1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oldman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:25,115 --> 00:00:28,755 Speaker 1: The Chief Justice of the United States should probably resign 3 00:00:28,835 --> 00:00:31,995 Speaker 1: after that. There are a lot of clueless public figures today, 4 00:00:32,035 --> 00:00:34,395 Speaker 1: but can you name one who has sounded more clueless 5 00:00:34,435 --> 00:00:37,675 Speaker 1: recently then John Roberts did over the weekend at the 6 00:00:37,795 --> 00:00:41,755 Speaker 1: just concluded Tenth Circuit Bench and Bar conference in Colorado. 7 00:00:42,435 --> 00:00:45,435 Speaker 1: Simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a 8 00:00:45,475 --> 00:00:48,715 Speaker 1: basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court. John Roberts 9 00:00:48,835 --> 00:00:51,435 Speaker 1: is talking about the blowback to the Supreme Court for 10 00:00:51,515 --> 00:00:54,675 Speaker 1: having overturned Roe v. Wade, and he is so wrong 11 00:00:55,595 --> 00:01:00,515 Speaker 1: it is nearly impossible for him to continue as Chief Justice. Firstly, 12 00:01:00,995 --> 00:01:03,995 Speaker 1: that is not the only basis for questioning legitimacy of 13 00:01:03,995 --> 00:01:06,675 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. It right at the moment, John, I'll 14 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:10,035 Speaker 1: get to that in a moment, But just as a statement, quote, 15 00:01:10,035 --> 00:01:12,915 Speaker 1: because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis 16 00:01:12,995 --> 00:01:15,995 Speaker 1: for questioning the legitimacy of the Court. That is not 17 00:01:16,075 --> 00:01:21,075 Speaker 1: only nonsense, it is historically proven nonsense. There have only 18 00:01:21,115 --> 00:01:24,355 Speaker 1: been seventeen Chief Justices of the United States. You would 19 00:01:24,395 --> 00:01:28,075 Speaker 1: think one of them Roberts would know about his predecessors, 20 00:01:28,115 --> 00:01:31,275 Speaker 1: like one of them, Roger B. Tawney, who oversaw a 21 00:01:31,395 --> 00:01:35,155 Speaker 1: Supreme Court so disconnected from reality, whose opinions were so 22 00:01:35,315 --> 00:01:39,355 Speaker 1: disagreed with that they were literally ignored, and the Supreme 23 00:01:39,395 --> 00:01:42,875 Speaker 1: Court itself was irrelevant in American life were nearly a decade. 24 00:01:43,555 --> 00:01:47,555 Speaker 1: The primary decision that nearly destroyed the Tawny Supreme Court 25 00:01:47,635 --> 00:01:51,435 Speaker 1: and nearly destroyed the Supreme Court forever was dread Scott, 26 00:01:51,755 --> 00:01:55,235 Speaker 1: which forced a freeman back into slavery, as the Roberts 27 00:01:55,235 --> 00:01:58,235 Speaker 1: Court ruling on Dobbs will force American women to give 28 00:01:58,315 --> 00:02:02,635 Speaker 1: birth against their will to become breeding slaves. But there's 29 00:02:02,675 --> 00:02:05,875 Speaker 1: actually an even bigger issue than the at A title 30 00:02:05,915 --> 00:02:09,555 Speaker 1: wave is going to wash away the Roberts Supreme Court 31 00:02:09,795 --> 00:02:12,995 Speaker 1: change its size and composition at the minimum, and it 32 00:02:13,035 --> 00:02:15,555 Speaker 1: will put John Roberts next to Roger B. Tawney on 33 00:02:15,635 --> 00:02:19,275 Speaker 1: the shortlist of the most infamous Chief Justices of all time. 34 00:02:20,035 --> 00:02:23,915 Speaker 1: And he thinks it's about their verdict, not the political 35 00:02:23,955 --> 00:02:28,555 Speaker 1: corruption and subversion of the Constitution that has delegitimized his court. 36 00:02:29,195 --> 00:02:32,115 Speaker 1: Listen to more of John Roberts from this Colorado conference 37 00:02:32,155 --> 00:02:36,635 Speaker 1: over the weeknd. The Court doesn't retain its legitimate function 38 00:02:36,675 --> 00:02:40,195 Speaker 1: of interpreting the constitution. Um, I'm not sure who would 39 00:02:40,875 --> 00:02:44,315 Speaker 1: take up that mantle. You don't want the political branches 40 00:02:44,795 --> 00:02:47,515 Speaker 1: telling you what the law is. You don't want the 41 00:02:47,555 --> 00:02:51,795 Speaker 1: political branches telling you what the law is, John Roberts, 42 00:02:51,835 --> 00:02:55,635 Speaker 1: could you be any more naive? One Supreme Court Justice, 43 00:02:55,675 --> 00:02:59,435 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas is the husband of a January six insurrectionist, 44 00:02:59,995 --> 00:03:05,435 Speaker 1: a pure example of the political branches, specifically one political party, 45 00:03:05,595 --> 00:03:08,995 Speaker 1: telling you what the law is. Another Supreme Court Justice, 46 00:03:09,035 --> 00:03:12,755 Speaker 1: Neil Gorsuch, has his seat solely because the political branches, 47 00:03:13,235 --> 00:03:16,955 Speaker 1: specifically one politician, the then Senate majority leader, made up 48 00:03:16,995 --> 00:03:20,355 Speaker 1: a rule permitting him to deny even adhering to the 49 00:03:20,395 --> 00:03:23,875 Speaker 1: Supreme Court nominee of the president from the other political party. 50 00:03:24,355 --> 00:03:28,875 Speaker 1: Another Supreme Court Justice, a glorified paralegal named Amy Coney Barrett, 51 00:03:29,155 --> 00:03:32,635 Speaker 1: has her seat solely because, after promising to apply that 52 00:03:32,755 --> 00:03:37,235 Speaker 1: made up rule in all future identical circumstances, the political branches, 53 00:03:37,515 --> 00:03:41,395 Speaker 1: specifically the leading politicians of the then Senate majority lied 54 00:03:42,155 --> 00:03:45,275 Speaker 1: and did not apply that made up rule. All three 55 00:03:45,315 --> 00:03:49,155 Speaker 1: of those justices and probably a fourth lied under oath 56 00:03:49,275 --> 00:03:53,275 Speaker 1: to the Senate during their confirmation hearings in writing the 57 00:03:53,315 --> 00:03:57,915 Speaker 1: opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, yet another Justice, Samuel Alito, 58 00:03:58,435 --> 00:04:01,715 Speaker 1: not only cited as legal president the hallucinations of a 59 00:04:01,795 --> 00:04:05,955 Speaker 1: seventeenth century British judge who used to hang witches, but 60 00:04:05,995 --> 00:04:09,835 Speaker 1: he then gave a purely political speech in another country, 61 00:04:10,195 --> 00:04:14,715 Speaker 1: mocking those in his country, our country, who disagreed with 62 00:04:14,755 --> 00:04:19,275 Speaker 1: the witch hanger and with him and with his personal religion. 63 00:04:20,595 --> 00:04:24,675 Speaker 1: Chief Justice Roberts, you don't want the political branches telling 64 00:04:24,715 --> 00:04:28,275 Speaker 1: you what the law is. You preside over a political 65 00:04:28,435 --> 00:04:33,635 Speaker 1: whorehouse under your stewardship, Roberts, the Supreme Court has less 66 00:04:33,715 --> 00:04:37,715 Speaker 1: legal authenticity than the Shariah courts of Iran. You have 67 00:04:37,795 --> 00:04:40,555 Speaker 1: taken two hundred and thirty three years of American Supreme 68 00:04:40,595 --> 00:04:44,875 Speaker 1: Court history, which survived even Roger B. Tawney and dread Scott, 69 00:04:45,435 --> 00:04:49,195 Speaker 1: and destroyed its legitimacy. All of you are wrong on 70 00:04:49,235 --> 00:04:52,395 Speaker 1: the facts, wrong on the precedence, wrong on your understanding 71 00:04:52,515 --> 00:04:57,795 Speaker 1: of how to conduct yourselves simply as citizens of this country. 72 00:04:58,395 --> 00:05:01,435 Speaker 1: Simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a 73 00:05:01,475 --> 00:05:04,515 Speaker 1: basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court. We do 74 00:05:04,995 --> 00:05:08,035 Speaker 1: question the legitimacy of your court Mr Roberts, just because 75 00:05:08,075 --> 00:05:11,115 Speaker 1: of a decision that the Senate will sooner or later erase. 76 00:05:11,835 --> 00:05:15,155 Speaker 1: We question the legitimacy of your court, Mr Roberts, because 77 00:05:15,195 --> 00:05:21,475 Speaker 1: you and your court are illegitimate. Whatever happens with Clarence 78 00:05:21,515 --> 00:05:25,035 Speaker 1: and Jinny Thomas, with the unspeakable Elito, with the naive 79 00:05:25,115 --> 00:05:28,635 Speaker 1: Little Roberts, with Trump and the Special Master case today 80 00:05:28,675 --> 00:05:31,075 Speaker 1: and this week, all of it adds up to something 81 00:05:31,115 --> 00:05:33,475 Speaker 1: I don't know if this country can accomplish in time 82 00:05:33,755 --> 00:05:39,475 Speaker 1: to save democracy. The judicial branch has been amazingly corrupted 83 00:05:39,715 --> 00:05:43,795 Speaker 1: and delegitimized, if what is happening on the Supreme Court, 84 00:05:44,115 --> 00:05:47,955 Speaker 1: and how amazingly John Roberts is unaware of that, We're 85 00:05:47,955 --> 00:05:51,635 Speaker 1: not evidence enough the names of the would be Special 86 00:05:51,675 --> 00:05:54,915 Speaker 1: Masters in the legal attempt to cover up Trump's international 87 00:05:55,035 --> 00:05:58,035 Speaker 1: nuclear espionage crimes. That would do the trick as well. 88 00:05:58,915 --> 00:06:03,235 Speaker 1: One of the two nominees for Special Master Trump has 89 00:06:03,275 --> 00:06:06,395 Speaker 1: just nominated to the judge on this court that he 90 00:06:06,435 --> 00:06:10,155 Speaker 1: appointed is not only the husband of yet another judge 91 00:06:10,155 --> 00:06:12,715 Speaker 1: Trump appointed to the Appeals Court that gets this case. 92 00:06:12,755 --> 00:06:15,275 Speaker 1: Actor this judge has done with it, but he is 93 00:06:15,315 --> 00:06:17,515 Speaker 1: the husband of somebody who was on a shortlist of 94 00:06:17,595 --> 00:06:22,515 Speaker 1: possible Trump Supreme Court nominees. The proposed Special Master is 95 00:06:22,595 --> 00:06:26,755 Speaker 1: also known as quote the godfather of the Federalist Society 96 00:06:26,875 --> 00:06:31,835 Speaker 1: in Miami. It is indefensible, it is incestuous, It is 97 00:06:31,955 --> 00:06:39,275 Speaker 1: unspeakably morally corrupt. Happily, it also might be academic. As 98 00:06:39,275 --> 00:06:42,635 Speaker 1: I suggested here last week, Judge Eileen Canon has threatened 99 00:06:42,835 --> 00:06:46,755 Speaker 1: national security. She has been apprized of this, not from 100 00:06:46,795 --> 00:06:51,195 Speaker 1: this podcast, but from the Defense Department and the Department 101 00:06:51,195 --> 00:06:54,155 Speaker 1: of Justice. In the d J request that she walked 102 00:06:54,155 --> 00:06:56,595 Speaker 1: back as much of this as she can as quickly 103 00:06:56,635 --> 00:07:00,635 Speaker 1: as possible. Politico boiled it down. They told Cannon that 104 00:07:00,755 --> 00:07:03,875 Speaker 1: she now has personally held up the intelligence assessment of 105 00:07:03,915 --> 00:07:07,755 Speaker 1: how much espionage has damaged the country's defense, to say 106 00:07:07,755 --> 00:07:10,795 Speaker 1: nothing of its defense partnerships with other countries. So the 107 00:07:10,915 --> 00:07:14,595 Speaker 1: d o J offered the judge a deal. Exclude the 108 00:07:14,795 --> 00:07:19,315 Speaker 1: hundred most classified documents from the view of any Special Master, 109 00:07:20,035 --> 00:07:23,675 Speaker 1: and they'll give Trump back everything else he stole from 110 00:07:23,715 --> 00:07:27,515 Speaker 1: the United States of America. Justice also told Cannon that 111 00:07:27,595 --> 00:07:30,195 Speaker 1: she's going to look terrible when her decision is reversed 112 00:07:30,195 --> 00:07:32,835 Speaker 1: on appeal, because there is no court in this country, 113 00:07:33,035 --> 00:07:35,755 Speaker 1: not even a politically corrupted one which could hope to 114 00:07:35,915 --> 00:07:39,795 Speaker 1: survive ruling that Trump is the rightful owner of a 115 00:07:39,875 --> 00:07:44,475 Speaker 1: hundred classified nuclear documents or can use any legal trip 116 00:07:44,555 --> 00:07:49,395 Speaker 1: to keep prosecutors from using them against him. Trump's lawyers 117 00:07:49,395 --> 00:07:52,555 Speaker 1: were to respond to this deal, which Judge Eileen Cannon 118 00:07:52,595 --> 00:07:56,315 Speaker 1: would be well advised to take sometime Monday, Well, guess 119 00:07:56,315 --> 00:07:58,635 Speaker 1: what they're going to say. What matters, of course, is 120 00:07:58,635 --> 00:08:02,555 Speaker 1: how the judge responds in the interim. Got another one right, 121 00:08:02,995 --> 00:08:06,155 Speaker 1: Building on what Ryan Gooden observed that the original search 122 00:08:06,195 --> 00:08:09,395 Speaker 1: warrant was not exclusive to Marilago, but referred to all 123 00:08:09,395 --> 00:08:12,395 Speaker 1: of Trump's properties. I suggested here last week that not 124 00:08:12,515 --> 00:08:15,195 Speaker 1: only should mari Lago have been searched, but also Trump's 125 00:08:15,195 --> 00:08:18,195 Speaker 1: Bedminster golf course and Trump Tower in New York. And 126 00:08:18,235 --> 00:08:20,635 Speaker 1: forgive me for quoting myself, but here's what the script said. 127 00:08:21,075 --> 00:08:25,475 Speaker 1: And sealed off and closed to the public indefinitely, months, years, whatever, 128 00:08:25,795 --> 00:08:28,915 Speaker 1: until we are confident there are no more documents describing 129 00:08:28,915 --> 00:08:33,115 Speaker 1: a foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, of 130 00:08:33,195 --> 00:08:36,315 Speaker 1: the thousands of documents stolen by this trader at Trump. 131 00:08:37,875 --> 00:08:41,275 Speaker 1: And now you've seen the London Daily Mail video of 132 00:08:41,315 --> 00:08:43,635 Speaker 1: Trump getting on a private plane on May nine in 133 00:08:43,715 --> 00:08:47,515 Speaker 1: Palm Beach with chas now new meaning to it. The 134 00:08:47,675 --> 00:08:50,475 Speaker 1: nearest airport, of course, to Mari Lago is Palm Beach, 135 00:08:50,515 --> 00:08:53,275 Speaker 1: and he was headed for the nearest airport to Bedminster, 136 00:08:53,355 --> 00:08:56,435 Speaker 1: New Jersey. And you've seen this video that he boards 137 00:08:56,435 --> 00:09:00,195 Speaker 1: and the flunkeys around him are loading bankers boxes on 138 00:09:00,315 --> 00:09:03,235 Speaker 1: board the private jet to take from Mari Lago to 139 00:09:03,395 --> 00:09:08,635 Speaker 1: Bedminster with him. This was three days after the National 140 00:09:08,755 --> 00:09:13,115 Speaker 1: Archives emailed Trump's attorneys about classified material that seemed to 141 00:09:13,155 --> 00:09:17,555 Speaker 1: be missing and might be at Mari Lago. There's another 142 00:09:17,595 --> 00:09:20,155 Speaker 1: twist here that flows back towards where we started in 143 00:09:20,195 --> 00:09:23,595 Speaker 1: this putridcy of judicial corruption. A suggestion over the weekend 144 00:09:23,995 --> 00:09:27,635 Speaker 1: that the Department of Justice may just reset the odds 145 00:09:27,755 --> 00:09:31,235 Speaker 1: on getting an honest judge and file against Trump, not 146 00:09:31,395 --> 00:09:36,035 Speaker 1: in Florida but in Washington, And that in turn circles 147 00:09:36,075 --> 00:09:39,795 Speaker 1: back to the rather remarkable scenes at dinner time last night. 148 00:09:40,195 --> 00:09:44,075 Speaker 1: Another private jet, another long distance lens shot of Trump 149 00:09:44,075 --> 00:09:47,235 Speaker 1: boarding it, Another long distance lens shot of Trump descending 150 00:09:47,235 --> 00:09:51,795 Speaker 1: its stairs. He flew from New Jersey to Dulles Airport 151 00:09:51,875 --> 00:09:57,675 Speaker 1: outside Washington at dusk Sunday. This has been interpreted as 152 00:09:57,755 --> 00:10:03,715 Speaker 1: portending everything everything from his arrest to his restoration, to 153 00:10:03,835 --> 00:10:07,235 Speaker 1: officially announcing his candidacy, to offering proof that he did 154 00:10:07,235 --> 00:10:10,235 Speaker 1: not post the claim that Queen Elizabeth secretly neithered him, 155 00:10:10,355 --> 00:10:13,155 Speaker 1: or maybe offering proof that he did and she did. 156 00:10:14,315 --> 00:10:17,235 Speaker 1: As always, in this time of conspiracy theories and hopes 157 00:10:17,315 --> 00:10:22,515 Speaker 1: overtaking realities, the simplest explanation is the safest, and Donald 158 00:10:22,515 --> 00:10:27,635 Speaker 1: Trump is the simplest. The likeliest reason for him going 159 00:10:27,715 --> 00:10:33,835 Speaker 1: anywhere is golf. He owns the National Golf Course in 160 00:10:33,955 --> 00:10:40,395 Speaker 1: Potomac Falls, Virginia, mere dullest airport. Of course, there is 161 00:10:40,555 --> 00:10:44,915 Speaker 1: one final conspiracy twist that I don't mind speculating about. 162 00:10:45,955 --> 00:10:49,315 Speaker 1: The Last time we saw him go to one of 163 00:10:49,395 --> 00:10:54,235 Speaker 1: his golf courses, he was burying his first wife there. 164 00:10:55,835 --> 00:10:59,755 Speaker 1: Huh do we know if he needs to bury anybody 165 00:10:59,795 --> 00:11:10,155 Speaker 1: at the golf course in Virginia? Still ahead on countdown. 166 00:11:10,355 --> 00:11:13,395 Speaker 1: Don't look now, But there's something funny going on over 167 00:11:13,435 --> 00:11:15,955 Speaker 1: in Ukraine. I've never really seen one before, but that's 168 00:11:15,955 --> 00:11:19,795 Speaker 1: got all the earmarks of being a run. The Russians 169 00:11:19,795 --> 00:11:23,395 Speaker 1: appear to be fleeing in sports. What was going on 170 00:11:23,395 --> 00:11:26,235 Speaker 1: on the sidelines at Soldier Field in Chicago before the 171 00:11:26,315 --> 00:11:29,995 Speaker 1: Bears game yesterday. Not players or coaches doing weird things. 172 00:11:30,235 --> 00:11:35,035 Speaker 1: I mean the sidelines themselves. They weren't you know lines, 173 00:11:35,155 --> 00:11:38,835 Speaker 1: They were all crooked E and curve did e. Worst persons, 174 00:11:38,955 --> 00:11:40,395 Speaker 1: what's the last thing you want to hear in the 175 00:11:40,475 --> 00:11:43,195 Speaker 1: days before you become King of England, after you've waited 176 00:11:43,235 --> 00:11:48,115 Speaker 1: seventy years for the job. How about having Kimberly Gilfoyle 177 00:11:48,235 --> 00:11:53,835 Speaker 1: claimed that you two guys are friends. Hello? That's next? 178 00:11:53,915 --> 00:12:10,475 Speaker 1: This discountdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead 179 00:12:10,515 --> 00:12:13,875 Speaker 1: on countdown. Patrick Mahomes hand is hurt. Oh maybe not. 180 00:12:13,995 --> 00:12:18,395 Speaker 1: He just throw five touchdown passes. Sports News Worst Persons 181 00:12:18,435 --> 00:12:21,435 Speaker 1: coming up first. In each edition of Countdown, we feature 182 00:12:21,435 --> 00:12:24,115 Speaker 1: a dog in need whom you can help. Every dog 183 00:12:24,195 --> 00:12:28,155 Speaker 1: has its day today. That's Janet. Janet is a five 184 00:12:28,195 --> 00:12:31,795 Speaker 1: year old Boston Terrier in New Jersey, used for years 185 00:12:32,235 --> 00:12:35,515 Speaker 1: for breeding at a puppy mill. When she began to 186 00:12:35,555 --> 00:12:41,235 Speaker 1: lose weight, they threw her away literally. 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Coming up and countdown. 195 00:13:28,275 --> 00:13:31,915 Speaker 1: Kimberly Gilfoyle insists she and the new King of England 196 00:13:31,915 --> 00:13:36,035 Speaker 1: are friends, and Jake Tapper as sure as his new 197 00:13:36,115 --> 00:13:39,315 Speaker 1: CNN fascist bosses, that he will be their friend and 198 00:13:39,435 --> 00:13:44,435 Speaker 1: say whatever they want. First postscripts to the news, some headlines, 199 00:13:44,515 --> 00:13:54,635 Speaker 1: some thoughts, some snark. Dateline Kiev, Ukraine. If you know 200 00:13:54,675 --> 00:13:57,075 Speaker 1: anything about the First World War, you know that at 201 00:13:57,115 --> 00:14:01,075 Speaker 1: one point Russian soldiers simply gave up, started running away 202 00:14:01,475 --> 00:14:03,755 Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, a little ticked off at 203 00:14:03,795 --> 00:14:06,675 Speaker 1: not being sufficient we supplied. They shot a lot of 204 00:14:06,715 --> 00:14:09,635 Speaker 1: their own officers on the way home. We don't know 205 00:14:09,675 --> 00:14:12,515 Speaker 1: about the shooting the officers stuff yet, but they're certainly 206 00:14:12,555 --> 00:14:16,755 Speaker 1: reenacting the fleeing part, abandoning territory. They had one around 207 00:14:16,835 --> 00:14:21,755 Speaker 1: Kharkiva and Carson in Ukraine, while Russian state TV commentators 208 00:14:21,835 --> 00:14:25,035 Speaker 1: who had previously been fantasizing about beating the United States 209 00:14:25,075 --> 00:14:27,395 Speaker 1: and some sort of nuclear war as a result of 210 00:14:27,515 --> 00:14:31,555 Speaker 1: Ukraine now blame each other for what went wrong in Ukraine. 211 00:14:31,915 --> 00:14:35,515 Speaker 1: Several news organizations in the area reporting the surest sign 212 00:14:35,635 --> 00:14:39,875 Speaker 1: yet of a possible Russian collapse. The Kremlin has reportedly 213 00:14:39,955 --> 00:14:45,115 Speaker 1: postponed its plans to stage the sham annexation referendums in 214 00:14:45,275 --> 00:14:50,115 Speaker 1: Ukrainian regions. They thought they had one dateline Topeka. Maybe 215 00:14:50,195 --> 00:14:53,435 Speaker 1: it's wheat blindness, Maybe it's just delusions of grandeur. The 216 00:14:53,555 --> 00:14:57,755 Speaker 1: sheriff of Johnson County, Kansas, Calvin Hayden, says he thinks 217 00:14:57,755 --> 00:15:00,435 Speaker 1: he's going to have to deploy his deputies to repel 218 00:15:00,835 --> 00:15:05,355 Speaker 1: eighties seven thousand new I r S agents invading county. 219 00:15:05,515 --> 00:15:08,635 Speaker 1: Calvin here says, quote, it's important for us to have 220 00:15:08,715 --> 00:15:11,155 Speaker 1: an army that you can depend on, because I will 221 00:15:11,155 --> 00:15:13,595 Speaker 1: tell you they're gonna have every r S agent in 222 00:15:13,595 --> 00:15:16,915 Speaker 1: the United States come to Johnson County, Kansas before they 223 00:15:16,955 --> 00:15:19,835 Speaker 1: start doing the crap they're doing. We're gonna be five 224 00:15:19,915 --> 00:15:22,235 Speaker 1: hundred strong and we'll do what we need to do. 225 00:15:23,235 --> 00:15:25,755 Speaker 1: If Calvin doesn't sound crazy enough, turns out he also 226 00:15:25,835 --> 00:15:28,475 Speaker 1: believes that as sheriff. He has the authority to order 227 00:15:28,515 --> 00:15:31,395 Speaker 1: the FBI to leave his town, but he doesn't have 228 00:15:31,475 --> 00:15:34,995 Speaker 1: that authority against the I R S. Calvin says the 229 00:15:35,075 --> 00:15:37,555 Speaker 1: I r S can enter the homes of US residents 230 00:15:37,555 --> 00:15:41,795 Speaker 1: without a warrant. Calvin's official biography a Sheriff includes this note. 231 00:15:42,075 --> 00:15:45,595 Speaker 1: He quote also has a distinguished record of community involvement, 232 00:15:45,755 --> 00:15:49,235 Speaker 1: including serving on the boards of the Consolidated Rural Water 233 00:15:49,355 --> 00:15:53,595 Speaker 1: District Number six and number seven. Calvin also believes nobody 234 00:15:53,635 --> 00:15:58,275 Speaker 1: realizes he dyes his hair and dateline Buckingham Palace. They 235 00:15:58,315 --> 00:16:03,275 Speaker 1: have told the bees. The British Royal beekeeper John Chapel 236 00:16:03,595 --> 00:16:06,075 Speaker 1: has confirmed that he has onto each of the palace 237 00:16:06,115 --> 00:16:10,195 Speaker 1: bee hives to inform the residents there that Queen Elizabeth 238 00:16:10,635 --> 00:16:14,235 Speaker 1: has gone to the Great Apiary in the sky. Mr 239 00:16:14,315 --> 00:16:17,595 Speaker 1: Chappell says he's tied morning cloth to each hive and 240 00:16:17,675 --> 00:16:20,755 Speaker 1: then quote, you knock on each hive and say the 241 00:16:20,795 --> 00:16:24,075 Speaker 1: mistress is dead, but don't you go. Your master will 242 00:16:24,115 --> 00:16:27,875 Speaker 1: be a good master to you. British newspapers say this 243 00:16:27,995 --> 00:16:32,795 Speaker 1: is a b tradition thought to date back centuries, although 244 00:16:32,835 --> 00:16:35,155 Speaker 1: reading through all the background on this stuff, I'm thinking 245 00:16:35,555 --> 00:16:38,555 Speaker 1: it may just be a case that the Royal beekeeper's 246 00:16:38,595 --> 00:16:56,355 Speaker 1: hat is too tight. This is Sports Center. Wait, check 247 00:16:56,435 --> 00:17:04,275 Speaker 1: that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman in 248 00:17:04,755 --> 00:17:08,035 Speaker 1: Sports Early in the first quarter in Glendale, Arizona, yesterday, 249 00:17:08,075 --> 00:17:10,875 Speaker 1: the left wrist of quarterback Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas 250 00:17:10,915 --> 00:17:13,875 Speaker 1: City Chiefs looked so hurt that the discussion was only 251 00:17:13,915 --> 00:17:16,475 Speaker 1: about what they would find when they X rated after 252 00:17:16,475 --> 00:17:20,115 Speaker 1: the game. Mahomes then threw five touchdown passes in KC 253 00:17:20,275 --> 00:17:25,395 Speaker 1: beat Arizona. The Packers lost in Minnesota seven. The highlight 254 00:17:25,475 --> 00:17:30,035 Speaker 1: down ten zip Aaron I'm immunized Rogers shown sitting on 255 00:17:30,075 --> 00:17:33,795 Speaker 1: the sidelines, gesticulating at a coach and at a tablet, 256 00:17:34,195 --> 00:17:36,635 Speaker 1: presumably trying to figure out a way to blame my 257 00:17:36,795 --> 00:17:41,435 Speaker 1: tweets about him for his failures. Another indeubible image from 258 00:17:41,475 --> 00:17:43,955 Speaker 1: the first Sunday of the NFL season before the Bears 259 00:17:43,955 --> 00:17:47,715 Speaker 1: forty Niners game in Chicago. The signline painted onto the 260 00:17:47,755 --> 00:17:53,075 Speaker 1: field nearest the visitors bench was wobbly, not a straight line. 261 00:17:53,075 --> 00:17:56,515 Speaker 1: We're talking alternating slight curves to the inside and then 262 00:17:56,555 --> 00:17:59,395 Speaker 1: to the outside and then to the inside again, maybe 263 00:17:59,515 --> 00:18:03,595 Speaker 1: five degrees each way, spanning about thirty five yards in total, 264 00:18:04,275 --> 00:18:07,435 Speaker 1: the side line looked like a pool noodle. The Bears 265 00:18:07,435 --> 00:18:10,915 Speaker 1: promptly beat the nineteen to ten. For Chicago's next game 266 00:18:10,915 --> 00:18:13,875 Speaker 1: on the twenty five at home, expect the sideline to 267 00:18:13,915 --> 00:18:17,835 Speaker 1: be shaped like the design on Charlie Brown's sweater. Baseball 268 00:18:17,875 --> 00:18:20,715 Speaker 1: George W. Bush was part of the Texas Rangers commemoration 269 00:18:20,715 --> 00:18:22,915 Speaker 1: of nine eleven, marking we believe the first time he 270 00:18:22,955 --> 00:18:26,995 Speaker 1: actually paid attention to anything about nine eleven. In awful news, 271 00:18:27,035 --> 00:18:29,635 Speaker 1: on the same front, the former Atlanta Braves relief pitcher 272 00:18:29,635 --> 00:18:33,195 Speaker 1: Anthony Barbaro, who retired in two thousand sixteen to become 273 00:18:33,195 --> 00:18:37,115 Speaker 1: a New York part Authority policeman, was killed while driving 274 00:18:37,115 --> 00:18:39,715 Speaker 1: to work at the nine eleven memorial at the World 275 00:18:39,715 --> 00:18:43,395 Speaker 1: Trade Center site. Yesterday, on the field, Albert pooh Hole's 276 00:18:43,435 --> 00:18:46,915 Speaker 1: hit his six d career homer to pass Alex Rodriguez 277 00:18:46,915 --> 00:18:49,795 Speaker 1: for fourth place all time as the St. Louis Cardinals 278 00:18:49,795 --> 00:18:52,755 Speaker 1: beat Pittsburgh four to three, raising the stakes in the 279 00:18:52,795 --> 00:18:56,555 Speaker 1: fascinating scenario that pool Holes is supposed to retire in 280 00:18:56,595 --> 00:18:59,355 Speaker 1: a month, whether or not he has hit his seven 281 00:18:59,435 --> 00:19:02,515 Speaker 1: hundredth career home run or even perhaps gotten close to 282 00:19:02,595 --> 00:19:07,315 Speaker 1: Babe Ruth seven and fourteen to be remembered. Detroit Tigers 283 00:19:07,315 --> 00:19:09,835 Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Al kay Line said he was retiring 284 00:19:09,835 --> 00:19:13,635 Speaker 1: after the nineteen seventy four season. He hit his three 285 00:19:13,675 --> 00:19:16,995 Speaker 1: home run on September eighteenth of that year, and then 286 00:19:17,075 --> 00:19:21,195 Speaker 1: in the next twelve games hit none, and he retired 287 00:19:21,675 --> 00:19:25,995 Speaker 1: with three homers and not four hundred. The Dodgers clinched 288 00:19:26,035 --> 00:19:30,515 Speaker 1: their playoff berth yesterday, and baseball again humiliated itself historically. 289 00:19:30,835 --> 00:19:33,755 Speaker 1: Pitchers Zach Gallon gave up a run yesterday, the first 290 00:19:33,795 --> 00:19:36,955 Speaker 1: he has allowed in forty four innings. The Arizona Diamondbacks, 291 00:19:36,995 --> 00:19:39,995 Speaker 1: one of the worst organizations in sports, had to make 292 00:19:40,035 --> 00:19:42,715 Speaker 1: more out of the streak than it really was. Not 293 00:19:42,875 --> 00:19:45,595 Speaker 1: only did they claim Gallan's record was forty four and 294 00:19:45,715 --> 00:19:49,355 Speaker 1: one third scoreless innings, and you can't have a partial 295 00:19:49,475 --> 00:19:54,235 Speaker 1: scoreless inning. An inning is either scoreless or it's not scoreless. 296 00:19:54,795 --> 00:19:57,275 Speaker 1: But in any event, they called it the seventh longest 297 00:19:57,275 --> 00:19:59,715 Speaker 1: streak in baseball history. In fact, it is only the 298 00:19:59,835 --> 00:20:03,035 Speaker 1: eighth longest streak. The list of Diamondbacks and Major League 299 00:20:03,075 --> 00:20:07,275 Speaker 1: Baseball's website put out left out the original record shutout 300 00:20:07,315 --> 00:20:11,595 Speaker 1: streak forty five innings five straight shutouts complete games by 301 00:20:11,715 --> 00:20:15,235 Speaker 1: Doc White of the three Chicago White Sox. That was 302 00:20:15,315 --> 00:20:18,955 Speaker 1: the record. When Don Drysdale beat it in n was 303 00:20:18,995 --> 00:20:21,555 Speaker 1: a big ceremony and everything in. White sent a telegram 304 00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:24,755 Speaker 1: to Drysdale. They just left it off the list. Baseball, 305 00:20:24,795 --> 00:20:29,515 Speaker 1: while insisting Gallon's streak reached and one third innings also 306 00:20:29,635 --> 00:20:33,675 Speaker 1: on the list, shortened Don drysdale streak from fifty eight 307 00:20:33,675 --> 00:20:36,875 Speaker 1: and two thirds innings to just fifty eight, because apparently 308 00:20:37,355 --> 00:20:39,955 Speaker 1: you can have one third of a scoreless inning, but 309 00:20:40,075 --> 00:20:42,755 Speaker 1: you may not have two thirds of a scoreless inning 310 00:20:55,715 --> 00:20:58,355 Speaker 1: still ahead. It's one of the least important but weirdest 311 00:20:58,395 --> 00:21:01,035 Speaker 1: things that ever happened in my career. I almost went 312 00:21:01,075 --> 00:21:04,355 Speaker 1: back to work for ESPN in two thousand one. That 313 00:21:04,475 --> 00:21:07,275 Speaker 1: it did not happen was a small solace in a 314 00:21:07,435 --> 00:21:11,235 Speaker 1: terrible time for them and for me. First, the daily 315 00:21:11,275 --> 00:21:14,275 Speaker 1: roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens 316 00:21:14,315 --> 00:21:19,675 Speaker 1: who constitute today's west pleasings in the world le Bronze 317 00:21:20,115 --> 00:21:24,115 Speaker 1: former Vice President Mike Pence. There's dumb and then there's 318 00:21:24,115 --> 00:21:27,035 Speaker 1: Mike Pence. It literally took him a week to compose 319 00:21:27,035 --> 00:21:30,275 Speaker 1: a tweet criticizing the president's speech in Philadelphia, and he wrote, 320 00:21:30,675 --> 00:21:32,715 Speaker 1: never before in the history of our nation as a 321 00:21:32,755 --> 00:21:35,915 Speaker 1: president stood before the American people and accused millions of 322 00:21:35,915 --> 00:21:39,675 Speaker 1: his own countrymen of being a threat to this country. Mike, 323 00:21:39,915 --> 00:21:41,955 Speaker 1: as a preface, who was that guy again who tried 324 00:21:41,995 --> 00:21:44,795 Speaker 1: to get his mob of thugs to hang you? And 325 00:21:44,835 --> 00:21:46,515 Speaker 1: if you don't want to be personal about it, Mike, 326 00:21:46,515 --> 00:21:50,795 Speaker 1: there was Trump's speech in Orlando June eighteen, two thousand nineteen, 327 00:21:51,235 --> 00:21:54,955 Speaker 1: when he said Democrats quote are driven by hatred, prejudice, 328 00:21:54,995 --> 00:21:57,835 Speaker 1: and rage. They want to destroy you, and they want 329 00:21:57,875 --> 00:22:02,795 Speaker 1: to destroy our country. But Mike, go on, idiot. The 330 00:22:02,875 --> 00:22:06,755 Speaker 1: runner up Kimberly Gilfoyle speaking of girlfriend of Junior Trump. 331 00:22:07,315 --> 00:22:09,915 Speaker 1: She said something very curious. And this is very curious, 332 00:22:10,035 --> 00:22:14,955 Speaker 1: even for Kimberly Gilfoyle quoting wishing my friend King Charles 333 00:22:15,035 --> 00:22:20,555 Speaker 1: the Third all the best. Wait, King Charles, the new 334 00:22:20,595 --> 00:22:26,075 Speaker 1: guy is a is a friend of Kimberly Gilfoil, like 335 00:22:26,075 --> 00:22:30,115 Speaker 1: like one of Kimberly Gilfoil's friends, somebody Kimberly Guilfoil screeched 336 00:22:30,115 --> 00:22:32,915 Speaker 1: at once somewhere and got a selfie with or like 337 00:22:33,035 --> 00:22:37,155 Speaker 1: one of the the Kimberly gilfoil friends, the photos of 338 00:22:37,195 --> 00:22:42,115 Speaker 1: whose private parts are in an album. One of Gilfoyle's 339 00:22:42,115 --> 00:22:45,755 Speaker 1: Fox News assistants testified she forced her to look at 340 00:22:45,835 --> 00:22:49,835 Speaker 1: once that kind of friend. Who's next on the list? 341 00:22:50,275 --> 00:22:53,275 Speaker 1: Have he has to resign? Who becomes the King? The kid, 342 00:22:54,035 --> 00:22:57,235 Speaker 1: the bald kid, but our winner. Jake Tapper the latest 343 00:22:57,275 --> 00:23:01,035 Speaker 1: CNN talking head to announce he has been intent on 344 00:23:01,155 --> 00:23:06,395 Speaker 1: welcoming the former News Networks new insect overlord's Chris Licht 345 00:23:06,475 --> 00:23:08,475 Speaker 1: and John Malone. Let me give Mr Licht his full 346 00:23:08,515 --> 00:23:12,555 Speaker 1: title Chairman and Chief Executive Officers CNN Worldwide and guy 347 00:23:12,595 --> 00:23:14,835 Speaker 1: who when we were at MSNBC together, I used to 348 00:23:14,835 --> 00:23:18,715 Speaker 1: think eight paced on the air, Jake Tapper indicated he 349 00:23:18,795 --> 00:23:22,195 Speaker 1: is going with the licked Malone conversion of CNN into 350 00:23:22,275 --> 00:23:26,195 Speaker 1: Fox News with nicer looking studios by suggesting that President 351 00:23:26,195 --> 00:23:29,795 Speaker 1: Biden should invite Donald Trump while he is under investigation 352 00:23:29,875 --> 00:23:34,075 Speaker 1: for international nuclear espionage crimes against this country, he should 353 00:23:34,075 --> 00:23:37,835 Speaker 1: invite Trump to join the American delegation to the funeral 354 00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:42,955 Speaker 1: of Queen Elizabeth. Tapper also defended CNN's sketchy legal analyst 355 00:23:43,035 --> 00:23:47,235 Speaker 1: Ellie Honig by launching an on air attack on MSNBC 356 00:23:47,515 --> 00:23:51,315 Speaker 1: quoting him, a bunch of MSNBC legal commentators attacked you. 357 00:23:51,595 --> 00:23:54,475 Speaker 1: Have they apologized at all? Have they acknowledged that they 358 00:23:54,515 --> 00:23:57,595 Speaker 1: were wrong and you were right? Oh? My god, Jake, 359 00:23:57,595 --> 00:24:01,355 Speaker 1: are we gonna do CNN MSNBC apologies? Now? How many 360 00:24:01,395 --> 00:24:03,755 Speaker 1: do you guys owe me? Just over the Iraq War? 361 00:24:03,915 --> 00:24:09,675 Speaker 1: Like fifty terrorism and other seventy five? And Jake, more importantly, 362 00:24:10,155 --> 00:24:14,475 Speaker 1: did you kiss enough conservative ass? This week? CNN's Jake 363 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:16,915 Speaker 1: Tapper who was absolutely committed to making sure that he 364 00:24:16,995 --> 00:24:25,795 Speaker 1: remains CNN's Jake Tapper two days worst person in the world, 365 00:24:41,075 --> 00:24:42,995 Speaker 1: not of the number one story on the Countdown in 366 00:24:43,115 --> 00:24:46,315 Speaker 1: my favorite topic, me and Things I promised not to 367 00:24:46,395 --> 00:24:50,715 Speaker 1: tell the first time I ever heard either Christopher Russo 368 00:24:51,275 --> 00:24:54,555 Speaker 1: or Mike Francessa on the air. I was the sports 369 00:24:54,635 --> 00:24:57,915 Speaker 1: director of the CBS television station in Los Angeles. Because 370 00:24:57,915 --> 00:25:00,555 Speaker 1: of when most big sporting events start, the reality that 371 00:25:00,635 --> 00:25:02,995 Speaker 1: everybody in the East and the Midwest laments the game's 372 00:25:03,235 --> 00:25:06,315 Speaker 1: end too late, especially for kids on the West Coast, 373 00:25:06,355 --> 00:25:10,475 Speaker 1: it is exactly the opposite, the game's end way too early. 374 00:25:11,235 --> 00:25:14,635 Speaker 1: Thus the Super Bowl or the n C Double A Finals, 375 00:25:14,955 --> 00:25:17,475 Speaker 1: or a late running world series game or whatever is 376 00:25:17,555 --> 00:25:21,515 Speaker 1: over at about nine pm local time at the latest. 377 00:25:22,275 --> 00:25:25,595 Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon football has done at four A station like 378 00:25:25,715 --> 00:25:27,755 Speaker 1: mine Channel two, which carried all of that in the 379 00:25:27,835 --> 00:25:30,435 Speaker 1: late eighties and early nighties, thus had to do extra 380 00:25:30,875 --> 00:25:33,355 Speaker 1: sports programming. I used to come on after the late 381 00:25:33,395 --> 00:25:36,555 Speaker 1: CBS games on Sundays for an hour with NFL highlights, 382 00:25:36,555 --> 00:25:39,955 Speaker 1: and often it would be the highest rated TV show 383 00:25:40,075 --> 00:25:43,755 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles for the week after the World Series. 384 00:25:43,795 --> 00:25:46,675 Speaker 1: We always did our own post post game show for 385 00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:49,435 Speaker 1: at least an hour, and I remember one Saturday night 386 00:25:49,435 --> 00:25:52,155 Speaker 1: when the CBS network n C double A basketball coverage 387 00:25:52,195 --> 00:25:54,915 Speaker 1: ended about eight fifteen our time in l A. We 388 00:25:55,035 --> 00:26:00,315 Speaker 1: stayed on the air until the eleven o'clock news started. Anyway, 389 00:26:00,395 --> 00:26:03,515 Speaker 1: on one of those nights, CBS wrapped up it's postcame 390 00:26:03,595 --> 00:26:07,115 Speaker 1: basketball coverage by taking one of its off air researchers 391 00:26:07,155 --> 00:26:09,715 Speaker 1: and putting him on camera. All of us in the 392 00:26:09,755 --> 00:26:12,955 Speaker 1: studio in l A were standing around watching waiting for 393 00:26:12,995 --> 00:26:15,355 Speaker 1: them to finish, so we would jump into action, Me 394 00:26:15,475 --> 00:26:18,635 Speaker 1: to my anchor desk, the camera people to their cameras, etcetera. 395 00:26:18,955 --> 00:26:21,475 Speaker 1: They're probably ten of us in the room. Back in 396 00:26:21,515 --> 00:26:24,195 Speaker 1: New York, The new guy making his TV debut was 397 00:26:24,275 --> 00:26:29,555 Speaker 1: quote CBS college basketball expert Mike Francessa. They asked him 398 00:26:29,595 --> 00:26:33,075 Speaker 1: for his assessment of something about I think Seaton Hall's team, 399 00:26:33,115 --> 00:26:38,835 Speaker 1: and he said something like Lord got gout from the album. 400 00:26:38,835 --> 00:26:40,995 Speaker 1: In our l a studio, there was about a five 401 00:26:41,035 --> 00:26:45,755 Speaker 1: second pause, and then all of us burst into laughter simultaneously. 402 00:26:46,875 --> 00:26:50,075 Speaker 1: I remember the studio audio guy, Bob, who had been 403 00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:53,195 Speaker 1: in the building where all of CBS Radio used to 404 00:26:53,235 --> 00:26:55,755 Speaker 1: broadcast from in the forties. He'd been in the building 405 00:26:55,755 --> 00:26:59,715 Speaker 1: working there continuously sincere and he asked me, you're from 406 00:26:59,715 --> 00:27:02,435 Speaker 1: New York. What the hell did that guy just say? 407 00:27:02,595 --> 00:27:05,875 Speaker 1: And I said, I have no idea, because long ago, 408 00:27:05,995 --> 00:27:07,635 Speaker 1: my father had warned me that if I wanted to 409 00:27:07,675 --> 00:27:09,995 Speaker 1: go into broadcasting, I could not let myself talk like 410 00:27:10,075 --> 00:27:11,835 Speaker 1: everybody else in the family and everybody else in the 411 00:27:11,875 --> 00:27:15,595 Speaker 1: neighborhood we were from the Bronx. I had no idea 412 00:27:15,635 --> 00:27:19,875 Speaker 1: what the god that's going through awesome people meant or 413 00:27:19,915 --> 00:27:24,115 Speaker 1: even was. Later that year or maybe in nineteen ninety, 414 00:27:24,155 --> 00:27:26,195 Speaker 1: I went home to New York to see my dad 415 00:27:26,315 --> 00:27:27,955 Speaker 1: and my mother, and I must have been in the 416 00:27:27,995 --> 00:27:29,995 Speaker 1: cab going back from the airport to the city, and 417 00:27:30,035 --> 00:27:32,635 Speaker 1: the driver has on the new afternoon team on the 418 00:27:32,715 --> 00:27:36,035 Speaker 1: still relatively new all sports radio station w f A 419 00:27:36,195 --> 00:27:40,355 Speaker 1: N and I hear this guy Francessa and somebody else 420 00:27:40,915 --> 00:27:43,795 Speaker 1: with it even worse New York accident who turned out 421 00:27:43,795 --> 00:27:47,635 Speaker 1: to be this Christopher Russo. They're combined mangling of English 422 00:27:47,675 --> 00:27:51,195 Speaker 1: was so impenetrable that I actually asked the driver, Hey, 423 00:27:51,235 --> 00:27:53,835 Speaker 1: do you know is the announcers union after on strike 424 00:27:53,955 --> 00:27:56,715 Speaker 1: or something? Are we listening to the station's janitors filling in? 425 00:27:58,955 --> 00:28:01,995 Speaker 1: Almost by accident. A couple of years after that, I 426 00:28:02,035 --> 00:28:04,555 Speaker 1: was one of the people who launched ESPN Radio and 427 00:28:04,755 --> 00:28:08,475 Speaker 1: its original format of sports talk seven hours each night 428 00:28:08,555 --> 00:28:12,595 Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday night news opinions, endless guests, but no 429 00:28:13,115 --> 00:28:18,395 Speaker 1: listener calls, and it was surprisingly successful, largely because there 430 00:28:18,395 --> 00:28:21,515 Speaker 1: wasn't any competition in any event. By this point, Francessa 431 00:28:21,555 --> 00:28:24,235 Speaker 1: and Russo were the kings of the very small but 432 00:28:24,315 --> 00:28:28,835 Speaker 1: quickly growing sports talk field. They mentioned this fact occasionally, 433 00:28:28,995 --> 00:28:31,515 Speaker 1: like every fifteen to twenty minutes. At least, That's what 434 00:28:31,555 --> 00:28:33,795 Speaker 1: I'm told to this day, even though I am the 435 00:28:33,875 --> 00:28:37,995 Speaker 1: descendant of proud five generations of nothing but new Yorkers. 436 00:28:39,035 --> 00:28:42,195 Speaker 1: I really have never understood a single thing either of 437 00:28:42,235 --> 00:28:45,795 Speaker 1: them has said. During the time I was in the field, 438 00:28:45,795 --> 00:28:49,435 Speaker 1: Francesa and Russo did two things about ESPN Radio insulted 439 00:28:49,555 --> 00:28:52,395 Speaker 1: on the air and then off the air, continuously try 440 00:28:52,435 --> 00:28:56,195 Speaker 1: to get jobs at ESPN. This was made even hotter 441 00:28:56,275 --> 00:28:59,355 Speaker 1: by the fact that when it launched our ESPN Radio 442 00:28:59,395 --> 00:29:02,315 Speaker 1: weekend programming ran in New York on w f a N. 443 00:29:03,435 --> 00:29:06,275 Speaker 1: In person, Russo was all, he's really nice. He often 444 00:29:06,275 --> 00:29:08,755 Speaker 1: sneaked one of his sons onto the field at Yankee Stadium. 445 00:29:09,035 --> 00:29:13,395 Speaker 1: Was obviously a devoted undoating father. Francessa is Russo's opposite. 446 00:29:13,435 --> 00:29:15,635 Speaker 1: He is not liked and clearly does not want to 447 00:29:15,635 --> 00:29:19,715 Speaker 1: be liked. In two thousand and one, something really weird happened. 448 00:29:20,435 --> 00:29:24,275 Speaker 1: ESPN finally decided to go into competition with them and 449 00:29:24,435 --> 00:29:28,155 Speaker 1: with w f a N. To my shock, given that 450 00:29:28,195 --> 00:29:30,435 Speaker 1: I was then at the peak of the nuclear war 451 00:29:30,555 --> 00:29:34,235 Speaker 1: that ESPN and I conducted from about through about two 452 00:29:34,275 --> 00:29:37,315 Speaker 1: thousand five, an old friend from radio, who was now 453 00:29:37,355 --> 00:29:41,115 Speaker 1: an upper management at ABC Radio approached me about being 454 00:29:41,195 --> 00:29:46,115 Speaker 1: the first prime host at ESPN's new all sports station 455 00:29:46,195 --> 00:29:48,355 Speaker 1: in New York, which ABC was going to launch for 456 00:29:48,555 --> 00:29:51,515 Speaker 1: them drive time in the afternoons. I even had to 457 00:29:51,595 --> 00:29:55,195 Speaker 1: sign a non disclosure agreement just to listen to him 458 00:29:55,235 --> 00:29:58,995 Speaker 1: pitch me at a Starbucks on the idea of going 459 00:29:59,115 --> 00:30:02,755 Speaker 1: head to head against Francessa and Russo every day I 460 00:30:02,835 --> 00:30:05,955 Speaker 1: remember saying to him over and for again, are you 461 00:30:06,115 --> 00:30:10,995 Speaker 1: sure you've cleared this with the headquarters at Bristol, you 462 00:30:11,155 --> 00:30:14,475 Speaker 1: know where ESPN is. The money turned out to be insufficient, 463 00:30:14,515 --> 00:30:17,195 Speaker 1: and the ESPN people were, surprise, surprise, not completely on 464 00:30:17,235 --> 00:30:19,795 Speaker 1: board with the idea right at that moment, and the 465 00:30:19,875 --> 00:30:22,075 Speaker 1: deadline for the launch of the first show was approaching 466 00:30:22,115 --> 00:30:25,235 Speaker 1: so quickly that even after months of frustrating discussions, there 467 00:30:25,275 --> 00:30:27,275 Speaker 1: was no chance we could get the deal done in time, 468 00:30:27,755 --> 00:30:31,195 Speaker 1: and so we let the idea kind of peter out. 469 00:30:31,795 --> 00:30:34,875 Speaker 1: It later turned out to bear fruit in many different ways. 470 00:30:34,915 --> 00:30:37,235 Speaker 1: I went back to ESPN Radio four years later to 471 00:30:37,275 --> 00:30:39,635 Speaker 1: work with Dan Patrick every day on his show, and 472 00:30:39,675 --> 00:30:42,115 Speaker 1: then back full time with the ESPN in two thousand thirteen, 473 00:30:42,115 --> 00:30:44,075 Speaker 1: and then back to Sports Center in two thousand eighteen. 474 00:30:44,155 --> 00:30:47,035 Speaker 1: So it all worked out. But this is one of 475 00:30:47,075 --> 00:30:50,275 Speaker 1: the strangest things that has ever happened, and it connects 476 00:30:50,355 --> 00:30:54,515 Speaker 1: to our recent sad commemorations. And again, any time I 477 00:30:54,555 --> 00:30:56,595 Speaker 1: talk about this, I want to make it clear I 478 00:30:56,595 --> 00:30:58,835 Speaker 1: am not saying that anything that happened relative to me 479 00:30:59,155 --> 00:31:03,275 Speaker 1: nearer or around September eleven was of any importance whatsoever, 480 00:31:03,395 --> 00:31:05,275 Speaker 1: or that I had any kind of hard trip compared 481 00:31:05,315 --> 00:31:08,675 Speaker 1: to anybody else. But it does throw you some perverse 482 00:31:08,715 --> 00:31:12,555 Speaker 1: things sometimes, and in this case it was perverse, ominous, 483 00:31:12,595 --> 00:31:17,035 Speaker 1: and even grotesque and a favor. I'm not equating what 484 00:31:17,115 --> 00:31:18,635 Speaker 1: happened to me to the rest of the events of 485 00:31:18,715 --> 00:31:21,035 Speaker 1: that time, but I still shudder when I consider that 486 00:31:21,155 --> 00:31:25,715 Speaker 1: the planned start date of the competition for Francessa and 487 00:31:25,795 --> 00:31:28,075 Speaker 1: Russo on w f A N, which was going to 488 00:31:28,115 --> 00:31:31,715 Speaker 1: be called The Big Show with Keith Olderman, which was 489 00:31:31,755 --> 00:31:35,675 Speaker 1: to begin on ESPN Radio New York. The start date 490 00:31:35,875 --> 00:31:53,755 Speaker 1: was Monday, September two thousand one. I've done all the 491 00:31:53,795 --> 00:31:55,755 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Help me out. Give this 492 00:31:55,795 --> 00:31:58,395 Speaker 1: thing a good review or ratings, subscribe or forward. It's 493 00:31:58,475 --> 00:32:03,195 Speaker 1: somebody just lie. 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Musical 501 00:32:28,315 --> 00:32:31,435 Speaker 1: comments by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever, 502 00:32:31,795 --> 00:32:35,315 Speaker 1: and our announcer today was John Deane. Let's countdown for 503 00:32:35,355 --> 00:32:39,235 Speaker 1: this the si day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 504 00:32:39,515 --> 00:32:43,155 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Arrest 505 00:32:43,235 --> 00:32:47,995 Speaker 1: him now while we still can, new episode tomorrow. Till then, 506 00:32:48,035 --> 00:32:50,835 Speaker 1: I'm Keith all Reman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and 507 00:32:50,875 --> 00:33:03,075 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Old Woman is a production 508 00:33:03,235 --> 00:33:06,875 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. 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