1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,835 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. One 2 00:00:21,915 --> 00:00:26,315 Speaker 1: of Trump's attorneys, the Parking Lot One, seems to have 3 00:00:26,435 --> 00:00:30,915 Speaker 1: encouraged Trump's cultists to believe that the Secret Service might 4 00:00:31,035 --> 00:00:34,795 Speaker 1: intervene to prevent Trump's arrest if he is ordered to 5 00:00:34,915 --> 00:00:39,835 Speaker 1: jail for contempt of court whenever he finally fully violates 6 00:00:40,235 --> 00:00:44,795 Speaker 1: one of the many gag orders. This is from Newsmax 7 00:00:44,955 --> 00:00:49,235 Speaker 1: last night. The Trump flunky Alina Haba is pretending to 8 00:00:49,235 --> 00:00:53,315 Speaker 1: be the news interviewee and attorney, and the Trump flunky 9 00:00:53,395 --> 00:00:57,715 Speaker 1: Carl Higbee is pretending to be the news interviewer. Could 10 00:00:57,715 --> 00:00:59,835 Speaker 1: they even possibly throw them jail? What would that look like? 11 00:01:01,075 --> 00:01:04,235 Speaker 2: He's protected by Secret Service, period, So I always tell 12 00:01:04,275 --> 00:01:06,635 Speaker 2: people and their panic listen, he's protected by Secret Service 13 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:08,995 Speaker 2: number one, number two. He did nothing wrong. So when 14 00:01:09,035 --> 00:01:11,395 Speaker 2: people go to jails because they've done something wrong, do 15 00:01:11,475 --> 00:01:14,795 Speaker 2: we have crooked situations in and out of court? Absolutely? 16 00:01:14,875 --> 00:01:18,075 Speaker 2: Could they try, probably, but it won't work because there 17 00:01:18,195 --> 00:01:22,355 Speaker 2: is still trial process, there is still facts, and unfortunately 18 00:01:22,355 --> 00:01:25,195 Speaker 2: they're not going to win on the facts. Secret Service 19 00:01:25,195 --> 00:01:27,955 Speaker 2: will always protect President Trump. That's the truth. They have 20 00:01:28,035 --> 00:01:31,435 Speaker 2: to wherever he is. But it's not even something we 21 00:01:31,515 --> 00:01:34,875 Speaker 2: think about, to be honest, because this is all political, 22 00:01:35,035 --> 00:01:38,155 Speaker 2: it's really not. There's no criminal acts that he's done. 23 00:01:38,275 --> 00:01:41,155 Speaker 2: There's no civil wrongs that he's done, unless making money 24 00:01:41,155 --> 00:01:43,155 Speaker 2: for banks is a civil wrong. All of a sudden, 25 00:01:43,315 --> 00:01:46,075 Speaker 2: Orange man bad, I mean, that's ter It's Trump arrangement 26 00:01:46,155 --> 00:01:48,715 Speaker 2: syndrome at its best. I'm not worried about him. He's 27 00:01:48,795 --> 00:01:51,555 Speaker 2: not worried, and the American public shouldn't be worried. He's 28 00:01:51,595 --> 00:01:52,715 Speaker 2: succeeding for a reason. 29 00:01:53,235 --> 00:01:55,275 Speaker 1: Well, I will dare this judge to try to throw 30 00:01:55,315 --> 00:01:56,035 Speaker 1: them in jails again. 31 00:01:56,075 --> 00:01:58,075 Speaker 2: First Amendment. First Amendment is a thing. 32 00:01:58,395 --> 00:02:01,475 Speaker 1: The first time I heard that, I thought Alina Haba 33 00:02:01,795 --> 00:02:05,835 Speaker 1: was definitively saying that his secrets are detail would protect 34 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:10,835 Speaker 1: Trump from being arrested. Now, having listened to it multiple times, 35 00:02:10,915 --> 00:02:13,435 Speaker 1: I think that while she has proven for her fourteen 36 00:02:13,435 --> 00:02:16,315 Speaker 1: months plus in the limelight that she is a raging idiot, 37 00:02:16,635 --> 00:02:20,595 Speaker 1: she is not actually expressing her idiocy by issuing some 38 00:02:20,635 --> 00:02:23,635 Speaker 1: sort of passive aggressive warning to the nation that the 39 00:02:23,715 --> 00:02:27,595 Speaker 1: Secret Service officers would try to obstruct the court officers 40 00:02:27,755 --> 00:02:31,955 Speaker 1: from detaining Trump, which they would not, even if a 41 00:02:31,995 --> 00:02:35,755 Speaker 1: scenario required a negotiated apprehension. Or a surrender, and Trump 42 00:02:35,835 --> 00:02:38,875 Speaker 1: somehow pulled an OJ Simpson and he tried to flee. 43 00:02:39,875 --> 00:02:43,435 Speaker 1: But I think she is trying to leave that exact 44 00:02:43,635 --> 00:02:48,795 Speaker 1: impression within the Trump cult. Don't worry. They can't arrest 45 00:02:48,875 --> 00:02:55,235 Speaker 1: him cause Secret Service, and in this nation reduced to 46 00:02:55,275 --> 00:02:59,475 Speaker 1: a tinderbox full of stochastic terrorists programmed by Trump and 47 00:02:59,515 --> 00:03:03,875 Speaker 1: his followers, it is still goddamned dangerous to do even that. 48 00:03:05,115 --> 00:03:09,235 Speaker 1: Note that Elena Haba, when asked about Trump going to prison, 49 00:03:09,635 --> 00:03:13,635 Speaker 1: chooses to say first he's protected by Secret Service. She 50 00:03:13,715 --> 00:03:16,795 Speaker 1: says it twice and only then does she claim he 51 00:03:16,875 --> 00:03:19,755 Speaker 1: did nothing wrong, and then she goes back to the 52 00:03:19,795 --> 00:03:23,355 Speaker 1: Secret Service will always protect him. Well, a third time. 53 00:03:23,235 --> 00:03:26,075 Speaker 2: Secret Service will always protect President Trump. That's the truth 54 00:03:26,275 --> 00:03:28,075 Speaker 2: they have to wherever he is. 55 00:03:28,235 --> 00:03:33,675 Speaker 1: In reality, even Trump would be smart enough to Okay, 56 00:03:33,795 --> 00:03:37,955 Speaker 1: even Trump would probably be smart enough to realize that no, 57 00:03:38,875 --> 00:03:43,035 Speaker 1: a shootout between court officers and Secret Service with him 58 00:03:43,195 --> 00:03:48,195 Speaker 1: in the middle would actually not be a smart fundraising strategy. 59 00:03:48,995 --> 00:03:52,075 Speaker 1: Trump and probably even Haba are likely to be aware 60 00:03:52,115 --> 00:03:54,835 Speaker 1: that Secret Service works for homeland security, and in the 61 00:03:54,835 --> 00:03:58,515 Speaker 1: event of any real confrontation, if Trump shouted to his detail, 62 00:03:58,875 --> 00:04:01,555 Speaker 1: are you with me, boys, he would turn around to 63 00:04:01,595 --> 00:04:04,235 Speaker 1: find that there was nobody behind him. Should to check 64 00:04:04,235 --> 00:04:06,355 Speaker 1: the schedule? They all have the day off. Some sort 65 00:04:06,355 --> 00:04:08,635 Speaker 1: of screw up in human wor resources. What are you 66 00:04:08,675 --> 00:04:12,635 Speaker 1: gonna do? Whatever the purpose of trying to convince the 67 00:04:12,635 --> 00:04:15,795 Speaker 1: Trump morons that the Secret Service is some sort of magic, 68 00:04:15,875 --> 00:04:21,355 Speaker 1: impenetrable shield that will always protect Trump, Haba is clearly 69 00:04:21,435 --> 00:04:24,435 Speaker 1: dumb enough here to think that if Trump were actually 70 00:04:24,475 --> 00:04:28,035 Speaker 1: sentenced to prison just for violating the gag order, that 71 00:04:28,075 --> 00:04:32,435 Speaker 1: the Secret Service would go with him into the prison 72 00:04:33,035 --> 00:04:36,155 Speaker 1: like the slaves of the dead Pharaohs used to go 73 00:04:36,235 --> 00:04:41,755 Speaker 1: with them to the Great Beyond. Spoiler alert, They wouldn't. 74 00:04:42,195 --> 00:04:46,915 Speaker 1: A jailed ex president would unquestionably get additional security in jail, 75 00:04:47,435 --> 00:04:49,755 Speaker 1: but it will not be a couple of Secret Service 76 00:04:49,835 --> 00:04:54,155 Speaker 1: rookies who drew the short straw. And then, on a 77 00:04:54,275 --> 00:04:57,635 Speaker 1: final and entirely separate note, there are several other people 78 00:04:57,635 --> 00:05:01,195 Speaker 1: who have heard or will hear that interview with Haba 79 00:05:01,235 --> 00:05:04,755 Speaker 1: and will completely ignore the secret Service stuff and and 80 00:05:04,795 --> 00:05:08,915 Speaker 1: the usual not guilty First Amendment bluster. This group would 81 00:05:08,915 --> 00:05:13,195 Speaker 1: include Judge Chutkin and Judge Engern and Judge McAfee, maybe 82 00:05:13,275 --> 00:05:16,395 Speaker 1: even Judge Cannon, and certainly Jack Smith and his team, 83 00:05:16,555 --> 00:05:19,675 Speaker 1: and Fannie Willis and hers and Letitia James and hers, 84 00:05:19,955 --> 00:05:22,995 Speaker 1: and what they heard was this, it's. 85 00:05:22,795 --> 00:05:25,315 Speaker 2: Not even something we think about, to be honest, because 86 00:05:25,955 --> 00:05:29,315 Speaker 2: this is all political. It's really not. There's no criminal 87 00:05:29,395 --> 00:05:32,555 Speaker 2: acts that he's done, there's no civil wrongs that he's done. 88 00:05:32,635 --> 00:05:36,475 Speaker 1: What the judges and prosecutors heard there was Alena Habba 89 00:05:36,595 --> 00:05:39,875 Speaker 1: saying that she and her client do not take the 90 00:05:40,035 --> 00:05:44,315 Speaker 1: terms of his release on bail seriously. They never think 91 00:05:44,355 --> 00:05:47,075 Speaker 1: he might actually wind up in jail for violating them. 92 00:05:47,475 --> 00:05:50,315 Speaker 1: And then they heard a frequent Trump surrogate in this 93 00:05:50,395 --> 00:05:53,835 Speaker 1: clown Higbee, saying at the end, I will dare this 94 00:05:53,955 --> 00:05:57,835 Speaker 1: judge to try to throw him in jail. See from 95 00:05:58,275 --> 00:06:02,555 Speaker 1: what little I know about judges, I've heard that they 96 00:06:02,595 --> 00:06:10,195 Speaker 1: don't like to be dared. Meanwhile, on the dementia Jay 97 00:06:10,235 --> 00:06:14,035 Speaker 1: Trumps scoreboard, he did it again. He has no idea 98 00:06:14,075 --> 00:06:19,075 Speaker 1: what day or what year it is. The day part first. 99 00:06:19,475 --> 00:06:21,915 Speaker 1: Last night at eight seventeen, he posted another one of 100 00:06:21,955 --> 00:06:26,715 Speaker 1: those monotone videos, but it had this weird climax. This 101 00:06:26,835 --> 00:06:29,395 Speaker 1: truly is our final chance to save America. 102 00:06:29,475 --> 00:06:32,635 Speaker 2: And with the twenty twenty four election now less than 103 00:06:32,675 --> 00:06:33,515 Speaker 2: one year away. 104 00:06:34,595 --> 00:06:37,555 Speaker 1: No, Sonny, it's not less than one year away. I mean, 105 00:06:37,835 --> 00:06:41,675 Speaker 1: I mean you're close. It's a year from this coming Sunday. 106 00:06:43,675 --> 00:06:46,235 Speaker 1: But dear listener, if you were asked what day it 107 00:06:46,475 --> 00:06:51,475 Speaker 1: was and you got it wrong by five days and 108 00:06:51,515 --> 00:06:54,275 Speaker 1: you weren't just coming up out of a coma or something, 109 00:06:54,555 --> 00:06:57,435 Speaker 1: your relatives might peel out of the room in order 110 00:06:57,515 --> 00:07:00,115 Speaker 1: to try to get you professional help as quickly as possible. 111 00:07:01,075 --> 00:07:03,275 Speaker 1: As to the wrong year part, he did that again 112 00:07:03,355 --> 00:07:06,875 Speaker 1: and again, provided compelling proof that his mind is cracking. 113 00:07:07,595 --> 00:07:11,115 Speaker 1: And this has a delightful bonus surprise to it, evidence 114 00:07:11,435 --> 00:07:15,475 Speaker 1: of insomnia. It was just a pair down. He really 115 00:07:15,515 --> 00:07:19,755 Speaker 1: can be terrified sometimes twenty seven words salvo. But boy, 116 00:07:19,795 --> 00:07:23,115 Speaker 1: oh boy, does it underscore one point that Trump is 117 00:07:23,235 --> 00:07:26,715 Speaker 1: clearly detaching from the easiest parts of reality, you know, 118 00:07:27,555 --> 00:07:31,275 Speaker 1: the when it is and the where you are parts. 119 00:07:32,275 --> 00:07:36,315 Speaker 1: At one twelve am Eastern, he posted quote Biden and 120 00:07:36,395 --> 00:07:39,435 Speaker 1: his radical left thugs waited three years to bring these 121 00:07:39,475 --> 00:07:43,115 Speaker 1: indictments unquote, and this cannot be overstated. One of three 122 00:07:43,155 --> 00:07:46,955 Speaker 1: things is wrong with him here. He either thinks we're 123 00:07:46,955 --> 00:07:51,355 Speaker 1: currently in the year twenty twenty four, or he doesn't 124 00:07:51,395 --> 00:07:56,115 Speaker 1: remember that he was president three years ago, or he 125 00:07:56,235 --> 00:08:02,115 Speaker 1: can't successfully subtract three from twenty twenty three. Again, he 126 00:08:02,235 --> 00:08:05,915 Speaker 1: posts that message at one of them, but then he 127 00:08:06,035 --> 00:08:09,475 Speaker 1: reposts it three hours later at four to twenty four am. 128 00:08:09,555 --> 00:08:12,435 Speaker 1: And before you normalize that and you say that's nothing 129 00:08:12,555 --> 00:08:15,755 Speaker 1: special for Trump, just a reminder that the new barometer 130 00:08:15,835 --> 00:08:19,155 Speaker 1: here is a simple one. If Joe Biden were crazy 131 00:08:19,235 --> 00:08:22,115 Speaker 1: enough to have started his own social media site just 132 00:08:22,155 --> 00:08:26,715 Speaker 1: to allow himself to post crazy stuff and read only 133 00:08:26,755 --> 00:08:30,075 Speaker 1: adoring stroking from the members of his cults, and he 134 00:08:30,155 --> 00:08:33,355 Speaker 1: posted the same crazy thing twice in three hours in 135 00:08:33,435 --> 00:08:36,835 Speaker 1: the middle of the night, getting the year wrong, what 136 00:08:36,955 --> 00:08:40,115 Speaker 1: would they be saying about Joe Biden? Not what would 137 00:08:40,235 --> 00:08:42,635 Speaker 1: Fox be saying about Joe Biden, but what would the 138 00:08:43,035 --> 00:08:47,755 Speaker 1: both sidest times and posts and networks be saying about Biden. 139 00:08:49,315 --> 00:08:52,035 Speaker 1: The point of this, again, if you missed yesterday's edition, 140 00:08:52,595 --> 00:08:55,875 Speaker 1: is about two startling polls, one from Pennsylvania last week 141 00:08:55,875 --> 00:08:58,875 Speaker 1: and another nationally by the Associated Press from August, the 142 00:08:59,075 --> 00:09:02,075 Speaker 1: unmistakable conclusion of which is that there will actually be 143 00:09:02,235 --> 00:09:05,195 Speaker 1: only two groups of voters in twenty two twenty four. 144 00:09:06,115 --> 00:09:09,155 Speaker 1: You know, a year from Sunday, the forty three percent 145 00:09:09,195 --> 00:09:12,075 Speaker 1: who think that both Trump and Biden are too old, 146 00:09:12,475 --> 00:09:17,435 Speaker 1: and the fifty seven percent who are everybody else, And 147 00:09:17,515 --> 00:09:21,155 Speaker 1: as counterintuitive as it sounds, the everybody else, the ones 148 00:09:21,195 --> 00:09:23,915 Speaker 1: who think Biden is too old and Trump isn't, the 149 00:09:23,915 --> 00:09:26,675 Speaker 1: ones who think neither are too old, the ones who 150 00:09:26,755 --> 00:09:31,755 Speaker 1: support RFK Junior because they're firmly convinced he's actually JFK Junior. 151 00:09:32,435 --> 00:09:36,795 Speaker 1: Everybody else, they are nearly evenly split on who they 152 00:09:36,795 --> 00:09:40,195 Speaker 1: are going to vote for, or they are leaning towards 153 00:09:40,195 --> 00:09:43,115 Speaker 1: Trump by varying margins depending on the state a point 154 00:09:43,235 --> 00:09:46,635 Speaker 1: two points, maybe five six seven in some of the 155 00:09:46,675 --> 00:09:50,755 Speaker 1: red states, and the other forty three percent who believe 156 00:09:51,195 --> 00:09:54,395 Speaker 1: they are both too old are going to vote Biden 157 00:09:54,675 --> 00:10:00,275 Speaker 1: by sixty one to fifteen. In Pennsylvania, it's sixty six 158 00:10:00,355 --> 00:10:03,115 Speaker 1: to eleven as of last week. So if you can 159 00:10:03,195 --> 00:10:05,875 Speaker 1: pump up the number of voters who believe they are 160 00:10:06,075 --> 00:10:09,675 Speaker 1: both too old, even just from you know, forty three 161 00:10:09,715 --> 00:10:11,795 Speaker 1: percent to forty eight percent, you've got the makings of 162 00:10:11,835 --> 00:10:16,955 Speaker 1: a Biden landslide, even if every single undecided in the 163 00:10:17,155 --> 00:10:20,235 Speaker 1: both are too old group were to break for Trump. 164 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:23,875 Speaker 1: So the strategy has to be to make a headline 165 00:10:24,075 --> 00:10:28,195 Speaker 1: out of every Trump gaff and every Trump bit of confusion, 166 00:10:28,355 --> 00:10:31,515 Speaker 1: and everything that we have come to accept as Trump's 167 00:10:31,755 --> 00:10:36,835 Speaker 1: baseline mental incompetence. There are lots of subtexts to this 168 00:10:36,995 --> 00:10:42,395 Speaker 1: new key American voting block Agists United, but the key 169 00:10:42,555 --> 00:10:45,675 Speaker 1: is that they are not exclusively Democrats, and there is 170 00:10:45,995 --> 00:10:49,435 Speaker 1: lots of room to grow them among soft Republicans at 171 00:10:49,515 --> 00:10:54,395 Speaker 1: especially independence and the only vaguely political who know that 172 00:10:54,435 --> 00:10:57,035 Speaker 1: the election is important, but will be damned if they 173 00:10:57,075 --> 00:11:01,395 Speaker 1: know why. Thus we cannot just skate past these little 174 00:11:01,435 --> 00:11:05,595 Speaker 1: things anymore. The likely Republican nominee were president of the 175 00:11:05,675 --> 00:11:09,755 Speaker 1: United States, no matter how used to his madness we 176 00:11:09,835 --> 00:11:14,315 Speaker 1: may have gotten, was up at quarter past one in 177 00:11:14,355 --> 00:11:18,355 Speaker 1: the middle of the night, went on social media, posted 178 00:11:18,475 --> 00:11:23,115 Speaker 1: paranoid inanities, and in the process got the year we 179 00:11:23,195 --> 00:11:27,435 Speaker 1: are living in wrong. And then three hours later he 180 00:11:27,555 --> 00:11:32,035 Speaker 1: was up, up again, up still, and he decided he 181 00:11:32,075 --> 00:11:35,715 Speaker 1: had not yelled loudly enough at that cloud, so he 182 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:38,795 Speaker 1: reposted his inanities and still did not notice or did 183 00:11:38,835 --> 00:11:46,355 Speaker 1: not care, that he got the year wrong. Donald Trump 184 00:11:46,435 --> 00:11:49,435 Speaker 1: is too old. We're not talking about Biden. Now. You 185 00:11:49,435 --> 00:11:51,875 Speaker 1: think whatever you want to about Biden's age, they're both 186 00:11:51,915 --> 00:11:54,835 Speaker 1: too old. Fine whatever, welcome to the club. Sign here. 187 00:11:56,275 --> 00:11:58,235 Speaker 1: And if the Biden campaign does not want to play 188 00:11:58,235 --> 00:11:59,835 Speaker 1: this game, if they do not want to run with 189 00:11:59,915 --> 00:12:02,755 Speaker 1: my idea of the slogan, my old man can beat 190 00:12:02,795 --> 00:12:05,195 Speaker 1: up your old man because they think if they ignore it, 191 00:12:05,235 --> 00:12:07,755 Speaker 1: maybe on his birthday this month Joe will turn seventy 192 00:12:07,835 --> 00:12:10,395 Speaker 1: nine instead of eighty one. We'll find they don't have 193 00:12:10,475 --> 00:12:15,755 Speaker 1: to carry the message. Everybody else can do it for them. Sure, 194 00:12:15,835 --> 00:12:19,595 Speaker 1: they're both too old, so that allows you to go 195 00:12:19,675 --> 00:12:22,475 Speaker 1: back to judge who you're voting for on which one 196 00:12:22,515 --> 00:12:31,275 Speaker 1: is old and which one is old and crazy and evil. 197 00:12:37,915 --> 00:12:41,755 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust to the House now and anybody 198 00:12:41,795 --> 00:12:45,035 Speaker 1: else got an ineffable sensation that Speaker Mike Johnson is 199 00:12:45,075 --> 00:12:48,715 Speaker 1: not going to last till Christmas. It is perhaps the 200 00:12:48,715 --> 00:12:52,355 Speaker 1: political definition of our time that only an obscure and 201 00:12:52,715 --> 00:12:56,755 Speaker 1: non vetted backbencher with a name that sounds like an 202 00:12:56,915 --> 00:13:02,195 Speaker 1: unimaginative alias for a registered sex offender could manage to 203 00:13:02,235 --> 00:13:07,035 Speaker 1: get elected anything within the collect of boxing hoboes that 204 00:13:07,195 --> 00:13:11,995 Speaker 1: comprises the House Republican Caucus. But that comes with the 205 00:13:12,035 --> 00:13:16,315 Speaker 1: potential time bomb that he's unvetted, not because there's nothing 206 00:13:16,435 --> 00:13:19,355 Speaker 1: to vet, but simply because he had hidden it well 207 00:13:19,755 --> 00:13:23,595 Speaker 1: or they just hadn't gotten around to him yet. The 208 00:13:23,635 --> 00:13:27,315 Speaker 1: stuff coming out about the fifth string Speaker is amazing, 209 00:13:27,355 --> 00:13:30,395 Speaker 1: I mean amazing, even for a Republican, even for a 210 00:13:30,555 --> 00:13:35,035 Speaker 1: Bible thumping Republican. First thing Mike Johnson did after election 211 00:13:35,195 --> 00:13:37,875 Speaker 1: was to say God put him there. I mean, insisting 212 00:13:37,915 --> 00:13:40,675 Speaker 1: the Almighty voted for you is okay, I guess if 213 00:13:40,675 --> 00:13:43,675 Speaker 1: you are the comic relief Mayor of New York. But 214 00:13:43,755 --> 00:13:46,515 Speaker 1: it could be politically dangerous if you are a new 215 00:13:46,595 --> 00:13:49,155 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House who was obviously placed there not 216 00:13:49,235 --> 00:13:53,675 Speaker 1: by the Lord but by Trump and the archangel Gates. 217 00:13:55,195 --> 00:13:58,515 Speaker 1: And then the second thing they did, Johnson his colleagues 218 00:13:58,915 --> 00:14:01,635 Speaker 1: knelt in a circle on the house floor and they 219 00:14:01,635 --> 00:14:06,555 Speaker 1: weren't shooting craps. And then it was off to the races. 220 00:14:06,835 --> 00:14:11,635 Speaker 1: Indefatigable anti gay writer for the last twenty years, virulent 221 00:14:11,875 --> 00:14:16,555 Speaker 1: Christo fascist. He taught at Liberty University, where the liberty 222 00:14:16,595 --> 00:14:19,595 Speaker 1: turned out to be how the founder had the liberty 223 00:14:19,635 --> 00:14:22,595 Speaker 1: to have as much sex with the pool boy as possible. 224 00:14:23,355 --> 00:14:26,275 Speaker 1: He has publicly stated he believes the Ken Ham stuff 225 00:14:26,435 --> 00:14:30,515 Speaker 1: that humans lived alongside the dinosaurs. He has publicly stated 226 00:14:30,555 --> 00:14:34,355 Speaker 1: he believes the Bishop Usher stuff the quote calculations unquote 227 00:14:34,395 --> 00:14:38,195 Speaker 1: from the ages of the people in the Bible, calculations 228 00:14:38,195 --> 00:14:43,315 Speaker 1: that confirm that the universe was created on October twenty second, 229 00:14:43,795 --> 00:14:49,395 Speaker 1: four thousand and four BC, right around six pm. Damn, 230 00:14:49,435 --> 00:14:52,475 Speaker 1: the anniversary was ten days ago, and I forgot to 231 00:14:52,515 --> 00:14:56,795 Speaker 1: send a card. Yes, the Bishop Usher stuff is the 232 00:14:56,835 --> 00:15:01,595 Speaker 1: same nonsense they laughed at William Jennings Brian for testifying 233 00:15:01,595 --> 00:15:05,915 Speaker 1: about during the Scopes monkey trial in nineteen twenty six. 234 00:15:07,555 --> 00:15:13,595 Speaker 1: The Speaker of the House of Representatives thinks these are facts. 235 00:15:14,275 --> 00:15:19,675 Speaker 1: And he's the former representative for the giant replica arc 236 00:15:20,875 --> 00:15:24,835 Speaker 1: that the other creationists built in Williamstown, Kentucky, the one 237 00:15:25,035 --> 00:15:28,755 Speaker 1: that he had to close when in an irony of 238 00:15:28,915 --> 00:15:39,835 Speaker 1: biblical proportions, literally biblical proportions, the arc flooded. Somebody miscounted 239 00:15:39,835 --> 00:15:46,035 Speaker 1: their cubbits. Then Huffington Post found the mother load, the 240 00:15:46,035 --> 00:15:50,515 Speaker 1: website of Johnson's apparently even battier wife, Kelly Johnson Onward 241 00:15:50,715 --> 00:15:55,555 Speaker 1: Christian Education Services, on which there were live documents comparing 242 00:15:55,595 --> 00:15:59,995 Speaker 1: being gay to incest and bestiality. Within twenty four hours, 243 00:16:00,075 --> 00:16:03,515 Speaker 1: Kelly Johnson had taken the entire site down, which suggests 244 00:16:03,555 --> 00:16:07,515 Speaker 1: a she has the Internet savvy of a founder and 245 00:16:07,675 --> 00:16:10,275 Speaker 1: be her faith in the Lord ain't quite what she 246 00:16:10,395 --> 00:16:14,235 Speaker 1: says it is. And see she never heard of the 247 00:16:14,275 --> 00:16:19,955 Speaker 1: Internet wayback machine, which God invented. Now my old friend 248 00:16:20,035 --> 00:16:22,915 Speaker 1: David Corn of Mother Jones has found something else. Twenty 249 00:16:22,995 --> 00:16:28,875 Speaker 1: sixteen seminar by these ugly Johnson's called answers for our times, government, culture, 250 00:16:28,875 --> 00:16:33,275 Speaker 1: and Christianity. And we are now way past bestiality and 251 00:16:33,475 --> 00:16:37,675 Speaker 1: homosexuality and the land of the dinosaurs. We are at 252 00:16:38,075 --> 00:16:45,715 Speaker 1: mandatory religious exams for all American political candidates. Johnson told 253 00:16:45,755 --> 00:16:48,555 Speaker 1: the assembled quote, I want to know what you think 254 00:16:48,595 --> 00:16:51,035 Speaker 1: about the Christian heritage of this country. I want to 255 00:16:51,075 --> 00:16:54,035 Speaker 1: know what you think about God's design for society. Have 256 00:16:54,115 --> 00:16:57,355 Speaker 1: you even thought about that? If they hadn't thought about it, 257 00:16:57,395 --> 00:16:59,795 Speaker 1: you need to move on and find somebody who has. 258 00:17:00,555 --> 00:17:03,435 Speaker 1: We have too many people in government who don't know 259 00:17:03,515 --> 00:17:08,755 Speaker 1: any of this stuff. They haven't even thought about it. Unquote, Well, Mike, 260 00:17:08,875 --> 00:17:13,755 Speaker 1: that's probably because it's bullshit. You know what Mike does 261 00:17:13,795 --> 00:17:16,795 Speaker 1: not say In the transcript of that twenty sixteen seminar 262 00:17:16,875 --> 00:17:19,795 Speaker 1: parts of which he's repeated as recently as twenty nineteen. 263 00:17:20,275 --> 00:17:23,435 Speaker 1: He does not say no religious test shall ever be 264 00:17:23,515 --> 00:17:26,715 Speaker 1: required as a qualification to any office or public trust 265 00:17:27,035 --> 00:17:31,115 Speaker 1: under the United States. The Speaker of the House does 266 00:17:31,235 --> 00:17:35,955 Speaker 1: not believe that. Article six Clause three of our Constitution 267 00:17:36,755 --> 00:17:41,275 Speaker 1: does believe that. And on top of all this screwball 268 00:17:41,435 --> 00:17:46,555 Speaker 1: Bible stuff, Mike Johnson also appears to be an idiot. 269 00:17:47,115 --> 00:17:50,595 Speaker 1: He did a full side show Bob Rakestep yesterday. He 270 00:17:50,675 --> 00:17:53,635 Speaker 1: tried to tie fourteen billion dollars in aid to Israel 271 00:17:54,155 --> 00:17:57,675 Speaker 1: to fourteen billion dollars in off sets. And of all 272 00:17:57,715 --> 00:18:01,715 Speaker 1: the offsets he could have picked, fourteen billion dollars taken 273 00:18:01,755 --> 00:18:04,635 Speaker 1: out of the defense budget, fourteen billion dollars taken out 274 00:18:04,675 --> 00:18:08,875 Speaker 1: out of liberal causes, whatever he selected funding to be 275 00:18:09,075 --> 00:18:14,075 Speaker 1: taken from the expansion of the Internal Revenue Service. He 276 00:18:14,115 --> 00:18:18,395 Speaker 1: wants fourteen billion cut from the IRS, specifically the money 277 00:18:18,675 --> 00:18:24,635 Speaker 1: being spent to enhance the investigation of wealthy tax cheats, which, 278 00:18:24,675 --> 00:18:29,435 Speaker 1: on top of having no possible relationship to Israel or 279 00:18:29,475 --> 00:18:32,235 Speaker 1: to the two parties arms race to show which one 280 00:18:32,235 --> 00:18:35,755 Speaker 1: of them is more pro Israel at the moment, that 281 00:18:35,835 --> 00:18:39,435 Speaker 1: does not offset anything. It will in fact, add thirty 282 00:18:39,475 --> 00:18:42,355 Speaker 1: billion dollars to the deficit because we don't get the 283 00:18:42,435 --> 00:18:46,755 Speaker 1: tax cheat's money that way. We got laughed at by 284 00:18:46,755 --> 00:18:50,435 Speaker 1: the Democrats, raged at by Mitch McConnell. Susan Collins not 285 00:18:50,475 --> 00:18:52,235 Speaker 1: only looked at him like she was about to mention 286 00:18:52,275 --> 00:18:55,155 Speaker 1: how many lessons he still needed. She said he not 287 00:18:55,235 --> 00:18:57,475 Speaker 1: only needed to rethink the package, but he needed to 288 00:18:57,475 --> 00:19:01,075 Speaker 1: put the Ukraine Aid back into it. Even Jonie Ernst 289 00:19:01,275 --> 00:19:05,955 Speaker 1: sat up and took notice. And then Mike Johnson took 290 00:19:05,995 --> 00:19:09,835 Speaker 1: time out of his rake hunting expedition to hire raj 291 00:19:10,195 --> 00:19:14,595 Speaker 1: Shaw to build the communications operation inside the Speaker's office. 292 00:19:14,955 --> 00:19:18,755 Speaker 1: Where do you know that name from? Raj Shaw? The 293 00:19:18,835 --> 00:19:23,195 Speaker 1: former Trump Deputy White House Press secretary who went directly 294 00:19:23,235 --> 00:19:28,075 Speaker 1: from that low level entry job to becoming senior vice 295 00:19:28,155 --> 00:19:31,995 Speaker 1: president in charge of Tucker Carlson at Fox News, The 296 00:19:31,995 --> 00:19:34,635 Speaker 1: one who told Murdoch and Company that it had better 297 00:19:34,835 --> 00:19:38,235 Speaker 1: push more election denihalism or it would lose more viewers. 298 00:19:39,395 --> 00:19:42,555 Speaker 1: The guy they then fired from Fox after the lawsuit 299 00:19:42,595 --> 00:19:47,395 Speaker 1: was settled. That I'm proud to say rod Shaw a 300 00:19:47,555 --> 00:19:52,755 Speaker 1: fellow cornell alum. He's over there on our Yeah, the 301 00:19:52,795 --> 00:19:57,555 Speaker 1: admissions office frequently screws up list with and Coulter with 302 00:19:57,675 --> 00:20:03,915 Speaker 1: Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred with mar anyway back to the point, 303 00:20:03,915 --> 00:20:05,875 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but all this Johnson talk 304 00:20:05,915 --> 00:20:08,915 Speaker 1: has the feel of being just the warm up act. 305 00:20:09,355 --> 00:20:13,835 Speaker 1: As the reporter and our preeminent George Santos scholar Jacqueline 306 00:20:13,875 --> 00:20:17,995 Speaker 1: Sweet wrote quote, I want a Mike Johnson sex scandal, 307 00:20:18,035 --> 00:20:20,635 Speaker 1: but I'm also afraid of how gross and creepy it 308 00:20:20,675 --> 00:20:25,395 Speaker 1: will probably end up being L O L. And if 309 00:20:25,475 --> 00:20:29,075 Speaker 1: you weren't already thinking that might be a remote possibility, 310 00:20:29,875 --> 00:20:35,195 Speaker 1: sure enough, what frog marches out of Johnson's office yesterday afternoon? 311 00:20:36,875 --> 00:20:42,075 Speaker 1: A frog wow, A guy in a frog suit wearing 312 00:20:42,115 --> 00:20:46,035 Speaker 1: a sign reading jumping for joy for a speaker Johnson. 313 00:20:48,275 --> 00:20:50,075 Speaker 1: And you know, if this isn't the sign of a 314 00:20:50,155 --> 00:20:54,315 Speaker 1: sex scandal, there is, given Johnson's religious rap sheet, an 315 00:20:54,355 --> 00:21:09,955 Speaker 1: even more disturbing possibility. The frog plague has begun, hasn't it? Also? 316 00:21:10,035 --> 00:21:12,955 Speaker 1: Of interest here the Secretary of Homeland Security, you know, 317 00:21:13,035 --> 00:21:16,755 Speaker 1: the boss of all those secret service agents. The Secretary 318 00:21:16,755 --> 00:21:21,355 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security answered Josh Hawley so thoroughly that they 319 00:21:21,395 --> 00:21:25,835 Speaker 1: had to carry the senator off in buckets, and the 320 00:21:25,875 --> 00:21:30,195 Speaker 1: Arizona Diamondbacks so thoroughly humiliated themselves in Game four of 321 00:21:30,195 --> 00:21:32,715 Speaker 1: the World Series last night in falling to Texas, which 322 00:21:32,755 --> 00:21:35,715 Speaker 1: now leads the Fall Classic. That's just a brand name, 323 00:21:35,795 --> 00:21:39,675 Speaker 1: now leading the Fall Classic three games to one. It 324 00:21:39,795 --> 00:21:42,915 Speaker 1: was so bad, I'm not really sure why they are 325 00:21:42,955 --> 00:21:46,915 Speaker 1: going to play a game five tonight. And best of all, 326 00:21:46,995 --> 00:21:50,515 Speaker 1: Elon Musk proves his new cyber truck will keep you 327 00:21:50,675 --> 00:21:55,595 Speaker 1: safe if you are attacked by a detachment of medieval 328 00:21:56,155 --> 00:22:00,555 Speaker 1: French archers. That's next. This is countdown. 329 00:22:02,475 --> 00:22:09,755 Speaker 3: This is countdown with Keith o Woman, my crazy friend. 330 00:22:13,195 --> 00:22:17,595 Speaker 1: Host. Scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 331 00:22:17,595 --> 00:22:24,915 Speaker 1: some predictions, and these are the places making news. Dateline Washington, 332 00:22:24,955 --> 00:22:28,075 Speaker 1: when the right wing Washington Examiner headlines the story of 333 00:22:28,115 --> 00:22:32,955 Speaker 1: a Republican senator's day with quote Majorcas shuts down Hawley's 334 00:22:33,115 --> 00:22:37,875 Speaker 1: anti Jewish claim I am the child of a Holocaust survivor. 335 00:22:38,795 --> 00:22:43,355 Speaker 1: That Republican senator has had a really bad day. Josh Hawley, 336 00:22:43,475 --> 00:22:47,955 Speaker 1: aka running Man, tried to pin a pro Palestinian tweet 337 00:22:47,995 --> 00:22:52,555 Speaker 1: by a Department of Homeland Security employee and paint DHS 338 00:22:52,595 --> 00:22:57,035 Speaker 1: as anti Israel and put that on Secretary Alejandro Majorcis 339 00:22:57,515 --> 00:23:01,955 Speaker 1: Majorcus then did to him what the insurrectionists Hally raised 340 00:23:01,955 --> 00:23:05,235 Speaker 1: a fist of support too on January sixth, would have 341 00:23:05,275 --> 00:23:09,195 Speaker 1: done to Holly if they had caught him. Frankly, mister Secretary, 342 00:23:09,355 --> 00:23:11,795 Speaker 1: I think that your performance is despicable, and I think 343 00:23:11,835 --> 00:23:13,995 Speaker 1: the fact that you are not willing to provide answers 344 00:23:13,995 --> 00:23:16,835 Speaker 1: to this committee is absolutely atrocious. 345 00:23:19,715 --> 00:23:22,915 Speaker 3: Mister Chairman, may I like if you'd like to have 346 00:23:23,195 --> 00:23:25,915 Speaker 3: a military respond you arrived, I would, and I'm not 347 00:23:25,955 --> 00:23:29,195 Speaker 3: sure I'll limit it to sixty seconds. That's fine. Number one. 348 00:23:30,195 --> 00:23:35,835 Speaker 3: What I found despicable is the implication that this language 349 00:23:36,555 --> 00:23:43,555 Speaker 3: tremendously odious actually could be emblematic of the sentiments of 350 00:23:43,595 --> 00:23:45,795 Speaker 3: the two hundred and sixty thousand men and women of 351 00:23:45,835 --> 00:23:47,155 Speaker 3: the Department of Homeland Security. 352 00:23:47,395 --> 00:23:47,915 Speaker 1: Number one. 353 00:23:48,915 --> 00:23:55,075 Speaker 3: Number two, Senator Holly takes an adversarial approach to me 354 00:23:55,875 --> 00:23:59,715 Speaker 3: in this question, and perhaps he doesn't know my own background, 355 00:24:00,915 --> 00:24:03,435 Speaker 3: Perhaps he does not know that I am the child 356 00:24:03,515 --> 00:24:07,755 Speaker 3: of a Holocaust survivor perhaps he does not know that 357 00:24:07,835 --> 00:24:12,675 Speaker 3: my mother lost almost all her family at the hands 358 00:24:12,675 --> 00:24:16,595 Speaker 3: of the Nazis. And so I find his adversarial tone 359 00:24:16,835 --> 00:24:21,235 Speaker 3: to be entirely misplaced. I find it to be disrespectful 360 00:24:21,435 --> 00:24:25,435 Speaker 3: of me and my heritage, and I do not expect 361 00:24:25,475 --> 00:24:28,275 Speaker 3: an apology, but I did want to say what I 362 00:24:28,395 --> 00:24:30,235 Speaker 3: just articulated, Thank you, missus. 363 00:24:30,275 --> 00:24:33,875 Speaker 1: Chairman. Can I just response and see has referenced me personally. 364 00:24:33,475 --> 00:24:36,155 Speaker 3: Senator Holly, we need to move on center, Robbie. 365 00:24:36,835 --> 00:24:41,955 Speaker 1: To paraphrase the Republican chairman there to Senator Hawley by Felicia. 366 00:24:42,795 --> 00:24:44,595 Speaker 1: By the way, you may have missed it, but in 367 00:24:44,635 --> 00:24:48,315 Speaker 1: their Secretary of Mayorcus slipped in a subtle fact that 368 00:24:48,595 --> 00:24:52,995 Speaker 1: suspended author of the anti Israel tweet was appointed to 369 00:24:53,195 --> 00:25:01,275 Speaker 1: DHS during the Trump administration. Dateline a state house or 370 00:25:01,315 --> 00:25:05,315 Speaker 1: a Senate near you. Most and least popular senators governor's 371 00:25:05,515 --> 00:25:09,315 Speaker 1: per the Monthly Morning Consult Poll. Most popular Governor Phil 372 00:25:09,355 --> 00:25:14,755 Speaker 1: Scott of Vermont approval rating eighty three percent. Also there's 373 00:25:14,795 --> 00:25:17,995 Speaker 1: Governor Gordon of Wyoming and Governor Sununu of New Hampshire. 374 00:25:18,115 --> 00:25:21,835 Speaker 1: The top senators Barasso of Wyoming it's seventy percent approval, 375 00:25:22,115 --> 00:25:27,035 Speaker 1: Shats of Hawaii sixty five percent. Least popular Ron DeSantis 376 00:25:27,235 --> 00:25:30,275 Speaker 1: Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa forty seven percent. But it 377 00:25:30,315 --> 00:25:33,595 Speaker 1: was thirty nine percent disapproval in the first quarter, and 378 00:25:33,675 --> 00:25:41,475 Speaker 1: Governor Tate reeves of mississip and dateline elon Musk's tiny 379 00:25:41,555 --> 00:25:45,355 Speaker 1: little mind. He has released another proof of performance video 380 00:25:45,475 --> 00:25:48,875 Speaker 1: for one of his exploding inventions. This time it is 381 00:25:48,915 --> 00:25:53,075 Speaker 1: the cyber truck. He had somebody fire an arrow into 382 00:25:53,115 --> 00:25:56,435 Speaker 1: the side of the cyber truck to prove its something, 383 00:25:56,955 --> 00:25:59,355 Speaker 1: just to make this even better, Well, what's missing from 384 00:25:59,355 --> 00:26:03,355 Speaker 1: this equation? Musk? The cyber truck a bow and arrow? 385 00:26:03,595 --> 00:26:06,275 Speaker 1: Why that's right? Who else could he choose? But he 386 00:26:06,395 --> 00:26:11,395 Speaker 1: had Joe Rogan fire the arrow from a crossbow. It 387 00:26:11,515 --> 00:26:14,475 Speaker 1: was almost as big and shiny and full of holes 388 00:26:15,075 --> 00:26:25,675 Speaker 1: as Joe's head. In a response to the tweet with 389 00:26:25,715 --> 00:26:29,475 Speaker 1: that video, somebody said the cyber truck was on fire, 390 00:26:30,635 --> 00:26:33,955 Speaker 1: like most of Musk's inventions, And yes, what you heard 391 00:26:34,035 --> 00:26:36,635 Speaker 1: was correct. The arrow bounced off the side of the 392 00:26:36,675 --> 00:26:40,075 Speaker 1: cyber truck, so you can rely on it in case 393 00:26:40,195 --> 00:26:44,515 Speaker 1: you and George Custer are ever driving through the Battle 394 00:26:44,675 --> 00:27:12,395 Speaker 1: of the Big Horn still ahead on this heavy production 395 00:27:12,595 --> 00:27:16,115 Speaker 1: episode of Countdown. It is scary enough to be told 396 00:27:16,195 --> 00:27:19,395 Speaker 1: when you are twenty years old. Here, Keith, here is 397 00:27:19,435 --> 00:27:22,235 Speaker 1: the home phone number of a very famous person in 398 00:27:22,275 --> 00:27:25,115 Speaker 1: your field. They know you are going to call them, 399 00:27:25,355 --> 00:27:28,515 Speaker 1: go and interview them. And when you call, and when 400 00:27:28,635 --> 00:27:32,875 Speaker 1: he answers, he pretends to be somebody else. In fact, 401 00:27:32,955 --> 00:27:36,795 Speaker 1: he pretends to be a woman. Things I promise not 402 00:27:36,875 --> 00:27:38,755 Speaker 1: to tell next first time for the daily roundup of 403 00:27:38,755 --> 00:27:42,955 Speaker 1: the miss Grints, morons, Undunning, krugriffect specimens who constitute today's 404 00:27:43,835 --> 00:27:47,475 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world. And by the way, congrats 405 00:27:47,475 --> 00:27:50,675 Speaker 1: to doctor Dave Dunning, who has won the Society of 406 00:27:50,755 --> 00:27:55,995 Speaker 1: Experimental Social Psychology Scientific Impact Award because the famous paper 407 00:27:56,035 --> 00:27:58,715 Speaker 1: that he and Justin Krueger wrote in nineteen ninety nine 408 00:27:58,755 --> 00:28:02,995 Speaker 1: at Cornell Unskilled and unaware of it, how difficulties in 409 00:28:03,075 --> 00:28:07,395 Speaker 1: recognizing one's own inc confidence led to inflated self assessments 410 00:28:08,315 --> 00:28:12,875 Speaker 1: the dawn of the Dunning Krueger effect. That paper just 411 00:28:12,955 --> 00:28:16,515 Speaker 1: keeps on getting quoted daily. They're both going to the 412 00:28:16,555 --> 00:28:19,755 Speaker 1: Hall of fame anyway. Here they are worse, my old pal, 413 00:28:19,915 --> 00:28:23,795 Speaker 1: Kirsten Cinema. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has now presented 414 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:27,315 Speaker 1: its brand new internal polling on the race in Arizona. 415 00:28:27,635 --> 00:28:31,115 Speaker 1: This is according to punch Bowl News. You're ready, Ruben 416 00:28:31,195 --> 00:28:35,475 Speaker 1: Diego Democrat forty one percent, Carrie Lake crazy woman thirty 417 00:28:35,475 --> 00:28:40,995 Speaker 1: seven percent, and in last place, last place with less 418 00:28:41,035 --> 00:28:43,955 Speaker 1: than half of what Carrie Lake is getting and taking 419 00:28:44,035 --> 00:28:46,955 Speaker 1: most of her support not from the Democrats but from 420 00:28:46,995 --> 00:28:52,715 Speaker 1: the Republicans, like carry Lake. Senator Kirsten Cinema seventeen percent, 421 00:28:53,075 --> 00:28:56,555 Speaker 1: the incumbent in third place. So now the Republicans want 422 00:28:56,595 --> 00:28:58,955 Speaker 1: to run her out of town too. But don't worry, 423 00:28:59,235 --> 00:29:02,795 Speaker 1: She'll be fine, she said. So she saved the Senate, 424 00:29:03,035 --> 00:29:05,635 Speaker 1: She saved the filibuster. He can now become a member 425 00:29:05,675 --> 00:29:08,755 Speaker 1: of any corporate board in the country or president of 426 00:29:08,755 --> 00:29:12,755 Speaker 1: a university. Yeah, you got it, Sinny, congrats you're the 427 00:29:12,795 --> 00:29:19,635 Speaker 1: next president of Faber College. Worser Laura ingram At say, 428 00:29:20,955 --> 00:29:24,515 Speaker 1: this is quite the unexpected theme developing here for worse persons. 429 00:29:25,475 --> 00:29:31,755 Speaker 1: Kirsten Cinema, Laura ingram AnyWho Laura ingram was showing off 430 00:29:31,755 --> 00:29:35,715 Speaker 1: her only skill on Fox, mocking successful people. She was 431 00:29:35,795 --> 00:29:40,075 Speaker 1: howling with laughter because President Biden referred to the web telescope, 432 00:29:40,675 --> 00:29:45,315 Speaker 1: and he ain't come the web tallescope. Isn't it the hubble? 433 00:29:45,915 --> 00:29:49,955 Speaker 1: Is he thinking of web hobble? Then she braids some 434 00:29:49,995 --> 00:29:52,795 Speaker 1: more for a few more seconds, and apparently Laura still 435 00:29:52,795 --> 00:29:56,475 Speaker 1: does not realize that two Christmases ago we launched the 436 00:29:56,515 --> 00:30:00,635 Speaker 1: web Telescope, which is the upgrade for the Hubble, the 437 00:30:00,675 --> 00:30:03,995 Speaker 1: web Telescope, which was what the President was referring to. 438 00:30:04,155 --> 00:30:07,115 Speaker 1: Because he's the President and he's smarter than Laura is. 439 00:30:08,115 --> 00:30:11,995 Speaker 1: She's mocking somebody for being right when she's wrong. Trust me, 440 00:30:12,075 --> 00:30:14,315 Speaker 1: that sort of sums her up, but you do have 441 00:30:14,395 --> 00:30:19,435 Speaker 1: to excuse her. In college, Laura studied Russian and alcohol. 442 00:30:19,995 --> 00:30:24,555 Speaker 1: But our winner the worst. Now, I couldn't find a 443 00:30:24,595 --> 00:30:27,315 Speaker 1: third X I get along with most of my exes, 444 00:30:28,035 --> 00:30:33,275 Speaker 1: my forty nine years worth of exes. So instead it's 445 00:30:33,275 --> 00:30:35,915 Speaker 1: Dean Phillips, the Mike Johnson of the Democratic Party, the 446 00:30:35,955 --> 00:30:39,755 Speaker 1: congressional non entity for Minnesota, who just has to challenge 447 00:30:39,795 --> 00:30:44,155 Speaker 1: President Biden for the nomination because Biden's too old. Oh 448 00:30:44,195 --> 00:30:46,435 Speaker 1: did I mention that Biden wins a landslide of half 449 00:30:46,435 --> 00:30:49,075 Speaker 1: the voters believe that he and Trump are both too old? 450 00:30:49,195 --> 00:30:53,875 Speaker 1: Go old or go home anyway. Turns out that in 451 00:30:53,915 --> 00:30:59,595 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Representative Phillips, Noble Democrat, received the maximum twenty 452 00:30:59,635 --> 00:31:06,435 Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars personal campaign donation from Harlan you know 453 00:31:06,595 --> 00:31:10,835 Speaker 1: Harlan Crowe. He's the owner and operator of Clarence Thomas. 454 00:31:12,035 --> 00:31:15,955 Speaker 1: Plus he donates to the truly worthy Democrats and liberals 455 00:31:16,595 --> 00:31:20,355 Speaker 1: like Joe Manchin, twenty eight hundred dollars, thirty five hundred 456 00:31:20,355 --> 00:31:25,275 Speaker 1: dollars to Cornell West as mentioned, twenty eight hundred dollars 457 00:31:25,315 --> 00:31:29,795 Speaker 1: to Dean Phillips, and ten thousand, eight hundred dollars to 458 00:31:30,995 --> 00:31:38,155 Speaker 1: Kirsten Cinema. Dean Phillips is, Harlan crow is Kirsten Cinema. 459 00:31:38,195 --> 00:31:40,555 Speaker 1: So I did manage to put an X into all 460 00:31:40,595 --> 00:31:49,115 Speaker 1: three slots. Watch it, I said, slots two days part 461 00:31:49,235 --> 00:32:12,635 Speaker 1: said he the word now to the number one story 462 00:32:12,675 --> 00:32:14,875 Speaker 1: on the countdown on my favorite topic, me and things 463 00:32:14,915 --> 00:32:16,595 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. And this has been a 464 00:32:16,635 --> 00:32:21,915 Speaker 1: somewhat uh fierce edition of the program. So let me 465 00:32:21,955 --> 00:32:23,835 Speaker 1: do something here at the end that's a little lighter. 466 00:32:24,875 --> 00:32:27,315 Speaker 1: October twenty seventh is the anniversary of one of the 467 00:32:27,395 --> 00:32:30,955 Speaker 1: damnedest interviews I ever did, and it was with Baseball 468 00:32:30,955 --> 00:32:35,435 Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Every time Willy Mays's name 469 00:32:35,515 --> 00:32:37,275 Speaker 1: comes up, I think of two things. One is that 470 00:32:37,435 --> 00:32:41,315 Speaker 1: interview at my first job from my first radio network, 471 00:32:42,275 --> 00:32:45,635 Speaker 1: and like I wasn't scared enough. He did a bit 472 00:32:46,035 --> 00:32:48,115 Speaker 1: that if I'd have done it, they would have fired 473 00:32:48,155 --> 00:32:51,955 Speaker 1: me on the spot. The other thing is an amazing 474 00:32:52,035 --> 00:32:57,635 Speaker 1: injustice that befell Willy Mays that nobody talks about. Okay, 475 00:32:57,675 --> 00:33:01,915 Speaker 1: So it's a Saturday afternoon, October twenty seventh, nineteen seventy nine, 476 00:33:02,155 --> 00:33:06,075 Speaker 1: just forty three years ago today, and Willie Mays has 477 00:33:06,235 --> 00:33:10,395 Speaker 1: just been banned from baseball because word has gotten out 478 00:33:10,395 --> 00:33:12,755 Speaker 1: that he has signed a contract to do promotional events 479 00:33:12,835 --> 00:33:16,195 Speaker 1: for an Atlantic city casino, and there's a press conference 480 00:33:16,235 --> 00:33:21,275 Speaker 1: coming up on Monday. I know, try explaining this concept 481 00:33:21,315 --> 00:33:24,835 Speaker 1: to any current sports fan now used to seeing retired 482 00:33:24,875 --> 00:33:29,275 Speaker 1: players on TV, not just telling them to bet on games, 483 00:33:29,395 --> 00:33:33,075 Speaker 1: but telling them how to bet and who to bet on. 484 00:33:34,955 --> 00:33:37,275 Speaker 1: Plus even then, this made no sense. It was like 485 00:33:37,355 --> 00:33:39,835 Speaker 1: three months after Willie Mays had been inducted into the 486 00:33:39,875 --> 00:33:44,795 Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Fame. Three months now he's being banned 487 00:33:44,835 --> 00:33:49,435 Speaker 1: for life for something that today the Commissioner of Baseball 488 00:33:49,475 --> 00:33:52,235 Speaker 1: would send him a note of congratulations and a paycheck. 489 00:33:54,275 --> 00:33:56,875 Speaker 1: So anyway, nobody has done an interview with Willy yet 490 00:33:56,955 --> 00:33:59,235 Speaker 1: because he has been traveling and my phone rings in 491 00:33:59,275 --> 00:34:02,875 Speaker 1: my little cubby hole at United Press Internationals Radio network 492 00:34:03,435 --> 00:34:07,275 Speaker 1: three months that coincidentally was how long my full time 493 00:34:07,315 --> 00:34:10,235 Speaker 1: broadcasting career had been to this point. And on the 494 00:34:10,275 --> 00:34:14,715 Speaker 1: phone is maybe the top baseball reporter of his day, Keith, 495 00:34:14,755 --> 00:34:18,715 Speaker 1: it's Milt Richmond. This man once reported in July nineteen 496 00:34:18,795 --> 00:34:21,515 Speaker 1: fifty five that if the Milwaukee Braves didn't start winning, 497 00:34:21,715 --> 00:34:25,275 Speaker 1: that they would fire their manager. Exactly one year later, 498 00:34:25,835 --> 00:34:28,635 Speaker 1: they didn't start winning, and exactly one year later to 499 00:34:28,715 --> 00:34:31,195 Speaker 1: the day, they fired their manager. That's how good Milt 500 00:34:31,315 --> 00:34:35,355 Speaker 1: Richmond was. Keith, write his phone number down. It's William 501 00:34:35,395 --> 00:34:40,035 Speaker 1: Mays's home. He's expecting your call for an interview about 502 00:34:40,035 --> 00:34:46,475 Speaker 1: this banishment story. I squeaked, yes, sir, yes, sir, and 503 00:34:46,515 --> 00:34:48,555 Speaker 1: I went into one of our recording studios and I 504 00:34:48,635 --> 00:34:51,195 Speaker 1: dialed the number. And I will not recreate the voice 505 00:34:51,195 --> 00:34:54,715 Speaker 1: that I heard answer William Mays's phone, because while doing 506 00:34:54,755 --> 00:34:56,995 Speaker 1: this voice was once considered to be a staple of 507 00:34:57,035 --> 00:35:01,075 Speaker 1: American humor, even American humor written or performed by liberals. 508 00:35:01,355 --> 00:35:04,075 Speaker 1: James Thurber's short stories are full of this voice. The 509 00:35:04,195 --> 00:35:07,475 Speaker 1: voice is wildly racist. It is racist enough that if 510 00:35:07,515 --> 00:35:12,235 Speaker 1: today you heard an African American man, do this voice, 511 00:35:12,475 --> 00:35:17,795 Speaker 1: you might still say still racist. It is a voice 512 00:35:18,075 --> 00:35:22,435 Speaker 1: similar to that of the actress Hattie McDaniel, who won 513 00:35:22,475 --> 00:35:25,235 Speaker 1: the Academy Award in nineteen thirty nine for Gone with 514 00:35:25,315 --> 00:35:28,315 Speaker 1: the Wind, who was a world class blues singer, a 515 00:35:28,355 --> 00:35:32,315 Speaker 1: top patriotic fundraiser during World War Two, who played maids 516 00:35:32,795 --> 00:35:36,435 Speaker 1: housekeepers in maybe two hundred films. She also played one 517 00:35:36,475 --> 00:35:39,075 Speaker 1: on a famous radio show, and was paid so little 518 00:35:39,355 --> 00:35:42,115 Speaker 1: that while she was performing her role of the maid, 519 00:35:42,355 --> 00:35:46,995 Speaker 1: she had to keep working as a real maid. Anyway, 520 00:35:47,715 --> 00:35:50,155 Speaker 1: I'm twenty years old and I have to interview Willie 521 00:35:50,155 --> 00:35:55,275 Speaker 1: Mays about him getting banned from baseball, by the way, 522 00:35:55,315 --> 00:35:57,355 Speaker 1: getting banned from baseball at the same time they were 523 00:35:57,355 --> 00:36:01,235 Speaker 1: banning Mickey Mantle from baseball for doing promotional announcements for 524 00:36:01,275 --> 00:36:05,115 Speaker 1: a casino. And I call Willie Mays's number and I'm 525 00:36:05,155 --> 00:36:07,915 Speaker 1: shaking like a leaf and the phone is answered, and 526 00:36:07,955 --> 00:36:11,395 Speaker 1: a gravelly but feminine voice that sounded exactly like Haddie 527 00:36:11,475 --> 00:36:20,195 Speaker 1: McDaniel says hello, mister Mays's residence. And I am a 528 00:36:20,235 --> 00:36:24,355 Speaker 1: little thrown by this, but I power through and I 529 00:36:24,515 --> 00:36:27,235 Speaker 1: explain who I am, and she says, uh huh, and 530 00:36:27,315 --> 00:36:29,795 Speaker 1: I say where I'm calling from, and she says uh huh, 531 00:36:29,835 --> 00:36:32,755 Speaker 1: And I say, Milt Richmond said, mister Mays was expecting me, 532 00:36:32,875 --> 00:36:38,115 Speaker 1: and she interrupts me and says, this is Willie. The 533 00:36:38,155 --> 00:36:42,355 Speaker 1: Hattie McDaniel like impersonation was done by Willie Mays. Now 534 00:36:42,355 --> 00:36:46,795 Speaker 1: I do not have this on tape. Silly me. When 535 00:36:46,835 --> 00:36:50,355 Speaker 1: they said you could never start recording before you got 536 00:36:50,395 --> 00:36:55,275 Speaker 1: expressed permission from the interviewee to start recording, I believed them. 537 00:36:56,515 --> 00:36:59,595 Speaker 1: Anybody else would have a tape of the phone being answered, 538 00:36:59,635 --> 00:37:03,395 Speaker 1: and that impression done by Willie Mays. I'm afraid you 539 00:37:03,435 --> 00:37:06,755 Speaker 1: will have to take my word for because why would 540 00:37:06,795 --> 00:37:12,275 Speaker 1: I make this up? October twenty seventh, nineteen seventy nine. 541 00:37:12,475 --> 00:37:18,475 Speaker 1: And honestly, I still haven't recovered from mister Mays's residence. Now, 542 00:37:18,715 --> 00:37:22,835 Speaker 1: the injustice about William Mays that nobody talks about this 543 00:37:22,995 --> 00:37:26,155 Speaker 1: is something else no fan believes today. The US military 544 00:37:26,315 --> 00:37:30,715 Speaker 1: used to draft Major League Baseball players and NFL players 545 00:37:30,995 --> 00:37:34,755 Speaker 1: and NBA players and other athletes and send them into 546 00:37:34,835 --> 00:37:38,275 Speaker 1: the service in the middle of their seasons, in the 547 00:37:38,355 --> 00:37:41,475 Speaker 1: primes of their careers, even if there was no war 548 00:37:41,635 --> 00:37:45,555 Speaker 1: in progress. Now they only did it a couple of 549 00:37:45,595 --> 00:37:49,675 Speaker 1: times after saying nineteen forty five, and usually that was 550 00:37:49,835 --> 00:37:53,555 Speaker 1: thinly veiled racist political pressure, like when they drafted Muhammad 551 00:37:53,555 --> 00:37:56,635 Speaker 1: Ali in nineteen sixty six when he was heavyweight champion 552 00:37:56,715 --> 00:38:00,435 Speaker 1: of the world at an activist Muslim and twenty four 553 00:38:00,515 --> 00:38:03,955 Speaker 1: years old, when everybody else who was getting drafted was eighteen. Remember, 554 00:38:05,955 --> 00:38:09,835 Speaker 1: but in nineteen fifty two they drafted Willie Mays. Willie 555 00:38:09,835 --> 00:38:11,755 Speaker 1: Mays had come up from the Miners the year before 556 00:38:11,795 --> 00:38:14,275 Speaker 1: and led the New York Giants from thirteen games back 557 00:38:14,315 --> 00:38:16,675 Speaker 1: to the National League pennant and was the kind of 558 00:38:16,755 --> 00:38:20,195 Speaker 1: all around whirlwind of a player nobody had ever seen before. 559 00:38:20,475 --> 00:38:23,115 Speaker 1: And on May twenty ninth, thirty four games into his 560 00:38:23,195 --> 00:38:27,275 Speaker 1: second season boom, he was drafted and inducted and he 561 00:38:27,275 --> 00:38:30,475 Speaker 1: missed the rest of that season, and he missed all 562 00:38:30,555 --> 00:38:35,315 Speaker 1: of the nineteen fifty three season. They didn't draft Mickey Mantle, 563 00:38:35,715 --> 00:38:38,555 Speaker 1: who also broke in also in New York, also in 564 00:38:38,635 --> 00:38:41,675 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, and to be fair, Mickey Mantle had 565 00:38:41,715 --> 00:38:45,635 Speaker 1: about four hundred medical problems. But they also didn't draft 566 00:38:45,715 --> 00:38:48,235 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one American League Rookie of the Year Gil 567 00:38:48,315 --> 00:38:51,155 Speaker 1: McDougald of the Yankees who was a white guy. Or 568 00:38:51,275 --> 00:38:53,235 Speaker 1: Walt Dropo who was the Rookie of the Year in 569 00:38:53,315 --> 00:38:56,315 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty and was a white guy. Or Roy Severs 570 00:38:56,315 --> 00:38:57,955 Speaker 1: who was the rookie of the Year in nineteen forty 571 00:38:58,035 --> 00:39:01,915 Speaker 1: nine and was a white guy, or or or you 572 00:39:02,035 --> 00:39:06,755 Speaker 1: get the point. Now. Trying to calculate should have bins 573 00:39:06,755 --> 00:39:09,075 Speaker 1: and would have beens in sports is a risky business, 574 00:39:09,195 --> 00:39:13,715 Speaker 1: but you can get a statistical approximation. If a player 575 00:39:13,795 --> 00:39:18,035 Speaker 1: hits twenty homers in his first season, then misses two years, 576 00:39:18,315 --> 00:39:21,195 Speaker 1: then comes back and hits forty one homers in his 577 00:39:21,235 --> 00:39:24,515 Speaker 1: first year back, you can extrapolate from that that he 578 00:39:24,595 --> 00:39:28,235 Speaker 1: probably would have hit twenty seven homers in the first 579 00:39:28,275 --> 00:39:31,995 Speaker 1: missing year and thirty four in the second missing year. 580 00:39:32,075 --> 00:39:35,795 Speaker 1: Your numerical sequence is twenty homers, then twenty seven, then 581 00:39:35,875 --> 00:39:39,795 Speaker 1: thirty four, then forty one. You have to taker a 582 00:39:39,795 --> 00:39:42,315 Speaker 1: little bit with it in Mays's case, because he did 583 00:39:42,355 --> 00:39:44,995 Speaker 1: not miss all of nineteen fifty two, just from June 584 00:39:45,115 --> 00:39:47,715 Speaker 1: on and he had a slow start. He only hit 585 00:39:48,155 --> 00:39:51,115 Speaker 1: four homers in the first two months of nineteen fifty two, 586 00:39:51,195 --> 00:39:53,475 Speaker 1: so instead of twenty seven that year, maybe he only 587 00:39:53,555 --> 00:39:56,915 Speaker 1: hits twenty four. So a good guess as to how 588 00:39:56,915 --> 00:40:00,635 Speaker 1: many homers William Ays did not hit because he got 589 00:40:00,715 --> 00:40:04,195 Speaker 1: drafted and all the other guys didn't. The good guess 590 00:40:04,355 --> 00:40:07,515 Speaker 1: is a all told, he missed the chance to hit 591 00:40:07,635 --> 00:40:11,515 Speaker 1: fifty four homers that he probably would have hit in 592 00:40:11,755 --> 00:40:16,315 Speaker 1: real life. Willie Mays finished with six hundred and sixty 593 00:40:16,595 --> 00:40:19,995 Speaker 1: career home runs. For most of the nineteen sixties, it 594 00:40:20,035 --> 00:40:22,955 Speaker 1: was thought he was the man who would challenge Babe 595 00:40:23,035 --> 00:40:26,915 Speaker 1: Ruth's career home run record, not Hank Aaron, but Willie Mays. 596 00:40:27,995 --> 00:40:31,035 Speaker 1: Willie Mays hit six hundred and sixty homers, but if 597 00:40:31,075 --> 00:40:34,155 Speaker 1: you give him the fifty four more homers he might 598 00:40:34,195 --> 00:40:37,035 Speaker 1: have hit if he hadn't been so curiously drafted. In 599 00:40:37,115 --> 00:40:41,195 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two, Willie Mays finishes with seven hundred and 600 00:40:41,235 --> 00:40:45,675 Speaker 1: fourteen home runs, which is exactly how many Babe Ruth 601 00:40:45,755 --> 00:40:51,915 Speaker 1: hit seven hundred and fourteen, So no drafting, and maybe 602 00:40:51,955 --> 00:40:54,875 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy two and nineteen seventy three and nineteen 603 00:40:54,915 --> 00:40:58,875 Speaker 1: seventy four, we are seeing Willie Mays hit his seven 604 00:40:59,035 --> 00:41:02,835 Speaker 1: hundredth home run and challenging Babe Ruth and coming down 605 00:41:02,915 --> 00:41:06,035 Speaker 1: the stretch and tying and breaking Babe Ruth's record, and 606 00:41:06,035 --> 00:41:10,235 Speaker 1: then right behind him, Henry Aaron hits his seven hundred 607 00:41:10,235 --> 00:41:13,275 Speaker 1: and fifteenth homer and then his seven hundred and sixteenth 608 00:41:13,275 --> 00:41:23,755 Speaker 1: homer to break the all time record held by Willie Mays. 609 00:41:32,995 --> 00:41:34,755 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. 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