1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,595 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. So 2 00:00:22,755 --> 00:00:26,915 Speaker 1: the dominion suit was settled by Fox in part because 3 00:00:26,955 --> 00:00:30,675 Speaker 1: of stuff discovered at the last minute, and that stuff 4 00:00:30,875 --> 00:00:36,435 Speaker 1: was Tucker Carlson texts, and Carlson was fired personally hands on, 5 00:00:36,595 --> 00:00:40,155 Speaker 1: not by Lachlan Murdoch and Suzanne Scott, but by Rupert 6 00:00:40,315 --> 00:00:44,115 Speaker 1: Murdoch and Carlson really did call a woman executive at 7 00:00:44,115 --> 00:00:46,995 Speaker 1: Fox the C word, and all signs point to that 8 00:00:47,035 --> 00:00:50,475 Speaker 1: executive indeed being the one I mentioned, Irena Braganti, and 9 00:00:50,555 --> 00:00:53,155 Speaker 1: it is pretty clear her response was to open up 10 00:00:53,395 --> 00:00:56,755 Speaker 1: the oppo research files Fox had on Carlson that I 11 00:00:56,795 --> 00:01:01,115 Speaker 1: told you about yesterday. And you know how I hate 12 00:01:01,155 --> 00:01:04,435 Speaker 1: to say I told you so, and am ever reluctant 13 00:01:04,435 --> 00:01:07,435 Speaker 1: to go when I'm proven correct. And when I say hate, 14 00:01:07,635 --> 00:01:09,835 Speaker 1: I mean love. And when I say reluctant, I mean 15 00:01:09,875 --> 00:01:14,355 Speaker 1: I'm the first two executives, maybe Murdoch and his son 16 00:01:14,435 --> 00:01:17,835 Speaker 1: and the operational CEO Scott and the Fox board really 17 00:01:17,875 --> 00:01:21,955 Speaker 1: did somehow miss until the day before the dominion trial 18 00:01:22,035 --> 00:01:24,995 Speaker 1: was to begin that under those black boxes and the 19 00:01:25,035 --> 00:01:28,675 Speaker 1: redacted portions of the texts and top lines and emails, 20 00:01:28,715 --> 00:01:31,035 Speaker 1: Fox it had to turn over to Dominion was a 21 00:01:31,195 --> 00:01:36,235 Speaker 1: trove of Tucker Carlson time bombs and F bombs and 22 00:01:36,395 --> 00:01:39,275 Speaker 1: C bombs, and nearly all of them directed at his 23 00:01:39,435 --> 00:01:43,315 Speaker 1: own bosses. The New York Times reported last night, quote, 24 00:01:43,475 --> 00:01:47,235 Speaker 1: private messages sent by mister Carlson showed him making highly 25 00:01:47,275 --> 00:01:51,395 Speaker 1: offensive and crude remarks that went beyond the inflammatory, often 26 00:01:51,515 --> 00:01:55,795 Speaker 1: racist comments of his primetime show and anything disclosed in 27 00:01:55,835 --> 00:01:58,435 Speaker 1: the lead up to the trial. Despite the fact that 28 00:01:58,475 --> 00:02:02,515 Speaker 1: Fox's trial lawyers had these messages for months, the board 29 00:02:02,915 --> 00:02:06,395 Speaker 1: and some senior executives were now learning about their details 30 00:02:06,435 --> 00:02:09,915 Speaker 1: for the first time, setting off a crisis at the 31 00:02:09,995 --> 00:02:13,315 Speaker 1: highest level of the company. Wait, it gets worse. The 32 00:02:13,435 --> 00:02:16,795 Speaker 1: Washington Post on what was in those Carlson messages, quote, 33 00:02:16,875 --> 00:02:19,715 Speaker 1: he referred to a woman who is a senior communications 34 00:02:19,755 --> 00:02:26,035 Speaker 1: executive for Fox as a sea Dash Dash Dash. The 35 00:02:26,075 --> 00:02:29,515 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, not coincidentally also owned by Rupert Murdoch, 36 00:02:29,515 --> 00:02:32,435 Speaker 1: added one final thrust of the sword through whatever was 37 00:02:32,555 --> 00:02:35,555 Speaker 1: left of Tucker Carlson's prospects of ever again being an 38 00:02:35,595 --> 00:02:41,635 Speaker 1: employee anywhere. Fox lawyers had found the sea text weeks earlier. Quote, 39 00:02:41,715 --> 00:02:44,395 Speaker 1: they presented Tucker Carlson with what they thought was good 40 00:02:44,435 --> 00:02:47,795 Speaker 1: news they had persuaded the court to redact from a 41 00:02:47,875 --> 00:02:51,115 Speaker 1: legal filing the time he called a senior Fox News 42 00:02:51,115 --> 00:02:56,795 Speaker 1: executive the sea word unquote. But Carlson quote wasn't impressed. 43 00:02:57,195 --> 00:02:59,555 Speaker 1: He told his colleagues that he wanted the world to 44 00:02:59,715 --> 00:03:01,955 Speaker 1: know what he had said about the executive in a 45 00:03:01,995 --> 00:03:06,675 Speaker 1: private message. How could this get any worse? Just wait again? 46 00:03:06,755 --> 00:03:10,275 Speaker 1: Quoting the Journal, mister Carlson said, comments he made about Trump, 47 00:03:10,395 --> 00:03:13,195 Speaker 1: I hate him passionately that were in the court documents 48 00:03:13,235 --> 00:03:16,395 Speaker 1: were said during a momentary spasm of anger, while his 49 00:03:16,515 --> 00:03:25,595 Speaker 1: dislike of this executive was deep and enduring. Unquote. Hooy okay. 50 00:03:25,675 --> 00:03:28,355 Speaker 1: Let's stitch together the reports from the Times, the Post, 51 00:03:28,355 --> 00:03:31,075 Speaker 1: and the Journal to recap just this part of this. 52 00:03:31,675 --> 00:03:34,675 Speaker 1: Weeks before the Fox dominion trial was to start, lawyers 53 00:03:34,715 --> 00:03:38,275 Speaker 1: found at least one text in which Tucker Carlson called 54 00:03:38,635 --> 00:03:43,555 Speaker 1: a communications executive the old see you later. They told 55 00:03:43,595 --> 00:03:45,515 Speaker 1: him they'd got in the court to let them redact it. 56 00:03:45,555 --> 00:03:47,595 Speaker 1: He said, I don't want you to redact it. That's 57 00:03:47,635 --> 00:03:50,795 Speaker 1: how I feel about her. And despite that, many senior 58 00:03:50,835 --> 00:03:54,075 Speaker 1: Fox executives and the whole board of directors knew nothing 59 00:03:54,355 --> 00:03:58,515 Speaker 1: of Carlson's oh say, can you see text? Until the 60 00:03:58,675 --> 00:04:02,395 Speaker 1: day before the trial was supposed to begin, and panic ensued. 61 00:04:04,115 --> 00:04:07,275 Speaker 1: Fox was already negotiating a settlement, so they got a 62 00:04:07,315 --> 00:04:09,715 Speaker 1: postponent and then they cut a deal the day after that, 63 00:04:09,835 --> 00:04:12,075 Speaker 1: at least in part out of the fear that these 64 00:04:12,115 --> 00:04:15,035 Speaker 1: messages would become public during that trial. And by the way, 65 00:04:15,235 --> 00:04:19,115 Speaker 1: they still could become public since the Associated Press NPR 66 00:04:19,235 --> 00:04:22,675 Speaker 1: and The Times have challenged their redactions and the Delaware 67 00:04:22,715 --> 00:04:25,115 Speaker 1: Court is going to rule on that and could still 68 00:04:25,155 --> 00:04:30,475 Speaker 1: release them. So point two who fired him? The Journal 69 00:04:30,515 --> 00:04:34,155 Speaker 1: says Rupert Murdoch and his not quite ninety day fiance 70 00:04:34,435 --> 00:04:37,715 Speaker 1: and Leslie Smith dined with Carlson quote a few weeks 71 00:04:37,715 --> 00:04:40,315 Speaker 1: ago at Murdoch's home in bel Air, California. The Post 72 00:04:40,395 --> 00:04:43,515 Speaker 1: says that dinner was two weeks ago. It can't be 73 00:04:43,795 --> 00:04:47,835 Speaker 1: the engagement ended on April fourth. Whenever it was, things 74 00:04:48,075 --> 00:04:52,115 Speaker 1: seemed good. But the Post says Murdoch in fact conveyed 75 00:04:52,155 --> 00:04:55,235 Speaker 1: to Carlson that he was disturbed that Carlson had gone 76 00:04:55,235 --> 00:04:59,275 Speaker 1: so anti Ukraine and so pro Russia. Particularly, Murdoch did 77 00:04:59,275 --> 00:05:02,435 Speaker 1: not like Carlson's reference to President Zelenski as a quote 78 00:05:02,675 --> 00:05:06,715 Speaker 1: Ukrainian pimp that was on Carlson's show. The Post even 79 00:05:06,755 --> 00:05:10,595 Speaker 1: claims that pro Ukraine Republicans had complained to Murdoch and 80 00:05:10,635 --> 00:05:14,875 Speaker 1: that last month Murdoch quote joined a Fox newsroom meeting 81 00:05:15,155 --> 00:05:19,795 Speaker 1: to loudly challenge Carlson's message and how much fun must 82 00:05:19,835 --> 00:05:24,195 Speaker 1: that meeting have been? The next meeting of note, as 83 00:05:24,235 --> 00:05:27,795 Speaker 1: we already knew, was just last Friday night, with Suzanne 84 00:05:27,795 --> 00:05:30,755 Speaker 1: Scott and Lachlan Murdoch opting to get rid of Carlson. 85 00:05:31,235 --> 00:05:34,515 Speaker 1: The Times says severing times with Tucker Carlson was made 86 00:05:34,515 --> 00:05:38,395 Speaker 1: by quote the father's son team of Rupert and Lochlan Murdoch. 87 00:05:38,515 --> 00:05:41,755 Speaker 1: The Washington Post ads Lachlan spoke to his father about 88 00:05:41,795 --> 00:05:44,635 Speaker 1: it on Saturday. According to two people familiar with the discussion, 89 00:05:45,235 --> 00:05:47,635 Speaker 1: you may recall I told you this on Monday afternoon, 90 00:05:47,675 --> 00:05:50,795 Speaker 1: and again, I am loath to toot my own horn 91 00:05:50,835 --> 00:05:53,235 Speaker 1: on stuff like this. And when I say loathe, I 92 00:05:53,275 --> 00:05:55,995 Speaker 1: mean I have a collection of different horns over there 93 00:05:55,995 --> 00:05:59,475 Speaker 1: in my music room. The La Times also reported also 94 00:05:59,595 --> 00:06:03,635 Speaker 1: on Monday, that it was Rupert who pulled that trigger. Okay, 95 00:06:03,675 --> 00:06:06,675 Speaker 1: so let's do the whole timeline. I find this endlessly 96 00:06:06,875 --> 00:06:10,275 Speaker 1: entertaining on Saturday the second or so, Murdoch and his 97 00:06:10,395 --> 00:06:14,715 Speaker 1: then fiance hosted Carlson for dinner. That week, lawyers went 98 00:06:14,755 --> 00:06:16,755 Speaker 1: to Carlson and said, hey, there's a text in here 99 00:06:16,955 --> 00:06:19,675 Speaker 1: in which you misspell Arena Bragante's name with a C, 100 00:06:19,995 --> 00:06:22,155 Speaker 1: not a G, but we've redacted it, and he said, 101 00:06:22,155 --> 00:06:25,435 Speaker 1: I don't want it redacted. On Sunday the sixteenth, everybody 102 00:06:25,475 --> 00:06:28,715 Speaker 1: who did not know found out that at trial, a 103 00:06:28,755 --> 00:06:32,435 Speaker 1: dominion lawyer would be asking Carlson on the stand why 104 00:06:32,475 --> 00:06:35,395 Speaker 1: he called a News Corp Vice president the sea Word. 105 00:06:36,115 --> 00:06:39,115 Speaker 1: On Tuesday the eighteenth, Fox settled the dominion suit. On 106 00:06:39,195 --> 00:06:42,035 Speaker 1: Friday the twenty first, Lachlan Murdoc and Suzanne Scott decided 107 00:06:42,035 --> 00:06:44,595 Speaker 1: they had had enough of Tucker Carlson. On Saturday the 108 00:06:44,595 --> 00:06:47,875 Speaker 1: twenty second, Rupert Murdoch concurred with them that Carlson should 109 00:06:47,915 --> 00:06:50,715 Speaker 1: be fired. On Monday, the twenty fourth, he was fired 110 00:06:50,755 --> 00:06:53,875 Speaker 1: by phone by Suzanne Scott, and on Wednesday, the twenty sixth, 111 00:06:53,915 --> 00:06:57,755 Speaker 1: Arena Bragante opened up the closet full of Tucker Carlson 112 00:06:57,795 --> 00:07:00,955 Speaker 1: skeletons they had at Fox and began parceling them out 113 00:07:01,115 --> 00:07:03,315 Speaker 1: to the Wall Street Journal. In the Washington post in 114 00:07:03,355 --> 00:07:05,475 Speaker 1: the New York Times. And by, by the way, there 115 00:07:05,515 --> 00:07:09,355 Speaker 1: are more. I guarantee you there are more. The bottom 116 00:07:09,395 --> 00:07:14,115 Speaker 1: line of the timeline Rupert Murdoch had dinner like twenty 117 00:07:14,155 --> 00:07:18,875 Speaker 1: five days ago with his fiance and his top Fox anchor, 118 00:07:19,475 --> 00:07:25,075 Speaker 1: and within three weeks he had fired both of them. 119 00:07:25,515 --> 00:07:30,115 Speaker 1: To me, there are three subtle lowercase headlines. First, this 120 00:07:30,275 --> 00:07:33,315 Speaker 1: whole scenario in which lawyers tried to save Carlson by 121 00:07:33,355 --> 00:07:37,275 Speaker 1: redacting his vulgarity towards Briganti or the off chance that 122 00:07:37,315 --> 00:07:40,315 Speaker 1: it was somebody else, and he defiantly said he meant 123 00:07:40,355 --> 00:07:44,035 Speaker 1: every word of that word. This is the Tucker Carlson 124 00:07:44,395 --> 00:07:48,755 Speaker 1: I knew at MSNBC, and later when he stole my 125 00:07:48,915 --> 00:07:51,715 Speaker 1: identity and opened a website with my name in it 126 00:07:51,755 --> 00:07:55,395 Speaker 1: and pretended to be me in an email interview with 127 00:07:55,395 --> 00:07:59,195 Speaker 1: a Philadelphia Daily News columnist. He's a petulant little boy, 128 00:07:59,835 --> 00:08:03,915 Speaker 1: A petulant little boy, unchanged since nineteen eighty three or so, 129 00:08:04,395 --> 00:08:06,555 Speaker 1: when he had to move from the boys department to 130 00:08:06,595 --> 00:08:11,955 Speaker 1: the men's at Jack Taylor Clothier's of Beverly Hills. Small petty, 131 00:08:12,475 --> 00:08:15,555 Speaker 1: incapable of learning the eternal lessons that objects in the 132 00:08:15,595 --> 00:08:19,275 Speaker 1: mirror are closer than they appear. It wasn't just that 133 00:08:19,355 --> 00:08:22,195 Speaker 1: he had to insult Briganti, He had to make sure 134 00:08:22,235 --> 00:08:25,635 Speaker 1: you knew he was insulting her. Just like at MSNBC, 135 00:08:25,795 --> 00:08:28,835 Speaker 1: he used to shout slurs against everybody but whites and 136 00:08:28,915 --> 00:08:31,755 Speaker 1: Asians and men, and people would tell him to keep 137 00:08:31,795 --> 00:08:37,475 Speaker 1: his voice down, and he wouldn't. Second replaces devoid of 138 00:08:37,595 --> 00:08:41,515 Speaker 1: moral force or ethics, as Fox, the number of times 139 00:08:41,555 --> 00:08:46,755 Speaker 1: they accidentally seem valiant or chivalrous is really surprising and 140 00:08:46,875 --> 00:08:50,715 Speaker 1: needs to be explained. Rupert Murdoch doesn't give a damn 141 00:08:50,715 --> 00:08:53,795 Speaker 1: whether or not Tucker Carlson calls Burgante the sea word. 142 00:08:54,115 --> 00:08:56,075 Speaker 1: He only cares about whether or not she'll be mad 143 00:08:56,195 --> 00:08:58,835 Speaker 1: enough about it to quit him or sue his company, 144 00:08:58,995 --> 00:09:03,475 Speaker 1: or both, or reveal his skeletons in her closet. And 145 00:09:03,555 --> 00:09:05,795 Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch didn't give a day if somebody calls Vladimir 146 00:09:05,875 --> 00:09:08,595 Speaker 1: Zelenski a quote pimp. He just needs some of the 147 00:09:08,635 --> 00:09:12,355 Speaker 1: Republicans who were offended. He needs them for some scheme 148 00:09:12,435 --> 00:09:14,635 Speaker 1: he is working up for the next month, for the 149 00:09:14,675 --> 00:09:18,835 Speaker 1: next year, or the next lifetime. And the last sub 150 00:09:18,875 --> 00:09:24,395 Speaker 1: headline came at exactly eight pm last night. Good evening. 151 00:09:24,395 --> 00:09:27,355 Speaker 1: It's Tucker Carlson. One of the first things you realize 152 00:09:27,355 --> 00:09:29,915 Speaker 1: when you step outside the noise for a few days 153 00:09:30,035 --> 00:09:33,275 Speaker 1: is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country, 154 00:09:33,355 --> 00:09:36,835 Speaker 1: kind and decent people, people who really care about et cetera, 155 00:09:36,835 --> 00:09:43,035 Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I am the last 156 00:09:43,315 --> 00:09:48,475 Speaker 1: person to criticize somebody for doing a Twitter only version 157 00:09:48,635 --> 00:09:51,995 Speaker 1: of what had been his show at exactly the hour 158 00:09:52,075 --> 00:09:54,955 Speaker 1: of the show used to start at exactly eight pm 159 00:09:55,115 --> 00:09:59,355 Speaker 1: Eastern Time, from one of the sets I he used 160 00:09:59,395 --> 00:10:03,035 Speaker 1: to use. I mean, after NBC breached my contract and 161 00:10:03,155 --> 00:10:05,275 Speaker 1: before the settlement allowed me to act, we go on 162 00:10:05,555 --> 00:10:08,275 Speaker 1: TV again. At Current TV. I did a bunch of 163 00:10:08,355 --> 00:10:12,595 Speaker 1: commentaries from my living room on a website we called 164 00:10:12,875 --> 00:10:16,875 Speaker 1: Fox News FOK Friends of Keith that was actually secretly 165 00:10:16,995 --> 00:10:20,715 Speaker 1: run by Current TV, And when the show started on 166 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:28,075 Speaker 1: Current TV in twenty eleven, we called it Countdown, and 167 00:10:28,195 --> 00:10:31,675 Speaker 1: though I resisted the name after that, starting in twenty twelve, 168 00:10:31,955 --> 00:10:36,275 Speaker 1: when we launched this podcast last year, yeah, what did 169 00:10:36,315 --> 00:10:43,035 Speaker 1: I call it again? Well, you know, long before I 170 00:10:43,155 --> 00:10:45,875 Speaker 1: finished the eight years of Countdown on MSNBC, I was 171 00:10:45,955 --> 00:10:48,995 Speaker 1: telling people that the problem with cable news is each 172 00:10:49,115 --> 00:10:52,635 Speaker 1: show you do requires you to do about three percent 173 00:10:52,875 --> 00:10:57,475 Speaker 1: more work per day than you can actually do. Sooner 174 00:10:57,595 --> 00:11:01,875 Speaker 1: or later, this will begin to affect your mind. It's 175 00:11:01,915 --> 00:11:06,395 Speaker 1: a kind of PTSD. And when suddenly you stop that show, 176 00:11:06,555 --> 00:11:08,955 Speaker 1: or as in Carlson's case, it is stopped for you, 177 00:11:09,595 --> 00:11:13,355 Speaker 1: part of you keeps working, keeps going, keeps going right 178 00:11:13,435 --> 00:11:18,275 Speaker 1: through the windshield. In that kind of sad Twitter video, 179 00:11:18,395 --> 00:11:23,355 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson talked about having taken some time off. He 180 00:11:23,475 --> 00:11:26,315 Speaker 1: had been fired fifty six hours earlier. Fifty six hours 181 00:11:26,395 --> 00:11:28,915 Speaker 1: is not time off. Fifty six hours is a slightly 182 00:11:29,035 --> 00:11:34,115 Speaker 1: longer than usual weekend. Also, as you blithely try in 183 00:11:34,195 --> 00:11:37,315 Speaker 1: that situation to pretend things are just fine and you 184 00:11:37,435 --> 00:11:40,475 Speaker 1: didn't need that network and it's support staff of ooh, 185 00:11:41,555 --> 00:11:45,195 Speaker 1: two or three hundred people, you always forget to notice 186 00:11:45,275 --> 00:11:49,395 Speaker 1: something that the audience will not forget to notice. You 187 00:11:49,595 --> 00:11:54,195 Speaker 1: hit upload and they go uh oh. In Tucker's case, 188 00:11:54,275 --> 00:11:57,195 Speaker 1: it was the five speed bumps of those who have 189 00:11:57,315 --> 00:12:00,955 Speaker 1: claimed their independence from the crushing maw of cable news, 190 00:12:01,995 --> 00:12:04,515 Speaker 1: or as in his case, have had their independence handed 191 00:12:04,515 --> 00:12:07,915 Speaker 1: to them along with their head. One his prospects of 192 00:12:08,035 --> 00:12:10,715 Speaker 1: walking away with the forty million or so Fox owes 193 00:12:10,795 --> 00:12:15,475 Speaker 1: him clearly depend on him not actually doing a news 194 00:12:15,595 --> 00:12:18,395 Speaker 1: commentary of any kind. So in that thing I played 195 00:12:18,435 --> 00:12:22,035 Speaker 1: the clip from, he was not allowed to actually say anything, 196 00:12:22,275 --> 00:12:25,835 Speaker 1: and he didn't. There is not one name, not one location, 197 00:12:26,155 --> 00:12:28,835 Speaker 1: one news story mentioned in the whole two minutes and 198 00:12:28,955 --> 00:12:36,115 Speaker 1: fifteen seconds. Also, there's no microphone. Third, the lighting is 199 00:12:36,195 --> 00:12:39,995 Speaker 1: all wrong. Fourth, it is better to wear no makeup 200 00:12:40,075 --> 00:12:43,555 Speaker 1: at all than to do it incorrectly, And Carlston managed 201 00:12:43,555 --> 00:12:47,475 Speaker 1: to make himself look red while also forgetting to draw 202 00:12:47,755 --> 00:12:52,755 Speaker 1: in his eyebrows. Fifth, the angle at which he put 203 00:12:52,835 --> 00:12:59,635 Speaker 1: that camera made him look small, very very small. Or 204 00:13:00,715 --> 00:13:02,795 Speaker 1: maybe it's always been like that with him and the 205 00:13:02,875 --> 00:13:09,475 Speaker 1: rest of us just didn't notice. A couple of headlines 206 00:13:09,475 --> 00:13:12,355 Speaker 1: from the creature. Carlson and Murdoch have lied for Trump's 207 00:13:12,395 --> 00:13:16,035 Speaker 1: bid to stop Mike Pence's testimony to the Special Council's 208 00:13:16,115 --> 00:13:19,555 Speaker 1: January sixth grand jury, denied late yesterday by a three 209 00:13:19,675 --> 00:13:23,915 Speaker 1: judge federal appeals panel in the least convincing attempted slight 210 00:13:24,035 --> 00:13:27,715 Speaker 1: of hand by Trump's many lawyers, Tim Parlatour and James 211 00:13:27,835 --> 00:13:31,235 Speaker 1: Trusty have written to House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner and 212 00:13:31,395 --> 00:13:36,275 Speaker 1: professed to kind of false kumbayah, saying those classified documents 213 00:13:36,315 --> 00:13:39,875 Speaker 1: that Trump stole included notes that were given to him 214 00:13:40,235 --> 00:13:42,955 Speaker 1: for use during phone calls with foreign leaders, and thus 215 00:13:43,115 --> 00:13:47,515 Speaker 1: quote the stakeholders to these matters should set aside political 216 00:13:47,555 --> 00:13:52,235 Speaker 1: difference and work together to remediate the issue by thinking 217 00:13:52,355 --> 00:13:56,515 Speaker 1: carefully about these documents and not prosecuting Trump or Biden 218 00:13:57,035 --> 00:13:59,835 Speaker 1: or Pence who are suddenly in their mind all the 219 00:13:59,915 --> 00:14:03,875 Speaker 1: same here as usual, it is the Trump flunkies who 220 00:14:03,915 --> 00:14:07,315 Speaker 1: are actually going to prison. Brian Colpage and Andrew Batolado, 221 00:14:07,675 --> 00:14:10,435 Speaker 1: who worked with the scam, dressed up as a nonprofit 222 00:14:10,555 --> 00:14:13,155 Speaker 1: called We Build the Wall with Steve Bannon. The two 223 00:14:13,275 --> 00:14:17,275 Speaker 1: of them were sentenced yesterday, Battalado three years, Collfage four. 224 00:14:18,115 --> 00:14:22,315 Speaker 1: They spent the money on things like boat payments and 225 00:14:22,595 --> 00:14:27,155 Speaker 1: the Egen Carrol lawsuit started with her testifying for three 226 00:14:27,315 --> 00:14:30,715 Speaker 1: and a half hours in her rape and defamation lawsuit 227 00:14:30,755 --> 00:14:33,835 Speaker 1: against Trump. She said she was fired by l magazine 228 00:14:33,835 --> 00:14:36,435 Speaker 1: after she went public and she saw her career go away. 229 00:14:37,035 --> 00:14:39,955 Speaker 1: The day began with the judge warning Trump's lawyer about 230 00:14:40,035 --> 00:14:44,155 Speaker 1: Trump outbursting in absentia. Trump had posted on social media 231 00:14:44,275 --> 00:14:47,675 Speaker 1: in the morning, insulting everybody and calling the trial a scam, 232 00:14:48,235 --> 00:14:50,835 Speaker 1: and the judge's warning that this could open him up 233 00:14:50,875 --> 00:14:54,475 Speaker 1: to quote a new source of potential liability can be 234 00:14:54,675 --> 00:14:58,675 Speaker 1: easily translated, although maybe not if you have the personality 235 00:14:58,795 --> 00:15:02,395 Speaker 1: of a serial killer, as the defendant does. The translation 236 00:15:02,715 --> 00:15:06,235 Speaker 1: is this from the judge, shut the hell up, or 237 00:15:06,355 --> 00:15:23,315 Speaker 1: you will find your ass in contempt of court. Still 238 00:15:23,355 --> 00:15:26,555 Speaker 1: ahead on this ediative countdown. Residents of Wisconsin probably refer 239 00:15:26,635 --> 00:15:29,795 Speaker 1: to themselves as cheeseheads, but there is an excellent chance 240 00:15:29,835 --> 00:15:32,515 Speaker 1: that their Republican senator really has a head made out 241 00:15:32,555 --> 00:15:37,315 Speaker 1: of cheese. He explains, climate change will be great because 242 00:15:37,355 --> 00:15:41,955 Speaker 1: then it will be warmer in Wisconsin. It's the anniversary 243 00:15:41,955 --> 00:15:44,115 Speaker 1: of the famous story of the baseball player who gets 244 00:15:44,155 --> 00:15:46,155 Speaker 1: traded for a player to be named later, and when 245 00:15:46,195 --> 00:15:47,995 Speaker 1: the day comes, it turns out the player to be 246 00:15:48,115 --> 00:15:51,795 Speaker 1: named later was him. It's a great story and it 247 00:15:51,955 --> 00:15:56,515 Speaker 1: is one hundred percent not true. And she was the 248 00:15:56,555 --> 00:15:59,955 Speaker 1: most patient superstar I have ever met. And this month 249 00:16:00,115 --> 00:16:03,355 Speaker 1: is the ninetieth anniversary of her birth. How I missed 250 00:16:03,395 --> 00:16:06,315 Speaker 1: my friend Lizzie Montgomery Later in things I promise not 251 00:16:06,435 --> 00:16:15,715 Speaker 1: to tell. That's next. This is countdown. You know, this 252 00:16:15,915 --> 00:16:18,715 Speaker 1: is countdown with you know Keith Alberman. 253 00:16:31,155 --> 00:16:37,395 Speaker 2: This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 254 00:16:38,435 --> 00:16:42,075 Speaker 2: is Countdown with Keith Alberman. 255 00:16:42,315 --> 00:16:45,635 Speaker 1: In sports, it is a tradition as old as sports 256 00:16:45,755 --> 00:16:49,675 Speaker 1: and baseball themselves. A young baseball player has an explosive 257 00:16:49,755 --> 00:16:53,475 Speaker 1: spring training, unexpectedly cracks the starting lineup of his team, 258 00:16:53,875 --> 00:16:56,915 Speaker 1: goes on a tear to start the season, and then 259 00:16:57,075 --> 00:17:02,075 Speaker 1: something bad happens. The Saint Louis Cardinals have sent outfielder 260 00:17:02,195 --> 00:17:06,355 Speaker 1: Jordan Walker to Triple A. That name sounds familiar from 261 00:17:06,395 --> 00:17:10,835 Speaker 1: somewhere in your past. It should. He began this season 262 00:17:10,955 --> 00:17:14,035 Speaker 1: hitting in twelve consecutive games, tying the record for the 263 00:17:14,115 --> 00:17:17,195 Speaker 1: longest such streak at the start of a career by 264 00:17:17,315 --> 00:17:21,315 Speaker 1: any player aged twenty or younger as of April twelfth. 265 00:17:21,955 --> 00:17:25,475 Speaker 1: This April twelfth, Jordan Walker was hitting three nineteen. He 266 00:17:25,515 --> 00:17:28,115 Speaker 1: had an on base percentage of three sixty, had a 267 00:17:28,195 --> 00:17:31,515 Speaker 1: slugging average of four to eighty twelve games, two homers, 268 00:17:31,635 --> 00:17:35,955 Speaker 1: eight RBI. Since then, he's had four singles and a 269 00:17:36,075 --> 00:17:40,755 Speaker 1: double and a trip to Memphis, Tennessee. That streak tied 270 00:17:40,795 --> 00:17:43,875 Speaker 1: the young mark by Eddie Murphy of the nineteen twelve a's. 271 00:17:44,275 --> 00:17:47,075 Speaker 1: The longest streak ever to start a career was seventeen 272 00:17:47,155 --> 00:17:49,955 Speaker 1: games by Chuck Alano of the nineteen forty one Reds 273 00:17:49,955 --> 00:17:52,875 Speaker 1: and David Doll of the twenty sixteen Rockies, and you're 274 00:17:52,915 --> 00:17:54,635 Speaker 1: not going to find either of them in the Hall 275 00:17:54,675 --> 00:17:58,435 Speaker 1: of Fame either. But right now, Jordan Walker seems to 276 00:17:58,595 --> 00:18:01,955 Speaker 1: most closely match an outfielder from the nineteen sixty six 277 00:18:02,075 --> 00:18:06,395 Speaker 1: California Angels named Jackie Warner. At twenty two, Jackie Warner 278 00:18:06,555 --> 00:18:09,915 Speaker 1: was the Cherubs opening day right fielder. In just his 279 00:18:10,155 --> 00:18:13,235 Speaker 1: second game in the majors, he homered to beat Chicago 280 00:18:13,355 --> 00:18:16,275 Speaker 1: and Joe Horland, who would be the ERA champion the 281 00:18:16,315 --> 00:18:18,795 Speaker 1: next year. Two to one was the final score. Two 282 00:18:18,875 --> 00:18:21,755 Speaker 1: days later, he had another homer to beat the Twins 283 00:18:21,875 --> 00:18:24,315 Speaker 1: and Mudcat Grant, who had won twenty one games the 284 00:18:24,395 --> 00:18:28,035 Speaker 1: year before, three to two. A week later, he homered 285 00:18:28,115 --> 00:18:31,195 Speaker 1: in the eighth to beat the Twins again, four to three. 286 00:18:31,515 --> 00:18:35,395 Speaker 1: He had three game winning homers in three games decided 287 00:18:35,435 --> 00:18:39,275 Speaker 1: by one run. His home run in his first seven 288 00:18:39,395 --> 00:18:42,675 Speaker 1: games in the majors. After fifteen games in the Majors, 289 00:18:42,795 --> 00:18:46,315 Speaker 1: Jackie Warner had five homers, thirteen RBI and he was 290 00:18:46,395 --> 00:18:50,155 Speaker 1: batting three forty five and then he pulled something in 291 00:18:50,275 --> 00:18:54,875 Speaker 1: his back. He got seven more hits in his career. 292 00:18:55,915 --> 00:18:57,915 Speaker 1: He went to the miners on July twenty eighth and 293 00:18:58,075 --> 00:19:02,195 Speaker 1: never came back. And tomorrow is an anniversary of a 294 00:19:02,235 --> 00:19:06,435 Speaker 1: great baseball story that is, unfortunately justin urban legend. It 295 00:19:06,555 --> 00:19:08,795 Speaker 1: was the day a catcher named Harry Cheaty made his 296 00:19:08,915 --> 00:19:11,555 Speaker 1: debut for the infamous nineteen sixty two New York Mets 297 00:19:11,835 --> 00:19:14,835 Speaker 1: after they obtained him from Cleveland. You will still hear 298 00:19:15,035 --> 00:19:18,355 Speaker 1: Cheaty's story told this way. The Mets once traded a 299 00:19:18,435 --> 00:19:20,435 Speaker 1: player to be named later to the Indians for a 300 00:19:20,475 --> 00:19:23,395 Speaker 1: catcher named Harry Cheaty. Six weeks later, when it came 301 00:19:23,435 --> 00:19:25,915 Speaker 1: time to name the player to be named later, the 302 00:19:26,035 --> 00:19:29,475 Speaker 1: Mets named him Harry Cheaty. He was the player to 303 00:19:29,555 --> 00:19:31,795 Speaker 1: be named later in the deal in which the Mets 304 00:19:31,915 --> 00:19:36,955 Speaker 1: got him. It's a great story, it's not true. All 305 00:19:37,075 --> 00:19:40,595 Speaker 1: contemporary newspaper accounts from the wire services and from team 306 00:19:40,675 --> 00:19:45,235 Speaker 1: press releases indicate the Mets bought Harry Cheaty's contract from 307 00:19:45,315 --> 00:19:49,635 Speaker 1: Cleveland for twenty five thousand dollars on June fifteenth, after 308 00:19:49,755 --> 00:19:52,595 Speaker 1: Cheaty had complained about lack of playing time in New York, 309 00:19:52,835 --> 00:19:55,915 Speaker 1: and after the Mets privately complained that they had given 310 00:19:55,995 --> 00:19:59,235 Speaker 1: him too much playing time, the Mets sold Cheaty to 311 00:19:59,315 --> 00:20:02,395 Speaker 1: one of Cleveland's minor league teams. He was not the 312 00:20:02,475 --> 00:20:07,035 Speaker 1: player traded for himself. But where did that story come from? 313 00:20:07,675 --> 00:20:11,275 Speaker 1: Turns out it came from Harry Cheaty as he was 314 00:20:11,395 --> 00:20:14,955 Speaker 1: packing his stuff in the met clubhouse. Harry Cheaty told reporters. 315 00:20:15,195 --> 00:20:17,515 Speaker 1: When I was notified that I was sold by Cleveland 316 00:20:17,595 --> 00:20:19,595 Speaker 1: to the Mets back in April, I was told it 317 00:20:19,715 --> 00:20:23,355 Speaker 1: was for cash or a player to be named later. 318 00:20:24,195 --> 00:20:28,515 Speaker 1: Now it turns out that I'm the player delivered later. 319 00:20:36,555 --> 00:20:40,075 Speaker 1: Didn't happen, Thank you, Nancy Faust. No, that did not happen, 320 00:20:40,195 --> 00:20:44,235 Speaker 1: but this just did. This year, those same Mets hired 321 00:20:44,275 --> 00:20:47,115 Speaker 1: a new bullpen coach, a man who's done that job 322 00:20:47,235 --> 00:20:52,435 Speaker 1: for four franchises over three decades. His name is Dom Cheaty. 323 00:20:53,235 --> 00:21:09,915 Speaker 1: He is, in fact, the sun of Harry Cheaty, still 324 00:21:09,955 --> 00:21:13,875 Speaker 1: ahead on countdown. Elizabeth Montgomery would have just turned ninety 325 00:21:14,035 --> 00:21:17,995 Speaker 1: years old. She has been gone nearly three decades. She 326 00:21:18,195 --> 00:21:20,635 Speaker 1: was my friend and I feel like I just talked 327 00:21:20,635 --> 00:21:23,755 Speaker 1: to her yesterday and the last episode of her most 328 00:21:23,795 --> 00:21:27,355 Speaker 1: famous TV show was filmed in nineteen seventy two and 329 00:21:27,555 --> 00:21:31,475 Speaker 1: it is running right now on five streaming services. And 330 00:21:31,635 --> 00:21:36,195 Speaker 1: this would delight her, especially the checks the story of 331 00:21:36,275 --> 00:21:38,555 Speaker 1: my friend Lizzie and one of the best pieces of 332 00:21:38,675 --> 00:21:42,395 Speaker 1: advice I was ever given by her, coming up first 333 00:21:42,435 --> 00:21:44,475 Speaker 1: time for the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons 334 00:21:44,515 --> 00:21:48,275 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons 335 00:21:48,275 --> 00:21:51,675 Speaker 1: in the world. The runner up, Republican National Committee Chairwoman 336 00:21:51,795 --> 00:21:55,035 Speaker 1: Ronald McDaniel. Trump, is already saying he has not agreed 337 00:21:55,075 --> 00:21:58,475 Speaker 1: to any Republican primary debates. And while it is obvious 338 00:21:58,595 --> 00:22:01,395 Speaker 1: why he would have to answer questions about, you know, 339 00:22:01,555 --> 00:22:05,115 Speaker 1: his arrest and his rape trial and a special Council 340 00:22:05,515 --> 00:22:09,035 Speaker 1: and the Georgia indictments and the coup, and he's scared, 341 00:22:09,755 --> 00:22:14,595 Speaker 1: the Republican machinery continues to prostitute itself for him. Ronna 342 00:22:14,715 --> 00:22:18,595 Speaker 1: Romney McDaniel predicts Trump will participate in the debates, and 343 00:22:18,755 --> 00:22:22,515 Speaker 1: she told Foxes Brian, I'm the only one left here, 344 00:22:22,755 --> 00:22:26,835 Speaker 1: aren't I kill Mead? That quote. Trump never shies away 345 00:22:26,875 --> 00:22:30,435 Speaker 1: from a debate, to which, to his credit, kill Mead replied, yes, 346 00:22:30,515 --> 00:22:34,675 Speaker 1: he does. He skipped hours in twenty sixteen, and McDaniel 347 00:22:34,755 --> 00:22:37,595 Speaker 1: just smiled and said he did he skipped one, as 348 00:22:37,675 --> 00:22:39,395 Speaker 1: if she had not just been caught in a lie. 349 00:22:40,635 --> 00:22:44,155 Speaker 1: The bronze Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. This time, it's 350 00:22:44,195 --> 00:22:46,555 Speaker 1: not because he's not loyal to the United States of America. 351 00:22:46,555 --> 00:22:49,515 Speaker 1: Because he's not. It's not because he's dead behind the eyes, 352 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:53,835 Speaker 1: nor that he's a compulsive liar, because he is. This time, 353 00:22:53,875 --> 00:22:56,915 Speaker 1: it's because he is more stupid than any of us 354 00:22:56,995 --> 00:23:01,315 Speaker 1: could have ever imagined. At a Senate Budget Committee hearing yesterday, 355 00:23:02,115 --> 00:23:06,355 Speaker 1: he Ron splained to economist and global energy expert Michael 356 00:23:06,515 --> 00:23:11,435 Speaker 1: Greenstone that climate change is good because it will make 357 00:23:11,595 --> 00:23:16,995 Speaker 1: Wisconsin warmer. Quote in my own state, your study shows 358 00:23:17,035 --> 00:23:19,355 Speaker 1: that we would have a reduction of mortality of somewhere 359 00:23:19,395 --> 00:23:22,075 Speaker 1: between fifty four to fifty six people for ten thousand. 360 00:23:22,515 --> 00:23:25,995 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't we take comfort in that according to your study. 361 00:23:26,115 --> 00:23:28,875 Speaker 1: You're concerned if you're really in the hot region in Africa, 362 00:23:29,275 --> 00:23:31,635 Speaker 1: But in terms of the United States and most of Europe, 363 00:23:31,675 --> 00:23:34,835 Speaker 1: we're in pretty good shape. We're all blue. We have 364 00:23:34,995 --> 00:23:40,595 Speaker 1: reduced risk of death. Greenstone replied with the meta facts here, 365 00:23:41,275 --> 00:23:45,795 Speaker 1: rising seas more frequent and dangerous storms and cataclysms, and 366 00:23:46,035 --> 00:23:51,075 Speaker 1: thousands dying unnecessarily economic hardships to states other than Wisconsin. 367 00:23:52,195 --> 00:23:55,235 Speaker 1: But these were too tough for Johnson to process. He 368 00:23:55,395 --> 00:23:57,715 Speaker 1: came back and said everything all over again. The answer 369 00:23:57,795 --> 00:24:00,635 Speaker 1: that he needed to give to Johnson was, so, Senator, 370 00:24:00,675 --> 00:24:03,515 Speaker 1: have you thought about what happens to all those people 371 00:24:03,635 --> 00:24:07,035 Speaker 1: you mentioned in Africa or anywhere else that suddenly becomes 372 00:24:07,115 --> 00:24:11,155 Speaker 1: uninhabitable when they find out that it's just a little 373 00:24:11,195 --> 00:24:14,635 Speaker 1: bit nicer in Wisconsin and they all try to get 374 00:24:14,755 --> 00:24:20,795 Speaker 1: to Wisconsin. Moron, But the winner, Jake shield sees one 375 00:24:20,835 --> 00:24:23,595 Speaker 1: of the vanity blues on Twitter, the ones who paid 376 00:24:23,595 --> 00:24:27,755 Speaker 1: Elon Musk eight dollars. Shields is some kind of a 377 00:24:27,875 --> 00:24:31,995 Speaker 1: fighter boxer, rock paper scissors champion or something. I don't know. 378 00:24:32,475 --> 00:24:34,195 Speaker 1: He has a bit of a sanity problem and he 379 00:24:34,235 --> 00:24:37,995 Speaker 1: ONTs encouraged violence on there against Greta Tunberg. So this 380 00:24:38,195 --> 00:24:42,315 Speaker 1: Jake Shields tweets yesterday quote, would you support public executions 381 00:24:42,355 --> 00:24:47,395 Speaker 1: of anyone who helps a child transition? This would include doctors, therapists, teachers, 382 00:24:47,475 --> 00:24:51,315 Speaker 1: guidance counselors, et cetera. Twitter actually, to its credit, took 383 00:24:51,395 --> 00:24:54,555 Speaker 1: that tweet down, but not before it, and the incitement 384 00:24:54,635 --> 00:24:58,475 Speaker 1: to violence by this Shield's idiot had been seen more 385 00:24:58,515 --> 00:25:00,915 Speaker 1: than one hundred thousand times. And by the way, the 386 00:25:00,995 --> 00:25:04,155 Speaker 1: answer is no. No public execution of those counseling kids 387 00:25:04,195 --> 00:25:08,035 Speaker 1: in trans pysician now public executions of people who incite 388 00:25:08,155 --> 00:25:13,115 Speaker 1: violence against vulnerable children. Jake, you do know blue check 389 00:25:13,235 --> 00:25:15,715 Speaker 1: marks are now a desperate attempt to compensate for having 390 00:25:15,755 --> 00:25:23,435 Speaker 1: a small penis Shields today's worst person in the world. Well, 391 00:25:23,715 --> 00:25:36,675 Speaker 1: I probena see the number one story on the countdown 392 00:25:36,715 --> 00:25:39,635 Speaker 1: and my favorite subject, me and things I promised not 393 00:25:39,795 --> 00:25:43,115 Speaker 1: to tell. I have found myself telling her story three 394 00:25:43,235 --> 00:25:46,035 Speaker 1: times in the last ten days. I just bought a 395 00:25:46,115 --> 00:25:48,875 Speaker 1: new copy of the movie in question, and so I 396 00:25:48,955 --> 00:25:51,555 Speaker 1: thought I would tell you the story. Do you know 397 00:25:51,675 --> 00:25:56,355 Speaker 1: her name? Elizabeth Montgomery, one of the most famous actresses 398 00:25:56,395 --> 00:25:59,315 Speaker 1: of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, star of the 399 00:25:59,435 --> 00:26:03,475 Speaker 1: TV series Bewitched, daughter of a famous actor, Robert Montgomery, 400 00:26:03,555 --> 00:26:07,195 Speaker 1: and my friend from early on the morning of January fourteenth, 401 00:26:07,315 --> 00:26:10,075 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, until she died in the spring of 402 00:26:10,155 --> 00:26:14,635 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. Our friendship happened only because of one 403 00:26:14,915 --> 00:26:18,355 Speaker 1: thing my sister had given me a book about one 404 00:26:18,395 --> 00:26:21,955 Speaker 1: of our favorite topics, the never to be solved mystery 405 00:26:21,995 --> 00:26:24,715 Speaker 1: of Lizzie Borden and the Borden family axe murders of 406 00:26:24,755 --> 00:26:29,355 Speaker 1: eighteen ninety two in Fall River, Massachusetts. Yes, We're weird, 407 00:26:30,075 --> 00:26:32,835 Speaker 1: and also the fact that Elizabeth Montgomery had played Lizzie 408 00:26:32,875 --> 00:26:36,355 Speaker 1: Borden in a TV movie. So on January fourteenth, nineteen 409 00:26:36,435 --> 00:26:38,595 Speaker 1: ninety two, as I sat waiting for our flight to 410 00:26:38,715 --> 00:26:41,595 Speaker 1: leave ICJFK Airport in New York from my then home 411 00:26:41,635 --> 00:26:44,235 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, then I began to read from my 412 00:26:44,515 --> 00:26:48,915 Speaker 1: airplane seat my sister's gift from the aisle from the 413 00:26:48,995 --> 00:26:51,915 Speaker 1: last one to board, I hear the voice of Elizabeth 414 00:26:51,955 --> 00:26:55,915 Speaker 1: Montgomery saying to me, ooh, Keith, you're reading about me. 415 00:26:57,355 --> 00:27:02,355 Speaker 1: She was a gas my brief but eternal friendship with 416 00:27:02,435 --> 00:27:05,755 Speaker 1: Lizzie Montgomery, and the eternal lesson she taught me in 417 00:27:05,875 --> 00:27:07,875 Speaker 1: one moment. Please while I first explained what I was 418 00:27:07,955 --> 00:27:11,235 Speaker 1: doing on that flight. A month or two earlier, I 419 00:27:11,275 --> 00:27:14,595 Speaker 1: had agreed to join ESPN to co host Sports Center 420 00:27:14,635 --> 00:27:17,595 Speaker 1: with Dan Patrick starting in late March nineteen ninety two. 421 00:27:18,155 --> 00:27:21,355 Speaker 1: I had just finished up three financially rewarding but souls 422 00:27:21,475 --> 00:27:24,075 Speaker 1: sucking years at Channel two in Los Angeles, and I 423 00:27:24,235 --> 00:27:25,995 Speaker 1: was going to go to Hawaii for three months and 424 00:27:26,115 --> 00:27:30,275 Speaker 1: just live air until I felt better. On Monday, December thirtieth, 425 00:27:30,355 --> 00:27:33,115 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, I had literally just opened my address 426 00:27:33,235 --> 00:27:35,515 Speaker 1: book to find the number of a travel agent I 427 00:27:35,595 --> 00:27:38,275 Speaker 1: knew to make the Hawaii arrangements. I was reaching for 428 00:27:38,395 --> 00:27:42,715 Speaker 1: the phone when the phone rang. It was my business 429 00:27:42,795 --> 00:27:44,635 Speaker 1: agent who had just gotten off the phone with my 430 00:27:44,755 --> 00:27:47,995 Speaker 1: new ESPN boss, John Walsh. He and they were launching 431 00:27:48,035 --> 00:27:51,435 Speaker 1: a new radio network in five days. I found this 432 00:27:51,715 --> 00:27:56,195 Speaker 1: interesting but not particularly relevant. ESPN was one thing then 433 00:27:56,235 --> 00:27:59,155 Speaker 1: it was one TV network, no magazine, no radio, No 434 00:27:59,515 --> 00:28:04,035 Speaker 1: ESPN the Oho. So this was their first big move outwards. 435 00:28:04,715 --> 00:28:07,835 Speaker 1: Radio network would start with only two seven hour shows 436 00:28:07,875 --> 00:28:10,715 Speaker 1: on Saturday and Sunday nights. And Walsh explained to my 437 00:28:10,795 --> 00:28:12,555 Speaker 1: agent that everything was going great and they were right 438 00:28:12,635 --> 00:28:14,595 Speaker 1: on target, and they had great guests lined up for 439 00:28:14,675 --> 00:28:16,915 Speaker 1: the first weekend, like Ronald Reagan, and they only had 440 00:28:16,955 --> 00:28:19,275 Speaker 1: one tiny problem. They needed three hosts, and they had 441 00:28:19,275 --> 00:28:22,235 Speaker 1: two terrific hosts, just terrific hosts, one Keith worked with 442 00:28:22,355 --> 00:28:24,795 Speaker 1: named Tony Bruno, and another terrific, just terrific host from 443 00:28:24,795 --> 00:28:27,195 Speaker 1: Providence named Chuck Wilson. And they tried this guy as 444 00:28:27,235 --> 00:28:28,795 Speaker 1: the third host, and that guy, and this guy and 445 00:28:28,875 --> 00:28:30,875 Speaker 1: that guy, and all told forty different people had tried 446 00:28:30,915 --> 00:28:32,875 Speaker 1: out to be hosts. They had nobody, nobody to be 447 00:28:32,955 --> 00:28:34,595 Speaker 1: the third host. Who was any good? Good? Keith? Just 448 00:28:34,675 --> 00:28:36,515 Speaker 1: come here just for the first weekend, just to get 449 00:28:36,555 --> 00:28:37,755 Speaker 1: it off the ground. Then he can go back to 450 00:28:37,915 --> 00:28:39,955 Speaker 1: LA and come back here in March takeover Sports Center. 451 00:28:39,955 --> 00:28:42,595 Speaker 1: Please please please get Keith help us, please, because if 452 00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:44,515 Speaker 1: he Canada, what on earth they're going to do it? Please? 453 00:28:44,555 --> 00:28:49,835 Speaker 1: Please please. As I said to my agent, well all right, 454 00:28:50,115 --> 00:28:53,995 Speaker 1: I suppose at least way, at least a ESPN will 455 00:28:54,035 --> 00:28:59,515 Speaker 1: always think of me as a team player. So instead 456 00:28:59,555 --> 00:29:05,115 Speaker 1: of going to Hawaii in January, I go to Bristol, 457 00:29:05,155 --> 00:29:09,155 Speaker 1: Connecticut in January and I go stay at my folks 458 00:29:09,195 --> 00:29:11,195 Speaker 1: house outside New York City. And a friend I had 459 00:29:11,235 --> 00:29:14,275 Speaker 1: recommended to help ESPN launch their radio network offers me 460 00:29:14,315 --> 00:29:16,595 Speaker 1: a ride up to ESPN for the weekend. And it's 461 00:29:16,675 --> 00:29:19,275 Speaker 1: like twenty degrees and we get out of his car 462 00:29:19,355 --> 00:29:21,835 Speaker 1: and his parking lot and three spots over getting out 463 00:29:21,835 --> 00:29:24,515 Speaker 1: of his car in the parking lot is Chris Berman, 464 00:29:24,555 --> 00:29:26,835 Speaker 1: who I went to high school with, and already in 465 00:29:26,955 --> 00:29:29,995 Speaker 1: January nineteen ninety two, when I'm not quite thirty three 466 00:29:30,115 --> 00:29:32,915 Speaker 1: years old, I already know Chris for twenty years. And 467 00:29:32,995 --> 00:29:36,555 Speaker 1: before I can say hey, he screams, listen, we have 468 00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:44,235 Speaker 1: a good thing going here, don't f it up. And 469 00:29:44,395 --> 00:29:46,515 Speaker 1: I say, good to see you too, Chris, And I 470 00:29:46,595 --> 00:29:49,795 Speaker 1: remind myself it's only till Monday. And I meet the gang, 471 00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:51,475 Speaker 1: and then I go to the hotel and the hotel 472 00:29:51,595 --> 00:29:54,155 Speaker 1: is beige. The walls are beige, the carpets are beige, 473 00:29:54,435 --> 00:29:56,555 Speaker 1: the guests are beige, the food is beige. The only 474 00:29:56,595 --> 00:29:59,115 Speaker 1: thing that isn't beige is the six inches of snow 475 00:29:59,195 --> 00:30:01,875 Speaker 1: that falls overnight. And remind myself it's only till Monday. 476 00:30:03,035 --> 00:30:05,475 Speaker 1: The launch of the network on saturd he goes, well, 477 00:30:05,835 --> 00:30:08,475 Speaker 1: they have me interview Ronald Reagan about something in football. 478 00:30:09,195 --> 00:30:10,995 Speaker 1: The Sunday Night Show is going well too, and we're 479 00:30:10,995 --> 00:30:13,315 Speaker 1: trying to figure out where the big baseball free agent 480 00:30:13,395 --> 00:30:16,555 Speaker 1: of that winner, Danny Tartable, is going to sign. And 481 00:30:16,715 --> 00:30:18,955 Speaker 1: we're interviewing Bobby Valentine, who was the manager of the 482 00:30:18,995 --> 00:30:20,995 Speaker 1: Texas Rangers, and they were one of the team's rumored 483 00:30:21,035 --> 00:30:23,915 Speaker 1: to be a likely landing for Tartable, and I asked Valentine. 484 00:30:23,915 --> 00:30:26,115 Speaker 1: He says, no, not anymore. They just canceled their trip. 485 00:30:26,475 --> 00:30:28,395 Speaker 1: I was supposed to go meet them at the airport tonight. 486 00:30:28,715 --> 00:30:31,395 Speaker 1: I think he signed with somebody else. And the alarm 487 00:30:31,435 --> 00:30:33,035 Speaker 1: bells go off in my head and I tell the producer, 488 00:30:33,155 --> 00:30:35,595 Speaker 1: let's call everybody we know in baseball and put them 489 00:30:35,635 --> 00:30:38,635 Speaker 1: on and figure out where Danny Tartable is going. I 490 00:30:38,715 --> 00:30:40,675 Speaker 1: have a source who knows his agent. Let me call him. 491 00:30:41,195 --> 00:30:44,595 Speaker 1: We'll go story chasing. So we spend four hours following 492 00:30:44,635 --> 00:30:48,195 Speaker 1: the story in real time, and it's great radio, and 493 00:30:48,275 --> 00:30:50,235 Speaker 1: we're coming up on the last hour and our guests 494 00:30:50,275 --> 00:30:53,715 Speaker 1: have helped us eliminate like thirty teams out of twenty eight. 495 00:30:54,275 --> 00:30:56,755 Speaker 1: But we're not sure where Tartable is going still, and 496 00:30:56,835 --> 00:30:59,315 Speaker 1: the producer says, if only we had his home phone number. 497 00:30:59,355 --> 00:31:02,995 Speaker 1: And I look at the producer and go, oh crap, sorry, 498 00:31:03,395 --> 00:31:05,715 Speaker 1: and I grab my address book. I explain he was 499 00:31:05,755 --> 00:31:09,315 Speaker 1: my co host, Tartabule was on some of our baseball 500 00:31:09,395 --> 00:31:12,915 Speaker 1: postgame shows in La last I'm sorry, I forgot I 501 00:31:13,035 --> 00:31:16,035 Speaker 1: had his number all this time. Hang on, So I 502 00:31:16,115 --> 00:31:18,835 Speaker 1: called Danny tartable, And just as our last hour on 503 00:31:18,955 --> 00:31:21,315 Speaker 1: Sunday night is starting, he calls me back and I 504 00:31:21,395 --> 00:31:24,475 Speaker 1: say to him, look, we know you've decided it's all 505 00:31:24,555 --> 00:31:26,395 Speaker 1: over baseball. It's got to be the Phillies, the Mets, 506 00:31:26,475 --> 00:31:29,635 Speaker 1: or the Yankees. And he's saying, correctly, I can't tell you. 507 00:31:30,275 --> 00:31:32,875 Speaker 1: And I said, give me one guess and just tell 508 00:31:32,915 --> 00:31:34,435 Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, and I will call you a 509 00:31:34,555 --> 00:31:37,715 Speaker 1: source close to the negotiations, that's all. And he says okay. 510 00:31:37,755 --> 00:31:40,435 Speaker 1: And I say, is it a team that wears pin stripes? 511 00:31:40,435 --> 00:31:42,035 Speaker 1: And of course the Phillies, the Mets, and the Yankees 512 00:31:42,115 --> 00:31:44,275 Speaker 1: all wear pinstripes, so he laughs and he says yes. 513 00:31:44,635 --> 00:31:46,635 Speaker 1: And I say, is it the team I grew up 514 00:31:46,635 --> 00:31:49,595 Speaker 1: a fan of? And he says what team did you 515 00:31:49,635 --> 00:31:51,435 Speaker 1: grow up a fan of? And by the way, the 516 00:31:51,635 --> 00:31:54,075 Speaker 1: phone call is taking place with me on the floor 517 00:31:54,195 --> 00:31:56,955 Speaker 1: of the studio in which the other two hosts are 518 00:31:57,075 --> 00:31:59,355 Speaker 1: live on the new radio network. So I whispered a 519 00:31:59,475 --> 00:32:03,835 Speaker 1: tartable if I say it to the Yankees, am I wrong? 520 00:32:05,235 --> 00:32:08,235 Speaker 1: And he says, I can't tell you and starts whispering, 521 00:32:08,875 --> 00:32:11,195 Speaker 1: but off the record. The press conference is Wednesday at 522 00:32:11,275 --> 00:32:14,155 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. Is that enough for you, you bastard? And 523 00:32:14,235 --> 00:32:15,835 Speaker 1: of course I said no, come on the show and 524 00:32:15,915 --> 00:32:17,555 Speaker 1: tell us come on, and he laughs and says I'll 525 00:32:17,595 --> 00:32:19,555 Speaker 1: see you Wednesday and hangs up. And I get up, 526 00:32:19,555 --> 00:32:20,955 Speaker 1: and I sit in the vacant chair and I can 527 00:32:20,995 --> 00:32:24,435 Speaker 1: say breaking news. ESPN report now that the free agent 528 00:32:24,435 --> 00:32:27,115 Speaker 1: outfield or Danny Tartable has agreed to a multi year 529 00:32:27,155 --> 00:32:29,955 Speaker 1: deal with the New York Yankees. Sources close to the 530 00:32:30,035 --> 00:32:32,555 Speaker 1: negotiations say there will be a press conference Wednesday at 531 00:32:32,635 --> 00:32:35,275 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, and the other hosts are trying not to 532 00:32:35,435 --> 00:32:37,475 Speaker 1: crack up because they know I've just been talking too 533 00:32:37,595 --> 00:32:42,715 Speaker 1: Tartable from the phone in the same room with them. Well, 534 00:32:43,075 --> 00:32:47,315 Speaker 1: this story explodes way more than it deserved. It's a 535 00:32:47,475 --> 00:32:50,195 Speaker 1: dull Sunday night. It's still early enough in the evening 536 00:32:50,235 --> 00:32:52,915 Speaker 1: that the story makes all the Monday newspapers, and it's 537 00:32:52,915 --> 00:32:55,875 Speaker 1: attributed not to ESPN or to Sports Center, but to 538 00:32:55,995 --> 00:32:59,955 Speaker 1: the brand new ESPN Radio network on its second day 539 00:32:59,995 --> 00:33:02,715 Speaker 1: in business. And it's on the front page of USA 540 00:33:02,835 --> 00:33:05,915 Speaker 1: Today and the New York Times. A new ESPN radio 541 00:33:05,995 --> 00:33:08,875 Speaker 1: network makes splash with tartabules scoop the next morning, and 542 00:33:08,995 --> 00:33:12,155 Speaker 1: I can't tell you how big a deal that was 543 00:33:12,515 --> 00:33:16,195 Speaker 1: back then in nineteen ninety two. So now, instead of 544 00:33:16,275 --> 00:33:18,835 Speaker 1: going back to LA on Monday and maybe to Hawaii 545 00:33:18,995 --> 00:33:20,795 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, as I had planned, I have to go 546 00:33:20,875 --> 00:33:22,955 Speaker 1: to the press conference at Yankee Stadium to say hi 547 00:33:23,075 --> 00:33:25,115 Speaker 1: to Tartable on Wednesday and sort of thank him for 548 00:33:25,195 --> 00:33:28,355 Speaker 1: this scoop. And on Tuesday, this guy, John Walsh from 549 00:33:28,515 --> 00:33:30,915 Speaker 1: ESPN calls me, and my agent says, look, we have 550 00:33:31,035 --> 00:33:33,275 Speaker 1: to take advantage of this. It's the best possible start 551 00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:35,755 Speaker 1: we could have hoped for for the radio network. Keith 552 00:33:35,835 --> 00:33:38,315 Speaker 1: has to stay with us for the next three months. 553 00:33:38,755 --> 00:33:40,795 Speaker 1: Why doesn't he stay in and do this weekend and 554 00:33:40,835 --> 00:33:42,675 Speaker 1: then go back to LA and pack up his apartment 555 00:33:42,715 --> 00:33:44,555 Speaker 1: and then come back here the weekend after that. And 556 00:33:45,235 --> 00:33:48,835 Speaker 1: and I say again to my agent, well, at least 557 00:33:49,155 --> 00:33:52,195 Speaker 1: ESPN will always think of me as a team player 558 00:33:52,275 --> 00:33:59,275 Speaker 1: if I do this. So I am not in Hawaii 559 00:33:59,475 --> 00:34:02,275 Speaker 1: and instead I am on board this flight. When Elizabeth 560 00:34:02,315 --> 00:34:05,395 Speaker 1: Montgomery walks down the aisle and sees my Lizzie Borden 561 00:34:05,435 --> 00:34:07,995 Speaker 1: book given to me by my sister and says, ooh, Keith, 562 00:34:08,035 --> 00:34:10,915 Speaker 1: you're reading about me. Hi, I'm Lizzie Montgomery, I'm a 563 00:34:10,955 --> 00:34:13,555 Speaker 1: big fan of yours. Is that seat taken? And I say, 564 00:34:13,635 --> 00:34:16,235 Speaker 1: the hell if I care? Sit down? And the only 565 00:34:16,315 --> 00:34:18,595 Speaker 1: time we're not talking for the next six hours is 566 00:34:18,635 --> 00:34:22,635 Speaker 1: when we are drinking. I believe if I remember this correctly, 567 00:34:22,955 --> 00:34:26,275 Speaker 1: they had to send up a champagne refueling flight halfway 568 00:34:26,355 --> 00:34:30,275 Speaker 1: to LA And she's a huge sports fan. Her father 569 00:34:30,395 --> 00:34:32,155 Speaker 1: was a founder of one of the southern California horse 570 00:34:32,235 --> 00:34:34,875 Speaker 1: racing tracks, and she loves the Lakers. And she thinks 571 00:34:34,915 --> 00:34:37,075 Speaker 1: she was related to Lizzie Borden. Did I ever see 572 00:34:37,275 --> 00:34:39,675 Speaker 1: the European version of her Lizzie bordon film where they 573 00:34:39,715 --> 00:34:41,715 Speaker 1: show the wide shots where they make it look like 574 00:34:41,835 --> 00:34:44,395 Speaker 1: she's nude, And I say, I'm absolutely certain I have not. 575 00:34:45,515 --> 00:34:48,035 Speaker 1: And her son and her driver and her rolls Royce 576 00:34:48,155 --> 00:34:50,155 Speaker 1: meet us at Lax and she wants me to see 577 00:34:50,195 --> 00:34:52,555 Speaker 1: her house, and then her driver and her rolls Royce 578 00:34:52,555 --> 00:34:54,075 Speaker 1: will give me a lyft home. And oh, by the way, 579 00:34:54,155 --> 00:34:56,035 Speaker 1: she's flying back to New York in a week. Should 580 00:34:56,115 --> 00:35:01,115 Speaker 1: we become flying buddies. On that trip, our flight gets 581 00:35:01,235 --> 00:35:03,515 Speaker 1: canceled and we have to find a new one, and 582 00:35:03,555 --> 00:35:06,355 Speaker 1: I'm hand carrying a lot of more valuable baseball cards, 583 00:35:06,395 --> 00:35:08,995 Speaker 1: including like five hundred different from the year nineteen oh nine, 584 00:35:09,395 --> 00:35:11,555 Speaker 1: and she wants to see them, and she wants me 585 00:35:11,635 --> 00:35:14,755 Speaker 1: to tell her something about each player while we drink again, 586 00:35:15,715 --> 00:35:17,595 Speaker 1: and we land and she says, how you getting to 587 00:35:17,595 --> 00:35:19,955 Speaker 1: your folks house? And I say, well, I'm going to 588 00:35:20,035 --> 00:35:22,475 Speaker 1: get a car here or something, and she says, no, 589 00:35:22,555 --> 00:35:23,955 Speaker 1: you're not. I'll give you a lift in my limo 590 00:35:24,195 --> 00:35:28,035 Speaker 1: going right past your house. And sure enough we get there. 591 00:35:28,155 --> 00:35:30,835 Speaker 1: And as Lizzie Montgomery's limo is taking me to my 592 00:35:30,955 --> 00:35:34,075 Speaker 1: folks house at ten o'clock at night, she says, will 593 00:35:34,115 --> 00:35:35,875 Speaker 1: they still be up? Your folks want to play a 594 00:35:35,915 --> 00:35:39,435 Speaker 1: practical joke on them. So two minutes later, I knock 595 00:35:39,515 --> 00:35:41,275 Speaker 1: on the door of my childhood home and my father 596 00:35:41,395 --> 00:35:44,675 Speaker 1: opens it instead of seeing me, it's her in the doorway, 597 00:35:44,755 --> 00:35:47,555 Speaker 1: and she says, Hi, mister Olverman, I'm Lizzie. I'm a 598 00:35:47,595 --> 00:35:50,675 Speaker 1: friend of Keiths. Can he come out and play? And 599 00:35:50,795 --> 00:35:53,715 Speaker 1: my dad goes silent for the only time I in 600 00:35:53,835 --> 00:35:56,755 Speaker 1: my life. And now my mother appears so Lizzie can 601 00:35:56,795 --> 00:36:00,075 Speaker 1: pull the same routine on her. Hi, missus Olverman, I'm Lizzy. 602 00:36:00,115 --> 00:36:01,635 Speaker 1: I'm a friend of Keiths. Can he come out and play? 603 00:36:01,795 --> 00:36:04,235 Speaker 1: And now my mother is silent for the only time 604 00:36:04,275 --> 00:36:08,995 Speaker 1: in my life life, I might add, I thought Lizzie 605 00:36:09,035 --> 00:36:12,235 Speaker 1: looked fabulous, and I looked her up in Hallowell's film Guide, 606 00:36:12,235 --> 00:36:14,195 Speaker 1: and I saw she was forty eight, and I thought, boy, 607 00:36:14,275 --> 00:36:16,195 Speaker 1: she looks fabulous for forty eight. Then I realized my 608 00:36:16,315 --> 00:36:18,675 Speaker 1: math is wrong. She was fifty eight, and she was 609 00:36:18,755 --> 00:36:21,715 Speaker 1: a joy. We talked my phone every couple of weeks 610 00:36:21,755 --> 00:36:24,275 Speaker 1: after that, and she died three years later of colon cancer. 611 00:36:25,315 --> 00:36:28,675 Speaker 1: But she is with me always, and not just as 612 00:36:28,755 --> 00:36:32,675 Speaker 1: the proverbial force of nature. Within minutes of that day 613 00:36:32,715 --> 00:36:35,995 Speaker 1: we met, January fourteenth, nineteen ninety two, she bestowed upon 614 00:36:36,155 --> 00:36:41,355 Speaker 1: me a lesson, an eternal lesson. We were a little 615 00:36:41,435 --> 00:36:44,395 Speaker 1: late taking off, and since she had just loudly introduced 616 00:36:44,435 --> 00:36:46,635 Speaker 1: herself to me like I didn't know who she was, 617 00:36:47,595 --> 00:36:49,875 Speaker 1: anybody on the plane who wasn't sure it was her 618 00:36:50,395 --> 00:36:54,035 Speaker 1: was now sure. As we waited to taxi, every man 619 00:36:54,115 --> 00:36:56,195 Speaker 1: on that plane came over and did the same thing. 620 00:36:57,395 --> 00:37:00,595 Speaker 1: Oh hi, miss Montgomery, excuse me, And they give me 621 00:37:00,715 --> 00:37:03,115 Speaker 1: some sort of nodding acknowledgment like, hey, how you doing, 622 00:37:03,515 --> 00:37:05,355 Speaker 1: As they lean in past me I was a big 623 00:37:05,395 --> 00:37:07,315 Speaker 1: fan of Bewitched. I know you must get asked this 624 00:37:07,395 --> 00:37:08,955 Speaker 1: a million times a day, but is there anything I'm 625 00:37:08,995 --> 00:37:11,075 Speaker 1: so sorry to ask? Could you do that little nose 626 00:37:11,115 --> 00:37:12,755 Speaker 1: twitch you used to do in the show? And she 627 00:37:12,795 --> 00:37:14,635 Speaker 1: would say, of course, and then she'd do it, and 628 00:37:14,715 --> 00:37:17,915 Speaker 1: these men, age twenty two one hundred all then giggle 629 00:37:18,035 --> 00:37:24,675 Speaker 1: like schoolboys. After the thirtieth or thirty first time this happened, 630 00:37:24,715 --> 00:37:26,795 Speaker 1: I say to her, Lizzie, I don't know you, but 631 00:37:27,035 --> 00:37:30,235 Speaker 1: I like you a lot already, and your attitude towards 632 00:37:30,315 --> 00:37:34,795 Speaker 1: your fans and the nose twitch is wonderful. And I 633 00:37:34,875 --> 00:37:37,315 Speaker 1: have to tell you I certainly hope that was the 634 00:37:37,395 --> 00:37:39,395 Speaker 1: last of them, because the next one who comes over, 635 00:37:39,995 --> 00:37:42,195 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to strangle him with my bare hands 636 00:37:42,195 --> 00:37:45,715 Speaker 1: because I can't take it anymore. And for the only 637 00:37:45,875 --> 00:37:48,555 Speaker 1: minutes of all the time I knew her, Elizabeth Montgomery 638 00:37:48,635 --> 00:37:51,635 Speaker 1: got very serious and said, oh, no, Keith, that is 639 00:37:51,715 --> 00:37:54,675 Speaker 1: not the attitude you must have about this. Remind me 640 00:37:55,115 --> 00:37:58,835 Speaker 1: what year did Bewitched go off the air. I had 641 00:37:58,875 --> 00:38:03,115 Speaker 1: to guess, nineteen seventy two, and she said, exactly, good, correct, 642 00:38:03,195 --> 00:38:08,115 Speaker 1: twenty years ago. These people have remembered that nose twitch 643 00:38:08,235 --> 00:38:12,475 Speaker 1: for twenty years at least. Bewitched. Keith is not Hamlet, 644 00:38:13,035 --> 00:38:15,555 Speaker 1: it is not Arthur Miller, it is not the Godfather. 645 00:38:15,715 --> 00:38:19,115 Speaker 1: But they remembered it. This is why you and I 646 00:38:19,275 --> 00:38:21,675 Speaker 1: both do what we do for a living. We have 647 00:38:21,875 --> 00:38:25,675 Speaker 1: transcended time with what we do for a living, something artistic, 648 00:38:25,835 --> 00:38:28,555 Speaker 1: something creative. No matter how small that we have done, 649 00:38:29,195 --> 00:38:32,275 Speaker 1: they have remembered it. People do it with you, I'm sure, 650 00:38:32,635 --> 00:38:34,995 Speaker 1: and I'm sure they'll continue to. And what you do 651 00:38:35,235 --> 00:38:38,995 Speaker 1: then is you say thank you for remembering, as if 652 00:38:39,075 --> 00:38:42,155 Speaker 1: they were the only one who ever remembered. Because that's 653 00:38:42,555 --> 00:38:46,675 Speaker 1: why we do this. Because they remembered me from twenty 654 00:38:46,755 --> 00:38:53,315 Speaker 1: years ago for a stupid little nose twitch. Duly chastised, 655 00:38:54,235 --> 00:39:00,635 Speaker 1: I apologized, and the huge, welcoming, conspiratorial, permanent friendship sexy 656 00:39:00,795 --> 00:39:05,355 Speaker 1: smile of Elizabeth Montgomery broke across her face like that sunrise, 657 00:39:06,155 --> 00:39:11,195 Speaker 1: and she whispered either that Keith or they saw Bewitched 658 00:39:11,275 --> 00:39:15,355 Speaker 1: on cable last week, which means Lizzie gets another check 659 00:39:15,515 --> 00:39:20,235 Speaker 1: next week. And she twitched her nose at me, and 660 00:39:20,555 --> 00:39:38,315 Speaker 1: I will always love her. I've done all the damage 661 00:39:38,355 --> 00:39:40,555 Speaker 1: I can do. Here. Here are the credits most of 662 00:39:40,595 --> 00:39:43,435 Speaker 1: the music was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian Ray 663 00:39:43,435 --> 00:39:46,235 Speaker 1: and John Phillips Shanelle, who are the countdown musical directors. 664 00:39:46,635 --> 00:39:50,035 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Shanelle, guitars, bass 665 00:39:50,075 --> 00:39:53,795 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. Other 666 00:39:53,875 --> 00:39:57,475 Speaker 1: Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. 667 00:39:57,955 --> 00:40:00,915 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, 668 00:40:00,955 --> 00:40:04,355 Speaker 1: and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 669 00:40:04,875 --> 00:40:08,395 Speaker 1: Musical comments from Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever, 670 00:40:08,715 --> 00:40:12,475 Speaker 1: and our announcer today was my friend Richard Lewis. Everything 671 00:40:12,555 --> 00:40:16,075 Speaker 1: else is pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for 672 00:40:16,115 --> 00:40:18,155 Speaker 1: this the eight hundred and forty second day since Donald 673 00:40:18,195 --> 00:40:21,555 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 674 00:40:21,595 --> 00:40:25,395 Speaker 1: the United States. Don't forget to keep arresting him while 675 00:40:25,515 --> 00:40:28,955 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Until then, 676 00:40:28,995 --> 00:40:32,315 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olderman. Good Morning, good afternoon, good night, and 677 00:40:33,235 --> 00:40:44,155 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 678 00:40:44,475 --> 00:40:49,595 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio, app, Apple Podcasts, 679 00:40:49,915 --> 00:40:51,835 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.