January 11, 2024 • 20 mins
SERIES 2 EPISODE 105: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) It is hard to believe that a year after he vanished like a bad dream, ex-Congressman/Hitler Fanboy/Weirdo Madison Cawthorn might emerge not just as a truth-teller but as THE truth-teller. He was the one who insisted Washington was a den of drug-fueled orgies and war-on-drug leaders doing bumps of coke in front of him.
Did you WATCH the Hunter Biden hearing? Did you WATCH the Trump Town Hall on Fox? Did anything any Republican say make sense to you? Because not only is the answer "no" but the more frightening reality is that everything Trump said, and everything James Comer said, and Nancy Mace, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and all the other Republicans, made perfect sense to THEM.
And what kind of thing causes you to mistakenly believe that your hallucinations seem perfectly normal to everybody else?
And just to add in Cawthorn's other charge - it wasn't just drugs it was atypical sex. Greene showing more pornographic pictures of Hunter Biden? Nancy Mace referring to his balls?
Is THIS the explanation of the behavior of... ALL REPUBLICANS?
GOOD GOD WE NEED TO HEAR MORE FROM MADISON CAWTHORN.
B-Block (15:20) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: No more itinerant laborers because of the animus towards migrants? This Indiana state rep has the solution: let kids quit school to go work in the fields at 14. And to help them not miss it, this Florida county has banned the dictionary. And to show you what you can become when you stop learning after the 8th Grade, there's Aaron Rodgers, who actually got himself fired by ESPN yesterday.
C-Block (23:00) Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due and an explanation for today's comparative brevity.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Remember
Madison Cawthorn, Madison Cawthorn, the ex congressman, the crazy kid
(00:29):
who went to see Hitler's Eagle's nest and said it
was on his bucket list. Remember Madison Cawthorn. Remember Madison
Cawthorn when he described his shock that here he was
elected to the House of Representatives and he'd found that
it was fueled by drug based orgies. And he said
all he found in Washington were anti drug leaders who
(00:50):
turned out to be less war on drugs and more
plain old I'm on drugs. I hate to think of
Madison Cawthorn for a moment, Let alone think of Madison
Cawthorn for a moment as a truth teller. But what
would best explain this? Exactly? From Trump's town hall on
Fox last night?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
In recent days, you seem to issue a warning that
if in the courts and even the US Supreme Court,
if they didn't treat you fairly, that maybe there would
be bedlam in the country. Use that word bedlam in
the country. Can you say tonight that political violence is
never acceptable?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, of course that's right, and of course I'm the
one that had very little of it. Take a look
at wars again. I didn't start, I wasn't involved in wars.
We beat the hell out of Isis. We won one
hundred percent. We brought our troops back home. Look at
the violence that we've had, look at the violence we
have recently.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But when you say bedlam, what do you mean? I
think said bedlam?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I think you look at Joe Biden's bedlam.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Of course that made no sense. Trump said that if
he did not get his way, there would be bedlam
in this country. Asked about what he meant by bedlam
in this country and about political violence once he talked
about wars. The problem isn't that it didn't make any sense.
The problem is that, clearly it makes sense to him,
(02:15):
What specifically could be wrong with someone who thinks when
they say that that they are making sense that everyone
will understand. It's not like that from Trump, his stand
alone in some way. The day began yesterday at the
Hunter Biden hearings yesterday, and there was a subtext there
that I thought seemed to get lost behind all of
(02:37):
the stupidity. All the Republicans behaved as if they were
not just stupid, not just staggering under the weight of
their delusions of grandeur, but hallucinating. Is it that simple?
You saw the Wall Street Journal story on Elon Musk
consuming more drugs, according to the Wall Street Journal, than
(03:01):
the state of New Mexico. And you've heard by now
that Hitler and the Nazi leadership were all on speed
and other drugs throughout World War Two. It's all documented
by the Nazi physicians who gave them their Nazi drugs
that help make them Nazi. And then yesterday we saw
(03:24):
what we saw at the Hunter Biden hearings. There was
Nancy Mace, the congresswoman who had boasted Giddaly last summer
about reaching the prayer breakfast on time, but only by
fending off mourning sex with her boyfriend. She reached this
hearing on time and not only focused on Hunter Biden's
(03:44):
quote balls, but she then accused him of white privilege.
He's white, she's white. I'm just gonna guess she meant
male privilege or white male privilege. But no, no, that's
not what Nancy May said.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You are the epitome of white priviled, coming into the
Oversight Committee spitting in our face ignoring a congressional subpoena
to be deposed. What are you afraid of?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You have no balls?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
As we have fumbled for answers about what the hell
happened to this country, specifically, what the hell happened to
the Republican Party specifically? What the hell is it with
people like Nancy Mace? Why are they in such thrall
to loser Jay Trump, who, for brain chemistry reasons or
other chemistry reasons or whatever, is clearly utterly and constantly
(04:37):
detached from reality. Could it be that simple miss true?
Is this a joke? Seriously? Is this hearing a joke?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
This is a committee that now cares about subpoena compliance,
and we're going to hold somebody in contempt for subpoena compliance.
That's really interesting because to me, it seems like you
believe we all had our memories wiped six hundred and
(05:09):
eight days ago when you failed to honor your own subpoena.
But I have to ask, how dumb do you think
the American people are that you would seek to hold
someone in contempt when you are six hundred and eight days,
fifteen hours, twenty one minutes, and forty seven seconds out
of compliance of your own subpoena.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, you know what Eric Swallwell heard wiping the floor
there with Jim Jordan. You know what might explain that,
you know, you know what might explain the entire Congressional
career of Chairman James Comer. I mean this with Jared Moskowitz.
If the hearing had been a boxing match, it would
have been stopped and their referees and the State Board
(05:52):
would have made all the Republicans provide urine samples.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
The witness accepted the Chairman's invitation. It just so happens
the witness is here. If the committee wants to hear
from the witness, and the Chairman gave the witness that option,
then the only folks that are afraid to hear from
the witness with the American people watching, are my friends
(06:19):
on the other side of the aisle. I don't know
if there's a proper motion, mister Chairman, but I'll make
a motion. Let's vote. Let's take a vote. Who wants
to hear from Hunter? Right now? Today? Anyone come on,
who wants to hear from Hunter?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
No one? And of course the PS, the resistance Hunter
Biden shows up, they won't let him testify, they decide
to hold him in contempt for not testifying, and while
they won't let him testify, Marjorie Taylor Green starts shouting
and trying to get him to testify, so he gets
up and leaves. Now, what would explain Barney rubbles stunt
(06:59):
doubles actions here? TITLM and sim's expired.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Cherwoke and asmsus Green from Georgia for fevern.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Thank you mister chairman.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Excuse me hunter, apparently you're afraid of my words and
why you.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
All?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I like to reclaim my time, mister chairman.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Verst their bubble and then the network's cut away to
cover the departure of the President's son, and Ms Green
did not get her airtime. The President's son now recommended
for a contempt of Congress proceeding, recommended by people who
also ignored subpoenas because given a choice, as he was,
(07:40):
of an in private deposition or a public hearing, the
President's son chose the latter and was then told, oh, sorry,
we don't have that on the menu anymore. While that
was unfolding, Marjorie Taylor Green then showed blown up photos
of him naked again in an investigation about his father.
(08:02):
Why would anybody do something like that without looking too
closely at whatever is actually wrong with Marjorie Taylor Green specifically,
what are the generic options for that kind of behavior
on a generic basis stupidity, corruption, a pornography addiction And
(08:25):
it's marked now German point of parliamentary.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Out showing proof of man Act violations. Democrats should should
not be offended by pictures that blackout.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
If I've been recognized they should be offended parliament, mister
stake your boy, thank you kindly. Mister Terminal, July twenty
sixth I sent you a letter about the last time
this happened, when the General Lady introduced before this committee
without any notice to anyone uh nude photos pornographic images
(09:00):
that were completely irrelevant to the purpose of the hearing itself.
And my question to you is are members allowed to
simply put up sensationalistic of wiistic pornographic images if they're
not relevant to the actual object of the legislative proceeding.
(09:21):
I want to parliamentary ruling on.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That, mister Askin. That's probably part of the questioning for
for mister Biden violations of the man AC.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Miss Green's lead on that issue.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
You know, this is the committee.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
These pictures have already been entered into the record.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
So in other words, that you have accepted the idea
that members can introduce irrelevant actually based how aristic?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
How is this irrelevant? How does it relate to Joe Biden?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
How does it relate to We're not doing a criminal
investigation of Hunter fighting point of order, mister chairman.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Point of order testified in the FBI. And I haven't
even gotten around to the conduct of the House Republican's
chief theater critic Lauren Bobert two on the aisle. It's
worth one in the hand something.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
These evil idiots could just be evil idiots. Madison Cawthorn,
just another evil idiot pending further information. That has to
be the assumption. Evil and idiocy can take you a
long way in the Republican Party. But I was talking
yesterday with somebody about how at the climax of the
steroid drug problem in baseball circa two thousand and five,
(10:39):
two thousand and six, when a star like Mark McGuire,
who broke the home run record, told Congress he was
not there to talk about the past, and another star
wagged his finger and said he never did steroids, and
it turned out he did steroids, and a third pretended
not to speak English. And then a book came out
from jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics, who said he
(11:02):
used to do steroids, and so did everybody else, and
it had taken him months to find a publisher because
nobody believed it and didn't want to take the risk.
And it was all true, and worse was true, and
jose Canseco was the truth teller, and suddenly, God help me.
(11:26):
I'd like to hear more from Madison Cawthorn, please Now,
if I sound a little raspy, or if you notice
that there are only small segments of me and a
lot of soundbites in this I have been fighting a
cranky throat since Christmas and it's been getting more cranky.
(11:46):
It's not serious. I'm fine. I don't even have a fever.
The throat's been examined. It's just that my voice vanishes
on me. From time to time. It'll sound like this,
and then it'll sound like bye. You don't know this
because I recorded this podcast and I can re record
anytime I need to. But that involves an awful lot
(12:08):
of talking, and my eent wants me to rest the
voice as best I can, So I'm gonna go gargle,
and then I'll read you the worst person's list, including
how anyway you slice it. ESPN fired Aaron Rodgers yesterday.
If you'd be so kind as to listen to the
commercials in the interim, that's next. This is countdown. This
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is Countdown with Keith Auberman. Time for the daily roundup
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of the misgrants, morons, and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who
constitute two days worse persons in the world, the Bronze worse.
For years, the states that have been the most arrogant
and the most xenophobic about immigrants have been the same
ones who suddenly found shortages in their supply of manual labor.
(13:16):
I recall more than a decade ago, most of Georgia's
onion and watermelon crops rotted in the fields, and the
state lost millions of dollars of income because the state
was approximately eleven thousand migrant labors short. Well, Sir, Indiana
State Rep. Joanna King is not going to let that
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happen in her state. She has introduced legislation that would
starting in July. Let kids quit school in Indiana at
the age of fourteen fourteen, as long as they have
finished the eighth grade, so they could go to work
as farm laborers, because the nineteenth century was terrific. The
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runner up Worser courtesy the excellent website Popular Information, the
Escambia County School District in the Florida Panhandle. So what's
the next step. If you've already started banning books in
Florida and trying to essentially ban students in Indiana and
send them to go work in the fields, don't worry,
Sun'll be sunset soon. You do what they did in Escambia,
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just to make sure they didn't violate HB One six ' nine,
the Ron De Santis Bill that gives residents the right
to remove any book from a library that depicts or
describes sexual conduct. The Scambia County has removed from its
library the dictionary, actually three different dictionaries and two the
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sources and eight encyclopedias because they describe sexual conduct. Yeah,
I got bad news for you, geniuses. You know what
other book describes sexual conduct and therefore you damn well
better ban it immediately. I believe the title is the
the Bible, but our winners the worst. Pat McAfee, star
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of the new Big Sleeveless Pat Show on ESPN, and
his cohort Aaron Rodgers of the New York Jets and ESPN. Well, well,
just of the New York Jets. He's off ESPN at
least for now. Actually, he only played four snaps for
the New York Jets. So it's Aaron Rodgers, formerly of
the New York Jets and formerly of ESPN. After a
(15:29):
week of controversies generated entirely by McAfee and Rogers themselves
for money, centering on defaming their Disney colleague Jimmy Kimmel
and slamming key ESPN executives by name, one who they
like and one who they do not like, and now
the backlash starting, in which the ESPN football writer Dan
(15:51):
Graciano went on the ESPN Radio Morning show yesterday and
described Aaron Rodgers as quote obviously a liar and a
narcissistic con artist who is bad for everything he touches. Unquote.
After all that this guy sleeveless, McAfee announced that Aaron
Rodgers will not appear again on the ESPN Show for
the rest of this National Football League season, even though
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McAfee is paying Rogers more than a million dollars a
year to appear on the show during the National Football
League season. So Aaron Rodgers got fired, and McAfee insisted,
and a lot of off the record sources insisted, and
ESPN insisted that this was McAfee's call, in which case
it was McAfee throwing Aaron Rodgers under the bus. And
(16:36):
I approve, but it doesn't matter. It's the proverbial distinction
without a difference, big sleeveless Pat might very well have
made the actual phone call, Hey Aaron, you're not on anymore.
But I'm gonna go way out on a limb now.
Somebody who worked at ESPN full time on three separate
occasions in two different centuries, and freelance another two times,
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and all that over the span of five different decades,
I'm going to bet that some at ESPN gave Pat
McAfee this choice. Pat. Aaron Rodgers used the anti semitic
puppet imagery again Tuesday and then went off on a
ten minute anti vax rant. And we have somehow convinced
Jimmy Kimmel not to sue him yet and not to
(17:21):
sue you yet, Pat, so so you fire Aaron Rodgers
or we will do it for you. And if we
have to do it for you, you're gone too. The
problem is Pat McAfee should have known to do this
a week ago, not a day ago. And ESPN should
have known this was going to happen because this is
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almost exactly what happened with Rush Limbaugh when they hired
him twenty years ago. And all that means that you
can almost bet that something like this will happen on
Pat McAfee's show again real soon, Big Shirtless Pat and Aaron.
At least he lasted longer on ESPN than he did
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Madison Cawthorn, Madison Cawthorn, the ex congressman, the crazy kid
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who went to see Hitler's Eagle's nest and said it
was on his bucket list. Remember Madison Cawthorn. Remember Madison
Cawthorn when he described his shock that here he was
elected to the House of Representatives and he'd found that
it was fueled by drug based orgies. And he said
all he found in Washington were anti drug leaders who
(00:50):
turned out to be less war on drugs and more
plain old I'm on drugs. I hate to think of
Madison Cawthorn for a moment, Let alone think of Madison
Cawthorn for a moment as a truth teller. But what
would best explain this? Exactly? From Trump's town hall on
Fox last night?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
In recent days, you seem to issue a warning that
if in the courts and even the US Supreme Court,
if they didn't treat you fairly, that maybe there would
be bedlam in the country. Use that word bedlam in
the country. Can you say tonight that political violence is
never acceptable?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, of course that's right, and of course I'm the
one that had very little of it. Take a look
at wars again. I didn't start, I wasn't involved in wars.
We beat the hell out of Isis. We won one
hundred percent. We brought our troops back home. Look at
the violence that we've had, look at the violence we
have recently.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But when you say bedlam, what do you mean? I
think said bedlam?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I think you look at Joe Biden's bedlam.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Of course that made no sense. Trump said that if
he did not get his way, there would be bedlam
in this country. Asked about what he meant by bedlam
in this country and about political violence once he talked
about wars. The problem isn't that it didn't make any sense.
The problem is that, clearly it makes sense to him,
(02:15):
What specifically could be wrong with someone who thinks when
they say that that they are making sense that everyone
will understand. It's not like that from Trump, his stand
alone in some way. The day began yesterday at the
Hunter Biden hearings yesterday, and there was a subtext there
that I thought seemed to get lost behind all of
(02:37):
the stupidity. All the Republicans behaved as if they were
not just stupid, not just staggering under the weight of
their delusions of grandeur, but hallucinating. Is it that simple?
You saw the Wall Street Journal story on Elon Musk
consuming more drugs, according to the Wall Street Journal, than
(03:01):
the state of New Mexico. And you've heard by now
that Hitler and the Nazi leadership were all on speed
and other drugs throughout World War Two. It's all documented
by the Nazi physicians who gave them their Nazi drugs
that help make them Nazi. And then yesterday we saw
(03:24):
what we saw at the Hunter Biden hearings. There was
Nancy Mace, the congresswoman who had boasted Giddaly last summer
about reaching the prayer breakfast on time, but only by
fending off mourning sex with her boyfriend. She reached this
hearing on time and not only focused on Hunter Biden's
(03:44):
quote balls, but she then accused him of white privilege.
He's white, she's white. I'm just gonna guess she meant
male privilege or white male privilege. But no, no, that's
not what Nancy May said.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You are the epitome of white priviled, coming into the
Oversight Committee spitting in our face ignoring a congressional subpoena
to be deposed. What are you afraid of?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You have no balls?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
As we have fumbled for answers about what the hell
happened to this country, specifically, what the hell happened to
the Republican Party specifically? What the hell is it with
people like Nancy Mace? Why are they in such thrall
to loser Jay Trump, who, for brain chemistry reasons or
other chemistry reasons or whatever, is clearly utterly and constantly
(04:37):
detached from reality. Could it be that simple miss true?
Is this a joke? Seriously? Is this hearing a joke?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
This is a committee that now cares about subpoena compliance,
and we're going to hold somebody in contempt for subpoena compliance.
That's really interesting because to me, it seems like you
believe we all had our memories wiped six hundred and
(05:09):
eight days ago when you failed to honor your own subpoena.
But I have to ask, how dumb do you think
the American people are that you would seek to hold
someone in contempt when you are six hundred and eight days,
fifteen hours, twenty one minutes, and forty seven seconds out
of compliance of your own subpoena.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, you know what Eric Swallwell heard wiping the floor
there with Jim Jordan. You know what might explain that,
you know, you know what might explain the entire Congressional
career of Chairman James Comer. I mean this with Jared Moskowitz.
If the hearing had been a boxing match, it would
have been stopped and their referees and the State Board
(05:52):
would have made all the Republicans provide urine samples.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
The witness accepted the Chairman's invitation. It just so happens
the witness is here. If the committee wants to hear
from the witness, and the Chairman gave the witness that option,
then the only folks that are afraid to hear from
the witness with the American people watching, are my friends
(06:19):
on the other side of the aisle. I don't know
if there's a proper motion, mister Chairman, but I'll make
a motion. Let's vote. Let's take a vote. Who wants
to hear from Hunter? Right now? Today? Anyone come on,
who wants to hear from Hunter?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
No one? And of course the PS, the resistance Hunter
Biden shows up, they won't let him testify, they decide
to hold him in contempt for not testifying, and while
they won't let him testify, Marjorie Taylor Green starts shouting
and trying to get him to testify, so he gets
up and leaves. Now, what would explain Barney rubbles stunt
(06:59):
doubles actions here? TITLM and sim's expired.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Cherwoke and asmsus Green from Georgia for fevern.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Thank you mister chairman.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Excuse me hunter, apparently you're afraid of my words and
why you.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
All?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I like to reclaim my time, mister chairman.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Verst their bubble and then the network's cut away to
cover the departure of the President's son, and Ms Green
did not get her airtime. The President's son now recommended
for a contempt of Congress proceeding, recommended by people who
also ignored subpoenas because given a choice, as he was,
(07:40):
of an in private deposition or a public hearing, the
President's son chose the latter and was then told, oh, sorry,
we don't have that on the menu anymore. While that
was unfolding, Marjorie Taylor Green then showed blown up photos
of him naked again in an investigation about his father.
(08:02):
Why would anybody do something like that without looking too
closely at whatever is actually wrong with Marjorie Taylor Green specifically,
what are the generic options for that kind of behavior
on a generic basis stupidity, corruption, a pornography addiction And
(08:25):
it's marked now German point of parliamentary.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Out showing proof of man Act violations. Democrats should should
not be offended by pictures that blackout.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
If I've been recognized they should be offended parliament, mister
stake your boy, thank you kindly. Mister Terminal, July twenty
sixth I sent you a letter about the last time
this happened, when the General Lady introduced before this committee
without any notice to anyone uh nude photos pornographic images
(09:00):
that were completely irrelevant to the purpose of the hearing itself.
And my question to you is are members allowed to
simply put up sensationalistic of wiistic pornographic images if they're
not relevant to the actual object of the legislative proceeding.
(09:21):
I want to parliamentary ruling on.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
That, mister Askin. That's probably part of the questioning for
for mister Biden violations of the man AC.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Miss Green's lead on that issue.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
You know, this is the committee.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
These pictures have already been entered into the record.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
So in other words, that you have accepted the idea
that members can introduce irrelevant actually based how aristic?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
How is this irrelevant? How does it relate to Joe Biden?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
How does it relate to We're not doing a criminal
investigation of Hunter fighting point of order, mister chairman.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Point of order testified in the FBI. And I haven't
even gotten around to the conduct of the House Republican's
chief theater critic Lauren Bobert two on the aisle. It's
worth one in the hand something.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
These evil idiots could just be evil idiots. Madison Cawthorn,
just another evil idiot pending further information. That has to
be the assumption. Evil and idiocy can take you a
long way in the Republican Party. But I was talking
yesterday with somebody about how at the climax of the
steroid drug problem in baseball circa two thousand and five,
(10:39):
two thousand and six, when a star like Mark McGuire,
who broke the home run record, told Congress he was
not there to talk about the past, and another star
wagged his finger and said he never did steroids, and
it turned out he did steroids, and a third pretended
not to speak English. And then a book came out
from jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics, who said he
(11:02):
used to do steroids, and so did everybody else, and
it had taken him months to find a publisher because
nobody believed it and didn't want to take the risk.
And it was all true, and worse was true, and
jose Canseco was the truth teller, and suddenly, God help me.
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I'd like to hear more from Madison Cawthorn, please Now,
if I sound a little raspy, or if you notice
that there are only small segments of me and a
lot of soundbites in this I have been fighting a
cranky throat since Christmas and it's been getting more cranky.
(11:46):
It's not serious. I'm fine. I don't even have a fever.
The throat's been examined. It's just that my voice vanishes
on me. From time to time. It'll sound like this,
and then it'll sound like bye. You don't know this
because I recorded this podcast and I can re record
anytime I need to. But that involves an awful lot
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of talking, and my eent wants me to rest the
voice as best I can, So I'm gonna go gargle,
and then I'll read you the worst person's list, including
how anyway you slice it. ESPN fired Aaron Rodgers yesterday.
If you'd be so kind as to listen to the
commercials in the interim, that's next. This is countdown. This
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is Countdown with Keith Auberman. Time for the daily roundup
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of the misgrants, morons, and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who
constitute two days worse persons in the world, the Bronze worse.
For years, the states that have been the most arrogant
and the most xenophobic about immigrants have been the same
ones who suddenly found shortages in their supply of manual labor.
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I recall more than a decade ago, most of Georgia's
onion and watermelon crops rotted in the fields, and the
state lost millions of dollars of income because the state
was approximately eleven thousand migrant labors short. Well, Sir, Indiana
State Rep. Joanna King is not going to let that
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happen in her state. She has introduced legislation that would
starting in July. Let kids quit school in Indiana at
the age of fourteen fourteen, as long as they have
finished the eighth grade, so they could go to work
as farm laborers, because the nineteenth century was terrific. The
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runner up Worser courtesy the excellent website Popular Information, the
Escambia County School District in the Florida Panhandle. So what's
the next step. If you've already started banning books in
Florida and trying to essentially ban students in Indiana and
send them to go work in the fields, don't worry,
Sun'll be sunset soon. You do what they did in Escambia,
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just to make sure they didn't violate HB One six ' nine,
the Ron De Santis Bill that gives residents the right
to remove any book from a library that depicts or
describes sexual conduct. The Scambia County has removed from its
library the dictionary, actually three different dictionaries and two the
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sources and eight encyclopedias because they describe sexual conduct. Yeah,
I got bad news for you, geniuses. You know what
other book describes sexual conduct and therefore you damn well
better ban it immediately. I believe the title is the
the Bible, but our winners the worst. Pat McAfee, star
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of the new Big Sleeveless Pat Show on ESPN, and
his cohort Aaron Rodgers of the New York Jets and ESPN. Well, well,
just of the New York Jets. He's off ESPN at
least for now. Actually, he only played four snaps for
the New York Jets. So it's Aaron Rodgers, formerly of
the New York Jets and formerly of ESPN. After a
(15:29):
week of controversies generated entirely by McAfee and Rogers themselves
for money, centering on defaming their Disney colleague Jimmy Kimmel
and slamming key ESPN executives by name, one who they
like and one who they do not like, and now
the backlash starting, in which the ESPN football writer Dan
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Graciano went on the ESPN Radio Morning show yesterday and
described Aaron Rodgers as quote obviously a liar and a
narcissistic con artist who is bad for everything he touches. Unquote.
After all that this guy sleeveless, McAfee announced that Aaron
Rodgers will not appear again on the ESPN Show for
the rest of this National Football League season, even though
(16:13):
McAfee is paying Rogers more than a million dollars a
year to appear on the show during the National Football
League season. So Aaron Rodgers got fired, and McAfee insisted,
and a lot of off the record sources insisted, and
ESPN insisted that this was McAfee's call, in which case
it was McAfee throwing Aaron Rodgers under the bus. And
(16:36):
I approve, but it doesn't matter. It's the proverbial distinction
without a difference, big sleeveless Pat might very well have
made the actual phone call, Hey Aaron, you're not on anymore.
But I'm gonna go way out on a limb now.
Somebody who worked at ESPN full time on three separate
occasions in two different centuries, and freelance another two times,
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and all that over the span of five different decades,
I'm going to bet that some at ESPN gave Pat
McAfee this choice. Pat. Aaron Rodgers used the anti semitic
puppet imagery again Tuesday and then went off on a
ten minute anti vax rant. And we have somehow convinced
Jimmy Kimmel not to sue him yet and not to
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sue you yet, Pat, so so you fire Aaron Rodgers
or we will do it for you. And if we
have to do it for you, you're gone too. The
problem is Pat McAfee should have known to do this
a week ago, not a day ago. And ESPN should
have known this was going to happen because this is
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almost exactly what happened with Rush Limbaugh when they hired
him twenty years ago. And all that means that you
can almost bet that something like this will happen on
Pat McAfee's show again real soon, Big Shirtless Pat and Aaron.
At least he lasted longer on ESPN than he did
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with the Jets Rogers two days. Worst persons in the world.
(18:36):
I've done all the damage I can do here on countdown.
Thank you for listening this time. It's literally damaged to myself.
As I mentioned earlier, my ent agreed to let me
keep talking provided I cut back today. So you've just
heard the streamlined version. I'm not Lloyd austining you here.
I'm not sick. There's nothing seriously wrong structurally. They're not
worried about my throat. It's just everything is strained from
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projecting while sick, don't get better, Thanks for your indulgence. Countdown.
Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanel arranged, produced,
and performed most of our music. Mister Ray on guitars,
based on drums, Mister Chanelle on orchestration and keyboards. It
was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music performed and arranged
by No Horns Allowed sports music. The Olberman theme from
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ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN Inc.
Our satirical and pithy musical comments from Nancy Faust The
best baseball stadium organist ever and our announcer today was
my friend Richard Lewis, and everything else was pretty much
my fault. So that's countdown for this, the three hundredth
day until the twenty twenty four US presidential election and
the one thousan ninety ninth day since dementia Jay Trump's
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first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the
United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, the Insurrection Act, and
the justice system to stop him from doing it again
while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow.
I want to raise the possibility that I'm going to
skip it based on the throat, So if there isn't
one showing up in your mailbox, don't be surprised or
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alarmed until next time. Whenever next time is. As the
news anchor at the station I interned for in nineteen
seventy eight used to say, thank you for your time
this time till next time. I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning,
good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith
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