1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,595 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 2 00:00:21,715 --> 00:00:27,635 Speaker 1: think there has been an unrecognized earthquake in presidential election polling. 3 00:00:28,435 --> 00:00:30,475 Speaker 1: I'll get to Trump's trial and how he managed to 4 00:00:30,515 --> 00:00:34,435 Speaker 1: blow it, and why he thought a guy celebrating his 5 00:00:34,795 --> 00:00:38,955 Speaker 1: fortieth year of no longer being on Saturday Night Live 6 00:00:39,315 --> 00:00:43,195 Speaker 1: was just the right choice to lead his courthouse posse yesterday. 7 00:00:43,475 --> 00:00:46,595 Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a moment, But first, I 8 00:00:46,715 --> 00:00:51,715 Speaker 1: think I think a series of lights may have gone 9 00:00:51,755 --> 00:00:55,995 Speaker 1: off over the heads of a series of voters. And 10 00:00:56,115 --> 00:00:59,435 Speaker 1: not to sound like one of those British generals who 11 00:00:59,475 --> 00:01:05,075 Speaker 1: believed he could end World War One by Thursday, they 12 00:01:05,075 --> 00:01:08,075 Speaker 1: can take the sum by nightfall with less than a 13 00:01:08,115 --> 00:01:13,075 Speaker 1: million casualties. But I think I think we may actually 14 00:01:13,155 --> 00:01:19,715 Speaker 1: be seeing the start of the breakthrough, the voter breakthrough 15 00:01:19,955 --> 00:01:27,435 Speaker 1: against Trump. This was Joshua Green writing for Bloomberg, and 16 00:01:27,515 --> 00:01:32,675 Speaker 1: don't let his mixture of nonchalance and utter surprise infuriate you. 17 00:01:32,915 --> 00:01:36,875 Speaker 1: Just listen. Quote. As the rematch between Joe Biden and 18 00:01:36,955 --> 00:01:42,395 Speaker 1: Donald Trump draws nearer, political professionals are detecting an unusual 19 00:01:42,595 --> 00:01:48,035 Speaker 1: concern among some undecided voters that if Trump returns to 20 00:01:48,115 --> 00:01:52,075 Speaker 1: the White House, he'll refuse to step down when his 21 00:01:52,235 --> 00:01:57,675 Speaker 1: term is up. Oh no, kidding? Is that a thing? Wow? 22 00:01:58,275 --> 00:02:04,275 Speaker 1: Go on? Sa G. Carpenter, vice president at David binder 23 00:02:04,395 --> 00:02:08,515 Speaker 1: Ree Search, noticed this fear in early April while conducting 24 00:02:08,555 --> 00:02:10,835 Speaker 1: focus groups of people who had voted for Biden in 25 00:02:10,835 --> 00:02:15,595 Speaker 1: twenty twenty but became disillusioned and we're considering switching sides 26 00:02:15,915 --> 00:02:20,195 Speaker 1: quoting him. We were talking to Latino men and Asian 27 00:02:20,315 --> 00:02:25,155 Speaker 1: American Pacific Islander women in battleground states, and they went 28 00:02:25,235 --> 00:02:28,875 Speaker 1: straight to the issue of what if Trump won't give 29 00:02:28,995 --> 00:02:33,195 Speaker 1: up power. It's not something we'd been testing for, but 30 00:02:33,315 --> 00:02:40,915 Speaker 1: what we've seen so far indicates a real concern there. So, so, 31 00:02:41,035 --> 00:02:44,635 Speaker 1: mister Carpenter, this is something new. You say it just 32 00:02:44,635 --> 00:02:49,715 Speaker 1: because he started doing his quote jokes about never leaving 33 00:02:49,755 --> 00:02:53,275 Speaker 1: office in February of twenty seventeen. You haven't been asking 34 00:02:53,315 --> 00:02:56,515 Speaker 1: about this just because we all think that he has 35 00:02:57,595 --> 00:03:02,475 Speaker 1: a Banana Republic military uniform with the Vietnam medals he's 36 00:03:02,515 --> 00:03:05,915 Speaker 1: awarded himself, already pinned on it. You have not been 37 00:03:05,955 --> 00:03:09,675 Speaker 1: asking this question ten years. He's been a Democratic focus 38 00:03:09,755 --> 00:03:15,195 Speaker 1: group puller. According to Bloomberg, this, mister Carpenter. Republican strategists, 39 00:03:15,315 --> 00:03:19,435 Speaker 1: the article goes on, have encountered the same thing it's 40 00:03:19,555 --> 00:03:23,835 Speaker 1: showing up in our focus groups, says Sarah Longwell, the 41 00:03:23,915 --> 00:03:28,355 Speaker 1: chief executive of Longwell Partners and publisher of the conservative 42 00:03:28,355 --> 00:03:34,115 Speaker 1: website The Bulwark. It happened just the other day. Longwell 43 00:03:34,195 --> 00:03:36,555 Speaker 1: shared a video of a group of undecided Swing state 44 00:03:36,635 --> 00:03:39,115 Speaker 1: voters who had been asked if they were worried that 45 00:03:39,155 --> 00:03:43,035 Speaker 1: Trump might violate the constitutional amendment limiting him to one 46 00:03:43,115 --> 00:03:46,595 Speaker 1: more term if he wins in November. Does anybody think 47 00:03:46,635 --> 00:03:48,755 Speaker 1: he may not abide by the twenty second Amendment of 48 00:03:48,795 --> 00:03:52,115 Speaker 1: the Constitution and leave office after the twenty twenty eight election. 49 00:03:52,395 --> 00:03:58,435 Speaker 1: Anyone worried about that? The moderator asked. In response, seven 50 00:03:58,635 --> 00:04:05,195 Speaker 1: of the eight participants raised a hand unquote wait for 51 00:04:05,635 --> 00:04:10,635 Speaker 1: or against? Wait this is the earthquake? Quote. A Pennsylvania 52 00:04:10,675 --> 00:04:12,835 Speaker 1: man worried that Trump might go further and try to 53 00:04:12,875 --> 00:04:17,555 Speaker 1: institute a dynasty, quoting him on this tape, I wouldn't 54 00:04:17,555 --> 00:04:20,555 Speaker 1: put it past him now that he owns the RNC. 55 00:04:21,275 --> 00:04:25,635 Speaker 1: The man said to say, Don Junior is going to 56 00:04:25,635 --> 00:04:28,275 Speaker 1: do the next term, and he'll get to and then 57 00:04:28,435 --> 00:04:35,235 Speaker 1: Baron will get to and we'll just have some fake monarchy. 58 00:04:36,355 --> 00:04:39,115 Speaker 1: As far fetched as it may sound, mister Green goes 59 00:04:39,155 --> 00:04:41,915 Speaker 1: on the prospect of Trump overriding. We're simply ignoring the 60 00:04:41,955 --> 00:04:44,955 Speaker 1: constitutional provision that limits a president to serving two terms. 61 00:04:44,955 --> 00:04:49,875 Speaker 1: Seems to be pushing some undecided voters toward Biden. Yes, 62 00:04:50,235 --> 00:04:54,715 Speaker 1: it's far fetched. The guy who wrote this article wrote 63 00:04:54,755 --> 00:04:58,075 Speaker 1: a book about Liz Warren, Bernie and AOC and he 64 00:04:58,115 --> 00:05:00,795 Speaker 1: has written this article. Like the next paragraph will start. 65 00:05:01,115 --> 00:05:04,995 Speaker 1: You may not believe this, but the kids now think Baby, 66 00:05:05,475 --> 00:05:12,595 Speaker 1: the earth goes around the sun. Quote. Trump's flirtations with 67 00:05:12,715 --> 00:05:16,795 Speaker 1: smashing limits on presidential power, while thrilling to many of 68 00:05:16,795 --> 00:05:22,315 Speaker 1: his followers, alarm other voters, including some who once supported him. 69 00:05:22,635 --> 00:05:27,515 Speaker 1: Laurie McCammon, a grandmother in Alma, Wisconsin, voted for Trump 70 00:05:27,555 --> 00:05:31,955 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, but says she recoiled at his recent 71 00:05:32,035 --> 00:05:35,035 Speaker 1: comments and won't be supporting him in November. She says 72 00:05:35,075 --> 00:05:39,835 Speaker 1: she's worried that Trump won't seed power if he's reelected. Quote. 73 00:05:39,875 --> 00:05:42,075 Speaker 1: Based on what I've heard from him and figures like 74 00:05:42,115 --> 00:05:46,675 Speaker 1: Steve Bannon, McCammon says this would be our last free 75 00:05:46,835 --> 00:05:54,155 Speaker 1: and fair election. In other words, in this Wisconsin Grandma's house. 76 00:05:54,395 --> 00:05:57,275 Speaker 1: They don't think Trump is joking about never leaving office 77 00:05:57,595 --> 00:06:00,795 Speaker 1: just because he had. The American Conservative magazine publish a 78 00:06:00,835 --> 00:06:03,515 Speaker 1: piece saying that the two term limit shouldn't apply to 79 00:06:03,715 --> 00:06:09,995 Speaker 1: non consecutive terms and doesn't apply to them all right 80 00:06:10,075 --> 00:06:14,195 Speaker 1: Back to Bloomberg quote. Strategists and polsters say that, much 81 00:06:14,315 --> 00:06:18,155 Speaker 1: like McCammon, many uncommitted voters don't perceive Trump's language to 82 00:06:18,275 --> 00:06:24,155 Speaker 1: be jesting or ironic, nor do they view a potential 83 00:06:24,275 --> 00:06:31,555 Speaker 1: power grab as a joke. I'm not alone. I'm not 84 00:06:31,675 --> 00:06:35,515 Speaker 1: alone when we ask about his record on democracy. There's 85 00:06:35,555 --> 00:06:38,395 Speaker 1: a lot of general concern, even among Republicans about what 86 00:06:38,475 --> 00:06:42,035 Speaker 1: a second Trump term might be like, says Brian Bennett, 87 00:06:42,235 --> 00:06:47,555 Speaker 1: a polster with Navigator Research, a Democratic Alliance firm. Unease 88 00:06:47,635 --> 00:06:51,155 Speaker 1: among non Democratic voters is also evident in public surveys. 89 00:06:51,195 --> 00:06:55,155 Speaker 1: Bloomberg says. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that twenty one 90 00:06:55,195 --> 00:06:58,155 Speaker 1: percent of independent voters and eight percent of Republicans indicated 91 00:06:58,195 --> 00:07:02,555 Speaker 1: that preserving democracy in the United States was the most 92 00:07:02,595 --> 00:07:08,235 Speaker 1: critical issue facing the country. As an aside, every poll 93 00:07:08,475 --> 00:07:13,195 Speaker 1: asks now for the top issue for voters. That often 94 00:07:13,275 --> 00:07:16,275 Speaker 1: is not the same as the issue which voters say 95 00:07:16,515 --> 00:07:20,195 Speaker 1: is actually the one on which they will decide their vote. 96 00:07:20,235 --> 00:07:23,395 Speaker 1: Most of these polls also don't list second choice or 97 00:07:23,515 --> 00:07:26,595 Speaker 1: third choice among most important issues, and very often that 98 00:07:26,835 --> 00:07:30,235 Speaker 1: is the preservation of democracy, although the Republican definition of 99 00:07:30,235 --> 00:07:33,395 Speaker 1: that and the democratic definition of that may not match exactly. 100 00:07:34,955 --> 00:07:40,195 Speaker 1: But mister Green of Bloomberg has added something to this 101 00:07:40,915 --> 00:07:47,035 Speaker 1: that is actually new. And again, I quote, several political 102 00:07:47,035 --> 00:07:50,435 Speaker 1: professionals who talk to voters for a living say they've 103 00:07:50,475 --> 00:07:55,675 Speaker 1: detected a fundamental shift in the way people view Trump's 104 00:07:55,675 --> 00:08:01,515 Speaker 1: motivations and intentions as compared with other politicians. Quote. Typically, 105 00:08:01,555 --> 00:08:05,355 Speaker 1: when we raise concerned about a candidate's agenda, are skeptical 106 00:08:05,555 --> 00:08:08,675 Speaker 1: and want to do their own research first, or think 107 00:08:08,715 --> 00:08:13,075 Speaker 1: it's an attack, says Carpenter, the Democratic Focus Group director. 108 00:08:13,315 --> 00:08:18,835 Speaker 1: With Trump, that's not true. Voters believe that he would 109 00:08:18,835 --> 00:08:23,675 Speaker 1: try to remove term limits and their nervous about what's possible. 110 00:08:25,355 --> 00:08:29,755 Speaker 1: Carpenter's conversations with uncommitted voters have led him to believe 111 00:08:29,835 --> 00:08:34,635 Speaker 1: that beyond January sixth and Trump's inflammatory comments, this shift 112 00:08:34,835 --> 00:08:40,875 Speaker 1: owes a great deal to a less obvious catalyst. Are 113 00:08:40,915 --> 00:08:49,435 Speaker 1: you ready? The less obvious catalyst is the Supreme Court quote. 114 00:08:49,475 --> 00:08:53,235 Speaker 1: The dimensions of what constitutes a credible threat have expanded 115 00:08:53,275 --> 00:08:58,115 Speaker 1: because of Roe. Carpenter says, since that decision, you hear 116 00:08:58,235 --> 00:09:02,835 Speaker 1: voters talking themselves out of the notion that an idea 117 00:09:03,155 --> 00:09:09,755 Speaker 1: is too far fed. Hallelujah, hallelujah, thank you, somebody is 118 00:09:09,875 --> 00:09:16,115 Speaker 1: listening to me. One assumes that all the groundwork for 119 00:09:16,195 --> 00:09:19,435 Speaker 1: this story for Bloomberg was done before mister and missus 120 00:09:19,435 --> 00:09:24,595 Speaker 1: Alito answered comedian Eddie Izard's rhetorical question do you have 121 00:09:24,675 --> 00:09:29,755 Speaker 1: a flag? It does give an answer to a very 122 00:09:29,835 --> 00:09:33,355 Speaker 1: practical question. Democrats are shrinking from asking what should we 123 00:09:33,475 --> 00:09:38,155 Speaker 1: do to Alito? Now? Senator Dick Durbin is saying no, 124 00:09:38,435 --> 00:09:43,155 Speaker 1: hearings no, of course not, and is simply again asking, 125 00:09:43,195 --> 00:09:48,835 Speaker 1: politely and pretty pleasing it that Alito recuse. In point 126 00:09:48,835 --> 00:09:52,875 Speaker 1: of fact, Joe Biden and Democratic House and Senate candidates 127 00:09:53,075 --> 00:09:57,155 Speaker 1: should be running not just against Trump or against Republicans 128 00:09:57,195 --> 00:10:02,195 Speaker 1: per se, but running against the goddamned theocratic Supreme Court. 129 00:10:03,395 --> 00:10:06,235 Speaker 1: And if Durbin doesn't want to do anything about Alito, 130 00:10:06,715 --> 00:10:10,475 Speaker 1: he damn well better resign his chairmanship of Senate Judiciary 131 00:10:10,715 --> 00:10:14,075 Speaker 1: and put somebody in there who will take the obvious 132 00:10:14,075 --> 00:10:20,075 Speaker 1: softball and hit this over the effing fence. Okay, coming 133 00:10:20,115 --> 00:10:24,675 Speaker 1: down the stretch here. Back to Bloomberg's Joshua Green quoting again. Recently, 134 00:10:24,755 --> 00:10:28,955 Speaker 1: the liberal group Priorities USA asked fifteen hundred likely voters 135 00:10:29,195 --> 00:10:32,795 Speaker 1: across eight battleground states to rank more than two dozen 136 00:10:32,835 --> 00:10:38,715 Speaker 1: Trump statements or policies from most to least concerning. Do 137 00:10:38,795 --> 00:10:41,315 Speaker 1: I have to write least? Can they all be most? 138 00:10:42,275 --> 00:10:47,075 Speaker 1: In results not publicly released until now, Priorities found that 139 00:10:47,155 --> 00:10:52,515 Speaker 1: Trump's dictator comment and calls to gut the Constitution ranked 140 00:10:52,595 --> 00:10:58,675 Speaker 1: as the most concerning of all the options. As I 141 00:10:58,715 --> 00:11:05,115 Speaker 1: said before, mister Green's wide eyedness seems less goofy or dumb, 142 00:11:05,275 --> 00:11:09,195 Speaker 1: and more like he was cleverly trying to get this 143 00:11:09,315 --> 00:11:14,955 Speaker 1: article passed. Terrified editors at Bloomberg, and with good reason, 144 00:11:15,315 --> 00:11:18,635 Speaker 1: because the real lesson in it is that Republican polsters 145 00:11:18,755 --> 00:11:25,155 Speaker 1: are seeing Republican voters recoiling from Trump. Green quotes an 146 00:11:25,235 --> 00:11:28,635 Speaker 1: unaffiliated Republican polster who are asked not to be identified 147 00:11:28,635 --> 00:11:32,875 Speaker 1: because he didn't want to anger the Trump campaign. Quote. 148 00:11:32,915 --> 00:11:35,675 Speaker 1: That's kind of the bet that the Biden campaign is 149 00:11:35,715 --> 00:11:39,115 Speaker 1: making that eventually people are going to become so frightened 150 00:11:39,435 --> 00:11:43,235 Speaker 1: about what the next Trump turn will mean that they'll 151 00:11:43,275 --> 00:11:49,235 Speaker 1: move over to Biden. The rest of the piece is 152 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:52,435 Speaker 1: about how repealing the presidential term limits contained in the 153 00:11:52,435 --> 00:11:55,555 Speaker 1: twenty second Amendment would be nearly impossible. There is a 154 00:11:55,635 --> 00:11:59,395 Speaker 1: dismissive quote from Steve Bannon saying they're just talking about 155 00:11:59,395 --> 00:12:04,195 Speaker 1: this to own the Libs, presumably just like Bannon was 156 00:12:04,395 --> 00:12:07,435 Speaker 1: talking about putting the heads of doctor Fauci and Christopher 157 00:12:07,515 --> 00:12:14,635 Speaker 1: Ray on pikes just to troll doctor Fauci and troll 158 00:12:14,835 --> 00:12:19,275 Speaker 1: FBI director Ray and troll fans of the French Revolution. 159 00:12:20,555 --> 00:12:25,955 Speaker 1: Just kidding. The point, of course, is not that the 160 00:12:25,995 --> 00:12:29,035 Speaker 1: twenty second Amendment would be repealed. It would be that 161 00:12:29,115 --> 00:12:36,195 Speaker 1: it would be ignored. Trump sometime in twenty twenty five, six, seven, eight, 162 00:12:36,395 --> 00:12:39,315 Speaker 1: whenever he felt like it, would declare he's running in 163 00:12:39,355 --> 00:12:43,635 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, try and stop me. Somebody would, somebody 164 00:12:43,675 --> 00:12:46,995 Speaker 1: would sue him, and his defense would be that the 165 00:12:47,035 --> 00:12:50,235 Speaker 1: twenty second Amendment doesn't say a goddamn thing specifically about 166 00:12:50,275 --> 00:12:55,875 Speaker 1: the Grover Clevelands of the presidential universe. This issue, again 167 00:12:56,675 --> 00:13:01,835 Speaker 1: completely fabricated, like presidential immunity or like some sort of 168 00:13:01,955 --> 00:13:05,595 Speaker 1: magic eraser that takes care of the fourteenth Amendment and 169 00:13:05,675 --> 00:13:10,275 Speaker 1: makes him eligible. This would go to the Supreme Court, 170 00:13:10,835 --> 00:13:17,395 Speaker 1: which Trump owns, and the Trump owned Supreme Court would 171 00:13:17,435 --> 00:13:21,195 Speaker 1: erase the twenty second Amendment as it has you may 172 00:13:21,235 --> 00:13:26,235 Speaker 1: recall recently erased the fourteenth Amendment. Ooh, libs. When we 173 00:13:26,315 --> 00:13:29,795 Speaker 1: said own libs, we meant it literally. We own you now. 174 00:13:32,155 --> 00:13:37,035 Speaker 1: One last Bloomberg quote. The possibility that Trump might try 175 00:13:37,075 --> 00:13:40,675 Speaker 1: to abolish term limits if re elected in November, registers 176 00:13:40,715 --> 00:13:43,795 Speaker 1: as a serious threat to a meaningful share of voters, 177 00:13:44,155 --> 00:13:47,155 Speaker 1: despite his claim to the contrary, and it appears to 178 00:13:47,195 --> 00:13:51,235 Speaker 1: be driving them toward Biden. In an April twenty first 179 00:13:51,315 --> 00:13:55,875 Speaker 1: NBC News Public Opinion Strategies poll, sixteen percent of registered 180 00:13:55,915 --> 00:13:59,795 Speaker 1: voters named threats to democracy as the most important issue 181 00:13:59,835 --> 00:14:04,275 Speaker 1: facing the country. Among them, Biden held a sixty seven 182 00:14:04,275 --> 00:14:09,235 Speaker 1: point lead over Trump, eighty one percent to fourteen percent. McCammon, 183 00:14:09,875 --> 00:14:12,555 Speaker 1: the Wisconsin woman who once voted for Trump, now counts 184 00:14:12,635 --> 00:14:17,395 Speaker 1: herself as part of this group. Quote. I will vote 185 00:14:17,435 --> 00:14:23,315 Speaker 1: for Biden even if he is in a coma, she says, 186 00:14:25,435 --> 00:14:31,715 Speaker 1: Grandma Laurie, you have unsuspected depth. I cannot recommend this 187 00:14:31,795 --> 00:14:37,715 Speaker 1: piece too highly to you, or to Joe Biden, or 188 00:14:38,355 --> 00:14:45,275 Speaker 1: to Jen Dylan, O'Malley O'Malley Dylan, to the campaign manager. 189 00:14:46,915 --> 00:14:50,115 Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Joshua Green tweeted this out with a gift link, 190 00:14:50,595 --> 00:14:52,715 Speaker 1: So I sent it to my contacts at the Biden 191 00:14:52,755 --> 00:14:58,995 Speaker 1: campaign since it won't cost them anything. Now reading this, 192 00:14:59,155 --> 00:15:02,475 Speaker 1: it would seem that the play is pretty obvious from 193 00:15:02,555 --> 00:15:07,315 Speaker 1: here on in. Run that piece from the American Conservative 194 00:15:07,315 --> 00:15:11,275 Speaker 1: magazine about third terms and how Trump should get one 195 00:15:11,755 --> 00:15:17,075 Speaker 1: as a campaign ad. Just quote it. Run every single 196 00:15:17,275 --> 00:15:21,075 Speaker 1: Trump comment about staying in office as a campaign ad. 197 00:15:21,155 --> 00:15:24,475 Speaker 1: Run the ones where he's joking and say is he joking? 198 00:15:25,195 --> 00:15:27,515 Speaker 1: Run the ones where he's not joking and say he's 199 00:15:27,555 --> 00:15:32,795 Speaker 1: not joking. You have a seam of new votes here. 200 00:15:33,155 --> 00:15:36,675 Speaker 1: You have the comstock load of new votes here. And 201 00:15:36,755 --> 00:15:39,795 Speaker 1: like I said, also run ads against the Supreme Court 202 00:15:39,835 --> 00:15:42,675 Speaker 1: as well, especially that scenario in which Trump urinates on 203 00:15:42,715 --> 00:15:46,115 Speaker 1: the Constitution, the part about only serving two terms and 204 00:15:46,155 --> 00:15:52,835 Speaker 1: Alito applauds. If any more indication is required here, The 205 00:15:52,915 --> 00:15:56,195 Speaker 1: Washington Post was nice enough to underscore yesterday that the 206 00:15:56,235 --> 00:15:58,875 Speaker 1: New York Times siena poll last week with all the 207 00:15:58,955 --> 00:16:02,955 Speaker 1: bad Biden numbers in the swing States actually has potentially 208 00:16:03,035 --> 00:16:08,395 Speaker 1: really good news in it. Quote, a generic Democratic Senate 209 00:16:08,435 --> 00:16:12,995 Speaker 1: candidate led a generic Republican by five points, but Biden 210 00:16:13,115 --> 00:16:17,515 Speaker 1: trailed Trump by six points. That's an eleven point gap 211 00:16:17,555 --> 00:16:22,235 Speaker 1: between Democratic Senate candidates and the president. We've also seen 212 00:16:22,275 --> 00:16:25,155 Speaker 1: big gaps when you ask about actual Senate candidates. The 213 00:16:25,195 --> 00:16:29,275 Speaker 1: time SIENA poll in Nevada showed Senator Jackie Rosen doing 214 00:16:29,395 --> 00:16:33,555 Speaker 1: fourteen points better than Biden on the margins, I e 215 00:16:33,675 --> 00:16:38,155 Speaker 1: Rosen ahead by two but Biden trailing by twelve. Representative 216 00:16:38,195 --> 00:16:42,835 Speaker 1: Reuben Diego did eleven points better in Arizona, Senator Bob 217 00:16:42,915 --> 00:16:46,955 Speaker 1: Casey did eight points better in Pennsylvania, and Senator Tammy 218 00:16:46,995 --> 00:16:51,555 Speaker 1: Baldwin in Wisconsin did seven points better. A new CBS 219 00:16:51,595 --> 00:16:54,355 Speaker 1: News yugub poll in Arizona released over the weekend showed 220 00:16:54,395 --> 00:16:57,795 Speaker 1: an even bigger gap. Diego led Republican Kerry Lake by 221 00:16:57,955 --> 00:17:01,875 Speaker 1: thirteen points, even as Biden trailed Trump by five, a 222 00:17:01,915 --> 00:17:05,955 Speaker 1: whopping eighteen point difference. One way to look at this, 223 00:17:06,475 --> 00:17:10,195 Speaker 1: wrote the Post, is that those votes are gettable for Biden. 224 00:17:10,435 --> 00:17:15,235 Speaker 1: Another is that he's uniquely unpalatable to voters otherwise supportive 225 00:17:15,275 --> 00:17:22,555 Speaker 1: of Democrats. Right, I'm voting for Tammy Baldwin but not 226 00:17:22,755 --> 00:17:29,635 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. I'm voting for Reuben Diego and Trump. Of 227 00:17:29,675 --> 00:17:35,955 Speaker 1: course it's possible. Of course those combinations must explain some 228 00:17:36,035 --> 00:17:39,195 Speaker 1: of those numbers, but they don't explain all of those numbers. 229 00:17:39,235 --> 00:17:41,635 Speaker 1: And I would put a bet down that they don't 230 00:17:41,675 --> 00:17:46,595 Speaker 1: explain a majority of those numbers. The first point from 231 00:17:46,595 --> 00:17:49,115 Speaker 1: the post is the key one way to look at 232 00:17:49,115 --> 00:17:54,195 Speaker 1: this is that those votes are gettable for Biden. You think, 233 00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:59,035 Speaker 1: but if only they had a great new punchline for 234 00:17:59,195 --> 00:18:06,435 Speaker 1: new campaign ads in Wisconsin for Tammy Baldwin and Joe Biden, like, oh, hi, 235 00:18:07,275 --> 00:18:13,115 Speaker 1: I'm Grandma, Laurie mccommon, and I'm a Wisconsin grandma from Wisconsin, 236 00:18:13,875 --> 00:18:17,395 Speaker 1: and I'm a grandma and I voted for Trump and 237 00:18:17,435 --> 00:18:21,035 Speaker 1: then I found out he wants to stop having elections 238 00:18:21,075 --> 00:18:24,435 Speaker 1: and be president at least two hundred and six. So 239 00:18:24,595 --> 00:18:28,675 Speaker 1: this year I'll be voting for Joe Biden, even if 240 00:18:28,675 --> 00:18:33,195 Speaker 1: he's in a coma. Then there's a pause, and then 241 00:18:33,235 --> 00:18:36,235 Speaker 1: you hear Joe Biden say I'm Joe Biden, and I 242 00:18:36,275 --> 00:18:41,475 Speaker 1: approved this message because guess what, I'm also not in 243 00:18:41,675 --> 00:19:12,075 Speaker 1: a coma. Coquet from the Trump trial here in New York, 244 00:19:12,795 --> 00:19:17,835 Speaker 1: the defense rests, which, given the presence of drowsy Don 245 00:19:18,795 --> 00:19:27,355 Speaker 1: torpid Trump day dreaming, Donald the comatose comb over, the 246 00:19:27,395 --> 00:19:32,715 Speaker 1: defense rests is meant literally closing arguments begin next Tuesday, 247 00:19:32,755 --> 00:19:36,435 Speaker 1: and then we'll see It's impossible to tell what the 248 00:19:36,555 --> 00:19:41,755 Speaker 1: jury saw compared to what we saw. What we saw 249 00:19:42,075 --> 00:19:45,755 Speaker 1: was Trump's witness pissing off the judge enough for the 250 00:19:45,835 --> 00:19:51,115 Speaker 1: judge to clear the courtroom Monday, and for then the 251 00:19:51,155 --> 00:19:56,155 Speaker 1: defendant's key witness, the same guy getting blown up by 252 00:19:56,195 --> 00:20:00,315 Speaker 1: the prosecution yesterday, and then they take a week off. 253 00:20:01,395 --> 00:20:05,835 Speaker 1: Oh oh, and we also got to see Trump concluding 254 00:20:07,075 --> 00:20:10,595 Speaker 1: that everybody in the world agrees with him. 255 00:20:10,795 --> 00:20:13,515 Speaker 2: Every single legal expert. 256 00:20:14,795 --> 00:20:21,235 Speaker 1: Job in the future, Martin, everyone, Rick Jerrard. They call 257 00:20:21,275 --> 00:20:24,955 Speaker 1: it a cas and we just can't have it. That's right. 258 00:20:25,395 --> 00:20:29,315 Speaker 1: There are only four legal experts in the entire world. 259 00:20:30,035 --> 00:20:39,555 Speaker 1: Jonathan Turley, mcuh McLevin somebody else, and Levin Mark Levin 260 00:20:39,555 --> 00:20:41,995 Speaker 1: whose name is actually Mark Levin, but don't tell Trump 261 00:20:42,195 --> 00:20:47,115 Speaker 1: because Trump may have narcolepsy. The jury also does not 262 00:20:47,195 --> 00:20:49,475 Speaker 1: get to see all of the idiots who form the 263 00:20:49,555 --> 00:20:53,715 Speaker 1: Trump posse every day. Remember that great joke I did 264 00:20:53,795 --> 00:20:57,355 Speaker 1: yesterday about grabbing them by the Lieutenant General Dan Patrick, 265 00:20:58,995 --> 00:21:02,275 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the guy who promised to die 266 00:21:02,475 --> 00:21:06,155 Speaker 1: of COVID to protect his grand children's economy in Texas 267 00:21:06,195 --> 00:21:13,195 Speaker 1: and then reneged spoke to the crowd Sebastian Gorka, who 268 00:21:13,235 --> 00:21:17,395 Speaker 1: owns Nazi adjacent tunics and was the perfect guy to 269 00:21:17,395 --> 00:21:19,915 Speaker 1: have in front of cameras the day, Trump reposted a 270 00:21:19,955 --> 00:21:24,075 Speaker 1: fan video with all kinds of Nazi headlines over his picture, 271 00:21:24,515 --> 00:21:31,635 Speaker 1: including the headline Unified Reich. He was there, Doctor Ronnie 272 00:21:31,755 --> 00:21:36,115 Speaker 1: Jackson because there might have been beverage service, and of 273 00:21:36,195 --> 00:21:41,955 Speaker 1: course funny man Joe Piscopo, I guess because Kid Rock 274 00:21:42,115 --> 00:21:47,595 Speaker 1: was still sleeping off the Rolling Stone interview Joe Piscopo. 275 00:21:49,195 --> 00:21:55,515 Speaker 1: Incredibly forty years and ten days ago. Two day was 276 00:21:55,635 --> 00:22:00,915 Speaker 1: Joe Piscopo's last day on Saturday Night Live, and I 277 00:22:01,035 --> 00:22:05,275 Speaker 1: must say I can't shape my fondness for he was 278 00:22:05,515 --> 00:22:08,075 Speaker 1: very good on it. First of all, he did a 279 00:22:08,115 --> 00:22:11,395 Speaker 1: sportscaster based on my friend Warner Wolf from Channel two 280 00:22:11,435 --> 00:22:15,795 Speaker 1: in New York, who just screamed everything and asked questions, 281 00:22:16,995 --> 00:22:19,555 Speaker 1: nothing else but questions, what does this mean? What is 282 00:22:19,595 --> 00:22:22,355 Speaker 1: it going? To tell who says this? Who dropped that ball? 283 00:22:22,475 --> 00:22:27,875 Speaker 1: Who cares? Joe Piscopole Live Saturday Night Sports loved it. 284 00:22:28,515 --> 00:22:31,395 Speaker 1: He did a great Frank Sinatra. He did Frank Sinatra 285 00:22:31,795 --> 00:22:36,755 Speaker 1: singing the theme from the Flintstones Flintstones Meet the Flintstones, 286 00:22:37,955 --> 00:22:40,315 Speaker 1: and he told what I thought was the greatest joke 287 00:22:40,355 --> 00:22:44,075 Speaker 1: I ever heard about Frank Sinatra. After he became somewhat 288 00:22:44,075 --> 00:22:48,435 Speaker 1: famous for doing this Frank Sinatra routine. Joe Piscopo says 289 00:22:48,475 --> 00:22:51,355 Speaker 1: he took Frank Sinatra, or took his mother to a 290 00:22:51,395 --> 00:22:53,995 Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra concert in New Jersey, and in the middle 291 00:22:54,035 --> 00:22:58,115 Speaker 1: of it, as Frank was singing, Frank suddenly recognized him 292 00:22:58,155 --> 00:23:04,875 Speaker 1: from the stage. Someday when I'm awfully and stopped and 293 00:23:04,995 --> 00:23:13,755 Speaker 1: pointed at Joe Piscopal and said, you out. Joe Piscopal 294 00:23:13,795 --> 00:23:15,955 Speaker 1: for a while sat behind me. He was in the 295 00:23:15,995 --> 00:23:18,275 Speaker 1: second row at Yankee Stadium, behind the plate. I was 296 00:23:18,275 --> 00:23:22,035 Speaker 1: in the first row. This is ten years ago, so 297 00:23:22,115 --> 00:23:24,675 Speaker 1: it's thirty years after he told that joke, and I 298 00:23:24,715 --> 00:23:27,195 Speaker 1: told him one day. I still remembered it word for word, 299 00:23:27,235 --> 00:23:28,835 Speaker 1: that's how good of a joke it was. But I 300 00:23:28,875 --> 00:23:31,355 Speaker 1: really needed to know did it actually happen. Did he 301 00:23:31,395 --> 00:23:34,195 Speaker 1: actually take his mother to a Frank Sinatra concert actor 302 00:23:34,515 --> 00:23:40,115 Speaker 1: portraying Frank Sinatra singing The Flintstones on national television back 303 00:23:40,155 --> 00:23:43,275 Speaker 1: when Saturday Night Live was supposed to be funny and 304 00:23:43,995 --> 00:23:46,435 Speaker 1: people over the age of seven years old watched it? 305 00:23:48,915 --> 00:23:52,195 Speaker 1: Did it happen? And, honest to God, his answer was 306 00:23:53,075 --> 00:24:00,155 Speaker 1: he didn't remember. He didn't remember the joke. And you know, 307 00:24:00,275 --> 00:24:02,795 Speaker 1: if you don't remember the joke or you don't remember 308 00:24:03,035 --> 00:24:05,355 Speaker 1: what the truth was, whether or not an actually happened, 309 00:24:05,395 --> 00:24:07,355 Speaker 1: the correct answer is one of two things. You say, 310 00:24:07,515 --> 00:24:10,035 Speaker 1: of course it happened. I couldn't have made up anything 311 00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:13,675 Speaker 1: that funny, or of course it didn't happen. I'm a comedian. 312 00:24:13,955 --> 00:24:21,075 Speaker 1: I wrote that, you out, But what do you want? 313 00:24:21,475 --> 00:24:28,075 Speaker 1: Joe Piscopo thinks Trump is worth supporting, and forty years 314 00:24:29,115 --> 00:24:34,435 Speaker 1: after his last big gig, ended forty years of Saturday 315 00:24:34,515 --> 00:24:39,995 Speaker 1: Night Live and seventeen thousand different cast members ago, Trump 316 00:24:39,995 --> 00:24:41,995 Speaker 1: thought he was the right guy to bring down as 317 00:24:42,035 --> 00:24:55,875 Speaker 1: part of his bosse you out. Also of interest here, 318 00:24:56,155 --> 00:24:59,675 Speaker 1: I may do the unified Reich video story tomorrow with 319 00:24:59,755 --> 00:25:03,835 Speaker 1: some context, depending on events. Frankly, I don't think it's 320 00:25:03,875 --> 00:25:08,755 Speaker 1: his big ad, as everybody else does. Because, as mentioned 321 00:25:08,755 --> 00:25:10,875 Speaker 1: a couple of times here, Trump's a Nazi and an 322 00:25:10,875 --> 00:25:13,875 Speaker 1: anti Semite. Why is this a surprise? We have it 323 00:25:13,995 --> 00:25:16,715 Speaker 1: on the record since nineteen ninety that he owned a 324 00:25:16,755 --> 00:25:20,875 Speaker 1: copy of Hitler's speeches and kept it in a little 325 00:25:21,235 --> 00:25:25,875 Speaker 1: nightstand near his bed, according to his wife, the one 326 00:25:25,875 --> 00:25:31,035 Speaker 1: who's now in the now on the golf course, we'll 327 00:25:31,035 --> 00:25:36,875 Speaker 1: see for now of interest here, anybody remember who was 328 00:25:36,915 --> 00:25:42,355 Speaker 1: hosting Fox's eight pm news hour thirteen months ago tonight. 329 00:25:43,235 --> 00:25:47,115 Speaker 1: The answer is not Joe Piscopo Saturday night Live Sports. 330 00:25:48,515 --> 00:25:51,675 Speaker 1: It's the same guy who will now be hosting a 331 00:25:51,755 --> 00:25:58,395 Speaker 1: show on Blosaiya twenty four, Russian state TV. And you 332 00:25:58,675 --> 00:26:03,315 Speaker 1: thought I've worked for a lot of networks. That's next 333 00:26:03,515 --> 00:26:30,675 Speaker 1: this discountdown. This is countdown with Keith old woman still 334 00:26:30,675 --> 00:26:32,955 Speaker 1: ahead of us on this initiative countdown. I told this 335 00:26:32,995 --> 00:26:35,435 Speaker 1: story yesterday to a friend, and I want to tell 336 00:26:35,475 --> 00:26:39,395 Speaker 1: it again. The morning disc jockey who threatened to kill 337 00:26:39,435 --> 00:26:42,675 Speaker 1: me one hour and then wanted to give me a 338 00:26:42,755 --> 00:26:46,755 Speaker 1: multi year contract one hour later, who came to me 339 00:26:46,795 --> 00:26:49,395 Speaker 1: and said, young man, I was a young man, then 340 00:26:49,955 --> 00:26:53,715 Speaker 1: you punk things. I promised not to tell coming up 341 00:26:53,715 --> 00:26:56,435 Speaker 1: at first. As ever, there are still more new idiots 342 00:26:56,555 --> 00:26:59,315 Speaker 1: talk about the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and 343 00:26:59,395 --> 00:27:03,515 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in 344 00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:09,795 Speaker 1: the world. You out the bronze worse. Good old Marco Rubio, 345 00:27:10,075 --> 00:27:13,715 Speaker 1: the senior idiot senator from Florida, the one who threatened 346 00:27:13,755 --> 00:27:16,955 Speaker 1: to have me prosecuted for demanding we reform the Supreme 347 00:27:17,035 --> 00:27:21,235 Speaker 1: Court because well, because Marco Rubio has the IQ of 348 00:27:21,275 --> 00:27:25,555 Speaker 1: a chair, a chair that has one leg shorter than 349 00:27:25,555 --> 00:27:29,355 Speaker 1: the others, well he may have topped himself, or he 350 00:27:29,435 --> 00:27:32,035 Speaker 1: may just be maintaining the standards he has honed over 351 00:27:32,075 --> 00:27:36,795 Speaker 1: the years. Marco Rubio on Fox quote news unquote, there 352 00:27:36,875 --> 00:27:40,155 Speaker 1: is only one person that would ever face charges like this, 353 00:27:40,435 --> 00:27:43,635 Speaker 1: and it has to have the last name Donald Trump. 354 00:27:45,595 --> 00:27:52,355 Speaker 1: No se Marco. While you get some water last name, 355 00:27:53,515 --> 00:27:57,155 Speaker 1: it means, it means that there's a Christian and then 356 00:27:57,195 --> 00:28:01,675 Speaker 1: there's this cert Okay, never mind, It's like trying to 357 00:28:01,675 --> 00:28:06,595 Speaker 1: explain something to a chair runner up worser, speaking of 358 00:28:06,635 --> 00:28:10,915 Speaker 1: which Chris solicit is. Back days after posting his hilarious 359 00:28:11,435 --> 00:28:15,555 Speaker 1: mission statement, Chris seemed to confirm that he only spends 360 00:28:15,595 --> 00:28:18,595 Speaker 1: about an hour a day here on this plane of 361 00:28:18,635 --> 00:28:22,235 Speaker 1: existence in the America of twenty twenty four. He is shocked, 362 00:28:22,675 --> 00:28:27,595 Speaker 1: shocked to discover that people are diagnosing cognitive declines in 363 00:28:27,675 --> 00:28:31,835 Speaker 1: presidential candidates. When the GOP consultant Stuart Stevens went on 364 00:28:31,955 --> 00:28:35,715 Speaker 1: MSNBC and said Trump has dementia, Solissa retweeted the clip 365 00:28:35,755 --> 00:28:39,515 Speaker 1: and added, this is absolutely ridiculous. You can hate Trump, 366 00:28:39,595 --> 00:28:42,675 Speaker 1: you can believe him unfit for office. I definitely think 367 00:28:42,675 --> 00:28:46,435 Speaker 1: the latter, But diagnosing him from afar with something as 368 00:28:46,475 --> 00:28:52,555 Speaker 1: serious as dementia, it's just deeply irresponsible. Now you know 369 00:28:52,595 --> 00:28:57,155 Speaker 1: what's deeply irresponsible, Chris both sides in every goddamned thing 370 00:28:57,475 --> 00:29:00,635 Speaker 1: while the country burns to the ground, and you're the 371 00:29:00,715 --> 00:29:03,875 Speaker 1: last thing to go up in flames, and you say, well, 372 00:29:03,915 --> 00:29:06,315 Speaker 1: at least I didn't I eight sides against the fire. 373 00:29:06,795 --> 00:29:12,315 Speaker 1: I treated the fire fairly. George Conway kind of felt 374 00:29:12,355 --> 00:29:14,435 Speaker 1: the same thing I did. He came back with, no, 375 00:29:14,555 --> 00:29:18,275 Speaker 1: it's not. Numerous mental health professionals have been watching him 376 00:29:18,355 --> 00:29:20,995 Speaker 1: carefully and have come to the conclusion that he is 377 00:29:21,115 --> 00:29:27,195 Speaker 1: cognitively deteriorating. Well, mister mission statement, would not seed, would 378 00:29:27,275 --> 00:29:32,715 Speaker 1: not ask anybody one of them has actually seen him 379 00:29:32,715 --> 00:29:36,035 Speaker 1: in person. No way, you should be diagnosing dementia from afar. 380 00:29:36,435 --> 00:29:39,795 Speaker 1: No way. I have terrible news for Chris on two 381 00:29:39,875 --> 00:29:44,115 Speaker 1: fronts three actually, first one being Chris, you're an idiot. Two. 382 00:29:44,555 --> 00:29:49,875 Speaker 1: Starting in twenty fifteen, maybe earlier, Donald Trump has diagnosed 383 00:29:50,115 --> 00:29:55,475 Speaker 1: everybody he's met with mental illness. The number is well 384 00:29:55,515 --> 00:29:59,435 Speaker 1: into three figures, maybe four figures, maybe five figures by now. 385 00:29:59,555 --> 00:30:02,715 Speaker 1: A people he has called all kinds of diseases and 386 00:30:02,875 --> 00:30:07,435 Speaker 1: pejorative names for mental impaired in some way or cognitively 387 00:30:07,515 --> 00:30:10,195 Speaker 1: impaired in some way. So if you're trying to stop 388 00:30:10,235 --> 00:30:15,875 Speaker 1: people from diagnosing others afar, you're literally nine years too late. 389 00:30:17,195 --> 00:30:22,435 Speaker 1: He diagnoses Biden every day. Biden the President of the 390 00:30:22,475 --> 00:30:26,835 Speaker 1: United States. Joe Biden. No, Joe Biden's President of the 391 00:30:26,915 --> 00:30:30,915 Speaker 1: United States. Chris, So, the ship sailed and it's already 392 00:30:30,955 --> 00:30:34,995 Speaker 1: made its way around the world thirty seven times. Chris 393 00:30:35,035 --> 00:30:37,395 Speaker 1: evidently did not know this. But more importantly, how do 394 00:30:37,435 --> 00:30:40,715 Speaker 1: you think, Chris, that they diagnosed dementia a blood test? 395 00:30:41,155 --> 00:30:47,675 Speaker 1: An X ray? Professionals observe behavior. They often ask the patient, 396 00:30:47,715 --> 00:30:51,395 Speaker 1: but sometimes they don't. Sometimes they ask relatives and those 397 00:30:51,475 --> 00:30:54,875 Speaker 1: around the patient. But whoever they ask, it's it's still 398 00:30:54,955 --> 00:30:59,515 Speaker 1: all from afar. You cannot get into somebody's head and 399 00:30:59,715 --> 00:31:04,715 Speaker 1: measure their neural synapses. And even more importantly, remember what 400 00:31:04,795 --> 00:31:08,155 Speaker 1: were those Solizza Washington Post Hillary Clinton email headlines I 401 00:31:08,235 --> 00:31:11,555 Speaker 1: quoted last week from his fifty articles about the topic 402 00:31:12,075 --> 00:31:15,355 Speaker 1: in just six months of twenty fifteen, Several of them 403 00:31:15,395 --> 00:31:20,195 Speaker 1: refer to quote Hillary Clinton's honesty problem. One said Hillary 404 00:31:20,235 --> 00:31:23,555 Speaker 1: Clinton as honest and trustworthy as Donald Trump. Well, the 405 00:31:23,595 --> 00:31:29,195 Speaker 1: marriage of the words honest and problems suggests, well a problem, 406 00:31:29,635 --> 00:31:34,555 Speaker 1: a clinical problem which Chris Solizza was diagnosing from afar. 407 00:31:35,715 --> 00:31:37,955 Speaker 1: So what he's really saying here to Stuart Stevens and 408 00:31:37,995 --> 00:31:40,355 Speaker 1: George Conway and everybody else in the world is you 409 00:31:40,515 --> 00:31:44,835 Speaker 1: can't diagnose anybody's psychological or cognitive problems from afar. But 410 00:31:45,115 --> 00:31:50,435 Speaker 1: I can. But our winner. Let me just quote newsweek 411 00:31:50,515 --> 00:31:55,555 Speaker 1: dot Com. Conservative TV host Tucker Carlson has launched his 412 00:31:55,715 --> 00:32:03,275 Speaker 1: own show on a Russian state television channel. He decided 413 00:32:03,275 --> 00:32:05,995 Speaker 1: to go to one American news. Oh no, I must 414 00:32:06,035 --> 00:32:09,395 Speaker 1: have misunderstood. The former Fox News anchor is presenting the 415 00:32:09,435 --> 00:32:14,275 Speaker 1: program Tucker on the Rolling News channel Russia twenty four 416 00:32:14,875 --> 00:32:17,995 Speaker 1: and we know where they're rolling it over, with the 417 00:32:18,035 --> 00:32:25,475 Speaker 1: first episode now available online. Russian state newspaper Rosiskaya Gazeta reported. 418 00:32:26,315 --> 00:32:28,035 Speaker 1: Paper said that the show is part of a joint 419 00:32:28,115 --> 00:32:31,435 Speaker 1: project with Carlson TV in which you will interview figures 420 00:32:31,475 --> 00:32:36,475 Speaker 1: and politicians who have alternative views to the mainstream. In 421 00:32:36,515 --> 00:32:41,715 Speaker 1: other words, liars, Well, it turns out Newsweek is partially 422 00:32:41,755 --> 00:32:45,075 Speaker 1: incorrect here. This is not going to be some news series, 423 00:32:45,075 --> 00:32:47,355 Speaker 1: at least not yet. It's just going to be the 424 00:32:47,435 --> 00:32:51,955 Speaker 1: videos that he's already posted to Twitter x only with subtitles, 425 00:32:54,195 --> 00:32:57,155 Speaker 1: which raises this question, why would they need subtitles? I mean, 426 00:32:57,195 --> 00:33:03,635 Speaker 1: everything Tucker Carlson says was written originally in Russia, wasn't it, Tucker. 427 00:33:03,955 --> 00:33:07,395 Speaker 1: As the old joke goes, it loses something in the 428 00:33:07,435 --> 00:33:30,715 Speaker 1: original Carlson Today's Worse Person in the World, Tavis. I'm 429 00:33:30,795 --> 00:33:37,035 Speaker 1: Dave Spencer, WNWWS and now WAW Sportsen Commentary with John Kenner. 430 00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:40,395 Speaker 2: And Good Morning Keith Olberman for Big John Sports is 431 00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:43,035 Speaker 2: brought to you by Amtrak America is getting into training 432 00:33:43,035 --> 00:33:47,035 Speaker 2: with Metro Ironers service thirteen times every business day to Philadelphia. 433 00:33:47,235 --> 00:33:49,315 Speaker 2: They run from Penn Station and if you were there 434 00:33:49,395 --> 00:33:52,555 Speaker 2: last night, you probably heard some noise from upstairs. It 435 00:33:52,635 --> 00:33:55,595 Speaker 2: was Ranger fans celebrating the new year a little bit. 436 00:33:56,315 --> 00:34:01,435 Speaker 1: This remains, in short, as terrifying as anything else in 437 00:34:01,475 --> 00:34:06,075 Speaker 1: my career, death threats, fake and threat What New York 438 00:34:06,155 --> 00:34:09,515 Speaker 1: felt like post nine to eleven, the frozen feeling of 439 00:34:09,555 --> 00:34:12,595 Speaker 1: realizing you've made a terrible, damaging mistake on a story, 440 00:34:12,675 --> 00:34:18,435 Speaker 1: even working for Rupert Murdoch. Worse than that. Forty two 441 00:34:18,475 --> 00:34:22,115 Speaker 1: years have passed since this event, and nothing has dimmed 442 00:34:22,155 --> 00:34:25,915 Speaker 1: the memory, nothing has reduced the palpable sense of anxiety 443 00:34:26,155 --> 00:34:30,995 Speaker 1: in every joint in my body. On Sunday, December twenty first, 444 00:34:31,075 --> 00:34:35,115 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, the Oakland Raiders defeated the New York Giants 445 00:34:35,155 --> 00:34:37,675 Speaker 1: thirty three to seventeen to end the Giant season at 446 00:34:37,715 --> 00:34:40,915 Speaker 1: four wins and twelve losses, with the most points they 447 00:34:40,915 --> 00:34:44,075 Speaker 1: had given up in one year. Since nineteen sixty six. 448 00:34:45,155 --> 00:34:48,795 Speaker 1: I was the backup sportscaster at w NEW Radio in 449 00:34:48,835 --> 00:34:52,915 Speaker 1: New York. We carried the Giants game broadcasts. In fact, 450 00:34:52,955 --> 00:34:55,555 Speaker 1: we had carried them since I was two years old. 451 00:34:55,635 --> 00:34:58,435 Speaker 1: I was now a month shy of twenty two, and 452 00:34:58,595 --> 00:35:01,235 Speaker 1: it being Christmas week. I reported bright and early to 453 00:35:01,275 --> 00:35:04,635 Speaker 1: the studios at forty first Street and Third Avenue on Monday, 454 00:35:04,755 --> 00:35:08,235 Speaker 1: December twenty second. My first sports cast was at five 455 00:35:08,595 --> 00:35:12,275 Speaker 1: thirty am. There was a theme song which invoked the 456 00:35:12,315 --> 00:35:15,955 Speaker 1: name of the regular sportscaster, John Kennelly. It said sports 457 00:35:15,995 --> 00:35:18,755 Speaker 1: and commentary, and my first few weeks filling, and that 458 00:35:18,835 --> 00:35:20,955 Speaker 1: year I stuck mostly to the sports, with just an 459 00:35:20,955 --> 00:35:26,235 Speaker 1: occasional commentary, but mostly a joke or pithy observation. Well 460 00:35:26,355 --> 00:35:28,915 Speaker 1: kind of pithy, but that first weekend of winter, the 461 00:35:28,995 --> 00:35:32,355 Speaker 1: giant stink was all that we could smell in New York, 462 00:35:32,395 --> 00:35:35,795 Speaker 1: and I felt I had to point it out, pointed Lee, 463 00:35:35,835 --> 00:35:38,435 Speaker 1: and so while I observed that there was a positive 464 00:35:38,435 --> 00:35:40,595 Speaker 1: they had started one in eight but then had actually 465 00:35:40,635 --> 00:35:43,075 Speaker 1: won three of their last seven games, the rest of 466 00:35:43,075 --> 00:35:48,155 Speaker 1: my commentary was cynical, acerbic, dissatisfied, in other words, the 467 00:35:48,235 --> 00:35:51,795 Speaker 1: average day of the typical New York sports fan. I 468 00:35:51,955 --> 00:35:54,475 Speaker 1: ended my show right on time at five thirty five am, 469 00:35:54,515 --> 00:35:57,595 Speaker 1: and to my surprise, I heard the disc jockey skip 470 00:35:57,635 --> 00:36:01,795 Speaker 1: his usual post sportscast remarks and instead simply play the 471 00:36:01,835 --> 00:36:04,355 Speaker 1: next record, which I think was Frank Sinatra's The way 472 00:36:04,395 --> 00:36:08,635 Speaker 1: you like tonight we were a big band station. I 473 00:36:08,675 --> 00:36:11,195 Speaker 1: stepped out of the booth and took the dozen strides 474 00:36:11,235 --> 00:36:13,515 Speaker 1: through the newsroom, busy even at that hour, with eight 475 00:36:13,595 --> 00:36:15,795 Speaker 1: or ten staffers, and I was sitting down at my 476 00:36:15,915 --> 00:36:20,155 Speaker 1: desk when the door from the main air studio slammed open. 477 00:36:20,955 --> 00:36:23,155 Speaker 1: In the doorway stood the disc jockey, and he had 478 00:36:23,155 --> 00:36:28,355 Speaker 1: a message for me. The message was you punk. The 479 00:36:28,435 --> 00:36:31,515 Speaker 1: disc jockey's name was Ted Brown. On the air, he 480 00:36:31,715 --> 00:36:36,475 Speaker 1: was your morning man, Ted Brown, speaking upbeat drivel, mostly 481 00:36:36,515 --> 00:36:39,595 Speaker 1: to women who loved the mellow sound of his voice. 482 00:36:39,635 --> 00:36:43,715 Speaker 1: Off the air. WNW was his station and the morning 483 00:36:43,755 --> 00:36:47,635 Speaker 1: show was his show. He would fight for it. In fact, 484 00:36:47,675 --> 00:36:50,595 Speaker 1: he had fought at least two news reporters in his 485 00:36:50,715 --> 00:36:54,395 Speaker 1: time in the studio while Frank Sinatra records played on 486 00:36:54,435 --> 00:36:57,555 Speaker 1: a turntable thirty feet away. Ted Brown was a big 487 00:36:57,595 --> 00:37:00,155 Speaker 1: man six ' three six ' four maybe by this 488 00:37:00,275 --> 00:37:03,755 Speaker 1: point I don't know, two thirty forty two fifty thick 489 00:37:03,875 --> 00:37:08,115 Speaker 1: tortoise shell glasses. He was a sportsman, a huge gambler 490 00:37:08,195 --> 00:37:11,835 Speaker 1: racetracks mostly the Giants had begun on WNW in nineteen 491 00:37:11,875 --> 00:37:14,595 Speaker 1: sixty one. Ted Brown had begun on WNW in nineteen 492 00:37:14,675 --> 00:37:17,795 Speaker 1: forty nine, and he was tough, and it was not 493 00:37:17,915 --> 00:37:20,315 Speaker 1: even the New York tough I had grown up with. 494 00:37:20,475 --> 00:37:22,515 Speaker 1: This guy had been a tail gunner on a B 495 00:37:22,715 --> 00:37:26,155 Speaker 1: seventeen during the Second World War, and the Nazi shot 496 00:37:26,235 --> 00:37:28,755 Speaker 1: him down, and they took him to Stalog nine CE, 497 00:37:29,115 --> 00:37:31,875 Speaker 1: near Leipzig, and they kept him there for eighteen months, 498 00:37:31,955 --> 00:37:35,675 Speaker 1: and basically he chewed up and spit out guys like 499 00:37:35,755 --> 00:37:40,875 Speaker 1: me for breakfast. And I respected him. You punk say 500 00:37:40,915 --> 00:37:43,195 Speaker 1: you don't like how the giants. Did you think any 501 00:37:43,235 --> 00:37:47,075 Speaker 1: of us too? He gestured towards the newscasters and staffers. 502 00:37:47,235 --> 00:37:49,835 Speaker 1: Nobody looked up. You know how easy it is to 503 00:37:49,915 --> 00:37:54,395 Speaker 1: sit there in a nice, heated, dry, comfortable newsroom. I 504 00:37:54,595 --> 00:37:59,395 Speaker 1: was in Stalog NINEC. His contempt for the idea of 505 00:37:59,435 --> 00:38:03,595 Speaker 1: the newsroom was amazing. You sit here in your newsroom 506 00:38:03,955 --> 00:38:08,995 Speaker 1: and ponte while men men in helmets with mud on them, 507 00:38:09,195 --> 00:38:14,075 Speaker 1: they're bones, breaking, their hearts pounding. They are out on 508 00:38:14,155 --> 00:38:18,115 Speaker 1: the field, fighting and tackling and working on the field 509 00:38:18,195 --> 00:38:24,675 Speaker 1: of battle. So you can sit here in your news room. 510 00:38:26,755 --> 00:38:28,435 Speaker 1: It was at this point that I remembered where I 511 00:38:28,475 --> 00:38:31,155 Speaker 1: had first seen a photograph of Ted Brown. He was 512 00:38:31,155 --> 00:38:34,395 Speaker 1: in a booth at Yankee Stadium, where the Giants played 513 00:38:34,395 --> 00:38:37,235 Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties. He was the third man, a 514 00:38:37,275 --> 00:38:43,235 Speaker 1: combination color announcer and host on Giants radio broadcasts on WNW. 515 00:38:43,635 --> 00:38:46,555 Speaker 1: He was the worst possible person to have heard me 516 00:38:46,715 --> 00:38:49,875 Speaker 1: rip the New York Giants, even the four and twelve 517 00:38:49,995 --> 00:38:52,915 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty New York Giants, even if editorially I was 518 00:38:52,955 --> 00:38:55,955 Speaker 1: completely correct and not nearly as hard on the team 519 00:38:55,995 --> 00:38:58,915 Speaker 1: as its own announcers had been on our station the 520 00:38:59,115 --> 00:39:03,835 Speaker 1: day before. What did you do to earn your spot? Here? 521 00:39:04,155 --> 00:39:08,275 Speaker 1: Punk Ted Brown was turning red. One of his fists 522 00:39:08,395 --> 00:39:11,195 Speaker 1: was already clenched, while the other arm cut through the 523 00:39:11,235 --> 00:39:16,155 Speaker 1: air to emphasize how much I sucked. I truly believed 524 00:39:16,195 --> 00:39:19,115 Speaker 1: he was about to take a swing at me. Then 525 00:39:19,155 --> 00:39:22,275 Speaker 1: from behind him, the door from his studio swung open again, 526 00:39:22,515 --> 00:39:25,115 Speaker 1: and the elderly engineer, the man who actually spun the 527 00:39:25,155 --> 00:39:29,035 Speaker 1: records on Ted's show, came through it. Ted I just 528 00:39:29,075 --> 00:39:32,075 Speaker 1: had to segue out of Sinatra to Jimmy Cagney singing 529 00:39:32,115 --> 00:39:35,675 Speaker 1: Yankee Doodle Dandy. And the general manager called and he said, 530 00:39:36,155 --> 00:39:39,595 Speaker 1: I should tell you WNEW does not segue. No records, 531 00:39:39,955 --> 00:39:42,075 Speaker 1: don't do it. Again, you better get back in here. 532 00:39:42,515 --> 00:39:46,715 Speaker 1: The cagnes almost finished. The engineer then vanished silently back 533 00:39:46,715 --> 00:39:49,995 Speaker 1: through the door. This warning did nothing but make Ted 534 00:39:50,035 --> 00:39:53,315 Speaker 1: Brown even angrier the general manager. Have you met the 535 00:39:53,395 --> 00:39:59,115 Speaker 1: general manager, Punk, Jack Fair? And Jack Fair gets in 536 00:39:59,155 --> 00:40:03,675 Speaker 1: here at eight twenty every morning on dot clockwork, Punk, 537 00:40:04,235 --> 00:40:08,395 Speaker 1: when you finish your eight thirty sports cast, I'm dragging 538 00:40:08,435 --> 00:40:13,635 Speaker 1: you in to meet Jack Thayer, the general manager. And 539 00:40:13,795 --> 00:40:19,275 Speaker 1: that punk is when your career at WNW Radio will 540 00:40:19,315 --> 00:40:23,435 Speaker 1: come to an abrupt end. You think the New York 541 00:40:23,515 --> 00:40:26,435 Speaker 1: Giants had a bad nineteen eighty, how about your nineteen 542 00:40:26,435 --> 00:40:30,395 Speaker 1: eighty punk when your career ended? Because the real men, 543 00:40:30,795 --> 00:40:33,155 Speaker 1: the real men, are out there on the playing field, 544 00:40:33,475 --> 00:40:40,755 Speaker 1: not sitting inside a noseroom in a sweater. Miscontinued for 545 00:40:40,835 --> 00:40:45,475 Speaker 1: some time. The engineer returned Tennant's Thayer again, I just 546 00:40:45,515 --> 00:40:48,995 Speaker 1: segued to some mel Tourmae. Ted Thayer wants to talk 547 00:40:48,995 --> 00:40:50,635 Speaker 1: to you. He thinks maybe you're not here, and I'm 548 00:40:50,675 --> 00:40:55,235 Speaker 1: covering for you. Ted Brown turned and swore dark oaths 549 00:40:55,275 --> 00:40:57,995 Speaker 1: against the engineer, and for that matter, against the general manager, 550 00:40:58,075 --> 00:41:01,715 Speaker 1: Jack Thayer, and for that matter, against mel Tourmae. You 551 00:41:01,835 --> 00:41:06,035 Speaker 1: and me, Punk, eight thirty five of your career, pug. 552 00:41:06,595 --> 00:41:08,915 Speaker 1: He lunged at me. Suddenly the engineer grabbed him and 553 00:41:08,955 --> 00:41:14,555 Speaker 1: pulled him back through the door. In the newsroom, there 554 00:41:14,555 --> 00:41:18,875 Speaker 1: were only two sounds, one my heart, which I suspect 555 00:41:18,955 --> 00:41:24,275 Speaker 1: was audible perhaps the next block, the other typing. Nobody 556 00:41:24,275 --> 00:41:27,195 Speaker 1: said a word, Nobody looked at me. A phone rang, 557 00:41:27,795 --> 00:41:32,155 Speaker 1: The production assistant sang out WNW news. I went over 558 00:41:32,235 --> 00:41:34,675 Speaker 1: to the newscaster who had been the most supportive of 559 00:41:34,715 --> 00:41:37,995 Speaker 1: me to that point, Bob Hagen, and through my shaking 560 00:41:38,035 --> 00:41:41,555 Speaker 1: I said thanks for to help Bob. Bob did not 561 00:41:41,675 --> 00:41:44,755 Speaker 1: look up from his typewriter. What he said matter of 562 00:41:44,795 --> 00:41:48,115 Speaker 1: factly Brown? I said, yes, Brown, he's gonna get me 563 00:41:48,155 --> 00:41:51,715 Speaker 1: fired in three hours. Bob Hagen laughed, No, he's not. 564 00:41:52,555 --> 00:41:54,075 Speaker 1: I said, he just spent I don't know how many 565 00:41:54,115 --> 00:41:56,555 Speaker 1: minutes he spent three records screaming at me. Didn't you 566 00:41:56,595 --> 00:42:00,755 Speaker 1: hear him? I heard him, We all heard him. We've 567 00:42:00,755 --> 00:42:03,435 Speaker 1: all heard him every time he said that. He said 568 00:42:03,475 --> 00:42:06,035 Speaker 1: that to every one of us out here. He said 569 00:42:06,035 --> 00:42:07,995 Speaker 1: that about every one of us out here. He took 570 00:42:08,035 --> 00:42:10,115 Speaker 1: a swing at eyes grow over there. What was it, 571 00:42:10,155 --> 00:42:14,315 Speaker 1: Jimmy two months ago? Ignore him? I said, I failed 572 00:42:14,355 --> 00:42:16,275 Speaker 1: to see why any of what he had told me 573 00:42:16,275 --> 00:42:19,195 Speaker 1: should encourage me to ignore Ted Brown. When we had 574 00:42:19,235 --> 00:42:21,835 Speaker 1: a meeting with the general manager at eight thirty five, 575 00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:26,955 Speaker 1: Bob Hagen now stopped typhing and smiled up at me 576 00:42:27,195 --> 00:42:32,435 Speaker 1: reassuringly from his chair. Keith, you do a good job. 577 00:42:33,875 --> 00:42:37,475 Speaker 1: Ted is nuts. Ted is mean. Ted is a crazy 578 00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:40,635 Speaker 1: Giants fan. Ted is also still bitter that he's not 579 00:42:40,675 --> 00:42:43,435 Speaker 1: on the radio broadcast of the Giants games. But Ted 580 00:42:43,475 --> 00:42:46,955 Speaker 1: has also been doing morning radio almost every day since 581 00:42:47,075 --> 00:42:51,835 Speaker 1: nineteen forty five. Keith, that's thirty five years of getting 582 00:42:51,875 --> 00:42:54,555 Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night, and many many 583 00:42:54,635 --> 00:43:00,555 Speaker 1: years ago, Keith, Ted stopped remembering things like what somebody 584 00:43:00,675 --> 00:43:04,795 Speaker 1: said on his show. He doesn't remember, he won't remember who. 585 00:43:04,875 --> 00:43:08,675 Speaker 1: Just finish off the next sportscast with one of your clever, funny, 586 00:43:08,715 --> 00:43:11,595 Speaker 1: little kicker stories. And even if he somehow remembers what 587 00:43:11,635 --> 00:43:13,755 Speaker 1: you said about the Giants, when he hears a good laugh, 588 00:43:14,835 --> 00:43:18,675 Speaker 1: all he'll remember is the laugh. I tried to be 589 00:43:18,715 --> 00:43:21,155 Speaker 1: respectful of Bob, but I told him I found all 590 00:43:21,275 --> 00:43:25,635 Speaker 1: this hard to believe. Keith. He also drinks. He has nightmares, 591 00:43:26,035 --> 00:43:29,435 Speaker 1: he has pow nightmares, and he gets up at three 592 00:43:29,515 --> 00:43:34,355 Speaker 1: am every day. He does not imprint new memories anymore. 593 00:43:35,515 --> 00:43:37,875 Speaker 1: But no, why should you listen to me. I've only 594 00:43:37,875 --> 00:43:40,515 Speaker 1: been on his show for ten years. Why would I know? 595 00:43:41,355 --> 00:43:44,035 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, get a good, funny kicker for the 596 00:43:44,075 --> 00:43:49,235 Speaker 1: six thirty and he'll love you. I nodded grimly. I 597 00:43:49,275 --> 00:43:51,795 Speaker 1: did not believe Bob Hagen, but I knew he meant well, 598 00:43:52,515 --> 00:43:56,715 Speaker 1: and anyway, he had started to type again. The clock 599 00:43:56,795 --> 00:44:00,595 Speaker 1: now moved impossibly quickly. Incredibly, I did find just the 600 00:44:00,715 --> 00:44:03,955 Speaker 1: kind of funny, clever kicker story Bob suggested I should 601 00:44:04,075 --> 00:44:07,395 Speaker 1: use to the six thirty sports cast. I minimized my 602 00:44:07,475 --> 00:44:09,755 Speaker 1: assault on the Giants and then finished off my report 603 00:44:09,795 --> 00:44:12,515 Speaker 1: with some story that shed a good light on Montclair 604 00:44:12,595 --> 00:44:16,315 Speaker 1: State College in New Jersey. I could not have known, 605 00:44:16,835 --> 00:44:20,635 Speaker 1: and I swear I did not know that Ted Brown's 606 00:44:20,915 --> 00:44:25,515 Speaker 1: sister had graduated from Montclair State College in New Jersey. 607 00:44:26,435 --> 00:44:29,395 Speaker 1: I finished off the sports cast with the story something 608 00:44:29,395 --> 00:44:31,715 Speaker 1: that made Montclair State look good a little chuckle, and 609 00:44:31,715 --> 00:44:34,715 Speaker 1: then Keith ol Rimman for John Kennelly on the Ted 610 00:44:34,755 --> 00:44:40,315 Speaker 1: Brown Show ominously again, to my terror, Ted Brown now 611 00:44:40,355 --> 00:44:42,595 Speaker 1: said nothing on the air. I could not see him 612 00:44:42,595 --> 00:44:45,355 Speaker 1: through the window into the main air studio. The engineer 613 00:44:45,395 --> 00:44:48,115 Speaker 1: played a record instead. It may have been the Montevanni 614 00:44:48,275 --> 00:44:51,555 Speaker 1: strings play the Beatles. I opened the door back to 615 00:44:51,635 --> 00:44:55,115 Speaker 1: the newsroom slowly and with trepidation. I crouched as I 616 00:44:55,155 --> 00:44:57,915 Speaker 1: moved back towards my desk. And that's when it happened. 617 00:44:58,035 --> 00:45:00,915 Speaker 1: The door from the main air studio slammed open again. 618 00:45:01,075 --> 00:45:04,595 Speaker 1: It was Ted Brown again. Where is he? Where is he? 619 00:45:05,115 --> 00:45:09,435 Speaker 1: Montclair State? My sister went to Montclair State. What a story, 620 00:45:09,595 --> 00:45:13,035 Speaker 1: what a great laugh, perfectly delivered. My God, that was 621 00:45:13,075 --> 00:45:15,755 Speaker 1: the best sports cast we have ever had on this station. 622 00:45:15,835 --> 00:45:18,715 Speaker 1: Don't you think so? Prely? God? Love you, kid? Whatna 623 00:45:18,755 --> 00:45:21,475 Speaker 1: tell it? I laughed out loud, Kid, I don't laugh 624 00:45:21,515 --> 00:45:26,995 Speaker 1: out loud. It was the same Ted Brown. I stole 625 00:45:26,995 --> 00:45:28,755 Speaker 1: a quick glance at the newsroom to see if this 626 00:45:28,755 --> 00:45:31,395 Speaker 1: whole thing was some kind of act being filmed for 627 00:45:31,435 --> 00:45:35,835 Speaker 1: a hidden camera TV series. Nobody looked up again. Nobody 628 00:45:35,875 --> 00:45:39,355 Speaker 1: looked up Ted Brown, The man who an hour before 629 00:45:39,435 --> 00:45:42,275 Speaker 1: was ready to beat me up and get me fired, 630 00:45:42,475 --> 00:45:44,875 Speaker 1: was now repeating again and again that I had just 631 00:45:44,955 --> 00:45:50,835 Speaker 1: delivered the best sports cast in the history of WNW Radio. 632 00:45:51,035 --> 00:45:53,195 Speaker 1: That's when his engineer came back in. He had segueyed 633 00:45:53,235 --> 00:45:56,275 Speaker 1: from Montavani to Perry Como and the general manager had called. 634 00:45:56,315 --> 00:45:59,635 Speaker 1: And now Ted Brown's eyes widened behind the thick glasses. 635 00:45:59,675 --> 00:46:04,235 Speaker 1: The general manager, Jack Thayer, say, Keith, have you ever 636 00:46:04,315 --> 00:46:06,955 Speaker 1: met Jack Theayer? This gives me a great idea. Jack 637 00:46:06,995 --> 00:46:10,315 Speaker 1: Thayer comes in here every morning at eight twenty like clockwork. Look. 638 00:46:10,515 --> 00:46:13,915 Speaker 1: I love John Kennelly, he's great, but you were exactly 639 00:46:13,995 --> 00:46:16,915 Speaker 1: the kind of new, fresh young voice we need on 640 00:46:16,955 --> 00:46:20,115 Speaker 1: this radio station. Dammit, I need on my show. When 641 00:46:20,195 --> 00:46:22,155 Speaker 1: Jack Thayer comes in here at eight twenty this morning, 642 00:46:22,155 --> 00:46:23,875 Speaker 1: you and I are going right into his office and 643 00:46:23,915 --> 00:46:26,515 Speaker 1: we're gonna get you your own sports cast on my show. 644 00:46:26,635 --> 00:46:28,595 Speaker 1: We can do two sports casts an hour. We'll take 645 00:46:28,635 --> 00:46:31,835 Speaker 1: it out of the stock Report Montclair stage. I'll get 646 00:46:31,835 --> 00:46:34,955 Speaker 1: you a contract. You and Kennelly will seventy five grand 647 00:46:34,995 --> 00:46:36,875 Speaker 1: being up for you. Kid. You're gonna hit the big 648 00:46:36,875 --> 00:46:41,275 Speaker 1: time here, my friend, and out the engineer came again. 649 00:46:42,075 --> 00:46:44,915 Speaker 1: Jack Thayer had again called in fourth time that I 650 00:46:44,995 --> 00:46:47,915 Speaker 1: knew of he really needed Ted Mack in the studio 651 00:46:48,475 --> 00:46:53,315 Speaker 1: to talk to the women. Ted Brown happily shouted okay, okay, 652 00:46:53,755 --> 00:46:57,155 Speaker 1: and began to back up into the doorway. The look 653 00:46:57,155 --> 00:47:01,955 Speaker 1: in his eyes towards me was one of unimaginable love. 654 00:47:04,755 --> 00:47:07,115 Speaker 1: Come come here, wait, come here, come here, come here, 655 00:47:07,235 --> 00:47:09,315 Speaker 1: and he lunged at me and grabbed me into a 656 00:47:09,355 --> 00:47:13,275 Speaker 1: bear hug. Just brilliant Montclair State. I gotta call my 657 00:47:13,435 --> 00:47:17,235 Speaker 1: sister and tell you. Seeing Jack's office at eight thirty five, 658 00:47:21,235 --> 00:47:25,315 Speaker 1: I stood there, having now been pummeled by two hurricanes 659 00:47:25,435 --> 00:47:29,075 Speaker 1: arriving from different directions in the span of one hour. 660 00:47:30,075 --> 00:47:34,715 Speaker 1: All was silent in the WNEW newsroom again but for 661 00:47:34,795 --> 00:47:37,915 Speaker 1: the typing. But it was silent only for a moment. 662 00:47:38,835 --> 00:47:41,755 Speaker 1: That's when Bob Hagen addressed me again. He did not 663 00:47:41,915 --> 00:47:47,875 Speaker 1: look up. All he said was Keith, he won't remember 664 00:47:47,955 --> 00:47:48,715 Speaker 1: that either. 665 00:47:49,395 --> 00:47:51,835 Speaker 2: Finally, they call it disastro turf, and the closer and 666 00:47:51,875 --> 00:47:53,755 Speaker 2: closer we get to game day, the more and more 667 00:47:53,875 --> 00:47:56,155 Speaker 2: likely it is the Giants won't get to practice on it. 668 00:47:56,515 --> 00:47:58,675 Speaker 2: As the steady rains continue in the Bay Area, the 669 00:47:58,675 --> 00:48:01,715 Speaker 2: forty nine ers continue to suggest that the Giants cancel 670 00:48:01,795 --> 00:48:04,595 Speaker 2: their scheduled Saturday practice at Cattlestick Park for the good 671 00:48:04,875 --> 00:48:07,475 Speaker 2: of the bad field, which means that the first time 672 00:48:07,515 --> 00:48:10,555 Speaker 2: folks like Rob carpenter will get their feet wet, literally 673 00:48:11,115 --> 00:48:13,595 Speaker 2: will be when they come out for the game Sunday afternoon. 674 00:48:14,315 --> 00:48:17,115 Speaker 2: That sport's brought to you by Amtrak America is getting 675 00:48:17,155 --> 00:48:20,075 Speaker 2: into trading with Metro Liner service thirteen times every business 676 00:48:20,155 --> 00:48:23,195 Speaker 2: day to Philadelphia. I'm Keith Oberman for John Kennelly on 677 00:48:23,235 --> 00:48:24,675 Speaker 2: the Ted Brown Show. 678 00:48:30,475 --> 00:48:33,555 Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Thank you Keith. It's twenty one before seven. 679 00:48:46,915 --> 00:48:48,755 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 680 00:48:48,795 --> 00:48:51,635 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and John 681 00:48:51,675 --> 00:48:54,995 Speaker 1: Phillips Chanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 682 00:48:55,475 --> 00:48:58,275 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on guitars based on drums. Mister Shanelle 683 00:48:58,315 --> 00:49:01,355 Speaker 1: handled orchestration and keyboards, and it was produced by tk Obras. 684 00:49:01,995 --> 00:49:05,315 Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven arranged and by 685 00:49:05,315 --> 00:49:08,635 Speaker 1: no horns allowed the sports music. The Olderman theme from 686 00:49:08,835 --> 00:49:12,075 Speaker 1: ESPN two was written by Mitch Warren Davis. It's courtesy 687 00:49:12,075 --> 00:49:15,755 Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and fifthy musical comments are 688 00:49:15,795 --> 00:49:18,795 Speaker 1: by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever. My 689 00:49:18,835 --> 00:49:21,915 Speaker 1: announcer today is my friend Jonathan Banks. Everything else was 690 00:49:22,155 --> 00:49:25,195 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. Let's countdown for This the one 691 00:49:25,275 --> 00:49:28,515 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eighth day until the twenty twenty four 692 00:49:28,555 --> 00:49:34,355 Speaker 1: presidential election, the undred and thirty third day since Dictator J. 693 00:49:34,475 --> 00:49:37,315 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 694 00:49:37,355 --> 00:49:40,675 Speaker 1: the United States. Use the legal system, use the mental 695 00:49:40,675 --> 00:49:44,595 Speaker 1: health system, Use presidential immunity if it happens, Use the 696 00:49:44,675 --> 00:49:49,595 Speaker 1: not regularly given elector objection option. Use the new article 697 00:49:49,675 --> 00:49:55,235 Speaker 1: in Bloomberg to stop him from doing it again while 698 00:49:55,995 --> 00:50:02,195 Speaker 1: we still cam The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Still 699 00:50:02,275 --> 00:50:07,275 Speaker 1: day to day with the sinus tomorrow till the next one. 700 00:50:07,275 --> 00:50:10,355 Speaker 1: Whenever it is. I'm Keith Oldraman good morning, good afternoon, 701 00:50:10,395 --> 00:50:23,835 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 702 00:50:23,835 --> 00:50:28,675 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. 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