1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,235 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. A 2 00:00:22,355 --> 00:00:27,075 Speaker 1: Trump Federalist Society judge has now refused to protect a 3 00:00:27,115 --> 00:00:30,955 Speaker 1: former assistant Manhattan District Attorney from being dragged in front 4 00:00:30,955 --> 00:00:35,395 Speaker 1: of Jim Jordan's dog and pony dung eating show and 5 00:00:35,515 --> 00:00:39,835 Speaker 1: subjected to a deposition and to possible testimony. And frankly, 6 00:00:39,915 --> 00:00:43,795 Speaker 1: the ex Ada Mark Pomeran should ignore the Jim Jordan subpoena, 7 00:00:43,955 --> 00:00:47,395 Speaker 1: ignore his pathetic perversion of the House Judiciary Committee into 8 00:00:47,435 --> 00:00:52,515 Speaker 1: a criminal enterprise designed solely to exonerate the traitor Donald J. Chump. 9 00:00:52,995 --> 00:00:57,875 Speaker 1: And if this Federalist society hacked Judge Mary ka Weiss Cassil, 10 00:00:58,315 --> 00:01:02,195 Speaker 1: who once ruled for Tucker Carlson after he slandered Karen 11 00:01:02,275 --> 00:01:05,595 Speaker 1: McDougall and said she had extorted money from if this 12 00:01:05,755 --> 00:01:09,075 Speaker 1: judge tries to act against Pomerants in defense of her 13 00:01:09,155 --> 00:01:13,955 Speaker 1: politically corrupted ruling, the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should 14 00:01:13,995 --> 00:01:18,355 Speaker 1: pursue a case against the judge for obstruction of justice 15 00:01:18,635 --> 00:01:22,115 Speaker 1: and for interference in a criminal investigation and slap her 16 00:01:22,275 --> 00:01:29,755 Speaker 1: sorry Trump kissing ass in jail. Enough of this Republican shit. 17 00:01:31,875 --> 00:01:37,595 Speaker 1: For reasons unknown, presumably the remaining quaint notion or desire 18 00:01:38,635 --> 00:01:42,635 Speaker 1: that through his judicial appointments, Trump has not infected every 19 00:01:42,715 --> 00:01:45,755 Speaker 1: benchure in the Supreme Court to the Traffic and Parking 20 00:01:45,795 --> 00:01:51,435 Speaker 1: Court with dishonesty and theocratic narcissism. DA Bragg and his 21 00:01:51,555 --> 00:01:55,835 Speaker 1: former deputy Pomerance did not do what their Trumpian counterparts 22 00:01:55,835 --> 00:01:59,915 Speaker 1: would have done and have done, which was to ignore 23 00:02:00,075 --> 00:02:03,115 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan, to tell him to shove his subpoena, and 24 00:02:03,195 --> 00:02:08,555 Speaker 1: to ask his own grand jury to indict Jordan for obstruction. Instead, 25 00:02:08,955 --> 00:02:12,195 Speaker 1: they sought to join the subpoena, and they got this 26 00:02:12,395 --> 00:02:17,635 Speaker 1: idiot Trump Judge Mary k Weiss CAASIL, whom Trump's army 27 00:02:17,795 --> 00:02:22,515 Speaker 1: of worms literally found somewhere serving out her meaningless life 28 00:02:22,715 --> 00:02:26,355 Speaker 1: as a commercial attorney with three years in a Manhattan 29 00:02:26,875 --> 00:02:32,515 Speaker 1: bankruptcy court. And they saw those magic words member Federalist Society, 30 00:02:32,555 --> 00:02:34,955 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, she gets to rule not 31 00:02:35,075 --> 00:02:38,835 Speaker 1: on deadbeat businessmen who did not pay their insurance claims, 32 00:02:39,035 --> 00:02:44,275 Speaker 1: but on matters of actual importance, like helping Jim Jordan 33 00:02:44,675 --> 00:02:47,955 Speaker 1: smear the manhattanan district attorney who had the loyalty to 34 00:02:48,035 --> 00:02:51,075 Speaker 1: this country and the fealty to the law to actually 35 00:02:51,075 --> 00:02:53,875 Speaker 1: indict and arrest Trump for just one episode in his 36 00:02:53,955 --> 00:02:57,395 Speaker 1: lifetime of scumbaggery, while the rest of the officers of 37 00:02:57,435 --> 00:03:00,075 Speaker 1: the law have sat on their hands for three years 38 00:03:00,075 --> 00:03:06,915 Speaker 1: and three months. Jim Jordan ignored a congressional subpoena. Nothing 39 00:03:07,755 --> 00:03:12,715 Speaker 1: happened to him. Merrick Garland and the Justice Department did nothing. 40 00:03:14,075 --> 00:03:18,075 Speaker 1: Mark Pomerantz and Alvin Bragg should have ignored any action 41 00:03:18,235 --> 00:03:22,675 Speaker 1: by this tainted political whore and let Jordan see if 42 00:03:22,675 --> 00:03:26,635 Speaker 1: he could talk Garland into acting on a contempt citation 43 00:03:26,955 --> 00:03:29,835 Speaker 1: on his behalf. And then let Jordan see if he 44 00:03:29,835 --> 00:03:33,155 Speaker 1: would need to see a hearing specialist after he was 45 00:03:33,235 --> 00:03:38,995 Speaker 1: deafened by the laughter. This all has to stop. The 46 00:03:39,075 --> 00:03:43,155 Speaker 1: Republican chump thugs have to be ignored, they have to 47 00:03:43,155 --> 00:03:45,515 Speaker 1: be boycotted, they have to be stonewalled, they have to 48 00:03:45,515 --> 00:03:48,675 Speaker 1: be humiliated, they have to be emasculated, they have to 49 00:03:48,715 --> 00:03:53,155 Speaker 1: be ruined, and they have to be metaphorically buried. They 50 00:03:53,195 --> 00:03:56,955 Speaker 1: get nothing. They declared war on this country eight years 51 00:03:56,955 --> 00:03:59,595 Speaker 1: ago and the Democrats are still playing by rules the 52 00:03:59,675 --> 00:04:03,755 Speaker 1: Republicans don't even remember ever existed. It is a war. 53 00:04:04,195 --> 00:04:09,795 Speaker 1: They arted it. Stop treating it like a negotiation. Mister 54 00:04:09,955 --> 00:04:15,635 Speaker 1: Pomerantz wrote this quote, Judge unquote, who owes her paycheck 55 00:04:15,715 --> 00:04:20,035 Speaker 1: to Trump, must appear for the Congressional deposition. No one 56 00:04:20,235 --> 00:04:25,515 Speaker 1: is above the law unquote. Fine, judge, let's see how 57 00:04:25,595 --> 00:04:27,835 Speaker 1: much you understand those six words. No one is above 58 00:04:27,875 --> 00:04:32,315 Speaker 1: the law. Indict her for obstructing justice, mister Bragg, there's 59 00:04:32,395 --> 00:04:36,995 Speaker 1: politics going on on both sides. Let's be honest about that, Judge. 60 00:04:37,035 --> 00:04:39,555 Speaker 1: VIIs Casil had the nerve to say during yesterday's here, 61 00:04:39,595 --> 00:04:42,475 Speaker 1: I know there isn't There is politics going in on 62 00:04:42,595 --> 00:04:45,515 Speaker 1: your own brain, judge, and in the addled brain of 63 00:04:45,515 --> 00:04:48,995 Speaker 1: the creature who owns you, you disgrace. I'm talking about 64 00:04:49,035 --> 00:04:50,995 Speaker 1: the subpoena. That's what it's in front of me, Not 65 00:04:51,075 --> 00:04:53,995 Speaker 1: all the political rhetoric that's been flying back and forth. 66 00:04:54,115 --> 00:04:59,355 Speaker 1: That's all color. It's all theater, the contempt, the nerve, 67 00:04:59,875 --> 00:05:05,195 Speaker 1: the diseased mind, a political appointee pretending to be a judge, 68 00:05:05,475 --> 00:05:10,755 Speaker 1: a hack appointed to someday repay Trump's favor to her, 69 00:05:11,115 --> 00:05:15,435 Speaker 1: like a crime land lawyer or doctor. It's not my place, 70 00:05:15,515 --> 00:05:18,115 Speaker 1: under all the case law to tell them, she said, 71 00:05:18,155 --> 00:05:20,755 Speaker 1: of the Judiciary Committee, what and how they ought to 72 00:05:20,795 --> 00:05:24,195 Speaker 1: conduct their inquiry unquote, and yet that is exactly what 73 00:05:24,275 --> 00:05:27,435 Speaker 1: she just did with the DA's office. She ruled it 74 00:05:27,555 --> 00:05:30,395 Speaker 1: was her place, under all the case law, to tell 75 00:05:30,435 --> 00:05:33,355 Speaker 1: them what and how they ought to conduct their inquiry. 76 00:05:33,595 --> 00:05:40,835 Speaker 1: She is an utter, flaming, corrupt fraud. Alvin Bragg sued 77 00:05:40,995 --> 00:05:45,075 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan and described his manipulation and exploitation of the 78 00:05:45,155 --> 00:05:48,555 Speaker 1: laws of the United States as quote, a direct threat 79 00:05:48,595 --> 00:05:52,355 Speaker 1: to federalism and the sovereign interests of the State of 80 00:05:52,435 --> 00:05:56,955 Speaker 1: New York, two things Republicans claim to believe in, and 81 00:05:57,075 --> 00:06:01,035 Speaker 1: of course they do not, because Republicans believe in nothing. 82 00:06:01,515 --> 00:06:07,235 Speaker 1: They are, in fact, nihilists. I hope mister brad can 83 00:06:07,235 --> 00:06:09,675 Speaker 1: now amend his suit to include this Judge Vice Casil 84 00:06:10,115 --> 00:06:12,915 Speaker 1: and correctly Charger and Jordan with using the Constitution of 85 00:06:12,915 --> 00:06:17,235 Speaker 1: the United States with which to wipe Donald Trump's ass. Enough. 86 00:06:18,995 --> 00:06:22,795 Speaker 1: The Republicans are not legislators. They're not acting for the 87 00:06:22,875 --> 00:06:24,995 Speaker 1: United States of America. They are not even acting for 88 00:06:25,035 --> 00:06:28,835 Speaker 1: their own constituents and whatever version of eighteenth century America 89 00:06:28,875 --> 00:06:31,315 Speaker 1: they want to drag us back to. They are simply 90 00:06:31,395 --> 00:06:38,315 Speaker 1: performance artists and bad ones, mediocrites, punks, morons, bilking, the Rubes, 91 00:06:38,755 --> 00:06:42,115 Speaker 1: and sacrificing this nation on the altar of chump, and 92 00:06:42,155 --> 00:06:44,795 Speaker 1: the time has come to barricade them inside their bubble 93 00:06:45,035 --> 00:06:47,475 Speaker 1: and leave them there for the rest of their lives. 94 00:06:47,875 --> 00:06:51,235 Speaker 1: Because this is who Jim Jordan is. And I mentioned 95 00:06:51,275 --> 00:06:55,075 Speaker 1: this in passing yesterday in the Worst Person's segment, but 96 00:06:55,195 --> 00:07:00,395 Speaker 1: it requires a longer explanation. Jim Jordan goes to Manhattan 97 00:07:00,395 --> 00:07:03,715 Speaker 1: and holds a field hearing with other members of his 98 00:07:04,115 --> 00:07:08,195 Speaker 1: Manure in human form Republicans, in which they try to 99 00:07:08,235 --> 00:07:12,155 Speaker 1: smear Alvin Bragg on Trump's behalf by portraying Alvin Bragg 100 00:07:12,155 --> 00:07:16,395 Speaker 1: as soft on crime and Manhattan as a hellscape, even 101 00:07:16,395 --> 00:07:20,235 Speaker 1: though it is ten times safer by all metrics than 102 00:07:20,275 --> 00:07:24,275 Speaker 1: the cursed town in Ohio from which Jim Jordan hails. 103 00:07:25,195 --> 00:07:29,235 Speaker 1: And so Jim Jordan brought in a woman named Jennifer Harrison, 104 00:07:29,755 --> 00:07:33,315 Speaker 1: who founded a group called Victim Rights n Why And 105 00:07:33,395 --> 00:07:36,595 Speaker 1: she tells her story, and I understand that people get 106 00:07:36,675 --> 00:07:40,955 Speaker 1: warped when violence touches or claims people near them, I 107 00:07:40,995 --> 00:07:44,475 Speaker 1: mean hell. Nancy Grace's fiance was murdered, a horrible act 108 00:07:44,635 --> 00:07:48,595 Speaker 1: which she then embellished for twenty years for reasons which 109 00:07:48,635 --> 00:07:52,555 Speaker 1: remain unclear. Well this. Jennifer Harrison goes on to tell 110 00:07:52,595 --> 00:07:55,395 Speaker 1: the story of the day her boyfriend was murdered too, 111 00:07:55,595 --> 00:07:59,795 Speaker 1: stabbed to death quote at a nightclub, and Jordan and 112 00:07:59,795 --> 00:08:03,315 Speaker 1: the committee members bark on Q like seals, and they 113 00:08:03,355 --> 00:08:05,875 Speaker 1: all decry what a night mar or Manhattan has become 114 00:08:05,955 --> 00:08:09,435 Speaker 1: under Alvin Bragg. And you can't trust anything Alvin Bragg does. 115 00:08:10,155 --> 00:08:12,715 Speaker 1: And the video of that goes wall to wall on Fox, 116 00:08:12,835 --> 00:08:15,155 Speaker 1: and the New York media eats it up because violence 117 00:08:15,235 --> 00:08:19,195 Speaker 1: sells papers and increases audiences and drives up clicks. And 118 00:08:19,235 --> 00:08:22,595 Speaker 1: nobody bothers to google Jennifer Harrison. And if they had 119 00:08:22,635 --> 00:08:26,035 Speaker 1: googled Jennifer Harrison, they would have found three rather unfortunate 120 00:08:26,075 --> 00:08:29,355 Speaker 1: things about this story and the death of her boyfriend, 121 00:08:29,435 --> 00:08:33,835 Speaker 1: Kevin Davis. Number one, he was stabbed in the year 122 00:08:33,915 --> 00:08:37,955 Speaker 1: two thousand and five, which would be seventeen years before 123 00:08:37,995 --> 00:08:41,635 Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg became the DA in Manhattan. Number two, he 124 00:08:41,715 --> 00:08:44,675 Speaker 1: was stabbed in what newspaper accounts of the time characterized 125 00:08:44,715 --> 00:08:49,075 Speaker 1: as a go go bar in a dispute over a woman, 126 00:08:49,075 --> 00:08:51,635 Speaker 1: and none of those accounts indicate the woman was Jennifer Harrison. 127 00:08:52,475 --> 00:08:55,235 Speaker 1: And number three, the most relevant part and see if 128 00:08:55,235 --> 00:08:57,515 Speaker 1: you can see where the whole Jim Jordan argument falls 129 00:08:57,515 --> 00:09:00,115 Speaker 1: to the ground. He was stabbed in a bar called 130 00:09:00,235 --> 00:09:07,555 Speaker 1: Lookers in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Elizabeth, New Jersey is fifty 131 00:09:07,635 --> 00:09:12,155 Speaker 1: miles outside of alviin Bragg's jurisdiction. And what the hell 132 00:09:12,355 --> 00:09:15,635 Speaker 1: was this woman who was warped enough to politicize and 133 00:09:15,795 --> 00:09:19,995 Speaker 1: exploit her own boyfriend's murder on behalf of Donald Trump 134 00:09:20,035 --> 00:09:22,635 Speaker 1: and the Republicans doing in front of a hearing about 135 00:09:22,635 --> 00:09:25,195 Speaker 1: a place that, for all we know, her boyfriend never 136 00:09:25,275 --> 00:09:30,635 Speaker 1: even lived in. Congratulations, Jim Jordan, you see through con 137 00:09:30,675 --> 00:09:34,235 Speaker 1: Man your lead example of what a bad job Alvin 138 00:09:34,235 --> 00:09:37,155 Speaker 1: Bragg is doing in Manhattan was murdered in another city, 139 00:09:37,715 --> 00:09:42,435 Speaker 1: in another state, an hour plus away by car, seventeen 140 00:09:42,635 --> 00:09:49,435 Speaker 1: years ago. We have to free this country. We must 141 00:09:49,515 --> 00:09:53,195 Speaker 1: liberate it of the Republican Party at all levels, from 142 00:09:53,275 --> 00:09:57,115 Speaker 1: Chump to his corrupted judges like this idiot Vice Casil 143 00:09:57,555 --> 00:10:01,315 Speaker 1: to Clarence Thomas, to Samuel Alito, who just last night 144 00:10:01,355 --> 00:10:05,475 Speaker 1: extended the Mafeperstone case another two days, presumably to give 145 00:10:05,555 --> 00:10:08,115 Speaker 1: himself enough time to try to bully another justice or 146 00:10:08,155 --> 00:10:11,915 Speaker 1: two into supporting a ban on the flimsiest political pretext 147 00:10:12,515 --> 00:10:14,995 Speaker 1: of the drug the FDA approved more than twenty years 148 00:10:15,035 --> 00:10:18,075 Speaker 1: ago that has been working without issue ever since. Why 149 00:10:18,115 --> 00:10:24,955 Speaker 1: else do you think Alito postponed this? And we must 150 00:10:25,035 --> 00:10:29,195 Speaker 1: liberate this country from Jim Jordan and do his little sidekick, 151 00:10:29,275 --> 00:10:33,555 Speaker 1: this witch Marjorie Taylor Green, because just listen to what 152 00:10:33,635 --> 00:10:38,235 Speaker 1: she tried to do yesterday, the House rules and federal laws. 153 00:10:39,035 --> 00:10:42,875 Speaker 1: She tried to make up out of whole cloth at 154 00:10:42,875 --> 00:10:47,875 Speaker 1: a congressional hearing, and thank god Dan Goldman was able 155 00:10:48,475 --> 00:10:51,555 Speaker 1: to rack her up. How long are you going to 156 00:10:51,675 --> 00:10:52,355 Speaker 1: let this go on? 157 00:10:53,475 --> 00:10:56,075 Speaker 2: Congresswoman? Let me assure you that we're not letting it 158 00:10:56,155 --> 00:10:56,555 Speaker 2: go on. 159 00:10:56,915 --> 00:10:58,235 Speaker 3: We are fighting this scrip. 160 00:10:58,395 --> 00:10:59,515 Speaker 2: No, I reclaim my time. 161 00:10:59,555 --> 00:11:02,075 Speaker 1: You're a liar. You are letting this go on in 162 00:11:02,075 --> 00:11:02,795 Speaker 1: the numbers. 163 00:11:03,075 --> 00:11:06,995 Speaker 3: So, in making a rule on this, it's pretty clear 164 00:11:07,395 --> 00:11:12,835 Speaker 3: that the rules state you can't impugne someone's character. Identifying 165 00:11:12,915 --> 00:11:15,555 Speaker 3: or calling someone a liar is unacceptable in this committee, 166 00:11:15,795 --> 00:11:17,955 Speaker 3: and I make the ruling that we strike those words. 167 00:11:18,835 --> 00:11:21,115 Speaker 3: My understanding is if words are taken down, that means 168 00:11:21,155 --> 00:11:25,155 Speaker 3: that the member can no longer speak and whatever the 169 00:11:25,195 --> 00:11:27,555 Speaker 3: proceeding is that those words were. 170 00:11:27,515 --> 00:11:35,155 Speaker 1: Set personal inquiry, point of personal inquiry. 171 00:11:35,395 --> 00:11:38,795 Speaker 3: There's no such thing. When we strike, it does terminate 172 00:11:38,835 --> 00:11:43,115 Speaker 3: the time of the individual who is speaking. So the 173 00:11:43,475 --> 00:11:47,755 Speaker 3: general Lady is no longer recognized. The chair now recognizes 174 00:11:47,875 --> 00:11:50,715 Speaker 3: mister Ivy, I believe. Can I make a point of inquiry, 175 00:11:51,035 --> 00:11:54,995 Speaker 3: mister chairman, you can. So the ruling was that because 176 00:11:55,035 --> 00:11:58,835 Speaker 3: you use the word liar, that was taken down, which 177 00:11:58,835 --> 00:12:03,595 Speaker 3: I agree with. Yes, but accusing a statement of fact 178 00:12:03,715 --> 00:12:07,435 Speaker 3: is very similar to the posters that mister there's no statement. 179 00:12:08,795 --> 00:12:11,355 Speaker 1: There's no statement actual basis for the statement. 180 00:12:11,395 --> 00:12:13,235 Speaker 3: We're not here to debate this, Okay. 181 00:12:13,875 --> 00:12:18,315 Speaker 1: They all have to go. When they can be subpoenaed 182 00:12:18,435 --> 00:12:22,235 Speaker 1: like Clarence Thomas and humiliated, they must be subpoened and humiliated. 183 00:12:23,115 --> 00:12:25,435 Speaker 1: When they can be ignored like this Jim Jordan, they 184 00:12:25,515 --> 00:12:28,555 Speaker 1: must be ignored. When they can be indicted for obstruction, 185 00:12:28,715 --> 00:12:31,755 Speaker 1: like this Judge Mary Ann Viscasil, they must be indicted 186 00:12:31,755 --> 00:12:34,075 Speaker 1: for obstruction. And when they can be expelled from the 187 00:12:34,115 --> 00:12:38,835 Speaker 1: House of Representatives, like this human skid mark Marjorie Green, 188 00:12:39,475 --> 00:12:57,755 Speaker 1: they must be expelled. Still ahead on this edition of Countdown, 189 00:12:57,795 --> 00:13:02,715 Speaker 1: remember Nancy Mace, the reasonable Republican congresswoman who said the 190 00:13:02,755 --> 00:13:06,235 Speaker 1: draconian stance on abortion was going to kill the party. 191 00:13:06,675 --> 00:13:10,755 Speaker 1: She's just accused, with no evidence at all, President Biden, 192 00:13:10,915 --> 00:13:16,315 Speaker 1: of involvement in a prostitution ring. Republicans are all power 193 00:13:16,355 --> 00:13:20,395 Speaker 1: mad monsters, and we have to rid this country of them. 194 00:13:21,235 --> 00:13:24,635 Speaker 1: Baseball sees only its third in game ejection ever of 195 00:13:24,675 --> 00:13:27,955 Speaker 1: a pitcher who allegedly had too much sticky substance on 196 00:13:28,035 --> 00:13:31,275 Speaker 1: his hands. This time it's the star Max Scherzer. But 197 00:13:31,315 --> 00:13:33,675 Speaker 1: this is not a Max Scherzer problem. This is an 198 00:13:33,795 --> 00:13:38,715 Speaker 1: umpire problem. Three years, only three ejections, but all three 199 00:13:38,715 --> 00:13:44,035 Speaker 1: ejections have been by the same umpire. And thirty nine 200 00:13:44,155 --> 00:13:47,155 Speaker 1: years ago today, I was packing the last of my 201 00:13:47,275 --> 00:13:50,435 Speaker 1: belongings for the first great adventure of my television career. 202 00:13:50,635 --> 00:13:54,155 Speaker 1: I was moving to Boston to become the new rival 203 00:13:54,195 --> 00:13:57,115 Speaker 1: of the top TV sportscaster in that town. I had 204 00:13:57,115 --> 00:14:00,035 Speaker 1: fought for nearly a year to get the chance just 205 00:14:00,075 --> 00:14:05,995 Speaker 1: to take the job, and the job would last five months. 206 00:14:07,675 --> 00:14:10,115 Speaker 1: You mean oops? Don't you just say oops and get 207 00:14:10,155 --> 00:14:16,995 Speaker 1: out oops things I promised not to tell coming up? 208 00:14:17,755 --> 00:14:20,195 Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. 209 00:14:25,595 --> 00:14:29,035 Speaker 3: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. 210 00:14:41,515 --> 00:14:47,915 Speaker 1: This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 211 00:14:48,795 --> 00:14:54,955 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith Olberman in sports. Pitcher Max Scherzer 212 00:14:54,995 --> 00:14:56,955 Speaker 1: of the New York Mets was ejected from a game 213 00:14:56,955 --> 00:14:59,835 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles in the fourth inning yesterday by the 214 00:14:59,835 --> 00:15:03,995 Speaker 1: first base umpire Phil Coozy. Couzy decided Schurezer was using 215 00:15:04,035 --> 00:15:08,635 Speaker 1: an on all authorized sticky substance on his hands. Without 216 00:15:08,675 --> 00:15:12,075 Speaker 1: getting into the arcane rule or the even more arcane 217 00:15:12,155 --> 00:15:15,915 Speaker 1: timeline here, Schuzer had already been questioned earlier in the 218 00:15:15,955 --> 00:15:18,795 Speaker 1: game about sticky stuff, and so during the third inning 219 00:15:18,875 --> 00:15:22,155 Speaker 1: he washed his hands clean while a baseball official watched 220 00:15:22,235 --> 00:15:24,715 Speaker 1: him do so. Scherzer said he knew he would be 221 00:15:24,795 --> 00:15:26,675 Speaker 1: examined again in the fourth inning, and as he said, 222 00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:28,715 Speaker 1: I'd have to be an absolute idiot to try to 223 00:15:28,755 --> 00:15:30,795 Speaker 1: do anything when I'm coming back out in the fourth. 224 00:15:31,075 --> 00:15:34,435 Speaker 1: He said. The substance the umpire saw was rosin mixed 225 00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:38,875 Speaker 1: with sweat, and both are legal, and umpire Phil Couzy 226 00:15:39,115 --> 00:15:42,995 Speaker 1: ejected him anyway. The reason this matters is that baseball 227 00:15:43,035 --> 00:15:46,195 Speaker 1: has had this rule about sticky substances for almost exactly 228 00:15:46,315 --> 00:15:50,475 Speaker 1: three years now, and only three times has a pitcher 229 00:15:50,635 --> 00:15:54,435 Speaker 1: ever been ejected from a game for violating this rule. 230 00:15:55,075 --> 00:15:59,675 Speaker 1: But each time it happened, the umpire was this same guy, 231 00:16:00,195 --> 00:16:04,275 Speaker 1: Phil Couzy, And once again the big problem facing baseball 232 00:16:04,315 --> 00:16:06,955 Speaker 1: is what is known colloquially in the game as quote 233 00:16:07,555 --> 00:16:12,155 Speaker 1: ump show. Every few years, the empires decide, for some 234 00:16:12,195 --> 00:16:14,475 Speaker 1: reason they are not being noticed enough, we're paid enough, 235 00:16:14,515 --> 00:16:17,675 Speaker 1: we're thanked enough, and suddenly they make themselves the story 236 00:16:17,835 --> 00:16:21,555 Speaker 1: in every other game. Twenty five years ago this thing 237 00:16:21,675 --> 00:16:24,755 Speaker 1: peaked for the first time. Ejections of players and managers 238 00:16:24,755 --> 00:16:27,675 Speaker 1: and coaches was at an all time high. Umpires were 239 00:16:27,755 --> 00:16:31,195 Speaker 1: chasing after players and managers who were walking off the field, 240 00:16:31,315 --> 00:16:35,315 Speaker 1: seemingly trying to bake them into arguments and dejections. It 241 00:16:35,395 --> 00:16:39,155 Speaker 1: was when the term ump show was born, and even 242 00:16:40,235 --> 00:16:45,155 Speaker 1: they got around to threatening the announcers. That October, before 243 00:16:45,155 --> 00:16:47,675 Speaker 1: the sixth, then final game of the American League Championship Series, 244 00:16:48,355 --> 00:16:51,115 Speaker 1: I was part of the telecast of the game on NBC. 245 00:16:51,715 --> 00:16:54,235 Speaker 1: I was based in the camera well, adjoining the visitors 246 00:16:54,315 --> 00:16:56,635 Speaker 1: dugout on the third base side at Yankee Stadium in 247 00:16:56,675 --> 00:16:59,635 Speaker 1: New York. We had a very brief pregame show and 248 00:16:59,675 --> 00:17:01,835 Speaker 1: I did about a one minute report on the various 249 00:17:01,835 --> 00:17:04,875 Speaker 1: Cleveland injuries and the third base cameraman then handed me 250 00:17:04,955 --> 00:17:08,315 Speaker 1: the tiny monitor that had been stuck atop his camera lens, 251 00:17:08,315 --> 00:17:11,315 Speaker 1: and he said, here you go, enjoy. It was black 252 00:17:11,355 --> 00:17:15,995 Speaker 1: and white. The screen measured about two inches wide by 253 00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:19,635 Speaker 1: about an inch and a half high. It existed solely 254 00:17:19,675 --> 00:17:22,395 Speaker 1: to tell somebody the answer to one question, whether or 255 00:17:22,435 --> 00:17:26,515 Speaker 1: not they were actually on TV. Anything smaller than me 256 00:17:27,475 --> 00:17:30,355 Speaker 1: basically was impossible to see on this inch and a 257 00:17:30,395 --> 00:17:33,315 Speaker 1: half by two inch monitor untwo and unless you held 258 00:17:33,355 --> 00:17:37,795 Speaker 1: it up to your eye and then squinted. As I 259 00:17:37,835 --> 00:17:40,675 Speaker 1: climbed into my little crawl space back next to the 260 00:17:40,715 --> 00:17:43,755 Speaker 1: Cleveland dugout the third base umpire for the game, John 261 00:17:43,795 --> 00:17:46,555 Speaker 1: Sholock trotted over. Hey, he barked, I don't want to 262 00:17:46,555 --> 00:17:49,515 Speaker 1: see any players looking at that. I literally did not 263 00:17:49,635 --> 00:17:51,275 Speaker 1: know what he meant. I thought at first that Sholock 264 00:17:51,315 --> 00:17:55,355 Speaker 1: did not like my tie at what. He barked again, 265 00:17:55,395 --> 00:17:57,795 Speaker 1: you know, God, Dan, well what I don't want players 266 00:17:57,835 --> 00:17:59,995 Speaker 1: looking at replays on that television of yours, and then 267 00:18:00,035 --> 00:18:04,075 Speaker 1: telling me I blew the call. I laughed. I said, John, 268 00:18:04,075 --> 00:18:06,035 Speaker 1: please look at it. You can barely tell if the 269 00:18:06,035 --> 00:18:09,395 Speaker 1: thing is on or off. He looked, he was unmoved. 270 00:18:09,715 --> 00:18:11,835 Speaker 1: I don't want to see players looking at it understood. 271 00:18:14,075 --> 00:18:17,795 Speaker 1: I had been covering Cleveland on NBC game telecasts for 272 00:18:17,835 --> 00:18:20,755 Speaker 1: two years throughout the nineteen ninety seven World Series, throughout 273 00:18:20,795 --> 00:18:23,195 Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety eight playoffs. You get to know the players. 274 00:18:23,195 --> 00:18:25,675 Speaker 1: That way, bottom of the third inning, there's a close 275 00:18:25,755 --> 00:18:28,675 Speaker 1: play as Bernie Williams of the Yankees slides into second 276 00:18:28,675 --> 00:18:31,715 Speaker 1: base and he's called safe by the umpire Ted Hendry, 277 00:18:32,035 --> 00:18:34,235 Speaker 1: and some of the Cleveland players thought he was out. 278 00:18:34,635 --> 00:18:37,195 Speaker 1: And during that inning, a couple of them on the 279 00:18:37,195 --> 00:18:41,675 Speaker 1: bench came over to my perch, slowly, not urgently, not angrily. 280 00:18:41,915 --> 00:18:46,115 Speaker 1: They didn't run. Was the replay clear? Could you tell? 281 00:18:46,715 --> 00:18:49,715 Speaker 1: I said it didn't seem decisive. I mean, I really 282 00:18:49,715 --> 00:18:52,515 Speaker 1: couldn't see it. But since on my screen Bernie Williams 283 00:18:52,555 --> 00:18:55,635 Speaker 1: was about three quarters of an inch tall, I actually 284 00:18:55,675 --> 00:18:58,675 Speaker 1: thought the umpires were right. And one of the Cleveland 285 00:18:58,675 --> 00:19:02,795 Speaker 1: players left. When Cleveland pitcher finally got the Yankees out 286 00:19:02,795 --> 00:19:04,635 Speaker 1: that inning, what do I see but that third base 287 00:19:04,755 --> 00:19:07,755 Speaker 1: umpire John Shulock running at me full speed. I told 288 00:19:07,795 --> 00:19:12,115 Speaker 1: you expletive deleted not to show them the expletive deleted replays, 289 00:19:12,315 --> 00:19:15,155 Speaker 1: And if you expletive deleted, do it again, I'll throw 290 00:19:15,195 --> 00:19:18,315 Speaker 1: you in your expletive deleted camera out of this expletive 291 00:19:18,315 --> 00:19:22,155 Speaker 1: deleted ballpark. I noticed at this point some of the 292 00:19:22,195 --> 00:19:25,475 Speaker 1: Cleveland players on the bench staring at both of us. 293 00:19:25,995 --> 00:19:27,875 Speaker 1: I was not in a good mood that day, so 294 00:19:28,515 --> 00:19:32,275 Speaker 1: I shouted back at the umpire the hell you expletive 295 00:19:32,275 --> 00:19:35,955 Speaker 1: deleted are? Two guys asked me what I saw? I said, 296 00:19:35,955 --> 00:19:39,515 Speaker 1: I thought Hendry got the expletive deleted call right, So 297 00:19:39,635 --> 00:19:42,675 Speaker 1: go ahead throw me the expletive deleted out of here. 298 00:19:42,675 --> 00:19:46,515 Speaker 1: When NBC is paying millions of expletive deleted dollars for 299 00:19:46,635 --> 00:19:51,355 Speaker 1: me to expletive deleted be here, see how expletive deleted 300 00:19:51,395 --> 00:19:55,355 Speaker 1: long you expletive deleted last in this expletive deleted league. 301 00:19:55,715 --> 00:20:02,475 Speaker 1: After expletive deleted that, he left. To his credit. After 302 00:20:02,515 --> 00:20:05,115 Speaker 1: the next inning, John Shulock came back over from third 303 00:20:05,195 --> 00:20:09,075 Speaker 1: base and apologized, the league's really been getting on us. 304 00:20:09,115 --> 00:20:12,435 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I said, I was sorry, I said again. 305 00:20:12,555 --> 00:20:16,195 Speaker 1: Nobody can see anything on this TV, I know, he said, 306 00:20:16,235 --> 00:20:19,675 Speaker 1: and he left again. Well, by now I was the 307 00:20:19,755 --> 00:20:23,035 Speaker 1: hero of the Cleveland bench. One of the pitchers, Steve 308 00:20:23,115 --> 00:20:25,315 Speaker 1: Cars and one of the infielders, Joey Korra came over 309 00:20:25,355 --> 00:20:28,475 Speaker 1: and said, welcome to the club, and they told me 310 00:20:28,555 --> 00:20:31,235 Speaker 1: this amazing story of a day that summer in the 311 00:20:31,275 --> 00:20:35,315 Speaker 1: old ballpark in Milwaukee. One of their coaches, Johnny Gorel, 312 00:20:35,915 --> 00:20:38,115 Speaker 1: was trying to read an out of town score on 313 00:20:38,155 --> 00:20:40,595 Speaker 1: the scoreboard, and from where he stood in the third 314 00:20:40,595 --> 00:20:44,275 Speaker 1: base dugout at County Stadium in Milwaukee, wouldn't you know it, 315 00:20:44,795 --> 00:20:48,115 Speaker 1: his view of that exact spot on the scoreboard where 316 00:20:48,115 --> 00:20:52,675 Speaker 1: that exact score was was blocked by where the second 317 00:20:52,675 --> 00:20:56,795 Speaker 1: base umpire was standing. So Gorel just moved down towards 318 00:20:56,835 --> 00:21:00,155 Speaker 1: the far end of the dugout, and at the same time, unknowingly, 319 00:21:00,195 --> 00:21:02,555 Speaker 1: the ump moved to his right, and so the ump 320 00:21:02,595 --> 00:21:05,955 Speaker 1: managed to remain blocking that of the scoreboard that Johnny 321 00:21:05,955 --> 00:21:09,475 Speaker 1: Gorel needed to see. So Johnny Gorel moved back towards 322 00:21:09,475 --> 00:21:11,195 Speaker 1: the near end of the dugout. Sure enough, the umpire 323 00:21:11,275 --> 00:21:14,515 Speaker 1: moved again, and so when Gorel moved a third time, 324 00:21:14,795 --> 00:21:18,955 Speaker 1: the second base umpire suddenly called time and dejected Johnny 325 00:21:18,955 --> 00:21:23,275 Speaker 1: Gorel from the game. Gorel and his manager, Mike Hargrove 326 00:21:23,355 --> 00:21:25,315 Speaker 1: ran onto the field to try to understand what had happened, 327 00:21:25,355 --> 00:21:27,435 Speaker 1: and they were told that Johnny Gorel had been mocking 328 00:21:28,035 --> 00:21:32,155 Speaker 1: and distracting the second base umpire by moving around too 329 00:21:32,235 --> 00:21:35,955 Speaker 1: much in the dugout. And just as the guys were 330 00:21:35,955 --> 00:21:38,275 Speaker 1: getting to this part of the story, who joins them 331 00:21:38,315 --> 00:21:40,915 Speaker 1: at my end of the dugout? But manager Mike har 332 00:21:40,915 --> 00:21:43,995 Speaker 1: Grove himself, and he says, you guys telling Keith the 333 00:21:44,235 --> 00:21:50,075 Speaker 1: Gorel story. The epidemic of ump show in nineteen ninety eight, 334 00:21:50,115 --> 00:21:52,235 Speaker 1: which we may be on the verge of repeating, was 335 00:21:52,275 --> 00:21:54,995 Speaker 1: so bad that when Cleveland lost that day and did 336 00:21:54,995 --> 00:21:57,035 Speaker 1: not go to the World Series and instead saw their 337 00:21:57,075 --> 00:21:59,515 Speaker 1: season end, I went into the clubhouse to say goodbye 338 00:21:59,595 --> 00:22:00,875 Speaker 1: to a couple of the players who I had come 339 00:22:00,915 --> 00:22:04,395 Speaker 1: to note pretty well, and sure enough, the big catcher, 340 00:22:04,435 --> 00:22:07,795 Speaker 1: sand Alamar Junior sees me and he runs over and 341 00:22:07,835 --> 00:22:10,555 Speaker 1: mind you, they've just lost. Their season is over. He 342 00:22:10,635 --> 00:22:15,155 Speaker 1: grabs both my arms and sincerely asks you're all right, man, 343 00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:18,795 Speaker 1: And he's serious. I hear you just joined the club. 344 00:22:19,115 --> 00:22:24,875 Speaker 1: Welcome to ump show. Baseball has another developing time of 345 00:22:24,995 --> 00:22:27,875 Speaker 1: ump show because that ejection yesterday was not a sticky 346 00:22:27,915 --> 00:22:31,355 Speaker 1: substance problem, and it was not a max Scherzer problem. 347 00:22:32,475 --> 00:22:49,435 Speaker 1: It's a Phil Coozy problem still ahead on countdown. The 348 00:22:49,435 --> 00:22:53,315 Speaker 1: definition of that old phrase, the anticipation is greater than 349 00:22:53,355 --> 00:22:56,715 Speaker 1: the event. I waited nearly a month for the first 350 00:22:56,755 --> 00:23:00,635 Speaker 1: big time job of my career, local TV sportscaster in Boston, 351 00:23:00,995 --> 00:23:04,195 Speaker 1: thirty nine years ago. This month I finally got to 352 00:23:04,235 --> 00:23:07,155 Speaker 1: move there. It was a month of waiting on top 353 00:23:07,195 --> 00:23:10,435 Speaker 1: of a year of waiting, and the job lasted all 354 00:23:10,475 --> 00:23:14,795 Speaker 1: the way to thirty nine years ago this October things 355 00:23:14,835 --> 00:23:16,875 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. Coming up first time for 356 00:23:16,915 --> 00:23:18,435 Speaker 1: the daily round up with the miss Grants, morons and 357 00:23:18,515 --> 00:23:22,155 Speaker 1: Dunning krug effect specimens who constitute today's worse persons in 358 00:23:22,195 --> 00:23:26,355 Speaker 1: the world, Ask not what worse persons in the world 359 00:23:26,435 --> 00:23:29,435 Speaker 1: can do for you? Because the bronze goes to Robert F. 360 00:23:29,515 --> 00:23:33,755 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior. Yesterday he announced his boy is he going 361 00:23:33,835 --> 00:23:37,795 Speaker 1: to be Surprised campaign to supplant Joe Biden as the 362 00:23:37,835 --> 00:23:42,115 Speaker 1: Democratic presidential nominee next year. His announcement was basically an 363 00:23:42,155 --> 00:23:45,555 Speaker 1: experiment to see how many times he could mention his father, 364 00:23:46,435 --> 00:23:49,675 Speaker 1: and his uncle and his other uncle the ask not 365 00:23:49,915 --> 00:23:54,315 Speaker 1: President over the course of a two hour speech, again 366 00:23:54,515 --> 00:23:57,795 Speaker 1: and again and again and again, except for the part 367 00:23:57,875 --> 00:24:01,155 Speaker 1: where he said President Trump gets blamed for a lot 368 00:24:01,195 --> 00:24:05,035 Speaker 1: of things he didn't do, unquote, which is certain to 369 00:24:05,035 --> 00:24:08,755 Speaker 1: get them all kinds of support in Democratic primaries. Oh God, Bob, 370 00:24:09,395 --> 00:24:13,155 Speaker 1: just go home please. From a former friend, Just go home. 371 00:24:14,355 --> 00:24:17,875 Speaker 1: Runner up Nancy Mace, congresswoman from North Carolina and until 372 00:24:17,915 --> 00:24:22,155 Speaker 1: this week's supposedly serious person. Ah, but this week was 373 00:24:22,195 --> 00:24:25,755 Speaker 1: when she posted a video in which she's recording herself 374 00:24:25,795 --> 00:24:29,475 Speaker 1: as she walks on a Washington street watch out for potholes, 375 00:24:29,915 --> 00:24:34,235 Speaker 1: saying she's just been looking at suspicious activity reports at 376 00:24:34,235 --> 00:24:37,115 Speaker 1: the Treasury Department about the Biden family and one of 377 00:24:37,155 --> 00:24:41,755 Speaker 1: them ties the president to shell companies, prostitution rings, et cetera. 378 00:24:42,275 --> 00:24:45,835 Speaker 1: No evidence, just what she says she saw in a 379 00:24:45,915 --> 00:24:49,995 Speaker 1: report at the Treasury Department that would be called slander, 380 00:24:50,955 --> 00:24:53,155 Speaker 1: you know. Ms Mace proudly notes that she is a 381 00:24:53,195 --> 00:24:56,475 Speaker 1: former waitress at a waffle house, which is a career 382 00:24:56,515 --> 00:25:00,395 Speaker 1: she can resume if the President sues her. Gets my grits, 383 00:25:01,555 --> 00:25:04,435 Speaker 1: but the winner is right wing trolls Matt Walsh Blog 384 00:25:04,515 --> 00:25:08,195 Speaker 1: and and Andy No. Not a good week for mister 385 00:25:08,275 --> 00:25:12,875 Speaker 1: Walsh Blog. Mister Walshblog's Twitter account was hacked, and then 386 00:25:12,915 --> 00:25:14,955 Speaker 1: at a speech at the University of Iowa last night, 387 00:25:14,955 --> 00:25:18,275 Speaker 1: he claimed his YouTube channel had been demonetized because he 388 00:25:18,315 --> 00:25:22,155 Speaker 1: insisted on misgendering Dylan mulvaney. So he's losing about a 389 00:25:22,195 --> 00:25:25,875 Speaker 1: million dollars a year so he can get people to 390 00:25:26,715 --> 00:25:32,595 Speaker 1: mindlessly hate for no real reason. Damn shame boy. Maybe 391 00:25:32,635 --> 00:25:35,595 Speaker 1: you can go into something more morally defensible, like becoming 392 00:25:35,595 --> 00:25:38,675 Speaker 1: a hit man. Nah, but it gets worse for mister 393 00:25:38,755 --> 00:25:43,475 Speaker 1: Matt Walsh Blog. The other guy, Andy No reported in fact, 394 00:25:43,515 --> 00:25:47,395 Speaker 1: posted a video of this of a terrifying, vicious, near 395 00:25:47,515 --> 00:25:51,155 Speaker 1: fatal attack on Walshblog and his supporters before his speech 396 00:25:51,235 --> 00:25:55,875 Speaker 1: last night. To quote Nose tweet, Antifa and far left 397 00:25:55,915 --> 00:26:00,795 Speaker 1: extremists tried causing attendees to fall down the stairs by 398 00:26:00,875 --> 00:26:09,035 Speaker 1: dumping marbles all over the ground. What no, no, no, no. 399 00:26:10,875 --> 00:26:15,835 Speaker 2: Not marbles, my god, you vicious fiend. 400 00:26:15,915 --> 00:26:21,675 Speaker 1: Antifas marbles, we're all gonna die. Antifa's now armed with marbles. 401 00:26:21,955 --> 00:26:23,115 Speaker 2: What about the children? 402 00:26:23,155 --> 00:26:28,155 Speaker 1: When somebody think about the children who played marbles? Andy 403 00:26:28,275 --> 00:26:31,755 Speaker 1: No and Matt Walsh Blog, May I have ten thousand 404 00:26:31,795 --> 00:26:38,075 Speaker 1: marbles please, Today's worst marbles in the world. 405 00:26:38,435 --> 00:26:52,315 Speaker 2: Love marbles? 406 00:26:54,595 --> 00:26:57,035 Speaker 1: At Boston Red Sox spring training in nineteen eighty three, 407 00:26:57,075 --> 00:26:59,795 Speaker 1: a fellow named Bob Clark introduced himself as the sports 408 00:26:59,795 --> 00:27:02,435 Speaker 1: producer at this Boston station and said they were all 409 00:27:02,475 --> 00:27:04,595 Speaker 1: fans of my CNN work and that there would be 410 00:27:04,555 --> 00:27:07,875 Speaker 1: a job opening that summer as sports anchor, and could 411 00:27:07,915 --> 00:27:09,875 Speaker 1: he go to his bosses and say I was interested? 412 00:27:09,875 --> 00:27:11,515 Speaker 1: And I said sure, And in fact, if he wanted 413 00:27:11,555 --> 00:27:13,675 Speaker 1: me to go with him to tell his bosses that, 414 00:27:13,795 --> 00:27:15,395 Speaker 1: or if he needed me to carry him to go 415 00:27:15,435 --> 00:27:19,155 Speaker 1: tell his bosses that, I was ready. Things advanced so 416 00:27:19,275 --> 00:27:22,475 Speaker 1: quickly that by Monday, July eighteenth, nineteen eighty three, I 417 00:27:22,515 --> 00:27:25,755 Speaker 1: found myself flying up from New York with my agent, 418 00:27:25,875 --> 00:27:28,115 Speaker 1: and as Boston appeared out the window of the plane, 419 00:27:28,155 --> 00:27:32,435 Speaker 1: she said, you will own this town. Not so much 420 00:27:33,395 --> 00:27:36,555 Speaker 1: maybe later. I went out to the station's headquarters in 421 00:27:36,595 --> 00:27:41,235 Speaker 1: a barren suburb called Needham, and interviewed with everybody, sports producers, 422 00:27:41,275 --> 00:27:44,715 Speaker 1: the news director, finally the general manager. Everybody beamed at 423 00:27:44,755 --> 00:27:48,395 Speaker 1: me and all was going great, having laughed at several 424 00:27:48,435 --> 00:27:50,795 Speaker 1: of my jokes and told me he loved my tape. 425 00:27:50,835 --> 00:27:53,635 Speaker 1: The general manager, a man named Coppersmith, who was about 426 00:27:53,675 --> 00:27:55,835 Speaker 1: to usher me out of his office with a big 427 00:27:55,915 --> 00:28:00,035 Speaker 1: hand on my shoulder when I made a terrible, terrible mistake. 428 00:28:01,475 --> 00:28:04,235 Speaker 1: I told him we had met before, when I was 429 00:28:04,235 --> 00:28:07,395 Speaker 1: a TV inn and he was the general manager of 430 00:28:07,475 --> 00:28:10,915 Speaker 1: his parent company station in New York. I remember him 431 00:28:10,955 --> 00:28:13,195 Speaker 1: looking at me quizzically, and only later did I find 432 00:28:13,235 --> 00:28:15,955 Speaker 1: out that all of his people had lied to him 433 00:28:15,955 --> 00:28:19,395 Speaker 1: without telling me, and they had told him I was 434 00:28:19,475 --> 00:28:22,035 Speaker 1: twenty eight years old. They did not tell me that 435 00:28:22,915 --> 00:28:27,555 Speaker 1: since I was twenty four years old. Coppersmith's last year 436 00:28:27,595 --> 00:28:31,195 Speaker 1: at Channel five in New York had been nineteen seventy eight, 437 00:28:31,515 --> 00:28:33,795 Speaker 1: and even giving me the benefit of the aged out, 438 00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:37,115 Speaker 1: he decided I was no longer anything older than twenty 439 00:28:37,195 --> 00:28:40,235 Speaker 1: six and ultimately he thought that was too young to 440 00:28:40,275 --> 00:28:43,195 Speaker 1: be a sports anchor in a major television market, back 441 00:28:43,195 --> 00:28:46,755 Speaker 1: when those used to be important jobs that paid important money. 442 00:28:47,435 --> 00:28:49,915 Speaker 1: They're sportscasters. Since the station had gone on the air 443 00:28:49,915 --> 00:28:52,835 Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties, had been an avuncular, pleasant, gifted 444 00:28:52,875 --> 00:28:56,435 Speaker 1: man named Don Gillis, but he was cutting back where 445 00:28:56,475 --> 00:28:59,755 Speaker 1: they had decided to cut him back to special feature duty. 446 00:29:00,475 --> 00:29:02,235 Speaker 1: The next day, back in New York City, I went 447 00:29:02,235 --> 00:29:05,395 Speaker 1: out to find out if the Boston newspapers had found 448 00:29:05,475 --> 00:29:09,075 Speaker 1: anything out about my surreptitious trip there. I went to 449 00:29:09,115 --> 00:29:12,475 Speaker 1: a place so wonderful and now so impossible to explain 450 00:29:12,595 --> 00:29:16,315 Speaker 1: to anybody, the out of town newspaper and magazine shop 451 00:29:16,395 --> 00:29:19,475 Speaker 1: in the lobby of the pan Am building, adjacent to 452 00:29:19,755 --> 00:29:23,155 Speaker 1: the Grand Central train station. This was one of the 453 00:29:23,275 --> 00:29:25,955 Speaker 1: smaller of the out of town newsstands in New York. 454 00:29:26,235 --> 00:29:30,315 Speaker 1: It carried about two hundred different American newspapers, dozens more 455 00:29:30,355 --> 00:29:35,155 Speaker 1: from around the world, and every imaginable international magazine was 456 00:29:35,195 --> 00:29:39,795 Speaker 1: always packed. Its entire glory has been wiped out by 457 00:29:39,795 --> 00:29:42,795 Speaker 1: the Internet. Anyway. I bought the Boston Globe and the 458 00:29:42,835 --> 00:29:46,155 Speaker 1: Boston Herald from the same day, and there it was 459 00:29:46,195 --> 00:29:48,635 Speaker 1: on page thirty two of the Globe, a headline over 460 00:29:48,675 --> 00:29:52,275 Speaker 1: a feature by the TV sports columnist Jack Craig. Gillis 461 00:29:52,315 --> 00:29:59,275 Speaker 1: departing soon on horizon. Olberman's credentials good Young. Keith Olberman 462 00:29:59,995 --> 00:30:03,435 Speaker 1: of Cable News Network CNN reportedly was very favorably interviewed 463 00:30:03,435 --> 00:30:06,235 Speaker 1: at Channel five yesterday, possibly signaling the end of the 464 00:30:06,315 --> 00:30:10,115 Speaker 1: Don Gillis era more quickly than anticipated. I was young then, 465 00:30:11,035 --> 00:30:15,515 Speaker 1: but look credentials good, it said in the headline. This 466 00:30:15,795 --> 00:30:18,755 Speaker 1: was it the start of my TV career for real. 467 00:30:19,355 --> 00:30:23,315 Speaker 1: No more having to explain to doubting athletes, doubting colleagues, 468 00:30:24,195 --> 00:30:27,635 Speaker 1: doubting relatives, doubting team executives that there really was a 469 00:30:27,675 --> 00:30:33,155 Speaker 1: TV place called Cable News Network Parenthesis CNN, big money 470 00:30:33,155 --> 00:30:35,035 Speaker 1: and big fame in one of the best sports cities 471 00:30:35,075 --> 00:30:38,035 Speaker 1: in the nation. As even the Globes article noted, there 472 00:30:38,075 --> 00:30:41,075 Speaker 1: is a hitch. Alderman's contract with CNN does not expire 473 00:30:41,155 --> 00:30:42,835 Speaker 1: until next May and whether he would be let out 474 00:30:42,835 --> 00:30:45,715 Speaker 1: for Channel five is uncertain. Well, sure it was, but 475 00:30:45,875 --> 00:30:49,195 Speaker 1: CNN would be nice guys about it, right. This was 476 00:30:49,275 --> 00:30:53,955 Speaker 1: real TV, not some perpetual verge of bankruptcy. Cable thing 477 00:30:54,315 --> 00:30:56,995 Speaker 1: was really just a big delusion by Ted Turner, and 478 00:30:57,355 --> 00:30:59,715 Speaker 1: they needed eight cameras in New York, but that could 479 00:30:59,755 --> 00:31:02,035 Speaker 1: only afford seven, So after being used in the field 480 00:31:02,075 --> 00:31:05,115 Speaker 1: for ten hours, one cameraman would have to lash his 481 00:31:05,235 --> 00:31:08,715 Speaker 1: camera to a tripod for the wide shot shot for 482 00:31:08,795 --> 00:31:13,035 Speaker 1: the nightly Sandy Freeman audio talk show. Even after the 483 00:31:13,035 --> 00:31:16,395 Speaker 1: inevitable occurred one night and the overworked camera burst into 484 00:31:16,395 --> 00:31:25,235 Speaker 1: flames on live TV, CNN would understand by the way 485 00:31:25,315 --> 00:31:27,995 Speaker 1: Sandy Freeman was replaced about a year later by Larry King. 486 00:31:28,075 --> 00:31:32,715 Speaker 1: That's how long ago this actually was. Anyway, CNN's less 487 00:31:32,755 --> 00:31:36,915 Speaker 1: than happy reaction to this was academic. I had unwittingly 488 00:31:37,075 --> 00:31:39,795 Speaker 1: blown it when I revealed to that guy Coppersmith that 489 00:31:39,835 --> 00:31:42,355 Speaker 1: I was not twenty eight years old. Sure enough, on 490 00:31:42,395 --> 00:31:47,035 Speaker 1: August fifteenth, WCBB Channel five Boston announced the hiring of 491 00:31:47,075 --> 00:31:51,075 Speaker 1: a Miami sportscaster named Lee Webb to succeed Don Gillis. 492 00:31:51,395 --> 00:31:53,635 Speaker 1: Webb was a lot of things, and he wasn't a 493 00:31:53,715 --> 00:31:56,155 Speaker 1: lot of other things, but hot damn. He was thirty 494 00:31:56,235 --> 00:31:58,155 Speaker 1: years old, and that made him the man in the 495 00:31:58,155 --> 00:32:02,155 Speaker 1: eyes of the general manager, mister Coppersmith. On the other hand, 496 00:32:02,155 --> 00:32:05,675 Speaker 1: Coppersmith thought his station should still hire me as a reporter. 497 00:32:06,435 --> 00:32:08,555 Speaker 1: The news director, a man who went by the imposing 498 00:32:08,635 --> 00:32:11,995 Speaker 1: name of Philip Scribner Balboni, offered me a spot as 499 00:32:12,075 --> 00:32:15,075 Speaker 1: a feature news reporter a producer, and I would look 500 00:32:15,115 --> 00:32:18,355 Speaker 1: for offbeat, on usual, unique stories and go cover them. 501 00:32:18,755 --> 00:32:20,995 Speaker 1: It was not the sports anchor's job, but it wasn't 502 00:32:21,075 --> 00:32:26,155 Speaker 1: CNN either. LCBB would also wait until CNN finally accepted 503 00:32:26,635 --> 00:32:28,715 Speaker 1: that it was over between the two of us. Whenever 504 00:32:28,755 --> 00:32:32,715 Speaker 1: that was then three more things happened in quick succession. 505 00:32:33,275 --> 00:32:35,915 Speaker 1: Channel five hired a new sports director, a producer who 506 00:32:35,915 --> 00:32:39,155 Speaker 1: would run the department and set its editorial tone. His 507 00:32:39,275 --> 00:32:42,195 Speaker 1: name was Mike Frnandi's, and even after working with him 508 00:32:42,195 --> 00:32:44,115 Speaker 1: for six months, the only thing I knew about him 509 00:32:44,195 --> 00:32:47,475 Speaker 1: was that he had no sense of humor. He understood 510 00:32:47,475 --> 00:32:49,395 Speaker 1: that I was making jokes, but he never got one 511 00:32:49,435 --> 00:32:52,595 Speaker 1: of them. And his principal interest in sports was apparently 512 00:32:52,955 --> 00:32:56,395 Speaker 1: determining which players were Don Juan's so he could refer 513 00:32:56,475 --> 00:33:01,595 Speaker 1: to them endlessly in the office as quote swordsman. The 514 00:33:01,635 --> 00:33:04,155 Speaker 1: second thing that happened was that the sports reporter at 515 00:33:04,235 --> 00:33:06,555 Speaker 1: Channel five, I'm Bob Ryan, already very famous at the 516 00:33:06,595 --> 00:33:10,195 Speaker 1: Boston Globe later even more so nationally at ESPN, told 517 00:33:10,235 --> 00:33:12,435 Speaker 1: management he just could not do both the TV and 518 00:33:12,515 --> 00:33:15,875 Speaker 1: newspaper jobs anymore and he needed to quit. Mind you, 519 00:33:16,755 --> 00:33:19,515 Speaker 1: this was how important sports was on local TV in 520 00:33:19,555 --> 00:33:22,195 Speaker 1: Boston in nineteen eighty three. They had an on air sportscast. 521 00:33:22,275 --> 00:33:25,915 Speaker 1: You're a weekend sportscast. You're a sportscaster emeritus and an 522 00:33:25,995 --> 00:33:29,875 Speaker 1: on air sports reporter, plus all the producers and the 523 00:33:29,915 --> 00:33:33,435 Speaker 1: off air sports director. Often the sportscast in the hour 524 00:33:33,515 --> 00:33:35,795 Speaker 1: long six o'clock news, and there was only the one 525 00:33:35,795 --> 00:33:40,355 Speaker 1: hour of news. The sportscast lasted ten minutes. So, now 526 00:33:40,355 --> 00:33:43,035 Speaker 1: having already offered me the feature news reporting job, news 527 00:33:43,035 --> 00:33:46,555 Speaker 1: director Philip Scribner Balboni offered me my choice of that 528 00:33:46,715 --> 00:33:50,435 Speaker 1: job or Bob Ryan's sports reporting job. And while I 529 00:33:50,555 --> 00:33:54,275 Speaker 1: was debating that, I managed to resist all efforts to 530 00:33:54,435 --> 00:33:57,595 Speaker 1: turn me into a newsman for fifteen years. While I 531 00:33:57,675 --> 00:34:02,435 Speaker 1: was debating that, another Boston station suddenly jumped into the fray. 532 00:34:02,755 --> 00:34:05,635 Speaker 1: Channel seven was a perennial all so ran compared to 533 00:34:05,715 --> 00:34:07,955 Speaker 1: Channel five, whose newscasts were among the best, if not 534 00:34:08,075 --> 00:34:10,755 Speaker 1: the best, in the country. Without as much as asking 535 00:34:10,755 --> 00:34:13,955 Speaker 1: me to even come visit, Channel seven offered me the 536 00:34:14,075 --> 00:34:17,555 Speaker 1: job as its sports director, anchored the sports at six 537 00:34:17,635 --> 00:34:20,275 Speaker 1: and eleven, run the department, and get much more money 538 00:34:20,315 --> 00:34:23,955 Speaker 1: than Channel five. It offered me, and I turned it 539 00:34:24,075 --> 00:34:28,435 Speaker 1: down out of loyalty to Channel five because they asked first. 540 00:34:28,715 --> 00:34:32,235 Speaker 2: I turned it down moren. 541 00:34:33,515 --> 00:34:37,515 Speaker 1: Channel five was out in the as I said, baron suburbs, 542 00:34:37,595 --> 00:34:41,035 Speaker 1: Channel seven was in downtown Boston. I would be making 543 00:34:41,275 --> 00:34:44,355 Speaker 1: like one hundred thousand a year at age twenty five, 544 00:34:44,435 --> 00:34:48,195 Speaker 1: with no responsibilities, living and working in downtown Boston in 545 00:34:48,355 --> 00:34:49,515 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty. 546 00:34:49,235 --> 00:34:51,195 Speaker 2: Four morn. 547 00:34:52,555 --> 00:34:54,555 Speaker 1: So anyway, I get to Boston at the end of 548 00:34:54,595 --> 00:34:58,395 Speaker 1: April nineteen eighty four at Channel five, and on my 549 00:34:58,435 --> 00:35:00,675 Speaker 1: first day out in the barren suburbs, I walk up 550 00:35:00,715 --> 00:35:03,835 Speaker 1: a circular staircase to the sports department office and I 551 00:35:03,955 --> 00:35:06,675 Speaker 1: hit my head on the staircase and bled so much 552 00:35:06,755 --> 00:35:09,515 Speaker 1: they all thought I was going to need stitches. And 553 00:35:09,595 --> 00:35:11,435 Speaker 1: I went back to the half a house I had 554 00:35:11,475 --> 00:35:14,955 Speaker 1: moved to, one of exactly two rental properties in the 555 00:35:15,075 --> 00:35:18,435 Speaker 1: entire town of Nita, Massachusetts, and I thought, what the 556 00:35:18,515 --> 00:35:23,155 Speaker 1: hell have I done? No things improved. I was not 557 00:35:23,395 --> 00:35:25,875 Speaker 1: just in the field. I did a lot of substitute anchoring, 558 00:35:25,955 --> 00:35:28,275 Speaker 1: especially on weekends. And the first time I did that, 559 00:35:28,915 --> 00:35:31,835 Speaker 1: Susan Warnick, one of our reporters and the wife of 560 00:35:31,875 --> 00:35:34,955 Speaker 1: the big sportscaster in town, Bob Lobell from Channel four. 561 00:35:35,555 --> 00:35:37,995 Speaker 1: Susan came up to me in the office on Monday 562 00:35:38,115 --> 00:35:40,315 Speaker 1: and gave me a big wet kiss on the lips 563 00:35:40,315 --> 00:35:44,075 Speaker 1: and said, you were terrific. Lobell is scared crapless. I 564 00:35:44,315 --> 00:35:47,995 Speaker 1: love you. The first time I did a live shot 565 00:35:48,035 --> 00:35:50,675 Speaker 1: before a Celtics game at Boston Garden. I wandered around 566 00:35:50,675 --> 00:35:53,675 Speaker 1: the arena without being recognized. Once. Two weeks later, I 567 00:35:53,715 --> 00:35:55,755 Speaker 1: went back to the garden and I went to get 568 00:35:55,755 --> 00:35:58,315 Speaker 1: a hot dog and turned to find a crowd of 569 00:35:58,355 --> 00:36:01,435 Speaker 1: several dozen viewers, all shouting at me in the singular 570 00:36:01,515 --> 00:36:05,235 Speaker 1: language of the Boston sports fan. On Monday, June eleventh, 571 00:36:05,275 --> 00:36:07,595 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, Balboni, the news director, called me in 572 00:36:07,635 --> 00:36:10,235 Speaker 1: and said he wanted me to start anchoring every night 573 00:36:10,675 --> 00:36:13,275 Speaker 1: on the eleven o'clock news. Lee Webb would continue on 574 00:36:13,315 --> 00:36:16,115 Speaker 1: the six but the intimation was if it went the 575 00:36:16,155 --> 00:36:18,035 Speaker 1: way he thought it was going to, I would get 576 00:36:18,235 --> 00:36:22,715 Speaker 1: that show too. But the problem was, and I don't 577 00:36:22,715 --> 00:36:25,515 Speaker 1: know if you've noticed this, but occasionally I like to 578 00:36:25,515 --> 00:36:29,715 Speaker 1: make jokes, Okay, I need to make jokes, and several 579 00:36:29,715 --> 00:36:32,635 Speaker 1: of the executives at the station were real fans of 580 00:36:32,635 --> 00:36:36,435 Speaker 1: the Red Sox and Celtics and Patriots and Bruins, and 581 00:36:36,555 --> 00:36:40,715 Speaker 1: they did not like the jokes. Even if the viewers 582 00:36:40,915 --> 00:36:44,755 Speaker 1: liked the jokes, they didn't. One day, I was supposed 583 00:36:44,795 --> 00:36:47,315 Speaker 1: to go with a cameraman to shoot a piece in 584 00:36:47,355 --> 00:36:50,235 Speaker 1: which I pretended to interview the Green Monster, the famed 585 00:36:50,275 --> 00:36:52,875 Speaker 1: left field wall at Fenway Park. The punchline was it 586 00:36:52,875 --> 00:36:55,835 Speaker 1: would turn out the Green Monster didn't like baseball. Not 587 00:36:55,955 --> 00:36:59,195 Speaker 1: a bad idea for nineteen eighty four. Just as we're 588 00:36:59,315 --> 00:37:02,195 Speaker 1: leaving the station, the sports director for Nandy said, change 589 00:37:02,195 --> 00:37:05,275 Speaker 1: of plans, needs you to go to Smithfield. That was 590 00:37:05,275 --> 00:37:09,555 Speaker 1: where the football team held its training camp. Patriots just 591 00:37:09,555 --> 00:37:12,355 Speaker 1: put their back up middle lineback on waivers, go get 592 00:37:12,395 --> 00:37:16,235 Speaker 1: some sound. He didn't need any sound. The executives who 593 00:37:16,275 --> 00:37:18,515 Speaker 1: didn't like my jokes had gotten the executive who didn't 594 00:37:18,515 --> 00:37:20,435 Speaker 1: get my jokes to stop giving me the chance to 595 00:37:20,475 --> 00:37:22,795 Speaker 1: do my jokes. It was an hour and a half 596 00:37:22,835 --> 00:37:26,515 Speaker 1: to Smithfield. I was done for the day. I went 597 00:37:26,555 --> 00:37:29,275 Speaker 1: home for a little trip to New York. In early September, 598 00:37:29,395 --> 00:37:31,395 Speaker 1: met with my agent. Told her that after all the 599 00:37:31,435 --> 00:37:33,275 Speaker 1: time and all the energy we had spent to get 600 00:37:33,275 --> 00:37:35,995 Speaker 1: that job, this was the most impossible to imagine outcome. 601 00:37:36,035 --> 00:37:39,035 Speaker 1: But it was the wrong station, in the wrong suburb, 602 00:37:39,075 --> 00:37:42,075 Speaker 1: in the right town, and I didn't know how we 603 00:37:42,115 --> 00:37:46,155 Speaker 1: could ever fix it. She agreed. She said I should 604 00:37:46,155 --> 00:37:47,835 Speaker 1: go in and tell the news director I wanted to quit, 605 00:37:47,835 --> 00:37:49,355 Speaker 1: and then I'd stay as long as he needed me, 606 00:37:49,835 --> 00:37:51,275 Speaker 1: but that if they weren't going to let me do 607 00:37:51,355 --> 00:37:54,795 Speaker 1: the jokes. What was the point. I was an okay reporter, 608 00:37:54,915 --> 00:37:57,715 Speaker 1: I was an okay sportscaster, But only with the jokes 609 00:37:57,835 --> 00:38:02,115 Speaker 1: was I me so? September tenth, nineteen eighty four, a Monday, 610 00:38:02,195 --> 00:38:04,955 Speaker 1: the news director was not happy. He offered in fack 611 00:38:04,995 --> 00:38:07,275 Speaker 1: to fire Lee Webb on the spot and give me 612 00:38:07,355 --> 00:38:10,555 Speaker 1: the six o'clock show immediately, like that night. Like Lee, 613 00:38:10,715 --> 00:38:13,395 Speaker 1: Lee Web out of the building that minute. But I 614 00:38:13,475 --> 00:38:15,475 Speaker 1: told him that would mean he would be keeping somebody 615 00:38:15,475 --> 00:38:18,595 Speaker 1: who wanted to leave and firing somebody who wanted to stay. 616 00:38:19,555 --> 00:38:22,675 Speaker 1: He angrily agreed, and I became a secret leam duck, 617 00:38:22,715 --> 00:38:25,075 Speaker 1: and I stayed on getting fewer and fewer chances to 618 00:38:25,115 --> 00:38:27,235 Speaker 1: be me, although they stuck to their end of it. 619 00:38:27,315 --> 00:38:29,235 Speaker 1: They sent me to cover the World Series in San 620 00:38:29,275 --> 00:38:32,195 Speaker 1: Diego and Detroit, where the guy next to me in 621 00:38:32,235 --> 00:38:34,755 Speaker 1: the press box covering it for Channel seven. The place 622 00:38:34,795 --> 00:38:37,875 Speaker 1: I should have gone to work was their new sports reporter, 623 00:38:37,995 --> 00:38:40,595 Speaker 1: a just retired Red Sox Hall of Fame player named 624 00:38:41,235 --> 00:38:44,275 Speaker 1: Carl Yastremsky. I hit a ball over here, I hit 625 00:38:44,275 --> 00:38:47,915 Speaker 1: a ball over there. I hit three balls over that roof. Then, 626 00:38:47,955 --> 00:38:50,635 Speaker 1: when I got back from the World Series. It happened 627 00:38:51,275 --> 00:38:54,795 Speaker 1: on Friday, October nineteenth, nineteen eighty four, that TV sports 628 00:38:54,875 --> 00:38:58,275 Speaker 1: columnist from the Boston Globe, Jack Craig, called me up 629 00:38:58,315 --> 00:39:01,035 Speaker 1: at home and told me Channel five was firing me 630 00:39:01,395 --> 00:39:05,115 Speaker 1: because of bad ratings at eleven o'clock. I didn't have 631 00:39:05,155 --> 00:39:07,675 Speaker 1: bad ratings at eleven o'clock. In fact, I had great ratings, 632 00:39:07,995 --> 00:39:10,395 Speaker 1: and six weeks earlier they'd offered me the six o'clock 633 00:39:10,435 --> 00:39:12,835 Speaker 1: show as well. I hung up with Craig to call 634 00:39:12,915 --> 00:39:14,995 Speaker 1: my agent, and instead of a dial tone, I heard 635 00:39:14,995 --> 00:39:17,475 Speaker 1: the voice of the TV sports columnist from the Boston Herald, 636 00:39:17,595 --> 00:39:21,435 Speaker 1: Jim Baker. I had answered his call fort rang. He 637 00:39:21,475 --> 00:39:24,315 Speaker 1: told me Channel five was firing me and Lee Webb 638 00:39:24,755 --> 00:39:28,595 Speaker 1: so it could instead hire Ken the Hawk Harrelson, the 639 00:39:28,635 --> 00:39:31,355 Speaker 1: former Red Sox star and TV announcer who had moved 640 00:39:31,395 --> 00:39:35,475 Speaker 1: to Chicago. So now I call my agent. She says, 641 00:39:35,515 --> 00:39:38,395 Speaker 1: your deal with Channel five is off. They want to 642 00:39:38,395 --> 00:39:40,475 Speaker 1: make it look like you stink. They want to make 643 00:39:40,475 --> 00:39:42,475 Speaker 1: it look like they just fired you. You called Jim 644 00:39:42,515 --> 00:39:44,435 Speaker 1: Baker and Jack Craig right now and tell them the 645 00:39:44,435 --> 00:39:46,595 Speaker 1: whole story. Wherever you go next, it has to be 646 00:39:46,635 --> 00:39:49,155 Speaker 1: clear that you weren't fired. You quit and you stayed 647 00:39:49,155 --> 00:39:54,155 Speaker 1: on because you're a pro, which you know was true. 648 00:39:54,235 --> 00:39:57,675 Speaker 1: So I called. I told both writers everything, and two 649 00:39:57,675 --> 00:39:59,555 Speaker 1: minutes after I got off the phone with Jack Craig 650 00:39:59,595 --> 00:40:02,035 Speaker 1: from The Globe, the phone rang and it was Jim 651 00:40:02,075 --> 00:40:04,275 Speaker 1: Baker from The Harold calling back, and he says, you'll 652 00:40:04,315 --> 00:40:09,515 Speaker 1: never this. Their negotiations with Hawk Harrelson are dead. Apparently 653 00:40:10,195 --> 00:40:13,795 Speaker 1: he wanted four hundred thousand dollars a year and to 654 00:40:13,835 --> 00:40:16,355 Speaker 1: guarantee that he only had to come in five minutes 655 00:40:16,395 --> 00:40:18,995 Speaker 1: before each show to get makeup and then read the 656 00:40:19,035 --> 00:40:23,195 Speaker 1: script that somebody else wrote. So you are now our 657 00:40:23,355 --> 00:40:27,755 Speaker 1: lead story. Sure enough. Backpage of the Boston Herald, Saturday, 658 00:40:27,795 --> 00:40:31,635 Speaker 1: October twenty, nineteen eighty four, above the masthead Overman quits 659 00:40:31,755 --> 00:40:35,955 Speaker 1: Channel five. At the same hour, I was supposed to 660 00:40:35,995 --> 00:40:40,555 Speaker 1: go to Morgantown, West Virginia, the place that was designed 661 00:40:40,595 --> 00:40:44,355 Speaker 1: simply to make that lovely town of Needham, Massachusetts, look 662 00:40:44,715 --> 00:40:47,795 Speaker 1: like I don't know, the riviera. I was supposed to 663 00:40:47,795 --> 00:40:50,435 Speaker 1: go to Morgantown to cover Doug Flute and Boston College 664 00:40:50,435 --> 00:40:54,195 Speaker 1: against the University of West Virginia. Since I lived between 665 00:40:54,315 --> 00:40:57,075 Speaker 1: the television station and the airport. The cameraman was going 666 00:40:57,155 --> 00:40:59,715 Speaker 1: to swing by my house to pick me up. Do 667 00:40:59,835 --> 00:41:02,675 Speaker 1: it like seven am. He never showed. By this point, 668 00:41:02,675 --> 00:41:05,795 Speaker 1: I'm thinking I just I had to call my lying 669 00:41:05,835 --> 00:41:09,275 Speaker 1: bosses liars in both Boston newspapers that are on every 670 00:41:09,275 --> 00:41:12,235 Speaker 1: newsstand in the city and the surrounding area. Why am 671 00:41:12,235 --> 00:41:14,795 Speaker 1: I going to race the clock to get to the 672 00:41:14,835 --> 00:41:18,315 Speaker 1: airport on my own when this idiot cameraman forgot to 673 00:41:18,355 --> 00:41:21,435 Speaker 1: come get me. When we had made the arrangements the 674 00:41:21,475 --> 00:41:23,675 Speaker 1: day before. The cameraman had gotten my name wrong and 675 00:41:23,715 --> 00:41:26,955 Speaker 1: called me Dick. At least that's why I thought he'd 676 00:41:26,955 --> 00:41:31,835 Speaker 1: called me Dick. Anyway, I was twenty five. I went 677 00:41:31,875 --> 00:41:34,315 Speaker 1: back to bed, and while I was asleep, Channel five 678 00:41:34,395 --> 00:41:36,595 Speaker 1: fired me from a job that I had not only quit, 679 00:41:36,675 --> 00:41:39,235 Speaker 1: but I had quit twice, including on the front page 680 00:41:39,275 --> 00:41:43,115 Speaker 1: of the newspapers that morning. The Channel five people were furious. 681 00:41:43,435 --> 00:41:45,515 Speaker 1: I put up a brave front, but beneath the surface, 682 00:41:45,555 --> 00:41:48,755 Speaker 1: I was a little scared until two more things happened 683 00:41:49,275 --> 00:41:51,595 Speaker 1: before I could move back to New York. The news 684 00:41:51,635 --> 00:41:54,675 Speaker 1: director Phil Balboni told Craig of the Globe that it 685 00:41:54,715 --> 00:41:58,435 Speaker 1: was all too bad because quote Keith was potentially such 686 00:41:58,475 --> 00:42:04,355 Speaker 1: a major talent. Ooh, and then the general manager, Coppersmith, 687 00:42:04,395 --> 00:42:07,595 Speaker 1: was so angry that he told my agent he will 688 00:42:07,635 --> 00:42:12,235 Speaker 1: never again work in this business. I am not a 689 00:42:12,235 --> 00:42:18,075 Speaker 1: big believer in motivational quotes, but those two those really worked. 690 00:42:18,315 --> 00:42:21,755 Speaker 1: Number one and two on my all time list, and 691 00:42:21,835 --> 00:42:26,035 Speaker 1: as always, beyond that, there's a punchline. In two thousand 692 00:42:26,035 --> 00:42:29,235 Speaker 1: and seven, an email popped into my inbox at MSNBC. 693 00:42:30,035 --> 00:42:34,155 Speaker 1: It was glowing and warm and lovely, and it indicated 694 00:42:34,195 --> 00:42:36,955 Speaker 1: the writer was a huge fan. It was signed You're 695 00:42:37,035 --> 00:42:42,715 Speaker 1: old Channel five News director Phil Balboni. His email did 696 00:42:42,715 --> 00:42:46,515 Speaker 1: not mention that I was potentially such a major talent. 697 00:42:59,715 --> 00:43:01,635 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 698 00:43:01,675 --> 00:43:03,315 Speaker 1: you for listening. Here are the credits. Most of the 699 00:43:03,395 --> 00:43:06,235 Speaker 1: music arrange produced and performed by Brian Ray and John 700 00:43:06,235 --> 00:43:10,755 Speaker 1: Phillip Chanelle. They are the Countdown musical directors. All the 701 00:43:10,835 --> 00:43:15,635 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Chanelle. Guitars, bass drums 702 00:43:15,835 --> 00:43:20,715 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections 703 00:43:20,715 --> 00:43:23,755 Speaker 1: have been arranged and performed by No Horns allowed. The 704 00:43:23,755 --> 00:43:27,235 Speaker 1: sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two and 705 00:43:27,275 --> 00:43:30,315 Speaker 1: it was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 706 00:43:30,915 --> 00:43:35,395 Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever, 707 00:43:35,715 --> 00:43:38,995 Speaker 1: and our announcer today was my friend Larry David, and 708 00:43:39,075 --> 00:43:42,075 Speaker 1: everything else is pretty much my fault. So that's countdown 709 00:43:42,115 --> 00:43:44,515 Speaker 1: for this, the eight hundred and thirty fifth day Saint 710 00:43:44,555 --> 00:43:47,635 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 711 00:43:47,715 --> 00:43:50,515 Speaker 1: of the United States. Don't forget to keep arresting him 712 00:43:50,555 --> 00:43:54,075 Speaker 1: while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 713 00:43:54,155 --> 00:43:57,395 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Oldraman good morning, good afternoon, good night, 714 00:43:57,835 --> 00:44:10,955 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 715 00:44:11,155 --> 00:44:16,475 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 716 00:44:16,555 --> 00:44:19,915 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.