1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,155 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's 2 00:00:22,275 --> 00:00:28,555 Speaker 1: own private concierge. Federal Judge Eileen Cannon has already violated 3 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:31,875 Speaker 1: her oath enough as it is on his behalf. She 4 00:00:31,995 --> 00:00:34,635 Speaker 1: has now revealed she is about to fulfill his second 5 00:00:34,715 --> 00:00:39,395 Speaker 1: biggest wish as early as today to delay his trial. 6 00:00:39,515 --> 00:00:42,955 Speaker 1: Delay his trial passed the already delayed start date of 7 00:00:43,075 --> 00:00:46,475 Speaker 1: May twentieth, twenty twenty four. Delay it certainly until after 8 00:00:46,515 --> 00:00:49,635 Speaker 1: the primaries are over, delay it conceivably until after the 9 00:00:49,675 --> 00:00:54,115 Speaker 1: Republican Convention, and maybe until after the election itself. The 10 00:00:54,275 --> 00:00:59,195 Speaker 1: dream of the Trumps, and Canon's excuse will be that 11 00:00:59,315 --> 00:01:03,435 Speaker 1: he and his lawyers are so busy with so many 12 00:01:03,475 --> 00:01:08,675 Speaker 1: different trials that the courts just have to adjust their schedules, 13 00:01:09,595 --> 00:01:13,795 Speaker 1: as if it was America's fault and not Trumps, that 14 00:01:13,875 --> 00:01:17,795 Speaker 1: he tried to steal all the classified documents he could 15 00:01:17,915 --> 00:01:21,635 Speaker 1: shove into his cheesy bathroom and steal the election in 16 00:01:21,715 --> 00:01:24,395 Speaker 1: each of the different ways he could think to try 17 00:01:24,435 --> 00:01:29,795 Speaker 1: to steal it. Delay his trial, Delay his trial for 18 00:01:29,915 --> 00:01:35,475 Speaker 1: stealing classified government documents and United States war plans and 19 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:40,795 Speaker 1: potentially endangering the US nuclear fleet and sharing these secrets 20 00:01:41,115 --> 00:01:44,595 Speaker 1: with foreign nationals, one of whom reportedly in turn shared 21 00:01:44,595 --> 00:01:49,235 Speaker 1: them with eleven of his own foreign employees, ten assorted 22 00:01:49,315 --> 00:01:53,675 Speaker 1: officials of his home government, six journalists, and three former 23 00:01:54,035 --> 00:02:00,395 Speaker 1: prime ministers. Yet, at a hearing yesterday, Concier's judge Eileen 24 00:02:00,595 --> 00:02:04,155 Speaker 1: Cannon looked at the Trump demands to examine even more 25 00:02:04,235 --> 00:02:08,955 Speaker 1: classify information as part of discovery, and the Special Council said, 26 00:02:09,555 --> 00:02:12,915 Speaker 1: this is part of an explicit and unmistakable stall to 27 00:02:13,075 --> 00:02:16,795 Speaker 1: postpone this trial even further. And instead of doing what 28 00:02:16,915 --> 00:02:19,995 Speaker 1: Judge Chutkin in Washington did, which was to follow the 29 00:02:20,155 --> 00:02:22,715 Speaker 1: law and say no, you know it says right here 30 00:02:22,755 --> 00:02:25,675 Speaker 1: in the law the defendant is not entitled to see 31 00:02:25,715 --> 00:02:30,155 Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the classified evidence. Ninety percent is enough. 32 00:02:30,875 --> 00:02:35,515 Speaker 1: Judge Concierge wants to let Trump's team keep looking and 33 00:02:35,675 --> 00:02:41,635 Speaker 1: looking and looking and stalling to their heart's content, and 34 00:02:41,795 --> 00:02:47,675 Speaker 1: that delay, in turn will allow Trump's employee Cannon to 35 00:02:47,835 --> 00:02:52,675 Speaker 1: create another delay. She says at her hearing yesterday, I'm 36 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:55,715 Speaker 1: having a hard time seeing how this work can be 37 00:02:55,795 --> 00:03:02,555 Speaker 1: accomplished in this compressed period of time, because the delays 38 00:03:02,595 --> 00:03:06,395 Speaker 1: in getting the materials turned over would the Florida documents 39 00:03:06,435 --> 00:03:11,515 Speaker 1: pre trial timetable to clash with the Washington election subversion 40 00:03:11,635 --> 00:03:16,715 Speaker 1: pre trial timetable. When government attorney j Brandt said in 41 00:03:16,795 --> 00:03:20,635 Speaker 1: exasperation that they really need to stick to the already 42 00:03:20,995 --> 00:03:25,795 Speaker 1: slack schedule that Canon devised, Canon answered quote, I'm not 43 00:03:25,995 --> 00:03:30,595 Speaker 1: seeing in your position a level of understanding to these realities. 44 00:03:31,715 --> 00:03:36,635 Speaker 1: Only a cynic would suggest that the realities to which 45 00:03:36,755 --> 00:03:44,395 Speaker 1: Judge Concierge refers are that Trump appointed Judge Concierge call 46 00:03:44,435 --> 00:03:49,435 Speaker 1: me a cynic. Eileen Cannon, the former Flamenco dancing and 47 00:03:49,515 --> 00:03:53,355 Speaker 1: yoga correspondent of the Miami Al Nuevo Herald newspaper, and 48 00:03:53,395 --> 00:03:55,755 Speaker 1: I wish I were making that up. Who a week 49 00:03:55,795 --> 00:04:03,075 Speaker 1: from Monday will celebrate three whole years as a judge anywhere. 50 00:04:03,995 --> 00:04:07,595 Speaker 1: She says he's prepared to make reasonable adjustments to the 51 00:04:07,595 --> 00:04:12,035 Speaker 1: Florida schedule, which right now has the pre trial hearing 52 00:04:12,075 --> 00:04:15,235 Speaker 1: on Tuesday May fourteenth, twenty twenty four, with the earliest 53 00:04:15,275 --> 00:04:19,595 Speaker 1: start date Monday, May twentieth, reasonable adjustments for the benefit 54 00:04:19,635 --> 00:04:24,115 Speaker 1: of justice judge, or reasonable adjustments for the guy who 55 00:04:24,235 --> 00:04:28,835 Speaker 1: personally promoted you to federal judge from your previous job 56 00:04:29,235 --> 00:04:34,155 Speaker 1: as one of sixty three hundred assistant United States attorneys. 57 00:04:35,595 --> 00:04:42,755 Speaker 1: The whole thing reeks. That's the Banana Republic, to use 58 00:04:42,795 --> 00:04:46,595 Speaker 1: one of dementia Ja Trump's most infamous social media constructions. 59 00:04:46,715 --> 00:04:54,275 Speaker 1: What Trump did in swiping, stealing, palming, hoarding, stacking, sharing, 60 00:04:54,395 --> 00:04:59,635 Speaker 1: and maybe selling all of those secret documents is an 61 00:04:59,675 --> 00:05:03,075 Speaker 1: act so egregious that in times gone by, the punishment 62 00:05:03,115 --> 00:05:07,795 Speaker 1: would have been death as he phrased something else, or 63 00:05:07,835 --> 00:05:11,955 Speaker 1: if not capital punishment, then these charges alone, when taken 64 00:05:11,995 --> 00:05:14,555 Speaker 1: in combination with his attempt to steal the election and 65 00:05:14,635 --> 00:05:18,315 Speaker 1: violently overthrow representative government in our country, that would have 66 00:05:18,315 --> 00:05:21,715 Speaker 1: resulted in a guy in jail in leg irons until 67 00:05:21,755 --> 00:05:27,675 Speaker 1: the trial starts. It could be that we have evolved 68 00:05:28,115 --> 00:05:32,195 Speaker 1: from that point in our history, or that we have 69 00:05:32,395 --> 00:05:37,115 Speaker 1: declined from that point in our history. But the further 70 00:05:37,195 --> 00:05:42,155 Speaker 1: we get away from that, the more we let this manipulative, 71 00:05:42,595 --> 00:05:47,995 Speaker 1: loophole sniffing, cunning animal gain the legal system into tying 72 00:05:48,035 --> 00:05:52,155 Speaker 1: itself into knots and giving him away to literally or 73 00:05:52,315 --> 00:05:56,475 Speaker 1: just effectively be in position to pardon himself for his 74 00:05:56,635 --> 00:06:01,155 Speaker 1: own treachery in twenty twenty five, the more we approach 75 00:06:01,275 --> 00:06:05,435 Speaker 1: the moment when that's possible is the more we approach 76 00:06:05,515 --> 00:06:08,995 Speaker 1: the moment when the nation comes apart at the seams. 77 00:06:10,435 --> 00:06:14,755 Speaker 1: What Aileen Canon is doing on behalf of her benefactor 78 00:06:14,875 --> 00:06:18,795 Speaker 1: Trump is the kind of perversion of justice that our 79 00:06:18,955 --> 00:06:23,155 Speaker 1: legal system was supposedly built not just to withstand, but 80 00:06:23,195 --> 00:06:27,715 Speaker 1: to crush. If she today gives Trump yet another delay 81 00:06:28,195 --> 00:06:32,515 Speaker 1: on the stupefying premise that, well, he's treason so much 82 00:06:33,035 --> 00:06:36,355 Speaker 1: that there's a treason trial glut, so we have to 83 00:06:36,355 --> 00:06:40,995 Speaker 1: give him a pass on some of his treason. If 84 00:06:41,035 --> 00:06:43,835 Speaker 1: she does that, Jack Smith needs to be in that 85 00:06:43,995 --> 00:06:48,075 Speaker 1: courtroom or as many other courtrooms as are required to 86 00:06:48,195 --> 00:06:56,275 Speaker 1: get Aileen Canon off this case. Trump already has enough lawyers. 87 00:06:57,475 --> 00:07:03,595 Speaker 1: The judge should not be serving as one of them. 88 00:07:05,715 --> 00:07:09,955 Speaker 1: It is absolutely true that for the next year there 89 00:07:09,995 --> 00:07:12,715 Speaker 1: will be more court dates than campaign stops for Trump. 90 00:07:13,515 --> 00:07:17,155 Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons. You know, we're supposed to 91 00:07:17,195 --> 00:07:21,475 Speaker 1: obey the laws, even if you don't believe any laws 92 00:07:21,515 --> 00:07:25,435 Speaker 1: on earth apply to you. Developments now from the New 93 00:07:25,515 --> 00:07:29,715 Speaker 1: York fraud and the Colorado Fourteenth Amendment disqualification cases, and 94 00:07:30,835 --> 00:07:33,635 Speaker 1: from another Trump case. I hadn't even heard of the 95 00:07:33,715 --> 00:07:38,395 Speaker 1: Michigan Fourteenth Amendment case in Colorado. The judge again has 96 00:07:38,475 --> 00:07:41,035 Speaker 1: refused a Trump motion to immediately find the case in 97 00:07:41,075 --> 00:07:44,715 Speaker 1: his favor. Trump's lawyers then began to roll out what 98 00:07:44,795 --> 00:07:46,955 Speaker 1: seems to be an attempt to prove Trump did not 99 00:07:47,235 --> 00:07:50,115 Speaker 1: want January sixth to happen and did not engage in 100 00:07:50,115 --> 00:07:52,995 Speaker 1: insurrection or rebellion or give aid or comfort to the 101 00:07:53,075 --> 00:07:56,315 Speaker 1: enemies thereof. And naturally, if you're going to try to 102 00:07:56,315 --> 00:07:58,075 Speaker 1: do that, the first person you're going to call is 103 00:07:58,115 --> 00:08:03,875 Speaker 1: a witness to Trump's loyalty to the constitution is Cash Patel. 104 00:08:05,275 --> 00:08:12,355 Speaker 1: Cash Patel, because Aileen Cannon was too busy to testify. 105 00:08:12,755 --> 00:08:17,875 Speaker 1: Cash Patel, who testified that he was there when Trump 106 00:08:17,995 --> 00:08:22,235 Speaker 1: authorized twenty thousand troops from the DC National Guard in 107 00:08:22,315 --> 00:08:27,475 Speaker 1: anticipation of January sixth, which Trump's own Defense secretary denies 108 00:08:27,555 --> 00:08:30,395 Speaker 1: ever happened, and when pressed for any evidence that it 109 00:08:30,435 --> 00:08:34,275 Speaker 1: did happen, any evidence at all, Patel said I got nothing. 110 00:08:35,675 --> 00:08:38,635 Speaker 1: Patel did confirm, though, that every month he gets paid 111 00:08:38,675 --> 00:08:44,515 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars from a Trump political action committee. Patel 112 00:08:44,675 --> 00:08:47,475 Speaker 1: was not asked how much of that he'd be willing 113 00:08:47,515 --> 00:08:52,275 Speaker 1: to spend to get those eyes fixed. The next Trump 114 00:08:52,395 --> 00:08:56,155 Speaker 1: witness against disqualifying him from the presidential ballot in Colorado 115 00:08:56,195 --> 00:09:01,395 Speaker 1: next year was Katrina Pearson. And it's at times like 116 00:09:01,475 --> 00:09:03,635 Speaker 1: these when you have to admit it's a damn shame 117 00:09:03,715 --> 00:09:09,915 Speaker 1: that diamond of diamond and silk died last January, your honor, 118 00:09:10,115 --> 00:09:18,595 Speaker 1: we next call Seesar Seyak the Magabomber, says our Sayak everybody. Meanwhile, 119 00:09:18,635 --> 00:09:22,395 Speaker 1: in ann Arbor, Trump's lawyers have sued the Michigan Secretary 120 00:09:22,395 --> 00:09:25,115 Speaker 1: of State, Jocelyn Benson, to prevent her from leaving his 121 00:09:25,235 --> 00:09:27,315 Speaker 1: name off the ballot there, and to get a judge 122 00:09:27,355 --> 00:09:29,875 Speaker 1: to declare she does not have the authority to leave 123 00:09:29,915 --> 00:09:33,275 Speaker 1: it off. They say they have asked the Secretary of 124 00:09:33,315 --> 00:09:35,835 Speaker 1: State for reassurance that she's not going to do that 125 00:09:35,875 --> 00:09:38,835 Speaker 1: in Michigan, and they have not heard back. So, since 126 00:09:38,875 --> 00:09:43,955 Speaker 1: the only human emotions Trump understands are lawsuits, contracts, bribes, 127 00:09:44,355 --> 00:09:49,355 Speaker 1: pre nups, and non disclosure agreements, they are taking the 128 00:09:49,395 --> 00:09:53,435 Speaker 1: Secretary of State from Michigan to court. There have been 129 00:09:53,635 --> 00:09:57,715 Speaker 1: private legal actions started to keep dementia Jay off the 130 00:09:57,755 --> 00:10:00,835 Speaker 1: Michigan ballot, but the state has done nothing, making Trump's 131 00:10:00,875 --> 00:10:04,675 Speaker 1: motion here even more crazy than usual, especially give it 132 00:10:04,795 --> 00:10:09,195 Speaker 1: that he's facing actually advanced prospects of disqualification in as 133 00:10:09,235 --> 00:10:13,595 Speaker 1: mentioned Colorado, also Minnesota, and most importantly in Hampshire and Arizona. 134 00:10:15,195 --> 00:10:18,275 Speaker 1: Here in New York, Judge Arthur and Goron has to 135 00:10:18,315 --> 00:10:21,635 Speaker 1: broaden the gag order. At two twenty eight Eastern Wednesday morning, 136 00:10:21,715 --> 00:10:26,075 Speaker 1: again with the insomnia, Trump raged against the judge because 137 00:10:26,075 --> 00:10:30,795 Speaker 1: he had ordered Junior and Moron Junior and Girl Junior 138 00:10:31,315 --> 00:10:38,155 Speaker 1: to also testify. Leave my children alone and grin. Trump threatened, 139 00:10:38,715 --> 00:10:42,955 Speaker 1: as if Trump could actually name all his children without 140 00:10:43,195 --> 00:10:49,715 Speaker 1: taking a breath or doing a Google search. Moron Junior 141 00:10:49,755 --> 00:10:53,115 Speaker 1: is supposed to testify today. Trump himself testifies Monday, Girl 142 00:10:53,195 --> 00:11:00,675 Speaker 1: Junior next Wednesday. Leave Bridvanka alone. Six hours after Trump 143 00:11:00,715 --> 00:11:03,275 Speaker 1: threatened the judge, he was back for more. Quote and 144 00:11:03,355 --> 00:11:08,515 Speaker 1: Goron is crazy, totally unhinged and dangerous. And yet when 145 00:11:08,555 --> 00:11:13,395 Speaker 1: Dementia Junior went up the courthouse steps to testify yesterday morning, 146 00:11:14,235 --> 00:11:16,515 Speaker 1: and when he testified, he blamed it all on the accountants. 147 00:11:17,955 --> 00:11:23,035 Speaker 1: An officer at the top of the steps. From his 148 00:11:23,075 --> 00:11:25,715 Speaker 1: shoulder patch, he looked more like NYPD than a state 149 00:11:25,795 --> 00:11:31,275 Speaker 1: court officer. An officer threw the three percenters signal with 150 00:11:31,315 --> 00:11:35,715 Speaker 1: his hand, two or at least towards Donald Trump Junior. 151 00:11:36,915 --> 00:11:41,555 Speaker 1: The three Percenters are the gun nut anti authority terrorist 152 00:11:41,595 --> 00:11:45,515 Speaker 1: gang that supposedly dissolved its American organization in protest of 153 00:11:45,555 --> 00:11:47,875 Speaker 1: the violence on January sixth, yet it still exists in 154 00:11:47,915 --> 00:11:51,595 Speaker 1: local chapters. It draws its stupid name from the drunk 155 00:11:51,675 --> 00:11:54,635 Speaker 1: history claim that the American Revolution was one even though 156 00:11:54,675 --> 00:11:57,275 Speaker 1: the Continental Army never amounted to more than three percent 157 00:11:57,275 --> 00:12:01,755 Speaker 1: of all the colonists. The three percenters have made some 158 00:12:01,995 --> 00:12:07,315 Speaker 1: inroads into law enforcement in this country, and interestingly given 159 00:12:07,475 --> 00:12:12,635 Speaker 1: the three percenter signal from that officer yesterday towards Trump Junior. 160 00:12:12,795 --> 00:12:16,755 Speaker 1: On May twenty seventh, twenty nineteen, a photo was posted 161 00:12:16,795 --> 00:12:19,635 Speaker 1: to an Instagram account in which a man was shown 162 00:12:19,635 --> 00:12:23,555 Speaker 1: wearing a shirt bearing both the MAGA slogan and the 163 00:12:23,595 --> 00:12:28,635 Speaker 1: skull logo of the three Percenters. The Instagram account belonged 164 00:12:28,635 --> 00:12:34,595 Speaker 1: to and the three percenter logo was worn by Donald 165 00:12:34,875 --> 00:12:45,755 Speaker 1: Trump Junior, your witness on the Dementia j Trump scoreboard, 166 00:12:45,795 --> 00:12:48,475 Speaker 1: I mentioned night two of the Insomnia, and then there 167 00:12:48,555 --> 00:12:52,475 Speaker 1: was the little Freudian slip in the latest video clip 168 00:12:52,515 --> 00:12:56,475 Speaker 1: posted to try to foment more violence. It's nothing much 169 00:12:58,075 --> 00:13:05,195 Speaker 1: just in it, Trump says, that tyrants support Maga. Well, well, look, 170 00:13:05,315 --> 00:13:07,755 Speaker 1: first I'll play the clip, then I'll read the verbatim, 171 00:13:07,915 --> 00:13:09,995 Speaker 1: then I'll play the clip a second time, so neither 172 00:13:10,035 --> 00:13:11,555 Speaker 1: of us thinks we're nuts. 173 00:13:11,955 --> 00:13:14,875 Speaker 2: This is your chance to take a stand against tyrants 174 00:13:14,915 --> 00:13:18,155 Speaker 2: at support the one and only movement that can save 175 00:13:18,195 --> 00:13:20,755 Speaker 2: our country and make America great again. 176 00:13:21,315 --> 00:13:24,675 Speaker 1: The verbatim on that quote, this is your chance to 177 00:13:24,755 --> 00:13:29,555 Speaker 1: take a stand against tyrants that support the one and 178 00:13:29,715 --> 00:13:33,555 Speaker 1: only movement that can save our country and make America 179 00:13:33,635 --> 00:13:34,155 Speaker 1: great again. 180 00:13:34,595 --> 00:13:38,075 Speaker 2: Tyrant says, support the one and only movement that can 181 00:13:38,115 --> 00:13:39,155 Speaker 2: save our country. 182 00:13:39,515 --> 00:13:44,355 Speaker 1: Take a stand against tyrants that support the one only 183 00:13:44,555 --> 00:13:51,275 Speaker 1: movement that can say he said it, I didn't take 184 00:13:51,275 --> 00:13:57,675 Speaker 1: a stand against tyrants that support Maga. Tyrants Maga, doctor Freud, 185 00:13:57,675 --> 00:14:03,195 Speaker 1: Please I'll wait. I don't think it's untreated tertiary syphilis, 186 00:14:03,395 --> 00:14:09,155 Speaker 1: but it sounds like treaded tertiary syphilis. He's old and 187 00:14:09,235 --> 00:14:14,435 Speaker 1: he's nuts, and whatever it is, it's getting worse, and 188 00:14:14,515 --> 00:14:19,915 Speaker 1: he is dementia. Jay Trump a reminder of that polling, 189 00:14:20,755 --> 00:14:23,195 Speaker 1: forty three percent of the voters think they're both too old, 190 00:14:23,795 --> 00:14:26,035 Speaker 1: and in that group, sixty one percent say they planned 191 00:14:26,035 --> 00:14:29,755 Speaker 1: to vote for President Biden and fifteen percent say for Trump. 192 00:14:30,075 --> 00:14:33,115 Speaker 1: So the immediate campaign issue is not how to decrease 193 00:14:33,235 --> 00:14:37,315 Speaker 1: voters worries about Biden's age, but to increase voters worries 194 00:14:37,475 --> 00:14:42,395 Speaker 1: about Trump's age. And oh, by the way, in complaining 195 00:14:42,435 --> 00:14:47,115 Speaker 1: about the New York trial online, he invoked Perry Mason again, 196 00:14:48,435 --> 00:14:52,115 Speaker 1: the TV courtroom drama so old that its last new 197 00:14:52,195 --> 00:14:59,195 Speaker 1: weekly episode aired on May twenty second, nineteen sixty six. 198 00:15:23,195 --> 00:15:27,035 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust. Yeah, that was the That was 199 00:15:27,075 --> 00:15:32,155 Speaker 1: a Perry Mason theme, like you didn't know, like you 200 00:15:32,275 --> 00:15:37,955 Speaker 1: and what three hundred million other Americans didn't know? If 201 00:15:37,995 --> 00:15:41,155 Speaker 1: there were a new episode of Perry Mason, they do 202 00:15:41,195 --> 00:15:44,875 Speaker 1: show it on cable, even though all the stars are dead. 203 00:15:46,435 --> 00:15:49,515 Speaker 1: It could be titled the Case of the Unspeakable Speakers, 204 00:15:49,595 --> 00:15:54,715 Speaker 1: Unaccounted for account. The mining of the biography of the 205 00:15:54,755 --> 00:15:58,235 Speaker 1: fifth string Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson continues to 206 00:15:58,355 --> 00:16:04,515 Speaker 1: rival in profundity that of the Comstock load. Now there's 207 00:16:04,555 --> 00:16:08,555 Speaker 1: a current reference. The Daily Beast notes that all members 208 00:16:08,555 --> 00:16:11,715 Speaker 1: of Congress have to disclose all bank accounts which contain 209 00:16:11,755 --> 00:16:15,675 Speaker 1: one thousand dollars or more each or five thousand dollars 210 00:16:15,675 --> 00:16:18,835 Speaker 1: in total, and the number of bank accounts disclosed by 211 00:16:18,835 --> 00:16:28,955 Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson since twenty sixteen is zero. Maybe God just 212 00:16:28,995 --> 00:16:31,235 Speaker 1: sends him a money gram every time he's a little 213 00:16:31,235 --> 00:16:35,915 Speaker 1: shorter in cash. There are many earthly explanations for this. 214 00:16:36,075 --> 00:16:39,915 Speaker 1: None of them are good, though the gentlest is Mike 215 00:16:39,995 --> 00:16:46,715 Speaker 1: Johnson does not understand money or math, or audition or 216 00:16:46,755 --> 00:16:53,235 Speaker 1: subtraction or budgets. You will recall Johnson has inexplicably refused 217 00:16:53,275 --> 00:16:57,035 Speaker 1: to release fourteen billion dollars in aid to Israel unless 218 00:16:57,035 --> 00:16:59,555 Speaker 1: an offset of fourteen billion dollars is made from the 219 00:16:59,595 --> 00:17:02,635 Speaker 1: IRS budget, money that would have been spent and might 220 00:17:02,755 --> 00:17:05,755 Speaker 1: yet be spent to hire more AIG to pursue more 221 00:17:05,795 --> 00:17:11,155 Speaker 1: wealthy tax dodgers. The non partisan Congressional Budget Office yesterday 222 00:17:11,235 --> 00:17:14,475 Speaker 1: joined the partisan chorus of complaints that this is nuts 223 00:17:14,995 --> 00:17:18,715 Speaker 1: by calculating that this little offset about the IRS wouldn't 224 00:17:18,755 --> 00:17:23,555 Speaker 1: save the government a dime, It would instead increase the 225 00:17:23,675 --> 00:17:29,635 Speaker 1: deficit by twelve billion, five hundred million dollars. Mike Johnson, 226 00:17:30,115 --> 00:17:33,315 Speaker 1: who does not have a bank account, or is lying 227 00:17:33,355 --> 00:17:36,355 Speaker 1: about not having a bank account. Mike Johnson either does 228 00:17:36,355 --> 00:17:40,635 Speaker 1: not understand this, or does not believe this, or is 229 00:17:40,715 --> 00:17:43,955 Speaker 1: pretending to not understand or not believe. In other words, 230 00:17:44,715 --> 00:17:48,835 Speaker 1: in other words, he's either playing dumb or he's not 231 00:17:49,035 --> 00:17:52,435 Speaker 1: playing tru Were you surprised by the CBO's courser, Not 232 00:17:52,555 --> 00:17:53,275 Speaker 1: surprise at all. 233 00:17:53,355 --> 00:17:55,795 Speaker 2: Only in Washington when he cuts spending do they call 234 00:17:55,835 --> 00:17:57,955 Speaker 2: it an. 235 00:17:56,995 --> 00:18:01,635 Speaker 1: Increasing the enemy? Kind of obscured there, Johnson said, In essence, 236 00:18:01,675 --> 00:18:05,355 Speaker 1: only in Washington could Jew save money and be charged 237 00:18:05,355 --> 00:18:09,715 Speaker 1: with running up the deficit. And if he somehow is 238 00:18:09,755 --> 00:18:14,235 Speaker 1: not an idiot or a mathematical ignoramus or really bad actor, 239 00:18:14,315 --> 00:18:19,315 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson certainly is this a homophobe. CNN's crew is 240 00:18:19,435 --> 00:18:22,995 Speaker 1: just back from the Johnson Comstock load mine with a stunner. 241 00:18:23,275 --> 00:18:25,395 Speaker 1: In the first decade of this century, Mike Johnson was 242 00:18:25,435 --> 00:18:28,675 Speaker 1: not only an attorney for a group called Alliance Defense Fund, 243 00:18:29,195 --> 00:18:33,275 Speaker 1: but Alliance Defense Fund, and he collaborated with another group 244 00:18:33,355 --> 00:18:39,955 Speaker 1: called Exodus International. And what was Exodus International's thing conversion 245 00:18:40,075 --> 00:18:45,195 Speaker 1: therapy for gay kids, the attempt to force gay people, 246 00:18:45,315 --> 00:18:49,915 Speaker 1: particularly young ones, straight, by all manner of abuse and 247 00:18:50,035 --> 00:18:54,035 Speaker 1: bullying and worse, And what they did was not only 248 00:18:54,155 --> 00:18:58,435 Speaker 1: so bad but so obviously bad and damaging that Exodus 249 00:18:58,475 --> 00:19:03,875 Speaker 1: International shut itself down in twenty thirteen and its founder 250 00:19:04,115 --> 00:19:07,555 Speaker 1: then made a public apology for the quote pain and 251 00:19:07,755 --> 00:19:11,875 Speaker 1: hurt it and he had caused. And Mike Johnson was 252 00:19:11,915 --> 00:19:15,515 Speaker 1: not just a lawyer here. He was an advocate who promoted, 253 00:19:15,555 --> 00:19:19,795 Speaker 1: who gave interviews about, who insisted ancient Rome fell because 254 00:19:19,795 --> 00:19:25,955 Speaker 1: of homosexuality. Mike Johnson promoted an annual Day of Truth event, 255 00:19:25,995 --> 00:19:30,835 Speaker 1: which was billed as an anti gay event aimed at teens. 256 00:19:33,315 --> 00:19:36,995 Speaker 1: I'll repeat what I said yesterday. Whatever the scandal is 257 00:19:37,035 --> 00:19:41,995 Speaker 1: in this guy's closet, I am confident it is so 258 00:19:42,195 --> 00:19:45,995 Speaker 1: big and so disturbing that the first thing they will 259 00:19:46,035 --> 00:19:56,075 Speaker 1: find in his closet is the doors to several other closets. 260 00:19:57,315 --> 00:20:00,715 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, the House did not expel Santos 261 00:20:00,995 --> 00:20:03,715 Speaker 1: and did not take a vote on censuring Talib and 262 00:20:03,755 --> 00:20:06,715 Speaker 1: the Senate did not thwart Tubberville, and ladies and gentlemen, 263 00:20:06,795 --> 00:20:12,395 Speaker 1: welcome to your tax dollars in action. On the other hand, 264 00:20:12,955 --> 00:20:16,115 Speaker 1: the likely Republican Senate nominee in Pennsylvania next year thinks 265 00:20:16,115 --> 00:20:22,075 Speaker 1: he can fight a bear and win. And there's always 266 00:20:22,235 --> 00:20:31,755 Speaker 1: the World Series that's next. Ugh, this is countdown. This 267 00:20:31,875 --> 00:20:49,115 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith Oberman. This is sports. Senate Wait 268 00:20:49,275 --> 00:20:56,795 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman 269 00:20:57,035 --> 00:21:05,035 Speaker 1: in Sports Dateline. Phoenix, Arizona. The Texas Rangers came the 270 00:21:05,115 --> 00:21:08,635 Speaker 1: last of the original Baseball expansion franchises of nineteen sixty 271 00:21:08,675 --> 00:21:11,115 Speaker 1: one and nineteen sixty two to win the World Series. 272 00:21:11,435 --> 00:21:14,115 Speaker 1: No hit through six innings last night by Zach Gallon 273 00:21:14,155 --> 00:21:17,155 Speaker 1: of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas pushed through a run and 274 00:21:17,195 --> 00:21:19,475 Speaker 1: then padded it with four in the ninth to beat 275 00:21:19,515 --> 00:21:22,035 Speaker 1: the Snakes five zip and win the series four games 276 00:21:22,075 --> 00:21:25,595 Speaker 1: to one. Arizona, which had the twelfth best record in 277 00:21:25,635 --> 00:21:29,755 Speaker 1: the majors during the regular season compared to Texas's seventh best, 278 00:21:30,195 --> 00:21:33,435 Speaker 1: dominated Game two and tied the series at one win 279 00:21:33,475 --> 00:21:36,835 Speaker 1: a piece last Saturday night, and then, just like last 280 00:21:36,915 --> 00:21:42,715 Speaker 1: year's Philadelphia Phillies, they disappeared. Arizona did not lead once, 281 00:21:43,155 --> 00:21:46,515 Speaker 1: not for one inning in the final three games of 282 00:21:46,595 --> 00:21:51,035 Speaker 1: the World Series in their own home ballpark, and they 283 00:21:51,075 --> 00:21:53,795 Speaker 1: had blown a five to one lead in Game one. 284 00:21:54,235 --> 00:21:57,515 Speaker 1: They were completely outmanaged by the Texas skipper Bruce Boche, 285 00:21:57,795 --> 00:22:00,435 Speaker 1: who won his fourth World Series and cinched if he 286 00:22:00,475 --> 00:22:02,955 Speaker 1: had not already his spot in the Hall of Fame, 287 00:22:03,315 --> 00:22:05,555 Speaker 1: and if like me, you were at the game in 288 00:22:05,675 --> 00:22:08,275 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight at Chase Stadium in New York on 289 00:22:08,395 --> 00:22:11,635 Speaker 1: the field taking pictures when the Houston Astros called up 290 00:22:11,835 --> 00:22:14,715 Speaker 1: a rookie catcher with a giant head, bigger even than 291 00:22:14,755 --> 00:22:17,795 Speaker 1: your own, named Bruce Boche. You know how you feel 292 00:22:17,875 --> 00:22:22,715 Speaker 1: right now? Proud what is now? The Texas franchise was 293 00:22:22,755 --> 00:22:24,795 Speaker 1: such a joke for such a long time that in 294 00:22:24,875 --> 00:22:28,955 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, believe it or not, Mad Magazine ran 295 00:22:29,235 --> 00:22:32,115 Speaker 1: a gag and a gimmick about giving all the kids 296 00:22:32,115 --> 00:22:36,555 Speaker 1: who read Mad Magazine free insurance against getting hit in 297 00:22:36,635 --> 00:22:40,355 Speaker 1: the head by a foul ball at a Washington Senators 298 00:22:40,395 --> 00:22:43,835 Speaker 1: New York Mets World Series. The joke being the Senators 299 00:22:43,875 --> 00:22:45,715 Speaker 1: and the Mets were so bad there would never be 300 00:22:45,755 --> 00:22:48,475 Speaker 1: such a World Series. The Mets won the World Series 301 00:22:48,515 --> 00:22:52,395 Speaker 1: that same year, the Senators did not. They moved to 302 00:22:52,475 --> 00:22:55,475 Speaker 1: Texas in nineteen seventy two, and after two failures two 303 00:22:55,515 --> 00:22:59,115 Speaker 1: blown World Series leads, they finally won it this year 304 00:22:59,635 --> 00:23:06,835 Speaker 1: last night, dateline one zero two zero one West Pico Boulevard, 305 00:23:06,875 --> 00:23:11,155 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California. Hello, that is the address of the 306 00:23:11,155 --> 00:23:15,035 Speaker 1: headquarters of Fox Sports. And they are not going to 307 00:23:15,315 --> 00:23:19,715 Speaker 1: be happy. There today, the World Series TV ratings wants 308 00:23:19,715 --> 00:23:23,075 Speaker 1: the benchmark for all of sports will almost certainly end 309 00:23:23,155 --> 00:23:27,835 Speaker 1: up not just below the ten million viewer supposed floor 310 00:23:27,875 --> 00:23:32,115 Speaker 1: per game rating, but below nine million per game, maybe 311 00:23:32,155 --> 00:23:35,595 Speaker 1: below eight and a half million per game. The Game 312 00:23:35,755 --> 00:23:39,155 Speaker 1: four ratings came out last night, just before the first 313 00:23:39,195 --> 00:23:43,275 Speaker 1: pitch of Game five, eight million, four hundred and eighty 314 00:23:43,395 --> 00:23:47,195 Speaker 1: thousand viewers, the least watched game forever, and by a 315 00:23:47,275 --> 00:23:50,915 Speaker 1: margin of more than a million. It was a slight 316 00:23:51,035 --> 00:23:54,555 Speaker 1: ratings increase over worse ratings for Games two and three. 317 00:23:55,835 --> 00:23:58,835 Speaker 1: At least my pal Boog Shambie killed it on the 318 00:23:58,835 --> 00:24:03,235 Speaker 1: play by play on ESPN Radio. The only question about 319 00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:05,795 Speaker 1: the TV thing left is will the fact that the 320 00:24:05,875 --> 00:24:09,355 Speaker 1: series is over and there'll be no Game six tomorrow 321 00:24:09,435 --> 00:24:14,715 Speaker 1: night have any numerical effect on the TV ratings, because, 322 00:24:15,515 --> 00:24:18,635 Speaker 1: as these ratings show, almost nobody will notice the difference. 323 00:24:19,835 --> 00:24:23,355 Speaker 1: The ratings for Game two last Saturday eight million, one 324 00:24:23,395 --> 00:24:27,755 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand viewers, the lowest rated World Series 325 00:24:27,835 --> 00:24:32,715 Speaker 1: game ever atly since they went to color TV. The 326 00:24:32,795 --> 00:24:35,395 Speaker 1: ratings for Game three on Monday night eight million, one 327 00:24:35,475 --> 00:24:39,195 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand viewers. No, that's the lowest rated 328 00:24:39,195 --> 00:24:43,595 Speaker 1: World Series game ever. It's also less than half of 329 00:24:43,635 --> 00:24:47,075 Speaker 1: the average ratings for the World Series in twenty seventeen 330 00:24:47,995 --> 00:24:52,075 Speaker 1: Houston versus La eighteen point nine million per game in 331 00:24:52,115 --> 00:24:57,515 Speaker 1: that series, and unbelievably, eight point one three million viewers 332 00:24:57,635 --> 00:25:02,875 Speaker 1: is literally just fifteen percent of the TV audience that 333 00:25:03,035 --> 00:25:06,435 Speaker 1: saw the most wat World Series game of all time, 334 00:25:06,835 --> 00:25:10,275 Speaker 1: Game seven of the nineteen eighty six World Series between 335 00:25:10,315 --> 00:25:12,475 Speaker 1: the Mets and the Red Sox at least fifty five 336 00:25:12,515 --> 00:25:15,515 Speaker 1: million viewers. Some counts have it as high as sixty 337 00:25:15,555 --> 00:25:19,995 Speaker 1: million and a rating of thirty eight point nine. I 338 00:25:19,995 --> 00:25:25,235 Speaker 1: remember those ratings get me all nostalgic. No, I always 339 00:25:25,275 --> 00:25:27,875 Speaker 1: point out that there were two non baseball factors in 340 00:25:27,915 --> 00:25:31,155 Speaker 1: the eighties that we do tend to forget and really matter. First, 341 00:25:31,635 --> 00:25:34,475 Speaker 1: cable was still not universal on the night of October 342 00:25:34,515 --> 00:25:37,675 Speaker 1: twenty seventh, nineteen eighty six, so most of America's viewing 343 00:25:37,755 --> 00:25:41,995 Speaker 1: choices consisted of the following cad and Alley Newhart Designing 344 00:25:41,995 --> 00:25:46,715 Speaker 1: Women and Cagney and Lacey on CBS mcgiver and Monday 345 00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:50,955 Speaker 1: Night Football in ABC Masterpiece Theater. And The Day the 346 00:25:51,075 --> 00:25:55,715 Speaker 1: Universe Changed with James Brooke on PBS, and the Little 347 00:25:55,795 --> 00:25:58,955 Speaker 1: seventh Game of the World Series with the Mets in 348 00:25:58,995 --> 00:26:01,195 Speaker 1: the Red Sox, the game after the Bill Buckner Mooky 349 00:26:01,235 --> 00:26:03,435 Speaker 1: Will See You Get Him with Vin Scully and Joe 350 00:26:03,475 --> 00:26:08,475 Speaker 1: Garagiol on NBC. Some good programs there, but not exactly 351 00:26:08,515 --> 00:26:11,875 Speaker 1: a thousand different options, and the World Series, which is 352 00:26:11,915 --> 00:26:14,435 Speaker 1: how you get a thirty eight point nine rating. On 353 00:26:14,475 --> 00:26:16,835 Speaker 1: the other hand, the population of the United States in 354 00:26:16,915 --> 00:26:19,995 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six was twenty eight percent smaller than it 355 00:26:20,075 --> 00:26:22,675 Speaker 1: is now, so it's not that the World Series ratings 356 00:26:22,715 --> 00:26:27,235 Speaker 1: are down by eighty five percent compared with nineteen eighty six, 357 00:26:27,435 --> 00:26:31,395 Speaker 1: because adjusted for population, the World Series ratings are closer 358 00:26:31,395 --> 00:26:36,595 Speaker 1: to being down by eighty nine percent. Baseball Commissioner Rob 359 00:26:36,635 --> 00:26:40,595 Speaker 1: Manfred's solution to this yesterday he said, we'll receede the 360 00:26:40,675 --> 00:26:45,555 Speaker 1: teams after each round of the playoffs. Yeah, rather than 361 00:26:45,555 --> 00:26:48,715 Speaker 1: the obvious problem, which is the first round byes, where 362 00:26:48,755 --> 00:26:51,315 Speaker 1: the best teams don't play for lank four or five 363 00:26:51,435 --> 00:26:55,035 Speaker 1: days and get rusty. The division winners first round byes. 364 00:26:55,475 --> 00:26:57,955 Speaker 1: The Dodgers got one this year, they got swept. The 365 00:26:57,955 --> 00:27:00,475 Speaker 1: Orioles got one, they got swept. The Braves got one. 366 00:27:00,515 --> 00:27:03,115 Speaker 1: They lost in four games. Last year, the Dodgers and 367 00:27:03,155 --> 00:27:07,595 Speaker 1: Braves got first round byes. Each lost in four. But yeah, 368 00:27:07,955 --> 00:27:11,595 Speaker 1: receding should do it. I'm once again proud to say 369 00:27:11,595 --> 00:27:16,075 Speaker 1: that Rob Manfred was at Cornell when I was, and 370 00:27:16,355 --> 00:27:19,035 Speaker 1: he's the one who wound up as commissioner of Baseball. 371 00:27:24,635 --> 00:27:27,835 Speaker 1: Dateline San Diego startling news from the big budget, Big 372 00:27:27,835 --> 00:27:32,035 Speaker 1: disappointment San Diego Padres. The Athletic quotes sources who say 373 00:27:32,035 --> 00:27:34,475 Speaker 1: that the club basically ran out of money and had 374 00:27:34,515 --> 00:27:37,315 Speaker 1: to take a fifty million dollar loan just to meet 375 00:27:37,355 --> 00:27:40,955 Speaker 1: player payroll and to dress short term cash flow issues. 376 00:27:40,995 --> 00:27:46,195 Speaker 1: In September, Baseball, which can whistle past any graveyard vanishing 377 00:27:46,235 --> 00:27:49,915 Speaker 1: TV World Series, audiences its team in the eighteenth largest 378 00:27:49,915 --> 00:27:53,555 Speaker 1: market in the country. Coming up short about one month's 379 00:27:53,635 --> 00:27:57,235 Speaker 1: worth of money, Baseball says, Look on the bright side, 380 00:27:57,755 --> 00:28:00,875 Speaker 1: the Padres must be fine. They were able to get 381 00:28:00,915 --> 00:28:05,115 Speaker 1: the loan and not, you know, go bankrupt or something. 382 00:28:06,995 --> 00:28:09,115 Speaker 1: By the way, hats off to my friend Bob Melvin. 383 00:28:09,515 --> 00:28:12,155 Speaker 1: Bob left as manager of the Oakland A's after the 384 00:28:12,155 --> 00:28:15,595 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one season, and the franchise basically collapsed weeks later, 385 00:28:15,635 --> 00:28:17,435 Speaker 1: and it's now a lame duck. Waiting to move to 386 00:28:17,515 --> 00:28:20,995 Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Bob left Oakland in order to become manager 387 00:28:21,035 --> 00:28:25,275 Speaker 1: of Love Padres, and then on October twenty fifth, Bob 388 00:28:25,355 --> 00:28:28,035 Speaker 1: left the Padres to become manager of the San Francisco Giants, 389 00:28:28,115 --> 00:28:31,235 Speaker 1: and eight days later in San Diego. Now we're fine. 390 00:28:31,435 --> 00:28:38,875 Speaker 1: We're only fifty million short and dateline. Bloomington, Indiana. Legendary 391 00:28:38,915 --> 00:28:41,515 Speaker 1: Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight has died at the age 392 00:28:41,555 --> 00:28:44,675 Speaker 1: of eighty three. He won the national championship in nineteen 393 00:28:44,715 --> 00:28:47,355 Speaker 1: seventy six, with the most recent men's team to go unbeaten. 394 00:28:47,715 --> 00:28:51,195 Speaker 1: He won eleven Big Ten titles. He was also fired 395 00:28:51,195 --> 00:28:55,395 Speaker 1: by Indiana after twenty nine seasons there for wholesale abuse 396 00:28:55,515 --> 00:29:00,275 Speaker 1: of players and staff and maybe passers by sure seemed 397 00:29:00,315 --> 00:29:02,955 Speaker 1: like it. I am not going to be hypocritical here 398 00:29:02,995 --> 00:29:05,595 Speaker 1: and say nice things about him. I am going to 399 00:29:05,635 --> 00:29:08,275 Speaker 1: say that he hated me, and I hated him back, 400 00:29:08,915 --> 00:29:11,635 Speaker 1: and that Bob Knight tried to get me fired by ESPN, 401 00:29:12,915 --> 00:29:15,675 Speaker 1: And no, I'm not seeking some sort of revenge and 402 00:29:15,755 --> 00:29:20,915 Speaker 1: dancing on his grave. It is an ironic story worth telling, 403 00:29:20,995 --> 00:29:23,555 Speaker 1: even when there are many who are genuinely mourning him 404 00:29:23,635 --> 00:29:27,035 Speaker 1: right now. Because the dispute was completely accidental, but it 405 00:29:27,195 --> 00:29:31,675 Speaker 1: says something about him. We showed highlights on SportsCenter of 406 00:29:31,715 --> 00:29:34,955 Speaker 1: an Indiana basketball game in December nineteen ninety three when 407 00:29:34,955 --> 00:29:38,515 Speaker 1: Bob's son Pat Knight was playing for him at Indiana. 408 00:29:39,275 --> 00:29:41,475 Speaker 1: Father took son out of the game because he wasn't 409 00:29:41,475 --> 00:29:45,475 Speaker 1: playing well, and father shoved son by his shoulders onto 410 00:29:45,475 --> 00:29:49,035 Speaker 1: the team bench. Some witnesses at the game say Bobby 411 00:29:49,115 --> 00:29:52,035 Speaker 1: Knight also kicked his son Pat. The video did not 412 00:29:52,155 --> 00:29:54,995 Speaker 1: show that, and we did not say that, but it 413 00:29:55,075 --> 00:29:58,035 Speaker 1: showed the shove, all right, And guess who was doing 414 00:29:58,115 --> 00:30:03,675 Speaker 1: the highlights on SportsCenter that night? Shrug emojie what I 415 00:30:03,835 --> 00:30:07,315 Speaker 1: said that video? I concluded with, and this is not 416 00:30:07,395 --> 00:30:11,195 Speaker 1: a precise quote, but I think it's correct. At home 417 00:30:11,355 --> 00:30:16,315 Speaker 1: with the Bobby Knight family. Well, hell, The next day, 418 00:30:16,355 --> 00:30:18,635 Speaker 1: Bob Knight got on the phone and called every ESPN 419 00:30:18,635 --> 00:30:21,395 Speaker 1: executive he knew and many he did not, and threatened 420 00:30:21,475 --> 00:30:23,755 Speaker 1: never to let the network cover another Indiana game, and 421 00:30:23,795 --> 00:30:26,315 Speaker 1: to bar our reporters, and to kick my ass, and 422 00:30:26,635 --> 00:30:29,475 Speaker 1: and and a lot of other stuff he also could 423 00:30:29,475 --> 00:30:33,395 Speaker 1: not actually ever do. To their credit, my boss has 424 00:30:33,515 --> 00:30:37,395 Speaker 1: told me of Knight's displeasure, and they said maybe you 425 00:30:37,475 --> 00:30:40,995 Speaker 1: shouldn't do the next couple of Indiana highlights. But that 426 00:30:41,115 --> 00:30:44,195 Speaker 1: was it. Within a month, I was doing Indiana Highlights again. 427 00:30:45,155 --> 00:30:47,755 Speaker 1: They didn't ask me to apologize, they didn't ask me 428 00:30:47,835 --> 00:30:51,275 Speaker 1: to talk to him or anything. For thirty years, I 429 00:30:51,315 --> 00:30:53,115 Speaker 1: have given them all the credit in the world for that, 430 00:30:54,675 --> 00:30:58,555 Speaker 1: and I asked naturally, just for me not to go 431 00:30:58,595 --> 00:31:01,355 Speaker 1: on the air with it. Coach Knight was shown on 432 00:31:01,435 --> 00:31:05,955 Speaker 1: national television shoving his own son, and he wants me fired. 433 00:31:07,435 --> 00:31:10,635 Speaker 1: I mean, my thing was a wise ass joke. His 434 00:31:11,035 --> 00:31:14,395 Speaker 1: was shoving his own son, a player on national television, 435 00:31:16,475 --> 00:31:19,875 Speaker 1: and one of the guys who really knew college basketball 436 00:31:19,915 --> 00:31:22,955 Speaker 1: at ESPN knew it well. Told me that whether I 437 00:31:23,075 --> 00:31:25,715 Speaker 1: had known it or not, my remark at home with 438 00:31:25,795 --> 00:31:30,715 Speaker 1: the Bobby Knight family was what had driven Night crazy. See, 439 00:31:30,795 --> 00:31:34,195 Speaker 1: the guy told me the public doesn't know this, but 440 00:31:34,275 --> 00:31:37,475 Speaker 1: when his first wife divorced him in the eighties, that 441 00:31:37,715 --> 00:31:43,875 Speaker 1: was one of her allegations. I had had no idea, 442 00:31:44,155 --> 00:31:50,635 Speaker 1: no inkling, no clue. I wasn't even guessing. I wasn't extrapolating. 443 00:31:51,395 --> 00:31:56,395 Speaker 1: I didn't have a spirit message. It wasn't inspiration. It 444 00:31:56,515 --> 00:32:02,795 Speaker 1: was just a really typical mean spirited joke of mine. 445 00:32:03,035 --> 00:32:06,515 Speaker 1: Bob Knight tried to get he fired because he thought 446 00:32:06,915 --> 00:32:14,235 Speaker 1: I knew, so I didn't really blame him. In fact, 447 00:32:14,235 --> 00:32:17,715 Speaker 1: I took it as a kind of compliment. Rest in peace, 448 00:32:39,475 --> 00:32:41,875 Speaker 1: still ahead on countdown from the desert to the sea 449 00:32:41,995 --> 00:32:45,955 Speaker 1: to all of Southern California. The great newscaster who not 450 00:32:45,995 --> 00:32:49,555 Speaker 1: only dominated there for four decades, but who once came 451 00:32:49,595 --> 00:32:53,755 Speaker 1: back after three weeks off recovering after that time he 452 00:32:53,795 --> 00:32:58,395 Speaker 1: got shot in the Channel seven parking lot. Thanks, I 453 00:32:58,595 --> 00:33:01,635 Speaker 1: promise not to tell. Coming up first time for the 454 00:33:01,675 --> 00:33:04,075 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger 455 00:33:04,075 --> 00:33:08,875 Speaker 1: effects bestmans who constitute two days worst persons in the 456 00:33:08,915 --> 00:33:10,475 Speaker 1: world from the desert to the sea to wall up 457 00:33:10,475 --> 00:33:15,475 Speaker 1: Southern California, worse Fox Business News, you know, the Maria 458 00:33:15,515 --> 00:33:20,995 Speaker 1: Bartiromo's credibility memorial channel. At two four pm Eastern yesterday, 459 00:33:21,275 --> 00:33:24,875 Speaker 1: it sent out this little urgent social media post quote 460 00:33:25,595 --> 00:33:31,635 Speaker 1: breaking dot dot dot. That was it. No follow up, 461 00:33:32,035 --> 00:33:36,915 Speaker 1: no explanation, no deletion, leaving us to supply with our 462 00:33:36,955 --> 00:33:44,595 Speaker 1: imaginations exactly what was breaking, Like Bartiromo's brain or Stuart 463 00:33:44,635 --> 00:33:48,995 Speaker 1: Varney's hair or something worser HBO, or as it likes 464 00:33:49,035 --> 00:33:52,875 Speaker 1: to call itself now Max. And it calls itself Max, 465 00:33:52,915 --> 00:33:56,835 Speaker 1: and you say who what huh? And somebody whispers HBO 466 00:33:57,235 --> 00:34:01,795 Speaker 1: and you go, oh, HBO. And if it's recent struggles 467 00:34:01,795 --> 00:34:04,195 Speaker 1: with its identity were not clues enough that something has 468 00:34:04,235 --> 00:34:07,955 Speaker 1: gone very wrong with that outfit that really truly launched 469 00:34:08,035 --> 00:34:10,595 Speaker 1: cable television in this country. I mean it was originally 470 00:34:10,635 --> 00:34:14,755 Speaker 1: owned by Madison Square Garden, and it showed new movies 471 00:34:15,235 --> 00:34:18,835 Speaker 1: and hockey games and basketball games and even a slate 472 00:34:18,915 --> 00:34:23,155 Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball games. If its recent confusion were 473 00:34:23,195 --> 00:34:26,075 Speaker 1: not the first sign of trouble, well, this report from 474 00:34:26,155 --> 00:34:30,795 Speaker 1: Rolling Stone probably is. In June twenty twenty, the magazine 475 00:34:30,795 --> 00:34:36,515 Speaker 1: reports HBO's president of Original Programming, Casey Bloys, was really 476 00:34:36,595 --> 00:34:41,195 Speaker 1: pissed off by complaints about the reboot of Perry Mason, 477 00:34:42,635 --> 00:34:48,195 Speaker 1: Trump's favorite new show of nineteen fifty seven. This reboot 478 00:34:48,315 --> 00:34:51,315 Speaker 1: got banned or panned or something by a TV critic 479 00:34:51,395 --> 00:34:56,195 Speaker 1: from Vulture named Catherine van Arendock. So HBO gave Perry 480 00:34:56,195 --> 00:35:00,315 Speaker 1: Mason a backstory trauma in World War One or something 481 00:35:00,355 --> 00:35:03,355 Speaker 1: like that, and the critic wrote, dear Prestige TV, please 482 00:35:03,395 --> 00:35:06,275 Speaker 1: find some way to communicate ma trauma, besides showing me 483 00:35:06,315 --> 00:35:10,115 Speaker 1: a flashback to the hero's memories of trench warfare. Well, 484 00:35:10,435 --> 00:35:16,715 Speaker 1: President Bloise of HBO max HB Maxo did what any 485 00:35:16,755 --> 00:35:20,475 Speaker 1: TV exec would do. He texted an HBO vice president 486 00:35:20,515 --> 00:35:22,515 Speaker 1: and they began to devise a plan in which they 487 00:35:22,555 --> 00:35:27,515 Speaker 1: would use or create a burner account on Twitter to 488 00:35:27,635 --> 00:35:31,755 Speaker 1: attack the critic Van Arendonk's criticism by making it look 489 00:35:31,835 --> 00:35:37,115 Speaker 1: like she was mocking war casualties. Turned out HBO actually 490 00:35:37,155 --> 00:35:41,115 Speaker 1: did have fictitious tweeters attacking other critics from the New 491 00:35:41,195 --> 00:35:44,675 Speaker 1: York Times and Rolling Stone and Deadline and others who 492 00:35:44,715 --> 00:35:48,195 Speaker 1: said bad things about HBO shows. And somebody posted an 493 00:35:48,235 --> 00:35:53,075 Speaker 1: anonymous comment somewhere saying HBO's future was this guy Bloyse 494 00:35:53,235 --> 00:35:56,755 Speaker 1: and on and on, and I don't get it. Why 495 00:35:56,915 --> 00:36:00,755 Speaker 1: go to such trouble? Why not just hire John Baron 496 00:36:00,835 --> 00:36:04,555 Speaker 1: or John Miller to do your pr But our winner 497 00:36:04,915 --> 00:36:10,075 Speaker 1: the worst, David McCormick, the hedge fund guy who, as 498 00:36:10,235 --> 00:36:14,515 Speaker 1: hard as this is in retrospect to believe, lost the 499 00:36:14,595 --> 00:36:21,595 Speaker 1: Republican nomination for Senate in Pennsylvania last year to Memet Oz. Yes, 500 00:36:21,915 --> 00:36:26,795 Speaker 1: he was the runner up to doctor Charcuterie himself, having 501 00:36:26,875 --> 00:36:30,475 Speaker 1: learned his lesson, hit the wall harder with your head 502 00:36:30,555 --> 00:36:35,315 Speaker 1: next time. David McCormick is now intending to run again 503 00:36:35,915 --> 00:36:40,635 Speaker 1: for the Senate in Pennsylvania next year. And I think 504 00:36:40,675 --> 00:36:44,395 Speaker 1: we now understand all of this. Mister McCormick has appeared 505 00:36:44,395 --> 00:36:48,755 Speaker 1: on a podcast called Ruthless, which bills itself as bringing 506 00:36:49,075 --> 00:36:53,915 Speaker 1: next generation conservative talk to the next level. A. There 507 00:36:53,955 --> 00:36:58,595 Speaker 1: is no next generation conservative, but b It has a 508 00:36:58,635 --> 00:37:02,955 Speaker 1: logo in which the parts of its named Ruthless, Ruth, 509 00:37:03,115 --> 00:37:06,955 Speaker 1: and less are on two differ diferent lines. It says 510 00:37:07,035 --> 00:37:09,715 Speaker 1: ruth and then beneath it says less. So you look 511 00:37:09,755 --> 00:37:12,555 Speaker 1: at that and you're thinking, so this is a podcast 512 00:37:12,675 --> 00:37:17,075 Speaker 1: hosted by somebody named ruth or it's hosted by somebody 513 00:37:17,115 --> 00:37:20,235 Speaker 1: not named ruth or it has less ruth than the 514 00:37:20,275 --> 00:37:26,075 Speaker 1: other podcasts. AnyWho. David McCormick, already a failed Senate candidate 515 00:37:26,155 --> 00:37:29,235 Speaker 1: going for double honors in that field, when on this 516 00:37:29,395 --> 00:37:33,875 Speaker 1: podcast and revealed he is confident he can successfully fight 517 00:37:34,355 --> 00:37:37,075 Speaker 1: a bear. So what is the biggest animal you think 518 00:37:37,075 --> 00:37:37,555 Speaker 1: you could take? 519 00:37:38,075 --> 00:37:40,875 Speaker 3: I think I could take a bear. Wow, I think 520 00:37:40,915 --> 00:37:42,475 Speaker 3: I could take you bear. Now there's big bears and 521 00:37:42,515 --> 00:37:44,755 Speaker 3: little bears. But you know, I think a good medium 522 00:37:44,835 --> 00:37:47,715 Speaker 3: sized bear. You know, I've watched those bears. First of all, 523 00:37:47,755 --> 00:37:50,675 Speaker 3: they're lazy. Yeah, they don't look like they're in shape, right, 524 00:37:50,715 --> 00:37:52,075 Speaker 3: you know, So I think he can go the long 525 00:37:52,115 --> 00:37:54,555 Speaker 3: game with them. And you know, their their claws and 526 00:37:54,555 --> 00:37:56,715 Speaker 3: their teeth are big, but not that big. I mean, 527 00:37:56,755 --> 00:37:59,115 Speaker 3: they're like a lion or anything, you know. And so 528 00:37:59,275 --> 00:38:01,995 Speaker 3: I think if I could get a bear right pre 529 00:38:02,075 --> 00:38:05,715 Speaker 3: hibernation or post hibernation, you know about time. Yeah, and 530 00:38:05,795 --> 00:38:07,915 Speaker 3: I hadn't eaten much and he didn't need much, or 531 00:38:07,915 --> 00:38:08,635 Speaker 3: he'd eating a lot. 532 00:38:08,995 --> 00:38:10,715 Speaker 1: A couple. 533 00:38:11,675 --> 00:38:12,755 Speaker 3: I'm long on McCormick. 534 00:38:14,715 --> 00:38:19,715 Speaker 1: I like that a bear. You were convinced you can 535 00:38:19,795 --> 00:38:26,915 Speaker 1: fight and defeat a bear. If this actually happens, of course, 536 00:38:26,955 --> 00:38:29,155 Speaker 1: it will end with a news story featuring the following 537 00:38:29,155 --> 00:38:33,995 Speaker 1: phrase the body of former Pennsylvania Senate candidate David you. 538 00:38:33,955 --> 00:38:37,035 Speaker 4: Can fight and defeat a bear. You couldn't fight and 539 00:38:37,075 --> 00:38:46,475 Speaker 4: defeat memot oz David. Await, that's a bear. Never mind, McCormick. 540 00:38:46,915 --> 00:38:50,955 Speaker 4: Two days worst person. 541 00:38:51,995 --> 00:39:13,635 Speaker 1: And so SILTI to the number one story on the 542 00:39:13,675 --> 00:39:17,035 Speaker 1: countdown and my favorite topic, me and things. I promised 543 00:39:17,035 --> 00:39:19,075 Speaker 1: not to tell, And somebody sent me a video of 544 00:39:19,155 --> 00:39:20,955 Speaker 1: him the other day, and I laughed again, and I 545 00:39:20,995 --> 00:39:24,195 Speaker 1: flashed back again. And now you get to hear about 546 00:39:24,235 --> 00:39:26,755 Speaker 1: him too, from the desert to the sea to all 547 00:39:26,795 --> 00:39:30,475 Speaker 1: of southern California. Good evening. You may or may not 548 00:39:30,555 --> 00:39:34,755 Speaker 1: have ever heard of Jerry Dunfi. That statement that you 549 00:39:34,835 --> 00:39:36,515 Speaker 1: may or may not have ever heard of Jerry dunfeye 550 00:39:36,595 --> 00:39:39,355 Speaker 1: just sent anybody from southern California who is more than 551 00:39:39,395 --> 00:39:42,995 Speaker 1: thirty five years old into a deep, stunned silence. Because 552 00:39:43,075 --> 00:39:47,635 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunfi was ubiquitous on TV news in Los Angeles 553 00:39:47,715 --> 00:39:52,115 Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty until two thousand and two. He died 554 00:39:52,235 --> 00:39:54,395 Speaker 1: a week after his last newscast, and there are some 555 00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:56,995 Speaker 1: in the business who have seriously believed he may show 556 00:39:57,115 --> 00:40:00,795 Speaker 1: up again sooner or later on TV, even though he's dead. 557 00:40:01,795 --> 00:40:04,955 Speaker 1: He worked for Channel two, and he and his team 558 00:40:04,995 --> 00:40:08,795 Speaker 1: won all the ratings wars for fifteen years, and then 559 00:40:09,155 --> 00:40:12,675 Speaker 1: one year the station finished only tied for first in 560 00:40:12,715 --> 00:40:15,875 Speaker 1: the Spring LA ratings of nineteen seventy five, so the 561 00:40:15,915 --> 00:40:19,475 Speaker 1: CBS corporate geniuses in New York fired him and he 562 00:40:19,555 --> 00:40:22,955 Speaker 1: went to Channel seven. Like thirty six hours later and 563 00:40:22,995 --> 00:40:25,595 Speaker 1: then Channel seven won nearly all the ratings periods there 564 00:40:25,635 --> 00:40:29,195 Speaker 1: over fourteen years. And then after six years at Channel nine, 565 00:40:29,235 --> 00:40:32,155 Speaker 1: he was hired back at Channel two where he started 566 00:40:32,715 --> 00:40:35,275 Speaker 1: where they fired him. Hired back at Channel two for 567 00:40:35,315 --> 00:40:37,435 Speaker 1: a couple million more than he was making when they 568 00:40:37,475 --> 00:40:39,595 Speaker 1: fired him twenty years earlier, and then he went back 569 00:40:39,595 --> 00:40:41,395 Speaker 1: to Channel nine and he was still on every night 570 00:40:41,435 --> 00:40:43,835 Speaker 1: at the age of eighty and oh, by the way, 571 00:40:43,875 --> 00:40:47,355 Speaker 1: he worked for twenty nine years after he came out 572 00:40:47,395 --> 00:40:50,235 Speaker 1: of the KABC studios. On the night of October twenty fourth, 573 00:40:50,275 --> 00:40:52,835 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, hopped into his Rolls Royce with the 574 00:40:52,875 --> 00:40:56,395 Speaker 1: station makeup lady by his side, and was ambushed and 575 00:40:56,595 --> 00:41:02,755 Speaker 1: shot in the neck by four assailants, leading him to 576 00:41:02,875 --> 00:41:06,875 Speaker 1: issue the memorable statement they said, don't move, and I didn't, 577 00:41:07,035 --> 00:41:11,675 Speaker 1: but they shot anyway, unquote. And they never figured out 578 00:41:11,715 --> 00:41:14,835 Speaker 1: who shot him or why, but Jerry dunfhe was back 579 00:41:14,875 --> 00:41:18,075 Speaker 1: on the air three weeks later anyway, And you cannot 580 00:41:18,275 --> 00:41:22,875 Speaker 1: imagine how many different guesses there were about that in 581 00:41:22,915 --> 00:41:25,195 Speaker 1: the LA news industry when I was on the air 582 00:41:25,275 --> 00:41:29,195 Speaker 1: there from nineteen eighty five through nineteen ninety one. There 583 00:41:29,315 --> 00:41:33,715 Speaker 1: is no question that in creating the fictional newscasters Ted 584 00:41:33,795 --> 00:41:38,435 Speaker 1: Baxter and Kent Brockman, and maybe even Ron Burgundy. Much 585 00:41:38,595 --> 00:41:42,235 Speaker 1: was stolen from Jerry dunfe Jerry Dunfeye had a huge 586 00:41:42,275 --> 00:41:45,275 Speaker 1: shock of white hair, a craggy face, and a rich 587 00:41:45,395 --> 00:41:49,715 Speaker 1: baritone voice. He was in twenty one different movies, including 588 00:41:49,755 --> 00:41:54,155 Speaker 1: Oh God, and the amazing Ann Margaret Flick Kitten with 589 00:41:54,195 --> 00:41:57,475 Speaker 1: a Whip. No, really, there is an Ann Margaret film 590 00:41:57,515 --> 00:42:01,195 Speaker 1: called Kitten with a Whip. Anyway, I knew Jerry Dunfey. 591 00:42:01,795 --> 00:42:04,115 Speaker 1: He was a smart man, and a nice and a 592 00:42:04,155 --> 00:42:06,875 Speaker 1: welcoming man, and obviously quite a business man. But he 593 00:42:06,915 --> 00:42:09,275 Speaker 1: did have a tendency on the air to become, in 594 00:42:09,355 --> 00:42:13,675 Speaker 1: his own words, a teleprompter reading machine. He said, you 595 00:42:13,755 --> 00:42:16,195 Speaker 1: put it up there, and I'm going to say it 596 00:42:16,275 --> 00:42:21,075 Speaker 1: down here, and that's what this story is about. When 597 00:42:21,115 --> 00:42:23,275 Speaker 1: I got to Los Angeles at the age of twenty 598 00:42:23,275 --> 00:42:27,035 Speaker 1: six in nineteen eighty five, our newscast Channel five News 599 00:42:27,035 --> 00:42:29,675 Speaker 1: at ten was like something out of the nineteen sixties. 600 00:42:29,715 --> 00:42:33,555 Speaker 1: The studio had carpeting on the walls. There were no 601 00:42:33,675 --> 00:42:37,595 Speaker 1: graphics to speak of, just a big rear screen projection device. 602 00:42:38,315 --> 00:42:42,475 Speaker 1: Our best reporter, the lovely stand Chambers had literally worked 603 00:42:42,515 --> 00:42:45,795 Speaker 1: there since the station had signed on the air for 604 00:42:45,875 --> 00:42:48,835 Speaker 1: the first time thirty eight years before, and he would 605 00:42:48,915 --> 00:42:53,915 Speaker 1: keep working there for another twenty five years. Our inimitable anchorman, 606 00:42:53,995 --> 00:42:57,995 Speaker 1: Hal Fishman, would not wear an IFB and earpiece because 607 00:42:58,035 --> 00:43:01,155 Speaker 1: he thought viewers might think that if he did, it 608 00:43:01,195 --> 00:43:04,395 Speaker 1: was because he needed a hearing aid. He did, however, 609 00:43:04,435 --> 00:43:08,155 Speaker 1: wear one of a series of two pays of different 610 00:43:08,275 --> 00:43:12,955 Speaker 1: length to simulate the need for a haircut. Until the 611 00:43:12,995 --> 00:43:16,155 Speaker 1: first commercial break was over on News at ten, only 612 00:43:16,315 --> 00:43:20,235 Speaker 1: Hal spoke. His female co anchor just sat there adoringly. 613 00:43:20,955 --> 00:43:24,875 Speaker 1: And the producer was a marvelously frantic character named Jerry Rubin, 614 00:43:25,275 --> 00:43:27,675 Speaker 1: who every night at nine PM, an hour to airtime, 615 00:43:27,715 --> 00:43:32,795 Speaker 1: would run around the newsroom screaming battle stations, battle stations, 616 00:43:33,675 --> 00:43:36,235 Speaker 1: and who took me seriously only when I could figure 617 00:43:36,275 --> 00:43:40,595 Speaker 1: out what his as Jerry phrased it, invisible thread was 618 00:43:41,155 --> 00:43:44,595 Speaker 1: running through his nightly ordering of the stories, the rundown. 619 00:43:45,315 --> 00:43:47,315 Speaker 1: He would ask me to come into the newsroom and 620 00:43:47,435 --> 00:43:50,395 Speaker 1: look at the rundown and say, all right, Olderman, you're 621 00:43:50,395 --> 00:43:54,555 Speaker 1: so smart, what's the invisible thread? And he only began 622 00:43:54,595 --> 00:43:56,995 Speaker 1: to like me when I could recite to him from 623 00:43:57,075 --> 00:43:59,995 Speaker 1: memory the starting lineup of his beloved nineteen forty five 624 00:44:00,075 --> 00:44:03,995 Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs, but he stayed liking me. We remained friends 625 00:44:03,995 --> 00:44:08,395 Speaker 1: for thirty years. Anyway. Jerry had come to Los Angeles 626 00:44:08,515 --> 00:44:12,115 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine, hired away from WGN in Chicago 627 00:44:12,635 --> 00:44:15,435 Speaker 1: to become the lead writer for This is where the 628 00:44:15,595 --> 00:44:19,595 Speaker 1: story comes together. You guessed it, the Jerry Dunfee newscasts 629 00:44:19,635 --> 00:44:24,155 Speaker 1: on KNXT, the CBS station in Los Angeles. In fact, 630 00:44:24,195 --> 00:44:27,675 Speaker 1: after winning every sweeps period for nine years, the newscast 631 00:44:27,715 --> 00:44:31,995 Speaker 1: had rightly become the Big News with Jerry Dunfie. And 632 00:44:32,115 --> 00:44:35,475 Speaker 1: it began with an unseen announcer intoning the Big News 633 00:44:35,795 --> 00:44:40,755 Speaker 1: with Jerry Dunfee. Now here is Jerry Dunfie. And then 634 00:44:40,835 --> 00:44:46,195 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunvee said his catchphrase, the catchphrase of all catchphrases. 635 00:44:46,435 --> 00:44:48,355 Speaker 1: Unlike the guy I worked with in New York when 636 00:44:48,355 --> 00:44:50,755 Speaker 1: I was an intern, Bill Jorgenson, thank you for your 637 00:44:50,795 --> 00:44:54,115 Speaker 1: time this time till next time, Jerry Dunfee said, from 638 00:44:54,155 --> 00:44:58,755 Speaker 1: the desert to the sea to all of southern California, 639 00:44:58,915 --> 00:45:04,515 Speaker 1: the good evening nonsense, of course, but boy, it sounded good. 640 00:45:04,675 --> 00:45:07,995 Speaker 1: From the desert to the sea to all of southern California. 641 00:45:08,275 --> 00:45:12,315 Speaker 1: Good evening. He said this so often that it is 642 00:45:12,435 --> 00:45:17,835 Speaker 1: still used in some promotional announcements by Channel nine News 643 00:45:17,835 --> 00:45:20,435 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and Channel seven News in Los Angeles 644 00:45:20,475 --> 00:45:22,995 Speaker 1: and Channel two in Los Angeles. From the desert to 645 00:45:23,035 --> 00:45:26,075 Speaker 1: the sea to all of southern California, good evening, I'm 646 00:45:26,115 --> 00:45:29,675 Speaker 1: dead Well. No, they don't actually say that, but that's 647 00:45:29,715 --> 00:45:32,635 Speaker 1: pretty much what it means. The only joke about the 648 00:45:32,715 --> 00:45:36,155 Speaker 1: night he got shot outside the parking lot that I 649 00:45:36,195 --> 00:45:39,475 Speaker 1: can tell is that when the cops arrived, Dunfey said 650 00:45:39,515 --> 00:45:41,555 Speaker 1: to them, from the desert to the sea to all 651 00:45:41,595 --> 00:45:44,955 Speaker 1: of southern California, good evening, I've been shot in the neck. 652 00:45:47,795 --> 00:45:50,235 Speaker 1: The first night, my friend Jerry Rubin sat down to 653 00:45:50,235 --> 00:45:54,435 Speaker 1: write The Big News with Jerry dunfy Jerry Rubin was 654 00:45:54,475 --> 00:45:57,195 Speaker 1: a little nervous. He got there early, he said. He 655 00:45:57,235 --> 00:46:00,315 Speaker 1: wrote some stories a dozen times each trying to get 656 00:46:00,355 --> 00:46:03,995 Speaker 1: it perfect. Finally, for the lead story, which if memory serves, 657 00:46:04,035 --> 00:46:06,995 Speaker 1: was about a bank robbery in Pasadena, Jerry got it 658 00:46:07,195 --> 00:46:10,275 Speaker 1: just right, and on that nineteen sixty nine evening at 659 00:46:10,315 --> 00:46:13,035 Speaker 1: six PM, viewers of The Big News on Channel two 660 00:46:13,075 --> 00:46:15,755 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles those for whom from the desert to 661 00:46:15,795 --> 00:46:18,475 Speaker 1: the sea to all of southern California was not a cliche, 662 00:46:18,515 --> 00:46:22,675 Speaker 1: but mantra. They heard the familiar Channel two screeching theme music, 663 00:46:22,675 --> 00:46:25,635 Speaker 1: and then the big news with Jerry Dunfee. Now here 664 00:46:26,195 --> 00:46:29,955 Speaker 1: is Jerry Dunfie And up popped Jerry Dunfee's face and 665 00:46:30,035 --> 00:46:33,955 Speaker 1: he said, three armed and very dangerous modern day desperadoes 666 00:46:33,995 --> 00:46:37,035 Speaker 1: are still loose in Pasadena tonight. After blah blah blah, 667 00:46:37,035 --> 00:46:42,035 Speaker 1: blah blah, the newscast ended an hour later. Jerry Rubin 668 00:46:42,115 --> 00:46:45,155 Speaker 1: was very relieved. Jerry Dunfee strode back to his desk 669 00:46:45,195 --> 00:46:47,995 Speaker 1: before presumably going out to warm up the Rolls Royce 670 00:46:48,395 --> 00:46:51,115 Speaker 1: and avoid the gunmen who would finally get him fourteen 671 00:46:51,195 --> 00:46:54,395 Speaker 1: years later and not even slow him down. And that's 672 00:46:54,435 --> 00:46:56,835 Speaker 1: when the station's news director leaned out of his office 673 00:46:56,835 --> 00:47:01,515 Speaker 1: and waved the two Jerry's inside. What the hell happened, Dunfee? 674 00:47:01,555 --> 00:47:03,955 Speaker 1: Did you retire it? You can't retire it. It's in 675 00:47:03,995 --> 00:47:08,435 Speaker 1: the contract. Have to stay it. According to Jerry Rubin, 676 00:47:08,515 --> 00:47:12,355 Speaker 1: Dunfey looked blankly at his boss. Jerry Rubin said he 677 00:47:12,395 --> 00:47:15,915 Speaker 1: was even more confused himself. From the desert to the sea. 678 00:47:16,155 --> 00:47:18,195 Speaker 1: You didn't say from the desert to the sea. At 679 00:47:18,235 --> 00:47:20,795 Speaker 1: the start of the big News you say from the 680 00:47:20,835 --> 00:47:23,475 Speaker 1: desert to the sea to all of Southern California, Good evening. 681 00:47:23,955 --> 00:47:25,995 Speaker 1: Only tonight you didn't say from the desert to the 682 00:47:25,995 --> 00:47:28,075 Speaker 1: sea to all of Southern California, Good evening. You said 683 00:47:28,075 --> 00:47:32,035 Speaker 1: something about a bank. What the hell, Jerry, we got 684 00:47:32,035 --> 00:47:37,195 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty phone calls. Jerry Dunfey now pursed 685 00:47:37,195 --> 00:47:40,915 Speaker 1: his lips and turned to the new writer, What the hell, Ruben, 686 00:47:41,195 --> 00:47:45,875 Speaker 1: didn't you put it in the script? Jerry Rubin kept 687 00:47:45,875 --> 00:47:48,235 Speaker 1: this part to himself, but frankly, he said he couldn't 688 00:47:48,235 --> 00:47:50,155 Speaker 1: believe what he was hearing. For nine years, this man 689 00:47:50,275 --> 00:47:52,595 Speaker 1: Dunfey had signed on virtually every one of his news 690 00:47:52,595 --> 00:47:55,315 Speaker 1: broadcasts every night at six and then again every night 691 00:47:55,355 --> 00:47:56,995 Speaker 1: at eleven by saying, from the desert to the sea 692 00:47:56,995 --> 00:47:59,435 Speaker 1: to all southern California, Good evening. But apparently, if you 693 00:47:59,515 --> 00:48:01,315 Speaker 1: did not write it in the script, and did not 694 00:48:01,355 --> 00:48:04,115 Speaker 1: put it on the telepropter for him, he would forget it. 695 00:48:06,355 --> 00:48:10,515 Speaker 1: Before Jerry Rubin could say anything, Jerry dunfee barked at him, 696 00:48:10,955 --> 00:48:14,875 Speaker 1: with some understanding, don't you understand. When I'm out there, 697 00:48:14,915 --> 00:48:18,235 Speaker 1: I'm a teleprompter reading machine. You put it up there, 698 00:48:18,835 --> 00:48:21,755 Speaker 1: I'm going to say it down here. You don't put 699 00:48:21,755 --> 00:48:24,275 Speaker 1: it up there. I'm not going to say it down here. 700 00:48:26,155 --> 00:48:30,035 Speaker 1: The news director looked sternly at Jerry Rubin. Jerry Rubin 701 00:48:30,155 --> 00:48:33,995 Speaker 1: did not burst into uncontrollable laughter. Race from the building 702 00:48:34,235 --> 00:48:36,955 Speaker 1: KNXT was in on Sunset Boulevard, and get on the 703 00:48:36,955 --> 00:48:39,755 Speaker 1: first plane back to Chicago. He just said yes, sir, 704 00:48:40,315 --> 00:48:43,035 Speaker 1: and the news director said good and everybody left. And 705 00:48:43,075 --> 00:48:46,035 Speaker 1: from that night, at eleven o'clock onwards, Jerry Rubin always 706 00:48:46,035 --> 00:48:48,755 Speaker 1: started his script for the lead story by typing out, 707 00:48:48,755 --> 00:48:51,315 Speaker 1: from the desert to the Sea to all of Southern California, 708 00:48:51,395 --> 00:48:53,915 Speaker 1: good evening, there's a twenty six car pile up on 709 00:48:53,915 --> 00:48:56,995 Speaker 1: the Santa Monica Freeway after another mattress has been dumped 710 00:48:56,995 --> 00:49:00,435 Speaker 1: in the left lane. Or from the desert to the 711 00:49:00,475 --> 00:49:03,195 Speaker 1: Sea to all of Southern California, good evening, Burbank bank 712 00:49:03,235 --> 00:49:08,475 Speaker 1: burgled or whatever. Over the next few weeks, the lead 713 00:49:08,595 --> 00:49:11,235 Speaker 1: story on the Big News with Jerry Dunfey would change, 714 00:49:11,315 --> 00:49:15,155 Speaker 1: as lead stories do at five m or five thirty 715 00:49:15,235 --> 00:49:18,675 Speaker 1: or five fifty something, big er would happen, and it 716 00:49:18,875 --> 00:49:22,155 Speaker 1: was the big news. So Jerry Rubin would often have 717 00:49:22,235 --> 00:49:25,075 Speaker 1: to rewrite page one of the script, and every time 718 00:49:25,155 --> 00:49:28,315 Speaker 1: he rewrote it, and every time he re rewrote it, 719 00:49:28,355 --> 00:49:30,395 Speaker 1: and the one time he told me that he re 720 00:49:30,395 --> 00:49:34,475 Speaker 1: re rewrote it, Jerry remembered to start page one with 721 00:49:34,835 --> 00:49:37,755 Speaker 1: from the desert to the sea to all southern California, 722 00:49:37,875 --> 00:49:43,395 Speaker 1: Good evening. All was well, the teleprompter reading machine was happy, 723 00:49:43,595 --> 00:49:47,155 Speaker 1: the news director was happy, Jerry Rubin was happy. And 724 00:49:47,235 --> 00:49:52,955 Speaker 1: then calamity struck. At about five point fifty eight one night, 725 00:49:52,995 --> 00:49:56,435 Speaker 1: Jerry Rubin was told there is a refinery fire in Torrents. 726 00:49:56,555 --> 00:49:58,835 Speaker 1: It is the new lead story. Just say, we're rushing 727 00:49:58,835 --> 00:50:01,595 Speaker 1: a crew, get it written. He started to type our 728 00:50:01,635 --> 00:50:04,915 Speaker 1: top story, breaking news, a refinery and and then he 729 00:50:04,995 --> 00:50:10,155 Speaker 1: tore the page from his machine. He started anew His 730 00:50:10,195 --> 00:50:12,955 Speaker 1: fingers danced across the keyboard from the desert to the 731 00:50:12,955 --> 00:50:15,075 Speaker 1: sea to all of Southern California. Good evening, Our top 732 00:50:15,115 --> 00:50:17,955 Speaker 1: story tonight, breaking news. Our refinery fire is just erupted 733 00:50:17,955 --> 00:50:20,515 Speaker 1: in Torrents. A Channel two Big News Live crew is 734 00:50:20,595 --> 00:50:22,155 Speaker 1: rushing to the scene at this hour and we will 735 00:50:22,155 --> 00:50:24,435 Speaker 1: have a big News live report from Rick Davis before 736 00:50:24,435 --> 00:50:28,115 Speaker 1: this news cast is over. Rubin knew he did not 737 00:50:28,235 --> 00:50:30,475 Speaker 1: have time to get a production assistant to take the 738 00:50:30,835 --> 00:50:34,155 Speaker 1: new lead script into Dunfee, nor to tape it into 739 00:50:34,155 --> 00:50:36,755 Speaker 1: the script about to pass through the teleprompter, so he 740 00:50:36,835 --> 00:50:40,635 Speaker 1: did both things himself. New lead. He screamed at Dunfee, 741 00:50:40,675 --> 00:50:43,435 Speaker 1: throwing the page at him, and the unseen announcer was 742 00:50:43,435 --> 00:50:46,475 Speaker 1: already at mid introduction when Jerry Rubin taped that new 743 00:50:46,515 --> 00:50:50,875 Speaker 1: piece of script into the prompter without remembering to remove 744 00:50:51,115 --> 00:50:56,195 Speaker 1: the old lead script from the prompter. And this is 745 00:50:56,235 --> 00:51:01,155 Speaker 1: what Los Angeles heard the Big News with Jerry Dunfee. 746 00:51:01,315 --> 00:51:05,555 Speaker 1: Now here's Jerry Dunfie to the Sea to all of 747 00:51:05,595 --> 00:51:09,555 Speaker 1: Southern California. Good evening, our top story Tonight, breaking news 748 00:51:09,875 --> 00:51:13,195 Speaker 1: or refinery fire has just erupted in Torrents at Channel two. 749 00:51:13,475 --> 00:51:15,595 Speaker 1: Big News Live crew is rushing to the scene at 750 00:51:15,595 --> 00:51:17,595 Speaker 1: this hour, and we will have a Big News Live 751 00:51:17,635 --> 00:51:21,355 Speaker 1: report from Rick Davis before this newscast is over. Jerry 752 00:51:21,395 --> 00:51:23,955 Speaker 1: Dunfey dramatically turned over page one and began to read 753 00:51:23,995 --> 00:51:26,395 Speaker 1: page two. From a desert to the Sea to all 754 00:51:26,395 --> 00:51:30,355 Speaker 1: of Southern California. Good evening, Our top story tonight, Mayor, Sam, 755 00:51:30,395 --> 00:51:36,115 Speaker 1: you're he said, Jerry Rubin said, My head dropped to 756 00:51:36,235 --> 00:51:52,915 Speaker 1: my desk with a thud. I've done all the damage 757 00:51:52,915 --> 00:51:55,075 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown has 758 00:51:55,115 --> 00:51:57,435 Speaker 1: come to you from the Vin Scully Studios at the 759 00:51:57,475 --> 00:52:04,035 Speaker 1: Olderman Broadcasting Empire World Headquarters in New York. Countdown musical 760 00:52:04,035 --> 00:52:07,715 Speaker 1: directors Ray and John Phillip Chanel arranged, produced, and performed 761 00:52:07,755 --> 00:52:11,475 Speaker 1: most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. 762 00:52:11,555 --> 00:52:15,075 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums produced by 763 00:52:15,075 --> 00:52:19,995 Speaker 1: tk Obros. Other music, including some Beethoven works, were arranged 764 00:52:20,035 --> 00:52:23,315 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. Sports music 765 00:52:23,355 --> 00:52:25,795 Speaker 1: is courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And it was written by 766 00:52:25,795 --> 00:52:28,395 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis and we call it the Olderman theme 767 00:52:28,435 --> 00:52:32,475 Speaker 1: from ESPN two. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are 768 00:52:32,515 --> 00:52:36,035 Speaker 1: by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium morganist ever. Our 769 00:52:36,075 --> 00:52:39,235 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend Howard Feyneman, and everything else 770 00:52:39,675 --> 00:52:42,915 Speaker 1: was pretty much by fault. So that's countdown for this 771 00:52:42,955 --> 00:52:45,915 Speaker 1: the one thousand and thirty first day since dementia j 772 00:52:46,035 --> 00:52:49,035 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 773 00:52:49,035 --> 00:52:53,155 Speaker 1: the United States convict him now while we still can. 774 00:52:53,915 --> 00:52:56,795 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow, Bolton says, the news 775 00:52:56,795 --> 00:53:00,435 Speaker 1: warrants till then. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, 776 00:53:00,715 --> 00:53:18,235 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Alderman is 777 00:53:18,275 --> 00:53:23,075 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 778 00:53:23,115 --> 00:53:27,795 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.