1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,075 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Anybody 2 00:00:22,075 --> 00:00:25,755 Speaker 1: else noticed that one of Trump's stochastic terrorists went to 3 00:00:25,835 --> 00:00:29,795 Speaker 1: Barack Obama's house to assassinate him last week? Or was 4 00:00:29,835 --> 00:00:32,755 Speaker 1: it just me? And that a Washington judge was having 5 00:00:32,795 --> 00:00:35,515 Speaker 1: a hard time last night finding an excuse to hold 6 00:00:35,515 --> 00:00:39,155 Speaker 1: this scumbag without bail, hold the would be assassin without bail, 7 00:00:40,355 --> 00:00:43,595 Speaker 1: And that Trump had doxed Obama and Trump had finally 8 00:00:43,635 --> 00:00:46,275 Speaker 1: found a sucker willing to do his lethal bidding for 9 00:00:46,475 --> 00:00:49,955 Speaker 1: him and park his van full of AMMO and weapons 10 00:00:50,115 --> 00:00:54,315 Speaker 1: a few blocks from Obama's home and live stream himself 11 00:00:54,355 --> 00:00:57,555 Speaker 1: threatening Jamie Raskin and Kevin McCarthy, and oh, he was 12 00:00:57,595 --> 00:01:00,195 Speaker 1: going to take his vandam Maryland to a federal facility 13 00:01:00,195 --> 00:01:03,955 Speaker 1: containing a nuclear research reactor and blow up the van 14 00:01:04,035 --> 00:01:05,915 Speaker 1: and the nuclear reactor. And I mean, am I the 15 00:01:05,915 --> 00:01:12,315 Speaker 1: only one seeing this anywhere? Trump, crazier and more dangerous 16 00:01:12,595 --> 00:01:17,875 Speaker 1: by the minute, is finally clearly and inextricably linked to 17 00:01:17,955 --> 00:01:21,755 Speaker 1: a guy ready to answer Trump's constant drumbeat to try 18 00:01:21,755 --> 00:01:25,235 Speaker 1: to get one of his cultists to kill without telling 19 00:01:25,275 --> 00:01:28,475 Speaker 1: them to kill, and thus leaving himself open to prosecution 20 00:01:28,875 --> 00:01:32,435 Speaker 1: for killing or for incitement to kill, and the Department 21 00:01:32,435 --> 00:01:38,315 Speaker 1: of Justice is still remaining asleep at the switch. The 22 00:01:38,515 --> 00:01:44,395 Speaker 1: US magistrate judge in DC, himself a former terrorist prosecutor, 23 00:01:44,715 --> 00:01:49,275 Speaker 1: Zia M. Farruki, managed to avoid having to release Trump's 24 00:01:49,275 --> 00:01:54,275 Speaker 1: figurative flying monkey his name is Taylor Toronto by keeping 25 00:01:54,355 --> 00:01:56,835 Speaker 1: him in stir overnight and putting the onus on the 26 00:01:56,875 --> 00:02:00,835 Speaker 1: government to answer the judge's question if the original charges 27 00:02:00,875 --> 00:02:06,075 Speaker 1: against this would be political murderer Toronto, we're simple leftover 28 00:02:06,235 --> 00:02:10,235 Speaker 1: trespassing accusations from January sixth, and the government wanted him 29 00:02:10,275 --> 00:02:14,075 Speaker 1: held without bail because he's a flight risk. What if 30 00:02:14,075 --> 00:02:17,395 Speaker 1: the judge finds he's not a flight risk? Is it 31 00:02:17,715 --> 00:02:22,755 Speaker 1: enough that threatening key Democratic and Republican congressman and talking 32 00:02:22,755 --> 00:02:25,555 Speaker 1: about going to a government nuclear reactor and blowing up 33 00:02:25,595 --> 00:02:28,835 Speaker 1: your van next to it. Oh, and responding to one 34 00:02:28,995 --> 00:02:34,355 Speaker 1: former president publishing of another former president's home address by 35 00:02:34,435 --> 00:02:36,875 Speaker 1: going to that address with a van full of weapons 36 00:02:36,875 --> 00:02:41,995 Speaker 1: of death? Is that quote clear convincing evidence of a 37 00:02:42,075 --> 00:02:43,875 Speaker 1: danger to the public. And even if it is, does 38 00:02:43,875 --> 00:02:47,875 Speaker 1: that mean the judge can really hold him in jail? Yeah, 39 00:02:47,995 --> 00:02:51,555 Speaker 1: you guys, just let Toronto loose while the lot of 40 00:02:51,595 --> 00:02:54,955 Speaker 1: you argue over how many angels can dance on the 41 00:02:54,995 --> 00:02:59,155 Speaker 1: head of this figurative pin. And you know, if he 42 00:02:59,235 --> 00:03:02,435 Speaker 1: goes back to Obama's neighborhood or I don't know, tries 43 00:03:02,475 --> 00:03:04,395 Speaker 1: to ram the White House with his man full of 44 00:03:05,195 --> 00:03:08,155 Speaker 1: while screaming Trump is God as he does so, maybe 45 00:03:08,195 --> 00:03:14,195 Speaker 1: then prosecutors can indict him for various vehicular and parking offenses. Christ. 46 00:03:15,475 --> 00:03:18,875 Speaker 1: When a messed up man angry over the leak, over 47 00:03:18,955 --> 00:03:23,595 Speaker 1: the impending overturning of Roe V. Wade actually found himself 48 00:03:23,715 --> 00:03:27,675 Speaker 1: near Bret Kavanaugh's home a year ago June. Armed to 49 00:03:27,755 --> 00:03:33,035 Speaker 1: the teeth, he called nine to one one himself. He 50 00:03:33,715 --> 00:03:36,995 Speaker 1: basically asked them to stop him before he did something 51 00:03:37,555 --> 00:03:41,715 Speaker 1: something terrible, and he was arrested minutes later without incident. 52 00:03:42,395 --> 00:03:48,235 Speaker 1: And Republicans consider this roughly equivalent to the crucifixion of Christ, 53 00:03:49,195 --> 00:03:55,275 Speaker 1: even though the man stopped, thought, reconsidered, did not act, 54 00:03:55,915 --> 00:04:01,835 Speaker 1: did not get close, surrendered to the authorities and prosecution. 55 00:04:03,835 --> 00:04:07,235 Speaker 1: That is the vote Brett Kavanaugh assassination attempts and I 56 00:04:07,275 --> 00:04:10,715 Speaker 1: don't want to play can you top this with lunatics? 57 00:04:11,155 --> 00:04:15,035 Speaker 1: But that event compared to Taylor Toronto reading a post 58 00:04:15,075 --> 00:04:19,435 Speaker 1: by Trump doxing Obama and responding like Reggie Jackson in 59 00:04:19,475 --> 00:04:22,715 Speaker 1: the movie The Naked Gun and taking his traveling gun 60 00:04:22,795 --> 00:04:26,155 Speaker 1: show to Obama's neighborhood while evading arrest for a day. 61 00:04:26,315 --> 00:04:29,315 Speaker 1: And he hasn't shown remorse or concern for anything except 62 00:04:29,315 --> 00:04:31,675 Speaker 1: whether or not he had enough bars to keep his 63 00:04:31,715 --> 00:04:35,155 Speaker 1: live stream going. That is what we're dealing with here. 64 00:04:35,595 --> 00:04:37,795 Speaker 1: And we were sure that we could keep him in 65 00:04:37,915 --> 00:04:42,595 Speaker 1: jail overnight, oh when he was also presumably worried about 66 00:04:42,595 --> 00:04:46,075 Speaker 1: whether or not he was pleasing his psychopathic Mari Lago master. 67 00:04:49,155 --> 00:04:53,755 Speaker 1: Trump's ultimate intentions have been evident since twenty sixteen. He 68 00:04:53,875 --> 00:04:56,995 Speaker 1: is not a human being in the conventional use of 69 00:04:57,035 --> 00:05:00,235 Speaker 1: the term. Other people do not exist to him. They 70 00:05:00,235 --> 00:05:03,515 Speaker 1: are either impediments to what he wants or means by 71 00:05:03,515 --> 00:05:07,075 Speaker 1: which he can get what he wants. He has a 72 00:05:07,155 --> 00:05:10,675 Speaker 1: hit list. It changes from week two weeks, sometimes from 73 00:05:10,715 --> 00:05:13,995 Speaker 1: hour to hour. He mused about his Second Amendment folks 74 00:05:14,315 --> 00:05:17,395 Speaker 1: taking care of Hillary Clinton for him. During the twenty 75 00:05:17,475 --> 00:05:22,195 Speaker 1: sixteen campaign. He wanted people to kill senators and congressmen 76 00:05:22,195 --> 00:05:24,155 Speaker 1: and anybody else they could find at the Capitol so 77 00:05:24,315 --> 00:05:27,275 Speaker 1: Biden would not be certified as president on January sixth. 78 00:05:27,635 --> 00:05:30,955 Speaker 1: He directed this beam of murder by proxy at the 79 00:05:30,955 --> 00:05:34,275 Speaker 1: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He aims at at Jack 80 00:05:34,355 --> 00:05:37,075 Speaker 1: Smith every second or third day, and last week it 81 00:05:37,155 --> 00:05:41,395 Speaker 1: was Obama's turn. And not only has nobody figured out 82 00:05:41,435 --> 00:05:45,195 Speaker 1: how to hold Trump responsible for this, and this is terrorism. 83 00:05:45,435 --> 00:05:49,355 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a terrorist, but clearly the Justice Department 84 00:05:49,395 --> 00:05:53,595 Speaker 1: is struggling just to keep the proxy assassin in jail overnight. 85 00:05:55,475 --> 00:05:58,475 Speaker 1: Toronto is a direct and serious threat to the public, 86 00:05:58,795 --> 00:06:01,515 Speaker 1: wrote the assistant US Attorneys in a twenty six page 87 00:06:01,715 --> 00:06:05,875 Speaker 1: sentencing recommendation to the judge. Toronto's own words and actions 88 00:06:05,915 --> 00:06:08,835 Speaker 1: demonstrate that he is a direct threat to multiple political 89 00:06:08,835 --> 00:06:11,635 Speaker 1: figures as well as the public at large. The risk 90 00:06:11,675 --> 00:06:15,115 Speaker 1: that Toronto poses if released is high, and the severity 91 00:06:15,195 --> 00:06:21,355 Speaker 1: of the consequences that could result are catastrophic. And the 92 00:06:21,475 --> 00:06:26,075 Speaker 1: Judge is openly concerned and worried about what looks like 93 00:06:26,515 --> 00:06:29,835 Speaker 1: PTSD from his tour in Iraq and the fact that 94 00:06:29,875 --> 00:06:33,315 Speaker 1: Toronto also says he came to DC after Kevin McCarthy. 95 00:06:33,475 --> 00:06:37,075 Speaker 1: The Putts made that grand standing offer to show January sixth, 96 00:06:37,075 --> 00:06:41,115 Speaker 1: defendants all the exculpatory video that oh, sorry, it isn't exculpatory. 97 00:06:41,155 --> 00:06:43,155 Speaker 1: That's why Tucker Carlson only showed three minutes of it, 98 00:06:43,355 --> 00:06:47,635 Speaker 1: And that golly Toronto keeps denying facts in reality, and 99 00:06:47,635 --> 00:06:49,995 Speaker 1: he's delusional and that kind of makes him more of 100 00:06:49,995 --> 00:06:54,075 Speaker 1: a danger than even the average would be ex presidential assassin. 101 00:06:54,315 --> 00:06:57,155 Speaker 1: And it's as if the judge is ninety nine percent 102 00:06:57,195 --> 00:06:59,835 Speaker 1: of the way there but just can't find that last 103 00:06:59,915 --> 00:07:03,515 Speaker 1: one percent where you at least order him held pending 104 00:07:03,635 --> 00:07:09,235 Speaker 1: psychiatric value. Rather than listen to his public defender explain 105 00:07:09,435 --> 00:07:12,995 Speaker 1: that Toronto's wife is absolutely ready to keep an eye 106 00:07:13,155 --> 00:07:16,155 Speaker 1: on her husband in their home back in Washington State 107 00:07:16,475 --> 00:07:19,875 Speaker 1: while he's out on bail, because naturally, a guy willing 108 00:07:19,915 --> 00:07:22,795 Speaker 1: to threaten to blow up a government nuclear reactor and 109 00:07:22,955 --> 00:07:25,755 Speaker 1: drive a van full of weapons over to Barack's house, 110 00:07:25,955 --> 00:07:31,875 Speaker 1: he would never harm his wife, would he. This is 111 00:07:31,875 --> 00:07:36,315 Speaker 1: from the Washington Post last night. Quote Toronto allegedly recorded 112 00:07:36,395 --> 00:07:40,035 Speaker 1: himself walking in the neighborhood, saying he was looking for 113 00:07:40,235 --> 00:07:45,195 Speaker 1: quote entrance points and quote tunnels underneath their houses, according 114 00:07:45,235 --> 00:07:50,155 Speaker 1: to prosecutors, referring to Obama's and the Podesta's house. Apparently, 115 00:07:50,235 --> 00:07:53,475 Speaker 1: John Podesta, former chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, who 116 00:07:53,555 --> 00:07:57,275 Speaker 1: lives nearby Toronto, also said he had control of the 117 00:07:57,315 --> 00:08:00,395 Speaker 1: block and repeatedly stated that he was trying to get 118 00:08:00,475 --> 00:08:06,075 Speaker 1: a shot and a good angle on a shot. Prosecutors claimed, 119 00:08:06,835 --> 00:08:10,795 Speaker 1: now he's fine. You don't think he's a flight at 120 00:08:10,835 --> 00:08:13,275 Speaker 1: risk judge, Just let him go. What harm could he 121 00:08:13,355 --> 00:08:15,795 Speaker 1: really do out there? I mean, this guy doesn't even 122 00:08:15,875 --> 00:08:19,275 Speaker 1: know there aren't any tunnels. Haha, what a loser. Whiskey 123 00:08:19,315 --> 00:08:24,275 Speaker 1: sours everyone. This is insane and it remains insane that 124 00:08:24,355 --> 00:08:29,435 Speaker 1: we let Trump continue year after year, in venue after venue, 125 00:08:29,555 --> 00:08:32,635 Speaker 1: with victim after victim, with his who will rid me 126 00:08:32,795 --> 00:08:37,395 Speaker 1: of this turbulent priest bullshit? Except now there is an actual, 127 00:08:37,475 --> 00:08:42,795 Speaker 1: identifiable sucker, the ultimate Trump Mark, the remote controlled buffoon, 128 00:08:43,315 --> 00:08:47,075 Speaker 1: stupid enough and demented enough and whacked out enough to 129 00:08:47,195 --> 00:08:52,715 Speaker 1: let Trump manipulate him like a drone. Trump is a terrorist. 130 00:08:53,075 --> 00:08:56,115 Speaker 1: He tried to get people to start a violent revolution 131 00:08:56,195 --> 00:08:59,675 Speaker 1: to overthrow the government, and his stochastic threats against dozens 132 00:08:59,795 --> 00:09:03,155 Speaker 1: and dozens of Americans have become so routine and so 133 00:09:03,355 --> 00:09:07,035 Speaker 1: pronounced that if trump UMP's name had been College Shake Trump, 134 00:09:07,155 --> 00:09:11,515 Speaker 1: he would have been in Gittmotionince twenty fifteen. He just 135 00:09:11,675 --> 00:09:14,475 Speaker 1: trying to get somebody, and this somebody turns out to 136 00:09:14,475 --> 00:09:17,955 Speaker 1: be named Taylor Toronto to go over to Obama's house 137 00:09:17,995 --> 00:09:23,675 Speaker 1: and kill him. I mean, I took three days off 138 00:09:23,915 --> 00:09:26,635 Speaker 1: from this podcast for the first time this year, and 139 00:09:26,715 --> 00:09:29,795 Speaker 1: I wondered if I was letting people down, and our 140 00:09:30,115 --> 00:09:32,835 Speaker 1: justice system looks at Taylor Toronto and Donald Trump, it 141 00:09:32,915 --> 00:09:35,715 Speaker 1: finds reasons not to put them in jail and lose 142 00:09:35,715 --> 00:09:39,515 Speaker 1: their records. This has got to stop. And if it 143 00:09:39,555 --> 00:09:43,115 Speaker 1: has to stop because a judge named Zia M. Ferruki says, yeah, 144 00:09:43,355 --> 00:09:48,275 Speaker 1: he's a flight risk. Whatever the government can only hold 145 00:09:48,355 --> 00:09:53,875 Speaker 1: him forty years, then so be it. Because this will end. 146 00:09:54,475 --> 00:09:56,755 Speaker 1: And if it does not end with somebody standing up 147 00:09:56,835 --> 00:10:01,515 Speaker 1: for the right and you know, against Trump's stochastic terrorism 148 00:10:01,595 --> 00:10:04,475 Speaker 1: and the assassination of ex presidents, It's going to end 149 00:10:04,475 --> 00:10:07,475 Speaker 1: so other way. And that actually will not be an end. 150 00:10:07,515 --> 00:10:09,635 Speaker 1: It will be the beginning of something. And that's something 151 00:10:09,675 --> 00:10:13,115 Speaker 1: will be very dark and not at all remote controlled 152 00:10:13,435 --> 00:10:17,235 Speaker 1: or at some kind of distance from everybody or via proxy, 153 00:10:17,635 --> 00:10:26,755 Speaker 1: and it will not be stochastic. All right, Let's lighten 154 00:10:26,755 --> 00:10:30,315 Speaker 1: the mood and go from Trump inspired assassination attempts to 155 00:10:30,635 --> 00:10:37,875 Speaker 1: mere coup attempts. Jack Smith has clearly expanded his investigations 156 00:10:37,915 --> 00:10:46,155 Speaker 1: into the state of and he guesses Arizona. First, ABC 157 00:10:46,275 --> 00:10:49,315 Speaker 1: News reported that Trump tried to Georgia in Arizona tried 158 00:10:49,315 --> 00:10:52,315 Speaker 1: to get the then governor Doug Deocey to just find 159 00:10:52,395 --> 00:10:55,355 Speaker 1: him some more votes, and that Trump had Mike Pence 160 00:10:55,435 --> 00:10:59,955 Speaker 1: call Deucy to pressure him. Fence clearly called him. He 161 00:10:59,995 --> 00:11:04,555 Speaker 1: confirms that there is actually no evidence that Pence act 162 00:11:04,955 --> 00:11:08,115 Speaker 1: pressured him beyond just the fact of the phone call. 163 00:11:08,195 --> 00:11:11,435 Speaker 1: Of course, in an intriguing twist, it does look like 164 00:11:11,515 --> 00:11:14,835 Speaker 1: Jack Smith beat the news media to Arizona. The Arizona 165 00:11:14,835 --> 00:11:18,035 Speaker 1: Republic newspaper now reporting that the Special Council's Office issued 166 00:11:18,035 --> 00:11:21,915 Speaker 1: to subpoenas to the office of the Arizona Secretary of State, 167 00:11:22,115 --> 00:11:27,155 Speaker 1: apparently in May, looking for information about the lawsuits against 168 00:11:27,235 --> 00:11:30,435 Speaker 1: the state by the Trump campaign and by the former 169 00:11:30,515 --> 00:11:34,275 Speaker 1: Arizona GOP chair Kelly Ward, who is not of this earth, 170 00:11:34,795 --> 00:11:38,195 Speaker 1: alleging fraud and errors in the vote in Arizona. This 171 00:11:38,235 --> 00:11:41,875 Speaker 1: would suggest this is about the wire fraud charges. Smith 172 00:11:41,915 --> 00:11:45,395 Speaker 1: seems to be assembling against Trump for raising money to 173 00:11:45,675 --> 00:11:50,955 Speaker 1: cure a stolen election he knew was not stolen. The 174 00:11:50,995 --> 00:11:54,715 Speaker 1: newspaper reports Jack Smith has not contacted ex Governor Deucey. 175 00:11:54,955 --> 00:12:00,595 Speaker 1: The Washington Post reports Deucey cannot understand why Smith hasn't. 176 00:12:01,115 --> 00:12:05,395 Speaker 1: Also the Tucker Carlson Maria Bartiromo, producer who settled with 177 00:12:05,475 --> 00:12:09,275 Speaker 1: Fox for twelve million, she has reportedly been contacted by 178 00:12:09,355 --> 00:12:14,795 Speaker 1: Smith's office, and one of the centerpieces to the Trump defense, 179 00:12:15,155 --> 00:12:19,595 Speaker 1: besides trying to get his cultists to kill everybody, is 180 00:12:19,595 --> 00:12:23,235 Speaker 1: that all the documents were declassified, that he had a 181 00:12:23,355 --> 00:12:29,635 Speaker 1: standing order to declassify anything removed from the Oval Office, 182 00:12:29,875 --> 00:12:33,115 Speaker 1: standing order that declassified everything that was on the Trump 183 00:12:33,235 --> 00:12:39,195 Speaker 1: confession tape. Well, guess what. The standing order does not exist. 184 00:12:39,635 --> 00:12:43,075 Speaker 1: I know you're shocked. I should give you a minute, 185 00:12:43,515 --> 00:12:49,515 Speaker 1: sit down, have a whiskey sour. Bloomberg News filed a 186 00:12:49,555 --> 00:12:55,275 Speaker 1: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last August asking the Justice 187 00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:59,555 Speaker 1: Department and the Director of National Intelligence to produce such 188 00:12:59,635 --> 00:13:02,755 Speaker 1: an order or at least confirm its existence in redacted form. 189 00:13:02,995 --> 00:13:06,595 Speaker 1: And they don't have it. So Trump will naturally now 190 00:13:06,635 --> 00:13:11,795 Speaker 1: say that he took it with him too, and it 191 00:13:11,915 --> 00:13:15,355 Speaker 1: was automatically self declassifying. And if you don't like that, 192 00:13:15,435 --> 00:13:20,635 Speaker 1: he'll sick Taylor Taranto on you. And then there is 193 00:13:20,675 --> 00:13:25,395 Speaker 1: the continuing saga of Trump's lawyers. And I think this 194 00:13:25,435 --> 00:13:27,795 Speaker 1: is where the whole case is going to break, because 195 00:13:27,835 --> 00:13:31,955 Speaker 1: there's nothing more scared than a scared lawyer. The Wall 196 00:13:31,995 --> 00:13:38,155 Speaker 1: Street Journal rounds up the usual suspects, Powell again, Jenna Ellis, Cheesebro, 197 00:13:38,635 --> 00:13:42,395 Speaker 1: Mike Roman who may have flipped, and adds in a 198 00:13:42,435 --> 00:13:45,515 Speaker 1: Powell associate named Emily Newman who is new on my 199 00:13:45,595 --> 00:13:50,035 Speaker 1: scorecard anyway. And if you remember Lynn Woold, the one 200 00:13:50,075 --> 00:13:53,995 Speaker 1: who made Sidney Powell seem sane and made Rudy Giuliani 201 00:13:54,035 --> 00:13:58,595 Speaker 1: seem sober. On Tuesday, Lynn Wood wrote to the General 202 00:13:58,675 --> 00:14:04,075 Speaker 1: Council of the Georgia State Bar requesting permission to retire. 203 00:14:04,875 --> 00:14:07,955 Speaker 1: Retire from being a lawyer, and not just in Georgia. 204 00:14:07,995 --> 00:14:09,875 Speaker 1: He would be giving up his right to practice law 205 00:14:10,115 --> 00:14:14,515 Speaker 1: anywhere in the country. Why because after twenty twenty there 206 00:14:14,515 --> 00:14:18,075 Speaker 1: are two disciplinary proceedings against him and against his law 207 00:14:18,155 --> 00:14:23,155 Speaker 1: license in Georgia alone. Retiring is less humiliating. Can't be 208 00:14:23,315 --> 00:14:27,355 Speaker 1: disbarred if you aren't barred in the first place, huh 209 00:14:27,675 --> 00:14:32,275 Speaker 1: taps head like in meme and now we go back 210 00:14:32,315 --> 00:14:35,755 Speaker 1: to Rudy. There was a nugget in that Wall Street 211 00:14:35,795 --> 00:14:39,275 Speaker 1: Journal piece that underscores the whole idea that Rudy's little 212 00:14:39,435 --> 00:14:42,995 Speaker 1: proffer meeting where he told them what he'd be willing 213 00:14:43,035 --> 00:14:46,395 Speaker 1: to tell them, was neither little nor just a profer, 214 00:14:47,755 --> 00:14:51,355 Speaker 1: the journal wrote. Federal prosecutors also recently interviewed Rudy Giuliani, 215 00:14:51,395 --> 00:14:53,875 Speaker 1: who served a Trump personal lawyer at the time, for 216 00:14:53,955 --> 00:14:56,835 Speaker 1: roughly eight hours on topics including Powell. They were interested. 217 00:14:57,075 --> 00:15:01,715 Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, wait wait wait eight hours, eight hours. 218 00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:06,035 Speaker 1: They talked to Rudy Giuliani for eight hours. Do you 219 00:15:06,315 --> 00:15:10,555 Speaker 1: understand what is involved in talking to Rudy Giuliani for 220 00:15:10,635 --> 00:15:14,235 Speaker 1: eight hours? The longest I ever managed was eight minutes, 221 00:15:14,275 --> 00:15:18,195 Speaker 1: and that was before everybody knew he was crazy. I 222 00:15:18,315 --> 00:15:22,315 Speaker 1: keep coming back to this same thought. There is more 223 00:15:22,955 --> 00:15:27,355 Speaker 1: to the Giuliani story. There is more to the Giuliani story. 224 00:15:27,355 --> 00:15:29,795 Speaker 1: There is more to the Giuliani story. The son of 225 00:15:29,835 --> 00:15:47,955 Speaker 1: a bitch must have flipped, Thank you, Nancy Faust. Also 226 00:15:48,035 --> 00:15:51,195 Speaker 1: of interest here nothing else against Trump or about Trump. 227 00:15:51,235 --> 00:15:53,475 Speaker 1: I mean I have to have covered all of it. 228 00:15:53,915 --> 00:15:56,155 Speaker 1: Uh the way, there is this little bit of breaking 229 00:15:56,235 --> 00:15:59,795 Speaker 1: news that, according to Miles Taylor, who says he got 230 00:15:59,875 --> 00:16:03,755 Speaker 1: stuck in the middle of this with Trump in twenty seventeen, 231 00:16:03,795 --> 00:16:07,875 Speaker 1: that Trump was negociating to pull all US troops out 232 00:16:07,915 --> 00:16:12,795 Speaker 1: of Afghanistan like overnight and replace them with his own 233 00:16:12,955 --> 00:16:18,475 Speaker 1: version of the Wagner Group, a private army loyal to 234 00:16:18,595 --> 00:16:22,875 Speaker 1: Trump of five thousand mercenaries organized by Eric Prince of 235 00:16:22,995 --> 00:16:27,235 Speaker 1: Blackwater infamy, allegiant only to Trump and then ready to 236 00:16:27,275 --> 00:16:30,475 Speaker 1: head to Venezuela to topple a government there as soon 237 00:16:30,515 --> 00:16:33,795 Speaker 1: as they mopped up the Taliban. But not to worry, 238 00:16:34,035 --> 00:16:36,115 Speaker 1: because if Trump ever did return to the White House, 239 00:16:36,115 --> 00:16:40,275 Speaker 1: he'd never actually do that. He wouldn't run a private 240 00:16:40,435 --> 00:16:43,955 Speaker 1: army of five thousand guys who'd be his real life 241 00:16:44,075 --> 00:16:47,755 Speaker 1: version of buzz Wind Drip's minute Men in It Can't 242 00:16:47,795 --> 00:16:56,035 Speaker 1: happen here. He'd have fifty thousand. That's next. This is countdown. 243 00:16:57,635 --> 00:17:11,035 Speaker 1: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news, 244 00:17:11,155 --> 00:17:15,035 Speaker 1: some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions, dateline Washington. 245 00:17:15,115 --> 00:17:18,675 Speaker 1: Miles Taylor, the former Trump staffer, revealing that in his 246 00:17:18,795 --> 00:17:22,795 Speaker 1: new upcoming book recounting his involvement in attempting to stop 247 00:17:22,835 --> 00:17:27,515 Speaker 1: overtures between Trump figures and the notorious Iraq mercenary boss 248 00:17:27,675 --> 00:17:32,195 Speaker 1: Eric Prince to get Trump his own private five thousand 249 00:17:32,275 --> 00:17:36,915 Speaker 1: men mercenary army akin to Russia's Wagner Group. Trump thought 250 00:17:36,955 --> 00:17:40,355 Speaker 1: he could pull US troops out of Afghanistan overnight and 251 00:17:40,395 --> 00:17:44,795 Speaker 1: could replace them with a Trump Prince private army or 252 00:17:44,915 --> 00:17:47,675 Speaker 1: use a similar force to then overthrow the elected government 253 00:17:47,755 --> 00:17:53,715 Speaker 1: of no not here of Venezuela. Why pay to overthrow 254 00:17:53,755 --> 00:17:56,675 Speaker 1: the elected government here when you could just use all 255 00:17:56,715 --> 00:18:01,755 Speaker 1: those free militias and Taranto's Taylor's book is called Blowback. 256 00:18:01,795 --> 00:18:04,675 Speaker 1: He will also be joining our little iHeart political covenant 257 00:18:04,795 --> 00:18:08,035 Speaker 1: here with a new podcast series called The Whistleblowers that 258 00:18:08,115 --> 00:18:10,115 Speaker 1: starts next week and I'll tell you more about it then. 259 00:18:10,555 --> 00:18:14,075 Speaker 1: Dateline New York Semaphore News with a little relevant ancient 260 00:18:14,155 --> 00:18:17,835 Speaker 1: history about the noble inheritor of the Kennedy political dynasty. 261 00:18:18,195 --> 00:18:21,435 Speaker 1: It quotes former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer about the 262 00:18:21,515 --> 00:18:24,315 Speaker 1: day in two thousand and six when RFK Junior went 263 00:18:24,355 --> 00:18:28,035 Speaker 1: to Spitzer's office to talk about running to replace Spitzer 264 00:18:28,475 --> 00:18:31,635 Speaker 1: as the New York State Attorney general. Quote in a 265 00:18:31,715 --> 00:18:34,915 Speaker 1: meeting in Spitzer's office, Kennedy asked whether he could continue 266 00:18:34,955 --> 00:18:39,315 Speaker 1: to give paid speeches to outside groups while he was 267 00:18:39,395 --> 00:18:44,195 Speaker 1: attorney general. Spitzer told Semaphore the would be candidate explained 268 00:18:44,235 --> 00:18:47,715 Speaker 1: that his responsibilities to his six children from two marriages 269 00:18:47,915 --> 00:18:50,715 Speaker 1: had left him with expenses that simply couldn't be covered 270 00:18:50,755 --> 00:18:55,115 Speaker 1: by a government salary. Spitzer, incredulous, told him that there 271 00:18:55,195 --> 00:18:57,875 Speaker 1: was no way a top law enforcement officer could go 272 00:18:57,915 --> 00:19:02,315 Speaker 1: around getting paid for speeches. Kennedy didn't run for office 273 00:19:02,755 --> 00:19:04,995 Speaker 1: end quotes. See that's how we get him to drop 274 00:19:05,035 --> 00:19:09,395 Speaker 1: this sham trojan horse presidential bid. Remind him the job 275 00:19:09,435 --> 00:19:14,595 Speaker 1: only pays four hundred k plus fifty thousand expenses. Next 276 00:19:14,595 --> 00:19:16,835 Speaker 1: thing you'll know, you'll be hearing this good evening. This 277 00:19:16,915 --> 00:19:19,075 Speaker 1: is day thirty two of the hunt for Robert F. 278 00:19:19,155 --> 00:19:23,395 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior ran off stage during a campaign speech after 279 00:19:23,435 --> 00:19:26,155 Speaker 1: being slipped a note with a dollar figure written on it, 280 00:19:26,195 --> 00:19:46,435 Speaker 1: and has not been seen since. Thank you again, Nancy 281 00:19:46,475 --> 00:19:51,755 Speaker 1: Faust Dateline, Portland, Oregon. Oregon Public Broadcasting CEO and President 282 00:19:51,795 --> 00:19:54,515 Speaker 1: Steve Bass will step away from that post next year 283 00:19:54,555 --> 00:19:58,795 Speaker 1: after seventeen years at it. Bass previously led WGBH in 284 00:19:58,915 --> 00:20:01,635 Speaker 1: Boston and Public TV in Nashville, but That's not why 285 00:20:01,635 --> 00:20:04,475 Speaker 1: I'm mentioning him. Steve plans to spend more time with 286 00:20:04,515 --> 00:20:07,435 Speaker 1: his family now and with his clarinet. He is a 287 00:20:07,435 --> 00:20:10,835 Speaker 1: top classical performer on that instrument. In fact, he started 288 00:20:10,875 --> 00:20:13,675 Speaker 1: on that instrument in Peter De Luke's music class at 289 00:20:13,715 --> 00:20:16,395 Speaker 1: Farragut School in Hastings On Hudson, New York, in nineteen 290 00:20:16,475 --> 00:20:20,035 Speaker 1: sixty six. I know this because I was at the 291 00:20:20,075 --> 00:20:24,515 Speaker 1: next desk trying to learn how to work the saxophone 292 00:20:25,595 --> 00:20:28,995 Speaker 1: in mister de Luke's music class. Happily, my saxophone had 293 00:20:29,035 --> 00:20:31,715 Speaker 1: a broken read piece, and I could still be blowing 294 00:20:31,795 --> 00:20:34,755 Speaker 1: into it today, fifty seven years later, and still not 295 00:20:34,875 --> 00:20:39,595 Speaker 1: have made anything that sounded anything like music. Steve's clarinet, obviously, 296 00:20:39,715 --> 00:20:43,275 Speaker 1: was just fine. All the best, my friend, Dateline, New York, 297 00:20:43,315 --> 00:20:46,475 Speaker 1: two passings to note. Doctor frank Field, a weatherman who 298 00:20:46,555 --> 00:20:49,235 Speaker 1: was a New York City television institute for forty years, 299 00:20:49,475 --> 00:20:51,955 Speaker 1: then a national figure on The Tonight Show with Johnny 300 00:20:51,995 --> 00:20:54,715 Speaker 1: Carson and The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder, has died 301 00:20:54,715 --> 00:20:57,715 Speaker 1: at the age of one hundred. Doctor Frankfield was an 302 00:20:57,835 --> 00:21:02,675 Speaker 1: utterly deadpan weatherman, but that held and hid a deeply 303 00:21:02,795 --> 00:21:06,555 Speaker 1: anti establishment sense of humor. After his retirement, Field told 304 00:21:06,595 --> 00:21:08,835 Speaker 1: the New York Daily News that the jokes Carson made 305 00:21:08,835 --> 00:21:12,555 Speaker 1: at his expense were worth suffering, quoting him, he really 306 00:21:12,595 --> 00:21:15,515 Speaker 1: gave me a safety rope. It was absolutely a lock. 307 00:21:16,115 --> 00:21:21,195 Speaker 1: You couldn't fire Frank Field, and in strange juxtaposition, New 308 00:21:21,275 --> 00:21:25,155 Speaker 1: York TV critic Marvin Kittman has died at ninety three. 309 00:21:25,275 --> 00:21:28,075 Speaker 1: Kitman wrote for the New York newspaper Newsday from Long 310 00:21:28,115 --> 00:21:31,235 Speaker 1: Island and liked little of what he saw. He was 311 00:21:31,275 --> 00:21:33,755 Speaker 1: also an expert on the life of the first President 312 00:21:33,795 --> 00:21:38,635 Speaker 1: and wrote a brilliant puncturing book called George Washington's Expense Account, 313 00:21:38,915 --> 00:21:41,875 Speaker 1: which revealed that the father of the country also was 314 00:21:41,915 --> 00:21:45,355 Speaker 1: the father of the creative use of receipts. Kitman was 315 00:21:45,395 --> 00:21:48,395 Speaker 1: a favorite of Bill O'Reilly's as O'Reilly grew up on 316 00:21:48,475 --> 00:21:50,995 Speaker 1: Long Island, and O'Reilly in fact asked him to write 317 00:21:50,995 --> 00:21:55,315 Speaker 1: the authorized Bill O'Reilly biography. Kitman wrote it. It was 318 00:21:55,435 --> 00:22:00,195 Speaker 1: stunningly fair. It praised O'Reilly's success and explained that and 319 00:22:00,315 --> 00:22:03,955 Speaker 1: it exposed the fabrications in his resume, and without saying so, 320 00:22:04,035 --> 00:22:07,075 Speaker 1: implied that O'Reilly was beaten by his father, as a child, 321 00:22:07,435 --> 00:22:11,115 Speaker 1: and that that explained everything. O'reiley disowned the book, and 322 00:22:11,275 --> 00:22:14,915 Speaker 1: Kitman Marvin Kittman later asked to write my biography, and 323 00:22:14,995 --> 00:22:17,035 Speaker 1: I said, I was flattered, and I thanked him for it, 324 00:22:17,075 --> 00:22:19,995 Speaker 1: but I said, you know, come on, I wouldn't even 325 00:22:20,035 --> 00:22:36,755 Speaker 1: read that still ahead, nobody gets anywhere without a lucky break. 326 00:22:36,835 --> 00:22:39,835 Speaker 1: Mine was a calendar that looked a lot like this month's. 327 00:22:39,995 --> 00:22:42,075 Speaker 1: July fourth was in the middle of the week that 328 00:22:42,195 --> 00:22:45,755 Speaker 1: year too, And when a radio network sportscaster quit, his 329 00:22:45,795 --> 00:22:49,235 Speaker 1: boss literally had only like six business days to find 330 00:22:49,235 --> 00:22:53,155 Speaker 1: somebody cheap who did not have a job to replace him. 331 00:22:53,715 --> 00:22:57,235 Speaker 1: That described me to a t things I promised not 332 00:22:57,315 --> 00:22:59,155 Speaker 1: to tell. Coming up first time for the daily roundup 333 00:22:59,195 --> 00:23:02,155 Speaker 1: of the miscrants, morons and dunning Kruegriffic specimens who constitute 334 00:23:02,395 --> 00:23:11,315 Speaker 1: today's worst persons in the Lebrons. Laura Ingram, bill O'Reilly's 335 00:23:11,315 --> 00:23:14,275 Speaker 1: former guest host, reposting a Politico article on the new 336 00:23:14,315 --> 00:23:18,155 Speaker 1: Republican plan to defund the police to go after the 337 00:23:18,235 --> 00:23:22,915 Speaker 1: FBI and doj Ingram added the dialogue, or to the dialogue, 338 00:23:22,955 --> 00:23:28,675 Speaker 1: this pithy observation, they should defund Jack Smith or or 339 00:23:28,715 --> 00:23:31,755 Speaker 1: here's an alternative suggestion, laur just a thought they could 340 00:23:31,795 --> 00:23:35,395 Speaker 1: demote him by moving Jack Smith out of primetime and 341 00:23:35,435 --> 00:23:38,955 Speaker 1: sticking him in the seven o'clock hour. Just a thought. 342 00:23:39,755 --> 00:23:42,635 Speaker 1: Runners up all of us. So where were you and 343 00:23:42,675 --> 00:23:45,595 Speaker 1: what were you doing on July fourth, in the year 344 00:23:45,675 --> 00:23:49,075 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two, nine hundred and seventy seven BC, 345 00:23:50,115 --> 00:23:53,555 Speaker 1: Because according to some scientists interpreting data from the US 346 00:23:53,635 --> 00:23:58,835 Speaker 1: National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Tuesday, this July fourth, it 347 00:23:58,875 --> 00:24:00,995 Speaker 1: may have been the hottest day on Earth in one 348 00:24:01,035 --> 00:24:04,235 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five thousand years. That would be one 349 00:24:04,315 --> 00:24:07,595 Speaker 1: hundred twenty nine hundred and seventy seven BC July fourth. 350 00:24:07,955 --> 00:24:11,475 Speaker 1: But no, there's no climate change. It's not accelerating far 351 00:24:11,515 --> 00:24:14,355 Speaker 1: faster than anybody is willing to admit. We are going 352 00:24:14,355 --> 00:24:17,395 Speaker 1: to render the entire area surrounding the Equator unlivable for 353 00:24:17,515 --> 00:24:20,275 Speaker 1: humans within a decade or two and send hundreds of 354 00:24:20,275 --> 00:24:23,835 Speaker 1: millions of climate refugees to every corner of this planet. 355 00:24:23,915 --> 00:24:29,035 Speaker 1: Let's just dig more oil wells. That'll solve it. But 356 00:24:29,115 --> 00:24:32,715 Speaker 1: our winner will Welch, editor in chief of GQ, a 357 00:24:32,795 --> 00:24:35,515 Speaker 1: magazine and website with which I had a pretty good 358 00:24:35,515 --> 00:24:39,955 Speaker 1: relationship in twenty sixteen. In twenty seventeen until and I've 359 00:24:39,995 --> 00:24:43,675 Speaker 1: never mentioned this before, they one day summarily fired the 360 00:24:43,715 --> 00:24:47,155 Speaker 1: producer of our video series, The Resistance, even though The 361 00:24:47,235 --> 00:24:50,475 Speaker 1: Resistance had made them at least a million dollars, on 362 00:24:50,555 --> 00:24:53,835 Speaker 1: the pretext that they needed to save money. The producer's 363 00:24:53,915 --> 00:24:56,675 Speaker 1: name was Derenna Newton, and from the moment the series started, 364 00:24:56,715 --> 00:25:01,115 Speaker 1: we just did not get along. Her experience was fashion 365 00:25:01,235 --> 00:25:07,395 Speaker 1: and celebrity videos and mine wasn't. We never agreed on anything. 366 00:25:08,315 --> 00:25:10,955 Speaker 1: She tried to get off the assignment. I tried to 367 00:25:10,995 --> 00:25:13,515 Speaker 1: get her removed from the assignment, and then one day 368 00:25:14,435 --> 00:25:17,675 Speaker 1: I realized one of her ideas was really great and 369 00:25:17,795 --> 00:25:20,475 Speaker 1: much better than anything that I was thinking of, and 370 00:25:20,555 --> 00:25:22,715 Speaker 1: like the next day, she realized that one of my 371 00:25:22,835 --> 00:25:24,835 Speaker 1: ideas was really great and better than one anything she 372 00:25:24,915 --> 00:25:27,235 Speaker 1: was thinking about. And from that day forward we were 373 00:25:27,275 --> 00:25:30,555 Speaker 1: a team. We really worked hard to find a place 374 00:25:30,635 --> 00:25:32,915 Speaker 1: in the middle. And the series got three hundred and 375 00:25:32,995 --> 00:25:37,115 Speaker 1: seventy five million views for one hundred and seventy episodes, 376 00:25:37,155 --> 00:25:39,395 Speaker 1: and it earned GQ money, And so they fired her. 377 00:25:40,115 --> 00:25:45,035 Speaker 1: So I quit on the spot that moment. I'm not 378 00:25:45,155 --> 00:25:49,155 Speaker 1: loyal to employees. I'm loyal to colleagues anyway, That was 379 00:25:49,195 --> 00:25:51,275 Speaker 1: really the last thing I ever had to do with GQ, 380 00:25:52,075 --> 00:25:53,995 Speaker 1: and I thought it was the low water mark for 381 00:25:54,075 --> 00:25:58,595 Speaker 1: GQ until this sequence of events broke yesterday. On Monday, 382 00:25:58,675 --> 00:26:03,475 Speaker 1: GQ posted a story called how Warner Bros. Discovery CEO 383 00:26:03,635 --> 00:26:08,235 Speaker 1: David Zaslab became public Enemy Number one in Hollywood. The 384 00:26:08,315 --> 00:26:13,235 Speaker 1: article mentioned Zaslav's recent unprecedented run. He hired Chris lickt 385 00:26:13,635 --> 00:26:17,315 Speaker 1: He and licked destroyed CNN. He then fired Chris lickt 386 00:26:17,715 --> 00:26:22,515 Speaker 1: He dismembered Turner classic movies. The article, written by Jason Bailey, 387 00:26:22,595 --> 00:26:26,635 Speaker 1: compared Zaslav to the Richard Gear corporate character in Pretty 388 00:26:26,675 --> 00:26:31,395 Speaker 1: Woman and to Logan Roy in succession, and it called 389 00:26:31,475 --> 00:26:34,075 Speaker 1: him perhaps the most hated man in Hollywood. And then 390 00:26:34,755 --> 00:26:40,155 Speaker 1: suddenly it didn't call him that. GQ reposted the article 391 00:26:40,595 --> 00:26:43,315 Speaker 1: with five hundred fewer words in it, without any of 392 00:26:43,355 --> 00:26:47,955 Speaker 1: those nasty remarks. The writer, Jason Bailey demanded GQ take 393 00:26:48,035 --> 00:26:50,835 Speaker 1: his name off the article. GQ said it didn't publish 394 00:26:50,915 --> 00:26:53,515 Speaker 1: articles without bylines and would have to kill the article, 395 00:26:53,515 --> 00:26:57,195 Speaker 1: and Bailey said fine. And now the second version of 396 00:26:57,195 --> 00:27:01,275 Speaker 1: this article disappeared from the website. Without any public explanation 397 00:27:01,395 --> 00:27:05,195 Speaker 1: by GQ. GQ later claimed the piece had been posted 398 00:27:05,435 --> 00:27:09,475 Speaker 1: without proper editing, which might have been believable except a 399 00:27:09,555 --> 00:27:15,115 Speaker 1: spokesman for Zaslav's company, Warner Bros. Discovery boasted the quote. 400 00:27:15,235 --> 00:27:19,915 Speaker 1: We contacted the outlet and asked that numerous inaccuracies be corrected. 401 00:27:20,235 --> 00:27:23,075 Speaker 1: In the process of doing so, the editors ultimately decided 402 00:27:23,075 --> 00:27:26,515 Speaker 1: to pull the piece. The anonymous spokesperson also said the 403 00:27:26,555 --> 00:27:31,795 Speaker 1: writer had never contacted Warner Bros. For fact checking, which 404 00:27:31,795 --> 00:27:35,875 Speaker 1: of course is not how that works. Wait it gets worse. 405 00:27:36,235 --> 00:27:39,715 Speaker 1: GQ is owned by Condy Nast, which is in turn 406 00:27:39,795 --> 00:27:43,995 Speaker 1: owned by Advanced Publications. Then Advanced Publications is in turn 407 00:27:44,035 --> 00:27:49,355 Speaker 1: a major shareholder in Warner Bros. Discovery. But wait, it 408 00:27:49,355 --> 00:27:53,195 Speaker 1: gets even worse than that. Worse variety is reporting that 409 00:27:53,235 --> 00:27:56,875 Speaker 1: the GQ editor in chief this Will Welch quote, is 410 00:27:56,955 --> 00:28:01,875 Speaker 1: producing a movie at Warner Bros. Titled The Great Chinese 411 00:28:02,035 --> 00:28:06,355 Speaker 1: Art Heist. Sources say Welch was in the discussion surrounding 412 00:28:06,395 --> 00:28:10,275 Speaker 1: the removal of Bailey's initial story and made the call 413 00:28:10,555 --> 00:28:14,875 Speaker 1: to pull the revamped story. Those same sources say Warner Bros. 414 00:28:15,075 --> 00:28:19,355 Speaker 1: Discovery complained about the initial story to two GQ editors, 415 00:28:19,675 --> 00:28:25,155 Speaker 1: one of whom was Welch. So Zaz Lab of Warner Bros. 416 00:28:25,915 --> 00:28:28,595 Speaker 1: Didn't like a story about himself. So somebody called GQ, 417 00:28:29,115 --> 00:28:32,875 Speaker 1: which is co owned with Warner Bros. And they reportedly 418 00:28:32,915 --> 00:28:35,315 Speaker 1: called this editor Welch, who is the producer of a 419 00:28:35,355 --> 00:28:39,075 Speaker 1: movie at Warner Bros. And he got five hundred words 420 00:28:39,115 --> 00:28:41,395 Speaker 1: taken out of the story and then killed it outright. 421 00:28:42,675 --> 00:28:45,995 Speaker 1: Am I reading this correctly? I can't count how many 422 00:28:45,995 --> 00:28:47,195 Speaker 1: conflicts of interest. 423 00:28:46,915 --> 00:28:47,715 Speaker 2: There are in there. 424 00:28:47,915 --> 00:28:50,075 Speaker 1: I literally I don't know if it's eighty or ninety. 425 00:28:50,835 --> 00:28:54,195 Speaker 1: But I've got a really good idea for David Zaslab 426 00:28:54,275 --> 00:28:58,955 Speaker 1: and Warner Bros. This will Welch guy. Sounds like you 427 00:28:59,075 --> 00:29:04,595 Speaker 1: found your next CEO of CNN. Huh huh. In the interim, 428 00:29:04,995 --> 00:29:23,355 Speaker 1: he's simply today's worst Parson hay Broth just ahead. Nothing 429 00:29:23,395 --> 00:29:26,435 Speaker 1: gets me more nostalgic than when July fourth falls in 430 00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:29,115 Speaker 1: the middle of a work week, because that, in part, 431 00:29:29,235 --> 00:29:32,715 Speaker 1: is why my career got started at all forty four 432 00:29:32,835 --> 00:29:36,355 Speaker 1: years ago. This week, I'll tell you that story in 433 00:29:36,395 --> 00:29:38,475 Speaker 1: a brand new edition of Things I promised not to 434 00:29:38,515 --> 00:29:40,755 Speaker 1: tell first time to feature another dog in need. You 435 00:29:40,755 --> 00:29:43,555 Speaker 1: can help. Every dog has its day. Three of them, actually, 436 00:29:43,875 --> 00:29:49,595 Speaker 1: Angelina little Bit and prints three Malteses in Georgia. Their 437 00:29:49,675 --> 00:29:53,115 Speaker 1: human mom loved them, Dad not so much. When mom died, 438 00:29:53,195 --> 00:29:56,075 Speaker 1: Dad put them in a cage on an outdoor porch 439 00:29:56,115 --> 00:29:59,115 Speaker 1: even though it was ninety degrees out. American Maltese Association 440 00:29:59,195 --> 00:30:02,595 Speaker 1: Rescue has gotten him to surrender them. They were malnourished, 441 00:30:02,675 --> 00:30:05,915 Speaker 1: rotten teeth, matted hair. I think all three will make it, 442 00:30:05,955 --> 00:30:08,355 Speaker 1: but there have been and will be expenses. You know 443 00:30:08,435 --> 00:30:11,635 Speaker 1: my feeling towards Malteses. Any help you can be to them, 444 00:30:11,995 --> 00:30:15,035 Speaker 1: I'll appreciate it. There's a fundraiser at Giving Grid and 445 00:30:15,075 --> 00:30:18,595 Speaker 1: you can find them there under GA Neglected Trio, or 446 00:30:18,675 --> 00:30:21,475 Speaker 1: just look for them on my Twitter feeds. Angelina thanks 447 00:30:21,515 --> 00:30:25,395 Speaker 1: you a little bit. Thanks you, Prince, thanks you, and 448 00:30:25,475 --> 00:30:43,875 Speaker 1: I thank you as well. Now to the number one 449 00:30:43,915 --> 00:30:46,035 Speaker 1: story on the Countdown and Things I Promised not to 450 00:30:46,075 --> 00:30:50,275 Speaker 1: tell in my favorite topic me. On Monday, July second, 451 00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:55,675 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, a man named Maury Trumbull walked into 452 00:30:55,715 --> 00:30:58,715 Speaker 1: his boss's office at United Press International in the Old 453 00:30:58,755 --> 00:31:02,635 Speaker 1: Daily News Building in New York and quit. He had 454 00:31:02,635 --> 00:31:05,875 Speaker 1: been offered a real job as the sports director of 455 00:31:05,875 --> 00:31:08,635 Speaker 1: the NBC Radio Network, and he would happily finish out 456 00:31:08,675 --> 00:31:11,915 Speaker 1: the next two weeks as the sports director of UPI's 457 00:31:12,035 --> 00:31:17,155 Speaker 1: Radio network, and then bye, and Maury's boss was screwed. 458 00:31:18,355 --> 00:31:22,195 Speaker 1: Maury's boss had three sportscasters. Trumbull was not just the boss. 459 00:31:22,235 --> 00:31:24,915 Speaker 1: He also did the evening sportscasting shift, like four or 460 00:31:24,955 --> 00:31:28,115 Speaker 1: five days a week. And just four months earlier they 461 00:31:28,115 --> 00:31:30,635 Speaker 1: had moved one of the sportscasters over to be the 462 00:31:30,635 --> 00:31:32,955 Speaker 1: new business reporter, and to replace him, they had to 463 00:31:32,995 --> 00:31:37,515 Speaker 1: listen to the audition tapes of two hundred sportscasters from 464 00:31:37,555 --> 00:31:41,795 Speaker 1: across the country, and not one of them was really 465 00:31:41,835 --> 00:31:44,795 Speaker 1: any good, not even as good as Mary Trumbull, and 466 00:31:44,875 --> 00:31:46,955 Speaker 1: so they hired the least bad of them, and they 467 00:31:46,955 --> 00:31:49,195 Speaker 1: were hoping for the best, and suddenly the new guy 468 00:31:50,435 --> 00:31:54,075 Speaker 1: was the second senior man on the staff. And even 469 00:31:54,115 --> 00:31:57,195 Speaker 1: though you have not heard of UPI's Radio Network except 470 00:31:57,195 --> 00:31:59,555 Speaker 1: when I've mentioned it in this series, it was a 471 00:31:59,715 --> 00:32:03,355 Speaker 1: very big deal. On July second, nineteen seventy nine, there 472 00:32:03,395 --> 00:32:06,275 Speaker 1: were about one thousand radio stations affiliated with it in 473 00:32:06,315 --> 00:32:08,715 Speaker 1: this country, and though few of them were in the 474 00:32:08,715 --> 00:32:12,915 Speaker 1: top fifty cities, and fewer still ran the sports cast 475 00:32:12,995 --> 00:32:15,675 Speaker 1: that Mary Trumbull and Sam Rosan and Jack Russell did 476 00:32:15,715 --> 00:32:19,235 Speaker 1: in those fifty cities. The smaller the market was, the 477 00:32:19,275 --> 00:32:23,235 Speaker 1: bigger the star Maury and Sam and now Jack were. 478 00:32:24,955 --> 00:32:26,835 Speaker 1: And what made it worse, of course, was that it 479 00:32:26,955 --> 00:32:29,955 Speaker 1: was Monday, July second, which meant the actual fourth of 480 00:32:30,035 --> 00:32:33,355 Speaker 1: July holiday was Wednesday, which meant that nobody, but nobody 481 00:32:33,395 --> 00:32:36,715 Speaker 1: would be in the office almost anywhere in American radio 482 00:32:36,835 --> 00:32:39,795 Speaker 1: for at least the next few days. And in those 483 00:32:39,995 --> 00:32:43,395 Speaker 1: times when the long three day weekend when he had 484 00:32:43,395 --> 00:32:49,875 Speaker 1: got Monday off, was just becoming acceptable, this thing July fourth, 485 00:32:49,915 --> 00:32:51,475 Speaker 1: in the middle of the week was an excuse for 486 00:32:51,515 --> 00:32:53,875 Speaker 1: a four day weekend, or a five day weekend, or 487 00:32:53,915 --> 00:32:57,155 Speaker 1: I'll just take the whole week off. And that meant 488 00:32:57,435 --> 00:33:01,155 Speaker 1: whoever would be doing Maury Trumbull's UPI sports casts as 489 00:33:01,195 --> 00:33:05,355 Speaker 1: of Monday, July sixteenth, nineteen seventy nine. He basically he 490 00:33:05,395 --> 00:33:09,395 Speaker 1: could not currently have a job because he'd have to 491 00:33:09,475 --> 00:33:12,195 Speaker 1: quit it because when he quitted, he would have to 492 00:33:12,235 --> 00:33:16,195 Speaker 1: give two weeks notice, And even if Maury's boss figured 493 00:33:16,195 --> 00:33:19,115 Speaker 1: out who to hire in the next hour and got 494 00:33:19,195 --> 00:33:22,235 Speaker 1: him approved by his own boss, there was literally no 495 00:33:22,315 --> 00:33:24,795 Speaker 1: way the new guy could start on the sixteenth, and 496 00:33:24,835 --> 00:33:27,235 Speaker 1: he'd have to get his boss's approval. Then he didn't 497 00:33:27,275 --> 00:33:29,355 Speaker 1: know where his boss was because his boss was taking 498 00:33:29,395 --> 00:33:31,595 Speaker 1: like an eight day weekend. So now Maury Trumble's boss 499 00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:33,715 Speaker 1: was looking at the new guy starting no sooner than 500 00:33:33,795 --> 00:33:38,195 Speaker 1: July twenty third, or he suddenly realized, with a shudder, 501 00:33:38,515 --> 00:33:41,075 Speaker 1: what if the new guy had to move to New 502 00:33:41,155 --> 00:33:45,315 Speaker 1: York from anywhere further away from them than like Albany 503 00:33:45,435 --> 00:33:51,275 Speaker 1: or Jersey or something. So that's when Mary Trumble's boss, well, 504 00:33:51,315 --> 00:33:53,955 Speaker 1: he thought that wasn't true anymore. He was Mary Trumblell's 505 00:33:54,115 --> 00:33:56,675 Speaker 1: X boss, wasn't he. For all the trouble Maury had 506 00:33:56,715 --> 00:33:59,275 Speaker 1: just caused him, at least that part was good news. 507 00:33:59,875 --> 00:34:03,915 Speaker 1: Maury Trumble's X boss made his decision. I'll just hire 508 00:34:03,955 --> 00:34:06,875 Speaker 1: that kid from west Chester. Stan Sabek said to himself. 509 00:34:07,355 --> 00:34:09,395 Speaker 1: I don't know how I'll convince Shortino to take on 510 00:34:09,435 --> 00:34:12,275 Speaker 1: a kid with absolutely no full time professional experience, but 511 00:34:12,595 --> 00:34:16,595 Speaker 1: I'll figure it out. Stan Sabek was the bureau chief 512 00:34:16,635 --> 00:34:20,915 Speaker 1: of UPI Audio and Shortino was his boss. Frank Shortino 513 00:34:20,995 --> 00:34:24,275 Speaker 1: the network general manager, and Frank was already old enough 514 00:34:24,315 --> 00:34:29,155 Speaker 1: to really dislike anybody much younger than he was, which 515 00:34:29,155 --> 00:34:31,875 Speaker 1: is why the youngest person in the New York headquarters 516 00:34:31,915 --> 00:34:36,075 Speaker 1: that day was thirty three, and Shortino didn't really trust her. 517 00:34:36,995 --> 00:34:41,115 Speaker 1: And suddenly it came to him, and Stan Sabek smiled. 518 00:34:41,955 --> 00:34:45,395 Speaker 1: He rolled that phrase over in his head. No full 519 00:34:45,475 --> 00:34:49,515 Speaker 1: time professional experience, and he smiled again. My god, we 520 00:34:49,555 --> 00:34:51,635 Speaker 1: only have to pay the kids sixteen thousand a year. 521 00:34:51,835 --> 00:34:56,435 Speaker 1: We'll save thirty grand on salary. My mother did not 522 00:34:56,555 --> 00:34:59,675 Speaker 1: even step out into the warmth and the bright sunshine 523 00:34:59,715 --> 00:35:04,035 Speaker 1: of the pre holiday afternoon. Keith Phone, I was lying 524 00:35:04,075 --> 00:35:07,395 Speaker 1: there on our very sketchy front lawn, listening to my 525 00:35:07,515 --> 00:35:10,955 Speaker 1: home built walkman and working on my tan, and trying 526 00:35:10,995 --> 00:35:12,235 Speaker 1: not to think of the fact that it was now 527 00:35:12,235 --> 00:35:14,315 Speaker 1: the week of July fourth, which was the deadline I 528 00:35:14,355 --> 00:35:18,315 Speaker 1: had given myself for just sitting around working on my tan. 529 00:35:18,915 --> 00:35:21,915 Speaker 1: After I surprised myself and my family and my friends 530 00:35:21,915 --> 00:35:25,635 Speaker 1: and especially my professors by actually graduating from Cornell on 531 00:35:25,795 --> 00:35:28,995 Speaker 1: time in seven semesters, the last of which contained twenty 532 00:35:29,035 --> 00:35:32,075 Speaker 1: eight credits in ten different courses, a juggling act so 533 00:35:32,275 --> 00:35:34,715 Speaker 1: arduous that I will still all these years later, have 534 00:35:34,875 --> 00:35:38,955 Speaker 1: dreams in which it is graduation morning, May twenty eighth, 535 00:35:39,035 --> 00:35:41,595 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, and I suddenly realized I have forgotten 536 00:35:41,595 --> 00:35:44,395 Speaker 1: an entire course, and I must read three thousand pages 537 00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:46,955 Speaker 1: or write five hundred pages or both before noon, or 538 00:35:46,995 --> 00:35:49,395 Speaker 1: I will not graduate on time, and I will have 539 00:35:49,435 --> 00:35:52,155 Speaker 1: to go back and start all over again. In well, 540 00:35:52,155 --> 00:35:54,715 Speaker 1: if it's a really stressful period of time in my life, 541 00:35:54,795 --> 00:35:56,755 Speaker 1: I will have to go back and start all over 542 00:35:56,795 --> 00:36:04,915 Speaker 1: again in the third grade as an adult. In those chairs, 543 00:36:05,715 --> 00:36:09,635 Speaker 1: missus Weiner, I'm stuck in the chair again, possibly because 544 00:36:09,675 --> 00:36:15,315 Speaker 1: I'm sixty four years old. Keith, it's Roger Norum. My 545 00:36:15,435 --> 00:36:20,035 Speaker 1: heart suddenly raced. Roger Normm was my contact at a 546 00:36:20,155 --> 00:36:23,715 Speaker 1: radio network i'd basically known nothing about even three months earlier. 547 00:36:23,755 --> 00:36:27,315 Speaker 1: It was called UPI Audio. A friend of a friend 548 00:36:27,355 --> 00:36:29,275 Speaker 1: of a friend of a friend had referred me to 549 00:36:29,315 --> 00:36:32,595 Speaker 1: a news editor there named Art Mcalloon, and I went 550 00:36:32,675 --> 00:36:36,435 Speaker 1: into the UPI Audio offices on forty second Street in 551 00:36:36,515 --> 00:36:40,755 Speaker 1: my best suit, with absolutely no worry that I'd ever 552 00:36:40,795 --> 00:36:43,955 Speaker 1: forget a name like Art Mcalloon, And out came a 553 00:36:44,075 --> 00:36:46,275 Speaker 1: very quiet man with a kind face and a big 554 00:36:46,395 --> 00:36:48,475 Speaker 1: round beard and a big, round, curly head of hair, 555 00:36:48,555 --> 00:36:51,235 Speaker 1: and he proceeded to explain very quietly that he was 556 00:36:51,235 --> 00:36:55,275 Speaker 1: not Art Mcalloon, and Art had quit, but not before 557 00:36:55,395 --> 00:37:00,155 Speaker 1: passing me on to him Roger Norum. Before I knew it, 558 00:37:00,235 --> 00:37:02,555 Speaker 1: Roger had in turn passed me on to a sportscaster 559 00:37:02,675 --> 00:37:05,995 Speaker 1: named Sam Rosen. I have introduced to him here before. 560 00:37:06,435 --> 00:37:08,555 Speaker 1: He made such an impression on me that my last 561 00:37:08,635 --> 00:37:12,075 Speaker 1: Cornell English paper was supposed to be a quick profile 562 00:37:12,115 --> 00:37:14,675 Speaker 1: of somebody interesting I had just met, and I chose 563 00:37:14,755 --> 00:37:17,835 Speaker 1: Sam over somebody else I had met the same day, 564 00:37:18,155 --> 00:37:22,435 Speaker 1: and the other guy was named Bob Iger. Anyway, Sam 565 00:37:22,475 --> 00:37:25,075 Speaker 1: had been startled at the tape of my college sports 566 00:37:25,115 --> 00:37:27,515 Speaker 1: casts and had pronounced it twice as good as the 567 00:37:27,555 --> 00:37:30,115 Speaker 1: guy they had just hired, who was now Stan Sabek's 568 00:37:30,195 --> 00:37:33,835 Speaker 1: second senior sportscaster. And before I knew it, Sam had 569 00:37:33,875 --> 00:37:36,795 Speaker 1: given the tape to Stan, and Stan had invited me 570 00:37:36,955 --> 00:37:40,035 Speaker 1: back into New York for a formal interview, and Stan 571 00:37:40,115 --> 00:37:42,235 Speaker 1: had said, you will hear this a lot in this business, 572 00:37:42,475 --> 00:37:44,435 Speaker 1: but give me a little time. I think I can 573 00:37:44,515 --> 00:37:47,835 Speaker 1: guarantee you six seven weeks of vacation relief this summer, 574 00:37:47,875 --> 00:37:50,195 Speaker 1: some sports, some news. If you don't mind doing both. 575 00:37:52,075 --> 00:37:54,875 Speaker 1: Roger norm had some interesting news for me on that 576 00:37:54,955 --> 00:37:58,395 Speaker 1: phone call. You may have guessed it was about Mary 577 00:37:58,515 --> 00:38:02,355 Speaker 1: Trumbull resigning from UPI and going to NBC. It's the 578 00:38:02,395 --> 00:38:05,195 Speaker 1: talk of the place right now. He's already packing. They'll 579 00:38:05,195 --> 00:38:07,195 Speaker 1: have to move fast, and with the holiday there's no 580 00:38:07,195 --> 00:38:09,515 Speaker 1: way they can bring in people for interviews or have 581 00:38:09,555 --> 00:38:12,515 Speaker 1: a full search to replace him. You should give him 582 00:38:12,515 --> 00:38:16,275 Speaker 1: till Thursday the fifth and then and call Stan unless 583 00:38:16,315 --> 00:38:18,835 Speaker 1: he calls you first. I mean, they really loved your tape. 584 00:38:18,835 --> 00:38:21,315 Speaker 1: Stan told people about it. He was very excited. It's 585 00:38:21,355 --> 00:38:23,435 Speaker 1: the old cliche Keith about being in the right place 586 00:38:23,435 --> 00:38:25,715 Speaker 1: at the right time. And by the way, if you 587 00:38:25,715 --> 00:38:27,595 Speaker 1: can make it over, you are cordially invited to the 588 00:38:27,595 --> 00:38:31,555 Speaker 1: annual Norham family Fourth of July bash. We're in Westchester two. 589 00:38:33,355 --> 00:38:36,355 Speaker 1: I never once spoke to Roger Norham that he did 590 00:38:36,355 --> 00:38:39,555 Speaker 1: not invite me to a Norum bash. He had them 591 00:38:39,595 --> 00:38:42,395 Speaker 1: for all major holidays, and I believe for lesser events 592 00:38:42,395 --> 00:38:46,515 Speaker 1: like the Westminster Dog Show and Moroccan Independence Day. He 593 00:38:46,595 --> 00:38:48,995 Speaker 1: was a lovely man, and while he was a fine newsman, 594 00:38:49,035 --> 00:38:51,195 Speaker 1: he was far better at kindness and favor. He's like 595 00:38:51,195 --> 00:38:53,755 Speaker 1: the one he was doing me on that July afternoon 596 00:38:53,795 --> 00:38:57,995 Speaker 1: so long ago. Needless to say, I was silent and 597 00:38:58,035 --> 00:39:00,635 Speaker 1: pretty much breathless for the rest of July second, nineteen 598 00:39:00,675 --> 00:39:03,155 Speaker 1: seventy nine. As hard as that might be for you 599 00:39:03,275 --> 00:39:07,195 Speaker 1: to believe, I explained to my folks what might be 600 00:39:07,315 --> 00:39:09,755 Speaker 1: going on, how just as I was going to make 601 00:39:09,795 --> 00:39:14,635 Speaker 1: myself start worrying about actually getting a job, maybe in Atlanta, 602 00:39:15,275 --> 00:39:19,275 Speaker 1: I might have just gotten a job a forty minute 603 00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:23,115 Speaker 1: train ride away. Based on what Stan Sabeg had said 604 00:39:23,115 --> 00:39:26,355 Speaker 1: about getting me vacation relief work. I suspected he would 605 00:39:26,395 --> 00:39:28,795 Speaker 1: offer me something on a temporary basis to see if 606 00:39:28,795 --> 00:39:30,955 Speaker 1: I could actually do it. But still if even that 607 00:39:31,195 --> 00:39:34,595 Speaker 1: actually happened, this was my chance to break into professional 608 00:39:34,675 --> 00:39:38,755 Speaker 1: radio at probably the peak of professional radio's post war 609 00:39:38,835 --> 00:39:43,275 Speaker 1: importance and competitiveness and expansion, and to break in in 610 00:39:43,395 --> 00:39:48,315 Speaker 1: New York City at a network. My rivals for every 611 00:39:48,435 --> 00:39:50,755 Speaker 1: job I would seek for the next twenty years, or 612 00:39:50,915 --> 00:39:53,995 Speaker 1: thirty years or fifty years, would be happy to be 613 00:39:54,075 --> 00:39:57,515 Speaker 1: breaking in in Keyakuk, Iowa, no offense, Kiacook and I 614 00:39:57,555 --> 00:40:00,675 Speaker 1: would be on the network. They would hear as they 615 00:40:00,795 --> 00:40:04,315 Speaker 1: arrived to do the morning shift at four thirty am 616 00:40:04,795 --> 00:40:09,795 Speaker 1: in keiokook. I do not remember sleeping that night, certainly 617 00:40:09,835 --> 00:40:13,795 Speaker 1: not well. Still, I am confident that I remember this correctly. 618 00:40:13,915 --> 00:40:17,195 Speaker 1: On Tuesday, July third, nineteen seventy nine, I was back 619 00:40:17,235 --> 00:40:21,835 Speaker 1: out on the Olderman family tanning lawn, twenty feet from 620 00:40:21,835 --> 00:40:25,435 Speaker 1: the driveway just afternoon when the front door opened and 621 00:40:25,515 --> 00:40:30,315 Speaker 1: Mom said it again, Keith phone, someone named Stan, Keith 622 00:40:30,355 --> 00:40:34,875 Speaker 1: Stan Sabek. He laughed. Stan laughed a lot. Stan and 623 00:40:34,915 --> 00:40:37,435 Speaker 1: I had a loud fight fourteen months later that got 624 00:40:37,475 --> 00:40:41,635 Speaker 1: me fired and then unfired hours later. Stan laughed in 625 00:40:41,715 --> 00:40:44,795 Speaker 1: the middle of all that twice tired of lying around 626 00:40:44,795 --> 00:40:47,595 Speaker 1: the pool, yet I lied and said, yes, of course 627 00:40:47,595 --> 00:40:51,355 Speaker 1: there was no pool, just my lawn. I don't know 628 00:40:51,395 --> 00:40:54,075 Speaker 1: if you've heard. He said it in such a way 629 00:40:54,075 --> 00:40:56,675 Speaker 1: that confirmed that he was confident I had heard, and 630 00:40:56,795 --> 00:40:59,595 Speaker 1: noram or Rosen or somebody had called to tell me. 631 00:41:00,475 --> 00:41:03,595 Speaker 1: But my sports director quit to go to NBC. I 632 00:41:03,635 --> 00:41:06,115 Speaker 1: need a full time sport it's cast here to replace him. 633 00:41:06,835 --> 00:41:10,715 Speaker 1: You interested, prepared as I was for the offer of 634 00:41:10,795 --> 00:41:13,475 Speaker 1: part time work. I was stunned, on top of stunned. 635 00:41:14,035 --> 00:41:18,995 Speaker 1: Full time stand Did you say full time? Stan laughed, yes. 636 00:41:19,755 --> 00:41:25,235 Speaker 1: Sixteen thousand, No negotiations. Mostly nights, some mornings, some ball games. 637 00:41:25,275 --> 00:41:27,755 Speaker 1: You get to cover split days off. You're not going 638 00:41:27,795 --> 00:41:29,995 Speaker 1: to have a weekend for a couple of years. Probably, 639 00:41:30,275 --> 00:41:31,955 Speaker 1: Can you come in Thursday to fill out the job 640 00:41:31,995 --> 00:41:35,235 Speaker 1: application for the job I just hired you for? He 641 00:41:35,355 --> 00:41:40,195 Speaker 1: laughed again. Ever since, I have associated the fourth of 642 00:41:40,235 --> 00:41:43,275 Speaker 1: July with the start of my career, but especially those 643 00:41:43,435 --> 00:41:46,195 Speaker 1: years when the week with the fourth in it is 644 00:41:46,235 --> 00:41:50,035 Speaker 1: in the middle of the week, just like that and 645 00:41:50,275 --> 00:41:53,995 Speaker 1: makes it more difficult for employers to hire anybody except 646 00:41:54,035 --> 00:41:59,075 Speaker 1: the cheap and the unemployed. Turns out that Wednesday, July 647 00:41:59,155 --> 00:42:01,795 Speaker 1: fourth calendar is not a frequent thing. Happened in nineteen 648 00:42:01,795 --> 00:42:05,435 Speaker 1: seventy nine, happened again in nineteen ninety one, two thousand 649 00:42:05,435 --> 00:42:08,635 Speaker 1: and seven, twenty eighteen, not scheduled to happen again until 650 00:42:08,635 --> 00:42:14,595 Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine, barring major breaking news developments. A week 651 00:42:14,835 --> 00:42:18,315 Speaker 1: to the day that stan Sebek had called, I was 652 00:42:18,435 --> 00:42:21,835 Speaker 1: on the air at UPI. I wasn't supposed to be. 653 00:42:21,875 --> 00:42:23,675 Speaker 1: I was just supposed to be watching the morning shift 654 00:42:23,715 --> 00:42:26,355 Speaker 1: with Sam Rosen. And then finally he said, so do 655 00:42:26,355 --> 00:42:27,915 Speaker 1: you think you got the hang of it? And I said, ma, 656 00:42:28,115 --> 00:42:29,835 Speaker 1: I guess so, he said, good, because you're on at 657 00:42:29,915 --> 00:42:33,075 Speaker 1: nine forty five. I was so scared. I had an 658 00:42:33,115 --> 00:42:37,315 Speaker 1: out of body experience. Thirty days after Stan Sebic called 659 00:42:37,355 --> 00:42:39,635 Speaker 1: on July third, I was on my own on the 660 00:42:39,715 --> 00:42:43,355 Speaker 1: night shift, maybe the seventh time, when the Yankee catcher 661 00:42:43,395 --> 00:42:45,875 Speaker 1: Thurman Munson was killed when he crashed his private plane, 662 00:42:46,155 --> 00:42:48,635 Speaker 1: and I had to call his teammates for interviews and 663 00:42:48,715 --> 00:42:52,315 Speaker 1: still do the sports cast every hour. By October, they 664 00:42:52,315 --> 00:42:53,955 Speaker 1: had put me on a plane to go cover the 665 00:42:53,995 --> 00:42:57,595 Speaker 1: National League playoffs. Six months after he called, Stan and 666 00:42:57,675 --> 00:43:00,115 Speaker 1: Sam Rosen and I were covering the nineteen eighty Winter 667 00:43:00,155 --> 00:43:03,395 Speaker 1: Olympics for UPI Radio, and our stuff was playing on 668 00:43:03,515 --> 00:43:08,715 Speaker 1: radio stations around the world. But all these years later, 669 00:43:08,875 --> 00:43:11,875 Speaker 1: none of that compares to the sensation of that phone 670 00:43:11,915 --> 00:43:15,515 Speaker 1: call and the realization that my career had really started. 671 00:43:16,395 --> 00:43:19,315 Speaker 1: At forty eight hours later, I was walking into UPI's 672 00:43:19,355 --> 00:43:24,235 Speaker 1: offices as a pro plus, I got the first shock 673 00:43:24,315 --> 00:43:27,755 Speaker 1: of my career. Good news, Stan said and laughed. That's 674 00:43:27,795 --> 00:43:31,315 Speaker 1: stringing work you did for UPI. All those Cornell football 675 00:43:31,435 --> 00:43:35,595 Speaker 1: games you covered for fifteen dollars a game. The Union says, 676 00:43:35,635 --> 00:43:38,635 Speaker 1: guess what they count towards your professional experience, so you 677 00:43:38,715 --> 00:43:42,275 Speaker 1: won't be starting at just sixteen thousand. You get credited 678 00:43:42,315 --> 00:43:46,795 Speaker 1: with experience for all that stringing, you got exactly six 679 00:43:46,875 --> 00:43:52,875 Speaker 1: days worth of credit. Congratulations, you'll be starting at sixteen thousand, 680 00:43:53,835 --> 00:44:12,675 Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a year. And Stan Sabic laughed, and yes, 681 00:44:12,915 --> 00:44:15,475 Speaker 1: I will play you that first sportscast if you want 682 00:44:15,515 --> 00:44:19,035 Speaker 1: to hear it in its entirety in just a moment. First, 683 00:44:19,075 --> 00:44:20,715 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 684 00:44:20,795 --> 00:44:23,235 Speaker 1: you for listening. Here the credits. Most of the music 685 00:44:23,315 --> 00:44:25,835 Speaker 1: was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and John 686 00:44:25,875 --> 00:44:29,475 Speaker 1: Phillip Shanelle. They are the Countdown musical directors. Guitars based 687 00:44:29,475 --> 00:44:32,835 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, all orchestration and keyboards by 688 00:44:32,875 --> 00:44:37,315 Speaker 1: John Phillip Schanel, produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections 689 00:44:37,315 --> 00:44:39,915 Speaker 1: have been arranged unperformed by the group No Horns Allowed. 690 00:44:40,395 --> 00:44:43,315 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, 691 00:44:43,635 --> 00:44:46,715 Speaker 1: and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 692 00:44:47,315 --> 00:44:50,795 Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 693 00:44:51,115 --> 00:44:54,235 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Larry David everything else 694 00:44:54,275 --> 00:44:57,235 Speaker 1: is pretty much my fault. Don't forget. Countdown is now 695 00:44:57,275 --> 00:45:01,595 Speaker 1: also available on YouTube with neat animated versions of me. 696 00:45:02,675 --> 00:45:07,235 Speaker 1: Subscribe there too, give yourself options, vote once, vote twice. 697 00:45:07,675 --> 00:45:09,595 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this the nine hundred and twelve 698 00:45:09,635 --> 00:45:12,355 Speaker 1: days since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 699 00:45:12,395 --> 00:45:15,555 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Arrest him again while 700 00:45:15,635 --> 00:45:19,195 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins 701 00:45:19,235 --> 00:45:22,115 Speaker 1: as the news warrant still then, I'm Keith Ulberman. Good morning, 702 00:45:22,155 --> 00:45:24,875 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 703 00:45:31,795 --> 00:45:35,115 Speaker 2: Stations Live Sports will begin, preceded by a one second 704 00:45:35,155 --> 00:45:42,595 Speaker 2: tone coming up ten seconds from Mark good Morning. Three 705 00:45:42,635 --> 00:45:45,235 Speaker 2: members of the Houston Astros named this morning to manager 706 00:45:45,275 --> 00:45:48,355 Speaker 2: Tommy Losorda's National League pitching staff for next Tuesday's All 707 00:45:48,355 --> 00:45:51,515 Speaker 2: Star Game. Top winner Joe Nicro tapped by Lesorta, along 708 00:45:51,515 --> 00:45:54,995 Speaker 2: with Joaquin Andehar and reliever Joe Sambido. Routing out the staff, 709 00:45:55,075 --> 00:45:58,515 Speaker 2: veteran Steve Carlton of Philadelphia and Gaylord Perry of the Padres, 710 00:45:58,675 --> 00:46:02,035 Speaker 2: Steve Rogers of Montreal, the Cubs Bruce Suitor, and Cincinnati's 711 00:46:02,075 --> 00:46:04,475 Speaker 2: Mike Lacas And speaking of the All Stars you went. 712 00:46:04,675 --> 00:46:07,155 Speaker 2: I think Don Baylor and his eighty RBI would be 713 00:46:07,155 --> 00:46:09,635 Speaker 2: a shoe in for the al outfield. Baylor drove in 714 00:46:09,675 --> 00:46:12,315 Speaker 2: another run last night as the Angels whip Boston six 715 00:46:12,395 --> 00:46:15,075 Speaker 2: to nothing. But matter of fact, he placed fourteenth in 716 00:46:15,115 --> 00:46:17,315 Speaker 2: the voting. The most important thing for me right now 717 00:46:17,435 --> 00:46:19,715 Speaker 2: is just to win on this talk club. A lot 718 00:46:19,715 --> 00:46:21,635 Speaker 2: of people have brought up to the all start thing, 719 00:46:21,715 --> 00:46:24,795 Speaker 2: and I can't do anything about that, you know, those 720 00:46:24,915 --> 00:46:25,595 Speaker 2: voter any things. 721 00:46:25,595 --> 00:46:27,435 Speaker 1: But I can't do something about this ball club. 722 00:46:27,435 --> 00:46:29,595 Speaker 2: You know, if I produced on this club, we're w 723 00:46:29,595 --> 00:46:32,435 Speaker 2: When they did last night is Nolan Ryan struck out twelve. 724 00:46:32,435 --> 00:46:34,795 Speaker 2: That puts California at half game up on Texas in 725 00:46:34,795 --> 00:46:37,235 Speaker 2: the West. Elsewhere in the American and the Orioles lead 726 00:46:37,315 --> 00:46:39,195 Speaker 2: is up to three in the East. They beat Oakland 727 00:46:39,195 --> 00:46:40,955 Speaker 2: by the score of seven to three. It was the 728 00:46:40,955 --> 00:46:44,035 Speaker 2: Blue Jays seven Milwaukee one, Minnesota over Detroit five to 729 00:46:44,115 --> 00:46:46,795 Speaker 2: three as Jerry Kuzman won his eleventh The White Sox 730 00:46:46,795 --> 00:46:49,675 Speaker 2: stopped Texas five to four. In Cleveland over KC eight 731 00:46:49,715 --> 00:46:51,955 Speaker 2: to two. The New York Yankees were off, but they 732 00:46:51,955 --> 00:46:54,475 Speaker 2: made an important move for their pennant hopes. The activation 733 00:46:54,555 --> 00:46:57,595 Speaker 2: of injured relief pitcher Rich Gossage over in the National 734 00:46:57,635 --> 00:46:59,835 Speaker 2: Montreal's Eastern lead is up to five and a half. 735 00:46:59,875 --> 00:47:02,435 Speaker 2: Bill Lee blank the Dodgers three, zip Phillies over the 736 00:47:02,435 --> 00:47:05,315 Speaker 2: Giants four to two. The Cardinals meetings in Sinnati six 737 00:47:05,395 --> 00:47:09,035 Speaker 2: to three in Chicago seven Atlanta four. At the Padam 738 00:47:09,155 --> 00:47:11,115 Speaker 2: Games in San Juan a big upset and the eight 739 00:47:11,155 --> 00:47:14,835 Speaker 2: hundred meter run American James Robinson shocking Cuban Olympic champ 740 00:47:14,875 --> 00:47:18,435 Speaker 2: Alberto Jantarina. The US boosted its gold medal total to 741 00:47:18,515 --> 00:47:22,035 Speaker 2: eighty one. Both the men's and women's basketball teams remain undefeated, 742 00:47:22,475 --> 00:47:24,915 Speaker 2: and for the second time in his career, crack Montreal 743 00:47:24,915 --> 00:47:28,555 Speaker 2: Canadians goaltender Ken Dryden has called it quits. Dryden going 744 00:47:28,595 --> 00:47:30,595 Speaker 2: back to the law books at the age of thirty one. 745 00:47:30,835 --> 00:47:32,915 Speaker 2: This time it looks permanent, though the haves say the 746 00:47:32,915 --> 00:47:35,955 Speaker 2: big goalie is welcome back at any time. From the 747 00:47:35,995 --> 00:47:39,035 Speaker 2: sports desk IF United Press International, I'm Keith Olberman. 748 00:47:40,355 --> 00:47:44,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 749 00:47:44,515 --> 00:47:49,435 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 750 00:47:49,675 --> 00:47:51,635 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.