1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. At 2 00:00:21,595 --> 00:00:25,635 Speaker 1: two fifteen on the early morning of Monday, July twenty seventh, 3 00:00:25,755 --> 00:00:30,675 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, a newscaster named John Wydra on WCBS 4 00:00:30,755 --> 00:00:34,835 Speaker 1: Radio in New York City made an utterly inarguable and 5 00:00:35,035 --> 00:00:40,475 Speaker 1: utterly mind blowing statement about a labor dispute. Quote the 6 00:00:40,515 --> 00:00:46,195 Speaker 1: next development in the strike isn't expected until today, unquote, 7 00:00:46,795 --> 00:00:51,355 Speaker 1: implying that there existed some chance, somehow somewhere that the 8 00:00:51,395 --> 00:00:56,755 Speaker 1: next development could be expected to happen yesterday. I thought 9 00:00:56,795 --> 00:00:59,635 Speaker 1: of this because Kamala Harris has chosen her running mate, 10 00:00:59,955 --> 00:01:03,355 Speaker 1: or will have chosen her running mate, or as you 11 00:01:03,475 --> 00:01:06,115 Speaker 1: already know, but I don't. As I record this, she 12 00:01:06,315 --> 00:01:10,835 Speaker 1: has chosen her running mate earlier for you, but later 13 00:01:10,955 --> 00:01:14,515 Speaker 1: for me. Because John Wydra astuteley rewriting on the fly 14 00:01:14,835 --> 00:01:18,395 Speaker 1: some outdated copy that must have read until tomorrow. John 15 00:01:18,395 --> 00:01:21,635 Speaker 1: Widra was right. The next development in the veepstakes is 16 00:01:21,675 --> 00:01:26,835 Speaker 1: not expected until today Walls or Shapiro, according to Reuter's 17 00:01:27,275 --> 00:01:31,355 Speaker 1: the Finalists. I'll get to that. But despite the near 18 00:01:31,515 --> 00:01:36,235 Speaker 1: universal contention otherwise, the vice presidency isn't the lead story 19 00:01:36,435 --> 00:01:39,195 Speaker 1: and the decision may or may not make any damn difference. 20 00:01:39,475 --> 00:01:43,595 Speaker 1: The Morning Consult and Decision Desk poll numbers are the 21 00:01:43,675 --> 00:01:48,435 Speaker 1: lead story. She is ahead forty eight forty four. A 22 00:01:48,475 --> 00:01:52,075 Speaker 1: week ago in Morning Consult she was ahead by one point. 23 00:01:52,355 --> 00:01:55,715 Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, Trump was ahead by two points. The 24 00:01:55,835 --> 00:01:59,675 Speaker 1: Vice President is ahead in that poll among independents forty 25 00:01:59,715 --> 00:02:02,875 Speaker 1: two to thirty seven. She's ahead among voters under the 26 00:02:02,915 --> 00:02:06,595 Speaker 1: age of thirty five by forty nine to forty. Morning 27 00:02:06,635 --> 00:02:09,715 Speaker 1: Consult also does what it calls a news cycle poll. 28 00:02:09,875 --> 00:02:13,795 Speaker 1: Have you heard positive things or negative buzz about the candidates? 29 00:02:13,795 --> 00:02:17,355 Speaker 1: I swear they use the word buzz and after the 30 00:02:17,395 --> 00:02:21,515 Speaker 1: Republican Convention, Trump was at almost fifty to fifty positive 31 00:02:21,555 --> 00:02:25,195 Speaker 1: and negative stories, positive and negative buzz, And in two 32 00:02:25,235 --> 00:02:30,115 Speaker 1: weeks since, he has sunk to twenty three points underwater 33 00:02:30,355 --> 00:02:34,635 Speaker 1: negative buzz. In the same span, the Harris Express has 34 00:02:34,755 --> 00:02:37,955 Speaker 1: retained its speed. Her favorability in this poll was at 35 00:02:37,995 --> 00:02:40,475 Speaker 1: fifty percent last week. It is now virtually the same 36 00:02:40,515 --> 00:02:43,795 Speaker 1: at forty eight percent. They also did some polling on 37 00:02:43,875 --> 00:02:51,155 Speaker 1: Harris versus Trump attributes Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, 38 00:02:52,235 --> 00:02:57,475 Speaker 1: State by state. Trump wins who's too old in a landslide. 39 00:02:58,035 --> 00:03:01,835 Speaker 1: Harris wins who's mentally fit in a landslide like forty 40 00:03:01,835 --> 00:03:05,795 Speaker 1: eight to thirty five. Harris also wins life dangerous in 41 00:03:05,835 --> 00:03:10,475 Speaker 1: a landslide. Harris wins cares about me based on the 42 00:03:10,515 --> 00:03:14,355 Speaker 1: state from two points to ten points. She's tied him 43 00:03:14,475 --> 00:03:17,875 Speaker 1: on strong leader in Michigan, is within seven points on 44 00:03:18,035 --> 00:03:22,395 Speaker 1: strong leader in three other states. And who is more Presidential? 45 00:03:23,115 --> 00:03:26,835 Speaker 1: Harris wins in Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It is tied 46 00:03:26,875 --> 00:03:30,595 Speaker 1: in Nevada. He wins most Presidential by one point in 47 00:03:30,635 --> 00:03:34,235 Speaker 1: Georgia that was before that farce. Over the weekend, he 48 00:03:34,315 --> 00:03:36,475 Speaker 1: wins it by three points in North Carolina at four 49 00:03:36,515 --> 00:03:41,315 Speaker 1: points in Pennsylvania. Survey USA came out yesterday with national 50 00:03:41,315 --> 00:03:44,715 Speaker 1: polling done on Sunday, Harris by three. Three weeks ago, 51 00:03:44,755 --> 00:03:47,435 Speaker 1: that poll was Trump by three. It's another six point swing. 52 00:03:48,195 --> 00:03:51,355 Speaker 1: CBS News put out a poll with Ugov on Sunday 53 00:03:51,515 --> 00:03:55,435 Speaker 1: that had Harris ahead nationally by one. In its poll, 54 00:03:56,035 --> 00:04:00,915 Speaker 1: Joe Biden never led never. This was the first CBS 55 00:04:00,915 --> 00:04:04,595 Speaker 1: poll since Trump led Biden by five. CBS has them 56 00:04:04,795 --> 00:04:08,595 Speaker 1: tied in the swing states. Morning consult will presumably have 57 00:04:08,635 --> 00:04:11,875 Speaker 1: a new set of swing state raw numbers polls for 58 00:04:12,035 --> 00:04:15,315 Speaker 1: Bloomberg today. They put one out last Tuesday, and in 59 00:04:15,355 --> 00:04:18,235 Speaker 1: that Harris led huge in Michigan, by one or two points, 60 00:04:18,235 --> 00:04:21,475 Speaker 1: in Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin, was tied in Georgia, was 61 00:04:21,515 --> 00:04:24,795 Speaker 1: behind by two in North Carolina, behind by four in Pennsylvania. 62 00:04:24,915 --> 00:04:28,355 Speaker 1: Her net lead in all seven of the states last 63 00:04:28,395 --> 00:04:31,275 Speaker 1: week was one point. So watch to see if there 64 00:04:31,315 --> 00:04:35,355 Speaker 1: is a new one today or maybe tomorrow. Early Vote 65 00:04:35,395 --> 00:04:39,275 Speaker 1: Action polled the state of Pennsylvania and it finds Pennsylvania 66 00:04:39,355 --> 00:04:42,715 Speaker 1: tied forty eight forty eight or forty five forty five, 67 00:04:42,715 --> 00:04:46,795 Speaker 1: with Kennedy at four. And so what except Early Vote 68 00:04:46,835 --> 00:04:51,835 Speaker 1: Action is the group led by that sleazy trumpist Scott Presler, 69 00:04:52,275 --> 00:04:57,635 Speaker 1: the one who bills himself as the Persistence. It's tied 70 00:04:57,715 --> 00:05:02,835 Speaker 1: in the Persistence poll in Pennsylvania. Persistence as in if 71 00:05:02,915 --> 00:05:07,435 Speaker 1: symptoms persist longer more than four hours see your doctor 72 00:05:09,395 --> 00:05:13,395 Speaker 1: decision Desk. HQ I mentioned them earlier. They put out 73 00:05:13,435 --> 00:05:16,395 Speaker 1: an average of swing state polls yesterday and at chose 74 00:05:16,435 --> 00:05:20,315 Speaker 1: Harris gaining in nine out of ten battleground states and 75 00:05:20,355 --> 00:05:23,515 Speaker 1: the only one she hasn't gained in is Virginia, where 76 00:05:23,555 --> 00:05:26,795 Speaker 1: President Biden led by three and she leads by three 77 00:05:27,555 --> 00:05:30,995 Speaker 1: per Decision Desk. She has already taken away Trump's lead 78 00:05:31,035 --> 00:05:34,155 Speaker 1: in Michigan by one point, cut his seven point leads 79 00:05:34,155 --> 00:05:37,435 Speaker 1: in Arizona and Georgia to three point leads, cut his 80 00:05:37,635 --> 00:05:39,715 Speaker 1: nine point lead in Nevada to three points, cut his 81 00:05:39,755 --> 00:05:43,795 Speaker 1: ten point lead in North Carolina to three points. Again. 82 00:05:45,235 --> 00:05:48,075 Speaker 1: I am at just about the point where the numbers 83 00:05:48,115 --> 00:05:52,075 Speaker 1: will make my head explode, and I'm sitting here looking 84 00:05:52,155 --> 00:05:56,195 Speaker 1: at them. I can read along with my voice. The 85 00:05:56,275 --> 00:05:59,595 Speaker 1: gist of this is it's like at some singular points 86 00:05:59,635 --> 00:06:02,395 Speaker 1: along a road or even a city street. We have 87 00:06:02,475 --> 00:06:05,475 Speaker 1: them here along parts of Park Avenue. You can see 88 00:06:05,555 --> 00:06:09,195 Speaker 1: ten or sometimes it seems like twenty intersections at a time, 89 00:06:09,595 --> 00:06:13,515 Speaker 1: and the traffic lights. You are only startled by one 90 00:06:13,635 --> 00:06:18,355 Speaker 1: occurrence in such a scene, when all the lights are green, 91 00:06:19,235 --> 00:06:22,475 Speaker 1: and for Vice President Harris right now, and Boyd can 92 00:06:22,555 --> 00:06:27,915 Speaker 1: change in a hurry, ask the Republican nomineeh, what's his name? Again? 93 00:06:28,755 --> 00:06:33,195 Speaker 1: Ask that guy? But right now for Harris, all the 94 00:06:33,235 --> 00:06:36,715 Speaker 1: lights are green, all right, Two more numbers and I'll stop. 95 00:06:36,875 --> 00:06:40,595 Speaker 1: There is one inside the Decision Desk averages that I 96 00:06:40,635 --> 00:06:43,435 Speaker 1: love this is because I kind of made it up myself. 97 00:06:43,635 --> 00:06:47,275 Speaker 1: I did the addition here myself. Last poll in eight 98 00:06:47,315 --> 00:06:51,435 Speaker 1: Swing states, Trump's total net lead was thirty seven points. 99 00:06:51,435 --> 00:06:54,715 Speaker 1: That's all the individual leads added together. He wasn't leading 100 00:06:54,755 --> 00:06:58,315 Speaker 1: the Swing States by thirty seven overall, but it was 101 00:06:58,435 --> 00:07:01,995 Speaker 1: thirty seven. Now in eight states his lead is nine points. 102 00:07:03,275 --> 00:07:06,155 Speaker 1: And it's really difficult to point at Nate Silver one 103 00:07:06,195 --> 00:07:09,715 Speaker 1: week and say he's full of shit, and then quote 104 00:07:09,795 --> 00:07:12,555 Speaker 1: him the next week and go, nice work, Nate. But 105 00:07:12,595 --> 00:07:14,995 Speaker 1: I'm doing this less to support the Decision desk and 106 00:07:15,075 --> 00:07:18,315 Speaker 1: morning consult polls than I am to help breath the vibe. 107 00:07:18,875 --> 00:07:23,715 Speaker 1: God forgive me for the first time. Nate Silver's projection 108 00:07:23,995 --> 00:07:26,835 Speaker 1: is that she has the better chance of winning the 109 00:07:26,875 --> 00:07:31,355 Speaker 1: electoral college fifty three percent and winning it, he says, 110 00:07:31,395 --> 00:07:33,475 Speaker 1: by two hundred and eighty two votes to two hundred 111 00:07:33,475 --> 00:07:35,915 Speaker 1: and fifty five for Trump. He has her up in 112 00:07:35,995 --> 00:07:41,195 Speaker 1: the polls by one and nine tenths points, largely because 113 00:07:41,355 --> 00:07:44,075 Speaker 1: his average of the polls in Pennsylvania has her up 114 00:07:44,115 --> 00:07:47,675 Speaker 1: by point there, and he has her up in Michigan 115 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:52,155 Speaker 1: by just under three. And Nate Silver has Kamala Harris 116 00:07:52,675 --> 00:08:00,435 Speaker 1: within six points of the lead in Florida. Okay, maybe 117 00:08:01,315 --> 00:08:07,915 Speaker 1: full of shit was an exaggeration on my part. I'm sorry, Nate. 118 00:08:11,715 --> 00:08:15,195 Speaker 1: Now it is August sixth, and if on July sixteenth 119 00:08:15,315 --> 00:08:17,995 Speaker 1: I had written all this, all the numbers would have 120 00:08:18,075 --> 00:08:21,275 Speaker 1: gone the other way. The Harris lights all would have 121 00:08:21,315 --> 00:08:23,915 Speaker 1: been read, and I would have made you listen to 122 00:08:23,955 --> 00:08:25,915 Speaker 1: them only in order to try to convince you that 123 00:08:26,035 --> 00:08:28,875 Speaker 1: encouraging the Democrats to change candidates was the right course, 124 00:08:30,235 --> 00:08:33,435 Speaker 1: just as a reminder about how fast things can change, 125 00:08:33,475 --> 00:08:35,915 Speaker 1: even after a decade in which they barely seemed to 126 00:08:35,995 --> 00:08:39,155 Speaker 1: change at all and certainly never got better. They could 127 00:08:39,155 --> 00:08:42,675 Speaker 1: revert back to Trump three weeks from today, then re 128 00:08:42,675 --> 00:08:45,475 Speaker 1: revert to Harris three weeks after that, then re re 129 00:08:45,475 --> 00:08:48,435 Speaker 1: revert back to Trump, then re re re revert back 130 00:08:48,475 --> 00:08:51,235 Speaker 1: to Harris three weeks after that, which would be the 131 00:08:51,315 --> 00:08:55,915 Speaker 1: twenty ninth of October, which would be fine. I haven't 132 00:08:55,955 --> 00:08:59,835 Speaker 1: seen any polling suggesting one vice presidential option would help 133 00:08:59,915 --> 00:09:05,115 Speaker 1: her more than any other would That will will have 134 00:09:05,315 --> 00:09:09,195 Speaker 1: helped whatever would have helped. The Associated Press put out 135 00:09:09,195 --> 00:09:11,195 Speaker 1: a poll on the first of the month, and the 136 00:09:11,195 --> 00:09:13,195 Speaker 1: first of this month is so long ago that the 137 00:09:13,235 --> 00:09:16,515 Speaker 1: poll offered a choice of Josh Shapiro, Mark Kelly, Andy Bashier, 138 00:09:16,555 --> 00:09:20,875 Speaker 1: and Roy Cooper. No Tim Walls and Cooper had withdrawn 139 00:09:20,915 --> 00:09:23,395 Speaker 1: from consideration two days earlier, and he was still in 140 00:09:23,395 --> 00:09:28,155 Speaker 1: the poll. In the poll, sixty percent of Americans, fifty 141 00:09:28,195 --> 00:09:31,675 Speaker 1: seven percent of Democrats did not know enough about Josh 142 00:09:31,715 --> 00:09:36,395 Speaker 1: Shapiro to have an opinion about him, twenty percent liked him, 143 00:09:36,635 --> 00:09:40,995 Speaker 1: twenty percent didn't like him. Seventy percent of Americans didn't 144 00:09:41,035 --> 00:09:44,475 Speaker 1: know enough about Basher. Half of Americans knew enough about 145 00:09:44,475 --> 00:09:48,235 Speaker 1: Mark Kelly, thirty percent liked him, twenty percent didn't. Half 146 00:09:48,275 --> 00:09:52,115 Speaker 1: of them still didn't know who he was, and he's twins. 147 00:09:53,875 --> 00:09:57,355 Speaker 1: They did. The Associated Press polsters somehow cobbled together enough 148 00:09:57,435 --> 00:10:01,835 Speaker 1: data to offer approval data on Governor Walls and found 149 00:10:01,955 --> 00:10:05,275 Speaker 1: ninety percent of Americans didn't know enough about him. But that, 150 00:10:05,395 --> 00:10:10,115 Speaker 1: of course was before he invented the word weird. All 151 00:10:10,235 --> 00:10:14,795 Speaker 1: the polling of Democrats seemed unanimous. If it was their choice, 152 00:10:14,915 --> 00:10:19,995 Speaker 1: the vice president would be Pete Budajeg. What trumpists and 153 00:10:20,075 --> 00:10:23,115 Speaker 1: of course political media have been looking for, dreaming of 154 00:10:23,835 --> 00:10:31,235 Speaker 1: praying for, is democratic schism over anything Biden leaving the ticket. Oh, 155 00:10:31,355 --> 00:10:34,555 Speaker 1: Democrats and disarrayed. Nope, we all agreed on that Harris 156 00:10:34,595 --> 00:10:37,555 Speaker 1: become his successor. Out. We all agreed on that too. 157 00:10:37,715 --> 00:10:39,795 Speaker 1: Who the vice president is, they'll oh, they'll beat each 158 00:10:39,795 --> 00:10:42,275 Speaker 1: other at Nope. I think we're all going to agree 159 00:10:42,275 --> 00:10:47,035 Speaker 1: on that the schism was over the president seeking reelection. 160 00:10:48,195 --> 00:10:50,595 Speaker 1: The vice presidential choice is unlikely to leave a trail 161 00:10:50,675 --> 00:10:53,675 Speaker 1: of disaffected Democrats vowing to stay home because it isn't 162 00:10:53,715 --> 00:10:59,675 Speaker 1: Tim Kaine. Again and again, Reuter said it was Waltz 163 00:10:59,835 --> 00:11:03,795 Speaker 1: or Shapiro. They and Mark Kelly met with her on Sunday, 164 00:11:04,315 --> 00:11:06,235 Speaker 1: and all all I will do here is again hearken 165 00:11:06,355 --> 00:11:08,915 Speaker 1: back to the eighties. On the night of July sixteenth, 166 00:11:08,995 --> 00:11:12,635 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, it seemed so likely that former President Gerald 167 00:11:12,715 --> 00:11:16,475 Speaker 1: Ford would agree to become Ronald Reagan's running mate that 168 00:11:16,515 --> 00:11:19,755 Speaker 1: a bunch of morning newspapers around the country published the 169 00:11:19,795 --> 00:11:22,075 Speaker 1: story as if it were a done deal, and a 170 00:11:22,155 --> 00:11:24,635 Speaker 1: New York radio station was still going with it the 171 00:11:24,675 --> 00:11:31,915 Speaker 1: next sunrise, hours actor the negotiations had collapsed. Of the 172 00:11:31,955 --> 00:11:37,115 Speaker 1: two supposed finalists, my reaction is, sure, whoever you like, 173 00:11:37,155 --> 00:11:42,635 Speaker 1: Madam Vice President, just write it down somewhere slightly deeper 174 00:11:42,675 --> 00:11:46,275 Speaker 1: analysis points to these questions, how is it that Tim 175 00:11:46,355 --> 00:11:51,955 Speaker 1: Walls reads old and Josh Shapiro reads young when Walls 176 00:11:52,035 --> 00:11:55,075 Speaker 1: is only nine years and seventy six days older than Shapiro, 177 00:11:55,115 --> 00:11:57,955 Speaker 1: and by the way, Mark Kelly is two months older 178 00:11:57,995 --> 00:12:01,995 Speaker 1: than Walls. It's the hair and the glasses. Walls looks 179 00:12:02,035 --> 00:12:03,755 Speaker 1: a little like Rupert Murdock because of the hair in 180 00:12:03,795 --> 00:12:12,675 Speaker 1: the glasses. Solution, get them new classes, problem solved. Of course, 181 00:12:12,675 --> 00:12:15,275 Speaker 1: it's deeper than that. I look at it and wonder 182 00:12:15,275 --> 00:12:18,035 Speaker 1: exactly what Shapiro brings outside of being likely to help 183 00:12:18,115 --> 00:12:22,395 Speaker 1: carry Pennsylvania, which is a lot. Don't underestimate that. But 184 00:12:22,515 --> 00:12:26,235 Speaker 1: she might carry Pennsylvania anyway. You wonder if being Jewish 185 00:12:26,315 --> 00:12:29,795 Speaker 1: still matters today, especially with the would be president's husband 186 00:12:29,795 --> 00:12:33,195 Speaker 1: being Jewish. Then you wonder if we have any idea 187 00:12:33,235 --> 00:12:36,155 Speaker 1: what matters anymore? Given that the Republicans have now run 188 00:12:36,235 --> 00:12:39,795 Speaker 1: three elections in a row, an anti Semitic, anti democracy, 189 00:12:39,915 --> 00:12:45,275 Speaker 1: racist bastard. I will say I didn't get any pop 190 00:12:45,355 --> 00:12:48,235 Speaker 1: out of Kelly, who is married to a friend of mine. 191 00:12:49,115 --> 00:12:52,675 Speaker 1: Walls has already shown signs he could become as unlikely 192 00:12:53,075 --> 00:12:55,395 Speaker 1: a folk hero as we have in this country and 193 00:12:55,555 --> 00:12:58,275 Speaker 1: whatever percentage of the Kamala Harris reminds everybody Trump is 194 00:12:58,315 --> 00:13:01,715 Speaker 1: a crazy old man. Effect that would be given back 195 00:13:02,075 --> 00:13:04,475 Speaker 1: by going with an older white man like Tim Walls 196 00:13:04,555 --> 00:13:07,195 Speaker 1: is mitigated by the fact that unless she goes off 197 00:13:07,195 --> 00:13:10,915 Speaker 1: the board with Buddhage Edge or somebody else, they are 198 00:13:10,995 --> 00:13:14,755 Speaker 1: all older white men. Only Shapiro seems to have it 199 00:13:14,795 --> 00:13:18,995 Speaker 1: more under control. I'm telling you, Tim Walls is five 200 00:13:19,115 --> 00:13:21,435 Speaker 1: years younger than I am. You should be able to 201 00:13:21,435 --> 00:13:26,715 Speaker 1: make sure he cleans up nice. He's already the first 202 00:13:26,715 --> 00:13:30,995 Speaker 1: Democratic politician to stick a label on Trump. That has 203 00:13:31,035 --> 00:13:33,595 Speaker 1: to mean a lot. If it's not the right choice 204 00:13:33,595 --> 00:13:36,515 Speaker 1: for vice president, he's got to be a secretary of 205 00:13:36,675 --> 00:13:41,315 Speaker 1: Memes or something. Obviously, the identity is the key here, 206 00:13:41,355 --> 00:13:43,635 Speaker 1: but to me, almost as important is where the new 207 00:13:43,675 --> 00:13:48,115 Speaker 1: team is going on its opening joint tour. Starting in Philly, Wow, 208 00:13:48,475 --> 00:13:53,315 Speaker 1: no brainer, Wisconsin than Detroit, and finishing in Phoenix in 209 00:13:53,395 --> 00:13:57,155 Speaker 1: Vegas completely logical. But in the middle they're going to Raleigh, 210 00:13:57,155 --> 00:14:02,115 Speaker 1: North Carolina. They're going to Savannah. This buzz stuff is 211 00:14:02,235 --> 00:14:06,275 Speaker 1: for real and it is spectacle And if you need 212 00:14:06,315 --> 00:14:11,835 Speaker 1: any further inspiration, Yes, President Jimmy Carter who a month 213 00:14:11,875 --> 00:14:14,755 Speaker 1: ago was said by his family to have just days left, 214 00:14:15,395 --> 00:14:19,675 Speaker 1: has changed his mind. He has told his son he 215 00:14:19,755 --> 00:14:23,355 Speaker 1: intends to hang on until at least November fifth, so 216 00:14:23,395 --> 00:14:25,835 Speaker 1: he can vote for Kamala Harris for President of the 217 00:14:25,955 --> 00:14:31,435 Speaker 1: United States. Given that, I think you and I can 218 00:14:31,475 --> 00:14:35,275 Speaker 1: get our sorry asses out of bed one more time 219 00:14:35,355 --> 00:14:39,875 Speaker 1: a week and do something more than we are doing now. 220 00:14:40,635 --> 00:14:42,675 Speaker 1: I leave that to you to figure out what the 221 00:14:42,715 --> 00:14:43,435 Speaker 1: hell that is. 222 00:15:03,755 --> 00:15:06,595 Speaker 2: Woman in front of me hit a bear and killed it, 223 00:15:07,715 --> 00:15:13,035 Speaker 2: a young bear. So I pulled over, and i'd picked 224 00:15:13,115 --> 00:15:14,395 Speaker 2: up the bear and put him in the back of 225 00:15:14,395 --> 00:15:16,555 Speaker 2: my van because I was going to skin the bear, 226 00:15:17,195 --> 00:15:20,915 Speaker 2: and it was very good condition, and I was gonna 227 00:15:21,035 --> 00:15:23,475 Speaker 2: and with the meat my refrigerator. I had an old 228 00:15:23,515 --> 00:15:25,435 Speaker 2: bike in my card that somebody'd asked me to get 229 00:15:25,515 --> 00:15:27,075 Speaker 2: rid of it. I said, let's go point the bear 230 00:15:27,075 --> 00:15:28,875 Speaker 2: in the Central Park and we'll make it look like 231 00:15:28,875 --> 00:15:33,755 Speaker 2: you got him by any fun funny for people. So 232 00:15:34,595 --> 00:15:37,315 Speaker 2: everybody thought that's a great idea. So we one and 233 00:15:37,395 --> 00:15:39,915 Speaker 2: did that, and we thought it would be a music 234 00:15:39,995 --> 00:15:44,555 Speaker 2: for whoever found it or something. The next day it 235 00:15:44,595 --> 00:15:49,115 Speaker 2: was like it was on every television station. It was 236 00:15:49,155 --> 00:15:51,595 Speaker 2: a front page of every paper, and I turned on 237 00:15:51,635 --> 00:15:53,915 Speaker 2: the TV and there was like a mile of yellow 238 00:15:53,995 --> 00:15:57,235 Speaker 2: tape and there were twenty odd cards. There were a 239 00:15:57,275 --> 00:16:02,715 Speaker 2: helicopter's lying over it, and I was like, oh my god, what. 240 00:16:02,595 --> 00:16:03,115 Speaker 3: Did I do? 241 00:16:04,155 --> 00:16:06,595 Speaker 1: So now we know why Kennedy got out in front 242 00:16:06,635 --> 00:16:11,395 Speaker 1: of that dead bear cub story, with him telling it 243 00:16:11,475 --> 00:16:15,115 Speaker 1: like it was a funny anecdote to a barely comprehending 244 00:16:15,235 --> 00:16:18,755 Speaker 1: Roseanne Barr, who is in his house for some reason 245 00:16:18,835 --> 00:16:23,275 Speaker 1: as he tells this story. Roseanne blinking at him as 246 00:16:23,315 --> 00:16:25,595 Speaker 1: he tells it, I mean, way to bury the lead, Bob, 247 00:16:25,715 --> 00:16:26,995 Speaker 1: Roseanne is in your house. 248 00:16:27,115 --> 00:16:29,035 Speaker 3: Call the cops. 249 00:16:30,195 --> 00:16:34,835 Speaker 1: Why did Kennedy do that video? First he served Trump. 250 00:16:34,915 --> 00:16:37,755 Speaker 1: He pushed the President of Egypt's bid to bribe Don 251 00:16:37,875 --> 00:16:41,715 Speaker 1: Old Trump with ten million dollars during the twenty sixteen election, 252 00:16:42,115 --> 00:16:45,155 Speaker 1: and then having the DOJ investigation shut down by Bill Barr. 253 00:16:45,155 --> 00:16:47,555 Speaker 1: He pushed that right off the front page. We went 254 00:16:47,555 --> 00:16:51,555 Speaker 1: from bar to bear. In fact, we went from bar 255 00:16:51,795 --> 00:16:56,715 Speaker 1: to bear with Roseanne Barr. Second reason, as they said 256 00:16:56,715 --> 00:17:01,435 Speaker 1: in the movie The American President, there's art. The New 257 00:17:01,515 --> 00:17:04,275 Speaker 1: Yorker did not just have the story of the poor 258 00:17:04,315 --> 00:17:09,155 Speaker 1: Derange changed former environmentalist finding a bear supposedly killed by 259 00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:13,835 Speaker 1: a motorist, taking the body of the bear, deciding to 260 00:17:13,915 --> 00:17:18,755 Speaker 1: skin it and eat it, then getting distracted because he'd 261 00:17:18,795 --> 00:17:23,555 Speaker 1: already planned a day of falconing, as one does, and 262 00:17:23,595 --> 00:17:27,875 Speaker 1: then after the falconing was done, going instead to a 263 00:17:27,875 --> 00:17:31,875 Speaker 1: famous New York steakhouse where they do not serve bear, 264 00:17:32,515 --> 00:17:34,355 Speaker 1: And he could have done the whole joke about do 265 00:17:34,435 --> 00:17:37,755 Speaker 1: you have bear here? Do you serve bear? And they 266 00:17:37,795 --> 00:17:40,035 Speaker 1: could have said no, and he could have said, oh, 267 00:17:40,355 --> 00:17:44,315 Speaker 1: too bad, I have one in the car. So he 268 00:17:44,355 --> 00:17:46,635 Speaker 1: still had the dead bear in his car, and he 269 00:17:46,675 --> 00:17:49,795 Speaker 1: had to dump the bear somewhere, I guess before the 270 00:17:49,835 --> 00:17:53,395 Speaker 1: car started to smell. So he drove to Central Park 271 00:17:54,355 --> 00:17:58,115 Speaker 1: and dumped it there, But he put an old bicycle 272 00:17:58,115 --> 00:17:59,915 Speaker 1: he just happened to have in his car on top 273 00:17:59,955 --> 00:18:02,275 Speaker 1: of it to make it look like the bear had 274 00:18:02,315 --> 00:18:05,995 Speaker 1: been killed by a cyclist. Well, not only did the 275 00:18:06,035 --> 00:18:10,155 Speaker 1: New Yorker have all that, but it also had a 276 00:18:10,235 --> 00:18:14,315 Speaker 1: photo of Bobby Kennedy Junior with his hand in the 277 00:18:14,355 --> 00:18:18,915 Speaker 1: poor dead infant's mouth, pretending the bear was biting him. 278 00:18:20,515 --> 00:18:23,395 Speaker 1: And reports from twenty fourteen have surface that the poor 279 00:18:23,435 --> 00:18:28,315 Speaker 1: bear cub had stab and slash wounds. And oh, by 280 00:18:28,315 --> 00:18:32,235 Speaker 1: the way, the photo of the cub and Bobby Kennedy. 281 00:18:32,395 --> 00:18:39,755 Speaker 1: In the photo, Bobby Kennedy's fly is unzipped. I'll repeat that. 282 00:18:40,715 --> 00:18:50,115 Speaker 1: In the photo, Bobby Kennedy's fly is unzipped. Sometimes you 283 00:18:50,195 --> 00:18:55,715 Speaker 1: eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you. I 284 00:18:55,795 --> 00:18:58,395 Speaker 1: met Bob Kennedy once and I talked to him several 285 00:18:58,435 --> 00:19:01,955 Speaker 1: times and he called me his hero, which was really 286 00:19:01,995 --> 00:19:05,915 Speaker 1: flattering in two thousand and four, now not so much. 287 00:19:07,235 --> 00:19:09,635 Speaker 1: We met on the field before a New York Mets 288 00:19:09,635 --> 00:19:12,435 Speaker 1: game in twenty eleven and he hugged me, and there's 289 00:19:12,475 --> 00:19:14,955 Speaker 1: a photo and I have to say, I know he's 290 00:19:14,955 --> 00:19:17,115 Speaker 1: older than me, but boy, the last thirteen years have 291 00:19:17,195 --> 00:19:22,435 Speaker 1: treated me better than I thought. Don't handle so many 292 00:19:22,515 --> 00:19:25,875 Speaker 1: dead bears, Bob, all right? So the hero part was 293 00:19:25,915 --> 00:19:28,075 Speaker 1: from actor the two thousand and four election, when I 294 00:19:28,075 --> 00:19:31,195 Speaker 1: did a couple of reports on MSNBC questioning what the 295 00:19:31,195 --> 00:19:34,395 Speaker 1: hell happened to the John Kerry vote in Ohio because 296 00:19:34,395 --> 00:19:37,595 Speaker 1: none of the numbers seemed to make any sense. On 297 00:19:37,955 --> 00:19:44,715 Speaker 1: election night, officials in Warren County, which is southern Ohio, 298 00:19:45,235 --> 00:19:51,635 Speaker 1: like Newton Falls, Warren, Ohio, locked down the county administration 299 00:19:51,755 --> 00:19:55,395 Speaker 1: building and threw all the reporters there from monitoring the 300 00:19:55,475 --> 00:20:00,315 Speaker 1: vote count and announced that there was a terrorist threat 301 00:20:00,355 --> 00:20:02,475 Speaker 1: that on a scale of one to ten was a ten, 302 00:20:02,955 --> 00:20:06,235 Speaker 1: claiming the information came from an FBA agent. The FBI 303 00:20:06,355 --> 00:20:09,635 Speaker 1: denied that then and denies it now. But they said 304 00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:11,675 Speaker 1: there was a terrorism threat and everybody had to get 305 00:20:11,675 --> 00:20:13,835 Speaker 1: out and they would just count the votes. Well, nobody 306 00:20:13,875 --> 00:20:17,715 Speaker 1: was watching. Now. This made no sense whatsoever, because Warren 307 00:20:17,835 --> 00:20:20,995 Speaker 1: County was Ohio Territory through and through. People in that 308 00:20:21,035 --> 00:20:24,235 Speaker 1: part of Ohio speak with Southern accents. I knew one 309 00:20:24,275 --> 00:20:26,475 Speaker 1: of them in college, and he said he was from Ohio, 310 00:20:26,515 --> 00:20:28,555 Speaker 1: and I had never heard of anybody in Ohio who 311 00:20:28,595 --> 00:20:31,035 Speaker 1: wasn't from Cleveland. And boy did he surprise. He told 312 00:20:31,115 --> 00:20:34,675 Speaker 1: lot this. I swear to goodness. So Warren County should 313 00:20:34,715 --> 00:20:37,195 Speaker 1: have gone very heavily for George Bush in two thousand 314 00:20:37,235 --> 00:20:40,555 Speaker 1: and four, and it did. And in two thousand only 315 00:20:40,595 --> 00:20:42,715 Speaker 1: twenty eight percent of voters there had gone for Gore, 316 00:20:43,555 --> 00:20:47,115 Speaker 1: and then in two thousand and four twenty eight percent 317 00:20:47,155 --> 00:20:51,715 Speaker 1: went for Kerry. Well, why would there be a suppression. 318 00:20:51,755 --> 00:20:53,995 Speaker 1: There's no evidence of suppression. The numbers look right. Twenty 319 00:20:54,075 --> 00:20:56,635 Speaker 1: eight percent in twenty twenty eight percent two thousand and four, 320 00:20:57,035 --> 00:21:01,555 Speaker 1: except that in two thousand al Gore stopped running TV 321 00:21:01,595 --> 00:21:05,275 Speaker 1: commercials in Ohio many weeks before election day, and he 322 00:21:05,355 --> 00:21:08,275 Speaker 1: had Ralph Nader going against him. In addition to Bush, 323 00:21:08,395 --> 00:21:11,675 Speaker 1: Kerry competed in Ohio to the last, knowing that it 324 00:21:11,715 --> 00:21:14,675 Speaker 1: would probably decide the election, and it did. There was 325 00:21:14,715 --> 00:21:18,555 Speaker 1: no Nator or strong third party candidate. And yet, even 326 00:21:18,635 --> 00:21:24,435 Speaker 1: despite all his additional efforts in Ohio, John Kerry got 327 00:21:24,475 --> 00:21:28,435 Speaker 1: the same percentage of votes that al Gore had. And 328 00:21:28,515 --> 00:21:32,995 Speaker 1: I said, how come? And the phone call came in 329 00:21:33,115 --> 00:21:36,835 Speaker 1: the next day, you are my hero? And it was 330 00:21:36,875 --> 00:21:40,595 Speaker 1: Bob Kennedy Junior. And imagine this, I mean understand, I 331 00:21:40,755 --> 00:21:44,035 Speaker 1: was nine years old when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. 332 00:21:44,355 --> 00:21:47,795 Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated the day my sister was born. 333 00:21:48,795 --> 00:21:51,755 Speaker 1: There really is that kind of visceral family tie to 334 00:21:51,795 --> 00:21:55,515 Speaker 1: that name. And he's telling me I'm his hero because 335 00:21:55,875 --> 00:21:58,515 Speaker 1: I raised that question. Well, I soon found out that 336 00:21:58,635 --> 00:22:02,355 Speaker 1: Bob seemed a little driven by conspiracy theories even twenty 337 00:22:02,435 --> 00:22:06,395 Speaker 1: years ago. But given what happened to his father and 338 00:22:06,475 --> 00:22:09,795 Speaker 1: his uncle and the subsequent you know, fifty years of 339 00:22:09,955 --> 00:22:12,995 Speaker 1: daily new conspiracy theories about either or both of them. 340 00:22:13,195 --> 00:22:15,235 Speaker 1: I kind of let him off the hook about the 341 00:22:15,275 --> 00:22:21,315 Speaker 1: subject of conspiracy theories. Well, I made a huge mistake, because, 342 00:22:21,395 --> 00:22:26,475 Speaker 1: as RFK Junior is discovering right now, the conspiracy theories 343 00:22:26,515 --> 00:22:29,715 Speaker 1: eventually come around and catch you. He's caught. He is 344 00:22:29,835 --> 00:22:34,195 Speaker 1: now caught. He is now caught between a bear and 345 00:22:34,395 --> 00:22:38,035 Speaker 1: New York City. And a picture of himself with a 346 00:22:38,035 --> 00:22:42,915 Speaker 1: bear and with his fly unzipped, caught between a bear 347 00:22:43,395 --> 00:22:48,395 Speaker 1: and New York Cidy, New York. 348 00:22:49,435 --> 00:23:07,595 Speaker 3: Wait a minute, oh, Nancy. 349 00:23:08,715 --> 00:23:14,235 Speaker 4: When you get caught between a bear and New York City. 350 00:23:15,395 --> 00:23:19,835 Speaker 1: Sometimes you eat the bear. Sometimes it eats you. 351 00:23:23,555 --> 00:23:25,635 Speaker 4: If you stab a bear and claim it got hit 352 00:23:25,675 --> 00:23:27,475 Speaker 4: by a bike in New York. 353 00:23:27,435 --> 00:23:35,035 Speaker 5: City, the best that you can do is unzip your fly. 354 00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:40,315 Speaker 5: Thank you, Nancy, fast run like the wind. 355 00:23:45,635 --> 00:23:48,315 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, well, yes, my late pup me 356 00:23:48,435 --> 00:23:51,995 Speaker 1: Nay is one of the finalists at the Animal Medical 357 00:23:52,035 --> 00:23:55,315 Speaker 1: Center Paul Olympics, and you can see video of him 358 00:23:55,395 --> 00:24:00,475 Speaker 1: leaping at their sites at Facebook and Instagram. AMC and 359 00:24:00,755 --> 00:24:04,995 Speaker 1: y on Instagram, AMC Animal Medical Center New York on Instagram. 360 00:24:05,115 --> 00:24:09,155 Speaker 1: Schwartzman Animal Medical Center on Facebook and you can vote, 361 00:24:09,755 --> 00:24:12,355 Speaker 1: I presume for him, but it's freedom of choice here. 362 00:24:12,595 --> 00:24:16,715 Speaker 1: I haven't seen any polling on this. How does MiNet 363 00:24:16,795 --> 00:24:20,795 Speaker 1: fair against Trump? Probably better than he was faring last week. 364 00:24:21,195 --> 00:24:23,635 Speaker 1: In any event, you have to vote today or early tomorrow. 365 00:24:23,675 --> 00:24:26,035 Speaker 1: For the Polympics, and having watched them, I'd have to say, 366 00:24:26,195 --> 00:24:29,635 Speaker 1: there's some very impressive, you know, three legged agility dogs, 367 00:24:29,875 --> 00:24:32,435 Speaker 1: and there's some cats that can jump like seventeen feet 368 00:24:32,475 --> 00:24:35,115 Speaker 1: straight up in the air. I'm very impressed by them. 369 00:24:35,355 --> 00:24:40,395 Speaker 1: Menasior winner. But besides that, there are two different Supreme 370 00:24:40,435 --> 00:24:44,435 Speaker 1: Court justices on the three person worst person's list. And honestly, 371 00:24:45,075 --> 00:24:50,195 Speaker 1: has anybody ever seen Clarence Thomas reading anything or listening 372 00:24:50,235 --> 00:24:52,875 Speaker 1: to the lawyers at the Supreme Court, Because from what 373 00:24:52,915 --> 00:24:55,955 Speaker 1: we know of him publicly, all he has done for 374 00:24:55,995 --> 00:25:00,155 Speaker 1: the last twenty years is accept all expenses paid travel 375 00:25:00,195 --> 00:25:05,955 Speaker 1: and vacations from Harlan Crowe. There's more of them. That's next. 376 00:25:06,035 --> 00:25:06,995 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. 377 00:25:09,635 --> 00:25:35,915 Speaker 6: This is Countdown with Keith Oberman. Oberman, thank you. 378 00:25:36,755 --> 00:25:47,915 Speaker 7: Bob Shepherd as portrayed by Larry David. David still ahead 379 00:25:47,915 --> 00:25:49,795 Speaker 7: of us on this edition of Countdown. No more of 380 00:25:49,835 --> 00:25:55,435 Speaker 7: those impressions. The singing was bad enough. The anniversary is Friday, 381 00:25:55,515 --> 00:25:57,955 Speaker 7: and I am not going to bump Thurber on Friday 382 00:25:57,955 --> 00:26:01,435 Speaker 7: for it. I mean, it's thirty six years now. All 383 00:26:01,515 --> 00:26:04,515 Speaker 7: the principles in the story are pretty damn tired of it, 384 00:26:05,035 --> 00:26:07,475 Speaker 7: although I love the story because it proves you can 385 00:26:07,555 --> 00:26:10,835 Speaker 7: accomplish great things by getting out of the way, by 386 00:26:10,835 --> 00:26:13,115 Speaker 7: doing nothing and just letting everybody else. 387 00:26:12,915 --> 00:26:16,795 Speaker 1: Do all the work for you. I broke the story 388 00:26:16,875 --> 00:26:21,115 Speaker 1: of the trade of Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers 389 00:26:21,155 --> 00:26:24,875 Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Kings as important a moment as 390 00:26:24,955 --> 00:26:28,035 Speaker 1: there has been in the history of the development of 391 00:26:28,075 --> 00:26:32,835 Speaker 1: hockey in this country, particularly anything west of Saint Louis. 392 00:26:33,955 --> 00:26:37,395 Speaker 1: I did it by just answering the phone a couple times. 393 00:26:37,595 --> 00:26:39,715 Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't even have to leave my office 394 00:26:39,835 --> 00:26:44,875 Speaker 1: or anything. The Gretzky Trade of August nineteen eighty eight 395 00:26:44,875 --> 00:26:48,875 Speaker 1: and my absolutely unnecessary role in breaking it, and things 396 00:26:48,915 --> 00:26:52,235 Speaker 1: I promise not to tell next. First, there's still more 397 00:26:52,275 --> 00:26:54,515 Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the 398 00:26:54,515 --> 00:26:57,675 Speaker 1: mis grants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute 399 00:26:57,675 --> 00:27:03,595 Speaker 1: today's wor bisons in the world. The morons worse Neil 400 00:27:03,795 --> 00:27:09,875 Speaker 1: Gorsich of the Supreme Court. Gorsichis on the Biden ethics 401 00:27:09,955 --> 00:27:13,875 Speaker 1: and term limits plan. Mister Gorsch, I hate to call 402 00:27:13,955 --> 00:27:19,075 Speaker 1: him Justice, It would be meant ironically. Justice Gorsich says, 403 00:27:19,555 --> 00:27:21,715 Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into what is now a 404 00:27:21,715 --> 00:27:25,835 Speaker 1: political issue during a presidential election year. I don't think 405 00:27:25,875 --> 00:27:29,475 Speaker 1: that would be helpful. And then he gets into a 406 00:27:29,555 --> 00:27:32,875 Speaker 1: political issue during a presidential election year. He adds, quote, 407 00:27:33,115 --> 00:27:39,755 Speaker 1: I just say, be careful, hey, Justice, which one of 408 00:27:39,795 --> 00:27:43,155 Speaker 1: you perjured yourself in front of the Senate about Roe v. 409 00:27:43,355 --> 00:27:49,315 Speaker 1: Wade gorsicic Biden should be careful. No, you should be careful. 410 00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:53,315 Speaker 1: Remember how Chief Justice Roger B. Tawney ended up when 411 00:27:53,315 --> 00:27:55,875 Speaker 1: everybody decided they weren't going to listen to him anymore 412 00:27:56,355 --> 00:27:59,515 Speaker 1: in a boarding house by himself, counting his fingers and 413 00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:04,635 Speaker 1: toes Worser. This is the Supreme Court edition of the 414 00:28:04,755 --> 00:28:08,835 Speaker 1: program The Silver goes to Justice Clarence Thomas. Now you 415 00:28:08,995 --> 00:28:12,195 Speaker 1: think he would have met his quota of graft and 416 00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:16,555 Speaker 1: corruption and bribetaking. But no, no, no, he hasn't. From 417 00:28:16,635 --> 00:28:20,355 Speaker 1: The New York Times, Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional 418 00:28:20,475 --> 00:28:24,515 Speaker 1: private travel. Has anybody ever seen him at the Supreme Court. 419 00:28:24,915 --> 00:28:26,835 Speaker 1: I mean when Laura Ingram and I went out on 420 00:28:26,875 --> 00:28:29,755 Speaker 1: our one actual date that was not a hostage drama 421 00:28:30,315 --> 00:28:32,115 Speaker 1: where she took me hostage. That was the one in 422 00:28:32,155 --> 00:28:34,915 Speaker 1: New York. The one actual date we went on was 423 00:28:34,955 --> 00:28:37,875 Speaker 1: in Washington, and she took me to the Supreme Court 424 00:28:38,155 --> 00:28:42,355 Speaker 1: and had me sit in Justice Thomas's chair at the 425 00:28:42,395 --> 00:28:46,195 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, at the main room, at the main courting room, 426 00:28:47,235 --> 00:28:50,835 Speaker 1: at the Supremeist of the Supreme Court portions. She had 427 00:28:50,875 --> 00:28:53,635 Speaker 1: me sit there so I can say I put my 428 00:28:53,915 --> 00:28:57,795 Speaker 1: ass in Clarence Thomas's seat and did nothing for this 429 00:28:57,915 --> 00:29:00,915 Speaker 1: country exactly as he would have done. Well, the point 430 00:29:00,955 --> 00:29:03,315 Speaker 1: of my mentioning it now is he wasn't there. Then 431 00:29:03,795 --> 00:29:06,275 Speaker 1: has anybody ever at we've seen him at the Supreme Court. 432 00:29:06,355 --> 00:29:08,075 Speaker 1: It seems to be all he does is drive around 433 00:29:08,075 --> 00:29:11,235 Speaker 1: the world in an RV and get carried places by 434 00:29:11,315 --> 00:29:14,115 Speaker 1: people paying for him. And he doesn't seem to think 435 00:29:14,115 --> 00:29:17,435 Speaker 1: there's anything wrong with this. Billions of dollars worth of 436 00:29:17,475 --> 00:29:20,675 Speaker 1: free travel, all right, billions maybe an exaggeration, but The 437 00:29:20,755 --> 00:29:25,315 Speaker 1: Times reports he failed to publicly disclose private travel provided 438 00:29:25,355 --> 00:29:28,915 Speaker 1: by the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow. Again what does 439 00:29:28,955 --> 00:29:31,955 Speaker 1: he do for a living? Well, I move, I'm involved 440 00:29:31,955 --> 00:29:35,675 Speaker 1: in logistics. What kind of logistics I move? Clarence Thomas 441 00:29:35,675 --> 00:29:39,115 Speaker 1: around the country. A top Democratic senator has said this 442 00:29:39,235 --> 00:29:43,515 Speaker 1: in a letter filed yesterday Customs and Border Protection Records. 443 00:29:44,235 --> 00:29:46,195 Speaker 1: Customs and Border, I mean when he had to go 444 00:29:46,275 --> 00:29:51,555 Speaker 1: through customs in his graft. Are you going to declare anything? Yes, 445 00:29:51,635 --> 00:29:55,595 Speaker 1: I take a bribe here, I'm taking a bribe. Customs 446 00:29:55,675 --> 00:29:59,035 Speaker 1: and Border Protection Records revealed that the Justice and his wife, Virginia, 447 00:29:59,515 --> 00:30:03,235 Speaker 1: took a round trip between Hawaii and New Zealand in 448 00:30:03,275 --> 00:30:08,475 Speaker 1: November twenty ten on mister Crow's private jet. I'm guessing 449 00:30:08,515 --> 00:30:10,875 Speaker 1: that's not a short hop. That's not going from one 450 00:30:10,875 --> 00:30:13,315 Speaker 1: Hawaiian island to the other. And what's the difference it's 451 00:30:13,355 --> 00:30:18,435 Speaker 1: to a foreign country on a private dime. You're declaring 452 00:30:18,595 --> 00:30:22,275 Speaker 1: me think, oh, I'm corrupt as f According to Wyden's letters, 453 00:30:22,355 --> 00:30:24,835 Speaker 1: Senator Ron Wyden, the Democrat of Oregon, one of my 454 00:30:24,875 --> 00:30:28,275 Speaker 1: favorite senators, writing to mister Crow's lawyer demanding that he 455 00:30:28,355 --> 00:30:32,635 Speaker 1: supply more information about the financial relationship between the two men. 456 00:30:34,075 --> 00:30:36,275 Speaker 1: You know what's worse than this? In Republican circles, the 457 00:30:36,275 --> 00:30:40,035 Speaker 1: thing that may actually undo Clarence Thomas. It's not the graft. 458 00:30:40,315 --> 00:30:42,755 Speaker 1: They admire the graft. They all think they're going to 459 00:30:42,795 --> 00:30:45,075 Speaker 1: get a cut of the graft. Their goal is to 460 00:30:45,195 --> 00:30:47,995 Speaker 1: be that way. There's studies done of conservatives who believe 461 00:30:48,235 --> 00:30:52,475 Speaker 1: that their financial situation will someday be everything they've ever wanted. 462 00:30:52,875 --> 00:30:55,715 Speaker 1: Conservatives worth ten thousand dollars are convinced they're going to 463 00:30:55,715 --> 00:30:59,515 Speaker 1: become multi millionaires. That's what the Trump appeal is. They've 464 00:30:59,555 --> 00:31:02,875 Speaker 1: done study after study after study indicating this is literally true. 465 00:31:02,995 --> 00:31:05,635 Speaker 1: This is the way they think all going to win 466 00:31:05,675 --> 00:31:09,435 Speaker 1: the lottery. They're convinced of this. They admire this. Look 467 00:31:09,435 --> 00:31:12,315 Speaker 1: at what this self made man has done. He has 468 00:31:12,355 --> 00:31:15,395 Speaker 1: managed himself into a position of being the most bribed 469 00:31:15,515 --> 00:31:20,115 Speaker 1: man in America, more than more than an usher at 470 00:31:20,115 --> 00:31:22,595 Speaker 1: a ballpark fifty years ago when you could pay him 471 00:31:22,595 --> 00:31:26,275 Speaker 1: fifty cents and get a better seat. You know what's 472 00:31:26,275 --> 00:31:28,195 Speaker 1: going to do him in with the Republicans though not this. 473 00:31:28,595 --> 00:31:32,035 Speaker 1: They're gonna build a statue to him and you know, 474 00:31:32,075 --> 00:31:35,235 Speaker 1: out of gold. What's going to undo him is when 475 00:31:35,275 --> 00:31:38,715 Speaker 1: they all realize that Clarence's wife never had any children. 476 00:31:40,195 --> 00:31:42,515 Speaker 1: So that means, according to the Republicans. They should be 477 00:31:42,555 --> 00:31:45,035 Speaker 1: set adrift on a loose iceberg somewhere. Do I have 478 00:31:45,115 --> 00:31:49,275 Speaker 1: that right? Jd Vance if that is your real name? 479 00:31:50,675 --> 00:31:54,955 Speaker 1: But our winner, the worst e lawn Musk, the whiney 480 00:31:55,075 --> 00:31:59,515 Speaker 1: little b word immigrant son of a You may have 481 00:31:59,715 --> 00:32:04,395 Speaker 1: heard that he responded to violent protests in England stoked 482 00:32:04,395 --> 00:32:08,235 Speaker 1: by the right wing and falsely blamed on immigrants, of 483 00:32:08,275 --> 00:32:11,955 Speaker 1: which Elon Musk is one. In this country and in 484 00:32:12,035 --> 00:32:17,715 Speaker 1: several others. He has written in response to this, civil 485 00:32:17,755 --> 00:32:21,595 Speaker 1: war is inevitable. Now, apart from the fact that he 486 00:32:21,715 --> 00:32:25,075 Speaker 1: owns a website and he is seemingly encouraging civil war 487 00:32:25,195 --> 00:32:28,715 Speaker 1: in the United Kingdom, it turns out that last November 488 00:32:29,115 --> 00:32:32,875 Speaker 1: Elon Musk responded to another one of these money idiots 489 00:32:32,915 --> 00:32:38,435 Speaker 1: on Twitter zero Hedge by answering something that he posted 490 00:32:38,435 --> 00:32:42,435 Speaker 1: on November first of last year, civil war is brewing. 491 00:32:43,035 --> 00:32:46,635 Speaker 1: On the thirteenth of last November to Radio Genoa, Europe 492 00:32:46,635 --> 00:32:50,315 Speaker 1: appears to be headed for civil war. On October twentieth, 493 00:32:50,355 --> 00:32:52,955 Speaker 1: he wrote Europe is sted for civil war? Something else 494 00:32:52,995 --> 00:32:56,795 Speaker 1: like that on October fourteenth last year, let's see civil 495 00:32:56,835 --> 00:33:01,595 Speaker 1: war is brewing? November one, if corrupt trends continue, he 496 00:33:01,635 --> 00:33:04,675 Speaker 1: wrote to Douglas K. Murray on the tenth of October 497 00:33:04,795 --> 00:33:10,315 Speaker 1: last year, civil war in Europe is inevitable, among other things. 498 00:33:11,195 --> 00:33:14,115 Speaker 1: Elon seems to be wrong a lot on this one topic. 499 00:33:14,195 --> 00:33:16,435 Speaker 1: But that's not gonna stop him. He's gonna keep writing 500 00:33:16,435 --> 00:33:19,475 Speaker 1: that civil war is inevitable, even though it clearly is not. 501 00:33:20,515 --> 00:33:25,715 Speaker 1: It's almost We have what five examples, six examples here? 502 00:33:25,795 --> 00:33:28,315 Speaker 1: God knows how many more we all have lives to 503 00:33:28,355 --> 00:33:30,955 Speaker 1: live on like this pasty idiot. Well he has to 504 00:33:30,955 --> 00:33:33,275 Speaker 1: worry about is if he gets his ozempic in on time. 505 00:33:34,715 --> 00:33:37,875 Speaker 1: How many times has he claimed this as if he 506 00:33:38,075 --> 00:33:41,195 Speaker 1: wanted civil wars, if there were money in civil war? 507 00:33:41,275 --> 00:33:45,835 Speaker 1: Well it probably is, Elon. How has he not o 508 00:33:46,035 --> 00:33:52,715 Speaker 1: deed yet? Musk civil war? My ass two days worst 509 00:33:52,915 --> 00:34:06,115 Speaker 1: person and the world. The phone rang in my office 510 00:34:06,115 --> 00:34:09,555 Speaker 1: at Channel five in La I am a viewer. I 511 00:34:09,635 --> 00:34:12,755 Speaker 1: took a deep breath. You never knew where a call 512 00:34:12,835 --> 00:34:15,595 Speaker 1: that started like that was going to end up. I 513 00:34:15,715 --> 00:34:18,035 Speaker 1: just wanted you to know. I was out golfing at 514 00:34:18,075 --> 00:34:21,515 Speaker 1: Riviera at the Riviera Club this afternoon, and Bruce McNall, 515 00:34:21,915 --> 00:34:24,195 Speaker 1: the owner of the Kings, well he just walked through 516 00:34:24,235 --> 00:34:26,235 Speaker 1: the locker room saying, hey, guys, if you want to 517 00:34:26,235 --> 00:34:29,435 Speaker 1: buy your season Kings tickets, do it now. I just 518 00:34:29,475 --> 00:34:31,555 Speaker 1: traded for Wayne Gretzky. The price is going to go 519 00:34:31,635 --> 00:34:36,795 Speaker 1: up next week. To be polite to the viewer, I 520 00:34:36,835 --> 00:34:39,955 Speaker 1: asked a few questions, but frankly, the story was pretty stupid. 521 00:34:40,355 --> 00:34:42,635 Speaker 1: This was the second week of August nineteen eighty eight, 522 00:34:42,675 --> 00:34:44,355 Speaker 1: and there was a lot of talk that the Edmonton 523 00:34:44,395 --> 00:34:47,755 Speaker 1: Oilers were going to trade Wayne Gretzky, the most famous 524 00:34:47,755 --> 00:34:50,395 Speaker 1: player in hockey, and there was nearly as much talk 525 00:34:50,475 --> 00:34:52,595 Speaker 1: that that trade would send him to use in La. 526 00:34:53,355 --> 00:34:57,875 Speaker 1: But the owner of the Kings just telling passers by 527 00:34:58,395 --> 00:35:01,995 Speaker 1: at random in a golf clubhouse that he had just 528 00:35:02,115 --> 00:35:08,035 Speaker 1: made the trade. I was suspicious that I was being pranked. 529 00:35:09,155 --> 00:35:12,155 Speaker 1: Fifteen minutes later, my phone rang again. Hi, I'm a 530 00:35:12,155 --> 00:35:14,515 Speaker 1: big fan of yours and I watch every night. Here 531 00:35:14,555 --> 00:35:16,875 Speaker 1: we go again. I was just having lunch with a 532 00:35:16,915 --> 00:35:18,635 Speaker 1: friend of mine out here at the golf course in 533 00:35:18,715 --> 00:35:22,635 Speaker 1: bel Air, and like an hour later, freaking Bruce McNall 534 00:35:22,675 --> 00:35:25,475 Speaker 1: shows up in the dining room and asks for everybody's attention, 535 00:35:25,875 --> 00:35:28,555 Speaker 1: and he says he's just completed the deal for Wayne Gretzky, 536 00:35:28,635 --> 00:35:32,955 Speaker 1: and now I was beginning to get actually worried. I 537 00:35:33,075 --> 00:35:35,555 Speaker 1: was a lame duck as the sports director of Channel 538 00:35:35,595 --> 00:35:37,635 Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles, and for months there had been 539 00:35:37,715 --> 00:35:40,435 Speaker 1: rumors that I was moving down the street to Channel 540 00:35:40,475 --> 00:35:43,515 Speaker 1: two in Los Angeles. There had been these rumors mostly 541 00:35:43,595 --> 00:35:46,795 Speaker 1: because I was moving down the street to Channel two. 542 00:35:47,195 --> 00:35:49,795 Speaker 1: The deal had been done months earlier. We were going 543 00:35:49,835 --> 00:35:52,715 Speaker 1: to announce it that week. In fact, as these two 544 00:35:52,755 --> 00:35:55,955 Speaker 1: guys called in, I had actually been busily packing up 545 00:35:55,995 --> 00:36:00,035 Speaker 1: my Channel five office. My thought now was that the 546 00:36:00,075 --> 00:36:03,715 Speaker 1: sportscaster at the local NBC station, who had a bit 547 00:36:03,755 --> 00:36:07,915 Speaker 1: of a substance problem and a nasty temper and a 548 00:36:07,955 --> 00:36:09,915 Speaker 1: real dislike for the fact that I was nearly as 549 00:36:09,915 --> 00:36:13,235 Speaker 1: popular as he was, was setting me up. I had 550 00:36:13,315 --> 00:36:16,035 Speaker 1: once managed to mislead him into thinking we were about 551 00:36:16,075 --> 00:36:18,875 Speaker 1: to break a story about a big LA football trade. 552 00:36:19,395 --> 00:36:21,595 Speaker 1: There was no breaking story because there was no trade, 553 00:36:21,835 --> 00:36:24,875 Speaker 1: and he had actually mentioned it on the air, having 554 00:36:24,995 --> 00:36:27,915 Speaker 1: clearly stolen it from me because I was the one 555 00:36:27,955 --> 00:36:30,675 Speaker 1: who had made it up. And oh was he furious 556 00:36:30,755 --> 00:36:33,715 Speaker 1: at me for all I knew he wanted to embarrass me. 557 00:36:33,795 --> 00:36:36,835 Speaker 1: Three weeks before I moved into direct competition with him 558 00:36:36,835 --> 00:36:41,075 Speaker 1: at five, six, and eleven. This August eighth, nineteen eighty 559 00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:43,195 Speaker 1: eight was in fact my first day back after I 560 00:36:43,235 --> 00:36:45,835 Speaker 1: had burned all my Channel five vacation time, and for 561 00:36:45,915 --> 00:36:48,995 Speaker 1: all I knew, this guy at NBC had been having 562 00:36:49,075 --> 00:36:51,275 Speaker 1: his staffers call me for a week with made up 563 00:36:51,315 --> 00:36:54,515 Speaker 1: sightings of McNall confirming a Gretzky trade that frankly, I 564 00:36:54,595 --> 00:36:57,595 Speaker 1: never believed was going to happen. I mean not to 565 00:36:57,635 --> 00:37:00,315 Speaker 1: get two side tracked here. But one day my phone 566 00:37:00,395 --> 00:37:02,955 Speaker 1: rang and it was a kid who said, Hi, mister Oelberman. 567 00:37:03,155 --> 00:37:05,075 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I'm a final as to be an 568 00:37:05,115 --> 00:37:09,035 Speaker 1: intern here Channel four for Fred Rogan, and mister Rogan 569 00:37:09,115 --> 00:37:11,475 Speaker 1: says I can have the spot, but only if I 570 00:37:11,555 --> 00:37:15,195 Speaker 1: call you up right now and say I'm sorry. If 571 00:37:15,235 --> 00:37:16,715 Speaker 1: I call you up and I tell you to go 572 00:37:16,915 --> 00:37:21,075 Speaker 1: f yourself, the kid did not say f To his credit, 573 00:37:21,515 --> 00:37:25,555 Speaker 1: he used his real name, Bill Weir. He later became 574 00:37:25,595 --> 00:37:28,675 Speaker 1: a sportscaster for the third Network station in LA, then 575 00:37:28,715 --> 00:37:31,875 Speaker 1: a correspondent for ABC and now CNN, and I have 576 00:37:32,035 --> 00:37:35,475 Speaker 1: not let a year go by since without reminding him 577 00:37:35,555 --> 00:37:40,875 Speaker 1: of his f yourself internship phone call. He said, life 578 00:37:40,875 --> 00:37:42,955 Speaker 1: paid him back by making him work with the guy 579 00:37:42,995 --> 00:37:47,155 Speaker 1: for several months. Anyway, back to Gretzky night. Two supposed 580 00:37:47,195 --> 00:37:49,835 Speaker 1: listeners have called to say that Bruce McNall, the owner 581 00:37:49,835 --> 00:37:53,795 Speaker 1: of the La Kings, is apparently trapesing through golf locker 582 00:37:53,875 --> 00:37:56,435 Speaker 1: rooms and dining rooms at country clubs to tell them 583 00:37:56,555 --> 00:37:58,915 Speaker 1: he has completed a trade for the babe Ruth of hockey, 584 00:37:58,915 --> 00:38:02,555 Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky. And they're calling me because they like me. 585 00:38:03,315 --> 00:38:08,515 Speaker 1: I'm suspicious. And now the phone rings again. This guy 586 00:38:08,675 --> 00:38:12,275 Speaker 1: was playing golf at the La country Club. Same story. McNall, 587 00:38:12,515 --> 00:38:16,115 Speaker 1: buy your Kams tickets. Now, I just got Kretzky. The 588 00:38:16,235 --> 00:38:18,515 Speaker 1: next caller had been it yet a fourth club, I 589 00:38:18,515 --> 00:38:21,675 Speaker 1: think Wilshire or something. If this was a prankett was 590 00:38:21,715 --> 00:38:26,075 Speaker 1: a big one, and bluntly I had begun to admire it. 591 00:38:26,115 --> 00:38:29,835 Speaker 1: Finally came a fifth call. You don't know me, but 592 00:38:30,115 --> 00:38:32,395 Speaker 1: I watch you every night. I stumbled onto a story. 593 00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:35,035 Speaker 1: I think you want to run tonight. I said, which 594 00:38:35,075 --> 00:38:38,075 Speaker 1: golf course were you at? And he said, excuse me. 595 00:38:38,635 --> 00:38:41,035 Speaker 1: I was in my office all day and so was 596 00:38:41,075 --> 00:38:44,515 Speaker 1: my missus. She's on the phone with me. She works 597 00:38:44,515 --> 00:38:48,875 Speaker 1: for Bruce McNall. The Kings. This time, I grabbed a pencil, Honey, 598 00:38:48,875 --> 00:38:50,915 Speaker 1: why don't you take it from here? And she did. 599 00:38:51,435 --> 00:38:53,835 Speaker 1: She worked in the finance office and she had, literally, 600 00:38:54,315 --> 00:38:57,115 Speaker 1: she said, just made out a check for fifteen million 601 00:38:57,155 --> 00:38:59,875 Speaker 1: dollars to the owner of the Edmonton Oilers, Peter Pocklington. 602 00:39:00,515 --> 00:39:03,235 Speaker 1: She said, and the note memo where you write what 603 00:39:03,275 --> 00:39:07,275 Speaker 1: it's for, I was told to put in Wayne Gretzky. 604 00:39:08,195 --> 00:39:12,275 Speaker 1: She also had seen the trade contract identified the players 605 00:39:12,275 --> 00:39:14,235 Speaker 1: the Kings were going to give up with the fifteen 606 00:39:14,275 --> 00:39:17,675 Speaker 1: million to get Gretzky. They were Jimmy Carson and Martin Zellnah. 607 00:39:18,115 --> 00:39:20,555 Speaker 1: There were also draft choices, but she didn't know or 608 00:39:20,675 --> 00:39:25,275 Speaker 1: didn't remember the specifics of which ones. Now, breathless, I 609 00:39:25,315 --> 00:39:27,115 Speaker 1: asked her if I could call her back through the 610 00:39:27,155 --> 00:39:30,435 Speaker 1: switchboard of the LA Forum where the Kings and McNall's 611 00:39:30,475 --> 00:39:34,075 Speaker 1: offices were, just to confirm she was who she said 612 00:39:34,115 --> 00:39:37,515 Speaker 1: she was. She said, I could, I did, she was. 613 00:39:38,315 --> 00:39:39,955 Speaker 1: I believe. In fact, she turned out to be the 614 00:39:39,955 --> 00:39:42,155 Speaker 1: only person on the McNall financial team that did not 615 00:39:42,235 --> 00:39:45,555 Speaker 1: get charged with something. So now I went in to 616 00:39:45,555 --> 00:39:47,755 Speaker 1: talk to my news director and to the producer of 617 00:39:47,795 --> 00:39:50,355 Speaker 1: our newscast. We were not on until ten PM. It 618 00:39:50,395 --> 00:39:53,915 Speaker 1: was now about seven. They were very excited, and they 619 00:39:53,955 --> 00:39:56,475 Speaker 1: said that given that I had exact details from a 620 00:39:56,555 --> 00:39:59,515 Speaker 1: King's source, plus the four witnesses to the owner of 621 00:39:59,555 --> 00:40:02,835 Speaker 1: the team shooting off his big bazoo at every golf 622 00:40:02,875 --> 00:40:05,915 Speaker 1: course he could reach that we should run it, and 623 00:40:05,915 --> 00:40:08,315 Speaker 1: that we should run it as the lead news story 624 00:40:08,395 --> 00:40:11,115 Speaker 1: right at the start of the newscast that night, which 625 00:40:11,195 --> 00:40:15,955 Speaker 1: we did. The Kings would not confirm it, obviously, but 626 00:40:16,035 --> 00:40:17,795 Speaker 1: as soon as I got off the air with my 627 00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:20,515 Speaker 1: sports cast the second time I reported this story, a 628 00:40:20,595 --> 00:40:23,195 Speaker 1: reporter from the Associated Press was on the phone asking 629 00:40:23,195 --> 00:40:26,315 Speaker 1: me to read him my script, which he then quoted 630 00:40:26,755 --> 00:40:30,555 Speaker 1: word for word and put out on their sports wire. 631 00:40:30,915 --> 00:40:33,355 Speaker 1: It was on the back page of the New York Post. 632 00:40:33,435 --> 00:40:36,235 Speaker 1: The next day. My friends called me from New York 633 00:40:36,275 --> 00:40:38,795 Speaker 1: to say, hey, your sports cast is on the back 634 00:40:38,835 --> 00:40:40,675 Speaker 1: page of the New York Post along with this big 635 00:40:40,715 --> 00:40:44,955 Speaker 1: picture of Wayne Gretzky. The leak caused the Kings to 636 00:40:45,035 --> 00:40:47,755 Speaker 1: move up the announcement of the deal from their original plan, 637 00:40:47,835 --> 00:40:51,235 Speaker 1: which was Thursday the eleventh, to the next night, Tuesday 638 00:40:51,275 --> 00:40:54,315 Speaker 1: the ninth, A King's vice president told me at the 639 00:40:54,315 --> 00:40:57,795 Speaker 1: press conference that the Oilers were enraged because they had 640 00:40:57,835 --> 00:41:01,435 Speaker 1: wanted to hold off until the eleventh, because the deadline 641 00:41:01,435 --> 00:41:04,475 Speaker 1: for their season ticket holders to get their deposits back 642 00:41:04,875 --> 00:41:08,235 Speaker 1: were Wednesday the tenth. The Kings were nice enough to 643 00:41:08,315 --> 00:41:11,235 Speaker 1: let me of all the TV guys interview Gretzky first Live, 644 00:41:11,315 --> 00:41:13,995 Speaker 1: and I congratulated Wayne on the move, and he actually 645 00:41:14,075 --> 00:41:16,075 Speaker 1: congratulated me on the scoop, and I said I didn't 646 00:41:16,155 --> 00:41:18,675 Speaker 1: do anything but answer the phone, and he thought about 647 00:41:18,675 --> 00:41:20,955 Speaker 1: it for a second and said pretty much the same 648 00:41:20,995 --> 00:41:24,515 Speaker 1: for me, and we've been friendly ever since. But the 649 00:41:24,635 --> 00:41:27,715 Speaker 1: laziest scoop of all time did eventually come back with 650 00:41:27,795 --> 00:41:31,515 Speaker 1: a sting for me and some payback. A year later, 651 00:41:31,555 --> 00:41:35,035 Speaker 1: we all submitted our best stories for consideration for the 652 00:41:35,075 --> 00:41:38,475 Speaker 1: local Emmy for Best TV Sports Reporting for the calendar 653 00:41:38,555 --> 00:41:44,235 Speaker 1: year nineteen eighty eight. I submitted Surprise, Surprise, the Gretzky scoop. 654 00:41:44,715 --> 00:41:47,475 Speaker 1: The Emmys were always judged by a committee of television 655 00:41:47,475 --> 00:41:49,635 Speaker 1: types from a different city, so he didn't have that 656 00:41:49,955 --> 00:41:53,515 Speaker 1: home La Bias and the guy from NBC, who I 657 00:41:53,555 --> 00:41:56,395 Speaker 1: had first thought was pranking me about the Gretzky story, 658 00:41:56,435 --> 00:41:59,515 Speaker 1: had somehow found out that the Emmys for nineteen eighty 659 00:41:59,555 --> 00:42:02,995 Speaker 1: eight would be judged in nineteen eighty nine in Ohio. 660 00:42:03,035 --> 00:42:07,515 Speaker 1: In Columbus, Ohio, I think, so he managed to get 661 00:42:07,555 --> 00:42:11,115 Speaker 1: an interview with Morgana the Kissing Bandit, who was this 662 00:42:11,275 --> 00:42:14,755 Speaker 1: scantily clad, buxome woman you may remember, who in the 663 00:42:14,795 --> 00:42:17,355 Speaker 1: old days of innocence, used to bribe her way onto 664 00:42:17,395 --> 00:42:20,835 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball fields, then bounce out onto the plate 665 00:42:21,075 --> 00:42:23,555 Speaker 1: or the mound, and she'd go and kiss stars like 666 00:42:23,595 --> 00:42:29,795 Speaker 1: George Brent and Nolan Ryan during games. Morgana MORGANA. Roberts 667 00:42:30,235 --> 00:42:35,115 Speaker 1: lived near Columbus, Ohio, so sure enough, at the Emmys 668 00:42:35,155 --> 00:42:37,515 Speaker 1: the next year, my exclusive report of the trade of 669 00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:40,595 Speaker 1: Hockey's greatest player, Wayne Gretzky was one of the finalists 670 00:42:40,635 --> 00:42:44,675 Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Best TV Sports Reporting Emmy. But 671 00:42:44,795 --> 00:42:47,195 Speaker 1: in the ceremony, and it was at some old Landmark 672 00:42:47,235 --> 00:42:50,395 Speaker 1: hotel in Pasadena, they showed clips of all the pieces 673 00:42:50,395 --> 00:42:52,755 Speaker 1: that were finalists and then announced that the winner was 674 00:42:53,915 --> 00:42:59,955 Speaker 1: Fred Rogan KNBC. For being chased by Morgana the Kissing Bandit, 675 00:43:01,795 --> 00:43:06,275 Speaker 1: my agent stood up and bowed my girlfriend, punched me 676 00:43:06,355 --> 00:43:08,715 Speaker 1: in the arm and said let's get out of here 677 00:43:08,755 --> 00:43:26,915 Speaker 1: and go drinking. We left every time I've seen Wayne 678 00:43:26,915 --> 00:43:30,555 Speaker 1: Gretzky since that day, and they let me do the 679 00:43:30,555 --> 00:43:33,795 Speaker 1: first TV interview with him live on LA Television, and 680 00:43:33,835 --> 00:43:36,435 Speaker 1: then they all laughed about how the oilers got stuck 681 00:43:36,475 --> 00:43:40,275 Speaker 1: with all those returned season ticket deposits because I broke 682 00:43:40,315 --> 00:43:44,035 Speaker 1: the story prematurely. Every time I've seen Wayne since then, 683 00:43:44,195 --> 00:43:46,875 Speaker 1: he's given me kind of a dead fish look, like 684 00:43:46,955 --> 00:43:51,595 Speaker 1: I screwed up some plans. But interestingly, missus Wayne the 685 00:43:51,635 --> 00:43:56,275 Speaker 1: Great Janet Jones just looked at me and went smiled 686 00:43:56,315 --> 00:43:59,875 Speaker 1: prettily and went thanks like that. It was really sweet. 687 00:44:00,595 --> 00:44:02,395 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 688 00:44:02,395 --> 00:44:05,035 Speaker 1: you for listening. Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel, musical 689 00:44:05,035 --> 00:44:08,635 Speaker 1: directors of Countdown, arranged, produced and performed most of our music. 690 00:44:09,035 --> 00:44:12,315 Speaker 1: Mister Chanelle handled the orchestration in keyboards, Mister Ray was 691 00:44:12,355 --> 00:44:14,995 Speaker 1: on the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced by 692 00:44:14,995 --> 00:44:18,435 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers, and they can correctly and truthfully say they 693 00:44:18,435 --> 00:44:21,755 Speaker 1: had nothing to do with my singing. Our satirical and 694 00:44:21,795 --> 00:44:25,195 Speaker 1: pithy musical comments, however, are by the best baseball stadium 695 00:44:25,235 --> 00:44:27,955 Speaker 1: or agaist ever, Nancy Faust, who has stepped into the 696 00:44:27,955 --> 00:44:30,995 Speaker 1: world of composition for the first time. She was the 697 00:44:31,035 --> 00:44:35,355 Speaker 1: one who suggested that song. So thank you, Nancy and Dress. 698 00:44:35,355 --> 00:44:39,675 Speaker 1: Address all of your letters of complaint to Nancy care 699 00:44:39,715 --> 00:44:42,075 Speaker 1: of care of me. I guess the sports music is 700 00:44:42,115 --> 00:44:45,555 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, 701 00:44:45,595 --> 00:44:49,475 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN Inc. We haven't played the sports music 702 00:44:49,515 --> 00:44:52,115 Speaker 1: in so long. Hold on a second. You know what 703 00:44:52,155 --> 00:44:54,595 Speaker 1: I should do right now? I have control here. I 704 00:44:54,595 --> 00:44:57,035 Speaker 1: should just play the sports music so that you remember 705 00:44:57,435 --> 00:45:00,555 Speaker 1: what on earth the sports music sounds like. See if 706 00:45:00,595 --> 00:45:02,755 Speaker 1: I could still find it here on the control panel. 707 00:45:02,835 --> 00:45:05,635 Speaker 1: It's got to be here, somewhere, oh here. It is 708 00:45:11,635 --> 00:45:12,155 Speaker 1: pretty good. 709 00:45:12,235 --> 00:45:18,835 Speaker 7: Huh Yeah. 710 00:45:18,835 --> 00:45:21,395 Speaker 1: I suggested they use that on ESPN two all those 711 00:45:21,475 --> 00:45:25,755 Speaker 1: years ago. It was produced by ESPN two and appears 712 00:45:25,755 --> 00:45:28,555 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN Inc. And it was written by Mitch 713 00:45:28,635 --> 00:45:31,155 Speaker 1: Warren Davis, a lovely man I've never met, but he 714 00:45:31,275 --> 00:45:34,075 Speaker 1: ray he did that song. That's based on a bongo 715 00:45:34,195 --> 00:45:37,995 Speaker 1: drum song that played in Ken Burns's last addition to 716 00:45:38,075 --> 00:45:42,315 Speaker 1: the documentary about Baseball. I know you're not listening anymore, 717 00:45:42,355 --> 00:45:44,475 Speaker 1: so I can just keep talking about this. How about 718 00:45:44,475 --> 00:45:48,355 Speaker 1: we restrike the music for the uh for the outo 719 00:45:48,515 --> 00:45:53,915 Speaker 1: we call it the the outro music there it is, 720 00:45:54,555 --> 00:45:59,835 Speaker 1: as it was saying, other music arranged and performed by 721 00:45:59,875 --> 00:46:03,195 Speaker 1: the group No horns allowed. They have been so pleased 722 00:46:03,195 --> 00:46:05,915 Speaker 1: by their association with this pro that they broke up 723 00:46:05,955 --> 00:46:08,795 Speaker 1: as a crew. My announcer today was my friend Larry 724 00:46:08,875 --> 00:46:11,475 Speaker 1: David doing his impression Bob Sheppard, the late announcer at 725 00:46:11,555 --> 00:46:16,435 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. Everything else was pretty much my fault. This 726 00:46:16,595 --> 00:46:20,555 Speaker 1: is my actual Bob Sheppard impression from fifty years ago, 727 00:46:20,875 --> 00:46:23,515 Speaker 1: when an outfielder named Bernie Carbo played for the Boston 728 00:46:23,555 --> 00:46:26,675 Speaker 1: Red Sox and Bob Shepard did two seasons announcing at 729 00:46:26,715 --> 00:46:29,315 Speaker 1: Shay Stadium, the home of the Mets, the temporary home 730 00:46:29,315 --> 00:46:32,315 Speaker 1: of the New York Yankees, and leading off for the 731 00:46:32,355 --> 00:46:45,075 Speaker 1: Red Sox number one Bernie Cobble number one. My announcer 732 00:46:45,115 --> 00:46:46,915 Speaker 1: today was my friend Larry David, and everything else is 733 00:46:46,955 --> 00:46:49,315 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the ninety 734 00:46:49,395 --> 00:46:53,755 Speaker 1: second day until the twenty twenty four presidential election. They 735 00:46:53,795 --> 00:46:57,035 Speaker 1: three hundred and seventh day since convicted felon Donald Trump's 736 00:46:57,035 --> 00:47:00,035 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 737 00:47:00,155 --> 00:47:04,275 Speaker 1: United States use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing. Use the 738 00:47:04,315 --> 00:47:07,995 Speaker 1: mental health system. You've got it. President Biden used presidential 739 00:47:07,995 --> 00:47:12,755 Speaker 1: immunity to stop him from doing it again. While we 740 00:47:12,995 --> 00:47:21,035 Speaker 1: still can, well you still can. And also anti Semitic, 741 00:47:21,115 --> 00:47:25,395 Speaker 1: anti immigration, nut job Republicans, please stop shooting at Trump. 742 00:47:26,195 --> 00:47:28,875 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin says the news 743 00:47:28,915 --> 00:47:32,395 Speaker 1: requires till then. I'm Keith Overman. Good morning, good afternoon, 744 00:47:32,395 --> 00:47:50,195 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. One last air it out. 745 00:47:58,595 --> 00:48:02,515 Speaker 4: When you get caught between a bear and New York Sea, 746 00:48:05,195 --> 00:48:09,915 Speaker 4: sometimes you eat the bear. Sometimes it eats you. Do 747 00:48:13,395 --> 00:48:15,435 Speaker 4: if you stab a bear and claim it got hit 748 00:48:15,515 --> 00:48:21,435 Speaker 4: by a bike in New York City, the best that 749 00:48:21,595 --> 00:48:24,915 Speaker 4: you can do is unsimp your fly. 750 00:48:27,395 --> 00:48:28,955 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Nancy. 751 00:48:29,035 --> 00:48:30,515 Speaker 4: Fast Run Like the Wind. 752 00:48:31,035 --> 00:48:35,035 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 753 00:48:35,195 --> 00:48:40,115 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 754 00:48:40,355 --> 00:48:42,315 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.