1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,595 --> 00:00:29,075 Speaker 1: Screw the Election Interference Rule. Somebody in the FBI is 3 00:00:29,115 --> 00:00:31,915 Speaker 1: trying to leak the word out before the mid terms. 4 00:00:31,995 --> 00:00:35,435 Speaker 1: They are ready to charge Trump with obstruction of justice 5 00:00:35,555 --> 00:00:39,315 Speaker 1: in like the week between Christmas and New Year's but no, 6 00:00:39,515 --> 00:00:43,915 Speaker 1: they have not committed to do so. Bloomberg News has 7 00:00:43,955 --> 00:00:47,115 Speaker 1: reported this to the weary, jaded, and too often disappointed 8 00:00:47,155 --> 00:00:51,795 Speaker 1: residents of Free America and gotten a predictably unenthusiastic response. 9 00:00:52,235 --> 00:00:56,435 Speaker 1: But the details are worth hearing, and it's worth deconstructing 10 00:00:56,475 --> 00:00:59,475 Speaker 1: the clues as to where the leaker works. And best 11 00:00:59,515 --> 00:01:02,555 Speaker 1: of all, there is one fascinating caveat in the report 12 00:01:02,835 --> 00:01:06,355 Speaker 1: that states, with inappropriate matter factness that if they're gonna 13 00:01:06,475 --> 00:01:10,555 Speaker 1: charge L. Douche with obstruction of justice, they're not gonna 14 00:01:10,755 --> 00:01:14,675 Speaker 1: just charge L. Douche with obstruction of justice. Here's the 15 00:01:14,675 --> 00:01:19,755 Speaker 1: Bloomberg lead quote. A group of Justice Department prosecutors believe 16 00:01:20,275 --> 00:01:24,355 Speaker 1: there is sufficient evidence to charge Donald Trump with obstruction 17 00:01:24,395 --> 00:01:28,195 Speaker 1: of justice, but the path to an actual indictment is 18 00:01:28,235 --> 00:01:31,275 Speaker 1: far from clear. So the leak is coming from inside 19 00:01:31,315 --> 00:01:33,555 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, says it right there, A group 20 00:01:33,595 --> 00:01:39,995 Speaker 1: of Justice Department prosecutors believe not so fast deep throat breath. Throughout, 21 00:01:40,635 --> 00:01:44,875 Speaker 1: Bloomberg News refers to its sources as quote people familiar 22 00:01:44,915 --> 00:01:48,115 Speaker 1: with the matter as in quote. While some Federal Bureau 23 00:01:48,115 --> 00:01:51,755 Speaker 1: of Investigation agents opposed bringing such a politically charged case 24 00:01:51,955 --> 00:01:57,835 Speaker 1: as Trump considers presidential bid, others support action, said the 25 00:01:57,915 --> 00:02:02,115 Speaker 1: people who asked for anonymity to discuss information not yet 26 00:02:02,155 --> 00:02:07,635 Speaker 1: public agents. However, don't the final decisions. End quote. There 27 00:02:07,715 --> 00:02:10,075 Speaker 1: is also a later reference in the article to quote 28 00:02:10,315 --> 00:02:15,115 Speaker 1: internal critics, including FBI agents, are questioning why charges would 29 00:02:15,115 --> 00:02:17,555 Speaker 1: be brought against Trump unquote. And you know where that 30 00:02:17,595 --> 00:02:22,275 Speaker 1: paragraph is going, because her emails. In any event, the 31 00:02:22,395 --> 00:02:28,075 Speaker 1: sources are FBI agents. It's always FBI agents, deep throat. 32 00:02:28,155 --> 00:02:31,755 Speaker 1: Wasn't just that sperned Deputy Director Mark Felt. It was 33 00:02:31,835 --> 00:02:35,395 Speaker 1: literally dozens of FBI agents who thought the info they 34 00:02:35,395 --> 00:02:38,595 Speaker 1: had dug up on Watergate was getting buried. They gave 35 00:02:38,595 --> 00:02:41,355 Speaker 1: it to Felt, that Felt gave it to Bob Woodward. 36 00:02:41,955 --> 00:02:45,915 Speaker 1: And so consider the source FBI agents when you hear 37 00:02:45,955 --> 00:02:48,675 Speaker 1: this stuff, which to me not only narrows down who's 38 00:02:48,755 --> 00:02:52,875 Speaker 1: leading this, but actually cautiously laying the groundwork for potentially 39 00:02:52,915 --> 00:02:56,355 Speaker 1: a much bigger story. Quote, the team that's part of 40 00:02:56,355 --> 00:02:59,915 Speaker 1: the classified records probe has not yet made a formal 41 00:02:59,955 --> 00:03:04,195 Speaker 1: recommendation to Attorney General Merritt Garland. Okay, so it's FBI 42 00:03:04,275 --> 00:03:07,555 Speaker 1: agents who are part of the team going over the 43 00:03:07,635 --> 00:03:12,355 Speaker 1: secret documents Trump stole and now regurgitating to Bloomberg what 44 00:03:12,555 --> 00:03:16,795 Speaker 1: their Department of Justice teammates are telling them. And then 45 00:03:16,875 --> 00:03:19,835 Speaker 1: comes the most interesting line in the entire piece, quote, 46 00:03:20,315 --> 00:03:26,515 Speaker 1: it's also unlikely officials would bring only obstruction charges amid 47 00:03:26,635 --> 00:03:30,795 Speaker 1: several other Trump investigations into potential crimes. The people said, 48 00:03:30,795 --> 00:03:34,395 Speaker 1: again with the people. But does that mean if they're 49 00:03:34,395 --> 00:03:37,995 Speaker 1: convinced the obstructed justice, they would not charge him if 50 00:03:37,995 --> 00:03:41,275 Speaker 1: they don't have a more serious charge to go with it, 51 00:03:41,355 --> 00:03:44,315 Speaker 1: Or does that mean they are ready now to charge 52 00:03:44,355 --> 00:03:46,955 Speaker 1: him with obstruction of justice and are just searching for 53 00:03:46,995 --> 00:03:50,035 Speaker 1: the right other charges and simply are not ready even 54 00:03:50,115 --> 00:03:53,755 Speaker 1: internally to tell anybody that there is sufficient evidence for 55 00:03:53,875 --> 00:03:57,835 Speaker 1: the espionage crimes or the document mishandling crimes, or the 56 00:03:57,915 --> 00:04:02,635 Speaker 1: presidential records violations crimes that the d o J is 57 00:04:02,675 --> 00:04:05,475 Speaker 1: satisfied they've got the goods to charge Trump on obstruction 58 00:04:05,555 --> 00:04:08,635 Speaker 1: is a no brainer. It was in the affidavit with 59 00:04:08,715 --> 00:04:12,555 Speaker 1: which they got the August five search warrant for Marilago, 60 00:04:12,635 --> 00:04:15,635 Speaker 1: and the judge agreed there was probable cause for charging 61 00:04:15,715 --> 00:04:18,435 Speaker 1: him with obstruction and put that in the search warrant. 62 00:04:18,955 --> 00:04:20,955 Speaker 1: And just over a week ago, when the d o 63 00:04:21,035 --> 00:04:23,635 Speaker 1: J argued that the Supreme Court should stay out of this, 64 00:04:24,075 --> 00:04:27,355 Speaker 1: as it did, it's brief read that the FBI had 65 00:04:27,395 --> 00:04:31,355 Speaker 1: found evidence quote that efforts had likely been undertaken to 66 00:04:31,475 --> 00:04:36,075 Speaker 1: obstruct the investigation. I mean getting a subpoena for any 67 00:04:36,155 --> 00:04:39,555 Speaker 1: classified documents you have not returned a year after you 68 00:04:39,595 --> 00:04:42,995 Speaker 1: were asked nicely, and responding to that subpoena by telling 69 00:04:43,115 --> 00:04:46,595 Speaker 1: Walt naw To and or Will Russell to move the 70 00:04:46,635 --> 00:04:50,875 Speaker 1: boxes of classified documents you stole is such obstruction of 71 00:04:50,995 --> 00:04:53,795 Speaker 1: justice that the sequence could be taught in law schools. 72 00:04:53,995 --> 00:04:56,795 Speaker 1: And then telling now to and or Russell not to 73 00:04:56,875 --> 00:04:59,915 Speaker 1: tell investigators you told them to move the boxes is 74 00:04:59,995 --> 00:05:04,875 Speaker 1: almost as obvious an obstruction charge. There are several real 75 00:05:04,915 --> 00:05:07,995 Speaker 1: implications in here that if they act, they want to 76 00:05:08,075 --> 00:05:11,635 Speaker 1: coordinate this with the other attempts to bring Trump to justice, 77 00:05:11,835 --> 00:05:14,715 Speaker 1: and there is essentially a new one of those in 78 00:05:14,755 --> 00:05:18,355 Speaker 1: Georgia now where a federal judge has breathed life into 79 00:05:18,395 --> 00:05:22,555 Speaker 1: that case by agreeing that Trump knowingly swore to false 80 00:05:22,635 --> 00:05:25,915 Speaker 1: allegations in at least one of his phony lawsuits trying 81 00:05:25,955 --> 00:05:28,715 Speaker 1: to get the Georgia voting results overturned as part of 82 00:05:28,715 --> 00:05:33,435 Speaker 1: the Eastman electors coup. This judge, David Carter, issued an 83 00:05:33,475 --> 00:05:38,075 Speaker 1: eighteen page opinion saying emails quote show that President Trump 84 00:05:38,195 --> 00:05:40,875 Speaker 1: knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong, 85 00:05:41,195 --> 00:05:44,555 Speaker 1: but continued to tout those numbers both in court and 86 00:05:44,635 --> 00:05:50,155 Speaker 1: to the public, but his emails. Ironically, it was John 87 00:05:50,155 --> 00:05:53,075 Speaker 1: Eastman himself who warned Trump and his attorneys that the 88 00:05:53,155 --> 00:05:55,915 Speaker 1: numbers in their Fulton County suit were wrong, and he 89 00:05:56,035 --> 00:05:58,795 Speaker 1: told them not to have Trump attest to them again. 90 00:05:58,915 --> 00:06:02,315 Speaker 1: Trump did it anyway. This is lying in a sworn statement. 91 00:06:02,355 --> 00:06:06,715 Speaker 1: The courts really don't like that. It is unlikely the E. 92 00:06:07,035 --> 00:06:10,955 Speaker 1: Gene Carol lawsuit and impending refiling of the rape allegation 93 00:06:10,995 --> 00:06:14,155 Speaker 1: against Trump will factor into the timing. Though Trump was 94 00:06:14,275 --> 00:06:17,755 Speaker 1: in fact opposed yesterday at Mari Lago. Carol is suing 95 00:06:17,835 --> 00:06:21,835 Speaker 1: him for defamation over his response to her allegation. Her 96 00:06:21,915 --> 00:06:24,515 Speaker 1: lawyers say they were pleased they got Trump's deposition, but 97 00:06:24,595 --> 00:06:27,715 Speaker 1: can say nothing else. She says next month she will 98 00:06:27,755 --> 00:06:30,395 Speaker 1: sue him again under a new state law in New 99 00:06:30,475 --> 00:06:33,995 Speaker 1: York that wipes out the statute of limitations for sexual assault. 100 00:06:34,875 --> 00:06:40,915 Speaker 1: So when already, if the blue berg FBI source, the 101 00:06:41,155 --> 00:06:45,235 Speaker 1: ghost of Mark felt over here is right, when do 102 00:06:45,315 --> 00:06:48,555 Speaker 1: we get this show on the road. If we're going 103 00:06:48,635 --> 00:06:53,035 Speaker 1: to charge him? This will happen Wednesday, November nine, day 104 00:06:53,075 --> 00:06:56,355 Speaker 1: after the mid terms, three weeks from yesterday, right, No 105 00:06:57,595 --> 00:07:01,555 Speaker 1: quoting again, No charges are likely to be filed or 106 00:07:01,675 --> 00:07:06,155 Speaker 1: publicly revealed before the November eight mid term elections, and 107 00:07:06,235 --> 00:07:12,075 Speaker 1: perhaps only after the Christmas holiday, the people said, more 108 00:07:12,275 --> 00:07:16,715 Speaker 1: of these bloomberg people. Some officials want to finish examining 109 00:07:16,755 --> 00:07:20,235 Speaker 1: all relevant documents, in part to determine whether Trump should 110 00:07:20,275 --> 00:07:24,795 Speaker 1: face other charges, the people said, But that process has 111 00:07:24,795 --> 00:07:27,915 Speaker 1: been slowed by a court ordered special master's review of 112 00:07:27,955 --> 00:07:30,995 Speaker 1: the materials, which is not due to be completed until 113 00:07:30,995 --> 00:07:38,755 Speaker 1: December six, unquote. So when already Tuesday, December, Look you're 114 00:07:38,755 --> 00:07:42,355 Speaker 1: gonna wait that long. Let's clear the New Year's holiday too, 115 00:07:42,395 --> 00:07:45,955 Speaker 1: And you know what, I've got just the date to 116 00:07:46,035 --> 00:07:50,715 Speaker 1: announce the indictments of Donald John Trump for everything from 117 00:07:50,755 --> 00:07:57,555 Speaker 1: obstruction of justice to espionage. Here's the date, the first 118 00:07:58,115 --> 00:08:21,035 Speaker 1: Friday of three January, the six still ahead on countdown, 119 00:08:21,115 --> 00:08:27,235 Speaker 1: Kimberly Gilfoyle attacks Nancy Pelosi over alleged plastic surgery, and 120 00:08:27,315 --> 00:08:29,635 Speaker 1: I'm thinking of starting a go fund me to go 121 00:08:29,835 --> 00:08:33,235 Speaker 1: by kim a mirror when push comes to shove in 122 00:08:33,235 --> 00:08:37,555 Speaker 1: the fiasco of the amazing disintegrating British government. No, no, literally, 123 00:08:38,155 --> 00:08:41,155 Speaker 1: push has come to shove in the fiasco of the 124 00:08:41,155 --> 00:08:45,355 Speaker 1: amazing disintegrating British governments and the Yankees, the Astros and 125 00:08:45,435 --> 00:08:49,315 Speaker 1: Roger Clemens altogether. Again, that's a lot of unpopular in 126 00:08:49,395 --> 00:08:52,515 Speaker 1: one place, and in things I promised not to tell. 127 00:08:52,595 --> 00:08:54,675 Speaker 1: The day Netflix said, yes, we would like to be 128 00:08:54,755 --> 00:08:57,715 Speaker 1: the new home of your political commentaries, but what about 129 00:08:57,715 --> 00:09:00,555 Speaker 1: the forty eight hour delay so we can add the 130 00:09:00,595 --> 00:09:15,515 Speaker 1: Italian subtitles? Seriously, that's next. This is countdown. This is countdown. 131 00:09:16,875 --> 00:09:23,715 Speaker 1: With Keith Overman still ahead. What would you say to 132 00:09:23,835 --> 00:09:26,435 Speaker 1: j d Vance if you saw him taking out the garbage? 133 00:09:26,915 --> 00:09:29,675 Speaker 1: I know I would sure use a series of f words, 134 00:09:30,475 --> 00:09:34,155 Speaker 1: just like somebody actually did in Cincinnati yesterday. And it's 135 00:09:34,195 --> 00:09:36,715 Speaker 1: one thing to claim Nancy Pelosi has had too much 136 00:09:36,755 --> 00:09:39,915 Speaker 1: plastic surgery. But it's quite another to make that claim 137 00:09:39,915 --> 00:09:45,275 Speaker 1: while you are busily being Kimberly Guilfoil worst person, straight 138 00:09:45,275 --> 00:09:48,235 Speaker 1: ahead first. In each edition of Countdown, we feature a 139 00:09:48,275 --> 00:09:50,555 Speaker 1: dog in need whom you can help. Every dog has 140 00:09:50,595 --> 00:09:54,115 Speaker 1: its day. It's really sad. Griffin is on the list 141 00:09:54,155 --> 00:09:57,555 Speaker 1: to die at the pound in Lancaster, California. He has 142 00:09:57,595 --> 00:10:00,875 Speaker 1: been neglected, starved, and now somebody designs they have the 143 00:10:00,955 --> 00:10:04,115 Speaker 1: right to end his life. Because when he gets food, 144 00:10:04,475 --> 00:10:07,915 Speaker 1: he guards the food. He also wags his tail happily 145 00:10:07,995 --> 00:10:11,675 Speaker 1: at all humans and gratefully kisses and licks whoever brings 146 00:10:11,755 --> 00:10:14,195 Speaker 1: him that food. That is enough to suggest he could 147 00:10:14,235 --> 00:10:16,955 Speaker 1: be trained and he could be happy. He needs a 148 00:10:16,995 --> 00:10:19,235 Speaker 1: rescue to pull him out, and a rescue needs our 149 00:10:19,315 --> 00:10:22,315 Speaker 1: pledges to help him defray their expenses. If you'd like 150 00:10:22,395 --> 00:10:24,795 Speaker 1: to donate to help Griffin, he will be the pinned 151 00:10:24,915 --> 00:10:27,675 Speaker 1: tweet at my account for dogs in Need at Tom 152 00:10:27,755 --> 00:10:31,515 Speaker 1: Jumbo Grumbo. Retweeting his story will also help. And thank 153 00:10:31,515 --> 00:10:44,235 Speaker 1: you very much for doing so. Both scripts to the 154 00:10:44,275 --> 00:10:48,635 Speaker 1: news now, some headlines, some insights, some snark. Dateline Middletown, Ohio. 155 00:10:48,795 --> 00:10:52,035 Speaker 1: J d Vance heard the voice of the Ohio voter yesterday. 156 00:10:52,275 --> 00:10:56,555 Speaker 1: According to Cincinnati Enquirer, columnist Dan Sewell Vance told an 157 00:10:56,595 --> 00:10:59,395 Speaker 1: audience in Middletown, Ohio, that as he was putting out 158 00:10:59,435 --> 00:11:03,475 Speaker 1: the trash outside his Cincinnati home yesterday morning, a driver 159 00:11:03,675 --> 00:11:09,435 Speaker 1: slowed and yelled old at him, F you fascist by trash. 160 00:11:09,475 --> 00:11:13,355 Speaker 1: I assume he's referring to his campaign platform dateline Columbus, Ohio. 161 00:11:13,475 --> 00:11:16,555 Speaker 1: He might not be our idea of a liberal liberal, 162 00:11:16,835 --> 00:11:19,715 Speaker 1: but he had no hesitation calling Vans a liar in 163 00:11:19,755 --> 00:11:23,875 Speaker 1: their two Senate debates. So Ohio Democratic candidate Tim Ryan 164 00:11:23,995 --> 00:11:27,595 Speaker 1: asked rhetorically last night, why is it that party leaders quote, 165 00:11:27,635 --> 00:11:32,035 Speaker 1: don't smell blood in Ohio and help his campaign financially 166 00:11:32,275 --> 00:11:35,195 Speaker 1: and send the stars to Ohio down the stretch there 167 00:11:35,395 --> 00:11:40,515 Speaker 1: to help him beat a very beatable fascist. F you fascist? 168 00:11:41,475 --> 00:11:44,155 Speaker 1: National Democrats have been known not to make very good 169 00:11:44,155 --> 00:11:48,035 Speaker 1: strategic decisions over the years. Ryan told The Washington Post 170 00:11:48,155 --> 00:11:51,395 Speaker 1: last night, there's a frustration among rank and file Democrats 171 00:11:51,395 --> 00:11:54,315 Speaker 1: that the leadership doesn't quite understand where we want this 172 00:11:54,355 --> 00:11:59,875 Speaker 1: party to be. F you fascist. In point of fact, 173 00:11:59,915 --> 00:12:03,115 Speaker 1: Senate majority Pack has spent no money on Tim Ryan's 174 00:12:03,115 --> 00:12:05,435 Speaker 1: campaign in two thousand six, and it spent more than 175 00:12:05,475 --> 00:12:08,355 Speaker 1: ten million in an unsuccessful bid to get rid of 176 00:12:08,355 --> 00:12:11,715 Speaker 1: Republican Rob Portman. You can't argue with Tim Ryan here 177 00:12:11,875 --> 00:12:15,635 Speaker 1: the seat is winnable. Pay the two dollars and remember 178 00:12:16,355 --> 00:12:22,235 Speaker 1: fe O fascist and dateline Houses of Parliament, London. The 179 00:12:22,355 --> 00:12:27,795 Speaker 1: comic relief but her emails once again. Incredibly, the United 180 00:12:27,875 --> 00:12:30,635 Speaker 1: Kingdom has pulled back in front of we here in 181 00:12:30,675 --> 00:12:32,755 Speaker 1: the United States and the race to have the most 182 00:12:32,875 --> 00:12:37,715 Speaker 1: unbelievably stupid government in the Western world. As one British 183 00:12:37,755 --> 00:12:41,235 Speaker 1: newspaper reminded us, the new Prime Minister Liz Trust has 184 00:12:41,315 --> 00:12:44,155 Speaker 1: just now made it to forty four days in office. 185 00:12:44,395 --> 00:12:47,595 Speaker 1: That's the same length of time that magician David Blaine 186 00:12:48,035 --> 00:12:51,595 Speaker 1: spent suspended over the River Thames in a glass box. 187 00:12:52,075 --> 00:12:54,555 Speaker 1: She may not make it to day forty five because 188 00:12:54,555 --> 00:12:58,995 Speaker 1: on day forty three her Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, resigned 189 00:12:59,435 --> 00:13:04,795 Speaker 1: supposedly after using personal email to conduct government business. But 190 00:13:04,875 --> 00:13:08,595 Speaker 1: Braverman turned her letter of resignation into a screed against 191 00:13:08,595 --> 00:13:13,675 Speaker 1: Prime Minister Trust for supposedly softening on limiting immigration. It 192 00:13:13,835 --> 00:13:18,515 Speaker 1: may have been a stunt resignation. Braverman is rapidly anti immigrant, 193 00:13:18,515 --> 00:13:22,515 Speaker 1: which is noteworthy because yep, her parents are from Kenya 194 00:13:22,835 --> 00:13:26,355 Speaker 1: and Mauritius. Now it didn't stop there. That was just 195 00:13:26,435 --> 00:13:30,795 Speaker 1: the opening act. Parliament conducted a vote on fracking yesterday. 196 00:13:30,915 --> 00:13:34,195 Speaker 1: Trust's government declared it a so called confidence vote meeting. 197 00:13:34,195 --> 00:13:36,715 Speaker 1: Members of the Conservative Party had to vote for it 198 00:13:36,835 --> 00:13:39,635 Speaker 1: or they would be thrown out of the party. A 199 00:13:39,675 --> 00:13:43,035 Speaker 1: series of witnesses then reported that a Conservative member was 200 00:13:43,115 --> 00:13:47,275 Speaker 1: being literally pushed and shoved by party leaders like Jacob 201 00:13:47,315 --> 00:13:51,555 Speaker 1: Reese mag There idiot in the top hat and Terse Coffee, 202 00:13:51,675 --> 00:13:54,755 Speaker 1: the Health secretary, who was already on the ropes after 203 00:13:54,835 --> 00:13:58,515 Speaker 1: admitting the day before that she had illegally given antibiotics 204 00:13:58,515 --> 00:14:01,635 Speaker 1: to friends and relatives. And then a third story broke 205 00:14:01,995 --> 00:14:05,915 Speaker 1: with another Conservative saying they they would see the resign 206 00:14:05,995 --> 00:14:10,795 Speaker 1: Suella Braverman rejoining the cabinet in the new year. The 207 00:14:10,875 --> 00:14:14,755 Speaker 1: headline of a British tabloid summed this all up sue 208 00:14:14,955 --> 00:14:32,035 Speaker 1: l of a mess. This is Sports Center. Wait, check 209 00:14:32,115 --> 00:14:40,795 Speaker 1: that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith Alban. In sports, 210 00:14:40,835 --> 00:14:44,595 Speaker 1: the American League Championship Series opens with the most unpopular 211 00:14:44,675 --> 00:14:47,835 Speaker 1: teams in the circuit, the Astros and Yankees, meeting for 212 00:14:47,875 --> 00:14:51,155 Speaker 1: the fourth time in seven years. Houston wins the opener 213 00:14:51,195 --> 00:14:54,835 Speaker 1: four to two because they hit three homers and the 214 00:14:54,875 --> 00:14:58,155 Speaker 1: Yankees only hit two. And if you still believe baseball's 215 00:14:58,195 --> 00:15:02,995 Speaker 1: postseason is decided by expert pitching, over the last four years, 216 00:15:03,035 --> 00:15:05,635 Speaker 1: the playoff team that has hit the most home runs 217 00:15:05,675 --> 00:15:08,835 Speaker 1: in the game has won a hundred and one games 218 00:15:09,355 --> 00:15:13,955 Speaker 1: and lost just nineteen X Yankee x astro xpe d 219 00:15:14,195 --> 00:15:17,595 Speaker 1: Roger Clemens throughout the first pitch and somehow he hit 220 00:15:17,715 --> 00:15:21,275 Speaker 1: Mike Piazza with it. Game two of the National League Series. 221 00:15:21,435 --> 00:15:23,475 Speaker 1: The Phillies jumped out to a four zip lead at 222 00:15:23,515 --> 00:15:26,355 Speaker 1: San Diego, but they only hit one homer and the 223 00:15:26,395 --> 00:15:30,875 Speaker 1: Padres hit three. And there's a baseball fan since nineteen six, boy, 224 00:15:30,915 --> 00:15:33,475 Speaker 1: I could not be more bored by the game they 225 00:15:33,475 --> 00:15:36,035 Speaker 1: are putting on the field now, and it will not 226 00:15:36,115 --> 00:15:39,795 Speaker 1: be improved one bit by simply eliminating the infield shift. 227 00:15:39,915 --> 00:15:42,715 Speaker 1: Next year, Padres and Phillies tied at the game. A 228 00:15:42,795 --> 00:15:46,755 Speaker 1: piece series moves to Philadelphia, where three lineman from the 229 00:15:46,755 --> 00:15:50,595 Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles plus a former linebacker named Connor Barwin are 230 00:15:50,635 --> 00:15:54,915 Speaker 1: going to release a Christmas album, A Philly Special Christmas 231 00:15:55,315 --> 00:15:57,795 Speaker 1: comes out December twenty three. The name is a reference 232 00:15:57,835 --> 00:16:01,355 Speaker 1: to their trick play in Super Bowl fifty two, and 233 00:16:01,395 --> 00:16:04,275 Speaker 1: this gives me a chance to confirm the age old 234 00:16:04,355 --> 00:16:07,995 Speaker 1: story that is often dismissed as apocryphal, but is actually 235 00:16:08,075 --> 00:16:12,075 Speaker 1: true that it was Philly fans, Philly Eagles fans who 236 00:16:12,155 --> 00:16:15,195 Speaker 1: were so contentious over the years that one year they 237 00:16:15,315 --> 00:16:20,595 Speaker 1: booed Santa Claus and threw snowballs at him. It actually 238 00:16:20,955 --> 00:16:26,875 Speaker 1: happened December night at Franklin Field. The Santa that the 239 00:16:26,915 --> 00:16:31,155 Speaker 1: Eagles had hired never showed up for the halftime holiday 240 00:16:31,195 --> 00:16:34,075 Speaker 1: festival the team was going to produce, so they got 241 00:16:34,155 --> 00:16:36,795 Speaker 1: this twenty year old fans sitting in the stands named 242 00:16:36,835 --> 00:16:40,115 Speaker 1: Frank Olivo, who was wearing a Santa suit and a 243 00:16:40,155 --> 00:16:42,995 Speaker 1: fake beard just for the hell of it. And as 244 00:16:42,995 --> 00:16:46,395 Speaker 1: he came out of the stands as the substitute Santa, 245 00:16:46,955 --> 00:16:50,555 Speaker 1: the other Eagles fans started booing him and pelting him 246 00:16:50,555 --> 00:16:57,275 Speaker 1: with snowballs in the Eagles defense. On January the New 247 00:16:57,355 --> 00:17:01,835 Speaker 1: York Giants, celebrating their first Super Bowl win their first 248 00:17:01,915 --> 00:17:05,955 Speaker 1: championship of any kind since nineteen fifty X, held an 249 00:17:05,995 --> 00:17:09,755 Speaker 1: outdoor party at their open air stadium in the cold 250 00:17:09,835 --> 00:17:13,315 Speaker 1: with snow on the ground, and they hired as a 251 00:17:13,435 --> 00:17:18,235 Speaker 1: musical performer for it, Tiny Tim, the guy who was 252 00:17:18,275 --> 00:17:22,395 Speaker 1: famous for decades for singing a falsetto version of Tiptoe 253 00:17:22,595 --> 00:17:26,035 Speaker 1: through the Tulips. When Tim got to the climax of 254 00:17:26,075 --> 00:17:30,915 Speaker 1: the song, so tiptool through all the tulips, Oh with me, 255 00:17:31,835 --> 00:17:36,035 Speaker 1: a fan hit him with the snowball right in the 256 00:17:36,115 --> 00:17:39,595 Speaker 1: two lips. So at least that time the falsetto was 257 00:17:39,635 --> 00:17:49,075 Speaker 1: not false. Coming up, CBS News reported that one of 258 00:17:49,075 --> 00:17:53,595 Speaker 1: my videos was the most watched thing on Facebook for 259 00:17:53,715 --> 00:17:58,115 Speaker 1: the first six months of the Trump administration, and Netflix said, great, 260 00:17:58,195 --> 00:18:01,635 Speaker 1: We'd love to host videos to get fifty four million viewers, 261 00:18:01,675 --> 00:18:04,515 Speaker 1: but one question, what do we do if one day 262 00:18:04,995 --> 00:18:09,595 Speaker 1: doesn't upload? And I promptly looked for the emergency exits. 263 00:18:09,955 --> 00:18:12,875 Speaker 1: That's next. First, the daily roundup of the miscrants, morons, 264 00:18:12,915 --> 00:18:18,035 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects bestmans who constitute today's worst persons 265 00:18:18,075 --> 00:18:22,715 Speaker 1: in the world. The bronze Congressman Jim I saw nothing 266 00:18:23,115 --> 00:18:27,075 Speaker 1: Jordan's do you feel safe in cities controlled by the left? 267 00:18:27,155 --> 00:18:30,595 Speaker 1: He tweeted cities that defunded the police, cities that ignore 268 00:18:30,635 --> 00:18:36,435 Speaker 1: police staffing issues, no no no. The no no no 269 00:18:36,555 --> 00:18:39,835 Speaker 1: construction immediately became its own trend on Twitter. Plus the 270 00:18:39,875 --> 00:18:42,275 Speaker 1: facts that the top ten cities with the highest police 271 00:18:42,435 --> 00:18:47,915 Speaker 1: per capita spending are one Baltimore than Wilmington, Delaware, Washington, Newark, 272 00:18:48,195 --> 00:18:52,235 Speaker 1: Bridgeport right here in fun City, Chicago, Boston, and Miami. 273 00:18:52,275 --> 00:18:56,155 Speaker 1: The top ten most not defunded cities in America, they're 274 00:18:56,195 --> 00:18:59,355 Speaker 1: all controlled by the left. And as to no, no no, 275 00:19:00,075 --> 00:19:02,955 Speaker 1: that's what assistant coach Jim Jordan heard from the wrestlers 276 00:19:02,955 --> 00:19:06,395 Speaker 1: as they were being abused by aniversity doctor at Ohio 277 00:19:06,515 --> 00:19:09,875 Speaker 1: statee And no no no is also what he said 278 00:19:10,075 --> 00:19:14,475 Speaker 1: when authorities asked him if he saw anything. Our runner 279 00:19:14,555 --> 00:19:17,555 Speaker 1: up is Sean Hannity, the man with a thumb for 280 00:19:17,675 --> 00:19:19,955 Speaker 1: a head, did a good old fashioned t m I 281 00:19:20,115 --> 00:19:24,115 Speaker 1: on his radio program talking about kids talking back and 282 00:19:24,235 --> 00:19:27,915 Speaker 1: how his father used to handle it when he used 283 00:19:27,915 --> 00:19:30,835 Speaker 1: to do that in the old days. That was easily fixed. 284 00:19:30,955 --> 00:19:34,315 Speaker 1: That was handled. Mr Hannity pulled off the belt, beat 285 00:19:34,355 --> 00:19:36,475 Speaker 1: the crap out of me. By the way, somebody was 286 00:19:36,515 --> 00:19:39,435 Speaker 1: not a child abuser. I deserved it. Not only did 287 00:19:39,475 --> 00:19:42,355 Speaker 1: I deserve it, I was begging for it. It was 288 00:19:42,395 --> 00:19:45,675 Speaker 1: like a fate to complete my poor prison guard. Mom 289 00:19:45,715 --> 00:19:50,955 Speaker 1: would say, don't leave this house, and I'm twelve years 290 00:19:50,995 --> 00:19:53,115 Speaker 1: old and look at it, and I say, you can't 291 00:19:53,115 --> 00:19:56,795 Speaker 1: stop me, and I'd run out the door, never to 292 00:19:56,835 --> 00:19:59,675 Speaker 1: be seen or heard from until Dad got home. And 293 00:19:59,755 --> 00:20:03,155 Speaker 1: Dad was waiting, and usually there was a price to pay, 294 00:20:03,395 --> 00:20:05,395 Speaker 1: unless he was in a good mood or just tired 295 00:20:05,395 --> 00:20:07,155 Speaker 1: of just beating the crab out of me, because he 296 00:20:07,275 --> 00:20:09,635 Speaker 1: just it was an everyday thing. Eventually they gave up 297 00:20:10,635 --> 00:20:14,315 Speaker 1: at home with the Hannity's have belt, will assault child. 298 00:20:14,395 --> 00:20:18,115 Speaker 1: What's terrifying there is if you've heard or read Hannity's 299 00:20:18,155 --> 00:20:21,835 Speaker 1: old running mate Bill O'Reilly talking about his childhood exactly 300 00:20:21,875 --> 00:20:25,915 Speaker 1: the same thing. In a biography of O'Reilly, he reminisces 301 00:20:25,955 --> 00:20:29,195 Speaker 1: about his dad beating him up, and he does this 302 00:20:29,275 --> 00:20:33,635 Speaker 1: at least twenty times. But our winner, Junior Trump's girlfriend 303 00:20:33,715 --> 00:20:38,515 Speaker 1: Kimberly Gilfoyle, any number of cliches apply here to this 304 00:20:38,595 --> 00:20:43,395 Speaker 1: clip of her criticism of speaker Nancy Pelosi's makeup and appearance. 305 00:20:43,475 --> 00:20:47,635 Speaker 1: But but I'll settle for the simple acronym st f you. 306 00:20:48,395 --> 00:20:51,395 Speaker 1: Where is the journalism these days? When you see like 307 00:20:51,635 --> 00:20:56,155 Speaker 1: Andrew Mitchell fawning over Pelosi, Pelosi lying what's left of 308 00:20:56,155 --> 00:21:00,915 Speaker 1: her face off about Biden's accomplishments and the legislative achievements. 309 00:21:00,955 --> 00:21:04,435 Speaker 1: I mean it's a freak show. I mean halloweens around 310 00:21:04,435 --> 00:21:08,875 Speaker 1: the order, but it's too much. It's fright night. Andrew 311 00:21:08,915 --> 00:21:14,835 Speaker 1: Mitchell fawning over Nancy Pelosi. I wish this is an 312 00:21:14,835 --> 00:21:16,955 Speaker 1: apt time to remind you that when she was fired 313 00:21:16,995 --> 00:21:20,555 Speaker 1: by Fox News, Kimberly Gilfoyle was accused of not only 314 00:21:20,595 --> 00:21:24,475 Speaker 1: forcing a female intern to give her massages when she 315 00:21:24,555 --> 00:21:28,235 Speaker 1: wasn't wearing enough clothes, but also forced the intern to 316 00:21:28,275 --> 00:21:31,515 Speaker 1: look at miss Gilfoyle's collection of albums of photographs of 317 00:21:31,515 --> 00:21:36,355 Speaker 1: the genitalia of her former lovers. I understand there are 318 00:21:36,395 --> 00:21:40,035 Speaker 1: fifty seven albums. And since miss Gilfoyle has opened the 319 00:21:40,075 --> 00:21:43,675 Speaker 1: floor to discussing how prominent women look, this is a 320 00:21:43,715 --> 00:21:46,275 Speaker 1: reminder that this is now fifty three year old woman. 321 00:21:46,555 --> 00:21:48,635 Speaker 1: And as she made those remarks, she was wearing a 322 00:21:48,675 --> 00:21:53,395 Speaker 1: tight fitting blue sweater with extra large cleavage, lips borrowed 323 00:21:53,435 --> 00:21:56,515 Speaker 1: from one of the balloons and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, 324 00:21:56,955 --> 00:22:01,075 Speaker 1: partially dyed brown hair draped over her bosom, and size 325 00:22:01,195 --> 00:22:06,595 Speaker 1: thirty two fake eyelashes. The question why, given how the 326 00:22:06,675 --> 00:22:10,235 Speaker 1: Lunatic Right is going after drag shows and drag kyweens, 327 00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:13,475 Speaker 1: why do all the leading women of the Lunatic Right 328 00:22:13,595 --> 00:22:16,515 Speaker 1: the Maga wagons, why did they dress up and make 329 00:22:16,595 --> 00:22:21,195 Speaker 1: up like drag queens? Kimberly, No other women can have 330 00:22:21,275 --> 00:22:24,395 Speaker 1: plastic surgery because I must have all of it, Gilfoil, 331 00:22:24,955 --> 00:22:32,115 Speaker 1: Today's worst person person is arguable, of many persons are 332 00:22:32,155 --> 00:22:45,595 Speaker 1: plastic in the world. Finally, to the number one story 333 00:22:45,595 --> 00:22:48,955 Speaker 1: on the countdown and my favorite topic, me and things 334 00:22:48,995 --> 00:22:51,595 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell, and I don't usually venture 335 00:22:51,675 --> 00:22:55,515 Speaker 1: into financial commentary or advice. You will remember the story 336 00:22:55,515 --> 00:22:59,595 Speaker 1: of my great grandfather who gave away the name General 337 00:22:59,635 --> 00:23:03,835 Speaker 1: Motors for free. But I just read of Netflix finally 338 00:23:03,955 --> 00:23:07,235 Speaker 1: staunching the subscriber flow. It had lost around a million 339 00:23:07,235 --> 00:23:09,875 Speaker 1: two d thousand households in the first half of this year, 340 00:23:10,075 --> 00:23:12,475 Speaker 1: but added about twice that many in the third quarter 341 00:23:12,515 --> 00:23:16,395 Speaker 1: thanks to such uplifting programming as the Jeffrey Dahmer's story 342 00:23:16,515 --> 00:23:22,435 Speaker 1: so Ya corporate cannibalism profits. Anyway, I had an experience 343 00:23:22,515 --> 00:23:26,675 Speaker 1: with Netflix which so shook my confidence in them that 344 00:23:26,795 --> 00:23:30,515 Speaker 1: it made me fearful of even playing their stuff on 345 00:23:30,635 --> 00:23:33,755 Speaker 1: my big TV because I was wondering if their stuff 346 00:23:33,795 --> 00:23:38,035 Speaker 1: would damage my big TV. This is my favorite story 347 00:23:38,075 --> 00:23:41,915 Speaker 1: of what happens when media management misunderstands its own business 348 00:23:41,955 --> 00:23:48,275 Speaker 1: and wrongly thinks superstitions and coincidences are inviolable rules for success. 349 00:23:49,235 --> 00:23:53,395 Speaker 1: This happened on June seventeenth, two thousand sixteen, the day 350 00:23:53,435 --> 00:23:56,995 Speaker 1: I found out about the vitality, the importance, the absolute 351 00:23:57,035 --> 00:24:04,675 Speaker 1: necessity of Netflix's Italian subtitles. I don't want to exaggerate 352 00:24:04,715 --> 00:24:06,915 Speaker 1: the importance of the two video series I did for 353 00:24:06,955 --> 00:24:09,875 Speaker 1: the GQ magazine site in two thousand sixteen and two 354 00:24:09,875 --> 00:24:12,915 Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, The Closer and The Resistance. I mean, for 355 00:24:12,995 --> 00:24:16,075 Speaker 1: one thing, The Closer was so named because each of 356 00:24:16,115 --> 00:24:18,555 Speaker 1: the handful of us involved in its production could not 357 00:24:18,675 --> 00:24:22,795 Speaker 1: really conceive that there were enough morons and closeted racists 358 00:24:22,795 --> 00:24:25,955 Speaker 1: in this country to actually elect crazy Trump. We grandly 359 00:24:26,115 --> 00:24:30,155 Speaker 1: called the videos The Closer because we expected our expositions 360 00:24:30,155 --> 00:24:34,795 Speaker 1: of Trump's essential fraudulence and dangerousness would close the deal 361 00:24:34,995 --> 00:24:41,515 Speaker 1: for Hillary Clinton. Uh huh, but people watch those videos. 362 00:24:41,795 --> 00:24:44,955 Speaker 1: I forget the final count hundred and eighty or so episodes, 363 00:24:44,995 --> 00:24:49,155 Speaker 1: four hundred million or so views, not plays, but people 364 00:24:49,195 --> 00:24:53,515 Speaker 1: actually viewing essentially the whole piece. And CBS News did 365 00:24:53,515 --> 00:24:56,795 Speaker 1: a story once with the web analyzing platforms social flow 366 00:24:57,155 --> 00:24:59,755 Speaker 1: that showed that the first episode of The Resistance from 367 00:24:59,795 --> 00:25:04,235 Speaker 1: November sixteen, two thousand sixteen, was the top story or 368 00:25:04,395 --> 00:25:07,595 Speaker 1: video on Facebook through the first six months of the 369 00:25:07,595 --> 00:25:11,355 Speaker 1: Trump administration. The calculation, and lord knows what this formula 370 00:25:11,395 --> 00:25:15,115 Speaker 1: actually looks like, but the calculation was probably pretty close 371 00:25:15,595 --> 00:25:19,435 Speaker 1: that it reached fifty four million people, the equivalent of 372 00:25:19,475 --> 00:25:22,835 Speaker 1: one out of six of everybody in the country that 373 00:25:22,995 --> 00:25:26,715 Speaker 1: CBS News reporting this not my ego, and ego is 374 00:25:26,755 --> 00:25:30,315 Speaker 1: not the reason I mentioned this, well, it's not the 375 00:25:30,315 --> 00:25:34,475 Speaker 1: only reason I mentioned this. MSNBC had offered me a 376 00:25:34,475 --> 00:25:36,755 Speaker 1: new show in January of two thousand sixteen, but I 377 00:25:36,755 --> 00:25:39,155 Speaker 1: would have hated it and you would not have watched it. 378 00:25:39,235 --> 00:25:41,955 Speaker 1: So it was not supposed to have any commentaries in it, 379 00:25:42,715 --> 00:25:45,435 Speaker 1: and a conservative co host was supposed to be there, 380 00:25:45,995 --> 00:25:47,875 Speaker 1: and the goal was she and I would be the 381 00:25:47,955 --> 00:25:53,195 Speaker 1: wacky couple who would find middle ground. Plus I would 382 00:25:53,235 --> 00:25:55,635 Speaker 1: have had to move to Los Angeles, even though I 383 00:25:55,675 --> 00:25:58,635 Speaker 1: could see the headquarters of NBC News out my bedroom 384 00:25:58,675 --> 00:26:01,715 Speaker 1: window in New York and then when it was successful, 385 00:26:02,235 --> 00:26:05,315 Speaker 1: the producers wanted me to simply get on plane from 386 00:26:05,355 --> 00:26:07,435 Speaker 1: Los Angeles and show up one morning in the New 387 00:26:07,515 --> 00:26:09,835 Speaker 1: York office of the president of NBC News, Andy Lack, 388 00:26:10,155 --> 00:26:12,795 Speaker 1: and tell him either we were scrapping the format and 389 00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:16,915 Speaker 1: relaunching Countdown that night, or I was quitting. In short, 390 00:26:17,195 --> 00:26:20,035 Speaker 1: they wanted me to do this lousy show and then 391 00:26:20,275 --> 00:26:23,595 Speaker 1: run a palace coup against the president of NBC News. 392 00:26:24,875 --> 00:26:28,555 Speaker 1: I passed. I put my energy instead into finding a 393 00:26:28,595 --> 00:26:31,995 Speaker 1: new platform for Countdown or a Countdown like show. I 394 00:26:32,035 --> 00:26:34,275 Speaker 1: had a deal in place to become the video anchor 395 00:26:34,315 --> 00:26:39,435 Speaker 1: of The Huffington's Post, a daily exclusive commentary interviews, features 396 00:26:39,515 --> 00:26:44,035 Speaker 1: breaking news, funny stuff, whatever. Two days later. Two days later, 397 00:26:44,715 --> 00:26:49,715 Speaker 1: Arianna Huffington's sold the Huffington's Post no more deal. Before 398 00:26:49,755 --> 00:26:53,155 Speaker 1: and after this, some friends from lions Gate Productions and 399 00:26:53,155 --> 00:26:55,675 Speaker 1: I were trying to sell two ideas pitching to a 400 00:26:55,755 --> 00:26:58,715 Speaker 1: series of forward looking media companies. One was that they 401 00:26:58,755 --> 00:27:01,555 Speaker 1: should be producing and running or posting or streaming or 402 00:27:01,595 --> 00:27:05,075 Speaker 1: whatever the series of my commentaries that be aim The 403 00:27:05,115 --> 00:27:08,315 Speaker 1: Closer and then The Resistance. I don't know what that 404 00:27:08,355 --> 00:27:10,195 Speaker 1: would have been worth, but I do know that the 405 00:27:10,235 --> 00:27:13,515 Speaker 1: tiny slice of the advertising g Q got just from 406 00:27:13,515 --> 00:27:16,155 Speaker 1: the commercials that would roll if you watched one of 407 00:27:16,155 --> 00:27:19,395 Speaker 1: the episodes on YouTube was well over a million dollars. 408 00:27:19,995 --> 00:27:23,075 Speaker 1: The overall profit might have been ten times that production 409 00:27:23,155 --> 00:27:28,875 Speaker 1: costs were like. But I had a second, bigger idea 410 00:27:28,915 --> 00:27:31,955 Speaker 1: to pitch to these other companies. Who wants to own 411 00:27:32,075 --> 00:27:35,835 Speaker 1: the future of cable news when there isn't any cable 412 00:27:35,915 --> 00:27:42,435 Speaker 1: news anymore? I correctly predicted two back in who wants 413 00:27:42,475 --> 00:27:45,155 Speaker 1: to own the future of cable news when there isn't 414 00:27:45,195 --> 00:27:50,635 Speaker 1: any cable anymore? Start with just my commentaries, and as 415 00:27:50,635 --> 00:27:53,995 Speaker 1: they make money for you, build out. If they work, 416 00:27:54,115 --> 00:27:58,275 Speaker 1: you add my interviews and my debates, and then somebody 417 00:27:58,315 --> 00:28:03,955 Speaker 1: else's commentaries, and then some conservatives commentaries, and then add 418 00:28:03,995 --> 00:28:06,875 Speaker 1: all of what is now cable news and put it 419 00:28:06,955 --> 00:28:12,955 Speaker 1: on one streaming platform. We rented a studio, we made 420 00:28:12,955 --> 00:28:17,275 Speaker 1: a demo commentary, We made what TV pitchmen call a deck. 421 00:28:18,195 --> 00:28:20,875 Speaker 1: That's how I knew the producers were serious. We met 422 00:28:20,915 --> 00:28:23,675 Speaker 1: with HBO about this, We met with something called pop TV, 423 00:28:24,075 --> 00:28:28,195 Speaker 1: The Daily Beast, Yahoo, tune In, Sony, Epics, BBC, Hulu, 424 00:28:28,275 --> 00:28:31,595 Speaker 1: Conde Nast. Ultimately that led to the g Q series. 425 00:28:32,035 --> 00:28:35,475 Speaker 1: But the one I had the most hope for was Netflix. 426 00:28:35,955 --> 00:28:38,115 Speaker 1: The way I saw it, they could start this tiny 427 00:28:38,155 --> 00:28:44,235 Speaker 1: little thing in the corner of their homepage called news Flicks, 428 00:28:44,355 --> 00:28:47,075 Speaker 1: and you could click on it, and someday there would 429 00:28:47,075 --> 00:28:50,755 Speaker 1: be a menu with Keith old Woman commentaries and I 430 00:28:50,795 --> 00:28:54,635 Speaker 1: don't know, Glenn Beck commentaries and Bill Maher commentaries and 431 00:28:54,755 --> 00:28:58,835 Speaker 1: Jesus H. Christ commentaries and Keith Olderman newscast and lou 432 00:28:58,955 --> 00:29:04,435 Speaker 1: Dobbs newscast and and and all of them partisan but 433 00:29:04,675 --> 00:29:10,675 Speaker 1: electively one giant, all encompassing, bipartisan because of volume news 434 00:29:10,755 --> 00:29:16,115 Speaker 1: and commentary site, the proverbial marketplace of ideas, Duncan Donuts 435 00:29:16,115 --> 00:29:21,275 Speaker 1: and Baskin Robbins and Pizza Hut living together only as newscasters, 436 00:29:21,955 --> 00:29:28,035 Speaker 1: you know, for kids. I thought Netflix would see it immediately. 437 00:29:28,115 --> 00:29:32,595 Speaker 1: They would own news all of it. I mean, these 438 00:29:32,675 --> 00:29:35,915 Speaker 1: were the people who realized America was too lazy to 439 00:29:35,955 --> 00:29:38,875 Speaker 1: go down to the video store anymore, so they began 440 00:29:38,955 --> 00:29:43,515 Speaker 1: to send America rented DVDs by mail, and people actually 441 00:29:43,595 --> 00:29:47,955 Speaker 1: returned the DVDs. And then they realized that America was 442 00:29:47,955 --> 00:29:50,875 Speaker 1: too lazy to return them anymore, and that the optimum 443 00:29:50,955 --> 00:29:54,515 Speaker 1: date to switch from DVDs to the then laugh out 444 00:29:54,595 --> 00:30:00,955 Speaker 1: loud bad concept of online video was precisely January six, 445 00:30:01,355 --> 00:30:04,635 Speaker 1: two thousand seven. These guys had the gonads to take 446 00:30:04,755 --> 00:30:09,395 Speaker 1: a brilliantly successful, profitable new idea and gradually strangle it 447 00:30:09,795 --> 00:30:13,155 Speaker 1: and replace it with a different, brilliantly successful new idea. 448 00:30:13,995 --> 00:30:18,115 Speaker 1: I could not wait to meet them. My agent at 449 00:30:18,155 --> 00:30:20,995 Speaker 1: the time I would be producer the head of television 450 00:30:21,035 --> 00:30:24,115 Speaker 1: of lions Gate like the chief of chief at lions Gate, 451 00:30:24,275 --> 00:30:27,635 Speaker 1: and I went to the Netflix building in Beverly Hills 452 00:30:27,675 --> 00:30:30,995 Speaker 1: at ten thirty a m. Pacific daylight time on Friday, 453 00:30:31,075 --> 00:30:34,795 Speaker 1: June seventeen, two thousand sixteen. It felt perfect. Netflix was 454 00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:37,915 Speaker 1: still just down from the corner of Alden and Maple. 455 00:30:38,475 --> 00:30:41,275 Speaker 1: Twenty five years later, I had lived two blocks away 456 00:30:41,315 --> 00:30:46,835 Speaker 1: from Alden and Maple. It was a four minute walk tops. Yeah. 457 00:30:46,955 --> 00:30:49,835 Speaker 1: The two people there from Netflix where vice presidents. Whish 458 00:30:49,875 --> 00:30:52,795 Speaker 1: I remembered their names. I don't know, Maybe they're still there. 459 00:30:53,395 --> 00:30:56,275 Speaker 1: I deliberately blocked the names from my memory after this. 460 00:30:56,755 --> 00:30:59,755 Speaker 1: One was in charge of documentaries, one was in charge 461 00:30:59,755 --> 00:31:02,395 Speaker 1: of non fiction series. One was a man, one was 462 00:31:02,435 --> 00:31:05,155 Speaker 1: a woman. I did most of the talking I said, 463 00:31:05,195 --> 00:31:08,075 Speaker 1: start with these daily commentaries. You'll never have a better 464 00:31:08,195 --> 00:31:11,435 Speaker 1: launch window than the four months before the election. We 465 00:31:11,475 --> 00:31:15,275 Speaker 1: could have one ready for you to upload by Monday. 466 00:31:15,315 --> 00:31:18,875 Speaker 1: This is lowest risk, highest reward. How would you like 467 00:31:19,035 --> 00:31:22,955 Speaker 1: to own the news? Or if it doesn't work for 468 00:31:22,995 --> 00:31:26,715 Speaker 1: some reason, you spent I don't know, a hundred thousand dollars. 469 00:31:27,075 --> 00:31:30,555 Speaker 1: The man spoke first. But if you're going to do 470 00:31:30,635 --> 00:31:34,595 Speaker 1: these daily, how are people going to binge watch them? 471 00:31:34,635 --> 00:31:37,395 Speaker 1: I mean, the first time somebody comes to Netflix to 472 00:31:37,475 --> 00:31:41,395 Speaker 1: see your commentaries, there's only going to be one to watch. 473 00:31:43,515 --> 00:31:46,075 Speaker 1: I took a quick breath and explained that could be 474 00:31:46,115 --> 00:31:48,155 Speaker 1: a drawback. On the other hand, within four weeks, there 475 00:31:48,155 --> 00:31:51,115 Speaker 1: would be twenty of them to binge. We could even 476 00:31:51,115 --> 00:31:54,435 Speaker 1: start with five or ten evergreen commentaries, so that when 477 00:31:54,475 --> 00:31:56,795 Speaker 1: they come to see the official premier they watch that, 478 00:31:57,235 --> 00:32:02,115 Speaker 1: then ten more first day, and and and and you 479 00:32:02,115 --> 00:32:04,315 Speaker 1: guys keep telling the press that your problem is people 480 00:32:04,395 --> 00:32:06,155 Speaker 1: been and then they don't come back for another five 481 00:32:06,235 --> 00:32:08,635 Speaker 1: days or a week. This way, at least some of 482 00:32:08,675 --> 00:32:11,915 Speaker 1: them would come back every day to your website. You'd 483 00:32:11,915 --> 00:32:16,035 Speaker 1: begin to solve your frequency of visitation problem, wouldn't you? 484 00:32:16,195 --> 00:32:18,835 Speaker 1: I mean, you're the executives. I'm just the talent, the 485 00:32:18,835 --> 00:32:23,475 Speaker 1: meat puppet. But isn't that Then the woman interrupted me, okay, yeah, 486 00:32:23,515 --> 00:32:26,235 Speaker 1: that would help, and I like starting with ten, But 487 00:32:26,315 --> 00:32:32,075 Speaker 1: what about the subtitles. There was a long pause. Then 488 00:32:32,155 --> 00:32:37,715 Speaker 1: the head of lions Gate said what subtitles. The man said, well, 489 00:32:37,995 --> 00:32:40,755 Speaker 1: everything we run is subtitled in the language of each 490 00:32:40,795 --> 00:32:42,995 Speaker 1: country we run it in. So your commentary would have 491 00:32:43,035 --> 00:32:47,675 Speaker 1: to have subtitles added in like sixteen different languages. That 492 00:32:47,795 --> 00:32:50,635 Speaker 1: usually takes three months. Could you do commentaries today that 493 00:32:50,635 --> 00:32:59,115 Speaker 1: would still work in September? I said well no, But 494 00:32:59,115 --> 00:33:02,035 Speaker 1: but why do you need subtitles? Why do you need, say, 495 00:33:02,075 --> 00:33:05,475 Speaker 1: Italian subtitles or any subtitles. I mean, it's very unlikely. 496 00:33:05,875 --> 00:33:09,595 Speaker 1: I said that people worldwide who are interested enough in 497 00:33:09,675 --> 00:33:13,395 Speaker 1: American politics to watch commentaries about American politics don't already 498 00:33:13,435 --> 00:33:18,595 Speaker 1: speak English. The woman looked aghast I mean the coloring 499 00:33:18,675 --> 00:33:23,595 Speaker 1: of her face changed, But the subtitles, She said, we 500 00:33:23,755 --> 00:33:27,075 Speaker 1: we always have subtitles. We always do it that way here. 501 00:33:28,275 --> 00:33:30,715 Speaker 1: And I said, well, yeah, I understand, but but see 502 00:33:30,715 --> 00:33:34,875 Speaker 1: this would be for news Flix, not Netflix per se. 503 00:33:35,675 --> 00:33:39,195 Speaker 1: See you could adapt your rules to fit the urgency. 504 00:33:39,235 --> 00:33:42,395 Speaker 1: Of timeliness. I mean, MSNBC has a profit of like 505 00:33:42,915 --> 00:33:46,315 Speaker 1: five hundred million a year because of timeliness and their 506 00:33:46,515 --> 00:33:49,835 Speaker 1: last in profit in cable news. Couldn't you adjust slightly 507 00:33:49,915 --> 00:33:53,915 Speaker 1: for five hundred million a year? The man now looked AGAs, no, 508 00:33:54,035 --> 00:33:57,595 Speaker 1: we couldn't. This is the Netflix rule. We can't change 509 00:33:57,635 --> 00:34:04,755 Speaker 1: a rule. I began to feel not happy the and 510 00:34:04,915 --> 00:34:07,435 Speaker 1: spoke again. Plus, what about the twelve oh one rule? 511 00:34:08,995 --> 00:34:11,675 Speaker 1: We all looked at each other. You said, the commentaries 512 00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:13,915 Speaker 1: would probably work best at eight or nine pm, But 513 00:34:13,995 --> 00:34:16,435 Speaker 1: in all of our countries, anything new gets posted at 514 00:34:16,475 --> 00:34:19,715 Speaker 1: exactly twelve o one am local time, only at twelve 515 00:34:19,715 --> 00:34:22,235 Speaker 1: o one am, so anything you did today could not 516 00:34:22,315 --> 00:34:27,595 Speaker 1: possibly run until twelve o one am tomorrow. I was 517 00:34:27,635 --> 00:34:30,675 Speaker 1: still reeling from the Italian subtitles. Now there was also 518 00:34:30,715 --> 00:34:34,555 Speaker 1: an unbreakable twelve oh one tomorrow rule. I was thinking 519 00:34:34,595 --> 00:34:37,395 Speaker 1: of getting up and leaving, but the woman apparently had 520 00:34:37,435 --> 00:34:40,515 Speaker 1: one more gut punch to throw at me. I also 521 00:34:40,595 --> 00:34:43,355 Speaker 1: wanted to know if we somehow were able to turn 522 00:34:43,395 --> 00:34:46,795 Speaker 1: the subtitles around with lightning speed, or skip them, or 523 00:34:46,835 --> 00:34:49,195 Speaker 1: do them and say only two or three hours? The 524 00:34:49,195 --> 00:34:52,075 Speaker 1: man interrupted, plus the hours until it's twelve oh one. 525 00:34:52,075 --> 00:34:55,115 Speaker 1: Don't forget them. She nodded, yes, uh, plus the hours 526 00:34:55,195 --> 00:34:57,355 Speaker 1: until it's twelve one. If we could somehow do that. 527 00:34:57,915 --> 00:35:00,515 Speaker 1: What would happen if one day something went wrong technically 528 00:35:00,915 --> 00:35:03,035 Speaker 1: and we couldn't upload that day and people came to 529 00:35:03,075 --> 00:35:05,315 Speaker 1: the site and there wasn't a new one. What if 530 00:35:05,355 --> 00:35:10,075 Speaker 1: it doesn't upload? Well? I had an answer to that, 531 00:35:10,635 --> 00:35:13,035 Speaker 1: but I did not say it out loud. I said 532 00:35:13,035 --> 00:35:15,075 Speaker 1: it a few minutes later to the head of lions Gate, 533 00:35:15,115 --> 00:35:17,475 Speaker 1: after we had said goodbye to Mr and Mrs Vice 534 00:35:17,515 --> 00:35:20,475 Speaker 1: President in the lobby of the Netflix building, I said, 535 00:35:20,475 --> 00:35:24,275 Speaker 1: good god. These people are in the uploading business. They 536 00:35:24,315 --> 00:35:28,635 Speaker 1: have been uploading for nine years. They aren't sure they 537 00:35:28,675 --> 00:35:32,835 Speaker 1: can upload. What equipment have they been uploading with? Are 538 00:35:32,875 --> 00:35:39,875 Speaker 1: they uploading from Kevin spaces Dell laptop? As I left 539 00:35:39,915 --> 00:35:41,715 Speaker 1: to get in the car to go to l a 540 00:35:41,995 --> 00:35:45,075 Speaker 1: X to fly home to New York, totally disappointed, the 541 00:35:45,195 --> 00:35:49,075 Speaker 1: lions Gate guy was just shaking his head. I'm sorry, 542 00:35:49,675 --> 00:35:54,675 Speaker 1: I had no idea. I call you later at exactly 543 00:35:54,755 --> 00:36:01,315 Speaker 1: twelve oh one am with the Italian subtitles. What if 544 00:36:01,355 --> 00:36:04,315 Speaker 1: it doesn't upload? He said as he walked away from me. Christ. 545 00:36:04,315 --> 00:36:06,675 Speaker 1: I gotta get my broker on the phone. I gotta 546 00:36:06,715 --> 00:36:25,435 Speaker 1: sell all my Netflix stock. I've done all the damage 547 00:36:25,435 --> 00:36:31,475 Speaker 1: I can do here christ Italian subtitles good Night and 548 00:36:31,595 --> 00:36:36,515 Speaker 1: bona Setta. Since you've listened this far, helped me out 549 00:36:36,555 --> 00:36:39,235 Speaker 1: spread the word. Tell somebody about this podcast, get them 550 00:36:39,275 --> 00:36:43,835 Speaker 1: to subscribe. It is free, after all. Here are the credits. 551 00:36:43,915 --> 00:36:46,475 Speaker 1: Most of the music, including our theme from Beethoven's Ninth, 552 00:36:46,475 --> 00:36:48,875 Speaker 1: which you're hearing behind me as I speak, was arranged, 553 00:36:48,915 --> 00:36:52,235 Speaker 1: produced and performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle, 554 00:36:52,275 --> 00:36:56,075 Speaker 1: who are the Countdown musical directors. 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