1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:18,435 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Which 2 00:00:18,475 --> 00:00:22,235 Speaker 1: of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? Remember 3 00:00:22,235 --> 00:00:24,275 Speaker 1: when he said he'd be a dictator, but only on 4 00:00:24,395 --> 00:00:29,235 Speaker 1: day one? It's day one. The best joke of the year. 5 00:00:29,515 --> 00:00:32,595 Speaker 1: The great thing about moving Trump's inauguration to the rotunda, 6 00:00:32,835 --> 00:00:36,355 Speaker 1: writes Biden Harris advanced man Doug Landry, is that all 7 00:00:36,395 --> 00:00:40,755 Speaker 1: of his supporters already know how to get there. Can't 8 00:00:40,795 --> 00:00:46,755 Speaker 1: top that capitulation. Nation CBS is discussing settling the most 9 00:00:46,795 --> 00:00:51,595 Speaker 1: nonsensical lawsuit Trump has ever filed, because the settlement would 10 00:00:51,595 --> 00:00:58,315 Speaker 1: actually be a wonderfully legal bribe. And Ramaswami, or as 11 00:00:58,355 --> 00:01:03,075 Speaker 1: we called him, the schwam gone. Hey, what do you know? 12 00:01:03,755 --> 00:01:22,595 Speaker 1: The Department of from an efficiency actually has cut some waste. 13 00:01:23,915 --> 00:01:27,395 Speaker 1: Like you, I would have preferred to have skipped Trump 14 00:01:27,515 --> 00:01:32,635 Speaker 1: altogether today. I would rather eulogize Yuke, my late friend 15 00:01:32,635 --> 00:01:35,395 Speaker 1: Bob Buker, and I will at length at the end 16 00:01:35,435 --> 00:01:39,835 Speaker 1: of this edition. Instead, as you are hearing this, it 17 00:01:39,875 --> 00:01:42,475 Speaker 1: may have already happened. And thus I am speaking to 18 00:01:42,555 --> 00:01:48,395 Speaker 1: you from the distant past, the good old days. Unless 19 00:01:48,395 --> 00:01:51,435 Speaker 1: to take that Doug Landry joke to its natural step 20 00:01:52,155 --> 00:01:57,755 Speaker 1: trump ists storm the Capitol again and coup again. He 21 00:01:57,835 --> 00:01:59,915 Speaker 1: had to go inside because somebody told Trump about the 22 00:01:59,915 --> 00:02:04,995 Speaker 1: thirty one days William Henry, it's just cold, Harrison. It 23 00:02:05,075 --> 00:02:07,235 Speaker 1: says something that Trump would rather be viewed to somebody 24 00:02:07,235 --> 00:02:10,435 Speaker 1: who cannot handle temperatures higher than Obama and a crowd 25 00:02:10,475 --> 00:02:12,835 Speaker 1: of two million did in two thousand and nine. Then 26 00:02:12,875 --> 00:02:15,435 Speaker 1: face the reality that nobody was going to show up 27 00:02:15,435 --> 00:02:20,035 Speaker 1: for his goddamned speech. I mean, hotel rooms in downtown 28 00:02:20,155 --> 00:02:26,995 Speaker 1: DC were already easily available thirty percent unbooked, compared to 29 00:02:27,195 --> 00:02:29,955 Speaker 1: five percent for Trump eight years ago and two percent 30 00:02:30,035 --> 00:02:33,075 Speaker 1: for Obama fifteen years ago. And that was before Grandpa 31 00:02:33,195 --> 00:02:38,555 Speaker 1: Shardy found an excuse to downsize further. So you're saying 32 00:02:38,555 --> 00:02:41,075 Speaker 1: your parade is going to be inside the hockey rink. 33 00:02:41,715 --> 00:02:45,875 Speaker 1: It's just you driving around in circles in front of 34 00:02:45,915 --> 00:02:53,115 Speaker 1: a small crowd. What a perfect metaphor, Thank you, moron. Well, 35 00:02:53,115 --> 00:02:55,715 Speaker 1: what do we know about the coronation speech? The baseline is, 36 00:02:55,755 --> 00:02:58,555 Speaker 1: of course, whatever he says, he's lying. The point of 37 00:02:58,555 --> 00:03:01,315 Speaker 1: this speech, as we later figured out, was the point 38 00:03:01,315 --> 00:03:04,115 Speaker 1: of the twenty seventeen speech, was to lie about how 39 00:03:04,195 --> 00:03:07,475 Speaker 1: bad thing were in the country to pretend that a 40 00:03:07,555 --> 00:03:11,795 Speaker 1: country moving along about b B plus grade was actually 41 00:03:11,795 --> 00:03:16,155 Speaker 1: an f and falling, and then later after his nut 42 00:03:16,195 --> 00:03:19,995 Speaker 1: job policies sent us plummeting down to CNUS or D plus, 43 00:03:20,235 --> 00:03:23,195 Speaker 1: he could point at empirical data and claim the nation 44 00:03:23,315 --> 00:03:28,115 Speaker 1: has grown to D plus, not descending from B plus. 45 00:03:30,715 --> 00:03:33,115 Speaker 1: Trump told ABC on Saturday that the speech would be 46 00:03:33,155 --> 00:03:39,115 Speaker 1: about unity, strength, and fairness. Unity obviously means everybody has 47 00:03:39,195 --> 00:03:42,515 Speaker 1: to do what he says. Strength would be what he 48 00:03:42,595 --> 00:03:48,355 Speaker 1: calls bullying and manipulation, and of course fairness is nobody's 49 00:03:48,435 --> 00:03:52,755 Speaker 1: fair to him. He'll be seeming to talk to his base, 50 00:03:53,155 --> 00:03:56,595 Speaker 1: is actually talking to himself. He'll be boastful and crazy 51 00:03:56,635 --> 00:03:59,155 Speaker 1: because he has no shame and no awareness and is 52 00:03:59,195 --> 00:04:02,475 Speaker 1: not actually a living human being. He will be almost 53 00:04:02,475 --> 00:04:05,475 Speaker 1: dissociated because all that crap on the camp where he 54 00:04:05,555 --> 00:04:08,675 Speaker 1: got crazier and crazier every week that hasn't stopped. If 55 00:04:08,675 --> 00:04:10,715 Speaker 1: you look carefully, his eyes are no longer going in 56 00:04:10,755 --> 00:04:14,835 Speaker 1: the same direction. He'll be increasingly belligerent because he thinks 57 00:04:14,835 --> 00:04:18,635 Speaker 1: he got a landslide. He thinks he's in charge now, 58 00:04:18,755 --> 00:04:23,155 Speaker 1: and somewhere in his going to say soul, he believes 59 00:04:23,395 --> 00:04:28,235 Speaker 1: he will be in charge forever. He will claim afterwards 60 00:04:28,235 --> 00:04:30,955 Speaker 1: it would have been the biggest crowd at any inauguration, 61 00:04:32,475 --> 00:04:35,475 Speaker 1: That's why he moved it inside. He can't be disproved 62 00:04:35,475 --> 00:04:38,475 Speaker 1: now when he claims that, And of course they will 63 00:04:38,475 --> 00:04:40,635 Speaker 1: lie about the size of the TV audience by saying 64 00:04:40,755 --> 00:04:44,355 Speaker 1: but streaming he got eight hundred and seventy five billion 65 00:04:44,435 --> 00:04:49,995 Speaker 1: views on Twitter. As Most importantly, though, the Democratic response, 66 00:04:50,275 --> 00:04:56,195 Speaker 1: which will be nothing as usual. We are inert trying 67 00:04:56,235 --> 00:04:58,475 Speaker 1: to fight the last war, trying to gain power in 68 00:04:58,555 --> 00:05:01,155 Speaker 1: the party rather than to unify and gain enough power 69 00:05:01,315 --> 00:05:04,075 Speaker 1: to push back against Trump enough that every Republican move 70 00:05:04,155 --> 00:05:08,355 Speaker 1: costs that him at minimum personal pain and shame. We 71 00:05:08,515 --> 00:05:11,275 Speaker 1: can't prevent any of this, but we can leave a 72 00:05:11,315 --> 00:05:13,355 Speaker 1: lot of black and blue marks. That has to be 73 00:05:13,435 --> 00:05:18,395 Speaker 1: the goal, and we're not even doing that. No Democrat 74 00:05:18,435 --> 00:05:20,875 Speaker 1: will say everything Trump just said today is a lie. 75 00:05:21,475 --> 00:05:24,115 Speaker 1: None will say he lowered the bar to make himself 76 00:05:24,155 --> 00:05:27,035 Speaker 1: look better when he fails. None will say he's a 77 00:05:27,155 --> 00:05:34,515 Speaker 1: convicted felon. No Democrat is putting everything on the line. 78 00:05:34,835 --> 00:05:37,835 Speaker 1: No Democrat will have the presence of mind to ignore 79 00:05:37,915 --> 00:05:41,275 Speaker 1: protocol and offer a rebuttal, even though we have not 80 00:05:41,595 --> 00:05:45,235 Speaker 1: yet had an inauguration rebuttal speech. Who the hell says 81 00:05:45,275 --> 00:05:48,835 Speaker 1: we can't somebody get up on a box somewhere and 82 00:05:48,915 --> 00:05:55,515 Speaker 1: tell the truth. Even Fetterman, our senator, with the acuity 83 00:05:55,515 --> 00:05:59,035 Speaker 1: of a toy with googly eyes stuck on it, has 84 00:05:59,075 --> 00:06:05,435 Speaker 1: been towing the line of tradition and quizzlinging. Most ominously, 85 00:06:05,435 --> 00:06:07,435 Speaker 1: the mayor of New York will become our first full 86 00:06:07,475 --> 00:06:10,515 Speaker 1: fledged VH democrat. I mean he's nominally a democrat. I 87 00:06:10,515 --> 00:06:13,555 Speaker 1: guess he will trade the lives of immigrants and refugees 88 00:06:13,595 --> 00:06:16,595 Speaker 1: here in exchange for a pardon. That's the scenario that 89 00:06:16,675 --> 00:06:19,555 Speaker 1: is shaping up. Eric Adams needs to be removed immediately 90 00:06:19,995 --> 00:06:24,395 Speaker 1: by any means that are even vaguely legal. He is 91 00:06:24,395 --> 00:06:27,555 Speaker 1: a danger to the community in which I live. Sorry 92 00:06:27,635 --> 00:06:33,075 Speaker 1: for focusing on that part. I will again quote Jean Renoir, 93 00:06:33,155 --> 00:06:36,035 Speaker 1: the French filmmaker, and his masterpiece Rules of the Game. 94 00:06:36,835 --> 00:06:39,155 Speaker 1: Rules of the Game, coming out in nineteen thirty nine, 95 00:06:39,195 --> 00:06:42,555 Speaker 1: accurately forecast that the French were so self absorbed and 96 00:06:42,675 --> 00:06:46,715 Speaker 1: corrupt that when the Nazis came, they would offer almost 97 00:06:46,755 --> 00:06:52,275 Speaker 1: no resistance. Renoir, as the hero's buddy octav says something 98 00:06:52,275 --> 00:06:54,995 Speaker 1: about the corruption and lack of morals, and lack of 99 00:06:55,075 --> 00:06:57,475 Speaker 1: courage and just playing, lack of effort to stand up 100 00:06:57,515 --> 00:07:01,275 Speaker 1: for what's right. He says that everybody has a self 101 00:07:01,315 --> 00:07:06,115 Speaker 1: interest that's far more important to them than courage or 102 00:07:06,115 --> 00:07:10,435 Speaker 1: self sacrifice or bravery or just taking a goddamn chance. 103 00:07:11,115 --> 00:07:13,115 Speaker 1: And it is a quote that has come to symbolize 104 00:07:13,115 --> 00:07:16,115 Speaker 1: the France that folded like a card table in one 105 00:07:16,195 --> 00:07:21,755 Speaker 1: month to Hitler's onslaught and the VSH France full of 106 00:07:21,795 --> 00:07:27,915 Speaker 1: more collaborators than the Germans believed possible. Octav says, you see, 107 00:07:27,915 --> 00:07:32,235 Speaker 1: in this world, there is one awful thing, and that 108 00:07:32,395 --> 00:07:38,875 Speaker 1: is that everyone has his reasons. Everybody in the Democratic 109 00:07:38,915 --> 00:07:44,795 Speaker 1: Party has his reasons. Everybody in the media, certainly those 110 00:07:44,795 --> 00:07:51,115 Speaker 1: who own and run the media, has his reasons. And 111 00:07:51,195 --> 00:07:56,475 Speaker 1: there's way more from the pathetic, useless, waste of oxygen 112 00:07:56,595 --> 00:07:58,795 Speaker 1: billionaires who are so scared that they won't be able 113 00:07:58,835 --> 00:08:01,275 Speaker 1: to make more money this year than they did last year, 114 00:08:01,315 --> 00:08:02,835 Speaker 1: at which point I guess they have to face the 115 00:08:02,915 --> 00:08:06,595 Speaker 1: realization that they have no long vives, no point in 116 00:08:06,635 --> 00:08:13,155 Speaker 1: existing other than greed and no souls. Or, to put 117 00:08:13,155 --> 00:08:18,355 Speaker 1: it more succinctly, Lauren's next implants ain't paying for themselves, 118 00:08:18,475 --> 00:08:43,515 Speaker 1: are they? Jeff much more ahead on media capitulation by 119 00:08:43,515 --> 00:08:45,995 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, the time, CNN, but new one on 120 00:08:46,035 --> 00:08:52,115 Speaker 1: the list CBS. But first, I am I find surprisingly 121 00:08:52,155 --> 00:09:00,755 Speaker 1: hopeful because these guys are fantastically incompetent. The trumpest restoration, 122 00:09:01,555 --> 00:09:05,635 Speaker 1: they managed to overshadow this by spending the weekend having 123 00:09:05,675 --> 00:09:09,555 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson erase the Republican chair of the House Intelligence 124 00:09:09,555 --> 00:09:12,795 Speaker 1: Committee because he offended Trump, and then having Congresswoman Anna 125 00:09:12,835 --> 00:09:16,755 Speaker 1: Paulina Lunatic file a motion to erase Mike Johnson because 126 00:09:16,755 --> 00:09:20,675 Speaker 1: he won't let her vote from home the weekend before 127 00:09:21,195 --> 00:09:26,115 Speaker 1: the restoration, and Johnson all but admitted he's not going 128 00:09:26,155 --> 00:09:32,755 Speaker 1: to pardon all the January sixth psychopaths. And all that 129 00:09:33,515 --> 00:09:38,035 Speaker 1: overshadowing the inauguration was after they leaked the big shock 130 00:09:38,195 --> 00:09:40,355 Speaker 1: they had planned for this week. It's hard to remember 131 00:09:40,395 --> 00:09:43,355 Speaker 1: so far back, but as of sunset on Friday, Trump 132 00:09:43,395 --> 00:09:49,315 Speaker 1: had a secret plan to conduct surprise deportation raids in 133 00:09:49,435 --> 00:09:55,675 Speaker 1: Chicago starting tomorrow, maybe even today. By eight thirty Friday night, 134 00:09:55,755 --> 00:10:00,715 Speaker 1: that great oozing eraser headhaired Jesse Waters had announced the 135 00:10:00,835 --> 00:10:03,275 Speaker 1: rais on Fox and it was in the Wall Street 136 00:10:03,275 --> 00:10:08,115 Speaker 1: goddamned journal. Before midnight, police officials in Chicago had already 137 00:10:08,115 --> 00:10:10,995 Speaker 1: gone on the record saying they would provide no immigration 138 00:10:11,195 --> 00:10:14,715 Speaker 1: data to ICE and no help. And by Saturday morning 139 00:10:14,875 --> 00:10:18,115 Speaker 1: it was obvious that delirious Trumpists couldn't keep their great 140 00:10:18,155 --> 00:10:22,995 Speaker 1: big bazoos shut long enough to maintain the surprise that 141 00:10:23,155 --> 00:10:28,355 Speaker 1: is necessary for a surprise deportation raid. That's why they 142 00:10:28,435 --> 00:10:33,035 Speaker 1: call it a surprise. Do not misunderstand me. I am 143 00:10:33,075 --> 00:10:37,435 Speaker 1: delighted they screwed it up, but I'm surprised they didn't 144 00:10:37,435 --> 00:10:41,555 Speaker 1: wind up publishing the names of all the intended migrant targets. 145 00:10:42,595 --> 00:10:45,555 Speaker 1: The leak was so total that yesterday the organizer of 146 00:10:45,555 --> 00:10:51,475 Speaker 1: Trump's Final Solution, Tom Hoeman emphasis on the hoe, was admitting, 147 00:10:51,475 --> 00:10:55,915 Speaker 1: they'll probably cancel these raids because, well, you can answer 148 00:10:55,955 --> 00:10:58,915 Speaker 1: that the leaks were either terribly stupid screw up or 149 00:10:59,755 --> 00:11:02,275 Speaker 1: they were deliberate, and this gives them an excuse to 150 00:11:02,395 --> 00:11:06,675 Speaker 1: not run these impossibly expensive and inefficient roundups that will 151 00:11:06,675 --> 00:11:10,835 Speaker 1: please the Trump rabble but infuriate every Trump friendly business 152 00:11:10,835 --> 00:11:16,555 Speaker 1: in America and restart inflation. I'm still betting on boastful 153 00:11:16,555 --> 00:11:19,315 Speaker 1: stupidity rather than a way to undo your big mistaken 154 00:11:19,355 --> 00:11:25,315 Speaker 1: plans because, of course Trump always chooses idiots. Secretary of 155 00:11:25,355 --> 00:11:29,315 Speaker 1: Homeland Security Christy confirmed my nomination, or I'll shoot this 156 00:11:29,475 --> 00:11:34,675 Speaker 1: dog gnome FBI director Cash keep your eye on the prize. 157 00:11:35,875 --> 00:11:41,115 Speaker 1: I'll try anyway. Patel entrepreneur is Vivek Ramaswami and Elon 158 00:11:41,235 --> 00:11:47,635 Speaker 1: Musk in charge of government efficiency just Musk entrepreneur Ramaswami 159 00:11:47,675 --> 00:11:51,515 Speaker 1: is already out because he's running for governor of Ohio. 160 00:11:52,595 --> 00:11:56,315 Speaker 1: He's no longer at the Government Efficiency Department. Yeah, I 161 00:11:56,355 --> 00:11:59,755 Speaker 1: know he's gonna need more than one lesson about maga racism. 162 00:12:00,075 --> 00:12:02,555 Speaker 1: And he's gonna get more than one lesson about maga 163 00:12:02,635 --> 00:12:06,555 Speaker 1: racism this Friday. By the way, on that one word, 164 00:12:06,675 --> 00:12:10,555 Speaker 1: the Merriam Webster dictionary social media feeds reminded us that 165 00:12:10,595 --> 00:12:15,715 Speaker 1: in French, the language from which it originates, entrepreneur originally 166 00:12:15,755 --> 00:12:23,955 Speaker 1: meant funeral director. These guys are skilled in that, only 167 00:12:23,955 --> 00:12:28,035 Speaker 1: skilled in purging each other and enforcing political dogma and 168 00:12:28,075 --> 00:12:31,435 Speaker 1: selling lies to morons. I mean they managed to get 169 00:12:31,515 --> 00:12:34,635 Speaker 1: rid of Ramaswami the day before he was supposed to start. 170 00:12:37,235 --> 00:12:40,675 Speaker 1: They have repeatedly proven themselves utterly incapable of actually governing, 171 00:12:40,915 --> 00:12:44,795 Speaker 1: utterly so has the Republican Party, especially when it's in 172 00:12:44,795 --> 00:12:46,955 Speaker 1: the White House. It is a dirty little secret the 173 00:12:46,955 --> 00:12:48,595 Speaker 1: far right would prefer you to forget. But as the 174 00:12:48,635 --> 00:12:51,755 Speaker 1: Republicans have gotten more and more fascist, exactly one of 175 00:12:51,795 --> 00:12:56,635 Speaker 1: them has been re elected president in the last forty years. 176 00:12:58,115 --> 00:13:00,235 Speaker 1: That was George W. Bush. And he wouldn't have if 177 00:13:00,275 --> 00:13:02,755 Speaker 1: Ohio had gone to carry And there were enough questions 178 00:13:02,795 --> 00:13:06,195 Speaker 1: in Ohio about fake terror alert during the counting that 179 00:13:06,235 --> 00:13:09,795 Speaker 1: should have been cleared up, but never were. These guys 180 00:13:09,915 --> 00:13:15,435 Speaker 1: aren't actually good at anything. They weren't good at making 181 00:13:15,475 --> 00:13:19,515 Speaker 1: America great again for four years, or he wouldn't be 182 00:13:19,555 --> 00:13:22,675 Speaker 1: able to run on that, would he. They weren't good 183 00:13:22,675 --> 00:13:26,395 Speaker 1: at anything. When COVID hit and it and the economic 184 00:13:26,555 --> 00:13:32,035 Speaker 1: fallout destroyed Trump's campaign in twenty twenty, I mean, goddamn it. 185 00:13:32,075 --> 00:13:36,835 Speaker 1: Trump couldn't even pull off a coup correctly. The other 186 00:13:36,915 --> 00:13:39,515 Speaker 1: thing that happens at noon is the start of the 187 00:13:39,595 --> 00:13:44,195 Speaker 1: MAGA race to succeed Trump. The lesson he will have 188 00:13:44,235 --> 00:13:48,195 Speaker 1: taught them all is to ignore all the rules, erase 189 00:13:48,275 --> 00:13:51,835 Speaker 1: all the loyalties, break all the laws, and kill anybody 190 00:13:51,835 --> 00:13:54,955 Speaker 1: who gets in the way, especially if they're MAGA and 191 00:13:54,995 --> 00:13:57,995 Speaker 1: trying to stop them from running MAGA, and there will 192 00:13:58,035 --> 00:14:02,115 Speaker 1: be what a hundred of them who think he will 193 00:14:02,115 --> 00:14:04,675 Speaker 1: not be still around to choose the next cult leader 194 00:14:04,835 --> 00:14:07,475 Speaker 1: one way or the other, and so their targets will 195 00:14:07,475 --> 00:14:14,715 Speaker 1: be for the next four years each other. The uniformity 196 00:14:14,755 --> 00:14:18,195 Speaker 1: of the cult rank, very rank and file will also 197 00:14:18,315 --> 00:14:22,075 Speaker 1: break starting at noon, as Elon Musk and Ramaswami found out, 198 00:14:22,115 --> 00:14:26,795 Speaker 1: the real fervent psychotics hate immigrants, all immigrants, all minorities, 199 00:14:26,995 --> 00:14:32,795 Speaker 1: all accents, but their own, anybody brown. The idea of 200 00:14:32,875 --> 00:14:36,795 Speaker 1: Trump pushing for this tool. Ramaswami with this troll doll 201 00:14:36,915 --> 00:14:40,115 Speaker 1: haircut to replace bants in the Senate from Ohio shows 202 00:14:40,115 --> 00:14:44,275 Speaker 1: also that Trump has lost touch and maybe lost control 203 00:14:44,435 --> 00:14:48,755 Speaker 1: of his most rabid morons. Steve Bannon wants Musk deported 204 00:14:48,875 --> 00:14:53,195 Speaker 1: for Christ's sake. Trump doesn't know this. He may wake 205 00:14:53,275 --> 00:14:55,915 Speaker 1: up to a day very soon where he is viewed 206 00:14:56,475 --> 00:15:01,235 Speaker 1: as not far enough to the right for them, in 207 00:15:01,275 --> 00:15:05,035 Speaker 1: which case he's cooked. I mean, if somebody he could 208 00:15:05,075 --> 00:15:12,475 Speaker 1: seize control of this fascist authoritarian movement before Trump is 209 00:15:12,475 --> 00:15:19,315 Speaker 1: supposed to leave office, why would they wait. The historical 210 00:15:19,355 --> 00:15:23,155 Speaker 1: figure Trump might most closely resemble is actually Henry the 211 00:15:23,235 --> 00:15:28,715 Speaker 1: eighth without the skills or the intelligent daughter. The fictional 212 00:15:28,835 --> 00:15:33,995 Speaker 1: character he might most closely resemble is probably Milo Minderbinder 213 00:15:34,795 --> 00:15:40,915 Speaker 1: from Catch twenty two. In Joe Heller's Indescribable novel, Milo 214 00:15:41,115 --> 00:15:46,115 Speaker 1: Minderbinder rises from a supply sergeant to basically the owner 215 00:15:46,275 --> 00:15:50,715 Speaker 1: of Europe. He keeps trading food and stealing parachutes and 216 00:15:50,755 --> 00:15:52,835 Speaker 1: investing in black markets, and the next thing you know, 217 00:15:53,075 --> 00:15:56,195 Speaker 1: he's made a deal with the Germans for the Americans 218 00:15:56,235 --> 00:16:00,155 Speaker 1: to bomb their own air base in Italy, and he 219 00:16:00,195 --> 00:16:03,355 Speaker 1: has his own army, and the military police suddenly don't 220 00:16:03,355 --> 00:16:06,755 Speaker 1: have the insignia MP on their uniforms anymore. It's been 221 00:16:06,755 --> 00:16:10,795 Speaker 1: replaced by the insignia with the letters MM for Milominderbinder. 222 00:16:13,555 --> 00:16:17,795 Speaker 1: Milominder Binder, if he didn't figure this out, is the 223 00:16:17,835 --> 00:16:21,675 Speaker 1: metaphor for America, which came out of the Second World 224 00:16:21,675 --> 00:16:26,835 Speaker 1: War in large part owning half of Europe. Heller never 225 00:16:26,875 --> 00:16:30,635 Speaker 1: really explains how the character of mielominder Binder does this 226 00:16:31,355 --> 00:16:34,355 Speaker 1: in the plot in the novel in that universe, but 227 00:16:34,435 --> 00:16:37,035 Speaker 1: it is presumed that Milo has only accomplished it by 228 00:16:37,115 --> 00:16:41,715 Speaker 1: using the efficiency and rigidity of the military structure and 229 00:16:41,795 --> 00:16:43,875 Speaker 1: This is my only real fear with Trump and this 230 00:16:43,955 --> 00:16:47,355 Speaker 1: clown car administration of his, At least today, it's my 231 00:16:47,435 --> 00:16:51,395 Speaker 1: only real fear. He he wants to use the military 232 00:16:51,435 --> 00:16:55,475 Speaker 1: to shoot civilian protesters. That's bad enough, but the real 233 00:16:55,515 --> 00:16:58,435 Speaker 1: problem becomes if you see him use the military for 234 00:16:58,515 --> 00:17:01,635 Speaker 1: support in areas that not even remotely connected to weapons 235 00:17:01,875 --> 00:17:05,835 Speaker 1: or the maintenance of order. I mean, this is for bollock, obviously, 236 00:17:05,835 --> 00:17:08,195 Speaker 1: but if he somehow gets the military involved in enforcing 237 00:17:08,275 --> 00:17:13,515 Speaker 1: tariffs or banning TikTok or not banning TikTok, or rebanning TikTok, 238 00:17:14,155 --> 00:17:16,995 Speaker 1: or revoking the two term limit, if the military is 239 00:17:17,075 --> 00:17:22,635 Speaker 1: somehow involved in that, then you can start to really worry. 240 00:17:25,795 --> 00:17:29,995 Speaker 1: Before we leave the inauguration of the ineligible moron elect 241 00:17:30,235 --> 00:17:34,155 Speaker 1: Milo Minderbinder Trump. Let me add an ironic twist to 242 00:17:34,235 --> 00:17:38,275 Speaker 1: this in the movie version of Catch twenty two, which 243 00:17:38,315 --> 00:17:43,195 Speaker 1: is still underappreciated. It's really a classic. Many assessments contemporary 244 00:17:43,195 --> 00:17:44,995 Speaker 1: ones when the movie came out was that it was 245 00:17:45,035 --> 00:17:50,515 Speaker 1: a failure. Milo Minderbinder is played by in over the 246 00:17:50,515 --> 00:17:52,795 Speaker 1: top brilliance that we could have never known at the 247 00:17:52,835 --> 00:17:55,555 Speaker 1: time was the pinnacle of his career and maybe his life. 248 00:17:56,075 --> 00:18:07,555 Speaker 1: Milo Minderbinder is performed by John Voight. John Voight, the 249 00:18:07,595 --> 00:18:11,035 Speaker 1: guy who now does not know where he is, who 250 00:18:11,075 --> 00:18:14,995 Speaker 1: Trump suddenly designated as one of his three special envoys 251 00:18:15,035 --> 00:18:19,315 Speaker 1: to Hollywood, the others being Sylvester Stallone and mel Gibson. 252 00:18:19,635 --> 00:18:22,355 Speaker 1: And of course Gibson probably blew the whole thing by 253 00:18:22,395 --> 00:18:24,795 Speaker 1: immediately saying he read about it on Twitter x nobody 254 00:18:24,835 --> 00:18:29,115 Speaker 1: called him. Stallone and Gibson of course cannot act their 255 00:18:29,155 --> 00:18:31,475 Speaker 1: ways out of a paper bag and never could. But 256 00:18:31,595 --> 00:18:40,355 Speaker 1: Voight once could have when he was Milo Minderbinder. Beware 257 00:18:40,835 --> 00:18:53,635 Speaker 1: Milo Minderbinder. The real threat right now is when Milo 258 00:18:53,755 --> 00:18:58,235 Speaker 1: Minderbinder takes over state run media like CBS and CNN. 259 00:18:58,275 --> 00:19:02,355 Speaker 1: In the Washington Post and the New York Times, you 260 00:19:02,395 --> 00:19:05,995 Speaker 1: thought I meant TikTok and Trump's latest stunt saving TikTok 261 00:19:05,995 --> 00:19:13,315 Speaker 1: from the awful illegal ban that he introduced, provided they 262 00:19:13,395 --> 00:19:15,795 Speaker 1: sell fifty percent of it to the US government, because 263 00:19:15,955 --> 00:19:18,915 Speaker 1: we should privatize the post office. But we need to 264 00:19:18,915 --> 00:19:23,915 Speaker 1: have an official government social media propaganda outlet as an aside. 265 00:19:23,915 --> 00:19:28,355 Speaker 1: What happened to government efficiency? Trump already has an official 266 00:19:28,355 --> 00:19:33,595 Speaker 1: government social media propaganda outlet. It's called twitter x. And also, 267 00:19:34,115 --> 00:19:37,315 Speaker 1: where have I seen this before? I won't burn your 268 00:19:37,315 --> 00:19:40,555 Speaker 1: business down if you sell me fifty percent of us. 269 00:19:40,755 --> 00:19:47,195 Speaker 1: Where have I seen this? Oh? That's right? Organized crime? Now. 270 00:19:47,315 --> 00:19:49,635 Speaker 1: When I said the real threat is when Milo minder 271 00:19:49,635 --> 00:19:52,595 Speaker 1: Binder takes over state run media, I did not mean TikTok. 272 00:19:52,635 --> 00:19:56,515 Speaker 1: I met CBS and CNN and The Post and the Times, 273 00:19:56,675 --> 00:20:00,155 Speaker 1: but especially CBS. It is hard to believe that the 274 00:20:00,155 --> 00:20:05,035 Speaker 1: owners of CBS paramount could out Weasele Warner Bro those 275 00:20:05,235 --> 00:20:08,795 Speaker 1: Discovery or Zuckerberg or Bezos or anybody else. But they have. 276 00:20:09,955 --> 00:20:12,755 Speaker 1: Somebody at CBS News screwed up the editing of that 277 00:20:12,875 --> 00:20:15,995 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris interview in the summer, and they attached in 278 00:20:16,075 --> 00:20:19,955 Speaker 1: two different formats, two different answers to one of their 279 00:20:20,035 --> 00:20:25,995 Speaker 1: questions to her. Journalistically sloppy, indefensible, probably the result of 280 00:20:26,155 --> 00:20:31,155 Speaker 1: insufficient staffing by cheap bosses. But Trump sued under a 281 00:20:31,195 --> 00:20:34,435 Speaker 1: Texas law that was designed to protect people against fraudulent 282 00:20:34,515 --> 00:20:42,075 Speaker 1: TV ads, you know, for ads like Trump University. He 283 00:20:42,195 --> 00:20:46,515 Speaker 1: is claiming the editing mistake was legally fraud. He is 284 00:20:46,555 --> 00:20:51,035 Speaker 1: suing for fraud. It's a nuisance lawsuit, of course, But 285 00:20:51,715 --> 00:20:56,635 Speaker 1: your nuisance lawsuit is the corporate half of fascist America's 286 00:20:56,955 --> 00:21:01,595 Speaker 1: golden opportunity. Paramount and CBS have, according to The Wall 287 00:21:01,635 --> 00:21:06,795 Speaker 1: Street Journal, discussed settling this nonsense case bribing Trump with 288 00:21:06,955 --> 00:21:10,915 Speaker 1: settlement money the way ABC and Disney bribed Trump by 289 00:21:10,955 --> 00:21:15,555 Speaker 1: settling the nuisance lawsuit against George Stephanopolis a clean, legal, 290 00:21:15,955 --> 00:21:22,155 Speaker 1: disguised way to bribe a sitting president, especially since his 291 00:21:22,155 --> 00:21:25,915 Speaker 1: new FCC chairman, of whom Goebbels would be proud, has 292 00:21:25,915 --> 00:21:32,075 Speaker 1: already threatened Paramount's planned merger with sky Dance. The impact 293 00:21:32,115 --> 00:21:34,915 Speaker 1: is obvious. I have friends at CBS News. I will 294 00:21:34,915 --> 00:21:37,195 Speaker 1: protect them by leaving their names out of it, but 295 00:21:37,235 --> 00:21:39,795 Speaker 1: they know damn well like my friends at ABC News 296 00:21:39,835 --> 00:21:42,875 Speaker 1: already know that their corporate bosses not only will not 297 00:21:42,995 --> 00:21:46,835 Speaker 1: lift a finger to defend journalism, any journalism, even their own, 298 00:21:47,395 --> 00:21:50,515 Speaker 1: but will now take this chance to piss all over 299 00:21:50,595 --> 00:21:54,235 Speaker 1: their newspeople to disguise a bribe as some kind of 300 00:21:54,435 --> 00:21:59,395 Speaker 1: legal apology. What's worse, of course, is that every time 301 00:21:59,435 --> 00:22:02,435 Speaker 1: a news outlet does not fight back against this misuse 302 00:22:02,475 --> 00:22:05,875 Speaker 1: of that Texas fraud law or some or bullshit laws, 303 00:22:06,275 --> 00:22:09,555 Speaker 1: it becomes more legitimate in the eyes of the courts. 304 00:22:11,555 --> 00:22:15,515 Speaker 1: Iowa has a similar law. Under it, Trump is suing 305 00:22:16,315 --> 00:22:20,915 Speaker 1: the Des Moines Register polster because her pre election poll 306 00:22:21,355 --> 00:22:27,635 Speaker 1: did not show him ahead enough. Trump is this close 307 00:22:27,675 --> 00:22:33,075 Speaker 1: to suing some weatherman forgetting the forecast wrong, and CBS 308 00:22:34,595 --> 00:22:40,435 Speaker 1: is on Trump's side. Other vshy capitulation is less shocking, 309 00:22:40,435 --> 00:22:43,995 Speaker 1: but no less sleazy. CNN, which, under that balloon with 310 00:22:44,115 --> 00:22:49,515 Speaker 1: glasses David Zaslav, dismembered itself to please the fascists, lost 311 00:22:49,595 --> 00:22:52,675 Speaker 1: virtually all of its audience and perverted a halfway decent 312 00:22:52,795 --> 00:22:55,795 Speaker 1: nighttime hour and made it instead a platform for the hateful. 313 00:22:55,835 --> 00:23:00,835 Speaker 1: Scott Jennings found something left to destroy there in time 314 00:23:00,835 --> 00:23:03,875 Speaker 1: for Trump's coronation. Hey, we found something good here in 315 00:23:03,915 --> 00:23:11,155 Speaker 1: the back. Kill it with fire. The bonehead Thompson they 316 00:23:11,195 --> 00:23:15,395 Speaker 1: brought into save CNN from the last bonehead they brought 317 00:23:15,395 --> 00:23:20,075 Speaker 1: into Save CNN reportedly phoned Jim Acosta last week and 318 00:23:20,155 --> 00:23:23,875 Speaker 1: told him his ratings were so good, often better than 319 00:23:23,875 --> 00:23:27,715 Speaker 1: CNN Primetime, admittedly a low bar, but still an impressive accomplishment, 320 00:23:29,755 --> 00:23:33,515 Speaker 1: that he was going to get a promotion instead. Acosta, 321 00:23:33,955 --> 00:23:35,955 Speaker 1: of one hour at ten in the morning, you're gonna 322 00:23:35,955 --> 00:23:43,155 Speaker 1: get two hours starting at midnight. Isn't that great more airtime? 323 00:23:44,755 --> 00:23:49,955 Speaker 1: And technically it's still in the morning. CNN's midnight ratings 324 00:23:50,035 --> 00:23:54,675 Speaker 1: are slightly better than those of this podcast. I mean, 325 00:23:54,755 --> 00:23:57,035 Speaker 1: you look at those numbers now and you wonder, is 326 00:23:57,115 --> 00:23:59,515 Speaker 1: it worth turning on all the lights in the studio? 327 00:24:00,315 --> 00:24:04,675 Speaker 1: Does it cost less to broadcast CNN in black and white? 328 00:24:05,675 --> 00:24:10,195 Speaker 1: These are what the ratings make you think. I've had 329 00:24:10,635 --> 00:24:14,595 Speaker 1: shows with ratings like that. That was what MSNBC was 330 00:24:14,675 --> 00:24:20,075 Speaker 1: like about two thousand and four. Well, obviously everybody in 331 00:24:20,195 --> 00:24:23,635 Speaker 1: the world knows that this is an attempt to get Acosta, 332 00:24:23,675 --> 00:24:27,355 Speaker 1: who has treated Trump honestly and fearlessly and journalistically for years, 333 00:24:27,675 --> 00:24:31,395 Speaker 1: to quit. I assume their next offer to him will 334 00:24:31,395 --> 00:24:33,835 Speaker 1: be you don't want two hours at midnight, Well, how 335 00:24:33,875 --> 00:24:36,555 Speaker 1: about this as a second choice, how about three hours 336 00:24:36,595 --> 00:24:42,835 Speaker 1: at midnight. They did this once. CBS did it once 337 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:45,875 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles to a sportscaster they did not like 338 00:24:46,035 --> 00:24:48,595 Speaker 1: who was under contract, and they made him come in 339 00:24:48,795 --> 00:24:53,955 Speaker 1: and write the four o'clock news am to get him 340 00:24:53,995 --> 00:24:56,915 Speaker 1: to quit, because it didn't say in his contract that 341 00:24:56,955 --> 00:24:58,875 Speaker 1: they couldn't make them come in and write the news 342 00:24:58,915 --> 00:25:03,475 Speaker 1: at four am. As noted by Oliver Darcy, who broke 343 00:25:03,515 --> 00:25:06,195 Speaker 1: this story about Acosta CNN. The day after this CNN 344 00:25:06,315 --> 00:25:07,915 Speaker 1: loser tried to get a cost It to quit with 345 00:25:07,955 --> 00:25:11,235 Speaker 1: a phony promotion. A Costas signed off his show, The 346 00:25:11,315 --> 00:25:13,635 Speaker 1: One That's Still on at ten am by noting one 347 00:25:13,715 --> 00:25:17,595 Speaker 1: line from President Biden's farewell address. Costa said, Biden quote warned, 348 00:25:17,755 --> 00:25:20,275 Speaker 1: the free press is crumbling in this country. I would 349 00:25:20,275 --> 00:25:23,915 Speaker 1: add that's only if we, the people let that happen. 350 00:25:26,155 --> 00:25:28,915 Speaker 1: I admire both Biden and a Costa, but they are mistaken. 351 00:25:29,955 --> 00:25:34,275 Speaker 1: We have already let it happen. The Washington Post is dead. 352 00:25:35,195 --> 00:25:37,275 Speaker 1: The New York Times is doing its best to follow 353 00:25:37,395 --> 00:25:42,235 Speaker 1: the Post off the Lemming memorial cliff two headlines just 354 00:25:42,315 --> 00:25:47,795 Speaker 1: from yesterday Washington memo, Defiance is Out, Deference is in. 355 00:25:48,195 --> 00:25:53,555 Speaker 1: Trump returns to a different Washington as Donald J. Flatchlent Grandpa, 356 00:25:53,675 --> 00:25:55,795 Speaker 1: prepares to take the oath of office for a second time. 357 00:25:55,875 --> 00:25:58,035 Speaker 1: Much of the world seems to be bowing down to him, 358 00:25:58,275 --> 00:26:03,555 Speaker 1: and demoralized opponents are rethinking the future. This might be 359 00:26:03,635 --> 00:26:06,515 Speaker 1: read as a desperate please from somewhere inside the Times 360 00:26:06,555 --> 00:26:11,315 Speaker 1: headline department, get me out of here. And because the 361 00:26:11,395 --> 00:26:14,155 Speaker 1: headlines are now apparently being written in that department by 362 00:26:14,235 --> 00:26:18,195 Speaker 1: Times pitch bots Satiris Doug J. Balloon not his real name, 363 00:26:19,515 --> 00:26:22,715 Speaker 1: from a top Ezra Klein's column, as if Ezra Kline 364 00:26:22,835 --> 00:26:26,235 Speaker 1: needed any help being the dog in the hat in 365 00:26:26,315 --> 00:26:32,835 Speaker 1: the burning room quote opinion, Ezra Kleine Trump barely won 366 00:26:32,875 --> 00:26:38,035 Speaker 1: the election. Why doesn't it feel that way? Because Ezra, 367 00:26:39,555 --> 00:26:44,115 Speaker 1: the Times is run by cowards. Not to be fair, 368 00:26:44,195 --> 00:26:47,475 Speaker 1: they are not as big cowards as Jeff Bezos and 369 00:26:47,635 --> 00:26:52,315 Speaker 1: his jackasses. The Post version of the same story, Trump 370 00:26:52,395 --> 00:26:56,395 Speaker 1: has already conquered DC even before taking office. His triumphant 371 00:26:56,475 --> 00:27:03,755 Speaker 1: returned power stands in stark contrast to his divisive entry 372 00:27:03,795 --> 00:27:06,995 Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven and departure in twenty twenty one. 373 00:27:09,435 --> 00:27:11,635 Speaker 1: I mean, honest to God, why not just replace the 374 00:27:11,795 --> 00:27:16,955 Speaker 1: Washington Post masthead Jeff with a shot of Laurence Sanchez 375 00:27:17,355 --> 00:27:22,755 Speaker 1: smooching a picture of Trump. Well, they can't do that 376 00:27:22,795 --> 00:27:25,475 Speaker 1: because they already have done something far worse to the postmasthead. 377 00:27:25,515 --> 00:27:28,035 Speaker 1: They are keeping what is now obvious says just another 378 00:27:28,115 --> 00:27:32,315 Speaker 1: marketing slogan, democracy dies in darkness. The last two words 379 00:27:32,355 --> 00:27:36,235 Speaker 1: were so what they cut them off? I guess, But 380 00:27:36,355 --> 00:27:40,195 Speaker 1: they are adding a new mission statement that reeks of 381 00:27:40,275 --> 00:27:43,715 Speaker 1: a forty six person committee and several dozen focus groups. 382 00:27:44,755 --> 00:27:49,555 Speaker 1: That mission statement for the Washington Post, Riveting Storytelling for 383 00:27:49,795 --> 00:27:57,475 Speaker 1: all of America. This is inside edition. Oh no, it's 384 00:27:57,515 --> 00:28:03,675 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, Riveting Storytelling for all of America. I 385 00:28:03,835 --> 00:28:08,035 Speaker 1: am told that that one out over the runner up. 386 00:28:09,395 --> 00:28:17,075 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pay a lot for this muffler. More correctly, 387 00:28:17,155 --> 00:28:23,195 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pay a lot for this dictatorship. Bon chance, everybody, 388 00:28:24,955 --> 00:28:27,595 Speaker 1: also of interest here in memory of Bob Buker, who 389 00:28:27,675 --> 00:28:30,355 Speaker 1: helped give me the confidence to actually join him on 390 00:28:30,475 --> 00:28:34,755 Speaker 1: the World Series telecasts. But first, the worst, and I'm 391 00:28:34,835 --> 00:28:37,075 Speaker 1: just gonna say this and let you figure it out. 392 00:28:37,155 --> 00:28:40,355 Speaker 1: And it's real. It's actually a new marketing slogan for 393 00:28:40,435 --> 00:28:45,075 Speaker 1: a new product. It's a real marketing slogan. And it's quote, 394 00:28:45,955 --> 00:28:52,435 Speaker 1: it's soup you can suck on. That's next. This is countdown. 395 00:28:54,635 --> 00:29:21,875 Speaker 1: This is countdown with Keith Oberman. Oberman still ahead on countdown. 396 00:29:21,915 --> 00:29:25,755 Speaker 1: The second worst thing probably about getting old, not very old, 397 00:29:25,915 --> 00:29:29,915 Speaker 1: just old old, regular old, is having to watch nearly 398 00:29:30,035 --> 00:29:33,075 Speaker 1: all those older than you who accepted you in what 399 00:29:33,315 --> 00:29:37,155 Speaker 1: was their field and then became theirs and yours watched 400 00:29:37,235 --> 00:29:41,035 Speaker 1: them pass on, especially when they are widely beloved standard 401 00:29:41,155 --> 00:29:45,555 Speaker 1: setters in those fields, like the late Bob Buker. Bob 402 00:29:45,595 --> 00:29:49,315 Speaker 1: Buker in Memoriam. Next first, there are still more new 403 00:29:49,355 --> 00:29:51,755 Speaker 1: idiots to talk about, the daily roundup of the miss Grants, 404 00:29:51,835 --> 00:29:56,155 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other 405 00:29:56,595 --> 00:30:04,995 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world. Lebron's worse Rand Paul. Rand 406 00:30:05,075 --> 00:30:07,435 Speaker 1: Paul became a senator. People pointed at him and said, 407 00:30:08,075 --> 00:30:12,235 Speaker 1: this guy is a senator. Now there's a whole crowd 408 00:30:12,315 --> 00:30:14,995 Speaker 1: of Rand Paul's in the Senate and especially in the House, 409 00:30:15,235 --> 00:30:18,635 Speaker 1: so he doesn't look quite as stupid. Every once in 410 00:30:18,675 --> 00:30:21,915 Speaker 1: a while, though, Rand is here to remind you he's 411 00:30:22,315 --> 00:30:24,675 Speaker 1: unbelievably stupid. 412 00:30:25,155 --> 00:30:28,115 Speaker 2: Since Senator Johnson brought up California fires, I have to 413 00:30:28,195 --> 00:30:32,035 Speaker 2: interject here. We talked about burn policies. You know, these 414 00:30:32,075 --> 00:30:34,435 Speaker 2: are local policies, how we try to not have so 415 00:30:34,555 --> 00:30:37,035 Speaker 2: much brush and things like that. They're also next to 416 00:30:37,115 --> 00:30:40,635 Speaker 2: the largest body of water in the world, the Pacific Ocean. 417 00:30:41,075 --> 00:30:43,115 Speaker 2: So I see these homes all burning on the beach 418 00:30:43,195 --> 00:30:45,235 Speaker 2: in Malibu, and I'm like, Wow, if they just had 419 00:30:45,275 --> 00:30:48,715 Speaker 2: a generator in a hose, you start sucking the water 420 00:30:48,795 --> 00:30:49,755 Speaker 2: out of the Pacific Ocean. 421 00:30:49,795 --> 00:30:50,675 Speaker 1: But you could do more than that. 422 00:30:51,315 --> 00:30:53,155 Speaker 2: You could pump it and put it in cisterns up 423 00:30:53,195 --> 00:30:54,835 Speaker 2: in the hills a mile or two in. You know 424 00:30:54,875 --> 00:30:57,275 Speaker 2: it doesn't rain very much there. But why don't they 425 00:30:57,355 --> 00:30:59,955 Speaker 2: take the ocean water, put it in cisterns and have 426 00:31:00,035 --> 00:31:02,795 Speaker 2: a bunch of water ready when a wildfire shows up? 427 00:31:02,835 --> 00:31:05,995 Speaker 2: But it's like once again bad local government. 428 00:31:06,235 --> 00:31:08,715 Speaker 1: All you need is a generator and a hose, and 429 00:31:08,835 --> 00:31:11,755 Speaker 1: you start sucking the water out of the Pacific Ocean. 430 00:31:13,195 --> 00:31:15,355 Speaker 1: You have any idea how long the hose would have 431 00:31:15,435 --> 00:31:18,835 Speaker 1: to be? More on Also, salt water in a hose 432 00:31:19,195 --> 00:31:23,835 Speaker 1: through a pump, the thing will last three days. Why 433 00:31:23,915 --> 00:31:26,875 Speaker 1: don't they take the ocean water and put it in cisterns, 434 00:31:27,595 --> 00:31:32,875 Speaker 1: have a bunch of water ready when a wildfire shows up? Well, 435 00:31:35,595 --> 00:31:40,635 Speaker 1: things burn in fires, like cisterns or hair pieces. This 436 00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:44,835 Speaker 1: idiot is not just an idiotic senator. He's still a doctor, 437 00:31:48,035 --> 00:31:53,515 Speaker 1: runner up worser the General Mills Company. This is still 438 00:31:54,035 --> 00:31:56,875 Speaker 1: I'm seeing this. I double and triple checked it to 439 00:31:56,955 --> 00:31:59,635 Speaker 1: make sure it was not satire. It's not satire. This 440 00:31:59,755 --> 00:32:02,635 Speaker 1: is still on their website. General Mills is introducing a 441 00:32:02,675 --> 00:32:08,595 Speaker 1: new product the headline soup you Can Suck On, Introducing 442 00:32:08,715 --> 00:32:13,795 Speaker 1: Progresso Soup Drops, the ultimate cold and flu season comfort 443 00:32:14,715 --> 00:32:18,475 Speaker 1: It's Progresso chicken noodle soup like you never expected, a convenient, 444 00:32:18,635 --> 00:32:22,875 Speaker 1: on the go soup experience available this National Soup Month. 445 00:32:24,235 --> 00:32:26,875 Speaker 1: Enjoy soup like never before. Progresso your go to for 446 00:32:26,995 --> 00:32:30,915 Speaker 1: comforting Premium soups is innovating beyond expectations this cold and 447 00:32:30,995 --> 00:32:33,435 Speaker 1: flu season with the launch of the first ever limited 448 00:32:33,555 --> 00:32:40,195 Speaker 1: edition soup drops. What's a soup drop? Well, it's soup 449 00:32:40,635 --> 00:32:46,115 Speaker 1: you can suck on. Please do your own suck on 450 00:32:46,315 --> 00:32:51,635 Speaker 1: joke here, I am above that prey. What this is, 451 00:32:51,755 --> 00:32:58,675 Speaker 1: of course, is like a piece of like a cough drop, cold, 452 00:32:59,315 --> 00:33:07,275 Speaker 1: presumably sticky, clammy hard, but mostly cold. Except it's chicken 453 00:33:07,395 --> 00:33:13,195 Speaker 1: noodle flavored. So it's like it's like congealed chicken noodle 454 00:33:13,355 --> 00:33:16,355 Speaker 1: soup stuff. You just let's sit there in the bowl 455 00:33:16,475 --> 00:33:20,875 Speaker 1: for a couple of days. Not at General Mills. That's 456 00:33:20,955 --> 00:33:24,795 Speaker 1: a half full attitude towards your bowl of soup. We 457 00:33:24,955 --> 00:33:28,835 Speaker 1: can sell this. So what if it's not hot like 458 00:33:28,995 --> 00:33:34,715 Speaker 1: soup or tasty like soup, or even somehow viscerally pleasing 459 00:33:34,955 --> 00:33:36,995 Speaker 1: like soup, which, by the way, you can suck on. 460 00:33:37,115 --> 00:33:40,595 Speaker 1: You can suck on soup. No, no, it has none 461 00:33:40,635 --> 00:33:46,715 Speaker 1: of those properties except it's it's it's soup, you can 462 00:33:46,915 --> 00:33:55,235 Speaker 1: suck on. Speaking of suck the winter worst Trump, I'll 463 00:33:55,355 --> 00:34:00,075 Speaker 1: just quote from Politico, shall I? The incoming Trump White 464 00:34:00,115 --> 00:34:04,075 Speaker 1: House is planning on changing the colors of White House 465 00:34:04,195 --> 00:34:07,755 Speaker 1: badges for employees when it comes back Monday, that would 466 00:34:07,755 --> 00:34:12,035 Speaker 1: be today, to make them platinum and gold instead of 467 00:34:12,115 --> 00:34:15,635 Speaker 1: the traditional blue and green. To people familiar with the 468 00:34:15,755 --> 00:34:20,435 Speaker 1: change told our colleague Daniel Lippman, platinum badges will be 469 00:34:20,595 --> 00:34:24,515 Speaker 1: used to denote West Wing access. Gold badges will get 470 00:34:24,555 --> 00:34:27,715 Speaker 1: you access to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and the 471 00:34:27,795 --> 00:34:35,715 Speaker 1: new Executive Office Building. So like everything else in the world, 472 00:34:35,755 --> 00:34:43,355 Speaker 1: Trump is obsessed with gold badges and platinum badges. Now 473 00:34:43,435 --> 00:34:46,475 Speaker 1: White House staff and other members of the dictatorship will 474 00:34:46,515 --> 00:34:49,115 Speaker 1: look like the check in people at a holiday inn 475 00:34:49,195 --> 00:34:53,355 Speaker 1: in Keyahcook, Iowa. It dawned on me while I lived 476 00:34:53,395 --> 00:34:57,275 Speaker 1: in a Trump building surrounded by the cheap, sprayed on 477 00:34:57,515 --> 00:35:01,835 Speaker 1: looking dull gold color. I don't know if it was 478 00:35:02,075 --> 00:35:05,795 Speaker 1: tin or I don't know what it was. I never 479 00:35:05,835 --> 00:35:09,435 Speaker 1: figured out what the metal was. Might have been hardened 480 00:35:09,475 --> 00:35:13,755 Speaker 1: aluminum foil. But Trump is obsessed by it. And by 481 00:35:13,755 --> 00:35:15,755 Speaker 1: the way, I lived in the Trump building that had 482 00:35:15,795 --> 00:35:19,595 Speaker 1: the least amount of it. I literally said to Katie 483 00:35:19,675 --> 00:35:22,715 Speaker 1: Churr as we bought that part apartment that if it 484 00:35:22,795 --> 00:35:25,715 Speaker 1: had one percent more gold, I would never have moved 485 00:35:25,755 --> 00:35:28,715 Speaker 1: in there. It just looks like crap. But it dawned 486 00:35:28,755 --> 00:35:32,435 Speaker 1: on me then that Trump has no idea gold to 487 00:35:32,635 --> 00:35:37,435 Speaker 1: him means good. The words are spelled similarly. His hair 488 00:35:37,555 --> 00:35:41,115 Speaker 1: is now that same crap gold color. And then I 489 00:35:41,235 --> 00:35:46,115 Speaker 1: began to think, does he not know that the gold 490 00:35:46,275 --> 00:35:50,555 Speaker 1: you see in the walls of his buildings and on 491 00:35:50,715 --> 00:35:56,955 Speaker 1: his head and everywhere else, that that's not actual actual gold. 492 00:35:56,995 --> 00:36:00,475 Speaker 1: Do you think Trump has ever realized that gold paint 493 00:36:00,595 --> 00:36:06,235 Speaker 1: and gold plastic and gold bronzer and gold badges are 494 00:36:06,315 --> 00:36:11,155 Speaker 1: not made of actual gold. I don't think so. And 495 00:36:11,315 --> 00:36:15,075 Speaker 1: while we're here at Trump, I am pleased to announce 496 00:36:15,275 --> 00:36:18,755 Speaker 1: that Peggy Shwinn he has posted, will be our next 497 00:36:18,915 --> 00:36:22,715 Speaker 1: United States Deputy Secretary of Education. Peggy as a strong 498 00:36:22,795 --> 00:36:25,595 Speaker 1: record of delivering results for children and families, has served 499 00:36:25,595 --> 00:36:29,555 Speaker 1: as Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education. At the 500 00:36:29,675 --> 00:36:35,795 Speaker 1: Texas Education Agency, Peggy was also the assistant set. Her 501 00:36:35,875 --> 00:36:40,995 Speaker 1: name is Penny. She's not Peggy Shwin, She's Penny Shwin. 502 00:36:42,835 --> 00:36:46,835 Speaker 1: I assume this will be resolved the new Trump way 503 00:36:48,635 --> 00:36:54,835 Speaker 1: by having Penny change her name to Peggy, because Grandpa 504 00:36:54,995 --> 00:37:00,915 Speaker 1: Shardy is never wrong. General Lissimo blocking his own TikTok 505 00:37:01,075 --> 00:37:04,035 Speaker 1: ben and calling it a win and then calling it 506 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:12,395 Speaker 1: Peggy Trump two days worst Parson and the world. The 507 00:37:12,675 --> 00:37:32,875 Speaker 1: name is Penny, your damn And lastly, as I said 508 00:37:32,915 --> 00:37:35,275 Speaker 1: at the beginning, I would rather spend my day talking 509 00:37:35,315 --> 00:37:37,835 Speaker 1: to you about my late friend Bob Buker, who died 510 00:37:37,955 --> 00:37:41,355 Speaker 1: Thursday at the age of ninety. At the age of ninety, 511 00:37:42,515 --> 00:37:44,915 Speaker 1: people knew he was ninety, and still people were surprised 512 00:37:44,955 --> 00:37:47,675 Speaker 1: he was ninety, and they were surprised that he left us, 513 00:37:48,875 --> 00:37:53,795 Speaker 1: because he always seemed about thirty five. And to my knowledge, 514 00:37:54,635 --> 00:37:57,355 Speaker 1: he was a friend of everybody in baseball and most 515 00:37:57,395 --> 00:38:01,435 Speaker 1: people in entertainment, and certainly was beloved by his listeners 516 00:38:01,515 --> 00:38:04,595 Speaker 1: and viewers in Milwaukee, where he did the Milwaukee Brewers 517 00:38:04,715 --> 00:38:08,715 Speaker 1: games from almost the day they started being the Milwaukee Brewers. 518 00:38:09,915 --> 00:38:12,595 Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with Bob Uker's work, it is 519 00:38:12,675 --> 00:38:18,595 Speaker 1: perhaps summarized by one story. For generations former baseball players 520 00:38:18,635 --> 00:38:23,075 Speaker 1: and other athletes had made marks as broadcasters by being 521 00:38:23,195 --> 00:38:29,515 Speaker 1: self deprecating Dizzy Dean, whose vocabulary was so bad and 522 00:38:29,635 --> 00:38:33,075 Speaker 1: whose grammar was so random that there was once a 523 00:38:33,115 --> 00:38:35,715 Speaker 1: petition signed by the school teachers of America to get 524 00:38:35,795 --> 00:38:38,595 Speaker 1: him to stop doing the broadcasts of New York Yankees 525 00:38:38,595 --> 00:38:41,155 Speaker 1: and other games on radio in the forties and fifties. 526 00:38:41,555 --> 00:38:44,035 Speaker 1: Dizzy Dean was self deprecating, but it was so ham 527 00:38:44,195 --> 00:38:48,355 Speaker 1: handed that it wasn't that funny. My late friend Joe 528 00:38:48,395 --> 00:38:52,115 Speaker 1: Garagiola sort of perfected it. He was much more light 529 00:38:52,555 --> 00:38:56,035 Speaker 1: and much more entertaining, and his jokes about his playing 530 00:38:56,115 --> 00:39:00,275 Speaker 1: career were much more funny. But even he did not 531 00:39:00,475 --> 00:39:04,915 Speaker 1: have the Bob Yucher secret. Not everything Bob Yuker did 532 00:39:05,035 --> 00:39:09,395 Speaker 1: was spontaneous, but everything knew he did was spontaneous. His 533 00:39:09,595 --> 00:39:14,155 Speaker 1: jokes were truly creative genius. He made them up as 534 00:39:14,235 --> 00:39:16,715 Speaker 1: he went along, and he almost always hit it out 535 00:39:16,755 --> 00:39:22,355 Speaker 1: of the park, and they were delivered deadpan. He had 536 00:39:22,395 --> 00:39:26,035 Speaker 1: a natural understanding of comedic rhythm that nine out of 537 00:39:26,115 --> 00:39:29,355 Speaker 1: ten comedians never get close to the perfect example. One 538 00:39:29,395 --> 00:39:32,755 Speaker 1: of his oldest jokes about when his hometown team, the 539 00:39:32,835 --> 00:39:35,395 Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers, signed him out of high school in the 540 00:39:35,475 --> 00:39:38,955 Speaker 1: nineteen fifties. They came to my house and my dad 541 00:39:39,075 --> 00:39:42,955 Speaker 1: said how much? And they said twenty thousand dollars and 542 00:39:43,075 --> 00:39:44,955 Speaker 1: my father said, we don't have that kind of money. 543 00:39:46,715 --> 00:39:50,915 Speaker 1: No laugh, no knowing grin, no acknowledgment that the audience 544 00:39:51,075 --> 00:39:55,875 Speaker 1: figured it out, perfect comedic delivery. He was a good actor. 545 00:39:56,195 --> 00:39:59,315 Speaker 1: He was a good baseball announcer and very insightful, and 546 00:39:59,475 --> 00:40:01,555 Speaker 1: even at the age of eighty nine and ninety, was 547 00:40:01,635 --> 00:40:04,275 Speaker 1: still better than most of the other radio announcers out there. 548 00:40:05,555 --> 00:40:08,035 Speaker 1: But what he was a genius at was humor. Like that, 549 00:40:08,635 --> 00:40:13,955 Speaker 1: humor at his expense, based in reality, with an unexpected ending, 550 00:40:14,595 --> 00:40:17,835 Speaker 1: a reversal that left you going left as the story 551 00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:21,675 Speaker 1: went right, and always got him laughs. He would repeat 552 00:40:22,075 --> 00:40:23,875 Speaker 1: the ones that got of the most laughs. He wasn't 553 00:40:23,915 --> 00:40:27,555 Speaker 1: a moron, he didn't throw things away that worked, But 554 00:40:27,835 --> 00:40:31,915 Speaker 1: his key to success was all of that. Humor was 555 00:40:32,115 --> 00:40:36,035 Speaker 1: part of him. He'd been that way as a player. Famously, 556 00:40:36,155 --> 00:40:39,155 Speaker 1: he posed for the nineteen sixty five I believe Saint 557 00:40:39,235 --> 00:40:42,355 Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals team picture, sitting next to the great Cardinals 558 00:40:42,435 --> 00:40:45,955 Speaker 1: picture Bob Gibson in a day when there was still 559 00:40:46,195 --> 00:40:50,835 Speaker 1: considerable segregation in this country, and there was certain political 560 00:40:50,955 --> 00:40:53,795 Speaker 1: campaigning done on the idea that we've done enough for 561 00:40:53,875 --> 00:40:56,675 Speaker 1: these people already. That was basically the Republican campaign in 562 00:40:56,755 --> 00:40:59,595 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six. And in the front row of the 563 00:40:59,755 --> 00:41:04,555 Speaker 1: Cardinals team picture, Bob Gibson, an African American, Bob Buker, 564 00:41:05,115 --> 00:41:08,595 Speaker 1: not an African American, seated next to each other, held 565 00:41:08,715 --> 00:41:14,395 Speaker 1: hands as they took the photo. They got several snaps 566 00:41:14,475 --> 00:41:19,195 Speaker 1: in before somebody on the team in the picture burst 567 00:41:19,235 --> 00:41:23,995 Speaker 1: out laughing. It would have gone through nobody, nobody involved 568 00:41:24,035 --> 00:41:27,675 Speaker 1: in the photography noticed it, and then they said, Okay, Uker, 569 00:41:27,715 --> 00:41:30,915 Speaker 1: you get in the back row. He was that kind 570 00:41:30,955 --> 00:41:35,955 Speaker 1: of guy. I had known Bob since the nineteen seventies 571 00:41:36,235 --> 00:41:38,475 Speaker 1: because even though I was first when I met him 572 00:41:38,515 --> 00:41:41,795 Speaker 1: in college and a college broadcaster. I was sitting next 573 00:41:41,835 --> 00:41:44,155 Speaker 1: to him on the bench one day before a Milwaukee 574 00:41:44,235 --> 00:41:47,715 Speaker 1: Brewers New York Yankees game and he said, Hey, I'm 575 00:41:47,755 --> 00:41:51,515 Speaker 1: Bob Yker, and I said, I gathered that I'm Keith, 576 00:41:51,875 --> 00:41:54,955 Speaker 1: and he wanted to hear about my story, who I was, 577 00:41:55,555 --> 00:41:57,275 Speaker 1: why I was in radio, but I had a camera 578 00:41:57,355 --> 00:42:00,995 Speaker 1: with me. And then as I moved up the chain, 579 00:42:01,235 --> 00:42:06,115 Speaker 1: and he was a superstar in comedy, in acting, in baseball, 580 00:42:06,595 --> 00:42:09,715 Speaker 1: he followed my career. Hey, you know, I remember I 581 00:42:09,835 --> 00:42:12,595 Speaker 1: met you. You were just this college punk kid, and 582 00:42:12,635 --> 00:42:14,755 Speaker 1: I said, this kid's got something here. I don't know 583 00:42:14,835 --> 00:42:16,795 Speaker 1: what it is. I said, you didn't tell me that. 584 00:42:16,995 --> 00:42:20,755 Speaker 1: He said, I don't need the competition. Big laugh, slap 585 00:42:20,835 --> 00:42:25,235 Speaker 1: on the back, Alibastia pal every time. And I'd love 586 00:42:25,315 --> 00:42:27,795 Speaker 1: to say, well, we had a special relationship, nothing of 587 00:42:27,875 --> 00:42:31,075 Speaker 1: the kind. Thousands of people have a story about Bob 588 00:42:31,195 --> 00:42:35,515 Speaker 1: Ucker encouraging them one way or the other, a great 589 00:42:35,635 --> 00:42:39,555 Speaker 1: positive forcing life. And this doesn't even touch on the 590 00:42:39,715 --> 00:42:43,995 Speaker 1: quality of the light beer commercials. It doesn't touch on 591 00:42:44,155 --> 00:42:48,675 Speaker 1: the major league role of the typical baseball announcer. There 592 00:42:48,715 --> 00:42:50,715 Speaker 1: are more people that I know who knew nothing about 593 00:42:50,755 --> 00:42:54,875 Speaker 1: baseball could not believe, having seen that movie Major League, 594 00:42:54,875 --> 00:42:57,675 Speaker 1: that Bob Bucker was an actual Major League baseball announcer 595 00:42:57,715 --> 00:42:59,995 Speaker 1: and a prominent one. They thought he was just a 596 00:43:00,075 --> 00:43:07,315 Speaker 1: great actor doing a bit like Hank Azaria later who 597 00:43:07,355 --> 00:43:11,955 Speaker 1: did a series about an unintentionally funny baseball announcer. They 598 00:43:11,995 --> 00:43:14,355 Speaker 1: thought Bob Bucker was an actor. No, No, he was 599 00:43:14,475 --> 00:43:18,515 Speaker 1: just doing an exaggerated and again self deprecating, dead pan 600 00:43:18,715 --> 00:43:23,795 Speaker 1: version of himself. I really got to know Bob in 601 00:43:23,915 --> 00:43:29,795 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven. I was assigned after I joined MSNBC 602 00:43:29,995 --> 00:43:32,515 Speaker 1: and NBC Sports, the first big thing I did after 603 00:43:32,635 --> 00:43:36,035 Speaker 1: launching my cable news program in October of nineteen ninety seven, 604 00:43:36,315 --> 00:43:38,595 Speaker 1: Like a week later, I hit the road. I was 605 00:43:38,755 --> 00:43:42,235 Speaker 1: the new guy on the NBC Sports World Series team, 606 00:43:42,475 --> 00:43:45,955 Speaker 1: fulfilling the childhood dream. Bob Costas was the play by 607 00:43:46,035 --> 00:43:49,275 Speaker 1: play man, Joe Morgan and Bob Yucker were the color announcers, 608 00:43:49,555 --> 00:43:51,835 Speaker 1: and Hannah Storm and I did the pregame show and 609 00:43:51,995 --> 00:43:54,235 Speaker 1: I was in the dugouts during the World Series game. 610 00:43:54,515 --> 00:43:58,995 Speaker 1: A lot of childhood dreams fulfilled all at once. And 611 00:43:59,635 --> 00:44:01,435 Speaker 1: with that, of course, even though I was thirty eight 612 00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:04,235 Speaker 1: years old, there was a little nervousness. I had established 613 00:44:04,235 --> 00:44:07,715 Speaker 1: myself at ESPN was just trying something new in news, 614 00:44:07,955 --> 00:44:09,955 Speaker 1: and here I was stepping back for the first time 615 00:44:10,035 --> 00:44:12,675 Speaker 1: in several months since I left Sports Center into sports 616 00:44:12,715 --> 00:44:15,035 Speaker 1: and not certain of what I was doing. I wasn't 617 00:44:15,115 --> 00:44:17,475 Speaker 1: that good a reporter. I'd be fine on the pregame show, 618 00:44:17,515 --> 00:44:19,595 Speaker 1: in the postgame show, but who knew what I was 619 00:44:19,635 --> 00:44:23,275 Speaker 1: going to say during the game. Sitting in the dugouter 620 00:44:23,435 --> 00:44:28,075 Speaker 1: next to it where I didn't belong anyway, I wasn't 621 00:44:28,075 --> 00:44:30,315 Speaker 1: sure I belonged in the whole operation. And the first 622 00:44:30,435 --> 00:44:34,595 Speaker 1: meeting on the road in Miami for the Florida Marlins 623 00:44:34,635 --> 00:44:37,635 Speaker 1: Cleveland Indians World Series as they were known at the time, 624 00:44:39,115 --> 00:44:41,315 Speaker 1: I come down for the breakfast before the first meeting, 625 00:44:41,395 --> 00:44:43,355 Speaker 1: and there in line ahead of me at the buffet, 626 00:44:43,675 --> 00:44:47,475 Speaker 1: Bob Buker, Hey, pal, congratulations man. I saw that first 627 00:44:47,835 --> 00:44:50,875 Speaker 1: news show the other day. That was great. He says, Cee. Now, 628 00:44:50,915 --> 00:44:52,515 Speaker 1: I'm just worried about one thing, and I said, well, 629 00:44:52,515 --> 00:44:54,195 Speaker 1: I'm worried about a lot of things. He goes, it'd 630 00:44:54,235 --> 00:44:57,915 Speaker 1: be fine. I said, what's bothering you? Youuke? He said, 631 00:44:59,275 --> 00:45:01,995 Speaker 1: I'm now just the second funniest guy on our World 632 00:45:02,115 --> 00:45:05,995 Speaker 1: Series crew. And of course, if you're in there with 633 00:45:06,075 --> 00:45:08,635 Speaker 1: Bob Buker, you better be dead paned back. You better 634 00:45:08,715 --> 00:45:10,235 Speaker 1: give it back to him. I know there's a joke 635 00:45:10,275 --> 00:45:12,515 Speaker 1: coming in here somewhere, or at least I thought there was. 636 00:45:13,355 --> 00:45:18,195 Speaker 1: I said, Okay, I'll play who's now the funniest guy 637 00:45:18,235 --> 00:45:20,755 Speaker 1: on our World Series crew? And then I mentioned a 638 00:45:20,875 --> 00:45:24,075 Speaker 1: name of somebody we all hated, so it was like, so, 639 00:45:24,195 --> 00:45:29,835 Speaker 1: who's first? Blankety blank? He roared say that on the air, 640 00:45:29,875 --> 00:45:33,595 Speaker 1: I dare you? Then after I laughed and he laughed, 641 00:45:33,635 --> 00:45:37,595 Speaker 1: and he tapped me on the chest. You pal imagine 642 00:45:37,675 --> 00:45:43,115 Speaker 1: that for your first World Series game. That's why he 643 00:45:43,355 --> 00:45:45,675 Speaker 1: was a great catcher who didn't hit and was not 644 00:45:45,835 --> 00:45:50,395 Speaker 1: considered that great a fielder, and lasted six seasons in 645 00:45:50,435 --> 00:45:53,555 Speaker 1: the major leagues and was traded back to the team 646 00:45:53,595 --> 00:45:56,555 Speaker 1: that he started with because they missed him, and then 647 00:45:56,715 --> 00:46:00,755 Speaker 1: hired as a coach and that didn't work out. A story, 648 00:46:00,755 --> 00:46:04,915 Speaker 1: I'll tell him a little bit. He was a great 649 00:46:04,995 --> 00:46:07,635 Speaker 1: asset to any organization he was with. That's what it 650 00:46:07,715 --> 00:46:12,075 Speaker 1: was about. Like before his first World Series game, like 651 00:46:12,275 --> 00:46:14,635 Speaker 1: my first World Series game, I got tapped on the 652 00:46:15,075 --> 00:46:17,595 Speaker 1: chest Bob Bob Yuker telling me he thought I was 653 00:46:17,635 --> 00:46:21,035 Speaker 1: funnier than he was before his first World Series game. 654 00:46:21,835 --> 00:46:24,195 Speaker 1: He went out to the warning track in the outfield 655 00:46:24,235 --> 00:46:28,475 Speaker 1: in Saint Louis and grabbed the tuba from the band 656 00:46:28,595 --> 00:46:30,475 Speaker 1: that was playing on the warning track before Game one 657 00:46:30,515 --> 00:46:32,755 Speaker 1: of the nineteen sixty four World Series and began to 658 00:46:32,875 --> 00:46:36,675 Speaker 1: play the tuba. There are photos of him, you can 659 00:46:36,755 --> 00:46:40,555 Speaker 1: find them on Google. Uker tuba and there he is, 660 00:46:40,635 --> 00:46:43,555 Speaker 1: I think, with Roger Craig, a pitcher with that team, 661 00:46:44,515 --> 00:46:47,035 Speaker 1: holding in his laughter as usual. It's like, where's Uker. 662 00:46:47,075 --> 00:46:50,075 Speaker 1: He's supposed to warm up Gibson, and of course the 663 00:46:50,155 --> 00:46:53,475 Speaker 1: answer was he's naturally, he's out in center field playing 664 00:46:53,515 --> 00:46:57,595 Speaker 1: the tuba. I shared a photo on social media after 665 00:46:57,675 --> 00:47:00,115 Speaker 1: Bob died, after the Brewers announced he had passed away. 666 00:47:00,915 --> 00:47:04,675 Speaker 1: It's from twenty twelve. It's at City Field in New York, 667 00:47:04,835 --> 00:47:07,235 Speaker 1: in the press box before Brewers Mets game, and I 668 00:47:07,275 --> 00:47:09,195 Speaker 1: didn't want to take any chances. I took the subway 669 00:47:09,235 --> 00:47:12,675 Speaker 1: out on a desperately humid day even for New York 670 00:47:12,755 --> 00:47:17,355 Speaker 1: in the middle of summer, and my polo shirt is 671 00:47:17,435 --> 00:47:20,475 Speaker 1: like it looked like it was a pattern. It's half 672 00:47:21,035 --> 00:47:24,435 Speaker 1: subway sweat was a light green, I think, and then 673 00:47:24,515 --> 00:47:27,155 Speaker 1: over here it's a dark green and it's just me 674 00:47:27,395 --> 00:47:29,715 Speaker 1: sweating on my way, out standing all the way on 675 00:47:29,755 --> 00:47:33,155 Speaker 1: the seven train, and we pose for a photo because 676 00:47:33,155 --> 00:47:35,275 Speaker 1: I said, Bob, I know you like forty years and 677 00:47:35,275 --> 00:47:37,115 Speaker 1: I don't have a photo with you. Let's take care 678 00:47:37,155 --> 00:47:39,435 Speaker 1: of that right now, pal. And he's in a nice 679 00:47:39,475 --> 00:47:42,395 Speaker 1: shirt and tie. He's ready to go. And I think 680 00:47:42,435 --> 00:47:43,875 Speaker 1: he was only on the radio. And he's still in 681 00:47:43,875 --> 00:47:48,515 Speaker 1: a nice shirt and tie, and he says, as we're 682 00:47:48,515 --> 00:47:50,915 Speaker 1: about to take the photo, he gives a quick glance 683 00:47:50,995 --> 00:47:53,395 Speaker 1: over to my sweaty shirt and a big sweat stain. 684 00:47:53,435 --> 00:47:55,075 Speaker 1: And I mean it's the size of a football, my 685 00:47:55,155 --> 00:47:57,915 Speaker 1: sweat stain, he says. Just before they take the photo, 686 00:47:57,955 --> 00:47:59,875 Speaker 1: he says, you know, you didn't have to get all 687 00:47:59,955 --> 00:48:06,115 Speaker 1: nervous just for me. Keith standard yuke stuff. Occasionally you 688 00:48:06,275 --> 00:48:09,115 Speaker 1: were the point of the joke. Mostly he put himself 689 00:48:09,155 --> 00:48:12,275 Speaker 1: in a position of seeming dim or not understanding or 690 00:48:12,435 --> 00:48:15,595 Speaker 1: as in the story with his father willing to sign 691 00:48:15,675 --> 00:48:18,595 Speaker 1: with the Milwaukee Braves in nineteen fifty seven and pay 692 00:48:18,675 --> 00:48:23,475 Speaker 1: them twenty thousand dollars for the privilege. Sean Casey, the 693 00:48:23,595 --> 00:48:26,235 Speaker 1: former Major League Baseball player and now an MLB network 694 00:48:26,275 --> 00:48:28,755 Speaker 1: host and a podcaster himself, told a story over the 695 00:48:28,795 --> 00:48:31,915 Speaker 1: weekend that was worth mentioning, although I encourage you to 696 00:48:31,995 --> 00:48:34,395 Speaker 1: find it on social media because his version of it 697 00:48:34,475 --> 00:48:37,395 Speaker 1: has been edited to show what he's talking about. But 698 00:48:37,475 --> 00:48:40,795 Speaker 1: when Casey came to bat to borrow an old poem, 699 00:48:41,435 --> 00:48:44,955 Speaker 1: Casey at the bat would as a timing device to 700 00:48:45,035 --> 00:48:47,635 Speaker 1: get him in sync with his swing and everything else, 701 00:48:47,675 --> 00:48:50,275 Speaker 1: and he was a damn good hitter. Sean Casey used 702 00:48:50,275 --> 00:48:53,915 Speaker 1: to raise his back foot his left foot in the 703 00:48:53,955 --> 00:48:58,115 Speaker 1: batter's box three times, three separate times. He basically flexed 704 00:48:58,115 --> 00:49:02,755 Speaker 1: at the knee, just as a quirk, as a timing 705 00:49:02,835 --> 00:49:06,195 Speaker 1: device to keep him and ready for the pitch. All 706 00:49:06,275 --> 00:49:11,595 Speaker 1: the hitters have something. His was a series of leg 707 00:49:11,715 --> 00:49:13,955 Speaker 1: lifts in the middle of a bat, and he always 708 00:49:13,995 --> 00:49:16,915 Speaker 1: did three of them. And as Casey told the story, 709 00:49:17,275 --> 00:49:19,835 Speaker 1: his Cincinnati Reds went into Milwaukee one day and he 710 00:49:19,955 --> 00:49:22,395 Speaker 1: stood in at the plate and lifted the leg and 711 00:49:22,475 --> 00:49:26,995 Speaker 1: the entire Milwaukee crowd shouted one, and he didn't know 712 00:49:27,555 --> 00:49:30,555 Speaker 1: whether that was for him or what? Are they all 713 00:49:30,715 --> 00:49:33,115 Speaker 1: ordering a beer at the same time. He does it 714 00:49:33,195 --> 00:49:36,915 Speaker 1: again two, the whole crowd thirty forty thousand people, and 715 00:49:36,995 --> 00:49:38,955 Speaker 1: he doesn't know what's going on, And then he does 716 00:49:39,035 --> 00:49:41,275 Speaker 1: the third one, and they all of course shout surprisingly 717 00:49:41,395 --> 00:49:45,915 Speaker 1: enough free. He later put it all together and found 718 00:49:45,955 --> 00:49:49,355 Speaker 1: out because Bob Yucker came down after the game and said, Hey, 719 00:49:49,435 --> 00:49:51,595 Speaker 1: case how'd you like a crowd chatting along with you. 720 00:49:53,075 --> 00:49:55,915 Speaker 1: Yuker had set it up, and this is the Yuker 721 00:49:56,075 --> 00:49:58,995 Speaker 1: practical joke. It's one thing to get, say, a bunch 722 00:49:59,075 --> 00:50:02,355 Speaker 1: of players to chant when another player raises his leg 723 00:50:02,435 --> 00:50:04,795 Speaker 1: and count them down. He got the whole crowd. He've 724 00:50:04,795 --> 00:50:08,595 Speaker 1: been telling the audience of his broadcasts for days that 725 00:50:08,675 --> 00:50:11,155 Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds were coming to town and Sean Casey 726 00:50:11,235 --> 00:50:13,075 Speaker 1: did this thing with his leg before each at bat, 727 00:50:13,275 --> 00:50:16,275 Speaker 1: and they should help him by doing this practical joke 728 00:50:16,355 --> 00:50:18,435 Speaker 1: on Sean Casey, who was a great guy, and we 729 00:50:18,475 --> 00:50:20,195 Speaker 1: should have him here on the browers. He'd fit in 730 00:50:20,315 --> 00:50:26,195 Speaker 1: right well here and count off his leg lifts. And 731 00:50:26,275 --> 00:50:29,155 Speaker 1: they did it for the entire series. That was a 732 00:50:29,235 --> 00:50:34,475 Speaker 1: Euker practical joke. He had thirty thousand assistants. One thing 733 00:50:34,555 --> 00:50:37,635 Speaker 1: that I asked Bob Bucker about was this startling stat 734 00:50:38,115 --> 00:50:40,475 Speaker 1: I mentioned the nineteen sixty five Saint Louis Cardinals and 735 00:50:40,515 --> 00:50:44,235 Speaker 1: the hand holding photo, which was of course retaken, although 736 00:50:44,275 --> 00:50:47,435 Speaker 1: you can find the original. They did print it out 737 00:50:47,515 --> 00:50:49,195 Speaker 1: and Bob kept it and every time he went on 738 00:50:49,235 --> 00:50:52,715 Speaker 1: the Tonight show he showed it. The nineteen sixty five, 739 00:50:52,755 --> 00:50:55,315 Speaker 1: Saint Louis Cardinals had thirty five players on their roster 740 00:50:55,515 --> 00:50:59,875 Speaker 1: all year. I mean, nowadays baseball teams approach one hundred 741 00:50:59,915 --> 00:51:05,355 Speaker 1: different players on a roster. Certainly fifty sixty five had 742 00:51:05,755 --> 00:51:08,155 Speaker 1: thirty five different Saint Louis Cardinals at one point or 743 00:51:08,155 --> 00:51:11,395 Speaker 1: the other. The starting catcher was Tim McCarver, who went 744 00:51:11,435 --> 00:51:15,035 Speaker 1: on to a career in baseball broadcasting as a baseball 745 00:51:15,075 --> 00:51:19,515 Speaker 1: broadcaster with a sense of humor and was probably more 746 00:51:19,595 --> 00:51:23,355 Speaker 1: prominent within baseball broadcasting circles than Bob Bucker ever was, 747 00:51:23,395 --> 00:51:25,675 Speaker 1: although Bob Bucker was also an actor and a commercial 748 00:51:25,715 --> 00:51:28,395 Speaker 1: pitch man. But so that's Tim McCarver and Bob Buker 749 00:51:28,395 --> 00:51:31,515 Speaker 1: were the Cardinals catchers. The first baseman was Bill White, 750 00:51:32,115 --> 00:51:34,635 Speaker 1: who for twenty five years was a play by play 751 00:51:34,635 --> 00:51:37,115 Speaker 1: announcer for the New York Yankees, and he was an 752 00:51:37,115 --> 00:51:40,915 Speaker 1: ABC Game of the Week announcer. The second baseman was 753 00:51:40,995 --> 00:51:44,235 Speaker 1: Julian Jabber, And Yuke told me once as I was 754 00:51:44,275 --> 00:51:47,555 Speaker 1: going through this list with him that Jabber he thought 755 00:51:47,595 --> 00:51:50,915 Speaker 1: had done Winter League broadcasts back in his native Dominican Republic, 756 00:51:51,675 --> 00:51:53,355 Speaker 1: if we weren't sure about that, And I've never been 757 00:51:53,395 --> 00:51:56,315 Speaker 1: able to nail it down. But let's say he's right. 758 00:51:56,475 --> 00:51:59,755 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't he be. That's four broadcasters on this one 759 00:51:59,795 --> 00:52:02,355 Speaker 1: team out of thirty five players. Oh wait, there's more. 760 00:52:02,475 --> 00:52:04,915 Speaker 1: The shortstop Dick Groat was for forty years. Here's the 761 00:52:04,995 --> 00:52:08,955 Speaker 1: color man on the basketball broadcast on radio for the 762 00:52:09,075 --> 00:52:13,155 Speaker 1: University of Pittsburgh. The outfield the starting outfield of the 763 00:52:13,195 --> 00:52:16,595 Speaker 1: sixty five Cardinals was Kurt Flood, who, apart from his 764 00:52:16,755 --> 00:52:20,275 Speaker 1: role in baseball free agency and the Change in the Game, 765 00:52:21,195 --> 00:52:24,315 Speaker 1: later did Oakland A's games on the radio. He was 766 00:52:24,395 --> 00:52:28,395 Speaker 1: flanked by Lou Brock, the left fielder future White Sox 767 00:52:28,475 --> 00:52:30,795 Speaker 1: and Game of the Week announcer, and in right field 768 00:52:30,835 --> 00:52:34,475 Speaker 1: by Mike Shannon, who would become the Cardinals announcer for 769 00:52:34,635 --> 00:52:39,195 Speaker 1: forty seasons. Among the pitchers were Bob Gibson, the handholding 770 00:52:39,235 --> 00:52:42,555 Speaker 1: friend of Bob Bucker, future host of the Cardinals radio 771 00:52:42,635 --> 00:52:45,995 Speaker 1: pregame show and an occasional announcer on Games of the 772 00:52:46,035 --> 00:52:49,475 Speaker 1: Week as well. Nelson Briles was a rookie on that team. 773 00:52:49,835 --> 00:52:52,795 Speaker 1: He was to become an announcer on Pirates broadcast and 774 00:52:52,915 --> 00:52:56,755 Speaker 1: Mariners broadcast and the original Baseball Cable broadcast on the 775 00:52:56,915 --> 00:53:00,155 Speaker 1: USA Network, and another pitcher on that team was named 776 00:53:00,195 --> 00:53:03,435 Speaker 1: Bob Perky, who, when he retired the next year, became 777 00:53:03,475 --> 00:53:06,355 Speaker 1: a local sportscaster on the local news in Pittsburgh. And 778 00:53:06,475 --> 00:53:10,555 Speaker 1: on the bench was an outfielder first baseman named Tito 779 00:53:10,635 --> 00:53:13,755 Speaker 1: Francona who had a six year old kid named Terry 780 00:53:14,395 --> 00:53:16,635 Speaker 1: who used to hang out at the ballpark in Saint Louis, 781 00:53:16,835 --> 00:53:19,755 Speaker 1: and eventually he spent a year as the color man 782 00:53:19,875 --> 00:53:23,275 Speaker 1: on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. So that's thirty five players, 783 00:53:23,795 --> 00:53:27,875 Speaker 1: eleven of whom became announcers, including Bob Buker, who would 784 00:53:27,915 --> 00:53:30,235 Speaker 1: be in the Announcer Hall of Fame, and Tim McCarver 785 00:53:30,275 --> 00:53:31,915 Speaker 1: who would be in the Announcer Hall of Fame, and 786 00:53:32,075 --> 00:53:34,435 Speaker 1: Mike Shannon who would probably be in the announcer Hall 787 00:53:34,435 --> 00:53:37,475 Speaker 1: of Fame, and Bill White who would be in the 788 00:53:37,515 --> 00:53:39,355 Speaker 1: announcer Hall of Fame and should be in the Baseball 789 00:53:39,395 --> 00:53:43,395 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame anyway, thirty five players, eleven of whom 790 00:53:43,515 --> 00:53:48,035 Speaker 1: became from full time professional announcers at least briefly, and 791 00:53:48,155 --> 00:53:52,555 Speaker 1: the twelfth whose son became an announcer. I asked Bob 792 00:53:52,595 --> 00:53:54,995 Speaker 1: Buker what those bus rides were like with the nineteen 793 00:53:55,035 --> 00:53:58,075 Speaker 1: sixty five Saint Louis Cardinals. So bad I demanded a 794 00:53:58,155 --> 00:54:02,675 Speaker 1: trade pal. They sure showed me. They traded me to Philadelphia. 795 00:54:04,875 --> 00:54:07,915 Speaker 1: Bob Ucker's career began, and not a lot of people 796 00:54:08,035 --> 00:54:10,555 Speaker 1: know this. To quote Michael Kine, not a lot of 797 00:54:10,635 --> 00:54:15,195 Speaker 1: people notice. Bob Uker's career as an announcer actually happened 798 00:54:16,235 --> 00:54:19,395 Speaker 1: kind of by accident. He certainly had no intention of 799 00:54:19,435 --> 00:54:22,355 Speaker 1: becoming a baseball announcer. At the end of his active 800 00:54:22,395 --> 00:54:25,675 Speaker 1: career with the Atlanta Braves in nineteen sixty seven, they 801 00:54:25,795 --> 00:54:27,955 Speaker 1: released him but said, we have a deal for you 802 00:54:28,155 --> 00:54:30,595 Speaker 1: next year. Come to spring training as a free agent 803 00:54:30,635 --> 00:54:33,395 Speaker 1: without a contract as a player, and either you make 804 00:54:33,475 --> 00:54:36,155 Speaker 1: the team because we need somebody to catch our knuckleball 805 00:54:36,235 --> 00:54:39,395 Speaker 1: pitcher Phil Nikro, or we'll make you a coach. You 806 00:54:39,515 --> 00:54:43,835 Speaker 1: can be the bullpen catcher and we'll have you do 807 00:54:43,995 --> 00:54:46,555 Speaker 1: in addition to the coaching, you can be one of 808 00:54:46,635 --> 00:54:50,235 Speaker 1: our community speakers. The teams don't do this much anymore, 809 00:54:50,675 --> 00:54:53,195 Speaker 1: but each team in the sixties and seventies used to 810 00:54:53,475 --> 00:54:56,195 Speaker 1: try to promote the franchise because the average attendance at 811 00:54:56,195 --> 00:54:58,195 Speaker 1: a Major League Baseball game in nineteen sixty eight was 812 00:54:58,195 --> 00:55:02,595 Speaker 1: probably about thirteen thousand people. They used to have speakers bureaus, 813 00:55:02,915 --> 00:55:06,155 Speaker 1: and each team had between two and ten guys who 814 00:55:06,195 --> 00:55:10,875 Speaker 1: went around to whatever kind of assembly requested somebody from 815 00:55:10,995 --> 00:55:13,915 Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. If you had two hundred people in 816 00:55:13,955 --> 00:55:16,715 Speaker 1: a room and wanted somebody from the Braves, they'd send 817 00:55:16,795 --> 00:55:19,355 Speaker 1: Bob Yucker. That was the plan. Then in the spring 818 00:55:19,395 --> 00:55:21,275 Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty eight, there was some kind of and 819 00:55:21,355 --> 00:55:23,755 Speaker 1: obviously you don't go and ask the man about this, 820 00:55:23,875 --> 00:55:26,995 Speaker 1: but there was some kind of altercation at a bar 821 00:55:27,235 --> 00:55:30,475 Speaker 1: in spring training in Florida, West Palm Beach, I presume, 822 00:55:30,515 --> 00:55:33,395 Speaker 1: which is where the Braves trained. Then, in nineteen sixty eight, 823 00:55:33,515 --> 00:55:36,555 Speaker 1: Bob Yucker, for whom they took the promotional photograph of 824 00:55:36,675 --> 00:55:39,675 Speaker 1: him in the Atlanta Braves brand new nineteen sixty eight uniforms, 825 00:55:39,715 --> 00:55:41,995 Speaker 1: as a coach because he was past his prime as 826 00:55:41,995 --> 00:55:44,235 Speaker 1: a playing career. He would interject here and say, I 827 00:55:44,315 --> 00:55:48,355 Speaker 1: never had a prime as a playing career. He was 828 00:55:48,395 --> 00:55:49,835 Speaker 1: going to be a coach, And they took the picture, 829 00:55:49,875 --> 00:55:51,795 Speaker 1: and then something happened at a bar and they said, 830 00:55:51,835 --> 00:55:54,435 Speaker 1: we can't put you in uniform anymore, so we're going 831 00:55:54,475 --> 00:55:57,355 Speaker 1: to punish you you can only do the speaking engagements. 832 00:55:58,315 --> 00:56:00,715 Speaker 1: And one of our announcers also does a lot of 833 00:56:00,755 --> 00:56:03,995 Speaker 1: college football and other assignments during the season and likes 834 00:56:04,035 --> 00:56:05,835 Speaker 1: to take time off. So we'll give you like ten 835 00:56:05,955 --> 00:56:09,555 Speaker 1: games to be an announcer for us. And he did 836 00:56:09,595 --> 00:56:12,915 Speaker 1: some fill in work in Atlanta, and then somebody in 837 00:56:12,955 --> 00:56:15,595 Speaker 1: Milwaukee said come home and do the same for us, 838 00:56:15,795 --> 00:56:17,395 Speaker 1: And he was a fill in for the Brewers and 839 00:56:17,475 --> 00:56:22,715 Speaker 1: a coach sometimes instructor for them, And in nineteen seventy 840 00:56:22,755 --> 00:56:25,195 Speaker 1: one and seventy two he gradually moved into the booth 841 00:56:25,635 --> 00:56:29,035 Speaker 1: and the rest is history through last season when he 842 00:56:29,115 --> 00:56:33,435 Speaker 1: worked while ill, and he probably would have continued to 843 00:56:33,515 --> 00:56:39,355 Speaker 1: work with them in some capacity next year. So his career, 844 00:56:39,515 --> 00:56:46,915 Speaker 1: all this, all this was spontaneous, as he was after 845 00:56:46,995 --> 00:56:50,755 Speaker 1: he got fired from the job. He actually wanted bullpen 846 00:56:50,915 --> 00:56:56,435 Speaker 1: coach another former Brewers catcher, and he was particularly coached 847 00:56:56,835 --> 00:56:59,875 Speaker 1: close to all catchers in his playing career and afterwards 848 00:57:01,195 --> 00:57:04,435 Speaker 1: was named Jonathan Lucroix. And Jonathan Lucroix shared on social 849 00:57:04,435 --> 00:57:07,755 Speaker 1: media a text exchange which I think sums Bob Youuger 850 00:57:07,875 --> 00:57:12,875 Speaker 1: up and emphasizes the point I made before self deprecation 851 00:57:13,595 --> 00:57:17,555 Speaker 1: comedic timing and dead pan humor. There were no arrows, 852 00:57:17,755 --> 00:57:22,555 Speaker 1: no knowing smiles given to tell you to telegraph that 853 00:57:22,675 --> 00:57:26,315 Speaker 1: here comes the punchline. I mean, I like to think 854 00:57:26,355 --> 00:57:29,755 Speaker 1: of myself as a fairly spontaneous guy, and my reputation 855 00:57:29,835 --> 00:57:33,355 Speaker 1: at SportsCenter was doing pretty good ad libbed highlights with 856 00:57:33,675 --> 00:57:36,075 Speaker 1: jokes in them. But most of them were jokes I 857 00:57:36,195 --> 00:57:38,235 Speaker 1: tried out at least once before we got on the air. 858 00:57:38,315 --> 00:57:41,595 Speaker 1: Sometimes it was spontaneous, completely spontaneous, but usually it was 859 00:57:41,675 --> 00:57:44,875 Speaker 1: spontaneous and then repeated. I give myself credit for that. 860 00:57:45,635 --> 00:57:49,195 Speaker 1: Bob was just spontaneous. The really good stuff. As I 861 00:57:49,235 --> 00:57:52,195 Speaker 1: said before, he would reuse later, but almost all of 862 00:57:52,235 --> 00:57:56,435 Speaker 1: it follows this exact text chain Jonathan Lucroix was good 863 00:57:56,515 --> 00:57:58,955 Speaker 1: enough to share on social media. It was after a 864 00:57:59,195 --> 00:58:02,795 Speaker 1: harrowing collision at the plate in twenty nineteen, one of 865 00:58:02,835 --> 00:58:05,635 Speaker 1: the last times that a base runner came into home 866 00:58:05,675 --> 00:58:08,275 Speaker 1: plate and basically blew the catcher up, as we used 867 00:58:08,315 --> 00:58:11,915 Speaker 1: to say, they had to cart Jonathan lucroy off the field, 868 00:58:12,075 --> 00:58:18,115 Speaker 1: and that night Bob Buker texted LUCROI hope you're doing okay, Luke, 869 00:58:18,195 --> 00:58:22,835 Speaker 1: get better soon. No punctuation of course, Hey, Yuke, concussion 870 00:58:22,915 --> 00:58:27,115 Speaker 1: and broken nose, I just got way better looking. Kind 871 00:58:27,115 --> 00:58:29,235 Speaker 1: of a standard line, but pretty good for a baseball player, 872 00:58:29,715 --> 00:58:33,555 Speaker 1: Lucroy wrote back. Uker responds, sorry to hear that, Luke. 873 00:58:33,595 --> 00:58:35,435 Speaker 1: That was a hell of a wreck. Nothing you could do. 874 00:58:35,795 --> 00:58:38,275 Speaker 1: Hope you're getting better. Hello to Sarah and the kids. 875 00:58:38,755 --> 00:58:41,715 Speaker 1: I had a similar incident, but it was from my 876 00:58:41,875 --> 00:58:50,355 Speaker 1: own team. Again, there's no exclamation point, there's no winky emoji, 877 00:58:50,475 --> 00:58:55,635 Speaker 1: and he's using other emojis throughout this. Bob had that 878 00:58:55,835 --> 00:58:58,395 Speaker 1: kind of sense of humor. You didn't have to sweat 879 00:58:58,715 --> 00:59:05,195 Speaker 1: get all nervous just for me, pal. Thanks for checking in, 880 00:59:05,555 --> 00:59:07,795 Speaker 1: you writes, and I hope you'll get better quick. Always 881 00:59:07,835 --> 00:59:09,955 Speaker 1: great to hear from you. Would rather have it as 882 00:59:09,995 --> 00:59:14,875 Speaker 1: a normal check in, but thanks and get well, Bob Buker, 883 00:59:17,755 --> 00:59:21,035 Speaker 1: guy who cared. Kind of took the edge off that, 884 00:59:23,075 --> 00:59:26,315 Speaker 1: let you know you mattered to him, supported you when 885 00:59:26,355 --> 00:59:31,275 Speaker 1: you needed support through in a free joke, spontaneous at 886 00:59:31,395 --> 00:59:36,475 Speaker 1: least the first time he said it. The world lost 887 00:59:37,235 --> 00:59:41,635 Speaker 1: a creative genius in terms of humor, in terms of 888 00:59:41,715 --> 00:59:45,675 Speaker 1: self deprecation, in terms of timing, in terms of effortlessness, 889 00:59:47,275 --> 00:59:54,995 Speaker 1: and everybody lost a good friend, Bob Buker rest in peace. 890 01:00:08,515 --> 01:00:11,675 Speaker 1: And I'll add one more thing. No, he was not 891 01:00:11,875 --> 01:00:14,395 Speaker 1: the second funniest guy in the nineteen ninety seven World 892 01:00:14,475 --> 01:00:18,395 Speaker 1: Series NBC broadcast team. He was, as always the first. 893 01:00:19,875 --> 01:00:21,635 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 894 01:00:21,675 --> 01:00:25,475 Speaker 1: you for listening, Good luck today. Brian Ray and John 895 01:00:25,515 --> 01:00:28,795 Speaker 1: Phillip Shanelle, the musical directors, have Countdown, arranged, produced and 896 01:00:28,875 --> 01:00:32,795 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. 897 01:00:32,835 --> 01:00:35,435 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. It 898 01:00:35,555 --> 01:00:39,315 Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical 899 01:00:39,395 --> 01:00:42,915 Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. 900 01:00:43,515 --> 01:00:47,195 Speaker 1: Sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written 901 01:00:47,235 --> 01:00:51,275 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music 902 01:00:51,395 --> 01:00:54,195 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My 903 01:00:54,195 --> 01:00:58,075 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend Larry David doing his impression 904 01:00:58,155 --> 01:01:01,675 Speaker 1: of the PA announcer at Yankee Stadium, Bob Shephard, in 905 01:01:01,835 --> 01:01:05,635 Speaker 1: honor of Bob Uker. Everything else was as my fault. 906 01:01:06,915 --> 01:01:12,675 Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, Doomsday the Reducks, but just sixty 907 01:01:12,715 --> 01:01:15,675 Speaker 1: two days until the scheduled end of his lame duck 908 01:01:15,915 --> 01:01:21,915 Speaker 1: and lame brained and totally constitutionally ineligible term, probably and 909 01:01:22,075 --> 01:01:26,035 Speaker 1: he's already screwed it up. Oh it's cold. The next 910 01:01:26,075 --> 01:01:29,915 Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is Thursday. As always, bulletins is the news 911 01:01:29,995 --> 01:01:33,395 Speaker 1: warrants till next time. I'm Keith Olderman. 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