Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. If
Speaker 1: President Biden and his campaign team and his party disciplined
Speaker 1: team can handle Trump and the electorate and the news
Speaker 1: conferences and the debates as efficiently as they have turned
Speaker 1: around the effort to push him off the tickets, they
Speaker 1: are going to win the election in a landslide. It's over.
Speaker 1: You never say it's over, especially not with Biden headed
Speaker 1: for a news conference tomorrow as the NATO summit in
Speaker 1: Washington concludes, in which literally two bad answers are one
Speaker 1: really bad answer could end his candidacy on the spot,
Speaker 1: or at worst before noon on Friday. But for now,
Speaker 1: and skipping for a moment, the obviously larger question over
Speaker 1: whether this signals the start of demock receives going out
Speaker 1: of business sale, it is over. Final score. Number of
Speaker 1: Democrats in the House who called for him to step
Speaker 1: down on the record seven, including long after it was
Speaker 1: over yesterday afternoon Mikey Sheryl of New Jersey. Number of
Speaker 1: Democrats in the Senate who called for him to step
Speaker 1: down on the record none. Number of ex presidents who
Speaker 1: called for him to step down none. Number of historians
Speaker 1: he loves who called for him to step down. None
Speaker 1: number of former Speakers of the House who reportedly told
Speaker 1: friends in private, she's deeply uneasy with his continued candidacy,
Speaker 1: and of whom a Biden confidante said he would listen reluctantly,
Speaker 1: but he'd listened to her who called for him to
Speaker 1: step down. None House Democrats met yesterday, and it was
Speaker 1: over when the current Speaker, mister Jeffries, talked about unity
Speaker 1: at the beginning and staying together and listening to each other,
Speaker 1: and by then it was over. Before again, the step
Speaker 1: down caucus members said they were preempted by Biden's letter
Speaker 1: to House members on Monday, which is nonsense and which
Speaker 1: shows you just how untough the Democrats on Capitol Hill
Speaker 1: really are. The debate was two weeks ago tomorrow, and
Speaker 1: the first thing Biden did nothing to fix it for
Speaker 1: a week, and then almost no House Democrats said anything
Speaker 1: for the next week. And they think somehow they got
Speaker 1: out flanked. If they got outflanked, they got outflanked by
Speaker 1: an army of slow moving ants. Juan Vargas of California
Speaker 1: a stick with Joe Stalwart, quoted by Politico, it's the
Speaker 1: stupidest thing I've ever seen a circular firing squad. Semaphore
Speaker 1: News asked an attendee to the congressional meeting off the
Speaker 1: record if the mood was comparable to that of a funeral.
Speaker 1: The answer that is an insult to funerals. Now, there's
Speaker 1: just one problem and all this success from Team Biden,
Speaker 1: and I think you may already know what that one
Speaker 1: problem is. The one problem that remains is the only
Speaker 1: problem that's been solved, is the one Joe Biden had
Speaker 1: or has out here on the going out of business
Speaker 1: sale floor. The Cook Political Report just moved Arizona and
Speaker 1: Georgia and Nevada from toss up to lean Republican, and
Speaker 1: just moved Minnesota, Nebraska second, and New Hampshire from likely
Speaker 1: Democrat to lean Democrat. And if you want some disastrous metaphors,
Speaker 1: there is new polling from Wisconsin. And while the incumbent
Speaker 1: Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin leads her Republican challenger, who is
Speaker 1: the guy who is on the old brawny paper tow
Speaker 1: package rappers, While she leads him by five points, Biden
Speaker 1: is six behind Trump. And the disastrous of that metaphor,
Speaker 1: besides the number six, the polling was sponsored by AAARP,
Speaker 1: and even the unanimity of the on the record support
Speaker 1: for keeping the president on the ticket is really just
Speaker 1: paved over discontent. Jerry Nadler went on the House conference
Speaker 1: call and was quoted as saying Biden should drop out.
Speaker 1: Now he says, whether or not I have concerns is
Speaker 1: besides the point. He is going to be our nominee
Speaker 1: and we all have to support him. And as to
Speaker 1: the Senate, even as John Fetterman suggested that to hypo
Speaker 1: his polling quote, maybe we can convince President Biden to
Speaker 1: bang a porn star unquote, it is now widely reported
Speaker 1: that at least three Democratic senators told their conclave that
Speaker 1: Biden is in big trouble and unlikely to win. Senator
Speaker 1: Brown of Ohio, Senator Tester whose races are so tight
Speaker 1: that they could use somebody else's top the ticket anyway,
Speaker 1: and then their Senator Bennett of Colorado, who said Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is in big trouble, not be because of his stumbles,
Speaker 1: but because he has gotten no traction whatsoever in the
Speaker 1: messaging war over the economy. And you know what, he hasn't.
Speaker 1: So let's just say all of this stuff about his
Speaker 1: mental health and his acuity vanished tomorrow and nobody ever
Speaker 1: remembered it. Oh yeah, that's right, didn't get anywhere in
Speaker 1: the messaging war on the economy. In short, we have
Speaker 1: and again this could one eighty again as soon as
Speaker 1: tomorrow at that news conference. And by the way, that
Speaker 1: is its own problem, which I've addressed here previously. At
Speaker 1: exactly what point do we stop thinking that at any
Speaker 1: time the president appears in front of a camera, something
Speaker 1: terrible might happen. This nightmarish situation in which there has
Speaker 1: been public handwringing over the president's reelection one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty days before that election from his own side, from
Speaker 1: some of his party leaders, and it has been paved over,
Speaker 1: and there is not one indication that the campaign or
Speaker 1: the White House has accurately assessed this as a problem
Speaker 1: that deals with winning the election. They see this problem
Speaker 1: as an insurrection within the party to stamp out that
Speaker 1: entire question seems to be looked at as well. The
Speaker 1: voters will figure it out. They'll realize, oh PS Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. And the fact is, just in this century,
Speaker 1: the voters, they expect, will realize and figure it out.
Speaker 1: Put George W. Bush in the White House. Returned George W.
Speaker 1: Bush into the White House on an anti terrorism campaign
Speaker 1: after the worst terrorism disaster in American history occurred on
Speaker 1: his watch. Elected Trump and a third to half of
Speaker 1: them think Rush Limbaugh and Andrew Breitbart were not drug
Speaker 1: addled psychotics bent on avenging themselves against a world that
Speaker 1: didn't let them be what they really wanted to be.
Speaker 1: And yes, only occasionally do I stop and think that
Speaker 1: what Rush Limbaugh really wanted to be was the anchor
Speaker 1: of SportsCenter. Those are the people the Biden campaign thinks
Speaker 1: will be an easier sell than the uncertain Democrats that
Speaker 1: they may have silenced for good or what is relatively
Speaker 1: for good in this environment through at least Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg comparison must have already
Speaker 1: sprung into your mind. She's the greatest. You don't think
Speaker 1: she should retire. Damn you for saying that. But I'm
Speaker 1: thinking instead of a Charles Adams cartoon I saw when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, and it's never left me. It's
Speaker 1: in between rounds of a boxing match, and the guy
Speaker 1: in the far corner has barely broken a sweat and
Speaker 1: has a big smirk on his face. And in the
Speaker 1: front of the drawing, on your side of the drawing
Speaker 1: is the other boxer, and he is bloodied and blank eyed,
Speaker 1: and his trainer is standing in front of him, spraying
Speaker 1: him with an aerosol can, and the can is labeled courage.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, it made me laugh in
Speaker 1: the way that the perfection of the imaginary world that
Speaker 1: only Adams saw always made me laugh. And then it
Speaker 1: made me laugh again because the trainer is not spraying
Speaker 1: his losing fighter with strength, just courage. I think that
Speaker 1: analogy is app too. I'm glad Joe Biden can keep
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party in line. And the line I see
Speaker 1: is potentially a line of lemmings. And I know lemmings
Speaker 1: don't really do that, but that's the imagery. And also,
Speaker 1: besides lemmings, Icebergs. I keep thinking Icebergs. Damn, the Iceberg's
Speaker 1: full speed ahead. Now. I don't know if you hear
Speaker 1: it in my voice, but I'm sick at least my
Speaker 1: throat is. It could be a bug. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's probably the fact that the real field temperatures here
Speaker 1: in New York have been near triple digits for two weeks,
Speaker 1: and sure the election will be the last chance to
Speaker 1: put somebody in the White House who is not insane
Speaker 1: while we enter that five year window that is our
Speaker 1: last chance just to mitigate the coming climate disaster. So
Speaker 1: it's only a few million climate refugees at our door
Speaker 1: and only a few more million dead around the world,
Speaker 1: rather than you know, varying degrees of everybody dead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred and nineteen days. I'm that happy. Note. Let
Speaker 1: me review some other headlines and forgive me if the
Speaker 1: rest of this is kind of ragged, as I am
Speaker 1: ad libbing to save energy and to some degree, to
Speaker 1: save voice some good news Project twenty twenty five, and
Speaker 1: I know it's like everything else in the Democratic campaign,
Speaker 1: this will solve it. We can go home now, like
Speaker 1: Thomas Dewey in nineteen forty eight against Truman, there's no
Speaker 1: more need to do any polling. It's September. We're so
Speaker 1: far ahead they couldn't possibly catch up. And I know
Speaker 1: it was the roper Pole that gave up, not the
Speaker 1: Dewey campaign, but the Dewey campaign gave up to in
Speaker 1: any event, Back to Project twenty twenty five. I told
Speaker 1: you this would be a little ragged, the Bidens social
Speaker 1: media team says on the Google Search Term Index, which
Speaker 1: gives a value of one to one hundred for search terms.
Speaker 1: Current scores include National Football League at about forty five
Speaker 1: on the scale of one to one hundred, Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: at around fifty two, and Project twenty twenty five is
Speaker 1: above ninety. All right, so we got that going for us.
Speaker 1: That'll take care of it. Just don't have the president
Speaker 1: speak at all. Just have them hold up signs like
Speaker 1: in the Bob Dylan video. This from The Guardian Kevin Roberts,
Speaker 1: who said in an interview with Steve Bannon's War Room
Speaker 1: podcast last week that conservative driven second American Revolution will
Speaker 1: be bloodless quote if the left allows it to be,
Speaker 1: which was viewed by many Democrats as an implied threat
Speaker 1: of political violence. Well also, anybody with an IQ of
Speaker 1: above fourteen viewed that as a implied threat of political violence.
Speaker 1: He used the term bloodless, which implies the likelihood was bloody.
Speaker 1: He's not running for president, Marco Rubio said, our candidate's
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I didn't see Donald Trump say that. Marco
Speaker 1: Rubio has for you. Star Trek fans been fully assimilated
Speaker 1: into the borg what a weasel. I mean, even for
Speaker 1: the Department of Weasels in the Party of Weasels, He's
Speaker 1: a weasel. The denials, to go back to the Guardian story,
Speaker 1: appear to be undermined by close studies of the personnel
Speaker 1: involved in the formulation of Project twenty twenty five. The
Speaker 1: point of this is Kevin Roberts, president of the Federalist Society,
Speaker 1: was one of the authors of Project twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: and Trumps now stated he knows nothing about it disagrees
Speaker 1: completely with it. Which is an interesting contrast there, since
Speaker 1: if he knows nothing about it, how could he disagree
Speaker 1: with it? And he has nothing to do with it
Speaker 1: except that it has been mapped out specifically for him
Speaker 1: to implement when he gets into office, And as the
Speaker 1: Guardian notes from its research, the denials appear to be
Speaker 1: undermined by close studies of the personnel involved in the
Speaker 1: document's formulation. Any last guesses, of the thirty eight people
Speaker 1: involved in the writing and editing of Project twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: how many of them were nominated to positions in Trump's
Speaker 1: administration or his transition team back in twenty sixteen. How
Speaker 1: many out of thirty eight editors and writers of Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. The correct answer is thirty one out
Speaker 1: of thirty eight eighty one percent. As the Guardian writes,
Speaker 1: of the document's creators held formal roles in Trump's presidency,
Speaker 1: he knows nothing about it. The terrifying fact about the
Speaker 1: true relative mental capacities of Trump and Biden are that
Speaker 1: Trump may still not really know anything about it because
Speaker 1: it doesn't say Trump twenty twenty five. It says Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. So why would be it be of
Speaker 1: any interest to him? As a fatal narcissist. This is
Speaker 1: good news and really surprising. Somewhere, Dick Durbin is rolling
Speaker 1: over in his grave even though he's not dead. Two
Speaker 1: Democratic US senators now say they are seeking a criminal
Speaker 1: investigation of Clarence Thomas over the gifts of travel, the
Speaker 1: loan for his RV, other benefits he received from wealthy benefactors.
Speaker 1: Washington Post making sure it doesn't get sued by saying bribes.
Speaker 1: The senators are Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden, always been
Speaker 1: two of my favorite senators. They have written, however, to
Speaker 1: Attorney General Merrick Garland, trying to get a special council
Speaker 1: appointed to investigate Justice Thomas to violate ethics, false statement,
Speaker 1: and tax laws, and possibly prosecute him on all of
Speaker 1: the above. Notice again, Dick Durbin, Chairman of the Senate
Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee, I'm sure disapproves of this and is simply
Speaker 1: going to stare daggers at a picture of Clarence Thomas
Speaker 1: and send John Roberts another hallmark greeting card saying here
Speaker 1: in ethics Land, wish you were here. Please adopt a
Speaker 1: voluntary code of ethics, moron. But again to my point
Speaker 1: yesterday about to Joe Biden, if you in fact are
Speaker 1: going to beat back those who want you off the ticket,
Speaker 1: and you are assuring us that you can beat Trump
Speaker 1: and that you are well enough to do this, and
Speaker 1: all of our concerns are inappropriate and unfair to you,
Speaker 1: and you are the man who beat Trump before, and
Speaker 1: you're going to have to escalate your campaign even if
Speaker 1: you had not had a bad day the debate. The
Speaker 1: point of the debate was this was the time to
Speaker 1: stick him with the stilettos. Metaphorically speaking, I guess it
Speaker 1: wasn't that, Oh, Biden just has to get through this debate.
Speaker 1: It was here's where Biden can show to a large
Speaker 1: audience tuning into the election for the first time in
Speaker 1: late June, what a disaster and what a psychotic and
Speaker 1: what a danger to them at home Donald Trump is.
Speaker 1: And of course he failed to do that because nobody
Speaker 1: could understand almost anything that he said. But now to
Speaker 1: my point, if there is one justification for keeping Biden
Speaker 1: on the ticket right now, it is that when angry,
Speaker 1: he will do outrageous things. It's time for that. Here
Speaker 1: it is set up for him like a hockey goal.
Speaker 1: Senators White House and Ron Wyden asked Merrick Garland for
Speaker 1: a special counsel to investigate Clarence Thomas. If Garland won't
Speaker 1: do it, fire Garland, you fire Merrick Garland. You're going
Speaker 1: to get additional You'll get a point in the national
Speaker 1: polls from the Democrats and appoint somebody who then immediately
Speaker 1: appoints a special prosecutor, a special counsel to investigate Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 1: And while you're at at Alito and his flags, the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court is at record low levels of popularity. Something
Speaker 1: like two thirds of America thinks it has been corrupted
Speaker 1: politically and decides only political issues, not legal ones anymore.
Speaker 1: Run against the Supreme Court. Call them Trump's Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: Run against them, drive them into the ground. This is Armageddon.
Speaker 1: Battle for the Lord. As Teddy Roosevelt said, you can't
Speaker 1: be milk toast here and here it is set up
Speaker 1: for you. Gol Biden assists Widen and white House. Get
Speaker 1: a special prosecutor in on the bastard. God knows there's
Speaker 1: enough there to sort through. All you have to do
Speaker 1: is get the article from Pro Publica. No warrants are necessary.
Speaker 1: A new feature on the Countdown podcast, What crime did
Speaker 1: Donald Trump commit today? Republicans must pass the save actor.
Speaker 1: Go home and cry yourself to sleep. Non citizen illegal
Speaker 1: migrants are getting the right to vote. Bullshit being pushed
Speaker 1: by crooked Democrat politicians who are not being stopped. Bullshit
Speaker 1: by an equally dishonest Justice Department. Bullshit. Our whole voting
Speaker 1: system is under siege. Bullshit. Harm Meat and David, go
Speaker 1: to court and get this stopped. Now. If you're relying
Speaker 1: on harm meat, Dylan, you've already lost the election. By
Speaker 1: the way, there is still our hope that I will
Speaker 1: always turn to. That democracy is preserved less by our
Speaker 1: efforts to preserve it than it is by the stupidity
Speaker 1: of those who had destroyed it. But at the end,
Speaker 1: the Justice Department is corrupt, Trump writes, and won't do
Speaker 1: a thing to help. They have no shame. All I
Speaker 1: can say is, if I'm elected by blah blah election
Speaker 1: frauds series, we already know who you are. Don't do it.
Speaker 1: They will be sent to prison for long periods of time.
Speaker 1: We already know who you are. Don't do it. Zuckerbucks,
Speaker 1: be careful. The last sentence is a direct threat against
Speaker 1: a man who is trying to register your voters. That
Speaker 1: is a federal crime. People have been sent to prison
Speaker 1: for years, particularly in the South in the sixties and seventies,
Speaker 1: for doing exactly that. And to add to it, the
Speaker 1: weight of threatening prosecution by the government of the United States.
Speaker 1: Indict him right now. Where's Jack Smith on this? Nothing
Speaker 1: in the Supreme Court ruling says Jack Smith can't indict
Speaker 1: him again. We know that the whole process of dragging
Speaker 1: Trump through the courts is not something that has boosted him.
Speaker 1: It has enabled him to raise more money. Everything today
Speaker 1: enables you to raise more money. Since Joe Biden had
Speaker 1: a terrible debate, he raised more money. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's just a good excuse to goose the crowd that
Speaker 1: was already gonna give you the money. But here we
Speaker 1: know from polling that even though nothing has happened in
Speaker 1: the federal cases, and Trump's owned judge in Florida managed
Speaker 1: to stall that and his own judges on the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court managed to stall that prosecution, that the damage done
Speaker 1: by the indictments is it's not ten points, it's not
Speaker 1: decisive for the election, but it is part of the
Speaker 1: cumulative announce tomorrow that Jack Smith is indicting Trump for
Speaker 1: violating federal law that makes it illegal to threaten those
Speaker 1: trying to register voters voting rights acts. Let's talk weasels.
Speaker 1: Nicki Haley freed her delegates yesterday and encouraged them to
Speaker 1: vote for Trump. This nation teeters on the brink of
Speaker 1: disaster because Republicans have no morals. But because they have
Speaker 1: no morals, Nicky Haley can say what she said about
Speaker 1: Trump and then in the same lifetime free her delegates
Speaker 1: to go vote for him. Meanwhile, the Democrats can't get
Speaker 1: more than seven Capitol Hill Democrats to look at Joe
Speaker 1: Biden and say I love him, dump him on the
Speaker 1: other hand, once again, second time, I fall back to it.
Speaker 1: Democracy survives less by our efforts to preserve it than
Speaker 1: it does through the stupidity of those who would destroy it.
Speaker 1: Please listen now to the Republican Congressman Jeff Duncan of
Speaker 1: South Carolina, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and
Speaker 1: Grid Security. And Jeff has a creed core. He is
Speaker 1: he is in pain. Listen to this and visualize a
Speaker 1: man tilting his head to the side and looking like
Speaker 1: he's about to cry as he says much of this.
Speaker 2: I do load and unload the dishwasher. And I can
Speaker 2: tell you, speaker, that many times I have opened the dishwasher,
Speaker 2: loaded properly with the right amount of dishwashing liquid or
Speaker 2: pod put in that all the dishes aren't clean, the
Speaker 2: rits off before they were put in to the general lady, and.
Speaker 1: Had to run it again. And Americans know this, Congressman
Speaker 1: Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, who has dirty dishes. Congressman,
Speaker 1: I think the explanation is clear. God hates you also
Speaker 1: of interest here. You know, the fascinating thing about the
Speaker 1: entirety of the Biden nomination issue is that there's so
Speaker 1: much to hate on both sides. No, of course The
Speaker 1: New York Times didn't try to get Joe Biden off
Speaker 1: the ticket just because he wouldn't give their reporters all
Speaker 1: one on one interview. And if he goes now because
Speaker 1: he had some sort of episode during the debate, that
Speaker 1: will prove their reporting was right. They wouldn't be that
Speaker 1: petty or small. Wait do you hear the X timesman
Speaker 1: Brian Stelter insists that his old employer, and you can
Speaker 1: tell he wants it to be his next employer again.
Speaker 1: Did an editorial calling for Trump to drop out too?
Speaker 1: Oh no, they're not biased against Biden. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: of course they did, Brian. It started in paragraph nine ten,
Speaker 1: in the paragraph twenty of their other editorial calling for
Speaker 1: Biden to drop out. Worse persons guess who won? That's next.
Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Oberman, my
Speaker 1: crazy friend. Oh yeah, like Cornheiser should talk. I have
Speaker 1: like six days worth of Cornheizer crazy stories and I
Speaker 1: only worked with him for like six days. He's just lucky.
Speaker 1: My throat hurts coming up the worst hotel in the World,
Speaker 1: fittingly because next is the worst Persons in the World,
Speaker 1: Where it was the worst hotel stay in the world,
Speaker 1: and I'm really not sure what brought it to mind.
Speaker 1: I think I watched a game involving the Atlanta Braves
Speaker 1: and that flashed me back to the nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 1: World Series, and that automatically flashed me back to staying
Speaker 1: at this hotel next to all night choir practice. I
Speaker 1: still can't believe it, coming up on a quarter of
Speaker 1: a century ahead on countdown. But first, there are still
Speaker 1: more new idiots to talk about, the all night choirs
Speaker 1: of a new century. The daily roundup of the miscreants,
Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days
Speaker 1: worse persons in the world. That's me with a bad
Speaker 1: voice to inquire for some reason. The bronze worse a
Speaker 1: man named Mark House. Mark House is an estate lawyer,
Speaker 1: and I don't suppose, by any stretch of the imagination
Speaker 1: that this is entirely his fault, but his is the
Speaker 1: name in the story that I read about this, so
Speaker 1: he gets the blame even if he doesn't deserve it.
Speaker 1: That's the way worse persons has always worked. Mark House
Speaker 1: is one of many estate lawyers trying to unfreeze the
Speaker 1: assets of the frozen, Bloomberg News reports, and remember, seven
Speaker 1: eighths of Bloomberg is still for people who think every
Speaker 1: moment of the day about dollars and coins. I'll just
Speaker 1: read you some of the It's easier that way. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants to come back from the dead poor. I'll say
Speaker 1: that again. Quote nobody wants to come back from the dead, poor,
Speaker 1: reports Bloomberg News. It's a hell of a lead. Luckily
Speaker 1: for the rich, making wealth immortal is more solvable than
Speaker 1: reversing death, no kidding. The state attorneys are creating trusts
Speaker 1: aimed at extending wealth until people who get cryonically preserved
Speaker 1: can be revived, even if it's hundreds of years later.
Speaker 1: These revival trusts are an emerging area of law, taken
Speaker 1: seriously enough to attract true believers and merit discussion at
Speaker 1: industry conferences. The idea of cryo preservation has gone from
Speaker 1: crackpot to merely eccentric, said Mark house And, a state
Speaker 1: lawyer who works with the Scottsdale, Arizona based al Core
Speaker 1: Life Extension Foundation. Does that name ring a bell to you?
Speaker 1: Al Corps in Scottsdale in Arizona as the Bloomberg story
Speaker 1: notes it's the world's largest cryonics facility, with fourteen hundred members,
Speaker 1: about two hundred and thirty of them not appearing in
Speaker 1: your picture because they're over there in the tank. Where's
Speaker 1: mister Marshall. Oh, he's over there in the tank. Is
Speaker 1: he near you know who? Because I know about Alcore
Speaker 1: from that guy? Oh? Is his name again, Ted Williams?
Speaker 1: Remember Alcore is where they stored Ted Williams. Have you
Speaker 1: seen the condition of his head? No? No, I haven't. Well,
Speaker 1: look around the room. It's got to be here somewhere.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and thirty people already frozen there and by
Speaker 1: one estimate, according to Bloomberg, fifty five hundred people are
Speaker 1: planning for cryogenic preservation, and this guy House says he's
Speaker 1: worked with about one hundred of them for Steve LaBelle.
Speaker 1: The story continues a retired hospital executive in Michigan. The
Speaker 1: chance to join the approximately five hundred people already frozen
Speaker 1: sounds like a dream come true. He's always finding new
Speaker 1: ways to spend his time, most recently as a writer
Speaker 1: of young adult fantasy novels. He loves living and doesn't
Speaker 1: want money to stand in the way of a second chance.
Speaker 1: He searched for a year, according to Bloomberg, for a
Speaker 1: trust model most likely to hold up through centuries, and
Speaker 1: he plans to put one hundred thousand dollars in his
Speaker 1: revival trust. Here's the quote from mister Lebel. I really
Speaker 1: want to figure out a solution, otherwise I'll be in
Speaker 1: there with my fingers crossed, hoping there's money left over
Speaker 1: two hundred years from now to pay for the resurrection process.
Speaker 1: Mister LaBelle is seventy six, and though Bloomberg does not
Speaker 1: know this or note this, he is mad as a hatter.
Speaker 1: There is one interesting aspect to this, the idea that
Speaker 1: when you go into the tub and get frozen, that
Speaker 1: there's some real estate guy or financial planner out there
Speaker 1: trying to make sure you can reclaim your cash in
Speaker 1: the year twenty five twenty five, if that man is
Speaker 1: still alive. Here's the fact that I found the most
Speaker 1: fascinating of all. In many states, your living trust or
Speaker 1: your will expires after ninety nine years. In Florida, your
Speaker 1: estate can exist for a thousand years, presumably because some
Speaker 1: of the people there can exist for a thousand years.
Speaker 1: But my favorite part of this remains I'll be in
Speaker 1: there with my fingers crossed. Honest to goodness, based on
Speaker 1: Alcore's experience with Ted Williams, I don't want you to
Speaker 1: suggest to them that they should cross your fingers or
Speaker 1: do anything else unusual with your body. A runner up
Speaker 1: worser speaking of frozen heads. Brian Stelter, formerly of The
Speaker 1: New York Times, formerly of CNN, Brian Stelter was one
Speaker 1: of the best TV writing bloggers of all time. With
Speaker 1: The Times, he was also an excellent blogger, and with
Speaker 1: CNN he was an even better blogger. He has written
Speaker 1: on threads in what is a continuing and desperate attempt
Speaker 1: to get The Times to rehire him. Quote for everyone
Speaker 1: who said, why hasn't the New York Times editorial board
Speaker 1: called for Trump to step aside? Here it is in
Speaker 1: Tonight's editorial. This is from Monday Night Trump. Of course,
Speaker 1: he quotes it, should also withdraw from this race, not
Speaker 1: least because of his own cognitive deficiencies and incessant line
Speaker 1: on threads. Stelter put together a thread of various quotes
Speaker 1: from this article, this opinion piece in The New York
Speaker 1: Times that seemed to support the thesis that oh sure,
Speaker 1: they're not just calling up for Biden to withdraw. They've
Speaker 1: also called for Trump to withdraw. Look, it's in the editorial,
Speaker 1: and Brian was the good guy who pointed it out.
Speaker 1: We should rehire him. Wasn't he a lot of fun
Speaker 1: around here? He broke a lot of stories that were
Speaker 1: fed to him by Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC,
Speaker 1: who played him like a two dollars banjo. Oh, I
Speaker 1: said the quiet part out loud again. I'm so sorry, Brian.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I'll read you again what he wrote,
Speaker 1: just not the quote, but what he said for everyone
Speaker 1: who said, why hasn't the New York Times editorial board
Speaker 1: called for Trump to step aside? Here it is in
Speaker 1: tonight's editorial. Trump of course, also with Trump and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. That was in the twentieth paragraph of the piece.
Speaker 1: Twenty paragraphs in they say, Oh, by the way, Trump
Speaker 1: is also crazy and has cognitive deficiencies and lies incessantly.
Speaker 1: Paragraph twenty. The first nineteen paragraphs are just about Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Twenty four references to Joe Biden by name and a
Speaker 1: photo of him at the top that has been distorted
Speaker 1: so that it looks like he's what's the guy Russell
Speaker 1: Crowe in a beautiful mind with all the numbers and
Speaker 1: letters swirling around his head. That's what they made the
Speaker 1: president look like. But this is also about Trump. Down there,
Speaker 1: down there in paragraph twenty. Down there, if you're still
Speaker 1: reading it, paragraph twenty, The Times is completely fair. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: they're not. They haven't decided this is their Watergate. They're
Speaker 1: still trying to make up for the fact that they
Speaker 1: finished second in Watergate in nineteen seventy three and seventy four.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the title of the article, the
Speaker 1: opinion piece, the op ed. The editorial from The New
Speaker 1: York Times that Stelter cites here is proving that they
Speaker 1: asked Trump to step aside. The Democratic Party must speak
Speaker 1: the plain truth to the president. Brian miss New York
Speaker 1: Times is not going to date you, but our winner
Speaker 1: and speaking of people who will someday be formerly of CNN,
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and Dana Bash or as Trump called them
Speaker 1: on Sean Hannity's show, Jake and Dana. Jake and Dana
Speaker 1: were pretty good. I thought they were fair. You know,
Speaker 1: if you do anything involving Donald j pedophilia, what pedophilia Trump.
Speaker 1: If you do anything involving Donald King Kong Trump, Donald
Speaker 1: convicted fellon Trump. If you do any anything with him
Speaker 1: in a media setting and he comes back and says
Speaker 1: you were fair, that means he perceived you had your
Speaker 1: thumbs and your hands and arms and your ass on
Speaker 1: the scales in his benefit, because nothing else is fair.
Speaker 1: The world exists to make Donald Trump feel like he's
Speaker 1: in charge of it. And if he says Jake and
Speaker 1: Dana were pretty good, I thought they were fair, that
Speaker 1: means you suck. That means you failed. That means I
Speaker 1: will continue to assert what I said live immediately after
Speaker 1: the debate. There were three stories in the debate. The
Speaker 1: number three story was Joe Biden's cognitive performance, which was
Speaker 1: not good and no one will defend it. Number two,
Speaker 1: the second most important story was Trump lied every thirty
Speaker 1: five seconds. And number one was that CNN, led by
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, never fact checked him once,
Speaker 1: never pushed back one on any of his lies, never
Speaker 1: corrected him in the least. Still, the big story, Jake
Speaker 1: and Dana, well, they were pretty good according to Trump.
Speaker 1: Proves my point. Jake Tapper and Dana and or Dana
Speaker 1: Bash praised by Trump. Good evening and welcome to the
Speaker 1: end of your careers. Two days worst persons in the
Speaker 1: world that kind of hurt to the number one story
Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things
Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. And I do not exactly
Speaker 1: remember what caused me to think of this story, except
Speaker 1: for the fact that it has lurked always just beneath
Speaker 1: the front of my mind since it first happened. In
Speaker 1: October nineteen ninety nine, I was finishing my first year
Speaker 1: as the principal anchor and senior correspondent for Fox Sports News,
Speaker 1: Fox's first attempt to challenge ESPN. I was the host
Speaker 1: of the Game of the Week on the Fox broadcast network, Baseball,
Speaker 1: and things had gone pretty well. The guy who hired
Speaker 1: me recognized it would be five years before we had
Speaker 1: enough credibility to maybe say we were getting forty percent
Speaker 1: of ESPN's audience. He had quit and moved back to England,
Speaker 1: and he had been replaced by another guy who said
Speaker 1: he would raise the ratings in five weeks or everybody
Speaker 1: would get fired. My direct boss had hired a clown
Speaker 1: named Chris Myers to be the top anchor for Fox
Speaker 1: Sports News and spent something like two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to lure him away from ESPN, not knowing
Speaker 1: that ESPN was actually trying to get Myers to leave
Speaker 1: without having to fire him. None of my direct boss's
Speaker 1: bosses had told my direct boss that they were hiring
Speaker 1: me for three million dollars to be the top anchor
Speaker 1: for Fox Sports News. Myers was bitterly resentful about this,
Speaker 1: I mean more so than usual, and his boss, who
Speaker 1: had chained himself to Myers, was even more bitterly resentful.
Speaker 1: Myers began to demand anything they gave me. They built
Speaker 1: me a small wardrobe cabinet so when I moved to
Speaker 1: LA I could keep some clothes and some valuables in
Speaker 1: my office until I got my own home. Well, the
Speaker 1: next thing I knew they had built one for Myers,
Speaker 1: I poked my head in his office one day when
Speaker 1: he was not there. It was an exact duplicate of mine.
Speaker 1: The only thing he had in his wardrobe cabinet was
Speaker 1: one lone bent hangar. Myers co anchored with Steve Lyons,
Speaker 1: who was proudly doing homophobic jokes on our air. Lions
Speaker 1: worked the Baseball Show with me every Saturday on Big Fox,
Speaker 1: and I always thought I was the biggest complainer in
Speaker 1: the world until I met Lyons and like the second
Speaker 1: morning he left the makeup room and the hairstylist said
Speaker 1: she was preparing to kill him, but before she did
Speaker 1: and the police came, she wanted to thank me for
Speaker 1: never complaining. Despite all this, we were somehow getting enormous
Speaker 1: amounts of publicity. Every time anybody wrote an article about
Speaker 1: ESPN or Sports Center or Dan Patrick, they devoted at
Speaker 1: least a third, sometimes a half of the article to
Speaker 1: me and Fox Sports News and my former partnership with
Speaker 1: Dan and our publicity department did nothing with any of
Speaker 1: this free publicity. Millions of dollars worth of free publicity,
Speaker 1: No commercials boasting about all the good press, no advertising
Speaker 1: about all the good press. Nothing. Plus, just to round
Speaker 1: it out, I had a stalker who advised me that
Speaker 1: she was not surprised I had not responded to her
Speaker 1: in her five years of phone calls and letters. I
Speaker 1: just needed time and anyway. She knew I was talking
Speaker 1: to her during the show in Code and she would
Speaker 1: be coming out to La to marry me or kill me.
Speaker 1: She had decided which and all I could think was,
Speaker 1: she's going to kill me, and the makeup artist is
Speaker 1: going to kill Lions, and you know what that means.
Speaker 1: That means Myers will wind up getting to do the
Speaker 1: Baseball Show by himself. So things are going great. Nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine was the last World Series that Fox did
Speaker 1: not televise, but we sent a full crew anyway to
Speaker 1: cover it wall to wall for our fledgling cable network
Speaker 1: and Fox Sports News, and I was the anchor. I
Speaker 1: don't think they sent Lions or Myers. And with me
Speaker 1: there were two of our cable only analysts, the former
Speaker 1: Red Sox and Rangers manager Kevin Kennedy and the former
Speaker 1: Dodgers second baseman Steve Sachs. I liked them both. We
Speaker 1: worked well together. They had utterly different styles. After our
Speaker 1: live shots from the field at Turner Field in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: following Game one of that World Series, our producer Eric
Speaker 1: Weinberger gathered us in the Fox luxury suite down the
Speaker 1: first base line and he asked us what our news
Speaker 1: were to improve what had been kind of a sloppy
Speaker 1: Game one effort. And I said, well, the monitor off
Speaker 1: which I have to narrate the highlights that needs to
Speaker 1: be adjusted. And mind you, we're going on there two
Speaker 1: minutes after the game. I have not seen the highlights,
Speaker 1: nor could I, nor do I know which highlights have
Speaker 1: been chosen. I am ad libbing on top of ad libbing,
Speaker 1: and the only monitor, which is black and white and
Speaker 1: about four inches in diameter, this had been placed on
Speaker 1: the dirt next to the braves Dugout. I had literally
Speaker 1: had to drop to my hands and knees the second
Speaker 1: the highlights started to play. To have any chance at all,
Speaker 1: I said, just put the monitor on a stool or
Speaker 1: a chair, or the wall, or have somebody hold it
Speaker 1: up near my face. Weinberger said, okay. Kevin Kennedy said
Speaker 1: that the Fox scopes the pre produced in depth analyzes
Speaker 1: of pitch sequences or defensive positionings the inside base inside baseball,
Speaker 1: he kind of needed to see at least some of
Speaker 1: them before going on the air with them, maybe during
Speaker 1: the commercial breaks, or he would have no idea what
Speaker 1: to tell the audience, as was evidenced after game one.
Speaker 1: Weinberger said, okay, absolutely, and then he said to Sax
Speaker 1: and what do you need Steve, and Sax said utterly,
Speaker 1: sincerely and with as much concern as I had had
Speaker 1: for the Monitor and Kennedy had had for the Fox scopes.
Speaker 1: Sax said, you got any more of these cookies? These
Speaker 1: are great. What I had not told Weinberger was something
Speaker 1: he already knew. I had to get more sleep. Fox
Speaker 1: had put us in a hotel in suburban Buckhead, Georgia,
Speaker 1: the Swiss Hotel, which I guess has been a Weston
Speaker 1: for twenty years. Nice enough place, big rooms, and the
Speaker 1: one they put me in the first night was next
Speaker 1: to a party or a meeting of some kind. I
Speaker 1: mean there were it sounded like like twenty or thirty
Speaker 1: people in there, ordinary sized room, same as mine. I
Speaker 1: called the desk, Sorry, no other rooms available. They would
Speaker 1: call my neighbors and make sure they would quiet down
Speaker 1: before bedtime, and they did. And then at two am
Speaker 1: I discovered what kind of party or meeting it was
Speaker 1: and why twenty people were in the room in an
Speaker 1: ordinary size room. In what started it as a dream
Speaker 1: and then turned into literally unbelievable reality, I heard a
Speaker 1: loud Southern voice say, if we are going to win
Speaker 1: this competition, we're gonna have to be the best chorus
Speaker 1: that ever left North Carolina. And they began to sing
Speaker 1: gospel mostly, which is fine, except not at two am.
Speaker 1: Make that now three am, the night before Game one
Speaker 1: of the World Series, which I have to cover on
Speaker 1: live TV. Oh, and they'd get thirty or forty seconds
Speaker 1: into one of the hymns, and the director, who had
Speaker 1: a voice like the PA system at Turner Field, only
Speaker 1: way clearer, would stop them and yell at them and
Speaker 1: make them start from the beginning. They were competing in
Speaker 1: the morning, and he had decided they were going to
Speaker 1: spend the night, the whole night that night practicing. I
Speaker 1: called the desk and I made a few sharp edged
Speaker 1: remarks about being on national television and how many opportunities
Speaker 1: I would have to bankrupt the Buckhead Swiss Hotel and
Speaker 1: the Swiss Hotel chain generally. And suddenly they found me
Speaker 1: another room to move to, and I gathered my stuff
Speaker 1: and trudged a few floors and scattered my stuff in
Speaker 1: the new room, and I fell onto the bed and
Speaker 1: I went right to sleep, and I got a solid
Speaker 1: two or three minutes. And that's when the bathroom phone
Speaker 1: began to ring, not the main phone in the room,
Speaker 1: just the one in the bathroom. Picked it up and
Speaker 1: there was a dial tone, and it kept ringing, one
Speaker 1: hundred rings, two hundred rings. I disconnected the phone line
Speaker 1: from the wall. It kept ringing. I thought, I have
Speaker 1: to be on one of two TV shows. Either I'm
Speaker 1: on Candid Camera or The Twilight Zone. The phone is alive.
Speaker 1: I've disconnected it from the wall and it's still ringing.
Speaker 1: It is now five am. I still have a chance
Speaker 1: to get a full night's sleep, in full day's sleep
Speaker 1: before the game, but the rest of the day will
Speaker 1: be erased. I called the desk. My god, we still
Speaker 1: have one of those phones in one of the rooms.
Speaker 1: I thought we'd removed all of them. I'll send the electrician.
Speaker 1: He got there surprisingly fast. He did not bother with
Speaker 1: any niceties, and he simply did what I would have done.
Speaker 1: He yanked the whole thing out of the wall and
Speaker 1: took it with him. I closed the door behind him,
Speaker 1: and I could hear it as he moved back down
Speaker 1: the hall towards the elevator. The phone was still ringing.
Speaker 1: It was a possessed phone. As the sun began to
Speaker 1: rise and I crawled back into bed, I remembered something.
Speaker 1: Vital I called my new friend at the front desk
Speaker 1: again and I pleaded with him. Upon my arrival. The
Speaker 1: night before, which seemed like three or four decades earlier,
Speaker 1: I had sent over a suit to be pressed. Please,
Speaker 1: could you make sure they do not deliver it until
Speaker 1: I call? I have to sleep, guaranteed, sir, you get
Speaker 1: some sleep now. The knock came at eight thirty am,
Speaker 1: Ballet Service. I shout, go away. A moment later the
Speaker 1: phone rings Ballet Service. Minutes after that the phone rings again. Hi,
Speaker 1: this is the Ballet manager. We want to make sure
Speaker 1: did you get your suit? I emitted a string of
Speaker 1: popular Anglo saxon expletives. I had now been violently awakened
Speaker 1: so many times by so many different means that my
Speaker 1: vision had blurred. I called the desk. I asked for
Speaker 1: the fat number of the general manager's office, and, in
Speaker 1: those days before the universality of email, I wrote the
Speaker 1: general manager a crisp and enraged letter, summarizing to her
Speaker 1: my night in her hell with elevators, and explaining I
Speaker 1: would be checking out and going anywhere a cab could
Speaker 1: take me, a Motel six, a YMCA, a safe looking
Speaker 1: bus stop. When I finally woke to my own alarm
Speaker 1: around two in the afternoon, I found a note slipped
Speaker 1: under my door. It was as apologetic as anything I
Speaker 1: have ever read, and it had this sentence in it.
Speaker 1: I know we cannot undo the harm we have done
Speaker 1: to you, but I would offer you this by way
Speaker 1: of apology. At eight pm this evening, the presidential suite
Speaker 1: will become available. Please try it just tonight with our compliments.
Speaker 1: We will pack and move your belongings in your absence,
Speaker 1: and my assistant will stay tonight until you return from
Speaker 1: the game and will personally escort you to the suite. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I had to give that a shot, didn't I. The
Speaker 1: Presidential suite at the Swiss Hotel and Buckhead, Georgia was
Speaker 1: not what I expected. The front doors, there were two
Speaker 1: of them, opened onto a dining table which seated twenty eight.
Speaker 1: A few feet away from this twenty eight seater, well
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty or forty feet was the baby grand
Speaker 1: piano in the next room. To the left, just a
Speaker 1: few minutes walk away was the kitchen and the conference room,
Speaker 1: which had the big table. Each of the bedrooms had
Speaker 1: a fireplace, so did the living room. There were four bedrooms.
Speaker 1: There was a sauna, There was a hot tub. There
Speaker 1: was a second hot tub out on the balcony. There
Speaker 1: was a walk in closet larger than the first room
Speaker 1: they had given me. There was a door in the
Speaker 1: back of the walk in closet that led to a
Speaker 1: second walk in closet. I thought immediately of two things.
Speaker 1: I called all the women I had dated in the
Speaker 1: preceding year to see if any of them wanted to
Speaker 1: fly to Atlanta at my expense, even if it was
Speaker 1: just to see the presidential suite. I called women I
Speaker 1: had known from when I occasionally worked in Atlanta sixteen
Speaker 1: years earlier. I then thought, we all right, practically here,
Speaker 1: we can hold the pre production meeting for Game two
Speaker 1: of the World Series in well, either in the living
Speaker 1: room with the twenty eight seat dining table or in
Speaker 1: the conference room with the thirty six seat table. Hell,
Speaker 1: the whole Game two of the World Series in this suite.
Speaker 1: My only concern with that, in a suite so big
Speaker 1: it should have had its own ZIP code, was that
Speaker 1: there was an excellent chance Steve Sachs would get lost
Speaker 1: in it and we would never find him. And then
Speaker 1: I thought, no, they'll probably charge me extra for such
Speaker 1: a wonderful bonus the Buckhead, Georgia, Swiss Hotel and its
Speaker 1: general manager, whose name is lost in the folds of history,
Speaker 1: had cemented a place in my travel hall of fame,
Speaker 1: and we were discussing that during the pre production with
Speaker 1: our Fox Sports news crew at noon on Sunday before
Speaker 1: Game two, munching on the six plates of free food
Speaker 1: they had sent up, when the doorbell rang, I say, doorbell.
Speaker 1: It sounded like the bells at Notre Dame in Paris. There,
Speaker 1: to my surprise, outside the double doors were three hotel
Speaker 1: staffers with luggage carts. For a moment, I thought they
Speaker 1: had come to give us free rides to the lobby.
Speaker 1: I expressed my surprise at their presence. Well, said the staffer,
Speaker 1: who turned out to be the other assistant to the
Speaker 1: hotels general manager. You're checking out today, I smiled, No, no, no, Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Game two is tonight. We're checking out tomorrow, tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: Suddenly the bell station manager looked sad, even remorseful. Oh,
Speaker 1: for God's sakes, we got that wrong too. I'm afraid
Speaker 1: we need the presidential suite for an actual president tonight.
Speaker 1: I can move you to the governor's suite, he said. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: they packed my stuff as I instructed the Fox staff
Speaker 1: to eat all of the food on the platters and
Speaker 1: to stuff anything they could not eat into their pockets.
Speaker 1: I tried to sneak in a quick sauna, but the
Speaker 1: staff said there was a certain element of hurry up involved. Finally,
Speaker 1: we all paraded down the hall to the Governor's suite.
Speaker 1: And why Burger and I were speculating that this would
Speaker 1: only have one conference table and only one hot tub,
Speaker 1: and it would all be indoors, and there would be
Speaker 1: no balcony, and we'd all be like Cinderella when the
Speaker 1: clock struck midnight, and we get there and the assistant
Speaker 1: to the General Manager opens the door to the Governor's
Speaker 1: suite with great ceremony, and they're five feet in from
Speaker 1: the vestibule. Perfectly placed on the ratty and bright blue
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one nylon rug that might once have been
Speaker 1: the artificial turf at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, was the
Speaker 1: biggest carpet stain I have ever seen in my life,
Speaker 1: easily ten feet in diameter, causable only by the spilling
Speaker 1: of nuclear waste or by a murder. So I said
Speaker 1: to the chagrined assistant to the general manager who was
Speaker 1: putting down a fresh towel to cover the stain, and
Speaker 1: to whom it was apparently news that his Governor's suite
Speaker 1: feature to stain the size of the chalk outline of
Speaker 1: where the body had fallen. So I asked him, when
Speaker 1: does the chorus arrive for practice? I swear to goodness
Speaker 1: there are pictures of me at the Baby Grand piano
Speaker 1: pretending to play. I've done all the damage I can
Speaker 1: do here, mostly to my own respiratory system. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening and bearing with me. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray
Speaker 1: and John Phillip Schanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of
Speaker 1: our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums,
Speaker 1: and mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, and it was
Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. And I have to have a
Speaker 1: conversation with the producers of this show because I have
Speaker 1: never recorded a generic last segment that I can just
Speaker 1: plug in when I'm not feeling well, So I have
Speaker 1: to do a new one for every show because I
Speaker 1: put all these dates and times in it, because I'm
Speaker 1: a genius. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions
Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The
Speaker 1: sports music is the Oberman theme from ESPN two, written
Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis, appearing courtesy of ESPN inc. Our
Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss. The
Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my
Speaker 1: friend Tony Kornheiser. Everything else was pretty much my fault
Speaker 1: except the rest. I'd like to blame on society. That's
Speaker 1: countdown for this, the one hundred and nineteenth day until
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election, the two hundred and
Speaker 1: eightieth day since convicted felon Donald J. Insanity, Trump's first
Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.
Speaker 1: And that's right. I couldn't even get through the entire
Speaker 1: closing segment in one take. Use the September eighteen sentencing hearing.
Speaker 1: Use the mental health system. You've got it, mister president.
Speaker 1: Use presidential immunity. You don't just give up. You don't say, well,
Speaker 1: Hitler won the election, So here are the keys. If
Speaker 1: you don't do it, he will use presidential immunity to
Speaker 1: stop Trump from doing it again while we still can.
Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins as the news warrants,
Speaker 1: although as mentioned earlier, maybe not. I'll check in with
Speaker 1: my respiratory system in the afternoon. I suspect it's in
Speaker 1: one other room in the house somewhere. Until then, I'm
Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good
Speaker 1: luck to me. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production
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