1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 2 00:00:22,435 --> 00:00:26,235 Speaker 1: Will get to Baseball's Sudden Nightmare. It has either a 3 00:00:26,275 --> 00:00:31,435 Speaker 1: show hey Otani adjacent gambling crisis or perhaps a show 4 00:00:31,475 --> 00:00:35,755 Speaker 1: hey Otani gambling crisis and also to the end of 5 00:00:35,875 --> 00:00:39,715 Speaker 1: impeachment and of Rudy Giuliani presently but first. In a 6 00:00:39,835 --> 00:00:44,955 Speaker 1: simply amazing development even for Trump, Trump's lawyer in the 7 00:00:44,995 --> 00:00:48,435 Speaker 1: case is refusing to deny that Trump is trying to 8 00:00:48,475 --> 00:00:52,115 Speaker 1: get somebody from Russia or Saudi Arabia to pay off 9 00:00:52,515 --> 00:00:56,835 Speaker 1: or guarantee or underwrite or whatever the four hundred and 10 00:00:56,955 --> 00:00:59,595 Speaker 1: sixty four million dollars he has to pay the State 11 00:00:59,635 --> 00:01:01,955 Speaker 1: of New York by Monday or begin to see the 12 00:01:01,955 --> 00:01:05,675 Speaker 1: Attorney General seize his property in the state eight in 13 00:01:05,755 --> 00:01:10,395 Speaker 1: a slick but startling no comment that couldn't possibly have 14 00:01:10,435 --> 00:01:13,555 Speaker 1: been a better idea than a flat denial, even a 15 00:01:13,635 --> 00:01:18,555 Speaker 1: dishonest flat denial. Alina Haba was asked point blank by 16 00:01:18,595 --> 00:01:22,515 Speaker 1: Martha McCallum on her Fox News show The Story, and 17 00:01:22,675 --> 00:01:26,355 Speaker 1: Haba could not punt this question fast enough. 18 00:01:26,475 --> 00:01:28,995 Speaker 2: Is there any effort on the part of your team 19 00:01:29,115 --> 00:01:33,195 Speaker 2: to secure this money through another country? Saudi Arabia or Russia, 20 00:01:33,275 --> 00:01:37,515 Speaker 2: as Joy Behar seems to think, Well. 21 00:01:37,355 --> 00:01:39,915 Speaker 3: There's rules and regulations that are public. I can't speak 22 00:01:39,955 --> 00:01:43,075 Speaker 3: about strategy that require certain things, and we have to 23 00:01:43,115 --> 00:01:46,875 Speaker 3: follow those rules. Like I said, this is manifest injustice. 24 00:01:46,955 --> 00:01:49,835 Speaker 3: It is impossible. It's an impossibility. I believe they knew that. 25 00:01:50,275 --> 00:01:51,435 Speaker 3: I think that's why. 26 00:01:51,435 --> 00:01:55,715 Speaker 1: The nation's leading parking lot case law expert then trailed 27 00:01:55,755 --> 00:01:59,475 Speaker 1: off into which hunt election interference, demise of our country, 28 00:01:59,675 --> 00:02:03,675 Speaker 1: evidently without any awareness that she had just legitimized what 29 00:02:03,755 --> 00:02:07,755 Speaker 1: had been pure speculation up until that point. There are 30 00:02:07,875 --> 00:02:12,355 Speaker 1: no rules or regulations preventing her from saying. No, of course, 31 00:02:12,435 --> 00:02:15,715 Speaker 1: Trump's not trying to sell the Russians something for four 32 00:02:15,795 --> 00:02:18,995 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four million dollars, or he'd never do 33 00:02:19,115 --> 00:02:24,115 Speaker 1: that with the Saudis. The presumptive GOP nominee for president 34 00:02:24,235 --> 00:02:26,755 Speaker 1: is desperate for four hundred and sixty four million dollars 35 00:02:26,795 --> 00:02:31,675 Speaker 1: and counting, which he cannot personally access, writes Illinois Congressman 36 00:02:31,755 --> 00:02:34,955 Speaker 1: Sean Caston. He wrote it after Trump told the court 37 00:02:34,995 --> 00:02:37,475 Speaker 1: he had been turned down by thirty underwriters for a 38 00:02:37,515 --> 00:02:41,915 Speaker 1: bond for that amount. That fact alone makes him Trump 39 00:02:42,235 --> 00:02:47,515 Speaker 1: a massive national security risk. Any foreign adversary seeking to 40 00:02:47,635 --> 00:02:52,995 Speaker 1: buy a president knows the price, unquote. And that comes 41 00:02:52,995 --> 00:02:56,635 Speaker 1: in the context of Trump being still pre trial on 42 00:02:56,755 --> 00:03:01,835 Speaker 1: thirty seven counts of mishandling classified documents and secret information 43 00:03:01,915 --> 00:03:06,995 Speaker 1: in Florida. And they're also being a snowball, at least 44 00:03:07,035 --> 00:03:11,395 Speaker 1: in parts started by impeccable Ganfly Brian Boutler asking under 45 00:03:11,435 --> 00:03:16,235 Speaker 1: these circumstances, why on God's green Earth would the Biden 46 00:03:16,275 --> 00:03:21,395 Speaker 1: administration give Trump the national security briefings traditionally given to 47 00:03:21,435 --> 00:03:24,715 Speaker 1: the presidential candidates of the major parties. I mean, hell, 48 00:03:25,075 --> 00:03:27,715 Speaker 1: it would make more sense now for this government just 49 00:03:27,795 --> 00:03:30,715 Speaker 1: to give Trump the money he needs than to give 50 00:03:30,795 --> 00:03:33,875 Speaker 1: him the secrets he could turn into the money he needs. 51 00:03:34,875 --> 00:03:38,395 Speaker 1: Remember when Trump said a bond for that amount was 52 00:03:38,435 --> 00:03:42,995 Speaker 1: a quote practical impossibility. That game on the same day 53 00:03:43,475 --> 00:03:48,835 Speaker 1: that former Trump campaign chief Paul Manifort, the human international 54 00:03:48,955 --> 00:03:55,035 Speaker 1: money spigot Russian operative branded a quote grave counterintelligence threat 55 00:03:55,075 --> 00:03:59,475 Speaker 1: by a bipartisan Senate investigation just four years ago. The 56 00:03:59,715 --> 00:04:04,195 Speaker 1: day Paul Manifort suddenly reappeared like one of the Walking 57 00:04:04,435 --> 00:04:08,195 Speaker 1: Day had reportedly tapped to run the twenty twenty four 58 00:04:08,435 --> 00:04:12,555 Speaker 1: Republican National convention, and it's not even two weeks since 59 00:04:12,635 --> 00:04:16,315 Speaker 1: Trump's TikTok flip flop, where he went from being the 60 00:04:16,355 --> 00:04:19,795 Speaker 1: president who'd given the social media site forty five days 61 00:04:19,835 --> 00:04:22,715 Speaker 1: to kill off its Chinese ownership or be banned in 62 00:04:22,755 --> 00:04:25,875 Speaker 1: this country to saying to the Republicans in Congress who 63 00:04:25,915 --> 00:04:28,395 Speaker 1: thought they were doing his bidding for him, that no, 64 00:04:29,075 --> 00:04:34,075 Speaker 1: they must not ban TikTok because that would help Facebook, 65 00:04:34,515 --> 00:04:38,235 Speaker 1: and Facebook is the enemy of the people. And then 66 00:04:38,275 --> 00:04:41,755 Speaker 1: it was revealed Trump had said this after he met 67 00:04:41,795 --> 00:04:45,315 Speaker 1: with jeff Yass who owns thirty three billion dollars worth 68 00:04:45,435 --> 00:04:49,835 Speaker 1: of TikTok, and I'm just guessing here has presumably met 69 00:04:50,075 --> 00:04:54,715 Speaker 1: some of his Chinese co owners. And this doesn't even 70 00:04:54,755 --> 00:04:58,075 Speaker 1: factor in Trump's recent meeting with Elon Musk, about which 71 00:04:58,875 --> 00:05:04,355 Speaker 1: impossibly neither of these brain damaged compulsive talkers has revealed 72 00:05:04,675 --> 00:05:10,995 Speaker 1: any notable details. Trump's former financial fixer Michael Cohen had said, 73 00:05:11,035 --> 00:05:15,075 Speaker 1: this continues to make Donald Trump the single most dangerous 74 00:05:15,195 --> 00:05:19,515 Speaker 1: thing in America to our national security and democracy. He 75 00:05:19,555 --> 00:05:22,755 Speaker 1: doesn't care where the money comes from as long as 76 00:05:22,795 --> 00:05:27,715 Speaker 1: he gets it. And Cohen said that before. Alena Habba 77 00:05:27,915 --> 00:05:31,075 Speaker 1: just put that startling headline on top of this story, 78 00:05:31,315 --> 00:05:34,195 Speaker 1: startling even for Trump, startling even for one of Trump's 79 00:05:34,275 --> 00:05:39,875 Speaker 1: nitwit lawyers. Trump refuses to deny he has asked Russians 80 00:05:40,115 --> 00:05:43,555 Speaker 1: and Saudi's for the money he owes to the state 81 00:05:43,595 --> 00:05:57,075 Speaker 1: of New York, and now it belongs to the ages. 82 00:05:57,515 --> 00:06:01,195 Speaker 1: The Trump putin attempt to make up something to impeach 83 00:06:01,315 --> 00:06:06,035 Speaker 1: Joe Biden over died yesterday at ten am Eastern Daylight 84 00:06:06,275 --> 00:06:11,315 Speaker 1: Savings time when Fox News cut away from the hearings. 85 00:06:11,795 --> 00:06:17,275 Speaker 1: Minutes later, the Newsmax propaganda feed also cut away from 86 00:06:17,315 --> 00:06:20,835 Speaker 1: live coverage, and the impeachment died when its supply of 87 00:06:20,915 --> 00:06:25,875 Speaker 1: oxygen was cut off. The Trump Putent impatriment attempt was 88 00:06:25,915 --> 00:06:31,115 Speaker 1: sixteen years old. It was born on October thirtieth, two 89 00:06:31,195 --> 00:06:38,035 Speaker 1: thousand and seven, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during a Democratic presidential debate. 90 00:06:39,035 --> 00:06:43,075 Speaker 1: When this happened, Rudy Giuliani, I mean, think about it, 91 00:06:43,195 --> 00:06:44,115 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani. 92 00:06:44,155 --> 00:06:46,835 Speaker 4: There's only three things he mentioned in a sentence, a noun, 93 00:06:46,915 --> 00:06:48,835 Speaker 4: in a verb in nine to eleven. I mean there's 94 00:06:48,955 --> 00:06:53,275 Speaker 4: nothing else. There's nothing else, and I mean it sincerely. 95 00:06:53,875 --> 00:06:56,995 Speaker 4: He is genuinely not qualified to be president. 96 00:06:57,075 --> 00:07:00,435 Speaker 1: Proud to note that debate was on MSNBC, moderated by 97 00:07:00,435 --> 00:07:06,315 Speaker 1: Tim Russert, coverage anchored by ME. Subsequent head expl Rudy Giuliani, 98 00:07:06,955 --> 00:07:11,635 Speaker 1: formally ending his presidential aspirations and political career and cementing 99 00:07:12,115 --> 00:07:15,915 Speaker 1: his already twenty four year old hatred of Senator Joe 100 00:07:15,995 --> 00:07:19,995 Speaker 1: Biden and leading a decade later to Giuliani either soliciting 101 00:07:20,395 --> 00:07:23,795 Speaker 1: fabricated slander about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and if 102 00:07:23,795 --> 00:07:27,595 Speaker 1: he hadn't died, Bo Biden, or someone sharp in Russian 103 00:07:27,595 --> 00:07:33,235 Speaker 1: intelligence realizing that Giuliani would truly believe and sell anything 104 00:07:33,755 --> 00:07:37,355 Speaker 1: bad said about the Bidens, and that Giuliani was a 105 00:07:37,395 --> 00:07:39,995 Speaker 1: conduit to Donald Trump, and that Donald Trump was sick 106 00:07:40,035 --> 00:07:43,715 Speaker 1: in the bean, and that you could tear America apart 107 00:07:43,795 --> 00:07:47,075 Speaker 1: from the inside out just as long as you kept 108 00:07:47,115 --> 00:07:50,955 Speaker 1: Giuliani convinced that he could destroy Biden, and you could 109 00:07:50,995 --> 00:07:54,075 Speaker 1: keep Trump convinced that he had to destroy Biden to 110 00:07:54,235 --> 00:07:59,435 Speaker 1: retain and then regain the presidency. And it all ended 111 00:07:59,475 --> 00:08:02,715 Speaker 1: at a hearing in which the poor cracker moron they 112 00:08:02,795 --> 00:08:08,395 Speaker 1: handed this disaster to James Comer Pile of Tennessee, saw 113 00:08:08,435 --> 00:08:12,475 Speaker 1: his lead witness arrested for lying to the FBI about 114 00:08:12,515 --> 00:08:15,435 Speaker 1: the stuff that had made him his lead witness. He 115 00:08:15,475 --> 00:08:19,915 Speaker 1: saw his other witness testifying by video link from Tennessee 116 00:08:20,795 --> 00:08:24,515 Speaker 1: from a prison in Tennessee where he now lives after 117 00:08:24,555 --> 00:08:28,915 Speaker 1: stealing eighty million dollars in union pensions, and he saw 118 00:08:28,955 --> 00:08:32,835 Speaker 1: his only witness, who is not in jail at the moment, 119 00:08:33,355 --> 00:08:39,315 Speaker 1: fail completely in an attempt to simply state which crime 120 00:08:40,115 --> 00:08:44,155 Speaker 1: he thinks he saw the president commit. 121 00:08:44,675 --> 00:08:50,875 Speaker 5: Is it your testimony today that you personally witnessed President 122 00:08:51,195 --> 00:08:53,755 Speaker 5: Joe Biden commit a crime? 123 00:08:57,315 --> 00:08:59,475 Speaker 6: I believe the fact that he was sitting with me 124 00:08:59,635 --> 00:09:01,395 Speaker 6: while I was putting together a bad Did. 125 00:09:01,315 --> 00:09:04,475 Speaker 5: You witness the president commit a crime? Is it your 126 00:09:04,515 --> 00:09:05,635 Speaker 5: testimony today? 127 00:09:05,715 --> 00:09:09,955 Speaker 1: Yes? And what crime do you have you witnessed? How 128 00:09:10,035 --> 00:09:11,595 Speaker 1: much time do I have to go through it? It 129 00:09:11,675 --> 00:09:12,195 Speaker 1: is simple? 130 00:09:12,435 --> 00:09:16,035 Speaker 5: You name the crime? Did you watch him steal something? 131 00:09:16,355 --> 00:09:20,595 Speaker 1: Corruption? Statues rico? And what is it? What is what 132 00:09:20,795 --> 00:09:21,635 Speaker 1: is the crime? 133 00:09:21,835 --> 00:09:22,075 Speaker 4: Sir? 134 00:09:23,275 --> 00:09:26,795 Speaker 1: Specific you keep up? You asked me to answer the question. 135 00:09:26,995 --> 00:09:30,555 Speaker 1: I answered the question. Ko. You're obviously not familiar with crupt. 136 00:09:30,675 --> 00:09:34,995 Speaker 5: Excuse me, sir, excuse me, sir, excuse me, sir. Rico 137 00:09:35,435 --> 00:09:38,275 Speaker 5: is not a crime, It is a category. 138 00:09:38,555 --> 00:09:42,195 Speaker 6: What is the category of crimes that you're then charging. 139 00:09:42,195 --> 00:09:46,755 Speaker 6: You have charges long hundred, you have charges, sir, please 140 00:09:47,635 --> 00:09:50,675 Speaker 6: zach statute don Rico. Yes, well, it's funny in this 141 00:09:50,755 --> 00:09:53,675 Speaker 6: committee room. Everyone's not here. There's over eight all right, sir. 142 00:09:53,675 --> 00:09:58,235 Speaker 1: I reclaim my time, you guys, thank you, sir, I 143 00:09:58,275 --> 00:09:58,995 Speaker 1: reclaim my time. 144 00:09:59,395 --> 00:10:04,555 Speaker 5: Clearly, what we are seeing here today is a continuation 145 00:10:05,075 --> 00:10:10,515 Speaker 5: of the fifteen month saga of the Republican Majority lost 146 00:10:10,835 --> 00:10:12,395 Speaker 5: in the Desert. 147 00:10:12,795 --> 00:10:15,435 Speaker 1: Impeachment one oh one. 148 00:10:15,755 --> 00:10:21,075 Speaker 5: The majority party or whomever is raising impeachment must accuse 149 00:10:21,235 --> 00:10:25,515 Speaker 5: the president of a high crime, a specific high crime 150 00:10:25,595 --> 00:10:27,715 Speaker 5: or misdemeanor. I would like to submit to the record 151 00:10:28,155 --> 00:10:31,675 Speaker 5: h Res. Nine to one eighth the House Resolution to 152 00:10:31,835 --> 00:10:34,035 Speaker 5: open this impeachment inquiry. 153 00:10:33,955 --> 00:10:34,995 Speaker 1: Without objection to order. 154 00:10:35,115 --> 00:10:40,555 Speaker 5: This resolution does not outline a high crime or misdemeanor. 155 00:10:40,755 --> 00:10:44,515 Speaker 1: It's not here thanks to congress Woman Okazio Cortes. There. 156 00:10:45,115 --> 00:10:50,195 Speaker 1: Tony Bobolinski's extended Window of Fame was born on October 157 00:10:50,235 --> 00:10:53,595 Speaker 1: twenty second, twenty twenty. It also died yesterday. The window 158 00:10:54,275 --> 00:11:00,595 Speaker 1: was three years old. This went on all day yesterday. 159 00:11:01,515 --> 00:11:04,675 Speaker 1: Very few people saw it, though, because as I mentioned, 160 00:11:04,795 --> 00:11:07,835 Speaker 1: and Fox quickly reduced it to a video only no 161 00:11:08,195 --> 00:11:12,635 Speaker 1: sound box in the lower right hand corner, covering about 162 00:11:12,755 --> 00:11:17,435 Speaker 1: one thirty six of its screen. Fox bailed out during 163 00:11:17,475 --> 00:11:22,035 Speaker 1: the opening statement of Giuliani's ex henchman Lev Parness. By 164 00:11:22,035 --> 00:11:26,155 Speaker 1: the end of the day, though, to paraphrase Grant at Shiloh, 165 00:11:26,395 --> 00:11:30,075 Speaker 1: I saw an open field so covered with dead that 166 00:11:30,155 --> 00:11:32,795 Speaker 1: it would have been possible to walk across the clearing 167 00:11:33,115 --> 00:11:36,635 Speaker 1: in any direction, stepping on dead bodies without a foot 168 00:11:36,675 --> 00:11:39,235 Speaker 1: touching the ground. And not a goddamned one of them 169 00:11:39,355 --> 00:11:42,275 Speaker 1: was named Biden. Here is Lev Parnas. 170 00:11:42,595 --> 00:11:45,155 Speaker 7: I have been trying to share the irrefutable truth with 171 00:11:45,235 --> 00:11:49,155 Speaker 7: you now. American people have been lied to by Donald Trump, 172 00:11:49,315 --> 00:11:53,035 Speaker 7: Rudy Giuliani, and various courts of individuals in government and 173 00:11:53,115 --> 00:11:57,475 Speaker 7: media positions. They created falsehoods to serve their own interests, 174 00:11:57,515 --> 00:12:01,035 Speaker 7: knowing it would undermine the strength of our nation. From 175 00:12:01,075 --> 00:12:05,235 Speaker 7: November twenty eighteen to October twenty nineteen, I was a keeper, disipant, 176 00:12:05,355 --> 00:12:08,435 Speaker 7: and a witness to numerous efforts to prove that Joe 177 00:12:08,475 --> 00:12:11,195 Speaker 7: and Hunter Biden were linked to corruption in Ukraine. 178 00:12:12,355 --> 00:12:13,955 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani on behalf of them. 179 00:12:13,995 --> 00:12:16,435 Speaker 7: President Donald Trump tasked me with a mission to travel 180 00:12:16,475 --> 00:12:19,155 Speaker 7: the globe finding dirt on the Bidens, so then array 181 00:12:19,195 --> 00:12:23,035 Speaker 7: of networks could spread misinformation about them, thus securing the 182 00:12:23,075 --> 00:12:24,835 Speaker 7: twenty twenty election for Donald J. 183 00:12:24,955 --> 00:12:25,315 Speaker 1: Trump. 184 00:12:25,555 --> 00:12:28,515 Speaker 7: Everything was for the ultimate benefit of Donald Trump and 185 00:12:28,555 --> 00:12:32,955 Speaker 7: thereby Vladimir Putin. Because the team's investigations were centered around 186 00:12:32,995 --> 00:12:35,915 Speaker 7: Biden and Ukraine. I always designated the point person in 187 00:12:35,955 --> 00:12:39,715 Speaker 7: every matter they pursued. That is how, that is how 188 00:12:39,755 --> 00:12:42,755 Speaker 7: I know with certainty that these Biden stories are untrue 189 00:12:42,795 --> 00:12:48,035 Speaker 7: then and are untrue now. Congressman Pete Sessions, then Congressman 190 00:12:48,075 --> 00:12:51,755 Speaker 7: Devin Juniors, Senator Ron Johnson, and many others understood they 191 00:12:51,755 --> 00:12:55,355 Speaker 7: were pushing a false narrative. The same goes for John Solomon, 192 00:12:55,435 --> 00:12:59,315 Speaker 7: Sean Hannity, and media personnel, particularly at Fox News, who 193 00:12:59,395 --> 00:13:01,595 Speaker 7: used this narrative to manipulate the public ahead of the 194 00:13:01,675 --> 00:13:06,195 Speaker 7: twenty twenty elections, sadly doing this today as we approach 195 00:13:06,235 --> 00:13:07,795 Speaker 7: the twenty twenty four elections. 196 00:13:07,995 --> 00:13:08,755 Speaker 1: Were you aware? 197 00:13:08,915 --> 00:13:11,875 Speaker 8: Was mister Giuliani aware that these people were basically just 198 00:13:11,955 --> 00:13:13,715 Speaker 8: doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin? 199 00:13:14,075 --> 00:13:16,035 Speaker 1: Absolutely so. 200 00:13:16,515 --> 00:13:20,355 Speaker 8: He had no hesitation about spreading lies that were concocted 201 00:13:20,395 --> 00:13:21,915 Speaker 8: by Russian agents. 202 00:13:21,955 --> 00:13:23,235 Speaker 7: As long as it fit the narrative. 203 00:13:23,355 --> 00:13:23,955 Speaker 1: Absolutely not. 204 00:13:25,635 --> 00:13:28,515 Speaker 8: How were you and Giuliani able to take these false 205 00:13:28,555 --> 00:13:33,035 Speaker 8: allegations peddled by corrupt officials and Russian agents and promote 206 00:13:33,035 --> 00:13:35,795 Speaker 8: and amplify them here in the United States in our 207 00:13:35,915 --> 00:13:39,475 Speaker 8: political system? Weren't media groups skeptical of your claims? 208 00:13:40,195 --> 00:13:44,315 Speaker 7: Most media groups, I'd probably say all except for Fox 209 00:13:44,355 --> 00:13:47,835 Speaker 7: and a few other right wing media groups didn't want 210 00:13:47,835 --> 00:13:51,755 Speaker 7: to take any of the information, and that aggravated Rudy 211 00:13:51,795 --> 00:13:55,915 Speaker 7: Giuliani and John Solomon other players. And the main group 212 00:13:55,955 --> 00:13:59,075 Speaker 7: that was being pushed through was Fox, Sean Hannity and 213 00:13:59,155 --> 00:14:01,835 Speaker 7: some other media personnels over there. But then there was 214 00:14:01,875 --> 00:14:03,995 Speaker 7: also other people that were doing the bidding for the 215 00:14:04,075 --> 00:14:08,395 Speaker 7: Russian people in Congress, like Senator Ron Johnson, like Congressman 216 00:14:08,435 --> 00:14:11,155 Speaker 7: Pete Sessions. That sits here right now. That was with 217 00:14:11,195 --> 00:14:13,875 Speaker 7: me from the very beginning of this journey into finding 218 00:14:13,875 --> 00:14:15,475 Speaker 7: of digging dirt on Joe Biden. 219 00:14:15,675 --> 00:14:20,715 Speaker 9: You also said that mister Giuliani was to quote deliver 220 00:14:20,875 --> 00:14:28,195 Speaker 9: a precise message in very strict words unquote, with respect 221 00:14:28,195 --> 00:14:33,115 Speaker 9: to the administration of the then newly installed President of Ukraine, 222 00:14:33,515 --> 00:14:40,355 Speaker 9: President Zelensky. What did you understand a very strict message 223 00:14:40,475 --> 00:14:42,515 Speaker 9: or a message of very strict words. 224 00:14:43,675 --> 00:14:46,035 Speaker 1: Construed. And what was that. 225 00:14:45,915 --> 00:14:49,515 Speaker 9: Message that you delivered that was in very strict words. 226 00:14:49,715 --> 00:14:52,555 Speaker 7: Yes, Congress he basically told me not to be nice, 227 00:14:52,715 --> 00:14:55,515 Speaker 7: to be very stern and relay a message that unless 228 00:14:55,595 --> 00:14:59,075 Speaker 7: Zelensky announced an investigation into the bidens by Monday, this 229 00:14:59,235 --> 00:15:02,755 Speaker 7: was Sunday, that there would be no cooperation, no aid 230 00:15:03,355 --> 00:15:06,355 Speaker 7: to Ukraine from the United States, and the President Vice 231 00:15:06,395 --> 00:15:09,555 Speaker 7: President Pence at the time that was scheduled to appear 232 00:15:09,595 --> 00:15:12,195 Speaker 7: for the inauguration would not appear to the inauguration. 233 00:15:12,595 --> 00:15:16,595 Speaker 9: That would seem to corroborate that very famous and beautiful 234 00:15:16,675 --> 00:15:21,835 Speaker 9: telephone conversation between President Trump then and President Zelensky Uh 235 00:15:22,755 --> 00:15:27,035 Speaker 9: basically saying, but I need a favor and hinting that 236 00:15:27,115 --> 00:15:30,955 Speaker 9: they'd be withholding of military aid until that favor was delivered. 237 00:15:31,275 --> 00:15:32,195 Speaker 1: Is that fair? Oh? 238 00:15:32,235 --> 00:15:34,555 Speaker 7: Absolutely, I was a part of setting up that phone call. 239 00:15:34,795 --> 00:15:39,435 Speaker 1: Congressman Jerry Connolly there and earlier Jamie Raskin helping along 240 00:15:39,555 --> 00:15:45,995 Speaker 1: Live Parnis, and Congressman Jamie Moskowitz helping Alonge Tony Bobolinski 241 00:15:46,635 --> 00:15:48,435 Speaker 1: or whatever's left of him here. 242 00:15:48,795 --> 00:15:50,595 Speaker 10: You can be damn sure they would have called the 243 00:15:50,675 --> 00:15:54,315 Speaker 10: vote by now right, but they wanted to go on. Well, 244 00:15:54,355 --> 00:15:57,195 Speaker 10: they either wanted to go on because they don't. 245 00:15:56,835 --> 00:15:58,755 Speaker 1: Have the evidence. Are you asking me a question? 246 00:15:59,035 --> 00:16:01,275 Speaker 10: I was looking at you. Oh, but if you want 247 00:16:01,275 --> 00:16:02,235 Speaker 10: to talk to me, we can talk. 248 00:16:02,435 --> 00:16:05,555 Speaker 6: Well, no, I think you haven't read recent data that 249 00:16:05,595 --> 00:16:08,275 Speaker 6: shows American people are well aware of the Biden's corruptions. 250 00:16:08,355 --> 00:16:10,755 Speaker 10: Perfect, So then ask the chairman why he hasn't called 251 00:16:10,755 --> 00:16:14,315 Speaker 10: for impeachment. Tony, he's here, Ask comer, Hey, comer, how 252 00:16:14,355 --> 00:16:15,435 Speaker 10: come you haven't called for impeachment? 253 00:16:15,475 --> 00:16:15,755 Speaker 1: I'll do it. 254 00:16:15,795 --> 00:16:18,275 Speaker 10: Watch, Hi, I'm Tony. Hey, chairman, how come you haven't. 255 00:16:18,035 --> 00:16:23,115 Speaker 1: Called paging mister Bobolinsky, Mister Tony Bobolinsky. Moscowitz's point, of course, 256 00:16:23,875 --> 00:16:27,795 Speaker 1: is that the point of the Biden impeachment investigation is 257 00:16:28,555 --> 00:16:33,955 Speaker 1: to have a Biden impeachment investigation, not to actually ever 258 00:16:34,395 --> 00:16:42,475 Speaker 1: impeach ever anybody ever. And yesterday the audience for that 259 00:16:42,635 --> 00:16:47,955 Speaker 1: impeachment that will never happen. Both Regular Strength Fox and 260 00:16:48,635 --> 00:17:01,075 Speaker 1: meth level Newsmax canceled the goddamned show. Before I go 261 00:17:01,195 --> 00:17:04,475 Speaker 1: to the Otani thing from baseball, There is more humorous 262 00:17:04,995 --> 00:17:09,035 Speaker 1: from the Republican Party. Two pieces. The first is from 263 00:17:09,115 --> 00:17:13,635 Speaker 1: that scene hearing from that piece of Jim Jordan, who 264 00:17:13,675 --> 00:17:17,515 Speaker 1: concluded accurately that he had better find something else and 265 00:17:17,635 --> 00:17:21,995 Speaker 1: fast with which to rile them up because impeachment is 266 00:17:22,075 --> 00:17:25,635 Speaker 1: no longer it? Who planted the pipe bobs? On January sixth? 267 00:17:26,275 --> 00:17:29,475 Speaker 10: Nobody seems to know who leaked the Dobbs draft? 268 00:17:29,515 --> 00:17:30,035 Speaker 11: Opinion? 269 00:17:30,475 --> 00:17:32,475 Speaker 1: How about this one? Who left cocaine at the White House? 270 00:17:33,075 --> 00:17:34,315 Speaker 4: Ooh, ooh, ooh. 271 00:17:34,115 --> 00:17:38,155 Speaker 1: Mister cutter, mister cutter, I can answer all those questions. 272 00:17:38,235 --> 00:17:41,795 Speaker 1: Jim Ay, Why don't we know the pipe bomber because 273 00:17:41,835 --> 00:17:46,435 Speaker 1: she hasn't confessed yet? B who leaked the Roe v. 274 00:17:46,635 --> 00:17:51,395 Speaker 1: Wade draft? You mean you think Alito had help? And 275 00:17:51,555 --> 00:17:56,795 Speaker 1: see who had drugs in the White House? Well, Trump's 276 00:17:57,235 --> 00:18:04,835 Speaker 1: presidential physician, Congress and Ronnie Jackson. Duh. The other comedy 277 00:18:05,035 --> 00:18:07,515 Speaker 1: is from one of the Congress women who if they 278 00:18:07,555 --> 00:18:11,515 Speaker 1: suddenly revealed that they don't actually exist and are in 279 00:18:11,515 --> 00:18:16,395 Speaker 1: fact just the work of a couple of talented performance 280 00:18:16,515 --> 00:18:21,715 Speaker 1: artists and comedians and actresses portraying the absolute dumbest characters possible, 281 00:18:22,075 --> 00:18:29,195 Speaker 1: I would not be one bit surprised. Nancy Mace continues 282 00:18:29,435 --> 00:18:34,515 Speaker 1: her one person self martyrdom claim into an eleventh day 283 00:18:35,035 --> 00:18:39,595 Speaker 1: by threatening to do something that would delight every single 284 00:18:39,715 --> 00:18:43,155 Speaker 1: liberal and every single Democrat and every single opponent of 285 00:18:43,195 --> 00:18:45,515 Speaker 1: both sides of media in America. 286 00:18:45,675 --> 00:18:48,475 Speaker 12: I hope Republicans will not watch ABC News and that 287 00:18:48,555 --> 00:18:52,115 Speaker 12: Republican politicians will not go on ABC News, and so 288 00:18:52,195 --> 00:18:56,355 Speaker 12: Bob Eager and everyone else at ABC holds George Stephanoflos accountable. 289 00:18:57,195 --> 00:19:01,715 Speaker 1: Oh no, no more Republicans on ABC's This Week. 290 00:19:02,755 --> 00:19:11,875 Speaker 11: Wait not ever, Oh oh no more Republicans. Stop, don't 291 00:19:11,955 --> 00:19:17,755 Speaker 11: come back. Also, Nance, the guy who runs Disney is 292 00:19:17,835 --> 00:19:29,075 Speaker 11: named Iger, not Eager, not Igger, not goog to be fair, 293 00:19:29,155 --> 00:19:32,235 Speaker 11: He's only worked for ABC since nineteen seventy four, so 294 00:19:32,315 --> 00:19:36,875 Speaker 11: maybe you've never heard the name said before. Welcome to America, 295 00:19:37,355 --> 00:19:54,835 Speaker 11: Nancy Mace. In sports, a big gambling scandal just erupted 296 00:19:54,875 --> 00:20:00,435 Speaker 11: in baseball, or a cataclysmic gambling scandal just erupted in baseball. 297 00:20:00,795 --> 00:20:04,435 Speaker 11: Lawyers were the game's biggest name, the pitcher and designated 298 00:20:04,475 --> 00:20:08,315 Speaker 11: hit Shohei Otani, who just last winter signed a seven 299 00:20:08,595 --> 00:20:12,835 Speaker 11: hundred million dollar contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Say 300 00:20:12,995 --> 00:20:19,915 Speaker 11: Otani's interpreter stole millions of dollars from Otani ESPN reports 301 00:20:19,995 --> 00:20:22,955 Speaker 11: it's four and a half million dollars and he used 302 00:20:22,955 --> 00:20:26,755 Speaker 11: the money allegedly to place bets with an illegal book 303 00:20:26,795 --> 00:20:31,715 Speaker 11: maker in Orange County, California. It's possible, I suppose that 304 00:20:31,755 --> 00:20:34,075 Speaker 11: the book he was handling bets on something other than 305 00:20:34,115 --> 00:20:39,075 Speaker 11: sporting events, but it's really unlikely, especially since sports gambling 306 00:20:39,675 --> 00:20:45,155 Speaker 11: is not legal in California. Otani's lawyers made this claim, 307 00:20:45,235 --> 00:20:48,955 Speaker 11: and the Dodgers immediately fired the translator, named Ife Misuhara. 308 00:20:49,355 --> 00:20:52,835 Speaker 11: After The La Times, as It reported quote learned that 309 00:20:53,035 --> 00:20:57,755 Speaker 11: Otani's name had surfaced in the investigation of Matthew Bauer, 310 00:20:58,155 --> 00:21:01,995 Speaker 11: an Orange County resident. Two sources told the newspaper that 311 00:21:02,035 --> 00:21:05,435 Speaker 11: the money involved was in the millions of dollars. MLB 312 00:21:05,595 --> 00:21:10,235 Speaker 11: Network reported Otani first heard anything about this yesterday after 313 00:21:10,275 --> 00:21:15,075 Speaker 11: the Dodgers season opening game in South Korea. That's all 314 00:21:15,475 --> 00:21:19,315 Speaker 11: bad enough. It's a Major League Baseball employee in his 315 00:21:19,595 --> 00:21:23,075 Speaker 11: eighth season with his third different club, a friend of 316 00:21:23,075 --> 00:21:26,795 Speaker 11: Otani's dating back to Japan and the year twenty thirteen 317 00:21:26,995 --> 00:21:33,035 Speaker 11: tied to extensive illegal gambling millions of dollars worth. But 318 00:21:33,155 --> 00:21:37,155 Speaker 11: this could get way worse, way fast. It's not just 319 00:21:37,195 --> 00:21:41,715 Speaker 11: that Ife Misuhara is Otani's interpreter and has been since 320 00:21:41,755 --> 00:21:44,915 Speaker 11: he came to this country in twenty seventeen, and that 321 00:21:44,995 --> 00:21:47,435 Speaker 11: he moved with him from the Angels to the Dodgers 322 00:21:47,515 --> 00:21:52,555 Speaker 11: last winter. Misuhara also served as Otani's pregame catching partner, 323 00:21:53,075 --> 00:21:57,515 Speaker 11: his workout monitor, his bullpen session catcher, and the two 324 00:21:57,555 --> 00:22:00,755 Speaker 11: men are close enough that when the owners locked the 325 00:22:00,755 --> 00:22:03,995 Speaker 11: players out in a labor dispute two off seasons ago 326 00:22:04,315 --> 00:22:08,835 Speaker 11: and contact between team personnel and players was prohibited, interpreter 327 00:22:09,035 --> 00:22:15,035 Speaker 11: Misuhara quit his job with the Los Angeles Angels so 328 00:22:15,075 --> 00:22:19,155 Speaker 11: that he could keep working with Shohotani through the lockout. 329 00:22:20,715 --> 00:22:24,195 Speaker 11: It is also not impossible that a seemingly close friend 330 00:22:24,235 --> 00:22:28,995 Speaker 11: could rob his ultra rich pal blind. It has happened 331 00:22:29,035 --> 00:22:33,675 Speaker 11: in every sport, it has probably happened in every business. 332 00:22:34,235 --> 00:22:37,915 Speaker 11: But given the closeness of sho He Otani and Ipei Mizuhara, 333 00:22:38,315 --> 00:22:40,475 Speaker 11: given the fact that the story broke because the La 334 00:22:40,595 --> 00:22:45,195 Speaker 11: Times learned that Otani's name had surfaced in the gambling investigation, 335 00:22:45,315 --> 00:22:49,635 Speaker 11: not the interpreters. Given baseball still near death penalty punishments 336 00:22:49,635 --> 00:22:53,475 Speaker 11: for illegal gambling by players, and given the Dodgers history 337 00:22:53,475 --> 00:22:58,235 Speaker 11: of not exactly closely vetting star players before signing them. 338 00:22:58,915 --> 00:23:02,915 Speaker 11: Think of the now shadow band ex Dodger pitcher Trevor Bauer. 339 00:23:03,475 --> 00:23:06,755 Speaker 11: The Commissioner's office is now going to have to go 340 00:23:06,835 --> 00:23:10,835 Speaker 11: to the old cliche and provide the answer to this question, 341 00:23:11,875 --> 00:23:17,115 Speaker 11: what did Shohei Otani know and when did he know? 342 00:23:17,235 --> 00:23:26,075 Speaker 1: It? Also of interest here and I feel like saying 343 00:23:26,115 --> 00:23:29,355 Speaker 1: I'll be back with the weather after this. That poor 344 00:23:29,475 --> 00:23:32,875 Speaker 1: candidate for the Republican House nomination in the Ohio second, 345 00:23:33,875 --> 00:23:36,115 Speaker 1: he may in fact be the most honest member of 346 00:23:36,195 --> 00:23:42,275 Speaker 1: his party alive today, perhaps in generations. And I mean 347 00:23:42,355 --> 00:23:44,755 Speaker 1: never mind the fact that the guy sent out his 348 00:23:44,835 --> 00:23:49,515 Speaker 1: concession speech early and thus was guilty of premature dejection. 349 00:23:50,675 --> 00:23:54,475 Speaker 1: This is a Republican who, in the year twenty twenty 350 00:23:54,515 --> 00:24:02,635 Speaker 1: four has actually admitted he lost, and he did it twice. 351 00:24:02,875 --> 00:24:09,235 Speaker 1: That's next this discountdown. This is countdown with Keith Alberman 352 00:24:31,035 --> 00:24:33,395 Speaker 1: Stelle ahead of has on this editionive countdown. So we 353 00:24:33,475 --> 00:24:38,075 Speaker 1: have crossed the rubicon of my broadcasting history. It is 354 00:24:38,155 --> 00:24:42,195 Speaker 1: no longer the kids of people I used to know 355 00:24:42,235 --> 00:24:45,235 Speaker 1: in the business asking for my help to get started. 356 00:24:45,955 --> 00:24:52,315 Speaker 1: It's their grandkids. One of the grandchildren of the guy 357 00:24:52,435 --> 00:24:56,395 Speaker 1: who bought the second radio network I ever worked at 358 00:24:56,435 --> 00:25:01,115 Speaker 1: the place I had my second job at. They have 359 00:25:01,355 --> 00:25:04,475 Speaker 1: asked for help to get a first job. You know 360 00:25:04,515 --> 00:25:08,355 Speaker 1: how Ulderman is. He's two hundred and six. Of course 361 00:25:08,395 --> 00:25:11,355 Speaker 1: I helped her, but not before I told her every 362 00:25:11,475 --> 00:25:14,835 Speaker 1: story I could think of about that network, especially the 363 00:25:14,955 --> 00:25:19,035 Speaker 1: day that we desperately needed George Steinbredder, the owner of 364 00:25:19,075 --> 00:25:22,235 Speaker 1: the New York Yankees, to be our source off the 365 00:25:22,275 --> 00:25:25,915 Speaker 1: record for a big story, and nobody could find him. 366 00:25:26,195 --> 00:25:28,795 Speaker 1: And then I turned the corner going to my house, 367 00:25:29,155 --> 00:25:32,875 Speaker 1: and he's standing there, and not just standing there, but 368 00:25:32,915 --> 00:25:37,275 Speaker 1: he's standing there shouting all the information we needed him 369 00:25:37,275 --> 00:25:42,315 Speaker 1: to be our source for things I promised not to tell. Next, 370 00:25:43,515 --> 00:25:46,275 Speaker 1: first still Miller Idiots to talk about the daily roundup 371 00:25:46,275 --> 00:25:49,115 Speaker 1: of the Miss Grant's morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens 372 00:25:49,275 --> 00:25:55,395 Speaker 1: who constitute two days worst persons in the world. First 373 00:25:55,435 --> 00:25:59,595 Speaker 1: the Bronze worse Lauren Bobert again a picture of her 374 00:26:00,035 --> 00:26:03,075 Speaker 1: like maybe a gypsum mine or something with a bunch 375 00:26:03,155 --> 00:26:07,035 Speaker 1: of old dudes and alboy hats, and then the quote 376 00:26:07,355 --> 00:26:11,555 Speaker 1: big wins. As local communities are receiving over twenty million 377 00:26:11,875 --> 00:26:16,795 Speaker 1: for important water and infrastructure projects. I'm grateful to all 378 00:26:16,875 --> 00:26:21,155 Speaker 1: the stakeholders who brought these local priorities to my attention 379 00:26:21,555 --> 00:26:28,795 Speaker 1: and helped ensure my ten requests were passed into law. Unquote. 380 00:26:29,075 --> 00:26:32,195 Speaker 1: Of course, the bill with Bobert's ten requests that was 381 00:26:32,235 --> 00:26:37,435 Speaker 1: passed into law, Bobert voted against it. So the stakeholders 382 00:26:37,515 --> 00:26:43,155 Speaker 1: she's referring to are the Democrats and President Biden gop 383 00:26:43,475 --> 00:26:48,435 Speaker 1: sop now vote against spending, then claim credit for the spending. 384 00:26:49,155 --> 00:26:52,755 Speaker 1: So no, to paraphrase Wint issuing a correction on a 385 00:26:52,795 --> 00:26:56,555 Speaker 1: previous post of mine regarding the terror group, Lauren Bobert 386 00:26:56,555 --> 00:27:00,635 Speaker 1: and the phony Republicans, you do not under any circumstances 387 00:27:00,955 --> 00:27:06,315 Speaker 1: quote gotta hand it to them up worser Eric Shawn, 388 00:27:06,515 --> 00:27:10,275 Speaker 1: Fox News correspondent, This is meant facetiously. I don't want 389 00:27:10,275 --> 00:27:12,955 Speaker 1: to say he's old, but when I was a twenty 390 00:27:12,995 --> 00:27:15,155 Speaker 1: two year old reporter on CNN in New York, I 391 00:27:15,235 --> 00:27:18,995 Speaker 1: covered stories that he was covering for local stations here. 392 00:27:19,395 --> 00:27:21,915 Speaker 1: Not a big guy. He wound up at Fox as 393 00:27:21,955 --> 00:27:25,435 Speaker 1: it started, and I don't know what he has on 394 00:27:25,555 --> 00:27:28,675 Speaker 1: his bosses there, But this is the same guy who 395 00:27:28,715 --> 00:27:32,515 Speaker 1: debunked Trump's lies. About the twenty twenty election on Fox 396 00:27:33,035 --> 00:27:37,555 Speaker 1: and interviewed a spokesman for Dominion about Fox on Fox 397 00:27:38,155 --> 00:27:40,955 Speaker 1: and in April twenty twenty who pleaded with Fox viewers 398 00:27:40,995 --> 00:27:45,875 Speaker 1: to stay home during the pandemic. And now about the 399 00:27:45,955 --> 00:27:48,955 Speaker 1: Letitia James case against Trump and the Monday doomsday for 400 00:27:48,995 --> 00:27:52,795 Speaker 1: Trump where she can start seizing his fat assets unless 401 00:27:52,795 --> 00:27:55,075 Speaker 1: he gets that foreign money that he won't deny he's 402 00:27:55,075 --> 00:27:58,675 Speaker 1: trying to get. Eric shawn has gone back on Fox 403 00:27:58,755 --> 00:28:02,035 Speaker 1: News that echoes Trump's claims that he's a victim of 404 00:28:03,235 --> 00:28:06,715 Speaker 1: a voodoo curse put on him by Biden or something. 405 00:28:06,755 --> 00:28:10,195 Speaker 1: And Eric Shawan says, quote, lawyers we talk to say 406 00:28:10,315 --> 00:28:13,915 Speaker 1: she is acting appropriately under the law. Attorney General James, 407 00:28:13,915 --> 00:28:16,195 Speaker 1: by law, has no choice other than to go after 408 00:28:16,235 --> 00:28:19,915 Speaker 1: Trump's assets to pay that penalty. Then he ran a 409 00:28:19,955 --> 00:28:23,635 Speaker 1: SoundBite from a business and commercial litigator beginning there's nothing 410 00:28:23,755 --> 00:28:26,915 Speaker 1: political about it. And then Sewan comes back on camera 411 00:28:26,955 --> 00:28:29,635 Speaker 1: and says Trump can always declare bankruptcy like he's done 412 00:28:29,635 --> 00:28:31,755 Speaker 1: so many times before. And they go back to the 413 00:28:31,795 --> 00:28:36,475 Speaker 1: anchor Bill Hemmer, who does that Tucker Carlson the dog 414 00:28:36,555 --> 00:28:40,595 Speaker 1: that was just shown a card trick look and Hemmer says, 415 00:28:41,035 --> 00:28:44,115 Speaker 1: so Monday's going to be a big day, huh. And 416 00:28:44,195 --> 00:28:47,355 Speaker 1: obviously Eric Shawan is not one of the worst persons 417 00:28:47,355 --> 00:28:49,195 Speaker 1: in the world. And I just included him here because 418 00:28:49,235 --> 00:28:50,675 Speaker 1: I really want him to know that. I hope he 419 00:28:50,715 --> 00:28:54,195 Speaker 1: has good security with him at all times at work, 420 00:28:54,235 --> 00:28:56,435 Speaker 1: I mean, not out in the streets in New York. 421 00:28:56,475 --> 00:29:00,235 Speaker 1: Everybody knows Eric Shawan, we got your back, kid, but 422 00:29:00,355 --> 00:29:05,595 Speaker 1: our winner. Critics of hapless Ohio Republican Congression primary candidate 423 00:29:05,635 --> 00:29:09,515 Speaker 1: Dereck Myers, you already know his story. This is the 424 00:29:09,555 --> 00:29:13,835 Speaker 1: former George Santos aid, who says Santos sexually harrassed him, 425 00:29:14,275 --> 00:29:17,635 Speaker 1: then Santos fired him when he said that. Then the 426 00:29:17,675 --> 00:29:20,395 Speaker 1: guy ran for the Republican nomination in the second House 427 00:29:20,435 --> 00:29:25,155 Speaker 1: district in Ohio, and at three nineteen Tuesday afternoon, he 428 00:29:25,595 --> 00:29:30,795 Speaker 1: or someone in his office mass emailed out his concession statement, 429 00:29:31,595 --> 00:29:34,075 Speaker 1: even though the polls would not close for another three 430 00:29:34,115 --> 00:29:38,315 Speaker 1: hours and eleven minutes. He said, I lost, complete with 431 00:29:38,355 --> 00:29:40,715 Speaker 1: a phony video in which it looks like he's talking 432 00:29:40,755 --> 00:29:44,915 Speaker 1: to a reporter and there's fake crowd noise pumped in 433 00:29:44,915 --> 00:29:48,595 Speaker 1: in the background, in which he's conceding the race on camera. 434 00:29:48,875 --> 00:29:53,355 Speaker 1: Worse Yet while mister Myers quickly acknowledged the mistaken preconcession 435 00:29:53,355 --> 00:29:56,275 Speaker 1: in another emailed press release, In that one, he wrote, 436 00:29:56,755 --> 00:29:59,835 Speaker 1: anyone who works in communications knows it's not uncommon to 437 00:29:59,875 --> 00:30:04,115 Speaker 1: have speeches and releases prepared in the event of each outcome, 438 00:30:04,715 --> 00:30:10,875 Speaker 1: especially on such an impotent night. Just to cap it off, 439 00:30:11,355 --> 00:30:15,155 Speaker 1: when Myers really lost, and he really lost, there were 440 00:30:15,155 --> 00:30:19,875 Speaker 1: eleven candidates he finished eleventh, Myers issued an actual concession statement, 441 00:30:19,915 --> 00:30:23,075 Speaker 1: and it was the same concession statement he had mistakenly 442 00:30:23,115 --> 00:30:27,435 Speaker 1: emailed out at three nineteen. And the nation piled on 443 00:30:27,595 --> 00:30:31,115 Speaker 1: this idiot, reporters and liberals and Democrats and Republicans. And 444 00:30:31,275 --> 00:30:37,315 Speaker 1: I'm here to stick up for him because point number one, 445 00:30:37,515 --> 00:30:41,435 Speaker 1: when the press release went out prematurely, this is a 446 00:30:41,515 --> 00:30:44,795 Speaker 1: Republican who did not once claim it was a fake, 447 00:30:45,635 --> 00:30:48,155 Speaker 1: or that he had been hacked, or that it was 448 00:30:48,195 --> 00:30:52,115 Speaker 1: the Democrat's fault, or that he was the victim of woke. 449 00:30:53,355 --> 00:30:56,395 Speaker 1: Point number two, the press release acknowledging that he screwed 450 00:30:56,475 --> 00:30:59,955 Speaker 1: up his headlined so you want to know what happened, eh, 451 00:31:00,075 --> 00:31:03,635 Speaker 1: And in it he actually made a joke about himself. 452 00:31:03,635 --> 00:31:06,475 Speaker 1: He said. The winning mail was also drafted, but was 453 00:31:06,515 --> 00:31:11,275 Speaker 1: not sent in error, thankfully. Number three, that Freudian slip. 454 00:31:11,715 --> 00:31:16,115 Speaker 1: This is a Republican who admits to being impotent, unlike 455 00:31:16,835 --> 00:31:23,275 Speaker 1: say Rudy Giuliani or Trump. And most importantly, number four, 456 00:31:23,955 --> 00:31:29,115 Speaker 1: this is a Republican who not only admits he lost 457 00:31:29,515 --> 00:31:32,995 Speaker 1: instead of claiming the election was rigged and that he's 458 00:31:33,035 --> 00:31:38,435 Speaker 1: gonna sue or start a coup. But he admitted it 459 00:31:39,275 --> 00:31:43,435 Speaker 1: long before the media even called the state of Ohio, 460 00:31:44,355 --> 00:31:48,355 Speaker 1: and then he had admitted it again. So exactly what 461 00:31:48,435 --> 00:31:52,435 Speaker 1: are we criticizing this Derrick Meyers for? He screwed up, 462 00:31:52,755 --> 00:31:57,355 Speaker 1: he blamed himself, he joked about the screw up, he 463 00:31:57,435 --> 00:32:00,995 Speaker 1: made a hilarious blooper, and then he acknowledged he actually lost. 464 00:32:01,875 --> 00:32:05,155 Speaker 1: Make fun of him, hell, find out out if he's 465 00:32:05,155 --> 00:32:07,835 Speaker 1: got any redeeming policy beliefs, and get him to run 466 00:32:07,875 --> 00:32:14,995 Speaker 1: as a Democrat. He seems to be like honest the 467 00:32:15,075 --> 00:32:18,195 Speaker 1: critics of Derek. Last in the race, last in the 468 00:32:18,195 --> 00:32:21,555 Speaker 1: public eye, and first in the number of concession announcements. 469 00:32:21,755 --> 00:32:29,075 Speaker 1: Myers two days worst persons in the world. I know 470 00:32:29,315 --> 00:32:56,035 Speaker 1: you will now from the files of things I promised 471 00:32:56,035 --> 00:32:58,475 Speaker 1: not to tell, and I recently went past the building. 472 00:32:58,955 --> 00:33:02,195 Speaker 1: My second professional home, and I was flooded with my 473 00:33:02,275 --> 00:33:07,195 Speaker 1: memories of a place called the the RKO Radio Network. 474 00:33:07,675 --> 00:33:11,195 Speaker 1: This is nineteen eighty and I'm nearing my twenty second birthday, 475 00:33:11,195 --> 00:33:13,795 Speaker 1: and I'm working real hard at one radio network run 476 00:33:13,835 --> 00:33:17,075 Speaker 1: by the United pres International Wire Service in my second 477 00:33:17,155 --> 00:33:21,675 Speaker 1: year and making around well nearly twenty thousand dollars a year. 478 00:33:22,555 --> 00:33:25,635 Speaker 1: And in September, a drunken manager had tried to get 479 00:33:25,675 --> 00:33:30,115 Speaker 1: me fired, tried to fire me himself for being young, 480 00:33:31,195 --> 00:33:33,355 Speaker 1: and I'll by damned if I can remember getting consecutive 481 00:33:33,395 --> 00:33:35,915 Speaker 1: days off there. This was UPI in a nutshell. For 482 00:33:35,995 --> 00:33:38,235 Speaker 1: my first few weeks there, I thought whoever had decorated 483 00:33:38,275 --> 00:33:41,915 Speaker 1: the newsroom had found the floor tiles with the ugliest 484 00:33:41,915 --> 00:33:45,275 Speaker 1: design pattern in history. And then finally I saw a 485 00:33:45,315 --> 00:33:49,155 Speaker 1: colleague grind his lit cigarette into that floor, and only 486 00:33:49,155 --> 00:33:52,195 Speaker 1: then did I realize that was what the ugly design 487 00:33:52,555 --> 00:33:58,955 Speaker 1: pattern was. Hundreds of ground out cigarettes, years and years 488 00:33:59,595 --> 00:34:05,035 Speaker 1: of ground out cigarettes in the tiles. Anyway, the main 489 00:34:05,075 --> 00:34:07,995 Speaker 1: advantage to working at UPI was that everybody in what 490 00:34:08,195 --> 00:34:11,955 Speaker 1: was then a flourishing radio business knew UPI, and thus 491 00:34:11,995 --> 00:34:15,875 Speaker 1: they knew you, and they knew you were underpaid. The 492 00:34:15,915 --> 00:34:18,915 Speaker 1: top all news radio station in the country, WCBS in 493 00:34:18,955 --> 00:34:21,515 Speaker 1: New York had already asked if I might be a 494 00:34:21,555 --> 00:34:24,875 Speaker 1: candidate for a coming opening in their sports department the 495 00:34:24,955 --> 00:34:27,995 Speaker 1: previous spring. I'd actually interviewed with two vice presidents at 496 00:34:27,995 --> 00:34:31,515 Speaker 1: this thing. The yachtsman Ted Turner, who owned the Atlanta Braves, 497 00:34:31,675 --> 00:34:34,515 Speaker 1: was going to try to start something he called cable 498 00:34:34,635 --> 00:34:38,155 Speaker 1: news network, but they were not initially interested in me, 499 00:34:38,235 --> 00:34:40,195 Speaker 1: and after meeting with them, I was certain they would 500 00:34:40,195 --> 00:34:42,995 Speaker 1: never get it launched, let alone get an audience for it. 501 00:34:44,915 --> 00:34:47,635 Speaker 1: I was working there literally fourteen months later. I had 502 00:34:47,675 --> 00:34:51,595 Speaker 1: also been flown to Boston, like they spent fifty five 503 00:34:51,675 --> 00:34:54,835 Speaker 1: dollars on me by a radio station that really wanted 504 00:34:54,835 --> 00:34:57,635 Speaker 1: me to do a morning sports shift for them, and 505 00:34:57,715 --> 00:35:01,595 Speaker 1: they were offering forty thousand dollars a year, twice my salary, 506 00:35:01,835 --> 00:35:03,555 Speaker 1: and I was ready to do it. And I was 507 00:35:03,595 --> 00:35:05,995 Speaker 1: sitting in the office in Boston trying to figure out 508 00:35:05,995 --> 00:35:08,075 Speaker 1: where I could live and how late I could sleep 509 00:35:08,075 --> 00:35:10,155 Speaker 1: and still get there in the morning. And then the 510 00:35:10,195 --> 00:35:13,395 Speaker 1: news director said, now, except if there's a big story, 511 00:35:13,435 --> 00:35:16,915 Speaker 1: you can do the afternoon sports cast from home over 512 00:35:16,955 --> 00:35:20,675 Speaker 1: the phone, which is when I realized I was supposed 513 00:35:20,675 --> 00:35:23,315 Speaker 1: to do the morning and the afternoon. I was essentially 514 00:35:23,355 --> 00:35:25,795 Speaker 1: on the clock from five am to six pm. And 515 00:35:25,875 --> 00:35:27,675 Speaker 1: the forty thousand dollars would have had to go to 516 00:35:27,675 --> 00:35:30,635 Speaker 1: my sister because the schedule would have killed me within 517 00:35:30,755 --> 00:35:35,875 Speaker 1: three months. And then there was this RKO radio network. 518 00:35:36,275 --> 00:35:39,715 Speaker 1: UPI was in the unique position of having RKO as 519 00:35:39,755 --> 00:35:44,435 Speaker 1: a client, so RKO heard and used our stuff all 520 00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:49,035 Speaker 1: the time. And also they had from their beginning used 521 00:35:49,075 --> 00:35:51,475 Speaker 1: our UPI feed as a kind of twenty four to 522 00:35:51,515 --> 00:35:58,115 Speaker 1: seven constantly flowing turned on spigot audition service. From the 523 00:35:58,115 --> 00:36:00,675 Speaker 1: time I got to UPI in July nineteen seventy nine, 524 00:36:00,715 --> 00:36:04,195 Speaker 1: it seemed like one radio repairson from UPI per month 525 00:36:04,835 --> 00:36:09,035 Speaker 1: was hired away by RKO. Sometime in the early autumn 526 00:36:09,075 --> 00:36:11,075 Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty, I was covering a New York Rangers 527 00:36:11,115 --> 00:36:13,315 Speaker 1: game at Madison Square Garden, and the guy next to me, 528 00:36:13,395 --> 00:36:16,795 Speaker 1: smoking a cigar inside the garden, right in front of 529 00:36:16,795 --> 00:36:19,755 Speaker 1: all the fans, turned out to be the sports director 530 00:36:19,795 --> 00:36:22,395 Speaker 1: of this RKO network. In fact, he was the entirety 531 00:36:22,915 --> 00:36:26,755 Speaker 1: of the RKO sports department. But we're doubling in size. 532 00:36:27,395 --> 00:36:29,555 Speaker 1: I'm going to start doing weekend sports casts. And I 533 00:36:29,595 --> 00:36:31,795 Speaker 1: get to hire a new person to do the weekends. 534 00:36:32,475 --> 00:36:34,595 Speaker 1: It's a union shop, so it's fifty one dollars a 535 00:36:34,635 --> 00:36:37,395 Speaker 1: sports cast. After there's ten a weekend, so you get 536 00:36:37,875 --> 00:36:40,635 Speaker 1: twenty two for eighty dollars to reports for reports from 537 00:36:40,675 --> 00:36:43,275 Speaker 1: the field, and you'd be my backup. Twenty two bucks 538 00:36:43,315 --> 00:36:45,915 Speaker 1: from the field and a guarantee of five to ten 539 00:36:46,195 --> 00:36:48,875 Speaker 1: weekend and you got to come in one day a 540 00:36:48,875 --> 00:36:52,115 Speaker 1: week to book the stringers of the weekend games. That'd 541 00:36:52,115 --> 00:36:54,955 Speaker 1: be free, but the guarantee is twenty six thousand dollars 542 00:36:54,955 --> 00:36:58,155 Speaker 1: plus those twenty two dollars every time you file a 543 00:36:58,235 --> 00:37:02,195 Speaker 1: report from the field. You interested, well, I did some 544 00:37:02,355 --> 00:37:05,875 Speaker 1: quick math. This was about forty percent more money for 545 00:37:05,955 --> 00:37:09,875 Speaker 1: about forty percent less work. And there were no five 546 00:37:09,955 --> 00:37:13,875 Speaker 1: am to six pm schedules. When the sports director called 547 00:37:13,875 --> 00:37:15,835 Speaker 1: me back a few weeks later to offer me the gig, 548 00:37:15,875 --> 00:37:19,795 Speaker 1: I did not hesitate. His name, by the way, was 549 00:37:19,875 --> 00:37:23,195 Speaker 1: Charlie Steiner. Charlie would later be a colleague of mine 550 00:37:23,195 --> 00:37:25,475 Speaker 1: at Sports Center, and then he did the Yankees games, 551 00:37:25,475 --> 00:37:27,395 Speaker 1: and now he does the Dodgers games, and he's been 552 00:37:27,395 --> 00:37:31,555 Speaker 1: a friend for forty two years. The network itself was 553 00:37:31,595 --> 00:37:35,595 Speaker 1: also Space age, shiny and new, and it had carpets, 554 00:37:36,915 --> 00:37:41,075 Speaker 1: whereas UPI had the stubbed out cigarettes decorps. RKO was 555 00:37:41,155 --> 00:37:43,675 Speaker 1: literally the first radio network in this country to deliver 556 00:37:43,795 --> 00:37:48,435 Speaker 1: all of its programs to its stations via satellite. No 557 00:37:48,555 --> 00:37:53,235 Speaker 1: more scratchy, hyper expensive phone lines. RKO came through crystal clear, 558 00:37:53,555 --> 00:37:56,555 Speaker 1: and that was our pitch to the stations. All the newscasts, 559 00:37:57,035 --> 00:37:59,155 Speaker 1: all the sports casts, all the features ended with the 560 00:37:59,195 --> 00:38:04,115 Speaker 1: same tagline VYA satellite This is the RKO Radio Network, 561 00:38:06,355 --> 00:38:09,115 Speaker 1: and then a spot for Hubba Bubba Gum for my 562 00:38:09,235 --> 00:38:12,155 Speaker 1: first few weeks there. Part of the job also included 563 00:38:12,195 --> 00:38:18,155 Speaker 1: doing two sportscasts today for RKO's local station WOIR. The 564 00:38:18,195 --> 00:38:20,555 Speaker 1: first time I went up in the elevator to their studio, 565 00:38:20,595 --> 00:38:22,755 Speaker 1: it dawned on me that it was the exact same 566 00:38:22,835 --> 00:38:26,235 Speaker 1: studio where seven years before I had been invited by 567 00:38:26,275 --> 00:38:29,555 Speaker 1: the great comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding along with 568 00:38:29,595 --> 00:38:34,075 Speaker 1: my dad to sit and watch in amazed appreciation as 569 00:38:34,115 --> 00:38:38,195 Speaker 1: Bob and Ray did their show on WOIR. So basically, 570 00:38:39,075 --> 00:38:41,995 Speaker 1: as of December nineteen eighty I had accomplished all of 571 00:38:41,995 --> 00:38:47,475 Speaker 1: my childhood goals. The only problem with the place was 572 00:38:47,795 --> 00:38:51,675 Speaker 1: the location RKO was on the southeast corner of Times Square, 573 00:38:51,875 --> 00:38:55,075 Speaker 1: probably the low watermark in the history of Times Square. 574 00:38:55,395 --> 00:38:58,155 Speaker 1: It was in fourteen forty Broadway, at the corner of 575 00:38:58,195 --> 00:39:01,555 Speaker 1: fortieth Street. There was a back door at forty first 576 00:39:01,595 --> 00:39:05,315 Speaker 1: Street and sixth Avenue, right across from Bryant Park. On 577 00:39:05,395 --> 00:39:09,275 Speaker 1: those occasions when I filled in for Charlie Steiner on 578 00:39:09,435 --> 00:39:12,835 Speaker 1: the weekdays for his morning show, which they would tape overnight, 579 00:39:13,435 --> 00:39:16,155 Speaker 1: I would often be at the studios until two or 580 00:39:16,195 --> 00:39:19,395 Speaker 1: three am, and my walk home was a little sketchy. 581 00:39:19,755 --> 00:39:21,395 Speaker 1: In point of fact, I would not walk home. I 582 00:39:21,395 --> 00:39:24,755 Speaker 1: would run, I mean run run. From that back door 583 00:39:24,795 --> 00:39:28,275 Speaker 1: at forty first and sixth. I'd pass Bryant Park on 584 00:39:28,355 --> 00:39:31,035 Speaker 1: my right as fast as I could, passed all the 585 00:39:31,115 --> 00:39:33,955 Speaker 1: drug dealers and other folks, then dart on the north 586 00:39:33,995 --> 00:39:36,155 Speaker 1: side of forty second between sixth and fifth, and once 587 00:39:36,155 --> 00:39:39,035 Speaker 1: you got to that corner of fifth and forty second, 588 00:39:40,315 --> 00:39:43,795 Speaker 1: you were back in civilization, with good street lights and 589 00:39:43,915 --> 00:39:46,275 Speaker 1: other people on the streets, no matter how late the hour, 590 00:39:46,435 --> 00:39:48,795 Speaker 1: or as we called them in New York then witnesses. 591 00:39:50,395 --> 00:39:54,675 Speaker 1: Occasionally I might have to walk in Times Square itself, 592 00:39:55,155 --> 00:39:59,115 Speaker 1: usually when it was daylight what surrounded me. There was 593 00:39:59,155 --> 00:40:03,795 Speaker 1: about as far from today's Disneyland East Times Square as 594 00:40:03,835 --> 00:40:06,955 Speaker 1: you could imagine. In fact, you could not imagine. There 595 00:40:06,955 --> 00:40:11,795 Speaker 1: were porn theaters everywhere, and it wasn't just porn theaters. 596 00:40:12,155 --> 00:40:16,035 Speaker 1: They were spaced part and in between them. Other businesses existed, 597 00:40:16,675 --> 00:40:21,635 Speaker 1: porn peep shows, porn sex shops, and porn video rental stores. 598 00:40:22,915 --> 00:40:24,915 Speaker 1: I remember always making sure I was walking on the 599 00:40:24,955 --> 00:40:28,235 Speaker 1: outside edge of the street, nearest the gutter, on the 600 00:40:28,235 --> 00:40:30,115 Speaker 1: premise that in the event somebody tried to mug me, 601 00:40:30,395 --> 00:40:32,555 Speaker 1: I stood a much better chance by running right out 602 00:40:32,635 --> 00:40:36,475 Speaker 1: into automobile traffic. Besides which, I used to worry that 603 00:40:36,515 --> 00:40:38,595 Speaker 1: if I walked too close to the porn theaters and 604 00:40:38,635 --> 00:40:41,035 Speaker 1: the shows and the shops and the video stores one day, 605 00:40:41,075 --> 00:40:47,595 Speaker 1: I might just get stuck to the sidewalk. Times Square 606 00:40:47,675 --> 00:40:50,395 Speaker 1: was so different in nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty one 607 00:40:50,435 --> 00:40:54,755 Speaker 1: that I really can't imagine that the annual income made 608 00:40:54,835 --> 00:40:59,395 Speaker 1: there from anything but porn and the RKAO radio network 609 00:41:00,555 --> 00:41:02,955 Speaker 1: was more than twenty dollars a year. In total. There 610 00:41:03,035 --> 00:41:06,515 Speaker 1: was nothing else, I mean nothing. On weekends, walking over 611 00:41:06,555 --> 00:41:08,555 Speaker 1: from my home on the East Side, I would decide 612 00:41:08,555 --> 00:41:12,475 Speaker 1: which fast food place I'd be getting lunch from somewhere 613 00:41:12,475 --> 00:41:15,315 Speaker 1: on Fifth Avenue or Lex. I'd go to the nearest payphone. 614 00:41:15,355 --> 00:41:17,835 Speaker 1: I'd call the RKO newsroom desk, and I would offer 615 00:41:17,875 --> 00:41:21,115 Speaker 1: to bring in food for everybody, for the simple reason 616 00:41:21,115 --> 00:41:26,075 Speaker 1: that in Time Square forty years ago, there were no 617 00:41:26,315 --> 00:41:32,115 Speaker 1: restaurants open on weekends. I'll say that again, in Times 618 00:41:32,155 --> 00:41:36,955 Speaker 1: Square forty years ago, on the weekends, all the restaurants 619 00:41:36,995 --> 00:41:43,235 Speaker 1: that existed there were closed during the day. And forget 620 00:41:43,395 --> 00:41:46,875 Speaker 1: public transportation to Times Square. I would finish my brisk, 621 00:41:46,995 --> 00:41:49,155 Speaker 1: twenty five minute walk to work one night in that 622 00:41:49,235 --> 00:41:52,595 Speaker 1: frigid winter of nineteen eighty eighty one and see my 623 00:41:52,715 --> 00:41:57,075 Speaker 1: colleagues looking unusually pasty and drawn. You didn't take the 624 00:41:57,115 --> 00:42:00,155 Speaker 1: subway in, did you, asked one of the editors, Tom Ryan. 625 00:42:00,595 --> 00:42:02,435 Speaker 1: I looked at him like it was crazy. Well good, 626 00:42:02,755 --> 00:42:05,755 Speaker 1: some guy got stabbed by the stairs closest to our building. 627 00:42:06,595 --> 00:42:09,195 Speaker 1: I asked if he was okay. No, he's not okay. 628 00:42:09,235 --> 00:42:11,595 Speaker 1: He's dead. But they got the guys who did it. 629 00:42:12,075 --> 00:42:17,435 Speaker 1: They arrested fifty one people. One guy got stabbed to death, 630 00:42:17,635 --> 00:42:20,155 Speaker 1: fifty one people were arrested. I asked if they had 631 00:42:20,155 --> 00:42:25,755 Speaker 1: been restaging a reenactment of the assassination of Julius Caesar. Still, 632 00:42:25,915 --> 00:42:28,555 Speaker 1: the equipment was brand new and easy to use, and 633 00:42:28,595 --> 00:42:31,155 Speaker 1: the staff was all young. We all had fun and 634 00:42:31,195 --> 00:42:33,635 Speaker 1: we had parties, and everybody lived in the city, and 635 00:42:33,675 --> 00:42:35,355 Speaker 1: for the most part, it was a pleasure to work there, 636 00:42:35,715 --> 00:42:38,835 Speaker 1: and it was way more lucrative even than Charlie Steiner 637 00:42:38,835 --> 00:42:42,635 Speaker 1: had suggested. Those twenty two dollars voice reports from the field, 638 00:42:43,115 --> 00:42:47,275 Speaker 1: they piled up fast. The baseball players went on strike 639 00:42:47,315 --> 00:42:50,275 Speaker 1: that June nineteen eighty one, and every time I covered 640 00:42:50,275 --> 00:42:52,155 Speaker 1: a bargaining session I could be certain of at least 641 00:42:52,155 --> 00:42:54,755 Speaker 1: another forty four dollars. And if that doesn't sound like much, 642 00:42:55,235 --> 00:42:58,435 Speaker 1: the rent on my very nice studio apartment never got 643 00:42:58,515 --> 00:43:01,075 Speaker 1: higher than four hundred and ninety eight dollars a month. 644 00:43:03,075 --> 00:43:06,915 Speaker 1: RKO's location also provides me with some wacky logistical problems. 645 00:43:07,355 --> 00:43:09,955 Speaker 1: I filled in for Charlie on most holidays, plus I 646 00:43:09,955 --> 00:43:13,435 Speaker 1: did the same thing at a local radio station WNIW. 647 00:43:14,155 --> 00:43:20,195 Speaker 1: This made the actual Christmas into my metaphorical Christmas. If 648 00:43:20,195 --> 00:43:22,795 Speaker 1: I had to fill in for both of these operations 649 00:43:22,835 --> 00:43:25,515 Speaker 1: on the same day, my schedule went like this. Get 650 00:43:25,555 --> 00:43:29,875 Speaker 1: into RKO in times Square, at maybe two am, tape 651 00:43:29,955 --> 00:43:33,875 Speaker 1: Charlie's Morning show by four am, then walk Crosstown very 652 00:43:33,955 --> 00:43:38,195 Speaker 1: quickly to wnw Over on Third Avenue and do those 653 00:43:38,355 --> 00:43:40,995 Speaker 1: sportscasts live between five point thirty and nine, and then 654 00:43:41,035 --> 00:43:42,675 Speaker 1: go home and maybe take a nap, but not a 655 00:43:42,715 --> 00:43:44,675 Speaker 1: long one because I would have to be back at 656 00:43:44,795 --> 00:43:48,715 Speaker 1: RKO by one pm to do Charlie's afternoon show. Rince 657 00:43:48,995 --> 00:43:52,795 Speaker 1: repeat a lot of work. On the other hand, just 658 00:43:52,955 --> 00:43:55,235 Speaker 1: one week of those days paid the rent for two months. 659 00:43:56,835 --> 00:43:59,075 Speaker 1: On a wet New Year's Eve nineteen eighty one, I 660 00:43:59,155 --> 00:44:02,635 Speaker 1: treated myself to a cab to go to RKO, which 661 00:44:02,635 --> 00:44:05,155 Speaker 1: put me in the bizarre position of getting into a 662 00:44:05,195 --> 00:44:08,395 Speaker 1: cab on the East Side at one thirty am New 663 00:44:08,475 --> 00:44:11,675 Speaker 1: Year's Morning and saying take me to Times Square and 664 00:44:11,715 --> 00:44:13,995 Speaker 1: the driver saying, you missed it, buddy, it's been nineteen 665 00:44:14,075 --> 00:44:17,235 Speaker 1: eighty two for an hour and a half. Nothing like 666 00:44:17,355 --> 00:44:21,115 Speaker 1: being the only person going into Times Square while one 667 00:44:21,235 --> 00:44:27,915 Speaker 1: million people are leaving it drunk. Most of the sportscasts 668 00:44:27,955 --> 00:44:31,315 Speaker 1: I did at ARCAO or pretty textbook, but there did 669 00:44:31,315 --> 00:44:33,275 Speaker 1: come the day that I walked in to fill in 670 00:44:33,315 --> 00:44:35,235 Speaker 1: for Charlie who was at Wimbledon. So this is the 671 00:44:35,235 --> 00:44:38,315 Speaker 1: summer of nineteen eighty one, and the newswires were full 672 00:44:38,355 --> 00:44:42,115 Speaker 1: of this story of some unnamed American radio reporter getting 673 00:44:42,155 --> 00:44:45,515 Speaker 1: into a brawl with a London tabloid writer at a 674 00:44:45,555 --> 00:44:50,435 Speaker 1: Wimbledon press conference, and it slowly evolved that the reporter 675 00:44:50,635 --> 00:44:54,675 Speaker 1: was Charlie, my boss, and we were going to have 676 00:44:54,675 --> 00:44:57,635 Speaker 1: to figure out a way to cover this. At first, 677 00:44:58,235 --> 00:45:01,115 Speaker 1: Charlie wanted to do it in the third person and 678 00:45:01,195 --> 00:45:03,315 Speaker 1: say the reporter did this, and the reporter said that, 679 00:45:03,355 --> 00:45:04,715 Speaker 1: And I said, you know, I really don't think we 680 00:45:04,715 --> 00:45:07,355 Speaker 1: are going to get away with that. Given how much 681 00:45:07,515 --> 00:45:10,475 Speaker 1: wired copy I'm seeing here, Charlie, this is probably gonna 682 00:45:10,475 --> 00:45:11,755 Speaker 1: be on the front page of the New York Times 683 00:45:11,755 --> 00:45:14,235 Speaker 1: in the morning. Sure enough, it was above the fold. 684 00:45:15,875 --> 00:45:18,635 Speaker 1: We're still unbeknownst to Charlie, his fight took place in 685 00:45:18,675 --> 00:45:21,995 Speaker 1: a corner of the Wimbledon press room, right under the 686 00:45:22,075 --> 00:45:24,435 Speaker 1: camera that fed out a shot of that room twenty 687 00:45:24,475 --> 00:45:28,635 Speaker 1: four to seven to every television network in the world. 688 00:45:30,035 --> 00:45:33,755 Speaker 1: Sure enough, the last item on ABC's six thirty newscast 689 00:45:33,835 --> 00:45:37,995 Speaker 1: that night with Peter Jennings was a feature on Charlie 690 00:45:38,035 --> 00:45:40,755 Speaker 1: Steiner fighting with the British over how they broke up 691 00:45:40,755 --> 00:45:43,795 Speaker 1: the John McEnroe post match press conference, and he was 692 00:45:43,875 --> 00:45:45,995 Speaker 1: pissed off because that many he wouldn't get any sound 693 00:45:45,995 --> 00:45:50,235 Speaker 1: bites from McEnroe. I managed to run home from RKO 694 00:45:50,395 --> 00:45:52,875 Speaker 1: and record the report by Dick schaff and when Charlie 695 00:45:52,875 --> 00:45:56,515 Speaker 1: got back from London, I loaned it to him. This 696 00:45:56,675 --> 00:46:01,515 Speaker 1: was in July nineteen eighty one. Charlie still hasn't given 697 00:46:01,515 --> 00:46:04,235 Speaker 1: me the tape back. Every time I see him, he 698 00:46:04,275 --> 00:46:06,715 Speaker 1: swears he's still looking for it. It's in a box somewhere. 699 00:46:07,155 --> 00:46:09,435 Speaker 1: But I'm beginning to think he may not be telling 700 00:46:09,475 --> 00:46:13,275 Speaker 1: me the whole truth about what happened to my video cassette. 701 00:46:14,795 --> 00:46:18,595 Speaker 1: But my favorite RKO story is about Charlie's sudden and 702 00:46:18,715 --> 00:46:22,275 Speaker 1: inexplicable obsession with the story. During that nineteen eighty one 703 00:46:22,315 --> 00:46:24,715 Speaker 1: baseball strike I mentioned in the middle of this thing 704 00:46:24,835 --> 00:46:28,195 Speaker 1: which stopped the season for fifty days and was really 705 00:46:28,555 --> 00:46:31,395 Speaker 1: the beginning of the end of that time when baseball 706 00:46:31,475 --> 00:46:35,595 Speaker 1: truly mattered in this country. When every day of that strike, 707 00:46:35,795 --> 00:46:38,755 Speaker 1: somebody on all the TV newscast set, and the baseball 708 00:46:38,795 --> 00:46:42,995 Speaker 1: strike is in its twenty third day, a story broke 709 00:46:43,635 --> 00:46:45,915 Speaker 1: that George Steinbrenner, the owner of the Yankees was going 710 00:46:45,955 --> 00:46:48,115 Speaker 1: to meet with Baseball Commissioner buye Qwn and a couple 711 00:46:48,195 --> 00:46:50,355 Speaker 1: of other owners who realized that the work stoppage was 712 00:46:50,395 --> 00:46:55,035 Speaker 1: financial madness. As George told me years later, he was 713 00:46:55,115 --> 00:46:59,515 Speaker 1: losing about a million dollars in revenue every day so 714 00:46:59,555 --> 00:47:02,995 Speaker 1: that the Milwaukee Brewers could save five thousand dollars in 715 00:47:03,075 --> 00:47:07,915 Speaker 1: salaries every year. Well, my boss, Charlie Steiner, decided he 716 00:47:07,995 --> 00:47:10,395 Speaker 1: was going to scoop the world about this secret Steinbrenner 717 00:47:10,475 --> 00:47:12,875 Speaker 1: Kune meeting. So he told me to come into the 718 00:47:12,915 --> 00:47:16,675 Speaker 1: office on one of my off days and work the phones. 719 00:47:16,795 --> 00:47:19,835 Speaker 1: Work the phone son. Two of us, me and the 720 00:47:19,835 --> 00:47:23,035 Speaker 1: newly hired producer, my friend John Martin, were supposed to 721 00:47:23,035 --> 00:47:26,035 Speaker 1: call everybody we knew and find out for Charlie when 722 00:47:26,195 --> 00:47:28,875 Speaker 1: these guys were meeting and where and who would be there, 723 00:47:29,155 --> 00:47:35,035 Speaker 1: and to not go home until we had nailed it down. Well, 724 00:47:35,075 --> 00:47:39,315 Speaker 1: it was madness. I didn't know anybody in baseball, let 725 00:47:39,355 --> 00:47:42,155 Speaker 1: alone anybody who knew where the owner of the Yankees 726 00:47:42,275 --> 00:47:44,555 Speaker 1: was going to meet in secret with the commissioner of Baseball, 727 00:47:45,155 --> 00:47:48,075 Speaker 1: let alone who knew all that and would tell me. 728 00:47:49,355 --> 00:47:52,395 Speaker 1: But I tried everybody. I could think of, and had 729 00:47:52,395 --> 00:47:54,555 Speaker 1: already suggested to John Martin that I was just going 730 00:47:54,595 --> 00:47:57,555 Speaker 1: to start dialing ten digits at random and asking whoever 731 00:47:57,595 --> 00:48:01,275 Speaker 1: answered if they knew when. After about eight hours of this, 732 00:48:01,595 --> 00:48:04,235 Speaker 1: well past my dinner time, I was on the phone 733 00:48:04,275 --> 00:48:07,195 Speaker 1: with executive of some West Coast team when he said, 734 00:48:07,395 --> 00:48:09,795 Speaker 1: hold on a minute. I got another call, and a 735 00:48:09,835 --> 00:48:12,275 Speaker 1: moment later from the adjoining room in my office, I 736 00:48:12,315 --> 00:48:15,915 Speaker 1: heard John Martin say, mister Smith, Hi, this is John 737 00:48:15,915 --> 00:48:21,195 Speaker 1: Martin from the RKO Radio network, and yes, RKO Radio Network, Yes, 738 00:48:21,275 --> 00:48:24,835 Speaker 1: I'll hold sir. Mister Smith picked up my call again 739 00:48:24,875 --> 00:48:27,475 Speaker 1: and said is this really two of you calling me 740 00:48:27,515 --> 00:48:30,155 Speaker 1: about this crap at the same time from the same network, 741 00:48:30,835 --> 00:48:33,475 Speaker 1: And I said yes, and I apologized, and I told 742 00:48:33,555 --> 00:48:37,195 Speaker 1: him I was going home. If Charlie doesn't like it, 743 00:48:37,275 --> 00:48:41,755 Speaker 1: I told John he can fire me, so follow me 744 00:48:41,795 --> 00:48:44,955 Speaker 1: on this because I had missed dinner. When I got 745 00:48:44,995 --> 00:48:47,595 Speaker 1: back to my street on the East Side, I was famished. 746 00:48:47,795 --> 00:48:50,635 Speaker 1: I don't know nine o'clock, ten o'clock. The last two 747 00:48:50,675 --> 00:48:53,395 Speaker 1: blocks of my walk home was always identical. I'd come 748 00:48:53,435 --> 00:48:55,755 Speaker 1: up Third Avenue and then hang a right at the 749 00:48:55,835 --> 00:48:58,635 Speaker 1: southeast corner of Third Avenue, and fifty fifth Street. I 750 00:48:58,675 --> 00:49:00,155 Speaker 1: lived at the other end of fifty fifth Street and 751 00:49:00,195 --> 00:49:03,275 Speaker 1: your second Avenue. But now I was going to go 752 00:49:03,355 --> 00:49:06,395 Speaker 1: pick up some pizza in a very nice place on 753 00:49:06,475 --> 00:49:10,915 Speaker 1: the northwest corner of this same block. I got the slices, 754 00:49:10,995 --> 00:49:14,555 Speaker 1: the lights changed. Now I was crossing towards the northeast 755 00:49:14,595 --> 00:49:17,155 Speaker 1: corner of fifty fifth and Third, which itself was the 756 00:49:17,195 --> 00:49:21,355 Speaker 1: home of a famous New York bar, PJ. Clark's. Ordinarily 757 00:49:21,395 --> 00:49:23,515 Speaker 1: I would never have been on that side of the 758 00:49:23,555 --> 00:49:26,355 Speaker 1: street at that hour, but there I was. And as 759 00:49:26,395 --> 00:49:29,235 Speaker 1: I slipped past the ancient front door, I saw the 760 00:49:29,355 --> 00:49:32,155 Speaker 1: side exit open in a burst of bright yellow light, 761 00:49:32,675 --> 00:49:37,075 Speaker 1: like in an Edward Hopper painting shoot out, onto a 762 00:49:37,115 --> 00:49:40,355 Speaker 1: limo waiting on fifty fifth Street. Then, as I walked, 763 00:49:40,555 --> 00:49:44,475 Speaker 1: carrying my box of pizza and wearing my RKO Radio 764 00:49:44,555 --> 00:49:49,195 Speaker 1: Network black jacket, who emerges from that light of that 765 00:49:49,355 --> 00:49:53,955 Speaker 1: side door at PJ. Clark's. But George Steinbrenner in a 766 00:49:54,075 --> 00:49:59,395 Speaker 1: tux I gasped. I tried to summon the courage to 767 00:49:59,435 --> 00:50:02,315 Speaker 1: approach Steinbrenner as he walked towards his limo and ask 768 00:50:02,475 --> 00:50:05,595 Speaker 1: him about his planned meeting with Commiss Kun and just 769 00:50:05,675 --> 00:50:08,715 Speaker 1: before I admitted to myself that no, at the age 770 00:50:08,715 --> 00:50:11,435 Speaker 1: of twenty two, I did not have such courage. I 771 00:50:11,475 --> 00:50:14,595 Speaker 1: saw Steinbrenner stop at the limo, and I heard him 772 00:50:14,675 --> 00:50:17,075 Speaker 1: yell back towards the light shining through the still open 773 00:50:17,155 --> 00:50:21,835 Speaker 1: side door to Clark's Eddie, Eddie, And with that Edward 774 00:50:21,875 --> 00:50:25,115 Speaker 1: Bennett Williams, the owner of the Baltimore Orioles, leaned out, 775 00:50:25,755 --> 00:50:30,515 Speaker 1: also in a tux and said, with evident exasperation, what now. 776 00:50:30,595 --> 00:50:34,075 Speaker 1: George Steinbrenner shouted, what time are you and I and 777 00:50:34,235 --> 00:50:39,235 Speaker 1: Child's meeting with Bowie tomorrow? Ah. I couldn't believe it. 778 00:50:39,515 --> 00:50:43,395 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe my luck. Williams had not seen me. 779 00:50:43,435 --> 00:50:46,715 Speaker 1: Steinbrenner had not seen me. Williams sighed again for the 780 00:50:46,835 --> 00:50:51,675 Speaker 1: tenth time. George nine nine thirty in the morning, George 781 00:50:52,035 --> 00:50:57,035 Speaker 1: nine thirty, Booie's Condo. I now plastered myself against the 782 00:50:57,035 --> 00:50:59,315 Speaker 1: wall of Clark's. I hope they had not seen me 783 00:50:59,355 --> 00:51:01,875 Speaker 1: at all. Without so much as asking the question, I 784 00:51:01,915 --> 00:51:04,635 Speaker 1: had learned at the Orioles owner and Chiles Eddie Child, 785 00:51:04,995 --> 00:51:07,715 Speaker 1: the owner of the Texas Rangers, they would be accompanying 786 00:51:07,755 --> 00:51:10,235 Speaker 1: Steinbrenner to the meeting, and it would begin at nine 787 00:51:10,395 --> 00:51:12,995 Speaker 1: thirty at the condominium of Commissioner Bouie Kun And I 788 00:51:13,075 --> 00:51:15,955 Speaker 1: was wondering if I could try to fake Steinbrenner's voice 789 00:51:15,995 --> 00:51:20,315 Speaker 1: and shout, Eddie, where's Booie's condo again? When suddenly I 790 00:51:20,315 --> 00:51:26,195 Speaker 1: heard Steinbrenner say, Eddie, where's Booie's condo again? By now, 791 00:51:26,315 --> 00:51:30,355 Speaker 1: Edward Bennett Williams had re lit a cigar he was holding. George, 792 00:51:30,795 --> 00:51:36,955 Speaker 1: write it down this time five seventy five, Park five 793 00:51:37,995 --> 00:51:44,355 Speaker 1: seven five. I could barely breathe. Good God. They had 794 00:51:44,395 --> 00:51:47,995 Speaker 1: handed me everything but the cross street. Eddie, Eddie, what's 795 00:51:48,035 --> 00:51:51,755 Speaker 1: the cross street? Williams now swore, Oh, for f's sake, 796 00:51:51,875 --> 00:51:55,475 Speaker 1: George sixty third, sixty third in Park five seventy five 797 00:51:55,515 --> 00:52:00,435 Speaker 1: Park at nine thirty in the morning. Okay, Steinbrenner got 798 00:52:00,435 --> 00:52:03,275 Speaker 1: into the limo. It squealed off, the door closed. I 799 00:52:03,355 --> 00:52:05,195 Speaker 1: wrote what I had heard on the top of the 800 00:52:05,195 --> 00:52:07,195 Speaker 1: pizza box and took off at a dead run to 801 00:52:07,235 --> 00:52:09,195 Speaker 1: my apartment at the corner of fifty fifth and Second, 802 00:52:09,315 --> 00:52:11,315 Speaker 1: pausing only to take a quick bite of pizza. I 803 00:52:11,355 --> 00:52:14,075 Speaker 1: called John Martin back at the RCAO Radio network. I 804 00:52:14,115 --> 00:52:17,475 Speaker 1: got it, John said, you got what I got everything 805 00:52:17,475 --> 00:52:21,475 Speaker 1: about the meeting. John said, I'll get the Boss soon. 806 00:52:21,915 --> 00:52:24,715 Speaker 1: All three of us were on the phone. Charlie did 807 00:52:24,715 --> 00:52:28,475 Speaker 1: not believe I had gotten him any information, so I 808 00:52:28,595 --> 00:52:32,915 Speaker 1: laid it on thick. You're writing this down, Boss, nine 809 00:52:33,075 --> 00:52:36,955 Speaker 1: thirty tomorrow morning. It's at Bowie Kune's condo at five 810 00:52:37,075 --> 00:52:40,995 Speaker 1: seventy five Park that's the corner of sixty third, of course. 811 00:52:42,675 --> 00:52:44,835 Speaker 1: Then there was silence at Charlie's end of the phone. 812 00:52:45,635 --> 00:52:48,635 Speaker 1: Oh and Edward Bennett Williams of the Orioles, and any 813 00:52:48,715 --> 00:52:51,675 Speaker 1: child's of the Rangers. They'll be there too. I don't know, 814 00:52:51,795 --> 00:52:55,555 Speaker 1: Charlie if it's just them or there are others, but 815 00:52:56,235 --> 00:52:59,955 Speaker 1: those four will certainly be there. Booi's condo five seventy 816 00:52:59,955 --> 00:53:05,515 Speaker 1: five Cross Street is sixty third started to make a 817 00:53:05,595 --> 00:53:09,315 Speaker 1: kind of butt butt noise. But but but how did 818 00:53:09,355 --> 00:53:11,355 Speaker 1: you find out? How on the hell did you actually 819 00:53:11,395 --> 00:53:15,675 Speaker 1: find out? Why do you think it's true? I had 820 00:53:15,715 --> 00:53:19,755 Speaker 1: been waiting for this for several moments, and my answer 821 00:53:19,835 --> 00:53:23,515 Speaker 1: had been rehearsed in my mind at least as far 822 00:53:23,555 --> 00:53:26,435 Speaker 1: back as my elevator ride up to my apartment with 823 00:53:26,555 --> 00:53:30,155 Speaker 1: the most nonchalant I had ever mustered in my life, 824 00:53:30,715 --> 00:53:37,715 Speaker 1: I answered Charlie Steiner, Well, Charlie, I I ran into 825 00:53:37,755 --> 00:53:53,475 Speaker 1: Steinbrenner at Clark's. I've done all the damage I can 826 00:53:53,515 --> 00:53:57,435 Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening. Years later I asked 827 00:53:57,475 --> 00:54:00,355 Speaker 1: George Steinbrenner about that night and he said he remembered 828 00:54:00,515 --> 00:54:03,195 Speaker 1: all of it. Edward Bennett Williams in the discussion about 829 00:54:03,235 --> 00:54:05,675 Speaker 1: Bowie Kune and then he said, I don't remember you 830 00:54:05,755 --> 00:54:08,915 Speaker 1: coming through there, and I said, well, that's kind of 831 00:54:08,955 --> 00:54:12,075 Speaker 1: the point. I kind of stuck myself against the wall. 832 00:54:12,275 --> 00:54:16,635 Speaker 1: And then he said, how was the pizza? Downtown Musical 833 00:54:16,635 --> 00:54:19,595 Speaker 1: directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanelle arranged, produced, and 834 00:54:19,635 --> 00:54:22,955 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, 835 00:54:22,995 --> 00:54:26,555 Speaker 1: bass and drums. Mister Shanale handled orchestration and keyboards. It 836 00:54:26,675 --> 00:54:29,755 Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of 837 00:54:29,795 --> 00:54:34,235 Speaker 1: the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. 838 00:54:34,715 --> 00:54:37,475 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, 839 00:54:37,515 --> 00:54:42,035 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our 840 00:54:42,075 --> 00:54:44,955 Speaker 1: satirical and fifty musical comments are by Nancy Fauss. The 841 00:54:44,995 --> 00:54:48,395 Speaker 1: Best Baseball Stadium organist. Ever, our announcer today was my 842 00:54:48,475 --> 00:54:52,075 Speaker 1: friend Kenny Maine, and everything else was pretty much my fault. 843 00:54:52,595 --> 00:54:55,275 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this two hundred and thirtieth day 844 00:54:55,635 --> 00:54:59,675 Speaker 1: until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the one hundred 845 00:54:59,875 --> 00:55:03,515 Speaker 1: seventy first day since dementia j Trump's first attempted coup 846 00:55:03,875 --> 00:55:06,675 Speaker 1: against the Democrat radically elected government of the United States. 847 00:55:07,275 --> 00:55:10,715 Speaker 1: Use the fourteenth Amendment and the not regularly given elector 848 00:55:10,795 --> 00:55:14,435 Speaker 1: objection option, use the Insurrection Act, use a justice system, 849 00:55:14,755 --> 00:55:17,955 Speaker 1: use the mental health system to stop him from doing 850 00:55:17,995 --> 00:55:23,275 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown 851 00:55:23,315 --> 00:55:26,395 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news warrant till then, I'm 852 00:55:26,435 --> 00:55:30,155 Speaker 1: Keith Olreman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night. Now I 853 00:55:30,195 --> 00:55:49,515 Speaker 1: want pizza and good luck. Countdown with Keith Oldman is 854 00:55:49,555 --> 00:55:54,355 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 855 00:55:54,395 --> 00:55:59,075 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.