1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:27,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Mark 2 00:00:28,035 --> 00:00:30,955 Speaker 1: Meadows reportedly flipped and took a plea deal, and we'll 3 00:00:30,995 --> 00:00:34,315 Speaker 1: testify against Trump until the jury. Trump said, then that's 4 00:00:34,395 --> 00:00:38,715 Speaker 1: the end. As early as December eleventh, twenty twenty, Jenna 5 00:00:38,795 --> 00:00:41,315 Speaker 1: Ellis flipped and took a plea deal, and we'll testify 6 00:00:41,355 --> 00:00:44,795 Speaker 1: against Juliani. Sidney Powell flipped and took a plea deal. 7 00:00:44,915 --> 00:00:47,995 Speaker 1: Kenneth cheesbro flipped and took a plea deal. Don't look now, 8 00:00:47,995 --> 00:00:50,075 Speaker 1: but there's something funny going on over there at the bank. 9 00:00:50,195 --> 00:00:50,475 Speaker 2: Jarge. 10 00:00:51,435 --> 00:00:53,395 Speaker 1: I've never really seen one, but that's got all the 11 00:00:53,435 --> 00:00:58,315 Speaker 1: air marks of being a run next. Unbelievable as this sounds, 12 00:00:58,795 --> 00:01:03,235 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani now has to flip. He may literally have 13 00:01:03,355 --> 00:01:07,555 Speaker 1: no other choice, has no money, MAGA has stopped funding him. 14 00:01:07,995 --> 00:01:11,395 Speaker 1: Jenna Ellis's principal value as a witness is against him, 15 00:01:11,675 --> 00:01:15,635 Speaker 1: and she literally signed a you must testify agreement. Kenny 16 00:01:15,715 --> 00:01:18,635 Speaker 1: the Cheese confess to doing what Giuliani told him to 17 00:01:18,675 --> 00:01:22,395 Speaker 1: do on the fake elector's filings in Georgia. Meadows just 18 00:01:22,435 --> 00:01:25,955 Speaker 1: reportedly told Jack Smith's prosecutors that he told Trump in 19 00:01:25,995 --> 00:01:28,915 Speaker 1: the middle of December of twenty twenty that Giuliani had 20 00:01:28,955 --> 00:01:32,835 Speaker 1: produced only allegations, no evidence, And now Meadows has to 21 00:01:32,915 --> 00:01:35,755 Speaker 1: testify in the federal case, and he's still really liable 22 00:01:35,755 --> 00:01:39,195 Speaker 1: in the Georgia case, and if he pleads out there, 23 00:01:39,715 --> 00:01:43,795 Speaker 1: he'll obviously give them Rudy there. Trump has not ridden 24 00:01:43,795 --> 00:01:48,195 Speaker 1: to Rudy's financial rescue. Rudy is screwed. Rudy needs to flip. 25 00:01:48,955 --> 00:01:51,675 Speaker 1: And while the John Eastmans of this world are fanatics 26 00:01:51,675 --> 00:01:53,995 Speaker 1: and still not only believe they will be vindicated, but 27 00:01:54,075 --> 00:01:57,675 Speaker 1: believe they will avenge themselves against the prosecutors and be 28 00:01:57,795 --> 00:02:04,955 Speaker 1: named Attorney General chief crusader something, the only thing Rudy 29 00:02:04,995 --> 00:02:09,915 Speaker 1: Giuliani is a fanatic about is Rudy Giuliani. At some 30 00:02:10,155 --> 00:02:12,995 Speaker 1: point soon he is going to snap out of his 31 00:02:13,115 --> 00:02:18,395 Speaker 1: Scotch and Viagra hayes and realize that Trump sold him out, 32 00:02:18,435 --> 00:02:21,915 Speaker 1: and Meadows and Ellis and Cheesbro are ready to send 33 00:02:21,995 --> 00:02:25,515 Speaker 1: him to the big house, and time is running out 34 00:02:25,555 --> 00:02:29,715 Speaker 1: on the lifeboat because it really is a run on 35 00:02:29,755 --> 00:02:34,275 Speaker 1: the Plea Deal Bank. Obviously, Rudy is not the target here, 36 00:02:34,275 --> 00:02:36,995 Speaker 1: and not why Jack Smith granted Mark Meadow's immunity to 37 00:02:37,035 --> 00:02:41,195 Speaker 1: testify to the Washington Grand jury. As ABC reports, Trump 38 00:02:41,395 --> 00:02:44,315 Speaker 1: is the target that has been obvious since the spring. 39 00:02:44,715 --> 00:02:47,795 Speaker 1: The May twenty fifth edition of this series, five months 40 00:02:47,835 --> 00:02:52,595 Speaker 1: ago today, was titled did Meadows Flip? And I pointed 41 00:02:52,635 --> 00:02:55,515 Speaker 1: out that there were three bombshell news reports about the 42 00:02:55,555 --> 00:02:59,235 Speaker 1: investigation of Trump coming out at that time, including the 43 00:02:59,275 --> 00:03:03,515 Speaker 1: claim that quote some of Trump's close associates are bracing 44 00:03:03,595 --> 00:03:07,475 Speaker 1: for his indictment, and the bizarre footnote to a CNN 45 00:03:07,595 --> 00:03:12,275 Speaker 1: story down in paragraph fourteen, read quote a source close 46 00:03:12,315 --> 00:03:14,875 Speaker 1: to Trump's legal team said Trump's lawyers have had no 47 00:03:15,075 --> 00:03:18,275 Speaker 1: contact with Meadows and his team and are in the 48 00:03:18,475 --> 00:03:24,515 Speaker 1: dark on what Meadows is doing in the investigation, which 49 00:03:24,635 --> 00:03:26,395 Speaker 1: was phrased in such a way that it made it 50 00:03:26,475 --> 00:03:30,235 Speaker 1: sound like Trump's legal team knew that Meadows was doing 51 00:03:30,475 --> 00:03:34,195 Speaker 1: something in the investigation, they just didn't know what. And 52 00:03:34,235 --> 00:03:38,555 Speaker 1: again quoting that CNN story fueling speculation about whether Meadows 53 00:03:38,715 --> 00:03:42,995 Speaker 1: is cooperating with the Special Counsel's probe or if Meadows 54 00:03:43,035 --> 00:03:47,115 Speaker 1: himself is a target of the investigation. Well, now we 55 00:03:47,235 --> 00:03:51,595 Speaker 1: know how well founded their speculation was. Meadows played this adroitly. 56 00:03:51,715 --> 00:03:54,675 Speaker 1: The law firm representing him got nine hundred grand from 57 00:03:54,715 --> 00:03:58,915 Speaker 1: the Trump political action committee Save America last winter. Meadows 58 00:03:58,955 --> 00:04:02,115 Speaker 1: got five hundred thousand more from a pro Trump think 59 00:04:02,195 --> 00:04:05,075 Speaker 1: tank in the spring, and then Meadows apparently got a 60 00:04:05,075 --> 00:04:08,195 Speaker 1: play deal from Jack Smith in the summer. He got 61 00:04:08,275 --> 00:04:12,435 Speaker 1: the hush money, and he didn't even hush. So the 62 00:04:12,515 --> 00:04:15,635 Speaker 1: news of the Meadows flip from ABC might have been 63 00:04:15,635 --> 00:04:18,515 Speaker 1: a shock, but it was not a surprise. The bullet 64 00:04:18,515 --> 00:04:21,635 Speaker 1: points of their story. Meadows met with Smith's team at 65 00:04:21,715 --> 00:04:24,995 Speaker 1: least three times this year, once with the grand jury present. 66 00:04:25,235 --> 00:04:28,195 Speaker 1: He's already testified under oath that he repeatedly told Trump 67 00:04:28,235 --> 00:04:30,675 Speaker 1: after the election that the allegations of voting fraud were 68 00:04:30,755 --> 00:04:33,915 Speaker 1: false and that he has never seen any evidence of 69 00:04:33,955 --> 00:04:38,155 Speaker 1: fraud in the twenty twenty campaign, and Meadows told prosecutors 70 00:04:38,155 --> 00:04:41,515 Speaker 1: that when Trump claimed victory early on election night, he 71 00:04:41,635 --> 00:04:46,635 Speaker 1: was being quote dishonest unquote with the public. He told 72 00:04:46,715 --> 00:04:50,675 Speaker 1: Smith's team quote, obviously we didn't win. But he continued 73 00:04:50,715 --> 00:04:54,275 Speaker 1: to maintain Trump's big lie throughout twenty twenty one and 74 00:04:54,395 --> 00:04:59,035 Speaker 1: in his autobiographical story of the Trump administration, and while 75 00:04:59,075 --> 00:05:02,635 Speaker 1: Meadows insisted Trump never told him I know I lost, 76 00:05:03,355 --> 00:05:06,915 Speaker 1: he has reportedly he testified that after the Supreme Court 77 00:05:06,995 --> 00:05:11,635 Speaker 1: rejected Trump's last challenge. December eleventh, twenty twenty, Trump said 78 00:05:11,675 --> 00:05:15,795 Speaker 1: to him, quote something to the effect of, then that's 79 00:05:15,915 --> 00:05:22,755 Speaker 1: the end, or so that's it. The Georgia eleven, seven 80 00:05:22,795 --> 00:05:26,075 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty votes call was still twenty two days away, 81 00:05:26,435 --> 00:05:29,675 Speaker 1: and the coup attempt twenty six days away, But that 82 00:05:29,875 --> 00:05:34,075 Speaker 1: December eleventh quote could be key to the essence of 83 00:05:34,195 --> 00:05:37,555 Speaker 1: Smith's prosecution of Trump, that all of what Trump did 84 00:05:37,635 --> 00:05:40,275 Speaker 1: was nothing close to an honest attempt to investigate a 85 00:05:40,595 --> 00:05:43,795 Speaker 1: compromised election, and that Trump knew that he had lost 86 00:05:44,155 --> 00:05:47,835 Speaker 1: and knew that he was lying every time he insisted otherwise. 87 00:05:49,195 --> 00:05:53,675 Speaker 1: Dementia Jay Trump is ft that he was eft even 88 00:05:53,715 --> 00:05:56,515 Speaker 1: before the Meadows flip broke, and was later confirmed by 89 00:05:56,515 --> 00:06:02,515 Speaker 1: Bloomberg News yesterday morning. Well, I believe that phrase is 90 00:06:03,395 --> 00:06:04,435 Speaker 1: cry more. 91 00:06:04,875 --> 00:06:07,395 Speaker 2: Thank you, Arnor for the opportunity to address the court 92 00:06:11,435 --> 00:06:14,395 Speaker 2: as an attorney who is also a Christian. I take 93 00:06:14,435 --> 00:06:18,275 Speaker 2: my responsibilities as a lawyer very seriously, and I endeavored 94 00:06:18,355 --> 00:06:21,155 Speaker 2: to be a person of sound, moral and ethical character 95 00:06:21,275 --> 00:06:24,155 Speaker 2: in all of my dealings. I believe in and I 96 00:06:24,275 --> 00:06:27,355 Speaker 2: value election integrity. If I knew then what I know now, 97 00:06:27,835 --> 00:06:30,595 Speaker 2: I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these 98 00:06:30,635 --> 00:06:31,875 Speaker 2: post election challenges. 99 00:06:32,235 --> 00:06:35,075 Speaker 1: If only I knew then what I did know then 100 00:06:35,635 --> 00:06:39,155 Speaker 1: but lied about, we should have seen this one coming. 101 00:06:39,355 --> 00:06:42,515 Speaker 1: Throughout the second half of August, Jenna Ellis repeatedly tweeted 102 00:06:42,595 --> 00:06:45,915 Speaker 1: questions about why Trump and MAGA were not paying for 103 00:06:45,995 --> 00:06:49,355 Speaker 1: the legal fees of all of those who were indicted 104 00:06:49,435 --> 00:06:54,675 Speaker 1: with him in Atlanta, especially her. On September fourteenth, that's 105 00:06:54,715 --> 00:06:58,355 Speaker 1: a month and change ago, Jenna Ellis tweeted over two 106 00:06:58,395 --> 00:07:01,355 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars raised for my defense fund. Thank you 107 00:07:01,395 --> 00:07:04,275 Speaker 1: to everyone who is helping me fight a weaponized government 108 00:07:04,475 --> 00:07:09,635 Speaker 1: and the criminalization of the practice of law. Unquote Jenna, 109 00:07:09,715 --> 00:07:13,155 Speaker 1: that criminalization of the practice of law? Were you for 110 00:07:13,315 --> 00:07:17,075 Speaker 1: it or against it? The good news about what turns 111 00:07:17,115 --> 00:07:20,035 Speaker 1: out to be two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars raised 112 00:07:20,075 --> 00:07:23,395 Speaker 1: for Jenna Ellis is that A it didn't come from 113 00:07:23,435 --> 00:07:28,115 Speaker 1: anybody we like, and B ten thousand dollars of it 114 00:07:28,195 --> 00:07:33,595 Speaker 1: was supposedly donated by Denesh De'suza. He'll be asking for 115 00:07:33,635 --> 00:07:37,755 Speaker 1: that back. As noted before, the Ellis flip in Georgia 116 00:07:37,835 --> 00:07:41,035 Speaker 1: differs from the ones by Kenneth Chesbro and Sidney Powell. 117 00:07:41,195 --> 00:07:45,075 Speaker 1: It is a so called full cooperation agreement, further meetings 118 00:07:45,075 --> 00:07:50,715 Speaker 1: with the DA, further statements, testimony, especially about Rudy, against 119 00:07:50,715 --> 00:07:56,955 Speaker 1: whom Jenna Ellis will finally get her revenge for farting 120 00:07:57,035 --> 00:08:06,715 Speaker 1: on her. Meanwhile, back at the Ranch House, Republicans continue 121 00:08:06,755 --> 00:08:10,115 Speaker 1: to live under a Trump dictatorship, and their nominees for 122 00:08:10,235 --> 00:08:13,995 Speaker 1: Speaker continue to have a shelf life that approximates that 123 00:08:14,235 --> 00:08:18,835 Speaker 1: of the drummers. From spinal tap number four, Tom Emmer 124 00:08:19,315 --> 00:08:23,115 Speaker 1: had an elapsed time from nomination by the GOP Caucus 125 00:08:23,395 --> 00:08:29,115 Speaker 1: to withdrawing from consideration of four hours and nine minutes. 126 00:08:29,755 --> 00:08:33,555 Speaker 1: Nominated at twelve fifteen Eastern. Audio of him from twenty 127 00:08:33,595 --> 00:08:36,555 Speaker 1: seventeen wondering if Trump were weak minded emerges at twelve 128 00:08:36,555 --> 00:08:40,355 Speaker 1: fifty six Eastern. Trump calls him a globalist rhino at 129 00:08:40,355 --> 00:08:44,235 Speaker 1: two eleven Eastern. Trump's team texts a screenshot of that 130 00:08:44,315 --> 00:08:47,235 Speaker 1: to every Republican in the House at two thirty five Eastern, 131 00:08:47,675 --> 00:08:52,315 Speaker 1: and Emmer spontaneously combusts at four to twenty four Eastern. 132 00:08:52,915 --> 00:08:55,435 Speaker 1: His crime, of course, was that he had voted to 133 00:08:55,515 --> 00:09:02,515 Speaker 1: certify the twenty twenty election. Tom Emmer's Goddardammerung, or in 134 00:09:02,555 --> 00:09:09,635 Speaker 1: this case god Demerrung as usual, being incapable of doing 135 00:09:09,715 --> 00:09:12,355 Speaker 1: whatever the rules and history call for, namely what the 136 00:09:12,355 --> 00:09:15,355 Speaker 1: other one hundred and seventeen congresses have done in peace, 137 00:09:15,475 --> 00:09:19,075 Speaker 1: in war, in civil war, during Whig congresses, during Democratic 138 00:09:19,115 --> 00:09:23,675 Speaker 1: Party congresses, during Republican Party congresses, during the original Democratic 139 00:09:23,755 --> 00:09:27,995 Speaker 1: Republican Party congresses. The Republicans floated yet another made up, 140 00:09:28,235 --> 00:09:33,875 Speaker 1: unconstitutional ideal last night, a co speakership with Kevin McCarthy 141 00:09:33,995 --> 00:09:38,435 Speaker 1: back as official speaker and Jim Jordan as deputy speaker. 142 00:09:38,915 --> 00:09:44,395 Speaker 1: This was proposed by Kevin McCarthy. It A serves as 143 00:09:44,435 --> 00:09:47,195 Speaker 1: a reminder that as they deposed him, I told you 144 00:09:47,235 --> 00:09:50,435 Speaker 1: he'd be back, and b serves as a reminder that 145 00:09:50,515 --> 00:09:54,235 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan was this close to getting former President Gerald 146 00:09:54,275 --> 00:09:57,315 Speaker 1: Ford to run as his vice president in nineteen eighty 147 00:09:57,635 --> 00:10:00,995 Speaker 1: until Ford blew the thing by insisting that after they 148 00:10:01,075 --> 00:10:05,275 Speaker 1: got elected, they would really be co presidents. So McCarthy 149 00:10:05,315 --> 00:10:09,115 Speaker 1: gets this idea across the finish line somehow. Just remember 150 00:10:09,155 --> 00:10:13,555 Speaker 1: that the first business under a new McCarthy Jordan's speakership 151 00:10:13,635 --> 00:10:18,395 Speaker 1: duet would be either for McCarthy to bump off Jordan, 152 00:10:18,955 --> 00:10:23,515 Speaker 1: or for Jordan to bump off McCarthy. The GOP caucus 153 00:10:23,515 --> 00:10:27,155 Speaker 1: met again last night and opted for another insurrectionist, Congressman, 154 00:10:27,235 --> 00:10:30,715 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson as Speaker designe. And if you tell me 155 00:10:30,795 --> 00:10:35,235 Speaker 1: his name is actually John Mikeson, I'll believe you. On 156 00:10:35,315 --> 00:10:37,915 Speaker 1: the third ballot last night, he got one hundred and 157 00:10:37,955 --> 00:10:40,955 Speaker 1: twenty eight votes, which is a scant eighty eight short 158 00:10:40,995 --> 00:10:45,315 Speaker 1: of losing the actual election for speaker by one vote. 159 00:10:45,795 --> 00:10:48,275 Speaker 1: The conference then held a roll call vote to see 160 00:10:48,275 --> 00:10:50,315 Speaker 1: how many of them would support him on the floor. 161 00:10:50,915 --> 00:10:55,955 Speaker 1: They did not ask and for how many hours? The 162 00:11:08,755 --> 00:11:12,915 Speaker 1: idiot booing that question last night is the North Carolina 163 00:11:13,075 --> 00:11:18,075 Speaker 1: Witch Virginia Fox. They booed the reporter and told her 164 00:11:18,155 --> 00:11:21,155 Speaker 1: to shut up when she asked about the insurrection that 165 00:11:21,275 --> 00:11:25,595 Speaker 1: they largely supported, and Johnson led, there is nobody in 166 00:11:25,635 --> 00:11:29,435 Speaker 1: that group. Johnson was at the podium, Scalisee was there, Stephanic. 167 00:11:30,195 --> 00:11:33,995 Speaker 1: Nobody in that group is a loyal American. They are fascists. 168 00:11:34,435 --> 00:11:40,155 Speaker 1: They are fascist bastards who must be exercised from our nation. 169 00:11:41,315 --> 00:11:45,235 Speaker 1: The side story to last night's caucus Tennessee Congressman Chuck 170 00:11:45,395 --> 00:11:48,995 Speaker 1: Fleischman texting somebody close to Trump what was going on 171 00:11:49,155 --> 00:11:54,475 Speaker 1: in real time, and Trump promptly posting screenshots of his texts, 172 00:11:55,115 --> 00:11:59,595 Speaker 1: I'm in speaker race now please tell President Trump thanks 173 00:12:00,035 --> 00:12:04,875 Speaker 1: five left voting now all candidates now one percent Trump 174 00:12:05,075 --> 00:12:09,755 Speaker 1: all five. I preached Trump in my speech. The only 175 00:12:09,795 --> 00:12:13,355 Speaker 1: thing Representative Fleischman left out was please tell him not 176 00:12:13,475 --> 00:12:17,435 Speaker 1: to kill me. Apart from the obvious point that every 177 00:12:17,475 --> 00:12:21,115 Speaker 1: Republican in the House is in fact, in reality, nothing 178 00:12:21,155 --> 00:12:25,355 Speaker 1: more than a slave on the Trump plantation, there is 179 00:12:25,435 --> 00:12:28,275 Speaker 1: the reality that in the last three weeks the Congressional 180 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:31,755 Speaker 1: Party has destroyed what little credibility it had, not with 181 00:12:31,955 --> 00:12:35,635 Speaker 1: Trump or the Maga cult, or with you or with me, 182 00:12:36,875 --> 00:12:40,595 Speaker 1: but the credibility it needs for showdowns with the Democrats 183 00:12:40,795 --> 00:12:43,995 Speaker 1: or the Senate or the White House. You got trouble 184 00:12:43,995 --> 00:12:49,275 Speaker 1: with the new speaker, Speaker number five, five, Speaker number five. 185 00:12:49,955 --> 00:12:52,875 Speaker 1: If you're Hunter Biden, or you're the President, or you're 186 00:12:52,995 --> 00:12:55,995 Speaker 1: Alejandro Majorcas, or you're just a lobbyist trying to throw 187 00:12:55,995 --> 00:12:58,315 Speaker 1: his weight around and you don't get the answer you 188 00:12:58,355 --> 00:13:01,675 Speaker 1: want from the House Republicans, you just park your hips 189 00:13:01,755 --> 00:13:05,235 Speaker 1: on the nearest bus bench and you say, hey, can 190 00:13:05,275 --> 00:13:07,395 Speaker 1: you tell me what time the next speaker will be 191 00:13:07,395 --> 00:13:12,875 Speaker 1: coming through. It's ludicrous and it's pathetic, and I almost 192 00:13:12,915 --> 00:13:16,155 Speaker 1: feel sorry for those few dozen Republicans who must have 193 00:13:16,235 --> 00:13:19,355 Speaker 1: to drink themselves to sleep every night in a desperate 194 00:13:19,435 --> 00:13:22,635 Speaker 1: bid to stop feeling like the whores they are. And 195 00:13:22,715 --> 00:13:24,955 Speaker 1: I cannot shake the idea that there have to be 196 00:13:25,075 --> 00:13:27,395 Speaker 1: six or eight or ten of them who have seen 197 00:13:27,515 --> 00:13:31,035 Speaker 1: one of several different lights and at least in their 198 00:13:31,035 --> 00:13:33,595 Speaker 1: minds have a plan B. It could be the light 199 00:13:33,715 --> 00:13:36,835 Speaker 1: of I need to regain my self respect. I'm not 200 00:13:36,915 --> 00:13:38,955 Speaker 1: running for reelection. I'm going to go work at a 201 00:13:38,995 --> 00:13:41,915 Speaker 1: sewage treatment facility. Or it could be the light of 202 00:13:42,515 --> 00:13:44,955 Speaker 1: I like Congress, but I don't belong to an organized 203 00:13:44,955 --> 00:13:48,275 Speaker 1: political party. I'm a Republican. I need to change that. 204 00:13:49,275 --> 00:13:52,675 Speaker 1: It could be the light of I liked McCarthy and 205 00:13:52,835 --> 00:13:57,515 Speaker 1: or Scalise and or Jordan and or Tom Emmer and 206 00:13:57,715 --> 00:14:01,435 Speaker 1: or whoever, and or being a congressman, and so I 207 00:14:01,675 --> 00:14:06,875 Speaker 1: want revenge. Whatever light they the response might be to 208 00:14:07,035 --> 00:14:11,235 Speaker 1: quit the party, continue to serve as independents caucus with 209 00:14:11,315 --> 00:14:13,795 Speaker 1: the Democrats. At least done this one thing, and just 210 00:14:14,155 --> 00:14:19,315 Speaker 1: six of them could elect a blue dog Democrat or 211 00:14:19,395 --> 00:14:22,835 Speaker 1: one of their own as the new Speaker, and Trump 212 00:14:23,395 --> 00:14:28,635 Speaker 1: couldn't do a damn thing about it. Part of the 213 00:14:28,675 --> 00:14:34,115 Speaker 1: future of American democracy could be resolved almost fatally to 214 00:14:34,195 --> 00:14:40,595 Speaker 1: Trump by six Republicans with some kind of spine or 215 00:14:40,635 --> 00:14:45,795 Speaker 1: at least some kind of vendetta. Or they can stay 216 00:14:45,795 --> 00:14:49,595 Speaker 1: where they are in the kind of blissful stupidity of 217 00:14:49,755 --> 00:14:53,795 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green, who, for all her braggadocio, is clearly 218 00:14:53,915 --> 00:14:58,955 Speaker 1: a massochist. Politico reports that during the candidate forum, the 219 00:14:58,955 --> 00:15:01,315 Speaker 1: one Monday, not the one last night, not the one 220 00:15:01,315 --> 00:15:04,035 Speaker 1: over the weekend, not the one last week, the one Monday, 221 00:15:04,795 --> 00:15:08,315 Speaker 1: Green's entire line of questioning was to ask who would 222 00:15:08,355 --> 00:15:14,475 Speaker 1: investigate MAJORCIS and Attorney General Garland the hardest. Politico quotes 223 00:15:14,515 --> 00:15:16,875 Speaker 1: her as saying, I want to know which one of 224 00:15:16,955 --> 00:15:22,315 Speaker 1: you have the balls to hold them accountable, which leads 225 00:15:22,315 --> 00:15:25,915 Speaker 1: me to the observation that her rival, Lauren Bobert would 226 00:15:25,915 --> 00:15:28,315 Speaker 1: have just gotten her hands dirty and found that out 227 00:15:28,395 --> 00:15:37,395 Speaker 1: for herself. Also of interest, here, oh Boy, World Series 228 00:15:37,555 --> 00:15:41,435 Speaker 1: time fourth best team in the American League versus the 229 00:15:42,795 --> 00:15:46,355 Speaker 1: twelfth sixteenth best team in the National League, just the 230 00:15:46,435 --> 00:15:50,955 Speaker 1: way Abner Doubleday didn't draw it up. Kirsten Cinema thinks 231 00:15:50,995 --> 00:15:54,395 Speaker 1: she's been a success. And I have a special request 232 00:15:54,435 --> 00:15:56,635 Speaker 1: from me to you. And every dog has its day, 233 00:15:56,675 --> 00:15:58,995 Speaker 1: I'd like you to help me save a little Maltese 234 00:15:59,595 --> 00:16:02,995 Speaker 1: abandoned in California by a puppy mill and then hit 235 00:16:03,035 --> 00:16:05,755 Speaker 1: by a car. This is countdown. 236 00:16:07,555 --> 00:16:24,235 Speaker 3: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. This is Sports Senate. 237 00:16:24,635 --> 00:16:32,075 Speaker 3: Wait check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith 238 00:16:32,155 --> 00:16:37,875 Speaker 3: Olberman in sports Woooo. The Dream World Series. 239 00:16:37,595 --> 00:16:41,675 Speaker 1: Matchup the fourth best team in the American League, the 240 00:16:41,715 --> 00:16:46,675 Speaker 1: Texas Rangers, versus the sixth best team in the National League, 241 00:16:46,715 --> 00:16:51,115 Speaker 1: the Arizona Diamondbacks, who finished three games over five hundred 242 00:16:51,115 --> 00:16:54,155 Speaker 1: in the regular season, raising the question why do they 243 00:16:54,235 --> 00:16:59,835 Speaker 1: still play the regular season. To their credit, the Snakes 244 00:16:59,835 --> 00:17:02,315 Speaker 1: did rally to come back from down three games to 245 00:17:02,355 --> 00:17:05,155 Speaker 1: two to beat the Phillies in the National League Championship Series. 246 00:17:05,435 --> 00:17:07,995 Speaker 1: The score was four to two in Game seven last night, 247 00:17:08,355 --> 00:17:11,435 Speaker 1: and Game six and seven were on the road, so 248 00:17:11,475 --> 00:17:14,235 Speaker 1: they won on the road, just as the Texas Rangers 249 00:17:14,315 --> 00:17:16,755 Speaker 1: rallied to win on the road against the Houston Astros. 250 00:17:17,235 --> 00:17:20,315 Speaker 1: Reliever Kevin Ginkel of Arizona came in with one out 251 00:17:20,315 --> 00:17:22,795 Speaker 1: in the bottom of the seventh inning, his team up 252 00:17:22,835 --> 00:17:25,715 Speaker 1: by two, the tying runs for the Phillies on base, 253 00:17:25,995 --> 00:17:29,035 Speaker 1: he got Trey Turner and Bryce Harper to fly out. 254 00:17:29,315 --> 00:17:32,355 Speaker 1: Then in the eighth Ginkel struck out Alec Bohm, he 255 00:17:32,395 --> 00:17:34,755 Speaker 1: struck out Bryson Stott, and he struck out j t 256 00:17:34,915 --> 00:17:38,715 Speaker 1: real Muto. As impressive a relief appearance as the playoffs 257 00:17:38,755 --> 00:17:43,595 Speaker 1: have seen in years now. The Rangers Diamondbacks World Series, 258 00:17:43,915 --> 00:17:47,515 Speaker 1: which I suspect, as I've suggested before, will not draw 259 00:17:47,555 --> 00:17:50,275 Speaker 1: an average of ten million a night in TV ratings, 260 00:17:51,035 --> 00:17:53,795 Speaker 1: a sidebark to the outcome, though in a positive one. 261 00:17:54,075 --> 00:17:58,315 Speaker 1: MLB network host and ESPN screamer Chris Russo said Monday 262 00:17:58,555 --> 00:18:02,315 Speaker 1: that if the Diamondbacks went into Philadelphia and beat the 263 00:18:02,315 --> 00:18:05,515 Speaker 1: Phillies in Games six and seven to reach the series, quote, 264 00:18:05,555 --> 00:18:10,475 Speaker 1: I will retire on the spot. Enjoy your retirement. I 265 00:18:10,475 --> 00:18:13,235 Speaker 1: have mentioned before Russo is a very nice man and 266 00:18:13,435 --> 00:18:15,795 Speaker 1: pretty good at the business of media, and he has 267 00:18:15,955 --> 00:18:18,755 Speaker 1: forged a long and lucrative career, and I think he 268 00:18:18,875 --> 00:18:23,075 Speaker 1: is one of the most unbearable broadcasters I have ever 269 00:18:23,115 --> 00:18:27,275 Speaker 1: heard in any language. The first time I heard him 270 00:18:27,315 --> 00:18:31,435 Speaker 1: and Mike Francesa on WFAN radio in New York. While 271 00:18:31,435 --> 00:18:34,115 Speaker 1: I was vacationing back home in the late nineteen eighties, 272 00:18:34,475 --> 00:18:38,795 Speaker 1: I literally assumed that the after Union had gone on 273 00:18:38,995 --> 00:18:43,875 Speaker 1: strike and two guys from building maintenance were doing their show. 274 00:18:44,675 --> 00:18:48,955 Speaker 1: I have never understood one word either of them has said. 275 00:18:49,435 --> 00:18:56,675 Speaker 1: Never Once. Russo talks. All I hear is oa. Also 276 00:18:56,795 --> 00:19:02,235 Speaker 1: Russo screams a lot. But now our long national nightmare 277 00:19:02,355 --> 00:19:07,995 Speaker 1: is over. Christopher Russo has retired. Thank you and God 278 00:19:08,035 --> 00:19:14,555 Speaker 1: bless you, Arizona Diamondbacks. Also congratulations to the National Hockey League, 279 00:19:14,555 --> 00:19:17,675 Speaker 1: which has steered out of its latest self inflicted disaster 280 00:19:17,835 --> 00:19:21,195 Speaker 1: and reversed its ruling that its players could not use 281 00:19:21,435 --> 00:19:25,635 Speaker 1: Pride colored tape on their sticks, because, of course, that 282 00:19:25,675 --> 00:19:29,515 Speaker 1: would contradict the league's decision to appease homophobic interests by 283 00:19:29,595 --> 00:19:33,595 Speaker 1: canceling all the Pride Night jerseys and player involvement on 284 00:19:33,715 --> 00:19:38,875 Speaker 1: Pride Night. One player, Travis Dermott of Arizona ignored the rule, 285 00:19:39,355 --> 00:19:41,195 Speaker 1: used the tape in a game the other day, and 286 00:19:41,235 --> 00:19:46,355 Speaker 1: the league caved. The league caved because that's what commissioner 287 00:19:46,395 --> 00:19:53,835 Speaker 1: Gary Bettman is good at caving. Everybody has a skill. Now, 288 00:19:53,915 --> 00:19:57,195 Speaker 1: the NHL can step on another rake it has left there, 289 00:19:57,635 --> 00:20:03,035 Speaker 1: which I see will occur. Check's notes tonight. The league 290 00:20:03,195 --> 00:20:06,435 Speaker 1: thought having all of its thirty two teams play last 291 00:20:06,515 --> 00:20:10,195 Speaker 1: night would be a great promotional stunt, provided that each 292 00:20:10,315 --> 00:20:23,315 Speaker 1: game began at a slightly different time, because that's cool. Huh. No, okay, 293 00:20:23,395 --> 00:20:26,755 Speaker 1: we tried. The second half of the National Hockey League 294 00:20:26,795 --> 00:20:30,315 Speaker 1: disaster is the sixteen NHL games last night. We're up 295 00:20:30,355 --> 00:20:34,795 Speaker 1: against game seven of the Phillies Diamondbacks series and opening 296 00:20:34,875 --> 00:20:38,515 Speaker 1: night of the NBA. Tonight there is no baseball and 297 00:20:38,635 --> 00:20:43,315 Speaker 1: the NHL has one game scheduled. You know, if two 298 00:20:43,355 --> 00:20:46,355 Speaker 1: teams just show up at a rink somewhere and play anyway, 299 00:20:47,355 --> 00:21:12,955 Speaker 1: Commissioner Bettman will probably just have to cave to that too. 300 00:21:13,195 --> 00:21:16,875 Speaker 1: Still ahead on countdown, Something in that co speaker idea 301 00:21:17,195 --> 00:21:21,035 Speaker 1: and the co president idea from nineteen eighty that it 302 00:21:21,195 --> 00:21:25,275 Speaker 1: invoked also reminded me of the most talented newscaster I 303 00:21:25,395 --> 00:21:28,635 Speaker 1: ever worked with. He got fired because he went on 304 00:21:28,715 --> 00:21:31,715 Speaker 1: the air and said, looks like it'll be Reagan and Bush. 305 00:21:32,275 --> 00:21:34,795 Speaker 1: And he said this about seven hours after the Reagan 306 00:21:34,795 --> 00:21:39,315 Speaker 1: and Bush deal collapsed. His copy was old and he 307 00:21:39,355 --> 00:21:44,755 Speaker 1: didn't know it. Oops. The tragic story of the Great 308 00:21:44,755 --> 00:21:47,475 Speaker 1: Will Spence coming up first time for the daily roundup 309 00:21:47,475 --> 00:21:49,875 Speaker 1: of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens 310 00:21:49,875 --> 00:21:54,275 Speaker 1: who constitute two days worst persons in the world. The 311 00:21:54,275 --> 00:21:57,515 Speaker 1: bronze Miranda Divine of The New York Post, who has 312 00:21:57,555 --> 00:22:00,795 Speaker 1: written a lengthy column explaining how the Left got snookeered 313 00:22:00,835 --> 00:22:06,195 Speaker 1: by Sydney Powell. The headline is Trump and Giuliani never 314 00:22:06,195 --> 00:22:09,435 Speaker 1: fell for Sidney Powell's twenty twenty election cracking, but the 315 00:22:09,595 --> 00:22:14,795 Speaker 1: Left sure did. Miranda Divine's article goes on to explain 316 00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:18,235 Speaker 1: that Trump and Rudy knew that Powell's election fraud claims 317 00:22:18,235 --> 00:22:22,155 Speaker 1: were nonsense and lies, and they fired her three different times, 318 00:22:22,435 --> 00:22:26,435 Speaker 1: and aren't they smart? The article never once remembers that 319 00:22:26,555 --> 00:22:30,275 Speaker 1: the gist of Jack Smith's case is that Trump and 320 00:22:30,355 --> 00:22:33,755 Speaker 1: Rudy knew the election fraud claims were nonsense and lies. 321 00:22:34,755 --> 00:22:37,635 Speaker 1: And her column means Trump knew that the election fraud 322 00:22:37,675 --> 00:22:43,715 Speaker 1: claims were nonsense and lies. So thanks Miranda Divine. They 323 00:22:43,835 --> 00:22:47,395 Speaker 1: runner up good old Senator Kirsten Cinema. Did I mention 324 00:22:47,515 --> 00:22:49,395 Speaker 1: I went out on a couple of dates with her 325 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:52,875 Speaker 1: before she went crazy? Completely crazy? 326 00:22:52,955 --> 00:22:53,315 Speaker 2: Anyway. 327 00:22:53,795 --> 00:22:57,675 Speaker 1: The new McKay Coppin's book on Mitt Romney as Romney 328 00:22:57,715 --> 00:23:01,675 Speaker 1: recounting a conversation with Cinema on her prospects for reelection 329 00:23:01,835 --> 00:23:05,835 Speaker 1: next year, where right now she's at No. Nineteen percent 330 00:23:06,475 --> 00:23:10,555 Speaker 1: and is in third place as a sitting US Senator, 331 00:23:10,955 --> 00:23:15,515 Speaker 1: behind Carrie Lake and the front runner, Ruben Diego. All 332 00:23:15,555 --> 00:23:18,515 Speaker 1: of this matters not according to what she told Mitt, 333 00:23:18,795 --> 00:23:22,875 Speaker 1: quoting Coppins quoting Mitt quoting her, I don't care. I 334 00:23:22,915 --> 00:23:24,595 Speaker 1: can go on any board I want to. I can 335 00:23:24,635 --> 00:23:26,795 Speaker 1: be a college president. I can do anything. I saved 336 00:23:26,795 --> 00:23:29,875 Speaker 1: the Senate filibusterio by myself. I saved the Senate by myself. 337 00:23:30,035 --> 00:23:33,995 Speaker 1: That's good enough for me. As I said, I went 338 00:23:34,035 --> 00:23:36,635 Speaker 1: out with her before she went crazy. But those I 339 00:23:36,755 --> 00:23:39,875 Speaker 1: saved the Senate. I can be a college president now. 340 00:23:40,075 --> 00:23:43,515 Speaker 1: Delusions of grandeur, they were already in the works in 341 00:23:43,555 --> 00:23:47,635 Speaker 1: twy ten. In twenty eleven, I believe in this quote. 342 00:23:48,515 --> 00:23:52,275 Speaker 1: But our winner is Texas Senator Ted Cruz. There are 343 00:23:52,355 --> 00:23:55,155 Speaker 1: a thousand political and governmental ways I could prove to 344 00:23:55,195 --> 00:23:57,915 Speaker 1: you he is an utter fraud. But we don't need 345 00:23:57,955 --> 00:24:02,595 Speaker 1: to get that serious. Just rely on this. After the 346 00:24:02,635 --> 00:24:07,035 Speaker 1: Texas Rangers' that's Texas As in the state he represents 347 00:24:07,075 --> 00:24:10,595 Speaker 1: in the Senate. After the Texas Rangers beat the Houston 348 00:24:10,635 --> 00:24:14,075 Speaker 1: Astros Monday night to reach the World Series, Cruise tweeted, 349 00:24:14,595 --> 00:24:17,195 Speaker 1: now one more reminder, the name of the team is 350 00:24:17,675 --> 00:24:23,115 Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. Cruise Rights. Congrats to the Rangers. I'm 351 00:24:23,115 --> 00:24:28,715 Speaker 1: a lifelong Astros fans. Tough night, but Dallas won it 352 00:24:28,755 --> 00:24:31,875 Speaker 1: with a fantastic performance in Game seven. They earned it, 353 00:24:31,915 --> 00:24:33,795 Speaker 1: and we have a Texas team in the World Series. 354 00:24:33,835 --> 00:24:39,475 Speaker 1: So go Rangers. Unquote the Rangers. The team the senator 355 00:24:39,475 --> 00:24:43,515 Speaker 1: from Texas thinks is called the Dallas Rangers, even though 356 00:24:43,595 --> 00:24:47,035 Speaker 1: they've always been called the Texas Rangers ever since the 357 00:24:47,035 --> 00:24:49,635 Speaker 1: franchise moved in from Washington, d C. And it didn't 358 00:24:49,635 --> 00:24:54,315 Speaker 1: move in the other day. This happened in nineteen seventy two, Ted, 359 00:24:55,195 --> 00:24:59,235 Speaker 1: I guess they don't broadcast Texas Rangers games in Cancun. 360 00:24:59,475 --> 00:25:19,435 Speaker 1: Cruise two days. Worst person in the World Series just 361 00:25:19,515 --> 00:25:22,595 Speaker 1: ahead the idea that Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan could 362 00:25:22,635 --> 00:25:27,235 Speaker 1: be co speakers, invoking Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, who 363 00:25:27,235 --> 00:25:30,155 Speaker 1: are going to be co presidents. That one, as I 364 00:25:30,195 --> 00:25:32,675 Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, blew up at eight pm one night in 365 00:25:32,755 --> 00:25:35,675 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, but the newscaster at my radio station in 366 00:25:35,795 --> 00:25:39,235 Speaker 1: New York at five am did not know it had 367 00:25:39,275 --> 00:25:43,075 Speaker 1: blown up, and that helped to get him fired. The 368 00:25:43,115 --> 00:25:47,355 Speaker 1: most talented and tragic broadcaster I ever worked with, Will 369 00:25:47,395 --> 00:25:51,675 Speaker 1: Spence in things I promised not to tell. Next first 370 00:25:51,715 --> 00:25:54,075 Speaker 1: time to feature a very special dog in need you 371 00:25:54,115 --> 00:25:57,315 Speaker 1: can help. Every dog has its day, and I've told 372 00:25:57,315 --> 00:26:02,595 Speaker 1: you before about my late brave, lovable pop Meshu. Meshu 373 00:26:02,675 --> 00:26:04,155 Speaker 1: was the one with the heart condition that was so 374 00:26:04,275 --> 00:26:06,635 Speaker 1: bad it claimed him at the age of five and 375 00:26:06,635 --> 00:26:10,635 Speaker 1: a half months two long years ago. Next month. Imagine 376 00:26:10,635 --> 00:26:13,475 Speaker 1: my surprise the other day when my friends at AMAR 377 00:26:13,635 --> 00:26:17,235 Speaker 1: American Maltese Association Rescue asked for my help on a 378 00:26:17,315 --> 00:26:21,755 Speaker 1: Maltese hit by a car in Sacramento, left to die 379 00:26:21,795 --> 00:26:25,275 Speaker 1: by the side of the road after earlier clearly having 380 00:26:25,315 --> 00:26:28,995 Speaker 1: been abandoned by a puppy mill. It was ephemeral fracture. 381 00:26:29,315 --> 00:26:33,155 Speaker 1: They were pelvic fractures. The original idea was it's going 382 00:26:33,195 --> 00:26:37,715 Speaker 1: to cost fourteen thousand dollars to repair her completely. That's 383 00:26:37,755 --> 00:26:40,835 Speaker 1: a lot of money, about ten thousand for the pelvis 384 00:26:41,115 --> 00:26:43,475 Speaker 1: that needs to be done to save her life four 385 00:26:43,555 --> 00:26:46,875 Speaker 1: thousand for the compromised leg, So why not take the 386 00:26:46,955 --> 00:26:50,835 Speaker 1: easier route, amputate that bad leg and just fix the pelvis? 387 00:26:51,875 --> 00:26:55,315 Speaker 1: And I said, uh no, not on my watch. I'll 388 00:26:55,435 --> 00:26:58,075 Speaker 1: raise the four thousand for the leg, or I'll donate 389 00:26:58,115 --> 00:27:03,355 Speaker 1: it myself. So Amar said great, and I said great. 390 00:27:03,435 --> 00:27:05,795 Speaker 1: I said, send me her name a photo and I'll 391 00:27:05,795 --> 00:27:07,915 Speaker 1: put it on the podcast. And two hours later, my 392 00:27:07,955 --> 00:27:12,315 Speaker 1: friend there reported through tears that the injured Maltese girl's 393 00:27:12,435 --> 00:27:19,115 Speaker 1: name is Misha. I'm full up here in the house, 394 00:27:19,195 --> 00:27:22,795 Speaker 1: or I'd adopt her myself. So this one's personal. I'm 395 00:27:22,795 --> 00:27:25,955 Speaker 1: basically going to match donations up to four thousand dollars. 396 00:27:26,315 --> 00:27:29,795 Speaker 1: So if you can donate to Misha, she's on giving 397 00:27:29,835 --> 00:27:31,835 Speaker 1: grid right now. Plus I'll send out the link on 398 00:27:31,875 --> 00:27:36,915 Speaker 1: my Twitter feeds. Anything you give will make a difference. Misha, 399 00:27:37,035 --> 00:28:05,795 Speaker 1: thanks you, I thank you, and Mishu thanks you. Howser 400 00:28:05,835 --> 00:28:07,875 Speaker 1: will have more to say and we'll answer the question 401 00:28:07,955 --> 00:28:10,635 Speaker 1: how hot was it at Yankee Stadium? Yesterday? On the 402 00:28:10,635 --> 00:28:12,395 Speaker 1: Sports reported about a thirty. 403 00:28:12,155 --> 00:28:14,315 Speaker 3: Five and that man's name is Keith Olberman. 404 00:28:14,435 --> 00:28:17,355 Speaker 1: Now how hot was it at Yankee Stadium? Bob Harris 405 00:28:17,435 --> 00:28:20,195 Speaker 1: got a figure about I once worked with a newscaster, 406 00:28:20,435 --> 00:28:23,915 Speaker 1: the most talented person I have ever worked with, and 407 00:28:23,995 --> 00:28:26,475 Speaker 1: he not only made an unbelievable blooper and one of 408 00:28:26,475 --> 00:28:28,875 Speaker 1: the big radio stations in New York, but after he 409 00:28:28,955 --> 00:28:30,715 Speaker 1: did that, they warned him that if he ever did 410 00:28:30,715 --> 00:28:32,915 Speaker 1: something like that again, they would fire him. And he 411 00:28:32,995 --> 00:28:36,675 Speaker 1: did it again and they fired him. His name was 412 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:40,075 Speaker 1: will Spence, and by the time he was eighteen years old, 413 00:28:40,075 --> 00:28:43,075 Speaker 1: he was the news director of a radio station in Connecticut, 414 00:28:43,395 --> 00:28:45,515 Speaker 1: and he was a substitute anchor at the age of 415 00:28:45,515 --> 00:28:48,475 Speaker 1: eighteen on the top all news radio station in the 416 00:28:48,515 --> 00:28:52,675 Speaker 1: COUNTRYCBS in New York eighteen. Not long after that, he 417 00:28:52,715 --> 00:28:55,075 Speaker 1: went to NBC and was the original newsman on Don 418 00:28:55,115 --> 00:28:58,195 Speaker 1: Imus's radio show. He jumped right from that to being 419 00:28:58,235 --> 00:29:01,275 Speaker 1: a TV reporter on the NBC station in New York 420 00:29:01,315 --> 00:29:04,115 Speaker 1: age twenty four twenty five, and the sky was the limit, 421 00:29:04,715 --> 00:29:08,315 Speaker 1: and he was simply a genius and fitting the best 422 00:29:08,315 --> 00:29:11,275 Speaker 1: definition of that word, someone who could do something with 423 00:29:11,475 --> 00:29:15,675 Speaker 1: ease that nobody else would even attempt. Will Spence was 424 00:29:15,755 --> 00:29:18,435 Speaker 1: reporting for the NBC station Channel four in New York 425 00:29:18,835 --> 00:29:21,635 Speaker 1: on New York's fiscal crisis of the late seventies and 426 00:29:21,715 --> 00:29:24,995 Speaker 1: he had scooped the competition and gotten details of a 427 00:29:25,075 --> 00:29:30,555 Speaker 1: complicated rescue plan with debt transference and algorithms and adjusted 428 00:29:30,675 --> 00:29:35,515 Speaker 1: interest rates, and not one moment of his important scoop 429 00:29:35,635 --> 00:29:38,355 Speaker 1: was on camera. The people who gave him that story 430 00:29:38,635 --> 00:29:41,635 Speaker 1: would not permit themselves to be recorded or even quoted. 431 00:29:42,515 --> 00:29:45,595 Speaker 1: So Will simply had his cameraman set up at the 432 00:29:45,635 --> 00:29:47,995 Speaker 1: foot of the steps of New York City Hall and 433 00:29:48,115 --> 00:29:50,955 Speaker 1: said to him, follow me, stop at Park Row and 434 00:29:51,035 --> 00:29:54,755 Speaker 1: then three to two one, and then Will began to walk. 435 00:29:54,995 --> 00:29:57,315 Speaker 1: The cameraman was next to him, and he began to walk, 436 00:29:57,355 --> 00:30:00,115 Speaker 1: and for two and a half minutes, with impeccable sentence 437 00:30:00,115 --> 00:30:04,235 Speaker 1: structure and diction and complete accuracy, Will Spence took this 438 00:30:04,355 --> 00:30:08,355 Speaker 1: extra xu ordinarily complicated rescue plan for New York's hemorrhaging 439 00:30:08,435 --> 00:30:15,395 Speaker 1: finances with algorithms and explained it calmly, succinctly, expertly, simply 440 00:30:15,635 --> 00:30:18,115 Speaker 1: a little touch of snark in his voice. And he 441 00:30:18,195 --> 00:30:21,715 Speaker 1: kept walking and kept walking, and kept walking, and kept 442 00:30:21,755 --> 00:30:24,115 Speaker 1: looking to the cameraman by his side, and then away 443 00:30:24,155 --> 00:30:26,275 Speaker 1: into the ground, and then back to the cameraman, and 444 00:30:26,315 --> 00:30:29,115 Speaker 1: then he stopped on the sidewalk of Park Row, where 445 00:30:29,155 --> 00:30:32,595 Speaker 1: he was perfectly framed by the Brooklyn Bridge Will Spence 446 00:30:32,755 --> 00:30:37,395 Speaker 1: News Center for at City Hall. I couldn't do that 447 00:30:37,475 --> 00:30:40,955 Speaker 1: in a million years, and I'm okay with doing stuff 448 00:30:40,995 --> 00:30:45,955 Speaker 1: like that, to be fair. That was take two. On 449 00:30:46,035 --> 00:30:49,395 Speaker 1: take one, Will had misstimed what he wanted to say 450 00:30:49,395 --> 00:30:51,355 Speaker 1: and where he wanted to walk, and instead of he 451 00:30:51,395 --> 00:30:54,555 Speaker 1: and the cameraman stopping on the sidewalk of the street, 452 00:30:54,595 --> 00:30:58,755 Speaker 1: Park Row, the cameraman stopped, but Will had not yet finished, 453 00:30:58,955 --> 00:31:01,275 Speaker 1: so Will kept walking into the street itself, and the 454 00:31:01,355 --> 00:31:04,075 Speaker 1: video then showed him diving out of the way as 455 00:31:04,115 --> 00:31:07,555 Speaker 1: a garbage truck barreled toward him on Park Row at 456 00:31:07,595 --> 00:31:11,235 Speaker 1: about forty five miles an hour. And that was the 457 00:31:11,275 --> 00:31:14,715 Speaker 1: other side of Will Spence. For every act of genius, 458 00:31:15,395 --> 00:31:18,195 Speaker 1: there was a garbage truck heading towards him with his 459 00:31:18,315 --> 00:31:21,515 Speaker 1: name on it. I don't know what happened at Channel four, 460 00:31:21,555 --> 00:31:23,755 Speaker 1: but I do know he got fired. I know that. 461 00:31:23,795 --> 00:31:25,595 Speaker 1: When I met him in nineteen eighty, when I was 462 00:31:25,635 --> 00:31:27,555 Speaker 1: twenty one and he was thirty, I was convinced he 463 00:31:27,635 --> 00:31:30,555 Speaker 1: was closer to forty. And on the morning shift of 464 00:31:30,595 --> 00:31:33,395 Speaker 1: the New York radio station where we both worked, Will 465 00:31:33,435 --> 00:31:36,755 Speaker 1: had a little trouble with his own schedule. He was 466 00:31:36,795 --> 00:31:39,435 Speaker 1: supposed to be there at three point fifteen am and 467 00:31:39,595 --> 00:31:42,235 Speaker 1: on the air for his first newscast at five am. 468 00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:46,795 Speaker 1: The station was WNW, and it's decades old news sound 469 00:31:47,035 --> 00:31:53,155 Speaker 1: was the Bonga bongas that sound, bangabanga, bangabonga, repeating endlessly. 470 00:31:54,195 --> 00:31:56,755 Speaker 1: I saw Will Spence walk in one morning, pale as 471 00:31:56,795 --> 00:32:00,795 Speaker 1: a sheet in his raincoat, gesticulating wildly with his left 472 00:32:00,795 --> 00:32:03,635 Speaker 1: hand for a news desk assistant to hand him a 473 00:32:03,675 --> 00:32:08,835 Speaker 1: script and script at exactly five am, no, actually a 474 00:32:08,875 --> 00:32:11,515 Speaker 1: few seconds after five am, so late that the dish 475 00:32:11,595 --> 00:32:14,915 Speaker 1: jockey was already playing the WAW news sound. And we 476 00:32:14,915 --> 00:32:19,715 Speaker 1: were at about the eighth or ninth Bonga bonga, And 477 00:32:19,795 --> 00:32:23,275 Speaker 1: I saw him a small stack of copy jammed into 478 00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:26,435 Speaker 1: his left hand by the desk assistant, a stack of 479 00:32:26,475 --> 00:32:29,195 Speaker 1: copy he had not even looked at, with his raincoats 480 00:32:29,275 --> 00:32:34,995 Speaker 1: still on, sit down, throw his microphone toggle open and say, falllessly, 481 00:32:35,515 --> 00:32:37,475 Speaker 1: wet you run at w News. It's eighty three degrees 482 00:32:37,475 --> 00:32:40,635 Speaker 1: in reigning at five o'clock. I'm Will Spence, mayor Cutch. 483 00:32:40,635 --> 00:32:43,155 Speaker 1: We'll meet this morning with representatives of the United Editions 484 00:32:43,195 --> 00:32:46,195 Speaker 1: to discuss like he had been there for hours and 485 00:32:46,235 --> 00:32:49,475 Speaker 1: written the copy himself and practiced it aloud for three 486 00:32:49,635 --> 00:32:53,995 Speaker 1: or four times. From the standpoint of the viewer or 487 00:32:53,995 --> 00:32:56,915 Speaker 1: the listener. Will could sound perfect when he had crafted 488 00:32:56,915 --> 00:32:59,155 Speaker 1: a thing of genius, like the walking stand up on 489 00:32:59,195 --> 00:33:02,235 Speaker 1: the fiscal crisis. But he could also sound perfect when 490 00:33:02,275 --> 00:33:06,195 Speaker 1: he had just staggered into the booth having successfully found 491 00:33:06,235 --> 00:33:09,355 Speaker 1: the location of the radio station on the eighth or 492 00:33:09,475 --> 00:33:14,995 Speaker 1: ninth Bonga. And unfortunately that skill was his undoing. On 493 00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:18,755 Speaker 1: the night of Wednesday, July sixteenth, nineteen eighty, Republican presidential 494 00:33:18,755 --> 00:33:22,275 Speaker 1: nominee Ronald Reagan was in deep discussions with former president 495 00:33:22,315 --> 00:33:25,995 Speaker 1: former Vice President Gerald Ford about Ford running with him 496 00:33:26,395 --> 00:33:30,395 Speaker 1: as Reagan's vice president. It was unprecedented in American history. 497 00:33:30,555 --> 00:33:33,115 Speaker 1: It led all the newscasts that night. It was the 498 00:33:33,195 --> 00:33:36,715 Speaker 1: featured story on all the wire services. Books have been 499 00:33:36,715 --> 00:33:41,155 Speaker 1: written about this evening and those discussions, and they all 500 00:33:41,195 --> 00:33:44,635 Speaker 1: fell apart about eleven PM because Ford made it clear 501 00:33:44,675 --> 00:33:47,635 Speaker 1: to Reagan that whoever was president, whoever was vice president, 502 00:33:47,955 --> 00:33:51,555 Speaker 1: Ford expected them to be more or less co presidents. 503 00:33:52,235 --> 00:33:55,915 Speaker 1: Before the calendar had turned to Thursday, July seventeenth, nineteen eighty, 504 00:33:55,955 --> 00:33:58,715 Speaker 1: the deal was dead. Reagan had selected George H. W. 505 00:33:58,835 --> 00:34:03,635 Speaker 1: Bush as his running mate, and our timeline was irrevocably altered. 506 00:34:04,435 --> 00:34:08,595 Speaker 1: Dare you sir? At About five hours later, and about 507 00:34:08,755 --> 00:34:13,075 Speaker 1: twelve bongas into the five o'clock newscast on Thursday July seventeenth, 508 00:34:13,115 --> 00:34:16,075 Speaker 1: in walked Will Spence, this time simply grabbing the first 509 00:34:16,115 --> 00:34:19,195 Speaker 1: stack of copy he saw, falling into the announced booth, 510 00:34:19,555 --> 00:34:23,035 Speaker 1: opening up his mic and starting to read. Unfortunately, what 511 00:34:23,155 --> 00:34:27,395 Speaker 1: he had grabbed was the previous night's nine pm newscast 512 00:34:27,515 --> 00:34:30,275 Speaker 1: script WN news. It's eighty three degrees in reigning at 513 00:34:30,275 --> 00:34:33,635 Speaker 1: five o'clock. I'm Will Spence. It seems certain that American 514 00:34:33,715 --> 00:34:36,475 Speaker 1: history being made. A man will run for president. Denie's 515 00:34:36,515 --> 00:34:39,635 Speaker 1: running mate will be a former president, the Republican nineteen 516 00:34:39,675 --> 00:34:45,195 Speaker 1: eighty ticket, Regan and Ford. Those who were there in 517 00:34:45,235 --> 00:34:49,315 Speaker 1: the newsroom told me they were startled by how many 518 00:34:49,395 --> 00:34:52,835 Speaker 1: people were actually listening to the five am news and 519 00:34:52,955 --> 00:34:56,115 Speaker 1: were willing to call in and complain and call Will 520 00:34:56,155 --> 00:35:00,275 Speaker 1: Spence an idiot. Upper management wanted to call him something 521 00:35:00,275 --> 00:35:04,315 Speaker 1: else fired, But he had a guardian angel at WN 522 00:35:05,035 --> 00:35:07,275 Speaker 1: in the news director Sam Hall, who had also been 523 00:35:07,275 --> 00:35:09,795 Speaker 1: his boss in the imus days and Sam gave him 524 00:35:09,795 --> 00:35:14,595 Speaker 1: another chance, but said do it again and you're gone. 525 00:35:14,715 --> 00:35:17,675 Speaker 1: I really don't know what was wrong with Will. He 526 00:35:17,755 --> 00:35:21,475 Speaker 1: told me he smoked a lot of weed. He said 527 00:35:21,475 --> 00:35:25,235 Speaker 1: he was hypoglycemic. Somebody at WNBC said he used to 528 00:35:25,275 --> 00:35:27,555 Speaker 1: sit at his desk, pressing his hands to his skull 529 00:35:27,595 --> 00:35:32,835 Speaker 1: and mumbling tumors. I can feel them growing tumors. He 530 00:35:32,915 --> 00:35:37,755 Speaker 1: was sometimes charming. He gave extraordinarily good career advice, sometimes constructively, 531 00:35:37,755 --> 00:35:40,875 Speaker 1: and sometimes advice that was designed to leave you bleeding. 532 00:35:42,115 --> 00:35:46,315 Speaker 1: During a commercial break preceding one of my short sportscasts, 533 00:35:46,395 --> 00:35:48,995 Speaker 1: I sat down in the booth with him, and as 534 00:35:49,035 --> 00:35:52,475 Speaker 1: an aggressively cheerful ad for a bank played in the background, 535 00:35:52,755 --> 00:35:58,155 Speaker 1: Will let loose on me? So I heard him and 536 00:35:58,235 --> 00:36:02,355 Speaker 1: this commercial for the bank mixed together juxtaposed like this. 537 00:36:03,075 --> 00:36:05,595 Speaker 1: You have potential overman, but you have to change your 538 00:36:05,715 --> 00:36:08,635 Speaker 1: entire delivery. We're the friendly bank. You can go up 539 00:36:08,675 --> 00:36:11,115 Speaker 1: to Yankee Stadium, interview every player and every fan, and 540 00:36:11,115 --> 00:36:13,115 Speaker 1: play all the little cuts you want on the radio. 541 00:36:13,155 --> 00:36:15,755 Speaker 1: But you got nowhere if you can't read the script 542 00:36:15,875 --> 00:36:19,715 Speaker 1: like a man. We're the bank that cares about you 543 00:36:19,715 --> 00:36:22,915 Speaker 1: your nasal. You sound constipated, you get nowhere in this business. 544 00:36:22,955 --> 00:36:24,955 Speaker 1: On the other hand, I could read the phone book 545 00:36:24,995 --> 00:36:27,275 Speaker 1: on the air and make it sound like the Bible. 546 00:36:27,635 --> 00:36:31,155 Speaker 1: Come in and see our friendly tellers today. Shape up 547 00:36:31,355 --> 00:36:35,275 Speaker 1: or you're fired, and by the way, fix your damned eyebrows. 548 00:36:35,875 --> 00:36:41,075 Speaker 1: Manhattan Bank member FDI see now with sports, Good morning teeth, Olberman. 549 00:36:44,555 --> 00:36:48,435 Speaker 1: I said nothing. For a second, maybe more. I contemplated 550 00:36:48,555 --> 00:36:52,555 Speaker 1: using a falsetto, and I finally stammered through my thirty seconds, 551 00:36:52,955 --> 00:36:55,675 Speaker 1: got up to leave, and as Spence through to the 552 00:36:55,675 --> 00:37:02,315 Speaker 1: weather man. Spence said, and that sucked too. I was 553 00:37:02,355 --> 00:37:04,995 Speaker 1: the only person left at WNW who liked it, and 554 00:37:05,035 --> 00:37:07,995 Speaker 1: I was beginning to hate him. He would take me 555 00:37:08,035 --> 00:37:10,995 Speaker 1: aside sometimes and tell me that his first wife and 556 00:37:11,075 --> 00:37:14,355 Speaker 1: her divorce lawyer were up in the blimp following him 557 00:37:14,395 --> 00:37:17,955 Speaker 1: around the city. Sometimes he claimed they were working in 558 00:37:17,995 --> 00:37:21,355 Speaker 1: cahoots with the news director Sam Hall to destroy him, 559 00:37:21,755 --> 00:37:24,675 Speaker 1: when in fact Hall was the only thing standing between 560 00:37:24,715 --> 00:37:29,035 Speaker 1: him and unemployment. Somebody once made a mild joke about 561 00:37:29,075 --> 00:37:32,395 Speaker 1: him and his age in the newsroom and he threw 562 00:37:32,435 --> 00:37:35,915 Speaker 1: a stapler at them. He complained one of the women 563 00:37:35,995 --> 00:37:39,035 Speaker 1: there was stalking him. In fact, he was stalking her 564 00:37:40,315 --> 00:37:43,955 Speaker 1: and inevitably on October third, nineteen eighty, he either made 565 00:37:43,955 --> 00:37:47,315 Speaker 1: an impossibly unlucky grab for an old script during the 566 00:37:47,355 --> 00:37:50,715 Speaker 1: seventeenth Bonga or something, or more likely, somebody in the 567 00:37:50,715 --> 00:37:53,795 Speaker 1: newsroom set him up. Nobody needs. It's fifty five degrees 568 00:37:53,795 --> 00:37:56,475 Speaker 1: in raining at five o'clock. I'm Will Spence. The whoop. 569 00:37:56,955 --> 00:37:59,315 Speaker 1: John Paul the Second made history arriving in our city 570 00:37:59,355 --> 00:38:01,715 Speaker 1: yesterday and today it took her tape parade, and then 571 00:38:01,755 --> 00:38:05,115 Speaker 1: he will address the faithful at Madison Square Garden coverage 572 00:38:05,115 --> 00:38:08,155 Speaker 1: of the Pope all day, Andreo to know your news 573 00:38:08,955 --> 00:38:14,355 Speaker 1: that had happened on October third, nineteen seventy nine. This 574 00:38:14,595 --> 00:38:19,595 Speaker 1: was now October third, nineteen eighty. Will Spence was reading 575 00:38:19,915 --> 00:38:26,795 Speaker 1: literally year old news. As I recall, they fired him 576 00:38:26,795 --> 00:38:30,875 Speaker 1: before his shift ended, maybe before the next newscast year 577 00:38:31,115 --> 00:38:36,235 Speaker 1: old news. Months later, I was working at the RKO 578 00:38:36,395 --> 00:38:38,715 Speaker 1: radio network for my boss, Charlie Steiner, one of the 579 00:38:38,755 --> 00:38:42,515 Speaker 1: voices of the Dodgers. Now when RKO expanded and started 580 00:38:42,515 --> 00:38:44,595 Speaker 1: a second network, and they brought in to run it, 581 00:38:44,995 --> 00:38:48,435 Speaker 1: Sam Hall. Sam Hall hired a bunch of guys with 582 00:38:48,515 --> 00:38:51,595 Speaker 1: great pipes, and he hired Will Spence. Oh Man, I say, 583 00:38:51,635 --> 00:38:55,355 Speaker 1: it took my advice. Look at this. Something whizzed past 584 00:38:55,395 --> 00:38:57,755 Speaker 1: me and stuck in a box of wire copy. It's 585 00:38:57,755 --> 00:39:02,875 Speaker 1: a Brazilian throwing dagger. I have a collection. At RKO. 586 00:39:03,475 --> 00:39:06,435 Speaker 1: On the night of the Grammy Will interweaved a clip 587 00:39:06,475 --> 00:39:09,595 Speaker 1: of every winning song into his script live on the air, 588 00:39:09,715 --> 00:39:12,835 Speaker 1: throwing cartridges left and right. As he did it. The 589 00:39:12,875 --> 00:39:15,875 Speaker 1: next hour he updated it with the latest winner. The 590 00:39:15,955 --> 00:39:18,515 Speaker 1: next hour he updated it with the latest winter. After 591 00:39:18,555 --> 00:39:23,395 Speaker 1: that it was utter unqualified genius. And he also told 592 00:39:23,435 --> 00:39:25,515 Speaker 1: me at RKO there was a woman stalking him, who 593 00:39:25,515 --> 00:39:27,995 Speaker 1: in fact he was stalking. And he addressed everybody by 594 00:39:28,035 --> 00:39:33,195 Speaker 1: their job title, Taype editor, come here. And once they 595 00:39:33,275 --> 00:39:36,915 Speaker 1: postponed a nine am staff meeting until three pm and 596 00:39:36,995 --> 00:39:39,395 Speaker 1: didn't tell him before he drove in from his house 597 00:39:39,475 --> 00:39:42,395 Speaker 1: in Connecticut. So he simply went to his Manhattan studio 598 00:39:42,435 --> 00:39:46,035 Speaker 1: apartment and, as he told me, smoked pot for six hours. 599 00:39:46,635 --> 00:39:49,715 Speaker 1: And then he came back and insulted literally every member 600 00:39:49,755 --> 00:39:52,315 Speaker 1: of the forty person staff, went from one to the 601 00:39:52,355 --> 00:39:55,075 Speaker 1: other to the other, saying as nasty a thing as 602 00:39:55,115 --> 00:39:58,755 Speaker 1: he could think of about them. When our nicest, sweetest 603 00:39:58,875 --> 00:40:03,435 Speaker 1: news editor stood up on her desk and screamed, Spence, 604 00:40:03,715 --> 00:40:05,915 Speaker 1: get the f out of he before I kill you, 605 00:40:06,155 --> 00:40:11,395 Speaker 1: before we all kill you. He was genuinely shocked ashen. 606 00:40:11,835 --> 00:40:14,315 Speaker 1: He came over to me. A lot of the bravada 607 00:40:14,435 --> 00:40:19,475 Speaker 1: was gone, Olderman, for God's sakes, help me, help me, 608 00:40:20,235 --> 00:40:24,555 Speaker 1: Keith Well, I heard his life story. It took two hours. 609 00:40:24,595 --> 00:40:27,475 Speaker 1: We went into Steiner's office. We stole two of Charlie's 610 00:40:27,475 --> 00:40:31,795 Speaker 1: cigars and smoked them. It was the living embodiment of 611 00:40:31,835 --> 00:40:34,195 Speaker 1: the phrase just because you're paranoid, it does not mean 612 00:40:34,235 --> 00:40:36,915 Speaker 1: they are not out to get you. I was trying 613 00:40:36,955 --> 00:40:39,875 Speaker 1: to think how to help him when days later news 614 00:40:39,915 --> 00:40:44,075 Speaker 1: came that he had been hired as a TV reporter 615 00:40:44,195 --> 00:40:48,115 Speaker 1: by another New York TV station, WABC. I witnessed news 616 00:40:48,635 --> 00:40:50,275 Speaker 1: and then over there. On his first day, he was 617 00:40:50,275 --> 00:40:52,755 Speaker 1: bitten by a dog and he wanted to go to 618 00:40:52,835 --> 00:40:54,635 Speaker 1: the hospital to get checked out. They made him go 619 00:40:54,675 --> 00:41:01,355 Speaker 1: out on another story instead. Dogs, garbage trucks. They all 620 00:41:01,435 --> 00:41:05,155 Speaker 1: had Will's name on them. A decade later, Bill wound 621 00:41:05,235 --> 00:41:07,315 Speaker 1: up in LA where I had made my mark by 622 00:41:07,355 --> 00:41:10,475 Speaker 1: then as a local TV sportscaster. He had been hired 623 00:41:10,475 --> 00:41:13,755 Speaker 1: by a rival station and still did those incredible intricate 624 00:41:13,795 --> 00:41:17,915 Speaker 1: walking stand ups now live every night, usually from a 625 00:41:17,955 --> 00:41:21,675 Speaker 1: crime scene on the eleven o'clock news. One night, his 626 00:41:21,715 --> 00:41:25,595 Speaker 1: own crew managed to not just sabotage him, but knock 627 00:41:25,675 --> 00:41:29,075 Speaker 1: him down with a slow moving car, live on the 628 00:41:29,115 --> 00:41:33,115 Speaker 1: air while he was declaiming into the camera. His last 629 00:41:33,195 --> 00:41:35,595 Speaker 1: job at yet another LA station, he got because the 630 00:41:35,635 --> 00:41:39,075 Speaker 1: aging woman anchor there, fifteen years his senior, had taken 631 00:41:39,115 --> 00:41:43,155 Speaker 1: a fancy to him. She got fired, He got fired, 632 00:41:43,195 --> 00:41:46,435 Speaker 1: And one day the phone rang at MSNBC, maybe two 633 00:41:46,435 --> 00:41:51,915 Speaker 1: thousand and six. It was Will Spence. The Pope had 634 00:41:51,955 --> 00:41:56,195 Speaker 1: sent a hit squad to kill him. He said the 635 00:41:56,235 --> 00:41:59,955 Speaker 1: whole Catholic Church was involved. Did I have the number 636 00:41:59,995 --> 00:42:03,195 Speaker 1: of the woman who used to stalk him? It was 637 00:42:03,315 --> 00:42:08,115 Speaker 1: far more awful than its sounds. I think somebody sent 638 00:42:08,155 --> 00:42:10,875 Speaker 1: me an email. Early in April two thousand and eight, 639 00:42:10,915 --> 00:42:13,755 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's how I found out Will Spence 640 00:42:13,795 --> 00:42:16,235 Speaker 1: had driven his car at high speed into a bridge 641 00:42:16,275 --> 00:42:20,595 Speaker 1: abutment in Ventura County, outside LA. There was a story 642 00:42:20,635 --> 00:42:23,275 Speaker 1: that he had had heart problems and had just seen 643 00:42:23,315 --> 00:42:25,795 Speaker 1: his doctor and gotten bad news, but we'll never know 644 00:42:25,915 --> 00:42:29,195 Speaker 1: for sure. I went to put together a little tribute 645 00:42:29,235 --> 00:42:33,715 Speaker 1: to him, that night on Countdown and online I could 646 00:42:33,715 --> 00:42:36,115 Speaker 1: not find a single photo of him, nor any form 647 00:42:36,155 --> 00:42:41,555 Speaker 1: of biography. Even now, there is one photo accompanying a 648 00:42:41,715 --> 00:42:45,555 Speaker 1: sad tribute to him, published a couple weeks later in 649 00:42:45,635 --> 00:42:48,435 Speaker 1: one of the newspapers in Ventura County. It was a 650 00:42:48,475 --> 00:42:53,155 Speaker 1: tribute not unlike this one. What a wasted life? How 651 00:42:53,235 --> 00:42:56,115 Speaker 1: much you wanted to hate him and couldn't. And on 652 00:42:56,155 --> 00:43:00,035 Speaker 1: YouTube there is a tape of one Will Spence TV 653 00:43:00,195 --> 00:43:05,435 Speaker 1: report from November eighteenth, nineteen eighty one Channel seven in 654 00:43:05,475 --> 00:43:08,075 Speaker 1: New York. This talent who could decipher the plan to 655 00:43:08,155 --> 00:43:11,755 Speaker 1: save New York City from bankruptcy and recite it as 656 00:43:11,795 --> 00:43:16,395 Speaker 1: he walked, exists forever for two minutes and forty six 657 00:43:16,435 --> 00:43:21,195 Speaker 1: seconds of his report on the marriage of Luke and 658 00:43:21,315 --> 00:43:27,155 Speaker 1: Laura from ABC's General Hospital. And by the way, even 659 00:43:27,275 --> 00:43:44,395 Speaker 1: it is brilliant. It looks like to be Reagan and Ford. 660 00:43:46,035 --> 00:43:49,995 Speaker 1: Will Spence, what a tragedy. I've done all the damage 661 00:43:50,035 --> 00:43:52,035 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. 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We call it the Old Woman theme 671 00:44:21,075 --> 00:44:25,275 Speaker 1: from ESPN two. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are 672 00:44:25,275 --> 00:44:28,755 Speaker 1: by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our 673 00:44:28,795 --> 00:44:32,075 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend Dennis Leary. Everything else is 674 00:44:32,115 --> 00:44:34,675 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this the 675 00:44:34,715 --> 00:44:38,715 Speaker 1: oney twenty third day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 676 00:44:38,715 --> 00:44:42,355 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Convict 677 00:44:42,435 --> 00:44:46,715 Speaker 1: him now while we still can. The next scheduled countdown 678 00:44:46,795 --> 00:44:49,355 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news warrants till then, I'm 679 00:44:49,435 --> 00:44:53,955 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman. 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