1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,155 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. It's 2 00:00:23,195 --> 00:00:26,555 Speaker 1: not just simple gas lighting about the price of gas. 3 00:00:27,155 --> 00:00:32,115 Speaker 1: It is neurological disintegration. It is obsessive repetition of the 4 00:00:32,155 --> 00:00:35,915 Speaker 1: same lie, and the most terrifying part of all, Trump 5 00:00:35,995 --> 00:00:39,355 Speaker 1: seems to be unaware that he is presenting this as 6 00:00:39,395 --> 00:00:42,395 Speaker 1: something brand new, as if it were the first time, 7 00:00:42,515 --> 00:00:45,795 Speaker 1: when in fact he blurts out in shock and excited 8 00:00:45,875 --> 00:00:52,115 Speaker 1: surprise this same goddamn thing an average of once every 9 00:00:52,475 --> 00:00:57,835 Speaker 1: two weeks, and still thinks it's the first time. Saturday 10 00:00:58,155 --> 00:01:01,475 Speaker 1: on social media, gasoline hit a dollar in ninety nine 11 00:01:01,555 --> 00:01:06,715 Speaker 1: a gallon yesterday in certain states. Since the seventeenth of April. 12 00:01:06,995 --> 00:01:10,675 Speaker 1: This is the fourteenth time he has claimed as if 13 00:01:10,715 --> 00:01:12,475 Speaker 1: it were true, but more importantly, as if it were 14 00:01:12,475 --> 00:01:17,515 Speaker 1: breaking news, the gas just hit dollar ninety eight or 15 00:01:17,635 --> 00:01:23,115 Speaker 1: dollar ninety nine, fourteen separate times, and each time he 16 00:01:23,155 --> 00:01:27,115 Speaker 1: has been expecting the world to share his surprise. It's 17 00:01:27,155 --> 00:01:32,355 Speaker 1: the goddamned Adam Sandler Drew Barrymore movie Fifty First Dates, 18 00:01:32,915 --> 00:01:34,955 Speaker 1: where she has no short term memory and every day 19 00:01:34,955 --> 00:01:38,675 Speaker 1: she forgets that they're dating. Only this is the President 20 00:01:38,715 --> 00:01:42,195 Speaker 1: of the United States, not Drew effing Barrymore, and every 21 00:01:42,315 --> 00:01:46,275 Speaker 1: day or nearly every day, he forgets where the f 22 00:01:46,395 --> 00:01:49,995 Speaker 1: he is and what the f just happened, even about 23 00:01:49,995 --> 00:01:55,915 Speaker 1: the price of gas. April seventeenth. Quote, you have gasoline 24 00:01:55,915 --> 00:01:57,875 Speaker 1: that hit a dollar ninety eight yesterday in a couple 25 00:01:57,915 --> 00:02:02,075 Speaker 1: of states. April eighteenth. The next day literally already forgot. 26 00:02:02,275 --> 00:02:05,155 Speaker 1: Quote gasoline in three states hit a dollar ninety eight 27 00:02:05,155 --> 00:02:08,315 Speaker 1: a gallon. April twenty second. Quote. I see that we 28 00:02:08,355 --> 00:02:10,115 Speaker 1: had a couple of states where gasoline was at a 29 00:02:10,115 --> 00:02:14,075 Speaker 1: dollar ninety eight a gallon. April twenty third. Gasoline is 30 00:02:14,155 --> 00:02:18,635 Speaker 1: less than two dollars a gallon in Alabama. May second. Quote, 31 00:02:18,635 --> 00:02:21,635 Speaker 1: gasoline just broke a dollar ninety eight a gallon, lowest 32 00:02:21,715 --> 00:02:26,995 Speaker 1: in years. May nineteenth. Quote they're buying gasoline now for 33 00:02:27,035 --> 00:02:30,635 Speaker 1: a dollar ninety nine. And by the way, they had 34 00:02:30,635 --> 00:02:35,755 Speaker 1: asked him about cutting snap benefits. July first quote, gasoline 35 00:02:35,795 --> 00:02:39,155 Speaker 1: just hit a dollar ninety nine in five states. July first, 36 00:02:39,235 --> 00:02:41,955 Speaker 1: minutes later, quote we just hit in five states a 37 00:02:41,995 --> 00:02:46,795 Speaker 1: dollar ninety nine. A dollar ninety eight. July ninth. Quote, 38 00:02:46,835 --> 00:02:49,795 Speaker 1: there's two states, three states that we're selling gasoline at 39 00:02:49,795 --> 00:02:51,875 Speaker 1: a dollar ninety nine. You haven't seen that for a 40 00:02:51,875 --> 00:02:56,315 Speaker 1: long time. July twenty second on Twitter, quote we hit 41 00:02:56,355 --> 00:03:00,955 Speaker 1: a dollar ninety nine a gallon today in five different states. 42 00:03:01,275 --> 00:03:06,755 Speaker 1: That got a community note. Then something happen. Happened, nothing 43 00:03:06,835 --> 00:03:10,235 Speaker 1: until October twenty ninth, And on October twenty ninth, quote, 44 00:03:10,555 --> 00:03:16,835 Speaker 1: we're going to see two dollars gasoline pretty soon. November sixth, 45 00:03:16,915 --> 00:03:20,715 Speaker 1: quote we're almost two dollars for gasoline. December second, quote 46 00:03:20,795 --> 00:03:23,115 Speaker 1: a dollar ninety nine in some places, we're going to 47 00:03:23,155 --> 00:03:25,075 Speaker 1: be I think at two dollars a gallon. We could 48 00:03:25,115 --> 00:03:30,355 Speaker 1: even crack that at some point. And then December sixth, Saturday, 49 00:03:30,395 --> 00:03:33,395 Speaker 1: back to gasoline, just hit a dollar ninety nine, like 50 00:03:33,435 --> 00:03:39,475 Speaker 1: he hadn't mentioned it fourteen times in twenty eight weeks. 51 00:03:41,435 --> 00:03:44,915 Speaker 1: So what about that brief pass by of reality between 52 00:03:45,035 --> 00:03:47,875 Speaker 1: July twenty second and October twenty ninth where he got 53 00:03:47,875 --> 00:03:51,435 Speaker 1: a vague idea that what he'd been saying or thinking 54 00:03:51,475 --> 00:03:54,755 Speaker 1: about a dollar ninety eight a gallon of gas was 55 00:03:54,795 --> 00:03:59,635 Speaker 1: not reality when his broken brain apparently reset and he 56 00:03:59,715 --> 00:04:02,475 Speaker 1: decided it had not happened yet, but he had new 57 00:04:02,475 --> 00:04:06,395 Speaker 1: breaking news that it would. I will point out reminding 58 00:04:06,395 --> 00:04:08,915 Speaker 1: you first of the logical fallacy about how event A 59 00:04:09,155 --> 00:04:11,435 Speaker 1: can happen and then event B can happen, And that 60 00:04:11,475 --> 00:04:14,955 Speaker 1: does not automatically mean event A caused event B. That 61 00:04:15,035 --> 00:04:17,915 Speaker 1: October twenty ninth was two and a half weeks after 62 00:04:18,115 --> 00:04:23,115 Speaker 1: his physical at Walter Reid with the MRI, and god 63 00:04:23,155 --> 00:04:25,595 Speaker 1: knows what else. But now he's got a giant patch 64 00:04:25,675 --> 00:04:31,235 Speaker 1: bandage above the veins on his right hand. Here we have, 65 00:04:31,355 --> 00:04:34,595 Speaker 1: in real time evidence of Trump's dementia, and I use 66 00:04:34,635 --> 00:04:37,715 Speaker 1: the term dementia generically. It could be any neurological crisis. 67 00:04:37,715 --> 00:04:40,675 Speaker 1: But here is a log of him saying the same 68 00:04:40,755 --> 00:04:44,515 Speaker 1: thing wildly untrue, mathematically off by roughly fifty percent of 69 00:04:44,595 --> 00:04:47,395 Speaker 1: not just saying it fourteen different times, but saying it 70 00:04:47,435 --> 00:04:50,275 Speaker 1: with the delight and surprise and pride and for him, 71 00:04:50,635 --> 00:04:58,235 Speaker 1: the sincerity of somebody who just found out the good news. 72 00:04:58,275 --> 00:05:06,995 Speaker 1: And that is a classical symptom of neurological collapse gas lighting. Yeah, 73 00:05:07,035 --> 00:05:09,275 Speaker 1: this is that rare occasion where it would be better 74 00:05:09,555 --> 00:05:12,275 Speaker 1: if this was just another one of his sleezy lies, 75 00:05:13,035 --> 00:05:17,235 Speaker 1: or another fourteen of his sleezy lies, like his unshakable 76 00:05:17,275 --> 00:05:21,435 Speaker 1: stupidity about political asylum being the same as insane asylum. 77 00:05:22,715 --> 00:05:25,475 Speaker 1: For once, it is not his deception that matters. It 78 00:05:25,555 --> 00:05:31,435 Speaker 1: is his personal conviction that it's new. It is a nightmare, 79 00:05:32,675 --> 00:05:35,235 Speaker 1: and it is proof that invoking the twenty fifth Amendment 80 00:05:35,315 --> 00:05:40,275 Speaker 1: is imperative and won't happen. It won't happen anymore than 81 00:05:40,315 --> 00:05:42,795 Speaker 1: Trump realizing he already told that lie about the price 82 00:05:42,835 --> 00:06:09,075 Speaker 1: of a gallon of gas will happen. And incidentally, they 83 00:06:09,075 --> 00:06:11,875 Speaker 1: have tracked down where the initial falsehood got into his 84 00:06:11,915 --> 00:06:14,555 Speaker 1: brain and took up residence there, surely as if it 85 00:06:14,595 --> 00:06:18,955 Speaker 1: were one of Bobby Kennedy's worms. In April, the oil 86 00:06:18,995 --> 00:06:22,395 Speaker 1: industry reported that the price of unblended gasoline as it 87 00:06:22,515 --> 00:06:26,315 Speaker 1: arrives in this country was you guessed at a dollar 88 00:06:26,395 --> 00:06:28,915 Speaker 1: ninety eight a gallon. Of course, you cannot put the 89 00:06:28,995 --> 00:06:33,155 Speaker 1: unblended gasoline in your car. It might blow up. The 90 00:06:33,195 --> 00:06:36,155 Speaker 1: blending that is required before that can happen. Putting it 91 00:06:36,195 --> 00:06:39,995 Speaker 1: in your car, that is, adds about a dollar per gallon. 92 00:06:41,355 --> 00:06:44,275 Speaker 1: So gasoline, in fact, had just hit two ninety eight 93 00:06:44,315 --> 00:06:48,275 Speaker 1: a gallon, But he heard a dollar ninety eight, and 94 00:06:48,395 --> 00:06:51,315 Speaker 1: it is there and brand new and exciting to him 95 00:06:51,395 --> 00:06:56,555 Speaker 1: every week and day since, which leads me to the question, 96 00:06:56,635 --> 00:06:59,795 Speaker 1: what's the price of pipe bombs these days. The FBI, 97 00:07:00,555 --> 00:07:05,755 Speaker 1: This FBI, His FBI arrests a guy for January fifth, 98 00:07:05,795 --> 00:07:09,275 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one's placement of pipe bombs at DNC and 99 00:07:09,395 --> 00:07:12,475 Speaker 1: RNC headquarters in Washington, and he reportedly is confessed and 100 00:07:12,555 --> 00:07:15,035 Speaker 1: is a twenty twenty election denier. And this was placed 101 00:07:15,155 --> 00:07:19,475 Speaker 1: somewhere behind the soccer World Efing Cup as a lead 102 00:07:19,595 --> 00:07:22,875 Speaker 1: news story, and the story had been sourced everywhere, from 103 00:07:22,995 --> 00:07:27,755 Speaker 1: NBC to CNN to Fox News. Not a deep state 104 00:07:27,835 --> 00:07:31,755 Speaker 1: plot who defunk it? Not a DC police officer slandered 105 00:07:31,755 --> 00:07:36,195 Speaker 1: by Glenn Beck's website, Not somebody made up fabricated by 106 00:07:36,195 --> 00:07:40,955 Speaker 1: the now FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. And this happens 107 00:07:41,035 --> 00:07:45,355 Speaker 1: at its crickets. If that had been anything but another 108 00:07:45,475 --> 00:07:48,715 Speaker 1: lunatic under the delusion that Trump actually won the twenty 109 00:07:48,755 --> 00:07:51,795 Speaker 1: twenty election that he lost, this would have been wall 110 00:07:51,875 --> 00:07:55,355 Speaker 1: to wall on every news organization in America trying to 111 00:07:55,515 --> 00:07:59,275 Speaker 1: suck up to Trump. But the media instead skated past 112 00:07:59,315 --> 00:08:05,155 Speaker 1: it like it didn't efing matter. And somehow Bongino still 113 00:08:05,195 --> 00:08:09,515 Speaker 1: in office rather than in jail, even though even Sean 114 00:08:09,635 --> 00:08:12,635 Speaker 1: Hannity called him out for his twenty twenty one lies 115 00:08:12,995 --> 00:08:16,555 Speaker 1: that this was anti Trump, or an inside job, or 116 00:08:16,555 --> 00:08:20,795 Speaker 1: a massive FBI cover up as massive as your hair. 117 00:08:20,955 --> 00:08:26,515 Speaker 1: Bungino Bongino proudly now says, quote, I was paid in 118 00:08:26,555 --> 00:08:29,675 Speaker 1: the past for my opinions. One day I'll be back 119 00:08:29,715 --> 00:08:33,115 Speaker 1: in that space. But that's not what I'm paid for now. 120 00:08:33,315 --> 00:08:35,555 Speaker 1: I'm paid to be your deputy director. And we base 121 00:08:35,635 --> 00:08:42,315 Speaker 1: investigations on facts. So formerly a lying whore, now not lying, 122 00:08:42,515 --> 00:08:45,555 Speaker 1: just a Trump horror and in the future a whore again. 123 00:08:46,395 --> 00:08:48,715 Speaker 1: And if we're going to put you in any space whatsoever, 124 00:08:48,835 --> 00:08:55,115 Speaker 1: can I suggest it be the space that contains the sun? Now, 125 00:08:55,155 --> 00:08:59,875 Speaker 1: please let me circle back briefly to Trump's brain Washington 126 00:08:59,915 --> 00:09:03,675 Speaker 1: post on what has become the airplane hangar he is 127 00:09:03,675 --> 00:09:06,915 Speaker 1: building next to the White House. Quote. On Tuesday, Trump 128 00:09:06,995 --> 00:09:10,315 Speaker 1: said during a cabinet meeting that the pile drivers operate 129 00:09:10,875 --> 00:09:14,515 Speaker 1: all night and have created a disagreement in his marriage. 130 00:09:15,475 --> 00:09:19,235 Speaker 1: The president says he loves the sound, while First Lady 131 00:09:19,235 --> 00:09:22,275 Speaker 1: Milania Trump has asked him to make the constant pounding stop, 132 00:09:22,795 --> 00:09:29,995 Speaker 1: a request he's denied. Sorry, darlin, that's progress. Trump said. 133 00:09:30,035 --> 00:09:34,355 Speaker 1: He told her, unquote, what was she on a zoom call? 134 00:09:36,075 --> 00:09:44,115 Speaker 1: Holy cow? The pile drivers operate all night. Just saying here, 135 00:09:44,155 --> 00:09:47,355 Speaker 1: but I bet that's the first time Trump and Millenia 136 00:09:47,395 --> 00:10:00,155 Speaker 1: have discussed pile driving in like eighteen years now. About 137 00:10:00,155 --> 00:10:04,035 Speaker 1: a couple of Smiths. Maybe the last chance to finally 138 00:10:04,075 --> 00:10:07,715 Speaker 1: punish for his treachery with Putin and Russia comes next week, 139 00:10:08,355 --> 00:10:11,075 Speaker 1: when Jack Smith is supposed to be grilled in closed 140 00:10:11,075 --> 00:10:15,155 Speaker 1: door testimony by the House Committee on however bullshit it 141 00:10:15,195 --> 00:10:18,515 Speaker 1: is this time? This is Jim Jordan's committee this time. 142 00:10:18,555 --> 00:10:21,315 Speaker 1: And whereas the Maga monkeys think Jim Jordan's gonna get 143 00:10:21,355 --> 00:10:25,635 Speaker 1: Smith on behalf of Vladimir Trump, I would think a 144 00:10:25,795 --> 00:10:29,275 Speaker 1: likelier outcome, maybe half of one percent, as Jordan winds 145 00:10:29,355 --> 00:10:32,355 Speaker 1: up incriminating himself in some way in the questions and 146 00:10:32,435 --> 00:10:36,915 Speaker 1: Smith finally puts him in jail. Anyway, Jack Smith, of 147 00:10:36,915 --> 00:10:40,035 Speaker 1: course is trying to get this all made public. He 148 00:10:40,115 --> 00:10:45,115 Speaker 1: may join a suit to make what he found public, 149 00:10:45,835 --> 00:10:48,155 Speaker 1: and he is certainly acting to try to make this 150 00:10:48,275 --> 00:10:51,435 Speaker 1: hearing in front of Congress public and on the record, 151 00:10:51,755 --> 00:10:53,795 Speaker 1: which of course would allow him to get in a 152 00:10:53,835 --> 00:10:57,715 Speaker 1: lot of the findings of his investigation into Trump's treachery 153 00:10:58,075 --> 00:11:00,635 Speaker 1: and any and all measures that could be taken to 154 00:11:00,835 --> 00:11:04,435 Speaker 1: enable that should be effected because there was, is and 155 00:11:04,475 --> 00:11:07,795 Speaker 1: will continue to be a conspiracy involving Donald Trump at 156 00:11:07,795 --> 00:11:12,275 Speaker 1: one end, and Russia and Russian intel and Russian leadership 157 00:11:12,315 --> 00:11:16,635 Speaker 1: at the other. There is all the hoax claims will 158 00:11:16,675 --> 00:11:22,195 Speaker 1: never erase this if Trump escapes justice, others will not. 159 00:11:24,875 --> 00:11:27,995 Speaker 1: The further away we get from Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump, 160 00:11:27,995 --> 00:11:31,275 Speaker 1: the more we understand that Merrick Garland we'll go down 161 00:11:31,315 --> 00:11:34,475 Speaker 1: in history as one of the great and most damaging 162 00:11:34,515 --> 00:11:37,835 Speaker 1: idiots in our history. I mean so damaging. He could 163 00:11:37,875 --> 00:11:43,075 Speaker 1: have been Trump's attorney general. It's slipped by this story 164 00:11:43,595 --> 00:11:47,355 Speaker 1: because there are only the twenty four hundred hours in 165 00:11:47,555 --> 00:11:52,195 Speaker 1: a Trumpest day. But the Carol Lennig book on Prosecuting 166 00:11:52,235 --> 00:11:55,395 Speaker 1: the Scumbag has all sorts of maddening details. If your 167 00:11:55,475 --> 00:12:02,195 Speaker 1: BP is high, skip this part. Yes, Smith did try 168 00:12:02,195 --> 00:12:05,395 Speaker 1: to get Eileen Cannon removed as the judge in Florida 169 00:12:05,515 --> 00:12:09,235 Speaker 1: in the document's case. I'll quote in August twenty twenty four, 170 00:12:09,315 --> 00:12:11,675 Speaker 1: as Smith and his team were finishing up their appeal 171 00:12:11,995 --> 00:12:16,235 Speaker 1: of Canon's ruling, he had also secretly concluded that Cannon 172 00:12:16,315 --> 00:12:20,155 Speaker 1: should be removed as the presiding judge. Smith presented the 173 00:12:20,195 --> 00:12:24,955 Speaker 1: appeal to Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Pretlonger for her approval, 174 00:12:25,235 --> 00:12:28,835 Speaker 1: as special Council regulations required. He also asked her if 175 00:12:28,875 --> 00:12:31,755 Speaker 1: he could seek to have Canon removed by the Appellate Court, 176 00:12:32,195 --> 00:12:36,435 Speaker 1: an unprecedented move for a special counsel. Smith's team believed 177 00:12:36,715 --> 00:12:41,715 Speaker 1: Cannon had made decisions that strained the law or bypassed precedent, 178 00:12:42,035 --> 00:12:45,155 Speaker 1: many of them favoring Trump. In one episode that had 179 00:12:45,195 --> 00:12:49,115 Speaker 1: surprised prosecutors. Canon issued a sealed order in August twenty 180 00:12:49,155 --> 00:12:54,915 Speaker 1: twenty three, launching an investigation into potential prosecutorial misconduct, citing 181 00:12:55,715 --> 00:13:01,155 Speaker 1: news reports. Canon did not specify what reports she was hearing, 182 00:13:01,635 --> 00:13:04,475 Speaker 1: but the day before her order, the conservative Fox News 183 00:13:04,475 --> 00:13:09,115 Speaker 1: to television program Life Liberty in Levin had featured a 184 00:13:09,155 --> 00:13:13,395 Speaker 1: Trump defense attorney accusing Smith's team of strong arm tactics, 185 00:13:14,035 --> 00:13:19,155 Speaker 1: the very tactics Cannon wanted to dig into the final 186 00:13:19,195 --> 00:13:22,355 Speaker 1: straw where Smith came when Cannon dismissed the case, citing 187 00:13:22,355 --> 00:13:26,875 Speaker 1: Thomas's non binding opinion. In other words, this all turned 188 00:13:27,675 --> 00:13:33,955 Speaker 1: on something that Mark Levin had on Fox. Preloger approved 189 00:13:33,995 --> 00:13:37,155 Speaker 1: the appeal of Cannon's ruling, but rejected Smith's plan to 190 00:13:37,195 --> 00:13:40,555 Speaker 1: seek the judge's removal, saying he didn't have a strong 191 00:13:40,675 --> 00:13:43,955 Speaker 1: enough basis to do so. Smith decided not to ask 192 00:13:44,075 --> 00:13:48,555 Speaker 1: Garland to overrule Preloger. If Smith had asked and Garland 193 00:13:48,555 --> 00:13:51,515 Speaker 1: then turned him down, the Justice Department would have been 194 00:13:51,515 --> 00:13:55,395 Speaker 1: required to notify Congress and the disagreement would surely have 195 00:13:55,475 --> 00:14:00,355 Speaker 1: become public. So that's why he didn't go to remove 196 00:14:00,395 --> 00:14:03,355 Speaker 1: Eileen Cannon, because he didn't know whether or not the 197 00:14:03,395 --> 00:14:06,195 Speaker 1: Attorney General of the Nied States was smart enough to 198 00:14:06,235 --> 00:14:10,275 Speaker 1: realize that they had a corrupt judge ruling on their case. 199 00:14:13,075 --> 00:14:18,435 Speaker 1: To them, the consequences of that becoming public were too risky. 200 00:14:19,195 --> 00:14:22,035 Speaker 1: I mean, that's where we ended. After we had started 201 00:14:22,035 --> 00:14:24,475 Speaker 1: the day of the Mary Lago search discovering the troves 202 00:14:24,515 --> 00:14:29,795 Speaker 1: of secret documents that Trump stole. In August twenty twenty two, 203 00:14:29,795 --> 00:14:33,235 Speaker 1: Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen was briefed about the appalling 204 00:14:33,315 --> 00:14:35,715 Speaker 1: crime and what the search produced, and again from Lennig 205 00:14:35,915 --> 00:14:39,475 Speaker 1: quote Olsen turned to his top Justice Department expert on 206 00:14:39,515 --> 00:14:43,515 Speaker 1: the mishandling of classified records, Julie Edelstein, to ask what 207 00:14:43,555 --> 00:14:47,875 Speaker 1: they should do next. She delivered a startling assessment. If 208 00:14:47,875 --> 00:14:52,955 Speaker 1: it was anybody else we would arrest him tomorrow, Edelstein said. 209 00:14:53,715 --> 00:14:58,075 Speaker 1: Knowingly taking classified documents outside of a secure government facility 210 00:14:58,155 --> 00:15:02,755 Speaker 1: was a crime, plain and simple, she explained. Trying to 211 00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:06,355 Speaker 1: conceal them after receiving a MA subpoena to return all 212 00:15:06,355 --> 00:15:09,635 Speaker 1: classified records as Trump had made the crime far worse, 213 00:15:09,995 --> 00:15:13,795 Speaker 1: she argued, But Olsen's team knew that with Trump all 214 00:15:13,835 --> 00:15:17,515 Speaker 1: bets were off. The Justice Department would invariably treat the 215 00:15:17,555 --> 00:15:25,915 Speaker 1: former president more gingerly. One more then we'll move on 216 00:15:26,035 --> 00:15:32,235 Speaker 1: to Smith Number two, The failure of Merrick Garland. It's 217 00:15:32,635 --> 00:15:40,195 Speaker 1: almost indescribably broad and far reaching. Garland watched Cassidy Hutchinson, 218 00:15:40,315 --> 00:15:43,035 Speaker 1: the courageous White House Aid at the January sixth hearings. 219 00:15:43,115 --> 00:15:46,555 Speaker 1: He watched on TV because why would he have pressed 220 00:15:46,555 --> 00:15:49,715 Speaker 1: to get her testimony? What was he? The Attorney General? 221 00:15:50,995 --> 00:15:53,155 Speaker 1: He had all the time in the world, after all, 222 00:15:54,115 --> 00:15:55,675 Speaker 1: and it turned out he had virtually none of the 223 00:15:55,715 --> 00:15:59,955 Speaker 1: smarts in the world. Lennegg reports. Merrick Garland turned to 224 00:15:59,995 --> 00:16:05,395 Speaker 1: a colleague as Cassidy Hutchinson told her story and asked 225 00:16:06,475 --> 00:16:13,635 Speaker 1: did we know about her? And the aid answered, now, sir, honestly, 226 00:16:13,675 --> 00:16:17,075 Speaker 1: the attempts to prosecute Jack Smith, and Komy and James 227 00:16:17,115 --> 00:16:20,315 Speaker 1: and the others are blights upon the history of human government. 228 00:16:22,355 --> 00:16:24,395 Speaker 1: But if Trump went after Merrick Garland and tried to 229 00:16:24,395 --> 00:16:26,395 Speaker 1: put him behind bars, I wouldn't lift a finger to 230 00:16:26,395 --> 00:16:31,795 Speaker 1: stop him. There is one item of hope with Jack Smith. 231 00:16:31,795 --> 00:16:35,595 Speaker 1: The watchdog group American Oversight got the Eleventh Circuit Court 232 00:16:35,635 --> 00:16:39,075 Speaker 1: of Appeals to confirm that the former Flamenco correspondent of 233 00:16:39,115 --> 00:16:42,475 Speaker 1: the Miami Nuevo Herald, Eileen Cannon, has been guilty of 234 00:16:42,515 --> 00:16:46,915 Speaker 1: an undue delay in ruling on the American Oversight suit 235 00:16:46,995 --> 00:16:49,755 Speaker 1: to force the release of volume two of the Jack 236 00:16:49,835 --> 00:16:55,395 Speaker 1: Smith Report, the Smoking Gun Book. The court has given 237 00:16:55,515 --> 00:16:59,835 Speaker 1: Cannon sixty days, which should be up right after the 238 00:16:59,875 --> 00:17:01,675 Speaker 1: new year. But of course Trump has moved to block 239 00:17:01,715 --> 00:17:05,155 Speaker 1: this because, after all, Eileen Cannon is his concierge, Judge, 240 00:17:05,675 --> 00:17:14,115 Speaker 1: she's an employee of his. Someday, now about the other 241 00:17:14,435 --> 00:17:23,875 Speaker 1: Smith anybody remember Jill Stein, Chase, Oliver Cornell West, Robert F. 242 00:17:23,955 --> 00:17:26,595 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior. Has he been in as has Robert Has 243 00:17:26,675 --> 00:17:30,835 Speaker 1: rfk Junior been in the news at all lately? Any 244 00:17:30,915 --> 00:17:33,275 Speaker 1: of the other assholes who ran or pretended to run 245 00:17:33,315 --> 00:17:36,715 Speaker 1: for president as nominal liberals or democrats in twenty sixteen 246 00:17:36,835 --> 00:17:39,955 Speaker 1: or twenty or twenty four. I mean, remember that Kennedy 247 00:17:39,995 --> 00:17:45,315 Speaker 1: claimed to be a democrat and a human being. And 248 00:17:45,355 --> 00:17:48,715 Speaker 1: there were, of course all funded by conservative groups and 249 00:17:48,875 --> 00:17:54,115 Speaker 1: lunatics and even groups with direct ties to Trump and Maga. 250 00:17:54,235 --> 00:17:57,995 Speaker 1: Remember the spoilers, the stalking horses, the true enemies of democracy. 251 00:17:58,795 --> 00:18:02,795 Speaker 1: I think the first twenty twenty eight version of them 252 00:18:03,195 --> 00:18:07,275 Speaker 1: is now among us, warming up in the bullpen. And 253 00:18:07,395 --> 00:18:12,955 Speaker 1: his name is Stephen A. Smith. Smith as in Jack Smith, 254 00:18:13,075 --> 00:18:20,515 Speaker 1: but without the you know, ethics or patriotism you have 255 00:18:20,635 --> 00:18:24,075 Speaker 1: heard here and elsewhere. That Stephen A. Smith is running 256 00:18:24,115 --> 00:18:27,035 Speaker 1: one of those campaigns to get people to convince him 257 00:18:27,075 --> 00:18:29,595 Speaker 1: to run for the president because there's nobody else. Oh 258 00:18:29,635 --> 00:18:33,595 Speaker 1: if I have to owe Okay. He has been doing 259 00:18:33,635 --> 00:18:38,755 Speaker 1: this for many months now on his hilariously knowledge free 260 00:18:38,755 --> 00:18:44,195 Speaker 1: political podcast and on the hilariously sheep in Sheep's Clothing 261 00:18:44,355 --> 00:18:48,115 Speaker 1: conservative channel that claims to be a neutral news nation, 262 00:18:49,155 --> 00:18:53,195 Speaker 1: the Nick at Night of Old Newscasters, And he's been 263 00:18:53,195 --> 00:18:56,035 Speaker 1: doing this with multiple appearances on the show of his 264 00:18:56,115 --> 00:19:03,115 Speaker 1: own friend Jean Hemmity. Now just that should be enough 265 00:19:03,115 --> 00:19:05,715 Speaker 1: to dismiss any notion. Anybody might that Stephen A. Smith 266 00:19:05,755 --> 00:19:09,115 Speaker 1: is a liberal, or has an IQ in three digits, 267 00:19:09,795 --> 00:19:12,035 Speaker 1: or is a democrat, or is anything but a tool. 268 00:19:13,315 --> 00:19:17,595 Speaker 1: I think, and this is a hunch, I think he 269 00:19:17,795 --> 00:19:20,955 Speaker 1: is a tool or maybe a tool of more right 270 00:19:20,995 --> 00:19:24,715 Speaker 1: wing funders looking to throw out a spoiler. I mean, 271 00:19:24,795 --> 00:19:27,795 Speaker 1: think about it. Stephen A. Smith is a maga billionaire's 272 00:19:27,875 --> 00:19:31,795 Speaker 1: idea of somebody who would appeal to left wing voters, 273 00:19:32,275 --> 00:19:36,875 Speaker 1: but happily for democracy. Steven A. Smith is a moron. 274 00:19:38,435 --> 00:19:42,915 Speaker 1: The ESPN Act works on ESPN because honestly, it's a 275 00:19:42,915 --> 00:19:46,635 Speaker 1: pretty good act. I say, this is somebody who used 276 00:19:46,635 --> 00:19:51,355 Speaker 1: to have a pretty good act on ESPN. Ultimately, no 277 00:19:51,395 --> 00:19:54,595 Speaker 1: matter what the act is, whether it's sincerity and intelligence 278 00:19:54,635 --> 00:19:59,955 Speaker 1: and witty, brilliant humor, or it's Stephen A. Smith, how 279 00:19:59,955 --> 00:20:07,795 Speaker 1: often is it important? Once a year maybe I say, 280 00:20:07,835 --> 00:20:10,715 Speaker 1: this is frankly one of the pillars of ESPN's history. 281 00:20:10,715 --> 00:20:12,755 Speaker 1: That was the point we were there when it mattered, 282 00:20:12,955 --> 00:20:15,715 Speaker 1: and also the other three hundred and sixty four days 283 00:20:15,795 --> 00:20:21,475 Speaker 1: of the year. So he does the same bit the 284 00:20:21,755 --> 00:20:24,755 Speaker 1: ESPN Act on Hannity's show the other day, but about 285 00:20:24,795 --> 00:20:29,075 Speaker 1: politics and announces he has breaking news and has one 286 00:20:29,115 --> 00:20:32,915 Speaker 1: critic on Twitter noted with evident astonishment. Probably never saw 287 00:20:32,955 --> 00:20:38,315 Speaker 1: him on ESPN. Then he gave an opinion. Yeah, yeah, 288 00:20:38,355 --> 00:20:42,835 Speaker 1: that's steven A All all in one motion. Is it 289 00:20:42,875 --> 00:20:46,355 Speaker 1: an act? No, steven A Smith no longer knows that 290 00:20:46,355 --> 00:20:52,155 Speaker 1: there is a difference between breaking news and his opinion. Happily, 291 00:20:52,875 --> 00:20:57,275 Speaker 1: steven A. Smith is a moron, and he's also mailing 292 00:20:57,355 --> 00:21:01,275 Speaker 1: this politics stuff in. He just is not doing the 293 00:21:01,355 --> 00:21:04,075 Speaker 1: work clearly. I mean, you can criticize him for lots 294 00:21:04,115 --> 00:21:06,515 Speaker 1: of stuff. I've known him twenty years and we'd always 295 00:21:06,555 --> 00:21:09,035 Speaker 1: gotten along well enough until he decided to become a 296 00:21:09,075 --> 00:21:13,435 Speaker 1: political prostitute like this. But you know, for all my 297 00:21:13,515 --> 00:21:18,315 Speaker 1: criticisms of him, he rarely just gets basic sports facts wrong. 298 00:21:20,035 --> 00:21:24,075 Speaker 1: He knows the the Syracuse Nationals moved to Philadelphia in 299 00:21:24,115 --> 00:21:28,995 Speaker 1: the sixties. He knows that he gets like one political 300 00:21:29,075 --> 00:21:35,995 Speaker 1: fact wrong per hour. It's hilarious. So after some nonsense 301 00:21:36,035 --> 00:21:38,555 Speaker 1: speech to Hannity the other night about how Gavin Newsom 302 00:21:38,635 --> 00:21:41,355 Speaker 1: can't win unless he goes to the middle because roe 303 00:21:41,475 --> 00:21:47,315 Speaker 1: Canna quick asks Stephen who roe Canna is, steven A 304 00:21:47,315 --> 00:21:51,475 Speaker 1: announced that Newsom can't win because of Hannity, because Newsom 305 00:21:51,715 --> 00:21:55,275 Speaker 1: went on Hannity's show when Newsom, as you will recall 306 00:21:55,555 --> 00:22:06,555 Speaker 1: debated Ron Santis unquote asumably that's what Stephen A. Thinks. 307 00:22:06,595 --> 00:22:10,715 Speaker 1: The name of the governor of Florida is Ron Santis. 308 00:22:12,315 --> 00:22:18,995 Speaker 1: Leave off the duh for I don't know diminutive, it's 309 00:22:19,795 --> 00:22:21,195 Speaker 1: Steven It's Ron. 310 00:22:21,395 --> 00:22:31,795 Speaker 2: Duh Santis duh as in duh. 311 00:22:32,355 --> 00:22:37,795 Speaker 1: Clearly, Stephen A. Smith has conflated Ron du Santis and 312 00:22:37,875 --> 00:22:41,715 Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Famer Ron Santo, and for good measure, 313 00:22:42,075 --> 00:22:45,515 Speaker 1: disgraced ex Congressman George Santos as well. Hell throw in 314 00:22:45,555 --> 00:22:53,875 Speaker 1: Simpson's character Santos l helper christ if sports Stephen A. Smith. 315 00:22:54,595 --> 00:22:57,515 Speaker 1: We're doing one of his phony debate shows with politics, 316 00:22:57,595 --> 00:23:01,235 Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith. There would be nothing left of politics, 317 00:23:01,235 --> 00:23:05,515 Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith, but a tip on the bill for 318 00:23:05,675 --> 00:23:16,075 Speaker 1: dinner of one and a half percent, Which reminds me 319 00:23:16,155 --> 00:23:18,275 Speaker 1: that we have not just entered a time in which 320 00:23:18,355 --> 00:23:21,555 Speaker 1: Trump's utter deficiency on the world stage has begun to 321 00:23:21,595 --> 00:23:26,955 Speaker 1: harm individual Americans in America and make people think Steven A. Smith, Oh, 322 00:23:27,035 --> 00:23:30,395 Speaker 1: maybe he could be president of the United States. Yeah, 323 00:23:30,475 --> 00:23:34,675 Speaker 1: the rest of us are dead. It's always that way. 324 00:23:34,795 --> 00:23:38,555 Speaker 1: Trump's conviction that he only understands anything when he doesn't 325 00:23:38,635 --> 00:23:42,555 Speaker 1: even know what an MRI is for has always been there. 326 00:23:42,555 --> 00:23:44,675 Speaker 1: He's kind of Stupidity doesn't just happen. It has to 327 00:23:44,715 --> 00:23:47,195 Speaker 1: be nurtured and grown for years or decades, like a 328 00:23:47,235 --> 00:23:52,195 Speaker 1: colony of termites. But it is appearing now on multiple fronts, 329 00:23:52,195 --> 00:23:55,275 Speaker 1: and there has to be some sort of official, formal, 330 00:23:55,715 --> 00:24:00,035 Speaker 1: seemingly meaningless but actually deeply meaningful response. And when Trump's 331 00:24:00,275 --> 00:24:03,955 Speaker 1: special representative to the Ukraine Russia crisis is another imbecile 332 00:24:03,995 --> 00:24:07,515 Speaker 1: named Whitcaw I believe his first name is half turns 333 00:24:07,515 --> 00:24:09,755 Speaker 1: out to be carrying water, not even for Trump, but 334 00:24:09,795 --> 00:24:13,435 Speaker 1: for Putin. The termites are at the front door, and 335 00:24:13,475 --> 00:24:16,475 Speaker 1: they're standing on each other's shoulders and hitting the doorbell. 336 00:24:17,995 --> 00:24:20,395 Speaker 1: If Putin says he cannot sign a deal with Ukraine 337 00:24:20,435 --> 00:24:22,875 Speaker 1: because he doesn't believe the government of Ukraine is legitimate, 338 00:24:23,435 --> 00:24:25,515 Speaker 1: someone from this country has to stand up and tell 339 00:24:25,595 --> 00:24:27,435 Speaker 1: him that he has no choice, and if he refuses, 340 00:24:27,715 --> 00:24:30,235 Speaker 1: we will use all measures to starve him and his 341 00:24:30,315 --> 00:24:33,955 Speaker 1: country into the ground. And if India buys oil from 342 00:24:34,035 --> 00:24:36,515 Speaker 1: him to keep him afloat, we will starve India into 343 00:24:36,515 --> 00:24:39,035 Speaker 1: the ground. There's lots of things we can do to 344 00:24:39,195 --> 00:24:44,315 Speaker 1: destabilize those governments. We must treat him as Marco Rubio 345 00:24:44,395 --> 00:24:48,235 Speaker 1: dreams of treating Maduro of Venezuela. We must see not 346 00:24:48,315 --> 00:24:51,315 Speaker 1: the leader of some other superpower, but we must see 347 00:24:51,355 --> 00:24:53,515 Speaker 1: Putin for what he is, a desperate dictator of a 348 00:24:53,515 --> 00:24:57,035 Speaker 1: dissolving country that has bounced its last payroll checks to 349 00:24:57,075 --> 00:25:01,875 Speaker 1: its soldiers. We should have not a Marco Rubio, but 350 00:25:01,995 --> 00:25:04,835 Speaker 1: somebody in his place who can recognize that enough pressure, 351 00:25:04,835 --> 00:25:08,115 Speaker 1: just verbal pressure, applied in the right place, and that 352 00:25:08,275 --> 00:25:11,395 Speaker 1: unpaid Russian military might very well decide to remove Putin 353 00:25:11,475 --> 00:25:15,555 Speaker 1: on its own. So we damn well better get that 354 00:25:15,675 --> 00:25:18,955 Speaker 1: message out to them, and to Putin and to the 355 00:25:18,995 --> 00:25:22,555 Speaker 1: rest of America. We the sane people. We need to 356 00:25:22,555 --> 00:25:25,115 Speaker 1: get the message out as loudly and quickly as possible. 357 00:25:25,475 --> 00:25:30,955 Speaker 1: And of course we can't officially. The Trump government is 358 00:25:30,995 --> 00:25:35,435 Speaker 1: not an American government. It is corrupt beyond redemption. It 359 00:25:35,475 --> 00:25:38,995 Speaker 1: is influenced, manipulated, controlled, owned by others who are not 360 00:25:39,075 --> 00:25:43,555 Speaker 1: in this country. And so since we can't until and 361 00:25:43,635 --> 00:25:47,235 Speaker 1: unless the Democrats amass enough of a legislative majority to 362 00:25:47,275 --> 00:25:50,715 Speaker 1: impeach and remove this glowing orange turd, and the even 363 00:25:50,795 --> 00:25:54,515 Speaker 1: dumber people around him until that point. We need what 364 00:25:54,555 --> 00:25:57,755 Speaker 1: we do not have, which is a structure akin to 365 00:25:57,795 --> 00:26:03,395 Speaker 1: the British opposition shadow government. The Conservatives in Britain have 366 00:26:03,475 --> 00:26:10,595 Speaker 1: a shadow Defense Minister, a shadow Chancellor and senior shadow 367 00:26:10,715 --> 00:26:13,995 Speaker 1: leaders who can at a moment's notice articulate their party's 368 00:26:14,115 --> 00:26:18,355 Speaker 1: vision of foreign or domestic policy. When something big happens, 369 00:26:18,435 --> 00:26:21,235 Speaker 1: you hear from the government, and then you hear from 370 00:26:21,275 --> 00:26:27,035 Speaker 1: the shadow spokesman or the shadow secretary of whatever. We 371 00:26:27,195 --> 00:26:32,595 Speaker 1: need that. That is why the support given to America's 372 00:26:32,635 --> 00:26:35,635 Speaker 1: service members who have faced or will face illegal orders 373 00:26:35,835 --> 00:26:38,435 Speaker 1: from a corrupt and lawless commander in chief and his 374 00:26:38,635 --> 00:26:42,395 Speaker 1: moron secretary of Defense, the support from the six members 375 00:26:42,435 --> 00:26:44,595 Speaker 1: of the House and Senate. That should not be the 376 00:26:44,755 --> 00:26:49,475 Speaker 1: end of that. That should be the template. There should 377 00:26:49,475 --> 00:26:53,875 Speaker 1: be a show half an hour of that six Democrats 378 00:26:54,115 --> 00:27:00,475 Speaker 1: every week. The howling, hysterical, murderous threats of Trump and 379 00:27:00,595 --> 00:27:03,355 Speaker 1: pond scum like Stephen Miller and Derek Van Orden should 380 00:27:03,355 --> 00:27:06,635 Speaker 1: not give anyone pause. It should give them inspiration to 381 00:27:06,715 --> 00:27:10,195 Speaker 1: realize this hit home perfectly and to make videos like 382 00:27:10,275 --> 00:27:15,115 Speaker 1: that once a week. We need six more democratic national 383 00:27:15,115 --> 00:27:18,755 Speaker 1: office holders with international experience to now make the video 384 00:27:18,875 --> 00:27:22,115 Speaker 1: about Putin and the need for regime change in Russia 385 00:27:22,155 --> 00:27:25,435 Speaker 1: and threats to India. We need six more democratic national 386 00:27:25,435 --> 00:27:28,355 Speaker 1: office holders who have served with American units in foreign 387 00:27:28,395 --> 00:27:31,915 Speaker 1: countries relying on local help to make that video about 388 00:27:31,955 --> 00:27:36,915 Speaker 1: how John Ratcliffe has betrayed our allies in advance by 389 00:27:36,955 --> 00:27:40,435 Speaker 1: agreeing to throw everybody out from Afghanistan because one guy 390 00:27:40,475 --> 00:27:46,915 Speaker 1: went crazy. We need six more democratic national office holders who, 391 00:27:47,075 --> 00:27:49,915 Speaker 1: unlike Trump, have both read and sworn to uphold the 392 00:27:49,995 --> 00:27:53,795 Speaker 1: Constitution to make that video about how Trump's threat to 393 00:27:53,875 --> 00:27:56,155 Speaker 1: kill the first six is a violation of everything this 394 00:27:56,235 --> 00:27:58,795 Speaker 1: country's ever stood for, and how it demands his legal 395 00:27:58,835 --> 00:28:01,835 Speaker 1: removal from office as quickly as possible. We need a 396 00:28:01,995 --> 00:28:06,195 Speaker 1: shadow democratic government in this country now, Not merely to 397 00:28:06,275 --> 00:28:10,755 Speaker 1: advance democratic electoral goals, not merely to afford our citizens 398 00:28:10,795 --> 00:28:15,355 Speaker 1: of breath of fresh air of reality from people who 399 00:28:15,395 --> 00:28:20,155 Speaker 1: are not spectacularly stupid and lost and all seem stoned 400 00:28:20,155 --> 00:28:24,115 Speaker 1: out of their gords. We need a shadow government in 401 00:28:24,155 --> 00:28:28,075 Speaker 1: this country for more than one reason, and one reason 402 00:28:28,155 --> 00:28:32,435 Speaker 1: more than any other, because the official government of this 403 00:28:32,635 --> 00:28:43,395 Speaker 1: country isn't any good at anything anymore. Now, for the 404 00:28:43,475 --> 00:28:47,395 Speaker 1: view of the competent people. Here is Senator also of 405 00:28:47,435 --> 00:28:50,795 Speaker 1: interest here, Yes, there was somebody out there rationalizing Trump 406 00:28:50,875 --> 00:28:54,235 Speaker 1: falling asleep at last week's cabinet meeting ten times. Because 407 00:28:54,315 --> 00:28:57,355 Speaker 1: seventy nine year old men do that, it's not unusual, 408 00:28:57,395 --> 00:29:02,115 Speaker 1: he says. Only this guy rationalizing that is a man 409 00:29:02,155 --> 00:29:06,155 Speaker 1: who is still poisoning CNN every day and America every 410 00:29:06,235 --> 00:29:09,955 Speaker 1: day with advertisements for his own book, which was about 411 00:29:10,595 --> 00:29:16,595 Speaker 1: the mental acuity of Joe Biden. Yes, Jake Tapper, the 412 00:29:16,715 --> 00:29:22,875 Speaker 1: worst person in the world. Next, George Caroling, A pleasure 413 00:29:22,915 --> 00:29:24,475 Speaker 1: to have you here. Thank you. This is the best 414 00:29:24,515 --> 00:29:26,875 Speaker 1: news show ever. I toilet to one of your producers, 415 00:29:27,035 --> 00:29:28,835 Speaker 1: and I want you to know that I've seen them 416 00:29:28,875 --> 00:29:32,315 Speaker 1: all and it's just for especially the first thirty five minutes. 417 00:29:32,395 --> 00:29:35,115 Speaker 1: Thank you. So it's just unparalleled. I got bad news 418 00:29:35,115 --> 00:29:36,955 Speaker 1: between you and I. We got six minutes to completely 419 00:29:36,995 --> 00:30:00,595 Speaker 1: spred that in. Yeah, that's good. Still ahead on this 420 00:30:00,675 --> 00:30:03,355 Speaker 1: all new edition of Countdown. Here we go again. Another 421 00:30:03,515 --> 00:30:08,275 Speaker 1: sports team owner is claiming his franchise is not actually profitable. 422 00:30:09,435 --> 00:30:12,275 Speaker 1: Usually this is what you would think. It would be bullshit. 423 00:30:12,635 --> 00:30:15,595 Speaker 1: As I will explain, there's a great history story about 424 00:30:15,595 --> 00:30:18,035 Speaker 1: this in the LA Dodgers, but it requires a special 425 00:30:18,115 --> 00:30:23,235 Speaker 1: degree of bullshittitude to try to sell it today in 426 00:30:23,475 --> 00:30:27,795 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, when the team you own is the 427 00:30:27,835 --> 00:30:32,355 Speaker 1: New York Yankees on the verge of going out of business? 428 00:30:32,435 --> 00:30:34,555 Speaker 1: Are you a house time runner gonna have to reuse 429 00:30:34,675 --> 00:30:39,795 Speaker 1: last year's uniforms dipshit next first? Believe it or not, 430 00:30:39,835 --> 00:30:42,235 Speaker 1: there's still more new idiots to talk about. The roundup 431 00:30:42,275 --> 00:30:45,155 Speaker 1: of the mis grants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens. 432 00:30:45,155 --> 00:30:50,635 Speaker 1: You've got to today's other worst versus the world, the 433 00:30:50,675 --> 00:30:58,315 Speaker 1: Bronze Worse Vince Schlomy. That name rang a distant cord. 434 00:30:58,995 --> 00:31:06,675 Speaker 1: Think back, harken back, the Shamwaw Guy, the slap chop Guy, 435 00:31:07,475 --> 00:31:11,515 Speaker 1: the Carnival Barker used to sell the Shammis and slap 436 00:31:11,715 --> 00:31:16,035 Speaker 1: chop crap items in these high speed, breakneck straight to 437 00:31:16,115 --> 00:31:20,155 Speaker 1: TV pitches with double entendres and complaints about he could 438 00:31:20,515 --> 00:31:24,315 Speaker 1: could keep this up all day, and everybody laughed because 439 00:31:24,355 --> 00:31:27,275 Speaker 1: it really was a great stick until until Vin Shlomi 440 00:31:27,395 --> 00:31:29,835 Speaker 1: was arrested in Miami Beach in two thousand and nine 441 00:31:29,875 --> 00:31:32,675 Speaker 1: after a fight with a lady of the evening who 442 00:31:32,755 --> 00:31:36,275 Speaker 1: he said bit his tongue and wouldn't let go. I 443 00:31:36,315 --> 00:31:38,995 Speaker 1: guess because he couldn't keep that up all day either. Well, 444 00:31:39,075 --> 00:31:45,115 Speaker 1: guess what Vin Shlomy's doing now, Yes, sir, you got it. 445 00:31:45,635 --> 00:31:50,355 Speaker 1: He has filed to run for the House of Representatives 446 00:31:50,715 --> 00:32:02,355 Speaker 1: No in this country from Texas as a Republican to 447 00:32:02,395 --> 00:32:12,235 Speaker 1: destroy wokeism memory of Charlie Kirk. I mean, you laugh, 448 00:32:12,515 --> 00:32:15,555 Speaker 1: But right now, who would make more sense as Speaker 449 00:32:15,555 --> 00:32:20,755 Speaker 1: of the House, Mike Johnson or the slap chop guy, 450 00:32:21,875 --> 00:32:27,275 Speaker 1: the runner up worser our perpetual heroine, Barry Weiss, The 451 00:32:27,355 --> 00:32:31,195 Speaker 1: new boss of CBS News is running out of talent. 452 00:32:32,115 --> 00:32:34,795 Speaker 1: There was an old Mary Tyler Moore episode which I 453 00:32:34,835 --> 00:32:37,675 Speaker 1: really enjoyed when it first came out. It's still very funny, 454 00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:41,635 Speaker 1: in which Lou Grant tells her as the assistant news 455 00:32:41,715 --> 00:32:46,075 Speaker 1: director at WJMTV in Minnesota, tells her to fire the 456 00:32:46,115 --> 00:32:49,155 Speaker 1: newscaster and replace him with a sportscaster rather and replace 457 00:32:49,195 --> 00:32:52,075 Speaker 1: him with a new sportscaster. And she fires the sportscaster, 458 00:32:52,795 --> 00:32:55,795 Speaker 1: and then there's nobody to do the sports, and she 459 00:32:55,915 --> 00:32:58,755 Speaker 1: can't find a new sportscaster, and all the other candidates 460 00:32:58,755 --> 00:33:03,635 Speaker 1: are worse and lou says to her, Finally, Hey, this 461 00:33:03,675 --> 00:33:06,795 Speaker 1: is the advice I thought you didn't need. Never fire 462 00:33:07,395 --> 00:33:14,235 Speaker 1: your old sportscaster until you've hired your new sportscaster. Got 463 00:33:14,235 --> 00:33:18,675 Speaker 1: to laugh around my offices for thirty years easily. Well, Sir, 464 00:33:19,115 --> 00:33:22,275 Speaker 1: Barry Weise didn't hear that one. Barry Weise didn't see 465 00:33:22,315 --> 00:33:25,835 Speaker 1: that episode of Mary Tyler Moore. I doubt Barry Weiss 466 00:33:25,915 --> 00:33:28,315 Speaker 1: knows who the hell Mary Tyler Moore was. Mary Tyler 467 00:33:28,355 --> 00:33:32,835 Speaker 1: Moore was successful. John Dickerson has already walked out as 468 00:33:32,915 --> 00:33:36,235 Speaker 1: co anchor of the CBS Evening News. Now my friend, 469 00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:43,035 Speaker 1: certainly acquaintance, acquaintance, friend for acquaintance, Maurice Dubois is also gone. 470 00:33:43,115 --> 00:33:49,915 Speaker 1: He's leaving. So who Barry? Who anchors the CBS Evening News. 471 00:33:49,955 --> 00:33:53,355 Speaker 1: You've run out of anchors. You have fired your anchors 472 00:33:53,355 --> 00:33:55,795 Speaker 1: of the CBS Evening News before you have hired your 473 00:33:55,835 --> 00:33:58,795 Speaker 1: new anchors of Never fire your anchor of the CBS 474 00:33:58,875 --> 00:34:01,755 Speaker 1: Evening News before you hire your new anchor of the 475 00:34:01,795 --> 00:34:04,315 Speaker 1: CBS Evening News. Who are you gonna get the slap 476 00:34:04,395 --> 00:34:08,795 Speaker 1: chop guy? I'm sorry he's busy running for Congress because 477 00:34:08,795 --> 00:34:13,155 Speaker 1: he can't do this all day. What are you gonna get, Barry, 478 00:34:13,475 --> 00:34:16,675 Speaker 1: But this some turd ghost of Walter kronk Kite, CBS 479 00:34:16,715 --> 00:34:23,595 Speaker 1: News run. I suffice and survive on the taste of 480 00:34:23,755 --> 00:34:28,755 Speaker 1: human brain s Walter Cronkite, CBS News. But our winner 481 00:34:28,875 --> 00:34:34,395 Speaker 1: even worse than all that, Jake Tapper still at CNN, 482 00:34:34,475 --> 00:34:37,595 Speaker 1: where the audience is now approaching from a downwards direction, 483 00:34:38,675 --> 00:34:43,635 Speaker 1: like the coyote and the roadrunner and the coyote thing. 484 00:34:44,555 --> 00:34:47,275 Speaker 1: It is now approaching downwards what we had there in 485 00:34:47,355 --> 00:34:49,515 Speaker 1: terms of an audience when I got to CNN at 486 00:34:49,555 --> 00:34:54,675 Speaker 1: the end of year one in nineteen eighty one. No, 487 00:34:54,835 --> 00:34:57,155 Speaker 1: it wasn't in black and white because they hadn't invented 488 00:34:57,195 --> 00:35:02,195 Speaker 1: color TV yet. You may recall that Jake Tapper refused 489 00:35:02,195 --> 00:35:05,275 Speaker 1: to fact check Trump during the Trump Biden debate last year, 490 00:35:05,435 --> 00:35:09,315 Speaker 1: thus putting his thumb on the scale for Trump. And 491 00:35:09,355 --> 00:35:11,755 Speaker 1: they had all sorts of wonderful rationalizations for it, but 492 00:35:12,555 --> 00:35:17,035 Speaker 1: they put their thumbs on the scale. I think that 493 00:35:17,155 --> 00:35:21,955 Speaker 1: was his thumb. Then Jake wrote a book about Biden's frailty, 494 00:35:22,035 --> 00:35:24,115 Speaker 1: and he spent the first half of this year selling 495 00:35:24,155 --> 00:35:28,355 Speaker 1: it on CNN in the middle of the news every 496 00:35:29,235 --> 00:35:34,195 Speaker 1: fourteen seconds or so old, flailing lost, old flailing lost, 497 00:35:34,435 --> 00:35:38,235 Speaker 1: old flailing lost even after he was no longer president, 498 00:35:38,275 --> 00:35:40,875 Speaker 1: and the guy in the office was old and flailing 499 00:35:40,915 --> 00:35:44,115 Speaker 1: and lost. So after last week's three hour Trump cabinet 500 00:35:44,115 --> 00:35:47,035 Speaker 1: meeting where Trump kept falling asleep, Jake Tapper tried for 501 00:35:47,115 --> 00:35:50,195 Speaker 1: quite a while to mock Trump and mock the trumpest 502 00:35:50,195 --> 00:35:54,035 Speaker 1: explanation that he was just keeping his eyes closed so 503 00:35:54,075 --> 00:35:58,755 Speaker 1: he could concentrate on what the speaker was saying. And 504 00:35:58,795 --> 00:36:01,995 Speaker 1: then Jake ran out of bullshit, He ran out of 505 00:36:02,035 --> 00:36:06,515 Speaker 1: the ability to try to be neutral. Jake Tapper showed 506 00:36:06,555 --> 00:36:11,835 Speaker 1: his real colors. He's seventy nine years old, Jake Tapper said, earnestly, 507 00:36:12,235 --> 00:36:15,195 Speaker 1: this is not abnormal for a seventy nine year old 508 00:36:15,235 --> 00:36:23,515 Speaker 1: to be sleeping. Jake, your horror, Jake, and a hypocritical one. 509 00:36:23,835 --> 00:36:41,955 Speaker 1: Tapper Today's other worst person in the to the number 510 00:36:41,995 --> 00:36:44,675 Speaker 1: one story on the countdown, Here we go again. It's 511 00:36:44,715 --> 00:36:49,395 Speaker 1: a tradition as old as the business itself. But more 512 00:36:49,435 --> 00:36:51,755 Speaker 1: to our purposes, it is a story as old as 513 00:36:51,755 --> 00:36:57,235 Speaker 1: the business of sports itself. The owner of a sports franchise, 514 00:36:57,395 --> 00:37:00,035 Speaker 1: a troubled young man named hal Steinbrenner, wants you to 515 00:37:00,075 --> 00:37:02,115 Speaker 1: believe that the franchise he owns may not have made 516 00:37:02,115 --> 00:37:04,755 Speaker 1: a profit last year. The franchise is called the New 517 00:37:04,835 --> 00:37:07,915 Speaker 1: York Yankees. And if the New York Yankees did not 518 00:37:08,035 --> 00:37:10,675 Speaker 1: make a profit last year, major League Baseball should just 519 00:37:10,755 --> 00:37:14,675 Speaker 1: go the hell out of business right now. Stop wasting 520 00:37:14,715 --> 00:37:17,475 Speaker 1: all that money on the electricity bill to put the 521 00:37:17,555 --> 00:37:22,275 Speaker 1: lights on in the stadiums. If it's that bad, just 522 00:37:22,675 --> 00:37:28,155 Speaker 1: go away, which it's not. Years ago, the Yankees banned 523 00:37:28,195 --> 00:37:30,795 Speaker 1: me when I suggested that all that Hal Steinbrenner had 524 00:37:30,795 --> 00:37:33,875 Speaker 1: in common with his father, my friend, George Steinbrenner, was 525 00:37:33,875 --> 00:37:36,795 Speaker 1: his ability to get angry instead of smart, which his 526 00:37:36,795 --> 00:37:40,475 Speaker 1: father did occasionally, but which Hal does all the damn time. 527 00:37:40,835 --> 00:37:43,235 Speaker 1: I suggested that to be certain, at least for me 528 00:37:44,355 --> 00:37:47,275 Speaker 1: to be certain that how was George's son, I would 529 00:37:47,275 --> 00:37:51,515 Speaker 1: need to see a paternity test. Well I still haven't 530 00:37:51,515 --> 00:37:54,275 Speaker 1: seen it. And the Yankees being the Yankees, I have 531 00:37:54,435 --> 00:37:56,955 Speaker 1: not been back at Yankee Stadium where they made me pay, 532 00:37:56,955 --> 00:37:59,915 Speaker 1: because I will not pay them again. Been back to 533 00:37:59,915 --> 00:38:01,635 Speaker 1: work a couple of times. If I never go there 534 00:38:01,635 --> 00:38:07,315 Speaker 1: again in my life, it's their loss. A reporter suggested 535 00:38:07,595 --> 00:38:11,275 Speaker 1: recently to hal Steinbrenner, that Forbes magazine had calculated that 536 00:38:11,315 --> 00:38:14,595 Speaker 1: while the Yankees' player payroll was over three hundred million dollars, 537 00:38:14,835 --> 00:38:18,635 Speaker 1: their revenues were over seven hundred million dollars. Is it fair, 538 00:38:18,715 --> 00:38:21,875 Speaker 1: the reporter asked, to assume the Yankees made a profit 539 00:38:21,955 --> 00:38:26,675 Speaker 1: last season. No, it's not fair, actually, Hal said, in 540 00:38:26,715 --> 00:38:31,435 Speaker 1: that wonderfully charming way of his. So you lost money 541 00:38:31,955 --> 00:38:34,675 Speaker 1: or you broke even I don't get into it, but 542 00:38:34,715 --> 00:38:38,995 Speaker 1: that's not a fair statement or an accurate statement, okay, 543 00:38:39,035 --> 00:38:43,195 Speaker 1: Hal sure. Forbes put the value of the franchise that 544 00:38:43,315 --> 00:38:46,915 Speaker 1: his dad paid. It was actually about seven million. They 545 00:38:46,915 --> 00:38:49,275 Speaker 1: bumped it up to make the seller's CBS look a 546 00:38:49,315 --> 00:38:52,595 Speaker 1: little bit better, about seven million in nineteen seventy two, 547 00:38:52,755 --> 00:38:55,635 Speaker 1: very little of it his own money. Forbes put the 548 00:38:55,755 --> 00:38:58,915 Speaker 1: value now of that franchise that dad paid seven million 549 00:38:58,995 --> 00:39:02,355 Speaker 1: for a little over half a century ago, at five 550 00:39:02,395 --> 00:39:07,355 Speaker 1: and one quarter billion dollars as if twenty twenty one. Now, 551 00:39:07,835 --> 00:39:10,635 Speaker 1: Forbes says the Yankees are worth eight point two billion. 552 00:39:10,835 --> 00:39:14,835 Speaker 1: That's almost three billion more than just four years ago. 553 00:39:15,555 --> 00:39:18,635 Speaker 1: And I can't even do the math relatives of the 554 00:39:18,635 --> 00:39:22,075 Speaker 1: price from nineteen seventy two seven million, eight point two billion. 555 00:39:22,635 --> 00:39:27,435 Speaker 1: It's like eleveny billion times more, three billion more than 556 00:39:27,475 --> 00:39:29,355 Speaker 1: four years ago. How but no, you didn't make money 557 00:39:29,395 --> 00:39:33,355 Speaker 1: last year. How is that possible? Well, because accounting can 558 00:39:33,395 --> 00:39:35,955 Speaker 1: make the money do everything except stand up and sing 559 00:39:35,995 --> 00:39:41,195 Speaker 1: the score from Hamilton, and sometimes the accounting doesn't even 560 00:39:41,235 --> 00:39:44,755 Speaker 1: have to be creative. I found this out decades ago 561 00:39:44,795 --> 00:39:47,355 Speaker 1: when I worked local TV sports in LA. And this 562 00:39:47,435 --> 00:39:51,075 Speaker 1: story is second hand, but I'm pretty sure Gil Stratton 563 00:39:51,155 --> 00:39:54,435 Speaker 1: told it to me. And Gil was gold. If you've 564 00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:56,795 Speaker 1: ever seen the movie Stalog seventeen, and if you have it, 565 00:39:56,875 --> 00:40:00,435 Speaker 1: you should like right now. Gil played William Holden's right 566 00:40:00,475 --> 00:40:03,875 Speaker 1: hand man, Cookie, and Gil narrates the film too. And 567 00:40:03,915 --> 00:40:06,195 Speaker 1: he was in the Wild One with Marlon Brando, and 568 00:40:06,235 --> 00:40:09,195 Speaker 1: he co starred on Broadway with Judy Garland. And Gil 569 00:40:09,315 --> 00:40:11,555 Speaker 1: was a baseball umpire and Gil was the number one 570 00:40:11,555 --> 00:40:15,155 Speaker 1: TV sportscaster in LA from nineteen fifty four to about 571 00:40:15,235 --> 00:40:17,555 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. And he stayed on the air so 572 00:40:17,755 --> 00:40:20,995 Speaker 1: long that eventually he worked with me and then for me, 573 00:40:21,475 --> 00:40:24,995 Speaker 1: and he never complained about that once loved the business, 574 00:40:25,155 --> 00:40:27,915 Speaker 1: loved doing it, and he knew everything that had ever 575 00:40:28,035 --> 00:40:31,635 Speaker 1: happened in Los Angeles in a city that almost deliberately 576 00:40:31,675 --> 00:40:35,435 Speaker 1: erases its past as quickly as possible. Gil was one 577 00:40:35,555 --> 00:40:39,875 Speaker 1: of those living history books, and I always tell this 578 00:40:39,915 --> 00:40:43,755 Speaker 1: one story of his whenever a sports owner or commissioner 579 00:40:43,835 --> 00:40:49,515 Speaker 1: says his team or league lost money. After some research, 580 00:40:49,555 --> 00:40:51,475 Speaker 1: it turns out the year of the story has to 581 00:40:51,515 --> 00:40:55,915 Speaker 1: have been nineteen sixty four. From the details in the anecdote, 582 00:40:56,275 --> 00:40:58,435 Speaker 1: we know the Dodgers had won the World Series the 583 00:40:58,515 --> 00:41:01,115 Speaker 1: year before, but had not been in the Pennant Race 584 00:41:01,155 --> 00:41:03,075 Speaker 1: in the year in question, so that had to be 585 00:41:03,195 --> 00:41:06,275 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight or early. Because one of the three 586 00:41:06,275 --> 00:41:09,075 Speaker 1: men in the story, the Dodgers vice president, Fresco Thompson, 587 00:41:09,315 --> 00:41:13,035 Speaker 1: passed away on November thirtieth, nineteen sixty eight. So the 588 00:41:13,155 --> 00:41:16,875 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four season, which it has to be, ends 589 00:41:16,915 --> 00:41:19,955 Speaker 1: at Dodgers Stadium fifty eight years ago this week, late 590 00:41:19,995 --> 00:41:23,435 Speaker 1: on the afternoon of Sunday, October fourth. The Dodgers have 591 00:41:23,675 --> 00:41:25,555 Speaker 1: just won, but it's not enough to save them from 592 00:41:25,595 --> 00:41:29,155 Speaker 1: a losing season. Eighty and eighty two, just under fourteen 593 00:41:29,235 --> 00:41:32,675 Speaker 1: thousand people have paid to get in, which means two million, 594 00:41:32,715 --> 00:41:35,035 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty eight thousand, and seven hundred and 595 00:41:35,035 --> 00:41:38,675 Speaker 1: fifty one souls have dropped some cash into the till 596 00:41:38,835 --> 00:41:42,635 Speaker 1: of the infamous Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley. That was a 597 00:41:42,715 --> 00:41:46,835 Speaker 1: lot of fans in nineteen sixty four. The stench of 598 00:41:46,915 --> 00:41:51,115 Speaker 1: Walter O'Malley reeks through history. He is still the villain 599 00:41:51,275 --> 00:41:53,915 Speaker 1: in sports in New York City, where he moved the 600 00:41:53,955 --> 00:41:57,875 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Dodgers out, something from which the borough of Brooklyn 601 00:41:57,915 --> 00:42:01,235 Speaker 1: has never recovered, even though the historical record is pretty 602 00:42:01,275 --> 00:42:04,595 Speaker 1: clear that the Dodgers did have an attendance problem in Brooklyn, 603 00:42:04,755 --> 00:42:06,875 Speaker 1: and the City of New York did not think it 604 00:42:06,915 --> 00:42:09,355 Speaker 1: was worth it to merely sell O'Malley the land he 605 00:42:09,435 --> 00:42:13,075 Speaker 1: thought was ideal for a sports stadium. O'Malley was right 606 00:42:13,115 --> 00:42:15,155 Speaker 1: about the land. The land is now where they put 607 00:42:15,195 --> 00:42:19,355 Speaker 1: the Barclays Center, an arena at public expense. O'Malley wanted 608 00:42:19,395 --> 00:42:23,275 Speaker 1: to pay for his building himself. Anyway, back to nineteen 609 00:42:23,355 --> 00:42:27,075 Speaker 1: sixty four, a sixth place Dodger season has just ended, 610 00:42:27,075 --> 00:42:28,795 Speaker 1: and either that day or the next day or the 611 00:42:28,835 --> 00:42:32,995 Speaker 1: day after that, fifty eight years ago this week, one 612 00:42:33,035 --> 00:42:35,795 Speaker 1: of the three men who basically run the franchise, vice 613 00:42:35,795 --> 00:42:39,115 Speaker 1: president and general manager, Buzzy Bavesi, leans in through the 614 00:42:39,155 --> 00:42:42,315 Speaker 1: doorway of Walter O'Malley's office in Dodger Stadium, where the 615 00:42:42,315 --> 00:42:45,995 Speaker 1: man who got rich for closing on mortgages during the depression, 616 00:42:46,395 --> 00:42:49,235 Speaker 1: including the mortgage on the Dodgers. That's how he became 617 00:42:49,275 --> 00:42:52,435 Speaker 1: the owner. He is, as usual, sitting behind his desk, 618 00:42:52,715 --> 00:42:57,235 Speaker 1: thumbing through accountant's ledgers, smoking a large cigar and using 619 00:42:57,275 --> 00:43:02,315 Speaker 1: a long plastic holder. See it the winter meetings. Boss 620 00:43:02,835 --> 00:43:06,875 Speaker 1: O'Malley never looks up from his financial books. At least 621 00:43:06,875 --> 00:43:09,035 Speaker 1: we had a decent fiscal year, I mean with Kofax, 622 00:43:09,115 --> 00:43:12,555 Speaker 1: Hurd and all. Now O'Malley looks up and he growls, 623 00:43:13,515 --> 00:43:17,155 Speaker 1: why do you mean dacent fiscal year? We lost two 624 00:43:17,235 --> 00:43:21,555 Speaker 1: million dollars. Walter O'Malley does not now have to tell 625 00:43:21,595 --> 00:43:24,915 Speaker 1: Buzzy Bavasi to leave his office, because Buzzy Bavasi feels 626 00:43:24,915 --> 00:43:28,275 Speaker 1: as if he has just been shot. We lost two 627 00:43:28,315 --> 00:43:32,475 Speaker 1: million dollars, he thinks to himself, we lost two million dollars. 628 00:43:32,515 --> 00:43:36,475 Speaker 1: Two million dollars. The hallway of the executive offices of 629 00:43:36,515 --> 00:43:39,315 Speaker 1: the Dodgers on the Loge level of Dodger Stadium swirls 630 00:43:39,355 --> 00:43:44,835 Speaker 1: around him. Two million. Just four years earlier, when baseball 631 00:43:44,835 --> 00:43:47,515 Speaker 1: had sold the rights to put an expansion franchise in 632 00:43:47,595 --> 00:43:50,675 Speaker 1: that same city, Los Angeles, to Gene Autry. The price 633 00:43:50,715 --> 00:43:54,595 Speaker 1: had been two million, one hundred thousand dollars. Two million 634 00:43:55,555 --> 00:43:58,635 Speaker 1: was literally the price of a Major League baseball franchise 635 00:43:58,635 --> 00:44:03,115 Speaker 1: in the early sixties. Buzzy Bavasi staggered down the hallway. 636 00:44:03,315 --> 00:44:05,835 Speaker 1: The sweat poured from every part of his body. His 637 00:44:05,995 --> 00:44:09,035 Speaker 1: vision blurred, and he found it difficult to breathe. He 638 00:44:09,075 --> 00:44:11,955 Speaker 1: almost fell into the open doorway of the third man 639 00:44:11,995 --> 00:44:15,795 Speaker 1: who ran the Dodgers, the other senior vice president, Fresco Thompson. 640 00:44:16,835 --> 00:44:22,555 Speaker 1: Buzz Fresco said, with considerable alarm, you okay, Buzzy Ravesei 641 00:44:22,595 --> 00:44:25,035 Speaker 1: barely croaked the word no, but the rest of the 642 00:44:25,075 --> 00:44:28,715 Speaker 1: sentence he fairly shouted. O'Malley just told me we lost 643 00:44:28,755 --> 00:44:35,675 Speaker 1: two million dollars this year. Fresco Thompson laughed, And now 644 00:44:35,875 --> 00:44:39,355 Speaker 1: Vivasi's terror turned to anger. What the hell are you 645 00:44:39,435 --> 00:44:43,555 Speaker 1: laughing at two million? We lost two million? Don't you 646 00:44:43,595 --> 00:44:46,435 Speaker 1: know what this means? We'll have to fire everybody. We'll 647 00:44:46,475 --> 00:44:49,115 Speaker 1: have to trade kofax. At least we have to trade 648 00:44:49,155 --> 00:44:53,115 Speaker 1: morey wills, which two million, and we lost two million 649 00:44:54,115 --> 00:44:59,115 Speaker 1: and now the worst suddenly occurs to Buzzy Vesi. Jesus Fresco, 650 00:44:59,195 --> 00:45:02,915 Speaker 1: He's gonna fire one of us, isn't he? Ravesi had 651 00:45:02,915 --> 00:45:07,875 Speaker 1: not noticed Fresco's Thompson laughter, growing you Italian idiot, Bavasi. 652 00:45:08,475 --> 00:45:11,955 Speaker 1: Only Fresco Thompson did not say, Italian, how long you 653 00:45:11,995 --> 00:45:14,915 Speaker 1: been working for this guy O'Malley. Bavesi spit out the 654 00:45:14,955 --> 00:45:20,035 Speaker 1: answer nineteen fifty. Thompson calmly replied, Ah, yeah, nearly as 655 00:45:20,035 --> 00:45:23,035 Speaker 1: long as I have, and you still haven't figured him out. 656 00:45:23,555 --> 00:45:27,395 Speaker 1: Buzzy VSI was lost. The franchise was teetering on bankruptcy 657 00:45:27,435 --> 00:45:30,475 Speaker 1: in front of their eyes, but Thompson was focused, for 658 00:45:30,475 --> 00:45:33,275 Speaker 1: some reason, on how long they had each known Walter O'Malley. 659 00:45:33,315 --> 00:45:37,835 Speaker 1: They were all about to get fired by Walter O'Malley Fresco. 660 00:45:37,915 --> 00:45:40,035 Speaker 1: Thompson stood up and put his arm around his still 661 00:45:40,115 --> 00:45:46,515 Speaker 1: shaken colleague. When O'Malley says we lost two million this year, 662 00:45:46,595 --> 00:45:52,315 Speaker 1: buzz what that greedy bastard means is last year, when 663 00:45:52,355 --> 00:45:56,275 Speaker 1: we won the World Series, we made a profit of 664 00:45:56,475 --> 00:46:01,435 Speaker 1: six million dollars. This year, when we finished in sixth place, 665 00:46:02,075 --> 00:46:06,075 Speaker 1: we only made a profit of four million dollars. So 666 00:46:06,235 --> 00:46:11,915 Speaker 1: in his mind, that means this year we lost two million. 667 00:46:12,835 --> 00:46:19,715 Speaker 1: We didn't lose two million, we made four million. So 668 00:46:19,755 --> 00:46:21,755 Speaker 1: the next time you hear the owner of a sports 669 00:46:21,755 --> 00:46:24,155 Speaker 1: franchise or the commissioner of a sports league tell you 670 00:46:24,235 --> 00:46:28,435 Speaker 1: it or he has quote lost unquote eleventy billion dollars, 671 00:46:28,955 --> 00:46:34,555 Speaker 1: just remember this is almost always Walter O'Malley math, and 672 00:46:34,635 --> 00:46:38,915 Speaker 1: it only means that's how much lower this year's phenomenal 673 00:46:38,995 --> 00:46:57,395 Speaker 1: profits are compared to last year's phenomenal profits. I've done 674 00:46:57,395 --> 00:46:59,595 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 675 00:46:59,635 --> 00:47:02,035 Speaker 1: Most of our Countdown music was a arrange produced and 676 00:47:02,075 --> 00:47:05,715 Speaker 1: performed by Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel. Our musical 677 00:47:05,715 --> 00:47:09,195 Speaker 1: directors have Countdown. It was produced by TKO Brothers. Mister 678 00:47:09,275 --> 00:47:11,275 Speaker 1: Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, and mister 679 00:47:11,275 --> 00:47:15,555 Speaker 1: Schanel handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical 680 00:47:15,555 --> 00:47:19,155 Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. 681 00:47:19,195 --> 00:47:22,635 Speaker 1: The Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren 682 00:47:22,715 --> 00:47:27,275 Speaker 1: Davis Curtesy of ESPN is the sports music Why I 683 00:47:27,315 --> 00:47:29,275 Speaker 1: didn't use it? Just now with the George and hal 684 00:47:29,315 --> 00:47:33,595 Speaker 1: Steinbrenner story I don't know sorry. Other music arranged and 685 00:47:33,635 --> 00:47:36,875 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today 686 00:47:37,795 --> 00:47:39,715 Speaker 1: was from an interview I did in two thousand and 687 00:47:39,755 --> 00:47:44,635 Speaker 1: eight with the late, great, immortal George Carlin. Everything else was, 688 00:47:44,675 --> 00:47:48,795 Speaker 1: as always my fault. Let's countdown for today. Day three 689 00:47:48,835 --> 00:47:51,555 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two of America held hostage again, but 690 00:47:51,795 --> 00:47:55,835 Speaker 1: just forty one days until the scheduled end of Trump's 691 00:47:55,875 --> 00:47:58,715 Speaker 1: lane doc and lame brained term unless he is removed 692 00:47:58,755 --> 00:48:03,835 Speaker 1: sooner by MAGA and Jeffrey Epstein or the next mystery MRI, 693 00:48:05,235 --> 00:48:08,915 Speaker 1: or he drops a FIFA piece trophy on his own 694 00:48:08,995 --> 00:48:14,755 Speaker 1: head who knows what he put the metal on himself 695 00:48:16,435 --> 00:48:19,515 Speaker 1: till the next edition. I'm Keith Olberman. Good Morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 696 00:48:20,395 --> 00:48:41,915 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production 697 00:48:42,115 --> 00:48:47,435 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 698 00:48:47,515 --> 00:48:51,115 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.