1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 2 00:00:24,435 --> 00:00:27,955 Speaker 1: don't know what good it does you exactly. While the 3 00:00:27,995 --> 00:00:30,515 Speaker 1: rest of the media and some of the public freaks 4 00:00:30,515 --> 00:00:34,035 Speaker 1: out over that nitwit with the same crazy stare, Cash 5 00:00:34,075 --> 00:00:38,555 Speaker 1: Patel has Kristen Welker on NBC insisting to Trump that 6 00:00:38,635 --> 00:00:42,955 Speaker 1: he's joking about stealing an unconstitutional and illegal third term, 7 00:00:43,075 --> 00:00:46,395 Speaker 1: and the dictator replying, no, I'm not joking. I'm not joking. 8 00:00:47,195 --> 00:00:51,075 Speaker 1: You already knew this because the first time I warned 9 00:00:51,075 --> 00:00:54,195 Speaker 1: here that the fascists were looking to game the twenty 10 00:00:54,235 --> 00:00:58,435 Speaker 1: second Amendment term limits was on Wednesday, November eighth, two 11 00:00:58,475 --> 00:01:03,355 Speaker 1: thousand and twenty three. This has been the plan, like 12 00:01:03,515 --> 00:01:08,275 Speaker 1: all the other plans, take something unconstitutional and illegal and 13 00:01:08,355 --> 00:01:12,595 Speaker 1: do it anyway, and dare somebody to sue, and then 14 00:01:12,675 --> 00:01:16,075 Speaker 1: get his concierge Supreme Court to invent a new law 15 00:01:16,275 --> 00:01:19,155 Speaker 1: and a new country to let him do it anyway, 16 00:01:19,195 --> 00:01:21,715 Speaker 1: and then insist that this is the law, and if 17 00:01:21,755 --> 00:01:24,875 Speaker 1: you oppose him on this, you are breaking the law. 18 00:01:25,555 --> 00:01:28,155 Speaker 1: That's the way they papered over Trump's violation of the 19 00:01:28,195 --> 00:01:31,715 Speaker 1: Insurrection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment. That's the way they 20 00:01:31,715 --> 00:01:36,035 Speaker 1: are going to try to paper over Trump violating the 21 00:01:36,115 --> 00:01:41,955 Speaker 1: twenty second Amendment term limits. The news in Welker's flatulent 22 00:01:42,115 --> 00:01:45,635 Speaker 1: lap sitting phone interview of Trump yesterday is that the 23 00:01:45,675 --> 00:01:49,675 Speaker 1: insane brain damage dictator gave away one of the ways 24 00:01:50,035 --> 00:01:55,355 Speaker 1: the entire lunatic revolutionary authoritarian mob would scam the twenty 25 00:01:55,395 --> 00:01:58,555 Speaker 1: second Amendment. Trump now seems to think they could do 26 00:01:58,715 --> 00:02:03,595 Speaker 1: a Lurelean Wallace and run Vance as the presidential candidate, 27 00:02:03,835 --> 00:02:08,115 Speaker 1: with Trump as the VP but really in power, or 28 00:02:08,155 --> 00:02:10,835 Speaker 1: Trump not even on the ticket, and then the elected 29 00:02:10,915 --> 00:02:15,395 Speaker 1: VP quits and Vance appoints Trump VP, and then Vance resigns, 30 00:02:15,435 --> 00:02:20,235 Speaker 1: and then Trump is president again. It's still unconstitutional and 31 00:02:20,355 --> 00:02:24,395 Speaker 1: illegal because under the twenty second Amendment, Trump cannot serve 32 00:02:24,515 --> 00:02:30,555 Speaker 1: again after two full or virtually full terms. Oh the constitution, 33 00:02:30,955 --> 00:02:34,715 Speaker 1: like that matters. That is also the problem with the 34 00:02:34,755 --> 00:02:39,835 Speaker 1: first scam, in which someone somehow was to award Trump 35 00:02:39,875 --> 00:02:42,675 Speaker 1: another term because he'd had to spend so much of 36 00:02:42,675 --> 00:02:47,075 Speaker 1: his first term defending himself against his you know, crimes, 37 00:02:47,675 --> 00:02:50,315 Speaker 1: or because he can get enough people to say he 38 00:02:50,395 --> 00:02:53,675 Speaker 1: really did win in twenty twenty, so we owe him 39 00:02:53,715 --> 00:02:56,235 Speaker 1: that one. In fact, that would be the way they'd 40 00:02:56,235 --> 00:02:59,955 Speaker 1: go for a fourth term. The twenty second Amendment is 41 00:03:00,115 --> 00:03:04,035 Speaker 1: explicit two terms or one full term and most of 42 00:03:04,075 --> 00:03:08,835 Speaker 1: a second term, and you are ineligible to again serve 43 00:03:08,995 --> 00:03:12,355 Speaker 1: as president. The question that remains there is whether you 44 00:03:12,395 --> 00:03:15,915 Speaker 1: could even be elected vice president, because you, as vice 45 00:03:15,995 --> 00:03:18,835 Speaker 1: president would be there to assume the presidency in the 46 00:03:18,835 --> 00:03:22,355 Speaker 1: event of the death of the president in any event. 47 00:03:22,435 --> 00:03:25,115 Speaker 1: This is also the problem with the second scam, which 48 00:03:25,155 --> 00:03:28,475 Speaker 1: they have apparently abandoned now after running with for more 49 00:03:28,515 --> 00:03:30,955 Speaker 1: than a year, that the twenty second Amendment limit of 50 00:03:30,995 --> 00:03:36,595 Speaker 1: two terms means two consecutive terms. So Trump, as the 51 00:03:36,635 --> 00:03:40,915 Speaker 1: first non consecutive electee since Grover Cleveland, could run again, 52 00:03:41,835 --> 00:03:47,395 Speaker 1: but Obama couldn't, and Clinton still couldn't, and Bush still couldn't. 53 00:03:47,875 --> 00:03:51,755 Speaker 1: Just Trump and Grover Cleveland. And there is of course 54 00:03:51,795 --> 00:03:54,035 Speaker 1: reason to wonder which one of them is more mentally 55 00:03:54,035 --> 00:03:56,195 Speaker 1: fit for the job, because while Grover Cleveland died in 56 00:03:56,235 --> 00:04:01,075 Speaker 1: June of nineteen oh eight, Trump is completely insane. The 57 00:04:01,275 --> 00:04:04,435 Speaker 1: vibe I got from this latest interview, apart from the 58 00:04:04,435 --> 00:04:07,195 Speaker 1: fact fact that Trump told this moron Welker that knows 59 00:04:07,315 --> 00:04:10,675 Speaker 1: she was wrong, he wasn't joking, and she never once 60 00:04:10,755 --> 00:04:14,555 Speaker 1: came back with the Constitution limits a president to two terms. 61 00:04:14,595 --> 00:04:16,715 Speaker 1: You know that, right, What makes you think you would 62 00:04:16,715 --> 00:04:19,275 Speaker 1: get away with it? She never said anything like that, 63 00:04:19,515 --> 00:04:23,835 Speaker 1: because she's an idiot. The vibe I got besides that 64 00:04:24,035 --> 00:04:27,515 Speaker 1: is that they may not have enough bullshit even to 65 00:04:27,555 --> 00:04:31,715 Speaker 1: get this legal leisure domain passed his own Supreme Court, 66 00:04:31,835 --> 00:04:34,195 Speaker 1: and they just cut to two versions of the same 67 00:04:34,355 --> 00:04:37,355 Speaker 1: ending of American democracy. One is the simple elimination of 68 00:04:37,395 --> 00:04:40,515 Speaker 1: elections or the declaration of an emergency of some sort, 69 00:04:40,715 --> 00:04:44,675 Speaker 1: with the subsequent violence and suppression and arrest of political opposition, 70 00:04:45,155 --> 00:04:48,475 Speaker 1: a preview of which we could be seeing now in 71 00:04:48,555 --> 00:04:51,875 Speaker 1: the disappearing of those protesters and of course the gay 72 00:04:51,955 --> 00:04:56,715 Speaker 1: barbers with tattoos. The other is a variation on that 73 00:04:56,835 --> 00:05:00,275 Speaker 1: lureline Wallace ploy in which the twenty twenty eight fascist 74 00:05:00,275 --> 00:05:03,715 Speaker 1: ticket is anybody and anybody else, and when it comes 75 00:05:03,755 --> 00:05:07,355 Speaker 1: time for the inaugura address, President anybody says I am 76 00:05:07,475 --> 00:05:11,795 Speaker 1: ceding all power to Donald Trump, and Trump doesn't even 77 00:05:11,795 --> 00:05:13,955 Speaker 1: move out of the Oval office, let alone out of power. 78 00:05:15,115 --> 00:05:19,115 Speaker 1: If that sounds at all familiar somebody who isn't president 79 00:05:19,235 --> 00:05:22,515 Speaker 1: acting as president, they may have taken that out for 80 00:05:22,595 --> 00:05:26,075 Speaker 1: a test run for the first few months of this presidency, 81 00:05:26,195 --> 00:05:30,475 Speaker 1: though it seems to be receding somewhat. That was the 82 00:05:30,555 --> 00:05:34,115 Speaker 1: period of the musk Co presidency. Could you get away 83 00:05:34,155 --> 00:05:37,755 Speaker 1: with somebody actually running the government without being president? Could 84 00:05:37,955 --> 00:05:43,555 Speaker 1: Trump's mental diseases be satisfied by being president in reality 85 00:05:43,635 --> 00:05:50,315 Speaker 1: but not president in name only? Regardless? No, sorry, miss Welker, 86 00:05:50,675 --> 00:05:55,595 Speaker 1: he's not joking. You're wrong. You should resign. I have 87 00:05:55,795 --> 00:06:00,475 Speaker 1: mentioned this on and off for the last five hundred 88 00:06:00,555 --> 00:06:04,875 Speaker 1: and nine days on this podcast. Trump not only as 89 00:06:04,915 --> 00:06:08,075 Speaker 1: a pathological need to remain in power, he has no 90 00:06:08,275 --> 00:06:10,835 Speaker 1: choice but to try to do so, no matter what 91 00:06:10,955 --> 00:06:14,595 Speaker 1: laws he must subvert, nor who he must kill or 92 00:06:14,675 --> 00:06:19,035 Speaker 1: have killed to remain in power. It is more than 93 00:06:19,035 --> 00:06:22,475 Speaker 1: appropriate to yet again quote the Yale historian Tim Snyder, 94 00:06:22,795 --> 00:06:27,035 Speaker 1: reminding us that Trump is in the classic dictatorial position. 95 00:06:27,475 --> 00:06:33,035 Speaker 1: He needs to die in bed holding all executive power 96 00:06:33,355 --> 00:06:36,115 Speaker 1: to stay out of prison. This means that he will 97 00:06:36,155 --> 00:06:39,955 Speaker 1: do whatever he can to gain power, and once in power, 98 00:06:39,995 --> 00:06:43,395 Speaker 1: will do all that he can do to never let 99 00:06:43,835 --> 00:06:48,835 Speaker 1: it go. This is a basic incentive structure which underlies 100 00:06:49,115 --> 00:06:55,995 Speaker 1: everything else. It is entirely inconsistent with democracy. Tim Snyder's 101 00:06:56,075 --> 00:06:59,755 Speaker 1: precise somber encapsulation of the reality of what we face 102 00:06:59,875 --> 00:07:01,835 Speaker 1: and what people who are supposed to be a thousand 103 00:07:01,915 --> 00:07:04,435 Speaker 1: times smarter than Kristen Welker still somehow think as a 104 00:07:04,755 --> 00:07:07,955 Speaker 1: oak or is trolling of some kind. This has taken 105 00:07:07,995 --> 00:07:12,595 Speaker 1: on added gravitas in the past week. Few things shock 106 00:07:12,715 --> 00:07:18,755 Speaker 1: me anymore. This shocked me. The Yale Daily News reports 107 00:07:18,755 --> 00:07:22,595 Speaker 1: that three of that university's top professors are leaving to 108 00:07:22,675 --> 00:07:26,475 Speaker 1: go teach somewhere else starting with the fall term this year. 109 00:07:26,875 --> 00:07:32,075 Speaker 1: Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, history Professor Marcy Shore, and Marcy 110 00:07:32,155 --> 00:07:39,355 Speaker 1: Shore's husband, history Professor Tim Snyder. All three are moving 111 00:07:39,355 --> 00:07:42,555 Speaker 1: to the Monks School of Global Affairs and Public Policy 112 00:07:42,595 --> 00:07:51,435 Speaker 1: at the University of Toronto. Tim Snyder is leaving the country. 113 00:07:52,075 --> 00:07:55,915 Speaker 1: As I said, few things shock me anymore. But for 114 00:07:55,995 --> 00:07:58,715 Speaker 1: an hour after I read the news of Tim Snyder 115 00:07:59,475 --> 00:08:04,355 Speaker 1: bailing out, I was beginning to make preparations to see 116 00:08:04,715 --> 00:08:08,955 Speaker 1: if Professor Snyder of the Monk Schools of Toronto needs 117 00:08:09,235 --> 00:08:34,635 Speaker 1: a teaching assistant. I once was a teaching assistant. It 118 00:08:34,755 --> 00:08:37,635 Speaker 1: was in Communication arts. It was in nineteen seventy nine. 119 00:08:37,755 --> 00:08:39,635 Speaker 1: I was an undergraduate, and I have to say I 120 00:08:39,675 --> 00:08:45,755 Speaker 1: was pretty good at it references available upon request. Happily 121 00:08:45,795 --> 00:08:48,195 Speaker 1: at the moment, I actually think Trump should be less 122 00:08:48,235 --> 00:08:50,995 Speaker 1: worried about getting a third term and more worried about 123 00:08:50,995 --> 00:08:54,635 Speaker 1: finishing his second one. There are forces gathering against him, 124 00:08:54,995 --> 00:08:57,835 Speaker 1: all of them on his side of the political spectrum, 125 00:08:58,075 --> 00:09:01,075 Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that individually any of these forces 126 00:09:01,115 --> 00:09:04,795 Speaker 1: could extract him from office. But if they coalesce, and 127 00:09:04,835 --> 00:09:08,635 Speaker 1: if the Democrats win the midterms, a popular anti Trump 128 00:09:08,755 --> 00:09:14,595 Speaker 1: front could literally drive him from office. The first force 129 00:09:14,795 --> 00:09:18,315 Speaker 1: is the most blatant and least acknowledged sign of his insanity. 130 00:09:18,355 --> 00:09:22,835 Speaker 1: These suicidal tariffs analysis from the Federal Reserve Banks of 131 00:09:22,875 --> 00:09:26,875 Speaker 1: Atlanta and Richmond and Duke University have put out a 132 00:09:26,995 --> 00:09:32,155 Speaker 1: new study. American companies that import heavily from Canada, China, 133 00:09:32,435 --> 00:09:36,235 Speaker 1: Mexico and other victims of trumpanomics. The Lets Party like 134 00:09:36,275 --> 00:09:40,755 Speaker 1: its eighteen ninety nine plan. They expect to raise prices 135 00:09:40,875 --> 00:09:45,035 Speaker 1: this year by more than five percent. The ones who 136 00:09:45,115 --> 00:09:48,235 Speaker 1: won't be strangled by tariffs still plan to raise prices 137 00:09:48,275 --> 00:09:51,715 Speaker 1: this year by nearly three percent. Now, you can blind 138 00:09:51,795 --> 00:09:55,035 Speaker 1: yourself trying to analyze this data, but the headline is 139 00:09:55,115 --> 00:09:59,315 Speaker 1: Trump promised lower prices on day one, and here as 140 00:09:59,555 --> 00:10:05,155 Speaker 1: April looms is now delivering inflation at least three percent more, 141 00:10:05,595 --> 00:10:09,275 Speaker 1: may be well over that five percent more figure. He 142 00:10:09,355 --> 00:10:13,635 Speaker 1: bluntly stated on camera that he wants foreign car prices 143 00:10:13,675 --> 00:10:19,395 Speaker 1: to go up. Is this registering with his mesmerized base. 144 00:10:20,115 --> 00:10:24,875 Speaker 1: You bet your ass. At election time, nearly half of 145 00:10:24,955 --> 00:10:28,675 Speaker 1: all American voters believed they would be economically better off 146 00:10:28,755 --> 00:10:32,915 Speaker 1: under Trump. That was November. That number has already fallen 147 00:10:32,955 --> 00:10:37,275 Speaker 1: to twenty five percent. And it's not just consumers. The 148 00:10:37,315 --> 00:10:39,475 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal says Trump got on the phone with 149 00:10:39,555 --> 00:10:42,955 Speaker 1: the CEOs of the top auto companies in this country 150 00:10:43,115 --> 00:10:47,635 Speaker 1: and warned them against raising prices after tariff flation hits, 151 00:10:48,155 --> 00:10:51,035 Speaker 1: that he will recriminate against them if he does so. 152 00:10:51,115 --> 00:10:55,075 Speaker 1: He has already repaid the media companies that prostituted themselves 153 00:10:55,155 --> 00:10:58,075 Speaker 1: to him by killing tourism to this country, so that 154 00:10:58,115 --> 00:11:02,275 Speaker 1: the Universal theme parks co owned with NBC and the 155 00:11:02,315 --> 00:11:05,915 Speaker 1: Disney theme parks co owned with ABC are going to 156 00:11:05,995 --> 00:11:09,915 Speaker 1: hit crises. His psycho in charge of health is threatening 157 00:11:09,955 --> 00:11:13,475 Speaker 1: to ban prescription drug advertising on television. And if you 158 00:11:13,555 --> 00:11:18,555 Speaker 1: haven't watched linear television lately, that's all the advertising there 159 00:11:18,755 --> 00:11:23,875 Speaker 1: is on linear television anymore. And Friday, his nut job 160 00:11:23,955 --> 00:11:27,915 Speaker 1: at the FCC repaid Bob Eiger cow twing to him 161 00:11:28,035 --> 00:11:32,795 Speaker 1: by opening an investigation of Disney Quote. In particular, I 162 00:11:32,835 --> 00:11:35,395 Speaker 1: want to ensure that Disney and ABC have not been 163 00:11:35,515 --> 00:11:42,315 Speaker 1: violating FCC Equal Employment Opportunity regulations by promotioning invidious forms 164 00:11:42,315 --> 00:11:46,275 Speaker 1: of DEI discrimination. He attached an article by a right 165 00:11:46,315 --> 00:11:50,435 Speaker 1: wing conspiracy theorist which called Disney quote the wokest place 166 00:11:50,555 --> 00:11:55,155 Speaker 1: on Earth. Gee, Bob, It's almost as if trying to 167 00:11:55,195 --> 00:11:59,795 Speaker 1: appease lunatics who threaten you with multimillion dollar bribes just 168 00:11:59,995 --> 00:12:03,195 Speaker 1: makes them conclude you will keep giving them more multimillion 169 00:12:03,195 --> 00:12:07,395 Speaker 1: dollar bribes if they keep threatening you. Not great, Bob. 170 00:12:09,035 --> 00:12:12,915 Speaker 1: The point is the CEOs and the stock market is 171 00:12:12,955 --> 00:12:16,475 Speaker 1: coming to understand that when they thought Trump would cook 172 00:12:16,515 --> 00:12:19,795 Speaker 1: the economy to give a select group of people all 173 00:12:19,915 --> 00:12:25,995 Speaker 1: this nation's wealth, he didn't mean them. He meant him. 174 00:12:27,275 --> 00:12:31,635 Speaker 1: He meant him, and maybe Musk and maybe Bezos. But 175 00:12:31,795 --> 00:12:34,755 Speaker 1: I bet you any amount of money Trump plans to 176 00:12:34,955 --> 00:12:38,635 Speaker 1: cut Bezos's legs out from under him sooner rather than later. 177 00:12:39,795 --> 00:12:42,755 Speaker 1: In any event, every time they turn around, He's cut 178 00:12:42,795 --> 00:12:46,395 Speaker 1: another bunch of them out of the money Club. He's 179 00:12:46,435 --> 00:12:51,075 Speaker 1: tanked the stock market, He's killed overseas markets for American companies. 180 00:12:51,275 --> 00:12:54,435 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to buy anything here right now. We don't 181 00:12:54,475 --> 00:12:58,755 Speaker 1: need a consumer strike. The consumers aren't buying crap. We're 182 00:12:58,875 --> 00:13:03,515 Speaker 1: headed for a depression, a Donald Trump depression, and bluntly, 183 00:13:04,155 --> 00:13:09,795 Speaker 1: copations are designed. They exist to eliminate the human equation 184 00:13:09,995 --> 00:13:15,035 Speaker 1: from business decisions. They eliminate any sense of feeling. They eliminate, 185 00:13:15,595 --> 00:13:18,475 Speaker 1: you know, whether or not people should live or die. 186 00:13:18,795 --> 00:13:23,235 Speaker 1: They are there to make money, guilt free, nothing else, 187 00:13:23,835 --> 00:13:30,715 Speaker 1: and anything in their way will eventually be removed. If 188 00:13:30,835 --> 00:13:36,675 Speaker 1: anybody extracts Trump from office, it will be from the 189 00:13:36,795 --> 00:13:51,755 Speaker 1: far right via a consortium of corporations, unless it's his 190 00:13:51,835 --> 00:13:56,195 Speaker 1: own intelligence community. The Trump Cabinet civil war enters its 191 00:13:56,195 --> 00:13:59,355 Speaker 1: second week, and all evidence leads to the conclusion that 192 00:13:59,355 --> 00:14:02,475 Speaker 1: the National Security Advisor is doing his damndest to get 193 00:14:02,515 --> 00:14:05,555 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Defense fired and hopes that it'll keep 194 00:14:05,635 --> 00:14:08,715 Speaker 1: him from getting fired. And the likeliest outcome is that 195 00:14:08,755 --> 00:14:11,395 Speaker 1: Trump refuses to fire either of them. And the heg 196 00:14:11,475 --> 00:14:15,755 Speaker 1: Seth Security Disaster and the second heg Seth Security disaster, 197 00:14:16,075 --> 00:14:19,235 Speaker 1: and now the third heg Seth Security Disaster and the 198 00:14:19,275 --> 00:14:22,995 Speaker 1: fourth heg Seth security disaster. They continue to sit atop 199 00:14:23,035 --> 00:14:27,235 Speaker 1: Trump's face like the prop monsters from the Aliens movies. 200 00:14:29,275 --> 00:14:33,155 Speaker 1: Somebody is leaking everything they have on Pete Hegseth to 201 00:14:33,235 --> 00:14:36,595 Speaker 1: the media. Oh no, how will we ever figure out 202 00:14:36,635 --> 00:14:39,755 Speaker 1: who's doing this? Who could it be? How could this 203 00:14:39,835 --> 00:14:43,555 Speaker 1: mystery ever be solved? Unless it could possibly be the 204 00:14:43,675 --> 00:14:46,675 Speaker 1: National Security Advisor, the guy who had the number for 205 00:14:46,715 --> 00:14:49,115 Speaker 1: the editor of The Atlantic in his phone and put 206 00:14:49,195 --> 00:14:51,635 Speaker 1: him on the secret chat about exactly when to attack 207 00:14:51,675 --> 00:14:55,035 Speaker 1: the houties and did everything but set an alarm in 208 00:14:55,075 --> 00:14:58,235 Speaker 1: the editor's phone to go off when the bombs went off. 209 00:14:59,635 --> 00:15:02,955 Speaker 1: That all started a week ago today, and it will 210 00:15:02,995 --> 00:15:08,115 Speaker 1: continue to strang the Trump administration if the Democrats just 211 00:15:08,315 --> 00:15:13,435 Speaker 1: lift a finger to poke at the scandal every day. 212 00:15:13,475 --> 00:15:18,475 Speaker 1: You remember the Democrats that used to be the other party, 213 00:15:19,395 --> 00:15:22,755 Speaker 1: led by Chuck Schumer, that apparently decided once another guy 214 00:15:22,835 --> 00:15:25,315 Speaker 1: was elected with a minority of the vote, all the 215 00:15:25,355 --> 00:15:28,995 Speaker 1: Democrats should go on sabbatical or something, or just start 216 00:15:29,235 --> 00:15:31,835 Speaker 1: mailing in their opposition and talking about the price of 217 00:15:31,835 --> 00:15:38,235 Speaker 1: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or something. Christ back to 218 00:15:38,275 --> 00:15:43,075 Speaker 1: the Hegseth scandal, scandals already in progress. Because it turns 219 00:15:43,115 --> 00:15:47,555 Speaker 1: out for Pete it's always happy hours somewhere Hegseth, it's 220 00:15:47,635 --> 00:15:51,315 Speaker 1: also always bring your wife to work day and bring 221 00:15:51,315 --> 00:15:55,035 Speaker 1: your brother to workday somewhere. And those stories leaked out 222 00:15:55,075 --> 00:15:57,435 Speaker 1: in the last week. And again, who in this equation 223 00:15:57,675 --> 00:16:01,195 Speaker 1: has high level Washington media contacts and would be leaking? 224 00:16:01,275 --> 00:16:03,995 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean besides the National Security Advisor who 225 00:16:04,035 --> 00:16:07,155 Speaker 1: apparently and put his finger about six inches above the 226 00:16:07,275 --> 00:16:09,835 Speaker 1: jay on his phone and boom. Jeffrey Goldberg of The 227 00:16:09,835 --> 00:16:13,115 Speaker 1: Atlantic has suddenly added to the Boa Boma real good 228 00:16:13,355 --> 00:16:19,155 Speaker 1: group chat. First, somebody tipped off the Associated Press that 229 00:16:19,235 --> 00:16:21,915 Speaker 1: one of heg Seth's most promising young staffers at the 230 00:16:21,955 --> 00:16:26,715 Speaker 1: Pentagon is a podcaster named Phil heg Seth. Why that's 231 00:16:26,755 --> 00:16:33,355 Speaker 1: a coincidence. He's Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior advisor, 232 00:16:33,715 --> 00:16:37,435 Speaker 1: which is impressive since he has no qualifications except he 233 00:16:37,555 --> 00:16:41,715 Speaker 1: came out of the same womb as the Secretary of Defense. 234 00:16:43,035 --> 00:16:45,555 Speaker 1: He worked for somebody else's podcast company, and then he 235 00:16:45,595 --> 00:16:49,995 Speaker 1: had his own podcast company. Why that's the entire spectrum 236 00:16:49,995 --> 00:16:55,675 Speaker 1: of experience, isn't it? References available on request the end? 237 00:16:57,195 --> 00:17:00,995 Speaker 1: We don't know what this seeming textbook example of nepotism 238 00:17:01,315 --> 00:17:04,915 Speaker 1: is getting paid by us. But the AP also found 239 00:17:04,915 --> 00:17:08,115 Speaker 1: out that little Phil was previously hired by Pete at 240 00:17:08,155 --> 00:17:11,075 Speaker 1: Concerned Veterans for America for one hundred and eight thousand 241 00:17:11,155 --> 00:17:15,955 Speaker 1: dollars to do media relations. And we know what Concerned 242 00:17:15,995 --> 00:17:20,035 Speaker 1: Veterans for America is concerned with. It's concerned with paying. 243 00:17:20,115 --> 00:17:25,435 Speaker 1: Hegseth brothers then came a leak to the Associated Press 244 00:17:25,995 --> 00:17:29,435 Speaker 1: that heg Seth and the Wall Street Journal that Hegseth 245 00:17:29,515 --> 00:17:32,515 Speaker 1: had brought his wife, the new one, the one he 246 00:17:33,035 --> 00:17:37,315 Speaker 1: cheated on with the previous wife, the ex Vice President 247 00:17:37,355 --> 00:17:40,715 Speaker 1: Fox Nation, the new wife. He has brought her to 248 00:17:40,795 --> 00:17:44,835 Speaker 1: a series of sensitive international meetings. There was one on 249 00:17:44,915 --> 00:17:49,155 Speaker 1: March sixth with the UK's Secretary of Defense, even though 250 00:17:49,195 --> 00:17:52,475 Speaker 1: she probably has weaker security clearances than his little brother does. 251 00:17:53,435 --> 00:17:56,315 Speaker 1: Brought the misses in to meet the secretary from the UK. 252 00:17:57,275 --> 00:18:00,755 Speaker 1: The Pentagon even issued official photographs of a meeting with 253 00:18:00,835 --> 00:18:06,435 Speaker 1: Hegseth and foreign leaders and missus Hegseth, who doesn't have 254 00:18:06,515 --> 00:18:11,155 Speaker 1: any clearance? Now, why wasn't she on the Houthie call? 255 00:18:12,515 --> 00:18:15,595 Speaker 1: Hegseth was already in such trouble over the houthie call 256 00:18:15,795 --> 00:18:19,355 Speaker 1: that a right wing group was launched called veteran action, 257 00:18:20,195 --> 00:18:22,795 Speaker 1: and the action they mean is threats. They are there 258 00:18:22,835 --> 00:18:26,195 Speaker 1: to threaten, according to the lead thug quote members of 259 00:18:26,195 --> 00:18:29,875 Speaker 1: Congress that they better have Pete hegseats back. And the 260 00:18:29,955 --> 00:18:32,515 Speaker 1: thing with bring your wife to the secret meeting day 261 00:18:32,955 --> 00:18:35,475 Speaker 1: was responded to by the right with a universal chand 262 00:18:35,515 --> 00:18:38,075 Speaker 1: of ooh, wait, will I tell you about Jill Biden, 263 00:18:38,595 --> 00:18:41,435 Speaker 1: which kind of collapsed once the fascists were reminded that 264 00:18:41,515 --> 00:18:46,035 Speaker 1: unless it's way worse than we know, Jennifer Hegseth is 265 00:18:46,115 --> 00:18:48,555 Speaker 1: not the first Lady of the United States and is 266 00:18:48,595 --> 00:18:52,955 Speaker 1: not sleeping with Trump. It had already gotten to the 267 00:18:52,995 --> 00:18:58,315 Speaker 1: stage when another story leaked on Missus Hegseth Wall Street 268 00:18:58,355 --> 00:19:02,955 Speaker 1: Journal Again. Remember those meetings with senators before his confirmation, 269 00:19:03,035 --> 00:19:06,395 Speaker 1: the ones who were little concerned, earned who were Susan 270 00:19:06,675 --> 00:19:11,315 Speaker 1: Collins ish about heg Seth's anger management issues and the 271 00:19:11,355 --> 00:19:14,515 Speaker 1: history of allegations of abuse of women, his total lack 272 00:19:14,555 --> 00:19:18,155 Speaker 1: of qualifications for a job. The one on one meetings 273 00:19:18,155 --> 00:19:22,755 Speaker 1: between heg Seth and those senators nah two on one meetings. 274 00:19:23,435 --> 00:19:27,835 Speaker 1: Quoting the Journal, some senators were surprised that Pete Hegseth 275 00:19:27,875 --> 00:19:32,195 Speaker 1: invited his wife Jennifer to sit next to him in 276 00:19:32,235 --> 00:19:36,515 Speaker 1: their private meetings, making it awkward to ask questions about 277 00:19:36,515 --> 00:19:41,555 Speaker 1: allegations related to infidelity and sexual misconduct, said people familiar 278 00:19:41,555 --> 00:19:47,355 Speaker 1: with the senators, thinking, not only did heg Seth bring 279 00:19:47,435 --> 00:19:50,475 Speaker 1: his wife to these meetings with US senators seeking their 280 00:19:50,555 --> 00:19:53,795 Speaker 1: votes for his confirmation, but he used his wife as 281 00:19:53,835 --> 00:20:01,355 Speaker 1: a human shield against allegations related to infidelity and sexual misconduct. 282 00:20:03,315 --> 00:20:07,035 Speaker 1: Once again, I just can't imagine where all these stories 283 00:20:07,075 --> 00:20:16,155 Speaker 1: are coming from, other than Mike Waltz, a nepotism story, 284 00:20:16,355 --> 00:20:20,275 Speaker 1: a wife gets to see classified information story, the continuing 285 00:20:20,315 --> 00:20:24,915 Speaker 1: who he chat classified information story, or sensitive information story, 286 00:20:24,995 --> 00:20:30,115 Speaker 1: or simply bombing schedule story. All we're missing is another 287 00:20:30,155 --> 00:20:33,075 Speaker 1: story about Hegseth and that other thing they've mentioned about 288 00:20:33,155 --> 00:20:37,795 Speaker 1: him for years. What's that word again? I think it 289 00:20:38,195 --> 00:20:45,435 Speaker 1: sounds kind of like nepotism. It doesn't rhyme with nepotism exactly, 290 00:20:45,555 --> 00:21:09,235 Speaker 1: but doesn't it end also in ism? Thank you, Nancy Faust. 291 00:21:09,875 --> 00:21:13,235 Speaker 1: We could be headed to that rare simultaneous double knockout 292 00:21:13,235 --> 00:21:16,635 Speaker 1: here because Politico reports that Vance and Susie Wiles and 293 00:21:16,635 --> 00:21:19,715 Speaker 1: one of Trump's personnel flunkyes have urged him to fire 294 00:21:19,955 --> 00:21:23,595 Speaker 1: Mike Waltz, especially after the photo of Mike Waltz with 295 00:21:23,875 --> 00:21:26,915 Speaker 1: jeff Goldberg of The Atlantic popped up on social media. 296 00:21:27,395 --> 00:21:30,395 Speaker 1: The guy, Waltz says, he's never met I can tell 297 00:21:30,435 --> 00:21:32,635 Speaker 1: you for one hundred percent, I don't know this guy, 298 00:21:32,955 --> 00:21:35,075 Speaker 1: wouldn't know him if I bumped into him, if I 299 00:21:35,115 --> 00:21:41,315 Speaker 1: saw him in a police lineup, police line up. Maybe 300 00:21:41,315 --> 00:21:45,675 Speaker 1: you haven't confused with Hegseth. Anyway, turns out, four years ago, 301 00:21:45,715 --> 00:21:51,435 Speaker 1: the French outeur and TV philosopher Bernard Henrie Levi held 302 00:21:51,435 --> 00:21:55,195 Speaker 1: a book launch in Washington, and there in a photograph 303 00:21:55,275 --> 00:21:59,635 Speaker 1: is Waltz applauding, and right behind him, leaning in on 304 00:21:59,795 --> 00:22:03,155 Speaker 1: Waltz as if whispering to Waltz directly into his ear 305 00:22:03,475 --> 00:22:08,715 Speaker 1: is Jeffrey Goldberg. And Waltz has never met Jeffrey Goldberg, 306 00:22:09,555 --> 00:22:14,755 Speaker 1: which means Jeffrey Goldberg is standing way too close. Leevy 307 00:22:14,835 --> 00:22:18,355 Speaker 1: posted the photo in twenty twenty one and tagged Waltz 308 00:22:18,635 --> 00:22:25,195 Speaker 1: and Goldberg on Twitter. So if the Democrats just pushed 309 00:22:25,235 --> 00:22:28,915 Speaker 1: this a little, maybe Waltz could get Hegseth fired, and 310 00:22:28,955 --> 00:22:31,955 Speaker 1: then vance can get Waltz fired because, to be fair, 311 00:22:31,995 --> 00:22:35,235 Speaker 1: Hegseth is self destructing. And this is just going to 312 00:22:35,275 --> 00:22:38,435 Speaker 1: stay like this because Trump can't afford to fire any 313 00:22:38,475 --> 00:22:40,675 Speaker 1: of them, even if he believes there's a reason to, 314 00:22:41,035 --> 00:22:44,195 Speaker 1: because he has now convinced himself that all criticism of 315 00:22:44,275 --> 00:22:47,995 Speaker 1: him is a hoax. And as I examined last time, 316 00:22:48,315 --> 00:22:50,995 Speaker 1: they around him are all lying to him about his 317 00:22:51,115 --> 00:22:54,355 Speaker 1: poll numbers and his popularity and how well everything's going, 318 00:22:54,755 --> 00:22:57,235 Speaker 1: and even his vote count. They'll be lying to him 319 00:22:57,235 --> 00:23:00,395 Speaker 1: about the inflation numbers soon enough, because they know Trump 320 00:23:00,475 --> 00:23:03,155 Speaker 1: is coming apart at the scenes mentally and they have 321 00:23:03,275 --> 00:23:06,315 Speaker 1: to manage him and give in to what Advance called 322 00:23:06,635 --> 00:23:13,675 Speaker 1: the president's desires or something really bad could happen. Oh 323 00:23:13,875 --> 00:23:16,755 Speaker 1: like what, it's not like he's forgetting easy to remember 324 00:23:16,875 --> 00:23:24,755 Speaker 1: facts like what's a country and what's not a country? Quote. 325 00:23:24,755 --> 00:23:27,315 Speaker 1: If the European Union works with Canada in order to 326 00:23:27,355 --> 00:23:31,475 Speaker 1: do economic harm to the USA, large scale tariffs far 327 00:23:31,675 --> 00:23:34,635 Speaker 1: larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both 328 00:23:34,915 --> 00:23:37,675 Speaker 1: in order to protect the best friend that each of 329 00:23:37,715 --> 00:23:48,075 Speaker 1: those two countries has ever had. So uh uh, he 330 00:23:48,355 --> 00:23:49,195 Speaker 1: U is now a country? 331 00:23:49,275 --> 00:23:49,555 Speaker 2: Trump? 332 00:23:51,115 --> 00:23:53,595 Speaker 1: Nah, He's fine, He's fine. No, reason to assume all 333 00:23:53,635 --> 00:23:56,555 Speaker 1: of this destruction of the economy in these nineteenth century 334 00:23:56,675 --> 00:23:59,715 Speaker 1: terrify ideas, and this move towards assuming the presidency for 335 00:23:59,835 --> 00:24:05,435 Speaker 1: life is actual insanity. No no, no, no, no, he's 336 00:24:06,435 --> 00:24:19,795 Speaker 1: he's fine. He's And on the journalism front, they're fine too. 337 00:24:20,395 --> 00:24:26,875 Speaker 1: Nobody ever learns nobody. The White House Correspondence Association Annual Dinner, 338 00:24:27,155 --> 00:24:31,075 Speaker 1: also known as Community Service for Reporters or a preview 339 00:24:31,155 --> 00:24:34,075 Speaker 1: of Your Time in Hell, will for the second time 340 00:24:34,115 --> 00:24:37,795 Speaker 1: in seven years, not feature a comedian because the Association, 341 00:24:37,995 --> 00:24:44,395 Speaker 1: at its president Eugene Daniels of MSNBC, naturally is afraid 342 00:24:44,435 --> 00:24:48,275 Speaker 1: of Trump and more interested in their own jobs than 343 00:24:48,315 --> 00:24:51,155 Speaker 1: in preserving the free press or the United States of America. 344 00:24:52,395 --> 00:24:57,875 Speaker 1: They have fired Amber Ruffin as the comedian after booking 345 00:24:57,915 --> 00:25:05,115 Speaker 1: her months ago. Quote Politico report or It's that. The 346 00:25:05,155 --> 00:25:07,795 Speaker 1: decision to remove Ruffin came after the White House Deputy 347 00:25:07,875 --> 00:25:13,715 Speaker 1: Chief of Staff Taylor Budowitch criticized the WHCA for hiring 348 00:25:13,795 --> 00:25:17,555 Speaker 1: Ruffin as she has been critical of President Trump. Alongside 349 00:25:17,555 --> 00:25:20,915 Speaker 1: a clip of Ruffin calling the political climate bonkers, boodoo 350 00:25:20,875 --> 00:25:24,635 Speaker 1: Witch wrote, this year's WHCA dinner will be hosted by 351 00:25:24,635 --> 00:25:27,155 Speaker 1: a second rate comedian who is previewing the event by 352 00:25:27,195 --> 00:25:31,275 Speaker 1: calling this administration murderers who want to feel like human beings. 353 00:25:31,355 --> 00:25:33,355 Speaker 1: But they shouldn't get to feel that way because you're 354 00:25:33,355 --> 00:25:39,835 Speaker 1: not all right. That's a statement of fact. They are murderers, 355 00:25:42,915 --> 00:25:48,115 Speaker 1: and the political climate certainly is bonkers. Second rate comedian 356 00:25:50,435 --> 00:25:53,875 Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt is a second rate comedian. Wait, there's more 357 00:25:53,875 --> 00:25:57,115 Speaker 1: from this story. Trump is expected to not attend the event. 358 00:25:57,275 --> 00:25:59,715 Speaker 1: In his past administration, he also did not attend any 359 00:25:59,755 --> 00:26:04,515 Speaker 1: of the dinners hosted. So Trump's not going, The fascists 360 00:26:04,715 --> 00:26:10,915 Speaker 1: aren't going. Appeasing Trump doesn't work. After taking money literally 361 00:26:10,955 --> 00:26:13,915 Speaker 1: from the people who run the media and own the media, 362 00:26:14,235 --> 00:26:18,795 Speaker 1: he's now going after those people again. So fire Amber 363 00:26:18,915 --> 00:26:24,755 Speaker 1: Ruffin anyway, when the comedian was the only reason worth 364 00:26:25,435 --> 00:26:31,835 Speaker 1: paying for parking at that event, which is literally less 365 00:26:31,835 --> 00:26:37,995 Speaker 1: impressive than the annual Big to do of the Rotary 366 00:26:38,035 --> 00:26:41,835 Speaker 1: Club in Ithaca, New York in nineteen seventy seven, I've 367 00:26:41,875 --> 00:26:47,755 Speaker 1: attended both, and the White House Correspondence dinner sucks. In 368 00:26:47,835 --> 00:26:51,635 Speaker 1: the old days. It was bad enough in the old days. 369 00:26:51,915 --> 00:26:55,875 Speaker 1: It was torture in the old days. Now it's just 370 00:26:56,235 --> 00:27:02,515 Speaker 1: dinner at Fichies. But to leave you with two happy moments. 371 00:27:02,635 --> 00:27:08,475 Speaker 1: My glass half full report that Christy Nomes sado masochistic 372 00:27:08,635 --> 00:27:11,515 Speaker 1: ilsa she wolf of the SS porn video that she 373 00:27:11,635 --> 00:27:14,035 Speaker 1: put out, filmed in front of the kind of people 374 00:27:14,115 --> 00:27:17,235 Speaker 1: she helped to kidnap off our streets and trundle off 375 00:27:17,435 --> 00:27:21,555 Speaker 1: without due process to an l Salvador slave prison. A 376 00:27:21,555 --> 00:27:25,395 Speaker 1: pro tip here, I have found my ability to process 377 00:27:25,675 --> 00:27:31,395 Speaker 1: that Christy Nomes snuff film improves appreciably if I interpret 378 00:27:31,475 --> 00:27:36,195 Speaker 1: the images backwards. Just tell yourself as you look at 379 00:27:36,195 --> 00:27:41,315 Speaker 1: this that she's the one behind the bars and the 380 00:27:41,395 --> 00:27:49,155 Speaker 1: dozens of shirtless guys are outside of her cage. And 381 00:27:49,195 --> 00:27:55,435 Speaker 1: I have a second half glass full, glass half full. 382 00:27:56,355 --> 00:27:59,555 Speaker 1: Lara Trump on her Fox show, which I believe is 383 00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:04,515 Speaker 1: titled we have to Fill weekends somehow, ask the Secretary 384 00:28:04,555 --> 00:28:10,115 Speaker 1: of the Interior and Commissioner of Eyebrows, Doug Bergham, if 385 00:28:10,155 --> 00:28:15,755 Speaker 1: we'd ever see Trump's face on Mount Rushmore. Now this 386 00:28:15,915 --> 00:28:19,715 Speaker 1: might be a little hannibal lectorish, but my first thought 387 00:28:19,755 --> 00:28:25,915 Speaker 1: was Trump's face, his real face on Mount Rushmore. 388 00:28:27,835 --> 00:28:29,955 Speaker 2: Okay. 389 00:28:33,515 --> 00:28:36,235 Speaker 1: Also of interest here in this all new edition of Countdown, 390 00:28:36,315 --> 00:28:40,155 Speaker 1: Bill maher self destructs again. How many times can you 391 00:28:40,195 --> 00:28:44,915 Speaker 1: do this bill? Only this time he explains to Chris 392 00:28:44,995 --> 00:28:48,715 Speaker 1: Cuomo that he's going to go to talk to Trump 393 00:28:48,755 --> 00:28:53,915 Speaker 1: at the White House so they can save the country. 394 00:28:54,755 --> 00:28:56,915 Speaker 1: Shouldn't go to the White House? Bill to a go 395 00:28:56,995 --> 00:29:02,155 Speaker 1: to an emergency room, get a CT scan. Also, I 396 00:29:02,235 --> 00:29:06,835 Speaker 1: have resumed my television sports career, and this merits both 397 00:29:06,875 --> 00:29:12,715 Speaker 1: an explanation and a plug. That's next. This is countdown. 398 00:29:14,595 --> 00:29:17,475 Speaker 2: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 399 00:29:37,915 --> 00:29:40,355 Speaker 1: Still ahead. In this all new additional countdown, I have 400 00:29:40,555 --> 00:29:45,155 Speaker 1: resumed my TV sports career. I want to go into 401 00:29:45,195 --> 00:29:48,835 Speaker 1: some detail about this and why, because if you've been 402 00:29:48,875 --> 00:29:54,715 Speaker 1: listening the last roughly two and a half years, you 403 00:29:54,755 --> 00:29:57,155 Speaker 1: will have heard me say I don't think you should 404 00:29:57,155 --> 00:30:00,155 Speaker 1: be doing both politics and sports, certainly not in the 405 00:30:00,195 --> 00:30:03,835 Speaker 1: same venue, but maybe not even in different venues. Well, 406 00:30:04,355 --> 00:30:07,475 Speaker 1: I'd like to amend those remarks because I'm now doing 407 00:30:07,475 --> 00:30:12,195 Speaker 1: it in different venues, politics here and baseball on TV. 408 00:30:13,555 --> 00:30:16,875 Speaker 1: Ahead first, believe it or not, there's still more new 409 00:30:16,875 --> 00:30:19,555 Speaker 1: idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the misgrants, 410 00:30:19,595 --> 00:30:23,715 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's other 411 00:30:24,675 --> 00:30:29,195 Speaker 1: worse persons in the world. Here are the nominees the 412 00:30:29,235 --> 00:30:34,315 Speaker 1: Bronze Worse, Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. If that is your 413 00:30:34,315 --> 00:30:37,955 Speaker 1: real name, Anna Meyerhoffer, And I'm sorry, miss, but I'm 414 00:30:37,995 --> 00:30:41,875 Speaker 1: afraid the role of Marjorie's stupid Green has already been cast. 415 00:30:42,275 --> 00:30:46,435 Speaker 1: But honestly, when she hits that magic percentage of body 416 00:30:46,475 --> 00:30:51,035 Speaker 1: weight that is just steroids and she goes catatonic, we 417 00:30:51,155 --> 00:30:56,795 Speaker 1: will call you, madam. Miss Luna announced on Fox quote, 418 00:30:57,515 --> 00:31:00,595 Speaker 1: I would like to tell the American people. I was 419 00:31:00,635 --> 00:31:04,315 Speaker 1: made aware to me this evening that NBC actually have 420 00:31:04,475 --> 00:31:08,435 Speaker 1: a video that has never been seen before that allegedly 421 00:31:08,995 --> 00:31:13,435 Speaker 1: shows Oswald near a vehicle at the time, which means 422 00:31:13,595 --> 00:31:17,915 Speaker 1: it couldn't have been him. Now, look, she's a simpleton. 423 00:31:18,395 --> 00:31:22,235 Speaker 1: She shows some evidence of brain damage, and god knows 424 00:31:22,875 --> 00:31:27,715 Speaker 1: what she heard and couldn't understand and decided was was 425 00:31:27,755 --> 00:31:31,755 Speaker 1: that evidence that it couldn't have been Oswald. I assume 426 00:31:32,635 --> 00:31:37,635 Speaker 1: either somebody told her about Oliver Stone's movie JFK and 427 00:31:37,715 --> 00:31:41,075 Speaker 1: a v tape of JFK this is the tape that 428 00:31:41,195 --> 00:31:45,595 Speaker 1: NBC has, or they told her about the various recreation 429 00:31:46,355 --> 00:31:49,875 Speaker 1: films of Oswald near the vehicle in which police officer 430 00:31:49,915 --> 00:31:53,515 Speaker 1: Tippett was shot long, the biggest timeline hole in the 431 00:31:53,555 --> 00:31:57,835 Speaker 1: Oswald Solo gunman theory, though not a fatal flaw in 432 00:31:57,835 --> 00:32:01,075 Speaker 1: that theory. But anyway, this misses the point. The day 433 00:32:01,195 --> 00:32:04,635 Speaker 1: JFK was shot, there was no way to burn tom 434 00:32:04,915 --> 00:32:09,475 Speaker 1: of Day into film or even the early giant sized 435 00:32:09,515 --> 00:32:13,635 Speaker 1: forms of videotape. There was no time code available until 436 00:32:13,755 --> 00:32:18,075 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, so no nineteen sixty three film could 437 00:32:18,235 --> 00:32:22,195 Speaker 1: establish when anybody was anywhere that day or any other 438 00:32:22,275 --> 00:32:25,675 Speaker 1: day in human history, even one with a clock visible 439 00:32:25,675 --> 00:32:29,835 Speaker 1: in the background, because clocks could be wrong. I know 440 00:32:29,955 --> 00:32:32,115 Speaker 1: by this point her eyes have rolled back in her 441 00:32:32,155 --> 00:32:34,835 Speaker 1: head and the drool is flowing like wine. But you 442 00:32:34,875 --> 00:32:38,835 Speaker 1: still get my point. Also, the congresswoman added quote, we 443 00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:43,715 Speaker 1: hope to bring forward legislation to ensure this never happens again. 444 00:32:44,835 --> 00:32:46,915 Speaker 1: And who in the hell knows what she meant there? 445 00:32:47,995 --> 00:32:51,195 Speaker 1: Make sure assassinations never happened again. Make sure no more 446 00:32:51,235 --> 00:32:54,515 Speaker 1: Warren commissions, make sure there's no more evidence locked away 447 00:32:54,515 --> 00:32:57,395 Speaker 1: by the government. Make sure there's no more Oliver Stone movies. 448 00:32:57,595 --> 00:33:00,635 Speaker 1: Who knows, by the way, you know who was great 449 00:33:00,675 --> 00:33:03,915 Speaker 1: in that movie doesn't get credit for it. John Candy 450 00:33:04,035 --> 00:33:07,915 Speaker 1: was great and AFK. Moving on the runner up, Dave 451 00:33:07,995 --> 00:33:11,675 Speaker 1: la Rock, the far far right would be candidate for 452 00:33:11,795 --> 00:33:15,035 Speaker 1: governor of Virginia, the one who referred to Virginia's quote 453 00:33:15,275 --> 00:33:19,315 Speaker 1: colored community unquote. He didn't say that in nineteen fifty two, 454 00:33:19,315 --> 00:33:21,155 Speaker 1: he said it in twenty twenty one. He's a nut 455 00:33:21,275 --> 00:33:23,195 Speaker 1: job and a nitwit. And if you didn't know that, 456 00:33:23,515 --> 00:33:26,195 Speaker 1: listen to this interview in which he brings up his 457 00:33:26,395 --> 00:33:30,635 Speaker 1: favorite movie, No Not JFK, in which it was proved 458 00:33:30,635 --> 00:33:33,075 Speaker 1: that at the time of the assassination Lee Harvey Oswald 459 00:33:33,155 --> 00:33:36,795 Speaker 1: was actually working with a chisel atop Mount Rushmore No. 460 00:33:36,795 --> 00:33:36,955 Speaker 3: No. 461 00:33:37,115 --> 00:33:40,875 Speaker 1: Two thousand and sevens film Freedom Writers with Hillary Swank. 462 00:33:41,275 --> 00:33:43,635 Speaker 4: One of my favorite movies, and I tell you moves 463 00:33:43,715 --> 00:33:47,515 Speaker 4: me emotionally, is a movie called Freedom Writers. Have you 464 00:33:47,555 --> 00:33:50,315 Speaker 4: ever seen that? I have seen that movie. Yes, it's 465 00:33:50,315 --> 00:33:53,635 Speaker 4: a spectacular movie, isn't it. And it's this inner city, 466 00:33:54,395 --> 00:33:58,195 Speaker 4: these kids that think they've life has been terrible, and 467 00:33:58,235 --> 00:34:02,595 Speaker 4: it justifies them being violent toward each other, and the teacher, 468 00:34:02,675 --> 00:34:07,435 Speaker 4: Hillary Swank, I think, introduces them to a Holocaust survivor, 469 00:34:07,675 --> 00:34:10,795 Speaker 4: and I think it's based on a true story. It is, 470 00:34:11,195 --> 00:34:16,075 Speaker 4: and they just appreciate that what these people have been 471 00:34:16,115 --> 00:34:19,435 Speaker 4: put through it, which makes their own struggles, I think, 472 00:34:19,595 --> 00:34:24,395 Speaker 4: seem like something they can overcome. So again, the central 473 00:34:24,435 --> 00:34:26,715 Speaker 4: theme of it is, well, a couple of different things 474 00:34:26,715 --> 00:34:31,475 Speaker 4: going on, but it uses the I think it was 475 00:34:31,515 --> 00:34:33,755 Speaker 4: Anne Frank that they actually brought in to tell her 476 00:34:33,835 --> 00:34:36,635 Speaker 4: story and it really changed these people's lives. 477 00:34:37,875 --> 00:34:41,235 Speaker 1: Yeah, a life changing event when they brought on franc 478 00:34:42,115 --> 00:34:46,915 Speaker 1: into the classroom in Long Beach, California in person to 479 00:34:47,075 --> 00:34:54,395 Speaker 1: tell the kids about the Holocaust. On Frank herself. I 480 00:34:54,435 --> 00:34:57,035 Speaker 1: guess these days you and I should be happy when 481 00:34:57,035 --> 00:35:01,235 Speaker 1: we find a Republican, even an idiot Republican, who believes 482 00:35:01,835 --> 00:35:07,675 Speaker 1: it happened and believes it mattered. But honestly, can we 483 00:35:07,795 --> 00:35:10,995 Speaker 1: lock LaRock and Luna in a classroom for like three 484 00:35:11,075 --> 00:35:14,755 Speaker 1: minutes and just force them to brush up their knowledge 485 00:35:14,755 --> 00:35:18,355 Speaker 1: of just these two events and leave the other ten 486 00:35:18,435 --> 00:35:21,515 Speaker 1: thousand things they each get wrong in day to day 487 00:35:21,515 --> 00:35:26,035 Speaker 1: life wrong just on these things. Just about the fact 488 00:35:26,035 --> 00:35:29,515 Speaker 1: that there's no videotape of the JFK shooting and couldn't 489 00:35:29,515 --> 00:35:32,955 Speaker 1: be that, and then a Frank did not survive the 490 00:35:32,955 --> 00:35:38,955 Speaker 1: holl just somebody tell him this, Good God, But they 491 00:35:38,995 --> 00:35:44,435 Speaker 1: have excuses they're morons. Our winner the worst, once again, 492 00:35:45,115 --> 00:35:49,275 Speaker 1: does not have such an excuse. Bill Maher with assists 493 00:35:49,275 --> 00:35:53,235 Speaker 1: from Chris Cuomo and Gavin Newsom. He's got everybody working 494 00:35:53,275 --> 00:35:57,995 Speaker 1: with him except Chris Soliza. I'm not going to suggest 495 00:35:58,195 --> 00:36:00,555 Speaker 1: here or anywhere else that anybody ever took Bill Maher 496 00:36:00,595 --> 00:36:04,955 Speaker 1: seriously as a political thinker, but he had a certain fearlessness, 497 00:36:05,155 --> 00:36:08,675 Speaker 1: and one of like well two platforms that were largely 498 00:36:08,755 --> 00:36:11,075 Speaker 1: or mostly liberal in the early years of this century, 499 00:36:11,875 --> 00:36:15,595 Speaker 1: I might modestly countdown, was the other one. But Bill's 500 00:36:15,635 --> 00:36:18,555 Speaker 1: trolley has come off the track, and like so many 501 00:36:18,595 --> 00:36:22,195 Speaker 1: seemingly strong figures in our society, turns out that he 502 00:36:22,275 --> 00:36:24,555 Speaker 1: was made out of paper mache and filled with oatmeal. 503 00:36:24,995 --> 00:36:27,915 Speaker 1: Just like all the guardrails. What Bill has done has 504 00:36:27,955 --> 00:36:30,715 Speaker 1: decided he wants to be on the winning side more often. 505 00:36:31,515 --> 00:36:33,795 Speaker 1: So he's now going to the White House to see 506 00:36:33,835 --> 00:36:37,675 Speaker 1: Trump with his new friend Kid Rock. And once you 507 00:36:37,755 --> 00:36:40,955 Speaker 1: get past his new friend Kid Rock, everything else is 508 00:36:41,035 --> 00:36:45,315 Speaker 1: superfluous detail. If Kid Rock is one of your friends, 509 00:36:45,675 --> 00:36:51,955 Speaker 1: your life is at essentially an end. Mar is hanging 510 00:36:51,955 --> 00:36:54,835 Speaker 1: out with other quizzlings too. I mentioned Newsom, who used 511 00:36:54,835 --> 00:36:57,115 Speaker 1: to be the Democratic governor of California and is now 512 00:36:57,195 --> 00:37:01,795 Speaker 1: a podcast host. Announced on Mars Show Friday, Newsom did 513 00:37:01,795 --> 00:37:04,595 Speaker 1: that the polling showing the Democratic Party has twenty seven 514 00:37:04,755 --> 00:37:08,955 Speaker 1: percent approval means, quote, the Democratic brand is toxic right now. 515 00:37:09,675 --> 00:37:16,155 Speaker 1: Unquote gav a. The Republican Party has thirty six percent approval, 516 00:37:16,875 --> 00:37:19,955 Speaker 1: which is not a lot more given that they won 517 00:37:19,995 --> 00:37:24,075 Speaker 1: the election. B Most of the dissatisfaction with the Democratic 518 00:37:24,155 --> 00:37:28,635 Speaker 1: Party is from Democrats because of the weasliness and appeasement 519 00:37:29,035 --> 00:37:34,715 Speaker 1: from clowns like c. Gavin Newsom and Bill Maher. We 520 00:37:34,795 --> 00:37:40,195 Speaker 1: talk down to people, Newsom told Mar, we talk past people. Well, 521 00:37:40,235 --> 00:37:43,035 Speaker 1: the two of you do, That's correct, the idea that 522 00:37:43,075 --> 00:37:45,515 Speaker 1: we can even have a conversation with the other side, 523 00:37:45,715 --> 00:37:50,435 Speaker 1: Newsom asked rhetorically. Mar's reply, you have to They won, 524 00:37:51,915 --> 00:37:54,955 Speaker 1: says oo. Fox News has a larger audience that Bill 525 00:37:55,035 --> 00:37:58,475 Speaker 1: Maher Hell Newsmax. May Bill, do you have to talk 526 00:37:58,515 --> 00:38:04,115 Speaker 1: to them because they won? Mar apparently thinks this means 527 00:38:04,195 --> 00:38:07,235 Speaker 1: going to talk to Trump and to step into his 528 00:38:07,275 --> 00:38:12,555 Speaker 1: own personalized echo chamber that says this is a good idea. 529 00:38:13,115 --> 00:38:15,515 Speaker 1: He went on with Chris Cuomo, another guy who, to 530 00:38:15,595 --> 00:38:18,395 Speaker 1: paraphrase a line about Michael Jordan's willingness to do commercials 531 00:38:18,395 --> 00:38:21,595 Speaker 1: for anything. If they promised Chris Cuomo his own Network 532 00:38:21,675 --> 00:38:24,035 Speaker 1: TV show again, but he had to do a commercial 533 00:38:24,195 --> 00:38:28,035 Speaker 1: for it wearing a jockstrap that you wore on your face, 534 00:38:28,795 --> 00:38:32,995 Speaker 1: he would do it for once. Though. In this clip, 535 00:38:33,075 --> 00:38:37,195 Speaker 1: Chris Cuomo is the least insufferable person in the room 536 00:38:38,275 --> 00:38:39,755 Speaker 1: because the only on other one in the room is 537 00:38:39,795 --> 00:38:44,435 Speaker 1: mar listen to the delusions of grandeur parade out of 538 00:38:44,555 --> 00:38:47,195 Speaker 1: Bill Maher's tiny, little deviated septum. 539 00:38:47,675 --> 00:38:49,675 Speaker 2: What do you think has been the response so far? 540 00:38:49,755 --> 00:38:50,595 Speaker 2: What do you think it will be? 541 00:38:50,675 --> 00:38:51,635 Speaker 1: And why are you doing it? 542 00:38:53,315 --> 00:38:55,155 Speaker 2: Which I'm totally for by the way, and I love it. 543 00:38:55,355 --> 00:38:55,875 Speaker 1: I get it. 544 00:38:56,035 --> 00:38:59,915 Speaker 3: Well, I'm doing it because first of all, it was 545 00:38:59,955 --> 00:39:05,795 Speaker 3: presented as a dare not a dare no, just like 546 00:39:06,835 --> 00:39:09,995 Speaker 3: maybe this is a beginning to heal America. Now, I 547 00:39:10,035 --> 00:39:12,395 Speaker 3: don't have some sort of complex where I think I 548 00:39:12,395 --> 00:39:13,355 Speaker 3: can heal America. 549 00:39:13,795 --> 00:39:14,435 Speaker 2: I can't. 550 00:39:14,995 --> 00:39:17,195 Speaker 3: Okay, let's get that clear. I'm not going to be 551 00:39:17,235 --> 00:39:22,555 Speaker 3: healing America. But if two guys who've been at each 552 00:39:22,555 --> 00:39:26,755 Speaker 3: other for so long, I mean, it's kind of a 553 00:39:26,835 --> 00:39:30,675 Speaker 3: Nixon to China thing, I have the credential there was 554 00:39:30,795 --> 00:39:34,675 Speaker 3: nobody who was harder on Trump or more prescient about 555 00:39:34,675 --> 00:39:38,035 Speaker 3: the fact that he wasn't going to leave office voluntarily 556 00:39:39,275 --> 00:39:42,035 Speaker 3: than I was. I feel like I have the credentials, 557 00:39:43,115 --> 00:39:48,115 Speaker 3: but they also respect me because I'm honest about the 558 00:39:48,155 --> 00:39:50,275 Speaker 3: woke train to crazy Town. 559 00:39:50,835 --> 00:39:58,155 Speaker 1: First, Bill, they don't respect you. They're using you. That's 560 00:39:58,195 --> 00:40:02,875 Speaker 1: all this is. Don't you see that? Ten years ago, 561 00:40:03,075 --> 00:40:05,355 Speaker 1: the next to last time I was on Bill Mars show, 562 00:40:05,435 --> 00:40:07,755 Speaker 1: he and I talked about how the Trump who had 563 00:40:07,795 --> 00:40:10,955 Speaker 1: just announced his candidacy was utterly different than the one 564 00:40:11,275 --> 00:40:15,235 Speaker 1: we had met personally. That in person he had been polite, 565 00:40:15,395 --> 00:40:19,275 Speaker 1: almost mild mannered. I said that the disparity was so 566 00:40:19,475 --> 00:40:21,875 Speaker 1: vast that it didn't matter which Trump was the real 567 00:40:21,955 --> 00:40:24,995 Speaker 1: one and which one was the act the racists viewing 568 00:40:25,035 --> 00:40:28,875 Speaker 1: hate Trump or Eddie Haskell Trump. That the problem was 569 00:40:28,915 --> 00:40:31,915 Speaker 1: we could never survive a president who had two complete 570 00:40:31,955 --> 00:40:36,595 Speaker 1: and completely contradictory personalities Bill Bill said he thought we 571 00:40:36,595 --> 00:40:40,115 Speaker 1: should give the nice Trump a try, leading me to 572 00:40:40,155 --> 00:40:42,795 Speaker 1: my second point. Bill Maher was hardly the first person 573 00:40:42,835 --> 00:40:45,475 Speaker 1: to say Trump would never leave office. I said it 574 00:40:45,475 --> 00:40:48,955 Speaker 1: in my commentaries before the twenty sixteen election. I said 575 00:40:48,955 --> 00:40:51,275 Speaker 1: it on Mars show the night of the inauguration in 576 00:40:51,315 --> 00:40:55,915 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, and Bill thinks he's been the toughest on Trump. 577 00:40:57,355 --> 00:40:59,275 Speaker 1: He may have been because of the size of his 578 00:40:59,395 --> 00:41:05,115 Speaker 1: platform top one hundred maybe, but his work since election 579 00:41:05,515 --> 00:41:08,755 Speaker 1: cozying up to Trump's people, platforming them. And now this 580 00:41:09,115 --> 00:41:12,795 Speaker 1: Neville Chamberlain was cool parade and going to the Lanehouse 581 00:41:12,835 --> 00:41:15,315 Speaker 1: with my friend, can'd rock because you have to talk 582 00:41:15,395 --> 00:41:18,555 Speaker 1: to the paint bomb. Bill is down to about a 583 00:41:18,595 --> 00:41:25,795 Speaker 1: millionth on the list. Also woke, Bill, take woke and 584 00:41:25,835 --> 00:41:30,395 Speaker 1: shove it up your ass. Wait wait, wait, Bill Maher 585 00:41:30,475 --> 00:41:35,995 Speaker 1: actually got worse, more condescending, more delusional. Just just listen 586 00:41:36,035 --> 00:41:36,275 Speaker 1: to this. 587 00:41:36,595 --> 00:41:39,035 Speaker 3: First of all, it's an honor to be invited to 588 00:41:39,075 --> 00:41:39,635 Speaker 3: the White House. 589 00:41:39,715 --> 00:41:40,195 Speaker 1: Yes it is. 590 00:41:40,435 --> 00:41:43,875 Speaker 3: And I've already had a couple of people who I 591 00:41:43,915 --> 00:41:46,035 Speaker 3: said to them, you know, I'm just going to take 592 00:41:46,035 --> 00:41:51,435 Speaker 3: it as a backhanded compliment. Then you glide right past 593 00:41:52,115 --> 00:41:56,195 Speaker 3: the idea that little Bill Maher from Rivervale, New Jersey, 594 00:41:56,515 --> 00:42:00,635 Speaker 3: just a humble kid from the suburbs, was invited for 595 00:42:00,715 --> 00:42:02,995 Speaker 3: a private dinner of the White House. You glide right 596 00:42:03,075 --> 00:42:05,955 Speaker 3: past that to how dare you talk to him? And 597 00:42:05,995 --> 00:42:07,395 Speaker 3: that you're not impressed. 598 00:42:07,035 --> 00:42:07,635 Speaker 2: By it at all. 599 00:42:07,675 --> 00:42:11,835 Speaker 3: I'm impressed by it a lot. I'm impressed the fuck 600 00:42:11,875 --> 00:42:14,035 Speaker 3: out of it. I get to go to the White 601 00:42:14,035 --> 00:42:18,555 Speaker 3: House and yes, that is the structure of this dinner 602 00:42:18,675 --> 00:42:21,395 Speaker 3: is just let's talk. Let's talk to each other face 603 00:42:21,435 --> 00:42:24,915 Speaker 3: to face. Let's not stop shouting from three thousand miles away. 604 00:42:25,715 --> 00:42:25,995 Speaker 1: You know. 605 00:42:27,635 --> 00:42:30,275 Speaker 3: So if they expect me to be leaving in a 606 00:42:30,315 --> 00:42:32,635 Speaker 3: maga hat, they're going to be very disappointed. But I 607 00:42:32,755 --> 00:42:35,275 Speaker 3: know they don't and I think it's going to be 608 00:42:35,795 --> 00:42:38,955 Speaker 3: you know, look, it probably will accomplish very little, but 609 00:42:39,675 --> 00:42:41,515 Speaker 3: you got to try him, man, you got to try. 610 00:42:41,995 --> 00:42:45,635 Speaker 2: I love it, you know, Kanye, Bill Maht. Thank they 611 00:42:45,755 --> 00:42:48,635 Speaker 2: very much appreciate you. Love being with you, Bud. Yeah, 612 00:42:48,675 --> 00:42:51,515 Speaker 2: this was so much fun and I love that you're going. 613 00:42:52,035 --> 00:42:55,035 Speaker 3: I think it's graced for exactly that is, isn't it 614 00:42:55,035 --> 00:42:55,675 Speaker 3: a hundred percent? 615 00:42:55,755 --> 00:42:56,035 Speaker 1: Yes? 616 00:42:56,435 --> 00:42:58,195 Speaker 2: And I will celebrate it when it happens. 617 00:42:58,195 --> 00:42:58,515 Speaker 1: Great. 618 00:42:58,675 --> 00:42:59,475 Speaker 3: I appreciate that. 619 00:43:00,315 --> 00:43:03,635 Speaker 1: And Bill, if Chris Cuomo loves it, it's the worst 620 00:43:03,835 --> 00:43:08,915 Speaker 1: idea of your life. Newsom Chris Cuomo. And as I said, 621 00:43:09,155 --> 00:43:11,595 Speaker 1: all you need is the endorsement of Chris Solisza and 622 00:43:11,635 --> 00:43:18,595 Speaker 1: you have the complete quizzling boxed set. Also, it's an 623 00:43:18,635 --> 00:43:21,955 Speaker 1: honor to be invited to the White House now after 624 00:43:21,995 --> 00:43:26,275 Speaker 1: what Trump did with Zelensky in the White House. Oh, 625 00:43:26,595 --> 00:43:30,115 Speaker 1: Hitler's invited me to the Life Chancellery. Maybe I can 626 00:43:30,155 --> 00:43:32,635 Speaker 1: get a selfie with him, Maybe you let me wear 627 00:43:32,635 --> 00:43:38,515 Speaker 1: his hat. It's an honor, I mean after Connor McGregor 628 00:43:38,795 --> 00:43:43,275 Speaker 1: was invited, after Sarah Palin, after a bunch of crooked 629 00:43:43,315 --> 00:43:48,515 Speaker 1: TV evangelists. Cuomo mentioned Kanye West. You were invited seven 630 00:43:48,595 --> 00:43:52,395 Speaker 1: years after Kanye West. They're just inviting you now, and 631 00:43:52,435 --> 00:43:56,835 Speaker 1: you think it's an honor. Hell, I was first invited 632 00:43:56,875 --> 00:44:05,315 Speaker 1: to the White House checks notes twenty six years ago. Okay, 633 00:44:05,315 --> 00:44:10,115 Speaker 1: they're just getting to you now, Bill, Let's stop yelling 634 00:44:10,995 --> 00:44:18,115 Speaker 1: at Hitler. Mar two Day's Other Worst Person and the 635 00:44:18,195 --> 00:44:35,795 Speaker 1: World Take four B one March thirty one, three two one. 636 00:44:36,115 --> 00:44:48,715 Speaker 2: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman, host Scripts to the news, 637 00:44:48,955 --> 00:44:52,075 Speaker 2: some headlines, some updates, some snark, and in this case, 638 00:44:52,795 --> 00:44:58,555 Speaker 2: some explanation for unexpected personal conduct, not bad personal conduct. 639 00:44:58,635 --> 00:45:02,995 Speaker 1: I'm not in the Trump administration, just unusual personal conduct. 640 00:45:03,315 --> 00:45:10,515 Speaker 1: And first, this is the Countdown podcast. And these are 641 00:45:10,555 --> 00:45:15,915 Speaker 1: the places where there's news. Dateline New York while and 642 00:45:15,995 --> 00:45:20,915 Speaker 1: other places like Atlanta, Cincinnati, Miami, the Tampa Bay Area 643 00:45:21,035 --> 00:45:25,355 Speaker 1: actually in this case Tampa itself, Detroit, Los Angeles, but 644 00:45:25,395 --> 00:45:29,795 Speaker 1: more correctly Anaheim, Kansas City, Cleveland, and Milwaukee. 645 00:45:30,075 --> 00:45:30,355 Speaker 2: Hello. 646 00:45:32,315 --> 00:45:37,355 Speaker 1: I have railed recently about the increasing merger between sportscasting 647 00:45:37,555 --> 00:45:42,715 Speaker 1: and politic casting, between the number of sportscasters at nominally 648 00:45:42,795 --> 00:45:47,955 Speaker 1: sports venues who have gone into commenting on politics. This 649 00:45:48,035 --> 00:45:52,395 Speaker 1: has been led by such derelict outlets as barstool and 650 00:45:52,515 --> 00:45:56,155 Speaker 1: the others, but it has also recently creeped into places 651 00:45:56,195 --> 00:46:01,195 Speaker 1: like ESPN, and I have been virulently angry and most 652 00:46:02,155 --> 00:46:06,675 Speaker 1: condescending towards with I think justificationation Stephen A. Smith, who 653 00:46:06,715 --> 00:46:09,995 Speaker 1: has decided the other day on the air that he 654 00:46:10,115 --> 00:46:13,275 Speaker 1: is going to debate Donald Trump on the subject of DEI. 655 00:46:13,835 --> 00:46:16,115 Speaker 1: This is, of course, part of what Steven A. Smith 656 00:46:16,155 --> 00:46:18,835 Speaker 1: thinks is a very clever little idea of his to 657 00:46:18,875 --> 00:46:22,635 Speaker 1: get himself mentioned as a presidential candidate, and as ninety 658 00:46:22,715 --> 00:46:24,995 Speaker 1: nine percent of the country laughs when they hear that, 659 00:46:25,235 --> 00:46:27,715 Speaker 1: the other one percent say, I'd like to have a 660 00:46:27,715 --> 00:46:30,395 Speaker 1: president who could give a seven hour State of the 661 00:46:30,475 --> 00:46:33,395 Speaker 1: Union address without taking a breath and without saying anything 662 00:46:33,435 --> 00:46:36,355 Speaker 1: at all because the one thing we want after this 663 00:46:36,435 --> 00:46:39,395 Speaker 1: one is another guy who wants to take all of 664 00:46:39,435 --> 00:46:43,235 Speaker 1: the air out of the room for himself. In any event, 665 00:46:43,715 --> 00:46:47,195 Speaker 1: it's not hard to figure. Many politicians have tried this before, 666 00:46:47,235 --> 00:46:49,675 Speaker 1: and lots of people who know nothing about politics think 667 00:46:49,915 --> 00:46:54,035 Speaker 1: it's a clever idea. Tell everybody that, oh, you'd do 668 00:46:54,155 --> 00:46:56,835 Speaker 1: it if it were necessary and people really wanted you to, 669 00:46:56,995 --> 00:46:59,475 Speaker 1: but you don't have the time, and you certainly don't 670 00:46:59,555 --> 00:47:02,515 Speaker 1: want to be president, and you let other people say no, 671 00:47:02,635 --> 00:47:06,235 Speaker 1: he'd make a great president, and you try a draft 672 00:47:06,555 --> 00:47:09,715 Speaker 1: some anonymous name like I don't know, John A. Smith 673 00:47:10,635 --> 00:47:13,875 Speaker 1: for president. There's been a lot of that recently, and 674 00:47:13,955 --> 00:47:17,955 Speaker 1: for some reason, things that at ESPN literally five years 675 00:47:17,995 --> 00:47:21,515 Speaker 1: ago would have gotten anybody suspended or perhaps fired is 676 00:47:21,555 --> 00:47:24,835 Speaker 1: now encouraged. Part of this was the new management there, 677 00:47:24,875 --> 00:47:27,715 Speaker 1: and part of it was its affection for people like 678 00:47:28,035 --> 00:47:30,995 Speaker 1: Pat McAfee. I think that's the name the guy who 679 00:47:30,995 --> 00:47:34,555 Speaker 1: spends all afternoon talking and talking and talking and bringing 680 00:47:34,555 --> 00:47:38,795 Speaker 1: on people like Aaron Rodgers, who was not necessarily fully 681 00:47:39,395 --> 00:47:42,475 Speaker 1: versed in living in this universe and has his own 682 00:47:42,555 --> 00:47:45,955 Speaker 1: kind of universe. And this eventually bleeds into politics, which 683 00:47:45,995 --> 00:47:48,555 Speaker 1: of course now fifty percent of all political discussion is 684 00:47:48,955 --> 00:47:52,155 Speaker 1: actually a conspiracy theory about something that does not exist, 685 00:47:52,395 --> 00:47:56,595 Speaker 1: because we have moved into that America. The post reality 686 00:47:56,835 --> 00:47:59,995 Speaker 1: America is where we are politically, as you well know. 687 00:48:01,195 --> 00:48:03,355 Speaker 1: But what I have been complaining about, and what I 688 00:48:03,395 --> 00:48:06,115 Speaker 1: had complained about even in the old days when I 689 00:48:06,355 --> 00:48:09,715 Speaker 1: was at ESPN and at other sports venues before that, 690 00:48:10,355 --> 00:48:13,795 Speaker 1: was that something we had done long long ago didn't 691 00:48:13,835 --> 00:48:17,475 Speaker 1: really work anymore and really shouldn't be done anymore. I 692 00:48:17,875 --> 00:48:20,755 Speaker 1: no longer thought it was a good idea for one 693 00:48:20,795 --> 00:48:25,875 Speaker 1: broadcaster to be a sports personality in one place, one network, 694 00:48:25,955 --> 00:48:30,195 Speaker 1: one outlet, one online place, one I don't know website, 695 00:48:30,515 --> 00:48:34,515 Speaker 1: and then be a political commentator somewhere else. Not that 696 00:48:34,555 --> 00:48:37,435 Speaker 1: there was any reason that a sportscaster should not be 697 00:48:37,595 --> 00:48:43,755 Speaker 1: qualified to talk about politics, but because in this time 698 00:48:44,595 --> 00:48:48,835 Speaker 1: of extraordinary pressure on all of us, we do need 699 00:48:48,875 --> 00:48:52,235 Speaker 1: to have a few areas in which politics will not 700 00:48:52,515 --> 00:48:55,715 Speaker 1: chase us. I always think of Donald Trump as the 701 00:48:55,835 --> 00:48:59,035 Speaker 1: character if you can believe this on the old Fred 702 00:48:59,035 --> 00:49:02,795 Speaker 1: Flintstone show who used to when you turn the TV off, 703 00:49:03,075 --> 00:49:05,155 Speaker 1: the hand would come out from around on the side 704 00:49:05,155 --> 00:49:07,715 Speaker 1: of the TV, and this character would turn the TV 705 00:49:07,835 --> 00:49:11,195 Speaker 1: back on so he could keep talking to you. That's Trump, 706 00:49:11,475 --> 00:49:14,795 Speaker 1: that's politics. I think there needs to be a place 707 00:49:14,835 --> 00:49:16,875 Speaker 1: where we can get away from that, and I think 708 00:49:16,955 --> 00:49:19,555 Speaker 1: one of the easiest ways for that is sports. I 709 00:49:19,555 --> 00:49:22,795 Speaker 1: am not saying when something like when the Trump administration 710 00:49:22,915 --> 00:49:25,995 Speaker 1: tried to erase Jackie Robinson from the history of the 711 00:49:25,995 --> 00:49:29,395 Speaker 1: Defense Department, I'm not saying that should be ignored by sports. 712 00:49:29,515 --> 00:49:33,075 Speaker 1: Quite the contrary, that's when it is absolutely necessary. I'm 713 00:49:33,075 --> 00:49:35,635 Speaker 1: not saying that when athletes have opinions about sports that 714 00:49:35,675 --> 00:49:39,235 Speaker 1: they should be ignored. Absolutely not. That is their platform, 715 00:49:39,315 --> 00:49:42,315 Speaker 1: and they should be covered, and they should be covered 716 00:49:42,355 --> 00:49:46,035 Speaker 1: to some degree neutrally, and the fallout should be covered 717 00:49:46,075 --> 00:49:49,635 Speaker 1: to some degree neutrally. But the point is that they're 718 00:49:49,635 --> 00:49:53,595 Speaker 1: the ones making the comments, not the sportscasters. The sportscasters 719 00:49:53,675 --> 00:49:58,115 Speaker 1: don't count. As I said in the old days back 720 00:49:58,155 --> 00:50:00,995 Speaker 1: at NBC in nineteen ninety seven, when I was first 721 00:50:01,035 --> 00:50:04,115 Speaker 1: hired there, I was hired to do both news and sports, 722 00:50:04,155 --> 00:50:07,835 Speaker 1: and the news part quickly devolved into almost all politics. 723 00:50:08,075 --> 00:50:11,675 Speaker 1: I was anchoring the State of the Union address and 724 00:50:11,875 --> 00:50:14,995 Speaker 1: then going to the Super Bowl weeks later. In nineteen 725 00:50:15,075 --> 00:50:19,075 Speaker 1: ninety eight, and then when I went back to MSNBC 726 00:50:19,275 --> 00:50:22,955 Speaker 1: in two thousand and three, it was just going to 727 00:50:23,035 --> 00:50:26,355 Speaker 1: be news. Well, that changed rather quickly too, and by 728 00:50:26,395 --> 00:50:29,875 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven I was on Football Night in America, 729 00:50:29,915 --> 00:50:32,555 Speaker 1: co hosting it with Bob. Bob Costas and several other 730 00:50:32,595 --> 00:50:34,875 Speaker 1: people were involved in the show at that time too. 731 00:50:35,715 --> 00:50:38,515 Speaker 1: Later Dan Patrick joined me on that program and we 732 00:50:38,595 --> 00:50:42,675 Speaker 1: separated those two entities. I did sports five nights a 733 00:50:42,715 --> 00:50:45,875 Speaker 1: week on MSNBC, or rather five nights a week of 734 00:50:46,795 --> 00:50:52,035 Speaker 1: news on MSNBC, in politics and increasingly political commentary on MSNBC, 735 00:50:52,195 --> 00:50:55,195 Speaker 1: and then one night a week on Big NBC, doing 736 00:50:55,235 --> 00:50:58,155 Speaker 1: just football and leaving politics out of it. In fact, 737 00:50:58,195 --> 00:50:59,915 Speaker 1: prior to that, in two thousand and five, I had 738 00:50:59,995 --> 00:51:02,235 Speaker 1: joined with Dan on the radio and talked sports for 739 00:51:02,275 --> 00:51:05,675 Speaker 1: an hour every day at three o'clock in the afternoon 740 00:51:05,715 --> 00:51:07,715 Speaker 1: or two o'clock in the afternoon, I can't remember now 741 00:51:07,755 --> 00:51:09,515 Speaker 1: one of those two hours. And then I'd get in 742 00:51:09,515 --> 00:51:11,395 Speaker 1: a car and go over to New Jersey and at 743 00:51:11,435 --> 00:51:13,795 Speaker 1: eight o'clock at night, it's been an hour yelling at 744 00:51:13,795 --> 00:51:17,195 Speaker 1: George Bush and it didn't really seem to bother anybody. 745 00:51:17,235 --> 00:51:22,595 Speaker 1: Those two things were separate identities. The mention of these 746 00:51:22,675 --> 00:51:27,515 Speaker 1: two subjects in the same lifetime in somebody's work as 747 00:51:27,555 --> 00:51:30,635 Speaker 1: a body of work was acceptable to the point where 748 00:51:31,035 --> 00:51:34,435 Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh tried to buy the Saint Louis Rams football team, 749 00:51:34,795 --> 00:51:38,275 Speaker 1: and I supported him when lots of people on both 750 00:51:38,315 --> 00:51:40,795 Speaker 1: sides of the political spectrum said no, I said, if 751 00:51:40,795 --> 00:51:42,755 Speaker 1: you've got a reason for him not to be an owner, 752 00:51:43,075 --> 00:51:46,435 Speaker 1: that's fine. His failure at ESPN when he tried to 753 00:51:46,435 --> 00:51:49,115 Speaker 1: do football commentary, well, maybe that's a good reason for 754 00:51:49,235 --> 00:51:51,035 Speaker 1: him not to be an owner in the NFL. But 755 00:51:51,115 --> 00:51:53,795 Speaker 1: the simple idea that he was a political commentator or 756 00:51:53,795 --> 00:51:57,795 Speaker 1: in this case, a propagandist who had been sent by Satan, well, 757 00:51:58,475 --> 00:52:00,675 Speaker 1: I can understand why that might piss you off, and 758 00:52:00,715 --> 00:52:02,915 Speaker 1: you would want him to be an owner in the NFL. 759 00:52:02,955 --> 00:52:05,235 Speaker 1: But that's not a good enough reason. Well that's the 760 00:52:05,275 --> 00:52:08,195 Speaker 1: way we felt back then, before everything got kind of 761 00:52:08,195 --> 00:52:11,395 Speaker 1: out of hand, because what is complained about now basically 762 00:52:11,515 --> 00:52:14,915 Speaker 1: is if you are a liberal political figure and you 763 00:52:14,995 --> 00:52:18,515 Speaker 1: happen to have some other livelihood, the right wants to 764 00:52:18,555 --> 00:52:22,075 Speaker 1: destroy that livelihood. You can't be a sportscaster who has 765 00:52:22,195 --> 00:52:25,555 Speaker 1: liberal political opinions. You're not allowed to be a sportscaster 766 00:52:25,675 --> 00:52:29,075 Speaker 1: anywhere your simple presence is some sort of expression of 767 00:52:29,115 --> 00:52:32,795 Speaker 1: liberal media. That is the way these people think, or 768 00:52:32,835 --> 00:52:35,795 Speaker 1: at least pretend to think. And I mean pretend to 769 00:52:35,795 --> 00:52:40,435 Speaker 1: think in both senses of that phrase. So as time 770 00:52:40,515 --> 00:52:43,115 Speaker 1: war on, it became more and more difficult for me 771 00:52:43,195 --> 00:52:45,795 Speaker 1: to do both the sports end of my career and 772 00:52:45,875 --> 00:52:48,595 Speaker 1: the political end of my career. And they did overlap 773 00:52:48,995 --> 00:52:52,835 Speaker 1: for a solid fifteen years, and then I went back 774 00:52:52,835 --> 00:52:56,275 Speaker 1: into sports, and then I went back into politics. And 775 00:52:56,315 --> 00:52:58,515 Speaker 1: then I went back into sports, and then I went 776 00:52:58,875 --> 00:53:02,715 Speaker 1: back into politics, and I kept them each separate. In 777 00:53:02,795 --> 00:53:06,435 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, I was working at ESPN. I did Sports 778 00:53:06,475 --> 00:53:09,995 Speaker 1: Center for ESPN. I did other programs and weekly features 779 00:53:09,995 --> 00:53:15,035 Speaker 1: for ESPN. And as the election approached, as September came around, 780 00:53:15,435 --> 00:53:17,835 Speaker 1: given the fact that there were really no sports and 781 00:53:17,875 --> 00:53:20,595 Speaker 1: there wasn't much for me to do anyway, I wanted 782 00:53:20,595 --> 00:53:24,195 Speaker 1: to comment on the upcoming election. Obviously, I wasn't going 783 00:53:24,195 --> 00:53:27,395 Speaker 1: to sit that out, and so I retired from ESPN. 784 00:53:29,075 --> 00:53:32,315 Speaker 1: In any event, that was my decision because I wanted 785 00:53:32,315 --> 00:53:34,355 Speaker 1: to keep those things separate. I felt that was nice 786 00:53:34,395 --> 00:53:36,675 Speaker 1: and clean and important for it to be that way. 787 00:53:38,115 --> 00:53:41,715 Speaker 1: The rules have changed. As I said, I'm railing against 788 00:53:41,715 --> 00:53:44,995 Speaker 1: what Steven Smith and others have been doing and with 789 00:53:45,075 --> 00:53:48,915 Speaker 1: ever increasing measures. And there are sports websites that are 790 00:53:49,435 --> 00:53:56,315 Speaker 1: essentially this spell of portnoy at Barstool. And there's another 791 00:53:56,795 --> 00:53:59,115 Speaker 1: some other Southern guy, I forget his name. He's not 792 00:53:59,235 --> 00:54:03,715 Speaker 1: particularly smart, but he's a out kick kick can whatever 793 00:54:03,755 --> 00:54:07,355 Speaker 1: it's called. That's just a right wing website that they 794 00:54:07,435 --> 00:54:09,675 Speaker 1: use sports to draw people in and suck them in. 795 00:54:10,955 --> 00:54:13,675 Speaker 1: That's not really a sports site, but it does underscore 796 00:54:13,715 --> 00:54:16,315 Speaker 1: the merging of these two things. So, having said all 797 00:54:16,355 --> 00:54:18,635 Speaker 1: of this for the last ten minutes about how we 798 00:54:18,675 --> 00:54:23,435 Speaker 1: should not put sports and news, particularly politics together anymore, 799 00:54:23,675 --> 00:54:28,795 Speaker 1: it's just not two thousand and nine, where on January twentieth, 800 00:54:29,555 --> 00:54:34,195 Speaker 1: I anchored the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of 801 00:54:34,195 --> 00:54:38,115 Speaker 1: the United States on MSNBC. That's January twentieth. January twenty seventh, 802 00:54:38,155 --> 00:54:40,595 Speaker 1: I turned fifty years old, and February first, I co 803 00:54:40,675 --> 00:54:45,355 Speaker 1: anchored the three hour pre pregame Super Bowl show. That's 804 00:54:45,595 --> 00:54:48,555 Speaker 1: quite a lot of stuff for twelve days, But the 805 00:54:48,715 --> 00:54:51,075 Speaker 1: two extremes, I think that'll be the last time you'll 806 00:54:51,115 --> 00:54:54,915 Speaker 1: see anything like that because it was pure politics in 807 00:54:54,955 --> 00:54:57,435 Speaker 1: the first and news, and then twelve days later it 808 00:54:57,475 --> 00:55:01,755 Speaker 1: was sports and my partisan and yay and flags and 809 00:55:02,435 --> 00:55:05,075 Speaker 1: flyovers and all the rest of the Super Bowl. I 810 00:55:05,115 --> 00:55:07,795 Speaker 1: think that time has gone. And having said that, I 811 00:55:07,835 --> 00:55:10,755 Speaker 1: don't expect any of you saw this. The likelihood is 812 00:55:11,075 --> 00:55:14,675 Speaker 1: probably very, very small. But I resumed my TV sports 813 00:55:14,675 --> 00:55:19,475 Speaker 1: career last week surprise. It was kind of a surprise 814 00:55:19,515 --> 00:55:22,395 Speaker 1: to me too, and it may be nothing more than 815 00:55:22,435 --> 00:55:26,155 Speaker 1: what was accomplished last week. It was done as a 816 00:55:26,355 --> 00:55:29,195 Speaker 1: very last minute idea from a friend of mine who 817 00:55:29,235 --> 00:55:32,395 Speaker 1: is now running the network called fan Dual Sports. He 818 00:55:32,475 --> 00:55:34,955 Speaker 1: asked me last week if I would be willing to 819 00:55:35,035 --> 00:55:40,555 Speaker 1: do some quick, minute and a half long essays on 820 00:55:40,795 --> 00:55:43,955 Speaker 1: what he needed to know as the generic viewer for 821 00:55:44,075 --> 00:55:47,475 Speaker 1: each of the nine teams the baseball teams that the 822 00:55:47,475 --> 00:55:52,035 Speaker 1: fandual network carries. That would be the Atlanta Braves, the 823 00:55:52,115 --> 00:55:56,275 Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds, the Miami Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays, Detroit Tigers, 824 00:55:56,395 --> 00:56:01,115 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Guardians, 825 00:56:01,155 --> 00:56:04,915 Speaker 1: and Milwaukee Brewers. Just whatever I wanted to talk about, 826 00:56:05,195 --> 00:56:08,755 Speaker 1: something serious, but something off the beaten track. And then 827 00:56:08,795 --> 00:56:10,435 Speaker 1: if I wanted to put something funny in it. That 828 00:56:10,475 --> 00:56:12,515 Speaker 1: would be fine too, write them up and send them 829 00:56:12,515 --> 00:56:15,395 Speaker 1: to me. Well that was Tuesday, and I think the 830 00:56:15,395 --> 00:56:20,555 Speaker 1: first of them aired on Thursday in the preseason specials 831 00:56:20,555 --> 00:56:24,155 Speaker 1: for these teams for Opening Day, and they were met 832 00:56:24,195 --> 00:56:29,315 Speaker 1: with absolutely no negative response. I mean, now that I'm 833 00:56:29,355 --> 00:56:33,115 Speaker 1: publicizing this, I suspect somebody will complain, but to this 834 00:56:33,275 --> 00:56:37,515 Speaker 1: point nobody said, Gee, Keith Oleruman can't also continue to 835 00:56:37,595 --> 00:56:41,195 Speaker 1: do baseball pieces. I do have some credibility on this subject. 836 00:56:41,235 --> 00:56:43,755 Speaker 1: Fan Duel counts as a network and thus is the 837 00:56:43,755 --> 00:56:47,835 Speaker 1: fifth network I have covered baseball for. I have hosted 838 00:56:47,875 --> 00:56:52,195 Speaker 1: the World Series and for two of them NBC and Fox, 839 00:56:52,275 --> 00:56:55,795 Speaker 1: and added in for Turner the hosting of the postseason. 840 00:56:56,075 --> 00:56:58,875 Speaker 1: I've done play by play of baseball for ESPN and 841 00:56:59,195 --> 00:57:03,595 Speaker 1: now this work for FanDuel, and I reported from dugouts 842 00:57:03,635 --> 00:57:07,275 Speaker 1: in World Series, have been in World Series games per se, 843 00:57:07,315 --> 00:57:09,235 Speaker 1: in the postgame interviews and all the rest of that. 844 00:57:09,635 --> 00:57:12,195 Speaker 1: And I'm a baseball historian. I've been a member of 845 00:57:12,195 --> 00:57:15,835 Speaker 1: the Society for American Baseball Research since nineteen eighty four 846 00:57:16,235 --> 00:57:19,835 Speaker 1: and been associated with them since nineteen seventy three. So 847 00:57:19,915 --> 00:57:24,275 Speaker 1: I have some chops on baseball that perhaps stand alone 848 00:57:24,315 --> 00:57:27,275 Speaker 1: from the rest of my sports experience in any event, though, 849 00:57:27,315 --> 00:57:31,395 Speaker 1: I was hesitant to merge these two streams to use 850 00:57:31,435 --> 00:57:34,155 Speaker 1: a ghostbuster's analogy, And then as I was sitting there 851 00:57:34,195 --> 00:57:37,435 Speaker 1: listening to myself complaining about Steven A. Smith, it dawned 852 00:57:37,435 --> 00:57:40,035 Speaker 1: on me that the rules I was trying to enforce 853 00:57:40,115 --> 00:57:43,555 Speaker 1: on them no longer were being applied to anybody. So, 854 00:57:43,635 --> 00:57:46,315 Speaker 1: after a moment's hesitation whether or not I should do this, 855 00:57:46,715 --> 00:57:49,595 Speaker 1: I said, why not? Why should I apply those rules 856 00:57:49,595 --> 00:57:52,435 Speaker 1: to me when I am meticulous about keeping the two 857 00:57:52,475 --> 00:57:57,155 Speaker 1: things separate anyway, And all this rule does when I 858 00:57:57,195 --> 00:57:59,995 Speaker 1: apply it to myself, which is you're not going to 859 00:57:59,995 --> 00:58:03,555 Speaker 1: talk about sports while you're talking about politics nominally, and 860 00:58:03,595 --> 00:58:05,555 Speaker 1: you're certainly not going to talk about politics while you're 861 00:58:05,595 --> 00:58:11,355 Speaker 1: doing sports. Always religiously that those rules are long gone, 862 00:58:11,795 --> 00:58:14,075 Speaker 1: and the next one in which Steven A. Smith can 863 00:58:14,115 --> 00:58:17,675 Speaker 1: go on ESPN and demand that Trump debate him, if 864 00:58:17,675 --> 00:58:20,235 Speaker 1: that's the rules, my doing a feature piece on whether 865 00:58:20,315 --> 00:58:22,155 Speaker 1: or not Mike Trout is going to be healthy this 866 00:58:22,235 --> 00:58:25,075 Speaker 1: year for the Los Angeles Angels is not much of 867 00:58:25,115 --> 00:58:27,995 Speaker 1: a violation, and it would make for a nice break 868 00:58:28,555 --> 00:58:32,635 Speaker 1: because frankly, doing these pieces as valuable as I understand 869 00:58:32,635 --> 00:58:36,595 Speaker 1: they are to you, and as cathartic as they are 870 00:58:36,635 --> 00:58:40,475 Speaker 1: often to me, they still are, like, you know, gargling uranium. 871 00:58:40,755 --> 00:58:43,715 Speaker 1: And it's nice to do something other than gargle uranium 872 00:58:43,715 --> 00:58:45,595 Speaker 1: every once in a while and to just try to 873 00:58:45,635 --> 00:58:48,315 Speaker 1: figure out what are the most interesting five things about 874 00:58:48,355 --> 00:58:51,235 Speaker 1: each of these baseball teams. It was kind of fun. 875 00:58:52,075 --> 00:58:54,115 Speaker 1: I mean, I got to do a couple of good jokes. 876 00:58:54,315 --> 00:58:56,395 Speaker 1: I got to say farewell to Bob Buker on the 877 00:58:56,475 --> 00:58:59,835 Speaker 1: air in Milwaukee, which pleased me very much. I got 878 00:58:59,875 --> 00:59:03,955 Speaker 1: to talk about whether or not my old friend Tito Francona, 879 00:59:04,075 --> 00:59:07,115 Speaker 1: the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, would have taken that 880 00:59:07,235 --> 00:59:09,355 Speaker 1: job if he didn't think the Cincinnati Reds were going 881 00:59:09,395 --> 00:59:11,955 Speaker 1: to be winners. And I got to make a joke 882 00:59:11,995 --> 00:59:15,595 Speaker 1: about the Detroit Tiger young star Colt Keith and whether 883 00:59:15,675 --> 00:59:17,755 Speaker 1: or not he could pull off his move from playing 884 00:59:17,755 --> 00:59:20,355 Speaker 1: second base to playing first base. And I noted that 885 00:59:20,395 --> 00:59:23,075 Speaker 1: there's one thing that you should know that perhaps nobody 886 00:59:23,075 --> 00:59:26,475 Speaker 1: but me would know that only five times have World 887 00:59:26,595 --> 00:59:31,995 Speaker 1: Series winning teams in baseball history featured a player named Keith. 888 00:59:33,395 --> 00:59:37,035 Speaker 1: So this has been done. The rubicon has been crossed. 889 00:59:37,115 --> 00:59:43,075 Speaker 1: I am continuing to do these political broadcasts, podcasts, political appearances, 890 00:59:43,235 --> 00:59:49,035 Speaker 1: political commentary, social media commentary full of swear words, and 891 00:59:49,115 --> 00:59:54,275 Speaker 1: yet over here I am now part of the legendary 892 00:59:54,915 --> 00:59:58,835 Speaker 1: pre season baseball coverage at yet another television network. As 893 00:59:58,875 --> 01:00:01,555 Speaker 1: I said that maybe it it may have been a 894 01:00:01,555 --> 01:00:05,515 Speaker 1: one shot deal. There were no expectations on either end. 895 01:00:06,435 --> 01:00:08,475 Speaker 1: He just wanted these pieces. He thought they'd make the 896 01:00:08,715 --> 01:00:12,275 Speaker 1: better broadcast, which is a good enough reason. And you know, 897 01:00:13,595 --> 01:00:15,235 Speaker 1: I didn't have to leave the house, and they paid me. 898 01:00:15,795 --> 01:00:20,235 Speaker 1: So it's baseball. It's not exactly heavy lifting for me, 899 01:00:20,515 --> 01:00:24,355 Speaker 1: and it was nice to use those mental muscles once again. 900 01:00:24,875 --> 01:00:28,435 Speaker 1: But it does underscore this idea of where are we 901 01:00:28,635 --> 01:00:32,995 Speaker 1: going if we are going to have a rule in 902 01:00:33,035 --> 01:00:35,915 Speaker 1: which you can say anything you want to on any 903 01:00:35,955 --> 01:00:40,915 Speaker 1: television network and drag politics into it and not provide anybody, 904 01:00:40,995 --> 01:00:45,355 Speaker 1: including me and you, somewhere safe to go where we 905 01:00:45,435 --> 01:00:49,835 Speaker 1: are not likely to be chased by Donald Trump, because that, 906 01:00:50,075 --> 01:00:53,795 Speaker 1: of course, is the essence of being Donald Trump. I'm 907 01:00:53,795 --> 01:00:57,995 Speaker 1: trying to remember who it was, whether it was Roger Angel. 908 01:00:58,155 --> 01:00:59,915 Speaker 1: I think it may have been Roger Angel, the great 909 01:00:59,955 --> 01:01:02,795 Speaker 1: baseball writer who said during the Ken Burns documentary that 910 01:01:02,835 --> 01:01:05,195 Speaker 1: when he went to a New York Yankees game, whether 911 01:01:05,235 --> 01:01:07,915 Speaker 1: he was literally there or simply thinking about the Yankees, 912 01:01:08,075 --> 01:01:10,115 Speaker 1: every time he tried to look at the team, he 913 01:01:10,155 --> 01:01:13,435 Speaker 1: would see the owner, George Steinbrenner, stand up in front 914 01:01:13,435 --> 01:01:16,075 Speaker 1: of his view and start screaming and saying, no, listen 915 01:01:16,115 --> 01:01:19,315 Speaker 1: to me, listen to me. Well, that's a characteristic that 916 01:01:19,355 --> 01:01:22,035 Speaker 1: happens to be true of Trump. Obviously, it's far more 917 01:01:22,115 --> 01:01:24,875 Speaker 1: dangerous in a man who happens to be the commander 918 01:01:24,915 --> 01:01:27,675 Speaker 1: in chief of a large military and is out of 919 01:01:27,675 --> 01:01:31,355 Speaker 1: his mind and is being treated as he is out 920 01:01:31,355 --> 01:01:34,355 Speaker 1: of his mind by his colleagues who are working every 921 01:01:34,435 --> 01:01:36,915 Speaker 1: day to find new roots around him. It's a very 922 01:01:36,995 --> 01:01:40,515 Speaker 1: dangerous situation, and we really shouldn't spend too much time 923 01:01:40,915 --> 01:01:46,115 Speaker 1: not watching what the f this lunatic bastard is doing next. However, 924 01:01:46,715 --> 01:01:50,835 Speaker 1: I think it would be okay if we all went 925 01:01:51,115 --> 01:01:55,435 Speaker 1: for two hours over into a sporting event or into 926 01:01:55,475 --> 01:01:58,915 Speaker 1: a movie and felt fairly sure we were not going 927 01:01:58,955 --> 01:02:01,315 Speaker 1: to be unless we thought in advance we would be 928 01:02:02,475 --> 01:02:07,475 Speaker 1: attacked by news of Trump and Trump's people. Maybe that 929 01:02:07,515 --> 01:02:09,875 Speaker 1: gives them a two hour head start. I don't know, 930 01:02:10,235 --> 01:02:13,555 Speaker 1: I do know if we attempt to continue to cover 931 01:02:13,875 --> 01:02:17,955 Speaker 1: this in our own minds, you and me, NonStop without 932 01:02:17,995 --> 01:02:20,955 Speaker 1: a break, without something else, the top of my head's 933 01:02:20,995 --> 01:02:23,155 Speaker 1: bound to blow off at some point. And I don't 934 01:02:23,195 --> 01:02:25,355 Speaker 1: mean somebody's going to make it happen. I'm not suggesting 935 01:02:25,355 --> 01:02:27,195 Speaker 1: they're out to get me. I'm just saying that the 936 01:02:27,195 --> 01:02:29,195 Speaker 1: pressure inside is going to blow the roof off of 937 01:02:29,235 --> 01:02:31,875 Speaker 1: my head. Now it may fall back into place, and 938 01:02:31,915 --> 01:02:35,395 Speaker 1: I have some good gorilla glue in the garage, maybe 939 01:02:35,435 --> 01:02:40,595 Speaker 1: I can use that. I'm just saying I put out 940 01:02:40,595 --> 01:02:44,155 Speaker 1: a steadfast rule that the time had gone when we 941 01:02:44,195 --> 01:02:49,395 Speaker 1: could ever have a sportscaster and a political commentator in 942 01:02:49,475 --> 01:02:53,035 Speaker 1: the same being in the public space in the United 943 01:02:53,035 --> 01:02:56,955 Speaker 1: States of America. And when I said that, I meant 944 01:02:57,195 --> 01:03:01,915 Speaker 1: there were degrees to that. I meant politics and sports 945 01:03:01,915 --> 01:03:05,915 Speaker 1: on the sports network. That's no good. This other one 946 01:03:05,915 --> 01:03:09,635 Speaker 1: where the guy does the Hair on Fire political podcast 947 01:03:09,675 --> 01:03:12,875 Speaker 1: about Trump twice a week or more and then does 948 01:03:12,915 --> 01:03:16,435 Speaker 1: a feature on how many guys named Keith have ever 949 01:03:16,755 --> 01:03:19,475 Speaker 1: played on a World Series winning team. I am now 950 01:03:19,475 --> 01:03:24,675 Speaker 1: officially declaring that that's not only okay, but it was 951 01:03:24,715 --> 01:03:40,395 Speaker 1: actually pretty effing funny. I've done all the damage I 952 01:03:40,475 --> 01:03:42,955 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Brian Ray and 953 01:03:42,995 --> 01:03:46,355 Speaker 1: John Phillips Shanel, the musical directors have countdown, arranged, produced 954 01:03:46,395 --> 01:03:49,275 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle had old 955 01:03:49,315 --> 01:03:52,515 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass 956 01:03:52,515 --> 01:03:55,235 Speaker 1: and drums, and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our 957 01:03:55,275 --> 01:03:58,275 Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball 958 01:03:58,315 --> 01:04:01,555 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is the 959 01:04:01,595 --> 01:04:08,475 Speaker 1: old Woman theme from ESPN two, Who's This over Moon Anyway? 960 01:04:08,515 --> 01:04:11,715 Speaker 1: It was written by Mitch Warren Davis. I can pronounce 961 01:04:11,755 --> 01:04:15,435 Speaker 1: his name, and its courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music 962 01:04:15,515 --> 01:04:17,755 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My 963 01:04:17,795 --> 01:04:20,995 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend Dennis Leary, who succeeded in 964 01:04:21,075 --> 01:04:24,355 Speaker 1: pronouncing my name. Everything else was, as ever, my fault. 965 01:04:26,675 --> 01:04:29,675 Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, just three hundred and ninety two 966 01:04:29,755 --> 01:04:32,355 Speaker 1: days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and 967 01:04:32,435 --> 01:04:36,875 Speaker 1: lame brained term, unless Musk removes him sooner, or the 968 01:04:36,915 --> 01:04:41,835 Speaker 1: actuarial tables do, or the corporations do. The next scheduled 969 01:04:41,835 --> 01:04:45,475 Speaker 1: countdown is Thursday. As always bulletins as the news warrants. 970 01:04:45,915 --> 01:04:48,715 Speaker 1: Remember in peach Trump. It won't work now. It will 971 01:04:48,795 --> 01:04:52,955 Speaker 1: though when the Democrats the mid terms. If there are midterms, 972 01:04:53,675 --> 01:04:57,355 Speaker 1: if the Democrats are going to show up, put out 973 01:04:57,355 --> 01:05:01,955 Speaker 1: an APB for Chuck Schumer. No, don't until next time. 974 01:05:01,955 --> 01:05:06,395 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Oulderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goode, and good luck. 975 01:05:23,595 --> 01:05:27,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 976 01:05:27,755 --> 01:05:32,635 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 977 01:05:32,915 --> 01:05:34,875 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.