Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The
Speaker 1: Emperor not only has no clothes, he has no clue.
Speaker 1: Is the Strait of Hormuz open or is it closed?
Speaker 1: Are there peace talks with Iran in Pakistan tomorrow or nah?
Speaker 1: Is JV Vance going to them? Is Iran going to them?
Speaker 1: Has Trump's scheduled peace talks where we're the only ones there?
Speaker 1: Will it make any difference if we're the only ones there?
Speaker 1: Doesn't Blowing a hole in the engine room of an
Speaker 1: Iranian cargo ship yesterday, I mean we are not honoring
Speaker 1: Trump's own ceasefire. He keeps boasting about are we paying
Speaker 1: twenty billion dollars for the Irani in Ran and the
Speaker 1: hostages the same uranium and hostages Obama bought for four
Speaker 1: hundred million, And Trump called him a trader? Or is
Speaker 1: that a no? Don't ask Trump. He doesn't know, but
Speaker 1: that won't stop him from answering anyway. Yes, then no,
Speaker 1: then yes again, then all of the above. In forty
Speaker 1: eight hours, Trump went from thirteen posts congratulating himself on
Speaker 1: winning to insisting he would stop being mister nice guy
Speaker 1: and blow up all of Iran. And by the way,
Speaker 1: exactly when was he? Mister nice guy, Trump is entirely
Speaker 1: full of shit. It is as if you took all
Speaker 1: the shit in the world, squeezed it into a bag
Speaker 1: and made it president. He insists he has opened Hormuz,
Speaker 1: and Iran's leaders fire on chips and insists it's closed.
Speaker 1: He insists there are talks. Iran's leaders say they know
Speaker 1: nothing about them. We are losing the war in Iran,
Speaker 1: and as of today, a total idiot is still president
Speaker 1: and commander in chief. He gets questions about this pointless
Speaker 1: war he started to divert attention from Epstein in the
Speaker 1: economy he has crashed. So he then orders the reporters
Speaker 1: out of the Oval office and sits there with hapless
Speaker 1: munchkin little Joe Rogan standing behind him, the shine off
Speaker 1: his motteled cubeball noggin blinding cameras and journalists alike. Trump
Speaker 1: has set off a chain of events over which he
Speaker 1: no longer has any control except to withdraw and flea.
Speaker 1: And to withdraw and flea would be to acknowledge he
Speaker 1: has screwed up. And this man would jump off the
Speaker 1: roof of the White House before admitting he screwed up.
Speaker 1: It is so bad. It is so bad. The Trump
Speaker 1: quote administration unquote has so utterly jumped the shark that
Speaker 1: the truthers are coming out, and the truthers are coming
Speaker 1: out from inside MAGA. Alex Jones now insist Trump has
Speaker 1: done all this deliberately because he has made a quote.
Speaker 2: Deal with the deep state to throw the election to
Speaker 2: the Democrats. Marjorie Taylor Green has joined the Trump assassination truthers,
Speaker 2: and Trump himself has floated a kind of conspiracy theory
Speaker 2: about himself. He wrote Praise Be to Allah on Easter
Speaker 2: morning to quote seem as unstable and insulting as possible.
Speaker 2: He wanted to seem as unstable as possible. Mission accomplished. Buddy,
Speaker 2: you've finally done something you promised Trump you have unsuspected depth.
Speaker 2: So is that idea he's doing this deliberately? Is that
Speaker 2: the basis of the Alex Jones theory of TDS That
Speaker 2: would be Trump defenestration syndrome. I mean, listen to this.
Speaker 3: We're supposed to sit here and love this crap as
Speaker 3: his poll numbers go straight down and all the poll
Speaker 3: sholl republoms are going to lose them in terms of
Speaker 3: seven months by a landslide eight disaster, a total and
Speaker 3: complete disaster. Trump is not that stupid. He's made some
Speaker 3: deal with the deep state to throw the election of Democrats.
Speaker 3: That's something.
Speaker 1: This can be only possible explanation, the one about Trump
Speaker 1: being stupid. That just doesn't work right now. Did Jones
Speaker 1: read this quote in the Wall Street Journal or did
Speaker 1: somebody at the journal hear what Jones said there? Quote
Speaker 1: aids fielded calls from Republican senators and Christian leaders. They asked,
Speaker 1: why would he say Praise be to Allah on Easter morning?
Speaker 1: Why would he use the F word? When one advisor
Speaker 1: later asked Trump about it, he said he came up
Speaker 1: with the Allah idea himself. He said he wanted to
Speaker 1: see him as unstable and insulting as possible, believing it
Speaker 1: could bring the Iranians to the table. Good thinking Chief.
Speaker 1: And then there's Marjorie Green. Three separate social media posts,
Speaker 1: one of them a retweet of Tucker Carlson's son, who
Speaker 1: just quit as Vance's deputy press secretary in protest of
Speaker 1: the entire administration. The three posts go deeply into trump Trutherism.
Speaker 1: One of them is a repost of a seven hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty words screed from a self pronounced Trump twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four delegate from Texas, questioning the assassination attempts in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Butler Trutherism is now coming into focus. It is pinned
Speaker 1: on three questions. If somebody out there in the fields
Speaker 1: has been in the last couple minutes trying to kill
Speaker 1: Trump with a rifle, why on earth did the Secret
Speaker 1: Service let him stand up and raise his arm over
Speaker 1: his head and shout fight? And why on earth did
Speaker 1: a crane reposition a giant American flag during the shooting
Speaker 1: so it would be in all the photos of Trump's
Speaker 1: standing like a duck at a county fair shoot gallery.
Speaker 1: And whoever in the Secret Service who totally screwed up
Speaker 1: that day? Why didn't Trump fire him and instead made
Speaker 1: him the head of the Secret Service. Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 1: calls this quote extremely important. Trump, of all people, should
Speaker 1: be leading the charge. Why isn't he? That's the question?
Speaker 1: Why the cover up and the final dose before you
Speaker 1: go full truther or on anything. Quote. I'm not calling
Speaker 1: the Butler assassination a hoax, but for what does the
Speaker 1: profit of president if he regaineth Baldy, Joe Rogan, but
Speaker 1: Loseth MTG and Alex Jones, which takes us back to
Speaker 1: Iran and the fact that Trump is not only losing
Speaker 1: in Iran, he's losing about Iran. Politico polled on it,
Speaker 1: and he's cratering. Support for Trump's war there is down
Speaker 1: to thirty eight percent, no improvement despite the weeks that
Speaker 1: Trump and his noise machine have had to try to
Speaker 1: sell this crap. Only twenty seven percent say he has
Speaker 1: a plan for resolving Iran one way or the other.
Speaker 1: Only fifteen percent think he's achieved his goals in Iran,
Speaker 1: whatever the f they were. And on the overall subject
Speaker 1: of Iran, an NBC News poll came out yesterday, he's
Speaker 1: a net thirty four points underwater. By the way, he's
Speaker 1: a net thirty six on cost of living, so Iran
Speaker 1: is a relative highlight at this point. Oh when Trump
Speaker 1: extended the Russian oil license for a month forty eight
Speaker 1: hours after the Foppish Secretary of Commerce Scott Bessn't insisted
Speaker 1: they were not going to do that. So at least
Speaker 1: somebody is coming out of this in good shape. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that somebody is Vladimir Putin and despite that treason. Trump
Speaker 1: is aiding an enemy of this country, an enemy of
Speaker 1: this country, that is itself aiding another enemy of this country.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's treason. The head of the International Energy
Speaker 1: Agency now says Europe is down to its last six
Speaker 1: weeks of jet fuel. Quote the largest energy crisis we
Speaker 1: have ever seen. He says, two dollars gas. Well, Trump
Speaker 1: can still achieve that. It's an easy fix. Here's how
Speaker 1: you do it. Instead of quoting the price per gallon,
Speaker 1: you quote the price per ounce two dollars. Speaking of
Speaker 1: liquids and ounces that incredible. Bessentt and somebody nailed it.
Speaker 1: Somebody this week said Scott Bessant seemed to be doing
Speaker 1: a bad impression of Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live,
Speaker 1: doing an impression of Harry Carey, to which somebody else said, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's worse than that. Bessont seems to be doing a
Speaker 1: bad impression of himself. Speaking of liquids, announces, Scott Bessont
Speaker 1: managed to add comic relief to this nightmare by calling
Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz the Strait of Vermouth, providing a
Speaker 1: delightful sidelight to the sizzle reels of Pete Hegseth getting
Speaker 1: drunk live on Fox News, which are now accompanied by
Speaker 1: the new mashups heg Seth reading what he thought was
Speaker 1: a Bible quote to officers and others at the Pentagon,
Speaker 1: when in fact he was reading dialogue from Tarantino's pulp fiction,
Speaker 1: and all of its serving as a a parenteef to
Speaker 1: the Atlantic profile of Cash Patel, the head of your FBI,
Speaker 1: the Federal Bureau of Intoxication. The Patel's story provided the
Speaker 1: first proof of life from that bug eyed bastard who
Speaker 1: then had to go on Fox yesterday. Hey, look, there's
Speaker 1: been a Cash Patel sighting. He insisted, he has laser
Speaker 1: focused on the twenty twenty election, keeping an eye firmly
Speaker 1: fixed on it. Maybe two eyes. If the Atlantic story
Speaker 1: about Patel is accurate, and he's not just a drunk,
Speaker 1: but he's such a drunk that he is a risk
Speaker 1: for spontaneous combustion. The fact is most of the traction
Speaker 1: for that story has been provided by his own department
Speaker 1: and his own attorneys. They keep retweeting it. They have
Speaker 1: shouted at such length and such volume about suing about
Speaker 1: this article. Their lawyer letters are filled with each report
Speaker 1: of each bout of intoxication or paranoida or paranoid intoxication,
Speaker 1: they have truly proved the streisand effect is real. I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you possibly erase the image of Patel jock
Speaker 1: sniffing his way through the US Olympic hockey dressing room
Speaker 1: in Milan. I'll just make sure everybody in America now
Speaker 1: has a mental picture of Patel's so impaired that he
Speaker 1: can't remember his password for his FBI computer and he
Speaker 1: then fails to enter it correctly so many times the
Speaker 1: computer automatically locks him out, and he then reaches the
Speaker 1: only possible conclusion that Trump has fired him, and locking
Speaker 1: him out of his computer is the way Trump is
Speaker 1: letting him find out. The second saddest part of the
Speaker 1: Atlantic saga. After that little risk to national security that
Speaker 1: a drunken FBI chief would represent, the second saddest part
Speaker 1: is the profound, damaging, incapacitating alcoholism. That that possibility that
Speaker 1: he's he's literally a flammable drunk, That that would be
Speaker 1: the happiest of all the possible explanations for the self
Speaker 1: destruction of cash Patel's mind. And by the way, Fatel, Hegseeth,
Speaker 1: and Vessent. They are all still more sober and more
Speaker 1: sane than Trump. Is bad news everybody. The President's brain
Speaker 1: is missing. Let's just let Trump roll on three great
Speaker 1: sound bites, famous things the Pope never actually said, but
Speaker 1: he thinks he did. This new invention that he made
Speaker 1: the corner store and the best yet, just because you
Speaker 1: have no legs doesn't mean you can't run.
Speaker 4: The Pope made a statement. He says Iran can have
Speaker 4: a nuclear weapon. I say Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 1: So I could.
Speaker 4: Disagree with the puff right, I have a right to
Speaker 4: disagree with the pulp. Restaurant strip landers corner stores.
Speaker 1: What is a corner store?
Speaker 2: I've never heard that term.
Speaker 4: I know what a corner store is, but I've never
Speaker 4: heard it described a corner store.
Speaker 1: Who the hell wrote that?
Speaker 5: When you see soldiers or others, but soldiers generally walking
Speaker 5: around with no legs, with no arms of face, that's
Speaker 5: been smashed, that was solimated. It was Iran that did that.
Speaker 1: Holy crap, really running around with no legs. Ah, he's fine,
Speaker 1: And don't sleep on that other line about this term.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know. Corner stores don't have any corner stores
Speaker 1: in Queens. They have nothing but corner stores in Queens.
Speaker 1: We're finally beginning to see the pattern emerge and define itself.
Speaker 1: The odds are about three to one that at some
Speaker 1: point in the next week or month, Trump will encounter
Speaker 1: that term again and claim, oh, corner stores, I just
Speaker 1: invented that. This is now revealing itself as a pattern
Speaker 1: that is familiar to those who have dealt with others
Speaker 1: who have declining mental function of any kind. People who
Speaker 1: invent new words and insist everybody knows what they mean.
Speaker 1: That tends to suggest bipolar disorder. But if somebody forgets
Speaker 1: a common word or phrase and then suddenly remembers it
Speaker 1: or hears it, they can only rationalize their own confusion
Speaker 1: by claiming they just invented that phrase or word, and
Speaker 1: those people are mentally coming apart at the seams. For
Speaker 1: over a decade this has been happening, and I don't
Speaker 1: think it's been happening frequently enough to be a pattern.
Speaker 1: I think with this it is now a pattern. Trump
Speaker 1: insisted he invented the term priming the pump. He insisted
Speaker 1: he invented the word caravan. Last year, he came up
Speaker 1: with the quote new word equalize. He has said that
Speaker 1: there is a new word affordability. He's claimed he invented
Speaker 1: the term fake news, except fake news dates to the
Speaker 1: eighteen nineties, and even his greatest linguistic concoction, make America
Speaker 1: Great Again, that, of course, bears no connection to the
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan campaign slogan from nineteen eighty Let's make America
Speaker 1: great again. Totally different, totally different. Well, we are here
Speaker 1: on the subject of Trump's amazing dissolving brain good news
Speaker 1: from the White House, where as predicted, Trump is not
Speaker 1: building a ballroom nobody wants or needs, but he has
Speaker 1: brought it up. Turns out third day this year on average,
Speaker 1: Trump is building a ballroom atop a deep underground bunker,
Speaker 1: because building deep underground bunkers is what all hated dictators do. Quote.
Speaker 1: The underground portion is wetted to and serves the upper portion,
Speaker 1: including the bomb shelters, a state of the art hospital
Speaker 1: and medical facilities, protective partitioning, top secret military installations, structures
Speaker 1: and equipment, protective missile resistant steel columns, roofs and beams,
Speaker 1: drone proof ceilings and roofs, military grade venting, and bullet
Speaker 1: ballistic and blast proof glass. These are the things I
Speaker 1: look for in a nice ballroom.
Speaker 2: Quote. It's all tied together is one big, expensive and
Speaker 2: very complex unit which is vital for national security and
Speaker 2: military operations of the United States of America.
Speaker 1: Exclamation point.
Speaker 2: A bunker ballroom, A.
Speaker 1: Best underground bunker ballroom. Christ because the last White house
Speaker 1: underground bunker that Trump went and hid in. If you
Speaker 1: will remember in twenty twenty during the Black Lives Matter protest,
Speaker 1: where's the president? He's in the underground bunker. Uh okay.
Speaker 1: Apparently that image was not hit Larryan enough if this
Speaker 1: boast of his come from the ballroom. But stay for
Speaker 1: the invocation of where Adolph and Ava met their end.
Speaker 1: If that boast was not weird enough. Trump also used
Speaker 1: a really strange and perhaps telling phrase about television and
Speaker 1: media careers during one of his Diet tribes against the
Speaker 1: Fox token liberal Jessica Tarlov quote, get her off the air,
Speaker 1: she is bad for our country. And then here we go.
Speaker 1: I hear Megan Kelly, Tucker, Carlson and Candace Owens are
Speaker 1: dying fast, dying dying fast, you say, Donald Trump. Then
Speaker 1: this quick circle back to that Trump is Jesus image
Speaker 1: that will haunt him no matter what happens next. Axios
Speaker 1: supporting that the image mainlined back to two of the
Speaker 1: towering mental giants of Mago World Housing Finance chief Bill
Speaker 1: Poulty and the Australian born unintentionally hilarious tweet machine Nick Adams.
Speaker 1: Nick Adams apparently first boasted and posted Trump Jesus Jesus Trump,
Speaker 1: although axious in its greatest reporting in years, reassures us
Speaker 1: that the flying horned thing in the Jesus Trump that
Speaker 1: looked like the evil statue of Libertory flying through the
Speaker 1: air that was not in the Adams version. That's what
Speaker 1: was added later. As to Paulty, who is, of course
Speaker 1: the guy who tried to prosecute Letitia James and others
Speaker 1: over procedural uncertainty in Morgan applications, which it turned out
Speaker 1: his own parents did in identical fashion and is usually
Speaker 1: treated with a fine, he reportedly showed the Jesus h
Speaker 1: Trump meme to Trump may or may not have actually
Speaker 1: forwarded it to Trump, but they talked about it at
Speaker 1: Mari Lago, where Pulty is a member. You may remember
Speaker 1: Bill Paulty from such in house Trump disasters as Scott
Speaker 1: Bessant walking up to Paulty and saying, I'm going to
Speaker 1: punch you in the effing face. Speaking of effing, I
Speaker 1: cannot skip the greatest commentary on Trump from the week past.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, stand by for the adult comments from
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Sidney Kamilinger Dove, who would have been the representative
Speaker 1: for the district next to mine when I still lived
Speaker 1: out there and was a local sportscaster in La. Oh, congresswoman,
Speaker 1: are you concerned about the impact that this morning Iran
Speaker 1: is having on our national debt? Oh?
Speaker 6: My god, yes, of course I am, you would. Stevie
Speaker 6: Wonder can even see how much this is costing us?
Speaker 6: So gas prices are going up, It's almost ten dollars
Speaker 6: in California, and fertilizers going up. I mean, you name it.
Speaker 6: The prices have gone off. And this dude, doctor Jesus Okay,
Speaker 6: is wanting to spend two billion dollars of your money
Speaker 6: every single day rather than help you get health care.
Speaker 1: Fuck his ass, Which leads us finally to this question,
Speaker 1: what would be the dumbest thing Trump could do right now?
Speaker 1: With congress people not only dropping f bombs on him,
Speaker 1: but adding quote his ass with MTG and Alex Jones
Speaker 1: leading the anti Trump conspiracy theories, with the Iran saga
Speaker 1: making George W. Bush and Iraq look like FDR and
Speaker 1: Truman and Germany. What would be the worst dumbest thing
Speaker 1: Trump could do right now? Invade Cuba, sees Greenland? Well,
Speaker 1: sure those would be do disasters of biblical proportions. But
Speaker 1: I would have her that the dumbest thing Trump could
Speaker 1: do right now would be well, it's under discussion. Let
Speaker 1: me just read this selection from Politico magazine.
Speaker 3: Quote.
Speaker 1: Asked about the chances of a pardon, Attorney David Oscar
Speaker 1: Marcus appeared somewhat bullish despite the massive political fallout for
Speaker 1: Trump that would surely follow, But he wouldn't give a
Speaker 1: firm number. I don't know what the percentages are. He said,
Speaker 1: there's a good chance, and for good reason, that she
Speaker 1: would get a pardon. Marcus said he had not yet
Speaker 1: spoken to the administration about a clemency request. He does
Speaker 1: not believe this is the right moment. With the heat
Speaker 1: on the administration over its handling of the release of
Speaker 1: the Epstein files, she obviously wants clemency. There's no secret
Speaker 1: about that Who's this she, Who's this client of his?
Speaker 1: Who's this woman that this lawyer Marcus wants Trump to
Speaker 1: pardon soon or late. This guy Marcus a professional friend
Speaker 1: of the acting Attorney General Trump ambulance chaser Todd Blanche.
Speaker 1: This guy Marcus who says you'll be pressing this idea soon,
Speaker 1: if not immediately. Who are we talking about Trump pardoning
Speaker 1: Glaine Maxwell? This guy Marcus represents Gallaine Maxwell. Gallaine Maxwell's
Speaker 1: lawyer expects Trump will eventually pardon Gallaine Maxwell. I think
Speaker 1: this will go over real Well, you're right, mister President.
Speaker 1: Let's do it immediately or just drop her over Iran
Speaker 1: bomb Iran with Gallaine Maxwell after you pardon her. This
Speaker 1: is a story Trump considering pardoning Gallaine Maxwell. This should
Speaker 1: be mentioned every week, every day, every hour. I'm doing
Speaker 1: my part, now you do yours. Also of interest here,
Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert thinks Congress has gotten to horny. We'll get
Speaker 1: her first hand account. And if you think the American
Speaker 1: news media isn't committing suicide fast enough, this just in
Speaker 1: stand by for the return of Brian Williams. Thanks Keith.
Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith
Speaker 1: Oberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown, this all
Speaker 1: new edition of Countdown. It is decade now since I
Speaker 1: went into Netflix with the president of a major Hollywood
Speaker 1: production company and a high powered agent and said to them,
Speaker 1: I can offer you the entire news business, the entire
Speaker 1: online and streaming news business. I will audition it for you,
Speaker 1: do my own commentaries, my own videos for you. You
Speaker 1: will see that you can have an addition to Netflix.
Speaker 1: You can have Newsflix little corner, little dot in the
Speaker 1: corner of your main screen, and take over the news business.
Speaker 1: Have all the commentators and breaking news, and we will
Speaker 1: be the test case. I will be the test case
Speaker 1: to show you you can do this. And their response
Speaker 1: was what about the Italian subtitles? And how could people
Speaker 1: binge watch the news if you're you're only going to
Speaker 1: have one show up at a time. And I thought,
Speaker 1: these people are going to continue to make a lot
Speaker 1: of mistakes, aren't they. And now they've made a really
Speaker 1: big mistake. They're going to get into news with the
Speaker 1: future of news online, the future of streaming news. The
Speaker 1: man who will lead us into the middle years of
Speaker 1: the twenty first century. Brian Williams next and another thing
Speaker 1: I promised not to tell my own saga of Brian
Speaker 1: Williams and the day he imploded while I watched in
Speaker 1: my efforts to save him and his refusal to be saved.
Speaker 1: All that ahead in the interim, we always have more
Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about the roundup of the miscreants,
Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst.
Speaker 2: Per persons in the world.
Speaker 1: And this addition is dedicated to Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.
Speaker 1: The San Diego Padres are being sold. The reported price
Speaker 1: is three billion, nine hundred million dollars, which is twice
Speaker 1: what the New York Mets sold for just over five
Speaker 1: years ago. Now I know what you're saying. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's twice what the Mets sold for. The Padres are
Speaker 1: a professional baseball team, not a semi pro organization. Still,
Speaker 1: the Mets make more money. So when you hear about
Speaker 1: that price three point nine billion, remember that before the
Speaker 1: next New Year's Day, after their contract with the players
Speaker 1: union expires, Commissioner Rob Manfred and the owners will threaten
Speaker 1: to lock the players out and to even cancel the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven season. A gigantic fu to the fans,
Speaker 1: because the owners will demand a salary cap, because small
Speaker 1: markets are dying, because competitive imbalance, because disparity, because owners
Speaker 1: don't make enough billions, because management still thinks they can
Speaker 1: make it nineteen seventy Again, the Padres, who are worth
Speaker 1: three point nine billion dollars. Never mind profits or losses,
Speaker 1: or how much salaries have gone up, or how much
Speaker 1: the Dodgers spend compared to the Kansas City Royals. The
Speaker 1: San Diego Padres just sold basically for four billion bucks.
Speaker 1: They play in the twelfth smallest market in Big League Baseball.
Speaker 1: It's like fifteenth or sixteenth smallest in all of professional sports.
Speaker 1: Not a knock against San Diego, which is a wonderful place,
Speaker 1: but you shouldn't be able to make any money in
Speaker 1: San Diego compared to New York or Los Angeles. And
Speaker 1: right now the Padres are more valuable than the La
Speaker 1: Dodgers and the New York Mets may be put together.
Speaker 1: The Padres have never won the World Series. They last
Speaker 1: played in one in nineteen ninety eight. They got swept.
Speaker 1: They played in literally what nine World Series games, had
Speaker 1: lost eight of them in their entire history, and the
Speaker 1: owners will spend the rest of this year crying that
Speaker 1: imbalance is killing the sport and the small market teams
Speaker 1: like the Podres can't win or make any money. They
Speaker 1: can't win because the owners of the small market teams
Speaker 1: won't spend the money. They keep the money. The Padres
Speaker 1: owners somehow either didn't like the economics at baseball or
Speaker 1: just decided to get out, and they got out for
Speaker 1: three billion, nine hundred million dollars. This team they bought
Speaker 1: in twenty twelve for eight hundred million dollars. Now, if
Speaker 1: math is really problematic for you, let me explain this.
Speaker 2: In fourteen years they made a profit of three billion,
Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars on the sales.
Speaker 1: But the owners are getting crushed. They'd rather cancel the season.
Speaker 1: Major League baseball dates back to eighteen fifty seven. There
Speaker 1: were disorganized and vague rules about how you became champion
Speaker 1: in eighteen fifty seven, but there was big time baseball
Speaker 1: that people paid money to go see, and it dates
Speaker 1: back to the president before Abraham Lincoln. And one thing
Speaker 1: has remained unchanged in all of that time since eighteen
Speaker 1: fifty seven. It is exemplified by Commissioner Rob Manfred and
Speaker 1: by the padres being sold for profit of.
Speaker 2: Three billion dollars over fourteen years, plus whatever they made
Speaker 2: during the season. This is the sale profit for the
Speaker 2: entire business. The one thing that's remained unchanged since eighteen
Speaker 2: fifty seven. Baseball owners are greedy bastards anyway, the medalists.
Speaker 2: Some hockey owners the bronze worst. They're also greedy bastards.
Speaker 2: New York City's two hockey teams, the Rangers, whose surveillance
Speaker 2: prison met Square Garden, is finally getting some national attention,
Speaker 2: whose owner Jimmy Dolan tries to call local cops on
Speaker 2: people who write mean tweets about his teams. Dolan, reportedly,
Speaker 2: according to The New York Post, has met secretly with
Speaker 2: Trump about maybe moving Madison Square Garden so they can
Speaker 2: rebuild that roach motel under it that the city hilariously
Speaker 2: calls Penn's Station. Trump supposedly offered Dolan help getting a
Speaker 2: new Madison Square Garden built if Dolan would help him
Speaker 2: get the new Penn Station named after him. Trump, and
Speaker 2: of course Trump didn't understand why Penn Station was named
Speaker 2: after Penn. Why it's called Penn.
Speaker 3: It's for the.
Speaker 1: Railroad that built the original Penn station. He thinks it's
Speaker 1: about Pennsylvania. As I've said frequently, you want to call
Speaker 1: it Trump Station, as long as it's Trump Memorial, I'm in.
Speaker 2: Or let's go the whole route.
Speaker 1: Let's call the hockey and basketball arena mad Trump Square Garden.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the other New York hockey team, the Long Island
Speaker 1: Islanders owner John Ledecci, are being criticized after putting a
Speaker 1: promo up on their JumboTron for a fundraiser for a
Speaker 1: New York City police sergeant Eric Duran. Was he injured?
Speaker 1: Was he tragically heard in service to his community? God forbid?
Speaker 1: Killed on duty the way other cops who are honored
Speaker 1: by sports franchises are honored. Why they are honored for
Speaker 1: these tragedies? No, No, The fundraiser is to help Eric Duran.
Speaker 1: Convicted killer. Eric Duran was convicted of causing the death
Speaker 1: of a man who tried to escape arrest during a
Speaker 1: routine drug raid, and Eric Duran was sentenced last week
Speaker 1: to three to nine years in prison. The civilian was
Speaker 1: getting away on a scooter, so the killer, Sergeant Duran,
Speaker 1: threw a cooler full of ice at him and it
Speaker 1: hit the man. He lost control of the bike into
Speaker 1: a tree and was killed almost immediately. Now he's been
Speaker 1: convicted and sent to jail, and the Islanders put up
Speaker 1: a fundraiser for him, also giving a quarter of their
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty raffle to the legal fund for the
Speaker 1: convicted killer. All this also according to the New York Post.
Speaker 1: So remember New York Islander fans, if you get killed
Speaker 1: by a New York City police officer, even though you
Speaker 1: had no weapon and you committed no violence, the New
Speaker 1: York Islanders will give money to your murderer. Or you
Speaker 1: could switch to the Rangers, whose fascist owner is meeting
Speaker 1: with Trump. Hard to believe there are two people worse
Speaker 1: than that, but there are the runner up worser vivek Ramaswami.
Speaker 1: Wondering what happened to vivek Ramaswami after he didn't make
Speaker 1: the cut and somehow didn't make it into the Trump's administration.
Speaker 1: Did you just assume he has spent the last eighteen
Speaker 1: months trying to comb his hair. Nah, he's running for
Speaker 1: governor of Ohio. He's trying to also, at that same time,
Speaker 1: erase any sense that he might be a human being.
Speaker 1: Vivid Ramaswami's opponent is named Amy Acton. Now, I'll play
Speaker 1: this clip of Ramaswami first and then reveal the extraordinarily
Speaker 1: sub human sentiment Ramaswami is expressing here, because this confirms it.
Speaker 1: If you had any doubt, Vivit Ramaswami is just an
Speaker 1: effing scumbag.
Speaker 2: You have a chance to elect the governor who I hope.
Speaker 2: I'll lay it out for you, a positive vision for
Speaker 2: our state versus a governor who has none at all
Speaker 2: other than to complain about what someone else did of her.
Speaker 1: So you heard it. He dismissed Amy Acton, his opponent.
Speaker 1: He dismissed her life story as her quote complaining about
Speaker 1: sut what someone else did to her. What someone else
Speaker 1: did to her was rape her when she was a child.
Speaker 1: What she's complained about, what she has mentioned so she
Speaker 1: can explain to people her background is a childhood of
Speaker 1: extreme privation and sexual abuse that to this sleazy, disturbed fascist,
Speaker 1: Vivit Ramaswami is just somebody complaining, but the winner worser.
Speaker 1: And yes, there is an element of comic relief that
Speaker 1: goes into the judgment on these things. Lauren Bobert is
Speaker 1: probably not worse than Vivik Ramaswami or the owners of
Speaker 1: the two New York hockey teams, supporting cops who murder
Speaker 1: citizens and supporting Donald Trump. But Bobert is just so
Speaker 1: beautifully unaware. There are violent scumbag liars in Congress, like
Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell. Well, he was in Congress, but unlike the
Speaker 1: Republicans who would have put him in the cabinet made
Speaker 1: him Attorney General. Probably Democrats get rid of their scumbags
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible, but there is still an extra
Speaker 1: Republican advantage in the petition here for overall scumbaggery, because
Speaker 1: the Republicans have a monopoly on this subject. I just
Speaker 1: mentioned self unawareness who decided to judge Swawell on his
Speaker 1: sexual misconduct and underrate what he did, undervalue, just not
Speaker 1: damn with faint praise at the same time. How could
Speaker 1: you do both judge Swalwell and sort of dismiss his crimes.
Speaker 1: Who could do that? Lauren Bobert, your sex expert in Congress?
Speaker 1: You remember Lauren Bobert from such live theater spectacles as
Speaker 1: the security video from Betel Juice. Yeah, go to church
Speaker 1: find Jesus, Like, I mean, why is everybody so horny here? Seriously,
Speaker 1: thirty nine year old grandmother and chairperson of the Boulder
Speaker 1: Welcome Wagon Congress is too horny for you, Lauren Bobert.
Speaker 1: Don't worry though. If Congress this is too horny, don't worry.
Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert will get a grip on it because she
Speaker 1: has a firm grasp on the situation. Lauren, her vast
Speaker 1: experience in this area will come in Handy Bobert two
Speaker 1: Day's other worst person in the.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: Netflix stock tanked late last week, and this was attributed
Speaker 1: to the co founder, Read Hastings saying he would be
Speaker 1: stepping down. I think it was another announcement that Netflix made.
Speaker 1: Netflix is going to start a podcast, a news podcast
Speaker 1: once a week, a podcast on Netflix with Brian Williams.
Speaker 1: Since Brian Williams left was fired from MSNBC's Eleventh Hour,
Speaker 1: he's appeared once. He did Election Night on Amazon. No, seriously,
Speaker 1: there has not been a second edition of the News
Speaker 1: with Brian Williams on Amazon now these days, this is
Speaker 1: not a big deal. Hell CBS changes its evening news
Speaker 1: anchor like every six months. They're overdue. But as late
Speaker 1: as twenty fifteen, it still mattered who was fronting the
Speaker 1: CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, World News Tonight. During
Speaker 1: my first spin on MSNBC in the nineties, they had
Speaker 1: me anchor NBC Weekend Nightly twice, and I remember that
Speaker 1: for a show that had maybe four and a half
Speaker 1: five minutes of on camera time for the anchor me,
Speaker 1: they had six writers, six writers like a separate writer
Speaker 1: for every thirty seconds, and two of them literally spent
Speaker 1: the entire day, the whole time, six seven hours. I
Speaker 1: was in their office with them preparing this show arguing.
Speaker 1: These two guys argued over whether that should be an
Speaker 1: and or an or in the lead in to our
Speaker 1: reporter Soledad O'Brien, who was live from that weekend's hurricane somewhere.
Speaker 1: When they tried to get me not to leave NBC
Speaker 1: News in nineteen ninety eight over the Clinton Lewinsky story,
Speaker 1: the main carot was if I stayed, I could do
Speaker 1: Saturday or Sunday Nightly every week. I would be the
Speaker 1: second backup during the week to Tom Brokaw. I would
Speaker 1: do in nineteen ninety nine and the years to come,
Speaker 1: NBC Night News, and if anything happened to the number
Speaker 1: one backup Brian Williams, I would be Tom Brocau's air apparent. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what something happened to Brian Williams. Okay to the
Speaker 1: number one story on the Countdown, and the day Brian
Speaker 1: Williams imploded, the other day when I tried to save
Speaker 1: Brian Williams, and the day I found out why NBC
Speaker 1: did not fire him even after he imploded. But first
Speaker 1: we start. On Thursday January twenty ninth, twenty fifteen, after
Speaker 1: I finished my late afternoon sportscast on ESPN two, I
Speaker 1: walked the ten blocks to New York's Madison Square Garden
Speaker 1: to see the New York Rangers Montreal Canadians hockey game,
Speaker 1: and within two hours, not only was I convinced I
Speaker 1: had a profound brain injury or illness, but a catastrophe
Speaker 1: would occur so all encompassing in its sweep that it
Speaker 1: would end the then very active negotiations to what else
Speaker 1: put Countdown back on MSNBC. Also, the Rangers got shut out,
Speaker 1: won nothing. I went to the game with Bill Wolf,
Speaker 1: a former ESPN colleague from twenty years earlier, whom I
Speaker 1: had met again at MSNBC and who was in fact,
Speaker 1: the first executive producer of the Racil Meadow Show. We
Speaker 1: had not seen each other in a while, and he
Speaker 1: had just left that job. And so as the skilled
Speaker 1: youth of many nations cavorted below us, threatening each other
Speaker 1: with sticks and razor sharp skates, we caught up on things.
Speaker 1: And that's when it happened. At least once per period
Speaker 1: in a National Hockey League game, an ordinary stoppage of
Speaker 1: play has turned into a lengthy delay during which the
Speaker 1: television broadcasters catch up on any unplayed commercials the TV timeout.
Speaker 1: And during one of these TV timeouts, the public address
Speaker 1: announcer at the garden, Joe Tollison, said, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: please direct your attention to the video screen, etc. Ice
Speaker 1: where the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News,
Speaker 1: Brian Williams will I didn't actually hear the next part.
Speaker 1: At hearing Brian's name, my friend Bill Wolf shouted a
Speaker 1: f me and I let out a low groan. Since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, I have done my absolute best to
Speaker 1: like Brian Williams. I have stuck my neck out for
Speaker 1: Brian Williams. I have advocated for Brian Williams. I have
Speaker 1: forgiven Brian Williams, and none of it has been enough.
Speaker 1: No person in my forty three years as a full
Speaker 1: time professional broadcaster has been as insecure nor as mocked
Speaker 1: behind his back as as Brian. It is too bad.
Speaker 1: He is brilliantly talented and this will never be enough
Speaker 1: for him. He is one of those who can only
Speaker 1: be successful if he has convinced himself he has taken
Speaker 1: away some of the success from those around him. I've
Speaker 1: been accused of many, many things, but never that. In
Speaker 1: the nineties, Brian Williams used to appear in the middle
Speaker 1: of my MSNBC show with a promo for his MSNBC
Speaker 1: show which followed mine. One night, I said that in
Speaker 1: five minutes we'd be previewing President Clinton's itinerary in Africa, Nairobi,
Speaker 1: Addis Ababa, Dharsalam, Johannesburg, but first with the preview of
Speaker 1: the news with Brian Williams. Here's Brian Williams. Brian Williams
Speaker 1: and he said, thanks, Keith, as someone who's actually been
Speaker 1: to those places all the time.
Speaker 3: With this.
Speaker 1: Anyway, when Wolf and I came out of our respective rages,
Speaker 1: we heard this over the garden PA system during the
Speaker 1: Iraq invasion. US Army Command Sergeant Major Tim Turpak was
Speaker 1: responsible for the safety of Brian Williams and whose NBC
Speaker 1: news team after their Chinook helicopter was hit and crippled
Speaker 1: by enemy fire. I began to sweat Command. Sergeant Major
Speaker 1: Turpak was awarded three Bronze Stars for combat valor in
Speaker 1: ou and recently retired after twenty three years in the
Speaker 1: US Army. Both men, both Rangers fans, have been reunited
Speaker 1: for the first time in twelve years for tonight's game.
Speaker 1: Please welcome, Come in, Sergeant Major Tim Turpak and Brian Williams.
Speaker 1: Bill Wolf swore again. My reaction was different. I started
Speaker 1: to get lightheaded, and then immediately very very worried Bill.
Speaker 1: I said, in a voice so low that Bill had
Speaker 1: to lean in to hear me. Do you know a
Speaker 1: good neurologist? Bill laughed. For Brian, it wasn't a pleasant laugh.
Speaker 1: He won't go to a neurologist, good or otherwise unless
Speaker 1: he can get videotape of it and put it on
Speaker 1: the effing screen here at Madison Square Garden. And I said, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not what I mean. I mean, I mean one
Speaker 1: for me. I was anchoring on MSNBC the night that
Speaker 1: Brian Williams story about the helicopters and the and the RPG.
Speaker 1: And I went on to tell Bill that that's all
Speaker 1: I did my first month back at MSNBC in two
Speaker 1: thousand and three. They rehired me only because they did
Speaker 1: not have enough anchors to cover a war. And I
Speaker 1: was on that night and that story about Brian's chopper
Speaker 1: getting hit. That's not the way I remember it, Bill.
Speaker 1: My brain is going I remember a different story, and
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even remember leading the show with it.
Speaker 1: My god, if the heir apparent as the anchor of
Speaker 1: NBC Nightly News was shot down over the desert in
Speaker 1: the middle of the Iraq War, we would have left
Speaker 1: led with it. I don't remember leading with it. I'm
Speaker 1: only fifty six. I'm way too young for dementia. It
Speaker 1: must be a tumor or something. Do you know a
Speaker 1: good neurologist. Bill Bill Wolf was, as usual, pretty cool
Speaker 1: under the circumstances, and he said, I think maybe you
Speaker 1: should relax, because I don't think it's you. I think
Speaker 1: it's him, because I remember that story too, Bill said,
Speaker 1: And that's not the way he told it. In two
Speaker 1: thousand and three, I think Brian has changed the story.
Speaker 1: When I got home after the Rangers loss that night,
Speaker 1: I looked up everything I could about March twenty six,
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, and the fact that Brian Williams
Speaker 1: was an NBC news field reporter embedded with troops in
Speaker 1: Iraq and in the helicopters with them, and that this
Speaker 1: was not some sort of pr stunt. We had another
Speaker 1: prominent anchor named David Bloom, who hosted the Today Show
Speaker 1: on the weekends and had succeeded Brian as our NBC
Speaker 1: White House correspondent. And David Bloom had died in Iraq
Speaker 1: because after weeks of twisting himself into the shape of
Speaker 1: a pretzel to fit inside a tank, he suffered deep
Speaker 1: vein thrombosis and he was dead because they couldn't treat
Speaker 1: him in time. I even found a video cassette with
Speaker 1: the hours I anchored on MSNBC on March twenty six,
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, and I saw Brian's report and
Speaker 1: I heard him say that he and an NBC analyst,
Speaker 1: retired General Wayne Downing, had been on the ground preparing
Speaker 1: to take off as part of the last helicopters in
Speaker 1: a convoy flying over an Iraqi desert when they got
Speaker 1: word that a chopper an hour ahead of them had
Speaker 1: been threatened by gunfire and was then forced to make
Speaker 1: an emergency landing because of a sandstorm. I remember thinking,
Speaker 1: then in two thousand and three, then in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: and now in twenty twenty two, that being in the
Speaker 1: helicopter when they are shooting at the helicopters is an
Speaker 1: act of sufficient bravery that you could brag on yourself forever.
Speaker 1: I would have been bragging thusly, Hey, I'm a civilian.
Speaker 1: I went up in the chopper anyway, and I did
Speaker 1: not crap my pants. The end, I would have been
Speaker 1: stopping passers by to tell them that. As I continued
Speaker 1: to research this, I realized that in the ensuing dozen years,
Speaker 1: Brian Williams had slowly changed the story, almost imperceptibly, almost
Speaker 1: every time he had retold it. Soon the chopper was
Speaker 1: hit by the RPG that actually missed it. Then the
Speaker 1: chopper that was hit was not an hour ahead of them,
Speaker 1: it was the one right in front of them. Soon
Speaker 1: they were all part of the group that could claim quote,
Speaker 1: we were the northern most Americans in Iraq, and by
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, Brian was claiming it was his chopper that
Speaker 1: got hit in real time. The next day, Friday, January thirtieth,
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, we found out why Brian had done the
Speaker 1: thing at the hockey game with Command Sergeant Major Turpak.
Speaker 1: He played a clip of it on NBC Nightly News,
Speaker 1: and that is when a lot of Iraq vets began
Speaker 1: to speak up with memories that agreed with Brian on
Speaker 1: one detail only, Yeah, it happened in Iraq. I saw
Speaker 1: the clip from the Rangers game, and I saw the
Speaker 1: train wreck coming up behind it for Brian and for
Speaker 1: NBC News, and I started emailing my remaining friends at NBC.
Speaker 1: Get him drunk, I wrote to one executive. Then take
Speaker 1: him into his office and scatter empty liquor bottles all around,
Speaker 1: and call in photographers from the New York Post, the
Speaker 1: New York Daily News, and then explain he going to rehab.
Speaker 1: You don't have to say anything else. Rehab as they
Speaker 1: get out of jail free card. He comes back in
Speaker 1: a month and they'll throw a freaking parade for him.
Speaker 1: To a former boss still at NBC, I sent this email.
Speaker 1: Put him on tonight and at the start of Nightly
Speaker 1: have him say this, I'm taking a voluntary leave of
Speaker 1: absence for fill in the blank days and during that time,
Speaker 1: the entirety of my salary will be donated to fill
Speaker 1: in the blank with any military charity. Because while I
Speaker 1: did not intend to exaggerate my experience in Iraq in
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, being hit by small arms fire
Speaker 1: is bad enough, being behind the helicopter that got hit
Speaker 1: with an RPG is worse. Nevertheless, I did exaggerate it,
Speaker 1: and a newsman cannot make a mistake like that without consequences.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your forbearance. Now for the rest of
Speaker 1: tonight's news cast, here is fill in the name of
Speaker 1: NBC employee number whatever. I added a PostScript to my
Speaker 1: old boss do this and he could still swerve out
Speaker 1: of this. But everybody in management and NBC News was
Speaker 1: asleep at the switch during this crisis. They're in action
Speaker 1: by News president Deborah Turnus, who now runs a BBC
Speaker 1: apparently did not bring the Williams catastrophe to the attention
Speaker 1: of Comcast News chief Pat Philly, and that would eventually
Speaker 1: cost both of them their jobs. Since I was at
Speaker 1: that exact moment, negotiating directly with Pat Philly to put
Speaker 1: Countdown back on MSNBC that also went down over the desert.
Speaker 1: Philly's successor was Andy Lack. He resumed the countdown negotiations
Speaker 1: with me at the Essex House the following fall. That
Speaker 1: was in New York on October twenty ninth, twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: just past the anniversary of that. Lack was moaning to
Speaker 1: me about Brian, whom he said he was ready to
Speaker 1: resign outright and was willing to go without much of
Speaker 1: a stink and without demanding much of a set gentleman.
Speaker 1: But it was Brian's wife, Lack said, who pointed out
Speaker 1: that there was a termination clause which was written by
Speaker 1: the self same Andy Lack. The previous time Andy Lack
Speaker 1: ran NBC News that meant if Brian were fired for cause,
Speaker 1: he would be owed twice whatever salary was left on
Speaker 1: his contract. His wife, Lack said, here's a goddamn Pat
Speaker 1: Nixon in this. So instead of firing him and owing
Speaker 1: him twice as much money for some reason, nice contract, Lack,
Speaker 1: Lack reassigned Brian to cover any breaking news during the
Speaker 1: Little Watch daytime hours of MSNBC and then eventually gave
Speaker 1: him his own show there at eleven PM. The punchline,
Speaker 1: of course, is that back in February of twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: when it turned out Brian had lied about Iraq and
Speaker 1: also maybe lied about seeing a dead body float past
Speaker 1: him during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and about being
Speaker 1: mugged while selling Christmas trees when he was in high school,
Speaker 1: and about saving a puppy when he's a volunteer firefighter.
Speaker 1: I felt dreadful for him. I thought this might be fixable,
Speaker 1: and you know who else felt it might be fixable
Speaker 1: and felt dreadful for him. Our mutual friend David Letterman
Speaker 1: and I was going on Dave's show, and I said
Speaker 1: to Dave, listen, I think Brian's career should not end
Speaker 1: because of this. He just needs help. He's a compulsive exaggerator.
Speaker 1: If you want to give me the opening to say
Speaker 1: that while I'm on with you, just do it. If
Speaker 1: you don't, don't, I won't bring it up myself. Dave
Speaker 1: is a very loyal man, and Dave gave me the opening,
Speaker 1: and then after I defended Brian, he joined me, and
Speaker 1: at that point we were literally the only two people
Speaker 1: working in television to speak out for Brian. Not only
Speaker 1: was it six weeks before Brian as much as sent
Speaker 1: me an email of thanks, but David told me he
Speaker 1: never heard from Brian, and I haven't heard from Brian
Speaker 1: since twenty fifteen. And there is another punchline. As I
Speaker 1: came off the Letterman stage that night that he and
Speaker 1: I both defended Brian Williams, a producer took me aside
Speaker 1: and said it was a nice thing to do, but
Speaker 1: was I sure I wanted to get involved in this?
Speaker 1: And I shrugged my shoulders and I said, who knows.
Speaker 1: Why do you ask? And he said, because one night
Speaker 1: when Brian was coming on the Letterman Show, it was
Speaker 1: the anniversary of the Iraq helicopter story, and in the
Speaker 1: pre interview, Brian explained to this producer that when they
Speaker 1: got hit by the RPG, which didn't happen, this command
Speaker 1: Sergeant Major Turpak had been injured, which didn't happen, And
Speaker 1: when they landed on the desert floor, which didn't happen,
Speaker 1: Brian treated Turpack's injury and dressed Turpack's wound himself. But
Speaker 1: then Brian said, maybe I should keep that between us.
Speaker 1: I guess we were lucky. Brian Williams never claimed that
Speaker 1: he saved the helicopter crew by catching the missile with
Speaker 1: his teeth. I've done all the damage I can do here.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Happily, After the damage was done,
Speaker 1: the chopper pilot and I made it to the desert
Speaker 1: floor and saved three thousand American soldiers. Our musical directors
Speaker 1: of Countdown are John Phillip Scheneil on keyboards and handling
Speaker 1: orchestration and Brian Ray on guitars, bass and drums, and
Speaker 1: their work is produced by Tko Brothers. Nancy Faus, the
Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever, is responsible for these satirical
Speaker 1: and pithy musical comments. When we use the sports music,
Speaker 1: it's from the Old Olderman Show. Theme from The Old
Speaker 1: Alderman Show by Old Olderman from ESPN two, written by
Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis courtesy ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and
Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. And my announcer
Speaker 1: today is my friend Tony Kornheiser, also provided by ESPN Inc.
Speaker 1: This program was produced by Ted. Everything else was as
Speaker 1: always my fault. It's Countdown for today, Day four hundred
Speaker 1: and forty six. Of America held hostage again, but just
Speaker 1: one thousand and seven days until the scheduled end of
Speaker 1: Trump's lane duck and lame brained term unless he is
Speaker 1: removed sooner by Jesus or the New York Rangers, or
Speaker 1: Iranian nuclear dust, or by corner stores. The next scheduled
Speaker 1: countdown is Thursday bulletins as the news merits until the
Speaker 1: next one. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight,
Speaker 1: and good luck.
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