1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,395 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Senator 2 00:00:21,555 --> 00:00:25,355 Speaker 1: Josh Pawley has now descended into a bottomless pit of 3 00:00:25,435 --> 00:00:28,675 Speaker 1: immorality in which he is pretending to help Israel during 4 00:00:28,675 --> 00:00:31,635 Speaker 1: the current crisis, when in fact he is helping only 5 00:00:31,675 --> 00:00:35,715 Speaker 1: Hamas and Hamas's backers in Russia. And I will get 6 00:00:35,755 --> 00:00:38,955 Speaker 1: to that presently. But while it is still hard to 7 00:00:38,995 --> 00:00:43,555 Speaker 1: be shocked by anything out of the Trump prosecutions, here 8 00:00:43,595 --> 00:00:47,995 Speaker 1: it comes. Jack Smith has now made the rather startling 9 00:00:48,075 --> 00:00:52,915 Speaker 1: promise that he will both explain and prove in court 10 00:00:52,995 --> 00:00:56,995 Speaker 1: not just that Trump stole top secret documents at American 11 00:00:57,035 --> 00:01:02,875 Speaker 1: war plans, but why he stole them all. Credit to 12 00:01:02,955 --> 00:01:05,755 Speaker 1: Aaron Blake of The Washington Post, too has now found 13 00:01:05,995 --> 00:01:11,915 Speaker 1: this extraordinary guarantee inside Monday's Smith filing to Judge Eileen 14 00:01:12,035 --> 00:01:16,915 Speaker 1: Cannon in Florida, quoting that the classified materials at issue 15 00:01:16,955 --> 00:01:19,235 Speaker 1: in this case were taken from the White House and 16 00:01:19,395 --> 00:01:23,115 Speaker 1: retained at marri Lago is not in dispute. Smith and 17 00:01:23,195 --> 00:01:27,235 Speaker 1: his team buried four pages and ten paragraphs into their 18 00:01:27,315 --> 00:01:30,475 Speaker 1: answer to Trump's demand to postpone the Florida trial until 19 00:01:30,475 --> 00:01:35,195 Speaker 1: December twenty twenty four, quoting again What is in dispute 20 00:01:35,635 --> 00:01:40,595 Speaker 1: is how that occurred, why it occurred, what Trump knew, 21 00:01:41,075 --> 00:01:46,515 Speaker 1: and what Trump intended in retaining them, all issues that 22 00:01:46,555 --> 00:01:56,355 Speaker 1: the government will prove at trial, primarily with unclassified evidence unquote. 23 00:01:56,595 --> 00:02:04,475 Speaker 1: And we're waiting that sadly is it? All of it? 24 00:02:04,795 --> 00:02:07,315 Speaker 1: There is not one further reference in the Smith filing 25 00:02:07,355 --> 00:02:09,795 Speaker 1: to be found by Blake or anybody else, just that 26 00:02:09,995 --> 00:02:14,315 Speaker 1: tantalizing promise that whatever it is, the government will prove 27 00:02:14,355 --> 00:02:18,435 Speaker 1: it at trial. So let's go. For now. We are 28 00:02:18,515 --> 00:02:21,555 Speaker 1: left to our own devices, and to a few breadcrumbs 29 00:02:21,595 --> 00:02:24,835 Speaker 1: Smith and other prosecutors have left along the way. About 30 00:02:24,875 --> 00:02:28,795 Speaker 1: that crucial word, not crucial to prosecution and conviction, but 31 00:02:28,875 --> 00:02:32,635 Speaker 1: crucial to our understanding of what has happened here, motive. 32 00:02:33,515 --> 00:02:38,475 Speaker 1: The hypothesized explanations of what Trump intended in retaining them 33 00:02:39,075 --> 00:02:44,555 Speaker 1: begin naturally with money. There are no human relationships in 34 00:02:44,595 --> 00:02:48,035 Speaker 1: Trump's life. Everything is a contract or a lawsuit, or 35 00:02:48,075 --> 00:02:52,035 Speaker 1: a non disclosure agreement, or a personal services deal or 36 00:02:52,115 --> 00:02:56,635 Speaker 1: a naming license. So naturally, the monetary value of these 37 00:02:56,755 --> 00:03:00,955 Speaker 1: documents would have been instantaneously clear to a creature to 38 00:03:00,995 --> 00:03:04,035 Speaker 1: whom life has been like a seventy seven year long 39 00:03:04,075 --> 00:03:08,475 Speaker 1: episode of Antiques Road show What is this worth? Who 40 00:03:08,515 --> 00:03:11,795 Speaker 1: will pay me for it? Could I leverage these to 41 00:03:11,835 --> 00:03:14,675 Speaker 1: get more money out of the Saudis in my golf deal. 42 00:03:14,995 --> 00:03:17,515 Speaker 1: I give them three secrets and they give me bigger 43 00:03:17,595 --> 00:03:22,355 Speaker 1: signage at the tournament in Katar. The monetary explanation includes 44 00:03:22,395 --> 00:03:26,195 Speaker 1: everything from the Russian Ministry of Defense as his client, 45 00:03:26,955 --> 00:03:31,355 Speaker 1: to the great collectors of presidential memorabilia. Then, of course, 46 00:03:31,395 --> 00:03:33,795 Speaker 1: there is the prospect that Trump stole all the documents 47 00:03:33,795 --> 00:03:36,595 Speaker 1: and secrets to use them later as blackmail and or 48 00:03:36,635 --> 00:03:40,835 Speaker 1: revenge and or self defense. We already know from the 49 00:03:40,875 --> 00:03:44,435 Speaker 1: recording of him brandishing the Mark Milly Invasion of Iran document, 50 00:03:44,555 --> 00:03:47,395 Speaker 1: an actual US war plan, the stealing of which is 51 00:03:47,435 --> 00:03:51,235 Speaker 1: almost as nefarious a crime as anybody could commit. We 52 00:03:51,395 --> 00:03:54,715 Speaker 1: know from that document that Trump had it handy because 53 00:03:54,755 --> 00:03:58,235 Speaker 1: he was angry that Milly had publicly accused him of 54 00:03:58,315 --> 00:04:03,675 Speaker 1: fomenting war with Iran. Purposeful theft the idea that each 55 00:04:03,955 --> 00:04:07,915 Speaker 1: document was seen as a separate opportunity by Trump to 56 00:04:08,155 --> 00:04:12,635 Speaker 1: use as a cudgel or as a shield given very 57 00:04:12,675 --> 00:04:19,955 Speaker 1: specific circumstances. There really have been only two other positive explanations. 58 00:04:20,275 --> 00:04:23,835 Speaker 1: They have been pushed by Trump apologists mostly, and they 59 00:04:23,875 --> 00:04:28,835 Speaker 1: are twin excuses. He's a pack rat. He keeps everything. 60 00:04:29,275 --> 00:04:33,275 Speaker 1: There was nothing nefarious in him shipping box after box 61 00:04:33,715 --> 00:04:38,555 Speaker 1: after box after box after box of highly classified secret 62 00:04:38,555 --> 00:04:41,515 Speaker 1: documents from the White House to marri Lago. Some of 63 00:04:41,555 --> 00:04:44,635 Speaker 1: the documents so secret that nobody who now knows that 64 00:04:44,675 --> 00:04:48,155 Speaker 1: they exist is legally allowed to know that they exist. 65 00:04:48,555 --> 00:04:51,435 Speaker 1: He just kept everything that was handed to him in 66 00:04:51,555 --> 00:04:58,475 Speaker 1: order to keep them for himself, like baseball cards. The 67 00:04:58,515 --> 00:05:01,275 Speaker 1: other version of this is the one favored by those 68 00:05:01,395 --> 00:05:04,395 Speaker 1: who worked with Trump the last two years, based on 69 00:05:04,435 --> 00:05:09,955 Speaker 1: mark on the boxes themselves, the beautiful mind psychosis theory, 70 00:05:10,355 --> 00:05:14,275 Speaker 1: noting that Trump often traveled with these boxes filled with paper, 71 00:05:14,755 --> 00:05:18,595 Speaker 1: some of it classified paper, some of it not classified paper. 72 00:05:18,835 --> 00:05:22,355 Speaker 1: This explanation goes that Trump did not take anything to 73 00:05:22,475 --> 00:05:25,435 Speaker 1: sell it. He didn't take anything to keep it. He 74 00:05:25,475 --> 00:05:29,275 Speaker 1: didn't take anything to blackmail with them, nor defend with them. 75 00:05:29,355 --> 00:05:33,315 Speaker 1: He didn't take them to prove specific things to specific people. Later. 76 00:05:33,875 --> 00:05:39,395 Speaker 1: He took all of it to prove he's alive, to 77 00:05:39,635 --> 00:05:47,475 Speaker 1: prove he exists. That everybody gains the fundamental existential validation. 78 00:05:47,835 --> 00:05:50,915 Speaker 1: I am here, I have been here, I have made 79 00:05:50,915 --> 00:05:56,755 Speaker 1: my impression on the world through something, through children, through accomplishments, 80 00:05:56,875 --> 00:06:01,075 Speaker 1: through money, that is a kind of given in life. 81 00:06:01,635 --> 00:06:04,435 Speaker 1: And this theory goes that Trump and others whose brains 82 00:06:04,435 --> 00:06:08,515 Speaker 1: don't don't work properly must keep and keep nearby within 83 00:06:08,635 --> 00:06:13,075 Speaker 1: reach tangible records of what they have brushed up against 84 00:06:13,115 --> 00:06:16,595 Speaker 1: in their lives. And if those things are not nearby, 85 00:06:16,755 --> 00:06:20,715 Speaker 1: they cannot be certain that they really have been alive. 86 00:06:22,755 --> 00:06:25,835 Speaker 1: And then, of course, there is the final option. All 87 00:06:25,875 --> 00:06:30,795 Speaker 1: of the above, Blake does remind us of something relevant, 88 00:06:31,075 --> 00:06:34,275 Speaker 1: though not decisive. Quote. Smith's team has clearly shown an 89 00:06:34,275 --> 00:06:38,755 Speaker 1: interest in whether Trump used the documents for his personal advantage. 90 00:06:38,955 --> 00:06:42,075 Speaker 1: In April, its subpoened information about the dealings of Trump's 91 00:06:42,155 --> 00:06:46,595 Speaker 1: businesses with foreign countries, for instance, apparently in search of 92 00:06:46,635 --> 00:06:50,635 Speaker 1: a possible financial motive. But just as quickly as this 93 00:06:50,715 --> 00:06:53,995 Speaker 1: seeming clue to Smith's riddle is offered to us, Blake 94 00:06:54,155 --> 00:06:58,915 Speaker 1: snatches it back. But such a motive wasn't referenced in 95 00:06:59,035 --> 00:07:06,275 Speaker 1: Trump's indictment unquote, So what is it? Oddly enough, the 96 00:07:06,355 --> 00:07:10,355 Speaker 1: day's latest headlines from the Nightmare in Israel actually support 97 00:07:11,115 --> 00:07:21,435 Speaker 1: and entirely different, albeit not an entirely new explanation descending 98 00:07:21,555 --> 00:07:26,395 Speaker 1: into immorality exceeded only by the Hamas terrorists themselves. Senator Hawley, 99 00:07:26,475 --> 00:07:29,955 Speaker 1: Republican of Missouri, has now demanded that American aid to 100 00:07:30,155 --> 00:07:35,715 Speaker 1: Ukraine be cut off and the money sent instead to Israel, 101 00:07:35,875 --> 00:07:38,995 Speaker 1: as if there were a reason for such a false 102 00:07:39,075 --> 00:07:43,235 Speaker 1: either or choice. He is apparently unaware that people can 103 00:07:43,355 --> 00:07:47,355 Speaker 1: see that Hawley's own performance and that of the rest 104 00:07:47,475 --> 00:07:50,835 Speaker 1: of the Republican anti Ukraine caucus is not in support 105 00:07:50,955 --> 00:07:55,995 Speaker 1: of Israel, but actually is in support of Hamas and 106 00:07:56,075 --> 00:08:01,195 Speaker 1: Iran and Russia. Twice in the last year, the Kremlin 107 00:08:01,355 --> 00:08:06,075 Speaker 1: invited Hamas to send delegations to Mah and the terrorist 108 00:08:06,075 --> 00:08:09,755 Speaker 1: group's leadership met with Putin's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in 109 00:08:09,795 --> 00:08:13,875 Speaker 1: September twenty twenty two and this past March. There is 110 00:08:13,995 --> 00:08:19,155 Speaker 1: considerable analysis being done, particularly in Europe, that the Russians encouraged, 111 00:08:19,355 --> 00:08:23,315 Speaker 1: even bribed Hamas to undertake this full scale attack that 112 00:08:23,395 --> 00:08:26,515 Speaker 1: began from the Gaza Strip on Saturday and continues even 113 00:08:26,595 --> 00:08:30,995 Speaker 1: at this hour. The Russians, this analysis reasons, wanted this 114 00:08:31,075 --> 00:08:34,875 Speaker 1: not merely because they have been Israel's implacable existential enemy 115 00:08:34,995 --> 00:08:38,875 Speaker 1: since nineteen forty eight, and because they are Iran's leading ally, 116 00:08:39,635 --> 00:08:42,875 Speaker 1: but also because a Middle East conflict of almost any 117 00:08:42,995 --> 00:08:47,235 Speaker 1: size would amount to a second front in which Western 118 00:08:47,275 --> 00:08:51,555 Speaker 1: resources being dedicated now to fighting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 119 00:08:51,875 --> 00:08:57,035 Speaker 1: might be redirected to protect Israel. In other words, Josh 120 00:08:57,115 --> 00:09:01,915 Speaker 1: Hawley is doing exactly what the Russians want, degrading Western 121 00:09:01,955 --> 00:09:04,955 Speaker 1: support for Ukraine on the false excuse that the money 122 00:09:05,035 --> 00:09:08,955 Speaker 1: must go instead to defend Israel. That would only give 123 00:09:09,035 --> 00:09:13,275 Speaker 1: Russia a freer hand in Ukraine and more money and 124 00:09:13,355 --> 00:09:19,155 Speaker 1: materiel to send to Hamas to defeat Israel as Iran wants. 125 00:09:19,795 --> 00:09:26,115 Speaker 1: In this equation, Hawley is a Russian dupe helping Hamas, 126 00:09:26,915 --> 00:09:32,435 Speaker 1: helping Iran, encouraging conflagration in the Middle East, encouraging more 127 00:09:32,475 --> 00:09:38,795 Speaker 1: attacks on Israel. And even the Republicans who are not 128 00:09:38,835 --> 00:09:41,395 Speaker 1: as easily led by the nose as this Hawley, the 129 00:09:41,395 --> 00:09:46,195 Speaker 1: ones not explicitly saying redirect American aid from Ukraine to Israel, 130 00:09:46,315 --> 00:09:49,515 Speaker 1: the ones who are only concerned that money not be 131 00:09:49,595 --> 00:09:53,675 Speaker 1: spent on Ukraine under any circumstances, they are also doing 132 00:09:53,675 --> 00:09:57,955 Speaker 1: Hamas's job for them. Less trouble for Russia in Ukraine 133 00:09:58,115 --> 00:10:02,915 Speaker 1: means more Russian resources for Hamas and more trouble and 134 00:10:03,075 --> 00:10:08,075 Speaker 1: more death for Israel. Jim Jordan, by this measure, is 135 00:10:08,155 --> 00:10:13,395 Speaker 1: helping Hamas. Marjorie Taylor Green is helping Hamas. Congressman Matt 136 00:10:13,435 --> 00:10:18,395 Speaker 1: Gates is helping Hamas. Congressman James Comer, Congressman Byron Donalds, 137 00:10:18,435 --> 00:10:22,995 Speaker 1: the woman who calls herself Anna Paulina Luna Good of Virginia. 138 00:10:23,275 --> 00:10:28,435 Speaker 1: Gozar Biggs Bobart Kevin McCarthy pulled funding out of the 139 00:10:28,515 --> 00:10:33,795 Speaker 1: last continuing resolution he passed as Speaker that helps Hamas. 140 00:10:35,915 --> 00:10:39,715 Speaker 1: There were ninety three Republicans in the House who voted 141 00:10:39,755 --> 00:10:43,115 Speaker 1: two weeks ago tomorrow to cut Ukraine funding out of 142 00:10:43,115 --> 00:10:47,595 Speaker 1: the defense budget. At that point, before the gathering Hamas 143 00:10:47,595 --> 00:10:50,915 Speaker 1: storm was known to be on the way outside the 144 00:10:50,955 --> 00:10:54,755 Speaker 1: Middle East and perhaps Moscow, those ninety three could have 145 00:10:54,835 --> 00:10:59,315 Speaker 1: pleaded ignorance, and who could argue with Bobert saying she 146 00:10:59,475 --> 00:11:04,555 Speaker 1: was ignorant. They could get away with admitting their own stupidity. 147 00:11:06,275 --> 00:11:12,235 Speaker 1: Now they cannot. To oppose. American support of Ukraine is 148 00:11:12,275 --> 00:11:17,955 Speaker 1: to encourage and embolden Russia, and to embolden Russia is 149 00:11:17,995 --> 00:11:23,035 Speaker 1: to free Russia. To help Hamas more. It is a 150 00:11:23,075 --> 00:11:26,835 Speaker 1: straight line, and the Russian Republicans in the House are 151 00:11:26,835 --> 00:11:30,475 Speaker 1: not alone in walking that line. Ron DeSantis opposes aid 152 00:11:30,515 --> 00:11:33,955 Speaker 1: to Ukraine, and thus he is helping Hamas and hurting 153 00:11:34,115 --> 00:11:38,315 Speaker 1: Israel in this way. Vivek Ramaswami opposes aid to Ukraine, 154 00:11:38,395 --> 00:11:41,115 Speaker 1: and he is thus helping Hamas and hurting Israel in 155 00:11:41,115 --> 00:11:44,515 Speaker 1: this way. And most relevantly with his constant bleedings about 156 00:11:44,555 --> 00:11:49,395 Speaker 1: President Biden putting Ukraine first in America, last, Donald Trump 157 00:11:49,555 --> 00:11:53,755 Speaker 1: is helping Hamas and Iran and hurting Israel. And it 158 00:11:53,955 --> 00:11:57,235 Speaker 1: circles back to that question. Jack Smith has promised to 159 00:11:57,315 --> 00:12:04,275 Speaker 1: answer at trial why Trump stole our secrets because that 160 00:12:04,435 --> 00:12:07,355 Speaker 1: time as all of it together, Russian support of Hamas 161 00:12:07,475 --> 00:12:10,955 Speaker 1: at its cloudy role in the attack on Israel, Republicans 162 00:12:10,995 --> 00:12:13,275 Speaker 1: support for Hamas by pulling the rug out from under 163 00:12:13,355 --> 00:12:18,635 Speaker 1: Ukraine's defense against Russia, and Trump's criminal use of American 164 00:12:18,675 --> 00:12:22,355 Speaker 1: classified intelligence as if it were gossip tips that he 165 00:12:22,515 --> 00:12:25,835 Speaker 1: was giving to the New York Posts page six in 166 00:12:25,915 --> 00:12:28,275 Speaker 1: a phone call in which he called himself John barn 167 00:12:29,675 --> 00:12:33,795 Speaker 1: It must not be forgotten, especially not at this exact 168 00:12:34,395 --> 00:12:38,675 Speaker 1: hour that on May tenth, twenty seventeen, in the Oval 169 00:12:38,715 --> 00:12:49,715 Speaker 1: Office Trump disclosed classified intelligence, classified intelligence obtained by the Israelis, 170 00:12:49,755 --> 00:12:55,635 Speaker 1: and shared with this nation classified information about an ISIS 171 00:12:55,675 --> 00:13:00,395 Speaker 1: plot that the Israelis unraveled in a town in Syria. 172 00:13:01,395 --> 00:13:10,955 Speaker 1: Trump gave that intion directly to Putin's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. 173 00:13:13,915 --> 00:13:18,875 Speaker 1: Where have we heard that name before? He is the 174 00:13:18,875 --> 00:13:21,675 Speaker 1: same man who has twice met with the Hamas delegations 175 00:13:21,675 --> 00:13:26,155 Speaker 1: in Moscow in the last year. At the time Trump 176 00:13:26,195 --> 00:13:29,555 Speaker 1: gave away Israeli intelligence, the biggest fear was that the 177 00:13:29,595 --> 00:13:33,275 Speaker 1: details of how Israel interrupted an ISIS scheme, how it 178 00:13:33,395 --> 00:13:36,475 Speaker 1: penetrated a terror network, would wind up in the hands 179 00:13:36,515 --> 00:13:40,035 Speaker 1: of the Iranians. Now we know that we had just 180 00:13:40,115 --> 00:13:42,355 Speaker 1: as much to fear from the realization that Trump gave 181 00:13:42,515 --> 00:13:46,515 Speaker 1: Israel's secrets to Lavrov and Russia, and Lavrov and Russia 182 00:13:46,555 --> 00:13:50,635 Speaker 1: could have in turn given them to Hamas. Trump in 183 00:13:50,675 --> 00:13:55,435 Speaker 1: effect is working against Israel on behalf of Hamas, on 184 00:13:55,635 --> 00:14:00,315 Speaker 1: behalf of Iran, and as ever on behalf of Russia. 185 00:14:03,675 --> 00:14:06,795 Speaker 1: As an aside, it is not lost on me, as 186 00:14:06,875 --> 00:14:10,955 Speaker 1: it might not be lost on you. I spent the 187 00:14:10,955 --> 00:14:14,035 Speaker 1: first half of my life looking on in astonishment at 188 00:14:14,035 --> 00:14:17,955 Speaker 1: the universal demonization in this country of Russia by Republicans 189 00:14:17,995 --> 00:14:21,995 Speaker 1: and the far right. It made little sense. Russia's collapse 190 00:14:22,235 --> 00:14:27,515 Speaker 1: caused in fact by Union organizers in Poland, but claimed 191 00:14:27,595 --> 00:14:30,715 Speaker 1: by Republicans as Ronald Reagan's magic, as if Reagan had 192 00:14:30,715 --> 00:14:33,075 Speaker 1: anything to do with it other than the fact that 193 00:14:33,075 --> 00:14:36,235 Speaker 1: he was only joking that he had signed legislation to 194 00:14:36,275 --> 00:14:39,955 Speaker 1: outlaw Russia and would begin bombing in five minutes. Russia's collapse, 195 00:14:40,555 --> 00:14:44,755 Speaker 1: because of its own weight, seemed to reorder American reaction 196 00:14:44,915 --> 00:14:48,115 Speaker 1: to the former Soviet Union. And here we are, thirty 197 00:14:48,195 --> 00:14:52,275 Speaker 1: years after that happened, and Republicans ranging from this despicable, 198 00:14:52,315 --> 00:14:57,035 Speaker 1: manipulative bastard Josh Hawley, through these literally cretinous humanoids like 199 00:14:57,075 --> 00:15:01,115 Speaker 1: Bobard and Gates and Green right onto the pro dictatorship 200 00:15:01,355 --> 00:15:05,795 Speaker 1: always authoritarian Trump. They are serving russia needs as well 201 00:15:05,875 --> 00:15:10,515 Speaker 1: as any paid agents could. And I am sitting here 202 00:15:10,555 --> 00:15:15,755 Speaker 1: saying Russia is the devil. As I said yesterday, this 203 00:15:15,875 --> 00:15:19,115 Speaker 1: is not sophisticated analysis, and it does not have to 204 00:15:19,155 --> 00:15:23,915 Speaker 1: be sophisticated. The Russians wanted to weaken America by widening 205 00:15:23,955 --> 00:15:28,515 Speaker 1: its divisions and fishers, and so it buttressed Trump's candidacy. 206 00:15:29,355 --> 00:15:33,195 Speaker 1: The Russians wanted to reassemble the Soviet Union, reclaim Ukraine 207 00:15:33,235 --> 00:15:36,915 Speaker 1: now and probably Poland later, and so it attacked Ukraine 208 00:15:37,155 --> 00:15:40,755 Speaker 1: and counted on Trump to stand aside, and it went 209 00:15:40,835 --> 00:15:44,035 Speaker 1: back in thinking Trump had poisoned the American well sufficiently 210 00:15:44,315 --> 00:15:47,635 Speaker 1: to still weaken support for Ukraine under Biden. But they 211 00:15:47,675 --> 00:15:52,435 Speaker 1: were mistaken about that. That failed, and it failed, and 212 00:15:52,475 --> 00:15:57,355 Speaker 1: it needed somebody to cut off American aid to Ukraine, 213 00:15:57,795 --> 00:16:00,875 Speaker 1: and in part to make that more likely, it befriended Hamas, 214 00:16:01,435 --> 00:16:04,555 Speaker 1: and Hamas attacked Israel, and Josh Howley could get up 215 00:16:04,555 --> 00:16:07,315 Speaker 1: a pretend he was supporting Israel by demanding that the 216 00:16:07,355 --> 00:16:13,475 Speaker 1: aid meant for Ukraine be directed to Israel. It is 217 00:16:13,475 --> 00:16:18,795 Speaker 1: not either or we spend too much money on the military. 218 00:16:19,355 --> 00:16:22,035 Speaker 1: What we have sent to Ukraine, what we are scheduled 219 00:16:22,035 --> 00:16:25,035 Speaker 1: still to send to Ukraine, what we will send in 220 00:16:25,075 --> 00:16:28,715 Speaker 1: the future to Ukraine amounts to less than five percent 221 00:16:28,915 --> 00:16:33,635 Speaker 1: of our military budget. It is less than zero point 222 00:16:33,875 --> 00:16:38,035 Speaker 1: three three percent of our gross domestic product. That's half 223 00:16:38,115 --> 00:16:40,715 Speaker 1: of what Poland is spending. That is a quarter of 224 00:16:40,715 --> 00:16:44,715 Speaker 1: what Latvia is spending. And the only positive to our 225 00:16:44,795 --> 00:16:50,915 Speaker 1: military industrial psychological complex is that we have unbelievable quantities 226 00:16:50,955 --> 00:16:54,795 Speaker 1: of weapons and other materiel at the ready. We could 227 00:16:54,835 --> 00:16:59,315 Speaker 1: fully stock Ukraine and Israel and half a dozen other nations, 228 00:16:59,715 --> 00:17:02,075 Speaker 1: and that would not even free up half a dozen 229 00:17:02,235 --> 00:17:08,235 Speaker 1: parking spots at the Pentagon. The Russians are as evil 230 00:17:08,275 --> 00:17:11,795 Speaker 1: now as the Republicans believed they were in the nineteen fifties, 231 00:17:12,955 --> 00:17:16,795 Speaker 1: and the Republicans are as much a pro Russian fifth 232 00:17:16,835 --> 00:17:20,675 Speaker 1: column in this country as the Republicans believed the Liberals 233 00:17:20,715 --> 00:17:25,675 Speaker 1: were in the same era. And in a sane country, 234 00:17:25,995 --> 00:17:29,755 Speaker 1: we would right now collectively be so effectively chasing the 235 00:17:29,795 --> 00:17:33,315 Speaker 1: Trumps and the gates Is and the Ramaswamis, and especially 236 00:17:33,475 --> 00:17:38,235 Speaker 1: this scumbag Hawlly, that the way Hawley ran to escape 237 00:17:38,275 --> 00:17:42,435 Speaker 1: his own mob on January sixth would seem like nothing 238 00:17:42,475 --> 00:17:51,795 Speaker 1: more than a warm up exercise. As a follow up 239 00:17:51,795 --> 00:17:54,995 Speaker 1: to Yesterday's analysis that the failure of intelligence in Israel 240 00:17:55,115 --> 00:17:58,715 Speaker 1: was not of military intelligence nor counter intelligence, but that 241 00:17:58,835 --> 00:18:02,995 Speaker 1: of Benjamin Netanyahu's personal intelligence, there is not only yet 242 00:18:03,035 --> 00:18:06,795 Speaker 1: another confirmation that the egips warned the netan Yahoo government 243 00:18:06,955 --> 00:18:09,435 Speaker 1: that something bad and large was headed its way, but 244 00:18:09,515 --> 00:18:13,275 Speaker 1: that quote senior Egyptian officials had warned Israel of an 245 00:18:13,275 --> 00:18:19,835 Speaker 1: impending assault from Gaza unquote. The news source is the 246 00:18:19,835 --> 00:18:24,275 Speaker 1: Middle East centric news site Al Monitor, citing its own sources, 247 00:18:24,515 --> 00:18:27,955 Speaker 1: confirming the previous four or five legitimate reports about the 248 00:18:27,995 --> 00:18:31,155 Speaker 1: Egyptian warning, but with an added twist. Quoting it again, 249 00:18:31,595 --> 00:18:35,915 Speaker 1: they said, Egyptian intelligence officials had indeed shared warnings with 250 00:18:36,075 --> 00:18:41,035 Speaker 1: their Israeli counterparts, but the information was not specific or focused, 251 00:18:41,075 --> 00:18:46,435 Speaker 1: and and here is the critical tell, and was not 252 00:18:46,675 --> 00:18:54,715 Speaker 1: brought to netan Yahoo's attention unquote. Thus, can one work 253 00:18:54,795 --> 00:18:59,715 Speaker 1: backwards and guess pretty quickly and probably pretty accurately that 254 00:18:59,795 --> 00:19:03,235 Speaker 1: the only people in the Israeli government or the Israeli 255 00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:11,275 Speaker 1: military who would tell any journalist anywhere that who would say, well, yes, 256 00:19:11,435 --> 00:19:15,155 Speaker 1: there was a warning of a massive attack coming from Gaza, 257 00:19:15,235 --> 00:19:18,395 Speaker 1: but no, of course we didn't tell the Prime minister, 258 00:19:19,515 --> 00:19:23,635 Speaker 1: the prime minister who yearns for any excuse to attack 259 00:19:23,755 --> 00:19:27,995 Speaker 1: any threat from any Arab neighbor. The only people who 260 00:19:28,035 --> 00:19:32,475 Speaker 1: would say that would be those who so keenly felt 261 00:19:32,515 --> 00:19:35,915 Speaker 1: the need to protect Netanyahu that they were willing to 262 00:19:36,115 --> 00:19:41,475 Speaker 1: throw their own intelligence services under the bus to do so. 263 00:19:46,835 --> 00:19:50,875 Speaker 1: One last note from another bus and others being thrown 264 00:19:50,995 --> 00:19:54,475 Speaker 1: under it from far less Afield and last night's Republican 265 00:19:55,035 --> 00:20:02,835 Speaker 1: circular firing squad. Non surprise, Jordan and Scalise, neither of 266 00:20:02,835 --> 00:20:05,835 Speaker 1: them got enough support to become speaker. And know when 267 00:20:05,835 --> 00:20:08,275 Speaker 1: they asked Jordan if he would commit to backing Scalise 268 00:20:08,315 --> 00:20:11,995 Speaker 1: if Scalise won the nomination, he wouldn't say it. And 269 00:20:12,115 --> 00:20:14,995 Speaker 1: when Congressman Ken Buck got up at the Republican coven 270 00:20:15,235 --> 00:20:17,835 Speaker 1: last night and asked both of them if Trump won 271 00:20:18,035 --> 00:20:21,235 Speaker 1: or lost in twenty twenty, neither gave a straight answer. 272 00:20:22,915 --> 00:20:25,995 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy asked his pals not to nominate him to 273 00:20:26,035 --> 00:20:29,235 Speaker 1: be the next speaker, and that changes nothing about my 274 00:20:29,315 --> 00:20:32,195 Speaker 1: prediction that he will at least be in the final 275 00:20:32,275 --> 00:20:36,475 Speaker 1: vote for speaker. Oh and George Santos attended, and then 276 00:20:36,515 --> 00:20:38,955 Speaker 1: on the way out he pretended he knew nothing about 277 00:20:38,955 --> 00:20:42,515 Speaker 1: these twenty three counts you say in the new conspiracy 278 00:20:42,515 --> 00:20:46,115 Speaker 1: and fraud indictment against him, which includes allegations of stealing 279 00:20:46,195 --> 00:20:50,475 Speaker 1: the identities and the credit cards of his own donors. 280 00:20:53,075 --> 00:20:54,835 Speaker 1: You know, if he's found guilty of that, that would 281 00:20:54,835 --> 00:20:57,115 Speaker 1: make him the two hundred and twenty seventh most corrupt 282 00:20:57,155 --> 00:21:05,275 Speaker 1: Republican in the country. And lastly, Congresswoman Nancy Mace war 283 00:21:05,395 --> 00:21:09,115 Speaker 1: to this conference a T shirt with a red letter 284 00:21:09,275 --> 00:21:15,355 Speaker 1: A over her breasts. She insisted she was wearing the 285 00:21:15,475 --> 00:21:19,075 Speaker 1: scarlet letter. She called it the scarlet letter because she'd 286 00:21:19,115 --> 00:21:23,755 Speaker 1: been demonized for the last week over her vote and 287 00:21:23,795 --> 00:21:26,955 Speaker 1: her gender, and goddamn it, it's the first time I 288 00:21:26,995 --> 00:21:31,635 Speaker 1: can think of that she's ever told the truth. Also, 289 00:21:31,675 --> 00:21:36,355 Speaker 1: once again, golf clap for choosing to actually get out 290 00:21:36,395 --> 00:21:48,155 Speaker 1: of bed, Congresswoman. Also of interest here, Senator Steve Garvey, 291 00:21:49,315 --> 00:21:52,155 Speaker 1: literally four decades after he first seemed to be the 292 00:21:52,235 --> 00:21:55,595 Speaker 1: rising young star of the Republican Party, the ex Los 293 00:21:55,635 --> 00:21:59,995 Speaker 1: Angeles Dodger Most Valuable Player will run for the Senate. 294 00:22:01,635 --> 00:22:07,795 Speaker 1: Why the wait? Something that only time could accomplish. Most 295 00:22:07,835 --> 00:22:12,195 Speaker 1: of the people who remember the Steve Garvey scandals of 296 00:22:12,275 --> 00:22:17,675 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight and nineteen eighty nine are dead or 297 00:22:17,755 --> 00:22:23,155 Speaker 1: have forgotten the Steve Garvey scandals. So guess whose job 298 00:22:23,475 --> 00:22:29,675 Speaker 1: it is to whom it falls to remind you of 299 00:22:29,715 --> 00:22:33,795 Speaker 1: the Steve Garvey scandals of nineteen eighty eight and nineteen 300 00:22:33,875 --> 00:22:39,955 Speaker 1: eighty nine. Your hints are the Father of our country 301 00:22:40,875 --> 00:22:45,275 Speaker 1: and the giant sign at a ballpark which read Steve 302 00:22:46,995 --> 00:22:54,595 Speaker 1: Marvin Hamlish. That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown 303 00:22:54,915 --> 00:23:11,755 Speaker 1: with Keith old Woman. This is sports Senate. Wait, check 304 00:23:11,795 --> 00:23:20,475 Speaker 1: that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith Aulberman in sports. 305 00:23:20,595 --> 00:23:25,235 Speaker 1: Steve Garvey, who fifty seasons ago suddenly blossomed from underachieving 306 00:23:25,355 --> 00:23:28,395 Speaker 1: utility man of the Los Angeles Dodgers to the most 307 00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:31,515 Speaker 1: valuable player in the National League, has announced he is 308 00:23:31,595 --> 00:23:35,315 Speaker 1: running for the Republican nomination for senator from California. He 309 00:23:35,475 --> 00:23:38,755 Speaker 1: is seventy four years old, and though the prospect of 310 00:23:38,795 --> 00:23:42,195 Speaker 1: a political career was raised long before injuries forced him 311 00:23:42,235 --> 00:23:45,355 Speaker 1: to retire as an active player in nineteen eighty seven, 312 00:23:45,795 --> 00:23:50,915 Speaker 1: this will be his maiden political attempt. California Democrats outnumber 313 00:23:50,995 --> 00:23:53,995 Speaker 1: California Republicans two to one. On the other hand, in 314 00:23:54,035 --> 00:23:59,035 Speaker 1: the poll last month, Garvey led all possible Republican senatorial candidates. 315 00:23:59,435 --> 00:24:02,235 Speaker 1: On the other other hand, he led all of them 316 00:24:02,275 --> 00:24:06,795 Speaker 1: with the support of seven of all of California's voters. 317 00:24:07,715 --> 00:24:11,155 Speaker 1: Why has he waited so long to run for office? Well, 318 00:24:11,195 --> 00:24:13,795 Speaker 1: one of the reasons might be he was waiting for 319 00:24:13,915 --> 00:24:18,635 Speaker 1: everybody to forget. In nineteen eighty three, Steve Garvey and 320 00:24:18,715 --> 00:24:23,475 Speaker 1: his wife Cindy, a Good Morning La type host, divorced. 321 00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:26,915 Speaker 1: He had a girlfriend, his former secretary. At the same time, 322 00:24:26,955 --> 00:24:30,235 Speaker 1: he had another girlfriend, an assignment editor for CNN in Atlanta, 323 00:24:30,555 --> 00:24:32,835 Speaker 1: and just as he was about to propose to her 324 00:24:32,995 --> 00:24:35,435 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight, he found out that a medical 325 00:24:35,475 --> 00:24:38,795 Speaker 1: sales rep from San Diego was pregnant with his child. 326 00:24:39,555 --> 00:24:42,595 Speaker 1: Then the assignment editor got pregnant. Then there was his 327 00:24:42,675 --> 00:24:47,515 Speaker 1: other girlfriend, Candace, and she got pregnant three times. As 328 00:24:47,515 --> 00:24:50,875 Speaker 1: a result, Steve Garvey earned a new nickname that tied 329 00:24:50,915 --> 00:24:57,035 Speaker 1: into his political aspirations, The Father of Our Country. Bob 330 00:24:57,315 --> 00:25:21,395 Speaker 1: Hope did Steve Garvey fatherhood jokes, Thank you, Nancy Faust. 331 00:25:22,075 --> 00:25:25,075 Speaker 1: As early as nineteen eighty one, Garvey had told Playboy 332 00:25:25,155 --> 00:25:30,275 Speaker 1: magazine he thought about becoming president Father of Our Country. Indeed, 333 00:25:30,835 --> 00:25:33,235 Speaker 1: that was just about the time, however, late in the 334 00:25:33,235 --> 00:25:36,235 Speaker 1: baseball season, that his wife left him to begin a 335 00:25:36,275 --> 00:25:41,235 Speaker 1: relationship with the rather nerdy film composer Marvin Hamlish. When 336 00:25:41,275 --> 00:25:43,675 Speaker 1: his Dodgers got to Yankee Stadium for Game one of 337 00:25:43,675 --> 00:25:47,155 Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty one World Series, a giant banner hung 338 00:25:47,795 --> 00:25:51,835 Speaker 1: briefly from the upper deck in right field. It read 339 00:25:52,075 --> 00:25:59,755 Speaker 1: in Giant block letters, Steve, Marvin Hamlish. Steve Garvey's been 340 00:25:59,795 --> 00:26:02,755 Speaker 1: hoping everybody's forgotten about all that he might be right. 341 00:26:02,835 --> 00:26:06,795 Speaker 1: The story in the La Times announcing his candidacy doesn't 342 00:26:06,795 --> 00:26:10,235 Speaker 1: mention any of it, not the girlfriends, not the kids, 343 00:26:10,315 --> 00:26:14,675 Speaker 1: not the Marvin Hamlish banner. On the other hand, all 344 00:26:14,715 --> 00:26:17,035 Speaker 1: of his children are now a voting age. So that's 345 00:26:17,235 --> 00:26:55,555 Speaker 1: what couple hundred votes right there. Thank you again, Nancy Faust, 346 00:26:56,395 --> 00:26:59,315 Speaker 1: speaking of Garvey, I am the last person ever to 347 00:26:59,395 --> 00:27:01,955 Speaker 1: root for the Los Angeles Dodgers. But if you have 348 00:27:02,035 --> 00:27:05,035 Speaker 1: finished with the best record in baseball twenty two games 349 00:27:05,075 --> 00:27:08,195 Speaker 1: ahead of the second place San Diego Padres in twenty 350 00:27:08,195 --> 00:27:11,235 Speaker 1: twenty two, and then you have finished with the second 351 00:27:11,275 --> 00:27:14,435 Speaker 1: best record in baseball sixteen games ahead of the second 352 00:27:14,435 --> 00:27:17,635 Speaker 1: place Arizona Diamondbacks in twenty twenty three to win the 353 00:27:17,675 --> 00:27:20,715 Speaker 1: National League Western Division and four days off and the 354 00:27:20,755 --> 00:27:23,875 Speaker 1: buy and home field advantage two years in a row. 355 00:27:24,515 --> 00:27:26,595 Speaker 1: And you play the twenty twenty two Padres and you 356 00:27:26,675 --> 00:27:28,435 Speaker 1: lose to them in four games, And you play the 357 00:27:28,435 --> 00:27:31,115 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three Diamondbacks and you'll lose the first two 358 00:27:31,195 --> 00:27:33,475 Speaker 1: games to them by a combined score of fifteen to 359 00:27:33,555 --> 00:27:36,115 Speaker 1: four at your home stadium, and you are on the 360 00:27:36,195 --> 00:27:39,835 Speaker 1: verge of being eliminated in the first round again. And 361 00:27:39,955 --> 00:27:42,875 Speaker 1: the same thing could happen to the Eastern champion Atlanta 362 00:27:42,915 --> 00:27:45,915 Speaker 1: Braves also for the second straight year. One of the 363 00:27:45,995 --> 00:27:51,515 Speaker 1: following two things is necessarily true. A there is something 364 00:27:51,995 --> 00:27:56,955 Speaker 1: desperately wrong with the baseball playoff structure, or B there 365 00:27:57,075 --> 00:28:01,275 Speaker 1: is something desperately wrong with the baseball regular season structure. 366 00:28:02,515 --> 00:28:06,795 Speaker 1: Maybe both. What is the point of even trying to 367 00:28:06,875 --> 00:28:10,755 Speaker 1: win your division, or for that matter, trying harder than 368 00:28:10,835 --> 00:28:14,515 Speaker 1: is absolutely necessary just to reach the playoffs. How well 369 00:28:14,595 --> 00:28:18,515 Speaker 1: you do in the regular season is irrelevant in the playoffs. 370 00:28:19,195 --> 00:28:23,515 Speaker 1: I have frequently bemoaned baseball's murder of its own, authentic, 371 00:28:23,755 --> 00:28:27,435 Speaker 1: organic rivalry, the American League versus the National League in 372 00:28:27,475 --> 00:28:32,395 Speaker 1: the World Series, which made baseball hands down the most 373 00:28:32,635 --> 00:28:37,915 Speaker 1: popular postseason sport well into the nineteen eighties. When adjusted 374 00:28:37,915 --> 00:28:40,835 Speaker 1: for population growth, the television audience for the World Series 375 00:28:40,835 --> 00:28:43,195 Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties was roughly four times what it 376 00:28:43,275 --> 00:28:47,195 Speaker 1: is now, and any two broadcasts of World Series games 377 00:28:47,355 --> 00:28:50,715 Speaker 1: had a larger audience than the Super Bowl, as opposed 378 00:28:50,715 --> 00:28:54,275 Speaker 1: to today, when the Super Bowl will outrate a full 379 00:28:54,555 --> 00:28:59,035 Speaker 1: highly watched seven game World Series in its entirety. I 380 00:28:59,035 --> 00:29:01,515 Speaker 1: think one of the factors is what we're seeing in 381 00:29:01,595 --> 00:29:05,235 Speaker 1: these postseasons. The premise of the regular season. You give 382 00:29:05,275 --> 00:29:07,995 Speaker 1: every team in the American League essentially an identical task. 383 00:29:08,235 --> 00:29:10,995 Speaker 1: You can be pretty confident you've sent the best team, 384 00:29:11,075 --> 00:29:13,595 Speaker 1: or at least the second best team in the league 385 00:29:13,675 --> 00:29:16,195 Speaker 1: to the World Series. Same for the National League that 386 00:29:16,235 --> 00:29:21,155 Speaker 1: has been erased by interleague play. Teams do not play 387 00:29:21,195 --> 00:29:24,275 Speaker 1: the same schedules anymore. They don't play each other team 388 00:29:24,355 --> 00:29:27,555 Speaker 1: as many times as their competition does. Yet the season 389 00:29:28,195 --> 00:29:31,555 Speaker 1: is still the same extraordinary length one hundred and sixty 390 00:29:31,635 --> 00:29:34,475 Speaker 1: two games as it used to be when they still 391 00:29:34,515 --> 00:29:36,955 Speaker 1: did play every other team the same number of games 392 00:29:36,955 --> 00:29:41,955 Speaker 1: as every other team. Thus, the baseball season is interminably long. 393 00:29:42,475 --> 00:29:46,475 Speaker 1: Almost none of it matters except which players you trade 394 00:29:46,515 --> 00:29:50,355 Speaker 1: for on August first, and which players get injured during 395 00:29:50,395 --> 00:29:52,915 Speaker 1: the season. And if a mediocre team then in previous 396 00:29:52,955 --> 00:29:54,955 Speaker 1: years would not have been in the playoffs, would have 397 00:29:54,995 --> 00:29:58,395 Speaker 1: been eliminated in September. Can stay alive and get hot 398 00:29:58,435 --> 00:30:02,355 Speaker 1: for three weeks, it can win the World Series. Its madness. 399 00:30:02,915 --> 00:30:06,675 Speaker 1: Fourteen wild card team games have reached the world Series. 400 00:30:06,995 --> 00:30:09,755 Speaker 1: Seven have won the World Series, and with their now 401 00:30:09,795 --> 00:30:12,955 Speaker 1: being as many wildcard teams as there are division winners, 402 00:30:13,115 --> 00:30:16,595 Speaker 1: that number will likely increase. So we will see the 403 00:30:16,635 --> 00:30:22,035 Speaker 1: spectacle of more Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres knocking 404 00:30:22,075 --> 00:30:25,275 Speaker 1: off teams they were fourteen or sixteen or twenty two 405 00:30:25,315 --> 00:30:28,715 Speaker 1: games worse than, and each time it will delegitimize the 406 00:30:28,755 --> 00:30:31,715 Speaker 1: regular season or the playoffs, or both just a little 407 00:30:31,715 --> 00:30:35,875 Speaker 1: bit more. As it is right now, I don't really 408 00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:38,275 Speaker 1: know what the point of watching the regular season is. 409 00:30:39,155 --> 00:30:42,035 Speaker 1: I just know that it doesn't really matter, and they're 410 00:30:42,075 --> 00:30:45,995 Speaker 1: beginning to lose me and I used to host the 411 00:30:46,035 --> 00:30:51,675 Speaker 1: World Series. The basketball and hockey regular seasons basically began 412 00:30:51,875 --> 00:30:56,635 Speaker 1: as simple and comparatively short seeding contests for their playoffs, 413 00:30:56,835 --> 00:30:59,795 Speaker 1: as did football. I guess if baseball wants to go 414 00:30:59,875 --> 00:31:03,115 Speaker 1: that route, have fun, but the fans seem to be 415 00:31:03,195 --> 00:31:06,635 Speaker 1: wising up to it. Baseball saving grace is that the 416 00:31:06,675 --> 00:31:09,275 Speaker 1: other sports usually find ways, of course, to screw up 417 00:31:09,355 --> 00:31:13,155 Speaker 1: other things that make them look small and petty. Last year, 418 00:31:13,235 --> 00:31:16,515 Speaker 1: National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman proved yes he could 419 00:31:16,515 --> 00:31:20,075 Speaker 1: screw it up worse by folding to homophobic players and 420 00:31:20,115 --> 00:31:23,395 Speaker 1: the new American fascists of the Republican Party, and ending 421 00:31:23,475 --> 00:31:26,955 Speaker 1: the traditional and by that point no longer controversial Pride 422 00:31:27,075 --> 00:31:30,995 Speaker 1: Night warm up uniforms. Now, the league has sent a simpering, 423 00:31:31,275 --> 00:31:35,715 Speaker 1: cowering message to its teams, banning the use even of 424 00:31:35,875 --> 00:31:42,035 Speaker 1: Pride colored tape on players sticks on Pride Nights and 425 00:31:42,155 --> 00:31:46,315 Speaker 1: protecting homophobes like players Ivon Provaroff and Eric Stahl and 426 00:31:46,355 --> 00:31:50,075 Speaker 1: Mark Stahl and Ilia Lubushkin and Dennis Geryanov and Andre 427 00:31:50,195 --> 00:31:54,355 Speaker 1: Kuzmenko and unnamed Minnesota Wild and New York Rangers players. 428 00:31:55,195 --> 00:31:58,795 Speaker 1: Instead of banning these guys as the worms, they are 429 00:31:58,915 --> 00:32:02,915 Speaker 1: are asking why are we prioritizing Russians, some of whom 430 00:32:02,915 --> 00:32:06,675 Speaker 1: have openly backed the dictator pou while taking our money? 431 00:32:07,115 --> 00:32:09,755 Speaker 1: Why are we prioritizing them instead of, say, you know, 432 00:32:10,275 --> 00:32:15,195 Speaker 1: the fans. The NHL has now issued this amazing statement 433 00:32:15,675 --> 00:32:19,075 Speaker 1: quote players shall not be put in the position of 434 00:32:19,195 --> 00:32:21,955 Speaker 1: having to demonstrate or where they may be appearing to 435 00:32:21,955 --> 00:32:27,675 Speaker 1: demonstrate personal support for any special initiatives as in aside, 436 00:32:27,715 --> 00:32:30,475 Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about all those pro cancer players. This 437 00:32:30,595 --> 00:32:34,515 Speaker 1: protects a factor that may be considered in this regard includes, 438 00:32:34,515 --> 00:32:37,395 Speaker 1: for example, whether a player or players is required to 439 00:32:37,475 --> 00:32:42,555 Speaker 1: be in close proximity to any groups or individuals visibly 440 00:32:42,755 --> 00:32:48,635 Speaker 1: or otherwise clearly associated with such special initiatives. I mean, 441 00:32:48,635 --> 00:32:51,315 Speaker 1: Commissioner Bettman, you might as well have written that the 442 00:32:51,355 --> 00:32:54,875 Speaker 1: players should not be required to stand too close to 443 00:32:54,915 --> 00:33:00,155 Speaker 1: the Pride Night participants, because maybe hockey's gutless bosses and 444 00:33:00,235 --> 00:33:04,515 Speaker 1: its prejudiced players among the many non prejudiced players might 445 00:33:04,955 --> 00:33:11,795 Speaker 1: think that the gay is infectious. One more hockey note 446 00:33:11,875 --> 00:33:15,315 Speaker 1: about a long time colleague, Barry Melrose, who has spent 447 00:33:15,395 --> 00:33:17,635 Speaker 1: most of the last twenty eight years as the primary 448 00:33:17,635 --> 00:33:21,555 Speaker 1: hockey analyst at ESPN, is stepping away from that network 449 00:33:21,595 --> 00:33:25,435 Speaker 1: after a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. I have never met 450 00:33:25,515 --> 00:33:29,995 Speaker 1: an ex athlete who stepped more seamlessly into broadcasting, largely 451 00:33:30,035 --> 00:33:33,035 Speaker 1: because Melrose never acted like he was only doing it 452 00:33:33,115 --> 00:33:36,075 Speaker 1: till he could get back into coaching. Ironically, he did 453 00:33:36,115 --> 00:33:39,635 Speaker 1: get back into coaching for sixteen games in two thousand 454 00:33:39,675 --> 00:33:43,275 Speaker 1: and eight before he got fired, and his embrasive broadcasting 455 00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:46,635 Speaker 1: was even more total and more joyful and even grateful 456 00:33:47,035 --> 00:33:50,475 Speaker 1: the second time around. There are two notes to mention 457 00:33:50,595 --> 00:33:54,635 Speaker 1: here about Barry Melrose. The most valuable rookie hockey card 458 00:33:54,995 --> 00:33:58,315 Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventy nine eighty Hockey Card Series belongs 459 00:33:58,395 --> 00:34:02,435 Speaker 1: unsurprisingly to Wayne Gretzky. But I once asked Barry Melrose 460 00:34:02,475 --> 00:34:05,515 Speaker 1: on air if he knew who the second most valuable 461 00:34:05,595 --> 00:34:10,395 Speaker 1: rookie card in that series was. He did not. It's 462 00:34:10,435 --> 00:34:16,355 Speaker 1: his Barry Melrose, defenseman Winnipeg Jets. And if you ever 463 00:34:16,395 --> 00:34:19,195 Speaker 1: watch a hockey playoff game and it goes into overtime 464 00:34:19,235 --> 00:34:22,715 Speaker 1: and you spontaneously start a gambling pool or just a 465 00:34:22,875 --> 00:34:25,235 Speaker 1: for fun pool about who's going to score the sudden 466 00:34:25,315 --> 00:34:28,675 Speaker 1: death game winning goal, you kind of have Barry Melrose 467 00:34:28,715 --> 00:34:31,955 Speaker 1: to thank. In the tiny studio of nineteen ninety five 468 00:34:31,995 --> 00:34:34,995 Speaker 1: and nineteen ninety six, in nineteen ninety seven, that sports 469 00:34:35,035 --> 00:34:38,195 Speaker 1: center shared with the NHL Show on ESPN and Baseball 470 00:34:38,235 --> 00:34:42,115 Speaker 1: Tonight and everybody else, as soon as regulation ended in 471 00:34:42,155 --> 00:34:46,275 Speaker 1: a tie, Barry would cheerfully shout, okay, who you got. 472 00:34:47,195 --> 00:34:51,235 Speaker 1: Barry Melrose would take down everybody's dollar and keep track 473 00:34:51,275 --> 00:34:54,475 Speaker 1: of which players were and were not still available, and 474 00:34:54,555 --> 00:34:58,435 Speaker 1: he'd usually all keep which staffers had chosen which players 475 00:34:58,475 --> 00:35:01,995 Speaker 1: in his head, and he never participated. He never chose 476 00:35:01,995 --> 00:35:06,235 Speaker 1: a player. He just was the banker like monopoly. I 477 00:35:06,315 --> 00:35:09,355 Speaker 1: want to ask him why easiest way to make new 478 00:35:09,355 --> 00:35:14,555 Speaker 1: hockey fans. Everybody was invested in every overtime game thanks 479 00:35:14,595 --> 00:35:19,635 Speaker 1: to Barry Melrose. Barry, all of us send all of 480 00:35:19,675 --> 00:35:44,435 Speaker 1: our best wishes still ahead on an all new edition 481 00:35:44,515 --> 00:35:48,195 Speaker 1: of Countdown. Two words no broadcaster in any format or 482 00:35:48,315 --> 00:35:52,155 Speaker 1: medium should ever say. I heard them again yesterday on 483 00:35:52,235 --> 00:35:54,115 Speaker 1: the air, and it flashed me back to the day 484 00:35:54,155 --> 00:35:57,755 Speaker 1: forty five years ago that the best communications professor I 485 00:35:57,795 --> 00:36:01,835 Speaker 1: ever had warned me never say that things I promised 486 00:36:01,875 --> 00:36:04,555 Speaker 1: not to tell. Next first with the note that if 487 00:36:04,555 --> 00:36:07,995 Speaker 1: you ever wanted to be chief communications officer of CNN, 488 00:36:08,595 --> 00:36:14,195 Speaker 1: they just posted the job on. Indeed, Wow, don't everybody 489 00:36:14,275 --> 00:36:17,435 Speaker 1: rush at once, but first time for the daily round 490 00:36:17,515 --> 00:36:19,755 Speaker 1: up of the mis grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects 491 00:36:19,755 --> 00:36:24,195 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute two days other worst persons in the world. 492 00:36:25,035 --> 00:36:29,395 Speaker 1: Lebron's former NFL quarterback Aaron No Yards, no cloud of dust, 493 00:36:29,595 --> 00:36:32,955 Speaker 1: just to torn Achilles Rogers of the New York Jets, 494 00:36:33,595 --> 00:36:36,715 Speaker 1: who has fully gone off the deep end. He has 495 00:36:36,875 --> 00:36:40,435 Speaker 1: challenged Travis Kelcey of the Kansas City Chiefs, who does 496 00:36:40,475 --> 00:36:45,035 Speaker 1: commercials for the COVID vaccines to a debate over Rogers' 497 00:36:45,155 --> 00:36:52,035 Speaker 1: conspiracy theory delusion nutjob ramblings. Rogers says they should each 498 00:36:52,075 --> 00:36:55,395 Speaker 1: have seconds at this debate. That's not going to happen 499 00:36:55,435 --> 00:36:59,275 Speaker 1: except in Aaron's head. Rogers says he'll bring Robert F. 500 00:36:59,355 --> 00:37:05,475 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior, and Kelsey should bring doctor Anthony Fauci. That's 501 00:37:05,555 --> 00:37:09,075 Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey, who is if you had not heard dating, 502 00:37:10,075 --> 00:37:16,755 Speaker 1: what's the name here? Taylor swiped versus Aaron Rodgers, whose 503 00:37:16,795 --> 00:37:19,755 Speaker 1: only publicity seems to be coming from being a new 504 00:37:19,875 --> 00:37:24,235 Speaker 1: sidekick on the Pat McAfee Show, which has produced surprisingly 505 00:37:24,275 --> 00:37:27,715 Speaker 1: poor ratings after it switched to ESPN. Why would Travis 506 00:37:27,835 --> 00:37:33,395 Speaker 1: Kelcey waste his time on a has been like Aaron Rodgers. 507 00:37:34,355 --> 00:37:37,555 Speaker 1: They runner up aj Fisher, who had been ranked number 508 00:37:37,555 --> 00:37:39,995 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty two on the FBI's most wanted 509 00:37:39,995 --> 00:37:42,955 Speaker 1: list for January sixth. Fisher was the guy with the 510 00:37:42,995 --> 00:37:47,435 Speaker 1: oiled chest and the ray bands. He's still awaiting trial, 511 00:37:47,435 --> 00:37:49,435 Speaker 1: but Fisher has now asked the court to let him 512 00:37:49,515 --> 00:37:52,755 Speaker 1: leave Florida, I guess for a wedding in Puerto Rico 513 00:37:53,275 --> 00:37:56,475 Speaker 1: with his fiance so they can take their child with them. 514 00:37:56,515 --> 00:37:59,555 Speaker 1: Otherwise she will have to go alone, Fisher says, and 515 00:37:59,715 --> 00:38:01,915 Speaker 1: leave the child with him, and he will have to 516 00:38:01,955 --> 00:38:04,355 Speaker 1: take care of the child who is apparently still nursing. 517 00:38:05,155 --> 00:38:09,195 Speaker 1: Fisher assumes that prosecutors will want him to stay and 518 00:38:09,355 --> 00:38:13,235 Speaker 1: breastfield the child himself, because they quote have fallen for 519 00:38:13,315 --> 00:38:18,035 Speaker 1: such disinformation as quote the recent anti biology myth of 520 00:38:18,195 --> 00:38:23,875 Speaker 1: male chest feeding. Because these January sixth morons still believe 521 00:38:23,915 --> 00:38:28,155 Speaker 1: whatever they read on four chan. Sure the court wants 522 00:38:28,195 --> 00:38:35,235 Speaker 1: you to breastfeed your child, sir, I know who you 523 00:38:35,275 --> 00:38:39,595 Speaker 1: should call. Call Aaron Rodgers, but the winner Murdoch's New 524 00:38:39,675 --> 00:38:42,275 Speaker 1: York Post and Fox News. A study by the website 525 00:38:42,435 --> 00:38:45,315 Speaker 1: Axios indicates that in the last year, the Post has 526 00:38:45,395 --> 00:38:49,075 Speaker 1: run five hundred and fifty two stories mentioning Ron DeSantis, 527 00:38:49,515 --> 00:38:53,995 Speaker 1: who is laughably or otherwise a presidential candidate, but it's 528 00:38:54,035 --> 00:38:56,635 Speaker 1: run seven hundred and eighty four articles more than to 529 00:38:56,795 --> 00:39:01,315 Speaker 1: a day about Hunter Biden. Meanwhile, for the last year, 530 00:39:01,355 --> 00:39:04,435 Speaker 1: the Fox propaganda channel has devoted an average of thirty 531 00:39:04,475 --> 00:39:07,915 Speaker 1: three minutes a month to mentioning the name Donald Trump 532 00:39:08,435 --> 00:39:11,155 Speaker 1: and twenty seven minutes a month to mentioning the name 533 00:39:11,595 --> 00:39:16,155 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden. Hidden in this non journalistic madness is something 534 00:39:16,195 --> 00:39:20,995 Speaker 1: for Democrats to consider. If Trump proved that name recognition 535 00:39:21,115 --> 00:39:25,595 Speaker 1: and media attention could be all that you're really needed 536 00:39:26,235 --> 00:39:29,675 Speaker 1: to win the White House, and if the Democratic hierarchy 537 00:39:29,715 --> 00:39:32,555 Speaker 1: actually might consider somebody other than the president for the 538 00:39:32,595 --> 00:39:35,675 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election the choice to swap in in 539 00:39:35,755 --> 00:39:39,115 Speaker 1: his place, I think that's clear. The guy all the 540 00:39:39,195 --> 00:39:45,595 Speaker 1: voters know is Hunter Biden, Rupert Murdoch and the other 541 00:39:45,635 --> 00:39:48,795 Speaker 1: people who run Fox, Quote News and The New York Post. 542 00:39:48,995 --> 00:39:50,675 Speaker 1: I mean, what the hell, Rupert, I thought you were 543 00:39:50,755 --> 00:39:57,035 Speaker 1: leaving or getting cryogenically frozen or non cryogenically frozen or something. 544 00:39:57,715 --> 00:39:59,595 Speaker 1: Let's go how we're going to miss you if you 545 00:39:59,635 --> 00:40:09,395 Speaker 1: don't go away to day's worse persons and the world today. 546 00:40:27,475 --> 00:40:31,355 Speaker 1: So I was listening to All News Radio yesterday, a 547 00:40:31,435 --> 00:40:35,075 Speaker 1: daunting prospect which I do not advise you to do yourself, 548 00:40:35,555 --> 00:40:38,835 Speaker 1: when a promo came on for somebody's podcast. In fact, 549 00:40:38,835 --> 00:40:43,355 Speaker 1: it was Richard Ditsch, the former Sports Illustrated sports media 550 00:40:43,435 --> 00:40:46,715 Speaker 1: critic who now writes for The Athletic and does this podcast. 551 00:40:47,115 --> 00:40:51,155 Speaker 1: And this is nothing particularly against Richard Ditsch. He's made 552 00:40:51,195 --> 00:40:53,835 Speaker 1: a few mistakes in his career. We all have, But 553 00:40:53,915 --> 00:40:56,315 Speaker 1: he said something at the start of this promo for 554 00:40:56,395 --> 00:40:59,755 Speaker 1: the podcast that flashed me back to a date in 555 00:40:59,875 --> 00:41:03,995 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight or nineteen seventy nine, and one of 556 00:41:03,995 --> 00:41:07,635 Speaker 1: the best piece of advice I ever heard that still 557 00:41:07,675 --> 00:41:11,875 Speaker 1: seems to have not caught on almost anywhere else in broadcasting. 558 00:41:12,675 --> 00:41:16,435 Speaker 1: This is the way Richard Ditsch began his promo for 559 00:41:16,595 --> 00:41:19,835 Speaker 1: his podcast, and I checked a couple of his podcasts 560 00:41:20,075 --> 00:41:24,035 Speaker 1: and he begins it the same way too. Hi, everybody. 561 00:41:25,555 --> 00:41:29,955 Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, how many times have 562 00:41:30,115 --> 00:41:36,715 Speaker 1: you listened to a podcast with somebody? My guess is 563 00:41:36,755 --> 00:41:40,875 Speaker 1: the answer is never, not once, never, ever, ever. People 564 00:41:40,995 --> 00:41:47,035 Speaker 1: listen to podcasts, to streaming services, to news radio, to 565 00:41:47,435 --> 00:41:52,675 Speaker 1: music radio largely by themselves. In fact, they tend to 566 00:41:52,715 --> 00:41:57,915 Speaker 1: consume television largely by themselves. So why does anybody say 567 00:41:58,555 --> 00:42:01,835 Speaker 1: hi everybody? And what do they think the impact is 568 00:42:01,875 --> 00:42:06,275 Speaker 1: going to be when they say that? Over Even if 569 00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:11,355 Speaker 1: you are watching television or listening to radio in a 570 00:42:11,435 --> 00:42:14,875 Speaker 1: group of two or more people, do you want to 571 00:42:14,915 --> 00:42:19,395 Speaker 1: be addressed as everybody? Or is that in some way 572 00:42:19,475 --> 00:42:24,395 Speaker 1: off putting? I've always thought that psychologically this might explain 573 00:42:24,515 --> 00:42:27,195 Speaker 1: for twenty five to fifty percent of the times people 574 00:42:27,275 --> 00:42:32,275 Speaker 1: say I don't like that guy's podcast, I don't like 575 00:42:32,315 --> 00:42:35,635 Speaker 1: that guy's radio show, I don't like that guy, and 576 00:42:35,715 --> 00:42:38,555 Speaker 1: they really don't have a further answer beyond that there 577 00:42:38,555 --> 00:42:44,355 Speaker 1: are so many psychological connections or disconnections between the broadcaster 578 00:42:44,675 --> 00:42:48,355 Speaker 1: for want of a better term, and the listener that 579 00:42:48,515 --> 00:42:52,155 Speaker 1: I think they populate the entire interaction. And without making 580 00:42:52,155 --> 00:42:54,315 Speaker 1: this sound like too much of one of the Cornell 581 00:42:54,395 --> 00:42:58,555 Speaker 1: Communication Arts theory courses that I was subjected to, forced 582 00:42:58,555 --> 00:43:01,955 Speaker 1: to take against my will between the years nineteen seventy 583 00:43:01,955 --> 00:43:04,875 Speaker 1: five and nineteen seventy nine, which did give me some 584 00:43:04,875 --> 00:43:06,995 Speaker 1: of the best naps I've ever had in my life. 585 00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:10,275 Speaker 1: Trying to avoid making it in that I do think 586 00:43:10,355 --> 00:43:14,315 Speaker 1: there's something to it, and that's where the flashback came. 587 00:43:15,275 --> 00:43:19,235 Speaker 1: I had the benefit of one really superb professor at 588 00:43:19,275 --> 00:43:22,795 Speaker 1: Cornell University in the Communication Arts department. His name was 589 00:43:22,875 --> 00:43:27,155 Speaker 1: Don Martin. That was his American name. He once told 590 00:43:27,155 --> 00:43:30,995 Speaker 1: me his birth name and I could not pronounce it, 591 00:43:31,395 --> 00:43:34,075 Speaker 1: and he could barely pronounce it, and I could not 592 00:43:34,195 --> 00:43:37,755 Speaker 1: remember it and could not still. He was a Polish 593 00:43:38,035 --> 00:43:41,875 Speaker 1: war refugee as a young man, I think seven or 594 00:43:41,915 --> 00:43:44,155 Speaker 1: eight years old. He came from Poland to the United 595 00:43:44,195 --> 00:43:48,035 Speaker 1: States in the nineteen thirties the late nineteen thirties at 596 00:43:48,035 --> 00:43:51,955 Speaker 1: the advent of World War Two, and wound up in Ithaca, 597 00:43:51,995 --> 00:43:55,475 Speaker 1: New York, not speaking a word of English and having 598 00:43:55,475 --> 00:43:58,555 Speaker 1: to learn everything from scratch. And what he learned was 599 00:43:59,035 --> 00:44:02,435 Speaker 1: as good diction and as much of an announcing voice 600 00:44:02,435 --> 00:44:05,835 Speaker 1: as I have ever heard in any human being. When 601 00:44:05,835 --> 00:44:07,635 Speaker 1: I first got to Ithaca, New York at the age 602 00:44:07,635 --> 00:44:09,835 Speaker 1: of sixteen, and put the radio on to the Cornell 603 00:44:09,955 --> 00:44:14,555 Speaker 1: owned radio station WHCU, I heard this voice, and I 604 00:44:14,595 --> 00:44:17,795 Speaker 1: assumed it was the CBS Radio network announcer doing something, 605 00:44:17,915 --> 00:44:20,275 Speaker 1: And then he started talking about the Cornell football score. 606 00:44:20,675 --> 00:44:23,115 Speaker 1: He was announcing the Corneil football game, and it was 607 00:44:23,155 --> 00:44:26,675 Speaker 1: as good a broadcast as I had ever heard, which 608 00:44:26,995 --> 00:44:29,675 Speaker 1: got me very worried about my prospects of getting anywhere 609 00:44:29,675 --> 00:44:33,635 Speaker 1: in radio anywhere at all, let alone just Ithaca, New 610 00:44:33,675 --> 00:44:37,595 Speaker 1: York on the Cornell student radio station. But I found 611 00:44:37,635 --> 00:44:39,595 Speaker 1: out later his name was Don Martin, and then, much 612 00:44:39,595 --> 00:44:41,595 Speaker 1: to my delight, when I was a junior, it turned 613 00:44:41,595 --> 00:44:44,475 Speaker 1: out he was teaching the radio Writing and production course. 614 00:44:45,075 --> 00:44:47,595 Speaker 1: Now most of the Cornell Communication arts courses, although they 615 00:44:47,635 --> 00:44:51,435 Speaker 1: have improved in the ensuing forty years. Ah, they weren't 616 00:44:51,435 --> 00:44:54,675 Speaker 1: that really good then, particularly the ones that pertained to 617 00:44:55,195 --> 00:44:59,475 Speaker 1: writing things or broadcasting things, the theory of communications, maybe 618 00:44:59,515 --> 00:45:03,475 Speaker 1: how to I don't know, own a radio station. Those 619 00:45:03,515 --> 00:45:06,915 Speaker 1: classes were okay, but the production ones, with the exception 620 00:45:06,995 --> 00:45:11,875 Speaker 1: of Professor Don Martin's class, not so much. Don happened 621 00:45:11,875 --> 00:45:14,435 Speaker 1: to be not just the football announcer for WHCU, but 622 00:45:14,475 --> 00:45:16,435 Speaker 1: he was also the general manager of the station, and 623 00:45:16,475 --> 00:45:19,475 Speaker 1: he taught this course, and I learned things from him 624 00:45:19,475 --> 00:45:21,595 Speaker 1: when I had not really learned anything from any of 625 00:45:21,595 --> 00:45:24,675 Speaker 1: my other communication arts professors in the entire time I 626 00:45:24,795 --> 00:45:28,435 Speaker 1: was there, and it went so well that Don actually 627 00:45:28,475 --> 00:45:31,395 Speaker 1: asked me to be his teaching assistant when I was 628 00:45:31,435 --> 00:45:33,835 Speaker 1: a senior the next year. So I came back and 629 00:45:33,875 --> 00:45:38,235 Speaker 1: had to get special permission from the course director, from 630 00:45:38,355 --> 00:45:43,115 Speaker 1: the Communication Arts Department, from the University Agriculture College, from 631 00:45:43,115 --> 00:45:46,395 Speaker 1: the university itself, because they did not have undergraduate teaching 632 00:45:46,395 --> 00:45:50,555 Speaker 1: assistants except with special permission. And Don Martin asked for me, 633 00:45:50,875 --> 00:45:53,555 Speaker 1: and I got to be his teaching assistant, and one day, 634 00:45:53,635 --> 00:45:56,595 Speaker 1: either in nineteen seventy eight or perhaps more likely in 635 00:45:56,635 --> 00:45:59,115 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine when I was working for him. We 636 00:45:59,115 --> 00:46:03,795 Speaker 1: were seated outside the ancient ag Quad building in which 637 00:46:03,835 --> 00:46:06,795 Speaker 1: he taught this course, discussing what we were going to 638 00:46:06,835 --> 00:46:12,195 Speaker 1: do in the day ahead. And he was just ruminating 639 00:46:12,235 --> 00:46:15,315 Speaker 1: about things like, have you ever noticed during allergy season 640 00:46:15,675 --> 00:46:18,755 Speaker 1: that you don't actually sneeze or cough when you go 641 00:46:18,795 --> 00:46:21,195 Speaker 1: on to the radio. What does this tell you about 642 00:46:21,195 --> 00:46:25,835 Speaker 1: the psychology of broadcasting and of allergies. Well that had 643 00:46:25,835 --> 00:46:28,595 Speaker 1: me going for about a week wondering what that all meant. 644 00:46:29,035 --> 00:46:31,795 Speaker 1: But then he said something else, and this takes us 645 00:46:31,835 --> 00:46:36,115 Speaker 1: back to Richard Ditsch, the poor victim of this flashback. 646 00:46:37,115 --> 00:46:40,155 Speaker 1: Don Martin said, you know, one thing I noticed in 647 00:46:40,195 --> 00:46:43,235 Speaker 1: listening to one of your broadcasts on WVBR was you 648 00:46:43,355 --> 00:46:47,315 Speaker 1: just said hello or thank you and the name of 649 00:46:47,355 --> 00:46:51,675 Speaker 1: the other announcer. You did not say hello everyone or 650 00:46:51,835 --> 00:46:55,675 Speaker 1: good morning, Ithaca. And he got very agitated. He was 651 00:46:55,795 --> 00:46:58,755 Speaker 1: very fair skinned and light haired, and he got red. 652 00:46:59,635 --> 00:47:03,115 Speaker 1: And Don Martin said, you know, whenever I hear someone 653 00:47:03,235 --> 00:47:10,035 Speaker 1: say hello everyone or good morning, Ithaca, I turn around 654 00:47:10,675 --> 00:47:13,995 Speaker 1: and I look to see if somebody has come into 655 00:47:13,995 --> 00:47:20,355 Speaker 1: the room with me. Remember this, Keith, broadcasting is one 656 00:47:20,475 --> 00:47:25,715 Speaker 1: to one speak to the other person, not persons. When 657 00:47:25,755 --> 00:47:29,435 Speaker 1: you say everyone everybody, when you address them as if 658 00:47:29,435 --> 00:47:31,875 Speaker 1: you are standing in front of a crowd of hundreds 659 00:47:31,955 --> 00:47:37,635 Speaker 1: or thousands, or if you're really egotistical millions, that's just 660 00:47:37,795 --> 00:47:42,075 Speaker 1: for you. That aids nothing in the communication between you 661 00:47:42,115 --> 00:47:45,995 Speaker 1: and the listener. Don't say that, and tell others who 662 00:47:46,115 --> 00:47:50,635 Speaker 1: do not to say that, because even if you are 663 00:47:50,715 --> 00:47:54,195 Speaker 1: part of a crowd listening to a broadcast, My experience 664 00:47:54,275 --> 00:47:56,875 Speaker 1: is when I am greeted in that way and they 665 00:47:56,915 --> 00:47:59,835 Speaker 1: say hello everyone, and there's a bunch of us together, 666 00:47:59,915 --> 00:48:02,755 Speaker 1: I assume that the guy is talking to everyone else. 667 00:48:06,275 --> 00:48:11,155 Speaker 1: The wisdom of Don Martin has lasted me now forty 668 00:48:11,195 --> 00:48:15,275 Speaker 1: four years plus. I saw him again, interestingly enough, we 669 00:48:15,275 --> 00:48:17,315 Speaker 1: were both back on the Cornell campus one day in 670 00:48:17,355 --> 00:48:20,275 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight. I was giving the commencement address, and 671 00:48:20,315 --> 00:48:23,115 Speaker 1: he had retired to Seattle, Washington, if I remember correctly, 672 00:48:23,595 --> 00:48:27,315 Speaker 1: And we had a lovely, lovely afternoon and a nice meal, 673 00:48:27,475 --> 00:48:31,035 Speaker 1: and he was very, very laudatory towards my career, and 674 00:48:31,115 --> 00:48:35,035 Speaker 1: I was more laudatory towards the help that he gave me. 675 00:48:35,635 --> 00:48:37,915 Speaker 1: And we discussed this one thing, and he said, have 676 00:48:37,955 --> 00:48:42,315 Speaker 1: you noticed that my wise words have gotten absolutely nowhere 677 00:48:42,795 --> 00:48:45,115 Speaker 1: in the twenty years since I spoke them to you, 678 00:48:45,675 --> 00:48:48,395 Speaker 1: And I said, yes, yes I have. And to make 679 00:48:48,435 --> 00:48:52,355 Speaker 1: it even worse, remember this part, I have added my 680 00:48:52,555 --> 00:48:56,315 Speaker 1: voice to the chorus of people saying, don't say hello everybody. 681 00:48:57,635 --> 00:48:59,635 Speaker 1: And he said, yes, it just proves another one of 682 00:48:59,635 --> 00:49:02,795 Speaker 1: my points. They may be listening, but they don't seem 683 00:49:02,835 --> 00:49:06,315 Speaker 1: to be hearing anything that we're saying. And I said 684 00:49:06,355 --> 00:49:08,675 Speaker 1: to him as I said goodbye, and we embraced, and 685 00:49:08,755 --> 00:49:10,955 Speaker 1: he went back to Seattle and I went to prepare 686 00:49:10,995 --> 00:49:16,675 Speaker 1: my speech. I said goodbye everybody, and he laughed and 687 00:49:16,755 --> 00:49:19,355 Speaker 1: we embraced again, and that was the last I ever 688 00:49:19,395 --> 00:49:23,235 Speaker 1: saw of him. But this is just a reminder. If 689 00:49:23,235 --> 00:49:26,835 Speaker 1: you start a podcast, and the odds I believe now 690 00:49:26,915 --> 00:49:30,635 Speaker 1: are about two to one in favor of you eventually 691 00:49:30,635 --> 00:49:33,275 Speaker 1: someday doing a podcast or hosting a show on a 692 00:49:33,355 --> 00:49:42,195 Speaker 1: cable news network, don't say everybody, just say hi, or 693 00:49:42,275 --> 00:49:45,155 Speaker 1: don't say hi at all. I'm not in the room 694 00:49:45,235 --> 00:49:52,715 Speaker 1: with you. Just start or say good evening, something generic. 695 00:49:54,075 --> 00:49:57,795 Speaker 1: Don't say hello mister and missus America and all the 696 00:49:57,835 --> 00:50:01,035 Speaker 1: ships at sea, and certainly don't say if you remember 697 00:50:01,035 --> 00:50:03,835 Speaker 1: my story, about the Los Angeles newscaster who lasted seven 698 00:50:03,915 --> 00:50:07,075 Speaker 1: hundred years on that job, Jerry Dunfe do not say 699 00:50:08,235 --> 00:50:10,155 Speaker 1: from the desert to the sea to all of Southern 700 00:50:10,195 --> 00:50:14,355 Speaker 1: California a good evening. Well, now the guy's talking to 701 00:50:14,435 --> 00:50:18,635 Speaker 1: the desert and the sea and all of southern California, 702 00:50:19,555 --> 00:50:37,155 Speaker 1: he certainly doesn't mean me. And on that note, so long, everybody, 703 00:50:40,155 --> 00:50:42,195 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 704 00:50:42,235 --> 00:50:45,835 Speaker 1: you all for listening. Countdown has come to you from 705 00:50:45,875 --> 00:50:48,715 Speaker 1: the Vin Scully Studio at the Old Woman Broadcasting Empire 706 00:50:48,795 --> 00:50:52,795 Speaker 1: in New York, so named because there are four pictures 707 00:50:52,795 --> 00:50:56,315 Speaker 1: of Vin on the door outside the studio. The music 708 00:50:56,355 --> 00:50:58,435 Speaker 1: you've heard was, for the most part of range, produced 709 00:50:58,475 --> 00:51:01,915 Speaker 1: and performed by Countdown musical directors Brian Ray and John 710 00:51:01,955 --> 00:51:05,395 Speaker 1: Phillip Schenel. Brian Ray handled the guitars, base and drums. 711 00:51:05,475 --> 00:51:08,395 Speaker 1: John Phillip Schaneil did the orchestration and keyboards, and it 712 00:51:08,475 --> 00:51:13,475 Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including other Beethoven songs, 713 00:51:13,995 --> 00:51:17,075 Speaker 1: were arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 714 00:51:17,475 --> 00:51:20,155 Speaker 1: The sports music is courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And it 715 00:51:20,195 --> 00:51:22,435 Speaker 1: was written by Mitch Warren Davis. We call it the 716 00:51:22,435 --> 00:51:26,715 Speaker 1: Olderman theme from ESPN two. Our satirical and pithy musical 717 00:51:26,755 --> 00:51:30,235 Speaker 1: comments are by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 718 00:51:30,595 --> 00:51:33,875 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Jonathan Banks. Everything else 719 00:51:33,995 --> 00:51:36,635 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this, 720 00:51:36,715 --> 00:51:39,915 Speaker 1: the one thousand and ninth day since Donald Trump's first 721 00:51:39,955 --> 00:51:43,195 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 722 00:51:43,715 --> 00:51:47,195 Speaker 1: Convict him now while we still can. The next schedule 723 00:51:47,235 --> 00:51:50,035 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin says the news warrants till then. 724 00:51:50,435 --> 00:51:54,115 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olriman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 725 00:51:54,235 --> 00:52:05,435 Speaker 1: good luck everybody, everyone, Ithaca World, Bye, Everybody. Countdown with 726 00:52:05,595 --> 00:52:09,835 Speaker 1: Keith Alderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts 727 00:52:09,875 --> 00:52:14,635 Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 728 00:52:14,675 --> 00:52:16,035 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.