1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:20,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:20,555 --> 00:00:24,675 Speaker 1: second set of Trump indictments by Special counsel Jack Smith, 3 00:00:24,835 --> 00:00:28,275 Speaker 1: which will come as early as Thursday in Washington. The 4 00:00:28,315 --> 00:00:31,195 Speaker 1: second set in as many months may make the first 5 00:00:31,195 --> 00:00:35,155 Speaker 1: ones look like a small stack of parking tickets. As 6 00:00:35,275 --> 00:00:38,235 Speaker 1: news has broken this morning and this afternoon, we are 7 00:00:38,275 --> 00:00:42,315 Speaker 1: seeing the outline of a huge number of counts, literally 8 00:00:42,475 --> 00:00:45,915 Speaker 1: dozens more. The June twenty ninth report by the British 9 00:00:45,915 --> 00:00:49,915 Speaker 1: newspaper The Independent of thirty to forty five more charges 10 00:00:49,955 --> 00:00:53,035 Speaker 1: being readied may actually turn out to be conservative. It 11 00:00:53,035 --> 00:00:56,075 Speaker 1: could be far more than forty five counts, and just 12 00:00:56,235 --> 00:01:00,435 Speaker 1: as breathtaking may be the range of the charges. Those 13 00:01:00,515 --> 00:01:03,995 Speaker 1: hazy details just coming into focus at the horizon could 14 00:01:03,995 --> 00:01:08,795 Speaker 1: include every thing from simple cheesy financial fraud to the 15 00:01:08,955 --> 00:01:14,475 Speaker 1: I word insurrection quote a sprawling case as it is 16 00:01:14,515 --> 00:01:17,715 Speaker 1: phrased by the sources of Robert Costa of CBS News 17 00:01:17,955 --> 00:01:22,075 Speaker 1: and again quoting them focused on how Trump acted after 18 00:01:22,195 --> 00:01:25,355 Speaker 1: he was informed by many that claiming the election was 19 00:01:25,435 --> 00:01:30,315 Speaker 1: rigged would be pushing fraud, and CBS goes on whether 20 00:01:30,395 --> 00:01:35,875 Speaker 1: Trump criminally conspired to block certification. Trump is clearly going 21 00:01:35,915 --> 00:01:40,115 Speaker 1: to be indicted by the Special Council again, conceivably as 22 00:01:40,195 --> 00:01:42,915 Speaker 1: early as this week, and this time there is reason 23 00:01:42,955 --> 00:01:46,315 Speaker 1: to believe he will be indicted not just for premeditated 24 00:01:46,435 --> 00:01:50,555 Speaker 1: fraud because he conned the gullible cultists for donations to 25 00:01:50,795 --> 00:01:54,195 Speaker 1: cure a stolen election he knew was not stolen, but 26 00:01:54,315 --> 00:01:57,755 Speaker 1: also indicted both for the palace coup that was the 27 00:01:57,755 --> 00:02:02,635 Speaker 1: phony electors scheme and the violent coup he unleashed statastically 28 00:02:02,995 --> 00:02:06,715 Speaker 1: every day between his ill be wild tweet of December 29 00:02:06,795 --> 00:02:10,595 Speaker 1: nineteenth and his speech on the Ellipse of January sixth. 30 00:02:11,475 --> 00:02:15,155 Speaker 1: At nine twenty one Eastern, this morning, Trump himself revealed 31 00:02:15,195 --> 00:02:18,915 Speaker 1: he is the recipient of yet another Jack Smith target letter. 32 00:02:19,475 --> 00:02:22,915 Speaker 1: Trump is driven by compulsions to talk about himself, the 33 00:02:23,075 --> 00:02:26,315 Speaker 1: likes of which even the rest of us egomaniacs could 34 00:02:26,355 --> 00:02:30,835 Speaker 1: not possibly process. One imagines that under its spell he 35 00:02:30,835 --> 00:02:33,675 Speaker 1: would have to stop passers by to tell them he 36 00:02:33,715 --> 00:02:38,795 Speaker 1: had been diagnosed with a venereal disease. This morning, Trump 37 00:02:38,835 --> 00:02:43,315 Speaker 1: posted the proud news that on Sunday night, his attorneys 38 00:02:43,315 --> 00:02:47,555 Speaker 1: informed him interrupting his dinner, that Jack Smith had written 39 00:02:47,595 --> 00:02:50,755 Speaker 1: to them quote stating that I am a target of 40 00:02:50,795 --> 00:02:54,715 Speaker 1: the January sixth, grand jury investigation and giving me a 41 00:02:54,915 --> 00:02:58,435 Speaker 1: very short four days to report to the grand jury, 42 00:02:58,595 --> 00:03:02,995 Speaker 1: which almost always means an arrests and indictment en quote. Well, 43 00:03:03,155 --> 00:03:05,875 Speaker 1: on the last part, Trump would know, would he not? 44 00:03:07,115 --> 00:03:10,835 Speaker 1: But as ever, Trump has gotten some details wrong. The 45 00:03:10,835 --> 00:03:14,195 Speaker 1: implication that Smith has given him quote four days to 46 00:03:14,635 --> 00:03:17,915 Speaker 1: report to the grand jury unquote, makes it sound like 47 00:03:17,955 --> 00:03:20,235 Speaker 1: he has been ordered to do so. He has not. 48 00:03:20,715 --> 00:03:23,235 Speaker 1: He has, in fact, been offered the chance to do so. 49 00:03:23,635 --> 00:03:27,835 Speaker 1: The timeline of the target letter is ritualized and invariable. 50 00:03:28,115 --> 00:03:30,875 Speaker 1: As a prosecutor nears that time that he will ask 51 00:03:30,955 --> 00:03:33,995 Speaker 1: his grand jury for an indictment or indictments, he will 52 00:03:33,995 --> 00:03:37,755 Speaker 1: notify the individuals likely to be indicted. He will give 53 00:03:37,795 --> 00:03:40,595 Speaker 1: them a chance to face the grand jury before any 54 00:03:40,715 --> 00:03:45,875 Speaker 1: indictment votes are taken. Trump has also inexplicably fuzzed up 55 00:03:45,915 --> 00:03:50,795 Speaker 1: the timing letters Sunday, posting about it here on Tuesday. 56 00:03:51,035 --> 00:03:57,715 Speaker 1: When did that four day clock start Sunday? Yesterday? Today? Happily. 57 00:03:57,795 --> 00:04:00,955 Speaker 1: Hugo Lowell in The Guardian sorts it out, quoting people 58 00:04:01,035 --> 00:04:04,995 Speaker 1: familiar saying the Special Council gave Trump until Thursday after 59 00:04:05,035 --> 00:04:09,395 Speaker 1: tomorrow to testify to this January sixth grand jury, and 60 00:04:09,435 --> 00:04:12,315 Speaker 1: as presumed, it is the one in Washington, not Florida 61 00:04:12,395 --> 00:04:15,075 Speaker 1: or anywhere else. Smith may have them like it's a 62 00:04:15,195 --> 00:04:19,675 Speaker 1: chain of Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, as implied by the 63 00:04:19,715 --> 00:04:23,955 Speaker 1: CBS sources. Costa referred to them as conversations with sources 64 00:04:23,995 --> 00:04:27,675 Speaker 1: close to witnesses in recent days. The case is so 65 00:04:27,995 --> 00:04:31,755 Speaker 1: sprawling that at this hour no news organization seems to 66 00:04:31,755 --> 00:04:34,995 Speaker 1: have a handle on exactly what the indictments will or 67 00:04:35,075 --> 00:04:39,355 Speaker 1: will not include. Politico notes that, based on testimony we 68 00:04:39,435 --> 00:04:42,315 Speaker 1: know about from the last few weeks in Washington, Jack 69 00:04:42,355 --> 00:04:47,315 Speaker 1: Smith's January sixth menu includes are you ready? The assembly 70 00:04:47,395 --> 00:04:51,675 Speaker 1: of false elector slates, fundraising for the January sixth rally, 71 00:04:52,155 --> 00:04:57,155 Speaker 1: plans to seize voting machines, pressure campaign against states, pressure 72 00:04:57,235 --> 00:05:02,715 Speaker 1: campaign against Pence, Trump actions on January sixth, and actually 73 00:05:02,715 --> 00:05:06,155 Speaker 1: that last one could be two separate category Trump's actions 74 00:05:06,195 --> 00:05:09,115 Speaker 1: on January sixth, namely what Trump did to foment the 75 00:05:09,195 --> 00:05:11,995 Speaker 1: violence that day and the coup attempt at the Capitol, 76 00:05:12,555 --> 00:05:18,115 Speaker 1: and separately, his deliberate inaction the Nero fiddles while Capitol 77 00:05:18,155 --> 00:05:22,115 Speaker 1: Hill burns part while the violence unfolded. A lot of 78 00:05:22,195 --> 00:05:26,275 Speaker 1: reporting lately has indicated repeated questioning at the grand jury 79 00:05:26,275 --> 00:05:30,515 Speaker 1: about how Trump, as president sworn to uphold the constitution 80 00:05:30,915 --> 00:05:34,915 Speaker 1: deliberately remained in art when his later actions proved he 81 00:05:34,995 --> 00:05:37,915 Speaker 1: knew damn well that just a few words from him 82 00:05:37,955 --> 00:05:42,915 Speaker 1: at any point could have ended the chaos immediately. A 83 00:05:42,995 --> 00:05:47,275 Speaker 1: few news outlets today have proved a few minor negatives 84 00:05:47,275 --> 00:05:51,715 Speaker 1: on this story. CNN reports Rudy Giuliani did not receive 85 00:05:51,955 --> 00:05:55,675 Speaker 1: a target letter, per his lawyer. Nobody is saying this 86 00:05:55,675 --> 00:05:58,915 Speaker 1: this bluntly, but it's damned certain Mark Meadows didn't receive 87 00:05:58,955 --> 00:06:02,955 Speaker 1: one either. Britain's The Independent rights that it quote understands 88 00:06:02,995 --> 00:06:06,595 Speaker 1: that Meadows is also co operating in the Justice Department 89 00:06:06,675 --> 00:06:09,555 Speaker 1: probe into the ex president's efforts to overturn his twenty 90 00:06:09,595 --> 00:06:13,315 Speaker 1: twenty election loss, it adds, last month, The Independent reported 91 00:06:13,315 --> 00:06:16,395 Speaker 1: that mister Meadows had given evidence before a Washington DC 92 00:06:16,595 --> 00:06:20,035 Speaker 1: grand jury under Smith's supervision as part of an agreement 93 00:06:20,075 --> 00:06:22,875 Speaker 1: that would see him eventually plead guilty to lesser federal 94 00:06:22,995 --> 00:06:26,435 Speaker 1: charges in exchange for his testimony against mister Trump and 95 00:06:26,515 --> 00:06:31,315 Speaker 1: other figures. We also have a few negative ironies. The 96 00:06:31,395 --> 00:06:35,035 Speaker 1: beginning of Jack Smith's actual prosecution of Trump for the 97 00:06:35,115 --> 00:06:38,835 Speaker 1: stolen classified documents. Oh yeah, remember that that was the 98 00:06:38,875 --> 00:06:42,955 Speaker 1: story five hours ago, the first hearing in the Florida 99 00:06:43,035 --> 00:06:47,075 Speaker 1: courtroom of that ex Miami newspaper writer Judge Eileen Cannon, 100 00:06:47,395 --> 00:06:50,755 Speaker 1: well known and regarded for her features on yoga and 101 00:06:50,835 --> 00:06:58,715 Speaker 1: flamenco dancing. That hearing has been completely overshadowed. Republicans trying 102 00:06:58,755 --> 00:07:03,075 Speaker 1: to reinflate Jamie Comer's burst sex doll of a fantasy 103 00:07:03,395 --> 00:07:06,555 Speaker 1: that there is a hunter Biden's scandal are claiming they 104 00:07:06,595 --> 00:07:11,755 Speaker 1: have been deliberately overshadowed, and that word overshadowed hardly suffices 105 00:07:11,835 --> 00:07:14,275 Speaker 1: for what has now happened to one of Trump's rivals 106 00:07:14,275 --> 00:07:18,675 Speaker 1: for the Republican nomination. Ron DeSantis, was to be interviewed 107 00:07:18,795 --> 00:07:22,995 Speaker 1: live on CNN at four Eastern time today. I'll be 108 00:07:23,075 --> 00:07:27,235 Speaker 1: sure to set my DVR and watch it next century. 109 00:07:28,155 --> 00:07:32,035 Speaker 1: Please do not mistake this for empathy for Ron DeSantis 110 00:07:32,155 --> 00:07:34,755 Speaker 1: in the slightest, but I get the feeling that if 111 00:07:34,755 --> 00:07:38,515 Speaker 1: Donald Trump were to fall or jump out a window 112 00:07:38,995 --> 00:07:42,555 Speaker 1: or be pushed like a Russian oligarch, he would survive 113 00:07:42,955 --> 00:07:50,915 Speaker 1: unscathed because he would land on Ron DeSantis, all right, 114 00:07:50,995 --> 00:07:54,275 Speaker 1: back to the business. When will there be clarity on 115 00:07:54,355 --> 00:07:57,635 Speaker 1: what has happened on the scope or at least the 116 00:07:57,755 --> 00:08:01,275 Speaker 1: volume of the indictments before they are actually handed up 117 00:08:02,075 --> 00:08:05,355 Speaker 1: Like an estimate, Jack, could you just round it to 118 00:08:05,395 --> 00:08:09,635 Speaker 1: the nearest one hundred. Maybe it is possible that Trump 119 00:08:09,755 --> 00:08:13,395 Speaker 1: already has some of this clarity we seek. The New 120 00:08:13,475 --> 00:08:17,395 Speaker 1: York Times notes target letters often list at least some 121 00:08:17,475 --> 00:08:20,675 Speaker 1: of the possible violations of federal criminal laws that a 122 00:08:20,715 --> 00:08:24,915 Speaker 1: grand jury is investigating. If the January sixth related target 123 00:08:24,995 --> 00:08:28,195 Speaker 1: letter to Trump and his legal team followed that practice, 124 00:08:28,275 --> 00:08:32,355 Speaker 1: it is possible that word of any specific potential charges 125 00:08:32,395 --> 00:08:37,275 Speaker 1: it flags will surface before long unquote translation, we go 126 00:08:37,315 --> 00:08:40,475 Speaker 1: back to Trump's compulsion to talk. He may have some 127 00:08:40,555 --> 00:08:43,915 Speaker 1: of those details now. If he senses he needs the 128 00:08:43,955 --> 00:08:48,475 Speaker 1: publicity or the martyrdom points, he may dole those details 129 00:08:48,515 --> 00:08:53,835 Speaker 1: out later. Finally, I circle back to the always instructive 130 00:08:53,915 --> 00:08:57,675 Speaker 1: Trump Freudian slips. This is the one from last Saturday. 131 00:08:57,915 --> 00:09:01,835 Speaker 1: It fascinated me, then it fascinates me even more now. 132 00:09:02,515 --> 00:09:05,115 Speaker 1: Mind you, this would have gone up on his social 133 00:09:05,155 --> 00:09:08,515 Speaker 1: media site roughly twenty eight hours before he got the 134 00:09:08,635 --> 00:09:11,995 Speaker 1: new Jack Smith target letter and was told whatever was 135 00:09:12,035 --> 00:09:15,995 Speaker 1: in it, including those possible details he might not yet 136 00:09:16,035 --> 00:09:20,595 Speaker 1: have mentioned quote hidden his post. Whatever happened to the 137 00:09:20,675 --> 00:09:24,555 Speaker 1: Biden document's case? Twenty times more documents than I have, 138 00:09:24,915 --> 00:09:28,155 Speaker 1: and I'm allowed under the Presidential Records Act, and he's not. 139 00:09:28,715 --> 00:09:31,875 Speaker 1: What about the classified docs he had in Chinatown and 140 00:09:31,955 --> 00:09:36,155 Speaker 1: on his garage floor in Delaware? Is he being charged 141 00:09:36,315 --> 00:09:45,235 Speaker 1: under the Insurrection Act? The Insurrection Act? Within half an 142 00:09:45,315 --> 00:09:48,915 Speaker 1: hour of posting that, Trump or somebody had deleted that 143 00:09:49,035 --> 00:09:51,915 Speaker 1: post and replaced it with one that was identical, but 144 00:09:52,155 --> 00:09:57,755 Speaker 1: for one word. Insurrection Act had been replaced with Espionage Act. 145 00:09:58,955 --> 00:10:01,395 Speaker 1: I spent way too much of your time yesterday morning 146 00:10:01,435 --> 00:10:05,115 Speaker 1: trying to explain that there are no non Freudian Trumps. 147 00:10:05,275 --> 00:10:09,235 Speaker 1: They all reflect some obsession going on inside that semi 148 00:10:09,315 --> 00:10:14,035 Speaker 1: human brain of his. There could conceivably some non prosecutorial 149 00:10:14,195 --> 00:10:16,955 Speaker 1: part to this. Here he could have been reminded of 150 00:10:16,955 --> 00:10:20,675 Speaker 1: the word insurrection because somebody in his company wants to 151 00:10:20,675 --> 00:10:26,795 Speaker 1: build a nine hundred and seventeen story Trump Insurrection apartment 152 00:10:26,955 --> 00:10:31,275 Speaker 1: tower and above ground cemetery in Saudi Arabia or something. 153 00:10:32,475 --> 00:10:37,155 Speaker 1: But again, there are two different Insurrection Acts. One is 154 00:10:37,195 --> 00:10:41,915 Speaker 1: the disqualification clause inside the third paragraph of the fourteenth 155 00:10:41,995 --> 00:10:45,955 Speaker 1: Amendment of the Constitution. It's the Civil War law that 156 00:10:46,115 --> 00:10:50,475 Speaker 1: kept seditionists from again holding any state or national office. 157 00:10:50,835 --> 00:10:54,555 Speaker 1: There is also criminal insurrection, and it carries jail time. 158 00:10:54,755 --> 00:10:58,595 Speaker 1: It's something separate, and certainly Trump's refusal to stop his 159 00:10:58,715 --> 00:11:02,835 Speaker 1: remote control mob on the afternoon of January sixth qualifies 160 00:11:02,955 --> 00:11:07,075 Speaker 1: for prosecution under it. But the bigger detail is the 161 00:11:07,115 --> 00:11:11,995 Speaker 1: new detail on the timeline. Trump was thinking about the 162 00:11:12,075 --> 00:11:16,915 Speaker 1: Insurrection Act for whatever reason on Saturday. Somebody had to 163 00:11:16,955 --> 00:11:21,875 Speaker 1: have mentioned it to him in some context Saturday or earlier, 164 00:11:22,915 --> 00:11:26,595 Speaker 1: and around twenty eight hours later he was told he 165 00:11:26,715 --> 00:11:33,435 Speaker 1: was about to be indicted for the insurrection on January sixth. Coincidence, 166 00:11:34,315 --> 00:11:42,995 Speaker 1: I think not. I'll have the regular Wednesday podcast with 167 00:11:43,075 --> 00:11:47,115 Speaker 1: more on Trump's indictment, barring developments dropping at the usual hour. 168 00:11:47,835 --> 00:11:51,915 Speaker 1: We'll be here it just after midnight Eastern early Wednesday morning, 169 00:11:52,595 --> 00:11:54,755 Speaker 1: and I'll throw in whatever else I can put together 170 00:11:54,835 --> 00:11:58,355 Speaker 1: between now and then, and whatever else Trump says about this. 171 00:11:59,035 --> 00:12:02,235 Speaker 1: The rest of this podcast you're listening to now is 172 00:12:02,275 --> 00:12:06,075 Speaker 1: simply a replay of this morning's edition in its entirety. 173 00:12:06,195 --> 00:12:09,835 Speaker 1: As always, if you have already heard it, hit stop 174 00:12:09,955 --> 00:12:29,235 Speaker 1: now I will not take offense. Today, Eileen Mercedes Cannon 175 00:12:29,595 --> 00:12:35,835 Speaker 1: will begin to decide whether we all live or die. This, 176 00:12:36,035 --> 00:12:39,835 Speaker 1: sadly is not hyperbole. The federal judge, who has presided 177 00:12:39,875 --> 00:12:42,635 Speaker 1: over a total of four trials for a total of 178 00:12:42,675 --> 00:12:46,395 Speaker 1: fourteen days in the totality of her life, will today 179 00:12:46,435 --> 00:12:48,755 Speaker 1: make the first of a series of decisions that will 180 00:12:48,875 --> 00:12:54,035 Speaker 1: ultimately end with whether we all live or die. The 181 00:12:54,155 --> 00:12:57,835 Speaker 1: forest really can never be seen because we are next 182 00:12:57,875 --> 00:13:01,075 Speaker 1: to the trees. And how fitting the analogy is because 183 00:13:01,115 --> 00:13:03,635 Speaker 1: while we are down here taking samples of the bark 184 00:13:03,755 --> 00:13:07,595 Speaker 1: to check marking by Jack Smith, the big picture is 185 00:13:07,755 --> 00:13:12,075 Speaker 1: this Judge Eileen Cannon will at minimum help to decide 186 00:13:12,115 --> 00:13:14,355 Speaker 1: whether or not Donald Trump is kept out of the 187 00:13:14,355 --> 00:13:17,835 Speaker 1: White House, and that will at minimum help to decide 188 00:13:18,075 --> 00:13:20,515 Speaker 1: whether or not we have any chance of maintaining a 189 00:13:20,555 --> 00:13:23,635 Speaker 1: president who will lead this nation and thus this world 190 00:13:23,675 --> 00:13:27,075 Speaker 1: through climate change and the changes we must make in 191 00:13:27,115 --> 00:13:31,955 Speaker 1: response to it. It really is that stark, and I 192 00:13:31,955 --> 00:13:34,995 Speaker 1: think we forget about it, and then something snaps the 193 00:13:34,995 --> 00:13:38,595 Speaker 1: picture into focus, and in my case, it is two pictures. 194 00:13:39,275 --> 00:13:42,835 Speaker 1: The first is that one grinning idiot in the black 195 00:13:42,995 --> 00:13:46,235 Speaker 1: San Diego shirt and the black shorts and the black 196 00:13:46,275 --> 00:13:50,355 Speaker 1: cap and the black sunglasses in Death Valley, California, taking 197 00:13:50,435 --> 00:13:54,235 Speaker 1: selfies with a digital thermometer reading one hundred and thirty 198 00:13:54,275 --> 00:13:57,755 Speaker 1: one degrees, both as if that heat could not kill 199 00:13:57,875 --> 00:14:01,075 Speaker 1: him personally, and as if that one hundred and thirty 200 00:14:01,075 --> 00:14:05,515 Speaker 1: one degree temperature was temporary or transient or unique to 201 00:14:05,595 --> 00:14:08,635 Speaker 1: that locale or something he has to take a picture 202 00:14:08,635 --> 00:14:11,275 Speaker 1: of so he can preserve it for his grandchildren. And oh, 203 00:14:11,315 --> 00:14:13,155 Speaker 1: by the way, at the present rate of acceleration of 204 00:14:13,155 --> 00:14:16,475 Speaker 1: the climate catastrophe, don't worry about preserving it for your grandchildren, 205 00:14:16,475 --> 00:14:19,395 Speaker 1: because you're not going to have any nor is anybody else, 206 00:14:20,115 --> 00:14:22,475 Speaker 1: because the last words Donald Trump will ever speak on 207 00:14:22,515 --> 00:14:24,635 Speaker 1: this earth will be about how money is more important 208 00:14:24,675 --> 00:14:27,395 Speaker 1: than anything else, or how climate change is a hoax. 209 00:14:28,355 --> 00:14:34,075 Speaker 1: We're both. The other image was of this redneck Jason Aldean, 210 00:14:34,555 --> 00:14:38,235 Speaker 1: the pride of Maga New Year's Eve guest at marri Lago, 211 00:14:38,355 --> 00:14:41,875 Speaker 1: Trump kissed the top of his wife's head. She posted photos. 212 00:14:41,915 --> 00:14:46,275 Speaker 1: Trump is clearly staring down passed her head into her cleavage. 213 00:14:47,235 --> 00:14:50,675 Speaker 1: He is the yodeling darling of the climate denial crowd 214 00:14:50,755 --> 00:14:54,515 Speaker 1: and dropping a song last Friday, Daring Black protesters to 215 00:14:54,955 --> 00:14:58,355 Speaker 1: quote the title. Try that in a small town, and 216 00:14:58,395 --> 00:15:00,475 Speaker 1: then two days later he had to run off the 217 00:15:00,515 --> 00:15:03,475 Speaker 1: stage and get two ivs stuck in him so he 218 00:15:03,515 --> 00:15:08,595 Speaker 1: did not lose conscious while singing in the ferocious tropical 219 00:15:08,675 --> 00:15:16,795 Speaker 1: heat of Hartford, Connecticut in July at night. But there's 220 00:15:16,835 --> 00:15:22,315 Speaker 1: no man made climate change. Try that in a small town, Jason, 221 00:15:22,675 --> 00:15:25,955 Speaker 1: after the energy grid there has failed and your governor 222 00:15:25,955 --> 00:15:28,835 Speaker 1: has chased away all the hospitals and the doctors because 223 00:15:29,195 --> 00:15:35,355 Speaker 1: woke as I stared at the Canadian wildfire smoke out 224 00:15:35,355 --> 00:15:38,995 Speaker 1: my window. Yesterday, a baseball announcer on my TV was 225 00:15:39,035 --> 00:15:43,435 Speaker 1: complaining about the Canadian wildfire smoke out his window. In Cincinnati, Ohio. 226 00:15:44,275 --> 00:15:46,875 Speaker 1: It was one hundred and nine degrees in Rome, and 227 00:15:46,915 --> 00:15:49,795 Speaker 1: they were laughing about that in Miami, where the first 228 00:15:49,835 --> 00:15:53,315 Speaker 1: ever excessive heat warning predicted one hundred and ten degrees, 229 00:15:54,195 --> 00:15:57,195 Speaker 1: and they were laughing about that in Sanbao in China, 230 00:15:57,715 --> 00:15:59,675 Speaker 1: where it was one hundred and twenty six degrees. And no, 231 00:15:59,795 --> 00:16:02,755 Speaker 1: they were not laughing at Persian Gulf Airport, which is 232 00:16:02,755 --> 00:16:06,555 Speaker 1: in Iran but is actually close to Dubai than anywhere else. 233 00:16:06,835 --> 00:16:10,115 Speaker 1: And it didn't matter because it was one hundred and 234 00:16:10,195 --> 00:16:14,475 Speaker 1: fifty two one hundred and fifty two degrees at Persian 235 00:16:14,475 --> 00:16:19,275 Speaker 1: Golf Airport in Iran. The last actual safe temperature for 236 00:16:19,395 --> 00:16:23,155 Speaker 1: the average human is a wet bulb thermometer reading of 237 00:16:23,275 --> 00:16:27,675 Speaker 1: ninety five degrees. So if at one hundred and fifty 238 00:16:27,715 --> 00:16:30,395 Speaker 1: two the power had failed at Persian Golf Airport, I 239 00:16:30,435 --> 00:16:34,555 Speaker 1: mean again energy grid failure. As if this were Texas, 240 00:16:35,235 --> 00:16:41,955 Speaker 1: there would have been a mass casualty event. Judge Cannon 241 00:16:42,115 --> 00:16:44,595 Speaker 1: is to tell Trump's lawyers and Walton out his lawyers 242 00:16:44,595 --> 00:16:48,595 Speaker 1: and Jack Smith's team of lawyers. Some preliminary findings about 243 00:16:48,595 --> 00:16:52,835 Speaker 1: the process for handling classified information at the Trump trial, 244 00:16:53,235 --> 00:16:55,955 Speaker 1: and all the indications she gave yesterday suggested she would 245 00:16:55,995 --> 00:16:59,315 Speaker 1: be adding an item to the agenda, the planned trial 246 00:16:59,435 --> 00:17:07,675 Speaker 1: start date and timeline discuss history does not usually schedule 247 00:17:07,715 --> 00:17:10,555 Speaker 1: stuff this important in advance and tell us about it. 248 00:17:11,515 --> 00:17:15,515 Speaker 1: Everybody in Europe was not informed. On June fifteenth, Hey, 249 00:17:15,635 --> 00:17:20,315 Speaker 1: on the twenty eighth Archduke Ferdinand of Austro Hungary. He's 250 00:17:20,355 --> 00:17:23,395 Speaker 1: gonna make this damn fool trip anyway to Sarajevo, and 251 00:17:24,035 --> 00:17:25,715 Speaker 1: though the bomb they will throw at him at the 252 00:17:25,755 --> 00:17:28,195 Speaker 1: train station is gonna miss the Archduke will still be 253 00:17:28,275 --> 00:17:30,555 Speaker 1: too stupid to call off the trip at that point, 254 00:17:31,155 --> 00:17:36,355 Speaker 1: and his driver, who doesn't speak German, won't understand the 255 00:17:36,395 --> 00:17:39,115 Speaker 1: revised driving rout out of the city, so he'll take 256 00:17:39,155 --> 00:17:41,675 Speaker 1: the old one and he'll wind up on Franz Joseph 257 00:17:41,675 --> 00:17:43,715 Speaker 1: Street and he'll have to pull a U turn right 258 00:17:43,755 --> 00:17:45,555 Speaker 1: in front of where one of the bomb throwers co 259 00:17:45,555 --> 00:17:48,915 Speaker 1: conspirators happens to be standing despond it because the plot failed. 260 00:17:49,835 --> 00:17:52,395 Speaker 1: So the co conspirator can put bullets into the Archduke 261 00:17:52,395 --> 00:17:54,155 Speaker 1: and the arch Duchess and that will start the World 262 00:17:54,155 --> 00:17:56,235 Speaker 1: War and twenty million people will die. And because the 263 00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:58,355 Speaker 1: peace will resolve nothing, there'll be another World war in 264 00:17:58,395 --> 00:18:01,355 Speaker 1: twenty five years, seventy five million more people will die. 265 00:18:01,475 --> 00:18:04,835 Speaker 1: So don't make other plans for the twenty eighth that 266 00:18:04,915 --> 00:18:08,835 Speaker 1: doesn't happen. We were not forewarned about the day John 267 00:18:08,875 --> 00:18:11,315 Speaker 1: Brown decided, Yeah, okay, I'm doing this. I'm going to 268 00:18:11,355 --> 00:18:15,595 Speaker 1: Harper's Ferry, and nobody in ten sixty six told England 269 00:18:15,755 --> 00:18:20,315 Speaker 1: the Normans will be here Wednesday, and the media was 270 00:18:20,355 --> 00:18:22,795 Speaker 1: not alerted when Hitler was let out early because they 271 00:18:22,835 --> 00:18:26,235 Speaker 1: were convinced he po's no further threat, and nobody pointed 272 00:18:26,235 --> 00:18:29,075 Speaker 1: at that one rat scurrying off the ship just anchoring 273 00:18:29,075 --> 00:18:33,195 Speaker 1: at Messina and said that's the one bubonic plague right there. 274 00:18:33,995 --> 00:18:38,075 Speaker 1: And nobody ever said, hey, my feet hurt. Tomorrow, I'm 275 00:18:38,115 --> 00:18:41,195 Speaker 1: just going to try to live in one place and 276 00:18:41,355 --> 00:18:45,355 Speaker 1: raise the crops here rather than searching for them all day. 277 00:18:45,675 --> 00:18:48,755 Speaker 1: I'm going to call it a I'm still working on this, 278 00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:52,035 Speaker 1: but I'm going to call it a farm. And nobody 279 00:18:52,075 --> 00:18:55,515 Speaker 1: comes back from anywhere or any time to warn you 280 00:18:55,835 --> 00:19:01,155 Speaker 1: to save Sarah Connor. And yet here we are, at 281 00:19:01,195 --> 00:19:05,195 Speaker 1: some point today Eileen Cannon, who twenty years ago was 282 00:19:05,235 --> 00:19:10,035 Speaker 1: writing features for the Miami Spanish language newspaper El Nuevo 283 00:19:10,275 --> 00:19:15,355 Speaker 1: Herald about festivals and yoga and I swear to God 284 00:19:15,435 --> 00:19:18,595 Speaker 1: about flamenco dancing. She will make the first of a 285 00:19:18,675 --> 00:19:22,115 Speaker 1: series of decisions that will ultimately decide whether we all 286 00:19:22,235 --> 00:19:28,915 Speaker 1: live or die. And they're not ultimate decisions or final decisions, 287 00:19:28,995 --> 00:19:33,195 Speaker 1: but they are among the ones which will be. And 288 00:19:33,275 --> 00:19:37,835 Speaker 1: she could, if not today then soon literally knock all 289 00:19:37,875 --> 00:19:42,315 Speaker 1: the guard rails off the fight against climate change. Because 290 00:19:42,315 --> 00:19:44,755 Speaker 1: for those of you far more milletant about this topic 291 00:19:44,955 --> 00:19:46,915 Speaker 1: than I am, I will not insult you in say 292 00:19:46,955 --> 00:19:50,795 Speaker 1: America has led our magnificent worldwide struggle that has succeeded 293 00:19:50,795 --> 00:19:55,315 Speaker 1: in slowing down the catastrophe by a couple of weeks. Maybe, 294 00:19:56,515 --> 00:19:58,315 Speaker 1: but you and I still both know that if the 295 00:19:58,355 --> 00:20:00,995 Speaker 1: critical decisions about saving life on this planet are to 296 00:20:01,035 --> 00:20:03,075 Speaker 1: be made in the next five years, and Donald Trump 297 00:20:03,155 --> 00:20:05,915 Speaker 1: is president for any stretch of those five years, we're 298 00:20:05,955 --> 00:20:11,035 Speaker 1: all dead pinpoint. Whether one hundred and fifty two degrees 299 00:20:11,075 --> 00:20:14,115 Speaker 1: waves of climate refugees expected between noon and one pm 300 00:20:14,115 --> 00:20:15,915 Speaker 1: and the UV index on a scale of one to 301 00:20:15,955 --> 00:20:21,515 Speaker 1: eleven is I'm sorry the power grid failed again. There 302 00:20:21,555 --> 00:20:24,115 Speaker 1: was a piece in The New York Times yesterday about 303 00:20:24,155 --> 00:20:28,835 Speaker 1: the Trump roadmap towards authoritarianism if he gets a second term, 304 00:20:29,235 --> 00:20:33,675 Speaker 1: and most of it is a louder and scarier presentation 305 00:20:33,755 --> 00:20:38,955 Speaker 1: of Schedule F, the federalist fascist plan to eliminate career 306 00:20:38,955 --> 00:20:41,675 Speaker 1: employees in the government and give the president hiring and 307 00:20:41,755 --> 00:20:46,595 Speaker 1: firing power over everybody, like in Iran, where it's already 308 00:20:46,635 --> 00:20:50,275 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty two degrees. And the article was 309 00:20:50,355 --> 00:20:53,435 Speaker 1: kind of summarized in one quote from a totalitarian named 310 00:20:53,515 --> 00:20:58,115 Speaker 1: Russell T. Vote, who ran omb during the defendant's regime 311 00:20:58,395 --> 00:21:01,275 Speaker 1: and is now dictator of the Center for Renewing America, 312 00:21:01,475 --> 00:21:04,075 Speaker 1: and the quote was, what we're trying to do is 313 00:21:04,155 --> 00:21:09,115 Speaker 1: identify by the pockets of independence and seize them. And 314 00:21:09,155 --> 00:21:12,155 Speaker 1: you can see that quote, and then the video in 315 00:21:12,195 --> 00:21:14,915 Speaker 1: your mind goes into high speed fast forward, and at 316 00:21:14,955 --> 00:21:18,635 Speaker 1: some point in the future, months, years, decades, you get 317 00:21:18,675 --> 00:21:21,875 Speaker 1: to there being absolutely nobody in the government, or in 318 00:21:21,915 --> 00:21:24,555 Speaker 1: the Congress or in the Supreme Court to even say 319 00:21:24,715 --> 00:21:27,235 Speaker 1: no when Trump decides it, no matter what the twenty 320 00:21:27,235 --> 00:21:33,355 Speaker 1: fifth Amendment says that because of whatever, because of whatever, 321 00:21:33,435 --> 00:21:38,795 Speaker 1: he deserves a third term and he's running for it. Critics, 322 00:21:38,915 --> 00:21:40,955 Speaker 1: including a lot on the left, thought that piece in 323 00:21:41,035 --> 00:21:45,155 Speaker 1: The Times was overripe and served basically as just thousands 324 00:21:45,155 --> 00:21:48,235 Speaker 1: of words of what we used to call institutional advertising 325 00:21:48,595 --> 00:21:52,475 Speaker 1: for MAGA and Trump and the Federalist Society, provided free 326 00:21:52,595 --> 00:21:56,555 Speaker 1: courtesy of The New York Times. Because while Trump's ability 327 00:21:56,595 --> 00:22:00,915 Speaker 1: to enact all this not federalism but feudalism would be 328 00:22:00,915 --> 00:22:04,035 Speaker 1: better than it was when he tried it in twenty seventeen, 329 00:22:04,075 --> 00:22:07,075 Speaker 1: it would still we'll be held up, delayed, at least 330 00:22:07,115 --> 00:22:10,395 Speaker 1: by courts and by bureaucrats, and especially by a democratic 331 00:22:10,475 --> 00:22:14,275 Speaker 1: Senate or House, to say nothing of citizen protests. We 332 00:22:14,355 --> 00:22:16,995 Speaker 1: ever do that again, like everybody in the Blue States 333 00:22:16,995 --> 00:22:19,395 Speaker 1: refusing to pay any more taxes to keep the Red 334 00:22:19,435 --> 00:22:22,475 Speaker 1: States from going bankrupt and everybody starving there inside of 335 00:22:22,475 --> 00:22:26,435 Speaker 1: a month. But other than a passing reference to the 336 00:22:26,635 --> 00:22:29,755 Speaker 1: Environmental Protection Agency being one of those units that would 337 00:22:29,795 --> 00:22:32,475 Speaker 1: be brought directly under Trump's control if he can get 338 00:22:32,475 --> 00:22:35,355 Speaker 1: away with it, there was not one word in there 339 00:22:35,835 --> 00:22:38,995 Speaker 1: about the much simpler path for Donald Trump to destroy 340 00:22:39,115 --> 00:22:42,355 Speaker 1: America this time around, and that is to regain the 341 00:22:42,355 --> 00:22:45,235 Speaker 1: White House and again roll back as many green initiatives 342 00:22:45,395 --> 00:22:49,075 Speaker 1: and climate efforts as he can. I mean, when he 343 00:22:49,115 --> 00:22:51,395 Speaker 1: can kill us all by just sitting around on his 344 00:22:51,475 --> 00:22:54,435 Speaker 1: lard ass for four years, accepting the cheers of fifty 345 00:22:54,475 --> 00:22:58,435 Speaker 1: million jason Al dens, just before they all keel over 346 00:22:58,515 --> 00:23:01,515 Speaker 1: because they could not stand the heat forty five minutes 347 00:23:01,635 --> 00:23:08,995 Speaker 1: away from check notes ESPN World Headquarters. What does Trump 348 00:23:09,035 --> 00:23:12,475 Speaker 1: need with schedule F and system overhauls and Project twenty 349 00:23:12,595 --> 00:23:17,035 Speaker 1: twenty five, project one hundred degrees every day in beautiful 350 00:23:17,035 --> 00:23:25,355 Speaker 1: downtown Bristol, Connecticut. That'll do the job. I just keep 351 00:23:25,555 --> 00:23:30,875 Speaker 1: thinking of that poor dumb f in the sunglasses, standing 352 00:23:30,875 --> 00:23:33,475 Speaker 1: next to that digital thermometer and death Valley and thinking 353 00:23:33,475 --> 00:23:36,875 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty one degrees, Well, thank goodness, I 354 00:23:36,915 --> 00:23:39,315 Speaker 1: got a shot of it. It'll never be this hot again. 355 00:23:40,555 --> 00:23:43,035 Speaker 1: And now I'm starting to wonder if the dinosaurs stood 356 00:23:43,075 --> 00:23:47,035 Speaker 1: around taking selfies of that spectacular light show in the 357 00:23:47,075 --> 00:23:51,275 Speaker 1: sky when the big meteor hit. And I find myself 358 00:23:51,315 --> 00:23:54,395 Speaker 1: wondering also if, at any point before she settles in 359 00:23:54,475 --> 00:23:57,755 Speaker 1: for her fifteenth real day as a judge doing real 360 00:23:57,955 --> 00:24:01,555 Speaker 1: judge things today, Aileen Cannon will see the forest in 361 00:24:01,595 --> 00:24:04,435 Speaker 1: spite of the trees, or wonder what does happen if 362 00:24:04,435 --> 00:24:07,115 Speaker 1: don Trump gets another chance to kill all the trees, 363 00:24:08,115 --> 00:24:12,955 Speaker 1: or if it will even ever flit across the most 364 00:24:13,315 --> 00:24:19,795 Speaker 1: distant recesses of her mind for a fraction of a second, that, 365 00:24:20,195 --> 00:24:25,635 Speaker 1: my god, I really could be deciding whether we all 366 00:24:25,795 --> 00:24:36,595 Speaker 1: live or die. Also of interest here, like anything else 367 00:24:36,835 --> 00:24:41,115 Speaker 1: matters after that. And I haven't even really gotten into 368 00:24:41,155 --> 00:24:43,915 Speaker 1: the climate refugees thing yet or the new reports of 369 00:24:44,195 --> 00:24:48,435 Speaker 1: underground climate change beneath the cities, because there's too much 370 00:24:48,475 --> 00:24:53,035 Speaker 1: heat under Chicago and things may sink or fall over. 371 00:24:54,955 --> 00:24:58,115 Speaker 1: But I think you will agree with me about this. 372 00:24:58,635 --> 00:25:00,995 Speaker 1: I need to laugh out of that. Maybe you do too, 373 00:25:01,435 --> 00:25:06,435 Speaker 1: And the Daily Beasts Confighter Media News provides said laugh 374 00:25:06,795 --> 00:25:11,515 Speaker 1: today as if I had written this myself. A phone 375 00:25:11,675 --> 00:25:15,675 Speaker 1: photo snapped in a place called Becho on restaurant Row 376 00:25:15,795 --> 00:25:18,795 Speaker 1: on forty sixth Street here in Manhattan, and it is 377 00:25:18,795 --> 00:25:23,715 Speaker 1: from last Wednesday. And what the photo hastily shows could 378 00:25:23,715 --> 00:25:27,355 Speaker 1: be nothing, or it could be the absolute last thing 379 00:25:27,395 --> 00:25:30,315 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential campaign needs. And what it 380 00:25:30,395 --> 00:25:34,555 Speaker 1: shows is Chris Christy having a bottle of sparkling water 381 00:25:34,635 --> 00:25:46,315 Speaker 1: and maybe sharing a meal with Chris Licked. Does this 382 00:25:46,395 --> 00:25:52,035 Speaker 1: restaurant Becho now serve not just pasta but pace Chris 383 00:25:52,715 --> 00:25:59,555 Speaker 1: Licked and Chris Christy. Hell, if anybody could destroy the 384 00:25:59,595 --> 00:26:04,595 Speaker 1: planet faster than trumpet'd be those two. And there's also 385 00:26:04,675 --> 00:26:06,875 Speaker 1: will laugh from January sixth. If you can believe that 386 00:26:06,955 --> 00:26:11,915 Speaker 1: woman in a big pink beret, wildly overdressed wanted for 387 00:26:12,035 --> 00:26:15,995 Speaker 1: January sixth misdemeanors FBI has been looking for for two years. 388 00:26:16,195 --> 00:26:18,675 Speaker 1: They tweet out a photo over guy is in line 389 00:26:18,715 --> 00:26:22,435 Speaker 1: at a crafts store somewhere. The friend holds up his 390 00:26:22,515 --> 00:26:25,035 Speaker 1: phone and shows him the photo of the woman in 391 00:26:25,075 --> 00:26:29,155 Speaker 1: the pink beret and the guy gasps and he says, 392 00:26:31,475 --> 00:26:37,475 Speaker 1: that's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 393 00:26:45,355 --> 00:26:48,715 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 394 00:26:48,715 --> 00:26:53,195 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline Willington, Delaware, smart Matic suing Fox for 395 00:26:53,315 --> 00:26:56,715 Speaker 1: two billion, seven hundred million dollars because it wasn't only 396 00:26:56,755 --> 00:27:01,315 Speaker 1: dominion which Fox slandered, has now subpoenaed Steve Bannon and 397 00:27:01,395 --> 00:27:05,075 Speaker 1: Mike Flynn to sit for depositions in this law suit. 398 00:27:05,475 --> 00:27:08,875 Speaker 1: CNN reporting those depositions were scheduled for this week and 399 00:27:08,915 --> 00:27:11,915 Speaker 1: may still happen this week. This puts Bannon and Flynn 400 00:27:11,915 --> 00:27:15,955 Speaker 1: in tough spots. First, have you ever sat for a deposition? 401 00:27:16,315 --> 00:27:19,555 Speaker 1: The nicest one in the history of the planet was 402 00:27:19,595 --> 00:27:24,315 Speaker 1: an ordeal. But more importantly, this would ordinarily be where 403 00:27:24,395 --> 00:27:27,595 Speaker 1: Bannon and Flynn might try to thumb their noses at 404 00:27:27,715 --> 00:27:31,395 Speaker 1: the system. But the entire trump axis they still serve 405 00:27:31,875 --> 00:27:36,715 Speaker 1: depends on Fox's defamations of Smartmatic to somehow be proved true, 406 00:27:37,395 --> 00:27:41,355 Speaker 1: or maybe more correctly, to not be proved untrue. So 407 00:27:41,395 --> 00:27:43,795 Speaker 1: they kind of have to go through with the depositions 408 00:27:43,915 --> 00:27:47,715 Speaker 1: and kind of have to defend Fox. They also have 409 00:27:47,835 --> 00:27:51,275 Speaker 1: to supply subpoena documents, which in Bannon's case would all 410 00:27:51,315 --> 00:27:54,355 Speaker 1: be in crayon, and of course both of them first 411 00:27:54,475 --> 00:28:00,675 Speaker 1: have to try to remember what that word truth means. 412 00:28:14,515 --> 00:28:19,275 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust dateline the good Ship Clarence Thomas's lollipop. 413 00:28:19,875 --> 00:28:23,075 Speaker 1: Pro Publica back with even more about America's only Supreme 414 00:28:23,115 --> 00:28:25,715 Speaker 1: Court justice who has a for sale sign growing out 415 00:28:25,715 --> 00:28:29,795 Speaker 1: of his ass. Turns out that yacht Harland Crowe used 416 00:28:29,795 --> 00:28:33,115 Speaker 1: to take his friend Thomas around the world on perfectly legal, 417 00:28:33,555 --> 00:28:36,675 Speaker 1: not at all bribes, wreaking of more corruption than a 418 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:41,915 Speaker 1: mountain of rotting fruit cruises for tax purposes. Harlan crow 419 00:28:41,995 --> 00:28:45,915 Speaker 1: has a company that charters his super yacht, and see 420 00:28:45,915 --> 00:28:48,635 Speaker 1: it's lost a lot of money because the chartering hasn't 421 00:28:48,675 --> 00:28:51,515 Speaker 1: been going so well. So all the money lost is 422 00:28:51,595 --> 00:28:55,995 Speaker 1: deductible from Harlan Crowe's other taxes, which is legal except 423 00:28:56,075 --> 00:28:58,875 Speaker 1: if you're not really chartering your boat. And the Pro 424 00:28:58,915 --> 00:29:03,195 Speaker 1: Publica investigation and Senator Ron Wide of Oregon say, oh, snap, 425 00:29:03,275 --> 00:29:06,715 Speaker 1: there's no evidence he's charter it out. Based on what 426 00:29:06,835 --> 00:29:10,115 Speaker 1: information is available, Senator Wide and told Pro Publica this 427 00:29:10,195 --> 00:29:14,555 Speaker 1: has the look of a textbook billionaire tax scam. No kidding, 428 00:29:15,595 --> 00:29:20,275 Speaker 1: dateline your Nearest, Joanne Fabric and Crafts store. That is 429 00:29:20,275 --> 00:29:23,635 Speaker 1: where an unnamed citizen was standing in line when the 430 00:29:23,715 --> 00:29:27,155 Speaker 1: FBI tweeted a photo of a woman's suspect still wanted 431 00:29:27,155 --> 00:29:30,995 Speaker 1: for January sixth. This happened in the spring. His buddy 432 00:29:31,115 --> 00:29:34,635 Speaker 1: in line with him at the fabric store showed him 433 00:29:34,635 --> 00:29:37,995 Speaker 1: the FBI tweet on the phone and the photo of 434 00:29:38,035 --> 00:29:39,995 Speaker 1: the woman they were looking for, And as the man 435 00:29:40,035 --> 00:29:43,715 Speaker 1: recalled the moment to NBC News quote, I stopped dead 436 00:29:43,755 --> 00:29:50,195 Speaker 1: in my tracks. I'm like, that's Jenny, his ex girlfriend 437 00:29:51,275 --> 00:29:57,955 Speaker 1: who married somebody else. And they both went to January sixth, 438 00:29:58,115 --> 00:30:00,595 Speaker 1: him and a parka and a Maga hat, and she 439 00:30:00,755 --> 00:30:04,515 Speaker 1: in a fetching white jacket with red eyeliner and just 440 00:30:04,675 --> 00:30:07,635 Speaker 1: the most darling pink beret that made her look like 441 00:30:08,555 --> 00:30:12,075 Speaker 1: Eloise at the Plaza or something, and it was visible 442 00:30:12,115 --> 00:30:19,915 Speaker 1: from space. Naturally, the ex turned her in. She turns 443 00:30:19,955 --> 00:30:23,755 Speaker 1: out to be Jennifer Vargas, now Jennifer Vargas Geller, and 444 00:30:23,795 --> 00:30:26,875 Speaker 1: he is Spencer Geller, and he they say, was one 445 00:30:26,875 --> 00:30:29,435 Speaker 1: of the first to reach police lines at the Capitol 446 00:30:29,515 --> 00:30:31,915 Speaker 1: and he pushed bike racks at cops and they are 447 00:30:31,955 --> 00:30:35,915 Speaker 1: apparently living in Asia somewhere with a baby. He faces 448 00:30:35,955 --> 00:30:38,555 Speaker 1: a felony, she a couple of misdemeanors. We don't know 449 00:30:38,595 --> 00:30:42,435 Speaker 1: what kind of breakup that was with mister Joanne Fabrics. 450 00:30:43,035 --> 00:30:45,595 Speaker 1: But if he got crushed, man, has he got enough 451 00:30:45,595 --> 00:30:50,275 Speaker 1: revenge to last him? Forty seven lifetimes and dateline Hudson Yards, 452 00:30:50,315 --> 00:30:53,235 Speaker 1: New York City. The first week's ratings are in for 453 00:30:53,275 --> 00:30:57,395 Speaker 1: the new Caitlin Collins nine PM show on CNN Monday, 454 00:30:58,035 --> 00:31:05,435 Speaker 1: last place, Tuesday, last place, Wednesday, last place, Thursday, last place, Friday, 455 00:31:06,395 --> 00:31:10,395 Speaker 1: last place. She did, however, get into triple digits in 456 00:31:10,435 --> 00:31:13,595 Speaker 1: the advertising demo, so she had more than one hundred 457 00:31:13,675 --> 00:31:18,395 Speaker 1: thousand viewers aged twenty five to fifty four on one 458 00:31:18,435 --> 00:31:40,195 Speaker 1: of the five nights next still Ahead on Countdown, I 459 00:31:40,235 --> 00:31:43,435 Speaker 1: mentioned the arrival of Leonel Messi to take the Goat 460 00:31:43,555 --> 00:31:47,035 Speaker 1: Emeritus chair annually provided by Major League Soccer in this 461 00:31:47,115 --> 00:31:50,835 Speaker 1: country for the superstar who just hit his expiration date 462 00:31:51,115 --> 00:31:56,795 Speaker 1: and came here to wear else but Miami. And whatever 463 00:31:56,955 --> 00:32:02,195 Speaker 1: time you mentioned soccer, that means it's soccer breakdown o'clock. 464 00:32:03,475 --> 00:32:05,835 Speaker 1: Next first time for the round up with the miss grants, 465 00:32:05,875 --> 00:32:09,315 Speaker 1: morons and Dunnan krug effc specimens who constitute today's worst 466 00:32:09,355 --> 00:32:14,875 Speaker 1: persons in the world. Three two one Bron's Megan Kelly, 467 00:32:14,875 --> 00:32:19,155 Speaker 1: who does the fastest growing conservative podcast which gets metrics 468 00:32:19,155 --> 00:32:21,115 Speaker 1: are tough here, but it looks like she gets about 469 00:32:21,835 --> 00:32:25,875 Speaker 1: half the audience of this podcast. Keep up the bad work, Meg. 470 00:32:26,795 --> 00:32:29,075 Speaker 1: Part of the failure over there, just like part of 471 00:32:29,115 --> 00:32:32,795 Speaker 1: her failure at NBC was that she's just dyspeptic all 472 00:32:32,835 --> 00:32:39,275 Speaker 1: the time, lines complains, blames sneers. Also, the six tons 473 00:32:39,315 --> 00:32:43,835 Speaker 1: of makeup doesn't help. RFK Junior's sister, Carrie condemned her 474 00:32:43,875 --> 00:32:48,075 Speaker 1: brother's crazy talk about the vaccine, as did his nephew Joe. 475 00:32:49,195 --> 00:32:52,275 Speaker 1: Megan Kelly. She writes, look at these terrible family members. 476 00:32:52,475 --> 00:32:55,275 Speaker 1: No one was asking how does RFK Junior's sister feel 477 00:32:55,275 --> 00:32:57,835 Speaker 1: about his latest remarks. She just felt the need to 478 00:32:57,955 --> 00:33:02,795 Speaker 1: kick him when he was down nice. Obviously, people had 479 00:33:02,835 --> 00:33:07,235 Speaker 1: been seeking Carrie Kennedy's response because she is the president 480 00:33:07,275 --> 00:33:10,955 Speaker 1: of the Robert F. Kennedy human rights nonprofit advocacy organization 481 00:33:11,355 --> 00:33:15,035 Speaker 1: and her brother is the one who's inadvertently besmirching their 482 00:33:15,115 --> 00:33:18,715 Speaker 1: late father's name and their group's name. But Megan Kelly 483 00:33:18,755 --> 00:33:23,035 Speaker 1: wouldn't know that, because, in addition to being lazy, and 484 00:33:23,075 --> 00:33:26,195 Speaker 1: in addition to acting like she's had gas pain continuously 485 00:33:26,235 --> 00:33:30,755 Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety seven, Megan Kelly is also a dope. 486 00:33:30,835 --> 00:33:33,835 Speaker 1: The runner up Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. You know about 487 00:33:33,915 --> 00:33:38,595 Speaker 1: Cop City in Atlanta, the proposed secret fascist police training 488 00:33:38,635 --> 00:33:44,115 Speaker 1: ground planned there. Opponents want a referendum. Mayor Dickens last 489 00:33:44,115 --> 00:33:46,915 Speaker 1: week said no one in his administration or law enforcement 490 00:33:47,075 --> 00:33:49,395 Speaker 1: would get in the way of that constitutional right to 491 00:33:49,435 --> 00:33:52,635 Speaker 1: have one. Yesterday, the City of Atlanta filed a motion 492 00:33:52,795 --> 00:33:57,195 Speaker 1: in federal court I stopped the referendum, called it invalid 493 00:33:57,275 --> 00:34:01,955 Speaker 1: and futile. Invalid and futile, two words which now might 494 00:34:01,995 --> 00:34:06,115 Speaker 1: also describe Mayor Dickens's chances of getting reelected. But the 495 00:34:06,155 --> 00:34:10,595 Speaker 1: winner this vibek Ramaswami guy, another man who has mistaken 496 00:34:10,635 --> 00:34:15,515 Speaker 1: his own financial luck for intelligence, the Republican presidential longshot 497 00:34:15,555 --> 00:34:18,595 Speaker 1: who is carefully positioned to grab the nomination if the 498 00:34:18,635 --> 00:34:23,555 Speaker 1: white supremacists first eight choices. All Die has revealed his 499 00:34:23,675 --> 00:34:27,555 Speaker 1: short list of Supreme Court nominees, and he's got he's 500 00:34:27,595 --> 00:34:31,355 Speaker 1: got Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee on it, and 501 00:34:31,395 --> 00:34:35,275 Speaker 1: He also likes a US Appeals Court judge named Lawrence Vandyke, 502 00:34:35,715 --> 00:34:38,795 Speaker 1: and Judge Van Dyke is the one who made the profound, 503 00:34:38,995 --> 00:34:42,395 Speaker 1: historic ruling that has made life better for hundreds of 504 00:34:42,435 --> 00:34:47,115 Speaker 1: millions and untold generations to come. Van Dyke was the 505 00:34:47,115 --> 00:34:51,755 Speaker 1: one who said, yes, people running a beauty pageant can 506 00:34:51,955 --> 00:34:57,435 Speaker 1: exclude participants who are transgender. Second in importance only to 507 00:34:57,515 --> 00:35:01,515 Speaker 1: Brown v. Board in Education. In my opinion, My god, 508 00:35:01,635 --> 00:35:06,715 Speaker 1: this country wasted taxpayer dollars on court rulings about beauty 509 00:35:06,755 --> 00:35:12,275 Speaker 1: patcheans Vivek, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for the Supreme Court. 510 00:35:12,755 --> 00:35:17,235 Speaker 1: Why not Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Kanye Ramaswami. Today's 511 00:35:18,075 --> 00:35:22,875 Speaker 1: worst person I know it was Brown BeBoard of Education. 512 00:35:22,955 --> 00:35:37,955 Speaker 1: I said it wrong in the word to the number 513 00:35:37,995 --> 00:35:40,395 Speaker 1: one story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me 514 00:35:40,675 --> 00:35:44,035 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell. You may enjoy 515 00:35:44,195 --> 00:35:51,275 Speaker 1: this one enough to keep a copy. Soccer Breakdown. Gary 516 00:35:51,395 --> 00:35:54,235 Speaker 1: Miller was one of the backbones of Sports Center. I 517 00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:57,315 Speaker 1: had worked with him at CNN. He was strong, confident, 518 00:35:57,475 --> 00:36:02,715 Speaker 1: very loud, forceful, He hated mascots, and he had no filter. 519 00:36:03,475 --> 00:36:05,995 Speaker 1: He and Dan Patrick were great friends in Atlanta. And 520 00:36:06,075 --> 00:36:08,595 Speaker 1: then Gary and Dan left for ESPN within months of 521 00:36:08,635 --> 00:36:11,955 Speaker 1: each other nineteen eighty nine nineteen ninety This has been 522 00:36:11,995 --> 00:36:13,715 Speaker 1: said of me, and so I say it of Gary 523 00:36:13,755 --> 00:36:18,235 Speaker 1: with affection. He suffered no fools gladly, and though his 524 00:36:18,315 --> 00:36:21,235 Speaker 1: elbows were always up, he made sure that ninety nine 525 00:36:21,275 --> 00:36:23,315 Speaker 1: percent of the time when they bumped into somebody, that 526 00:36:23,435 --> 00:36:27,275 Speaker 1: somebody had well deserved it. As near as I can 527 00:36:27,315 --> 00:36:31,155 Speaker 1: piece together, Gary was doing the eleven PM Sports Center 528 00:36:31,195 --> 00:36:34,915 Speaker 1: on Friday night, June twenty fourth, nineteen ninety four. Typically, 529 00:36:35,035 --> 00:36:38,395 Speaker 1: Dan and I did the eleven Sunday through Thursday. The 530 00:36:38,515 --> 00:36:41,555 Speaker 1: story of soccer's nineteen ninety four World Cup. At least 531 00:36:41,595 --> 00:36:44,555 Speaker 1: in the first week, was a preponderance of player ejections 532 00:36:44,715 --> 00:36:48,155 Speaker 1: red cards handed them by the referee. In those days, 533 00:36:48,155 --> 00:36:50,515 Speaker 1: the eleven PM Sports Center included a feature two or 534 00:36:50,555 --> 00:36:53,075 Speaker 1: three minutes long on a story that had drummed up 535 00:36:53,075 --> 00:36:55,835 Speaker 1: a lot of interest during the first show planning meeting 536 00:36:55,875 --> 00:36:59,515 Speaker 1: around three point thirty PM. It was a feature called Breakdown. 537 00:37:00,035 --> 00:37:03,235 Speaker 1: It provided long form analysis in today's when we didn't 538 00:37:03,235 --> 00:37:06,075 Speaker 1: have a lot of that. Could be a coach getting fired, 539 00:37:06,115 --> 00:37:08,795 Speaker 1: could be the relative credentials of Baseball Hall of fame 540 00:37:08,875 --> 00:37:12,835 Speaker 1: candidates could be one fantastic play in a game. Once 541 00:37:12,875 --> 00:37:16,995 Speaker 1: we did a deadpan, serious breakdown about injuries to mascots. 542 00:37:17,835 --> 00:37:20,835 Speaker 1: A producer or the anchor himself would write the script. 543 00:37:21,035 --> 00:37:24,155 Speaker 1: They would pre record the narration, and then the producer 544 00:37:24,195 --> 00:37:26,555 Speaker 1: would edit it. This is pre digital. It was done 545 00:37:26,635 --> 00:37:29,435 Speaker 1: tape to tape. It could take hours to edit it, 546 00:37:30,155 --> 00:37:34,275 Speaker 1: and the key was to track it to record that narration, 547 00:37:34,675 --> 00:37:37,275 Speaker 1: which was done in a tiny wood paneled room wreaking 548 00:37:37,315 --> 00:37:42,515 Speaker 1: of mildew that looked and smelled exactly like every suburban 549 00:37:42,755 --> 00:37:48,595 Speaker 1: basement wreck room in America October nineteen sixty five. That's 550 00:37:48,635 --> 00:37:51,195 Speaker 1: where Gary Miller found himself on the night of Friday, 551 00:37:51,275 --> 00:37:53,795 Speaker 1: June twenty fourth, nineteen ninety four, reading a script about 552 00:37:53,835 --> 00:37:56,595 Speaker 1: soccer players from around the world, none of whose names 553 00:37:57,315 --> 00:38:01,515 Speaker 1: he had ever seen before, let alone tried to pronounce. 554 00:38:02,195 --> 00:38:07,795 Speaker 1: It was the Soccer break Down in all senses of 555 00:38:07,835 --> 00:38:13,115 Speaker 1: the word. The raw tape, the original version of his 556 00:38:13,275 --> 00:38:16,955 Speaker 1: tracking session for the script for Soccer Breakdown, is easily 557 00:38:16,995 --> 00:38:21,915 Speaker 1: the most beloved bootleg in ESPN's history. In fact, it 558 00:38:21,995 --> 00:38:25,195 Speaker 1: is so popular that there are several different cuts of 559 00:38:25,235 --> 00:38:28,155 Speaker 1: this bootleg. People have sat down with the original tape, 560 00:38:28,155 --> 00:38:31,715 Speaker 1: which runs nearly twenty minutes, and edited it down to 561 00:38:31,875 --> 00:38:36,235 Speaker 1: only the best or worst parts. Now, I'm not going 562 00:38:36,275 --> 00:38:38,635 Speaker 1: to say I have a copy of the original I'm 563 00:38:38,675 --> 00:38:40,755 Speaker 1: simply going to note that Dan Patrick ran it on 564 00:38:40,795 --> 00:38:43,915 Speaker 1: his radio show in twenty seventeen and posted the whole 565 00:38:43,955 --> 00:38:48,075 Speaker 1: segment to YouTube. So yeah, that's where I got my 566 00:38:48,195 --> 00:38:52,355 Speaker 1: copy of it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 567 00:38:53,875 --> 00:38:57,635 Speaker 1: I'm going to annotate for you what happened, So let 568 00:38:57,715 --> 00:39:00,595 Speaker 1: me present this to you in three segments. It did 569 00:39:00,635 --> 00:39:04,915 Speaker 1: not start well for Gary, and it got worse from there. Hello, 570 00:39:05,635 --> 00:39:08,475 Speaker 1: mister Miller gave it its eternal title and life by 571 00:39:08,515 --> 00:39:12,155 Speaker 1: going sibilant on the s for the word soccer, I'll 572 00:39:12,195 --> 00:39:15,955 Speaker 1: note only one thing. The acronym of International Soccer's outfit 573 00:39:16,795 --> 00:39:20,915 Speaker 1: FIFA garriotts pronounced FIFA. 574 00:39:21,755 --> 00:39:27,035 Speaker 2: Soccer breakdown in three two one PIPHO Soccer's governing party 575 00:39:27,435 --> 00:39:30,555 Speaker 2: three two one PIPHA Soccer's. 576 00:39:30,195 --> 00:39:32,955 Speaker 1: Three two one. 577 00:39:34,195 --> 00:39:36,715 Speaker 2: The red card has become the calling card for this 578 00:39:36,795 --> 00:39:43,595 Speaker 2: year's tournament. Seven ejections for the three two one witness 579 00:39:43,635 --> 00:39:47,235 Speaker 2: Romania's ian Bladu against the Swiss is or. 580 00:39:47,475 --> 00:39:53,195 Speaker 1: Through christ Ah. But that was the easy part. Now 581 00:39:53,315 --> 00:39:55,795 Speaker 1: in the script came the names of the World Cup 582 00:39:55,835 --> 00:39:58,475 Speaker 1: stars who had been given red card ejections in the 583 00:39:58,515 --> 00:40:01,955 Speaker 1: first week of the tournament. One was the seventeen year 584 00:40:01,995 --> 00:40:06,275 Speaker 1: old star of the Cameroon team, rigor Bert's Song, often 585 00:40:06,315 --> 00:40:10,835 Speaker 1: referred to by his full name, Rigobert's Song Maahanog, or 586 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:16,115 Speaker 1: as it was said in the script, Riggerbird Bahanog song. 587 00:40:16,395 --> 00:40:27,235 Speaker 2: Three two one Cameroons Riggleberg Vanunjog three two what Cameroons 588 00:40:27,275 --> 00:40:34,515 Speaker 2: Riggelberg Byan gung Zang Zada da Yanyang's song three two 589 00:40:34,635 --> 00:40:37,715 Speaker 2: one Cameroon's Riggelberg Banyang Zong. 590 00:40:44,675 --> 00:40:49,555 Speaker 1: Bay Onyang song three two one three two one. By 591 00:40:49,595 --> 00:40:52,035 Speaker 1: the way, Rigobert's Song is now the manager of the 592 00:40:52,115 --> 00:40:54,635 Speaker 1: Cameroon team. He's gone from being the youngest player in 593 00:40:54,675 --> 00:40:56,795 Speaker 1: the World Cup history to get a red card to 594 00:40:56,995 --> 00:41:00,555 Speaker 1: running his nation's team. I'll interject here that at the 595 00:41:00,635 --> 00:41:03,675 Speaker 1: start of this final major clip, Gary Miller says, to 596 00:41:03,875 --> 00:41:07,395 Speaker 1: somebody who has currently entered that tracking room that smelled 597 00:41:07,435 --> 00:41:11,435 Speaker 1: of mildew, get out of here. Dan Patrick said that 598 00:41:11,675 --> 00:41:14,075 Speaker 1: was him. I think he's mistaken. It doesn't matter much, 599 00:41:14,115 --> 00:41:15,955 Speaker 1: but there was no reason for Dan to have been 600 00:41:15,995 --> 00:41:18,475 Speaker 1: there on a Friday night, especially if we were not 601 00:41:18,595 --> 00:41:21,875 Speaker 1: doing the show. And also there has never been a 602 00:41:21,995 --> 00:41:27,075 Speaker 1: microphone ever, but Dan has not spoken into anyway. We 603 00:41:27,195 --> 00:41:31,635 Speaker 1: have already met Rigobert Mahanog's song, Now meet my guy, 604 00:41:32,835 --> 00:41:38,435 Speaker 1: the Italian goalie John Luca Poaliuca two get out of here? 605 00:41:39,115 --> 00:41:44,195 Speaker 1: Two is guilted through two? How long is this tayed? Three? 606 00:41:45,675 --> 00:41:51,715 Speaker 2: Two one one good Cameron's Wriggleberg Bunyan song, providing a 607 00:41:51,795 --> 00:41:57,235 Speaker 2: breakaway from Brazil's babetto a Foah God Almighty, I hate Sucker, 608 00:41:58,035 --> 00:42:02,275 Speaker 2: Cameron's Wrigglberg Banyanyung song, I'm better try that one last 609 00:42:02,435 --> 00:42:09,395 Speaker 2: lead time two one Cameron's Wriggelberg Bunjung Yong song, Oh 610 00:42:09,515 --> 00:42:14,395 Speaker 2: I hate this chocop Olivia's Luis Cristaldo for both on 611 00:42:14,715 --> 00:42:17,835 Speaker 2: three to one, But the most notable red card of 612 00:42:17,875 --> 00:42:22,835 Speaker 2: the tournament came an Italian goaltender, Jean Luca Palyuca Pauloca 613 00:42:23,195 --> 00:42:26,955 Speaker 2: Pauluca the Mother three to one. 614 00:42:27,515 --> 00:42:28,315 Speaker 1: But the flurry of. 615 00:42:28,355 --> 00:42:31,355 Speaker 2: Red cards thus far has Todd coaches and players alike 616 00:42:31,715 --> 00:42:34,275 Speaker 2: to control their play. Is they'd like to control their 617 00:42:34,315 --> 00:42:35,715 Speaker 2: fate in this tournament? 618 00:42:36,555 --> 00:42:43,115 Speaker 1: Holy Lee, that is all the pronunciation of Rigovert's song's 619 00:42:43,195 --> 00:42:46,755 Speaker 1: name is one thing. I was delighted by how furious 620 00:42:46,835 --> 00:42:49,795 Speaker 1: Gary got at Gianluca Palyuka of the Italian team, and 621 00:42:49,875 --> 00:42:52,875 Speaker 1: the expletive he used to describe him, which you may 622 00:42:52,915 --> 00:42:55,835 Speaker 1: have just heard. In the days that followed. In fact, 623 00:42:55,875 --> 00:42:59,795 Speaker 1: the Italian goalies' name became shorthand for me for that 624 00:43:00,075 --> 00:43:03,115 Speaker 1: expletive in question. So for the next three years on 625 00:43:03,235 --> 00:43:06,755 Speaker 1: Sports Center and after that on Fox Sports News, and 626 00:43:06,915 --> 00:43:10,115 Speaker 1: then on my ESPN two show, and on Football Night 627 00:43:10,155 --> 00:43:12,675 Speaker 1: in America, and then when I returned to Sports Center 628 00:43:12,715 --> 00:43:15,515 Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, if you heard me say John Luca 629 00:43:15,595 --> 00:43:18,755 Speaker 1: Paluka while we were showing a player making an error 630 00:43:18,955 --> 00:43:22,115 Speaker 1: or arguing with an umpire or official, I was actually 631 00:43:22,235 --> 00:43:27,795 Speaker 1: implying that the player had just said John Luca Palyuka. 632 00:43:28,955 --> 00:43:31,635 Speaker 1: There's another punchline to this story, of course, the idea 633 00:43:31,795 --> 00:43:35,435 Speaker 1: to do this soccer breakdown that so bedeviled Gary Miller, 634 00:43:35,635 --> 00:43:37,595 Speaker 1: the story of red cards in the first week of 635 00:43:37,595 --> 00:43:40,355 Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety four World Cup. The idea to do 636 00:43:40,555 --> 00:43:48,755 Speaker 1: that came from Gary Miller, never volunteer. I've never been 637 00:43:48,875 --> 00:43:52,075 Speaker 1: convinced that Gary was really happy about his immortality certainly 638 00:43:52,155 --> 00:43:55,035 Speaker 1: not in the way my ESPN pal Steve Levy not 639 00:43:55,275 --> 00:43:58,715 Speaker 1: so secretly glorious in the day He once tried to 640 00:43:58,795 --> 00:44:01,555 Speaker 1: say that a New England Patriots player had a bulging disc, 641 00:44:02,315 --> 00:44:06,275 Speaker 1: but didn't quite get disc right. But Gary Miller has 642 00:44:06,315 --> 00:44:08,475 Speaker 1: been a good sport about this through the end of 643 00:44:08,515 --> 00:44:11,075 Speaker 1: his ESPN career in two thousand and four and afterwards 644 00:44:11,115 --> 00:44:13,235 Speaker 1: in his days at Channel two and Channel nine in 645 00:44:13,315 --> 00:44:15,755 Speaker 1: Los Angeles and most recently at Channel two in Cincinnati. 646 00:44:16,555 --> 00:44:19,075 Speaker 1: It isn't hard to understand why this tape is so 647 00:44:19,275 --> 00:44:23,715 Speaker 1: famous and the pleasure derived from it so enduring. As 648 00:44:23,835 --> 00:44:26,595 Speaker 1: John Cleese once said about the real life hotel manager 649 00:44:26,795 --> 00:44:29,835 Speaker 1: on whom he based his character from Faulty Towers, he 650 00:44:29,955 --> 00:44:34,955 Speaker 1: had this wonderful bad temper. But there are two more things. One, 651 00:44:35,235 --> 00:44:39,155 Speaker 1: this occurred exactly a week to the day after the 652 00:44:39,275 --> 00:44:42,715 Speaker 1: OJ Simpson car chase, and people forget now just how 653 00:44:42,875 --> 00:44:47,835 Speaker 1: disturbing that was in America, especially Sports America, like at ESPN, 654 00:44:48,235 --> 00:44:50,435 Speaker 1: that with the exception of a few of us who knew, 655 00:44:51,795 --> 00:44:54,715 Speaker 1: nobody knew how rotten a human being OJ Simpson was. 656 00:44:55,515 --> 00:44:58,635 Speaker 1: So even a week later, we all needed this laugh, 657 00:44:59,435 --> 00:45:03,515 Speaker 1: and Gary gave it to US and even larger. The 658 00:45:03,795 --> 00:45:06,635 Speaker 1: essence of pie in every country in which it is 659 00:45:06,675 --> 00:45:10,475 Speaker 1: played is that it always allows, and encourages and even 660 00:45:10,595 --> 00:45:15,675 Speaker 1: demands that its fans complain about it. And so while 661 00:45:15,755 --> 00:45:21,035 Speaker 1: we cherish Soccer Breakdown and three two one and Rigobert 662 00:45:21,155 --> 00:45:26,475 Speaker 1: Mahananng's song and bibbutto and John Luca Paluka, to me, 663 00:45:26,675 --> 00:45:29,435 Speaker 1: it is really about five words that anybody who hates 664 00:45:29,515 --> 00:45:32,395 Speaker 1: the game will say. But there are also five words 665 00:45:32,435 --> 00:45:36,115 Speaker 1: that any fan of the sport will certainly use at 666 00:45:36,235 --> 00:45:40,795 Speaker 1: some point in his life, possibly at some point today. 667 00:45:41,795 --> 00:45:44,755 Speaker 1: And they are the five words with which I will 668 00:45:44,835 --> 00:45:50,355 Speaker 1: leave you for now. A Foh God, almighty, I hate soccer. 669 00:45:51,075 --> 00:45:54,195 Speaker 1: Since I first told you this story, I have, as 670 00:45:54,275 --> 00:45:59,035 Speaker 1: I mentioned, rediscovered an artifact that I thought was gone forever. 671 00:45:59,875 --> 00:46:05,115 Speaker 1: Right after the Soccer Breakdown saga unfolded, an ESPN colleague 672 00:46:05,155 --> 00:46:08,475 Speaker 1: made me a copy of the original raw tape of 673 00:46:08,635 --> 00:46:12,195 Speaker 1: Gary and we put it on a cassette and I 674 00:46:12,275 --> 00:46:15,755 Speaker 1: couldn't find it. There were things on it that were 675 00:46:15,875 --> 00:46:21,635 Speaker 1: somehow lost from all subsequent copies of Soccer Breakdown. So 676 00:46:21,795 --> 00:46:24,515 Speaker 1: this is not as high depth, but I think it's 677 00:46:24,595 --> 00:46:26,595 Speaker 1: even more high comedy. 678 00:46:27,195 --> 00:46:32,195 Speaker 2: Soccer breakdown in three two one after a nineteen ninety 679 00:46:32,275 --> 00:46:35,635 Speaker 2: World Cup marked by physical play in low scores, Piphas 680 00:46:35,715 --> 00:46:39,715 Speaker 2: Soccer's three to one after a nineteen ninety World Cup 681 00:46:39,915 --> 00:46:45,915 Speaker 2: mark by three two one. After a nineteen ninety World 682 00:46:45,915 --> 00:46:49,475 Speaker 2: Cup marked by physical play and low scores, PEIFA Soccer's 683 00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:51,995 Speaker 2: governing body sent out a decree for the nineteen ninety 684 00:46:52,035 --> 00:46:55,355 Speaker 2: four Cup to be better police the results. The red 685 00:46:55,475 --> 00:46:58,275 Speaker 2: card has become the calling card for this year's tournament. 686 00:46:58,675 --> 00:47:05,235 Speaker 2: Seven ejections for the three two one. After aneen ninety 687 00:47:05,275 --> 00:47:08,675 Speaker 2: World Cup marked by physical play and low scores, Piphus 688 00:47:08,715 --> 00:47:11,555 Speaker 2: Soccer's governing body sent out the decree for the nineteen 689 00:47:11,635 --> 00:47:14,875 Speaker 2: ninety four Cup to be better police the result. The 690 00:47:14,995 --> 00:47:17,915 Speaker 2: red card has become the calling card for this year's tournament. 691 00:47:18,355 --> 00:47:21,195 Speaker 2: Seven ejections through the first twenty three matches and a 692 00:47:21,315 --> 00:47:24,515 Speaker 2: direct message that rough play will not be tolerated and 693 00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:27,315 Speaker 2: more teams will be playing a man down if it continues. 694 00:47:27,835 --> 00:47:31,395 Speaker 2: The goal, more goals, and a more palatable sell to 695 00:47:31,475 --> 00:47:37,275 Speaker 2: the American public. Three two one the results just over 696 00:47:37,355 --> 00:47:39,555 Speaker 2: two and a half goals of contests compared to two 697 00:47:39,595 --> 00:47:42,275 Speaker 2: point two per game at the nineteen ninety Cup in Italy. 698 00:47:42,715 --> 00:47:45,155 Speaker 2: Why does the red card come out? A fife A 699 00:47:45,275 --> 00:47:47,395 Speaker 2: rule book states a player shall be sent off the 700 00:47:47,475 --> 00:47:50,035 Speaker 2: field of play and shown the red card if, in 701 00:47:50,075 --> 00:47:53,395 Speaker 2: the opinion of the referee he won is guilty of 702 00:47:53,515 --> 00:47:58,155 Speaker 2: violent conduct witness Romania's ian Bladu against the Swiss is 703 00:47:58,475 --> 00:48:03,635 Speaker 2: or through christ three two one. Why does the red 704 00:48:03,715 --> 00:48:06,075 Speaker 2: card come out? The fight for rule book states the 705 00:48:06,075 --> 00:48:08,075 Speaker 2: players should be set off the field of play and 706 00:48:08,235 --> 00:48:10,635 Speaker 2: shown the red card if, in the opinion of the 707 00:48:10,715 --> 00:48:15,075 Speaker 2: referee he won is guilty of violent conduct witness Romania's 708 00:48:15,115 --> 00:48:19,035 Speaker 2: ian Bladyu against the Swiss. Two is guilty of serious 709 00:48:19,155 --> 00:48:28,315 Speaker 2: foul play. Cameroons Rigolberg vanumnjog Van and Young Song prevented 710 00:48:28,355 --> 00:48:34,875 Speaker 2: a breakaway from the betto three to what two is 711 00:48:34,915 --> 00:48:39,355 Speaker 2: guilty of serious foul play. Cameroons Rigelberg Bayan Gung Zang 712 00:48:39,635 --> 00:48:46,995 Speaker 2: Zada Da Bayangyang song three two one two is guilty 713 00:48:47,035 --> 00:49:00,395 Speaker 2: of serious foul play. Cameroon's Rigolberg Banyang zong Bayan Yang 714 00:49:00,595 --> 00:49:05,395 Speaker 2: song three two one two Get out of here two 715 00:49:06,235 --> 00:49:11,835 Speaker 2: is guilty Through two How long is this tape? Two 716 00:49:12,235 --> 00:49:16,555 Speaker 2: is guilty of serious foul play. Cameroon's Riggleberg Bunyang song 717 00:49:16,875 --> 00:49:21,915 Speaker 2: prevented a breakaway from Brazil's babbetto a Foh God Almighty, 718 00:49:21,995 --> 00:49:26,955 Speaker 2: I hate sucker. Two is guilty of serious foul play. 719 00:49:27,315 --> 00:49:31,435 Speaker 2: Cameroon's Riggoberg Bun Yung jung song provided a breakaway from 720 00:49:31,475 --> 00:49:35,675 Speaker 2: Brazil's Bavetto, a play both serious and foul, deserving of 721 00:49:35,755 --> 00:49:38,795 Speaker 2: a red card. I'm better try that one last time. 722 00:49:38,995 --> 00:49:44,235 Speaker 2: Two one two is guilty of serious foul play. Cameroon's 723 00:49:44,315 --> 00:49:48,395 Speaker 2: Rigglebird bun Yung yong song prevented a breakaway from Brazil's 724 00:49:48,435 --> 00:49:51,875 Speaker 2: babetto a play both serious and foul and deserving of 725 00:49:51,955 --> 00:49:55,395 Speaker 2: a red card. Free use his foul or abusive language. 726 00:49:55,795 --> 00:49:58,315 Speaker 2: Can't show you that? And four is guilty of a 727 00:49:58,435 --> 00:50:04,195 Speaker 2: second cautionable I hate this free use his foul or 728 00:50:04,235 --> 00:50:07,875 Speaker 2: abusive language. And four is guilty of a second cautionable 729 00:50:07,875 --> 00:50:12,315 Speaker 2: offense after having received the caution. Chalcop Bolivia's Luis Cristaldo 730 00:50:12,795 --> 00:50:16,995 Speaker 2: for both on three to one. Chocop Bolivia is Luis 731 00:50:17,075 --> 00:50:19,875 Speaker 2: Cristaldo for both on this case, as he receives a 732 00:50:19,955 --> 00:50:22,635 Speaker 2: yellow card and then uses on a foul or abusive 733 00:50:22,715 --> 00:50:25,435 Speaker 2: language to draw a second yellow and be ejected against 734 00:50:25,435 --> 00:50:28,315 Speaker 2: South Korea. A tone was set in the first match 735 00:50:28,355 --> 00:50:32,595 Speaker 2: of the tournament when Bolivia's Marco Antonio Etcheveri was ejected 736 00:50:32,635 --> 00:50:35,315 Speaker 2: for this illegal kick against the Germans, but the most 737 00:50:35,395 --> 00:50:37,995 Speaker 2: notable red card of the tournament came an Italian goal 738 00:50:38,115 --> 00:50:43,715 Speaker 2: under Jean Luca Paulucca on the mother three to one. 739 00:50:44,355 --> 00:50:46,435 Speaker 2: But the most notable red card of the tournament came 740 00:50:46,475 --> 00:50:50,755 Speaker 2: when Italian goaltunder John Luca Pauloca was ejected against Norway 741 00:50:50,875 --> 00:50:54,195 Speaker 2: for a handball outside the goal where the game was 742 00:50:54,235 --> 00:50:57,995 Speaker 2: still schoolless three two one. But the most notable red 743 00:50:58,035 --> 00:51:00,315 Speaker 2: card of the tournament came when Italian goal tutor John 744 00:51:00,395 --> 00:51:04,395 Speaker 2: Luca Pauluca was ejected against Norway for a handball outside 745 00:51:04,435 --> 00:51:07,555 Speaker 2: the go with the game still scoreless down a man. 746 00:51:07,795 --> 00:51:11,675 Speaker 2: A team's first instinct is defense an injured Roberto Baggio, 747 00:51:11,715 --> 00:51:14,075 Speaker 2: who is now a liability, even if he is one 748 00:51:14,075 --> 00:51:17,475 Speaker 2: of the world's most talented offensive players. The gamble paid 749 00:51:17,555 --> 00:51:20,435 Speaker 2: off Italy still alive in this year's World Cup, but 750 00:51:20,595 --> 00:51:23,195 Speaker 2: the flurry of red cars thus far has taught coaches 751 00:51:23,315 --> 00:51:25,955 Speaker 2: and players alike to control their play. 752 00:51:25,955 --> 00:51:31,755 Speaker 1: If they'd like to, and with that we welcome Lionel 753 00:51:32,475 --> 00:51:52,155 Speaker 1: Messi or is it a Lionel Messiah Brebeto. I've done 754 00:51:52,195 --> 00:51:54,275 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 755 00:51:54,315 --> 00:51:56,555 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music arrange produced 756 00:51:56,555 --> 00:51:59,475 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel, who 757 00:51:59,515 --> 00:52:02,995 Speaker 1: are the Countdown musical directors. Guitars based and drums by 758 00:52:03,035 --> 00:52:06,315 Speaker 1: Brian Ray, All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillips Chanel, 759 00:52:06,715 --> 00:52:10,475 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 760 00:52:10,515 --> 00:52:13,755 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. Sports music 761 00:52:13,915 --> 00:52:16,155 Speaker 1: is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, and it was 762 00:52:16,155 --> 00:52:20,075 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Musical 763 00:52:20,155 --> 00:52:23,075 Speaker 1: comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 764 00:52:23,395 --> 00:52:26,475 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Kenny Maine. Everything else 765 00:52:26,555 --> 00:52:30,075 Speaker 1: is pretty much my fault. Don't forget. Countdown now also 766 00:52:30,155 --> 00:52:32,995 Speaker 1: available on YouTube for those of you who prefer a 767 00:52:33,115 --> 00:52:37,275 Speaker 1: small animated me to accompany my reading of this script. 768 00:52:38,195 --> 00:52:40,275 Speaker 1: That's countdown for this the nine hundred and twenty fourth 769 00:52:40,355 --> 00:52:43,555 Speaker 1: days since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 770 00:52:43,555 --> 00:52:47,115 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States, arrest him again while 771 00:52:47,235 --> 00:52:51,395 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins 772 00:52:51,475 --> 00:52:54,715 Speaker 1: as the news warrants till then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, 773 00:52:54,795 --> 00:53:01,555 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Hey, dude, there's 774 00:53:01,635 --> 00:53:03,475 Speaker 1: no way you would have gotten away with that. I know. 775 00:53:03,635 --> 00:53:07,995 Speaker 1: Luckily I cocaine like it's not my thing. Countdown with 776 00:53:08,155 --> 00:53:12,395 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts 777 00:53:12,435 --> 00:53:17,115 Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 778 00:53:17,235 --> 00:53:18,555 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.