1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. People 2 00:00:23,035 --> 00:00:27,035 Speaker 1: like him. The more and more you analyze the impact 3 00:00:27,115 --> 00:00:29,475 Speaker 1: from Tim Walls, the more and more you analyze the 4 00:00:29,475 --> 00:00:32,755 Speaker 1: process of the selection of Tim Walls, the more and 5 00:00:32,795 --> 00:00:35,955 Speaker 1: more you examine the reaction to Tim Walls, the more 6 00:00:35,995 --> 00:00:39,795 Speaker 1: and more clear it becomes it is that simple people 7 00:00:40,835 --> 00:00:45,715 Speaker 1: like him. In a time when fifty percent approval for 8 00:00:45,795 --> 00:00:50,195 Speaker 1: a politician is a landslide of support, when the very few, 9 00:00:50,315 --> 00:00:54,395 Speaker 1: most earnest and most honest politicos are still just tolerated. 10 00:00:54,595 --> 00:00:56,395 Speaker 1: When we have had a decade one of the most 11 00:00:56,475 --> 00:01:01,035 Speaker 1: dislike humans on the planet, hating everything and everybody, the 12 00:01:01,195 --> 00:01:06,435 Speaker 1: idea that the Democrats are running not one but two 13 00:01:06,915 --> 00:01:15,435 Speaker 1: likable candidates is staggeringly important and simple and novel. I mean, 14 00:01:15,475 --> 00:01:18,915 Speaker 1: when you get literally one hundred words into the founding 15 00:01:18,955 --> 00:01:22,275 Speaker 1: document of this nation, the Declaration of Independence, you hit 16 00:01:22,355 --> 00:01:30,835 Speaker 1: the unalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Happiness. 17 00:01:31,515 --> 00:01:36,795 Speaker 1: Tim Walls is happy. Tim Walls is happy to be 18 00:01:36,875 --> 00:01:40,155 Speaker 1: living here, happy to be fighting to help other people 19 00:01:40,235 --> 00:01:43,195 Speaker 1: become happy. And now to join Kamala Harris, who is 20 00:01:43,235 --> 00:01:48,555 Speaker 1: also happy and who smiles like a person Trump isn't happy. 21 00:01:49,475 --> 00:01:54,195 Speaker 1: At every moment of what should be rapturous success. Trump 22 00:01:54,635 --> 00:01:59,075 Speaker 1: is degrading somebody else. He's embittered, he's angry, he's the victim, 23 00:01:59,115 --> 00:02:02,875 Speaker 1: he's been shortchanged, he's threatening revenge. And he hasn't even 24 00:02:02,915 --> 00:02:05,875 Speaker 1: digested the newest new Paul. And yes, they continue to 25 00:02:05,915 --> 00:02:08,475 Speaker 1: be all Kamala, and I will review them in depth 26 00:02:08,515 --> 00:02:11,555 Speaker 1: in a moment. But to finish up this point, Trump 27 00:02:11,635 --> 00:02:14,875 Speaker 1: has dug up from the garbage dumps of this nation, 28 00:02:15,515 --> 00:02:18,955 Speaker 1: every slob who wants to force his will on you. 29 00:02:19,675 --> 00:02:23,555 Speaker 1: The latest of them is this robot dvance. Every slob 30 00:02:23,595 --> 00:02:27,635 Speaker 1: who believes that for him to succeed, somebody else must fall, 31 00:02:27,835 --> 00:02:33,555 Speaker 1: preferably one hundred somebody else's must fall. They're evil, they're greedy, 32 00:02:33,555 --> 00:02:37,435 Speaker 1: they're malignant, But at their core they fulfill hl Mankin's 33 00:02:37,515 --> 00:02:44,715 Speaker 1: priceless definition of puritanism, the haunting fear that someone somewhere 34 00:02:45,835 --> 00:02:49,635 Speaker 1: may be happy and it's not a one way street. 35 00:02:50,075 --> 00:02:53,995 Speaker 1: In response to them, we have become angry and self righteous, 36 00:02:54,035 --> 00:02:55,795 Speaker 1: and I put myself at the top of that list. 37 00:02:56,395 --> 00:02:59,195 Speaker 1: And then Vice President Harris steps out of the background, 38 00:02:59,915 --> 00:03:02,555 Speaker 1: smiling and laughing and underscoring a point I made two 39 00:03:02,555 --> 00:03:05,195 Speaker 1: weeks ago. When the hell have you ever seen Trump 40 00:03:05,235 --> 00:03:09,035 Speaker 1: actually laugh? And now here's Tim Walls and he's been 41 00:03:09,075 --> 00:03:11,795 Speaker 1: the vice presidential candidate for eight hours and he's not 42 00:03:11,915 --> 00:03:15,955 Speaker 1: just telling dad jokes. He's telling some dirty dad jokes. 43 00:03:16,155 --> 00:03:20,915 Speaker 2: Make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump. 44 00:03:27,595 --> 00:03:35,195 Speaker 1: That's not even counting the crimes he committed. JD. 45 00:03:35,395 --> 00:03:39,795 Speaker 2: Vance literally literally wrote the foreword for the Architect of 46 00:03:39,835 --> 00:03:48,075 Speaker 2: the Project twenty twenty five agenda. Like all regular people 47 00:03:48,115 --> 00:03:51,715 Speaker 2: I grew up with in the heartland, JD studied at Yale, 48 00:03:52,555 --> 00:03:56,715 Speaker 2: had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and then 49 00:03:56,755 --> 00:03:58,915 Speaker 2: wrote a bestseller trashing that community. 50 00:03:59,115 --> 00:04:03,195 Speaker 1: Come on, that's not what Middle America is. 51 00:04:04,155 --> 00:04:07,315 Speaker 2: And I got to tell you, I can't wait to debate. 52 00:04:07,035 --> 00:04:32,195 Speaker 3: The guy, that is, if he's willing to get off 53 00:04:32,235 --> 00:04:33,195 Speaker 3: the couch and show up. 54 00:04:33,435 --> 00:04:43,395 Speaker 1: So I'll see what I did there. Don't underestimate that 55 00:04:43,675 --> 00:04:47,035 Speaker 1: seemingly throwaway line at the end. There see what I 56 00:04:47,195 --> 00:04:51,035 Speaker 1: did there? This is below the belt humor, used as 57 00:04:51,395 --> 00:04:56,635 Speaker 1: a political kill shot, but honed over his decades in classrooms. 58 00:04:56,995 --> 00:04:59,835 Speaker 1: Is that little softening agent that allows him to take 59 00:04:59,915 --> 00:05:05,075 Speaker 1: the meanest joke and reduce its trauma to mitigate. How 60 00:05:05,155 --> 00:05:09,995 Speaker 1: you couch it? See what I did there? By the way, 61 00:05:09,995 --> 00:05:14,435 Speaker 1: the couch thing will never go away? Viral yesterday a 62 00:05:14,475 --> 00:05:17,715 Speaker 1: photo of JD. Vance in a podcast appearance seated either 63 00:05:17,755 --> 00:05:20,355 Speaker 1: on a love seed of some sort of divan maybe, 64 00:05:20,595 --> 00:05:25,595 Speaker 1: legs spread as far apart as they can go, man spreading. 65 00:05:25,835 --> 00:05:28,835 Speaker 1: The pros call it as he sits on a large, 66 00:05:29,195 --> 00:05:38,915 Speaker 1: wide chair or a small narrow couch. The couch is JD. 67 00:05:39,115 --> 00:05:44,675 Speaker 1: Vance's dead bear cub and all credit to the Vice President. 68 00:05:45,715 --> 00:05:48,515 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris barely knew Tim Walls last week, and by 69 00:05:48,555 --> 00:05:53,075 Speaker 1: Monday he had vaulted over her favorites who supposedly carried 70 00:05:53,115 --> 00:05:57,715 Speaker 1: guarantees of guaranteeing states like Pennsylvania or Arizona, and barely 71 00:05:57,755 --> 00:06:00,915 Speaker 1: into day two. Is there any question that as good 72 00:06:00,995 --> 00:06:04,195 Speaker 1: as Senator Kelly and Governor Shapiro might be as leaders 73 00:06:04,275 --> 00:06:07,835 Speaker 1: or pola petiticians, is there a chance they could do 74 00:06:07,995 --> 00:06:10,715 Speaker 1: for this campaign what Tim Walls can do? Do you 75 00:06:10,915 --> 00:06:15,275 Speaker 1: want to hear what Tim Walls says next? Do you 76 00:06:15,275 --> 00:06:20,635 Speaker 1: you know like him? I don't like quoting Politico, but 77 00:06:20,715 --> 00:06:24,955 Speaker 1: they got it exactly right. Kamala Harris loved Tim Wallas's 78 00:06:25,035 --> 00:06:28,275 Speaker 1: governing record in Minnesota, his biography and record of winning 79 00:06:28,315 --> 00:06:31,675 Speaker 1: tough races resonated with her, and most of all, she 80 00:06:31,995 --> 00:06:37,955 Speaker 1: just really liked him. I also don't like videos of 81 00:06:38,275 --> 00:06:43,035 Speaker 1: the phone call. They are universally cringe except this one. 82 00:06:43,475 --> 00:06:49,795 Speaker 1: The words beautiful, enthusiasm, enjoyed, and joy are all used 83 00:06:49,835 --> 00:06:53,355 Speaker 1: in this phone call, and not ironically and not by 84 00:06:53,435 --> 00:06:58,315 Speaker 1: the goddamned candidate about himself. These two people get it. 85 00:06:58,675 --> 00:07:06,595 Speaker 1: America is so worn out by and so done withhappy weirdos. 86 00:07:07,075 --> 00:07:07,835 Speaker 1: Would you be my. 87 00:07:07,875 --> 00:07:09,835 Speaker 3: Running mate and let's get this thing. 88 00:07:09,675 --> 00:07:10,235 Speaker 1: On the road. 89 00:07:11,715 --> 00:07:14,955 Speaker 2: I would be honored, Madame Vice President, the joy that 90 00:07:14,995 --> 00:07:18,035 Speaker 2: you're bringing back to the country, the enthusiasm that's out there. 91 00:07:18,795 --> 00:07:20,995 Speaker 3: It'll be a privilege to take this with you across 92 00:07:21,035 --> 00:07:21,635 Speaker 3: the country. 93 00:07:21,915 --> 00:07:24,635 Speaker 1: Well, let me say I have just a most respect 94 00:07:24,675 --> 00:07:28,635 Speaker 1: for you. I have really enjoyed our work together. And yes, 95 00:07:28,715 --> 00:07:32,435 Speaker 1: that was her second phone call to him. It turns 96 00:07:32,515 --> 00:07:35,875 Speaker 1: out he did not pick up the first time because 97 00:07:36,835 --> 00:07:43,195 Speaker 1: she didn't have call her id. Frankly, Tim Walls is 98 00:07:43,595 --> 00:07:47,475 Speaker 1: America pointing at Trump and saying, what the heck is 99 00:07:47,515 --> 00:08:10,715 Speaker 1: wrong with this weirdo? Thank goodness, the Trump people took 100 00:08:10,755 --> 00:08:14,235 Speaker 1: this well, it is instructed that the Trump cult, having 101 00:08:14,275 --> 00:08:17,835 Speaker 1: spent literally five years focused on nothing but Joe Biden, 102 00:08:18,315 --> 00:08:21,995 Speaker 1: has three weeks after his departure, still not come up 103 00:08:21,995 --> 00:08:27,075 Speaker 1: with one attack line against Kamala Harris. They were convinced 104 00:08:27,555 --> 00:08:30,115 Speaker 1: she was going to pick Josh Shapiro, so they had 105 00:08:30,155 --> 00:08:33,355 Speaker 1: attacks ready on him, and now they have nothing but 106 00:08:33,475 --> 00:08:36,475 Speaker 1: Nicki Haley accusing the Democrats of anti Semitism because they 107 00:08:36,475 --> 00:08:38,995 Speaker 1: didn't pick him. When Trump admitted to owning a book 108 00:08:39,035 --> 00:08:41,875 Speaker 1: of Hitler's speeches which he kept on a night stand 109 00:08:41,955 --> 00:08:44,955 Speaker 1: in his bedroom, and Trump is openly anti Semitic, and 110 00:08:44,995 --> 00:08:48,435 Speaker 1: she bowed to him after insisting she never would. They 111 00:08:48,555 --> 00:08:52,875 Speaker 1: threw everything at the wall at the tim walls. Am 112 00:08:52,875 --> 00:08:54,755 Speaker 1: I right? I can hear him making that joke. Maybe 113 00:08:54,795 --> 00:08:57,675 Speaker 1: I'm learning something. Not only did nothing stick to that 114 00:08:57,795 --> 00:09:00,435 Speaker 1: wall or walls, but there is no evidence that any 115 00:09:00,475 --> 00:09:05,195 Speaker 1: of it even hit the walls. Steven Miller insists going 116 00:09:05,235 --> 00:09:08,275 Speaker 1: to turn the Midwest into Mogadishu, which would be nice 117 00:09:08,315 --> 00:09:12,675 Speaker 1: and racist if any of Trump's supporters knew where the 118 00:09:12,675 --> 00:09:15,755 Speaker 1: hell Mogadishu was, or if they were certain it was 119 00:09:15,755 --> 00:09:19,435 Speaker 1: not some kind of delicious foreign food. Kevin McCarthy says, 120 00:09:19,475 --> 00:09:21,995 Speaker 1: Walls was known as the Bernie Sanders of the House, 121 00:09:22,235 --> 00:09:25,395 Speaker 1: and it was like, wait, is that is that an insult? 122 00:09:25,475 --> 00:09:28,715 Speaker 1: People like Bernie Sanders. People who don't like the policies 123 00:09:28,755 --> 00:09:32,275 Speaker 1: of Bernie Sanders, like Bernie Sanders. They look at him 124 00:09:32,275 --> 00:09:35,875 Speaker 1: and they see Larry David. You want to insult Tim Walls, 125 00:09:35,955 --> 00:09:38,995 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy, You tell them people said Tim Walls was 126 00:09:39,035 --> 00:09:43,515 Speaker 1: known as the Kevin McCarthy of the House. That's an insult. 127 00:09:43,755 --> 00:09:48,755 Speaker 1: They sent JD. Vance to Philadelphia to proactively attack Walls, 128 00:09:49,035 --> 00:09:53,355 Speaker 1: even before Kamala introduces him, and they have Vance stand 129 00:09:53,795 --> 00:09:57,795 Speaker 1: in front of a huge banner reading Kamala Chaos, which 130 00:09:57,995 --> 00:10:03,555 Speaker 1: isn't a bad line C minus maybe, especially not for Republicans, 131 00:10:03,795 --> 00:10:08,315 Speaker 1: especially not for Republicans in disarray. But they can't snap 132 00:10:08,395 --> 00:10:12,235 Speaker 1: out of their one template. So in the little mandatory 133 00:10:12,315 --> 00:10:16,035 Speaker 1: tableau they insist on there have to be people behind Vance. 134 00:10:16,315 --> 00:10:18,475 Speaker 1: It has to look like like there's a crowd of 135 00:10:18,475 --> 00:10:20,435 Speaker 1: people who agree with him, even if you have to 136 00:10:20,435 --> 00:10:23,315 Speaker 1: pay them. And there are no seats, so everybody is 137 00:10:23,395 --> 00:10:27,075 Speaker 1: standing behind Vance. So they're standing behind him, and because 138 00:10:27,075 --> 00:10:29,515 Speaker 1: they're not all three feet tall, you can't see the 139 00:10:29,555 --> 00:10:32,555 Speaker 1: word chaos, So all you get is JD. Vance giving 140 00:10:32,555 --> 00:10:35,795 Speaker 1: an impossibly monotonous speech, another one under a big banner 141 00:10:35,795 --> 00:10:39,955 Speaker 1: that reads Kamala, and you're thinking, man, now, this is 142 00:10:39,995 --> 00:10:44,675 Speaker 1: a surprise endorsement. And of course Vance is only out 143 00:10:44,675 --> 00:10:48,675 Speaker 1: there because Trump is taking the week off. And as 144 00:10:48,715 --> 00:10:53,235 Speaker 1: the Democrats go from political honeymoon number one through the 145 00:10:53,395 --> 00:10:56,915 Speaker 1: Harris Walls political honeymoon number two, on their way to 146 00:10:57,195 --> 00:10:59,755 Speaker 1: political honeymoon number three, the one that is the convention, 147 00:11:00,275 --> 00:11:05,035 Speaker 1: why would the Republican presidential candidate bother to appear in public? 148 00:11:05,715 --> 00:11:08,355 Speaker 1: Let the freak in the eyeliner do it all while 149 00:11:08,395 --> 00:11:13,595 Speaker 1: Trump stays home and tweets. Trump's campaign is suddenly bleeding 150 00:11:13,715 --> 00:11:17,835 Speaker 1: to death, and he's getting laughs scored off him by 151 00:11:17,875 --> 00:11:21,035 Speaker 1: the guy who would have been about the five hundredth 152 00:11:21,235 --> 00:11:26,755 Speaker 1: likeliest vice presidential candidate in the gambling houses two weeks ago. While, 153 00:11:27,075 --> 00:11:29,795 Speaker 1: by the way, all the networks carry his speech live, 154 00:11:30,315 --> 00:11:34,555 Speaker 1: and Carrie Harris's speech live, and Carrie Josh Shapiro's speech live, 155 00:11:34,675 --> 00:11:37,995 Speaker 1: and somebody at CNN who can read the ratings is thinking, say, 156 00:11:38,075 --> 00:11:41,075 Speaker 1: maybe we should show all of their speeches live from 157 00:11:41,075 --> 00:11:44,315 Speaker 1: here on in huh instead of three more hours of 158 00:11:44,435 --> 00:11:49,715 Speaker 1: Van Jones. Maybe Trump in the Bunker is in fact 159 00:11:49,755 --> 00:11:53,555 Speaker 1: the best for the cult, because, on top of everything 160 00:11:53,555 --> 00:11:56,195 Speaker 1: else that has gone wrong for the Republicans, Trump has 161 00:11:56,275 --> 00:12:00,995 Speaker 1: turned into a moron. Yesterday he posted nothing less than 162 00:12:01,155 --> 00:12:05,915 Speaker 1: very bad fan fic wherein Joe Biden storms into the 163 00:12:05,915 --> 00:12:11,035 Speaker 1: Democratic Convention to take back his nomination. And I'm sitting 164 00:12:11,035 --> 00:12:14,715 Speaker 1: there reading it, thinking, could you make the projection about 165 00:12:14,755 --> 00:12:18,115 Speaker 1: what you would do? Trump? Could you make it slightly 166 00:12:18,195 --> 00:12:22,835 Speaker 1: difficult to deduce from what you've written? After apparently deciding 167 00:12:22,875 --> 00:12:27,035 Speaker 1: to power through on what is also hands down the 168 00:12:27,315 --> 00:12:30,635 Speaker 1: worst attempt to tag an opponent with an insulting nickname, 169 00:12:30,995 --> 00:12:33,755 Speaker 1: the Biden fanfic was the highlight of the Trump social 170 00:12:33,795 --> 00:12:40,075 Speaker 1: media day. Face it. The nicknames are perhaps Trump's only 171 00:12:40,235 --> 00:12:44,395 Speaker 1: true political skill other than the fire hose of lies 172 00:12:44,435 --> 00:12:48,275 Speaker 1: that makes checking each lie impossible, and he has decided, 173 00:12:49,235 --> 00:12:55,155 Speaker 1: after years of success at political nicknames, that putting a 174 00:12:55,395 --> 00:12:59,395 Speaker 1: B the letter B in the middle of Kamala Harris's 175 00:12:59,475 --> 00:13:04,315 Speaker 1: name is the greatest idea he's ever had. Kamala with 176 00:13:04,355 --> 00:13:11,555 Speaker 1: a bee e Kama b La. I have spent more 177 00:13:11,555 --> 00:13:14,235 Speaker 1: time than I care to admit over the course of 178 00:13:14,275 --> 00:13:17,755 Speaker 1: two full days now trying to figure out what the 179 00:13:17,795 --> 00:13:21,275 Speaker 1: hell it means, what the hell it's supposed to mean, 180 00:13:21,755 --> 00:13:25,915 Speaker 1: how he is hearing it sound in the big cobweb 181 00:13:26,035 --> 00:13:35,075 Speaker 1: filled attic that is his head. Moble co maele come 182 00:13:35,475 --> 00:13:47,355 Speaker 1: maybe la comabla ca mable. I see the word able 183 00:13:47,515 --> 00:13:52,835 Speaker 1: in there. Donnie, sorry, punt on this one, or let 184 00:13:52,915 --> 00:13:55,275 Speaker 1: JD have a try at giving her a nickname, because 185 00:13:55,395 --> 00:13:58,635 Speaker 1: in the world of American politics twenty twenty four, jokes matter. 186 00:13:59,115 --> 00:14:02,035 Speaker 1: This is your fault and you are winning all this 187 00:14:02,155 --> 00:14:04,395 Speaker 1: time on this topic. But at three o'clock the high 188 00:14:04,395 --> 00:14:07,395 Speaker 1: school got out of class, and now they're out there 189 00:14:07,435 --> 00:14:11,115 Speaker 1: with you, kicking your ass. Sometimes it happens like that 190 00:14:11,195 --> 00:14:15,595 Speaker 1: in life, unbeaten, unchallenged, always at worst competitive, a perennial threat, 191 00:14:15,635 --> 00:14:17,795 Speaker 1: and then one day they go right off the cliff, 192 00:14:18,115 --> 00:14:23,275 Speaker 1: never to be heard from again. One day you are 193 00:14:23,315 --> 00:14:27,555 Speaker 1: the best, the next day it's all gone, the muse 194 00:14:28,035 --> 00:14:33,035 Speaker 1: has packed and moved out to like Australia. Let me 195 00:14:33,075 --> 00:14:35,435 Speaker 1: swing off into a baseball analogy for a moment before 196 00:14:35,475 --> 00:14:37,715 Speaker 1: I run the polls crazy. I know I never do 197 00:14:37,755 --> 00:14:41,395 Speaker 1: a baseball analogy. The nineteen eighty three Philadelphia Phillies had 198 00:14:41,555 --> 00:14:45,955 Speaker 1: four future Hall of Famers in their lineup, plus Pete Rose. 199 00:14:46,795 --> 00:14:50,635 Speaker 1: A sixth player won a Most Valuable Player award. Another 200 00:14:50,715 --> 00:14:53,475 Speaker 1: one won the Cy Young Award for Best pitcher. Four 201 00:14:53,515 --> 00:14:56,955 Speaker 1: other players won Gold Glove awards. Of the remaining fourteen 202 00:14:57,035 --> 00:15:01,075 Speaker 1: guys on their roster, eleven were passed or future All Stars. 203 00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:05,515 Speaker 1: The Phillies won twenty of their last twenty five games 204 00:15:05,515 --> 00:15:08,235 Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighty three season, but in the playoffs 205 00:15:08,395 --> 00:15:11,115 Speaker 1: they faced the Dodgers, to whom they had lost eleven 206 00:15:11,515 --> 00:15:15,915 Speaker 1: of twelve games during the season. It didn't matter. They 207 00:15:15,955 --> 00:15:18,635 Speaker 1: beat the Dodgers in four games. They rolled into the 208 00:15:18,675 --> 00:15:22,555 Speaker 1: World Series as an unstoppable juggernaut. They beat Baltimore and 209 00:15:22,635 --> 00:15:25,835 Speaker 1: Young Cal Ripken in Game one at Baltimore, and many 210 00:15:25,875 --> 00:15:28,715 Speaker 1: observers thought the nineteen eighty three Phillies might sweep the 211 00:15:28,715 --> 00:15:33,835 Speaker 1: World Series. And then the sun rose and they awoke 212 00:15:34,395 --> 00:15:37,515 Speaker 1: on the morning of Wednesday, October twelfth, nineteen eighty three, 213 00:15:37,915 --> 00:15:42,635 Speaker 1: and the Juggernaut overnight had become a bunch of washed 214 00:15:42,835 --> 00:15:48,515 Speaker 1: up old trumps. Phillies led Game two one to nothing 215 00:15:48,555 --> 00:15:50,995 Speaker 1: in the fourth inning. They blew that lead. They only 216 00:15:51,075 --> 00:15:54,275 Speaker 1: scored six more runs in the entire rest of the Series, 217 00:15:54,875 --> 00:15:57,755 Speaker 1: they benched Pete Rose and there was a huge controversy. 218 00:15:57,835 --> 00:16:00,795 Speaker 1: They lost the World Series in five games. They got 219 00:16:00,875 --> 00:16:02,315 Speaker 1: rid of Pete Rose, they got rid of two of 220 00:16:02,355 --> 00:16:04,235 Speaker 1: the Hall of Famers, most of the All Stars. The 221 00:16:04,275 --> 00:16:07,115 Speaker 1: award went. They next won the World Series twenty five 222 00:16:07,275 --> 00:16:12,035 Speaker 1: years later. And a little known baseball fact, it was 223 00:16:12,075 --> 00:16:26,155 Speaker 1: all because they tried calling her Combbla. They didn't. But 224 00:16:26,235 --> 00:16:29,715 Speaker 1: how great would it be if they had Marist polls 225 00:16:29,755 --> 00:16:33,475 Speaker 1: for PBS Harris fifty one, Trump forty eight. Harris by three. 226 00:16:33,675 --> 00:16:38,155 Speaker 1: Previous poll, Trump by one Marist for PBS. Who do 227 00:16:38,195 --> 00:16:42,315 Speaker 1: you trust more on abortion? Harris fifty six to forty one. 228 00:16:43,035 --> 00:16:46,595 Speaker 1: Who do you trust more on preserving democracy? Harris fifty 229 00:16:46,675 --> 00:16:48,955 Speaker 1: three to forty six. Who do you trust more on 230 00:16:48,995 --> 00:16:53,275 Speaker 1: the economy? Trump? But by only three. Who do you 231 00:16:53,275 --> 00:16:55,675 Speaker 1: trust more on immigration? Well? This is the killer right, 232 00:16:56,075 --> 00:17:02,355 Speaker 1: Trump's real chance to survive the Harris tsunami. Yes, the 233 00:17:02,395 --> 00:17:07,195 Speaker 1: pole says they trust Trump more on immigration only by six. 234 00:17:07,795 --> 00:17:10,915 Speaker 1: That is as startling a poll number as I have 235 00:17:11,075 --> 00:17:16,395 Speaker 1: seen in two years. Swing state polls Redfield, Wilton. The 236 00:17:16,515 --> 00:17:20,155 Speaker 1: polling was done Saturday. New Mexico is Harris by seven. 237 00:17:20,395 --> 00:17:24,355 Speaker 1: Minnesota is Harris by five that may rise. Arizona is 238 00:17:24,395 --> 00:17:27,555 Speaker 1: Harris by one. In this poll. It had been Trump 239 00:17:27,595 --> 00:17:30,675 Speaker 1: by three. Pennsylvania is Trump by two. In this pole, 240 00:17:30,715 --> 00:17:34,035 Speaker 1: it had been Trump by four. Michigan is Trump by one. 241 00:17:34,595 --> 00:17:37,075 Speaker 1: In this poll. It had been Trump by three. Georgia 242 00:17:37,155 --> 00:17:39,675 Speaker 1: is Trump by two. In this poll it had been 243 00:17:39,675 --> 00:17:43,755 Speaker 1: Trump by five. Nevada is tied at forty Wisconsin is 244 00:17:43,795 --> 00:17:49,715 Speaker 1: tied at forty three. Same pole. Harris approval up by 245 00:17:49,755 --> 00:17:52,715 Speaker 1: one point in Arizona and Georgia. Up by three points 246 00:17:52,715 --> 00:17:55,755 Speaker 1: in North Carolina, up by five in Wisconsin. All of this, 247 00:17:56,115 --> 00:18:02,035 Speaker 1: all of these numbers before Tim walls happily for Trump, 248 00:18:02,235 --> 00:18:06,635 Speaker 1: he can turn to his in house geniuses like senior 249 00:18:06,675 --> 00:18:11,635 Speaker 1: campaign advisor Chris Losavita and spokesperson Caroline with A k 250 00:18:11,995 --> 00:18:17,595 Speaker 1: Levitt los Avida. July twenty fourth, reliable sources confirm Kamala 251 00:18:17,715 --> 00:18:26,635 Speaker 1: to pick Governor Shapiro from Pennsylvania. Chris Losovita from August fifth, 252 00:18:26,675 --> 00:18:29,715 Speaker 1: five thirty PM breaking news. According to my sources, Kamala 253 00:18:29,755 --> 00:18:36,195 Speaker 1: Harris is not picking Josh Shapiro Pennsylvania. Caroline Levitt Yesterday's 254 00:18:36,195 --> 00:18:41,195 Speaker 1: statement on Kamala's selection of radical leftist Tim Walls doesn't 255 00:18:41,195 --> 00:18:46,875 Speaker 1: mention Joe Manchion supporting Tim Walls for Vice president, from 256 00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:49,595 Speaker 1: proposing his own carbon free agenda to suggesting strict your 257 00:18:49,715 --> 00:18:54,475 Speaker 1: mission standards for gas powered cars and embracing policies to 258 00:18:54,635 --> 00:19:00,595 Speaker 1: allow convicted felons to vote. Wait wait, wait, what was 259 00:19:00,595 --> 00:19:02,835 Speaker 1: the part in the middle there about embracing policies to 260 00:19:02,875 --> 00:19:07,075 Speaker 1: allow convicted felons to vote. Trump is opposed to this. 261 00:19:07,875 --> 00:19:12,195 Speaker 1: Trump is a convicted felon. I think he knows clearly 262 00:19:12,235 --> 00:19:15,795 Speaker 1: his spokesperson does not. Don't worry all as fine as 263 00:19:15,875 --> 00:19:19,395 Speaker 1: Trump Headquarters from now on, We're just gonna mention Caroline 264 00:19:19,435 --> 00:19:21,595 Speaker 1: Lovett's name, but put a B in the middle of it, 265 00:19:21,755 --> 00:19:27,435 Speaker 1: so she's Carol blind lev bit. How could this possibly 266 00:19:27,475 --> 00:19:30,075 Speaker 1: get any better? How could a day have gone better 267 00:19:30,075 --> 00:19:34,955 Speaker 1: for the Democrats than it did yesterday? How well? Monday 268 00:19:35,075 --> 00:19:39,955 Speaker 1: at twelve I'm sorry, I'm laughing in advance Monday at 269 00:19:39,955 --> 00:19:44,675 Speaker 1: twelve thirty four pm Eastern, retweeting the Writer's bulletin that 270 00:19:44,795 --> 00:19:48,555 Speaker 1: Josh Shapiro and Tim Walls were the vice presidential finalists 271 00:19:48,555 --> 00:19:53,715 Speaker 1: for Kamala Harris. One pundit retweeted this, adding, it's gonna 272 00:19:53,715 --> 00:20:07,355 Speaker 1: be Shapiro people signed Chris silzit. Oh, that's it. Trump, 273 00:20:07,395 --> 00:20:09,555 Speaker 1: That's it right there, that's it. I shouldn't say it 274 00:20:09,555 --> 00:20:11,275 Speaker 1: because this is it. This will put you right back 275 00:20:11,275 --> 00:20:16,115 Speaker 1: in the race. Hire Chris Slizza. Have him workshop the 276 00:20:16,755 --> 00:20:24,115 Speaker 1: Kamabla nickname. Maybe Cambabla, cub blah blah blah blah blah 277 00:20:24,115 --> 00:20:27,275 Speaker 1: blah blah, something like that. Give Chris a few years, 278 00:20:27,275 --> 00:20:30,155 Speaker 1: he'll come up with it. It's gonna be Shapiro people. 279 00:20:32,835 --> 00:20:36,395 Speaker 1: Chris is the Crystaliza of crystalizzes. Also of interest here, 280 00:20:36,435 --> 00:20:40,515 Speaker 1: somebody touches Congressman Derek van Orden brushes past him in 281 00:20:40,595 --> 00:20:43,515 Speaker 1: a line going into a hotel. He wants them charged 282 00:20:43,555 --> 00:20:46,675 Speaker 1: with assaulting a member of Congress because Derek van Orton 283 00:20:47,075 --> 00:20:51,395 Speaker 1: is nuts. And not only does Axios dot Com fire 284 00:20:51,755 --> 00:20:56,235 Speaker 1: ten percent of its staff, but the boss makes the 285 00:20:56,275 --> 00:21:00,075 Speaker 1: departed read about it in a memo that is written 286 00:21:00,595 --> 00:21:09,195 Speaker 1: in that disgusting, impossible to understand axios ease. That's next. 287 00:21:09,355 --> 00:21:36,395 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Oberman stell 288 00:21:36,435 --> 00:21:38,795 Speaker 1: ahead of us on this edition of Countdown. I was 289 00:21:38,835 --> 00:21:43,835 Speaker 1: supposed to anchor NBC's cable coverage of the summer Olympics 290 00:21:43,835 --> 00:21:47,475 Speaker 1: in two thousand from Sydney, Australia, but I kind of 291 00:21:47,555 --> 00:21:49,955 Speaker 1: quit the job in nineteen ninety eight, so that didn't happen. 292 00:21:50,115 --> 00:21:52,595 Speaker 1: Then I was supposed to anchor NBC's cable coverage of 293 00:21:52,635 --> 00:21:56,115 Speaker 1: the Summer Olympics in two thousand and four from Athens 294 00:21:56,155 --> 00:22:00,115 Speaker 1: in Greece, but I told them no, no, I'd rather 295 00:22:00,235 --> 00:22:03,875 Speaker 1: stay in New Jersey and try to grow this new 296 00:22:03,955 --> 00:22:07,875 Speaker 1: news show on MSNBC called Countdown. And there are still 297 00:22:08,075 --> 00:22:11,955 Speaker 1: former sports executives at NBC who are now retired who 298 00:22:11,995 --> 00:22:16,315 Speaker 1: continually think I am insane, even though that decision turned 299 00:22:16,355 --> 00:22:19,235 Speaker 1: out the way it did. I was also supposed to 300 00:22:19,235 --> 00:22:22,435 Speaker 1: cover the Summer Olympics in nineteen eighty in Moscow, but 301 00:22:22,515 --> 00:22:24,955 Speaker 1: then the US pulled out of those games in a 302 00:22:24,955 --> 00:22:27,555 Speaker 1: political thing, so that was not my fault. But I 303 00:22:27,635 --> 00:22:30,155 Speaker 1: am proud to tell you that I have not watched 304 00:22:30,595 --> 00:22:35,115 Speaker 1: one minute, not one highlight from the twenty twenty fourth 305 00:22:35,115 --> 00:22:44,035 Speaker 1: Summer Olympics in in France. France. I mean, you could 306 00:22:44,075 --> 00:22:48,435 Speaker 1: tell me Kamala Harris won the Olympic skeet shooting on 307 00:22:48,875 --> 00:22:53,515 Speaker 1: ice gold medal yesterday and I'd say, sure, sure, yeah, 308 00:22:53,555 --> 00:22:56,715 Speaker 1: she was great. I was watching. I'm beginning to think 309 00:22:57,475 --> 00:23:01,715 Speaker 1: I may not like the Olympics. If this is true. 310 00:23:02,155 --> 00:23:04,595 Speaker 1: My not liking the Olympics dates back to nineteen eight 311 00:23:04,915 --> 00:23:06,915 Speaker 1: in my experience as part of a two and a 312 00:23:06,995 --> 00:23:11,075 Speaker 1: half man team that covered the entire Winter Olympics at 313 00:23:11,195 --> 00:23:13,395 Speaker 1: Lake Placid, New York. Just the two and a half 314 00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:15,955 Speaker 1: of us. The half a guy was management. He was 315 00:23:15,995 --> 00:23:18,795 Speaker 1: in the office most of the time. It was rewarding, 316 00:23:19,235 --> 00:23:23,195 Speaker 1: it was challenging, it was snowy cold. It was a 317 00:23:23,275 --> 00:23:26,115 Speaker 1: once in a lifetime experience, and I have done everything 318 00:23:26,275 --> 00:23:30,275 Speaker 1: since then to make sure that it was literally just 319 00:23:30,395 --> 00:23:34,075 Speaker 1: once in a lifetime, especially after the other one and 320 00:23:34,075 --> 00:23:37,315 Speaker 1: a half guys, my boss and my boss's boss got 321 00:23:37,355 --> 00:23:39,955 Speaker 1: me drunk one night and then sent me to cover 322 00:23:40,035 --> 00:23:45,195 Speaker 1: the skiing at sunrise and I almost did not survive it. 323 00:23:45,755 --> 00:23:49,555 Speaker 1: Next in things I promised not to tell first, there 324 00:23:49,595 --> 00:23:52,075 Speaker 1: are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily 325 00:23:52,155 --> 00:23:55,915 Speaker 1: roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens 326 00:23:56,075 --> 00:23:59,995 Speaker 1: who constitute two days worst persons in the world from 327 00:24:00,075 --> 00:24:03,275 Speaker 1: the top of a mountain mountain, mountain mountain. The Bronze 328 00:24:03,955 --> 00:24:09,515 Speaker 1: Worse co founder Jim VandeHei of Axios dot com, the 329 00:24:09,675 --> 00:24:14,395 Speaker 1: news organization which fired fifty people yesterday five ozho and 330 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:19,035 Speaker 1: did it not just by memo, but by Axio style memo. 331 00:24:19,755 --> 00:24:25,955 Speaker 1: Axios pretty much sucks. They overextended, they paid management too much. 332 00:24:26,275 --> 00:24:29,915 Speaker 1: They spent most of their time complimenting themselves. They relied 333 00:24:29,995 --> 00:24:33,195 Speaker 1: on a cut c style they called smart brevity, in 334 00:24:33,235 --> 00:24:35,875 Speaker 1: which they would state the basic facts of a story 335 00:24:36,075 --> 00:24:38,355 Speaker 1: for about a paragraph or so and then begin to 336 00:24:38,395 --> 00:24:42,875 Speaker 1: spin it with a subheadline indented that read why it matters. 337 00:24:43,715 --> 00:24:46,475 Speaker 1: This was part of the memo from Jim Vanda Hi 338 00:24:47,075 --> 00:24:51,635 Speaker 1: difficult changes. We're making some difficult changes to adapt fast 339 00:24:51,675 --> 00:24:56,795 Speaker 1: to a rapidly changing media landscape. Why it matters. We're 340 00:24:56,835 --> 00:24:59,995 Speaker 1: eliminating about fifty positions to get ahead of tectonic shifts. 341 00:24:59,995 --> 00:25:04,435 Speaker 1: And that they used the format of the publication that 342 00:25:04,795 --> 00:25:10,395 Speaker 1: CEOs puts out twice a day, their newsletters, to inform 343 00:25:10,475 --> 00:25:13,955 Speaker 1: the people writing the newsletters and reporting for the newsletters 344 00:25:14,075 --> 00:25:17,315 Speaker 1: that they were being fired from the company. It's like 345 00:25:17,995 --> 00:25:22,035 Speaker 1: I don't know, getting a pink slip inside a custom 346 00:25:22,155 --> 00:25:29,355 Speaker 1: made Ford motor company. I don't know, cover for your 347 00:25:29,435 --> 00:25:34,595 Speaker 1: inside windshield. Unbelievable. Why it matters? Why it matters you 348 00:25:34,675 --> 00:25:37,915 Speaker 1: might be unemployed. And there's an intented paragraph later on 349 00:25:37,915 --> 00:25:41,355 Speaker 1: that reads with a little dot if your job is 350 00:25:41,395 --> 00:25:44,355 Speaker 1: being eliminated, you will receive an accompanying email in the 351 00:25:44,355 --> 00:25:47,395 Speaker 1: next few minutes with information about your severance package and 352 00:25:47,435 --> 00:25:49,995 Speaker 1: a calendar invite for a meeting with a leader from 353 00:25:50,035 --> 00:25:52,915 Speaker 1: your team and a member of the people team. We 354 00:25:52,995 --> 00:25:54,915 Speaker 1: wanted to tell each of you in person first, but 355 00:25:54,995 --> 00:25:58,315 Speaker 1: the mechanics of that proved infeasible. In other words, Jim 356 00:25:58,395 --> 00:26:00,435 Speaker 1: Vandeheid didn't want to go to the office in the morning. 357 00:26:02,275 --> 00:26:05,235 Speaker 1: Why it matters, you may not have a job anymore. 358 00:26:05,275 --> 00:26:09,715 Speaker 1: Speaking of which, the runner up worser Bloomberg News. Sure 359 00:26:09,955 --> 00:26:13,835 Speaker 1: it's White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs was Trump's favorite, and 360 00:26:13,955 --> 00:26:16,435 Speaker 1: sure she once tried to make a thing out of 361 00:26:16,475 --> 00:26:21,515 Speaker 1: the Vice president saying the as in the point here, 362 00:26:22,195 --> 00:26:24,075 Speaker 1: And she did a lot of stupid stuff and a 363 00:26:24,115 --> 00:26:27,355 Speaker 1: lot of bad coverage and a lot of absolutely the 364 00:26:27,395 --> 00:26:31,515 Speaker 1: worst elements of Washington inside the Beltway. We just talked 365 00:26:31,555 --> 00:26:33,435 Speaker 1: to each other and have no idea that there are 366 00:26:33,515 --> 00:26:37,955 Speaker 1: human beings affected by this kind of insider access stuff. 367 00:26:38,315 --> 00:26:41,315 Speaker 1: Sure she did that. On the other hand, she was 368 00:26:41,395 --> 00:26:50,075 Speaker 1: apparently reportedly fired because Bloomberg blew the embargo on the 369 00:26:50,195 --> 00:26:54,795 Speaker 1: rescue mission the trade of hostages that got the Wall 370 00:26:54,795 --> 00:26:59,315 Speaker 1: Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich back they reported it too early. 371 00:26:59,635 --> 00:27:02,635 Speaker 1: She was the principal writer on the story, so naturally 372 00:27:02,715 --> 00:27:06,835 Speaker 1: she got fired. As some He wrote, I haven't heard 373 00:27:06,875 --> 00:27:09,675 Speaker 1: the last time that a reporter actually hit send on 374 00:27:09,715 --> 00:27:13,635 Speaker 1: their own story. Unless it's a one person website, even 375 00:27:13,675 --> 00:27:17,155 Speaker 1: at axios, they don't get to say why it matters. 376 00:27:17,595 --> 00:27:21,475 Speaker 1: An editor gets to say that. And so the Bloomberg 377 00:27:21,555 --> 00:27:26,555 Speaker 1: editor in chief, John Micklethwaite, disciplined staffers for jumping the 378 00:27:26,595 --> 00:27:30,755 Speaker 1: gun on the dramatic deal. This according to New York Magazine, 379 00:27:30,955 --> 00:27:34,355 Speaker 1: and he didn't seem to fire any editors, or if 380 00:27:34,355 --> 00:27:37,595 Speaker 1: he did, they were not as prominent in the organization 381 00:27:37,635 --> 00:27:41,315 Speaker 1: as this Jennifer Jacobs, who was fired because the story 382 00:27:41,435 --> 00:27:44,635 Speaker 1: she wrote was put out before the embargo was lifted. 383 00:27:44,955 --> 00:27:47,555 Speaker 1: There may be other details to this. Perhaps she told 384 00:27:47,635 --> 00:27:50,955 Speaker 1: her bosses that the embargo had already expired, or that 385 00:27:50,995 --> 00:27:54,395 Speaker 1: she had authorization from her sources, or that everybody there 386 00:27:54,395 --> 00:27:56,835 Speaker 1: at the White House team for Bloomberg said it was okay. 387 00:27:56,995 --> 00:27:58,795 Speaker 1: But we don't know any of that. Right now, it 388 00:27:58,915 --> 00:28:03,115 Speaker 1: just looks like Bloomberg fired the reporter because the editors 389 00:28:03,115 --> 00:28:06,755 Speaker 1: did something wrong, once again in the story of journalism. 390 00:28:07,475 --> 00:28:11,795 Speaker 1: But our winner, Congressman Derek Van Orden of Wisconsin, we 391 00:28:11,875 --> 00:28:13,835 Speaker 1: have talked about him too many times for me to 392 00:28:13,875 --> 00:28:16,555 Speaker 1: go into a review about him and the fact that 393 00:28:16,635 --> 00:28:19,795 Speaker 1: it looks like he has PTSD and has never done 394 00:28:19,795 --> 00:28:22,675 Speaker 1: anything about it. He was about twenty five years in 395 00:28:22,715 --> 00:28:25,635 Speaker 1: the military and the wear and tear seems to have 396 00:28:25,635 --> 00:28:28,595 Speaker 1: gotten to him. Plus he's a Republican from Wisconsin, so 397 00:28:28,715 --> 00:28:33,315 Speaker 1: he's an asshole. However, Rep. Van Orden was in line 398 00:28:33,515 --> 00:28:37,315 Speaker 1: for the morning event at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee 399 00:28:37,675 --> 00:28:39,835 Speaker 1: and happened to find himself trying to get into the 400 00:28:39,875 --> 00:28:43,915 Speaker 1: Fister Hotel. That's right, They've kept the name Fister for 401 00:28:43,995 --> 00:28:49,275 Speaker 1: a century, the Fister Hotel. I'll meet you at the Fister. Also, 402 00:28:49,315 --> 00:28:53,755 Speaker 1: the Fister is supposedly haunted by people who were really 403 00:28:53,795 --> 00:28:57,795 Speaker 1: bothered by the name Fister. I suspect, were people sentenced 404 00:28:58,315 --> 00:29:02,595 Speaker 1: to eternity in the Fister Hotel? Where were you sentenced? Well? 405 00:29:02,635 --> 00:29:04,955 Speaker 1: I went to hell for a thousand years. Where did you? Oh, 406 00:29:04,995 --> 00:29:07,155 Speaker 1: it's much worse than Hell. I went to the Fister 407 00:29:07,355 --> 00:29:13,515 Speaker 1: Hotel pfi st er Fister. Anyway, I'm getting away from 408 00:29:13,515 --> 00:29:16,275 Speaker 1: the point here. He was in line, Van Orden was, 409 00:29:16,515 --> 00:29:19,355 Speaker 1: and if he's going to purgatory, he's definitely going to 410 00:29:19,395 --> 00:29:22,235 Speaker 1: the Fister. Van Orden was in line along with the 411 00:29:22,275 --> 00:29:27,595 Speaker 1: members of the protest group Code Pink, including one newer Jagama, 412 00:29:27,955 --> 00:29:30,235 Speaker 1: a twenty four year old woman who was in line 413 00:29:30,675 --> 00:29:34,715 Speaker 1: apparently just in front of Van Orden in this security 414 00:29:34,715 --> 00:29:37,435 Speaker 1: line to get in during the Republican National Convention along 415 00:29:37,475 --> 00:29:41,515 Speaker 1: with other members of Code Pink. The congressman seemed to 416 00:29:41,515 --> 00:29:44,355 Speaker 1: touch her gently to get her to move. When the 417 00:29:44,395 --> 00:29:48,715 Speaker 1: line towards the security box began to move, she said 418 00:29:48,715 --> 00:29:51,115 Speaker 1: we're moving, or he said we're moving, and she moved, 419 00:29:51,195 --> 00:29:53,475 Speaker 1: and she grumbled about it, and she said something wise, 420 00:29:53,715 --> 00:29:56,795 Speaker 1: and then she walked back in front of him, which 421 00:29:56,835 --> 00:29:59,755 Speaker 1: is where she had been before the line was moving, 422 00:30:00,195 --> 00:30:04,115 Speaker 1: and he then says, ma'am, you'd better watch it, and 423 00:30:04,195 --> 00:30:08,195 Speaker 1: begins to claim that she has cut in front of him. 424 00:30:08,635 --> 00:30:11,555 Speaker 1: She was already in front of him, and Van Orden 425 00:30:11,595 --> 00:30:15,915 Speaker 1: then accused her of political violence. You just assaulted a 426 00:30:15,955 --> 00:30:20,155 Speaker 1: member of Congress. Van Orden is about a foot taller 427 00:30:20,195 --> 00:30:23,235 Speaker 1: than this woman. He said he'd be filing a police report. 428 00:30:23,395 --> 00:30:25,715 Speaker 1: He told policemen on the scene that he would do that, 429 00:30:26,155 --> 00:30:30,155 Speaker 1: and as usual, the real victim here is always Derek 430 00:30:30,275 --> 00:30:34,235 Speaker 1: Van Orden. A helpful cop then says to another officer, 431 00:30:34,795 --> 00:30:38,515 Speaker 1: she just shoved a senator. There was no shove, and 432 00:30:38,635 --> 00:30:41,795 Speaker 1: Van Orden is not a senator, He's barely a congressman. 433 00:30:42,275 --> 00:30:46,395 Speaker 1: Van Orden is seen saying this blank ain't happening anymore. 434 00:30:47,595 --> 00:30:52,555 Speaker 1: Then the police bodycam video, which reporters were told did 435 00:30:52,555 --> 00:30:56,555 Speaker 1: not exist, suddenly existed again and it was released, and 436 00:30:56,675 --> 00:30:58,795 Speaker 1: on it you see it the way I've just described 437 00:30:58,795 --> 00:31:01,235 Speaker 1: it to you. There's a woman standing in front of 438 00:31:01,275 --> 00:31:04,435 Speaker 1: a congressman. A line starts to move. She doesn't move 439 00:31:04,435 --> 00:31:07,075 Speaker 1: fast enough for him. He tells her to move, She 440 00:31:07,275 --> 00:31:09,915 Speaker 1: moves and mouths off to him. She moves back in 441 00:31:09,955 --> 00:31:12,795 Speaker 1: front of him where she was, and he accuses her 442 00:31:13,195 --> 00:31:16,035 Speaker 1: of well, to use the parlance of the time, an 443 00:31:16,075 --> 00:31:20,955 Speaker 1: attempted assassination. Well almost Then there is a conversation between 444 00:31:21,035 --> 00:31:26,395 Speaker 1: Van Orden and one of the cops. The questions one 445 00:31:26,395 --> 00:31:28,795 Speaker 1: of the cops asks Van Orden, They're gonna ask is 446 00:31:29,115 --> 00:31:33,635 Speaker 1: did you feel pain? Van Orden replies, I have really 447 00:31:33,755 --> 00:31:39,275 Speaker 1: bad hips. Okay, so pain. The officer asks again. Then 448 00:31:39,435 --> 00:31:44,075 Speaker 1: Van Orden pauses and says, yes, my hip, my hip hurts. 449 00:31:44,515 --> 00:31:47,955 Speaker 1: I mean it hurts already. Did she exacerbate it? I 450 00:31:47,995 --> 00:31:51,675 Speaker 1: don't know, but a hip check is a hip check. 451 00:31:53,275 --> 00:31:56,955 Speaker 1: Van Orden was a Navy seal. He was deployed five times, 452 00:31:56,995 --> 00:32:00,395 Speaker 1: but oddly go look up the five deployments online. The 453 00:32:00,435 --> 00:32:03,435 Speaker 1: only one you'll find named that he boasts about is 454 00:32:03,475 --> 00:32:08,795 Speaker 1: going to Bosnia, where I guess he suffered a hangnail. 455 00:32:09,875 --> 00:32:13,195 Speaker 1: I don't know if he received the Congressional Medal of Honor, 456 00:32:14,275 --> 00:32:19,795 Speaker 1: but I'm sure he thinks he did. Congressman Derek Oh oh, 457 00:32:19,835 --> 00:32:24,115 Speaker 1: I have been mortally wounded my hip parts. Oh nos, 458 00:32:24,115 --> 00:32:27,915 Speaker 1: it's an act of political terrorism. This tiny woman, five 459 00:32:27,955 --> 00:32:31,475 Speaker 1: foot nothing just knocked me to the ground. My legs 460 00:32:31,515 --> 00:32:37,075 Speaker 1: have fallen of Oh no, oh, I'm bleeding. I'm dash. 461 00:32:37,195 --> 00:32:42,595 Speaker 1: He actually murdered me. Van Orden two Day's worst person 462 00:32:43,395 --> 00:33:00,715 Speaker 1: in Oh no, the world soft as a great. The 463 00:33:00,795 --> 00:33:04,115 Speaker 1: alarm goes off. It is pitch black in my room 464 00:33:04,155 --> 00:33:09,275 Speaker 1: at the Swiss Acres Motel. It is Valentine's Day and 465 00:33:09,515 --> 00:33:15,755 Speaker 1: I am still drunk. Keith knew he was in trouble, 466 00:33:16,755 --> 00:33:19,475 Speaker 1: but I was also twenty one years old, and in fact, 467 00:33:19,555 --> 00:33:22,275 Speaker 1: my twenty first birthday had only been eighteen days earlier. 468 00:33:22,315 --> 00:33:27,235 Speaker 1: So somehow I survived, showered, dressed, packed, and I mean 469 00:33:27,315 --> 00:33:30,795 Speaker 1: I packed two cassette tape recorders, four sets of batteries, 470 00:33:30,915 --> 00:33:34,635 Speaker 1: an audio processing machine that weighed like fourteen pounds. The 471 00:33:34,875 --> 00:33:37,115 Speaker 1: nine volt batteries it took, I think it was a 472 00:33:37,155 --> 00:33:40,995 Speaker 1: dozen of them, a telephone, a backup telephone, twelve assorted 473 00:33:41,035 --> 00:33:45,595 Speaker 1: patch cords, two loose leaf notebooks, about eight pens, two microphones, 474 00:33:45,635 --> 00:33:49,115 Speaker 1: two extra pair of socks, and I got dressed, two 475 00:33:49,235 --> 00:33:54,035 Speaker 1: full sets of thermal underwear, shirts, sweaters, snow pants, snow 476 00:33:54,075 --> 00:33:58,195 Speaker 1: shoes because it was eleven degrees below zero that morning. 477 00:33:59,315 --> 00:34:01,755 Speaker 1: I got something quick to eat at the commissary, and 478 00:34:01,835 --> 00:34:04,755 Speaker 1: I made it out somehow to the line for the 479 00:34:04,795 --> 00:34:08,195 Speaker 1: bus from the Lake Placid Olympics Center to the Lake 480 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:12,355 Speaker 1: Placid Transportation Center to Lake Placid's own White Face Mountain, 481 00:34:12,675 --> 00:34:16,795 Speaker 1: then onto the snow track the open penned mountain tractor 482 00:34:16,835 --> 00:34:19,395 Speaker 1: that went up the side of Whiteface Mountain and took 483 00:34:19,435 --> 00:34:22,475 Speaker 1: me to the finish line of the nineteen eighty Olympic 484 00:34:22,595 --> 00:34:28,395 Speaker 1: Men's downhill ski final still drunk. That is how a 485 00:34:28,475 --> 00:34:32,315 Speaker 1: reporter covered the Olympics nearly forty three years ago. You drank, 486 00:34:32,955 --> 00:34:36,555 Speaker 1: you woke up, you went, You stood near the finish line, 487 00:34:36,555 --> 00:34:39,715 Speaker 1: and when the skiers completed their runs, you hiked or 488 00:34:39,835 --> 00:34:42,635 Speaker 1: wobbled over to them and you took out your microphone 489 00:34:42,715 --> 00:34:45,795 Speaker 1: or your pen and you interviewed them, like two minutes 490 00:34:45,835 --> 00:34:48,755 Speaker 1: after they had finished hurtling towards you down the hill. 491 00:34:49,955 --> 00:34:52,275 Speaker 1: You could see almost nothing of the race from there. 492 00:34:52,715 --> 00:34:56,115 Speaker 1: There were no TV monitors. Basically your only clue was 493 00:34:56,155 --> 00:34:58,235 Speaker 1: the sound of the crowd that would give you about 494 00:34:58,275 --> 00:35:01,195 Speaker 1: thirty seconds worth of warning that the skier was coming 495 00:35:01,235 --> 00:35:03,915 Speaker 1: over the near horizon and you should be prepared to 496 00:35:04,115 --> 00:35:09,275 Speaker 1: flee just in case he or she wiped out. Also, 497 00:35:10,195 --> 00:35:13,075 Speaker 1: you were on top of a mountain at the dead 498 00:35:13,235 --> 00:35:15,875 Speaker 1: point of winter, and whereas it might have been a 499 00:35:16,035 --> 00:35:19,275 Speaker 1: balney eleven degrees below zero in the comfort of the 500 00:35:19,315 --> 00:35:23,155 Speaker 1: Swiss Acres motel with the wind chill, at the base 501 00:35:23,195 --> 00:35:26,715 Speaker 1: of the mountain, it was forty eight below zero and 502 00:35:26,755 --> 00:35:29,635 Speaker 1: there had already been four inches of new snow since 503 00:35:29,715 --> 00:35:34,075 Speaker 1: the sun came up, which is where the still drunk 504 00:35:34,115 --> 00:35:37,875 Speaker 1: part came in handy. My boss is at my first job, 505 00:35:37,955 --> 00:35:41,315 Speaker 1: the thousand station radio network called United pres International Audio, 506 00:35:41,675 --> 00:35:44,195 Speaker 1: had decided the night before to teach me how to 507 00:35:44,435 --> 00:35:48,955 Speaker 1: drink while on assignment. My bosses were the bureau manager 508 00:35:48,955 --> 00:35:51,235 Speaker 1: for that part of you PI, the late Stan Sabik, 509 00:35:51,275 --> 00:35:54,395 Speaker 1: who had hired me, and Sam Rosen, the sports director 510 00:35:54,435 --> 00:35:57,635 Speaker 1: of the network, who not only somehow survived being my 511 00:35:57,755 --> 00:36:01,675 Speaker 1: first boss, but today, just forty three years later, is 512 00:36:01,715 --> 00:36:04,515 Speaker 1: still working as the television voice of the New York 513 00:36:05,075 --> 00:36:07,715 Speaker 1: hockey team and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame. 514 00:36:07,915 --> 00:36:10,635 Speaker 1: So I guess my reputation is a tough employee is 515 00:36:10,675 --> 00:36:16,075 Speaker 1: wildly overrated, or at least Sam thinks. So Sam and 516 00:36:16,115 --> 00:36:18,875 Speaker 1: Stan kept me drinking at the motel until two am, 517 00:36:18,995 --> 00:36:20,675 Speaker 1: knowing full well that I had to get on the 518 00:36:20,875 --> 00:36:23,755 Speaker 1: six am bus to go cover the men's downhill because 519 00:36:23,795 --> 00:36:25,875 Speaker 1: it was the two of them who had assigned me 520 00:36:25,955 --> 00:36:30,475 Speaker 1: to go cover the men's downhill, And bluntly, I was 521 00:36:30,475 --> 00:36:34,075 Speaker 1: surprisingly pleased with myself that freezing morning because I had 522 00:36:34,115 --> 00:36:37,275 Speaker 1: indeed learned how to drink while on assignment. I had 523 00:36:37,355 --> 00:36:41,635 Speaker 1: somehow found the phone jack for the UPI phone buried 524 00:36:41,715 --> 00:36:44,675 Speaker 1: under all the new snow, which of course was buried 525 00:36:44,755 --> 00:36:47,875 Speaker 1: under all the old snow. Attached the phone to it, 526 00:36:47,955 --> 00:36:51,035 Speaker 1: gotten a dial tone, called the office, checked the alligator 527 00:36:51,035 --> 00:36:53,555 Speaker 1: clips with which I would feed the tape, and all 528 00:36:53,715 --> 00:36:59,275 Speaker 1: was well until I went to put a cassette tape 529 00:36:59,315 --> 00:37:07,995 Speaker 1: into the cassette recorder. I didn't have one fat lot 530 00:37:07,995 --> 00:37:10,595 Speaker 1: of good two cassette tape machines. Gonna do you without 531 00:37:10,635 --> 00:37:15,435 Speaker 1: a cassette to sticking one of them? I looked forlornly 532 00:37:15,515 --> 00:37:19,715 Speaker 1: around the base of Whiteface Mountain, twelve hundred feet above 533 00:37:19,755 --> 00:37:22,355 Speaker 1: sea level. As we were. There was a surprisingly nice 534 00:37:22,395 --> 00:37:25,835 Speaker 1: chalet and a decent restaurant, but there were no radio 535 00:37:25,915 --> 00:37:30,035 Speaker 1: shacks or other electronics stores. There was, however, one other 536 00:37:30,235 --> 00:37:35,395 Speaker 1: radio guy, Jack Briggs, from the Associated Press Radio Network, 537 00:37:35,435 --> 00:37:39,595 Speaker 1: the nominal arch rival to our own UPI Audio. I 538 00:37:39,635 --> 00:37:42,075 Speaker 1: knew Jack a little. He was a nice guy. I 539 00:37:42,155 --> 00:37:45,155 Speaker 1: went and explained my plight, making sure to blame my 540 00:37:45,235 --> 00:37:49,915 Speaker 1: bosses for my predicament. Oh man, he said, his breath 541 00:37:49,955 --> 00:37:54,755 Speaker 1: turning into first steam and then ice cubes. I'm so sorry, 542 00:37:55,435 --> 00:37:59,315 Speaker 1: but I can't give you a cassette. I'm sorry you 543 00:37:59,315 --> 00:38:06,395 Speaker 1: were UPI, and I'm ap oh I laughed. That was 544 00:38:06,435 --> 00:38:09,315 Speaker 1: a great line to say to a rookie reporter still drunk. 545 00:38:09,755 --> 00:38:13,155 Speaker 1: Thanks to the initiation rituals of his own bosses, the 546 00:38:13,195 --> 00:38:18,235 Speaker 1: possessor of one great buzz but zero audio cassettes, Jack 547 00:38:18,275 --> 00:38:21,235 Speaker 1: Briggs could tell I thought he was kidding. That's when 548 00:38:21,235 --> 00:38:25,115 Speaker 1: he said, I'm not kidding. Look, if my boss, Shelby Whitfield, 549 00:38:25,155 --> 00:38:29,595 Speaker 1: ever found out, he'd fire me. I suddenly wasn't drunk anymore, 550 00:38:29,675 --> 00:38:35,675 Speaker 1: not at all. My boss will will fire me. Briggs 551 00:38:35,675 --> 00:38:39,035 Speaker 1: was adamant. I can't run the risk of Shelby finding out. 552 00:38:40,915 --> 00:38:44,275 Speaker 1: I have to confess. I shouted, how the hell is 553 00:38:44,315 --> 00:38:48,955 Speaker 1: he gonna find out? Jack? I think subconsciously I was 554 00:38:48,995 --> 00:38:50,955 Speaker 1: hoping to create an avalanche, which would have been a 555 00:38:50,955 --> 00:38:53,755 Speaker 1: better solution than the one I was faced with. I 556 00:38:53,795 --> 00:38:57,115 Speaker 1: said to him, there's you and there's me, and we're 557 00:38:57,115 --> 00:39:00,075 Speaker 1: on top of a goddamn mountain, and Shelby Whitfield, your 558 00:39:00,115 --> 00:39:04,875 Speaker 1: boss is in Washington, DC, and he's a drunk. He's 559 00:39:04,875 --> 00:39:08,195 Speaker 1: probably more drunk than I am, and he'd probably thank 560 00:39:08,275 --> 00:39:12,275 Speaker 1: you for helping me to drink more. Briggs would not budge. 561 00:39:12,995 --> 00:39:14,835 Speaker 1: I told him I would pay him. I told him 562 00:39:14,875 --> 00:39:17,275 Speaker 1: I would give him the cassette back after I fed 563 00:39:17,315 --> 00:39:19,595 Speaker 1: my boss the interviews over the phone, so there'd be 564 00:39:19,635 --> 00:39:21,955 Speaker 1: no evidence and he wouldn't even have to do any interviews. 565 00:39:22,955 --> 00:39:25,875 Speaker 1: No good, I'm sorry, and I know you're going to 566 00:39:25,955 --> 00:39:28,555 Speaker 1: tell this story about me for a while. As he 567 00:39:28,595 --> 00:39:34,835 Speaker 1: walked away from me, I shouted after him. Forever. Turned 568 00:39:34,835 --> 00:39:38,435 Speaker 1: out there was no radio shack and no camaraderie, but 569 00:39:38,475 --> 00:39:41,795 Speaker 1: there was a West Coast newspaper reporter atop the mountain 570 00:39:41,835 --> 00:39:45,195 Speaker 1: who heard some of this conversation. I guess I yelled 571 00:39:45,235 --> 00:39:48,515 Speaker 1: a little loudly at mister Briggs. Some guy standing next 572 00:39:48,515 --> 00:39:50,635 Speaker 1: to a Saint Bernard told me to quiet down. He 573 00:39:50,715 --> 00:39:53,355 Speaker 1: mentioned something else about the avalanches, or maybe I dreamed 574 00:39:53,395 --> 00:39:56,395 Speaker 1: that part. I don't know. Anyway, the West Coast newspaper 575 00:39:56,395 --> 00:39:59,635 Speaker 1: guy said he had a micro cassette machine and he 576 00:39:59,635 --> 00:40:01,155 Speaker 1: would loan it to me and I could give it 577 00:40:01,195 --> 00:40:02,955 Speaker 1: back to him at the media center that day or 578 00:40:02,955 --> 00:40:04,995 Speaker 1: the next one. But I had to do him because 579 00:40:04,995 --> 00:40:07,515 Speaker 1: there was this really cute reporter in our UPI bureau 580 00:40:07,715 --> 00:40:09,395 Speaker 1: and he really wanted to be introduced to her. And 581 00:40:09,435 --> 00:40:11,595 Speaker 1: I said, I can promise you nothing but a handshake, 582 00:40:11,795 --> 00:40:14,035 Speaker 1: and he understood and That's how I did not get fired. 583 00:40:15,835 --> 00:40:18,995 Speaker 1: But of course a story like this has punchlines, and 584 00:40:19,075 --> 00:40:22,115 Speaker 1: this one has two of them. The first is two 585 00:40:22,195 --> 00:40:25,755 Speaker 1: years and a couple of months later, Shelby Whitfield asked 586 00:40:25,755 --> 00:40:28,875 Speaker 1: me to lunch. He had left the Associated Press to 587 00:40:28,915 --> 00:40:31,995 Speaker 1: run the sports department at the ABC Radio network, back 588 00:40:31,995 --> 00:40:34,635 Speaker 1: when that was not only a thing, but a big thing. 589 00:40:35,475 --> 00:40:38,395 Speaker 1: We went to a terrific New York City Chinese restaurant 590 00:40:38,435 --> 00:40:42,835 Speaker 1: near ABC called shun Lee, and Shelby Whitfield interviewed me 591 00:40:42,875 --> 00:40:45,035 Speaker 1: for a job when that kind of job paid eighty 592 00:40:45,115 --> 00:40:47,635 Speaker 1: thousand a year in my very nice studio apartment and 593 00:40:47,675 --> 00:40:49,795 Speaker 1: a very nice part of town costs less than five 594 00:40:49,875 --> 00:40:54,115 Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month later, in an interesting twist, I 595 00:40:54,155 --> 00:40:57,995 Speaker 1: found out that jobs didn't exist. I was mentioning the 596 00:40:58,035 --> 00:41:01,275 Speaker 1: interview in a press box somewhere I think Madison Square Garden, 597 00:41:01,315 --> 00:41:05,035 Speaker 1: and there was another kid reporter named Howie Rose, and 598 00:41:05,115 --> 00:41:06,875 Speaker 1: how he is still working, he does the New York 599 00:41:06,875 --> 00:41:09,875 Speaker 1: Mets games on the radio. And how he said, wait, 600 00:41:09,915 --> 00:41:13,515 Speaker 1: they interviewed me for that job last year. Just an 601 00:41:13,515 --> 00:41:16,315 Speaker 1: excuse for that damn Whitfield to go drink his lunch 602 00:41:16,315 --> 00:41:21,435 Speaker 1: on ABC's tab. Anyway, before we started the interview for 603 00:41:21,475 --> 00:41:24,235 Speaker 1: the job I did not know did not exist at ABC. 604 00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:26,835 Speaker 1: I told Shelby Whitfield the White Face Mountain? Can I 605 00:41:26,875 --> 00:41:31,115 Speaker 1: borrow a cassette Jack Briggs story? And Shelby's exact reply was, 606 00:41:31,755 --> 00:41:33,835 Speaker 1: I don't know. Was I going to find out? There 607 00:41:33,875 --> 00:41:35,155 Speaker 1: was you and there was him, and you were on 608 00:41:35,155 --> 00:41:37,395 Speaker 1: top of a goddamn mountain and I was in Washington. 609 00:41:38,275 --> 00:41:42,755 Speaker 1: Only he didn't say goddamn that Briggs. He added, always 610 00:41:42,795 --> 00:41:44,755 Speaker 1: trying to suck up to me, I got to tell 611 00:41:44,795 --> 00:41:46,995 Speaker 1: you something I actually once promised I wouldn't tell you 612 00:41:46,995 --> 00:41:49,195 Speaker 1: if we ever met. This. When the Olympics were over 613 00:41:49,235 --> 00:41:52,235 Speaker 1: and came back to the office, he told me what happened. 614 00:41:52,235 --> 00:41:53,755 Speaker 1: He expected me to be happy or give him a 615 00:41:53,795 --> 00:41:56,035 Speaker 1: bonus or something, and I called him a little snitch. 616 00:41:57,035 --> 00:42:00,315 Speaker 1: Only Shelby didn't say snitch, just a word that rhymed 617 00:42:00,315 --> 00:42:04,235 Speaker 1: with it. The other punch line is from nineteen ninety two, 618 00:42:04,795 --> 00:42:08,795 Speaker 1: and remember this happened at the nineteen eighty Olympics. I 619 00:42:08,875 --> 00:42:11,115 Speaker 1: go to work at ESPN and come in a little 620 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:13,715 Speaker 1: early to launch their radio network, a story I've told 621 00:42:13,715 --> 00:42:16,875 Speaker 1: here before, and there I find a friend of mine 622 00:42:16,875 --> 00:42:18,915 Speaker 1: since my radio days, who I had not seen in 623 00:42:18,955 --> 00:42:21,275 Speaker 1: a year or so, and he says, Hey, last month, 624 00:42:21,315 --> 00:42:23,315 Speaker 1: I was at an NBA game in Washington. I ran 625 00:42:23,355 --> 00:42:25,915 Speaker 1: into Jack Briggs. He heard you were going to ESPN. 626 00:42:25,955 --> 00:42:27,515 Speaker 1: He asked me if you were still telling that story 627 00:42:27,515 --> 00:42:30,275 Speaker 1: about the time you got stuck on Whiteface Mountain without 628 00:42:30,275 --> 00:42:32,315 Speaker 1: a cassette, And he was the only other reporter there, 629 00:42:32,475 --> 00:42:34,115 Speaker 1: and he wouldn't give you a spare And I told 630 00:42:34,195 --> 00:42:37,355 Speaker 1: him you were, and I smiled, and I replied, I 631 00:42:37,435 --> 00:42:54,995 Speaker 1: hope you remembered to use the word forever. I've done 632 00:42:54,995 --> 00:42:57,155 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 633 00:42:57,275 --> 00:42:59,995 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil, the musical directors of 634 00:43:00,035 --> 00:43:03,795 Speaker 1: our little countdown podcast here, have arranged, produced, and performed 635 00:43:04,115 --> 00:43:07,075 Speaker 1: most of the music you've heard throughout. Mister Schaneil on 636 00:43:07,275 --> 00:43:11,795 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray on guitars, bass and drums, 637 00:43:11,995 --> 00:43:14,875 Speaker 1: and their work was produced by TKO Brothers, which is 638 00:43:14,955 --> 00:43:17,755 Speaker 1: the two of them and me. Our satirical and pithy 639 00:43:17,835 --> 00:43:21,115 Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 640 00:43:21,235 --> 00:43:24,475 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from 641 00:43:24,715 --> 00:43:28,555 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 642 00:43:29,075 --> 00:43:32,395 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 643 00:43:32,715 --> 00:43:35,915 Speaker 1: My announcer today is my friend John Dean. Everything else 644 00:43:36,035 --> 00:43:38,475 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. And yes, part of me 645 00:43:38,595 --> 00:43:42,355 Speaker 1: is still in line somewhere waiting for a van at 646 00:43:42,435 --> 00:43:46,315 Speaker 1: Lake Placid, New York in February nineteen eighty. Let's countdown 647 00:43:46,315 --> 00:43:49,195 Speaker 1: for this the ninety first day until the twenty twenty 648 00:43:49,195 --> 00:43:52,475 Speaker 1: four presidential election, and the one thy three hundred and 649 00:43:52,515 --> 00:43:56,715 Speaker 1: eighth day since convicted felon Donald J. Trump's first attempted 650 00:43:56,755 --> 00:44:00,155 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 651 00:44:00,555 --> 00:44:04,635 Speaker 1: Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing. Use the mental health system. 652 00:44:04,995 --> 00:44:08,635 Speaker 1: You've got it. President Biden used presidential immunity to stop 653 00:44:08,755 --> 00:44:14,955 Speaker 1: Trump from doing it again while we still can. And 654 00:44:15,075 --> 00:44:20,235 Speaker 1: also anti Semitic, anti immigration, lunatic Republicans, please stop shooting 655 00:44:20,235 --> 00:44:23,995 Speaker 1: at Trump. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. If you've 656 00:44:23,995 --> 00:44:26,995 Speaker 1: suffered along with me and my voice today, I'll just 657 00:44:27,115 --> 00:44:29,515 Speaker 1: mention here that I'm living in the middle of a 658 00:44:29,595 --> 00:44:34,475 Speaker 1: construction site and there is every impossible debris in the air, 659 00:44:34,555 --> 00:44:36,995 Speaker 1: and that's causing my voice a lot of harm. So 660 00:44:37,515 --> 00:44:41,915 Speaker 1: if there's none tomorrow, blame the construction site. I'll do 661 00:44:42,035 --> 00:44:46,275 Speaker 1: my best bulletins as the news requires until the next one. 662 00:44:46,435 --> 00:44:49,995 Speaker 1: Whenever it is. I'm Keith Olrumman. Good morning, good afternoon, 663 00:44:50,195 --> 00:45:08,875 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 664 00:45:08,915 --> 00:45:13,715 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. 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