1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,755 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio Free 2 00:00:21,995 --> 00:00:29,875 Speaker 1: the Q Shaman Jacob Chansley, no arrest Tucker Carlson. Tucker 3 00:00:29,955 --> 00:00:32,915 Speaker 1: Carlson is lying about the January sixth video, and a 4 00:00:32,955 --> 00:00:36,835 Speaker 1: new government document, sworn under oath and under penalty of 5 00:00:36,875 --> 00:00:40,355 Speaker 1: perjury and submitted yesterday to a district court in Washington, 6 00:00:40,635 --> 00:00:45,075 Speaker 1: confirms that Tucker Carlson could be prosecuted as part of 7 00:00:45,115 --> 00:00:49,195 Speaker 1: a conspiracy to obstruct justice, or even prosecuted on much 8 00:00:49,235 --> 00:00:52,995 Speaker 1: more serious and ominous charges under eighteen Usc. Two three 9 00:00:53,075 --> 00:00:58,435 Speaker 1: eight three rebellion or insurrection. All that footage that Carlson 10 00:00:58,515 --> 00:01:02,075 Speaker 1: said had been quote withheld from the Q Shaman Chansley, 11 00:01:02,355 --> 00:01:06,635 Speaker 1: All that footage that Carlson said showed Chansley being escorted 12 00:01:06,635 --> 00:01:10,195 Speaker 1: by Capitol police. All that footage that Carlson said proved 13 00:01:10,235 --> 00:01:13,995 Speaker 1: a government conspiracy to frame Chansley. All that footage that 14 00:01:14,075 --> 00:01:19,115 Speaker 1: Carlson said proved January sixth was just sightseers framed by 15 00:01:19,355 --> 00:01:23,275 Speaker 1: Pelosi and Cheney and Biden and the media. All that 16 00:01:23,315 --> 00:01:27,675 Speaker 1: footage that Kevin McCarthy sold his soul, over all that 17 00:01:27,755 --> 00:01:30,955 Speaker 1: footage that Elon Musk was dumb enough to fall for 18 00:01:31,155 --> 00:01:34,795 Speaker 1: and promulgate all that footage that every Trump apologist and 19 00:01:34,955 --> 00:01:39,075 Speaker 1: every proseditionist congressman is pushing like his life depended on it. 20 00:01:39,115 --> 00:01:43,235 Speaker 1: Because maybe it is all that footage at the center 21 00:01:43,755 --> 00:01:52,755 Speaker 1: of the international Communist liberal democratic woke crt LGBTQ George 22 00:01:52,795 --> 00:01:58,035 Speaker 1: Sorrow's conspiracy that Tucker Carlson and Tucker Carlson alone valiantly 23 00:01:58,035 --> 00:02:03,915 Speaker 1: outed and will avenge all that footage. Jacob Chansley's lawyer 24 00:02:04,035 --> 00:02:06,595 Speaker 1: was given all but ten seconds of that footage on 25 00:02:06,875 --> 00:02:13,195 Speaker 1: or before September twenty fourth, two twenty one, five hundred 26 00:02:13,235 --> 00:02:20,195 Speaker 1: and thirty five days ago, and Chanslly's lawyer was given 27 00:02:20,235 --> 00:02:26,955 Speaker 1: the remaining missing ten seconds forty nine days ago. Tucker 28 00:02:26,995 --> 00:02:32,515 Speaker 1: Carlson is lying. Kevin McCarthy is lying. Jacob Chansley's first 29 00:02:32,595 --> 00:02:38,155 Speaker 1: lawyer is lying. Jacob Chansly's second lawyer is lying. Fox 30 00:02:38,315 --> 00:02:44,595 Speaker 1: Quote news unquote is lying. One of the members of 31 00:02:44,675 --> 00:02:48,475 Speaker 1: the terrorist group the Proud Boys himself on trial for 32 00:02:48,635 --> 00:02:53,955 Speaker 1: January sixth, Dominic Pizzola moved to dismiss his case or 33 00:02:54,035 --> 00:02:58,155 Speaker 1: have a mistrial called quote due to recent revelations on 34 00:02:58,195 --> 00:03:02,155 Speaker 1: the Tucker Carlson Show unquote, there are no revelations. There 35 00:03:02,315 --> 00:03:05,235 Speaker 1: is no new footage. There was no truth a single 36 00:03:05,275 --> 00:03:10,795 Speaker 1: word out of Tucker Carlson's fascist, racist, anti democracy whoremouth. 37 00:03:12,515 --> 00:03:17,555 Speaker 1: Yesterday afternoon, the Government responded to the Pozzola motion to 38 00:03:17,755 --> 00:03:23,395 Speaker 1: dismiss by issuing Memorandum number six eight nine and giving 39 00:03:23,435 --> 00:03:27,675 Speaker 1: it to the Court Memorandum six eight nine in the 40 00:03:27,755 --> 00:03:32,115 Speaker 1: United States of America versus ethan Nordion at all. And 41 00:03:32,275 --> 00:03:36,195 Speaker 1: while the memorandum is ostensibly about that case and this 42 00:03:36,315 --> 00:03:39,915 Speaker 1: gang member Pezzola, it is in fact directed at the 43 00:03:39,995 --> 00:03:43,755 Speaker 1: lies of the lawyers of the Q Shaman, and more 44 00:03:43,795 --> 00:03:47,355 Speaker 1: importantly and absolutely lowers the boom on Tucker Carlson and 45 00:03:47,395 --> 00:03:53,075 Speaker 1: Fox quote news unquote and this entire enraging, embarrassing, illegal 46 00:03:53,435 --> 00:03:57,515 Speaker 1: scam that Carlson and Kevin McCarthy are running. And it 47 00:03:57,715 --> 00:04:00,675 Speaker 1: is thus now utterly essential to the future of this 48 00:04:00,795 --> 00:04:04,995 Speaker 1: nation for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to convene a 49 00:04:05,075 --> 00:04:09,675 Speaker 1: Senate investigation of Carlson and Fox and whatever is behind 50 00:04:10,115 --> 00:04:14,195 Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch's effort to destabilize the elected government of the 51 00:04:14,275 --> 00:04:21,435 Speaker 1: United States and imperil our country. Let me read from 52 00:04:21,475 --> 00:04:25,435 Speaker 1: Document six eighty nine Case one twenty one CR. Zero 53 00:04:25,515 --> 00:04:31,195 Speaker 1: zero one seven five t j K quote. The CCTV 54 00:04:31,355 --> 00:04:35,075 Speaker 1: footage is core evidence in nearly every January sixth case, 55 00:04:35,355 --> 00:04:39,875 Speaker 1: and it was produced on moss labeled by camera number 56 00:04:39,915 --> 00:04:44,355 Speaker 1: and by time to all defense counsel in all cases, 57 00:04:44,955 --> 00:04:49,435 Speaker 1: with the exception of one CCTV camera, where said footage 58 00:04:49,435 --> 00:04:55,115 Speaker 1: totaled approximately ten seconds and implicated an evacuation route. All 59 00:04:55,155 --> 00:04:59,075 Speaker 1: of the footage played on television was disclosed to defend 60 00:04:59,155 --> 00:05:04,435 Speaker 1: it Pezzola and defended Chansley. By September twenty fourth, two 61 00:05:05,075 --> 00:05:08,795 Speaker 1: twenty one, the final ten seconds of footage was produced 62 00:05:08,835 --> 00:05:14,355 Speaker 1: in global discovery to all defense counsel on January twenty three, 63 00:05:14,395 --> 00:05:21,435 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. End quote. Knowing already what he did 64 00:05:21,875 --> 00:05:25,315 Speaker 1: and what he did not do. On January sixth, Jacob 65 00:05:25,395 --> 00:05:28,795 Speaker 1: Chansley and his attorney at the time, Albert Watkins, agreed 66 00:05:28,835 --> 00:05:31,835 Speaker 1: to a plea deal on September third, twenty twenty one 67 00:05:32,115 --> 00:05:36,515 Speaker 1: one charge of felony obstruction of a proceeding of Congress, 68 00:05:36,795 --> 00:05:40,195 Speaker 1: and Chansley signed a seven page document giving a minute 69 00:05:40,195 --> 00:05:43,035 Speaker 1: by minute timeline of his crime, and not once in 70 00:05:43,115 --> 00:05:45,995 Speaker 1: it did he claim he had been escorted, but in 71 00:05:46,035 --> 00:05:49,235 Speaker 1: the document he confessed to repeatedly refusing to do what 72 00:05:49,395 --> 00:05:52,315 Speaker 1: those officers shown on that video told him to do, 73 00:05:52,555 --> 00:05:58,195 Speaker 1: which was leave his attorney Watkins got any video from 74 00:05:58,195 --> 00:06:01,395 Speaker 1: the insurrection he had not already been given except the 75 00:06:01,475 --> 00:06:05,595 Speaker 1: ten seconds that showed a secret escape route by September 76 00:06:05,635 --> 00:06:11,115 Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty twenty one. Chancey was sentenced on November seventeenth, 77 00:06:11,155 --> 00:06:15,155 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, meaning his attorney had at least fifty 78 00:06:15,475 --> 00:06:20,235 Speaker 1: four days to review the video that the liar Tucker 79 00:06:20,275 --> 00:06:24,435 Speaker 1: Carlson showed last week and claimed was new. If any 80 00:06:24,475 --> 00:06:28,875 Speaker 1: of it actually did anything like the liar Tucker Carlson claimed, 81 00:06:29,435 --> 00:06:32,155 Speaker 1: the attorney would have showed it to the judge at sentencing, 82 00:06:32,835 --> 00:06:34,875 Speaker 1: and he and Chancey could have backed out of the 83 00:06:34,875 --> 00:06:37,955 Speaker 1: plea deal, or the judge would have thrown out the 84 00:06:37,995 --> 00:06:42,555 Speaker 1: plea deal. But it didn't show anything. Because Tucker Carlson 85 00:06:42,795 --> 00:06:47,635 Speaker 1: is lying, he is obstructing justice. And when the attorney 86 00:06:47,635 --> 00:06:51,435 Speaker 1: Watkins told the liar Tucker Carlson that he had never 87 00:06:51,475 --> 00:06:55,475 Speaker 1: seen the video before, if Watkins himself was not lying, 88 00:06:55,755 --> 00:06:59,555 Speaker 1: it means Watkins was too lazy or too incompetent or 89 00:06:59,675 --> 00:07:02,835 Speaker 1: both to review the video. He had had access to 90 00:07:03,355 --> 00:07:09,195 Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty five days ago. The Q Shaman 91 00:07:09,355 --> 00:07:13,795 Speaker 1: Chansley officially changed attorneys on November twenty ninth, twenty twenty one, 92 00:07:13,995 --> 00:07:17,715 Speaker 1: meaning his new lawyer, John Pierce, has had four hundred 93 00:07:17,715 --> 00:07:20,715 Speaker 1: and seventy days to look at that video that the liar, 94 00:07:20,755 --> 00:07:24,035 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson lied had been withheld from the lawyers and 95 00:07:24,155 --> 00:07:27,635 Speaker 1: from the nation. And when the attorney Pierce told the 96 00:07:27,715 --> 00:07:31,075 Speaker 1: liar Tucker Carlson that he'd never seen that video before, 97 00:07:31,875 --> 00:07:35,275 Speaker 1: if Pierce wasn't lying, it meant Pierce was too lazy 98 00:07:35,555 --> 00:07:38,555 Speaker 1: or too incompetent, or both to review the video he 99 00:07:38,635 --> 00:07:41,915 Speaker 1: had access to four hundred and seventy days ago and 100 00:07:42,075 --> 00:07:49,835 Speaker 1: every day since. But wait, what about that last ten 101 00:07:49,915 --> 00:07:52,595 Speaker 1: seconds that the government didn't turn over until just under 102 00:07:52,635 --> 00:07:57,395 Speaker 1: two months ago? What about that? Well from the same 103 00:07:57,475 --> 00:08:03,075 Speaker 1: memo in this puzzola case filed yesterday, quote, the final 104 00:08:03,115 --> 00:08:08,195 Speaker 1: ten seconds of footage similarly, as with other CCTV depicts 105 00:08:08,235 --> 00:08:12,195 Speaker 1: defendant Chansley outside of the Senate Chamber with law enforcement 106 00:08:12,515 --> 00:08:19,035 Speaker 1: after his initial breach of the chamber unquote. And remember, 107 00:08:19,915 --> 00:08:23,155 Speaker 1: anything the government puts into the record in its prosecution 108 00:08:23,195 --> 00:08:28,875 Speaker 1: of anybody must be utterly verifiable to the letter. If 109 00:08:28,875 --> 00:08:32,155 Speaker 1: there is not a signed receipt from every attorney, including 110 00:08:32,475 --> 00:08:36,395 Speaker 1: Chansley's apparently useless mouthpiece, Albert Watkins, the one who said 111 00:08:36,435 --> 00:08:39,155 Speaker 1: Chandsley and the others were from quote the short bus. 112 00:08:39,595 --> 00:08:43,315 Speaker 1: If there isn't an impeccable sworn under oath record of 113 00:08:43,355 --> 00:08:46,515 Speaker 1: everything the government asserts in something like this Memorandum six 114 00:08:46,715 --> 00:08:50,195 Speaker 1: eighty nine, not only does the prosecution go out the window, 115 00:08:50,275 --> 00:08:53,595 Speaker 1: but the prosecutors can go to jail. This isn't the 116 00:08:53,635 --> 00:08:57,235 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson liar show. You can't just lie and get 117 00:08:57,275 --> 00:09:00,955 Speaker 1: away with it like you're Tucker Carlson. If Fox quote 118 00:09:01,035 --> 00:09:04,355 Speaker 1: News were held to the same standard, to one tenth 119 00:09:04,395 --> 00:09:08,635 Speaker 1: of the same standard as federal prosecutors, Tucker Carlson would 120 00:09:08,675 --> 00:09:11,115 Speaker 1: not only be in jail right now, he would have 121 00:09:11,195 --> 00:09:16,635 Speaker 1: already lost his appeal to get out on bail. But wait, 122 00:09:16,715 --> 00:09:21,675 Speaker 1: there's more later in government Memorandum six eighty nine quote 123 00:09:22,355 --> 00:09:28,035 Speaker 1: the televised footage shows Chansley's movements only from approximately two 124 00:09:28,115 --> 00:09:32,515 Speaker 1: fifty six pm to three pm. Prior to that time, 125 00:09:32,635 --> 00:09:36,235 Speaker 1: Chansley had, amongst other acts, breached a police line at 126 00:09:36,235 --> 00:09:39,475 Speaker 1: two o nine pm, with the mob entered the capital 127 00:09:39,555 --> 00:09:42,795 Speaker 1: less than one minute behind Dominic Pizzola during the initial 128 00:09:42,835 --> 00:09:45,995 Speaker 1: breach of the building, and faced off with members of 129 00:09:46,035 --> 00:09:49,515 Speaker 1: the US Capitol Police for more than thirty minutes in 130 00:09:49,555 --> 00:09:53,275 Speaker 1: front of the Senate Chamber doors, while elected officials, including 131 00:09:53,275 --> 00:09:55,995 Speaker 1: the Vice President of the United States, were fleeing from 132 00:09:56,035 --> 00:10:00,635 Speaker 1: the chamber. Chansly then entered the Senate Gallery, where he 133 00:10:00,675 --> 00:10:04,435 Speaker 1: proceeded to scream obscenities while other rioters rifled through the 134 00:10:04,475 --> 00:10:07,555 Speaker 1: debt eskus of US senators on the floor below. All 135 00:10:07,595 --> 00:10:11,715 Speaker 1: these actions were captured by Senate floor and or CCTV cameras. 136 00:10:12,035 --> 00:10:17,715 Speaker 1: In some Chansley was not some passive, chaperoned observer of events. 137 00:10:17,955 --> 00:10:21,475 Speaker 1: For the roughly hour that he was unlawfully inside the Capitol, 138 00:10:21,635 --> 00:10:24,435 Speaker 1: he was part of the initial breach of the building. 139 00:10:24,995 --> 00:10:29,035 Speaker 1: He confronted law enforcement for roughly thirty minutes just outside 140 00:10:29,035 --> 00:10:32,155 Speaker 1: the Senate chamber he gained access to and later left 141 00:10:32,195 --> 00:10:35,915 Speaker 1: the Senate floor only after law enforcement was able to 142 00:10:35,995 --> 00:10:41,795 Speaker 1: arrive on Moss to remove him. It is at this 143 00:10:41,875 --> 00:10:45,435 Speaker 1: point that the authors of Memorandum six eighty nine nail 144 00:10:45,595 --> 00:10:50,795 Speaker 1: the liar Tucker Carlson to the metaphorical wall quote. It 145 00:10:50,995 --> 00:10:54,835 Speaker 1: is true that a sole officer who was trying to 146 00:10:54,995 --> 00:10:59,115 Speaker 1: de escalate the situation was with Chansley as he made 147 00:10:59,115 --> 00:11:02,555 Speaker 1: his way to the Senate floor after initially breaching the chamber, 148 00:11:02,875 --> 00:11:07,875 Speaker 1: as the televised footage reflect But the televised footage fails 149 00:11:07,915 --> 00:11:13,235 Speaker 1: to show that Chansley subsequently refused to be escorted out 150 00:11:13,555 --> 00:11:17,915 Speaker 1: by this loan officer and instead left the Capitol only 151 00:11:17,955 --> 00:11:25,035 Speaker 1: after additional officers arrived and forcibly escorted him out free 152 00:11:25,195 --> 00:11:33,675 Speaker 1: Jacob Chansley arrest Tucker Carlson. What the liar Tucker Carlson 153 00:11:34,115 --> 00:11:37,595 Speaker 1: and the liar Maria barter Romo as recently as yesterday, 154 00:11:37,675 --> 00:11:41,835 Speaker 1: still pushing Fox's January sixth video lie, still trying to 155 00:11:41,875 --> 00:11:45,075 Speaker 1: spit out the words watching them walk and being escorted 156 00:11:45,115 --> 00:11:51,035 Speaker 1: by police. What they are doing is obstructing justice, and 157 00:11:51,195 --> 00:11:53,875 Speaker 1: for that matter, so is what Speaker of the House 158 00:11:53,955 --> 00:12:00,035 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is doing. He, without any consultation, arbitrarily released 159 00:12:00,115 --> 00:12:03,115 Speaker 1: all this video to the liar Tucker Carlson for the 160 00:12:03,195 --> 00:12:07,555 Speaker 1: express purpose of producing sing the kind of gas lighting, obstructionist, 161 00:12:07,715 --> 00:12:10,635 Speaker 1: false narrative that Carlson and his producers and his employers 162 00:12:10,635 --> 00:12:16,195 Speaker 1: and Rupert Murdoch promptly and efficiently did produce, McCarthy handed 163 00:12:16,235 --> 00:12:22,035 Speaker 1: Carlson access to materials with which to lie. Carlson then 164 00:12:22,195 --> 00:12:27,475 Speaker 1: lied night after night and yesterday. Interviewed by the liar 165 00:12:27,555 --> 00:12:32,435 Speaker 1: bartar Romo, Kevin McCarthy completed the self fulfilling prophecy. Quote, 166 00:12:33,195 --> 00:12:35,355 Speaker 1: what have we learned from these tapes that have been 167 00:12:35,355 --> 00:12:39,155 Speaker 1: on Tucker Carlson tonight? Said bartar Romo, who is the 168 00:12:39,195 --> 00:12:41,915 Speaker 1: liar who has promised support for a Senate run by 169 00:12:41,995 --> 00:12:46,835 Speaker 1: Steve Bannon. In answering her, McCarthy as evil but not 170 00:12:47,035 --> 00:12:50,275 Speaker 1: nearly as interesting as his nineteen fifties namesake, answered quote, 171 00:12:50,635 --> 00:12:53,195 Speaker 1: The first thing I found is that the January sixth 172 00:12:53,195 --> 00:12:57,355 Speaker 1: committee was not honest with us. He then strung together 173 00:12:57,395 --> 00:13:00,435 Speaker 1: his standard cliches about transparency and how many hours of 174 00:13:00,475 --> 00:13:03,075 Speaker 1: tape there was and burning cities and everybody can make 175 00:13:03,115 --> 00:13:06,475 Speaker 1: their own judgment and equal justice, well justice, equally equal justice. 176 00:13:06,835 --> 00:13:12,235 Speaker 1: Arrest Kevin McCarthy for obstruction of justice. What, after all 177 00:13:12,515 --> 00:13:16,355 Speaker 1: has this all been about. This has been to try 178 00:13:16,355 --> 00:13:20,435 Speaker 1: to whitewash and to gaslight, not just in the arena 179 00:13:20,475 --> 00:13:25,155 Speaker 1: of public opinion, not just to fool the marks who 180 00:13:25,195 --> 00:13:29,875 Speaker 1: watch Fox, but in the courts. This is to try 181 00:13:29,875 --> 00:13:35,675 Speaker 1: to whitewash and gaslight, an insurrection, a coup, a bloody 182 00:13:35,755 --> 00:13:39,755 Speaker 1: attack on the Capitol during the official transfer of power. 183 00:13:40,115 --> 00:13:44,275 Speaker 1: It is a conspiracy to turn the guilty perpetrators into 184 00:13:44,395 --> 00:13:48,795 Speaker 1: victims and the victims into defendants. And that is called 185 00:13:48,915 --> 00:13:52,835 Speaker 1: obstruction of justice. And you go to jail for that, 186 00:13:53,355 --> 00:13:57,635 Speaker 1: And Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson should go to jail 187 00:13:57,755 --> 00:14:04,795 Speaker 1: for that. On Saturday, the former White House Communications director 188 00:14:04,875 --> 00:14:08,395 Speaker 1: under Trump, Stephanie Grisham, underscored what we've all known all 189 00:14:08,435 --> 00:14:13,115 Speaker 1: along that Fox quote news unquote served as the main 190 00:14:13,235 --> 00:14:19,515 Speaker 1: propaganda outlet for Trump, with specific hands on direction by Trump. 191 00:14:20,715 --> 00:14:24,235 Speaker 1: In an interview with CNN, Grisham emphasized that people like 192 00:14:24,315 --> 00:14:29,235 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity and Janine Piro and Laura Ingram and Fox 193 00:14:29,395 --> 00:14:34,915 Speaker 1: quote News unquote CEO Suzanne Scott all called her office constantly, 194 00:14:35,155 --> 00:14:37,315 Speaker 1: and if she did not get back to them fast enough, 195 00:14:37,355 --> 00:14:40,755 Speaker 1: they would call Trump and whine about that. Quoting her, 196 00:14:41,195 --> 00:14:43,875 Speaker 1: we did work hand in hand with them, and that 197 00:14:43,955 --> 00:14:46,795 Speaker 1: came at the President's direction. If he didn't like something, 198 00:14:46,835 --> 00:14:50,235 Speaker 1: we were to immediately, you know, call Fox and have 199 00:14:50,395 --> 00:14:53,315 Speaker 1: them fix it or try to make a new story 200 00:14:53,395 --> 00:15:00,115 Speaker 1: out of it. Etc. Unquote. So the question must now 201 00:15:00,155 --> 00:15:05,475 Speaker 1: be raised, is this exact construction happening again? We heard 202 00:15:05,555 --> 00:15:08,555 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy humiliate himself the night he was finally elected 203 00:15:08,595 --> 00:15:14,315 Speaker 1: speaker fulsomely thanking Trump. Is this whole conspiracy to obstruct 204 00:15:14,355 --> 00:15:21,075 Speaker 1: justice originating with Trump? Did he tell McCarthy to give 205 00:15:21,115 --> 00:15:27,395 Speaker 1: the January sixth video access to Tucker Carlson? We need 206 00:15:28,035 --> 00:15:30,635 Speaker 1: not only the full resources of the Department of Justice 207 00:15:30,675 --> 00:15:33,355 Speaker 1: directed towards these evil men and the people who enabled them, 208 00:15:33,355 --> 00:15:37,395 Speaker 1: like Rupert Murdoch, We need a Senate Select committee and 209 00:15:37,555 --> 00:15:41,115 Speaker 1: hearings into what is more than just Fox's typical lying 210 00:15:41,195 --> 00:15:44,395 Speaker 1: to and manipulation of its moronic audience, but which is 211 00:15:44,435 --> 00:15:49,075 Speaker 1: a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the prosecution of the 212 00:15:49,195 --> 00:15:56,995 Speaker 1: January sixth insurrection. Free the Q Shaman, Arrest Tucker Carlson, 213 00:15:57,475 --> 00:16:04,115 Speaker 1: Arrest Kevin McCarthy, and arrest the ringleader of this conspiracy 214 00:16:04,155 --> 00:16:22,195 Speaker 1: to rocked Donald Trump still ahead of us. In this 215 00:16:22,355 --> 00:16:24,795 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, Mike Pence says he and his family 216 00:16:24,835 --> 00:16:28,235 Speaker 1: and everybody at the Capitol on January sixth were endangered 217 00:16:28,235 --> 00:16:31,915 Speaker 1: by Donald Trump, and of course no, he will not 218 00:16:32,075 --> 00:16:36,275 Speaker 1: help anybody investigating Trump nor prosecuting Trump. He'll just continue 219 00:16:36,315 --> 00:16:41,675 Speaker 1: to say mean, meaningless things about Trump. The collapse of 220 00:16:41,795 --> 00:16:45,755 Speaker 1: Silicon Valley bank conservatives like the aforementioned Kevin McCarthy are 221 00:16:45,755 --> 00:16:51,955 Speaker 1: blaming woke banking. Excuse me, does free check income with 222 00:16:51,995 --> 00:16:55,395 Speaker 1: your woke banking? Turns out the real culprits in the 223 00:16:55,435 --> 00:17:00,755 Speaker 1: collapse include two former Kevin McCarthy staffers. In sports, a 224 00:17:00,835 --> 00:17:04,275 Speaker 1: tweet by the lead football commentator for the BBC may 225 00:17:04,355 --> 00:17:08,795 Speaker 1: bring down the British government. What happens when sportscasters say 226 00:17:09,075 --> 00:17:13,515 Speaker 1: enough is enough? Whereas persons, Hey, Ron de Santis never 227 00:17:13,555 --> 00:17:17,995 Speaker 1: accept us snowflake from a stranger and thirteen years ago 228 00:17:18,075 --> 00:17:20,955 Speaker 1: today my dad died. I will spare you anything sad 229 00:17:20,995 --> 00:17:24,115 Speaker 1: and instead tell you of one of the most remarkable 230 00:17:24,115 --> 00:17:30,795 Speaker 1: pieces of parenting self restraint I have ever encountered about 231 00:17:30,875 --> 00:17:34,795 Speaker 1: my education. I found out about it forty six years 232 00:17:34,795 --> 00:17:41,795 Speaker 1: ago and I am still speechless metaphorically. That's next. This 233 00:17:41,995 --> 00:17:56,875 Speaker 1: is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Both scripts 234 00:17:56,915 --> 00:18:00,355 Speaker 1: to the news. Some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions. 235 00:18:00,395 --> 00:18:03,995 Speaker 1: Dateline Santa Clara, the government insisted is not bailing out 236 00:18:04,075 --> 00:18:08,595 Speaker 1: the imploded Silicon Valley bank, but all depositors will be 237 00:18:08,635 --> 00:18:10,475 Speaker 1: able to get their money at no cost to you 238 00:18:10,675 --> 00:18:14,715 Speaker 1: taxpayers at home, because yea capitalism until it turns out 239 00:18:15,195 --> 00:18:17,675 Speaker 1: one bunch of capitalists have no idea what they're doing, 240 00:18:17,715 --> 00:18:22,355 Speaker 1: which case it becomes yeay corporate socialism. The move will 241 00:18:22,395 --> 00:18:25,795 Speaker 1: at Lee's quiet, if not end two right wing talking points. 242 00:18:25,875 --> 00:18:29,755 Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior tweeted yesterday quote, I don't remember banks 243 00:18:29,795 --> 00:18:34,675 Speaker 1: collapsing under Trump. A Junior also doesn't remember last night. 244 00:18:35,275 --> 00:18:39,235 Speaker 1: More importantly, b sixteen banks collapsed under Trump. This is 245 00:18:39,275 --> 00:18:43,155 Speaker 1: the first since he left office. The other fascist bleat 246 00:18:43,235 --> 00:18:46,435 Speaker 1: over the weekend was that because it promoted responsible investing, 247 00:18:46,755 --> 00:18:51,755 Speaker 1: SVB was quote woke and therefore it went broke. In fact, 248 00:18:51,755 --> 00:18:54,955 Speaker 1: as Ken Clippenstein reported at the Intercept, key parts of 249 00:18:54,955 --> 00:18:58,435 Speaker 1: the Dodd Frank banking regulations were not only rolled back 250 00:18:58,475 --> 00:19:01,355 Speaker 1: in two and eighteen under the guidance of Trump and 251 00:19:01,475 --> 00:19:06,035 Speaker 1: the then House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy, but two SVB 252 00:19:06,275 --> 00:19:12,155 Speaker 1: lobbyists are former McCarthy staffery's McCarthy's former Coalitions director Brian Worth, 253 00:19:12,475 --> 00:19:17,075 Speaker 1: and McCarthy's ex senior policy adviser Wes McClelland. And McCarthy 254 00:19:17,155 --> 00:19:19,595 Speaker 1: is not woke. In fact, there's not even much evidence 255 00:19:19,635 --> 00:19:25,275 Speaker 1: he's awake. Dateline Washington the usually lighthearted translation It's boring. 256 00:19:25,555 --> 00:19:29,915 Speaker 1: Gridiron Charity Dinner Saturday featured former Vice President Mike Pence 257 00:19:30,195 --> 00:19:34,875 Speaker 1: attacking everybody trying to minimize January sixth. He even name 258 00:19:34,995 --> 00:19:39,755 Speaker 1: checked Trump. Quote, President Trump was wrong. I had no 259 00:19:39,875 --> 00:19:43,675 Speaker 1: right to overturn the election, and his reckless words endangered 260 00:19:43,675 --> 00:19:46,875 Speaker 1: my family and everyone at the Capitol that day. And 261 00:19:47,035 --> 00:19:51,955 Speaker 1: I know history will hold Donald Trump accountable on quote. Well, 262 00:19:51,995 --> 00:19:55,275 Speaker 1: maybe history will, but Pence won't. He is still fighting 263 00:19:55,315 --> 00:19:59,875 Speaker 1: the subpoena to testify to Special Counsel Jack Smith. So basically, 264 00:19:59,915 --> 00:20:20,435 Speaker 1: he's full of crap and a bad Christian. Thank you, 265 00:20:20,635 --> 00:20:24,435 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. As a PostScript, Treasury Secretary Tony Blincoln also 266 00:20:24,515 --> 00:20:28,555 Speaker 1: spoke at the Gridiron Dinner quote. According to the guest list, 267 00:20:28,595 --> 00:20:32,635 Speaker 1: there are six hundred to tends here tonight. CNN would 268 00:20:32,715 --> 00:20:38,275 Speaker 1: kill for an audience like that, and Dateline Hollywood at 269 00:20:38,315 --> 00:20:41,555 Speaker 1: the Oscars, nice that Navalne won for Best Documentary. Waiting 270 00:20:41,555 --> 00:20:45,315 Speaker 1: for Trump to ask where is Putin's oscar? Otherwise I 271 00:20:45,355 --> 00:20:48,235 Speaker 1: don't care. I covered the Oscars for the La Times 272 00:20:48,235 --> 00:20:51,635 Speaker 1: once nineteen ninety nine and Tom Hanks, Ben Affleck and 273 00:20:51,755 --> 00:20:55,315 Speaker 1: Matt Damon grabbed me and pulled me over the security 274 00:20:55,355 --> 00:20:58,115 Speaker 1: hedge onto the red carpet and they broke my comer bund. 275 00:20:59,035 --> 00:21:01,075 Speaker 1: I still haven't gotten a check from Hanks for that. 276 00:21:01,675 --> 00:21:03,955 Speaker 1: Maybe we can't get a slap every year. But if 277 00:21:03,955 --> 00:21:21,595 Speaker 1: there's no broke Cummerbund, sorry, I'm watching hockey instead. This 278 00:21:22,635 --> 00:21:27,995 Speaker 1: is Sports Center. Wait, check that in not anymore. This 279 00:21:28,835 --> 00:21:34,635 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith Alberman in sports. Florida Governor Ron 280 00:21:34,715 --> 00:21:37,115 Speaker 1: De Santis says that if the federal government continues to 281 00:21:37,195 --> 00:21:40,275 Speaker 1: keep tennis star Novak Djokovic out of this country because 282 00:21:40,275 --> 00:21:43,835 Speaker 1: he is not vaccinated, DeSantis is open to breaking the 283 00:21:43,915 --> 00:21:46,675 Speaker 1: law and bringing Djokovic in by the back door to 284 00:21:46,835 --> 00:21:50,475 Speaker 1: play in the Miami Tennis Open or whatever. Quote. I 285 00:21:50,555 --> 00:21:52,995 Speaker 1: would run a boat from the Bahamas here for him. 286 00:21:53,035 --> 00:21:57,275 Speaker 1: I would do that. Actually, I like this idea because 287 00:21:57,315 --> 00:22:00,475 Speaker 1: then the Coastguard could stop the boat, arrest everybody on board, 288 00:22:00,715 --> 00:22:03,555 Speaker 1: prosecute De Santis, and if the boat wouldn't stop, they 289 00:22:03,555 --> 00:22:07,195 Speaker 1: could just sink it. Cool plan Ron. Here in New York, 290 00:22:07,195 --> 00:22:10,035 Speaker 1: the war continues between the owner of Madison Square Garden 291 00:22:10,155 --> 00:22:12,635 Speaker 1: Radio City Music Hall, The Knicks and the Rangers, Jim 292 00:22:12,715 --> 00:22:17,835 Speaker 1: Dolan and Reality. The State Liquor Authority has begun proceedings 293 00:22:17,915 --> 00:22:21,795 Speaker 1: to revoke all of Dolan's licenses to sell booze in 294 00:22:21,875 --> 00:22:25,195 Speaker 1: response to him using facial recognition technology to keep out 295 00:22:25,275 --> 00:22:29,635 Speaker 1: customers he personally does not like. Dolan promptly sued the 296 00:22:29,635 --> 00:22:33,635 Speaker 1: liquor authority, calling it gangster like, and he promised victory 297 00:22:33,675 --> 00:22:37,355 Speaker 1: over it, which would be the first ever victory by anything. 298 00:22:37,475 --> 00:22:42,155 Speaker 1: Jim Dolan owns Dateline London Day for the British government 299 00:22:42,155 --> 00:22:45,795 Speaker 1: and its iconic broadcaster, the BBC, trying to figure out 300 00:22:46,155 --> 00:22:49,315 Speaker 1: how to get control of the country back from football 301 00:22:49,315 --> 00:22:54,035 Speaker 1: announcer and former UK playing star Gary Lineker. Last Tuesday, 302 00:22:54,315 --> 00:22:58,315 Speaker 1: the repulsive British Home Secretary Suella Braberman made the stark 303 00:22:58,355 --> 00:23:01,395 Speaker 1: announcement about people trying to cross the Channel into England 304 00:23:01,395 --> 00:23:06,355 Speaker 1: without documentation. Quote enough is enough, we must stop the boats. 305 00:23:06,955 --> 00:23:10,595 Speaker 1: Leneker retweeted her, adding this is awful, and then added 306 00:23:10,875 --> 00:23:13,955 Speaker 1: this is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed to the 307 00:23:13,955 --> 00:23:17,475 Speaker 1: most vulnerable people. In language that is not dissimilar to 308 00:23:17,515 --> 00:23:21,555 Speaker 1: that used by Germany in the thirties. The BBC, which 309 00:23:21,595 --> 00:23:24,155 Speaker 1: has been lurching to the right for several years, has 310 00:23:24,195 --> 00:23:26,675 Speaker 1: a new right wing chairman who has been accused of 311 00:23:26,715 --> 00:23:30,235 Speaker 1: helping to arrange alone for the former Prime Minister barsh Johnson. 312 00:23:30,595 --> 00:23:33,515 Speaker 1: The chairman is still in his chair. The BBC, though, 313 00:23:33,555 --> 00:23:36,435 Speaker 1: lives in mortal terror of the Conservative Party and it 314 00:23:36,515 --> 00:23:40,035 Speaker 1: immediately it said Gary Lineker would be quote stepping back 315 00:23:40,435 --> 00:23:42,875 Speaker 1: from his duties as the host of Match of the Day, 316 00:23:43,275 --> 00:23:46,715 Speaker 1: the soccer slash football broadcast that has been at the 317 00:23:46,715 --> 00:23:50,195 Speaker 1: center of BBC sports since it started. This is TV 318 00:23:50,395 --> 00:23:55,315 Speaker 1: management speak stepping back for we suspended him. Lenaker is 319 00:23:55,355 --> 00:23:58,475 Speaker 1: not only the highest paid sports broadcaster at the BBC, 320 00:23:58,715 --> 00:24:01,635 Speaker 1: he is the highest paid broadcaster period at the BBC. 321 00:24:02,075 --> 00:24:05,155 Speaker 1: Yet the government somehow thought and then the BBC went 322 00:24:05,235 --> 00:24:08,555 Speaker 1: with them, that they could attack him, claiming he made 323 00:24:08,555 --> 00:24:11,995 Speaker 1: remarks insensitive to Jewish people and how dare you call 324 00:24:12,075 --> 00:24:14,755 Speaker 1: us Nazis and blah blah blah, and he would just fold. 325 00:24:15,555 --> 00:24:18,075 Speaker 1: It is hard to find a comparison to Linaker in 326 00:24:18,115 --> 00:24:21,195 Speaker 1: this country. He's not just a popular commentator, we have 327 00:24:21,275 --> 00:24:24,675 Speaker 1: lots of those. He is the host who used to 328 00:24:24,715 --> 00:24:27,475 Speaker 1: be a star player for the national team and by 329 00:24:27,475 --> 00:24:31,875 Speaker 1: the way, he's right, and when the BBC suspended him, 330 00:24:31,915 --> 00:24:34,635 Speaker 1: it expected he would cave or at worst they'd fire 331 00:24:34,715 --> 00:24:37,995 Speaker 1: him in the government would throw them a fish or something. Instead, 332 00:24:38,395 --> 00:24:43,435 Speaker 1: all of linakers on air colleagues, all the other sportscasters 333 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:47,195 Speaker 1: on BBC television Match of the Day, none of whom 334 00:24:47,235 --> 00:24:50,235 Speaker 1: make even a quarter of what he does, refused to 335 00:24:50,275 --> 00:24:54,035 Speaker 1: go on television without him. There were no commentators on 336 00:24:54,075 --> 00:24:57,435 Speaker 1: Saturday's BBC Match of the Day broadcasting. By yesterday, the 337 00:24:57,555 --> 00:25:00,955 Speaker 1: walkoffs had spread to the various BBC radio networks and 338 00:25:01,835 --> 00:25:04,515 Speaker 1: all of its women football commentators as well in the 339 00:25:04,795 --> 00:25:09,235 Speaker 1: women's coverage. Newspaper reports from London early Monday morning indicated 340 00:25:09,235 --> 00:25:12,315 Speaker 1: that negotiations to get Linaker back on the air were 341 00:25:12,355 --> 00:25:15,315 Speaker 1: moving in the right direction, and that meant that there 342 00:25:15,315 --> 00:25:17,835 Speaker 1: were hints that the BBC was trying to massage its 343 00:25:17,875 --> 00:25:20,915 Speaker 1: own social media rules to be able to say Linaker 344 00:25:21,035 --> 00:25:25,115 Speaker 1: didn't violate them because he's not backing down. I'll mention again, 345 00:25:25,555 --> 00:25:28,835 Speaker 1: Linaker is right. I'll point out that thirty years ago 346 00:25:28,835 --> 00:25:31,595 Speaker 1: at ESPN, I tried to just get a vote taken 347 00:25:31,875 --> 00:25:33,675 Speaker 1: as to whether or not those of us on the 348 00:25:33,675 --> 00:25:36,915 Speaker 1: air there should affiliate with the after a television union 349 00:25:37,155 --> 00:25:41,515 Speaker 1: which all our ABC sports colleagues were in. I needed 350 00:25:41,595 --> 00:25:46,595 Speaker 1: one other sportscaster to sign the request. Anybody who did 351 00:25:46,635 --> 00:25:49,155 Speaker 1: that their job and my job would have immediately been 352 00:25:49,195 --> 00:25:53,075 Speaker 1: protected by the National Labor Relations Board, basically for life. 353 00:25:53,835 --> 00:25:58,955 Speaker 1: Nobody else would sign. In England, something like thirty sportscasters 354 00:25:58,955 --> 00:26:02,595 Speaker 1: walked out in solidarity with Gary Lineker. And there's still 355 00:26:02,595 --> 00:26:05,835 Speaker 1: a larger issue here. The BBC continues to self delude 356 00:26:05,915 --> 00:26:10,235 Speaker 1: on the central issue here. It supposed neutrality. A couple 357 00:26:10,275 --> 00:26:12,595 Speaker 1: of years ago, the BBC ran a promo for its 358 00:26:12,715 --> 00:26:16,035 Speaker 1: BBC World News service in which its main anchor of 359 00:26:16,075 --> 00:26:18,995 Speaker 1: that marched through the streets of Washington as the giant 360 00:26:19,035 --> 00:26:23,715 Speaker 1: words like fairness and honesty and neutrality popped up around her. 361 00:26:24,235 --> 00:26:26,955 Speaker 1: She actually said in the narration that the BBC was 362 00:26:27,035 --> 00:26:30,355 Speaker 1: so neutral that it quote had never taken sides in 363 00:26:30,475 --> 00:26:34,355 Speaker 1: any war, which made me laugh out loud, even though 364 00:26:34,355 --> 00:26:37,235 Speaker 1: I was born in nineteen fifty nine and I've never 365 00:26:37,275 --> 00:26:39,955 Speaker 1: been to London. But I did seem to know something 366 00:26:39,995 --> 00:26:43,435 Speaker 1: about the BBC that the BBC evidently did not. In 367 00:26:43,475 --> 00:26:47,195 Speaker 1: the Second World War, not only did the Nazis bomb 368 00:26:47,315 --> 00:26:50,835 Speaker 1: BBC headquarters in London, but later evidence proved they did 369 00:26:50,875 --> 00:26:54,115 Speaker 1: so at the direct demand of Hitler. What I've heard 370 00:26:54,155 --> 00:26:57,235 Speaker 1: on records of the BBC news broadcasts of the time 371 00:26:57,275 --> 00:27:00,275 Speaker 1: is that the BBC was not exactly neutral in that war, 372 00:27:00,595 --> 00:27:03,395 Speaker 1: the war where the fascists were trying to kill them 373 00:27:03,435 --> 00:27:08,635 Speaker 1: all inside their own BBC studios. You don't have to 374 00:27:08,715 --> 00:27:13,035 Speaker 1: be neutral against evil. As fascism returns to Europe by 375 00:27:13,155 --> 00:27:16,595 Speaker 1: various means, including these weighted violent threats like we must 376 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:20,355 Speaker 1: stopped the boats, by creatures like this odious Home Secretary, 377 00:27:20,555 --> 00:27:24,395 Speaker 1: the BBC should not be punishing Linaker. It should instead 378 00:27:24,475 --> 00:27:43,355 Speaker 1: make him it's lead newscaster. Ahead. It is thirteen years 379 00:27:43,475 --> 00:27:46,515 Speaker 1: to the day since my father died, and rather than 380 00:27:46,555 --> 00:27:48,995 Speaker 1: do a somber memorial about him, have I got a 381 00:27:49,035 --> 00:27:51,515 Speaker 1: story to tell you about an act that showed how 382 00:27:51,595 --> 00:27:55,555 Speaker 1: much he learned from and improved upon the way he 383 00:27:55,635 --> 00:28:00,275 Speaker 1: had been raised. The beneficiary of that was me first 384 00:28:00,315 --> 00:28:02,195 Speaker 1: time for the daily round of the miscreens, morons and 385 00:28:02,275 --> 00:28:05,435 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's persons of the 386 00:28:05,435 --> 00:28:11,915 Speaker 1: World le Bronze Sorry, Gary Lineker. The British team at 387 00:28:11,915 --> 00:28:15,795 Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic. Look the World Baseball classic is 388 00:28:15,955 --> 00:28:18,875 Speaker 1: bad enough. Yet another marketing scheme to get you to 389 00:28:18,915 --> 00:28:21,915 Speaker 1: buy yet another fact similar uniform, only this time it's 390 00:28:21,915 --> 00:28:25,995 Speaker 1: based on where your favorite player's grandmother lived. It interrupts 391 00:28:26,035 --> 00:28:29,555 Speaker 1: Major league's training, and it often injures Major League players, 392 00:28:29,555 --> 00:28:32,555 Speaker 1: and it hurts Major League teams. But on top of that, 393 00:28:32,715 --> 00:28:36,675 Speaker 1: team Great Britain, which has thirty seven players, exactly six 394 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:39,315 Speaker 1: of whom were actually born in Great Britain, showed up 395 00:28:39,355 --> 00:28:43,115 Speaker 1: to its first game in generic gray uniforms with no 396 00:28:43,275 --> 00:28:47,235 Speaker 1: logos or designs or patches or anything, just the words 397 00:28:47,635 --> 00:28:51,515 Speaker 1: Great and then underneath it Britain stuck on the front 398 00:28:51,555 --> 00:28:53,355 Speaker 1: of their uniforms and letters that look to be about 399 00:28:53,395 --> 00:28:56,955 Speaker 1: two inches high. They looked like T shirts issued to 400 00:28:56,995 --> 00:28:59,355 Speaker 1: Little League teams in nineteen seventy four. If they were 401 00:28:59,355 --> 00:29:01,395 Speaker 1: just stuck on there with velcro, I wouldn't have been 402 00:29:01,435 --> 00:29:05,875 Speaker 1: a bit surprised way to sell the conceit. The runners 403 00:29:05,955 --> 00:29:09,595 Speaker 1: up the House Freedom Caucus. This is insurrectionist Scott Perry's 404 00:29:09,635 --> 00:29:12,755 Speaker 1: little Cabal. It is promising it will refuse to vote 405 00:29:12,755 --> 00:29:16,235 Speaker 1: to raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances unless Biden's 406 00:29:16,235 --> 00:29:19,755 Speaker 1: student debt relief program is eliminated discretionary spending his cap 407 00:29:19,795 --> 00:29:23,315 Speaker 1: for a decade, funding for climate change and added IRS 408 00:29:23,315 --> 00:29:27,795 Speaker 1: employees are cut, and many other measures are taken. Several 409 00:29:27,835 --> 00:29:32,235 Speaker 1: critics note the Freedom Caucus's proposal will also cut Medicare, 410 00:29:32,795 --> 00:29:37,755 Speaker 1: defund border protections, and wait a minute, defund the police. 411 00:29:38,155 --> 00:29:44,275 Speaker 1: Scott Perry. No, but the winner Florida Governor Ron DeSantis again, 412 00:29:44,435 --> 00:29:47,755 Speaker 1: who is quickly learning that Florida is not actually the 413 00:29:47,955 --> 00:29:52,115 Speaker 1: entire year world de fascist was in Iowa over the weekend, 414 00:29:52,195 --> 00:29:54,555 Speaker 1: not running for anything, mind you, of course not, when 415 00:29:54,595 --> 00:29:57,755 Speaker 1: someone posed as an admirer and approached him and said 416 00:29:57,915 --> 00:30:02,555 Speaker 1: she liked to make large souvenirs snowflakes for her favorite 417 00:30:02,555 --> 00:30:05,955 Speaker 1: politicians when they visited Iowa, and she handed one to 418 00:30:06,115 --> 00:30:08,235 Speaker 1: him and they posed together with him holding it, and 419 00:30:08,235 --> 00:30:11,275 Speaker 1: he looks like a grinning idiot. We don't know if 420 00:30:11,315 --> 00:30:14,675 Speaker 1: he ever found out that the glitter forming the prongs 421 00:30:14,715 --> 00:30:19,595 Speaker 1: of the snowflake actually spell out one word twelve different times, 422 00:30:19,635 --> 00:30:25,915 Speaker 1: and that one word is fascist. Run Wait, even if 423 00:30:25,915 --> 00:30:28,755 Speaker 1: it didn't spell fascist, why on earth did you accept 424 00:30:28,835 --> 00:30:37,795 Speaker 1: just a snowflake snowflake? Descantis today's worst person in no 425 00:30:38,035 --> 00:30:51,875 Speaker 1: worse to the number one story on the countdown and 426 00:30:51,995 --> 00:30:54,955 Speaker 1: my favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. 427 00:30:54,995 --> 00:30:58,955 Speaker 1: And my dad died thirteen years ago today, March thirteenth, 428 00:30:58,995 --> 00:31:04,235 Speaker 1: twenty ten. If you are an orphan like me, young 429 00:31:04,355 --> 00:31:07,675 Speaker 1: or old, you know that processing the death of a 430 00:31:07,715 --> 00:31:11,795 Speaker 1: parent is not just unlike anything else you experience in life, 431 00:31:12,195 --> 00:31:16,235 Speaker 1: but it's also utterly nonlinear. It is tougher for me 432 00:31:16,315 --> 00:31:19,595 Speaker 1: to deal with today than it was the day it happened, 433 00:31:19,955 --> 00:31:22,595 Speaker 1: but not as tough as five years ago in but 434 00:31:22,755 --> 00:31:26,075 Speaker 1: tougher than at seven years and less tough that you 435 00:31:26,115 --> 00:31:30,475 Speaker 1: get the idea, and the idea that my dad has 436 00:31:30,515 --> 00:31:33,875 Speaker 1: gone thirteen years, that the span is now identical to 437 00:31:33,915 --> 00:31:36,235 Speaker 1: the length of time it took me between the day 438 00:31:36,275 --> 00:31:39,955 Speaker 1: I graduated from college and the day I started on 439 00:31:40,115 --> 00:31:43,755 Speaker 1: Sports Center is way more difficult to get my head 440 00:31:43,795 --> 00:31:48,235 Speaker 1: around than is the fact that he is gone. As 441 00:31:48,235 --> 00:31:50,635 Speaker 1: I'm sure is also true for you. I could tell 442 00:31:50,675 --> 00:31:55,635 Speaker 1: you six months uninterrupted stories about my dad, but I 443 00:31:55,715 --> 00:31:58,555 Speaker 1: happened recently to be thinking of two of them, connected 444 00:31:58,595 --> 00:32:01,115 Speaker 1: not in time but in topic, and I thought you 445 00:32:01,195 --> 00:32:04,515 Speaker 1: might be as amazed by them as I continue to 446 00:32:04,515 --> 00:32:08,995 Speaker 1: be amazed by them and by him. I understand my 447 00:32:09,075 --> 00:32:13,755 Speaker 1: dad was born basically two months and change before the 448 00:32:13,795 --> 00:32:18,035 Speaker 1: stock market crash of nineteen twenty nine. His dad was 449 00:32:18,075 --> 00:32:21,955 Speaker 1: a pretty mercurial guy, and that's a polite way of 450 00:32:21,995 --> 00:32:24,595 Speaker 1: describing him. He had a city job in the pits 451 00:32:24,635 --> 00:32:27,035 Speaker 1: of the depression. He got a promotion. He showed up 452 00:32:27,075 --> 00:32:29,715 Speaker 1: to work in a sports shirt that first day because 453 00:32:29,755 --> 00:32:32,315 Speaker 1: he liked my dad like me, had a weird neck 454 00:32:32,315 --> 00:32:35,955 Speaker 1: and throat things and collars and ties hurt. And when 455 00:32:35,995 --> 00:32:38,155 Speaker 1: they said, Harry, you got to wear a shirt and 456 00:32:38,235 --> 00:32:40,315 Speaker 1: a tie you got a promotion, he said, the hell 457 00:32:40,395 --> 00:32:43,155 Speaker 1: with that, and he asked to have his old job back, 458 00:32:43,195 --> 00:32:45,515 Speaker 1: and they said, Harry, the moment you got promoted, we 459 00:32:45,555 --> 00:32:48,555 Speaker 1: had eight hundred and thirty seven applications, it's the depression. 460 00:32:48,835 --> 00:32:52,395 Speaker 1: So he said, I quit. And so my dad, at 461 00:32:52,395 --> 00:32:55,435 Speaker 1: the age of seven, maybe eight, and his two brothers, 462 00:32:55,435 --> 00:32:58,475 Speaker 1: one older one younger, saw the family income drop from 463 00:32:58,515 --> 00:33:01,515 Speaker 1: like four thousand dollars a year to, as dad put it, 464 00:33:01,955 --> 00:33:04,395 Speaker 1: the two hundred bucks or so we made collecting and 465 00:33:04,755 --> 00:33:09,755 Speaker 1: cycling old comic books. The next year. So a decade 466 00:33:09,835 --> 00:33:14,395 Speaker 1: after that, when my father graduated as the valedictorian of 467 00:33:14,435 --> 00:33:17,915 Speaker 1: the New York High School of Industrial Arts and he 468 00:33:17,995 --> 00:33:21,435 Speaker 1: was offered a full scholarship to a major architecture college. 469 00:33:21,875 --> 00:33:24,955 Speaker 1: His dad, who never understood that his own son was 470 00:33:24,995 --> 00:33:28,755 Speaker 1: not just Doodlin, said flat out that if my father 471 00:33:28,795 --> 00:33:31,035 Speaker 1: went to college, that would mean his younger brother, Bill 472 00:33:31,515 --> 00:33:33,555 Speaker 1: would have to quit high school and go to work, 473 00:33:33,595 --> 00:33:39,115 Speaker 1: because otherwise the family would starve. My dad had to 474 00:33:39,155 --> 00:33:45,155 Speaker 1: turn the architectural college scholarship down. He went to work, 475 00:33:45,715 --> 00:33:48,235 Speaker 1: went to work in a department store, and then he 476 00:33:48,275 --> 00:33:52,315 Speaker 1: became a draftsman, and he finally got his architectural license 477 00:33:52,435 --> 00:33:56,435 Speaker 1: twenty years after that. Twenty years never went to college, 478 00:33:56,755 --> 00:33:59,515 Speaker 1: just some night school and just finding out about a 479 00:33:59,635 --> 00:34:03,315 Speaker 1: key law that said, if you could pass the architecture exam, 480 00:34:03,475 --> 00:34:05,515 Speaker 1: the state of New York had to give it to you. 481 00:34:06,355 --> 00:34:08,955 Speaker 1: He wrote them, they had to give it to him. 482 00:34:09,355 --> 00:34:11,995 Speaker 1: They gave it to him, he passed. Then they changed 483 00:34:12,035 --> 00:34:14,795 Speaker 1: the law, which apparently had been written in eighteen fifty six. 484 00:34:15,875 --> 00:34:19,955 Speaker 1: Soon my father was licensed in forty of the fifty states, 485 00:34:20,195 --> 00:34:22,995 Speaker 1: and basically every Mask and Robin's ice cream parlor in 486 00:34:23,035 --> 00:34:25,715 Speaker 1: this country was something he had designed. And I don't 487 00:34:25,755 --> 00:34:29,115 Speaker 1: know how many more stores he built for his other clients, 488 00:34:29,115 --> 00:34:31,955 Speaker 1: but it must have been in the thousands and five 489 00:34:32,115 --> 00:34:34,755 Speaker 1: years after he finally got his license. He had a 490 00:34:34,835 --> 00:34:37,835 Speaker 1: Cadillac and got a new one through the lease every 491 00:34:37,875 --> 00:34:40,635 Speaker 1: other year. I was in a private school, and he 492 00:34:40,715 --> 00:34:43,395 Speaker 1: was turning down architectural assignments because he just didn't have 493 00:34:43,435 --> 00:34:47,075 Speaker 1: the time. So when it came time for me to 494 00:34:47,235 --> 00:34:50,235 Speaker 1: go to college, my dad said, apply anywhere you think 495 00:34:50,275 --> 00:34:53,715 Speaker 1: you can get in. Pick the thing that's best for you. 496 00:34:54,275 --> 00:34:59,235 Speaker 1: We'll pay for it. I narrowed it down to Boston University, Cornell, 497 00:34:59,315 --> 00:35:02,155 Speaker 1: and Harvard. I had lined up an internship through a 498 00:35:02,155 --> 00:35:05,675 Speaker 1: friend with the Boston Celtics. Boston University had the top 499 00:35:05,715 --> 00:35:09,155 Speaker 1: communications program in the nation. Harvard was Harvard, and Cordelle 500 00:35:09,275 --> 00:35:12,595 Speaker 1: was there in case something went wrong at be You 501 00:35:12,675 --> 00:35:16,275 Speaker 1: and Harvard wouldn't let me in. Frankly, now, in those days, 502 00:35:16,355 --> 00:35:19,835 Speaker 1: high school kids did not strategize, beginning at age two, 503 00:35:20,275 --> 00:35:23,155 Speaker 1: as to how to get into a good college. So 504 00:35:23,195 --> 00:35:25,635 Speaker 1: when I sent in my applications, and I noted I 505 00:35:25,675 --> 00:35:27,395 Speaker 1: had not only been the sports editor of a high 506 00:35:27,435 --> 00:35:30,755 Speaker 1: school newspaper and yearbook and radio station, but I also 507 00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:34,275 Speaker 1: had been the associate editor of the first baseball Memorabiliar 508 00:35:34,355 --> 00:35:37,315 Speaker 1: reference book, and I was the paid editor of a 509 00:35:37,355 --> 00:35:41,875 Speaker 1: professionally produced Memorabiliam magazine. This was the kind of extracurricular 510 00:35:41,915 --> 00:35:45,235 Speaker 1: activity these schools would not see on every other application. 511 00:35:45,475 --> 00:35:49,675 Speaker 1: They would see it about once a decade. My dad 512 00:35:49,675 --> 00:35:51,395 Speaker 1: and I go to be you for the visit, and 513 00:35:51,395 --> 00:35:54,515 Speaker 1: we are greeted not by some guy from the admissions office, 514 00:35:54,635 --> 00:35:58,675 Speaker 1: by the dean of the School of Public Communications, and 515 00:35:58,795 --> 00:36:00,715 Speaker 1: all three of us talked for maybe half an hour, 516 00:36:00,795 --> 00:36:03,515 Speaker 1: and at the end of it, the dean asks my 517 00:36:03,595 --> 00:36:07,275 Speaker 1: dad about the financial and he says, look, mister all Ryman, 518 00:36:07,315 --> 00:36:10,075 Speaker 1: we don't do this a lot, but we really would 519 00:36:10,115 --> 00:36:12,835 Speaker 1: like Keith to be here. We don't have a lot 520 00:36:12,835 --> 00:36:15,475 Speaker 1: of latitude on these things, but I've gotten approval. We 521 00:36:15,515 --> 00:36:18,955 Speaker 1: can occasionally do this. We can offer you a merit scholarship. 522 00:36:19,915 --> 00:36:22,995 Speaker 1: My dad didn't really register this, but I did immediately 523 00:36:23,235 --> 00:36:26,235 Speaker 1: because I've been reading about all the application processes around 524 00:36:26,315 --> 00:36:30,115 Speaker 1: the country. And I gasped, and I say a free ride, 525 00:36:30,795 --> 00:36:33,395 Speaker 1: and the dean says, yeah, everything but food. Food you 526 00:36:33,395 --> 00:36:36,595 Speaker 1: have to pay for yourself. And my father knits his 527 00:36:36,635 --> 00:36:39,315 Speaker 1: eyebrows and he looks at me, and then he knits 528 00:36:39,315 --> 00:36:41,035 Speaker 1: his eyebrows again, and he looks at the dean and 529 00:36:41,035 --> 00:36:43,995 Speaker 1: then he bursts out laughing that's what he had been 530 00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:47,715 Speaker 1: offered twenty seven years earlier at the Architectural College, and 531 00:36:47,755 --> 00:36:50,795 Speaker 1: he could not take it. So the Dean now takes 532 00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:53,395 Speaker 1: us on the tour of the Boston University School of 533 00:36:53,515 --> 00:36:57,595 Speaker 1: Public Communications, heart of the city, trolley trains clanging past 534 00:36:57,635 --> 00:37:02,195 Speaker 1: every ninety seconds, busy, bustling, clean enough trees to make 535 00:37:02,195 --> 00:37:05,635 Speaker 1: it look like a college. The Celtic Internship is a 536 00:37:05,635 --> 00:37:10,395 Speaker 1: short ride on the tee away and free. Now we 537 00:37:10,475 --> 00:37:13,235 Speaker 1: see the ultra modern dorm for freshmen, and it's great, 538 00:37:13,275 --> 00:37:16,435 Speaker 1: and the professional radio station which was NPR and played 539 00:37:16,435 --> 00:37:19,355 Speaker 1: classical music, and all the guys are wearing ties, and 540 00:37:19,395 --> 00:37:21,715 Speaker 1: the dean says, this is mostly grad students, but I 541 00:37:21,715 --> 00:37:23,915 Speaker 1: have no doubt that you can find a place here. 542 00:37:24,275 --> 00:37:26,915 Speaker 1: And then he takes us to the undergrad radio station 543 00:37:26,955 --> 00:37:29,955 Speaker 1: and it's a little seedier, but it's still first class equipment, 544 00:37:30,115 --> 00:37:32,275 Speaker 1: lots of different studios, and there's a kid in the 545 00:37:32,355 --> 00:37:35,955 Speaker 1: on air studio playing rock and he's like six four 546 00:37:36,195 --> 00:37:41,475 Speaker 1: and forty pounds, greasy, stringy, curly hair hanging to his 547 00:37:41,835 --> 00:37:46,155 Speaker 1: forty pound waist, and a little granny glasses. And the 548 00:37:46,235 --> 00:37:48,515 Speaker 1: dean waits until the disc jockey turns off the on 549 00:37:48,675 --> 00:37:50,955 Speaker 1: air light. He opens the door to the studio and 550 00:37:51,035 --> 00:37:56,595 Speaker 1: he says, well, well, well, if it isn't my favorite student, 551 00:37:57,315 --> 00:38:00,155 Speaker 1: great timing, believe it or not, I'm gonna leave you 552 00:38:00,235 --> 00:38:03,515 Speaker 1: this very qualified applicant in your hands for a couple 553 00:38:03,555 --> 00:38:05,435 Speaker 1: of minutes because I got a class I have to 554 00:38:05,475 --> 00:38:08,635 Speaker 1: go teach. You tell them whatever you want to tell him, Keith, 555 00:38:09,075 --> 00:38:11,795 Speaker 1: mister Olderman. Whenever you decide, as we hope you will, 556 00:38:11,795 --> 00:38:16,155 Speaker 1: to join us, call me directly, call collect and mister Olderman, 557 00:38:16,195 --> 00:38:18,475 Speaker 1: if you would walk me out to the front door 558 00:38:18,555 --> 00:38:22,315 Speaker 1: here and just let's talk a little bittle logistics. And 559 00:38:22,435 --> 00:38:25,195 Speaker 1: now they leave, and when it's just the jock and me, 560 00:38:25,315 --> 00:38:27,195 Speaker 1: the jock says to me in a deep voice, New 561 00:38:27,275 --> 00:38:30,915 Speaker 1: York accent, good to see you, Dean. And the door 562 00:38:30,995 --> 00:38:35,395 Speaker 1: closes and he adds, you fraud kid. He says, don't 563 00:38:35,435 --> 00:38:38,395 Speaker 1: make my mistake. Don't come here. And I'm shocked, and 564 00:38:38,435 --> 00:38:40,835 Speaker 1: I explain it's going to be free. Well, what's that? 565 00:38:40,915 --> 00:38:44,155 Speaker 1: They say, You get what you pay for, right, Listen, 566 00:38:44,515 --> 00:38:47,035 Speaker 1: the grad students were in the real station. They won't 567 00:38:47,035 --> 00:38:49,115 Speaker 1: even let you wash the toilets of the real station. 568 00:38:49,315 --> 00:38:51,115 Speaker 1: Took me two years just to get in here, to 569 00:38:51,195 --> 00:38:55,035 Speaker 1: this lousy midday show twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays. 570 00:38:55,115 --> 00:38:57,955 Speaker 1: Tuesdays and Thursdays. I'm gonna be the best dish jockey 571 00:38:57,995 --> 00:39:00,675 Speaker 1: of all time. You don't even get to take any 572 00:39:00,675 --> 00:39:05,275 Speaker 1: communications classics here until you're a junior, just general studies. 573 00:39:06,075 --> 00:39:08,555 Speaker 1: And the dean, let me just put it this way, 574 00:39:08,595 --> 00:39:10,395 Speaker 1: I'm not his favorite student. I don't know if you 575 00:39:10,435 --> 00:39:16,675 Speaker 1: could tell kid any questions. I was speechless. Then I 576 00:39:16,715 --> 00:39:18,955 Speaker 1: see my dad reappear outside the studio and he comes 577 00:39:18,995 --> 00:39:21,195 Speaker 1: in and shakes this kid's hand, and the kid says, 578 00:39:21,195 --> 00:39:24,155 Speaker 1: don't worry, Dad, I told your boy everything he really 579 00:39:24,235 --> 00:39:29,195 Speaker 1: needs to know. And we leave. We go back to 580 00:39:29,275 --> 00:39:31,395 Speaker 1: Logan Airport, we get on the shuttle, we go home. 581 00:39:31,875 --> 00:39:35,795 Speaker 1: That night, I read the Boston University catalog from front 582 00:39:35,835 --> 00:39:39,275 Speaker 1: to last page and everything that the world's next greatest 583 00:39:39,315 --> 00:39:44,355 Speaker 1: disc jockey has told me. Damn it, he's right. Two 584 00:39:44,435 --> 00:39:48,115 Speaker 1: years of general studies. You can't even get into a 585 00:39:48,155 --> 00:39:52,275 Speaker 1: communications class, let alone the radio station, let alone the 586 00:39:52,475 --> 00:39:55,915 Speaker 1: undergrad radio station until you are our junior. Also, they 587 00:39:55,915 --> 00:39:58,755 Speaker 1: will not even give me college credit, not one for 588 00:39:58,795 --> 00:40:02,795 Speaker 1: the Celtics. Internship. Then comes the news story. A couple 589 00:40:02,795 --> 00:40:05,075 Speaker 1: of days later. Then in that brand new, ultra modern 590 00:40:05,115 --> 00:40:08,555 Speaker 1: freshman dorm, they found a dead student in the hallway. 591 00:40:09,035 --> 00:40:11,315 Speaker 1: And I don't know what it was. But between what 592 00:40:11,355 --> 00:40:14,155 Speaker 1: the world's next greatest disc jockey ever has told me 593 00:40:14,435 --> 00:40:17,395 Speaker 1: and the dead body in the hallway, I'm thinking it's 594 00:40:17,395 --> 00:40:20,875 Speaker 1: gonna be Harvard or Cornell, meaning it's almost certainly Cornell, 595 00:40:20,915 --> 00:40:23,235 Speaker 1: because I don't think Harvard's gonna let me in. And 596 00:40:23,355 --> 00:40:27,115 Speaker 1: my dad says, you know, I think they've probably removed 597 00:40:27,195 --> 00:40:30,235 Speaker 1: that body by now, And then he says, I can't 598 00:40:30,315 --> 00:40:32,195 Speaker 1: argue with the restrictions. I'm not being able to be 599 00:40:32,195 --> 00:40:34,075 Speaker 1: on the radio station until you're a junior. What's the 600 00:40:34,115 --> 00:40:36,195 Speaker 1: point of that. I will remind you just once though, 601 00:40:36,195 --> 00:40:41,355 Speaker 1: of one other detail. It is free. A couple of 602 00:40:41,355 --> 00:40:43,355 Speaker 1: weeks later, we go to Harvard for the interview. That 603 00:40:43,475 --> 00:40:46,235 Speaker 1: goes well. They like me. They don't have a communications major, 604 00:40:46,275 --> 00:40:48,235 Speaker 1: but I could go in under English or history or 605 00:40:48,275 --> 00:40:51,955 Speaker 1: general studies. And the admission guy says, your extracurriculars are 606 00:40:51,955 --> 00:40:54,435 Speaker 1: extraordinary and the internship is great, but you have a 607 00:40:54,515 --> 00:40:57,915 Speaker 1: numbers problem here. There's seventy kids in your senior class. 608 00:40:58,315 --> 00:41:01,435 Speaker 1: Four of you guys have applied, and how are your 609 00:41:01,475 --> 00:41:04,075 Speaker 1: grades compared to theirs? And I gulp, and I say, well, 610 00:41:04,755 --> 00:41:06,555 Speaker 1: there are the two guys who've had the four point 611 00:41:06,595 --> 00:41:09,075 Speaker 1: zero since they were in the womb, and then there's 612 00:41:09,115 --> 00:41:11,315 Speaker 1: the other guy who's had one since the third grade, 613 00:41:11,435 --> 00:41:14,315 Speaker 1: and then there's me. And I'm only National Honor Society 614 00:41:14,355 --> 00:41:16,595 Speaker 1: and like, you know, three point eight five or something, 615 00:41:16,635 --> 00:41:18,755 Speaker 1: but I am a fifteen year old senior. And the 616 00:41:18,755 --> 00:41:22,475 Speaker 1: admission guy says, ordinary year that would get you in. 617 00:41:22,835 --> 00:41:24,795 Speaker 1: If you're the only applicant from your school that would 618 00:41:24,835 --> 00:41:28,155 Speaker 1: get you in, you're number four out of four. It's 619 00:41:28,155 --> 00:41:32,955 Speaker 1: gonna be tough. So Dad and I go to Cornell 620 00:41:33,115 --> 00:41:35,395 Speaker 1: and the campus is like my high school, only it's 621 00:41:35,395 --> 00:41:39,515 Speaker 1: a thousand times larger, and everything is uphill. There is 622 00:41:39,555 --> 00:41:44,875 Speaker 1: no downhill at Cornell. It's only uphill from here. And 623 00:41:44,955 --> 00:41:48,995 Speaker 1: the communications department is a joke. We go see the 624 00:41:49,035 --> 00:41:51,915 Speaker 1: facilities in the fall of nineteen seventy four and they 625 00:41:51,915 --> 00:41:55,955 Speaker 1: are in a converted barn with broken windows in the 626 00:41:56,035 --> 00:41:59,875 Speaker 1: barn and rusty razor blades for editing audiotape, and there 627 00:41:59,875 --> 00:42:03,235 Speaker 1: are no students in there, just broken windows and rusty 628 00:42:03,315 --> 00:42:06,715 Speaker 1: razor Blades. Any TV, I ask, and the guy says, well, 629 00:42:06,715 --> 00:42:08,315 Speaker 1: we have TV on campus and I say no, I 630 00:42:08,395 --> 00:42:11,995 Speaker 1: mean any TV station or classes or the students in 631 00:42:12,035 --> 00:42:15,075 Speaker 1: communication arts and he laughs. He says, I think you 632 00:42:15,115 --> 00:42:17,995 Speaker 1: can rent one of those new video cameras and tape 633 00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:21,515 Speaker 1: decks for like fifty dollars an hour. But there is 634 00:42:21,555 --> 00:42:23,875 Speaker 1: a really good radio station. He says, we don't own 635 00:42:23,915 --> 00:42:25,835 Speaker 1: it or anything. We don't even run it. The students 636 00:42:25,875 --> 00:42:29,075 Speaker 1: own it, and it's commercial. They sell commercials. You should 637 00:42:29,115 --> 00:42:32,755 Speaker 1: go see it before you leave town. Now, I'm just 638 00:42:32,875 --> 00:42:35,275 Speaker 1: shaking my head and praying that the guy at Harvard 639 00:42:35,315 --> 00:42:37,115 Speaker 1: will get me in. And my dad offers to take 640 00:42:37,155 --> 00:42:39,195 Speaker 1: me over to the radio station, and I say, why bother? 641 00:42:39,755 --> 00:42:42,115 Speaker 1: And we start the five hour drive home, and I say, 642 00:42:42,195 --> 00:42:46,075 Speaker 1: the good thing here is the communications program is inside 643 00:42:46,115 --> 00:42:50,355 Speaker 1: the Agriculture College. And the Agriculture College, although it's first 644 00:42:50,435 --> 00:42:53,315 Speaker 1: rate might be actually a little tougher than some of 645 00:42:53,315 --> 00:42:57,195 Speaker 1: the arts school, it's a state school. So if you're 646 00:42:57,195 --> 00:42:59,035 Speaker 1: a New Yorker, the tuition is a tenth of what 647 00:42:59,035 --> 00:43:00,915 Speaker 1: should pay in the Arts college, and you can take 648 00:43:00,955 --> 00:43:02,795 Speaker 1: all the history in the English classes you want. And 649 00:43:02,835 --> 00:43:05,395 Speaker 1: if that radio station is any good. I can spend 650 00:43:05,395 --> 00:43:08,355 Speaker 1: most of my time over there, and it's not free, 651 00:43:08,715 --> 00:43:11,755 Speaker 1: but it's a lot less than my high school currently costs. 652 00:43:12,715 --> 00:43:15,915 Speaker 1: But it ain't Harvard. And my father says, I told 653 00:43:15,955 --> 00:43:20,075 Speaker 1: you before, I want you to do what you decide 654 00:43:20,515 --> 00:43:25,155 Speaker 1: is best. If it's Harvard and it costs us Harvard money, 655 00:43:25,755 --> 00:43:29,435 Speaker 1: don't think twice. I get it about be you, I 656 00:43:29,595 --> 00:43:33,075 Speaker 1: get it about Cornell. None of us have graduated college 657 00:43:33,115 --> 00:43:36,675 Speaker 1: in a hundred years. You figure out what's best, I'll 658 00:43:36,675 --> 00:43:42,155 Speaker 1: figure out how to pay for it. So Harvard turned 659 00:43:42,155 --> 00:43:44,795 Speaker 1: me down. The two four point oh since the womb 660 00:43:44,835 --> 00:43:47,475 Speaker 1: guys got in. The four point zero guy who had 661 00:43:47,515 --> 00:43:49,755 Speaker 1: only been there since the third grade, he got waitlisted. 662 00:43:49,795 --> 00:43:53,915 Speaker 1: I got the reno It's our loss letter, which was 663 00:43:53,995 --> 00:43:56,115 Speaker 1: day to April ninth, nineteen seventy five, in which I 664 00:43:56,115 --> 00:43:59,235 Speaker 1: received April eleventh, nineteen seventy five, after the folks and 665 00:43:59,315 --> 00:44:01,115 Speaker 1: my sister and I all got back from the Yankees 666 00:44:01,155 --> 00:44:03,755 Speaker 1: home opener at Chase Stadium, a five to three lost 667 00:44:03,755 --> 00:44:06,315 Speaker 1: to the Detroit Tigers. Not that I remember everything, or 668 00:44:06,435 --> 00:44:08,755 Speaker 1: not that I'm still bitter, or not that I wrote 669 00:44:08,755 --> 00:44:10,835 Speaker 1: them back and said, you bet, it's your loss, that's 670 00:44:10,875 --> 00:44:15,195 Speaker 1: just a rumor. No comment, no comment. Cornell accepted me. 671 00:44:15,235 --> 00:44:19,475 Speaker 1: I went to Cornell. There are a couple of postscripts, 672 00:44:20,075 --> 00:44:23,995 Speaker 1: the kid with the long, stringy hair who was six 673 00:44:24,155 --> 00:44:27,955 Speaker 1: four and forty pounds, and the New York accent who 674 00:44:27,995 --> 00:44:29,875 Speaker 1: was going to be the greatest disc jockey of all time. 675 00:44:29,875 --> 00:44:31,955 Speaker 1: The kid who talked me out of going to Boston 676 00:44:32,075 --> 00:44:37,675 Speaker 1: University was, of course, Howard Stern. When I first saw 677 00:44:37,755 --> 00:44:40,635 Speaker 1: him on TV in nineteen eighty eight or so, I said, 678 00:44:40,955 --> 00:44:42,955 Speaker 1: that guy looks exactly like the kid who talked me 679 00:44:42,955 --> 00:44:46,835 Speaker 1: out of going to Boston University. Years later, I was 680 00:44:46,915 --> 00:44:49,635 Speaker 1: at Howard's show and we had a conversation about this. No, 681 00:44:49,715 --> 00:44:52,795 Speaker 1: it wasn't me. I don't remember meeting you. I said, well, 682 00:44:52,835 --> 00:44:56,155 Speaker 1: we hadn't even exchanged names. Then, I don't remember any 683 00:44:56,155 --> 00:44:58,155 Speaker 1: of it. And I said, did you and the dean 684 00:44:58,315 --> 00:45:01,475 Speaker 1: there not get along? Oh? Man? The dean hated me 685 00:45:01,955 --> 00:45:04,315 Speaker 1: like one day. Came into the studios one time with 686 00:45:04,435 --> 00:45:07,155 Speaker 1: some high school kid and his father. Oh boy, we 687 00:45:07,235 --> 00:45:09,595 Speaker 1: gave each other a hard time After that, he says, 688 00:45:09,635 --> 00:45:11,915 Speaker 1: I talked him out of it, and I said, that 689 00:45:11,995 --> 00:45:14,235 Speaker 1: was my dad and me. Not a chance I would 690 00:45:14,235 --> 00:45:18,075 Speaker 1: have remembered meeting you. I said, we didn't mention names. Howard. Also, 691 00:45:18,155 --> 00:45:23,555 Speaker 1: I was like five inches shorter and I was fifteen. No, 692 00:45:23,715 --> 00:45:25,595 Speaker 1: it wasn't you. It wasn't me, I promise you. And 693 00:45:25,635 --> 00:45:28,915 Speaker 1: I said, Howard, your shift was Tuesdays and Thursdays mid 694 00:45:29,035 --> 00:45:32,075 Speaker 1: days and you didn't like it. Yeah, And I said, 695 00:45:32,155 --> 00:45:34,475 Speaker 1: how many other kids at the radio station who were 696 00:45:34,555 --> 00:45:38,555 Speaker 1: dish jockeys looked like you? He said, none, Nobody looks 697 00:45:38,555 --> 00:45:43,475 Speaker 1: like me. And I said, how would you know if 698 00:45:43,475 --> 00:45:46,315 Speaker 1: you were me about the dean and you if you 699 00:45:46,395 --> 00:45:49,435 Speaker 1: hadn't seen it or heard it. I don't know. I 700 00:45:49,435 --> 00:45:53,715 Speaker 1: don't remember meeting you. The guy was Howard Stern So 701 00:45:53,795 --> 00:45:56,475 Speaker 1: at Cornell. The PostScript is this, It turned out the 702 00:45:56,555 --> 00:46:01,795 Speaker 1: radio station was the greatest training ground in the radio business. 703 00:46:02,395 --> 00:46:06,635 Speaker 1: It turned out ten to twenty professional broadcasters per year. 704 00:46:07,715 --> 00:46:11,155 Speaker 1: We sold about a quarter million dollars in advertising every year. 705 00:46:11,195 --> 00:46:13,275 Speaker 1: And this is in the three hundred and fifty first 706 00:46:13,395 --> 00:46:16,435 Speaker 1: largest market in the country. And when you're three hundred 707 00:46:16,435 --> 00:46:20,555 Speaker 1: and fifty first the world largest is inappropriate. There was 708 00:46:20,595 --> 00:46:24,435 Speaker 1: an organized training program at WVBRFM that was better than 709 00:46:24,515 --> 00:46:28,915 Speaker 1: any college course anywhere. By the time of my sophomore year, 710 00:46:28,955 --> 00:46:32,075 Speaker 1: I was the sports director. By my junior year, I 711 00:46:32,115 --> 00:46:35,035 Speaker 1: was running the training program for the whole station. After 712 00:46:35,115 --> 00:46:37,275 Speaker 1: my senior year, I was well enough trained and had 713 00:46:37,315 --> 00:46:40,475 Speaker 1: been on the air so many times, like fifteen hundred times, 714 00:46:40,835 --> 00:46:44,195 Speaker 1: that I went directly from WVBR to a one thousand 715 00:46:44,235 --> 00:46:47,595 Speaker 1: station radio network, and I took every history in English 716 00:46:47,675 --> 00:46:50,995 Speaker 1: class I could, and Dad paid one tenth with all 717 00:46:50,995 --> 00:46:52,635 Speaker 1: the other dads of all the other kids in the 718 00:46:52,675 --> 00:46:55,275 Speaker 1: English and history classes paid. And when I went back 719 00:46:55,275 --> 00:46:58,155 Speaker 1: for a visit in two eleven, the three history professors 720 00:46:58,155 --> 00:47:00,755 Speaker 1: I had took me out to lunch because they were fanboys. 721 00:47:03,875 --> 00:47:07,555 Speaker 1: Very little to this point would suggest that this is 722 00:47:07,595 --> 00:47:10,675 Speaker 1: really a story about my father and not about me, 723 00:47:11,875 --> 00:47:17,515 Speaker 1: But it is. It is entirely about him. My freshman year, 724 00:47:17,555 --> 00:47:19,515 Speaker 1: when it started, the whole family took me up, and 725 00:47:19,555 --> 00:47:22,395 Speaker 1: I believe this was strategical. It was better that way. 726 00:47:22,755 --> 00:47:24,435 Speaker 1: With three of them, they were able to bar the 727 00:47:24,475 --> 00:47:27,315 Speaker 1: doors and force me to stay, which was not my inclination. 728 00:47:28,155 --> 00:47:30,475 Speaker 1: My sophomore year, which was a little easier on me, 729 00:47:30,795 --> 00:47:33,155 Speaker 1: it was just my dad and me. We drove up 730 00:47:33,195 --> 00:47:36,515 Speaker 1: there in a borrowed pickup truck with all my stuff 731 00:47:36,555 --> 00:47:38,515 Speaker 1: in the back and somehow we get onto the campus 732 00:47:38,835 --> 00:47:41,435 Speaker 1: via a back route and he's lost, and I say, wait, wait, 733 00:47:41,435 --> 00:47:43,155 Speaker 1: don't worry, I know where we are. I know it 734 00:47:43,195 --> 00:47:46,035 Speaker 1: from here. Besides which, it works out. He look, if 735 00:47:46,035 --> 00:47:48,475 Speaker 1: you make the last next left, we can see something 736 00:47:48,515 --> 00:47:50,835 Speaker 1: you'd probably like to see. It's the Architecture College. It's 737 00:47:50,875 --> 00:47:53,315 Speaker 1: called and I'm about to name it. I'm about to 738 00:47:53,355 --> 00:47:56,475 Speaker 1: say rand Hall, which was the name of the architecture college. 739 00:47:56,475 --> 00:47:59,675 Speaker 1: And he interrupts me, and my dad says, matter of factly, 740 00:47:59,995 --> 00:48:03,195 Speaker 1: rand Hall. Yeah, I know, right at the bend of 741 00:48:03,195 --> 00:48:06,315 Speaker 1: the avenue here. Yeah, I remember I told you about 742 00:48:06,315 --> 00:48:10,395 Speaker 1: the architectural scholarship that I couldn't take. And I still 743 00:48:10,435 --> 00:48:13,595 Speaker 1: don't realize what's coming. I say yeah. He goes, yeah, 744 00:48:13,675 --> 00:48:16,635 Speaker 1: well it was here. It was Cornell. This place offered 745 00:48:16,635 --> 00:48:18,515 Speaker 1: me the scholarship I couldn't take. Are you hungry? I'm 746 00:48:18,595 --> 00:48:26,395 Speaker 1: damned hungry. I couldn't speak. I can barely speak. Now. 747 00:48:27,515 --> 00:48:29,995 Speaker 1: This is nineteen seventy six, and I still haven't gotten 748 00:48:30,035 --> 00:48:34,515 Speaker 1: over this. Through all of this back and forth about 749 00:48:34,595 --> 00:48:42,075 Speaker 1: college that consumed a year, Cornell b you, Harvard, Merit scholarships, 750 00:48:42,275 --> 00:48:47,395 Speaker 1: free rides, the dead student in the hallway, the Celtics internship, 751 00:48:47,475 --> 00:48:49,715 Speaker 1: the New York State discount, go to Harvard if you 752 00:48:49,795 --> 00:48:53,315 Speaker 1: get in, Howard Stern, his own father, his brother, the depression. 753 00:48:53,315 --> 00:48:56,955 Speaker 1: Through all of that, my dad never once mentioned that 754 00:48:57,035 --> 00:49:01,915 Speaker 1: Cornell had been his dream, his escape, his free ticket 755 00:49:01,955 --> 00:49:04,155 Speaker 1: that he had to give up, that he had to 756 00:49:04,195 --> 00:49:06,635 Speaker 1: replace with working as a draftsman and going to night 757 00:49:06,675 --> 00:49:13,955 Speaker 1: school for nearly twenty years. Never mentioned it. Finally I spoke. 758 00:49:14,475 --> 00:49:17,475 Speaker 1: Could have been hours later, could have been days later. 759 00:49:18,355 --> 00:49:26,995 Speaker 1: You didn't tell me. How did you resist? He pulled 760 00:49:26,995 --> 00:49:29,915 Speaker 1: into a parking spot in front of a diner. Do 761 00:49:30,035 --> 00:49:36,955 Speaker 1: you think, after what my father did to me, that 762 00:49:37,075 --> 00:49:41,235 Speaker 1: I was going to try to influence your decision about college, 763 00:49:42,635 --> 00:49:44,755 Speaker 1: even put that thought in your mind about going here 764 00:49:44,795 --> 00:49:48,595 Speaker 1: because I couldn't go here. Never. Never, in twenty lifetimes, 765 00:49:54,875 --> 00:50:02,915 Speaker 1: he's gone thirteen years. Around year three, me and a 766 00:50:02,955 --> 00:50:05,275 Speaker 1: bunch of the other alums from the Radio STA decided 767 00:50:05,315 --> 00:50:08,435 Speaker 1: that our successors, who had kind of fallen on hard 768 00:50:08,515 --> 00:50:11,875 Speaker 1: times and w VBRFM was now operating out of the 769 00:50:11,875 --> 00:50:19,075 Speaker 1: basement of something called the National Heifers Association, we decided 770 00:50:19,115 --> 00:50:20,915 Speaker 1: that we needed to get them out from under the 771 00:50:20,995 --> 00:50:25,315 Speaker 1: cows that they needed an entirely new radio station to 772 00:50:25,435 --> 00:50:29,155 Speaker 1: learn in as we were privileged to, as I was 773 00:50:29,235 --> 00:50:32,915 Speaker 1: privileged to. Thanks to my dad, I'm proud to say 774 00:50:32,955 --> 00:50:35,715 Speaker 1: I paid for nearly the whole thing, and therefore I 775 00:50:35,795 --> 00:50:38,635 Speaker 1: got to name it. And I named it for two people, 776 00:50:39,195 --> 00:50:41,955 Speaker 1: one of whom was my friend Glenn Cornelius, who was 777 00:50:41,995 --> 00:50:46,635 Speaker 1: the program director who died very young. You can guess 778 00:50:46,675 --> 00:50:48,435 Speaker 1: the name of the other person I named it after. 779 00:50:48,875 --> 00:50:51,955 Speaker 1: So if you're ever in Ithaca, New York, go to 780 00:50:51,955 --> 00:50:54,195 Speaker 1: six hundred and four East Buffalo Street and you will 781 00:50:54,235 --> 00:51:00,435 Speaker 1: see it w VBRFM, w VBR Cornell Media Guild, the 782 00:51:00,555 --> 00:51:06,075 Speaker 1: Olderman Cornelius Studios. My dad would say two things about that. 783 00:51:06,155 --> 00:51:09,875 Speaker 1: I believe clever the way you named it after me, 784 00:51:11,035 --> 00:51:14,075 Speaker 1: but it also just happens half your name in it, too. 785 00:51:15,195 --> 00:51:18,195 Speaker 1: And then he'd say, also, good ordering of the names. 786 00:51:18,755 --> 00:51:21,195 Speaker 1: You wouldn't want anybody actually thinking there was ever somebody 787 00:51:21,355 --> 00:51:41,475 Speaker 1: named Cornelius Ulderman. I've done all the damage I can 788 00:51:41,515 --> 00:51:43,675 Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown has come to 789 00:51:43,715 --> 00:51:47,395 Speaker 1: you from the studios of the Theodore C. Olverman Broadcasting Empire, 790 00:51:47,835 --> 00:51:50,475 Speaker 1: high atop its headquarters in the Sports Capsule building here 791 00:51:50,475 --> 00:51:53,355 Speaker 1: in New York. Here are the credits. Most of the 792 00:51:53,435 --> 00:51:55,955 Speaker 1: music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and 793 00:51:56,035 --> 00:51:59,475 Speaker 1: John Philip Channel, who are the Countdown musical directors. Produced 794 00:51:59,475 --> 00:52:03,355 Speaker 1: by t Ko Brothers. All orchestration and keyboards by John 795 00:52:03,355 --> 00:52:08,315 Speaker 1: Philip Channel, Guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray. Other 796 00:52:08,355 --> 00:52:11,395 Speaker 1: Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. 797 00:52:11,755 --> 00:52:14,715 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two 798 00:52:14,875 --> 00:52:17,275 Speaker 1: and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of 799 00:52:17,475 --> 00:52:20,955 Speaker 1: ESPN Inc. Musical comments from Nancy Fauss, the best baseball 800 00:52:20,995 --> 00:52:24,475 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever, and belated happy birthday to her. Our 801 00:52:24,515 --> 00:52:27,115 Speaker 1: announcer today was Larry David and everything else was pretty 802 00:52:27,155 --> 00:52:30,035 Speaker 1: much my fault. So that's countdown for this, the seven 803 00:52:30,155 --> 00:52:33,515 Speaker 1: hundred and ninety seventh day since Donald Trump's first attempted 804 00:52:33,555 --> 00:52:36,955 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 805 00:52:37,515 --> 00:52:41,315 Speaker 1: Arrest him now while we still can. The next scheduled 806 00:52:41,355 --> 00:52:43,955 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith Alderman. Good Morning, 807 00:52:43,955 --> 00:52:59,075 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman 808 00:52:59,275 --> 00:53:03,715 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. 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