1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:23,955 --> 00:00:27,595 Speaker 1: A corrupt, unstable ex president is trying to manipulate a 3 00:00:27,675 --> 00:00:31,915 Speaker 1: corrupted Supreme Court to avoid going to prison for stealing documents, 4 00:00:32,115 --> 00:00:35,755 Speaker 1: including one that details the nuclear capabilities of a foreign country. 5 00:00:36,075 --> 00:00:39,115 Speaker 1: The Department of Justice is approaching that with two hands 6 00:00:39,115 --> 00:00:42,195 Speaker 1: tied behind its back, rather than dragging the guy off 7 00:00:42,275 --> 00:00:45,715 Speaker 1: by his feet. It is moving just as Dilettantis lee, 8 00:00:46,075 --> 00:00:49,155 Speaker 1: as if it had forever to do anything against the 9 00:00:49,155 --> 00:00:53,115 Speaker 1: guy for fomenting an attempted armed coup twenty one months ago. Today, 10 00:00:53,715 --> 00:00:57,275 Speaker 1: the Republican Party has turned into the white supremacist, theological 11 00:00:57,395 --> 00:01:01,075 Speaker 1: fascist culture. It has already elected functioning morons to the 12 00:01:01,115 --> 00:01:04,435 Speaker 1: House like Lauren Bobert and Marjorie Trailer Park Green, and 13 00:01:04,475 --> 00:01:07,835 Speaker 1: to a Senate like Rand Paul and John and Kennedy. 14 00:01:07,875 --> 00:01:10,115 Speaker 1: In a month, it has every chance of taking the 15 00:01:10,155 --> 00:01:12,915 Speaker 1: House or the Senate or both with a lineup of 16 00:01:12,955 --> 00:01:16,995 Speaker 1: goobers who make Bobert and Green look like MENSA chairwomen. 17 00:01:17,435 --> 00:01:21,555 Speaker 1: It's fringes believe j F K Jr. And maybe JFK Sr. 18 00:01:21,595 --> 00:01:23,955 Speaker 1: Have come back from the dead or will come back 19 00:01:23,995 --> 00:01:26,755 Speaker 1: from the dead, or never really were dead. And they 20 00:01:26,755 --> 00:01:30,755 Speaker 1: will lead them in something. All of them are willing 21 00:01:30,795 --> 00:01:32,875 Speaker 1: to go to rallies for the ex president, at which 22 00:01:32,915 --> 00:01:35,395 Speaker 1: they raise their right arms in salute and hold them 23 00:01:35,395 --> 00:01:38,035 Speaker 1: there while music plays, and then they insist this bears 24 00:01:38,075 --> 00:01:41,435 Speaker 1: no resemblance to the Nazis. And if that corrupt ex 25 00:01:41,475 --> 00:01:46,395 Speaker 1: president regains power by election, subterfuge, Supreme court, corruption, violence, 26 00:01:46,475 --> 00:01:48,915 Speaker 1: or all of the above, not only can you kiss 27 00:01:48,955 --> 00:01:52,635 Speaker 1: your democracy goodbye, but you can start calculating when the 28 00:01:52,675 --> 00:01:55,915 Speaker 1: atmosphere will no longer support life on this planet because 29 00:01:55,915 --> 00:01:59,595 Speaker 1: he and the other corporate prostitutes are being paid to 30 00:01:59,715 --> 00:02:02,555 Speaker 1: deny climate change even as they all see the mega 31 00:02:02,635 --> 00:02:06,795 Speaker 1: storms beginning to destroy this and other countries. And there 32 00:02:06,835 --> 00:02:11,235 Speaker 1: are a thousand political TV and streaming networks and only 33 00:02:11,315 --> 00:02:13,835 Speaker 1: two of them were vaguely liberal, and one of them 34 00:02:13,915 --> 00:02:17,395 Speaker 1: was bought out by an octogenarian right wing billionaire who 35 00:02:17,475 --> 00:02:20,635 Speaker 1: sent in a paste eater to purge it, and the 36 00:02:20,715 --> 00:02:25,195 Speaker 1: other is imploding because they decided anybody can anchor on MSNBC, 37 00:02:25,395 --> 00:02:30,995 Speaker 1: and guess what, no, they can't. So each day you 38 00:02:31,115 --> 00:02:35,275 Speaker 1: and I convene here to try to push back the tide, 39 00:02:35,835 --> 00:02:40,955 Speaker 1: to raise the alarm, to energize the troops just to 40 00:02:41,075 --> 00:02:44,955 Speaker 1: get it out of our systems to do something. Now. 41 00:02:45,035 --> 00:02:46,355 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but every once in a 42 00:02:46,395 --> 00:02:49,515 Speaker 1: while I get exhausted by this. And there is only 43 00:02:49,595 --> 00:02:53,995 Speaker 1: one remedy for exhaustion in an existential fight to preserve democracy, 44 00:02:54,395 --> 00:02:56,875 Speaker 1: especially when the headlines took the kind of pause that 45 00:02:56,915 --> 00:03:00,155 Speaker 1: they did yesterday, It is to remember that this democracy 46 00:03:00,195 --> 00:03:03,435 Speaker 1: has survived not so much through the exertions of people 47 00:03:03,515 --> 00:03:08,755 Speaker 1: like ourselves, but more thanks to the stupidity of the fascists. 48 00:03:09,515 --> 00:03:12,435 Speaker 1: And when they are so stupid as to be genuinely 49 00:03:12,635 --> 00:03:16,755 Speaker 1: entertaining to be laugh out loud funny, we must laugh. 50 00:03:17,075 --> 00:03:21,675 Speaker 1: We have to laugh. We are restored by laughing. So 51 00:03:21,755 --> 00:03:26,115 Speaker 1: let's I take you to the National Hispanic Leadership Conference 52 00:03:26,195 --> 00:03:31,235 Speaker 1: in Miami yesterday and l duche himself with the reminder 53 00:03:31,275 --> 00:03:35,315 Speaker 1: that his tell for I'm lying is when he claims 54 00:03:35,555 --> 00:03:42,635 Speaker 1: somebody anybody called him sir. I remember a very famous polster, 55 00:03:42,795 --> 00:03:46,195 Speaker 1: very well known, John McLaughlin, came to my office just 56 00:03:46,315 --> 00:03:49,315 Speaker 1: prior to the play coming in. He said, Sir, if 57 00:03:49,355 --> 00:03:54,995 Speaker 1: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln came alive from the dead 58 00:03:55,395 --> 00:04:00,235 Speaker 1: and they formed a president vice president team, he would 59 00:04:00,275 --> 00:04:04,475 Speaker 1: meet them by Well to be fair. Lincoln Washington ticket 60 00:04:04,755 --> 00:04:07,235 Speaker 1: feature one guy who's just arisen after having been in 61 00:04:07,275 --> 00:04:09,835 Speaker 1: the ground a hundred fifty seven years and the other 62 00:04:10,315 --> 00:04:13,715 Speaker 1: two twenty three years. So paraphrase the movie Airplane. I 63 00:04:13,755 --> 00:04:15,715 Speaker 1: don't know where they would stand on Ukraine, but they 64 00:04:15,755 --> 00:04:19,715 Speaker 1: won't smell too good. Plus that famous poster John McLaughlin, 65 00:04:19,755 --> 00:04:23,275 Speaker 1: He's the one who gets his predictions wrong. Trump gave 66 00:04:23,355 --> 00:04:26,355 Speaker 1: us another one at this National Hispanic Leadership Conference in 67 00:04:26,395 --> 00:04:29,075 Speaker 1: Miami yesterday. But you're gonna need to listen to this 68 00:04:29,115 --> 00:04:33,515 Speaker 1: one twice. Here's trying number one. Teach you should ever 69 00:04:33,555 --> 00:04:40,395 Speaker 1: be allowed to teach transgender to our children? Willout parentopen soul. No, 70 00:04:40,395 --> 00:04:44,795 Speaker 1: nobody has to have parental consent, and we will totally 71 00:04:44,795 --> 00:04:49,315 Speaker 1: oppose the Biden administrator and get this This administration, the 72 00:04:49,395 --> 00:04:54,195 Speaker 1: Biden Administration's sick plan to require mandator nobody has to 73 00:04:54,275 --> 00:04:58,675 Speaker 1: have the administrating parental consult You want to try that 74 00:04:58,715 --> 00:05:01,275 Speaker 1: one again, Sparky will teach you should ever be allowed 75 00:05:01,355 --> 00:05:06,555 Speaker 1: to teach transgender to our children? Willout PARENTO do so. No, 76 00:05:07,595 --> 00:05:12,035 Speaker 1: nobody has to have parental consent, and we will totally 77 00:05:12,035 --> 00:05:16,555 Speaker 1: oppose the Biden administrated and get this this administration, the 78 00:05:16,635 --> 00:05:21,555 Speaker 1: Biden administration, sick plan to require mandate. Gabby Trump is right. 79 00:05:22,235 --> 00:05:24,075 Speaker 1: Can you imagine what the right would be doing with 80 00:05:24,115 --> 00:05:25,915 Speaker 1: that sound bite if it had been uttered by Joe 81 00:05:25,955 --> 00:05:29,835 Speaker 1: Biden instead. Seven years of this idiot Trump mangling the 82 00:05:29,875 --> 00:05:32,595 Speaker 1: English language, and these slime on Fox have the nerve 83 00:05:32,675 --> 00:05:35,475 Speaker 1: to criticize a man who is fighting past his stutter. 84 00:05:36,555 --> 00:05:38,595 Speaker 1: And of course, if it is not Trump again in 85 00:05:38,635 --> 00:05:41,835 Speaker 1: twenty four, it will be de Santis. This sound bite 86 00:05:41,915 --> 00:05:45,355 Speaker 1: sounds like just the usual fascist banter at the beginning, 87 00:05:45,635 --> 00:05:49,275 Speaker 1: bashing the news organizations that barely criticize him and his ilk. 88 00:05:49,595 --> 00:05:53,075 Speaker 1: But as it goes on, it becomes more and more 89 00:05:53,155 --> 00:05:56,755 Speaker 1: clear that Rhonda Santis thinks the media is capable of 90 00:05:56,915 --> 00:06:04,515 Speaker 1: collectively willing storms to hit specific Florida's cities. I think 91 00:06:04,715 --> 00:06:06,875 Speaker 1: part of it, quite frankly. You know, you have national 92 00:06:07,355 --> 00:06:10,995 Speaker 1: regime media that they wanted to see Campa because they 93 00:06:10,995 --> 00:06:12,835 Speaker 1: thought that that would be works for Florida. That's how 94 00:06:12,875 --> 00:06:15,035 Speaker 1: these people think. I mean, they're they're they're they don't 95 00:06:15,115 --> 00:06:17,275 Speaker 1: care about the people of this state. They don't care 96 00:06:17,275 --> 00:06:20,315 Speaker 1: about the people this community. They want to use storms 97 00:06:20,715 --> 00:06:24,235 Speaker 1: and destruction from storms as a way to advance their agenda, 98 00:06:24,475 --> 00:06:27,035 Speaker 1: and they don't care what destructions in their wake. They 99 00:06:27,075 --> 00:06:29,635 Speaker 1: don't care about the lives here. If they can use 100 00:06:29,675 --> 00:06:33,515 Speaker 1: it to pursue their political agenda, they will do it. Geez, Governor, 101 00:06:34,035 --> 00:06:39,195 Speaker 1: if we the national regime media control the weather, if 102 00:06:39,275 --> 00:06:41,555 Speaker 1: we can really decide where the storms are going to 103 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:47,275 Speaker 1: make landfall, you should really be nicer to us. Occasionally, 104 00:06:47,355 --> 00:06:51,795 Speaker 1: the restorative, rejuvenating laughs provided by the fascists are also confessions. 105 00:06:52,075 --> 00:06:55,475 Speaker 1: The herschel Walker girlfriend abortion story, which late last night 106 00:06:55,515 --> 00:06:58,915 Speaker 1: expanded into the woman whose abortion herschel Walker paid for 107 00:06:59,075 --> 00:07:01,515 Speaker 1: is also the mother of one of his children. Wait, 108 00:07:01,635 --> 00:07:03,155 Speaker 1: I thought he said he didn't know the woman he 109 00:07:03,195 --> 00:07:06,395 Speaker 1: sent that money to. Story. They have brought into stark 110 00:07:06,395 --> 00:07:09,635 Speaker 1: relief the fact that all the far rights cultural wars 111 00:07:09,675 --> 00:07:12,875 Speaker 1: are utter nonsense. They don't believe in free speech. They 112 00:07:12,955 --> 00:07:16,475 Speaker 1: believe in whatever speech will rile up the rooms the fastest. 113 00:07:16,715 --> 00:07:19,035 Speaker 1: They don't believe in the sanctity of life. They believe 114 00:07:19,035 --> 00:07:22,675 Speaker 1: in the sanctity of their own campaigns. Listen to the 115 00:07:22,715 --> 00:07:27,515 Speaker 1: infamous National Rifle Association wash out Dana lash flat out 116 00:07:27,595 --> 00:07:32,515 Speaker 1: confess that herschel Walker has not violated their values because 117 00:07:32,555 --> 00:07:35,795 Speaker 1: they have no values to violate. So I don't care 118 00:07:35,995 --> 00:07:40,395 Speaker 1: if herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I 119 00:07:40,475 --> 00:07:45,995 Speaker 1: want control of the Senate. If the Daily Beast story 120 00:07:46,355 --> 00:07:51,155 Speaker 1: is true, you're telling me Walker used his money to 121 00:07:51,315 --> 00:07:56,315 Speaker 1: reportedly pay some skank for an abortion. Dana, you know 122 00:07:56,395 --> 00:07:59,275 Speaker 1: what you need to pay somebody to do. You need 123 00:07:59,315 --> 00:08:00,875 Speaker 1: to pay somebody to teach you how to use a 124 00:08:00,875 --> 00:08:04,835 Speaker 1: microphone without popping all your pas. The Walker story is 125 00:08:04,955 --> 00:08:08,595 Speaker 1: very simple. If the Republicans really believed abortion is murder, 126 00:08:08,635 --> 00:08:10,915 Speaker 1: they would have to admit that herschel Walker is at 127 00:08:10,955 --> 00:08:15,595 Speaker 1: the least an accessory to murder, if not a murderer himself. 128 00:08:16,795 --> 00:08:19,755 Speaker 1: There are some simpler comedy sound bites, more of the 129 00:08:19,835 --> 00:08:24,315 Speaker 1: belly laugh variety, like the ones from Trump's lawyer Elena Habba, 130 00:08:24,875 --> 00:08:28,515 Speaker 1: who clearly saw Beverly Hills cop one time too many. 131 00:08:29,435 --> 00:08:33,435 Speaker 1: As far as Judge Reinhold, I still have this burning 132 00:08:33,475 --> 00:08:36,635 Speaker 1: question as to why he felt he needed to refuse himself. 133 00:08:37,875 --> 00:08:40,715 Speaker 1: And if you think Habba has trouble with names, let's 134 00:08:40,755 --> 00:08:43,475 Speaker 1: try her with dates like the meaning of the August 135 00:08:43,635 --> 00:08:47,715 Speaker 1: eighth search at Mari Lago. The Department of Justice filed 136 00:08:47,755 --> 00:08:52,435 Speaker 1: this crazy raid, pretending it's all these criminal actions because 137 00:08:52,475 --> 00:08:55,675 Speaker 1: it's around the corner to November, and this is what 138 00:08:55,755 --> 00:08:58,395 Speaker 1: we like to call an October surprise, which we've seen before. 139 00:08:58,755 --> 00:09:03,315 Speaker 1: It's November in August, the October surprise. Then there's Senator 140 00:09:03,395 --> 00:09:06,875 Speaker 1: Roger Marshall of Can's this Kansas appears to be in 141 00:09:06,875 --> 00:09:11,435 Speaker 1: a place called Merry, Ka, where the day after September 142 00:09:11,555 --> 00:09:15,475 Speaker 1: ten is called nine one one. I want to take 143 00:09:15,515 --> 00:09:18,395 Speaker 1: your listeners back to nine one one, when three thousand 144 00:09:18,475 --> 00:09:23,235 Speaker 1: Americans died and we declared war on those terrorists. You know, 145 00:09:23,275 --> 00:09:25,235 Speaker 1: I know that you're familiar with nine one one. It 146 00:09:25,315 --> 00:09:28,555 Speaker 1: was in your backyard. But on one we lost three 147 00:09:28,635 --> 00:09:32,195 Speaker 1: thousand Americans, and certainly we hold that day in reverence. 148 00:09:32,435 --> 00:09:36,155 Speaker 1: But now in America, we're losing three thousand Americans about 149 00:09:36,195 --> 00:09:39,155 Speaker 1: every two or three weeks. And what we did in 150 00:09:39,195 --> 00:09:42,155 Speaker 1: response to nine one one is declare war on terrorism. 151 00:09:42,475 --> 00:09:45,395 Speaker 1: And that's what we want to do with the car tail. Quick, Senator, 152 00:09:45,435 --> 00:09:50,075 Speaker 1: there's an emergency call nine eleven. Better yet, dial one, 153 00:09:50,235 --> 00:09:52,635 Speaker 1: and don't forget why you're doing that. To ask Senator 154 00:09:52,755 --> 00:09:55,675 Speaker 1: Ron Johnson how he feels about it. We'd have an 155 00:09:55,715 --> 00:09:58,995 Speaker 1: annual threat hearing and my ranking member would always been 156 00:09:59,035 --> 00:10:01,915 Speaker 1: bringing up white supremacy, which you know I condone, I 157 00:10:01,915 --> 00:10:06,395 Speaker 1: mean I I condemned. But and always remember the motto 158 00:10:06,475 --> 00:10:11,115 Speaker 1: of sepack ladies and gentlemen, we are all domestic terrorists. 159 00:10:11,675 --> 00:10:15,155 Speaker 1: Please welcome founder of this you said it, and just 160 00:10:15,275 --> 00:10:18,475 Speaker 1: one more stop on our tour of right wing moronity. 161 00:10:19,075 --> 00:10:22,875 Speaker 1: Back to Trump, back to the National Hispanic Leadership Conference 162 00:10:22,915 --> 00:10:26,515 Speaker 1: in Miami yesterday. And I've now heard this twenty seven times, 163 00:10:26,555 --> 00:10:30,435 Speaker 1: and I still, given the context, do not believe he 164 00:10:30,555 --> 00:10:34,715 Speaker 1: actually said it. When they leak on my administration and 165 00:10:35,035 --> 00:10:37,875 Speaker 1: some people think it's so glamorous, it's so great. Wait 166 00:10:38,355 --> 00:10:42,115 Speaker 1: what when they leak on my administration and some people 167 00:10:42,115 --> 00:10:45,515 Speaker 1: think it's so glamorous, it's so great. Quote when they 168 00:10:45,635 --> 00:10:51,595 Speaker 1: leak on my administration leak, I thought we had cleared 169 00:10:51,675 --> 00:11:05,515 Speaker 1: up that whole pe tape stuff. Still a don't countdown. 170 00:11:05,555 --> 00:11:08,875 Speaker 1: Finally some news for herschel Walker that isn't about abortions 171 00:11:08,995 --> 00:11:13,075 Speaker 1: or children out of wedlock. He's down twelve in the polls. 172 00:11:14,195 --> 00:11:17,395 Speaker 1: Who's the most valuable player in Baseball's American League? Aaron 173 00:11:17,515 --> 00:11:22,035 Speaker 1: Judge show, Hey Otani, Now maybe it's the Yankees medical adviser, 174 00:11:22,275 --> 00:11:25,315 Speaker 1: I shall explain, and in things I promised not to tell. 175 00:11:25,395 --> 00:11:28,155 Speaker 1: The day a sports owner said his team had lost 176 00:11:28,275 --> 00:11:30,515 Speaker 1: so much money it was as much as some other 177 00:11:30,595 --> 00:11:34,395 Speaker 1: franchises were worth. But that did not mean what he 178 00:11:34,435 --> 00:11:37,915 Speaker 1: wanted you to think. It meant. That's next. This is Countdown. 179 00:11:45,675 --> 00:11:54,515 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. With Keith Olberman still ahead on Countdown. 180 00:11:54,555 --> 00:11:56,835 Speaker 1: You do not want to be herschel Walker right now 181 00:11:57,555 --> 00:12:01,355 Speaker 1: or Lauren Bobert right now, or Saudi Arabia right now. 182 00:12:01,995 --> 00:12:04,155 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news and the rest of the program 183 00:12:04,155 --> 00:12:06,435 Speaker 1: coming up first. In each edition of Countdown, we feature 184 00:12:06,435 --> 00:12:08,995 Speaker 1: a dog in need whom you can help. Every dog 185 00:12:09,075 --> 00:12:12,795 Speaker 1: has its Day. We go to Van Nuys, California. Zekea 186 00:12:13,195 --> 00:12:16,635 Speaker 1: x I c A is a beautiful German shepherd seven 187 00:12:16,675 --> 00:12:20,515 Speaker 1: months old, hit by a car and in critical care 188 00:12:20,635 --> 00:12:23,875 Speaker 1: at the East Valley Animal Services in band Nis. She 189 00:12:23,955 --> 00:12:26,995 Speaker 1: will need to be saved by a rescue, and you 190 00:12:26,995 --> 00:12:30,435 Speaker 1: can help by pledging money to help defray the expenses 191 00:12:30,475 --> 00:12:32,795 Speaker 1: a rescue has to go to to do that. Look 192 00:12:32,835 --> 00:12:35,315 Speaker 1: for my tweet about Zica, which will be my pinned 193 00:12:35,395 --> 00:12:38,235 Speaker 1: tweet at my account for Dogs in Need at tom 194 00:12:38,315 --> 00:12:41,875 Speaker 1: Jumbo Grumbo, or you can contact the rescue coordinator directly. 195 00:12:42,195 --> 00:12:46,395 Speaker 1: That's lose dot Ruiz lu Z dot Ruiz at l 196 00:12:46,475 --> 00:12:49,755 Speaker 1: A city dot org. Thank you very much for trying 197 00:12:49,755 --> 00:13:15,995 Speaker 1: to help. Post scripts to the news, some headlines, some commentary, 198 00:13:16,115 --> 00:13:20,595 Speaker 1: some snark. Dateline Flemington, New Jersey. Congressman Tom Malanowski from 199 00:13:20,595 --> 00:13:24,395 Speaker 1: the Jersey seventh says he will introduce legislation requiring this 200 00:13:24,475 --> 00:13:27,635 Speaker 1: country to pull its troops and missile systems out of 201 00:13:27,675 --> 00:13:31,395 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. It seems those 202 00:13:31,475 --> 00:13:34,315 Speaker 1: nations finally pushed too far yesterday when the Saudi has 203 00:13:34,395 --> 00:13:37,435 Speaker 1: led Opak in Russia to cut oil production by two 204 00:13:37,515 --> 00:13:41,235 Speaker 1: million barrels per day. Long term, of course, we either 205 00:13:41,315 --> 00:13:44,235 Speaker 1: cut reliance on that oil and all oil, or the 206 00:13:44,275 --> 00:13:47,555 Speaker 1: atmosphere will you know, incinerate. But in the short term 207 00:13:47,595 --> 00:13:50,195 Speaker 1: this is more politics than environment, and the Saudis need 208 00:13:50,235 --> 00:13:53,995 Speaker 1: their asses kicked promptly. Pulling the military hardware out of 209 00:13:53,995 --> 00:13:56,315 Speaker 1: a fascist regime is a good idea any day of 210 00:13:56,355 --> 00:14:00,555 Speaker 1: the week, but especially today. Dateline San Francisco a little 211 00:14:00,595 --> 00:14:05,195 Speaker 1: more on the Elon musk return engagement with Twitter. SEC 212 00:14:05,435 --> 00:14:09,355 Speaker 1: filing in May showed that Elmo's biggest investment subsidizer was 213 00:14:09,875 --> 00:14:14,195 Speaker 1: Prince Al Walid bin Talal al Saud of Saudi Arabia. 214 00:14:14,795 --> 00:14:17,315 Speaker 1: Dateline Atlanta I mentioned it the start that the Daily 215 00:14:17,355 --> 00:14:20,395 Speaker 1: Beast now reports the woman whose abortion Herschel Walker paid 216 00:14:20,435 --> 00:14:23,435 Speaker 1: for is also the mother of one of his kids, 217 00:14:24,275 --> 00:14:27,355 Speaker 1: and that may be the least of his problems. Survey 218 00:14:27,555 --> 00:14:30,715 Speaker 1: USA had a Georgia Senate poll in the field as 219 00:14:30,755 --> 00:14:34,675 Speaker 1: the Walker abortion story broke, and this a rated polster 220 00:14:34,875 --> 00:14:39,795 Speaker 1: came back with this result, Walker trailing Senator Raphael Warnock 221 00:14:40,155 --> 00:14:45,395 Speaker 1: by twelve fifty to thirty eight and Dateline Grand Junction 222 00:14:45,475 --> 00:14:49,515 Speaker 1: Colorado from Keating Research, the Colorado third congressional race in 223 00:14:49,635 --> 00:14:52,835 Speaker 1: July was Lauren Bobert forty nine the Democrat Adam Fresh 224 00:14:52,915 --> 00:14:56,595 Speaker 1: forty two. The new poll is Bobert forty seven, Fresh 225 00:14:56,675 --> 00:15:13,395 Speaker 1: forty five. Margin of error four point four. This is 226 00:15:13,875 --> 00:15:21,075 Speaker 1: Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This is Countdown 227 00:15:21,715 --> 00:15:26,795 Speaker 1: with Keith Alberman in Sports Popular. Oakland A's cancher Stephen 228 00:15:26,875 --> 00:15:30,275 Speaker 1: Vote played his last game before retirement yesterday. The team 229 00:15:30,315 --> 00:15:33,075 Speaker 1: had his kids do his introduction over the public address 230 00:15:33,115 --> 00:15:35,595 Speaker 1: system for his first at bat and then in his 231 00:15:35,755 --> 00:15:39,075 Speaker 1: last at bat on the day of the season. In fact, 232 00:15:39,115 --> 00:15:43,355 Speaker 1: his last at bat in the major leagues vote hit 233 00:15:43,355 --> 00:15:53,275 Speaker 1: a home run, and just when you thought I might 234 00:15:53,275 --> 00:15:56,395 Speaker 1: be getting sentimental more amazingly, the a's one. They beat 235 00:15:56,435 --> 00:16:02,475 Speaker 1: Shohyotani and the Angels three to two. Thank you, Nancy Faust. 236 00:16:02,475 --> 00:16:06,075 Speaker 1: A brilliant observation from Elliott Calb, the longtime research genius 237 00:16:06,075 --> 00:16:09,475 Speaker 1: of NBC Sports and the MLB Network, in the debate 238 00:16:09,835 --> 00:16:12,395 Speaker 1: over who was the most valuable player in the American 239 00:16:12,515 --> 00:16:15,315 Speaker 1: League Aaron Judge and his record sixty two home runs 240 00:16:15,715 --> 00:16:18,315 Speaker 1: or Otani and his thirty four homers as a hitter 241 00:16:18,315 --> 00:16:22,875 Speaker 1: and fifteen wins as a pitcher, and Elliott says it's neither. 242 00:16:23,195 --> 00:16:25,395 Speaker 1: He says, remember in spring training when we found out 243 00:16:25,475 --> 00:16:29,075 Speaker 1: that two Yankee players were not vaccinated, and so there 244 00:16:29,115 --> 00:16:30,835 Speaker 1: was no way they were going to be able to 245 00:16:30,875 --> 00:16:33,395 Speaker 1: play in any of the Yankees games in Toronto because 246 00:16:33,435 --> 00:16:36,955 Speaker 1: you couldn't enter Canada unless you had been vaccinated. One 247 00:16:36,955 --> 00:16:40,795 Speaker 1: of those two was reportedly, it was never confirmed Aaron Judge. 248 00:16:41,075 --> 00:16:43,155 Speaker 1: And then suddenly the Yankee said all their players were 249 00:16:43,195 --> 00:16:45,715 Speaker 1: vaccinated and they would all go to Toronto. Aaron Judge 250 00:16:45,755 --> 00:16:47,995 Speaker 1: went to Toronto and he hit two home runs in 251 00:16:48,035 --> 00:16:50,635 Speaker 1: the nine games in Toronto that he got to play 252 00:16:50,675 --> 00:16:54,715 Speaker 1: in because he was vaccinated. So no Toronto, and Aaron 253 00:16:54,795 --> 00:16:58,635 Speaker 1: Judge hits sixty homers, not sixty two. So by Elliot's 254 00:16:58,675 --> 00:17:02,035 Speaker 1: impeccable logic, the real American League most Valuable player is 255 00:17:02,755 --> 00:17:06,675 Speaker 1: whoever convinced Aaron Judge to get vaccinated. Now, I'm going 256 00:17:06,715 --> 00:17:08,795 Speaker 1: to guess you might not be as interested in this 257 00:17:08,915 --> 00:17:11,595 Speaker 1: next story as I am. The ten finalists have been 258 00:17:11,675 --> 00:17:14,675 Speaker 1: named for the Ford Frick Award, which gets broadcasters into 259 00:17:14,715 --> 00:17:16,475 Speaker 1: the Baseball Hall of Fame. So if you want to 260 00:17:16,475 --> 00:17:19,875 Speaker 1: skip ahead, like just under two minutes or so, no problem. 261 00:17:19,915 --> 00:17:22,355 Speaker 1: But there's a good what are the odds story coming 262 00:17:22,395 --> 00:17:24,635 Speaker 1: up to the end of this. Experts will vote on 263 00:17:24,715 --> 00:17:27,475 Speaker 1: the electee, who will be announced on December seven. Then 264 00:17:27,515 --> 00:17:29,275 Speaker 1: they get their name on a plaque in the Hall 265 00:17:29,315 --> 00:17:32,955 Speaker 1: of Fame. The finalists my former ESPN colleague Dave Kempbell, 266 00:17:33,275 --> 00:17:35,595 Speaker 1: Joe Castiglione, who has done the Red Sox game so 267 00:17:35,635 --> 00:17:38,115 Speaker 1: long that he was there the year I worked in Boston, 268 00:17:38,435 --> 00:17:40,595 Speaker 1: Gary Cohen of the Mets, the best play by play 269 00:17:40,595 --> 00:17:43,435 Speaker 1: man working today, Jacques du Sette, the French voice of 270 00:17:43,435 --> 00:17:47,275 Speaker 1: the old Montreal Expos. Tom Hamilton of Cleveland, Jerry Howard 271 00:17:47,435 --> 00:17:50,435 Speaker 1: for thirty seven years, Toronto's radio man, Pat Hughes of 272 00:17:50,475 --> 00:17:53,355 Speaker 1: the Cubs, the late Ernie Johnson senior of the Braves, 273 00:17:53,435 --> 00:17:56,715 Speaker 1: Dwane Kuiper of the Giants, and Steve Stone, formerly of 274 00:17:56,755 --> 00:17:59,755 Speaker 1: the Cubs now the White Sox. There are two problems here. 275 00:17:59,755 --> 00:18:02,435 Speaker 1: One of the voters is Hawk Harrelson, who was the 276 00:18:02,475 --> 00:18:05,195 Speaker 1: play by play man while Stone was the analyst with 277 00:18:05,235 --> 00:18:07,715 Speaker 1: the White Sox for like twelve years. He gets to 278 00:18:07,755 --> 00:18:10,875 Speaker 1: vote on Stone and Dwayne Keeper. While Worthy on his 279 00:18:10,955 --> 00:18:14,595 Speaker 1: own should have been nominated in tandem with his broadcast 280 00:18:14,595 --> 00:18:17,435 Speaker 1: partner with the Giants, Mike Kruco. They are as good 281 00:18:17,475 --> 00:18:20,915 Speaker 1: together as any tandem in all of sports. And whatever 282 00:18:20,955 --> 00:18:23,155 Speaker 1: else you think I may or may not know anything about, 283 00:18:23,355 --> 00:18:26,275 Speaker 1: I know about tandems in sports. Now Here is the 284 00:18:26,355 --> 00:18:29,995 Speaker 1: what are the odds story? I know Gary Cohen nominated 285 00:18:30,035 --> 00:18:32,395 Speaker 1: for the Hall of Fame from the Mets twenty years now. 286 00:18:32,395 --> 00:18:36,275 Speaker 1: And we've always been remarkably in sync about broadcasting, about baseball, 287 00:18:36,315 --> 00:18:41,395 Speaker 1: about our respective bosses, about politics. One day, eight nine 288 00:18:41,475 --> 00:18:44,075 Speaker 1: years ago, the phone rings. It's Gary calling from the 289 00:18:44,115 --> 00:18:47,315 Speaker 1: Mets spring training camp. He says, his mother has asked 290 00:18:47,395 --> 00:18:51,035 Speaker 1: him a question, does your friend Keith have any relatives 291 00:18:51,115 --> 00:18:54,195 Speaker 1: named Billy Alderman? And I think for a moment and 292 00:18:54,235 --> 00:18:56,715 Speaker 1: I say no, Sorry, no Billies. Now I had an 293 00:18:56,795 --> 00:19:00,355 Speaker 1: uncle Bill, my father's younger brother. And I stopped myself 294 00:19:00,595 --> 00:19:02,435 Speaker 1: and I said, you know, I never thought of this before, 295 00:19:02,475 --> 00:19:05,115 Speaker 1: but I guess uncle Bill was probably he known is 296 00:19:05,275 --> 00:19:09,035 Speaker 1: Billy at some point? Why do you ask? And Gary size? 297 00:19:09,115 --> 00:19:11,515 Speaker 1: And then he says where did he live during World 298 00:19:11,555 --> 00:19:14,235 Speaker 1: War Two? And I said, my dad and his brothers 299 00:19:14,235 --> 00:19:16,275 Speaker 1: and his folks, they all lived off the Grand Concourse 300 00:19:16,275 --> 00:19:18,955 Speaker 1: and the Bronx. And Gary said did they ever live 301 00:19:19,035 --> 00:19:23,155 Speaker 1: above like this combination grocery and candy store? And I said, 302 00:19:23,475 --> 00:19:25,915 Speaker 1: you mean the one off the Concourse on Week's Avenue 303 00:19:26,355 --> 00:19:29,355 Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, I'll send you a picture of it. 304 00:19:29,875 --> 00:19:32,995 Speaker 1: My mother and your uncle Billy were friends when they 305 00:19:32,995 --> 00:19:36,515 Speaker 1: were like eleven twelve years old. So Gary and I 306 00:19:36,675 --> 00:19:41,435 Speaker 1: are second generation friends. One of the odds. Congrats on 307 00:19:41,475 --> 00:19:44,595 Speaker 1: the nominations to Gary, Kype and all my other friends 308 00:19:44,635 --> 00:20:01,635 Speaker 1: and colleagues still ahead. What do sports moguls mean when 309 00:20:01,635 --> 00:20:04,035 Speaker 1: they say their team lost money last year? They do 310 00:20:04,115 --> 00:20:07,555 Speaker 1: not mean the actually lost money. They mean, well, I'll 311 00:20:07,555 --> 00:20:09,955 Speaker 1: explain it and things I promised not to tell. First, 312 00:20:09,995 --> 00:20:12,475 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Donning Kruger 313 00:20:12,475 --> 00:20:17,595 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world, Lebronze. 314 00:20:18,115 --> 00:20:21,235 Speaker 1: We have another Jr. Madjuski out there. Ads have been 315 00:20:21,315 --> 00:20:25,035 Speaker 1: running for the GOP candidate in the Minnesota second Tyler Kissner, 316 00:20:25,555 --> 00:20:29,755 Speaker 1: describing his quote for combat deployments swile in the Marine Corps. 317 00:20:29,795 --> 00:20:35,155 Speaker 1: In fact, Kissner served in North Africa, no combat, and 318 00:20:35,195 --> 00:20:37,315 Speaker 1: he's now twice run for Congress, and the same stunt 319 00:20:37,315 --> 00:20:39,635 Speaker 1: has been pulled both times and he still hasn't seen combat. 320 00:20:40,395 --> 00:20:44,155 Speaker 1: Runner up Heidi Ganal, the Fascist candidate for the governor 321 00:20:44,155 --> 00:20:46,715 Speaker 1: of Colorado. She's the one who has that brain dead 322 00:20:46,755 --> 00:20:50,515 Speaker 1: look that Kirsty Gnome has, only she looks a little dumber. 323 00:20:51,115 --> 00:20:53,235 Speaker 1: She is late to the litter box party, but she's 324 00:20:53,275 --> 00:20:55,275 Speaker 1: making the most of it, telling a radio station that 325 00:20:55,315 --> 00:20:59,155 Speaker 1: people who contradict her are lying that quote kids are 326 00:20:59,235 --> 00:21:04,675 Speaker 1: identifying as cats in schools across Colorado quote the school district, 327 00:21:04,715 --> 00:21:07,075 Speaker 1: so not being truthful. I will tell the truth, even 328 00:21:07,115 --> 00:21:10,955 Speaker 1: if it is uncomfortable. Canal says. She and her team 329 00:21:10,955 --> 00:21:15,075 Speaker 1: are collecting pictures of kids who are the groomers again. 330 00:21:15,715 --> 00:21:17,875 Speaker 1: She and her team are collecting pictures of kids and 331 00:21:17,875 --> 00:21:21,075 Speaker 1: will be distributing them their faces blurred, which of course 332 00:21:21,115 --> 00:21:23,835 Speaker 1: makes it impossible to tell if the kids are a 333 00:21:24,035 --> 00:21:29,075 Speaker 1: even in Colorado and be aren't you know, just dressed 334 00:21:29,155 --> 00:21:32,475 Speaker 1: up for Halloween or you know the way kids like 335 00:21:32,635 --> 00:21:36,675 Speaker 1: to wear cat ears and stuff because they like animals. 336 00:21:37,235 --> 00:21:40,955 Speaker 1: More on, but our winner Mark Levin, the high pitched 337 00:21:41,035 --> 00:21:44,035 Speaker 1: fascist radio host and weekend guy at Fox Nudes who 338 00:21:44,075 --> 00:21:46,795 Speaker 1: sounds like he washed out of auditions for the Castrati Chorus. 339 00:21:47,355 --> 00:21:50,115 Speaker 1: Among his many other problems, Levin does not understand how 340 00:21:50,155 --> 00:21:54,395 Speaker 1: the law or emails work. He exchanged emails a dozen 341 00:21:54,435 --> 00:21:57,955 Speaker 1: of them or more with coup plotter John Eastman, and 342 00:21:57,995 --> 00:22:00,675 Speaker 1: they wound up in the possession of the January six Committee. 343 00:22:00,715 --> 00:22:03,435 Speaker 1: So naturally, on radio he went and threatened the members 344 00:22:03,475 --> 00:22:06,715 Speaker 1: of the committee out how the hell did the federal 345 00:22:06,755 --> 00:22:09,995 Speaker 1: government get thirteen of my emails? I never got a subpoena. 346 00:22:10,235 --> 00:22:13,715 Speaker 1: I was never a girl. Notice, yes, you only need 347 00:22:13,715 --> 00:22:16,355 Speaker 1: to subpoena one of the people in the email exchange, 348 00:22:16,435 --> 00:22:19,035 Speaker 1: Mr Levin, what else did they look at? I'm telling 349 00:22:19,035 --> 00:22:21,795 Speaker 1: you now, you stick with me. I'm gonna find out 350 00:22:21,795 --> 00:22:24,635 Speaker 1: who every one of these g D staffers are on 351 00:22:24,755 --> 00:22:27,675 Speaker 1: that damn committee, every one of those congress asses on 352 00:22:27,755 --> 00:22:30,795 Speaker 1: that damn committee, every damn one of them. I'm not 353 00:22:30,875 --> 00:22:34,755 Speaker 1: going to be intimidated. Life's too damn sure to be intimidated. 354 00:22:36,955 --> 00:22:40,555 Speaker 1: He just threatened every January six committee member and staffer 355 00:22:41,035 --> 00:22:46,235 Speaker 1: and in a falsetto arrest him. Mark. I hope they're 356 00:22:46,235 --> 00:22:51,435 Speaker 1: intimidated when I say G D Levin two days worse 357 00:22:52,715 --> 00:23:13,635 Speaker 1: person in the world. Here's the number one story on 358 00:23:13,675 --> 00:23:16,315 Speaker 1: the countdown on my favorite topic, me and things I 359 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:19,795 Speaker 1: promised not to tell. And this story is second hand, 360 00:23:20,155 --> 00:23:22,795 Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure Gil Stratton told it to me. 361 00:23:22,875 --> 00:23:26,195 Speaker 1: And Gil was gold. If you've ever seen the movie 362 00:23:26,235 --> 00:23:28,515 Speaker 1: Stalag seventeen, and if you have it, you should like 363 00:23:28,675 --> 00:23:32,595 Speaker 1: right now. Gil played William Holden's right hand man, Cookie, 364 00:23:32,675 --> 00:23:35,235 Speaker 1: and Gil narrates the film too, And he was in 365 00:23:35,235 --> 00:23:37,915 Speaker 1: the Wild One with Marlon Brando, and he co starred 366 00:23:37,915 --> 00:23:40,875 Speaker 1: on Broadway with Judy Garland. And Gil was a baseball 367 00:23:40,955 --> 00:23:43,995 Speaker 1: umpire and Gil was the number one TV sportscaster in 368 00:23:44,195 --> 00:23:48,035 Speaker 1: l A from about ninety five, and he stayed on 369 00:23:48,075 --> 00:23:50,515 Speaker 1: the air so long that eventually he worked with me 370 00:23:51,075 --> 00:23:54,475 Speaker 1: and then for me, and he never complained about that once. 371 00:23:54,995 --> 00:23:57,395 Speaker 1: I loved the business, loved doing it, and he knew 372 00:23:57,395 --> 00:24:00,995 Speaker 1: everything that had ever happened in Los Angeles. In a 373 00:24:01,115 --> 00:24:05,235 Speaker 1: city that almost deliberately erases its past as quickly as possible, 374 00:24:05,515 --> 00:24:09,835 Speaker 1: Gil was one of those living history books, and I 375 00:24:09,955 --> 00:24:13,795 Speaker 1: always tell this one story of his whenever a sports 376 00:24:13,795 --> 00:24:19,355 Speaker 1: owner or commissioner says his team or league lost money. 377 00:24:19,515 --> 00:24:21,635 Speaker 1: After some research, it turns out the year of the 378 00:24:21,675 --> 00:24:25,395 Speaker 1: story has to have been nineteen sixty four. From the 379 00:24:25,475 --> 00:24:28,595 Speaker 1: details in the anecdote, we know the Dodgers had won 380 00:24:28,595 --> 00:24:31,275 Speaker 1: the World Series the year before, but had not been 381 00:24:31,275 --> 00:24:33,475 Speaker 1: in the Pennant Race in the year in question, so 382 00:24:33,515 --> 00:24:36,675 Speaker 1: that had to be nineteen sixty eight or earlier. Because 383 00:24:36,715 --> 00:24:38,515 Speaker 1: one of the three men in the story, the Dodgers 384 00:24:38,635 --> 00:24:43,875 Speaker 1: Vice president Fresco Thompson, passed away on November night. So 385 00:24:43,955 --> 00:24:47,115 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty four season, which it has to be, 386 00:24:47,675 --> 00:24:50,475 Speaker 1: ends at Dodger Stadium fifty eight years ago this week, 387 00:24:50,715 --> 00:24:54,315 Speaker 1: late on the afternoon of Sunday, October four. The Dodgers 388 00:24:54,355 --> 00:24:56,395 Speaker 1: have just one but it's not enough to save them 389 00:24:56,395 --> 00:24:59,675 Speaker 1: from a losing season. Eight and eighty two, just under 390 00:24:59,715 --> 00:25:02,955 Speaker 1: fourteen thousand people have paid to get in, which means 391 00:25:02,995 --> 00:25:07,715 Speaker 1: two million, two thousand and seven fifty one souls have 392 00:25:07,875 --> 00:25:11,035 Speaker 1: dropped some cash into the till of the infamous Dodgers 393 00:25:11,115 --> 00:25:14,755 Speaker 1: owner Walter O'Malley. That was a lot of fans in nine. 394 00:25:16,795 --> 00:25:20,715 Speaker 1: The stench of Walter O'Malley reeks through history. He is 395 00:25:20,755 --> 00:25:24,275 Speaker 1: still the villain in sports in New York City, where 396 00:25:24,315 --> 00:25:27,835 Speaker 1: he moved the Brooklyn Dodgers out, something from which the 397 00:25:27,875 --> 00:25:31,555 Speaker 1: borough of Brooklyn has never recovered, even though the historical 398 00:25:31,595 --> 00:25:34,075 Speaker 1: record is pretty clear that the Dodgers did have an 399 00:25:34,115 --> 00:25:36,795 Speaker 1: attendance problem in Brooklyn, and the City of New York 400 00:25:36,995 --> 00:25:39,195 Speaker 1: did not think it was worth it to merely sell 401 00:25:39,355 --> 00:25:43,075 Speaker 1: O'Malley the land he thought was ideal for a sports stadium. 402 00:25:43,155 --> 00:25:45,555 Speaker 1: O'Malley was right about the land. The land is now 403 00:25:45,635 --> 00:25:49,315 Speaker 1: where they put the Barklays Center, an arena at public expense. 404 00:25:49,675 --> 00:25:53,715 Speaker 1: O'Malley wanted to pay for his building himself. Anyway, back 405 00:25:53,755 --> 00:25:58,115 Speaker 1: to a sixth place Dodger season has just ended, and 406 00:25:58,195 --> 00:25:59,995 Speaker 1: either that day or the next day or the day 407 00:26:00,035 --> 00:26:04,075 Speaker 1: after that, fifty eight years ago this week, one of 408 00:26:04,115 --> 00:26:06,755 Speaker 1: the three men and who basically run the franchise. Vice 409 00:26:06,795 --> 00:26:10,075 Speaker 1: president and general manager, Buzzy Bevesi leans in through the 410 00:26:10,115 --> 00:26:13,275 Speaker 1: doorway of Walter O'Malley's office in Dodger Stadium. Were the 411 00:26:13,275 --> 00:26:16,995 Speaker 1: man who got rich for closing on mortgages during the depression, 412 00:26:17,355 --> 00:26:20,235 Speaker 1: including the mortgage on the Dodgers. That's how he became 413 00:26:20,275 --> 00:26:23,395 Speaker 1: the owner. He is, as usual, sitting behind his desk, 414 00:26:23,715 --> 00:26:28,195 Speaker 1: thumbing through accountants ledgers, smoking a large cigar and using 415 00:26:28,235 --> 00:26:33,275 Speaker 1: a long plastic holder. See at the winter meetings. Boss 416 00:26:33,835 --> 00:26:37,875 Speaker 1: O'Malley never looks up from his financial books. At least 417 00:26:37,875 --> 00:26:39,675 Speaker 1: we had a decent fiscal year, I mean with Coo 418 00:26:39,755 --> 00:26:43,635 Speaker 1: Fax hurt and all. Now O'Malley looks up and he growls, 419 00:26:44,435 --> 00:26:49,275 Speaker 1: Gladia main decent fescal heere we lost two million dollars. 420 00:26:50,675 --> 00:26:53,355 Speaker 1: Walter O'Malley does not now have to tell Buzzy Bebasi 421 00:26:53,435 --> 00:26:56,155 Speaker 1: to leave his office, because Buzzy Bebasi feels as if 422 00:26:56,155 --> 00:27:00,155 Speaker 1: he has just been shot. We lost two million dollars, 423 00:27:00,555 --> 00:27:03,715 Speaker 1: he thinks to himself, we lost two million dollars, two 424 00:27:04,035 --> 00:27:07,435 Speaker 1: million dollar dollars. The hallway of the executive offices of 425 00:27:07,475 --> 00:27:10,275 Speaker 1: the Dodgers on the Loge level of Dodger Stadium swirls 426 00:27:10,355 --> 00:27:15,795 Speaker 1: around him to million. Just four years earlier, when Baseball 427 00:27:15,835 --> 00:27:18,515 Speaker 1: had sold the rights to put an expansion franchise in 428 00:27:18,555 --> 00:27:21,635 Speaker 1: that same city, Los Angeles, to Gene Autry, the price 429 00:27:21,715 --> 00:27:26,635 Speaker 1: had been two million, one thousand dollars. Two million was 430 00:27:26,715 --> 00:27:29,715 Speaker 1: literally the price of a Major League Baseball franchise in 431 00:27:29,715 --> 00:27:34,395 Speaker 1: the early sixties. Buzzy Bevesi staggered down the hallway. The 432 00:27:34,475 --> 00:27:37,715 Speaker 1: sweat poured from every part of his body. His vision blurred, 433 00:27:37,755 --> 00:27:40,955 Speaker 1: and he found it difficult to breathe. He almost fell 434 00:27:41,035 --> 00:27:43,395 Speaker 1: into the open doorway of the third man who ran 435 00:27:43,435 --> 00:27:48,315 Speaker 1: the Dodgers, the other, senior vice president, Fresco Thompson. Buzz 436 00:27:48,635 --> 00:27:53,515 Speaker 1: Fresco said, with considerable alarm, are you okay? Buzzy Beavesi 437 00:27:53,595 --> 00:27:56,035 Speaker 1: barely croaked the word no, but the rest of the 438 00:27:56,075 --> 00:27:59,675 Speaker 1: sentence he fairly shouted. O'Malley just told me we lost 439 00:27:59,715 --> 00:28:06,635 Speaker 1: two million dollars this year. Fresco Thompson laughed, and now 440 00:28:06,795 --> 00:28:10,315 Speaker 1: Bevesi's terror turned to anchor, What the hell are you 441 00:28:10,435 --> 00:28:14,515 Speaker 1: laughing at two million? We lost two million? Don't you 442 00:28:14,555 --> 00:28:17,435 Speaker 1: know what this means. We'll have to fire everybody, We'll 443 00:28:17,435 --> 00:28:19,835 Speaker 1: have to trade co Fax. At least we have to 444 00:28:19,875 --> 00:28:24,075 Speaker 1: trade morey wills were two million, and we lost two million. 445 00:28:25,155 --> 00:28:29,675 Speaker 1: And now the worst suddenly occurs to Buzzy BEVESI, Jesus 446 00:28:29,715 --> 00:28:33,635 Speaker 1: Fresco is gonna fire one of us. Is ity Veasi 447 00:28:33,755 --> 00:28:38,355 Speaker 1: had not noticed Fresco's Thompson's laughter, growing you Italian idiot, 448 00:28:38,395 --> 00:28:42,795 Speaker 1: BEVESI only Fresco. Thompson did not say Italian. How long 449 00:28:42,835 --> 00:28:45,835 Speaker 1: you've been working for this guy O'Malley, BEVESI spit out 450 00:28:45,835 --> 00:28:51,195 Speaker 1: the answer nine. Thompson calmly replied, yeah, nearly as long 451 00:28:51,235 --> 00:28:53,515 Speaker 1: as I have, and you still haven't figured him out. 452 00:28:54,555 --> 00:28:58,355 Speaker 1: Buzzy BEVESI was lost. The franchise was teetering on bankruptcy 453 00:28:58,395 --> 00:29:01,475 Speaker 1: in front of their eyes, but Thompson was focused for 454 00:29:01,475 --> 00:29:04,235 Speaker 1: some reason. And how long they had each known Walter O'Malley. 455 00:29:04,315 --> 00:29:08,795 Speaker 1: They were about to get fired by Walter O'Malley Fresco. 456 00:29:08,875 --> 00:29:11,075 Speaker 1: Thompson stood up and put his arm around his still 457 00:29:11,115 --> 00:29:17,475 Speaker 1: shaken colleague. When O'Malley says we lost two million this year, 458 00:29:17,595 --> 00:29:23,275 Speaker 1: buzz what that greedy bastard means is last year, when 459 00:29:23,355 --> 00:29:27,275 Speaker 1: we won the World Series, we made a profit of 460 00:29:27,435 --> 00:29:32,435 Speaker 1: six million, dollars. This year, when we finished in sixth place, 461 00:29:33,035 --> 00:29:37,115 Speaker 1: we only made a profit of four million dollars. So 462 00:29:37,195 --> 00:29:42,915 Speaker 1: in his mind, that means this year we lost two million. 463 00:29:43,835 --> 00:29:49,235 Speaker 1: We didn't lose two million, we made four million. So 464 00:29:50,755 --> 00:29:52,715 Speaker 1: the next time you hear the owner of a sports 465 00:29:52,755 --> 00:29:55,155 Speaker 1: franchise or the commissioner of a sports league tell you 466 00:29:55,235 --> 00:29:59,435 Speaker 1: it or he has quote lost unquote eleventy billion dollars, 467 00:29:59,795 --> 00:30:05,475 Speaker 1: just remember this is almost always Walter O'Malley, Matt, and 468 00:30:05,635 --> 00:30:09,955 Speaker 1: it only means that's how much lower this year's phenomenal 469 00:30:09,995 --> 00:30:29,075 Speaker 1: profits are compared to last year's phenomenal profits. I've done 470 00:30:29,075 --> 00:30:30,835 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Help me out. 471 00:30:30,875 --> 00:30:33,515 Speaker 1: Subscribe to this podcast or give it five stars, or 472 00:30:33,995 --> 00:30:37,635 Speaker 1: tell a random passer by. Most of the music, including 473 00:30:37,675 --> 00:30:40,675 Speaker 1: our theme from Beethoven's Ninth was arranged, produced and performed 474 00:30:40,715 --> 00:30:43,555 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray and John Philip Channel. They are the 475 00:30:43,595 --> 00:30:48,555 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Channel, 476 00:30:48,995 --> 00:30:53,435 Speaker 1: bass and drums by Brian Ray, cars to produced by 477 00:30:53,475 --> 00:30:56,515 Speaker 1: t k O Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 478 00:30:56,555 --> 00:30:59,395 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports 479 00:30:59,515 --> 00:31:02,075 Speaker 1: music is the Overman theme from ESPN two and it 480 00:31:02,115 --> 00:31:04,835 Speaker 1: was written by Mitch Warren Davis and it appears your 481 00:31:04,835 --> 00:31:08,995 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN, inc musical comments from Nancy Faust. The 482 00:31:08,995 --> 00:31:12,675 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist of all time at our announcer 483 00:31:12,715 --> 00:31:16,515 Speaker 1: today was Kenny Maine. Everything else was pretty much my fault. 484 00:31:17,075 --> 00:31:19,635 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this, the six thirty ninth day 485 00:31:19,675 --> 00:31:23,195 Speaker 1: since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 486 00:31:23,235 --> 00:31:25,795 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Arrest him now while we 487 00:31:25,915 --> 00:31:29,515 Speaker 1: still can a new episode tomorrow. Till then, I'm Keith Alderman. 488 00:31:29,555 --> 00:31:42,395 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 489 00:31:42,475 --> 00:31:45,595 Speaker 1: Keith Alderman is a production of I heart Radio. For 490 00:31:45,755 --> 00:31:48,795 Speaker 1: more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the i heart 491 00:31:48,835 --> 00:31:52,915 Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.