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Keith Olbermann
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Johnny Knoxville
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Eva Longoria
I'm Eva Longoria.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
And I'm Maitha Gomez Rejuan. And this week on our podcast Hungry for History, we talk oysters. Plus the Miambi chief stops by.
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Keith Olbermann
If you're not an oyster lover, don't even talk to me.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto oyster shells to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracize is related to the word oyster.
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Eva Longoria
No way.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
Bring back the ostracon.
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Eva Longoria
Listen to Hungry for history on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever your.
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Michael Lewis
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Keith Olbermann
Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a production of iHeartRadio. The correct question has been lying there, there hidden, invisible in the forest for the trees. Mary Trump finally saw it and she has asked it.
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Why the hell do.
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They keep giving him cognitive tests? That's it, isn't it? I'll add a corollary.
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Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests? Almost exactly six months apart he's boasting.
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Again about having passed one. We believe it was three weeks ago, Friday, October 10th, at Walter Reed. But who knows during what they first called his annual physical. Until somebody realized he'd already had his annual physical last spring when he also boasted about having just taken one.
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April 11th. That's two cognitive tests.
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April 11th and probably October 10th. Those dates are six months apart. 182 days. If they are not giving him pre scheduled cognitive tests every six months, that's a hell of a coincidence. Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests? And I'll add a second corollary to Mary Trump's real question.
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Why did they give him an MRI this time? Is this the first mri? What was it of? I mean, it may be irrelevant.
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I once had an MRI to see.
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How my sinuses were draining into the back of my throat.
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You really can get MRIs for almost.
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Trivial stuff, but you do not get.
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Cognitive tests for trivial stuff every six months.
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And we know all this because Trump can't stop himself. He keeps talking about these tests. He keeps thinking he's, he's won some sort of game show or scholarship or Nobel cognitive test prize. Onboard Air Force One this week he boasted to reporters about acing the MRI and about passing the cognition test. Three weeks ago, Trump first tried to insist it was an IQ test so he could insult representatives Ocasio, Cortez and Crockett. Then he slipped and he admitted it was a cognitive test. And then he described the test. This was this past Monday aboard Air Force One.
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Donald Trump (quoted)
Have her pass. Like the exams that I decided to do, take when I was at Walter Reed, I took. Those are very hard. They're really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don't think Jasmine, the first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know when you get up to about 5 or 6 and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn't come close to answering any of those questions.
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Keith Olbermann
And this.
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Why do they keep giving him cognitive tests? The audio, a little less clear, was also from onboard Air force one from April 11, 2025.
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Donald Trump (quoted)
I wanted to be a little different than I took a cognitive test. And I don't know what to tell you other than I got every answer right. Yes, I've done about four times and I've taken, I've taken the cognitive test, I think four times and I'm Done. I've got nothing wrong. That's what the American people.
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Keith Olbermann
That was during his 2025 annual physical. His first annual physical. Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests? And it's not like these are the only two. Person, woman, man, camera, tv. That was now five years and three months ago.
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Donald Trump (quoted)
Like, you'll go, person, woman, man, camera, tv. So they say, could you repeat that? So I said, ye. So it's person, woman, man, camera, tv. Okay, that's very good. If you get it in order, you get extra points.
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Keith Olbermann
He said he had taken that test recently at Walter reed. Recently in 2020, sometime after that. His own White House physician said that Trump had taken the Montreal cognitive assessment in 2018. Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests? A cognitive test, and he has used the word this time. A dementia or other brain impairment screening test. Simple triage on October 10th. That's one. Then there's the one in April. That's two. He was boasting in January of last year about having passed one. Kept boasting about it through the spring. Only the animals they asked him about in that one were different than the ones he just mentioned in the one he just took. Was that a third test? Last year, throughout Biden's presidency, Trump talked about these tests. In 2020, he repeatedly challenged Biden to take one. He said in 2020 he had recently taken one. That's three or four. We know for sure. He took the Montreal Cognitive in 2018. That was definitely at least the fourth, probably the fifth. Why the hell keep giving him cognitive tests? That's two in the last six months. Seemingly time to be six months apart. That is certainly four in the last six years. He has previously said he's taken four of these tests.
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Maybe five.
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He can't remember. It could easily be five. In fact, it could easily be six. Anybody remember when he disappeared way back when? Around, oh, decades ago? A Labor Day. After that three and a half hour farewell roast of a Cabinet meeting. Where was he? Did they test him then? And then he disappeared for another five days at the end of September. Did they test him then? Well, we are deep in the woods again. Let us return to the simplicity of the Mary Trump question. It is absolutely certain that they keep giving the President of the United States tests to see if he can pass the minimum standard for cognitive capacity, to pass the minimum, simplest threshold for not having some form of impairment, maybe dementia. It certainly is a reasonable inference to suggest that giving them on April 11 and October 10 suggests they are now scheduling him for regular tests. And although he slipped in his rush to try to explain how much smarter.
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He is than Jasmine Crockett or Alexandria.
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Ocasio Cortez or whichever elected Democratic woman of color is next on his shit list, it is clear that at some.
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Point somebody convinced him, or he convinced himself that this was an IQ test and that he's, to quote his own words again, a very stable genius. It says so on the test with the picture of the giraffe on it, even though the only word in that description of very stable genius that appears to apply is very. We can all agree Donald Trump is very. There are two little side points I'd like to make before we drop this for now. I often wonder where he conflated the concept of political asylum and mental asylums. He can't shake it. He says it every two weeks. He will never be convinced that people who are here because they were granted asylum are therefore from asylums. This can be simple, good old fashioned American stupidity. He deduced this when he was a kid, the way a kid I Knew at age 13 insisted the phrase was for all intensive purposes. And for whatever reason, Trump would not and could not shake his mistake about the word asylum. Or. Or this asylum stuff is somehow wedged into his mind because it's connected to his own experience with psychological exams, which he must have taken as a kid, since, as his own father euphemistically put it decades ago, Trump was a rough kid who had to be taken out of the public schools and sent to the New York Military Academy Nima, because, well, in my prep school days, when our football and hockey and basketball and baseball teams used to play against Nima, all the kids at NIMA were supposedly there because some authority had given Dad a choice. It's there or it's the reformatory. I just keep wondering if the word asylum is stuck inside Trump because he had to face that as a kid. Did the folks threaten him with it?
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The second point is less speculative. I hadn't heard this before that clip I played from April, the last time he was boasting about the last cognitive test he passed. He said that at Walter Reed they gave him a thorough physical exam as well, and it showed he had a good heart and a very good soul. You heard me. Your physical showed that your soul is just fine. It's not an irregular soul, and your soul is not hyperextended and you don't have Peyronie's soul disease. Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests? I think contained in that Last clip. That might be our answer right there. Meanwhile, in another endless topic, Trump has said something that sounds like he's not going to try to stay in office past January 20, 2029. And since it was preceded by only one full minute of lies about how great the economy is and how he got peace in the Middle east and how nobody's ever been as popular as he is, why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests, the nation's most gullible people? The Washington press corps seems to have concluded that he's not trying to mislead, dissemble, or, you know, just lie to them. Again, the British kid. It's always a goddamn British kid. Who they supposedly had fired as the editor of the Playbook newsletter for Politico months ago. But he's still there yesterday wrote so even Trump says the Constitution is clear on this point. Can we all now bed? No, Sonny, we can't. Because you didn't ask Trump what the word clear means, did you? Huh? Huh?
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Molly Lambert
Huh?
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Keith Olbermann
Speaker Johnson says that he told you that there's no time to amend the Constitution to allow you to serve a third term. Is that an accurate representation of the Constitution? I don't know.
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Donald Trump (quoted)
I don't want to even talk about that because you know, the sad thing is I have my highest numbers that I've ever had and I would say that if you read it, it's pretty clear I'm not allowed to run. Stupid administerment.
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Keith Olbermann
Dear listener, if you would please get out your meme of the guy tapping his head to indicate how smart he is. Can't be accused of trying to run for a third term if you cancel the 2029 election or make some other extra constitutional violence based attempt to not leave the White House. Huh? There is still something rattling around in that damaged brain of Trump's. Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests that assumes there will be some sort of mass uprising by others to keep him in power forever, one that he may or may need to himself stoke. Or it can happen organically or, and if you don't believe that, let me ask you what was January 6th? Trump has specifically said he didn't think he would want to run as Vice President and let somebody else occupy the presidency ceremonially while he runs the country. But again, what part of that is a no, I don't think I'd like to do it. Oh, I did it anyway. The speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, taking time off from enacting the passive aggressive dissolving of Congress and taking even more time off from his busy schedule of not knowing anything about the latest news or controversy or the rules of the House. He said he didn't see a path for Trump to serve a third term. Quoting he and I have talked about the constrictions of the Constitution. Again, where's the no? On the other hand, the only escaped circus elephant in the Senate, Tommy Tuberville, said if Trump wanted to go around the Constitution, don't ever close a book on him. And of course, Steve Bannon told the Economist that you shouldn't listen to Trump, that there is a plan in place to keep Trump in place in office and quote, at the appropriate time, we'll lay out what the plan is. It's easy to dismiss morons like Tuberville and mentally damaged fascists like Bannon and presume this is all bluster. It is not all bluster. If it is not obvious that while you and I and a vast majority of Americans have been raised to believe the Constitution and the laws are, if perhaps not the sacred documents the Republicans like to pretend they believe they are, we believe they are there to keep chaos and evil in relative check. But Trump and the snakes he has enabled and supported see them merely as inconvenient impediments. For at least four years they have been building up the phony resume for the revisionist drawn out of thin air.
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View of the 22nd Amendment term limits. It's two terms.
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That's. That's it.
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Plus you can serve out up to two years of somebody else's unexpired term and then get elected twice.
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That's it.
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Two elections, an absolute hard time limit of nine years and 183 days, not 182 days, because there'd have to be a leap year if you took the end of somebody else's unserved term.
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The revisionist version of this, of course.
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Is that this only applies to someone being elected to two consecutive terms. This useful bullshit rationalizes that from the 22nd amendment point of view, Trump is right now only in his first term. As I've pointed out countless times, this bullshit also has the invaluable benefit of keeping Obama or Bill Clinton or George.
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Bush, for whatever that's worth, from ever running again.
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Only Trump. It's nonsense, of course. Presidential immunity is nonsense, of course. Masked, anonymous thugs probably recruited from right wing militia, shooting ministers in the face with tear gas while calling themselves ICE is also nonsense, actually, thanks to Trump and thanks to this corrupt, decrepit, soulless Supreme Court, what 60%, 70%, 100% of American public life is now nonsense. Go to the Supreme Court with the non consecutive terms fantasy and see how quickly Sam Alito can turn that into law.
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Still, my gut has always told me that the extra constitutional theft that Trump favors and really dreams about the most is not some loophole shot into the 22nd amendment by Mrs. Alito and her flags, nor even a military takeover. What he wants is for everybody to just agree with him that A, he deserves another term because those evil Democrats wasted so much of his first term with the investigation of the Russia, Russia, Russia truth about his conspiracies with Putin, and that B, he deserves another term, maybe a fourth one, because the 2020 election was, quote, stolen from him even though he was president at the time and all the institutions that supervised the elections and investigated his nonsensical charges for the last five years were under his control. Either way, Trump does not want to have to be elected again in 2029 because another election means another chance to lose an election. He wants to remain president because everybody says he's so wonderful that there's no need to even have a vote. He could lose an election. He could lose a coup attempt. Hell, son of a bitch did lose a coup attempt, didn't he? A simple acclamation, though, in which everybody names him homecoming king and scored a perfect score on his IQ test and president. Again, simple acclamation. That's what he wants. And if you have to do something with that annoying Constitution to make that happen, what you do is simply find a way to say, of course he only gets two terms and of course he knows he can't run for a third one. It says so in the Constitution.
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He.
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He just said it on tape. But where does it say we can't change how long his second term is? Why don't we just amend that other part of the Constitution that nobody looks at? Article 2, Section 1, Clause 1, so that it says a president shall hold his office during the term of four years, but this president shall hold his office during the term of 8 years or 12 or 11/70 billion. Also of interest here. Oh, it's more Brits running American news operations into the ground. The one they found to finally complete the destruction of CNN went to the White House to kiss Trump's ass and the ass of every Trump staffer. And before he got to his home, there was a tweet from a Trump spokesman mocking him for trying to appease Trump. Congratulations, Neville Chamberlain. But don't worry, CNN is going to be merged into MSNBC and the right wing has its candidate to run MSNBC, CNN. It's a former Miss Arizona now studying for a doctorate in Bible studies at Liberty University. Who reads the most Bazooka Joe comic strips shall get the doctorate in Bible studies at Liberty. You know who this is? They want to run a combined msnbc, cnn, Charlie Kirk's widow. Cause this is hell, isn't it? That's next. This is Countdown.
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Keith Olbermann
No way.
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Podcast Host
I died laughing. I'm like, I have have to know you are lying. Humongous, y'. All. They had some time on their hands. Listen to Reasonably Shady from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Molly Lambert
Jenna World, Jenna Jamison, Vivid Video and the Valley is a new podcast about the history of the adult film industry. I'm Molly Lambert, host of Heidi World, the Heidi Fly store, and I'll be your tour guide on a wild ride through adult films. We get paid more than the men. We call the shots. In what way is that degrading? That's us taking hold of our Life. In the 1990s, actress Jenna Jameson crossed over into mainstream culture, redefined stardom, then left it all behind. I'm a powerful woman. I think that's intimidating to a man. With a cast of hundreds of actors and comedians playing key figures, we'll take a look at how adult films became legal in the 70s, hugely profitable in the 80s and 90s, and fell off a financial cliff in the 2000s. Listen to Gentle World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Eva Longoria
I'm Eva Longoria.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
And I'm Maite Gomez Jejon.
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Eva Longoria
And on our podcast Hungry for History, we mix two of our favorite things, food and history.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto oyster shells and they called these ostrakon to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracize is related to the word oyster.
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Eva Longoria
No way.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
Bring back the ostracon.
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Eva Longoria
And because we've got a very mi casa es su casa kind of vibe on our show, friends always stop by.
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Keith Olbermann
Pretty much every entry into this side of the planet was through the El Golfo de Mexico.
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Michael Lewis
No, the Americas.
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Keith Olbermann
No, the America forever and ever.
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Eva Longoria
It blows me away how progressive Mexico was in this moment. They had land reform, they had labor rights, they had education rights.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
Mustard seeds were so valuable to the ancient Egyptians that they used to place them in their tombs for the afterlife.
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Eva Longoria
Listen to Hungry for History as part of the My Cultura Podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Keith Olbermann
This is Countdown with Keith Olbermann, who can predict almost any. Still ahead on this all new episode of Countdown, all this LA Dodgers World Series stuff reminds me to remind you that not only did I correctly predict the Kirk Gibson home run that won Game 1 of the 1988 World Series and then sent them on their way to their upset of the Oakland A's to win that World Series, but I did it as the inning started in which he hit it and I predicted it as part of an answer to a question that my friend Alexis Denny, who you just heard, asked me, and she was a witness to this impossible prediction that was not at all serious. The Kirk Gibson home run and I told you so next in things I promised not to tell first. Believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons and dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world at the bonds. Worse, Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon says Zoran Mamdani has got to be sent out of the country, that they have to denaturalize him. But think about what would happen if we did this instead to Steve Bannon. Think of how much affordable housing we could build in the space that this fat ugly slob now wastes and occupies. Runner up Rich Greenfield, who is a conservative media pest, identifies as a critic, as quoted by Max Tenney of Semaphore.
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This is his Genius idea. Let's take this a step further.
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Merging NBCUniversal with Warner Bros. Discovery would combine NBC, MSNBC and CNN under one roof, he writes. We've been thinking about how NBCUniversal could completely shift the perceived bias narrative at NBC, MSN now and CNN, similar to what Paramount is attempting with its acquisition of the Free Press and appointing Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News. Enter Erica Kirk, who leads the nonprofit Turning Point USA and is the widow of Charlie Kirk. What if Comcast agreed to bring Kirk in as editor in chief of the.
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Combined news unit upon closing?
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Sure, at first blush it sounds crazy, by the way, sir, at 4322nd blush it sounds crazier. But Trump loves a deal F Trump f his deals. And Brian Roberts needs to think big and differently. Yes, kick Trump in the metaphorical nuts. That would be a different thought. The combined NBC, msnbc, CNN could also add a conservative ombudsman, as CBS News did with Kenneth R. Weinstein. Well, ombudsman here is used metaphorically. What they have is a snitch. What they have is a collaborator. What they have is a political officer inside CBS News who is there to turn in the liberals. Worth noting, Comcast made a sizable donation to Trump's White House ballroom renovation, which has unsurprisingly horrified NBC and MSNBC staff. Well, that's because Mr. Rich Greenfield it's a bribe. News organizations should not be anywhere near something like this, especially if it's a bribe of a corrupt president leading a corrupt movement full of corrupt people who have no soul and are all going to hell. Have a nice day, maggot. What a great idea. Scowling, angry, justifiably angry mind you. Widow of an assassinated right wing nutjob who all the members of the right wing think was Jesus or Trump or Jesus Trump or something. Put her in charge of NBC News msnow CNN when she has no news experience and all of their combined news organizations are bailing water as it is. And incidentally, they're populated by people connected to media. Me, the anchor of the NBC Nightly News used to be my production assistant. What could go wrong if you are hankering for the days when there were only three TV networks doing only half an hour of news a night. Hey, we may get back there and damned fast, but this is the way they think. The presumption on the right is that the left has been making up the news because it contains things the right doesn't like, therefore it can't be real. It must be some sort of propaganda.
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They really think this. If they wanted it to be sunny.
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And it turns out to be rain, they will blame the liberal weatherman rather than say, oh, it's raining. So necessarily, the solution to a combined NBC, MSNBC and CNN under one roof would be to put a woman with absolutely no experience and nothing but vendettas in charge of the operation. Because the Bari Weiss thing at CBS is already going so well. The point is, as has been pointed out here, I read the piece from what was her name, Emily Lepato? I may be getting that wrong, that all Bari Weiss is going to get to do is preside over the end of CBS News and the firing of everybody there. And if she has a reputation, it will be destroyed. So if you want to ruin Erica Kirk's life again, put her in charge of NBC, cnn, msnbc. Ugh, people are too stupid. But our winner, speaking of ruining television news, Mark Thompson of cnn. Once again, it's funny that the fascists are on this anti immigrant kick when it's clear the most dangerous immigrants to this country, pasty white guys from England or countries that were English colonies, Australia and the Murdochs, South Africa and Musk and the other guys, the UK and people like Mark Thompson. More impressively, why do so many submissive loser Trump appeasers from England get put in charge of American news organizations and then promptly give in to Trump and then immediately get humiliated by Trump? A story from our friends at Oliver Darcy's newsletter status. During a trip to D.C. last week, CNN CEO Mark Thompson made a visit to the White House where he promoted the network's new streaming service. He wanted to get members of the Trump administration up to speed on what the new CNN streaming operation. I remember the last guy they put in charge of cnn. His big deal was getting rid of the new CNN streaming operation. Now we have a whole new approach which is another new CNN streaming operation which the guy who succeeds Mark Thompson can then turn down because that's what works in management. What did the last guy do? He invented an elixir that gives everyone eternal life.
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Michael Lewis
Life.
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Keith Olbermann
Let's burn all of it. What do we want? Who wants eternal life? My policy is let's shorten lives. Anyway, Mark Thompson went into the White House and tried to sell the Trump people on being nicer to cnn, on appearing on cnn, more on promising that CNN would be nicer to Trump after every move they've made towards Trump since 2022 when Chris licked my Whatever began this process, every move CNN has made has destroyed what was left of cnn. Let's do more of that. Not only that, it will buy CNN eternal life under the Trump administration and all of the MAGA will watch cnn. And it's not a trap and it's not stupid. And you're not appeasing the Hitler of America. No, you're not doing any of those things. Mark Thompson the tweet from Oliver Darcy's Status with this scoop about Mark Thompson's visit to the White House was retweeted by Stephen Chung, the mincing Trump spokesman, who simply retweeted it with the purple devil smile. In other words, even Steven Cheung knows that Mark Thompson was brought in so that he could obey in advance to Donald Trump and they immediately rewarded him by humiliating Mark Thompson online. As George Conway put it, they're laughing at you. And they are because Mark Thompson, pasty.
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White guy thrown out of England and now the head of CNN promoting the streaming service, the last guy killed off.
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Michael Lewis here. My book the Big Short tells the story of the buildup and birth of the US housing market back in 2008. It follows a few unlikely but lucky people who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception. It was like feeding the monster, said Eisman. We fed the monster until it blew up. The monster was exploding. Yet on the streets of Manhattan, there was no sign anything important had just happened. Now, 15 years after the Big Short's original release, and a decade after it became an Academy Award winning movie, I've recorded an audiobook edition for the very first time. The Big Short Story what it means when people start betting against the market and who really pays for an unchecked financial system is as relevant today as it's ever been, offering invaluable insight into the current economy and also today's politics. Get the Big Short now at Pushkin FM Audiobooks or wherever audiobooks are sold.
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Eva Longoria
I'm Eva Longoria.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
And I'm Maite Gomez Rajan and on.
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Eva Longoria
Our podcast Hungry for History, we mix two of our favorite things, food and history.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto oyster shells and they called these ostracons to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracize is related to the word oyster.
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Eva Longoria
No way.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
Bring back the ostracon.
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Eva Longoria
And because we've got a very mi casa es su casa kind of vibe on our show, friends always stop by.
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Keith Olbermann
Pretty much every entry into this side of the planet was through the El Golfo de Mexico. No, the America forever and ever.
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Eva Longoria
It blows me away how progressive Mexico was in this moment. They had land reform, they had labor rights, they had education rights.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
Mustard seeds were so valuable to the ancient Egyptians that they used to place them in their tombs for the afterlife.
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Eva Longoria
Listen to Hungry for History as part of the My Cultura Podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Molly Lambert
Jenna World, Jenna Jameson Vivid Video and the Valley is a new podcast about the history of the adult film industry. I'm Molly Lambert, host of Heidi the Heidi Fly Story, and I'll be your tour guide on a wild ride through adult films. We get paid more than the men. We call the shots. In what way is that degrading?
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Podcast Host
Dating?
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Molly Lambert
That's us taking hold of our Life. In the 1990s, actress Jenna Jameson crossed over into mainstream culture, redefined stardom, then left it all behind. I'm a powerful woman. I think that's intimidating to a man. With a cast of hundreds of actors and comedians playing key figures, we'll take a look at how adult films became legal in the 70s, hugely profitable in the 80s, 80s and 90s, and fell off a financial cliff in the 2000s. Listen to Genaworld on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Keith Olbermann
The exact anniversary, anniversary number 37 of Kirk Gibson's famous home run to win game one of the 1988 World Series has long since passed. But before we get too far away from the idea of Kirk Gibson's LA Dodgers in the World Series, I wanted to tell this story once again. Only a couple of times in my life have I been visited by the muse of prediction. I once correctly predicted that Bucky Dent of the New York Yankees would hit a home run to win an American League playoff game between the Yankees and the Red Sox in Fenway Park. When my friend sitting next to me, the Red Sox fan, was expressing premature jocularity that a Yankee had flied out to center field with the tying runs on base and said, oh, thank goodness, Dent's no home run threat. I then spent five minutes explaining to him why Dent would necessarily now hit.
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A home run to win the game.
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And the pennant, which he then did. The other time was the Kirk Gibson story in 1988. And this was in direct response to a question asked to me by a friend of mine then and now named Alexis Denny. So just sit back and I say this and tell you this story with the full awareness that these two predictions.
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Of titanically important baseball events must be taken in the context of the probability that the number of times I had.
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Similar ecstatic visions of things that were about to happen that did not happen, including, say, the New York Yankees winning.
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The 1968 World Series when they finished, I think, sixth.
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The number that did not happen is a thousand or more. The number that did happen is two.
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But.
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But Kirk Gibson was among them.
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Half of the Dodgers starting lineup that had won the National League pennant was.
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Hurt, and the other half was not that impressive to begin with. National League Most Valuable player Kirk Gibson.
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Had nearly destroyed his left hamstring in game two of that playoff series that.
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David Cohn had written about, and Gibson had ripped up his right Knee in Game 7.
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He was assumed to be out of the World Series, but he was still on the Dodger roster. And the joke was that was only because the Dodgers literally did not have any other healthy players under contract and their only other option was to activate 61 year old manager Tom Losorda. Anyway, the Dodgers had actually led Game 1 against the powerful Oakland A's 2 nothing after the first inning, but by the ninth they were trailing 4 3, with literally three of the worst hitters in the National League due up. And then the pitcher. I was there covering the game for KCBS Channel 2 in LA, and my pal Alexis Denny, news and sports producer for CBS Network News in Los Angeles, made our way together down to the tiny alcove from the press box, the alcove between the clubhouses from which we could see just a sliver of the field, pretty much just the pitcher and the batter framed by a hot dog stand. As the Oakland relief ace Dennis Eckersley warmed up to pitch the bottom of the ninth, and he had given up exactly nine hits in his previous 18 games, in 14 of which he had recorded saves, Alexis asked me simply and appropriately, so what are we going to ask Eck after this game is over? And matter of factly, without any emotion, certainly without any sense of predicting anything, I said, we're going to ask Eck about this game losing home run he's about to give up to Kirk Gibson. Alexis looked at me funny. I mean funnier than usual. What? Gibson's not playing, he's hurt. I looked at her with mild annoyance. Oh come on, you know it has to happen. I can only describe my feeling at that time as being exactly what had been a decade before at another playoff game in Boston with the Red Sox leading the Yankees two nothing in the top of the seventh with two Yankees on and New York shortstop Bucky Dent coming up and my best friend the Red Sox fan exhaling when the last batter had popped out and saying thank goodness Dent is no home run threat. And I began to speak in tongues and what I was saying was about how his hubristic remark about Dent would now necessarily cause to happen next. What would happen next? A three run home run by Bucky Dent and it would be all his fault. And then Dent hit the homer.
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Neither the Dent nor the Gibson homerun predictions were really predictions. I felt no sense of investment in it. I didn't race to put down a bet. I suppose that at some other games I had made equally impossible announcements of events that did not happen, but I have never been given to that. So.
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So if I did do it, it.
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Was only a couple of times. My batting average is like 4 or 500 on these and anyway these weren't.
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Calculations or analyses on my part.
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I just felt like I was running about five minutes ahead of the rest of the world and these things dense home run in 1978, Gibson's home run in 1988.
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These things had already happened.
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Anyhoo, Mike Davis of the Dodgers walked, stole second base and with two outs, Gibson, to the shock of everybody except me, managed somehow to climb up the three steps of the Dodger dugout and waddle out to home plate. And then on a 32 pitch hit.
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The game winning home run.
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Like I said, as Dodger Stadium shook and we prepared to go into the clubhouses, Alexis Denny gave me a look that I still can't really describe. But 35 years later I know that since that night she has not been fully convinced that I am of this earth. I got it right. I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Most of our Countdown music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Chenale, our musical directors of Countdown, and it was produced by TKO Brothers. Mr. Ray on guitars, bass and drums, Mr. Chenale on orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Foust. The sports music is the olderman theme from ESPN2, which was written by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN Inc. Some other music was arranged and performed by the group no horns allowed. My announcer today was my friend Alexis Denny. Witness. Everything else was, as always, my fault. That's Countdown for today. Day 284 of America held hostage again, just 1,179 days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term. Unless he's removed sooner by MAGA and Epstein. Or that pavement patch on his hand, or the Tylenol or his jet made out of poop, or the ark he's building, or the next cognitive test. The next scheduled countdown is Monday. Until then, I'm Keith Olbermann. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Hit the post. Hit the post. Oh, hit the post. Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Johnny Knoxville
Hello, America's sweetheart. Johnny Knoxville here. I want to tell you about my new true crime podcast, Crimeless Hillbilly Heist from Smartless Media, Campside Media and big money players. It's a wild tale about a gang of high functioning nitwits who somehow pulled off America's third largest cash heist.
- [48:53]
Keith Olbermann
Kind of like Robin Hood, except for the part where he steals from the rich and gives to the poor.
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I'm not that gigrest.
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Johnny Knoxville
It's a damn near inspiring true story for anyone out there who's ever shot for the moon, then just totally muffed up the landing.
- [49:10]
Keith Olbermann
They stole $17 million and had not.
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Michael Lewis
Bought a ticket to help him escape.
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Podcast Host
So we're sitting like, oh God, what do we do?
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Michael Lewis
What do we do?
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Keith Olbermann
That was dumb.
- [49:18]
People do not follow my example.
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Johnny Knoxville
Listen to Crimeless Hillbilly Heist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Eva Longoria
I'm Eva Longoria.
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Maite Gomez Rejuan
And I'm Maite Gomez Rajan. And this week on our podcast, Hungry for History, we talk oysters. Plus the Miami chief stops by.
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Keith Olbermann
If you are not an oyster lover, don't even talk to me.
- [49:43]
Maite Gomez Rejuan
Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto oyster shells to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracize is related to the word oyster?
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Molly Lambert
No.
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Eva Longoria
No way.
- [49:55]
Maite Gomez Rejuan
Bring back the ostrocon.
- [49:57]
Eva Longoria
Listen to Hungry for history on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis here. My bestselling book, the Big Short tells the story of the buildup and burst of the US housing market back in 2008. A decade ago, the Big Short was made into an Academy Award winning movie, and now I'm bringing it to you for the first time as an audiobook narrated by yours truly. The Big Short story what it means to bet against the market and who really pays for an unchecked financial system is as relevant today as it's ever been. Get the Big Short now at Pushkin FM audiobooks or wherever audiobooks are sold.
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Podcast Host
This is an iHeart podcast.