1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,235 --> 00:00:28,075 Speaker 1: just stochastically threatened mass political violence and terrorism again while 3 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:31,035 Speaker 1: trying to get out of a trial in which he 4 00:00:31,155 --> 00:00:35,995 Speaker 1: is charged with orchestrating mass political violence and terrorism, and 5 00:00:36,115 --> 00:00:39,035 Speaker 1: his attorney told the three judge appeals panel in essence 6 00:00:39,035 --> 00:00:42,275 Speaker 1: that Trump also had the right to order the assassination 7 00:00:42,435 --> 00:00:45,275 Speaker 1: of a domestic political rival, and as long as he 8 00:00:45,315 --> 00:00:47,635 Speaker 1: was not impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate, 9 00:00:47,635 --> 00:00:51,355 Speaker 1: he could not be prosecuted for doing so. I will 10 00:00:51,395 --> 00:00:55,475 Speaker 1: go out of chronological order about this because sorry, he's 11 00:00:55,555 --> 00:00:58,515 Speaker 1: still doing it, and he's still not being treated the 12 00:00:58,515 --> 00:01:02,075 Speaker 1: way we would treat any other terrorist who threatens violence, 13 00:01:02,675 --> 00:01:08,115 Speaker 1: or as he calls it, bedlam. If the case against 14 00:01:08,195 --> 00:01:14,035 Speaker 1: him is not dropped, it's a terrorist threat. But listen 15 00:01:14,115 --> 00:01:18,235 Speaker 1: carefully at the end for a reporter who actually sort 16 00:01:18,275 --> 00:01:21,555 Speaker 1: of called him out on it. Very mind boggling. If 17 00:01:21,595 --> 00:01:25,195 Speaker 1: you happen to be Joe Biden, and I think they 18 00:01:25,195 --> 00:01:26,835 Speaker 1: feel this is the way they're going to try and win, 19 00:01:27,515 --> 00:01:29,155 Speaker 1: and that's not the way it goes. That it will 20 00:01:29,235 --> 00:01:31,635 Speaker 1: be bedlam in the country. You just use the word bedlam. 21 00:01:31,715 --> 00:01:35,115 Speaker 1: Will you tell your supporters now, no matter what, no violence. 22 00:01:37,355 --> 00:01:45,155 Speaker 1: So no, huh, DC reporter, you have unsuspected depth even 23 00:01:45,195 --> 00:01:50,115 Speaker 1: the most both sidest of publications. Axios heard the terrorism 24 00:01:50,155 --> 00:01:55,355 Speaker 1: in there and described that as Trump's violence warning warning, 25 00:01:55,435 --> 00:01:58,035 Speaker 1: being legally correct but not exactly conveying the fact that 26 00:01:58,075 --> 00:02:00,355 Speaker 1: if that was a warning, it was like the standard 27 00:02:00,475 --> 00:02:04,195 Speaker 1: mob warning or a warning from Vladimir Putin about making 28 00:02:04,235 --> 00:02:07,875 Speaker 1: sure you pay somebody else to wash your upper floor windows. 29 00:02:08,955 --> 00:02:13,315 Speaker 1: Axios did describe the bedlam and the assassination interludes as 30 00:02:13,435 --> 00:02:19,915 Speaker 1: quote two stunning moments as to the assassination of domestic rivals. 31 00:02:21,195 --> 00:02:24,275 Speaker 1: His attorney John Sower told the three judge appeals panel 32 00:02:24,315 --> 00:02:29,115 Speaker 1: that yeah, Trump could be prosecuted for killing a guy 33 00:02:29,955 --> 00:02:36,235 Speaker 1: if he was impeached and removed from office. And that's bad. Well, no, 34 00:02:36,355 --> 00:02:39,755 Speaker 1: that's good because all three judges, including the one appointed 35 00:02:39,795 --> 00:02:42,355 Speaker 1: by the first President Bush, were a little skeptical about that. 36 00:02:42,635 --> 00:02:47,035 Speaker 1: So that's good. No, that's bad because this presidential immunity 37 00:02:47,035 --> 00:02:50,395 Speaker 1: fiction is not about winning or losing. It's about stalling. 38 00:02:50,795 --> 00:02:53,395 Speaker 1: And this alone, this has managed to stall it for 39 00:02:53,395 --> 00:02:56,755 Speaker 1: a couple of more weeks. And that's bad. No, that's 40 00:02:56,795 --> 00:02:59,955 Speaker 1: good because only the Bush judge seemed to bite at 41 00:02:59,995 --> 00:03:03,395 Speaker 1: an idea that the appeals court should send the argument 42 00:03:03,555 --> 00:03:06,555 Speaker 1: back to a lower court to determine which, if any 43 00:03:06,635 --> 00:03:10,075 Speaker 1: of the Jack Smith charges against Trump might be subject 44 00:03:10,115 --> 00:03:14,595 Speaker 1: to this presidential immunity. Jazz and the other two judges 45 00:03:14,635 --> 00:03:17,195 Speaker 1: seemed even more skeptical of this than they were about 46 00:03:17,275 --> 00:03:20,075 Speaker 1: Trump can order sealed Team six to kill President Biden. 47 00:03:20,155 --> 00:03:23,835 Speaker 1: And that's good. Now, that's bad because the idea of 48 00:03:23,955 --> 00:03:27,115 Speaker 1: any appeals court sending any part of this case or 49 00:03:27,155 --> 00:03:30,155 Speaker 1: any other case against Trump back down to a lower 50 00:03:30,195 --> 00:03:33,075 Speaker 1: court would waste even more time on Trump's behalf. And 51 00:03:33,155 --> 00:03:37,235 Speaker 1: presumably somebody at the Republican Supreme Religious Court heard this 52 00:03:37,355 --> 00:03:40,515 Speaker 1: and said, send it back to the lower court. Genius. 53 00:03:40,955 --> 00:04:08,235 Speaker 1: Why that's a Perry Mason moment. Thank you, Nancy Faust. 54 00:04:08,435 --> 00:04:11,195 Speaker 1: Back to the District of Columbia Appeals Court and the 55 00:04:11,235 --> 00:04:14,635 Speaker 1: attorney John Sower and there's a fun fact about him 56 00:04:14,675 --> 00:04:18,715 Speaker 1: in a moment, and Judge Florence Pan and whatever it 57 00:04:18,835 --> 00:04:22,755 Speaker 1: is that made this sour guy, and that's an apt 58 00:04:22,795 --> 00:04:25,875 Speaker 1: description of him too, believe that there is a presidential 59 00:04:25,955 --> 00:04:29,355 Speaker 1: right to assassinate and get away with it. And also, 60 00:04:29,395 --> 00:04:32,555 Speaker 1: by the way, another right to sell pardons or sell 61 00:04:32,635 --> 00:04:38,675 Speaker 1: military secrets, and also that president's lawyer's right to philip 62 00:04:38,675 --> 00:04:40,115 Speaker 1: buster the court. 63 00:04:40,355 --> 00:04:43,755 Speaker 2: Order Seal Team six to assassinate a political rival. Order 64 00:04:43,835 --> 00:04:47,915 Speaker 2: Seal Team six to assassinate a political rival. That's an 65 00:04:47,915 --> 00:04:50,835 Speaker 2: official act. In order to Seal Team sits, he would 66 00:04:50,835 --> 00:04:51,435 Speaker 2: have to be and. 67 00:04:51,395 --> 00:04:55,715 Speaker 1: Would speedily be, you know, impeached and convicted. 68 00:04:55,315 --> 00:04:57,915 Speaker 2: Before the criminal But if you warrant, there would be 69 00:04:57,955 --> 00:05:00,795 Speaker 2: no criminal prosecution, no criminal liability for that. 70 00:05:01,955 --> 00:05:04,755 Speaker 1: Chief Justices' opinion murder against Macison and. 71 00:05:06,515 --> 00:05:09,435 Speaker 2: The ar concertstuction and the plain language of the epeachment 72 00:05:09,515 --> 00:05:12,715 Speaker 2: judgment clause all clearly resupposed that what the founders were 73 00:05:12,715 --> 00:05:15,435 Speaker 2: concerned about was not I asked you a yes, yes 74 00:05:15,555 --> 00:05:19,355 Speaker 2: or no question. Could a president who ordered Seal Team 75 00:05:19,395 --> 00:05:22,715 Speaker 2: sits to assassinate a political rival who was not impeached 76 00:05:23,755 --> 00:05:26,875 Speaker 2: would he be subject to criminal prosecution if. 77 00:05:26,675 --> 00:05:28,355 Speaker 1: He were impeached and convicted first? 78 00:05:28,955 --> 00:05:32,595 Speaker 2: So your answer is is that my answer is qualified. Yes, 79 00:05:32,675 --> 00:05:34,915 Speaker 2: there's a political process that have to occur under us 80 00:05:34,915 --> 00:05:35,555 Speaker 2: the structure or. 81 00:05:35,955 --> 00:05:38,995 Speaker 1: The extra fact if you want to laugh that Trump 82 00:05:39,035 --> 00:05:42,955 Speaker 1: attorney there Sour started as the law clerk to a 83 00:05:42,995 --> 00:05:50,755 Speaker 1: conservative judge named Michael Luddig Michael fourteenth Amendment lutdig see 84 00:05:50,755 --> 00:05:54,275 Speaker 1: he didn't learn anything from you. Judge Judge Pan and 85 00:05:54,355 --> 00:05:57,915 Speaker 1: Judge Michelle Childs did not bring up several fundamental hypocrisies 86 00:05:58,155 --> 00:06:01,275 Speaker 1: within Trump's positions in this trial. He is claiming his 87 00:06:01,355 --> 00:06:03,915 Speaker 1: actions to overturn the twenty twenty election with just a 88 00:06:04,035 --> 00:06:08,395 Speaker 1: president do his job ferreting out election corruption. But the 89 00:06:08,515 --> 00:06:11,555 Speaker 1: damnedest thing is he only looked for that corruption in 90 00:06:11,595 --> 00:06:15,635 Speaker 1: the States he lost. Also, he is claiming you cannot 91 00:06:15,635 --> 00:06:19,555 Speaker 1: prosecute an ex president while promising he will prosecute an 92 00:06:19,555 --> 00:06:23,955 Speaker 1: ex president. But Judge Childs did note that if ex 93 00:06:23,995 --> 00:06:26,875 Speaker 1: presidents are immune, why in the hell did Nixon ask 94 00:06:26,995 --> 00:06:30,115 Speaker 1: Ford for a pardon? And the Bush appointee Judge Karen 95 00:06:30,195 --> 00:06:33,955 Speaker 1: Henderson noted, quoting, I think it's paradoxical to say that 96 00:06:34,035 --> 00:06:36,635 Speaker 1: his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be 97 00:06:36,675 --> 00:06:43,395 Speaker 1: faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal law. Good point. 98 00:06:44,635 --> 00:06:47,075 Speaker 1: Trump attended the hearing because lying to his cult that 99 00:06:47,155 --> 00:06:49,795 Speaker 1: he was forced to go to court and then standing 100 00:06:49,835 --> 00:06:51,995 Speaker 1: in a nice, warm indoor space in front of TV 101 00:06:52,155 --> 00:06:56,595 Speaker 1: cameras threatening America with bedlam, rather than going outside and 102 00:06:56,635 --> 00:06:59,475 Speaker 1: campaigning in des Moines, Iowa, where the real feel yesterday 103 00:06:59,515 --> 00:07:03,035 Speaker 1: was sixteen. That's so much easier, and it's beginning to 104 00:07:03,075 --> 00:07:06,435 Speaker 1: be oh oh so so obvious that he is oh 105 00:07:06,915 --> 00:07:11,955 Speaker 1: so so tired. Back to the main point of this. 106 00:07:12,555 --> 00:07:16,555 Speaker 1: Besides the background drumbeat of domestic political violence and murder 107 00:07:16,635 --> 00:07:21,635 Speaker 1: and bedlam, the team at just security dot org game 108 00:07:21,755 --> 00:07:25,995 Speaker 1: planned where the presidential immunity delay would put the timeline 109 00:07:26,035 --> 00:07:29,915 Speaker 1: for the Jacksmith subversion trial of loser j. Trump. They've 110 00:07:29,915 --> 00:07:33,315 Speaker 1: got three scenarios. I'll skip the legal reasons for the differences, 111 00:07:33,355 --> 00:07:35,155 Speaker 1: but in the quickest of them, it has the Supreme 112 00:07:35,195 --> 00:07:37,835 Speaker 1: Court only being able to delay the start of his 113 00:07:37,915 --> 00:07:41,235 Speaker 1: trial until about May nineteenth, which means it would wrap 114 00:07:41,315 --> 00:07:44,835 Speaker 1: up by about July seventh. A second scenario would see 115 00:07:44,875 --> 00:07:48,115 Speaker 1: the trial finished by July seventeenth. But a third one 116 00:07:48,155 --> 00:07:51,155 Speaker 1: has the trial not even starting until early June and 117 00:07:51,235 --> 00:07:54,235 Speaker 1: not completing until mid August. And then you know what happens, 118 00:07:54,875 --> 00:08:00,715 Speaker 1: Our old friend, the DOJ sixty day Unwritten Rule stumbles 119 00:08:00,795 --> 00:08:04,475 Speaker 1: drunkenly back into town. He has not really made a 120 00:08:04,515 --> 00:08:07,995 Speaker 1: fool out of us since twenty sixteen, when James Comy 121 00:08:08,075 --> 00:08:12,235 Speaker 1: managed to mishandle Hillary's emails both ways, by first staying 122 00:08:12,315 --> 00:08:14,435 Speaker 1: quiet when it was still early enough to say something, 123 00:08:14,715 --> 00:08:16,955 Speaker 1: and then by not staying quiet when it was too 124 00:08:16,995 --> 00:08:20,595 Speaker 1: late to say anything. The DOJ will not take any 125 00:08:20,635 --> 00:08:23,555 Speaker 1: steps that might impact an upcoming election within the sixty 126 00:08:23,635 --> 00:08:26,875 Speaker 1: day span before that election, and that's September fifth of 127 00:08:26,915 --> 00:08:30,355 Speaker 1: this year, or Trump would call it Christmas. We don't know, 128 00:08:31,075 --> 00:08:34,755 Speaker 1: particularly after the Komy fiasco, what the DOJ would now 129 00:08:34,835 --> 00:08:38,315 Speaker 1: do about the prosecution of an ex president for trying 130 00:08:38,355 --> 00:08:41,315 Speaker 1: to stop the peaceful transfer of power and to defraud 131 00:08:41,395 --> 00:08:43,995 Speaker 1: every voter in the country if the trial was still 132 00:08:44,035 --> 00:08:46,595 Speaker 1: in progress as the date of the election he is 133 00:08:46,675 --> 00:08:50,035 Speaker 1: running in arrives in this rule that is not a law, 134 00:08:50,315 --> 00:08:56,515 Speaker 1: but they do it anyway just cause. We can, however, 135 00:08:56,635 --> 00:09:00,635 Speaker 1: guess what Trump would do. He would martyr himself yet again, 136 00:09:00,675 --> 00:09:02,875 Speaker 1: because he has not run out of bullshit, but he 137 00:09:02,955 --> 00:09:05,635 Speaker 1: has run out of new bullshit that were not obvious 138 00:09:05,675 --> 00:09:08,955 Speaker 1: in the stalling attempts. It was at his social media 139 00:09:08,995 --> 00:09:14,835 Speaker 1: site where he resurrected his original dance move Birtherism. Obviously 140 00:09:14,875 --> 00:09:17,075 Speaker 1: that a Hampshire primary is as close as some of 141 00:09:17,115 --> 00:09:20,475 Speaker 1: the polls suggest, because Trump is panicking enough to post 142 00:09:20,515 --> 00:09:25,155 Speaker 1: a screenshot from the notoriously doubted even by Trumpist's Gateway 143 00:09:25,315 --> 00:09:30,275 Speaker 1: pundit quoting it. In Nicky Haley's situation, reports indicate that 144 00:09:30,315 --> 00:09:32,875 Speaker 1: her parents were not US citizens at the time of 145 00:09:32,875 --> 00:09:36,195 Speaker 1: her birth in nineteen seventy two. Based on the Constitution 146 00:09:36,355 --> 00:09:41,875 Speaker 1: as interpreted by paul Ingracia, this disqualifies Haley from presidential 147 00:09:41,995 --> 00:09:45,875 Speaker 1: or vice presidential candidacy under the Twelfth Amendment. Quote. Then 148 00:09:45,915 --> 00:09:48,595 Speaker 1: there's a picture of Nicky Haley at a microphone looking 149 00:09:48,635 --> 00:09:50,995 Speaker 1: like she's in the final round of the spelling bee, 150 00:09:51,275 --> 00:09:54,195 Speaker 1: and the word she has to spell is confederacy, but 151 00:09:54,235 --> 00:09:58,435 Speaker 1: she has completely blanked on it. There are three other 152 00:09:58,555 --> 00:10:02,275 Speaker 1: problems with Trump reverting to his favorite hit here pertherism. 153 00:10:02,635 --> 00:10:06,635 Speaker 1: As CNN's Andy Kashinsky notes, that phrase based on the 154 00:10:06,675 --> 00:10:12,555 Speaker 1: Constitution as interpreted by paul Ingracia, A that turns out 155 00:10:12,595 --> 00:10:15,835 Speaker 1: to be the interpretation of a guy who graduated from 156 00:10:15,915 --> 00:10:20,715 Speaker 1: Cornell Law eighteen months ago. And despite my affiliation other 157 00:10:20,755 --> 00:10:24,075 Speaker 1: than the president of Taiwan, I have never met a 158 00:10:24,155 --> 00:10:28,235 Speaker 1: Cornell Law graduate I trusted enough to stand with my 159 00:10:28,435 --> 00:10:32,515 Speaker 1: back to them. This might as well be the Constitution 160 00:10:32,675 --> 00:10:38,235 Speaker 1: as interpreted by Marcel Marcel walking against the wind. B 161 00:10:39,275 --> 00:10:44,035 Speaker 1: This Kid Class of twenty two summarized his interpretation by asking, 162 00:10:44,195 --> 00:10:47,715 Speaker 1: where's the proof that Hailey's parents were not violating their 163 00:10:47,795 --> 00:10:51,395 Speaker 1: visas when she was born? Which has exactly the legal 164 00:10:51,435 --> 00:10:55,355 Speaker 1: relevance of asking where's the proof Trump is not Rosemary's baby? 165 00:10:56,675 --> 00:11:02,155 Speaker 1: And lastly, c Trump's mother was not only an immigrant 166 00:11:02,195 --> 00:11:04,635 Speaker 1: who did not come to this country until she was seventeen, 167 00:11:04,675 --> 00:11:08,035 Speaker 1: but when Trump was, I was gonna say, born well 168 00:11:08,035 --> 00:11:12,195 Speaker 1: before Trump happened. She only became a US citizen four 169 00:11:12,275 --> 00:11:22,475 Speaker 1: years earlier? Or did she? Two other Trump notes, he 170 00:11:22,635 --> 00:11:26,515 Speaker 1: learns nothing. We learned that, if not earlier, we learned 171 00:11:26,515 --> 00:11:29,075 Speaker 1: that two months ago when on the campaign trail in 172 00:11:29,115 --> 00:11:34,435 Speaker 1: Iowa he suddenly brought up Golden showers, And sure enough, yesterday, 173 00:11:34,435 --> 00:11:37,915 Speaker 1: what does he post online after the dozen videos and 174 00:11:37,955 --> 00:11:40,315 Speaker 1: the warnings that if he doesn't have immunity, Biden doesn't 175 00:11:40,315 --> 00:11:42,755 Speaker 1: have immunity without the light bulb going off in his 176 00:11:42,835 --> 00:11:46,915 Speaker 1: violent fantasy world that if Biden doesn't have immunity, wait, 177 00:11:46,995 --> 00:11:51,435 Speaker 1: Biden could order Trump assassinated and not be prosecuted for it. This, 178 00:11:52,355 --> 00:11:56,515 Speaker 1: even for him, a real stretch and a real bad 179 00:11:56,635 --> 00:12:00,595 Speaker 1: choice of words. Quote without immunity, it would be very 180 00:12:00,595 --> 00:12:04,515 Speaker 1: hard for a president to enjoy his or her golden 181 00:12:04,875 --> 00:12:15,235 Speaker 1: years of retirement. Enjoy your golden years. And from a 182 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:22,755 Speaker 1: different Trump trial, his essence, Loser J. Trump is one giant, 183 00:12:22,915 --> 00:12:27,915 Speaker 1: sweaty rotting cliche. Every Man who is his own lawyer 184 00:12:27,995 --> 00:12:32,475 Speaker 1: reads a collection of witticisms published in eighteen fourteen. Has 185 00:12:32,635 --> 00:12:37,115 Speaker 1: a fool for a client. I'd like to introduce him 186 00:12:37,155 --> 00:12:41,635 Speaker 1: to you, Loser J. Trump. His defense in his New 187 00:12:41,715 --> 00:12:44,755 Speaker 1: York civil fraud trial wraps up Thursday, and ABC News 188 00:12:44,755 --> 00:12:47,835 Speaker 1: reports the closing argument will be delivered in part by 189 00:12:47,915 --> 00:12:51,715 Speaker 1: Trump himself every man who is his own lawyer, and 190 00:12:51,715 --> 00:12:54,755 Speaker 1: then again the other choices include Alina Habba, fresh from 191 00:12:54,795 --> 00:12:59,155 Speaker 1: admitting she can fake being smart. No you can't. ABC 192 00:12:59,355 --> 00:13:02,715 Speaker 1: notes their sources quote cautioned that plans for the defense's 193 00:13:02,755 --> 00:13:08,075 Speaker 1: closing argument remain fluid fluid, you know, like Trump's cerebral cortex. 194 00:13:08,675 --> 00:13:12,555 Speaker 1: Thirty seven years of looking for his new roy Cone 195 00:13:12,875 --> 00:13:19,035 Speaker 1: and Trump suddenly decides he's his new roy Cone. You 196 00:13:19,075 --> 00:13:22,075 Speaker 1: may recall Trump is already guilty in this trial. This 197 00:13:22,115 --> 00:13:24,235 Speaker 1: is about damages. We know what he is. We're just 198 00:13:24,355 --> 00:13:27,755 Speaker 1: arguing about the price. When this trial began, the state 199 00:13:27,795 --> 00:13:30,595 Speaker 1: of New York sought two hundred and fifty million dollars 200 00:13:30,595 --> 00:13:33,955 Speaker 1: in damages. Then as more fraud was discovered, it went 201 00:13:33,995 --> 00:13:36,835 Speaker 1: to three hundred million, and then last Friday, Attorney General 202 00:13:36,915 --> 00:13:40,795 Speaker 1: Letitia James increased the ask to three hundred and seventy million. 203 00:13:41,955 --> 00:13:44,875 Speaker 1: Trump is presumably going to try for both his beloved 204 00:13:44,875 --> 00:13:47,915 Speaker 1: Perry Mason moment and to get what he's paying for 205 00:13:48,355 --> 00:13:52,395 Speaker 1: by verbally attacking the judge, Arthur Engern, at least until 206 00:13:52,435 --> 00:13:56,875 Speaker 1: somebody reminds him that this trial is not on TV. 207 00:14:02,355 --> 00:14:08,395 Speaker 1: Also of interest, here we come to the Lou Dubbs Show. 208 00:14:09,355 --> 00:14:16,955 Speaker 3: I'm Lou Dubbs and I'm more than seventy five thousand 209 00:14:17,075 --> 00:14:25,195 Speaker 3: years old, and you are watching Pillow TV. 210 00:14:27,955 --> 00:14:30,115 Speaker 1: Plus. Speaking of TV, and by the way, that joke 211 00:14:30,115 --> 00:14:33,115 Speaker 1: about Lou Dobbs is itself over seventy five thousand years old. 212 00:14:33,435 --> 00:14:38,075 Speaker 1: How could the ESPN Jimmy Kimmel, Aaron Rodgers Big Sleeveless 213 00:14:38,115 --> 00:14:41,195 Speaker 1: pat disaster get any worse? Oh just you wait and 214 00:14:41,275 --> 00:14:47,155 Speaker 1: see that's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with 215 00:14:47,395 --> 00:15:01,475 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman host Scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, 216 00:15:01,475 --> 00:15:07,595 Speaker 1: some snarks, some predictions, date Line the Pentagon. I haven't 217 00:15:07,635 --> 00:15:10,915 Speaker 1: said anything here previously about the amazing vanishing Secretary of 218 00:15:10,955 --> 00:15:14,555 Speaker 1: Defense because as weird as Lloyd Austin's disappearance was, I 219 00:15:14,595 --> 00:15:17,515 Speaker 1: guess I am finally old enough to look at something 220 00:15:17,595 --> 00:15:21,115 Speaker 1: like this and finally think, hey, maybe there's more to this, 221 00:15:21,355 --> 00:15:24,395 Speaker 1: you know. And it turned out there was. The minor 222 00:15:24,635 --> 00:15:28,875 Speaker 1: medical procedure turns out to have been treatment for prostate cancer, 223 00:15:28,915 --> 00:15:32,155 Speaker 1: and the intense pain because something did not go right 224 00:15:32,715 --> 00:15:36,795 Speaker 1: was let's just say it was presumably near the prostate. 225 00:15:37,755 --> 00:15:40,475 Speaker 1: And I'm not wild about the president not knowing in 226 00:15:40,515 --> 00:15:44,315 Speaker 1: the nation, not knowing where the Secretary of Defense is, 227 00:15:44,435 --> 00:15:47,195 Speaker 1: or more correctly, not noticing that he wasn't where he 228 00:15:47,315 --> 00:15:49,995 Speaker 1: was supposed to be. On the other hand, if it's 229 00:15:50,235 --> 00:15:54,235 Speaker 1: cancer and you are undergoing treatment and suddenly something goes 230 00:15:54,395 --> 00:15:57,995 Speaker 1: very very wrong enough for you to be hospitalized for pain, 231 00:15:58,155 --> 00:16:02,235 Speaker 1: I do think you get seventy two hours on a 232 00:16:02,315 --> 00:16:07,875 Speaker 1: holiday to worry about that first, and you get at 233 00:16:07,955 --> 00:16:11,875 Speaker 1: least one mulligan on making the wrong call, if it 234 00:16:12,035 --> 00:16:20,835 Speaker 1: was the wrong call. Speaking of wrong calls, Dateline, Bristol, Connecticut. Yeah, 235 00:16:20,915 --> 00:16:23,315 Speaker 1: so this is not really a sports story anymore, is it? 236 00:16:23,395 --> 00:16:26,235 Speaker 1: Instead of ending the saga that threatens to end the 237 00:16:26,355 --> 00:16:30,235 Speaker 1: career of a veteran NFL quarterback and void the contract 238 00:16:30,275 --> 00:16:33,235 Speaker 1: of an eighty five million dollar sportscaster and get the 239 00:16:33,275 --> 00:16:37,555 Speaker 1: president of ESPN fired and maybe jeopardize the networks deal 240 00:16:37,595 --> 00:16:43,595 Speaker 1: with the National Football League, Aaron Rodgers, also known as 241 00:16:43,755 --> 00:16:48,635 Speaker 1: Karen Rodgers, escalated it all yesterday. You will recall that 242 00:16:48,795 --> 00:16:53,915 Speaker 1: last week on ESPN's new shirtless or anyway sleeveless Pat 243 00:16:53,995 --> 00:16:58,355 Speaker 1: McAfee show, Rogers intimated that Jimmy Kimmel was somehow connected 244 00:16:58,595 --> 00:17:01,955 Speaker 1: to the then soon to be released Jeffrey Epstein files. 245 00:17:02,915 --> 00:17:06,235 Speaker 1: Kimmel threatened to sue for defamation, which is even more 246 00:17:06,235 --> 00:17:09,835 Speaker 1: complicated than usual because he works for Disney, and Disney 247 00:17:09,875 --> 00:17:16,195 Speaker 1: owns ESPN, and ESPN carries McAfee's show, and McAfee pays Rogers, 248 00:17:16,435 --> 00:17:18,915 Speaker 1: So Aaron Rodgers and Jimmy Kimmel are both being paid 249 00:17:18,915 --> 00:17:21,715 Speaker 1: out of the same wallet. Plus Disney does have that 250 00:17:21,795 --> 00:17:25,635 Speaker 1: big TV deal with the NFL. Plus, ESPN has largely 251 00:17:25,675 --> 00:17:29,235 Speaker 1: maintained its stick to sports attitude ever since the fiasco 252 00:17:29,395 --> 00:17:32,755 Speaker 1: twenty years ago, when it hired Rush Limbaugh to be 253 00:17:32,875 --> 00:17:35,315 Speaker 1: on its NFL show and a month in he declared 254 00:17:35,355 --> 00:17:38,035 Speaker 1: that Donovan McNabb of the Philadelphia Eagles wasn't really that 255 00:17:38,115 --> 00:17:40,555 Speaker 1: good and he only got good publicity because the league 256 00:17:40,555 --> 00:17:45,515 Speaker 1: and the media wanted a successful black quarterback. Oops, they 257 00:17:45,555 --> 00:17:49,435 Speaker 1: disappeared Rush. And by the way, that was his dream job, 258 00:17:50,035 --> 00:17:54,235 Speaker 1: not politics, sports ESPN. He had told me that years 259 00:17:54,275 --> 00:17:57,675 Speaker 1: earlier in person, and Rush Limbaugh never got over it 260 00:17:57,715 --> 00:18:01,195 Speaker 1: till the day he died. He's thinking about it right 261 00:18:01,235 --> 00:18:05,795 Speaker 1: now in hell. So last Friday, anyway, and ESPN executive 262 00:18:05,875 --> 00:18:09,555 Speaker 1: named Mike Foss, the vice president in charge of the 263 00:18:09,595 --> 00:18:13,475 Speaker 1: Big Sleeveless Pat Show. Mike Foss called what Rogers had 264 00:18:13,515 --> 00:18:16,875 Speaker 1: said about Kimmel a quote dumb and factually inaccurate joke 265 00:18:17,435 --> 00:18:19,515 Speaker 1: and said everybody realized in the moment it was wrong. 266 00:18:20,515 --> 00:18:23,715 Speaker 1: And the host Big Shirtless Pat then attacked a different 267 00:18:23,995 --> 00:18:28,435 Speaker 1: ESPN executive, my former Sports Center producer Norby Williamson, for 268 00:18:28,515 --> 00:18:32,275 Speaker 1: allegedly leaking inaccurate ratings about the Big Shirtless Pat Show, 269 00:18:32,755 --> 00:18:35,595 Speaker 1: and Williamson's bosses have largely hung him out to dry 270 00:18:35,715 --> 00:18:39,755 Speaker 1: ever since. So anyway, instead of this all going away 271 00:18:39,795 --> 00:18:42,835 Speaker 1: when it could have, Monday night, Kimmel came back from 272 00:18:42,915 --> 00:18:46,075 Speaker 1: vacation and only briefly touched on Aaron Rodgers, defaming him 273 00:18:46,315 --> 00:18:48,795 Speaker 1: if you think seven minutes out of an hour long 274 00:18:48,875 --> 00:18:53,835 Speaker 1: show is briefly. During these seven minutes, he called him Karen. 275 00:18:54,195 --> 00:18:56,955 Speaker 1: He said the only two a's that Karen Rodgers got 276 00:18:56,995 --> 00:18:59,675 Speaker 1: in college were in his first name. He called him 277 00:18:59,715 --> 00:19:02,675 Speaker 1: hamster brained, et cetera, et cetera. It was solid material. 278 00:19:03,995 --> 00:19:07,195 Speaker 1: Instead of tamping the thing down by, say, just not 279 00:19:07,395 --> 00:19:10,155 Speaker 1: doing his regular appearance on The Big Sleeveless Pat Show 280 00:19:10,195 --> 00:19:14,355 Speaker 1: this week, Rogers went on and naturally blamed the media, 281 00:19:15,395 --> 00:19:19,715 Speaker 1: never realizing if you get paid to be on TV, you, sir, 282 00:19:20,355 --> 00:19:23,995 Speaker 1: are the media. Rogers denied he had implied that Jimmy 283 00:19:24,035 --> 00:19:26,595 Speaker 1: Kimmel was on the Epstein list, and then he explained 284 00:19:26,595 --> 00:19:29,995 Speaker 1: that wasn't the real list anyway. Then he attacked the 285 00:19:29,995 --> 00:19:32,675 Speaker 1: executive who had defended him, Mike Foss. I don't understand 286 00:19:32,715 --> 00:19:36,275 Speaker 1: Mike Foss's comment because he didn't help out either, said Rogers, who, 287 00:19:36,355 --> 00:19:39,075 Speaker 1: and I mean this sincerely, he needs a good MRI 288 00:19:39,435 --> 00:19:44,075 Speaker 1: of his brain and fast. Mike, you're not helping Rogers continued, 289 00:19:44,195 --> 00:19:46,795 Speaker 1: because I just read earlier exactly what I said, and 290 00:19:46,875 --> 00:19:48,955 Speaker 1: this is the game plan of the media. This is 291 00:19:48,995 --> 00:19:52,715 Speaker 1: what they do. Aaron. You're paid to be on television. 292 00:19:52,955 --> 00:19:56,795 Speaker 1: You're part of the media. Welcome they try and cancel. 293 00:19:56,955 --> 00:19:59,275 Speaker 1: Not just me. It's nowhere near me if you look 294 00:19:59,275 --> 00:20:02,875 Speaker 1: at all the people that have been censored from the Internet. 295 00:20:03,075 --> 00:20:06,955 Speaker 1: And then Rogers segued to Ovid and Anthony Fauci and 296 00:20:07,035 --> 00:20:10,835 Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, and he went on for ten minutes, and 297 00:20:10,955 --> 00:20:14,555 Speaker 1: in those ten minutes he talked more pure crazy partisan 298 00:20:14,595 --> 00:20:19,155 Speaker 1: politics on ESPN than I did on ESPN in the 299 00:20:19,315 --> 00:20:25,155 Speaker 1: thirteen total years I worked there. Rogers added, quote, I'm 300 00:20:25,155 --> 00:20:27,355 Speaker 1: not stupid enough, even though you think I'm an idiot, 301 00:20:27,355 --> 00:20:31,075 Speaker 1: to accuse you of that with absolutely zero concrete evidence, 302 00:20:31,115 --> 00:20:34,635 Speaker 1: which is also wildly untrue. Rogers is stupid enough. He 303 00:20:34,675 --> 00:20:38,395 Speaker 1: did implicate Kimmel and he has zero evidence. And the 304 00:20:38,435 --> 00:20:41,275 Speaker 1: most important part of this going forward, apart from the obvious, 305 00:20:41,475 --> 00:20:44,955 Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel does sue, it's over for Aaron Rodgers and 306 00:20:45,075 --> 00:20:49,315 Speaker 1: big sleeveless Pat and the ESPN executives who backed big 307 00:20:49,355 --> 00:20:53,795 Speaker 1: sleeveless Pat. If that doesn't happen, the real news is 308 00:20:53,995 --> 00:20:58,715 Speaker 1: Pat McAfee attacked one ESPN vice president he viewed as unsympathetic, 309 00:20:58,955 --> 00:21:01,475 Speaker 1: and then four days later Aaron Rodgers attacked the different 310 00:21:01,715 --> 00:21:04,995 Speaker 1: ESPN vice president who was sympathetic and is intro of 311 00:21:05,035 --> 00:21:08,435 Speaker 1: their show. And I have been in media for forty 312 00:21:08,475 --> 00:21:12,195 Speaker 1: four years full time. I said this earlier, I'll repeat it. 313 00:21:12,195 --> 00:21:15,515 Speaker 1: It may not look like this at first, but management 314 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:22,435 Speaker 1: in television particularly always ultimately sides with management. And if 315 00:21:22,475 --> 00:21:26,155 Speaker 1: there are two camps about Pat McAfee and Aaron Rodgers 316 00:21:26,155 --> 00:21:33,435 Speaker 1: at ESPN, these two rockheads just managed to attack both 317 00:21:33,475 --> 00:21:58,315 Speaker 1: of them. Still to come on countdown, Well, since there's 318 00:21:58,315 --> 00:22:02,195 Speaker 1: another ESPN story, why not it's close to the exact anniversary. 319 00:22:02,235 --> 00:22:06,075 Speaker 1: In fact, just thirty two years years ago the day 320 00:22:06,275 --> 00:22:09,755 Speaker 1: I got to meet the great actress Elizabeth Montgomery and 321 00:22:09,875 --> 00:22:13,115 Speaker 1: we became fast friends, and she helped me to launch 322 00:22:13,155 --> 00:22:16,715 Speaker 1: the new thing called ESPN Radio. All that in things 323 00:22:16,755 --> 00:22:19,395 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell first time for the daily 324 00:22:19,435 --> 00:22:21,755 Speaker 1: roundup of the miss Grants, Morons and Dunning Kruger Effet 325 00:22:21,795 --> 00:22:27,715 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's worse persons in the world. The 326 00:22:27,755 --> 00:22:32,315 Speaker 1: Bronze Worse Elon Musk and the musk is short for mushrooms. 327 00:22:33,115 --> 00:22:37,435 Speaker 1: A series of accounts on Twitter x belonging to journalists 328 00:22:37,475 --> 00:22:42,395 Speaker 1: and commentators were suspended without any explanation. Yesterday, Ken Klippenstein, 329 00:22:42,635 --> 00:22:47,075 Speaker 1: a couple of Texas observer people, bunch of satirists troll accounts, 330 00:22:47,675 --> 00:22:52,355 Speaker 1: many of whom had been critical of Elon Musk. Woh, 331 00:22:52,875 --> 00:22:55,115 Speaker 1: but not to worry. This is not like late twenty 332 00:22:55,155 --> 00:22:58,155 Speaker 1: twenty two and Musk lost his mind and banned half 333 00:22:58,155 --> 00:23:00,555 Speaker 1: a dozen of us for doxing, even though nobody docksed. 334 00:23:01,475 --> 00:23:04,595 Speaker 1: Musk explained it away, quote, we do sweeps for spend 335 00:23:04,955 --> 00:23:08,635 Speaker 1: scam accounts, and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them, 336 00:23:09,315 --> 00:23:12,915 Speaker 1: and sometimes US defense contractors who buy social media sites 337 00:23:13,075 --> 00:23:17,795 Speaker 1: are high as a kite on ketamine. Just statistically, these 338 00:23:17,795 --> 00:23:22,675 Speaker 1: things happen. The runner is up, worser off the campaign trail. 339 00:23:22,755 --> 00:23:26,915 Speaker 1: Judge Judy and Dean Phillips. Judge Judy Sheinlan or as 340 00:23:26,915 --> 00:23:30,675 Speaker 1: she's known on The Simpsons, Judge Judy and Executioner has 341 00:23:30,755 --> 00:23:35,635 Speaker 1: made her presidential endorsement. Judge Judy has endorsed Nicki Haley. 342 00:23:36,475 --> 00:23:40,115 Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. Judge Judy is still alive. 343 00:23:41,475 --> 00:23:44,955 Speaker 1: As to poor Phillips challenging Joe Biden, and challenging is 344 00:23:44,995 --> 00:23:47,875 Speaker 1: doing a lot of work in that sentence. First, he 345 00:23:47,955 --> 00:23:50,235 Speaker 1: had the debate in New Hampshire with Maryann Williamson and 346 00:23:50,275 --> 00:23:51,475 Speaker 1: it turned out to be in front of a crowd 347 00:23:51,475 --> 00:23:55,555 Speaker 1: of seventh graders. Now he has parked his campaign bus 348 00:23:55,595 --> 00:23:58,835 Speaker 1: in front of a Manchester hotel for a quote government 349 00:23:58,955 --> 00:24:05,035 Speaker 1: repair truck coffee conversations and the attendance by voters was 350 00:24:06,875 --> 00:24:14,595 Speaker 1: zero zero. Nobody came. Nobody showed up all that coffee. 351 00:24:14,675 --> 00:24:17,835 Speaker 1: Phillips told reporters. Sometimes if you build it, they don't come. 352 00:24:18,795 --> 00:24:21,195 Speaker 1: You would think at some point Phillips would question the 353 00:24:21,235 --> 00:24:25,315 Speaker 1: idea that he's actually built anything. But our winners the 354 00:24:25,475 --> 00:24:30,315 Speaker 1: worst lou Dobbs, Tulsey Gabbard, Don Lemon, and Jim Rome. 355 00:24:31,275 --> 00:24:35,915 Speaker 1: They have each announced new streaming shows. Dobbs fired by 356 00:24:35,955 --> 00:24:40,075 Speaker 1: CNN and Fox and Fox Business has launched a new 357 00:24:40,115 --> 00:24:50,115 Speaker 1: show on Mike Lindell TV, the Pillow Channel PNN Pillow Talk. 358 00:24:51,155 --> 00:24:53,995 Speaker 1: As to the others, Gabbard also apparently no longer with Fox, 359 00:24:54,315 --> 00:24:57,435 Speaker 1: and Lemon, who talked himself off CNN. And Jim Rome, 360 00:24:57,475 --> 00:24:59,475 Speaker 1: who has been on the verge of becoming the next 361 00:24:59,555 --> 00:25:04,515 Speaker 1: great sports host since approximately nineteen eighty nine. He was 362 00:25:04,875 --> 00:25:08,635 Speaker 1: after me the night ESPN two launched. Gabbard, Lemon, and 363 00:25:08,675 --> 00:25:13,515 Speaker 1: Rome have announced new shows on Twitter X. Yes, they 364 00:25:13,515 --> 00:25:17,475 Speaker 1: are the newest winners of the Tucker Carlson Remember Tucker 365 00:25:17,595 --> 00:25:22,275 Speaker 1: Carlson Memorial Award. Look, I don't have a TV show 366 00:25:22,315 --> 00:25:25,755 Speaker 1: anymore either. I retired from the last one. It was 367 00:25:25,795 --> 00:25:29,395 Speaker 1: called SportsCenter. I retired in twenty twenty. Yes, I'm actually 368 00:25:29,595 --> 00:25:33,875 Speaker 1: a Disney retiree with a card that says so, And 369 00:25:33,955 --> 00:25:36,995 Speaker 1: I post videos on Twitter and on all the other 370 00:25:37,035 --> 00:25:41,595 Speaker 1: social media platforms. They're promos for this podcast. The actual 371 00:25:41,755 --> 00:25:45,035 Speaker 1: shows on Twitter. Thing I used to do that died 372 00:25:45,075 --> 00:25:48,275 Speaker 1: at least three years ago. But I must say this 373 00:25:48,355 --> 00:25:56,115 Speaker 1: to Gabard and Lemon and Jim Roman, loudubs, Twitter, have 374 00:25:56,235 --> 00:25:58,755 Speaker 1: some self respect. Go get a show on the News 375 00:25:58,915 --> 00:26:01,875 Speaker 1: Nation channel, or just stand in front of a mirror 376 00:26:01,955 --> 00:26:04,475 Speaker 1: and do your show there. The audience will be just 377 00:26:04,875 --> 00:26:10,395 Speaker 1: big Dalsey, Gabbard, Don Lemon, Jim Rome and Lou Dobbs. 378 00:26:10,395 --> 00:26:12,235 Speaker 1: And you know how old Lou Dobbs is. He's two 379 00:26:12,315 --> 00:26:19,835 Speaker 1: hundred and six two days. Worst persons in the world 380 00:26:37,195 --> 00:26:39,235 Speaker 1: to the number one story on the Countdown and my 381 00:26:39,275 --> 00:26:42,555 Speaker 1: favorite subject me and things I promised not to tell. 382 00:26:43,235 --> 00:26:45,915 Speaker 1: I have found myself telling her story three times in 383 00:26:45,955 --> 00:26:48,955 Speaker 1: the last ten days. I just bought a new copy 384 00:26:49,035 --> 00:26:51,515 Speaker 1: of the movie in question, and so I thought I 385 00:26:51,515 --> 00:26:55,115 Speaker 1: would tell you the story now. Plus I find she 386 00:26:55,195 --> 00:26:58,315 Speaker 1: made her Broadway debut sixty nine years ago this Thursday. 387 00:26:59,195 --> 00:27:03,195 Speaker 1: Do you know her name? Elizabeth Montgomery, one of the 388 00:27:03,195 --> 00:27:06,595 Speaker 1: most famous actresses of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, 389 00:27:06,835 --> 00:27:10,595 Speaker 1: star of the TV series Bewitched, daughter of a famous actor, 390 00:27:10,715 --> 00:27:13,995 Speaker 1: Robert Montgomery, and my friend from early on the morning 391 00:27:14,115 --> 00:27:17,755 Speaker 1: of January fourteenth, nineteen ninety two, until she died in 392 00:27:17,795 --> 00:27:21,755 Speaker 1: the spring of nineteen ninety five. Our friendship happened only 393 00:27:21,795 --> 00:27:25,715 Speaker 1: because of one thing. My sister had given me a 394 00:27:25,755 --> 00:27:28,915 Speaker 1: book about one of our favorite topics, the never to 395 00:27:28,995 --> 00:27:31,995 Speaker 1: be solved mystery of Lizzie Borden and the Borden family 396 00:27:32,035 --> 00:27:36,635 Speaker 1: axe murders of eighteen ninety two in Fall River, Massachusetts. Yes, 397 00:27:36,875 --> 00:27:40,275 Speaker 1: we're weird, and also the fact that Elizabeth Montgomery had 398 00:27:40,275 --> 00:27:44,075 Speaker 1: played Lizzie Borden in a TV movie. So on January fourteenth, 399 00:27:44,155 --> 00:27:46,555 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, as I sat waiting for our flight 400 00:27:46,635 --> 00:27:49,475 Speaker 1: to leave ICJFK Airport in New York from my then 401 00:27:49,515 --> 00:27:52,235 Speaker 1: home in Los Angeles. Then I began to read from 402 00:27:52,275 --> 00:27:56,915 Speaker 1: my airplane seat, my sister's gift from the aisle. From 403 00:27:56,915 --> 00:27:59,515 Speaker 1: the last one to board, I hear the voice of 404 00:27:59,515 --> 00:28:03,995 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Montgomery saying to me, Oh, Keith, you're reading about me. 405 00:28:05,435 --> 00:28:10,475 Speaker 1: She was a gas my brief but eternal friendship with 406 00:28:10,515 --> 00:28:13,915 Speaker 1: Lizzie Montgomery and the eternal lesson she taught me in 407 00:28:13,955 --> 00:28:15,995 Speaker 1: one moment, Please while I first explained what I was 408 00:28:16,035 --> 00:28:19,355 Speaker 1: doing on that flight. A month or two earlier, I 409 00:28:19,355 --> 00:28:22,635 Speaker 1: had agreed to join ESPN to co host Sports Center 410 00:28:22,715 --> 00:28:25,715 Speaker 1: with Dan Patrick starting in late March nineteen ninety two. 411 00:28:26,235 --> 00:28:29,515 Speaker 1: I had just finished up three financially rewarding but souls 412 00:28:29,555 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 1: sucking years at Channel two in Los Angeles, and I 413 00:28:32,315 --> 00:28:34,115 Speaker 1: was going to go to Hawaii for three months and 414 00:28:34,195 --> 00:28:38,395 Speaker 1: just live there until I felt better. On Monday, December thirtieth, 415 00:28:38,435 --> 00:28:41,275 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, I had literally just opened my address 416 00:28:41,315 --> 00:28:43,595 Speaker 1: book to find the number of a travel agent I 417 00:28:43,675 --> 00:28:46,395 Speaker 1: knew to make the Hawaii arrangements. I was reaching for 418 00:28:46,475 --> 00:28:51,195 Speaker 1: the phone when the phone rang. It was my business agent, 419 00:28:51,235 --> 00:28:52,995 Speaker 1: who had just gotten off the phone with my new 420 00:28:53,235 --> 00:28:56,195 Speaker 1: ESPN boss, John Walsh. He and they were launching a 421 00:28:56,275 --> 00:29:00,275 Speaker 1: new radio network in five days. I found this interesting 422 00:29:00,395 --> 00:29:04,395 Speaker 1: but not particularly relevant. ESPN was one thing. Then it 423 00:29:04,395 --> 00:29:07,955 Speaker 1: was one TV network, no magazine, no radio, no ESPN, 424 00:29:08,035 --> 00:29:12,155 Speaker 1: the OHO. So this was their first big move outwards. 425 00:29:12,475 --> 00:29:15,555 Speaker 1: The radio network would start with only two seven hour 426 00:29:15,635 --> 00:29:18,715 Speaker 1: shows on Saturday and Sunday nights. And Walsh explained to 427 00:29:18,755 --> 00:29:20,435 Speaker 1: my agent that everything was going great and they were 428 00:29:20,515 --> 00:29:22,475 Speaker 1: right on target, and they had great guests lined up 429 00:29:22,635 --> 00:29:24,875 Speaker 1: for the first weekend, like Ronald Reagan, and they only 430 00:29:24,875 --> 00:29:27,235 Speaker 1: had one tiny problem. They needed three hosts, and they 431 00:29:27,235 --> 00:29:30,275 Speaker 1: had two terrific hosts, just terrific hosts, one Keith worked 432 00:29:30,275 --> 00:29:32,715 Speaker 1: with named Tony Bruno, and another terrific, just terrific host 433 00:29:32,755 --> 00:29:35,155 Speaker 1: from Providence named Chuck Wilson. And they tried this guy 434 00:29:35,155 --> 00:29:36,795 Speaker 1: as the third host, and that guy, and this guy 435 00:29:36,835 --> 00:29:38,795 Speaker 1: and that guy, and all told forty different people had 436 00:29:38,795 --> 00:29:40,915 Speaker 1: tried out to be hosts. They had nobody, nobody to 437 00:29:40,915 --> 00:29:42,555 Speaker 1: be the third host. Who was any good cook. Keith 438 00:29:42,635 --> 00:29:44,475 Speaker 1: just come here just for the first weekend, just to 439 00:29:44,475 --> 00:29:45,795 Speaker 1: get it off the ground. Then he can go back 440 00:29:45,795 --> 00:29:47,995 Speaker 1: to LA and come back here in March takeover Sports Center. 441 00:29:48,075 --> 00:29:50,675 Speaker 1: Please please please get Keith help us, please, because if 442 00:29:50,675 --> 00:29:52,235 Speaker 1: he Canada what on earth they're going to do it? 443 00:29:52,355 --> 00:29:52,595 Speaker 2: Please? 444 00:29:52,635 --> 00:29:57,955 Speaker 1: Please, please, As I said to my agent, well, all right, 445 00:29:58,195 --> 00:30:02,075 Speaker 1: I suppose at least way, at least a ESPN will 446 00:30:02,115 --> 00:30:07,635 Speaker 1: always think of me as a team player. So instead 447 00:30:07,635 --> 00:30:13,195 Speaker 1: of going to Hawaii in January, I go to Bristol, 448 00:30:13,235 --> 00:30:17,235 Speaker 1: Connecticut in January and I go stay at my folks 449 00:30:17,275 --> 00:30:19,275 Speaker 1: house outside New York City. And a friend I had 450 00:30:19,315 --> 00:30:22,395 Speaker 1: recommended to help ESPN launch their radio network offers me 451 00:30:22,395 --> 00:30:24,675 Speaker 1: a ride up to ESPN for the weekend. And it's 452 00:30:24,755 --> 00:30:27,435 Speaker 1: like twenty degrees and we get out of his car 453 00:30:27,435 --> 00:30:29,915 Speaker 1: and his parking lot, and three spots over getting out 454 00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:32,595 Speaker 1: of his car in the parking lot is Chris Berman, 455 00:30:32,635 --> 00:30:34,955 Speaker 1: who I went to high school with, and already in 456 00:30:35,035 --> 00:30:38,115 Speaker 1: January nineteen ninety two, when I'm not quite thirty three 457 00:30:38,195 --> 00:30:41,035 Speaker 1: years old, I already know Chris for twenty years. And 458 00:30:41,075 --> 00:30:44,755 Speaker 1: before I can say hey, he screams, listen, we had 459 00:30:44,795 --> 00:30:52,395 Speaker 1: a good thing going here, don't f it up. And 460 00:30:52,475 --> 00:30:54,635 Speaker 1: I say, good to see you too, Chris, and I 461 00:30:54,675 --> 00:30:57,555 Speaker 1: remind myself it's only till Monday. And I meet the 462 00:30:57,635 --> 00:30:59,235 Speaker 1: gang and then I go to the hotel and the 463 00:30:59,235 --> 00:31:02,235 Speaker 1: hotel is beige, the walls are beige. The carpets are beige, 464 00:31:02,475 --> 00:31:04,595 Speaker 1: the guests are beige, the food is beige. The only 465 00:31:04,675 --> 00:31:07,235 Speaker 1: thing that isn't page is the six inches of snow 466 00:31:07,275 --> 00:31:09,995 Speaker 1: that falls overnight, and remind myself it's only till Monday. 467 00:31:11,115 --> 00:31:14,075 Speaker 1: The launch of the network on Saturday goes well. They 468 00:31:14,115 --> 00:31:17,355 Speaker 1: have me interview Ronald Reagan about something in football. The 469 00:31:17,395 --> 00:31:19,315 Speaker 1: Sunday Night Show is going well too, and we're trying 470 00:31:19,315 --> 00:31:21,555 Speaker 1: to figure out where the big baseball free agent of 471 00:31:21,555 --> 00:31:24,955 Speaker 1: that winner, Danny Tartable, is going to sign. And we're 472 00:31:24,995 --> 00:31:27,875 Speaker 1: interviewing Bobby Valentine, who was the manager of the Texas Rangers, 473 00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:29,275 Speaker 1: and they were one of the team's rumored to be 474 00:31:29,275 --> 00:31:32,435 Speaker 1: a likely landing for Tartable. And I asked Valentine, he says, no, 475 00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:35,115 Speaker 1: not anymore. They just canceled their trip. I was supposed 476 00:31:35,115 --> 00:31:37,075 Speaker 1: to go meet them at the airport tonight. I think 477 00:31:37,115 --> 00:31:39,875 Speaker 1: he signed with somebody else. And the alarm bells go 478 00:31:39,915 --> 00:31:41,435 Speaker 1: off in my head and I tell the producer, let's 479 00:31:41,435 --> 00:31:43,795 Speaker 1: call everybody we know in baseball and put them on 480 00:31:43,875 --> 00:31:46,875 Speaker 1: and figure out where Danny Tartable is going. I have 481 00:31:46,915 --> 00:31:48,835 Speaker 1: a source who knows his agent. Let me call him. 482 00:31:49,235 --> 00:31:52,715 Speaker 1: We'll go story chasing. So we spend four hours following 483 00:31:52,715 --> 00:31:56,315 Speaker 1: the story in real time, and it's great radio, and 484 00:31:56,355 --> 00:31:58,355 Speaker 1: we're coming up on the last hour and our guests 485 00:31:58,355 --> 00:32:01,835 Speaker 1: have helped us eliminate like thirty teams out of twenty eight, 486 00:32:02,355 --> 00:32:04,875 Speaker 1: but we're not sure where Tartable is going still, and 487 00:32:04,915 --> 00:32:07,435 Speaker 1: the producer says, if only we had his home phone number. 488 00:32:07,435 --> 00:32:11,115 Speaker 1: And I look at the producer and go, oh, crap, sorry, 489 00:32:11,475 --> 00:32:13,355 Speaker 1: and I grabbed my address book and I explained he 490 00:32:13,715 --> 00:32:16,355 Speaker 1: was my co host. Tartable was on some of our 491 00:32:16,955 --> 00:32:20,715 Speaker 1: baseball postgame shows in La Lash. I'm sorry, I forgot 492 00:32:20,955 --> 00:32:23,995 Speaker 1: I had his number all this time. Hang on. So 493 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:26,755 Speaker 1: I called Danny Tartable and just as our last hour 494 00:32:26,835 --> 00:32:29,355 Speaker 1: on Sunday Night is starting, he calls me back and 495 00:32:29,355 --> 00:32:32,355 Speaker 1: I say to him, look, we know you've decided. It's 496 00:32:32,395 --> 00:32:34,515 Speaker 1: all over baseball. It's got to be the Phillies, the Mets, 497 00:32:34,555 --> 00:32:37,875 Speaker 1: or the Yankees. And he's saying, correctly, I can't tell you. 498 00:32:38,355 --> 00:32:40,995 Speaker 1: And I said, give me one guess and just tell 499 00:32:40,995 --> 00:32:42,555 Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, and I will call you a 500 00:32:42,595 --> 00:32:45,795 Speaker 1: source close to the negotiations, that's all. And he says okay, 501 00:32:45,835 --> 00:32:48,515 Speaker 1: And I say, is it a team? That wears pin stripes, 502 00:32:48,555 --> 00:32:50,115 Speaker 1: and of course the Phillies, the Mets, and the Yankees 503 00:32:50,195 --> 00:32:52,435 Speaker 1: all wear pinstripes. So he laughs and he says yes, 504 00:32:52,715 --> 00:32:54,715 Speaker 1: And I say, is it the team I grew up 505 00:32:54,755 --> 00:32:57,675 Speaker 1: a fan of? And he says, what team did you 506 00:32:57,715 --> 00:32:59,555 Speaker 1: grow up a fan of? And by the way, the 507 00:32:59,675 --> 00:33:02,195 Speaker 1: phone call is taking place with me on the floor 508 00:33:02,275 --> 00:33:05,435 Speaker 1: of the studio in which the other two are live 509 00:33:05,515 --> 00:33:08,035 Speaker 1: on the new radio network. So I whisper a Tartable 510 00:33:08,995 --> 00:33:11,915 Speaker 1: if I say it to the Yankees? Am I wrong? 511 00:33:13,315 --> 00:33:16,355 Speaker 1: And he says, I can't tell you and starts whispering. 512 00:33:16,955 --> 00:33:19,275 Speaker 1: But off the record, the press conference is Wednesday at 513 00:33:19,355 --> 00:33:22,275 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. Is that enough for you, you bastard? And 514 00:33:22,315 --> 00:33:23,955 Speaker 1: of course I said, no, come on the show and 515 00:33:23,995 --> 00:33:25,635 Speaker 1: tell us come on, and he laughs and says I'll 516 00:33:25,675 --> 00:33:27,635 Speaker 1: see you Wednesday and hangs up, and I get up 517 00:33:27,635 --> 00:33:29,035 Speaker 1: and I sit in the vacant chair and I can 518 00:33:29,075 --> 00:33:32,515 Speaker 1: say breaking news. ESPN report now that the free agent 519 00:33:32,515 --> 00:33:35,195 Speaker 1: outfield or Danny Tartable, has agreed to a multi year 520 00:33:35,235 --> 00:33:38,075 Speaker 1: deal with the New York Yankees. Sources close to the 521 00:33:38,115 --> 00:33:40,635 Speaker 1: negotiations say there will be a press conference Wednesday at 522 00:33:40,715 --> 00:33:43,395 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. And the other hosts are trying not to 523 00:33:43,515 --> 00:33:45,555 Speaker 1: crack up because they know I've just been talking too 524 00:33:45,675 --> 00:33:50,915 Speaker 1: Tartable from the phone in the same room with them. Well, 525 00:33:51,155 --> 00:33:55,435 Speaker 1: this story explodes way more than it deserved. It's a 526 00:33:55,555 --> 00:33:58,315 Speaker 1: dull Sunday night. It's still early enough in the evening 527 00:33:58,315 --> 00:34:00,995 Speaker 1: that the story makes all the Monday newspapers and it's 528 00:34:00,995 --> 00:34:03,995 Speaker 1: attributed not to ESPN or to Sports Center, but to 529 00:34:04,035 --> 00:34:08,035 Speaker 1: the brand new ESPN Radio Network on its second day 530 00:34:08,075 --> 00:34:10,835 Speaker 1: in business. And it's on the front page of USA 531 00:34:10,915 --> 00:34:14,395 Speaker 1: Today and the New York Times. New ESPN Radio Network 532 00:34:14,395 --> 00:34:17,195 Speaker 1: makes splash with tartabules scoop the next morning, and I 533 00:34:17,235 --> 00:34:20,795 Speaker 1: can't tell you how big a deal that was back 534 00:34:20,835 --> 00:34:24,595 Speaker 1: then in nineteen ninety two. So now, instead of going 535 00:34:24,595 --> 00:34:27,675 Speaker 1: back to la on Monday and maybe to Hawaii on Tuesday, 536 00:34:27,715 --> 00:34:29,115 Speaker 1: as I had planned, I have to go to the 537 00:34:29,115 --> 00:34:31,635 Speaker 1: press conference at Yankee Stadium to say hi to Tartable 538 00:34:31,675 --> 00:34:33,675 Speaker 1: on Wednesday and sort of thank him for the scoop. 539 00:34:33,675 --> 00:34:37,195 Speaker 1: And on Tuesday, this guy, John Walls from ESPN calls 540 00:34:37,235 --> 00:34:39,355 Speaker 1: me and my agent says, look, we have to take 541 00:34:39,395 --> 00:34:41,675 Speaker 1: advantage of this. It's the best possible start we could 542 00:34:41,675 --> 00:34:44,275 Speaker 1: have hoped for for the radio network. Keith has to 543 00:34:44,275 --> 00:34:47,315 Speaker 1: stay with us for the next three months. Why doesn't 544 00:34:47,315 --> 00:34:49,155 Speaker 1: he stay in and do this weekend and then go 545 00:34:49,195 --> 00:34:51,115 Speaker 1: back to LA and pack up his apartment, then come 546 00:34:51,155 --> 00:34:55,315 Speaker 1: back here the weekend after that. And and I say 547 00:34:55,355 --> 00:34:58,395 Speaker 1: again to my agent, well, at least ESPN will always 548 00:34:58,435 --> 00:35:00,955 Speaker 1: think of me as a team player if I do this. 549 00:35:05,795 --> 00:35:08,515 Speaker 1: So I am not in Hawaii and instead I am 550 00:35:08,595 --> 00:35:11,675 Speaker 1: on board this flight. When Elizabeth Montgomery walks down the 551 00:35:11,675 --> 00:35:14,235 Speaker 1: aisle and sees my Lizzie Borden book given to me 552 00:35:14,275 --> 00:35:17,675 Speaker 1: by my sister and says, ooh, Keith, you're reading about me. Hi, 553 00:35:17,755 --> 00:35:19,915 Speaker 1: I'm Lizzie Montgomery. I'm a big fan of yours. Is 554 00:35:19,915 --> 00:35:22,515 Speaker 1: that seat taken? And I say, the hell, if I care, 555 00:35:22,595 --> 00:35:25,475 Speaker 1: sit down. And the only time we're not talking for 556 00:35:25,515 --> 00:35:28,955 Speaker 1: the next six hours is when we are drinking. I believe, 557 00:35:29,315 --> 00:35:31,915 Speaker 1: if I remember this correctly, they had to send up 558 00:35:31,915 --> 00:35:36,795 Speaker 1: a champagne refueling flight halfway to LA. And she's a 559 00:35:36,915 --> 00:35:39,115 Speaker 1: huge sports fan. Her father was a founder of one 560 00:35:39,115 --> 00:35:41,875 Speaker 1: of the southern California horse racing tracks, and she loves 561 00:35:41,875 --> 00:35:44,435 Speaker 1: the Lakers, and she thinks she was related to Lizzie Borden. 562 00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:46,955 Speaker 1: Did I ever see the European version of her Lizzie 563 00:35:46,955 --> 00:35:49,235 Speaker 1: Bordon film where they show the wide shots where they 564 00:35:49,235 --> 00:35:51,075 Speaker 1: make it look like she's nude, And I say, I'm 565 00:35:51,115 --> 00:35:54,595 Speaker 1: absolutely certain I have not. And her son and her 566 00:35:54,675 --> 00:35:57,395 Speaker 1: driver and her rolls Royce meet us at Lax and 567 00:35:57,435 --> 00:35:59,355 Speaker 1: she wants me to see her house, and then her 568 00:35:59,435 --> 00:36:01,515 Speaker 1: driver and her rolls Royce will give me a lyft home. 569 00:36:01,555 --> 00:36:03,075 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, she's flying back to New 570 00:36:03,115 --> 00:36:07,755 Speaker 1: York in a week, should we become flying buddies. On 571 00:36:07,795 --> 00:36:10,835 Speaker 1: that trip, our flight gets canceled and we have to 572 00:36:10,835 --> 00:36:12,795 Speaker 1: find a new one. I'm hand carrying a lot of 573 00:36:12,795 --> 00:36:15,875 Speaker 1: my more valuable baseball cards, including like five hundred different 574 00:36:15,875 --> 00:36:18,155 Speaker 1: from the year nineteen oh nine, and she wants to 575 00:36:18,195 --> 00:36:20,435 Speaker 1: see them, and she wants me to tell her something 576 00:36:20,435 --> 00:36:24,515 Speaker 1: about each player while we drink again. And we land 577 00:36:24,595 --> 00:36:26,395 Speaker 1: and she says, how you getting to your folks house? 578 00:36:26,995 --> 00:36:29,395 Speaker 1: And I say, well, I'm going to get a car 579 00:36:29,435 --> 00:36:31,075 Speaker 1: here or something, and she says, no, you're not. I'll 580 00:36:31,075 --> 00:36:32,995 Speaker 1: give you a lift in my limo going right past 581 00:36:32,995 --> 00:36:36,555 Speaker 1: your house. And sure enough we get there, and as 582 00:36:36,595 --> 00:36:39,635 Speaker 1: Lizzie Montgomery's limo is taking me to my folks house 583 00:36:39,675 --> 00:36:42,555 Speaker 1: at ten o'clock at night, she says, will they still 584 00:36:42,555 --> 00:36:44,635 Speaker 1: be up? Your folks want to play a practical joke 585 00:36:44,715 --> 00:36:47,755 Speaker 1: on them. So two minutes later, I knock on the 586 00:36:47,755 --> 00:36:49,955 Speaker 1: door of my childhood home and my father opens it 587 00:36:49,995 --> 00:36:52,955 Speaker 1: instead of seeing me. It's her in the doorway, and 588 00:36:53,035 --> 00:36:55,875 Speaker 1: she says, Hi, mister Olderman, I'm Lizzie. I'm a friend 589 00:36:55,915 --> 00:36:58,915 Speaker 1: of Keiths. Can he come out and play? And my 590 00:36:58,995 --> 00:37:02,515 Speaker 1: dad goes silent for the only time I in my life, 591 00:37:03,035 --> 00:37:05,075 Speaker 1: And now my mother appears, So Lizzie, you can pull 592 00:37:05,115 --> 00:37:08,195 Speaker 1: the same routine on her. Hi, missus Olverman, I'm Lizzie. 593 00:37:08,195 --> 00:37:09,795 Speaker 1: I'm a friend of Keith. Can he come out and play? 594 00:37:09,875 --> 00:37:12,395 Speaker 1: And now my mother is silent for the only time 595 00:37:12,435 --> 00:37:18,035 Speaker 1: in my life, I might add. I thought Lizzie looked fabulous, 596 00:37:18,075 --> 00:37:20,395 Speaker 1: and I looked her up in Hallowell's Film Guide and 597 00:37:20,435 --> 00:37:22,315 Speaker 1: I saw she was forty eight, and I thought, boy, 598 00:37:22,355 --> 00:37:24,235 Speaker 1: she looks fabulous for forty eight, And then I realized 599 00:37:24,235 --> 00:37:26,595 Speaker 1: my math is wrong. She was fifty eight, and she 600 00:37:26,715 --> 00:37:29,555 Speaker 1: was a joy. We talked my phone every couple of 601 00:37:29,555 --> 00:37:31,675 Speaker 1: weeks after that, and she died three years later of 602 00:37:31,675 --> 00:37:36,075 Speaker 1: colon cancer. But she is with me always, and not 603 00:37:36,395 --> 00:37:40,315 Speaker 1: just as the proverbial force of nature. Within minutes of 604 00:37:40,355 --> 00:37:43,235 Speaker 1: that day we met January fourteenth, nineteen ninety two, she 605 00:37:43,355 --> 00:37:49,035 Speaker 1: bestowed upon me a lesson, an eternal lesson. We were 606 00:37:49,075 --> 00:37:51,395 Speaker 1: a little late taking off, and since she had just 607 00:37:51,515 --> 00:37:54,275 Speaker 1: loudly introduced herself to me like I didn't know who 608 00:37:54,315 --> 00:37:57,675 Speaker 1: she was, anybody on the plane who wasn't sure it 609 00:37:57,715 --> 00:38:01,555 Speaker 1: was her was now sure. As we waited to taxi, 610 00:38:01,635 --> 00:38:03,715 Speaker 1: every man on that plane came over and did the 611 00:38:03,755 --> 00:38:08,155 Speaker 1: same thing. Oh hi, miss Montgomery, excuse me, and they 612 00:38:08,395 --> 00:38:10,835 Speaker 1: give me some sort of nodding acknowledgment, like, hey, how 613 00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:13,195 Speaker 1: you doing, as they lean in past me. I was 614 00:38:13,195 --> 00:38:14,675 Speaker 1: a big fan of you, witch. I know you must 615 00:38:14,675 --> 00:38:16,435 Speaker 1: get asked this a million times a day, but is 616 00:38:16,475 --> 00:38:18,395 Speaker 1: there anything I'm so sorry to ask? Could you do 617 00:38:18,475 --> 00:38:20,435 Speaker 1: that little nose twitch you used to do in the show? 618 00:38:20,635 --> 00:38:22,675 Speaker 1: And she would say, of course, and then she'd do it, 619 00:38:22,675 --> 00:38:25,515 Speaker 1: and these men age twenty two one hundred all then 620 00:38:25,635 --> 00:38:32,035 Speaker 1: giggle like schoolboys. After the thirtieth or thirty first time 621 00:38:32,115 --> 00:38:34,755 Speaker 1: this happened, I say to her, Lizzie, I don't know you, 622 00:38:34,835 --> 00:38:37,995 Speaker 1: but I like you a lot already, and your attitude 623 00:38:38,035 --> 00:38:42,715 Speaker 1: towards your fans, and the nose twitch is wonderful. And 624 00:38:42,835 --> 00:38:45,355 Speaker 1: I have to tell you, I certainly hope that was 625 00:38:45,355 --> 00:38:47,515 Speaker 1: the last of them, because the next one who comes over, 626 00:38:48,115 --> 00:38:50,275 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to strangle him with my bare hands 627 00:38:50,315 --> 00:38:53,835 Speaker 1: because I can't take it anymore. And for the only 628 00:38:53,955 --> 00:38:56,675 Speaker 1: minutes of all the time I knew her, Elizabeth Montgomery 629 00:38:56,715 --> 00:38:59,755 Speaker 1: got very serious and said, oh, no, Keith, that is 630 00:38:59,795 --> 00:39:02,795 Speaker 1: not the attitude you must have about this. Remind me 631 00:39:03,195 --> 00:39:06,915 Speaker 1: what year did Bewitched go off the air. I had 632 00:39:06,915 --> 00:39:11,195 Speaker 1: to guess, nineteen seventy two, and she said, exactly, good, correct, 633 00:39:11,235 --> 00:39:15,755 Speaker 1: twenty years ago. And these people have remembered that nose 634 00:39:15,915 --> 00:39:20,635 Speaker 1: twitch for twenty years at least Bewitched. Keith is not Hamlet, 635 00:39:21,115 --> 00:39:23,675 Speaker 1: it is not Arthur Miller, it is not the Godfather, 636 00:39:23,795 --> 00:39:27,275 Speaker 1: but they remembered it. This is why you and I 637 00:39:27,355 --> 00:39:29,795 Speaker 1: both do what we do for a living. We have 638 00:39:29,955 --> 00:39:33,795 Speaker 1: transcended time with what we do for a living, something artistic, 639 00:39:33,915 --> 00:39:36,635 Speaker 1: something creative, no matter how small that we have done. 640 00:39:37,275 --> 00:39:40,435 Speaker 1: They have remembered it. People do it with you, I'm sure, 641 00:39:40,715 --> 00:39:43,235 Speaker 1: and I'm sure they'll continue to. And what you do 642 00:39:43,315 --> 00:39:47,075 Speaker 1: then is you say thank you for remembering as if 643 00:39:47,115 --> 00:39:50,275 Speaker 1: they were the only one who ever remembered, because that's 644 00:39:50,635 --> 00:39:54,715 Speaker 1: why we do this, because they remembered me from twenty 645 00:39:54,835 --> 00:40:01,475 Speaker 1: years ago for a stupid little nose twitch, duly chastised, 646 00:40:02,315 --> 00:40:08,755 Speaker 1: I apologized, and the huge, welcoming, conspiratorial, permanent friendship sexy 647 00:40:08,875 --> 00:40:13,475 Speaker 1: smile of Elizabeth Montgomery broke across her face like the sunrise, 648 00:40:14,235 --> 00:40:19,315 Speaker 1: and she whispered either that Keith or they saw Bewitched 649 00:40:19,355 --> 00:40:23,435 Speaker 1: on cable last week, which means Lizzie gets another check 650 00:40:23,595 --> 00:40:28,435 Speaker 1: next week, and she twitched her nose at me, and 651 00:40:28,635 --> 00:40:46,115 Speaker 1: I will always love her. I've done all the damage 652 00:40:46,155 --> 00:40:48,835 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. How I 653 00:40:48,955 --> 00:40:52,995 Speaker 1: miss Lizzie still countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and John 654 00:40:52,995 --> 00:40:56,515 Speaker 1: Phillip Shaneil arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 655 00:40:56,915 --> 00:40:59,315 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, the bass end the drums, 656 00:40:59,315 --> 00:41:02,475 Speaker 1: and mister Shaneil handled the orchestration and the keyboards. It 657 00:41:02,515 --> 00:41:05,635 Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Our music, including some of 658 00:41:05,675 --> 00:41:09,075 Speaker 1: the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the group 659 00:41:09,115 --> 00:41:12,195 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Olderman theme 660 00:41:12,235 --> 00:41:15,435 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy of 661 00:41:15,635 --> 00:41:18,995 Speaker 1: ESPN inc Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by 662 00:41:19,115 --> 00:41:22,795 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer 663 00:41:22,875 --> 00:41:25,275 Speaker 1: today is my friend Dennis Leary, and everything else was 664 00:41:25,355 --> 00:41:29,235 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the three 665 00:41:29,315 --> 00:41:32,475 Speaker 1: hundred and first day until the twenty twenty four US 666 00:41:32,515 --> 00:41:36,235 Speaker 1: presidential election, and the eleven hundredth day since Dementia J. 667 00:41:36,355 --> 00:41:39,155 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 668 00:41:39,155 --> 00:41:43,515 Speaker 1: the United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, use the Insurrection Act, 669 00:41:43,955 --> 00:41:47,635 Speaker 1: use the justice system to stop him from doing it 670 00:41:47,675 --> 00:41:52,915 Speaker 1: again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is 671 00:41:52,955 --> 00:41:56,515 Speaker 1: tomorrow if my voice cooperates. Until then, I'm Keith Olrimman. 672 00:41:56,555 --> 00:42:10,395 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 673 00:42:10,435 --> 00:42:14,195 Speaker 1: with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more 674 00:42:14,275 --> 00:42:19,235 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 675 00:42:19,275 --> 00:42:21,075 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.