Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio to
Speaker 1: repeat myself because I'm right. File motions to impeach Trump today,
Speaker 1: Move to impeach Trump today, and keep moving to impeach
Speaker 1: Trump every day through next year's midterms. Impeachment is undefeated.
Speaker 1: It is undefeated in American history. House Democrats, he handed
Speaker 1: you twelve, maybe fifteen new impeachment counts on Friday Night alone,
Speaker 1: blatantly brazenly illegal dismissals of departmental inspector general, just as
Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five promised, and eliminating the school's safety board,
Speaker 1: elimination of oversight, elimination of legal protections against the mass
Speaker 1: murder of children in school. In the old days, you
Speaker 1: might have responded to this by having Trump arrested. Now
Speaker 1: you are limited by the Supreme Court to impeachment bills
Speaker 1: that will all fail, except they will ultimately succeed because
Speaker 1: impeachment is undefeated. Impeach him for the Friday Night massacre.
Speaker 1: Impeach him for circumventing the fourteenth Amendment. He just ramped
Speaker 1: up the migrant arrest quote at a fifteen hundred a
Speaker 1: day and started raids in Chicago yesterday Impeach him for
Speaker 1: violating the Fourth Amendment. Impeach him for seizing Native Americans.
Speaker 1: Impeach him for seizing an army veteran and for his
Speaker 1: gestapo then questioning that veteran service. Impeach him for releasing
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred thugs and criminals, and for violate his oath
Speaker 1: to defend the country. Impeach him for illegally dismissing the
Speaker 1: anti mass shooting school safety Board. Impeach him now, impeach
Speaker 1: him later, then impeach him a couple of more times,
Speaker 1: and give him an extra slice of impeachment to carry
Speaker 1: him through the weekend. And if I hear one more
Speaker 1: blowback to my previous call to impeach him, no matter
Speaker 1: the outcome, one more headshake from a cowardly Democrat, and
Speaker 1: especially one more factually inaccurate claim that impeachment doesn't work
Speaker 1: because it's never removed a president, one more self absorbed
Speaker 1: loser saying impeach Yeah, sounds good. How did it work
Speaker 1: out for us last time? Pretty effing well. Actually, the
Speaker 1: mere talk of impeaching Trump helped the Democrats win the
Speaker 1: House in twenty eighteen and break trump tripartheid control of government.
Speaker 1: The first actual impeachment was followed by keeping the House
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and after the Georgia election, taking the
Speaker 1: Senate in twenty twenty, and oh, by the way, taking
Speaker 1: the White House in twenty twenty. The second impeachment crushed
Speaker 1: any lingering attempt by Trump to overthrow the Biden government
Speaker 1: in waiting in twenty twenty one, and it provided the
Speaker 1: impetus for the January sixth prosecutions and the prosecution of Trump,
Speaker 1: which Merrick Garland so thoroughly sabotaged. Impeachment works. Merrick Garland
Speaker 1: is the thing that failed. Bottom line, impeach him again.
Speaker 1: It is one of our darkest secrets as a nation,
Speaker 1: something we have lied to ourselves about. But impeachment works.
Speaker 1: The Democrats voted on articles of impeachment against Nixon in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. Before they were finished, he resigned. They
Speaker 1: kept the House and the Senate in the mid terms
Speaker 1: three months later, and they won the White House two
Speaker 1: years later, And they kept the House two years later,
Speaker 1: and they kept the Senate two years later. The Republicans
Speaker 1: launched the official Clinton impeachment inquiry in October nineteen ninety eight,
Speaker 1: after months of having the media softened the nation up.
Speaker 1: First official Clinton impeachment inquiry begins October nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1: November nineteen ninety eight. They kept the Senate, they kept
Speaker 1: the House. They impeached him, They kept the Senate. In
Speaker 1: the House in two thousand and they took the White
Speaker 1: House first Trump impeachment. Democrats then kept the House, took
Speaker 1: the Senate, took the presidency. Number of presidents removed from
Speaker 1: office none of three. Number of times the parties that
Speaker 1: did the impeachment won the next election thirteen out of thirteen.
Speaker 1: Thirteen out of thirteen House, Senate, White House, US. I
Speaker 1: think we should write a letter instead, a really mean letter.
Speaker 1: I mean, in fact, never mind thirteen of thirteen. You
Speaker 1: can argue it's really fourteen out of fourteen because the
Speaker 1: Republican that Republicans impeached in eighteen sixty eight, President Andrew Johnson,
Speaker 1: was actually a Democrat, and the goal was to hamstring
Speaker 1: him from implementing his pro Confederacy agenda and especially to
Speaker 1: keep him running as an incumbent. And it worked. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't get understood. In the one second most elected
Speaker 1: Democrats will give to analyze it. Either way, impeachment is undefeated.
Speaker 1: Start now, You'll love it. It is a long term strategy,
Speaker 1: and it is half neuwt Gingrich, half Muhammad Ali. No,
Speaker 1: you are not going to knock out your opponent with
Speaker 1: one and no, you are not going to avoid getting
Speaker 1: bruised in the process. But each time you hit back,
Speaker 1: they get bruised too. And if you are in this
Speaker 1: fight and you are not convinced that you will ultimately
Speaker 1: prevail and that you are tougher than they are, get
Speaker 1: out of the fight. We'll do it without you, because
Speaker 1: I'm tougher than Trump is, and you are tougher than
Speaker 1: Trump is, and so even is Hakeem Jeffries. But if
Speaker 1: Akeem Jeffries and other prominent Democrats think the strategy is
Speaker 1: to issue a press release after every time Trump does
Speaker 1: to this country exactly what Putin would have done to
Speaker 1: this country, or what ben Laden would have done to
Speaker 1: this country, they have to go. This is Trump in
Speaker 1: the middle of his war against the United States of America.
Speaker 1: We have been attacked again by Trump. And the answer
Speaker 1: is not press releases. It's impeachment bills and walkouts and
Speaker 1: protests and calling them a traitor and threatening a tax
Speaker 1: strike in the Blue States and making the next two
Speaker 1: years as infuriating for him and infuriating for every whore
Speaker 1: who supports him. You are not going to defeat him
Speaker 1: until next year at the earliest, but you can make
Speaker 1: his life and their worthless lives almost as miserable as
Speaker 1: they intend to make ours. Let's get busy. Hit back.
Speaker 1: And if you're not ready to hit back, Leader Jeffries, resign,
Speaker 1: turn it over to AOC. She is clearly ready to
Speaker 1: metaphorically knee them all in the groin. She is the
Speaker 1: wartime conciliari. And guess what, kids, this is wartime? Or
Speaker 1: if AOC has too many rough edges for you, or
Speaker 1: not enough experience, if you want nice, put Bishop Marianne
Speaker 1: Edgar Buddy in charge of the Democratic Party. I'm goddamned serious.
Speaker 1: Forgive me, bishop, because this is where we are ethically
Speaker 1: right now in this country. Lindsey Graham says the dismissals
Speaker 1: of the Inspectors General are illegal, but so what quote.
Speaker 1: I'm not losing a lot of sleep. So if you're
Speaker 1: looking for some kind of regret and atonement from the fascists,
Speaker 1: forget it. Trump has also escalated his version of the
Speaker 1: Onschluss again over the weekend. I think the people of
Speaker 1: Greenland want to be with US. I really don't know
Speaker 1: what claim Denmark has to Greenland, but it would be
Speaker 1: a very unfriendly act if they didn't allow unquote Trump
Speaker 1: to seize Greenland. He has moved towards seizing other countries,
Speaker 1: or buying other countries, or crushing other countries economically because
Speaker 1: Trump Land, Trump Land uber Alles, and nobody is saying
Speaker 1: anything about it. It is, after all, the Hitler playbook,
Speaker 1: like the one he kept on his bedstand. First you
Speaker 1: sublimate your own nation, and then you start thrilling them
Speaker 1: by sublimating other nations. And there doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: a through line. There has to be no consistency to this.
Speaker 1: It's just rage, it's just bloodlust. While Marco Rubio, the
Speaker 1: new Secretary of comovers is talking about the Taliban holding
Speaker 1: more American hostages than we knew, so implying we may
Speaker 1: have to re invade Afghanistan, Trump just abandoned forty thousand
Speaker 1: Afghans who had worked for US in Afghanistan and had
Speaker 1: already been approved to move here from Afghanistan and escape
Speaker 1: the Taliban, and which Republican noted the utter militaristic, fascist,
Speaker 1: immoral hypocrisy of all that correct answer is none of
Speaker 1: the above. Trump now also wants everybody moved out of Gaza.
Speaker 1: Thanks for those of you who voted against Harris as
Speaker 1: a protest, and you know why he wants to move
Speaker 1: them out of Gaza because he thinks he can get
Speaker 1: Gaza and build golf courses and resorts there. Anybody talk
Speaker 1: about that, they may have to do more bad afghand
Speaker 1: of than Marco Rubio said, well, checking his hair in
Speaker 1: the mirror. After Trump demanded an apology from Bishop Buddy,
Speaker 1: his really weird Vice President of the United States, JV
Speaker 1: himself has taken us into an entirely new domestic area too.
Speaker 1: JV Vans has threatened the Catholic Church. Now'll just repeat
Speaker 1: that JV. Vance has threatened the Catholic Church because it's
Speaker 1: Bishop of Washington had the nerve to talk about Trump's
Speaker 1: evil to his face. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops,
Speaker 1: Vance said, needs to actually look in the mirror a
Speaker 1: little bit and recognize that when they receive more than
Speaker 1: one hundred million to resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried
Speaker 1: about humanitarian concerns or are they actually worried about their
Speaker 1: bottom line. Any Republican Catholics recognize this little sequence of
Speaker 1: plays here, any of them say anything personally, I don't
Speaker 1: care very much about the Catholic Church per se or
Speaker 1: any other church. But have you have you ever heard
Speaker 1: of the kirchen Kompf when Hitler went out to take
Speaker 1: over the Catholic Church in Germany and use its power
Speaker 1: as part of his bureaucracy of dictatorship. This is what
Speaker 1: that is. This is what it is, baby, the opening
Speaker 1: shot of the fundamentalist attempt to take over the government
Speaker 1: and at least to neuture and control the other brands
Speaker 1: and flavors of religion. And if you think, well, I
Speaker 1: mean it is the Catholic Church, it can defend itself
Speaker 1: pretty well. This is just another sign of what's to come.
Speaker 1: Whoever and whatever you are, to whichever group you belong,
Speaker 1: you're next. And all the Republicans are silent because power
Speaker 1: and money are their only gods and their only codes.
Speaker 1: And Lindsey Graham said he's not losing any sleep over it.
Speaker 1: And the Democrats, oh, well, they know what to do
Speaker 1: per CBS. The Democrats are introducing a resolution in the
Speaker 1: Senate today but it's not just a resolution, it's a
Speaker 1: gotcha resolution. It will ask for unanimous consent that quote
Speaker 1: resolved that the Senate disapproves any pardons for individuals who
Speaker 1: were found guilty of assaulting Capitol police officers. Oh hallelujah.
Speaker 1: That'll do it. Ah Yo, You'll get Senate Republicans on
Speaker 1: the record now supporting the assault on Capitol police officers,
Speaker 1: which they're voters will applaud. That'll show those damn Republicans
Speaker 1: for pardoning people their voters think were the victims. Can't
Speaker 1: get nothing past Chuck Schumer. Okay, actually there is some
Speaker 1: hope here. I actually like Jerry Connolly's response Trump's Friday
Speaker 1: night coup. The Congressman said, to overthrow legally protected independent
Speaker 1: inspectors General is an attack on transparency and accountability. You
Speaker 1: had me at coup, Congressman. Replacing inspectors general with political
Speaker 1: hacks will harm every American. Goddamn right now, Jerry introduce
Speaker 1: a bill to impeach him for doing this. Every Democratic
Speaker 1: representative should introduce at least one impeachment measure in the
Speaker 1: next two years. Flood Congress with them, turn it into
Speaker 1: nothing else, disrupt all House business sabotage the cameras. If
Speaker 1: you have to throw things, agitate, agitate, agitate, Except for
Speaker 1: one thing, one stealth move you can do in between
Speaker 1: the hourly impeachment bill. Reach out to Mike Johnson, get
Speaker 1: him away from his porn reporting app for a moment
Speaker 1: and ask him about instead his self prostitution for Trump
Speaker 1: about a new January sixth committee and wants a show
Speaker 1: trial with not very much to it. Think of that
Speaker 1: running embarrassment James Comer was about the Biden family. From
Speaker 1: their perspective, that was not an embarrassment. That just generated headlines.
Speaker 1: That was all it was supposed to do, and it worked.
Speaker 1: That's what Johnson wants. Don't give it to him. You
Speaker 1: should go bipartisan with him on this. Democrats support a
Speaker 1: new January sixth committee. Why, I don't know. Put some
Speaker 1: teeth into this thing. Johnson and Trump want to relitigate
Speaker 1: January sixth. Think about that for a second. They want
Speaker 1: to go through everything in January sixth again. God damn it.
Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffrey should volunteer to carry Mike Johnson into the
Speaker 1: House on his own shoulders if he's willing to reltigate
Speaker 1: January sixth, he should volunteer to co chair the thing
Speaker 1: with Mike Johnson. Let's go through this again. Let's swear
Speaker 1: in Liz Cheney and Adam kinsing are his expert witnesses,
Speaker 1: and go through all the evidence again. Put Trump's coup
Speaker 1: on trial one more time, and sure, let Cash Patel
Speaker 1: come in with whatever he fabricates in his FBI and
Speaker 1: cut him to effing pieces on national TV. You want
Speaker 1: to relitigate January sixth, just after Trump succeeded in gaslighting
Speaker 1: enough of this country about what actually happened. You want
Speaker 1: to have an actual House committee devote itself to the
Speaker 1: people Trump stochastically pushed into that insurrection and then pardoned.
Speaker 1: You want that every day for weeks in the news. Trump,
Speaker 1: you want that. You got it, buddy. You want to
Speaker 1: be shown to be a trader all over again. And
Speaker 1: then the man who freed the other traders. Let's go. Oh,
Speaker 1: and Speaker Johnson, don't forget. We are going to call
Speaker 1: Cassidy Hutchinson again and she's going to read those sexual
Speaker 1: based text threats you, Mike Johnson said your members sent
Speaker 1: her during her testimony last time. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson, do you have any idea that that means
Speaker 1: you're admitting you covered those texts up? Speaker Johnson, will
Speaker 1: you raise your right hand and swear in here as
Speaker 1: a witness to the new January sixth Committee. It's a reboot,
Speaker 1: It's a Hollywood reboot. Or Democrats don't support the new
Speaker 1: January sixth Committee and then subvert and co opt it
Speaker 1: and blow it up in Trump's swollen face. Let's instead
Speaker 1: do that bipartisan thing that the canimate from the twilight zone,
Speaker 1: the to serve man guy what's his name, Senator Fetterman,
Speaker 1: the thing he wants, because offering the Republicans bipartisanship always works. Wait,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. Mark Kelly, who I think still means well
Speaker 1: and does not need to be checked up again like
Speaker 1: Fetterman does. Mark Kelly and a dozen other Democrats wrote
Speaker 1: to John Thune offering to make a bipartisan border deal
Speaker 1: if the Republicans agreed not to try to pass a
Speaker 1: Trumpconian measure on a straight party vote, overwriting the filibuster.
Speaker 1: And you can criticize Kelly for the message here, which
Speaker 1: is that we're all moving to throw out immigrants. We're
Speaker 1: just going to throw out less of them. But that's
Speaker 1: not the point here. He made the gesture. He put
Speaker 1: out that hand, even if it is bad bipartisanship, he
Speaker 1: put out that hand. And the response the Republicans literally
Speaker 1: laughed in his face. I will quote the NBC report,
Speaker 1: Senator Ron Johnson, Republican Wisconsin. I'll add as an aside,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and Russia. Senator Ron Johnson laughed out loud when
Speaker 1: he was asked about the letter and whether Republicans might
Speaker 1: accept the overture. That's the latter. We will ignore. Huh, ignore,
Speaker 1: but appeasement because while you're appeasing and hemming and hawing
Speaker 1: and writing, oh he's goddamn writing letters and stern warnings
Speaker 1: Susan Collins should have been a Democrat. While you're always
Speaker 1: appeasing and writing and hemming and hawing and looking to
Speaker 1: work with Trump and his flying monkeys like Andy Ogles,
Speaker 1: they are already trying to butcher the Constitution and get
Speaker 1: him the third term. I warned you about a year
Speaker 1: ago a bill to amend the twenty second Amendment to
Speaker 1: permit Trump a third term, and half the liberals saw
Speaker 1: this and said, bring it on, we can run Obama
Speaker 1: because they only read the headline, not the part that
Speaker 1: it would still limit a president to two consecutive terms,
Speaker 1: because that's what they seized on in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Once you've served two consecutive terms, you're out. Obama's out,
Speaker 1: Clinton's out, W's out. This is a bill for one guy.
Speaker 1: I suppose we could run Biden twice under this in
Speaker 1: any event, the two consecutive terms, but three in total
Speaker 1: or four in total. That's what they seized on in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. And the Republicans who do not support
Speaker 1: Andy freaking Oguls overriding the constitution only don't support that
Speaker 1: because they have Faber cater to an even bigger bullshit
Speaker 1: claim that because the twenty second Amendment doesn't say we
Speaker 1: don't just mean consecutive terms, it must mean just consecutive
Speaker 1: terms by all means. Dems keep appeasing Musk and Zuckerberg
Speaker 1: and Bezos and all the rest of the rogarchy, even
Speaker 1: though we now know exactly how much America hates Elon
Speaker 1: Musk and his non Nazi salute and his non Nazi
Speaker 1: video endorsement of the non Nazi German New Nazi Party,
Speaker 1: including saying Germans should stop feeling any guilt about the
Speaker 1: Nazis and the Holocaust. It was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Just let him keep going, even though America is pretty
Speaker 1: much demanding somebody levels Elon Musk as soon as possible.
Speaker 1: New poll. Twelve percent think these clowns like Musk who
Speaker 1: still cannot buy a human soul or a human person nowady,
Speaker 1: no matter how much cash they have. Twelve percent think
Speaker 1: they should be advising presidents twelve percent. Only thirty percent
Speaker 1: even think the dog crap is a good thing. Only
Speaker 1: one third of us same Associated Press poll have a
Speaker 1: favorable view of Elon Musk. But please suck up to
Speaker 1: him more. Maybe you can appease him, if you know,
Speaker 1: if the ketaman you know runs out, And for that,
Speaker 1: as the teletype suggests, we have the corporate media, and
Speaker 1: what has all the pandering gotten the network so far?
Speaker 1: CBS and ABC legally bribing Trump, the Scarborough Brashinsky foretaste
Speaker 1: of MSNVC. Trump just called Mattow an enemy of the people.
Speaker 1: Trump'sknew gobbles, the angry male pattern baldness victim he put
Speaker 1: in charge of the FCC just reinstated the license complaints
Speaker 1: against stations owned by CBSABC and NBC but didn't they
Speaker 1: just solve all this with Monet just reinstated these complaints
Speaker 1: at the FCC because Trump didn't like ABC's handling of
Speaker 1: the debate, because Trump didn't like the CBS Harris interview,
Speaker 1: because NBC put Harris on Saturday Night Live. Congratulations, boys,
Speaker 1: you bribed Trump and he took your money, and he
Speaker 1: spent your money on filing fees for lawsuits and complaints
Speaker 1: with which to kick your assets. Not only are you
Speaker 1: bad Americans, you're bad businessmen. And the other shoe finally
Speaker 1: fell fully off at CNN, Jim Acosta still standing up
Speaker 1: while the likes of Jake E Fing Tapper and all
Speaker 1: the others there descend into both sides of absurdity, as
Speaker 1: if that will stop Trump. Jim Acosta has now officially
Speaker 1: lost his ten AM slot and now instead of being
Speaker 1: moved to midnight, he may or may not work out
Speaker 1: a new role there. This is courtesy of the latest
Speaker 1: flabby minded collaborator brought in by Warner Bros. Discovery, Mark Thompson.
Speaker 1: Sir Mark Thompson, He's not from here because having the
Speaker 1: British or the Australians, or an Australian who pretends he's
Speaker 1: British run our media has always worked so well as
Speaker 1: an aside. Since the year two thousand, this guy Thompson
Speaker 1: has been the head of BBC Television, then Chief exec
Speaker 1: of Britain's Channel four, then back to the BBC as
Speaker 1: Director General. Then he quit after a series of BBC scandals,
Speaker 1: including pedophilia by kids show hosts. Then he left the country.
Speaker 1: Then he became CEO of the New York Times, Then
Speaker 1: he went to Ancestry dot com. Then he went to
Speaker 1: CNN two years ago. That's six jobs in twenty three years.
Speaker 1: If somebody on the air at CNN bounced around like that,
Speaker 1: the reaction would be sob can't hold a job. But
Speaker 1: for somebody in upper media management, that's considered a richly
Speaker 1: varied resume. Spending two continents and lastly on the collaborators
Speaker 1: in media, shut the f up, Stephen A. Smith, Steven
Speaker 1: shut the f Smith goes on Bill Maher and I
Speaker 1: just assumed that was for a contest between the two
Speaker 1: of them to see who could say the most words
Speaker 1: and waste the most airtime without saying anything of substance
Speaker 1: or anything you will ever remember, or anything with insight
Speaker 1: or anything that contributes to you know, humanity. But I
Speaker 1: was wrong. Stephen went on there because he thinks he
Speaker 1: understands politics, which to him is he voted for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: She didn't win, So, like any other sports team or athlete,
Speaker 1: Steven ever hyped, he now has to trash them because
Speaker 1: he's a complete front runner whose only skill is verbosity. Yes,
Speaker 1: I voted for her, A lot of people voted for her,
Speaker 1: but in the end we end up feeling like damned
Speaker 1: fools because we supported it. We fell for the okie doke.
Speaker 1: As they say, if you had a primary, the likelihood
Speaker 1: is she would not have been the Democratic nominee. You
Speaker 1: feel like a damned fool, now, Steve, wait till you
Speaker 1: look at a tape of your own work on ESPN. Oh,
Speaker 1: in that line you keep getting on and then pretending
Speaker 1: you didn't get on it and running away from it,
Speaker 1: and then quietly get back on it again. That line
Speaker 1: lick Sean Hannity's ass and Trump's just remember, Steve, it
Speaker 1: always has room for one more sycophantic coward. I apologize.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for the degree of the venom there. When
Speaker 1: I worked with him at ESPN, I thought it was
Speaker 1: all harmless and at worst embarrassing, and he got a
Speaker 1: lot of money for it. Good for him. To my mind,
Speaker 1: nobody on the airs ever overpaid. I mean when I
Speaker 1: worked with them, I was just kind of astonished that
Speaker 1: anybody running or watching the company could successfully pretend that
Speaker 1: steven A actually, you know, ever said anything or reported anything,
Speaker 1: or did anything other than phil hours at a stretch.
Speaker 1: I remember once getting a producer a call from him
Speaker 1: when I was anchoring Sports Center in New York and
Speaker 1: the producer was in Connecticut, and he said, we're redoing
Speaker 1: the opening segment of the show because we have a
Speaker 1: SoundBite from steven A on whatever the topic was. And
Speaker 1: I assumed he had some reporting on it, and I
Speaker 1: rewrote it like that, and we played the tape, which
Speaker 1: I had not heard till we were on the air,
Speaker 1: and the tape consisted of him him saying steven A
Speaker 1: Smith saying the lead item in Sports Center being I
Speaker 1: don't know how this is going to turn out. It
Speaker 1: was it was the Emperor's new clothes. It was just
Speaker 1: it was steven A. People watched it. We were in
Speaker 1: the business of getting people to watch. Nice enough. Guy
Speaker 1: used to say, hello, I've known him for years and
Speaker 1: knew him. When they fired him. The first time anybody
Speaker 1: goes back to ESPN, they're in my club. Didn't matter.
Speaker 1: Good for him, good for them, whatever. But now this
Speaker 1: matters because at any point in its history, ESPN would
Speaker 1: have suspended or fired anybody who said what he said
Speaker 1: on Bill Maher show on Friday, or anybody who might
Speaker 1: have said they felt like a damned fool for voting
Speaker 1: for Trump. They want in my last tenure after we
Speaker 1: made peace. They once threatened to suspend me because I
Speaker 1: sent a hyperbolic tweet criticizing the dictator of the Philippines,
Speaker 1: Duterte du Turte. They were worried about I don't know
Speaker 1: the ratings for Sports Center in the Philippines, our coverage
Speaker 1: of the Manila folders. I was like the Philippines. But
Speaker 1: this is the New Disney, which was the first to
Speaker 1: settle a Trump nuisance suit so it could legally bribe him.
Speaker 1: And he said, thanks for the money. I'm now going
Speaker 1: to try to destroy you anyway. I feel like a
Speaker 1: damned fool. Camels, Yeah, okay, if she'd won, you'd be
Speaker 1: saying it was all you were doing. Also, of interest,
Speaker 1: here on an all New edition. Trump thinks the chairman
Speaker 1: of the January sixth Committee should go to jail. But
Speaker 1: unfortunately Trump is so mentally gone he cannot remember the
Speaker 1: chairman's name. That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown
Speaker 1: with Keith Alberman still ahead on this all new edition
Speaker 1: of Countdown. Ever heard one of those stories about some
Speaker 1: guy waking up from the anesthesia during the procedure. Yep,
Speaker 1: I'm one of those guys. Not quite as bad as
Speaker 1: it sounds, but still, what's the word for it. It's
Speaker 1: a surprise ahead on things I promise not to tell first.
Speaker 1: There are still more new idiots to talk about. The
Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects
Speaker 1: specimens who constitute this edition of the other worst persons
Speaker 1: in the world. This edition is dedicated to newsman Kyle
Speaker 1: Clark of Channel nine in Denver, who risked the wrath
Speaker 1: of the heelocks with a little segment on the Colorado
Speaker 1: quote Congresswoman unquote Lauren Bobert and her paranoid stunt in
Speaker 1: DC last week. But it was Clark's phrasing on social
Speaker 1: media about his story that earned him this positive shout out.
Speaker 1: Here's what he wrote, quote New Rep. Lauren Bobert are
Speaker 1: Co came up empty handed in her search for a
Speaker 1: man in the woman's bathroom at the Capitol today, I
Speaker 1: see what you did there. And of course, since the
Speaker 1: video of her and the first date and what she
Speaker 1: was doing to him in that Colorado theater certainly not
Speaker 1: coming up empty handed still exists, I see what she
Speaker 1: did there too. I mean Clark worked in, came up
Speaker 1: handed search for a man. In one sentence, I'd be
Speaker 1: proud to have written that myself, sir, Congratulations about Lauren.
Speaker 1: What a pair of hands for a Grandma Bobert. Now
Speaker 1: to third place worser, and it's Trump. I will remind
Speaker 1: you again that for all the arrogance of this old
Speaker 1: stretched out balloon of a man golfing every day on
Speaker 1: your and my dime, we are here, in fact safest
Speaker 1: when he's out there doing that, because it's not just
Speaker 1: the evil, it's the stupidity. Now he's always been trending
Speaker 1: towards this next destination, but he's now fully engaged in
Speaker 1: the world. What we used to call spoonerisms, malaprops, wrong names,
Speaker 1: wrong words, Freudian slips, dreams. He had that he thinks
Speaker 1: really happened. Guesses that have to be right because he's
Speaker 1: guessing it, but especially those wrong names. And el Duche
Speaker 1: has clearly had too many Benny's in his life.
Speaker 2: He's a crooked guy, a totally crooked politician. And so
Speaker 2: he's pardoned, and some other people are pardoned. And these
Speaker 2: are crooked politicians, every one of them. Bennie Johnson, what
Speaker 2: he did is incredible. I mean, he was the leader
Speaker 2: of the committee and he did it.
Speaker 1: Idiot Benny Thompson. Benny Thompson was the chairman of the
Speaker 1: January sixth committee, not Bennie Johnson, the real January sixth committee,
Speaker 1: not the new one. Like I said earlier, Oh please, please, please,
Speaker 1: please please please let there be a new one. Please
Speaker 1: relitigate this, please, Unless this was a Freudian slip and
Speaker 1: Trump really wants to indict the most simpering, foppish, just
Speaker 1: playing stupid of as many sycophantic social media whorees. Who
Speaker 1: is Bennie Johnson. It's Benny the runners up the National
Speaker 1: Football League and commissioner Roger Goodell. Now Baseball has kept
Speaker 1: idiot commissioners in place for impossibly long stretches. Hockey two
Speaker 1: several of them, Basketball not so much. Probably that explains
Speaker 1: why the NBA went from something founded by all the
Speaker 1: hockey owners in the mid nineteen forties so they could
Speaker 1: get a few fans to spend some money in the
Speaker 1: hockey arenas that they owned on off nights. And that
Speaker 1: really is how professional basketball in this country actually got
Speaker 1: started for real, how it went from that to dominating
Speaker 1: the winter sports like oh hockey. But football has had
Speaker 1: this guy Goodell in place for what will soon be
Speaker 1: twenty years, and he is on an incredible winning streak
Speaker 1: that makes Tom Brady look like the backup quarterback on
Speaker 1: a semi pro team. Roger Goodell in twenty years nearly
Speaker 1: has never done the right thing. New England Patriots vice
Speaker 1: president of content Fred Kersh and honestly, what content could
Speaker 1: the Patriots have without Bill Belichick? Anyway, He told a
Speaker 1: Patriots centric podcast that the team had an account on
Speaker 1: blue Sky, but it was ordered by the league Roger
Speaker 1: Goodell commissioner to shut that account down because blue Sky
Speaker 1: is not quote an approved social media platform for the NFL.
Speaker 1: Yet Goodell, who literally always gets it wrong, did a
Speaker 1: deal with Musk and X and his egor Linda yek
Speaker 1: Garino to create an NFL portal on X last fall,
Speaker 1: just as X clearly began its death rattle. You don't
Speaker 1: believe it's a death rattle. The Wall Street Journal says
Speaker 1: the banks who loaned Elmo the money to buy Twitter
Speaker 1: and destroy it are going to sell off some of
Speaker 1: the thirteen billion they loaned him, So the loans are
Speaker 1: for sale, which is going to mean a lot of
Speaker 1: trouble for Musk going forward. One of the reasons they're
Speaker 1: going to do this, according to The Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: which is not exactly a left wing media outlet, is
Speaker 1: that they have an email the banks do that Musk
Speaker 1: sent to his remaining employee slash Slaves over there, that
Speaker 1: in part reads, our user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive,
Speaker 1: and we're barely breaking even. Alas the old saw is true,
Speaker 1: being a Nazi will make you money early, but it's
Speaker 1: just not a long term investment strategy, ask Eva Brown.
Speaker 1: But back to the NFL, and it's unfortunate dim bulb
Speaker 1: of a commissioner. Goodell has straight outside of the Muskrat catacombs,
Speaker 1: though it has some kind of an arrangement with the
Speaker 1: other Trump fell Later Mark the terrified Mark Zuckerberg to
Speaker 1: go on the absolutely useless Threads platform. Gee, maybe Zuck
Speaker 1: can get Roger Goodell a virtual reality helmet. How's that
Speaker 1: working out for you, Zuck? Is that why your hair
Speaker 1: looks like that because you wore the helmet too long?
Speaker 1: The NFL on the social media cutting edge. It will
Speaker 1: be on my Space any day now. But our winner
Speaker 1: Noah Cindergard, one time All Star and still the only
Speaker 1: pitcher to win a World Series game for the New
Speaker 1: York Mets since the year two thousand. He also was
Speaker 1: the live in dugout guest for the Mets Yankees game.
Speaker 1: I did the play by play for on ESPN in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and he was outstanding and very funny and
Speaker 1: very with his time. However, as we all knew even then,
Speaker 1: Noah may not have the sharpest breaking balls in the league.
Speaker 1: If you get my drift, he has now proved that
Speaker 1: in spades. Cinderguard, unemployed since Cleveland cut him in August
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, shared a photo of himself at a
Speaker 1: black tie event. In the foreground of this photo, Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior, now happily in the photo, Kennedy is wearing
Speaker 1: pants with him, Kennedy's hostage, I'm sorry, Kennedy's wife, also Cinderguard,
Speaker 1: and some other people who may or may not be lunatics.
Speaker 1: Cindergard added to this the hashtag mahaha, which they think
Speaker 1: stands for Make America Healthy again, but which actually stands
Speaker 1: for make America hell again. It's used by Kennedy to
Speaker 1: push his anti vaccine, anti science, anti not dying of diseases.
Speaker 1: We had a lit dominated pro polio, pro hallucinogenic drugs,
Speaker 1: pro covid, pro on camera masturbation agenda, the one he
Speaker 1: is pushing as nominee to head Health in Human Services,
Speaker 1: presuming he's not too stoned to forget he was appointed
Speaker 1: to the job, or he didn't just decide to stay
Speaker 1: home and play with himself. An athlete, especially a baseball player,
Speaker 1: especially a washed up pitcher, going fascist is nothing new.
Speaker 1: It's probably a large majority of them. But Noah's Cindergard
Speaker 1: endorsing Bobby Kennedy's lunatic health policies is particularly stupid, even
Speaker 1: for a fascist picture or in his case, an X picture,
Speaker 1: because in twenty eighteen, Noahs Cindergard had to miss a
Speaker 1: start and go on the injured list because of rashes
Speaker 1: and mouthsores after he contracted the virus that almost always
Speaker 1: affects only children hand foot and mouth disease. It's handfoot
Speaker 1: and mouth disease. You get it with play do dough
Speaker 1: handfoot and mouth disease. Noah Cindergard becoming the first major
Speaker 1: league player since like eighteen seventy seven to catch this
Speaker 1: by simply not washing his freaking hands. So naturally, this
Speaker 1: imbecil is endorsing that imbecile. Noah, make America contagious again, Cinderguard.
Speaker 1: Today's worse worse that I know. So finally, I've been
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the apt artistic for one of
Speaker 1: a better term metaphor or imagery for where we are
Speaker 1: in the United States of assholes right now. And I
Speaker 1: think where we are is the same feeling you get
Speaker 1: when you wake up from anesthesia during a medical procedure.
Speaker 1: All right, it may not be perfect, but I think
Speaker 1: it does get it kind of close. And it's important
Speaker 1: to think about metaphors because art, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to call that art, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Creativity helps us process evil, helps us get through evil.
Speaker 1: Some of the best paintings, some of the best literature
Speaker 1: written in prison, written in times of social upheaval. You know,
Speaker 1: the whole speech by Orson Wells from the Third Man
Speaker 1: about the cuckoo clock and the med cheese and Da
Speaker 1: Vinci and all the rest of that. So I think
Speaker 1: that's where we are. It's as if we have all
Speaker 1: awakened from a medical procedure, from anesthesia during the procedure.
Speaker 1: There may be another reason this is on my mind
Speaker 1: as I hit my sixty sixth birthday today. It's that
Speaker 1: I'm having a medical pressure tomorrow. And the last time
Speaker 1: I had it, I woke up from it during anesthesia
Speaker 1: to the top of the countdown and the number one
Speaker 1: story and things I promised not to tell. And as
Speaker 1: you know, I never like to talk about myself, but
Speaker 1: this was one of the more extraordinary events of my
Speaker 1: long and stupid medical history. Normally, the stories I tell
Speaker 1: you are of my own direct physical stupidity, running into
Speaker 1: subway trains for no particular reason headfirst when they weren't moving.
Speaker 1: But I was falling off small cliffs, filming television commercials
Speaker 1: for fast food, and famously cracking my pelvis, just a
Speaker 1: hairline crack, but it required three months of cane and
Speaker 1: anti inflammatories while walking down the street. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: even much of an incline as I was walking down it.
Speaker 1: But this one was something different. This was waking from
Speaker 1: anesthesia in the middle of a medical procedure, while I
Speaker 1: was still under and while they were still doing the
Speaker 1: medical procedure. I have it written down somewhere. It's two
Speaker 1: thousand and three, four five, somewhere in that range. So
Speaker 1: I am in my late forties and I am being
Speaker 1: overcome by what turned out to be nothing more serious,
Speaker 1: although it's a serious problem than reflux, indigestion, heartburn as
Speaker 1: it used to be colloquially known acid reflux, and it
Speaker 1: was affecting my ability to talk. I didn't get most
Speaker 1: of the pain or discomfort. It just caused my throat
Speaker 1: to tighten up and I got very hoarse. And I
Speaker 1: was a regular smoker of cigars and pipes at the time,
Speaker 1: and I thought the worst, and happily it was not that,
Speaker 1: and happily I quit doing the cigars and the pipes
Speaker 1: twenty years ago anyway, But here's what happened. I went
Speaker 1: in for an endoscopy to find out why my stomach
Speaker 1: was being somewhat uncooperative. It was a highly reputable operation
Speaker 1: in a highly reputable part of what used to be
Speaker 1: called Saint Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York, where I
Speaker 1: would later get my appendix removed on an emergency basis.
Speaker 1: That also wasn't my fault. Although not really noticing that
Speaker 1: the pain I had in my stomach was more than constipation,
Speaker 1: and waiting two days until I was, as my friend
Speaker 1: John Clees pointed out, once technically dying of septocemia, that
Speaker 1: was my fault. This was different. This was a kind
Speaker 1: of routine medical procedure, no routine quality to it when
Speaker 1: they give you an anesthetic, but it was a mild anesthetic,
Speaker 1: and it was a professional operation. And there were twenty
Speaker 1: people lined up in front of me in a whole
Speaker 1: series of endoscopy and of course, colonoscopy suites, And thus
Speaker 1: the air was filled with the wonderful smell of drugged
Speaker 1: up people emitting gas. Everybody else seemed to be having
Speaker 1: no problem whatsoever with their endoscopy or colonoscopy. People would
Speaker 1: be wheeled out of these various rooms where they performed
Speaker 1: those procedures, happily unconscious or nearly so emitting very very
Speaker 1: loud emissions of gas. It was almost kind of entertaining.
Speaker 1: As I sat there waiting to be the next one
Speaker 1: in line, I was greeted by the I guess he
Speaker 1: was an anesthesiologist. I had some doubts afterwards, and another
Speaker 1: nurse perhaps two guys, who walked me through what they
Speaker 1: were going to do, and gave me the initial sedative
Speaker 1: and then had me lie down and piped in via
Speaker 1: a shunt in my arm, a nice cooling anesthesia, and
Speaker 1: before you knew what happened, it was lights out anesthesia.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you've never gone through a procedure
Speaker 1: in which you've had, it is really kind of like
Speaker 1: a recording that you stopped up. You hit pause and
Speaker 1: come back hours later, minutes later, some cases days later,
Speaker 1: and then hit record again. You go back and look
Speaker 1: at it, and you have nothing between one twenty one
Speaker 1: pm and five thirty pm. I mean, it just stops.
Speaker 1: You don't have a sense of time moving. It's not
Speaker 1: like sleep, it's not like any of that. You're out
Speaker 1: and then you're back, and then you look and you
Speaker 1: say what time is it? And they say whatever time
Speaker 1: it is, and you're surprised because it seems like five
Speaker 1: minutes that time they took out my appendix after it
Speaker 1: blew up. I literally thought they hadn't done it yet,
Speaker 1: and it had been two and a half hours between
Speaker 1: them putting me out and them waking me up in
Speaker 1: any event, So I am lying there, but I don't
Speaker 1: know I'm lying there. I am in some other bed
Speaker 1: bath and beyond, and I am suddenly back. My eyes
Speaker 1: are closed, but I'm hearing very clearly. I recognize one
Speaker 1: of the voices. It's it's a doctor I just saw,
Speaker 1: I met an anesthetic guy. I feel some tightness in
Speaker 1: my neck, but there's no sense of panic. I think
Speaker 1: I'm lying down. I'm not concerned very much by this.
Speaker 1: It's well, it sounds like it feels like I'm having
Speaker 1: one of those I've been abducted by an alien spacecraft moments.
Speaker 1: I don't know where I am. There's something going on
Speaker 1: with my body. I'm not fully awake, but I can
Speaker 1: hear people talking, and I know they don't mean me harm,
Speaker 1: and I hear with this kind of tone to it.
Speaker 1: At this kind of distance, I hear one of the
Speaker 1: guys say to the other guy, Yeah, don't you know
Speaker 1: who that is. That's Keith Olberman. Keith, the one who
Speaker 1: left SportsCenter. Yeah, the guy who quit Sports Center. That's
Speaker 1: that's who that is. I want to why he left
Speaker 1: Sports Center. That must be the best job in the world.
Speaker 1: We'll have to ask him after he after he gets up.
Speaker 1: I wonder why he left Sports Center. Well, needless to say,
Speaker 1: they were talking about me, so there probably was no
Speaker 1: anesthesia in the world that could keep me from not
Speaker 1: hearing that, no matter where I was during this procedure,
Speaker 1: which was apparently going fine and normally, and they didn't
Speaker 1: think anything was wrong until I answered their question. I said,
Speaker 1: as I remember, and they confirmed afterwards. I said, oh,
Speaker 1: karkach and I hear one of the guys say, did
Speaker 1: he say something? Did he? I think I heard him too,
Speaker 1: Did he say, what, mister Olderman? Can you hear us?
Speaker 1: And I said, ha, hi, Well what I hahn here?
Speaker 1: You hurry hurry? Well, oh my god, you coming down
Speaker 1: to the anesthesia. And that's when I realized where I
Speaker 1: was and what was being done to me. There was
Speaker 1: a hose down my throat. They were doing the endoscopy,
Speaker 1: and then they promised me, oh, well, we'll give you
Speaker 1: some more anesthesia right away. I'm sorry we misgauged how
Speaker 1: much you needed. I guess we guess your weight wrong.
Speaker 1: It's like I wonder how often this happens in this place?
Speaker 1: That was my main thought. And then I asked a
Speaker 1: fairly logical question, given that I was until recently out cold,
Speaker 1: until it wore off prematurely, I said, how louck longer?
Speaker 1: And the guy said how much longer? Aha? And he
Speaker 1: said about a minute a half, about ninety seconds. Then
Speaker 1: we're going to be removing it. And I said, I good,
Speaker 1: You're good. Oh ah ah ah. I conveyed to them
Speaker 1: that there was no reason to increase the anesthetic if,
Speaker 1: after all, all they were going to do was remove
Speaker 1: the endoscope. The problem if you've ever had an endoscopy
Speaker 1: or anything else like that in which they put a
Speaker 1: tube or a camera or both, or god knows garden
Speaker 1: hose down your throat, the problem is when they put
Speaker 1: it in, not when they take it out. In fact,
Speaker 1: when they take it out is a sense of universal
Speaker 1: relief in your body as you relax, as your throat relaxes,
Speaker 1: as your mouth relaxes, as you hear the little pop
Speaker 1: when the thing comes out and you go ah. So
Speaker 1: I convinced them there was no particular reason to give
Speaker 1: me any more anesthesia, and they pulled the damn thing
Speaker 1: out of my throat stomach stomach first, I guess, very
Speaker 1: very very slowly, and I could feel it, and I
Speaker 1: would not describe this as the most pleasant feeling in
Speaker 1: the world. But each centimeter that they took the thing,
Speaker 1: or whatever small division there is of that, each division
Speaker 1: they took the thing, or distance they took the thing
Speaker 1: up out of my throat, it felt better, and I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, we're almost done here and I won't
Speaker 1: be lying around emitting gas like everybody else. They wheeled
Speaker 1: out of this place. My memory came back almost immediately.
Speaker 1: All the things that had happened in my mind five
Speaker 1: minutes before but were probably half an hour before, were
Speaker 1: immediate past memories. They were clear as a bell, and
Speaker 1: I was now eyes open and looking around and going, well,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to keep my eyes closed so I
Speaker 1: don't see this thing come out of my mouth and
Speaker 1: start gagging. At the very end, it kind of was
Speaker 1: like a reverse version of the movie Alien. Oh no,
Speaker 1: actually it was the not reverse version of the movie Alien.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it because the alien comes out of the victim's body.
Speaker 1: So I didn't want to watch that, but it didn't
Speaker 1: feel particularly pleasant. It was relief. So now they pull
Speaker 1: a thing out and I'm fine, and they go, sorry
Speaker 1: about that. Gee, I'm really I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: how we got those calculations wrong. Do you weigh a
Speaker 1: lot more than it says here? And I was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's my weight? Oh geez, well, I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: are you Are you one of those super aware people,
Speaker 1: those people, I said, yes, probably somebody who hears every
Speaker 1: noise in the room. Yes, that's me, particularly if you're
Speaker 1: talking about me and why I left ESPN, which at
Speaker 1: that point had happened seven years before, eight years before.
Speaker 1: I was not in a bad mood. It really hadn't
Speaker 1: amounted to anything other than a surprise. But these guys,
Speaker 1: I think, clearly thought I was going to sue them
Speaker 1: for every penny the hospital had and they had, and
Speaker 1: I had no interest in that. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: go home and get the results of the end to scope.
Speaker 1: So now I begin to sit up, because why should
Speaker 1: I be lying there? Now that the hose, the garden
Speaker 1: hose has been retracted and put back on the wall
Speaker 1: under the shed or wherever they keep it. And they said,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't get up. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: I said, what, why not? And the anesthesiologist said, well,
Speaker 1: you're you're just coming up from the anesthesia. And I said, clearly,
Speaker 1: I just came up from the anesthesia like four minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Oh you have a point there. Well, all right, don't
Speaker 1: don't sit up fully. Let's just adjust this thing. And
Speaker 1: they pushed a button and it became kind of like
Speaker 1: a reclining chair. And so I sat there for a
Speaker 1: while and I said can I go home now? And
Speaker 1: they went, okay, just stand up slowly in here so
Speaker 1: we can see that you can do it. And of course,
Speaker 1: because I am one of those people who I forget
Speaker 1: the technical term for it is super aware and super
Speaker 1: responsible and super every back to normal, and let's see
Speaker 1: how things are going on in the adjoining county to
Speaker 1: make sure everything is going on. Okay, there, I'm the
Speaker 1: hyperaware guy. Wait, I would say to myself while asleep,
Speaker 1: I think I just heard some movement twenty floors below
Speaker 1: me in this hotel. Let's check that out. Wake up.
Speaker 1: So I went home, having had an endoscopy and having
Speaker 1: had that thing that in other medical procedures is the
Speaker 1: worst thing that can happen to you short of them
Speaker 1: killing you, which is you wake up from the anesthesia
Speaker 1: while they have the scalpel on you or whatever. And
Speaker 1: again i'll refer back to what I just mentioned. There
Speaker 1: is a theory about alien abductions. You've heard this, the
Speaker 1: idea of what people are mistaking for being abducted by
Speaker 1: a UFO that when they see those humans with the
Speaker 1: big bug like heads and you can't see their mouths,
Speaker 1: but they're talking to you, and you know telepathically that
Speaker 1: they don't mean you any harm. What it is is
Speaker 1: a half remembered moment during partial anesthesia from an operating theater,
Speaker 1: or perhaps while you were getting an endoscopy and you
Speaker 1: woke up from it. Who are these aliens? Because we
Speaker 1: know they weren't educated in any medical facility on this planet.
Speaker 1: In any event, I went home. It turned out I
Speaker 1: didn't have things like celiac disease. I didn't have other
Speaker 1: major things that needed extensive treatment. I just needed like
Speaker 1: prescription strength pepsid. And I got this story to tell
Speaker 1: you of the day I woke up because they were
Speaker 1: talking about me and why I left ESPN while giving
Speaker 1: me an endoscopy, thinking I couldn't hear them because I
Speaker 1: left that job while they stayed at their jobs and
Speaker 1: did not give me enough anesthesia, so I woke up
Speaker 1: in the middle of it. So always ask the anesthesiologist
Speaker 1: if he's sure that he's giving you enough so you
Speaker 1: don't wake up from it. Incidentally, when I had this
Speaker 1: procedure in two thousand and three four five, the next
Speaker 1: time I was at that hospital undergoing a procedure, which
Speaker 1: was the aforementioned appendictomy, I said to the anesthesiologist. As
Speaker 1: I lay down on the table and the surgeon and
Speaker 1: I talked about David Wright and the New York Mets
Speaker 1: in baseball. I said to the this is the anesthesiologist.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you a quick story about something that
Speaker 1: happened to me in this building two years ago. Please
Speaker 1: make sure you give me enough. I don't want to
Speaker 1: wake up with this. There's actual knives involved. And he
Speaker 1: just laughed, and the next thing I knew, it was
Speaker 1: two and a half hours later. There is one PostScript
Speaker 1: to this. Tomorrow, I am going in for an endoscopy,
Speaker 1: and all I can say is I'll talk to you
Speaker 1: later to borrow a phrase from a past life that
Speaker 1: they were asking about that one that story really deserves this.
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. May all your medical procedures be uninterrupted
Speaker 1: by questions about your past career moves. Oh Brian Ray
Speaker 1: and John Phillip Shanelle, the musical directors of Countdown, arranged, produced,
Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration
Speaker 1: in keyboards, mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums,
Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and
Speaker 1: fithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever.
Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. Music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two.
Speaker 1: It was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc.
Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.
Speaker 1: And my announcer today was my friend Nancy Faust. Everything
Speaker 1: else was, as ever, my fault. So that's count down
Speaker 1: for today, Just four hundred and fifty five days until
Speaker 1: the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term.
Speaker 1: As to our scheduled I'm going to keep this at
Speaker 1: two a week for now because I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: commit to more. But I am decided on keeping it
Speaker 1: going until further notice. I did a long interview last
Speaker 1: week with The Washington Post and the topic was again,
Speaker 1: what should MSNBC do now, as if there were any
Speaker 1: choices involved in this, and my answer was, as always,
Speaker 1: a build a statue of me in front of thirty
Speaker 1: rock and b double down. You now have almost a
Speaker 1: true monopoly on actual news that isn't just pandering to Trump.
Speaker 1: Everybody else gave up and ran away. But I emphasized
Speaker 1: to the reporter that the audience is not ready to
Speaker 1: start watching every day again, and I said, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that's true of this podcast too, So we'll play
Speaker 1: the podcast by ear. Maybe I can do more. Right now,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do more. I will be here
Speaker 1: at least twice a week, barring and dyscopic mishaps. So
Speaker 1: the next scheduled countdown is Thursday. As always, Boltons as
Speaker 1: the news warrants, remember, impeach Trump. It won't work now,
Speaker 1: it will win the Democrats the midterms. Impeachment is undefeated
Speaker 1: till next time. I'm Keith Olberman, good morning, good afternoon,
Speaker 1: good anesthesia, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith
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