1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:26,755 --> 00:00:32,955 Speaker 1: Anybody noticed Trump has confessed to stealing classified, top secret 3 00:00:32,995 --> 00:00:38,035 Speaker 1: documents also Russian collusion the Mueller report. Trump was guilty 4 00:00:38,115 --> 00:00:41,555 Speaker 1: there too, but the Trump apologist Attorney General appointed by 5 00:00:41,595 --> 00:00:45,995 Speaker 1: Trump beholden to Trump, writing to please Trump, concluded that 6 00:00:46,035 --> 00:00:48,795 Speaker 1: no matter what kind of conspiracy Robert Mueller found Trump 7 00:00:48,835 --> 00:00:51,955 Speaker 1: could be prosecuted for, Trump should not be prosecuted for 8 00:00:52,075 --> 00:00:55,715 Speaker 1: it because Trump believed Trump was only being investigated to 9 00:00:55,875 --> 00:01:00,035 Speaker 1: hurt Trump politically. In other words, if I shoot you 10 00:01:00,595 --> 00:01:03,275 Speaker 1: and they investigate me and find that, yeah, I shot you, 11 00:01:03,715 --> 00:01:05,795 Speaker 1: they still can't pro secute me as long as I 12 00:01:05,955 --> 00:01:10,395 Speaker 1: genuinely believe that they are only investigating me because they 13 00:01:10,395 --> 00:01:16,435 Speaker 1: are trying to damage this podcast. I'll get to Trump's 14 00:01:16,435 --> 00:01:20,595 Speaker 1: inadvertent confession about stealing documents containing among the most sensitive 15 00:01:20,635 --> 00:01:24,915 Speaker 1: secrets we hold presently, but let's look more first at 16 00:01:24,955 --> 00:01:27,915 Speaker 1: this release of this memo that confirms what we've all 17 00:01:27,955 --> 00:01:37,475 Speaker 1: known all along that the only thing fixed, rigged, biased, disgraceful, scammed, hoaxed, unfair, broken, incompetent, unjust, 18 00:01:37,555 --> 00:01:40,875 Speaker 1: and or witch hunted during Trump's occupation of the White 19 00:01:40,875 --> 00:01:44,955 Speaker 1: House was the way William Barr buried the Mueller Report 20 00:01:45,635 --> 00:01:48,635 Speaker 1: because that was what he was born to do, to 21 00:01:48,755 --> 00:01:51,755 Speaker 1: serve a would be dictator. By telling underlings to read 22 00:01:51,755 --> 00:01:55,675 Speaker 1: the Muller Report, find anything that potentially imperiled Trump, make 23 00:01:55,795 --> 00:01:58,875 Speaker 1: up some bull crap excuse for each part of it, 24 00:01:59,075 --> 00:02:01,955 Speaker 1: write a memo, make sure it exonerated Trump, and then 25 00:02:01,995 --> 00:02:05,915 Speaker 1: presented to Bar so he could say, the finest legal 26 00:02:05,955 --> 00:02:08,875 Speaker 1: minds in our governments say there is no obstruction of 27 00:02:08,955 --> 00:02:14,635 Speaker 1: justice by Trump. The memo was released yesterday afternoon after 28 00:02:14,915 --> 00:02:19,395 Speaker 1: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington crew sued the 29 00:02:19,435 --> 00:02:23,315 Speaker 1: government to make it public. It reads like a master 30 00:02:23,515 --> 00:02:29,315 Speaker 1: class in sophistry. On March twenty, two thousand nineteen, Special 31 00:02:29,315 --> 00:02:32,355 Speaker 1: Counsel Bob Mueller delivered his more than four hundred page 32 00:02:32,355 --> 00:02:37,555 Speaker 1: report to his boss, Attorney General Bar On March two 33 00:02:37,675 --> 00:02:42,675 Speaker 1: days later, Office of Legal Counsel Chief Stephen Engel and 34 00:02:42,795 --> 00:02:48,115 Speaker 1: Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O'Callaghan delivered their memo to 35 00:02:48,315 --> 00:02:52,075 Speaker 1: Bar two days. Two days. They took less time to 36 00:02:52,075 --> 00:02:56,995 Speaker 1: write their analysis of four hundred pages of earth shattering importance. 37 00:02:57,315 --> 00:02:59,435 Speaker 1: They took less time to write their analysis of that 38 00:02:59,835 --> 00:03:03,395 Speaker 1: than I take to write the Monday editions of this podcast. 39 00:03:04,915 --> 00:03:08,235 Speaker 1: Why a cynic might say that they had it all 40 00:03:08,315 --> 00:03:11,395 Speaker 1: written before Muller turned in his report, and they just 41 00:03:11,475 --> 00:03:15,395 Speaker 1: cut and pasted what they needed, not to explain or 42 00:03:15,555 --> 00:03:20,795 Speaker 1: summarize Mueller's findings, but to refute them. The New York 43 00:03:20,835 --> 00:03:24,795 Speaker 1: Times quotes former federal prosecutor Sam Buell as saying the 44 00:03:24,835 --> 00:03:28,595 Speaker 1: memo quote reads more like a defense lawyer's brief than 45 00:03:28,635 --> 00:03:33,195 Speaker 1: a full and balanced analysis. Citing the legal authorities, Mueller 46 00:03:33,395 --> 00:03:37,555 Speaker 1: specifies the times Trump held out potential pardons to scum 47 00:03:37,755 --> 00:03:41,795 Speaker 1: like Paul Manaford who might testify against him, to investigators 48 00:03:41,915 --> 00:03:46,275 Speaker 1: or an impeachment committee or whoever. O'Callaghan and angled described 49 00:03:46,315 --> 00:03:51,995 Speaker 1: these episodes as Trump praising or condemning Manafort or others 50 00:03:52,035 --> 00:03:55,955 Speaker 1: based on whether or not they were cooperating with investigators. 51 00:03:56,835 --> 00:04:00,595 Speaker 1: O'Callaghan and angle also suggests Trump only did that because 52 00:04:00,595 --> 00:04:03,795 Speaker 1: he didn't want Manafort and the others to make up 53 00:04:03,955 --> 00:04:11,675 Speaker 1: false laims about him. Sure, Trump was talking pardons to 54 00:04:11,835 --> 00:04:16,315 Speaker 1: keep his co conspirators from making up the ugly, damaging, 55 00:04:16,755 --> 00:04:23,595 Speaker 1: slanderous truth. Ryan Goodman of Just Security, often quoted here, 56 00:04:24,195 --> 00:04:27,235 Speaker 1: called this memo a get out of jail free card, 57 00:04:27,915 --> 00:04:30,755 Speaker 1: and added it amounts to saying someone is not guilty 58 00:04:30,755 --> 00:04:34,435 Speaker 1: of obstruction for deliberately trying to induce witnesses not to 59 00:04:34,515 --> 00:04:40,875 Speaker 1: cooperate with law enforcement in a major criminal investigation. Infamously, 60 00:04:41,395 --> 00:04:44,955 Speaker 1: Trump tried to force the White House counsel Don mcgon 61 00:04:45,595 --> 00:04:48,275 Speaker 1: to fire Robert Mueller. He then tried to get mcgon 62 00:04:48,475 --> 00:04:51,635 Speaker 1: to write a memo saying Trump never tried to force 63 00:04:51,675 --> 00:04:55,955 Speaker 1: me to fire Robert Mueller. That's witness tampering and it's 64 00:04:55,995 --> 00:05:01,035 Speaker 1: also falsifacation of evidence. But because mcgon refused to do either, 65 00:05:01,555 --> 00:05:05,635 Speaker 1: the O'Callaghan Angle memo says you can not charge Trump 66 00:05:05,635 --> 00:05:08,555 Speaker 1: with a crime for either, because when mcgon refused to 67 00:05:08,595 --> 00:05:14,595 Speaker 1: commit those crimes, Trump backed down. Well, here we are 68 00:05:14,635 --> 00:05:17,395 Speaker 1: again back to the hypothetical where I shoot you, but 69 00:05:17,475 --> 00:05:22,195 Speaker 1: in this version I miss so I tell an executive 70 00:05:22,475 --> 00:05:26,115 Speaker 1: to shoot you, he refuses. I tell him then to 71 00:05:26,155 --> 00:05:28,475 Speaker 1: write me a note saying I never told him to 72 00:05:28,475 --> 00:05:32,755 Speaker 1: shoot you. He refuses to do that. So there's no 73 00:05:32,915 --> 00:05:41,155 Speaker 1: crime because you are not dead yet. M Obviously, at 74 00:05:41,195 --> 00:05:44,075 Speaker 1: this point, you getting shot or me getting shot might 75 00:05:44,155 --> 00:05:46,715 Speaker 1: seem like a better option than reading more of what 76 00:05:47,075 --> 00:05:52,995 Speaker 1: Angle and O'Callaghan provided as the nonsensical rationalizations used by 77 00:05:53,035 --> 00:05:56,515 Speaker 1: the bloated tick that is Bill Barr to bury the 78 00:05:56,595 --> 00:06:00,355 Speaker 1: Mueller Report. The people who should be reading the Angle 79 00:06:00,395 --> 00:06:03,915 Speaker 1: O'Callaghan memo to Bar sit in the House of Representatives 80 00:06:04,075 --> 00:06:07,435 Speaker 1: and they should be opening an investigation into the memo 81 00:06:07,595 --> 00:06:11,275 Speaker 1: and how Angle and O'Callaghan and Bar themselves misled the 82 00:06:11,275 --> 00:06:15,315 Speaker 1: Department of Justice and the nation and history in an 83 00:06:15,315 --> 00:06:19,875 Speaker 1: epic whitewash. Specifically, there is still time left within the 84 00:06:19,915 --> 00:06:24,235 Speaker 1: Statutes of Limitations to investigate whether or not Angle, O'Callaghan 85 00:06:24,355 --> 00:06:28,355 Speaker 1: and Bar could themselves be charged with obstruction of justice. 86 00:06:30,395 --> 00:06:34,435 Speaker 1: But before we dropped this for context, did you know 87 00:06:34,515 --> 00:06:37,035 Speaker 1: O'Callaghan was one of the lawyers on the John McCain 88 00:06:37,355 --> 00:06:43,475 Speaker 1: campaign team who was assigned to defend Sarah Palin and 89 00:06:43,675 --> 00:06:48,395 Speaker 1: this Angle signed off on the Bush torture memos and 90 00:06:48,475 --> 00:06:51,995 Speaker 1: helped to keep the Ukraine phone call whistleblower complaints out 91 00:06:52,075 --> 00:06:56,355 Speaker 1: of the hands of Congress. And bars father was a 92 00:06:56,435 --> 00:07:00,755 Speaker 1: quote educator unquote who nearly drove my old prep school 93 00:07:01,315 --> 00:07:07,635 Speaker 1: and a couple of other prep schools out of business. Okay, 94 00:07:07,635 --> 00:07:09,715 Speaker 1: back to that which is right in front of us, 95 00:07:09,755 --> 00:07:12,355 Speaker 1: lost in the mail stream of the charges that Trump 96 00:07:12,435 --> 00:07:16,835 Speaker 1: purloined memos pertaining to nuclear weapons and took three hundred 97 00:07:16,995 --> 00:07:21,475 Speaker 1: classified documents, at least seven hundred pages worth of them, 98 00:07:21,475 --> 00:07:24,235 Speaker 1: out of the White House, and that they contained, Perl 99 00:07:24,235 --> 00:07:29,115 Speaker 1: Washington Post source, among the most sensitive secrets we hold. 100 00:07:30,795 --> 00:07:34,795 Speaker 1: Trump world has always been like a kaleidoscope. You look 101 00:07:34,835 --> 00:07:37,755 Speaker 1: into it, you see something for a second that is astonishing, 102 00:07:38,275 --> 00:07:40,795 Speaker 1: then it all shifts and you see something else, and 103 00:07:40,875 --> 00:07:43,915 Speaker 1: maybe it's more astonishing, And after the fourth or fifth 104 00:07:43,955 --> 00:07:46,875 Speaker 1: of these, you have forgotten the first one. So if 105 00:07:46,915 --> 00:07:52,355 Speaker 1: you did not realize that Trump confessed, frankly I didn't 106 00:07:52,395 --> 00:07:57,635 Speaker 1: either until yesterday afternoon this crazy twenty seven page motion 107 00:07:57,675 --> 00:08:02,275 Speaker 1: that Trump's attorneys filed were more correctly tried to file 108 00:08:02,835 --> 00:08:06,275 Speaker 1: more on that in a moment in Florida on Tuesday. 109 00:08:06,355 --> 00:08:09,435 Speaker 1: This motion refers repeatedly to the need for a so 110 00:08:09,515 --> 00:08:13,035 Speaker 1: called special Master to go through all the documents the 111 00:08:13,075 --> 00:08:17,035 Speaker 1: FBI recovered from Mari Lago on August eight. The master 112 00:08:18,115 --> 00:08:20,995 Speaker 1: would pull out all the documents Trump believes are covered 113 00:08:21,035 --> 00:08:25,595 Speaker 1: by executive privilege and return them to him, except what 114 00:08:25,755 --> 00:08:31,915 Speaker 1: kind of documents are covered by executive privilege? Presidential documents 115 00:08:31,915 --> 00:08:38,875 Speaker 1: are covered by executive privilege, presidential documents in fact, that 116 00:08:38,955 --> 00:08:43,195 Speaker 1: have some kind of additional importance, not whether or not 117 00:08:43,235 --> 00:08:47,475 Speaker 1: he wants ketchup on his big mac additional importance like 118 00:08:47,715 --> 00:08:54,875 Speaker 1: national security, secret information, secret deliberations involving you know, the president. 119 00:08:55,875 --> 00:09:02,475 Speaker 1: Trump wants in illegal filing these documents to be returned 120 00:09:02,515 --> 00:09:05,115 Speaker 1: to him at Mari Lago. Well, how were they to 121 00:09:05,195 --> 00:09:08,475 Speaker 1: be returned to him at Mari Lago if he did 122 00:09:08,515 --> 00:09:10,675 Speaker 1: not first take them from the White House and bring 123 00:09:10,715 --> 00:09:17,235 Speaker 1: them to Marilago. Trump is admitting he took them if 124 00:09:17,235 --> 00:09:19,875 Speaker 1: they were classified and important enough to be covered by 125 00:09:19,915 --> 00:09:24,155 Speaker 1: executive privilege. And he says they are covered by executive privilege, 126 00:09:24,395 --> 00:09:28,835 Speaker 1: he cannot legally have declassified them. He is admitting he 127 00:09:28,955 --> 00:09:34,955 Speaker 1: took classified documents. And there's a new development in which 128 00:09:34,995 --> 00:09:39,835 Speaker 1: Trump's last White House council confirms Trump took these documents. 129 00:09:40,115 --> 00:09:42,595 Speaker 1: The Washington Post got hold of an email from May 130 00:09:42,715 --> 00:09:47,315 Speaker 1: of one from the Chief Council for the National Archives 131 00:09:47,355 --> 00:09:52,355 Speaker 1: at the beginning of all this, apparently sent to Trump's attorneys. Quote. 132 00:09:52,875 --> 00:09:56,515 Speaker 1: It is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes 133 00:09:56,515 --> 00:09:59,475 Speaker 1: of presidential records were kept in the residence of a 134 00:09:59,475 --> 00:10:02,555 Speaker 1: White House over the course of President Trump's last year 135 00:10:02,555 --> 00:10:06,555 Speaker 1: in office, and have not been trans spurred to the archives, 136 00:10:06,835 --> 00:10:10,555 Speaker 1: despite a determination by the White House Council Pat Sippoloni 137 00:10:11,035 --> 00:10:13,875 Speaker 1: in the final days of the administration that they need 138 00:10:13,915 --> 00:10:19,155 Speaker 1: to be to wrap this up. Trump remains in a 139 00:10:19,195 --> 00:10:23,715 Speaker 1: world of hurt. I mentioned that Trump's lawyers attempted to 140 00:10:23,835 --> 00:10:27,595 Speaker 1: file this motion in Florida. You will recall that on Tuesday, 141 00:10:27,635 --> 00:10:30,875 Speaker 1: when Evan Corkoran and Jim Trusty, the lawyers, sent the 142 00:10:30,915 --> 00:10:33,635 Speaker 1: document to the judge, she and her clerk politely wrote 143 00:10:33,635 --> 00:10:36,955 Speaker 1: back that neither man had successfully filled out the paperwork 144 00:10:37,355 --> 00:10:39,915 Speaker 1: that would allow them to appear as lawyers in a 145 00:10:39,995 --> 00:10:44,395 Speaker 1: courtroom in Florida. They were alerted that quote A sample 146 00:10:44,475 --> 00:10:49,075 Speaker 1: motion can be found on the court's website. Charlie Savage 147 00:10:49,115 --> 00:10:51,115 Speaker 1: of The New York Times reports that when Corkoran and 148 00:10:51,115 --> 00:10:54,915 Speaker 1: Trustee tried for a second time to fill out the 149 00:10:54,955 --> 00:10:58,675 Speaker 1: same entry forms, they screwed them up again and got 150 00:10:58,715 --> 00:11:02,555 Speaker 1: the same A sample motion can be found message in 151 00:11:02,675 --> 00:11:08,555 Speaker 1: reply only on the third try Wednesday afternoon, did they 152 00:11:08,595 --> 00:11:12,395 Speaker 1: finally get it right? I guess they identified all the 153 00:11:12,435 --> 00:11:18,035 Speaker 1: photos with crosswalks or whatever, so now only one question remains, 154 00:11:18,155 --> 00:11:23,875 Speaker 1: can Trump attorneys, corporate and trustee find the actual address 155 00:11:23,915 --> 00:11:36,915 Speaker 1: of the courtroom? Still ahead on Countdown? So Republicans ripped 156 00:11:36,915 --> 00:11:39,755 Speaker 1: the student loan forgiveness program, and then it turns out 157 00:11:39,795 --> 00:11:44,555 Speaker 1: one of the Republicans companies had loans for three million 158 00:11:44,595 --> 00:11:49,075 Speaker 1: dollars from the government that were and he guesses, you're 159 00:11:49,155 --> 00:11:53,795 Speaker 1: right the loans were forgiven the death of the football 160 00:11:53,875 --> 00:11:57,475 Speaker 1: quarterback Len Dawson and how he made the Pittsburgh Steelers 161 00:11:57,955 --> 00:12:02,835 Speaker 1: suffer for fourteen years in worsts. What do you mean 162 00:12:02,955 --> 00:12:07,955 Speaker 1: Marge Green just insulted her local police and Peter Jackson 163 00:12:07,995 --> 00:12:10,155 Speaker 1: wants to forget the making of the Lord of the 164 00:12:10,235 --> 00:12:13,995 Speaker 1: Rings trilogy. How that connects to a warning I was 165 00:12:14,035 --> 00:12:19,555 Speaker 1: given forty seven years ago. Today, that's next, This is Countdown. 166 00:12:27,635 --> 00:12:36,275 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman coming up. He is 167 00:12:36,315 --> 00:12:39,995 Speaker 1: furious at the Biden student debt forgiveness program and he 168 00:12:40,035 --> 00:12:42,995 Speaker 1: works at a company that got three million dollars in 169 00:12:43,115 --> 00:12:48,555 Speaker 1: government loans and paid back exactly no of those dollars 170 00:12:49,075 --> 00:12:54,515 Speaker 1: before the loans were what's that word again, forgiven? First, 171 00:12:54,515 --> 00:12:56,675 Speaker 1: in each edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in 172 00:12:56,755 --> 00:12:59,555 Speaker 1: need whom you can help. Every dog has its day 173 00:12:59,595 --> 00:13:03,275 Speaker 1: back to the pound in my hometown. The goodness inside 174 00:13:03,275 --> 00:13:06,835 Speaker 1: a big, lovely German shepherd about seventy pounds. His name 175 00:13:06,875 --> 00:13:09,955 Speaker 1: is Doo Doo is obvious. In his home there was 176 00:13:09,995 --> 00:13:12,475 Speaker 1: a fourteen year old child. He loved her, was gentle 177 00:13:12,555 --> 00:13:15,475 Speaker 1: with her. Love the adults, but they never socialize, do 178 00:13:15,595 --> 00:13:18,795 Speaker 1: do with other people or other dogs. So he is 179 00:13:18,835 --> 00:13:20,955 Speaker 1: on death row in New York City. They might kill 180 00:13:20,995 --> 00:13:23,515 Speaker 1: him today. The best way for you to help is 181 00:13:23,555 --> 00:13:26,355 Speaker 1: to go to my Twitter account for dogs, Tom Jumbo Grumbo, 182 00:13:27,035 --> 00:13:29,875 Speaker 1: and pledge any amount you can afford to help defray 183 00:13:29,915 --> 00:13:32,355 Speaker 1: the cost of a local rescue to pull him out 184 00:13:32,635 --> 00:13:35,275 Speaker 1: and train him. Look from my tweet about Doo Doo, 185 00:13:35,435 --> 00:13:40,275 Speaker 1: it's spelled duo duo at Tom Jumbo Grumbo on Twitter, photos, 186 00:13:40,315 --> 00:13:43,235 Speaker 1: email addresses, links everything you need and you can also 187 00:13:43,315 --> 00:13:52,995 Speaker 1: really help just by retweeting him and thank you. Coming 188 00:13:53,075 --> 00:13:55,875 Speaker 1: up on countdown, Peter Jackson, the film director, says he 189 00:13:55,875 --> 00:13:58,355 Speaker 1: wanted to go to a hypnotist to erase all his 190 00:13:58,555 --> 00:14:01,755 Speaker 1: memories of the years in which he made The Lord 191 00:14:01,995 --> 00:14:04,915 Speaker 1: of the Rings films. And it's for an even more 192 00:14:04,955 --> 00:14:08,995 Speaker 1: bizarre reason than you'd think. And speaking of bizarre, Marjorie 193 00:14:09,035 --> 00:14:15,635 Speaker 1: Trailer Park Green attacking her hometown police first postscripts to 194 00:14:15,675 --> 00:14:26,875 Speaker 1: the news, some headlines, some thoughts, some snark. Dateline America. 195 00:14:26,995 --> 00:14:28,995 Speaker 1: All you really need to know about the value and 196 00:14:29,115 --> 00:14:32,635 Speaker 1: importance of President Biden's moderate plan for relief of some 197 00:14:32,715 --> 00:14:36,315 Speaker 1: of the nation's staggering student debt is the reaction of 198 00:14:37,355 --> 00:14:41,995 Speaker 1: the rich white guys. Senator Rick Scott quote today, Joe 199 00:14:42,035 --> 00:14:44,835 Speaker 1: Biden forced every American who did not attend to college 200 00:14:44,915 --> 00:14:47,355 Speaker 1: or has already paid off their loans to now pay 201 00:14:47,355 --> 00:14:51,715 Speaker 1: off others debts. Democrats, canceling student debt isn't a relief 202 00:14:51,755 --> 00:14:57,155 Speaker 1: for Americans. Monday, Senator Scott, who is a moron, complained 203 00:14:57,195 --> 00:15:00,755 Speaker 1: about President Biden's vacation in Delaware, presumably because he thought 204 00:15:00,755 --> 00:15:04,555 Speaker 1: nobody would know that he Senator Scott, a moron, was 205 00:15:04,715 --> 00:15:09,115 Speaker 1: on vacation on board a luxury yacht in Italy. We're 206 00:15:09,195 --> 00:15:12,435 Speaker 1: believing that Senator Scott must still be in Italy and 207 00:15:12,555 --> 00:15:16,435 Speaker 1: unaware that his social media manager back here is destroying 208 00:15:16,555 --> 00:15:20,715 Speaker 1: his senatorial career. And then their Senator Mitt Romney. And 209 00:15:20,715 --> 00:15:22,675 Speaker 1: when you picture him in your mind, please picture him 210 00:15:22,675 --> 00:15:27,555 Speaker 1: looking adoringly at Donald Trump over that very dimly lit dinner. Quote, 211 00:15:28,195 --> 00:15:32,275 Speaker 1: it fuels inflation, foots taxpayers with other people's financial obligations. 212 00:15:32,315 --> 00:15:35,515 Speaker 1: Is unfair to those who paid their own way and 213 00:15:35,595 --> 00:15:41,755 Speaker 1: creates irresponsible expectations paid their own way. Mittens reportedly mits 214 00:15:41,915 --> 00:15:45,035 Speaker 1: rich parents paid for his college Stanford and then b 215 00:15:45,315 --> 00:15:48,395 Speaker 1: y U in the sixties, but they forced him to 216 00:15:48,395 --> 00:15:52,835 Speaker 1: be independent and responsible, there by only giving him one 217 00:15:52,995 --> 00:15:57,715 Speaker 1: million dollars worth of stock from House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, 218 00:15:57,795 --> 00:16:02,875 Speaker 1: who will have to pay for Biden's debt transfer scam? 219 00:16:02,915 --> 00:16:06,555 Speaker 1: How about you, Kevin per Similarly you you and Elon 220 00:16:06,635 --> 00:16:10,395 Speaker 1: Musk and Peter Teal. Thanks for your question, caller. Somebody 221 00:16:10,475 --> 00:16:13,795 Speaker 1: named Rory Cooper complains, quote White House is going to 222 00:16:13,835 --> 00:16:17,115 Speaker 1: ask middle class families to pay twenty thousand dollars two 223 00:16:17,155 --> 00:16:21,115 Speaker 1: households earning a quarter million dollars. Turns out this guy, 224 00:16:21,235 --> 00:16:24,955 Speaker 1: Rory Cooper, is the former communications director for the ex 225 00:16:24,955 --> 00:16:28,995 Speaker 1: Congressman Eric Cantor, and Cooper now works for a crisis 226 00:16:29,035 --> 00:16:34,275 Speaker 1: management firm called Purple Strategies of Alexandria, Virginia. So what well, 227 00:16:34,675 --> 00:16:37,555 Speaker 1: during the pandemic, Purple Strategy has got two of those 228 00:16:37,555 --> 00:16:43,035 Speaker 1: emergency p p P loans total three million two seven 229 00:16:43,115 --> 00:16:47,315 Speaker 1: hundred seventy three dollars from the American government. When did 230 00:16:47,395 --> 00:16:51,075 Speaker 1: Rory Cooper's Purple Strategies repay those loans? They did not 231 00:16:51,155 --> 00:16:57,675 Speaker 1: repay those loans. They were forgiven because one crisis management 232 00:16:57,715 --> 00:17:01,075 Speaker 1: firm is worth like a hundred and sixty four Americans 233 00:17:01,075 --> 00:17:05,675 Speaker 1: with college loan debts. Congrats Rory. Now Purple Strategy of Alexandria, 234 00:17:05,755 --> 00:17:11,155 Speaker 1: Virginia has a crisis of its own to manage. Dateline, Washington, 235 00:17:11,195 --> 00:17:13,795 Speaker 1: the House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus turned up the 236 00:17:13,875 --> 00:17:16,355 Speaker 1: usual suspects, doing what we saw them do as they 237 00:17:16,355 --> 00:17:21,355 Speaker 1: did it, plus one small surprise. The March email obtained 238 00:17:21,395 --> 00:17:25,275 Speaker 1: by the panel showed one medical celebrity urging Jared Kushner 239 00:17:25,555 --> 00:17:29,675 Speaker 1: to make hydroxy chlora queen available immediately as a treatment 240 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:32,555 Speaker 1: for COVID, even though there was no legitimate evidence that 241 00:17:32,555 --> 00:17:36,035 Speaker 1: it did a damn thing for sufferers. The medical celebrity 242 00:17:36,035 --> 00:17:39,835 Speaker 1: who did that memo oz now the Republican nominee for 243 00:17:39,875 --> 00:17:44,155 Speaker 1: the Senate in Pennsylvania. Wait, there's more. Turns out Draws 244 00:17:44,355 --> 00:17:48,315 Speaker 1: bought two thousand and seventy cork queen tablets at a 245 00:17:48,395 --> 00:17:51,235 Speaker 1: cost of eighty eight hundred dollars the same month the 246 00:17:51,235 --> 00:17:56,195 Speaker 1: pandemic started. Gotta nowhere to invest and dateline Washington. The 247 00:17:56,195 --> 00:18:01,155 Speaker 1: Economists political number cruncher g Elliott Morris says, with a 248 00:18:01,195 --> 00:18:04,115 Speaker 1: lot of caveats to this, that after the Democratic triumphs 249 00:18:04,115 --> 00:18:08,035 Speaker 1: in the New York quote, based on our not yet 250 00:18:08,075 --> 00:18:11,755 Speaker 1: released election model, special elections so far this cycle are 251 00:18:11,835 --> 00:18:16,195 Speaker 1: consistent with Democrats winning fifty one of the two party 252 00:18:16,275 --> 00:18:19,835 Speaker 1: vote for the House in November. That is almost exactly 253 00:18:19,875 --> 00:18:23,315 Speaker 1: the threshold they need to keep their majority. End quote. 254 00:18:23,675 --> 00:18:26,275 Speaker 1: I will not go through the caveats one by one. 255 00:18:26,635 --> 00:18:30,955 Speaker 1: This is just a preliminary, hopeful sign. Morris also comments 256 00:18:30,995 --> 00:18:35,635 Speaker 1: on a new UC Berkeley poll showing sevent support for 257 00:18:35,755 --> 00:18:42,995 Speaker 1: California's upcoming Proposition one, which would codify ROW in traditionally 258 00:18:42,995 --> 00:18:47,995 Speaker 1: conservative Orange County, California. From that whopping number, Morris extrapolates, 259 00:18:48,075 --> 00:18:51,275 Speaker 1: quoting again, that would imply that residents in forty one 260 00:18:51,275 --> 00:18:55,355 Speaker 1: of fifty states would also likely approve codifying ROW in 261 00:18:55,435 --> 00:19:14,275 Speaker 1: their states. This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. 262 00:19:14,875 --> 00:19:21,275 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Alberman. Just one story from 263 00:19:21,275 --> 00:19:24,555 Speaker 1: the wide world of World of wide Sports. Len Dawson 264 00:19:24,675 --> 00:19:28,675 Speaker 1: died yesterday len Dawson was a testament to perseverance and 265 00:19:28,795 --> 00:19:32,835 Speaker 1: banned personnel judgements. He was the fifth player chosen in 266 00:19:32,875 --> 00:19:36,475 Speaker 1: the NFL Draft in nineteen fifty seven by the Pittsburgh Steelers, 267 00:19:36,915 --> 00:19:39,435 Speaker 1: but in training camp somebody said, this guy is not 268 00:19:39,515 --> 00:19:42,875 Speaker 1: our quarterback, so they traded to draft choices for Earl 269 00:19:43,035 --> 00:19:46,315 Speaker 1: Moral of San Francisco. Then the next year, some guy 270 00:19:46,395 --> 00:19:49,955 Speaker 1: said Earl Moral is not our quarterback, and neither of 271 00:19:49,995 --> 00:19:53,515 Speaker 1: this guy, Jack Kemp, So they cut Kemp and traded 272 00:19:53,555 --> 00:19:56,475 Speaker 1: Moral and two more draft choices to Detroit for quarterback 273 00:19:56,515 --> 00:20:00,035 Speaker 1: Bobby Lane. Lane got hurt, and then they got Rudy 274 00:20:00,035 --> 00:20:02,155 Speaker 1: Bukich to fill in for him. And then in nineteen 275 00:20:02,235 --> 00:20:05,155 Speaker 1: sixty two, the Steelers traded another draft choice for another 276 00:20:05,235 --> 00:20:08,235 Speaker 1: quarterback named Ed Brown, and he was no good, so 277 00:20:08,275 --> 00:20:10,995 Speaker 1: they stuck in a tenth round draft choice named Bill Nelson, 278 00:20:10,995 --> 00:20:13,155 Speaker 1: and he washed out. So they tried a guy the 279 00:20:13,275 --> 00:20:15,755 Speaker 1: Rams had cut named Ron Smith, and another guy named 280 00:20:15,755 --> 00:20:18,995 Speaker 1: George Izoh and another one named Tommy Wade, and that 281 00:20:19,115 --> 00:20:21,435 Speaker 1: lasted a year, and then they tried an undrafted quarterback 282 00:20:21,515 --> 00:20:23,635 Speaker 1: named Kent Nicks, and they still had Nelson, so they 283 00:20:23,675 --> 00:20:26,755 Speaker 1: traded him to Cleveland for the quarterback with the unfortunate 284 00:20:26,915 --> 00:20:30,675 Speaker 1: name of Dick Shiner. And then they drafted another kid 285 00:20:30,755 --> 00:20:32,955 Speaker 1: out of Notre Dame named Terry Hanratty, and they gave 286 00:20:33,035 --> 00:20:35,955 Speaker 1: him the job, and he's stunk. And by now seventy 287 00:20:35,995 --> 00:20:38,235 Speaker 1: the Steelers had been so bad for so long they 288 00:20:38,315 --> 00:20:41,675 Speaker 1: had won sixty five of their previous a hundred and 289 00:20:41,715 --> 00:20:44,715 Speaker 1: seventy four games since the day they drafted len Dawson 290 00:20:45,995 --> 00:20:47,555 Speaker 1: that they now had first pick in the draft, and 291 00:20:47,555 --> 00:20:49,435 Speaker 1: they took Terry Bradshaw, who you may have heard of, 292 00:20:49,475 --> 00:20:52,395 Speaker 1: and then they won some Super Bowls in the inter room. 293 00:20:52,515 --> 00:20:56,515 Speaker 1: Len Dawson, having given him one start in three seasons, 294 00:20:56,555 --> 00:20:58,955 Speaker 1: the Steelers dealt him to Cleveland, where he got one 295 00:20:58,995 --> 00:21:02,155 Speaker 1: start in two seasons, and after five years in the 296 00:21:02,195 --> 00:21:06,595 Speaker 1: pros he had actually attempted four five passes in league games. 297 00:21:06,595 --> 00:21:09,515 Speaker 1: That's nine year. He was ready to quit and go 298 00:21:09,595 --> 00:21:12,395 Speaker 1: become a teacher when an opportunity arose to instead go 299 00:21:12,555 --> 00:21:15,995 Speaker 1: to the new American Football League. And while the Steelers 300 00:21:15,995 --> 00:21:19,155 Speaker 1: were going through twelve starting quarterbacks in thirteen years, len 301 00:21:19,235 --> 00:21:23,515 Speaker 1: Dawson one the a f L title, the ninety six 302 00:21:23,595 --> 00:21:25,875 Speaker 1: AFL title, and he played in the first Super Bowl 303 00:21:26,195 --> 00:21:29,035 Speaker 1: and then he won the nineteen seventy Super Bowl, and 304 00:21:29,075 --> 00:21:31,235 Speaker 1: he kept playing until he was forty, by which time 305 00:21:31,275 --> 00:21:34,635 Speaker 1: he was already a star local TV and radio sportscaster 306 00:21:34,715 --> 00:21:37,555 Speaker 1: in Kansas City. And he did that for forty four years, 307 00:21:37,795 --> 00:21:42,195 Speaker 1: and he also did games on ABC and NBC, and 308 00:21:42,275 --> 00:21:47,035 Speaker 1: he beat prostate cancer. And he is immortalized in photos 309 00:21:47,075 --> 00:21:50,715 Speaker 1: of him sitting on a folding chair smoking a cigarette 310 00:21:50,755 --> 00:21:53,795 Speaker 1: in the locker room at halftime of the Super Bowl. 311 00:21:55,155 --> 00:22:13,955 Speaker 1: Len Dawson was eight seven years old. Stell ahead Peter 312 00:22:14,075 --> 00:22:18,115 Speaker 1: Jackson's dreams of getting his memories washed away out of 313 00:22:18,195 --> 00:22:22,395 Speaker 1: his own head and what that meant for my own career, 314 00:22:22,875 --> 00:22:27,275 Speaker 1: and an anniversary I celebrate today. First the daily roundup 315 00:22:27,315 --> 00:22:30,355 Speaker 1: of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who 316 00:22:30,395 --> 00:22:37,355 Speaker 1: constitute today's worst person than the world. Lebrons herschel Walker. 317 00:22:38,395 --> 00:22:45,275 Speaker 1: He was telling some story to some audience about addressing ministers, 318 00:22:45,395 --> 00:22:48,475 Speaker 1: and he says, he told them, I'm not ever going 319 00:22:48,515 --> 00:22:52,195 Speaker 1: through anything My Holy Father isn't going through. If I 320 00:22:52,235 --> 00:23:00,555 Speaker 1: have a mental problem, Jesus Christ must have a mental problem. Um. 321 00:23:00,635 --> 00:23:03,475 Speaker 1: You know, the more I hear herschel Walkers speak, the 322 00:23:03,515 --> 00:23:06,315 Speaker 1: more I think that row bottom on this topic is 323 00:23:06,395 --> 00:23:11,235 Speaker 1: not person woman man Camera TV. Speaking of which the 324 00:23:11,235 --> 00:23:15,155 Speaker 1: bronze to Eric Trump. The documentarian Alex Holdrew, who followed 325 00:23:15,195 --> 00:23:18,275 Speaker 1: the Trump's around on January six and who testified to 326 00:23:18,315 --> 00:23:21,755 Speaker 1: the committee, didn't ask me anything. On Reddit, one of 327 00:23:21,755 --> 00:23:25,155 Speaker 1: the questions to hold her what smaller moments about the 328 00:23:25,155 --> 00:23:29,475 Speaker 1: Trump family surprised him most? What's the Trump's? Isn't every 329 00:23:29,515 --> 00:23:33,435 Speaker 1: moment small for them? His reply quote, Eric seemed to 330 00:23:33,475 --> 00:23:36,995 Speaker 1: be pretty scared of his older brother. The natural follow 331 00:23:37,075 --> 00:23:40,595 Speaker 1: up from somebody else on this asked me anything? Why 332 00:23:40,595 --> 00:23:43,435 Speaker 1: did he seem scared of him? Holder replied, quote, have 333 00:23:43,595 --> 00:23:48,395 Speaker 1: you seen Don Jr? Look there's an easy solution, Eric. 334 00:23:48,875 --> 00:23:52,315 Speaker 1: Next time you're afraid of your brother Jr. Just play 335 00:23:52,315 --> 00:23:56,115 Speaker 1: Harry Nilsen's song Jump into the Fire. Until JR. It's 336 00:23:56,195 --> 00:23:58,275 Speaker 1: May eleventh and he has to go to the airport 337 00:23:58,315 --> 00:24:00,875 Speaker 1: to pick up the new shipment from Pittsburgh. And that, yeah, 338 00:24:00,955 --> 00:24:05,275 Speaker 1: that helicopter is following him. But our winner, Congressman cave 339 00:24:05,315 --> 00:24:10,715 Speaker 1: woman herself Marjorie Trailer Park Green. She done got squatted. 340 00:24:11,355 --> 00:24:15,435 Speaker 1: Shortly after one am, someone called the police in Floyd County, Georgia, 341 00:24:15,635 --> 00:24:18,835 Speaker 1: reporting that somebody had been shot multiple times. They gave 342 00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:22,515 Speaker 1: the address as Green's home, and technologically they made it 343 00:24:22,515 --> 00:24:24,595 Speaker 1: seem like the call was coming from a phone in 344 00:24:24,835 --> 00:24:28,875 Speaker 1: or near her house. Therefore, an unknown number of police 345 00:24:28,915 --> 00:24:32,795 Speaker 1: swarmed the home of Marjorie Trailer Park Green. I am 346 00:24:32,835 --> 00:24:36,915 Speaker 1: not in favor of this, but Green initially tweeted, I 347 00:24:36,955 --> 00:24:39,995 Speaker 1: can't express enough gratitude to my local law enforcement here 348 00:24:39,995 --> 00:24:44,475 Speaker 1: in Rome, Floyd County in Georgia. So far, so good. However, 349 00:24:44,995 --> 00:24:47,315 Speaker 1: she then went on The Charlie Kirk Show and said 350 00:24:47,355 --> 00:24:49,835 Speaker 1: it was lucky that she didn't answer her door as 351 00:24:49,875 --> 00:24:54,675 Speaker 1: she usually does, bearing a gun, and it got worse. Quote, 352 00:24:54,915 --> 00:24:57,555 Speaker 1: if there's a police officer with a happy trigger finger, 353 00:24:57,875 --> 00:24:59,595 Speaker 1: you don't know what could happen. If they saw me 354 00:24:59,675 --> 00:25:02,195 Speaker 1: with a gun, they may have fired at me. It's 355 00:25:02,235 --> 00:25:07,435 Speaker 1: political terrorism. Later on Steve Rasputin's show, she said, quote, 356 00:25:07,635 --> 00:25:10,195 Speaker 1: it's attempted murder. They were trying to get the police 357 00:25:10,235 --> 00:25:14,315 Speaker 1: to kill me. Two problems with this, Midge, what do 358 00:25:14,355 --> 00:25:18,235 Speaker 1: you mean a police officer with a happy trigger finger 359 00:25:18,835 --> 00:25:22,275 Speaker 1: trying to get the police to kill you? You back 360 00:25:22,395 --> 00:25:27,395 Speaker 1: the blue, don't you? Cops don't make mistakes, not fatal 361 00:25:27,475 --> 00:25:31,595 Speaker 1: mistakes like that. It's always the victim's fault. Remember what 362 00:25:31,675 --> 00:25:35,355 Speaker 1: you've said in the past. Don't you owe every police 363 00:25:35,395 --> 00:25:39,035 Speaker 1: officer in America an apology, ma'am, and for that matter, 364 00:25:39,155 --> 00:25:43,595 Speaker 1: every FBI officer too. Second problem, let me read that 365 00:25:43,715 --> 00:25:46,355 Speaker 1: first quote again. If there's a police officer with a 366 00:25:46,395 --> 00:25:49,475 Speaker 1: happy trigger finger, you don't know what could happen. If 367 00:25:49,475 --> 00:25:51,715 Speaker 1: they saw me with a gun, they may have fired 368 00:25:51,755 --> 00:25:59,595 Speaker 1: at me. It's political terrorism. Marge is so close to 369 00:25:59,875 --> 00:26:07,235 Speaker 1: being symbolically transported from Floyd County to George Floyd, so 370 00:26:07,835 --> 00:26:13,595 Speaker 1: close to getting it. Luckily for her, she didn't have 371 00:26:13,635 --> 00:26:15,515 Speaker 1: any empathy and she will never make the rest of 372 00:26:15,515 --> 00:26:19,715 Speaker 1: that trip. Marjorie Trailer Park Green. The police who I 373 00:26:19,755 --> 00:26:24,755 Speaker 1: fully support, nearly shot me in cold blood. Today's worst 374 00:26:25,395 --> 00:26:42,475 Speaker 1: person he Lord yea to the number one story on 375 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:45,595 Speaker 1: the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and another edition 376 00:26:45,595 --> 00:26:48,875 Speaker 1: of things I promised not to tell. Earlier this month, 377 00:26:48,875 --> 00:26:51,515 Speaker 1: the film director Peter Jackson was on a podcast put 378 00:26:51,515 --> 00:26:54,395 Speaker 1: out by The Hollywood Reporter magazine, and he said his 379 00:26:54,435 --> 00:26:57,275 Speaker 1: greatest regret about making the Lord of the Rings trilogy 380 00:26:57,555 --> 00:27:00,875 Speaker 1: was that he could never actually go see the films. 381 00:27:01,595 --> 00:27:04,835 Speaker 1: It is such a regret, Peter Jackson said he had 382 00:27:04,835 --> 00:27:08,395 Speaker 1: looked into getting hypno therapy to make him forget the 383 00:27:08,395 --> 00:27:10,715 Speaker 1: work he did on the films, and even to forget 384 00:27:10,795 --> 00:27:14,235 Speaker 1: the films themselves, just so he could go see them 385 00:27:14,275 --> 00:27:18,075 Speaker 1: like the ninety nine Point of the World that did 386 00:27:18,115 --> 00:27:21,835 Speaker 1: not direct the Hobbit Flix, Quoting Jackson from the Awards 387 00:27:21,955 --> 00:27:24,915 Speaker 1: Chatter podcast, it was such a loss for me not 388 00:27:24,995 --> 00:27:27,315 Speaker 1: to be able to experience them like everyone else. Was 389 00:27:27,795 --> 00:27:30,515 Speaker 1: that I actually did seriously consider going to a hypno 390 00:27:30,635 --> 00:27:33,395 Speaker 1: therapy guy and to hypnotize me, to make me forget 391 00:27:33,435 --> 00:27:35,595 Speaker 1: about the films and forget about the work I've done 392 00:27:36,035 --> 00:27:38,795 Speaker 1: over the last six or seven years, so I could 393 00:27:38,795 --> 00:27:42,475 Speaker 1: sit and enjoy them. Just put your head down here 394 00:27:42,595 --> 00:27:46,035 Speaker 1: on the taper racing machine. We'll hit the degaos button 395 00:27:46,075 --> 00:27:48,795 Speaker 1: and you'll be fine. Pete. I mean, you won't remember 396 00:27:48,835 --> 00:27:52,235 Speaker 1: anything since the year two thousand and fifteen. But away 397 00:27:52,275 --> 00:27:57,075 Speaker 1: we go. It didn't happen. Apparently Jackson chickened out, so 398 00:27:57,155 --> 00:28:00,275 Speaker 1: no hypno therapist caused him to forget making The Lord 399 00:28:00,315 --> 00:28:04,635 Speaker 1: of the Rings. But one, I guess made me remember 400 00:28:04,715 --> 00:28:06,715 Speaker 1: a piece of advice that somebody should have given Peter 401 00:28:06,795 --> 00:28:09,755 Speaker 1: Jackson before he made the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 402 00:28:09,915 --> 00:28:12,795 Speaker 1: Forty seven years ago this week, I arrived at Cornell 403 00:28:12,915 --> 00:28:16,155 Speaker 1: University as a sixteen year old freshman. We all got 404 00:28:16,195 --> 00:28:20,355 Speaker 1: there on Sunday, August. My folks stayed i think one night, 405 00:28:20,835 --> 00:28:23,715 Speaker 1: and before they left, my dad helped me to find 406 00:28:23,715 --> 00:28:26,955 Speaker 1: the college radio station, w VBR, which turned out not 407 00:28:27,035 --> 00:28:29,595 Speaker 1: to really be a college radio station per se. It 408 00:28:29,635 --> 00:28:31,995 Speaker 1: wasn't even on the campus. We were driving around for 409 00:28:32,075 --> 00:28:34,995 Speaker 1: quite a while until we founded early in the afternoon 410 00:28:35,315 --> 00:28:39,995 Speaker 1: of Monday, August. This is the anniversary. The address was 411 00:28:40,035 --> 00:28:44,595 Speaker 1: to SN Linden Avenue, Ithaca, New York. I walked into 412 00:28:44,635 --> 00:28:49,075 Speaker 1: this sprawling, always a little cold, but nicely converted old 413 00:28:49,115 --> 00:28:52,395 Speaker 1: gas station and parking garage, and the first person I 414 00:28:52,475 --> 00:28:56,155 Speaker 1: saw was a young, not too tall woman who asked 415 00:28:56,155 --> 00:28:58,035 Speaker 1: me if she could help me, and I said, Hi, 416 00:28:58,115 --> 00:29:00,635 Speaker 1: I'm a freshman. I'd like to become a sportscaster. And 417 00:29:00,755 --> 00:29:04,635 Speaker 1: she actually said, sounds like you already are. Hi. I'm ROBERTA. Haber. 418 00:29:04,675 --> 00:29:06,595 Speaker 1: I'm the training director, but we don't really start training 419 00:29:06,675 --> 00:29:09,515 Speaker 1: until about four weeks from now. You'll see the flyers 420 00:29:09,555 --> 00:29:11,915 Speaker 1: in the announcements. It should be the last Monday in September. 421 00:29:11,955 --> 00:29:14,515 Speaker 1: I think we'll be able to find a place for you. 422 00:29:14,995 --> 00:29:16,875 Speaker 1: She gave me a quick tour of w A b 423 00:29:17,035 --> 00:29:20,515 Speaker 1: R and then ushered me the hell out. I checked 424 00:29:20,555 --> 00:29:25,555 Speaker 1: for those flyers every day, and finally there they were Monday, 425 00:29:25,635 --> 00:29:28,995 Speaker 1: September twenty two, an open house for would be disc 426 00:29:29,035 --> 00:29:33,475 Speaker 1: jockey's newspeople, sportscasters, engineers, eight pm w v B R 427 00:29:33,595 --> 00:29:36,675 Speaker 1: FM Studios. I got there a little early and there 428 00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:39,595 Speaker 1: were already fifty people in the station lounge. There were 429 00:29:39,635 --> 00:29:42,955 Speaker 1: still a few open spots on the floor. The place 430 00:29:43,035 --> 00:29:46,235 Speaker 1: kept filling out. They cut it off and started asking 431 00:29:46,235 --> 00:29:48,035 Speaker 1: people to come back for a second open house the 432 00:29:48,075 --> 00:29:50,355 Speaker 1: next night, when it got to be about a hundred 433 00:29:50,395 --> 00:29:52,555 Speaker 1: of us sitting there, and when it was so crowded 434 00:29:52,555 --> 00:29:54,435 Speaker 1: in the lounge that I could no longer see the 435 00:29:54,475 --> 00:29:57,475 Speaker 1: posters on the wall celebrating two of the most hotly 436 00:29:57,555 --> 00:30:01,995 Speaker 1: promoted young rock stars of the day, Bruce Springsteen and 437 00:30:02,195 --> 00:30:06,635 Speaker 1: Loudon Wayne Wright. The third. Anyway, we finally got started. 438 00:30:06,755 --> 00:30:09,835 Speaker 1: That woman who had greeted me Roberta started the inevitable 439 00:30:09,875 --> 00:30:12,195 Speaker 1: passing around of the sign up sheet, and then she 440 00:30:12,235 --> 00:30:15,515 Speaker 1: said something that somebody should have told Peter Jackson before 441 00:30:15,555 --> 00:30:19,235 Speaker 1: he made those movies, she said, more or less. This 442 00:30:19,315 --> 00:30:21,315 Speaker 1: may sound like a joke, but it's not. We always 443 00:30:21,315 --> 00:30:23,955 Speaker 1: give this warning on the first night of training. If 444 00:30:23,955 --> 00:30:26,115 Speaker 1: you ever want to listen to the radio again and 445 00:30:26,155 --> 00:30:33,435 Speaker 1: just enjoy it, here's the door. Leave now. Several people laughed. No, 446 00:30:33,795 --> 00:30:37,075 Speaker 1: I'm serious. Even if you just start training and then leave, 447 00:30:37,115 --> 00:30:39,435 Speaker 1: it will still be too late for you to ever 448 00:30:39,595 --> 00:30:43,995 Speaker 1: just enjoy radio again. And the further you get into it, 449 00:30:44,035 --> 00:30:45,995 Speaker 1: the more things you have to cross off your list. 450 00:30:46,035 --> 00:30:49,355 Speaker 1: It's it's not that I can't listen to the radio anymore. 451 00:30:50,195 --> 00:30:52,995 Speaker 1: I can hear every accent, I can hear everybody with 452 00:30:53,035 --> 00:30:55,955 Speaker 1: a mushy s. I can hear the dead air, I 453 00:30:55,955 --> 00:30:59,355 Speaker 1: can hear the bad segues from record to record. Well, 454 00:30:59,355 --> 00:31:02,155 Speaker 1: that's bad enough. I'm in radio, but this is my 455 00:31:02,235 --> 00:31:06,675 Speaker 1: senior year, and I can't just listen to music anymore. 456 00:31:06,715 --> 00:31:08,555 Speaker 1: I used to be the music director. Now I judge 457 00:31:08,595 --> 00:31:10,595 Speaker 1: every song I hear. Would this be good on w 458 00:31:10,715 --> 00:31:14,035 Speaker 1: B b R. I can hear singers mispronounced words. I 459 00:31:14,035 --> 00:31:16,235 Speaker 1: can hear notes that aren't perfect. If you want to 460 00:31:16,315 --> 00:31:22,275 Speaker 1: enjoy radio or music, here's the door. Leave now. Not 461 00:31:22,355 --> 00:31:25,275 Speaker 1: so many people laugh this time, and she continued It 462 00:31:25,355 --> 00:31:28,955 Speaker 1: even begins to affect watching TV and movies, because radio 463 00:31:28,995 --> 00:31:31,195 Speaker 1: gives you an idea of how TV and movies work 464 00:31:31,235 --> 00:31:34,115 Speaker 1: as well. There's an old saying, if you like sausage, 465 00:31:34,155 --> 00:31:37,075 Speaker 1: never go see how they make sausage. Even if you 466 00:31:37,155 --> 00:31:39,835 Speaker 1: like watching them make it, though, you'll still always think, 467 00:31:39,915 --> 00:31:42,475 Speaker 1: I wonder if they're making it correctly? What's the recipe here? 468 00:31:43,115 --> 00:31:45,555 Speaker 1: So if you want to enjoy radio, or music, or 469 00:31:45,595 --> 00:31:50,355 Speaker 1: television or life ever again, leave now. The guy sitting 470 00:31:50,355 --> 00:31:54,515 Speaker 1: next to me left. I did not. I wanted to 471 00:31:54,515 --> 00:31:57,275 Speaker 1: see how they made the sausage. The inability to just 472 00:31:57,315 --> 00:31:59,915 Speaker 1: sit back and flip the radio on and not pay 473 00:31:59,955 --> 00:32:02,315 Speaker 1: attention to it was a fair trade off. I had 474 00:32:02,315 --> 00:32:03,955 Speaker 1: already been doing that in high school. We had a 475 00:32:03,995 --> 00:32:06,275 Speaker 1: high school radio station. It wasn't much, but I used 476 00:32:06,275 --> 00:32:08,475 Speaker 1: to then listen to other radio stations, the real ones, 477 00:32:08,475 --> 00:32:11,275 Speaker 1: and go, that guy has a really, really bad New 478 00:32:11,315 --> 00:32:15,075 Speaker 1: York accent. W v b R turned out to be 479 00:32:15,115 --> 00:32:18,355 Speaker 1: the best training ground in the country. In my senior year, 480 00:32:18,395 --> 00:32:20,755 Speaker 1: we literally had a twenty nine year old guy from 481 00:32:20,795 --> 00:32:24,195 Speaker 1: San Francisco named Al who wanted to become a sportscaster 482 00:32:24,355 --> 00:32:27,355 Speaker 1: and a radio commercial salesman and he moved to Ithaca, 483 00:32:27,395 --> 00:32:30,395 Speaker 1: New York, just to train at w v b R. 484 00:32:30,595 --> 00:32:33,395 Speaker 1: I loved Ithaca, New York, but I would never move 485 00:32:33,435 --> 00:32:37,595 Speaker 1: from San Francisco to Ithaca, New York. That effect that 486 00:32:37,675 --> 00:32:39,915 Speaker 1: you will hear every mistake and reduce every joy to 487 00:32:39,995 --> 00:32:44,475 Speaker 1: something technical that actually began to wear off after twenty 488 00:32:44,555 --> 00:32:47,995 Speaker 1: years or so. I can put the radio on now 489 00:32:48,035 --> 00:32:50,995 Speaker 1: and once out of every I don't know, three or 490 00:32:50,995 --> 00:32:54,755 Speaker 1: four hundred times, I won't hear the mistake or the 491 00:32:54,795 --> 00:32:57,435 Speaker 1: sibilant s, or the news reporter coming on and his 492 00:32:57,835 --> 00:33:00,315 Speaker 1: volume in the studio is too low and he's sounds 493 00:33:00,395 --> 00:33:04,395 Speaker 1: like this. There are still some periodic flashbacks to to 494 00:33:04,675 --> 00:33:07,235 Speaker 1: are things that happened early in my career. There. One day, 495 00:33:07,275 --> 00:33:09,955 Speaker 1: my clock radio alarm went off at exactly the right 496 00:33:10,035 --> 00:33:15,115 Speaker 1: moment that, deeply asleep, I still heard the newscaster introduced 497 00:33:15,195 --> 00:33:19,595 Speaker 1: my pre taped morning sportscast. Now in sports, here's Keith Alderman. 498 00:33:19,675 --> 00:33:22,155 Speaker 1: I sat up in bed immediately, I reached for some 499 00:33:22,275 --> 00:33:27,435 Speaker 1: non existent script and began to shout indecipherable nonsense. Well 500 00:33:27,475 --> 00:33:30,515 Speaker 1: you know that I still do it. Anyway. They didn't 501 00:33:30,515 --> 00:33:33,075 Speaker 1: make me go through the full training program back in nineteen, 502 00:33:34,195 --> 00:33:36,675 Speaker 1: I made it onto the air about ten days later. 503 00:33:37,155 --> 00:33:39,755 Speaker 1: A year later, I was the sports director, which was great, 504 00:33:39,795 --> 00:33:42,995 Speaker 1: except all ten of those senior sportscasters who were there 505 00:33:43,275 --> 00:33:45,635 Speaker 1: had graduated, and the day I got back to Ithaca 506 00:33:45,675 --> 00:33:48,835 Speaker 1: in August nineteen seventy six, the program director said, until 507 00:33:48,835 --> 00:33:51,075 Speaker 1: you find some more sportscasters, you have to do all 508 00:33:51,115 --> 00:33:54,355 Speaker 1: the sportscasts. And while I pretended that that would have 509 00:33:54,435 --> 00:33:57,715 Speaker 1: been terrible, I figured eventually I probably want to take 510 00:33:57,755 --> 00:34:00,275 Speaker 1: a day off from the radio station and I don't know, 511 00:34:00,395 --> 00:34:03,515 Speaker 1: maybe go to a class or go for a meal 512 00:34:03,835 --> 00:34:06,315 Speaker 1: or something. So I put up signs in all the 513 00:34:06,315 --> 00:34:09,475 Speaker 1: freshman dorm's offering a quick training program, and sure enough 514 00:34:09,515 --> 00:34:12,875 Speaker 1: I got six or seven guys who wanted to be sportscasters. 515 00:34:13,195 --> 00:34:14,955 Speaker 1: And the first thing I said to them was, listen, 516 00:34:15,035 --> 00:34:19,195 Speaker 1: if you ever want to enjoy radio again, forget this 517 00:34:19,275 --> 00:34:22,155 Speaker 1: because you'll always be thinking about how they make the sausage. 518 00:34:22,155 --> 00:34:24,355 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even enjoy sports as much as 519 00:34:24,435 --> 00:34:27,915 Speaker 1: I used to. Well, they all got cleared to go 520 00:34:28,115 --> 00:34:30,555 Speaker 1: on the air. One of them wound up as the 521 00:34:30,555 --> 00:34:33,715 Speaker 1: general manager of the radio station, and you know what, 522 00:34:33,875 --> 00:34:36,235 Speaker 1: all that got me the job as the head of 523 00:34:36,275 --> 00:34:39,075 Speaker 1: training for the entire station the next year. I did 524 00:34:39,115 --> 00:34:42,075 Speaker 1: that for two years and probably got fifty or sixty 525 00:34:42,075 --> 00:34:45,075 Speaker 1: people into the station on the air or whatever, including 526 00:34:45,115 --> 00:34:48,915 Speaker 1: one particular engineer, a techie named Ruby. He would never 527 00:34:48,915 --> 00:34:54,595 Speaker 1: answer anything else who later invented the iPod for Steve Jobs. 528 00:34:55,875 --> 00:34:58,915 Speaker 1: And I told them all the same thing, if you 529 00:34:58,955 --> 00:35:01,635 Speaker 1: want to enjoy listening to radio, get out while you 530 00:35:01,715 --> 00:35:04,675 Speaker 1: can before we teach you how to do it. Sausage 531 00:35:04,715 --> 00:35:08,315 Speaker 1: does not look that good ever again. And years later, 532 00:35:08,435 --> 00:35:11,955 Speaker 1: when w v b r FM hit kind of hard times, 533 00:35:12,075 --> 00:35:16,875 Speaker 1: Ruby John Rubinstein bought them a new transmitter tower, and 534 00:35:16,955 --> 00:35:18,795 Speaker 1: I paid for most of the new studio, and I 535 00:35:18,875 --> 00:35:21,195 Speaker 1: named it after my dad and one of my colleagues there, 536 00:35:21,195 --> 00:35:25,115 Speaker 1: Glenn Cornelius. I'm only sorry about one thing, which is 537 00:35:25,155 --> 00:35:27,715 Speaker 1: that I did not get to warn Peter Jackson about 538 00:35:27,755 --> 00:35:31,315 Speaker 1: how if he wanted to enjoy anything ever again, he 539 00:35:31,355 --> 00:35:40,755 Speaker 1: should have gotten out on day one two. I've done 540 00:35:40,795 --> 00:35:42,555 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. This is where 541 00:35:42,555 --> 00:35:45,195 Speaker 1: I ask you to rate and review the podcasts FIB 542 00:35:45,715 --> 00:35:48,395 Speaker 1: Tell them you enjoy listening to the sausage get made 543 00:35:49,195 --> 00:35:51,995 Speaker 1: the countdown theme from Beethoven's Ninth The Range produced and 544 00:35:52,035 --> 00:35:55,595 Speaker 1: performed by Countdown musical directors Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. 545 00:35:56,035 --> 00:36:00,155 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle. Guitars, bass 546 00:36:00,195 --> 00:36:02,995 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray. Produced by t K O Brothers. 547 00:36:03,395 --> 00:36:06,875 Speaker 1: That's me and John and Brian. The other Beato Beethoven 548 00:36:06,915 --> 00:36:12,315 Speaker 1: Selections or Beethoven Roll Over Beethoven. The other Beethoven Selections 549 00:36:12,315 --> 00:36:17,235 Speaker 1: have been arranged and performed by No horns allowed. I 550 00:36:17,275 --> 00:36:19,955 Speaker 1: didn't get the sausage recipe right, did I? Our sports 551 00:36:20,035 --> 00:36:23,915 Speaker 1: music the Alderman ESPN two theme written by Mitch Warren 552 00:36:23,995 --> 00:36:28,315 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of the ESPN, Inc. Musical comments by Nancy Faust, 553 00:36:28,355 --> 00:36:32,115 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever, and our announcer today 554 00:36:32,155 --> 00:36:36,435 Speaker 1: was John Deane. Let's countdown for this the six day 555 00:36:36,875 --> 00:36:39,875 Speaker 1: since Donald Trump's first attempt at coup against the democratically 556 00:36:39,915 --> 00:36:42,675 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. I have a new 557 00:36:42,715 --> 00:36:45,715 Speaker 1: episode for you tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith Alderman. Good Morning, 558 00:36:45,755 --> 00:36:58,235 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. 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