1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,675 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio, with 2 00:00:21,795 --> 00:00:25,075 Speaker 1: the news that Tomorrow night debate moderators Dana Bash and 3 00:00:25,235 --> 00:00:29,235 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper will not fact check Trump's lies in real time. 4 00:00:30,075 --> 00:00:33,515 Speaker 1: CNN has abrogated yet another journalistic imperative, and he had 5 00:00:33,555 --> 00:00:36,235 Speaker 1: another Trump event offering him he had another step towards 6 00:00:36,235 --> 00:00:41,955 Speaker 1: imposing a dictatorship on this nation. Oh okay, says CNN 7 00:00:41,995 --> 00:00:44,915 Speaker 1: on the twenty twenty election. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll push back. 8 00:00:45,475 --> 00:00:50,275 Speaker 1: But when Trump insists Biden killed two women and he 9 00:00:50,315 --> 00:00:53,595 Speaker 1: should go to jail because the alleged actual murderers were 10 00:00:53,715 --> 00:00:56,675 Speaker 1: undocumented immigrants, what are they going to do to him? 11 00:00:56,715 --> 00:01:01,515 Speaker 1: A customized Dana Bash shrug emoji When Trump insists the 12 00:01:01,515 --> 00:01:05,315 Speaker 1: president is on drugs? Is Jake Tapper just going to 13 00:01:05,395 --> 00:01:10,235 Speaker 1: stare daggers at Trump? The last time CNN punted on 14 00:01:10,315 --> 00:01:14,835 Speaker 1: its responsibilities to this nation, the truth and to just reality, 15 00:01:15,475 --> 00:01:18,395 Speaker 1: it gave us the hapless Caitlin Collins Trump Live town 16 00:01:18,475 --> 00:01:21,555 Speaker 1: hall in May of twenty twenty three, and as bad 17 00:01:21,595 --> 00:01:24,115 Speaker 1: as she proved to be at it, Collins was at 18 00:01:24,235 --> 00:01:28,635 Speaker 1: least trying to get a fact in edgewise. The moderators 19 00:01:28,715 --> 00:01:32,315 Speaker 1: tomorrow Night quote are not participants in the debate, they 20 00:01:32,315 --> 00:01:37,955 Speaker 1: are facilitators, said as CNN spokesman CNN's woeful political director 21 00:01:38,035 --> 00:01:41,795 Speaker 1: David Shallion, largely responsible for the Trump debacle last year, 22 00:01:42,075 --> 00:01:44,435 Speaker 1: told The New York Times that a live debate is 23 00:01:44,475 --> 00:01:48,475 Speaker 1: not the ideal arena for live fact checking, even as 24 00:01:48,555 --> 00:01:51,955 Speaker 1: that spokesperson, who refused to give their name to Axios 25 00:01:52,275 --> 00:01:55,635 Speaker 1: said that there would be some fact checking of major 26 00:01:55,715 --> 00:02:00,595 Speaker 1: falsehoods and smaller details, but only on the secondary CNN 27 00:02:00,715 --> 00:02:05,515 Speaker 1: platforms like the digital ones. So they're not going to 28 00:02:05,515 --> 00:02:07,835 Speaker 1: do it. Oh no, they're going to do it. They're 29 00:02:07,875 --> 00:02:10,435 Speaker 1: just not going to do it where it matters or 30 00:02:10,515 --> 00:02:14,755 Speaker 1: when it matters. Just to further confess that the CNN 31 00:02:14,835 --> 00:02:18,395 Speaker 1: decision to not fact check Trump's fire hose of lies 32 00:02:18,875 --> 00:02:21,595 Speaker 1: as he makes them where he makes them is another 33 00:02:21,675 --> 00:02:24,555 Speaker 1: principle thrown away to make sure Trump shows up or 34 00:02:24,635 --> 00:02:28,555 Speaker 1: doesn't batter the network or take revengulator or all three. 35 00:02:28,995 --> 00:02:32,235 Speaker 1: That same CNN spokesman said that they would fact check 36 00:02:32,275 --> 00:02:35,795 Speaker 1: claims that the twenty twenty election was stolen, but the 37 00:02:35,835 --> 00:02:43,075 Speaker 1: spokesman described those claims to Axios as inaccuracies. This is 38 00:02:43,275 --> 00:02:49,195 Speaker 1: CNN Collins Trump town Hall of May twenty twenty three 39 00:02:49,715 --> 00:02:52,875 Speaker 1: did not get the late and very unlamented Chris licked 40 00:02:52,995 --> 00:02:56,555 Speaker 1: fired as CNN's chief and relegated to the dust spend 41 00:02:56,675 --> 00:03:01,755 Speaker 1: of dereliction of duty. Licks amazingly self loving comments in 42 00:03:01,755 --> 00:03:05,595 Speaker 1: the Atlantic magazine article did that, but the town Hall 43 00:03:05,875 --> 00:03:09,275 Speaker 1: was his penultimate step off the cliff. You can almost 44 00:03:09,315 --> 00:03:13,515 Speaker 1: see a similar fate sharpening into focus for Lickt's successor, 45 00:03:13,875 --> 00:03:18,475 Speaker 1: the British print newsman Mark Thompson. Just to make CNN's 46 00:03:18,515 --> 00:03:21,595 Speaker 1: pre debate failure seem even more like Homer Simpson falling 47 00:03:21,755 --> 00:03:24,715 Speaker 1: down his cliff. Thompson said he expected this to be 48 00:03:24,795 --> 00:03:29,075 Speaker 1: quote an absolutely classic debate, and he compared it to 49 00:03:29,835 --> 00:03:36,635 Speaker 1: in advance, the first Nixon Kennedy debate from nineteen sixty. Well, 50 00:03:36,715 --> 00:03:39,955 Speaker 1: I'm sure they are comparable, sir, since they will both 51 00:03:39,955 --> 00:03:45,515 Speaker 1: have been on television. Mister Thompson planted one last rake 52 00:03:45,835 --> 00:03:50,035 Speaker 1: to step on, or one last Petard to hoist himself. 53 00:03:50,075 --> 00:03:53,275 Speaker 1: With the format of the debate, he actually thinks has 54 00:03:53,715 --> 00:03:56,475 Speaker 1: quote been done in a way at least in principle, 55 00:03:56,755 --> 00:04:00,795 Speaker 1: that is designed to get as much light as possible 56 00:04:01,115 --> 00:04:08,275 Speaker 1: and not to be overwhelmed with heat. Principal, we're talking 57 00:04:08,355 --> 00:04:13,155 Speaker 1: about Trump, and you seriously think that principles will somehow 58 00:04:13,195 --> 00:04:18,235 Speaker 1: prevail here. This is Trump. The way you kept candidates 59 00:04:18,315 --> 00:04:21,515 Speaker 1: in line in nineteen ninety eight or nineteen sixty or 60 00:04:21,595 --> 00:04:25,555 Speaker 1: eighteen fifty eight or in the UK may work again 61 00:04:25,675 --> 00:04:29,155 Speaker 1: someday if we survive this election, but it is not 62 00:04:29,235 --> 00:04:32,795 Speaker 1: going to work with Trump, because this man is literally 63 00:04:32,915 --> 00:04:36,355 Speaker 1: running for his life, and thus he is tomorrow night 64 00:04:36,435 --> 00:04:40,355 Speaker 1: literally debating for his life. There are no rules here, 65 00:04:40,835 --> 00:04:44,235 Speaker 1: there is no truth here, and there is nobody inside 66 00:04:44,275 --> 00:04:48,715 Speaker 1: of Trump for you to appeal to. By now it 67 00:04:48,755 --> 00:04:52,595 Speaker 1: should no longer be such, yet this truth remains. It 68 00:04:52,675 --> 00:04:57,275 Speaker 1: continues to stun me that TV network after TV network, 69 00:04:57,355 --> 00:05:00,475 Speaker 1: and soon to be x TV executive after soon to 70 00:05:00,515 --> 00:05:04,635 Speaker 1: be x TV executive still thinks his or her vision 71 00:05:05,275 --> 00:05:08,595 Speaker 1: of exactly the same idea to contain Trump that didn't 72 00:05:08,635 --> 00:05:11,715 Speaker 1: work last time or didn't work the last fifty times, 73 00:05:11,875 --> 00:05:16,075 Speaker 1: is going to work this time because well, in Chris 74 00:05:16,235 --> 00:05:19,755 Speaker 1: Licht's case, it was because he knew it would work 75 00:05:20,275 --> 00:05:23,035 Speaker 1: since he had produced Stephen Colbert, so he was too 76 00:05:23,235 --> 00:05:26,835 Speaker 1: cool for anybody to deare ignore him. In Kristin Welker 77 00:05:26,835 --> 00:05:30,075 Speaker 1: and Carrie Butdolph Brown's cases, they thought they'd get away 78 00:05:30,075 --> 00:05:33,315 Speaker 1: with it at NBC because, after all, they were hiring 79 00:05:33,395 --> 00:05:35,555 Speaker 1: Ronald McDaniel and the price would be worth it to 80 00:05:35,595 --> 00:05:39,115 Speaker 1: not fact check Trump on Meet the Press. And in 81 00:05:39,155 --> 00:05:41,875 Speaker 1: the new CNN guy Mark Thompson's case, I guess he 82 00:05:41,995 --> 00:05:46,755 Speaker 1: thinks it'll work because he has dual American and British citizenship, 83 00:05:47,155 --> 00:05:49,315 Speaker 1: and he can always go back there and get a 84 00:05:49,395 --> 00:05:53,235 Speaker 1: job there after this impending FASCO costs him this job, 85 00:05:54,315 --> 00:05:57,955 Speaker 1: or maybe he can go become editor of the Washington Post. 86 00:05:58,155 --> 00:06:05,595 Speaker 1: I understand they're hiring, by the way, if you had 87 00:06:05,635 --> 00:06:08,955 Speaker 1: not noticed the fascists, maybe not the Republicans, but the 88 00:06:08,995 --> 00:06:13,195 Speaker 1: true hallucinators. They believe Trump has already won the debate 89 00:06:13,755 --> 00:06:17,195 Speaker 1: and the election. As the first of these looms, the 90 00:06:17,235 --> 00:06:20,915 Speaker 1: Trump cult is really pouring gasoline they don't own on 91 00:06:20,955 --> 00:06:23,595 Speaker 1: a fire. We intend to prevent them from lighting. There 92 00:06:23,675 --> 00:06:27,115 Speaker 1: is today now not only an official Trump hit list, 93 00:06:27,155 --> 00:06:30,075 Speaker 1: Schedule F, which would let him fire all government civil 94 00:06:30,075 --> 00:06:33,875 Speaker 1: service employees and replace them with I don't know he's 95 00:06:33,915 --> 00:06:37,955 Speaker 1: remaining relatives and other brain damage flunkies, but there is 96 00:06:38,035 --> 00:06:43,475 Speaker 1: now also an unofficial Trump hit list. The Federalist Society, 97 00:06:43,635 --> 00:06:46,195 Speaker 1: and again the solution here is to declare the Federalist 98 00:06:46,315 --> 00:06:50,795 Speaker 1: Society a terrorist organization. The Federalist Society has given a 99 00:06:50,875 --> 00:06:54,675 Speaker 1: Kentucky guy named Tom Jones with a resume showing he 100 00:06:54,715 --> 00:06:56,915 Speaker 1: used to be an aid to fascist Congressman Jim de 101 00:06:57,035 --> 00:06:59,875 Speaker 1: Mint and a press photo showing he has eight chins. 102 00:07:00,315 --> 00:07:03,795 Speaker 1: The Federalist Society has given him one hundred thousand dollars 103 00:07:04,035 --> 00:07:08,195 Speaker 1: to assemble and then publicly post a list of, as 104 00:07:08,235 --> 00:07:12,275 Speaker 1: the Associated Press phrases it, quote, one hundred names of 105 00:07:12,395 --> 00:07:15,955 Speaker 1: government workers who might be standing in the way of 106 00:07:16,035 --> 00:07:20,635 Speaker 1: a second term Trump agenda. On the surface, Jones and 107 00:07:20,675 --> 00:07:25,035 Speaker 1: his American Accountability Foundation are scanning backgrounds, social media posts, 108 00:07:25,115 --> 00:07:29,315 Speaker 1: other commentary to get people fired from federal departments, especially 109 00:07:29,715 --> 00:07:33,155 Speaker 1: Homeland Security. Because if you think Trump wants to use 110 00:07:33,155 --> 00:07:36,075 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice as his personal attorneys and he 111 00:07:36,115 --> 00:07:39,195 Speaker 1: wants to use the FBI as his personal police, take 112 00:07:39,235 --> 00:07:42,075 Speaker 1: a guess what he wants to use Homeland Security for 113 00:07:42,875 --> 00:07:46,475 Speaker 1: two letters. It begins with an S and it ends 114 00:07:47,075 --> 00:07:52,515 Speaker 1: with another S. But getting them fired by Tom Jones 115 00:07:53,475 --> 00:07:57,635 Speaker 1: is just the surface plan. What else do you suppose 116 00:07:57,995 --> 00:08:01,595 Speaker 1: might happen to the one hundred people on it. If 117 00:08:01,595 --> 00:08:06,235 Speaker 1: some conservative psychopath posted a Trump and Emmy's list on 118 00:08:06,315 --> 00:08:11,035 Speaker 1: a website and again ruining the lives of one hundred people, 119 00:08:11,315 --> 00:08:14,955 Speaker 1: making examples of one hundred people in order to preempt 120 00:08:15,035 --> 00:08:19,075 Speaker 1: further criticism of a Trump dictatorship and the redeployment of DOJ, 121 00:08:19,595 --> 00:08:22,475 Speaker 1: the FBI, Homeland and other federal institutions as part of 122 00:08:22,475 --> 00:08:27,155 Speaker 1: a fascist state. That's just the first step. Because back 123 00:08:27,515 --> 00:08:31,275 Speaker 1: at the official Trump kill list at Project twenty twenty five, 124 00:08:31,675 --> 00:08:36,475 Speaker 1: there is Joseph Backhome of the Family Research Council. When 125 00:08:36,475 --> 00:08:38,835 Speaker 1: Whoopy Goldberg noted that the move to put up the 126 00:08:38,875 --> 00:08:42,795 Speaker 1: Ten Commandments on the walls of every school in Louisiana, 127 00:08:42,835 --> 00:08:45,115 Speaker 1: and I mean anywhere in this country outside of Vegas, 128 00:08:45,155 --> 00:08:48,235 Speaker 1: where the Ten Commandments, bullshit as they might be, are 129 00:08:48,355 --> 00:08:52,915 Speaker 1: violated more frequently than they are in Louisiana. When Whoopy 130 00:08:52,995 --> 00:08:55,275 Speaker 1: noted that this was an attempt to turn every school 131 00:08:55,555 --> 00:08:59,035 Speaker 1: into a religious school, this, Joseph Backholme of the Family 132 00:08:59,075 --> 00:09:03,075 Speaker 1: Research Council and Project twenty twenty five commented, quote, I 133 00:09:03,115 --> 00:09:06,515 Speaker 1: think the response there to Whoopee is that public schools 134 00:09:06,955 --> 00:09:11,115 Speaker 1: are religious schools, and that's really what this moment requires 135 00:09:11,195 --> 00:09:16,595 Speaker 1: us to recognize. Why does Joseph say that, because quote 136 00:09:16,995 --> 00:09:20,595 Speaker 1: Pride flags represent a set of religious values about who 137 00:09:20,635 --> 00:09:24,435 Speaker 1: is in charge. So there you have it. Opposition to 138 00:09:24,475 --> 00:09:27,195 Speaker 1: Trump will be purged from the government and others will 139 00:09:27,195 --> 00:09:29,515 Speaker 1: be warned from even trying it as they watch the 140 00:09:29,555 --> 00:09:32,675 Speaker 1: lives of those who have already criticized him get their 141 00:09:32,755 --> 00:09:37,435 Speaker 1: lives ruined. Schools will be religious schools, and the religion 142 00:09:37,835 --> 00:09:42,315 Speaker 1: will prevent the gay And how did we get here? 143 00:09:43,035 --> 00:09:46,755 Speaker 1: We got here obviously because of the villainy on the right. 144 00:09:47,315 --> 00:09:51,235 Speaker 1: We also got here because for half a century, our secular, fair, 145 00:09:51,835 --> 00:09:57,035 Speaker 1: non religious nut job somewhat scrupled politicians formerly in both 146 00:09:57,075 --> 00:10:00,635 Speaker 1: major parties, lately just on the left, have bluntly not 147 00:10:01,835 --> 00:10:04,875 Speaker 1: beaten the metaphorical shit out of the religious nut job 148 00:10:05,115 --> 00:10:09,235 Speaker 1: every time they have surface to crusade. Crusade meant literally 149 00:10:09,275 --> 00:10:11,595 Speaker 1: as in, let's go kill people in the Holy Land, 150 00:10:11,715 --> 00:10:15,635 Speaker 1: or failing that, we will accept Louisiana as an alternate answer. 151 00:10:16,395 --> 00:10:18,835 Speaker 1: They rise and they send their own members out into 152 00:10:18,835 --> 00:10:20,915 Speaker 1: the public, and we have not done enough to crush them. 153 00:10:21,395 --> 00:10:24,115 Speaker 1: And when that failed, they got behind a psychopath. It 154 00:10:24,155 --> 00:10:27,235 Speaker 1: would do anything for them, because the evangelicals do vote 155 00:10:27,275 --> 00:10:29,435 Speaker 1: and they do vote in blocks, and if you let 156 00:10:29,475 --> 00:10:33,075 Speaker 1: them impose their hallucinations and delusions and superstitions upon the 157 00:10:33,075 --> 00:10:37,435 Speaker 1: rest of us, they will let you get away with murder, or, 158 00:10:37,475 --> 00:10:40,155 Speaker 1: in Trump's case, they will let him get away with 159 00:10:40,315 --> 00:10:47,115 Speaker 1: bum fights. Bum fights, bum fights, having the homeless fight 160 00:10:47,195 --> 00:10:51,475 Speaker 1: each other or fight low level professional fighters while the 161 00:10:51,515 --> 00:10:56,235 Speaker 1: supposed ordinary good Americans pay money and sit back and laugh. 162 00:10:57,715 --> 00:11:01,155 Speaker 1: Got any memory that does bring a distant from two 163 00:11:01,155 --> 00:11:06,795 Speaker 1: decades ago. Bum fights back, only this time and even 164 00:11:06,795 --> 00:11:09,755 Speaker 1: more hateful version of them, proposed by no less than 165 00:11:09,795 --> 00:11:12,395 Speaker 1: the biggest bum of them all. Trump wants to have 166 00:11:12,555 --> 00:11:17,075 Speaker 1: immigrants fight American born professionals in mixed martial arts fights. 167 00:11:18,475 --> 00:11:21,035 Speaker 1: Trump is like two steps from suggesting building a new 168 00:11:21,075 --> 00:11:23,635 Speaker 1: Roman colisseum in West Palm Beach and having them battle 169 00:11:23,715 --> 00:11:28,115 Speaker 1: lions there. Trump is like three steps from in the 170 00:11:28,155 --> 00:11:30,475 Speaker 1: bitterest of ironies, given the death of my friend Donald 171 00:11:30,515 --> 00:11:34,635 Speaker 1: Sutherland last Thursday, the Trump Hunger Games, a title which 172 00:11:34,675 --> 00:11:37,035 Speaker 1: itself would be ironic inso much as in the last 173 00:11:37,075 --> 00:11:40,355 Speaker 1: three decades, Trump has clearly never let himself be hungry 174 00:11:40,555 --> 00:11:46,475 Speaker 1: for more than five minutes at a stretch, and Trump crazy, Trump, sadistic, 175 00:11:46,515 --> 00:11:50,835 Speaker 1: Trump living in a dreamlike fugue state, almost Caligula Trump, 176 00:11:51,275 --> 00:11:54,275 Speaker 1: He's only like five steps from the worst thing he 177 00:11:54,315 --> 00:12:00,995 Speaker 1: could ever ever think of, having immigrants fight sharks. I 178 00:12:01,075 --> 00:12:03,955 Speaker 1: have one simple request, and that is to have sharks 179 00:12:03,995 --> 00:12:07,275 Speaker 1: with freaking laser beams attached to their heads. Can you 180 00:12:07,355 --> 00:12:10,795 Speaker 1: remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw 181 00:12:10,875 --> 00:12:17,235 Speaker 1: me a bone here, Sharks with frickin' laser beams that 182 00:12:17,315 --> 00:12:21,555 Speaker 1: are solar powered, so they'll short out and electrocute somebody 183 00:12:21,555 --> 00:12:24,995 Speaker 1: when they get wet. Because Trump is simultaneously convinced that 184 00:12:25,115 --> 00:12:28,275 Speaker 1: green energy fails when it's not windy, or if the 185 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:31,755 Speaker 1: machine gets wet, But the wind powered engine on a 186 00:12:31,795 --> 00:12:35,155 Speaker 1: sinking boat would still somehow electrocute him, but it would 187 00:12:35,195 --> 00:12:38,595 Speaker 1: not electrocute the shark ten feet away from him. At 188 00:12:38,595 --> 00:12:42,075 Speaker 1: as much as this tells us about what terrifies this psychopath. 189 00:12:42,355 --> 00:12:44,795 Speaker 1: We're a little deep in the woods here and the 190 00:12:44,835 --> 00:12:47,915 Speaker 1: weeds as well, And as Biden prepares for the debate 191 00:12:47,995 --> 00:12:51,755 Speaker 1: two nights from now, he should widen out the lens 192 00:12:52,075 --> 00:12:55,275 Speaker 1: and underscore the key point in the shark story and 193 00:12:55,355 --> 00:12:57,995 Speaker 1: the migrant fighting league story and all the rest of 194 00:12:58,035 --> 00:13:00,675 Speaker 1: these violent fantasies, which is that Trump is not only 195 00:13:00,715 --> 00:13:04,555 Speaker 1: insane and deteriorating, but that he has the makings of 196 00:13:04,795 --> 00:13:11,355 Speaker 1: criminal insanity. Widening out and answering Trump's delusions not with 197 00:13:11,395 --> 00:13:13,715 Speaker 1: what you and I do, parsing them to underscore just 198 00:13:13,755 --> 00:13:18,595 Speaker 1: how crazy they and he really are. Widening out is 199 00:13:18,635 --> 00:13:21,555 Speaker 1: I think Biden's best plan for tomorrow night. He needs 200 00:13:21,595 --> 00:13:25,035 Speaker 1: to start where we leave off when Trump says something 201 00:13:25,075 --> 00:13:29,475 Speaker 1: crazy about sharks or about the economy or anything in between. 202 00:13:29,995 --> 00:13:33,515 Speaker 1: Start by saying Donald Trump is insane, and by the way, 203 00:13:33,555 --> 00:13:37,395 Speaker 1: he's wrong and he's lying to you. Here's why this 204 00:13:37,595 --> 00:13:40,675 Speaker 1: is especially true if Trump tries the are you better 205 00:13:40,715 --> 00:13:44,395 Speaker 1: off now than you were four years ago? Jazz emphasized 206 00:13:44,435 --> 00:13:49,275 Speaker 1: Trump's criminal culpability about COVID, emphasized the million dead, the bleach, 207 00:13:49,515 --> 00:13:52,435 Speaker 1: the putting light in your body, the economic collapse, the 208 00:13:52,515 --> 00:13:54,995 Speaker 1: fact that in February twenty twenty, Trump knew it was 209 00:13:55,075 --> 00:13:58,795 Speaker 1: airborne and lied to the public for months as Americans died. 210 00:13:59,155 --> 00:14:02,395 Speaker 1: Say it, mister president, say it. Bluntly. Trump killed a 211 00:14:02,435 --> 00:14:07,555 Speaker 1: million Americans. There are American millions he killed for whom 212 00:14:07,595 --> 00:14:10,995 Speaker 1: there is no question they ain't better off now than 213 00:14:10,995 --> 00:14:15,195 Speaker 1: they were four years ago. And bluntly say that he 214 00:14:15,315 --> 00:14:18,355 Speaker 1: still managed while doing this to kill the economy. That 215 00:14:18,475 --> 00:14:22,715 Speaker 1: the inflation we are finally stopping now is Trump inflation. 216 00:14:23,115 --> 00:14:26,755 Speaker 1: It's Trump COVID inflation. That the president with the worst 217 00:14:26,835 --> 00:14:31,155 Speaker 1: job record since Herbert Hoover was Trump. That violent crime 218 00:14:31,275 --> 00:14:34,235 Speaker 1: exploded under Trump, that there were two kinds of criminals 219 00:14:34,275 --> 00:14:37,395 Speaker 1: under Trump, muggers and murderers on the street and ex 220 00:14:37,515 --> 00:14:41,635 Speaker 1: presidents who tried to overthrow the government. And the most 221 00:14:41,675 --> 00:14:44,515 Speaker 1: important truth to hit him with, the most important truth 222 00:14:44,555 --> 00:14:50,795 Speaker 1: to dispel what Brian Bouler beautifully dubbed Trumpstalgia and trump Nisia, 223 00:14:51,275 --> 00:14:54,315 Speaker 1: the most important truth to enrage Trump is the truth 224 00:14:54,915 --> 00:14:59,195 Speaker 1: that he lost, that he lost the election, that he's 225 00:14:59,235 --> 00:15:03,315 Speaker 1: a loser, and that instead of taking it like a man, 226 00:15:03,875 --> 00:15:06,595 Speaker 1: he had other pe people tried to overthrow the government 227 00:15:06,835 --> 00:15:10,955 Speaker 1: for him. He was such a coward. He didn't even 228 00:15:11,035 --> 00:15:14,115 Speaker 1: have the guts to go to the capitol during the coup. 229 00:15:15,795 --> 00:15:17,235 Speaker 1: I mean, what is he going to say to that, 230 00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:19,595 Speaker 1: I did too have the guts to go to the 231 00:15:19,635 --> 00:15:22,675 Speaker 1: capitol during the coup. I really wanted to stay and 232 00:15:22,795 --> 00:15:25,875 Speaker 1: go there, but they said, sir, you can't go, it's 233 00:15:25,915 --> 00:15:28,435 Speaker 1: not safe. They had tears in their eyes, to which 234 00:15:28,475 --> 00:15:32,635 Speaker 1: Biden could reply, it wasn't safe. It was all your supporters, 235 00:15:33,355 --> 00:15:36,355 Speaker 1: it was all your people, and it wasn't safe. And 236 00:15:36,675 --> 00:15:40,515 Speaker 1: you wanted to go, but they stopped you. Who stopped you, 237 00:15:41,275 --> 00:15:44,995 Speaker 1: who made your decisions for you? Donald, you were president 238 00:15:45,035 --> 00:15:46,915 Speaker 1: of the United States. I mean you were the worst 239 00:15:47,275 --> 00:15:50,515 Speaker 1: weakest president in history. And when you tried for reelection, 240 00:15:50,635 --> 00:15:55,195 Speaker 1: you lost. But you let some White House aid or 241 00:15:55,235 --> 00:15:58,355 Speaker 1: secret serviceman tell you what you could and couldn't do. 242 00:16:01,475 --> 00:16:05,155 Speaker 1: Let me tie this together, bum fights, migrant fighting championships, 243 00:16:05,195 --> 00:16:08,635 Speaker 1: the official Trump enemies List, the unofficial Trump enemies List, 244 00:16:08,875 --> 00:16:12,915 Speaker 1: mandatory religion in public schools. This is your generation of 245 00:16:12,955 --> 00:16:16,715 Speaker 1: politicians who have failed us. President Biden, you all tried 246 00:16:16,755 --> 00:16:20,715 Speaker 1: to compromise. We all thought you were right to We 247 00:16:20,715 --> 00:16:23,675 Speaker 1: were all wrong. You have to go into this debate 248 00:16:23,875 --> 00:16:27,195 Speaker 1: escalating your assessment of what is really at risk. It 249 00:16:27,315 --> 00:16:29,835 Speaker 1: is not enough to merely fight Trump in this debate 250 00:16:29,915 --> 00:16:32,115 Speaker 1: on behalf of America. You have to think of it 251 00:16:32,315 --> 00:16:36,035 Speaker 1: this way, on behalf of humanity and mankind, because the 252 00:16:36,075 --> 00:16:38,355 Speaker 1: next five years is the last chance we have to 253 00:16:38,395 --> 00:16:43,475 Speaker 1: mitigate a climate disaster. What would you have said, mister President, 254 00:16:44,235 --> 00:16:48,195 Speaker 1: knowing what you know today if you were debating not 255 00:16:48,395 --> 00:16:51,955 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four in Atlanta, but in nineteen thirty 256 00:16:51,995 --> 00:16:59,075 Speaker 1: two somewhere in Germany against Hitler. Throw some punches, Joe 257 00:17:00,555 --> 00:17:05,435 Speaker 1: Summon the old anger, get in there with the plan 258 00:17:05,555 --> 00:17:11,115 Speaker 1: on destroying Donald Trump because he might as well be 259 00:17:11,355 --> 00:17:15,995 Speaker 1: Hitler or has his national press secretary called him the 260 00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:24,515 Speaker 1: other night Hilter back on this planet. As they start Thursday, 261 00:17:24,515 --> 00:17:26,835 Speaker 1: we are likely to see both sides claiming their candidate 262 00:17:26,915 --> 00:17:31,355 Speaker 1: is leading in the polling. Trump will be lying using 263 00:17:31,395 --> 00:17:33,795 Speaker 1: the polling averages from five point thirty eight dot Com, 264 00:17:33,835 --> 00:17:37,155 Speaker 1: the Split Ticket political website, put out a graphic showing 265 00:17:37,195 --> 00:17:41,155 Speaker 1: what Trump's stormy Daniel's election interference conviction did to his 266 00:17:41,275 --> 00:17:45,035 Speaker 1: numbers In the swing states. Biden is only ahead and 267 00:17:45,195 --> 00:17:47,835 Speaker 1: by only half a point in only two of them, 268 00:17:47,955 --> 00:17:51,475 Speaker 1: Michigan and Wisconsin, but the move towards him in the 269 00:17:51,515 --> 00:17:56,235 Speaker 1: polls since Trump's conviction on the thirtieth of May is astonishing. 270 00:17:56,555 --> 00:18:00,035 Speaker 1: When reduced to the measurement of the swing. In the 271 00:18:00,075 --> 00:18:03,795 Speaker 1: swing states, Biden has gained a point at a tenth 272 00:18:03,875 --> 00:18:07,315 Speaker 1: in North Carolina, He's gained a point and one fifth. 273 00:18:07,395 --> 00:18:10,755 Speaker 1: In Georgia. He's gained one and three fifths in Michigan. 274 00:18:11,035 --> 00:18:14,635 Speaker 1: In three states Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, he's improved by 275 00:18:14,755 --> 00:18:17,715 Speaker 1: two and three tenths of a point, and in Nevada 276 00:18:18,075 --> 00:18:20,395 Speaker 1: he's three and three tenths points better than he was 277 00:18:20,435 --> 00:18:23,595 Speaker 1: a month ago. Overall, in the swing states, he went 278 00:18:23,595 --> 00:18:27,955 Speaker 1: from minus one point seven to plus zero point one 279 00:18:28,035 --> 00:18:32,435 Speaker 1: in about four weeks. I hit the poll numbers last week, 280 00:18:32,515 --> 00:18:35,195 Speaker 1: and at the same time George Conway noted accurately that 281 00:18:35,195 --> 00:18:37,715 Speaker 1: we should not focus only on the polls because they 282 00:18:37,715 --> 00:18:40,915 Speaker 1: could give a false sense of security. Yes, entirely true, 283 00:18:41,395 --> 00:18:43,795 Speaker 1: but they are still of value because if I was 284 00:18:43,835 --> 00:18:47,555 Speaker 1: taught one thing by my experience of two thousand and five, six, seven, eight, 285 00:18:47,995 --> 00:18:51,755 Speaker 1: when the viewer response to my commentaries was basically thank God, 286 00:18:51,795 --> 00:18:53,435 Speaker 1: I thought I was the only person who realized this 287 00:18:53,555 --> 00:18:56,075 Speaker 1: was happening. If I was taught one thing by all 288 00:18:56,195 --> 00:19:00,395 Speaker 1: that it is never underestimate the value of reminding people 289 00:19:00,435 --> 00:19:03,355 Speaker 1: that the gravity has not been turned off in the world, 290 00:19:03,875 --> 00:19:08,395 Speaker 1: that cause an effect still exists, that good can beat evil, 291 00:19:08,835 --> 00:19:13,955 Speaker 1: particularly when good gets up off its ass. There's nothing 292 00:19:14,115 --> 00:19:18,075 Speaker 1: like having somebody, even a polster, even a lot of polsters, 293 00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:21,195 Speaker 1: whose numbers are then made into an average say no, no, 294 00:19:21,315 --> 00:19:27,315 Speaker 1: you're not alone, and no you're not crazy. And lastly 295 00:19:27,395 --> 00:19:30,235 Speaker 1: to that end, and to circle back to advice to Biden, 296 00:19:30,395 --> 00:19:34,115 Speaker 1: I think, mister President, you should say repeatedly that Trump 297 00:19:34,275 --> 00:19:38,915 Speaker 1: is exactly that crazy, insane, nuts out of his head. 298 00:19:40,715 --> 00:19:43,955 Speaker 1: I would go back to ancient history in the Trump 299 00:19:44,035 --> 00:19:48,555 Speaker 1: versus Biden stuff, all the way back to nearly two 300 00:19:48,555 --> 00:19:56,675 Speaker 1: weeks ago. Joe Bride, this guy Joe Bride. He called 301 00:19:56,715 --> 00:20:03,595 Speaker 1: him Joe Bride, and don't forget in March Trump, who'd 302 00:20:03,595 --> 00:20:09,115 Speaker 1: also called him. Trump wrote about Joe Biden, and in 303 00:20:09,155 --> 00:20:14,915 Speaker 1: writing about him, called him Joe Buden. President should run 304 00:20:14,915 --> 00:20:17,795 Speaker 1: with this tomorrow night. Run with it, laugh about it, 305 00:20:17,875 --> 00:20:22,995 Speaker 1: shout about it, hell sing about it, yes, sir, sing 306 00:20:23,075 --> 00:20:32,075 Speaker 1: about it. Oh. Nancy called him Joe Bride. Trump sprain 307 00:20:32,355 --> 00:20:39,595 Speaker 1: is Bride. He once called him pewed and sanity inside 308 00:20:39,675 --> 00:20:48,355 Speaker 1: of Trump has due, uh had, Thank you, Nancy Faust. 309 00:20:53,835 --> 00:20:55,915 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, I wonder sometimes if there was 310 00:20:55,955 --> 00:20:59,795 Speaker 1: an unknown pandemic, say twenty thirty years ago, a pandemic 311 00:20:59,795 --> 00:21:02,355 Speaker 1: that made at least a third of our population stupid, 312 00:21:02,915 --> 00:21:06,115 Speaker 1: but also convinced them they were genie, some kind of 313 00:21:06,395 --> 00:21:11,235 Speaker 1: Dunning Krueger coronavirus, because a congressman who never fought in 314 00:21:11,275 --> 00:21:14,435 Speaker 1: combat does not know that he can't wear a medal 315 00:21:14,475 --> 00:21:17,875 Speaker 1: that they only gave the combat soldiers. And vive Ramaswamy 316 00:21:17,915 --> 00:21:22,635 Speaker 1: doesn't know who prosecuted Assange, and an attorney general of 317 00:21:22,635 --> 00:21:25,915 Speaker 1: one of these United States does not know how Lincoln 318 00:21:26,315 --> 00:21:28,275 Speaker 1: was kept off the ballot in ten states or in 319 00:21:28,315 --> 00:21:33,195 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty, nor why these people are dumb enough that 320 00:21:33,275 --> 00:21:38,755 Speaker 1: they could each run CNN. That's next. This is countdown. 321 00:21:40,595 --> 00:22:05,955 Speaker 1: This is countdown with Keith Olberman still on this ediative countdown. 322 00:22:05,995 --> 00:22:08,755 Speaker 1: It's not quite the anniversary that will come up in August, 323 00:22:09,635 --> 00:22:11,995 Speaker 1: but I happened to do an interview over the weekend 324 00:22:12,715 --> 00:22:16,235 Speaker 1: about the great tennis player and legendary muscle ophthalmologist and 325 00:22:16,315 --> 00:22:19,675 Speaker 1: my friend, doctor Renee Richards, who treated me after I 326 00:22:19,715 --> 00:22:22,075 Speaker 1: did this to myself in nineteen eighty, so it's close 327 00:22:22,155 --> 00:22:24,835 Speaker 1: enough to the anniversary. It was the day I learned 328 00:22:24,835 --> 00:22:27,515 Speaker 1: what mom had met all those years when she used 329 00:22:27,515 --> 00:22:30,115 Speaker 1: to say, never run for a train, There'll always be 330 00:22:30,195 --> 00:22:33,515 Speaker 1: another one. I found it out by making a loud 331 00:22:33,795 --> 00:22:37,795 Speaker 1: clanging sound on the front of a train and using 332 00:22:37,835 --> 00:22:41,035 Speaker 1: my own head to do it coming up in things 333 00:22:41,075 --> 00:22:44,275 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell, or this time more accurately 334 00:22:44,355 --> 00:22:47,635 Speaker 1: things I'm lucky I didn't accidentally maim myself, so I 335 00:22:47,675 --> 00:22:53,035 Speaker 1: can still tell you ahead. But first there are still 336 00:22:53,035 --> 00:22:55,355 Speaker 1: more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of 337 00:22:55,355 --> 00:22:59,475 Speaker 1: the misgrants, morons and dunning krugriffects specimens who constitute two 338 00:22:59,595 --> 00:23:05,395 Speaker 1: days worse persons in the world. Clank the bronze, speaking 339 00:23:05,515 --> 00:23:09,715 Speaker 1: like he ran into a train once two Congressman Troy 340 00:23:09,795 --> 00:23:12,995 Speaker 1: Nells Troy is one way or the other, not right 341 00:23:13,075 --> 00:23:17,275 Speaker 1: in the head. He was a civil affairs branch officer 342 00:23:17,355 --> 00:23:21,835 Speaker 1: in the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, non combat, yet 343 00:23:21,875 --> 00:23:25,155 Speaker 1: by some sort of clerical mistake, he was awarded the 344 00:23:25,275 --> 00:23:29,435 Speaker 1: combat Infantry badge in two thousand and eight, which he 345 00:23:29,515 --> 00:23:32,795 Speaker 1: was not eligible for he was never in combat. In 346 00:23:32,795 --> 00:23:36,635 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, the army corrected its mistake and rescinded 347 00:23:36,875 --> 00:23:40,435 Speaker 1: Nells's badge. Somebody noticed and asked him why if he 348 00:23:40,555 --> 00:23:42,755 Speaker 1: wasn't eligible for the badge, he was still wearing it 349 00:23:43,195 --> 00:23:45,875 Speaker 1: as a congressman, He said, go ask the army. So 350 00:23:45,955 --> 00:23:51,115 Speaker 1: a group called not us or notice NTUS did the 351 00:23:51,275 --> 00:23:53,315 Speaker 1: Army got back to them and said no, Nells can't 352 00:23:53,435 --> 00:23:56,235 Speaker 1: keep it, can't wear it, and nobody in the military 353 00:23:56,315 --> 00:23:59,435 Speaker 1: was entitled to give him a pass on the military medal. 354 00:23:59,435 --> 00:24:04,555 Speaker 1: He is still weddering even though it isn't justified. Nells says, 355 00:24:05,115 --> 00:24:09,075 Speaker 1: this is the establishment going to any lengths to get him. 356 00:24:09,515 --> 00:24:12,875 Speaker 1: He did not use the word woke. I'm totally disappointed 357 00:24:13,155 --> 00:24:20,035 Speaker 1: the runner up worser Vivic Ramaswami. There are some stupid people. 358 00:24:20,235 --> 00:24:24,515 Speaker 1: There is the Dunning Kruger effect. Then there is Viviq Ramaswami, 359 00:24:24,515 --> 00:24:28,955 Speaker 1: another potential author of Vivic's Ramaswami's autobiographical history of the World, 360 00:24:30,115 --> 00:24:32,515 Speaker 1: unless Trump writes a book by that title first, or 361 00:24:32,515 --> 00:24:35,875 Speaker 1: has it written for him first. This accidental rich guy 362 00:24:35,915 --> 00:24:38,595 Speaker 1: who thinks he is the smartest person in history is 363 00:24:38,635 --> 00:24:43,235 Speaker 1: actually clueless. He seems to be publicly celebrating the Julian 364 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:47,195 Speaker 1: Assange plea deal, but he criticizes the president for making 365 00:24:47,235 --> 00:24:50,195 Speaker 1: that plea deal, and he knows nothing about the history 366 00:24:50,235 --> 00:24:53,355 Speaker 1: of the prosecution of Essanje I mean just the last 367 00:24:53,395 --> 00:24:57,075 Speaker 1: five years of it. Rama l Lama ding Dong writes, 368 00:24:57,635 --> 00:25:00,275 Speaker 1: it's great that Julian Assange will finally be released in 369 00:25:00,355 --> 00:25:03,235 Speaker 1: what smells like a desperate Biden gunmit for Libertarian votes. 370 00:25:03,915 --> 00:25:06,475 Speaker 1: But it's shamed that he had to spend years rotting 371 00:25:06,555 --> 00:25:10,315 Speaker 1: in a foreign prison for doing what other reporters do regularly, 372 00:25:10,795 --> 00:25:13,835 Speaker 1: while the government employee who leaked to him, Chelsea Manning, 373 00:25:13,875 --> 00:25:17,675 Speaker 1: had her sentence commuted by Obama because she's a member 374 00:25:17,715 --> 00:25:22,435 Speaker 1: of a favored political class. Transgender Julian Assange deserves a 375 00:25:22,435 --> 00:25:26,275 Speaker 1: pardon and its long past overdue to restore one standard 376 00:25:26,315 --> 00:25:30,275 Speaker 1: of law again in America. He writes like he talks 377 00:25:30,795 --> 00:25:36,715 Speaker 1: without punctuation or intelligence cool. Assange was indicted on May 378 00:25:36,755 --> 00:25:39,955 Speaker 1: twenty third, twenty nineteen, by the Department of Justice, and 379 00:25:40,035 --> 00:25:46,155 Speaker 1: the Attorney General was Bill Barr. The president was elderly 380 00:25:46,235 --> 00:25:50,675 Speaker 1: first offender Trump. Not only did Trump indict Assange, but 381 00:25:50,795 --> 00:25:53,915 Speaker 1: this was a superseding indictment. Meeting Trump and Barr and 382 00:25:53,955 --> 00:25:58,835 Speaker 1: their DOJ decided the previous indictments of Massage were not 383 00:25:58,915 --> 00:26:01,995 Speaker 1: strong enough, so they threw them out and indicted him 384 00:26:02,035 --> 00:26:06,155 Speaker 1: some more so. Naturally. Ram Swami thinks it's all Biden's fault, 385 00:26:06,955 --> 00:26:10,235 Speaker 1: but our winner. Same hubris. That is the theme today, 386 00:26:10,555 --> 00:26:16,315 Speaker 1: same stupidity, different topic. Andrew Bailey another ex military guy 387 00:26:16,355 --> 00:26:19,835 Speaker 1: who somehow became Attorney General of Missouri. You may recall 388 00:26:19,915 --> 00:26:23,915 Speaker 1: that when they were talking about a ballot initiative of 389 00:26:23,995 --> 00:26:28,595 Speaker 1: abortion in his state, ban or non ban, the Missouri 390 00:26:28,715 --> 00:26:32,995 Speaker 1: Auditor's office confirmed that though like Bailey, he the auditor 391 00:26:33,435 --> 00:26:37,635 Speaker 1: opposed abortion rights in Missouri. No, it would not cost 392 00:26:37,715 --> 00:26:42,195 Speaker 1: taxpayers a dime to restore abortion rights in Missouri, and 393 00:26:42,435 --> 00:26:45,155 Speaker 1: ending abortion rights in Missouri wouldn't save them a dime. 394 00:26:45,595 --> 00:26:50,275 Speaker 1: It had no impact financially whatsoever. But Attorney General Bailey 395 00:26:50,315 --> 00:26:53,955 Speaker 1: demanded that the auditor change his finding before the ballot 396 00:26:53,995 --> 00:26:57,035 Speaker 1: initiative was voted on. He wanted him to lie and 397 00:26:57,075 --> 00:27:02,235 Speaker 1: say that restoring abortion rights would cost Missouri billions of dollars. Anyway, 398 00:27:02,275 --> 00:27:05,955 Speaker 1: He's one of those guys. Liar cheat more once used 399 00:27:05,995 --> 00:27:09,315 Speaker 1: Little Jimmy O'Keeffe videos as evidence for something, and now 400 00:27:09,355 --> 00:27:12,955 Speaker 1: he's back having Missouri sue the state of New York 401 00:27:13,435 --> 00:27:17,515 Speaker 1: over the Trump convictions. You know that Trump felony convictions 402 00:27:17,555 --> 00:27:21,835 Speaker 1: that make Trump a convicted felon. Bailey joined the Newsmax 403 00:27:21,955 --> 00:27:26,995 Speaker 1: Joseph Goebel's memorial channel to explain this nuisance and or 404 00:27:27,115 --> 00:27:32,875 Speaker 1: his PTSD from his service in Iraq suit quote. Look, 405 00:27:32,955 --> 00:27:35,475 Speaker 1: no one would have tolerated it if in eighteen sixty 406 00:27:35,715 --> 00:27:39,275 Speaker 1: a rogue da in South Carolina had prosecuted Lincoln for 407 00:27:39,355 --> 00:27:42,395 Speaker 1: speaking out on abolition issues and taken him off the 408 00:27:42,395 --> 00:27:47,995 Speaker 1: campaign trail. At some point we substituted the phrase I 409 00:27:48,235 --> 00:27:51,835 Speaker 1: was in the military once, for I have the barest 410 00:27:51,875 --> 00:27:55,795 Speaker 1: minimum education and experience required to serve in any form 411 00:27:55,835 --> 00:27:59,595 Speaker 1: of government anywhere in this country. Attorney General Bailey does 412 00:27:59,635 --> 00:28:03,395 Speaker 1: not know that in eighteen sixty Lincoln was not on 413 00:28:03,435 --> 00:28:06,595 Speaker 1: the ballot in South Carolina because he was viewed as 414 00:28:06,635 --> 00:28:10,555 Speaker 1: an abolitionist. And he wasn't on the ballot in Mississippi, 415 00:28:11,195 --> 00:28:15,995 Speaker 1: And he wasn't on the ballot in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tacks, Arkansas, Tennessee, 416 00:28:16,075 --> 00:28:20,315 Speaker 1: and North Carolina, and most of Virginia, oh On prosecuting 417 00:28:20,315 --> 00:28:24,915 Speaker 1: Americans and American politicians for speaking out on abolition issues. 418 00:28:25,115 --> 00:28:28,195 Speaker 1: That was done in the South and in the border states, 419 00:28:28,715 --> 00:28:32,315 Speaker 1: in Ohio, in Maryland and oh By the way, what 420 00:28:32,555 --> 00:28:36,155 Speaker 1: was the Civil War if not an attempt to prosecute 421 00:28:36,235 --> 00:28:39,915 Speaker 1: Lincoln and millions of other Americans for speaking out for 422 00:28:40,195 --> 00:28:45,835 Speaker 1: abolition of slavery. Missouri Attorney General Andrew O Buddy Francis 423 00:28:45,875 --> 00:28:50,795 Speaker 1: Scott Key prosecuted abolitionists. You really should not have dropped 424 00:28:50,795 --> 00:28:55,035 Speaker 1: out in the eighth grade like that, Bailey two days 425 00:28:55,635 --> 00:29:21,035 Speaker 1: worst person the world. So finally to our number one 426 00:29:21,035 --> 00:29:24,195 Speaker 1: story on the countdown on my favorite topic, Me and 427 00:29:24,315 --> 00:29:27,595 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell, although truth be told, 428 00:29:27,675 --> 00:29:31,235 Speaker 1: I have been telling this story now for forty two years. 429 00:29:31,875 --> 00:29:36,315 Speaker 1: On Sunday, the twenty fourth of August nineteen eighty, I 430 00:29:36,475 --> 00:29:39,795 Speaker 1: learned what Mom meant when she had said, never run 431 00:29:39,835 --> 00:29:42,715 Speaker 1: for a train. There will always be another one. Because 432 00:29:42,755 --> 00:29:45,675 Speaker 1: I didn't know what it meant, I nearly killed myself. 433 00:29:45,795 --> 00:29:48,995 Speaker 1: I permanently altered my health, and I put myself on 434 00:29:49,035 --> 00:29:52,795 Speaker 1: a path towards meeting the great doctor Renee Richards. I 435 00:29:52,915 --> 00:29:55,475 Speaker 1: was sleeping late in my relatively new and tiny studio 436 00:29:55,555 --> 00:29:58,475 Speaker 1: apartment on fifty fifth Street in Manhattan, Apartment ten F, 437 00:29:59,355 --> 00:30:02,995 Speaker 1: when above me, eleven F started making noise like pounding 438 00:30:03,075 --> 00:30:06,235 Speaker 1: on the floor. And now it's a thirty Sunday morning, 439 00:30:06,275 --> 00:30:08,115 Speaker 1: and I'm awake, and I'm not doing my job as 440 00:30:08,155 --> 00:30:11,355 Speaker 1: a radio sportscaster until about two, and I think, well, 441 00:30:11,435 --> 00:30:14,395 Speaker 1: I'm up. Oh, the Dodgers are playing the Mets at Shay, 442 00:30:14,435 --> 00:30:16,835 Speaker 1: I can go to my other job as a semi 443 00:30:16,835 --> 00:30:19,915 Speaker 1: professional photographer and go shoot the Dodgers and still make 444 00:30:19,915 --> 00:30:22,835 Speaker 1: it to work on time. So I packed my semi 445 00:30:22,875 --> 00:30:27,195 Speaker 1: professional emphasis on the semi photographer's bag and drag myself 446 00:30:27,235 --> 00:30:29,195 Speaker 1: out on the subway and get to Share stadium around 447 00:30:29,235 --> 00:30:34,115 Speaker 1: eleven thirty am. And there's nobody there, No Dodgers players, 448 00:30:34,155 --> 00:30:37,515 Speaker 1: no Mets players, nobody but the grounds keepers. And as 449 00:30:37,555 --> 00:30:40,035 Speaker 1: the minutes pass, I'm beginning to calculate when I have 450 00:30:40,075 --> 00:30:42,755 Speaker 1: to leave in order to not be late to my 451 00:30:42,915 --> 00:30:47,315 Speaker 1: job back in Manhattan. Weekend life in New York City 452 00:30:47,355 --> 00:30:49,995 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty might as well have been nineteen ten. 453 00:30:50,155 --> 00:30:52,555 Speaker 1: I tell people this. They do not believe me. But 454 00:30:52,595 --> 00:30:55,835 Speaker 1: when I worked weekends the next year in Times Square, 455 00:30:56,515 --> 00:30:59,835 Speaker 1: I used to call into my newsroom from a payphone 456 00:30:59,915 --> 00:31:03,635 Speaker 1: on Fifth Avenue and say, Okay, I'm going to Rby's today. 457 00:31:03,635 --> 00:31:06,715 Speaker 1: Who wants what? Or McDonald's or Burger King or wherever. 458 00:31:06,955 --> 00:31:10,155 Speaker 1: Because our office was in Times Square and on weekends 459 00:31:10,635 --> 00:31:15,315 Speaker 1: there were no restaurants open in Times Square. You could 460 00:31:15,315 --> 00:31:19,595 Speaker 1: not get food in Times Square on weekends. Today, the 461 00:31:19,635 --> 00:31:23,715 Speaker 1: same four square block area probably has fifty restaurants and 462 00:31:23,795 --> 00:31:27,355 Speaker 1: fast food places. So the train back to Manhattan from 463 00:31:27,355 --> 00:31:30,435 Speaker 1: Shae Stadium in Queens ran once every half an hour 464 00:31:30,755 --> 00:31:33,035 Speaker 1: on that Sunday in August of nineteen eighty. And as 465 00:31:33,075 --> 00:31:34,755 Speaker 1: I looked at my watch, I realized I should have 466 00:31:34,835 --> 00:31:36,995 Speaker 1: left the field three or four minutes ago. If you 467 00:31:37,035 --> 00:31:40,395 Speaker 1: went out the press entrance and exit at Shaye Stadium, 468 00:31:40,875 --> 00:31:45,195 Speaker 1: you could see the train approaching the elevated station out 469 00:31:45,195 --> 00:31:47,955 Speaker 1: behind right field. And if you had just seen it, 470 00:31:47,995 --> 00:31:50,435 Speaker 1: if it had just become visible, and if you then 471 00:31:50,675 --> 00:31:54,155 Speaker 1: ran your fastest, you could make it to the viaduct 472 00:31:54,555 --> 00:31:56,915 Speaker 1: that crossed the parking lot and led you up towards 473 00:31:56,995 --> 00:31:59,355 Speaker 1: the station platform. And if you could get your subway 474 00:31:59,395 --> 00:32:02,075 Speaker 1: token out and into the turnstile slot with one fluid 475 00:32:02,115 --> 00:32:04,635 Speaker 1: overhead motion, and if you kept running all the time, 476 00:32:04,915 --> 00:32:09,795 Speaker 1: you could just make the train. If you didn't, you 477 00:32:09,835 --> 00:32:13,555 Speaker 1: would be waiting half an hour, unless maybe the next 478 00:32:13,595 --> 00:32:19,235 Speaker 1: train was late or on fire somewhere. Sure Enough, as 479 00:32:19,275 --> 00:32:21,035 Speaker 1: I got out of the ballpark, I could see the 480 00:32:21,035 --> 00:32:23,955 Speaker 1: Manhattan bound train just appearing at the horizon. I was 481 00:32:23,995 --> 00:32:28,595 Speaker 1: twenty one. My knees still worked, and I ran and 482 00:32:28,635 --> 00:32:30,515 Speaker 1: I got into the viaduct, and I got the token 483 00:32:30,515 --> 00:32:32,555 Speaker 1: out of my pocket, and I got into the slot 484 00:32:32,675 --> 00:32:36,275 Speaker 1: like Daryl Dawkins doing a tomahawk slam. And I not 485 00:32:36,315 --> 00:32:38,635 Speaker 1: only made the train, but I made it by so 486 00:32:38,875 --> 00:32:43,155 Speaker 1: much that I styled, I celebrated, I congratulated myself. I 487 00:32:43,235 --> 00:32:48,995 Speaker 1: was guilty of premature jocularity. I could have just slowed 488 00:32:49,035 --> 00:32:53,275 Speaker 1: to a triumphant jog and gotten a seat, huffing and sweaty, 489 00:32:53,355 --> 00:32:56,275 Speaker 1: but eminently satisfied and on time for work. But no, 490 00:32:57,275 --> 00:33:03,195 Speaker 1: I decided to make an exultant, joyful leap. The next 491 00:33:03,235 --> 00:33:06,435 Speaker 1: thing I registered was the loudest sound I had ever 492 00:33:06,675 --> 00:33:11,315 Speaker 1: or have since ever heard, as if six hundred gongs 493 00:33:11,355 --> 00:33:14,755 Speaker 1: had gone off simultaneously, or a dozen church bells, or 494 00:33:14,835 --> 00:33:17,955 Speaker 1: every alarm clock that had ever awakened me from the 495 00:33:18,035 --> 00:33:23,195 Speaker 1: deepest of sleeps. Something like this, but inside your head, barm. 496 00:33:26,075 --> 00:33:28,435 Speaker 1: When it happened was forgetting that I was no longer 497 00:33:28,475 --> 00:33:31,155 Speaker 1: six feet tall as I had been even two years before, 498 00:33:31,195 --> 00:33:33,755 Speaker 1: but was now just under six ' four. My leap 499 00:33:33,835 --> 00:33:37,235 Speaker 1: had ended with me slamming my forehead on the flat 500 00:33:37,275 --> 00:33:41,075 Speaker 1: metal bar just above the train doorway an inch higher, 501 00:33:41,075 --> 00:33:45,195 Speaker 1: I might have blinded myself. The bar an inch above 502 00:33:45,275 --> 00:33:47,955 Speaker 1: the doorway is, in fact, as I found out later, 503 00:33:48,035 --> 00:33:50,715 Speaker 1: the thickest piece of metal on a New York City 504 00:33:50,755 --> 00:33:55,115 Speaker 1: subway train. As it was, my momentum carried me safely 505 00:33:55,195 --> 00:33:57,555 Speaker 1: into the train. I hit the floor. I saw my 506 00:33:57,595 --> 00:34:00,995 Speaker 1: sunglasses go flying off and rattling down towards the back 507 00:34:01,035 --> 00:34:03,835 Speaker 1: of the train like a plastic rat. I heard the 508 00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:06,635 Speaker 1: train doors cl I felt the blood on my head 509 00:34:06,635 --> 00:34:08,475 Speaker 1: and in my hair, and I crawled up onto the 510 00:34:08,515 --> 00:34:12,995 Speaker 1: plastic bench seating behind me. The mass gong sound continued 511 00:34:12,995 --> 00:34:15,715 Speaker 1: in my head, and my first cogent thought was to 512 00:34:15,715 --> 00:34:19,235 Speaker 1: see the blood on the train floor and think, Oh, 513 00:34:19,515 --> 00:34:22,755 Speaker 1: I have spilled blood all over their train, and I 514 00:34:22,835 --> 00:34:27,675 Speaker 1: don't have anything to clean it up with. Similar nonsense 515 00:34:27,715 --> 00:34:32,275 Speaker 1: continued to bounce around my concussed size eight noggin for seconds, 516 00:34:32,315 --> 00:34:34,915 Speaker 1: maybe minutes. It was beginning to really hurt, and of 517 00:34:34,955 --> 00:34:38,755 Speaker 1: more practical import the bleeding had not really stopped. At 518 00:34:38,755 --> 00:34:41,355 Speaker 1: this point. An older woman sitting more or less across 519 00:34:41,355 --> 00:34:44,675 Speaker 1: from me handed me a small packet. It was a 520 00:34:44,715 --> 00:34:48,635 Speaker 1: wet wipe. I mumbled thanks, opened it, dabbed it on 521 00:34:48,675 --> 00:34:51,075 Speaker 1: my forehead for a second, and was surprised to find 522 00:34:51,115 --> 00:34:54,955 Speaker 1: it instantly inundated with blood. This was the first time 523 00:34:54,955 --> 00:34:56,755 Speaker 1: it occurred to me that I might be in real 524 00:34:56,835 --> 00:34:59,315 Speaker 1: trouble on the Number seven local train to Grand Central 525 00:34:59,315 --> 00:35:03,275 Speaker 1: and Times Square. Apparently this thought occurred simultaneously to the 526 00:35:03,315 --> 00:35:06,035 Speaker 1: woman with the wet wipes and to her friend, I 527 00:35:06,075 --> 00:35:08,155 Speaker 1: think you're kind of hurt. One of them said to me, 528 00:35:08,395 --> 00:35:10,755 Speaker 1: let's get you to the hospital. There's one a couple 529 00:35:10,835 --> 00:35:15,795 Speaker 1: blocks from the next stop. Now understand this situation. The 530 00:35:15,835 --> 00:35:18,635 Speaker 1: New York of nineteen eighty, and particularly the subways of 531 00:35:18,715 --> 00:35:23,355 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty were not nice places. Two years later, I 532 00:35:23,355 --> 00:35:25,395 Speaker 1: took a rush hour train to my job at CNN 533 00:35:25,395 --> 00:35:27,955 Speaker 1: at the World Trade Center and was annoyed to find 534 00:35:27,995 --> 00:35:30,795 Speaker 1: one guy who had sprawled himself over three seats with 535 00:35:30,835 --> 00:35:34,155 Speaker 1: a newspaper covering his face. Nine hours later, when I 536 00:35:34,195 --> 00:35:37,035 Speaker 1: went home, I got onto a train and saw the 537 00:35:37,075 --> 00:35:40,755 Speaker 1: same guy with the same newspaper on the same seats, 538 00:35:41,075 --> 00:35:43,395 Speaker 1: because it was the same train, and more importantly, because 539 00:35:43,395 --> 00:35:48,555 Speaker 1: he was dead. Anyway, it was now around twelve forty 540 00:35:48,555 --> 00:35:51,115 Speaker 1: five of a Sunday afternoon. If it had been night, 541 00:35:51,235 --> 00:35:53,395 Speaker 1: or indeed certain other times of the day or on 542 00:35:53,435 --> 00:35:55,675 Speaker 1: other train lines, I would have simply been the easiest 543 00:35:55,755 --> 00:35:58,595 Speaker 1: mugging victim in New York history. Somebody could have knocked 544 00:35:58,595 --> 00:36:01,555 Speaker 1: me over and taken my wallet with next to no effort. Hell, 545 00:36:01,915 --> 00:36:03,675 Speaker 1: they could have asked me for my wallet, and I 546 00:36:03,755 --> 00:36:05,755 Speaker 1: was so dazed I probably I would have said, sure, 547 00:36:06,435 --> 00:36:10,555 Speaker 1: have a nice day, got any wet wipes? Instead, I 548 00:36:10,635 --> 00:36:13,555 Speaker 1: met not one, but two good Samaritans who knew where 549 00:36:13,595 --> 00:36:16,155 Speaker 1: the hospitals were in a part of town I could 550 00:36:16,155 --> 00:36:20,515 Speaker 1: barely find on a map. Sure enough, they helped me 551 00:36:20,555 --> 00:36:22,635 Speaker 1: to my feet, walked me down the steps and to 552 00:36:22,715 --> 00:36:26,595 Speaker 1: the two blocks or so that separated us from Elmhurst Hospital, 553 00:36:26,955 --> 00:36:29,195 Speaker 1: And when I reassured them I was clear headed enough 554 00:36:29,195 --> 00:36:32,115 Speaker 1: to get into the emergency room by myself, they wished 555 00:36:32,115 --> 00:36:34,635 Speaker 1: me luck, and they would not even accept my offer 556 00:36:34,715 --> 00:36:38,035 Speaker 1: of two tokens to get them back on the subway. 557 00:36:38,315 --> 00:36:41,075 Speaker 1: There should be a monument to these two women somewhere. 558 00:36:42,875 --> 00:36:45,835 Speaker 1: If the New York City subways of nineteen eighty were scary, 559 00:36:45,915 --> 00:36:48,875 Speaker 1: the emergency rooms of its hospitals were something out of 560 00:36:48,875 --> 00:36:51,875 Speaker 1: a Brian de Palma film. I think there were a 561 00:36:51,875 --> 00:36:54,515 Speaker 1: couple of dozen people in the er. I remember one 562 00:36:54,515 --> 00:36:56,475 Speaker 1: of them asking me how I got so bloody and 563 00:36:56,515 --> 00:36:58,875 Speaker 1: I explained, and he said you should go ahead of me, 564 00:36:59,435 --> 00:37:02,355 Speaker 1: and he opened his windbreaker to show a blood covered shirt, 565 00:37:02,395 --> 00:37:06,955 Speaker 1: and he added the bullet. Only I know. I waited 566 00:37:06,995 --> 00:37:11,035 Speaker 1: about two hours. During that time I had a singular 567 00:37:11,075 --> 00:37:15,275 Speaker 1: experience which has informed my understanding of concussions and traumatic 568 00:37:15,315 --> 00:37:19,475 Speaker 1: brain injury ever since. The desk nurse asked me for 569 00:37:19,515 --> 00:37:21,915 Speaker 1: the name of a contact, preferably a family member. I 570 00:37:21,955 --> 00:37:24,835 Speaker 1: gave my father's name, Theodore. Then she asked me for 571 00:37:24,915 --> 00:37:26,675 Speaker 1: my full name, and when I went to say it, 572 00:37:27,675 --> 00:37:31,675 Speaker 1: I could not remember my middle name. Could not remember 573 00:37:31,715 --> 00:37:35,875 Speaker 1: my middle name Keith, I got Olderman, I got that 574 00:37:36,035 --> 00:37:40,955 Speaker 1: was it. My middle name is also Theodore. I could 575 00:37:40,995 --> 00:37:47,355 Speaker 1: remember Theodore my dad, but not Theodore my middle name. 576 00:37:48,275 --> 00:37:52,115 Speaker 1: That is how fragile your brain really is. Think of 577 00:37:52,155 --> 00:37:54,315 Speaker 1: that the next time you see somebody get clocked in 578 00:37:54,355 --> 00:37:58,435 Speaker 1: a sporting event. There was some comic relief. I called 579 00:37:58,475 --> 00:38:01,755 Speaker 1: into my office at United Press International's Audio network and 580 00:38:01,795 --> 00:38:04,395 Speaker 1: explained to the news editor a veteran named Ed Kern's 581 00:38:04,395 --> 00:38:06,875 Speaker 1: the most dapperman in radio history, who looked like the 582 00:38:06,875 --> 00:38:10,155 Speaker 1: actor Ray Collins from Citizen Kane. I told Ed I 583 00:38:10,195 --> 00:38:13,995 Speaker 1: had just sort of almost you know, killed myself on 584 00:38:14,035 --> 00:38:17,235 Speaker 1: the subway coming in from Queen's, and I really didn't 585 00:38:17,275 --> 00:38:20,275 Speaker 1: know when or if I would be at work. About 586 00:38:20,315 --> 00:38:23,195 Speaker 1: forty five minutes after that conversation, the desk nurse started 587 00:38:23,195 --> 00:38:25,115 Speaker 1: shouting my name, and I thought, Okay, I'm finally going 588 00:38:25,155 --> 00:38:27,555 Speaker 1: to be brought in to see a doctor. No, it 589 00:38:27,595 --> 00:38:31,355 Speaker 1: was Ed Caron's calling from UPI. My bosses were all 590 00:38:31,515 --> 00:38:33,875 Speaker 1: very sorry that I was wounded, he said, but there 591 00:38:33,915 --> 00:38:36,035 Speaker 1: was nobody available to fill in for me. So when 592 00:38:36,035 --> 00:38:39,195 Speaker 1: could they expect me to be in the office, I explained, 593 00:38:39,235 --> 00:38:42,355 Speaker 1: I did not know that since I was technically still 594 00:38:42,395 --> 00:38:46,715 Speaker 1: bleeding to death. Forty five minutes more passed, and again 595 00:38:46,755 --> 00:38:48,795 Speaker 1: the nurse summoned me and said there was a phone call, 596 00:38:48,835 --> 00:38:50,355 Speaker 1: and this time I was sure it was my dad, 597 00:38:51,155 --> 00:38:54,595 Speaker 1: Keith ed Karin's again at UPI. He explained that my 598 00:38:54,715 --> 00:38:56,955 Speaker 1: boss now said that they would bring in the guy 599 00:38:57,075 --> 00:38:59,555 Speaker 1: who was supposed to do the next morning sports cast, 600 00:39:00,195 --> 00:39:03,755 Speaker 1: my college friend Peter shack Now, but they expected me 601 00:39:03,835 --> 00:39:05,955 Speaker 1: to do his shift starting at four point thirty in 602 00:39:05,995 --> 00:39:08,595 Speaker 1: the morning. I explained to Ed that I would try, 603 00:39:08,635 --> 00:39:11,635 Speaker 1: but that honestly I didn't know where I was or 604 00:39:11,635 --> 00:39:14,835 Speaker 1: what time it was. Now two nice ladies had mentioned 605 00:39:14,875 --> 00:39:17,075 Speaker 1: the name of the hospital, but I really wasn't remembering 606 00:39:17,075 --> 00:39:22,635 Speaker 1: too well. Plus I was still bleeding to death. Needless 607 00:39:22,635 --> 00:39:24,675 Speaker 1: to say, I did not bleed to death. I survived. 608 00:39:24,675 --> 00:39:26,515 Speaker 1: It was a severe concussion, but it only took a 609 00:39:26,555 --> 00:39:28,555 Speaker 1: stitch and a half to actually close that wound. And 610 00:39:28,555 --> 00:39:31,315 Speaker 1: the er doctor and the nurses were outstanding, and they 611 00:39:31,315 --> 00:39:34,675 Speaker 1: gave me easy to remember instructions, plus a note indicating 612 00:39:34,715 --> 00:39:36,795 Speaker 1: that I should rest for at least forty eight hours 613 00:39:37,275 --> 00:39:40,115 Speaker 1: just in case Ed Karins showed up at my apartment. 614 00:39:41,995 --> 00:39:45,355 Speaker 1: No offense to Ed. They told me what symptoms to expect, 615 00:39:45,355 --> 00:39:47,555 Speaker 1: how to prepare for them, and when they would stop. 616 00:39:47,675 --> 00:39:50,235 Speaker 1: And they stopped like one day earlier. It was a 617 00:39:50,235 --> 00:39:54,875 Speaker 1: potential disaster that turned into a nothing burger, or so 618 00:39:55,315 --> 00:39:58,475 Speaker 1: I thought. Two years later, I was at the original 619 00:39:58,555 --> 00:40:02,115 Speaker 1: Louis Armstrong Stadium covering the nineteen eighty two US Tennis open, 620 00:40:02,795 --> 00:40:06,155 Speaker 1: on the other side of the same elevated subway station 621 00:40:06,235 --> 00:40:10,555 Speaker 1: where I had run into the train going there always 622 00:40:10,555 --> 00:40:14,475 Speaker 1: actually made me laugh. Until the afternoon of Saturday, September eleventh, 623 00:40:14,515 --> 00:40:17,395 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two. I was watching the Women's final, covering 624 00:40:17,475 --> 00:40:20,435 Speaker 1: it for CNN Chris Everett over Hannah man Lakova, and 625 00:40:20,595 --> 00:40:23,195 Speaker 1: swinging my head from side to side, as one does 626 00:40:23,235 --> 00:40:26,955 Speaker 1: to follow the tennis action from over here, two over there, 627 00:40:27,395 --> 00:40:31,235 Speaker 1: two over here, two over there, as I had swung 628 00:40:31,275 --> 00:40:33,635 Speaker 1: my head from side to side for the preceding twelve 629 00:40:33,715 --> 00:40:36,835 Speaker 1: days of the tournament. Then I swung to the right, 630 00:40:36,915 --> 00:40:40,075 Speaker 1: but my left eye kept looking to the left. The 631 00:40:40,155 --> 00:40:46,435 Speaker 1: old Marty Feldman thing reversed crossed eyes that hurt worse 632 00:40:46,595 --> 00:40:50,595 Speaker 1: than hitting the train had. I could barely stand any light. 633 00:40:50,955 --> 00:40:52,955 Speaker 1: I often had to keep my hand in front of 634 00:40:52,955 --> 00:40:55,715 Speaker 1: my eyes. I rushed to my optometris Monday morning and 635 00:40:55,755 --> 00:40:58,235 Speaker 1: he started to laugh. This happened to you during the 636 00:40:58,355 --> 00:41:01,315 Speaker 1: US Open. I said, yes, Why are you laughing at me? 637 00:41:01,835 --> 00:41:03,835 Speaker 1: He said, I'm going to send you to the best 638 00:41:03,915 --> 00:41:07,235 Speaker 1: muscle optimist I've ever met. I said, so, why are 639 00:41:07,275 --> 00:41:09,275 Speaker 1: you laughing at me? He said, you don't know who 640 00:41:09,275 --> 00:41:12,195 Speaker 1: that is? I said, no, I let my knowledge of 641 00:41:12,235 --> 00:41:15,595 Speaker 1: the muscle ophthalmology ranking slip. Why are you laughing at me? 642 00:41:16,115 --> 00:41:18,475 Speaker 1: He said, The best muscle ophthalmologist I've ever met is 643 00:41:18,515 --> 00:41:22,675 Speaker 1: doctor Renee Richards, the transsexual tennis player. I said, I 644 00:41:22,715 --> 00:41:24,995 Speaker 1: don't care who you're sending me to. I'm in trouble here. 645 00:41:25,035 --> 00:41:26,715 Speaker 1: If they can fix this, I don't care who you're 646 00:41:26,715 --> 00:41:29,875 Speaker 1: sending me. My train accident was so far in my 647 00:41:30,035 --> 00:41:32,435 Speaker 1: past that when I got in to see doctor Richards 648 00:41:32,435 --> 00:41:34,875 Speaker 1: the next morning, I didn't even think to mention it 649 00:41:34,995 --> 00:41:38,515 Speaker 1: in my patient history. Didn't matter. Thirty seconds of staring 650 00:41:38,555 --> 00:41:42,475 Speaker 1: into my eyes through a wall sized feropter and Renee 651 00:41:42,555 --> 00:41:45,555 Speaker 1: Richards said, when exactly did you hit your head August 652 00:41:45,995 --> 00:41:50,795 Speaker 1: or September of nineteen eighty. I was stunned. Uh, I 653 00:41:50,835 --> 00:41:54,275 Speaker 1: did hit my head in nineteen eighty August twenty fourth. 654 00:41:55,075 --> 00:41:58,035 Speaker 1: She made a clicking noise of satisfaction. I've heard of 655 00:41:58,035 --> 00:42:00,475 Speaker 1: this before, but I've never seen it. You couldn't do 656 00:42:00,555 --> 00:42:03,355 Speaker 1: this again in a million years. The good news is 657 00:42:03,395 --> 00:42:06,835 Speaker 1: that muscle problem with the eyes, that's just muscle exhaustion. 658 00:42:06,955 --> 00:42:08,795 Speaker 1: We can fix that with a thing that costs to 659 00:42:08,835 --> 00:42:10,955 Speaker 1: buck ninety eight. The bad news is when you hit 660 00:42:10,955 --> 00:42:13,755 Speaker 1: your head, most of the damage must have been absorbed 661 00:42:13,755 --> 00:42:15,875 Speaker 1: by your inner ear. If you want to fix that, 662 00:42:16,035 --> 00:42:21,435 Speaker 1: you'll need brain surgery. I don't recommend brain surgery. Doctor 663 00:42:21,435 --> 00:42:24,635 Speaker 1: Renee Richards showed me the muscle exercises that cost a 664 00:42:24,675 --> 00:42:27,755 Speaker 1: dollar ninety eight that fixed my reverse cross eyes. They 665 00:42:27,795 --> 00:42:31,315 Speaker 1: felt better immediately. I still do the exercises I did 666 00:42:31,355 --> 00:42:35,995 Speaker 1: them earlier today. Then Renee Richards said, so you're a 667 00:42:36,235 --> 00:42:39,515 Speaker 1: sports reporter. It says here, listen, my next patient isn't 668 00:42:39,595 --> 00:42:42,195 Speaker 1: due for half an hour. You should rest anyway after 669 00:42:42,275 --> 00:42:48,635 Speaker 1: my exam. Let's talk about sports reporting. Renee Richards was 670 00:42:48,635 --> 00:42:52,595 Speaker 1: an expert. Her transition had been outed by a sportscaster, 671 00:42:53,915 --> 00:42:58,355 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson's father. If you can believe that, I can 672 00:42:58,395 --> 00:43:01,995 Speaker 1: believe it because she had been a man when she 673 00:43:02,075 --> 00:43:04,355 Speaker 1: played in the US Open. As a woman, she had 674 00:43:04,395 --> 00:43:08,835 Speaker 1: become almost instantaneously the most famous tennis player in the world. 675 00:43:09,715 --> 00:43:14,995 Speaker 1: Then she became Martina Navratulova's coach. I learned more from 676 00:43:15,195 --> 00:43:18,035 Speaker 1: her in that first half hour of conversation about the 677 00:43:18,075 --> 00:43:21,195 Speaker 1: ethics of reporting than I had in all of my 678 00:43:21,355 --> 00:43:27,395 Speaker 1: previous life experiences combined. Plus she was a gas. Renee 679 00:43:27,435 --> 00:43:29,955 Speaker 1: Richards was hilarious, she was self effacing, She was a 680 00:43:29,995 --> 00:43:32,755 Speaker 1: great doctor, and to me, she was the definition of courage. 681 00:43:32,755 --> 00:43:35,555 Speaker 1: And she, I am proud to say, is still my friend. 682 00:43:37,315 --> 00:43:40,315 Speaker 1: All because I did not know what Mom meant when 683 00:43:40,355 --> 00:43:42,715 Speaker 1: she said, don't run for a train, There'll always be 684 00:43:42,755 --> 00:43:45,835 Speaker 1: another one. The other phrase I never really understood till 685 00:43:45,835 --> 00:43:51,115 Speaker 1: then was breakneck speed. Oh, when there is one more 686 00:43:51,155 --> 00:43:54,155 Speaker 1: punchline here. If the name of that hospital that the 687 00:43:54,195 --> 00:43:58,275 Speaker 1: two good Samaritans took me to, Elmhurst Hospital sounds vaguely familiar, 688 00:43:58,355 --> 00:44:01,995 Speaker 1: it should. It was ground zero when COVID nineteen hit, 689 00:44:02,475 --> 00:44:05,315 Speaker 1: when the pandemic had its hand around New York City's throat. 690 00:44:05,795 --> 00:44:09,035 Speaker 1: The worst hit community was Elmhurst in Queen's and the 691 00:44:09,075 --> 00:44:13,515 Speaker 1: worst hit hospital was Elmhurst Hospital. They were in desperate 692 00:44:13,595 --> 00:44:16,235 Speaker 1: need at that point of ventilators, so I knew what 693 00:44:16,275 --> 00:44:19,675 Speaker 1: I had to do. You could buy them for cash legally, 694 00:44:20,435 --> 00:44:24,235 Speaker 1: so I got two ventilators. I had them delivered, one 695 00:44:24,315 --> 00:44:26,595 Speaker 1: for each of the ladies who helped me to get 696 00:44:26,635 --> 00:44:42,115 Speaker 1: off the damn train that day. And by the way, 697 00:44:42,115 --> 00:44:45,675 Speaker 1: that also hurt for like three weeks. I've done all 698 00:44:45,675 --> 00:44:47,915 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown. 699 00:44:47,995 --> 00:44:51,195 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Rain, John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced and 700 00:44:51,235 --> 00:44:54,395 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, 701 00:44:54,395 --> 00:44:57,355 Speaker 1: bass and drums, and mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. 702 00:44:57,595 --> 00:45:00,795 Speaker 1: It was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some 703 00:45:00,835 --> 00:45:04,075 Speaker 1: of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the 704 00:45:04,075 --> 00:45:07,675 Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Olberman theme 705 00:45:07,715 --> 00:45:10,475 Speaker 1: from ESPN two. It was written by Mitch Warren Davis 706 00:45:10,755 --> 00:45:14,795 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN Inc. 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Use the 714 00:45:39,515 --> 00:45:42,875 Speaker 1: July eleventh sentencing hearing, use the mental health system, use 715 00:45:42,995 --> 00:45:47,515 Speaker 1: presidential immunity if it happens, Use the debate to stop 716 00:45:47,595 --> 00:45:55,835 Speaker 1: him from doing it again while we still can. A 717 00:45:55,915 --> 00:45:58,635 Speaker 1: reminder will be live again on YouTube after the debate 718 00:45:58,675 --> 00:46:01,595 Speaker 1: Tomorrow night. Join me should be about ten thirty Eastern 719 00:46:01,915 --> 00:46:06,275 Speaker 1: unless Trump gas out. They do it anyway. Even if 720 00:46:06,315 --> 00:46:08,755 Speaker 1: he does gack out and take your questions about him 721 00:46:08,795 --> 00:46:12,515 Speaker 1: gacking out anyway, Send your link to this edition of 722 00:46:12,555 --> 00:46:15,475 Speaker 1: the podcast to somebody who does not already listen. Thank 723 00:46:15,515 --> 00:46:18,635 Speaker 1: you for doing so. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 724 00:46:18,675 --> 00:46:21,395 Speaker 1: Bulletins is the news warrants till the next one on 725 00:46:21,475 --> 00:46:25,475 Speaker 1: Keith Oldreman, good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 726 00:46:37,235 --> 00:46:43,755 Speaker 1: Called him Joe Bride. Trump's brain is pride, he wants, 727 00:46:44,035 --> 00:46:50,475 Speaker 1: called him beud in sanity inside of Trump has duh 728 00:46:51,435 --> 00:46:59,475 Speaker 1: huh uh. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 729 00:46:59,755 --> 00:47:04,875 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, 730 00:47:05,195 --> 00:47:07,155 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.