1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:29,395 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oldman is a production of I Heart Radio. Finally, 2 00:00:29,955 --> 00:00:33,355 Speaker 1: the week starts with new polling, finally showing that the 3 00:00:33,435 --> 00:00:36,795 Speaker 1: number one issue for voters this fall is now threats 4 00:00:36,835 --> 00:00:41,395 Speaker 1: to democracy. Unfortunately, it may be too late. That threat 5 00:00:41,435 --> 00:00:45,275 Speaker 1: to democracy is here, and it is mainstreamed, and it 6 00:00:45,435 --> 00:00:48,875 Speaker 1: is armed. Friday, for at least the second time in 7 00:00:48,915 --> 00:00:51,595 Speaker 1: a month, Florida Governor Ron De Santis closed a political 8 00:00:51,635 --> 00:00:54,955 Speaker 1: speech by telling a rabid theocratic crowd quote, put on 9 00:00:55,035 --> 00:00:58,715 Speaker 1: the full armor of God, take a stand against the 10 00:00:58,835 --> 00:01:03,355 Speaker 1: Left's scheme. But unlike to Satis's previous conflation of religion 11 00:01:03,395 --> 00:01:05,675 Speaker 1: and politics, this was not in his home state. It 12 00:01:05,795 --> 00:01:09,115 Speaker 1: was in Pittsburgh on behalf of the Republican nominee for 13 00:01:09,195 --> 00:01:13,675 Speaker 1: Governor of Pennsylvania, Dug Mastriano. And Mastriano in turn, is 14 00:01:13,715 --> 00:01:16,995 Speaker 1: being protected on the campaign trail by his own private 15 00:01:17,035 --> 00:01:20,395 Speaker 1: security team, led by a self professed minister of the 16 00:01:20,475 --> 00:01:25,995 Speaker 1: Lifegate Evangelical Church named James Emery. And James Emery in 17 00:01:26,075 --> 00:01:29,275 Speaker 1: turn says one of the other members of the Mastriano 18 00:01:29,355 --> 00:01:33,195 Speaker 1: guard is Scott Nagel, who was until recently listed as 19 00:01:33,195 --> 00:01:38,035 Speaker 1: a regional leader of the Oath Keepers militia and this 20 00:01:38,115 --> 00:01:42,635 Speaker 1: is just the beginning. The New Apostolic Reformation is bringing 21 00:01:42,675 --> 00:01:47,235 Speaker 1: its reawakened America tour. Yes, the APT acronym is rated 22 00:01:47,915 --> 00:01:50,635 Speaker 1: to Mannheim, Pennsylvania in October. And guess what They're not 23 00:01:50,675 --> 00:01:52,675 Speaker 1: going to be there to support John Fetterman for governor. 24 00:01:53,155 --> 00:01:56,875 Speaker 1: This is not just your average snakes and exorcisms religious 25 00:01:56,955 --> 00:02:00,595 Speaker 1: nut crowd. This one has merged with the Trump nut crowd. 26 00:02:00,715 --> 00:02:04,595 Speaker 1: Featured tours. Speakers for RAT run the gamut from the 27 00:02:04,715 --> 00:02:08,355 Speaker 1: well known Cristo fascists like these new Apostles and Pastor 28 00:02:08,555 --> 00:02:11,555 Speaker 1: Mark Burns and Pastor Phil Hodson Piller who says the 29 00:02:11,595 --> 00:02:17,035 Speaker 1: Bible proves CNN is Chinese and Mike Lindell from them 30 00:02:17,075 --> 00:02:20,515 Speaker 1: to General Michael Flynn to Alex Jones, to Roger Stone, 31 00:02:20,515 --> 00:02:25,315 Speaker 1: to Ken Paxton to Cash Patel to Donald Trump Jr. 32 00:02:27,035 --> 00:02:29,995 Speaker 1: It was not Sinclair Lewis who wrote when fascism comes 33 00:02:30,035 --> 00:02:32,115 Speaker 1: to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and 34 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:36,035 Speaker 1: carrying across and also the quote leaves out the last element, 35 00:02:36,075 --> 00:02:39,795 Speaker 1: it will be firing guns. Its ultimate target is the 36 00:02:39,835 --> 00:02:42,715 Speaker 1: secular government of the United States. It's short term target 37 00:02:43,155 --> 00:02:46,835 Speaker 1: is the Democratic Party and also members of other religions. 38 00:02:48,155 --> 00:02:52,035 Speaker 1: The new polling of registered voters taken by NBC News 39 00:02:52,075 --> 00:02:54,715 Speaker 1: after the search at Mari Lago, gives some hope that 40 00:02:54,795 --> 00:02:58,755 Speaker 1: at least some people are beginning to at least recognize 41 00:02:58,795 --> 00:03:03,435 Speaker 1: the danger most important issue, with percentages reading up crime six, 42 00:03:03,835 --> 00:03:09,195 Speaker 1: abortion eight, climate change nine, immigration thirteen, jobs, slash economy fourteen, 43 00:03:09,875 --> 00:03:15,515 Speaker 1: cost of living sixteen, threats to democracy one. Of course, 44 00:03:15,555 --> 00:03:19,595 Speaker 1: there is an asterisk there at Yes, it is impressive 45 00:03:19,635 --> 00:03:21,835 Speaker 1: that more than a fifth of all voters see threats 46 00:03:21,875 --> 00:03:24,635 Speaker 1: to democracy as the biggest issue of the day, But 47 00:03:24,675 --> 00:03:26,275 Speaker 1: in the mice type of the poll there is no 48 00:03:26,395 --> 00:03:29,955 Speaker 1: party breakdown between Democrats and Republicans, so we don't know 49 00:03:30,715 --> 00:03:35,395 Speaker 1: how many Democrats oppose threats to democracy as opposed to 50 00:03:35,475 --> 00:03:41,195 Speaker 1: the Republicans who favor them. God knows. These threats are 51 00:03:41,235 --> 00:03:44,755 Speaker 1: cascading down upon us, and to go all Biblical on you, 52 00:03:45,315 --> 00:03:47,715 Speaker 1: it's time for the scales to fall from your eyes 53 00:03:47,795 --> 00:03:52,595 Speaker 1: about them. The threat to democracy is groups like the 54 00:03:52,675 --> 00:03:56,675 Speaker 1: New Apostles and their rat tour. They have declared war 55 00:03:56,835 --> 00:04:00,515 Speaker 1: on this country and the only great replacement that Tucker 56 00:04:00,635 --> 00:04:04,155 Speaker 1: jiminy Glick Carlson keeps repeating like a Sprinkler going off 57 00:04:04,435 --> 00:04:07,155 Speaker 1: is actually a description of what the evangelicals want to 58 00:04:07,195 --> 00:04:11,315 Speaker 1: do with and to the rest of us. And they 59 00:04:11,355 --> 00:04:15,235 Speaker 1: are acting with impunity now and impunity imparted to them 60 00:04:15,235 --> 00:04:18,315 Speaker 1: by Trump and the ancient creaking we have all the 61 00:04:18,435 --> 00:04:21,755 Speaker 1: time in the world government that does not understand this 62 00:04:21,875 --> 00:04:26,435 Speaker 1: threat nor its eminence. On Saturday night, a former candidate 63 00:04:26,435 --> 00:04:28,475 Speaker 1: and a Republican primary for the House from the New 64 00:04:28,555 --> 00:04:31,355 Speaker 1: Jersey third dropped out of the race for the school 65 00:04:31,395 --> 00:04:35,275 Speaker 1: board of Hamilton's township that's next to Trenton, adjoining where 66 00:04:35,275 --> 00:04:40,355 Speaker 1: else the Pennsylvania border. Nicholas Ferrara said only in light 67 00:04:40,395 --> 00:04:42,675 Speaker 1: of recent events, I will be dropping out. Best of 68 00:04:42,795 --> 00:04:46,555 Speaker 1: luck to the other candidates. Those quote recent events unquote 69 00:04:46,875 --> 00:04:50,715 Speaker 1: were the uncovering by Politico of Ferrara's posts on the 70 00:04:50,755 --> 00:04:56,515 Speaker 1: extremist site GAB from January. Quote, I'm all four in 71 00:04:56,635 --> 00:05:02,555 Speaker 1: capital letters quote execution of the Marxist Communist Jews, who 72 00:05:02,595 --> 00:05:07,795 Speaker 1: really are fake jew Loo Safarian Synagogue of Satan efforts. 73 00:05:08,555 --> 00:05:11,715 Speaker 1: So a down and dirty assessment of each and every 74 00:05:11,835 --> 00:05:15,635 Speaker 1: Jew and every person of every religion must be made 75 00:05:15,635 --> 00:05:19,875 Speaker 1: on an individual basis to separate the wheat from the chaff. 76 00:05:20,235 --> 00:05:24,915 Speaker 1: The chaff gets thrown into the lake of fire and 77 00:05:26,075 --> 00:05:32,195 Speaker 1: psychotic quote. Take this man seriously. He is not some 78 00:05:32,275 --> 00:05:35,195 Speaker 1: guy living in the woods burning his own excrement for fuel. 79 00:05:35,835 --> 00:05:38,955 Speaker 1: He is a real estate agent and attorney. He claims 80 00:05:38,995 --> 00:05:42,355 Speaker 1: to have finished second in his class at Rutger's Law School. 81 00:05:43,195 --> 00:05:47,195 Speaker 1: He posted all of that about executing the Jews and 82 00:05:47,235 --> 00:05:50,235 Speaker 1: then ran for the Republican nomination for the United States 83 00:05:50,315 --> 00:05:55,115 Speaker 1: House of Representatives. There were thirty two votes. This pig 84 00:05:55,195 --> 00:05:59,035 Speaker 1: got twenty eight hundred of them. When he dropped out 85 00:05:59,035 --> 00:06:02,235 Speaker 1: of the school board race because he called for another holocaust. 86 00:06:02,435 --> 00:06:06,595 Speaker 1: He didn't even try to apologize or instance himself. This 87 00:06:06,675 --> 00:06:09,275 Speaker 1: is a man who should be receiving care somewhere. They 88 00:06:09,315 --> 00:06:12,435 Speaker 1: are all men and women who should be receiving care somewhere. 89 00:06:12,635 --> 00:06:14,515 Speaker 1: But in the last thirty years we have let down 90 00:06:14,515 --> 00:06:17,915 Speaker 1: our guard and our understanding of how easily people will 91 00:06:17,995 --> 00:06:22,715 Speaker 1: join cults and crackpot religions and authoritarian groups and the 92 00:06:22,795 --> 00:06:26,875 Speaker 1: worshippers of one man rule. These people are the threats 93 00:06:26,875 --> 00:06:32,195 Speaker 1: to democracy, and Doug Mascriano and Ron de Santis are 94 00:06:32,195 --> 00:06:37,035 Speaker 1: ready to use these people to gain personal power. Roun 95 00:06:37,835 --> 00:06:41,475 Speaker 1: de Santis as my friend of half a century, the 96 00:06:41,475 --> 00:06:45,155 Speaker 1: Philadelphia newswriter Will Bunch noted, at five ft eight, Ron 97 00:06:45,195 --> 00:06:48,115 Speaker 1: de Santis is the living embodiment of what a later 98 00:06:48,155 --> 00:06:50,235 Speaker 1: friend of mine, the Great Jimmy Bresson, once wrote about 99 00:06:50,275 --> 00:06:54,195 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani. He's a small man in search of a balcony. 100 00:06:55,355 --> 00:06:59,395 Speaker 1: We must stop the small man now. We must destroy 101 00:06:59,555 --> 00:07:05,315 Speaker 1: the balconies now before it is too late. And this 102 00:07:05,475 --> 00:07:08,635 Speaker 1: Ferrara is just the worst of the ones from just 103 00:07:08,795 --> 00:07:13,555 Speaker 1: this past weekend. Mark Fincham is the election denying Republican 104 00:07:13,595 --> 00:07:17,035 Speaker 1: candidate for Secretary of State in Arizona. Carry Lake, the 105 00:07:17,115 --> 00:07:19,795 Speaker 1: washed up newscaster from that state who saw a career 106 00:07:19,795 --> 00:07:23,115 Speaker 1: opportunity in fascism and is now the Republican nominee for 107 00:07:23,195 --> 00:07:26,635 Speaker 1: governor of that state. Fincham and Lake had each endorsed 108 00:07:26,755 --> 00:07:29,435 Speaker 1: Jaren Jackson, one of the Republicans in the runoff for 109 00:07:29,515 --> 00:07:33,515 Speaker 1: the seat in the Oklahoma State Senate race in District Too, 110 00:07:34,075 --> 00:07:37,875 Speaker 1: that's just northeast of Tulsa. It turned out Friday that 111 00:07:37,955 --> 00:07:41,915 Speaker 1: Jackson has said, quote, I'm not beholden to Jews or 112 00:07:41,955 --> 00:07:45,675 Speaker 1: any other groups. I ain't owned by the Jews. All 113 00:07:45,835 --> 00:07:48,115 Speaker 1: Jews will go to hell if they don't believe the 114 00:07:48,115 --> 00:07:51,835 Speaker 1: Gospel of Jesus Christ, just like everybody else unquote. But wait, 115 00:07:52,235 --> 00:07:56,035 Speaker 1: Jackson is an equal opportunity gutter snipe l G T 116 00:07:56,275 --> 00:07:59,715 Speaker 1: b Q. He says, is using language designed by Satan. 117 00:08:00,155 --> 00:08:03,355 Speaker 1: L G t b Q is the gateway to pedophilia unquote. 118 00:08:04,315 --> 00:08:07,555 Speaker 1: When Harry Lake's endorsement of Jackson was called out by 119 00:08:07,555 --> 00:08:15,035 Speaker 1: the Arizona Congressman Reuben Diego, carry Lake responded by attacking Diego. Finally, 120 00:08:15,875 --> 00:08:18,795 Speaker 1: somebody with half a brain in her campaign convinced her 121 00:08:18,795 --> 00:08:23,075 Speaker 1: to say something else. Quote. I obviously rescind my indorsement, 122 00:08:23,195 --> 00:08:30,555 Speaker 1: she said, if his reported comments are true. If and 123 00:08:30,635 --> 00:08:33,395 Speaker 1: as of Sunday night, Fincham has not only not rescinded 124 00:08:33,435 --> 00:08:36,035 Speaker 1: his endorsement of this Jackson, he hasn't even addressed the 125 00:08:36,115 --> 00:08:40,195 Speaker 1: vial bile. Not surprising, Fincham was endorsed by GABS CEO 126 00:08:40,355 --> 00:08:43,395 Speaker 1: Andrew Torba, who claims America is run by a quote 127 00:08:43,475 --> 00:08:49,595 Speaker 1: Judeo Bolshevik group. Fincham hasn't repudiated Torba either. Lake's action 128 00:08:49,715 --> 00:08:53,555 Speaker 1: was almost a surprise. CNN reports that last November, she 129 00:08:53,675 --> 00:08:57,115 Speaker 1: posed at a campaign event with Grayson Arnold, whom CNN 130 00:08:57,155 --> 00:09:00,315 Speaker 1: and identified as a Nazi sympathizer who calls Hitler quote 131 00:09:00,555 --> 00:09:06,835 Speaker 1: a complicated historical figure which many people misunderstand. As crazy 132 00:09:06,915 --> 00:09:10,675 Speaker 1: as this sounds, if this were all somehow limited to 133 00:09:10,795 --> 00:09:13,835 Speaker 1: religion and religious prejudice, we might still get a handle 134 00:09:13,875 --> 00:09:18,395 Speaker 1: on it. America has ground religious prejudice into the dirt before, 135 00:09:18,555 --> 00:09:21,915 Speaker 1: and we could do it again. But Saturday, in Florida, 136 00:09:22,475 --> 00:09:27,195 Speaker 1: a Republican primary candidate for Congress from the sixteenth that's Sarasota, Florida, 137 00:09:27,475 --> 00:09:31,915 Speaker 1: Martin Hyde, posted a video to YouTube saying that the 138 00:09:31,955 --> 00:09:35,715 Speaker 1: FBI search for missing nuclear documents at Trump's crap shack 139 00:09:36,275 --> 00:09:40,555 Speaker 1: was an assault on every American and quoting Hide, I 140 00:09:40,635 --> 00:09:42,795 Speaker 1: wish they'd turn up at my home because they'd have 141 00:09:42,875 --> 00:09:46,955 Speaker 1: gone home in a body bag. Nothing further from Hyde 142 00:09:47,075 --> 00:09:49,435 Speaker 1: nor from the Republican Party. And Hide is on the 143 00:09:49,475 --> 00:09:53,275 Speaker 1: ballot tomorrow. And it was the worst statement by a 144 00:09:53,315 --> 00:09:59,715 Speaker 1: Florida Republican in nearly twenty four hours on Friday, Luis Miguel, 145 00:09:59,955 --> 00:10:02,595 Speaker 1: the Republican running for the State House in Florida District 146 00:10:02,595 --> 00:10:06,475 Speaker 1: twenty that's St. Augustine, tweeted, quote, under my plan, all 147 00:10:06,555 --> 00:10:10,035 Speaker 1: Floridians will be able to shoot FBI, I R, S, A, 148 00:10:10,195 --> 00:10:14,155 Speaker 1: T F, and all other federal troops on site. Twitter. 149 00:10:14,955 --> 00:10:19,515 Speaker 1: Twitter immediately banned this idiot Luis Miguel the Republican Party. 150 00:10:19,635 --> 00:10:23,835 Speaker 1: Luis Miguel is still on the primary ballot tomorrow. These 151 00:10:23,875 --> 00:10:29,115 Speaker 1: are all from this past weekend. Only these people are 152 00:10:29,155 --> 00:10:32,755 Speaker 1: the proverbial, clear and present danger to the country. They 153 00:10:32,795 --> 00:10:35,995 Speaker 1: do not believe in democracy, they do not believe in elections, 154 00:10:36,035 --> 00:10:39,875 Speaker 1: they do not believe in laws. They believe in authoritarian fascism. 155 00:10:40,155 --> 00:10:42,675 Speaker 1: And if they give you a chance to ask why 156 00:10:42,795 --> 00:10:45,395 Speaker 1: or on what basis, they will say God told me, 157 00:10:45,915 --> 00:10:49,875 Speaker 1: or Trump told me, or Trump is God, or I 158 00:10:49,915 --> 00:10:55,355 Speaker 1: don't have to answer your goddamn questions. What further evidence 159 00:10:55,515 --> 00:11:00,715 Speaker 1: do any of us need? The New York Republican House 160 00:11:00,755 --> 00:11:03,675 Speaker 1: candidates saying Merrick Garland quote should be executed and we 161 00:11:03,675 --> 00:11:06,435 Speaker 1: could go, then saying, oh as just being facetious. The 162 00:11:06,595 --> 00:11:09,835 Speaker 1: Nazi flags outside the Turning Point US a youth conference 163 00:11:09,835 --> 00:11:13,755 Speaker 1: on July. The Ohio state representative who wants the Holocaust 164 00:11:13,835 --> 00:11:16,715 Speaker 1: to be taught from all perspectives, including that of a 165 00:11:16,795 --> 00:11:21,115 Speaker 1: Nazi soldier. The Alabama government ordering a reporter out of 166 00:11:21,115 --> 00:11:24,595 Speaker 1: an official event because her skirt and her open toad 167 00:11:24,635 --> 00:11:27,955 Speaker 1: shoes were too revealing, too revealing for her to report 168 00:11:27,995 --> 00:11:32,315 Speaker 1: from and be a witness to an execution. The Texas 169 00:11:32,395 --> 00:11:36,315 Speaker 1: State Republican Party adopting a plank reading quote homosexuality is 170 00:11:36,315 --> 00:11:40,715 Speaker 1: an abnormal lifestyle choice on June eighth and calling for 171 00:11:40,795 --> 00:11:43,875 Speaker 1: the repeal of the nineteen six Voting Rights Act and 172 00:11:43,915 --> 00:11:47,475 Speaker 1: replacing the public vote in Texas with a Texas State 173 00:11:47,635 --> 00:11:51,395 Speaker 1: Electoral College. The former Solicitor General of Texas trying to 174 00:11:51,435 --> 00:11:56,075 Speaker 1: restrict anti HIV drugs because he thinks they quote encourage 175 00:11:56,115 --> 00:12:01,235 Speaker 1: homosexual behavior, prostitution, sexual promiscuity. Senate candidate j D. Vans 176 00:12:01,315 --> 00:12:04,435 Speaker 1: trying to limit divorce in Ohio last month, Senator Braun 177 00:12:04,515 --> 00:12:08,395 Speaker 1: of Indiana saying interracial marriage should be left to the states. 178 00:12:08,835 --> 00:12:11,835 Speaker 1: The Trump supporters buying CINN the richest of them, saying 179 00:12:11,915 --> 00:12:14,875 Speaker 1: it should now model its programming after Brett Bear on 180 00:12:14,995 --> 00:12:20,715 Speaker 1: Fox Nudes, or maybe we should go back to the 181 00:12:20,755 --> 00:12:25,275 Speaker 1: source to original material from that group I mentioned first here, 182 00:12:25,475 --> 00:12:31,195 Speaker 1: the New Apostolic Reformation. This is them in Atlanta in July, 183 00:12:31,875 --> 00:12:37,395 Speaker 1: packed arena, thousands of people chanting with them New Apostolic 184 00:12:37,475 --> 00:12:41,955 Speaker 1: Reformation and a R mixed with MAGA mixed with a 185 00:12:42,075 --> 00:12:48,315 Speaker 1: thing called flashpoint and the turnaround. And this this nightmare, 186 00:12:48,915 --> 00:12:53,435 Speaker 1: this ultimate threat to democracy, the recitation of something they 187 00:12:53,515 --> 00:13:04,275 Speaker 1: call the Watchman decree. Where else we are where else 188 00:13:05,035 --> 00:13:10,155 Speaker 1: have been given legal power from heaven and now exercise 189 00:13:10,355 --> 00:13:17,395 Speaker 1: our foury Whereas we are gods and mesteners and spool. 190 00:13:18,635 --> 00:13:24,435 Speaker 1: Whereas through the power of God we are the world influencers. 191 00:13:24,915 --> 00:13:31,635 Speaker 1: Whereas because of our God, we are equipped and delegated 192 00:13:31,635 --> 00:13:37,875 Speaker 1: by Him to destroy every attemptive events for the end 193 00:13:37,875 --> 00:13:51,875 Speaker 1: we power decorations, we create, that second break, a costitution create. 194 00:13:52,435 --> 00:13:56,795 Speaker 1: That's their leader. Dutch. Dutch goes on for nearly four minutes. 195 00:13:58,035 --> 00:14:07,435 Speaker 1: Let me cut to the chase. We will live, we 196 00:14:11,075 --> 00:14:28,595 Speaker 1: will That was worthy of Nuremberg rallies Dutch. The Watchman decree, 197 00:14:28,755 --> 00:14:32,195 Speaker 1: people publicly announcing that the laws, the elections, the history 198 00:14:32,235 --> 00:14:35,835 Speaker 1: of this country are no longer valid. That they believe 199 00:14:35,915 --> 00:14:38,555 Speaker 1: God has anointed Trump. For they pretend to believe that 200 00:14:38,635 --> 00:14:41,675 Speaker 1: God has anointed Trump and that they are in charge. 201 00:14:41,755 --> 00:14:45,755 Speaker 1: That they quote have been given legal power from heaven 202 00:14:46,515 --> 00:14:52,595 Speaker 1: and now exercise our authority. And what do we do now? 203 00:14:54,515 --> 00:14:58,755 Speaker 1: On Thursday, a man named Oliver Yannick was arrested at 204 00:14:58,755 --> 00:15:02,675 Speaker 1: a resort in Tablas in the Philippines. The government considered 205 00:15:02,715 --> 00:15:05,835 Speaker 1: him a fugitive from justice in Germany and it acted 206 00:15:05,875 --> 00:15:10,035 Speaker 1: in coordination with the German embassy. In April, a court 207 00:15:10,115 --> 00:15:12,755 Speaker 1: in Munich had issued a warrant for Oliver Yannick for 208 00:15:13,195 --> 00:15:17,635 Speaker 1: public incitement to commit criminal offenses. Specifically, this Oliver Yannick 209 00:15:17,755 --> 00:15:23,035 Speaker 1: was charged with telling his social media followers to execute politicians. 210 00:15:23,675 --> 00:15:26,275 Speaker 1: The Germans, with the help of the government of the 211 00:15:26,355 --> 00:15:31,515 Speaker 1: Philippines not exactly liberal Land, have arrested him and he 212 00:15:31,595 --> 00:15:36,115 Speaker 1: will be returned for trial in Munich. How many of 213 00:15:36,235 --> 00:15:40,795 Speaker 1: these people here in America walking around free right now? 214 00:15:41,275 --> 00:15:44,835 Speaker 1: How many of these threats to democracy that are finally 215 00:15:44,915 --> 00:15:47,835 Speaker 1: perceived as the most important issue, not just in an election, 216 00:15:48,115 --> 00:15:51,435 Speaker 1: but the most important issue of our time. How many 217 00:15:51,515 --> 00:15:55,315 Speaker 1: of them have used social media or other public platforms 218 00:15:55,355 --> 00:16:00,835 Speaker 1: to call for executions. It's called stochastic terrorism, terrorism by proxy. 219 00:16:01,355 --> 00:16:04,835 Speaker 1: I say it, you do it. Eleven days ago, man 220 00:16:04,995 --> 00:16:08,235 Speaker 1: had heard only a few days worth of these sirens calls, 221 00:16:08,755 --> 00:16:10,835 Speaker 1: and he tried to get into the FBI headquarters in 222 00:16:10,875 --> 00:16:16,035 Speaker 1: Cincinnati to kill FBI agents. I'm sorry, it is the 223 00:16:16,115 --> 00:16:18,915 Speaker 1: last question I want to ask, it is the last 224 00:16:19,035 --> 00:16:23,075 Speaker 1: step I want to contemplate. But as calls for executions, 225 00:16:23,675 --> 00:16:28,155 Speaker 1: executions of religious minorities, that's what the candidates said, kill 226 00:16:28,315 --> 00:16:33,075 Speaker 1: all of the Jews, executions of FBI agents, that's what 227 00:16:33,195 --> 00:16:37,755 Speaker 1: the other candidates said, executions of the attorney general. As 228 00:16:37,915 --> 00:16:41,915 Speaker 1: these calls ring out from people in every corner of 229 00:16:42,035 --> 00:16:48,875 Speaker 1: this Christo fascist movement, where are the arrest warrants for 230 00:16:49,075 --> 00:16:54,675 Speaker 1: those who threaten American leaders and American FBI agents and 231 00:16:54,915 --> 00:17:09,715 Speaker 1: ordinary American citizens with death? Yeah, still ahead on countdown. 232 00:17:09,795 --> 00:17:11,835 Speaker 1: Tough to come down from that, but worse persons is 233 00:17:11,915 --> 00:17:15,155 Speaker 1: always a good cheery segment this time around. Yes, time 234 00:17:15,195 --> 00:17:19,795 Speaker 1: again for the blooper of the year. Another judge Reinhold 235 00:17:20,075 --> 00:17:23,635 Speaker 1: sighting in sports. I suppose baseball Hall of Famer skips 236 00:17:23,675 --> 00:17:25,595 Speaker 1: his team's weekend games in the middle of the race 237 00:17:25,675 --> 00:17:28,315 Speaker 1: for the pennant to go watch the basketball team he 238 00:17:28,395 --> 00:17:31,755 Speaker 1: owns play. And this is the anniversary of the day 239 00:17:31,795 --> 00:17:33,875 Speaker 1: the manager of the New York Yankees locked all of 240 00:17:33,995 --> 00:17:37,435 Speaker 1: his players in the trainer's room to punish me for 241 00:17:37,555 --> 00:17:40,355 Speaker 1: the jokes I used to make on Sports Center. That's next. 242 00:17:40,475 --> 00:17:56,035 Speaker 1: This is what this is countdown. This is Countdown with 243 00:17:56,235 --> 00:18:06,915 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman coming Bun Countdown the New York Yankees baseball 244 00:18:06,995 --> 00:18:11,155 Speaker 1: manager who locked his players in the trainer's room rather 245 00:18:11,195 --> 00:18:13,875 Speaker 1: than let them talk to me. The anniversary of that. 246 00:18:13,955 --> 00:18:16,035 Speaker 1: Plus there's news if you had another New York Yankees 247 00:18:16,075 --> 00:18:21,675 Speaker 1: baseball manager whom I met when he was thirteen years old. First, 248 00:18:21,715 --> 00:18:23,715 Speaker 1: in each edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in 249 00:18:23,835 --> 00:18:25,755 Speaker 1: need whom you can help. Every dog has its day 250 00:18:25,995 --> 00:18:29,835 Speaker 1: some updates. Bip Bippa data from New Jersey adopted. He 251 00:18:29,915 --> 00:18:33,355 Speaker 1: now owns his own little boy, Sweetheart. Last Monday's dog 252 00:18:33,395 --> 00:18:36,955 Speaker 1: from Riverside, California, rescued and she had her litter six 253 00:18:37,115 --> 00:18:41,915 Speaker 1: healthy pups, But the beautiful Siberian Husky Tilly, also at Riverside, 254 00:18:41,995 --> 00:18:45,515 Speaker 1: was killed at age seven. We'll try again. At the 255 00:18:45,555 --> 00:18:49,075 Speaker 1: Baldwin Park shelter outside l A. Bobby is two years old, 256 00:18:49,115 --> 00:18:52,395 Speaker 1: a handsome Achita mix eighty six pounds. He was in 257 00:18:52,515 --> 00:18:54,315 Speaker 1: rough shape when they brought him in. He's much healthier 258 00:18:54,355 --> 00:18:56,435 Speaker 1: now and very friendly, but he's running out of time 259 00:18:56,515 --> 00:18:59,555 Speaker 1: at Baldwin Park in southern California. To find out about Bobby, 260 00:18:59,595 --> 00:19:02,075 Speaker 1: go to my Twitter feed for dogs in need at 261 00:19:02,155 --> 00:19:04,675 Speaker 1: Tom Jumbo Grumbo. There you will find the tweet about 262 00:19:04,835 --> 00:19:07,635 Speaker 1: Bobby and see photos and email addresses and links everything 263 00:19:07,675 --> 00:19:11,035 Speaker 1: you need. You can also help by retweeting my biography 264 00:19:11,075 --> 00:19:13,835 Speaker 1: of Bobby. Just spread the word at Tom Jumbo Grumbo 265 00:19:13,995 --> 00:19:20,995 Speaker 1: on Twitter. Thank you coming up here. Judge Reinhold. A 266 00:19:21,115 --> 00:19:24,755 Speaker 1: World Climate declaration that denies there's a climate crisis that 267 00:19:24,875 --> 00:19:28,635 Speaker 1: was not written by climate scientists and CNN's new president 268 00:19:28,835 --> 00:19:32,715 Speaker 1: ying for worse persons honors first postscripts to the news, 269 00:19:32,835 --> 00:19:43,315 Speaker 1: some headlines, some thoughts, some snark, dateline, Clarence Thomas's backside. 270 00:19:43,395 --> 00:19:46,155 Speaker 1: I'll say it again. Whatever they have on Lindsay Graham 271 00:19:46,195 --> 00:19:49,515 Speaker 1: would make for the greatest series Netflix could ever produce. 272 00:19:50,675 --> 00:19:53,115 Speaker 1: The Senator got to stay on his testimony to the 273 00:19:53,195 --> 00:19:55,995 Speaker 1: grand jury that's investigating his attempts on behalf of Donald 274 00:19:55,995 --> 00:19:58,955 Speaker 1: Trump to pressure Georgia's secretary of State to you know, 275 00:19:59,755 --> 00:20:04,035 Speaker 1: overrule all of George's presidential voters. He was supposed to 276 00:20:04,115 --> 00:20:07,835 Speaker 1: testify tomorrow the Eleventh Circuit Appeals Court that Clarence Thomas 277 00:20:07,875 --> 00:20:11,715 Speaker 1: from the Republican Supreme Religious Course that's the mascot of 278 00:20:11,795 --> 00:20:15,395 Speaker 1: this particular appeals court, the Eleventh Circuit. The Circuit Court 279 00:20:15,475 --> 00:20:18,515 Speaker 1: said there might be enough merit to Graham's bs excuse 280 00:20:18,595 --> 00:20:22,035 Speaker 1: that asking about a different outcome more favorable to Donald Trump, 281 00:20:22,075 --> 00:20:26,395 Speaker 1: which just part of his legislative investigative duties. And clearly 282 00:20:26,475 --> 00:20:29,555 Speaker 1: whatever they've got on the Eleventh Circuit Appeals Court will 283 00:20:29,715 --> 00:20:32,435 Speaker 1: make for the second best series Netflix could ever produce. 284 00:20:32,955 --> 00:20:36,075 Speaker 1: Date Line Washington. Trump's team spent the weekend hinting it 285 00:20:36,155 --> 00:20:45,195 Speaker 1: will soon file something asking for something with somebody someday 286 00:20:45,715 --> 00:20:48,555 Speaker 1: about the Mari Lago search. Turns out, the dimensions of 287 00:20:48,635 --> 00:20:51,395 Speaker 1: what was reclaimed by the FBI may be so much 288 00:20:51,515 --> 00:20:54,515 Speaker 1: larger than we thought because the FBI team that double 289 00:20:54,635 --> 00:20:57,195 Speaker 1: checks every document, the filter team that makes sure the 290 00:20:57,235 --> 00:21:00,395 Speaker 1: Feds don't have something they should not have, is still 291 00:21:00,715 --> 00:21:05,115 Speaker 1: sifting through the stuff Trump stole that they recovered. And 292 00:21:05,315 --> 00:21:10,075 Speaker 1: also Dateline Washington, something has gone horribly wrong or horribly 293 00:21:10,235 --> 00:21:13,915 Speaker 1: right at the National Republican Senatorial Committee. It has canceled 294 00:21:13,995 --> 00:21:16,755 Speaker 1: ten million dollars worth of TV and radio ads around 295 00:21:16,795 --> 00:21:19,995 Speaker 1: the country, including for the Senate races in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, 296 00:21:20,075 --> 00:21:22,835 Speaker 1: in Arizona. And now there's another report that says that 297 00:21:22,875 --> 00:21:26,155 Speaker 1: while the various Democratic group spent a total of sixty 298 00:21:26,235 --> 00:21:29,155 Speaker 1: three million on Facebook ads in the last two weeks, 299 00:21:29,715 --> 00:21:34,235 Speaker 1: their GOP equivalents went silent. They spent nothing. The Washington 300 00:21:34,355 --> 00:21:37,835 Speaker 1: Post quotes an unnamed Republican consultant who says, if they 301 00:21:37,875 --> 00:21:42,035 Speaker 1: were a corporation, the CEO would be fired and investigated. 302 00:21:42,355 --> 00:21:46,115 Speaker 1: This money has been squandered. It's a rip off. Oh 303 00:21:46,235 --> 00:21:48,315 Speaker 1: that's a damn shame. Oh that's just the worst thing. 304 00:21:48,395 --> 00:21:51,955 Speaker 1: That's horrible, What a terrible thing to happened. In the 305 00:21:51,955 --> 00:21:57,915 Speaker 1: Republican story, I'm gonna fan does complain here, Converse spent 306 00:21:57,995 --> 00:22:04,235 Speaker 1: its upping. What's in the world? This is sports Senate? Wait, 307 00:22:04,395 --> 00:22:12,675 Speaker 1: check that not anymore? This is Countdown with Keith. I'm 308 00:22:12,715 --> 00:22:14,675 Speaker 1: sorry the new segment kind of got away from me. 309 00:22:14,755 --> 00:22:17,195 Speaker 1: There from the world of Wide Sports. Former Boston Red 310 00:22:17,235 --> 00:22:20,115 Speaker 1: Sox All star pitcher Bill Lee is still recovering at 311 00:22:20,155 --> 00:22:23,475 Speaker 1: a hospital in Savannah, Georgia. This story ends with him 312 00:22:23,515 --> 00:22:26,795 Speaker 1: posing for a photo in an emergency room gown with 313 00:22:26,875 --> 00:22:30,835 Speaker 1: electrodes stuck all over his half naked body, holding his 314 00:22:30,955 --> 00:22:35,115 Speaker 1: pitching glove in his other hand. Friday, Bill, the spaceman, 315 00:22:35,835 --> 00:22:38,675 Speaker 1: my brother from a different mother, was warming up in 316 00:22:38,715 --> 00:22:41,075 Speaker 1: the bullpend to come in and pitch for the Savannah Bananas, 317 00:22:41,115 --> 00:22:44,395 Speaker 1: who play a kind of streamlined baseball in the Coastal 318 00:22:44,595 --> 00:22:47,835 Speaker 1: Playing League. Billy is seventy five years old. He made 319 00:22:47,875 --> 00:22:51,635 Speaker 1: his Major League debut for the Red Sox in his 320 00:22:51,755 --> 00:22:54,995 Speaker 1: catcher threw the ball back to him, saw Bill Catchett, 321 00:22:54,995 --> 00:22:57,755 Speaker 1: and then saw Bill toppel backwards. He had what they 322 00:22:57,795 --> 00:23:01,195 Speaker 1: are calling a cardiac episode, and he stopped breathing, and 323 00:23:01,275 --> 00:23:05,155 Speaker 1: as a local politician noted, that only ends one way normally, 324 00:23:05,915 --> 00:23:08,235 Speaker 1: but sometimes you get lucky, and sometimes you get a 325 00:23:08,275 --> 00:23:10,715 Speaker 1: little lucky, and then sometimes you get Bill Lee. Lucky. 326 00:23:11,435 --> 00:23:13,755 Speaker 1: Bill had his cardiac episode on the night that the 327 00:23:13,795 --> 00:23:18,355 Speaker 1: Bananas were holding employee night for the town of Thunderbolt, Georgia, 328 00:23:18,955 --> 00:23:22,875 Speaker 1: so virtually the entirety of Thunderbolt George's emergency medical team 329 00:23:22,955 --> 00:23:25,435 Speaker 1: was in the stands. The place was stinking with e 330 00:23:25,675 --> 00:23:28,795 Speaker 1: m t s and firefighters when Bill went down. The 331 00:23:28,955 --> 00:23:33,875 Speaker 1: teammate catching Bill Lee in the bullpen was an e MT. 332 00:23:35,435 --> 00:23:38,275 Speaker 1: That's Bill Lee through and through. The New York Yankees 333 00:23:38,355 --> 00:23:40,435 Speaker 1: beat Toronto for to two yesterday, ending a slide in 334 00:23:40,435 --> 00:23:42,555 Speaker 1: which they had lost down of eleven games and six 335 00:23:42,635 --> 00:23:46,235 Speaker 1: consecutive series. Things got so bad for the Yankees that 336 00:23:46,315 --> 00:23:49,915 Speaker 1: at his postgame press conference Saturday, manager Aaron Boone had 337 00:23:50,035 --> 00:23:53,315 Speaker 1: slammed the table, making his water bottle jump several inches 338 00:23:53,475 --> 00:23:57,315 Speaker 1: in the air. It's now a meme. This is just 339 00:23:57,515 --> 00:24:00,035 Speaker 1: an excuse for me to mention that in when I 340 00:24:00,115 --> 00:24:02,275 Speaker 1: did the sports on k t l A Channel five 341 00:24:02,315 --> 00:24:04,635 Speaker 1: in l A and we carried the California Angels game 342 00:24:04,675 --> 00:24:08,475 Speaker 1: ames at spring training that year in Arizona, Angels catcher 343 00:24:08,595 --> 00:24:11,475 Speaker 1: Bob Boone took me aside, introduced himself and said, I'm 344 00:24:11,515 --> 00:24:14,355 Speaker 1: not a fan of yours. An odd introduction, but of 345 00:24:14,395 --> 00:24:17,355 Speaker 1: course not the only time I've ever heard that. But 346 00:24:17,515 --> 00:24:19,755 Speaker 1: Bob Boone quickly explained that he was doing that. He 347 00:24:19,835 --> 00:24:21,795 Speaker 1: wanted to be honest with me because he was about 348 00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:24,195 Speaker 1: to ask me for a favor. My son is a 349 00:24:24,235 --> 00:24:26,675 Speaker 1: fan of yours. He's a good kid, but he's a 350 00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:29,595 Speaker 1: fan of yours. Would you be, I don't know, willing 351 00:24:29,635 --> 00:24:33,755 Speaker 1: to meet him, I said, of course. Bob Boone was shocked. 352 00:24:34,995 --> 00:24:37,555 Speaker 1: I said I should punish him because he's a fan 353 00:24:37,675 --> 00:24:42,915 Speaker 1: and you're not. Bob Boone laughed and shouted, Aaron, go 354 00:24:43,075 --> 00:24:46,475 Speaker 1: over here. Aaron Boone was standing behind a tool shed. 355 00:24:46,995 --> 00:24:51,155 Speaker 1: He was thirteen years old. Nice to meet Mr Olverman. 356 00:24:52,035 --> 00:24:53,915 Speaker 1: He has now been the manager for the Yankees for 357 00:24:54,035 --> 00:24:57,035 Speaker 1: five years. I once asked him if he remembered any 358 00:24:57,075 --> 00:25:01,835 Speaker 1: of it, every humiliating second irony. After that, Bob Boone 359 00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:04,315 Speaker 1: became a fan of mine women's hoops. It's nice to 360 00:25:04,355 --> 00:25:06,835 Speaker 1: know that going forward, a future basketball fan will say 361 00:25:06,875 --> 00:25:09,555 Speaker 1: Bird was the best, and another will ask Larry or Sue. 362 00:25:10,075 --> 00:25:14,635 Speaker 1: Sue Bird recorded eighteen points and tennisists in Seattle's eighty 363 00:25:14,675 --> 00:25:17,675 Speaker 1: four win over Washington Sunday. She is the oldest player 364 00:25:17,715 --> 00:25:20,675 Speaker 1: in w NBA history to record a double double. She 365 00:25:20,835 --> 00:25:23,235 Speaker 1: is forty one. And here is the obligatory Howard Stern 366 00:25:23,835 --> 00:25:27,995 Speaker 1: w n b A. Sue Bird is a year older 367 00:25:27,995 --> 00:25:30,195 Speaker 1: than Yadda or Molina, who over the weekend did the 368 00:25:30,275 --> 00:25:32,435 Speaker 1: damnedest thing I've seen in sports in a long time. 369 00:25:32,835 --> 00:25:35,075 Speaker 1: This is supposed to be the last of his nineteen 370 00:25:35,155 --> 00:25:38,155 Speaker 1: seasons as the capture of the St. Louis Cardinals. Teams 371 00:25:38,195 --> 00:25:42,515 Speaker 1: in road cities have been honoring him. Phoenix Arizona Diamondbacks 372 00:25:43,035 --> 00:25:46,155 Speaker 1: was to wish farewell to him and teammate Albert Pooholes yesterday. 373 00:25:46,235 --> 00:25:48,715 Speaker 1: Molina did not show up for the game, took the 374 00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:52,475 Speaker 1: weekend off as the last quarter of the baseball season began, 375 00:25:52,715 --> 00:25:55,035 Speaker 1: he told the Cardinals he had to leave. It was 376 00:25:55,115 --> 00:25:57,995 Speaker 1: for business reasons. He went back to Puerto Rico to 377 00:25:58,075 --> 00:26:01,595 Speaker 1: watch the basketball team he plays try to clench the title. St. 378 00:26:01,675 --> 00:26:04,995 Speaker 1: Louis media reports every once in a while, ends in 379 00:26:05,035 --> 00:26:07,715 Speaker 1: a particular sport in a particular city will decide that 380 00:26:07,795 --> 00:26:10,715 Speaker 1: a player from their team is a Hall of Famer, 381 00:26:10,875 --> 00:26:13,875 Speaker 1: no doubt, and they will be incensed when it turns 382 00:26:13,915 --> 00:26:16,635 Speaker 1: out that people in other places do not think so. 383 00:26:17,475 --> 00:26:19,515 Speaker 1: Yadi Molina of the St. Louis Cardinals is one of 384 00:26:19,555 --> 00:26:23,155 Speaker 1: those players. Cardinals fans, a lot of St. Louis media 385 00:26:23,395 --> 00:26:26,795 Speaker 1: think he is a first ballot Baseball Hall of Fame electee. 386 00:26:27,595 --> 00:26:30,035 Speaker 1: I think not only will he be elected, but he 387 00:26:30,155 --> 00:26:31,715 Speaker 1: may not get enough votes to make it to a 388 00:26:31,795 --> 00:26:36,355 Speaker 1: second ballot. War wins above replacement is the all encompassing 389 00:26:36,395 --> 00:26:39,955 Speaker 1: baseball stat. It has its flaws, but it's useful for comparisons. 390 00:26:40,355 --> 00:26:43,475 Speaker 1: Molina has been on two World Championship teams and averaged 391 00:26:43,555 --> 00:26:46,715 Speaker 1: a war of three point one per one and sixty 392 00:26:46,755 --> 00:26:49,915 Speaker 1: two games season. Compare that to former Yankee catcher Jorge 393 00:26:49,995 --> 00:26:53,235 Speaker 1: Posada's three World championships and a three point eight war 394 00:26:53,915 --> 00:26:56,875 Speaker 1: or former Yankee and Red Sox catcher Elston Howard's four 395 00:26:56,995 --> 00:27:00,075 Speaker 1: World championships and at two point seven war, or former 396 00:27:00,155 --> 00:27:03,595 Speaker 1: Yankee catcher Thurman Munson's two World championships and a five 397 00:27:03,715 --> 00:27:08,115 Speaker 1: point two and wild war. What the Arizona Diamondbacks should 398 00:27:08,115 --> 00:27:11,155 Speaker 1: have given Yadier Molina as a farewell gift yesterday was 399 00:27:11,235 --> 00:27:28,355 Speaker 1: a memorial wreath for his Hall of Fame chances still ahead. 400 00:27:28,395 --> 00:27:31,035 Speaker 1: Buck Showalter locks the Yankees in the trainer's room to 401 00:27:31,075 --> 00:27:34,115 Speaker 1: teach me a lesson on this day twenty nine years ago. 402 00:27:35,435 --> 00:27:37,875 Speaker 1: First the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning 403 00:27:37,915 --> 00:27:41,675 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 404 00:27:43,875 --> 00:27:47,235 Speaker 1: The Bronze two c ann president Chris lick I was 405 00:27:47,315 --> 00:27:50,515 Speaker 1: reminded yesterday that he is the evil corporate butt kisser. 406 00:27:50,635 --> 00:27:54,395 Speaker 1: Frank Hatchett from the classic movie network Come to Life. 407 00:27:55,555 --> 00:27:59,235 Speaker 1: Thursday Licked let it leak that he was canceling CNN's 408 00:27:59,275 --> 00:28:02,235 Speaker 1: thirty year old media show Reliable Sources and firing its 409 00:28:02,275 --> 00:28:06,075 Speaker 1: host Brian Stelter, who was a bettona are of the 410 00:28:06,475 --> 00:28:11,795 Speaker 1: fascist crowd. Friday, Licked complained the story leaked and he 411 00:28:11,875 --> 00:28:14,635 Speaker 1: also told staffords quote, there will be more changes, and 412 00:28:14,755 --> 00:28:16,675 Speaker 1: you might not understand it or like it at all. 413 00:28:17,755 --> 00:28:21,755 Speaker 1: Plus there's Licks boss David Zaslav, who previously said America 414 00:28:21,835 --> 00:28:26,195 Speaker 1: needs a news network where everybody can come and be heard, Republicans, Democrats. 415 00:28:26,555 --> 00:28:30,115 Speaker 1: The stupidity of that, of course, is that Republicans long 416 00:28:30,155 --> 00:28:36,315 Speaker 1: ago rejected CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, Washington Post, New 417 00:28:36,355 --> 00:28:40,395 Speaker 1: York Post, Associated Press, Jean France Press. They've even now 418 00:28:40,515 --> 00:28:44,115 Speaker 1: begun to reject Fox. These are the viewers Zaslov and 419 00:28:44,235 --> 00:28:50,275 Speaker 1: Licked are seeking. The imaginary audience lebrons. The frauds behind 420 00:28:50,355 --> 00:28:53,035 Speaker 1: the World Climate Declaration pushed out over the weekend by 421 00:28:53,115 --> 00:28:56,555 Speaker 1: right wing climate deniers as drought covered two continents and 422 00:28:56,595 --> 00:29:02,755 Speaker 1: the Yancey River in China disappeared. Turns out this World 423 00:29:02,915 --> 00:29:06,875 Speaker 1: Climate Declaration is the product of the Climate Intelligence Foundation. 424 00:29:07,995 --> 00:29:11,235 Speaker 1: It starts with there is no climate emergency and reminds 425 00:29:11,315 --> 00:29:15,115 Speaker 1: us that carbon dioxide is quote plant food, the basis 426 00:29:15,195 --> 00:29:19,275 Speaker 1: of all life on Earth. The declaration is six four 427 00:29:19,435 --> 00:29:24,555 Speaker 1: words long words. There is no research sited at all, 428 00:29:25,515 --> 00:29:30,755 Speaker 1: and no climate scientists signed it. However, eight former employees 429 00:29:30,795 --> 00:29:34,755 Speaker 1: of the Shell Oil Company signed it but our winners. 430 00:29:35,075 --> 00:29:37,755 Speaker 1: The New York Daily News. First it was Alena Habba, 431 00:29:38,475 --> 00:29:43,755 Speaker 1: Trump's lawyer talking about the Marilago warrant, and the Judge 432 00:29:44,275 --> 00:29:49,315 Speaker 1: Bruce Reinhardt listened carefully. As far as Judge Ryanhold, I 433 00:29:49,555 --> 00:29:53,075 Speaker 1: still have this burning question as to why he felt 434 00:29:53,195 --> 00:30:00,395 Speaker 1: he needed to refuse himself. Yes, well that was earlier Friday. 435 00:30:00,475 --> 00:30:03,195 Speaker 1: It was the New York Daily News. Quote Federal Magistrate 436 00:30:03,355 --> 00:30:07,475 Speaker 1: Judge Bruce Rye and Hold ordered prosecutors to seek a 437 00:30:07,595 --> 00:30:12,835 Speaker 1: formal agreement. Reinhold may rule to immediately unseal the documents. 438 00:30:13,275 --> 00:30:22,635 Speaker 1: A two fur again Judge Bruce Rheinhart, Edward Ernest Judge 439 00:30:22,995 --> 00:30:29,395 Speaker 1: Reinhold from Fast Times at Ridgemont High The New York 440 00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:35,915 Speaker 1: Judge Bruce Reinhold, I love doing sixteen candles, Today's worst 441 00:30:36,475 --> 00:30:56,995 Speaker 1: parsons in the world. Finally, who are number one? Story 442 00:30:57,075 --> 00:30:59,315 Speaker 1: on the count? And and my favorite topic me and 443 00:30:59,515 --> 00:31:03,235 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell. The New York Yankees 444 00:31:03,275 --> 00:31:05,995 Speaker 1: were in their first pennant rate in five years. They 445 00:31:06,035 --> 00:31:08,635 Speaker 1: had reeled off eight wins in ten games to reach 446 00:31:08,675 --> 00:31:11,995 Speaker 1: a first place tie with the defending world champion Toronto 447 00:31:12,035 --> 00:31:16,875 Speaker 1: Blue Jays. It was Sunday August, and I was at 448 00:31:16,995 --> 00:31:21,315 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium just because we were about to start a 449 00:31:21,395 --> 00:31:23,555 Speaker 1: month of intensive preparations for the launch of the ill 450 00:31:23,635 --> 00:31:27,235 Speaker 1: fated ESPN. Two. Good evening and welcome to the end 451 00:31:27,235 --> 00:31:29,955 Speaker 1: of our careers that one. And this was probably going 452 00:31:29,995 --> 00:31:31,675 Speaker 1: to be my last chance to go to the city, 453 00:31:31,875 --> 00:31:36,155 Speaker 1: visit my folks, see a ball game, whatever untill further notice. 454 00:31:36,795 --> 00:31:39,195 Speaker 1: And here was my childhood team, the Yankees, with the 455 00:31:39,275 --> 00:31:42,955 Speaker 1: lineup that now included friends of mine like Danny Tarti, 456 00:31:42,955 --> 00:31:46,515 Speaker 1: Bill and Mike Diego and Don Mattingley against the Royals, 457 00:31:46,595 --> 00:31:49,235 Speaker 1: for whom my friends while we Joiner and David Cohne played, 458 00:31:49,795 --> 00:31:51,995 Speaker 1: and a seat awaiting me in the press box on 459 00:31:52,075 --> 00:31:55,915 Speaker 1: a beautiful late summer Sunday afternoon with just the earliest 460 00:31:56,035 --> 00:31:59,275 Speaker 1: hint of fall in the air and Bobby Darren singing 461 00:31:59,395 --> 00:32:04,115 Speaker 1: on the p A system, and the Yankees got crushed. 462 00:32:05,035 --> 00:32:08,675 Speaker 1: Kansas City started a pitcher named Chris Haney, who was 463 00:32:08,835 --> 00:32:12,555 Speaker 1: much less successful than his mediocre five point four seven e. 464 00:32:12,875 --> 00:32:16,395 Speaker 1: R A implied he would somehow last for eleven seasons 465 00:32:16,435 --> 00:32:20,475 Speaker 1: and become statistically one of the worst pictures of a generation. 466 00:32:21,235 --> 00:32:24,155 Speaker 1: And that day the Yankees got at least one base 467 00:32:24,275 --> 00:32:27,475 Speaker 1: runner on in eight of the nine innings against Chris Haney, 468 00:32:27,595 --> 00:32:31,355 Speaker 1: and he still shut them out seven to nothing. And 469 00:32:31,475 --> 00:32:34,595 Speaker 1: you could sense right then that whatever it was that 470 00:32:34,675 --> 00:32:37,875 Speaker 1: a team needed to have to hold its own down 471 00:32:37,955 --> 00:32:44,515 Speaker 1: the stretch, the New York Yankees did not have it. Still, 472 00:32:44,595 --> 00:32:46,875 Speaker 1: it was fun to visit with reporter friends, some of 473 00:32:46,915 --> 00:32:48,955 Speaker 1: whom I had known since I had broken in fourteen 474 00:32:49,035 --> 00:32:52,755 Speaker 1: years earlier, and some I hadn't seen since then. The 475 00:32:52,875 --> 00:32:55,475 Speaker 1: only oddity was that at some point during the game, 476 00:32:55,555 --> 00:32:58,355 Speaker 1: one of the kids from the Yankees media relations department 477 00:32:58,475 --> 00:33:01,835 Speaker 1: came over and asked me for my I D. And 478 00:33:01,955 --> 00:33:03,915 Speaker 1: when I showed him my I D he asked me 479 00:33:03,955 --> 00:33:07,075 Speaker 1: if I was planning to go into the Yankee clubhouse afterwards. 480 00:33:07,555 --> 00:33:09,835 Speaker 1: I said, funny you said to ask that I am 481 00:33:09,915 --> 00:33:13,115 Speaker 1: headed downtown for dinner. But I missed my friend Danny 482 00:33:13,155 --> 00:33:15,435 Speaker 1: Chartable before the game for some reason, and I just 483 00:33:15,515 --> 00:33:17,115 Speaker 1: want to pop in and say hello. And the kid 484 00:33:17,195 --> 00:33:21,035 Speaker 1: said thanks, sorry to trouble you, and he left, and 485 00:33:21,115 --> 00:33:23,755 Speaker 1: the radio reporter I was sitting next to Don Gould, 486 00:33:24,275 --> 00:33:26,515 Speaker 1: said that that was one of the strangest things he 487 00:33:26,635 --> 00:33:29,595 Speaker 1: had seen in that press box, and he added and nowadays, 488 00:33:29,755 --> 00:33:33,635 Speaker 1: all you see up here is strange things. As the 489 00:33:33,715 --> 00:33:36,915 Speaker 1: Yankees went out limply in the ninth, leaving Bernie Williams 490 00:33:37,075 --> 00:33:40,915 Speaker 1: stranded on first, naturally, I waited until all the reporters 491 00:33:40,995 --> 00:33:43,875 Speaker 1: with real deadlines had taken the first couple of elevator 492 00:33:43,955 --> 00:33:46,515 Speaker 1: trips down to the Yankee Clubhouse in the basement. Then 493 00:33:46,555 --> 00:33:50,035 Speaker 1: then I leisurely made my way downstairs. I navigated the 494 00:33:50,115 --> 00:33:52,915 Speaker 1: catacombs of the stadium basement as I had since it 495 00:33:52,995 --> 00:33:56,195 Speaker 1: had opened in the nineteen seventy six, and felt warm 496 00:33:56,355 --> 00:34:00,275 Speaker 1: and nostalgic and at peace. I showed my past to 497 00:34:00,355 --> 00:34:02,795 Speaker 1: the guard at the clubhouse door and walked into the 498 00:34:02,835 --> 00:34:06,835 Speaker 1: clubhouse to find the Yankee Clubhouse lacking the one thing 499 00:34:06,955 --> 00:34:09,955 Speaker 1: it had literally always featured in each of the dozens 500 00:34:10,275 --> 00:34:13,555 Speaker 1: and dozens of times I'd previously entered it since I 501 00:34:13,715 --> 00:34:20,675 Speaker 1: was seventeen years old. Players. There were no Yankee players 502 00:34:21,475 --> 00:34:26,115 Speaker 1: in the Yankee Clubhouse. No Yankees, no Yankees still in uniform, 503 00:34:26,395 --> 00:34:31,115 Speaker 1: no Yankees half dressed, no Yankees not dressed, No sounds 504 00:34:31,235 --> 00:34:36,875 Speaker 1: of other Yankees in the showers off to the left. Nothing. Well, 505 00:34:36,955 --> 00:34:41,315 Speaker 1: that wasn't quite right. I realized something after about a 506 00:34:41,355 --> 00:34:46,435 Speaker 1: minute of walking slowly from locker to locker, thinking, isn't 507 00:34:46,475 --> 00:34:49,915 Speaker 1: this where they used to be? Maybe Mattingly is crouching 508 00:34:49,955 --> 00:34:53,555 Speaker 1: out of sight over here, and maybe Tartable is hiding 509 00:34:53,635 --> 00:34:57,555 Speaker 1: behind his suit. After that, oh for three, I realized 510 00:34:57,555 --> 00:35:00,275 Speaker 1: that while there were no Yankees in the Yankee Clubhouse, 511 00:35:00,315 --> 00:35:03,435 Speaker 1: there were reporters in the Yankee Clubhouse, and they were 512 00:35:03,555 --> 00:35:09,675 Speaker 1: all staring at me, and angrily staring at me. I 513 00:35:09,755 --> 00:35:11,795 Speaker 1: said to them, might have been my friend from upstairs, 514 00:35:11,875 --> 00:35:13,795 Speaker 1: Don Gould, what the hell is going on? And he 515 00:35:13,915 --> 00:35:17,195 Speaker 1: said testily, I don't know. Why don't you tell us? 516 00:35:18,515 --> 00:35:21,955 Speaker 1: The reporters around him, who had never taken their eyes 517 00:35:22,075 --> 00:35:25,715 Speaker 1: off me, now murmured quietly, but with a subtext of 518 00:35:25,915 --> 00:35:33,395 Speaker 1: threat and menace and vengeance in their indistinct gurgling. Just 519 00:35:33,795 --> 00:35:36,635 Speaker 1: at this point Arthur Richmond, who had been the Mets 520 00:35:36,755 --> 00:35:39,435 Speaker 1: public relations man forever and was now a Yankees vice 521 00:35:39,515 --> 00:35:42,955 Speaker 1: president of something for some reason, and more importantly, was 522 00:35:43,075 --> 00:35:45,875 Speaker 1: the surviving brother of the great baseball reporter Milt Richmond, 523 00:35:45,875 --> 00:35:48,115 Speaker 1: who had so helped me at the start of my career. 524 00:35:48,195 --> 00:35:51,675 Speaker 1: At u p I, Arthur tapped me on the shoulder 525 00:35:51,715 --> 00:35:55,595 Speaker 1: and said, you are Keith Ald woman right, and I said, yes, 526 00:35:55,835 --> 00:35:57,995 Speaker 1: we've met before. I used to work with your brother. 527 00:35:58,795 --> 00:36:01,555 Speaker 1: And he did not look happily at me. And I 528 00:36:01,595 --> 00:36:04,155 Speaker 1: asked him if he wanted to see my pass or 529 00:36:04,235 --> 00:36:08,395 Speaker 1: my eye d or my identifying birthmarks. Arthur did not smile. 530 00:36:09,075 --> 00:36:10,995 Speaker 1: The manager would like to see you in his office. 531 00:36:11,875 --> 00:36:14,115 Speaker 1: I still didn't have the faintest idea what was going on? 532 00:36:15,115 --> 00:36:17,515 Speaker 1: Have I been sent down to the miners, Arthur, I 533 00:36:17,635 --> 00:36:23,995 Speaker 1: asked jauntily. Yes, yes you have, Richmond answered with utter seriousness. 534 00:36:25,595 --> 00:36:27,795 Speaker 1: Arthur Richmond escorted me to the little room on the 535 00:36:27,875 --> 00:36:29,835 Speaker 1: home plate side of the clubhouse, in which I had 536 00:36:29,875 --> 00:36:32,075 Speaker 1: once seen the late Billy Martin shout at a coach, 537 00:36:32,155 --> 00:36:34,755 Speaker 1: two pitchers, three writers, and a clubhouse attendant who had 538 00:36:34,795 --> 00:36:38,475 Speaker 1: been with the team since the current occupant of that 539 00:36:38,555 --> 00:36:42,035 Speaker 1: tiny office. The manager rose from his desk, Keith high 540 00:36:42,075 --> 00:36:45,035 Speaker 1: Buck Showalter, I'm the manager here. I reminded him that 541 00:36:45,395 --> 00:36:47,715 Speaker 1: we had done a lengthy interview for ESPN Radio the 542 00:36:47,795 --> 00:36:50,835 Speaker 1: year before. That's right, I had forgotten, I apologized. Listen, 543 00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:53,275 Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you. I think you've brought something 544 00:36:53,355 --> 00:36:55,515 Speaker 1: refreshing and fun to Sports Center. I watch you all 545 00:36:55,555 --> 00:36:58,195 Speaker 1: the time, especially when we're on the road. You know 546 00:36:58,355 --> 00:37:00,195 Speaker 1: the game to that that's important, But I have to 547 00:37:00,235 --> 00:37:03,555 Speaker 1: tell you my players have a problem with what you do. 548 00:37:05,035 --> 00:37:08,755 Speaker 1: And on that surprise, players were like that. In very 549 00:37:08,795 --> 00:37:12,435 Speaker 1: few sportscasters said anything negative about players. They certainly did 550 00:37:12,515 --> 00:37:16,435 Speaker 1: not make jokes or puns about them. I saw you 551 00:37:16,515 --> 00:37:18,635 Speaker 1: on the field before the game. I heard some of 552 00:37:18,675 --> 00:37:22,195 Speaker 1: our guys show, Walter continued, like, like Paul O'Neal and 553 00:37:22,275 --> 00:37:25,555 Speaker 1: Wade Boggs and Joe Girardi. They were they were talking 554 00:37:25,555 --> 00:37:27,315 Speaker 1: about how they were thinking about going out there on 555 00:37:27,355 --> 00:37:31,835 Speaker 1: the field and punching you in the head. I flashed 556 00:37:31,875 --> 00:37:38,035 Speaker 1: back suddenly to nine when Boggs went on Heraldo Rivera's 557 00:37:38,035 --> 00:37:40,875 Speaker 1: show and announced he was a sex addict, and how 558 00:37:40,955 --> 00:37:43,115 Speaker 1: after checking with a few of his Red Sox teammates 559 00:37:43,155 --> 00:37:44,875 Speaker 1: whom I knew from the year I worked in Boston, 560 00:37:44,915 --> 00:37:46,795 Speaker 1: who said that was nonsense. I went on the air 561 00:37:46,875 --> 00:37:48,875 Speaker 1: in my sports cast on the local station in l A, 562 00:37:49,355 --> 00:37:53,955 Speaker 1: having inter cut Boggs's weepy comments to Haraldo with the 563 00:37:54,155 --> 00:37:58,235 Speaker 1: music video from Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love. I had 564 00:37:58,315 --> 00:38:02,875 Speaker 1: to say it was pretty funny and also might have 565 00:38:02,915 --> 00:38:04,835 Speaker 1: been the meanest thing I ever did. On t V. 566 00:38:06,475 --> 00:38:08,675 Speaker 1: Boggs wanted to punch me in the head on the 567 00:38:08,795 --> 00:38:14,195 Speaker 1: field Yankee Stadium. That checked out? Go on, I said 568 00:38:14,235 --> 00:38:16,915 Speaker 1: to Buck show Walter. In fact, the players are all 569 00:38:16,955 --> 00:38:18,835 Speaker 1: staying in the training room in the back until they've 570 00:38:18,835 --> 00:38:22,075 Speaker 1: been assured you've left the clubhouse and you won't be returning. 571 00:38:22,475 --> 00:38:27,155 Speaker 1: They voted unanimously. I thought about this. When did they 572 00:38:27,235 --> 00:38:30,075 Speaker 1: vote unanimously while they were getting shut out by the 573 00:38:30,115 --> 00:38:33,355 Speaker 1: worst picture of a generation that did not check out? Now, 574 00:38:33,435 --> 00:38:35,555 Speaker 1: Like I said, person, I like what you do, but 575 00:38:35,675 --> 00:38:37,875 Speaker 1: I think you may want to consider the implications of 576 00:38:37,915 --> 00:38:40,955 Speaker 1: what not having any access to players ever again will 577 00:38:40,995 --> 00:38:42,955 Speaker 1: have on your career, especially in such a high profile 578 00:38:43,035 --> 00:38:45,915 Speaker 1: program at Sports Center. I thought about it briefly, and 579 00:38:45,955 --> 00:38:49,195 Speaker 1: I smiled at Buck show Walter, none whatsoever. Actually, I'm 580 00:38:49,195 --> 00:38:51,395 Speaker 1: a studio guy. I never have to go to games. 581 00:38:51,515 --> 00:38:54,115 Speaker 1: And more to the point, I've just left Sports Center 582 00:38:54,195 --> 00:38:58,155 Speaker 1: for this new ESPN two network because my boss has 583 00:38:58,195 --> 00:39:01,115 Speaker 1: said it's basically going to be a network that's designed 584 00:39:01,115 --> 00:39:05,395 Speaker 1: around my sense of humor. Buck show Walter was thirty 585 00:39:05,435 --> 00:39:07,035 Speaker 1: seven years old then, and at the end of his 586 00:39:07,115 --> 00:39:09,555 Speaker 1: second year as a major league manager, his team having 587 00:39:09,675 --> 00:39:11,995 Speaker 1: just achieved a tie for first place, had just gotten 588 00:39:12,035 --> 00:39:14,075 Speaker 1: the air let out of its balloon by an epically 589 00:39:14,155 --> 00:39:16,715 Speaker 1: bad picture on a not so good team. Plus they 590 00:39:16,755 --> 00:39:19,955 Speaker 1: were due on a flight for Chicago and the bus 591 00:39:20,155 --> 00:39:25,355 Speaker 1: was supposed to leave in an hour, but Paul O'Neill, Wade, Boggs, 592 00:39:25,355 --> 00:39:30,515 Speaker 1: and Joe Girardi were worried about some dumb sportscaster making jokes. 593 00:39:32,075 --> 00:39:37,115 Speaker 1: I knew they were doomed. And if manager Buck Showalter 594 00:39:37,235 --> 00:39:40,435 Speaker 1: actually let Paul O'Neil, Wade, bogs and Joe Girardi worried 595 00:39:40,435 --> 00:39:44,035 Speaker 1: about some dumb sportscaster and his jokes Buck show Walter 596 00:39:44,195 --> 00:39:47,275 Speaker 1: two was doomed. And sure enough they would lose twenty 597 00:39:47,315 --> 00:39:49,555 Speaker 1: of their last thirty seven games after that day and 598 00:39:49,635 --> 00:39:51,635 Speaker 1: not make the playoffs for two years, and not actually 599 00:39:51,675 --> 00:39:54,435 Speaker 1: get anywhere in the playoffs until after show Walter was 600 00:39:54,515 --> 00:39:58,795 Speaker 1: fired and replaced by my friend Joe Tory. Right around 601 00:39:58,875 --> 00:40:01,115 Speaker 1: then after the firing, I was part of the annual 602 00:40:01,435 --> 00:40:06,075 Speaker 1: ESPN Awards show the SPS. It was the post SP's party, 603 00:40:06,155 --> 00:40:07,715 Speaker 1: and I went to get a drink and turned a 604 00:40:07,795 --> 00:40:11,475 Speaker 1: corner and they're coming towards me. Were Paul O'Neill, Wade, 605 00:40:11,515 --> 00:40:15,115 Speaker 1: Boggs and Joe Girardi. I was just about to gulp 606 00:40:15,195 --> 00:40:19,795 Speaker 1: when O'Neill shouted, there he is our favorite ESPN guy. 607 00:40:20,835 --> 00:40:26,235 Speaker 1: Handshakes all of them. Girardi said he was amazed every 608 00:40:26,275 --> 00:40:28,195 Speaker 1: time I ripped a player, he said it was somebody 609 00:40:28,275 --> 00:40:31,315 Speaker 1: he also didn't like. How did I know? Bog said, 610 00:40:31,435 --> 00:40:33,875 Speaker 1: somebody told me that you put my Heraldo appearance into 611 00:40:33,915 --> 00:40:35,915 Speaker 1: that Robert Palmer song. If you got a tape of that, 612 00:40:35,995 --> 00:40:38,555 Speaker 1: I'd like to see it. I told them the buckshow 613 00:40:38,595 --> 00:40:43,435 Speaker 1: Walter story. Immediately. Oh god, I remember that, said O'Neill. 614 00:40:43,675 --> 00:40:45,475 Speaker 1: He was pissed. You were in the ballpark and we 615 00:40:45,555 --> 00:40:47,515 Speaker 1: got shut out, and he made us stay in the 616 00:40:47,595 --> 00:40:49,715 Speaker 1: trainer's room and not come out till after you left. 617 00:40:49,755 --> 00:40:53,115 Speaker 1: And god, it was terrible. The smile vanished from Joe 618 00:40:53,155 --> 00:40:56,435 Speaker 1: Girardi's face. Buck did stuff like that all the time. 619 00:40:56,715 --> 00:40:58,675 Speaker 1: We should all have a drink and talk about it. 620 00:40:59,715 --> 00:41:01,675 Speaker 1: We all had a drink and we talked about it. 621 00:41:03,555 --> 00:41:06,595 Speaker 1: Years later, I was telling my late friend Pedro Gomez 622 00:41:06,635 --> 00:41:08,995 Speaker 1: of ESPN the story, and he said, show Walter used 623 00:41:08,995 --> 00:41:11,915 Speaker 1: to do this to him when Shoe Walter was managing 624 00:41:11,955 --> 00:41:15,195 Speaker 1: the Arizona Diamondbacks. And Pedro was a beat reporter for 625 00:41:15,235 --> 00:41:18,955 Speaker 1: a newspaper in Phoenix. You know Colburn wants to beat 626 00:41:19,035 --> 00:41:22,075 Speaker 1: you up, but I stopped him. He quoted show Walter 627 00:41:22,195 --> 00:41:26,435 Speaker 1: as saying Greg Colburn was a six ft nine pound 628 00:41:26,515 --> 00:41:30,915 Speaker 1: weightlifter from California's Inland Empire who seemed to play baseball 629 00:41:30,995 --> 00:41:34,955 Speaker 1: in his spare time. So Pedro said, I confronted him 630 00:41:34,995 --> 00:41:36,915 Speaker 1: one day and he said, dude, what are you talking about. 631 00:41:36,995 --> 00:41:40,915 Speaker 1: You know, Buck just makes this crap up. The Yankees 632 00:41:41,035 --> 00:41:43,955 Speaker 1: fired Buck show Walter in as I mentioned, and won 633 00:41:43,995 --> 00:41:49,075 Speaker 1: the World Series. The Diamondbacks fired him in two thousand 634 00:41:49,115 --> 00:41:51,795 Speaker 1: and won the World Series in two thousand one. Then 635 00:41:51,875 --> 00:41:55,435 Speaker 1: he went to work in of all places, the studio 636 00:41:55,635 --> 00:41:58,795 Speaker 1: at ESPN for two years. Then he got another managing 637 00:41:58,875 --> 00:42:01,315 Speaker 1: job in Texas, got fired from there, went back to 638 00:42:01,715 --> 00:42:04,595 Speaker 1: ESPN for three more years, and then became the manager 639 00:42:04,715 --> 00:42:09,355 Speaker 1: at Baltimore in I was at the Baltimore spring training 640 00:42:09,395 --> 00:42:13,035 Speaker 1: camp one day that March and I see walking towards 641 00:42:13,075 --> 00:42:14,595 Speaker 1: me from the other side of the field trying to 642 00:42:14,675 --> 00:42:18,635 Speaker 1: capture my attention. Buck show Walter. I am now fifty 643 00:42:18,675 --> 00:42:20,995 Speaker 1: one years old. He is now fifty three years old. 644 00:42:21,275 --> 00:42:25,075 Speaker 1: It is nearly seventeen years since the day he locked 645 00:42:25,195 --> 00:42:27,875 Speaker 1: his entire team in the trainer's room in the middle 646 00:42:27,875 --> 00:42:30,755 Speaker 1: of a Pennant race in a complicated ritual that would 647 00:42:30,755 --> 00:42:33,835 Speaker 1: have been too labyrinthine, a plot for Tom Clancy just 648 00:42:33,955 --> 00:42:39,395 Speaker 1: to express some cheesy grudge against the way I did sportscasts. Hey, 649 00:42:39,995 --> 00:42:42,555 Speaker 1: Joe Walter said when he finally reached me, when I 650 00:42:42,675 --> 00:42:44,595 Speaker 1: pulled that stunt on you in Yankee Stadium is at 651 00:42:44,675 --> 00:42:48,595 Speaker 1: ninety three, We shook hands as I laughed, and I 652 00:42:48,675 --> 00:42:51,595 Speaker 1: told him it was August. I can get you the 653 00:42:51,635 --> 00:42:54,235 Speaker 1: exact date if you needed. I'm sorry I had not. 654 00:42:54,435 --> 00:42:56,715 Speaker 1: I had not been in television yet. I didn't get 655 00:42:56,755 --> 00:42:59,835 Speaker 1: any of it. I just thought you guys came in 656 00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:03,435 Speaker 1: and shouted your heads off and then went home. I 657 00:43:03,515 --> 00:43:06,195 Speaker 1: didn't get it, obviously. Why why didn't you tell me 658 00:43:06,275 --> 00:43:09,795 Speaker 1: off or something? He asked. I shrugged. I said, well, 659 00:43:09,955 --> 00:43:14,315 Speaker 1: there was you. There was six coaches players there versus me, 660 00:43:14,995 --> 00:43:16,875 Speaker 1: plus all the reporters who were angry at me, who 661 00:43:16,915 --> 00:43:20,755 Speaker 1: were on deadline. What if you were telling the truth now? 662 00:43:21,195 --> 00:43:25,555 Speaker 1: Buck laughed and apologized again. We have been professional friends 663 00:43:25,595 --> 00:43:28,195 Speaker 1: ever since. Whenever I have seen him, we compare the 664 00:43:28,235 --> 00:43:32,115 Speaker 1: cruelties of aging and talk about politics and television. I 665 00:43:32,195 --> 00:43:36,035 Speaker 1: saw him two Saturdays ago, after four more years in TV, 666 00:43:36,155 --> 00:43:38,235 Speaker 1: when it looked like his managing career might be over. 667 00:43:38,355 --> 00:43:40,475 Speaker 1: He is back running the New York Mets at the 668 00:43:40,515 --> 00:43:42,755 Speaker 1: age of sixty six and doing a damn fine job 669 00:43:42,835 --> 00:43:44,595 Speaker 1: of it. And every once in a while I bring 670 00:43:44,715 --> 00:43:46,955 Speaker 1: up the trainer's room full of Yankees and he flinches 671 00:43:46,995 --> 00:43:50,555 Speaker 1: and says, you know, there's one last thing about it 672 00:43:50,635 --> 00:43:56,795 Speaker 1: that now I cannot possibly understand that trainer's room that 673 00:43:56,995 --> 00:44:02,395 Speaker 1: was really tiny. How did the players all fit in there? 674 00:44:12,475 --> 00:44:14,115 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. This 675 00:44:14,195 --> 00:44:16,395 Speaker 1: is where I ask you to rate and review the podcast. 676 00:44:16,955 --> 00:44:20,515 Speaker 1: Lie tell them it's outstanding, and you don't want to 677 00:44:20,595 --> 00:44:22,395 Speaker 1: hit me in the head like the Yankee players did. 678 00:44:23,555 --> 00:44:25,035 Speaker 1: Only that they did, And that's right. It was Buck 679 00:44:25,075 --> 00:44:28,275 Speaker 1: show Alter making it all up. The Countdown theme from 680 00:44:28,315 --> 00:44:31,835 Speaker 1: Beethoven's Ninth arranged, produced and performed by Countdown musical directors 681 00:44:31,875 --> 00:44:36,035 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. All orchestration and keyboards 682 00:44:36,075 --> 00:44:39,875 Speaker 1: by John Philip Chanelle. Guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray. 683 00:44:39,995 --> 00:44:43,675 Speaker 1: Produced by t Ko Brothers. The other Beethoven selections have 684 00:44:43,795 --> 00:44:46,355 Speaker 1: been arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 685 00:44:46,955 --> 00:44:52,595 Speaker 1: Our sports music, the Olberman ESPN two theme, written by 686 00:44:52,675 --> 00:44:56,315 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis courtesy ESPN, incorporated musical comments here and 687 00:44:56,395 --> 00:45:00,075 Speaker 1: there by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. 688 00:45:00,635 --> 00:45:04,475 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Tony Kornheiser announcing his 689 00:45:04,675 --> 00:45:08,075 Speaker 1: his full time job. He's Michael Wilbon's announcer on ESPN. 690 00:45:08,955 --> 00:45:13,075 Speaker 1: Let's countdown for this day since Donald Trump's first attempted 691 00:45:13,155 --> 00:45:16,435 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 692 00:45:17,035 --> 00:45:19,955 Speaker 1: A new episode tomorrow till then. I'm Keith all Reman. 693 00:45:20,275 --> 00:45:33,235 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 694 00:45:33,355 --> 00:45:36,315 Speaker 1: with Keith all Reman is a production of I Heart Radio. 695 00:45:36,595 --> 00:45:39,515 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the i 696 00:45:39,635 --> 00:45:43,995 Speaker 1: heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.