1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:26,075 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. A 2 00:00:26,195 --> 00:00:29,595 Speaker 1: large number of our citizens will never stop lying to 3 00:00:29,715 --> 00:00:34,115 Speaker 1: themselves about Trump's insanity, but the rest of us have 4 00:00:34,195 --> 00:00:37,915 Speaker 1: to stop lying. The rest of us. Every politician who 5 00:00:37,915 --> 00:00:41,075 Speaker 1: steps in front of a microphone, every news producer who 6 00:00:41,075 --> 00:00:44,715 Speaker 1: begins a newscast with some other story made trivial in 7 00:00:44,875 --> 00:00:49,235 Speaker 1: contrast by this reality, every columnist who writes about alarm 8 00:00:49,715 --> 00:00:54,875 Speaker 1: or some quarters or this Ohio diner, every commentator tempted 9 00:00:54,915 --> 00:00:58,835 Speaker 1: to say this was the moment Trump truly became president. 10 00:00:59,795 --> 00:01:05,075 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is manifestly insane, and this week is especially 11 00:01:05,155 --> 00:01:08,795 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, he entered that stage of whatever it is 12 00:01:09,155 --> 00:01:15,075 Speaker 1: that is specifically wrong with him that is characterized by mania. Mania, 13 00:01:15,195 --> 00:01:19,915 Speaker 1: the conviction that something that is impossible will happen simply 14 00:01:19,995 --> 00:01:25,555 Speaker 1: because he says it is going to happen. His mania 15 00:01:25,635 --> 00:01:30,235 Speaker 1: happens to be about Gaza. The next mania that could 16 00:01:30,235 --> 00:01:33,555 Speaker 1: be about the sun rising in the West, or how 17 00:01:33,675 --> 00:01:37,395 Speaker 1: Americans would survive a nuclear war he could start because 18 00:01:37,395 --> 00:01:41,515 Speaker 1: he's leading them and he is immortal. Mania does not 19 00:01:41,595 --> 00:01:45,675 Speaker 1: have to be manic. It does not require hyperbolic words, 20 00:01:45,915 --> 00:01:51,875 Speaker 1: nor unsuppressed rage, nor vivid hallucinations. He is, however, calm, 21 00:01:51,915 --> 00:01:55,915 Speaker 1: as he might seem out of his mind. He believes 22 00:01:55,915 --> 00:01:58,195 Speaker 1: in things that are not true and can't be true, 23 00:01:58,235 --> 00:02:01,995 Speaker 1: and he has a rationalization ready for whenever somebody tells 24 00:02:02,075 --> 00:02:05,795 Speaker 1: him why they can't be true. There is nothing of 25 00:02:05,835 --> 00:02:08,835 Speaker 1: the cliched crazy man in his voice as he talks 26 00:02:08,875 --> 00:02:13,635 Speaker 1: about Gaza. Nevertheless, as we heard from the Oval office, 27 00:02:13,755 --> 00:02:19,195 Speaker 1: this guy is metaphorically about one inch away from having 28 00:02:19,355 --> 00:02:21,955 Speaker 1: conversations with invisible gophers. 29 00:02:22,435 --> 00:02:23,395 Speaker 2: You said before that. 30 00:02:23,515 --> 00:02:26,395 Speaker 3: The US would buy Gaza, and today you just said, 31 00:02:26,435 --> 00:02:28,115 Speaker 3: we're not going to buy Gaza'm. 32 00:02:27,755 --> 00:02:29,875 Speaker 4: Not gonna have to buy We're going to We're going 33 00:02:29,955 --> 00:02:31,955 Speaker 4: to have Gaza. We don't have to buy it. There's 34 00:02:31,995 --> 00:02:36,115 Speaker 4: nothing to buy. We will have Gaza. Is that no 35 00:02:36,155 --> 00:02:39,355 Speaker 4: reason to buy? There is nothing to buy. It's Gaza. 36 00:02:39,395 --> 00:02:42,555 Speaker 4: It say it's a war torn area. We're gonna take it. 37 00:02:43,115 --> 00:02:45,115 Speaker 4: We're gonna hold it, We're gonna cherish. 38 00:02:44,875 --> 00:02:47,115 Speaker 1: It, and to take it upter one authority. 39 00:02:47,155 --> 00:02:49,635 Speaker 4: It is under the US authority. 40 00:02:49,915 --> 00:02:54,075 Speaker 1: That's not crazy policy, that's not crazy politics. That's just 41 00:02:54,635 --> 00:03:00,755 Speaker 1: crazy unsupported delusions of grandeur, mental incompetence, a screw loose, 42 00:03:01,035 --> 00:03:05,875 Speaker 1: a couple screws loose, all the goddamn screws loose. The 43 00:03:06,075 --> 00:03:09,755 Speaker 1: tell in there is how he's talking about the land. 44 00:03:10,795 --> 00:03:13,395 Speaker 1: As he began to talk about land and buildings and 45 00:03:13,395 --> 00:03:18,275 Speaker 1: structures several years ago. This is accelerating. The land is 46 00:03:18,435 --> 00:03:21,595 Speaker 1: real to him. The land is alive to him. The 47 00:03:21,635 --> 00:03:24,995 Speaker 1: people are not. The people are just in the way. 48 00:03:25,995 --> 00:03:29,955 Speaker 1: Sure they live there in Gaza. Sure they will just 49 00:03:30,195 --> 00:03:34,995 Speaker 1: move because he says so. But the land, the land 50 00:03:35,075 --> 00:03:39,635 Speaker 1: is beautiful and we will cherish it. He's talking like 51 00:03:39,715 --> 00:03:44,835 Speaker 1: he's having sex with the land, like he's forgive me. 52 00:03:45,355 --> 00:03:49,235 Speaker 1: What Billy Wilder allegedly told Nancy Reagan when she quizzed 53 00:03:49,275 --> 00:03:52,315 Speaker 1: him about why Glorious Watson had a pet chimp in 54 00:03:52,395 --> 00:03:58,475 Speaker 1: their movie Sunset Boulevard, Wilder told the first lady she 55 00:03:58,755 --> 00:04:06,075 Speaker 1: was effings a monkey. Trump talks about Gaza like he's 56 00:04:06,275 --> 00:04:12,795 Speaker 1: effing the monkey. Now, you can skip that imagery, but 57 00:04:12,875 --> 00:04:15,915 Speaker 1: you cannot skip the reality. Everybody who doesn't tell the 58 00:04:15,915 --> 00:04:19,635 Speaker 1: truth about Trump's now uncontrolled madness. Every time he shows 59 00:04:19,675 --> 00:04:21,835 Speaker 1: that madness, every time he looks at the rest of 60 00:04:21,835 --> 00:04:24,915 Speaker 1: the world as if everybody else, the other eight billion 61 00:04:24,995 --> 00:04:28,555 Speaker 1: of us, we're wrong and we're stupid. And we're crazy 62 00:04:28,595 --> 00:04:31,435 Speaker 1: and we can't see what is so plainly obvious to him. 63 00:04:31,675 --> 00:04:35,755 Speaker 1: Everybody who doesn't say Donald Trump is failing not just 64 00:04:35,835 --> 00:04:40,115 Speaker 1: their profession, nor their country or NATO, but failing the world. 65 00:04:40,475 --> 00:04:42,955 Speaker 1: Because somebody who thinks that something that would at best 66 00:04:42,995 --> 00:04:47,355 Speaker 1: require a war with thousands of Americans dead and hundreds 67 00:04:47,355 --> 00:04:50,795 Speaker 1: of thousands of Palestinians dead, and who knows how many 68 00:04:50,955 --> 00:04:54,635 Speaker 1: Israeli's dead on the ground, or it would require trillions 69 00:04:54,675 --> 00:04:57,395 Speaker 1: of dollars, or it would require all of that. Somebody 70 00:04:57,435 --> 00:05:00,795 Speaker 1: who thinks no, he can just say it and it 71 00:05:00,835 --> 00:05:06,515 Speaker 1: will magically happen, miraculously and instantly. Just remember that somebody 72 00:05:06,595 --> 00:05:13,035 Speaker 1: has nukes. And every Republican and every MAGA and every 73 00:05:13,115 --> 00:05:16,635 Speaker 1: Republican pretending to be a MAGA has their own reality 74 00:05:16,675 --> 00:05:20,475 Speaker 1: to face now. If not, Trump's next defeat at the 75 00:05:20,475 --> 00:05:23,755 Speaker 1: hands of reality could very well destroy them, or turn 76 00:05:24,075 --> 00:05:27,795 Speaker 1: him against their state, or be so astonishingly obvious to 77 00:05:27,875 --> 00:05:31,195 Speaker 1: everybody that it derails the entirety of their program to 78 00:05:31,235 --> 00:05:35,955 Speaker 1: turn this country into fascist land. I understand, boys, He's 79 00:05:36,035 --> 00:05:38,755 Speaker 1: your entire platform. He is the cult, he is the 80 00:05:38,795 --> 00:05:41,995 Speaker 1: sun and the moon and the stars. But you were 81 00:05:41,995 --> 00:05:45,115 Speaker 1: gonna have to face the arithmetics someday, whether it was 82 00:05:45,195 --> 00:05:47,955 Speaker 1: the two term limit in the twenty second Amendment or 83 00:05:47,995 --> 00:05:51,235 Speaker 1: the other kind of limit in the actuarial tables, or 84 00:05:51,275 --> 00:05:53,395 Speaker 1: the limit staring you in the face right now, the 85 00:05:53,475 --> 00:05:55,995 Speaker 1: list you have to give to the President pro Tempore 86 00:05:56,075 --> 00:05:58,355 Speaker 1: of the Senate and the Speaker of the House about 87 00:05:58,355 --> 00:06:01,675 Speaker 1: how many cabinet members realize it is time to invoke 88 00:06:01,955 --> 00:06:09,275 Speaker 1: Section four of the twenty fifth Amendment. The time is nigh. 89 00:06:09,315 --> 00:06:13,915 Speaker 1: Stop lying about it, Republicans, stop lying about it. Stop 90 00:06:13,995 --> 00:06:16,515 Speaker 1: lying about it. Fox News, stop lying about it. New 91 00:06:16,555 --> 00:06:27,115 Speaker 1: York Times headline writers stop because Trump is effing the monkey. 92 00:06:52,755 --> 00:06:56,355 Speaker 1: Of course, at least half of America is lying about 93 00:06:56,395 --> 00:07:01,075 Speaker 1: the president as usual. I don't mean as usual about him, 94 00:07:01,115 --> 00:07:04,115 Speaker 1: I mean as usual in our history. We don't like 95 00:07:04,195 --> 00:07:07,555 Speaker 1: to admit this kind of meta view of things, but 96 00:07:07,675 --> 00:07:10,475 Speaker 1: we lie all the time in this country. But we 97 00:07:10,635 --> 00:07:14,595 Speaker 1: especially have always lied about our presidents at our presidency's 98 00:07:14,875 --> 00:07:18,955 Speaker 1: and we lie about not lying about them. I guess 99 00:07:18,995 --> 00:07:21,635 Speaker 1: I started thinking about this on January twentieth, when I 100 00:07:21,635 --> 00:07:24,435 Speaker 1: don't know how many news reports in this country and 101 00:07:24,475 --> 00:07:27,195 Speaker 1: outside of it that I heard and read included the 102 00:07:27,195 --> 00:07:31,715 Speaker 1: phrase the traditional peaceful transfer of power. It's like one 103 00:07:31,795 --> 00:07:34,715 Speaker 1: of those versions of the Oldest Dark cartoon in the book, 104 00:07:34,955 --> 00:07:38,675 Speaker 1: the sign that reads now one day since a workplace accident, 105 00:07:39,075 --> 00:07:42,155 Speaker 1: and the employee is walking to it holding a replacement 106 00:07:42,195 --> 00:07:46,155 Speaker 1: panel that reads no days, and the employee carrying the 107 00:07:46,195 --> 00:07:49,315 Speaker 1: panel has an axe stuck in the top of his head. 108 00:07:51,235 --> 00:07:56,675 Speaker 1: That's us. Technically, we've always had peaceful transfers of power. 109 00:07:56,955 --> 00:07:59,075 Speaker 1: If by that you define that there was literally no 110 00:07:59,155 --> 00:08:02,315 Speaker 1: attempt to stop a new president from being sworn in 111 00:08:02,515 --> 00:08:07,835 Speaker 1: and exactly at noon on the twentieth of January or 112 00:08:07,915 --> 00:08:11,675 Speaker 1: the other dates that preceded that. But if you broaden 113 00:08:11,715 --> 00:08:14,595 Speaker 1: the defination out a little bit, well, get the guy 114 00:08:14,635 --> 00:08:16,795 Speaker 1: in the cartoon with the panel that says no days, 115 00:08:16,915 --> 00:08:20,355 Speaker 1: because it's no days. We still had bomb threats at 116 00:08:20,395 --> 00:08:23,955 Speaker 1: critical democratic leaning polling places last November, and for the 117 00:08:23,995 --> 00:08:27,755 Speaker 1: two years before that, we had some fascist telegraphing or 118 00:08:27,835 --> 00:08:32,355 Speaker 1: hinting or stochastically calling for violence every day if Trump lost, 119 00:08:33,635 --> 00:08:36,795 Speaker 1: If that counts as the peaceful transfer of power, then 120 00:08:36,835 --> 00:08:41,835 Speaker 1: the oldest Simpsons jokes apply attempted murder. Now, honestly, what 121 00:08:41,995 --> 00:08:45,635 Speaker 1: is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? 122 00:08:46,755 --> 00:08:49,275 Speaker 1: Was it a peaceful transfer of power? After the election 123 00:08:49,355 --> 00:08:52,555 Speaker 1: of eighteen sixty You know in the Southern States responded 124 00:08:52,595 --> 00:08:56,315 Speaker 1: to the election and seceded and started the Civil War 125 00:08:56,435 --> 00:08:59,515 Speaker 1: to protest Lincoln's election? Was that peaceful? Does that count? 126 00:09:00,475 --> 00:09:05,315 Speaker 1: What about nineteen sixty four? Nineteen sixty five? Brilliant fact 127 00:09:05,315 --> 00:09:08,875 Speaker 1: about the Kennedy assassination? More on that from the distinguished 128 00:09:08,875 --> 00:09:12,915 Speaker 1: Representative Anna Paulina Lunatic coming up. She wants to interview 129 00:09:12,915 --> 00:09:16,835 Speaker 1: the War and Commission. But there's one salient fact about 130 00:09:16,835 --> 00:09:19,115 Speaker 1: the Kennedy assassination that always seems to get glossed over. 131 00:09:19,235 --> 00:09:22,355 Speaker 1: Is that when he went to Dallas in November nineteen 132 00:09:22,395 --> 00:09:25,315 Speaker 1: sixty three, it was to informally start his re election 133 00:09:25,515 --> 00:09:29,675 Speaker 1: campaign for nineteen sixty four. The incumbent president and Democratic 134 00:09:29,715 --> 00:09:32,915 Speaker 1: candidate gets murdered three hundred and forty eight days before 135 00:09:32,955 --> 00:09:36,835 Speaker 1: the vote. How peaceful was that transfer of power? How 136 00:09:36,875 --> 00:09:40,115 Speaker 1: many other of our peaceful transfers are only peaceful? If 137 00:09:40,155 --> 00:09:43,835 Speaker 1: you claim an assassination here or there doesn't count because 138 00:09:43,875 --> 00:09:47,515 Speaker 1: it was outside some sort of historical window. It was 139 00:09:47,595 --> 00:09:51,395 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three peaceful when the Republican president running in 140 00:09:51,435 --> 00:09:55,035 Speaker 1: the election three months later had first Washington troops and 141 00:09:55,075 --> 00:09:58,795 Speaker 1: then the Army under Douglas MacArthur open fire on the 142 00:09:58,835 --> 00:10:03,235 Speaker 1: protesting World War One veterans in DC, known as the 143 00:10:03,235 --> 00:10:06,955 Speaker 1: Bonus Army. How about April fourth, eighteen forty one, when 144 00:10:06,955 --> 00:10:09,755 Speaker 1: the new president, William Henry Harrison died, and that had 145 00:10:09,755 --> 00:10:12,595 Speaker 1: never happened before in this country, and Vice President John 146 00:10:12,635 --> 00:10:15,835 Speaker 1: Tyler insisted he was the new president, and others said, no, no, 147 00:10:15,875 --> 00:10:18,915 Speaker 1: you're not the new president. You're vice president and acting president, 148 00:10:19,315 --> 00:10:21,195 Speaker 1: and we have to have a new election or something 149 00:10:21,275 --> 00:10:23,955 Speaker 1: because it's not spelled out in the Constitution. And Tyler 150 00:10:24,035 --> 00:10:26,995 Speaker 1: responded by having himself sworn in as fast as possible 151 00:10:27,115 --> 00:10:31,675 Speaker 1: so nobody could stop him. And I'm not defending Trump, 152 00:10:31,875 --> 00:10:36,115 Speaker 1: not the slightest, but we lie to ourselves constantly, especially 153 00:10:36,195 --> 00:10:43,875 Speaker 1: about presidents and presidencies. Lincoln repeatedly ignored the courts, especially 154 00:10:43,915 --> 00:10:48,275 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. We lie about the sanctity of the elections. 155 00:10:48,555 --> 00:10:51,035 Speaker 1: Whoever really won in eighteen seventy six, that didn't decide 156 00:10:51,035 --> 00:10:54,075 Speaker 1: who became president in eighteen seventy seven, a special commission 157 00:10:54,275 --> 00:10:57,275 Speaker 1: did so because nobody really wanted to have another Civil 158 00:10:57,315 --> 00:11:01,515 Speaker 1: war again quite so soon. I mean, we lie all 159 00:11:01,555 --> 00:11:05,435 Speaker 1: the time about the presidency. Woodrow Wilson about whether he 160 00:11:05,515 --> 00:11:08,395 Speaker 1: was healthy enough to remain president in nineteen nineteen, although 161 00:11:08,395 --> 00:11:10,195 Speaker 1: he may have been so sick, he wasn't aware he 162 00:11:10,235 --> 00:11:13,395 Speaker 1: was sick. He was thinking running again for a third term. 163 00:11:13,795 --> 00:11:17,515 Speaker 1: Harding was sick. He never fully recovered from influenza, sick 164 00:11:17,555 --> 00:11:22,835 Speaker 1: for seven months before he died suddenly. FDR obviously lied 165 00:11:22,835 --> 00:11:26,075 Speaker 1: about his health. Eisenhower had two heart attacks, and there 166 00:11:26,075 --> 00:11:28,835 Speaker 1: are months in his presidency about which historians are no 167 00:11:28,915 --> 00:11:33,675 Speaker 1: longer sure he was President. JFK lied about his Addison's disease, 168 00:11:33,955 --> 00:11:36,795 Speaker 1: even though the shape and color of his face changed 169 00:11:36,795 --> 00:11:41,515 Speaker 1: from month to month. Reagan was clearly lying about his acuity, 170 00:11:41,915 --> 00:11:44,595 Speaker 1: although like Wilson, he might have been unaware. But that's 171 00:11:44,715 --> 00:11:49,115 Speaker 1: six presidents in a stretch of thirteen of them. That's 172 00:11:49,115 --> 00:11:53,755 Speaker 1: a lot of lying about health, and it's reached its 173 00:11:53,835 --> 00:11:56,995 Speaker 1: high point or low point. Half the country is lying 174 00:11:57,035 --> 00:12:02,435 Speaker 1: about Trump's health and his mental health, specifically because they 175 00:12:02,515 --> 00:12:07,635 Speaker 1: need him to keep the whole criminal enterprise rolling. And 176 00:12:07,715 --> 00:12:09,915 Speaker 1: how many of us who want him gone tomorrow are 177 00:12:09,955 --> 00:12:13,035 Speaker 1: also to some degree lying about his health because the 178 00:12:13,075 --> 00:12:16,355 Speaker 1: reality is too terrifying to confront. How many reporters are 179 00:12:16,395 --> 00:12:19,795 Speaker 1: lying to themselves because of that factor, and because they 180 00:12:19,795 --> 00:12:22,475 Speaker 1: still don't know how to cover this perversion of everything 181 00:12:22,555 --> 00:12:24,955 Speaker 1: we thought was true about this country. Only it turned 182 00:12:24,995 --> 00:12:29,835 Speaker 1: out we were lying to ourselves. Someone was addressing the 183 00:12:29,915 --> 00:12:33,595 Speaker 1: issue of this history of deceit by and about presidents 184 00:12:33,635 --> 00:12:36,395 Speaker 1: as it relates to this pathetic farce who now has 185 00:12:36,435 --> 00:12:39,755 Speaker 1: that title. They hoped for the best, and they invoked 186 00:12:39,755 --> 00:12:44,595 Speaker 1: Lincoln's timeless phrase from his inauguration speech about how untimely, 187 00:12:44,795 --> 00:12:48,795 Speaker 1: ultimately events would be decided by the better angels of 188 00:12:48,795 --> 00:12:53,435 Speaker 1: our nature. You don't really want to laugh out loud 189 00:12:53,475 --> 00:12:55,755 Speaker 1: when you hear a quote from mister Lincoln. But I 190 00:12:55,875 --> 00:13:00,355 Speaker 1: laughed out loud because if there is one ultimate lie 191 00:13:00,355 --> 00:13:06,355 Speaker 1: about the American presidency about America, that's it. The words 192 00:13:06,355 --> 00:13:10,195 Speaker 1: are beautiful and immortal, and the part we lie about 193 00:13:10,395 --> 00:13:14,955 Speaker 1: is that in reality, those beautiful words, those immortal words, 194 00:13:15,395 --> 00:13:19,555 Speaker 1: were ignored. Lincoln spoke of the better angels of our 195 00:13:19,635 --> 00:13:23,275 Speaker 1: nature in his first inaugural address, not his second one, 196 00:13:23,915 --> 00:13:26,875 Speaker 1: not at the end of the Civil War, but before 197 00:13:26,915 --> 00:13:31,715 Speaker 1: it even started. He invoked the better angels of our nature. 198 00:13:32,155 --> 00:13:36,715 Speaker 1: And thirty nine days later, the rebels fired on Fort 199 00:13:36,795 --> 00:13:49,075 Speaker 1: Sumter Lincoln invoked the Better Angels of Our Nature from 200 00:13:49,115 --> 00:13:52,435 Speaker 1: a Shakespearean sonnet number one forty four. In fact, that's 201 00:13:52,435 --> 00:13:56,435 Speaker 1: where it originates. I invoked she was Effing's a monkey 202 00:13:56,755 --> 00:14:00,715 Speaker 1: from Billy Wilder trying to shock Nancy Reagan into unconsciousness. 203 00:14:00,955 --> 00:14:05,635 Speaker 1: My mother would be very proud. I do think it's 204 00:14:05,635 --> 00:14:08,155 Speaker 1: fitting to note here, though, that as crazy as Trump is, 205 00:14:08,835 --> 00:14:11,075 Speaker 1: to go back to this subject directly, it would still 206 00:14:11,115 --> 00:14:14,115 Speaker 1: be tempting if you had first pick in the annual 207 00:14:14,235 --> 00:14:19,635 Speaker 1: crazy draft to select Musk or maybe even Congresswoman Anna 208 00:14:19,715 --> 00:14:25,115 Speaker 1: Paulina Luna. Musk is really stupid online, but he's not 209 00:14:25,195 --> 00:14:28,195 Speaker 1: half as stupid as he is in person. As you 210 00:14:28,275 --> 00:14:31,955 Speaker 1: doubtless saw, he was good enough on Tuesday to reenact 211 00:14:32,035 --> 00:14:34,915 Speaker 1: yet another movie scene Marty Sheen as the presidential candidate 212 00:14:35,115 --> 00:14:38,755 Speaker 1: prophesied to begin a nuclear war and Marty Sheen is 213 00:14:38,835 --> 00:14:41,635 Speaker 1: using a baby as a human shield from an assassin 214 00:14:41,795 --> 00:14:44,195 Speaker 1: in the film The Dead Zone. Only this time it 215 00:14:44,235 --> 00:14:47,355 Speaker 1: was in the Oval office, and Musk used his own baby, 216 00:14:47,635 --> 00:14:50,875 Speaker 1: we assume, unless it was a rental, and Trump almost 217 00:14:50,995 --> 00:14:55,435 Speaker 1: drifted off to sleep because the attention wasn't on him. 218 00:14:55,715 --> 00:14:57,555 Speaker 1: And if you had to pick the sharpest one in 219 00:14:57,595 --> 00:15:00,755 Speaker 1: the room among Trump, Musk and the baby. The baby 220 00:15:00,755 --> 00:15:02,715 Speaker 1: would have gotten one hundred percent of the votes. 221 00:15:03,355 --> 00:15:06,395 Speaker 5: Must you said fun case that an example of the 222 00:15:06,595 --> 00:15:10,755 Speaker 5: fruit that you have cited was fifty million dollars of 223 00:15:10,795 --> 00:15:14,875 Speaker 5: condoms was sent to Gaza. But after fact check this 224 00:15:15,795 --> 00:15:19,955 Speaker 5: apparently Gaza in Mozambique and the program was to protect 225 00:15:19,955 --> 00:15:23,395 Speaker 5: them against HIV. So can you correct these statements? It 226 00:15:23,435 --> 00:15:26,275 Speaker 5: wasn't sent to Hamas. Actually it was sent to Musambie, 227 00:15:26,315 --> 00:15:29,115 Speaker 5: which makes sense why condoms was sent there? And how 228 00:15:29,155 --> 00:15:31,475 Speaker 5: can we make sure that all the statements that you 229 00:15:31,555 --> 00:15:34,555 Speaker 5: said were correct? So we can't trust what you say? 230 00:15:34,635 --> 00:15:36,715 Speaker 6: Well, first of all, some of the things that I 231 00:15:36,755 --> 00:15:40,635 Speaker 6: say will be incorrect and should be corrected. So nobody 232 00:15:40,675 --> 00:15:42,915 Speaker 6: can about one thousands, I mean any you know, we 233 00:15:42,955 --> 00:15:46,115 Speaker 6: will make mistakes, but will quickly to correct any mistakes. 234 00:15:46,555 --> 00:15:52,115 Speaker 1: Mistakes will be corrected. And yet you're still here. I'm 235 00:15:52,115 --> 00:15:57,355 Speaker 1: glad he is rewarding Trump's confidence in him. Can we 236 00:15:57,475 --> 00:15:59,315 Speaker 1: just jump ahead to the part of the script where 237 00:15:59,355 --> 00:16:03,075 Speaker 1: must overdoses And I would be remiss if I did 238 00:16:03,075 --> 00:16:06,155 Speaker 1: not play the clip of Congresswoman lun who has somehow 239 00:16:06,355 --> 00:16:08,475 Speaker 1: wound up being the one in charge of the JFK 240 00:16:08,635 --> 00:16:12,395 Speaker 1: assassination files. I guess because Bobert and Green are busy, 241 00:16:12,995 --> 00:16:14,515 Speaker 1: and I don't want to know what they're busy with. 242 00:16:16,355 --> 00:16:20,875 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Luna has somewhow wound up in Congress without being 243 00:16:20,915 --> 00:16:24,675 Speaker 1: able to kind of guess within a tolerance of a 244 00:16:24,835 --> 00:16:28,075 Speaker 1: decade or two, how many years it's been since the 245 00:16:28,155 --> 00:16:29,395 Speaker 1: JFK assassination. 246 00:16:29,875 --> 00:16:33,875 Speaker 5: What sort of witnesses will you expect to have at 247 00:16:33,955 --> 00:16:35,795 Speaker 5: your hearing, some as in the first ones in marched 248 00:16:35,795 --> 00:16:39,435 Speaker 5: at the apartment heads, former employees of various agents. 249 00:16:39,475 --> 00:16:40,915 Speaker 7: Would you have to jump in? Yeah, I was going 250 00:16:40,995 --> 00:16:43,635 Speaker 7: to say, based on what we're actually looking to do 251 00:16:43,715 --> 00:16:45,915 Speaker 7: with the Jeff can investigation, I'm looking at to actually 252 00:16:45,955 --> 00:16:48,995 Speaker 7: bring in some of the attending physicians at the initial assassination, 253 00:16:49,035 --> 00:16:51,355 Speaker 7: and then also people that had been on the various 254 00:16:51,395 --> 00:16:54,395 Speaker 7: commissions looking into, like the Warren Commission looking into the 255 00:16:54,435 --> 00:16:55,435 Speaker 7: initial assassination. 256 00:16:56,355 --> 00:16:56,555 Speaker 2: Yeah. 257 00:16:56,675 --> 00:16:59,235 Speaker 1: Only one member of the Warren Commission lived past the 258 00:16:59,275 --> 00:17:01,635 Speaker 1: year nineteen ninety one, and that was Gerald Ford. And 259 00:17:02,315 --> 00:17:06,515 Speaker 1: I anchored MSNBC's coverage of funeral, and that was nearly 260 00:17:06,595 --> 00:17:10,195 Speaker 1: twenty years ago. And never mind that all those autopsy 261 00:17:10,275 --> 00:17:12,635 Speaker 1: surgeons are gone. I think the latest one died a 262 00:17:12,675 --> 00:17:16,155 Speaker 1: decade ago, and the Secret Service people and almost all 263 00:17:16,155 --> 00:17:20,195 Speaker 1: the witnesses. And then I was watching it on TV 264 00:17:20,355 --> 00:17:22,435 Speaker 1: two months before my fifth birthday. If you want me 265 00:17:22,475 --> 00:17:25,395 Speaker 1: to testify, ma'am, I mean, I'm sixty six. I might 266 00:17:25,435 --> 00:17:28,795 Speaker 1: be the youngest witness available. I was watching it on 267 00:17:28,915 --> 00:17:35,995 Speaker 1: Channel two, listening to her utter self confidence bordering on solemnity. 268 00:17:36,035 --> 00:17:38,835 Speaker 1: There it dawned on me. I think I know where 269 00:17:38,955 --> 00:17:43,635 Speaker 1: Representative Luna's cheese whiz slipped off her cracker, exactly when 270 00:17:43,675 --> 00:17:48,435 Speaker 1: it happened, and why she thinks JFK who died in 271 00:17:48,475 --> 00:17:53,075 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three and JFK Junior, who died in nineteen 272 00:17:53,115 --> 00:17:58,315 Speaker 1: ninety nine. She thinks they're the same person, doesn't she. 273 00:18:08,555 --> 00:18:11,395 Speaker 1: I will note that, for whatever his word is worth, 274 00:18:11,475 --> 00:18:13,835 Speaker 1: Trump says he will not defy the courts. He'll just 275 00:18:13,875 --> 00:18:18,075 Speaker 1: appeal the verdicts because he always respects the courts. Yeah, 276 00:18:18,155 --> 00:18:20,955 Speaker 1: if his history holds, he will shortly get enraged, however, 277 00:18:21,195 --> 00:18:24,275 Speaker 1: and begin to threaten the judges again, while his fascist 278 00:18:24,315 --> 00:18:27,235 Speaker 1: minions set the judges up for abuse and direct threats 279 00:18:27,275 --> 00:18:30,835 Speaker 1: against their lives. The difference this time was that by 280 00:18:30,875 --> 00:18:33,795 Speaker 1: the beginning of the week, there will be literally dozens 281 00:18:33,835 --> 00:18:38,195 Speaker 1: of restraining orders dozens more against his administration, and some 282 00:18:38,315 --> 00:18:41,275 Speaker 1: are likely to last months before they even fully play 283 00:18:41,275 --> 00:18:43,635 Speaker 1: out in court. And I don't know how enraged that 284 00:18:43,715 --> 00:18:48,555 Speaker 1: will actually leave him. He is, after all, Fang the monkey. 285 00:18:49,435 --> 00:18:51,555 Speaker 1: The irony of the equation at the moment is that 286 00:18:51,595 --> 00:18:54,715 Speaker 1: the primary public pushback against all this is coming not 287 00:18:54,715 --> 00:18:58,635 Speaker 1: from the Democrats, not even from the Republicans, but from 288 00:18:58,875 --> 00:19:04,035 Speaker 1: the moneyed class. Chuck Schumer had his ambiguous statement, and no, 289 00:19:04,115 --> 00:19:07,035 Speaker 1: he did not say he would be helping Republicans pass 290 00:19:07,115 --> 00:19:09,835 Speaker 1: the legislation that would keep the government from shutting down. 291 00:19:09,955 --> 00:19:13,075 Speaker 1: He did maintain the position of the Democrats as the 292 00:19:13,155 --> 00:19:16,195 Speaker 1: voice of reason, which, as much as I'd like to 293 00:19:16,195 --> 00:19:20,875 Speaker 1: see AOC metaphorically kneecapping people on Capitol Hill, that holds 294 00:19:20,875 --> 00:19:23,075 Speaker 1: your fire for the moment, that's not a bad position 295 00:19:23,155 --> 00:19:28,075 Speaker 1: to hold temporarily, especially if this is what is coming 296 00:19:28,155 --> 00:19:30,595 Speaker 1: out from those people like Trump and Musk who do 297 00:19:30,675 --> 00:19:34,075 Speaker 1: not recognize the value or the existence of people, just 298 00:19:34,155 --> 00:19:36,835 Speaker 1: the value and existence of money. This is all from 299 00:19:36,835 --> 00:19:39,955 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. The first is about the tariffs quote. 300 00:19:40,075 --> 00:19:44,035 Speaker 1: Nobody knows what's up. Nick Pinchuck, chief executive of tool 301 00:19:44,075 --> 00:19:47,315 Speaker 1: makers Snap on Set, on a conference call. It's like 302 00:19:47,395 --> 00:19:50,315 Speaker 1: being on Space Mountain at Disney World. You get on 303 00:19:50,355 --> 00:19:52,395 Speaker 1: Space Mountain, you get in a car, and you're in 304 00:19:52,435 --> 00:19:54,635 Speaker 1: the dark, and the cars go left and right, left 305 00:19:54,635 --> 00:19:57,355 Speaker 1: and right and abrupt turns. You don't know where you're going, 306 00:19:57,475 --> 00:19:59,715 Speaker 1: but you know you're pretty confident that you're going to 307 00:19:59,755 --> 00:20:04,235 Speaker 1: get to the right place at the bottom. This is 308 00:20:04,235 --> 00:20:05,955 Speaker 1: from the WORL Wall Street Journal. The mood of the 309 00:20:05,955 --> 00:20:11,155 Speaker 1: American consumer is souring. Tariff threats, market turbulence causing jitters 310 00:20:11,195 --> 00:20:14,195 Speaker 1: early in Trump's second term. This is from the Wall 311 00:20:14,195 --> 00:20:18,115 Speaker 1: Street Journal. For CEOs and bankers, the Trump euphoria is 312 00:20:18,275 --> 00:20:23,115 Speaker 1: fading fast. Deals market gets curtailed by uncertainty delivered in 313 00:20:23,155 --> 00:20:27,835 Speaker 1: presidents first weeks. This is from The Bulwark. It reports 314 00:20:27,875 --> 00:20:31,835 Speaker 1: Republican congressmen are writing to constituents praising Musk and Trump 315 00:20:31,875 --> 00:20:34,235 Speaker 1: and Maga and then adding little caveats that are not 316 00:20:34,315 --> 00:20:37,995 Speaker 1: praising them at all. From Congressman Rob Whitman of Virginia, 317 00:20:38,035 --> 00:20:41,315 Speaker 1: whose district has about twenty thousand federal employees in it. 318 00:20:41,995 --> 00:20:45,555 Speaker 1: Or It did quote elon Musk's impressive track record of 319 00:20:45,595 --> 00:20:49,235 Speaker 1: innovation provides valuable insights into how we can streamline government 320 00:20:49,275 --> 00:20:54,315 Speaker 1: operations and leverage technology to better serve our citizens. That said, 321 00:20:54,715 --> 00:20:58,315 Speaker 1: I share your concerns regarding potential conflicts of interest and overreach. 322 00:20:58,715 --> 00:21:02,555 Speaker 1: Protecting the personal information of Americans is a fundamental responsibility 323 00:21:02,675 --> 00:21:05,835 Speaker 1: and any breach of privacy is alarming. The prospect of 324 00:21:05,875 --> 00:21:10,275 Speaker 1: private individuals or companies having unfettered access to sensitive data 325 00:21:10,475 --> 00:21:14,915 Speaker 1: raises critical questions about accountability, oversight, and the safeguarding of 326 00:21:14,955 --> 00:21:20,275 Speaker 1: our citizens' rights. Headline from June first, The search for 327 00:21:20,515 --> 00:21:25,275 Speaker 1: the missing Elon Musk continues today. Republicans say no, they 328 00:21:25,275 --> 00:21:30,555 Speaker 1: don't know where he is. And almost unbelievably, Glenn Greenwald 329 00:21:31,555 --> 00:21:34,835 Speaker 1: has proven you can be a charlatan NonStop for twenty 330 00:21:34,835 --> 00:21:38,315 Speaker 1: five years and then suddenly not only except reality, but 331 00:21:38,395 --> 00:21:42,195 Speaker 1: then say something smart about it. This is a creed 332 00:21:42,235 --> 00:21:46,235 Speaker 1: tocur from somebody who has never previously given any indication 333 00:21:46,315 --> 00:21:51,475 Speaker 1: he has occur, Glenn Greenwald. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 334 00:21:51,635 --> 00:21:54,515 Speaker 1: is one of the very few tools ordinary Americans have 335 00:21:54,835 --> 00:21:58,355 Speaker 1: to fight against the onslaught of abuses from massive corporate power. 336 00:21:58,635 --> 00:22:01,835 Speaker 1: How is it consistent with the stated MAGA agenda to 337 00:22:01,995 --> 00:22:08,475 Speaker 1: empower ordinary Americans to cripple it or shut it down. Well, 338 00:22:08,475 --> 00:22:11,875 Speaker 1: it's not consistent, Glenn. Maga is a scam, you moron. 339 00:22:13,875 --> 00:22:17,795 Speaker 1: But you had a good twelve seconds there, Glenn. All 340 00:22:17,835 --> 00:22:21,075 Speaker 1: of that, even Glenn's twelve seconds, would be encouraging, maybe 341 00:22:21,115 --> 00:22:25,355 Speaker 1: even suggestive. That the easiest way out of this burgeoning crisis, Trump, 342 00:22:25,435 --> 00:22:28,675 Speaker 1: realizing he's going to tank the economy, cost the Republicans 343 00:22:28,715 --> 00:22:32,555 Speaker 1: the House, set himself up for the bug House, get 344 00:22:32,595 --> 00:22:36,235 Speaker 1: overruled in the courts left and right, and commit political suicide. 345 00:22:36,475 --> 00:22:39,675 Speaker 1: Him realizing that that is all in the cards that 346 00:22:39,795 --> 00:22:44,155 Speaker 1: might actually happen, he might reverse course. It would be encouraging, except, 347 00:22:44,195 --> 00:22:46,555 Speaker 1: of course, that it would also require Trump reversing course, 348 00:22:46,795 --> 00:22:49,715 Speaker 1: and reversing course requires him to admit, at least to himself, 349 00:22:49,795 --> 00:22:52,915 Speaker 1: that he was mistaken and he has been defeated. And 350 00:22:52,995 --> 00:22:59,915 Speaker 1: Trump doesn't know the meaning of the word defeat. I 351 00:22:59,955 --> 00:23:01,435 Speaker 1: didn't know the meaning of a lot of words, but 352 00:23:01,515 --> 00:23:03,315 Speaker 1: this is the only one that matters at the moment. 353 00:23:09,355 --> 00:23:12,355 Speaker 1: By the way, I just I can't ignore this. If 354 00:23:12,355 --> 00:23:15,355 Speaker 1: you want everything that's wrong with American news summarized in 355 00:23:15,395 --> 00:23:21,355 Speaker 1: a four sentence confession, I give you Chris Solissa honest opinion, 356 00:23:21,675 --> 00:23:26,035 Speaker 1: CNN should give Scott Jennings his own show. People who 357 00:23:26,075 --> 00:23:28,715 Speaker 1: love him would watch, people who hate him would watch. 358 00:23:28,915 --> 00:23:35,315 Speaker 1: The point is people would watch. First off, Melissa, they 359 00:23:35,315 --> 00:23:38,315 Speaker 1: already did give Scott Jennings his own show. It's called 360 00:23:38,355 --> 00:23:45,955 Speaker 1: The Abby Phillips Show. Also, Chris has no idea of 361 00:23:46,075 --> 00:23:50,355 Speaker 1: right or wrong here, or journalism or not journalism. I 362 00:23:50,355 --> 00:23:52,995 Speaker 1: guess we shouldn't be surprised by that. It doesn't factor 363 00:23:53,035 --> 00:23:56,075 Speaker 1: into his consideration here. The point is people were to watch. No, 364 00:23:56,195 --> 00:23:59,115 Speaker 1: the point is democracy is on fire. The United States 365 00:23:59,155 --> 00:24:01,275 Speaker 1: of America could be a dictatorship before the end of 366 00:24:01,315 --> 00:24:05,315 Speaker 1: the year. But you'll be fine. You're Chris, Solissa, you 367 00:24:05,355 --> 00:24:08,435 Speaker 1: don't recognize things. You're the guy in the room with 368 00:24:08,515 --> 00:24:11,835 Speaker 1: the hat on saying it's fine while it's on fire. 369 00:24:13,875 --> 00:24:16,355 Speaker 1: But again, he has no idea of right or wrong. 370 00:24:16,555 --> 00:24:18,955 Speaker 1: He doesn't know the difference between journalism and non journalism. 371 00:24:18,995 --> 00:24:22,515 Speaker 1: But he knows what people will watch. That's why CNN 372 00:24:22,555 --> 00:24:26,315 Speaker 1: and NBC fired him. You know what else? They would watch? 373 00:24:27,355 --> 00:24:30,315 Speaker 1: A show in which the old Carnival dunk tank game 374 00:24:31,315 --> 00:24:34,515 Speaker 1: is established, in which people like Chris Saliza and Scott 375 00:24:34,595 --> 00:24:39,155 Speaker 1: Jennings are suspended over dunk tanks and dropped into the 376 00:24:39,195 --> 00:24:44,355 Speaker 1: water every night by angry Americans throwing softballs at targets. 377 00:24:44,955 --> 00:24:48,515 Speaker 1: And you could call it the CNN Evening News with 378 00:24:48,635 --> 00:24:54,475 Speaker 1: Chris Silizza, but see that would be wrong and unjournalistic. 379 00:24:55,275 --> 00:24:57,955 Speaker 1: And by this point of course, Chris Salizza has literally 380 00:24:57,995 --> 00:25:00,835 Speaker 1: no idea what any of these words I am saying 381 00:25:01,315 --> 00:25:10,395 Speaker 1: even mean. Also of interest here, the fascists are celebrating 382 00:25:10,435 --> 00:25:14,875 Speaker 1: that American military base is not being re renamed after 383 00:25:14,915 --> 00:25:20,435 Speaker 1: a Confederate general. Wait, they're celebrating because they didn't put 384 00:25:20,475 --> 00:25:24,635 Speaker 1: a Confederate general's name on Fort Bragg what used to 385 00:25:24,635 --> 00:25:29,395 Speaker 1: be Fort Bragg. They're celebrating for some reason. Oh, I 386 00:25:29,515 --> 00:25:33,675 Speaker 1: see what it is. It's Denesh Desuza celebrating. And remember 387 00:25:34,355 --> 00:25:39,795 Speaker 1: you can't spell DEI without Denesh Desuza. That's next. This 388 00:25:40,035 --> 00:26:06,875 Speaker 1: is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead 389 00:26:06,915 --> 00:26:09,155 Speaker 1: on countdown, on the premise that if I don't force 390 00:26:09,235 --> 00:26:13,435 Speaker 1: you to take a break from this, you won't and 391 00:26:13,475 --> 00:26:16,115 Speaker 1: you'll go crazy, and then I won't take a break 392 00:26:16,115 --> 00:26:20,795 Speaker 1: from this, and I'll go crazy er. You know who 393 00:26:20,835 --> 00:26:25,795 Speaker 1: Bill Baker was, but Bill the Baker, he was an 394 00:26:25,795 --> 00:26:28,555 Speaker 1: infamous character from the press box at Yankee Stadium. This 395 00:26:28,675 --> 00:26:32,515 Speaker 1: is an American Olympic hockey player named Bill Baker, a defenseman, 396 00:26:32,995 --> 00:26:36,275 Speaker 1: and this is the anniversary of the least famous, most 397 00:26:36,315 --> 00:26:40,915 Speaker 1: important goal in Olympic hockey history. This is also the 398 00:26:40,915 --> 00:26:44,715 Speaker 1: window in which hockey itself should be shining, because after 399 00:26:44,755 --> 00:26:48,795 Speaker 1: tonight there isn't another National Basketball Association regular season game 400 00:26:48,835 --> 00:26:53,675 Speaker 1: scheduled until next Wednesday. There's no more football. Baseball is 401 00:26:53,675 --> 00:26:58,595 Speaker 1: still just doing stretches, and hockey it shut down its 402 00:26:58,635 --> 00:27:01,515 Speaker 1: season to play an artificial international tournament. Nobody in this 403 00:27:01,555 --> 00:27:08,315 Speaker 1: country cares about way to market your sport, something I 404 00:27:08,355 --> 00:27:10,915 Speaker 1: haven't done in a while. Hey, you sports kids, get 405 00:27:10,955 --> 00:27:14,595 Speaker 1: off my lawn next first. Believe it or not, there 406 00:27:14,595 --> 00:27:16,675 Speaker 1: are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily 407 00:27:16,755 --> 00:27:19,515 Speaker 1: round up of the miscreants, morons and Donning Kruger effects 408 00:27:19,515 --> 00:27:25,435 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's other worse parsons in the world. 409 00:27:26,835 --> 00:27:32,515 Speaker 1: Let me dedicate this episode of wpiitw to the Associated Press, 410 00:27:33,155 --> 00:27:36,515 Speaker 1: my natural enemies from my days long ago at the 411 00:27:36,595 --> 00:27:40,515 Speaker 1: United Press International, But the AP has earned my respect. 412 00:27:40,635 --> 00:27:44,315 Speaker 1: ANEW executive editor Julie Pace revealed that the White House 413 00:27:44,355 --> 00:27:48,395 Speaker 1: threatened to revoke the AP's access to the Oval office 414 00:27:48,635 --> 00:27:51,195 Speaker 1: if it did not call in all of its reporting 415 00:27:51,275 --> 00:27:55,955 Speaker 1: the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. When it 416 00:27:55,995 --> 00:27:59,475 Speaker 1: refused to do that, an AP reporter was in fact, 417 00:27:59,555 --> 00:28:02,835 Speaker 1: within hours barred from attending a White House bill signing 418 00:28:04,675 --> 00:28:07,275 Speaker 1: men this so our good friends at the Washington Post 419 00:28:07,635 --> 00:28:11,435 Speaker 1: and CBS and CNN and ABC and NBC know exactly 420 00:28:11,475 --> 00:28:15,355 Speaker 1: what is next. Whether you try to appease Trump or not, 421 00:28:16,035 --> 00:28:19,955 Speaker 1: he will be back later for more. For now, your 422 00:28:20,035 --> 00:28:22,755 Speaker 1: money will shut him up, But soon he'll be back 423 00:28:22,795 --> 00:28:25,835 Speaker 1: insisting that you call it the Gulf of Mexico. And 424 00:28:25,875 --> 00:28:28,835 Speaker 1: then he'll be back again, insisting you report in all 425 00:28:28,875 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 1: of your reporting that the twenty twenty election was stolen 426 00:28:32,315 --> 00:28:36,195 Speaker 1: from him. Because that's the way this works, Bezos. That's 427 00:28:36,235 --> 00:28:39,355 Speaker 1: the way this works, Iiger, that's the way this works. 428 00:28:40,475 --> 00:28:46,115 Speaker 1: Whoever's running CNN this week, they are blackmailers. You are 429 00:28:46,155 --> 00:28:50,315 Speaker 1: being blackmailed. It doesn't stop when you give in. They 430 00:28:50,315 --> 00:28:56,875 Speaker 1: will be writing your newscasts for you. AnyWho. On that 431 00:28:56,955 --> 00:28:59,555 Speaker 1: bright note to the nominees, one of the real housewives 432 00:28:59,555 --> 00:29:03,635 Speaker 1: of Propaganda County former Oakland. No wonder they don't exist anymore. 433 00:29:03,715 --> 00:29:07,875 Speaker 1: Raiders cheerleader Emily Compagno, who is now at Fox News, 434 00:29:07,875 --> 00:29:10,915 Speaker 1: So I guess she's the next Secretary of Lumber or 435 00:29:10,955 --> 00:29:15,155 Speaker 1: Trump will insist they make her pope or something. She 436 00:29:15,435 --> 00:29:20,035 Speaker 1: is the worst. The bronze winner Emily Compagne on the 437 00:29:20,115 --> 00:29:24,235 Speaker 1: role of the media under her trumph and reichmarket von 438 00:29:24,395 --> 00:29:29,155 Speaker 1: Musk Trump's quote Office of Communications is putting out every day, 439 00:29:29,195 --> 00:29:31,475 Speaker 1: all day exactly what they are doing. So all you 440 00:29:31,595 --> 00:29:35,875 Speaker 1: have to do legacy media is simply repeat, retweet, repost, 441 00:29:36,275 --> 00:29:38,475 Speaker 1: and that is the news and that is the facts. 442 00:29:40,555 --> 00:29:44,115 Speaker 1: First off, Fox News is legacy media. Secondly, miss Companio 443 00:29:44,835 --> 00:29:49,835 Speaker 1: that process, just repeat what the Republican says, retweet it, 444 00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:52,955 Speaker 1: and repost it. That was copyrighted by Fox News in 445 00:29:52,995 --> 00:29:55,635 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six. The rest of us can't do that. 446 00:29:56,995 --> 00:30:02,435 Speaker 1: You are the worldwide distributors of stenography for fascists. Another 447 00:30:02,475 --> 00:30:04,635 Speaker 1: one of our mistakes in twenty twenty one twenty twenty 448 00:30:04,755 --> 00:30:08,315 Speaker 1: two is not politicizing the DOJ and not prosecuting Rupert 449 00:30:08,395 --> 00:30:12,515 Speaker 1: Murdoch and NewsCorp and Fox News for something into the 450 00:30:12,595 --> 00:30:15,835 Speaker 1: effing ground. Of course, that was also one of our 451 00:30:15,835 --> 00:30:21,075 Speaker 1: mistakes in nineteen ninety six. Next time, the runner up 452 00:30:21,115 --> 00:30:24,995 Speaker 1: worser Denesh Desuza, now celebrating his sixty third year of 453 00:30:25,035 --> 00:30:27,755 Speaker 1: disproving the theory that one needs to have an actual 454 00:30:27,835 --> 00:30:31,395 Speaker 1: brain to be able to say things out loud. Denesh 455 00:30:31,435 --> 00:30:35,475 Speaker 1: Desuza writes, it would be fun to rename all the 456 00:30:35,515 --> 00:30:39,995 Speaker 1: forts after Confederate generals, not because we like Confederate generals, 457 00:30:40,275 --> 00:30:45,195 Speaker 1: but just to piss off the left. Well, trader's gonna trader, 458 00:30:45,315 --> 00:30:48,555 Speaker 1: of course. But what makes this even dumber than usual 459 00:30:48,595 --> 00:30:52,635 Speaker 1: for Denesh Desuza is the fort they already re renamed 460 00:30:52,675 --> 00:30:57,315 Speaker 1: Fort Bragg. The White supremacists actually folded on this. They 461 00:30:57,315 --> 00:31:01,435 Speaker 1: have renamed Fort Liberty Fort Bragg, all right, but Secretary 462 00:31:01,435 --> 00:31:04,595 Speaker 1: of Defense Pete Cagbreath insists it's not for the worst 463 00:31:04,795 --> 00:31:08,075 Speaker 1: general of the Civil War, Braxton Brag. It is instead 464 00:31:08,355 --> 00:31:12,155 Speaker 1: to honor Private Roland Brag, one of the heroes of 465 00:31:12,155 --> 00:31:16,115 Speaker 1: the Battle of the Bulge in World War Two. I'm 466 00:31:16,115 --> 00:31:18,755 Speaker 1: fine with that. I mean, I don't know if Roland 467 00:31:18,795 --> 00:31:21,035 Speaker 1: Bragg is really at the top of the list of 468 00:31:21,035 --> 00:31:23,195 Speaker 1: those who should have forts named after them, but if 469 00:31:23,195 --> 00:31:26,955 Speaker 1: the place doesn't honor Braxton Bragg or anybody else who 470 00:31:27,075 --> 00:31:32,315 Speaker 1: is a trader for the Confederacy, cool. We in the 471 00:31:32,395 --> 00:31:36,915 Speaker 1: left one. If you want to rename Robert E. Lee 472 00:31:37,075 --> 00:31:41,075 Speaker 1: Street at Fairchild Air Base in Spokane and keep it 473 00:31:41,155 --> 00:31:45,275 Speaker 1: Lee straight, but rename it after Bruce Lee. Cool. 474 00:31:45,395 --> 00:31:45,635 Speaker 6: Cool. 475 00:31:45,675 --> 00:31:49,515 Speaker 1: We'll win again. Now, who wants to tell Desuza about this? 476 00:31:49,635 --> 00:31:52,035 Speaker 1: I'll start the bidding. And oh, by the way, since 477 00:31:52,075 --> 00:31:56,555 Speaker 1: we're in this mode now, you can't spell DEEI without 478 00:31:56,675 --> 00:32:02,155 Speaker 1: Denesh Desuza. But our winner the worst Mayor twelve percent himself, 479 00:32:02,595 --> 00:32:05,515 Speaker 1: whose nickname has now been changed to Mayor ten percent, 480 00:32:06,195 --> 00:32:12,795 Speaker 1: Eric Adams of New York Fun City, one of the 481 00:32:12,955 --> 00:32:15,075 Speaker 1: washed up lawyers. Trump dug out of the trash and 482 00:32:15,075 --> 00:32:17,275 Speaker 1: put on it the defense team and then put in 483 00:32:17,315 --> 00:32:20,475 Speaker 1: the Justice Department. We'll call him Renfield. I think his 484 00:32:20,555 --> 00:32:24,235 Speaker 1: name is emmel something. Call them all Renfield. He has 485 00:32:24,395 --> 00:32:28,755 Speaker 1: ordered DOJ to indefinitely postpone the prosecution of Mayor Adams, 486 00:32:29,235 --> 00:32:33,315 Speaker 1: not just for corruption, but for really really cheap corruption, 487 00:32:34,235 --> 00:32:38,595 Speaker 1: on the transparently nonsensical premise that the case started too 488 00:32:38,675 --> 00:32:42,955 Speaker 1: close to any election. It was begun nine months before 489 00:32:42,995 --> 00:32:47,275 Speaker 1: a primary for re election, which Adam stands no chance 490 00:32:47,315 --> 00:32:52,195 Speaker 1: of or of being renominated by his party. Adams, of course, 491 00:32:52,275 --> 00:32:54,155 Speaker 1: is genuinely one of the most stupid men ever to 492 00:32:54,195 --> 00:32:57,715 Speaker 1: appear in American politics. He openly repeatedly met with Trump. 493 00:32:57,995 --> 00:33:00,475 Speaker 1: Then last week he ordered New York City staff to 494 00:33:00,635 --> 00:33:04,035 Speaker 1: open city buildings to the Iice Gestapo so they can 495 00:33:04,075 --> 00:33:07,915 Speaker 1: go hunting for immigration violators, and he ordered city staff 496 00:33:07,995 --> 00:33:12,235 Speaker 1: to not criticize Trump, and two business days later, the 497 00:33:12,355 --> 00:33:16,955 Speaker 1: charges against him were postponed until at least after the 498 00:33:16,995 --> 00:33:20,355 Speaker 1: next election, and Adams apparently thinks somehow New York voters 499 00:33:20,355 --> 00:33:24,195 Speaker 1: won't notice any of this because he's stupid. Of course, 500 00:33:24,235 --> 00:33:27,155 Speaker 1: it's even worse than it seems. Adams clearly not only 501 00:33:27,275 --> 00:33:30,315 Speaker 1: hoard himself out to President Pimp, but he also did 502 00:33:30,315 --> 00:33:32,115 Speaker 1: it in such a way that he's actively on the 503 00:33:32,155 --> 00:33:36,435 Speaker 1: hook to him. Trump could have dropped the prosecution outright, 504 00:33:36,475 --> 00:33:38,875 Speaker 1: but that's not what they did. They postponed it so 505 00:33:38,955 --> 00:33:42,635 Speaker 1: Trump could restart the prosecution anytime he thinks Adams isn't 506 00:33:42,675 --> 00:33:47,715 Speaker 1: cow towing sufficiently or licking Trump's ass fast enough. What 507 00:33:47,915 --> 00:33:49,555 Speaker 1: neither of them have figured out, though, is the rather 508 00:33:49,635 --> 00:33:52,635 Speaker 1: simple reality that all the career people in the government 509 00:33:52,675 --> 00:33:55,235 Speaker 1: of the City of New York and an increasing number 510 00:33:55,235 --> 00:33:58,955 Speaker 1: of other electeds here, and many of those appointed by Adams, 511 00:33:58,995 --> 00:34:01,595 Speaker 1: who have not yet gotten into trouble because of him, 512 00:34:01,875 --> 00:34:04,435 Speaker 1: have turned on him. They want to see him suffer, 513 00:34:04,715 --> 00:34:07,115 Speaker 1: They want to see him out of office, they want 514 00:34:07,155 --> 00:34:11,155 Speaker 1: to see him in jail. As suggested by his total 515 00:34:11,235 --> 00:34:14,675 Speaker 1: lack of subtlety in meeting with the Furor, Adams is 516 00:34:14,675 --> 00:34:17,715 Speaker 1: not smart enough to even symbolically cover his tracks here, 517 00:34:18,115 --> 00:34:22,475 Speaker 1: and so presumably somebody somewhere can confirm exactly what Adams 518 00:34:22,515 --> 00:34:26,195 Speaker 1: promised Trump or promised anybody else, and how much of 519 00:34:26,235 --> 00:34:30,315 Speaker 1: a quid pro quote there is here. Plus all those 520 00:34:30,555 --> 00:34:34,155 Speaker 1: federal charges that are now in abeyance, he can still 521 00:34:34,195 --> 00:34:36,875 Speaker 1: be indicted for them, and indicted for whatever he did 522 00:34:36,875 --> 00:34:40,875 Speaker 1: with Trump by the City of New York and by 523 00:34:40,955 --> 00:34:47,395 Speaker 1: the State of New York. Just not a bright guy. Plus, 524 00:34:47,755 --> 00:34:50,915 Speaker 1: it isn't clear what the Adams endgame is here. He's 525 00:34:50,955 --> 00:34:53,355 Speaker 1: only got one route that lets him stay in politics, 526 00:34:53,355 --> 00:34:56,435 Speaker 1: and that's to change parties. Now, it isn't clear if 527 00:34:56,435 --> 00:34:59,355 Speaker 1: he's going to do that before the election and run 528 00:34:59,435 --> 00:35:01,995 Speaker 1: as a Republican or if he would hold out and 529 00:35:02,075 --> 00:35:05,275 Speaker 1: wait until after he thinks somehow he has been reelected 530 00:35:05,315 --> 00:35:11,075 Speaker 1: as a Democrat. Eric adams approval rate was twelve percent 531 00:35:12,115 --> 00:35:15,595 Speaker 1: even he beat the Republican last time, the old guy 532 00:35:15,635 --> 00:35:18,195 Speaker 1: in the red beret. He beat him sixty seven percent 533 00:35:18,235 --> 00:35:21,995 Speaker 1: to twenty seven percent. The polling for the Democratic primary 534 00:35:22,075 --> 00:35:25,355 Speaker 1: right now, as the city comptroller and two state senators 535 00:35:25,555 --> 00:35:27,715 Speaker 1: I've never heard of, and I was born here in 536 00:35:27,755 --> 00:35:31,755 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nine tied at six percent each. Adams is 537 00:35:31,795 --> 00:35:35,075 Speaker 1: now at ten percent. So he was at twelve percent approval, 538 00:35:35,115 --> 00:35:37,915 Speaker 1: but now he's at ten percent. Just among Democrats in 539 00:35:37,995 --> 00:35:41,915 Speaker 1: terms of getting the nomination. Running away with the nomination 540 00:35:42,035 --> 00:35:45,435 Speaker 1: at this point at thirty three percent, is disgraced ex 541 00:35:45,475 --> 00:35:49,915 Speaker 1: Governor Andrew Cuomo because as bad as he was, he 542 00:35:50,075 --> 00:35:54,875 Speaker 1: wasn't as bad as Adams. So Adams is safe for 543 00:35:55,035 --> 00:35:58,595 Speaker 1: now from jail. I guess unless the state or city 544 00:35:58,635 --> 00:36:01,955 Speaker 1: does indict him like I suggested, because a Trump pardon 545 00:36:02,235 --> 00:36:06,555 Speaker 1: wouldn't impact that. I'm left with this question. Do we 546 00:36:06,675 --> 00:36:10,355 Speaker 1: think Adams knows that Trump can't pardon him for city 547 00:36:10,755 --> 00:36:17,515 Speaker 1: or state prosecutions? Mayor Eric sh don't tell him. I'd 548 00:36:17,595 --> 00:36:25,235 Speaker 1: like it to be a surprise. Adams two days worst person. Hello, 549 00:36:47,395 --> 00:36:53,795 Speaker 1: this is Sports Senate. Wait check that not anymore. This 550 00:36:54,635 --> 00:37:01,275 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith Alberman from the sports Ball central 551 00:37:01,635 --> 00:37:12,835 Speaker 1: centered news desk tonight hene Boston, Massachusetts and Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 552 00:37:12,915 --> 00:37:15,635 Speaker 1: So what happens to football fans the week after the 553 00:37:15,715 --> 00:37:18,515 Speaker 1: Super Bowl? They either immediately start looking ahead to the 554 00:37:18,515 --> 00:37:20,995 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five draft and the twenty twenty five season, 555 00:37:21,195 --> 00:37:23,915 Speaker 1: or they consider for the first time all winter the 556 00:37:23,995 --> 00:37:29,835 Speaker 1: possibility of concentrating on a different sport. Pitchers and catchers 557 00:37:29,875 --> 00:37:32,515 Speaker 1: will have reported to all the baseball spring training camps 558 00:37:32,555 --> 00:37:36,315 Speaker 1: by today. There are five NBA games tonight, than two 559 00:37:36,395 --> 00:37:38,875 Speaker 1: days off in the All Star Games Sunday, then two 560 00:37:38,915 --> 00:37:43,795 Speaker 1: more days off, so Tomorrow and Saturday, and then next 561 00:37:43,835 --> 00:37:47,395 Speaker 1: Monday and next Tuesday. There are no NFL games, no 562 00:37:47,715 --> 00:37:52,915 Speaker 1: NBA games, no baseball games, and the National Hockey League 563 00:37:53,155 --> 00:37:57,235 Speaker 1: the only one in that group standing. It continues to 564 00:37:57,315 --> 00:38:00,595 Speaker 1: provide evidence that it's actually run by people sent over 565 00:38:00,715 --> 00:38:05,475 Speaker 1: by basketball to screw hockey into the ground. The next 566 00:38:05,915 --> 00:38:09,395 Speaker 1: National Hockey League game in this absence of anything else 567 00:38:09,675 --> 00:38:16,275 Speaker 1: is twelve thirty Eastern Time, Saturday, February twenty second, at 568 00:38:16,355 --> 00:38:18,995 Speaker 1: the time when fans of other sports might be open 569 00:38:19,035 --> 00:38:22,035 Speaker 1: to looking at your game. Maybe for the first time, 570 00:38:22,235 --> 00:38:25,275 Speaker 1: you have shut the league down for two weeks. So 571 00:38:25,355 --> 00:38:29,715 Speaker 1: you can hold a bullshit tournament nobody cares about that 572 00:38:29,835 --> 00:38:36,035 Speaker 1: features almost no games. The Four Nations face Off, which 573 00:38:36,075 --> 00:38:39,915 Speaker 1: sounds like a sequel to the Travolta Nick Cage movie, 574 00:38:40,275 --> 00:38:43,515 Speaker 1: pits teams of NHL players, but not with their teams 575 00:38:43,555 --> 00:38:46,795 Speaker 1: that you know, but with their countries. Because if you 576 00:38:46,915 --> 00:38:49,395 Speaker 1: think the distinction of most fans about which of their 577 00:38:49,395 --> 00:38:52,955 Speaker 1: players are Swedish and which are finish is negligible, you 578 00:38:52,995 --> 00:38:55,995 Speaker 1: should check how much they don't care about which are 579 00:38:56,035 --> 00:39:00,275 Speaker 1: Americans and which are Canadians. I literally just found out 580 00:39:00,515 --> 00:39:03,035 Speaker 1: that a guy I always thought was a Swede named 581 00:39:03,035 --> 00:39:06,355 Speaker 1: Patrick lyone of the Montreal Cans, is actually a Finn. 582 00:39:06,915 --> 00:39:11,835 Speaker 1: And my response to this was who cares Canada and 583 00:39:11,875 --> 00:39:14,995 Speaker 1: Sweden played the first game last night. Tomorrow it's America 584 00:39:15,035 --> 00:39:18,835 Speaker 1: and Finland. There are only five other games in the 585 00:39:18,875 --> 00:39:23,195 Speaker 1: next week after that, including the championship. One assumes this 586 00:39:23,315 --> 00:39:27,875 Speaker 1: matters in Finland and Sweden they are rivals. One knows 587 00:39:27,955 --> 00:39:31,115 Speaker 1: it matters in Canada, where many broadcasters like to recite 588 00:39:31,235 --> 00:39:34,715 Speaker 1: the entire resume of where the referees and linesmen for 589 00:39:34,835 --> 00:39:38,355 Speaker 1: each game where they played before they gave up playing 590 00:39:38,355 --> 00:39:42,835 Speaker 1: when they were seventeen after that accident with the asphalt truck, 591 00:39:42,875 --> 00:39:45,475 Speaker 1: and the names of the trainers and the goal judges 592 00:39:45,515 --> 00:39:48,715 Speaker 1: who were on hand at the point where the asphalt 593 00:39:48,755 --> 00:39:51,155 Speaker 1: truck ran into the rink, and how they all met 594 00:39:51,195 --> 00:39:57,155 Speaker 1: Sidney Crosby's cousin's neighbors, skate sharpener, well his backup skate sharpener. 595 00:39:58,275 --> 00:40:01,955 Speaker 1: It's an obsession. Last Saturday night, the host of Hockey 596 00:40:02,035 --> 00:40:04,315 Speaker 1: Night in Canada pointed out that there were only four 597 00:40:04,715 --> 00:40:08,115 Speaker 1: Americans in the Super Bowl, but the NHL has nearly 598 00:40:08,195 --> 00:40:13,555 Speaker 1: sixty percent non Canadians. His implication was that this somehow 599 00:40:13,595 --> 00:40:17,595 Speaker 1: makes the NHL better because the diversity between Canada and 600 00:40:17,635 --> 00:40:21,795 Speaker 1: America is really big, isn't it. Luck Finns and Swedes. 601 00:40:23,675 --> 00:40:26,155 Speaker 1: You ever see the Star Trek episode where the planet 602 00:40:26,235 --> 00:40:29,555 Speaker 1: was divided into people who were white on the left 603 00:40:29,595 --> 00:40:31,555 Speaker 1: side and black on the right side, and people who 604 00:40:31,555 --> 00:40:33,355 Speaker 1: were black on the left side and white on the 605 00:40:33,395 --> 00:40:36,075 Speaker 1: right side, and they hated each other and were racist 606 00:40:36,075 --> 00:40:39,795 Speaker 1: towards each other or other. I always remembered that episode 607 00:40:39,835 --> 00:40:44,875 Speaker 1: it starred Frank Gorshen, Because like race, nationality is primarily 608 00:40:45,115 --> 00:40:49,635 Speaker 1: stupid and irrelevant, but somehow in Canada this is a 609 00:40:49,675 --> 00:40:55,195 Speaker 1: big deal. The NHL is better because nearly sixty percent 610 00:40:55,235 --> 00:40:58,715 Speaker 1: of the players don't play in Canada. What is it, 611 00:40:59,435 --> 00:41:02,555 Speaker 1: seventy percent of the players the teams don't play in 612 00:41:02,595 --> 00:41:06,315 Speaker 1: Canada and the players aren't from Canada. Okay, that makes 613 00:41:06,315 --> 00:41:10,035 Speaker 1: sense anyway, The NHL is somehow better because of all this, 614 00:41:10,275 --> 00:41:13,235 Speaker 1: and somehow better by not playing for the two weeks 615 00:41:13,275 --> 00:41:16,595 Speaker 1: after football goes dark and as the battle to make 616 00:41:16,635 --> 00:41:20,595 Speaker 1: the playoffs heats up, and as Alexander Ovechkin battles to 617 00:41:20,675 --> 00:41:24,155 Speaker 1: break the all time goal scoring record of Wayne Gretzky's, 618 00:41:24,515 --> 00:41:27,635 Speaker 1: with many hoping he does break Wayne Gretzky's records, while 619 00:41:27,675 --> 00:41:29,995 Speaker 1: others like me, hope that instead he just breaks his 620 00:41:30,035 --> 00:41:34,755 Speaker 1: putin loving ass, I love hockey. I will usually defer 621 00:41:34,795 --> 00:41:38,435 Speaker 1: to Canadians on almost anything, especially now when they're angry 622 00:41:38,515 --> 00:41:41,355 Speaker 1: enough at us that in Vancouver last week, the home 623 00:41:41,355 --> 00:41:44,515 Speaker 1: crowd not only briefly booed the American anthem, they booed 624 00:41:44,515 --> 00:41:46,795 Speaker 1: it while it was being sung by a woman of 625 00:41:46,915 --> 00:41:51,315 Speaker 1: color who was in a wheel chair. That's how mad 626 00:41:51,395 --> 00:41:54,515 Speaker 1: they were. To their credit, they cheered her when she 627 00:41:54,595 --> 00:41:58,395 Speaker 1: sang the Canadian anthem, but it still was a choice. 628 00:41:58,555 --> 00:42:01,875 Speaker 1: But if baseball seems committed to making all the wrong 629 00:42:01,995 --> 00:42:06,595 Speaker 1: decisions about its sport, Hockey, it seems committed year after year, 630 00:42:06,875 --> 00:42:11,515 Speaker 1: decade after decade, incarnation after incarnation, committed to keeping its 631 00:42:11,515 --> 00:42:16,075 Speaker 1: sport the secret. By the way, that grueling load of 632 00:42:16,115 --> 00:42:20,115 Speaker 1: seven games over twelve days that is supposed to captivate 633 00:42:20,555 --> 00:42:24,275 Speaker 1: two nations and one continent and the Gulf of America. 634 00:42:24,955 --> 00:42:28,155 Speaker 1: The games will be played in Boston and Montreal, and 635 00:42:28,195 --> 00:42:31,755 Speaker 1: the ticket sales were reported to be weak in Montreal 636 00:42:32,115 --> 00:42:40,115 Speaker 1: but worse in Boston. Dateline, Lake Placid, New York. Forty 637 00:42:40,155 --> 00:42:43,035 Speaker 1: five years ago, yesterday, the US hockey team looked to 638 00:42:43,075 --> 00:42:45,715 Speaker 1: be on its way to another noble but irrelevant, non 639 00:42:45,795 --> 00:42:49,435 Speaker 1: metal finish at the Olympics. They trailed the powerful Swedes 640 00:42:49,475 --> 00:42:51,715 Speaker 1: two to one. In the final minute, they pulled the 641 00:42:51,755 --> 00:42:54,995 Speaker 1: goalie for an extra skater, and with twenty seven seconds left, 642 00:42:55,035 --> 00:42:58,995 Speaker 1: defenseman Bill Baker put the puck passed superstar Swedish goalie 643 00:42:59,035 --> 00:43:02,755 Speaker 1: Pelly Lindbergh to get America an unlikely two two tie, 644 00:43:02,835 --> 00:43:06,435 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the Americans were still eligible 645 00:43:06,515 --> 00:43:09,435 Speaker 1: for a medal. And if you do the math, you 646 00:43:09,555 --> 00:43:11,835 Speaker 1: know how that turned out. We're talking about the nineteen 647 00:43:11,955 --> 00:43:16,875 Speaker 1: eighty Olympics a place where countries matter, where the Swedes 648 00:43:16,955 --> 00:43:20,755 Speaker 1: versus the Americans decide which team wins, and ultimately the 649 00:43:21,595 --> 00:43:25,195 Speaker 1: versus the Americans was followed by the Americans versus the 650 00:43:25,275 --> 00:43:27,835 Speaker 1: Russians to determine who was going to get the gold medal, 651 00:43:28,155 --> 00:43:30,315 Speaker 1: and it was the Americans, you know, back when we 652 00:43:30,355 --> 00:43:34,795 Speaker 1: all used to hate Russia. The NHL will come back, 653 00:43:34,875 --> 00:43:37,675 Speaker 1: as I mentioned, on Saturday the twenty second, with twenty 654 00:43:37,795 --> 00:43:40,835 Speaker 1: four games that day and on Sunday, the twenty third, 655 00:43:41,315 --> 00:43:43,875 Speaker 1: But it's just going to have two two weeks from 656 00:43:43,955 --> 00:43:47,915 Speaker 1: now on Monday the twenty fourth. So what Well, Monday 657 00:43:47,955 --> 00:43:49,875 Speaker 1: the twenty fourth is forty five years to the day 658 00:43:50,395 --> 00:43:53,915 Speaker 1: of the miracle on ice, when the US Olympic hockey team, 659 00:43:53,955 --> 00:43:57,595 Speaker 1: having beaten Russia two days earlier, completed its impossible gold 660 00:43:57,635 --> 00:44:01,035 Speaker 1: medal victory at the nineteen eighty Olympics in Lake Placid, 661 00:44:01,075 --> 00:44:05,355 Speaker 1: New York. The NHL will celebate February twenty fourth with 662 00:44:05,475 --> 00:44:08,995 Speaker 1: a game in Calgary and another one in Salt Lake City. 663 00:44:09,035 --> 00:44:13,475 Speaker 1: Because marketing, we've done all of our marketing, we got 664 00:44:13,515 --> 00:44:21,275 Speaker 1: all the groceries. That Olympic victory gave hockey a brief 665 00:44:21,395 --> 00:44:25,835 Speaker 1: hold on what was at worst a tie with basketball 666 00:44:26,195 --> 00:44:29,635 Speaker 1: for the most popular winter sport in this country. Nobody 667 00:44:29,715 --> 00:44:34,115 Speaker 1: believes this now, but in February nineteen eighty. In fact, 668 00:44:34,115 --> 00:44:38,155 Speaker 1: through almost all of the nineteen eighties, NBA Finals games 669 00:44:38,275 --> 00:44:44,275 Speaker 1: on weeknights were not shown live on American television. They 670 00:44:44,275 --> 00:44:49,435 Speaker 1: were tape delayed until eleven thirty pm on the local 671 00:44:49,475 --> 00:44:57,155 Speaker 1: CBS station because who is gonna watch basketball rather than Dallas? 672 00:44:57,435 --> 00:45:01,755 Speaker 1: Or let's make a Beverly Hills Bills Lays or whatever 673 00:45:01,795 --> 00:45:06,035 Speaker 1: the shows were. Of course, the Olympic hockey game, the 674 00:45:06,075 --> 00:45:08,315 Speaker 1: one in which we beat the Russians on the twenty 675 00:45:08,315 --> 00:45:12,795 Speaker 1: second of February, was also shown on delay. They played 676 00:45:12,835 --> 00:45:14,675 Speaker 1: it late in the afternoon, but they knew everybody was 677 00:45:14,715 --> 00:45:17,555 Speaker 1: going to watch. They played it on tape on ABC 678 00:45:18,715 --> 00:45:23,155 Speaker 1: on the night that it happened. Only those of us 679 00:45:23,195 --> 00:45:26,515 Speaker 1: who were there at the Lake Placid Olympic Center saw 680 00:45:26,515 --> 00:45:30,435 Speaker 1: it live. Because my boss at UPI Radio was Sam Rosen, 681 00:45:30,515 --> 00:45:32,595 Speaker 1: already the backup play by play by on of the 682 00:45:32,635 --> 00:45:34,795 Speaker 1: New York Rangers, now a Hockey Hall of Famer in 683 00:45:34,875 --> 00:45:38,195 Speaker 1: his last of two hundred seasons doing the Rangers games, 684 00:45:38,475 --> 00:45:42,035 Speaker 1: he's retiring. Appropriately, he big footed me and took over 685 00:45:42,115 --> 00:45:45,075 Speaker 1: covering the US Olympic team, and he gave me a 686 00:45:45,075 --> 00:45:47,235 Speaker 1: hell of a second prize. He had me cover the 687 00:45:47,275 --> 00:45:49,475 Speaker 1: crowd for the remaining games, which meant I got to 688 00:45:49,515 --> 00:45:53,355 Speaker 1: sit there at center ice with a ticket and watch 689 00:45:53,635 --> 00:45:56,995 Speaker 1: like a fan and then spend I don't know ninety 690 00:45:57,035 --> 00:46:00,635 Speaker 1: seconds to two minutes working and ask happy American fans 691 00:46:00,955 --> 00:46:04,995 Speaker 1: how happy they were. So since this is the end 692 00:46:04,995 --> 00:46:06,235 Speaker 1: of it and I'm trying to give you a break 693 00:46:06,235 --> 00:46:09,395 Speaker 1: from all of our real world nonsense, I'll play you 694 00:46:09,435 --> 00:46:11,915 Speaker 1: one of my reports from the day of the wind 695 00:46:11,995 --> 00:46:17,515 Speaker 1: over Russia. I am just shy here or just after 696 00:46:17,595 --> 00:46:20,875 Speaker 1: I should say, my twenty first birthday, and this report 697 00:46:20,915 --> 00:46:24,075 Speaker 1: aired on about a thousand radio stations in the United States, 698 00:46:24,355 --> 00:46:28,115 Speaker 1: and it aired before people knew from television that we 699 00:46:28,155 --> 00:46:32,515 Speaker 1: had beaten the Russians. Because tough. I will play you 700 00:46:32,555 --> 00:46:35,075 Speaker 1: this report, and then I will tell you my real 701 00:46:35,115 --> 00:46:38,635 Speaker 1: memory of those Olympics when Sam Rosen, my friend to 702 00:46:38,675 --> 00:46:42,555 Speaker 1: this day, and his boss took me out and got 703 00:46:42,595 --> 00:46:46,515 Speaker 1: me drunk and then sent me to cover the skiing 704 00:46:47,555 --> 00:46:50,355 Speaker 1: when the wind chill outside was fifty below. And I'll 705 00:46:50,435 --> 00:46:53,795 Speaker 1: just add before I play you this old tape. I'm 706 00:46:53,995 --> 00:47:04,475 Speaker 1: still cold whenever I sit down with that share. 707 00:47:04,515 --> 00:47:07,235 Speaker 2: The biggest upset in Olympic hockey history was complete. The 708 00:47:07,315 --> 00:47:10,075 Speaker 2: United States four, the Soviet Union three, and the fans 709 00:47:10,075 --> 00:47:12,115 Speaker 2: who packed the Olympics Center felt as much a part 710 00:47:12,115 --> 00:47:13,395 Speaker 2: of the win as the players did. 711 00:47:13,515 --> 00:47:15,155 Speaker 1: I really thought you Russia would win. 712 00:47:15,395 --> 00:47:17,995 Speaker 2: I really didn't think the United States could pull it off. 713 00:47:18,395 --> 00:47:20,795 Speaker 5: I'm so proud of him. 714 00:47:20,355 --> 00:47:25,955 Speaker 3: Oh so tremendous, unbelievably tremendous. I I was gonna let 715 00:47:25,995 --> 00:47:28,275 Speaker 3: else to say, I'm so psyched. It's just just an 716 00:47:28,315 --> 00:47:30,035 Speaker 3: uplift for to see them win and to see them 717 00:47:30,075 --> 00:47:30,355 Speaker 3: could do. 718 00:47:30,395 --> 00:47:33,115 Speaker 2: So well against the Russian. After the game, thousands spilled 719 00:47:33,115 --> 00:47:36,435 Speaker 2: onto the streets. There were tremendous firecracker displays and chants of. 720 00:47:36,395 --> 00:47:37,195 Speaker 1: Weird number one. 721 00:47:37,635 --> 00:47:41,195 Speaker 2: Keith Oberman, Lake Placid, passic. 722 00:47:42,035 --> 00:47:45,155 Speaker 1: The alarm goes off. It is pitch black in my 723 00:47:45,275 --> 00:47:50,155 Speaker 1: room at the Swiss Acres Motel. It is Valentine's Day, 724 00:47:50,515 --> 00:47:57,155 Speaker 1: and I am still drunk. Keith knew he was in trouble, 725 00:47:58,155 --> 00:48:00,915 Speaker 1: but I was also twenty one years old, and in fact, 726 00:48:00,955 --> 00:48:03,635 Speaker 1: my twenty first birthday had only been eighteen days earlier. 727 00:48:03,715 --> 00:48:08,635 Speaker 1: So somehow I survived, showered, dressed, packed, and I mean 728 00:48:08,715 --> 00:48:12,195 Speaker 1: I packed, two cassette tape recorders, four sets of batteries, 729 00:48:12,315 --> 00:48:16,035 Speaker 1: an audio processing machine that weighed like fourteen pounds. The 730 00:48:16,275 --> 00:48:18,515 Speaker 1: nine volt batteries it took, I think it was a 731 00:48:18,555 --> 00:48:22,395 Speaker 1: dozen of them, a telephone, a backup telephone, twelve assorted 732 00:48:22,435 --> 00:48:26,995 Speaker 1: patch cords, two loose leaf notebooks, about eight pens, two microphones, 733 00:48:27,035 --> 00:48:30,595 Speaker 1: two extra pair of socks, and I got dressed, two 734 00:48:30,635 --> 00:48:35,875 Speaker 1: full sets of thermal underwear, shirts, sweaters, snow pants, snow shoes. 735 00:48:35,955 --> 00:48:40,755 Speaker 1: Because it was eleven degrees below zero that morning, I 736 00:48:40,835 --> 00:48:43,275 Speaker 1: got something quick to eat at the commissary, and I 737 00:48:43,395 --> 00:48:46,595 Speaker 1: made it out somehow to the line for the bus 738 00:48:46,635 --> 00:48:50,115 Speaker 1: from the Lake Placid Olympics Center to the Lake Placid 739 00:48:50,155 --> 00:48:54,235 Speaker 1: Transportation Center to Lake Placid's own White Face Mountain, then 740 00:48:54,435 --> 00:48:58,275 Speaker 1: onto the snow track, the open penned mountain tractor that 741 00:48:58,315 --> 00:49:00,875 Speaker 1: went up the side of Whiteface Mountain and took me 742 00:49:00,995 --> 00:49:04,315 Speaker 1: to the finish line of the nineteen eighty Olympic Men's 743 00:49:04,355 --> 00:49:09,795 Speaker 1: down hill ski final. Still drunk. That is how a 744 00:49:09,875 --> 00:49:13,715 Speaker 1: reporter covered the Olympics nearly forty three years ago. You drank, 745 00:49:14,355 --> 00:49:17,955 Speaker 1: you woke up, you went, you stood near the finish line, 746 00:49:17,955 --> 00:49:21,115 Speaker 1: and when the skiers completed their runs, you hiked or 747 00:49:21,235 --> 00:49:23,995 Speaker 1: wobbled over to them and you took out your microphone 748 00:49:24,075 --> 00:49:27,195 Speaker 1: or your pen and you interviewed them, like two minutes 749 00:49:27,235 --> 00:49:30,155 Speaker 1: after they had finished hurtling towards you down the hill. 750 00:49:31,355 --> 00:49:33,675 Speaker 1: You could see almost nothing of the race from there. 751 00:49:34,075 --> 00:49:37,515 Speaker 1: There were no TV monitors. Basically, your only clue was 752 00:49:37,555 --> 00:49:39,635 Speaker 1: the sound of the crowd that would give you about 753 00:49:39,635 --> 00:49:42,595 Speaker 1: thirty seconds worth of warning that the skier was coming 754 00:49:42,595 --> 00:49:45,355 Speaker 1: over the near horizon, and you should be prepared to 755 00:49:45,515 --> 00:49:50,675 Speaker 1: flee just in case he or she wiped out. Also, 756 00:49:51,595 --> 00:49:54,475 Speaker 1: you were on top of a mountain at the dead 757 00:49:54,595 --> 00:49:57,275 Speaker 1: point of winter, and whereas it might have been a 758 00:49:57,395 --> 00:50:00,675 Speaker 1: balmy eleven degrees below zero in the comfort of the 759 00:50:00,715 --> 00:50:04,515 Speaker 1: Swiss Acres motel with the wind chill, at the base 760 00:50:04,515 --> 00:50:08,115 Speaker 1: of the mountain, it was forty eight below zero and 761 00:50:08,155 --> 00:50:11,035 Speaker 1: there had already been four inches of new snow since 762 00:50:11,115 --> 00:50:15,475 Speaker 1: the sun came up, which is where the still drunk 763 00:50:15,515 --> 00:50:19,275 Speaker 1: part came in. Handy, my boss is at my first job, 764 00:50:19,315 --> 00:50:22,715 Speaker 1: the thousand station radio network called United pres International Audio, 765 00:50:23,075 --> 00:50:25,595 Speaker 1: had decided the night before to teach me how to 766 00:50:25,835 --> 00:50:30,315 Speaker 1: drink while on assignment. My bosses were the bureau manager 767 00:50:30,355 --> 00:50:32,635 Speaker 1: for that part of you PI, the late Stan Sabik, 768 00:50:32,675 --> 00:50:35,795 Speaker 1: who had hired me, and Sam Rosen, the sports director 769 00:50:35,795 --> 00:50:39,035 Speaker 1: of the network, who not only somehow survived being my 770 00:50:39,155 --> 00:50:43,075 Speaker 1: first boss, but today, just forty three years later, is 771 00:50:43,115 --> 00:50:45,995 Speaker 1: still working as the television voice of the New York 772 00:50:46,035 --> 00:50:49,115 Speaker 1: Rangers hockey team and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame. 773 00:50:49,315 --> 00:50:52,035 Speaker 1: So I guess my reputation is a tough employee is 774 00:50:52,075 --> 00:50:57,435 Speaker 1: wildly overrated, or at least Sam thinks. So Sam and 775 00:50:57,475 --> 00:51:00,235 Speaker 1: Stan kept me drinking at the motel until two am, 776 00:51:00,395 --> 00:51:02,075 Speaker 1: knowing full well that I had to get on the 777 00:51:02,235 --> 00:51:05,155 Speaker 1: six am bus to go cover the men's downhill, because 778 00:51:05,195 --> 00:51:07,275 Speaker 1: it was the two of them who had assigned me 779 00:51:07,315 --> 00:51:11,835 Speaker 1: to go cover the men's downhill, and bluntly, I was 780 00:51:11,875 --> 00:51:15,475 Speaker 1: surprisingly pleased with myself that freezing morning because I had 781 00:51:15,475 --> 00:51:18,675 Speaker 1: indeed learned how to drink while on assignment. I had 782 00:51:18,755 --> 00:51:23,035 Speaker 1: somehow found the phone jack for the UPI phone buried 783 00:51:23,115 --> 00:51:26,075 Speaker 1: under all the new snow, which of course was buried 784 00:51:26,115 --> 00:51:29,275 Speaker 1: under all the old snow, attached the phone to it, 785 00:51:29,315 --> 00:51:31,875 Speaker 1: got in a dial tone, called the office, checked the 786 00:51:31,915 --> 00:51:34,515 Speaker 1: alligator clips with which I would feed the tape, and 787 00:51:34,715 --> 00:51:40,275 Speaker 1: all was well until I went to put a cassette 788 00:51:40,315 --> 00:51:49,075 Speaker 1: tape into the cassette recorder. I didn't have one fat 789 00:51:49,155 --> 00:51:51,715 Speaker 1: lot of good two cassette tape machines, gonna do you 790 00:51:51,755 --> 00:51:55,795 Speaker 1: without a cassette to stick in one of them. I 791 00:51:55,835 --> 00:52:00,635 Speaker 1: looked forlornly around the base of Whiteface Mountain, twelve hundred 792 00:52:00,635 --> 00:52:02,755 Speaker 1: feet above sea level. As we were. There was a 793 00:52:02,795 --> 00:52:06,595 Speaker 1: surprisingly nice chalet and a decent restaurant, but there were 794 00:52:06,635 --> 00:52:10,755 Speaker 1: no radio shacks or other electronics stores. There was, however, 795 00:52:10,835 --> 00:52:15,915 Speaker 1: one other radio guy, Jack Briggs, from the Associated Press 796 00:52:15,995 --> 00:52:19,755 Speaker 1: Radio Network, the nominal arch rival to our own UPI Audio. 797 00:52:20,915 --> 00:52:22,715 Speaker 1: I knew Jack a little. He was a nice guy. 798 00:52:23,395 --> 00:52:26,435 Speaker 1: I went and explained my plight, making sure to blame 799 00:52:26,475 --> 00:52:30,915 Speaker 1: my bosses for my predicament. Oh man, he said, his 800 00:52:30,995 --> 00:52:35,395 Speaker 1: breath turning into first steam and then ice cubes. I'm 801 00:52:35,435 --> 00:52:40,595 Speaker 1: so sorry, but I can't give you a cassette. I'm sorry, 802 00:52:40,595 --> 00:52:47,635 Speaker 1: you're UPI, and I'm ap Oh how I laughed. That 803 00:52:47,715 --> 00:52:49,795 Speaker 1: was a great line to say to a rookie reporter 804 00:52:49,915 --> 00:52:53,795 Speaker 1: still drunk thanks to the initiation rituals of his own bosses. 805 00:52:54,435 --> 00:52:57,955 Speaker 1: The possessor of one great buzz, but zero audio cassettes. 806 00:52:59,395 --> 00:53:02,435 Speaker 1: Jack Briggs could tell I thought he was kidding. That's 807 00:53:02,475 --> 00:53:05,755 Speaker 1: when he said, I'm not kidding. Look, if my boss, 808 00:53:05,795 --> 00:53:09,755 Speaker 1: Shelby Whitfield, ever found out, he'd fire me. I suddenly 809 00:53:09,835 --> 00:53:14,955 Speaker 1: wasn't drunk anymore, not at all. My boss will will 810 00:53:15,035 --> 00:53:18,915 Speaker 1: will fire me. Briggs was adamant. I can't run the 811 00:53:18,995 --> 00:53:24,075 Speaker 1: risk of shellby finding out. I have to confess. I shouted, 812 00:53:24,875 --> 00:53:26,635 Speaker 1: how the hell is he gonna find out? 813 00:53:26,795 --> 00:53:27,035 Speaker 3: Jack? 814 00:53:28,915 --> 00:53:31,715 Speaker 1: I think subconsciously I was hoping to create an avalanche, 815 00:53:31,715 --> 00:53:33,355 Speaker 1: which would have been a better solution than the one 816 00:53:33,355 --> 00:53:36,155 Speaker 1: I was faced with. I said to him, there's you 817 00:53:36,875 --> 00:53:40,035 Speaker 1: and there's me, and we're on top of a goddamn mountain, 818 00:53:40,235 --> 00:53:43,715 Speaker 1: and Shelby Whitfield, your boss is in Washington, DC, and 819 00:53:43,795 --> 00:53:47,635 Speaker 1: he's a drunk, and he's probably more drunk than I am, 820 00:53:48,715 --> 00:53:51,035 Speaker 1: and he'd probably thank you for helping me to drink more. 821 00:53:52,595 --> 00:53:55,595 Speaker 1: Briggs would not budge. I told him I would pay him. 822 00:53:55,795 --> 00:53:57,875 Speaker 1: I told him I would give him the cassette back 823 00:53:57,955 --> 00:54:00,315 Speaker 1: after I fed my boss the interviews over the phone, 824 00:54:00,475 --> 00:54:02,515 Speaker 1: so there'd be no evidence and he wouldn't even have 825 00:54:02,515 --> 00:54:06,915 Speaker 1: to do any interviews. No good. I'm sorry. I know 826 00:54:06,955 --> 00:54:08,755 Speaker 1: you're going to tell this story about me for a while. 827 00:54:09,675 --> 00:54:12,795 Speaker 1: As he walked away from me, I shouted after him forever. 828 00:54:15,915 --> 00:54:19,675 Speaker 1: Turned out there was no radio shack and no camaraderie, 829 00:54:19,755 --> 00:54:22,875 Speaker 1: but there was a West Coast newspaper reporter atop the 830 00:54:22,875 --> 00:54:26,235 Speaker 1: mountain who heard some of this conversation. I guess I 831 00:54:26,315 --> 00:54:29,675 Speaker 1: yelled a little loudly at mister Briggs. Some guy standing 832 00:54:29,675 --> 00:54:31,915 Speaker 1: next to a Saint Bernard told me to quiet down 833 00:54:31,955 --> 00:54:34,315 Speaker 1: and mentioned something else about the avalanches. Or maybe I 834 00:54:34,475 --> 00:54:37,235 Speaker 1: dreamed that part. I don't know. Anyway, the West Coast 835 00:54:37,315 --> 00:54:40,915 Speaker 1: newspaper guy said he had a micro cassette machine and 836 00:54:40,955 --> 00:54:42,475 Speaker 1: he would loan it to me and I could give 837 00:54:42,515 --> 00:54:44,235 Speaker 1: it back to him at the media center that day 838 00:54:44,275 --> 00:54:45,755 Speaker 1: or the next one. But I had to do him 839 00:54:45,755 --> 00:54:47,955 Speaker 1: a favor because there was this really cute reporter in 840 00:54:47,995 --> 00:54:50,475 Speaker 1: our UPI bureau and he really wanted to be introduced 841 00:54:50,475 --> 00:54:52,195 Speaker 1: to her. And I said, I can promise you nothing 842 00:54:52,235 --> 00:54:54,555 Speaker 1: but a handshake, and he understood, and that's how I 843 00:54:54,555 --> 00:54:58,395 Speaker 1: did not get fired. But of course, a story like 844 00:54:58,435 --> 00:55:02,115 Speaker 1: this has punchlines, and this one has two of them. 845 00:55:02,515 --> 00:55:05,675 Speaker 1: The first is two years and a couple of months later, 846 00:55:05,835 --> 00:55:09,235 Speaker 1: Shelby Whitfield asked me to lunch. He had left the 847 00:55:09,275 --> 00:55:11,915 Speaker 1: Associated Press to run the sports department at the ABC 848 00:55:12,155 --> 00:55:14,915 Speaker 1: Radio network, back when that was not only a thing, 849 00:55:15,075 --> 00:55:18,355 Speaker 1: but a big thing. We went to a terrific New 850 00:55:18,435 --> 00:55:22,835 Speaker 1: York City Chinese restaurant near ABC called shun Lee, and 851 00:55:22,915 --> 00:55:25,515 Speaker 1: Shelby Whitfield interviewed me for a job when that kind 852 00:55:25,515 --> 00:55:27,875 Speaker 1: of job paid eighty thousand a year and my very 853 00:55:27,955 --> 00:55:30,075 Speaker 1: nice studio apartment in a very nice part of town 854 00:55:30,275 --> 00:55:34,475 Speaker 1: costs less than five hundred dollars. A month later, in 855 00:55:34,515 --> 00:55:37,995 Speaker 1: an interesting twist, I found out that jobs didn't exist. 856 00:55:38,555 --> 00:55:41,075 Speaker 1: I was mentioning the interview in a press box somewhere 857 00:55:41,275 --> 00:55:43,755 Speaker 1: I think Madison Square Garden, and there was another kid 858 00:55:43,795 --> 00:55:47,435 Speaker 1: reporter named Howie Rose, and how he is still working, 859 00:55:47,475 --> 00:55:49,355 Speaker 1: he does the New York Mets games on the radio. 860 00:55:49,755 --> 00:55:52,955 Speaker 1: And how he said, wait, they interviewed me for that 861 00:55:53,315 --> 00:55:56,355 Speaker 1: job last year. Just an excuse for that damn Whitfield 862 00:55:56,595 --> 00:56:01,675 Speaker 1: to go drink his lunch on ABC's tab. Anyway, before 863 00:56:01,675 --> 00:56:03,715 Speaker 1: we started the interview for the job I did not 864 00:56:03,835 --> 00:56:06,915 Speaker 1: know did not exist at ABC. I told Shelby Whitfield 865 00:56:06,915 --> 00:56:09,395 Speaker 1: the white Face Mountain can I borrow a cassette Jack 866 00:56:09,435 --> 00:56:13,475 Speaker 1: Briggs story? And Shelby's exact reply was, I don't know 867 00:56:13,715 --> 00:56:15,675 Speaker 1: was I going to find out? There was you and 868 00:56:15,675 --> 00:56:16,915 Speaker 1: there was him, and you were on top of a 869 00:56:16,955 --> 00:56:20,315 Speaker 1: goddamn mountain and I was in Washington. Only he didn't 870 00:56:20,315 --> 00:56:24,795 Speaker 1: say goddamn that Briggs. He added, always trying to suck 871 00:56:24,875 --> 00:56:26,875 Speaker 1: up to me, I got to tell you something I 872 00:56:26,915 --> 00:56:29,235 Speaker 1: actually once promised I wouldn't tell you if we ever met. This. 873 00:56:29,515 --> 00:56:31,835 Speaker 1: When the Olympics were over and came back to the office, 874 00:56:32,475 --> 00:56:34,395 Speaker 1: he told me what happened. He expected me to be 875 00:56:34,395 --> 00:56:36,315 Speaker 1: happy or give him a bonus or something. And I 876 00:56:36,315 --> 00:56:39,955 Speaker 1: called him a little snitch. Only Shelby didn't say snitch, 877 00:56:40,635 --> 00:56:44,235 Speaker 1: just a word that rhymed with it. The other punch 878 00:56:44,275 --> 00:56:47,155 Speaker 1: line is from nineteen ninety two, and remember this happened 879 00:56:47,155 --> 00:56:51,075 Speaker 1: at the nineteen eighty Olympics. I go to work at 880 00:56:51,355 --> 00:56:53,515 Speaker 1: ESPN and come in a little early to launch their 881 00:56:53,635 --> 00:56:56,475 Speaker 1: radio network, a story I've told here before. And there 882 00:56:57,275 --> 00:56:59,315 Speaker 1: I find a friend of mine since my radio days, 883 00:56:59,315 --> 00:57:00,955 Speaker 1: who I have not seen in a year or so, 884 00:57:01,075 --> 00:57:03,115 Speaker 1: and he says, hey, last month, I was at an 885 00:57:03,195 --> 00:57:06,155 Speaker 1: NBA game in Washington. I ran to Jack Briggs. He 886 00:57:06,155 --> 00:57:07,795 Speaker 1: heard you were going to ESPN. He asked me if 887 00:57:07,795 --> 00:57:09,955 Speaker 1: you were still telling that story about the time you 888 00:57:09,995 --> 00:57:12,315 Speaker 1: got stuck on Whiteface Mountain without a cassette, And he 889 00:57:12,355 --> 00:57:14,555 Speaker 1: was the only other reporter there, and he wouldn't give 890 00:57:14,555 --> 00:57:16,835 Speaker 1: you a spare And I told him you were and 891 00:57:16,915 --> 00:57:19,875 Speaker 1: I smiled, and I replied, I hope you remembered to 892 00:57:20,035 --> 00:57:36,875 Speaker 1: use the word forever. I've done all the damage I 893 00:57:36,915 --> 00:57:38,955 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Brian Ray and 894 00:57:38,995 --> 00:57:42,395 Speaker 1: John Phillips Chanel, the musical directors have Countdown, arranged, produced 895 00:57:42,395 --> 00:57:45,995 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration 896 00:57:46,035 --> 00:57:49,915 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray, in between his other gigs, was 897 00:57:49,955 --> 00:57:52,835 Speaker 1: on the guitars, bass and drums. He was produced by 898 00:57:52,875 --> 00:57:56,315 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifty musical comments are by 899 00:57:56,315 --> 00:58:00,035 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organists ever, Nancy Faust. The sports 900 00:58:00,115 --> 00:58:03,155 Speaker 1: music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by 901 00:58:03,195 --> 00:58:06,595 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy of e ESPN Inc. Other music 902 00:58:06,675 --> 00:58:09,515 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My 903 00:58:09,555 --> 00:58:12,595 Speaker 1: announcer today is my friend Larry David. Everything else was 904 00:58:12,955 --> 00:58:17,115 Speaker 1: as ever my fault So that's countdown for today, just 905 00:58:18,355 --> 00:58:20,795 Speaker 1: and thirty eight days until the scheduled end of his 906 00:58:20,915 --> 00:58:25,435 Speaker 1: lane duck lame brained term, unless Musk removes him sooner 907 00:58:26,755 --> 00:58:31,115 Speaker 1: or the actuarial tables due. The next scheduled countdown is Monday. 908 00:58:31,155 --> 00:58:36,115 Speaker 1: As always, bulletins as the news warrants. Remember impeach Trump now, 909 00:58:36,515 --> 00:58:40,035 Speaker 1: it won't work. Now it will win the Democrats the midterms. 910 00:58:40,835 --> 00:58:43,595 Speaker 1: Until the next time. I'm Keith o'roman. Good morning, let 911 00:58:43,595 --> 00:58:48,955 Speaker 1: me try that again, old b good morning, good afternoon, 912 00:58:49,035 --> 00:58:55,715 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. He set your name Rock Lauren. 913 00:59:10,755 --> 00:59:14,715 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 914 00:59:14,875 --> 00:59:19,955 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 915 00:59:20,035 --> 00:59:21,995 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.