1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:19,755 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:19,875 --> 00:00:25,395 Speaker 1: new whole question was simple. It had to be. It was, 3 00:00:25,555 --> 00:00:29,035 Speaker 1: after all, meant for Trump voters. We're interested in how 4 00:00:29,075 --> 00:00:32,035 Speaker 1: you describe where you feel you get information that is 5 00:00:32,115 --> 00:00:35,435 Speaker 1: true for each of these general sources. Do you feel 6 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:40,435 Speaker 1: what they tell you generally is true? Trump voters answers, 7 00:00:41,155 --> 00:00:43,835 Speaker 1: sixty three percent said they felt what friends and family 8 00:00:43,875 --> 00:00:47,555 Speaker 1: told them is true. Fifty six percent said conservative media 9 00:00:47,635 --> 00:00:51,435 Speaker 1: figures tell them what's true, forty two percent said religious 10 00:00:51,555 --> 00:00:59,795 Speaker 1: leaders do, and seventy one percent said Trump tells them 11 00:01:00,115 --> 00:01:09,195 Speaker 1: what's true. It's a cult. It's an unambiguous, inescapable stranglehold cult. 12 00:01:09,395 --> 00:01:12,155 Speaker 1: They believe Trump more than they believe their own families 13 00:01:12,955 --> 00:01:17,195 Speaker 1: or believe Tucker Carlson or those nice pastors Robert Jefferson, 14 00:01:17,315 --> 00:01:21,835 Speaker 1: PAULA White Trump seventy one percent. And that doesn't mean 15 00:01:22,355 --> 00:01:25,435 Speaker 1: only seventy one percent of them believe Trump is telling 16 00:01:25,435 --> 00:01:28,035 Speaker 1: them the truth, or that they think Trump is only 17 00:01:28,075 --> 00:01:30,315 Speaker 1: telling the truth seventy one percent of the time, those 18 00:01:30,395 --> 00:01:34,715 Speaker 1: answers could easily approach one hundred percent. This is who 19 00:01:34,795 --> 00:01:39,835 Speaker 1: they trust most for the truth. You don't want to 20 00:01:39,995 --> 00:01:44,955 Speaker 1: know where medical scientists and corporate leaders and social media influencers. 21 00:01:45,115 --> 00:01:48,835 Speaker 1: Finished it is some comfort I suppose that among not 22 00:01:49,035 --> 00:01:51,995 Speaker 1: the Trump voters in this new CBS poll, but in 23 00:01:52,035 --> 00:01:56,995 Speaker 1: the likely Republican primary voters, President Biden is still slightly 24 00:01:57,035 --> 00:02:02,115 Speaker 1: ahead of the last place liberal media figures ten percent 25 00:02:02,155 --> 00:02:08,475 Speaker 1: to eight. It's a cult. It is a cult, as 26 00:02:08,515 --> 00:02:11,715 Speaker 1: surely as Jim Jones and Johnstown were a cult, and 27 00:02:11,835 --> 00:02:15,315 Speaker 1: Marshall Applewhite and Heaven's Gate were a cult, and Hitler 28 00:02:15,355 --> 00:02:18,155 Speaker 1: and his Nazis and Sodom Hussein and the Bath Party 29 00:02:18,635 --> 00:02:21,435 Speaker 1: Up is down and lying is truth, and the leader 30 00:02:21,555 --> 00:02:24,755 Speaker 1: is the oracle, and in a time of uncontrolled conspiracy theories, 31 00:02:24,795 --> 00:02:27,715 Speaker 1: it's all that much worse. And it is not a 32 00:02:27,755 --> 00:02:30,915 Speaker 1: coincidence that even in a time when religion and I 33 00:02:30,995 --> 00:02:35,395 Speaker 1: mean religion incorporated as opposed to spirituality or faith, when 34 00:02:35,555 --> 00:02:39,275 Speaker 1: religion is more intertwined than ever with politics, Trump is 35 00:02:39,315 --> 00:02:43,675 Speaker 1: still trusted for truth forty eight percent more often than 36 00:02:43,675 --> 00:02:48,755 Speaker 1: those religious leaders. He is the religious leader in this cult. 37 00:02:48,835 --> 00:02:51,475 Speaker 1: And the key ingredient to accepting a cult leader or 38 00:02:51,515 --> 00:02:54,195 Speaker 1: a religious leader, or both is to pretend he has 39 00:02:54,235 --> 00:02:57,435 Speaker 1: absolved himself of his sins and therefore will and can 40 00:02:57,595 --> 00:03:03,435 Speaker 1: absolve you too. And I think I think this madness 41 00:03:03,515 --> 00:03:06,475 Speaker 1: is actually made up of a series of smaller madnesses, 42 00:03:06,795 --> 00:03:12,355 Speaker 1: neatly welded together by happenstance, and opportunity. If you believe 43 00:03:12,395 --> 00:03:14,475 Speaker 1: your life has been a failure, or you do not 44 00:03:14,595 --> 00:03:16,595 Speaker 1: have the money you deserve because it was given to 45 00:03:16,675 --> 00:03:20,435 Speaker 1: the minorities, Trump is your man. If you believe the 46 00:03:20,515 --> 00:03:24,115 Speaker 1: gays are taking over and making your kids do gay things, 47 00:03:24,435 --> 00:03:28,035 Speaker 1: Trump is your man. If you believe the Democrats are 48 00:03:28,075 --> 00:03:32,995 Speaker 1: communists who are going to communize you whatever that is. 49 00:03:33,675 --> 00:03:36,475 Speaker 1: Trump is your man. If you believe it's all a 50 00:03:36,515 --> 00:03:39,355 Speaker 1: movie and Q is pulling the strings on your behalf, 51 00:03:40,115 --> 00:03:43,075 Speaker 1: Trump is also your man because people living these lies 52 00:03:43,115 --> 00:03:48,195 Speaker 1: to themselves are obsessed only with those lies, those specific lies. 53 00:03:48,635 --> 00:03:51,755 Speaker 1: They are immune to being interested up or down with 54 00:03:51,795 --> 00:03:55,315 Speaker 1: any of the other lies. You live your life within 55 00:03:55,355 --> 00:03:58,315 Speaker 1: the Q fantasy, But you really aren't a white supremacist. 56 00:03:59,195 --> 00:04:01,755 Speaker 1: What do you care if Trump is? What do you 57 00:04:01,795 --> 00:04:06,675 Speaker 1: care if his other supporters are That's irrelevant. He's the 58 00:04:06,755 --> 00:04:14,275 Speaker 1: Q guy. He has a coalition here, coalition of hate. 59 00:04:14,515 --> 00:04:16,355 Speaker 1: I don't know how we get out of it. That's 60 00:04:16,395 --> 00:04:19,195 Speaker 1: seventy one percent number next to Trump's name is the 61 00:04:19,235 --> 00:04:23,275 Speaker 1: single most frightening political poll result I have seen in 62 00:04:23,355 --> 00:04:27,075 Speaker 1: twenty five years of doing this, and the parallel number 63 00:04:27,275 --> 00:04:30,915 Speaker 1: just among those Republican primary voters, including the thirty to 64 00:04:30,915 --> 00:04:34,715 Speaker 1: forty percent who are not supporting Trump, in that he 65 00:04:34,795 --> 00:04:37,915 Speaker 1: slips to second place in the list behind friends and family, 66 00:04:37,955 --> 00:04:41,595 Speaker 1: but he's still at fifty three percent, and another twenty 67 00:04:41,635 --> 00:04:44,715 Speaker 1: seven percent of them think he's mistaken but not lying. 68 00:04:45,635 --> 00:04:51,635 Speaker 1: Only twenty two percent actually think he is lying. Spoiler alert. 69 00:04:51,915 --> 00:04:54,275 Speaker 1: I know him forty years. He's lying. 70 00:04:54,915 --> 00:04:55,795 Speaker 2: He's always lying. 71 00:04:57,555 --> 00:04:59,555 Speaker 1: I don't know how we get out of this cult 72 00:04:59,555 --> 00:05:02,155 Speaker 1: because the rest of us can't just disenfranchise the lot 73 00:05:02,195 --> 00:05:05,475 Speaker 1: of them, and we can't educate them, and we can't 74 00:05:05,515 --> 00:05:08,355 Speaker 1: correct them. And God knows, if there were a vaccine 75 00:05:08,395 --> 00:05:10,995 Speaker 1: for this illness, they not only would not take it, 76 00:05:11,035 --> 00:05:13,635 Speaker 1: but would reaffir most of their paranoia, and the seventy 77 00:05:13,675 --> 00:05:16,315 Speaker 1: one percent would probably push up to eighty percent or more. 78 00:05:19,155 --> 00:05:21,475 Speaker 1: But I do know all cults end the same way. 79 00:05:22,675 --> 00:05:29,515 Speaker 1: There are wars and bloodshed and disruption and chaos, or 80 00:05:29,515 --> 00:05:34,835 Speaker 1: in the small cults, there's just death, and at the end, 81 00:05:35,475 --> 00:05:39,595 Speaker 1: the human god is dead in a bunker or a pile, 82 00:05:40,955 --> 00:05:44,115 Speaker 1: and if you're lucky, after a sentence of death from 83 00:05:44,155 --> 00:05:51,795 Speaker 1: a court somewhere, all cults end the same. And oh, 84 00:05:51,875 --> 00:05:53,835 Speaker 1: by the way, this thought has already occurred to them, 85 00:05:53,995 --> 00:05:56,835 Speaker 1: to inside their crazy world, which really has begun to 86 00:05:56,875 --> 00:05:59,795 Speaker 1: look like bad fan fiction based off the real world. 87 00:06:00,595 --> 00:06:04,115 Speaker 1: Perhaps it's years of reading those Q posts about military 88 00:06:04,155 --> 00:06:08,515 Speaker 1: tribunals and Democrats being hanged and then replaced by body doubles, 89 00:06:08,515 --> 00:06:10,795 Speaker 1: and I just want to ask one of them, why 90 00:06:10,795 --> 00:06:14,395 Speaker 1: would you bother to do that? And then they could 91 00:06:14,395 --> 00:06:18,555 Speaker 1: look at me and go body doubles, Millennia Trump, then 92 00:06:18,555 --> 00:06:21,995 Speaker 1: I'd be stuck for an answer. And more practically, perhaps 93 00:06:21,995 --> 00:06:25,595 Speaker 1: it is years of Trump demanding the execution of spies 94 00:06:25,635 --> 00:06:27,955 Speaker 1: and traders and drug dealers and anybody else he doesn't 95 00:06:27,955 --> 00:06:30,595 Speaker 1: happen to like at the moment. But whatever is in 96 00:06:30,675 --> 00:06:34,555 Speaker 1: that soup, here's what it does to you. You may 97 00:06:34,635 --> 00:06:38,115 Speaker 1: recall that freshman Georgia state senator who wrote to the 98 00:06:38,155 --> 00:06:41,275 Speaker 1: governor last week demanding a special session of the Senate 99 00:06:41,395 --> 00:06:44,715 Speaker 1: in Georgia so he can start a vote to defund 100 00:06:44,755 --> 00:06:48,915 Speaker 1: the office of Fannie Willis. He's the new state senator 101 00:06:49,075 --> 00:06:54,275 Speaker 1: and bulldozer owner and world class auctioneer. And he's the 102 00:06:54,275 --> 00:06:57,635 Speaker 1: one with the eyes on the opposite sides of his head. 103 00:06:58,315 --> 00:07:02,195 Speaker 1: His name is Colton Moore, and reality be damned. Senator 104 00:07:02,195 --> 00:07:06,395 Speaker 1: Moore is convinced that all nineteen of those indicted in 105 00:07:06,435 --> 00:07:12,675 Speaker 1: the Fulton County case face death by lethal injection. You 106 00:07:12,755 --> 00:07:15,395 Speaker 1: heard me, death by lethal injection. 107 00:07:15,755 --> 00:07:19,555 Speaker 3: We have a district attorney here who's taking my tax dollars, 108 00:07:19,555 --> 00:07:23,435 Speaker 3: my constituents tax dollars, my fellow Georgian's tax dollars, and 109 00:07:23,595 --> 00:07:27,635 Speaker 3: is using it for political persecution and to an extreme 110 00:07:28,235 --> 00:07:31,995 Speaker 3: that these eighteen plus Donald Trump that are indicted could 111 00:07:31,995 --> 00:07:37,355 Speaker 3: potentially face the lethal injection here in Georgia. And I mean, John, 112 00:07:37,355 --> 00:07:39,515 Speaker 3: I'm twenty nine years old. I'm not going to live 113 00:07:39,555 --> 00:07:43,115 Speaker 3: the rest of my life worried about this Gestapo tactic 114 00:07:43,195 --> 00:07:44,795 Speaker 3: tyranny going on in my stay. 115 00:07:45,235 --> 00:07:49,835 Speaker 1: I don't know how to bring Colton back into this universe. 116 00:07:50,035 --> 00:07:52,515 Speaker 1: I don't and I don't know what to do with 117 00:07:52,595 --> 00:07:56,835 Speaker 1: all the other Coultons. Or when you see some of 118 00:07:56,915 --> 00:08:01,275 Speaker 1: Colton in say Senator Mike Lee of Utah or Marge 119 00:08:01,275 --> 00:08:06,475 Speaker 1: Green where goos are from Arizona, or when it's convenient 120 00:08:06,475 --> 00:08:10,635 Speaker 1: for him, Kevin McCarthy I do know that even when 121 00:08:10,675 --> 00:08:14,595 Speaker 1: Trump is dead, many of them, most of them, won't 122 00:08:14,635 --> 00:08:17,275 Speaker 1: believe he's dead, or they will believe he will soon 123 00:08:17,435 --> 00:08:20,715 Speaker 1: rise from the dead. I mean, the Returning Jesus Trick 124 00:08:20,795 --> 00:08:24,435 Speaker 1: is now in its one thousandth, nine hundredth and ninetieth year, 125 00:08:24,675 --> 00:08:27,195 Speaker 1: which is a long time for the band to make 126 00:08:27,235 --> 00:08:31,675 Speaker 1: the audience hang around for the encore. Where do you 127 00:08:31,795 --> 00:08:34,835 Speaker 1: feel you get information that is true? Religious leaders forty 128 00:08:34,835 --> 00:08:38,115 Speaker 1: two percent, Conservative media figures fifty six percent, Friends and 129 00:08:38,195 --> 00:08:45,835 Speaker 1: family sixty three percent, Trump seventy one percent. Back in 130 00:08:45,915 --> 00:08:49,835 Speaker 1: this matrix, Trump has bailed out of the Republican hate 131 00:08:49,875 --> 00:08:53,635 Speaker 1: debate Wednesday. He's apparently bailed out of the additional Republican 132 00:08:53,635 --> 00:08:56,195 Speaker 1: debates going forward. He's even bailed out of his own 133 00:08:56,195 --> 00:08:58,395 Speaker 1: scheduled news conference today. And we know why that is. 134 00:08:58,675 --> 00:09:02,355 Speaker 1: He reveals his cowardice only occasionally, but always unmistakably. You 135 00:09:02,435 --> 00:09:07,715 Speaker 1: can do anything, grab him by the pusillanimous. We now 136 00:09:07,795 --> 00:09:10,835 Speaker 1: also know with virtual certainty that Trump also whimped out 137 00:09:10,835 --> 00:09:15,275 Speaker 1: in his opportunity to upstage Wednesday's debate. After days if 138 00:09:15,355 --> 00:09:18,555 Speaker 1: rumors about this, The Guardian reported late yesterday that Trump's 139 00:09:18,595 --> 00:09:21,835 Speaker 1: people are in negotiations to have him surrender for his 140 00:09:21,915 --> 00:09:25,075 Speaker 1: booking at the Rice Street Jail in Atlanta on Thursday 141 00:09:25,195 --> 00:09:27,915 Speaker 1: or Friday, rather than try to have it go head 142 00:09:27,915 --> 00:09:30,675 Speaker 1: to head with the debate on Wednesday night. Might have 143 00:09:30,715 --> 00:09:32,875 Speaker 1: been a stretch to show up at exactly the hour 144 00:09:32,995 --> 00:09:35,475 Speaker 1: they are throwing out the first Russian talking point in 145 00:09:35,555 --> 00:09:39,195 Speaker 1: the Milwaukee debate nine pm Eastern, But as a jail 146 00:09:39,235 --> 00:09:42,755 Speaker 1: spokesperson noted, quote, the jails open twenty four to seven. 147 00:09:45,115 --> 00:09:49,395 Speaker 1: I'll add, just like the waffle house, I will confess 148 00:09:49,515 --> 00:09:53,195 Speaker 1: I think Trump missed his chance here. To wait until 149 00:09:53,235 --> 00:09:57,675 Speaker 1: Thursday gives at least Chris Christy and hell at this point, DeSantis, 150 00:09:57,995 --> 00:10:00,635 Speaker 1: what has he got to lose? After calling Trump's cultists 151 00:10:01,075 --> 00:10:06,235 Speaker 1: empty vessels. It gives Christy and and DeSantis the chance 152 00:10:06,275 --> 00:10:11,235 Speaker 1: to address Trump's latest indictment during the debate. There are 153 00:10:11,315 --> 00:10:14,235 Speaker 1: many imponderables about whether the air is coming out of 154 00:10:14,235 --> 00:10:18,195 Speaker 1: Trump's palloon yet, but there can be no question that 155 00:10:18,275 --> 00:10:20,835 Speaker 1: after he and Eric Bowling finished fourth in the cable 156 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:23,675 Speaker 1: news ratings week before last, it is clear that a 157 00:10:23,755 --> 00:10:27,795 Speaker 1: Trump interview, especially one on tape, is no longer guaranteed 158 00:10:27,835 --> 00:10:30,995 Speaker 1: to control the narrative, Even if it does include Tucker 159 00:10:31,115 --> 00:10:37,755 Speaker 1: Carlson's comeback attempt. Hey remember Tucker Carlson. Trump is assuming 160 00:10:37,795 --> 00:10:40,195 Speaker 1: that his tired act will not wind up giving his 161 00:10:40,315 --> 00:10:43,075 Speaker 1: rivals full reign over the news cycle Wednesday night, and 162 00:10:43,435 --> 00:10:45,755 Speaker 1: depending on whether or not Trump waits until Friday to 163 00:10:45,795 --> 00:10:49,955 Speaker 1: get booked in Atlanta, all or part of Thursday as well. Besides, 164 00:10:49,995 --> 00:10:54,275 Speaker 1: Trump is really making two long bets on Wednesday. What 165 00:10:54,435 --> 00:10:58,715 Speaker 1: if his interview with Carlson is an audience washout compared 166 00:10:58,715 --> 00:11:01,555 Speaker 1: to the debate, or it just doesn't dominate the debate. 167 00:11:02,155 --> 00:11:07,075 Speaker 1: They have already recorded this interview. I realized that trump 168 00:11:07,115 --> 00:11:09,955 Speaker 1: Ists are always the least sharp tools in the shed. 169 00:11:10,635 --> 00:11:12,035 Speaker 1: In fact, they're the ones that have been out in 170 00:11:12,035 --> 00:11:14,835 Speaker 1: the rain for six years. But how often does a 171 00:11:14,875 --> 00:11:18,755 Speaker 1: political interview of any kind for any viewer stay fresh 172 00:11:18,835 --> 00:11:22,995 Speaker 1: in the can for four or five days. I mean, 173 00:11:23,035 --> 00:11:25,675 Speaker 1: this thing was recorded long before they had any clue 174 00:11:25,715 --> 00:11:28,595 Speaker 1: where they were going to try to air or stream 175 00:11:28,715 --> 00:11:32,915 Speaker 1: the thing, and Fox's willingness to sue Carlson to get 176 00:11:32,995 --> 00:11:35,835 Speaker 1: him to stick to their still active contract could really 177 00:11:35,915 --> 00:11:39,835 Speaker 1: screw it up for Trump. Plus, it has now become 178 00:11:39,915 --> 00:11:43,955 Speaker 1: so commonplace and routine that this other thing is etched 179 00:11:43,995 --> 00:11:46,755 Speaker 1: into our psyches, like the local street signs and the 180 00:11:46,795 --> 00:11:51,475 Speaker 1: way the sunsets come sooner every August night. Trump getting 181 00:11:51,515 --> 00:11:55,795 Speaker 1: booked for crimes just ain't what it used to be 182 00:11:55,835 --> 00:12:00,515 Speaker 1: in the good old days of last April. What the 183 00:12:00,595 --> 00:12:02,955 Speaker 1: hell does he do if the Republicans without him get 184 00:12:02,995 --> 00:12:05,875 Speaker 1: an audience number that beats his inn with Carlson in 185 00:12:05,955 --> 00:12:09,235 Speaker 1: real time on Wednesday, and then also beats coverage of 186 00:12:09,275 --> 00:12:14,275 Speaker 1: his Purp walk on Thursday or Friday. Trump will have 187 00:12:14,395 --> 00:12:17,955 Speaker 1: enough trouble purp walking the tightrope that is the subject 188 00:12:18,035 --> 00:12:20,555 Speaker 1: of the debates as it is, and with the website 189 00:12:20,635 --> 00:12:23,395 Speaker 1: bet online placing the over under for his way in 190 00:12:23,555 --> 00:12:25,315 Speaker 1: at the Atlanta jail at two hundred and seventy three 191 00:12:25,395 --> 00:12:28,315 Speaker 1: and a half pounds, any tightrope will be huge trouble 192 00:12:28,355 --> 00:12:32,355 Speaker 1: for him. Just last October, his nas Feraud, who like 193 00:12:32,395 --> 00:12:35,435 Speaker 1: advisor Stephen Miller, insisted, if you're too afraid to have 194 00:12:35,515 --> 00:12:38,795 Speaker 1: a moderated political debate, then you are definitely too weak 195 00:12:38,875 --> 00:12:42,315 Speaker 1: to take on the drug cartels laying siege to Arizona. 196 00:12:43,155 --> 00:12:47,395 Speaker 1: And in September twenty twenty, the other Miller, Jason, the 197 00:12:47,435 --> 00:12:51,075 Speaker 1: one with the perfectly symmetrically round Head wrote, if Joe 198 00:12:51,075 --> 00:12:53,515 Speaker 1: Biden is too scared to debate, he's too scared to 199 00:12:53,555 --> 00:12:58,155 Speaker 1: run the country. Although all of the fascists, not just Trump, 200 00:12:58,195 --> 00:13:00,955 Speaker 1: all of them exists solely for programming, for stunts and 201 00:13:00,995 --> 00:13:04,715 Speaker 1: publicity grabs, there's also something practical here. Any are the 202 00:13:04,715 --> 00:13:07,475 Speaker 1: gimm Trump gives for not debating the other Republicans this 203 00:13:07,555 --> 00:13:10,595 Speaker 1: week or later will be draped around his neck this 204 00:13:10,755 --> 00:13:14,195 Speaker 1: time next year as the real debates loom and he 205 00:13:14,235 --> 00:13:18,115 Speaker 1: cannot beat Biden without them, and Biden would risk almost 206 00:13:18,115 --> 00:13:23,035 Speaker 1: nothing by not doing them. Still zooming out for a moment, 207 00:13:23,355 --> 00:13:25,595 Speaker 1: you do get the feeling that the other Republicans will 208 00:13:25,635 --> 00:13:28,275 Speaker 1: be fortunate to get through the Wednesday debate without at 209 00:13:28,395 --> 00:13:32,635 Speaker 1: least three of them falling off the stage. I have 210 00:13:32,755 --> 00:13:36,635 Speaker 1: no metaphor here. I'm saying I'm expecting at least three 211 00:13:36,675 --> 00:13:42,355 Speaker 1: of them to fall off the stage. DeSantis has another 212 00:13:42,475 --> 00:13:44,995 Speaker 1: devastating leak out of his campaign now. First was the 213 00:13:45,075 --> 00:13:49,675 Speaker 1: debate prep paperwork story, which might as well have consisted 214 00:13:49,715 --> 00:13:52,115 Speaker 1: of seven hundred and thirty seven different pages of the 215 00:13:52,155 --> 00:13:56,955 Speaker 1: instruction stare daggers at them. Now comes some stuff handed 216 00:13:56,995 --> 00:14:00,715 Speaker 1: to the Washington Post, in which campaign fundraisers have literally 217 00:14:00,715 --> 00:14:04,475 Speaker 1: written down how they had planned to sell access to 218 00:14:05,235 --> 00:14:08,555 Speaker 1: The Post has an email from his top fundraiser, Heather Barker, 219 00:14:08,635 --> 00:14:12,275 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, reading quote, I could sell golf for 220 00:14:12,395 --> 00:14:16,675 Speaker 1: fifty k this morning a Florida lobbyist and his wife 221 00:14:16,715 --> 00:14:19,195 Speaker 1: wanted to play around with the then new governor, and 222 00:14:19,235 --> 00:14:21,955 Speaker 1: Barker was explicit about how the donation could be arranged. 223 00:14:22,115 --> 00:14:25,195 Speaker 1: All it was missing from the email was the subject matter, 224 00:14:25,515 --> 00:14:33,595 Speaker 1: I'm going to go pedal influence now wink emoji. Meanwhile, 225 00:14:33,675 --> 00:14:37,435 Speaker 1: last night, Vivek Ramaswami may have gotten his naive Ta 226 00:14:37,675 --> 00:14:42,795 Speaker 1: caught in the door or his Vivek. The website Semaphore 227 00:14:42,915 --> 00:14:46,275 Speaker 1: quoted two sources who said Ramaswami had complained to Newsmac's 228 00:14:46,275 --> 00:14:49,515 Speaker 1: boss Chris Ruddy that he wasn't getting enough coverage on 229 00:14:49,555 --> 00:14:55,795 Speaker 1: the Newsmax channel network stream. Whatever Ruddy quote suggested a solution, 230 00:14:56,235 --> 00:15:01,715 Speaker 1: Ramaswami told associates buy more television ads on the network. Unquote, 231 00:15:01,915 --> 00:15:05,395 Speaker 1: the way Semaphore positioned this story, they do not have 232 00:15:05,515 --> 00:15:08,955 Speaker 1: Ramaswami saying that he was promised more news coverage if 233 00:15:08,995 --> 00:15:12,955 Speaker 1: he bought more commercial time. But that was the implication 234 00:15:13,235 --> 00:15:17,475 Speaker 1: that he Ramaswami made I am the last guy on 235 00:15:17,595 --> 00:15:22,035 Speaker 1: earth here to defend Newsmas. But it responded to this 236 00:15:22,075 --> 00:15:25,355 Speaker 1: story with a flat, angry denial, hinting at legal action 237 00:15:25,915 --> 00:15:32,315 Speaker 1: and Ramaswami's tone deafness about everything would seem to include 238 00:15:32,435 --> 00:15:36,715 Speaker 1: things like the fact that candidates due by ad time 239 00:15:36,995 --> 00:15:42,435 Speaker 1: on television outlets, whether they are shiny or sketchy. As 240 00:15:42,475 --> 00:15:46,075 Speaker 1: a spokesman told Semaphore, quote, if candidates want to reach 241 00:15:46,155 --> 00:15:49,715 Speaker 1: our audience outside of our programming, then of course advertising 242 00:15:49,715 --> 00:15:51,635 Speaker 1: would be a good way for them to do this. 243 00:15:51,635 --> 00:15:57,755 Speaker 1: This is the basis of all political advertising. Unquote. I 244 00:15:57,795 --> 00:16:04,555 Speaker 1: think Newsmax is right here. Ah. Another tooth just popped 245 00:16:04,555 --> 00:16:07,795 Speaker 1: out out of my mouth. Back to the prosecutions, and 246 00:16:07,835 --> 00:16:09,795 Speaker 1: this is hardly a shock, but it seems to confirm 247 00:16:09,795 --> 00:16:12,435 Speaker 1: the operating assumption of the last few weeks. ABC News 248 00:16:12,435 --> 00:16:15,355 Speaker 1: reports Mark Meadows told Jack Smith's office that quote, he 249 00:16:15,435 --> 00:16:20,475 Speaker 1: could not recall Trump ever ordering or even discussing declassifying 250 00:16:20,555 --> 00:16:23,675 Speaker 1: broad sets of classified materials before leaving the White House, 251 00:16:24,035 --> 00:16:27,075 Speaker 1: nor was he aware of any standing order from Trump 252 00:16:27,395 --> 00:16:30,595 Speaker 1: authorizing the automatic declassification of materials taken out of the 253 00:16:30,635 --> 00:16:34,195 Speaker 1: Oval Office. It also reports that in an early draft 254 00:16:34,195 --> 00:16:37,995 Speaker 1: of the prologue to the Meadows book. And remember it 255 00:16:38,155 --> 00:16:42,075 Speaker 1: was Meadows's ghostwriter and his publisher to whom Trump is 256 00:16:42,155 --> 00:16:45,955 Speaker 1: heard showing off Mark Milly's Iran war plan. There was 257 00:16:45,995 --> 00:16:49,635 Speaker 1: a description in the first version of Trump having a 258 00:16:49,675 --> 00:16:53,955 Speaker 1: classified battle plan quote on the couch in his office 259 00:16:53,995 --> 00:16:59,035 Speaker 1: at Bedminster. Meadows apparently told investigators he took it out 260 00:16:59,475 --> 00:17:02,115 Speaker 1: and on his own impetus because it would have been 261 00:17:02,195 --> 00:17:05,555 Speaker 1: quote problematic to reveal Trump had possession of that document. 262 00:17:06,315 --> 00:17:10,715 Speaker 1: But an audio tape of him, possibly supplied by Mark 263 00:17:10,755 --> 00:17:15,035 Speaker 1: Meadow's people, brandishing that document around like he was showing 264 00:17:15,075 --> 00:17:17,875 Speaker 1: off a nineteen fifty two Mickey Mantle baseball card, that 265 00:17:17,955 --> 00:17:22,075 Speaker 1: would not have been problematic. I guess. Mike Pence told 266 00:17:22,115 --> 00:17:25,515 Speaker 1: ABC in response to this on the record that he 267 00:17:25,595 --> 00:17:29,475 Speaker 1: wasn't aware quote of any broad based effort to declassified documents, 268 00:17:29,675 --> 00:17:32,075 Speaker 1: and said if there had been anything like that, Meadows 269 00:17:32,115 --> 00:17:36,435 Speaker 1: would have known. And as an aside, Trump's spokesperson, the 270 00:17:36,435 --> 00:17:39,035 Speaker 1: one who wrote the Georgia report he was supposed to 271 00:17:39,035 --> 00:17:46,035 Speaker 1: reveal today but pusillanimous out. Liz Harrington says Trump is 272 00:17:46,075 --> 00:17:48,795 Speaker 1: ready to primary any congressman who will not vote to 273 00:17:48,915 --> 00:17:53,355 Speaker 1: defund Jack Smith's office. Frankly, I don't know if this 274 00:17:53,475 --> 00:17:57,715 Speaker 1: is true or if it's just aspirational to borrow a 275 00:17:57,795 --> 00:18:02,475 Speaker 1: recently popular word. Trump's record on primarying people is dismal, 276 00:18:02,795 --> 00:18:04,995 Speaker 1: and a bunch more losses could do him more harm 277 00:18:05,035 --> 00:18:08,315 Speaker 1: than Smith can. Can't let the cult see you fail. 278 00:18:10,035 --> 00:18:14,355 Speaker 1: On Friday, something even more fascinating and clearly less clear 279 00:18:14,515 --> 00:18:18,355 Speaker 1: had emerged from all the prosecutions. Relative to January sixth. 280 00:18:18,515 --> 00:18:21,835 Speaker 1: CNN's k file found repeated instances of one of the 281 00:18:21,955 --> 00:18:25,315 Speaker 1: architects of the fake elector's scheme, the Trump attorney, Nneth Cheeseboro, 282 00:18:25,755 --> 00:18:29,915 Speaker 1: indicted in Atlanta but not and just an unindicted co 283 00:18:29,915 --> 00:18:36,315 Speaker 1: conspirator in Washington. Kenneth Cheesebro marching two and around the 284 00:18:36,355 --> 00:18:42,235 Speaker 1: Capitol on January sixth with Alex Jones, crazy Alx Jones 285 00:18:43,315 --> 00:18:49,355 Speaker 1: and being photographed with Ali Alexander. I've posited previously here 286 00:18:49,395 --> 00:18:51,915 Speaker 1: that a direct link between Trump and the Proud Boys 287 00:18:52,235 --> 00:18:55,755 Speaker 1: or the Oathkeepers would be lethal to him. I don't 288 00:18:55,755 --> 00:18:59,395 Speaker 1: think Cheesebro is it. He's close, but he's not even 289 00:18:59,435 --> 00:19:02,035 Speaker 1: as close as Ronnie Jackson knowing to call the Oathkeepers 290 00:19:02,035 --> 00:19:04,395 Speaker 1: for help. During the violence at the Capitol or Roger 291 00:19:04,395 --> 00:19:07,795 Speaker 1: Stone ubiquitous presence alongside the scum of the earth that 292 00:19:07,875 --> 00:19:10,675 Speaker 1: whole month, I mean, the other whole scum of the 293 00:19:10,715 --> 00:19:16,355 Speaker 1: earth besides him, which brings us back to the cult. 294 00:19:16,555 --> 00:19:19,875 Speaker 1: There is a UFC fighter that's mixed martial arts and 295 00:19:19,915 --> 00:19:23,035 Speaker 1: his name is Colby Covington, and he is fully a 296 00:19:23,075 --> 00:19:25,515 Speaker 1: member of this cult. And he went on Ingram's show 297 00:19:25,555 --> 00:19:28,955 Speaker 1: for some reason, and she asked him, possibly as a 298 00:19:28,955 --> 00:19:31,315 Speaker 1: result of the last date we went out on in 299 00:19:31,395 --> 00:19:34,635 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight when she had I believe ten Cosmopolitans, 300 00:19:35,515 --> 00:19:39,315 Speaker 1: just as the Nightcap, and then her head started bobbing 301 00:19:39,395 --> 00:19:43,995 Speaker 1: like a nodding dog statue. Ingram asked him who would 302 00:19:44,035 --> 00:19:49,275 Speaker 1: win in an MMA fight between Trump and Joe Biden. Well, now, 303 00:19:49,635 --> 00:19:52,515 Speaker 1: I don't think you would be expecting any taped interview 304 00:19:52,515 --> 00:19:55,875 Speaker 1: with a fighter to appear on Ingram's show and him say, oh, 305 00:19:55,875 --> 00:20:00,635 Speaker 1: Biden absolutely, But still, Covington said Trump quote would drop 306 00:20:00,675 --> 00:20:03,195 Speaker 1: a magabomb on Biden. The thing with Biden is, you 307 00:20:03,235 --> 00:20:07,555 Speaker 1: know he can't even ride a bike. Okay, look at Trump. 308 00:20:07,595 --> 00:20:10,275 Speaker 1: He's going out to three rallies a day, flying across 309 00:20:10,315 --> 00:20:16,155 Speaker 1: the country, Laura added, he hats Damnina, She's helpful like that, 310 00:20:16,875 --> 00:20:20,155 Speaker 1: stammin it for days. Covington resumed, he's a cardio king. 311 00:20:20,835 --> 00:20:28,075 Speaker 1: You've seen his hands. Those things are lunchboxes snackems. Maybe 312 00:20:28,195 --> 00:20:30,955 Speaker 1: if he hits you with these hands, you're going to sleep. 313 00:20:31,155 --> 00:20:36,875 Speaker 1: It's night night. He said this out loud. Then they 314 00:20:36,875 --> 00:20:41,155 Speaker 1: put it on television. Even though Covington believes the exact 315 00:20:41,195 --> 00:20:44,715 Speaker 1: opposite of the truth about Biden and bicycles, and there's 316 00:20:44,755 --> 00:20:49,115 Speaker 1: the whole lunchboxes snack ems thing. And even though Trump 317 00:20:49,155 --> 00:20:55,275 Speaker 1: is not exercised since playing college baseball, and he can 318 00:20:55,275 --> 00:20:58,835 Speaker 1: barely lift his hands above his chest, then he can't 319 00:20:58,875 --> 00:21:02,915 Speaker 1: walk down and incline without a hands on guide. And 320 00:21:03,035 --> 00:21:08,155 Speaker 1: most imperatively, Trump would get the crap beaten out of 321 00:21:08,235 --> 00:21:14,275 Speaker 1: him by Laura Ingram. Now you're just gonna have to 322 00:21:14,955 --> 00:21:23,315 Speaker 1: trust me on that one. Also of interest here, stochastic 323 00:21:23,395 --> 00:21:27,595 Speaker 1: terrorism against random members of the public is here now 324 00:21:28,035 --> 00:21:31,795 Speaker 1: in southern California. She had a Pride flag hanging from 325 00:21:31,795 --> 00:21:34,915 Speaker 1: her store. So now she is dead. That's next. This 326 00:21:34,955 --> 00:21:35,475 Speaker 1: is countdown. 327 00:21:37,635 --> 00:21:39,875 Speaker 2: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. 328 00:21:46,795 --> 00:21:50,235 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark 329 00:21:50,315 --> 00:21:54,195 Speaker 1: some predictions. Date Line, Lake, Arrowhead, California. If you think 330 00:21:54,235 --> 00:21:58,435 Speaker 1: I overworked that phrase stochastic terrorism, think again. Think of 331 00:21:58,435 --> 00:22:02,115 Speaker 1: the libs of TikTok, psychos, and everybody who has encouraged 332 00:22:02,195 --> 00:22:06,555 Speaker 1: hatred and distrust of the lgbt Q community like Ron DeSantis. 333 00:22:07,395 --> 00:22:10,435 Speaker 1: Friday night, and as yet identified assailant went to fashion 334 00:22:10,475 --> 00:22:14,115 Speaker 1: designer Lorie Carlton's clothing store in southern California, ripped down 335 00:22:14,155 --> 00:22:17,235 Speaker 1: the Pride flag she had hanging outside, and when she 336 00:22:17,315 --> 00:22:19,955 Speaker 1: confronted him about it, he shot her to death. She 337 00:22:20,115 --> 00:22:23,755 Speaker 1: was the mother of nine. The murderer fled, was confronted 338 00:22:23,795 --> 00:22:27,235 Speaker 1: by police, and killed. This is a hate crime. It 339 00:22:27,355 --> 00:22:31,915 Speaker 1: is hate encouraged by and often directed stochastically by the 340 00:22:31,995 --> 00:22:35,675 Speaker 1: Republican Party. The sooner we start recognizing this, the sooner 341 00:22:35,715 --> 00:22:37,875 Speaker 1: we can begin to do things to remove the threat 342 00:22:37,955 --> 00:22:41,915 Speaker 1: that party and its cult members represent represent, just to 343 00:22:42,035 --> 00:22:47,995 Speaker 1: letting everybody not get killed. Dateline, Connecticut, Sage Steel steps 344 00:22:48,035 --> 00:22:51,675 Speaker 1: out of the worst Person's list. My former SportsCenter co host, 345 00:22:51,795 --> 00:22:53,835 Speaker 1: it has to have been less than ten shows. I'm 346 00:22:53,875 --> 00:22:58,195 Speaker 1: guessing that by counting my scars really stepped up and 347 00:22:58,515 --> 00:23:01,395 Speaker 1: stepped into it by announcing that she was a guest 348 00:23:01,475 --> 00:23:04,275 Speaker 1: on the view, and while waiting in the green room 349 00:23:04,275 --> 00:23:07,995 Speaker 1: with Whipop Be Goldberg and Barbara Walters, this happened quote 350 00:23:08,235 --> 00:23:10,635 Speaker 1: Barbara was standing over here in front of me. She 351 00:23:10,795 --> 00:23:12,755 Speaker 1: just started to back up toward me and looked at 352 00:23:12,755 --> 00:23:15,755 Speaker 1: me and got close and elbowed me, and it pushed 353 00:23:15,755 --> 00:23:18,955 Speaker 1: me back into the wall and the trash can. I 354 00:23:19,075 --> 00:23:21,555 Speaker 1: was like, what did she just do to me? This 355 00:23:21,635 --> 00:23:23,835 Speaker 1: one hundred and forty year old woman just tried to 356 00:23:23,875 --> 00:23:29,315 Speaker 1: tackle me. Unquote. Everything there is to know about Sage 357 00:23:29,435 --> 00:23:33,275 Speaker 1: Steel is in that quote. First, she slimed a woman 358 00:23:33,275 --> 00:23:37,835 Speaker 1: who cannot defend herself because she's dead. Secondly, she tried 359 00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:41,315 Speaker 1: to tear down the rep of somebody who did something 360 00:23:41,395 --> 00:23:45,875 Speaker 1: for other women in media, unlike Sage Steel. And maybe 361 00:23:46,355 --> 00:23:50,235 Speaker 1: worst of all, or best of all, Sage Steel just 362 00:23:50,275 --> 00:23:53,075 Speaker 1: revealed that a five foot four inch woman who was 363 00:23:53,195 --> 00:23:56,595 Speaker 1: forty three years older than she was was able, with 364 00:23:56,795 --> 00:24:00,115 Speaker 1: just her elbow to knock a five foot eleven inch 365 00:24:00,155 --> 00:24:04,435 Speaker 1: woman in a garbage can. As the kids say, Sage 366 00:24:04,755 --> 00:24:09,315 Speaker 1: weird flex, But you do you dateline, Los Angeles, fresh 367 00:24:09,315 --> 00:24:12,475 Speaker 1: off the rather remarkable development that Dennis Prager the last 368 00:24:12,475 --> 00:24:14,915 Speaker 1: time I saw him was a graveyard talk show host 369 00:24:14,915 --> 00:24:17,835 Speaker 1: on local radio in Los Angeles has managed to get 370 00:24:17,835 --> 00:24:22,155 Speaker 1: his prager You videos starring such educators as Adam Carolla 371 00:24:22,595 --> 00:24:26,155 Speaker 1: and Michael Knowles into the school system in Florida. Dennis 372 00:24:26,155 --> 00:24:29,115 Speaker 1: Prager may have actually managed to now get them removed 373 00:24:29,835 --> 00:24:33,395 Speaker 1: just as quickly. Prager continues to bail water after a 374 00:24:33,435 --> 00:24:36,475 Speaker 1: glorious decade or so in which he would speak this 375 00:24:36,635 --> 00:24:39,555 Speaker 1: or that given prejudice or hatred, and his audience would say, 376 00:24:39,595 --> 00:24:43,355 Speaker 1: you're right every time he voiced one of them. This 377 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:46,795 Speaker 1: makes one a little sloppy, I guess. Prager went on 378 00:24:46,835 --> 00:24:51,715 Speaker 1: another conservative streaming show and insisted that while say, masturbating 379 00:24:51,755 --> 00:24:56,635 Speaker 1: to child pornography was evil, no, he didn't think the 380 00:24:56,675 --> 00:25:00,675 Speaker 1: other thing was masturbating to animated child pornography. No, that 381 00:25:00,835 --> 00:25:03,275 Speaker 1: was not evil. Would you use the word evil of 382 00:25:03,355 --> 00:25:05,275 Speaker 1: animated child pornography? That's all I said? 383 00:25:05,955 --> 00:25:08,635 Speaker 2: No, I would use evil only with behavior. That's where 384 00:25:08,675 --> 00:25:12,755 Speaker 2: we might differ forgetting the sex issue. You can't be evil. 385 00:25:13,195 --> 00:25:15,995 Speaker 2: You didn't do evil. If you thought evil, you did evild. 386 00:25:16,075 --> 00:25:18,915 Speaker 2: Mastimating to animated pictures of pornography. I'm not doing something evil, 387 00:25:18,955 --> 00:25:22,315 Speaker 2: That's correct. Yeah, I think that's I think that's despicable. Yeah, 388 00:25:22,435 --> 00:25:23,115 Speaker 2: really yes. 389 00:25:23,195 --> 00:25:26,515 Speaker 1: Of course, Ever since, Dennis Prager has been appearing on 390 00:25:26,595 --> 00:25:29,555 Speaker 1: other conservative programming, trying all at once to make this 391 00:25:29,595 --> 00:25:32,075 Speaker 1: seem like no big deal and not at all like 392 00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:35,515 Speaker 1: a mental illness, while explaining it's not what he really meant, 393 00:25:35,795 --> 00:25:38,035 Speaker 1: while refusing to just come out and say no, I 394 00:25:38,195 --> 00:25:42,035 Speaker 1: was wrong. It is evil. This might be a good 395 00:25:42,075 --> 00:25:45,195 Speaker 1: moment to explain something A psychologist's friend of mine once 396 00:25:45,275 --> 00:25:48,635 Speaker 1: explained to me. The they are more guilty than I 397 00:25:48,675 --> 00:25:53,795 Speaker 1: am explanation. Every time you see a fervent anti groomer 398 00:25:53,995 --> 00:25:58,435 Speaker 1: arrested for child molestation, or a homophobe caught with a 399 00:25:58,475 --> 00:26:01,675 Speaker 1: male sex worker, or or you know four of them. 400 00:26:02,035 --> 00:26:05,195 Speaker 1: Every time you see a fervent anti abortionist who turned 401 00:26:05,195 --> 00:26:08,395 Speaker 1: out to have paid for his mate's abortion, herschel Walker, 402 00:26:08,675 --> 00:26:13,355 Speaker 1: Congressman James Comer, etc. It's the they are more guilty 403 00:26:13,395 --> 00:26:17,835 Speaker 1: than I am explanation in progress. The crusader who gets 404 00:26:17,875 --> 00:26:21,435 Speaker 1: caught doing the very thing they are crusading so loudly against, 405 00:26:21,515 --> 00:26:24,475 Speaker 1: my friend explained, is doing something they think is wrong 406 00:26:24,715 --> 00:26:28,155 Speaker 1: or evil or whatever, usually in private, usually in secret, 407 00:26:28,235 --> 00:26:32,715 Speaker 1: usually with great shame. They can't or won't stop usually 408 00:26:32,755 --> 00:26:35,875 Speaker 1: can't so to rationalize it, to live with it. They 409 00:26:35,915 --> 00:26:40,395 Speaker 1: become as completely opposed to whatever it is as possible 410 00:26:40,835 --> 00:26:43,195 Speaker 1: in their minds. This hypocrisy takes on a kind of 411 00:26:43,315 --> 00:26:48,275 Speaker 1: numerical value. If they're personal guilt at say, you know, 412 00:26:48,515 --> 00:26:53,155 Speaker 1: just to pick something at random masturbating to animated child pornography, 413 00:26:54,235 --> 00:26:57,275 Speaker 1: if their internal sense of guilt about that is, sayas 414 00:26:57,315 --> 00:26:59,635 Speaker 1: seventy five on a scale of one to one hundred, 415 00:26:59,675 --> 00:27:02,795 Speaker 1: they think that if they fight and ruin and even 416 00:27:02,955 --> 00:27:05,955 Speaker 1: kill others who do the same thing, if they do 417 00:27:06,075 --> 00:27:08,795 Speaker 1: that so much and so fervently that their opposition to 418 00:27:09,435 --> 00:27:13,995 Speaker 1: animated child pornography becomes a ninety, they're no longer actually 419 00:27:14,035 --> 00:27:17,875 Speaker 1: guilty of it, because their fight against it is twenty 420 00:27:18,035 --> 00:27:24,635 Speaker 1: points more than is their partaking in it. Nothing to 421 00:27:24,675 --> 00:27:41,635 Speaker 1: do with this prager guy, mind you just mentioning it 422 00:27:41,755 --> 00:27:43,995 Speaker 1: still ahead, Oh it is that time of year again. 423 00:27:44,075 --> 00:27:49,275 Speaker 1: Thursday is the anniversary forty three years Did your mom 424 00:27:49,315 --> 00:27:51,715 Speaker 1: ever say don't run for a train there will always 425 00:27:51,715 --> 00:27:56,035 Speaker 1: be another one. Came the day when I demonstrated what 426 00:27:56,195 --> 00:28:01,955 Speaker 1: mom meant. Teith catches the number seven subway train with 427 00:28:02,635 --> 00:28:06,715 Speaker 1: his forehead. Next in things, I promised not to tell 428 00:28:06,875 --> 00:28:09,955 Speaker 1: first time for the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons, undunning, 429 00:28:10,035 --> 00:28:14,795 Speaker 1: Kruger Effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world, 430 00:28:15,315 --> 00:28:19,275 Speaker 1: the Bronze Well, that's a tie, Elon Musk, James Wood 431 00:28:19,275 --> 00:28:24,995 Speaker 1: in this clown Buchanan aka cat Turd again. Democracy survives 432 00:28:25,035 --> 00:28:27,075 Speaker 1: not by the efforts of those of us trying to 433 00:28:27,115 --> 00:28:30,435 Speaker 1: preserve it, but by the idiocy of those seeking to 434 00:28:30,555 --> 00:28:34,515 Speaker 1: destroy it. In December, Woods, who used to be an 435 00:28:34,595 --> 00:28:38,395 Speaker 1: actor thirty thirty five years ago, suggested that in buying Twitter, 436 00:28:38,515 --> 00:28:42,955 Speaker 1: Musk might have saved democracy. Not long after, Musk began 437 00:28:43,035 --> 00:28:46,835 Speaker 1: to amplify the racist crap of this guy Buchanan Cat Turd, 438 00:28:47,155 --> 00:28:49,915 Speaker 1: and Buchanan began to praise him on a daily basis. 439 00:28:50,275 --> 00:28:53,195 Speaker 1: Then last week, Musk announced that he would be eliminating 440 00:28:53,235 --> 00:28:56,635 Speaker 1: the block feature. He didn't say this, but he did 441 00:28:56,675 --> 00:29:02,715 Speaker 1: this to stop users from blocking advertisers. Woods complained in 442 00:29:02,795 --> 00:29:05,875 Speaker 1: defense of the block and against the advertise. Musk replied, 443 00:29:05,915 --> 00:29:10,355 Speaker 1: then delete your account. Cat died. Buchanan promptly criticized Musk 444 00:29:10,395 --> 00:29:13,035 Speaker 1: for eliminating the block and Musk, who says he is 445 00:29:13,195 --> 00:29:20,395 Speaker 1: remember eliminating blocks promptly blocked James Wood and cat turd 446 00:29:21,875 --> 00:29:23,595 Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, at this point, it's like the plot 447 00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:28,595 Speaker 1: of a telenovela. The runner up Fox's Janine Page ten 448 00:29:28,715 --> 00:29:33,835 Speaker 1: is missing Piero. If you need Fox and the Fascists 449 00:29:33,955 --> 00:29:38,195 Speaker 1: in Microcosm. She authored a series of angry posts over 450 00:29:38,235 --> 00:29:43,915 Speaker 1: the weekend about her Jaguar breaking down and Jaguar repair 451 00:29:44,195 --> 00:29:48,475 Speaker 1: leaving her stranded in the parking lot of a Duncan 452 00:29:48,635 --> 00:29:54,915 Speaker 1: Doughnuts in the Bronx with pictures Miss Piro, who is 453 00:29:54,955 --> 00:29:58,835 Speaker 1: seventy two years old, seventy two years old, seventy two 454 00:29:59,475 --> 00:30:02,835 Speaker 1: age and IQ. She's shown in these photos dressed in 455 00:30:02,875 --> 00:30:09,235 Speaker 1: a light white top and orange shorts, like like she 456 00:30:09,395 --> 00:30:13,515 Speaker 1: works at Hooters, if there's a Hooters in the village's 457 00:30:13,635 --> 00:30:17,995 Speaker 1: retirement home for nazis near Orlando. We haven't heard anything 458 00:30:18,035 --> 00:30:20,155 Speaker 1: from her since the last post. She may still be 459 00:30:20,195 --> 00:30:23,475 Speaker 1: in that parking lot. But our winner Ron Hedland, who 460 00:30:23,555 --> 00:30:27,515 Speaker 1: has identified as a seventh District representative of the Virginia 461 00:30:27,635 --> 00:30:32,635 Speaker 1: GOP Central Committee and you know who else had central committees. 462 00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:38,755 Speaker 1: Headland posted supportive selfies with Trump in the past, so 463 00:30:38,795 --> 00:30:40,755 Speaker 1: we think we know where he's coming from. And by 464 00:30:40,795 --> 00:30:43,795 Speaker 1: his own admission, Headland has taken a banner to a 465 00:30:43,915 --> 00:30:48,795 Speaker 1: high school baseball field in Glen Allen, Virginia. Lots people 466 00:30:48,835 --> 00:30:52,155 Speaker 1: do that. What's the problem there? Well, this banner Headland 467 00:30:52,635 --> 00:30:57,395 Speaker 1: boasted was sixteen feet long and displayed a penis with 468 00:30:57,515 --> 00:31:01,755 Speaker 1: the words Biden sucks on it. And Headland then took 469 00:31:01,835 --> 00:31:05,075 Speaker 1: video of some of the sixteen year old boys holding 470 00:31:05,115 --> 00:31:08,035 Speaker 1: the penis banner. And he uploaded the video of the 471 00:31:08,155 --> 00:31:10,955 Speaker 1: sixteen year old boys holding the giant penis banner to 472 00:31:11,115 --> 00:31:14,475 Speaker 1: social media sites. And I forget, what do you call 473 00:31:14,555 --> 00:31:17,995 Speaker 1: people who like to take photos of teenaged boys holding 474 00:31:18,275 --> 00:31:27,155 Speaker 1: giant phallic images? What are those people called? Again? I'll 475 00:31:27,195 --> 00:31:31,475 Speaker 1: remember it later. Virginia's seventh District GOP Central Committee rep 476 00:31:31,555 --> 00:31:36,755 Speaker 1: run make America. Wait, that's what the g in MAGA 477 00:31:36,875 --> 00:31:44,275 Speaker 1: stands for. Headland two days worst Parson and the world. 478 00:31:45,635 --> 00:31:46,475 Speaker 3: Over the. 479 00:32:00,435 --> 00:32:02,835 Speaker 1: So finally to our number one story on the countdown 480 00:32:02,915 --> 00:32:06,235 Speaker 1: on my favorite topic, Me and things I promised not 481 00:32:06,355 --> 00:32:09,075 Speaker 1: to tell, although truth be told, I have been telling 482 00:32:09,155 --> 00:32:13,875 Speaker 1: this story now for forty two years. On Sunday, the 483 00:32:14,035 --> 00:32:18,235 Speaker 1: twenty fourth of August nineteen eighty I learned what mom 484 00:32:18,435 --> 00:32:21,155 Speaker 1: meant when she had said, never run for a train, 485 00:32:21,195 --> 00:32:24,355 Speaker 1: There'll always be another one. Because I didn't know what 486 00:32:24,395 --> 00:32:28,395 Speaker 1: it meant, I nearly killed myself. I permanently altered my health, 487 00:32:28,795 --> 00:32:30,915 Speaker 1: and I put myself on a path towards meeting the 488 00:32:30,955 --> 00:32:34,715 Speaker 1: great doctor Renee Richards. I was sleeping late in my 489 00:32:34,755 --> 00:32:37,715 Speaker 1: relatively new and tiny studio apartment on fifty fifth Street 490 00:32:37,715 --> 00:32:41,595 Speaker 1: in Manhattan, Apartment ten F, when above me, eleven F 491 00:32:41,715 --> 00:32:45,715 Speaker 1: started making noise like pounding on the floor. And now 492 00:32:45,715 --> 00:32:48,035 Speaker 1: it's eight thirty Sunday morning, and I'm awake, and I'm 493 00:32:48,035 --> 00:32:50,915 Speaker 1: not doing my job as a radio sportscaster until about two, 494 00:32:51,395 --> 00:32:54,075 Speaker 1: and I think, well, I'm up. All the Dodgers are 495 00:32:54,235 --> 00:32:56,035 Speaker 1: playing the Mets at Shay. I can go to my 496 00:32:56,075 --> 00:32:59,635 Speaker 1: other job as a semi professional photographer and go shoot 497 00:32:59,635 --> 00:33:01,595 Speaker 1: the Dodgers and still make it to work on time. 498 00:33:02,235 --> 00:33:06,435 Speaker 1: So I packed my semi professional on the semi photographer's 499 00:33:06,515 --> 00:33:09,115 Speaker 1: bag and drag myself out on the subway and get 500 00:33:09,155 --> 00:33:13,235 Speaker 1: to Shase Stadium around eleven thirty am. And there's nobody there, 501 00:33:13,755 --> 00:33:17,595 Speaker 1: No Dodgers players, no Mets players, nobody but the grounds keepers. 502 00:33:18,115 --> 00:33:20,555 Speaker 1: And as the minutes pass, I'm beginning to calculate when 503 00:33:20,595 --> 00:33:23,275 Speaker 1: I have to leave in order to not be late 504 00:33:23,315 --> 00:33:27,595 Speaker 1: to my job back in Manhattan. Weekend life in New 505 00:33:27,675 --> 00:33:30,035 Speaker 1: York City in nineteen eighty might as well have been 506 00:33:30,155 --> 00:33:33,195 Speaker 1: nineteen ten. I tell people this. They do not believe me. 507 00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:36,755 Speaker 1: But when I worked weekends the next year in Times Square, 508 00:33:37,355 --> 00:33:40,755 Speaker 1: I used to call into my newsroom from a payphone 509 00:33:40,795 --> 00:33:44,515 Speaker 1: on Fifth Avenue and say, Okay, I'm going to Rby's today. 510 00:33:44,515 --> 00:33:47,595 Speaker 1: Who wants what? Or McDonald's or Burger King or wherever. 511 00:33:47,795 --> 00:33:50,995 Speaker 1: Because our office was in Times Square and on weekends 512 00:33:51,475 --> 00:33:56,155 Speaker 1: there were no restaurants open in Times Square. You could 513 00:33:56,195 --> 00:34:00,435 Speaker 1: not get food in Times Square on weekends. Today, the 514 00:34:00,515 --> 00:34:04,515 Speaker 1: same four square block area probably has fifty restaurants and 515 00:34:04,715 --> 00:34:08,195 Speaker 1: as food places. So the train back to Manhattan from 516 00:34:08,195 --> 00:34:11,315 Speaker 1: Shaye Stadium in Queens ran once every half an hour 517 00:34:11,595 --> 00:34:13,915 Speaker 1: on that Sunday in August of nineteen eighty, and as 518 00:34:13,915 --> 00:34:15,635 Speaker 1: I looked at my watch, I realized I should have 519 00:34:15,715 --> 00:34:17,835 Speaker 1: left the field three or four minutes ago. If you 520 00:34:17,915 --> 00:34:21,275 Speaker 1: went out the press entrance and exit at Shaye Stadium, 521 00:34:21,755 --> 00:34:26,035 Speaker 1: you could see the train approaching the elevated station out 522 00:34:26,075 --> 00:34:28,795 Speaker 1: behind right field, and if you had just seen it, 523 00:34:28,875 --> 00:34:31,315 Speaker 1: if it had just become visible. And if you then 524 00:34:31,555 --> 00:34:35,035 Speaker 1: ran your fastest, you could make it to the viaduct 525 00:34:35,395 --> 00:34:37,835 Speaker 1: that crossed the parking lot and led you up towards 526 00:34:37,835 --> 00:34:40,195 Speaker 1: the station platform. And if you could get your subway 527 00:34:40,275 --> 00:34:42,875 Speaker 1: token out and into the turnstile slot with one fluid 528 00:34:42,955 --> 00:34:45,515 Speaker 1: overhead motion, and if you kept running all the time, 529 00:34:45,755 --> 00:34:50,675 Speaker 1: you could just make the train. If you didn't, you 530 00:34:50,715 --> 00:34:54,395 Speaker 1: would be waiting half an hour, unless maybe the next 531 00:34:54,435 --> 00:35:00,115 Speaker 1: train was late or on fire somewhere. Sure enough, as 532 00:35:00,115 --> 00:35:01,875 Speaker 1: I got out of the ballpark, I could see the 533 00:35:01,915 --> 00:35:04,875 Speaker 1: Manhattan bound train just appearing at the horizon. I was 534 00:35:04,875 --> 00:35:09,435 Speaker 1: twenty one. My knees still worked, and I ran, and 535 00:35:09,515 --> 00:35:11,355 Speaker 1: I got into the viaduct, and I got the token 536 00:35:11,395 --> 00:35:13,435 Speaker 1: out of my pocket, and I got into the slot 537 00:35:13,515 --> 00:35:17,115 Speaker 1: like Darryl Dawkins doing a tomahawk slam. And I not 538 00:35:17,195 --> 00:35:19,515 Speaker 1: only made the train, but I made it by so 539 00:35:19,755 --> 00:35:24,035 Speaker 1: much that I styled, I celebrated, I congratulated myself. I 540 00:35:24,115 --> 00:35:29,835 Speaker 1: was guilty of premature jocularity. I could have just slowed 541 00:35:29,875 --> 00:35:34,155 Speaker 1: to a triumphant jog and gotten a seat, huffing and sweaty, 542 00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:37,035 Speaker 1: but eminently satisfied and on time for work. But no, 543 00:35:38,115 --> 00:35:44,075 Speaker 1: I decided to make an exultant, joyful leap. The next 544 00:35:44,075 --> 00:35:47,315 Speaker 1: thing I registered was the loudest sound I had ever 545 00:35:47,555 --> 00:35:52,155 Speaker 1: or have since ever heard, as if six hundred gongs 546 00:35:52,195 --> 00:35:55,635 Speaker 1: had gone off simultaneously, or a dozen church bells, or 547 00:35:55,675 --> 00:35:58,835 Speaker 1: every alarm clock that had ever awakened me from the 548 00:35:58,875 --> 00:36:02,595 Speaker 1: deepest of sleeps. Something like this, but inside your head, 549 00:36:03,715 --> 00:36:08,875 Speaker 1: bum YEA. When it happened was forgetting that I was 550 00:36:08,875 --> 00:36:11,115 Speaker 1: no longer six feet tall as I had been even 551 00:36:11,195 --> 00:36:13,635 Speaker 1: two years before, but was now just under six ' four. 552 00:36:14,155 --> 00:36:17,595 Speaker 1: My leap had ended with me slamming my forehead on 553 00:36:17,635 --> 00:36:21,395 Speaker 1: the flat metal bar just above the train doorway an 554 00:36:21,475 --> 00:36:25,435 Speaker 1: inch higher, I might have blinded myself. The bar an 555 00:36:25,475 --> 00:36:28,315 Speaker 1: inch above the doorway is, in fact, as I found 556 00:36:28,355 --> 00:36:31,035 Speaker 1: out later, the thickest piece of metal on a New 557 00:36:31,115 --> 00:36:35,315 Speaker 1: York City subway train. As it was, my momentum carried 558 00:36:35,395 --> 00:36:38,035 Speaker 1: me safely into the train. I hit the floor. I 559 00:36:38,075 --> 00:36:41,555 Speaker 1: saw my sunglasses go flying off and rattling down towards 560 00:36:41,555 --> 00:36:44,275 Speaker 1: the back of the train like a plastic rat. I 561 00:36:44,355 --> 00:36:46,955 Speaker 1: heard the train doors close, I felt the blood on 562 00:36:47,035 --> 00:36:48,995 Speaker 1: my head and in my hair, and I crawled up 563 00:36:49,035 --> 00:36:52,675 Speaker 1: onto the plastic bench seating behind me. The mass gong 564 00:36:52,915 --> 00:36:56,355 Speaker 1: sound continued in my head, and my first coachin thought 565 00:36:56,395 --> 00:37:00,115 Speaker 1: was to see the blood on the train floor and think, oh, 566 00:37:00,355 --> 00:37:03,595 Speaker 1: I have spilled blood all over their train, and I 567 00:37:03,675 --> 00:37:08,555 Speaker 1: don't have anything to clean it up with. Similar nonsense 568 00:37:08,595 --> 00:37:13,115 Speaker 1: continued to bounce around my concussed size eight noggin for seconds, 569 00:37:13,155 --> 00:37:15,755 Speaker 1: maybe minutes. It was beginning to really hurt, and of 570 00:37:15,835 --> 00:37:19,595 Speaker 1: more practical import the bleeding had not really stopped. At 571 00:37:19,595 --> 00:37:22,195 Speaker 1: this point. An older woman sitting more or less across 572 00:37:22,195 --> 00:37:25,555 Speaker 1: from me handed me a small packet. It was a 573 00:37:25,595 --> 00:37:29,515 Speaker 1: wet wipe. I mumbled thanks, opened it, dabbed it on 574 00:37:29,555 --> 00:37:31,955 Speaker 1: my forehead for a second, and was surprised to find 575 00:37:31,955 --> 00:37:35,795 Speaker 1: it instantly inundated with blood. This was the first time 576 00:37:35,835 --> 00:37:37,595 Speaker 1: it occurred to me that I might be in real 577 00:37:37,715 --> 00:37:40,155 Speaker 1: trouble on the Number seven local train to Grand Central 578 00:37:40,195 --> 00:37:44,155 Speaker 1: and Times Square. Apparently this thought occurred simultaneously to the 579 00:37:44,155 --> 00:37:46,915 Speaker 1: woman with the wet wipes and to her friend, I 580 00:37:46,915 --> 00:37:48,995 Speaker 1: think you're kind of hurt. One of them said to me, 581 00:37:49,275 --> 00:37:51,635 Speaker 1: let's get you to the hospital. There's one a couple 582 00:37:51,715 --> 00:37:56,675 Speaker 1: blocks from the next stop. Now understand this situation. The 583 00:37:56,715 --> 00:37:59,515 Speaker 1: New York of nineteen eighty and particularly the subways of 584 00:37:59,595 --> 00:38:04,155 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty were not nice places. Two years later, I 585 00:38:04,155 --> 00:38:06,235 Speaker 1: took a rush hour train to my job at CNN 586 00:38:06,275 --> 00:38:08,835 Speaker 1: at the World Trade Center and was annoyed to find 587 00:38:08,875 --> 00:38:11,675 Speaker 1: one guy who had sprawled himself over three seats with 588 00:38:11,715 --> 00:38:15,035 Speaker 1: a newspaper covering his face. Nine hours later, when I 589 00:38:15,035 --> 00:38:17,875 Speaker 1: went home, I got onto a train and saw the 590 00:38:17,955 --> 00:38:21,595 Speaker 1: same guy with the same newspaper on the same seats, 591 00:38:21,915 --> 00:38:24,235 Speaker 1: because it was the same train, and more importantly, because 592 00:38:24,275 --> 00:38:29,355 Speaker 1: he was dead. Anyway, it was now around twelve forty 593 00:38:29,435 --> 00:38:31,955 Speaker 1: five of a Sunday afternoon. If it had been night, 594 00:38:32,115 --> 00:38:34,235 Speaker 1: or indeed certain other times of the day or on 595 00:38:34,315 --> 00:38:36,555 Speaker 1: other train lines, I would have simply been the easiest 596 00:38:36,635 --> 00:38:39,435 Speaker 1: mugging victim in New York history. Somebody could have knocked 597 00:38:39,475 --> 00:38:42,435 Speaker 1: me over and taken my wallet with next to no effort. Hell, 598 00:38:42,755 --> 00:38:44,555 Speaker 1: they could have asked me for my wallet, and I 599 00:38:44,595 --> 00:38:47,395 Speaker 1: was so dazed I probably would have said, sure, have 600 00:38:47,475 --> 00:38:51,675 Speaker 1: a nice day, got any wet wipes. Instead, I met 601 00:38:51,715 --> 00:38:54,555 Speaker 1: not one, but two good Samaritans who knew where the 602 00:38:54,595 --> 00:38:57,355 Speaker 1: hospitals were in a part of town I could barely 603 00:38:57,395 --> 00:39:01,475 Speaker 1: find on a map. Sure enough, they helped me to 604 00:39:01,515 --> 00:39:03,675 Speaker 1: my feet walked me down the steps and to the 605 00:39:03,675 --> 00:39:07,475 Speaker 1: two blocks or so that separated us from Elmhurst Hospital, 606 00:39:07,835 --> 00:39:10,035 Speaker 1: And when I reassured them I was clear headed enough 607 00:39:10,075 --> 00:39:12,955 Speaker 1: to get into the emergency room by myself, they wished 608 00:39:12,955 --> 00:39:15,475 Speaker 1: me luck, and they would not even accept my offer 609 00:39:15,555 --> 00:39:18,915 Speaker 1: of two tokens to get them back on the subway. 610 00:39:19,195 --> 00:39:21,955 Speaker 1: There should be a monument to these two women somewhere. 611 00:39:23,715 --> 00:39:26,715 Speaker 1: If the New York City subways of nineteen eighty were scary, 612 00:39:26,795 --> 00:39:29,755 Speaker 1: the emergency rooms of its hospitals were something out of 613 00:39:29,755 --> 00:39:32,715 Speaker 1: a Brian de Palma film. I think there were a 614 00:39:32,755 --> 00:39:35,355 Speaker 1: couple of dozen people in the er. I remember one 615 00:39:35,395 --> 00:39:37,355 Speaker 1: of them asking me how I got so bloody, and 616 00:39:37,395 --> 00:39:39,715 Speaker 1: I explained, and he said you should go ahead of me, 617 00:39:40,275 --> 00:39:43,235 Speaker 1: and he opened his windbreaker to show a blood covered shirt, 618 00:39:43,235 --> 00:39:47,315 Speaker 1: and he added the bullet only crazed me. I know. 619 00:39:47,395 --> 00:39:51,235 Speaker 1: I waited about two hours. During that time, I had 620 00:39:51,235 --> 00:39:55,115 Speaker 1: a singular experience which has informed my understanding of concussions 621 00:39:55,435 --> 00:40:00,075 Speaker 1: and traumatic brain injury ever since. The desk nurse asked 622 00:40:00,115 --> 00:40:02,675 Speaker 1: me for the name of a contact, preferably a family member. 623 00:40:02,715 --> 00:40:05,595 Speaker 1: I gave my father's name, Theodore. Then she asked me 624 00:40:05,635 --> 00:40:07,515 Speaker 1: for my full name, and when I went to say it, 625 00:40:08,515 --> 00:40:12,515 Speaker 1: I could not remember my middle name. Could not remember 626 00:40:12,595 --> 00:40:16,715 Speaker 1: my middle name Keith, I got Olderman, I got that 627 00:40:16,875 --> 00:40:21,835 Speaker 1: was it. My middle name is also Theodore. I could 628 00:40:21,875 --> 00:40:28,195 Speaker 1: remember Theodore my dad, but not Theodore my middle name. 629 00:40:29,115 --> 00:40:32,955 Speaker 1: That is how fragile your brain really is. Think of 630 00:40:32,995 --> 00:40:35,155 Speaker 1: that the next time you see somebody get clocked in 631 00:40:35,195 --> 00:40:39,315 Speaker 1: a sporting event. There was some comic relief. I called 632 00:40:39,315 --> 00:40:42,595 Speaker 1: into my office at United Press International's Audio network and 633 00:40:42,675 --> 00:40:45,315 Speaker 1: explained to the news editor a veteran named Ed Kerns, 634 00:40:45,315 --> 00:40:47,715 Speaker 1: the most dapperman in radio history, who looked like the 635 00:40:47,755 --> 00:40:51,035 Speaker 1: actor Ray Collins from Citizen Kane. I told Ed, I 636 00:40:51,035 --> 00:40:54,835 Speaker 1: had just sort of almost, you know, killed myself on 637 00:40:54,875 --> 00:40:58,115 Speaker 1: the subway coming in from Queen's and I really didn't 638 00:40:58,115 --> 00:41:01,155 Speaker 1: know when or if I would be at work. About 639 00:41:01,155 --> 00:41:04,035 Speaker 1: forty five minutes after that conversation, the desk nurse started 640 00:41:04,075 --> 00:41:05,955 Speaker 1: shouting my name, and I thought, Okay, I'm finally going 641 00:41:05,995 --> 00:41:08,355 Speaker 1: to be brought in to see a doctor. No, it 642 00:41:08,475 --> 00:41:12,235 Speaker 1: was Ed Caron's calling from UPI. My bosses were all 643 00:41:12,355 --> 00:41:14,755 Speaker 1: very sorry that I was wounded, he said, but there 644 00:41:14,755 --> 00:41:16,875 Speaker 1: was nobody available to fill in for me. So when 645 00:41:16,915 --> 00:41:19,555 Speaker 1: could they expect me to be in the office. I 646 00:41:19,635 --> 00:41:22,555 Speaker 1: explained I did not know that since I was technically 647 00:41:22,835 --> 00:41:27,275 Speaker 1: still bleeding to death. Forty five minutes more passed, and 648 00:41:27,315 --> 00:41:29,235 Speaker 1: again the nurse summoned me and said there was a 649 00:41:29,235 --> 00:41:30,755 Speaker 1: phone call, and this time I was sure it was 650 00:41:30,755 --> 00:41:35,035 Speaker 1: my dad, Keith ed Karin's again at UPI. He explained 651 00:41:35,035 --> 00:41:37,355 Speaker 1: that my boss now said that they would bring in 652 00:41:37,395 --> 00:41:39,635 Speaker 1: the guy who was supposed to do the next morning 653 00:41:39,715 --> 00:41:43,955 Speaker 1: sports cast, my college friend Peter shack Now, but they 654 00:41:44,035 --> 00:41:46,435 Speaker 1: expected me to do his shift starting at four point 655 00:41:46,435 --> 00:41:48,915 Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. I explained to Ed that I 656 00:41:48,915 --> 00:41:51,835 Speaker 1: would trye and that honestly I didn't know where I 657 00:41:51,995 --> 00:41:55,235 Speaker 1: was or what time it was. Now two nice ladies 658 00:41:55,235 --> 00:41:57,155 Speaker 1: had mentioned the name of the hospital, but I really 659 00:41:57,195 --> 00:42:01,155 Speaker 1: wasn't remembering too well. Plus I was still bleeding to death. 660 00:42:03,075 --> 00:42:05,515 Speaker 1: Needless to say, I did not bleed to day. I survived. 661 00:42:05,555 --> 00:42:07,395 Speaker 1: It was a severe concussion, but it only took a 662 00:42:07,395 --> 00:42:09,395 Speaker 1: stitch and a half to actually close that wound, and 663 00:42:09,435 --> 00:42:12,155 Speaker 1: the er doctor and the nurses were outstanding and they 664 00:42:12,195 --> 00:42:15,555 Speaker 1: gave me easy to remember instructions, plus a note indicating 665 00:42:15,555 --> 00:42:17,715 Speaker 1: that I should rest for at least forty eight hours, 666 00:42:18,115 --> 00:42:20,955 Speaker 1: just in case Ed Caarn showed up at my apartment. 667 00:42:22,835 --> 00:42:26,235 Speaker 1: No offense to Ed. They told me what symptoms to expect, 668 00:42:26,235 --> 00:42:28,435 Speaker 1: how to prepare for them, and when they would stop. 669 00:42:28,555 --> 00:42:31,075 Speaker 1: And they stopped like one day earlier. It was a 670 00:42:31,115 --> 00:42:35,755 Speaker 1: potential disaster that turned into a nothing burger, or so 671 00:42:36,195 --> 00:42:39,395 Speaker 1: I thought. Two years later, I was at the original 672 00:42:39,395 --> 00:42:42,995 Speaker 1: Louis Armstrong Stadium covering the nineteen eighty two US Tennis Open, 673 00:42:43,675 --> 00:42:47,035 Speaker 1: on the other side of the same elevated subway station 674 00:42:47,115 --> 00:42:51,395 Speaker 1: where I had run into the train going there. Always 675 00:42:51,395 --> 00:42:55,315 Speaker 1: actually made me laugh until the afternoon of Saturday, September eleventh, 676 00:42:55,395 --> 00:42:58,315 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two. I was watching the women's final, covering 677 00:42:58,315 --> 00:43:01,915 Speaker 1: it for CNN Chris Evertt, ob Hannah Mandlakova and swinging 678 00:43:01,955 --> 00:43:04,155 Speaker 1: my head from side to side as one does to 679 00:43:04,195 --> 00:43:07,835 Speaker 1: follow the tennis action from over here, two over there, 680 00:43:08,275 --> 00:43:12,075 Speaker 1: two over here, two over there, as I had swung 681 00:43:12,115 --> 00:43:14,475 Speaker 1: my head from side to side for the preceding twelve 682 00:43:14,555 --> 00:43:17,715 Speaker 1: days of the tournament. Then I swung to the right, 683 00:43:17,795 --> 00:43:20,955 Speaker 1: but my left eye kept looking to the left, the 684 00:43:21,035 --> 00:43:27,275 Speaker 1: old Marty Feldman thing reversed crossed eyes that hurt worse 685 00:43:27,435 --> 00:43:31,475 Speaker 1: than hitting the train. Had I could barely stand any light. 686 00:43:31,835 --> 00:43:33,795 Speaker 1: I often had to keep my hand in front of 687 00:43:33,835 --> 00:43:36,595 Speaker 1: my eyes. I rushed to my optometrist Monday morning and 688 00:43:36,635 --> 00:43:39,075 Speaker 1: he started to laugh. This happened to you during the 689 00:43:39,235 --> 00:43:42,195 Speaker 1: US Open. I said, yes, Why are you laughing at me? 690 00:43:42,715 --> 00:43:44,715 Speaker 1: He said, I'm going to send you to the best 691 00:43:44,795 --> 00:43:48,075 Speaker 1: muscle ophthalmologist I've ever met. I said, so, why are 692 00:43:48,115 --> 00:43:50,115 Speaker 1: you laughing at me? He said, you don't know who 693 00:43:50,155 --> 00:43:53,075 Speaker 1: that is. I said, no, I let my knowledge of 694 00:43:53,115 --> 00:43:56,475 Speaker 1: the muscle ophthalmology ranking slip. Why are you laughing at me? 695 00:43:56,995 --> 00:43:59,355 Speaker 1: He said, The best muscle ophthalmologist I've ever met is 696 00:43:59,355 --> 00:44:03,555 Speaker 1: doctor Renee Richards, the transsexual tennis player. I said, I 697 00:44:03,555 --> 00:44:05,875 Speaker 1: don't care who you're sending me too. I'm in trouble here. 698 00:44:05,875 --> 00:44:07,555 Speaker 1: If they can fix this, I don't care who you're 699 00:44:07,595 --> 00:44:10,755 Speaker 1: sending me. My train accident was so far in my 700 00:44:10,915 --> 00:44:13,275 Speaker 1: past that when I got in to see doctor Richards 701 00:44:13,315 --> 00:44:15,715 Speaker 1: the next morning, I didn't even think to mention it 702 00:44:15,835 --> 00:44:19,035 Speaker 1: in my patient history. It didn't matter. Thirty seconds of 703 00:44:19,075 --> 00:44:22,955 Speaker 1: staring into my eyes through a wall sized feropter and 704 00:44:22,995 --> 00:44:25,875 Speaker 1: Renee Richards said, when exactly did you hit your head? 705 00:44:25,915 --> 00:44:31,635 Speaker 1: August or September of nineteen eighty. I was stunned. I 706 00:44:31,675 --> 00:44:35,155 Speaker 1: did hit my head in nineteen eighty. August twenty fourth, 707 00:44:35,915 --> 00:44:38,915 Speaker 1: she made a clicking noise of satisfaction. I've heard of 708 00:44:38,915 --> 00:44:41,315 Speaker 1: this before, but I've never seen it. You couldn't do 709 00:44:41,395 --> 00:44:44,195 Speaker 1: this again in a million years. The good news is 710 00:44:44,235 --> 00:44:47,715 Speaker 1: that muscle problem with the eyes, that's just muscle exhaustion. 711 00:44:47,795 --> 00:44:49,635 Speaker 1: We can fix that with a thing that costs to 712 00:44:49,675 --> 00:44:51,795 Speaker 1: buck ninety eight. The bad news is when you hit 713 00:44:51,835 --> 00:44:54,595 Speaker 1: your head, most of the damage must have been absorbed 714 00:44:54,635 --> 00:44:56,835 Speaker 1: by your inner ear. If you want to fix that, 715 00:44:56,875 --> 00:45:02,275 Speaker 1: you'll need brain surgery. I don't recommend brain surgery. Doctor 716 00:45:02,315 --> 00:45:05,395 Speaker 1: Renee Richards showed me the muscle exercise is that cost 717 00:45:05,435 --> 00:45:08,115 Speaker 1: a dollar ninety eight. That fixed my reverse cross eyes. 718 00:45:08,475 --> 00:45:11,915 Speaker 1: They felt better immediately. I still do the exercises. I 719 00:45:11,995 --> 00:45:16,715 Speaker 1: did them earlier today. Then Renee Richards said, so you're 720 00:45:16,755 --> 00:45:20,115 Speaker 1: a sports reporter. It says here, listen, my next patient 721 00:45:20,195 --> 00:45:22,795 Speaker 1: isn't due for half an hour. You should rest anyway 722 00:45:22,835 --> 00:45:29,395 Speaker 1: after my exam. Let's talk about sports reporting. Renee Richards 723 00:45:29,435 --> 00:45:33,475 Speaker 1: was an expert. Her transition had been outed by a sportscaster, 724 00:45:34,755 --> 00:45:39,195 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson's father. If you can believe that. I can 725 00:45:39,275 --> 00:45:42,875 Speaker 1: believe it because she had been a man when she 726 00:45:42,955 --> 00:45:45,275 Speaker 1: played in the US Open. As a woman, she had 727 00:45:45,315 --> 00:45:49,675 Speaker 1: become almost instantaneously the most famous tennis player in the world. 728 00:45:50,555 --> 00:45:55,875 Speaker 1: Then she became Martina Navratilova's coach. I learned more from 729 00:45:56,035 --> 00:45:58,875 Speaker 1: her in that first half hour of conversation about the 730 00:45:58,915 --> 00:46:02,035 Speaker 1: ethics of reporting than I had in all of my 731 00:46:02,235 --> 00:46:08,235 Speaker 1: previous life experiences come by. Plus, she was gas Renee 732 00:46:08,315 --> 00:46:10,835 Speaker 1: Richards was hilarious, She was self effacing, She was a 733 00:46:10,835 --> 00:46:13,595 Speaker 1: great doctor, and to me, she was the definition of courage. 734 00:46:13,635 --> 00:46:16,435 Speaker 1: And she I am proud to say, is still my friend. 735 00:46:18,195 --> 00:46:21,155 Speaker 1: All because I did not know what Mom meant when 736 00:46:21,195 --> 00:46:23,555 Speaker 1: she said, don't run for a train. There'll always be 737 00:46:23,595 --> 00:46:26,675 Speaker 1: another one. The other phrase I never really understood till 738 00:46:26,715 --> 00:46:31,715 Speaker 1: then was break neck speed. Oh, when there is one 739 00:46:31,755 --> 00:46:34,835 Speaker 1: more punchline here. If the name of that hospital that 740 00:46:34,915 --> 00:46:38,395 Speaker 1: the two good Samaritans took me to, Elmhurst Hospital sounds 741 00:46:38,435 --> 00:46:42,075 Speaker 1: vaguely familiar, it should. It was ground zero when COVID 742 00:46:42,155 --> 00:46:45,355 Speaker 1: nineteen hit. When the pandemic had its hand around New 743 00:46:45,395 --> 00:46:48,835 Speaker 1: York City's throat, the worst hit community was Elmhurst in 744 00:46:48,915 --> 00:46:53,435 Speaker 1: Queen's and The worst hit hospital was Elmhurst Hospital. They 745 00:46:53,475 --> 00:46:56,115 Speaker 1: were in desperate need at that point of ventilators, so 746 00:46:56,235 --> 00:46:58,275 Speaker 1: I knew what I had to do. You could buy 747 00:46:58,315 --> 00:47:03,035 Speaker 1: them for cash legally, so I got two ventilators. I 748 00:47:03,075 --> 00:47:06,795 Speaker 1: had them delivered, one for each of the ladies who 749 00:47:06,835 --> 00:47:09,755 Speaker 1: helped me to get off the damn train that day. 750 00:47:21,995 --> 00:47:23,875 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 751 00:47:23,915 --> 00:47:28,715 Speaker 1: you for listening. Hey, sometime yesterday or maybe late Saturday night, 752 00:47:28,795 --> 00:47:34,755 Speaker 1: we crossed the two million audience plateau for August. With 753 00:47:34,835 --> 00:47:37,515 Speaker 1: your help, we have an excellent chance at three million 754 00:47:37,595 --> 00:47:41,435 Speaker 1: for the month. Tell the others. Countdown has come to 755 00:47:41,475 --> 00:47:44,075 Speaker 1: you from our studios hi ontop the Sports Capsule Building 756 00:47:44,155 --> 00:47:46,875 Speaker 1: in New York. Here are the credits. Most of the 757 00:47:46,955 --> 00:47:49,595 Speaker 1: music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and 758 00:47:49,675 --> 00:47:53,475 Speaker 1: John Phillip Schanel. They are the Countdown musical directors, of course. 759 00:47:53,995 --> 00:47:58,075 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Schanel, Guitars, bass 760 00:47:58,075 --> 00:48:01,595 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. Other 761 00:48:01,635 --> 00:48:04,435 Speaker 1: Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by the group 762 00:48:04,475 --> 00:48:07,675 Speaker 1: No Horn's Allowed. The sports music is the Olderman theme 763 00:48:07,675 --> 00:48:10,595 Speaker 1: from ESPN two and it was written by Mitch Warren 764 00:48:10,675 --> 00:48:14,675 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments by Nancy Fauss, 765 00:48:14,715 --> 00:48:17,715 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was 766 00:48:17,755 --> 00:48:21,315 Speaker 1: my crazy friend Tony Kornheiser. Everything else is pretty much 767 00:48:21,355 --> 00:48:24,115 Speaker 1: my fault. So that's countdown for this, the nine hundred 768 00:48:24,115 --> 00:48:27,555 Speaker 1: and fifty seventh day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 769 00:48:27,595 --> 00:48:31,075 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Arrest 770 00:48:31,155 --> 00:48:35,315 Speaker 1: him again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown 771 00:48:35,395 --> 00:48:38,235 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news warrants till then, I'm 772 00:48:38,275 --> 00:48:43,235 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, then good luck. 773 00:48:57,155 --> 00:49:01,115 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 774 00:49:01,275 --> 00:49:06,355 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 775 00:49:06,475 --> 00:49:08,435 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.