1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart 2 00:00:08,635 --> 00:00:26,715 Speaker 1: Radio Insurrection. No, not the one in Brazil, the one 3 00:00:26,835 --> 00:00:30,275 Speaker 1: here still in full flower, two years and three days 4 00:00:30,315 --> 00:00:33,715 Speaker 1: after the Trump slabs were beaten back, and this time 5 00:00:33,755 --> 00:00:37,515 Speaker 1: the combatants will include not the Proud Boys, but the 6 00:00:37,595 --> 00:00:41,355 Speaker 1: Home and Rule and the Lender Letter. It starts today 7 00:00:41,395 --> 00:00:44,355 Speaker 1: when the Tattleban twenty forces its combination Speaker of the 8 00:00:44,355 --> 00:00:48,875 Speaker 1: House and hostage Kevin McCarthy to pass a House rules 9 00:00:48,915 --> 00:00:53,275 Speaker 1: package dressed up in patriotic persiflage but actually designed merely 10 00:00:53,315 --> 00:00:58,075 Speaker 1: to keep the insurrectionists from being prosecuted. Battle will be 11 00:00:58,155 --> 00:01:01,675 Speaker 1: less mob rule and more Robert's Rules of Order, but 12 00:01:01,755 --> 00:01:04,595 Speaker 1: it will again take place at the Capitol. The House 13 00:01:04,755 --> 00:01:08,435 Speaker 1: Rules for the Congress will establish something to be airily 14 00:01:08,515 --> 00:01:12,995 Speaker 1: called the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Justice Department 15 00:01:13,035 --> 00:01:15,595 Speaker 1: or something stupid like that, when in fact it should 16 00:01:15,595 --> 00:01:20,995 Speaker 1: be called the House Obstruction of Justice Subcommittee. This subcommittee 17 00:01:20,995 --> 00:01:24,715 Speaker 1: will give itself the right to review quote ongoing criminal investigations, 18 00:01:24,715 --> 00:01:28,395 Speaker 1: which is a nice way of saying insurrectionists serving in 19 00:01:28,475 --> 00:01:31,915 Speaker 1: the House like Jim Jordan's and Matt Gates and Perry 20 00:01:32,035 --> 00:01:35,315 Speaker 1: and Green and Ghosts are to say nothing of Trump 21 00:01:35,955 --> 00:01:38,355 Speaker 1: or anybody else being investigated for their complicity in the 22 00:01:38,435 --> 00:01:41,235 Speaker 1: January six co attempt. They will be able to use 23 00:01:41,235 --> 00:01:47,595 Speaker 1: a Congressional subcommittee to stop those investigations of themselves, or 24 00:01:47,595 --> 00:01:51,435 Speaker 1: at least they think so. Gates and Jordan, who are 25 00:01:51,475 --> 00:01:53,435 Speaker 1: behind this, are trying to dress it up as some 26 00:01:53,515 --> 00:01:56,875 Speaker 1: sort of protection for political free speech, and writes this 27 00:01:56,995 --> 00:01:59,675 Speaker 1: and First Amendment that when in fact it is an 28 00:01:59,715 --> 00:02:03,035 Speaker 1: attempt by Jordan and Gates to keep Jordan and Gates 29 00:02:03,075 --> 00:02:08,275 Speaker 1: out of jail. The problem with clever but lazy fanatics 30 00:02:08,315 --> 00:02:11,875 Speaker 1: like Jordan's and Gates is that they only read the headlines. 31 00:02:12,555 --> 00:02:15,395 Speaker 1: They will hit the Department of Justice with demands for testimony, 32 00:02:15,595 --> 00:02:19,435 Speaker 1: for evidence of hearings for witnesses, and the Department of 33 00:02:19,475 --> 00:02:22,075 Speaker 1: Justice will be able to tell Gates and Jordan's to 34 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:27,075 Speaker 1: shove it up their base. A Deputy Assistant Attorney General 35 00:02:27,315 --> 00:02:30,395 Speaker 1: will write to Chairman Jordan or Chairman Gates a note 36 00:02:30,475 --> 00:02:34,115 Speaker 1: dry as toast, invoking the lender letter and Attorney General 37 00:02:34,235 --> 00:02:37,515 Speaker 1: Robert Jackson, and presuming they get a grown up to 38 00:02:37,595 --> 00:02:40,515 Speaker 1: read it allowed to them. Gates and Jordan will be 39 00:02:40,555 --> 00:02:46,955 Speaker 1: in for a big surprise on January to thousand, which 40 00:02:46,995 --> 00:02:48,915 Speaker 1: is so long ago it was the day I turned 41 00:02:48,955 --> 00:02:53,235 Speaker 1: forty one. Assistant Attorney General Robert Raven wrote to the 42 00:02:53,275 --> 00:02:56,515 Speaker 1: House chair of the Subcommittee on Rules, Congressman John Linder, 43 00:02:56,635 --> 00:03:03,275 Speaker 1: about this exact precise subject. No, not only can't Congress 44 00:03:03,315 --> 00:03:08,835 Speaker 1: have or see, or or demand anything about ongoing criminal investigations, 45 00:03:08,875 --> 00:03:10,955 Speaker 1: but that that has been the policy of the United 46 00:03:10,995 --> 00:03:15,155 Speaker 1: States government, whether run by Democrats or Republicans, since about 47 00:03:15,235 --> 00:03:21,155 Speaker 1: nineteen hundred. Raven quoted Robert H. Jackson, f DRS. Attorney 48 00:03:21,155 --> 00:03:25,755 Speaker 1: in General in ninety one, citing something like forty years 49 00:03:25,755 --> 00:03:29,915 Speaker 1: worth of precedents at that point in Jackson wrote that 50 00:03:30,035 --> 00:03:34,395 Speaker 1: all investigative reports are confidential documents of the executive Department 51 00:03:34,435 --> 00:03:37,155 Speaker 1: of the government to aid in the duty laid upon 52 00:03:37,235 --> 00:03:40,155 Speaker 1: the President by the Constitution to take care that the 53 00:03:40,275 --> 00:03:44,595 Speaker 1: laws be faithfully executed, and that congressional or public access 54 00:03:44,635 --> 00:03:48,115 Speaker 1: to them would not be in the public interest. Raven 55 00:03:48,195 --> 00:03:51,595 Speaker 1: also pointed out in two thousand what should be obvious 56 00:03:51,675 --> 00:03:54,675 Speaker 1: to anybody not quite as stupid and slovenly as Jim 57 00:03:54,755 --> 00:03:58,395 Speaker 1: Jordan and Matt Gates. He quoted one Assistant Attorney General 58 00:03:58,395 --> 00:04:01,835 Speaker 1: for the Office of Legal Counsel Charles J. Cooper, who 59 00:04:01,875 --> 00:04:06,755 Speaker 1: had written quote providing a congressional matty with confidential information 60 00:04:06,795 --> 00:04:10,315 Speaker 1: about active criminal investigations would place the Congress in a 61 00:04:10,355 --> 00:04:14,435 Speaker 1: position to exert pressure or attempt to influence the prosecution 62 00:04:14,435 --> 00:04:18,555 Speaker 1: of criminal cases. The author of that quote, Charles J. Cooper, 63 00:04:18,875 --> 00:04:24,675 Speaker 1: was the Assistant Attorney General under Ronald Reagan. If a 64 00:04:24,715 --> 00:04:28,475 Speaker 1: Congressional committee is fully apprised of all details of investigation 65 00:04:28,595 --> 00:04:32,675 Speaker 1: as the investigation proceeds, wrote a deputy counsel to the President, 66 00:04:32,795 --> 00:04:36,515 Speaker 1: Edward L. Morgan, there is a substantial danger that congressional 67 00:04:36,515 --> 00:04:39,795 Speaker 1: pressures will influence the course of the investigation, and that 68 00:04:39,955 --> 00:04:45,275 Speaker 1: Mr Morgan was deputy counseled to Richard Nixon. It is 69 00:04:45,315 --> 00:04:50,635 Speaker 1: an open and shut, bright red line. Gates and Jordan's 70 00:04:50,635 --> 00:04:53,475 Speaker 1: and their speaker, Hostage McCarthy are not the first yah 71 00:04:53,475 --> 00:04:56,115 Speaker 1: who's to try to save their own skins by pretending 72 00:04:56,155 --> 00:04:58,155 Speaker 1: they have the right to review anything going on in 73 00:04:58,195 --> 00:05:01,835 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, and given where the Republican Insurrections 74 00:05:01,915 --> 00:05:06,275 Speaker 1: Party is going, they will not be the last asked. However, 75 00:05:06,395 --> 00:05:10,475 Speaker 1: d O J will refuse completely. The House will then 76 00:05:10,635 --> 00:05:13,595 Speaker 1: vote to find Merrick Garland or somebody else at d 77 00:05:13,715 --> 00:05:16,835 Speaker 1: o J in contempt and demand they be prosecuted for 78 00:05:16,875 --> 00:05:19,155 Speaker 1: that contempt. And that's when Matt Gates and Jim Jordan 79 00:05:19,195 --> 00:05:21,755 Speaker 1: will realize that the only branch of law enforcement which 80 00:05:21,755 --> 00:05:26,515 Speaker 1: could actually do that is the Department of Justice. Gates 81 00:05:26,595 --> 00:05:30,195 Speaker 1: and Jordans will then be surprised as hell when the 82 00:05:30,235 --> 00:05:34,235 Speaker 1: Department of Justice declines to prosecute the Department of Justice. 83 00:05:36,475 --> 00:05:39,755 Speaker 1: Presumably the insurrectionists will be able to fund raise off 84 00:05:39,875 --> 00:05:44,235 Speaker 1: this brew ha ha ha ha ha and get the 85 00:05:44,235 --> 00:05:47,595 Speaker 1: Republican Umbridge machine to fire up and get Tucker Jimminy 86 00:05:47,635 --> 00:05:51,595 Speaker 1: Glitt Carlson to make some more vague threats of violence 87 00:05:51,595 --> 00:05:54,275 Speaker 1: against somebody. But the bottom line is they will not 88 00:05:54,395 --> 00:05:57,915 Speaker 1: get to review the Special Council's case against Trump nor 89 00:05:57,995 --> 00:06:01,155 Speaker 1: stop it, nor review or stop the d o J 90 00:06:01,355 --> 00:06:05,835 Speaker 1: case against Gates for sex trafficking or anything else. So 91 00:06:05,875 --> 00:06:09,235 Speaker 1: when hands are wrong later today about the House Subcommittee 92 00:06:09,235 --> 00:06:11,875 Speaker 1: on the Deep State, won't let Matt Gates VENMO payments 93 00:06:11,875 --> 00:06:15,435 Speaker 1: for underage girls or the House Subcommittee to get Trump 94 00:06:15,475 --> 00:06:16,955 Speaker 1: off the hook for the coup and blame it all 95 00:06:16,955 --> 00:06:21,835 Speaker 1: on Pelosi. Just remember the Lender letter and look forward 96 00:06:22,235 --> 00:06:28,035 Speaker 1: to watching Gates and Jordan's squirm. The Lender letters Evil 97 00:06:28,115 --> 00:06:30,155 Speaker 1: twin though, is called the Holman Rule, and I'm a 98 00:06:30,195 --> 00:06:33,595 Speaker 1: little bit more worried about the Holman Rule. What I 99 00:06:33,715 --> 00:06:37,075 Speaker 1: want to hear at the appropriate moment is that the 100 00:06:37,155 --> 00:06:40,475 Speaker 1: Justice Department is not merely completed funding the office of 101 00:06:40,515 --> 00:06:42,875 Speaker 1: Special Counsel Jack Smith for the next two years, but 102 00:06:42,995 --> 00:06:47,955 Speaker 1: already paid his salary, all other salaries, all foreseeable expenses, 103 00:06:48,195 --> 00:06:51,915 Speaker 1: and all unforeseeable expenses for everybody involved in the Special 104 00:06:51,915 --> 00:06:56,315 Speaker 1: Council's office for the next two years. Because, of course, 105 00:06:56,435 --> 00:06:59,475 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy gave away the store to become Speaker of 106 00:06:59,475 --> 00:07:04,315 Speaker 1: the House until like Thursday of next week or whenever 107 00:07:04,355 --> 00:07:06,995 Speaker 1: they or throw him, And part of the story he 108 00:07:07,035 --> 00:07:10,995 Speaker 1: gave away is the attempt to reinstitute the Holman rule. 109 00:07:11,635 --> 00:07:15,755 Speaker 1: The Holman rule is another vestige of the nineteen century, 110 00:07:15,795 --> 00:07:19,395 Speaker 1: like the Supreme Court clerical error declaring that corporations are 111 00:07:19,435 --> 00:07:22,995 Speaker 1: people with which the fascists can now try to strangle 112 00:07:23,075 --> 00:07:28,395 Speaker 1: the twenty one century. The Homean rule is something somebody 113 00:07:28,515 --> 00:07:32,795 Speaker 1: told Marjorie Taylor Green about, and that idiot actually remembered 114 00:07:32,835 --> 00:07:38,075 Speaker 1: it two words in consecutive order. Nice job, Marge, Marge, 115 00:07:38,115 --> 00:07:40,875 Speaker 1: treats this as if it were an incantation from a 116 00:07:40,915 --> 00:07:45,515 Speaker 1: Harry Potter book, rather than what it actually was. The 117 00:07:45,595 --> 00:07:48,595 Speaker 1: Coleman Rule was Congress trying to get a handle on 118 00:07:48,715 --> 00:07:51,915 Speaker 1: out of control political patronage appointments to the civil service 119 00:07:51,995 --> 00:07:56,035 Speaker 1: during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Essentially, the House 120 00:07:56,035 --> 00:07:59,155 Speaker 1: could vote to eliminate the salary of any federal employee, 121 00:07:59,555 --> 00:08:02,635 Speaker 1: one at a time, if need be. Over the decades, 122 00:08:02,675 --> 00:08:05,435 Speaker 1: Congress has not done much that just fies the cost 123 00:08:05,475 --> 00:08:07,355 Speaker 1: of the oil with which to fry it in hell. 124 00:08:07,435 --> 00:08:09,595 Speaker 1: But give credit where credit is due. Here we have 125 00:08:09,715 --> 00:08:14,395 Speaker 1: not seen many corrupt political patronage appointments by President Grant 126 00:08:14,675 --> 00:08:21,075 Speaker 1: or his lackeys recently. This one worked. Even the House 127 00:08:21,275 --> 00:08:25,395 Speaker 1: recognized that this was kind of a old deal. In 128 00:08:25,475 --> 00:08:29,755 Speaker 1: eighteen ninety they killed the Holeman rule in eighteen ninety five. 129 00:08:29,795 --> 00:08:32,075 Speaker 1: It came back from the dead in nineteen eleven. It 130 00:08:32,155 --> 00:08:34,915 Speaker 1: was the basis for a House bill unsuccessfully directed at 131 00:08:34,955 --> 00:08:37,395 Speaker 1: thirty nine victims of the Red Scare in the forties. 132 00:08:37,635 --> 00:08:40,035 Speaker 1: It died again in nineteen eighty three, and then it 133 00:08:40,075 --> 00:08:42,675 Speaker 1: was resuscitated by the Republicans when they took the House 134 00:08:42,675 --> 00:08:46,995 Speaker 1: in two thousand seventeen, Congressman Ron de Santis tried to 135 00:08:47,115 --> 00:08:50,595 Speaker 1: use the Holeman rule to punish his political enemies and failed. 136 00:08:51,115 --> 00:08:55,915 Speaker 1: Paul Gozar tried it and failed, and most Republicans recoiled 137 00:08:55,915 --> 00:09:00,595 Speaker 1: at what amounts to employment terrorism within the government and 138 00:09:00,675 --> 00:09:03,395 Speaker 1: a line item veto within the government, and most importantly, 139 00:09:03,595 --> 00:09:07,355 Speaker 1: revoking budd it items after the budget had been approved. 140 00:09:08,275 --> 00:09:12,795 Speaker 1: Even Republicans don't like the Holman rule. The Democrats killed 141 00:09:12,795 --> 00:09:15,035 Speaker 1: it again when they took power in two thousand nineteen. 142 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:18,475 Speaker 1: But what Marjorie Trailer Park Green has been promising since 143 00:09:18,515 --> 00:09:20,675 Speaker 1: the middle of last year was to get the Home 144 00:09:20,755 --> 00:09:23,875 Speaker 1: and Rule reinstated and use it to fire or to 145 00:09:23,915 --> 00:09:28,755 Speaker 1: at least cut the salary of anybody investigating or prosecuting Trump. 146 00:09:29,635 --> 00:09:34,115 Speaker 1: It is corruption to cover up sedition. It is probably 147 00:09:34,115 --> 00:09:37,475 Speaker 1: not constitutional based on a ruling in that Red Scare 148 00:09:37,515 --> 00:09:40,355 Speaker 1: case in the forties, because, as the court then noted, 149 00:09:40,435 --> 00:09:44,355 Speaker 1: it is a bill of attainder and Section nine, Article 150 00:09:44,395 --> 00:09:48,595 Speaker 1: one of the Constitution prohibits bills of attainder. To translate, 151 00:09:49,315 --> 00:09:51,995 Speaker 1: and god, I remember this from seventh grade social studies. 152 00:09:52,035 --> 00:09:55,875 Speaker 1: Thank you, Mrs Rice. A bill of attainder is a 153 00:09:55,995 --> 00:10:00,675 Speaker 1: legislature not a court declaring somebody guilty of something and 154 00:10:00,755 --> 00:10:05,995 Speaker 1: punishing them without a trial. Lee goal in the England 155 00:10:06,115 --> 00:10:09,475 Speaker 1: of the seventeen hundreds, not legal in the United States 156 00:10:09,555 --> 00:10:14,355 Speaker 1: of any year, decade, or day. So if Green gets 157 00:10:14,355 --> 00:10:17,395 Speaker 1: the fascists to pass a Home and Rule action to 158 00:10:17,435 --> 00:10:21,595 Speaker 1: cut Jack Smith's salary or Merrick Garland's salary, or the 159 00:10:21,635 --> 00:10:25,275 Speaker 1: salaries of everybody at the FBI, it probably would not 160 00:10:25,395 --> 00:10:27,995 Speaker 1: hold up in court. On the other hand, it could 161 00:10:28,035 --> 00:10:31,635 Speaker 1: create yet more red tape and time delay to hold 162 00:10:31,715 --> 00:10:34,675 Speaker 1: up the prosecution of Trump. So the prophylactic solution of 163 00:10:34,755 --> 00:10:39,435 Speaker 1: this anti democracy, anti constitution, anti law effort by Representative 164 00:10:39,475 --> 00:10:43,675 Speaker 1: cave Woman would be make sure everybody in Special Council 165 00:10:43,715 --> 00:10:48,035 Speaker 1: Smith's office is already paid through don't spend at all 166 00:10:48,035 --> 00:10:51,035 Speaker 1: in one place, and then tell Marge to shove the 167 00:10:51,075 --> 00:10:55,595 Speaker 1: Home and Rule up her district. So the main attempt 168 00:10:55,595 --> 00:10:59,795 Speaker 1: to protect Trump and Gates and Jordan's and Green and 169 00:10:59,835 --> 00:11:02,395 Speaker 1: whoever placed the January five pipe bombs, and that I 170 00:11:02,435 --> 00:11:05,715 Speaker 1: mentioned the pipe bomber right after I mentioned greenishist to coincidence. 171 00:11:06,715 --> 00:11:09,995 Speaker 1: The main attempt will fail. The secondary attempt may fail 172 00:11:10,355 --> 00:11:12,715 Speaker 1: of its own weight. And if it doesn't it can 173 00:11:12,795 --> 00:11:16,435 Speaker 1: be headed off at the pass. This leaves the Democrats 174 00:11:16,435 --> 00:11:19,075 Speaker 1: and the administration more time to deal with what they 175 00:11:19,075 --> 00:11:21,995 Speaker 1: should have precluded while they still had the majority. The 176 00:11:22,075 --> 00:11:25,595 Speaker 1: Republican terrorist plan to refuse to raise the debt ceiling, 177 00:11:25,915 --> 00:11:28,795 Speaker 1: cause this country to default on its debts, and then 178 00:11:29,115 --> 00:11:47,515 Speaker 1: you know, crash the world economy still ahead, Brazil has 179 00:11:47,555 --> 00:11:52,475 Speaker 1: its version of January six on January eight. Conveniently enough, 180 00:11:52,555 --> 00:11:56,675 Speaker 1: it's intended beneficiary happens to be at Mari Lago. Solution, 181 00:11:58,195 --> 00:12:01,435 Speaker 1: raid Mari Lago and seize him and anybody trying to 182 00:12:01,475 --> 00:12:04,595 Speaker 1: protect him. In sports, what do you mean? The New 183 00:12:04,715 --> 00:12:10,555 Speaker 1: York Yankees wore red sleeves during two World Series and 184 00:12:10,635 --> 00:12:13,115 Speaker 1: it's two of my favorite anniversaries rolled into one. The 185 00:12:13,155 --> 00:12:16,635 Speaker 1: day that we launched ESPN Radio with an accidental scoop 186 00:12:16,955 --> 00:12:19,755 Speaker 1: and the day that I, traveling to help ESPN Radio 187 00:12:19,835 --> 00:12:23,315 Speaker 1: exploit that scoop, met the great actress and lovely human, 188 00:12:23,795 --> 00:12:27,195 Speaker 1: the late Elizabeth Montgomery. Things I promised not to tell 189 00:12:27,235 --> 00:12:38,515 Speaker 1: coming up bats next this discountdown. This is countdown with 190 00:12:38,635 --> 00:12:44,755 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman still ahead. On countdown, it is almost time 191 00:12:44,795 --> 00:12:48,195 Speaker 1: for hockeys all star games, so naturally for the skills 192 00:12:48,275 --> 00:12:51,195 Speaker 1: competition and the day before the game, they want to 193 00:12:52,235 --> 00:12:56,635 Speaker 1: have players shoot frozen pucks made out of hamburger meat 194 00:12:57,355 --> 00:13:02,235 Speaker 1: at the local Alligators pucks in deep as they say, 195 00:13:02,395 --> 00:13:05,155 Speaker 1: coming up first. In each tradition of Countdown feature a 196 00:13:05,195 --> 00:13:07,795 Speaker 1: dog in need you can help. Every dog has its day. 197 00:13:08,195 --> 00:13:13,275 Speaker 1: Waffles is a French bulldog with a big problem in Shreveport, Louisiana. 198 00:13:13,315 --> 00:13:16,475 Speaker 1: The Parish Pause Rescue has saved him, but he may 199 00:13:16,555 --> 00:13:19,275 Speaker 1: need surgery. His hips are misaligned and it appears he 200 00:13:19,355 --> 00:13:23,235 Speaker 1: was abandoned on the streets. Immediate treatment with steroids improved 201 00:13:23,275 --> 00:13:26,195 Speaker 1: his state of mind and his health quite a bit, 202 00:13:26,235 --> 00:13:29,755 Speaker 1: and he was at last report enthusiastically playing with stuffed toys. 203 00:13:30,275 --> 00:13:33,195 Speaker 1: You can find Waffles on my Twitter feed or at Cuddley. 204 00:13:33,755 --> 00:13:37,075 Speaker 1: Anything you can give will help. I thank you and 205 00:13:37,155 --> 00:14:05,315 Speaker 1: Waffles thanks you. Pot Scripts to the news, some headlines, 206 00:14:05,355 --> 00:14:09,235 Speaker 1: some updates, some snarks, some predictions. Dateline Brazilia, for the 207 00:14:09,235 --> 00:14:11,995 Speaker 1: second time in two years, sore losers have tried to 208 00:14:12,035 --> 00:14:15,275 Speaker 1: overthrow a democratically elected government by violence, and the government 209 00:14:15,315 --> 00:14:18,275 Speaker 1: was not ready for it. Supporters of the Brazilian fascist 210 00:14:18,435 --> 00:14:22,875 Speaker 1: Jaire Bolsonaro attacked the Brazilian Supreme Court, the presidential office 211 00:14:22,875 --> 00:14:26,675 Speaker 1: and the legislature. Unlike here, they waited until after the 212 00:14:26,715 --> 00:14:29,795 Speaker 1: new president had been inaugurated, and rather stupidly, they also 213 00:14:29,835 --> 00:14:33,035 Speaker 1: waited to attack the government facilities until none of them 214 00:14:33,075 --> 00:14:36,475 Speaker 1: were in session. Also, unlike here, at least five hundred 215 00:14:36,475 --> 00:14:39,915 Speaker 1: were immediately arrested in the government promises they all will be. 216 00:14:40,275 --> 00:14:42,315 Speaker 1: The joke last night was that since it is summer 217 00:14:42,355 --> 00:14:45,155 Speaker 1: in Brazil, those who will defend these events in Brazilia 218 00:14:45,195 --> 00:14:47,995 Speaker 1: will say this editionists were just tourists who are there 219 00:14:47,995 --> 00:14:51,435 Speaker 1: on vacation. Bulsonaro, of course, has been at mari Lago 220 00:14:51,515 --> 00:14:53,835 Speaker 1: for about a week. He's already been consulting with Steve 221 00:14:53,875 --> 00:14:57,795 Speaker 1: Bannon and Jason Miller on how to fascism. There have 222 00:14:57,875 --> 00:15:01,035 Speaker 1: been calls for this country to immediately deport Balsonaro back 223 00:15:01,075 --> 00:15:04,075 Speaker 1: to Brazil for investigation of his role in the insurrection. 224 00:15:04,435 --> 00:15:07,075 Speaker 1: Where makes sense on the surface, I guess, But wouldn't 225 00:15:07,075 --> 00:15:09,875 Speaker 1: it make more sense to deport Bannon and Miller for 226 00:15:09,955 --> 00:15:13,355 Speaker 1: investigation of what they did or didn't do. Bannon says 227 00:15:13,355 --> 00:15:15,275 Speaker 1: he was in favor of what happened in Brazil. As 228 00:15:15,315 --> 00:15:17,595 Speaker 1: to Ballstonnaro, if he's staying here or he's going back 229 00:15:17,635 --> 00:15:21,595 Speaker 1: to Brazil involuntarily or otherwise. Shouldn't the government or the U. 230 00:15:21,675 --> 00:15:24,115 Speaker 1: S Military take him into custody. I mean, this is 231 00:15:24,155 --> 00:15:28,795 Speaker 1: an issue of international law and diplomacy. Hell raid Marilago 232 00:15:28,875 --> 00:15:31,355 Speaker 1: if you have to. If we're lucky, there'll be some 233 00:15:31,435 --> 00:15:35,995 Speaker 1: kind of confrontation. And Dateline Atlanta, speaking of confrontations, has 234 00:15:36,035 --> 00:15:38,795 Speaker 1: more details come out from the herschel Walker staffer who 235 00:15:38,795 --> 00:15:42,715 Speaker 1: says conservative icon and bigot Matt Slap fondled him against 236 00:15:42,755 --> 00:15:46,035 Speaker 1: his will in October. Schlap and his wife continued to 237 00:15:46,115 --> 00:15:49,635 Speaker 1: deny and happened Now. It turns out the accuser recorded 238 00:15:49,635 --> 00:15:53,795 Speaker 1: a series of videos within hours of the incident memorializing 239 00:15:53,835 --> 00:15:57,635 Speaker 1: Schlap's alleged sexual advances, and he told his boss on 240 00:15:57,675 --> 00:16:00,715 Speaker 1: the campaign the day after its supposedly happened. In one 241 00:16:00,715 --> 00:16:03,875 Speaker 1: of the videos, the man says, quote Matt Slap of 242 00:16:03,915 --> 00:16:08,075 Speaker 1: the c Pack grabbed my junk and pumbled it at length. 243 00:16:09,755 --> 00:16:12,355 Speaker 1: And here we thought match Lap was losing his grip. 244 00:16:25,195 --> 00:16:31,475 Speaker 1: This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 245 00:16:32,475 --> 00:16:38,475 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith in Sports Buffalo Bills beat the 246 00:16:38,515 --> 00:16:42,995 Speaker 1: New England Patriots three yesterday and afterwards face time with 247 00:16:43,075 --> 00:16:46,035 Speaker 1: their teammate Tomorrow Hamlin, who just a week ago tonight 248 00:16:46,155 --> 00:16:49,035 Speaker 1: collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest in a moment 249 00:16:49,115 --> 00:16:51,795 Speaker 1: so terrifying the National Football League actually stopped the game 250 00:16:51,795 --> 00:16:54,595 Speaker 1: in which had happened. One of the Bills touchdowns yesterday 251 00:16:54,635 --> 00:16:57,515 Speaker 1: was caught by receiver John Brown, who promptly handed the 252 00:16:57,555 --> 00:17:00,235 Speaker 1: ball to the assistant trainer of the team, Danny Kellington, 253 00:17:00,875 --> 00:17:03,795 Speaker 1: who had performed CPR on Hamlin within a minute of 254 00:17:03,875 --> 00:17:06,715 Speaker 1: his collapse. It is Kellington who was credited with saving 255 00:17:06,755 --> 00:17:10,515 Speaker 1: Hamblin's life and his neurological health. Latest athlete to drawn 256 00:17:10,515 --> 00:17:13,995 Speaker 1: out pouring of support popular charismatic Chicago White Sox relief 257 00:17:14,035 --> 00:17:17,675 Speaker 1: feitcher Liam Hendrix, who revealed yesterday he has non Hodgkins 258 00:17:17,755 --> 00:17:22,075 Speaker 1: lymphoma and will begin treatment today. Another baseball note, the 259 00:17:22,155 --> 00:17:27,595 Speaker 1: Yankees wearing uniforms with red sleeves. Baseball graphic designer and 260 00:17:27,675 --> 00:17:31,115 Speaker 1: uniform expert Todd Radham found a historical nugget new to 261 00:17:31,195 --> 00:17:35,315 Speaker 1: him and to me as well. Intermittently throughout the nineteen twenties, 262 00:17:35,315 --> 00:17:37,795 Speaker 1: groups of Yankee players, including the likes of future Hall 263 00:17:37,835 --> 00:17:41,035 Speaker 1: of famers Tony Lazari and Leo de Rocher, wore red 264 00:17:41,195 --> 00:17:46,435 Speaker 1: sweatshirts under their home pinstripe uniforms and road grays, including 265 00:17:46,475 --> 00:17:51,715 Speaker 1: during the seven World Series the Yankees in Red, which 266 00:17:51,755 --> 00:17:54,635 Speaker 1: you can file next to the always startling reveal that 267 00:17:54,755 --> 00:18:00,235 Speaker 1: in ninety seven the Brooklyn Dodgers wore green Dodger green. 268 00:18:01,035 --> 00:18:04,595 Speaker 1: The road uniforms were green and tan. Only in ninety 269 00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:06,835 Speaker 1: did they think better of it and went to Dodger blue, 270 00:18:06,835 --> 00:18:09,755 Speaker 1: which they have warren ever since. And remember the Houston 271 00:18:09,835 --> 00:18:14,595 Speaker 1: Astros World Series parade when Texas Senator Ted Cruz got 272 00:18:14,595 --> 00:18:18,315 Speaker 1: a fan arrested because Cruz claimed the fan had thrown 273 00:18:18,355 --> 00:18:21,635 Speaker 1: a can of the beverage White Claw at him. The 274 00:18:21,675 --> 00:18:24,755 Speaker 1: fan insisted he was not throwing the can at Cruise, 275 00:18:25,195 --> 00:18:28,275 Speaker 1: he was following the time honored tradition of athletes chugging 276 00:18:28,355 --> 00:18:32,755 Speaker 1: such beverages during parades and throwing the can to him. 277 00:18:32,755 --> 00:18:35,315 Speaker 1: A grand jury has now reviewed the case and chosen 278 00:18:35,915 --> 00:18:38,875 Speaker 1: not to indict the fan. I understand it is also 279 00:18:38,915 --> 00:18:50,195 Speaker 1: discovered that Cruz is not an athlete. Still had one 280 00:18:50,235 --> 00:18:54,955 Speaker 1: week two anniversaries, the unlikely way that we launched ESPN Radio, 281 00:18:55,675 --> 00:18:58,355 Speaker 1: and the even more unlikely way I met the great 282 00:18:58,395 --> 00:19:02,435 Speaker 1: actress Elizabeth Montgomery. Within days of each other. There first 283 00:19:02,435 --> 00:19:04,955 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and dunning Krueger 284 00:19:04,995 --> 00:19:08,235 Speaker 1: Effect specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 285 00:19:09,075 --> 00:19:14,835 Speaker 1: Lebronze to the National Hockey League Roger's Sportsnets Jeff Merrick, 286 00:19:15,715 --> 00:19:18,875 Speaker 1: you know who you are. Speckled suit Guy reports that 287 00:19:18,915 --> 00:19:21,675 Speaker 1: when the league holds its All Star Game outside Miami 288 00:19:21,755 --> 00:19:24,435 Speaker 1: next month, some of the annual skills competition may be 289 00:19:24,595 --> 00:19:29,315 Speaker 1: devoted to special outdoor events tuned to the Florida Vibe. 290 00:19:29,635 --> 00:19:32,875 Speaker 1: Dunk tanks of some kind. Hit the target with your 291 00:19:32,875 --> 00:19:35,955 Speaker 1: shot and somebody winds up in the water. They've looked 292 00:19:35,955 --> 00:19:41,275 Speaker 1: at golf things and airboat things and shooting pucks made 293 00:19:41,275 --> 00:19:47,875 Speaker 1: out of frozen hamburgers at alligators in the Everglades. Because 294 00:19:47,875 --> 00:19:51,835 Speaker 1: what have you got to lose besides some dignity and 295 00:19:52,035 --> 00:19:56,475 Speaker 1: one or more of your limbs? Lebron Senator Tom Cotton 296 00:19:56,475 --> 00:20:01,675 Speaker 1: on October the Fraud from Arkansas tweeted, Joe Biden said 297 00:20:01,715 --> 00:20:03,915 Speaker 1: he's too busy to visit the border, but he wasn't 298 00:20:03,915 --> 00:20:09,435 Speaker 1: too busy to whatever the talking point was that week January, 299 00:20:09,635 --> 00:20:12,955 Speaker 1: Cotton has tweeted, visiting the border is meaningless if Biden 300 00:20:12,995 --> 00:20:16,755 Speaker 1: continues to push policies that invite illegal immigration. Policies matter 301 00:20:17,155 --> 00:20:21,395 Speaker 1: not photo ops. Pick one side of this bowl weevil, 302 00:20:22,115 --> 00:20:24,075 Speaker 1: but the winner, and you have to admit this is 303 00:20:24,195 --> 00:20:27,835 Speaker 1: kind of clever, especially for a Republican kind of saving 304 00:20:27,835 --> 00:20:31,875 Speaker 1: your crap cake and eating it too. New Florida MAGA 305 00:20:31,915 --> 00:20:38,835 Speaker 1: Congressman Corey Mills celebrating his swearing in by making a tasteless, offensive, homophobic, 306 00:20:39,435 --> 00:20:42,715 Speaker 1: unfunny insult designed for anybody with an i Q of 307 00:20:42,755 --> 00:20:47,435 Speaker 1: forty or less about Gabbles and Paul Pelosi. Here's the 308 00:20:47,475 --> 00:20:50,875 Speaker 1: clever part. Mills deleted the tweet in which he may 309 00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:54,315 Speaker 1: and made that joke. He deleted it without explanation because 310 00:20:54,315 --> 00:20:57,475 Speaker 1: he's a terrified little boy. But then when others in 311 00:20:57,555 --> 00:21:03,115 Speaker 1: outrage tweeted screenshots of it, Mills retweeted one of the screenshots, 312 00:21:03,755 --> 00:21:07,675 Speaker 1: thus managing you again tweet the sophomoric insults while still 313 00:21:07,715 --> 00:21:12,595 Speaker 1: being able to say that I deleted it representative Corey, 314 00:21:12,635 --> 00:21:15,715 Speaker 1: But I'm a VET, so you can't criticize me. Mills 315 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:34,635 Speaker 1: Today's worst person and the word to the number one 316 00:21:34,675 --> 00:21:37,395 Speaker 1: story on the Countdown and my favorite subject me and 317 00:21:37,515 --> 00:21:40,915 Speaker 1: things I've promised not to tell I have found myself 318 00:21:40,955 --> 00:21:43,675 Speaker 1: telling her story three times in the last ten days. 319 00:21:44,275 --> 00:21:46,875 Speaker 1: I just bought a new copy of the movie in question, 320 00:21:47,435 --> 00:21:50,475 Speaker 1: and so I thought I would tell you the story now. 321 00:21:50,955 --> 00:21:53,795 Speaker 1: Plus I find she made her Broadway debut sixty nine 322 00:21:53,875 --> 00:21:58,155 Speaker 1: years ago this Thursday. Do you know her name? Elizabeth 323 00:21:58,235 --> 00:22:01,715 Speaker 1: Montgomery one of the most famous actresses of the nineteen 324 00:22:01,755 --> 00:22:05,555 Speaker 1: sixties and nineteen seventies, star of the TV ye He's Bewitched, 325 00:22:06,035 --> 00:22:09,035 Speaker 1: daughter of a famous actor, Robert Montgomery, and my friend 326 00:22:09,515 --> 00:22:14,355 Speaker 1: from early on the morning of January until she died 327 00:22:14,355 --> 00:22:18,875 Speaker 1: in the spring of nine. Our friendship happened only because 328 00:22:18,915 --> 00:22:22,675 Speaker 1: of one thing. My sister had given me a book 329 00:22:22,715 --> 00:22:25,795 Speaker 1: about one of our favorite topics, the never to be 330 00:22:25,835 --> 00:22:28,955 Speaker 1: solved mystery of Lizzie Borden and the Borden Family acts 331 00:22:29,035 --> 00:22:33,355 Speaker 1: murders of eighteen ninety two in Fall River, Massachusetts. Yes, 332 00:22:33,555 --> 00:22:36,955 Speaker 1: We're weird, and also the fact that Elizabeth Montgomery had 333 00:22:36,955 --> 00:22:40,475 Speaker 1: played Lizzie Borden in a TV movie. So on January four, 334 00:22:40,835 --> 00:22:43,675 Speaker 1: ninety two, as I sat waiting for our flight to leave, 335 00:22:43,795 --> 00:22:46,155 Speaker 1: I c JFK Airport in New York from my then 336 00:22:46,195 --> 00:22:48,915 Speaker 1: home in Los Angeles. Then I began to read from 337 00:22:48,955 --> 00:22:53,595 Speaker 1: my airplane seat, my sister's gift from the aisle. From 338 00:22:53,595 --> 00:22:56,155 Speaker 1: the last one to board, I hear the voice of 339 00:22:56,195 --> 00:23:00,835 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Montgomery saying to me, Keith, you're reading about me. 340 00:23:02,115 --> 00:23:07,155 Speaker 1: She was a gas my brief but eternal friendship with 341 00:23:07,195 --> 00:23:10,595 Speaker 1: Lizzie Montgomery and the eternal lesson she taught me in 342 00:23:10,635 --> 00:23:12,675 Speaker 1: one moment, Please while I first explained what I was 343 00:23:12,715 --> 00:23:16,035 Speaker 1: doing on that flight. A month or two earlier, I 344 00:23:16,035 --> 00:23:19,355 Speaker 1: had agreed to join ESPN to co host Sports Center 345 00:23:19,395 --> 00:23:23,355 Speaker 1: with Dan Patrick starting in late March. I had just 346 00:23:23,515 --> 00:23:27,115 Speaker 1: finished up three financially rewarding but souls sucking years at 347 00:23:27,155 --> 00:23:29,195 Speaker 1: Channel two in Los Angeles, and I was going to 348 00:23:29,315 --> 00:23:31,555 Speaker 1: go to Hawaii for three months and just live there 349 00:23:31,635 --> 00:23:36,715 Speaker 1: until I felt better. On Monday, December, I had literally 350 00:23:36,755 --> 00:23:39,235 Speaker 1: just opened my address book to find the number of 351 00:23:39,275 --> 00:23:42,075 Speaker 1: a travel agent I knew to make the Hawaiian arrangements. 352 00:23:42,155 --> 00:23:45,275 Speaker 1: I was reaching for the phone when the phone rang. 353 00:23:46,515 --> 00:23:48,835 Speaker 1: It was my business agent, who had just gotten off 354 00:23:48,875 --> 00:23:51,715 Speaker 1: the phone with my new ESPN boss, John Walsh. He 355 00:23:51,835 --> 00:23:54,875 Speaker 1: and they were launching a new radio network in five days. 356 00:23:55,635 --> 00:23:59,915 Speaker 1: I found this interesting but not particularly relevant. ESPN was 357 00:24:00,075 --> 00:24:03,235 Speaker 1: one thing then it was one TV network, no magazine, 358 00:24:03,235 --> 00:24:06,915 Speaker 1: no radio, no ESPN, the OHO. So this was their 359 00:24:06,955 --> 00:24:10,635 Speaker 1: first big move outwards. The radio network would start with 360 00:24:10,755 --> 00:24:13,955 Speaker 1: only two seven hour shows on Saturday and Sunday nights. 361 00:24:14,395 --> 00:24:16,595 Speaker 1: And Walsh explained to my agent that everything was going 362 00:24:16,635 --> 00:24:18,115 Speaker 1: great and they were right on target, and they had 363 00:24:18,115 --> 00:24:21,115 Speaker 1: great guests lined up for the first weekend, like Ronald Reagan, 364 00:24:21,155 --> 00:24:23,635 Speaker 1: and they only had one tiny problem. They needed three hosts, 365 00:24:23,675 --> 00:24:26,355 Speaker 1: and they had two terrific hosts, just terrific hosts, one 366 00:24:26,435 --> 00:24:28,835 Speaker 1: Keith worked with named Tony Bruno, and another terrific, just 367 00:24:28,915 --> 00:24:31,475 Speaker 1: terrific host from Providence named Chuck Wilson. And they tried 368 00:24:31,515 --> 00:24:33,075 Speaker 1: this guy as the third host, and that guy, and 369 00:24:33,115 --> 00:24:35,075 Speaker 1: this guy and that guy, and all told forty different 370 00:24:35,075 --> 00:24:37,075 Speaker 1: people had tried out to be host. They had nobody, 371 00:24:37,115 --> 00:24:39,195 Speaker 1: nobody to be the third host. Who was any good? Keith, 372 00:24:39,315 --> 00:24:41,115 Speaker 1: just come here just for the first weekend, just to 373 00:24:41,155 --> 00:24:42,555 Speaker 1: get it off the ground. They can go back to 374 00:24:42,675 --> 00:24:44,515 Speaker 1: l A and come back here in March takeover sports. 375 00:24:44,515 --> 00:24:47,235 Speaker 1: And please please please get Keith help us, please because 376 00:24:47,235 --> 00:24:48,915 Speaker 1: if you Canada know what on earth they're gonna do it? 377 00:24:49,035 --> 00:24:54,115 Speaker 1: Please please please, As I said to my agent, well 378 00:24:54,195 --> 00:24:58,115 Speaker 1: all right, I suppose at least way at least a 379 00:24:58,395 --> 00:25:00,435 Speaker 1: ESPN will always think of me as a team player. 380 00:25:03,635 --> 00:25:08,115 Speaker 1: So instead of going to Hawaii in January, I go 381 00:25:08,315 --> 00:25:13,515 Speaker 1: to Bristol, Connecticut in January and I go stay at 382 00:25:13,515 --> 00:25:15,675 Speaker 1: my folks house outside New York City, and a friend 383 00:25:15,715 --> 00:25:18,635 Speaker 1: I had recommended to help ESPN launch their radio network 384 00:25:18,675 --> 00:25:20,635 Speaker 1: offers me a ride up to ESPN for the weekend. 385 00:25:20,995 --> 00:25:23,715 Speaker 1: And it's like twenty degrees and we get out of 386 00:25:23,755 --> 00:25:26,115 Speaker 1: his car and his parking lot, and three spots over 387 00:25:26,155 --> 00:25:28,595 Speaker 1: getting out of his car in the parking lot is 388 00:25:28,675 --> 00:25:30,875 Speaker 1: Chris Berman, where I went to high school with, and 389 00:25:31,035 --> 00:25:35,395 Speaker 1: already in January, when I'm not quite thirty three years old, 390 00:25:35,675 --> 00:25:38,075 Speaker 1: I already know Chris for twenty years. And before I 391 00:25:38,075 --> 00:25:41,915 Speaker 1: can say hey, he screams, listen, we had a good 392 00:25:42,195 --> 00:25:49,435 Speaker 1: scene going here dot if it's up, And I say, 393 00:25:49,515 --> 00:25:51,955 Speaker 1: good to see you too, Chris, and I remind myself 394 00:25:52,035 --> 00:25:54,715 Speaker 1: it's only till Monday. And I meet the gang and 395 00:25:54,755 --> 00:25:56,915 Speaker 1: then I go to the hotel and the hotel is beige. 396 00:25:56,955 --> 00:25:59,555 Speaker 1: The walls are beige, the carpets are beige, the guests 397 00:25:59,595 --> 00:26:01,555 Speaker 1: are beige, the food is beige. The only thing that 398 00:26:01,635 --> 00:26:04,395 Speaker 1: isn't beige is the six inches of snow that falls 399 00:26:04,435 --> 00:26:07,835 Speaker 1: over night, and remind myself it's only till Monday. The 400 00:26:07,955 --> 00:26:10,875 Speaker 1: launch of the network on Saturday goes well. They have 401 00:26:10,995 --> 00:26:14,395 Speaker 1: me interview Ronald Reagan about something in football. The Sunday 402 00:26:14,515 --> 00:26:15,995 Speaker 1: Night show is going well too, and we're trying to 403 00:26:16,035 --> 00:26:18,675 Speaker 1: figure out where the big baseball free agent of that winner, 404 00:26:18,715 --> 00:26:22,035 Speaker 1: Danny Tarte Bill is going to sign. And we're interviewing 405 00:26:22,075 --> 00:26:24,595 Speaker 1: Bobby Valentine was the manager of the Texas Rangers and 406 00:26:24,595 --> 00:26:26,035 Speaker 1: they were one of the teams rumored to be a 407 00:26:26,075 --> 00:26:29,075 Speaker 1: likely landing for tart Able, and I asked Valentine, he says, no, 408 00:26:29,195 --> 00:26:31,755 Speaker 1: not anymore. They just canceled their trip. I was supposed 409 00:26:31,795 --> 00:26:33,755 Speaker 1: to go meet them at the airport tonight. I think 410 00:26:33,795 --> 00:26:36,555 Speaker 1: he signed with somebody else. And the alarm bells go 411 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:38,115 Speaker 1: off in my head and I tell the producer, let's 412 00:26:38,115 --> 00:26:40,475 Speaker 1: call everybody we know in baseball and put them on 413 00:26:40,555 --> 00:26:43,435 Speaker 1: and figure out where Danny Tarte Bill is going. I 414 00:26:43,475 --> 00:26:45,835 Speaker 1: have a source who knows his agent. Let me call him. 415 00:26:45,915 --> 00:26:49,395 Speaker 1: We'll go story chasing. So we spent four hours following 416 00:26:49,395 --> 00:26:52,995 Speaker 1: the story in real time, and it's great radio and 417 00:26:53,035 --> 00:26:54,995 Speaker 1: we're coming up on the last hour, and our guests 418 00:26:55,035 --> 00:26:59,075 Speaker 1: have helped us eliminate like thirty teams out of but 419 00:26:59,155 --> 00:27:01,675 Speaker 1: we're not sure where Tartable is going still, and the 420 00:27:01,675 --> 00:27:04,075 Speaker 1: producer says, if only we had his home phone number. 421 00:27:04,115 --> 00:27:07,915 Speaker 1: And I look at the producer and go, oh crap, sorry, 422 00:27:08,155 --> 00:27:10,035 Speaker 1: and I grabbed my address book and I explained you. 423 00:27:10,195 --> 00:27:12,595 Speaker 1: He was my co host. Tartable was on on some 424 00:27:12,715 --> 00:27:16,955 Speaker 1: of our baseball postgame shows in l a Lash. I'm sorry, 425 00:27:16,995 --> 00:27:20,075 Speaker 1: I forgot I had his number all this time. Hang on. 426 00:27:20,555 --> 00:27:23,115 Speaker 1: So I called Danny Tartable and just as our last 427 00:27:23,155 --> 00:27:25,875 Speaker 1: hour on Sunday Night is starting, he calls me back 428 00:27:25,915 --> 00:27:28,795 Speaker 1: and I say to him, look, we know you've decided. 429 00:27:28,835 --> 00:27:31,155 Speaker 1: It's all over baseball. It's gotta be the Phillies, the Mets, 430 00:27:31,155 --> 00:27:34,635 Speaker 1: are the Yankees. And he's saying, correctly, I can't tell you. 431 00:27:35,035 --> 00:27:37,675 Speaker 1: And I said, give me one guess and just tell 432 00:27:37,675 --> 00:27:39,235 Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, and I will call you a 433 00:27:39,275 --> 00:27:42,475 Speaker 1: source close to the negotiations, that's all. And he says okay, 434 00:27:42,515 --> 00:27:45,155 Speaker 1: and I say, is it a team that wears pin stripes? 435 00:27:45,235 --> 00:27:46,795 Speaker 1: And of course the Phillies, the Mets, and the Yankees 436 00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:49,115 Speaker 1: all wear pin stripes. So he laughs, and he says yes, 437 00:27:49,395 --> 00:27:51,395 Speaker 1: And I say, is it the team I grew up 438 00:27:51,395 --> 00:27:54,355 Speaker 1: a fan of? And he says, what team did you 439 00:27:54,395 --> 00:27:56,195 Speaker 1: grow up a fan of? And by the way, the 440 00:27:56,395 --> 00:27:58,875 Speaker 1: phone call is taking place with me on the floor 441 00:27:58,955 --> 00:28:01,755 Speaker 1: of the studio in which the other two hosts are 442 00:28:01,835 --> 00:28:04,155 Speaker 1: live on the new radio network. So I whispered a 443 00:28:04,195 --> 00:28:08,595 Speaker 1: Tartable if I say it's the Yankees? Am I wrong? 444 00:28:09,995 --> 00:28:13,035 Speaker 1: And he says, I can't tell you and starts whispering. 445 00:28:13,635 --> 00:28:15,955 Speaker 1: But off the record, the press conference is Wednesday at 446 00:28:15,995 --> 00:28:18,955 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. Is that enough for you, you bastard? And 447 00:28:18,955 --> 00:28:20,635 Speaker 1: of course I said no, Come on the show and 448 00:28:20,675 --> 00:28:22,315 Speaker 1: tell us come on, and he laughs and says I'll 449 00:28:22,315 --> 00:28:24,275 Speaker 1: see you Wednesday and hangs up. And I get up 450 00:28:24,315 --> 00:28:25,715 Speaker 1: and I sit in the vacant chair and I can 451 00:28:25,755 --> 00:28:29,195 Speaker 1: say breaking news. ESPN report now that the free agent 452 00:28:29,195 --> 00:28:31,875 Speaker 1: now fielder Danny Tartable has agreed to a multi year 453 00:28:31,915 --> 00:28:34,675 Speaker 1: deal with the New York Yankees. Sources close to the 454 00:28:34,755 --> 00:28:37,315 Speaker 1: negotiations say there will be a press conference Wednesday at 455 00:28:37,395 --> 00:28:40,075 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, and the other hosts are trying not to 456 00:28:40,155 --> 00:28:42,315 Speaker 1: crack up because they know I've just been talking too. 457 00:28:42,315 --> 00:28:47,635 Speaker 1: Tartable from the phone in the same room with them. Well, 458 00:28:47,835 --> 00:28:52,115 Speaker 1: this story explodes way more than it deserved. It's a 459 00:28:52,195 --> 00:28:54,995 Speaker 1: dull Sunday night. It's still early enough in the evening 460 00:28:54,995 --> 00:28:57,675 Speaker 1: that the story makes all the Monday newspapers, and it's 461 00:28:57,675 --> 00:29:00,675 Speaker 1: attributed not to ESPN or to Sports Center, but to 462 00:29:00,715 --> 00:29:05,355 Speaker 1: the brand new ESPN Radio network on its second in business, 463 00:29:05,715 --> 00:29:08,075 Speaker 1: And it's on the front page of USA Today and 464 00:29:08,155 --> 00:29:11,675 Speaker 1: the New York Times. New ESPN Radio network makes splash 465 00:29:11,755 --> 00:29:14,715 Speaker 1: with tartable scoop the next morning, and I can't tell 466 00:29:14,835 --> 00:29:20,515 Speaker 1: you how big a deal that was back then. So now, 467 00:29:20,555 --> 00:29:22,595 Speaker 1: instead of going back to l A on Monday and 468 00:29:22,715 --> 00:29:25,315 Speaker 1: maybe to Hawaii on Tuesday, as I had planned, I 469 00:29:25,315 --> 00:29:27,275 Speaker 1: have to go to the press conference at Yankee Stadium 470 00:29:27,315 --> 00:29:29,395 Speaker 1: to say hi to Tartable on Wednesday and sort of 471 00:29:29,435 --> 00:29:32,395 Speaker 1: thank him for the scoop. And on Tuesday, this guy, 472 00:29:32,475 --> 00:29:35,475 Speaker 1: John Walsh from ESPN calls me and my agent says, look, 473 00:29:35,475 --> 00:29:37,315 Speaker 1: we have to take advantage of this. It's the best 474 00:29:37,355 --> 00:29:39,835 Speaker 1: possible start we could have hoped for for the radio network. 475 00:29:40,275 --> 00:29:43,115 Speaker 1: Keith has to stay with us for the next three months. 476 00:29:43,475 --> 00:29:45,555 Speaker 1: Why doesn't he stay in and do this weekend and 477 00:29:45,555 --> 00:29:47,475 Speaker 1: then go back to l A and pack up his apartment, 478 00:29:47,515 --> 00:29:49,995 Speaker 1: then come back here the weekend after that, and and 479 00:29:49,995 --> 00:29:53,275 Speaker 1: and and I say again to my agent, well, at 480 00:29:53,355 --> 00:29:56,515 Speaker 1: least ESPN will always think of me as a team 481 00:29:56,595 --> 00:30:03,515 Speaker 1: player if I do this. So I am not in 482 00:30:03,595 --> 00:30:06,355 Speaker 1: Hawaii and in dead I am on board this flight. 483 00:30:06,355 --> 00:30:09,395 Speaker 1: When Elizabeth Montgomery walks down the aisle and sees my 484 00:30:09,475 --> 00:30:12,795 Speaker 1: Lizzie Boarden book given to me by my sister and says, oh, Keith, 485 00:30:12,795 --> 00:30:15,715 Speaker 1: you're reading about me. Hi, I'm Lizzie Montgomery. I'm a 486 00:30:15,715 --> 00:30:18,355 Speaker 1: big fan of yours. Is that seat taken? And I say, 487 00:30:18,395 --> 00:30:21,035 Speaker 1: the hell if I care, sit down? And the only 488 00:30:21,075 --> 00:30:23,315 Speaker 1: time we're not talking for the next six hours is 489 00:30:23,395 --> 00:30:27,395 Speaker 1: when we are drinking. I believe, if I remember this correctly, 490 00:30:27,715 --> 00:30:31,075 Speaker 1: they had to send up a champagne refueling flight halfway 491 00:30:31,075 --> 00:30:34,795 Speaker 1: to l A. And she's a huge sports fan. Her 492 00:30:34,795 --> 00:30:36,715 Speaker 1: father was a founder of one of the southern California 493 00:30:36,755 --> 00:30:39,355 Speaker 1: horse racing tracks, and she loves the Lakers. And she 494 00:30:39,435 --> 00:30:41,595 Speaker 1: thinks she was related to Lizzie Borden. Did I ever 495 00:30:41,635 --> 00:30:44,355 Speaker 1: see the European version of her Lizzie Borden film where 496 00:30:44,355 --> 00:30:46,395 Speaker 1: they show the white shots where they make it look 497 00:30:46,395 --> 00:30:48,795 Speaker 1: like she's nude, and I say, I'm absolutely certain I 498 00:30:48,875 --> 00:30:52,075 Speaker 1: have not. And her son and her driver and her 499 00:30:52,195 --> 00:30:54,195 Speaker 1: rolls Royce meet us at l A X and she 500 00:30:54,235 --> 00:30:56,435 Speaker 1: wants me to see her house, and then her driver 501 00:30:56,555 --> 00:30:58,235 Speaker 1: and her rolls Royce will give me a lift home. 502 00:30:58,235 --> 00:30:59,715 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, she's flying back to New 503 00:30:59,795 --> 00:31:04,315 Speaker 1: York in a week. Should we become flying buddies. On 504 00:31:04,435 --> 00:31:07,515 Speaker 1: that trip, our flight gets canceled and we have to 505 00:31:07,515 --> 00:31:09,475 Speaker 1: find a new one. I'm hand carrying a lot of 506 00:31:09,475 --> 00:31:12,675 Speaker 1: more more valuable baseball cards, including like five different from 507 00:31:12,675 --> 00:31:15,675 Speaker 1: the year nineteen o nine, and she wants to see them, 508 00:31:15,755 --> 00:31:17,635 Speaker 1: and she wants me to tell her something about each 509 00:31:17,635 --> 00:31:21,755 Speaker 1: player while we drink again. And we land and she says, 510 00:31:21,755 --> 00:31:24,355 Speaker 1: how are you getting to your folks house? And I say, well, 511 00:31:24,355 --> 00:31:26,835 Speaker 1: I'm going to get a car here or something, and 512 00:31:26,875 --> 00:31:28,235 Speaker 1: she said, no, you're not. I'll give you a lift 513 00:31:28,235 --> 00:31:31,275 Speaker 1: in my limo going right past your house. And sure 514 00:31:31,395 --> 00:31:34,755 Speaker 1: enough we get there, and as Lizzie Montgomery's limo is 515 00:31:34,795 --> 00:31:37,435 Speaker 1: taking me to my folks house at ten o'clock at night, 516 00:31:37,555 --> 00:31:40,355 Speaker 1: she says, will they still be up here? Folks want 517 00:31:40,355 --> 00:31:43,355 Speaker 1: to play a practical joke on them. So two minutes later, 518 00:31:43,795 --> 00:31:45,635 Speaker 1: I knock on the door of my childhood home and 519 00:31:45,675 --> 00:31:48,755 Speaker 1: my father opens it instead of seeing me. It's her 520 00:31:48,795 --> 00:31:52,115 Speaker 1: in the doorway, and she says, Hi, Mr Alderman, I'm Lizzie. 521 00:31:52,115 --> 00:31:54,075 Speaker 1: I'm a friend of keys. Can he come out and play? 522 00:31:55,355 --> 00:31:58,235 Speaker 1: And my dad goes silent for the only time I 523 00:31:58,275 --> 00:32:01,035 Speaker 1: a in my life, And now my mother appears, so 524 00:32:01,075 --> 00:32:04,395 Speaker 1: Lizzie can pull the same routine on her. Hi, Mrs Alderman, 525 00:32:04,435 --> 00:32:05,795 Speaker 1: I'm is he. I'm a friend of keys. Can he 526 00:32:05,835 --> 00:32:07,795 Speaker 1: come out and play? And now my mother is silent 527 00:32:08,355 --> 00:32:12,515 Speaker 1: for the only time in my life, I might add 528 00:32:12,595 --> 00:32:15,435 Speaker 1: I thought Lizzie looked fabulous, and I looked her up 529 00:32:15,475 --> 00:32:17,715 Speaker 1: in Hallowell's FI Film Guide and I saw she was 530 00:32:17,755 --> 00:32:19,995 Speaker 1: forty eight, and I thought, boy, she looks fabulous for 531 00:32:19,995 --> 00:32:21,795 Speaker 1: forty eight, And I realized my math is wrong. She 532 00:32:21,875 --> 00:32:25,275 Speaker 1: was fifty eight, and she was a joy. We talked 533 00:32:25,275 --> 00:32:27,075 Speaker 1: by phone every couple of weeks after that, and she 534 00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:31,555 Speaker 1: died three years later of colon cancer. But she is 535 00:32:31,595 --> 00:32:34,595 Speaker 1: with me always, and not just as the proverbial force 536 00:32:34,675 --> 00:32:39,755 Speaker 1: of nature. Within minutes of that day we met January two, 537 00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:45,555 Speaker 1: she bestowed upon me a lesson an eternal lesson. We 538 00:32:45,555 --> 00:32:47,915 Speaker 1: were a little late taking off, and since she had 539 00:32:47,955 --> 00:32:50,715 Speaker 1: just loudly introduced herself to me like I didn't know 540 00:32:50,755 --> 00:32:54,195 Speaker 1: who she was, anybody on the plane who wasn't sure 541 00:32:54,195 --> 00:32:58,195 Speaker 1: it was her was now sure. As we waited to taxi, 542 00:32:58,315 --> 00:33:00,395 Speaker 1: every man on that plane came over and did the 543 00:33:00,435 --> 00:33:05,035 Speaker 1: same thing. Oh hi, miss Montgomery, excuse me, and they 544 00:33:05,075 --> 00:33:07,515 Speaker 1: give me some sort of nodding acknowledgement like, hey, how 545 00:33:07,515 --> 00:33:09,875 Speaker 1: you doing, as they lean in past me. I was 546 00:33:09,915 --> 00:33:11,355 Speaker 1: a big fan of the which I know you must 547 00:33:11,355 --> 00:33:13,115 Speaker 1: get asked, there's a million times a day, But is 548 00:33:13,115 --> 00:33:15,075 Speaker 1: there any I'm so sorry to ask, could you do 549 00:33:15,155 --> 00:33:17,075 Speaker 1: that little nose twitch you used to do in the show? 550 00:33:17,315 --> 00:33:19,195 Speaker 1: And she would say, of course, and then she'd do 551 00:33:19,235 --> 00:33:23,555 Speaker 1: it in These men aged all then giggle like schoolboys. 552 00:33:26,435 --> 00:33:29,595 Speaker 1: After the thirty or thirty first time this happened, I 553 00:33:29,635 --> 00:33:31,995 Speaker 1: say to her, Lizzie, I don't know you, but I 554 00:33:32,075 --> 00:33:35,235 Speaker 1: like you a lot already, and your attitude towards your 555 00:33:35,315 --> 00:33:39,715 Speaker 1: fans and the nose twitch is wonderful. But I have 556 00:33:39,835 --> 00:33:42,395 Speaker 1: to tell you, I certainly hope that was the last 557 00:33:42,435 --> 00:33:44,955 Speaker 1: of them, because the next one who comes over, I'm 558 00:33:44,955 --> 00:33:47,195 Speaker 1: gonna have to strangle him with my bare hands because 559 00:33:47,235 --> 00:33:50,915 Speaker 1: I can't take it anymore. And for the only minutes 560 00:33:50,955 --> 00:33:53,555 Speaker 1: of all the time I knew her, Elizabeth Montgomery got 561 00:33:53,635 --> 00:33:56,595 Speaker 1: very serious and said, oh, no, Keith, that is not 562 00:33:56,675 --> 00:34:00,035 Speaker 1: the attitude you must have about this. Remind me what 563 00:34:00,195 --> 00:34:03,595 Speaker 1: year did Bewitched to go off the air. I had 564 00:34:03,635 --> 00:34:08,195 Speaker 1: to guess two, and she said, exactly, good, correct, twenty 565 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:12,915 Speaker 1: years ago. And these people have remembered that nose twitch 566 00:34:12,955 --> 00:34:17,235 Speaker 1: for twenty years at least bewitched. Keith is not Hamlet, 567 00:34:17,755 --> 00:34:20,355 Speaker 1: it is not Arthur Miller, it is not the Godfather, 568 00:34:20,435 --> 00:34:23,955 Speaker 1: but they remembered it. This is why you and I 569 00:34:24,035 --> 00:34:26,475 Speaker 1: both do what we do for a living. We have 570 00:34:26,595 --> 00:34:30,435 Speaker 1: transcended time with what we do for a living, something artistic, 571 00:34:30,595 --> 00:34:33,355 Speaker 1: something creative, no matter how small that we have done, 572 00:34:33,955 --> 00:34:37,075 Speaker 1: they have remembered it. People do it with you, I'm sure, 573 00:34:37,395 --> 00:34:39,915 Speaker 1: and I'm sure they'll continue to. And what you do 574 00:34:39,995 --> 00:34:43,795 Speaker 1: then is you say thank you for remembering, as if 575 00:34:43,795 --> 00:34:46,995 Speaker 1: they were the only one who ever remembered, because that's 576 00:34:47,275 --> 00:34:51,435 Speaker 1: why we do this, Because they remembered me from twenty 577 00:34:51,515 --> 00:34:58,155 Speaker 1: years ago for a stupid little nose twitch. Duly chastised, 578 00:34:58,995 --> 00:35:05,395 Speaker 1: I apologized, and the huge welcoming, conspiratorial, permanent French sexy 579 00:35:05,555 --> 00:35:10,155 Speaker 1: smile of Elizabeth Montgomery broke across her face like the sunrise, 580 00:35:10,875 --> 00:35:15,995 Speaker 1: and she whispered either that Keith or they saw Bewitched 581 00:35:16,035 --> 00:35:20,155 Speaker 1: on cable last week, which means Lizzie gets another check 582 00:35:20,235 --> 00:35:25,035 Speaker 1: next week. And she twitched her nose at me and 583 00:35:25,275 --> 00:35:44,795 Speaker 1: I will always love her. Countdown has come to you 584 00:35:44,875 --> 00:35:49,155 Speaker 1: from the studios of Alderman Broadcasting Empire World Headquarters in 585 00:35:49,195 --> 00:35:51,915 Speaker 1: the Sports Capsule Building in New York. I've done all 586 00:35:51,915 --> 00:35:53,835 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 587 00:35:54,755 --> 00:35:56,795 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music, including our 588 00:35:56,875 --> 00:36:00,315 Speaker 1: theme from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced and performed by 589 00:36:00,355 --> 00:36:02,915 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip Channel, who are the Countdown 590 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:07,035 Speaker 1: musical directors. All or guestration and keyboards by John Philip Channel. 591 00:36:07,355 --> 00:36:10,315 Speaker 1: Guitars based and drums by Brian Ray, produced by t 592 00:36:10,475 --> 00:36:13,635 Speaker 1: k O Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and 593 00:36:13,675 --> 00:36:16,915 Speaker 1: performed by No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the 594 00:36:16,955 --> 00:36:19,795 Speaker 1: Olderman theme from the ESPN two and it was written 595 00:36:19,795 --> 00:36:23,835 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments 596 00:36:23,875 --> 00:36:26,995 Speaker 1: by Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist. Ever, our 597 00:36:26,995 --> 00:36:29,595 Speaker 1: announcer today was Kenny Maine. Everything else is pretty much 598 00:36:29,595 --> 00:36:32,195 Speaker 1: my fault. So that has countdown for this, the seven 599 00:36:32,395 --> 00:36:35,635 Speaker 1: and thirty seventh day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 600 00:36:35,635 --> 00:36:39,195 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Arrest 601 00:36:39,275 --> 00:36:42,355 Speaker 1: him now while we still can. I don't know if 602 00:36:42,395 --> 00:36:45,835 Speaker 1: you could hear it throughout this podcast. I should sure could. 603 00:36:46,635 --> 00:36:49,195 Speaker 1: I've got some bronchial thing going on here. It's not 604 00:36:49,315 --> 00:36:52,595 Speaker 1: COVID I tested, but I'm just getting you know, it 605 00:36:52,635 --> 00:36:55,155 Speaker 1: feels like I might miss a day or two. We'll 606 00:36:55,195 --> 00:37:01,475 Speaker 1: see tomorrow until whenever I'm Keith Oldman. Good morning, good afternoon, 607 00:37:01,515 --> 00:37:10,795 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Yeah. 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