1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,635 --> 00:00:28,635 Speaker 1: Well that was fun. Retaining the Senate majority and all 3 00:00:28,635 --> 00:00:31,115 Speaker 1: the election deniers drowning at the ballot box, and the 4 00:00:31,155 --> 00:00:33,795 Speaker 1: GOP lead in the House at minimum so reduced it 5 00:00:33,875 --> 00:00:38,475 Speaker 1: guarantees murderous infighting and Pelosi talking about raising the debt 6 00:00:38,515 --> 00:00:41,315 Speaker 1: limit in the Lame Duck, and the fascists turning on 7 00:00:41,435 --> 00:00:44,995 Speaker 1: McConnell and the fascists turning on McCarthy, and the fascists 8 00:00:45,035 --> 00:00:48,275 Speaker 1: turning on Ronna Romney and the fascists turning on Trump, 9 00:00:48,275 --> 00:00:50,915 Speaker 1: and I mean everybody from mob Brooks to Fox News 10 00:00:51,035 --> 00:00:54,635 Speaker 1: to the Dilbert guy turning on Trump. And this was 11 00:00:55,075 --> 00:01:00,035 Speaker 1: a great weekend, and bookmark the memory of it in 12 00:01:00,075 --> 00:01:03,275 Speaker 1: your mind, have a few less nightmares as a result, 13 00:01:03,355 --> 00:01:08,195 Speaker 1: and then for get it. Back to work and back 14 00:01:08,235 --> 00:01:11,955 Speaker 1: to this mindset. Have you ever seen the movie carry 15 00:01:12,195 --> 00:01:16,435 Speaker 1: Sissy spacek High school billying victim humiliated at the prom, 16 00:01:16,715 --> 00:01:20,635 Speaker 1: turns out to have telekinetic power. It's a Stephen King story. 17 00:01:20,675 --> 00:01:23,595 Speaker 1: Destroys the school, Jim kills everybody, destroys her own home, 18 00:01:23,675 --> 00:01:25,835 Speaker 1: she dies, Her only friend goes to the house to 19 00:01:25,915 --> 00:01:28,435 Speaker 1: lay flowers in her memory. And suddenly out of the rubble, 20 00:01:29,115 --> 00:01:32,675 Speaker 1: Carry's arms springs out and grabs her friend to pull 21 00:01:32,755 --> 00:01:36,395 Speaker 1: her to hell. There is a lesson for us in 22 00:01:36,435 --> 00:01:39,715 Speaker 1: the movie Carry. When you think you have ended Carrie's 23 00:01:39,755 --> 00:01:43,275 Speaker 1: reign of horror, when you have Carry vanquished and dead 24 00:01:43,315 --> 00:01:47,115 Speaker 1: and buried, make sure you then burn the grave, put 25 00:01:47,115 --> 00:01:51,595 Speaker 1: out the fire, burn it again, salt the earth in case, 26 00:01:51,635 --> 00:01:54,995 Speaker 1: everything that's left in concrete for a mile square, and 27 00:01:55,195 --> 00:02:02,555 Speaker 1: skip the flowers. The fascists are not defeated. They have 28 00:02:02,595 --> 00:02:05,675 Speaker 1: another plan. It's about getting the Supreme Court to set 29 00:02:05,835 --> 00:02:09,315 Speaker 1: state legislatures on a path where they can overrule elections 30 00:02:09,315 --> 00:02:12,635 Speaker 1: they don't like. And we have just found out how 31 00:02:12,995 --> 00:02:16,715 Speaker 1: serious the Supreme Court is about this. I'll walk you 32 00:02:16,795 --> 00:02:19,755 Speaker 1: through that in a moment. Trump has not vanished. He 33 00:02:19,835 --> 00:02:22,795 Speaker 1: is not going to moderate. He's not gonna learn anything 34 00:02:22,835 --> 00:02:25,795 Speaker 1: from this except what every other Republican has learned for 35 00:02:25,875 --> 00:02:29,315 Speaker 1: twenty five years. If your venom did not work, that's 36 00:02:29,355 --> 00:02:33,715 Speaker 1: because you were not venomous enough. The election deniers have 37 00:02:33,795 --> 00:02:36,515 Speaker 1: not run out of denial. They're just going to stitch 38 00:02:36,555 --> 00:02:40,315 Speaker 1: together all the religious deniers and all the violent deniers, 39 00:02:40,355 --> 00:02:44,755 Speaker 1: and all the military overthrown deniers and put it all out, 40 00:02:44,795 --> 00:02:48,195 Speaker 1: there is one unit. The fascists have not run out 41 00:02:48,195 --> 00:02:51,635 Speaker 1: of evil. They have not run out of schemes, They 42 00:02:51,635 --> 00:02:54,795 Speaker 1: have not even run out of carries. Who in the 43 00:02:54,795 --> 00:02:57,035 Speaker 1: hell is the Republican candidate for the governor of Arizona? 44 00:02:57,115 --> 00:03:05,035 Speaker 1: What's her name again? Carry? Huh huh? Okay, enough seri. Viously, 45 00:03:05,515 --> 00:03:08,315 Speaker 1: the best news of this weekend was Speaker Pelosi and 46 00:03:08,355 --> 00:03:11,555 Speaker 1: the debt ceiling. Without even being asked, she went on 47 00:03:11,635 --> 00:03:13,835 Speaker 1: CNN and said the lame duck was the right time 48 00:03:13,835 --> 00:03:15,995 Speaker 1: to raise it, to take the nuclear weapon out of 49 00:03:15,995 --> 00:03:19,315 Speaker 1: the Republicans hands. Then she went on ABC and said 50 00:03:19,315 --> 00:03:21,635 Speaker 1: that winning the Senate created a window to do it. 51 00:03:21,955 --> 00:03:25,755 Speaker 1: So a Speaker McCarthy or Speaker Scalise or Speaker Trailer 52 00:03:25,835 --> 00:03:29,675 Speaker 1: Park Green cannot threaten to crash the world economy by 53 00:03:29,715 --> 00:03:32,195 Speaker 1: not raising the debt limit and holding the debt limit 54 00:03:32,235 --> 00:03:35,355 Speaker 1: hostage in exchange for cuts to Social Security and Medicare. 55 00:03:35,715 --> 00:03:38,755 Speaker 1: And then Chuck Schumer had a news conferencing they would 56 00:03:38,835 --> 00:03:40,915 Speaker 1: map out the route to do this in the Senate 57 00:03:40,955 --> 00:03:44,235 Speaker 1: this week. And this is exactly the kind of aggressiveness 58 00:03:44,275 --> 00:03:49,195 Speaker 1: that is absolutely necessary right now. When Carrie's dead Arms 59 00:03:49,195 --> 00:03:52,035 Speaker 1: shoots out of the rebel, do not wait. Head it 60 00:03:52,235 --> 00:03:56,395 Speaker 1: with your shovel. There are more things to do, some 61 00:03:56,475 --> 00:04:00,395 Speaker 1: of them feasible, some of the symbolics, some of them crazy. 62 00:04:00,435 --> 00:04:03,035 Speaker 1: But we should do all of them instead of breathing 63 00:04:03,035 --> 00:04:06,715 Speaker 1: a sigh of relief like they and we all did 64 00:04:06,715 --> 00:04:10,595 Speaker 1: at the end of and you saw what that got us. 65 00:04:10,635 --> 00:04:14,035 Speaker 1: Somebody suggested that if the Dems do indeed not retain 66 00:04:14,115 --> 00:04:18,875 Speaker 1: the House, finding the half dozen still uninfected Republicans in 67 00:04:18,915 --> 00:04:22,515 Speaker 1: the House, lining up the huge Democratic minority behind this scheme, 68 00:04:22,955 --> 00:04:27,035 Speaker 1: and then nominating Liz Cheney to be the new speaker, 69 00:04:27,755 --> 00:04:29,715 Speaker 1: and and no, you don't have to be a serving 70 00:04:29,715 --> 00:04:32,675 Speaker 1: member of Congress to be elected speaker, and know her 71 00:04:32,755 --> 00:04:36,115 Speaker 1: non insurrection positions are nearly as bad as her father's. 72 00:04:36,115 --> 00:04:38,755 Speaker 1: I know that. And no, it probably won't work. And 73 00:04:38,795 --> 00:04:40,875 Speaker 1: know even if it did work, the Republicans would then 74 00:04:40,915 --> 00:04:43,595 Speaker 1: spend every waking moment trying to undo it. And that's 75 00:04:43,635 --> 00:04:49,755 Speaker 1: why you try it. The mistake of one was exhaling 76 00:04:50,395 --> 00:04:55,155 Speaker 1: this time less oh, democracy prevailed, and the American system 77 00:04:55,235 --> 00:04:59,955 Speaker 1: worked a men and more flying shovels and burning kerosene 78 00:04:59,995 --> 00:05:05,675 Speaker 1: on Carrie White's rubble. There was another idea find those 79 00:05:05,715 --> 00:05:08,835 Speaker 1: half a dozen uninfected Republicans in the House and have 80 00:05:08,955 --> 00:05:11,755 Speaker 1: the President called them up and say, hey, would you 81 00:05:11,795 --> 00:05:14,435 Speaker 1: like to join the cabinet? Or have you ever thought 82 00:05:14,475 --> 00:05:17,955 Speaker 1: of becoming an ambassador? And you take the ones from 83 00:05:17,955 --> 00:05:19,995 Speaker 1: the states where the governor does not get to pick 84 00:05:20,035 --> 00:05:22,555 Speaker 1: a successor and it doesn't have to be from the 85 00:05:22,635 --> 00:05:26,115 Speaker 1: same party, and you force special elections they're like, oh, 86 00:05:26,155 --> 00:05:29,955 Speaker 1: I don't know New York, and make the GOP constantly 87 00:05:29,995 --> 00:05:32,955 Speaker 1: defend its razor thin majority in the House. Because I'd 88 00:05:33,035 --> 00:05:36,595 Speaker 1: rather see these snakes campaigning than actually legislate. In the 89 00:05:36,635 --> 00:05:39,435 Speaker 1: midst of paranoia and pandemic and inflation. The damn fools 90 00:05:39,515 --> 00:05:41,995 Speaker 1: have somehow still managed to lose three national elections in 91 00:05:41,995 --> 00:05:45,195 Speaker 1: five calendar years. I want to see them campaigning rather 92 00:05:45,235 --> 00:05:51,315 Speaker 1: than legislating. Be aggressive, because this is where the Republicans 93 00:05:51,475 --> 00:05:56,275 Speaker 1: are now. This is the audio from a video Ron 94 00:05:56,275 --> 00:06:02,035 Speaker 1: Philipkowski tweeted from the Carry Lake Supporters. Here's that name again, 95 00:06:02,675 --> 00:06:07,395 Speaker 1: them Carry Lake Supporters marching around the Maricopa County Ballot 96 00:06:07,435 --> 00:06:14,915 Speaker 1: Counting Center, carrying crosses and demanding the military overthrow of 97 00:06:14,995 --> 00:06:18,475 Speaker 1: the government of the United States on Earth as it 98 00:06:18,595 --> 00:06:26,435 Speaker 1: is in heaven. Give us a stay. We the people 99 00:06:26,435 --> 00:06:31,515 Speaker 1: are requesting military step in and redo our elections was 100 00:06:31,595 --> 00:06:34,955 Speaker 1: fake and false. It's full of our government is full 101 00:06:34,955 --> 00:06:38,115 Speaker 1: of corrupt people. We the seventy one people that you 102 00:06:38,155 --> 00:06:42,355 Speaker 1: can see here around the center. Be aggressive because even 103 00:06:42,435 --> 00:06:46,635 Speaker 1: those lunatics supporting that lunatic are looking inwards right now 104 00:06:46,675 --> 00:06:48,755 Speaker 1: and wondering who to blame. And they are so used 105 00:06:48,755 --> 00:06:52,635 Speaker 1: to Democrats and liberals starting to sing Kumbaya and listening 106 00:06:52,675 --> 00:06:56,075 Speaker 1: to the sirens call of unity and bipartisanship to which 107 00:06:56,075 --> 00:06:59,235 Speaker 1: we always listen, that they do not believe the Democratic 108 00:06:59,275 --> 00:07:06,515 Speaker 1: Party response to the red trickle will be shovels and kerosene. Thus, 109 00:07:06,555 --> 00:07:09,555 Speaker 1: it is also imperative to encourage Trump and dissentists to 110 00:07:09,635 --> 00:07:13,515 Speaker 1: fight it out for the nomination, and imperative to do 111 00:07:13,555 --> 00:07:15,115 Speaker 1: everything we can to get Trump to run as a 112 00:07:15,155 --> 00:07:18,075 Speaker 1: third party or independent, because the best way to destroy 113 00:07:18,155 --> 00:07:20,315 Speaker 1: the fascist movement in this country is to get it 114 00:07:20,555 --> 00:07:24,755 Speaker 1: to destroy itself. Destroying things is the only thing it's 115 00:07:24,795 --> 00:07:28,195 Speaker 1: good at, and the kids are doing a great job. 116 00:07:29,155 --> 00:07:33,115 Speaker 1: While at least Stefanik endorsed Trump over the weekend, fellow 117 00:07:33,195 --> 00:07:36,235 Speaker 1: disloyal scoundrel Jim Banks was going to endorse Trump, and 118 00:07:36,275 --> 00:07:41,275 Speaker 1: instead he both postponed any endorsement and defended Trump. The 119 00:07:41,315 --> 00:07:44,955 Speaker 1: Lieutenant governor of Virginia, a Republican, called Trump a liability 120 00:07:45,035 --> 00:07:49,555 Speaker 1: to the mission, and on the sidelines half the cheerleaders 121 00:07:49,635 --> 00:07:53,315 Speaker 1: walked out, and Culture who wrote a book called in 122 00:07:53,475 --> 00:07:57,115 Speaker 1: Trump We Trust. Quote to Trump, you had your chance 123 00:07:57,275 --> 00:07:59,955 Speaker 1: with a Republican House and Senate. You had a domestic 124 00:07:59,955 --> 00:08:01,915 Speaker 1: policy to your son in law, and Gary Cohne, you 125 00:08:01,955 --> 00:08:04,075 Speaker 1: haded foreign policy to your son in law and a 126 00:08:04,115 --> 00:08:06,835 Speaker 1: country that gave your son in law two billion. Shut 127 00:08:06,915 --> 00:08:12,315 Speaker 1: the blank up forever. The Cornell education appears not to 128 00:08:12,395 --> 00:08:15,675 Speaker 1: have been utterly wasted on and culter. After all, when 129 00:08:15,715 --> 00:08:18,755 Speaker 1: Trump said maybe the name Glenn Uncan, who was Chinese, 130 00:08:18,835 --> 00:08:22,435 Speaker 1: Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy and thus the lead intellect 131 00:08:22,435 --> 00:08:26,075 Speaker 1: among the fascists, said I'm out, and a guy at 132 00:08:26,075 --> 00:08:29,555 Speaker 1: the National Review said this is delusional, mental breakdown stuff, 133 00:08:29,555 --> 00:08:31,595 Speaker 1: and a Fox News guy said it was unhinged, and 134 00:08:31,635 --> 00:08:36,195 Speaker 1: Red State freaking Red State wrote Trump legitimately appears to 135 00:08:36,235 --> 00:08:39,515 Speaker 1: have had a mental break over the last week. News 136 00:08:39,555 --> 00:08:43,115 Speaker 1: Max had Peter King on to trash Trump, Moe Brooks 137 00:08:43,115 --> 00:08:45,675 Speaker 1: bailed out on Trump. The New York Post bailed out 138 00:08:45,715 --> 00:08:49,315 Speaker 1: on Trump. I think that's four times since last Tuesday, 139 00:08:49,635 --> 00:08:53,635 Speaker 1: Candice Owen's bailed out. They have taken that with which 140 00:08:53,675 --> 00:08:58,435 Speaker 1: Adam Frisch described Lauren Bobert anger tainment and turned the 141 00:08:58,555 --> 00:09:03,995 Speaker 1: angertainment on themselves. Are they sincere? Have the scales fallen 142 00:09:04,035 --> 00:09:07,035 Speaker 1: from their eye? Is about Trump? Or did Trump's latest check? 143 00:09:07,315 --> 00:09:13,115 Speaker 1: Just not clear? I don't care. It doesn't matter. They're 144 00:09:13,155 --> 00:09:19,115 Speaker 1: burning down their own house. Let's go send more Kerassene 145 00:09:20,795 --> 00:09:25,395 Speaker 1: and bring the shovels because this is now the problem, 146 00:09:25,395 --> 00:09:28,315 Speaker 1: and I'm not certain how to stop this, because this 147 00:09:28,435 --> 00:09:31,955 Speaker 1: is the next thing the fascists are trying. The Federalist 148 00:09:32,035 --> 00:09:35,795 Speaker 1: Society has, as you know, corrupted the Supreme Court, which 149 00:09:35,835 --> 00:09:39,875 Speaker 1: is now the Supreme Republican Religious Court. You may rightly 150 00:09:39,915 --> 00:09:45,155 Speaker 1: suggest that it's insistence that the justices it owns throw 151 00:09:45,235 --> 00:09:48,355 Speaker 1: out Roe v. Wade was what cost the Republicans everything 152 00:09:48,395 --> 00:09:50,915 Speaker 1: they should have gotten in the midterms. Happily though, for 153 00:09:50,915 --> 00:09:54,435 Speaker 1: the Federalist Society and has a backup plan eliminate midterms 154 00:09:54,955 --> 00:09:58,195 Speaker 1: and other elections. This is, if you have not heard 155 00:09:58,195 --> 00:10:01,955 Speaker 1: of it, the independent state legislature theory, which the Court 156 00:10:01,995 --> 00:10:04,435 Speaker 1: will hear in a case called Moore v. Harper on 157 00:10:04,675 --> 00:10:11,035 Speaker 1: fittingly December seven. In short, the Supreme Court could rule 158 00:10:11,075 --> 00:10:14,315 Speaker 1: within the month that state courts are not allowed to 159 00:10:14,355 --> 00:10:19,795 Speaker 1: review any federal election related laws passed by state legislatures. 160 00:10:19,835 --> 00:10:23,595 Speaker 1: The Supreme Court could allow state legislatures to ignore their 161 00:10:23,635 --> 00:10:29,995 Speaker 1: own state constitutions. The legislatures could redistrict congressional seats right, 162 00:10:30,115 --> 00:10:33,635 Speaker 1: new voting rules or other laws more than likely overrules 163 00:10:33,675 --> 00:10:37,795 Speaker 1: state election outcomes, and you could not sue the legislature 164 00:10:37,875 --> 00:10:41,275 Speaker 1: in state court. It's obviously the exact opposite of what 165 00:10:41,355 --> 00:10:44,595 Speaker 1: the founders intended and what every defender of representative government 166 00:10:44,715 --> 00:10:48,675 Speaker 1: since has sworn to uphold. Well, so what this is 167 00:10:48,715 --> 00:10:51,915 Speaker 1: the Federalist Society? What does the Constitution have to do 168 00:10:51,995 --> 00:10:56,315 Speaker 1: with it? This is so serious, and the Federalist Society 169 00:10:56,395 --> 00:10:59,155 Speaker 1: is so serious about it that its board of Directors 170 00:10:59,195 --> 00:11:01,915 Speaker 1: has voted to tell a man named Stephen Calabreze that 171 00:11:01,995 --> 00:11:05,555 Speaker 1: he can't describe himself this way any more, or because 172 00:11:05,555 --> 00:11:10,395 Speaker 1: he disagrees with the independent state legislature theory and says, 173 00:11:10,435 --> 00:11:15,315 Speaker 1: no state Supreme courts are you know, supreme Who is 174 00:11:15,355 --> 00:11:19,155 Speaker 1: Stephen Calibracy? How does he describe himself? He is the 175 00:11:19,235 --> 00:11:22,035 Speaker 1: co founder of the Federalist Society, and he is still 176 00:11:22,075 --> 00:11:25,955 Speaker 1: co chairman of the Federalist Society. And the Federalist Society 177 00:11:25,995 --> 00:11:29,155 Speaker 1: is so committed to this that they've just purged him 178 00:11:29,195 --> 00:11:33,555 Speaker 1: for disagreeing with their crazy fascist dream of eliminating elections 179 00:11:33,555 --> 00:11:36,595 Speaker 1: at the state level when they don't like them. That 180 00:11:37,075 --> 00:11:43,035 Speaker 1: is how serious about this soft coup they are. You 181 00:11:43,115 --> 00:11:45,955 Speaker 1: already know they are serious enough that they encourage judges 182 00:11:46,315 --> 00:11:50,075 Speaker 1: and Supreme Court justices to be openly political, in violation 183 00:11:50,155 --> 00:11:53,795 Speaker 1: of every premise of our judicial system. Samuel Alito might 184 00:11:53,835 --> 00:11:57,035 Speaker 1: as well have campaigned for Trump. And last Thursday night, 185 00:11:57,275 --> 00:12:01,115 Speaker 1: the Federalist Society had its forty anniversary gala in Washington, 186 00:12:01,395 --> 00:12:05,395 Speaker 1: and overtly political event, and Aldo spoke and was cheered, 187 00:12:05,715 --> 00:12:09,475 Speaker 1: and where steel Neil Gorsich was there, and Brett Kavanaugh 188 00:12:09,635 --> 00:12:14,115 Speaker 1: was there waiting tables, I assume, and so is Amy 189 00:12:14,275 --> 00:12:18,075 Speaker 1: Coney Barrett, the Jesus freak with the legal skills of 190 00:12:18,075 --> 00:12:21,115 Speaker 1: a high school student who might take pre law when 191 00:12:21,155 --> 00:12:24,795 Speaker 1: she gets to community college. She got up and spoke 192 00:12:24,875 --> 00:12:45,355 Speaker 1: and immediately mocked free speech. Supreme Court Barbie is so 193 00:12:45,475 --> 00:12:49,075 Speaker 1: glad about noise not being made by protesters outside her house. 194 00:12:49,115 --> 00:12:51,035 Speaker 1: And no, here's a shock. She did not go on 195 00:12:51,555 --> 00:12:56,635 Speaker 1: to decry actual violence against America's democratically elected leaders, just 196 00:12:56,715 --> 00:12:59,275 Speaker 1: about things that inconvenience to her while she was trying 197 00:12:59,315 --> 00:13:02,675 Speaker 1: to overthrow the constitution. And like, part of this that's 198 00:13:02,675 --> 00:13:05,835 Speaker 1: missing is that her name is Amy and not carry. 199 00:13:06,875 --> 00:13:13,435 Speaker 1: So enjoy the weekend past and the Senate and however 200 00:13:13,475 --> 00:13:16,115 Speaker 1: the House finally turns out and the Trump to santist 201 00:13:16,235 --> 00:13:20,515 Speaker 1: punch and Judy Show and fascist entertainment being turned inward, 202 00:13:21,115 --> 00:13:24,275 Speaker 1: and start worrying more about what the Supreme Court will 203 00:13:24,315 --> 00:13:26,475 Speaker 1: next due to democracy and what we can do to 204 00:13:26,555 --> 00:13:30,355 Speaker 1: get the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to designate 205 00:13:30,395 --> 00:13:48,915 Speaker 1: the Federalist Society as a terrorist organization. Still ahead, Elmo 206 00:13:49,035 --> 00:13:52,875 Speaker 1: Muskrat goes one step too far. It's all well and 207 00:13:52,875 --> 00:13:55,235 Speaker 1: good to snark on a politician, but maybe not when 208 00:13:55,275 --> 00:13:58,755 Speaker 1: that politician is on the Senate subcommittees on Communication, Media 209 00:13:58,795 --> 00:14:05,835 Speaker 1: and Broadband and Consumer Protection and Space and Science. Sarah 210 00:14:05,875 --> 00:14:08,355 Speaker 1: Pale in his back and dumber than ever. She tweets, 211 00:14:08,555 --> 00:14:11,875 Speaker 1: they think we're stupid, and a mighty roar goes up 212 00:14:11,875 --> 00:14:16,115 Speaker 1: from the crowd, and Trump claims they've stolen the electron 213 00:14:16,315 --> 00:14:21,355 Speaker 1: from Blake Masters, Is he positive? And other physics jokes 214 00:14:21,355 --> 00:14:24,635 Speaker 1: coming up in Worse and the day I fell off 215 00:14:24,675 --> 00:14:27,435 Speaker 1: a cliff filming a television commercial and then the television 216 00:14:27,435 --> 00:14:30,275 Speaker 1: commercial caused the company I made the television commercial four 217 00:14:30,395 --> 00:14:34,475 Speaker 1: to lose nine hundred million dollars and going to bankruptcy. 218 00:14:35,275 --> 00:14:38,035 Speaker 1: Things I promised not to tell all about his next 219 00:14:38,075 --> 00:14:52,555 Speaker 1: this Discountdown. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman still ahead 220 00:14:52,555 --> 00:14:55,035 Speaker 1: on Countdown. She was trying to help the environment, but 221 00:14:55,275 --> 00:14:58,875 Speaker 1: she was black at Her neighbor was a Republican, so 222 00:14:58,915 --> 00:15:01,355 Speaker 1: he called the cops on her because he was scared 223 00:15:01,355 --> 00:15:05,835 Speaker 1: of her. By the way, she is nine years old. 224 00:15:05,915 --> 00:15:08,635 Speaker 1: Worst Persons coming up first. In each edition of Countdown, 225 00:15:08,635 --> 00:15:10,595 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need you can help. Every 226 00:15:10,635 --> 00:15:14,515 Speaker 1: dog has its day. This is a really small scale project. 227 00:15:14,635 --> 00:15:19,395 Speaker 1: Maslow is a handsome brindle pibble terrier mix in Why 228 00:15:19,435 --> 00:15:23,395 Speaker 1: I'm Missing Pennsylvania, who is fourteen years old. His human 229 00:15:23,435 --> 00:15:26,675 Speaker 1: gave him to another guy. That guy decided Maslow didn't 230 00:15:26,715 --> 00:15:30,155 Speaker 1: really need to be fed, so emaciated and betrayed. The 231 00:15:30,195 --> 00:15:33,675 Speaker 1: second human dumped Maslow in a high kill shelter, where 232 00:15:33,995 --> 00:15:37,795 Speaker 1: Outcast Rescue pulled him They've got a foster for him. 233 00:15:37,835 --> 00:15:40,475 Speaker 1: He's getting food and getting healthier, but they need about 234 00:15:40,475 --> 00:15:43,835 Speaker 1: six dollars to cover the expenses, probably for the rest 235 00:15:43,915 --> 00:15:46,755 Speaker 1: of his life. Owned by the way, it's senior dog month. 236 00:15:47,395 --> 00:15:51,035 Speaker 1: Maslow is my pinned tweet at Tom Jumbo Grumbo and 237 00:15:51,075 --> 00:15:53,355 Speaker 1: connected on my keith old room and account. If you 238 00:15:53,395 --> 00:15:56,115 Speaker 1: can donate, please respond to the tweet and retweet it. 239 00:15:56,195 --> 00:15:59,795 Speaker 1: If you can, I thank you and Maslow thanks you. 240 00:16:11,955 --> 00:16:15,075 Speaker 1: Pot Scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 241 00:16:15,075 --> 00:16:18,955 Speaker 1: some predictions, dateline. New York Trump's second chief of Staff, 242 00:16:19,035 --> 00:16:21,915 Speaker 1: General John Kelly tells The New York Times Trump told 243 00:16:21,955 --> 00:16:25,195 Speaker 1: him he wanted to sick the I R S on 244 00:16:25,395 --> 00:16:28,555 Speaker 1: James Comey and Andrew McCabe of the FBI on Oh golly, 245 00:16:28,595 --> 00:16:31,875 Speaker 1: what a coincidence. James Koby and Andrew McCabe both later 246 00:16:31,875 --> 00:16:34,475 Speaker 1: wound up being hit with a rare and highly intrusive 247 00:16:34,515 --> 00:16:38,715 Speaker 1: audit by the I R. S. Kelly said, Trump said, quote, 248 00:16:38,995 --> 00:16:42,235 Speaker 1: we ought to investigate and get the I R S 249 00:16:42,315 --> 00:16:47,235 Speaker 1: on Comey and McCabe. Trump spokes robot Liz Harrington denies 250 00:16:47,275 --> 00:16:50,755 Speaker 1: it and called Kelly a quote psycho, which is quite 251 00:16:50,795 --> 00:16:54,795 Speaker 1: a statement. If you've ever seen Liz Harrington dateline Boston. 252 00:16:54,915 --> 00:16:56,955 Speaker 1: Elon Musk may have bitten off more than he can 253 00:16:57,035 --> 00:16:59,955 Speaker 1: chew this time. No, not about Twitter. We know that 254 00:17:00,435 --> 00:17:04,515 Speaker 1: this is about Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts. A Washington 255 00:17:04,675 --> 00:17:08,755 Speaker 1: Post columnist with Markue's permission, impersonated Marky and got a 256 00:17:08,835 --> 00:17:13,115 Speaker 1: blue check mark for a Twitter account. Marky complained about this, 257 00:17:13,475 --> 00:17:16,755 Speaker 1: Musk replied, perhaps it was because Marky's real account quote 258 00:17:17,115 --> 00:17:20,875 Speaker 1: sounds like a parody. Markie replied. One of your companies 259 00:17:20,955 --> 00:17:24,795 Speaker 1: is under a Federal Trade Commission consent decree. Auto safety 260 00:17:24,835 --> 00:17:29,275 Speaker 1: watchdog NITZA is investigating another for killing people, and you're 261 00:17:29,315 --> 00:17:34,395 Speaker 1: spending your time picking fights online. Fix your company or Congress, 262 00:17:34,395 --> 00:17:38,835 Speaker 1: Will Musk replied with a meme. As I mentioned, Marky 263 00:17:39,035 --> 00:17:44,075 Speaker 1: is on the Senate subcommittees on Communication, Media and Broadband, 264 00:17:44,755 --> 00:17:52,715 Speaker 1: and Consumer Protection and Space and Science. Enjoy the purp walk, Elmo. 265 00:18:05,475 --> 00:18:11,755 Speaker 1: This is Sports Center. Wait check that not anymore. This 266 00:18:12,715 --> 00:18:18,355 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith in sports. If you're wondering if 267 00:18:18,435 --> 00:18:21,995 Speaker 1: coaching experience is really necessary in the pro sports that 268 00:18:22,075 --> 00:18:25,835 Speaker 1: we love so very much, they laughed when ESPN's Jeff 269 00:18:25,955 --> 00:18:29,155 Speaker 1: Saturday was named to coach his old team, the Indianapolis 270 00:18:29,195 --> 00:18:32,795 Speaker 1: Colts Saturday, who as a player was a center that 271 00:18:32,955 --> 00:18:36,195 Speaker 1: never previously coached at anything more sophisticated than a prep school. 272 00:18:36,795 --> 00:18:39,755 Speaker 1: The Colts built a ten zip lead over the Raiders 273 00:18:39,755 --> 00:18:42,875 Speaker 1: in Saturday's first game yesterday, they blew the lead, they 274 00:18:42,875 --> 00:18:45,275 Speaker 1: trailed twenty to nineteen in the fourth quarter, and then 275 00:18:45,395 --> 00:18:48,915 Speaker 1: rallied to win on a Matt Ryan touchdown pass. Final 276 00:18:49,955 --> 00:18:54,355 Speaker 1: Indianapolis Jeff Saturday is undefeated as a National Football League coach, 277 00:18:54,955 --> 00:19:00,195 Speaker 1: which reminds me of June seven, the Texas Rangers baseball 278 00:19:00,235 --> 00:19:03,875 Speaker 1: team fired manager Frank Lucasey and named as his successor 279 00:19:03,995 --> 00:19:06,515 Speaker 1: Eddie Stank, He who had not had a thing to 280 00:19:06,555 --> 00:19:09,715 Speaker 1: do with professional baseball since the Chicago White Sox had 281 00:19:09,715 --> 00:19:13,595 Speaker 1: fired him as manager nine years earlier. His Texas Rangers 282 00:19:13,635 --> 00:19:16,355 Speaker 1: promptly scored nine runs in the seventh and eighth innings 283 00:19:16,515 --> 00:19:18,875 Speaker 1: to get him attend to eight win against the Twins 284 00:19:18,875 --> 00:19:24,155 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, and immediately after that game, Eddie Stanky quit 285 00:19:24,235 --> 00:19:26,715 Speaker 1: as manager to Texas Rangers with his one and oh 286 00:19:26,835 --> 00:19:36,795 Speaker 1: record and went back to coach college ball. Thank you, 287 00:19:36,955 --> 00:19:39,835 Speaker 1: Nancy House. And speaking of Texas, remember the guy arrested 288 00:19:39,835 --> 00:19:42,835 Speaker 1: for throwing a can of white claw at Senator Ted 289 00:19:42,915 --> 00:19:46,075 Speaker 1: Cruz during the Houston Astros World Series Victy parade. Well, 290 00:19:46,115 --> 00:19:48,915 Speaker 1: the attorney victory was probably the word I wanted there. 291 00:19:49,075 --> 00:19:54,035 Speaker 1: The attorney for suspect, Joey Arsiko No says they've got 292 00:19:54,075 --> 00:19:57,075 Speaker 1: it all wrong, like I got the pronunciational wrong. He 293 00:19:57,155 --> 00:20:01,795 Speaker 1: was just throwing a can of white claw to Ted Cruz. So, 294 00:20:02,075 --> 00:20:05,195 Speaker 1: in the great tradition of athletes doing this ring World 295 00:20:05,275 --> 00:20:09,635 Speaker 1: Series or other championship parades, Ted Cruz would chug the beverage. Now, 296 00:20:09,635 --> 00:20:11,755 Speaker 1: obviously this is not going to hold up in court 297 00:20:11,835 --> 00:20:15,235 Speaker 1: because have you ever seen Ted Cruise. There's no way 298 00:20:15,275 --> 00:20:24,555 Speaker 1: you'd ever mistake Ted Cruz for an athlete. Still ahead, 299 00:20:24,635 --> 00:20:28,235 Speaker 1: So I fell off this cliff shooting a TV commercial, 300 00:20:28,315 --> 00:20:31,035 Speaker 1: and I still wound up faring better than the company 301 00:20:31,075 --> 00:20:35,595 Speaker 1: that paid me to make the TV commercial. Full details 302 00:20:35,635 --> 00:20:37,515 Speaker 1: ahead and things I promised not to tell. First, the 303 00:20:37,555 --> 00:20:39,435 Speaker 1: daily round up of the miscreants, morons and done in 304 00:20:39,515 --> 00:20:46,395 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons, and the 305 00:20:46,515 --> 00:20:51,795 Speaker 1: bronze Oh Sarah Pale and his back. She tweeted that 306 00:20:51,835 --> 00:20:54,595 Speaker 1: there's no way John Fetterman or Katie Hobbs could have 307 00:20:54,675 --> 00:20:59,235 Speaker 1: won their elections because they have fewer Twitter followers than 308 00:20:59,315 --> 00:21:03,315 Speaker 1: do mement Os and carry Lake with It was a 309 00:21:03,395 --> 00:21:08,515 Speaker 1: video in which Sarah asked the musical question they think 310 00:21:08,555 --> 00:21:15,395 Speaker 1: we're stupid, and we think you're stupid. We established this 311 00:21:15,435 --> 00:21:19,475 Speaker 1: in two thousand eight. What's your question? Caller? Wait, there 312 00:21:19,555 --> 00:21:22,995 Speaker 1: is more. Palin also appeared at a hockey autograph show 313 00:21:23,035 --> 00:21:26,355 Speaker 1: in Toronto on Saturday with her new boyfriend, the equally 314 00:21:26,355 --> 00:21:30,435 Speaker 1: intelligence challenged X New York ranger Ron Do Gay. Autograph 315 00:21:30,555 --> 00:21:35,395 Speaker 1: pictures were fifty dollars. To be fair, paying fans fifty 316 00:21:35,435 --> 00:21:37,715 Speaker 1: dollars to take a picture with Do Gay and Palin. 317 00:21:37,875 --> 00:21:40,955 Speaker 1: That's actually a pretty reasonable offer on their part. The 318 00:21:41,075 --> 00:21:45,035 Speaker 1: Bronze Trump one of something like one posts by him 319 00:21:45,075 --> 00:21:47,635 Speaker 1: on truth Social on the weekend of Veterans Day, and 320 00:21:47,715 --> 00:21:51,315 Speaker 1: none of them on Friday even mentioned Veterans Day. One 321 00:21:51,355 --> 00:21:55,755 Speaker 1: of them, though, read quotes sorry I'm laughing and you 322 00:21:55,755 --> 00:21:59,795 Speaker 1: haven't even heard it yet quote they stole the electron 323 00:22:00,155 --> 00:22:04,475 Speaker 1: from Blake Masters do election over again. They stole the 324 00:22:04,955 --> 00:22:09,955 Speaker 1: John elect John Well. We need to keep an eye 325 00:22:09,995 --> 00:22:17,595 Speaker 1: on this. Is he positive? Trump is all charged up 326 00:22:17,635 --> 00:22:23,075 Speaker 1: about it? Whoever did this will face charges, but happily 327 00:22:23,755 --> 00:22:28,795 Speaker 1: it's just a phase. Is this electrifying news? I stole 328 00:22:28,795 --> 00:22:31,155 Speaker 1: all those jokes from my Twitter applies. But our winner, 329 00:22:32,115 --> 00:22:37,355 Speaker 1: Gordon Losh of Caldwell, New Jersey. I hope I'm pronouncing 330 00:22:37,395 --> 00:22:40,275 Speaker 1: that correctly. But if I'm not, screw him. If you 331 00:22:40,275 --> 00:22:42,595 Speaker 1: hadn't heard about this, much of the East Coast had 332 00:22:42,635 --> 00:22:47,435 Speaker 1: an infestation of spottern lantern flies this summer and fall. 333 00:22:48,115 --> 00:22:53,475 Speaker 1: Spotted lantern flies are spectacular but also spectacularly damaging to 334 00:22:53,515 --> 00:22:56,795 Speaker 1: the local ecosystem, so much so that authorities throughout the 335 00:22:56,835 --> 00:23:01,475 Speaker 1: Northeast actually told residents, if you see a spotted lantern 336 00:23:01,555 --> 00:23:04,555 Speaker 1: fly and you can't miss them, they look like spotted lanterns. 337 00:23:04,835 --> 00:23:10,275 Speaker 1: If you see one, kill it, I mean seriously, nothing 338 00:23:10,275 --> 00:23:13,475 Speaker 1: about trapp it it, or will take it to a 339 00:23:13,515 --> 00:23:17,435 Speaker 1: farm up state. Kill the things, squish it. So on 340 00:23:17,515 --> 00:23:21,875 Speaker 1: October nine, year old Bobby Wilson of Caldwell, New Jersey, 341 00:23:22,075 --> 00:23:25,075 Speaker 1: went out to spray a tree that had been planted 342 00:23:25,115 --> 00:23:29,755 Speaker 1: by her grandmother and had become infested with spotted lantern flies, 343 00:23:29,835 --> 00:23:34,235 Speaker 1: which is when the Wilson's neighbor across the street, Gordon Losh, 344 00:23:34,515 --> 00:23:39,115 Speaker 1: called the police. Quoting from the tape of his call. 345 00:23:39,795 --> 00:23:44,675 Speaker 1: There's a little black woman walking spraying stuff on the 346 00:23:44,755 --> 00:23:47,955 Speaker 1: sidewalks and trees. I don't know what the hell she 347 00:23:48,115 --> 00:23:52,915 Speaker 1: is doing. Scares me, though, Lash added he thought she 348 00:23:53,035 --> 00:23:56,795 Speaker 1: was wearing a hoodie. Turned out she was not a 349 00:23:56,915 --> 00:24:02,475 Speaker 1: little black woman. She's nine and she's been this idiot's 350 00:24:02,595 --> 00:24:06,755 Speaker 1: neighbor for eight years. The mayor of Caldwell, New Jersey, 351 00:24:06,755 --> 00:24:09,395 Speaker 1: has apologized to Bobby Wilson and her family. All her 352 00:24:09,435 --> 00:24:11,955 Speaker 1: mother wanted in response to this was to talk to 353 00:24:12,075 --> 00:24:16,315 Speaker 1: Losh about how dangerous his phone call was, even after 354 00:24:16,355 --> 00:24:19,635 Speaker 1: the fact, especially since the emergency operator actually sent cops 355 00:24:19,715 --> 00:24:22,875 Speaker 1: to the street to talk to the quote little black woman, 356 00:24:23,475 --> 00:24:26,955 Speaker 1: Little Bobby is now afraid of the police. Gordon Lash 357 00:24:27,075 --> 00:24:30,155 Speaker 1: refused to meet with the Wilson's refused to discuss this, 358 00:24:30,515 --> 00:24:32,555 Speaker 1: and his attorney said the claim that Bobby Wilson is 359 00:24:32,555 --> 00:24:36,115 Speaker 1: now afraid of the cops was absurd, quoting the attorney, 360 00:24:36,195 --> 00:24:40,635 Speaker 1: it makes real problems not be taken seriously. The attorney 361 00:24:40,675 --> 00:24:45,635 Speaker 1: also said Losh wasn't wearing his glasses. Punchline. Gordon Lass 362 00:24:45,755 --> 00:24:49,595 Speaker 1: used to be a town councilman in Calledwell, New Jersey, 363 00:24:49,635 --> 00:24:55,515 Speaker 1: and he is guesses co chair of the calledwell Republican 364 00:24:55,715 --> 00:25:00,035 Speaker 1: Party Gordon. I couldn't be bothered to put on my glasses, 365 00:25:00,035 --> 00:25:02,395 Speaker 1: so I risked these cops shooting a nine year old 366 00:25:02,435 --> 00:25:05,275 Speaker 1: girls might have been my neighbor for eight years. Losh 367 00:25:05,915 --> 00:25:21,555 Speaker 1: two days, worst person in the world, to the number 368 00:25:21,555 --> 00:25:23,995 Speaker 1: one story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me 369 00:25:24,235 --> 00:25:26,635 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell. And it was 370 00:25:26,675 --> 00:25:30,475 Speaker 1: this time of year when my agent called me at ESPN. 371 00:25:31,155 --> 00:25:33,515 Speaker 1: There's an ad agency in Santa Monica. They just called me, 372 00:25:33,555 --> 00:25:35,955 Speaker 1: would you like to do two commercials for Boston Market? 373 00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:41,075 Speaker 1: I answered, with profound indifference, Okay, would you like to 374 00:25:41,115 --> 00:25:44,955 Speaker 1: do two commercials for Boston Market for two fifty dollars. 375 00:25:46,035 --> 00:25:48,635 Speaker 1: I believe my next words were, well, I can't do 376 00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:52,395 Speaker 1: them today, but sure. They faxed me. The scripts are 377 00:25:52,395 --> 00:25:55,355 Speaker 1: actually pretty funny, very well done. I think you'll like them. 378 00:25:55,435 --> 00:25:57,995 Speaker 1: I believe my next next words were, if I don't 379 00:25:57,995 --> 00:26:00,315 Speaker 1: have to kill anybody in them, call them back and 380 00:26:00,355 --> 00:26:04,435 Speaker 1: say yes and get the money. Since the idea of 381 00:26:04,435 --> 00:26:06,955 Speaker 1: what these ads would run on sports telecasts, most of 382 00:26:06,995 --> 00:26:10,515 Speaker 1: them on ESPN, my yes got back to management at 383 00:26:10,755 --> 00:26:13,595 Speaker 1: ESPN pretty quickly. You can't do these, one of the 384 00:26:13,635 --> 00:26:18,675 Speaker 1: executives explained dismissively. We don't let anybody do commercials, I laughed. 385 00:26:19,395 --> 00:26:21,755 Speaker 1: Every one of us has done the uh, this is 386 00:26:21,795 --> 00:26:24,715 Speaker 1: Sports Center commercials. Some of us have written that this 387 00:26:24,835 --> 00:26:27,195 Speaker 1: is Sports Center commercials. You don't even give us days 388 00:26:27,235 --> 00:26:29,675 Speaker 1: off for making them, let alone give us money. This 389 00:26:29,715 --> 00:26:32,115 Speaker 1: is money I don't have to ask you for. The 390 00:26:32,195 --> 00:26:36,315 Speaker 1: executive shook his head. Those aren't commercials. Those are promotional announcements. 391 00:26:36,315 --> 00:26:40,595 Speaker 1: They're in your contract. Nobody here does commercials, I said. 392 00:26:41,155 --> 00:26:45,115 Speaker 1: Chris Berman has done a beer commercial in three out 393 00:26:45,115 --> 00:26:47,955 Speaker 1: of the last five Super Bowls. My commercial is just 394 00:26:48,035 --> 00:26:51,875 Speaker 1: for food. Well, he's Berman, I pointed out. I went 395 00:26:51,875 --> 00:26:54,515 Speaker 1: to high school with him, and I was the star 396 00:26:54,555 --> 00:26:57,195 Speaker 1: of their most popular program, a little thing called Sports Center. 397 00:26:57,395 --> 00:26:59,315 Speaker 1: TV guy had just named us one of the top 398 00:26:59,355 --> 00:27:02,675 Speaker 1: ten shows on TV shows not sports shows us in 399 00:27:02,835 --> 00:27:07,955 Speaker 1: Seinfeld say, well, now I got a little angry, which 400 00:27:07,995 --> 00:27:10,395 Speaker 1: never happened to me at ESPN, and I went to 401 00:27:10,475 --> 00:27:14,195 Speaker 1: my ace in the whole. Uh, my contract expires in 402 00:27:14,315 --> 00:27:16,515 Speaker 1: like ten months, and you know I intend to leave, 403 00:27:17,235 --> 00:27:19,235 Speaker 1: and during those ten months, you're gonna pay me about 404 00:27:19,355 --> 00:27:22,515 Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty dollars. So Boston Market is gonna 405 00:27:22,515 --> 00:27:25,355 Speaker 1: pay me two hundred and fifty tho dollars for two 406 00:27:25,435 --> 00:27:29,795 Speaker 1: days work instead of ten months work. Plus they're gonna 407 00:27:29,835 --> 00:27:31,515 Speaker 1: take me out first class to l A for a 408 00:27:31,555 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: couple of days, and they're probably gonna do some radio 409 00:27:34,595 --> 00:27:36,915 Speaker 1: spots and I'll make another twenty five grand. So you're 410 00:27:36,915 --> 00:27:43,795 Speaker 1: giving me a choice, make say, chord seventy dollars in 411 00:27:43,915 --> 00:27:45,835 Speaker 1: like five days for them, or make two hundred and 412 00:27:45,875 --> 00:27:49,035 Speaker 1: sixty dollars here between now and next September when I'm 413 00:27:49,035 --> 00:27:52,235 Speaker 1: planning and leaving. Anyway, if you make me choose between 414 00:27:52,235 --> 00:27:55,795 Speaker 1: those two, which do you expect me to choose? The 415 00:27:55,835 --> 00:27:59,475 Speaker 1: executive coughed we'll get back to an hour later. He 416 00:27:59,515 --> 00:28:01,915 Speaker 1: got back to me by phone. Okay, we see your point, 417 00:28:01,915 --> 00:28:04,515 Speaker 1: but there's still two problems. We can't just let everybody 418 00:28:04,515 --> 00:28:07,475 Speaker 1: do commercials. I said, well, you know, why don't you 419 00:28:07,515 --> 00:28:09,715 Speaker 1: just let anybody who went to the high school that 420 00:28:09,795 --> 00:28:12,475 Speaker 1: Berman and I went to do commercials. He did not 421 00:28:12,595 --> 00:28:16,235 Speaker 1: laugh at that. Well, how about only your regular weekday 422 00:28:16,275 --> 00:28:19,235 Speaker 1: sports center anchors get to do commercials? There was a 423 00:28:19,275 --> 00:28:22,795 Speaker 1: grunt and a maybe. Then we got to the gist 424 00:28:22,875 --> 00:28:27,035 Speaker 1: of the real problem. Here's the real problem. People on 425 00:28:27,115 --> 00:28:31,355 Speaker 1: your show. They'll be resentful. And I said, why will 426 00:28:31,395 --> 00:28:34,235 Speaker 1: they be resentful? Because the production assistants are expecting that 427 00:28:34,275 --> 00:28:37,115 Speaker 1: they're going to get their own commercials too. And I said, 428 00:28:37,115 --> 00:28:41,035 Speaker 1: how about this, the day I'm out there actually shooting 429 00:28:41,075 --> 00:28:44,715 Speaker 1: the commercial, I will get Boston Market to like cater 430 00:28:44,915 --> 00:28:47,235 Speaker 1: dinner for the show staff, even if I have to 431 00:28:47,275 --> 00:28:51,795 Speaker 1: pay for it myself. There was a long silence. Would 432 00:28:51,795 --> 00:28:54,995 Speaker 1: management be included in that? And can we get all 433 00:28:55,035 --> 00:29:00,595 Speaker 1: the side dishes too? I swear to God. So off 434 00:29:00,635 --> 00:29:03,395 Speaker 1: I flew at the beginning of December, during a winter 435 00:29:03,475 --> 00:29:06,315 Speaker 1: that had gone frigid in October in Bristol, Connecticut, and 436 00:29:06,315 --> 00:29:08,275 Speaker 1: the next thing I knew, I was on the beach 437 00:29:08,755 --> 00:29:14,315 Speaker 1: in Malibu at Leo Carrio State Park. The crew is 438 00:29:14,355 --> 00:29:17,195 Speaker 1: complaining because it is raining lightly and only about fifty 439 00:29:17,195 --> 00:29:21,355 Speaker 1: five degrees. To me, fresh from the hinter lands and 440 00:29:21,435 --> 00:29:23,235 Speaker 1: having not been back to l A since I had 441 00:29:23,275 --> 00:29:27,075 Speaker 1: moved out in It's like I'm in Tahiti. And my 442 00:29:27,155 --> 00:29:29,755 Speaker 1: agent was right. The scripts were funny and original. They 443 00:29:29,755 --> 00:29:32,795 Speaker 1: were a send up of the old Calvin Klein obsession 444 00:29:33,355 --> 00:29:37,355 Speaker 1: perfume commercials. There are two extremely thin models and they 445 00:29:37,355 --> 00:29:41,235 Speaker 1: are filmed writhing in frustration on the beach on the 446 00:29:41,275 --> 00:29:45,555 Speaker 1: big Rock outcroppings at Leo Corio State Park. She is 447 00:29:45,595 --> 00:29:49,435 Speaker 1: supposed to say, emptiness, How can I fill this empty 448 00:29:49,515 --> 00:29:53,075 Speaker 1: void of emptiness? They are in black and white, but 449 00:29:53,315 --> 00:29:58,115 Speaker 1: I emerge from behind a rock or wherever I'm in color. 450 00:29:58,475 --> 00:30:00,355 Speaker 1: They are in black and white, and I say, when 451 00:30:00,355 --> 00:30:02,795 Speaker 1: they say, don't know what to do by this emptiness, 452 00:30:02,835 --> 00:30:07,475 Speaker 1: I say eat something. I then sell the sandwich. Then 453 00:30:07,475 --> 00:30:09,435 Speaker 1: it cuts to a shot of me walking them down 454 00:30:09,475 --> 00:30:12,875 Speaker 1: the beach with my arm over each of their shoulders, 455 00:30:13,195 --> 00:30:16,355 Speaker 1: telling them eating is a good thing, and who's wearing cologne? 456 00:30:16,635 --> 00:30:19,315 Speaker 1: Or who likes sports or other stupid things like that. 457 00:30:21,715 --> 00:30:24,475 Speaker 1: For a quarter of a million dollars, Well, we start 458 00:30:24,555 --> 00:30:26,675 Speaker 1: this at eight am, and the producer and the director 459 00:30:26,795 --> 00:30:29,155 Speaker 1: John say to me and the two models and the crew, look, 460 00:30:29,235 --> 00:30:31,115 Speaker 1: this rain is just going to get heavier as the 461 00:30:31,195 --> 00:30:33,435 Speaker 1: day goes on. So what we want to do is 462 00:30:33,475 --> 00:30:36,075 Speaker 1: not take a break for lunch. We'll just shoot until 463 00:30:36,115 --> 00:30:38,835 Speaker 1: like two pm, and then you can have lunch. You 464 00:30:38,835 --> 00:30:40,715 Speaker 1: can take your lunch with you, and you'll all get 465 00:30:40,755 --> 00:30:44,275 Speaker 1: paid for a full day. And everybody agrees. The actress agrees, 466 00:30:44,355 --> 00:30:48,115 Speaker 1: and she swears as she agrees. The actress is named Una. 467 00:30:48,635 --> 00:30:51,875 Speaker 1: Una is from Chicago, and it will soon prove Una 468 00:30:52,275 --> 00:30:57,035 Speaker 1: swears more than a longshoreman. This blanking called can blank 469 00:30:57,115 --> 00:31:02,475 Speaker 1: my blanking blank to be fair. Una and the guy 470 00:31:02,515 --> 00:31:05,315 Speaker 1: are dressed in Calvin Klein rags, and they are there 471 00:31:05,395 --> 00:31:08,595 Speaker 1: and they are from there, and they are freezing while 472 00:31:08,635 --> 00:31:11,715 Speaker 1: I am wearing a production company brand new suit and shoes, 473 00:31:12,155 --> 00:31:15,475 Speaker 1: and to me it feels like it's Tahiti. We take 474 00:31:15,515 --> 00:31:17,275 Speaker 1: a couple of hours where we do all the shots 475 00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:19,915 Speaker 1: where I emerge from behind the rocks or go around 476 00:31:19,955 --> 00:31:22,555 Speaker 1: the rocks, or over the rocks, or look over the rocks, 477 00:31:23,075 --> 00:31:25,795 Speaker 1: and the director finally says, okay, we've got five good options. 478 00:31:26,075 --> 00:31:28,315 Speaker 1: Let's set up for the walk down the beach with 479 00:31:28,395 --> 00:31:33,315 Speaker 1: your arms around each other's shoulders. By now it's noon 480 00:31:33,475 --> 00:31:36,115 Speaker 1: or twelve thirty. And as they move the cameras and 481 00:31:36,155 --> 00:31:38,755 Speaker 1: the rain starts to move from a mist to like 482 00:31:38,875 --> 00:31:43,875 Speaker 1: a light rain. Two prop guys bring out rakes, and 483 00:31:43,995 --> 00:31:45,795 Speaker 1: I'm sitting with the crew and I've been asking them 484 00:31:45,875 --> 00:31:48,315 Speaker 1: questions all morning in between takes about how this is 485 00:31:48,355 --> 00:31:52,395 Speaker 1: all being arranged and made and lit. And I say, Rakes, 486 00:31:52,995 --> 00:31:55,435 Speaker 1: what do you need Rakes for on a commercial and 487 00:31:55,475 --> 00:31:58,115 Speaker 1: they say you'll see. And then each time me and 488 00:31:58,235 --> 00:32:00,035 Speaker 1: Una and the guy walked down the beach and the 489 00:32:00,075 --> 00:32:02,355 Speaker 1: director says, cut, we go back to the starting point. 490 00:32:02,435 --> 00:32:06,315 Speaker 1: Now outcome to stage hands with rakes and they rake 491 00:32:06,795 --> 00:32:13,395 Speaker 1: the sand on the beach smooth, and I say, oh, footprints. 492 00:32:14,555 --> 00:32:17,355 Speaker 1: So each time I walk down this damp beach with 493 00:32:17,435 --> 00:32:19,355 Speaker 1: the range just a little harder than it was the 494 00:32:19,355 --> 00:32:22,675 Speaker 1: take before, in my brand new dress shoes, what I'm 495 00:32:22,675 --> 00:32:26,155 Speaker 1: basically doing is polishing the souls of these brand new 496 00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:29,195 Speaker 1: shoes on damp sand. I mean, by the time the director, 497 00:32:29,275 --> 00:32:32,355 Speaker 1: John says, we are done, these souls of these shoes 498 00:32:32,515 --> 00:32:35,475 Speaker 1: so shiny, I could go ice skating in these shoes. 499 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:39,435 Speaker 1: And John comes over and he says, listen, we got 500 00:32:39,435 --> 00:32:41,395 Speaker 1: another half an hour. Can we go back and try 501 00:32:41,435 --> 00:32:43,275 Speaker 1: a new way for you to appear on the rocks? 502 00:32:43,515 --> 00:32:45,915 Speaker 1: I mean, can you Can you climb rocks at all? 503 00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:49,235 Speaker 1: And I say, yeah, actually, I'm surprisingly good at it. 504 00:32:49,275 --> 00:32:51,795 Speaker 1: You wouldn't think so, but I can climb rocks. And 505 00:32:51,835 --> 00:32:54,155 Speaker 1: he points to one rock out cropping on the beach. 506 00:32:54,395 --> 00:32:58,155 Speaker 1: Maybe it's high, and he says, try to climb up 507 00:32:58,155 --> 00:33:00,555 Speaker 1: that and go as high as you can. If there's 508 00:33:00,555 --> 00:33:03,235 Speaker 1: nothing that will support you, we'll forget it. And I try, 509 00:33:03,235 --> 00:33:04,915 Speaker 1: and sure enough, I get up near the top and 510 00:33:04,915 --> 00:33:07,195 Speaker 1: there is a perfect little shelf in the rock that 511 00:33:07,275 --> 00:33:10,555 Speaker 1: I can comfortably stand on. And the director points the 512 00:33:10,595 --> 00:33:13,355 Speaker 1: camera up and he says, oh, damn, the angle is 513 00:33:13,395 --> 00:33:16,155 Speaker 1: too tough. I can't swing the camera down fast enough 514 00:33:16,395 --> 00:33:19,075 Speaker 1: for when you say eat something so I can refocus 515 00:33:19,115 --> 00:33:22,075 Speaker 1: on the models. It won't work. Is there anything lower 516 00:33:22,115 --> 00:33:24,275 Speaker 1: on the rock where you could stand? Can you come 517 00:33:24,355 --> 00:33:27,835 Speaker 1: down at all? And I said, I think so. I 518 00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:30,755 Speaker 1: think I can come down a little bit. Well, little 519 00:33:30,795 --> 00:33:35,315 Speaker 1: did I know. Sure enough, maybe nine ten ft from 520 00:33:35,355 --> 00:33:39,275 Speaker 1: the beach. Up in the sky, there is another little 521 00:33:39,315 --> 00:33:43,115 Speaker 1: foothold on this rock outcropping. It is not big enough 522 00:33:43,155 --> 00:33:45,115 Speaker 1: for me to put both my feet on it. But 523 00:33:45,195 --> 00:33:47,355 Speaker 1: I say, if you don't mind me holding onto the 524 00:33:47,435 --> 00:33:49,715 Speaker 1: rock as I say eat something, I can do it 525 00:33:49,755 --> 00:33:52,715 Speaker 1: from here. And the director says, okay, let's try it. 526 00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:55,835 Speaker 1: And I climbed down the rock and he's moving the 527 00:33:55,875 --> 00:33:58,475 Speaker 1: camera and I put my left foot on this flat 528 00:33:58,595 --> 00:34:00,875 Speaker 1: part which is nine or ten feet up from the beach, 529 00:34:01,115 --> 00:34:04,035 Speaker 1: and for a couple of seconds everything is fine. I'm good. 530 00:34:05,475 --> 00:34:09,635 Speaker 1: And that's when I feel that my left shoe, my 531 00:34:09,795 --> 00:34:14,115 Speaker 1: brand new left shoe, straight from the floor, shyme catalog, 532 00:34:14,395 --> 00:34:18,035 Speaker 1: bright and shiny, and now having been polished by four 533 00:34:18,155 --> 00:34:20,395 Speaker 1: hours of walking up and down on a wet beach, 534 00:34:20,435 --> 00:34:23,315 Speaker 1: complete with two guys there to rake the beach and 535 00:34:23,395 --> 00:34:26,035 Speaker 1: make sure it is as shiny as it possibly can be. 536 00:34:27,915 --> 00:34:32,555 Speaker 1: My left shoe, slipperier than a diamond, is now moving 537 00:34:32,635 --> 00:34:37,955 Speaker 1: of its own accord. I'm holding, I'm doing a good 538 00:34:38,075 --> 00:34:42,955 Speaker 1: rock climbing job, but the shoe, the shoe is not holding. Hey, 539 00:34:43,075 --> 00:34:46,355 Speaker 1: I say, with some alarm, I'm about to fall off. 540 00:34:48,115 --> 00:34:51,075 Speaker 1: I hit the sand no more than five seconds later. 541 00:34:51,755 --> 00:34:55,635 Speaker 1: So that's about a sixteen ft drop from my head 542 00:34:55,675 --> 00:34:59,595 Speaker 1: to the beach. And for weeks, for years still to 543 00:34:59,675 --> 00:35:02,395 Speaker 1: this day, it has amazed me more than anything else 544 00:35:02,435 --> 00:35:05,595 Speaker 1: that happened. It has amazed me how much went through 545 00:35:05,635 --> 00:35:09,715 Speaker 1: my mind before I crashed. In fact, before I actually fell, 546 00:35:10,915 --> 00:35:14,235 Speaker 1: I know, I did a quick height calculation fifteen sixteen feet. 547 00:35:14,515 --> 00:35:17,475 Speaker 1: I recognized that the outcropping was so vertical that I 548 00:35:17,555 --> 00:35:20,075 Speaker 1: was unlikely to hit any of the rock on the 549 00:35:20,075 --> 00:35:23,315 Speaker 1: way down. But just the same I remembered that the 550 00:35:23,395 --> 00:35:28,195 Speaker 1: rocks continued under the sand sea. I took two years 551 00:35:28,195 --> 00:35:31,875 Speaker 1: of geology, and this was going to be a hard landing. 552 00:35:32,755 --> 00:35:35,915 Speaker 1: More amazingly than all that. Though I had taken judo 553 00:35:35,995 --> 00:35:41,475 Speaker 1: as a kid, I hated every minute of judo nineteen 554 00:35:41,555 --> 00:35:45,075 Speaker 1: sixty six, So twenty six and twenty seven years before 555 00:35:45,275 --> 00:35:49,115 Speaker 1: we shot this commercial, I was in the studio, the 556 00:35:49,235 --> 00:35:54,035 Speaker 1: Judo studio in White Plains, New York, the day of 557 00:35:54,075 --> 00:35:58,435 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty five Northeast blackout, and the only happy 558 00:35:58,515 --> 00:36:01,795 Speaker 1: memory of the entire judo experience I had was when 559 00:36:01,835 --> 00:36:06,755 Speaker 1: our instructor, Bob Durocher locked us in the dojo that 560 00:36:06,835 --> 00:36:08,875 Speaker 1: had been converted from a store that had a front 561 00:36:08,955 --> 00:36:11,715 Speaker 1: door that was set in several feet from the streets 562 00:36:11,715 --> 00:36:14,795 Speaker 1: so they could put display cases up. And now it's 563 00:36:14,795 --> 00:36:17,155 Speaker 1: pitch black. So he went out and got his Volkswagen 564 00:36:17,235 --> 00:36:20,915 Speaker 1: Karmen Dia, drove it up over the sidewalk into that 565 00:36:21,155 --> 00:36:24,355 Speaker 1: set in entryway of this converted storefront. He put his 566 00:36:24,435 --> 00:36:27,795 Speaker 1: high beams on. He flooded the dojo with enough light 567 00:36:27,875 --> 00:36:30,115 Speaker 1: that weak kids could change out of our judo stuff 568 00:36:30,235 --> 00:36:33,075 Speaker 1: and back into our regular clothes and wait for our 569 00:36:33,115 --> 00:36:36,315 Speaker 1: parents to come get us. He did a great job. 570 00:36:37,195 --> 00:36:40,435 Speaker 1: I didn't like the judo so much, but his blackout 571 00:36:40,755 --> 00:36:45,395 Speaker 1: operations practice was superb. So now, with all of this 572 00:36:45,515 --> 00:36:48,035 Speaker 1: having gone through my head in a second, I began 573 00:36:48,075 --> 00:36:51,075 Speaker 1: to fall, and everything else from that year of once 574 00:36:51,075 --> 00:36:54,075 Speaker 1: a week judo classes comes back to me. Relax. As 575 00:36:54,155 --> 00:36:56,755 Speaker 1: you drop, the more of your body that hits, the 576 00:36:56,835 --> 00:37:00,555 Speaker 1: less you'll get hurt. Hands protect. The head dropped like 577 00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:04,435 Speaker 1: a sack of sand. I did not hit the sand, 578 00:37:04,675 --> 00:37:07,115 Speaker 1: her say, I kind of splattered on my left side 579 00:37:07,715 --> 00:37:11,915 Speaker 1: swoop as I rolled over onto my back and took 580 00:37:11,915 --> 00:37:15,795 Speaker 1: a breath and sat up. Of all people, Una was 581 00:37:15,835 --> 00:37:18,035 Speaker 1: the first to race over to me. You want some 582 00:37:18,115 --> 00:37:21,875 Speaker 1: blank and tea? I said, uh no, no thanks, Let 583 00:37:21,875 --> 00:37:24,875 Speaker 1: me let me see if I'm dead. The grips tried 584 00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:26,235 Speaker 1: to help me to my feet, but I felt some 585 00:37:26,315 --> 00:37:29,755 Speaker 1: very sharp pain that which suggested we should slow down. 586 00:37:30,515 --> 00:37:33,315 Speaker 1: The problem was, though, even if I needed an ambulance, 587 00:37:33,355 --> 00:37:34,995 Speaker 1: there was no way to get one down to where 588 00:37:34,995 --> 00:37:37,995 Speaker 1: we were shooting. As that rock outcropping that I had 589 00:37:38,035 --> 00:37:42,035 Speaker 1: just fallen from suggested, I like to call it a 590 00:37:42,035 --> 00:37:46,075 Speaker 1: cliff every now and again. Leo Courio State Park had 591 00:37:46,115 --> 00:37:48,755 Speaker 1: a real cliff in it, and a flight of stairs. 592 00:37:48,795 --> 00:37:51,555 Speaker 1: I mean a hundred steps, two hundred steps up to 593 00:37:51,595 --> 00:37:55,115 Speaker 1: the Pacific Coast Highway and a park. Sure enough, I 594 00:37:55,155 --> 00:37:59,195 Speaker 1: was able to stand, but I couldn't move easily. Everything hurt. 595 00:37:59,715 --> 00:38:01,835 Speaker 1: So the two biggest members of the crew let me 596 00:38:01,915 --> 00:38:04,595 Speaker 1: drape my arms over their shoulders, exactly the way I 597 00:38:04,755 --> 00:38:08,075 Speaker 1: had draped my arms over their shoulders of the models 598 00:38:08,155 --> 00:38:13,475 Speaker 1: during the beach shot. I stopped for a second. Hey, Oona, 599 00:38:14,115 --> 00:38:16,915 Speaker 1: are you sure you don't want to Frankin carry me 600 00:38:17,035 --> 00:38:22,035 Speaker 1: up the stairs? She said, with genuine sincerity. Now that's 601 00:38:22,115 --> 00:38:26,435 Speaker 1: blank and funny. Seemed to me like it took about 602 00:38:26,435 --> 00:38:29,355 Speaker 1: a month to get up those stairs. I assumed there 603 00:38:29,355 --> 00:38:31,995 Speaker 1: would be an ambulance waiting by this point. Instead there 604 00:38:32,115 --> 00:38:36,075 Speaker 1: was a park ranger. This is a state park. I 605 00:38:36,075 --> 00:38:37,675 Speaker 1: have to see you first, then I have to call 606 00:38:37,715 --> 00:38:40,755 Speaker 1: the fire department. I said, well, this pain on my 607 00:38:40,875 --> 00:38:42,835 Speaker 1: side here, this feels like fire, but I don't think 608 00:38:42,835 --> 00:38:45,875 Speaker 1: it's actually fire. He called the fire department. They showed up, 609 00:38:45,915 --> 00:38:49,635 Speaker 1: They assessed me, They called the ambulance. At some point, 610 00:38:49,715 --> 00:38:52,875 Speaker 1: probably when I was being half dragged up the steps, 611 00:38:52,915 --> 00:38:57,155 Speaker 1: something happened on the impact side. If I now tried 612 00:38:57,195 --> 00:39:00,235 Speaker 1: to lower my left arm from way above my head. 613 00:39:00,715 --> 00:39:05,315 Speaker 1: I got severe shooting, burning pain from my left armpit 614 00:39:05,435 --> 00:39:10,035 Speaker 1: to about my left knee. Cleverly, I figured out not 615 00:39:10,155 --> 00:39:13,675 Speaker 1: to do that. Keep your left arm above your head 616 00:39:15,115 --> 00:39:18,435 Speaker 1: and it won't hurt. I use the restroom in the 617 00:39:18,515 --> 00:39:21,195 Speaker 1: ranger station. There was no blood, so no kidney damage. 618 00:39:22,075 --> 00:39:26,075 Speaker 1: I'm okay. It does, however, hurt, and something could be broken. 619 00:39:27,275 --> 00:39:29,715 Speaker 1: Now I go back outside, my arm above my head 620 00:39:29,755 --> 00:39:32,235 Speaker 1: like I'm signaling for a cab on the streets of 621 00:39:32,235 --> 00:39:35,275 Speaker 1: New York City. And the ambulance shows up and the 622 00:39:35,315 --> 00:39:37,355 Speaker 1: A m t S tell me to get on their gurney, 623 00:39:37,395 --> 00:39:41,115 Speaker 1: and I said, I can't. I can't lower my arm 624 00:39:41,275 --> 00:39:46,635 Speaker 1: unless I want excruciating pain. I can't move my arm. 625 00:39:46,675 --> 00:39:49,435 Speaker 1: I have to stay in this position, looking like like 626 00:39:49,475 --> 00:39:53,315 Speaker 1: a Flamenco dancer. But I said, listen, can you lock 627 00:39:53,435 --> 00:39:55,715 Speaker 1: the wheels on this gurney? And they said, sure, we can, 628 00:39:55,795 --> 00:39:57,315 Speaker 1: of course we can. And I said, don't just lock 629 00:39:57,395 --> 00:40:00,795 Speaker 1: the wheels and I'll just back up onto the end 630 00:40:00,795 --> 00:40:04,915 Speaker 1: of it and I'll fall backwards. And it worked, and 631 00:40:04,995 --> 00:40:07,235 Speaker 1: so with my left arm still extended over my head, 632 00:40:07,275 --> 00:40:10,955 Speaker 1: they loaded me into the ambulance. Apparently, when I fell 633 00:40:11,035 --> 00:40:14,115 Speaker 1: from that rock or cliff, as I call it. It 634 00:40:14,155 --> 00:40:17,835 Speaker 1: looked like I had been shot. Fifty sixty people on 635 00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:21,555 Speaker 1: a commercial crew. The shooting day is over. They have 636 00:40:21,635 --> 00:40:24,915 Speaker 1: missed lunch. There is a very nice catered lunch sitting there. 637 00:40:25,475 --> 00:40:28,795 Speaker 1: And they told me later that everybody was so disturbed 638 00:40:28,795 --> 00:40:31,635 Speaker 1: by what happened to me that only three people even 639 00:40:31,675 --> 00:40:35,155 Speaker 1: took something to go and know. The director was not 640 00:40:35,355 --> 00:40:39,995 Speaker 1: filming as I fell, sadly, so we hid every pothole 641 00:40:40,115 --> 00:40:42,915 Speaker 1: on Pacific Coast Highway on the trip from the beach 642 00:40:42,955 --> 00:40:47,995 Speaker 1: to the hospital. Oh. I called my agent from my 643 00:40:48,075 --> 00:40:51,835 Speaker 1: cell phone. She laughed. I called ESPN actually to check 644 00:40:51,875 --> 00:40:53,755 Speaker 1: on the catered dinner. Oh what's new. Oh, I fell 645 00:40:53,795 --> 00:40:56,835 Speaker 1: off a cliff shooting the commercial, they laughed. And I'm 646 00:40:56,915 --> 00:40:59,195 Speaker 1: lying there in the emergency room waiting for X rays 647 00:40:59,235 --> 00:41:02,035 Speaker 1: when my cell phone rings again and I reached into 648 00:41:02,075 --> 00:41:04,555 Speaker 1: my left pocket and I had the phone halfway to 649 00:41:04,715 --> 00:41:07,075 Speaker 1: my ear when I realized, my left side does not 650 00:41:07,315 --> 00:41:13,355 Speaker 1: hurt anymore at all. It does not hurt at all. Well, 651 00:41:13,355 --> 00:41:16,355 Speaker 1: that was a quick recovery. I sat up. My left 652 00:41:16,395 --> 00:41:19,275 Speaker 1: side felt fine, In fact, it felt great, and a 653 00:41:19,355 --> 00:41:21,795 Speaker 1: nurse came over and suggested I should lie back down again. 654 00:41:21,835 --> 00:41:24,995 Speaker 1: I said, why. Somehow I got better on the trip 655 00:41:25,035 --> 00:41:27,715 Speaker 1: from all the potholes and just lying here. In fact, 656 00:41:27,755 --> 00:41:30,555 Speaker 1: I feel great. Did you guys remove my left leg 657 00:41:30,595 --> 00:41:32,795 Speaker 1: while I wasn't looking? Did you replace it with the 658 00:41:32,875 --> 00:41:34,555 Speaker 1: left leg that I had when I was twelve? Because 659 00:41:34,595 --> 00:41:36,635 Speaker 1: I could hop back to Connecticut on my left leg. 660 00:41:36,715 --> 00:41:40,915 Speaker 1: Right now, just cancel the flight, she laughed. She said, no. 661 00:41:41,595 --> 00:41:43,715 Speaker 1: What I was feeling would be the morphine they gave 662 00:41:43,755 --> 00:41:45,755 Speaker 1: me so they could twist me around and take the 663 00:41:45,915 --> 00:41:48,995 Speaker 1: X rays they needed. And I said, please, never ever 664 00:41:49,195 --> 00:41:52,315 Speaker 1: give me any more of that ever again. Thank you. 665 00:41:53,795 --> 00:41:56,675 Speaker 1: My Judo flashback, as it turned out, had done the job. 666 00:41:56,715 --> 00:42:00,155 Speaker 1: I had broken nothing. The e R doctor complimented me 667 00:42:00,235 --> 00:42:02,995 Speaker 1: on my fall, and he said I probably had six 668 00:42:03,115 --> 00:42:06,795 Speaker 1: or eight different sprains on my left side. It would hurt, 669 00:42:06,995 --> 00:42:09,195 Speaker 1: but it would keep getting better and I'd be able 670 00:42:09,275 --> 00:42:11,635 Speaker 1: to make my flight home the day after next. He 671 00:42:11,715 --> 00:42:15,035 Speaker 1: was completely right, although I now I found twenty five 672 00:42:15,115 --> 00:42:17,715 Speaker 1: years later that it's beginning to hurt, like I just 673 00:42:17,795 --> 00:42:21,075 Speaker 1: fell off the cliff. Anyway, I went back to the hotel. 674 00:42:21,155 --> 00:42:23,195 Speaker 1: I ate well, I slept well, I managed to walk 675 00:42:23,235 --> 00:42:24,835 Speaker 1: around with the help of a cane and I went 676 00:42:24,875 --> 00:42:27,675 Speaker 1: back for day two of the commercial shoot. This one 677 00:42:27,755 --> 00:42:31,315 Speaker 1: is in a mansion in Pasadena, a room teeming full 678 00:42:31,315 --> 00:42:35,635 Speaker 1: of UNA's lying on the floor. They're photographed through chandeliers. 679 00:42:35,635 --> 00:42:37,955 Speaker 1: They're lazy, rich kids who also need to be told 680 00:42:37,995 --> 00:42:43,075 Speaker 1: to eat something. I arrived and walked into applause from 681 00:42:43,155 --> 00:42:46,955 Speaker 1: the crew and I delivered a well rehearsed line. And 682 00:42:46,995 --> 00:42:49,795 Speaker 1: now from my next trick, which is when the director 683 00:42:49,875 --> 00:42:52,115 Speaker 1: John came over and apologized, and he said he thought 684 00:42:52,195 --> 00:42:55,795 Speaker 1: this entry into shot for me would be way easier. 685 00:42:56,035 --> 00:42:57,755 Speaker 1: What I had to do is lie on the floor, 686 00:42:57,915 --> 00:43:02,995 Speaker 1: then sit up and deliver the line eat something. If 687 00:43:03,035 --> 00:43:05,515 Speaker 1: you can sit up, he said that if you can't, 688 00:43:05,875 --> 00:43:08,035 Speaker 1: we can do something else. Can you sit up? And 689 00:43:08,075 --> 00:43:09,915 Speaker 1: I thought about it, and I rubbed my lower back 690 00:43:09,955 --> 00:43:12,155 Speaker 1: and I said, based on the day so far, yeah, 691 00:43:12,155 --> 00:43:16,875 Speaker 1: I could, but probably only six or seven times. And 692 00:43:16,875 --> 00:43:20,115 Speaker 1: and I said, while I can sit up, it's clear 693 00:43:20,115 --> 00:43:22,875 Speaker 1: to me one of those bad sprains was in the 694 00:43:22,955 --> 00:43:26,075 Speaker 1: muscles somewhere my lower back. And if I try to 695 00:43:26,195 --> 00:43:29,315 Speaker 1: lay back down, I lose control. I just crashed back 696 00:43:29,355 --> 00:43:31,595 Speaker 1: to the floor. That actually happened getting out of bed 697 00:43:31,675 --> 00:43:36,515 Speaker 1: this morning. So after each take the same. Two guys 698 00:43:36,555 --> 00:43:38,755 Speaker 1: who had walked me up the stairs after I fell 699 00:43:38,795 --> 00:43:41,755 Speaker 1: at the beach gently held my arms and shoulders and 700 00:43:41,955 --> 00:43:46,835 Speaker 1: lowered me back two lying on the floor. We got 701 00:43:46,835 --> 00:43:49,395 Speaker 1: what we needed. I went back to the hotel. I 702 00:43:49,435 --> 00:43:51,635 Speaker 1: had dinner with some friends. The next day. I was 703 00:43:51,675 --> 00:43:53,715 Speaker 1: a little sore, but perfectly fine to get back on 704 00:43:53,755 --> 00:43:56,875 Speaker 1: the plane east, and sure enough, only time ever I 705 00:43:56,915 --> 00:43:59,275 Speaker 1: had a west to east tail wind. The flight from 706 00:43:59,395 --> 00:44:01,955 Speaker 1: l a X to Newark took three hours and forty 707 00:44:01,995 --> 00:44:05,515 Speaker 1: eight minutes. We traversed the country like at art shot 708 00:44:05,555 --> 00:44:08,435 Speaker 1: from a gun or an alderman falling from a rock 709 00:44:08,515 --> 00:44:13,515 Speaker 1: out cropping. Oh, by the way, the commercial was an 710 00:44:13,555 --> 00:44:18,395 Speaker 1: immediate success, unlike any that Boston Market had ever done before. 711 00:44:18,955 --> 00:44:21,755 Speaker 1: In those days, they were packed each night for dinner 712 00:44:21,835 --> 00:44:26,035 Speaker 1: at every location, selling half chickens and full meals with 713 00:44:26,075 --> 00:44:29,875 Speaker 1: potatoes and salads, and they were getting an average of 714 00:44:29,955 --> 00:44:32,195 Speaker 1: twelve dollars out of every customer. The rest of the 715 00:44:32,275 --> 00:44:36,355 Speaker 1: day the place was empty. The idea behind my commercials. 716 00:44:36,395 --> 00:44:38,955 Speaker 1: They were designed bringing a lunch crowd a sandwich in 717 00:44:38,995 --> 00:44:41,515 Speaker 1: an soda and a bag of chips for four dollars. 718 00:44:43,035 --> 00:44:46,395 Speaker 1: Soon they were swamped at lunchtime. Boston Market ordered three 719 00:44:46,435 --> 00:44:49,315 Speaker 1: more commercials. These two be shot in a studio in 720 00:44:49,315 --> 00:44:52,875 Speaker 1: New York. They offered me fifty grand a day. An 721 00:44:53,035 --> 00:44:56,155 Speaker 1: entire new career Vista was opening in front of me. 722 00:44:56,395 --> 00:45:00,555 Speaker 1: I was, for a week or two in early the 723 00:45:00,635 --> 00:45:05,635 Speaker 1: most successful male commercial actor in the country. We shot 724 00:45:05,715 --> 00:45:09,755 Speaker 1: those three spots. I interrupted a grunge concert to shout 725 00:45:09,835 --> 00:45:12,515 Speaker 1: eat something at the band, and then I got carried 726 00:45:12,515 --> 00:45:15,155 Speaker 1: off by the crowd in a mosh pit. And I 727 00:45:15,195 --> 00:45:18,235 Speaker 1: interrupted a Romeo soap opera surgeon coming on to his 728 00:45:18,355 --> 00:45:22,035 Speaker 1: nurse by rising from the operating table to shout eat something. 729 00:45:22,555 --> 00:45:24,755 Speaker 1: And then we did something with ball players at the 730 00:45:24,755 --> 00:45:27,435 Speaker 1: stadium on Randall's Island. And I remember nothing of that because, 731 00:45:27,515 --> 00:45:31,675 Speaker 1: unlike the first two, they never edited the film. Because 732 00:45:31,715 --> 00:45:36,595 Speaker 1: that's when it happened. They're equivalent of falling off the cliff. 733 00:45:38,475 --> 00:45:41,075 Speaker 1: I will confess it had not occurred to me. Then again, 734 00:45:41,115 --> 00:45:44,355 Speaker 1: I did not own Boston Market. I did not work 735 00:45:44,395 --> 00:45:47,115 Speaker 1: for their marketing department. I did not run the ad 736 00:45:47,155 --> 00:45:50,915 Speaker 1: agency they employed. But none of them anticipated it either. 737 00:45:51,635 --> 00:45:53,915 Speaker 1: After the first few weeks of giddy glee about the 738 00:45:53,955 --> 00:45:58,235 Speaker 1: lunch crowds I had brought them somebody noticed something unfortunate 739 00:45:58,275 --> 00:46:02,555 Speaker 1: and unexpected. Basically, for every four dollar lunch they were 740 00:46:02,555 --> 00:46:06,635 Speaker 1: now selling, they were selling one few twelve dollar dinner. 741 00:46:07,355 --> 00:46:10,675 Speaker 1: They had not gained any new customers. They had just 742 00:46:10,795 --> 00:46:14,355 Speaker 1: managed to get their customers to each spend eight dollars less. 743 00:46:15,995 --> 00:46:20,555 Speaker 1: These very well made, very memorable commercials worked very very well. 744 00:46:21,155 --> 00:46:23,915 Speaker 1: And the problem with that was each time they did work, 745 00:46:23,955 --> 00:46:27,955 Speaker 1: it costs Boston Market eight dollars. By the end of 746 00:46:29,155 --> 00:46:32,715 Speaker 1: Boston Market was something like nine hundred million dollars in debt, 747 00:46:33,475 --> 00:46:36,235 Speaker 1: it had filed for bankruptcy and had been taken over 748 00:46:36,275 --> 00:46:41,635 Speaker 1: by McDonald's. On the other hand, I got my money, 749 00:46:41,875 --> 00:46:44,675 Speaker 1: and in the twenty five years plus since, Boston Market 750 00:46:44,715 --> 00:46:47,355 Speaker 1: has not once used a celebrity endorser to try to 751 00:46:47,395 --> 00:46:52,275 Speaker 1: sell their food. Oh and there was one other positive outcome. 752 00:46:52,755 --> 00:46:56,155 Speaker 1: I'm actually very proud of this. The ad agency got 753 00:46:56,195 --> 00:46:59,115 Speaker 1: the award in question. I did not, so I don't 754 00:46:59,275 --> 00:47:02,035 Speaker 1: know which group gave it to us, but that eat 755 00:47:02,275 --> 00:47:07,195 Speaker 1: Something campaign actually one in a award because somehow my 756 00:47:07,435 --> 00:47:12,155 Speaker 1: shouting eats something at Una and the other way thin models. 757 00:47:12,195 --> 00:47:15,875 Speaker 1: Somehow that cuts through to at least some victims of 758 00:47:15,915 --> 00:47:21,275 Speaker 1: eating disorders. The Boston Markets. Eat Something ad campaign for 759 00:47:21,315 --> 00:47:24,675 Speaker 1: which I fell off a cliff. Okay, a rock outcropping 760 00:47:24,995 --> 00:47:27,875 Speaker 1: for which I fell off a rock outcropping got an 761 00:47:27,915 --> 00:47:46,595 Speaker 1: award from a national Bolima association. I've done all the 762 00:47:46,635 --> 00:47:48,875 Speaker 1: damage I can do here, most of it to my 763 00:47:48,955 --> 00:47:52,315 Speaker 1: left side. Thank you for listening. Follow this podcast if 764 00:47:52,355 --> 00:47:54,275 Speaker 1: you can tell a friend, tell a passer by. We're 765 00:47:54,355 --> 00:47:56,915 Speaker 1: number one among news and political podcasts not produced by 766 00:47:56,955 --> 00:48:00,235 Speaker 1: any network. Here are our credits. Most of the music, 767 00:48:00,275 --> 00:48:03,155 Speaker 1: including our theme from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced, and 768 00:48:03,195 --> 00:48:06,275 Speaker 1: performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. They are 769 00:48:06,275 --> 00:48:10,075 Speaker 1: the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John 770 00:48:10,075 --> 00:48:13,675 Speaker 1: Philip Chanelle. Guitars based on drums by Brian Ray, produced 771 00:48:13,675 --> 00:48:17,115 Speaker 1: by t Ko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 772 00:48:17,115 --> 00:48:20,395 Speaker 1: and performed by No Horns Allowed. The sports music is 773 00:48:20,395 --> 00:48:23,395 Speaker 1: the Olverman theme from ESPN two, and it was written 774 00:48:23,395 --> 00:48:27,395 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Musical comments 775 00:48:27,395 --> 00:48:30,355 Speaker 1: from Nancy Faust the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our 776 00:48:30,355 --> 00:48:33,635 Speaker 1: announcer today was Richard Lewis, who I had dinner with 777 00:48:34,475 --> 00:48:36,755 Speaker 1: on the trip that I took to film that bloody 778 00:48:36,835 --> 00:48:40,555 Speaker 1: Boston Market commercial and everything else is pretty much my fault. 779 00:48:40,995 --> 00:48:43,795 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this, the six hundred day since 780 00:48:43,835 --> 00:48:47,235 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 781 00:48:47,235 --> 00:48:50,115 Speaker 1: of the United States. Arrest him now while we still 782 00:48:50,155 --> 00:48:53,515 Speaker 1: can a new episode tomorrow. Till then, I'm Keith Olderman. 783 00:48:53,595 --> 00:49:06,035 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 784 00:49:06,115 --> 00:49:09,235 Speaker 1: Keith Alderman is a production of I heart Radio. For 785 00:49:09,435 --> 00:49:12,395 Speaker 1: more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the I heart 786 00:49:12,515 --> 00:49:16,555 Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.