1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:22,355 --> 00:00:26,355 Speaker 1: vote is at four thirty this afternoon. Barring the unforeseen, 3 00:00:26,475 --> 00:00:31,395 Speaker 1: the Nashville Metro Council will choose Justin Jones to replace 4 00:00:31,555 --> 00:00:37,955 Speaker 1: its expelled Tennessee state representative Justin Jones. There are thirty 5 00:00:37,995 --> 00:00:40,715 Speaker 1: nine members active in that council, and NBC News pulled 6 00:00:40,715 --> 00:00:42,835 Speaker 1: them and twenty three said that they will vote to 7 00:00:42,875 --> 00:00:45,675 Speaker 1: put Jones back into the House that expelled him Thursday 8 00:00:45,675 --> 00:00:51,795 Speaker 1: for LWB legislating while black. Apart from being racist, fascist, 9 00:00:51,835 --> 00:00:55,755 Speaker 1: condescending crackers better suited to be overseers on a chain gang, 10 00:00:56,155 --> 00:00:59,955 Speaker 1: the white Republican mob which violated every tenetive representative government 11 00:01:00,075 --> 00:01:03,835 Speaker 1: by expelling Justin Jones and Justin Pearson last week, is 12 00:01:03,875 --> 00:01:08,755 Speaker 1: also amazingly stupid. A week ago today, even if you 13 00:01:08,795 --> 00:01:13,115 Speaker 1: are listening to this in Tennessee, you did not know 14 00:01:13,275 --> 00:01:19,195 Speaker 1: who Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were. Now entirely because 15 00:01:19,275 --> 00:01:23,635 Speaker 1: of GOP greed and stupidity, they are superstars and the 16 00:01:23,795 --> 00:01:27,395 Speaker 1: budding new leaders of the Democratic Party, not just in 17 00:01:27,475 --> 00:01:31,315 Speaker 1: their state, but in the South and in the country, 18 00:01:31,595 --> 00:01:34,755 Speaker 1: and not just because they were expelled by a racist 19 00:01:34,835 --> 00:01:38,715 Speaker 1: party defending its position that gun ownership is more important 20 00:01:38,715 --> 00:01:42,795 Speaker 1: than not having kids slaughtered in school every month. A 21 00:01:42,955 --> 00:01:47,275 Speaker 1: party that will not expel George Santos for lying about 22 00:01:47,275 --> 00:01:51,195 Speaker 1: everything except a shoe size, and will not expel Marjorie 23 00:01:51,195 --> 00:01:54,915 Speaker 1: Taylor Green, Andy Biggs, or Scott Perry or anybody else 24 00:01:54,955 --> 00:01:58,155 Speaker 1: over January sixth, even though each of them asked Trump 25 00:01:58,275 --> 00:02:03,555 Speaker 1: for a pardon four January sixth. There are two other 26 00:02:03,635 --> 00:02:09,035 Speaker 1: factors for the Republicans are reportedly doubling down on the expulsions. 27 00:02:09,395 --> 00:02:13,875 Speaker 1: Shelby County Supervisor Erica Sugarman says she has been told 28 00:02:14,355 --> 00:02:18,195 Speaker 1: if her authority votes to send Justin Pearson back to 29 00:02:18,235 --> 00:02:21,955 Speaker 1: the Tennessee House, the state of Tennessee may withhold up 30 00:02:21,995 --> 00:02:25,795 Speaker 1: to three hundred and fifty million dollars promised for arena 31 00:02:25,875 --> 00:02:30,675 Speaker 1: and stadium upgrades and new projects in Memphis. But there's 32 00:02:30,715 --> 00:02:33,715 Speaker 1: another one that may be difficult to perceive if you're 33 00:02:33,715 --> 00:02:37,435 Speaker 1: anywhere near as old as I am. We see the 34 00:02:37,515 --> 00:02:40,555 Speaker 1: Jones and Pearson expulsions in terms of the battle to 35 00:02:40,595 --> 00:02:43,755 Speaker 1: stop the madness of mass gun murder, and in the 36 00:02:43,755 --> 00:02:47,355 Speaker 1: Republicans returned to overt racism and white supremacy, but to 37 00:02:47,435 --> 00:02:51,115 Speaker 1: an extraordinary number of younger voters. It's just as important 38 00:02:51,115 --> 00:02:54,795 Speaker 1: to note that Justin Jones is twenty seven and Justin 39 00:02:54,875 --> 00:02:58,155 Speaker 1: Pearson is twenty eight. And it's not just a bigotry 40 00:02:58,315 --> 00:03:02,875 Speaker 1: encrusted white power structure expelling some minority leaders. It's an 41 00:03:02,915 --> 00:03:07,915 Speaker 1: ancient white power struck expelling young leaders who actually can 42 00:03:07,955 --> 00:03:11,155 Speaker 1: see the twenty first century spreading out in front of them. 43 00:03:12,155 --> 00:03:16,195 Speaker 1: And the contemporaries of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are 44 00:03:16,275 --> 00:03:20,515 Speaker 1: sick to death of this. Literally, the group in charge 45 00:03:20,555 --> 00:03:25,235 Speaker 1: now the baby boomers, and I'm a young baby boomer. 46 00:03:25,955 --> 00:03:29,235 Speaker 1: It has hung on to power far longer than it 47 00:03:29,475 --> 00:03:33,475 Speaker 1: slash us should have. And lots of seventies and even 48 00:03:33,515 --> 00:03:38,435 Speaker 1: eighties children have become this group's henchman, and they are 49 00:03:38,515 --> 00:03:42,195 Speaker 1: all about to be swept away by time and demographics 50 00:03:42,235 --> 00:03:48,355 Speaker 1: and mechanisms like viral politics and meme politics and momentum 51 00:03:48,435 --> 00:03:52,355 Speaker 1: politics that they do not understand in the least. The 52 00:03:52,555 --> 00:03:57,675 Speaker 1: racist who condescended to Justin Pearson on Thursday, Andrew Farmer 53 00:03:58,075 --> 00:04:01,315 Speaker 1: as he voted to expel him, thinks he did something 54 00:04:01,515 --> 00:04:05,835 Speaker 1: good for himself, for his party, for the guns that 55 00:04:05,955 --> 00:04:10,755 Speaker 1: arouse him. In point of fact, he has made himself obsolete, 56 00:04:10,955 --> 00:04:14,795 Speaker 1: and he has made these guys heroes because, to quote 57 00:04:14,835 --> 00:04:23,235 Speaker 1: the new T shirt, no Justine's no peace. Also today 58 00:04:23,275 --> 00:04:27,675 Speaker 1: we all know what Clarence Thomas is. We're just arguing 59 00:04:27,715 --> 00:04:31,955 Speaker 1: about the price. The Senate needs to investigate the Supreme 60 00:04:31,995 --> 00:04:35,435 Speaker 1: Court and it needs to investigate the Supreme Court today. 61 00:04:36,715 --> 00:04:39,195 Speaker 1: Oh and we're also arguing about the guy who bought 62 00:04:39,315 --> 00:04:44,995 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas. Turns out he also bought Hitler memorabilia, a 63 00:04:45,195 --> 00:04:49,715 Speaker 1: lot of Hitler memorabilia. And the argument is, does that 64 00:04:49,875 --> 00:04:53,715 Speaker 1: make Harlan Crowe an admirer of Hitler or just a 65 00:04:53,835 --> 00:04:57,955 Speaker 1: collector of Hitler? Does it mean Clarence Thomas Supreme Court 66 00:04:58,075 --> 00:05:01,595 Speaker 1: justice is owned and operated and told how to vote 67 00:05:02,435 --> 00:05:06,235 Speaker 1: by not just a fascist, but by a Nazi sympathizer. 68 00:05:07,675 --> 00:05:12,075 Speaker 1: Harland Crowe owns Hitler paintings and displays them on the 69 00:05:12,115 --> 00:05:19,155 Speaker 1: walls of his home. Not paintings of Hitler, paintings by Hitler. 70 00:05:19,795 --> 00:05:22,635 Speaker 1: One of them hangs between a painting by Norman Rockwell 71 00:05:22,955 --> 00:05:26,795 Speaker 1: and a painting by George W. Bush. And why you 72 00:05:26,835 --> 00:05:29,075 Speaker 1: would hang a picture of George W. Bush on your 73 00:05:29,075 --> 00:05:31,955 Speaker 1: wall where people might see it, Well, that's a whole 74 00:05:32,035 --> 00:05:36,435 Speaker 1: different topic. Crowe also has an autograph copy of mine 75 00:05:36,475 --> 00:05:42,035 Speaker 1: comp He owns Hitler's teapot, seriously his teapot. He's got 76 00:05:42,035 --> 00:05:45,715 Speaker 1: a Nazi Lennen's collection. He's got German uniforms. He's also 77 00:05:45,755 --> 00:05:48,755 Speaker 1: got a display outside his Texas mansion that even his 78 00:05:48,835 --> 00:05:52,915 Speaker 1: defenders called the Garden of Evil and has statues of 79 00:05:52,915 --> 00:05:56,395 Speaker 1: Stalin and Lenin and Tito and Chowchescu. He says he 80 00:05:56,435 --> 00:05:59,555 Speaker 1: didn't commission these statues, mind you. They all used to 81 00:05:59,595 --> 00:06:03,595 Speaker 1: stand in those dictators home countries. The garden, Harland Crowe says, 82 00:06:03,715 --> 00:06:09,275 Speaker 1: is dedicated to man's in humanity, to man, Are you 83 00:06:09,395 --> 00:06:14,315 Speaker 1: four or against? Sir? I'll get to what matters here, 84 00:06:14,515 --> 00:06:18,115 Speaker 1: murmurs of a much needed congressional investigation of Clarence Thomas. 85 00:06:18,235 --> 00:06:20,675 Speaker 1: But indulge me on this for another couple of moments. 86 00:06:21,155 --> 00:06:24,435 Speaker 1: Harland Crowe has been defended on this Nazi stuff by 87 00:06:24,515 --> 00:06:28,075 Speaker 1: all the people you would not want to defend you. 88 00:06:28,515 --> 00:06:31,595 Speaker 1: A guy named Charles Murray says, even those who disagree 89 00:06:32,155 --> 00:06:36,155 Speaker 1: with Crowe quote universally recognize his decency. Thirty years ago, 90 00:06:36,395 --> 00:06:40,155 Speaker 1: this Charles Murray wrote The Bell Curve, the book that 91 00:06:40,235 --> 00:06:44,075 Speaker 1: basically argues that poor people, especially African Americans, are poor 92 00:06:44,555 --> 00:06:48,035 Speaker 1: because they're stupid, and there's no way for society to 93 00:06:48,075 --> 00:06:52,395 Speaker 1: fix that. So save your money, don't even try. Harland 94 00:06:52,435 --> 00:06:55,035 Speaker 1: Crowe is also defended on the Nazi memorabilia front by 95 00:06:55,115 --> 00:06:58,955 Speaker 1: Jonah Goldberg, who wrote a book called Liberal Fascism, which 96 00:06:59,075 --> 00:07:02,835 Speaker 1: argues that universal healthcare is comparable to Germany in the thirties, 97 00:07:03,155 --> 00:07:06,395 Speaker 1: at whose cover art cons of a smiley face with 98 00:07:06,515 --> 00:07:09,715 Speaker 1: a Hitler mustache on it. But he's a great guy. 99 00:07:09,755 --> 00:07:16,035 Speaker 1: He's just a collector of Hitler stuff. I wonder if 100 00:07:16,035 --> 00:07:18,875 Speaker 1: he has the same book of Nazi speeches. Trump admitted 101 00:07:18,955 --> 00:07:22,275 Speaker 1: he had and kept in his house in his bedroom 102 00:07:22,755 --> 00:07:25,435 Speaker 1: in the table next to his bed, but he didn't 103 00:07:25,475 --> 00:07:29,915 Speaker 1: read it. Oh and his brother, Trammel Crowe is one 104 00:07:29,955 --> 00:07:33,315 Speaker 1: of a group of Texas businessmen sued last November by 105 00:07:33,355 --> 00:07:35,955 Speaker 1: two women who claimed it starting in two ten, the 106 00:07:36,035 --> 00:07:42,115 Speaker 1: businessmen Trammel Crowe included financed a sex trafficking ring and 107 00:07:42,275 --> 00:07:45,915 Speaker 1: one last Harland Crowe discovery, perhaps the most damning and 108 00:07:45,995 --> 00:07:51,355 Speaker 1: most disturbing of all business Insider reports that this Republican 109 00:07:51,395 --> 00:07:54,955 Speaker 1: activist and mega donor contributed twenty eight hundred dollars to 110 00:07:54,995 --> 00:08:00,915 Speaker 1: the campaign of Senator Joe Manchin. At last May, he 111 00:08:01,035 --> 00:08:05,715 Speaker 1: donated five thousand dollars to Getting Stuff Done Pack, a 112 00:08:05,835 --> 00:08:10,195 Speaker 1: leadership pack connected to Senator Kirsten Cinema. In fact, he 113 00:08:10,275 --> 00:08:14,835 Speaker 1: really likes Kirston. He directly donated fifty eight hundred dollars 114 00:08:14,835 --> 00:08:19,715 Speaker 1: to her campaign in November twenty twenty one, after donating 115 00:08:19,755 --> 00:08:22,515 Speaker 1: twenty nine hundred dollars to her campaign in June twenty 116 00:08:22,515 --> 00:08:25,515 Speaker 1: twenty one. The limit is twenty nine hundred election cycle. 117 00:08:25,555 --> 00:08:28,995 Speaker 1: In other words, this guy Crowe, who has funneled literally 118 00:08:29,035 --> 00:08:32,435 Speaker 1: millions in cash and prizes to Clarence Thomas, donated so 119 00:08:32,555 --> 00:08:35,115 Speaker 1: much to my ex Cinema that she had to give 120 00:08:35,195 --> 00:08:39,555 Speaker 1: most of it back. Harland Crowe is so unethical. He's 121 00:08:39,635 --> 00:08:45,795 Speaker 1: too unethical for Kirsten Cinema. I mean, maybe I can buy. 122 00:08:46,475 --> 00:08:48,875 Speaker 1: He's just a really big history collector. I mean, I've 123 00:08:48,875 --> 00:08:51,835 Speaker 1: got a couple of baseball cards in my collection that 124 00:08:51,955 --> 00:08:55,515 Speaker 1: have Trump on them entertaining World Series winners at the 125 00:08:55,515 --> 00:08:59,075 Speaker 1: White House. Well, I mean I did burn my original 126 00:08:59,115 --> 00:09:02,795 Speaker 1: copies of those cards while he was president. But still, 127 00:09:03,075 --> 00:09:05,875 Speaker 1: you know, maybe I can buy. He's just a really 128 00:09:05,915 --> 00:09:08,755 Speaker 1: big history collector. He's not a Nazi himself. He doesn't 129 00:09:09,035 --> 00:09:14,315 Speaker 1: like let he just keeps them for the historical Okay, maybe, 130 00:09:14,315 --> 00:09:16,995 Speaker 1: but donating to Kirsten Cinema tells me all I really 131 00:09:17,035 --> 00:09:21,515 Speaker 1: need to know. There's even a new wrinkle to the 132 00:09:21,595 --> 00:09:24,995 Speaker 1: Crow's been buying off Clarence thomas since nineteen ninety one, 133 00:09:25,075 --> 00:09:29,035 Speaker 1: thing noted by a Twitter user called Clearing the Fog, 134 00:09:29,955 --> 00:09:33,235 Speaker 1: who points out the timing of the half million dollar 135 00:09:33,355 --> 00:09:37,275 Speaker 1: donation by Harland Crowe to Jinny Thomas, with which Jinny 136 00:09:37,355 --> 00:09:40,795 Speaker 1: Thomas created quote what may have been the very first 137 00:09:40,915 --> 00:09:44,795 Speaker 1: dark money group, with Leonard Leo Liberty Central in late 138 00:09:44,795 --> 00:09:48,795 Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, weeks or months before the Citizens 139 00:09:48,915 --> 00:09:53,475 Speaker 1: United ruling. Leo registered it in Virginia one week before 140 00:09:53,675 --> 00:09:59,515 Speaker 1: Citizens United un But how did Leonard Leo know that 141 00:09:59,595 --> 00:10:02,115 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court was going to give corporations the okay 142 00:10:02,155 --> 00:10:07,155 Speaker 1: to spend infinite amount of dollars on politics as long 143 00:10:07,195 --> 00:10:10,595 Speaker 1: as the dollars didn't go directly to a candidate and 144 00:10:10,715 --> 00:10:13,635 Speaker 1: do so in the dread scott of twenty first century 145 00:10:13,715 --> 00:10:17,715 Speaker 1: decisions Citizens United? How did Harland Crowe know to give 146 00:10:17,755 --> 00:10:21,995 Speaker 1: behalf a million to Jinny Thomas or something Citizens United 147 00:10:23,195 --> 00:10:27,435 Speaker 1: would create? How did he to do that before Citizens 148 00:10:27,555 --> 00:10:32,475 Speaker 1: United was decided. Oh right, Jinny Thomas's husband is one 149 00:10:32,515 --> 00:10:37,635 Speaker 1: of the justices. Are we looking at another conservative justice 150 00:10:37,715 --> 00:10:40,715 Speaker 1: leaking his decision to a confidant? Or is it worse? 151 00:10:41,755 --> 00:10:45,635 Speaker 1: Is it a confidant telling a conservative justice what his 152 00:10:45,715 --> 00:10:50,195 Speaker 1: decision should be. So what do we do about this 153 00:10:50,235 --> 00:10:55,395 Speaker 1: guy Thomas? The Democrats who lead the Federal Courts Subcommittee 154 00:10:55,395 --> 00:10:57,515 Speaker 1: in the Senate and are the ranking members in the 155 00:10:57,555 --> 00:11:01,315 Speaker 1: parallel committee in the House, Sheldon Whitehouse, Dick Blumenthal, Jerry 156 00:11:01,315 --> 00:11:03,795 Speaker 1: and Adler, and Hank Johnson. They have written to Chief 157 00:11:03,875 --> 00:11:09,675 Speaker 1: Justice John Roberts demanding he investigate Clarence Thomas and Harlan 158 00:11:09,755 --> 00:11:13,355 Speaker 1: Crowe and insisting Roberts align the Supreme Court with all 159 00:11:13,395 --> 00:11:17,915 Speaker 1: those pesky little ethics violations rules that apply to literally 160 00:11:17,955 --> 00:11:20,995 Speaker 1: everybody else in government or quote. Should the Supreme Court 161 00:11:21,035 --> 00:11:24,075 Speaker 1: continue to refuse to act swiftly on these matters, we 162 00:11:24,155 --> 00:11:28,075 Speaker 1: will continue to press Congress to act to restore accountability 163 00:11:28,115 --> 00:11:31,515 Speaker 1: and ethics at the highest court in the land. Unquote. 164 00:11:32,675 --> 00:11:35,715 Speaker 1: I mean, that's great, but let's cut to the chase. 165 00:11:36,395 --> 00:11:40,755 Speaker 1: The Senate needs to investigate the Supreme Court. It doesn't 166 00:11:40,795 --> 00:11:43,355 Speaker 1: matter that there's no precedent for that. It doesn't matter 167 00:11:43,875 --> 00:11:47,035 Speaker 1: that a justice has not been impeached since Samuel Chase 168 00:11:47,075 --> 00:11:49,795 Speaker 1: in eighteen o four. We here in the twenty first 169 00:11:49,835 --> 00:11:53,635 Speaker 1: century control the government of the twenty first century. It's 170 00:11:53,635 --> 00:11:56,955 Speaker 1: not the founding fathers controlling the government of the twenty 171 00:11:56,955 --> 00:12:00,275 Speaker 1: first century. What do you think would be happening right 172 00:12:00,315 --> 00:12:03,675 Speaker 1: now if those pro publica revelations had been about not 173 00:12:03,835 --> 00:12:08,195 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas and Harland Crow and Nazis, but Sonya Sodomayor 174 00:12:08,955 --> 00:12:12,075 Speaker 1: and George Soros. I don't know a garden full of 175 00:12:12,515 --> 00:12:18,315 Speaker 1: statues of Saul Olinsky right now today, ninety six hours 176 00:12:18,355 --> 00:12:20,715 Speaker 1: after the story broke, this story would be twenty four 177 00:12:20,875 --> 00:12:23,915 Speaker 1: seven on Fox, and the Republican majority in the House 178 00:12:23,955 --> 00:12:28,075 Speaker 1: would have suspended all other business and refocused its entire 179 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:31,395 Speaker 1: Umbridge factory on the Supreme Court, and there would be 180 00:12:31,395 --> 00:12:34,475 Speaker 1: a bill to impeach Sodomayor coming through the Judiciary, and 181 00:12:34,555 --> 00:12:36,955 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan would have stripped down, not just to his 182 00:12:37,035 --> 00:12:40,475 Speaker 1: shirt sleeves, but he'd gone topless to show how serious 183 00:12:40,475 --> 00:12:47,475 Speaker 1: he was. This is the goddamned democracy at stake here. 184 00:12:47,595 --> 00:12:50,475 Speaker 1: And if the Republicans have changed the rules of this 185 00:12:50,555 --> 00:12:55,315 Speaker 1: game from checks and balances to knives and brass knuckles. 186 00:12:55,875 --> 00:13:01,595 Speaker 1: Democrats had goddamned better go right to pistols. No, a 187 00:13:01,675 --> 00:13:06,115 Speaker 1: Democratic minority cannot pass a bill to impeach Clarence Thomas 188 00:13:06,115 --> 00:13:08,955 Speaker 1: in the House, but it can submit one and get 189 00:13:08,955 --> 00:13:12,715 Speaker 1: it debated and in the Senate. Get your hands dirty, boys, 190 00:13:13,155 --> 00:13:16,555 Speaker 1: if I hear one more argument that Clarence Thomas can't 191 00:13:16,555 --> 00:13:18,915 Speaker 1: be investigated by the Senate, because the next time the 192 00:13:18,955 --> 00:13:22,955 Speaker 1: Republicans are in the majority, then they will investigate sodomoyor 193 00:13:23,515 --> 00:13:28,115 Speaker 1: or whoever. I'm going to scream. They are bullies. They 194 00:13:28,155 --> 00:13:38,035 Speaker 1: are going to do this anyway. Oh, by the way, 195 00:13:38,315 --> 00:13:42,715 Speaker 1: liberty or Republicans, Even if Tennessee had never happened, there 196 00:13:42,715 --> 00:13:45,075 Speaker 1: would be no question that the Republicans just hit the 197 00:13:45,155 --> 00:13:49,675 Speaker 1: gas on their efforts to destroy American democracy by any 198 00:13:49,755 --> 00:13:52,715 Speaker 1: means available to them. They're going at it on a 199 00:13:52,755 --> 00:13:57,035 Speaker 1: state by state basis, running the gamut from intentionally undermining 200 00:13:57,035 --> 00:14:01,395 Speaker 1: public education so future generations will be idiots to figure 201 00:14:01,435 --> 00:14:07,395 Speaker 1: out how to legalize political assassination. You heard me. In 202 00:14:07,475 --> 00:14:12,555 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, an Army sergeant named Daniel Perry wrote online quote, 203 00:14:12,595 --> 00:14:14,755 Speaker 1: I might have to kill a few people on my 204 00:14:14,795 --> 00:14:18,235 Speaker 1: way to work. They are rioting outside my apartment complex. 205 00:14:19,795 --> 00:14:25,555 Speaker 1: Then he went frankly hunting for Black Lives Matter protesters. 206 00:14:26,075 --> 00:14:28,715 Speaker 1: When he found some, he drove his car into the group. 207 00:14:28,755 --> 00:14:31,315 Speaker 1: He was an uber driver. Then he got out and 208 00:14:31,355 --> 00:14:33,995 Speaker 1: shot and killed Garrett Foster, who had been carrying a 209 00:14:34,035 --> 00:14:37,155 Speaker 1: gun legally by the way it is Texas. Perry said 210 00:14:37,755 --> 00:14:41,195 Speaker 1: to the cops that he shot so quickly so Foster 211 00:14:41,315 --> 00:14:45,315 Speaker 1: couldn't aim at him, meaning Foster had not aimed at him. 212 00:14:45,315 --> 00:14:49,115 Speaker 1: In short, this was no self defense case. Friday, a 213 00:14:49,235 --> 00:14:53,395 Speaker 1: jury accordingly found Perry guilty of murder, but within hours 214 00:14:53,395 --> 00:14:55,795 Speaker 1: the fascist governor of the state, Greg Abbott, announced he 215 00:14:55,875 --> 00:14:59,715 Speaker 1: wants Perry pardoned. Said that Perry, whom he kept emphasizing 216 00:14:59,875 --> 00:15:03,275 Speaker 1: was in the army, was just standing his ground and 217 00:15:03,355 --> 00:15:06,955 Speaker 1: that can't be null of fied by a jury or 218 00:15:07,035 --> 00:15:11,075 Speaker 1: progressive attorney. He also left out the fact that Foster 219 00:15:11,235 --> 00:15:14,275 Speaker 1: was a veteran of the Air Force. But in other words, 220 00:15:14,315 --> 00:15:20,475 Speaker 1: Greg Abbott is saying murder for political reasons is justifiable. 221 00:15:20,835 --> 00:15:24,835 Speaker 1: The governor of Texas, I know the idea of sending 222 00:15:24,835 --> 00:15:30,195 Speaker 1: in federal troops to try to enforce democracy gives people 223 00:15:30,235 --> 00:15:34,755 Speaker 1: the chills. How else are you going to stop Greg Abbott? 224 00:15:37,475 --> 00:15:42,155 Speaker 1: Same state, same day, a Trump Republican judge in Texas 225 00:15:42,675 --> 00:15:46,395 Speaker 1: rules against the FDA approval of the abortion drug Muffa 226 00:15:46,475 --> 00:15:50,475 Speaker 1: pristone twenty years ago, which is kind of like some 227 00:15:50,675 --> 00:15:55,195 Speaker 1: Supreme court in twenty sixty overturning Bush v. Gore. Senator 228 00:15:55,275 --> 00:15:57,995 Speaker 1: Ron Wyden said, at first, there is no legal justification 229 00:15:58,035 --> 00:16:01,115 Speaker 1: for this. It defies common sense, and I'll add it 230 00:16:01,155 --> 00:16:05,595 Speaker 1: defies you know, the space time continuum. When says and 231 00:16:05,675 --> 00:16:08,595 Speaker 1: then AOC joined in, Biden should just tell the FDA 232 00:16:08,675 --> 00:16:11,875 Speaker 1: to ignore this ruling, fight to get the court ruling overturned, 233 00:16:11,995 --> 00:16:15,115 Speaker 1: but basically tell the judge this is pure politics. We're 234 00:16:15,115 --> 00:16:18,635 Speaker 1: not playing this game anymore. You want this enforced, let's 235 00:16:18,635 --> 00:16:21,995 Speaker 1: see you do it. Plus the premise that the drug 236 00:16:22,115 --> 00:16:25,755 Speaker 1: wasn't proven safe, this is pure nonsense. The fatality rates 237 00:16:25,955 --> 00:16:29,795 Speaker 1: muffer pristone less than one in one hundred thousand, compared 238 00:16:29,835 --> 00:16:34,635 Speaker 1: to two in one hundred thousand four penicillin and four 239 00:16:34,835 --> 00:16:41,155 Speaker 1: in one hundred thousand, four more relevantly viagra. Meantime, Idaho 240 00:16:41,275 --> 00:16:44,115 Speaker 1: has signed a bill to make it illegal to transport 241 00:16:44,115 --> 00:16:47,355 Speaker 1: a minor out of state for an abortion without parental consent. 242 00:16:47,395 --> 00:16:50,475 Speaker 1: There is literally now a state in this country with 243 00:16:50,515 --> 00:16:56,875 Speaker 1: a partially sealed border beyond the fascism. In those two cases, 244 00:16:56,875 --> 00:16:58,395 Speaker 1: of course, there is a glimmer of hope that the 245 00:16:58,435 --> 00:17:01,755 Speaker 1: Republicans do not yet understand that they have likely sabotaged 246 00:17:02,035 --> 00:17:04,915 Speaker 1: their own efforts to secure a quasi dictator ship in 247 00:17:04,915 --> 00:17:08,675 Speaker 1: at least parts of the country. Restricting abortion has become 248 00:17:08,795 --> 00:17:12,355 Speaker 1: an instant loser for them. It is what drove turnout 249 00:17:12,355 --> 00:17:15,475 Speaker 1: in Wisconsin and led to the Democrats blowout win there 250 00:17:15,475 --> 00:17:18,515 Speaker 1: for the state Supreme Court. But even so, there is 251 00:17:18,555 --> 00:17:20,235 Speaker 1: going to be a lot of pain and suffering and 252 00:17:20,395 --> 00:17:25,875 Speaker 1: death before there are enough ballot outcomes like Wisconsin. Indiana 253 00:17:26,315 --> 00:17:31,595 Speaker 1: just eliminated gender affirming counseling for kids. Kansas passed an 254 00:17:31,635 --> 00:17:35,755 Speaker 1: anti trans sports law, as if, as the kids say, 255 00:17:36,635 --> 00:17:39,835 Speaker 1: a lot of trans people playing high school sports was 256 00:17:39,875 --> 00:17:45,155 Speaker 1: a thing. Missouri zeroed out the budget line item for 257 00:17:45,355 --> 00:17:50,795 Speaker 1: public libraries. And then there are the electoral assaults. In 258 00:17:50,915 --> 00:17:54,995 Speaker 1: North Carolina state, Reptricia Cotham was elected last November as 259 00:17:54,995 --> 00:17:58,315 Speaker 1: a Democrat. She has now switched to the GOP to 260 00:17:58,475 --> 00:18:02,515 Speaker 1: give that party a veto proof majority and bluntly, every 261 00:18:02,595 --> 00:18:06,955 Speaker 1: Democrat who contributed money to her campaign, or worked for 262 00:18:06,995 --> 00:18:10,995 Speaker 1: her campaign, or voted for Tricia Cotham should sue her 263 00:18:11,435 --> 00:18:16,515 Speaker 1: for fraud. Sue her into the ground, keep Tricia Cotham 264 00:18:16,555 --> 00:18:20,955 Speaker 1: in court for the rest of her life. But maybe 265 00:18:20,955 --> 00:18:24,315 Speaker 1: the most outlandish of all these measures, even more outlandish 266 00:18:24,315 --> 00:18:28,355 Speaker 1: than Greg Abbott sanctioning political murder in Texas. Montana, as 267 00:18:28,395 --> 00:18:31,595 Speaker 1: you know, has a Democratic Senator, John Tester. He is 268 00:18:31,675 --> 00:18:34,995 Speaker 1: hardly Obama in a cowboy hat and a bolo tie, 269 00:18:35,075 --> 00:18:38,155 Speaker 1: but he is a Democrat. So Republicans in that state, 270 00:18:38,795 --> 00:18:42,275 Speaker 1: in the state Senate want to test a so called 271 00:18:42,395 --> 00:18:45,875 Speaker 1: jungle primary just this once in the twenty twenty fourth 272 00:18:45,875 --> 00:18:50,115 Speaker 1: Senate election. According to state Senator Greg Hurtz, who proposed that, 273 00:18:50,155 --> 00:18:53,635 Speaker 1: and yes his name is Greg, not Dick, everybody running 274 00:18:53,635 --> 00:18:56,755 Speaker 1: for US Senate goes into one primary and the election. 275 00:18:57,035 --> 00:19:00,035 Speaker 1: The general election is then between the top two finishers, 276 00:19:00,035 --> 00:19:03,835 Speaker 1: regardless of party. The argument is this will box out 277 00:19:03,995 --> 00:19:07,955 Speaker 1: third part candidates, well, it also might box out all Democrats. 278 00:19:08,155 --> 00:19:12,195 Speaker 1: The two candidates could be Republicans, especially if two fascists 279 00:19:12,595 --> 00:19:17,235 Speaker 1: buddy up for strategic voting, you got a Democratic senator. 280 00:19:17,915 --> 00:19:21,155 Speaker 1: Simple fix, make it so the election can only be 281 00:19:21,155 --> 00:19:30,715 Speaker 1: between two members of the GOP Liberty or Republicans, and 282 00:19:30,875 --> 00:19:33,475 Speaker 1: we close it with a little comic relief also known 283 00:19:33,555 --> 00:19:37,075 Speaker 1: as trump. It was a busy day on social media 284 00:19:37,155 --> 00:19:41,235 Speaker 1: for the defendant, culminating and misspelling the word rig again. 285 00:19:42,075 --> 00:19:45,515 Speaker 1: Rigg with two gs is the late Diana Rigg from 286 00:19:45,515 --> 00:19:48,915 Speaker 1: the old TV series The Avengers and more recently from 287 00:19:48,995 --> 00:19:53,275 Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. The defendant also made the inarguable claim 288 00:19:53,435 --> 00:19:55,875 Speaker 1: that his attorney, James Trust he had done a great 289 00:19:55,955 --> 00:19:59,235 Speaker 1: job on a couple of Sunday morning shows quote trust, 290 00:19:59,275 --> 00:20:02,435 Speaker 1: he took them apart on the boxes hoax, saying, among 291 00:20:02,475 --> 00:20:05,475 Speaker 1: other things, that Biden is the one who has problems, 292 00:20:05,475 --> 00:20:17,995 Speaker 1: not President Trump unquote wow. Compelling arguments there. The day 293 00:20:18,115 --> 00:20:21,715 Speaker 1: on his money hemorrhaging social media platform began for the 294 00:20:21,755 --> 00:20:25,635 Speaker 1: defendant in the morning, and remember yesterday was Easter morning. 295 00:20:26,275 --> 00:20:30,075 Speaker 1: The first frantic crazed social media post from the defendant 296 00:20:30,075 --> 00:20:32,995 Speaker 1: read as follows, Are you ready? It's all caps, by 297 00:20:33,035 --> 00:20:37,035 Speaker 1: the way, You're ready, and it's all one sentence. You're 298 00:20:37,035 --> 00:20:43,515 Speaker 1: ready quote Happy eastood all, including those that dream endlessly 299 00:20:43,555 --> 00:20:46,115 Speaker 1: of destroying our country because they are incapable of dreaming 300 00:20:46,115 --> 00:20:49,315 Speaker 1: about everything else. Those that are so incompetent they don't 301 00:20:49,355 --> 00:20:51,475 Speaker 1: realize that having a border in powerful wall is a 302 00:20:51,475 --> 00:20:53,875 Speaker 1: good thing. And having voter ID all paper ballots and 303 00:20:53,915 --> 00:20:56,395 Speaker 1: same day voting will quickly end massive voter fraud. And 304 00:20:56,475 --> 00:20:59,315 Speaker 1: to all those weak and pathetic Rhinos, radical left Democrats, 305 00:20:59,315 --> 00:21:02,315 Speaker 1: socialist Marxists and communists who are killing our nation, remember 306 00:21:02,395 --> 00:21:06,955 Speaker 1: we will be back unquote. And then like minutes after that, 307 00:21:07,555 --> 00:21:11,555 Speaker 1: no Easter greeting, this time just a three word social 308 00:21:11,595 --> 00:21:19,795 Speaker 1: post quote world War three on Easter morning. As they say, 309 00:21:21,235 --> 00:21:38,275 Speaker 1: he is risen, still ahead on this edition of Countdown, 310 00:21:38,355 --> 00:21:41,635 Speaker 1: The most important speech about gun violence this weekend came 311 00:21:41,675 --> 00:21:44,995 Speaker 1: from one of America's most gifted, most plain speaking, and 312 00:21:45,075 --> 00:21:51,115 Speaker 1: most underappreciated orators, coach Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio 313 00:21:51,195 --> 00:21:54,355 Speaker 1: Spurs of the National Basketball Association. Wait till you hear this. 314 00:21:55,075 --> 00:21:58,275 Speaker 1: Baseball the team that has started the season more dominantly 315 00:21:58,315 --> 00:22:03,195 Speaker 1: than any other since eighteen eighty four, with one problem 316 00:22:03,275 --> 00:22:06,315 Speaker 1: with that. That team in eighteen eighty four was so 317 00:22:06,395 --> 00:22:09,835 Speaker 1: dominant it caused its league to go out of business. 318 00:22:10,915 --> 00:22:16,795 Speaker 1: Worst persons, Matt taiebe no, and it is a very 319 00:22:16,835 --> 00:22:20,075 Speaker 1: boastful thing to say that you did the same creative 320 00:22:20,075 --> 00:22:23,955 Speaker 1: thing as Jack Carroll act did, but I did. I'll 321 00:22:23,995 --> 00:22:26,515 Speaker 1: explain what it was and things I promised not to tell. 322 00:22:27,075 --> 00:22:29,795 Speaker 1: That's next. This is an all new edition of Countdown. 323 00:22:35,595 --> 00:22:55,035 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. This is Sports Center. Wait, 324 00:22:55,275 --> 00:23:02,795 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman 325 00:23:03,035 --> 00:23:07,715 Speaker 1: in Sports Tampa Bay eleven Oakland A's nothing. The Tampa 326 00:23:07,715 --> 00:23:11,275 Speaker 1: Bay Rays are nine and oh. They have outscored their 327 00:23:11,275 --> 00:23:15,035 Speaker 1: opponents in these first nine games, seventy five to eighteen. 328 00:23:15,115 --> 00:23:17,275 Speaker 1: They have won every one of the nine games by 329 00:23:17,275 --> 00:23:20,235 Speaker 1: a margin of at least four runs. They have hit 330 00:23:20,235 --> 00:23:23,115 Speaker 1: twenty four homers. That's right, they have twenty four homers 331 00:23:23,275 --> 00:23:27,195 Speaker 1: while their opponents have eighteen runs. This is, in short, 332 00:23:27,235 --> 00:23:31,755 Speaker 1: the most dominant start in baseball since eighteen eighty four. 333 00:23:32,315 --> 00:23:36,755 Speaker 1: The eighteen eighty four Saint Louis Maroons won their first 334 00:23:36,835 --> 00:23:39,555 Speaker 1: thirteen games by four or more. They won their first 335 00:23:39,595 --> 00:23:43,075 Speaker 1: twenty outright. They ended the season ninety four and nineteen, 336 00:23:43,115 --> 00:23:45,995 Speaker 1: and they won their pennant by twenty one games. And 337 00:23:46,075 --> 00:23:50,115 Speaker 1: it was a disaster. They were too good. This was 338 00:23:50,155 --> 00:23:53,035 Speaker 1: the first year of a new outfit called the Union 339 00:23:53,075 --> 00:23:56,755 Speaker 1: Association which was an attempt at creating a third major league. 340 00:23:56,795 --> 00:24:00,355 Speaker 1: Eight teams started the Union Association season, Five of them 341 00:24:00,355 --> 00:24:03,755 Speaker 1: went bankrupt or had to move to new cities, or both, 342 00:24:04,195 --> 00:24:07,515 Speaker 1: and when the league held its offseason meeting the following winter, 343 00:24:07,795 --> 00:24:10,835 Speaker 1: only two franchises even showed up to the beating, and 344 00:24:10,915 --> 00:24:13,835 Speaker 1: the league immediately went out of business. The Saint Louis 345 00:24:13,915 --> 00:24:17,275 Speaker 1: Maroons were then admitted to the National League, where the 346 00:24:17,275 --> 00:24:19,835 Speaker 1: competition was a little tougher than next year. In the 347 00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:25,475 Speaker 1: eighteen eighty five Saint Louis Maroons finished last, and this, 348 00:24:25,595 --> 00:24:28,395 Speaker 1: by the way, is one of the first times anybody 349 00:24:28,475 --> 00:24:45,755 Speaker 1: has mentioned the Saint Louis Maroons since Thank You Nancy 350 00:24:45,795 --> 00:24:50,355 Speaker 1: Faust's disaster. Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, the ever underdog Pirates began 351 00:24:50,435 --> 00:24:54,675 Speaker 1: their season with a startling, smile worthy six and three record, 352 00:24:54,715 --> 00:24:58,275 Speaker 1: but their young star shortstop O'Neil Cruz crashed into White 353 00:24:58,275 --> 00:25:01,115 Speaker 1: Sox catcher Sebi Zavala in a play at the plate 354 00:25:01,235 --> 00:25:04,315 Speaker 1: yesterday fractured his left ankle. Unclear if he can return 355 00:25:04,435 --> 00:25:08,955 Speaker 1: this year. Senator Dick Blumenthal, Connecticut, speaking of leg injuries, 356 00:25:08,995 --> 00:25:12,435 Speaker 1: reported to be recovering after surgery to repair his femur 357 00:25:12,995 --> 00:25:17,435 Speaker 1: broken during the parade Saturday celebrating the championship of the 358 00:25:17,515 --> 00:25:23,195 Speaker 1: University of Connecticut men's basketball team. It's a championship parade injury, 359 00:25:23,875 --> 00:25:26,595 Speaker 1: he said. Another guy in the parade fell on him, 360 00:25:26,715 --> 00:25:30,235 Speaker 1: causing the break. His fellow Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy notes 361 00:25:30,275 --> 00:25:33,915 Speaker 1: that after the broken femur, Blumenthal got up, finished marching 362 00:25:33,915 --> 00:25:36,315 Speaker 1: in the parade, sat on the victory stand, and only 363 00:25:36,355 --> 00:25:40,675 Speaker 1: then went on to get his broken femur fixed. The 364 00:25:40,795 --> 00:25:43,755 Speaker 1: National Hockey League season is rapping up. In whatever happens 365 00:25:43,755 --> 00:25:46,435 Speaker 1: in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the league really has screwed 366 00:25:46,515 --> 00:25:49,275 Speaker 1: something up this season. Not only did half a dozen 367 00:25:49,355 --> 00:25:53,795 Speaker 1: Pride Knights go south, but then former star defenseman PK. Suban, 368 00:25:54,195 --> 00:25:57,875 Speaker 1: now an ESPN commentator, told the Reuters News Service quote, 369 00:25:57,915 --> 00:26:01,995 Speaker 1: we cannot push everyone to be an activist. Talking about 370 00:26:01,995 --> 00:26:04,515 Speaker 1: the Pride Knights, he added, we need to be very careful. 371 00:26:04,915 --> 00:26:07,075 Speaker 1: I feel people pick and choose what they want to 372 00:26:07,075 --> 00:26:09,475 Speaker 1: talk about, and I don't like it when we put 373 00:26:09,555 --> 00:26:14,235 Speaker 1: the onus on athletes to be activists. PK. Suban's parents 374 00:26:14,315 --> 00:26:17,275 Speaker 1: emigrated from the Caribbean. It's unclear how he would feel 375 00:26:17,715 --> 00:26:21,035 Speaker 1: if players try to opt out of the NHL's continuing 376 00:26:21,075 --> 00:26:24,555 Speaker 1: efforts to deal with the rampant racism still extant in 377 00:26:24,595 --> 00:26:28,315 Speaker 1: the Hockey League. More relevantly, the league's commissioner Gary Bettman 378 00:26:28,355 --> 00:26:32,155 Speaker 1: addressed the anti Pride Night backlash by saying, this is 379 00:26:32,195 --> 00:26:35,595 Speaker 1: the first time we've experienced that, and I think it's 380 00:26:35,635 --> 00:26:38,035 Speaker 1: something that we're going to have to evaluate in the 381 00:26:38,195 --> 00:26:43,555 Speaker 1: off season. Not good, Gary, not good. Where is the 382 00:26:43,635 --> 00:26:48,515 Speaker 1: courage in sports to face society's ills? Greg Popovich seems 383 00:26:48,515 --> 00:26:51,915 Speaker 1: to have gotten an extraordinarily large percentage of it. If 384 00:26:51,915 --> 00:26:54,715 Speaker 1: his twenty six years as a head coach ended with 385 00:26:54,795 --> 00:26:57,595 Speaker 1: San Antonio's victory over Dallas in the last game of 386 00:26:57,595 --> 00:27:00,715 Speaker 1: the season yesterday, he certainly didn't waste a moment of it. 387 00:27:01,315 --> 00:27:05,755 Speaker 1: Popovich's pregame news conference yesterday was typical basketball stuff for 388 00:27:05,795 --> 00:27:09,435 Speaker 1: a while, and then he began to talk about dropping 389 00:27:09,475 --> 00:27:12,995 Speaker 1: his own grandchildren off at their schools on the way 390 00:27:13,355 --> 00:27:17,515 Speaker 1: it goes through my mind that I hope they're gonna 391 00:27:17,555 --> 00:27:21,195 Speaker 1: be okay, And most of you in this room when 392 00:27:21,235 --> 00:27:26,115 Speaker 1: we were in school, we worried if Nancy would dance 393 00:27:26,155 --> 00:27:28,755 Speaker 1: with us on Friday after the football game or something. 394 00:27:29,755 --> 00:27:34,915 Speaker 1: That was our anxiety. But they're going to cloak all 395 00:27:34,915 --> 00:27:36,435 Speaker 1: this stuff. You know, the second of the myth of 396 00:27:36,515 --> 00:27:38,875 Speaker 1: the Second Amendment to freedom. You know, it's just it's 397 00:27:38,915 --> 00:27:43,155 Speaker 1: a myth. It's a joke. It's just a game they play. 398 00:27:43,235 --> 00:27:45,795 Speaker 1: I mean that's freedom. Is it freedom for kids to 399 00:27:45,835 --> 00:27:49,395 Speaker 1: go to school and try to socialize and try to 400 00:27:49,515 --> 00:27:52,115 Speaker 1: learn and be scared to death that they might die 401 00:27:52,235 --> 00:27:55,955 Speaker 1: that day? But Ted Cruis will fix him because he's 402 00:27:55,955 --> 00:27:58,355 Speaker 1: going to double the number of cops into schools. That's 403 00:27:58,355 --> 00:28:01,395 Speaker 1: what he wants to do. Well, that'll create a great environment. 404 00:28:01,475 --> 00:28:04,075 Speaker 1: Is that freedom? Or is it freedom to have a 405 00:28:04,115 --> 00:28:07,195 Speaker 1: congressman who could make a postcard with all his family 406 00:28:07,275 --> 00:28:10,955 Speaker 1: holding rifles, including eight or fifteen or whatever. Is that cool? 407 00:28:12,155 --> 00:28:16,355 Speaker 1: Is that like street cred for a Republican? That's freedom? 408 00:28:16,475 --> 00:28:21,155 Speaker 1: That's more important than protecting the kids. I don't get it. 409 00:28:23,315 --> 00:28:26,315 Speaker 1: You know, the greed of the gun lobbies and the 410 00:28:26,395 --> 00:28:31,235 Speaker 1: manufacturers is obvious. We all know that money talks. But 411 00:28:31,395 --> 00:28:36,355 Speaker 1: the cowardice and the selfishness of the legislators who are 412 00:28:36,395 --> 00:28:41,275 Speaker 1: so scared to death of being primaried and losing their job, 413 00:28:41,355 --> 00:28:44,475 Speaker 1: losing their power, losing their salary. You'd like to get 414 00:28:44,515 --> 00:28:46,075 Speaker 1: each one of them in a room just one by 415 00:28:46,115 --> 00:28:49,755 Speaker 1: one and say, what's more important to you? If you 416 00:28:49,835 --> 00:28:54,795 Speaker 1: could vote for some good guns safety laws that most 417 00:28:54,835 --> 00:28:59,435 Speaker 1: of the public agrees to. Would you do that if 418 00:28:59,435 --> 00:29:03,315 Speaker 1: it saved one kid? Or is your job and your 419 00:29:03,315 --> 00:29:06,075 Speaker 1: money so important to you that you would say screw 420 00:29:06,075 --> 00:29:09,035 Speaker 1: with the kid. We're Popovitch a National Hockey League coach 421 00:29:09,235 --> 00:29:12,035 Speaker 1: or executive. He wouldn't have said any of that. He 422 00:29:12,075 --> 00:29:15,315 Speaker 1: would have said he'd be talking about not forcing everybody 423 00:29:15,355 --> 00:29:18,635 Speaker 1: to become an activist, or he'd be evaluating it in 424 00:29:18,675 --> 00:29:36,555 Speaker 1: the off season. Bless you, Greg Popovitch, still ahead on countdown. 425 00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:40,235 Speaker 1: Jack Carroll act did it? I did it. My dad 426 00:29:40,235 --> 00:29:42,275 Speaker 1: once had me do it to show up one of 427 00:29:42,275 --> 00:29:45,155 Speaker 1: his co workers. A member of the media more than 428 00:29:45,235 --> 00:29:47,355 Speaker 1: a century ago, did it to put himself in the 429 00:29:47,395 --> 00:29:53,675 Speaker 1: record books, literally creating fictitious baseball players coming up on 430 00:29:53,715 --> 00:29:55,515 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell first time for the 431 00:29:55,555 --> 00:29:57,675 Speaker 1: daily round up of the miscreants morons on Dunning, Kruger 432 00:29:57,675 --> 00:30:01,635 Speaker 1: Effect specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 433 00:30:02,395 --> 00:30:06,715 Speaker 1: Lebron's Matt Tayebi Well didn't see this coming. The former 434 00:30:06,755 --> 00:30:10,795 Speaker 1: reporter exploited by Elon Musk to do that Twitter files 435 00:30:10,915 --> 00:30:16,195 Speaker 1: right wing propaganda stuff has quit Twitter. When Musk fots 436 00:30:16,355 --> 00:30:20,595 Speaker 1: around with the links from Twitter to Substack, Tybee was shocked. 437 00:30:20,955 --> 00:30:23,715 Speaker 1: He went to Musk. Musk told him to f off, 438 00:30:23,755 --> 00:30:28,595 Speaker 1: so Tybee left Twitter. Musk promptly declared that Substack was 439 00:30:28,595 --> 00:30:32,395 Speaker 1: trying to steal all of Twitter's details, technical details and 440 00:30:32,475 --> 00:30:36,115 Speaker 1: stuff for its rival form of Twitter, and Musk said 441 00:30:36,155 --> 00:30:38,675 Speaker 1: he was the real victim here because Tiebe turned out 442 00:30:38,675 --> 00:30:43,155 Speaker 1: to have been a Substack quote employee unquote. Matt Tybee, 443 00:30:43,155 --> 00:30:46,435 Speaker 1: the latest to learn the eternal lesson the claw of 444 00:30:46,435 --> 00:30:51,115 Speaker 1: the c puss gets us all in the end. Runner 445 00:30:51,195 --> 00:30:53,755 Speaker 1: up Bobby Kennedy Junior. Not only is he stumbling into 446 00:30:53,795 --> 00:30:57,195 Speaker 1: spending the last remaining sliver of his reputation as a 447 00:30:57,315 --> 00:31:01,915 Speaker 1: Steve Bannon backed fake candidate for the Democratic presidential primaries, 448 00:31:02,475 --> 00:31:06,515 Speaker 1: but he's now begun to fill out his quote team unquote. 449 00:31:07,075 --> 00:31:10,715 Speaker 1: Kennedy is bringing in former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who went 450 00:31:10,875 --> 00:31:14,035 Speaker 1: right from being a Democratic presidential hopeful in two thousand 451 00:31:14,035 --> 00:31:17,075 Speaker 1: and eight right off the putin cliff. He's going to 452 00:31:17,155 --> 00:31:21,195 Speaker 1: have Kucinich as an advisor, maybe more maybe as his 453 00:31:21,315 --> 00:31:27,355 Speaker 1: campaign manager. For some reports, Wow, RFK Junior and Dennis consented, woo, 454 00:31:28,115 --> 00:31:33,115 Speaker 1: who is this campaign? Juggernauts still missing? Telsey Gabbard, Harold Stassen, 455 00:31:33,915 --> 00:31:38,475 Speaker 1: that the rents too damn high, guy, but our winners. 456 00:31:38,755 --> 00:31:42,755 Speaker 1: Fan Graphs. Fan Graphs is perhaps the predominant source of 457 00:31:42,795 --> 00:31:47,555 Speaker 1: the Saber metric era in sports analysis and statistics, and 458 00:31:47,675 --> 00:31:50,875 Speaker 1: it's a great site. But even its most devoted readers 459 00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:53,075 Speaker 1: had to have blinked a couple of times on a 460 00:31:53,115 --> 00:31:56,995 Speaker 1: story it posted and tweeted yesterday about how starting pitchers 461 00:31:57,115 --> 00:32:00,355 Speaker 1: or having some trouble with their pitch speed. Their pitch 462 00:32:00,475 --> 00:32:03,715 Speaker 1: speed had dropped off because of the new baseball pitch clock, 463 00:32:04,155 --> 00:32:08,635 Speaker 1: which they titled quote starters who can't keep it up. 464 00:32:09,755 --> 00:32:14,275 Speaker 1: This is beyond the pale fan Graphs. I mean, we've 465 00:32:14,275 --> 00:32:17,195 Speaker 1: all heard about warming up in a hurry in the bullpen, 466 00:32:17,315 --> 00:32:23,755 Speaker 1: but this is ridiculous. Today's worse parsons in the world 467 00:32:42,275 --> 00:32:45,795 Speaker 1: still ahead on Countdown. What on earth could Jack CARROLLAC 468 00:32:45,875 --> 00:32:49,435 Speaker 1: and I actually have in common? Well, we both like 469 00:32:49,555 --> 00:32:53,835 Speaker 1: to make up imaginary baseball players. There's a reason for 470 00:32:53,875 --> 00:32:55,715 Speaker 1: me to tell you this story and things I promise 471 00:32:55,835 --> 00:32:57,995 Speaker 1: not to tell coming up first in each edition of Countdown, 472 00:32:58,195 --> 00:33:00,515 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need you can help. Every 473 00:33:00,555 --> 00:33:05,755 Speaker 1: dog has its day to Greenville, Tennessee and Natan. Natan 474 00:33:06,195 --> 00:33:10,115 Speaker 1: is a big ten mutt maybe a shepherd mix. It's 475 00:33:10,155 --> 00:33:13,155 Speaker 1: not a puppy, but he has soulful puppy eyes. And 476 00:33:13,195 --> 00:33:15,915 Speaker 1: he's developed a tumor on his right front leg and 477 00:33:15,995 --> 00:33:18,395 Speaker 1: he has a fractured ankle on his front left leg. 478 00:33:18,875 --> 00:33:21,955 Speaker 1: Big Dog Haven of Tennessee found this out after Natan's 479 00:33:22,075 --> 00:33:25,675 Speaker 1: supposed human dumped him at the local kill shelter. The 480 00:33:25,755 --> 00:33:28,875 Speaker 1: tumor is probably cancerous, but the thing about dogs and 481 00:33:28,995 --> 00:33:31,715 Speaker 1: cancer is they get all the new treatments we won't 482 00:33:31,715 --> 00:33:35,475 Speaker 1: get for years now. They handled chemo even radiation better 483 00:33:35,475 --> 00:33:38,235 Speaker 1: than we do, and they can recover. Seems like Natan 484 00:33:38,395 --> 00:33:41,115 Speaker 1: should have gotten that from his human. He didn't get 485 00:33:41,155 --> 00:33:43,275 Speaker 1: that chance. We have to step up. If you want 486 00:33:43,275 --> 00:33:46,275 Speaker 1: to donate, you can find Natan It's n Ai t 487 00:33:46,555 --> 00:33:50,035 Speaker 1: a n on Cuddley or on my Twitter feeds, and 488 00:33:50,075 --> 00:33:53,195 Speaker 1: your retweets can help him too. I thank you, and 489 00:33:53,355 --> 00:34:05,875 Speaker 1: Natan thanks you to the number one story on the 490 00:34:05,875 --> 00:34:09,715 Speaker 1: countdown on my favorite topic, me but not just me, 491 00:34:10,595 --> 00:34:13,675 Speaker 1: with the kind of excitement of discovery usually reserved for 492 00:34:13,795 --> 00:34:17,955 Speaker 1: productive archaeological digs. The New York Public Library announced two 493 00:34:17,995 --> 00:34:21,955 Speaker 1: decades ago that had had unearthed the records of Jack 494 00:34:22,075 --> 00:34:26,915 Speaker 1: Carrollac's Summer League. Jack Carrollac, leader of the Beat Poets, 495 00:34:26,955 --> 00:34:31,075 Speaker 1: author of On the Road, inspiration to Bob Dylan, referred 496 00:34:31,115 --> 00:34:34,035 Speaker 1: to this thing the Summer League in some of his writing, 497 00:34:34,035 --> 00:34:38,115 Speaker 1: and for years scholars who devoted their lives to studying 498 00:34:38,235 --> 00:34:41,155 Speaker 1: Jack Carrollac had wondered exactly what the hell he was 499 00:34:41,195 --> 00:34:46,275 Speaker 1: talking about. Turns out, he kind of invented fantasy baseball, 500 00:34:46,955 --> 00:34:51,635 Speaker 1: throwing marbles and toothpicks and even erasers against a distant target. 501 00:34:52,115 --> 00:34:57,155 Speaker 1: Jack Carrollac played season after season of an imaginary baseball 502 00:34:57,195 --> 00:35:01,475 Speaker 1: game from his teens into his thirties. He meticulously recorded 503 00:35:01,475 --> 00:35:05,155 Speaker 1: the statistics and the standings of his apocryphal players and teams, 504 00:35:05,435 --> 00:35:09,515 Speaker 1: going so far as to compile daily mock newspapers and 505 00:35:09,675 --> 00:35:15,715 Speaker 1: a newsletter called Jack Lewis's Baseball Chatter. Therein were recorded 506 00:35:15,755 --> 00:35:18,955 Speaker 1: the doings of the teams that existed only in his 507 00:35:19,115 --> 00:35:23,115 Speaker 1: mind and in Jack Lewis's Baseball Chatter, the Saint Louis Cadillacs, 508 00:35:23,635 --> 00:35:28,355 Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Blacks, the Pittsburgh Plymouth's, and the Boston Fords, 509 00:35:28,955 --> 00:35:31,915 Speaker 1: the latter replete the star center fielder and base stealer 510 00:35:32,635 --> 00:35:36,915 Speaker 1: Pancho Villa. True to the form of later tabletop baseball 511 00:35:36,955 --> 00:35:41,395 Speaker 1: games like APPPA and Strata Matic, Caro Act devised performance 512 00:35:41,435 --> 00:35:44,595 Speaker 1: cards for his players who ran the gamut from historical 513 00:35:44,595 --> 00:35:48,995 Speaker 1: figures like the Mexican revolutionary Villa to Leu Garrig, two 514 00:35:49,035 --> 00:35:52,555 Speaker 1: players cut out of whole cloth with eminently baseballish names 515 00:35:52,595 --> 00:35:58,875 Speaker 1: like Luis Tercerero and Charlie Custer. They later published this 516 00:35:58,995 --> 00:36:01,475 Speaker 1: as a book. When the book came out, I was 517 00:36:01,635 --> 00:36:05,475 Speaker 1: enthralled because I had thought I had the only kid 518 00:36:05,475 --> 00:36:09,035 Speaker 1: who did this. My summer leagues came in two stages, 519 00:36:09,435 --> 00:36:11,915 Speaker 1: not long after I discovered real baseball at the age 520 00:36:11,915 --> 00:36:14,195 Speaker 1: of eight in nineteen sixty seven. I made up an 521 00:36:14,395 --> 00:36:20,515 Speaker 1: entire parallel, non existent baseball universe, just like Jack carrollac 522 00:36:21,275 --> 00:36:24,155 Speaker 1: Many of my teams had the names of cars as 523 00:36:24,195 --> 00:36:27,355 Speaker 1: the names of the teams, although not exactly The New 524 00:36:27,475 --> 00:36:32,035 Speaker 1: York Thunderbirds, named after the laughable Marionette TV series. The 525 00:36:32,155 --> 00:36:36,475 Speaker 1: Thunderbirds did battle with such rivals as the Lancing Tommy Hawks. 526 00:36:37,195 --> 00:36:40,315 Speaker 1: Not Tomahawks, but Tommy Hawks. That's what I thought. They 527 00:36:40,355 --> 00:36:44,115 Speaker 1: were called the Newark Bombers, the Montreal Spectrums, and the 528 00:36:44,195 --> 00:36:49,595 Speaker 1: hated Boston Princes. They played twenty seven inning long World 529 00:36:49,635 --> 00:36:52,635 Speaker 1: Series games. They had histories dating back to the nineteenth century. 530 00:36:52,635 --> 00:36:59,955 Speaker 1: They featured heroes named Jay Lartin, Robell Barone, and Barney Schlitz. Later, 531 00:36:59,995 --> 00:37:02,755 Speaker 1: as a teenager, I got hold of a Dice baseball 532 00:37:02,795 --> 00:37:07,715 Speaker 1: game called Extra Innings. Manufacturers had made one fatal marketing mistake. 533 00:37:08,235 --> 00:37:11,835 Speaker 1: They included a conversion chart that allowed you to translate 534 00:37:11,995 --> 00:37:16,395 Speaker 1: real life statistics or just made up statistics, into the 535 00:37:16,515 --> 00:37:20,035 Speaker 1: number sequences produced by three dice. Thus, you could not 536 00:37:20,115 --> 00:37:23,315 Speaker 1: only incorporate the correct stats of real players, but you 537 00:37:23,355 --> 00:37:28,355 Speaker 1: could fix individual players performances. It was no trick to 538 00:37:28,515 --> 00:37:32,115 Speaker 1: endow star minor league er Bill McNulty, who never got 539 00:37:32,115 --> 00:37:34,555 Speaker 1: a real shot at the real big leagues, with the 540 00:37:34,595 --> 00:37:38,195 Speaker 1: gifts of a sixty home run hitter. Bill McNulty promptly 541 00:37:38,235 --> 00:37:41,275 Speaker 1: went out and in my league hit sixty home runs. 542 00:37:42,115 --> 00:37:46,875 Speaker 1: Turns out, writer after writer and fan after fan and 543 00:37:47,035 --> 00:37:51,435 Speaker 1: player after player did one or maybe both of these things. 544 00:37:52,035 --> 00:37:55,595 Speaker 1: Keith Hernandez, former National League MVP, centerpiece of the Saint 545 00:37:55,675 --> 00:37:58,075 Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets, part of their 546 00:37:58,075 --> 00:38:03,635 Speaker 1: eminent TV team for eighteen seasons, played stratamatic baseball real 547 00:38:03,715 --> 00:38:06,555 Speaker 1: players as a kid in the sixties. My ex tag 548 00:38:06,595 --> 00:38:09,315 Speaker 1: team partner at ESPN, Dan Patrick, used to play it, 549 00:38:09,355 --> 00:38:12,595 Speaker 1: but not as a kid, as a sports anchor at CNN, 550 00:38:13,115 --> 00:38:16,755 Speaker 1: usually against his pal Gary Miller, who we both worked 551 00:38:16,755 --> 00:38:19,075 Speaker 1: with at ESPN and who has made appearances here for 552 00:38:19,155 --> 00:38:21,875 Speaker 1: one of his other moments of greatness, the soccer Breakdown. 553 00:38:22,235 --> 00:38:27,995 Speaker 1: In fact, Dan's home run call GOUN actually originates from 554 00:38:28,075 --> 00:38:32,275 Speaker 1: games of stratamatic baseball against Gary Miller. When the dice 555 00:38:32,315 --> 00:38:34,595 Speaker 1: would roll, indicating a home run hit by one of 556 00:38:34,675 --> 00:38:39,755 Speaker 1: Dan's players, he would simply say, go on. I am 557 00:38:39,795 --> 00:38:42,995 Speaker 1: reminded here of one of my favorite acts of subterfuge 558 00:38:43,075 --> 00:38:46,795 Speaker 1: in baseball history. For more than three quarters of a century, 559 00:38:46,835 --> 00:38:51,315 Speaker 1: all the baseball record books and encyclopedias included a second 560 00:38:51,355 --> 00:38:54,155 Speaker 1: baseman who played just one game in his life, for 561 00:38:54,275 --> 00:38:57,475 Speaker 1: the nineteen twelve Saint Louis Browns. His name was Lou Procter. 562 00:38:58,075 --> 00:39:02,315 Speaker 1: Lou Procter came up to bat once and he walked. However, 563 00:39:03,515 --> 00:39:07,755 Speaker 1: there was no ev of anybody named Lou procteror playing 564 00:39:07,835 --> 00:39:10,795 Speaker 1: anywhere in professional baseball that season, nor of any of 565 00:39:10,835 --> 00:39:13,515 Speaker 1: the years before or after it. There was no Lou 566 00:39:13,635 --> 00:39:16,515 Speaker 1: Procter among the amateur players of Saint Louis who might 567 00:39:16,555 --> 00:39:19,955 Speaker 1: have gotten a tryout late in the season with the Browns. Finally, 568 00:39:20,035 --> 00:39:23,635 Speaker 1: in the eighties, the startling discovery was made. There was 569 00:39:23,875 --> 00:39:27,955 Speaker 1: a Lou Procter. He was at Sportsman's Park in Saint 570 00:39:28,035 --> 00:39:31,515 Speaker 1: Louis in nineteen twelve at the Browns games. But he 571 00:39:31,595 --> 00:39:35,875 Speaker 1: wasn't a player. He was the Western Union telegraph operator 572 00:39:35,915 --> 00:39:38,955 Speaker 1: who sent in the lineups and the batting orders and 573 00:39:38,995 --> 00:39:42,795 Speaker 1: the scores and everything else from the Browns games out 574 00:39:42,835 --> 00:39:45,155 Speaker 1: to the rest of the country, back in the pre TV, 575 00:39:45,635 --> 00:39:49,675 Speaker 1: pre radio, pre internet days when Western Union was the 576 00:39:49,715 --> 00:39:52,395 Speaker 1: way that information gone out, and he always wanted to 577 00:39:52,435 --> 00:39:55,035 Speaker 1: be a big league or so one day he just 578 00:39:55,115 --> 00:39:59,155 Speaker 1: put himself in the box score Proctor second base walk 579 00:40:00,195 --> 00:40:04,515 Speaker 1: and he got away with it for like seventy years. Anyway, 580 00:40:04,915 --> 00:40:08,075 Speaker 1: back in the pure make believe days of my Thunderbirds, 581 00:40:08,155 --> 00:40:12,155 Speaker 1: my father connived to briefly translate my imaginings into reality. 582 00:40:12,715 --> 00:40:16,315 Speaker 1: Annoyed by the endless chatter of the office baseball know 583 00:40:16,475 --> 00:40:19,195 Speaker 1: it all, Dad asked me once if I could convince 584 00:40:19,235 --> 00:40:22,995 Speaker 1: the man of the existence of a completely fictitious player, 585 00:40:23,795 --> 00:40:26,835 Speaker 1: take one of those names from your imaginary team, he suggested. 586 00:40:27,435 --> 00:40:30,155 Speaker 1: He'll ask you to name the lineup of some team 587 00:40:30,155 --> 00:40:32,715 Speaker 1: from the past, probably the Yankees. I'll get him on 588 00:40:32,755 --> 00:40:34,515 Speaker 1: the phone. You can talk to him. Just slip in 589 00:40:34,555 --> 00:40:37,435 Speaker 1: your imaginary guy. This is the kind of man, Keith, 590 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:39,155 Speaker 1: you're going to meet a lot of as an adult, 591 00:40:39,355 --> 00:40:42,755 Speaker 1: the guy who already knew whatever you just told him. 592 00:40:43,155 --> 00:40:46,275 Speaker 1: If you really convince him this faked player is real, 593 00:40:46,315 --> 00:40:48,395 Speaker 1: he'll come around and he'll insist I don't know that 594 00:40:48,435 --> 00:40:52,315 Speaker 1: he met the guy or something. So Dan called up 595 00:40:52,355 --> 00:40:54,675 Speaker 1: from the office in New York City the following morning 596 00:40:54,675 --> 00:40:57,355 Speaker 1: and said he had completed the setup, and then he 597 00:40:57,435 --> 00:41:00,835 Speaker 1: called back a couple of minutes later. The blowhard one, 598 00:41:00,995 --> 00:41:04,235 Speaker 1: Spencer Martin, took the phone and began to quiz me 599 00:41:04,275 --> 00:41:07,915 Speaker 1: about the roster of the nineteen thirty nine New York Yankees. 600 00:41:08,715 --> 00:41:11,955 Speaker 1: I had already surprised and then silenced him by naming 601 00:41:11,955 --> 00:41:14,875 Speaker 1: the position players when I went in for the kill, 602 00:41:15,915 --> 00:41:18,315 Speaker 1: and the pictures, of course, were roughing and at Lee 603 00:41:18,395 --> 00:41:21,915 Speaker 1: Donald and Spud Chandler and Johnny Murphy in the bullpen 604 00:41:21,995 --> 00:41:28,435 Speaker 1: and Talbot, and the man snorted Talbot. Talbot? Who Rick Talbot, 605 00:41:28,875 --> 00:41:31,395 Speaker 1: I replied with as much dismissiveness as a ten year 606 00:41:31,435 --> 00:41:35,315 Speaker 1: old Gould Muster seventeen wins and thirty nine and nineteen 607 00:41:35,315 --> 00:41:38,715 Speaker 1: wins the year later, and no hit the Browns three 608 00:41:38,795 --> 00:41:40,875 Speaker 1: hits shut out against the Reds in Game three of 609 00:41:40,915 --> 00:41:46,475 Speaker 1: the thirty nine World Series. Rick talbot silence on phone 610 00:41:46,515 --> 00:41:49,635 Speaker 1: calls from Manhattan to the Suburbs in nineteen sixty nine 611 00:41:49,835 --> 00:41:53,955 Speaker 1: still crackled. I was wondering if mister Martin could somehow 612 00:41:54,035 --> 00:41:57,115 Speaker 1: know that Rick Talbot had been not with the nineteen 613 00:41:57,155 --> 00:42:00,555 Speaker 1: thirty nine Yankees, but the imaginary mainstay of the imaginary 614 00:42:00,635 --> 00:42:04,915 Speaker 1: Brewster Hurricanes, who I had moved in my imagination to 615 00:42:04,955 --> 00:42:07,915 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh in nineteen thirty eight. When finally he spoke up, 616 00:42:08,155 --> 00:42:12,955 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course Talbot. I saw him pitch when 617 00:42:12,955 --> 00:42:17,035 Speaker 1: I was a kid. Oh was he mad when I 618 00:42:17,075 --> 00:42:21,995 Speaker 1: told him I'd made him up. Quote. Writers create vast 619 00:42:22,115 --> 00:42:25,435 Speaker 1: kingdoms for themselves to control and to let their imagination 620 00:42:25,555 --> 00:42:29,355 Speaker 1: run loose. The Associated Press quoted a Columbia professor and 621 00:42:29,595 --> 00:42:32,715 Speaker 1: Douglas about Jack carrollac and his summer league. When the 622 00:42:32,715 --> 00:42:35,955 Speaker 1: news of the league came out. You did a nice 623 00:42:36,035 --> 00:42:39,275 Speaker 1: job on Spencer Martin, my father said about my league. 624 00:42:39,555 --> 00:42:42,155 Speaker 1: Just don't forget which part is real and which part 625 00:42:42,155 --> 00:42:46,475 Speaker 1: you made up. Well, many many years later now that 626 00:42:46,555 --> 00:42:50,555 Speaker 1: has become slightly more difficult, because imagine my shock two 627 00:42:50,635 --> 00:42:54,075 Speaker 1: hockey seasons ago when the Vancouver Canucks brought up a 628 00:42:54,115 --> 00:43:13,795 Speaker 1: new goaltender named Spencer Martin. I've done all the damage 629 00:43:13,795 --> 00:43:15,715 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Here are 630 00:43:15,715 --> 00:43:17,995 Speaker 1: the credits. Most of the music was arranged, produced and 631 00:43:18,075 --> 00:43:20,675 Speaker 1: performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Channel, who are 632 00:43:20,675 --> 00:43:24,555 Speaker 1: the countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John 633 00:43:24,555 --> 00:43:28,115 Speaker 1: Philip Channel, guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, and 634 00:43:28,235 --> 00:43:31,675 Speaker 1: it was produced by t Ko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections 635 00:43:31,675 --> 00:43:35,355 Speaker 1: have been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. Sports 636 00:43:35,435 --> 00:43:38,195 Speaker 1: music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two and it 637 00:43:38,235 --> 00:43:41,675 Speaker 1: was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 638 00:43:42,115 --> 00:43:45,355 Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist, 639 00:43:45,395 --> 00:43:49,035 Speaker 1: Everett our announcer today was Stevie Van's aunt. Everything else 640 00:43:49,075 --> 00:43:51,395 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. So let's countdown for this 641 00:43:51,475 --> 00:43:54,355 Speaker 1: the eight hundred and twenty fifth day since Donald Trump's 642 00:43:54,355 --> 00:43:57,235 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 643 00:43:57,275 --> 00:44:01,595 Speaker 1: United States. Don't forget to keep arresting him while we 644 00:44:01,635 --> 00:44:05,195 Speaker 1: still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Until then, 645 00:44:05,235 --> 00:44:08,235 Speaker 1: I'm Keith all Reman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and 646 00:44:08,835 --> 00:44:20,795 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith ol Reman is a production 647 00:44:20,955 --> 00:44:26,235 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. 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