1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,115 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Lock 2 00:00:21,515 --> 00:00:27,635 Speaker 1: him up, or at least bring him downtown. Go big. 3 00:00:27,755 --> 00:00:32,155 Speaker 1: Judge Maxilla Appa DII, get Trump's legal team's response to 4 00:00:32,195 --> 00:00:36,155 Speaker 1: the government demand for evidentiary protection after this weekend orgy 5 00:00:36,355 --> 00:00:40,915 Speaker 1: of Trump attacks. Say that response is insufficient. Announce you 6 00:00:40,995 --> 00:00:44,675 Speaker 1: need an in person hearing with Trump rule the defendant 7 00:00:44,715 --> 00:00:47,915 Speaker 1: clearly did not understand the terms of his release, and 8 00:00:48,115 --> 00:00:51,915 Speaker 1: drag him back into court tomorrow, saying you need to 9 00:00:51,955 --> 00:00:57,395 Speaker 1: state these terms to him again, warn him explicitly. Any 10 00:00:57,475 --> 00:01:01,475 Speaker 1: more of this, One more social media post, one more 11 00:01:01,555 --> 00:01:04,915 Speaker 1: reference in a speech, and you, sir, will find that 12 00:01:04,955 --> 00:01:10,155 Speaker 1: your liberty is at an end. Do it. Do it now, 13 00:01:10,515 --> 00:01:14,195 Speaker 1: because this is not somehow just going to end here. 14 00:01:15,115 --> 00:01:17,875 Speaker 1: Since the judge released him and warned him, he has 15 00:01:17,915 --> 00:01:21,155 Speaker 1: attacked the judge. He has attacked the prosecutor. He has 16 00:01:21,235 --> 00:01:23,675 Speaker 1: attacked at least one of the witnesses. He has attacked 17 00:01:23,715 --> 00:01:26,915 Speaker 1: the venue. He has attacked the government. He has attacked 18 00:01:27,795 --> 00:01:32,155 Speaker 1: the US World Cup soccer team. This took only the 19 00:01:32,355 --> 00:01:35,395 Speaker 1: three days after the judge warned him not to do 20 00:01:35,475 --> 00:01:40,035 Speaker 1: any of that, except the soccer part. When Trump's latest 21 00:01:40,235 --> 00:01:43,195 Speaker 1: I was only relying on the bad advice of bad 22 00:01:43,275 --> 00:01:47,035 Speaker 1: counsel submits his response to the government's demand for an 23 00:01:47,115 --> 00:01:50,955 Speaker 1: order protecting the evidence from Trump's compulsion to violate all 24 00:01:51,075 --> 00:01:55,555 Speaker 1: laws and intimidate all authority. When she gets that response, 25 00:01:55,555 --> 00:01:59,035 Speaker 1: which was due by five pm Eastern Monday, Judge Appadi 26 00:01:59,395 --> 00:02:03,075 Speaker 1: should not only grant the motion, she needs to jump 27 00:02:03,195 --> 00:02:07,275 Speaker 1: right to the inevitable end of this process. Donald Trump 28 00:02:08,115 --> 00:02:12,875 Speaker 1: is a menace to everyone involved in this his newest indictment. 29 00:02:13,395 --> 00:02:16,475 Speaker 1: He is a clear and present danger to everyone in 30 00:02:16,515 --> 00:02:20,835 Speaker 1: the United States, and based on the wounded, dying animal 31 00:02:20,875 --> 00:02:24,075 Speaker 1: look that was so unmistakable in his eyes during his 32 00:02:24,115 --> 00:02:27,115 Speaker 1: speech at Montgomery Saturday night, he might even be a 33 00:02:27,195 --> 00:02:30,875 Speaker 1: danger to himself and those around him. He is testing 34 00:02:30,915 --> 00:02:33,795 Speaker 1: the judge to see how much he can get away with, 35 00:02:34,275 --> 00:02:41,075 Speaker 1: and the answer to that should be nothing. Lock him up, 36 00:02:43,315 --> 00:02:47,715 Speaker 1: revoke his pre trial release, or come within an inch 37 00:02:47,795 --> 00:02:51,475 Speaker 1: of it. Trump has never been stopped in his tracks 38 00:02:51,515 --> 00:02:54,555 Speaker 1: before and is not automatically capable of understanding the concept 39 00:02:54,795 --> 00:02:59,835 Speaker 1: of a warning. To him, a warning is weakness, vulnerability, 40 00:02:59,875 --> 00:03:03,275 Speaker 1: and invitation to push harder in the same spot or 41 00:03:03,315 --> 00:03:07,235 Speaker 1: find a new spot to put. This is a psychopath 42 00:03:07,635 --> 00:03:13,395 Speaker 1: who docksed his predecessor as president. In the full bloom 43 00:03:13,515 --> 00:03:16,555 Speaker 1: of his madness, he is now dancing along the precipice 44 00:03:16,635 --> 00:03:20,715 Speaker 1: of issuing more and more calls for violence with less 45 00:03:20,755 --> 00:03:23,995 Speaker 1: and less subtlety and more and more directness to them. 46 00:03:24,355 --> 00:03:28,075 Speaker 1: The look in his eyes in Alabama implied that perhaps 47 00:03:28,155 --> 00:03:32,635 Speaker 1: he already feels he has no reason not to test 48 00:03:32,835 --> 00:03:36,115 Speaker 1: just the judge's limits right now, but to test America's. 49 00:03:37,435 --> 00:03:40,075 Speaker 1: There is in fact a theory abroad. And though I 50 00:03:40,115 --> 00:03:42,435 Speaker 1: have covered this madness virtually every day for eight years, 51 00:03:42,435 --> 00:03:45,875 Speaker 1: I still find myself shocked to even contemplate saying this. 52 00:03:46,635 --> 00:03:49,475 Speaker 1: That the attacks that began at four sixteen pm Friday 53 00:03:49,515 --> 00:03:52,275 Speaker 1: with if you go after me, I'm coming after you, 54 00:03:52,875 --> 00:03:56,675 Speaker 1: are not just the continuation of his messianic insanity that 55 00:03:56,755 --> 00:04:02,275 Speaker 1: began frankly in nineteen forty six, but a deliberate attempt 56 00:04:02,435 --> 00:04:06,395 Speaker 1: to get his pre trial release revoked and get himself 57 00:04:06,435 --> 00:04:09,315 Speaker 1: detained in some way so as to trigger his cult 58 00:04:09,595 --> 00:04:14,955 Speaker 1: into actual violence. It's useful for Democrats to understand that 59 00:04:14,995 --> 00:04:18,955 Speaker 1: if Trump spends a minute in jail on bullshit charges, 60 00:04:19,315 --> 00:04:24,875 Speaker 1: writes the racist cartoonist Scott Adams, all the rules are suspended. 61 00:04:25,355 --> 00:04:31,035 Speaker 1: We're a safer country. With that clear understanding, that sentence 62 00:04:31,155 --> 00:04:34,635 Speaker 1: might define the genuine menace of the fascist dream of insurrection. 63 00:04:35,195 --> 00:04:39,075 Speaker 1: Oh no, Dilbert is going to draw a civil war, 64 00:04:40,115 --> 00:04:43,795 Speaker 1: And it may underscore that their years of fantasized bloodshed 65 00:04:43,875 --> 00:04:47,795 Speaker 1: neglects the reality that maybe they are all armed, but 66 00:04:47,995 --> 00:04:51,155 Speaker 1: they have forgotten who is in control of all the 67 00:04:51,235 --> 00:04:56,275 Speaker 1: tanks and soldiers at the moment. There can be no 68 00:04:56,355 --> 00:05:00,115 Speaker 1: doubt that Trump ultimately does expect his America to again 69 00:05:00,235 --> 00:05:04,075 Speaker 1: rise up violently in his defense at some point it 70 00:05:04,115 --> 00:05:07,995 Speaker 1: did before. The questions are if this is that point, 71 00:05:08,475 --> 00:05:10,675 Speaker 1: and if it is, if he could really think so 72 00:05:10,795 --> 00:05:15,075 Speaker 1: strategically as to trap a judge into lighting the fuse 73 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:18,715 Speaker 1: for him that only increases the number of middlemen in 74 00:05:18,755 --> 00:05:21,915 Speaker 1: this process. Just when you are inclined to think there 75 00:05:22,195 --> 00:05:25,235 Speaker 1: might finally be such a method to his madness, he 76 00:05:25,355 --> 00:05:28,995 Speaker 1: follows up a weekend of thinly veiled threats by blaming 77 00:05:29,115 --> 00:05:32,395 Speaker 1: the US loss in the World Cup on Joe Biden 78 00:05:32,875 --> 00:05:38,635 Speaker 1: and writes, nice shot, Meghan. And unless Meghan Rapino is 79 00:05:38,635 --> 00:05:41,955 Speaker 1: a witness against him, you are forced to remember Occam's 80 00:05:41,995 --> 00:05:44,915 Speaker 1: razor and how it applies even to Donald Trump. Sure 81 00:05:45,035 --> 00:05:47,795 Speaker 1: this is what you might do if you wanted to 82 00:05:47,875 --> 00:05:51,275 Speaker 1: definitely position others to cry havoc and let slip the 83 00:05:51,315 --> 00:05:54,035 Speaker 1: dogs of war. But this is also what you would 84 00:05:54,075 --> 00:05:58,715 Speaker 1: do if you were one hundred percent bat guano insane 85 00:05:58,915 --> 00:06:03,795 Speaker 1: like Donald Trump. Because whatever the explanation and whether or 86 00:06:03,835 --> 00:06:06,795 Speaker 1: not Scott Adams as an arsenal ready of fifty thousand 87 00:06:06,915 --> 00:06:12,595 Speaker 1: sketch pencils sharpened to spear like points in all colors, 88 00:06:13,675 --> 00:06:17,635 Speaker 1: Trump has still made those threats and they must be 89 00:06:17,795 --> 00:06:22,395 Speaker 1: dealt with severely and immediately. In the I'm coming after 90 00:06:22,475 --> 00:06:25,835 Speaker 1: you post, he threatened everybody, from his critics to Joe Biden. 91 00:06:26,035 --> 00:06:28,635 Speaker 1: In the Alabama speech, he told Republicans they could not 92 00:06:28,715 --> 00:06:31,715 Speaker 1: allow this to go on and they had to quote 93 00:06:32,115 --> 00:06:36,755 Speaker 1: fight fire with fire. In South Carolina and on social media, 94 00:06:36,795 --> 00:06:41,195 Speaker 1: he called Special Counsel Smith deranged and a sick man. Again. 95 00:06:41,715 --> 00:06:44,275 Speaker 1: On Sunday morning, he repeated the Smith attack on social 96 00:06:44,315 --> 00:06:49,435 Speaker 1: media and misspelled Joe Biden's name in the process. Ten 97 00:06:49,515 --> 00:06:52,915 Speaker 1: minutes later, he not only attacked Judge Chutkin by posting 98 00:06:52,955 --> 00:06:55,755 Speaker 1: that she was incapable of presiding over a fair trial, 99 00:06:55,795 --> 00:06:59,155 Speaker 1: but also alleged that she will knowingly preside over that trial, 100 00:06:59,235 --> 00:07:02,395 Speaker 1: even though she knows she cannot be fair. And just 101 00:07:02,475 --> 00:07:06,275 Speaker 1: to top it off, he declared Washington a filthy and 102 00:07:06,395 --> 00:07:10,035 Speaker 1: crime ridden embarrassment to our nation, even though crime has 103 00:07:10,115 --> 00:07:14,475 Speaker 1: dropped because he left town. And in the same sentence, 104 00:07:14,835 --> 00:07:16,875 Speaker 1: he declared that he should get a change of venue 105 00:07:16,915 --> 00:07:22,235 Speaker 1: because he has declared it a filthy and crime ridden embarrassment, 106 00:07:22,235 --> 00:07:24,435 Speaker 1: with the implication that everybody there is now mad at him. 107 00:07:26,035 --> 00:07:30,835 Speaker 1: Were this defendant anybody else in this country, he would 108 00:07:30,835 --> 00:07:34,635 Speaker 1: have been in jail before Saturday morning. A Twitch streamer 109 00:07:34,875 --> 00:07:40,275 Speaker 1: named Kai Sinnat promised his followers video consoles. On Friday, 110 00:07:40,515 --> 00:07:44,715 Speaker 1: they swarmed New York's Union Square several thousand. They damaged 111 00:07:44,755 --> 00:07:48,555 Speaker 1: some property, they threw some things, but practically speaking, the 112 00:07:48,595 --> 00:07:50,435 Speaker 1: worst thing that happened was that a lot of subway 113 00:07:50,475 --> 00:07:55,595 Speaker 1: trains skipped the stop and the Friday commute home was disturbed. Sinnat, 114 00:07:56,075 --> 00:07:59,355 Speaker 1: a twenty one year old moron, was immediately charged with 115 00:07:59,555 --> 00:08:04,675 Speaker 1: first degree felony, rioting, inciting a riot, and unlawful assembled, 116 00:08:04,875 --> 00:08:08,595 Speaker 1: and he now faces ten years in prison. He is 117 00:08:08,715 --> 00:08:11,835 Speaker 1: actually in more trouble right now than he is Donald Trump, 118 00:08:13,155 --> 00:08:16,915 Speaker 1: and the comparison of their crimes is not arbitrary. Trump 119 00:08:16,955 --> 00:08:20,435 Speaker 1: committed more offenses than kay Sinnat did this weekend, just 120 00:08:20,595 --> 00:08:24,035 Speaker 1: in New York City, as was the case when Judge 121 00:08:24,075 --> 00:08:26,555 Speaker 1: APADII let him walk out of the Prettyman court House 122 00:08:26,635 --> 00:08:30,955 Speaker 1: last Thursday. When Judge Juan Marshan let Trump walk out 123 00:08:30,995 --> 00:08:33,675 Speaker 1: of the New York City Courthouse in April with the 124 00:08:33,755 --> 00:08:37,715 Speaker 1: understanding that he must not commit any new crimes, yet 125 00:08:37,755 --> 00:08:40,875 Speaker 1: he spent the weekend criminally threatening everybody involved in the 126 00:08:40,915 --> 00:08:47,435 Speaker 1: federal case except the courtroom sketch artists. Moreover, Judge Mayrshan 127 00:08:47,835 --> 00:08:52,675 Speaker 1: asked Trump to quote refrain from making comments or engaging 128 00:08:52,675 --> 00:08:56,595 Speaker 1: in conduct that has the potential to incite violence, create 129 00:08:56,715 --> 00:09:00,275 Speaker 1: civil unrest, or jeopardize the safety or well being of 130 00:09:00,315 --> 00:09:03,995 Speaker 1: any individuals, and to not engage in words or conduct 131 00:09:03,995 --> 00:09:07,195 Speaker 1: which jeopardized this is the rule of law. Judge Marshan 132 00:09:07,395 --> 00:09:10,115 Speaker 1: was adamant that this was a request and not an order, 133 00:09:10,115 --> 00:09:13,715 Speaker 1: and Justice adamant that if Trump ignored the request, he 134 00:09:13,915 --> 00:09:16,475 Speaker 1: the judge would take a closer look at making it 135 00:09:16,515 --> 00:09:21,075 Speaker 1: an order. Exactly, how is if you go after me, 136 00:09:21,235 --> 00:09:25,835 Speaker 1: I'm coming after you, not words or conduct which jeopardizes 137 00:09:25,875 --> 00:09:28,995 Speaker 1: the rule of law. As such, it is incumbent on 138 00:09:29,155 --> 00:09:32,715 Speaker 1: Judge Marchan to at least do what he warned Trump 139 00:09:32,715 --> 00:09:35,835 Speaker 1: he would do and go for a move to order 140 00:09:35,875 --> 00:09:41,075 Speaker 1: Trump's silence. And so Judge Appadilla needs to go further 141 00:09:41,115 --> 00:09:43,795 Speaker 1: even than Jacksmith's office has requested, if she will not 142 00:09:43,915 --> 00:09:47,195 Speaker 1: detain Trump, and regrettably I can't imagine she actually would. 143 00:09:47,355 --> 00:09:49,715 Speaker 1: Nobody seems to be willing to draw the line in 144 00:09:49,795 --> 00:09:53,875 Speaker 1: the sand anywhere here. Everybody, even Smith, seems to believe 145 00:09:53,875 --> 00:09:58,035 Speaker 1: Trump is capable of processing a warning, which he is not. 146 00:09:59,475 --> 00:10:02,675 Speaker 1: If the judge will not put him away for observing 147 00:10:02,675 --> 00:10:05,475 Speaker 1: the pre trial release for exactly twenty four and then 148 00:10:05,915 --> 00:10:10,875 Speaker 1: devising as many ways humanly possible to violate it, at minimum, 149 00:10:10,915 --> 00:10:14,595 Speaker 1: she must set stringent restrictions on Trump in person, a 150 00:10:14,635 --> 00:10:18,635 Speaker 1: gag order, a no social media order, some extraordinary measure 151 00:10:18,635 --> 00:10:22,715 Speaker 1: against Trump that carries with it that explicit warning. The 152 00:10:22,875 --> 00:10:27,075 Speaker 1: one loophole in Trump's release on recognissance last Thursday was 153 00:10:27,075 --> 00:10:30,075 Speaker 1: that it did not carry an advisory that even a 154 00:10:30,115 --> 00:10:36,475 Speaker 1: five year old child or a Donald Trump could understand. Ideally, 155 00:10:36,555 --> 00:10:40,595 Speaker 1: whatever the judge does now, she should demand Trump's personal 156 00:10:40,595 --> 00:10:45,235 Speaker 1: appearance at any hearing in whatever way she chooses to 157 00:10:45,315 --> 00:10:48,115 Speaker 1: warn him. It should be something conveying that this is 158 00:10:48,155 --> 00:10:52,875 Speaker 1: his final warning. If you do it again, you will 159 00:10:52,915 --> 00:10:58,155 Speaker 1: be going to jail. Do you understand me, I'll ask 160 00:10:58,235 --> 00:11:01,915 Speaker 1: it again. Do you understand you will go to jail. 161 00:11:02,955 --> 00:11:06,595 Speaker 1: You need something like a big sign to hang around 162 00:11:06,635 --> 00:11:11,115 Speaker 1: his lawyer and his neck, reading this is your final warning. 163 00:11:11,235 --> 00:11:14,675 Speaker 1: If you do it again, you will be going to jail. 164 00:11:16,755 --> 00:11:21,075 Speaker 1: Make the sign that cheap gold spray paint color he loves. 165 00:11:22,075 --> 00:11:26,395 Speaker 1: He seems to recognize that he covers his buildings with 166 00:11:26,435 --> 00:11:36,755 Speaker 1: it and his hair. A note about Trump's lawyers, Bill 167 00:11:36,875 --> 00:11:41,435 Speaker 1: Barr said yesterday that of course he'd testify against Trump, 168 00:11:43,515 --> 00:11:47,635 Speaker 1: and it would seem inescapable. If your defense for insurrection 169 00:11:48,595 --> 00:11:52,675 Speaker 1: and an extra constitutional assault on democracy is John Eastman 170 00:11:52,755 --> 00:11:55,355 Speaker 1: did it. I'm guilty of nothing. I was acting on 171 00:11:55,395 --> 00:11:57,835 Speaker 1: the advice of counsel. I had the worst counsel in 172 00:11:57,875 --> 00:12:01,635 Speaker 1: the world. I am an idiot. If that's your defense, 173 00:12:01,675 --> 00:12:04,115 Speaker 1: then the next time you hire a lawyer, if you 174 00:12:04,115 --> 00:12:06,995 Speaker 1: are planning head, you are going to hire the next 175 00:12:07,035 --> 00:12:09,955 Speaker 1: worst council in the world. And I'd like to sincerely 176 00:12:10,035 --> 00:12:16,115 Speaker 1: congratulate Trump on finding him last Thursday night. This John 177 00:12:16,275 --> 00:12:20,155 Speaker 1: Laurow went on Newsmax, and not only confessed on his 178 00:12:20,275 --> 00:12:24,435 Speaker 1: client's behalf confessed Trump did ask Mike Pence to cause 179 00:12:24,475 --> 00:12:27,595 Speaker 1: the electoral vote count to be paused for ten days, 180 00:12:28,155 --> 00:12:31,155 Speaker 1: which is one of the charges against Trump under eighteen 181 00:12:31,275 --> 00:12:34,555 Speaker 1: US Code one five one two obstructing an official proceeding. 182 00:12:35,075 --> 00:12:38,835 Speaker 1: But yesterday John Lauraw went on NBC and said the 183 00:12:38,875 --> 00:12:42,155 Speaker 1: only thing Trump did before January sixth was quote, a 184 00:12:42,235 --> 00:12:47,195 Speaker 1: technical violation of the constitution, and that a technical violation 185 00:12:47,315 --> 00:12:50,595 Speaker 1: of the constitution quote is not a violation of criminal law. 186 00:12:51,915 --> 00:12:55,915 Speaker 1: The joke occurred to a lot of us simultaneously, my 187 00:12:56,075 --> 00:13:01,555 Speaker 1: friend Jeffrey Tambour saying in arrested development, there's a good 188 00:13:01,675 --> 00:13:06,875 Speaker 1: chance I may have committed some light tree and Trump's 189 00:13:07,035 --> 00:13:11,235 Speaker 1: light treason was all fine, according to John Laurrow, even 190 00:13:11,275 --> 00:13:13,115 Speaker 1: though at the time he committed these acts that his 191 00:13:13,155 --> 00:13:16,795 Speaker 1: attorney confessed to on national television, Trump was the government 192 00:13:16,795 --> 00:13:21,395 Speaker 1: official most responsible to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. 193 00:13:21,635 --> 00:13:24,715 Speaker 1: This was all fine because, as mister Laurow added, what 194 00:13:24,835 --> 00:13:30,115 Speaker 1: he didn't do is, you know, send in the tanks. Wow, 195 00:13:30,675 --> 00:13:36,475 Speaker 1: thanks mean, Donald. John Laurow is already a legal legend. 196 00:13:37,075 --> 00:13:40,595 Speaker 1: It requires a kind of robotic mindlessness, the likes of 197 00:13:40,635 --> 00:13:43,075 Speaker 1: which we may never have seen before to do what 198 00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:46,875 Speaker 1: he did on Saturday and Sunday. By six pm Friday, 199 00:13:46,955 --> 00:13:49,235 Speaker 1: less than two hours after the if you go after me, 200 00:13:49,315 --> 00:13:52,755 Speaker 1: I'm coming after you, post, Jack Smith's office had alerted 201 00:13:52,835 --> 00:13:57,595 Speaker 1: Judge opah DII and requested that evidentiary protection order. The 202 00:13:57,675 --> 00:14:00,595 Speaker 1: judge notified Trump's attorneys they had till five pm Monday 203 00:14:00,595 --> 00:14:04,555 Speaker 1: to respond, and Laurow actually had the nerve to ask 204 00:14:04,715 --> 00:14:08,435 Speaker 1: that the deadline be pushed to Thursday, and then he 205 00:14:08,475 --> 00:14:12,315 Speaker 1: did the proverbial Ginsburg yesterday. So he claimed he did 206 00:14:12,315 --> 00:14:15,315 Speaker 1: not have the time to reply to the government's motion, 207 00:14:15,515 --> 00:14:18,275 Speaker 1: but he did have the time to go on five 208 00:14:18,875 --> 00:14:25,835 Speaker 1: different Sunday morning chat shows. This is a Trump lawyer, 209 00:14:25,915 --> 00:14:35,195 Speaker 1: all right. And for some much needed comic relief. Besides 210 00:14:35,275 --> 00:14:38,595 Speaker 1: mister Laurel, I bring you Ron DeSantis and the rather 211 00:14:38,715 --> 00:14:43,875 Speaker 1: startling realization that he's not quite dead yet, all the 212 00:14:43,915 --> 00:14:48,475 Speaker 1: anti Trump movement within the GOP actually needs to get 213 00:14:48,515 --> 00:14:51,115 Speaker 1: going to have a chance is for Trump to be 214 00:14:51,355 --> 00:14:54,955 Speaker 1: upset or just to squeak by. In one of the 215 00:14:54,995 --> 00:14:58,915 Speaker 1: early Republican primaries and the New York Times siena poll 216 00:14:59,155 --> 00:15:04,115 Speaker 1: of The earliest primary came out on Friday, just about 217 00:15:04,155 --> 00:15:06,715 Speaker 1: the same time. The if you go after me, I'm 218 00:15:06,755 --> 00:15:11,315 Speaker 1: coming after you post came out Iowa January fifteenth, and 219 00:15:11,355 --> 00:15:14,395 Speaker 1: it's Trump forty three, DeSantis twenty. And that's neither an 220 00:15:14,475 --> 00:15:18,515 Speaker 1: upset nor a squeaker, but it does reflect an amazing reality. 221 00:15:18,995 --> 00:15:23,755 Speaker 1: Trump's lead in the first primary is about half what 222 00:15:23,875 --> 00:15:28,155 Speaker 1: it is nationwide over DeSantis. Moreover, while Trump is seen 223 00:15:28,195 --> 00:15:31,555 Speaker 1: as more electable than DeSantis, it's my only nine percent, 224 00:15:32,355 --> 00:15:37,675 Speaker 1: and all the favorability rankings in Iowa favored DeSantis. DeSantis 225 00:15:37,715 --> 00:15:45,355 Speaker 1: is considered more likable and more moral. And yes, we 226 00:15:45,435 --> 00:15:47,635 Speaker 1: are asking people with a death wish if they would 227 00:15:47,635 --> 00:15:51,635 Speaker 1: prefer hemlock or cyanide. It's a different world out there 228 00:15:51,635 --> 00:15:56,355 Speaker 1: among Iowa Republicans, but there it is in Iowa. Anyway. 229 00:15:57,075 --> 00:16:03,835 Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis ain't quite dead. I have no idea why. 230 00:16:04,715 --> 00:16:10,115 Speaker 1: I mean, just listen to this this well, the only 231 00:16:10,155 --> 00:16:11,115 Speaker 1: word is crap. 232 00:16:11,235 --> 00:16:12,915 Speaker 2: I mean I had a guy tell me, like, you know, 233 00:16:12,955 --> 00:16:16,875 Speaker 2: in San Francisco, you know, they'll just defecate on the sidewalk, 234 00:16:16,915 --> 00:16:20,235 Speaker 2: they use drugs out in public, no problem. And I'm like, really, well, 235 00:16:20,275 --> 00:16:22,315 Speaker 2: I happen to be in San Francisco a month or 236 00:16:22,355 --> 00:16:25,075 Speaker 2: two ago, and within ten minutes of me being in 237 00:16:25,155 --> 00:16:28,355 Speaker 2: the city, I see some guy relieving himself on the 238 00:16:28,435 --> 00:16:30,955 Speaker 2: sidewalk with number two. And I mean, it's just I've 239 00:16:30,995 --> 00:16:32,755 Speaker 2: never seen things like this before. 240 00:16:33,115 --> 00:16:37,675 Speaker 1: That's called cause and effect, Ron, because you do scare 241 00:16:37,795 --> 00:16:47,155 Speaker 1: the number two out of people. Imagine a grown man, 242 00:16:48,075 --> 00:16:54,515 Speaker 1: even in high heeled boots, saying number two. Also of 243 00:16:54,555 --> 00:16:57,475 Speaker 1: interest here, what if they gave a Devon Archer transcribed 244 00:16:57,515 --> 00:17:00,755 Speaker 1: interview and nobody showed up the latest whistle blowing event 245 00:17:00,835 --> 00:17:05,675 Speaker 1: in the endless, useless, resultless Republican of Hunter, and thus 246 00:17:05,755 --> 00:17:08,635 Speaker 1: Joe Biden turns out like all the others to be 247 00:17:08,795 --> 00:17:12,835 Speaker 1: all blow and no whistle. But this one has a 248 00:17:12,835 --> 00:17:17,915 Speaker 1: truly unforeseen twist. Guests who didn't bother to even attend 249 00:17:18,475 --> 00:17:23,235 Speaker 1: the Devon Archer transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee. 250 00:17:23,715 --> 00:17:25,955 Speaker 1: I mean I had to read this three times before 251 00:17:25,995 --> 00:17:32,995 Speaker 1: I believed it. That's next, this discountdown. This is countdown 252 00:17:33,195 --> 00:17:49,995 Speaker 1: with Keith Olberman. This is sports Senate. Wait, check that 253 00:17:51,115 --> 00:17:58,595 Speaker 1: not anymore. This is countdown with Keith Olberman in sports. 254 00:17:58,795 --> 00:18:03,035 Speaker 1: Nowhere is the difference between real patriotism and the conditional 255 00:18:03,155 --> 00:18:05,915 Speaker 1: kind more easily seen. And then when an American player 256 00:18:06,035 --> 00:18:10,595 Speaker 1: or team contends for an international championship, do you remember 257 00:18:10,715 --> 00:18:15,155 Speaker 1: anybody rooting against the conservative Bruce Jenner now trumpist bigot 258 00:18:15,195 --> 00:18:19,155 Speaker 1: Caitlyn Jenner during the decathlon at the nineteen seventy six Olympics, 259 00:18:19,195 --> 00:18:21,355 Speaker 1: Or if you're too young, you ever heard of anybody 260 00:18:21,435 --> 00:18:24,315 Speaker 1: having done that? Or against the USA team in the 261 00:18:24,315 --> 00:18:28,635 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen World Baseball Classic because conservative Joe Tory was 262 00:18:28,675 --> 00:18:32,035 Speaker 1: the manager. Hell, Joe Tory has been one of my 263 00:18:32,115 --> 00:18:34,915 Speaker 1: best friends in sports since literally the day I started 264 00:18:34,955 --> 00:18:40,195 Speaker 1: in television. And yeah, we've talked politics, liberals. In fact, 265 00:18:40,315 --> 00:18:44,075 Speaker 1: most sports fans couldn't give a rats backside about the 266 00:18:44,115 --> 00:18:47,595 Speaker 1: political leanings of athletes. Nearly all of us would root 267 00:18:47,635 --> 00:18:52,995 Speaker 1: for an American team in the lawnmowing Olympics. But when 268 00:18:52,995 --> 00:18:56,355 Speaker 1: the American team was eliminated by Sweden early Sunday morning 269 00:18:56,395 --> 00:18:58,635 Speaker 1: in the round of sixteen at the Women's World Cup 270 00:18:58,635 --> 00:19:01,755 Speaker 1: of Soccer in Australia, it was a zero zero tie 271 00:19:01,755 --> 00:19:05,675 Speaker 1: followed by seven excruciating rounds of penalty kicks which the 272 00:19:05,795 --> 00:19:09,475 Speaker 1: US lost five to four, sealed when a Swedish shot 273 00:19:09,795 --> 00:19:13,235 Speaker 1: literally crossed the goal line by the absolute minimum amount 274 00:19:13,475 --> 00:19:17,715 Speaker 1: required for it to count as a score. Republicans, conservatives, 275 00:19:17,715 --> 00:19:22,395 Speaker 1: and other bigots immediately christened it the woke Choke. They 276 00:19:22,515 --> 00:19:28,315 Speaker 1: blamed Megan Rapino because American players, per international custom, had 277 00:19:28,315 --> 00:19:31,235 Speaker 1: the choice of singing the anthem at the games of 278 00:19:31,275 --> 00:19:34,995 Speaker 1: the Cup or standing there respectfully, and Repino stood there 279 00:19:34,995 --> 00:19:39,955 Speaker 1: respectfully because well, no, really, because she's gay and has 280 00:19:40,035 --> 00:19:44,155 Speaker 1: purple hair, and she missed a penalty kick, as did 281 00:19:44,235 --> 00:19:49,315 Speaker 1: two other American players. Therefore, this is all Megan Rapino's fault. 282 00:19:50,035 --> 00:19:54,835 Speaker 1: And the Conservatives are gleeful wrapping themselves in the American flag, 283 00:19:54,955 --> 00:19:58,995 Speaker 1: except here when they exalted in an American sports defeat. 284 00:19:59,635 --> 00:20:04,555 Speaker 1: USA loses, they cheer, And of course, if Americans had won, 285 00:20:05,195 --> 00:20:08,035 Speaker 1: the Conservatives would have somehow claimed credit for the victory. 286 00:20:08,195 --> 00:20:14,435 Speaker 1: Because they are not Patriots. They are lost. Happiest person 287 00:20:14,475 --> 00:20:18,195 Speaker 1: in sports after this past weekend Robin Ventura, the former 288 00:20:18,275 --> 00:20:21,315 Speaker 1: star third baseman later manager of the Chicago White Sox, 289 00:20:21,675 --> 00:20:25,115 Speaker 1: who only Friday had had to suffer through the thirtieth 290 00:20:25,155 --> 00:20:28,955 Speaker 1: anniversary celebrations of the worst decision he ever made in 291 00:20:28,995 --> 00:20:33,635 Speaker 1: his life when, on August fourth, nineteen ninety three, the 292 00:20:33,635 --> 00:20:36,155 Speaker 1: then forty six year old future Hall of Famer Nolan 293 00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:40,515 Speaker 1: Ryan knocked Ventura down with a pitch. Robin charged the mound, 294 00:20:41,075 --> 00:20:44,915 Speaker 1: and Nolan Ryan did what pitchers never ever think to do, 295 00:20:45,395 --> 00:20:48,795 Speaker 1: which is to stay on the mound and take advantage 296 00:20:48,835 --> 00:20:51,595 Speaker 1: of the extra ten inches of height the mound gives you. 297 00:20:52,395 --> 00:20:55,435 Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan just stood there, waited for Ventura to climb 298 00:20:55,515 --> 00:20:57,835 Speaker 1: the hill. He put Ventura in a headlock and hit 299 00:20:57,915 --> 00:20:59,595 Speaker 1: him with a couple of light punches and then let 300 00:20:59,635 --> 00:21:03,595 Speaker 1: him go. That video has been shown more than anything 301 00:21:03,635 --> 00:21:06,715 Speaker 1: else Robin Venturrea ever did, and it's been shown as 302 00:21:06,755 --> 00:21:09,155 Speaker 1: much as anything else Nolan Ryan ever did. Nolan Ryan 303 00:21:09,195 --> 00:21:14,635 Speaker 1: threw seven no hitters. So why is Robin Ventura happy today? 304 00:21:15,395 --> 00:21:19,315 Speaker 1: Because a day after the thirtieth celebration of that damn 305 00:21:19,435 --> 00:21:25,035 Speaker 1: thing Saturday, Robin Ventura was replaced on the list of 306 00:21:25,115 --> 00:21:28,595 Speaker 1: the dumbest fight decisions in baseball history, and by another 307 00:21:28,635 --> 00:21:31,355 Speaker 1: member of the Chicago White Sox. No less as I 308 00:21:31,435 --> 00:21:34,035 Speaker 1: record this, we are still waiting for the discipline on 309 00:21:34,075 --> 00:21:36,715 Speaker 1: this one from Major League Baseball. But on Saturday night, 310 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:40,315 Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez of the Cleveland Guardians slid into second base 311 00:21:40,355 --> 00:21:43,675 Speaker 1: and into Tim Anderson of the White Sox. No real collision, 312 00:21:43,715 --> 00:21:47,195 Speaker 1: no injury, no blood. But when all the Guardians had 313 00:21:47,235 --> 00:21:49,915 Speaker 1: been mad at Anderson for rough player around the bag 314 00:21:50,035 --> 00:21:53,675 Speaker 1: over two games, and Ramirez reached up his hand, expecting 315 00:21:53,715 --> 00:21:57,715 Speaker 1: Anderson to maybe help him to his feet, tim Anderson refused. 316 00:21:58,195 --> 00:22:01,915 Speaker 1: Ramirez then stood up, and Anderson promptly dropped his fielders 317 00:22:01,955 --> 00:22:05,475 Speaker 1: glove and squared off in a boxing stone an actual 318 00:22:05,595 --> 00:22:09,275 Speaker 1: two fists up by your chin boxing stance. Anderson threw 319 00:22:09,275 --> 00:22:13,235 Speaker 1: two punches at Ramirez. They both missed. Ramirez took one 320 00:22:13,355 --> 00:22:15,795 Speaker 1: swing at Anderson and seemed to hit him kind of 321 00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:18,955 Speaker 1: mildly on the cheek, and Anderson dropped like a stone 322 00:22:19,315 --> 00:22:22,155 Speaker 1: like Sonny Liston and his one punch lost to Muhammad 323 00:22:22,155 --> 00:22:25,555 Speaker 1: Ali in Lewiston, Maine, in nineteen sixty five, and no 324 00:22:25,595 --> 00:22:28,755 Speaker 1: one was certain what would happen next. A punch that 325 00:22:28,875 --> 00:22:32,315 Speaker 1: was seemingly so light that ever since many have argued 326 00:22:32,435 --> 00:22:35,355 Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali never hit Sonny Liston, and Liston had thrown 327 00:22:35,395 --> 00:22:38,675 Speaker 1: the fight at the earliest possible opportunity. That's how bad 328 00:22:38,795 --> 00:22:43,075 Speaker 1: it looked. Or as Tom Hamilton, the play by play 329 00:22:43,115 --> 00:22:46,555 Speaker 1: man of the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network put it 330 00:22:46,995 --> 00:22:51,355 Speaker 1: in an instant classic of a radio call and another 331 00:22:51,475 --> 00:22:55,995 Speaker 1: hustole double right over the bag at first. Now useykin 332 00:22:57,075 --> 00:23:00,675 Speaker 1: Anderson's square off. They're fighting, they're swinging. 333 00:23:00,955 --> 00:23:05,355 Speaker 2: Don't go Sanderson, don't go Sanderson. 334 00:23:04,715 --> 00:23:08,755 Speaker 1: Ye, Tom Hamilton on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network, 335 00:23:08,795 --> 00:23:10,875 Speaker 1: and that clip is going to be installed at the 336 00:23:10,875 --> 00:23:14,075 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame at Cooperstown two on a loop. Four 337 00:23:14,155 --> 00:23:18,435 Speaker 1: years ago. Tim Anderson, who we think is conscious by now, 338 00:23:18,875 --> 00:23:21,795 Speaker 1: was the American League batting champion, and to this day 339 00:23:21,835 --> 00:23:24,275 Speaker 1: he is considered one of the faces of the game. 340 00:23:24,675 --> 00:23:28,675 Speaker 1: He appears in baseball promos trying to sell baseball to kids, 341 00:23:29,275 --> 00:23:32,435 Speaker 1: even though he has so vanished. He's hitting two forty 342 00:23:32,435 --> 00:23:35,435 Speaker 1: four that the punch he took from Ramirez seemed like 343 00:23:35,515 --> 00:23:37,915 Speaker 1: the first time this year that the name Tim Anderson 344 00:23:38,115 --> 00:23:40,915 Speaker 1: had been mentioned in the same sentence as the word hit. 345 00:23:41,875 --> 00:23:44,635 Speaker 1: Plus all the no hitter jokes that followed on Sunday 346 00:23:44,675 --> 00:23:49,195 Speaker 1: and early today. To make it worse, Tim Anderson did 347 00:23:49,275 --> 00:23:52,355 Speaker 1: not play in Sunday's game and was not seen by 348 00:23:52,395 --> 00:23:54,515 Speaker 1: the media and did not talk to the media, which 349 00:23:54,635 --> 00:23:57,435 Speaker 1: might have been for the better, because if somebody asked 350 00:23:57,515 --> 00:24:00,475 Speaker 1: him a tough question about that fight, he would probably 351 00:24:00,475 --> 00:24:22,435 Speaker 1: have collapsed to the ground again. Thank you, Nancy Faust. 352 00:24:22,995 --> 00:24:26,795 Speaker 1: One more note, can a team lose fifty seven games 353 00:24:26,835 --> 00:24:30,195 Speaker 1: in a row? Baltimore Orioles seven New York Mets three 354 00:24:30,435 --> 00:24:32,515 Speaker 1: Since the trade deadline win, the team with a three 355 00:24:32,635 --> 00:24:36,075 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five million dollar payroll, offloaded six of 356 00:24:36,075 --> 00:24:38,915 Speaker 1: its veteran players, including future Hall of famers Max Scherzer 357 00:24:38,915 --> 00:24:41,715 Speaker 1: and Justin Berlander. The New York Mets have lost all 358 00:24:41,795 --> 00:24:44,875 Speaker 1: six games they have played, twice by shutout. They have 359 00:24:44,915 --> 00:24:47,595 Speaker 1: scored only fourteen runs, they have given up thirty nine, 360 00:24:47,595 --> 00:24:50,555 Speaker 1: and frankly, they have not looked as good as those 361 00:24:50,635 --> 00:24:54,235 Speaker 1: numbers would suggest. And they have fifty one more games 362 00:24:54,275 --> 00:25:10,555 Speaker 1: to play this year, and there is no hope whatsoever 363 00:25:12,755 --> 00:25:15,875 Speaker 1: still ahead on countdown turns out, ESPN has turned over 364 00:25:15,955 --> 00:25:19,955 Speaker 1: operations of the ESPN Radio Network and all its affiliated 365 00:25:20,195 --> 00:25:25,995 Speaker 1: organizations to an outside company, sales I guess, editorial control. 366 00:25:26,835 --> 00:25:29,315 Speaker 1: This has made me sad because I was one of 367 00:25:29,355 --> 00:25:31,755 Speaker 1: the guys who put ESPN Radio on the air in 368 00:25:31,875 --> 00:25:36,235 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, But remembering that made me happy because 369 00:25:36,235 --> 00:25:41,035 Speaker 1: it reminded me unexpectedly of Elizabeth Montgomery and her role 370 00:25:41,075 --> 00:25:44,275 Speaker 1: in that memorable launch. So I want to explain to 371 00:25:44,275 --> 00:25:46,195 Speaker 1: you what that has to do with the other thing, 372 00:25:46,635 --> 00:25:49,595 Speaker 1: and tell you about my sudden and eternal friend Lizzie 373 00:25:49,795 --> 00:25:52,435 Speaker 1: coming up in things I promised not to tell first 374 00:25:52,595 --> 00:25:54,075 Speaker 1: time for the daily round up of the miss Grants, 375 00:25:54,115 --> 00:25:57,955 Speaker 1: Moron's Dunning, Kruger Effet specimens who constitute today's worst persons 376 00:25:57,955 --> 00:26:02,075 Speaker 1: in the world? The Bronze, The New York Times. This 377 00:26:02,195 --> 00:26:05,555 Speaker 1: is the Fox News effect. It's upper right corner banner 378 00:26:05,595 --> 00:26:10,195 Speaker 1: headline about Trump's indictment. Allies prepare for fight over free 379 00:26:10,235 --> 00:26:14,795 Speaker 1: speech after indictment calls out lies. Now the Times put 380 00:26:14,915 --> 00:26:18,235 Speaker 1: single quotation marks, which is how in print you show 381 00:26:18,595 --> 00:26:21,435 Speaker 1: you're not really convinced the word works or is true. 382 00:26:21,475 --> 00:26:23,755 Speaker 1: That's just what somebody else is calling it. The Times 383 00:26:23,755 --> 00:26:27,715 Speaker 1: wanted to qualify one word in that headline, Allies prepare 384 00:26:27,715 --> 00:26:32,315 Speaker 1: for fight over free speech after indictment calls out lies. Now, 385 00:26:32,435 --> 00:26:35,275 Speaker 1: you and I would put the quotes around free speech 386 00:26:35,595 --> 00:26:39,035 Speaker 1: because Trump's crimes have got nothing to do with free speech, 387 00:26:39,395 --> 00:26:43,395 Speaker 1: and his apologists claim is nonsensical in both constitutional and 388 00:26:43,515 --> 00:26:46,275 Speaker 1: legal ways. It's got nothing to do with free speech. 389 00:26:46,395 --> 00:26:49,475 Speaker 1: Put free speech in quotes, but no, The Times put 390 00:26:49,515 --> 00:26:53,835 Speaker 1: the dubious quotes around the word lies, as if Trump's lies, 391 00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:59,235 Speaker 1: you know, weren't lies, As if The Times doesn't want 392 00:26:59,275 --> 00:27:03,995 Speaker 1: to commit to that much shameful both sides is garbage 393 00:27:04,435 --> 00:27:07,595 Speaker 1: andr for the course, For the Times lately convinced somehow 394 00:27:07,635 --> 00:27:09,835 Speaker 1: they are going to sell more copies of the newspaper 395 00:27:10,115 --> 00:27:12,755 Speaker 1: to right wingers who want to burn their building down, 396 00:27:13,395 --> 00:27:16,995 Speaker 1: The Times needs to fire its decision makers and pronto. 397 00:27:17,515 --> 00:27:20,555 Speaker 1: Speaking of which, the runner up, Vivek Ramaswami, what the 398 00:27:20,595 --> 00:27:23,035 Speaker 1: hell is wrong with this guy? If you want to 399 00:27:23,035 --> 00:27:25,635 Speaker 1: tell the crowd at Vail, Iowa over the weekend that 400 00:27:25,715 --> 00:27:28,995 Speaker 1: we should quote cancel June teenth or one of the 401 00:27:29,035 --> 00:27:32,715 Speaker 1: other useless ones we made up about holidays, and then 402 00:27:32,715 --> 00:27:34,995 Speaker 1: when NBC asks you, if you think it is a 403 00:27:35,115 --> 00:27:39,595 Speaker 1: useless holiday, go ahead, I guess say uh huh, which 404 00:27:39,595 --> 00:27:41,075 Speaker 1: is what he did. I mean, if this guy doesn't 405 00:27:41,115 --> 00:27:42,955 Speaker 1: understand he's trying to run for the nomination of a 406 00:27:42,995 --> 00:27:45,915 Speaker 1: party at least half of whose members would identify him 407 00:27:45,915 --> 00:27:49,675 Speaker 1: as having the kind of ethnic origin their party is against. 408 00:27:50,275 --> 00:27:54,395 Speaker 1: It's his money he's wasting. But on Juneteenth, which is 409 00:27:54,435 --> 00:27:59,115 Speaker 1: only like six seven weeks ago, this moron Ramaswami put 410 00:27:59,115 --> 00:28:04,675 Speaker 1: out a fake, sincere video extolling the holiday, praising June 411 00:28:04,675 --> 00:28:07,875 Speaker 1: seenth Juneteenth. There's a new holiday, he said. It needn't 412 00:28:07,915 --> 00:28:10,475 Speaker 1: be about grievance and self logging. Let it be a 413 00:28:10,515 --> 00:28:13,875 Speaker 1: celebration of the American dream itself, which I guess he 414 00:28:13,915 --> 00:28:17,595 Speaker 1: thinks is also useless. He was four junenteenth before he 415 00:28:17,675 --> 00:28:21,155 Speaker 1: was against it. Aramaswami can't keep his policy decisions straight 416 00:28:21,195 --> 00:28:26,955 Speaker 1: about holidays. A master strategist, this is not but our 417 00:28:26,995 --> 00:28:33,315 Speaker 1: winner again. Speaking of that, James Comer Jamie, chairman of 418 00:28:33,315 --> 00:28:36,475 Speaker 1: the House Subcommittee on Making Up Headlines for Conservative media, 419 00:28:37,115 --> 00:28:39,635 Speaker 1: when his low rent version of the House on American 420 00:28:39,675 --> 00:28:44,515 Speaker 1: Activities Committee finally got its transcribed interview with Hunter Biden's 421 00:28:44,555 --> 00:28:48,715 Speaker 1: old business associate, Devon Archer. The interview so lackluster and 422 00:28:48,795 --> 00:28:51,075 Speaker 1: so exonerating of the president that even the Wall Street 423 00:28:51,155 --> 00:28:53,955 Speaker 1: Journal editorial board admitted Joe Biden had nothing to do 424 00:28:53,995 --> 00:28:57,515 Speaker 1: with any of this. Comber still called the Archer interview 425 00:28:57,555 --> 00:29:02,115 Speaker 1: a quote bombshale. In fact, Greg Kelly, who if you're 426 00:29:02,155 --> 00:29:04,475 Speaker 1: not familiar with his work, is the animal mascot of 427 00:29:04,755 --> 00:29:09,595 Speaker 1: Newsmax Television. Greg Kelly interviewed Comber and said, quote, you 428 00:29:09,635 --> 00:29:12,035 Speaker 1: were in the room. Are these guys recognizing that this 429 00:29:12,155 --> 00:29:15,635 Speaker 1: is beyond their control now? And Comer answered, the walls 430 00:29:15,675 --> 00:29:19,515 Speaker 1: are closing in. Unfortunately, Comer wouldn't have known anything about 431 00:29:19,515 --> 00:29:22,715 Speaker 1: the walls or the walls in the room, or anything 432 00:29:22,755 --> 00:29:25,435 Speaker 1: about the interview or the interview in the room, because 433 00:29:25,435 --> 00:29:28,675 Speaker 1: it turned out he didn't go to it. He skipped 434 00:29:28,715 --> 00:29:32,635 Speaker 1: the Archer interview, he didn't attend, he blew it off, 435 00:29:32,635 --> 00:29:35,795 Speaker 1: he didn't even zoom in, he didn't even literally phone 436 00:29:35,795 --> 00:29:38,995 Speaker 1: it in. In fact, it appears all but two Republican 437 00:29:39,035 --> 00:29:43,115 Speaker 1: members of the committee didn't bother to show up even remotely. 438 00:29:44,395 --> 00:29:49,315 Speaker 1: So if you see the whole Devon Archer, Barisma Ukraine, 439 00:29:49,515 --> 00:29:54,635 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden influenced Pedlink thing disappear from the GOP playbook 440 00:29:54,675 --> 00:29:57,875 Speaker 1: in the days and weeks to come. Remember this was 441 00:29:57,915 --> 00:30:01,435 Speaker 1: the first sign they have punted. Because there is no 442 00:30:01,635 --> 00:30:06,995 Speaker 1: there there, Chairman James. Maybe we can connect Jill Baden 443 00:30:07,075 --> 00:30:15,675 Speaker 1: calling herself doctor t Ukraine than Calmer, Today's worse person and. 444 00:30:15,835 --> 00:30:17,995 Speaker 2: The world. 445 00:30:28,955 --> 00:30:31,035 Speaker 1: To the number one story on the Countdown and my 446 00:30:31,035 --> 00:30:34,315 Speaker 1: favorite subject me and things I promised not to tell. 447 00:30:34,995 --> 00:30:37,715 Speaker 1: I have found myself telling her story three times in 448 00:30:37,755 --> 00:30:40,755 Speaker 1: the last ten days. I just bought a new copy 449 00:30:40,795 --> 00:30:43,275 Speaker 1: of the movie in question, and so I thought I 450 00:30:43,275 --> 00:30:46,875 Speaker 1: would tell you the story now. Plus I find she 451 00:30:46,995 --> 00:30:50,115 Speaker 1: made her Broadway debut sixty nine years ago this Thursday. 452 00:30:50,955 --> 00:30:54,955 Speaker 1: Do you know her name? Elizabeth Montgomery, one of the 453 00:30:54,955 --> 00:30:58,395 Speaker 1: most famous actresses of the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, 454 00:30:58,595 --> 00:31:02,395 Speaker 1: star of the TV series Bewitched, daughter of a famous actor, 455 00:31:02,475 --> 00:31:05,955 Speaker 1: Robert Montgomery, and my friend early on the morning of 456 00:31:06,035 --> 00:31:09,595 Speaker 1: January fourteenth, nineteen ninety two, until she died in the 457 00:31:09,635 --> 00:31:13,995 Speaker 1: spring of nineteen ninety five. Our friendship happened only because 458 00:31:14,035 --> 00:31:17,795 Speaker 1: of one thing. My sister had given me a book 459 00:31:17,835 --> 00:31:20,835 Speaker 1: about one of our favorite topics, the never to be 460 00:31:20,955 --> 00:31:24,075 Speaker 1: solved mystery of Lizzie Borden and the Borden family axe 461 00:31:24,155 --> 00:31:28,395 Speaker 1: murders of eighteen ninety two in Fall River, Massachusetts. Yes, 462 00:31:28,635 --> 00:31:32,035 Speaker 1: We're weird, and also the fact that Elizabeth Montgomery had 463 00:31:32,075 --> 00:31:35,875 Speaker 1: played Lizzie Borden in a TV movie. So on January fourteenth, 464 00:31:35,915 --> 00:31:38,315 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, as I sat waiting for our flight 465 00:31:38,395 --> 00:31:41,235 Speaker 1: to leave ICJFK Airport in New York from my then 466 00:31:41,275 --> 00:31:44,035 Speaker 1: home in Los Angeles, then I began to read from 467 00:31:44,075 --> 00:31:48,675 Speaker 1: my airplane seat, my sister's gift from the aisle. From 468 00:31:48,715 --> 00:31:51,275 Speaker 1: the last one to board, I hear the voice of 469 00:31:51,315 --> 00:31:55,795 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Montgomery saying to me, ooh, Keith, you're reading about me. 470 00:31:57,195 --> 00:32:02,275 Speaker 1: She was a gas my brief but eternal friendship with 471 00:32:02,315 --> 00:32:05,675 Speaker 1: Lizzie Montgomery and the eternal lesson she toaught me in 472 00:32:05,755 --> 00:32:07,755 Speaker 1: one moment, Please while I first explained what I was 473 00:32:07,795 --> 00:32:11,115 Speaker 1: doing on that flight. A month or two earlier, I 474 00:32:11,155 --> 00:32:14,475 Speaker 1: had agreed to join ESPN to co host Sports Center 475 00:32:14,515 --> 00:32:17,435 Speaker 1: with Dan Patrick starting in late March nineteen ninety two. 476 00:32:18,035 --> 00:32:21,195 Speaker 1: I had just finished up three financially rewarding but souls 477 00:32:21,355 --> 00:32:23,995 Speaker 1: sucking years at Channel two in Los Angeles, and I 478 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:25,875 Speaker 1: was going to go to Hawaii for three months and 479 00:32:25,955 --> 00:32:30,115 Speaker 1: just live air until I felt better. On Monday, December thirtieth, 480 00:32:30,195 --> 00:32:33,075 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, I had literally just opened my address 481 00:32:33,075 --> 00:32:35,395 Speaker 1: book to find the number of a travel agent I 482 00:32:35,435 --> 00:32:38,195 Speaker 1: knew to make the Hawaii arrangements. I was reaching for 483 00:32:38,235 --> 00:32:42,955 Speaker 1: the phone when the phone rang. It was my business agent, 484 00:32:42,995 --> 00:32:44,795 Speaker 1: who had just gotten off the phone with my new 485 00:32:45,035 --> 00:32:47,995 Speaker 1: ESPN boss, John Walsh. He and they were launching a 486 00:32:48,035 --> 00:32:52,075 Speaker 1: new radio network in five days. I found this interesting 487 00:32:52,155 --> 00:32:56,155 Speaker 1: but not particularly relevant. ESPN was one thing. Then it 488 00:32:56,235 --> 00:32:59,755 Speaker 1: was one TV network, no magazine, no radio, no ESPN, 489 00:32:59,795 --> 00:33:03,915 Speaker 1: the OHO. So this was their first big move outwards. 490 00:33:04,235 --> 00:33:07,715 Speaker 1: The network would start with only two seven hour shows 491 00:33:07,715 --> 00:33:10,595 Speaker 1: on Saturday and Sunday nights. And Walsh explained to my 492 00:33:10,635 --> 00:33:12,435 Speaker 1: agent that everything was going great and they were right 493 00:33:12,475 --> 00:33:14,475 Speaker 1: on target, and they had great guests lined up for 494 00:33:14,555 --> 00:33:16,795 Speaker 1: the first weekend, like Ronald Reagan, and they only had 495 00:33:16,795 --> 00:33:19,115 Speaker 1: one tiny problem. They needed three hosts, and they had 496 00:33:19,155 --> 00:33:22,115 Speaker 1: two terrific hosts, just terrific hosts, one Keith worked with 497 00:33:22,235 --> 00:33:24,635 Speaker 1: named Tony Bruno, and another terrific, just terrific host from 498 00:33:24,635 --> 00:33:27,075 Speaker 1: Providence named Chuck Wilson. And they tried this guy as 499 00:33:27,075 --> 00:33:28,675 Speaker 1: the third host, and that guy, and this guy and 500 00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:30,755 Speaker 1: that guy, and all told forty different people had tried 501 00:33:30,755 --> 00:33:32,755 Speaker 1: out to be hosts. They had nobody, nobody to be 502 00:33:32,795 --> 00:33:34,675 Speaker 1: the third host who was any good. Keith just come 503 00:33:34,675 --> 00:33:36,475 Speaker 1: here just for the first weekend, just to get it 504 00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:37,915 Speaker 1: off the ground. Then he can go back to LA 505 00:33:37,955 --> 00:33:39,795 Speaker 1: and come back here in March takeover sports and it. 506 00:33:39,835 --> 00:33:42,435 Speaker 1: Please please please get Keith, help us, please, because if 507 00:33:42,435 --> 00:33:45,115 Speaker 1: he Canada, what on earth they're going to do it, please, please, please, 508 00:33:47,635 --> 00:33:50,075 Speaker 1: As I said to my agent, well, all right, I 509 00:33:50,115 --> 00:33:54,155 Speaker 1: suppose at least way, at least a ESPN will always 510 00:33:54,155 --> 00:33:59,475 Speaker 1: think of me as a team player. So instead of 511 00:33:59,515 --> 00:34:05,035 Speaker 1: going to Hawaii in January, I go to We're still 512 00:34:05,035 --> 00:34:09,075 Speaker 1: Connecticut in January, and I go stay at my folks 513 00:34:09,075 --> 00:34:11,075 Speaker 1: house outside New York City, and a friend I had 514 00:34:11,075 --> 00:34:14,155 Speaker 1: recommended to help ESPN launch their radio network offers me 515 00:34:14,195 --> 00:34:16,475 Speaker 1: a ride up to ESPN for the weekend. And it's 516 00:34:16,555 --> 00:34:19,195 Speaker 1: like twenty degrees and we get out of his car 517 00:34:19,235 --> 00:34:21,675 Speaker 1: and his parking lot, and three spots over getting out 518 00:34:21,675 --> 00:34:24,395 Speaker 1: of his car in the parking lot is Chris Berman, 519 00:34:24,435 --> 00:34:26,715 Speaker 1: who I went to high school with, and already in 520 00:34:26,835 --> 00:34:29,875 Speaker 1: January nineteen ninety two, when I'm not quite thirty three 521 00:34:29,955 --> 00:34:32,795 Speaker 1: years old, I already know Chris for twenty years. And 522 00:34:32,835 --> 00:34:36,395 Speaker 1: before I can say hey, he screams, listen, we have 523 00:34:36,555 --> 00:34:44,155 Speaker 1: a good thing going here, don't f it up. And 524 00:34:44,235 --> 00:34:46,395 Speaker 1: I say, good to see you too, Chris, and I 525 00:34:46,435 --> 00:34:49,355 Speaker 1: remind myself it's only till Monday. And I meet the 526 00:34:49,395 --> 00:34:50,995 Speaker 1: gang and then I go to the hotel and the 527 00:34:50,995 --> 00:34:54,035 Speaker 1: hotel is beige. The walls are beige, the carpets are paige, 528 00:34:54,275 --> 00:34:56,435 Speaker 1: the guests are beige, the food is beige. The only 529 00:34:56,475 --> 00:34:59,035 Speaker 1: thing that isn't beige is the six inches of snow 530 00:34:59,035 --> 00:35:01,755 Speaker 1: that falls overnight, and remind myself it's only till Monday. 531 00:35:02,875 --> 00:35:05,875 Speaker 1: The launch of the network on Saturday goes well. They 532 00:35:05,875 --> 00:35:09,115 Speaker 1: have me interview Ronald Reagan about something in football. The 533 00:35:09,155 --> 00:35:11,075 Speaker 1: Sunday Night show is going well too, and we're trying 534 00:35:11,075 --> 00:35:13,315 Speaker 1: to figure out where the big baseball free agent of 535 00:35:13,355 --> 00:35:16,755 Speaker 1: that winner, Danny Tartable, is going to sign. And we're 536 00:35:16,755 --> 00:35:19,595 Speaker 1: interviewing Bobby Valentine, who was the manager of the Texas Rangers, 537 00:35:19,635 --> 00:35:21,035 Speaker 1: and they were one of the team's rumored to be 538 00:35:21,075 --> 00:35:24,195 Speaker 1: a likely landing for Tartable. And I asked Valentine, he says, no, 539 00:35:24,275 --> 00:35:26,875 Speaker 1: not anymore. They just canceled their trip. I was supposed 540 00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:28,875 Speaker 1: to go meet them at the airport tonight. I think 541 00:35:28,915 --> 00:35:31,675 Speaker 1: he signed with somebody else. And the alarm bells go 542 00:35:31,715 --> 00:35:33,155 Speaker 1: off in my head and I tell the producer, let's 543 00:35:33,195 --> 00:35:35,555 Speaker 1: call everybody we know in baseball and put them on 544 00:35:35,635 --> 00:35:38,675 Speaker 1: and figure out where Danny Tartable is going. I have 545 00:35:38,715 --> 00:35:40,595 Speaker 1: a source who knows his agent. Let me call him. 546 00:35:41,035 --> 00:35:44,475 Speaker 1: We'll go story chasing. So we spend four hours following 547 00:35:44,515 --> 00:35:48,075 Speaker 1: the story in real time, and it's great radio, and 548 00:35:48,155 --> 00:35:50,075 Speaker 1: we're coming up on the last hour and our guests 549 00:35:50,115 --> 00:35:53,635 Speaker 1: have helped us eliminate like thirty teams out of twenty eight, 550 00:35:54,115 --> 00:35:56,635 Speaker 1: but we're not sure where Tartable is going still, and 551 00:35:56,675 --> 00:35:59,195 Speaker 1: the producer says, if only we had his home phone number. 552 00:35:59,195 --> 00:36:02,955 Speaker 1: And I look at the producer and go, oh, crap, sorry, 553 00:36:03,275 --> 00:36:05,675 Speaker 1: and I grab my address book explain he was my 554 00:36:05,755 --> 00:36:09,675 Speaker 1: co host. Tartabule was on some of our baseball postgame 555 00:36:09,715 --> 00:36:13,075 Speaker 1: shows in La Lash. I'm sorry, I forgot I had 556 00:36:13,075 --> 00:36:16,195 Speaker 1: his number all this time. Hang on. So I called 557 00:36:16,235 --> 00:36:19,155 Speaker 1: Danny Tartabule, and just as our last hour on Sunday 558 00:36:19,195 --> 00:36:21,435 Speaker 1: Night is starting, he calls me back and I say 559 00:36:21,435 --> 00:36:25,035 Speaker 1: to him, look, we know you've decided it's all over baseball. 560 00:36:25,075 --> 00:36:26,875 Speaker 1: It's got to be the Phillies, the Mets, or the Yankees. 561 00:36:26,875 --> 00:36:30,675 Speaker 1: And he's saying, correctly, I can't tell you. And I said, 562 00:36:30,835 --> 00:36:33,435 Speaker 1: give me one guess and just tell me if I'm wrong, 563 00:36:33,435 --> 00:36:35,875 Speaker 1: and I will call you a source close to the negotiations, 564 00:36:35,915 --> 00:36:38,595 Speaker 1: that's all. And he says okay, And I say, is 565 00:36:38,635 --> 00:36:40,635 Speaker 1: it a team that wears pin stripes? And of course 566 00:36:40,675 --> 00:36:42,955 Speaker 1: the Phillies, the Mets, and the Yankees all wear pinstripes. 567 00:36:42,995 --> 00:36:44,995 Speaker 1: So he laughs and he says yes, And I say, 568 00:36:45,115 --> 00:36:47,115 Speaker 1: is it the team I grew up a fan of? 569 00:36:47,755 --> 00:36:49,915 Speaker 1: And he says, what team did you grow up a 570 00:36:49,915 --> 00:36:51,955 Speaker 1: fan of? And by the way, the phone call is 571 00:36:51,995 --> 00:36:54,795 Speaker 1: taking place with me on the floor of the studio 572 00:36:55,475 --> 00:36:57,515 Speaker 1: in which the other two hosts are live on the 573 00:36:57,555 --> 00:37:01,075 Speaker 1: new radio network. So I whispered, as Tartable, if I 574 00:37:01,155 --> 00:37:05,755 Speaker 1: say it to the Yankees, am I wrong? And he says, 575 00:37:05,955 --> 00:37:09,635 Speaker 1: I can't tell you and starts whispering. But off the record, 576 00:37:09,635 --> 00:37:12,035 Speaker 1: the press conference is Wednesday at Yankee Stadium. Is that 577 00:37:12,155 --> 00:37:14,915 Speaker 1: enough for you, you bastard? And of course I said, no, 578 00:37:15,035 --> 00:37:16,595 Speaker 1: come on the show and tell us come on and 579 00:37:16,635 --> 00:37:18,915 Speaker 1: he laughs and says I'll see you Wednesday and hangs up. 580 00:37:18,915 --> 00:37:20,235 Speaker 1: And I get up and I sit in the vacant 581 00:37:20,315 --> 00:37:23,555 Speaker 1: chair and I can say breaking news. ESPN report now 582 00:37:23,595 --> 00:37:26,195 Speaker 1: that the free agent olfield er Danny Tartable has agreed 583 00:37:26,235 --> 00:37:28,155 Speaker 1: to a multi year deal with the New York Yankees. 584 00:37:28,595 --> 00:37:31,275 Speaker 1: Sources close to the negotiations say there will be a 585 00:37:31,275 --> 00:37:34,475 Speaker 1: press conference Wednesday at Yankee Stadium and the other hosts 586 00:37:34,475 --> 00:37:36,475 Speaker 1: are trying not to crack up because they know I've 587 00:37:36,475 --> 00:37:39,555 Speaker 1: just been talking too Tardable from the phone in the 588 00:37:39,595 --> 00:37:45,795 Speaker 1: same room with them. Well, this story explodes way more 589 00:37:45,875 --> 00:37:48,835 Speaker 1: than it deserved. It's a dull Sunday night. It's still 590 00:37:48,915 --> 00:37:51,115 Speaker 1: early enough in the evening that the story makes all 591 00:37:51,155 --> 00:37:54,635 Speaker 1: the Monday newspapers and it's attributed not to ESPN or 592 00:37:54,675 --> 00:37:58,435 Speaker 1: to Sports Center, but to the brand new ESPN Radio 593 00:37:58,475 --> 00:38:01,275 Speaker 1: Network on its second day in business, and it's on 594 00:38:01,315 --> 00:38:04,675 Speaker 1: the front page of USA Today and the New York Times. 595 00:38:05,075 --> 00:38:08,555 Speaker 1: ESPN Radio Network makes splash with tartabules scoop the next morning, 596 00:38:08,675 --> 00:38:11,755 Speaker 1: and I can't tell you how big a deal that 597 00:38:11,995 --> 00:38:15,995 Speaker 1: was back then in nineteen ninety two. So now, instead 598 00:38:16,035 --> 00:38:18,195 Speaker 1: of going back to la on Monday and maybe to 599 00:38:18,315 --> 00:38:20,555 Speaker 1: Hawaii on Tuesday, as I had planned, I have to 600 00:38:20,595 --> 00:38:22,635 Speaker 1: go to the press conference at Yankee Stadium to say 601 00:38:22,675 --> 00:38:24,915 Speaker 1: hi to Tartable on Wednesday and sort of thank him 602 00:38:24,955 --> 00:38:28,075 Speaker 1: for the scoop. And on Tuesday, this guy, John Walsh 603 00:38:28,075 --> 00:38:30,635 Speaker 1: from ESPN calls me and my agent says, look, we 604 00:38:30,715 --> 00:38:32,875 Speaker 1: have to take advantage of this. It's the best possible 605 00:38:32,915 --> 00:38:34,955 Speaker 1: start we could have hoped for for the radio network, 606 00:38:35,355 --> 00:38:38,235 Speaker 1: Keith has to stay with us for the next three months. 607 00:38:38,595 --> 00:38:40,635 Speaker 1: Why doesn't he stay in and do this weekend and 608 00:38:40,675 --> 00:38:42,555 Speaker 1: then go back to LA and pack up his apartment 609 00:38:42,555 --> 00:38:44,395 Speaker 1: and then come back here the weekend after that. And 610 00:38:44,715 --> 00:38:48,715 Speaker 1: and I say again to my agent, well, at least 611 00:38:48,995 --> 00:38:52,115 Speaker 1: ESPN will always think of me as a team player 612 00:38:52,155 --> 00:38:59,235 Speaker 1: if I do this. So I am not in Hawaii 613 00:38:59,315 --> 00:39:02,155 Speaker 1: and instead I am on board this flight. When Elizabeth 614 00:39:02,195 --> 00:39:05,515 Speaker 1: Montgomery walks down the aisle and sees my Bordon book 615 00:39:05,515 --> 00:39:07,875 Speaker 1: given to me by my sister and says, ooh, Keith, 616 00:39:07,915 --> 00:39:10,795 Speaker 1: you're reading about me. Hi, I'm Lizzie Montgomery. I'm a 617 00:39:10,795 --> 00:39:13,475 Speaker 1: big fan of yours. Is that seat taken? And I say, 618 00:39:13,475 --> 00:39:16,115 Speaker 1: the hell, if I care, sit down? And the only 619 00:39:16,195 --> 00:39:18,435 Speaker 1: time we're not talking for the next six hours is 620 00:39:18,475 --> 00:39:22,515 Speaker 1: when we are drinking. I believe, if I remember this correctly, 621 00:39:22,835 --> 00:39:26,155 Speaker 1: they had to send up a champagne refueling flight halfway 622 00:39:26,195 --> 00:39:30,155 Speaker 1: to LA. And she's a huge sports fan. Her father 623 00:39:30,235 --> 00:39:32,035 Speaker 1: was a founder of one of the southern California horse 624 00:39:32,075 --> 00:39:34,755 Speaker 1: racing tracks, and she loves the Lakers, and she thinks 625 00:39:34,755 --> 00:39:37,075 Speaker 1: she was related to Lizzie Borden. Did I ever see 626 00:39:37,115 --> 00:39:39,555 Speaker 1: the European version of her Lizzie Bordon film where they 627 00:39:39,555 --> 00:39:41,635 Speaker 1: show the wide shots where they make it look like 628 00:39:41,675 --> 00:39:44,235 Speaker 1: she's nude, and I say, I'm absolutely certain I have not. 629 00:39:45,355 --> 00:39:47,955 Speaker 1: And her son and her driver and her rolls Royce 630 00:39:47,995 --> 00:39:50,035 Speaker 1: meet us at Lax and she wants me to see 631 00:39:50,035 --> 00:39:52,395 Speaker 1: her house, and then her driver and her rolls Royce 632 00:39:52,435 --> 00:39:53,955 Speaker 1: will give me a lyft home. And oh, by the way, 633 00:39:53,995 --> 00:39:55,915 Speaker 1: she's flying back to New York in a week, should 634 00:39:55,955 --> 00:40:00,995 Speaker 1: we become flying buddies. On that trip, our flight gets 635 00:40:01,075 --> 00:40:03,395 Speaker 1: canceled and we have to find a new one, and 636 00:40:03,435 --> 00:40:06,235 Speaker 1: I'm hand carrying a lot of more more valuable baseball cards, 637 00:40:06,235 --> 00:40:08,955 Speaker 1: including like five hundred different from the year nineteen oh nine, 638 00:40:09,235 --> 00:40:11,435 Speaker 1: and she wants to see them, and she wants me 639 00:40:11,475 --> 00:40:14,635 Speaker 1: to tell her something about each player while we drink again. 640 00:40:15,555 --> 00:40:17,435 Speaker 1: And we land and she says, how you getting to 641 00:40:17,475 --> 00:40:19,835 Speaker 1: your folks house? And I say, well, I'm going to 642 00:40:19,875 --> 00:40:22,355 Speaker 1: get a car here or something, and she says, no, 643 00:40:22,395 --> 00:40:23,835 Speaker 1: you're not. I'll give you a lift in my limo 644 00:40:24,035 --> 00:40:27,955 Speaker 1: going right past your house. And sure enough we get there, 645 00:40:28,035 --> 00:40:30,715 Speaker 1: and as Lizzie Montgomery's limo is taking me to my 646 00:40:30,835 --> 00:40:33,915 Speaker 1: folks house at ten o'clock at night, She says, will 647 00:40:33,955 --> 00:40:35,795 Speaker 1: they still be up? Her folks want to play a 648 00:40:35,795 --> 00:40:39,275 Speaker 1: practical joke on them. So two minutes later, I knock 649 00:40:39,355 --> 00:40:41,155 Speaker 1: on the door of my childhood home and my father 650 00:40:41,275 --> 00:40:44,555 Speaker 1: opens it instead of seeing me. It's her in the doorway, 651 00:40:44,595 --> 00:40:47,435 Speaker 1: and she says, Hi, mister oldman, I'm Lizzie. I'm a 652 00:40:47,435 --> 00:40:50,555 Speaker 1: friend of Keiths. Can he come out and play? And 653 00:40:50,635 --> 00:40:53,435 Speaker 1: my dad goes silent for the only time I a 654 00:40:53,515 --> 00:40:56,515 Speaker 1: in my life, And now my mother appears, so Lizzie 655 00:40:56,515 --> 00:40:59,475 Speaker 1: can pull the same routine on her. Hi, missus olverman, 656 00:40:59,515 --> 00:41:01,035 Speaker 1: I'm Lizzie. I'm a friend of Keith. Can he come 657 00:41:01,075 --> 00:41:03,555 Speaker 1: out and play? And now my mother is silent for 658 00:41:03,595 --> 00:41:07,835 Speaker 1: the only time in my life, I might add. I 659 00:41:07,875 --> 00:41:10,635 Speaker 1: thought Lizzie looked fabulous, and I looked her up in 660 00:41:10,675 --> 00:41:13,315 Speaker 1: Hallowell's Film Guide and I saw she was forty eight, 661 00:41:13,315 --> 00:41:15,395 Speaker 1: and I thought, boy, she looks fabulous for forty eight, 662 00:41:15,435 --> 00:41:17,035 Speaker 1: And then I realized my math is wrong. She was 663 00:41:17,075 --> 00:41:20,475 Speaker 1: fifty eight, and she was a joy. We talked my 664 00:41:20,555 --> 00:41:22,515 Speaker 1: phone every couple of weeks after that, and she died 665 00:41:22,555 --> 00:41:26,755 Speaker 1: three years later of colon cancer. But she is with 666 00:41:26,875 --> 00:41:30,355 Speaker 1: me always, and not just as the proverbial force of nature. 667 00:41:31,195 --> 00:41:34,315 Speaker 1: Within minutes of that day we met January fourteenth, nineteen 668 00:41:34,395 --> 00:41:38,995 Speaker 1: ninety two, she bestowed upon me a lesson, an eternal lesson. 669 00:41:40,475 --> 00:41:42,795 Speaker 1: We were a little late taking off, and since she 670 00:41:42,875 --> 00:41:45,635 Speaker 1: had just loudly introduced herself to me like I didn't 671 00:41:45,715 --> 00:41:48,955 Speaker 1: know who she was, anybody on the plane who wasn't 672 00:41:49,035 --> 00:41:52,675 Speaker 1: sure it was her was now sure. As we waited 673 00:41:52,715 --> 00:41:55,155 Speaker 1: to taxi, every man on that plane came over and 674 00:41:55,195 --> 00:41:58,955 Speaker 1: did the same thing. Oh hi, miss Montgomery, excuse me, 675 00:41:59,595 --> 00:42:02,435 Speaker 1: and they give me some sort of nodding acknowledgment, like hey, 676 00:42:02,475 --> 00:42:04,875 Speaker 1: how you doing? As they lean in past me. I 677 00:42:04,915 --> 00:42:06,435 Speaker 1: was a big fan of Bewitched. I know you must 678 00:42:06,475 --> 00:42:08,235 Speaker 1: get asked this a million times a day, but is 679 00:42:08,235 --> 00:42:10,195 Speaker 1: there any I'm so sorry to ask? Could you do 680 00:42:10,275 --> 00:42:12,195 Speaker 1: that little nose twitch you used to do in the show? 681 00:42:12,395 --> 00:42:14,435 Speaker 1: And she would say, of course, and then she'd do it, 682 00:42:14,475 --> 00:42:17,275 Speaker 1: and these men age twenty two one hundred all then 683 00:42:17,395 --> 00:42:23,835 Speaker 1: giggle like schoolboys. After the thirtieth or thirty first time 684 00:42:23,915 --> 00:42:26,515 Speaker 1: this happened, I say to her, Lizzie, I don't know you, 685 00:42:26,635 --> 00:42:29,795 Speaker 1: but I like you a lot already, and your attitude 686 00:42:29,795 --> 00:42:34,515 Speaker 1: towards your fans, and the nose twitch is wonderful. And 687 00:42:34,595 --> 00:42:37,115 Speaker 1: I have to tell you, I certainly hope that was 688 00:42:37,155 --> 00:42:39,315 Speaker 1: the last of them, because the next one who comes over, 689 00:42:39,875 --> 00:42:41,795 Speaker 1: I'm going to have to strangle him with my bare 690 00:42:41,795 --> 00:42:45,275 Speaker 1: hands because I can't take it anymore. And for the 691 00:42:45,315 --> 00:42:47,875 Speaker 1: only minutes of all the time I knew her, Elizabeth 692 00:42:47,875 --> 00:42:51,275 Speaker 1: Montgomery got very serious and said, oh, no, Keith, that 693 00:42:51,435 --> 00:42:54,435 Speaker 1: is not the attitude you must have about this. Remind 694 00:42:54,475 --> 00:42:58,515 Speaker 1: me what year did Bewitched go off the air. I 695 00:42:58,555 --> 00:43:03,035 Speaker 1: had to guess, nineteen seventy two, and she said, exactly, good, correct, 696 00:43:03,035 --> 00:43:06,635 Speaker 1: twenty years ago. And the these people have remembered that 697 00:43:07,155 --> 00:43:11,475 Speaker 1: nose twitch for twenty years at least Bewitched. Keith is 698 00:43:11,515 --> 00:43:14,635 Speaker 1: not Hamlet, it is not Arthur Miller, it is not 699 00:43:14,755 --> 00:43:18,715 Speaker 1: the Godfather, but they remembered it. This is why you 700 00:43:18,795 --> 00:43:20,955 Speaker 1: and I both do what we do for a living. 701 00:43:21,275 --> 00:43:24,035 Speaker 1: We have transcended time with what we do for a living, 702 00:43:24,515 --> 00:43:27,875 Speaker 1: something artistic, something creative, no matter how small that we 703 00:43:27,995 --> 00:43:31,595 Speaker 1: have done. They have remembered it. People do it with you, 704 00:43:31,675 --> 00:43:34,595 Speaker 1: I'm sure, and I'm sure they'll continue to. And what 705 00:43:34,635 --> 00:43:38,075 Speaker 1: you do then is you say thank you for remembering, 706 00:43:38,515 --> 00:43:40,995 Speaker 1: as if they were the only one who ever remembered, 707 00:43:41,115 --> 00:43:45,435 Speaker 1: because that's why we do this, because they remembered me 708 00:43:45,835 --> 00:43:49,995 Speaker 1: from twenty years ago for a stupid little nose twitch. 709 00:43:51,835 --> 00:43:59,275 Speaker 1: Duly chastised, I apologized, and the huge welcoming, conspiratorial, permanent 710 00:43:59,355 --> 00:44:04,195 Speaker 1: friendship sexy smile of Elizabeth Montgomery broke across her face 711 00:44:04,315 --> 00:44:10,035 Speaker 1: like the sunrise, and she whispered either that Keith or 712 00:44:10,115 --> 00:44:14,195 Speaker 1: they saw Bewitched on cable last week, which means Lizzie 713 00:44:14,235 --> 00:44:18,515 Speaker 1: gets another check next week, and she twitched her nose 714 00:44:18,635 --> 00:44:37,115 Speaker 1: at me and I will always love her. I've done 715 00:44:37,155 --> 00:44:39,155 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 716 00:44:39,195 --> 00:44:41,315 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music arrange produced 717 00:44:41,315 --> 00:44:44,195 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanel, who 718 00:44:44,275 --> 00:44:48,355 Speaker 1: are the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by 719 00:44:48,435 --> 00:44:51,355 Speaker 1: John Phillip Shanelle, guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, 720 00:44:51,795 --> 00:44:55,195 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 721 00:44:55,195 --> 00:44:57,915 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports 722 00:44:57,995 --> 00:45:00,955 Speaker 1: music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two. It was 723 00:45:00,995 --> 00:45:04,675 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis. Courtesy of ESPN Inc. Musical 724 00:45:04,795 --> 00:45:07,755 Speaker 1: comments by Nancy Fauss the best baseball stadium organist ever. 725 00:45:07,955 --> 00:45:10,915 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Kenny Maine. Everything else 726 00:45:10,995 --> 00:45:13,475 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. Special thank you to you 727 00:45:13,555 --> 00:45:16,315 Speaker 1: for last week. With the addition of the YouTube option 728 00:45:16,435 --> 00:45:20,675 Speaker 1: for listening to and or watching this podcast, our audience 729 00:45:20,755 --> 00:45:25,515 Speaker 1: total was last week more than eight hundred thousand, which 730 00:45:25,635 --> 00:45:29,555 Speaker 1: used to be a pretty good month. Thanks tell the others. 731 00:45:30,475 --> 00:45:32,635 Speaker 1: That's countdown for this the nine hundred and forty third 732 00:45:32,675 --> 00:45:35,715 Speaker 1: day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 733 00:45:35,715 --> 00:45:38,955 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Arrest him again while 734 00:45:38,995 --> 00:45:42,795 Speaker 1: we still can. Lord knows there is more there where 735 00:45:42,835 --> 00:45:46,675 Speaker 1: that came from. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin 736 00:45:46,755 --> 00:45:49,835 Speaker 1: says the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, 737 00:45:49,835 --> 00:46:03,115 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman 738 00:46:03,275 --> 00:46:07,755 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeart For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 739 00:46:07,915 --> 00:46:11,915 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 740 00:46:11,955 --> 00:46:12,875 Speaker 1: your podcasts.