or less its present speed since about nineteen ninety seven
or nineteen ninety eight. My name was all over the
Internet in articles about my news career, about my sports career,
about my my previous news career. There were articles I
had written, there were books I had written, and these

(35:10):
people who were trying to reshape the United States of
America into a reactionary, conservative, cruel, xenophobic, semi authoritarian state,
we're not smart enough to figure out how to spell
my name, just so we know who we are talking about.
By this point, Scott McClellan had succeeded the infamous Aary

(35:32):
Fleischer as press secretary. His deputies were Dana Perino, who
went from being the stupidest person ever to be White
House Press secretary to being one of the stupidest persons
ever to have a show on Fox News, Pamela Is Stevens,
who later wound up as a producer at CNN. Because
political press people are exactly like unemployed football coaches or

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baseball managers who get TV jobs and then leave the
TV jobs to go back onto the field, the communications
director was named Dan Bartlett, and there was another communications
person there named Nicole Wallace, who has somehow shaken off
the stink of working for both George and Jeb Bush
and is now considered a darling of MSNBC, even though

(36:13):
her only true non fascist credential is she doesn't like
Trump either. The crack White House media team representing the
most powerful man in the world in the anxious and
foreshadowing years after nine to eleven, and not one of
them could even find anybody else who could spell my name,
let alone spell it themselves. More on them in a moment,

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But I need to explain who Joe Wilson was if
you don't know, and why he was so important. Long
before Colin Powell confessed to Tim Russert that he had
been lied to by the White House and thus he
himself had lied to the United Nations about Sadam Hussein's
imaginary weapons of mass destruction. Those were the excuses from

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Bush Cheney for dragging this country into an unnecessary and
national soul destroying war in Iraq. Lies and torture and
scapegoating and suppression and brutality. Before that, there was Ambassador
Joseph Charles Wilson, the fourth and in two thousand and two,
after pressure from the White House, the CIA sent him
back to the scene of his first diplomatic posting, the

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African nation of Niger to get proof for Bush that
Saddam was trying to buy yellow cake uranium there to
make nuclear bombses out of. And Wilson quickly found out
it was nonsense, and he reported back and the Bush
White House promptly buried his findings and instead, in the
two thousand and three State of the Union address, just

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before he started bombing Iraq, George W. Bush said, the
British government has learned that Sadam Hussein recently sought significant
quantities of uranium from Africa. It was and remains a
complete lie, and war occurred because of it, and Joe
Wilson called it a complete lie in an op ed
in The New York Times on July sixth, two thousand

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and three. The Iraq War was still at this stage
defined by Rah Rah. We're winning, but Sadam's WMD and
his biological weapons and his chemical weapons might be over
the next hill. And you'd better not criticize what we're doing,
or maybe you're a terrorist, Joe Wilson said. The Emperor
had no clothes. In two thousand and three, he was
an American Hero of the highest order. A week later,

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a Dick Cheney flunky named Scooter Libby and a Deputy
Secretary of State named Armitage began a campaign to punish
Joe Wilson and discredit him. They leaked to a dyspeptic
and hate filled columnist named Robert Novak, who is now
working in the Bureau in Hell, that Wilson's wife was
an undercover agent for the CIA, and that her name

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was Valerie Plame, and that the pair of them were
dirty Democrats. And moreover, it was Plame who had urged
that her own husband be sent to Niger to deliberately
not find the uranium or the Sadam Hussein signed rics seeds,
or whatever Bush expected to find there. The Bush White
House destroyed the career of risked the life of and

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ruined several assignments and contacts of one of this country's
own secret CIA agents just to make her husband look bad.
So in May two thousand and four, when Joe Wilson
wrote a book about all this crap, and he inexplicably
wanted to go on MSNBC, which was still at that
point trying to be more conservative than Fox Nudes and

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wanted to go on my little watched show, which was
considered the neutral outlier on a network full of Joe
Scarboroughs and Michael Savage's. This was a happy surprise for us,
which was followed by this wonderful, flailing effort by the
Bush White House to send me talking points about Joe
Wilson before I interviewed him. They not only could not

(39:55):
spell my name, but they were utterly convinced that my
interview was designed to discredit Joe Wilson. The talking points,
which eventually got to me from Assistant Press Secretary Pamela Stevens,
consisted of six items over two pages. The headings were
as follows. One political motivation. This was about Wilson calling

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Dick Cheney a lying SOB about a year after the
knee jair trip. I couldn't figure this one out. Dick
Cheney was a lying SOB. That's how I got to
be vice president. Two Gingrich spokesman calls allegations about alleged
March two thousand and three meeting completely falls. This cited
Newt Gingrich and his people as if they were good

(40:37):
sources as opposed to the punchlines they already were back
then in two thousand and four, talking point number three,
McClellan points out political objective, and four McClellan addresses accusations.
These were quotes from the press secretary. This man suddenly
quit that job two years later two thousand and six,
and confessed he had repeatedly lied for George W. Bush

(41:01):
and the others, and now he just couldn't take it anymore.
And he would come on my show, Joe and give
one of the best atonement interviews I've ever heard. It
went on for forty five minutes. Five Fleischer says VP
office did not request trip a quote from McClellan's predecessor,
who unless he is talking about baseball, you should assume

(41:21):
he's lying. Plus he might be lying about baseball. And finally,
six statement by George J. Tennant July eleven, two thousand
and three. This was a quote from the CIA director
which they thought was their home run, and it basically
consisted of this. Bush never saw that report. That was it.

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There are three punchlines to this story. Number One, I
don't know why the Bush Communications office assumed I was
there to take down Joe Wilson. But the moment I
saw these talking points, any lingering doubt I had that
they were not all lying bastards down there was erased.
I used the talking points in my interview, all right.
I read them out loud to Joe Wilson, and he

(42:04):
re but at each of them with impeccable charm and elegance.
He and Valerie Plain became regular guests on My show
and would beat the crap out of George Bush with
the plum right through the morning of January twenty, two
thousand and nine. Second punchline. A year earlier, a supply
clerk with a maintenance company on the ground in Iraq
was captured Private Jessica Lynch. The military and the Bush

(42:28):
administration immediately put out the story that she was being
tortured by them evil Iraqi Sadam Hussein doctors. There was
the glorious rescue of Jessica Lynch which followed, and the
parades and the you better not question this story period,
which lasted about six weeks until a Toronto newspaper printed

(42:48):
a substantially different account that Lynch was rescued from an
Iraqi hospital and a US military team in good faith
went in to extract her, but that this was all
arranged not by some sort of part of intelligence or
un US operations or the Allies, but by the Iraqi doctors.

(43:10):
Some of them sneaked over to American lines at great
danger and said, one of your soldiers is hurt and
we don't have the right equipment to help her. Could
you swing by and pick her up? I reported that
version on MSNBC, and the next day, as I was
still taking my coat off, my boss, Phil Griffin called
me in and said that the head of NBC News

(43:32):
and the president of NBC, Bob Wright, had been on
the phone all morning to him, insisting I should be
fired for implying that the Bush administration had lied. Griffin
proudly said he had talked them into letting me get
away with just apologizing to the troops. I can't even
read this with a straight face now, twenty years later,

(43:54):
apologizing to the troops who rescued her, I must credit
myself when my brain was fulled in that I did
some quick thinking. The demand was comical nonsense Journalistically. On
the other hand, if I agreed to apologize to, okay,
the troops who rescued her whoever you want, I would

(44:16):
get the chance to tell the whole real story of
Jessica Lynch again, so I did. The apology was fifteen seconds,
and while unnecessary, was sincere I didn't want to make
the troops look bad. They didn't know anything about this crap.
I made sure, however, that the retelling of the true
Lynch rescue story took about two and a half minutes.

(44:37):
That was in June of two thousand and three. So
why as of May of two thousand and four, the
Bush White House thought I was sympathetic to them, I'll
never know, or why they bothered with me, I'll never know,
which brings me to the last point. The unintended side
effect with the long term impact of all those failed
White House emails with my name misspelled was that this

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Pamelas Stevens person promptly forwarded them to people around NBC
whom she considered friendly to George W. Bush. One of
them was Tom Brokaw's assistant, another was in the office
of future NBC News president Steve Cappus, and the final
one was to some guy named George Uribey. And so

(45:22):
I found out all the people in the Bush administrations
we like them. List at NBC News who I should
avoid under all circumstances. Let's see Brokaw's assistance. So no Brokaw,
somebody in Cappus's office and no Cappus and this guy
George Ribey. And George ribe turned out to be a
guy hired by MSNBC from Fox News to go work

(45:47):
for Scarborough. He fell out of favor with Joe Scarborough
and I guess he didn't henchman enough for Joe's taste,
and his influence fell to a guy. I don't think
I've mentioned him to you yet. Chris licked. Believe it

(46:29):
or not, there are still more new idiots to talk about.
The daily roundup of the miscrants, morons and dunning kruegrip
X specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world.
Here are your nominees. The bronze worse Stephanie Borrowitz. Stephanie

(46:50):
Borrowitz is a standard issue, utterly fungible, completely Stepford wife,
religious nut job representing the seventy sixth District of the
Pennsylvania State House of Representatives. The seventy sixth the seventy
six you know, Limestone Township and Mifflinburgh. Stephanie, who once

(47:12):
booed the capital officers from January sixth and insisted there
was no January sixth, is just dangerous enough to hurt herself.
And she has. The Bucks County Beacon reports that she
has now posted and boasted on social media about how
you should always see how your representative votes and not
what they say. And she's super duper proud of her

(47:35):
one hundred percent lifetime score, her total approval, her completely nonpartisan,
a political grade from the John Birch Society. I'll just
say that again. She has a one hundred percent lifetime score,
this Pennsylvania state representative from the John Birch Society. All right,

(47:59):
if I have to explain the John Birch Society, let
me just sum it up thusly while you google. It's
the Ku Klux Klan only for those of you who
don't like fires and who do have shoes. Mifleinburg the
runner up. Why it's Steve Bannon, and I have good
news for you. We've broken him. We broke him. All

(48:22):
those annoying complaints about his violent language and implied threats
and delusions of grandeur, Well it's finally happened Steve has
begun to edit himself, boasting on his online feed, which
is like one step up now from the Michael Savage
Kvetchelon hour about the l folderou from the lawyers, from
Paul kama Weiss. You remember one of the stories before

(48:45):
Signal Gates. Bannon was typically filled with violent fantasies, but
this time they had a difference. He is self editing.
Let me quote Bannon, you only beat them by hitting
them upside the head with a two x four. That's
a metaphor, put their heads on pikes. Metaphor metaphor unquote

(49:07):
ten second quote He used the word metaphor three times.
Gotta say, without the violent threats, it ain't much of
a show anymore, Steve. Huh. But our winner, speaking of
all threats, it's Bill Maher. So I've mentioned before. Bill
Maher has gotten imperceptibly but steadily dumber every day that
I've known him, and I've known him since about this

(49:29):
time of year in nineteen seventy eight. Now he says
he has a new friend, Kid Rock. How dumb do
you have to be to have Kid Rock as a
friend as a new friend, Like you just made a
deliberate choice to become friends with Kid Rock. It's like
saying I've just made the deliberate choice to get a

(49:49):
venereal disease. Those two topics are not connected, Kid Rock
and venereal disease. Quoting mar, I mean Kid Rock was
here a couple of weeks ago. I want you to
meet Trump. He said, I'm going to take you to
the White House. So now we're going. Good plan. Bill.
If Kid rockets stopped by and said I want you

(50:09):
to meet Hitler, I'm gonna take you to Hell, would
we've gone there? Actually, now that I think of it,
if there were girls there, Yeah, probably would have gone
to anyway. Mar was on this podcast. He also said
he's convinced Musk is not doing what he's doing to
get richer. Bill's kind of naive at times. Quote he

(50:31):
does not care about money, which circles back to my
earlier point about Bill getting dumber every year, every month,
every week, every day. And he insists he is going
to go to the White House. Quote, that's my model
for meeting Trump. It's like be respectful, which he deserves.
He won not once but twice. All right, how many

(50:54):
people in life have won and you wouldn't cross the
street to meet them. You're gonna go to the White
House to meet this turd. It's funny, Mar continued. Girl
said to me, what are you gonna wear? I said,
I'm not gonna dress like Zelenski. There's news in there
by the way, Bill, Bill has a new girl. Bill's

(51:15):
new girl has been in the country long enough that
she can speak English. Bill His new girl has been
in the country long enough she can speak English. Anastagia
dot com Mar two days other worst person in the world. Now,

(51:37):
while I'm here, it's worth giving you the whole background
about Bill maher Like I said, my history with him
dates to the nineteen seventies, and it sat there unrevealed
for thirty years until one day it all flashed over
me like this. Sometime in nineteen eighty five or nineteen

(51:59):
eighty six, I saw a movie on cable called DC
Cabs a character, and it clearly the actor portraying him
was talented and funny. But for some reason I felt
like I knew him from somewhere, and I really didn't
like him. I remember the feeling was so strong that
I stuck around to watch the credits to find out
who he was. His name was Bill Mayher mher Well.

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I had a teacher named Bill Mayer, but his name
had a y in it. He was my advisor in
high school. Now it wasn't him, but I knew three things.
He was talented, I didn't like him, and I knew
him from somewhere. This is pre internet, of course, so
no way to find out where I knew him from.
Hallowell's annual film guide would be my best bet. Maybe

(52:45):
he'd be in the new one coming out checked calendar
just eight or nine months from now. Eventually I found
out Bill Maher was in the year ahead of mine
at Cornell University. He was not at my radio station,
he was not in my college. Maybe I knew him
from a class somewhere. I could never nail it down.
I like to say I have a photographic memory, but

(53:06):
it's all polaroids, and I haven't always bothered to label them.
Almost everything that ever happened he is stuck inside this
big empty head of mine. But often key details like who, what, when,
and where are just missing. Never wrote him down, and honestly,
in this case, it was not worth the effort. I

(53:27):
knew I was was the right word. The word was aware.
Of him when we were both in college. Occasionally, especially
after I went from ESPN to MSNBC in nineteen ninety seven,
a writer would note the coincidence of university and years
and ask me about it, and I would say just
that I don't remember if he was in a class
with me or I knew him somehow, But I was

(53:48):
aware of Bill Maher, and then twenty two years ago,
this month, November twenty third, two thousand, I went on
his old show, Politically Incorrect, used to be the late
night show on ABC. This was when I was doing
sports for Fox in LA and it wasn't all sports episode.
Lennox Lewis, the boxer, Mark Cuban, the owner of the

(54:08):
Dallas Mavericks, Todd Zeal the first basement of the New
York Mets, and me from Fox Sports. When I met
Bill Maher before the show, I asked him about Cornell
and whether or not we ran into each other. I
didn't know anybody there. I didn't see anybody. I didn't
go comedy anywhere. I didn't talk to anybody. I didn't
meet you. Okay, excuse me. That settles it. Except during

(54:29):
the recording of the show when Mark contradicted me. On
some point I got angry at him, and there was
no reason to get angry at him, so I dismissed
the anger, and I dismissed the moment. Except on the
way home, I kept thinking, I know him from school somehow,
no matter what he says, and I know I didn't

(54:51):
like him in school. In the next decade, Bill switched
to his weekly HBO political show, and I went back
and turned MSNBC into a political network. And the Internet
happened so that Cornell juxtaposition became easier for for reporters
to stumble over, so I would tell them the same thing.
I can't remember the details, but for twenty nine years

(55:12):
now I have been convinced I was aware of Bill
Maher at Cornell. Finally came the day March twentieth, two
thousand and nine, when they asked me to go on
real time and Bill Maher Cornell University seventy eight asked
me Cornell University seventy nine, something about colleges, and I said, well,
as you know, we overlapped at Cornell, and I don't

(55:33):
know if we met, but I was aware of you there.
And he interrupted and said, no, you weren't, and I
just went back and answered his question. Now, after every
episode of his program, Mar has or at least had
a little party backstage, I mean, catered with booze and
with more guests than there are people in the studio audience,

(55:53):
and usually a bunch of models. Having done that show
four times, where they will fly you in first class
and put you up for the weekend in LA just
to do their show, and there's a party. I began
to suspect that, like many of the guests, Bill Maher
does the show just so he can have the party. Anyway.

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Not long after it started, it overcomes Mar and he's
mad at me. And mind you, even if his allegation
that he is five feet eight is correct, I'm just
under six', four so he's giving up a lot of
height during an, argument and he starts yapping about HOW
i should stop SAYING i was a way heir of
him At cornell And i'm just trying to get publicity
off something that never. Happened and who could remember that
kind of crap? Anyway and he never talked to anybody

(56:38):
in four years in college because, quote except for The
Ethica High school, STUDENTS i sold drugs to, unquote AND
i notice he's getting, heated and this is just triggering
that core belief of mine THAT i was aware of
him in college AND i didn't like, Him and now
it becomes clear to me he didn't like me. Either

(57:02):
he's getting loud enough and he's swinging his arm around
now and it looks kind of, funny but apparently it
happens in the office. Sometimes and this is When Scott,
carter who was the executive producer WHOM i definitely did
know since like nineteen ninety two when he worked At
Comedy central with my Friend Alan, Havy Scott carter comes
over to defuse the. Situation scott was a three piece

(57:24):
suit kind of guy with a thumbs tucking the, vest
who would call a group of men, fellows as in say.
Fellows So scott comes over and, says say fellows with
Your cornell alumni reunion, here and of course this Makes
Bill maher even. Angrier let me ask you. SOMETHING i
used to drive down From hobart to see concerts At.

(57:45):
Cornell have to, SAY i Think cornell was the leading
concert school in the nation back in our. Day and
Now scott starts the list who he saw in concert
At Cornell Robert palmer and the Famous Grateful dead concert
At cornell At Barton. Hall he was. There AND i,
SAY i went To, springsteen And mar mumbles something About
loggins And, messina AND i know What carter is doing.

(58:07):
Here he's, Diffusing and we do a couple of rounds
of who saw Which cornell? Concert and FINALLY i, SAY
i can top both of you comic. GENIUSES i Saw
Robert kleine in concert At. Cornell now it is, criminal
but there's an excellent chance you may not know Who
Robert kline, is suffice to say as prominent a comedian

(58:31):
in the sixties seventies eighties As George carlin Or richard PRYOR.
Hbo itself was built on Annual George carlin concerts and
Annual Robert klin concerts and everybody. Else And Robert kline
wasn't quite as deep or eternal As George, carlin but
he was really on the money During watergate and During.
Reagan SO i, SAY i Saw Robert klein in concert At,

(58:54):
cornell And mar looks at me funny and not, angrily
and says, QUIETLY i was at that. TOO i Saw
Robert klink, two AND i don't really register That mar's
mood has now utterly. Changed he's not, angry he's. Confused,
WELL i, SAY i can still top, you because after

(59:14):
that CONCERT i Interviewed Robert. Klein Now Bill maher starts to,
squint and he looks at, me and he looks At Scott,
carter and he looks back at, me and he, says,
WAIT i Interviewed kleine after that concert. Too And i'm
smiling through all, this and smiling and smiling and, smiling

(59:35):
and then, suddenly simultaneously it Hits Bill maher and me
at the same, moment in the same fullness of, detail
AND i stop, smiling AND i shout At Bill, maher
You and he pulls his arms in towards his stomach
and kind of bends forward at the waist and covers
his face with his, hands and he, says Oh, God
i'm so, Sorry, jesus it can't. Be i'm, Sorry i'm.

(59:56):
Sorry and while the anger wells up inside me so,
POWERFULLY i can almost see it in my own, Eyeballs
Bill maher's concert going Producer Scott carter is really. Confused, say,
fellows DID i miss something or DID i have a
brief stroke or? Episode AND i, Say, bill AND i

(01:00:17):
just remembered HOW i happened to be aware of him in.
School And mar still has got his hands over his
face and people are looking at, us And bill is shouting,
apologies AND i, say you want to tell? Him or SHOULD?
I And mar just shakes his body no and, mumbles Oh,
god you do. IT i, CAN'T i, CAN'T i, Can't

(01:00:39):
and it all came back to. Me for, YEARS i
would tell people the story of The Robert klein concert
At Cornell university in nineteen seventy. Eight our radio station
co sponsored his appearance along with The Cornell Concert, commission
and in the contract we specified that a couple of
us real comedy nerds at the radio station would get

(01:01:00):
to go backstage afterwards and tape a brief ten or
fifteen minute interview With Robert. Klin, basically we paid him not,
much but we paid him to do an. Interview and
when my Pal Andy grossman AND i get backstage to
talk To Robert, klein and we have our two microphones
and two mike stands and three tape, recorders there is this,
guy this short, guy and he's yelling at the chief

(01:01:25):
of The Corneill Concert, commission and he's yelling At Robert clin's,
manager and he's demanding that he should get to Interview
Robert clin, because Like, klein this kid says he is
a stand up comedian and he publishes The Cornell Humor.
Magazine and he points at me and he says he
should get priority over these quote corporate sellouts from The
Cornell radio. STATION i hated him on. Site oh, WAIT

(01:01:51):
i say to him in nineteen seventy. Eight and he's
small and he's got, dirty stringy hair and he's, loud
AND i, say you are the publisher of The Cornell humor,
magazine The Cornell. Widow and he snorts and SAYS i
would get dead publishing that corporate, Sellout Cornell. Widow and
SO i, say oh, so then that means you're the
publisher of The Cornell Alternative humor, magazine The Not So

(01:02:15):
Big red or whatever it is they call. It he,
says no, way they are corporate. SELLOUTS i publish. This
and he pulls out a stack of mimeographed pages stapled
together and there's like a drawing on the front of
a naked girl and. Handwritten it says it's his comedy.
Magazine AND i look At Robert klein's manager AND i, say,

(01:02:38):
so it's ten. O'clock and if you leave now while
this idiot is screwing this, up the limo can still
get Mister klein To elaine's in the city before it, closes,
Right and the manager is wildly, impressed you know Of.
Elaine's AND i said, yes AND i felt like an.
Adult AND i also, said if we give this guy
five minutes of our time right now while we're setting

(01:03:00):
up our tape, recorders can we still have ten minutes
with Mister. Klein and the manager, says good. PLAN i
like the way you, think and he points to the
kid and gestures for him to come. Along, no the kid,
SHOUTS i want half an. Hour these corporate sellouts deserve.
Nothing and Now i'm getting. ANGRY i, say, buddy so
far all the corporations in the world have paid me

(01:03:23):
about one hundred. Bucks SO i threaten. Him, now mind,
YOU i believe this is literally. True since nineteen sixty,
seven WHEN i was eight years, OLD i have started
two fistfights two in fifty five. YEARS i am a
man of. PEACE i am, loud BUT i am a
man of. Peace BUT i say to this, guy you

(01:03:46):
now have two, choices, kid five minutes With Robert klein
OR i hit you in the. Face and he runs
to where client's manager is still gesturing towards, him and
he screams corporate sell, out and he disappears to do his,
interview and behind him he leaves his little home made
mimeograph ten or twelve page humor. Publication AND i pick it,

(01:04:08):
up AND i read it and register it and dismiss
it BEFORE i leave the. Building and IF i had
only remembered what it said on the, cover all the
years of mystery AND i was aware of, him and
all that would never have, happened because the cover of
the magazine Read Bill Maher's Comedy magazine By Bill. Maher

(01:04:30):
and now back in well technically this is, correct back
in real. Time at the party in The hollywood studio
in two thousand and, nine the Producer Scott carter says,
nothing And Bill maher is still doubled over in, shame
AND i, say are you satisfied THAT i was aware of?
You and he mumbles, Yes AND i, say will you

(01:04:52):
ever question my? Memory? Again and he mumbles, no and he,
says IF i need him to do my show or
a charity benefit or, something just. Call and he says he's,
ashamed and he offer to be his hand to, shake
and we, shake and FINALLY i, say and by the,
Way Bill maher Of Bill Maher's Comedy magazine By Bill,
maher are you a corporate? Sellout and he says Kind

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and that's HOW i was aware Of Bill maher in.
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