1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio Today, 2 00:00:22,395 --> 00:00:28,315 Speaker 1: Eileen Mercedes Cannon will begin to decide whether we all 3 00:00:28,715 --> 00:00:34,595 Speaker 1: live or die. This sadly is not hyperbole. The federal judge, 4 00:00:34,595 --> 00:00:37,715 Speaker 1: who has presided over a total of four trials for 5 00:00:37,795 --> 00:00:41,395 Speaker 1: a total of fourteen days in the totality of her life, 6 00:00:41,515 --> 00:00:44,035 Speaker 1: will today make the first of a series of decisions 7 00:00:44,035 --> 00:00:48,995 Speaker 1: that will ultimately end with whether we all live or die. 8 00:00:49,635 --> 00:00:52,915 Speaker 1: The forest really can never be seen because we are 9 00:00:53,155 --> 00:00:56,355 Speaker 1: next to the trees. And how fitting the analogy is 10 00:00:56,395 --> 00:00:58,995 Speaker 1: because while we are down here taking samples of the 11 00:00:59,035 --> 00:01:02,915 Speaker 1: bark to check markings by Jack Smith. The big picture 12 00:01:03,075 --> 00:01:07,715 Speaker 1: is this Judgeileen Cannon will at minimum help to decide 13 00:01:07,755 --> 00:01:09,995 Speaker 1: whether or not Donald Trump is kept out of the 14 00:01:10,035 --> 00:01:13,475 Speaker 1: White House, and that will at minimum help to decide 15 00:01:13,715 --> 00:01:16,155 Speaker 1: whether or not we have any chance of maintaining a 16 00:01:16,195 --> 00:01:19,275 Speaker 1: president who will lead this nation and thus this world 17 00:01:19,315 --> 00:01:22,715 Speaker 1: through climate change and the changes we must make in 18 00:01:22,755 --> 00:01:27,595 Speaker 1: response to it. It really is that stark, and I 19 00:01:27,635 --> 00:01:30,635 Speaker 1: think we forget about it, and then something snaps the 20 00:01:30,675 --> 00:01:34,235 Speaker 1: picture into focus, and in my case it is two pictures. 21 00:01:34,955 --> 00:01:38,515 Speaker 1: The first is that one grinning idiot in the black 22 00:01:38,635 --> 00:01:41,875 Speaker 1: san Diego shirt and the black shorts and the black 23 00:01:41,915 --> 00:01:45,995 Speaker 1: cap and the black sunglasses in Death Valley, California, taking 24 00:01:46,115 --> 00:01:49,875 Speaker 1: selfies with a digital thermometer reading one hundred and thirty 25 00:01:49,915 --> 00:01:53,395 Speaker 1: one degrees, both as if that heat could not kill 26 00:01:53,515 --> 00:01:56,715 Speaker 1: him personally, and as if that one hundred and thirty 27 00:01:56,715 --> 00:02:01,155 Speaker 1: one degree temperature was temporary or transient or unique to 28 00:02:01,235 --> 00:02:04,275 Speaker 1: that locale or something he has to take a picture 29 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:06,875 Speaker 1: of so he can preserve it for his grandchildren. And know, 30 00:02:06,955 --> 00:02:08,795 Speaker 1: by the way, at the present rate of acceleration of 31 00:02:08,795 --> 00:02:12,115 Speaker 1: the climate catastrophe, don't worry about preserving it for your grandchildren, 32 00:02:12,115 --> 00:02:15,035 Speaker 1: because you're not going to have any nor is anybody else, 33 00:02:15,755 --> 00:02:18,115 Speaker 1: because the last words Donald Trump will ever speak on 34 00:02:18,155 --> 00:02:20,275 Speaker 1: this earth will be about how money is more important 35 00:02:20,315 --> 00:02:23,035 Speaker 1: than anything else, or how climate change is a hoax. 36 00:02:23,995 --> 00:02:29,755 Speaker 1: We're both. The other image was of this redneck Jason Aldean, 37 00:02:30,195 --> 00:02:33,875 Speaker 1: the pride of Maga New Year's Eve guest at marri Lago, 38 00:02:33,995 --> 00:02:37,515 Speaker 1: Trump kissed the top of his wife's head. She posted photos. 39 00:02:37,555 --> 00:02:41,915 Speaker 1: Trump is clearly staring down passed her head into her cleavage. 40 00:02:42,915 --> 00:02:46,315 Speaker 1: He is the yodeling darling of the climate denial crowd 41 00:02:46,395 --> 00:02:50,155 Speaker 1: and dropping a song last Friday, daring black protesters to 42 00:02:50,595 --> 00:02:53,995 Speaker 1: quote the title. Try that in a small town, and 43 00:02:54,035 --> 00:02:56,115 Speaker 1: then two days later he had to run off the 44 00:02:56,155 --> 00:02:59,115 Speaker 1: stage and get two ivs stuck in him so he 45 00:02:59,155 --> 00:03:04,235 Speaker 1: did not lose consciousness while singing in the ferocious tropical 46 00:03:04,315 --> 00:03:12,435 Speaker 1: heat of Hartford, Connecticut in July at night. But there's 47 00:03:12,475 --> 00:03:17,955 Speaker 1: no man made climate change. Try that in a small town, Jason, 48 00:03:18,315 --> 00:03:21,595 Speaker 1: after the energy grid there has failed and your governor 49 00:03:21,635 --> 00:03:24,475 Speaker 1: has chased away all the hospitals and the doctors because 50 00:03:24,835 --> 00:03:30,995 Speaker 1: woke as I stared at the Canadian wildfire smoke out 51 00:03:30,995 --> 00:03:34,635 Speaker 1: my window. Yesterday, a baseball announcer on my TV was 52 00:03:34,675 --> 00:03:39,075 Speaker 1: complaining about the Canadian wildfire smoke out his window in Cincinnati, Ohio. 53 00:03:39,915 --> 00:03:42,515 Speaker 1: It was one hundred and nine degrees in Rome, and 54 00:03:42,555 --> 00:03:45,435 Speaker 1: they were laughing about that in Miami, where the first 55 00:03:45,475 --> 00:03:48,995 Speaker 1: ever excessive heat warning predicted one hundred and ten degrees, 56 00:03:49,835 --> 00:03:52,835 Speaker 1: and they were laughing about that in Sanbao in China, 57 00:03:53,355 --> 00:03:55,315 Speaker 1: where it was one hundred and twenty six degrees. And no, 58 00:03:55,435 --> 00:03:58,395 Speaker 1: they were not laughing at Persian Gulf Airport, which is 59 00:03:58,435 --> 00:04:02,195 Speaker 1: in Iran but is actually closer to Dubai than anywhere else, 60 00:04:02,475 --> 00:04:05,835 Speaker 1: and it didn't matter, because it was one hundred and 61 00:04:05,835 --> 00:04:10,115 Speaker 1: fifty two one hundred and fifty two degrees at Persian 62 00:04:10,115 --> 00:04:14,955 Speaker 1: Golf Airport in Iran. The last actual safe temperature for 63 00:04:15,035 --> 00:04:18,835 Speaker 1: the average human is a wet bulb thermometer reading of 64 00:04:18,915 --> 00:04:23,315 Speaker 1: ninety five degrees. So if at one hundred and fifty 65 00:04:23,355 --> 00:04:26,035 Speaker 1: two the power had failed at Persian Golf Airport, I 66 00:04:26,075 --> 00:04:30,195 Speaker 1: mean again energy grid failure. As if this were Texas, 67 00:04:30,875 --> 00:04:37,595 Speaker 1: there would have been a mass casualty event. Judge Cannon 68 00:04:37,755 --> 00:04:40,235 Speaker 1: is to tell Trump's lawyers and Walton out his lawyers 69 00:04:40,235 --> 00:04:44,195 Speaker 1: and Jack Smith's team of lawyers. Some preliminary findings about 70 00:04:44,235 --> 00:04:48,515 Speaker 1: the process for handling classified information at the Trump trial, 71 00:04:48,875 --> 00:04:51,635 Speaker 1: and all the indications she gave yesterday suggested she would 72 00:04:51,635 --> 00:04:54,955 Speaker 1: be adding an item to the agenda, the planned trial 73 00:04:55,075 --> 00:05:03,315 Speaker 1: start date and timeline discuss history does not usually schedule 74 00:05:03,355 --> 00:05:05,755 Speaker 1: stuff this important in a time advance and tell us 75 00:05:05,795 --> 00:05:11,195 Speaker 1: about it. Everybody in Europe was not informed on June fifteenth, Hey, 76 00:05:11,315 --> 00:05:15,955 Speaker 1: on the twenty eighth Archduke Ferdinand of Austro Hungary. He's 77 00:05:15,995 --> 00:05:19,035 Speaker 1: gonna make this damn fool trip anyway to Sarajevo, and 78 00:05:19,675 --> 00:05:21,395 Speaker 1: though the bomb they will throw at him at the 79 00:05:21,395 --> 00:05:23,835 Speaker 1: train station is gonna miss The Archduke will still be 80 00:05:23,915 --> 00:05:26,195 Speaker 1: too stupid to call off the trip at that point, 81 00:05:26,795 --> 00:05:31,995 Speaker 1: and his driver, who doesn't speak German, won't understand the 82 00:05:32,075 --> 00:05:34,755 Speaker 1: revised driving rout out of the city, so he'll take 83 00:05:34,795 --> 00:05:37,275 Speaker 1: the old one and he'll wind up on Franz Joseph 84 00:05:37,315 --> 00:05:39,355 Speaker 1: Street and he'll have to pull a U turn right 85 00:05:39,395 --> 00:05:41,235 Speaker 1: in front of where one of the bomb throwers co 86 00:05:41,235 --> 00:05:44,555 Speaker 1: conspirators happens to be standing desponded because the plot failed. 87 00:05:45,475 --> 00:05:48,035 Speaker 1: So the co conspirator can put bullets into the Archduke 88 00:05:48,035 --> 00:05:49,755 Speaker 1: and the arch Duchess and that will start the World 89 00:05:49,795 --> 00:05:51,875 Speaker 1: War and twenty million people will die. And because the 90 00:05:51,915 --> 00:05:54,035 Speaker 1: peace will resolve nothing, there'll be another World war in 91 00:05:54,035 --> 00:05:56,995 Speaker 1: twenty five years, seventy five million more people will die. 92 00:05:57,115 --> 00:06:00,475 Speaker 1: So don't make other plans for the twenty eighth that 93 00:06:00,555 --> 00:06:04,395 Speaker 1: doesn't happen. We were not forewarned about the day John 94 00:06:04,435 --> 00:06:06,955 Speaker 1: Brown decided, yeah, okay, I'm doing this. I'm going to 95 00:06:06,995 --> 00:06:11,235 Speaker 1: Harper's Ferry, and nobody in ten sixty six told England 96 00:06:11,395 --> 00:06:15,955 Speaker 1: the Normans will be here Wednesday, and the media was 97 00:06:15,995 --> 00:06:18,475 Speaker 1: not alerted when Hitler was let out early because they 98 00:06:18,475 --> 00:06:21,875 Speaker 1: were convinced he po's no further threat. And nobody pointed 99 00:06:21,875 --> 00:06:24,675 Speaker 1: at that one rat scurrying off the ship just anchoring 100 00:06:24,715 --> 00:06:28,835 Speaker 1: at Messina and said that's the one bubonic plague right there. 101 00:06:29,635 --> 00:06:33,755 Speaker 1: And nobody ever said, hey, my feet hurt. Tomorrow, I'm 102 00:06:33,755 --> 00:06:36,835 Speaker 1: just going to try to live in one place and 103 00:06:36,995 --> 00:06:40,995 Speaker 1: raise the crops here rather than searching for them all day. 104 00:06:41,315 --> 00:06:44,395 Speaker 1: I'm going to call it a I'm still working on this, 105 00:06:44,475 --> 00:06:47,675 Speaker 1: but I'm going to call it a farm. And nobody 106 00:06:47,715 --> 00:06:51,195 Speaker 1: comes back from anywhere or any time to warn you 107 00:06:51,475 --> 00:06:56,795 Speaker 1: to save Sarah Connor. And yet here we are, at 108 00:06:56,835 --> 00:07:00,835 Speaker 1: some point today Eileen Cannon, who twenty years ago was 109 00:07:00,875 --> 00:07:05,115 Speaker 1: writing features for the Miami Spanish language newspaper for El 110 00:07:05,235 --> 00:07:10,715 Speaker 1: Nuevo Herald about festivals and yoga and I swear to 111 00:07:10,755 --> 00:07:14,115 Speaker 1: God about flamenco dancing. She will make the first of 112 00:07:14,155 --> 00:07:17,435 Speaker 1: a series of decisions that will ultimately decide whether we 113 00:07:17,555 --> 00:07:23,555 Speaker 1: all live or die. And they're not ultimate decisions or 114 00:07:23,675 --> 00:07:27,595 Speaker 1: final decisions, but they are among the ones which will be. 115 00:07:28,675 --> 00:07:33,075 Speaker 1: And she could, if not today, then soon literally knock 116 00:07:33,275 --> 00:07:37,435 Speaker 1: all the guard rails off the fight against climate change, 117 00:07:37,635 --> 00:07:39,955 Speaker 1: because for those of you far more milletant about this 118 00:07:40,075 --> 00:07:42,395 Speaker 1: topic than I am. I will not insult you in 119 00:07:42,395 --> 00:07:45,955 Speaker 1: say America has led our magnificent worldwide struggle that has 120 00:07:45,955 --> 00:07:50,955 Speaker 1: succeeded in slowing down the catastrophe by a couple of weeks. Maybe, 121 00:07:52,155 --> 00:07:53,955 Speaker 1: but you and I still both know that if the 122 00:07:53,995 --> 00:07:56,635 Speaker 1: critical decisions about saving life on this planet are to 123 00:07:56,675 --> 00:07:58,715 Speaker 1: be made in the next five years, and Donald Trump 124 00:07:58,795 --> 00:08:01,595 Speaker 1: is president for any stretch of those five years, we're 125 00:08:01,595 --> 00:08:06,675 Speaker 1: all dead pinpoint. Whether one hundred and fifty two degrees 126 00:08:06,755 --> 00:08:09,755 Speaker 1: waves of climate refugees expected between noon and one pm 127 00:08:09,795 --> 00:08:11,555 Speaker 1: and the UV index on a scale of one to 128 00:08:11,595 --> 00:08:17,155 Speaker 1: eleven is I'm sorry the power grid failed again. There 129 00:08:17,195 --> 00:08:19,795 Speaker 1: was a piece in the New York Times yesterday about 130 00:08:19,795 --> 00:08:24,475 Speaker 1: the Trump roadmap towards authoritarianism if he gets a second term, 131 00:08:24,875 --> 00:08:29,315 Speaker 1: and most of it is a louder and scarier presentation 132 00:08:29,395 --> 00:08:34,595 Speaker 1: of Schedule F, the federalist fascist plan to eliminate career 133 00:08:34,635 --> 00:08:37,315 Speaker 1: employees in the government and give the president hiring and 134 00:08:37,395 --> 00:08:42,275 Speaker 1: firing power over everybody, like in Iran, where it's already 135 00:08:42,275 --> 00:08:45,915 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty two degrees. And the article was 136 00:08:45,995 --> 00:08:49,115 Speaker 1: kind of summarized in one quote from a totalitarian named 137 00:08:49,155 --> 00:08:53,755 Speaker 1: Russell T. Vote who ran omb during the defendants regime 138 00:08:54,035 --> 00:08:56,915 Speaker 1: and is now dictator of the Center for Renewing America. 139 00:08:57,115 --> 00:08:59,715 Speaker 1: And the quote was, what we're trying to do is 140 00:08:59,835 --> 00:09:04,915 Speaker 1: identify the pockets of independence and seize them. And you 141 00:09:04,915 --> 00:09:07,995 Speaker 1: can see that quote, and then the video in your 142 00:09:08,035 --> 00:09:10,675 Speaker 1: mind goes into high speed fast forward, and at some 143 00:09:10,875 --> 00:09:14,395 Speaker 1: point in the future, months, years, decades, you get to 144 00:09:14,435 --> 00:09:17,675 Speaker 1: there being absolutely nobody in the government, or in the 145 00:09:17,715 --> 00:09:20,435 Speaker 1: Congress or in the Supreme Court to even say no 146 00:09:21,035 --> 00:09:23,115 Speaker 1: when Trump decides it, no matter what the twenty fifth 147 00:09:23,115 --> 00:09:29,355 Speaker 1: Amendment says that because of whatever, because of whatever, he 148 00:09:29,435 --> 00:09:34,435 Speaker 1: deserves a third term and he's running for it. Critics, 149 00:09:34,555 --> 00:09:36,635 Speaker 1: including a lot on the left, thought that piece in 150 00:09:36,675 --> 00:09:40,795 Speaker 1: The Times was overripe and served basically as just thousands 151 00:09:40,795 --> 00:09:43,875 Speaker 1: of words of what we used to call institutional advertising 152 00:09:44,275 --> 00:09:48,115 Speaker 1: for MAGA and Trump and the Federalist Society, provided free 153 00:09:48,275 --> 00:09:52,235 Speaker 1: courtesy of The New York Times. Because while Trump's ability 154 00:09:52,275 --> 00:09:56,555 Speaker 1: to enact all this not federalism but feudalism would be 155 00:09:56,555 --> 00:09:59,675 Speaker 1: better than it was when he tried it in twenty seventeen, 156 00:09:59,715 --> 00:10:02,915 Speaker 1: it would still be held up, delayed, at least by 157 00:10:02,995 --> 00:10:06,955 Speaker 1: courts and by bureaucrats, especially by a Democratic Senate or House, 158 00:10:07,315 --> 00:10:10,955 Speaker 1: to say nothing of citizen protests. We ever do that again, 159 00:10:11,235 --> 00:10:13,555 Speaker 1: like everybody in the Blue States refusing to pay any 160 00:10:13,555 --> 00:10:16,395 Speaker 1: more taxes to keep the Red States from going bankrupt 161 00:10:16,475 --> 00:10:20,275 Speaker 1: and everybody starving there inside of a month. But other 162 00:10:20,355 --> 00:10:24,235 Speaker 1: than a passing reference to the Environmental Protection Agency being 163 00:10:24,235 --> 00:10:26,555 Speaker 1: one of those units that would be brought directly under 164 00:10:26,595 --> 00:10:29,395 Speaker 1: Trump's control if he can get away with it, there 165 00:10:29,475 --> 00:10:32,755 Speaker 1: was not one word in there about the much simpler 166 00:10:32,835 --> 00:10:36,395 Speaker 1: path for Donald Trump to destroy America this time around, 167 00:10:36,875 --> 00:10:38,875 Speaker 1: and that is to regain the White House and again 168 00:10:38,955 --> 00:10:42,115 Speaker 1: roll back as many green initiatives and climate efforts as 169 00:10:42,155 --> 00:10:45,675 Speaker 1: he can. I mean, when he can kill us all 170 00:10:45,715 --> 00:10:48,435 Speaker 1: by just sitting around on his lard ass for four years, 171 00:10:48,435 --> 00:10:52,835 Speaker 1: accepting the cheers of fifty million jason Al dens, just 172 00:10:52,875 --> 00:10:55,155 Speaker 1: before they all keel over because they could not stand 173 00:10:55,155 --> 00:11:01,275 Speaker 1: the heat. Forty five minutes away from check notes ESPN 174 00:11:01,395 --> 00:11:05,875 Speaker 1: World Headquarters. What does Trump aid with schedule f and 175 00:11:05,915 --> 00:11:11,235 Speaker 1: system overhauls and Project twenty twenty five, project one hundred 176 00:11:11,275 --> 00:11:15,315 Speaker 1: degrees every day in beautiful downtown Bristol, Connecticut. That'll do 177 00:11:15,395 --> 00:11:23,155 Speaker 1: the job. I just keep thinking of that, poor dumb 178 00:11:23,595 --> 00:11:27,955 Speaker 1: f in the sunglasses, standing next to that digital thermometer 179 00:11:28,035 --> 00:11:31,235 Speaker 1: and death Valley and thinking one hundred and thirty one degrees, Well, 180 00:11:31,355 --> 00:11:33,995 Speaker 1: thank goodness, I got a shot of it. It'll never 181 00:11:34,035 --> 00:11:37,235 Speaker 1: be this hot again. And now I'm starting to wonder 182 00:11:37,275 --> 00:11:41,555 Speaker 1: if the dinosaurs stood around taking selfies of that spectacular 183 00:11:41,755 --> 00:11:44,595 Speaker 1: light show in the sky when the big meteor hit. 184 00:11:46,035 --> 00:11:48,635 Speaker 1: And I find myself wondering also if, at any point 185 00:11:48,835 --> 00:11:51,955 Speaker 1: before she settles in for her fifteenth real day as 186 00:11:51,995 --> 00:11:56,275 Speaker 1: a judge doing real judge things today, Aileen Cannon will 187 00:11:56,275 --> 00:11:59,035 Speaker 1: see the forest in spite of the trees, or wonder 188 00:11:59,075 --> 00:12:01,595 Speaker 1: what does happen if Donald Trump gets another chance to 189 00:12:01,675 --> 00:12:05,915 Speaker 1: kill all the trees, or if it will even ever 190 00:12:06,675 --> 00:12:12,555 Speaker 1: flit across the most distant recesses of her mind for 191 00:12:12,675 --> 00:12:18,635 Speaker 1: a fraction of a second, that, my god, I really 192 00:12:18,715 --> 00:12:29,355 Speaker 1: could be deciding whether we all live or die. Also 193 00:12:29,395 --> 00:12:35,355 Speaker 1: of interest here, like anything else matters after that. And 194 00:12:35,435 --> 00:12:38,195 Speaker 1: I haven't even really gotten into the climate refugees thing 195 00:12:38,275 --> 00:12:41,875 Speaker 1: yet or the new reports of underground climate change beneath 196 00:12:41,915 --> 00:12:46,915 Speaker 1: the cities, because there's too much heat under Chicago and 197 00:12:46,955 --> 00:12:52,555 Speaker 1: things may sink or fall over. But I think you 198 00:12:52,555 --> 00:12:55,075 Speaker 1: will agree with me about this. I need a laugh 199 00:12:55,115 --> 00:12:57,795 Speaker 1: out of that. Maybe you do too, And the Daily 200 00:12:57,875 --> 00:13:04,075 Speaker 1: Beasts Confider media newsletter provides said laugh today, as if 201 00:13:04,195 --> 00:13:08,515 Speaker 1: I had miss myself. A phone photo snapped in a 202 00:13:08,555 --> 00:13:12,635 Speaker 1: place called Becho on restaurant Row on forty sixth Street 203 00:13:12,635 --> 00:13:16,115 Speaker 1: here in Manhattan, and it is from last Wednesday. And 204 00:13:16,195 --> 00:13:21,275 Speaker 1: what the photo hastily shows could be nothing. It could 205 00:13:21,315 --> 00:13:24,435 Speaker 1: be the absolute last thing the twenty twenty four presidential 206 00:13:24,475 --> 00:13:28,515 Speaker 1: campaign needs. And what it shows is Chris Christy having 207 00:13:28,555 --> 00:13:31,755 Speaker 1: a bottle of sparkling water and maybe sharing a meal 208 00:13:31,915 --> 00:13:43,715 Speaker 1: with Chris Licked. Does this restaurant Becho now serve not 209 00:13:43,835 --> 00:13:53,915 Speaker 1: just pasta but pace Chris Licked and Chris Christy. Hell, 210 00:13:53,955 --> 00:13:56,995 Speaker 1: if anybody could destroy the planet faster than trumpet'd be 211 00:13:57,035 --> 00:14:01,675 Speaker 1: those two. And there's also a laugh from January sixth, 212 00:14:01,715 --> 00:14:03,955 Speaker 1: if you can believe that woman in a big pink 213 00:14:04,115 --> 00:14:10,035 Speaker 1: beret wildly overdressed wanted for January sixth misdemeanors FBI has 214 00:14:10,075 --> 00:14:12,555 Speaker 1: been looking for for two years. They tweet out a 215 00:14:12,595 --> 00:14:16,675 Speaker 1: photo over guy is in line at a crafts store somewhere. 216 00:14:16,915 --> 00:14:19,395 Speaker 1: A friend holds up his phone and shows him the 217 00:14:19,435 --> 00:14:22,235 Speaker 1: photo of the woman in the pink beret and the 218 00:14:22,275 --> 00:14:24,195 Speaker 1: guy gasps. 219 00:14:23,995 --> 00:14:27,635 Speaker 2: And he says, that's next. 220 00:14:27,635 --> 00:14:28,355 Speaker 1: This is countdown. 221 00:14:30,675 --> 00:14:33,115 Speaker 2: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 222 00:14:40,995 --> 00:14:44,355 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 223 00:14:44,355 --> 00:14:48,835 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline Willington, Delaware, smart Matic suing Fox for 224 00:14:48,955 --> 00:14:52,355 Speaker 1: two billion, seven hundred million dollars because it wasn't only 225 00:14:52,435 --> 00:14:56,955 Speaker 1: dominion which Fox slandered, has now subpoenaed Steve Bannon and 226 00:14:57,035 --> 00:15:01,595 Speaker 1: Mike Flynn to sit for depositions in this lawsuit. CNN 227 00:15:01,635 --> 00:15:04,595 Speaker 1: reporting those depositions were scheduled for this week and may 228 00:15:04,755 --> 00:15:07,635 Speaker 1: still happened this week. This puts Bannon and Flynn in 229 00:15:07,715 --> 00:15:11,595 Speaker 1: tough spots. First, have you ever sat for a deposition? 230 00:15:11,955 --> 00:15:15,195 Speaker 1: The nicest one in the history of the planet was 231 00:15:15,235 --> 00:15:19,955 Speaker 1: an ordeal. But more importantly, this would ordinarily be where 232 00:15:20,035 --> 00:15:23,235 Speaker 1: Bannon and Flynn might try to thumb their noses at 233 00:15:23,355 --> 00:15:27,035 Speaker 1: the system. But the entire trump axis they still serve 234 00:15:27,515 --> 00:15:32,355 Speaker 1: depends on Fox's defamations of Smartmatic to somehow be proved true, 235 00:15:33,035 --> 00:15:36,995 Speaker 1: or maybe more correctly, to not be proved untrue. So 236 00:15:37,035 --> 00:15:39,475 Speaker 1: they kind of have to go through with the depositions 237 00:15:39,555 --> 00:15:43,355 Speaker 1: and kind of have to defend Fox. They also have 238 00:15:43,475 --> 00:15:46,915 Speaker 1: to supply subpoena documents, which in Bannon's case would all 239 00:15:46,955 --> 00:15:50,075 Speaker 1: be in crayon, And of course both of them first 240 00:15:50,115 --> 00:15:56,355 Speaker 1: have to try to remember what that word truth means. 241 00:16:10,155 --> 00:16:14,955 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust dateline the good Ship Clarence Thomas's lollipop. 242 00:16:15,515 --> 00:16:18,755 Speaker 1: Pro Publica back with even more about America's only Supreme 243 00:16:18,795 --> 00:16:21,355 Speaker 1: Court justice who has a for sale sign growing out 244 00:16:21,395 --> 00:16:25,475 Speaker 1: of his ass. Turns out that yacht Harlan Crow used 245 00:16:25,475 --> 00:16:28,795 Speaker 1: to take his friend Thomas around the world on perfectly legal, 246 00:16:29,195 --> 00:16:32,355 Speaker 1: not at all bribes, wreaking of more corruption than a 247 00:16:32,355 --> 00:16:37,555 Speaker 1: mountain of rotting fruit cruises for tax purposes. Harlan Crow 248 00:16:37,635 --> 00:16:41,555 Speaker 1: has a company that charters his super yacht, and see 249 00:16:41,595 --> 00:16:44,275 Speaker 1: it's lost a lot of money because the chartering hasn't 250 00:16:44,315 --> 00:16:47,155 Speaker 1: been going so well. So all the money lost is 251 00:16:47,235 --> 00:16:51,715 Speaker 1: deductible from Harlan Crowe's other taxes, which is legal except 252 00:16:51,715 --> 00:16:54,515 Speaker 1: if you're not really chartering your boat. And the Pro 253 00:16:54,555 --> 00:16:58,835 Speaker 1: Publica investigation and Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon say, oh snap, 254 00:16:58,915 --> 00:17:02,355 Speaker 1: there's no evidence he's chartering it out. Based on what 255 00:17:02,475 --> 00:17:06,035 Speaker 1: information is available, Senator wide and told Republica this has 256 00:17:06,075 --> 00:17:10,195 Speaker 1: the look of a textbook Billionaire tax scam, No Kidding 257 00:17:11,235 --> 00:17:15,915 Speaker 1: Dateline Your Nearest Joanne Fabric and Crafts store. That is 258 00:17:15,955 --> 00:17:19,275 Speaker 1: where an unnamed citizen was standing in line when the 259 00:17:19,355 --> 00:17:22,795 Speaker 1: FBI tweeted a photo of a woman suspect still wanted 260 00:17:22,835 --> 00:17:26,675 Speaker 1: for January sixth. This happened in the spring. His buddy 261 00:17:26,755 --> 00:17:30,235 Speaker 1: in line with him at the fabric store showed him 262 00:17:30,275 --> 00:17:33,635 Speaker 1: the FBI tweet on the phone and the photo of 263 00:17:33,675 --> 00:17:35,635 Speaker 1: the woman they were looking for, And as the man 264 00:17:35,675 --> 00:17:39,355 Speaker 1: recalled the moment to NBC News quote, I stopped dead 265 00:17:39,395 --> 00:17:45,835 Speaker 1: in my tracks. I'm like, that's Jenny, his ex girlfriend 266 00:17:46,955 --> 00:17:53,595 Speaker 1: who married somebody else. And they both went to January sixth, 267 00:17:53,795 --> 00:17:56,235 Speaker 1: him in a parka and a Maga hat and she 268 00:17:56,395 --> 00:18:00,195 Speaker 1: in a fetching white jacket with red eyeliner and just 269 00:18:00,275 --> 00:18:03,275 Speaker 1: the most darling pink beret that made her look like 270 00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:10,115 Speaker 1: at the Plaza or something, and it was visible from space. Naturally, 271 00:18:10,715 --> 00:18:11,315 Speaker 1: the X. 272 00:18:12,835 --> 00:18:14,035 Speaker 2: Turned her in. 273 00:18:15,115 --> 00:18:19,075 Speaker 1: She turns out to be Jennifer Vargas, now Jennifer Vargas Geller, 274 00:18:19,315 --> 00:18:22,315 Speaker 1: and he is Spencer Geller, and he they say, was 275 00:18:22,355 --> 00:18:24,555 Speaker 1: one of the first to breach police lines at the 276 00:18:24,595 --> 00:18:27,435 Speaker 1: Capitol and he pushed bike racks at cops and they 277 00:18:27,435 --> 00:18:31,035 Speaker 1: are apparently living in Asia somewhere with a baby. He 278 00:18:31,155 --> 00:18:34,035 Speaker 1: faces a felony, she a couple of misdemeanors. We don't 279 00:18:34,115 --> 00:18:38,075 Speaker 1: know what kind of breakup that was with mister Joanne Fabrics. 280 00:18:38,675 --> 00:18:41,235 Speaker 1: But if he got crushed, man, has he got enough 281 00:18:41,275 --> 00:18:45,955 Speaker 1: revenge to last him? Forty seven lifetimes and dateline Hudson Yards, 282 00:18:45,955 --> 00:18:48,875 Speaker 1: New York City. The first week's ratings are in for 283 00:18:48,915 --> 00:18:53,035 Speaker 1: the new Caitlin Collins nine PM show on CNN Monday, 284 00:18:53,675 --> 00:19:01,075 Speaker 1: last place, Tuesday, last place, Wednesday, last place, Thursday, last place, Friday, 285 00:19:02,035 --> 00:19:05,995 Speaker 1: last place. She did, however, get into triple digits in 286 00:19:06,075 --> 00:19:09,275 Speaker 1: the advertising demo, so she had more than one hundred 287 00:19:09,315 --> 00:19:14,035 Speaker 1: thousand viewers aged twenty five to fifty four on one 288 00:19:14,075 --> 00:19:35,835 Speaker 1: of the five nights next still Ahead on Countdown, I 289 00:19:35,875 --> 00:19:39,075 Speaker 1: mentioned the arrival of Leonel Messi to take the Goat 290 00:19:39,195 --> 00:19:42,675 Speaker 1: Emeritus chair annually provided by Major League Soccer in this 291 00:19:42,795 --> 00:19:46,515 Speaker 1: country for the superstar who just hit his expiration date 292 00:19:46,755 --> 00:19:52,435 Speaker 1: and came here to wear else but Miami. And whatever 293 00:19:52,595 --> 00:19:57,835 Speaker 1: time you mentioned soccer, that means it's soccer breakdown o'clock. 294 00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:01,475 Speaker 1: Next first time for the daily roundup of the miss grants, 295 00:20:01,515 --> 00:20:04,715 Speaker 1: morons and Dunnan Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's the 296 00:20:04,755 --> 00:20:05,955 Speaker 1: worst persons. 297 00:20:06,075 --> 00:20:06,755 Speaker 2: In the world. 298 00:20:07,635 --> 00:20:11,755 Speaker 1: Three two one Bron's Megan Kelly, who does the fastest 299 00:20:11,795 --> 00:20:15,515 Speaker 1: growing conservative podcast which gets metrics are tough here, but 300 00:20:15,555 --> 00:20:18,475 Speaker 1: it looks like she gets about half the audience of 301 00:20:18,555 --> 00:20:22,755 Speaker 1: this podcast. Keep up the bad work, Meg. Part of 302 00:20:22,795 --> 00:20:25,195 Speaker 1: the failure over there, just like part of her failure 303 00:20:25,235 --> 00:20:28,915 Speaker 1: at NBC was that she's just dyspeptic all the time 304 00:20:29,075 --> 00:20:35,435 Speaker 1: lines complains, blames sneers. Also, the six tons of makeup 305 00:20:35,515 --> 00:20:40,555 Speaker 1: doesn't help. RFK Junior's sister, Carrie condemned her brother's crazy 306 00:20:40,635 --> 00:20:45,515 Speaker 1: talk about the vaccine, as did his nephew Joe. Megan Kelly. 307 00:20:45,555 --> 00:20:48,435 Speaker 1: She writes, look at these terrible family members. No one 308 00:20:48,515 --> 00:20:51,395 Speaker 1: was asking how does RFK Junior's sister feel about his 309 00:20:51,515 --> 00:20:53,995 Speaker 1: latest remarks. She just felt the need to kick him 310 00:20:53,995 --> 00:20:59,115 Speaker 1: when he was down nice. Obviously, people had been seeking 311 00:20:59,195 --> 00:21:03,035 Speaker 1: Carrie Kennedy's response because she is the president of the 312 00:21:03,155 --> 00:21:07,355 Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy human rights nonprofit advocacy organization, and her 313 00:21:07,395 --> 00:21:11,435 Speaker 1: brother is the one who's inadvertently besmirching their late father's 314 00:21:11,515 --> 00:21:16,395 Speaker 1: name and their group's name. But Megan Kelly wouldn't know that, because, 315 00:21:16,595 --> 00:21:19,715 Speaker 1: in addition to being lazy, and in addition to acting 316 00:21:19,795 --> 00:21:23,155 Speaker 1: like she's had gas pain continuously since nineteen ninety seven, 317 00:21:23,355 --> 00:21:27,555 Speaker 1: Megan Kelly is also a dope. The runner up Atlanta 318 00:21:27,595 --> 00:21:30,955 Speaker 1: Mayor Andre Dickens. You know about Cop City in Atlanta, 319 00:21:31,315 --> 00:21:36,915 Speaker 1: the proposed secret fascist police training ground planned there. Opponents 320 00:21:37,035 --> 00:21:40,555 Speaker 1: want a referendum. Mayor Dickens last week said no one 321 00:21:40,595 --> 00:21:43,355 Speaker 1: in his administration or law enforcement would get in the 322 00:21:43,355 --> 00:21:46,835 Speaker 1: way of that constitutional right to have one. Yesterday, the 323 00:21:46,875 --> 00:21:50,235 Speaker 1: City of Atlanta filed a motion in federal court I 324 00:21:50,355 --> 00:21:55,795 Speaker 1: stopped the referendum, called it invalid and futile. Invalid and futile, 325 00:21:56,195 --> 00:21:59,595 Speaker 1: two words which now might also describe Mayor Dickens's chances 326 00:21:59,595 --> 00:22:04,155 Speaker 1: of getting re elected. But the winner this vibek Ramaswami guy, 327 00:22:04,875 --> 00:22:08,595 Speaker 1: another man who has mistaken his own financial luck for intelligence, 328 00:22:09,275 --> 00:22:12,915 Speaker 1: the Republican presidential longshot who is carefully positioned to grab 329 00:22:12,955 --> 00:22:17,035 Speaker 1: the nomination if the white Supremacists' first eight choices all 330 00:22:17,155 --> 00:22:21,435 Speaker 1: die has revealed his short list of Supreme Court nominees, 331 00:22:21,795 --> 00:22:25,355 Speaker 1: and he's got He's got Senators Ted Cruz and Mike 332 00:22:25,475 --> 00:22:28,795 Speaker 1: Lee on it, and he also likes a US Appeals 333 00:22:28,835 --> 00:22:32,755 Speaker 1: Court judge named Lawrence Vandyke, and Judge van Dyke is 334 00:22:32,795 --> 00:22:36,195 Speaker 1: the one who made the profound, historic ruling that has 335 00:22:36,235 --> 00:22:40,995 Speaker 1: made life better for hundreds of millions and untold generations 336 00:22:40,995 --> 00:22:43,555 Speaker 1: to come. Van Dyke was the one who said, yes, 337 00:22:44,195 --> 00:22:50,275 Speaker 1: people running a beauty pageant can exclude participants who are transgender. 338 00:22:51,675 --> 00:22:54,595 Speaker 1: Second in importance only to Brown v. Board in Education. 339 00:22:55,035 --> 00:22:59,635 Speaker 1: In my opinion, My god, this country wasted taxpayer dollars 340 00:22:59,995 --> 00:23:06,075 Speaker 1: on court rulings about beauty pageants. Vivek, Ted Cruz and 341 00:23:06,155 --> 00:23:09,355 Speaker 1: Mike Lee for the Supreme Court. Why not Robert F. 342 00:23:09,435 --> 00:23:16,675 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior and Kanye Ramaswami two days? Worst person I 343 00:23:16,755 --> 00:23:18,515 Speaker 1: know it's Brown by Board of Education. 344 00:23:18,595 --> 00:23:20,355 Speaker 2: I said it wrong in the world. 345 00:23:33,035 --> 00:23:35,035 Speaker 1: To the number one story on the Countdown and my 346 00:23:35,115 --> 00:23:38,195 Speaker 1: favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. 347 00:23:38,715 --> 00:23:42,155 Speaker 1: You may enjoy this one enough to keep a copy. 348 00:23:44,035 --> 00:23:49,115 Speaker 1: Soccer Breakdown. Gary Miller was one of the backbones of 349 00:23:49,155 --> 00:23:51,555 Speaker 1: Sports Center. I had worked with him at CNN. He 350 00:23:51,635 --> 00:23:57,435 Speaker 1: was strong, confident, very loud, forceful, He hated mascots, and 351 00:23:57,475 --> 00:24:00,635 Speaker 1: he had no filter. He and Dan Patrick were great 352 00:24:00,635 --> 00:24:02,995 Speaker 1: friends in Atlanta, and then Gary and Dan left for 353 00:24:03,315 --> 00:24:05,995 Speaker 1: ESPN within months of each other nineteen eighty nine, nineteen 354 00:24:06,035 --> 00:24:08,555 Speaker 1: ninety This has been said of me, and so I 355 00:24:08,595 --> 00:24:12,755 Speaker 1: say it of Gary with affection. He suffered no fools gladly, 356 00:24:13,395 --> 00:24:16,195 Speaker 1: and though his elbows were always up, he made sure 357 00:24:16,235 --> 00:24:18,235 Speaker 1: that ninety nine percent of the time when they bumped 358 00:24:18,275 --> 00:24:22,475 Speaker 1: into somebody, that somebody had well deserved it. As near 359 00:24:22,515 --> 00:24:25,755 Speaker 1: as I can piece together, Gary was doing the eleven 360 00:24:25,835 --> 00:24:29,155 Speaker 1: PM Sports Center on Friday night, June twenty fourth, nineteen 361 00:24:29,235 --> 00:24:32,435 Speaker 1: ninety four. Typically, Dan and I did the eleven Sunday 362 00:24:32,475 --> 00:24:36,835 Speaker 1: through Thursday. The story of soccer's nineteen ninety four World Cup. 363 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:39,155 Speaker 1: At least in the first week, was a preponderance of 364 00:24:39,235 --> 00:24:43,235 Speaker 1: player ejections red cards handed them by the referee. In 365 00:24:43,275 --> 00:24:45,795 Speaker 1: those days, the eleven PM Sports Center included a feature 366 00:24:45,835 --> 00:24:48,155 Speaker 1: two or three minutes long on a story that had 367 00:24:48,235 --> 00:24:50,715 Speaker 1: drummed up a lot of interest during the first show 368 00:24:50,795 --> 00:24:53,315 Speaker 1: planning meeting around three point thirty PM. It was a 369 00:24:53,315 --> 00:24:58,275 Speaker 1: feature called Breakdown. It provided long form analysis in today's 370 00:24:58,275 --> 00:25:00,595 Speaker 1: when we didn't have a lot of that. Could be 371 00:25:00,635 --> 00:25:03,315 Speaker 1: a coach getting fired, could be the relative credentials of 372 00:25:03,395 --> 00:25:07,115 Speaker 1: baseball Hall of fame. Campates could be one fantastic play 373 00:25:07,115 --> 00:25:10,435 Speaker 1: in a game. Once we did a deadpan, serious breakdown 374 00:25:10,515 --> 00:25:15,355 Speaker 1: about injuries to mascots. A producer or the anchor himself 375 00:25:15,435 --> 00:25:18,355 Speaker 1: would write the script, They would pre record the narration, 376 00:25:18,515 --> 00:25:21,755 Speaker 1: and then the producer would edit it. This is pre digital. 377 00:25:21,795 --> 00:25:24,315 Speaker 1: It was done tape to tape. It could take hours 378 00:25:24,355 --> 00:25:28,395 Speaker 1: to edit it, and the key was to track it 379 00:25:28,475 --> 00:25:31,435 Speaker 1: to record that narration, which was done in a tiny 380 00:25:31,475 --> 00:25:35,795 Speaker 1: wood paneled room wreaking of mildew that looked and smelled 381 00:25:36,235 --> 00:25:40,915 Speaker 1: exactly like every suburban basement wreck room in America circa 382 00:25:40,955 --> 00:25:45,915 Speaker 1: October nineteen sixty five. That's where Gary Miller found himself 383 00:25:45,955 --> 00:25:48,475 Speaker 1: on the night of Friday, June twenty fourth, nineteen ninety four, 384 00:25:48,515 --> 00:25:51,235 Speaker 1: reading a script about soccer players from around the world, 385 00:25:51,275 --> 00:25:55,275 Speaker 1: none of whose names he had ever seen before, let 386 00:25:55,315 --> 00:26:01,755 Speaker 1: alone tried to pronounce. It was the Soccer Breakdown in 387 00:26:01,915 --> 00:26:08,195 Speaker 1: all senses of the word. The raw tape, the original 388 00:26:08,275 --> 00:26:11,595 Speaker 1: version of his tracking session for the script for Soccer Breakdown, 389 00:26:11,915 --> 00:26:16,915 Speaker 1: is easily the most beloved bootleg in ESPN's history. In fact, 390 00:26:17,475 --> 00:26:20,555 Speaker 1: it is so popular that there are several different cuts 391 00:26:20,715 --> 00:26:23,795 Speaker 1: of this bootleg. People have sat down with the original tape, 392 00:26:23,795 --> 00:26:27,355 Speaker 1: which runs nearly twenty minutes, and edited it down to 393 00:26:27,515 --> 00:26:31,875 Speaker 1: only the best or worst parts. Now, I'm not going 394 00:26:31,915 --> 00:26:34,275 Speaker 1: to say I have a copy of the original I'm 395 00:26:34,315 --> 00:26:36,395 Speaker 1: simply going to note that Dan Patrick ran it on 396 00:26:36,435 --> 00:26:39,555 Speaker 1: his radio show in twenty seventeen and posted the whole 397 00:26:39,595 --> 00:26:43,715 Speaker 1: segment to YouTube. So yeah, that's where I got my 398 00:26:43,835 --> 00:26:47,995 Speaker 1: copy of it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 399 00:26:49,515 --> 00:26:53,275 Speaker 1: I'm going to annotate for you what happened, So let 400 00:26:53,355 --> 00:26:56,235 Speaker 1: me present this to you in three segments. It did 401 00:26:56,275 --> 00:26:59,915 Speaker 1: not start well for Gary, and it got worse from there, 402 00:27:00,235 --> 00:27:03,915 Speaker 1: although mister Miller gave it its eternal title and life 403 00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:06,555 Speaker 1: by going so blint. On the s for the word soccer, 404 00:27:07,595 --> 00:27:11,115 Speaker 1: I'll note only one thing, the acronym of International Soccer's 405 00:27:11,155 --> 00:27:16,515 Speaker 1: outfit FIFA Garriott's pronounced FIFA. 406 00:27:17,395 --> 00:27:22,715 Speaker 3: Soccer breakdown in three two one, FIFA Soccer's governing party 407 00:27:23,115 --> 00:27:30,275 Speaker 3: three two one, piphos Soccer's three two one. The red 408 00:27:30,355 --> 00:27:33,155 Speaker 3: card has become the calling card for this year's tournament. 409 00:27:33,555 --> 00:27:40,635 Speaker 3: Seven ejections for three two one witness Romania's ian Bladu 410 00:27:40,915 --> 00:27:41,435 Speaker 3: against the. 411 00:27:41,355 --> 00:27:47,235 Speaker 1: Swiss is or through christ Ah. But that was the 412 00:27:47,275 --> 00:27:50,715 Speaker 1: easy part. Now in the script came the names of 413 00:27:50,755 --> 00:27:53,315 Speaker 1: the World Cup stars who had been given red card 414 00:27:53,315 --> 00:27:56,755 Speaker 1: ejections in the first week of the tournament. One was 415 00:27:56,835 --> 00:28:01,075 Speaker 1: the seventeen year old star of the Cameroon team, Rigobert's Song, 416 00:28:01,595 --> 00:28:06,475 Speaker 1: often referred to by his full name, Rigobert's Bahanog, or 417 00:28:06,515 --> 00:28:11,795 Speaker 1: as it was said in the script, Riggerbird Bahanog song. 418 00:28:12,075 --> 00:28:22,875 Speaker 3: Three two one Cameroons, Wriggleberg Vanumnjog three two what Cameroons, 419 00:28:22,875 --> 00:28:30,515 Speaker 3: Wriggelberg byangung Zang Zada Da Bayangyang song three two one 420 00:28:31,035 --> 00:28:33,355 Speaker 3: Cameroons Wriggelberg Banyang Zong. 421 00:28:40,315 --> 00:28:45,515 Speaker 1: Bayuyang song three two one three two one. By the way, 422 00:28:45,875 --> 00:28:48,595 Speaker 1: Rigobert's Song is now the manager of the Cameroon team. 423 00:28:48,715 --> 00:28:50,595 Speaker 1: He's gone from being the youngest player in the World 424 00:28:50,635 --> 00:28:53,035 Speaker 1: Cup history to get a red card to running his 425 00:28:53,235 --> 00:28:56,635 Speaker 1: nation's team. I'll interject here that at the start of 426 00:28:56,715 --> 00:29:00,435 Speaker 1: this final major clip, Gary Miller says, to somebody who 427 00:29:00,515 --> 00:29:03,555 Speaker 1: has currently entered that tracking room that smelled of mildew, 428 00:29:03,995 --> 00:29:07,675 Speaker 1: get out of here. Dan Patrick said that was him. 429 00:29:07,795 --> 00:29:09,955 Speaker 1: I think he's mistaken. It doesn't matter much, but there 430 00:29:09,995 --> 00:29:11,915 Speaker 1: was no reason for Dan to have been there on 431 00:29:11,995 --> 00:29:14,835 Speaker 1: a Friday night, especially if we were not doing the show. 432 00:29:15,475 --> 00:29:19,275 Speaker 1: And also there has never been a microphone ever, but 433 00:29:19,475 --> 00:29:23,435 Speaker 1: Dan has not spoken into anyway. We have already met 434 00:29:23,555 --> 00:29:29,755 Speaker 1: Rigobert Bhanog's song. Now meet my guy, the Italian goalie 435 00:29:30,395 --> 00:29:35,835 Speaker 1: John Luca Poaliuca two get out of here? Two is 436 00:29:35,955 --> 00:29:36,715 Speaker 1: guilted through it? 437 00:29:37,355 --> 00:29:37,555 Speaker 2: Two? 438 00:29:38,115 --> 00:29:41,515 Speaker 1: How long is this? Take? Three? Two? 439 00:29:42,115 --> 00:29:47,915 Speaker 3: One one one Cameron's Wriggleberg Bunyan song, preventing a breakaway 440 00:29:47,955 --> 00:29:52,915 Speaker 3: from Brazil's babetto a bah God Almighty, I hate sucker, 441 00:29:53,675 --> 00:29:57,915 Speaker 3: Cameron's Wriggleberg Banjungjong song. I'm gonna try that one last 442 00:29:58,075 --> 00:30:05,195 Speaker 3: lead time two one Cameroon's Wriggleberg Bunjungjong song, Oh, I 443 00:30:05,355 --> 00:30:10,595 Speaker 3: hate this chalcout Bolivia's Luis Cristaldo for both on three 444 00:30:10,875 --> 00:30:13,555 Speaker 3: to one, But the most notable red card of the 445 00:30:13,595 --> 00:30:19,035 Speaker 3: tournament came an Italian goaltender, Jean Luca Palyuca Pauloca Paul 446 00:30:19,115 --> 00:30:20,755 Speaker 3: Yuka the Mother. 447 00:30:20,755 --> 00:30:22,595 Speaker 2: Pee three to one. 448 00:30:23,195 --> 00:30:26,355 Speaker 1: But the flurry of red cards thus far has Todd coaches. 449 00:30:26,075 --> 00:30:29,195 Speaker 3: And players alike to control their play if they'd like 450 00:30:29,275 --> 00:30:31,755 Speaker 3: to control their fate in this tournament. 451 00:30:32,195 --> 00:30:35,595 Speaker 2: Holy Sleep, that is all. 452 00:30:36,595 --> 00:30:40,635 Speaker 1: The pronunciation of Rigovert's song's name is one thing. I 453 00:30:40,915 --> 00:30:44,355 Speaker 1: was delighted by how furious Gary got at Gianluca Palyuca 454 00:30:44,435 --> 00:30:46,635 Speaker 1: of the Italian team and the expletive he used to 455 00:30:46,675 --> 00:30:47,315 Speaker 1: describe him. 456 00:30:48,075 --> 00:30:51,115 Speaker 2: Richard may have just heard. In the days that followed. 457 00:30:51,155 --> 00:30:54,155 Speaker 1: In fact, the Italian goalie's name became shorthand for me 458 00:30:54,875 --> 00:30:58,235 Speaker 1: for that expletive in question. So for the next three 459 00:30:58,355 --> 00:31:01,875 Speaker 1: years on Sports Center and after that on Fox Sports News, 460 00:31:02,355 --> 00:31:05,555 Speaker 1: and then on my ESPN two show, and on Football 461 00:31:05,675 --> 00:31:08,115 Speaker 1: Night in America, and then when I returned to Sports 462 00:31:08,115 --> 00:31:10,795 Speaker 1: Center in twenty eighteen, if you heard me say John 463 00:31:10,875 --> 00:31:14,075 Speaker 1: Luca Paluka while we were showing a player making an 464 00:31:14,195 --> 00:31:17,315 Speaker 1: error or arguing with an umpire or official, I was 465 00:31:17,395 --> 00:31:23,435 Speaker 1: actually implying that the player had just said John Luca Palyuka. 466 00:31:24,595 --> 00:31:27,275 Speaker 1: There's another punchline to this story, of course, the idea 467 00:31:27,435 --> 00:31:31,075 Speaker 1: to do this soccer breakdown that so bedeviled Gary Miller, 468 00:31:31,315 --> 00:31:33,235 Speaker 1: the story of red cards in the first week of 469 00:31:33,275 --> 00:31:36,035 Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety four World Cup. The idea to do 470 00:31:36,195 --> 00:31:44,435 Speaker 1: that came from Gary Miller, never volunteer. I've never been 471 00:31:44,515 --> 00:31:47,755 Speaker 1: convinced that Gary was really happy about his immortality, certainly 472 00:31:47,795 --> 00:31:50,675 Speaker 1: not in the way my ESPN pal Steve Levy not 473 00:31:50,955 --> 00:31:54,395 Speaker 1: so secretly glorious in the day. He once tried to 474 00:31:54,435 --> 00:31:57,195 Speaker 1: say that a New England Patriots player had a bulging disc, 475 00:31:57,955 --> 00:32:01,915 Speaker 1: but didn't quite get disc right. But Gary Miller has 476 00:32:01,955 --> 00:32:04,075 Speaker 1: been a good sport about this through the end of 477 00:32:04,155 --> 00:32:06,715 Speaker 1: his ESPN career in two thousand and four and afterwards 478 00:32:06,755 --> 00:32:08,875 Speaker 1: in his days at Channel two and Channel nine in 479 00:32:08,955 --> 00:32:11,395 Speaker 1: Los Angeles and most recently at Channel two in Cincinnati. 480 00:32:12,195 --> 00:32:14,715 Speaker 1: It isn't hard to understand why this tape is so 481 00:32:14,915 --> 00:32:19,395 Speaker 1: famous and the pleasure derived from it so enduring. As 482 00:32:19,475 --> 00:32:22,235 Speaker 1: John Clees once said about the real life hotel manager 483 00:32:22,435 --> 00:32:25,475 Speaker 1: on whom he based his character from Faulty Towers, he 484 00:32:25,595 --> 00:32:30,595 Speaker 1: had this wonderful bad temper. But there are two more things. One, 485 00:32:30,915 --> 00:32:34,795 Speaker 1: this occurred exactly a week to the day after the 486 00:32:34,955 --> 00:32:38,355 Speaker 1: OJ Simpson car chase, and people forget now just how 487 00:32:38,515 --> 00:32:42,555 Speaker 1: disturbing that was in an America, especially sports America like 488 00:32:42,635 --> 00:32:45,355 Speaker 1: at ESPN, that with the exception of a few of 489 00:32:45,435 --> 00:32:49,315 Speaker 1: us who knew, nobody knew how rotten a human being 490 00:32:49,395 --> 00:32:53,115 Speaker 1: OJ Simpson was, so even a week later we all 491 00:32:53,275 --> 00:32:57,315 Speaker 1: needed this laugh and Gary gave it to us and 492 00:32:57,515 --> 00:33:01,795 Speaker 1: even larger. The essence of soccer in every country in 493 00:33:01,835 --> 00:33:04,835 Speaker 1: which it is played is that it always allows, and 494 00:33:05,115 --> 00:33:09,275 Speaker 1: encourages and even demands that its fans complain about it. 495 00:33:09,995 --> 00:33:15,075 Speaker 1: And so while we cherish Soccer Breakdown and three two 496 00:33:15,275 --> 00:33:21,115 Speaker 1: one and Rigobert Mahananng's song and Bibuto and John Luca Paluka, 497 00:33:21,835 --> 00:33:24,515 Speaker 1: to me, it is really about five words that anybody 498 00:33:24,555 --> 00:33:27,315 Speaker 1: who hates the game will say. But there are also 499 00:33:27,475 --> 00:33:31,075 Speaker 1: five words that any fan of the sport will certainly 500 00:33:31,235 --> 00:33:35,355 Speaker 1: use at some point in his life, possibly at some 501 00:33:35,555 --> 00:33:40,075 Speaker 1: point today. And they are the five words with which 502 00:33:40,115 --> 00:33:41,875 Speaker 1: I will leave you for now. 503 00:33:42,635 --> 00:33:45,995 Speaker 2: A Foh God, almighty, I hate soccer. 504 00:33:46,715 --> 00:33:49,875 Speaker 1: Since I first told you this story, I have, as 505 00:33:49,915 --> 00:33:54,715 Speaker 1: I mentioned, rediscovered an artifact that I thought was gone forever. 506 00:33:55,555 --> 00:34:00,715 Speaker 1: Right after the Soccer Breakdown saga unfolded, an ESPN colleague 507 00:34:00,795 --> 00:34:04,115 Speaker 1: made me a copy of the original raw tape of 508 00:34:04,275 --> 00:34:07,835 Speaker 1: Gary and we put it on a cassette and I 509 00:34:07,915 --> 00:34:11,395 Speaker 1: couldn't find it. There were things on it that were 510 00:34:11,515 --> 00:34:17,275 Speaker 1: somehow lost from all subsequent copies of Soccer Breakdown. So 511 00:34:17,435 --> 00:34:20,195 Speaker 1: this is not as high depth, but I think it's 512 00:34:20,235 --> 00:34:22,675 Speaker 1: even more high comedy. 513 00:34:22,835 --> 00:34:27,875 Speaker 3: Soccer breakdown in three two one after a nineteen ninety 514 00:34:27,915 --> 00:34:31,275 Speaker 3: World Cup marked by physical play in low scores, Piphus 515 00:34:31,355 --> 00:34:35,355 Speaker 3: Soccer's three too one after a nineteen ninety World Cup 516 00:34:35,555 --> 00:34:41,555 Speaker 3: marked by three two one. After a nineteen ninety World 517 00:34:41,595 --> 00:34:45,115 Speaker 3: Cup marked by physical play and low scores, Peiphas Soccer's 518 00:34:45,155 --> 00:34:47,635 Speaker 3: governing body sent out a decree for the nineteen ninety 519 00:34:47,675 --> 00:34:51,035 Speaker 3: four Cup to be better police the result, the red 520 00:34:51,115 --> 00:34:53,915 Speaker 3: card has become the calling card for this year's tournament. 521 00:34:54,315 --> 00:35:00,835 Speaker 3: Seven ejections for three two one. After a nineteen ninety 522 00:35:00,915 --> 00:35:04,315 Speaker 3: World Cup marked by physical play and low scores, Piphus 523 00:35:04,355 --> 00:35:07,195 Speaker 3: soccer governing body sent out the decree for the nineteen 524 00:35:07,275 --> 00:35:10,515 Speaker 3: ninety four Cup to be better police the result, the 525 00:35:10,635 --> 00:35:13,595 Speaker 3: red card has become the calling card for this year's tournament. 526 00:35:14,035 --> 00:35:16,835 Speaker 3: Seven ejections through the first twenty three matches and a 527 00:35:16,955 --> 00:35:20,155 Speaker 3: direct message that rough play will not be tolerated and 528 00:35:20,315 --> 00:35:22,955 Speaker 3: more teams will be playing a man down if it continues. 529 00:35:23,475 --> 00:35:27,035 Speaker 3: The goal more goals and a more palatable sell to 530 00:35:27,115 --> 00:35:32,915 Speaker 3: the American public three two one the results just over 531 00:35:32,995 --> 00:35:35,195 Speaker 3: two and a half goals of contest compared to two 532 00:35:35,235 --> 00:35:37,915 Speaker 3: point two per game at the nineteen ninety Cup in Italy. 533 00:35:38,355 --> 00:35:39,955 Speaker 2: Why does the red card come out? 534 00:35:40,355 --> 00:35:42,355 Speaker 3: A Fight For rule book states a player shall be 535 00:35:42,435 --> 00:35:44,915 Speaker 3: sent off the field of play and shown the red 536 00:35:44,995 --> 00:35:47,875 Speaker 3: card if, in the opinion of the referee he won 537 00:35:48,435 --> 00:35:52,715 Speaker 3: is guilty of violent conduct witness Romania's ian Bladu against the. 538 00:35:52,755 --> 00:35:58,955 Speaker 2: Swiss is or through christ three two one. Why does 539 00:35:58,995 --> 00:36:00,035 Speaker 2: the red card come out? 540 00:36:00,395 --> 00:36:02,315 Speaker 3: The Fight for rule book states the players should be 541 00:36:02,395 --> 00:36:04,435 Speaker 3: set off the field of play and shown the red 542 00:36:04,475 --> 00:36:07,515 Speaker 3: card if, in the opinion of the referee he won 543 00:36:07,995 --> 00:36:11,795 Speaker 3: is guilty of violent conduct witness Romania's ian Bladu against 544 00:36:11,835 --> 00:36:16,475 Speaker 3: the Swiss. Two is guilty of serious foul play. Cameroons 545 00:36:16,555 --> 00:36:24,755 Speaker 3: Riggleberg vanumnjog Bon and Young song prevented a breakaway from 546 00:36:25,715 --> 00:36:31,555 Speaker 3: the betto three to what two is guilty of serious 547 00:36:31,675 --> 00:36:39,035 Speaker 3: foul play. Cameroon's Riggelberg bayan gung zang Zada da Bayangyang 548 00:36:39,315 --> 00:36:43,955 Speaker 3: song three two one two is guilty of serious foul play. 549 00:36:44,395 --> 00:36:58,355 Speaker 3: Cameroon's Rigolberg Banyang zong Bayanyang song three two one two 550 00:36:59,555 --> 00:37:04,275 Speaker 3: get out of here two is guilty through two How 551 00:37:04,315 --> 00:37:05,235 Speaker 3: long is this tape? 552 00:37:07,315 --> 00:37:09,715 Speaker 2: Two is guilty of serious foul play. 553 00:37:10,075 --> 00:37:14,675 Speaker 3: Cameroon's Rigoberg Bunyang song prevented a breakaway from Brazil's babbetto 554 00:37:15,155 --> 00:37:18,515 Speaker 3: a bah God almighty, I hate socker. 555 00:37:20,235 --> 00:37:22,595 Speaker 2: Two is guilty of serious foul play. 556 00:37:22,955 --> 00:37:27,115 Speaker 3: Cameroon's Rigoberg Buan yung jung song provided a breakaway from 557 00:37:27,155 --> 00:37:31,355 Speaker 3: Brazil's babetto a play both serious and foul, deserving of 558 00:37:31,395 --> 00:37:34,435 Speaker 3: a red card. I'm better try that one last time. 559 00:37:34,635 --> 00:37:39,875 Speaker 3: Two one two is guilty of serious foul play. Cameroon's 560 00:37:39,955 --> 00:37:44,035 Speaker 3: Rigoberg Bun Yung yong song prevented a breakaway from Brazil's 561 00:37:44,075 --> 00:37:47,555 Speaker 3: babetto a play both serious and foul and deserving of 562 00:37:47,595 --> 00:37:48,275 Speaker 3: a red card. 563 00:37:48,795 --> 00:37:52,275 Speaker 2: Three use his foul or abusive language. Can't show you that? 564 00:37:52,755 --> 00:37:57,115 Speaker 3: And four is guilty of a second cautionable I hate 565 00:37:57,195 --> 00:38:01,475 Speaker 3: this free use his foul or abusive language. And four 566 00:38:01,795 --> 00:38:04,675 Speaker 3: is guilty of a second cautionable offense after having resided 567 00:38:04,755 --> 00:38:09,235 Speaker 3: see the caution. Chalcop Bolivia's Luis Cristaldo for both on 568 00:38:09,515 --> 00:38:13,915 Speaker 3: three to one. Chalk up Bolivia's Luis Cristaldo for both 569 00:38:13,995 --> 00:38:16,355 Speaker 3: on this case, as he receives a yellow card and 570 00:38:16,435 --> 00:38:19,275 Speaker 3: then uses a foul or abusive language to draw a 571 00:38:19,395 --> 00:38:22,715 Speaker 3: second yellow and be ejected against South Korea. A tone 572 00:38:22,835 --> 00:38:24,915 Speaker 3: was set in the first match of the tournament when 573 00:38:24,955 --> 00:38:29,235 Speaker 3: Bolivia's Marco Antonio Etcheveri was ejected for this illegal kick 574 00:38:29,315 --> 00:38:31,875 Speaker 3: against the Germans, but the most notable red card of 575 00:38:31,955 --> 00:38:37,315 Speaker 3: the tournament came an Italian goaltunder Jean Luca Paulucca the 576 00:38:37,395 --> 00:38:41,355 Speaker 3: Mother three two one. But the most notable red card 577 00:38:41,395 --> 00:38:44,515 Speaker 3: of the tournament came when Italian goaltunder John Luca Pauloca 578 00:38:45,035 --> 00:38:48,515 Speaker 3: was ejected against Norway for a handball outside the goal 579 00:38:49,035 --> 00:38:52,675 Speaker 3: where the game was still schoolless three two one. But 580 00:38:52,795 --> 00:38:54,715 Speaker 3: the most notable red card of the tournament came when 581 00:38:54,755 --> 00:38:58,675 Speaker 3: Italian goal tutor John Luca Pauluca was ejected against Norway 582 00:38:58,755 --> 00:39:01,435 Speaker 3: for a handball outside the goal area with the game 583 00:39:01,515 --> 00:39:04,875 Speaker 3: still schoolless. Down a man a team's first instinct his 584 00:39:04,955 --> 00:39:08,595 Speaker 3: defense an injured Roberto Baggio, who is now a liability, 585 00:39:08,875 --> 00:39:10,835 Speaker 3: even if he is one of the world's most talented 586 00:39:10,915 --> 00:39:11,875 Speaker 3: offensive players. 587 00:39:12,275 --> 00:39:13,355 Speaker 2: The gamble paid off. 588 00:39:13,755 --> 00:39:16,275 Speaker 3: Italy still alive in this year's World Cup, but the 589 00:39:16,395 --> 00:39:18,995 Speaker 3: flurry of red cars thus far has taught coaches and 590 00:39:19,155 --> 00:39:22,235 Speaker 3: players alike to control their play if they'd. 591 00:39:22,035 --> 00:39:30,075 Speaker 1: Like To, and with that we welcome Lionel Messi or 592 00:39:30,195 --> 00:39:48,395 Speaker 1: is it Lionel Messiah Babetto. I've done all the damage 593 00:39:48,435 --> 00:39:50,195 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Here are 594 00:39:50,235 --> 00:39:52,795 Speaker 1: the credits. Most of the music arrange produced and performed 595 00:39:52,875 --> 00:39:55,395 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanel, who are the 596 00:39:55,435 --> 00:39:59,235 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors. Guitars based and drums by Brian Ray, 597 00:39:59,435 --> 00:40:02,875 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Shanel produced by 598 00:40:02,955 --> 00:40:06,875 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Tooven selections have been arranged and performed by 599 00:40:06,915 --> 00:40:10,235 Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Olberman 600 00:40:10,315 --> 00:40:12,515 Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two and it was written by Mitch 601 00:40:12,555 --> 00:40:17,115 Speaker 1: Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. 602 00:40:17,115 --> 00:40:20,035 Speaker 1: The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was 603 00:40:20,075 --> 00:40:23,235 Speaker 1: my friend Kenny Maine. Everything else is pretty much my fault. 604 00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:27,715 Speaker 1: Don't forget. Countdown now also available on YouTube for those 605 00:40:27,755 --> 00:40:31,595 Speaker 1: of you who prefer a small animated me to accompany 606 00:40:31,675 --> 00:40:34,755 Speaker 1: my reading of this script. That's countdown for this the 607 00:40:34,835 --> 00:40:37,195 Speaker 1: nine hundred and twenty fourth days since Donald Trump's first 608 00:40:37,195 --> 00:40:40,395 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United 609 00:40:40,435 --> 00:40:44,995 Speaker 1: States arrest him again while we still can. The next 610 00:40:44,995 --> 00:40:48,995 Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins as the news warrants till then, 611 00:40:49,035 --> 00:40:52,315 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 612 00:40:53,195 --> 00:40:57,955 Speaker 1: good luck. Hey, dude, there's no way you would have 613 00:40:57,995 --> 00:40:58,635 Speaker 1: gotten away with that. 614 00:40:58,715 --> 00:41:01,515 Speaker 3: I go. I know. Luckily, I don't snorthole cocaine like 615 00:41:01,595 --> 00:41:02,275 Speaker 3: it's not my thing. 616 00:41:02,995 --> 00:41:07,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oulderman, a production of iHeartRadio. For more 617 00:41:07,435 --> 00:41:12,315 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 618 00:41:12,435 --> 00:41:14,195 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.