October 31, 2024 • 40 mins
SERIES 3 EPISODE 61: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: The Kamala Harris closing argument: "The fact that someone does not agree with us does not make them the enemy within…I will always put country above PARTY and above SELF."
The Donald Trump closing argument: "I'm not Hitler!"
Well, I'M sold! THAT'S the way to make sure you aren't associated with Nazis and Hitler. Bring them up! And the way to avoid the continuing reverberations from Tony Hinchcliffe's Puerto Rican "garbage" insult is to dress up in a garbageman's orange reflective suit and give interviews from the cab of a garbage truck with the TRUMP CAMPAIGN LOGO ON THE SIDE.
And Jeff Bezos has already learned the wages of sin: Trump is touting The Washington Post's "decision" to not endorse anybody as a repudiation of Harris and an endorsement of him. It's time to boycott Amazon, Whole Foods, The Washington Post.
GOOD POLLS NEWS: CNN polling, Harris by 5 in Michigan, 6 in Wisconsin, tied in Pennsylvania - but she leads by 3 in Pennsylvania among "extremely motivated voters." The interior numbers continue to go entirely in Harris's direction.
AND AN ANNOUNCEMENT about the short-term future of this podcast.
B-BLOCK (32:37) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Ohio's Republican Senate candidate doesn't realize the VICE President can't issue Executive Orders. Any remaining thin veneer of journalism falls away at Fox. And Politico's Rachel Bade and Ex-CNN Now Just Stopping Passersby Chris Cillizza humiliate themselves over Biden's quoting of Hinchcliffe's "garbage" remarks.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The
Kamala Harris closing argument quote the fact that someone does
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not agree with us does not make them the enemy within.
I will always put country above party and above self.
The Donald Trump closing argument, I'm called hitler. I'm not hitler. Hell,
that's a clear and convincing explanation. I'm sold not hitler.
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Sign me up. He invoked his father in this. Father
told me never to say Nazi or hitler, or rent
to the black people's or get caught going to a
KKK rally. As Mary Trump said last night, her grandfather
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was a sociopath. But honestly, those are the closing arguments.
Kamala Harris, with an intricate, balanced, sometimes too far right leaning,
Welcome to everybody who wants to get back out of
the shark infested waters of MAGA and back on board,
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back on board the United States of America. Trump argument,
more anger, more rage. We can say one word, you
can't say another word, even if you're quoting us saying
the word. So you're not hitler? You sure? How about putin?
Are you putin Trump? Are you president cheese? That would
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be she of China to the rest of us called
him cheese last week, President Cheese, President mccheese, you got
an upgrade from mayor Baby hit Where are you, baby Hitler?
Baby Hitler? Might be the apt explanation. The argument has
been I had gone into it at great length that No,
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this is not nineteen forty four Hitler. No, it is
not nineteen thirty nine Hitler. No, it is not the
Hitler who has opened up the concentration. Well it might be,
and it might be soon. It's baby Hitler. It's Hitler
nineteen thirty two, trying to get as much support as
possible from as many mainstream politicians as possible, from those
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closer to the middle, if not the middle itself, and
then send them all to camps, take all of their
power from them. Do you know the names of the
other German politicians of the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties,
of the newspapers, of the industrialists who fought against Hitler?
Do you know the names of the other conservative leaders,
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even the violent conservative leaders. Germany had ten twenty prominent
parties in the nineteen twenties. You know any of their names? No,
you don't, because they died in the camps. Trump also
insisted he's not garbage because the Trump campaign saw a
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lifeline provided to them by what President Biden said, quoting
their comedian Hingecliffe about garbage at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
They have turned this into Biden calling all of them garbage.
He's not garbage. No, no, Trump would never want to
emphasize that, just because he's in a garbage man's vest,
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in a garbage truck, and then he's on stage in
the orange vest that he was wearing that you can
see at night on a highway, but it's not quite
as orange as his face is. But he's not a
garbage man, and he's not garbage, and he's not garbage man.
The Trump closing argument is not just I'm not hitler.
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It's this. It's this needle which he has decided to
try to thread five different ways. One, I'm not garbage,
We're not garbage. Two Biden called half of America garbage.
Three never mind the fact that in the last week
I called America a garbage can at least six times,
three times in one speech, and congratulated myself on coming
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up with the term America is a garbage can four,
I would like you to forget that my comic called
Puerto Rico garbage at Madison Square Garden Sunday. Completely forget
that and all of the insults that he made towards
the Hispanic and Latino communities. Just forget that. But the
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word garbage, I want you to remember that. So five,
I'm going to dress up in a garbage man's vest,
in a garbage truck, and then I'm going to deny
I know anything about the garbage line while I am
yelling out the window of the gar garbage truck. I
don't know anything about the comedian. I don't know who
he is. I've never seen him. I heard he made
a statement, but it was just a statement that he made.
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He's a comedian. What can I tell you. I know
nothing about him. I don't know why he's there if
you put comedians up, and I guess he went on
earlier the show. I don't know who he is. The
sad truth is to continue this. If you'd like to
not be associated with the word garbage, don't dress up
as a garbage man. And if you'd like to not
be associated with Hitler, don't give an answer that says
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I know nothing like Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes. I
really think the internal polls the Trump campaign have are disastrous,
and that they are setting up as much as they
possibly can this aura of invincibility, and we're winning, and
we're winning on not just votes, but memes and garbage.
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We've won the garbage war against Joe Biden. And then
when it doesn't happen, they spring anyone of six different
coup attempts, just like in twenty twenty one, somebody said
that the garbage man's outfit was Trump's Halloween costume. This
is incorrect. That was not his Halloween costume. Trump's Halloween
costume tonight is he's going dressed up and pretending to
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be a human being, the whole thing with the garbage
truck and the garbage vest and the garbage brain. This
was at his speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin last night,
where Brett Favre, the pervert ex quarterback of the Green
Bay Packers and frequent user of public funds, will put
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it politely that way, got up to that crowd talk
about maga make America garbage again. He insisted he's not garbage.
I'd like to see Brett Farv prove that in a
court of law. And incidentally, Farv was only there because
his successor as the Green Bay Packers quarterback, Aaron Rodgers,
could not make it because Aaron Rodgers is still busy
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and booked up destroying the franchise of the New York Jets.
And the bottom line here continues to be, no matter
what you think, Joe Biden said, and he did not
call anybody garbage. It's a quote. I will read it
to you in full later, but whatever you do, keep
that word garbage front of mind for Puerto Ricans and
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other people of Hispanic origin. Dissent friendship, very smart, Keep
that word out there. The fallout from Trump's Madison Square
Garden rally reported Politico still resonating. Bad Bunny, who in
decated to sport for Harris over the weekend last has
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now posted a video in support of his own country.
Don Omar, the Puerto Rican megastar, voiced his support for
Kamala Harris. Jennifer Lopez will be at the Harris rally
in Las Vegas tomorrow and as you know, the most
important part of a star appearing at a Harris rallies,
whether or not they sing something for Donald Trump, like
the Beyonce thing. He's fixated on the idea that Beyonce
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did not sing because, of course, in his mind, people
who are black, or people who are Hispanic, or people
who are not pasty white guys who wear orange makeup,
they have to perform in some way. It's an old
Mash line when Harry Morgan was the villain on the
TV series Mash and he's adjudicating some sort of dispute
between an enlisted officer or an unlisted man and an officer,
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and he's about to take the testimony, and he looks
at the enlisted man, who is African American, and he says,
give your testimony, and don't be afraid to tell the truth, son,
as to what the colonel said. And the man starts
to speak, and he goes, but first a number, and
the African American serviceman goes, excuse me, sir, and Harry Morgan,
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as the evil general, then says, a number, a dance number.
It's in your blood, son. This is what Trump expects.
Why would you have Jennifer Lopez out there if she
isn't going to act or sing? Why would you have
Beyonce at a concert, if she's not going to get
up and dance or do something. That's what they do
in Trump world, the best one of them all. The
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indicator of how much this resonated, and every attempt, every
garbage attempt to try to make the garbage go away
is just piling the garbage on top of Trump's garbage
head a little bit more garbage quickly. The real indicator
is this story. Singer Nicki Jam has retracted his endorsement
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of Trump. He posted a video to Instagram yesterday following
the whole floating Island of hot garbage line from the
Trump Nazi rally where he was not Hitler at Madison
Square Garden. Remember also emphasize that bring your own connection
to Hitler up as often as possible Trump in any event,
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Nicki Jam said, the reason I went for Donald Trump
was because I thought he'd be the best for the
economy of the United States, where a lot of Latinos live,
including myself. You may recall Nicki Jam was so sold
on Trump that he did not renounce him or even
raise a question even after Trump brought him on stage
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in September with the following introduction to this man, Nicki
Jam quote do you know Nicki She's hot? That Nicki
Jam was okay with the damage that Trump has done
to himself since Sunday over the issue of the Latino
Hispanic vote is so incalculable that Nicki Jam was okay
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with Trump stupidly calling him she rather than he not
even bothering to find out if Nicki Jam was a
man or a woman. He was okay with that. With this,
he's retracted his endorsement of Trump. Trump is left good,
but at least he's not Hitler. I'll make this part quick.
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Boycott Amazon, Boycott Whole Foods. Cancel your Washington Post subscription
if there are any left. The count is approaching three
hundred thousand cancelations. That's a boycott. What else we need, is,
of course, for organizations like MSNBC and CNN and thoughtful
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publishers to stop booking Washington Post reporters as guests. The
whole argument that the Washington Post should not suffer just
because Jeff Bezos decided to become a fascist is nonsense.
If you can't convince people that it's safe to go
inside your store, why should you expect them to go
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inside your store? Because this ultimately is what Jeff Bezos
has wrought. And Jeff Bezos is a craven coward. He
actually had stood up to Trump in the issue of
Lauren Sanchez, my former co worker, and what would happen
when the news of his affair with Lauren Sanchez came out.
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He stood up to Trump when they tried to blackmail
him into writing nice things about Trump in the Washington Post.
And he's never going to make that mistake again. And
this is the outcome because no matter what you do
with these people, if you think you're going to bring
them to some sort of tie, no any kind of compromise,
any kind of opening, they will run with and shove
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it back down your throat. They took Jeff Bezos's supposed
neutrality and his idiotic seventh grade report that he wrote
for his own paper about why he did this in
the weeks before the election, rather than say, three years ago,
why he decided, Oh, oh, I guess we won't have
an endorsements just because billions of dollars would ride on it. Oh,
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I didn't mean to say that this is what he
has wrought. He took this expecting that somehow Trump would
be if not nice to him, at least not mean
to him. Guess what Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Trump was
mean to him and took that and shoved it down
the throat of everybody at the Washington Post. This is
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what happens when you well, you know the rest of
the line from the big Lebowski. Do you notice the
Washington Pollers to Los Angeles Times and all these pipers,
they're not endorsing anybody. You know what they're really saying
because they only endorse Democrats. They're saying this, Democrats no good.
They're no good, and they think I'm doing a great job.
They just don't want to say it. Washington and USA Today, congratulations,
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I just heard usay Today has not endorsed. They said
we're not going to endorse. That means that they think
she's Edmund Burke did not say the only thing necessary
for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing. Nobody we can find actually said that. It's
been quoted in many places. Burke said many things that
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approximate that, So it's not as if somebody just made
it out of whole cloth. But there it is. The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing because Jeff Bezos thought that
what would have been a routine pro forma endorsement of
Kamala Harris in the Washington Post might jeopardize his spaceship business,
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which Trump is giving to Elon Musk anyway, because he
thought he might be able to save that and make
a few extra billion dollars. Because of course, the more
money you make, the longer you live. Right, Jeff second
richest man in the world, wants more money. Whatever you
think of Bill Gates, he spent the last half of
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his life giving away all the money because he has
too much. The point of having money is to spend
it on things that other people can't spend it on.
Trump never figured that out. If there is a hell,
he'll go to hell for that, as will Jeff Bezos.
Because the only thing necessary, whoever said it, for the
triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.
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Trump has now taken the fact that there was no
endorsement and turned it into an endorsement of him. One
last thing to come around with on the subject of
Biden and garbage, I again will read this later. Biden
did not call Trump supporters garbage. I've called them that
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make America garbage again, I think it's absolutely fitting. I
do have this question, who in the world thought it
was a good idea to have Joe Biden? And I
understand president of the United States, he does still have
some say over what he does with his life, even
in the last week of a presidential camp pain in
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which he is a spectator for the first time since
what the one in nineteen sixty eight? Who in the
world thought, Who in the world said it was a
good idea for him to do or for anybody peripheral
to the campaign, anybody other than Kamala Harris to do
anything before Kamala Harris's final argument speech from the Ellipse
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in Washington the other night, who thought, you know what
we need to do right now, Let's put the president
on with the Voto Latino people and make a little
bit more out of this garbage comment. Because nothing could
possibly go wrong with the President of the United States
or anybody else quoting these terrible words that so enraged
the Hispanic community. What could possibly you could have had
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anyone at all up there, including Doug Amhoff, clear the decks.
You want nothing from your own side getting in the
way of Kamala Harris's speech. That's the way it should instead.
We have all of this, no matter how badly it
has been destroyed. The reality has been destroyed by the
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idiotic press and Politico and all of the websites that
race to attack because it's formulaic, it's a cubby hole
they're familiar with. It's something familiar to them. It makes
them feel like their world still exists when it doesn't.
Who thought it was a good idea to have anybody
get in the way of the main message? Let the
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next president of the United States speak, Just give her
a few hours window with nobody competing with her from
her own side, especially when the other side was self destructing.
And I might add I don't know if anybody saw this,
but somebody thought it would be a good idea to
have Hunter Biden do an interview with Politico. I happen
to think Hunter Biden should be suing essentially everybody in
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the American media for what has happened to him over
the last couple of years. I'm not defending any of
his actions, but his treatment is I can't describe it.
It's on the level almost of the way Hillary Clinton
was treated in twenty sixteen by the American media. But
why is Hunter Biden quoted the day after the Kamala
Harris addressed from the Ellipse clear the decks. If Jesus
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Christ was Secretary of Commerce. I don't know if that
would be an upgrade from Buddhage Edge. I don't think
it would be. But if Jesus Christ was Secretary of
the Treasury and he said I want to give a
zoom call with the Jesus Christ Society three hours before
Kamala Harris, No, you will do it tomorrow, Okay, just
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basic politics. Just don't get in the way of your
own message. And while the other side is self destructing,
stand back and applaud. Hardly breaking news, but continuing this trend,
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the cyclical trend of the polls. This is the CNN
poll from yesterday in Michigan. Harris is ahead of Trump
forty eight to forty three, five points in Michigan among
likely voters Wisconsin fifty one forty five, Harris six percent.
Among likelies, They're tied in Pennsylvania at forty eight percent support.
These numbers are essentially unchanged in the CNN poll since
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late summer, although one assumes there was a roller coaster ride,
just as there was in all the other poles. The
interior numbers always mean more, but as an indicator, the
national or large swing state polls have some value to
see where you stand relative to earlier earlier in the race,
and the answer is out about the same point as
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was phrased very elegantly at five thirty eight dot Com yesterday,
either side is within the margin of error of a
blowout wind victory next Tuesday, and the blowout victory would
be more likely for Harris those interior numbers. Though. In
the CNN poll among likely voters who say they're extremely
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motivated in Michigan, fifty one percent support Harris forty five Trump,
So the lead is six in Michigan, not five in Wisconsin.
It's fifty two to forty seven Harris at in Pennsylvania,
which is otherwise tied, is otherwise forty eight to forty
eight motivated likely voters Harris fifty Trump forty seven let's
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get out the boat time undecided and could change. CNN
says just eight percent of likely voters in Pennsylvania are
still in either of those categories, seven percent in Michigan,
six percent in Wisconsin. They haven't made a choice or
they're not sure that's the way they're going to vote.
It's going to come down probably to the last few days.
And remember from the Emerson polling those people in both categories,
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the undecideds and also the independents, but the undecideds and
the not absolutely certain voters are breaking to Kamala Harris.
Sixty to thirty six. The late deciders were voting for
Kamala Harris, and the number for those who were not sure,
I don't remember it off the top of my head,
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but it was a ten point lead for Harris. Eight
percent of likely voters in Pennsylvania conceivably breaking somewhere around
what would the average of that be fifty two forty
eight to Harris, fifty five forty five to Harris take
it and one other interior number trust to handle the economy.
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Trump is up by just four points in Michigan over Harris,
just three points in Wisconsin, and as they point out,
that is within each poll's margin of sampling error. In Pennsylvania,
it's not that close. Comparatively, it's eight points Trump ahead.
When this started, it was twenty five points Trump ahead.
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Every interior number for the last three months has broken
in the direction of Kamala Harris fingers crossed, We're all
hopeful and Nobody's garbage and Nobody's Hitler. Two other stories
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what would happen if Trump actually got into office and
did the deportation. The Miami Herald cites a story a
source and investigation by the American Immigration Council. It says
one in twenty Floridians would be expelled from the country.
The Trump planned to deport thirteen million, three hundred thousand
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undocumented or otherwise removable immigrants. According to this immigration advocacy
think tank, Florida would be devastated by this because it
would lose one zero point one million people. Five percent
of the population of Florida would disappear. It would cost
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three hundred and fifteen billion dollars to remove these people.
The report indicates that annual US gross domestic product could
drop by as much as six point eight percent. Government
tax coffers that pay for schools and other critical sources
would also take a hit. Remember that the undocumented immigrants
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paid nearly seventy seven billion dollars in local, state, and
federal taxes in twenty twenty two, despite not being able
to take out almost any of the resources. Basically, these
people are funding things like social Security, and there would
be one million fewer people in Florida. And guess where
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they work Agriculture and construction. As climate change destroys agriculture
and construction in Florida. Good work and internationally, why Trump
would be a disaster. The Times of Israel says Trump
has told Benjamin Netanyaho he wants Israel to wrap up
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the war in Gaza by the time he returns to office.
According to sources, the message first conveyed Times of Israel
when the nominee hosted net Yahoo at Mary Lago in July.
They're quoting both a former Trump administration official and an
official in Israel. Trump has publicly confirmed telling Netanyah, who
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he wants Israel to win the war quickly. But this
is not what we're talking about. We're not talking about
resolving this. And again, this would be relevant to anybody
voting against Biden's role in the Middle East or the
United States current position in the Middle East and taking
it out on Kamala Harris, because certainly Trump would be
much better for the Middle East. The former US official
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stress that Trump was not specific in his appeal to
Nettan Yahoo and could well back residual Israeli defense forces
activity in Gaza so long as Jerusalem has officially ended
the war. So it's the advice to Lyndon Johnson. Trump
wants Benjamin Netanyahu to declare victory and get out, but
he can keep having the war if he wants, because
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that's all it is to Trump. Go ahead, vote in
such a way that you increased Trump's chances of getting
in to office, because he's really going to do the
right thing, because remember, he's not Hitler, and he's not
garbage Hitler. A note about this podcast going forward. You
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may have heard it sound a lot more ragged and
less well produced than it has been previously. Then there
have been stumbles that I have not gone back and corrected,
and probably a few misspoken words thrown here and there.
I apologize to you for those and the ones in advance.
It's going to be this way, at least for a while.
You know of my love for dawugs, and I always
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have at least one rescue and I welcomed two weeks
ago a little five month old Maltese named Kit who
was especially precious to me. Because my late seventeen year
old Minee died in July and Menee was French for Kitty.
And one day the rescue people call up and say, hey,
we have this dog named Kit, and I went what
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And the woman from the rescue association realized, I said,
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if when he walks
in here, Kit says, Mene sent me. Kit has a
bad heart. He has a vein or artery that should
not be there that sends some oxygenated blood back in
the wrong direction. We knew it was a problem and
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it would likely require surgery, although it might be treatable
with medication. And yesterday Kit got his check up and
it is much worse than we thought. Kit is a brilliant, funny, smart,
proactive dog who seems to understand what you want from him.
When they went to do all of the not just
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physical examinations of him at the animal hospital yesterday, but
when they went to do the pictures, when they went
to do the scan and to actually do a scope
to see what his heart looked like and what these
veins looked like, in particular the one that's going to
cause him a lot of trouble if it's not corrected surgically.
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He just sat quietly on his side and then they
needed to turn him over under the other side, and
he did that too. They didn't have to sedate him,
they didn't have to bribe him with treats. He just
did it, which has been my experience with him. He's
a lovely little puppy. And if he doesn't have this surgery,
he's going to die, and he may not survive the surgery.
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And we're going to try to do it in the
next month, So I will continue this podcast. God willing,
and the creek don't rise, we can clear up the
election in a good way. I what end of next
week or the week after, and I can put this
thing on hiatus for a while. In the interim, I'm
going to cut back how much time I devote on this,
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even now, even in the hours days before the election,
I'm going to cut it back significantly. So I'm going
to ask you to help me to help Kit by
limiting what I would be saying listening to this going man,
did you hear him stumble today? Because I want to
spend as much time with Kit as I can. Still
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doing worse persons. That's next. This is countent George Crollin'
a pleasure to have you here. Thank you. This is
the best news show ever. I toil that to one
of your producers, and I want you to know that
I've seen them all and it's just for especially the
first thirty five minutes. Thank you. It's just unparalleled. I
got bad news between you and I. We got six
minutes to completely strow that in here. That's okay, George
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Carlin is there for a reason. I have a picture
of George signed on my wall and he's holding a dog.
It's a publicity photo from Bob and Bill and Ted's
excellent adventurous suits. I don't know, George love dogs. Time
for the daily roundup of the misgrants and Dunning Kruger
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effects specimens who constitute today's worse persons in the world.
The Bronze Worse, Bernie moreno car salesman, wage thief, resume patter,
and moron clearly failed a civics class if you ever
took one neck and neck for the Senate from Ohio
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with Shared Brown because he's a Republican and they finally
found the formula to make the Republican Party work put
stupid people out there. So the stupid people who would
vote Republican have somebody even stupider than themselves they can
relate to. Talking about Kamala Harris and immigration on Newsmax,
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the network for stupid people. She's the vice president of
the United States, said Bernie Moreno. Why doesn't she just
walk into the building right behind her sign an executive
order restating the ones Trump had and deport the criminals
right now? Why would you have to wait till January?
It's obscene. Well, sir, the vice president of the United
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States is not allowed to issue executive orders. That's the
job of the president. Now, mister Moreno, how many senators
are there? How many states are there in the United States?
How do you spell your own name? Is Trump? Hitler?
Can you answer any of these questions? Because the question
is about mister Moreno's education. He attended Michigan. All right, fine,
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I'm not going to go off on the University of
Michigan now. But he got a bachelor's degree in business administration.
He was a board member on the Cleveland Foundation, and
in his bio he said he also had a master's
in business administration. Turned out he didn't, and clearly he
did not get one hundred percent on the thirty seven
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Civics classes that he didn't take. The best one of
all this was though, when he was caught patting his resume,
his educational resume at the University of Michigan, which by
itself should eliminate him from contention for Senator from Ohio,
if you know how Michiganders and Ohioans feel about each other.
But when this was discovered, he blamed the error on
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quote a staffer who made a mistake. Yeah, I know
what the mistake was. The mistake was you were working
for Bernie Moreno runner up our Fox. Gonna say it again.
When I started criticizing Fox News in nineteen ninety seven
on MSNBC, people said, you just doing it to Channing
get their innings. When I went after Bill O'Reilly and
everybody else and Sean Hannity and all the people on
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the air there, and Roger Ales and all the other
liars and scumbags and destined for hell propagandists and fascists,
people went, oh, he's just trying to be the liberal
fellow O'Reilly. No. These were some of the graphics that
Fox when it carried the Harris speech from the Ellipse
on Tuesday night. These are some of the full screens
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the stripes Kamala lists policies she failed to enact as VP,
and all of these, by the way, had the phrase
Fox News Alert under it and a promo for the
Hannity Show with special guest Trump. If you've been on
one show two hundred and eighty one times, how are
you a special guest anymore? Aren't your co host? By
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the way, Kamala list Paul she failed to enact as VP.
Kamala vows to lower costs after three and a half years.
Kamala calls for unity while trashing Trump. Kamala's focus is
on Trump, not voters. Kamala's final pitch to voters is
all about Trump. Desperate Kamala closing message all about Trump.
Kamala pushes fear in closing message. Kamala calls for unity
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while trashing Trump. And the last one help, I'm being
held hostage in the Trump Fox News graphics chamber. No
I made that one up. It's it truly is Rupert
Murdoch's finest expression of his desire to destroy society worldwide.
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If one day Rupert Murdoch simply pulled off the mask
and was identified as Satan. I'd go, I told you
I wasn't doing it for ratings, but our winners the worst.
I skipped one. I told ja I was going to
screw up a little bit here, got ahead of myself
on that the winners the worst. Rachel Bade of Politico
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and Chris solisa Biden campaign on clean up duty, regardless
of what he meant, ours are already using this as
a way to pivot from the Puerto Rico controversy. This
is what Rachel Bade wrote after the Harris address and
the Biden comments I referenced earlier. First of all, the
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Biden campaign. What Biden campaign is that, madam, She's now
in charge of Politico's playbook after the Pole Ryan Lizza thing.
Regardless of what he meant, this is what he said.
Just the other day, a speaker at his Trump's rally
called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Well, let
me tell you something I don't. I don't know the
Puerto rican that that I know of, or Puerto Rico
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where I'm from in my home state of Delaware, they're good, decent,
honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there
is his supporters. His immanization of Latinos is unconscionable. He's
referring to one supporter regardless of what he meant. The
Biden campaign woman should be fired immediately. Just because Ryan
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Lizz's career is over. That doesn't mean Rachel Bade, you're
any less unqualified than you were two weeks ago. Find
another line of work. You're as bad as Chris Slizza. Also,
the attempt to transcribe this by the White House as
supporter apostrophe s as opposed to supporter's plural, which he
clearly says is laughable. So Chris is saying he can
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hear apostrophes. Every time I think I understand how stupid
Chris Silizza is, he proves me wrong. He is on
the mount Rushmore of stupidity in political media. In fact,
there are only four figures up there, and they're all
Chris Slissa. Chris Silizza up just to let me do that.
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Read and again, the attempt to transcribe it by the
White House as supporter apostrophys as opposed to supporters, which
he clearly says is laughable, Chris, that you continue to
do this is laughable. Chris Stali is a roll called
No the Cook, Political Washington, MSNBC, Meet the Press, No, No,
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No CNN, his own newsletter. Oh right, Chris now going
door to door with his opinion Solizza two days, worst part,
sudden in the world. Guy, legitimate, guy strong. But you
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know he always used to tell me never use the
word Nazi and never use the Hitler. Now we're called
Nazis and I'm called hitler. I'm not Hitler. I've done
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all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening,
and again, thank you in advance for your understanding on
the variabilities that will now affect this podcast going forward
due to the health of the young puppy Kit. I'm
going to be faced with a lot of choices, and
one of the choices will be do you want to
spend time working on this podcast and getting it just
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right or getting it out good enough and then not
getting it out when it isn't necessary and spending the
time with Kit. I'm going to assume this is all
the time he has bear with me. Brian Ray and
John Phillip shoneil the musicals have Countdown arranged, produced, and
performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards,
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mister ray On guitars, based and drums, and it was
produced by Tko Brothers. Haven't heard a lot of this lately,
but our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the
best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust, and I thank
Nancy for her indulgence on this too. The sports music.
We've done sports segments before. I just don't remember when.
The last one was the Olderman theme from ESPN two,
written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. I
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remember ESPN other music arranged and performed by the group
No Horns allowed. As mentioned earlier, George Carlin, my late friend,
was my guest announcer today. Due to the dog references,
everything else pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for today.
Five days until the twenty twenty four presidential election. Three
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hundred and ninety five days since convicted feldon associative fugue
Jay Trump, who's not Hitler and not Garbage. Don't think
of Trump, Hitler and Garbage together again. Whatever you do,
don't do that. He doesn't want you to do that.
That's why I dressed up as a garbage man and
said Hella HELLU. Thirteen d and ninety five days since
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he got away with his first attempted coup against the
democratically elected government of the United States. Use the election,
use the metal health system, hell use presidential immunity. President Biden,
you are authorized to do anything you want. Wednesday morning,
sit down and say now, what do I want to
do to Trump? And do it. Use all of these
things to keep Trump from doing it again while we
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still have an effing chance. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Again,
things may change Bolton's as the news requires till the
next one. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,
and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production
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Kamala Harris closing argument quote the fact that someone does
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not agree with us does not make them the enemy within.
I will always put country above party and above self.
The Donald Trump closing argument, I'm called hitler. I'm not hitler. Hell,
that's a clear and convincing explanation. I'm sold not hitler.
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Sign me up. He invoked his father in this. Father
told me never to say Nazi or hitler, or rent
to the black people's or get caught going to a
KKK rally. As Mary Trump said last night, her grandfather
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was a sociopath. But honestly, those are the closing arguments.
Kamala Harris, with an intricate, balanced, sometimes too far right leaning,
Welcome to everybody who wants to get back out of
the shark infested waters of MAGA and back on board,
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back on board the United States of America. Trump argument,
more anger, more rage. We can say one word, you
can't say another word, even if you're quoting us saying
the word. So you're not hitler? You sure? How about putin?
Are you putin Trump? Are you president cheese? That would
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be she of China to the rest of us called
him cheese last week, President Cheese, President mccheese, you got
an upgrade from mayor Baby hit Where are you, baby Hitler?
Baby Hitler? Might be the apt explanation. The argument has
been I had gone into it at great length that No,
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this is not nineteen forty four Hitler. No, it is
not nineteen thirty nine Hitler. No, it is not the
Hitler who has opened up the concentration. Well it might be,
and it might be soon. It's baby Hitler. It's Hitler
nineteen thirty two, trying to get as much support as
possible from as many mainstream politicians as possible, from those
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closer to the middle, if not the middle itself, and
then send them all to camps, take all of their
power from them. Do you know the names of the
other German politicians of the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties,
of the newspapers, of the industrialists who fought against Hitler?
Do you know the names of the other conservative leaders,
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even the violent conservative leaders. Germany had ten twenty prominent
parties in the nineteen twenties. You know any of their names? No,
you don't, because they died in the camps. Trump also
insisted he's not garbage because the Trump campaign saw a
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lifeline provided to them by what President Biden said, quoting
their comedian Hingecliffe about garbage at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
They have turned this into Biden calling all of them garbage.
He's not garbage. No, no, Trump would never want to
emphasize that, just because he's in a garbage man's vest,
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in a garbage truck, and then he's on stage in
the orange vest that he was wearing that you can
see at night on a highway, but it's not quite
as orange as his face is. But he's not a
garbage man, and he's not garbage, and he's not garbage man.
The Trump closing argument is not just I'm not hitler.
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It's this. It's this needle which he has decided to
try to thread five different ways. One, I'm not garbage,
We're not garbage. Two Biden called half of America garbage.
Three never mind the fact that in the last week
I called America a garbage can at least six times,
three times in one speech, and congratulated myself on coming
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up with the term America is a garbage can four,
I would like you to forget that my comic called
Puerto Rico garbage at Madison Square Garden Sunday. Completely forget
that and all of the insults that he made towards
the Hispanic and Latino communities. Just forget that. But the
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word garbage, I want you to remember that. So five,
I'm going to dress up in a garbage man's vest,
in a garbage truck, and then I'm going to deny
I know anything about the garbage line while I am
yelling out the window of the gar garbage truck. I
don't know anything about the comedian. I don't know who
he is. I've never seen him. I heard he made
a statement, but it was just a statement that he made.
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He's a comedian. What can I tell you. I know
nothing about him. I don't know why he's there if
you put comedians up, and I guess he went on
earlier the show. I don't know who he is. The
sad truth is to continue this. If you'd like to
not be associated with the word garbage, don't dress up
as a garbage man. And if you'd like to not
be associated with Hitler, don't give an answer that says
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I know nothing like Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes. I
really think the internal polls the Trump campaign have are disastrous,
and that they are setting up as much as they
possibly can this aura of invincibility, and we're winning, and
we're winning on not just votes, but memes and garbage.
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We've won the garbage war against Joe Biden. And then
when it doesn't happen, they spring anyone of six different
coup attempts, just like in twenty twenty one, somebody said
that the garbage man's outfit was Trump's Halloween costume. This
is incorrect. That was not his Halloween costume. Trump's Halloween
costume tonight is he's going dressed up and pretending to
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be a human being, the whole thing with the garbage
truck and the garbage vest and the garbage brain. This
was at his speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin last night,
where Brett Favre, the pervert ex quarterback of the Green
Bay Packers and frequent user of public funds, will put
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it politely that way, got up to that crowd talk
about maga make America garbage again. He insisted he's not garbage.
I'd like to see Brett Farv prove that in a
court of law. And incidentally, Farv was only there because
his successor as the Green Bay Packers quarterback, Aaron Rodgers,
could not make it because Aaron Rodgers is still busy
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and booked up destroying the franchise of the New York Jets.
And the bottom line here continues to be, no matter
what you think, Joe Biden said, and he did not
call anybody garbage. It's a quote. I will read it
to you in full later, but whatever you do, keep
that word garbage front of mind for Puerto Ricans and
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other people of Hispanic origin. Dissent friendship, very smart, Keep
that word out there. The fallout from Trump's Madison Square
Garden rally reported Politico still resonating. Bad Bunny, who in
decated to sport for Harris over the weekend last has
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now posted a video in support of his own country.
Don Omar, the Puerto Rican megastar, voiced his support for
Kamala Harris. Jennifer Lopez will be at the Harris rally
in Las Vegas tomorrow and as you know, the most
important part of a star appearing at a Harris rallies,
whether or not they sing something for Donald Trump, like
the Beyonce thing. He's fixated on the idea that Beyonce
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did not sing because, of course, in his mind, people
who are black, or people who are Hispanic, or people
who are not pasty white guys who wear orange makeup,
they have to perform in some way. It's an old
Mash line when Harry Morgan was the villain on the
TV series Mash and he's adjudicating some sort of dispute
between an enlisted officer or an unlisted man and an officer,
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and he's about to take the testimony, and he looks
at the enlisted man, who is African American, and he says,
give your testimony, and don't be afraid to tell the truth, son,
as to what the colonel said. And the man starts
to speak, and he goes, but first a number, and
the African American serviceman goes, excuse me, sir, and Harry Morgan,
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as the evil general, then says, a number, a dance number.
It's in your blood, son. This is what Trump expects.
Why would you have Jennifer Lopez out there if she
isn't going to act or sing? Why would you have
Beyonce at a concert, if she's not going to get
up and dance or do something. That's what they do
in Trump world, the best one of them all. The
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indicator of how much this resonated, and every attempt, every
garbage attempt to try to make the garbage go away
is just piling the garbage on top of Trump's garbage
head a little bit more garbage quickly. The real indicator
is this story. Singer Nicki Jam has retracted his endorsement
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of Trump. He posted a video to Instagram yesterday following
the whole floating Island of hot garbage line from the
Trump Nazi rally where he was not Hitler at Madison
Square Garden. Remember also emphasize that bring your own connection
to Hitler up as often as possible Trump in any event,
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Nicki Jam said, the reason I went for Donald Trump
was because I thought he'd be the best for the
economy of the United States, where a lot of Latinos live,
including myself. You may recall Nicki Jam was so sold
on Trump that he did not renounce him or even
raise a question even after Trump brought him on stage
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in September with the following introduction to this man, Nicki
Jam quote do you know Nicki She's hot? That Nicki
Jam was okay with the damage that Trump has done
to himself since Sunday over the issue of the Latino
Hispanic vote is so incalculable that Nicki Jam was okay
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with Trump stupidly calling him she rather than he not
even bothering to find out if Nicki Jam was a
man or a woman. He was okay with that. With this,
he's retracted his endorsement of Trump. Trump is left good,
but at least he's not Hitler. I'll make this part quick.
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Boycott Amazon, Boycott Whole Foods. Cancel your Washington Post subscription
if there are any left. The count is approaching three
hundred thousand cancelations. That's a boycott. What else we need, is,
of course, for organizations like MSNBC and CNN and thoughtful
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publishers to stop booking Washington Post reporters as guests. The
whole argument that the Washington Post should not suffer just
because Jeff Bezos decided to become a fascist is nonsense.
If you can't convince people that it's safe to go
inside your store, why should you expect them to go
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inside your store? Because this ultimately is what Jeff Bezos
has wrought. And Jeff Bezos is a craven coward. He
actually had stood up to Trump in the issue of
Lauren Sanchez, my former co worker, and what would happen
when the news of his affair with Lauren Sanchez came out.
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He stood up to Trump when they tried to blackmail
him into writing nice things about Trump in the Washington Post.
And he's never going to make that mistake again. And
this is the outcome because no matter what you do
with these people, if you think you're going to bring
them to some sort of tie, no any kind of compromise,
any kind of opening, they will run with and shove
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it back down your throat. They took Jeff Bezos's supposed
neutrality and his idiotic seventh grade report that he wrote
for his own paper about why he did this in
the weeks before the election, rather than say, three years ago,
why he decided, Oh, oh, I guess we won't have
an endorsements just because billions of dollars would ride on it. Oh,
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I didn't mean to say that this is what he
has wrought. He took this expecting that somehow Trump would
be if not nice to him, at least not mean
to him. Guess what Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Trump was
mean to him and took that and shoved it down
the throat of everybody at the Washington Post. This is
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what happens when you well, you know the rest of
the line from the big Lebowski. Do you notice the
Washington Pollers to Los Angeles Times and all these pipers,
they're not endorsing anybody. You know what they're really saying
because they only endorse Democrats. They're saying this, Democrats no good.
They're no good, and they think I'm doing a great job.
They just don't want to say it. Washington and USA Today, congratulations,
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I just heard usay Today has not endorsed. They said
we're not going to endorse. That means that they think
she's Edmund Burke did not say the only thing necessary
for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing. Nobody we can find actually said that. It's
been quoted in many places. Burke said many things that
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approximate that, So it's not as if somebody just made
it out of whole cloth. But there it is. The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing because Jeff Bezos thought that
what would have been a routine pro forma endorsement of
Kamala Harris in the Washington Post might jeopardize his spaceship business,
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which Trump is giving to Elon Musk anyway, because he
thought he might be able to save that and make
a few extra billion dollars. Because of course, the more
money you make, the longer you live. Right, Jeff second
richest man in the world, wants more money. Whatever you
think of Bill Gates, he spent the last half of
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his life giving away all the money because he has
too much. The point of having money is to spend
it on things that other people can't spend it on.
Trump never figured that out. If there is a hell,
he'll go to hell for that, as will Jeff Bezos.
Because the only thing necessary, whoever said it, for the
triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.
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Trump has now taken the fact that there was no
endorsement and turned it into an endorsement of him. One
last thing to come around with on the subject of
Biden and garbage, I again will read this later. Biden
did not call Trump supporters garbage. I've called them that
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make America garbage again, I think it's absolutely fitting. I
do have this question, who in the world thought it
was a good idea to have Joe Biden? And I
understand president of the United States, he does still have
some say over what he does with his life, even
in the last week of a presidential camp pain in
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which he is a spectator for the first time since
what the one in nineteen sixty eight? Who in the
world thought, Who in the world said it was a
good idea for him to do or for anybody peripheral
to the campaign, anybody other than Kamala Harris to do
anything before Kamala Harris's final argument speech from the Ellipse
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in Washington the other night, who thought, you know what
we need to do right now, Let's put the president
on with the Voto Latino people and make a little
bit more out of this garbage comment. Because nothing could
possibly go wrong with the President of the United States
or anybody else quoting these terrible words that so enraged
the Hispanic community. What could possibly you could have had
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anyone at all up there, including Doug Amhoff, clear the decks.
You want nothing from your own side getting in the
way of Kamala Harris's speech. That's the way it should instead.
We have all of this, no matter how badly it
has been destroyed. The reality has been destroyed by the
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idiotic press and Politico and all of the websites that
race to attack because it's formulaic, it's a cubby hole
they're familiar with. It's something familiar to them. It makes
them feel like their world still exists when it doesn't.
Who thought it was a good idea to have anybody
get in the way of the main message? Let the
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next president of the United States speak, Just give her
a few hours window with nobody competing with her from
her own side, especially when the other side was self destructing.
And I might add I don't know if anybody saw this,
but somebody thought it would be a good idea to
have Hunter Biden do an interview with Politico. I happen
to think Hunter Biden should be suing essentially everybody in
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the American media for what has happened to him over
the last couple of years. I'm not defending any of
his actions, but his treatment is I can't describe it.
It's on the level almost of the way Hillary Clinton
was treated in twenty sixteen by the American media. But
why is Hunter Biden quoted the day after the Kamala
Harris addressed from the Ellipse clear the decks. If Jesus
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Christ was Secretary of Commerce. I don't know if that
would be an upgrade from Buddhage Edge. I don't think
it would be. But if Jesus Christ was Secretary of
the Treasury and he said I want to give a
zoom call with the Jesus Christ Society three hours before
Kamala Harris, No, you will do it tomorrow, Okay, just
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basic politics. Just don't get in the way of your
own message. And while the other side is self destructing,
stand back and applaud. Hardly breaking news, but continuing this trend,
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the cyclical trend of the polls. This is the CNN
poll from yesterday in Michigan. Harris is ahead of Trump
forty eight to forty three, five points in Michigan among
likely voters Wisconsin fifty one forty five, Harris six percent.
Among likelies, They're tied in Pennsylvania at forty eight percent support.
These numbers are essentially unchanged in the CNN poll since
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late summer, although one assumes there was a roller coaster ride,
just as there was in all the other poles. The
interior numbers always mean more, but as an indicator, the
national or large swing state polls have some value to
see where you stand relative to earlier earlier in the race,
and the answer is out about the same point as
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was phrased very elegantly at five thirty eight dot Com yesterday,
either side is within the margin of error of a
blowout wind victory next Tuesday, and the blowout victory would
be more likely for Harris those interior numbers. Though. In
the CNN poll among likely voters who say they're extremely
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motivated in Michigan, fifty one percent support Harris forty five Trump,
So the lead is six in Michigan, not five in Wisconsin.
It's fifty two to forty seven Harris at in Pennsylvania,
which is otherwise tied, is otherwise forty eight to forty
eight motivated likely voters Harris fifty Trump forty seven let's
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get out the boat time undecided and could change. CNN
says just eight percent of likely voters in Pennsylvania are
still in either of those categories, seven percent in Michigan,
six percent in Wisconsin. They haven't made a choice or
they're not sure that's the way they're going to vote.
It's going to come down probably to the last few days.
And remember from the Emerson polling those people in both categories,
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the undecideds and also the independents, but the undecideds and
the not absolutely certain voters are breaking to Kamala Harris.
Sixty to thirty six. The late deciders were voting for
Kamala Harris, and the number for those who were not sure,
I don't remember it off the top of my head,
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but it was a ten point lead for Harris. Eight
percent of likely voters in Pennsylvania conceivably breaking somewhere around
what would the average of that be fifty two forty
eight to Harris, fifty five forty five to Harris take
it and one other interior number trust to handle the economy.
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Trump is up by just four points in Michigan over Harris,
just three points in Wisconsin, and as they point out,
that is within each poll's margin of sampling error. In Pennsylvania,
it's not that close. Comparatively, it's eight points Trump ahead.
When this started, it was twenty five points Trump ahead.
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Every interior number for the last three months has broken
in the direction of Kamala Harris fingers crossed, We're all
hopeful and Nobody's garbage and Nobody's Hitler. Two other stories
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what would happen if Trump actually got into office and
did the deportation. The Miami Herald cites a story a
source and investigation by the American Immigration Council. It says
one in twenty Floridians would be expelled from the country.
The Trump planned to deport thirteen million, three hundred thousand
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undocumented or otherwise removable immigrants. According to this immigration advocacy
think tank, Florida would be devastated by this because it
would lose one zero point one million people. Five percent
of the population of Florida would disappear. It would cost
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three hundred and fifteen billion dollars to remove these people.
The report indicates that annual US gross domestic product could
drop by as much as six point eight percent. Government
tax coffers that pay for schools and other critical sources
would also take a hit. Remember that the undocumented immigrants
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paid nearly seventy seven billion dollars in local, state, and
federal taxes in twenty twenty two, despite not being able
to take out almost any of the resources. Basically, these
people are funding things like social Security, and there would
be one million fewer people in Florida. And guess where
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they work Agriculture and construction. As climate change destroys agriculture
and construction in Florida. Good work and internationally, why Trump
would be a disaster. The Times of Israel says Trump
has told Benjamin Netanyaho he wants Israel to wrap up
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the war in Gaza by the time he returns to office.
According to sources, the message first conveyed Times of Israel
when the nominee hosted net Yahoo at Mary Lago in July.
They're quoting both a former Trump administration official and an
official in Israel. Trump has publicly confirmed telling Netanyah, who
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he wants Israel to win the war quickly. But this
is not what we're talking about. We're not talking about
resolving this. And again, this would be relevant to anybody
voting against Biden's role in the Middle East or the
United States current position in the Middle East and taking
it out on Kamala Harris, because certainly Trump would be
much better for the Middle East. The former US official
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stress that Trump was not specific in his appeal to
Nettan Yahoo and could well back residual Israeli defense forces
activity in Gaza so long as Jerusalem has officially ended
the war. So it's the advice to Lyndon Johnson. Trump
wants Benjamin Netanyahu to declare victory and get out, but
he can keep having the war if he wants, because
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that's all it is to Trump. Go ahead, vote in
such a way that you increased Trump's chances of getting
in to office, because he's really going to do the
right thing, because remember, he's not Hitler, and he's not
garbage Hitler. A note about this podcast going forward. You
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may have heard it sound a lot more ragged and
less well produced than it has been previously. Then there
have been stumbles that I have not gone back and corrected,
and probably a few misspoken words thrown here and there.
I apologize to you for those and the ones in advance.
It's going to be this way, at least for a while.
You know of my love for dawugs, and I always
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have at least one rescue and I welcomed two weeks
ago a little five month old Maltese named Kit who
was especially precious to me. Because my late seventeen year
old Minee died in July and Menee was French for Kitty.
And one day the rescue people call up and say, hey,
we have this dog named Kit, and I went what
(26:27):
And the woman from the rescue association realized, I said,
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if when he walks
in here, Kit says, Mene sent me. Kit has a
bad heart. He has a vein or artery that should
not be there that sends some oxygenated blood back in
the wrong direction. We knew it was a problem and
(26:50):
it would likely require surgery, although it might be treatable
with medication. And yesterday Kit got his check up and
it is much worse than we thought. Kit is a brilliant, funny, smart,
proactive dog who seems to understand what you want from him.
When they went to do all of the not just
(27:11):
physical examinations of him at the animal hospital yesterday, but
when they went to do the pictures, when they went
to do the scan and to actually do a scope
to see what his heart looked like and what these
veins looked like, in particular the one that's going to
cause him a lot of trouble if it's not corrected surgically.
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He just sat quietly on his side and then they
needed to turn him over under the other side, and
he did that too. They didn't have to sedate him,
they didn't have to bribe him with treats. He just
did it, which has been my experience with him. He's
a lovely little puppy. And if he doesn't have this surgery,
he's going to die, and he may not survive the surgery.
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And we're going to try to do it in the
next month, So I will continue this podcast. God willing,
and the creek don't rise, we can clear up the
election in a good way. I what end of next
week or the week after, and I can put this
thing on hiatus for a while. In the interim, I'm
going to cut back how much time I devote on this,
(28:14):
even now, even in the hours days before the election,
I'm going to cut it back significantly. So I'm going
to ask you to help me to help Kit by
limiting what I would be saying listening to this going man,
did you hear him stumble today? Because I want to
spend as much time with Kit as I can. Still
(28:37):
doing worse persons. That's next. This is countent George Crollin'
a pleasure to have you here. Thank you. This is
the best news show ever. I toil that to one
of your producers, and I want you to know that
I've seen them all and it's just for especially the
first thirty five minutes. Thank you. It's just unparalleled. I
got bad news between you and I. We got six
minutes to completely strow that in here. That's okay, George
(29:19):
Carlin is there for a reason. I have a picture
of George signed on my wall and he's holding a dog.
It's a publicity photo from Bob and Bill and Ted's
excellent adventurous suits. I don't know, George love dogs. Time
for the daily roundup of the misgrants and Dunning Kruger
(29:42):
effects specimens who constitute today's worse persons in the world.
The Bronze Worse, Bernie moreno car salesman, wage thief, resume patter,
and moron clearly failed a civics class if you ever
took one neck and neck for the Senate from Ohio
(30:04):
with Shared Brown because he's a Republican and they finally
found the formula to make the Republican Party work put
stupid people out there. So the stupid people who would
vote Republican have somebody even stupider than themselves they can
relate to. Talking about Kamala Harris and immigration on Newsmax,
(30:25):
the network for stupid people. She's the vice president of
the United States, said Bernie Moreno. Why doesn't she just
walk into the building right behind her sign an executive
order restating the ones Trump had and deport the criminals
right now? Why would you have to wait till January?
It's obscene. Well, sir, the vice president of the United
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States is not allowed to issue executive orders. That's the
job of the president. Now, mister Moreno, how many senators
are there? How many states are there in the United States?
How do you spell your own name? Is Trump? Hitler?
Can you answer any of these questions? Because the question
is about mister Moreno's education. He attended Michigan. All right, fine,
(31:13):
I'm not going to go off on the University of
Michigan now. But he got a bachelor's degree in business administration.
He was a board member on the Cleveland Foundation, and
in his bio he said he also had a master's
in business administration. Turned out he didn't, and clearly he
did not get one hundred percent on the thirty seven
(31:35):
Civics classes that he didn't take. The best one of
all this was though, when he was caught patting his resume,
his educational resume at the University of Michigan, which by
itself should eliminate him from contention for Senator from Ohio,
if you know how Michiganders and Ohioans feel about each other.
But when this was discovered, he blamed the error on
(31:56):
quote a staffer who made a mistake. Yeah, I know
what the mistake was. The mistake was you were working
for Bernie Moreno runner up our Fox. Gonna say it again.
When I started criticizing Fox News in nineteen ninety seven
on MSNBC, people said, you just doing it to Channing
get their innings. When I went after Bill O'Reilly and
everybody else and Sean Hannity and all the people on
(32:19):
the air there, and Roger Ales and all the other
liars and scumbags and destined for hell propagandists and fascists,
people went, oh, he's just trying to be the liberal
fellow O'Reilly. No. These were some of the graphics that
Fox when it carried the Harris speech from the Ellipse
on Tuesday night. These are some of the full screens
(32:42):
the stripes Kamala lists policies she failed to enact as VP,
and all of these, by the way, had the phrase
Fox News Alert under it and a promo for the
Hannity Show with special guest Trump. If you've been on
one show two hundred and eighty one times, how are
you a special guest anymore? Aren't your co host? By
(33:02):
the way, Kamala list Paul she failed to enact as VP.
Kamala vows to lower costs after three and a half years.
Kamala calls for unity while trashing Trump. Kamala's focus is
on Trump, not voters. Kamala's final pitch to voters is
all about Trump. Desperate Kamala closing message all about Trump.
Kamala pushes fear in closing message. Kamala calls for unity
(33:25):
while trashing Trump. And the last one help, I'm being
held hostage in the Trump Fox News graphics chamber. No
I made that one up. It's it truly is Rupert
Murdoch's finest expression of his desire to destroy society worldwide.
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If one day Rupert Murdoch simply pulled off the mask
and was identified as Satan. I'd go, I told you
I wasn't doing it for ratings, but our winners the worst.
I skipped one. I told ja I was going to
screw up a little bit here, got ahead of myself
on that the winners the worst. Rachel Bade of Politico
(34:11):
and Chris solisa Biden campaign on clean up duty, regardless
of what he meant, ours are already using this as
a way to pivot from the Puerto Rico controversy. This
is what Rachel Bade wrote after the Harris address and
the Biden comments I referenced earlier. First of all, the
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Biden campaign. What Biden campaign is that, madam, She's now
in charge of Politico's playbook after the Pole Ryan Lizza thing.
Regardless of what he meant, this is what he said.
Just the other day, a speaker at his Trump's rally
called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Well, let
me tell you something I don't. I don't know the
Puerto rican that that I know of, or Puerto Rico
(34:53):
where I'm from in my home state of Delaware, they're good, decent,
honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there
is his supporters. His immanization of Latinos is unconscionable. He's
referring to one supporter regardless of what he meant. The
Biden campaign woman should be fired immediately. Just because Ryan
(35:15):
Lizz's career is over. That doesn't mean Rachel Bade, you're
any less unqualified than you were two weeks ago. Find
another line of work. You're as bad as Chris Slizza. Also,
the attempt to transcribe this by the White House as
supporter apostrophe s as opposed to supporter's plural, which he
clearly says is laughable. So Chris is saying he can
(35:39):
hear apostrophes. Every time I think I understand how stupid
Chris Silizza is, he proves me wrong. He is on
the mount Rushmore of stupidity in political media. In fact,
there are only four figures up there, and they're all
Chris Slissa. Chris Silizza up just to let me do that.
(36:04):
Read and again, the attempt to transcribe it by the
White House as supporter apostrophys as opposed to supporters, which
he clearly says is laughable, Chris, that you continue to
do this is laughable. Chris Stali is a roll called
No the Cook, Political Washington, MSNBC, Meet the Press, No, No,
(36:25):
No CNN, his own newsletter. Oh right, Chris now going
door to door with his opinion Solizza two days, worst part,
sudden in the world. Guy, legitimate, guy strong. But you
(36:58):
know he always used to tell me never use the
word Nazi and never use the Hitler. Now we're called
Nazis and I'm called hitler. I'm not Hitler. I've done
(37:26):
all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening,
and again, thank you in advance for your understanding on
the variabilities that will now affect this podcast going forward
due to the health of the young puppy Kit. I'm
going to be faced with a lot of choices, and
one of the choices will be do you want to
spend time working on this podcast and getting it just
(37:48):
right or getting it out good enough and then not
getting it out when it isn't necessary and spending the
time with Kit. I'm going to assume this is all
the time he has bear with me. Brian Ray and
John Phillip shoneil the musicals have Countdown arranged, produced, and
performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards,
(38:10):
mister ray On guitars, based and drums, and it was
produced by Tko Brothers. Haven't heard a lot of this lately,
but our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the
best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust, and I thank
Nancy for her indulgence on this too. The sports music.
We've done sports segments before. I just don't remember when.
The last one was the Olderman theme from ESPN two,
written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. I
(38:32):
remember ESPN other music arranged and performed by the group
No Horns allowed. As mentioned earlier, George Carlin, my late friend,
was my guest announcer today. Due to the dog references,
everything else pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for today.
Five days until the twenty twenty four presidential election. Three
(38:53):
hundred and ninety five days since convicted feldon associative fugue
Jay Trump, who's not Hitler and not Garbage. Don't think
of Trump, Hitler and Garbage together again. Whatever you do,
don't do that. He doesn't want you to do that.
That's why I dressed up as a garbage man and
said Hella HELLU. Thirteen d and ninety five days since
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he got away with his first attempted coup against the
democratically elected government of the United States. Use the election,
use the metal health system, hell use presidential immunity. President Biden,
you are authorized to do anything you want. Wednesday morning,
sit down and say now, what do I want to
do to Trump? And do it. Use all of these
things to keep Trump from doing it again while we
(39:36):
still have an effing chance. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Again,
things may change Bolton's as the news requires till the
next one. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,
and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production
(40:08):
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