1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:25,155 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:25,315 --> 00:00:28,675 Speaker 1: nation must have a new commander in chief immediately. The 3 00:00:28,755 --> 00:00:32,235 Speaker 1: current one is mentally incapable of keeping the United States 4 00:00:32,275 --> 00:00:36,675 Speaker 1: of America safe, and, with one seemingly throwaway remark, he 5 00:00:36,755 --> 00:00:41,475 Speaker 1: has literally left this country vulnerable to attack. This is 6 00:00:41,555 --> 00:00:44,555 Speaker 1: less about his evil. This is less about his betrayal 7 00:00:44,635 --> 00:00:47,595 Speaker 1: of Ukraine and our allies. This is less about his 8 00:00:47,755 --> 00:00:51,035 Speaker 1: pouring himself out to putin. This is even less about 9 00:00:51,035 --> 00:00:55,315 Speaker 1: his apparent reference to himself yesterday as the King, which 10 00:00:55,395 --> 00:00:57,995 Speaker 1: was promptly amplified by White House social media, in which 11 00:00:57,995 --> 00:01:01,195 Speaker 1: you dismiss as trolling at your risk and at the 12 00:01:01,275 --> 00:01:05,355 Speaker 1: risk of the democracy. This is about Trump's now complete 13 00:01:05,635 --> 00:01:11,515 Speaker 1: disconnection from reality, from the baseline truths about what risks 14 00:01:11,635 --> 00:01:16,355 Speaker 1: America faces in the twenty first century. This war, he 15 00:01:16,515 --> 00:01:19,195 Speaker 1: posted in the middle of his diet tribe against Zelenski 16 00:01:19,275 --> 00:01:22,035 Speaker 1: yesterday is far more important to Europe than it is 17 00:01:22,075 --> 00:01:27,315 Speaker 1: to us. We have a big, beautiful ocean as separation. 18 00:01:28,475 --> 00:01:33,315 Speaker 1: This idea that America is in some way protected by 19 00:01:33,315 --> 00:01:37,235 Speaker 1: the Atlantic or the Pacific, or both of them, has 20 00:01:37,275 --> 00:01:40,755 Speaker 1: been poignantly absurd, since no lighter than Pearl Harbor in 21 00:01:40,835 --> 00:01:45,795 Speaker 1: nineteen forty one. It is madness exceeding anything Trump has 22 00:01:45,835 --> 00:01:51,355 Speaker 1: said or claimed before. Somehow Trump has forgotten about the 23 00:01:51,395 --> 00:01:56,315 Speaker 1: prospect of weapons in space. Trump has forgotten about intercontinental missiles. 24 00:01:56,675 --> 00:02:00,115 Speaker 1: Trump has forgotten about airplanes. Trump has forgotten that the big, 25 00:02:00,275 --> 00:02:05,075 Speaker 1: beautiful ocean can be crossed in five hours. The ocean 26 00:02:05,115 --> 00:02:06,955 Speaker 1: didn't do a damn thing to halt nine to eleven, 27 00:02:07,035 --> 00:02:09,515 Speaker 1: that the ocean didn't do a damn thing preventing Putin's 28 00:02:09,595 --> 00:02:12,595 Speaker 1: soft power invasions of our country the last nine years, 29 00:02:13,155 --> 00:02:17,555 Speaker 1: especially insomuch as Trump helped. But with this ocean madness, 30 00:02:17,915 --> 00:02:21,035 Speaker 1: Trump has now moved his incompetence from a twenty four 31 00:02:21,115 --> 00:02:27,555 Speaker 1: hour a day risk to the safety of every American citizen, city, territory. 32 00:02:28,275 --> 00:02:32,115 Speaker 1: He's moved it from that baseline of potential disaster around 33 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:37,195 Speaker 1: every corner to an immediate crisis in which, because of 34 00:02:37,275 --> 00:02:40,995 Speaker 1: what he doesn't seem to understand, in which, because of 35 00:02:40,995 --> 00:02:43,275 Speaker 1: what he doesn't seem to understand, our nation could be 36 00:02:43,515 --> 00:02:46,955 Speaker 1: bombed out of existence in half an hour, and he 37 00:02:46,995 --> 00:02:49,995 Speaker 1: would not even bother to come in off the goddamned 38 00:02:49,995 --> 00:02:54,355 Speaker 1: golf course because he thinks we have a big, beautiful 39 00:02:54,435 --> 00:02:59,675 Speaker 1: Ocean as separation. You know, the last people to actively 40 00:02:59,715 --> 00:03:04,195 Speaker 1: point to the Atlantic and the Pacific as the guarranteurs 41 00:03:04,275 --> 00:03:08,315 Speaker 1: of our safety. The isolationists of the nineteen thirties, the 42 00:03:08,355 --> 00:03:10,875 Speaker 1: ones who wanted to cut a deal with Hitler, the 43 00:03:10,875 --> 00:03:15,155 Speaker 1: ones led by Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly 44 00:03:15,355 --> 00:03:19,355 Speaker 1: solo across the Atlantic and thus the first to disprove 45 00:03:20,275 --> 00:03:24,435 Speaker 1: what Trump said yesterday, Led by Lindbergh, led by the 46 00:03:24,475 --> 00:03:27,715 Speaker 1: other quizzlings of the more disgraceful parts of our history, 47 00:03:27,875 --> 00:03:31,995 Speaker 1: the Trumps of their time, the isolationists of the thirties 48 00:03:31,995 --> 00:03:37,355 Speaker 1: and early forties. What would have happened if Charles Lindbergh 49 00:03:37,795 --> 00:03:42,435 Speaker 1: had been elected president in nineteen forty He was, for 50 00:03:42,515 --> 00:03:44,435 Speaker 1: at least a while, one of the favorites for the 51 00:03:44,475 --> 00:03:49,795 Speaker 1: Republican nomination to run against Fdr. What if this isolationist 52 00:03:50,275 --> 00:03:54,875 Speaker 1: occasional brilliance atop a giant dunghill of selfish laziness nation 53 00:03:55,515 --> 00:03:59,435 Speaker 1: really had sided with the Nazis in the nineteen thirties 54 00:03:59,475 --> 00:04:03,675 Speaker 1: and either joined them in sublimating the world, or, as 55 00:04:03,715 --> 00:04:08,395 Speaker 1: Lindberg and the elationists preferred, simply stood aside and watched 56 00:04:10,355 --> 00:04:15,995 Speaker 1: guess what we are finding out in real time? What 57 00:04:16,195 --> 00:04:19,555 Speaker 1: would have happened if Lindbergh had been in power and 58 00:04:19,635 --> 00:04:23,235 Speaker 1: had sided with the Nazis, Because that's what Trump is 59 00:04:23,275 --> 00:04:28,275 Speaker 1: doing now. And it's not even the comparatively happy ending 60 00:04:28,395 --> 00:04:31,475 Speaker 1: versions of that which we've seen in the Wroth novel 61 00:04:31,675 --> 00:04:35,795 Speaker 1: or a dozen other films and sagas, but the real 62 00:04:35,835 --> 00:04:38,915 Speaker 1: life version in which there is no rescue and no 63 00:04:39,035 --> 00:04:42,595 Speaker 1: remorse and no collective conscience that stops us in time, 64 00:04:42,915 --> 00:04:46,195 Speaker 1: where we elect a president with prejudices and hatreds and 65 00:04:46,275 --> 00:04:50,755 Speaker 1: evils in his heart, or worse yet, no heart at all, 66 00:04:51,475 --> 00:04:54,715 Speaker 1: nothing but a wallet where his soul should be, and 67 00:04:54,755 --> 00:04:59,195 Speaker 1: nothing at all where his brain should be. What would 68 00:04:59,235 --> 00:05:02,715 Speaker 1: have happened if Lindbergh had become the thirty third president, 69 00:05:03,035 --> 00:05:07,715 Speaker 1: or Senator William Bora had or an unassassinated Huey Long, 70 00:05:07,875 --> 00:05:10,515 Speaker 1: and they had done a deal with Hitler and sold 71 00:05:10,555 --> 00:05:14,155 Speaker 1: it to this nation as our only chance of survival 72 00:05:14,715 --> 00:05:17,435 Speaker 1: in a world where, for all they knew, the imaginary 73 00:05:17,475 --> 00:05:21,235 Speaker 1: threats lind Bergen vote were real, but the real threats 74 00:05:21,275 --> 00:05:28,035 Speaker 1: he downplayed were unsurvivable. What would have happened to us then, well, 75 00:05:28,075 --> 00:05:30,555 Speaker 1: we would have been in nineteen thirty nine or nineteen 76 00:05:30,635 --> 00:05:36,315 Speaker 1: forty where we are today. First, we would have had, 77 00:05:36,355 --> 00:05:40,155 Speaker 1: within a year, within maybe months, cleared the path for 78 00:05:40,275 --> 00:05:43,955 Speaker 1: a European war in which one power would have swept 79 00:05:43,995 --> 00:05:48,195 Speaker 1: back from failure and bankruptcy, a near national collapse into 80 00:05:48,315 --> 00:05:53,515 Speaker 1: total ruthless, murderous domination of France, of England, to Poland, 81 00:05:53,515 --> 00:05:56,235 Speaker 1: of Italy, of all the places who thought we would 82 00:05:56,275 --> 00:06:01,315 Speaker 1: help them. Their collapse would have meant nowhere for Canada 83 00:06:01,435 --> 00:06:05,555 Speaker 1: or Mexico to turn. If the still resource rich Americans 84 00:06:05,555 --> 00:06:10,155 Speaker 1: had wanted their territory or fuel, or people, or just 85 00:06:10,235 --> 00:06:13,675 Speaker 1: the land, we would have taken them with little trouble, 86 00:06:14,755 --> 00:06:17,675 Speaker 1: and we would have split Latin and South America with Hitler, 87 00:06:18,475 --> 00:06:20,915 Speaker 1: maybe not even that, maybe just given him Africa and 88 00:06:20,995 --> 00:06:25,075 Speaker 1: we take the entirety of this hemisphere. That would have 89 00:06:25,115 --> 00:06:28,275 Speaker 1: been first. If we had made a deal with Hitler, 90 00:06:29,955 --> 00:06:33,075 Speaker 1: it would have taken quite an army, of course, to 91 00:06:33,235 --> 00:06:35,715 Speaker 1: maintain all that new territory. So the first step would 92 00:06:35,755 --> 00:06:38,715 Speaker 1: have been to strip social spending in this country such 93 00:06:38,715 --> 00:06:41,515 Speaker 1: as it was in nineteen thirty nine, roll back everything 94 00:06:41,555 --> 00:06:44,915 Speaker 1: those liberals had just put in place, destroy that new 95 00:06:44,995 --> 00:06:48,155 Speaker 1: safety net put in for a Pentagon budget increase of 96 00:06:49,115 --> 00:06:51,955 Speaker 1: just to pick a figure at random, say another three 97 00:06:52,035 --> 00:06:55,155 Speaker 1: hundred and five billion a year, while virtually going through 98 00:06:55,195 --> 00:06:57,755 Speaker 1: the rest of the budget and just refusing to spend 99 00:06:57,755 --> 00:07:00,875 Speaker 1: that money, even though it's in constitution that you can't 100 00:07:00,915 --> 00:07:03,395 Speaker 1: just refuse to spend that money, no matter who the 101 00:07:03,435 --> 00:07:07,195 Speaker 1: hell you think you are. And we would have folded 102 00:07:07,195 --> 00:07:10,795 Speaker 1: the manufacturers and the cutting edge inventors and the new 103 00:07:10,835 --> 00:07:14,995 Speaker 1: industries into the Government of nineteen thirty nine in semi 104 00:07:15,035 --> 00:07:21,235 Speaker 1: official roles. Maybe something like international business machines would have 105 00:07:21,235 --> 00:07:24,115 Speaker 1: been able to speed up the conversion from peaceful society 106 00:07:24,915 --> 00:07:27,955 Speaker 1: with at least passing token, clunky efforts to enhance the 107 00:07:27,995 --> 00:07:31,235 Speaker 1: lives of citizens, taken it from that into a wartime 108 00:07:31,795 --> 00:07:38,155 Speaker 1: literally machine, a perpetual wartime machine. Now there's no fear 109 00:07:38,155 --> 00:07:41,075 Speaker 1: of unemployment. If everybody's in the military putting down the 110 00:07:41,155 --> 00:07:45,715 Speaker 1: rebellions in British Columbia and British Guiana, well we would 111 00:07:45,715 --> 00:07:48,715 Speaker 1: have had to change their names, since Hitler would have 112 00:07:48,715 --> 00:07:52,275 Speaker 1: erased Britain by then. We'd have had to change other 113 00:07:52,315 --> 00:07:56,435 Speaker 1: things too. If President Lindbergh had subsumed Mexico, I mean, 114 00:07:56,675 --> 00:08:00,795 Speaker 1: you wouldn't have a Mexico anymore, would you so? Gulf 115 00:08:00,995 --> 00:08:06,155 Speaker 1: of Mexico would have been pretty silly, wouldn't it. We 116 00:08:06,195 --> 00:08:10,275 Speaker 1: would have been in nineteen forty where we are today. 117 00:08:11,275 --> 00:08:15,835 Speaker 1: The meetings with Russia are not about Ukraine. The Russians 118 00:08:16,195 --> 00:08:20,835 Speaker 1: said as much. The meetings between the United States and 119 00:08:20,955 --> 00:08:27,995 Speaker 1: Russia are about dividing Ukraine between US and dividing the 120 00:08:27,995 --> 00:08:32,355 Speaker 1: rest of Europe between US. Jd. Vance wasn't just avenging 121 00:08:32,435 --> 00:08:34,675 Speaker 1: himself against professors who told him he didn't know enough 122 00:08:34,675 --> 00:08:37,675 Speaker 1: to pass a freshman course in modern European history. He 123 00:08:37,795 --> 00:08:42,715 Speaker 1: was giving them, the Europeans, a hint of what is coming. Noah, 124 00:08:42,795 --> 00:08:47,435 Speaker 1: you better install fascist friendly regimes, because we are going 125 00:08:47,475 --> 00:08:51,115 Speaker 1: to own North and South America and this neighborhood here, 126 00:08:51,155 --> 00:08:53,395 Speaker 1: this is going to be Putin's. And if you already 127 00:08:53,435 --> 00:08:57,875 Speaker 1: have a Putin friendly quasi dictatorship ready to roll dictator 128 00:08:57,995 --> 00:09:03,275 Speaker 1: orban Madame La Penn, mister Wilders, Putin won't need to 129 00:09:03,275 --> 00:09:06,435 Speaker 1: waste any money or blow to install one. He'll just 130 00:09:06,515 --> 00:09:09,235 Speaker 1: use yours and you can stay in charge, running your 131 00:09:09,315 --> 00:09:16,875 Speaker 1: little corner of his empire. For now, we've been too focused, 132 00:09:17,555 --> 00:09:19,795 Speaker 1: understandably on not being critical. I've been doing it too. 133 00:09:19,835 --> 00:09:24,555 Speaker 1: We've been too focused to a ghast, to a ghast 134 00:09:24,595 --> 00:09:27,875 Speaker 1: at the revisionist acceptance of the Holocaust, and even worse 135 00:09:27,915 --> 00:09:31,075 Speaker 1: than now, active promotion of the Holocaust by people like 136 00:09:31,115 --> 00:09:34,595 Speaker 1: the Fances and Musks, to a gas at the betrayal 137 00:09:34,635 --> 00:09:38,035 Speaker 1: of Ukraine, and more selfishly, the seeming ignorance of our 138 00:09:38,115 --> 00:09:43,475 Speaker 1: new insect overlords that know the Zelensky's right. Putin will 139 00:09:43,595 --> 00:09:46,195 Speaker 1: take Europe next. Who's going to stop him? In Poland, 140 00:09:46,595 --> 00:09:50,075 Speaker 1: in Germany, in England. We have been too stunned by 141 00:09:50,115 --> 00:09:53,835 Speaker 1: the details to even contemplate the big picture, let alone 142 00:09:53,835 --> 00:09:57,835 Speaker 1: recognize that it is already being painted as we speak 143 00:09:58,035 --> 00:10:03,635 Speaker 1: at this minute. The meetings with the Russians are about 144 00:10:04,275 --> 00:10:10,275 Speaker 1: device up the world. Because we don't have Lindberg with 145 00:10:10,395 --> 00:10:15,995 Speaker 1: his seven illegitimate children in Germany. We have Trump with 146 00:10:16,075 --> 00:10:22,195 Speaker 1: his four idiot adult children here. And the utter unabashed 147 00:10:22,235 --> 00:10:24,795 Speaker 1: evil isn't in Germany this time anyway, it's lightly to 148 00:10:24,835 --> 00:10:28,155 Speaker 1: the eastern Russia. And yet otherwise it's just the World 149 00:10:28,155 --> 00:10:30,755 Speaker 1: War two, maps and plans and goals and dreams and 150 00:10:30,835 --> 00:10:33,315 Speaker 1: nightmares all over again, only this time they were smarter 151 00:10:33,395 --> 00:10:36,395 Speaker 1: than Hitler. Hitler didn't have the presence of mind to 152 00:10:36,475 --> 00:10:40,635 Speaker 1: keep his big bazoo shut and keep his true evil 153 00:10:40,675 --> 00:10:43,315 Speaker 1: goals to himself until it was too late for anybody 154 00:10:43,355 --> 00:10:48,075 Speaker 1: to do anything about it. It never really occurred to 155 00:10:48,155 --> 00:10:51,995 Speaker 1: Hitler that sure, funding the German American League in this 156 00:10:52,115 --> 00:10:54,595 Speaker 1: country the bund was a nice way to show the 157 00:10:54,675 --> 00:10:58,635 Speaker 1: flag here. But again, where was the subtlety? He should 158 00:10:58,675 --> 00:11:03,955 Speaker 1: have spent his money on influencers and covert propaganda and 159 00:11:04,035 --> 00:11:10,555 Speaker 1: buying it congresswomen. Hitler would have should have could have 160 00:11:11,155 --> 00:11:14,915 Speaker 1: compromised the TULSEI Gabbard and J. D Vance and Mark 161 00:11:15,035 --> 00:11:19,475 Speaker 1: Zuckerberg types of his day, and assessing the amazing lack 162 00:11:19,515 --> 00:11:22,035 Speaker 1: of self defense built into the American form of government 163 00:11:22,435 --> 00:11:25,795 Speaker 1: and its naive, pathetic reliance on the goodwill of all 164 00:11:25,835 --> 00:11:30,115 Speaker 1: the parties, and spending every ruble he could find making 165 00:11:30,155 --> 00:11:36,635 Speaker 1: sure Trump got elected. I'm sorry, Typho, making sure Lindberg 166 00:11:36,715 --> 00:11:40,195 Speaker 1: got elected, spending every Deutsche mark he could find, making 167 00:11:40,235 --> 00:11:45,835 Speaker 1: sure Lindbergh got elected got my alternative nineteen thirty eight 168 00:11:45,955 --> 00:11:49,755 Speaker 1: history confused with my alternative twenty twenty five twenty six history. 169 00:11:50,155 --> 00:11:55,915 Speaker 1: It's sorry, except it's not alternative twenty twenty five twenty 170 00:11:55,915 --> 00:11:59,875 Speaker 1: six history. Is it? Trump's five dollars horror. Marco Rubio 171 00:12:00,035 --> 00:12:03,595 Speaker 1: meets with Lavrov in Riad to figure out which ways 172 00:12:03,635 --> 00:12:08,635 Speaker 1: to accelerate the dis memberment of Ukraine. The way in 173 00:12:08,675 --> 00:12:12,435 Speaker 1: which we sell Ukraine a truce and take their rare 174 00:12:12,555 --> 00:12:15,115 Speaker 1: minerals instead of getting our money back. If we have 175 00:12:15,155 --> 00:12:17,795 Speaker 1: to get our money back from bandits who caused this, 176 00:12:17,875 --> 00:12:23,155 Speaker 1: that would be the Russians. And then after the truce 177 00:12:23,315 --> 00:12:26,635 Speaker 1: or the ceasefire, when the Russians have resupplied and restocked 178 00:12:26,635 --> 00:12:29,915 Speaker 1: their war machine and they violate the ceasefire and the 179 00:12:29,915 --> 00:12:34,875 Speaker 1: token European troops get slaughtered in Kiev, and we don't 180 00:12:34,875 --> 00:12:38,315 Speaker 1: defend our NATO allies and instead we attack the one 181 00:12:38,355 --> 00:12:42,515 Speaker 1: north of us and putin rolls into Krackoff and Warsaw 182 00:12:42,835 --> 00:12:45,275 Speaker 1: and Berlin and Paris. Hey, what are you gonna do? 183 00:12:46,475 --> 00:12:50,635 Speaker 1: Shrug emoji? I mean, what's the big problem here? We've 184 00:12:50,635 --> 00:12:55,835 Speaker 1: got that ocean, don't we that beautiful ocean? And the 185 00:12:55,955 --> 00:12:58,275 Speaker 1: video game networks is still intact, and look at that 186 00:12:58,355 --> 00:13:01,155 Speaker 1: stock market, and the Netflix streams are clearer than ever 187 00:13:01,275 --> 00:13:05,795 Speaker 1: they're now in seventy And is it nicer not to 188 00:13:05,835 --> 00:13:08,955 Speaker 1: have to worry about where to bigation? Now? Given how 189 00:13:09,075 --> 00:13:13,955 Speaker 1: cheap the Mediterranean view. Russian stewge suites are at the 190 00:13:13,995 --> 00:13:17,835 Speaker 1: new Trump Gaza Riviera Resort, complete with its two hundred 191 00:13:17,835 --> 00:13:24,715 Speaker 1: and twenty seven different golf courses. The next European war 192 00:13:25,275 --> 00:13:30,315 Speaker 1: is being planned, and probably the next World war is 193 00:13:30,355 --> 00:13:34,995 Speaker 1: being planned, with it first this week in Saudi Arabia, 194 00:13:36,155 --> 00:13:40,475 Speaker 1: then whenever Trump goes to the Kremlin and unfortunately comes 195 00:13:40,475 --> 00:13:47,315 Speaker 1: back or Putin comes here. The Russians described the Riyad 196 00:13:47,555 --> 00:13:50,475 Speaker 1: meeting not as a way to resolve the crisis they 197 00:13:50,555 --> 00:13:53,675 Speaker 1: created in Ukraine, but as a first step towards improving 198 00:13:53,795 --> 00:13:59,555 Speaker 1: relations with the United States. Their invasion of Ukraine is 199 00:13:59,795 --> 00:14:04,675 Speaker 1: incidental to them. Their invasion of the United States is 200 00:14:04,835 --> 00:14:09,435 Speaker 1: the key. What the Russians are going to do next 201 00:14:09,875 --> 00:14:16,035 Speaker 1: in our country is the key, because we have a 202 00:14:16,075 --> 00:14:22,955 Speaker 1: president who thinks we are protected by water. But don't worry, 203 00:14:22,995 --> 00:14:26,675 Speaker 1: you aren't at risk. Your stocks will continue to rise, 204 00:14:27,515 --> 00:14:30,835 Speaker 1: the Times will keep publishing a new wordle every day, 205 00:14:31,395 --> 00:14:36,475 Speaker 1: while both sides in forced relocation as opposed to ethnic cleansing. 206 00:14:37,915 --> 00:14:41,755 Speaker 1: Because finally, finally, finally, the United States of America, it's 207 00:14:41,795 --> 00:14:47,235 Speaker 1: not going to get surprised by a world war. We're 208 00:14:47,235 --> 00:14:49,755 Speaker 1: not going to make that repeat mistake of trying to 209 00:14:49,875 --> 00:14:53,915 Speaker 1: stop it. We're going to help start it. Because our 210 00:14:53,995 --> 00:14:59,915 Speaker 1: God send visionary fere Trump has seen what Wilson and Teddy, 211 00:15:00,035 --> 00:15:03,635 Speaker 1: Roosevelt and FDR and all the other idiots never could. 212 00:15:03,875 --> 00:15:07,195 Speaker 1: He has seen in the coming World War, what they 213 00:15:07,275 --> 00:15:12,555 Speaker 1: never even dreamed of. He has seen the American ownership 214 00:15:12,675 --> 00:15:20,635 Speaker 1: position in the next World War. The beautiful ocean will 215 00:15:20,715 --> 00:15:27,075 Speaker 1: protect us. This nation needs a new commander in chief 216 00:15:27,195 --> 00:15:56,475 Speaker 1: and needs him or her to day. Oh and Trump's 217 00:15:56,555 --> 00:16:00,795 Speaker 1: lies about President Zelenski of Ukraine, who clearly so ticked 218 00:16:00,875 --> 00:16:03,195 Speaker 1: him off so much yesterday when he said Trump was 219 00:16:03,275 --> 00:16:08,275 Speaker 1: quote living in a disinform space unquote manipulated by Russia, 220 00:16:08,995 --> 00:16:13,275 Speaker 1: which is a plain statement of fact. Trump responded by 221 00:16:13,275 --> 00:16:17,675 Speaker 1: calling Zelensky a dictator who didn't have elections, even though 222 00:16:17,675 --> 00:16:21,195 Speaker 1: the constitution there prohibits elections while there's martial law. And 223 00:16:21,235 --> 00:16:23,235 Speaker 1: then he threatens Lensky and this is all about the 224 00:16:23,235 --> 00:16:25,835 Speaker 1: phone call. I just need you to do me a favor. Though. 225 00:16:26,875 --> 00:16:29,035 Speaker 1: Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have 226 00:16:29,075 --> 00:16:34,115 Speaker 1: a country left. Maybe, mister Trump, Zelensky can get himself 227 00:16:34,115 --> 00:16:41,555 Speaker 1: a beautiful ocean. I understand an ocean solves everything. Interesting 228 00:16:41,595 --> 00:16:43,835 Speaker 1: phrasing here, he better move faster, or he's not going 229 00:16:43,875 --> 00:16:46,955 Speaker 1: to have a country left. Zelensky, better move faster. He's 230 00:16:46,955 --> 00:16:50,195 Speaker 1: not going to have a country left. America. Better move faster. 231 00:16:50,355 --> 00:16:53,355 Speaker 1: They are not going to have a country left. Just 232 00:16:53,395 --> 00:16:57,235 Speaker 1: thinking out loud. Trump later boasted that he had stopped 233 00:16:57,355 --> 00:17:01,275 Speaker 1: congestion pricing here in New York. He hasn't. The city 234 00:17:01,315 --> 00:17:05,195 Speaker 1: and state sued to overturn a ruling about that by 235 00:17:05,235 --> 00:17:10,435 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Reality shows, mister Duffy. Even the secretary 236 00:17:10,515 --> 00:17:13,475 Speaker 1: himself knew he would be in court instantaneously. His ruling 237 00:17:13,555 --> 00:17:15,435 Speaker 1: was not even supposed to take effect for a month. 238 00:17:16,355 --> 00:17:19,955 Speaker 1: But Trump wrote, congestion pricing is dead Manhattan and all 239 00:17:20,035 --> 00:17:24,235 Speaker 1: New York is saved. Long live the King. I don't 240 00:17:24,235 --> 00:17:26,475 Speaker 1: know who the king could be in this construction of 241 00:17:26,515 --> 00:17:31,035 Speaker 1: Trump doesn't mean Trump in that sentence. Manhattan is the king. 242 00:17:31,435 --> 00:17:34,675 Speaker 1: He said, New York has been destroyed. Congestion pricing is 243 00:17:34,715 --> 00:17:36,835 Speaker 1: the king. No, he meant Trump is the king. I 244 00:17:36,875 --> 00:17:40,435 Speaker 1: do know a tea party slob that Trump made. Deputy 245 00:17:40,435 --> 00:17:44,635 Speaker 1: White House Chief of Staff promptly tweeted that with an 246 00:17:44,675 --> 00:17:48,155 Speaker 1: AI image of Trump in fetching King's robes that, like 247 00:17:48,195 --> 00:17:51,755 Speaker 1: his suits, was clearly cut to hide his belly, and 248 00:17:51,795 --> 00:17:54,115 Speaker 1: the official White House account then put out a fake 249 00:17:54,235 --> 00:17:57,835 Speaker 1: magazine cover with a drawing of Trump wearing a crown 250 00:17:58,075 --> 00:18:01,355 Speaker 1: two or three sizes too small. And it is tempting 251 00:18:01,435 --> 00:18:05,115 Speaker 1: to dismiss, as many people did, as trolling or as 252 00:18:05,155 --> 00:18:07,355 Speaker 1: a distraction, but at minimum, this is part of the 253 00:18:07,395 --> 00:18:12,475 Speaker 1: effort to make him look omnipotent and invincible and mandated 254 00:18:12,915 --> 00:18:15,315 Speaker 1: instead of what he really is, which is a president 255 00:18:15,675 --> 00:18:18,555 Speaker 1: with forty nine point eight percent of the vote and 256 00:18:18,675 --> 00:18:22,435 Speaker 1: a disapproval poll rating that went from forty one percent 257 00:18:22,555 --> 00:18:27,915 Speaker 1: on inauguration day to fifty one percent last week, ten 258 00:18:27,955 --> 00:18:34,155 Speaker 1: points in a month in the wrong direction. By the way, 259 00:18:34,195 --> 00:18:36,475 Speaker 1: I hear long Live the King, and having lived in 260 00:18:36,595 --> 00:18:38,075 Speaker 1: LA for a long time, I think of the guy 261 00:18:38,115 --> 00:18:41,315 Speaker 1: who used to do his own commercials for big screen TVs, 262 00:18:41,515 --> 00:18:45,555 Speaker 1: Paul the King of big Screens. No emotion in his 263 00:18:45,635 --> 00:18:49,795 Speaker 1: voice whatsoever. Sounded like he was trying to be enthusiastic, 264 00:18:49,835 --> 00:18:52,515 Speaker 1: but Jess couldn't quite pull it off. And he'd finished 265 00:18:52,515 --> 00:18:56,395 Speaker 1: this thing off with I Am the King. I hear 266 00:18:56,435 --> 00:18:59,875 Speaker 1: that same inflection in Trump's voice, I am the King, 267 00:19:00,515 --> 00:19:07,395 Speaker 1: King forty nine point eight percent. As to the King's Boss. 268 00:19:08,195 --> 00:19:10,915 Speaker 1: I hate to endorse anything from Steve Mannon, but Steve 269 00:19:10,995 --> 00:19:17,875 Speaker 1: Mannon on e long musk quote a parasitic illegal immigrant 270 00:19:18,155 --> 00:19:23,275 Speaker 1: Check who wants to impose his freak experiments and play 271 00:19:23,395 --> 00:19:29,475 Speaker 1: act as God Check without any respect for the country's history, values, 272 00:19:29,595 --> 00:19:35,075 Speaker 1: or traditions. Wait that last part, Bannon, are you four 273 00:19:35,235 --> 00:19:40,635 Speaker 1: or against it? Then there's Trump's attempt to repurpose the 274 00:19:40,635 --> 00:19:42,875 Speaker 1: failed mayor of New York City, Eric Adams as a 275 00:19:42,915 --> 00:19:47,755 Speaker 1: Trump drone b This will wait another day. The judge 276 00:19:47,755 --> 00:19:51,115 Speaker 1: holding off a ruling maybe today on whether or not 277 00:19:51,235 --> 00:19:54,275 Speaker 1: to go ahead with the dismissal of the corruption charges 278 00:19:54,315 --> 00:19:58,955 Speaker 1: against Adams, giving Trump's first weaponizing tool inside the DOJ. 279 00:19:59,795 --> 00:20:05,635 Speaker 1: Emil Beauveat the chance to insist at prosecuting Adams was weaponizing, 280 00:20:08,115 --> 00:20:10,875 Speaker 1: and Bove got another chance to threaten everybody still at 281 00:20:10,915 --> 00:20:14,475 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, all five or ten employees. You 282 00:20:14,555 --> 00:20:19,195 Speaker 1: know this guy. You've seen this guy. He's the one 283 00:20:19,195 --> 00:21:05,195 Speaker 1: who looks exactly like exactly like Uncle Fester. Thank you, 284 00:21:05,355 --> 00:21:09,475 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. We have our first white supremacist. Hey, your 285 00:21:09,515 --> 00:21:14,115 Speaker 1: white clan sheet is showing citing the Texas Observer reports 286 00:21:14,195 --> 00:21:18,635 Speaker 1: the operator of an extremely racist social media account with 287 00:21:18,755 --> 00:21:22,835 Speaker 1: such pithy observations as quote, all blacks are foreign to 288 00:21:22,955 --> 00:21:26,595 Speaker 1: my people and quote America is a white nation founded 289 00:21:26,635 --> 00:21:30,915 Speaker 1: by whites. And last year quote nobody is proposing feeding 290 00:21:30,995 --> 00:21:36,075 Speaker 1: migrants into tree shredders, yet unquote the author of that 291 00:21:36,155 --> 00:21:40,115 Speaker 1: is actually an ICE attorney in Dallas. This after the 292 00:21:40,155 --> 00:21:45,075 Speaker 1: head of ICE Tom innumerable chins Homeman threatened to put 293 00:21:45,115 --> 00:21:48,795 Speaker 1: AOC behind bars because she reminded migrants that they have 294 00:21:49,035 --> 00:21:56,515 Speaker 1: rights even if the Gestapo grabs them. Can't be innocent 295 00:21:56,595 --> 00:22:02,635 Speaker 1: until proven guilty. Not the Tom Hoeman, the interim US 296 00:22:02,715 --> 00:22:08,315 Speaker 1: attorney in DC at Martin, maybe even crazier. He is 297 00:22:08,475 --> 00:22:12,995 Speaker 1: angry the Democrats are reacting at all against the doge embezzlements. 298 00:22:13,155 --> 00:22:18,155 Speaker 1: He is personally launching an investigation into Senator Chuck Schumer 299 00:22:20,235 --> 00:22:27,315 Speaker 1: for trying to stop doge I wish. This underscores my 300 00:22:27,435 --> 00:22:30,835 Speaker 1: point to Democrats that milk toast color within the lines. 301 00:22:30,915 --> 00:22:35,475 Speaker 1: Responses to the kaleidoscope of crime already perpetrated by Trump 302 00:22:35,795 --> 00:22:40,155 Speaker 1: will be treated just as harshly by Trump and his whores, 303 00:22:40,675 --> 00:22:43,915 Speaker 1: as will be the kind of responses that actually rally 304 00:22:44,075 --> 00:22:50,155 Speaker 1: opposition and cheer. People who remember the good old days 305 00:22:50,755 --> 00:22:54,395 Speaker 1: when we still had a democracy. The good old days, 306 00:22:54,955 --> 00:23:08,235 Speaker 1: you remember them a month ago this morning, all right, 307 00:23:08,275 --> 00:23:11,355 Speaker 1: a couple of laughs. Lauren Bobert has appeared in a 308 00:23:11,395 --> 00:23:15,235 Speaker 1: photo standing next to a statue of Trump with his 309 00:23:15,355 --> 00:23:21,395 Speaker 1: hand raised and clenched. So she raised her hand and 310 00:23:21,595 --> 00:23:26,475 Speaker 1: clenched it. Obviously, this statue honored Bobert's date at that 311 00:23:26,555 --> 00:23:31,355 Speaker 1: theater in Colorado. Let's hear it for the boy. Let's 312 00:23:31,355 --> 00:23:34,875 Speaker 1: give the boy a hand. Meanwhile, there is this from 313 00:23:34,875 --> 00:23:38,675 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Claudia Tenny, who faulted into the House of Representatives 314 00:23:38,675 --> 00:23:43,035 Speaker 1: after hosting a radio show in Oneida, New York. Oneida 315 00:23:44,155 --> 00:23:50,035 Speaker 1: near Wampsville. Congressman Tenny moves to make President Trump's birthday 316 00:23:50,035 --> 00:23:54,115 Speaker 1: a federal holiday. Congressman Claudia Tenney blah blah blah blah blah, 317 00:23:54,115 --> 00:24:00,035 Speaker 1: idiot from New Establishment Act officially designate June fourteenth as 318 00:24:00,035 --> 00:24:03,115 Speaker 1: a federal holiday to commemorate President Donald J. Trump's birthday 319 00:24:03,355 --> 00:24:07,675 Speaker 1: and flag day. Born on June fourteenth, nineteen forty six. 320 00:24:08,195 --> 00:24:12,315 Speaker 1: That's right. Remind everybody he's really really old and coming 321 00:24:12,315 --> 00:24:16,155 Speaker 1: apart at the seams. Trump's birthday coincided with Flag Day, 322 00:24:16,315 --> 00:24:19,915 Speaker 1: had it been adopted by then, had flag Day already 323 00:24:19,915 --> 00:24:22,915 Speaker 1: started by nineteen forty six? I mean the Stars and 324 00:24:22,995 --> 00:24:26,275 Speaker 1: Shrapes was adopted in seventeen seventy seven. That's roughly that's 325 00:24:26,315 --> 00:24:31,515 Speaker 1: like the same decade as Trump's birth. Legislation would permanently 326 00:24:31,515 --> 00:24:38,275 Speaker 1: codify a new federal holiday called Trump's Birthday and flag Day. Hey, 327 00:24:38,355 --> 00:24:41,275 Speaker 1: let's run Trump up the flagpole and see if anybody salutes. 328 00:24:42,315 --> 00:24:45,995 Speaker 1: Better be a strong flagpole. This goes along with the 329 00:24:46,035 --> 00:24:52,235 Speaker 1: Addison McDowell push to rename Dulles in Washington Trump Airport. Actually, 330 00:24:52,315 --> 00:24:56,075 Speaker 1: and sorry in advance for this, the idea of naming 331 00:24:56,115 --> 00:24:59,435 Speaker 1: anything Trump Airport that would probably be better used as 332 00:24:59,475 --> 00:25:01,595 Speaker 1: the name of that stretch of the Potomac next to 333 00:25:01,715 --> 00:25:07,195 Speaker 1: National Airport, and the annap Paulina Luna bill to put 334 00:25:07,235 --> 00:25:12,995 Speaker 1: Trump's head on Mount Rushmore. Now hear me out, I 335 00:25:13,075 --> 00:25:18,155 Speaker 1: think we should all consider supporting that. Consider Anna Paulina 336 00:25:18,315 --> 00:25:25,075 Speaker 1: Luna's idea to put Trump's head on Mount Rushmore, as 337 00:25:25,075 --> 00:25:34,555 Speaker 1: long as she means his real head. Also of interest 338 00:25:34,595 --> 00:25:37,275 Speaker 1: on an all new editions Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. As 339 00:25:37,395 --> 00:25:40,035 Speaker 1: weird enough as it is without getting all broke back 340 00:25:40,155 --> 00:25:43,155 Speaker 1: Mountain on US at a Senate hearing. And you would 341 00:25:43,195 --> 00:25:45,795 Speaker 1: think even hockey guys would know that Trump's threat to 342 00:25:45,915 --> 00:25:49,715 Speaker 1: coerce or annex or invade Canada might just be a 343 00:25:49,795 --> 00:25:53,835 Speaker 1: third rail in Canada right before a title game between 344 00:25:53,875 --> 00:25:58,515 Speaker 1: the US and Canada. No, sir, the American team general 345 00:25:58,515 --> 00:26:03,075 Speaker 1: manager has decided a possible war between these two countries 346 00:26:03,235 --> 00:26:08,755 Speaker 1: is good motivation for his team in their stupid, meaningless 347 00:26:08,795 --> 00:26:14,395 Speaker 1: exhibition little hockey game tonight. That's next. This is Countdown. 348 00:26:15,355 --> 00:26:22,275 Speaker 1: Biscuit in the basket. This is Countdown with Keith Oberman. 349 00:26:23,395 --> 00:26:47,115 Speaker 1: Oberman still ahead in this all new edition of Countdown, 350 00:26:48,075 --> 00:26:53,995 Speaker 1: a new segment comic relief. It was the creepiest thing 351 00:26:54,035 --> 00:26:57,835 Speaker 1: an athlete has ever said to me. I mean unintentionally. 352 00:26:59,635 --> 00:27:01,595 Speaker 1: And it just came to the four again with some 353 00:27:01,675 --> 00:27:05,435 Speaker 1: sad news yesterday and the person I into it the 354 00:27:05,515 --> 00:27:09,355 Speaker 1: animal hospital who sounded like the reporter from my first 355 00:27:09,475 --> 00:27:13,995 Speaker 1: MSNBC show twenty seven years ago. That was because she 356 00:27:14,395 --> 00:27:18,195 Speaker 1: was the reporter from my first MSNBC show twenty seven 357 00:27:18,275 --> 00:27:23,555 Speaker 1: years ago. Well, that ahead in comic relief. I'm working 358 00:27:23,555 --> 00:27:26,395 Speaker 1: on a new title first, believe it or not, there's 359 00:27:26,395 --> 00:27:28,915 Speaker 1: still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup 360 00:27:28,915 --> 00:27:32,275 Speaker 1: of the miscrants, morons, and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who 361 00:27:32,355 --> 00:27:39,395 Speaker 1: constitute today's other worst persons in the world. Dedicated today 362 00:27:39,435 --> 00:27:44,475 Speaker 1: to Sean Hannity and Lara Trump. Lara Trump idiot, Eric's 363 00:27:44,595 --> 00:27:48,155 Speaker 1: idiot wife, the one whose eyes go in different directions, 364 00:27:48,595 --> 00:27:53,235 Speaker 1: who recently started quote singing unquote, who has produced a 365 00:27:53,235 --> 00:27:55,955 Speaker 1: fitness video in which it certainly looks like she's appearing 366 00:27:55,995 --> 00:28:00,795 Speaker 1: as the before in the before and after contrast. Hannity 367 00:28:00,995 --> 00:28:03,755 Speaker 1: introduced her on his show the other night as quote, 368 00:28:04,115 --> 00:28:07,835 Speaker 1: this is a exact quote the host of the upcoming 369 00:28:07,915 --> 00:28:16,755 Speaker 1: hit show My View with Laura Shitt Trump. Why did 370 00:28:16,755 --> 00:28:19,595 Speaker 1: you have to add Trump? I mean he got something 371 00:28:19,675 --> 00:28:22,315 Speaker 1: right for the first time, first honest thing, Sean said 372 00:28:22,355 --> 00:28:27,155 Speaker 1: in twenty nine damn years My View with Laura, You 373 00:28:27,235 --> 00:28:31,275 Speaker 1: bet your ass. Any who hear the nominees the runner 374 00:28:31,355 --> 00:28:35,595 Speaker 1: up worse Senator Mark Wain, I'm not creepy at all, 375 00:28:35,715 --> 00:28:43,235 Speaker 1: Mullin of Oklahoma. First off, Mark Wayne, Mark Wayne, make 376 00:28:43,315 --> 00:28:47,275 Speaker 1: up your mind, Mark Wain. During a hearing last year, 377 00:28:47,715 --> 00:28:53,355 Speaker 1: Mark Wayne nearly threw hands with union leader Sean O'Brien. 378 00:28:53,395 --> 00:28:56,115 Speaker 1: They screamed at each other and threatened to go outside. 379 00:28:56,315 --> 00:29:00,195 Speaker 1: What we thought it was about a fight, Maybe maybe 380 00:29:00,235 --> 00:29:04,555 Speaker 1: it wasn't. Yesterday O'Brien attended another hearing at which Senator 381 00:29:04,995 --> 00:29:09,195 Speaker 1: said they were now friends, and Senator Mullen added, quote 382 00:29:10,195 --> 00:29:14,235 Speaker 1: on the record, if we were in a relationship, I'd 383 00:29:14,235 --> 00:29:31,875 Speaker 1: be the man in the relationship. Okay, I am beginning 384 00:29:31,915 --> 00:29:36,475 Speaker 1: to suspect, because it would explain everything that when we 385 00:29:36,635 --> 00:29:39,475 Speaker 1: do the post mortem, I mean, the frustration and the 386 00:29:39,515 --> 00:29:42,315 Speaker 1: lies and everything else, and the madness in these people, 387 00:29:42,355 --> 00:29:46,755 Speaker 1: and the desire to hurt members of any minority group, 388 00:29:46,875 --> 00:29:51,235 Speaker 1: any oppressed group. When we do the post mortem on 389 00:29:51,315 --> 00:29:55,155 Speaker 1: the late United States of America, we will discover that 390 00:29:55,195 --> 00:29:59,755 Speaker 1: as many as ninety percent of maga Republican men who 391 00:29:59,795 --> 00:30:03,075 Speaker 1: were elected to office during this nightmare, that they were 392 00:30:03,115 --> 00:30:07,955 Speaker 1: actually self denying, self clothing gay men. That's just my guess. 393 00:30:08,675 --> 00:30:11,835 Speaker 1: If we were in a relationship, mister O'Brien, I'd be 394 00:30:11,915 --> 00:30:21,515 Speaker 1: the man in the relationship. Okay, you used your a 395 00:30:21,515 --> 00:30:29,435 Speaker 1: loud voice for that, Senator Mark Wayne runners up the 396 00:30:29,515 --> 00:30:34,595 Speaker 1: National Hockey League. Okay, at first, it's Bill Garren, the 397 00:30:34,635 --> 00:30:37,315 Speaker 1: general manager of the United States team at the four 398 00:30:37,435 --> 00:30:41,235 Speaker 1: Nations face Off and with him commentator PK. Sue Ban 399 00:30:41,435 --> 00:30:45,075 Speaker 1: from ESPN. The Four Nations Face Off is a series 400 00:30:45,075 --> 00:30:48,755 Speaker 1: of meaningless exhibition games for which they stopped the National 401 00:30:48,795 --> 00:30:52,555 Speaker 1: Hockey League season at its prime moment for two weeks 402 00:30:54,155 --> 00:30:58,595 Speaker 1: so they could play seven exhibition games, which concludes tonight 403 00:30:58,635 --> 00:31:01,595 Speaker 1: with the United States versus Canada, with Canada having been 404 00:31:01,635 --> 00:31:04,595 Speaker 1: given a kind of penalty weight that could put extra 405 00:31:04,675 --> 00:31:06,475 Speaker 1: wait on a jockey. To make it even with the 406 00:31:06,475 --> 00:31:09,355 Speaker 1: other horses and jockeys, they have to play their worst 407 00:31:09,395 --> 00:31:14,515 Speaker 1: goalie again just to make it close. Mister Garin, who 408 00:31:14,555 --> 00:31:17,115 Speaker 1: runs the Minnesota Wild and is from woos To, mass 409 00:31:17,675 --> 00:31:22,555 Speaker 1: has decided that the threat made to Canada's sovereignty by 410 00:31:22,635 --> 00:31:26,235 Speaker 1: the current president of the United States is bulletin board 411 00:31:26,275 --> 00:31:29,675 Speaker 1: material for his team. I think there was a little 412 00:31:29,715 --> 00:31:32,235 Speaker 1: bit of political flat to it. It's just the game 413 00:31:32,275 --> 00:31:36,355 Speaker 1: that we're in Canada and the United States played Saturday 414 00:31:36,435 --> 00:31:39,155 Speaker 1: night and there were three fights in the first nine seconds. 415 00:31:39,635 --> 00:31:42,475 Speaker 1: I think our guys use that as inspiration. You let 416 00:31:42,475 --> 00:31:44,275 Speaker 1: it get the better of you, then you're in trouble. 417 00:31:44,395 --> 00:31:46,075 Speaker 1: But I really do think the play has used it 418 00:31:46,075 --> 00:31:50,395 Speaker 1: as inspiration. Garon also called the game the highest level 419 00:31:50,395 --> 00:31:54,155 Speaker 1: of hockey ever played, and he extended an invite to 420 00:31:54,355 --> 00:31:59,355 Speaker 1: Trump to attend the final game, which is tonight in Boston, Boston. 421 00:32:00,515 --> 00:32:02,835 Speaker 1: We would love it if President Trump was in attendance. 422 00:32:03,115 --> 00:32:05,235 Speaker 1: We have a room full of prouda may can play 423 00:32:05,275 --> 00:32:08,595 Speaker 1: as and coaches and staff and listen, We're just trying 424 00:32:08,635 --> 00:32:13,115 Speaker 1: to represent our country the best way we can. Bill 425 00:32:13,115 --> 00:32:17,715 Speaker 1: Garroon has a troubled, troubled history, and now he says 426 00:32:17,795 --> 00:32:22,435 Speaker 1: this to you need to get him some help. I'm 427 00:32:22,515 --> 00:32:26,555 Speaker 1: going no further than that. And then yesterday PK Suban, 428 00:32:26,995 --> 00:32:30,035 Speaker 1: who first was the most overrated defenseman in the National 429 00:32:30,035 --> 00:32:34,475 Speaker 1: Hockey League, then became the most overrated studio analyst for 430 00:32:34,875 --> 00:32:41,395 Speaker 1: ESPN's appallingly bad National Hockey League coverage. He tweeted, imagine 431 00:32:41,435 --> 00:32:45,635 Speaker 1: Trump shows up on Thursday. Mister Trump, your up chips 432 00:32:45,635 --> 00:32:49,475 Speaker 1: are pushed in folks who you got and he spelled 433 00:32:49,515 --> 00:32:55,635 Speaker 1: your yo. You are, mister Bettman. Donald Trump has threatened 434 00:32:55,675 --> 00:32:59,155 Speaker 1: to annex Canada. And if this is not a particular 435 00:32:59,195 --> 00:33:01,475 Speaker 1: concern to you, I might point out that seven of 436 00:33:01,515 --> 00:33:05,315 Speaker 1: your businesses, seven of your franchises, are in Canada. It's 437 00:33:05,355 --> 00:33:07,835 Speaker 1: not like baseball where there's just the Toronto Blue Jays, 438 00:33:07,955 --> 00:33:10,875 Speaker 1: or football where there are no Canadian teams in the NFL, 439 00:33:11,155 --> 00:33:14,755 Speaker 1: where the NBA, where there's one team. Seven of your 440 00:33:14,795 --> 00:33:18,155 Speaker 1: businesses are located, including that one in Toronto, where the 441 00:33:18,195 --> 00:33:22,235 Speaker 1: Hockey Hall of Fame is, your fans there, your players 442 00:33:22,235 --> 00:33:24,875 Speaker 1: from Canada, and forty one percent of the league is 443 00:33:24,915 --> 00:33:30,795 Speaker 1: still Canadian. They are enraged about this, just as Gary, 444 00:33:30,915 --> 00:33:33,915 Speaker 1: you would be if Prime Minister Trudeau announced that he 445 00:33:33,995 --> 00:33:36,515 Speaker 1: was going to annex the United States and he had 446 00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:39,955 Speaker 1: the firepower to do it, make it an extra province. 447 00:33:41,475 --> 00:33:45,795 Speaker 1: God knows we need to do something else here. If 448 00:33:45,795 --> 00:33:48,395 Speaker 1: the general manager of one of your teams in this 449 00:33:48,515 --> 00:33:51,595 Speaker 1: four Nations tournament had invited, say the general manager of 450 00:33:51,595 --> 00:33:54,395 Speaker 1: the Swedish team or the Finnish team had invited Vladimir 451 00:33:54,475 --> 00:33:57,595 Speaker 1: Putin to a game to emphasize his plans to a 452 00:33:57,715 --> 00:34:02,555 Speaker 1: next Ukraine, Or if the Canadians had invited AOC to 453 00:34:02,595 --> 00:34:07,195 Speaker 1: emphasize plans to impeach Trump, the outrage and the recriminations 454 00:34:07,195 --> 00:34:10,035 Speaker 1: from your office would have been amazing and total. There 455 00:34:10,035 --> 00:34:14,195 Speaker 1: would have been year long suspensions for this. Right now. 456 00:34:15,475 --> 00:34:20,515 Speaker 1: The Canadians have been restrained right now, but as it 457 00:34:20,715 --> 00:34:23,235 Speaker 1: has been in the last couple of years, Commissioner Bettman, 458 00:34:23,235 --> 00:34:25,915 Speaker 1: you coward's erased Pride Night because of one of Bill 459 00:34:25,955 --> 00:34:29,195 Speaker 1: Garn's players from the Minnesota Wild who is a Russian 460 00:34:29,195 --> 00:34:33,995 Speaker 1: homophobe and objected to all that gainess. Yet you allow this, 461 00:34:34,395 --> 00:34:38,115 Speaker 1: You allow the general manager of the team to basically 462 00:34:38,155 --> 00:34:42,275 Speaker 1: invite the president as he's threatening the other country, and 463 00:34:42,355 --> 00:34:45,155 Speaker 1: the allow this idiot Sue Band to say essentially the 464 00:34:45,195 --> 00:34:49,315 Speaker 1: same thing. No follow up, no comments, no don't do 465 00:34:49,395 --> 00:34:54,755 Speaker 1: that again, no killing of the tweet. Even Canada's fans 466 00:34:54,795 --> 00:34:57,355 Speaker 1: have been really restrained. I think they should stop being 467 00:34:57,395 --> 00:35:01,435 Speaker 1: restrained when the season resumes on Saturday. I hope Canadian 468 00:35:01,475 --> 00:35:04,235 Speaker 1: fans at every game in which the American team is 469 00:35:04,315 --> 00:35:07,235 Speaker 1: visiting the Canadian team, I hope Canadian fans not only 470 00:35:07,275 --> 00:35:11,475 Speaker 1: refuse to even stand for the American anthem, I hope 471 00:35:11,475 --> 00:35:16,755 Speaker 1: they boo continuously and drown the American anthem out. See 472 00:35:16,755 --> 00:35:21,035 Speaker 1: what you do, then, Betman, you hapless clown, but our winner. 473 00:35:21,035 --> 00:35:27,035 Speaker 1: Speaking of hapless clowns, Stephen A. Smith, I'm afraid to 474 00:35:27,035 --> 00:35:30,515 Speaker 1: report that Stephen A. Smith's ego has finally escaped. It 475 00:35:30,595 --> 00:35:34,155 Speaker 1: is now destroying buildings like the god Zilla sized creature 476 00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:37,955 Speaker 1: it is. He went on a podcast with Tommy Veeder 477 00:35:38,115 --> 00:35:43,195 Speaker 1: talking politics. I'm not sure why his experience in politics 478 00:35:43,235 --> 00:35:46,995 Speaker 1: as being a friend of Sean Hannity's. That's like less 479 00:35:47,035 --> 00:35:50,955 Speaker 1: than knowing nothing about politics, but talking politics Stephen A. 480 00:35:51,035 --> 00:35:53,595 Speaker 1: Smith when talking sports often proves too much for him. 481 00:35:53,635 --> 00:35:56,315 Speaker 1: Stephen did one of those I don't know why everybody's 482 00:35:56,315 --> 00:35:58,995 Speaker 1: saying I should be president things, one of those hold 483 00:35:59,035 --> 00:36:01,875 Speaker 1: me back, hold me back, I shouldn't be running for president. 484 00:36:02,435 --> 00:36:05,475 Speaker 1: Veeter said, I do think there's space between yes, Trump 485 00:36:05,515 --> 00:36:08,115 Speaker 1: has a mandate and the suggestion you see sometimes that 486 00:36:08,155 --> 00:36:11,355 Speaker 1: Democrats shouldn't be fighting back, or that we're the problem 487 00:36:11,435 --> 00:36:14,035 Speaker 1: for fighting back, that it's the wrong optics are messaging, 488 00:36:14,355 --> 00:36:17,075 Speaker 1: to which Steven A. Smith said something that had nothing 489 00:36:17,115 --> 00:36:19,755 Speaker 1: to do with what had just been said. That's not 490 00:36:19,875 --> 00:36:22,195 Speaker 1: that much of a surprise, but here it is. Quote Well, 491 00:36:22,235 --> 00:36:24,195 Speaker 1: what I would say is that you are wrong, and 492 00:36:24,235 --> 00:36:26,835 Speaker 1: the reason you are wrong is because never before has 493 00:36:26,835 --> 00:36:30,275 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party been this damaged. This is bad, bro. 494 00:36:32,115 --> 00:36:39,235 Speaker 1: The Democratic Party lost, let's see the nineteen sixty eight elections, 495 00:36:39,275 --> 00:36:42,115 Speaker 1: after a landslide in nineteen sixty four, then they lost 496 00:36:42,115 --> 00:36:45,315 Speaker 1: in seventy two, nearly lost in seventy six, lost in eighty, 497 00:36:45,635 --> 00:36:49,875 Speaker 1: lost in eighty four, lost in eighty eight, But never 498 00:36:49,915 --> 00:36:53,395 Speaker 1: before has the Democratic Party been this damaged this year, 499 00:36:53,595 --> 00:36:56,715 Speaker 1: that's true this year. Smith also said Democrats need to 500 00:36:56,755 --> 00:37:00,195 Speaker 1: run a fearless candidate in twenty twenty eight who has 501 00:37:00,315 --> 00:37:03,435 Speaker 1: box office appeal. Quote. I believe it is an utter 502 00:37:03,475 --> 00:37:06,515 Speaker 1: embarrassment to the Democrat Party that I am a candidate 503 00:37:06,515 --> 00:37:08,875 Speaker 1: in people's eyes for the presidency of the United States. 504 00:37:08,995 --> 00:37:11,675 Speaker 1: It's an indictment against them, and they need to get 505 00:37:11,715 --> 00:37:15,915 Speaker 1: their act together. Steve, and I have good news for you, 506 00:37:15,995 --> 00:37:17,795 Speaker 1: and I have bad news for you. The bad news 507 00:37:17,995 --> 00:37:20,515 Speaker 1: there is only one person talking about you as a 508 00:37:20,555 --> 00:37:24,155 Speaker 1: candidate for the presidency of the United States, and that's you. 509 00:37:24,955 --> 00:37:28,435 Speaker 1: The good news is, I'm happy to inform you you 510 00:37:28,595 --> 00:37:32,355 Speaker 1: will remain the only person talking about you as a 511 00:37:32,395 --> 00:37:37,995 Speaker 1: candidate for the presidency of the United States. Stephen A. 512 00:37:38,195 --> 00:37:42,715 Speaker 1: Smith candidate for well whatever it is he does on 513 00:37:43,035 --> 00:37:56,675 Speaker 1: ESPN Today's other Worst Person. Hello, Well, however to the 514 00:37:56,755 --> 00:37:58,755 Speaker 1: number one story on the Countdown, And I think I'm 515 00:37:58,755 --> 00:38:01,035 Speaker 1: going to need to get new music done for a 516 00:38:01,075 --> 00:38:05,155 Speaker 1: new segment called Comic Relief. It seems to me this 517 00:38:05,235 --> 00:38:07,675 Speaker 1: is where the stupid stuff of the day should all go. 518 00:38:07,795 --> 00:38:10,555 Speaker 1: I mean the stupid stuff that does not directly pertain 519 00:38:11,075 --> 00:38:14,995 Speaker 1: to this particular nightmare timeline in which the President of 520 00:38:14,995 --> 00:38:18,275 Speaker 1: the United States believes that the ocean will keep us safe, 521 00:38:18,795 --> 00:38:21,995 Speaker 1: which is something that Lincoln said and would have realized 522 00:38:22,235 --> 00:38:28,435 Speaker 1: by certainly eighteen ninety, something that you know, Kaiser Wilhelm 523 00:38:28,475 --> 00:38:31,955 Speaker 1: could have sent the German fleet to New York pretty 524 00:38:31,995 --> 00:38:36,675 Speaker 1: easily buy you know, nineteen hundred, to say nothing of 525 00:38:36,755 --> 00:38:40,075 Speaker 1: that new thing called the airplane which was used at 526 00:38:40,115 --> 00:38:43,915 Speaker 1: Pearl Harmer So comic relief. I have two stories. They 527 00:38:43,915 --> 00:38:48,435 Speaker 1: are totally unconnected, and one of them involves brain disease, 528 00:38:48,595 --> 00:38:51,195 Speaker 1: which isn't that funny a topic, but it relates only 529 00:38:51,235 --> 00:38:54,715 Speaker 1: as the news hook for it. So let's try these 530 00:38:54,715 --> 00:38:58,995 Speaker 1: two stories, and I'll save the hilarious brain disease story 531 00:38:59,515 --> 00:39:03,035 Speaker 1: for a second. The first one is this the first 532 00:39:03,035 --> 00:39:06,715 Speaker 1: time I did a show at MSNBE. It was about 533 00:39:06,715 --> 00:39:10,235 Speaker 1: the Monica Lewinsky Bill Clinton story. It did not start 534 00:39:10,235 --> 00:39:12,275 Speaker 1: out that way, as I've mentioned many times. It was 535 00:39:12,315 --> 00:39:15,915 Speaker 1: a news magazine show called The Big Show, and it 536 00:39:16,035 --> 00:39:19,755 Speaker 1: premiered on October first, nineteen ninety seven, under the illusion 537 00:39:19,955 --> 00:39:23,795 Speaker 1: at NBC management that I simply throwing my glove out 538 00:39:23,795 --> 00:39:26,275 Speaker 1: on the mound would draw huge audiences to hear me 539 00:39:26,355 --> 00:39:28,275 Speaker 1: talk about things they were not used to hearing me 540 00:39:28,315 --> 00:39:32,195 Speaker 1: talk about. And so we did unique news stories. We 541 00:39:32,275 --> 00:39:36,395 Speaker 1: did unconventional news leads, and one day I saw myself 542 00:39:36,515 --> 00:39:40,155 Speaker 1: interviewing as the live guest in the leads story the 543 00:39:40,195 --> 00:39:44,115 Speaker 1: publisher of the Farmer's Almanac. The big news we chose 544 00:39:44,155 --> 00:39:47,915 Speaker 1: that day in late nineteen ninety seven was the publication 545 00:39:48,035 --> 00:39:52,475 Speaker 1: of the nineteen ninety eight edition of the Farmers Effing Almanac. 546 00:39:54,755 --> 00:39:58,475 Speaker 1: It's not as interesting as it sounds. He was the 547 00:39:58,635 --> 00:40:03,835 Speaker 1: live guest. We were a little lost. And then unfortunately 548 00:40:03,835 --> 00:40:05,955 Speaker 1: the Bill Clinton story came along, and instead of what 549 00:40:06,035 --> 00:40:08,195 Speaker 1: I would have hoped in retrospect had happened, which is 550 00:40:08,235 --> 00:40:10,875 Speaker 1: that they would have canceled my show, instead we got 551 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:14,275 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton in this stupid little magazine show, which had 552 00:40:14,275 --> 00:40:17,115 Speaker 1: its moments, It had good feature segments. It just didn't 553 00:40:18,355 --> 00:40:20,675 Speaker 1: convey the idea that at eight o'clock at night on 554 00:40:20,715 --> 00:40:23,995 Speaker 1: a cable news network trying to establish itself against CNN, 555 00:40:24,035 --> 00:40:28,075 Speaker 1: that maybe we should put news on. Well, we got 556 00:40:28,075 --> 00:40:30,595 Speaker 1: all the news we wanted, although I never was convinced 557 00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:33,155 Speaker 1: that the story was always news. It was Clinton and 558 00:40:33,235 --> 00:40:35,835 Speaker 1: Lewinsky every night, and finally I got so sick of 559 00:40:35,875 --> 00:40:37,475 Speaker 1: it that I begged them to get rid of me, 560 00:40:37,515 --> 00:40:39,595 Speaker 1: and they sold me to Fox Sports for a million 561 00:40:39,635 --> 00:40:42,755 Speaker 1: dollars and I got out and got my wish and 562 00:40:42,795 --> 00:40:44,635 Speaker 1: then had to get out of there too, and wound 563 00:40:44,715 --> 00:40:47,075 Speaker 1: up going back to MSNBC in two thousand and three. 564 00:40:47,235 --> 00:40:50,355 Speaker 1: I've told these stories many times, but this was story 565 00:40:50,795 --> 00:40:53,835 Speaker 1: number two thousand out of this and it is not 566 00:40:53,995 --> 00:40:57,075 Speaker 1: yet complete because a new development in the story of 567 00:40:57,075 --> 00:41:00,635 Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety seven nineteen ninety eight MSNBC The Big 568 00:41:00,675 --> 00:41:04,395 Speaker 1: Show with Keith Overman, a new development has occurred this week. 569 00:41:06,395 --> 00:41:08,715 Speaker 1: I used to have every night since we led with 570 00:41:08,755 --> 00:41:11,875 Speaker 1: Clinton and Lewinsky an opening segment of five to ten 571 00:41:11,915 --> 00:41:14,675 Speaker 1: minutes in length that was written for me, largely by 572 00:41:14,755 --> 00:41:17,395 Speaker 1: a friend of mine from my CNN days in the 573 00:41:17,475 --> 00:41:21,675 Speaker 1: eighties named Bob Lily. Bob worked with me at CNN 574 00:41:21,795 --> 00:41:25,515 Speaker 1: at MSNBC, came back to work with me at MSNBC 575 00:41:25,635 --> 00:41:27,755 Speaker 1: the second time, and came with me to Current TV. 576 00:41:28,315 --> 00:41:31,515 Speaker 1: He worked with me four separate times and lived to 577 00:41:31,555 --> 00:41:35,435 Speaker 1: tell the tale and actually looked and felt younger at 578 00:41:35,475 --> 00:41:38,435 Speaker 1: the end of the process than at the beginning. Okay, 579 00:41:38,515 --> 00:41:40,275 Speaker 1: So Bob would write this, and I would put in 580 00:41:40,275 --> 00:41:42,795 Speaker 1: a few tweaks, and sometimes Bob would hand me this 581 00:41:42,915 --> 00:41:45,035 Speaker 1: script as we were going on the air at eight o'clock. 582 00:41:45,075 --> 00:41:47,715 Speaker 1: It was very intricate, a lot of sound bites and 583 00:41:47,755 --> 00:41:50,155 Speaker 1: a lot of videotape, and a lot of puns and 584 00:41:50,195 --> 00:41:53,355 Speaker 1: a lot of ad libs, and it needed and killed 585 00:41:53,355 --> 00:41:56,235 Speaker 1: a couple of directors. It needed good directors and wore 586 00:41:56,275 --> 00:41:58,595 Speaker 1: them out really fast. And then we would go to 587 00:41:58,635 --> 00:42:01,115 Speaker 1: the White House lawn where one of NBC's White House 588 00:42:01,155 --> 00:42:04,595 Speaker 1: correspondents would appear, needless to say, the White House car 589 00:42:04,675 --> 00:42:08,115 Speaker 1: respondents where NBC News were kind of busy in nineteen 590 00:42:08,195 --> 00:42:12,475 Speaker 1: ninety eight, certainly from January onwards, so occasionally we would 591 00:42:12,515 --> 00:42:16,275 Speaker 1: get still the late great David bloom Ill Starred Ill, 592 00:42:16,315 --> 00:42:19,755 Speaker 1: fated and ultimately a tragic story. But David, who would 593 00:42:19,835 --> 00:42:22,315 Speaker 1: have been on the Today Show at six o'clock that morning, 594 00:42:22,635 --> 00:42:25,835 Speaker 1: or would have been traveling back from Peru or wherever 595 00:42:25,875 --> 00:42:27,915 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton had been at six o'clock in the morning, 596 00:42:27,995 --> 00:42:30,835 Speaker 1: would often stick around and appear live at eight o'clock 597 00:42:30,955 --> 00:42:33,915 Speaker 1: anyway where he got this energy, and how he spent 598 00:42:33,955 --> 00:42:36,755 Speaker 1: his time and his money I will never understand in 599 00:42:36,795 --> 00:42:40,315 Speaker 1: any event, if it wasn't him. The second choice usually 600 00:42:40,475 --> 00:42:44,315 Speaker 1: was a great veteran NBC news correspondent named John Palmer. 601 00:42:44,555 --> 00:42:46,635 Speaker 1: And the first time I ever saw John Palmer, he 602 00:42:46,675 --> 00:42:48,275 Speaker 1: was doing the news on the Today Show, and I 603 00:42:48,355 --> 00:42:51,715 Speaker 1: was a kid, and one of the few genuine thrills 604 00:42:51,995 --> 00:42:55,595 Speaker 1: as I became further and further disenthralled with news at 605 00:42:55,675 --> 00:42:58,475 Speaker 1: NBC in the year nineteen ninety eight, was the chance 606 00:42:58,675 --> 00:43:01,755 Speaker 1: to interview and introduce John Palmer, and I wrote him 607 00:43:01,755 --> 00:43:04,915 Speaker 1: a note to that effect, and when he retired after 608 00:43:05,035 --> 00:43:07,915 Speaker 1: I left NBC, he sent me a letter thanking me 609 00:43:08,035 --> 00:43:11,315 Speaker 1: for having him on my show. One of the great 610 00:43:12,555 --> 00:43:17,715 Speaker 1: backwards juxtaposition stories I've ever encountered. You're thanking me, John Palmer. 611 00:43:17,955 --> 00:43:19,715 Speaker 1: All right, So it was usually one of those two, 612 00:43:19,875 --> 00:43:23,155 Speaker 1: or if not, then the other White House correspondent they 613 00:43:23,195 --> 00:43:26,155 Speaker 1: had three of them at that point, was a lovely 614 00:43:26,195 --> 00:43:30,155 Speaker 1: and talented woman named Claire Shipman. And Claire clearly had 615 00:43:30,195 --> 00:43:34,315 Speaker 1: gotten the idea in her head that she was probably 616 00:43:34,635 --> 00:43:38,075 Speaker 1: not going to go long term into news, even though 617 00:43:38,115 --> 00:43:40,475 Speaker 1: she had all the skills to do so. But Claire 618 00:43:40,515 --> 00:43:42,835 Speaker 1: had something a lot of other people did not. She 619 00:43:42,955 --> 00:43:47,315 Speaker 1: had control of her own ego. Claire did not need television. 620 00:43:47,515 --> 00:43:50,395 Speaker 1: She did it extraordinarily well. But Claire would be out there, 621 00:43:50,435 --> 00:43:53,395 Speaker 1: and if it wasn't Claire, and if it wasn't John Palmer, 622 00:43:53,595 --> 00:43:56,595 Speaker 1: and if it wasn't David Bloom, they would break people 623 00:43:56,675 --> 00:43:59,835 Speaker 1: in who were just starting at NBC News, either moved 624 00:43:59,875 --> 00:44:02,755 Speaker 1: in from other cities where they had worked for NBC affiliates, 625 00:44:03,075 --> 00:44:07,635 Speaker 1: or moved in from other publications making their TV debuts. 626 00:44:07,675 --> 00:44:12,195 Speaker 1: And the other three, including Claire, were known as somewhat 627 00:44:12,235 --> 00:44:15,915 Speaker 1: insultingly but very affectionately in the nicest sense of the word, 628 00:44:16,315 --> 00:44:23,035 Speaker 1: as Keith's harem three beautiful and gifted, talented, hard working 629 00:44:23,075 --> 00:44:26,355 Speaker 1: women who deserved the job and also just looked like 630 00:44:26,395 --> 00:44:28,555 Speaker 1: a million bucks at all times. And I'm not just 631 00:44:28,595 --> 00:44:32,715 Speaker 1: saying how they appeared physically, but how they conducted themselves 632 00:44:32,795 --> 00:44:35,755 Speaker 1: on television. These people knew what to do to make 633 00:44:35,795 --> 00:44:38,515 Speaker 1: a good impression in a professional sense. And it was 634 00:44:38,595 --> 00:44:41,755 Speaker 1: always the highlight of the show to me. And the 635 00:44:41,915 --> 00:44:44,595 Speaker 1: downturn of the show began when I would say thank 636 00:44:44,635 --> 00:44:50,715 Speaker 1: you to her, to him, to whoever it was, and 637 00:44:50,875 --> 00:44:53,275 Speaker 1: said you know, thank you Claire Shipman at the White House. 638 00:44:53,315 --> 00:44:54,755 Speaker 1: That was the point at which there was no reason 639 00:44:54,755 --> 00:44:57,475 Speaker 1: to watch the rest of the show, all right. So 640 00:44:57,515 --> 00:45:00,915 Speaker 1: the three women who did this role, led by Claire Shipman, 641 00:45:00,995 --> 00:45:03,395 Speaker 1: a White House correspondent, and the two kind of trainees 642 00:45:03,435 --> 00:45:05,355 Speaker 1: who I think were in their first year at NBC. 643 00:45:05,715 --> 00:45:07,755 Speaker 1: And by the way, the other guy on the show 644 00:45:07,755 --> 00:45:10,035 Speaker 1: who was always on from Washington in the middle was 645 00:45:10,075 --> 00:45:12,635 Speaker 1: a guy named David Gregory who was just breaking into 646 00:45:12,715 --> 00:45:14,555 Speaker 1: NBC News, who did a story for us on The 647 00:45:14,555 --> 00:45:17,475 Speaker 1: Big Show every night, something to do with Clinton Lewinsky. 648 00:45:17,515 --> 00:45:19,875 Speaker 1: And if you think I had a bad job, his 649 00:45:19,995 --> 00:45:22,395 Speaker 1: job was way worse. He had to do a package. 650 00:45:22,435 --> 00:45:24,595 Speaker 1: We had to decide and advance what his story was 651 00:45:24,635 --> 00:45:27,835 Speaker 1: going to be. Poor David every day, five of them week. 652 00:45:28,235 --> 00:45:31,075 Speaker 1: But it made his reputation and eventually, for good or 653 00:45:31,115 --> 00:45:33,835 Speaker 1: for ill, he wound up hosting Meet the Press. So 654 00:45:33,915 --> 00:45:37,435 Speaker 1: it worked out all right for David. In any event, 655 00:45:37,515 --> 00:45:41,675 Speaker 1: I keep teasing this Claire Shipman. If it was not Claire, 656 00:45:41,715 --> 00:45:43,555 Speaker 1: and it was not David Bloom and it was not 657 00:45:44,155 --> 00:45:47,675 Speaker 1: John Palmer, it was one of the two trainees, a 658 00:45:47,715 --> 00:45:50,555 Speaker 1: woman named who we had just hired from a publication 659 00:45:50,595 --> 00:45:53,515 Speaker 1: I think called The Hill, a woman named Nora O'Donnell. 660 00:45:54,995 --> 00:45:58,035 Speaker 1: Whatever happened to Nora O'Donnell other than her tenure at 661 00:45:58,155 --> 00:46:01,275 Speaker 1: NBC News anchoring newscasts and working on all of the 662 00:46:01,315 --> 00:46:04,075 Speaker 1: programs and then jumping to CBS to become the anchor 663 00:46:04,075 --> 00:46:07,555 Speaker 1: of the CBS Evening News. The great Nora O'Donnell started 664 00:46:07,595 --> 00:46:11,355 Speaker 1: her NBC big time career on My show. And if 665 00:46:11,355 --> 00:46:15,475 Speaker 1: it wasn't her, the other one was the new local 666 00:46:15,595 --> 00:46:18,675 Speaker 1: news person they'd hired with the big hair, who they 667 00:46:18,715 --> 00:46:21,755 Speaker 1: brought in and had her appear several times. She was 668 00:46:21,875 --> 00:46:27,155 Speaker 1: like fifth string Campbell Brown. That's nineteen ninety eight. In 669 00:46:27,235 --> 00:46:30,275 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, when the bosses of CNN overruled 670 00:46:30,275 --> 00:46:32,475 Speaker 1: the president of CNN who wanted to hire me to 671 00:46:32,515 --> 00:46:35,115 Speaker 1: do their eight o'clock show, to take Countdown and move 672 00:46:35,115 --> 00:46:38,875 Speaker 1: it from MSNBC to CNN, and they got overruled by 673 00:46:38,835 --> 00:46:42,595 Speaker 1: a man named Jim Walton. They went instead and hired 674 00:46:42,595 --> 00:46:45,595 Speaker 1: Campbell Brown away from NBC News. Campbell Brown and I 675 00:46:45,635 --> 00:46:48,515 Speaker 1: once spent a weekend together at thirty Rock Co anchoring 676 00:46:48,555 --> 00:46:51,835 Speaker 1: weekend Today. She just looked like television. So there was 677 00:46:51,875 --> 00:46:56,595 Speaker 1: my roster of White House Correspondence, David Bloom later weekend 678 00:46:56,595 --> 00:46:59,915 Speaker 1: host of The Today Show, John Palmer, a Broadcasting Hall 679 00:47:00,035 --> 00:47:03,995 Speaker 1: of Famer, Claire Shipman probably the best of the five 680 00:47:04,075 --> 00:47:06,355 Speaker 1: of them, who then went on to ABC News and 681 00:47:06,355 --> 00:47:09,075 Speaker 1: then sort of drifted out of news largely or certainly 682 00:47:09,115 --> 00:47:13,715 Speaker 1: out of the network news business. And then Nora O'Donnell, 683 00:47:13,755 --> 00:47:16,715 Speaker 1: future anchor of the CBS Evening News, and Campbell Brown 684 00:47:17,475 --> 00:47:20,995 Speaker 1: soon to be hired to work against me as CNN's 685 00:47:20,995 --> 00:47:23,395 Speaker 1: eight o'clock primetime anchor and then to go off into 686 00:47:23,475 --> 00:47:28,035 Speaker 1: right wing educational revisionism. So it was a pretty impressive bunch. 687 00:47:28,675 --> 00:47:31,875 Speaker 1: And I thought about them because as I was sitting 688 00:47:31,915 --> 00:47:34,275 Speaker 1: with one of my pups at the Animal Medical Center 689 00:47:34,275 --> 00:47:37,795 Speaker 1: here in New York the other afternoon, in the waiting area, 690 00:47:38,395 --> 00:47:40,755 Speaker 1: I heard a very familiar voice and I saw a 691 00:47:40,875 --> 00:47:43,595 Speaker 1: very familiar face, and I heard about a woman who 692 00:47:43,715 --> 00:47:46,395 Speaker 1: talked about having been a reporter. And I looked at 693 00:47:46,395 --> 00:47:48,835 Speaker 1: her and I went, boy, that she looks just like 694 00:47:48,915 --> 00:47:51,435 Speaker 1: Clare Shipman. But it couldn't be Claire Shipment, because she 695 00:47:51,475 --> 00:47:54,155 Speaker 1: looks like Claire Shipman did in nineteen ninety eight. That 696 00:47:54,195 --> 00:47:56,635 Speaker 1: can't be her. It's not nineteen ninety eight anymore. I mean, 697 00:47:56,675 --> 00:47:58,595 Speaker 1: you hold up a picture of me from nineteen ninety 698 00:47:58,635 --> 00:48:00,995 Speaker 1: eight compared to my face right now, and I look 699 00:48:01,115 --> 00:48:04,635 Speaker 1: like my own great grandfather now, or if you can 700 00:48:04,675 --> 00:48:06,915 Speaker 1: sidering the nineteen ninety eight picture, I looked like my 701 00:48:06,995 --> 00:48:11,395 Speaker 1: own great grandson. Then sure enough it was Claire Shipman. 702 00:48:11,955 --> 00:48:13,995 Speaker 1: She was in with her dog as I was in 703 00:48:14,035 --> 00:48:17,115 Speaker 1: with my dog, and we visited and hugged and talked 704 00:48:17,115 --> 00:48:19,435 Speaker 1: about something, and we weren't there long enough for me 705 00:48:19,515 --> 00:48:23,955 Speaker 1: to tell the quick Claire Shipman story. Claire was very 706 00:48:23,995 --> 00:48:26,435 Speaker 1: straight laced on the air, with a great sense of humor, 707 00:48:26,475 --> 00:48:29,435 Speaker 1: but she sort of restrained herself, and I, by the 708 00:48:29,475 --> 00:48:33,275 Speaker 1: middle of May, say, nineteen ninety eight, stopped restraining myself. 709 00:48:33,435 --> 00:48:36,395 Speaker 1: I was mocking the story whenever I could, in hopes 710 00:48:36,675 --> 00:48:40,475 Speaker 1: for God's sake, stop watching this show and please fire me, 711 00:48:40,835 --> 00:48:42,675 Speaker 1: and I could every time I tried that. The ratings 712 00:48:42,675 --> 00:48:45,515 Speaker 1: went up. Tells you something. I don't have time to 713 00:48:45,555 --> 00:48:50,395 Speaker 1: analyze it. Those of you who can do mass media 714 00:48:50,675 --> 00:48:54,595 Speaker 1: psychology can try to ascertain what that means. I guess 715 00:48:54,675 --> 00:48:57,195 Speaker 1: it was the liberation and the freedom and the idea 716 00:48:57,195 --> 00:48:59,115 Speaker 1: that I didn't give a crap and the audience went, 717 00:48:59,195 --> 00:49:02,715 Speaker 1: I like this guy. He doesn't give a crap in 718 00:49:02,795 --> 00:49:05,955 Speaker 1: any event. One day, Claireshipman reporting from the White House, 719 00:49:06,035 --> 00:49:09,635 Speaker 1: and those days, Wolf Flitzer worked for CNN as the 720 00:49:09,675 --> 00:49:13,795 Speaker 1: White House corresponded, and Wolf Flitzer was standing next to 721 00:49:14,275 --> 00:49:17,475 Speaker 1: Claire Shipman live on CNN at eight o'clock at night 722 00:49:17,515 --> 00:49:21,595 Speaker 1: while we were live on MSNBC. And as Claire was talking, 723 00:49:21,635 --> 00:49:24,515 Speaker 1: and she had a pleasant, good broadcasting voice, you could 724 00:49:24,515 --> 00:49:29,035 Speaker 1: hear Wolf Flitzer, who's a little little louder than say, 725 00:49:29,075 --> 00:49:32,475 Speaker 1: the public address system at Penn Station, the railroad station 726 00:49:32,555 --> 00:49:34,995 Speaker 1: in New York, A little louder than that, not much, 727 00:49:35,035 --> 00:49:37,355 Speaker 1: but just a little louder than that. You could hear 728 00:49:37,435 --> 00:49:41,115 Speaker 1: him quite clearly. And you could see Claire kind of 729 00:49:41,275 --> 00:49:45,475 Speaker 1: edging her way screen left to try to get away 730 00:49:45,675 --> 00:49:49,835 Speaker 1: from Flitzer. And it felt like this on television. And 731 00:49:49,875 --> 00:49:53,915 Speaker 1: I finally she finished up, and I went Claire Shipman 732 00:49:53,955 --> 00:49:55,635 Speaker 1: for us at the White House, and Claire, if you 733 00:49:55,715 --> 00:49:57,835 Speaker 1: do me a favor, would you tell that Wolf Blitzer 734 00:49:57,875 --> 00:50:00,595 Speaker 1: from CNN to pipe down. I mean, I can hear 735 00:50:00,675 --> 00:50:04,115 Speaker 1: and she burst into laughter and giggles, and then we 736 00:50:04,235 --> 00:50:06,475 Speaker 1: just cut away and was one of my fondest memories 737 00:50:06,515 --> 00:50:10,195 Speaker 1: of that show, and Claire, who was always together and 738 00:50:10,235 --> 00:50:13,315 Speaker 1: always there, called me up afterwards and said thanks, I 739 00:50:13,355 --> 00:50:15,275 Speaker 1: needed that laugh, And I said, I think we all 740 00:50:15,315 --> 00:50:18,995 Speaker 1: needed that laugh. So that's the one humorous relief. I 741 00:50:19,075 --> 00:50:21,315 Speaker 1: ran into her the other day and somehow or another 742 00:50:21,835 --> 00:50:24,595 Speaker 1: she didn't look any older. Good for her. Congratulations to 743 00:50:24,635 --> 00:50:27,715 Speaker 1: Claire Shipment on that. And Claire is now I believe 744 00:50:28,715 --> 00:50:31,475 Speaker 1: owns Columbia University or something like that. I didn't get 745 00:50:31,555 --> 00:50:33,475 Speaker 1: quite the whole story, but she's been in charge of 746 00:50:33,475 --> 00:50:36,355 Speaker 1: Columbia University trying to put it back together again, and 747 00:50:36,435 --> 00:50:38,315 Speaker 1: as a Cornelian, I just sort of wished her good 748 00:50:38,395 --> 00:50:40,675 Speaker 1: luck and with an emoji, you know, a shrug emoji, 749 00:50:40,715 --> 00:50:42,595 Speaker 1: and said good, yeah, good luck with that. If you 750 00:50:42,635 --> 00:50:46,635 Speaker 1: need any help, don't call me. The other story is 751 00:50:46,835 --> 00:50:49,395 Speaker 1: based on a tragedy, but it mainlines back to a 752 00:50:49,435 --> 00:50:54,035 Speaker 1: really really, really really strange statement, possibly the strangest thing 753 00:50:54,075 --> 00:50:56,515 Speaker 1: any athlete ever said to me in an interview. And 754 00:50:56,595 --> 00:50:58,555 Speaker 1: it comes to bear now because the news came out 755 00:50:58,635 --> 00:51:02,595 Speaker 1: yesterday officially that the hockey great Bobby Hull, who broke 756 00:51:02,675 --> 00:51:05,075 Speaker 1: the record for most goals in a season back when 757 00:51:05,075 --> 00:51:08,435 Speaker 1: the record was just fifty goals in one season. Bobby 758 00:51:08,555 --> 00:51:11,595 Speaker 1: Hull died two years ago, and it has now been 759 00:51:11,635 --> 00:51:15,115 Speaker 1: confirmed that he died, as so many hockey players whose 760 00:51:15,115 --> 00:51:19,875 Speaker 1: families donated their brains after their demise, obviously for study, 761 00:51:19,995 --> 00:51:25,195 Speaker 1: died of CTE, of the brain damage illness that leads 762 00:51:25,235 --> 00:51:31,315 Speaker 1: to madness, violence, hatred, all sorts of antisocial behavior, and 763 00:51:31,475 --> 00:51:34,395 Speaker 1: Bobby Hull will No one will ever say, oh, poor 764 00:51:34,435 --> 00:51:37,635 Speaker 1: Bobby Hull, because by the end of his life he 765 00:51:37,835 --> 00:51:42,595 Speaker 1: was largely disliked. I think that's a pleasant euphemism for 766 00:51:42,675 --> 00:51:45,715 Speaker 1: how he was believed in in sports and in hockey 767 00:51:45,795 --> 00:51:47,595 Speaker 1: in the waning years of his life, and in some 768 00:51:47,675 --> 00:51:50,595 Speaker 1: quarters much more than that. There were racist overtones and 769 00:51:50,635 --> 00:51:54,635 Speaker 1: sexism and violence towards women dating back to his early life. 770 00:51:54,675 --> 00:51:57,995 Speaker 1: But of course nobody can tell yet at this point 771 00:51:58,035 --> 00:52:01,915 Speaker 1: when CTE would have started. And this pertains to our 772 00:52:01,955 --> 00:52:05,195 Speaker 1: current situation, because, as I've mentioned many times before, there 773 00:52:05,275 --> 00:52:08,035 Speaker 1: is growing indication that some people are getting in the 774 00:52:08,075 --> 00:52:13,195 Speaker 1: military simply by handling the vibrations from these superpowered machine 775 00:52:13,235 --> 00:52:18,435 Speaker 1: guns and other weapons. They are getting certainly some brain damage, 776 00:52:18,435 --> 00:52:19,995 Speaker 1: and for all we know, it's going to wind up 777 00:52:20,035 --> 00:52:23,915 Speaker 1: being CTE later in life. I mean I hit my 778 00:52:23,995 --> 00:52:26,075 Speaker 1: head on a train in nineteen eighty, and every once 779 00:52:26,075 --> 00:52:28,355 Speaker 1: in a while I wonder if I'm going to have CTE, 780 00:52:28,555 --> 00:52:30,195 Speaker 1: or maybe if I have it already, or if I 781 00:52:30,235 --> 00:52:32,795 Speaker 1: had it in nineteen eighty. So we don't know when 782 00:52:32,795 --> 00:52:35,475 Speaker 1: Bobby Hall started to get sick with this brain injury, 783 00:52:35,595 --> 00:52:37,595 Speaker 1: how much of it was that, how much of it 784 00:52:37,635 --> 00:52:43,075 Speaker 1: was him just being maybe a racist, sexist, misogynist, violent jerk. 785 00:52:44,115 --> 00:52:47,635 Speaker 1: Who knows, But it was an eye opening thing that 786 00:52:47,715 --> 00:52:49,595 Speaker 1: somebody could have had that, and for all we know, 787 00:52:49,675 --> 00:52:52,475 Speaker 1: we got the first symptoms of it in nineteen fifty five, 788 00:52:52,595 --> 00:52:55,235 Speaker 1: not two thousand and five. It's a terrible thing, and 789 00:52:55,275 --> 00:52:57,315 Speaker 1: it's going to become a bigger and bigger thing in 790 00:52:57,355 --> 00:53:00,555 Speaker 1: sports and outside of it, particularly as it comes to 791 00:53:00,635 --> 00:53:03,635 Speaker 1: our veterans. Why we need more help for our veterans 792 00:53:03,675 --> 00:53:06,315 Speaker 1: and not less as the Trump administration seems to think 793 00:53:06,355 --> 00:53:09,275 Speaker 1: at the moment, because what would Donald Trump know about 794 00:53:09,315 --> 00:53:12,475 Speaker 1: the needs of veterans being a guy who evaded the 795 00:53:12,555 --> 00:53:17,155 Speaker 1: draft the way he did. Avoided the draft, evaded the draft. 796 00:53:17,715 --> 00:53:22,115 Speaker 1: It's a gray area, just like everything between his ears. Okay, 797 00:53:22,355 --> 00:53:25,755 Speaker 1: back to the Bobby Hall story. Anytime Bobby Hall's name 798 00:53:25,795 --> 00:53:29,915 Speaker 1: has come up since November twenty first, nineteen seventy nine. 799 00:53:29,955 --> 00:53:33,355 Speaker 1: I have flashedback too November twenty first, nineteen seventy nine, 800 00:53:33,395 --> 00:53:36,715 Speaker 1: and our other bit of humorous relief for this trying 801 00:53:36,795 --> 00:53:40,115 Speaker 1: week after last week's trying week and an advance of 802 00:53:40,195 --> 00:53:43,715 Speaker 1: next week's trying week in the real world. Sam Rosen, 803 00:53:44,235 --> 00:53:47,355 Speaker 1: my first boss at UPI Radio, the sports director now 804 00:53:47,395 --> 00:53:50,195 Speaker 1: retiring after forty plus years doing the New York Rangers 805 00:53:50,195 --> 00:53:53,435 Speaker 1: hockey games, assigned me on one of my non studio 806 00:53:53,555 --> 00:53:56,355 Speaker 1: days to take a tape recorder and go to the 807 00:53:56,475 --> 00:54:00,595 Speaker 1: Winnipeg Jets first game ever at Madison Square Garden to 808 00:54:00,595 --> 00:54:03,035 Speaker 1: play the New York Rangers after the merger of the 809 00:54:03,115 --> 00:54:05,915 Speaker 1: National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association. When the 810 00:54:05,955 --> 00:54:08,955 Speaker 1: World Hockey Association had gone into business in nineteen seventy two, 811 00:54:08,995 --> 00:54:12,715 Speaker 1: the first big get was Bobby Hall being named player 812 00:54:12,835 --> 00:54:15,875 Speaker 1: coach of the Winnipeg Jets. They stole him for some 813 00:54:15,995 --> 00:54:19,715 Speaker 1: phenomenal sum of money from the Chicago Blackhawks and announced 814 00:54:19,755 --> 00:54:23,315 Speaker 1: that the WHA the World Hockey Association, had arrived. It 815 00:54:23,355 --> 00:54:26,635 Speaker 1: never really got much further than that. Although Mark Messier 816 00:54:26,675 --> 00:54:28,995 Speaker 1: played in that league first and Wayne Gretzky played in 817 00:54:28,995 --> 00:54:31,435 Speaker 1: that league first, and a lot of other superstars played 818 00:54:31,435 --> 00:54:34,475 Speaker 1: there first, but the WHA was on fumes by the 819 00:54:34,515 --> 00:54:38,195 Speaker 1: time it quote unquote merged with the NHL in the 820 00:54:38,195 --> 00:54:40,835 Speaker 1: summer of nineteen seventy nine, and so Bobby Hall, who 821 00:54:40,995 --> 00:54:46,155 Speaker 1: was particularly voluminous in his scoring against the New York 822 00:54:46,235 --> 00:54:48,555 Speaker 1: Rangers in his days with the Chicago Blackhawks, was back 823 00:54:48,595 --> 00:54:50,995 Speaker 1: in Madison Square Garden for the first time since the 824 00:54:51,075 --> 00:54:54,155 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one seventy two season, an old man playing 825 00:54:54,235 --> 00:54:57,595 Speaker 1: one last lap around the NHL, and his only game 826 00:54:57,635 --> 00:55:00,195 Speaker 1: as a Winnipeg Jet at Madison Square Garden was on 827 00:55:00,275 --> 00:55:03,995 Speaker 1: November twenty first, nineteen seventy nine, a Wednesday, and they 828 00:55:04,035 --> 00:55:07,275 Speaker 1: sent me there. Sam said, make sure you get Hull. 829 00:55:07,515 --> 00:55:09,715 Speaker 1: And I talked to the PR guy beforehand, and I said, 830 00:55:09,755 --> 00:55:12,555 Speaker 1: does Bobby give interviews after the game? Yes, he does. 831 00:55:12,795 --> 00:55:14,515 Speaker 1: There's not much else for him to do, He's not 832 00:55:14,555 --> 00:55:16,795 Speaker 1: playing a lot. And so I went in and I 833 00:55:16,875 --> 00:55:19,155 Speaker 1: interviewed Bobby Hall, and he gave me a great interview. 834 00:55:19,195 --> 00:55:26,195 Speaker 1: But he said the creepiest, weirdest thing any athlete has 835 00:55:26,235 --> 00:55:29,555 Speaker 1: ever said to me. Who wasn't trying to say something creepy, 836 00:55:31,235 --> 00:55:34,395 Speaker 1: I said about after talking about his career and coming 837 00:55:34,435 --> 00:55:37,235 Speaker 1: back to New York in many senses, and the World 838 00:55:37,235 --> 00:55:41,835 Speaker 1: Hockey Association in Chicago and Winnipeg and the whole arc 839 00:55:41,915 --> 00:55:45,315 Speaker 1: of his career, finally said, so, you're back in New York. 840 00:55:47,075 --> 00:55:50,515 Speaker 1: This has been a place for you of accomplishment, and 841 00:55:51,155 --> 00:55:54,475 Speaker 1: you scored your fifty first goal against the Rangers in Chicago, 842 00:55:54,635 --> 00:55:57,835 Speaker 1: and you're playing at Madison Square Garden. And the few 843 00:55:57,875 --> 00:56:00,315 Speaker 1: times you've been back here in the WHA there were 844 00:56:00,355 --> 00:56:02,275 Speaker 1: two or three thousand people here and now there were 845 00:56:02,515 --> 00:56:05,475 Speaker 1: seventeen thousand, and wasn't a particularly big game other than 846 00:56:05,475 --> 00:56:07,595 Speaker 1: they came to see you. I said, what is what 847 00:56:07,635 --> 00:56:10,275 Speaker 1: does it feel like? What sort of nostalgia? What sort 848 00:56:10,275 --> 00:56:12,835 Speaker 1: of And hopefully I don't have the tape of me 849 00:56:12,915 --> 00:56:14,955 Speaker 1: asking the question, but I hope it took less time 850 00:56:14,995 --> 00:56:16,835 Speaker 1: than it does for me to recount it. I like 851 00:56:16,915 --> 00:56:18,755 Speaker 1: to keep my questions to less than three and a 852 00:56:18,795 --> 00:56:22,075 Speaker 1: half minutes in length. In any event, I asked him, 853 00:56:22,275 --> 00:56:24,195 Speaker 1: how about coming back here? Does it bring back a 854 00:56:24,235 --> 00:56:27,315 Speaker 1: lot of memories? And he said, and somewhere I have 855 00:56:27,395 --> 00:56:33,675 Speaker 1: the tape, but I could not find it. Bobby Hall said, oh, 856 00:56:34,075 --> 00:56:38,515 Speaker 1: never mind the past. We're here in the future now. 857 00:56:43,755 --> 00:56:46,035 Speaker 1: That is the creepiest thing I have ever heard. And 858 00:56:46,075 --> 00:56:49,395 Speaker 1: I almost screamed then too, never mind the past. We're 859 00:56:49,435 --> 00:56:53,315 Speaker 1: here in the future now. Did we just jump here 860 00:56:53,355 --> 00:56:55,875 Speaker 1: from the past? We're in the po When are we talking? 861 00:56:55,915 --> 00:56:58,075 Speaker 1: We're here in the future now. I mean, it's a 862 00:56:58,115 --> 00:57:01,835 Speaker 1: science fiction line. You could create an entire short story. Hell, 863 00:57:01,955 --> 00:57:04,635 Speaker 1: these days, you could create an entire Netflix series based 864 00:57:04,835 --> 00:57:07,355 Speaker 1: on that one line. We're here in the future now, 865 00:57:08,795 --> 00:57:13,075 Speaker 1: time travel Bobby Hall, time traveler. Jeez, if you're a 866 00:57:13,075 --> 00:57:15,675 Speaker 1: time traveler, could you've gotten a better weave for your 867 00:57:15,715 --> 00:57:18,795 Speaker 1: thinning hair? All right, Well that's a cheap shot, and 868 00:57:18,915 --> 00:57:22,195 Speaker 1: he's dead too. But you know, in any event, I 869 00:57:23,275 --> 00:57:28,995 Speaker 1: have never in forty five and a half years, forty 870 00:57:28,995 --> 00:57:32,835 Speaker 1: five years and what two months now, November twenty first, 871 00:57:32,875 --> 00:57:37,155 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, I've never shaken that it's up there 872 00:57:37,195 --> 00:57:40,955 Speaker 1: in those voices that still appear in my head periodically, 873 00:57:41,035 --> 00:57:44,275 Speaker 1: like asking Catfish Hunter how his arm was, and he answered, 874 00:57:44,835 --> 00:57:49,595 Speaker 1: marm feels real good. Marm feels real good. And for 875 00:57:49,715 --> 00:57:52,875 Speaker 1: weeks upon weeks, all of us who heard that tape 876 00:57:53,355 --> 00:57:55,915 Speaker 1: asked each other how our arms were, and we all answered, 877 00:57:56,235 --> 00:58:00,515 Speaker 1: marm feels real good. How's your marm today, Keith. It's 878 00:58:00,555 --> 00:58:03,915 Speaker 1: in there in the Hall of Fame. Marm feels real 879 00:58:03,955 --> 00:58:25,075 Speaker 1: good because we're here in the future now. Never mind 880 00:58:25,115 --> 00:58:28,715 Speaker 1: the past. We're here in the future now, and it 881 00:58:28,835 --> 00:58:33,635 Speaker 1: sucks my Bobby Hull impression. Done all the damage I 882 00:58:33,675 --> 00:58:37,315 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. And on a 883 00:58:37,355 --> 00:58:40,235 Speaker 1: serious note, boy, oh boy, do we need an acknowledgment 884 00:58:40,275 --> 00:58:43,195 Speaker 1: from the National Hockey League that CTE is a real thing. 885 00:58:43,235 --> 00:58:46,315 Speaker 1: The NFL finally got around to saying something. The National 886 00:58:46,315 --> 00:58:48,995 Speaker 1: Hockey League, afraid of being sued by every X player, 887 00:58:49,275 --> 00:58:51,435 Speaker 1: is still denying that there could ever be a connection 888 00:58:51,675 --> 00:58:55,435 Speaker 1: between brain injuries, particularly CTE, and the deaths of their 889 00:58:55,435 --> 00:58:58,115 Speaker 1: players or their conduct and their remaining years of their 890 00:58:58,195 --> 00:59:02,955 Speaker 1: last years. It's unforgivable, Like much of what the NHL does. 891 00:59:03,955 --> 00:59:05,795 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thanks 892 00:59:05,795 --> 00:59:08,475 Speaker 1: for listening. Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanelle, musical directors 893 00:59:08,475 --> 00:59:11,635 Speaker 1: of Countdown, arranged, produced and performed most of the music. 894 00:59:11,995 --> 00:59:14,755 Speaker 1: Mister Chanelle handled the orchestration and the keyboards, and mister 895 00:59:14,875 --> 00:59:17,435 Speaker 1: Ray was on the guitars, the bass, and the drums, 896 00:59:17,595 --> 00:59:20,875 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our Satirical in fifthy. 897 00:59:20,955 --> 00:59:23,995 Speaker 1: Musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 898 00:59:24,115 --> 00:59:28,275 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust Nancy, how is your arm? The sports music 899 00:59:28,355 --> 00:59:31,355 Speaker 1: is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch 900 00:59:31,395 --> 00:59:35,155 Speaker 1: Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music arranged and 901 00:59:35,235 --> 00:59:38,755 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today 902 00:59:39,875 --> 00:59:44,035 Speaker 1: with marm was my friend Larry David. Everything else was 903 00:59:44,075 --> 00:59:47,555 Speaker 1: as ever my fault. That's countdown for today, just four 904 00:59:47,595 --> 00:59:50,395 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one days until the scheduled end of 905 00:59:50,435 --> 00:59:54,795 Speaker 1: his lame duck and lame brained term, unless Musk removes 906 00:59:54,835 --> 01:00:00,115 Speaker 1: him sooner. Donald Trump CTE. I never thought about it. 907 01:00:00,235 --> 01:00:03,475 Speaker 1: Is it's possible he's hit his head. Lord knows he's 908 01:00:03,475 --> 01:00:07,395 Speaker 1: made other people hit their head heads against walls. So 909 01:00:07,635 --> 01:00:10,355 Speaker 1: it's one four three one till he goes or the 910 01:00:10,395 --> 01:00:14,595 Speaker 1: actual aerial tables taken first. The next schedule countdown is Monday, 911 01:00:14,875 --> 01:00:18,395 Speaker 1: as always, bulletins, as the news warrants, remember, impeach trumpet 912 01:00:18,395 --> 01:00:20,675 Speaker 1: will not work now. It will, however, win the Democrats 913 01:00:20,715 --> 01:00:25,635 Speaker 1: the midterms, if there are midterms. Never mind the past. 914 01:00:25,715 --> 01:00:28,475 Speaker 1: We're here in the future, till next time, I'm Keith Olderman. 915 01:00:28,515 --> 01:00:52,235 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 916 01:00:52,395 --> 01:00:56,635 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts 917 01:00:56,675 --> 01:01:01,435 Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 918 01:01:01,475 --> 01:01:02,835 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.