1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,595 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. There's 2 00:00:21,835 --> 00:00:28,435 Speaker 1: nothing better than a good nap now. Trump's head slowly dropped, 3 00:00:28,675 --> 00:00:33,315 Speaker 1: his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself, 4 00:00:33,355 --> 00:00:37,995 Speaker 1: then his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back, 5 00:00:38,515 --> 00:00:42,035 Speaker 1: his head drops for a third time. He shakes his shoulders, 6 00:00:42,475 --> 00:00:48,915 Speaker 1: eyes closed, still, his head drops. Finally, he pops his 7 00:00:49,075 --> 00:00:53,875 Speaker 1: eyes open. Frank Runyon, Pool Reporter and New York Courts Reporter, 8 00:00:53,995 --> 00:00:57,995 Speaker 1: Law three sixty ten thirty am, April sixteenth, twenty twenty four. 9 00:00:59,195 --> 00:01:02,555 Speaker 1: My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, 10 00:01:02,915 --> 00:01:05,635 Speaker 1: as though of hemlock I had drunk or emptied some 11 00:01:05,755 --> 00:01:10,595 Speaker 1: dull opiate to the drain. John Keats owed to a nightingale, 12 00:01:10,635 --> 00:01:14,755 Speaker 1: May eighteen nineteen. Trump is leaning back and his eyes 13 00:01:14,795 --> 00:01:21,595 Speaker 1: appear to be closed. His head is occasionally tilting. Isaac Arnsdorf, 14 00:01:21,675 --> 00:01:25,355 Speaker 1: Washington Post Reporter, three thirty five PM, April sixteenth, twenty 15 00:01:25,435 --> 00:01:29,315 Speaker 1: twenty four. Fly ball to Wright. Winfield goes back to 16 00:01:29,395 --> 00:01:31,635 Speaker 1: the wall. He hits his head on the wall and 17 00:01:31,715 --> 00:01:34,595 Speaker 1: it rolls off. It's rolling all the way back to 18 00:01:34,715 --> 00:01:39,715 Speaker 1: second base. This is a terrible thing. Jerry Coleman San 19 00:01:39,795 --> 00:01:46,315 Speaker 1: Diego Padres baseball broadcast circa nineteen seventy seven. They finished 20 00:01:46,355 --> 00:01:51,155 Speaker 1: for the day and will resume tomorrow. Justice Merschawan first 21 00:01:51,155 --> 00:01:53,835 Speaker 1: admonishing Trump for gesturing and talking in the direction of 22 00:01:53,875 --> 00:01:57,435 Speaker 1: a jury candidate. Your client was audibly uttering, he told 23 00:01:57,475 --> 00:02:00,835 Speaker 1: defendant Jay's attorneys. It was audible, he was gesturing, and 24 00:02:00,875 --> 00:02:03,395 Speaker 1: he was speaking in the direction of the juror. I 25 00:02:03,435 --> 00:02:06,435 Speaker 1: will not have any jury intimidated in the court room. 26 00:02:07,515 --> 00:02:11,075 Speaker 1: I was surprised Trump didn't just reply, sorry, talking in 27 00:02:11,155 --> 00:02:14,835 Speaker 1: my sleep. Trump then left to exploit a crime that 28 00:02:14,915 --> 00:02:18,475 Speaker 1: happened at a Harlem bodega, possibly his first time in 29 00:02:18,595 --> 00:02:22,275 Speaker 1: Harlem in his goddamned life. And it looks like, despite 30 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:26,195 Speaker 1: all the doomsayers me included, they will start the Trump 31 00:02:26,235 --> 00:02:30,835 Speaker 1: election interference trial next Monday, nine thirty am opening statements. 32 00:02:31,155 --> 00:02:34,475 Speaker 1: That is what Justice Merschaan told the court just before 33 00:02:34,475 --> 00:02:38,075 Speaker 1: shutting down yesterday after he had seated seven of the 34 00:02:38,195 --> 00:02:42,515 Speaker 1: eighteen jurors required, again validating the veteran legal reporters who 35 00:02:42,555 --> 00:02:46,355 Speaker 1: say it is surprisingly easy, especially in New York, to 36 00:02:46,475 --> 00:02:50,555 Speaker 1: find enough people who don't know anything about anything to 37 00:02:50,715 --> 00:02:54,275 Speaker 1: fill up a jury. I had forgotten my two days 38 00:02:54,275 --> 00:02:58,075 Speaker 1: in the New York jury pool room here eleven years ago, 39 00:02:58,355 --> 00:03:01,355 Speaker 1: when I deliberately sat near the guy in charge so 40 00:03:01,435 --> 00:03:03,555 Speaker 1: I could hear the kinds of questions he had to 41 00:03:03,555 --> 00:03:06,835 Speaker 1: deal with. For about an hour, I was terrified for 42 00:03:06,915 --> 00:03:10,435 Speaker 1: the future of humanity, I mean the future of humanity 43 00:03:10,475 --> 00:03:13,235 Speaker 1: for the remainder of that week, also for the future 44 00:03:13,275 --> 00:03:15,395 Speaker 1: of this poor man's psyche, and I asked if I 45 00:03:15,395 --> 00:03:20,395 Speaker 1: could go get him coffee or heroine or something. There 46 00:03:20,435 --> 00:03:24,395 Speaker 1: is already a four person dur B four hundred lives 47 00:03:24,395 --> 00:03:28,115 Speaker 1: in West Harlem, but originally was from Ireland. Was a waiter, 48 00:03:28,275 --> 00:03:31,715 Speaker 1: now in sales, some college. His spouses in school. They 49 00:03:31,715 --> 00:03:34,995 Speaker 1: have no children. He's outdoorsy. In his spare time, he 50 00:03:35,035 --> 00:03:38,155 Speaker 1: reads the New York Times and the Daily Mail. Gets 51 00:03:38,155 --> 00:03:43,475 Speaker 1: the rest of his news from MSNBC and Fox. Repeating 52 00:03:43,475 --> 00:03:46,155 Speaker 1: what I said before, It is surprisingly easy to find 53 00:03:46,275 --> 00:03:48,395 Speaker 1: enough people in New York who don't know anything about 54 00:03:48,435 --> 00:03:53,435 Speaker 1: anything to fill up a jury or to be the defendant. 55 00:03:53,915 --> 00:03:59,275 Speaker 1: That is Trump's latest claim. He knows nothing, billionaire businessman, 56 00:03:59,435 --> 00:04:02,955 Speaker 1: greatest mind of this or any other generation. But when 57 00:04:02,955 --> 00:04:05,795 Speaker 1: it comes to paying off Stormy Dan to bury her 58 00:04:05,875 --> 00:04:10,355 Speaker 1: story to illegally keep bad facts about himself away from 59 00:04:10,395 --> 00:04:13,275 Speaker 1: the eyes of the electorate weeks before the election, and 60 00:04:13,315 --> 00:04:15,795 Speaker 1: then turning the thing into a clear crime by trying 61 00:04:15,795 --> 00:04:19,035 Speaker 1: to write it off as a business expense. He knows nothing. 62 00:04:19,715 --> 00:04:22,355 Speaker 1: He doesn't know the accountant, he doesn't know the lawyer, 63 00:04:22,835 --> 00:04:25,315 Speaker 1: he doesn't know the law. He didn't know anything about 64 00:04:25,315 --> 00:04:28,075 Speaker 1: the document, he didn't know anything about the deduction. He 65 00:04:28,235 --> 00:04:30,835 Speaker 1: just signed whatever they put in front of him, because 66 00:04:30,875 --> 00:04:35,275 Speaker 1: the billionaire businessman knows nothing about his own business. 67 00:04:35,835 --> 00:04:38,795 Speaker 2: Was lawyer and marking down. 68 00:04:38,675 --> 00:04:43,275 Speaker 1: A legal expense on account I know, marking down a 69 00:04:43,595 --> 00:04:47,795 Speaker 1: legal expense. That's exactly what it was. And you did 70 00:04:47,835 --> 00:04:53,675 Speaker 1: indict over no wonder. He keeps falling asleep in the courtroom. 71 00:04:54,675 --> 00:05:00,555 Speaker 1: This business stuff, it's all so boring to him. And honestly, 72 00:05:01,075 --> 00:05:05,995 Speaker 1: your Trump, on Monday, they literally catch you. How do 73 00:05:06,035 --> 00:05:09,395 Speaker 1: you possibly go in there on Tuesday and get caught napping? 74 00:05:09,595 --> 00:05:14,395 Speaker 1: At least twice more? One video or one rapid shutter 75 00:05:14,555 --> 00:05:18,595 Speaker 1: sequence of still pictures of Trump's head slowly dropped, his 76 00:05:18,675 --> 00:05:23,235 Speaker 1: eyes closed, it jerked back upward, he adjusts himself, then 77 00:05:23,275 --> 00:05:27,715 Speaker 1: his head droops again. One video of that or a 78 00:05:27,755 --> 00:05:30,635 Speaker 1: couple of good pictures, and we don't have to watch 79 00:05:30,675 --> 00:05:33,115 Speaker 1: the rest of this trial to see how it turns out. 80 00:05:33,275 --> 00:05:46,875 Speaker 1: He would be done. The New Republic asked the question 81 00:05:46,995 --> 00:05:51,115 Speaker 1: before yesterday's Marjorie Taylor Green debacle, and before Tom Cotton 82 00:05:51,115 --> 00:05:53,795 Speaker 1: suggested Americans protesting about the war in the Middle East 83 00:05:53,795 --> 00:05:57,395 Speaker 1: should be run over and killed by other Americans who 84 00:05:57,395 --> 00:06:01,155 Speaker 1: are angry about traffic. But it doesn't change much, and 85 00:06:01,155 --> 00:06:03,955 Speaker 1: it certainly doesn't require them to change the picture under 86 00:06:03,995 --> 00:06:07,955 Speaker 1: the startling question in their headline. The picture is a 87 00:06:08,115 --> 00:06:12,435 Speaker 1: rare one of Congresswoman Green with her mouth shut, and 88 00:06:12,515 --> 00:06:16,555 Speaker 1: the New Republic's question is, quote, Russia is buying politicians 89 00:06:16,595 --> 00:06:21,475 Speaker 1: in Europe? Is it happening here too? The message from 90 00:06:21,475 --> 00:06:26,155 Speaker 1: the magazine is clear, looking at you, Marge, the possibility 91 00:06:26,155 --> 00:06:29,915 Speaker 1: of that, never mind influencers and conspiracies. It boils down 92 00:06:29,955 --> 00:06:33,395 Speaker 1: to the Eric Idol Ruttles satirical song All you need 93 00:06:33,515 --> 00:06:37,995 Speaker 1: is cash, the possibility of that momentarily. First, what Cotton 94 00:06:38,035 --> 00:06:41,115 Speaker 1: and Green have now done. Senator Tom Cotton, who last 95 00:06:41,155 --> 00:06:44,675 Speaker 1: reminded America that he may be our worst senator, even 96 00:06:44,795 --> 00:06:49,075 Speaker 1: worse than Marsha Blackburn or Grassley or Cinema, reminded us 97 00:06:49,115 --> 00:06:50,755 Speaker 1: of that when The New York Times let him write 98 00:06:50,755 --> 00:06:53,115 Speaker 1: an op ed saying Trump should use the military to 99 00:06:53,195 --> 00:06:57,395 Speaker 1: disperse peaceful civilian protesters. He has now softened his stance 100 00:06:57,435 --> 00:07:01,675 Speaker 1: on that. Now he wants vigilantes to use their cars 101 00:07:02,115 --> 00:07:07,755 Speaker 1: to disperse peaceful civilian protesters. At nine pm Eastern Monday night, 102 00:07:07,875 --> 00:07:14,475 Speaker 1: Cotton again, a sitting US senator, a double Harvard graduate. 103 00:07:14,555 --> 00:07:17,235 Speaker 1: Back when one did not try to deny that part 104 00:07:17,275 --> 00:07:22,075 Speaker 1: of one's educational resume. Another military veteran who may not 105 00:07:22,155 --> 00:07:25,075 Speaker 1: really believe he was ever discharged and may not really 106 00:07:25,115 --> 00:07:28,435 Speaker 1: accept that he's no longer paid to kill other human beings, 107 00:07:28,755 --> 00:07:33,115 Speaker 1: Tom Cotton posted, I encourage people who get stuck behind 108 00:07:33,155 --> 00:07:36,915 Speaker 1: the pro hamas mobs blocking traffic, take matters into your 109 00:07:36,955 --> 00:07:40,915 Speaker 1: own hands. It's time to put an end to this nonsense. 110 00:07:42,275 --> 00:07:45,795 Speaker 1: The implication was unmistakable. Run them over with your car, 111 00:07:46,515 --> 00:07:50,595 Speaker 1: shoot them whatever. Why does he care? He's stochastically getting 112 00:07:50,635 --> 00:07:54,355 Speaker 1: you to kill them for him. Six minutes later, Tom 113 00:07:54,395 --> 00:07:57,195 Speaker 1: Cotton decided better that tweet, and instead of deleting it 114 00:07:57,475 --> 00:08:01,195 Speaker 1: or discouraging people from you know, political assassination of their 115 00:08:01,195 --> 00:08:05,635 Speaker 1: neighbors or road rage, he edited the post to read 116 00:08:06,155 --> 00:08:09,115 Speaker 1: I encourage people who get stuck behind the prohamas mobs 117 00:08:09,155 --> 00:08:13,035 Speaker 1: blocking traffic. Here comes the edit. Take matters into your 118 00:08:13,075 --> 00:08:16,755 Speaker 1: own hands to get them out of the way. It's 119 00:08:16,755 --> 00:08:21,635 Speaker 1: time to put an end to this nonsense. Unquote. It's 120 00:08:21,635 --> 00:08:24,155 Speaker 1: a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off 121 00:08:24,195 --> 00:08:28,035 Speaker 1: for him. This is nothing new. Ron DeSantis passed a 122 00:08:28,115 --> 00:08:30,435 Speaker 1: law calling a protest by three or more people in 123 00:08:30,475 --> 00:08:34,315 Speaker 1: Florida a riot and telling Florida drivers if they threatened 124 00:08:34,395 --> 00:08:36,915 Speaker 1: or felt threatened by a riot on a road, they 125 00:08:36,955 --> 00:08:40,835 Speaker 1: can drive their cars into the rioters. When George Wallace 126 00:08:40,915 --> 00:08:43,835 Speaker 1: ran as a third party presidential candidate nineteen sixty eight, 127 00:08:43,955 --> 00:08:46,915 Speaker 1: he responded to protesters lying down in front of President 128 00:08:46,995 --> 00:08:49,555 Speaker 1: Johnson's limo by saying that if they tried that in 129 00:08:49,555 --> 00:08:52,635 Speaker 1: front of his presidential limousine, it'd be the last limo 130 00:08:52,715 --> 00:08:57,355 Speaker 1: they ever lay down in front of. But Cotton as 131 00:08:57,395 --> 00:09:01,195 Speaker 1: the have the troops shoot the civilian's op ed showed 132 00:09:02,075 --> 00:09:06,795 Speaker 1: clearly fetishizes killing Americans as many possible, and the Russia 133 00:09:06,835 --> 00:09:10,835 Speaker 1: hook is he's loudly pro Ukraine, yet under the surface 134 00:09:10,875 --> 00:09:14,075 Speaker 1: he has repeatedly refused to condemn Trump's repeated praising of 135 00:09:14,115 --> 00:09:17,435 Speaker 1: Putin he wouldn't criticize Trump, saying that he would not 136 00:09:17,515 --> 00:09:20,075 Speaker 1: defend NATO from Russia and that he'd tell Putin to 137 00:09:20,075 --> 00:09:23,275 Speaker 1: do whatever the hell he wanted. And Business Insider quoted 138 00:09:23,395 --> 00:09:26,915 Speaker 1: FBC records showing that Cotton got more than forty thousand 139 00:09:26,955 --> 00:09:31,075 Speaker 1: dollars in quote contributions from a donor profiting off Russia's 140 00:09:31,115 --> 00:09:36,595 Speaker 1: war on Ukraine. But still that's just because he's an asshole, right, 141 00:09:37,075 --> 00:09:41,195 Speaker 1: Maybe some PTSD and fascism mixed in and too much 142 00:09:41,195 --> 00:09:45,235 Speaker 1: time at Harvard, there couldn't be cash considerations. 143 00:09:46,515 --> 00:09:46,715 Speaker 2: Ah. 144 00:09:46,755 --> 00:09:49,675 Speaker 1: But then there's Marjorie bitter Green. Hell of a week, 145 00:09:49,755 --> 00:09:53,875 Speaker 1: she's having tweets quote it's anti semitic to make Israeli 146 00:09:53,995 --> 00:09:59,395 Speaker 1: aid contingent on funding Ukrainian Nazis. Then moves to fire 147 00:09:59,475 --> 00:10:01,355 Speaker 1: another Speaker of the House because he's on the verge 148 00:10:01,355 --> 00:10:05,035 Speaker 1: of maybe getting Ukrainian aid passed, and because the condition 149 00:10:05,035 --> 00:10:07,315 Speaker 1: of the House of Representatives had just been upgraded from 150 00:10:07,395 --> 00:10:11,715 Speaker 1: chaotic to spasmodic and Russia needs it to be chaotic again. 151 00:10:12,395 --> 00:10:16,195 Speaker 1: That was preface to her face plant during yet another 152 00:10:16,275 --> 00:10:20,715 Speaker 1: hearing featuring her arch nemesis. No no, no, no, not reality. 153 00:10:20,955 --> 00:10:25,795 Speaker 1: Her other arch nemesis Homeland Security Secretary Majorcis. 154 00:10:25,475 --> 00:10:26,515 Speaker 2: Blake and Riley. 155 00:10:27,075 --> 00:10:31,155 Speaker 1: You're familiar with her, right, I'm just be art break. 156 00:10:31,195 --> 00:10:34,915 Speaker 1: Are you familiar with Lake and Riley? I am familiar 157 00:10:34,915 --> 00:10:37,715 Speaker 1: with the case. You should have deported her so that 158 00:10:37,795 --> 00:10:44,515 Speaker 1: she could be alive today. Her parents would have appreciated that. Yeah, okay, 159 00:10:44,675 --> 00:10:50,395 Speaker 1: hun Lake and Riley was the murder victim, not the perpetrator. 160 00:10:51,275 --> 00:10:53,995 Speaker 1: Y'all should emulate your boy Trump and take a nap 161 00:10:54,035 --> 00:10:58,955 Speaker 1: from time to time. How about twenty four hours a day? Now? 162 00:10:58,995 --> 00:11:02,035 Speaker 1: You could argue that if Russia really were paying US 163 00:11:02,155 --> 00:11:04,915 Speaker 1: politicians to advocate for them and try to destroy this 164 00:11:04,955 --> 00:11:07,515 Speaker 1: country from within, they'd be able to get smarter ones 165 00:11:07,755 --> 00:11:13,355 Speaker 1: than Marjorie fing Green. But maybe not. Last month, a 166 00:11:13,395 --> 00:11:16,475 Speaker 1: couple of dozen European politicians, including some members of the 167 00:11:16,515 --> 00:11:20,475 Speaker 1: European Parliament, were arrested in Poland and the Czech Republic 168 00:11:20,675 --> 00:11:25,715 Speaker 1: for taking cash from Russian oligarchs to contribute anti Ukraine stories, 169 00:11:26,395 --> 00:11:29,955 Speaker 1: mostly to a website called Voice of Europe. Last month, 170 00:11:30,075 --> 00:11:33,235 Speaker 1: Russia was caught paying off local politicians in Cyprus and 171 00:11:33,315 --> 00:11:38,835 Speaker 1: Germany and Italy to introduce legislation actually written by Russian intelligence, 172 00:11:39,195 --> 00:11:42,755 Speaker 1: and also to write articles in local newspapers and use 173 00:11:42,835 --> 00:11:45,915 Speaker 1: their own names when they did so. This is why 174 00:11:45,995 --> 00:11:48,755 Speaker 1: Marjorie Green's stupidity is not a bug but a feature. 175 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:52,075 Speaker 1: As The New Republic notes, one of the paid off 176 00:11:52,115 --> 00:11:55,715 Speaker 1: Europeans was really offended that the article the Russians wanted 177 00:11:55,755 --> 00:11:58,115 Speaker 1: him to pass off as his own under his own 178 00:11:58,155 --> 00:12:01,995 Speaker 1: byline was really poorly written. That he had a reputation 179 00:12:02,275 --> 00:12:05,915 Speaker 1: that quote, I am not a robot. He was taking 180 00:12:06,035 --> 00:12:10,075 Speaker 1: international bribes from a terrorist state, and he was worried 181 00:12:10,075 --> 00:12:14,795 Speaker 1: about how the article would affect his literary standing. Unclear 182 00:12:14,835 --> 00:12:17,115 Speaker 1: if he got the cash or the crypto, but he 183 00:12:17,195 --> 00:12:21,715 Speaker 1: got something, and the article LOWSI or not got printed 184 00:12:22,315 --> 00:12:27,595 Speaker 1: under his name. That can't happen here. It can't happen. 185 00:12:28,195 --> 00:12:31,275 Speaker 1: It can't happen here. Doc is here, Doc isn't here, 186 00:12:32,115 --> 00:12:34,755 Speaker 1: doc is here. It can't happen here. I'll let Alex 187 00:12:34,835 --> 00:12:37,995 Speaker 1: Finley of the New Republic pick this up at this point, 188 00:12:38,075 --> 00:12:41,155 Speaker 1: quoting him. It is naive to think the same pattern 189 00:12:41,195 --> 00:12:43,675 Speaker 1: does not exist in the United States, given the ample 190 00:12:43,755 --> 00:12:48,155 Speaker 1: evidence of coordinated pro Russian talking points from several Republican 191 00:12:48,195 --> 00:12:52,435 Speaker 1: politicians just this week, Marjorie Taylor Green spoke to Steve 192 00:12:52,515 --> 00:12:57,235 Speaker 1: Bannon about Ukraine's persecution of Christians, which is a Kremlin 193 00:12:57,275 --> 00:13:00,115 Speaker 1: talking point aimed at boosting the pro Moscow wing of 194 00:13:00,275 --> 00:13:04,035 Speaker 1: Ukraine's Orthodox Church. The US should be spending money on 195 00:13:04,035 --> 00:13:06,675 Speaker 1: the border with Mexico, not on Ukraine, aid, that's a 196 00:13:06,755 --> 00:13:11,235 Speaker 1: Kremlin talking point. Russia invaded Ukraine to defend itself against 197 00:13:11,235 --> 00:13:15,675 Speaker 1: an expanding NATO. That's a Kremlin talking point. Call for 198 00:13:15,715 --> 00:13:19,435 Speaker 1: a ceasefire and give Russia Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. That's 199 00:13:19,475 --> 00:13:23,715 Speaker 1: a Kremlin talking point. As the Director of National Intelligence 200 00:13:23,755 --> 00:13:27,235 Speaker 1: wrote in twenty twenty one, Russian intelligence operatives and their 201 00:13:27,275 --> 00:13:32,115 Speaker 1: proxies sought to use prominent US persons and media conduits 202 00:13:32,395 --> 00:13:37,075 Speaker 1: to launder their narratives to US officials and audiences. These 203 00:13:37,275 --> 00:13:41,755 Speaker 1: Russian proxies met with and provided materials to Trump administration 204 00:13:41,875 --> 00:13:47,075 Speaker 1: linked US persons to advocate for formal investigations, hired a 205 00:13:47,235 --> 00:13:50,875 Speaker 1: US firm to petition US officials, and attempted to make 206 00:13:50,915 --> 00:13:55,875 Speaker 1: contact with several senior US officials. They also made contact 207 00:13:55,915 --> 00:14:05,155 Speaker 1: with established US media figures quote huh, established US media 208 00:14:05,275 --> 00:14:11,675 Speaker 1: figures spewing Russian talking points, probably for money, probably a 209 00:14:11,675 --> 00:14:15,475 Speaker 1: lot less money than you'd think too, so somebody in 210 00:14:15,595 --> 00:14:21,155 Speaker 1: media who's notoriously personally cheap. I do not have a 211 00:14:21,275 --> 00:14:26,835 Speaker 1: guess any established US media figures hard up for cash 212 00:14:26,955 --> 00:14:31,315 Speaker 1: or paranoid about cash after losing, say a twenty million 213 00:14:31,355 --> 00:14:37,355 Speaker 1: dollar a year TV anchoring contract. I mean, besides which, 214 00:14:37,355 --> 00:14:40,115 Speaker 1: what do you think a Marjorie Taylor Green would cost? 215 00:14:41,115 --> 00:14:44,915 Speaker 1: I mean, look at the workmanship. It's not as if 216 00:14:44,995 --> 00:14:48,675 Speaker 1: Russia's influence here, both to undermine efforts to stop their 217 00:14:48,755 --> 00:14:52,315 Speaker 1: test war in Ukraine and to simply f with US, 218 00:14:52,635 --> 00:14:55,675 Speaker 1: is not being recognized. Chairman Mike Turner of the House 219 00:14:55,715 --> 00:14:58,395 Speaker 1: Intel Committee went on CNN and said, quote, we see 220 00:14:58,435 --> 00:15:01,995 Speaker 1: directly coming from Russia attempts to mask communications that are 221 00:15:02,035 --> 00:15:05,675 Speaker 1: anti Ukraine and pro Russia messages, some of which we 222 00:15:05,755 --> 00:15:10,035 Speaker 1: even hear being uttered on the House floor. Days earlier, 223 00:15:10,035 --> 00:15:12,995 Speaker 1: it had been Chairman Michael McCall of House Foreign Affairs. 224 00:15:13,195 --> 00:15:16,555 Speaker 1: He told Puck News. I think Russian propaganda has made 225 00:15:16,555 --> 00:15:19,835 Speaker 1: its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it's infected 226 00:15:19,875 --> 00:15:24,635 Speaker 1: a good chunk of my party's base. Nothing spreads political 227 00:15:24,675 --> 00:15:31,075 Speaker 1: disinformation infection faster than money, by the way, I know, 228 00:15:31,275 --> 00:15:33,715 Speaker 1: you know, but let me emphasize this. The House is 229 00:15:33,755 --> 00:15:37,675 Speaker 1: in Republican hands. Those two chairmen admitting we are being 230 00:15:37,915 --> 00:15:43,075 Speaker 1: informationally invaded by Russia. Turner and McCall, they are Republicans. 231 00:15:45,195 --> 00:15:48,275 Speaker 1: The craziest part of the New Republic's theory of corruption 232 00:15:48,395 --> 00:15:51,915 Speaker 1: for cash the one that literally has Marjorie Taylor Green's 233 00:15:51,955 --> 00:15:56,675 Speaker 1: face on it on the article and only incidental references 234 00:15:56,715 --> 00:15:59,435 Speaker 1: to Trump media being kept financially afloat by Russian banks. 235 00:15:59,475 --> 00:16:02,475 Speaker 1: The craziest part is that Green's latest attack on the 236 00:16:02,475 --> 00:16:08,275 Speaker 1: American establishment seemingly on the reinvigorated anti Russian pro Ukrainian 237 00:16:08,355 --> 00:16:12,475 Speaker 1: push in the House. It's against Speaker Mike Johnson. But 238 00:16:12,635 --> 00:16:16,675 Speaker 1: last October, Newsweek reported that in twenty eighteen, Mike Johnson 239 00:16:16,755 --> 00:16:20,715 Speaker 1: received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from 240 00:16:20,755 --> 00:16:25,875 Speaker 1: the Texas based American Ethane company Made Prominent and Wealthy 241 00:16:25,915 --> 00:16:29,475 Speaker 1: by good Old Texas nohow led by an eighty eight 242 00:16:29,475 --> 00:16:35,435 Speaker 1: percent owned by three good Old Texans named Andre Konatbiev, 243 00:16:35,915 --> 00:16:42,275 Speaker 1: Konstantine Nikolayev, and Mikhail Yuev. The Speaker's office says it 244 00:16:42,355 --> 00:16:44,315 Speaker 1: returned the money as soon as it found out that 245 00:16:44,355 --> 00:16:47,755 Speaker 1: American Athene was not owned by three guys named Curly 246 00:16:47,795 --> 00:16:52,275 Speaker 1: Texan Clayton. Makes you wonder if Green is attacking Johnson 247 00:16:52,315 --> 00:16:57,395 Speaker 1: because he returned the Athane money, or perhaps because he 248 00:16:57,515 --> 00:17:05,595 Speaker 1: hasn't earned it yet. CBS News poll, By the way, 249 00:17:05,635 --> 00:17:08,315 Speaker 1: where do you get your information from about Russia's invasion 250 00:17:08,355 --> 00:17:14,075 Speaker 1: of Ukraine? Republicans? Which sources do you trust? Republicans? Multiple 251 00:17:14,195 --> 00:17:16,475 Speaker 1: sources here, so it doesn't add up to one hundred. 252 00:17:16,475 --> 00:17:18,795 Speaker 1: It's more than one hundred. State Department twenty seven percent 253 00:17:18,835 --> 00:17:22,235 Speaker 1: say yes. Among others, journalists in the war zone thirty 254 00:17:22,235 --> 00:17:28,995 Speaker 1: three percent, Conservative media fifty six percent, the Pentagon sixty percent, 255 00:17:29,795 --> 00:17:33,035 Speaker 1: topping the list. Though seventy nine percent of Republicans get 256 00:17:33,035 --> 00:17:39,275 Speaker 1: their information about Ukraine from Trump, and this is not 257 00:17:39,395 --> 00:17:41,555 Speaker 1: part of that CBS poll, but it underscores that the 258 00:17:41,595 --> 00:17:45,635 Speaker 1: process of healing the Republicans amazing stupidity and gullibility and 259 00:17:45,715 --> 00:17:49,795 Speaker 1: ability to monetize lies that kill people and kill democracy, 260 00:17:49,995 --> 00:17:55,395 Speaker 1: the process of curing this country is far more than 261 00:17:55,475 --> 00:17:59,395 Speaker 1: even horrifying poll numbers like that Republicans believe Trump because 262 00:17:59,395 --> 00:18:02,915 Speaker 1: the world is complex and they are not leaving it 263 00:18:02,955 --> 00:18:05,715 Speaker 1: to him is way easy than trying to figure it 264 00:18:05,715 --> 00:18:10,995 Speaker 1: out for themselves with brains unequipped to do so, and 265 00:18:11,075 --> 00:18:14,275 Speaker 1: if you ask. But whatever he's talking about, he changes 266 00:18:14,315 --> 00:18:17,675 Speaker 1: his stories every day, his viewpoints, his claims of what 267 00:18:17,795 --> 00:18:20,875 Speaker 1: he said previously and what he meant when he said it. 268 00:18:20,915 --> 00:18:25,035 Speaker 1: He changes these things endlessly. Left is right and up 269 00:18:25,115 --> 00:18:30,395 Speaker 1: is down. Well, that's even better for these Republicans, even 270 00:18:30,395 --> 00:18:34,315 Speaker 1: if he's lying, especially if he's lying. Listen to William Wolf, 271 00:18:35,035 --> 00:18:39,035 Speaker 1: former Trump Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and appointee at State. 272 00:18:39,435 --> 00:18:42,475 Speaker 1: It's like Trump favoring an abortion band. Wolf says, of 273 00:18:42,515 --> 00:18:46,555 Speaker 1: course he's lying about it, only he's lying about lying 274 00:18:46,595 --> 00:18:49,995 Speaker 1: about it, and that makes it not lying at makes 275 00:18:50,035 --> 00:18:51,635 Speaker 1: it cloaking. 276 00:18:52,435 --> 00:18:56,755 Speaker 2: I actually think there's wisdom in cloaking some of your 277 00:18:56,875 --> 00:18:58,835 Speaker 2: power levels and maybe some of the things that you're 278 00:18:58,875 --> 00:19:02,195 Speaker 2: trying to do. And then once you secure power and 279 00:19:02,235 --> 00:19:05,715 Speaker 2: you have it, you govern in a more extreme position. 280 00:19:05,995 --> 00:19:11,835 Speaker 1: He's not lying, he's cloaking a cloaking device like star 281 00:19:11,955 --> 00:19:16,115 Speaker 1: Trek or an invisibility cloak, like good old Harry Potter. 282 00:19:18,995 --> 00:19:21,555 Speaker 1: You don't call it lying. He caught cloaking. It's a 283 00:19:21,555 --> 00:19:26,275 Speaker 1: new way of lying, and it's a good thing, because 284 00:19:26,955 --> 00:19:35,075 Speaker 1: Trump says so. Also of interest here, I don't know 285 00:19:35,115 --> 00:19:37,835 Speaker 1: when I stopped believing that the Supreme Court actually ruled 286 00:19:37,835 --> 00:19:41,315 Speaker 1: on legal issues, rather than that it existed solely to 287 00:19:41,395 --> 00:19:44,515 Speaker 1: make sure that some politically inconvenient laws or parts of 288 00:19:44,515 --> 00:19:47,915 Speaker 1: the Constitution got crushed for the benefit of the Republicans 289 00:19:47,915 --> 00:19:51,275 Speaker 1: and the rich people. But I know I was already 290 00:19:51,315 --> 00:19:54,115 Speaker 1: an adult when I figured it out. Right now, I 291 00:19:54,155 --> 00:19:56,875 Speaker 1: am so far from that naivete that I question whether 292 00:19:56,955 --> 00:19:59,435 Speaker 1: or not I believe that the six Conservatives are even 293 00:19:59,515 --> 00:20:02,355 Speaker 1: from this country, or that they have more of a 294 00:20:02,435 --> 00:20:06,795 Speaker 1: legal education than I do. Which was one undergraduate college 295 00:20:06,875 --> 00:20:11,915 Speaker 1: class mostly about communications law. In the January sixth related 296 00:20:11,915 --> 00:20:16,715 Speaker 1: case now before them, Justice Alito asks how the insurrection 297 00:20:17,115 --> 00:20:21,435 Speaker 1: and attempted overthrow of an election and the real president elect, 298 00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:26,275 Speaker 1: how is that different from people heckling the Supreme Court? 299 00:20:27,315 --> 00:20:30,875 Speaker 1: And the attorney has the restraint to not say, because 300 00:20:30,995 --> 00:20:35,315 Speaker 1: none of you assholes or your security died at the 301 00:20:35,355 --> 00:20:40,195 Speaker 1: hands of that mob, that mob of people that you 302 00:20:40,435 --> 00:20:46,435 Speaker 1: think heckled you, You moron. That's next. This is countdown. 303 00:20:48,715 --> 00:21:13,555 Speaker 1: This is countdown, with Keith o'd woman still ahead of 304 00:21:13,635 --> 00:21:17,395 Speaker 1: us on this ediative countdown. Late last month, we passed 305 00:21:17,435 --> 00:21:21,915 Speaker 1: the quarter century anniversary of one of the most joyful 306 00:21:22,035 --> 00:21:24,835 Speaker 1: moments of my career, and I have been thinking of 307 00:21:24,875 --> 00:21:29,835 Speaker 1: it off and on ever since March nineteen ninety nine. 308 00:21:29,915 --> 00:21:34,995 Speaker 1: Tom Hanks assaults me at the Oscars. With the help 309 00:21:35,035 --> 00:21:40,155 Speaker 1: of two Hollywood newcomers named Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, 310 00:21:41,115 --> 00:21:45,235 Speaker 1: the bastards broke the cum abund on my tuxedo ahead 311 00:21:45,235 --> 00:21:48,315 Speaker 1: in things I promised not to tell first, still more 312 00:21:48,355 --> 00:21:50,755 Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the 313 00:21:50,755 --> 00:21:54,595 Speaker 1: miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute 314 00:21:54,635 --> 00:21:59,395 Speaker 1: two days non commer bund breaking worst persons in the 315 00:21:59,435 --> 00:22:05,315 Speaker 1: world the bronze worse Major League Baseball, and this gives 316 00:22:05,315 --> 00:22:07,875 Speaker 1: me a moment to mention that apparently we're having another 317 00:22:07,915 --> 00:22:11,355 Speaker 1: baseball rapture. The next to last living member of the 318 00:22:11,355 --> 00:22:16,035 Speaker 1: World champion nineteen fifty five Brooklyn Dodgers, Carl Erskine, died yesterday, 319 00:22:16,115 --> 00:22:19,835 Speaker 1: leaving only Sandy Kofax and Hall of Fame manager Whitey 320 00:22:19,835 --> 00:22:23,355 Speaker 1: Herzog of the Royals and the Cardinals died Ken Holtzman 321 00:22:23,635 --> 00:22:26,555 Speaker 1: the other day. Fritz Peterson last week I mentioned him 322 00:22:26,555 --> 00:22:29,835 Speaker 1: at length. Yesterday, Jerry Grody, Bunn Harrison, Jim McAndrew of 323 00:22:29,875 --> 00:22:33,115 Speaker 1: the sixty nine Mets, Pat Zachary and Don Gullet of 324 00:22:33,155 --> 00:22:37,395 Speaker 1: the seventy six champion reds ed ott fourteen x major 325 00:22:37,435 --> 00:22:41,875 Speaker 1: league players just since the start of spring training on 326 00:22:41,915 --> 00:22:46,235 Speaker 1: a happier note, or at least a sillier one. Remember 327 00:22:46,275 --> 00:22:49,035 Speaker 1: this year's big baseball controversy, I mean the one before 328 00:22:49,155 --> 00:22:52,635 Speaker 1: the show. Hey, Otani's interpreter made three hundred and twenty 329 00:22:52,675 --> 00:22:55,595 Speaker 1: five million dollars worth of bets and stole sixteen million 330 00:22:55,635 --> 00:23:00,395 Speaker 1: bucks from Otani scandal. Remember the uniform scandal where the 331 00:23:00,435 --> 00:23:04,475 Speaker 1: new better, wicking, lighter feeling, redesigned uniforms turned out to 332 00:23:04,475 --> 00:23:08,955 Speaker 1: be delivered late, like months late, and they wrinkled in 333 00:23:08,995 --> 00:23:11,475 Speaker 1: the rain, and they had tiny lettering on them. And 334 00:23:11,515 --> 00:23:14,195 Speaker 1: they have pants and shirts in which the colors don't match, 335 00:23:14,275 --> 00:23:18,115 Speaker 1: not even gray and gray. And they have the pants 336 00:23:18,155 --> 00:23:21,075 Speaker 1: that are more see through than pants have been previously. 337 00:23:21,515 --> 00:23:26,715 Speaker 1: That scandal, it's back the Seattle Mariners wore their City 338 00:23:26,915 --> 00:23:33,275 Speaker 1: Connect uniforms. It's a merchandizing thing. Everything in baseball today 339 00:23:33,315 --> 00:23:36,395 Speaker 1: is a merchandizing thing. And we are still awaiting a 340 00:23:36,395 --> 00:23:39,915 Speaker 1: full explanation from the Seattle Times of its cryptic report 341 00:23:40,155 --> 00:23:43,235 Speaker 1: that the pants of Seattle pitcher Bryce Miller did not 342 00:23:43,355 --> 00:23:47,195 Speaker 1: fit correctly, and so he instead wore the City Connect 343 00:23:47,315 --> 00:23:52,275 Speaker 1: uniform pants of a team bat boy. The only update 344 00:23:52,315 --> 00:23:55,835 Speaker 1: on this so far. Miller apparently complained that the bat 345 00:23:55,875 --> 00:23:59,675 Speaker 1: boy's pants kept riding up on him, which makes you 346 00:23:59,755 --> 00:24:02,755 Speaker 1: wonder whether his pants were so short that they were 347 00:24:02,795 --> 00:24:06,715 Speaker 1: actually designed for somebody else's son. And further details as 348 00:24:06,715 --> 00:24:10,715 Speaker 1: they become available. Speaking of a little short, the runner 349 00:24:10,755 --> 00:24:14,395 Speaker 1: up worser Mike Johnson, I know the Democrats may save 350 00:24:14,475 --> 00:24:17,115 Speaker 1: him and anybody Marjorie Taylor Green hates is a little 351 00:24:17,195 --> 00:24:21,155 Speaker 1: less schmucky than she is, and certainly, as noted earlier, 352 00:24:21,235 --> 00:24:23,395 Speaker 1: he's less Russian than the others. But still, what a 353 00:24:23,435 --> 00:24:26,955 Speaker 1: weasel that stunt last week in which he asked Trump 354 00:24:26,995 --> 00:24:30,915 Speaker 1: for permission to go worship him at marri Lago and 355 00:24:30,995 --> 00:24:33,875 Speaker 1: do a joint news conference about election integrity and then 356 00:24:34,115 --> 00:24:38,315 Speaker 1: introduce a performance art bill about demanding voter ID for 357 00:24:38,395 --> 00:24:42,555 Speaker 1: all voters, which they already have before he showed the 358 00:24:42,635 --> 00:24:46,355 Speaker 1: bill to anybody else in the House. According to NBC News, 359 00:24:46,675 --> 00:24:52,115 Speaker 1: Johnson showed it to d C. Draino. D C. Draino 360 00:24:52,355 --> 00:24:55,315 Speaker 1: is one of those conservative morons with a stick on 361 00:24:55,355 --> 00:25:00,195 Speaker 1: Twitter X. His reel name is broken oh Crapshack or 362 00:25:00,195 --> 00:25:03,755 Speaker 1: whatever it is. Showed it to Broken oh Crapshack first 363 00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:06,915 Speaker 1: to get him to use his influence ray to drum 364 00:25:06,995 --> 00:25:09,835 Speaker 1: up support online, which of course would then get back 365 00:25:09,835 --> 00:25:13,595 Speaker 1: to Trump. How much Johnson's idea would help Trump, But 366 00:25:13,755 --> 00:25:16,955 Speaker 1: it wasn't just d C draino. And I can't tell 367 00:25:16,995 --> 00:25:19,955 Speaker 1: if he's trying to be clever by spelling it dri 368 00:25:20,395 --> 00:25:25,235 Speaker 1: n when the product itself is spelled dr no, or 369 00:25:25,275 --> 00:25:28,875 Speaker 1: he's just too stupid to spell it correctly. In any event, 370 00:25:28,915 --> 00:25:32,995 Speaker 1: Johnson also shared the bill with libs of TikTok and 371 00:25:33,355 --> 00:25:37,075 Speaker 1: end Wokeness and Chrissy Clark, who apparently could not think 372 00:25:37,115 --> 00:25:40,515 Speaker 1: of a clever name, but he did not share it 373 00:25:40,555 --> 00:25:47,195 Speaker 1: with Cat Turd, Poor cat Turd, though Johnson did eventually 374 00:25:47,955 --> 00:25:50,435 Speaker 1: share it with Isabella de Luca, who is not just 375 00:25:50,475 --> 00:25:54,315 Speaker 1: an influencer, she's also a big big deal in moron 376 00:25:54,315 --> 00:25:59,515 Speaker 1: world because she's a January sixth defendant. Speaking of which, 377 00:26:00,115 --> 00:26:04,195 Speaker 1: our winners the conservative members of the Supreme Religious Court, 378 00:26:04,715 --> 00:26:07,195 Speaker 1: and yesterday they heard oral arguments in a case that 379 00:26:07,275 --> 00:26:11,355 Speaker 1: would invalidate the use of the obstruction of an official 380 00:26:11,435 --> 00:26:15,235 Speaker 1: proceedings law under which hundreds of January sixth defendants have 381 00:26:15,275 --> 00:26:17,835 Speaker 1: been convicted, some of whom that was the only charge 382 00:26:17,875 --> 00:26:22,275 Speaker 1: against them. So the case is basically asking John Roberts 383 00:26:22,275 --> 00:26:25,955 Speaker 1: and Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas and three Trump appointees 384 00:26:26,235 --> 00:26:30,315 Speaker 1: whether or not they want to free several dozen Trump thugs. 385 00:26:31,355 --> 00:26:34,115 Speaker 1: Ellie miss Stal from the nation, says Justice Neil Gorsich, 386 00:26:34,355 --> 00:26:37,835 Speaker 1: made an analogy between the January sixth rioters attacking the 387 00:26:37,955 --> 00:26:42,155 Speaker 1: US capital, between that and the day that Congressman Jamal 388 00:26:42,235 --> 00:26:45,555 Speaker 1: Bowman set off a fire alarm by opening a locked 389 00:26:45,635 --> 00:26:49,195 Speaker 1: door at the Capitol. Justice Alito asked how this was 390 00:26:49,195 --> 00:26:53,195 Speaker 1: any different from people heckling the Supreme Court. Oh no, 391 00:26:54,555 --> 00:26:59,795 Speaker 1: he was broken in half by a heckle. And Justice Thomas, 392 00:27:00,315 --> 00:27:03,475 Speaker 1: who simply put, is goddamned lucky. His wife has not 393 00:27:03,515 --> 00:27:06,835 Speaker 1: been in prison for the last three years over January sixth, 394 00:27:07,355 --> 00:27:12,075 Speaker 1: actually maybe the last thirty years. Justice Thomas insisted that legally, 395 00:27:12,195 --> 00:27:14,715 Speaker 1: January sixth is no different than any other attempt to 396 00:27:14,955 --> 00:27:18,675 Speaker 1: disrupt official proceedings. Why, yes, Clarence, I agree with you. You 397 00:27:18,715 --> 00:27:21,875 Speaker 1: are right. It is no different than any other attempt 398 00:27:22,075 --> 00:27:26,555 Speaker 1: to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, instigated and organized 399 00:27:26,635 --> 00:27:29,515 Speaker 1: and promoted by a lame duck president who wanted to 400 00:27:29,555 --> 00:27:32,755 Speaker 1: stay in office even though he lost, and who probably 401 00:27:32,795 --> 00:27:38,155 Speaker 1: wanted to jail or harm the actual president elect. I 402 00:27:38,315 --> 00:27:42,075 Speaker 1: just hope that all of these arguments these fascists are 403 00:27:42,195 --> 00:27:45,955 Speaker 1: using while finding excuses to make heroes out of traders, 404 00:27:46,075 --> 00:27:49,115 Speaker 1: that they will remember them if the day comes that 405 00:27:49,195 --> 00:27:52,835 Speaker 1: some large crowd, probably made up of conservatives who think 406 00:27:52,915 --> 00:27:55,995 Speaker 1: that justices are not conservative enough, when a large crowd 407 00:27:56,035 --> 00:28:00,355 Speaker 1: of conservatives storms the court the way Trump's insurrectionists so 408 00:28:00,555 --> 00:28:04,675 Speaker 1: benignly pulled the fire alarm at the Capitol on January sixth, 409 00:28:05,035 --> 00:28:08,035 Speaker 1: I just hope they remember all of their own arguments 410 00:28:08,155 --> 00:28:14,795 Speaker 1: while they are fleeing gorsicch Thomas Kavanaugh, Barrett Alito, Roberts, 411 00:28:15,675 --> 00:28:19,835 Speaker 1: He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind, 412 00:28:20,555 --> 00:28:40,275 Speaker 1: Two Days, Wars, Parsons, Eorld, ah just twenty five years ago. 413 00:28:41,995 --> 00:28:44,835 Speaker 1: Things I promised not to tell takes you back in time, 414 00:28:45,715 --> 00:28:48,515 Speaker 1: like things I already experienced in my career, could somehow 415 00:28:48,595 --> 00:28:53,955 Speaker 1: be ahead in time to March nineteen ninety nine, with 416 00:28:54,075 --> 00:28:59,195 Speaker 1: a little detour. First, they were everywhere photos and video 417 00:28:59,275 --> 00:29:01,915 Speaker 1: of what certainly looked from a distance like actor Tom 418 00:29:01,955 --> 00:29:06,595 Speaker 1: Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson yelling at, maybe even berating, 419 00:29:07,035 --> 00:29:10,555 Speaker 1: an unidentified random staffer on the red carpet at the 420 00:29:10,595 --> 00:29:14,915 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three Con Film Festival in France while promoting 421 00:29:14,915 --> 00:29:20,355 Speaker 1: his new movie Asteroid City. At various intervals, Hanks seems 422 00:29:20,395 --> 00:29:23,715 Speaker 1: to have a fist clenched, then seems to be jabbing 423 00:29:23,715 --> 00:29:27,555 Speaker 1: his forefinger at the man. Throughout he appeared to wear 424 00:29:27,555 --> 00:29:32,195 Speaker 1: a look of disbelief verging on anger. European newspapers were 425 00:29:32,275 --> 00:29:36,155 Speaker 1: filled for two days with stories about Tom Hanks yells 426 00:29:36,235 --> 00:29:40,395 Speaker 1: at Con and Tom Hanks yells at staffer and Tom 427 00:29:40,435 --> 00:29:44,155 Speaker 1: Hanks skulls con staffer, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 428 00:29:44,555 --> 00:29:47,315 Speaker 1: And then his wife Rita spoke up, Then the staffer, 429 00:29:47,635 --> 00:29:51,675 Speaker 1: Vincent Chapalaine, spoke up. Then the sound on the video 430 00:29:52,275 --> 00:29:55,035 Speaker 1: spoke up louder than either of them. Tom Hanks wasn't 431 00:29:55,075 --> 00:29:58,235 Speaker 1: scolding anybody, but he was yelling because he could not 432 00:29:58,395 --> 00:30:03,915 Speaker 1: hear himself or this Vincent Chapalaine or anything else, because 433 00:30:03,955 --> 00:30:09,155 Speaker 1: the crowd around the red carpet was too loud. The 434 00:30:09,235 --> 00:30:12,595 Speaker 1: clenched hand, Tom Hanks clenched it while he was yelling, 435 00:30:12,795 --> 00:30:17,595 Speaker 1: I can't hear you. Everybody's screaming the jabbing forefinger. It 436 00:30:17,635 --> 00:30:19,915 Speaker 1: went with where are we supposed to go? Are we 437 00:30:19,955 --> 00:30:22,715 Speaker 1: supposed to go back to the start of the red carpet? 438 00:30:22,555 --> 00:30:26,235 Speaker 1: Just point at where you want us to go? And 439 00:30:26,315 --> 00:30:30,275 Speaker 1: the scolding of the random staffer. Vince as Chapelaine is 440 00:30:30,275 --> 00:30:33,675 Speaker 1: the manager of the Red Carpet at Khan has been 441 00:30:33,755 --> 00:30:36,915 Speaker 1: for ten years. The only thing he was taking offense 442 00:30:36,955 --> 00:30:40,955 Speaker 1: at was people presuming he was just security rather than management. 443 00:30:41,875 --> 00:30:47,995 Speaker 1: These are the French Khan. You hear me? Now, this 444 00:30:48,155 --> 00:30:51,115 Speaker 1: is an unusual story to include here, and I've gone 445 00:30:51,235 --> 00:30:54,635 Speaker 1: into unusual detail about it because the moment I saw 446 00:30:54,675 --> 00:30:57,875 Speaker 1: this story from KHN, I didn't have mere deja vu. 447 00:30:58,515 --> 00:31:03,715 Speaker 1: I had a full flashback, a full out of body experience, 448 00:31:04,755 --> 00:31:08,795 Speaker 1: time travel. I was propelled back to March twenty first, 449 00:31:08,915 --> 00:31:12,715 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, where a similar overhead view of Tom 450 00:31:12,755 --> 00:31:17,635 Speaker 1: Hanks on a red carpet, without any audio, without any context, 451 00:31:17,995 --> 00:31:20,675 Speaker 1: would have presented you a picture of first Tom Hanks 452 00:31:21,075 --> 00:31:23,795 Speaker 1: and then Tom Hanks, with the assistance of Ben Affleck 453 00:31:23,835 --> 00:31:28,315 Speaker 1: and Matt Damon, assaulting a guy literally pulling him over 454 00:31:28,355 --> 00:31:32,595 Speaker 1: the hedges that served as the security boundary, damaging the 455 00:31:32,635 --> 00:31:36,835 Speaker 1: guy's clothing, and then basically throwing him back over the hedges, 456 00:31:37,355 --> 00:31:41,515 Speaker 1: and all this took place on a red carpet at 457 00:31:41,515 --> 00:31:48,075 Speaker 1: the Oscars. The guy was me. In nineteen ninety nine. 458 00:31:48,115 --> 00:31:50,835 Speaker 1: I had just started what began as a pretty good gig. 459 00:31:51,035 --> 00:31:54,555 Speaker 1: Fox Sports had launched its own version of ESPN and 460 00:31:54,635 --> 00:31:57,235 Speaker 1: its own version of SportsCenter, and it had thrown way 461 00:31:57,235 --> 00:31:59,875 Speaker 1: too much money at me, and it bought me out 462 00:31:59,915 --> 00:32:03,275 Speaker 1: of my contract at MSNBC, where I was desperately unhappy 463 00:32:03,355 --> 00:32:06,315 Speaker 1: doing the Clinton Lewinsky story every hour on the hour, 464 00:32:07,275 --> 00:32:09,235 Speaker 1: and they got me to move back to Los Angeles 465 00:32:09,315 --> 00:32:11,635 Speaker 1: and anchor their version of Sports Center and all the 466 00:32:11,675 --> 00:32:14,395 Speaker 1: Fox Baseball coverage two including the World Series in the 467 00:32:14,435 --> 00:32:17,115 Speaker 1: All Star Game, and it launched a five year plan 468 00:32:17,235 --> 00:32:20,115 Speaker 1: to give itself enough credibility to compete with the ESPN. 469 00:32:20,755 --> 00:32:24,075 Speaker 1: And I was just there to enjoy the sun, collect 470 00:32:24,115 --> 00:32:27,675 Speaker 1: the huge paycheck, and publicize the thing as often as 471 00:32:27,715 --> 00:32:31,155 Speaker 1: possible while they slowly built it up for the year 472 00:32:31,235 --> 00:32:34,955 Speaker 1: two thousand and four. As the executive who signed me said, 473 00:32:34,995 --> 00:32:38,515 Speaker 1: after we held an introductory press conference and press phone call, 474 00:32:38,555 --> 00:32:41,795 Speaker 1: with about two hundred reporters, you earned about a year 475 00:32:41,835 --> 00:32:46,115 Speaker 1: of your salary just doing that call. So when one 476 00:32:46,115 --> 00:32:48,955 Speaker 1: of the editors of the Los Angeles Times called somebody 477 00:32:48,995 --> 00:32:51,195 Speaker 1: she knew in the PR department at Fox and said, 478 00:32:51,235 --> 00:32:54,155 Speaker 1: I have a crazy idea, what is Keith Olberman doing 479 00:32:54,155 --> 00:32:58,395 Speaker 1: on Oscars night? The Fox people listened. The next thing 480 00:32:58,435 --> 00:33:00,955 Speaker 1: I knew I had that night off. I was in 481 00:33:01,035 --> 00:33:03,355 Speaker 1: a tux. I was standing the mid a sea off 482 00:33:03,355 --> 00:33:07,075 Speaker 1: photographers at the first turn of the red carpet at 483 00:33:07,075 --> 00:33:11,835 Speaker 1: the Oscars, gathering quotes from startled celebrities who expected to 484 00:33:11,835 --> 00:33:15,515 Speaker 1: see only photogs right there and not somebody asking questions, 485 00:33:15,595 --> 00:33:19,355 Speaker 1: certainly not me asking questions. I was a little startled too. 486 00:33:20,195 --> 00:33:23,555 Speaker 1: The editor, in a pre Oscars phone call, explained that 487 00:33:23,595 --> 00:33:26,115 Speaker 1: this was the seventy first edition of the Oscars, and 488 00:33:26,155 --> 00:33:28,715 Speaker 1: the Times had covered the first seventy and then they 489 00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:30,835 Speaker 1: had pretty much gotten it down to science around the 490 00:33:30,915 --> 00:33:33,675 Speaker 1: year nineteen thirty two, and they really hadn't changed much 491 00:33:33,835 --> 00:33:38,395 Speaker 1: since then, except the photos are in color now, she mentioned. 492 00:33:38,835 --> 00:33:40,635 Speaker 1: She asked if I wanted to hear what would be 493 00:33:40,995 --> 00:33:43,755 Speaker 1: in the Times the day after the Oscars, She said, 494 00:33:43,795 --> 00:33:45,835 Speaker 1: I can recite the main story Right now, I just 495 00:33:45,875 --> 00:33:47,955 Speaker 1: have to fill in the names of the winners. And 496 00:33:47,995 --> 00:33:51,075 Speaker 1: then there's the fashion review and how many daring and 497 00:33:51,275 --> 00:33:54,795 Speaker 1: outlandish and classic outfits there were. Now I'll have the 498 00:33:54,835 --> 00:33:57,715 Speaker 1: TV critic complaining about how bad the host was. No, 499 00:33:57,715 --> 00:34:00,355 Speaker 1: I'll had the TV business guy explaining why the ratings 500 00:34:00,355 --> 00:34:03,115 Speaker 1: were so low. Then we'll have the big pull quotes 501 00:34:03,155 --> 00:34:05,715 Speaker 1: from the actors that will re exactly like the big 502 00:34:05,755 --> 00:34:09,195 Speaker 1: poll quotes from nineteen eighty nine or nineteen seventy nine. 503 00:34:09,715 --> 00:34:12,475 Speaker 1: And we'll have the predictive piece on which award wins 504 00:34:12,555 --> 00:34:14,915 Speaker 1: will actually help movies at the box office. And then 505 00:34:14,955 --> 00:34:17,755 Speaker 1: we'll have the predictive piece on which awards snubs will 506 00:34:17,795 --> 00:34:20,555 Speaker 1: actually hurt movies at the box office. What we need 507 00:34:20,715 --> 00:34:25,195 Speaker 1: is anything else? Can you think of anything else? Can 508 00:34:25,235 --> 00:34:27,275 Speaker 1: you think of anything you haven't read in our paper 509 00:34:27,315 --> 00:34:31,155 Speaker 1: about the Oscars? I thought for a second, I said, 510 00:34:31,195 --> 00:34:33,875 Speaker 1: what about this idea that they're now going to televise 511 00:34:34,355 --> 00:34:38,155 Speaker 1: the Red Carpet live for half an hour before the Oscars. 512 00:34:38,235 --> 00:34:41,675 Speaker 1: You're gonna have like an Oscars pregame show. I heard 513 00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:44,075 Speaker 1: somebody say, you know, maybe they could do that all day. 514 00:34:44,115 --> 00:34:48,155 Speaker 1: I mean, what if I asked everybody like, like, whoever 515 00:34:48,195 --> 00:34:49,955 Speaker 1: will stop to talk to me, I mean, what if 516 00:34:50,155 --> 00:34:52,435 Speaker 1: I ask them they think would be a good idea 517 00:34:53,035 --> 00:34:55,635 Speaker 1: to make the Oscars an all day kind of thing, 518 00:34:55,715 --> 00:35:00,515 Speaker 1: like like Super Bowl Sunday Oscar Sunday Oscar Bowl Live 519 00:35:00,635 --> 00:35:02,715 Speaker 1: starting at dawn on ABC. I mean I could basically 520 00:35:02,755 --> 00:35:05,995 Speaker 1: write you the lead paragraph. Now, thanks for attending Oscar Bowl. 521 00:35:06,195 --> 00:35:10,195 Speaker 1: I please ask your limo driver to tune into the 522 00:35:10,235 --> 00:35:17,515 Speaker 1: postgame show with Vince Gully, Uma Thurman, and Angeline not 523 00:35:17,635 --> 00:35:24,195 Speaker 1: Angeline Edie Williams arrive home safely. The editor laughed, had 524 00:35:24,275 --> 00:35:28,235 Speaker 1: me repeat it, and wrote it down. It was the 525 00:35:28,315 --> 00:35:31,315 Speaker 1: lead of my story. So on the night of March 526 00:35:31,355 --> 00:35:34,595 Speaker 1: twenty first, nineteen ninety nine Oscars Night, there I was 527 00:35:35,515 --> 00:35:38,715 Speaker 1: officially a sports reporter and ex news reporter and ex 528 00:35:38,835 --> 00:35:41,675 Speaker 1: local LA sportscaster on top of everything else. There I 529 00:35:41,755 --> 00:35:44,475 Speaker 1: was at the first corner of the red carpet in 530 00:35:44,515 --> 00:35:47,715 Speaker 1: front of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, standing where one of 531 00:35:47,715 --> 00:35:51,475 Speaker 1: the eighty or so LA Times photographers should have been. 532 00:35:51,915 --> 00:35:54,155 Speaker 1: And I never found out what he thought of this idea. 533 00:35:54,795 --> 00:35:57,635 Speaker 1: And I was introducing myself to actors and actresses who 534 00:35:57,675 --> 00:36:00,435 Speaker 1: and producers and other people who had no idea who 535 00:36:00,555 --> 00:36:05,395 Speaker 1: I was. Helen Hunt was particularly confused and explaining why 536 00:36:05,395 --> 00:36:07,435 Speaker 1: I was there to actors and actresses who knew exactly 537 00:36:07,515 --> 00:36:11,955 Speaker 1: who I was. Kevin Costner was particularly confused. Some of 538 00:36:11,995 --> 00:36:14,955 Speaker 1: them gave thoughtful answers to my question about an all 539 00:36:15,075 --> 00:36:18,035 Speaker 1: day oscars. Helen Hunt actually thought about it and said 540 00:36:18,035 --> 00:36:21,715 Speaker 1: something interesting. Costner said he would never watch anything like 541 00:36:21,795 --> 00:36:25,315 Speaker 1: that instead of say college basketball. He recommended against doing it, 542 00:36:25,355 --> 00:36:27,755 Speaker 1: and he said, we already know too much about the 543 00:36:27,795 --> 00:36:30,875 Speaker 1: things we already know about. And I knew exactly what 544 00:36:30,915 --> 00:36:33,635 Speaker 1: he meant. What a great quote. We shook hands, and 545 00:36:33,795 --> 00:36:35,955 Speaker 1: cost took a deep breath, and he moved towards the 546 00:36:36,035 --> 00:36:38,795 Speaker 1: gauntlet of the next five hundred reporters down the red 547 00:36:38,795 --> 00:36:43,075 Speaker 1: carpet and said, wish me luck Keith. Within two minutes, 548 00:36:43,315 --> 00:36:46,955 Speaker 1: I then saw Costner walking back towards me. Can you 549 00:36:46,995 --> 00:36:49,155 Speaker 1: give me a favor? I mean, I'm sorry, but can 550 00:36:49,195 --> 00:36:52,195 Speaker 1: you not run that quote. I've never retracted a quote 551 00:36:52,195 --> 00:36:56,675 Speaker 1: in my life, but that'll make me sound like Yogi Bera. 552 00:36:58,435 --> 00:37:00,555 Speaker 1: I said, it didn't make him sound like Yogi berra. 553 00:37:00,795 --> 00:37:03,155 Speaker 1: It was perfect and everybody would know exactly what he meant. 554 00:37:03,155 --> 00:37:05,595 Speaker 1: But of course, if that's what he was wanted, I'd 555 00:37:05,595 --> 00:37:10,755 Speaker 1: forget it. I wouldn't use the quote until now. Anyway, 556 00:37:10,795 --> 00:37:13,635 Speaker 1: I had enough color and quotes, and technically my article 557 00:37:13,675 --> 00:37:16,275 Speaker 1: was going to be labeled arrivals. So it was done 558 00:37:16,315 --> 00:37:18,795 Speaker 1: already as night began to fall, and I had one 559 00:37:18,835 --> 00:37:22,235 Speaker 1: particular piece of gold handed to me. When the fabled 560 00:37:22,275 --> 00:37:26,315 Speaker 1: actress who had done the cameo in Titanic the year before, 561 00:37:26,435 --> 00:37:29,115 Speaker 1: arrived on the Red carpet, the photographer standing on one 562 00:37:29,115 --> 00:37:32,955 Speaker 1: side of me said, look, it's Martha Stuart. Not Martha Stuart, 563 00:37:32,995 --> 00:37:37,395 Speaker 1: I mean Glorias Swanson. No, you know who I mean, 564 00:37:38,715 --> 00:37:43,515 Speaker 1: Glorias Stuart. It was good that I had enough material, 565 00:37:43,595 --> 00:37:45,475 Speaker 1: and I thought that was probably going to be my 566 00:37:45,595 --> 00:37:48,435 Speaker 1: second paragraph, because the editor had given me a deadline, like, 567 00:37:48,835 --> 00:37:51,195 Speaker 1: I don't know, six thirty seven pm, where I had 568 00:37:51,195 --> 00:37:54,235 Speaker 1: to be back in the Times offices, which were a 569 00:37:54,315 --> 00:37:56,715 Speaker 1: quick walk a block or two away, and I had 570 00:37:56,715 --> 00:37:58,755 Speaker 1: to start writing because they wanted to put my piece 571 00:37:58,795 --> 00:38:01,155 Speaker 1: on the page with all the early photos from the 572 00:38:01,195 --> 00:38:02,995 Speaker 1: Red Carpet and the start of the awards, and they 573 00:38:03,035 --> 00:38:06,275 Speaker 1: needed my piece finished asa up. But I lingered a 574 00:38:06,315 --> 00:38:08,235 Speaker 1: few minutes longer than I was supposed to because there 575 00:38:08,235 --> 00:38:11,115 Speaker 1: was only one actor. I had really hoped I was 576 00:38:11,155 --> 00:38:16,635 Speaker 1: going to get to meet Tom Hanks. Finally, Keith comes 577 00:38:16,635 --> 00:38:21,795 Speaker 1: back to Tom Hanks. Didn't see him. Everybody's already inside. 578 00:38:21,835 --> 00:38:23,715 Speaker 1: I must have missed him, or maybe he's not coming, 579 00:38:23,835 --> 00:38:26,075 Speaker 1: even though he has a nominated film. And I'm about 580 00:38:26,075 --> 00:38:28,715 Speaker 1: to leave. Literally, I'm double checking my notes in my quotes. 581 00:38:28,795 --> 00:38:31,915 Speaker 1: When I heard some of the fotog shout Tom, Tom, 582 00:38:32,595 --> 00:38:36,115 Speaker 1: and there finally he was in a tux and a beard, 583 00:38:36,555 --> 00:38:39,795 Speaker 1: and he gave him that half mile actor stare and 584 00:38:39,955 --> 00:38:43,915 Speaker 1: pleasant smile, and without being asked, he did a slow 585 00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:48,315 Speaker 1: pan from side to side so each cameraman could get 586 00:38:48,355 --> 00:38:51,235 Speaker 1: him in profile and in full face. And then he 587 00:38:51,355 --> 00:38:55,715 Speaker 1: stopped and his eyes widened comically, and he said, Keith Olberman, 588 00:38:56,075 --> 00:38:59,275 Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Did you get fired? Again? 589 00:39:01,115 --> 00:39:06,195 Speaker 1: That even got a laugh from the photographers. He then 590 00:39:06,275 --> 00:39:09,475 Speaker 1: devolved into stick, come in with me. You can have 591 00:39:09,595 --> 00:39:12,075 Speaker 1: Rita's ticket better than that. Why don't you go in 592 00:39:12,075 --> 00:39:17,955 Speaker 1: with Rita? I'll go watch UCLA play. Rita. Wilson smiled, waved, 593 00:39:17,955 --> 00:39:19,995 Speaker 1: and while looking at her husband, she pointed to her 594 00:39:20,035 --> 00:39:24,075 Speaker 1: own head and made that crazy gesture and on and 595 00:39:24,115 --> 00:39:27,835 Speaker 1: on and on it went. I asked Tom Hanks my questions. 596 00:39:27,835 --> 00:39:29,675 Speaker 1: He gave me some good answers. He gave me a 597 00:39:29,755 --> 00:39:32,835 Speaker 1: very nice double handed handshake, and he moved on. And 598 00:39:32,875 --> 00:39:35,315 Speaker 1: he was one or two people down the gauntlet of 599 00:39:35,355 --> 00:39:38,595 Speaker 1: the red carpet when I thought, dummy, Tom Hanks is 600 00:39:38,675 --> 00:39:41,475 Speaker 1: right there. He's a fan. You're a fan. You have 601 00:39:41,515 --> 00:39:43,955 Speaker 1: a camera with you, You have a mother, Get a 602 00:39:43,995 --> 00:39:48,515 Speaker 1: picture with him for mom. So I beckoned, So you'll 603 00:39:48,555 --> 00:39:51,515 Speaker 1: go in with me, hot dog. I explained what I 604 00:39:51,515 --> 00:39:54,875 Speaker 1: actually wanted, and I handed my little disposable cardboard camera. 605 00:39:54,995 --> 00:39:58,115 Speaker 1: Remember those to the nearest reporter I knew, Lara Spencer 606 00:39:58,115 --> 00:40:00,755 Speaker 1: from Channel seven in New York more recently of Good 607 00:40:00,755 --> 00:40:04,435 Speaker 1: Morning America. And I leaned back over the hedges, which, 608 00:40:04,435 --> 00:40:07,035 Speaker 1: in the those innocent pre nine eleven days, were the 609 00:40:07,115 --> 00:40:11,035 Speaker 1: only things actually keeping the famous safe from us. We 610 00:40:11,115 --> 00:40:14,515 Speaker 1: merely cover the famous. Lara took a couple of shots 611 00:40:15,075 --> 00:40:17,355 Speaker 1: in them. It would prove my head is about four 612 00:40:17,395 --> 00:40:20,435 Speaker 1: times as big as Tom's and we both look like mutants, 613 00:40:21,195 --> 00:40:25,875 Speaker 1: scraining mutants. Wait, this won't work, Tom Hanks finally said, 614 00:40:26,115 --> 00:40:29,275 Speaker 1: and with that he grabbed me and started to pull 615 00:40:29,315 --> 00:40:33,795 Speaker 1: me over the shrubbery. I was unprepared for this. I 616 00:40:33,835 --> 00:40:37,675 Speaker 1: started to teeter. At this exact moment, I heard coming 617 00:40:37,715 --> 00:40:43,035 Speaker 1: from the carpet behind me two guys chanting. Hanks turned 618 00:40:43,075 --> 00:40:45,995 Speaker 1: around and said, Hello, boys, Look it's Keith Olberman. Can 619 00:40:46,035 --> 00:40:48,675 Speaker 1: you believe this? Finally a reason actually show up to 620 00:40:48,715 --> 00:40:51,595 Speaker 1: this dumb thing? Can we take me in with this 621 00:40:51,675 --> 00:40:53,915 Speaker 1: havebut you guys got an extra ticket here, help me 622 00:40:53,915 --> 00:40:56,835 Speaker 1: pull him over the hedge. The two guys were Ben 623 00:40:56,875 --> 00:41:02,115 Speaker 1: Athleck and Matt Damon somewhere in this process, and Afleck 624 00:41:02,195 --> 00:41:05,755 Speaker 1: and Damon were really young, then they really could pull 625 00:41:07,275 --> 00:41:11,035 Speaker 1: one of these three men broke my commer bund i square. 626 00:41:11,675 --> 00:41:13,915 Speaker 1: Suddenly I was on the red carpet with them, and 627 00:41:13,955 --> 00:41:19,075 Speaker 1: with a loose commer bund Affleck struck a wrestling pose 628 00:41:19,195 --> 00:41:23,435 Speaker 1: and made a grimace, a fake grimace. Lara Spencer shouted, 629 00:41:23,475 --> 00:41:25,515 Speaker 1: that's a perfect shot, at which point I heard a 630 00:41:25,555 --> 00:41:28,875 Speaker 1: sound effect, but in real life, nearly identical to the 631 00:41:28,875 --> 00:41:32,155 Speaker 1: one that signaled the arrival of the reporters. Throughout the movie, 632 00:41:32,195 --> 00:41:35,675 Speaker 1: the right stuff like a thousand mosquitoes moving in unison. 633 00:41:35,915 --> 00:41:40,435 Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, man, every photographer there panned over 634 00:41:40,555 --> 00:41:43,755 Speaker 1: to us because even those who did not know who 635 00:41:43,795 --> 00:41:46,475 Speaker 1: I was or what Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, and Ben 636 00:41:46,515 --> 00:41:50,715 Speaker 1: Affleck were doing to me? Did notice security rushing to 637 00:41:50,795 --> 00:41:55,635 Speaker 1: this scene. It's all right, fellas, Hank shouted, he fell. 638 00:41:56,755 --> 00:41:59,995 Speaker 1: They helped me back over the hedge. Affleck asked me 639 00:42:00,035 --> 00:42:03,115 Speaker 1: about the Red Sox chances in the season ahead. Hanks 640 00:42:03,275 --> 00:42:06,435 Speaker 1: slapped me on the back. I barely managed to shout 641 00:42:06,635 --> 00:42:09,795 Speaker 1: enjoy the show boys, and Damon turned and said, well, 642 00:42:09,835 --> 00:42:14,395 Speaker 1: we just did, and they were gone. Any image of 643 00:42:14,435 --> 00:42:18,955 Speaker 1: this scene taken without sound and without context would have 644 00:42:19,035 --> 00:42:22,235 Speaker 1: been greeted, perhaps as the stuff from con was about 645 00:42:22,315 --> 00:42:25,235 Speaker 1: Tom Hanks. It would have shown three of Hollywood's top 646 00:42:25,275 --> 00:42:31,555 Speaker 1: actors appearing to attack, or maybe trying to subdue some 647 00:42:31,795 --> 00:42:35,715 Speaker 1: guy who looked vaguely like some sports or news guy 648 00:42:36,355 --> 00:42:38,875 Speaker 1: or something. And the tucks didn't fit well, it must 649 00:42:38,915 --> 00:42:42,315 Speaker 1: have been a rental. It might have been a perimeter breach. 650 00:42:42,675 --> 00:42:44,875 Speaker 1: I mean, look at the damage to the hedge, to 651 00:42:44,915 --> 00:42:48,595 Speaker 1: say nothing of the guy's cover bund. So when the 652 00:42:48,635 --> 00:42:51,355 Speaker 1: story of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson yelling at the 653 00:42:51,355 --> 00:42:54,035 Speaker 1: guy on the red carpet at Con broke, all I 654 00:42:54,035 --> 00:42:59,595 Speaker 1: could think of was here we go again. As a PostScript, 655 00:42:59,595 --> 00:43:01,715 Speaker 1: I should note that I have seen Tom Hanks several 656 00:43:01,795 --> 00:43:04,355 Speaker 1: times since then, and Hanks always mentions the comer bund 657 00:43:04,995 --> 00:43:08,395 Speaker 1: Affleck once portrayed me on Saturday Night Live, and I 658 00:43:08,475 --> 00:43:11,155 Speaker 1: went up to his studio, which was also the Football 659 00:43:11,235 --> 00:43:14,955 Speaker 1: Night in America studio, to say hello at his rehearsal 660 00:43:15,315 --> 00:43:17,475 Speaker 1: and offer him any tips he needed. And the next 661 00:43:17,475 --> 00:43:19,795 Speaker 1: thing I knew that was in the New York Post 662 00:43:20,395 --> 00:43:25,075 Speaker 1: Olberman Crash's studio and the photo of the four of us, well, 663 00:43:25,115 --> 00:43:27,395 Speaker 1: I clearly had enough stuff for my Arrivals piece in 664 00:43:27,435 --> 00:43:29,635 Speaker 1: the LA time. So I jogged back to their office 665 00:43:29,755 --> 00:43:32,035 Speaker 1: is a little late now and found the editor and 666 00:43:32,075 --> 00:43:34,075 Speaker 1: she asked me if the story would work, and I said, yes, 667 00:43:34,115 --> 00:43:37,555 Speaker 1: I have enough. And then I sheepishly said, listen, there 668 00:43:37,595 --> 00:43:41,075 Speaker 1: was a thing with me and Hanks and Affleck and Damon, 669 00:43:41,155 --> 00:43:43,795 Speaker 1: and can I mention it in the piece? Maybe at 670 00:43:43,795 --> 00:43:47,355 Speaker 1: the end. And again her eyes widened as I explained 671 00:43:47,395 --> 00:43:50,795 Speaker 1: what happened, and in great excitement she asked, did anybody 672 00:43:50,835 --> 00:43:53,755 Speaker 1: get a picture of this? And I said, well, yeah, 673 00:43:53,755 --> 00:43:58,475 Speaker 1: I thought about one hundred real photographers got a picture 674 00:43:58,515 --> 00:44:01,435 Speaker 1: of it. But I was certain that my friend Lara 675 00:44:01,475 --> 00:44:04,675 Speaker 1: from New York had gotten it on my disposable, which 676 00:44:04,675 --> 00:44:07,195 Speaker 1: which is when the editor grabbed the camera from my 677 00:44:07,355 --> 00:44:11,275 Speaker 1: hand and left without a word, running down the hallway. 678 00:44:11,675 --> 00:44:14,115 Speaker 1: And the next thing I saw of my camera or 679 00:44:14,115 --> 00:44:16,515 Speaker 1: what was in it was the next morning when the 680 00:44:16,555 --> 00:44:19,555 Speaker 1: front page of the La Times Oscar section had four 681 00:44:19,915 --> 00:44:23,875 Speaker 1: beautiful color pictures on it, one of Gwyneth Paltrow, Judy Dench, 682 00:44:23,995 --> 00:44:28,675 Speaker 1: James Coburn and Roberto Benini. One of Ilia Kazan. It 683 00:44:28,755 --> 00:44:32,555 Speaker 1: was the Elia Kazan's speech year. One of Kate Blanchette's 684 00:44:32,635 --> 00:44:35,995 Speaker 1: dress as seen from behind, so it was a picture 685 00:44:36,035 --> 00:44:39,475 Speaker 1: of Kate Blanchette's But the largest of all the pictures 686 00:44:39,955 --> 00:44:45,475 Speaker 1: me and the boys, with the caption the arrivals. Fox 687 00:44:45,635 --> 00:44:49,635 Speaker 1: Sports News anchor Keith Alreman is mugged by Tom Hanks, 688 00:44:49,755 --> 00:44:53,035 Speaker 1: left Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on the red carpet, 689 00:44:53,475 --> 00:44:59,315 Speaker 1: and lives to write about it, page f two. I 690 00:44:59,355 --> 00:45:03,395 Speaker 1: still have it framed on my wall, but just to 691 00:45:03,395 --> 00:45:23,155 Speaker 1: be clear, Tom Hanks didn't actually mug me. I've done 692 00:45:23,155 --> 00:45:25,275 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 693 00:45:25,315 --> 00:45:29,315 Speaker 1: Countdown Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanelle arranged, produced, 694 00:45:29,315 --> 00:45:33,355 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, bass, 695 00:45:33,435 --> 00:45:36,835 Speaker 1: and drums, and mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, and 696 00:45:36,875 --> 00:45:40,595 Speaker 1: it was produced by Tko Brothers. I saw Tom Hanks 697 00:45:40,595 --> 00:45:46,995 Speaker 1: about two years after the incident at the Oscars, having 698 00:45:47,075 --> 00:45:50,555 Speaker 1: lunch in he walked and on the way out he 699 00:45:50,635 --> 00:45:53,715 Speaker 1: came by a side door and leaned in the window 700 00:45:54,475 --> 00:45:57,275 Speaker 1: and talked to me and my friend Hank appropriately enough, 701 00:45:58,315 --> 00:46:01,395 Speaker 1: lovely guy, Tom Hanks. Other music, including some of the 702 00:46:01,435 --> 00:46:05,315 Speaker 1: Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by the group No Horn's Allowed. 703 00:46:05,755 --> 00:46:08,835 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two. 704 00:46:09,235 --> 00:46:11,835 Speaker 1: It was written by Mitch Warren Davis and appears courtesy 705 00:46:11,875 --> 00:46:16,635 Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Our pithy and satirical musical comments are 706 00:46:16,675 --> 00:46:19,875 Speaker 1: by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our 707 00:46:19,915 --> 00:46:23,515 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend, the actor Jonathan Banks. Everything 708 00:46:23,515 --> 00:46:27,755 Speaker 1: else is pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for 709 00:46:27,795 --> 00:46:31,355 Speaker 1: this The two hundred and third day until the twenty 710 00:46:31,395 --> 00:46:35,355 Speaker 1: twenty four presidential election, the one and ninety eighth day 711 00:46:35,515 --> 00:46:47,115 Speaker 1: since defendant Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 712 00:46:47,115 --> 00:46:50,275 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States, Use the Fourteenth Amendment 713 00:46:50,315 --> 00:46:54,195 Speaker 1: and the not regularly given elector objection provided by the 714 00:46:54,235 --> 00:46:58,075 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, Use the Insurrection Act, use the justice system, 715 00:46:58,315 --> 00:47:02,275 Speaker 1: use the mental health system to stop him from doing 716 00:47:02,315 --> 00:47:08,035 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown 717 00:47:08,075 --> 00:47:10,995 Speaker 1: is tomorrow bulletins as the news warrants till then, I'm 718 00:47:11,075 --> 00:47:16,115 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and I ask 719 00:47:16,195 --> 00:47:32,995 Speaker 1: one no, that's right. Good Luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman 720 00:47:33,155 --> 00:47:37,635 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 721 00:47:37,795 --> 00:47:41,755 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 722 00:47:41,835 --> 00:47:42,755 Speaker 1: your podcasts.