1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Harris 2 00:00:22,435 --> 00:00:26,395 Speaker 1: has cut Trump's lead from nine points to five points 3 00:00:26,435 --> 00:00:30,795 Speaker 1: in Texas. Harris is now ahead in North Carolina by 4 00:00:30,835 --> 00:00:34,675 Speaker 1: one point. There is leaked audio of Trump pledging fealty 5 00:00:34,755 --> 00:00:38,075 Speaker 1: to the families of the January sixth Traders and hosting 6 00:00:38,115 --> 00:00:41,995 Speaker 1: an event for them, and more blatant Trump anti Semitism. 7 00:00:42,275 --> 00:00:45,555 Speaker 1: There is the RFK Junior thing. There is the increasing 8 00:00:45,595 --> 00:00:49,475 Speaker 1: evidence that Trump is at least accidentally giving up on 9 00:00:49,675 --> 00:00:53,595 Speaker 1: winning the election and instead focusing on raising the temperature 10 00:00:53,995 --> 00:00:56,995 Speaker 1: so much among his fascists that they can run a 11 00:00:57,035 --> 00:01:00,755 Speaker 1: coup from behind in the legislatures and in the House. 12 00:01:01,235 --> 00:01:04,995 Speaker 1: And none of that, at least for a few hours today, 13 00:01:05,835 --> 00:01:07,435 Speaker 1: is gonna top this. 14 00:01:08,115 --> 00:01:14,875 Speaker 2: Bellow Americans, this election is not only the most important 15 00:01:15,475 --> 00:01:20,915 Speaker 2: of our lives, it is one of the most important 16 00:01:21,315 --> 00:01:29,355 Speaker 2: in the life of our nation. In many ways, Donald 17 00:01:29,355 --> 00:01:37,155 Speaker 2: Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences, but the 18 00:01:37,195 --> 00:01:42,075 Speaker 2: consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House 19 00:01:42,115 --> 00:01:51,995 Speaker 2: are extremely serious. Consider consider not only the chaos and 20 00:01:52,075 --> 00:01:56,835 Speaker 2: calamity when he was in office, but also the gravity 21 00:01:57,315 --> 00:02:01,195 Speaker 2: of what has happened since he lost the last election, 22 00:02:02,915 --> 00:02:07,875 Speaker 2: Donald Trump tried to throw your votes. When he failed, 23 00:02:08,675 --> 00:02:12,795 Speaker 2: he sent an armed mob to the United States Capital, 24 00:02:13,235 --> 00:02:19,355 Speaker 2: where they assaulted law enforcement officers. When politicians in his 25 00:02:19,635 --> 00:02:25,835 Speaker 2: own party begged him to call off the mob and 26 00:02:26,035 --> 00:02:31,275 Speaker 2: send help, he did the opposite. He fanned the flames. 27 00:02:32,595 --> 00:02:37,875 Speaker 2: And now, for an entirely different set of crimes, he 28 00:02:38,035 --> 00:02:41,875 Speaker 2: was found guilty of fraud by a jury of everyday Americans, 29 00:02:43,195 --> 00:02:50,195 Speaker 2: and separately and separately found liable for committing sexual abuse. 30 00:02:51,875 --> 00:02:57,915 Speaker 2: And consider consider what he intends to do if we 31 00:02:57,995 --> 00:03:04,995 Speaker 2: give him power again. Consider his explicit intent to set 32 00:03:05,115 --> 00:03:11,115 Speaker 2: free violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers at 33 00:03:11,115 --> 00:03:18,915 Speaker 2: the Capitol, His explicit intent to jail journalists, political opponents, 34 00:03:19,075 --> 00:03:24,515 Speaker 2: and anyone he sees as the enemy. His explicit intent 35 00:03:25,195 --> 00:03:30,755 Speaker 2: to deploy our active duty military against our own citizens. 36 00:03:32,075 --> 00:03:40,475 Speaker 2: Consider consider the power he will have, especially after the 37 00:03:40,635 --> 00:03:44,275 Speaker 2: United States Supreme Court just ruled that he would be 38 00:03:44,355 --> 00:03:55,515 Speaker 2: immune from criminal prosecution. Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails, 39 00:03:58,075 --> 00:04:02,875 Speaker 2: and how he would use the immense powers of the 40 00:04:02,915 --> 00:04:10,115 Speaker 2: presidency of the United States, not to improve your life, 41 00:04:10,395 --> 00:04:16,395 Speaker 2: not to strengthen our national security, but to serve the 42 00:04:16,475 --> 00:04:25,555 Speaker 2: only client he has ever had himself and understand he 43 00:04:25,715 --> 00:04:30,835 Speaker 2: is not done. As a part of his agenda, he 44 00:04:30,995 --> 00:04:35,955 Speaker 2: and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban 45 00:04:36,235 --> 00:04:42,435 Speaker 2: medication abortion, and enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or 46 00:04:42,475 --> 00:04:48,955 Speaker 2: without Congress. And get this, get this, he plans to 47 00:04:49,075 --> 00:04:56,315 Speaker 2: create a national anti abortion coordinator and force states to 48 00:04:56,475 --> 00:05:05,395 Speaker 2: report on women's miscarriages and abortions. Simply put, they are 49 00:05:05,475 --> 00:05:13,355 Speaker 2: out of their minds. We must be worthy of this moment. 50 00:05:14,595 --> 00:05:20,595 Speaker 2: It is now our turn to do what generations before 51 00:05:20,795 --> 00:05:28,395 Speaker 2: us have done, guided by optimism and faith, to fight 52 00:05:28,915 --> 00:05:34,315 Speaker 2: for this country we love, to fight for the ideals 53 00:05:34,595 --> 00:05:43,595 Speaker 2: we cherish, and to uphold the awesome responsibility that comes 54 00:05:43,875 --> 00:05:51,155 Speaker 2: with the greatest privilege on earth, the privilege and pride 55 00:05:51,235 --> 00:05:52,755 Speaker 2: of being an American. 56 00:06:01,955 --> 00:06:05,995 Speaker 1: So let's get out there, Let's fight for it. 57 00:06:06,475 --> 00:06:11,395 Speaker 2: Let's get out there, let's vote for it, and together 58 00:06:12,435 --> 00:06:16,715 Speaker 2: let us write the next great chapter in the most 59 00:06:16,835 --> 00:06:20,835 Speaker 2: extraordinary story ever told. 60 00:06:21,875 --> 00:06:26,475 Speaker 1: Thank you, let's see in the bus the United. 61 00:06:26,115 --> 00:06:27,915 Speaker 2: States of America. 62 00:06:28,355 --> 00:06:52,035 Speaker 1: Thank you of the non convention news. The Texas thing 63 00:06:52,155 --> 00:06:55,475 Speaker 1: really is the most astonishing. In June, the University of 64 00:06:55,515 --> 00:06:59,795 Speaker 1: Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs had Trump beating Biden 65 00:06:59,875 --> 00:07:03,715 Speaker 1: in Texas by just under nine points. In its first 66 00:07:03,795 --> 00:07:06,835 Speaker 1: poll since the chain, it has Trump's lead in Texas 67 00:07:06,875 --> 00:07:11,955 Speaker 1: down to five points. More importantly, perhaps in June, Texas 68 00:07:11,995 --> 00:07:14,635 Speaker 1: women were backing Trump by just under a point. It 69 00:07:14,715 --> 00:07:18,275 Speaker 1: is now women by six for Harris in Texas, and 70 00:07:18,315 --> 00:07:20,755 Speaker 1: then the biggest number of them all. In June, Trump 71 00:07:20,835 --> 00:07:25,555 Speaker 1: led among Texas independents by twenty four points. The new 72 00:07:25,675 --> 00:07:31,595 Speaker 1: Hobby poll has Trump ahead of Independence by two. She 73 00:07:31,715 --> 00:07:36,315 Speaker 1: has cut his lead among Texas independents by ninety two percent. 74 00:07:37,435 --> 00:07:39,875 Speaker 1: The Harris campaign is still not invested in a full 75 00:07:39,955 --> 00:07:43,595 Speaker 1: campaign in Texas, not officially, there is reason to believe 76 00:07:43,635 --> 00:07:45,595 Speaker 1: that even if a Trump squeaker is the best to 77 00:07:45,595 --> 00:07:49,275 Speaker 1: be hoped for there, a minor investment could help down 78 00:07:49,355 --> 00:07:52,955 Speaker 1: ballot Democrats in Texas. It might even knock out Ted Cruz, 79 00:07:53,155 --> 00:07:56,595 Speaker 1: who is just two points ahead of the Democrat Colin Allred. 80 00:07:57,395 --> 00:08:00,315 Speaker 1: The North Carolina number continues to indicate that that state 81 00:08:00,715 --> 00:08:03,955 Speaker 1: has officially become a toss up Harris by one. In 82 00:08:04,075 --> 00:08:08,715 Speaker 1: Survey US, the Nate Silver model has her favored by 83 00:08:08,875 --> 00:08:13,435 Speaker 1: fifty two point seven to forty six point nine. It 84 00:08:13,475 --> 00:08:15,555 Speaker 1: predicts a two hundred and seventy seven to two hundred 85 00:08:15,595 --> 00:08:19,875 Speaker 1: and sixty Harris win in the electoral college. A Civics 86 00:08:20,035 --> 00:08:24,915 Speaker 1: poll has the newest net favorability scores. Walls is a 87 00:08:24,915 --> 00:08:31,115 Speaker 1: plus three, Harris is a minus four. Trump is minus thirteen. 88 00:08:31,795 --> 00:08:36,355 Speaker 1: Vance is minus fifteen. And now back to the question 89 00:08:36,435 --> 00:08:38,555 Speaker 1: that I raised yesterday, and I am hardly the first 90 00:08:38,555 --> 00:08:42,435 Speaker 1: who have done so, is it possible that Trump is 91 00:08:42,515 --> 00:08:49,875 Speaker 1: now deliberately or inadvertently trying to lose with method to 92 00:08:49,915 --> 00:08:54,235 Speaker 1: his madness, which I will circle back to shortly. Presumably 93 00:08:54,275 --> 00:08:57,155 Speaker 1: you have heard about his crazy rant on Fox News 94 00:08:57,235 --> 00:09:01,275 Speaker 1: yesterday where he twice refused to let even the supplicant 95 00:09:01,395 --> 00:09:05,435 Speaker 1: Fox hosts interrupt him. Presumably U I seen the video 96 00:09:05,475 --> 00:09:10,035 Speaker 1: of JV Vance failing to successfully order donuts in Georgia. 97 00:09:10,835 --> 00:09:13,675 Speaker 1: It wouldn't do it justice to play just the audio here, 98 00:09:13,755 --> 00:09:15,795 Speaker 1: Go and watch it if you have it already. It 99 00:09:15,915 --> 00:09:19,355 Speaker 1: ends with an unfortunate worker refusing to let them use 100 00:09:19,395 --> 00:09:22,395 Speaker 1: her face on the video, and then when he explains 101 00:09:22,435 --> 00:09:25,395 Speaker 1: his name is JD. Vance and he's running for vice president, 102 00:09:25,475 --> 00:09:29,235 Speaker 1: she answers okay, in a way in which the okay 103 00:09:29,595 --> 00:09:34,675 Speaker 1: comes out sounding like are you sure about that? Well, 104 00:09:34,675 --> 00:09:39,955 Speaker 1: all right, here's the audio anyway. 105 00:09:38,275 --> 00:09:43,475 Speaker 2: I'm sorry she had a ordveal film guys to just 106 00:09:43,515 --> 00:09:43,955 Speaker 2: cut her. 107 00:09:43,835 --> 00:09:44,435 Speaker 1: Out of anything. 108 00:09:44,835 --> 00:09:47,795 Speaker 2: Appreciate that man, Okadie Danser. 109 00:09:47,675 --> 00:09:52,755 Speaker 1: I watch President see it. So Vance's net favorability was 110 00:09:52,835 --> 00:09:56,355 Speaker 1: what did it say here? Minus fifteen? Did it go 111 00:09:56,435 --> 00:10:00,315 Speaker 1: to minus sixteen just from that video at the donut shop? 112 00:10:01,715 --> 00:10:05,995 Speaker 1: Have another donut? Okay? So so those are the funny parts. 113 00:10:06,155 --> 00:10:09,555 Speaker 1: Now here's the not funny part, which is, of course, 114 00:10:09,635 --> 00:10:14,635 Speaker 1: the threat by Trump to sabotage the elections. On the 115 00:10:14,675 --> 00:10:20,115 Speaker 1: same day, leaked video appears from last year showing Trump 116 00:10:20,715 --> 00:10:24,235 Speaker 1: at his golf crap shack at a gathering of families 117 00:10:24,275 --> 00:10:27,275 Speaker 1: of those convicted, in some cases convicted after plea deals 118 00:10:27,795 --> 00:10:32,435 Speaker 1: and confessions of participating in his first attempt to overthrow 119 00:10:32,475 --> 00:10:37,395 Speaker 1: the government. Hours later comes this You are invited to 120 00:10:37,555 --> 00:10:43,235 Speaker 1: the J six Awards gala. This is in gold printed 121 00:10:43,275 --> 00:10:49,875 Speaker 1: on black, Thursday, September fifth, six pm Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster, 122 00:10:50,515 --> 00:10:55,555 Speaker 1: and then it gives the address. The address is Lamington Road. 123 00:10:55,835 --> 00:10:58,315 Speaker 1: By the way, attendees will get a chance to win 124 00:10:58,395 --> 00:11:01,715 Speaker 1: a justice for all Donald J. Trump and J six 125 00:11:01,795 --> 00:11:05,275 Speaker 1: Prison Choir J six number one Music chart at plaque. 126 00:11:06,555 --> 00:11:13,275 Speaker 1: The invited guest speakers, Rudy Giuliani, Donald J. Trump and 127 00:11:13,315 --> 00:11:17,795 Speaker 1: it says invited, and Anthony Raymundi and I don't know 128 00:11:17,835 --> 00:11:22,155 Speaker 1: who Anthony is, but he couldn't afford to tie. This 129 00:11:22,235 --> 00:11:26,355 Speaker 1: is two weeks from yesterday at Bedminster. If you're there, 130 00:11:26,395 --> 00:11:28,915 Speaker 1: please don't step directly on Ivana's grave. Thank you for 131 00:11:28,955 --> 00:11:33,275 Speaker 1: your understanding. At the same time, the same day come 132 00:11:33,355 --> 00:11:37,555 Speaker 1: these videos out of nowhere from last year's Patriot Freedom 133 00:11:37,715 --> 00:11:42,035 Speaker 1: Project August twenty second of last year at Bedminster. It 134 00:11:42,195 --> 00:11:45,475 Speaker 1: is what he has said so often, this inversion of reality, 135 00:11:45,715 --> 00:11:48,235 Speaker 1: in which the scum that he sent marching into the 136 00:11:48,235 --> 00:11:52,755 Speaker 1: Capitol to kill congressmen and kill senators and kill his 137 00:11:52,795 --> 00:11:56,555 Speaker 1: own vice president and interrupt the peaceful transfer of power 138 00:11:56,915 --> 00:12:00,835 Speaker 1: are now heroes to be celebrated and pardoned. 139 00:12:01,235 --> 00:12:03,115 Speaker 2: So I just want to let you know I'm with 140 00:12:03,275 --> 00:12:06,755 Speaker 2: you to do something. You're not going to let this happen. 141 00:12:06,835 --> 00:12:09,715 Speaker 1: This is a outrageous situation. 142 00:12:09,875 --> 00:12:11,475 Speaker 2: Nobody's ever seen anything like it. 143 00:12:11,595 --> 00:12:13,555 Speaker 1: So we're going to be working with all of you, 144 00:12:13,835 --> 00:12:16,835 Speaker 1: and we're gonna first we have to get elected. We 145 00:12:17,235 --> 00:12:24,235 Speaker 1: get elected, Yes, we're. 146 00:12:24,075 --> 00:12:26,235 Speaker 2: Gonna see me a little be treated very fairly again, 147 00:12:26,275 --> 00:12:28,755 Speaker 2: because we're living in a fascist country. This is almost 148 00:12:28,835 --> 00:12:29,475 Speaker 2: like a fashion. 149 00:12:29,755 --> 00:12:32,315 Speaker 1: You're even a good word. Almost is a good word. 150 00:12:32,395 --> 00:12:34,915 Speaker 1: But this has very become a country a little bit 151 00:12:34,955 --> 00:12:36,715 Speaker 1: like you and I have never seen before. This is 152 00:12:36,755 --> 00:12:39,075 Speaker 1: not our country. And he will do it again on 153 00:12:39,115 --> 00:12:42,875 Speaker 1: September fifth, to again put front of mind to his 154 00:12:42,955 --> 00:12:49,155 Speaker 1: own cult two months before election day, the idea of 155 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:54,795 Speaker 1: having to overthrow the government by force. At the same time, 156 00:12:54,835 --> 00:12:57,955 Speaker 1: Trump is going full racism and full anti semitism, and 157 00:12:58,075 --> 00:13:00,995 Speaker 1: it is anything but difficult to imagine that he is 158 00:13:01,115 --> 00:13:04,315 Speaker 1: ready to cross the streams here, as it were, to 159 00:13:04,475 --> 00:13:08,555 Speaker 1: insist if the current political trends continue and Harris's three 160 00:13:08,635 --> 00:13:11,995 Speaker 1: to four point national lead expands still further, and if 161 00:13:12,035 --> 00:13:15,355 Speaker 1: more and more swing states and independent voters reject Trump, 162 00:13:15,995 --> 00:13:19,755 Speaker 1: to insist that his gangs and his militias be ready 163 00:13:19,795 --> 00:13:22,955 Speaker 1: to take over the country by force or by legislative 164 00:13:22,995 --> 00:13:28,195 Speaker 1: deceit because the last piece of the puzzle, it's the 165 00:13:28,315 --> 00:13:33,835 Speaker 1: minorities who have rigged the election against him and them 166 00:13:34,675 --> 00:13:38,075 Speaker 1: that is the final inflection point. And who knows what 167 00:13:38,275 --> 00:13:43,675 Speaker 1: large percentage of his cultists are already there. There is 168 00:13:43,715 --> 00:13:47,395 Speaker 1: no question he would turn to it. Hitler turned to 169 00:13:47,435 --> 00:13:51,715 Speaker 1: it desperate despots in countless nations have turned to it, 170 00:13:52,195 --> 00:13:55,955 Speaker 1: and to violence, and to ethnic cleansing, and to nightmares untold, 171 00:13:55,995 --> 00:13:58,715 Speaker 1: there is no question he would turn to it. There 172 00:13:58,755 --> 00:14:01,155 Speaker 1: is only the question of whether or not he will. 173 00:14:01,235 --> 00:14:05,075 Speaker 1: Again from Yale historian Timothy Snyder, I have the New 174 00:14:05,155 --> 00:14:08,355 Speaker 1: York Times. I quoted it yesterday. I may quote it 175 00:14:08,475 --> 00:14:11,875 Speaker 1: every edition of this program between now and the election. Quote. 176 00:14:11,955 --> 00:14:16,075 Speaker 1: Trump is in the classic dictatorial position. He needs to 177 00:14:16,315 --> 00:14:20,675 Speaker 1: die in bed holding all executive power to stay out 178 00:14:20,715 --> 00:14:24,155 Speaker 1: of prison. This means that he will do whatever he 179 00:14:24,195 --> 00:14:27,635 Speaker 1: can to gain power, and once in power, will do 180 00:14:27,755 --> 00:14:31,155 Speaker 1: all that he can to never let it go. This 181 00:14:31,315 --> 00:14:36,995 Speaker 1: is a basic incentive structure which underlies everything else. It 182 00:14:37,115 --> 00:14:43,355 Speaker 1: is entirely inconsistent with democracy. Trump and his cult will 183 00:14:43,395 --> 00:14:48,755 Speaker 1: accept any inconsistency because they agree to no rules, and 184 00:14:48,835 --> 00:14:51,155 Speaker 1: after nine years of this nation letting him and them 185 00:14:51,235 --> 00:14:55,675 Speaker 1: run unchecked through our norms and laws and guard rails 186 00:14:55,875 --> 00:14:59,955 Speaker 1: and collective goodness, that has convinced them they can get 187 00:14:59,995 --> 00:15:03,875 Speaker 1: away with anything. And one day Trump is insisting the 188 00:15:03,915 --> 00:15:07,795 Speaker 1: Democrats are anti Semitic because they chose Governor Walls and 189 00:15:07,835 --> 00:15:10,675 Speaker 1: not Governor Shapiro to be vice president, and the next day, 190 00:15:10,715 --> 00:15:14,835 Speaker 1: Trump is insisting that Governor Shapiro is a bad jew 191 00:15:15,915 --> 00:15:21,115 Speaker 1: To quote Trump, shortly after midnight on Wednesday night, Thursday morning, 192 00:15:21,795 --> 00:15:27,275 Speaker 1: the highly overrated Jewish Governor of the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 193 00:15:27,395 --> 00:15:31,635 Speaker 1: Josh Shapiro, made a really bad and poorly delivered speech 194 00:15:32,035 --> 00:15:36,715 Speaker 1: talking about freedom and fighting for Comrade Kamala Harris for president. 195 00:15:37,195 --> 00:15:40,075 Speaker 1: Yet she hates Israel and will do nothing but make 196 00:15:40,115 --> 00:15:43,435 Speaker 1: its journey through the complexities of survival as difficult as possible, 197 00:15:43,675 --> 00:15:46,915 Speaker 1: hoping in the end that it will fail. Judge only 198 00:15:46,995 --> 00:15:51,675 Speaker 1: by her actions. Yet Shapiro, for strictly political reasons, refuse 199 00:15:51,795 --> 00:15:55,675 Speaker 1: to acknowledge that I am the best friend that Israel 200 00:15:55,755 --> 00:15:59,155 Speaker 1: and the Jewish people ever had. I have done more 201 00:15:59,195 --> 00:16:02,355 Speaker 1: for Israel than any president, and frankly, I have done 202 00:16:02,395 --> 00:16:05,875 Speaker 1: more for Israel than any person, and it's not even close. 203 00:16:06,795 --> 00:16:11,155 Speaker 1: Shapiro has done nothing for Israel. Blah blah blah blah blah. 204 00:16:11,395 --> 00:16:16,195 Speaker 1: Israel is in big trouble. So what that is setting 205 00:16:16,315 --> 00:16:21,275 Speaker 1: up is not defense of the Jewish people from anti Semitism. 206 00:16:21,675 --> 00:16:25,795 Speaker 1: It is a refining of the Hitler plan or the 207 00:16:25,835 --> 00:16:30,355 Speaker 1: plan of any other anti Semitic purges in human history. 208 00:16:30,475 --> 00:16:34,275 Speaker 1: If and when Trump finally activates a base that is 209 00:16:34,315 --> 00:16:37,955 Speaker 1: more than happy to attack the Jews, there will be 210 00:16:38,915 --> 00:16:43,515 Speaker 1: good Trump Jews and bad Trump Jews, as there are 211 00:16:43,635 --> 00:16:48,035 Speaker 1: already good Trump people of color and bad Trump people 212 00:16:48,075 --> 00:16:52,835 Speaker 1: of color depend upon it. And why on earth would 213 00:16:52,875 --> 00:16:56,195 Speaker 1: you ever do this? Not Trump? Why would he ever 214 00:16:56,315 --> 00:16:59,795 Speaker 1: do that? Professor Snyder's simple reminder is that it's win 215 00:17:00,115 --> 00:17:03,115 Speaker 1: or die in jail for Trump. There are no other options. 216 00:17:03,995 --> 00:17:06,595 Speaker 1: Why on earth, though, would those around him ever do that? 217 00:17:07,635 --> 00:17:11,035 Speaker 1: Because if there is no electoral path for him, there 218 00:17:11,075 --> 00:17:14,035 Speaker 1: are no jobs for them. And we live in a 219 00:17:14,075 --> 00:17:17,115 Speaker 1: time in which people think the only thing that matters 220 00:17:17,195 --> 00:17:20,115 Speaker 1: is money. Not the people throughout our American history who 221 00:17:20,155 --> 00:17:22,475 Speaker 1: have been corrupted by the idea that money is the 222 00:17:22,475 --> 00:17:26,115 Speaker 1: most important thing. The people around Trump believe that money 223 00:17:26,315 --> 00:17:31,475 Speaker 1: is the only measure of life. If there is no 224 00:17:31,675 --> 00:17:36,035 Speaker 1: electoral path for Trump, there is only pure insurrection or 225 00:17:36,075 --> 00:17:42,995 Speaker 1: the promise of the contingent election. I hope when I 226 00:17:43,115 --> 00:17:46,515 Speaker 1: extensively quote somebody here that you will at least go 227 00:17:46,635 --> 00:17:49,995 Speaker 1: to their site. I do it the quoting that is 228 00:17:50,035 --> 00:17:53,475 Speaker 1: because they have expressed something more compactly and more starkly 229 00:17:53,515 --> 00:17:57,915 Speaker 1: than I ever could, and usually with less rage. I 230 00:17:57,955 --> 00:18:01,355 Speaker 1: find myself doing this often with Brian Boutler, who was 231 00:18:01,395 --> 00:18:04,235 Speaker 1: once a contributor to the current TV edition of this 232 00:18:04,355 --> 00:18:07,955 Speaker 1: news outlet. Brian Buler has the premise of the contingent 233 00:18:08,035 --> 00:18:12,915 Speaker 1: election down and what President Biden should do about it, 234 00:18:13,475 --> 00:18:16,915 Speaker 1: and what Democratic congressional leaders should be preparing to do 235 00:18:16,995 --> 00:18:21,155 Speaker 1: about it and preparing now. I now steal three hundred 236 00:18:21,195 --> 00:18:24,075 Speaker 1: of Brian's words, and I urge you to go subscribe 237 00:18:24,115 --> 00:18:29,635 Speaker 1: to his newsletter. Quote. Trump loyalists don't necessarily need Trump 238 00:18:29,755 --> 00:18:34,755 Speaker 1: loyal judges to validate their baseless allegations of impropriety. They 239 00:18:35,195 --> 00:18:40,155 Speaker 1: just need to run out the clock. Brian writes. They 240 00:18:40,195 --> 00:18:43,075 Speaker 1: would be perfectly happy to see liberal voters take to 241 00:18:43,155 --> 00:18:46,675 Speaker 1: the streets in say Atlanta, only for the results in 242 00:18:46,715 --> 00:18:53,475 Speaker 1: Georgia or elsewhere to remain uncertified as of the constitutional deadline. 243 00:18:53,515 --> 00:18:56,715 Speaker 1: At that juncture, with no candidate having received at least 244 00:18:56,755 --> 00:18:59,675 Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy electoral votes, the question of who 245 00:18:59,715 --> 00:19:04,595 Speaker 1: becomes president can only be answered by a contingent election 246 00:19:04,875 --> 00:19:13,035 Speaker 1: in the US House, where each state delegation gets one vote. 247 00:19:13,155 --> 00:19:15,915 Speaker 1: Many times over the past decades, Democrats have controlled the 248 00:19:15,995 --> 00:19:19,275 Speaker 1: House itself while holding majorities in fewer than twenty five 249 00:19:19,355 --> 00:19:23,755 Speaker 1: state delegations. If Republicans still control more state delegations than 250 00:19:23,795 --> 00:19:27,955 Speaker 1: Democrats on January sixth, they can hand the election to 251 00:19:28,115 --> 00:19:32,355 Speaker 1: the loser, even if Democrats control the Chamber and the 252 00:19:32,395 --> 00:19:37,755 Speaker 1: House Speaker is a keem. Jeffries I. Brian Boiler writes 253 00:19:37,875 --> 00:19:41,635 Speaker 1: would like to see Democrats taking steps to preempt that outcome. 254 00:19:42,475 --> 00:19:46,715 Speaker 1: The starting point would probably be high profile Senate hearings 255 00:19:46,915 --> 00:19:50,675 Speaker 1: with local elections officials willing to sound the alarm about 256 00:19:50,675 --> 00:19:56,235 Speaker 1: their MAGA colleagues's dark intentions. Then advancing legislation to impose 257 00:19:56,595 --> 00:20:02,155 Speaker 1: federal criminal penalties on elections officials who take results hostage. 258 00:20:02,835 --> 00:20:08,395 Speaker 1: Make Senate Republicans filibuster it challenge House Republicans to hold 259 00:20:08,435 --> 00:20:13,635 Speaker 1: a vote, but more radical action may be necessary, he writes. 260 00:20:13,875 --> 00:20:16,995 Speaker 1: If Democrats win the House, they should be prepared to 261 00:20:17,115 --> 00:20:22,195 Speaker 1: exploit ambiguities in precedent and refuse to seat Republicans from 262 00:20:22,315 --> 00:20:26,555 Speaker 1: states or counties where MAGA election officials have blocked statewide 263 00:20:26,555 --> 00:20:30,995 Speaker 1: certification of the presidential election result. After all, if the 264 00:20:31,035 --> 00:20:33,995 Speaker 1: top of the ticket is suspect, why should the rest 265 00:20:34,035 --> 00:20:37,075 Speaker 1: of the ballot get a rubber stamp? If that's not 266 00:20:37,315 --> 00:20:40,995 Speaker 1: enough to assure that a contingent election will deliver the 267 00:20:41,035 --> 00:20:46,075 Speaker 1: presidency to the true winner. President Biden should contemplate convening 268 00:20:46,675 --> 00:20:51,235 Speaker 1: then adjourning the House and Senate pursuant to his Article two, 269 00:20:51,595 --> 00:21:02,355 Speaker 1: Section three powers until Maga relents. It is harrowing. It 270 00:21:02,515 --> 00:21:07,235 Speaker 1: is perhaps an accurate picture of the future, the immediate future. 271 00:21:08,115 --> 00:21:12,675 Speaker 1: The Trump wins by losing future. And it is also 272 00:21:12,795 --> 00:21:20,915 Speaker 1: a fulfillment of the old hackneyed phrase forewarned is forearmed boiler. 273 00:21:21,235 --> 00:21:31,315 Speaker 1: Brian Bouler b e ut l e R. Also of 274 00:21:31,355 --> 00:21:33,355 Speaker 1: interest here, I think for the first time ever there 275 00:21:33,395 --> 00:21:35,395 Speaker 1: is a three way time for worst persons in the world, 276 00:21:35,435 --> 00:21:38,435 Speaker 1: and I goddamn mean it this time. The worst persons 277 00:21:38,435 --> 00:21:41,995 Speaker 1: in the world. They are Meghan Kelly and two people 278 00:21:41,995 --> 00:21:44,915 Speaker 1: who have publicly attacked Governor Tim Wallas's seventeen year old 279 00:21:44,995 --> 00:21:49,635 Speaker 1: challenged son for having cried as his dad was being nominated. 280 00:21:49,955 --> 00:21:53,795 Speaker 1: They are a Trump sucker and Delegate Mike Crispy and 281 00:21:53,915 --> 00:21:58,635 Speaker 1: Coulter Geist herself. And they are scum. That's next. This 282 00:21:58,755 --> 00:22:24,595 Speaker 1: is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead 283 00:22:24,595 --> 00:22:27,315 Speaker 1: of us on this edition of Countdown breaking format on 284 00:22:27,355 --> 00:22:31,395 Speaker 1: a Friday, because for everybody who's ever asked, hey, pal, 285 00:22:32,195 --> 00:22:34,275 Speaker 1: did you hit your head or something when you were 286 00:22:34,315 --> 00:22:38,315 Speaker 1: a kid, the answer is why, Yes, yes I did. 287 00:22:39,035 --> 00:22:44,195 Speaker 1: And the forty fifth anniversary of it is tomorrow. Don't worry, 288 00:22:45,035 --> 00:22:48,475 Speaker 1: I'll be getting better any day now. Next in Things 289 00:22:48,515 --> 00:22:51,395 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell first, there are still more 290 00:22:51,435 --> 00:22:54,035 Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the misgrants, 291 00:22:54,035 --> 00:22:58,075 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's worst 292 00:22:58,115 --> 00:23:02,515 Speaker 1: persons in the world. And ordinarily, although maybe it doesn't 293 00:23:02,555 --> 00:23:04,875 Speaker 1: seem like this, every time there is an element of 294 00:23:04,955 --> 00:23:07,915 Speaker 1: humor to the worst person in the world segment, there 295 00:23:07,995 --> 00:23:11,395 Speaker 1: is some attempt to mock them, at least to if 296 00:23:11,395 --> 00:23:13,435 Speaker 1: we can't laugh with them, at least we can laugh 297 00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:17,755 Speaker 1: at them. Not so today, these are three of the 298 00:23:17,875 --> 00:23:21,715 Speaker 1: genuinely worst persons in the world, people who have been 299 00:23:21,795 --> 00:23:29,275 Speaker 1: so turned from probably unpleasant, stupid, narrow minded, arrogant individuals 300 00:23:29,515 --> 00:23:33,755 Speaker 1: into monsters because of the Republican Party and the conservative 301 00:23:33,795 --> 00:23:37,955 Speaker 1: movement and Fox News and the right wing echo sphere. 302 00:23:38,555 --> 00:23:42,155 Speaker 1: They all fit this category. They are all legitimately the 303 00:23:42,195 --> 00:23:45,355 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world, and so we have a 304 00:23:45,435 --> 00:23:49,875 Speaker 1: three way tie Number one is Megan Kelly. Megan Kelly 305 00:23:50,115 --> 00:23:52,955 Speaker 1: is the woman who used to be with Fox, used 306 00:23:52,955 --> 00:23:55,635 Speaker 1: to be with NBC, used to be with Lawyer, and 307 00:23:55,795 --> 00:23:59,235 Speaker 1: lost all three of those gigs who once went on 308 00:23:59,555 --> 00:24:03,675 Speaker 1: and suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris slept her way 309 00:24:03,715 --> 00:24:06,035 Speaker 1: to the top. And you should have heard the rumors 310 00:24:06,075 --> 00:24:12,435 Speaker 1: at Fox News. Megan Kelly wrote this Lafonza Butler speaking 311 00:24:12,875 --> 00:24:16,675 Speaker 1: she filled Feinstein's seat at the DNC this is happening, 312 00:24:16,715 --> 00:24:20,835 Speaker 1: celebrating that she and Harris both graduated from historically black colleges. 313 00:24:21,315 --> 00:24:24,555 Speaker 1: Imagine the white person up there. I'm proud to tell 314 00:24:24,595 --> 00:24:29,395 Speaker 1: you I went to a mostly white university. Quote. It 315 00:24:29,475 --> 00:24:32,155 Speaker 1: seems to have never occurred to Megan Kelly, and why 316 00:24:32,195 --> 00:24:35,915 Speaker 1: should it. She's a white woman with blonde hair. At 317 00:24:36,035 --> 00:24:39,675 Speaker 1: least that's its color. Now she's a blonde woman with 318 00:24:39,715 --> 00:24:43,235 Speaker 1: white hair, or a white woman with blonde hair, or 319 00:24:43,275 --> 00:24:46,515 Speaker 1: she's just pasty white. And it's never occurred to her 320 00:24:46,595 --> 00:24:49,595 Speaker 1: once because she's never been the victim of any kind 321 00:24:49,635 --> 00:24:53,555 Speaker 1: of discrimination whatsoever. Possibly something was held against her because 322 00:24:53,595 --> 00:24:56,995 Speaker 1: she was a woman. That happens, That still happens. I 323 00:24:57,035 --> 00:24:59,315 Speaker 1: don't know if it's happened in her case, she got 324 00:24:59,355 --> 00:25:02,875 Speaker 1: into television with absolutely no qualifications whatsoever and got a 325 00:25:02,955 --> 00:25:06,395 Speaker 1: huge contract from NBC, And her qualification for that was 326 00:25:06,715 --> 00:25:10,155 Speaker 1: they had a news chief who was in decline, who 327 00:25:10,195 --> 00:25:12,595 Speaker 1: had begun to hire and promote people who looked like 328 00:25:12,795 --> 00:25:16,795 Speaker 1: women who looked like his wife did at various stages 329 00:25:16,835 --> 00:25:21,075 Speaker 1: of her life. I swear, in any event, it has 330 00:25:21,115 --> 00:25:24,275 Speaker 1: never seemingly occurred, based on this tweet by Megan Kelly, 331 00:25:24,515 --> 00:25:26,915 Speaker 1: it has never occurred to her that the reason there 332 00:25:26,915 --> 00:25:33,875 Speaker 1: are historically black colleges is that, for you know, all 333 00:25:33,955 --> 00:25:36,635 Speaker 1: of American history, it's been tougher for black people to 334 00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:41,435 Speaker 1: get into historically white colleges. That there are historically white colleges. 335 00:25:41,795 --> 00:25:45,155 Speaker 1: I went to a mostly white university. You bet your ass, 336 00:25:45,195 --> 00:25:48,475 Speaker 1: Megan Kelly, and you all look good in your hoods there. 337 00:25:49,075 --> 00:25:54,595 Speaker 1: The idea of affirmative action was not to somehow benefit 338 00:25:55,475 --> 00:25:58,715 Speaker 1: people at the expense of others, but to stop that 339 00:25:58,835 --> 00:26:03,995 Speaker 1: from happening. That there were historically white universities, That there 340 00:26:04,035 --> 00:26:07,235 Speaker 1: were college that did not admit black people, That there 341 00:26:07,235 --> 00:26:09,835 Speaker 1: were golf courses like the one where they play the 342 00:26:09,955 --> 00:26:13,995 Speaker 1: Masters tournament every year that did not admit black members. 343 00:26:14,315 --> 00:26:19,035 Speaker 1: Well into the what was it nineteen nineties. Racism is 344 00:26:19,075 --> 00:26:21,355 Speaker 1: alive and well in this country. And if you need 345 00:26:21,395 --> 00:26:24,875 Speaker 1: to find out where, follow Megan Kelly on Twitter X. 346 00:26:25,955 --> 00:26:29,075 Speaker 1: As I said, it's a three way tie. They are worse, worser, 347 00:26:29,155 --> 00:26:34,515 Speaker 1: and worse. This is from a guy named Mike Crispy, 348 00:26:35,075 --> 00:26:38,115 Speaker 1: who we saw last as a man claiming that the 349 00:26:38,155 --> 00:26:43,995 Speaker 1: Democrats are biased against Italian Americans, that Italian Americans are 350 00:26:44,035 --> 00:26:48,035 Speaker 1: suffering racism at the hands of the Democrats. He was, apparently, 351 00:26:48,035 --> 00:26:51,035 Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, a congressional candidate who finished like 352 00:26:51,035 --> 00:26:54,555 Speaker 1: two hundred and forty third. He lists himself as a 353 00:26:54,595 --> 00:26:57,755 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Trump delegate, So he's stupid and corrupt. 354 00:26:58,115 --> 00:27:01,195 Speaker 1: Chairman of the America First Republicans of New Jersey. So 355 00:27:01,275 --> 00:27:04,355 Speaker 1: he's stupid and corrupt and has a really stupid sounding accent, 356 00:27:04,715 --> 00:27:07,995 Speaker 1: and he's a podcaster on Rumble, which means he has 357 00:27:08,035 --> 00:27:11,795 Speaker 1: no ethics whatsoever. This is what Mike Crispy wrote about 358 00:27:11,875 --> 00:27:16,435 Speaker 1: Gus Walls as we saw Gus Walls during his father's 359 00:27:16,475 --> 00:27:20,315 Speaker 1: speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night accepting 360 00:27:20,355 --> 00:27:23,915 Speaker 1: the vice presidential nomination. This is what Mike Crispy wrote 361 00:27:24,035 --> 00:27:27,595 Speaker 1: with a picture of Mike Crispy rather of Gus Walls 362 00:27:28,235 --> 00:27:31,435 Speaker 1: and his mother. The video of this taken, ironically enough, 363 00:27:31,475 --> 00:27:36,875 Speaker 1: from MSNBC. Mike Crispy wrote, Tim Walls's stupid crying son. 364 00:27:37,435 --> 00:27:40,635 Speaker 1: Isn't the flex the left thinks it is. You raised 365 00:27:40,675 --> 00:27:45,195 Speaker 1: your kid to be a puffy beta male. Congrats? Does 366 00:27:45,275 --> 00:27:49,355 Speaker 1: Baron Trump cry Nope? Does he love his father? Of course, 367 00:27:49,675 --> 00:27:53,035 Speaker 1: That's the type of values I want leading the country. 368 00:27:53,915 --> 00:27:59,235 Speaker 1: Mike Crispy called Gus Walls a puffy beta male, a 369 00:27:59,395 --> 00:28:06,395 Speaker 1: stupid crying son. I'll just mention this Schwallz is neuro divergent. 370 00:28:06,835 --> 00:28:13,195 Speaker 1: He has ADHD, anxiety and a nonverbal learning disorder, and 371 00:28:13,275 --> 00:28:16,355 Speaker 1: it is not surprising that at the age of seventeen, 372 00:28:16,435 --> 00:28:20,395 Speaker 1: under those circumstances he would have trouble regulating his emotions 373 00:28:20,435 --> 00:28:23,755 Speaker 1: in social settings. I would argue that if Mike Crispy 374 00:28:24,115 --> 00:28:27,275 Speaker 1: had some sort of normal human relationship with anybody else 375 00:28:27,275 --> 00:28:29,915 Speaker 1: in the world, and that person was being nominated for 376 00:28:29,995 --> 00:28:33,315 Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States, Mike Crispy, who looks 377 00:28:33,355 --> 00:28:36,035 Speaker 1: like he's about fifty six fifty seven years old and 378 00:28:36,075 --> 00:28:40,395 Speaker 1: pretending to be much younger, Mike Crispy might not fully 379 00:28:40,475 --> 00:28:43,435 Speaker 1: control his emotions while that person who was important to 380 00:28:43,515 --> 00:28:47,075 Speaker 1: him was being nominated for vice president. He has the 381 00:28:47,115 --> 00:28:51,715 Speaker 1: nerve to call this kid a seventeen year old, the 382 00:28:51,835 --> 00:28:56,515 Speaker 1: nerve to call him your stupid, crying son, your kid 383 00:28:56,555 --> 00:28:59,635 Speaker 1: to be a puffy beta male, and to compare him 384 00:28:59,795 --> 00:29:02,715 Speaker 1: to Baron Trump. Baron Trump, who, by the way, I 385 00:29:02,755 --> 00:29:05,595 Speaker 1: will assert, is the smartest of all the Trump males. 386 00:29:05,875 --> 00:29:08,315 Speaker 1: He has never said a word in public. I don't 387 00:29:08,355 --> 00:29:11,275 Speaker 1: care why he's the smart one. The other ones are 388 00:29:11,315 --> 00:29:15,875 Speaker 1: all assholes. Mike Crispy, he should be fired from wherever 389 00:29:15,955 --> 00:29:18,795 Speaker 1: he works. He should not have a job. He should 390 00:29:18,835 --> 00:29:21,075 Speaker 1: not have an income. He should not have a family, 391 00:29:21,435 --> 00:29:23,955 Speaker 1: he should not have a future. He should not have 392 00:29:24,275 --> 00:29:32,555 Speaker 1: a meal today. Mike Crispy Crispi on Rumble Chairman America, 393 00:29:32,595 --> 00:29:35,515 Speaker 1: First Republicans of New Jersey. I'd like to say he 394 00:29:35,555 --> 00:29:38,155 Speaker 1: knows where all the bodies are buried, but we already 395 00:29:38,155 --> 00:29:41,635 Speaker 1: know the answer to that if Anna is on the 396 00:29:41,675 --> 00:29:46,435 Speaker 1: first t. But there's somebody who is actually tied with 397 00:29:46,475 --> 00:29:50,355 Speaker 1: Mike Crispy. It's hard to believe that anybody could compete 398 00:29:50,395 --> 00:29:53,035 Speaker 1: with Mike Crispy, or Megan Kelly for that matter, But 399 00:29:53,395 --> 00:29:56,515 Speaker 1: competing with Mike crispy on the subject of Tim Walls 400 00:29:56,555 --> 00:30:01,035 Speaker 1: and his son Gus, because of her reach, because of 401 00:30:01,075 --> 00:30:04,835 Speaker 1: her experience, because of her number of followers, still ill, 402 00:30:05,435 --> 00:30:08,435 Speaker 1: because of the familiarity one has with her words, and 403 00:30:08,475 --> 00:30:11,515 Speaker 1: the fact that they have been for now thirty years 404 00:30:12,475 --> 00:30:22,235 Speaker 1: inhuman unkind to a degree almost is immeasurable. Somebody who 405 00:30:22,315 --> 00:30:27,315 Speaker 1: made Rush Limbaugh look good. And Culture who finally got 406 00:30:27,395 --> 00:30:31,195 Speaker 1: so disgusting that she was turned away by the Republican Party. 407 00:30:31,715 --> 00:30:36,035 Speaker 1: And Culture with a picture of Gus Walls with his 408 00:30:36,115 --> 00:30:39,875 Speaker 1: hand on his chest, his eyes closed, crying and pointing 409 00:30:39,955 --> 00:30:45,475 Speaker 1: that's my dad. An extraordinary moment. But and Coulter, who 410 00:30:45,555 --> 00:30:49,235 Speaker 1: is as disgusting a human being as I've ever heard, 411 00:30:49,875 --> 00:30:54,395 Speaker 1: who went to my college, Cornell University, and once called 412 00:30:54,395 --> 00:30:56,995 Speaker 1: me an elitist because I mentioned it on the air 413 00:30:57,715 --> 00:31:00,315 Speaker 1: that I went to Cornell University, and then said, I 414 00:31:00,355 --> 00:31:02,995 Speaker 1: did not really go to Cornell University because I graduated 415 00:31:03,035 --> 00:31:07,395 Speaker 1: from the Agriculture School and that was a partial state school. 416 00:31:07,475 --> 00:31:10,355 Speaker 1: But she went to the Arts college. She was Ivy 417 00:31:10,395 --> 00:31:13,675 Speaker 1: League Cornell. I was cow College Cornell, and I was 418 00:31:13,715 --> 00:31:19,075 Speaker 1: an elitist. And culture has now stepped down into what 419 00:31:19,115 --> 00:31:21,395 Speaker 1: we used to clean out of the stables at the 420 00:31:21,395 --> 00:31:24,835 Speaker 1: Agriculture College the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at 421 00:31:24,835 --> 00:31:28,235 Speaker 1: Cornell University, the university, by the way, which does not 422 00:31:28,355 --> 00:31:31,875 Speaker 1: list and Culture among its famed alumni, because years ago 423 00:31:31,955 --> 00:31:35,595 Speaker 1: it decided it needed to separate itself from one of 424 00:31:35,595 --> 00:31:41,075 Speaker 1: its own alumni or alumni. And Culture runs this picture 425 00:31:41,435 --> 00:31:45,235 Speaker 1: of Tim Walls in the middle of an extraordinary emotional 426 00:31:45,315 --> 00:31:51,555 Speaker 1: moment for him and wrote, simply talk about weird and culture. 427 00:31:52,195 --> 00:31:54,275 Speaker 1: May the next time I see you you be face 428 00:31:54,395 --> 00:31:59,795 Speaker 1: down in the stables at the Cornell Agriculture and Life 429 00:31:59,835 --> 00:32:08,555 Speaker 1: Sciences College. Horse manure pile, Mike Crispy, Megan Kelly, and 430 00:32:08,675 --> 00:32:12,395 Speaker 1: Colter two day's worst persons, and I mean it in 431 00:32:12,435 --> 00:32:36,195 Speaker 1: the world. On Sunday, the twenty fourth of August nineteen eighty, 432 00:32:36,715 --> 00:32:39,995 Speaker 1: I learned what Mom meant when she had said, never 433 00:32:40,075 --> 00:32:43,195 Speaker 1: run for a train. There'll always be another one. Because 434 00:32:43,235 --> 00:32:46,155 Speaker 1: I didn't know what it meant, I nearly killed myself. 435 00:32:46,315 --> 00:32:49,475 Speaker 1: I permanently altered my health, and I put myself on 436 00:32:49,515 --> 00:32:53,315 Speaker 1: a path towards meeting the great doctor Renee Richards. I 437 00:32:53,435 --> 00:32:56,035 Speaker 1: was sleeping late in my relatively new and tiny studio 438 00:32:56,075 --> 00:32:58,955 Speaker 1: apartment on fifty Fifth Street in Manhattan, apartment ten F, 439 00:32:59,875 --> 00:33:03,475 Speaker 1: when above me eleven F started making noise like pounding 440 00:33:03,555 --> 00:33:06,795 Speaker 1: on the floor. And now it's eight thirty Sunday morning, 441 00:33:06,795 --> 00:33:08,635 Speaker 1: and I'm awake, and I'm not doing my job as 442 00:33:08,635 --> 00:33:11,875 Speaker 1: a radio sportscaster until about two, and I think, well, 443 00:33:11,955 --> 00:33:14,915 Speaker 1: I'm a oh, the Dodgers are playing the Mets at Shay. 444 00:33:14,955 --> 00:33:17,355 Speaker 1: I can go to my other job as a semi 445 00:33:17,355 --> 00:33:20,395 Speaker 1: professional photographer and go shoot the Dodgers and still make 446 00:33:20,435 --> 00:33:23,355 Speaker 1: it to work on time. So I packed my semi 447 00:33:23,395 --> 00:33:27,715 Speaker 1: professional emphasis on the semi photographer's bag and drag myself 448 00:33:27,715 --> 00:33:29,715 Speaker 1: out on the subway and get to share stadium around 449 00:33:29,715 --> 00:33:34,635 Speaker 1: eleven thirty am. And there's nobody there. No Dodgers players, 450 00:33:34,635 --> 00:33:38,035 Speaker 1: no Mets players, nobody but the grounds keepers. And as 451 00:33:38,075 --> 00:33:40,475 Speaker 1: the minutes pass, I'm beginning to calculate when I have 452 00:33:40,595 --> 00:33:43,235 Speaker 1: to leave in order to not be late to my 453 00:33:43,395 --> 00:33:47,835 Speaker 1: job back in Manhattan. Weekend life in New York City 454 00:33:47,835 --> 00:33:50,475 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty might as well have been nineteen ten. 455 00:33:50,635 --> 00:33:53,035 Speaker 1: I tell people this, they do not believe me. But 456 00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:56,355 Speaker 1: when I worked weekends the next year in Times Square, 457 00:33:56,995 --> 00:34:00,395 Speaker 1: I used to call into my newsroom from a payphone 458 00:34:00,435 --> 00:34:04,115 Speaker 1: on Fifth Avenue and say, okay, I'm going to Arby's today. 459 00:34:04,115 --> 00:34:07,235 Speaker 1: Who wants one? But or McDonald's or Burger King or wherever. 460 00:34:07,475 --> 00:34:10,635 Speaker 1: Because our office was in Times Square and on weekends 461 00:34:11,115 --> 00:34:15,795 Speaker 1: there were no restaurants open in Times Square. You could 462 00:34:15,835 --> 00:34:20,075 Speaker 1: not get food in Times Square on weekends. Today, the 463 00:34:20,155 --> 00:34:24,235 Speaker 1: same four square block area probably has fifty restaurants and 464 00:34:24,275 --> 00:34:27,835 Speaker 1: fast food places. So the train back to Manhattan from 465 00:34:27,835 --> 00:34:30,955 Speaker 1: Shaye Stadium in Queens ran once every half an hour 466 00:34:31,235 --> 00:34:33,555 Speaker 1: on that Sunday in August of nineteen eighty, And as 467 00:34:33,555 --> 00:34:35,275 Speaker 1: I looked at my watch, I realized I should have 468 00:34:35,355 --> 00:34:37,475 Speaker 1: left the field three or four minutes ago. If you 469 00:34:37,555 --> 00:34:40,915 Speaker 1: went out the press entrance and exit at Shaye Stadium, 470 00:34:41,395 --> 00:34:45,675 Speaker 1: you could see the train approaching the elevated station out 471 00:34:45,715 --> 00:34:48,435 Speaker 1: behind right field, And if you had just seen it, 472 00:34:48,515 --> 00:34:50,955 Speaker 1: if it had just become visible, and if you then 473 00:34:51,195 --> 00:34:54,675 Speaker 1: ran your fastest, you could make it to the viaduct 474 00:34:55,035 --> 00:34:57,475 Speaker 1: that crossed the parking lot and led you up towards 475 00:34:57,475 --> 00:34:59,835 Speaker 1: the station platform. And if you could get your subway 476 00:34:59,915 --> 00:35:02,595 Speaker 1: token out and into the turnstile slot with one fluid 477 00:35:02,595 --> 00:35:05,515 Speaker 1: overhead motion, and if you kept running all time, you 478 00:35:05,555 --> 00:35:10,595 Speaker 1: could just make the train if you didn't, you would 479 00:35:10,635 --> 00:35:14,355 Speaker 1: be waiting half an hour, unless maybe the next train 480 00:35:14,515 --> 00:35:19,835 Speaker 1: was late or on fire somewhere. Sure enough, as I 481 00:35:19,875 --> 00:35:22,035 Speaker 1: got out of the ballpark, I could see the Manhattan 482 00:35:22,035 --> 00:35:25,075 Speaker 1: bound train just appearing at the horizon. I was twenty one. 483 00:35:25,395 --> 00:35:29,395 Speaker 1: My knees still worked, and I ran, and I got 484 00:35:29,475 --> 00:35:31,275 Speaker 1: into the viaduct, and I got the token out of 485 00:35:31,315 --> 00:35:33,715 Speaker 1: my pocket, and I got into the slot like Darryl 486 00:35:33,835 --> 00:35:37,435 Speaker 1: Dawkins doing a Tomahawk slam. And I not only made 487 00:35:37,515 --> 00:35:39,795 Speaker 1: the train, but I made it by so much that 488 00:35:39,875 --> 00:35:44,275 Speaker 1: I styled, I celebrated, I congratulated myself. I was guilty 489 00:35:44,315 --> 00:35:49,795 Speaker 1: of premature jocularity. I could have just slowed to a 490 00:35:49,915 --> 00:35:53,955 Speaker 1: triumphant jog and gotten a seat, huffing and sweaty, but 491 00:35:54,035 --> 00:35:57,875 Speaker 1: eminently satisfied and on time for work. But no, I 492 00:35:58,035 --> 00:36:03,915 Speaker 1: decided to make an exultant, joyful leap. The next thing 493 00:36:03,955 --> 00:36:06,955 Speaker 1: I registered. It was the loudest sound I had ever 494 00:36:07,195 --> 00:36:11,795 Speaker 1: or have since ever heard, as if six hundred gongs 495 00:36:11,835 --> 00:36:15,275 Speaker 1: had gone off simultaneously, or a dozen church bells, or 496 00:36:15,315 --> 00:36:18,475 Speaker 1: every alarm clock that had ever awakened me from the 497 00:36:18,515 --> 00:36:22,235 Speaker 1: deepest of sleeps. Something like this, but inside your head 498 00:36:23,355 --> 00:36:28,555 Speaker 1: barm when it happened was forgetting that I was no 499 00:36:28,675 --> 00:36:31,035 Speaker 1: longer six feet tall as I had been even two 500 00:36:31,075 --> 00:36:33,275 Speaker 1: years before, but was now just under six y four. 501 00:36:33,795 --> 00:36:37,235 Speaker 1: My leap had ended with me slamming my forehead on 502 00:36:37,275 --> 00:36:41,115 Speaker 1: the flat metal bar just above the train doorway an 503 00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:45,075 Speaker 1: inch higher, I might have blinded myself. The bar an 504 00:36:45,115 --> 00:36:47,955 Speaker 1: inch above the doorway is, in fact, as I found 505 00:36:47,995 --> 00:36:50,675 Speaker 1: out later, the thickest piece of metal on a New 506 00:36:50,755 --> 00:36:54,995 Speaker 1: York City subway train. As it was, my momentum carried 507 00:36:55,035 --> 00:36:57,675 Speaker 1: me safely into the train. I hit the floor. I 508 00:36:57,715 --> 00:37:01,195 Speaker 1: saw my sunglasses go flying off and rattling down towards 509 00:37:01,195 --> 00:37:03,915 Speaker 1: the back of the train like a plastic rat. I 510 00:37:03,995 --> 00:37:06,595 Speaker 1: heard the train doors close, I felt the blood on 511 00:37:06,675 --> 00:37:08,675 Speaker 1: my head and in my hair, and I crawled up 512 00:37:08,675 --> 00:37:12,315 Speaker 1: onto the plastic bench seating behind me. The mass gong 513 00:37:12,555 --> 00:37:15,995 Speaker 1: sound continued in my head, and my first cogent thought 514 00:37:16,035 --> 00:37:19,715 Speaker 1: was to see the blood on the train floor and think, Oh, 515 00:37:19,995 --> 00:37:23,235 Speaker 1: I have spilled blood all over their train, and I 516 00:37:23,315 --> 00:37:28,195 Speaker 1: don't have anything to clean it up with. Similar nonsense 517 00:37:28,235 --> 00:37:32,755 Speaker 1: continued to bounce around my concussed size eight noggin for seconds, 518 00:37:32,795 --> 00:37:35,395 Speaker 1: maybe minutes. It was beginning to really hurt, and of 519 00:37:35,475 --> 00:37:39,235 Speaker 1: more practical import the bleeding had not really stopped. At 520 00:37:39,235 --> 00:37:41,835 Speaker 1: this point, an older woman sitting more or less across 521 00:37:41,835 --> 00:37:45,195 Speaker 1: from me handed me a small packet. It was a 522 00:37:45,235 --> 00:37:49,155 Speaker 1: wet wipe. I mumbled thanks, opened it, dabbed it on 523 00:37:49,195 --> 00:37:51,595 Speaker 1: my forehead for a second, and was surprised to find 524 00:37:51,595 --> 00:37:55,435 Speaker 1: it instantly inundated with blood. This was the first time 525 00:37:55,475 --> 00:37:57,715 Speaker 1: it occurred to me that I might be in real trouble. 526 00:37:57,755 --> 00:37:59,875 Speaker 1: On the number seven local train to Grand Central and 527 00:37:59,955 --> 00:38:04,035 Speaker 1: Times Square. Apparently this thought occurred simultaneously to the woman 528 00:38:04,075 --> 00:38:06,755 Speaker 1: with the wet wipe and to her friend, I think 529 00:38:06,795 --> 00:38:08,635 Speaker 1: you're kind of hurt. One of them said to me, 530 00:38:08,915 --> 00:38:11,315 Speaker 1: let's get you to the hospital. There's one a couple 531 00:38:11,355 --> 00:38:16,315 Speaker 1: blocks from the next stop. Now understand this situation. The 532 00:38:16,355 --> 00:38:19,155 Speaker 1: New York of nineteen eighty, and particularly the subways of 533 00:38:19,235 --> 00:38:23,835 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty were not nice places. Two years later, I 534 00:38:23,875 --> 00:38:25,875 Speaker 1: took a rush hour train to my job at CNN 535 00:38:25,915 --> 00:38:28,475 Speaker 1: at the World Trade Center and was annoyed to find 536 00:38:28,515 --> 00:38:31,315 Speaker 1: one guy who had sprawled himself over three seats with 537 00:38:31,355 --> 00:38:34,675 Speaker 1: a newspaper covering his face. Nine hours later, when I 538 00:38:34,675 --> 00:38:37,515 Speaker 1: went home, I got onto a train and saw the 539 00:38:37,595 --> 00:38:41,235 Speaker 1: same guy with the same newspaper on the same seats, 540 00:38:41,555 --> 00:38:43,875 Speaker 1: because it was the same train, and more importantly, because 541 00:38:43,915 --> 00:38:49,075 Speaker 1: he was dead anyway, it was now around twelve forty 542 00:38:49,075 --> 00:38:51,595 Speaker 1: five of a Sunday afternoon. If it had been night, 543 00:38:51,755 --> 00:38:53,875 Speaker 1: or indeed certain other times of the day or on 544 00:38:53,955 --> 00:38:56,195 Speaker 1: other train lines, I would have simply been the easiest 545 00:38:56,275 --> 00:38:59,075 Speaker 1: mugging victim in New York history. Somebody could have knocked 546 00:38:59,115 --> 00:39:02,075 Speaker 1: me over and taken my wallet with next to no effort. Hell, 547 00:39:02,395 --> 00:39:04,195 Speaker 1: they could have asked me for my wallet, and I 548 00:39:04,235 --> 00:39:07,195 Speaker 1: was so I probably would have said, sure, have a 549 00:39:07,275 --> 00:39:11,755 Speaker 1: nice day, got any wet wipes? Instead, I met not one, 550 00:39:11,795 --> 00:39:15,195 Speaker 1: but two good Samaritans who knew where the hospitals were 551 00:39:15,595 --> 00:39:17,435 Speaker 1: in a part of town I could barely find on 552 00:39:17,515 --> 00:39:21,555 Speaker 1: a map. Sure enough, they helped me to my feet, 553 00:39:21,675 --> 00:39:23,955 Speaker 1: walked me down the steps and to the two blocks 554 00:39:24,035 --> 00:39:27,795 Speaker 1: or so that separated us from Elmhurst Hospital, And when 555 00:39:27,795 --> 00:39:29,995 Speaker 1: I reassured them I was clear headed enough to get 556 00:39:30,035 --> 00:39:32,995 Speaker 1: into the emergency room by myself, they wished me luck, 557 00:39:33,075 --> 00:39:35,755 Speaker 1: and they would not even accept my offer of two 558 00:39:35,795 --> 00:39:39,275 Speaker 1: tokens to get them back on the subway. There should 559 00:39:39,315 --> 00:39:43,635 Speaker 1: be a monument to these two women somewhere. If the 560 00:39:43,675 --> 00:39:46,635 Speaker 1: New York City subways of nineteen eighty were scary, the 561 00:39:46,675 --> 00:39:49,475 Speaker 1: emergency rooms of its hospitals were something out of a 562 00:39:49,555 --> 00:39:52,675 Speaker 1: Brian De Palma film. I think there were a couple 563 00:39:52,675 --> 00:39:55,075 Speaker 1: of dozen people in the er. I remember one of 564 00:39:55,115 --> 00:39:57,675 Speaker 1: them asking me how I got so bloody, and I explained, 565 00:39:57,675 --> 00:40:00,035 Speaker 1: and he said you should go ahead of me. And 566 00:40:00,035 --> 00:40:02,875 Speaker 1: he opened his windbreaker to show a blood covered shirt, 567 00:40:02,875 --> 00:40:06,955 Speaker 1: and he added the bullet only crazed me. I know. 568 00:40:07,035 --> 00:40:10,875 Speaker 1: I waited about two hours. During that time I had 569 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:14,795 Speaker 1: a singular experience which has informed my understanding of concussions 570 00:40:15,075 --> 00:40:19,755 Speaker 1: and traumatic brain injury ever since. The desk nurse asked 571 00:40:19,755 --> 00:40:22,315 Speaker 1: me for the name of a contact, preferably a family member. 572 00:40:22,355 --> 00:40:25,235 Speaker 1: I gave my father's name, Theodore. Then she asked me 573 00:40:25,275 --> 00:40:27,155 Speaker 1: for my full name, and when I went to say it, 574 00:40:28,195 --> 00:40:32,155 Speaker 1: I could not remember my middle name. Could not remember 575 00:40:32,235 --> 00:40:36,355 Speaker 1: my middle name Keith I got Olderman, I got that 576 00:40:36,515 --> 00:40:41,435 Speaker 1: was it. My middle name is also Theodore. I could 577 00:40:41,515 --> 00:40:47,835 Speaker 1: remember Theodore my dad, but not Theodore my middle name. 578 00:40:48,755 --> 00:40:52,595 Speaker 1: That is how fragile your brain really is. Think of 579 00:40:52,635 --> 00:40:54,835 Speaker 1: that the next time you see somebody get clocked in 580 00:40:54,835 --> 00:40:58,955 Speaker 1: a sporting event, there was some comic relief. I called 581 00:40:58,955 --> 00:41:02,235 Speaker 1: into my office at United Press International's Audio network and 582 00:41:02,315 --> 00:41:04,995 Speaker 1: explained to the news editor a veteran named Ed Caerans, 583 00:41:04,995 --> 00:41:07,355 Speaker 1: the most dapperman in radio history, who looked like the 584 00:41:07,395 --> 00:41:10,675 Speaker 1: actor Ray Collins from Citizen Kane. I told Ed, I 585 00:41:10,675 --> 00:41:14,475 Speaker 1: had just sort of almost you know, killed myself on 586 00:41:14,515 --> 00:41:17,755 Speaker 1: the subway coming in from Queen's, and I really didn't 587 00:41:17,755 --> 00:41:20,795 Speaker 1: know when or if I would be at work. About 588 00:41:20,795 --> 00:41:23,675 Speaker 1: forty five minutes after that conversation, the desk nurse started 589 00:41:23,715 --> 00:41:25,595 Speaker 1: shouting my name, and I thought, Okay, I'm finally going 590 00:41:25,675 --> 00:41:28,075 Speaker 1: to be brought in to see a doctor. No, it 591 00:41:28,115 --> 00:41:31,875 Speaker 1: was Ed Caron's calling from UPI. My bosses were all 592 00:41:31,995 --> 00:41:34,395 Speaker 1: very sorry that I was wounded, he said, but there 593 00:41:34,395 --> 00:41:36,515 Speaker 1: was nobody available to fill in for me. So when 594 00:41:36,555 --> 00:41:39,715 Speaker 1: could they expect me to be in the office, I explained, 595 00:41:39,755 --> 00:41:42,875 Speaker 1: I did not know that since I was technically still 596 00:41:42,915 --> 00:41:47,195 Speaker 1: bleeding to death. Forty five minutes more passed, and again 597 00:41:47,235 --> 00:41:49,315 Speaker 1: the nurse summoned me and said there was a phone call, 598 00:41:49,355 --> 00:41:50,875 Speaker 1: and this time I was sure it was my dad, 599 00:41:51,675 --> 00:41:55,075 Speaker 1: Keith ed Karin's again at UPI. He explained that my 600 00:41:55,235 --> 00:41:57,435 Speaker 1: boss now said that they would bring in the guy 601 00:41:57,595 --> 00:42:00,075 Speaker 1: who was supposed to do the next morning sports cast, 602 00:42:00,715 --> 00:42:04,235 Speaker 1: my college friend Peter shack Now, but they expected me 603 00:42:04,275 --> 00:42:06,355 Speaker 1: to do it his shift starting at four point thirty 604 00:42:06,395 --> 00:42:09,075 Speaker 1: in the morning. I explained to Ed that I would try, 605 00:42:09,155 --> 00:42:12,115 Speaker 1: but that honestly I didn't know where I was or 606 00:42:12,155 --> 00:42:15,355 Speaker 1: what time it was. Now two nice ladies had mentioned 607 00:42:15,355 --> 00:42:17,555 Speaker 1: the name of the hospital, but I really wasn't remembering 608 00:42:17,595 --> 00:42:23,115 Speaker 1: too well. Plus I was still bleeding to death. Needless 609 00:42:23,155 --> 00:42:25,155 Speaker 1: to say, I did not bleed to death. I survived. 610 00:42:25,195 --> 00:42:27,035 Speaker 1: It was a severe concussion, but it only took a 611 00:42:27,035 --> 00:42:29,035 Speaker 1: stitch and a half to actually close that wound, and 612 00:42:29,075 --> 00:42:31,795 Speaker 1: the er doctor and the nurses were outstanding, and they 613 00:42:31,835 --> 00:42:35,195 Speaker 1: gave me easy to remember instructions, plus a note indicating 614 00:42:35,195 --> 00:42:37,315 Speaker 1: that I should rest for at least forty eight hours 615 00:42:37,755 --> 00:42:40,595 Speaker 1: just in case ED Karen showed up at my apartment. 616 00:42:42,475 --> 00:42:45,875 Speaker 1: No offense to ED. They told me what symptoms to expect, 617 00:42:45,875 --> 00:42:48,075 Speaker 1: how to prepare for them, and when they would stop. 618 00:42:48,195 --> 00:42:50,755 Speaker 1: And they stopped like one day earlier. It was a 619 00:42:50,755 --> 00:42:55,395 Speaker 1: potential disaster that turned into a nothing burger, or so 620 00:42:55,835 --> 00:42:59,035 Speaker 1: I thought. Two years later, I was at the original 621 00:42:59,075 --> 00:43:02,635 Speaker 1: Louis Armstrong Stadium covering the nineteen eighty two US Tennis Open, 622 00:43:03,315 --> 00:43:06,675 Speaker 1: on the other side of the same elevated subway station 623 00:43:06,755 --> 00:43:11,035 Speaker 1: where I had run into the train going there. Always 624 00:43:11,035 --> 00:43:14,955 Speaker 1: actually made me laugh. Until the afternoon of Saturday, September eleventh, 625 00:43:14,995 --> 00:43:17,955 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two. I was watching the Women's final, covering 626 00:43:17,955 --> 00:43:21,555 Speaker 1: it for CNN Chris Evert over Hannah Mandlakova and swinging 627 00:43:21,595 --> 00:43:23,835 Speaker 1: my head from side to side as one does to 628 00:43:23,875 --> 00:43:27,475 Speaker 1: follow the tennis action from over here, two over there, 629 00:43:27,915 --> 00:43:31,715 Speaker 1: two over here, two over there, as I had swung 630 00:43:31,755 --> 00:43:34,115 Speaker 1: my head from side to side for the preceding twelve 631 00:43:34,195 --> 00:43:37,355 Speaker 1: days of the tournament. Then I swung to the right, 632 00:43:37,435 --> 00:43:40,595 Speaker 1: but my left eye kept looking to the left, the 633 00:43:40,675 --> 00:43:46,915 Speaker 1: old Marty Feldman thing reversed crossed eyes that hurt worse 634 00:43:47,075 --> 00:43:51,115 Speaker 1: than hitting the train had. I could barely stand any light. 635 00:43:51,475 --> 00:43:53,435 Speaker 1: I often had to keep my hand in front of 636 00:43:53,475 --> 00:43:56,235 Speaker 1: my eyes. I rushed to my optometris Monday morning and 637 00:43:56,275 --> 00:43:58,715 Speaker 1: he started to laugh. This happened to you during the 638 00:43:58,875 --> 00:44:01,835 Speaker 1: US Open. I said, yes, why are you laughing at me? 639 00:44:02,355 --> 00:44:04,275 Speaker 1: He said, I'm going to send you to the best 640 00:44:04,355 --> 00:44:07,715 Speaker 1: muscle ophthalmologist I've ever met. I said, so, why are 641 00:44:07,755 --> 00:44:09,795 Speaker 1: you laughing at me? He said, you don't know who 642 00:44:09,795 --> 00:44:12,715 Speaker 1: that is? I said, no, I let my knowledge of 643 00:44:12,755 --> 00:44:16,115 Speaker 1: the muscle ophthalmology ranking slip. Why are you laughing at me? 644 00:44:16,635 --> 00:44:18,995 Speaker 1: He said? The best muscle ophthalmologist I've ever met is 645 00:44:18,995 --> 00:44:23,195 Speaker 1: doctor Renee Richards, the transsexual tennis player. I said, I 646 00:44:23,195 --> 00:44:25,515 Speaker 1: don't care who you're sending me to. I'm in trouble here. 647 00:44:25,515 --> 00:44:27,235 Speaker 1: If they can fix this, I don't care who you're 648 00:44:27,235 --> 00:44:30,395 Speaker 1: sending me. My train accident was so far in my 649 00:44:30,555 --> 00:44:32,915 Speaker 1: past that when I got in to see doctor Richards 650 00:44:32,955 --> 00:44:35,355 Speaker 1: the next morning, I didn't even think to mention it 651 00:44:35,475 --> 00:44:38,675 Speaker 1: in my patient history. It didn't matter. Thirty seconds of 652 00:44:38,715 --> 00:44:42,635 Speaker 1: staring into my eyes through a wall sized feropter and 653 00:44:42,635 --> 00:44:45,515 Speaker 1: Renee Richards said, when exactly did you hit your head 654 00:44:45,595 --> 00:44:51,315 Speaker 1: August or September of nineteen eighty. I was stunned. I 655 00:44:51,315 --> 00:44:54,795 Speaker 1: did hit my head in nineteen eighty August twenty fourth. 656 00:44:55,555 --> 00:44:58,555 Speaker 1: She made a clicking noise of satisfaction. I've heard of 657 00:44:58,555 --> 00:45:00,955 Speaker 1: this before, but I've never seen it. You couldn't do 658 00:45:01,035 --> 00:45:03,835 Speaker 1: this again in a million years. The good news is 659 00:45:03,875 --> 00:45:07,515 Speaker 1: that muscle with the eyes, that's just muscle exhaustion. We 660 00:45:07,515 --> 00:45:09,555 Speaker 1: can fix that with a thing that costs to buck 661 00:45:09,635 --> 00:45:11,875 Speaker 1: ninety eight. The bad news is when you hit your head, 662 00:45:12,435 --> 00:45:14,555 Speaker 1: most of the damage must have been absorbed by your 663 00:45:14,595 --> 00:45:16,955 Speaker 1: inner ear. If you want to fix that, you'll need 664 00:45:17,035 --> 00:45:22,835 Speaker 1: brain surgery. I don't recommend brain surgery. Doctor Renee Richards 665 00:45:22,915 --> 00:45:25,755 Speaker 1: showed me the muscle exercises that cost a dollar ninety 666 00:45:25,795 --> 00:45:29,555 Speaker 1: eight that fixed my reverse crossed eyes. They felt better immediately. 667 00:45:29,835 --> 00:45:32,955 Speaker 1: I still do the exercises I did them earlier today. 668 00:45:34,235 --> 00:45:37,675 Speaker 1: Then Renee Richards said, so you're a sports reporter. It 669 00:45:37,715 --> 00:45:40,595 Speaker 1: says here, listen, my next patient isn't due for half 670 00:45:40,635 --> 00:45:43,915 Speaker 1: an hour. You should rest anyway after my exam. Let's 671 00:45:44,155 --> 00:45:50,675 Speaker 1: talk about sports reporting. Renee Richards was an expert. Her 672 00:45:50,755 --> 00:45:55,755 Speaker 1: transition had been outed by a sportscaster, Tucker Carlson's father. 673 00:45:56,595 --> 00:46:00,595 Speaker 1: If you can believe that, I can believe it, because 674 00:46:00,635 --> 00:46:03,075 Speaker 1: she had been a man when she played in the 675 00:46:03,155 --> 00:46:06,955 Speaker 1: US Open. As a woman, she had become almost instantaneously 676 00:46:07,035 --> 00:46:10,555 Speaker 1: the most famous tennis player in the world. Then she 677 00:46:10,675 --> 00:46:16,155 Speaker 1: became Martina Navratilova's coach. I learned more from her in 678 00:46:16,195 --> 00:46:19,235 Speaker 1: that first half hour of conversation about the ethics of 679 00:46:19,315 --> 00:46:22,755 Speaker 1: reporting than I had in all of my previous life 680 00:46:22,795 --> 00:46:29,035 Speaker 1: experiences combined. Plus she was a gas Renee. Richards was hilarious, 681 00:46:29,115 --> 00:46:31,195 Speaker 1: she was self effacing, She was a great doctor, and 682 00:46:31,235 --> 00:46:33,555 Speaker 1: to me, she was the definition of courage. And she, 683 00:46:34,035 --> 00:46:38,035 Speaker 1: I am proud to say, is still my friend, all 684 00:46:38,075 --> 00:46:41,315 Speaker 1: because I did not know what Mom meant when she said, 685 00:46:41,595 --> 00:46:44,515 Speaker 1: don't run for a train. There'll always be another one. 686 00:46:44,555 --> 00:46:46,715 Speaker 1: The other phrase I never really understood till then was 687 00:46:46,875 --> 00:46:52,515 Speaker 1: break neck speed. Oh, when there is one more punchline here. 688 00:46:52,955 --> 00:46:55,235 Speaker 1: If the name of that hospital that the two good 689 00:46:55,235 --> 00:46:59,195 Speaker 1: Samaritans took me to, Elmhurst Hospital, sounds vaguely familiar, it should. 690 00:46:59,955 --> 00:47:03,275 Speaker 1: It was ground zero when COVID nineteen hit, when the 691 00:47:03,315 --> 00:47:06,435 Speaker 1: pandemic had its hand around New York City's throat. The 692 00:47:06,475 --> 00:47:09,835 Speaker 1: worst hit community was Elmhurst in Queens, and the worst 693 00:47:09,955 --> 00:47:14,275 Speaker 1: hit hospital was Elmhurst Hospital. They were in desperate need 694 00:47:14,315 --> 00:47:16,875 Speaker 1: at that point of ventilators, so I knew what I 695 00:47:16,915 --> 00:47:20,155 Speaker 1: had to do. You could buy them for cash legally, 696 00:47:20,955 --> 00:47:24,755 Speaker 1: So I got two ventilators. I had them delivered, one 697 00:47:24,795 --> 00:47:27,115 Speaker 1: for each of the ladies who helped me to get 698 00:47:27,115 --> 00:47:42,195 Speaker 1: off the damn train that day. I've done all the 699 00:47:42,235 --> 00:47:44,475 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Please 700 00:47:44,515 --> 00:47:47,915 Speaker 1: share this podcast with somebody who does not listen. Brian 701 00:47:47,995 --> 00:47:51,915 Speaker 1: Ray and John Phillips Chanel, the musical directors, have Countdown, arranged, produced, 702 00:47:51,915 --> 00:47:55,035 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled the 703 00:47:55,155 --> 00:47:58,155 Speaker 1: orchestration and the keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, 704 00:47:58,195 --> 00:48:01,315 Speaker 1: the bass, and the drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers. 705 00:48:01,755 --> 00:48:04,155 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best 706 00:48:04,155 --> 00:48:07,835 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. Sports music is the 707 00:48:07,835 --> 00:48:11,395 Speaker 1: Olberman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis 708 00:48:11,395 --> 00:48:15,115 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by 709 00:48:15,115 --> 00:48:18,035 Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my 710 00:48:18,115 --> 00:48:21,635 Speaker 1: friend Kenny Main. Everything else was pretty much my fault. 711 00:48:22,115 --> 00:48:24,955 Speaker 1: That's countdown for this the seventy fifth day until the 712 00:48:24,995 --> 00:48:28,675 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four presidential election, and they three hundred and 713 00:48:28,715 --> 00:48:32,395 Speaker 1: twenty fourth day since convicted felon Donald J. Trump's first 714 00:48:32,435 --> 00:48:36,315 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 715 00:48:36,795 --> 00:48:39,955 Speaker 1: Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing. If it happens, use 716 00:48:39,995 --> 00:48:42,915 Speaker 1: the mental health system. You've got it. President Biden used 717 00:48:42,955 --> 00:48:46,035 Speaker 1: presidential immunity. If you need to get out the troops 718 00:48:46,075 --> 00:48:51,235 Speaker 1: and stop him from doing it again while we still can, 719 00:48:52,075 --> 00:48:56,795 Speaker 1: and anti Semitic, anti immigration, gun nut Republicans, please stop 720 00:48:56,875 --> 00:49:01,395 Speaker 1: shooting at Trump. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. Bulletins 721 00:49:01,435 --> 00:49:03,715 Speaker 1: as the news requires. Until the next one of these, 722 00:49:03,755 --> 00:49:06,715 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olderman, good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 723 00:49:07,075 --> 00:49:30,675 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 724 00:49:30,955 --> 00:49:36,115 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 725 00:49:36,355 --> 00:49:38,315 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.