THE RAY EPPS STORY: THANK GOD CONSERVATIVES ARE THIS STUPID - 9.20.23

Das ist Ihre Millionenschauß, jetzt im Lotto Jackpot, 45 Millionen Euro, 45 Millionen Euro. Lato Bayern nimmt ein Glück in die Hand. Spielteilnahme ab 18 Chance auf den Höchstgewinn 1,140 Millionen Glückspiel kann süchtig machen, Hilfe unter WZG-RDI. Sometimes the pop culture we love his teens, hits differently in retrospect. Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of, or an illicit student-teacher relationship on our favorite show. Wir sind Susi Bannekarim und Jessica Bennett, Posts der New-Podcast in Retrospect. Wo sie uns alle überrascht werden, wir überwiesen einen kulturellen Moment von dem Pass, den wir uns schlafen. Und zwar euch. Wir versuchen, was uns über die Welt überwiesen sind. Wir sind die erste Person, die ich über dieses Jahr überwiesen habe. Wir sehen uns in Retrospect auf die Aihart Radio-App Apple-Podcast, oder wo ihr eure Favorit-Tour finden könnt. Okay, Katie. Quick, rapid-fire. Was denkst du, wenn du denkst, über Black Stories? Tell me more, is it? Long novels. Zehns. Very complex stories. Movie Night with popcorn. Lineage and history. BTO-Words. Hood Motifs. Unreliable Narrators. I'm Katie. And I'm Eves. And on on theme, we tell stories about Black Stories. Listen to on theme every Thursday, starting on September 28th, one of the I Heart Radio-App Apple-Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Dressing. Dressing. Oh, French dressing. Exactly. Ha ha ha. Oh, that was good. I'm AJ Jacobs, and my current obsession is Puzzles. And that has given birth to my new podcast, The Puzzler. Something about Mary Poppins? Exactly. Oh, man, this is fun. You can get your daily puzzle nuggets delivered straight to your ears. Listen to The Puzzler every day, starting October 3rd on the I Heart Radio-App Apple-Podcast, Wherever you get your podcasts. Es ist ein bisschen krass. Und es wird nur auf ein paar Patriots und die Dillbert-Guy um die Tarte zu klingen. Und die Bad Comic-Strips zu gewinnen. Und die Nutzung zu ihnen zufrieden. Und in die Dirk-Nuswuschen, die Dillbert-Guy hat einen Bad Comic-Stripp gespielt. Wir, die, wo wir über die Mulberry-Busch gehen, wir alle über die Mulberry-Busch-Kroud. Wir wussten, das war die Matrix. Und wir red-pilder, wir blue-pilder. Ich kann nicht mehr über die Strate. Follte es über. Es war ein Schied der Fäfer. Und wenn Lasslo unfoldet, es redet 118. Das erste Session, House-Resolution. Und dann wir die Nummer-Gose, die House-Resolution, das war blank. Und dann, declaring die Office des Speakers von der House des Repräsentatives zu bevakend, followed by, Resolution declaring die Office des Speakers von der House des Repräsentatives zu bevakend, followed by, resolved, Summer-Sprecher of the House. There Repräsentatives are hereby declared to be vacant. And oh, by the way, upper-left corner on this one page, found at the Baby-Changing Station is the printer code, and it reads, G-Colen-Backslash-M-Backslash-1,8 Backslash-Gates Again-Underscore-194.Xml. A reporter found In der Kapital. A motion to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker. Printed by gates. Which baby was being changed? Was it bobert? Or was it Marjorie Taylor green? Hours after punch ball news had scooped that you should expect a motion to vacate sometime hat scuptet you should expect a motion to vacate sometime this week hours after congress and ken buck said there really would not be a move to actually oust kevin mccarthy unless he went to the democrats for help passing a continuing resolution and then ken but said they really did need to pass a continuing resolution he didn't see how it can happen unless mccarthy goes to the democrats for help mad what happened to your motion to vacate i thought we were doing it this week i don't know i must have left it somewhere i mean i retraced my steps i only made my usual stops yesterday gun polishing machine hair wax dispenser on the third floor uh... stopped by the local high school cheerleaders practice baby changing station where i get all my ideas and of course i went to my secret daily meeting with commander epps of the interstellar sarosian empire uh... republicans are stupid thank god four out of ten union households voted republican in twenty twenty in the presidential election so they ask this bonehead presidential wannabe senator tim i'm not fooling anybody scott about the u.a. w. strike and he said he believed all strikers should be fired just like reagan did to the federal employees in nineteen eighty one uh... gully i i didn't know the auto workers were federal employees tim did your girlfriend tell you that trump has attacked biden again but something has newly occurred to him and which one of them is mentally unfit to be president or two old for something like remembering last week i ask he wrote why hasn't the republican party begun the process of invoking the twenty fifth amendment against biden and i mean it's it's academic i know but just this once i feel like i really need to know if after all the talk that the twenty fifth amendment might be invoked against him when he was president i mean it registered enough with him that he seems to have remembered that it is a process and it is the twenty fifth and in fact it is invoked i really need to know since he remembered all that if he's too dumb to realize that the presidential cabinet invokes the twenty fifth amendment not congress congress wouldn't get involved until later or he's just in his usual stance that his supporters are too dumb to realize that the presidential cabinet and not the congress invokes the twenty fifth amendment right that biden should be removed under the nineteen the amendment you can hear trump saying and walk now to double shifting as secretary to cover his legal bills says but mister almighty president your highness the nineteen the amendment was the one that gave women the right to vote and trump says what's the difference these morons are dumb enough to vote for me i don't know which amendment is which in fact i don't even write amendment right agamemnon call it the nineteen the agamemnon see if anybody notices see if that idiot cat turn notices lastly on this topic last night all but three republican senators wrote to majority leader shumer about the nation's grave crisis the casual attire in the senate scandal allowing casual clothing on the senate floor disrespects the institution we serve and the american families we represent wrote senator rick scott every day goes on to the senate floor dressed like bolder mort from harry potter rick scott whose campaign website is still up and shows him wearing a light blue plaid work shirt and a baseball cap and whose party is run by a guy who wears a different colored baseball cap and bronzer and sprays his hair with gold rastolium number two four five two two one let us give thanks republicans are this dumb because of course democrats are largely uninspired and incompetent and if republicans were not this dumb i would be recording this in the salt mine i slaved in and you would be listening to it in the one you slave in also of interest here and i'm sorry if i'm a little wackier than usual but the united nations is here around my house and i walked among them for like three hours yesterday and it's hard to believe that there could be a class of people more shocked and frozen in place by tall buildings and traffic and dogs on leashes more shocked by that than the regular tourists of this town but the u.n. staffers they are that group and we block all the streets off for them i guess so they don't disappear into the ether while trying to decipher our parking and no parking signs and regulations any who so they fired a teacher for reading the diary of on fronk to her eighth graders that's next this is count down this is in retrospect a podcast about pop culture from the eighties and nineties that shaped us i'm very much a product of the pop culture i consumed and i don't think that's a bad thing i'm just like a Bennett a new york times writer and bestselling author i'm suzy beta caram an award-winning tv producer and filmmaker every week we'll revisit a moment in cultural history that we just can't stop thinking about from tabloid headlines to elicit student-teacher relationships and one very memorable red swimsuits i found myself in Pamela Anderson's attic as you do i put that red swimsuit in a safe because it seemed everybody wanted it we're digging deep to better understand with these moments taught us about the world and our place in it i want you to really smell the axe bodies fray that emanated during this time it was presented more as kind of like a crime topic okay that's not a lot of story it had been branded on the uteruses of every single woman from sea to shining sea listen to in retrospect on the iHeart Radio app apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows fantasy football fans the NFL season is here and now is the time to get ready to dominate your leagues the best way to crush your opponents this season is to listen to the NFL fantasy football podcast come hang out with me markis grand and my pal michael f florio as we give you all the info you need to absolutely steamroll your fantasy league and bring home a championship you don't need to spend hours each day breaking down every stat and every stitch of gain tape to set a winning lineup that's our job we'll provide all the insights you need to set the best lineups each week all you need to do is listen to the NFL fantasy football podcast when it drops five times a week if you're looking for a smart fun and entertaining path to dominating your fantasy leagues then look no further than the show straight from the source at NFL media do it before it's too late subscribe now and listen to the NFL fantasy football podcast on the iheart radio app on apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast i miss you the king what's good y'all is your main man michael smith a steamed NFL analyst and certified fantasy football legend allow me to present to you your new favorite fantasy football podcast the dynasty exchange hosted by my first round rookie picks Davis Dylan and Josh three guys who most definitely know their stuff they're the co-commissioners of the coolest and most cutthroat dynasty league you'll ever come across the yacht club and now they're the co-host of the most elite now make that the definitive dynasty program in the game it's dedicated to only the most devoted of die hearts the guys like me who can't stay off sleeper in ktc and trust me you won't regret making the choice to follow their dynasty advice listen to michael smith presents the dynasty exchange on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts hey this is mike right from the fantasy footballers dynasty podcast you heard that right the fantasy footballers have officially entered the dynasty space every week we bring you the same in-depth analysis and entertainment you've come to expect from the fantasy footballers only now from a dynasty perspective maybe you've been living in the dynasty fantasy football space for a while well we're here to take your game to the next level maybe you love fantasy football you've been feeling that itch to jump into the dynasty format but it feels a little bit intimidating no matter where you're coming from the fantasy footballers dynasty podcast has something for you and you're gonna have a great time listening i promised join me and the rest of the crew every Wednesday for a new episode listen to the fantasy footballer's dynasty podcast on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast this is countdown with keith oberman wait who was that i know who was that still ahead on countdown i'll tell you later good day to tell again my favorite near death experience at the hands of an ex president of cnn and msnbc my least favorite near death experience is you and week surprisingly enough this man was the only one of my former bosses to actually try to kill me so far things i promised not to tell coming up first time for the daily roundup of the miscreants morons and done in cougar effects specimens who constitute today's worse persons from the you at worst persons in the world the bronze to peter baker of the new york times pete is having quite the week on sunday it was he who was chosen to appear on meet the press after christian welcher ended her career by treating trump like somebody date line was doing the feature on because he had invented a new mascara for men and it had caused blindness yesterday peter baker was on msnbc dayside home of various anchors whose contracts have not yet expired explaining that one of the things making president biden's job more difficult at the moment was quote a tough column by david ignatius now that name david ignatius that might ring a distant bell for you i sort of knew who he was he's the guy who always wrote in the post about how wonderful the cia is and of course everybody at home knows he once won the prestigious jerald blowboward for distinguished financial journalism jerald lobe was a founding partner of ef hutton so you can guess that the award usually goes to somebody who writes something on the lines of money is good spend your life trying to accumulate your share and that of as many of your rivals as you can manage ef hutton says the idea that president biden's job is affected by a tough column by david ignatius is a hilarious and desperate piece of self justification by peter baker i mean do you think when i did the original special comments i thought the george bush gave a damn about what i was saying good god and i was on tv biden's job is not affected by any david ignatius column tough or otherwise biden's job is not affected by whether or not there is a david ignatius but a guy from the new york times thinks the column from the washington post is decisive but i mean i guess i should count my blessings here that a times guy thinks a column from the washington post matters to the president usually times guys only think columns in the times matter to the president the runner up trump this is besides the usual serious crap this is just the stupid stuff he says and not enough people point and go isn't he too old and too brain-addled and too demented and too stupid and too bumbling and too given amount of propisms and too incapable of spelling to be president he was asked about governor christie gnome south dakota north dakota christie gnome is a governor from somewhere west of cleveland christie gnome is still being mentioned as a potential vice presidential pick even after it was revealed that she's been carrying on an affair with cori luandowski the former trump campaign manager and sexual harasser and woman shover trump did not stop by our planet earth before he offered his comment on get christie gnome's love quote she's been a great governor she gave me a full-throated endorsement thank god oh my god oh my god full-throated endorsement but the winner dwayne augustine i mean i thought we were talking about boebert here for a moment dwayne augustine super intended of the hamster fanat independent school district in texas independent as a brand name super intended augustine and his school district have fired an unidentified teacher after parent complaints that the teacher read a graphic novel to her eighth graders we could go today it contained references to sexuality originally written by a teenage girl nearly eighty years ago school district is now investigating whether the book was approved by the principal so she might be fired too quote the reading of that content will cease immediately your students teacher will communicate her apologies to you and your students soon as she has expressed those apologies to us wrote the head of communications for the school district who obviously dropped out in the third grade your students teacher will communicate her apologies as she is what actually the teacher is busy hiring a lawyer and if our nation could hire a lawyer and sue the hamster fanat independent school district it's between bombat and euston that'd be good too because the book the teacher was fired for reading was the graphic novel version of the diary of on fronk because of the sexual content sexual content that eighth graders don't know about to anybody go to the eighth grade in the hamster fanat independent school district i mean obviously not the spokesman but i mean anybody remember the eighth grade middle the eighth grade one of my classmates dropped out because she was pregnant dwayne augustine superintendent of the hamster fanat independent school district in texas who has no idea what eighth graders know about sex already and who probably doesn't know who on fronk was and has no idea that he is now part of the persecution of knowledge and should be banned from our educational system i mean the one here on earth today's worst person in the world this is in retrospect a podcast about pop culture from the eighties and nineties that shaped i'm very much a product of the pop culture i consumed and i don't think that's a bad thing i'm just like a Bennett a new york times writer and bestselling author i'm suzy bedakarim an award winning tv producer and filmmaker every week we'll revisit a moment in cultural history that we just can't stop thinking about from tabloid headlines to elicit student teacher relationships and one very memorable red swimsuits i found myself in pamela anderson's attic as you do i put that red swimsuit in a safe because it seemed everybody wanted it we're digging deep to better understand with these moments taught us about the world and our place in it i want you to really smell the axe bodies fray that emanated during this time it was presented more as kind of like a crime topic okay that's not a love story it had been branded on the uteruses of every single woman from sea to shining sea listen to in retrospect on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows fantasy football fans the NFL season is here and now is the time to get ready to dominate your leagues the best way to crush your opponents this season is to listen to the NFL fantasy football podcast come hang out with me mark his grand fan my pal michael as we give you all the info you need to absolutely steamroll your fantasy league and bring home a championship you don't need to spend hours each day breaking down every stat and every stitch of game tape to set a winning lineup that's our job we'll provide all the insights you need to set the best lineups each week all you need to do is listen to the NFL fantasy football podcast when it drops five times a week if you're looking for a smart fun and entertaining path to dominating your fantasy leagues then look no further than the show straight from the source at NFL media do it before it's too late subscribe now and listen to the NFL fantasy football podcast on the i heart radio app on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts what's good y'all it's your main man michael smith a steamed NFL analyst and certified fantasy football legend allow me to present to you your new favorite fantasy football podcast the dynasty exchange hosted by my first round rookie picks Davis Dylan and Josh three guys who most definitely know their stuff they're the co-commissioners of the coolest and most cutthroat dynasty league you'll ever come across the yacht club and now they're the co-host of the most elite now make that the definitive dynasty program in the game it's dedicated to only the most devoted of diehards the guys like me who can't stay off sleeper in ktc and trust me you won't regret making the choice to follow their dynasty advice listen to michael smith presents the dynasty exchange on the i heart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts hey this is mike right from the fantasy footballers dynasty podcast you heard that right the fantasy footballers have officially entered the dynasty space every week we bring you the same in-depth analysis and entertainment you've come to expect from the fantasy footballers only now from a dynasty perspective maybe you've been living in the dynasty fantasy football space for a while well we're here to take your game to the next level maybe you love fantasy football and you've been feeling that itch to jump into the dynasty format but it feels a little bit intimidating no matter where you're coming from the fantasy footballers dynasty podcast has something for you and you're going to have a great time listening i promised join me and the rest of the crew every Wednesday for a new episode listen to the fantasy footballers dynasty podcast on the i heart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast finally our number one story in the countdown things i promised not to tell and back to my favorite topic me how exactly was i supposed to tell the police that the man threatened to kill me was the president of msnbc he was chasing me through the studios he was too overweight to run but even though he inexplicably lied and said he was six foot seven at six foot five this guy his name was Rick Kaplan and he was the soon to be ex president of msnbc just as he was already the ex president of cnn he still had strides as long as my own plus on that night of august eighth two thousand five i was multitasking i was trying to mentally record everything he was shouting while also drawing him away from the live microphones of the live studio in which he had started shouting while also fishing for my office key so i could lock myself in there if need be while also figuring out how i would hit him if it came to that while also trying to register the superb double takes from my colleagues past whom he was stomping like an out of shape frankenstein while also trying to suppress an overwhelming and seemingly inappropriate desire to burst into laughter while still game planning these soon to be inevitable call to the cops a beautiful downtown secalkus new jersey uh hi yeah he's he's trying to kill me my boss the the president of msnbc yeah the the the cable television network yeah exact down the street from the london fog out with story up one msnbc plaza i know it's a dome address uh he's about sixty uh two seventy five 280 pounds by the way he says he's six foot seven but he's only six foot five why why does he lie about his height or why is he trying to kill uh right well i did a commentary urging the viewers to stop smoking and he's afraid of the mention of blood hello hello as all of this played out in my head president kaplan was huffing and puffing his way through our giant studio weaving through the news assignment area past the makeup room down the hallways nearing the offices of my show countdown and pass the bank of a couple hundred television monitors with a different face on every one of them each seemingly staring slack jawed at the executive screaming threats at the only guy on his own network who got any ratings i'll pay back i'll get you over i'll finish your uh this had all begun roughly ten days earlier in late july 2005 an oral surgeon who had intended to examine a growth on the roof of my mouth that instead with one pale look silently betrayed his suspicion that it was cancerous and he got the whole thing out i was on my way to work anyway it was too late to get a replacement and i was bleeding so much that our technical director and i decided to pre-record all of my on camera segments for that night show thus reducing the chances of viewers hearing me say president bush today while blood oozed out of my mouth over my teeth and lips and onto the desk like i was dracky lanker when the following Wednesday i got the unexpected all clear from the surgeon's office i decided to devote some of each night's newscast to a campaign to help viewers and myself quit smoking my premise was a simple one that i had never heard argued before and have rarely heard argued since that it would be a lot easier to quit if you didn't have cancer then if you did have cancer i pitched my producers on the series i went into rick cappellens office to get his seal of approval he was enthusiastic and supportive and most rare of all he was paying attention and then i said i was also going to point out that if you got the good outcome like i had they would merely stick a laser in your mouth and you'd smell your own flesh burning for like 48 hours and you'd have to keep spitting out your own blood don't say that he can't suddenly through his meaty hands out towards me in a strangling gesture and then just as quickly clamped them over his own ears and closed his eyes and began actually screaming no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no i thought he had gone crazy as it proved he was just practicing foregoing crazy later i'm sorry i'm squeamish i got the point i just can't handle references to you know uh the the red stuff go ahead with the series just just tone down the uh the red stuff i toned down the red stuff and my executive producer is he povich sent him the scripts and he told her to tone down the red stuff a little more and i went and i did that too we all decided to start the anti-smoking series the following Monday August 8th 2005 by nauseating coincidence that was the day after the abc anchor man peter jennings had died of lung cancer the msnbc president had been a producer on jennings newscast i had long since written and recorded jennings obituary and now the somewhat cold but still journalistically valid segue would have to be made we would have to go directly from the 12 minute long jennings obit to the start of our anti tobacco campaign eight or nine minutes into that pre-recorded jennings obituary rick kaplan came out of his office and walked the fifty feet or so through the vast open newsroom to where my anchor desk was his eyes were full of tears this is wonderful he said quietly peter would have liked this he gave me a thumbs up then he walked to a second desk another fifty feet away where his first big higher a woman named reed a cosby was about to premiere his first big gamble her new show immediately following mine i was actually moved by rick kaplan's comment i did not once think of phoning the cacochis police but then i began the anti smoking segment and as i focused on the camera and the teleprompter in front of me and detailed the blood and the gore and the spitting and how that was the good outcome out of the corner of my eye i saw this weird sight the president again left his office and waddled out along the wall thirty feet all ahead of me in the general direction of the control rooms within moments as i continued to read my script he was back in the studio and standing right next to my camera gesticulating wildly i said they never said but wouldn't it be really easier to quit smoking when you didn't have cancer than when you did and kaplan responded with the same two handed choking gesture he had made briefly in his office much earlier i presume there was some simple problem like that the building was on fire but i calculated that i could still make it to the show scheduled finish time eight fifty nine fifty nine edt and still survive even if others perished that's count down for this the eight hundred and thirtyth day since the declaration of mission accomplished in the rack i'm Keith Ulerman goodnight and good luck yo son of i rick kaplan suddenly screamed from the other anchor desk i could hear and this is my impression of her good evening i'm read a cosby this is read a cosby live and direct with three to cosby and i'm read a cosby she was not a big woman but she had a voice on her like the horn on the statin island fairy if it had a cold you are over the top you are disgusting my first thought was that kaplan had forgotten that microphones fifty feet away were live during the premiere of his pet project rena is on i actually whispered to him silly me i don't care if the three days on you were told by is he published that the piece was over the top and you needed a cut it and you didn't i still couldn't bring myself to yell back we're in a live studio i did cut it and easy read it and approved it and she said you had to and and and read his premieres going on over there in that sort of direction maybe you should yell at me closer to the assignment desk maybe i don't give a crap if is he approved it then she's an ass and i can't trust her i can't trust you you're all idiots i can't believe you did this to me i'm trying to get readers show up the ground you start talking about spitting blood into a garbage can well now i was getting angry i couldn't resist yes rena is in fact live and direct from that desk right over there and if you'll notice she keeps looking over here at us wondering why you are yelling during the first minutes of her first show so why don't we move over here Rick i began to move away from him and we're walking away from the live moa mics and and we're walking and we're walking and Rick and Keith are walking because the noise isn't really professional well we're not talking professionals are we we're talking idiots we were walking and he was still screaming your idiots i will never trust you again he had begun to trot or stumble or whatever he was doing this is not over i will pay you back self-serving garbage i will get you and i'll get that a hole is he for not staying here and reading that script how many times did you intend to say spit blood into a garbage can before i stopped you i now realize what he thought had happened as he had gestured spasmodically at me while he stood next to my camera i briefly led my focus shift to amazement at the fact that this guy who had been in tv news for 25 years knew almost nothing about how tv worked i explained to him that is he and one of her assistants and i had gone over the script several times and taken out half of the goryer references then they suck a television and since i can't trust anybody here since they won't stand up to you and edit the scripts since you obviously bullied them he balled up his fist and stomped his foot on the floor as he called me a bully i'm now going to have to approve every piece of your copy by this point i was backing into the countdown work area with its array of desks and all the producers kaplan had just insulted i knew one of them would dial the phone when i said call the cops and call this lunatics boss did you hear me and if you don't like it and you don't want to come into work tomorrow that's fine too i never did get that part but now i had him i crossed my arms in front of my chest slowly like you have seen every news anchor do in every television news promo ever shown in the history of the world i flashed as evil as slow most smiles i could oh i'll be here tomorrow and then i made a sweeping gesture back towards my staff who were both of course literally and figuratively behind me and so will all of them suddenly at that point for no apparent reason rick kaplan's hysterics were replaced by mere confusion he even stopped huffing at almost normal volume he asked me all of who only at this point did i turn around to discover that my entire staff had already left the building there was nobody there behind me of course there was nobody there is he povich told me later he went into the control room and threatened all of them first so we got on the phone back to the office to tell everybody get the hell out of the building she paused and laughed i mean we love you but we're not crazy rick kaplan's exorcism was a brief one he began screaming again i'm gonna end your career tomorrow i'm gonna completely eff you up he turned and stumbled away from my office good luck sleeping tonight i slept like a stone and not because kaplan had previously threatened to fire me for not leaving my father's bedside after what they thought was a heart attack to fly to la to appear on the tonight show and not because he'd once threatened to fire me because he didn't like my tie and not because he had previously threatened to fire me for not doing something during live coverage that i had already done but he thought we hadn't done because he was watching us not live but on delay on his DVR president of a network and i slept beautifully not because i correctly guessed this would be it for rick kaplan and it was the next day human resources forced him to apologize to me and ten months later his bosses fired him nor did i snooze blessedly because of any bravery or stoicism or fatalism on my part but i slept well simply because of the realization that even after all of this rick kaplan was still only the second or third craziest msnbc executive i had ever worked for i've done all the damage i can do here thanks for listening count down has come to you from studios of the older man broadcasting empire and throat treatment center the music you heard was for the most part arranged produced and performed by count down musical directors Brian Ray and john philips shaneil ryan ray handled the guitars bass and drums john philips shaneil did the orchestration and keyboards and it was produced by t.k.o brothers other music including our bait toven tunes were arranged and performed by no horns allowed the sports music is courtesy of espn ink and it was written by mich warren davis and we call it the older man theme for me espn two our satirical and pithy musical comments are from nancy fouss the best baseball stadium organis ever our announcer today making his debut was dennis leery thank you dennis everything else is pretty much my fault so that's count down for this the nine hundred and eighty eighths since donald trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the united states can victim now while we still can the next scheduled count down is tomorrow if my throat permits till then i'm keitholverman good morning good afternoon good night and good luck so count down with keitholverman is a production of i heart radio for more podcast from i heart radio visit the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student teacher relationship on our favorite show we're suzy bannikerum and jeska bennett posts of the new podcast in retrospect where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from the past that shaped us and probably you to try to understand what it taught us about the world and our place in it you're the first person that i've talked to about this for years and years listen to in retrospect on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you find your favorite shows dressing the lashing oh french dressing exactly i'm aji Jacobs and my current obsession is puzzles and that has given birth to my new podcast the puzzler something about Mary poppins exactly oh man this is fun you can get your daily puzzle nuggets delivered straight to your ears listen to the puzzler every day starting October 3rd on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts okay katie quick rapid fire what do you think about when you think about black stories Toni Morrison long novels zee very complex stories movie night with popcorn lineage and history btw hood motifs unreliable narrators i'm katie and i'm eaves and on on theme we tell stories about black stories listen to on theme every thursday starting on september 28th on the i heart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast on his new podcast six degrees with kevin bacon join kevin for inspiring conversations with his friends and fellow celebrities who are working to make a difference in the world like actor mark ruffalo you know i found myself moving up state in the middle of this fracking fight you know and i'm trying to raise kids there and and you know my my neighbors like willing to poison my water listen to six degrees with kevin bacon on the i heart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts