1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:22,435 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. It 2 00:00:22,515 --> 00:00:25,835 Speaker 1: is now time to cancel or suspend all of Elon 3 00:00:25,995 --> 00:00:32,595 Speaker 1: Musk's government contracts and subsidies, SpaceX, NASA, Starlink, Tesla's, all 4 00:00:32,675 --> 00:00:36,555 Speaker 1: of it. It was already fifteen billion dollars by just 5 00:00:36,635 --> 00:00:40,475 Speaker 1: April of last year. The number's not gone down since then. 6 00:00:41,275 --> 00:00:43,835 Speaker 1: The Department of Justice must also initiate efforts to get 7 00:00:43,835 --> 00:00:47,235 Speaker 1: that money back, because Musk is coordinating with Trump to 8 00:00:47,315 --> 00:00:52,355 Speaker 1: interfere in FEMA recovery efforts post Hurricane Helene by spreading 9 00:00:52,435 --> 00:00:56,955 Speaker 1: life threatening disinformation, and he's also coordinating a political campaign 10 00:00:56,995 --> 00:01:00,955 Speaker 1: with Trump which at its heart has Trump advocating for 11 00:01:00,995 --> 00:01:03,355 Speaker 1: the overthrow of the duly elected government of the United 12 00:01:03,395 --> 00:01:07,595 Speaker 1: States of America by violence if necessary. And if all 13 00:01:07,675 --> 00:01:12,075 Speaker 1: of that is somehow insufficient to reinvestigate and or change 14 00:01:12,235 --> 00:01:16,235 Speaker 1: Musk's immigration status here in order to deport him back 15 00:01:16,235 --> 00:01:20,795 Speaker 1: to South Africa or Canada or whereever, if that is 16 00:01:20,915 --> 00:01:23,995 Speaker 1: insufficient to take all of his money from him through 17 00:01:23,995 --> 00:01:27,515 Speaker 1: the courts, it certainly is not insufficient to tie him 18 00:01:27,555 --> 00:01:32,275 Speaker 1: up in court cases for the rest of his goddamned life. 19 00:01:32,355 --> 00:01:37,955 Speaker 1: After Musk's mincing defeat performance on stage, leaping and bouncing 20 00:01:37,995 --> 00:01:41,195 Speaker 1: behind Trump at Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. I don't know 21 00:01:41,235 --> 00:01:44,995 Speaker 1: about you, but I have had enough of this idiot, 22 00:01:45,555 --> 00:01:49,355 Speaker 1: and more importantly, I have had enough of us underwriting 23 00:01:49,395 --> 00:01:53,795 Speaker 1: this idiot as he immorally transforms the Twitter X platform 24 00:01:53,835 --> 00:01:57,755 Speaker 1: he owns into a massive donation in kind to Trump's 25 00:01:57,755 --> 00:02:06,035 Speaker 1: campaign of lies, anti Semitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, Nazism, trid fascism, 26 00:02:06,555 --> 00:02:11,035 Speaker 1: and worst of all, stupidity. A donation in kind, by 27 00:02:11,075 --> 00:02:14,035 Speaker 1: the way, which the government must value at forty four 28 00:02:14,075 --> 00:02:17,315 Speaker 1: billion dollars, not the current number Musk has driven it 29 00:02:17,355 --> 00:02:20,515 Speaker 1: down to, which I haven't actually checked today, but it's 30 00:02:20,555 --> 00:02:27,115 Speaker 1: probably around fifty sixty bucks. Oh, and President Biden. The 31 00:02:27,195 --> 00:02:31,995 Speaker 1: starlink equipment and the network behind it, and the rockets 32 00:02:31,995 --> 00:02:35,555 Speaker 1: and the satellite access and the actual platform hosting X 33 00:02:35,635 --> 00:02:39,115 Speaker 1: or what's left of it. Seize it if Musk wants 34 00:02:39,115 --> 00:02:41,475 Speaker 1: it back, Let him go to court if he tries 35 00:02:41,515 --> 00:02:44,115 Speaker 1: to shut it off. Arrest him for tampering with evidence 36 00:02:44,155 --> 00:02:49,875 Speaker 1: in a criminal case. Remember per residential immunity. By the way, 37 00:02:50,635 --> 00:02:54,795 Speaker 1: Musk's new good buddy Trump, Trump doesn't know what the 38 00:02:54,835 --> 00:02:56,075 Speaker 1: hell starlink is. 39 00:02:57,355 --> 00:02:59,115 Speaker 2: They said, could you do us a favor? Could you 40 00:02:59,115 --> 00:03:02,195 Speaker 2: help us? We're trying to get starlink and it's very 41 00:03:02,195 --> 00:03:04,515 Speaker 2: hard to get. Most people say you can't even get it. 42 00:03:04,795 --> 00:03:07,835 Speaker 2: Called up. Elana said, North Carolina's in big trouble. George's 43 00:03:07,875 --> 00:03:11,395 Speaker 2: in big trouble. They need communication. They have none because 44 00:03:11,435 --> 00:03:13,715 Speaker 2: their poles have been knocked down and their wires are 45 00:03:13,795 --> 00:03:19,075 Speaker 2: underwater and even dangerous, dangerously underwater. But they have no communication. Elon, 46 00:03:19,235 --> 00:03:22,915 Speaker 2: could you do something about starlink? Whatever the hell that is, Elond, 47 00:03:23,515 --> 00:03:26,315 Speaker 2: whatever starlink, That's all they want to hear is starlink. 48 00:03:26,835 --> 00:03:31,875 Speaker 1: Incidentally, numerous right wing social media accounts posted that photo 49 00:03:31,875 --> 00:03:35,795 Speaker 1: of Musk leaping like all the ketamin had kecked in 50 00:03:35,955 --> 00:03:40,235 Speaker 1: all at once, behind a clearly annoyed Trump. You know 51 00:03:40,275 --> 00:03:44,675 Speaker 1: that photo with musks belly flopping out, Lauded by the 52 00:03:44,715 --> 00:03:48,195 Speaker 1: far right, This wrote, the infamous hate manger behind Libs 53 00:03:48,235 --> 00:03:50,275 Speaker 1: of TikTok is going to go down in history is 54 00:03:50,275 --> 00:03:52,435 Speaker 1: one of the most consequential images of the twenty twenty 55 00:03:52,435 --> 00:03:57,115 Speaker 1: four election. You bet your ass, as the cliche goes, 56 00:03:57,155 --> 00:03:59,995 Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember when Libs of TikTok stcastically 57 00:04:00,075 --> 00:04:05,395 Speaker 1: directed terroristic threats at men with bare middrifts and other 58 00:04:05,515 --> 00:04:10,715 Speaker 1: men wearing makeup who were on stage prancing together in 59 00:04:10,715 --> 00:04:16,075 Speaker 1: front of an audience. Oh and while we're at this, 60 00:04:16,315 --> 00:04:20,395 Speaker 1: charge Musk's mother too, for conspiracy to commit election fraud. 61 00:04:21,115 --> 00:04:26,475 Speaker 1: She retweeted her sons post about voting and added quote, 62 00:04:26,635 --> 00:04:28,995 Speaker 1: the Democrats have given us another option. You don't have 63 00:04:29,035 --> 00:04:32,075 Speaker 1: to register to vote an election day. Have ten fake names, 64 00:04:32,435 --> 00:04:35,115 Speaker 1: go to ten polling booths and vote ten times. That's 65 00:04:35,115 --> 00:04:37,715 Speaker 1: one hundred votes and it's not illegal. Maybe we should 66 00:04:37,715 --> 00:04:40,755 Speaker 1: work the system too well. First of all, madam, congratulations 67 00:04:40,755 --> 00:04:44,075 Speaker 1: on the math. You are correct. Ten fake names, ten 68 00:04:44,115 --> 00:04:52,635 Speaker 1: polling booths, ten times. By the way, shut up, you've 69 00:04:52,635 --> 00:04:54,995 Speaker 1: done enough to destroy the planet. Madam. You birth this 70 00:04:55,235 --> 00:04:58,195 Speaker 1: Jack and Apes. I mean, it sounds comical at first, 71 00:04:58,195 --> 00:05:01,075 Speaker 1: except it's true. All the James Bond and other spy 72 00:05:01,195 --> 00:05:05,795 Speaker 1: movies of the sixties and seventies begin with a psychopathic 73 00:05:05,875 --> 00:05:11,355 Speaker 1: billionaire who owns space rockets and communications systems. We used 74 00:05:11,395 --> 00:05:14,435 Speaker 1: to have places where people like Trump and his family 75 00:05:14,955 --> 00:05:17,195 Speaker 1: and Musk and his mother used to be able to 76 00:05:17,235 --> 00:05:22,355 Speaker 1: get the care that could benefit, even save anybody in 77 00:05:22,395 --> 00:05:26,235 Speaker 1: their condition. Now, instead we let them run for president. 78 00:05:27,795 --> 00:05:30,835 Speaker 1: By the way, if you don't think part of Musk 79 00:05:31,115 --> 00:05:34,475 Speaker 1: prostituting himself for Trump is some thought in that brain 80 00:05:34,555 --> 00:05:38,675 Speaker 1: of his fightings for space in there with all the hallucinogens, 81 00:05:39,115 --> 00:05:44,035 Speaker 1: that Trump will make it possible for naturalized American citizens 82 00:05:44,035 --> 00:05:46,995 Speaker 1: who were not born here to serve as president, even 83 00:05:47,035 --> 00:05:50,755 Speaker 1: though the Constitution says otherwise. You know it's in there. 84 00:05:52,275 --> 00:05:59,235 Speaker 1: Musk thinks Musk can succeed Trump, as they used to say, 85 00:05:59,475 --> 00:06:29,195 Speaker 1: depend upon it, sir quotes. Trump's speeches, increasingly angry and rambling, 86 00:06:29,675 --> 00:06:34,275 Speaker 1: reignite the question of age. With the passage of time, 87 00:06:34,715 --> 00:06:40,835 Speaker 1: the seventy eight year old former president's speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, 88 00:06:41,315 --> 00:06:46,235 Speaker 1: less focused, more profane, and increasingly fixated on the past, 89 00:06:46,635 --> 00:06:51,515 Speaker 1: according to a review of his public appearances over the years. Yes, 90 00:06:52,195 --> 00:06:56,715 Speaker 1: that actually was in the New York Times, not the 91 00:06:56,995 --> 00:07:01,995 Speaker 1: Not the New York Times, not the Onion. This justin 92 00:07:02,115 --> 00:07:05,155 Speaker 1: Trump is rambling, breaking news from Peter Baker hot off 93 00:07:05,195 --> 00:07:09,115 Speaker 1: the presses. If you consider leading The Times first serious 94 00:07:09,195 --> 00:07:12,875 Speaker 1: story about Trump's dementia with an anecdote that is now 95 00:07:12,875 --> 00:07:17,915 Speaker 1: twenty eight days old, hot off the Presses, former President 96 00:07:17,955 --> 00:07:20,995 Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump vividly recounted how the audience had his 97 00:07:21,075 --> 00:07:24,995 Speaker 1: climactic debate with Vice President Kamala Harris was on his side, 98 00:07:25,475 --> 00:07:28,275 Speaker 1: except that there was no audience. The debate was held 99 00:07:28,315 --> 00:07:32,435 Speaker 1: in an empty hall. No one quote went crazy, as 100 00:07:32,435 --> 00:07:38,355 Speaker 1: mister Trump put it, because no one was there, even 101 00:07:38,435 --> 00:07:42,275 Speaker 1: to be generous. Trump's hallucination about there having been an 102 00:07:42,275 --> 00:07:45,835 Speaker 1: audience at that debate was from September eighteenth. The debate 103 00:07:45,835 --> 00:07:49,595 Speaker 1: itself was September tenth. These days, that is approximately nine 104 00:07:49,635 --> 00:07:53,715 Speaker 1: thousand election news cycles ago, and the Times piece, while 105 00:07:53,795 --> 00:07:56,275 Speaker 1: to be welcomed as a sign that the Times knows 106 00:07:56,355 --> 00:08:00,515 Speaker 1: it has fed up, knows it has damaged itself, knows 107 00:08:00,555 --> 00:08:03,355 Speaker 1: that it has showed both its ass and its arrogance, 108 00:08:03,915 --> 00:08:09,115 Speaker 1: knows that it's now October peace, only borders on the 109 00:08:09,155 --> 00:08:12,715 Speaker 1: reality of the Trump cognitive crisis for three paragraphs before 110 00:08:13,635 --> 00:08:20,235 Speaker 1: passing the buck quote. According to a computer analysis by 111 00:08:20,275 --> 00:08:23,395 Speaker 1: The New York Times, mister Trump's rally speeches now last 112 00:08:23,395 --> 00:08:26,555 Speaker 1: in average eighty two minutes compared to forty five minutes 113 00:08:26,595 --> 00:08:30,555 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. Proportionately, he uses thirteen percent more all 114 00:08:30,715 --> 00:08:33,275 Speaker 1: or nothing terms like always and never than he did 115 00:08:33,315 --> 00:08:37,555 Speaker 1: eight years ago, which some experts consider a sign of 116 00:08:37,595 --> 00:08:45,715 Speaker 1: advancing age. Oh my god, computer analysis. We're not saying this. 117 00:08:46,235 --> 00:08:52,315 Speaker 1: The computer is saying this quote. It was hardly the 118 00:08:52,315 --> 00:08:57,035 Speaker 1: only time mister Trump has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent, or 119 00:08:57,115 --> 00:09:01,115 Speaker 1: disconnected from reality lately. In fact, it happens so often 120 00:09:01,195 --> 00:09:06,155 Speaker 1: these days that it no longer even generates much attention. 121 00:09:07,915 --> 00:09:11,195 Speaker 1: As the great journalist and historian Rick Pearlstein wrote, one 122 00:09:11,195 --> 00:09:14,355 Speaker 1: of the most abiding failures of agenda setting elite political 123 00:09:14,435 --> 00:09:18,595 Speaker 1: journalism is its denial of its own agency. Trump's manner 124 00:09:18,635 --> 00:09:22,315 Speaker 1: of speaking quote no longer generates much attention, as if 125 00:09:22,355 --> 00:09:27,115 Speaker 1: Trump himself generates what the Times decides to attend to. 126 00:09:27,795 --> 00:09:36,675 Speaker 1: Not the Times, Yes, sir, it's Trump no longer generating attention, 127 00:09:37,115 --> 00:09:41,555 Speaker 1: the way Hurricane Helene is no longer generating catastrophic wins. 128 00:09:44,195 --> 00:09:47,915 Speaker 1: Way down in paragraph seventeen, we finally get some human 129 00:09:48,075 --> 00:09:51,395 Speaker 1: assessment again, not by the Times. Oh, we're just reporting 130 00:09:51,475 --> 00:09:55,115 Speaker 1: with the help of computers. It's not us, it's not 131 00:09:55,195 --> 00:09:57,875 Speaker 1: Peter Baker. It's not anybody who could sue, it's not 132 00:09:57,915 --> 00:10:04,835 Speaker 1: anybody who could imprison. It's it's others. Quote how much 133 00:10:04,835 --> 00:10:10,595 Speaker 1: his rambling discourse, what some experts called tangentiality, can be 134 00:10:10,635 --> 00:10:14,435 Speaker 1: attributed to age. As the subject of some debate, mister 135 00:10:14,475 --> 00:10:18,835 Speaker 1: Trump has always had a distinctive speaking style, la la 136 00:10:18,915 --> 00:10:22,435 Speaker 1: la la la, that entertained and captivated supporters, even as 137 00:10:22,475 --> 00:10:26,035 Speaker 1: critics called him detached from reality. Indeed, questions have been 138 00:10:26,115 --> 00:10:29,955 Speaker 1: raised about mister Trump's mental fitness for years. John F. Kelly, 139 00:10:30,195 --> 00:10:33,035 Speaker 1: his second White House chief of staff, was so convinced 140 00:10:33,075 --> 00:10:36,355 Speaker 1: that mister Trump was psychologically unbalanced that he bought a 141 00:10:36,355 --> 00:10:39,795 Speaker 1: book called The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, written by 142 00:10:39,795 --> 00:10:42,755 Speaker 1: twenty seven mental health professionals, to try to understand his 143 00:10:42,795 --> 00:10:46,395 Speaker 1: boss better. As it was, mister Kelly came to refer 144 00:10:46,435 --> 00:10:54,275 Speaker 1: to mister Trump's White House as quote crazy town unquote. That, 145 00:10:54,515 --> 00:10:57,075 Speaker 1: of course, is still no reason for us at the 146 00:10:57,155 --> 00:11:01,275 Speaker 1: Times to acknowledge that Trump is crazy or brain damaged, 147 00:11:01,835 --> 00:11:07,435 Speaker 1: or a madman or criminally effing insane. And it is 148 00:11:07,555 --> 00:11:10,875 Speaker 1: certainly not sufficient for us at the holy goddamn New 149 00:11:10,955 --> 00:11:15,475 Speaker 1: York Times to utilize four letter words with which to 150 00:11:15,595 --> 00:11:26,715 Speaker 1: describe his falsehoods and other inaccuracies, four letter words like lies. Okay, 151 00:11:26,755 --> 00:11:29,075 Speaker 1: I could literally go on for the length of the article, 152 00:11:29,115 --> 00:11:31,795 Speaker 1: but I think you get my point. Only The Times 153 00:11:31,795 --> 00:11:35,755 Speaker 1: could write a piece about Trump's mental self disqualification from 154 00:11:35,755 --> 00:11:40,075 Speaker 1: the presidency while managing to steal both sides the damn thing, 155 00:11:40,755 --> 00:11:44,275 Speaker 1: albeit with one of the sides being crazy and the 156 00:11:44,315 --> 00:11:48,955 Speaker 1: other side being senile. Maybe that's what took them so 157 00:11:49,115 --> 00:11:53,955 Speaker 1: long to write it. The point is they wrote it, 158 00:11:54,515 --> 00:11:57,875 Speaker 1: and it reflects two things. So many people inside this 159 00:11:57,995 --> 00:12:02,355 Speaker 1: country's newsrooms and outside this country's borders take their journalistic 160 00:12:02,515 --> 00:12:04,835 Speaker 1: cues from The New York Times and have taken and 161 00:12:04,875 --> 00:12:06,995 Speaker 1: then for so long that they don't even know anymore 162 00:12:07,195 --> 00:12:11,235 Speaker 1: that their response to The Times is virtually Pavlovian. That 163 00:12:11,395 --> 00:12:14,635 Speaker 1: article is likely to produce commentaries and pieces and just 164 00:12:15,035 --> 00:12:19,715 Speaker 1: openness to finally addressing this issue with results that will 165 00:12:19,755 --> 00:12:23,315 Speaker 1: settle everywhere from A to Z along the spectrum of 166 00:12:23,755 --> 00:12:29,235 Speaker 1: the Emperor has no brain. It's terrible The Times has 167 00:12:29,235 --> 00:12:31,795 Speaker 1: that influence, especially when they have used it so badly 168 00:12:31,875 --> 00:12:36,315 Speaker 1: for so long. But somebody at the BBC right now 169 00:12:36,475 --> 00:12:39,755 Speaker 1: is preparing his or her own version of that New 170 00:12:39,835 --> 00:12:45,515 Speaker 1: York Times piece. Same at the Times of India and 171 00:12:45,555 --> 00:12:51,515 Speaker 1: the Himalayan Times in Nepal. The second important part here 172 00:12:51,675 --> 00:12:57,475 Speaker 1: is that working the refs works. It works, It works, 173 00:12:57,715 --> 00:13:01,755 Speaker 1: it works. I mean, maybe if we keep kicking the 174 00:13:01,875 --> 00:13:05,035 Speaker 1: editor in the ass publicly, the New York Time will 175 00:13:05,035 --> 00:13:08,195 Speaker 1: correct his last mistake and put out a ten day 176 00:13:08,435 --> 00:13:13,675 Speaker 1: long page one upper left hand corners series analyzing Jack 177 00:13:13,715 --> 00:13:17,235 Speaker 1: Smith's evidence against Trump in a real sort of play 178 00:13:17,235 --> 00:13:20,155 Speaker 1: by play. This is what Jack Smith thinks happened on 179 00:13:20,275 --> 00:13:23,835 Speaker 1: January sixth, than the weeks before, analyzing the evidence that 180 00:13:23,915 --> 00:13:27,195 Speaker 1: was released last week. Something they could run every day 181 00:13:27,195 --> 00:13:30,635 Speaker 1: between now and the election. You know why Hillary's emails 182 00:13:32,515 --> 00:13:37,755 Speaker 1: because working the refs works a lot more on working 183 00:13:37,835 --> 00:13:39,995 Speaker 1: the refs in my own experience with it in a moment. 184 00:13:40,795 --> 00:13:48,155 Speaker 1: But first, happily, there remains countless numbers of media folks 185 00:13:48,195 --> 00:13:53,915 Speaker 1: here who still don't or won't get it. CBS Evening 186 00:13:53,955 --> 00:13:58,235 Speaker 1: News Saturday anchor Jureka Duncan throws to reporter Caitlin Huey 187 00:13:58,235 --> 00:14:02,675 Speaker 1: Burns in Butler, Pennsylvania for Trump's latest hateful fascist rally. 188 00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:06,875 Speaker 1: The one musk was at watch me bothes and the 189 00:14:06,995 --> 00:14:11,155 Speaker 1: last words of the anchor's introduction, the last words, Draka 190 00:14:11,235 --> 00:14:16,195 Speaker 1: Duncan says, our quote Trump began with a unifying message. 191 00:14:16,755 --> 00:14:24,555 Speaker 1: Unquote yeah, unifying you will bow down before me that 192 00:14:24,715 --> 00:14:31,515 Speaker 1: kind of unifying. Of course, our bleeding, bankrupt, almost dying 193 00:14:31,595 --> 00:14:34,315 Speaker 1: media managed to both sides it again, it's not just 194 00:14:34,395 --> 00:14:38,915 Speaker 1: about miscovering Trump. Kamala Harris's interview schedule this week so 195 00:14:38,995 --> 00:14:43,435 Speaker 1: far sixty minutes last night, Howard Stern Tuesday, The View Tuesday, 196 00:14:43,675 --> 00:14:48,715 Speaker 1: Colbert Tuesday, Une Vision town Hall Thursday. The reaction from 197 00:14:48,755 --> 00:14:53,195 Speaker 1: Andrew Mitchell about this scheduling and about the Harris campaign 198 00:14:53,395 --> 00:14:56,515 Speaker 1: when she was on Meet the Press yesterday, I think 199 00:14:56,555 --> 00:14:59,395 Speaker 1: they've got to double down on more interviews and serious 200 00:14:59,435 --> 00:15:03,035 Speaker 1: interviews by serious Andrew means Harris should do an interview 201 00:15:03,035 --> 00:15:06,795 Speaker 1: with her on her little MSNBC. I'm just going to 202 00:15:06,875 --> 00:15:10,635 Speaker 1: stay here till they finally fire me show, or Andrea 203 00:15:10,675 --> 00:15:12,955 Speaker 1: is going to continue to go on NBC and whine 204 00:15:14,475 --> 00:15:18,035 Speaker 1: what I'm hearing from Democratic and Republican business people. She 205 00:15:18,155 --> 00:15:21,315 Speaker 1: means her husband, Alan Greenspan and a lot of men. 206 00:15:21,435 --> 00:15:23,755 Speaker 1: There's an undercount of the Trump vote. I think there 207 00:15:23,795 --> 00:15:30,635 Speaker 1: was missagenation. Missagenation. Yes, she said missagenation. She got about 208 00:15:30,675 --> 00:15:34,675 Speaker 1: to the she got to the missage it and then 209 00:15:34,715 --> 00:15:39,155 Speaker 1: she realized what she was saying, missgenette. Missagenation is race mixing. 210 00:15:40,195 --> 00:15:45,315 Speaker 1: Good point about Kamala Harris Andrea missagenation. Well done, Mitchell 211 00:15:45,475 --> 00:15:50,315 Speaker 1: hurriedly switched to quote misognation. Uh, in all of this, 212 00:15:50,675 --> 00:15:54,275 Speaker 1: there is no such word as misogenation. Did you mean 213 00:15:54,275 --> 00:15:57,075 Speaker 1: something about misogyny, Andrea? And then then you followed it 214 00:15:57,155 --> 00:16:01,835 Speaker 1: up with quote black and white men? Big problem? But 215 00:16:01,955 --> 00:16:04,155 Speaker 1: also the business world they don't think she's serious. They 216 00:16:04,195 --> 00:16:08,035 Speaker 1: don't think she's heavyweight. And I tell you what, I 217 00:16:08,075 --> 00:16:12,155 Speaker 1: don't think Andrew Mitchell slipped when she at first said missagenation. 218 00:16:13,355 --> 00:16:18,035 Speaker 1: She should be fired. Then there's Politico. Excuse me I 219 00:16:18,035 --> 00:16:23,075 Speaker 1: forgot to recognize its German ownership here dos Politico? Don't 220 00:16:23,115 --> 00:16:26,235 Speaker 1: call it a media blitz. After avoiding the media for 221 00:16:27,035 --> 00:16:32,195 Speaker 1: nigh on her whole campaign, VP, Kamala Harris is still 222 00:16:32,275 --> 00:16:36,035 Speaker 1: largely avoiding the media. Let's be real here. Most of 223 00:16:36,075 --> 00:16:37,955 Speaker 1: these are not the types of interviews that are going 224 00:16:37,955 --> 00:16:40,115 Speaker 1: to press her on issues she may not want to 225 00:16:40,155 --> 00:16:44,075 Speaker 1: talk about, even as voters want more specifics from Harris. Instead, 226 00:16:44,155 --> 00:16:46,675 Speaker 1: expect most of these sit downs to be a continuation 227 00:16:46,755 --> 00:16:51,235 Speaker 1: of the vibes campaign Harris has perfected. We're not saying 228 00:16:51,235 --> 00:16:55,235 Speaker 1: there's no value in these sixty minutes and the Univision 229 00:16:55,435 --> 00:16:59,035 Speaker 1: town Hall are sure to be substantive. Each of these 230 00:16:59,115 --> 00:17:02,395 Speaker 1: shows has millions of viewers or listeners, especially women and 231 00:17:02,475 --> 00:17:07,315 Speaker 1: young voters, key constituencies for Harris. Let me translate this, 232 00:17:07,995 --> 00:17:13,475 Speaker 1: Politico believes it's more substantive than sixty minutes and Univision 233 00:17:13,555 --> 00:17:22,195 Speaker 1: town Hall and also what else the view and my 234 00:17:22,315 --> 00:17:25,515 Speaker 1: old friend Howard and what else everything else in the world. 235 00:17:25,715 --> 00:17:28,875 Speaker 1: Politico is more important, and Politico will continue to accuse 236 00:17:28,915 --> 00:17:32,275 Speaker 1: Harris of avoiding interviews until she does an interview with 237 00:17:32,315 --> 00:17:36,435 Speaker 1: the news outlet that Politico considers the gold standard, namely 238 00:17:37,235 --> 00:17:50,275 Speaker 1: Politico Dos Politico mine Politico Happily Politico followed this childish 239 00:17:50,835 --> 00:17:53,675 Speaker 1: seven year old's diatribe with one of the greatest self 240 00:17:53,755 --> 00:17:56,675 Speaker 1: owns of the century. But forgive me, I'm going to 241 00:17:56,755 --> 00:17:58,675 Speaker 1: tease that in hopes that you will take the next 242 00:17:58,715 --> 00:18:01,355 Speaker 1: two and a half minutes to listen to the appearance 243 00:18:01,515 --> 00:18:04,595 Speaker 1: just a small part of it on a podcast by 244 00:18:04,795 --> 00:18:10,275 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris that Politico mocked and Politico self owned by 245 00:18:10,315 --> 00:18:14,555 Speaker 1: mocking it. The podcast is called call Her Daddy. It 246 00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:19,235 Speaker 1: is a giant in the field. Politico insulted, it insulted 247 00:18:19,275 --> 00:18:22,395 Speaker 1: its host Alex Cooper. The interview was forty five minutes 248 00:18:22,435 --> 00:18:28,115 Speaker 1: of actual questions, not attempts to play gotcha or grab 249 00:18:28,195 --> 00:18:33,075 Speaker 1: a headline that reads Harris tells Politico exclusively listen for 250 00:18:33,155 --> 00:18:37,195 Speaker 1: the substance, stay for the Politico face plant. 251 00:18:37,635 --> 00:18:40,915 Speaker 3: I do want to clarify something in the debate, Former 252 00:18:40,955 --> 00:18:49,195 Speaker 3: President Trump claimed that some states are executing babies after birth. 253 00:18:50,355 --> 00:18:53,915 Speaker 4: Can you just clarify that is not happening anywhere in 254 00:18:53,955 --> 00:18:58,715 Speaker 4: the United States. It is not happening, And it's a lie. 255 00:18:59,435 --> 00:19:04,755 Speaker 4: Just it's a bold faced lie that he is suggesting that. 256 00:19:05,275 --> 00:19:09,715 Speaker 4: Can you imagine Can you imagine he is suggesting that 257 00:19:09,795 --> 00:19:15,115 Speaker 4: women in their ninth month of pregnancy are electing to 258 00:19:15,195 --> 00:19:22,515 Speaker 4: have an abortion? Are you kidding? That is so outrageously inaccurate, 259 00:19:22,635 --> 00:19:29,075 Speaker 4: And it's so insulting to suggest that that would be 260 00:19:29,315 --> 00:19:33,635 Speaker 4: happening and that women would be doing that. It's not 261 00:19:33,675 --> 00:19:37,075 Speaker 4: happening anywhere. This guy is full of lies. I mean, 262 00:19:37,115 --> 00:19:39,195 Speaker 4: I just have to be very candid with you. You know, 263 00:19:39,795 --> 00:19:44,075 Speaker 4: so in my career, from the time I got out 264 00:19:44,115 --> 00:19:46,795 Speaker 4: of law school through most of my career as a prosecutor, 265 00:19:48,235 --> 00:19:51,755 Speaker 4: I understood that the words that I spoke and what 266 00:19:51,835 --> 00:19:53,875 Speaker 4: I did with those words would be the difference between 267 00:19:53,955 --> 00:19:59,275 Speaker 4: whether somebody was charged with a crime or went to prison, 268 00:19:59,955 --> 00:20:04,795 Speaker 4: maybe prison for life. When I was Attorney General, I 269 00:20:04,835 --> 00:20:06,955 Speaker 4: was the top law enforcement officer of the biggest state 270 00:20:06,955 --> 00:20:11,355 Speaker 4: in this country. And I was acutely aware that the 271 00:20:11,395 --> 00:20:16,315 Speaker 4: words I spoke could be the difference between whether a 272 00:20:16,395 --> 00:20:20,075 Speaker 4: corporation was in business or out of business, that the 273 00:20:20,075 --> 00:20:28,315 Speaker 4: words I spoke could move markets. The idea that someone 274 00:20:28,715 --> 00:20:32,515 Speaker 4: is not only so careless and irresponsible and reckless, but 275 00:20:32,755 --> 00:20:39,115 Speaker 4: out and out lies to create fear and division in 276 00:20:39,155 --> 00:20:43,355 Speaker 4: our country and thinks he should be president of the 277 00:20:43,475 --> 00:20:47,555 Speaker 4: United States, standing behind the seal of the President of 278 00:20:47,595 --> 00:20:50,635 Speaker 4: the United States, using the microphone that comes with that, 279 00:20:53,715 --> 00:20:57,235 Speaker 4: and using that voice and those words in such an 280 00:20:58,235 --> 00:21:05,595 Speaker 4: irresponsible and that's mild way. And this is why this 281 00:21:05,675 --> 00:21:06,755 Speaker 4: selection matters. 282 00:21:07,115 --> 00:21:08,795 Speaker 1: I mean, that's the whole election in two and a 283 00:21:08,835 --> 00:21:11,795 Speaker 1: half minutes. The other forty two and a half minutes 284 00:21:11,955 --> 00:21:17,515 Speaker 1: are nearly as good. Wherever you podcast, Call Her Daddy, 285 00:21:17,995 --> 00:21:22,275 Speaker 1: This is what Politico wrote about Kamala Harris going on 286 00:21:22,315 --> 00:21:28,955 Speaker 1: the Call Her Daddy podcast. Quote. Recent episodes of Call 287 00:21:29,035 --> 00:21:32,475 Speaker 1: Her Daddy, just for a touch point were titled is 288 00:21:32,515 --> 00:21:39,875 Speaker 1: he the One? And blowjobs, hall passes, and frat daddies unquote. 289 00:21:40,515 --> 00:21:46,755 Speaker 1: So it's inappropriate or somehow a touch point that Call 290 00:21:46,835 --> 00:21:53,595 Speaker 1: Her Daddy has had sexual content lately, Politico. One quick question, Politico, 291 00:21:54,075 --> 00:21:57,875 Speaker 1: who is that political writer and editor and where did 292 00:21:57,875 --> 00:22:01,275 Speaker 1: he work again? Who was just accused by his ex 293 00:22:01,355 --> 00:22:06,395 Speaker 1: fiance of hacking her phone and leaking details of her 294 00:22:06,515 --> 00:22:13,075 Speaker 1: sex life to other news outlets and trying to blackmail 295 00:22:13,195 --> 00:22:19,035 Speaker 1: her into more sex and not leaving their relationship. Oh right, 296 00:22:19,195 --> 00:22:23,275 Speaker 1: that was Ryan Lizza who was accused of that of Politico, 297 00:22:24,355 --> 00:22:29,555 Speaker 1: editor of Politico Playbook, And you haven't fired him despite 298 00:22:29,635 --> 00:22:31,995 Speaker 1: his record of having been fired by The New Yorker 299 00:22:32,075 --> 00:22:37,275 Speaker 1: for something sexual. So Politico, one more question the Call 300 00:22:37,395 --> 00:22:41,595 Speaker 1: Her Daddy podcast you don't like Vice President Harris doing? 301 00:22:42,155 --> 00:22:46,795 Speaker 1: Is the problem that it has too much sex or 302 00:22:46,835 --> 00:22:51,435 Speaker 1: that it has not as much sex as Politico Playbook does. 303 00:22:56,795 --> 00:23:01,075 Speaker 1: Also of interest here back to working the refs and 304 00:23:01,115 --> 00:23:04,635 Speaker 1: the startling truth lurking inside the disasters inside even the 305 00:23:04,995 --> 00:23:09,035 Speaker 1: biggest newspapers like the New York Times. I can tell 306 00:23:09,035 --> 00:23:12,715 Speaker 1: you from personal experience that sometimes it turns out the 307 00:23:12,835 --> 00:23:16,555 Speaker 1: editors of the biggest newspapers in the world do not 308 00:23:17,035 --> 00:23:23,275 Speaker 1: actually read what is in their own newspapers. That's next. 309 00:23:23,595 --> 00:23:32,995 Speaker 1: This is countdown. So, as I mentioned earlier, a little 310 00:23:32,995 --> 00:23:35,995 Speaker 1: bit more on working the refs and the New York 311 00:23:36,075 --> 00:23:40,275 Speaker 1: Times piece yesterday in which this just in. Trump apparently 312 00:23:40,995 --> 00:23:43,875 Speaker 1: hasn't been making a lot of sense recently in his speeches. 313 00:23:44,835 --> 00:23:49,475 Speaker 1: I know, one can envision a conversation somewhere where they 314 00:23:49,515 --> 00:23:53,915 Speaker 1: decide whether or not to devote reporters and resources and graphics, 315 00:23:54,075 --> 00:23:57,555 Speaker 1: especially graphics. The New York Times is enamored of graphics, 316 00:23:57,595 --> 00:24:01,715 Speaker 1: as if they were just invented, where they decide whether 317 00:24:01,795 --> 00:24:03,755 Speaker 1: or not to do this finally, and whether or not 318 00:24:04,315 --> 00:24:07,195 Speaker 1: perhaps some of the criticism that they might hear just 319 00:24:07,355 --> 00:24:10,395 Speaker 1: in the distance, coming in faintly from outside in the 320 00:24:10,435 --> 00:24:15,835 Speaker 1: real world, might be valid the theory of working the refs. Say, 321 00:24:16,835 --> 00:24:19,995 Speaker 1: Buffy was telling me the other night, the Trump hasn't 322 00:24:20,035 --> 00:24:24,035 Speaker 1: been sounding good. Is that right? Well, I haven't actually 323 00:24:24,115 --> 00:24:26,835 Speaker 1: heard him speak since. Let's see, when was that New 324 00:24:26,915 --> 00:24:31,035 Speaker 1: York Post Sports Breakfast nineteen eighty three? He sounded okay, 325 00:24:31,075 --> 00:24:36,435 Speaker 1: then that was forty one years ago. How time flies. 326 00:24:38,195 --> 00:24:40,315 Speaker 1: That's one theory of what happened at the New York Times. 327 00:24:40,355 --> 00:24:42,835 Speaker 1: The other theory is that after months and months and 328 00:24:42,875 --> 00:24:45,195 Speaker 1: months and months and months and months and years and 329 00:24:45,275 --> 00:24:48,595 Speaker 1: years and years of criticizing the New York Times were 330 00:24:48,635 --> 00:24:53,035 Speaker 1: how it handled first Hillary Clinton's emails, the entire issue 331 00:24:53,035 --> 00:24:56,475 Speaker 1: of the Trump candidacy in twenty sixteen, the entire Trump presidency, 332 00:24:56,555 --> 00:24:59,795 Speaker 1: especially the campaign of twenty twenty, and Joe Biden in 333 00:24:59,835 --> 00:25:02,915 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, in which whatever claims they might have 334 00:25:02,995 --> 00:25:09,395 Speaker 1: thought they had proved about Joe Biden's public capacity or 335 00:25:09,515 --> 00:25:12,235 Speaker 1: willingness to do an interview, or willingness to put himself 336 00:25:12,315 --> 00:25:15,235 Speaker 1: at risk, as there was some kind of decline in 337 00:25:15,275 --> 00:25:19,395 Speaker 1: his ability to speak extemporaneously in public. Whatever they thought 338 00:25:19,435 --> 00:25:22,395 Speaker 1: they had, they thought they were justified in trying to 339 00:25:22,435 --> 00:25:25,075 Speaker 1: bury the President of the United States alive, even if 340 00:25:25,075 --> 00:25:30,275 Speaker 1: it meant getting Donald Trump elected again and ending democracy 341 00:25:30,315 --> 00:25:32,515 Speaker 1: and by the way, ending the free press and the 342 00:25:32,555 --> 00:25:34,835 Speaker 1: New York Times, and one of the things that I 343 00:25:35,035 --> 00:25:38,755 Speaker 1: probably alone thought of. No one else would have made 344 00:25:38,755 --> 00:25:42,035 Speaker 1: this analogy, because it's an experience from my own life 345 00:25:42,115 --> 00:25:44,875 Speaker 1: and nobody else's. There's one person to whom this might 346 00:25:44,875 --> 00:25:47,435 Speaker 1: have occurred, a man named Bob Costas, who I have 347 00:25:47,475 --> 00:25:50,235 Speaker 1: invoked here before, who I once told to shut the 348 00:25:50,435 --> 00:25:53,555 Speaker 1: f up on this very topic. Bob did not end 349 00:25:53,595 --> 00:25:55,475 Speaker 1: his friendship with me over that. We had a long 350 00:25:55,515 --> 00:25:57,555 Speaker 1: talk about it, and I tried to explain to Bob 351 00:25:57,595 --> 00:25:59,435 Speaker 1: why that was the wrong time to do what he 352 00:25:59,515 --> 00:26:02,195 Speaker 1: wanted to do, and that later was actually better. And 353 00:26:02,235 --> 00:26:05,075 Speaker 1: I think it will prove later was actually better. But 354 00:26:05,155 --> 00:26:07,675 Speaker 1: I'm straying off the topic here because the topic is 355 00:26:08,115 --> 00:26:11,235 Speaker 1: working the refs when it comes to the newspapers. This 356 00:26:11,435 --> 00:26:15,675 Speaker 1: is about working the refs in an entirely different context 357 00:26:16,235 --> 00:26:21,515 Speaker 1: and sincerely in an entirely different meaning level. If the 358 00:26:21,555 --> 00:26:23,755 Speaker 1: stuff in the New York Times finally getting around to 359 00:26:23,795 --> 00:26:27,675 Speaker 1: Trump's mental capacity or incapacity is a one thousand, my 360 00:26:27,795 --> 00:26:30,915 Speaker 1: story is a two. However, my story is a first 361 00:26:30,915 --> 00:26:33,755 Speaker 1: hand story. I can tell you the whole thing, and 362 00:26:33,915 --> 00:26:39,675 Speaker 1: it's a doozy. I got to Los Angeles as a 363 00:26:39,715 --> 00:26:43,395 Speaker 1: local TV sportscaster at the age of twenty six on 364 00:26:43,555 --> 00:26:47,795 Speaker 1: Labor Day nineteen eighty five. I just happened to hit 365 00:26:47,875 --> 00:26:52,475 Speaker 1: the clouds right with my Marjorie Taylor Green and you 366 00:26:52,555 --> 00:26:57,435 Speaker 1: know they can control the weather cloud seeding effort. I 367 00:26:57,515 --> 00:27:00,915 Speaker 1: in three months became the second or third most popular 368 00:27:00,955 --> 00:27:04,395 Speaker 1: sportscaster on television in Los Angeles. Quite a role reversal, 369 00:27:04,395 --> 00:27:07,875 Speaker 1: because I literally could not get employment the year before 370 00:27:08,035 --> 00:27:11,715 Speaker 1: after a very unfortunate series of experiences in Boston. So 371 00:27:11,915 --> 00:27:15,435 Speaker 1: I got the Associated Press Sportscaster of the Year award 372 00:27:15,515 --> 00:27:20,075 Speaker 1: for California, and I think also Nevada. So I wasn't 373 00:27:20,075 --> 00:27:22,155 Speaker 1: even working in Nevada, and I was the Sportscaster of 374 00:27:22,155 --> 00:27:23,555 Speaker 1: the Year in Nevada as well. And I got the 375 00:27:23,675 --> 00:27:25,795 Speaker 1: UPI Award for the same thing. And I won a 376 00:27:25,835 --> 00:27:29,915 Speaker 1: Golden Mic and all these accolades inside of three months, 377 00:27:29,955 --> 00:27:35,235 Speaker 1: and on Christmas Day. Back when LA had two daily metropolitan, 378 00:27:35,275 --> 00:27:37,955 Speaker 1: big scale newspapers, the Los Angeles Times and the Los 379 00:27:37,955 --> 00:27:41,235 Speaker 1: Angeles Herald Examiner, so big that even in nineteen eighty five, 380 00:27:41,275 --> 00:27:45,155 Speaker 1: they each had full time columns devoted just to TV 381 00:27:45,275 --> 00:27:50,955 Speaker 1: sports and principally devoted to TV local sports. The two 382 00:27:51,035 --> 00:27:54,515 Speaker 1: columnists both wrote their year end stories for nineteen eighty five. 383 00:27:54,595 --> 00:27:58,075 Speaker 1: Bob Kaiser in the LA Harex the Herald Examiner wrote 384 00:27:58,115 --> 00:28:01,075 Speaker 1: that I was the best sportscaster in town, a breath 385 00:28:01,075 --> 00:28:03,355 Speaker 1: of fresh air, and all the other things you would 386 00:28:03,355 --> 00:28:05,475 Speaker 1: say about me if you can envision me being twenty 387 00:28:05,515 --> 00:28:08,435 Speaker 1: six years old, and my style being almost brand new 388 00:28:08,675 --> 00:28:12,675 Speaker 1: and certainly brand new in Los Angeles. Larry Stewart, the 389 00:28:12,675 --> 00:28:16,675 Speaker 1: TV sports columnist of the Los Angeles Times, wrote on 390 00:28:16,835 --> 00:28:20,075 Speaker 1: the same day that I was the worst sportscaster who 391 00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:23,115 Speaker 1: had ever worked in LA And what was worse, somebody 392 00:28:23,155 --> 00:28:27,875 Speaker 1: had told me I was funny. These two pieces next 393 00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:31,515 Speaker 1: to each other define for me proof that the theory 394 00:28:31,555 --> 00:28:34,035 Speaker 1: that you can't be all things to all people at 395 00:28:34,035 --> 00:28:40,995 Speaker 1: the same time was wrong. He examiner, best sportscaster we've 396 00:28:40,995 --> 00:28:44,355 Speaker 1: ever had, best sportscaster we have right now, LA Times, 397 00:28:44,395 --> 00:28:49,915 Speaker 1: worst of all time. Mister Stewart continued on this vein 398 00:28:50,315 --> 00:28:54,035 Speaker 1: for quite some time. I don't remember how it was 399 00:28:54,075 --> 00:28:56,755 Speaker 1: that I personally ticked him off, but I did. I 400 00:28:56,835 --> 00:29:00,195 Speaker 1: may have said something to somebody at the Los Angeles 401 00:29:00,195 --> 00:29:03,355 Speaker 1: Times after the sixth or seventh or eighth article that 402 00:29:03,435 --> 00:29:05,635 Speaker 1: he wrote in nineteen eighty six, suggesting that I was 403 00:29:05,675 --> 00:29:08,475 Speaker 1: going to be fired by Channel five my employers, when 404 00:29:08,475 --> 00:29:11,115 Speaker 1: I had a three year contract and Channel five really 405 00:29:11,115 --> 00:29:13,355 Speaker 1: could not afford to fire me and pay me at 406 00:29:13,355 --> 00:29:16,115 Speaker 1: the same time. They didn't have that kind of money. 407 00:29:16,595 --> 00:29:18,955 Speaker 1: I may have complained and said, what are you guys doing? 408 00:29:19,435 --> 00:29:21,955 Speaker 1: Then I began to notice that he was saving Larry 409 00:29:21,955 --> 00:29:26,075 Speaker 1: Stewart was the worst of his insults towards me for 410 00:29:26,195 --> 00:29:32,635 Speaker 1: things like my birthday, major holidays, other stuff like that. 411 00:29:33,835 --> 00:29:37,195 Speaker 1: One day I reported that Wayne Gretzky had been traded 412 00:29:37,235 --> 00:29:40,355 Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Kings. His take was that I 413 00:29:40,435 --> 00:29:44,275 Speaker 1: had guessed correctly and shouldn't get any credit for breaking 414 00:29:44,315 --> 00:29:47,995 Speaker 1: the story. This was the sort of thing I had 415 00:29:47,995 --> 00:29:52,195 Speaker 1: put up with through three years. Then I went to KCBS, 416 00:29:52,235 --> 00:29:57,755 Speaker 1: another station in Los Angeles, and I can't remember now 417 00:29:57,915 --> 00:30:01,155 Speaker 1: in retrospect what it was that finally ticked me off, 418 00:30:01,795 --> 00:30:06,835 Speaker 1: except perhaps a rumor that I had that another sportscaster 419 00:30:07,035 --> 00:30:13,475 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles was literally bribing Larry Stewart. Never proved it, tried, 420 00:30:13,795 --> 00:30:17,075 Speaker 1: didn't succeed. I heard it from more than one person, 421 00:30:17,195 --> 00:30:20,315 Speaker 1: then more than one person after I left local news 422 00:30:20,355 --> 00:30:22,475 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles at the end of nineteen ninety one. 423 00:30:22,795 --> 00:30:26,155 Speaker 1: I have heard it as recently as earlier this year. 424 00:30:27,035 --> 00:30:30,075 Speaker 1: I cannot swear that it's true. I mention it only 425 00:30:30,115 --> 00:30:33,035 Speaker 1: for the context of whatever it was that drove me 426 00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:39,555 Speaker 1: to write a note to Bill Dwyer, the I might say, 427 00:30:39,635 --> 00:30:43,195 Speaker 1: nationally respected sports editor of the Los Angeles Times, who 428 00:30:43,275 --> 00:30:45,795 Speaker 1: retired from that role several years later and continued to 429 00:30:45,875 --> 00:30:49,395 Speaker 1: contribute to The Times through the last decade. I believe 430 00:30:49,435 --> 00:30:53,475 Speaker 1: as a infrequent columnist, a good writer, a good man. 431 00:30:54,035 --> 00:30:56,035 Speaker 1: I had met him once, very briefly. He said he 432 00:30:56,115 --> 00:30:58,555 Speaker 1: was a viewer and in desperation at a time when 433 00:30:58,635 --> 00:31:01,475 Speaker 1: one did not take on the press face to face 434 00:31:01,475 --> 00:31:03,595 Speaker 1: if you were in radio or TV, because, as the 435 00:31:03,635 --> 00:31:06,355 Speaker 1: old saying goes, never pick a fight with a newspaperman. 436 00:31:06,595 --> 00:31:09,355 Speaker 1: He has much more ink than you do. And it's 437 00:31:09,355 --> 00:31:12,595 Speaker 1: one thing for somebody to be in that context critical 438 00:31:12,675 --> 00:31:16,475 Speaker 1: of a newspaperman on television. It's ephemeral. You say it, 439 00:31:16,515 --> 00:31:19,115 Speaker 1: and seven seconds later, most of the audience doesn't remember 440 00:31:19,115 --> 00:31:20,515 Speaker 1: what you say. If I went on there and said 441 00:31:20,555 --> 00:31:24,155 Speaker 1: Larry Stewart of the LA Times sucks, who's going to 442 00:31:24,235 --> 00:31:27,195 Speaker 1: remember Larry Stewart's going to remember? The Los Angeles Time's 443 00:31:27,235 --> 00:31:29,115 Speaker 1: going to remember. They're going to write an article about 444 00:31:29,155 --> 00:31:31,675 Speaker 1: me every week. That way, and that is the way 445 00:31:31,755 --> 00:31:35,275 Speaker 1: most of American newspaper dumb, especially on the fringes. I mean, 446 00:31:35,315 --> 00:31:37,915 Speaker 1: the TV sports columnist is not one of the top 447 00:31:37,955 --> 00:31:40,795 Speaker 1: five hundred employees in a newspaper, not even in those 448 00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:43,675 Speaker 1: halcyon days when they had them in almost all major 449 00:31:43,715 --> 00:31:48,595 Speaker 1: newspapers in the country. But the grudge will be then permanent. 450 00:31:49,355 --> 00:31:51,955 Speaker 1: It's how much punishment are you willing to take. If 451 00:31:51,955 --> 00:31:54,395 Speaker 1: it's not that much, you get out of the business. 452 00:31:54,555 --> 00:31:56,755 Speaker 1: At least that was the mindset in the nineteen eighties. 453 00:31:57,195 --> 00:32:01,395 Speaker 1: So I wrote Dwyer note saying this latest article, which 454 00:32:01,435 --> 00:32:04,995 Speaker 1: I believe prophesied that I would be fired when I 455 00:32:05,195 --> 00:32:10,115 Speaker 1: was six months into a no cut, three and a 456 00:32:10,155 --> 00:32:13,995 Speaker 1: half year contract that owed me something like two million dollars. So, 457 00:32:14,035 --> 00:32:16,835 Speaker 1: in other words, if they fired me, the CBS employers 458 00:32:16,875 --> 00:32:18,515 Speaker 1: that I was working for then would have had to 459 00:32:18,555 --> 00:32:22,875 Speaker 1: pay me two million dollars rather than spend the two 460 00:32:22,915 --> 00:32:25,555 Speaker 1: million dollars and have me kill off four minutes a 461 00:32:25,595 --> 00:32:29,595 Speaker 1: show on each of their newscasts. CBS then and now 462 00:32:29,715 --> 00:32:32,635 Speaker 1: is always going to choose that latter option unless you 463 00:32:32,675 --> 00:32:35,795 Speaker 1: are totally out of your mind, and they would be 464 00:32:35,835 --> 00:32:38,755 Speaker 1: in first place without you. They will pay you, but 465 00:32:38,875 --> 00:32:41,835 Speaker 1: only to keep working. When I finally did leave CBS, 466 00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:44,355 Speaker 1: when they finally did not pick up my option, they 467 00:32:44,395 --> 00:32:47,075 Speaker 1: gave me three months notice and said, of course, we 468 00:32:47,115 --> 00:32:48,795 Speaker 1: want you to continue to stay on here. And do 469 00:32:48,835 --> 00:32:52,795 Speaker 1: the newscast every night. Of course they did. They even 470 00:32:52,795 --> 00:32:56,235 Speaker 1: sent me to cover the Magic Johnson HIV announcement. They 471 00:32:56,275 --> 00:33:00,355 Speaker 1: trusted me with basically a full day live programming because 472 00:33:01,235 --> 00:33:03,595 Speaker 1: they were already paying me. In any event, I am 473 00:33:03,755 --> 00:33:06,475 Speaker 1: wandering away from this object again. I wrote Bill Dwyer 474 00:33:06,475 --> 00:33:08,795 Speaker 1: a note in desperation. It was polite. It was addressed 475 00:33:08,795 --> 00:33:10,755 Speaker 1: to mister Dwyer, and it said, look, this has been 476 00:33:10,795 --> 00:33:17,115 Speaker 1: going on long enough. He is making things up. To 477 00:33:17,195 --> 00:33:20,035 Speaker 1: my surprise, I got a phone call from Bill Dwyer 478 00:33:20,315 --> 00:33:23,395 Speaker 1: about a week later saying, hey, I got your note. 479 00:33:23,395 --> 00:33:26,115 Speaker 1: I didn't want you to think I'm neglecting it. I 480 00:33:26,115 --> 00:33:28,155 Speaker 1: don't think there's anything to it. But I watch you 481 00:33:28,235 --> 00:33:30,915 Speaker 1: every night and I have a totally different opinion of 482 00:33:30,955 --> 00:33:33,995 Speaker 1: you than Larry Stewart does. And I think I owe you, 483 00:33:34,475 --> 00:33:36,715 Speaker 1: as somebody who's been here for a few years now 484 00:33:36,755 --> 00:33:39,435 Speaker 1: and has not made a big deal about Larry's comments 485 00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:43,595 Speaker 1: about you, I think I owe you a quick review 486 00:33:43,635 --> 00:33:45,875 Speaker 1: of what he's doing. So I'm going to go back 487 00:33:45,915 --> 00:33:48,435 Speaker 1: and read all of his columns and I don't expect 488 00:33:48,475 --> 00:33:50,475 Speaker 1: to find anything. I'm not going to take any action 489 00:33:50,515 --> 00:33:52,795 Speaker 1: against him. I just wanted you to know I was 490 00:33:52,835 --> 00:33:56,315 Speaker 1: doing it well. Even then, it seemed to me that 491 00:33:56,435 --> 00:34:01,555 Speaker 1: this was an okay kind of show of respect. It 492 00:34:01,715 --> 00:34:04,795 Speaker 1: was not an admission of anything being wrong. It was 493 00:34:04,835 --> 00:34:06,835 Speaker 1: not saying, look we at the Los Angeles Times drop 494 00:34:06,915 --> 00:34:09,115 Speaker 1: the ball here, or I as the sports editor of 495 00:34:09,115 --> 00:34:12,395 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Time drop It was just something rather 496 00:34:12,435 --> 00:34:16,235 Speaker 1: than ignoring it, rather than saying you're an idiot. Rather 497 00:34:16,275 --> 00:34:20,355 Speaker 1: than printing my letter in the paper, which was one 498 00:34:20,395 --> 00:34:23,115 Speaker 1: suggestion that somebody made write a letter to the editor. 499 00:34:23,115 --> 00:34:26,115 Speaker 1: They we'll print publisher letter to the editor about Larry. 500 00:34:26,395 --> 00:34:30,635 Speaker 1: Just what I need. In any event, the phone call ended. 501 00:34:30,635 --> 00:34:33,715 Speaker 1: It didn't last very long, and about a week and 502 00:34:33,755 --> 00:34:35,915 Speaker 1: a half later the phone rang again and it was 503 00:34:35,955 --> 00:34:39,635 Speaker 1: Bill Dwyer and I did not recognize his voice. His 504 00:34:39,715 --> 00:34:46,235 Speaker 1: demeanor was utterly different Keith Bill Dwyer from the LA Times. 505 00:34:47,755 --> 00:34:53,915 Speaker 1: I finished my review of what Stuart has written of me. 506 00:34:55,435 --> 00:35:00,915 Speaker 1: I I'm very sorry. I'd like to take you to 507 00:35:00,955 --> 00:35:04,755 Speaker 1: dinner to talk about remedies. Can can you? Would you 508 00:35:04,875 --> 00:35:08,035 Speaker 1: be willing to sit down with me? I was so 509 00:35:08,115 --> 00:35:13,675 Speaker 1: startled by this, I just said, sure, how about tomorrow night. 510 00:35:14,435 --> 00:35:17,315 Speaker 1: I'll come to you. The restaurant across the street from 511 00:35:17,315 --> 00:35:22,715 Speaker 1: CBS the Columbia Grill. Sure what time's convenient. I'm thinking, well, 512 00:35:22,715 --> 00:35:24,355 Speaker 1: I'm gonna maybe I should play with him and say 513 00:35:24,355 --> 00:35:27,355 Speaker 1: eight am. I picked the time after the six o'clock 514 00:35:27,395 --> 00:35:29,755 Speaker 1: news was over. I said, seven seven it is. We'll 515 00:35:29,755 --> 00:35:32,235 Speaker 1: see you then the reservation will be in my name. 516 00:35:32,395 --> 00:35:37,675 Speaker 1: My apologies. The dinner the next night was one of 517 00:35:37,715 --> 00:35:40,315 Speaker 1: the rare ones in which I actually had time to 518 00:35:40,395 --> 00:35:45,395 Speaker 1: eat and digest my food. Bill Dwyer spent easily forty 519 00:35:45,395 --> 00:35:49,475 Speaker 1: five minutes apologizing on behalf of himself and his sports 520 00:35:49,555 --> 00:35:54,155 Speaker 1: department and the Los Angeles Times, and after years of 521 00:35:54,275 --> 00:35:59,235 Speaker 1: trying to work that ref nicely at a distance, he 522 00:35:59,355 --> 00:36:02,955 Speaker 1: said something that I believe is relevant to all those 523 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:07,475 Speaker 1: who ever have a criticism of a new paper, sometimes 524 00:36:07,675 --> 00:36:13,155 Speaker 1: believe it or not. The people in charge know only 525 00:36:13,195 --> 00:36:16,075 Speaker 1: what the people who work for them say about what 526 00:36:16,235 --> 00:36:19,555 Speaker 1: is in the paper. They have not, despite the fact 527 00:36:19,555 --> 00:36:21,115 Speaker 1: that you would think this would be the first thing 528 00:36:21,155 --> 00:36:25,235 Speaker 1: they would do, read everything in the newspaper. They have not. 529 00:36:25,395 --> 00:36:30,515 Speaker 1: Even as Bill Dwyer explained, he did not read everything 530 00:36:30,555 --> 00:36:33,835 Speaker 1: that was in the Los Angeles Times between you and me. 531 00:36:35,475 --> 00:36:37,955 Speaker 1: Larry doesn't get paid for this. He works in the 532 00:36:37,995 --> 00:36:40,835 Speaker 1: makeup department. He helps us lay out the pages of 533 00:36:40,875 --> 00:36:43,355 Speaker 1: the sports section. We send them every once in a 534 00:36:43,395 --> 00:36:45,915 Speaker 1: while to cover some high school football games, and you know, 535 00:36:45,955 --> 00:36:47,675 Speaker 1: we throw them kind of a fee for that, but 536 00:36:48,195 --> 00:36:52,275 Speaker 1: his contract is as a layout person. Well, I stifled 537 00:36:52,315 --> 00:36:53,995 Speaker 1: my laughter because I wanted to hear where he was 538 00:36:54,035 --> 00:36:56,155 Speaker 1: going with this story. The rest of it was the 539 00:36:56,235 --> 00:36:58,235 Speaker 1: column that he wrote two or three times a week 540 00:36:58,235 --> 00:37:02,035 Speaker 1: about TV sports was basically done for free. I did 541 00:37:02,035 --> 00:37:04,595 Speaker 1: not even ask how they got this passed the newspaper man, 542 00:37:05,795 --> 00:37:10,635 Speaker 1: but they did somehow. He explained that he thought Larry 543 00:37:10,635 --> 00:37:13,235 Speaker 1: Stewart was probably the worst writer who had ever appeared 544 00:37:13,275 --> 00:37:15,595 Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Times, and that they did this 545 00:37:15,915 --> 00:37:19,395 Speaker 1: just because for years, the LA Herald Examiner, before it 546 00:37:19,395 --> 00:37:21,475 Speaker 1: went out of business in I believe nineteen eighty seven 547 00:37:21,555 --> 00:37:24,555 Speaker 1: or eighty eight, had a very good TV sports columnist 548 00:37:24,715 --> 00:37:27,155 Speaker 1: named Bob Kaiser, and there was an excellent one at 549 00:37:27,155 --> 00:37:32,035 Speaker 1: the LA Daily News named Phil Rosenthal, and they were 550 00:37:33,395 --> 00:37:35,875 Speaker 1: ashamed that they didn't have their own TV sports columnist, 551 00:37:35,955 --> 00:37:37,635 Speaker 1: and there wasn't enough money in the budget for it. 552 00:37:37,675 --> 00:37:41,235 Speaker 1: They rather cover local high school sports, and then they 553 00:37:41,275 --> 00:37:45,475 Speaker 1: found this marvelous opportunity, and he said, I'm realizing now 554 00:37:46,075 --> 00:37:49,475 Speaker 1: we have gotten what we paid for, and I did. 555 00:37:49,555 --> 00:37:54,035 Speaker 1: At this point, having small responsibilities as the sports editor 556 00:37:54,835 --> 00:37:57,835 Speaker 1: or sports director of Channel two in Los Angeles, I 557 00:37:57,955 --> 00:38:00,995 Speaker 1: needed to talk to an actual sports editor about this. 558 00:38:01,515 --> 00:38:04,515 Speaker 1: I said, I don't understand. There are very few ma 559 00:38:04,795 --> 00:38:09,715 Speaker 1: your editorial decisions that I input myself into that are 560 00:38:09,995 --> 00:38:12,315 Speaker 1: not directly parts of the script right in front of me. 561 00:38:12,595 --> 00:38:14,155 Speaker 1: But every once in a while I have to be 562 00:38:14,195 --> 00:38:16,875 Speaker 1: involved in somebody else's work on a show I'm not 563 00:38:17,035 --> 00:38:20,875 Speaker 1: doing and issue either instructions or assignments or don't cover that, 564 00:38:20,995 --> 00:38:23,275 Speaker 1: or make sure you cover this, or emphasize that. I 565 00:38:23,315 --> 00:38:27,235 Speaker 1: don't think it happens every month, but maybe every six weeks. 566 00:38:27,875 --> 00:38:32,035 Speaker 1: I know you must have this daily. You're the sports editor. 567 00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:34,555 Speaker 1: How could you not know what's in the column. I 568 00:38:34,595 --> 00:38:37,995 Speaker 1: can't bear to read it. So I'm feeling a little 569 00:38:38,035 --> 00:38:41,155 Speaker 1: bit better about myself here. But he said, I read 570 00:38:41,355 --> 00:38:43,715 Speaker 1: everything he has written about you in the paper. I 571 00:38:43,755 --> 00:38:46,755 Speaker 1: went into our morgue the archives and read. In these 572 00:38:46,835 --> 00:38:50,115 Speaker 1: pre internet days, I read everything he wrote about you. 573 00:38:50,395 --> 00:38:53,235 Speaker 1: There is the same pattern that you described about him 574 00:38:53,275 --> 00:38:58,395 Speaker 1: attacking you on major holidays and your birthday, and always 575 00:38:58,475 --> 00:39:00,955 Speaker 1: finding some way to do something negative about you and 576 00:39:00,995 --> 00:39:03,555 Speaker 1: to predict he has reported twenty three different times that 577 00:39:03,595 --> 00:39:06,315 Speaker 1: you were about to be fired. This is not possible. 578 00:39:06,715 --> 00:39:08,515 Speaker 1: How many times were you about to be fired? I 579 00:39:08,555 --> 00:39:12,715 Speaker 1: went maybe once? He my God, he said, I made 580 00:39:12,715 --> 00:39:16,595 Speaker 1: a terrible mistake. I left that column and a couple 581 00:39:16,595 --> 00:39:20,595 Speaker 1: of others in the hands of two deputy sports editors 582 00:39:20,635 --> 00:39:23,155 Speaker 1: of the LA Times. Two of them were responsible for 583 00:39:23,155 --> 00:39:28,435 Speaker 1: Stuart's content. I have now demoted them both there now 584 00:39:29,275 --> 00:39:33,355 Speaker 1: I forget the title, but it was basically assistant copy 585 00:39:33,515 --> 00:39:36,755 Speaker 1: editor of the sports section of Los Angeles Times. And 586 00:39:36,795 --> 00:39:40,115 Speaker 1: I told Stuart that if he writes anything else about 587 00:39:40,155 --> 00:39:44,555 Speaker 1: you ever again, it must go to my desk. In fact, 588 00:39:44,635 --> 00:39:46,555 Speaker 1: I want him to come into my office and read 589 00:39:46,595 --> 00:39:50,955 Speaker 1: it to me aloud before he publishes. Stewart, of course, 590 00:39:50,995 --> 00:39:54,315 Speaker 1: worked around this by never mentioning me again for the 591 00:39:54,395 --> 00:39:58,275 Speaker 1: length of my time as a local sportscaster in Los Angeles. 592 00:39:59,675 --> 00:40:01,795 Speaker 1: Later on he had no choice but to mention me 593 00:40:01,835 --> 00:40:04,075 Speaker 1: because I was at ESPN and then in fact working 594 00:40:04,115 --> 00:40:06,835 Speaker 1: in Los ange to us on Fox Sports, and he 595 00:40:06,915 --> 00:40:10,075 Speaker 1: managed to find ways long after Bill Dwyer had retired 596 00:40:10,075 --> 00:40:12,435 Speaker 1: as sports editor to try to take shots at me. 597 00:40:14,595 --> 00:40:18,155 Speaker 1: The punchline to this was one of the many punchlines, 598 00:40:18,795 --> 00:40:23,475 Speaker 1: was that Bill Dwyer said that I was not only 599 00:40:23,635 --> 00:40:26,955 Speaker 1: totally correct, but that if I had made any mistakes, 600 00:40:27,435 --> 00:40:32,395 Speaker 1: it was not telling him sooner that this had happened. 601 00:40:33,075 --> 00:40:35,035 Speaker 1: Go to the boss in the situation in which you're 602 00:40:35,075 --> 00:40:37,595 Speaker 1: dealing with the newspaper that has decided or part of 603 00:40:37,595 --> 00:40:44,075 Speaker 1: it has decided to enact vengeance or bias against someone 604 00:40:44,235 --> 00:40:48,635 Speaker 1: or something or somebody particularly connected to us. You're not 605 00:40:48,715 --> 00:40:50,955 Speaker 1: in exactly the same business that we are, but we 606 00:40:50,995 --> 00:40:53,515 Speaker 1: all cover sports in Los Angeles. You deserve better respect 607 00:40:53,515 --> 00:40:56,515 Speaker 1: than that. You should have come to me sooner. The 608 00:40:56,555 --> 00:41:00,075 Speaker 1: only time he got anywhere near defensive about what had happened, 609 00:41:01,555 --> 00:41:03,915 Speaker 1: and I said, well, I'll remember to do that again. 610 00:41:03,955 --> 00:41:06,635 Speaker 1: Although I don't like to work the refs, and he shouted, 611 00:41:07,115 --> 00:41:15,075 Speaker 1: work the refs. It works. Two punchlines, I said, there 612 00:41:15,115 --> 00:41:18,555 Speaker 1: was just one. There are, in fact three. If the 613 00:41:18,635 --> 00:41:22,155 Speaker 1: name Greta Gerwig means anything to you, I believe the 614 00:41:22,195 --> 00:41:26,675 Speaker 1: Academy Award winning director of Barbie had an actress also 615 00:41:26,715 --> 00:41:29,675 Speaker 1: in her own right. Writer of Barbie and other film works, 616 00:41:30,275 --> 00:41:33,755 Speaker 1: Larry Stewart's niece. That was a surprise and the punchline 617 00:41:33,755 --> 00:41:37,195 Speaker 1: of all punchlines. I had assumed when I left local 618 00:41:37,315 --> 00:41:39,275 Speaker 1: news in Los Angeles at the end of nineteen ninety 619 00:41:39,275 --> 00:41:42,955 Speaker 1: one that Larry Stewart had no greater enemy in the 620 00:41:42,995 --> 00:41:48,675 Speaker 1: business than myself. Six years later, seven years later, I 621 00:41:48,715 --> 00:41:52,115 Speaker 1: guess I went to work at NBC Sports had the 622 00:41:52,115 --> 00:41:55,675 Speaker 1: privilege of working on baseball broadcasts with Bob Yucker and 623 00:41:55,755 --> 00:41:59,315 Speaker 1: Joe Morgan and Jim Gray and Bob Costas and me. 624 00:41:59,635 --> 00:42:02,315 Speaker 1: We were the World Series team in nineteen ninety seven. 625 00:42:02,355 --> 00:42:05,955 Speaker 1: Hannah Storm and I did the game show together as well, 626 00:42:05,955 --> 00:42:07,795 Speaker 1: and I was in the dugout for the Cleveland Indians 627 00:42:07,835 --> 00:42:10,555 Speaker 1: during that World Series. The nineteen ninety eight American League Playoffs, 628 00:42:10,595 --> 00:42:12,755 Speaker 1: I was in the dugout for Cleveland throughout that series 629 00:42:12,795 --> 00:42:15,235 Speaker 1: with the Yankees and did the pre and postgame shows 630 00:42:15,235 --> 00:42:21,355 Speaker 1: then too. As we left Cleveland for Newark, I believe 631 00:42:21,355 --> 00:42:23,955 Speaker 1: in the middle of the series, as we were taxing 632 00:42:23,995 --> 00:42:26,155 Speaker 1: down the runway, I was seated next to my friend 633 00:42:26,155 --> 00:42:29,395 Speaker 1: Bob Costas. This is I think October nineteen ninety eight, 634 00:42:30,155 --> 00:42:33,515 Speaker 1: and I said something as we began to lift off 635 00:42:33,555 --> 00:42:38,795 Speaker 1: the ground at the airport in Cleveland. I said, so 636 00:42:39,195 --> 00:42:42,155 Speaker 1: did you see what Larry Stewart wrote the other day? 637 00:42:42,595 --> 00:42:46,155 Speaker 1: And Bob looked at me as if he was going 638 00:42:46,195 --> 00:42:51,075 Speaker 1: to kill me and everybody connected to Larry Stewart. You 639 00:42:51,155 --> 00:42:54,115 Speaker 1: know Larry Stuart. There was a different voice, not the 640 00:42:54,155 --> 00:42:56,955 Speaker 1: Bob Costas voice that we've heard for many years. You 641 00:42:57,035 --> 00:42:59,715 Speaker 1: know Larry Stewart, I said, I was his victim for 642 00:42:59,755 --> 00:43:02,275 Speaker 1: many years. I've got a great story about him. Let 643 00:43:02,275 --> 00:43:07,515 Speaker 1: me tell you a story about him. First we landed 644 00:43:07,795 --> 00:43:10,795 Speaker 1: in Newark, New Jersey. I want to say about an 645 00:43:10,835 --> 00:43:13,595 Speaker 1: hour and a half later. Those who know that flight 646 00:43:13,635 --> 00:43:15,835 Speaker 1: could probably correct me and give me an exact time, 647 00:43:16,195 --> 00:43:17,875 Speaker 1: but it was about an hour and a half, maybe 648 00:43:17,875 --> 00:43:20,795 Speaker 1: a little more, maybe a little less. And as we 649 00:43:20,995 --> 00:43:24,555 Speaker 1: touched down, as we heard that little as your wheels 650 00:43:24,635 --> 00:43:29,035 Speaker 1: satisfactorily hit the runway and you have survived another flight, 651 00:43:31,075 --> 00:43:38,755 Speaker 1: Bob said, Okay, that's my story. Now you can tell 652 00:43:38,835 --> 00:44:04,835 Speaker 1: your Larry Stewart story. I've done all the damage I 653 00:44:04,875 --> 00:44:08,235 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. That's absolutely true. 654 00:44:08,275 --> 00:44:11,075 Speaker 1: Greta Gerwig is the niece of the former TV sports 655 00:44:11,115 --> 00:44:15,595 Speaker 1: columnist of the Los Angeles Times, Larry Stewart, and I 656 00:44:15,595 --> 00:44:19,155 Speaker 1: didn't tell you half the stories about Larry Stewart. Any 657 00:44:19,235 --> 00:44:23,035 Speaker 1: who worked the refs, that's the lesson. I don't know 658 00:44:23,075 --> 00:44:24,995 Speaker 1: if that's what caused the New York Times take out 659 00:44:25,035 --> 00:44:28,075 Speaker 1: on Trump's insanity. I don't know if that's why we 660 00:44:28,195 --> 00:44:31,995 Speaker 1: will be now inundated with articles of that sort and 661 00:44:32,075 --> 00:44:34,795 Speaker 1: pieces of that sort by the news organizations from around 662 00:44:34,835 --> 00:44:37,115 Speaker 1: the world that treat The New York Times as if 663 00:44:37,155 --> 00:44:39,555 Speaker 1: it were the final authority on everything, rather than a 664 00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:46,635 Speaker 1: bunch of guys named Biff. In any event, thanks for listening. 665 00:44:46,635 --> 00:44:49,115 Speaker 1: We're now back to five episodes a week, posting nightly 666 00:44:49,195 --> 00:44:51,995 Speaker 1: just after midnight Eastern. Once again, there's a Monday Countdown. 667 00:44:52,275 --> 00:44:54,715 Speaker 1: As you are listening to it now, you will have 668 00:44:54,795 --> 00:44:57,035 Speaker 1: noticed it's a little shorter than the other ones. Give 669 00:44:57,075 --> 00:45:00,235 Speaker 1: me a break. Please send this podcast to somebody who 670 00:45:00,235 --> 00:45:02,675 Speaker 1: does not know they need to listen, but should, especially 671 00:45:02,715 --> 00:45:06,315 Speaker 1: anybody who's not a fan of Larry Stewart. Brian Ray 672 00:45:06,355 --> 00:45:10,035 Speaker 1: and John Phillips Chanel, the musical directors, have Countdown, arranged, produced, 673 00:45:10,035 --> 00:45:13,315 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration 674 00:45:13,355 --> 00:45:16,435 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass, and drums, 675 00:45:16,435 --> 00:45:19,875 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. The story was 676 00:45:19,875 --> 00:45:22,995 Speaker 1: that at all press conferences mister Stewart would bring a 677 00:45:23,035 --> 00:45:28,075 Speaker 1: bag and take food home with him. Our satirical and 678 00:45:28,115 --> 00:45:30,955 Speaker 1: pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 679 00:45:31,035 --> 00:45:33,355 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. I mean, I've walked out of a press 680 00:45:33,355 --> 00:45:36,515 Speaker 1: conference with a little extra sandwich or something while we're 681 00:45:36,515 --> 00:45:39,595 Speaker 1: talking about a three day supply. That was the story 682 00:45:39,635 --> 00:45:42,675 Speaker 1: I was told. The sports music is the Old Woman 683 00:45:42,755 --> 00:45:46,035 Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy 684 00:45:46,035 --> 00:45:48,315 Speaker 1: of ESPN, Inc. I mean, if you want to say 685 00:45:48,355 --> 00:45:50,235 Speaker 1: I'm not funny or not good at it, you have 686 00:45:50,355 --> 00:45:52,835 Speaker 1: the right to do that. That's a columnist's job. You 687 00:45:52,875 --> 00:45:54,755 Speaker 1: can't make stories up. And that's what the guy who 688 00:45:54,915 --> 00:46:01,195 Speaker 1: edited the La Times sports section said. Larry did other 689 00:46:01,315 --> 00:46:03,995 Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No horns allowed, 690 00:46:04,035 --> 00:46:06,995 Speaker 1: and everything else was as usual. Pretty much my fault, 691 00:46:07,755 --> 00:46:12,275 Speaker 1: ask Larry Stewart. Honest to goodness, I don't even remember 692 00:46:12,355 --> 00:46:15,955 Speaker 1: if I got my Bob Costas rebuttal in. There After 693 00:46:15,995 --> 00:46:18,755 Speaker 1: Bob finished his hour and a half long story about 694 00:46:18,835 --> 00:46:21,795 Speaker 1: Larry Stewart. He did not like Larry Stewart in a 695 00:46:21,795 --> 00:46:24,635 Speaker 1: way that made it look like Larry and I were 696 00:46:25,755 --> 00:46:31,435 Speaker 1: I don't know, attached twins. That's countdown for today, four 697 00:46:31,435 --> 00:46:34,795 Speaker 1: weeks and one day until the twenty twenty four presidential election, 698 00:46:35,235 --> 00:46:38,675 Speaker 1: the one three hundred and seventy first day since convicted 699 00:46:38,715 --> 00:46:42,635 Speaker 1: felon drooling Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 700 00:46:42,635 --> 00:46:45,995 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States, and day two after 701 00:46:46,035 --> 00:46:51,275 Speaker 1: The Times realized something was wrong with Dawn. Use the election, 702 00:46:51,435 --> 00:46:53,915 Speaker 1: use the metal health system, use presidential immunity if we 703 00:46:53,955 --> 00:46:56,995 Speaker 1: have to, to keep Trump from doing it again while 704 00:46:57,515 --> 00:47:03,635 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow, boltons 705 00:47:03,675 --> 00:47:07,195 Speaker 1: as the news requires. Till then, I'm Keith Alremman. Good morning, 706 00:47:07,315 --> 00:47:24,435 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 707 00:47:24,475 --> 00:47:29,555 Speaker 1: Alreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 708 00:47:29,715 --> 00:47:33,715 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 709 00:47:33,755 --> 00:47:34,675 Speaker 1: your podcasts.