1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,235 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Texas 2 00:00:23,595 --> 00:00:30,195 Speaker 1: is in play Activote polling concluding yesterday Trump fifty three 3 00:00:30,235 --> 00:00:35,195 Speaker 1: point three, Harris forty six point seven, so Trump is 4 00:00:35,235 --> 00:00:39,275 Speaker 1: only had by six and six tenths in Texas and 5 00:00:39,355 --> 00:00:42,755 Speaker 1: the margin of error is five points. Their last poll 6 00:00:42,835 --> 00:00:45,915 Speaker 1: was on July nineteenth. It was Trump by nine points, 7 00:00:46,155 --> 00:00:48,995 Speaker 1: so she cut the lead by nearly one third in 8 00:00:49,075 --> 00:00:53,355 Speaker 1: three weeks. She is ostensibly within the margin of error. 9 00:00:54,555 --> 00:01:00,355 Speaker 1: Texas is in play. Texas, oh And Florida is in 10 00:01:00,395 --> 00:01:04,115 Speaker 1: play even more in play. Polling led by USA Today 11 00:01:04,155 --> 00:01:08,355 Speaker 1: Trump for Harris forty two, so Trump is ahead by 12 00:01:08,435 --> 00:01:12,195 Speaker 1: five in Florida. Margin of error is four and a 13 00:01:12,235 --> 00:01:15,835 Speaker 1: half points, so Kamala Harris is within the margin of 14 00:01:15,955 --> 00:01:19,395 Speaker 1: error in Florida. All previous polls, from one by the 15 00:01:19,515 --> 00:01:23,475 Speaker 1: University of North Florida Research Lab to one by a 16 00:01:23,555 --> 00:01:27,555 Speaker 1: Trump polster McLaughlin, had Trump by eight as recently as 17 00:01:27,635 --> 00:01:35,395 Speaker 1: last Thursday. Quote. I was surprised, unquote, said David Paleo Lojos, 18 00:01:35,955 --> 00:01:39,635 Speaker 1: director of Suffolk University Research, which did the poll the 19 00:01:39,715 --> 00:01:44,075 Speaker 1: five point poll, that Harris is within striking distance, being 20 00:01:44,115 --> 00:01:50,875 Speaker 1: only five points down Florida is in play. Florida, Florida, 21 00:01:50,915 --> 00:01:57,035 Speaker 1: and Texas are in play. I have an urgent request 22 00:01:57,155 --> 00:02:01,435 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's campaign for president. Please continue to do 23 00:02:02,275 --> 00:02:09,395 Speaker 1: everything exactly the way you are doing it now. Thank you. 24 00:02:09,395 --> 00:02:20,995 Speaker 1: You are Kamala Harris's primary asset. You are her rock. Now. 25 00:02:21,035 --> 00:02:24,235 Speaker 1: Look is she going to win Florida or Texas or both? 26 00:02:24,555 --> 00:02:28,715 Speaker 1: I don't think so. Registered Republicans outnumber registered Democrats in 27 00:02:28,755 --> 00:02:32,795 Speaker 1: Florida by a million. Trump won Texas in twenty sixteen 28 00:02:32,835 --> 00:02:35,875 Speaker 1: by nine points, by five and a half in twenty twenty. 29 00:02:36,035 --> 00:02:40,475 Speaker 1: But the fact of Kamala Harris before the convention, before 30 00:02:40,515 --> 00:02:43,715 Speaker 1: the campaign has really even begun. The fact that she, 31 00:02:44,355 --> 00:02:46,955 Speaker 1: by just being there has cut Trump's lead by nearly 32 00:02:46,955 --> 00:02:50,035 Speaker 1: a third in Texas and nearly forty percent in Florida, 33 00:02:50,275 --> 00:02:54,635 Speaker 1: tells you just how bad things were there and elsewhere, 34 00:02:54,715 --> 00:02:57,915 Speaker 1: and just how much better things are now and how 35 00:02:57,955 --> 00:03:01,155 Speaker 1: much better they've already gotten in Florida and Texas and 36 00:03:01,235 --> 00:03:08,435 Speaker 1: Michigan and Pennsylvania and America. I have previously discussed and 37 00:03:08,595 --> 00:03:14,355 Speaker 1: expressed my distrust of Poles, my horror at the ease 38 00:03:14,555 --> 00:03:17,515 Speaker 1: of their manipulation of my own experience with people at 39 00:03:17,635 --> 00:03:22,355 Speaker 1: MSNBC asking Frank Lunz for a focus group and for 40 00:03:22,475 --> 00:03:27,355 Speaker 1: the outcome of that focus group about me before they 41 00:03:27,355 --> 00:03:31,435 Speaker 1: did the focus group. I've expressed this occasionally, once or 42 00:03:31,475 --> 00:03:37,675 Speaker 1: twice a week, but poles are compass needles. They don't 43 00:03:37,755 --> 00:03:39,875 Speaker 1: tell you how far you have to go, and they 44 00:03:39,875 --> 00:03:41,915 Speaker 1: don't give you directions on how to get there. But 45 00:03:42,035 --> 00:03:45,915 Speaker 1: generally speaking, they do get the big picture right. They 46 00:03:45,955 --> 00:03:51,875 Speaker 1: do get north versus south correctly, and right now they 47 00:03:51,915 --> 00:03:56,835 Speaker 1: are all saying the same thing. It is Trump who 48 00:03:56,915 --> 00:04:02,355 Speaker 1: is going south. We even have the first polling on 49 00:04:02,475 --> 00:04:06,155 Speaker 1: Tim Walls. Morning Console pulled on him right after she 50 00:04:06,275 --> 00:04:09,555 Speaker 1: chose him August two and three, and again over this 51 00:04:09,675 --> 00:04:13,355 Speaker 1: past weekend. So the original poll showed that fifty seven 52 00:04:13,395 --> 00:04:17,475 Speaker 1: percent of all voters had never heard of him. Never 53 00:04:17,555 --> 00:04:21,555 Speaker 1: heard of him fifty seven percent, It is now fifteen percent. 54 00:04:22,315 --> 00:04:25,995 Speaker 1: That would be a good rollout. Walls had a favorable 55 00:04:26,035 --> 00:04:28,675 Speaker 1: score of eighteen in the first poll, it is now 56 00:04:28,835 --> 00:04:32,475 Speaker 1: thirty eight. His unfavorables went from eleven to thirty three. 57 00:04:33,115 --> 00:04:35,675 Speaker 1: Cutting to the chase. He is above water by five 58 00:04:35,715 --> 00:04:39,275 Speaker 1: points as of Sunday. As Morning Consult notes, the vice 59 00:04:39,315 --> 00:04:42,915 Speaker 1: presidential pick rarely gets any traction is rarely a boon 60 00:04:43,155 --> 00:04:46,195 Speaker 1: or a bust. And this guy is in positive territory, 61 00:04:46,275 --> 00:04:49,315 Speaker 1: and that's after the Republicans began to try to swift 62 00:04:49,395 --> 00:04:53,075 Speaker 1: vote him. They note that Walls is at plus five 63 00:04:53,155 --> 00:04:55,475 Speaker 1: and at the same point in his rollout, Vance was 64 00:04:55,515 --> 00:04:57,795 Speaker 1: at minus one. And I'm going to go way out 65 00:04:57,795 --> 00:05:00,475 Speaker 1: on a limb here and say that JV has not 66 00:05:00,555 --> 00:05:05,915 Speaker 1: exactly rebounded from minus one. A couple of other results 67 00:05:06,235 --> 00:05:10,555 Speaker 1: Big Village pollsters. This is a national poll, Harris by three. 68 00:05:11,395 --> 00:05:17,275 Speaker 1: It's previous poll, Trump by two. Nate Silver's average keeps 69 00:05:17,275 --> 00:05:20,995 Speaker 1: growing a couple of parts of a point each day. 70 00:05:21,355 --> 00:05:26,635 Speaker 1: Now Harris by three and one tenth nationally. Bullfinch asked 71 00:05:26,915 --> 00:05:32,595 Speaker 1: swing state voters which candidate would you feel comfortable babysitting 72 00:05:32,635 --> 00:05:37,155 Speaker 1: your kids? Total shock here on the answer Harris forty 73 00:05:37,195 --> 00:05:41,235 Speaker 1: five percent, Trump twenty percent, and I'm presuming the remaining percent, 74 00:05:41,795 --> 00:05:46,355 Speaker 1: the thirty five percent left over, those are JV Vance's 75 00:05:46,595 --> 00:06:16,795 Speaker 1: childless cat ladies. Right now to the election interference by Politico, 76 00:06:17,035 --> 00:06:20,035 Speaker 1: by the New York Times, by the Washington Post, in 77 00:06:20,075 --> 00:06:23,315 Speaker 1: which we are talked down to by a news organization 78 00:06:23,395 --> 00:06:27,155 Speaker 1: of one hundred and forty seven years experience, which has 79 00:06:27,235 --> 00:06:30,275 Speaker 1: done us the service of explaining why the Washington Post 80 00:06:30,555 --> 00:06:35,275 Speaker 1: cannot publish nor even identify internal documents and computer traffic 81 00:06:35,835 --> 00:06:40,355 Speaker 1: stolen from a presidential campaign. I mean, why the Washington 82 00:06:40,395 --> 00:06:45,595 Speaker 1: Post cannot publish any of that this time, especially a 83 00:06:45,675 --> 00:06:50,595 Speaker 1: lengthy JV vance vetting document prepared by or for the 84 00:06:50,635 --> 00:06:54,115 Speaker 1: Trump campaign. Which news organization has explained this to us 85 00:06:54,155 --> 00:06:58,795 Speaker 1: about the Washington Post. Why it's the Washington Post quote 86 00:06:59,395 --> 00:07:03,035 Speaker 1: this episode probably reflects that news organizations aren't going to 87 00:07:03,155 --> 00:07:06,595 Speaker 1: snap at any hack that comes in and is marked 88 00:07:06,635 --> 00:07:11,315 Speaker 1: as exclusive or inside dope and publish it for the 89 00:07:11,355 --> 00:07:16,795 Speaker 1: sake of publishing, said Matt Murray, Executive editor of the Post. Instead, quote, 90 00:07:16,995 --> 00:07:19,355 Speaker 1: all of the news organizations in this case took a 91 00:07:19,435 --> 00:07:23,155 Speaker 1: deep breath and paused and thought about who was likely 92 00:07:23,235 --> 00:07:25,995 Speaker 1: to be leaking the documents, what the motives of the 93 00:07:26,035 --> 00:07:29,635 Speaker 1: hacker might have been, and whether this was truly newsworthy 94 00:07:29,755 --> 00:07:34,435 Speaker 1: or not. Well, that's the part of the executive editor's 95 00:07:34,435 --> 00:07:38,595 Speaker 1: statement intended for the journalism schools as classes begin anew 96 00:07:38,595 --> 00:07:41,235 Speaker 1: in the coming weeks. Here's the real part of what 97 00:07:41,395 --> 00:07:44,555 Speaker 1: mister Murray had to say. The decision for newsrooms to 98 00:07:44,595 --> 00:07:49,155 Speaker 1: not publish the Dvance Materials, a compilation of publicly available 99 00:07:49,195 --> 00:07:53,155 Speaker 1: records and statements, including Dvance's past criticisms of Trump, appeared 100 00:07:53,195 --> 00:07:56,835 Speaker 1: to be more straightforward because they also didn't reach a 101 00:07:57,035 --> 00:08:02,235 Speaker 1: high level of public interest. Quoting this guy Murray, the 102 00:08:02,235 --> 00:08:07,355 Speaker 1: one who still uses phrases like inside dope, quoting mister Murray. 103 00:08:07,675 --> 00:08:12,155 Speaker 1: In the end, it didn't seem fresh or new enough. 104 00:08:14,555 --> 00:08:20,475 Speaker 1: So if it were new jd Vance stuff, then they'd 105 00:08:20,715 --> 00:08:25,235 Speaker 1: swallow hard and just push those morals and ethics to 106 00:08:25,275 --> 00:08:28,315 Speaker 1: the side a little bit and run it and not 107 00:08:28,555 --> 00:08:32,155 Speaker 1: say all that stuff about taking a deep breath and 108 00:08:32,275 --> 00:08:35,715 Speaker 1: pausing and thinking about who the leaker might be or 109 00:08:35,875 --> 00:08:39,675 Speaker 1: what their motives might be. Gotcha? End number one justifies 110 00:08:39,755 --> 00:08:46,435 Speaker 1: the means, and end number two does not justify the means. Frauds. 111 00:08:47,435 --> 00:08:51,915 Speaker 1: From the same Washington Post piece, quoting Kelly McBride, NPR's 112 00:08:51,995 --> 00:08:55,075 Speaker 1: public editor and chair of the Craig Newmark Center for 113 00:08:55,115 --> 00:08:58,915 Speaker 1: Ethics and Leadership at the Pointer Institute, and before twenty sixteen, 114 00:08:59,235 --> 00:09:02,475 Speaker 1: the general thinking was that even with hacked materials quote 115 00:09:02,955 --> 00:09:05,315 Speaker 1: if there's something interesting in there, and of course you're 116 00:09:05,355 --> 00:09:09,915 Speaker 1: going to report it unquote, but with foreign state actors 117 00:09:09,995 --> 00:09:14,955 Speaker 1: increasingly getting involved. It just feels diceier for news organizations 118 00:09:14,995 --> 00:09:17,195 Speaker 1: to make the decision, because you don't want to be 119 00:09:17,235 --> 00:09:22,395 Speaker 1: helping another country undermine our democracy. McBride said. The motivations 120 00:09:22,435 --> 00:09:24,795 Speaker 1: don't have to be pure, but it can't be to 121 00:09:25,035 --> 00:09:28,955 Speaker 1: undermine the stability of the entire country. She added that 122 00:09:29,155 --> 00:09:35,435 Speaker 1: just seems like a bridge too far. Of course, that 123 00:09:35,595 --> 00:09:38,315 Speaker 1: wasn't a bridge too far in twenty sixteen, was it? 124 00:09:38,435 --> 00:09:43,675 Speaker 1: Ms McBride. While there was no initial clear link between 125 00:09:44,275 --> 00:09:49,075 Speaker 1: say Russia and Wiki leaks and Roger Stone and his wig, 126 00:09:50,075 --> 00:09:55,035 Speaker 1: it became apparent pretty damned fast that there was a 127 00:09:55,115 --> 00:10:00,115 Speaker 1: link between at least two of those folks, especially after 128 00:10:00,155 --> 00:10:04,515 Speaker 1: that subtle hint from Trump. Remember when he said, quote, Russia, 129 00:10:04,715 --> 00:10:06,635 Speaker 1: if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 130 00:10:06,675 --> 00:10:09,355 Speaker 1: thirty thousand emails that are missing. I think you will 131 00:10:09,355 --> 00:10:13,195 Speaker 1: probably be rewarded mightily by our press, which he said, incidentally, 132 00:10:13,395 --> 00:10:17,755 Speaker 1: and answer to a question by Katie Turr god and 133 00:10:17,835 --> 00:10:21,635 Speaker 1: the same day that he said that Russian intelligence began 134 00:10:21,675 --> 00:10:27,915 Speaker 1: to target Hillary Clinton's emails. It's almost as if they 135 00:10:27,955 --> 00:10:33,475 Speaker 1: were listening. The Washington Post, of course, is threading not 136 00:10:33,555 --> 00:10:35,955 Speaker 1: one but two needles. Here, it is insisting it does 137 00:10:35,955 --> 00:10:38,835 Speaker 1: not have to publish the results of the anti Trump hacking, 138 00:10:39,315 --> 00:10:43,235 Speaker 1: while insisting it was justified in publishing the results of 139 00:10:43,355 --> 00:10:48,075 Speaker 1: the pro Trump hacking, while also insisting it's older and 140 00:10:48,315 --> 00:10:54,555 Speaker 1: wiser and more careful now bullshit. Brian Boutler flagged this 141 00:10:54,715 --> 00:10:58,635 Speaker 1: clip from the old Showtime political program The Circus, and 142 00:10:58,755 --> 00:11:01,635 Speaker 1: since Showtime posted the clip on YouTube, I'm sure it 143 00:11:01,635 --> 00:11:04,235 Speaker 1: won't mind the plug. I think the show is an 144 00:11:04,235 --> 00:11:07,195 Speaker 1: on ayme, but so what. It's a plug for Showtime 145 00:11:07,715 --> 00:11:11,675 Speaker 1: now available on your cable package. It's Mark McKinnon talking 146 00:11:11,715 --> 00:11:16,715 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen with Washington Post reporters Roz Helderman and 147 00:11:16,835 --> 00:11:20,635 Speaker 1: Mateia Gold. Matea Gold I dealt with several times when 148 00:11:20,675 --> 00:11:23,595 Speaker 1: she was in LA is now one of the posts 149 00:11:23,715 --> 00:11:26,475 Speaker 1: managing editors, and it's her voice you will hear first 150 00:11:26,515 --> 00:11:29,155 Speaker 1: on this, and you should look for this clip on 151 00:11:29,195 --> 00:11:34,795 Speaker 1: YouTube because you should see Matia Gold's face light up 152 00:11:35,395 --> 00:11:38,715 Speaker 1: when the other reporter, Roz Helderman, the one with the glasses, 153 00:11:38,995 --> 00:11:43,755 Speaker 1: says she's just found something juicy inside the stolen materials 154 00:11:44,075 --> 00:11:48,195 Speaker 1: the Post is going to publish as opposed to these 155 00:11:48,355 --> 00:11:50,595 Speaker 1: stolen materials, which they're not going to publish. 156 00:11:51,115 --> 00:11:53,795 Speaker 2: Obviously, Wikiwiks seems to have some sort of agenda in 157 00:11:53,835 --> 00:11:56,315 Speaker 2: putting this material out. But at the same time, I 158 00:11:56,315 --> 00:11:58,755 Speaker 2: don't think anything that's been released so far has been 159 00:11:59,275 --> 00:12:02,475 Speaker 2: this big October surprise. It's going to change the trajectory 160 00:12:02,515 --> 00:12:05,315 Speaker 2: of the race, Hey, Roz about anything? 161 00:12:07,195 --> 00:12:12,475 Speaker 3: A couple little things. Podesta says that they've taken on 162 00:12:12,515 --> 00:12:15,235 Speaker 3: a lot of water, and he says most of that 163 00:12:15,315 --> 00:12:18,835 Speaker 3: has to do with terrible decisions made pre campaign, but 164 00:12:18,955 --> 00:12:21,555 Speaker 3: a lot has to do with her instincts. Who and 165 00:12:21,595 --> 00:12:24,115 Speaker 3: then neuro writes back, almost no one knows better than 166 00:12:24,155 --> 00:12:25,995 Speaker 3: me that her instincts can be terrible. 167 00:12:26,395 --> 00:12:27,915 Speaker 4: Wow. 168 00:12:29,235 --> 00:12:31,635 Speaker 2: Did that create any issues for you guys as reporters 169 00:12:31,675 --> 00:12:33,435 Speaker 2: that it seemed strategically leaked? 170 00:12:34,635 --> 00:12:35,035 Speaker 1: Yeah. 171 00:12:35,275 --> 00:12:37,795 Speaker 3: I think every indication is that both of these hacks 172 00:12:37,835 --> 00:12:42,915 Speaker 3: are stolen material. On the other hand, they're undeniably newsworthy. 173 00:12:43,595 --> 00:12:45,875 Speaker 2: This information is now out there and it's getting consumed 174 00:12:45,875 --> 00:12:48,235 Speaker 2: by the public, So I actually feel like we have 175 00:12:48,275 --> 00:12:50,755 Speaker 2: a responsibility to use it to sort of illuminate the 176 00:12:50,755 --> 00:12:54,035 Speaker 2: stories that we're already been working on and pursuing. I 177 00:12:54,035 --> 00:12:56,715 Speaker 2: think we have to assume that these kind of hacks 178 00:12:56,995 --> 00:13:00,315 Speaker 2: will likely happen again, and that this kind of material. 179 00:12:59,955 --> 00:13:02,155 Speaker 1: Will re allergy culture going forward. 180 00:13:02,475 --> 00:13:05,875 Speaker 2: That's sort of the psychological warfare aspect of the campaign, argues, 181 00:13:05,915 --> 00:13:07,995 Speaker 2: which is true. I mean, if there's no doubt it 182 00:13:08,035 --> 00:13:10,795 Speaker 2: has rattled them, it's everyone going to have to be 183 00:13:10,835 --> 00:13:12,915 Speaker 2: on guard for this kind of hack in the future. 184 00:13:13,555 --> 00:13:17,635 Speaker 1: So they knew in twenty sixteen this would happen again, 185 00:13:17,715 --> 00:13:20,275 Speaker 1: and they knew they were setting the precedent, and they 186 00:13:20,355 --> 00:13:22,835 Speaker 1: knew they wouldn't do better next time. And now they're 187 00:13:22,875 --> 00:13:26,595 Speaker 1: pretending that it hasn't happened again, and they're pretending no 188 00:13:26,795 --> 00:13:30,115 Speaker 1: precedent was set, and they're confirming they aren't doing better 189 00:13:30,155 --> 00:13:34,995 Speaker 1: next time, and they haven't learned a damn thing. The 190 00:13:35,115 --> 00:13:38,755 Speaker 1: Washington Post Executive editor Matt Murray again in an interview 191 00:13:38,755 --> 00:13:41,555 Speaker 1: with his own reporters about why his own newsroom is 192 00:13:41,555 --> 00:13:45,915 Speaker 1: failing all its own ethical obligations to its own nation quote. 193 00:13:46,395 --> 00:13:51,475 Speaker 1: Murray said, the Post has no blanket, no hacked materials policy. 194 00:13:51,755 --> 00:13:54,195 Speaker 1: You have to evaluate the material as it comes in. 195 00:13:54,675 --> 00:13:58,195 Speaker 1: I certainly don't want to encourage hacked material, but it's 196 00:13:58,235 --> 00:14:03,075 Speaker 1: going to happen in this world that we're in. So 197 00:14:03,115 --> 00:14:09,435 Speaker 1: they they've learned something the hell they have. They published 198 00:14:09,475 --> 00:14:15,315 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen because the material was hot. They're not 199 00:14:15,555 --> 00:14:21,075 Speaker 1: publishing in twenty twenty four because the material isn't hot. 200 00:14:21,555 --> 00:14:24,595 Speaker 1: And when the next hot material comes in, they've made 201 00:14:24,595 --> 00:14:27,835 Speaker 1: sure they can all sell out their ethics yet again 202 00:14:28,315 --> 00:14:32,595 Speaker 1: in yet a different direction. One thing you may have 203 00:14:32,795 --> 00:14:37,515 Speaker 1: noticed in none of mister Murray's remarks, nor any of 204 00:14:37,555 --> 00:14:40,795 Speaker 1: the similar ones from similar editors at the Times or 205 00:14:40,795 --> 00:14:44,555 Speaker 1: Politico explaining their cowardice. In none of them do any 206 00:14:44,595 --> 00:14:47,595 Speaker 1: of them take the weaker but still far more commendable 207 00:14:47,675 --> 00:14:52,075 Speaker 1: route of at least admitting they screwed up in twenty 208 00:14:52,155 --> 00:14:56,355 Speaker 1: sixteen when they decided to publish. I mean, it would 209 00:14:56,395 --> 00:15:01,155 Speaker 1: be nice to see the word wrong come out of 210 00:15:01,235 --> 00:15:04,275 Speaker 1: somebody's mouth. But in twenty six years in the news 211 00:15:04,315 --> 00:15:07,395 Speaker 1: andical news businesses, I can tell you without fear contradiction, 212 00:15:07,875 --> 00:15:11,075 Speaker 1: that the most wide spread skill in the field is 213 00:15:11,075 --> 00:15:15,275 Speaker 1: the one that allows someone to make up gallant sounding 214 00:15:15,395 --> 00:15:22,195 Speaker 1: rationalizations for doing or not doing anything purely for the 215 00:15:22,395 --> 00:15:27,835 Speaker 1: public interest, never for your own interest, and always accepting 216 00:15:27,875 --> 00:15:33,715 Speaker 1: the responsibility, but never the blame. Because, as the political 217 00:15:33,755 --> 00:15:37,275 Speaker 1: impressionist David Fry once said, those who are to blame 218 00:15:37,435 --> 00:15:43,795 Speaker 1: lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not. You 219 00:15:43,835 --> 00:15:49,675 Speaker 1: would think there'd be some pain from twisting their spine 220 00:15:50,635 --> 00:15:56,355 Speaker 1: so much so often, but remember this is the Washington Post. 221 00:15:57,355 --> 00:16:10,635 Speaker 1: These guys don't have a spine. A couple of other notes. 222 00:16:10,675 --> 00:16:13,635 Speaker 1: You heard that Selene Dion is suing over Trump using 223 00:16:13,675 --> 00:16:16,315 Speaker 1: her song My Heart Will Go On from Titanic at 224 00:16:16,395 --> 00:16:21,395 Speaker 1: his rallies. I mean, come on, it's perfect, all right. 225 00:16:21,475 --> 00:16:24,035 Speaker 1: I can understand her not wanting to be associated with it, 226 00:16:24,235 --> 00:16:28,195 Speaker 1: but it is the perfect song. Everything but the glob Glob. 227 00:16:29,315 --> 00:16:31,715 Speaker 1: As another option, may I suggest the wreck of the 228 00:16:31,875 --> 00:16:36,875 Speaker 1: Edmund Fitzgerald. This is hilarious. This is from Stephen Chung, 229 00:16:37,235 --> 00:16:39,795 Speaker 1: a Trump spokesman who, to his credit, usually puts his 230 00:16:39,915 --> 00:16:43,355 Speaker 1: name on press statements from the Trump campaign, even though 231 00:16:43,395 --> 00:16:46,115 Speaker 1: Trump has been leaking anonymously on and off the record 232 00:16:46,275 --> 00:16:50,435 Speaker 1: since at least the nineteen eighties. The Harris campaign referred 233 00:16:50,475 --> 00:16:54,795 Speaker 1: to the Trump Musk Twitter whatever that was, and referred 234 00:16:54,795 --> 00:16:59,235 Speaker 1: to Trump's extremism and dangerous Project twenty twenty five agenda, 235 00:17:00,195 --> 00:17:02,955 Speaker 1: and the Harris campaign insulted Musk by saying Trump is 236 00:17:02,995 --> 00:17:06,035 Speaker 1: there in service of people like Keon Musk and himself 237 00:17:06,315 --> 00:17:09,195 Speaker 1: self obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class, 238 00:17:09,275 --> 00:17:12,995 Speaker 1: and who cannot run a live stream in the year 239 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:19,355 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Stephen Chunk's response, all these statements, yet 240 00:17:19,395 --> 00:17:25,315 Speaker 1: nobody ever puts their name on them. Effing Coward's Steve bigmad. 241 00:17:26,315 --> 00:17:29,795 Speaker 1: Steve's so big mad he didn't notice it. Right under 242 00:17:29,835 --> 00:17:35,595 Speaker 1: that statement it reads Harris Walls in capital letters. That 243 00:17:35,675 --> 00:17:39,235 Speaker 1: would be two somebodies who put both their names on it. 244 00:17:41,835 --> 00:17:45,395 Speaker 1: They were right, of course, though I did think there 245 00:17:45,595 --> 00:17:51,595 Speaker 1: was one undersold gem in that thing that Donnie and 246 00:17:51,955 --> 00:17:54,475 Speaker 1: Elanie did on Twitter. 247 00:17:54,955 --> 00:17:57,835 Speaker 5: The next time. What we'll do is if something happens 248 00:17:57,835 --> 00:18:00,875 Speaker 5: with his election, which would be a horror show, we'll 249 00:18:00,875 --> 00:18:03,155 Speaker 5: meet the next time in Venezuela because it'll be a 250 00:18:03,155 --> 00:18:06,155 Speaker 5: far safer place to meet in our country. Okay, so 251 00:18:06,195 --> 00:18:07,595 Speaker 5: we'll go, You and I will go, and we'll have 252 00:18:07,635 --> 00:18:10,875 Speaker 5: a meeting and dinner in Venezuela because that's what's happening. 253 00:18:11,035 --> 00:18:14,875 Speaker 1: So they're gonna move to Venezuela. Huh. Don't let the 254 00:18:14,915 --> 00:18:18,635 Speaker 1: wall door hit you in the ass on the way out, Donald. 255 00:18:19,315 --> 00:18:23,315 Speaker 1: But finally, maybe the fullest measure of how bad it's 256 00:18:23,355 --> 00:18:26,395 Speaker 1: gone for Trump and how fast it's gone bad is 257 00:18:26,555 --> 00:18:33,595 Speaker 1: criticism from one person, one voter out there, one lone voice. 258 00:18:33,955 --> 00:18:38,155 Speaker 1: Trump is getting hurt, says this one loan critic, because quote, 259 00:18:38,355 --> 00:18:41,835 Speaker 1: it's all about discipline. He's a very emotional guy, and 260 00:18:41,915 --> 00:18:43,915 Speaker 1: if he's having a bad day, that bad day is 261 00:18:43,915 --> 00:18:46,435 Speaker 1: gonna come out during a rally or an interview. But 262 00:18:46,635 --> 00:18:48,755 Speaker 1: he isn't like a guy who is internalizing what he 263 00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:52,515 Speaker 1: should do. He just flies and he doesn't really think 264 00:18:52,515 --> 00:18:56,555 Speaker 1: about the repercussions of what he says, and that's hurting him. 265 00:18:57,675 --> 00:19:04,435 Speaker 1: The speaker Bill O'Reilly, or what's left of him on Newsmax. 266 00:19:05,755 --> 00:19:13,235 Speaker 1: I was shocked. Bill O'Reilly's gaunt now scary looking. Basically, 267 00:19:13,515 --> 00:19:18,315 Speaker 1: he's down to just a skull and an ego. But 268 00:19:18,555 --> 00:19:23,275 Speaker 1: understand what Bill O'Reilly's criticism of Trump means. More than 269 00:19:23,315 --> 00:19:25,755 Speaker 1: a decade ago, when I still paid for front row 270 00:19:25,795 --> 00:19:28,995 Speaker 1: seats at Yankee Stadium, mostly so I could give away 271 00:19:28,995 --> 00:19:30,795 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty tickets a year to make a 272 00:19:30,835 --> 00:19:34,035 Speaker 1: wish and sit there and get in ESPN's camera shot 273 00:19:34,075 --> 00:19:37,795 Speaker 1: when they did the games. Half the games I actually 274 00:19:37,835 --> 00:19:41,715 Speaker 1: went to, there would be Trump seated a row or 275 00:19:41,755 --> 00:19:46,115 Speaker 1: two behind me with a guest neither of them ever 276 00:19:46,275 --> 00:19:48,995 Speaker 1: saying a word. Trump not even talking to this guy 277 00:19:49,035 --> 00:19:51,755 Speaker 1: who appeared to have been his only friend in the world, 278 00:19:51,795 --> 00:19:53,915 Speaker 1: the only person who ever showed up with him to 279 00:19:53,995 --> 00:20:00,675 Speaker 1: these games. You'd see them drinking milkshakes, occasionally chain drinking milkshakes. 280 00:20:01,795 --> 00:20:05,475 Speaker 1: Otherwise they just sat there silently staring at the ball game. 281 00:20:07,635 --> 00:20:13,835 Speaker 1: The other guy with Trump was Bill O'Reilly. If Bill 282 00:20:13,875 --> 00:20:22,515 Speaker 1: O'Reilly is slamming Trump, it's over. Texas is in play, 283 00:20:22,595 --> 00:20:25,155 Speaker 1: Florida is in play. Bill O'Reilly is in play. 284 00:20:27,275 --> 00:20:27,435 Speaker 2: Oh. 285 00:20:27,435 --> 00:20:29,875 Speaker 1: By the way, they're tickets. They're Yankee tickets. They were 286 00:20:29,915 --> 00:20:34,435 Speaker 1: gratis no charge, provided by the Yankees, because Bill O'Reilly 287 00:20:34,435 --> 00:20:38,195 Speaker 1: and Donald Trump were two of the three biggest freeloaders 288 00:20:38,555 --> 00:20:43,195 Speaker 1: I have ever seen at any ballpark anywhere. The third 289 00:20:46,195 --> 00:20:57,475 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani. Those we're all free tickets. Me I paid. 290 00:20:58,515 --> 00:21:00,435 Speaker 1: I mean, there was a tax deduction for the tickets 291 00:21:00,435 --> 00:21:02,155 Speaker 1: I gave away. I'm not going to deny that. But 292 00:21:02,195 --> 00:21:07,835 Speaker 1: I paid because you because you pay for things. Also 293 00:21:07,875 --> 00:21:12,035 Speaker 1: of interest here, speaking of New York sports, my past 294 00:21:12,635 --> 00:21:19,435 Speaker 1: is slipping away. Yesterday it happened again. The day before 295 00:21:19,475 --> 00:21:23,155 Speaker 1: had been New York's top all news radio station, the 296 00:21:23,155 --> 00:21:27,555 Speaker 1: great inspiration of my youth going off the air. And 297 00:21:27,675 --> 00:21:30,355 Speaker 1: yesterday it was my first boss, the first of a 298 00:21:30,435 --> 00:21:38,115 Speaker 1: long suffering parade of my long suffering bosses retiring, retiring 299 00:21:38,195 --> 00:21:40,635 Speaker 1: after about half a century of doing play by play 300 00:21:40,955 --> 00:21:44,715 Speaker 1: of the New York Rangers hockey team. I have known 301 00:21:44,795 --> 00:21:48,435 Speaker 1: my friend Sam Rosen so long that when I first 302 00:21:48,555 --> 00:21:53,675 Speaker 1: met him, I wrote about it in a paper for 303 00:21:53,875 --> 00:21:59,915 Speaker 1: one of my classes in school. Oh sorry, Sam. 304 00:22:00,155 --> 00:22:07,075 Speaker 4: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman, 305 00:22:07,515 --> 00:22:30,635 Speaker 4: my crazy friend still ahead of us on this edition 306 00:22:30,675 --> 00:22:34,315 Speaker 4: of Countdown. Monday, it was the New York all news 307 00:22:34,475 --> 00:22:39,235 Speaker 4: radio station WCBS going off the air, the station who's 308 00:22:39,275 --> 00:22:43,435 Speaker 4: news director in nineteen seventy nine gave me the self 309 00:22:43,475 --> 00:22:48,715 Speaker 4: confidence to actually pursue this as a life's work. Yesterday 310 00:22:49,355 --> 00:22:52,435 Speaker 4: it was the retirement, effective after the upcoming season of 311 00:22:52,475 --> 00:22:55,195 Speaker 4: Sam Rosen, the Hall of fame play by play man 312 00:22:55,195 --> 00:22:59,075 Speaker 4: of the New York Rangers. Sam was my first boss 313 00:23:00,235 --> 00:23:02,755 Speaker 4: in radio in nineteen seventy nine. In fact, I met 314 00:23:02,795 --> 00:23:06,915 Speaker 4: him sixteen days before I got that letter from the 315 00:23:06,915 --> 00:23:11,795 Speaker 4: news director at WCBS Radio. Sam was both my first 316 00:23:11,995 --> 00:23:18,275 Speaker 4: true job lead and my first boss. And now he's retiring. 317 00:23:18,995 --> 00:23:23,555 Speaker 4: As they say, time is undefeated. But there's more to 318 00:23:23,635 --> 00:23:27,715 Speaker 4: this because after I met him, but before he hired me, 319 00:23:28,315 --> 00:23:30,515 Speaker 4: And think about having a Hall of Fame career as 320 00:23:30,515 --> 00:23:35,155 Speaker 4: a broadcaster after you were responsible for managing this crazy 321 00:23:35,235 --> 00:23:38,195 Speaker 4: twenty and twenty one year old kid version of me. 322 00:23:39,955 --> 00:23:43,195 Speaker 4: After I met him, but before he hired me, I 323 00:23:43,235 --> 00:23:45,395 Speaker 4: had to go back to my senior year at Cornell 324 00:23:45,475 --> 00:23:48,715 Speaker 4: and write a creative writing essay about a memorable person 325 00:23:48,795 --> 00:23:52,595 Speaker 4: I had met under unusual circumstances. So I wrote it 326 00:23:52,635 --> 00:23:57,835 Speaker 4: about Sam Rosen, And of course I still have the 327 00:23:57,875 --> 00:24:01,955 Speaker 4: original copy, which I will read to you next in 328 00:24:02,075 --> 00:24:06,475 Speaker 4: Things I promised not to tell first, there's still more 329 00:24:06,515 --> 00:24:09,155 Speaker 4: new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miscreants, 330 00:24:09,235 --> 00:24:13,035 Speaker 4: morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute two days 331 00:24:13,755 --> 00:24:22,955 Speaker 4: worst persons in the World, Lebron's worse Chris Slizza, two 332 00:24:23,115 --> 00:24:28,275 Speaker 4: z's and an endless amount of ls you remember him 333 00:24:28,315 --> 00:24:31,395 Speaker 4: from such worst person in the world appearances as it's 334 00:24:31,635 --> 00:24:36,075 Speaker 4: Shapiro people, And how dare you claim Trump as dementia? 335 00:24:36,075 --> 00:24:39,115 Speaker 4: You're not doctors? Even though I wrote fifty pieces just 336 00:24:39,155 --> 00:24:43,995 Speaker 4: in twenty fifteen diagnosing Hillary Clinton is untrustworthy and telling 337 00:24:44,035 --> 00:24:47,635 Speaker 4: the former history teacher Jim Clyburn that rule one is, 338 00:24:47,715 --> 00:24:52,835 Speaker 4: don't compare anything to Nazi Germany. Well, Chris, with a 339 00:24:52,875 --> 00:24:55,675 Speaker 4: lot of zas and an endless amount of ls is back. 340 00:24:56,275 --> 00:24:59,715 Speaker 4: It's been twenty three days since Joe Biden ended his candidacy. 341 00:24:59,915 --> 00:25:03,075 Speaker 4: It's been seven days since Kamala Harris was formerly named 342 00:25:03,115 --> 00:25:06,395 Speaker 4: the Democratic presidential nominee. She has yet to sit for 343 00:25:06,475 --> 00:25:09,915 Speaker 4: an interview with any media outlet, and she has answered 344 00:25:09,995 --> 00:25:12,475 Speaker 4: less than five total questions from the press. 345 00:25:14,195 --> 00:25:18,155 Speaker 1: Chris. Those five questions were when she came over to 346 00:25:18,235 --> 00:25:22,795 Speaker 1: the traveling pool and said, okay, what you got and 347 00:25:22,875 --> 00:25:27,555 Speaker 1: they asked her her policies. No, they asked her about 348 00:25:27,595 --> 00:25:29,435 Speaker 1: Trump and what Trump had said, and what did she 349 00:25:29,475 --> 00:25:31,475 Speaker 1: think of Trump? And Trump did this, and Trump did that? 350 00:25:32,475 --> 00:25:35,515 Speaker 1: Who wasted the opportunity with the Vice president of the 351 00:25:35,595 --> 00:25:38,915 Speaker 1: United States to address I don't know the border the 352 00:25:38,955 --> 00:25:44,155 Speaker 1: Middle East? Tim Walls, Whether or not she was black 353 00:25:44,275 --> 00:25:48,915 Speaker 1: or Indian or Blindian or anything like that. No, No, 354 00:25:49,075 --> 00:25:52,155 Speaker 1: they asked her about Trump. Might as well have asked 355 00:25:52,155 --> 00:25:54,435 Speaker 1: her about her football picks for the first weekend of 356 00:25:54,475 --> 00:25:59,675 Speaker 1: the NFL season. So You're blaming her because our American 357 00:25:59,795 --> 00:26:04,115 Speaker 1: news media, particularly the White House and the Vice Presidential 358 00:26:04,115 --> 00:26:07,875 Speaker 1: Press Corps, is largely made up of people who only 359 00:26:07,995 --> 00:26:13,555 Speaker 1: remember the last three hours of their lives. I mean, 360 00:26:13,595 --> 00:26:15,035 Speaker 1: what do you want from her? You want her to 361 00:26:15,075 --> 00:26:18,475 Speaker 1: have a news conference like the one Trump had last week, 362 00:26:18,515 --> 00:26:21,195 Speaker 1: where it turned out his news conference was about him 363 00:26:21,235 --> 00:26:24,715 Speaker 1: pretending to have a news conference instead of just saying, 364 00:26:24,755 --> 00:26:27,235 Speaker 1: I'm going to come here and give a series of 365 00:26:27,315 --> 00:26:31,555 Speaker 1: small speeches that have nothing to do with the questions 366 00:26:31,595 --> 00:26:36,395 Speaker 1: you just asked me. She is, as Solica accurately notes, 367 00:26:36,555 --> 00:26:39,475 Speaker 1: I just said it, Solica and accurate. In the same sentence, 368 00:26:39,675 --> 00:26:42,875 Speaker 1: Solica notes she was on day twenty three of her 369 00:26:42,955 --> 00:26:48,475 Speaker 1: campaign official or unofficial day twenty three of her campaign, 370 00:26:48,755 --> 00:26:52,875 Speaker 1: and he's upset that he has not gotten an exclusive 371 00:26:52,915 --> 00:26:54,995 Speaker 1: with her. You're going to try to push her off 372 00:26:55,075 --> 00:26:57,835 Speaker 1: the ticket too, because she hasn't done enough interviews with 373 00:26:57,875 --> 00:27:00,955 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, CNN and anybody else. That fired you, 374 00:27:02,075 --> 00:27:07,875 Speaker 1: Jesus never stops. Absolutely no self awareness whatsoever. You would 375 00:27:07,915 --> 00:27:11,435 Speaker 1: think getting fired might have been the first clue that, oh, well, 376 00:27:11,635 --> 00:27:14,595 Speaker 1: maybe I'm not doing this correctly. I mean, I have 377 00:27:14,795 --> 00:27:18,435 Speaker 1: quit jobs and wondered today, let me quit. Maybe I'm 378 00:27:18,435 --> 00:27:20,195 Speaker 1: not as good at this as I thought I was. 379 00:27:21,275 --> 00:27:23,875 Speaker 1: Never such a doubt has hit. Chris Silizza has it. 380 00:27:24,915 --> 00:27:27,595 Speaker 1: The runners up worser speaking of not having a doubt. 381 00:27:27,915 --> 00:27:31,675 Speaker 1: The Trump War Room, which is considered an official part 382 00:27:31,875 --> 00:27:36,075 Speaker 1: of the social media campaign of what's his name Psycho Trump. 383 00:27:36,675 --> 00:27:40,915 Speaker 1: They put out a tweet tweet x a muscow or 384 00:27:40,955 --> 00:27:44,555 Speaker 1: whatever you're gonna call them at eleven twenty one am 385 00:27:44,635 --> 00:27:48,235 Speaker 1: Eastern daylight time yesterday. There is a picture on the 386 00:27:48,275 --> 00:27:53,795 Speaker 1: left of some two story homes. I mean, they look okay. 387 00:27:53,875 --> 00:27:56,555 Speaker 1: They have porches that are not sagging, so they don't 388 00:27:56,595 --> 00:27:59,555 Speaker 1: look like the more disreputable parts of upstate New York. 389 00:27:59,995 --> 00:28:02,035 Speaker 1: They don't look like a place that you would live 390 00:28:02,075 --> 00:28:05,755 Speaker 1: your entire life in going where all the people who 391 00:28:05,795 --> 00:28:08,275 Speaker 1: live in the United States actually go on a day 392 00:28:08,395 --> 00:28:11,275 Speaker 1: like this, I haven't seen anybody new since the year 393 00:28:11,355 --> 00:28:14,195 Speaker 1: two thousand and three. They have that, and it's nice 394 00:28:14,235 --> 00:28:17,195 Speaker 1: and clean, and the bushes out front or all right, 395 00:28:17,235 --> 00:28:19,275 Speaker 1: and there don't seem to be any cracks in the 396 00:28:19,315 --> 00:28:22,715 Speaker 1: pavement or in the six steps up to the giant 397 00:28:22,755 --> 00:28:26,435 Speaker 1: American flag that's taller than any of the inbred people 398 00:28:26,475 --> 00:28:29,915 Speaker 1: inside this house that is clearly in a white neighborhood. 399 00:28:29,955 --> 00:28:32,275 Speaker 1: And I might add there are no people shown in 400 00:28:32,315 --> 00:28:36,195 Speaker 1: this photograph, and it says your neighborhood under Trump, and 401 00:28:36,235 --> 00:28:39,675 Speaker 1: there's a picture of houses and a flag and no people. 402 00:28:40,635 --> 00:28:44,875 Speaker 1: Next to it is your neighborhood under Kamala And in 403 00:28:44,955 --> 00:28:47,875 Speaker 1: it is a bunch of folks who appear to be 404 00:28:48,075 --> 00:28:53,395 Speaker 1: rushing for aid after a crisis of some sort, possibly 405 00:28:53,395 --> 00:28:58,795 Speaker 1: a hurricane, in perhaps an inner city setting. Most of them, 406 00:28:58,835 --> 00:29:01,155 Speaker 1: if not all of them, appear to be African American, 407 00:29:01,595 --> 00:29:05,835 Speaker 1: or are perhaps people of color show in some other nation. 408 00:29:05,995 --> 00:29:08,475 Speaker 1: It's hard to tell from the photograph. There's a guy 409 00:29:08,515 --> 00:29:11,515 Speaker 1: in front with a very bad haircut who is drinking 410 00:29:12,675 --> 00:29:15,795 Speaker 1: very very earnestly from a cup of water. This looks 411 00:29:15,875 --> 00:29:19,395 Speaker 1: like a water distribution scene after some sort of crisis, 412 00:29:20,115 --> 00:29:22,475 Speaker 1: and it's packed. Everybody is there and they're all in 413 00:29:22,515 --> 00:29:24,755 Speaker 1: a small space and people are worried. And in the 414 00:29:24,795 --> 00:29:27,235 Speaker 1: back of some guy wearing a mask. It might be 415 00:29:27,675 --> 00:29:31,675 Speaker 1: a crisis in Haiti. It's hard to tell, but the 416 00:29:31,715 --> 00:29:34,995 Speaker 1: text above this from the Trump War Room is import 417 00:29:35,035 --> 00:29:39,235 Speaker 1: the third World, become the third World. Your neighborhood under Trump, 418 00:29:39,475 --> 00:29:42,875 Speaker 1: your neighborhood under Kamala. So if you had any questions 419 00:29:42,875 --> 00:29:45,995 Speaker 1: where the Trump campaign would be going henceforth, the answer 420 00:29:46,115 --> 00:29:50,435 Speaker 1: is it would be going to George Wallace's gravestone to 421 00:29:50,515 --> 00:29:56,355 Speaker 1: get his support for their campaign. Full on racism. Haven't 422 00:29:56,395 --> 00:30:00,115 Speaker 1: we done enough for these people? And other past Republican 423 00:30:00,235 --> 00:30:04,355 Speaker 1: slogans dating to nineteen sixty six and earlier, That is 424 00:30:04,395 --> 00:30:07,475 Speaker 1: where they're going to go down the last eighty plus 425 00:30:07,555 --> 00:30:10,755 Speaker 1: days of this campaign. If you think the stuff about 426 00:30:10,835 --> 00:30:15,675 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris identifying as a being of Indian descent and 427 00:30:15,755 --> 00:30:20,115 Speaker 1: now suddenly becoming black, if you think that's racist, you 428 00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:23,475 Speaker 1: ain't seen nothing yet. But I would remind you that 429 00:30:23,555 --> 00:30:27,115 Speaker 1: in this side by side, these Trump shits don't even 430 00:30:27,155 --> 00:30:31,075 Speaker 1: recognize the fact that they've shown your neighborhood under Trump 431 00:30:31,315 --> 00:30:34,835 Speaker 1: as being completely devoid of people, because of course they 432 00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:37,435 Speaker 1: were some of the one million who died under Trump's 433 00:30:37,475 --> 00:30:41,195 Speaker 1: mismanagement of COVID. That's just my interpretation of what that 434 00:30:41,235 --> 00:30:45,115 Speaker 1: picture means. It's very clean here, like a graveyard. Nice 435 00:30:45,155 --> 00:30:47,795 Speaker 1: flag though, and seems to be at full staff, not 436 00:30:47,875 --> 00:30:50,755 Speaker 1: at half staff or the million people Trump killed. But 437 00:30:51,235 --> 00:30:57,515 Speaker 1: the worst person our winner e lawn Musk. You heard. 438 00:30:57,715 --> 00:31:00,955 Speaker 1: I played a clip of it before that very sibilant 439 00:31:01,075 --> 00:31:05,875 Speaker 1: destruction of two hours of world history between must Psycho Trump, 440 00:31:06,395 --> 00:31:09,995 Speaker 1: the post afterwards from X and its desperate attempt to 441 00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:14,075 Speaker 1: appear relevant in the media space between seven forty seven 442 00:31:14,115 --> 00:31:18,275 Speaker 1: pm forty seven minutes late and ten forty seven pm 443 00:31:18,595 --> 00:31:24,355 Speaker 1: e g. When Trump finally stopped effing talking already President 444 00:31:24,395 --> 00:31:29,435 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's space post, Well, he's not president, he's ex president. 445 00:31:29,475 --> 00:31:32,315 Speaker 1: You can call him ex president, former president. That's fine. 446 00:31:32,875 --> 00:31:35,555 Speaker 1: I would just call him Psycho Trump, but that's just me. 447 00:31:36,115 --> 00:31:42,675 Speaker 1: Trump's space post received seventy three million views. During the 448 00:31:42,755 --> 00:31:45,835 Speaker 1: same period, there were four million posts about Elon Musk 449 00:31:46,195 --> 00:31:49,635 Speaker 1: and President Trump's conversation on X, generating a total of 450 00:31:49,755 --> 00:31:53,675 Speaker 1: nine hundred and ninety eight million views. Somebody else wrote, 451 00:31:54,115 --> 00:31:57,595 Speaker 1: CNN gets fifty million views per month, less than two 452 00:31:57,595 --> 00:32:01,275 Speaker 1: thirds of what this did on Tuesday Night. I noted 453 00:32:01,315 --> 00:32:04,635 Speaker 1: at the time that a Twitter view is a second, 454 00:32:04,755 --> 00:32:08,155 Speaker 1: and if you watch something on Twitter for one second, 455 00:32:08,195 --> 00:32:11,555 Speaker 1: it counts as a view, and thus the total number 456 00:32:11,595 --> 00:32:14,315 Speaker 1: of seconds is the total number of views. It's not 457 00:32:14,395 --> 00:32:20,075 Speaker 1: like TV when you hear that two million people watched 458 00:32:20,235 --> 00:32:23,715 Speaker 1: a show on Fox News. It means that at a 459 00:32:23,795 --> 00:32:28,395 Speaker 1: given moment, two million people were actually watching the show, 460 00:32:28,635 --> 00:32:31,755 Speaker 1: or estimated to be based on the way ratings work 461 00:32:31,795 --> 00:32:35,595 Speaker 1: in television. It's not accumulative. It doesn't mean there were 462 00:32:35,595 --> 00:32:39,235 Speaker 1: two million different people who watched some part of it 463 00:32:39,275 --> 00:32:42,315 Speaker 1: over the course of an hour. It's two million per average. 464 00:32:42,355 --> 00:32:45,795 Speaker 1: We don't know. In fact, there is some demographic information 465 00:32:45,955 --> 00:32:48,475 Speaker 1: about how many different people watch during the course of 466 00:32:48,515 --> 00:32:51,595 Speaker 1: an hour. But the point is two million is okay? 467 00:32:51,675 --> 00:32:55,595 Speaker 1: Freeze time count the number of people watching Sean Hannity 468 00:32:55,715 --> 00:32:59,395 Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow when I did a show me and that 469 00:32:59,515 --> 00:33:02,675 Speaker 1: number is two million. That is totally different from the 470 00:33:02,675 --> 00:33:06,395 Speaker 1: idea of two million Twitter views, which is two million 471 00:33:06,435 --> 00:33:10,115 Speaker 1: people watching for a second each. In other words, if 472 00:33:10,315 --> 00:33:18,435 Speaker 1: in fact seventy three million people viewed the Musk Trump conversation, 473 00:33:19,075 --> 00:33:21,315 Speaker 1: it's like there's a drunk guy here at the bar. 474 00:33:21,435 --> 00:33:24,555 Speaker 1: He won't stop his conversation with me. If seventy three 475 00:33:24,635 --> 00:33:29,595 Speaker 1: million people viewed for one second each, that would mean 476 00:33:29,635 --> 00:33:32,635 Speaker 1: the total audience was actually twenty one thousand people. I mean, 477 00:33:32,675 --> 00:33:34,315 Speaker 1: I don't think it was that bad, But that's just 478 00:33:34,315 --> 00:33:38,275 Speaker 1: to give you the relative idea between a Twitter view 479 00:33:39,115 --> 00:33:44,635 Speaker 1: and a TV viewer. Now, somebody who knows this far 480 00:33:44,715 --> 00:33:47,595 Speaker 1: better than I do is Michael Mulbihill, the ratings and 481 00:33:47,675 --> 00:33:51,795 Speaker 1: research and analytics dude at Fox Television and Fox Sports. 482 00:33:51,835 --> 00:33:56,035 Speaker 1: And he wrote seventy three million views and a concurrent 483 00:33:56,115 --> 00:33:59,515 Speaker 1: viewership that never got above one and a half million 484 00:33:59,635 --> 00:34:03,555 Speaker 1: implies that the average viewer of this three hour interview 485 00:34:03,715 --> 00:34:08,795 Speaker 1: watched for less than four minutes. We used to do 486 00:34:08,875 --> 00:34:11,395 Speaker 1: pretty well on Countdown. We held people they used to 487 00:34:11,475 --> 00:34:13,435 Speaker 1: watch for about forty five minutes out of the sixty 488 00:34:13,435 --> 00:34:17,235 Speaker 1: minute show. The average length of time watching Musk and 489 00:34:17,315 --> 00:34:22,315 Speaker 1: Trump was just four minutes, meaning at four minutes people went, 490 00:34:22,395 --> 00:34:25,955 Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm listening to this again. Let's go 491 00:34:25,995 --> 00:34:29,155 Speaker 1: see what's on good old fashioned TV. Or I don't know, 492 00:34:29,515 --> 00:34:33,595 Speaker 1: I'll just count my fingers. That'll be more interesting. Elon Musk, 493 00:34:34,195 --> 00:34:39,875 Speaker 1: still lying, still stoned, Still the cautionary tale about what 494 00:34:39,995 --> 00:34:45,955 Speaker 1: happens if you mainline ozempic and two days worst a 495 00:34:46,035 --> 00:35:07,315 Speaker 1: person in the world. See the number one story on 496 00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:09,915 Speaker 1: the Countdown on my favorite topic, me and Things I 497 00:35:09,995 --> 00:35:12,995 Speaker 1: Promised not to tell. It was James Thurber who once 498 00:35:13,035 --> 00:35:16,115 Speaker 1: pointed out that the secret to great writing was never 499 00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:21,195 Speaker 1: throw away anything you have written. He confessed that I 500 00:35:21,275 --> 00:35:24,395 Speaker 1: believe in nineteen fifty eight that he had managed to 501 00:35:24,395 --> 00:35:28,595 Speaker 1: rework stuff that he had written in nineteen eighteen. Well, 502 00:35:28,715 --> 00:35:31,395 Speaker 1: I can finally top him. I wrote what You're going 503 00:35:31,475 --> 00:35:35,275 Speaker 1: to Hear Next on March twenty seventh, nineteen seventy nine. 504 00:35:35,875 --> 00:35:38,795 Speaker 1: It was a creative writing assignment for my last English 505 00:35:38,835 --> 00:35:41,235 Speaker 1: class at Cornell, and it was simple, somebody you have 506 00:35:41,315 --> 00:35:45,755 Speaker 1: met recently who you found interesting or under interesting circumstances. 507 00:35:45,835 --> 00:35:50,315 Speaker 1: Four to five pages, typed double space. I'll spare you 508 00:35:50,395 --> 00:35:53,915 Speaker 1: the suspense. It's about Sam Rosen, as you will hear. 509 00:35:54,155 --> 00:35:56,355 Speaker 1: I had what seemed to be a courtesy interview with 510 00:35:56,475 --> 00:36:00,075 Speaker 1: Sam Rosen in his office at UPI Audio in New 511 00:36:00,155 --> 00:36:03,955 Speaker 1: York on Thursday, March twenty second, nineteen seventy nine. I 512 00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:07,395 Speaker 1: didn't think anything had come of it, but on July third, 513 00:36:07,555 --> 00:36:11,235 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, UPI Audio hired me my first job. 514 00:36:11,915 --> 00:36:16,075 Speaker 1: I was replacing their sports director. Thought I named Maury Trumbull, 515 00:36:16,475 --> 00:36:18,435 Speaker 1: who was leaving to go be the sports director of 516 00:36:18,595 --> 00:36:23,595 Speaker 1: NBC Radio. Yes, they used to have such jobs. Morey 517 00:36:23,675 --> 00:36:26,835 Speaker 1: and I overlapped for about ten days, so technically he 518 00:36:26,955 --> 00:36:30,475 Speaker 1: was my first boss. But really, Sam was my first boss, 519 00:36:30,475 --> 00:36:34,275 Speaker 1: and he not only survived it, he's still working. He's 520 00:36:34,315 --> 00:36:36,035 Speaker 1: been the play by play announcer of the New York 521 00:36:36,115 --> 00:36:39,515 Speaker 1: Rangers since nineteen eighty four, and he remains a friend. 522 00:36:40,435 --> 00:36:43,035 Speaker 1: I guess I'm not that tough on my employers after all. 523 00:36:44,475 --> 00:36:47,075 Speaker 1: Just as interesting, though, is a guy you will here 524 00:36:47,115 --> 00:36:50,795 Speaker 1: referred to in passing in the second sentence as an 525 00:36:50,835 --> 00:36:54,715 Speaker 1: ABC Sports executive. I will explain who that was and 526 00:36:54,995 --> 00:36:59,075 Speaker 1: is after I read you the original. From the original copy, 527 00:36:59,075 --> 00:37:02,315 Speaker 1: I might add which I will start doing in one 528 00:37:02,395 --> 00:37:08,235 Speaker 1: second from now. Keith Olberman English, one thirty five point 529 00:37:07,875 --> 00:37:13,555 Speaker 1: one three, March twenty seven, nineteen seventy nine. By the 530 00:37:13,595 --> 00:37:16,195 Speaker 1: time I cornered Sam Rosen in the back room of 531 00:37:16,315 --> 00:37:19,635 Speaker 1: United Press Internationals offices in New York City, March twenty 532 00:37:19,675 --> 00:37:23,155 Speaker 1: second had already qualified as a very bizarre day. In 533 00:37:23,235 --> 00:37:26,075 Speaker 1: the preceding twelve hours, I had dragged myself out of 534 00:37:26,075 --> 00:37:29,795 Speaker 1: bed despite half a night's sleep, conducted a successful job 535 00:37:29,915 --> 00:37:33,035 Speaker 1: interview with an ABC Sports executive who turned out to 536 00:37:33,035 --> 00:37:38,355 Speaker 1: be a former WTKO ITHACA disc jockey, gotten drunk before 537 00:37:38,435 --> 00:37:42,115 Speaker 1: noon at a bar run by an ex Cornell basketball player, 538 00:37:42,715 --> 00:37:45,875 Speaker 1: sobered myself up in the bowels of New York's subway 539 00:37:45,915 --> 00:37:49,075 Speaker 1: system and walked at least three miles on the hard 540 00:37:49,435 --> 00:37:54,795 Speaker 1: city streets. Sam Rosen is a sportscaster for the United 541 00:37:54,835 --> 00:37:59,155 Speaker 1: Press Audio Network, a low grade national organization with which 542 00:37:59,195 --> 00:38:01,995 Speaker 1: I had some contact and some small hope of employment. 543 00:38:02,595 --> 00:38:06,635 Speaker 1: The Rosen, who introduced himself to a burnt out, tired me, 544 00:38:07,355 --> 00:38:10,395 Speaker 1: was a burly, slow moving man, broad in the shoulders, 545 00:38:10,435 --> 00:38:15,115 Speaker 1: straightforward and confident, and the owner of distractingly bushy sideburns. 546 00:38:16,195 --> 00:38:18,235 Speaker 1: He had consented to spend a few minutes with me 547 00:38:18,275 --> 00:38:21,715 Speaker 1: at the request of Roger norm, a UPI newscaster, whom 548 00:38:21,755 --> 00:38:24,755 Speaker 1: I had met through a contact just four days earlier. 549 00:38:25,315 --> 00:38:27,435 Speaker 1: Norham had thought Rosen might be able to help me 550 00:38:27,475 --> 00:38:29,715 Speaker 1: in my efforts to get a job, and at the 551 00:38:29,835 --> 00:38:32,515 Speaker 1: very least critique a tape of one of my broadcasts. 552 00:38:33,835 --> 00:38:38,395 Speaker 1: Page two. Rosen began slowly and deliberately reviewing his rise 553 00:38:38,435 --> 00:38:41,395 Speaker 1: to network radio from humble beginnings as a gopher at 554 00:38:41,395 --> 00:38:44,555 Speaker 1: a New York station. It's a hard business, Keith, he 555 00:38:44,595 --> 00:38:46,795 Speaker 1: pointed out, you have to be prepared to start at 556 00:38:46,795 --> 00:38:49,515 Speaker 1: the bottom, even say as an intern for a radio 557 00:38:49,635 --> 00:38:54,355 Speaker 1: or TV station. I noted, rather meekly, that I spent 558 00:38:54,395 --> 00:38:56,635 Speaker 1: the summer of nineteen seventy eight in just such a 559 00:38:56,635 --> 00:39:00,915 Speaker 1: capacity at Channel five in New York. Rosen seemed surprised 560 00:39:00,955 --> 00:39:03,955 Speaker 1: and a little miffed at my sliver of experience, and 561 00:39:03,995 --> 00:39:07,155 Speaker 1: seemed to be growth hoping for something else to suggest, Well, 562 00:39:07,315 --> 00:39:09,635 Speaker 1: it's good to define just where you want your career 563 00:39:09,675 --> 00:39:13,475 Speaker 1: to go and how it will go. Rosen's confidence disappeared 564 00:39:13,475 --> 00:39:15,595 Speaker 1: a second later when I recounted my decision at the 565 00:39:15,595 --> 00:39:19,355 Speaker 1: age of eight to become the country's top sportscaster by 566 00:39:19,395 --> 00:39:23,675 Speaker 1: starting in radio and then moving into television. He looked 567 00:39:23,675 --> 00:39:27,355 Speaker 1: at me with mystification and slowly leaned back in his seat, 568 00:39:27,435 --> 00:39:30,755 Speaker 1: to the accompaniment of a groan from rusty hinges and 569 00:39:30,795 --> 00:39:33,715 Speaker 1: the squeak of the chair's casters against the tile floor. 570 00:39:35,355 --> 00:39:38,355 Speaker 1: Maybe you should try stringing, he offered, and began to 571 00:39:38,395 --> 00:39:42,315 Speaker 1: explain the radio term for providing reports or newsmaker's comments 572 00:39:42,315 --> 00:39:45,275 Speaker 1: to a station or network on a freelance basis. He 573 00:39:45,315 --> 00:39:47,635 Speaker 1: stopped explaining when I noted I had done that for 574 00:39:47,755 --> 00:39:53,435 Speaker 1: three city stations and two networks, including his own. Page 575 00:39:53,475 --> 00:40:00,555 Speaker 1: three Oh. There followed a classic deafening silence. Finally, Rosen 576 00:40:00,595 --> 00:40:03,715 Speaker 1: seized on something he presumed I couldn't possibly have done already, 577 00:40:04,115 --> 00:40:07,515 Speaker 1: Small mark good radio, He blurted, barking the words out 578 00:40:07,555 --> 00:40:10,355 Speaker 1: as if he were desperately answering some oral test question. 579 00:40:10,595 --> 00:40:14,675 Speaker 1: At the last possible second, Sam looked hopefully at me, 580 00:40:15,075 --> 00:40:18,515 Speaker 1: but I disappointed him by reviewing my four years at WVBR, 581 00:40:18,955 --> 00:40:22,395 Speaker 1: the station's ratings and nature, and my thousand or so 582 00:40:22,555 --> 00:40:27,315 Speaker 1: broadcasts on it. He was now getting upset. It was evident, 583 00:40:27,715 --> 00:40:31,595 Speaker 1: and Sam later embarrassedly admitted that he was approaching our 584 00:40:31,635 --> 00:40:34,475 Speaker 1: talk as a major league baseball player might a clinic 585 00:40:34,515 --> 00:40:37,955 Speaker 1: with a dozen little leaguers. Well, you just can't expect 586 00:40:37,995 --> 00:40:40,155 Speaker 1: a job in New York out of college, he was 587 00:40:40,235 --> 00:40:45,355 Speaker 1: nearly pleading, And then, more sternly, you have to be realistic. Well, Sam, 588 00:40:45,515 --> 00:40:47,755 Speaker 1: I had decided to take the offensive at this point 589 00:40:47,755 --> 00:40:50,955 Speaker 1: and was speaking softly and unpresumptuously. Do you think my 590 00:40:51,035 --> 00:40:53,275 Speaker 1: four years in Ithaca will be discounted because I was 591 00:40:53,315 --> 00:40:56,835 Speaker 1: a college student. It's small market radio, and I don't 592 00:40:56,875 --> 00:41:00,475 Speaker 1: think it can get much better in small market radio. 593 00:41:01,715 --> 00:41:03,475 Speaker 1: Can we listen to my tape now? Is that okay? 594 00:41:04,035 --> 00:41:04,275 Speaker 2: Sure? 595 00:41:04,435 --> 00:41:08,035 Speaker 1: Pleasure? Sam appeared relieved, by not having to answer my question, 596 00:41:08,115 --> 00:41:10,675 Speaker 1: and he quickly threaded the brown tape through one of 597 00:41:10,715 --> 00:41:15,635 Speaker 1: the studios many large tape recorders. Page four. He hit 598 00:41:15,675 --> 00:41:18,675 Speaker 1: the on button and sat back. My voice was soon 599 00:41:18,755 --> 00:41:22,835 Speaker 1: reverberating in the small room. At first, Rosen simply gazed 600 00:41:22,835 --> 00:41:26,075 Speaker 1: at the revolving reels and played with his sideburns. At 601 00:41:26,115 --> 00:41:28,835 Speaker 1: the moments passed, however, the motion stopped and he sat 602 00:41:28,915 --> 00:41:32,275 Speaker 1: up in his chair. Finally, with the tape over, he 603 00:41:32,315 --> 00:41:34,875 Speaker 1: moved his lips as if to comment, but couldn't manage 604 00:41:34,875 --> 00:41:39,035 Speaker 1: more than a nervous laugh. Then suddenly his tone changed. 605 00:41:40,355 --> 00:41:44,315 Speaker 1: You know, Keith, this tape. No, maybe I shouldn't point. Well, 606 00:41:44,355 --> 00:41:47,595 Speaker 1: we just hired a guy to do sports starting next month, 607 00:41:47,595 --> 00:41:49,315 Speaker 1: and I didn't have anything to do with the hiring 608 00:41:49,395 --> 00:41:53,635 Speaker 1: or anything. But here Rosen stopped staring past me and 609 00:41:53,715 --> 00:41:57,635 Speaker 1: looked me instead, squarely in the eyes. His tape wasn't 610 00:41:57,715 --> 00:42:01,995 Speaker 1: half as good as yours. I'm very again, a brief 611 00:42:02,035 --> 00:42:07,195 Speaker 1: silence in a staccato delivery. I'm very impressed. It was 612 00:42:07,235 --> 00:42:10,115 Speaker 1: at once one of the most prideful and disheartening moments 613 00:42:10,155 --> 00:42:12,635 Speaker 1: of my life. I couldn't help but smile at the 614 00:42:12,675 --> 00:42:16,035 Speaker 1: thought that perhaps my basic skills were indeed honed enough 615 00:42:16,035 --> 00:42:18,595 Speaker 1: to the point of excellence. But at the same time 616 00:42:18,635 --> 00:42:21,715 Speaker 1: I sensed having been purposely placed in the right place 617 00:42:21,795 --> 00:42:25,635 Speaker 1: at the wrong time. UPI Audio, as Sam later noted, 618 00:42:25,995 --> 00:42:30,075 Speaker 1: hadn't had any changes in sports staff since nineteen seventy four, 619 00:42:30,875 --> 00:42:33,315 Speaker 1: and here there had been an opening filled just a 620 00:42:33,355 --> 00:42:36,635 Speaker 1: week before, filled by somebody who sounded only half as 621 00:42:36,755 --> 00:42:42,595 Speaker 1: good as me, Page five. The rest of my conversation 622 00:42:42,675 --> 00:42:45,915 Speaker 1: with Sam Rosen was far more enjoyable and relaxed. It 623 00:42:45,955 --> 00:42:50,475 Speaker 1: had been graphically illustrated to me that patronizing condescension could 624 00:42:50,515 --> 00:42:54,315 Speaker 1: be turned into genuine respect by my simply flashing a 625 00:42:54,355 --> 00:42:57,475 Speaker 1: little talent. Sam spent the rest of my time in 626 00:42:57,515 --> 00:43:00,915 Speaker 1: the studios bathing me in compliments, offering me any assistance 627 00:43:00,955 --> 00:43:03,675 Speaker 1: he could, and urging me to make a lot of 628 00:43:03,715 --> 00:43:07,395 Speaker 1: people listen to the tape. Make them listen to it, 629 00:43:07,475 --> 00:43:11,955 Speaker 1: he suggested, drawing on our just concluded experience. Early in 630 00:43:12,035 --> 00:43:19,115 Speaker 1: the conversation, the instructor in this class English what was it? 631 00:43:19,235 --> 00:43:24,955 Speaker 1: One thirty five point one point five one three gave 632 00:43:24,995 --> 00:43:28,035 Speaker 1: me a check mark with a plus on it. Sounds 633 00:43:28,035 --> 00:43:30,075 Speaker 1: like a great experience. I can't believe that you'll have 634 00:43:30,115 --> 00:43:33,275 Speaker 1: any difficulty in finding a suitable job. This is well written, 635 00:43:33,315 --> 00:43:36,515 Speaker 1: it's clear to the point narrative. Some cleverness as usual, 636 00:43:36,515 --> 00:43:40,195 Speaker 1: but cuteness firmly under control. Also, perhaps because written fast, 637 00:43:40,555 --> 00:43:44,395 Speaker 1: none of those awkward spots caused by your fondness for 638 00:43:44,595 --> 00:43:48,915 Speaker 1: being indirect. Some things have not changed at all since 639 00:43:48,995 --> 00:43:51,315 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. I wish I could remember the name 640 00:43:51,355 --> 00:43:54,315 Speaker 1: of the teaching assistant who wrote that she was very nice, 641 00:43:54,515 --> 00:44:00,035 Speaker 1: extremely supportive, and obviously claire voyant. Now a little reminder 642 00:44:00,075 --> 00:44:03,035 Speaker 1: that you cannot, always, to paraphrase Shakespeare, look into the 643 00:44:03,075 --> 00:44:05,235 Speaker 1: seeds of time and say which great and will grow 644 00:44:05,315 --> 00:44:09,355 Speaker 1: in which will not. The ABC Sports executive and former 645 00:44:09,515 --> 00:44:13,395 Speaker 1: wtko Ithaca, New York disc jockey I met earlier in 646 00:44:13,475 --> 00:44:16,915 Speaker 1: the day, to whom I gave short shrift to say 647 00:44:16,955 --> 00:44:20,395 Speaker 1: the least in sentenced to a paragraph one, was a 648 00:44:20,475 --> 00:44:24,035 Speaker 1: vice president at a broadcast called Wide World of Sports, 649 00:44:24,075 --> 00:44:26,115 Speaker 1: who gave me a brilliant piece of advice that I 650 00:44:26,155 --> 00:44:28,875 Speaker 1: will save for a later edition of Things I promised 651 00:44:28,915 --> 00:44:37,435 Speaker 1: not to tell. And his name was Robert Bob iger Iger. 652 00:44:37,795 --> 00:44:40,395 Speaker 1: By nineteen eighty nine, Iigre was the head of entertainment 653 00:44:40,435 --> 00:44:43,475 Speaker 1: at the ABC Television Network. In nineteen ninety four, he 654 00:44:43,515 --> 00:44:48,315 Speaker 1: became president of Cap Cities ABC, which owned ESPN, so 655 00:44:48,355 --> 00:44:51,275 Speaker 1: he became my ultimate boss in my third year there. 656 00:44:51,635 --> 00:44:54,555 Speaker 1: The next year, Disney bought ABC, mostly so it could 657 00:44:54,595 --> 00:44:58,315 Speaker 1: get its hands on ESPN. Iiger became president of Disney 658 00:44:58,315 --> 00:45:01,075 Speaker 1: in two thousand, chairman in two thousand and five. He 659 00:45:01,155 --> 00:45:04,515 Speaker 1: retired in twenty twenty one, but he returned to the 660 00:45:04,835 --> 00:45:08,355 Speaker 1: but at Disney last year. And as I have said 661 00:45:08,395 --> 00:45:12,395 Speaker 1: to him every time we have talked since March twenty second, 662 00:45:12,475 --> 00:45:16,515 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, when we met and here, I thought 663 00:45:16,595 --> 00:45:18,875 Speaker 1: you were just some middle manager who still wanted to 664 00:45:18,875 --> 00:45:37,275 Speaker 1: be a sportscaster when he grew up. Sammy, I've done 665 00:45:37,315 --> 00:45:39,595 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 666 00:45:39,915 --> 00:45:42,875 Speaker 1: Please share this podcast with somebody who does not listen. 667 00:45:43,435 --> 00:45:45,795 Speaker 1: We're up to a total audience of over a million 668 00:45:45,835 --> 00:45:50,355 Speaker 1: a week. Let's go. Let's go now. Thank you for listening. 669 00:45:50,395 --> 00:45:54,195 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanelle, musical directors of Countdown, arranged, 670 00:45:54,275 --> 00:45:57,435 Speaker 1: produced and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle on 671 00:45:57,475 --> 00:46:01,035 Speaker 1: the orchestration and the keyboards. Mister Ray in charge of guitars, 672 00:46:01,155 --> 00:46:06,195 Speaker 1: bass and drums and playing them. It was produced by 673 00:46:06,235 --> 00:46:09,915 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by 674 00:46:09,955 --> 00:46:13,955 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports 675 00:46:13,995 --> 00:46:17,315 Speaker 1: music is the Lderman theme from ESPN two, written by 676 00:46:17,315 --> 00:46:21,075 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music arranged 677 00:46:21,115 --> 00:46:24,235 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer 678 00:46:24,315 --> 00:46:26,875 Speaker 1: today was my friend Tony Kornheiser, and everything else was 679 00:46:26,915 --> 00:46:30,395 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this the 680 00:46:30,475 --> 00:46:34,515 Speaker 1: eighty fourth day until the twenty twenty four presidential election 681 00:46:35,315 --> 00:46:39,755 Speaker 1: Florida and Texas are in play, and the three hundred 682 00:46:39,755 --> 00:46:44,755 Speaker 1: and fifteenth day since convicted felon dementia j second place 683 00:46:44,915 --> 00:46:49,075 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 684 00:46:49,115 --> 00:46:53,355 Speaker 1: the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing. Use 685 00:46:53,395 --> 00:46:57,075 Speaker 1: the mental health system. You've got this. President Biden used 686 00:46:57,115 --> 00:47:03,675 Speaker 1: presidential immunity to stop him from doing it. Gain while 687 00:47:04,875 --> 00:47:11,755 Speaker 1: we still again and anti Semitic, anti immigration, nutjob Republicans, 688 00:47:12,115 --> 00:47:16,635 Speaker 1: please stop shooting at Trump. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 689 00:47:17,035 --> 00:47:20,435 Speaker 1: Bulletin says the News requires till then. I'm Keith Olderman. 690 00:47:20,635 --> 00:47:41,355 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 691 00:47:41,475 --> 00:47:45,795 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts 692 00:47:45,795 --> 00:47:50,555 Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 693 00:47:50,595 --> 00:47:51,955 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.