Here's the transcript from the Jan. 22 show of 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' on MSNBC:

OLBERMANN: Coming up, from a six-figure salary to 13 bucks an hours, it's actually one man's dream. And that nightmare in the office. Is your boss a little over the edge? I will take the office psychopath test.
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OLBERMANN: Somewhere in my parents' attic or basement, they linger still. Probably somewhere in yours, too, at least metaphorically. No child worthy of the name doesn't build stuff.
The means may vary, blocks, erector sets, Lincoln Logs, LEGOs. But the process seems to be universal. But making a career out of it? That's different. And that's our No. 2 story tonight.
And COUNTDOWN's Monica Novotny has met the man who is trying to give up the wasteful things of youth, like the law, and turn his adult attention to LEGOs.
Monica, good evening.
MONICA NOVOTNY, NBC CORRESPONDENT: Good evening, Keith.
That's right. Depending on how you feel about lawyers, when you hear this story, you'll either think this guy is crazy or that he's finally come to his senses, because this attorney is willing to give up his career for love of LEGO. They say big boys like big toys. But sometimes, it is all about the little things.
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NATHAN SAWAYA, LEGO BUILDER: I had fonts of architecture. My father is an engineer. But, in the end, I thought...
NOVOTNY: I'll be a lawyer.
SAWAYA: I'll be a lawyer.
NOVOTNY: Who plays with LEGOs.
SAWAYA: Well, I like to think of it as creating with LEGO.
NOVOTNY (voice-over): He is an attorney whose heart screams artist.
SAWAYA: Sure, I could do sculpture out of clay and stuff. But that's been done. I got to do something unique. That's why I went with LEGO bricks.
I love this thing. I love this toy. I love building with it.
NOVOTNY: Thirty-year-old Nathan Sawaya is not kidding. This is his studio and these are his creations, a larger than life self-portrait, a Monopoly box, and, from "The Empire Strikes Back," Han Solo.
SAWAYA: I worked on it over three months. And, by the end, I spent about 48 hours straight building.
NOVOTNY: Not surprising from a guy whose full-grown addiction began when he was a little boy. But, like most kids, Nathan grew up and got a real job with a six-figure salary that helped support his habit.
SAWAYA: It is not a cheap addiction at all.
NOVOTNY (on camera): What was your biggest year that you would have spent?
SAWAYA: Probably around $10,000.
NOVOTNY (voice-over): So now he is ready to replace the legal with the LEGO.
SAWAYA: Ever since I was 9 years old, I dreamed of a job like that.
But it's not like this job opportunity comes along.
NOVOTNY (on camera): Until now. With a little help from our control room, we bring you inside LEGOLAND, a California theme park dedicated to, what else, LEGOs, hosting its first nationwide building contest. First prize, a dream job at one of the park's seven master model builders. Guess who entered?
(voice-over): First round, local toy stores. Second round, "The Today Show." Tomorrow, the final competition in California.
SAWAYA: This is it. This is it. And I can't believe that I'm even having an opportunity to go for it.
NOVOTNY: The rules are simple, 27 finalists, 4,000 bricks each, two hours, one guideline. Construct anything that exists in the park. May the best builder win. But there is a catch.
SAWAYA: The dream job pays $13 an hour. But money is not everything. I really want to do this job. And I will definitely take it, no doubt about it.
NOVOTNY: And so the preparation, building and more building, the unknowns and the well knowns, Lady Liberty, Oscar, David Letterman. But someone is definitely missing here.
SAWAYA: I really wanted to build Keith Olbermann's head.
NOVOTNY: I thought so. It looks like it is time to give up that day job.
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NOVOTNY: The competition begins tomorrow morning at 10:00 Pacific time. The winner will be announced about an hour after they finish. And we should point out that Nathan is not alone in his love for this toy. The folks at LEGO say a set is sold somewhere in the world every seven seconds.
OLBERMANN: And I see you got the LEGO cameraman again.
All right, what the heck is this?
NOVOTNY: This is...
OLBERMANN: Is this your work?
NOVOTNY: No. Nathan did this for us, very last-minute. But this was part of his practice for the competition. And it's also-we're giving it to you on behalf of the staff. We're kissing up before the psycho boss segment.
OLBERMANN: Oh, good. Thank goodness for that. Well, it's lovely.
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OLBERMANN: And either he or I are a few LEGOs short of a full box.
But...
NOVOTNY: For the man who has everything.
OLBERMANN: Your head in LEGOs. I've been accused of that before, by the way.
COUNTDOWN's Monica Novotny, many thanks.
I liked the part with you and the cameraman.
One story shy of a completed COUNTDOWN.
You have a LEGO producer, too, don't you?
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Transcript from 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' on Jan. 23:

OLBERMANN: If you saw this program last night, you saw the story of Nathan Sawaya, a 30-year-old attorney, willing to quit his hard-fought, well-paying job at a New York law firm in order to pursue his dream of LEGOs. Today the finals in the Master Builder competition at LEGO Land in California. 27 devotees of the plastic bricks vying for the right to work at the park building stuff out of LEGOs. They each had 4,000 of them, plus two hours, to build version of something, anything, at the park. Three winners and Nathan Sawaya is one of them. He will now say adios to the suits, move west and work for 13 bucks an hour.

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