1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,035 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Joe 2 00:00:22,035 --> 00:00:25,275 Speaker 1: Biden is getting his ass kicked in the polls, except 3 00:00:25,275 --> 00:00:27,995 Speaker 1: in those poles in which he is kicking Trump's ass. 4 00:00:29,435 --> 00:00:33,355 Speaker 1: Sixteen years ago, it was that I proposed that a 5 00:00:33,475 --> 00:00:37,035 Speaker 1: new number be attached to all political polls, one which 6 00:00:37,075 --> 00:00:40,635 Speaker 1: I modestly called the Keith number, which was very simply 7 00:00:40,755 --> 00:00:45,275 Speaker 1: the undecideds plus the poll's margin of error. You are 8 00:00:45,355 --> 00:00:47,555 Speaker 1: up in this poll by five points, but the margin 9 00:00:47,595 --> 00:00:51,075 Speaker 1: of error is three and the undecided is seven. Well, 10 00:00:51,155 --> 00:00:53,875 Speaker 1: your Keith number is actually ten, and you do not 11 00:00:54,155 --> 00:00:56,435 Speaker 1: want it to be larger than your lead, let alone 12 00:00:56,475 --> 00:01:00,035 Speaker 1: twice as big as your lead. This was an attempt 13 00:01:00,075 --> 00:01:02,635 Speaker 1: to take a tool out of the pollster's box of 14 00:01:02,715 --> 00:01:06,235 Speaker 1: three card Monte tricks and use it against them to 15 00:01:06,435 --> 00:01:10,035 Speaker 1: underscore the point that the most important things about poles 16 00:01:10,995 --> 00:01:16,315 Speaker 1: are their nearly universal unreliability and instability. We used the 17 00:01:16,395 --> 00:01:20,155 Speaker 1: Keith number, at least around our shop. It relaxed pole 18 00:01:20,355 --> 00:01:26,075 Speaker 1: fever considerably. Yesterday Morning, Bloomberg and Morning Consult put out 19 00:01:26,115 --> 00:01:29,995 Speaker 1: swing state poles, showing Trump up in every one of them. 20 00:01:30,635 --> 00:01:34,395 Speaker 1: Yesterday afternoon, Quinnipiac put out a national poll showing that 21 00:01:34,475 --> 00:01:36,795 Speaker 1: what had been too close to call in late December 22 00:01:36,835 --> 00:01:41,755 Speaker 1: was now Biden by six. Quinnipiac also had Biden adding 23 00:01:41,835 --> 00:01:44,595 Speaker 1: five points to his lead among women, uping it to 24 00:01:44,675 --> 00:01:48,795 Speaker 1: fifty eight to thirty six. Quinnipiac also did the due 25 00:01:48,875 --> 00:01:52,355 Speaker 1: to the convergence of forces beyond his comprehension, Donald Trump 26 00:01:52,435 --> 00:01:55,475 Speaker 1: was suddenly squirted out of the universe like a watermelon 27 00:01:55,515 --> 00:01:59,075 Speaker 1: seed and never heard from again. MC esher pole and yes, 28 00:01:59,635 --> 00:02:03,595 Speaker 1: Trump beats Haley seventy seven to twenty one, and Haley 29 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:09,675 Speaker 1: beats Biden forty seven to forty two. Now the pollsters 30 00:02:09,675 --> 00:02:12,035 Speaker 1: have gotten smart in the last sixteen years and have 31 00:02:12,075 --> 00:02:14,715 Speaker 1: started making the margin of error more difficult to find, 32 00:02:15,515 --> 00:02:18,915 Speaker 1: or they've started to assign different margins of errors to 33 00:02:19,155 --> 00:02:23,275 Speaker 1: different parts of their pole and to split undecideds into 34 00:02:23,275 --> 00:02:26,715 Speaker 1: someone else or no answer or refuse to answer. Not 35 00:02:26,835 --> 00:02:29,675 Speaker 1: as a result of the Keith number, just a coincidence, 36 00:02:30,035 --> 00:02:33,395 Speaker 1: because I'm hardly the only person to have existential doubts 37 00:02:33,435 --> 00:02:36,475 Speaker 1: about poles, and I certainly was not the first. But 38 00:02:36,715 --> 00:02:40,595 Speaker 1: best as I can calculate margin of error in Quinnipiac, 39 00:02:40,755 --> 00:02:44,155 Speaker 1: the good one for Biden is just about three percent, 40 00:02:44,675 --> 00:02:48,075 Speaker 1: which is pretty damn good. And the undecided is six, 41 00:02:48,715 --> 00:02:52,355 Speaker 1: which means sure, Biden is ahead by six. But the 42 00:02:52,435 --> 00:02:56,235 Speaker 1: Keith number is nine, which means I'm not wrapping myself 43 00:02:56,275 --> 00:02:59,715 Speaker 1: in this poll either. It could be one third wrong. 44 00:03:00,995 --> 00:03:04,675 Speaker 1: On the other hand, in those Bloomberg swing state individual 45 00:03:04,715 --> 00:03:07,955 Speaker 1: dual polls, they have smooshed them all together and they 46 00:03:07,955 --> 00:03:10,715 Speaker 1: have Trump up forty eight to forty an eight point 47 00:03:10,755 --> 00:03:14,275 Speaker 1: lead margin of error. Hell, Bloomberg is making this tough 48 00:03:14,315 --> 00:03:17,355 Speaker 1: on me. They say it's plus or minus one percent, 49 00:03:18,075 --> 00:03:22,635 Speaker 1: which means two percent, and they say each individual state's 50 00:03:22,635 --> 00:03:26,035 Speaker 1: margin of error is between three and five percent. I 51 00:03:26,075 --> 00:03:28,995 Speaker 1: will give them something of the benefit of the doubt 52 00:03:28,995 --> 00:03:31,435 Speaker 1: and say the overall margin of error in this poll 53 00:03:31,555 --> 00:03:37,555 Speaker 1: is four, but the undecided is twelve, So four plus 54 00:03:37,555 --> 00:03:42,435 Speaker 1: twelve is sixteen. Thus the Keith number in the favorable 55 00:03:42,515 --> 00:03:46,115 Speaker 1: Trump swing state pole is nearly twice as much as 56 00:03:46,115 --> 00:03:50,275 Speaker 1: Trump's lead, So this poll could be one half wrong. 57 00:03:51,075 --> 00:03:54,995 Speaker 1: This is why I hate Poles. I often cite the 58 00:03:55,035 --> 00:03:58,595 Speaker 1: movie Network as the most prophetic film ever made, and 59 00:03:58,675 --> 00:04:01,595 Speaker 1: it is certainly so about television news, but it really 60 00:04:01,795 --> 00:04:06,515 Speaker 1: was about television news about politics. One of the most 61 00:04:06,595 --> 00:04:10,035 Speaker 1: shocking things to the audiences of nineteen seventy six that 62 00:04:10,195 --> 00:04:15,155 Speaker 1: saw that film. When new was that network predicted a showbiz, slick, 63 00:04:15,635 --> 00:04:20,155 Speaker 1: entertainment oriented national newscast that relied on things that the 64 00:04:20,195 --> 00:04:22,835 Speaker 1: TV networks of the time would never let their real 65 00:04:22,875 --> 00:04:28,195 Speaker 1: life Cronkites and Huntley's and Brinkley's and Reasoner's Touch let 66 00:04:28,275 --> 00:04:32,675 Speaker 1: alone depend on. And the most shocking was a regular 67 00:04:32,795 --> 00:04:39,115 Speaker 1: segment that movie auteur Patty Tchaievsky called Vach's Populi, which 68 00:04:39,275 --> 00:04:46,115 Speaker 1: was clearly a nightly opinion poll, not only treated as news, 69 00:04:46,155 --> 00:04:50,115 Speaker 1: but featured as one of the most important and popular 70 00:04:50,155 --> 00:04:53,875 Speaker 1: things on the news. In nineteen seventy six, it was 71 00:04:53,955 --> 00:05:00,155 Speaker 1: unthinkable in twenty twenty four, it is automatic. There is 72 00:05:00,195 --> 00:05:02,635 Speaker 1: no question that there is science to political polling, but 73 00:05:02,715 --> 00:05:04,995 Speaker 1: much of the refinement of that science is how to 74 00:05:04,995 --> 00:05:08,355 Speaker 1: get people to answer the way the pollster wants them 75 00:05:08,355 --> 00:05:12,715 Speaker 1: to answer. I have mentioned this previously. In two thousand 76 00:05:12,715 --> 00:05:15,195 Speaker 1: and three, when I was back at MSNBC for what 77 00:05:15,355 --> 00:05:19,155 Speaker 1: was literally planned as three days relief for the five 78 00:05:19,195 --> 00:05:22,155 Speaker 1: PM anchor who was very sick, and when I had 79 00:05:22,195 --> 00:05:24,595 Speaker 1: no interest in returning to work there full time, my 80 00:05:24,715 --> 00:05:27,195 Speaker 1: old friends there revealed that they were about to launch 81 00:05:27,195 --> 00:05:30,795 Speaker 1: an eight PM newscast called Countdown, and they had already 82 00:05:30,915 --> 00:05:33,555 Speaker 1: drawn up the contract for the new host they so 83 00:05:33,755 --> 00:05:36,795 Speaker 1: desperately wanted that they were buying him out of his 84 00:05:36,915 --> 00:05:42,915 Speaker 1: contract with ABC News. That man's name was Sam Donaldson. Involuntarily, 85 00:05:43,035 --> 00:05:46,835 Speaker 1: I laughed out loud at this, literally thinking they were kidding, 86 00:05:46,995 --> 00:05:50,595 Speaker 1: don't you know? I asked, I've been working at ABC 87 00:05:50,835 --> 00:05:52,795 Speaker 1: Radio for a year now. They're trying to get Sam 88 00:05:52,795 --> 00:05:56,195 Speaker 1: to quit. They took him off TV. They put him 89 00:05:56,195 --> 00:05:59,195 Speaker 1: on a radio call in show. When that didn't work, 90 00:05:59,235 --> 00:06:01,275 Speaker 1: they took him off the radio call in show and 91 00:06:01,315 --> 00:06:03,955 Speaker 1: made it an online only call in show. I filled 92 00:06:03,995 --> 00:06:09,075 Speaker 1: in from last week. We got like three calls. The 93 00:06:09,195 --> 00:06:13,075 Speaker 1: MSNBC executive went cold, and then without even asking me 94 00:06:13,155 --> 00:06:15,115 Speaker 1: to leave the room, he made a phone call Frank 95 00:06:15,355 --> 00:06:19,515 Speaker 1: Phil Frank, I have to get out of the Donaldson deal, buddy, 96 00:06:20,115 --> 00:06:22,875 Speaker 1: How quickly could you get me a poll or maybe 97 00:06:22,875 --> 00:06:25,755 Speaker 1: a focus group that shows putting Sam Donaldson on will 98 00:06:25,795 --> 00:06:30,835 Speaker 1: be a disaster? Okay, great, fax it to me. Oh oh, Frank, 99 00:06:30,875 --> 00:06:33,555 Speaker 1: do me another favor, another one. Get me a focus 100 00:06:33,635 --> 00:06:36,075 Speaker 1: group that shows that Keith Olberman would be great for 101 00:06:36,115 --> 00:06:43,275 Speaker 1: eight pm. Again, Frank was Frank Luntz. Within forty eight hours, 102 00:06:44,835 --> 00:06:47,795 Speaker 1: the Sam Donaldson deal was dead. Within seventy two hours, 103 00:06:47,795 --> 00:06:50,235 Speaker 1: the president of MSNBC was calling my agent asking if 104 00:06:50,235 --> 00:06:53,035 Speaker 1: there was any chance I might even consider coming back 105 00:06:53,075 --> 00:07:00,275 Speaker 1: to MSNBC. That is the science of polling, and now 106 00:07:00,315 --> 00:07:02,955 Speaker 1: having trash polls, I will add that what he is 107 00:07:03,035 --> 00:07:07,835 Speaker 1: really useful in them is what sports reporters call interior numbers. 108 00:07:08,795 --> 00:07:12,555 Speaker 1: Bloomberg asked those Trump voters in those swing states where 109 00:07:12,595 --> 00:07:15,715 Speaker 1: he's ahead by eight, but the Keith number of uncertainty 110 00:07:15,795 --> 00:07:19,715 Speaker 1: is sixteen, if they'd be very willing or somewhat willing 111 00:07:19,995 --> 00:07:23,195 Speaker 1: or somewhat unwilling or very unwilling to still vote for 112 00:07:23,315 --> 00:07:26,635 Speaker 1: him if he was actually convicted by a jury. And 113 00:07:26,715 --> 00:07:32,075 Speaker 1: forty six percent said very unwilling and the undecided and 114 00:07:32,155 --> 00:07:35,035 Speaker 1: that was only seven And the margin of error is four. 115 00:07:35,275 --> 00:07:38,955 Speaker 1: So at worst, at least thirty five percent would drop 116 00:07:39,075 --> 00:07:45,075 Speaker 1: Trump if he's convicted in the swing states. But what 117 00:07:45,155 --> 00:07:47,795 Speaker 1: about Sam Donaldson? How do you feel about Sam? Who's 118 00:07:47,835 --> 00:07:51,235 Speaker 1: voting for Sam Donalds? Who out there has got Frank 119 00:07:51,275 --> 00:07:59,675 Speaker 1: Luntz's phone number? Hell, who's got Judge Arthur Engern's phone number? 120 00:08:00,275 --> 00:08:03,515 Speaker 1: If you spent frustrating moments or hours or longer looking 121 00:08:03,515 --> 00:08:07,195 Speaker 1: for anger On's ruling on how much Trump owes how 122 00:08:07,275 --> 00:08:09,155 Speaker 1: much he owes the State of New York for business fraud, 123 00:08:09,195 --> 00:08:12,075 Speaker 1: not how much she owes e Gene Carroll or how 124 00:08:12,155 --> 00:08:15,035 Speaker 1: much he owes Michael Cohen, or how much he owes 125 00:08:15,075 --> 00:08:18,075 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniels, or how much he owes the people of 126 00:08:18,115 --> 00:08:21,915 Speaker 1: the United States of America. No, you're not nuts. You 127 00:08:21,995 --> 00:08:24,595 Speaker 1: did not miss it. After a day of rumors yesterday, 128 00:08:24,715 --> 00:08:27,875 Speaker 1: Judge Ngarn did not announce the count and the amount, 129 00:08:28,275 --> 00:08:30,595 Speaker 1: And he may not do it today, and he may 130 00:08:30,675 --> 00:08:33,475 Speaker 1: not do it tomorrow. And somebody who may hear useful 131 00:08:33,555 --> 00:08:36,875 Speaker 1: rumors as opposed to the ordinary kind, Former Assistant New 132 00:08:36,915 --> 00:08:40,315 Speaker 1: York Attorney General and prosecutor of Trump University, Tristan Snell, 133 00:08:41,275 --> 00:08:45,675 Speaker 1: says he hears aiming for early next week. Of course, 134 00:08:45,675 --> 00:08:49,955 Speaker 1: that's fine, except previously and Gern was aiming for January 135 00:08:49,955 --> 00:08:52,995 Speaker 1: thirty first at the latest. And it ain't January anymore. 136 00:08:54,635 --> 00:08:58,075 Speaker 1: The important part, the cancelation of corporate charters for Trump 137 00:08:58,075 --> 00:09:01,075 Speaker 1: in New York State, is already locked in. This is 138 00:09:01,115 --> 00:09:03,995 Speaker 1: about how much the fine will be the latest demand 139 00:09:04,035 --> 00:09:06,635 Speaker 1: from the attorney General's office was three hundred and seventy 140 00:09:06,715 --> 00:09:11,195 Speaker 1: million dollars. But Snell's expectation matches the conventional wisdom, and 141 00:09:11,235 --> 00:09:13,555 Speaker 1: you can take the conventional wisdom for what it's worth. 142 00:09:13,875 --> 00:09:17,355 Speaker 1: Do we have any pulling on conventional wisdoms? But the 143 00:09:17,395 --> 00:09:21,355 Speaker 1: expectation is the low end of the range that Trump's 144 00:09:21,475 --> 00:09:24,995 Speaker 1: endless working of the REFS and everybody related to the 145 00:09:25,035 --> 00:09:29,035 Speaker 1: REFS and everybody working for the REFS really has left 146 00:09:29,035 --> 00:09:31,435 Speaker 1: anger on trying to find a number that hurts but 147 00:09:31,595 --> 00:09:35,595 Speaker 1: is unlikely to be overturned. The fine could be as 148 00:09:35,595 --> 00:09:38,595 Speaker 1: low as two hundred million dollars, which Trump would position 149 00:09:38,635 --> 00:09:42,875 Speaker 1: as him being thrown into a bottomless pit and burnt 150 00:09:42,875 --> 00:09:45,755 Speaker 1: at the steak or something, but would actually be a 151 00:09:45,795 --> 00:09:48,515 Speaker 1: comparative win for him at a reminder that he does 152 00:09:48,555 --> 00:09:51,315 Speaker 1: what he does to the Arthur and Gorons of this world. 153 00:09:51,315 --> 00:09:57,035 Speaker 1: Because the sad truth is it works, the appeals process, 154 00:09:58,155 --> 00:10:03,235 Speaker 1: And don't lie through this eighteen months of Trump in courtrooms, 155 00:10:03,595 --> 00:10:08,955 Speaker 1: you have wondered to yourself, maybe we shouldn't have an 156 00:10:08,995 --> 00:10:13,835 Speaker 1: appeals process in this country. Don't lie you thought it. 157 00:10:15,035 --> 00:10:19,675 Speaker 1: I know I have. We kind of have to have one. 158 00:10:20,675 --> 00:10:23,515 Speaker 1: The appeals process will be State Appellate Division, then the 159 00:10:23,515 --> 00:10:25,755 Speaker 1: New York Court of Appeals. Than Trump would try to 160 00:10:25,755 --> 00:10:27,595 Speaker 1: get it to the Supreme Court, but there really isn't 161 00:10:27,595 --> 00:10:30,355 Speaker 1: anything constitutional in this case. The point of the appeals 162 00:10:30,395 --> 00:10:33,555 Speaker 1: would be the delay, because delay is what keeps Trump 163 00:10:33,555 --> 00:10:38,715 Speaker 1: alive maybe literally by this point, and what keeps anywhere 164 00:10:38,715 --> 00:10:40,915 Speaker 1: from two hundred and eighty three point three million to 165 00:10:41,115 --> 00:10:43,195 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty three point three million in his 166 00:10:43,355 --> 00:10:47,955 Speaker 1: pocket till further notice. One important caveat to that. When 167 00:10:47,995 --> 00:10:50,515 Speaker 1: there are court judgments against you for four hundred and 168 00:10:50,555 --> 00:10:53,315 Speaker 1: fifty three point three million and you have just been 169 00:10:53,435 --> 00:10:57,195 Speaker 1: banned from doing business in the fourth most populous state 170 00:10:57,275 --> 00:10:59,635 Speaker 1: in the country, I don't care if you're Elmer J. 171 00:10:59,835 --> 00:11:02,715 Speaker 1: Fudd billionaire and you own a mansion and a yacht. 172 00:11:03,355 --> 00:11:06,515 Speaker 1: Even before you actually have to pay the money, the 173 00:11:06,555 --> 00:11:11,195 Speaker 1: banks will be decreasingly willing to loan you money, and 174 00:11:11,235 --> 00:11:14,915 Speaker 1: that could be as devastating to Trump as the fines themselves. 175 00:11:15,635 --> 00:11:22,555 Speaker 1: Delay keeps him alive oer PM. Other people's money keeps 176 00:11:22,595 --> 00:11:29,515 Speaker 1: him solvent. The other defendant, Jay Trump. News today is funnier, 177 00:11:30,115 --> 00:11:31,435 Speaker 1: a lot funnier. 178 00:11:31,555 --> 00:11:36,835 Speaker 2: Somebody said to me, Elena, would you rather be would 179 00:11:36,835 --> 00:11:42,315 Speaker 2: you rather be smart or pretty? And I said, oh, easy, pretty. 180 00:11:42,835 --> 00:11:43,995 Speaker 2: I can fake being smart. 181 00:11:46,195 --> 00:11:50,835 Speaker 1: No, no, you can't. Turns out this is going to 182 00:11:50,875 --> 00:11:53,275 Speaker 1: be one of the greatest soundbites of all time, because 183 00:11:53,275 --> 00:11:56,995 Speaker 1: if Trump has not actually fired Alena Habba, I mean, 184 00:11:57,035 --> 00:11:59,595 Speaker 1: why fire her? Why let all that effort to make 185 00:11:59,635 --> 00:12:03,035 Speaker 1: her not look like Elis Stephanic's twin sister by whatever 186 00:12:03,155 --> 00:12:06,995 Speaker 1: means go to waste. If he has not fired fired her, 187 00:12:07,435 --> 00:12:12,355 Speaker 1: he has removed her from the Egen Carroll case. Haba 188 00:12:12,515 --> 00:12:15,795 Speaker 1: might have survived looking like a well, the worst thing 189 00:12:15,795 --> 00:12:17,475 Speaker 1: we can call her is what she is, a parking 190 00:12:17,515 --> 00:12:21,875 Speaker 1: lot lawyer in the trial itself. But then, in an 191 00:12:21,875 --> 00:12:24,275 Speaker 1: effort to pull her acorns out of that fire, she 192 00:12:24,355 --> 00:12:28,195 Speaker 1: wrote the judge demanding more information to use in Trump's 193 00:12:28,195 --> 00:12:34,475 Speaker 1: appeal about when he quote mentored Ejen Carroll's lawyer. Ejen 194 00:12:34,595 --> 00:12:37,715 Speaker 1: Carroll's lawyer fired back that there was no mentorship. She 195 00:12:37,795 --> 00:12:41,035 Speaker 1: happened to overlap with the judge for less than two years, 196 00:12:41,315 --> 00:12:43,715 Speaker 1: and she was an associate and he was a partner, 197 00:12:43,755 --> 00:12:47,835 Speaker 1: and they never met, and she wanted sanctions against Haba 198 00:12:48,315 --> 00:12:53,315 Speaker 1: for the inference. Habba backed slowly away from the train wreck. 199 00:12:53,435 --> 00:12:57,635 Speaker 1: She caused, and then late Tuesday night, Trump posted I 200 00:12:57,675 --> 00:13:00,195 Speaker 1: am in the process, along with my team of interviewing 201 00:13:00,275 --> 00:13:04,075 Speaker 1: various law firms to represent me in an appeal of 202 00:13:04,115 --> 00:13:11,435 Speaker 1: the Carroll case by Felicia. Trump used all his cliches, 203 00:13:12,315 --> 00:13:15,275 Speaker 1: but he never as much as mentioned poor little miss 204 00:13:15,515 --> 00:13:18,955 Speaker 1: don't hate me because I'm pretty so I guess it's 205 00:13:20,115 --> 00:13:45,515 Speaker 1: yabahaba do. Thank you, Nancy Faust. I cannot believe how 206 00:13:45,555 --> 00:13:48,155 Speaker 1: much time and space was devoted to that social media 207 00:13:48,195 --> 00:13:51,555 Speaker 1: kabuki theater in the Senate yesterday, But I'm glad everybody 208 00:13:51,555 --> 00:13:56,075 Speaker 1: had fun booing and applauding and yelling and crying and threatening. 209 00:13:56,075 --> 00:13:58,515 Speaker 1: And please rejoin us next year, when after a year 210 00:13:58,555 --> 00:14:02,555 Speaker 1: of utter inaction on the subject, they will enact exactly 211 00:14:02,595 --> 00:14:05,475 Speaker 1: the same performance, only this time it will be in 212 00:14:05,515 --> 00:14:11,035 Speaker 1: the style of Gilbert and Sullivan. There was one useful 213 00:14:11,395 --> 00:14:17,835 Speaker 1: sound bite, Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina. Listen carefully. 214 00:14:18,315 --> 00:14:20,235 Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I find it 215 00:14:20,275 --> 00:14:21,115 Speaker 3: heart to blieve. 216 00:14:21,875 --> 00:14:26,435 Speaker 1: First honest statement by a Republican senator this year. 217 00:14:26,915 --> 00:14:28,835 Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I find it 218 00:14:28,875 --> 00:14:29,435 Speaker 3: heart to blieve. 219 00:14:29,995 --> 00:14:33,075 Speaker 1: The only other thing of true note in that hearing 220 00:14:33,315 --> 00:14:38,075 Speaker 1: was the racism. Sure enough, it was from racist Tom Cotton, 221 00:14:38,955 --> 00:14:43,755 Speaker 1: from the state of racism. Racist Tom Cotton went to 222 00:14:43,795 --> 00:14:47,915 Speaker 1: Harvard Undergrad and Harvard Law and presumably Harvard racism. By 223 00:14:47,955 --> 00:14:50,115 Speaker 1: the way, I've never been prouder that they would not 224 00:14:50,235 --> 00:14:55,195 Speaker 1: let me in, thank you. Nineteen seventy five. The CEO 225 00:14:55,315 --> 00:14:59,555 Speaker 1: of TikTok he is racist ng in this SoundBite, also 226 00:14:59,675 --> 00:15:03,035 Speaker 1: went to Harvard to Harvard Business. The CEO's wife went 227 00:15:03,075 --> 00:15:07,555 Speaker 1: to Harvard Business. But the CEO is from Singapore and 228 00:15:07,595 --> 00:15:12,315 Speaker 1: his name is Shao she Chew, and that means Chinese descent. 229 00:15:12,635 --> 00:15:16,355 Speaker 1: And good old racist Tom racist Cotton is racist. Convinced 230 00:15:16,995 --> 00:15:22,035 Speaker 1: that mister shoes Chew is lying about being in Singapore 231 00:15:22,555 --> 00:15:27,235 Speaker 1: and is actually a Chinese spy. And the real problem 232 00:15:27,395 --> 00:15:33,675 Speaker 1: about racist Republican bastard morons like racist Tom racist Cotton 233 00:15:33,795 --> 00:15:39,195 Speaker 1: racist is that they actually racist think they are racist? Right? 234 00:15:39,715 --> 00:15:41,995 Speaker 4: You said today, as you often say, that you live 235 00:15:42,035 --> 00:15:46,315 Speaker 4: in Singapore of what nation? Are you a citizen Singapore? 236 00:15:46,875 --> 00:15:49,515 Speaker 4: Are you a citizen of any other nation? No, Senator, 237 00:15:49,555 --> 00:15:51,555 Speaker 4: have you ever applied for Chinese citizenship? 238 00:15:51,835 --> 00:15:54,075 Speaker 5: Senator, I serve my nation in Singapore. 239 00:15:54,315 --> 00:15:57,235 Speaker 4: No, I did not. Do you have a Singapore in passport. 240 00:15:57,675 --> 00:15:59,515 Speaker 5: Yes, and I served my military for two two and 241 00:15:59,515 --> 00:15:59,955 Speaker 5: a half years. 242 00:15:59,955 --> 00:16:02,475 Speaker 4: Since you have any other Do you have any other passports? 243 00:16:02,555 --> 00:16:03,115 Speaker 4: Any other names? 244 00:16:03,275 --> 00:16:03,635 Speaker 5: Senator? 245 00:16:03,955 --> 00:16:06,835 Speaker 4: Your wife is an American citizen. Your children are American citizens, 246 00:16:06,915 --> 00:16:09,875 Speaker 4: that's correct. Have you ever applied for American citizenship? No? 247 00:16:10,515 --> 00:16:10,955 Speaker 4: Not yet? 248 00:16:11,515 --> 00:16:11,875 Speaker 5: Okay. 249 00:16:14,595 --> 00:16:16,995 Speaker 4: Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party. 250 00:16:16,995 --> 00:16:18,115 Speaker 5: Senata, I'm singaporeon. 251 00:16:18,235 --> 00:16:18,435 Speaker 1: No. 252 00:16:19,195 --> 00:16:21,435 Speaker 4: Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese 253 00:16:21,435 --> 00:16:22,195 Speaker 4: Communist Party? 254 00:16:22,435 --> 00:16:24,115 Speaker 5: No, Senator again, I'm Singaporeanon. 255 00:16:24,475 --> 00:16:28,555 Speaker 1: Appalling. I wish there was something legal I could do 256 00:16:28,795 --> 00:16:32,155 Speaker 1: to render Tom Cotton mute for the rest of his life. 257 00:16:33,315 --> 00:16:36,875 Speaker 1: And by the way, a bell of some kind must 258 00:16:36,875 --> 00:16:40,515 Speaker 1: have gone off yesterday morning in every elected Republicans head. 259 00:16:41,475 --> 00:16:47,475 Speaker 1: Not just racism everywhere local, national, state level, but no 260 00:16:47,555 --> 00:16:52,795 Speaker 1: longer the slightest effort to conceal it. This next creature 261 00:16:52,875 --> 00:16:58,435 Speaker 1: is Eric Wimberger, and he is a Wisconsin state racist 262 00:16:58,515 --> 00:17:04,435 Speaker 1: senator representing Green Bay. And the website Heartland Signal found this, 263 00:17:04,835 --> 00:17:09,675 Speaker 1: and this racist Wimburger actually said this out loud at 264 00:17:09,675 --> 00:17:10,115 Speaker 1: a hearing. 265 00:17:10,515 --> 00:17:12,515 Speaker 6: One of the main effects that this bill will have 266 00:17:12,635 --> 00:17:14,595 Speaker 6: is that it will put race hustlers out of business, 267 00:17:15,195 --> 00:17:20,115 Speaker 6: and they will stop this graft on people suffering. So 268 00:17:20,835 --> 00:17:26,435 Speaker 6: racism is a problem, and it probably is something that 269 00:17:26,515 --> 00:17:30,835 Speaker 6: will exist in the ether, and it will never go 270 00:17:30,995 --> 00:17:34,635 Speaker 6: away to a degree where we can manage it if 271 00:17:34,675 --> 00:17:39,115 Speaker 6: what we do fundamentally in our policies is very consciously 272 00:17:39,475 --> 00:17:41,795 Speaker 6: decide that a black man ought to get what a 273 00:17:41,795 --> 00:17:43,595 Speaker 6: black man deserves and a white man ought to get 274 00:17:43,595 --> 00:17:44,635 Speaker 6: what a white man deserves. 275 00:17:45,035 --> 00:17:47,355 Speaker 4: You just use the term I've never heard. I'm going 276 00:17:47,395 --> 00:17:49,355 Speaker 4: to ask your denition hustler. 277 00:17:50,595 --> 00:17:54,235 Speaker 6: Oh. Race hustlers would be all those people who sell 278 00:17:54,275 --> 00:18:00,355 Speaker 6: seminars and like Al Sharpton. I see, but what makes 279 00:18:00,355 --> 00:18:04,675 Speaker 6: them profiteering off? 280 00:18:05,355 --> 00:18:11,315 Speaker 1: The term quote race hustler is not some new construction 281 00:18:12,075 --> 00:18:17,075 Speaker 1: by the gentle racists from Green Bay, mister Wimberger scumbag. 282 00:18:17,675 --> 00:18:21,875 Speaker 1: It is a term racists invented not long after slavery ended. 283 00:18:22,275 --> 00:18:24,675 Speaker 1: It was designed to remind black people that they might 284 00:18:24,835 --> 00:18:29,395 Speaker 1: be free, but they had better not try to act free. 285 00:18:29,435 --> 00:18:35,195 Speaker 1: Anybody who advocated for equality not accommodation was called a 286 00:18:35,395 --> 00:18:38,755 Speaker 1: race hustler. W. E. B. Du Bois was called a 287 00:18:38,835 --> 00:18:42,235 Speaker 1: race hustler. In nineteen oh one, Martin Luther King was 288 00:18:42,235 --> 00:18:44,955 Speaker 1: called a race Hustler after his I have a dream 289 00:18:44,955 --> 00:18:49,275 Speaker 1: speech in nineteen sixty three. And if you wonder where 290 00:18:49,275 --> 00:18:51,835 Speaker 1: the Tom Cottons of this world come from, the answer 291 00:18:51,955 --> 00:18:58,035 Speaker 1: is they come from the Eric Wimbergers. And yet, somehow 292 00:18:58,035 --> 00:19:03,035 Speaker 1: more terrifying still, there are the racists who clearly are racists, 293 00:19:03,315 --> 00:19:06,675 Speaker 1: and clearly say racists things and do racist things, and 294 00:19:06,755 --> 00:19:13,715 Speaker 1: yet they think their racism is not racism. Nikki Hayley 295 00:19:14,675 --> 00:19:18,035 Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club with Charlemagne the God and dj Enby, 296 00:19:18,155 --> 00:19:24,075 Speaker 1: and she she doesn't even know how irredeemably racist she 297 00:19:24,275 --> 00:19:26,635 Speaker 1: really is. When I ask why you said if Kamala 298 00:19:26,795 --> 00:19:28,635 Speaker 1: was president, why I would send chills down? You're right. 299 00:19:28,715 --> 00:19:32,315 Speaker 7: So a couple of things. I think with Obama that 300 00:19:32,515 --> 00:19:34,995 Speaker 7: was if you go back, that's when we really started 301 00:19:34,995 --> 00:19:39,595 Speaker 7: to feel the division. That's when it was the white 302 00:19:39,595 --> 00:19:42,275 Speaker 7: supremacist though well, no, I think it was. It was everything. 303 00:19:42,355 --> 00:19:46,395 Speaker 7: Everything was exaggerated with the Obama administration. It became more 304 00:19:46,435 --> 00:19:48,995 Speaker 7: about gender, it became more about race, It became more 305 00:19:49,035 --> 00:19:52,835 Speaker 7: about separating Americans instead of bringing them together. 306 00:19:53,075 --> 00:19:55,115 Speaker 1: It was Helko, the right wing media, though, well, they 307 00:19:55,115 --> 00:19:56,515 Speaker 1: were scared enough of a black president. 308 00:19:56,555 --> 00:19:59,915 Speaker 7: Look, I don't think everybody is at fault. I'm not 309 00:20:00,075 --> 00:20:03,075 Speaker 7: saying that one person did this, but I'm saying under 310 00:20:03,115 --> 00:20:07,755 Speaker 7: that administration, it it really did cause some You just 311 00:20:07,795 --> 00:20:10,475 Speaker 7: felt people felt like they were being put in camps 312 00:20:10,955 --> 00:20:14,075 Speaker 7: through that administration. The second thing is I saw he 313 00:20:14,755 --> 00:20:18,755 Speaker 7: was very much an Iranian sympathizer. He very much kept 314 00:20:18,795 --> 00:20:21,515 Speaker 7: wanting to support and do things with Ron. I think 315 00:20:21,555 --> 00:20:24,915 Speaker 7: that's incredibly dangerous. This is a culture that says death 316 00:20:24,955 --> 00:20:27,755 Speaker 7: to America, and you have to always be careful, Kamala. 317 00:20:27,835 --> 00:20:29,755 Speaker 7: It's from an experience standpoint. 318 00:20:30,035 --> 00:20:35,955 Speaker 1: Asked about Kamala Harris, she answered about Barack Obama, didn't 319 00:20:35,995 --> 00:20:40,035 Speaker 1: even pause, and then she talked about racial division for 320 00:20:40,075 --> 00:20:43,115 Speaker 1: two minutes and then said, well, the part about Harris 321 00:20:43,435 --> 00:20:48,795 Speaker 1: is about inexperience. The division she referred to in this country. 322 00:20:48,915 --> 00:20:54,435 Speaker 1: That probably started with white people owning black people, or 323 00:20:54,435 --> 00:20:56,275 Speaker 1: if you don't like that as the starting point, maybe 324 00:20:56,315 --> 00:21:01,875 Speaker 1: it started with the Civil War. Dipshit. Oh, and people 325 00:21:01,955 --> 00:21:07,475 Speaker 1: were divided and put in camps here during World War 326 00:21:07,515 --> 00:21:12,195 Speaker 1: Two when Democrats and Republicans united to put Americans literally 327 00:21:12,355 --> 00:21:18,835 Speaker 1: in camps because they were of Japanese descent. And Obama was, 328 00:21:18,915 --> 00:21:25,275 Speaker 1: you say, an Iranian sympathizer sympathizer. I mean, like like you, Nikki, 329 00:21:25,275 --> 00:21:28,835 Speaker 1: you're a ku klux Klan sympathizer, or did you mean 330 00:21:28,875 --> 00:21:33,355 Speaker 1: something less stupid than that? Nicki Haley is a lying, 331 00:21:33,475 --> 00:21:37,315 Speaker 1: racist cracker. I don't care what her birth name is 332 00:21:37,395 --> 00:21:41,915 Speaker 1: or where her parents are from. Nikki Haley proves my 333 00:21:42,075 --> 00:21:49,115 Speaker 1: old theory of the lifeboat. Your ocean liner sinks. You 334 00:21:49,155 --> 00:21:52,795 Speaker 1: are re enacting the end of Titanic. Suddenly you're in 335 00:21:52,835 --> 00:21:55,675 Speaker 1: the water. You bob to the surface, and miraculously, next 336 00:21:55,715 --> 00:21:59,515 Speaker 1: to you is a fully outfitted lifeboat that can seat 337 00:21:59,555 --> 00:22:06,515 Speaker 1: eighteen people. One of two things happens. Next one, you 338 00:22:06,515 --> 00:22:09,275 Speaker 1: pull yourself into the lifeboat. Your mind races, do I 339 00:22:09,315 --> 00:22:12,275 Speaker 1: bring in seventeen women or do I have to pull 340 00:22:12,315 --> 00:22:13,955 Speaker 1: in a few men to help me row? And I 341 00:22:13,955 --> 00:22:16,395 Speaker 1: can only take fourteen women and the three of four 342 00:22:16,395 --> 00:22:18,795 Speaker 1: of us that could we take twenty kids instead of 343 00:22:18,875 --> 00:22:23,595 Speaker 1: ten adults? Or something else happens. You look at the 344 00:22:23,595 --> 00:22:27,635 Speaker 1: food supply and all the space, and you calculate how 345 00:22:27,715 --> 00:22:31,515 Speaker 1: much longer you could survive by yourself if you can 346 00:22:31,715 --> 00:22:35,835 Speaker 1: just make sure that nobody else gets into your lifeboat, 347 00:22:36,075 --> 00:22:39,315 Speaker 1: And you think, thank god, this thing has oars. Now 348 00:22:39,355 --> 00:22:41,835 Speaker 1: I can kill anybody who tries to get into my 349 00:22:41,995 --> 00:22:47,075 Speaker 1: lifeboat because you have your lifeboat, and to hell with 350 00:22:47,555 --> 00:22:53,555 Speaker 1: everybody else, and that person is nicky, God damn her. 351 00:22:53,675 --> 00:23:03,475 Speaker 1: To hell. Haley also of interest here and somehow none 352 00:23:03,475 --> 00:23:06,995 Speaker 1: of that might have been the single most racist thing 353 00:23:07,555 --> 00:23:12,835 Speaker 1: said by a sitting elected Republican all day yesterday, And 354 00:23:12,875 --> 00:23:15,915 Speaker 1: clearly none of that was the most stupid thing said 355 00:23:16,355 --> 00:23:21,795 Speaker 1: by a sitting elected Republican yesterday. Congressman Derek Van Orden 356 00:23:21,915 --> 00:23:25,275 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four is so dumb that it turns 357 00:23:25,315 --> 00:23:30,275 Speaker 1: out he is even dumber than Congressman Derek Van Orden 358 00:23:30,355 --> 00:23:34,755 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. That's next. This is countdown. 359 00:23:36,755 --> 00:23:38,995 Speaker 3: This is countdown with Keith. 360 00:23:38,755 --> 00:24:03,395 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on countdown. If you heard the rumors 361 00:24:03,595 --> 00:24:07,835 Speaker 1: that would be rumors with two us that Netflix is 362 00:24:07,835 --> 00:24:11,715 Speaker 1: about to follow Spotify and drop Prince Harry and Megan Markle, 363 00:24:12,715 --> 00:24:16,515 Speaker 1: I think you might be amused and perhaps informed and 364 00:24:16,715 --> 00:24:20,395 Speaker 1: educated by my own experience trying to explain to Netflix 365 00:24:20,915 --> 00:24:24,955 Speaker 1: that if it chose to, it could own the entire 366 00:24:25,195 --> 00:24:31,715 Speaker 1: political media video market, It could replace television and all 367 00:24:31,755 --> 00:24:37,155 Speaker 1: online stuff in political news, and Netflix's response its experience 368 00:24:37,275 --> 00:24:40,115 Speaker 1: trying to explain to me, But how could we ever 369 00:24:40,275 --> 00:24:44,355 Speaker 1: put the Italian subtitles on all these news programs fast enough? 370 00:24:45,795 --> 00:24:52,915 Speaker 1: Seriously Italian subtitles? Things I promised not to tell, including 371 00:24:53,075 --> 00:24:57,235 Speaker 1: a Riva dircea Netflix coming up first time for the 372 00:24:57,275 --> 00:24:59,715 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger 373 00:24:59,715 --> 00:25:05,195 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in a the world, 374 00:25:05,875 --> 00:25:09,955 Speaker 1: The bronze worse. Jesse Waters, the Bill O'Reilly intern who 375 00:25:10,035 --> 00:25:12,795 Speaker 1: was promoted to eight PM host when everybody else at 376 00:25:12,835 --> 00:25:18,075 Speaker 1: Fox got fired. MSNBC's Joy Reid swore on the air 377 00:25:18,115 --> 00:25:22,595 Speaker 1: the other night, apparently, and Waters, who is so unjustifiably 378 00:25:22,635 --> 00:25:26,475 Speaker 1: self confident that he truly owes part or most of 379 00:25:26,515 --> 00:25:30,635 Speaker 1: his salary to professors Dunning and Krueger in licensing fees. 380 00:25:31,355 --> 00:25:33,915 Speaker 1: Waters decided that it was all part of a plot 381 00:25:33,955 --> 00:25:37,795 Speaker 1: of some kind. What kind of plot, he didn't say. 382 00:25:37,835 --> 00:25:42,595 Speaker 1: But what does that matter? MSNBC doesn't respect their audience, 383 00:25:42,795 --> 00:25:45,675 Speaker 1: he said, Well, he has them there. But he then 384 00:25:45,755 --> 00:25:48,395 Speaker 1: blew the thing by adding quote, they're not putting on 385 00:25:48,435 --> 00:25:51,595 Speaker 1: a show to inform their viewers. It's a brainwashing op. 386 00:25:53,115 --> 00:25:57,835 Speaker 1: Everything to Jesse is an op. Problem here is to 387 00:25:57,875 --> 00:26:01,155 Speaker 1: recognize a brainwashing, op Jesse. You'd have to have a brain. 388 00:26:02,435 --> 00:26:07,075 Speaker 1: The runner up worser, Congressman Troy Nells, more confirmation in 389 00:26:07,155 --> 00:26:09,835 Speaker 1: the flesh that we just don't pay our public service 390 00:26:10,035 --> 00:26:14,395 Speaker 1: members enough money to keep the really good candidates in 391 00:26:14,395 --> 00:26:18,035 Speaker 1: public service, and instead going to where the big cash 392 00:26:18,115 --> 00:26:22,675 Speaker 1: must be running. Seven elevens, Congresswoman Corey Busch married her 393 00:26:22,755 --> 00:26:25,635 Speaker 1: security guard who had gone to work for her after 394 00:26:25,675 --> 00:26:28,235 Speaker 1: she got a series of death threats against her, racist 395 00:26:28,635 --> 00:26:32,155 Speaker 1: death threats. Congressman Nells, who has already revealed he has 396 00:26:32,195 --> 00:26:34,595 Speaker 1: no idea what Congress is supposed to be doing and 397 00:26:34,715 --> 00:26:37,555 Speaker 1: thinks he's only there to impeach the Director of Homeland 398 00:26:37,595 --> 00:26:42,275 Speaker 1: Security or the president, or a statue or a bartender 399 00:26:42,275 --> 00:26:45,635 Speaker 1: he doesn't like. Nells has now added to his confessions 400 00:26:45,875 --> 00:26:50,755 Speaker 1: by going full on double racist. She doesn't even support 401 00:26:50,795 --> 00:26:54,475 Speaker 1: the police, says Nells, but the idea to pay her 402 00:26:54,675 --> 00:26:57,395 Speaker 1: thug money to try to help protect her this and 403 00:26:57,475 --> 00:27:00,755 Speaker 1: that for what. Maybe if she wouldn't be so loud 404 00:27:00,795 --> 00:27:03,995 Speaker 1: all the time, maybe she wouldn't be getting three ets. 405 00:27:05,355 --> 00:27:08,395 Speaker 1: Since we're postulating hypotheticals, maybe if Troy Nells and the 406 00:27:08,435 --> 00:27:11,875 Speaker 1: other white supremacists of Texas jumped into the Rio Grande, 407 00:27:12,115 --> 00:27:15,395 Speaker 1: she wouldn't be getting threats either. It's kind of amazing 408 00:27:15,475 --> 00:27:19,715 Speaker 1: how much sub human bilge Nells spit out in that 409 00:27:19,755 --> 00:27:23,155 Speaker 1: one paragraph. He basically told an African American woman that 410 00:27:23,235 --> 00:27:29,195 Speaker 1: she caused the racist death threats against her. He called 411 00:27:29,275 --> 00:27:33,195 Speaker 1: rather her husband a thug. By the way, her husband 412 00:27:33,195 --> 00:27:36,515 Speaker 1: is an army veteran. He called army veterans thugs. And 413 00:27:36,595 --> 00:27:40,075 Speaker 1: as to Nells is she doesn't even support the police. 414 00:27:40,675 --> 00:27:44,355 Speaker 1: Remember this idiot cracker congressman who referred to the law 415 00:27:44,395 --> 00:27:49,515 Speaker 1: officers injured on January sixth as the quote sobbing police. 416 00:27:49,675 --> 00:27:54,115 Speaker 1: The idiot who said that was Troy Nells. Why do 417 00:27:54,155 --> 00:27:57,595 Speaker 1: you hate the police? Troy Nells? But our winner the worst? 418 00:27:57,715 --> 00:28:01,635 Speaker 1: Another congressman who needs to go through post concussion protocol 419 00:28:02,115 --> 00:28:07,715 Speaker 1: and explore the potential value of shock treatments, professional or amateur. Derek, Hey, 420 00:28:07,795 --> 00:28:10,835 Speaker 1: you kids, get out of my capital. Van Orden, the 421 00:28:10,955 --> 00:28:13,915 Speaker 1: Wisconsin Rep who looks like somebody just hit him in 422 00:28:13,915 --> 00:28:18,315 Speaker 1: the face with a snowshovel. Besides his genuinely disturbing behavior 423 00:28:18,395 --> 00:28:23,355 Speaker 1: towards well towards everybody, Van Orden seems to be fighting 424 00:28:23,435 --> 00:28:26,635 Speaker 1: something that stands in the way between himself and reality. 425 00:28:27,075 --> 00:28:31,595 Speaker 1: Confronting economist Robert Reisch, who spells his name r H 426 00:28:31,675 --> 00:28:35,675 Speaker 1: and pronounces it Reisch, Van Orden said that he should 427 00:28:35,755 --> 00:28:38,955 Speaker 1: change his first name to third, which Van Orden thought 428 00:28:38,995 --> 00:28:41,355 Speaker 1: was clever, but which, unfortunately for the joke Van Orden 429 00:28:41,435 --> 00:28:43,635 Speaker 1: was going for, would mean that the ex Labor Secretary 430 00:28:43,635 --> 00:28:48,555 Speaker 1: would then be known as Third Reisch. Well, mister Van 431 00:28:48,715 --> 00:28:52,115 Speaker 1: Orden has topped himself. Senator Elizabeth Warren has put out 432 00:28:52,115 --> 00:28:54,795 Speaker 1: some economic data on wealth in this country and added 433 00:28:54,835 --> 00:28:59,355 Speaker 1: quote tax the rich. Van Orden's clever repost. This time 434 00:28:59,835 --> 00:29:03,035 Speaker 1: he retweeted her and added a screenshot of her supposed 435 00:29:03,075 --> 00:29:08,235 Speaker 1: net worth and wrote a that the words okay you first. 436 00:29:09,395 --> 00:29:12,155 Speaker 1: I hope he did that himself rather than delegating that 437 00:29:12,235 --> 00:29:16,395 Speaker 1: to some staffer. You're the staffer in charge of three 438 00:29:16,395 --> 00:29:20,235 Speaker 1: word tweets. The screenshot is the story. It's from a 439 00:29:20,275 --> 00:29:24,515 Speaker 1: website called ca Knowledge, which appears to be run by 440 00:29:24,515 --> 00:29:27,755 Speaker 1: somebody who claims to be an accountant in India who 441 00:29:27,795 --> 00:29:30,635 Speaker 1: seems to spend most of his time guessing how much 442 00:29:30,715 --> 00:29:34,155 Speaker 1: money other people in the world have. CA Knowledge says, 443 00:29:34,195 --> 00:29:37,035 Speaker 1: for instance, that I make more than one million seven 444 00:29:37,115 --> 00:29:41,315 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a month, and Jesse Waters makes one 445 00:29:41,395 --> 00:29:45,515 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a month, and show hey Otani makes 446 00:29:45,555 --> 00:29:48,795 Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand dollars a month, meaning shoe hey Otani's 447 00:29:48,875 --> 00:29:51,515 Speaker 1: new seven hundred million dollar deal with the Dodgers must 448 00:29:51,515 --> 00:29:54,315 Speaker 1: be for eighty three years, and that I somehow make 449 00:29:54,355 --> 00:29:57,555 Speaker 1: a million dollars more a month than he does. I'm 450 00:29:57,595 --> 00:30:01,115 Speaker 1: just gonna suggest here maybe CA Knowledge is not even 451 00:30:01,195 --> 00:30:04,155 Speaker 1: really making any guesses at all. It may just be 452 00:30:04,195 --> 00:30:07,995 Speaker 1: putting in random numbers and then hitting send. Now back 453 00:30:08,035 --> 00:30:11,715 Speaker 1: to the original point. The financial biography CA Knowledge provides 454 00:30:11,755 --> 00:30:15,235 Speaker 1: of Senator Warren that Van Orden screenshotted and posted has 455 00:30:15,475 --> 00:30:20,115 Speaker 1: a couple of red flags that Van Orden, unsurprisingly was 456 00:30:20,155 --> 00:30:24,275 Speaker 1: too stupid to notice. It says that Liz Warren makes 457 00:30:24,395 --> 00:30:27,795 Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars a month, but also that she 458 00:30:27,955 --> 00:30:30,835 Speaker 1: only makes two hundred and eighty five thousand dollars a year. 459 00:30:32,515 --> 00:30:34,995 Speaker 1: More importantly, and so far, there is no evidence that 460 00:30:35,035 --> 00:30:38,195 Speaker 1: anybody has broken this fact to Representative Van Orden. CEA 461 00:30:38,355 --> 00:30:41,755 Speaker 1: Knowledge includes some non financial data in its profiles, and 462 00:30:41,835 --> 00:30:45,115 Speaker 1: in the profile of Elizabeth Warren that he posted. It 463 00:30:45,235 --> 00:30:50,795 Speaker 1: says age seventy four years birthplace, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Height, 464 00:30:51,355 --> 00:30:58,035 Speaker 1: United States Senator height United States Senator. Republicans long ago 465 00:30:58,155 --> 00:31:00,235 Speaker 1: proved it does not matter to them if what they say, 466 00:31:00,395 --> 00:31:03,955 Speaker 1: or do or post is not true, largely because their 467 00:31:03,955 --> 00:31:06,195 Speaker 1: supporter is long ago go prove that doesn't matter to 468 00:31:06,235 --> 00:31:09,595 Speaker 1: them either, and usually they don't notice. But the screenshot 469 00:31:09,635 --> 00:31:13,115 Speaker 1: this idiot van Ordon post. It contained only thirty nine 470 00:31:13,155 --> 00:31:16,875 Speaker 1: words and one photograph. And if that kind of input 471 00:31:16,955 --> 00:31:20,715 Speaker 1: load is too much for Derek van Orden, may I 472 00:31:20,835 --> 00:31:27,755 Speaker 1: suggest a medically induced coma. Congressman Derek his height is 473 00:31:28,115 --> 00:31:35,195 Speaker 1: pineapple van Orden two days, worst person in the world 474 00:31:35,515 --> 00:31:48,755 Speaker 1: and also the dumbest. Finally, to the number one story 475 00:31:48,795 --> 00:31:52,115 Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things 476 00:31:52,155 --> 00:31:54,755 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell and I don't usually venture 477 00:31:54,835 --> 00:31:58,635 Speaker 1: into financial commentary or advice. You will remember the story 478 00:31:58,675 --> 00:32:02,755 Speaker 1: of my great grandfather who gave away the name General 479 00:32:02,795 --> 00:32:06,995 Speaker 1: Motors for free. But I just read of Netflix finally 480 00:32:07,115 --> 00:32:10,435 Speaker 1: staunching the subscriber flow. It had lost around a million, 481 00:32:10,435 --> 00:32:12,955 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand households in the first half of this year, 482 00:32:13,235 --> 00:32:15,635 Speaker 1: but added about twice that many in the third quarter 483 00:32:15,675 --> 00:32:19,555 Speaker 1: thanks to such uplifting programming as the Jeffrey Dahmer story. 484 00:32:19,675 --> 00:32:25,595 Speaker 1: So yay corporate cannibalism profits. Anyway, I had an experience 485 00:32:25,675 --> 00:32:29,835 Speaker 1: with Netflix which so shook my confidence in them that 486 00:32:29,915 --> 00:32:33,715 Speaker 1: it made me fearful of even playing their stuff on 487 00:32:33,795 --> 00:32:36,915 Speaker 1: my big TV, because I was wondering if their stuff 488 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:41,235 Speaker 1: would damage my big TV. This is my favorite story 489 00:32:41,235 --> 00:32:44,835 Speaker 1: of what happens when media management misunderstands its own business 490 00:32:45,075 --> 00:32:51,475 Speaker 1: and wrongly thinks superstitions and coincidences are inviolable rules for success. 491 00:32:52,355 --> 00:32:56,675 Speaker 1: This happened on June seventeenth, twenty sixteen, the day I 492 00:32:56,715 --> 00:33:00,755 Speaker 1: found out about the vitality, the importance, the absolute necessity 493 00:33:00,875 --> 00:33:07,915 Speaker 1: of Netflix's Italian sub I don't want to exaggerate the 494 00:33:07,915 --> 00:33:10,155 Speaker 1: importance of the two video series I did for the 495 00:33:10,235 --> 00:33:14,075 Speaker 1: GQ magazine site in twenty sixteen in twenty seventeen, The 496 00:33:14,155 --> 00:33:17,235 Speaker 1: Closer and The Resistance. I mean, for one thing, The 497 00:33:17,355 --> 00:33:19,915 Speaker 1: Closer was so named because each of the handful of 498 00:33:19,995 --> 00:33:23,395 Speaker 1: us involved in its production could not really conceive that 499 00:33:23,435 --> 00:33:26,475 Speaker 1: there were enough morons and closeted racists in this country 500 00:33:26,515 --> 00:33:30,155 Speaker 1: to actually elect Crazy Trump. We grandly called the videos 501 00:33:30,195 --> 00:33:34,435 Speaker 1: The Closer because we expected our expositions of Trump's essential 502 00:33:34,515 --> 00:33:39,155 Speaker 1: fraudulents and dangerousness would close the deal for Hillary Clinton. 503 00:33:40,835 --> 00:33:45,515 Speaker 1: Uh huh, but people watch those videos. I forget the 504 00:33:45,555 --> 00:33:48,355 Speaker 1: final count, one hundred and eighty or so episodes, four 505 00:33:48,475 --> 00:33:52,795 Speaker 1: hundred million or so views, not plays, but people actually 506 00:33:52,915 --> 00:33:56,715 Speaker 1: viewing essentially the whole piece. And CBS News did a 507 00:33:56,755 --> 00:34:00,395 Speaker 1: story once with the web analyzing platform social Flow that 508 00:34:00,475 --> 00:34:03,955 Speaker 1: showed that the first episode of The Resistance from November sixteenth, 509 00:34:04,475 --> 00:34:08,915 Speaker 1: six sixteen was the top story or video on Facebook 510 00:34:09,395 --> 00:34:12,595 Speaker 1: through the first six months of the Trump administration. The calculation, 511 00:34:12,755 --> 00:34:15,635 Speaker 1: and lord knows what this formula actually looks like, but 512 00:34:15,675 --> 00:34:19,955 Speaker 1: the calculation was probably pretty close that it reached fifty 513 00:34:20,115 --> 00:34:23,715 Speaker 1: four million people, the equivalent of one out of six 514 00:34:23,955 --> 00:34:27,515 Speaker 1: of everybody in the country. That's CBS News reporting this. 515 00:34:27,635 --> 00:34:30,555 Speaker 1: Not my ego, and ego is not the reason I 516 00:34:30,635 --> 00:34:34,515 Speaker 1: mentioned this, well, it's not the only reason I mentioned this. 517 00:34:36,195 --> 00:34:38,715 Speaker 1: MSNBC had offered me a new show in January of 518 00:34:38,755 --> 00:34:41,075 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, but I would have hated it and you 519 00:34:41,235 --> 00:34:43,835 Speaker 1: would not have watched it. So it was not supposed 520 00:34:43,875 --> 00:34:47,155 Speaker 1: to have any commentaries in it, and a conservative co 521 00:34:47,235 --> 00:34:50,035 Speaker 1: host was supposed to be there, and The goal was 522 00:34:50,155 --> 00:34:52,475 Speaker 1: she and I would be the wacky couple who would 523 00:34:52,515 --> 00:34:56,955 Speaker 1: find middle ground. Plus I would have had to move 524 00:34:57,075 --> 00:34:59,995 Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, even though I could see the headquarters 525 00:34:59,995 --> 00:35:02,795 Speaker 1: of NBC News out my bedroom window in New York. 526 00:35:03,275 --> 00:35:06,635 Speaker 1: And then when it was successful, the producers wanted me 527 00:35:06,675 --> 00:35:09,315 Speaker 1: to simply get on a plane from Los Angeles and 528 00:35:09,395 --> 00:35:11,275 Speaker 1: show up one morning in the New York office of 529 00:35:11,315 --> 00:35:13,955 Speaker 1: the president of NBC News, Andy Lack, and tell him 530 00:35:14,075 --> 00:35:17,715 Speaker 1: either we were scrapping the format and relaunching Countdown that night, 531 00:35:18,035 --> 00:35:21,035 Speaker 1: or I was quitting. In short, they wanted me to 532 00:35:21,075 --> 00:35:24,715 Speaker 1: do this lousy show and then run a palace coup 533 00:35:24,755 --> 00:35:30,155 Speaker 1: against the president of NBC News. I passed. I put 534 00:35:30,195 --> 00:35:32,675 Speaker 1: my energy and said into finding a new platform for 535 00:35:32,835 --> 00:35:35,635 Speaker 1: Countdown or a Countdown like show. I had a deal 536 00:35:35,675 --> 00:35:38,595 Speaker 1: in place to become the video anchor of The Huffington Post, 537 00:35:38,955 --> 00:35:44,635 Speaker 1: a daily exclusive commentary interviews, features breaking news, funny stuff, whatever. 538 00:35:45,155 --> 00:35:49,395 Speaker 1: Two days later. Two days later, Arianna Huffington sold the 539 00:35:49,435 --> 00:35:54,275 Speaker 1: Huffington Post no more deal. Before and after this, some 540 00:35:54,395 --> 00:35:57,155 Speaker 1: friends from Lionsgate Productions and I were trying to sell 541 00:35:57,195 --> 00:36:00,995 Speaker 1: two ideas, pitching to a series of forward looking media companies. 542 00:36:01,035 --> 00:36:03,435 Speaker 1: One was that they should be producing and running or 543 00:36:03,475 --> 00:36:06,875 Speaker 1: posting or streaming or whatever the series of my commentaries 544 00:36:07,355 --> 00:36:11,035 Speaker 1: that became The Closer and then The Resistance. I don't 545 00:36:11,035 --> 00:36:12,835 Speaker 1: know what that would have been worth, but I do 546 00:36:12,955 --> 00:36:16,235 Speaker 1: know that the tiny slice of the advertising GQ got 547 00:36:16,395 --> 00:36:19,075 Speaker 1: just from the commercials that would roll if you watched 548 00:36:19,075 --> 00:36:21,635 Speaker 1: one of the episodes on YouTube was well over a 549 00:36:21,715 --> 00:36:25,475 Speaker 1: million dollars. The overall profit might have been ten times that. 550 00:36:25,755 --> 00:36:30,635 Speaker 1: Production costs were like fifty thousand dollars. But I had 551 00:36:30,635 --> 00:36:33,475 Speaker 1: a second, bigger idea to pitch to these other companies. 552 00:36:33,875 --> 00:36:37,635 Speaker 1: Who wants to own the future of cable news when 553 00:36:37,635 --> 00:36:42,715 Speaker 1: there isn't any cable news anymore? I correctly predicted twenty 554 00:36:42,715 --> 00:36:45,955 Speaker 1: twenty two back in twenty sixteen. Who wants to own 555 00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:49,915 Speaker 1: the future of cable news when there isn't any cable anymore? 556 00:36:50,915 --> 00:36:54,515 Speaker 1: Start with just my commentaries, and as they make money 557 00:36:54,515 --> 00:36:58,035 Speaker 1: for you, build out. If they work, you add my 558 00:36:58,235 --> 00:37:02,915 Speaker 1: interviews and my debates, and then somebody else's commentaries, and 559 00:37:02,955 --> 00:37:07,875 Speaker 1: then some conservative commentaries, and then add all of what 560 00:37:08,075 --> 00:37:13,515 Speaker 1: is now cable news and put it on one streaming platform. 561 00:37:14,275 --> 00:37:17,795 Speaker 1: We rented a studio, We made a demo commentary. We 562 00:37:17,915 --> 00:37:21,755 Speaker 1: made what TV pitchmen call a deck. That's how I 563 00:37:21,795 --> 00:37:25,115 Speaker 1: knew the producers were serious. We met with HBO about this, 564 00:37:25,275 --> 00:37:28,555 Speaker 1: We met with something called Pop TV, The Daily Beast, Yahoo, 565 00:37:28,555 --> 00:37:33,355 Speaker 1: tune In, Sony, EPIX, BBC, Hulu, Conde Nast. Ultimately that 566 00:37:33,435 --> 00:37:35,995 Speaker 1: led to the GQ series. But the one I had 567 00:37:35,995 --> 00:37:40,035 Speaker 1: the most hoped for was Netflix. The way I saw it, 568 00:37:40,075 --> 00:37:42,315 Speaker 1: they could start this tiny little thing in the corner 569 00:37:42,355 --> 00:37:48,395 Speaker 1: of their homepage called news Flicks, and you could click 570 00:37:48,435 --> 00:37:51,795 Speaker 1: on it, and someday there would be a menu with 571 00:37:52,075 --> 00:37:55,955 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman commentaries and I don't know, Glenn Beck commentaries 572 00:37:55,995 --> 00:38:00,075 Speaker 1: and Bill Maher commentaries and Jesus H. Christ commentaries and 573 00:38:00,195 --> 00:38:04,115 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman newscast and lou Dobbs newscast and and and 574 00:38:04,795 --> 00:38:10,355 Speaker 1: all of them partisan but collectively one giant, all encompassing 575 00:38:10,755 --> 00:38:15,515 Speaker 1: by partisan because of volume news and commentary site, the 576 00:38:15,555 --> 00:38:20,435 Speaker 1: proverbial marketplace of ideas, Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins and 577 00:38:20,475 --> 00:38:26,115 Speaker 1: Pizza Hut living together only as newscasters, you know, for kids. 578 00:38:28,515 --> 00:38:33,355 Speaker 1: I thought Netflix would see it immediately. They would own news, 579 00:38:34,635 --> 00:38:36,635 Speaker 1: all of it. I mean, these were the people who 580 00:38:36,675 --> 00:38:39,875 Speaker 1: realized America was too lazy to go down to the 581 00:38:39,955 --> 00:38:43,555 Speaker 1: video store anymore, so they began to send America rented 582 00:38:43,635 --> 00:38:48,835 Speaker 1: DVDs by mail, and people actually returned the DVDs, And 583 00:38:48,915 --> 00:38:52,075 Speaker 1: then they realized that America was too lazy to return 584 00:38:52,115 --> 00:38:55,155 Speaker 1: them anymore, and that the optimum date to switch from 585 00:38:55,275 --> 00:38:59,315 Speaker 1: DVDs to the then laugh out loud bad concept of 586 00:38:59,555 --> 00:39:05,315 Speaker 1: online video was precisely January sixteenth to one thousand and seven. 587 00:39:05,355 --> 00:39:09,475 Speaker 1: These guys had the gonads to take a brilliantly successful, 588 00:39:09,595 --> 00:39:13,635 Speaker 1: profitable new idea and gradually strangle it and replace it 589 00:39:13,635 --> 00:39:17,715 Speaker 1: with a different, brilliantly successful new idea. I could not 590 00:39:17,875 --> 00:39:21,875 Speaker 1: wait to meet them. My agent at the time I 591 00:39:21,955 --> 00:39:25,235 Speaker 1: would be producer the head of television of Lionsgate like 592 00:39:25,315 --> 00:39:28,675 Speaker 1: the chief of chief at Lionsgate. And I went to 593 00:39:28,715 --> 00:39:31,875 Speaker 1: the Netflix building in Beverly Hills at ten thirty am 594 00:39:31,955 --> 00:39:36,115 Speaker 1: Pacific daylight time on Friday, June seventeenth, twenty sixteen. It 595 00:39:36,155 --> 00:39:39,835 Speaker 1: felt perfect. Netflix was still just down from the corner 596 00:39:39,875 --> 00:39:43,115 Speaker 1: of Alden and Maple. Twenty five years later, I had 597 00:39:43,155 --> 00:39:45,755 Speaker 1: lived two blocks away from Alden and Maple. It was 598 00:39:45,795 --> 00:39:51,275 Speaker 1: a four minute walktops. Yeah. The two people there from 599 00:39:51,315 --> 00:39:54,515 Speaker 1: Netflix were vice presidents. Wish I remembered their names. I 600 00:39:54,555 --> 00:39:57,795 Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe they're still there. I deliberately blocked the 601 00:39:57,875 --> 00:40:00,715 Speaker 1: names from my memory after this. One was in charge 602 00:40:00,755 --> 00:40:04,395 Speaker 1: of documentaries, one was in charge of non fiction series. 603 00:40:04,675 --> 00:40:06,635 Speaker 1: One was a man, one was a woman. I did 604 00:40:06,675 --> 00:40:08,955 Speaker 1: most of the talking, and I said, start with these 605 00:40:09,035 --> 00:40:12,475 Speaker 1: daily commentaries. You'll never have a better launch window than 606 00:40:12,475 --> 00:40:15,275 Speaker 1: the four months before the election. We could have one 607 00:40:15,315 --> 00:40:19,915 Speaker 1: ready for you to upload by Monday. This is lowest risk, 608 00:40:20,155 --> 00:40:24,235 Speaker 1: highest reward. How would you like to own the news 609 00:40:25,075 --> 00:40:27,875 Speaker 1: or if it doesn't work for some reason, you spend 610 00:40:28,075 --> 00:40:31,875 Speaker 1: I don't know, one hundred thousand dollars. The man spoke first. 611 00:40:32,755 --> 00:40:35,435 Speaker 1: But if you're going to do these daily, how are 612 00:40:35,475 --> 00:40:38,875 Speaker 1: people going to binge watch them? I mean, the first 613 00:40:38,955 --> 00:40:42,995 Speaker 1: time somebody comes to Netflix to see your commentaries, there's 614 00:40:43,035 --> 00:40:47,155 Speaker 1: only going to be one to watch. I took a 615 00:40:47,235 --> 00:40:49,955 Speaker 1: quick breath and explained that could be a drawback. On 616 00:40:49,995 --> 00:40:51,955 Speaker 1: the other hand, within four weeks there would be twenty 617 00:40:51,995 --> 00:40:55,075 Speaker 1: of them to binge. We could even start with five 618 00:40:55,195 --> 00:40:58,075 Speaker 1: or ten evergreen commentaries, so that when they come to 619 00:40:58,115 --> 00:41:01,435 Speaker 1: see the official premiere they watch that, then ten more 620 00:41:01,755 --> 00:41:06,155 Speaker 1: first day, and and and you guys keep telling the 621 00:41:06,155 --> 00:41:08,155 Speaker 1: press that your problem is people binge, and then they 622 00:41:08,155 --> 00:41:09,955 Speaker 1: don't come back for another five days or a week. 623 00:41:10,315 --> 00:41:12,755 Speaker 1: This way, at least some of them would come back 624 00:41:12,995 --> 00:41:16,595 Speaker 1: every day to your website. You'd begin to solve your 625 00:41:16,675 --> 00:41:20,555 Speaker 1: frequency of visitation problem, wouldn't you. I mean, you're the executives. 626 00:41:20,595 --> 00:41:23,675 Speaker 1: I'm just the talent, the meat puppet. But isn't that 627 00:41:23,835 --> 00:41:27,275 Speaker 1: then the woman interrupted me, okay, yeah, that would help, 628 00:41:27,475 --> 00:41:30,675 Speaker 1: and I like starting with ten, But what about the subtitles? 629 00:41:32,755 --> 00:41:36,395 Speaker 1: There was a long pause. Then the head of Lionsgates 630 00:41:36,435 --> 00:41:41,995 Speaker 1: said what subtitles? The man said, well, everything we run 631 00:41:42,075 --> 00:41:44,675 Speaker 1: is subtitled in the language of each country we run 632 00:41:44,715 --> 00:41:47,075 Speaker 1: it in. So your commentary would have to have subtitles 633 00:41:47,315 --> 00:41:52,155 Speaker 1: added in like sixteen different languages. That usually takes three months. 634 00:41:52,435 --> 00:41:55,035 Speaker 1: Could you do commentaries today that would still work in September? 635 00:41:58,235 --> 00:42:04,395 Speaker 1: I said, well no, But why do you need subtitles? 636 00:42:04,635 --> 00:42:07,715 Speaker 1: You need, say Italian subtitles or any subtitles. I mean, 637 00:42:07,755 --> 00:42:11,715 Speaker 1: it's very unlikely I said that people worldwide who are 638 00:42:11,755 --> 00:42:15,555 Speaker 1: interested enough in American politics to watch commentaries about American 639 00:42:15,595 --> 00:42:20,915 Speaker 1: politics don't already speak English. The woman looked, aghast, I 640 00:42:20,915 --> 00:42:25,515 Speaker 1: mean the coloring of her face changed, but the subtitles. 641 00:42:25,635 --> 00:42:29,555 Speaker 1: She said, we always have subtitles. We always do it 642 00:42:29,555 --> 00:42:32,995 Speaker 1: that way here, and I said, well, yeah, I understand, 643 00:42:33,075 --> 00:42:37,395 Speaker 1: but see this would be for news flicks, not Netflix 644 00:42:37,515 --> 00:42:41,555 Speaker 1: per se. See you could adapt your rules to fit 645 00:42:41,635 --> 00:42:45,235 Speaker 1: the urgency of timeliness. I mean, MSNBC has a profit 646 00:42:45,275 --> 00:42:48,715 Speaker 1: of like five hundred million a year because of timeliness 647 00:42:49,035 --> 00:42:51,995 Speaker 1: and their last in profit in cable news. Couldn't you 648 00:42:52,035 --> 00:42:55,635 Speaker 1: adjust slightly for five hundred million a year? The man 649 00:42:55,795 --> 00:42:58,675 Speaker 1: now looked a gas. No, we couldn't. This is the 650 00:42:58,675 --> 00:43:03,595 Speaker 1: Netflix rule. We can't change a rule. I began to 651 00:43:03,715 --> 00:43:09,475 Speaker 1: feel not happy. The man spoke again. Plus, what about 652 00:43:09,515 --> 00:43:13,315 Speaker 1: the twelve oh one rule? We all looked at each other. 653 00:43:13,795 --> 00:43:16,035 Speaker 1: You said, the commentaries would probably work best at eight 654 00:43:16,115 --> 00:43:18,635 Speaker 1: or nine pm, But in all of our countries, anything 655 00:43:18,675 --> 00:43:21,755 Speaker 1: new gets posted at exactly twelve oh one am local time, 656 00:43:22,075 --> 00:43:24,755 Speaker 1: only at twelve oh one am, so anything you did 657 00:43:24,755 --> 00:43:28,435 Speaker 1: today could not possibly run until twelve oh one am tomorrow. 658 00:43:30,475 --> 00:43:33,475 Speaker 1: I was still reeling from the Italian subtitles. Now there 659 00:43:33,515 --> 00:43:37,155 Speaker 1: was also an unbreakable twelve oh one tomorrow rule. I 660 00:43:37,275 --> 00:43:39,915 Speaker 1: was thinking of getting up and leaving, but the woman 661 00:43:39,955 --> 00:43:42,475 Speaker 1: apparently had one more gut punch to throw at me. 662 00:43:43,315 --> 00:43:46,155 Speaker 1: I also wanted to know if we somehow were able 663 00:43:46,195 --> 00:43:49,635 Speaker 1: to turn the subtitles around with lightning speed, or skip them, 664 00:43:49,875 --> 00:43:51,795 Speaker 1: or do them and say only two or three hours. 665 00:43:52,235 --> 00:43:55,195 Speaker 1: The man interrupted, plus the hours until it's twelve oh one, 666 00:43:55,235 --> 00:43:58,555 Speaker 1: don't forget them. She nodded, yes, plus the hours until 667 00:43:58,595 --> 00:44:00,435 Speaker 1: it's twelve o one. If we could somehow do that. 668 00:44:01,075 --> 00:44:03,675 Speaker 1: What would happen if one day something went wrong technically 669 00:44:04,035 --> 00:44:06,155 Speaker 1: and we couldn't upload that day and people came to 670 00:44:06,195 --> 00:44:08,475 Speaker 1: the site and there wasn't a new one. What if 671 00:44:08,475 --> 00:44:13,115 Speaker 1: it doesn't upload? Well? I had an answer to that, 672 00:44:13,795 --> 00:44:16,155 Speaker 1: but I did not say it out loud. I said 673 00:44:16,155 --> 00:44:18,235 Speaker 1: it a few minutes later to the head of lions Gate, 674 00:44:18,275 --> 00:44:20,635 Speaker 1: after we had said goodbye to mister and missus vice 675 00:44:20,675 --> 00:44:23,595 Speaker 1: president in the lobby of the Netflix building, I said, 676 00:44:23,635 --> 00:44:27,435 Speaker 1: good God. These people are in the uploading business. They 677 00:44:27,435 --> 00:44:31,795 Speaker 1: have been uploading for nine years. They aren't sure they 678 00:44:31,795 --> 00:44:35,955 Speaker 1: can upload. What equipment have they been uploading with? Are 679 00:44:36,035 --> 00:44:39,795 Speaker 1: they uploading from Kevin Spacey's nineteen ninety six don laptop? 680 00:44:42,395 --> 00:44:44,395 Speaker 1: As I left to get in the car to go 681 00:44:44,475 --> 00:44:47,835 Speaker 1: to lax to Fly home to New York, totally disappointed. 682 00:44:48,115 --> 00:44:52,115 Speaker 1: The Lionsgate guy was just shaking his head. I'm sorry, 683 00:44:52,835 --> 00:44:53,915 Speaker 1: I had no idea. 684 00:44:54,915 --> 00:44:59,155 Speaker 8: I call you later at exactly twelve oh one am 685 00:44:59,555 --> 00:45:05,675 Speaker 8: with Italian subtitles. Haha, what if it an upload? He 686 00:45:05,755 --> 00:45:07,755 Speaker 8: said as he walked away from me. Christ I got 687 00:45:07,755 --> 00:45:09,835 Speaker 8: to get my broker on the phone. I got to 688 00:45:09,915 --> 00:45:25,675 Speaker 8: sell all my Netflix stock. I've done all the damage 689 00:45:25,675 --> 00:45:27,755 Speaker 8: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown has 690 00:45:27,755 --> 00:45:30,395 Speaker 8: come to you from the world headquarters of the Old 691 00:45:30,395 --> 00:45:35,275 Speaker 8: Women Broadcasting Empire in New York Countown. Musical directors Brian 692 00:45:35,355 --> 00:45:38,235 Speaker 8: Ray and John Phillip Shanelle arranged, produced, and performed most 693 00:45:38,235 --> 00:45:41,595 Speaker 8: of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, bass, and drums, 694 00:45:41,595 --> 00:45:45,995 Speaker 8: and mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards produced by TKO Brothers. 695 00:45:46,515 --> 00:45:50,035 Speaker 8: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged 696 00:45:50,035 --> 00:45:52,675 Speaker 8: and performed by the group. No horns allowed, by the way. 697 00:45:52,715 --> 00:45:56,755 Speaker 8: That's TKO Brothers and not somebody named TKO Brothers, not 698 00:45:56,875 --> 00:46:01,555 Speaker 8: Joyce Brothers brother or something. Joyce Brothers who not only 699 00:46:01,595 --> 00:46:03,995 Speaker 8: went to Cornell as did I, but worked at the 700 00:46:04,035 --> 00:46:09,115 Speaker 8: Cornell radio station WVBR, not anytime near mind, But we 701 00:46:09,195 --> 00:46:12,195 Speaker 8: once discussed this on countdown. You've lost interest, haven't you. 702 00:46:13,235 --> 00:46:15,835 Speaker 8: The sports music is the Ullriman theme from ESPN two, 703 00:46:15,875 --> 00:46:19,315 Speaker 8: written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy of ESPN inc. Our 704 00:46:19,395 --> 00:46:22,115 Speaker 8: satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss. The 705 00:46:22,155 --> 00:46:25,115 Speaker 8: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my 706 00:46:25,115 --> 00:46:27,755 Speaker 8: friend Dennis Leary. Everything else was pretty much my fault. 707 00:46:28,155 --> 00:46:30,075 Speaker 8: So next countdown for this the two hundred and seventy 708 00:46:30,155 --> 00:46:33,915 Speaker 8: ninth day until the twenty twenty four US presidential election, 709 00:46:34,235 --> 00:46:38,595 Speaker 8: and the twenty second day since dementia J Trump's first 710 00:46:38,595 --> 00:46:42,195 Speaker 8: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 711 00:46:42,795 --> 00:46:45,835 Speaker 8: Use the fourteenth Amendment, use the Insurrection Act, use the 712 00:46:46,075 --> 00:46:49,555 Speaker 8: justice system, use the mental health system to stop him 713 00:46:49,555 --> 00:46:54,835 Speaker 8: from doing it again while we still can. The next 714 00:46:54,835 --> 00:46:57,875 Speaker 8: scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins as the news warrants, and 715 00:46:57,995 --> 00:47:01,355 Speaker 8: if my throat permits till then I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, 716 00:47:01,395 --> 00:47:04,195 Speaker 8: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 717 00:47:09,115 --> 00:47:11,035 Speaker 3: But at the end of the day I find it 718 00:47:11,075 --> 00:47:11,795 Speaker 3: hard to blade. 719 00:47:11,915 --> 00:47:15,875 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 720 00:47:16,035 --> 00:47:21,115 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 721 00:47:21,235 --> 00:47:23,155 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.