1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. You 2 00:00:21,635 --> 00:00:25,755 Speaker 1: never say a cockroach will not survive something. And he 3 00:00:25,915 --> 00:00:30,555 Speaker 1: is Donald J. Cockroach, and all that he said he 4 00:00:30,635 --> 00:00:33,755 Speaker 1: could deny tomorrow. There is no conscience, there is no 5 00:00:33,835 --> 00:00:35,835 Speaker 1: belief system, there is no guilt, there is no truth. 6 00:00:35,875 --> 00:00:40,355 Speaker 1: There is only the nearest hole in the floorboard for 7 00:00:40,595 --> 00:00:47,275 Speaker 1: Donald J. Cockroach to scuttle through. Nevertheless, the only people 8 00:00:47,355 --> 00:00:50,515 Speaker 1: Trump managed to convince that he is opposed to a 9 00:00:50,635 --> 00:00:56,435 Speaker 1: nationwide abortion ban are those who support a nationwide abortion ban, 10 00:00:56,715 --> 00:01:00,315 Speaker 1: the ones who now feel he has betrayed them. That 11 00:01:00,435 --> 00:01:03,075 Speaker 1: people Trump managed to convince that he will not stand 12 00:01:03,115 --> 00:01:06,235 Speaker 1: in the way of a nationwide a boorde are those 13 00:01:06,715 --> 00:01:10,355 Speaker 1: who oppose a nationwide abortion ban. In other words, he 14 00:01:10,435 --> 00:01:15,235 Speaker 1: got it all exactly backwards. Trump took one of the 15 00:01:15,275 --> 00:01:19,715 Speaker 1: few straightforward policy positions of his wasted life, one of 16 00:01:19,755 --> 00:01:23,155 Speaker 1: his few commitments. As wrong as it is, as morally 17 00:01:23,195 --> 00:01:26,155 Speaker 1: indefensible as it is, it was a rallying cry for 18 00:01:26,275 --> 00:01:30,635 Speaker 1: his most fervent supporters, the evangelicals and the handmade crowd. 19 00:01:31,075 --> 00:01:34,275 Speaker 1: He took that, and he lawyered it, He finessed it, 20 00:01:34,315 --> 00:01:37,955 Speaker 1: he filled it full of poisoned pills, and he trumped 21 00:01:37,995 --> 00:01:41,795 Speaker 1: it like he might trump your bill at Trump University, 22 00:01:41,915 --> 00:01:44,075 Speaker 1: and he tried to make it say yes and no 23 00:01:44,355 --> 00:01:49,435 Speaker 1: at the same time. And the evangelicals finally realized he 24 00:01:49,475 --> 00:01:52,715 Speaker 1: has been playing them and they do not know what 25 00:01:52,915 --> 00:01:57,635 Speaker 1: to expect from him. Next. The phrase on the religious 26 00:01:57,755 --> 00:02:03,155 Speaker 1: nutjob right yesterday and today has been he has sold 27 00:02:03,435 --> 00:02:08,915 Speaker 1: us out before his crazy abortion video statements that gained 28 00:02:08,955 --> 00:02:12,035 Speaker 1: him nothing from the middle and only further rage from 29 00:02:12,035 --> 00:02:15,995 Speaker 1: the left. Trump told the evangelicals in writing that he quote, 30 00:02:16,275 --> 00:02:20,795 Speaker 1: like most other Republicans believe in exceptions for rape, incest, 31 00:02:20,835 --> 00:02:26,995 Speaker 1: and life of a mother unquote, They don't. We have 32 00:02:27,075 --> 00:02:34,155 Speaker 1: an obligation. He told them to win elections unquote. They don't. 33 00:02:34,515 --> 00:02:39,875 Speaker 1: They believe he won because God counted the votes. This time. 34 00:02:40,995 --> 00:02:46,355 Speaker 1: They believe they won. They believe God one or Jesus 35 00:02:46,835 --> 00:02:50,635 Speaker 1: or I don't know. They believe he was just the 36 00:02:50,715 --> 00:02:54,155 Speaker 1: empty vessel chosen to get Roe v. Wade repealed. And 37 00:02:54,195 --> 00:02:56,955 Speaker 1: if anybody ever better fit the definition of an empty 38 00:02:57,035 --> 00:02:59,715 Speaker 1: vessel than cockroach je Trump, I don't know who it is. 39 00:03:00,675 --> 00:03:04,035 Speaker 1: He told them that he might have lied to them 40 00:03:04,075 --> 00:03:08,115 Speaker 1: about this, that he might lie to them again, might 41 00:03:08,155 --> 00:03:10,355 Speaker 1: be lying to them now might be lying to them 42 00:03:10,395 --> 00:03:14,155 Speaker 1: about the future just to get elected. The Susan B. 43 00:03:14,435 --> 00:03:19,635 Speaker 1: Anthony Pro Life America organization attacked Trump after that video. 44 00:03:19,795 --> 00:03:25,555 Speaker 1: Mike Pence attacked Trump, Kevin Bloody Sorbo attacked Trump. It 45 00:03:25,675 --> 00:03:28,595 Speaker 1: was such a blunder, such an obvious blunder, such a 46 00:03:28,595 --> 00:03:34,195 Speaker 1: potentially unsalvageable blunder, that even Lindsey Graham noticed, even Lindsey Graham, 47 00:03:34,595 --> 00:03:37,675 Speaker 1: who is being blackmailed to support Trump at all costs 48 00:03:37,915 --> 00:03:40,955 Speaker 1: and to threaten riots in the streets in Trump's defense, 49 00:03:41,195 --> 00:03:45,275 Speaker 1: being blackmailed with God only knows what he said. Trump 50 00:03:45,315 --> 00:03:48,875 Speaker 1: was wrong. The Supreme Court quote does not require that 51 00:03:48,995 --> 00:03:52,195 Speaker 1: conclusion legally, and the pro life movement has always been 52 00:03:52,195 --> 00:03:58,635 Speaker 1: about the well being of the unborn child, not geography. Unquote. 53 00:03:58,955 --> 00:04:02,755 Speaker 1: That is the closest that Lindsey Graham will get for 54 00:04:02,835 --> 00:04:06,515 Speaker 1: the rest of his natural life to telling cockroach J. 55 00:04:06,715 --> 00:04:11,195 Speaker 1: Trump to go f himself. It is, not, however, the 56 00:04:11,235 --> 00:04:14,835 Speaker 1: closest that the evangelicals and the anti woman and the 57 00:04:14,915 --> 00:04:19,395 Speaker 1: forced birth crowds will get to telling Trump to go 58 00:04:19,595 --> 00:04:25,395 Speaker 1: f himself. And incredibly, that may not be the biggest 59 00:04:25,435 --> 00:04:30,315 Speaker 1: part of Trump's biggest blunder yet beyond alienating his most 60 00:04:30,515 --> 00:04:34,435 Speaker 1: fervent base, there are three background consequences to Trump's remarkable 61 00:04:34,475 --> 00:04:37,955 Speaker 1: strategic disaster on abortion, which might in the long term 62 00:04:38,075 --> 00:04:41,235 Speaker 1: be even more important than this obvious one. And the 63 00:04:41,275 --> 00:04:45,995 Speaker 1: first one is for the first time, the gullibility, the 64 00:04:46,115 --> 00:04:49,755 Speaker 1: lack of intelligence, the lack of analytical reasoning on the 65 00:04:49,755 --> 00:04:55,235 Speaker 1: part of America's primary news outlets is working against Trump. 66 00:04:56,235 --> 00:04:58,915 Speaker 1: Trump says abortion law should be left to the states, 67 00:04:59,555 --> 00:05:02,755 Speaker 1: was the New York Times headline. He never said that. 68 00:05:04,235 --> 00:05:07,315 Speaker 1: He says he it will be left to the states, 69 00:05:07,475 --> 00:05:11,115 Speaker 1: which is accurate. It is left to the states. Now 70 00:05:11,235 --> 00:05:14,155 Speaker 1: that's the law. He never said a damn thing about 71 00:05:14,195 --> 00:05:16,315 Speaker 1: the future. He never said a damn thing about whether 72 00:05:16,395 --> 00:05:18,635 Speaker 1: or not if the Republicans in the House and Senate 73 00:05:18,955 --> 00:05:22,275 Speaker 1: managed to get into position to pass a national ban 74 00:05:22,795 --> 00:05:26,835 Speaker 1: superseding all state control. If a national abortion ban of 75 00:05:26,875 --> 00:05:29,755 Speaker 1: sixteen weeks, fifteen weeks or six weeks or whatever gets 76 00:05:29,755 --> 00:05:33,075 Speaker 1: to his desk. He never said he'd veto it. He 77 00:05:33,155 --> 00:05:35,475 Speaker 1: never said he'd veto it because it should be left 78 00:05:35,475 --> 00:05:37,275 Speaker 1: to the states. He never said that. He never said 79 00:05:37,275 --> 00:05:41,835 Speaker 1: anything like that, And it's in the Times headline. Trump 80 00:05:41,955 --> 00:05:45,035 Speaker 1: draws his line in the sand, was the headline in 81 00:05:45,115 --> 00:05:49,035 Speaker 1: the conservative Washington Examiner. Abortion laws should be left up 82 00:05:49,075 --> 00:05:52,475 Speaker 1: to the states. Where did he say that? He said 83 00:05:52,515 --> 00:05:58,315 Speaker 1: they are? This is fine print. He lives in the 84 00:05:58,355 --> 00:06:02,875 Speaker 1: fine print. Congratulations, Washington Examiner. You two have just bought 85 00:06:03,075 --> 00:06:06,555 Speaker 1: forty four thousand Trumps takes at one hundred dollars a piece. 86 00:06:07,515 --> 00:06:10,475 Speaker 1: Trump promises abortion rights will be decided by states if 87 00:06:10,515 --> 00:06:14,395 Speaker 1: re elected. Sidestepping national ban reads the New York Post, 88 00:06:16,035 --> 00:06:19,755 Speaker 1: also moronic. But the best is the one at CNN. 89 00:06:20,235 --> 00:06:28,475 Speaker 1: Trump makes his stance on abortion clear. And that's what 90 00:06:28,755 --> 00:06:36,115 Speaker 1: the evangelicals believe. For once the manifold journalistic failures and 91 00:06:36,155 --> 00:06:41,475 Speaker 1: personal irresponsibilities of America's reporters to gutlass, to push past 92 00:06:41,595 --> 00:06:45,835 Speaker 1: Trump's self created storylines, they are going to kill him 93 00:06:45,875 --> 00:06:49,315 Speaker 1: in the polls and at the ballot box. Absolutely kill 94 00:06:49,395 --> 00:06:53,995 Speaker 1: him again. That part of this nation that already hates 95 00:06:54,035 --> 00:06:56,915 Speaker 1: Trump over Roe v. Wade and the packing of the 96 00:06:56,915 --> 00:07:02,035 Speaker 1: theocratic Supreme Court and only heard these imbecilic headlines parroting 97 00:07:02,075 --> 00:07:09,875 Speaker 1: Trump's transparent Yes, they heard only this. Yeah, the states 98 00:07:09,875 --> 00:07:15,995 Speaker 1: can ban abortion anyway they like. They heard ban abortion, Trump, Trump, 99 00:07:16,355 --> 00:07:21,315 Speaker 1: ban abortion. If they look deeper than that they realized 100 00:07:21,355 --> 00:07:24,395 Speaker 1: it's not just las a fair. Let the States decide. 101 00:07:25,075 --> 00:07:27,995 Speaker 1: Trump won't guarantee that, if made president again, he would 102 00:07:28,075 --> 00:07:31,155 Speaker 1: use the power he would have to stop a national ban. 103 00:07:31,995 --> 00:07:35,675 Speaker 1: And he said nothing about MiFi pristone, and he repeated 104 00:07:36,075 --> 00:07:39,155 Speaker 1: the reproductive health equivalent of the blood libel, the q 105 00:07:39,315 --> 00:07:43,635 Speaker 1: Andon level Pizzagate worthy lie that Democrats quote support even 106 00:07:43,755 --> 00:07:46,915 Speaker 1: execution after birth. That's exactly what it is. The baby 107 00:07:46,955 --> 00:07:50,875 Speaker 1: is born, the baby is executed after birth, unquote. That's 108 00:07:50,915 --> 00:07:55,675 Speaker 1: the psychotic what people who already are fighting Trump on 109 00:07:55,715 --> 00:08:01,675 Speaker 1: this issue alone, that's the Trump. They heard. Those who 110 00:08:01,715 --> 00:08:05,395 Speaker 1: are supporting Trump on this issue alone were worse supporting him. 111 00:08:05,595 --> 00:08:10,115 Speaker 1: Heard babies are being executed after birth by Democrats, and 112 00:08:10,195 --> 00:08:14,395 Speaker 1: I Trump will not do anything to stop it. And 113 00:08:14,475 --> 00:08:17,035 Speaker 1: if Trump didn't screw up enough by telling that to 114 00:08:17,155 --> 00:08:21,115 Speaker 1: his reporters, the spine of his base, the irreplaceable part 115 00:08:21,195 --> 00:08:25,195 Speaker 1: of his base, every low synapse count reporter and editor 116 00:08:25,195 --> 00:08:29,555 Speaker 1: in America just put that message in big black capital 117 00:08:29,635 --> 00:08:37,115 Speaker 1: letters everywhere. Trump won't do what you guys want. So 118 00:08:37,235 --> 00:08:40,955 Speaker 1: the first subheadline here, thank you American news media for 119 00:08:41,035 --> 00:08:43,955 Speaker 1: not listening to my demands that you go back to being, 120 00:08:44,435 --> 00:08:48,875 Speaker 1: you know, reporters instead of stenographers, especially when covering a 121 00:08:48,955 --> 00:08:51,475 Speaker 1: con man who is trying to say yes and no 122 00:08:52,595 --> 00:08:55,915 Speaker 1: and up and down and abortion ban and no abortion 123 00:08:56,115 --> 00:09:02,555 Speaker 1: ban and all at the same time. Thank you. Now. 124 00:09:02,835 --> 00:09:06,795 Speaker 1: The second subheadline here is why did Trump say any 125 00:09:06,835 --> 00:09:11,355 Speaker 1: of this right now? Why suddenly Sunday night did he 126 00:09:11,395 --> 00:09:15,315 Speaker 1: put out that feeble social media post warning the unmovable, 127 00:09:15,515 --> 00:09:19,755 Speaker 1: unthinking objects of the religious right that they were going 128 00:09:19,795 --> 00:09:22,035 Speaker 1: to have to compromise on this, and he was going 129 00:09:22,075 --> 00:09:23,915 Speaker 1: to tell them exactly how much they were going to 130 00:09:23,915 --> 00:09:30,515 Speaker 1: have to compromise the next day. Somebody somewhere, even inside 131 00:09:30,555 --> 00:09:34,355 Speaker 1: the Trump idiocracy, must have realized that any statement not 132 00:09:34,475 --> 00:09:37,995 Speaker 1: giving the evangelicals everything they wanted at least stood the 133 00:09:38,115 --> 00:09:44,115 Speaker 1: chance of damaging his campaign, and rather severely at that. Certainly, 134 00:09:44,115 --> 00:09:46,555 Speaker 1: one of his flying monkeys like Stephen Miller hadn't have 135 00:09:46,595 --> 00:09:49,995 Speaker 1: seen the blowback online Sunday night. He's going to sell 136 00:09:50,075 --> 00:09:53,355 Speaker 1: us out, isn't he? The horrified realization across the land 137 00:09:53,355 --> 00:09:57,555 Speaker 1: of ecstatic visions and eclipses as messages from a deity 138 00:09:58,115 --> 00:10:01,075 Speaker 1: rather than a life sized geometry quiz, which is what 139 00:10:01,115 --> 00:10:05,915 Speaker 1: they are, they must have seen this. So the second 140 00:10:05,955 --> 00:10:09,115 Speaker 1: subheadline is somebody in the Trump campaign saw all that 141 00:10:09,595 --> 00:10:12,035 Speaker 1: before or after and said, no, we gotta do this. 142 00:10:12,235 --> 00:10:15,875 Speaker 1: We've got to do this anyway, full steam ahead. And 143 00:10:15,955 --> 00:10:19,875 Speaker 1: they said that because all campaigns, even the ones like 144 00:10:19,955 --> 00:10:24,755 Speaker 1: Trumps that are actually just fronts for legal gofundmes, all 145 00:10:24,795 --> 00:10:28,875 Speaker 1: of them have internal polling data. And the Trump internal 146 00:10:28,955 --> 00:10:35,115 Speaker 1: polling data must show, must show this politically suicidal video 147 00:10:35,155 --> 00:10:38,715 Speaker 1: of his confirms. It must show that he is getting 148 00:10:38,915 --> 00:10:43,995 Speaker 1: destroyed on abortion and especially on a national abortion ban, 149 00:10:44,355 --> 00:10:47,075 Speaker 1: and that if he didn't do something to distance himself 150 00:10:47,355 --> 00:10:51,995 Speaker 1: from a national ban immediately, he will lose the election 151 00:10:52,235 --> 00:10:58,675 Speaker 1: over it will lose. There's no other inference. Trump could 152 00:10:58,715 --> 00:11:01,795 Speaker 1: have happily gone along, letting the evangelicals believe he was 153 00:11:01,875 --> 00:11:06,795 Speaker 1: fully theirs. He was their messenger or their vessel or 154 00:11:06,835 --> 00:11:09,715 Speaker 1: their vehicle. Baby, he can take you anywhere you want 155 00:11:09,715 --> 00:11:12,955 Speaker 1: to go. He didn't have to clarify that. He didn't 156 00:11:12,955 --> 00:11:16,275 Speaker 1: have to clarify that at all. To go back to 157 00:11:16,395 --> 00:11:20,355 Speaker 1: yesterday's moronic headlines, no line in the sand Washington Examiner, 158 00:11:21,035 --> 00:11:24,915 Speaker 1: no making his abortion stand clear CNN. He could have 159 00:11:25,035 --> 00:11:28,275 Speaker 1: skated through to election day being all things to all people. 160 00:11:29,275 --> 00:11:32,955 Speaker 1: We're not talking about the best and the brightest here. Instead, 161 00:11:34,635 --> 00:11:38,355 Speaker 1: he grabbed the third rail. On the second Monday of 162 00:11:38,395 --> 00:11:42,035 Speaker 1: April of the campaign, more than two hundred days out, 163 00:11:42,475 --> 00:11:45,715 Speaker 1: he grabbed the third rail with both hands, and then 164 00:11:46,195 --> 00:11:51,555 Speaker 1: he licked it. The internal polling and other research inside 165 00:11:51,595 --> 00:11:54,515 Speaker 1: the Trump campaign must have said, if you support any 166 00:11:54,595 --> 00:11:57,395 Speaker 1: kind of national abortion ban, in fact, if you do 167 00:11:57,555 --> 00:12:02,315 Speaker 1: not unsupport any kind of national abortion ban, you will lose. 168 00:12:02,715 --> 00:12:05,795 Speaker 1: You will lose by two more to even be able 169 00:12:05,835 --> 00:12:08,435 Speaker 1: to lie that you had it stolen from you. You 170 00:12:08,555 --> 00:12:12,675 Speaker 1: will lose by two hundred electoral votes. That's what his 171 00:12:12,915 --> 00:12:16,715 Speaker 1: own pulling on an abortion ban and the topic in 172 00:12:16,835 --> 00:12:21,275 Speaker 1: general must have said. The only other explanation for this 173 00:12:21,435 --> 00:12:26,155 Speaker 1: statement at this time, alienating his friends and enraging his 174 00:12:26,315 --> 00:12:29,195 Speaker 1: enemies is that a man who has spent his life 175 00:12:29,355 --> 00:12:33,915 Speaker 1: faking it, fudging it, conning the yokels about it, that 176 00:12:34,035 --> 00:12:38,195 Speaker 1: man would suddenly say something designed to leave the impression 177 00:12:38,235 --> 00:12:42,035 Speaker 1: that he was against a federal ban. Is that he 178 00:12:42,075 --> 00:12:44,915 Speaker 1: suddenly decided that after this lifetime of never making a 179 00:12:44,955 --> 00:12:49,155 Speaker 1: definitive statement, never not living inside the fine print, never 180 00:12:49,235 --> 00:12:52,675 Speaker 1: seeing a scam he didn't like or try, that suddenly 181 00:12:52,715 --> 00:12:57,475 Speaker 1: on Sunday night, he decided he wanted to be upfront 182 00:12:57,475 --> 00:13:02,475 Speaker 1: and honest with everybody. Upfront and honest. Cockroach Jay Trump. 183 00:13:05,515 --> 00:13:11,395 Speaker 1: I'm skeptical. The most important part, of course, is Trump's campaign, 184 00:13:11,475 --> 00:13:13,635 Speaker 1: and maybe it really didn't have any choice but to 185 00:13:13,675 --> 00:13:18,355 Speaker 1: do it revealed its greatest fear and revealed it to 186 00:13:18,475 --> 00:13:22,875 Speaker 1: the Biden campaign. Trump is going to get destroyed on 187 00:13:22,955 --> 00:13:25,555 Speaker 1: the overturning of Roe v. Wade in general and the 188 00:13:25,595 --> 00:13:30,235 Speaker 1: prospect of a national abortion band specifically. That's what their 189 00:13:30,315 --> 00:13:33,915 Speaker 1: own research must indicate. So Biden campaign put it on 190 00:13:33,995 --> 00:13:39,555 Speaker 1: a big giant bell, Trump killed Roe v Wade. You're 191 00:13:39,555 --> 00:13:42,035 Speaker 1: doing a lot of it. Now, do ten times as much, 192 00:13:42,195 --> 00:13:45,395 Speaker 1: do a thousand times as much? Have the Trump campaign 193 00:13:45,955 --> 00:13:50,915 Speaker 1: wading knee deep in it, and hang the bell around 194 00:13:50,915 --> 00:13:54,115 Speaker 1: Trump's neck. You have two hundred and eleven days a 195 00:13:54,155 --> 00:13:59,115 Speaker 1: commercial in every TV show, on every streamer, on every podcast, 196 00:13:59,395 --> 00:14:05,595 Speaker 1: Trump killed Roe v Wade, Which leads me to the 197 00:14:05,635 --> 00:14:08,635 Speaker 1: third sub headline here, you know who else? Now knows 198 00:14:08,675 --> 00:14:13,435 Speaker 1: that you know who else just visualized belling the Trump 199 00:14:14,995 --> 00:14:19,635 Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior, as he presently exists in this 200 00:14:19,755 --> 00:14:23,275 Speaker 1: presidential race, he has the capacity to sink Joe Biden 201 00:14:23,395 --> 00:14:26,515 Speaker 1: or sink Donald Trump. His New York State campaign director, 202 00:14:26,515 --> 00:14:29,595 Speaker 1: has repeatedly spoken of taking away enough electoral votes from 203 00:14:29,635 --> 00:14:32,355 Speaker 1: Biden to throw the election to the House of Representatives, 204 00:14:32,355 --> 00:14:35,235 Speaker 1: and thus she assumes to Trump. The video that came 205 00:14:35,275 --> 00:14:37,635 Speaker 1: out yesterday, that's not the first time she said that. 206 00:14:38,235 --> 00:14:43,195 Speaker 1: She posted that as early as January. But whatever she 207 00:14:43,435 --> 00:14:47,155 Speaker 1: said in the last few weeks, every move Bob Kennedy 208 00:14:47,235 --> 00:14:51,995 Speaker 1: himself has made has alienated anybody who ever thought for 209 00:14:52,035 --> 00:14:57,875 Speaker 1: a second that their choice was Kennedy or Biden. Kennedy 210 00:14:57,915 --> 00:15:02,075 Speaker 1: has claimed Biden threatened democracy and Trump didn't. He has 211 00:15:02,115 --> 00:15:06,355 Speaker 1: claimed the prosecution of the January sixth insurrecttionists was politically 212 00:15:06,395 --> 00:15:09,675 Speaker 1: motivated and that they were mere activists, and that he 213 00:15:09,675 --> 00:15:15,755 Speaker 1: would appoint a special counsel to investigate the prosecutors. So 214 00:15:15,835 --> 00:15:18,555 Speaker 1: what is RFK Junior going to do with this Trump 215 00:15:18,755 --> 00:15:22,995 Speaker 1: abortion video. I mean, it's clear that Trump only Bob's 216 00:15:23,035 --> 00:15:26,155 Speaker 1: to the surface of reality once maybe twice a week, 217 00:15:26,515 --> 00:15:30,515 Speaker 1: and my former friend Bob Kennedy Junior less frequently than that. 218 00:15:31,955 --> 00:15:35,035 Speaker 1: But he has been staggering over towards being the other 219 00:15:35,155 --> 00:15:41,395 Speaker 1: option to Trump voters, not to Biden voters. And here 220 00:15:41,435 --> 00:15:44,435 Speaker 1: Trump just said no national abortion ban, where he seemed 221 00:15:44,515 --> 00:15:49,435 Speaker 1: to say that last summer August, Bob Kennedy said he 222 00:15:49,475 --> 00:15:51,595 Speaker 1: was in favor of a fifteen week federal ban. Then 223 00:15:51,635 --> 00:15:53,795 Speaker 1: he retracted it quickly and said he misheard the question. 224 00:15:53,875 --> 00:15:56,315 Speaker 1: And you know, with the number of voices in his head, 225 00:15:56,315 --> 00:15:59,875 Speaker 1: that is absolutely goddamn possible. Then he picked a running 226 00:15:59,915 --> 00:16:03,275 Speaker 1: mate who is pro choice but calls in vitro fertilization 227 00:16:03,475 --> 00:16:07,195 Speaker 1: IBF a lie and says women should instead expose themselves 228 00:16:07,235 --> 00:16:09,435 Speaker 1: to sunlight for two hours a day to get pregnant. 229 00:16:10,155 --> 00:16:12,795 Speaker 1: And I'm guessing, then, mate, only with those nude men 230 00:16:12,795 --> 00:16:15,915 Speaker 1: in the Tucker Carlson videos who were shown tanning their 231 00:16:16,875 --> 00:16:21,275 Speaker 1: tiny little tuckers. What if Kennedy now comes out for 232 00:16:21,595 --> 00:16:25,595 Speaker 1: a national abortion ban. I mean he's said it before. 233 00:16:26,795 --> 00:16:30,155 Speaker 1: I mean he said everything before, And like Trump, he 234 00:16:30,235 --> 00:16:32,995 Speaker 1: is unburdened by human guilt or doubt or the sense 235 00:16:33,035 --> 00:16:35,595 Speaker 1: that he'd need to explain not just a one to 236 00:16:35,675 --> 00:16:40,195 Speaker 1: eighty on any given topic, but a three sixty. But 237 00:16:40,275 --> 00:16:43,075 Speaker 1: if he is really tacking not to be the anti Biden, 238 00:16:43,115 --> 00:16:46,315 Speaker 1: but the anti Trump, this would be a gift from 239 00:16:46,435 --> 00:16:52,755 Speaker 1: Trump to hurt Trump now again Nothing Trump has ever said, 240 00:16:52,835 --> 00:16:55,835 Speaker 1: or done or been in his life is important enough 241 00:16:55,835 --> 00:16:58,555 Speaker 1: to him that he cannot contradict it, repudiate it, and 242 00:16:58,595 --> 00:17:01,435 Speaker 1: deny it tomorrow. The fact that he is not really 243 00:17:01,435 --> 00:17:03,675 Speaker 1: a human being and thus not burdened by guilt or 244 00:17:03,675 --> 00:17:10,435 Speaker 1: shame or memory makes that easier. Cockroaches survive. The Trump 245 00:17:10,435 --> 00:17:13,915 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four presidential campaign is about a cockroach trying 246 00:17:13,915 --> 00:17:17,955 Speaker 1: to survive. He could erase all this tomorrow, or try to, 247 00:17:18,555 --> 00:17:21,195 Speaker 1: as Chuck Schumer said yesterday, Let's wait a few weeks 248 00:17:21,195 --> 00:17:24,795 Speaker 1: and see what his new position will be. But I 249 00:17:24,795 --> 00:17:27,595 Speaker 1: don't think even this cockroach can run away fast enough 250 00:17:27,755 --> 00:17:33,715 Speaker 1: from this stunning mistake, and from what Kennedy can do 251 00:17:33,795 --> 00:17:38,075 Speaker 1: with this stunning mistake, and especially what the Biden campaign 252 00:17:38,555 --> 00:18:02,635 Speaker 1: can do with this stunning mistake. Self destroying strategic moves 253 00:18:02,675 --> 00:18:05,755 Speaker 1: alienating all sides about a more may come and go. 254 00:18:05,835 --> 00:18:09,155 Speaker 1: But the campaign as cover for cockroach j Trump keeping 255 00:18:09,195 --> 00:18:14,155 Speaker 1: his ass out of prison continues eternally. The Stormy Daniel's 256 00:18:14,195 --> 00:18:18,435 Speaker 1: hush money election interference trial starts next Monday. Trump, who 257 00:18:18,475 --> 00:18:21,035 Speaker 1: has lost all appeals in the case, is now essentially 258 00:18:21,035 --> 00:18:27,435 Speaker 1: filing a suit against the judge under seal because Judge 259 00:18:27,515 --> 00:18:30,875 Speaker 1: Juan mare Sean is not doing an Eileen Cannon impression. 260 00:18:32,435 --> 00:18:34,675 Speaker 1: It's an odd thing to do. Three days after Trump 261 00:18:34,795 --> 00:18:37,835 Speaker 1: urged the same judge to jail him and make him 262 00:18:37,835 --> 00:18:42,315 Speaker 1: into a modern Nelson Mandela. Making the Mandela analogy is 263 00:18:42,435 --> 00:18:44,235 Speaker 1: just as odd a thing, given that the great South 264 00:18:44,275 --> 00:18:47,195 Speaker 1: African leader spent twenty seven years in jail. And if 265 00:18:47,235 --> 00:18:49,995 Speaker 1: jan Mereschan can put Trump in jail for twenty seven years, 266 00:18:50,355 --> 00:18:54,995 Speaker 1: I'll call that a win. Also from the if You 267 00:18:55,035 --> 00:18:57,435 Speaker 1: missed It file, Trump posted a video on his site 268 00:18:57,435 --> 00:18:59,915 Speaker 1: in which he tried to apply jiu jitsu to a 269 00:19:00,035 --> 00:19:04,675 Speaker 1: very very unlikely and sensitive topic, namely the topic of peace. 270 00:19:04,675 --> 00:19:10,595 Speaker 1: People calling him Hitler, quoting the author klingon Something another Hitler. 271 00:19:10,635 --> 00:19:12,835 Speaker 1: They say, elect him and he will be a dictator. 272 00:19:13,195 --> 00:19:16,075 Speaker 1: We should take this hysteria as reason for hope. The 273 00:19:16,115 --> 00:19:18,995 Speaker 1: America haters rightly feared that he and his party are 274 00:19:18,995 --> 00:19:24,195 Speaker 1: on the threshold of a successful counter revolution. Yeah, that's 275 00:19:24,235 --> 00:19:27,155 Speaker 1: what humanity has taken away from the story of the 276 00:19:27,195 --> 00:19:31,835 Speaker 1: life and death of Hitler, that he was a counter revolutionary. 277 00:19:32,675 --> 00:19:36,555 Speaker 1: Two responses to that bid to rename Dulles International outside 278 00:19:36,595 --> 00:19:40,195 Speaker 1: Washington in memory of I'm sorry in honor of Trump. 279 00:19:41,275 --> 00:19:46,955 Speaker 1: Congressman Jerry Connolly and Jared Moskowitz said, good idea, wrong venue. 280 00:19:47,755 --> 00:19:50,195 Speaker 1: They want to put Trump's name not on an airport, 281 00:19:50,195 --> 00:19:56,915 Speaker 1: but on Miami's Federal Correctional Institute. And a software engineer 282 00:19:56,995 --> 00:20:00,675 Speaker 1: named Alex Cole has a different idea for renaming Dulles 283 00:20:01,315 --> 00:20:07,075 Speaker 1: call it Dwight Eisenhower International Airport, or simply by its 284 00:20:07,115 --> 00:20:15,195 Speaker 1: acronym DEI. In Sunday's warm up to the abortion fiasco video, 285 00:20:15,275 --> 00:20:18,795 Speaker 1: Trump invoked death and destruction again, first time in a while. 286 00:20:18,875 --> 00:20:21,155 Speaker 1: For that and in the span of two days, Trump 287 00:20:21,155 --> 00:20:23,395 Speaker 1: insisted that President Biden had delivered the State of the 288 00:20:23,515 --> 00:20:27,235 Speaker 1: Union while under the influence of cocaine and that the 289 00:20:27,275 --> 00:20:34,235 Speaker 1: President had quote soiled the resolute desk in the Oval Office. 290 00:20:34,355 --> 00:20:37,315 Speaker 1: The New York Times buried that allegation in paragraph nineteen, 291 00:20:37,635 --> 00:20:41,875 Speaker 1: Maggie Haberman writes, quote Trump's remark was interpreted as the 292 00:20:41,915 --> 00:20:46,035 Speaker 1: former president saying that mister Biden had defecated on the desk. 293 00:20:47,475 --> 00:20:50,275 Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no no no no. That 294 00:20:50,435 --> 00:20:58,355 Speaker 1: was ted nugent. Also of interest here in an all 295 00:20:58,395 --> 00:21:03,075 Speaker 1: new edition of the podcast, is there a skeezier greedier, slimier, 296 00:21:03,235 --> 00:21:11,155 Speaker 1: more despicable celebrity than Dwayne Johnson the Rock And when 297 00:21:11,515 --> 00:21:14,355 Speaker 1: CBS did you put out the story about the recall 298 00:21:14,395 --> 00:21:20,155 Speaker 1: of some of the eclipse glasses when Plus, I have 299 00:21:20,355 --> 00:21:25,635 Speaker 1: never revealed this before, but I once not only saw 300 00:21:25,675 --> 00:21:28,835 Speaker 1: a ghost, but I know exactly who it was and 301 00:21:28,915 --> 00:21:33,435 Speaker 1: why he was laughing at me. That's next. This is Countdown. 302 00:21:34,755 --> 00:21:59,875 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead of us 303 00:21:59,915 --> 00:22:03,075 Speaker 1: on this all new edition of Countdown. It's another trip 304 00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:07,075 Speaker 1: down memory lane with things I promised not to tell. 305 00:22:07,795 --> 00:22:12,195 Speaker 1: All it is is a cassette tape from February nineteen 306 00:22:12,275 --> 00:22:16,595 Speaker 1: seventy seven and an overnight sportscast I did on a 307 00:22:16,715 --> 00:22:20,355 Speaker 1: real radio station in Binghamton, New York. And oh, by 308 00:22:20,395 --> 00:22:22,755 Speaker 1: the way, it served as the reminder of the day 309 00:22:22,755 --> 00:22:26,395 Speaker 1: twenty years later when I saw ghost and I knew 310 00:22:26,395 --> 00:22:30,235 Speaker 1: exactly who it was, and I have never told anybody 311 00:22:30,355 --> 00:22:34,715 Speaker 1: about it until now. First, still more idiots to talk 312 00:22:34,715 --> 00:22:37,315 Speaker 1: about the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning 313 00:22:37,395 --> 00:22:43,675 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 314 00:22:44,515 --> 00:22:50,395 Speaker 1: Oh for Joe Flaherty. We start with the bronze worse 315 00:22:50,715 --> 00:22:54,795 Speaker 1: CBS News. CBS News reported that the Illinois Department of 316 00:22:54,835 --> 00:23:00,355 Speaker 1: Public Health was warning residents about a recall of eclipse 317 00:23:00,515 --> 00:23:06,475 Speaker 1: glasses bikini solar eclipse glasses sold by at least six 318 00:23:06,515 --> 00:23:11,875 Speaker 1: different retailers in Illinois, including the Perry County Grocery Marketplace 319 00:23:11,915 --> 00:23:15,875 Speaker 1: in Pinkneysville. They were supposed to protect you against going 320 00:23:15,995 --> 00:23:18,995 Speaker 1: blind by looking into the sun during that eclipse yesterday, 321 00:23:19,755 --> 00:23:22,995 Speaker 1: and you should return them right away because they've been recalled. 322 00:23:22,995 --> 00:23:28,675 Speaker 1: And CBS put the story out at noon Illinois time yesterday, 323 00:23:29,555 --> 00:23:32,115 Speaker 1: like an hour and a half before the eclipse. Good call. 324 00:23:32,955 --> 00:23:36,675 Speaker 1: I got plenty of time. Then, huh, why are you 325 00:23:36,755 --> 00:23:39,075 Speaker 1: moving that story about how I should return my nineteen 326 00:23:39,195 --> 00:23:43,795 Speaker 1: fifty nine for at Edsel after it was recalled? Huh 327 00:23:44,075 --> 00:23:48,515 Speaker 1: the runner up? Worse, Sir, I really do enjoy much 328 00:23:48,555 --> 00:23:50,355 Speaker 1: of the work of many of the people who were 329 00:23:50,355 --> 00:23:54,595 Speaker 1: made and their repeat performances on this list time and 330 00:23:54,635 --> 00:23:59,475 Speaker 1: time again, and none more so than Harris Faulkner. I 331 00:23:59,555 --> 00:24:02,595 Speaker 1: really enjoy her work on Fox quote news unquote, not 332 00:24:02,635 --> 00:24:05,395 Speaker 1: in the way she intends it, of course, but few 333 00:24:05,555 --> 00:24:10,955 Speaker 1: combine the majesty of her blinkered stupidity with total self unawareness, 334 00:24:12,195 --> 00:24:15,075 Speaker 1: but I hadn't quite put my finger on the exact 335 00:24:15,155 --> 00:24:18,755 Speaker 1: problem in the canon of Harris Faulkner. And then yesterday 336 00:24:18,915 --> 00:24:22,595 Speaker 1: in one sentence she explained it to me. A Biden 337 00:24:22,675 --> 00:24:26,515 Speaker 1: spokesman who appears to be an African American responded to 338 00:24:26,555 --> 00:24:29,555 Speaker 1: the Trump fundraiser at marri Lago over the weekend by 339 00:24:29,595 --> 00:24:34,275 Speaker 1: saying it was full of a bunch of billionaires, scammers, extremists, 340 00:24:34,315 --> 00:24:38,955 Speaker 1: and racists. Kaylee mcinaney another Fox performer who was not 341 00:24:39,035 --> 00:24:42,835 Speaker 1: the proverbial sharpest tool in the shed, although she is 342 00:24:42,875 --> 00:24:45,475 Speaker 1: a tool, and I think they in fact don't even 343 00:24:46,355 --> 00:24:50,635 Speaker 1: leave her in the shed. Kaylee mcinanney responded that who 344 00:24:50,755 --> 00:24:53,315 Speaker 1: was the racist that was there? Tim Scott was there, 345 00:24:53,915 --> 00:24:58,195 Speaker 1: vivek Ramaswami, Woody Johnson, Wilbur Ross, Steve Wynn, which is 346 00:24:58,275 --> 00:25:01,515 Speaker 1: when the legendary Harris Faulkner said it and said it 347 00:25:01,555 --> 00:25:04,995 Speaker 1: all quote. I want to say this so they bring 348 00:25:05,035 --> 00:25:08,515 Speaker 1: out the black surrogate to talk about racism, because apparently 349 00:25:08,835 --> 00:25:10,915 Speaker 1: the people that you just listed on that list, they're 350 00:25:10,955 --> 00:25:15,715 Speaker 1: all black, but they're not Democrats unquote. There's a reminder 351 00:25:15,835 --> 00:25:20,835 Speaker 1: that list consisted of Tim Scott, Vivek Gramaswamy, Woody Johnson, 352 00:25:21,795 --> 00:25:24,835 Speaker 1: Wilbur Ross, former Secretary of Commerce who's more than three 353 00:25:24,915 --> 00:25:29,435 Speaker 1: thousand years old, and Steve Winn, the Vegas gambling guy 354 00:25:29,515 --> 00:25:33,155 Speaker 1: wants backed through an old master's not a cigar, an 355 00:25:33,155 --> 00:25:37,515 Speaker 1: actual painting, Steve Winn. The list is Tim Scott, Viveck Gramaswamy, 356 00:25:37,515 --> 00:25:41,115 Speaker 1: Woody Johnson, Wilbur Ross, and Steve Win. According to Harris Faulkner, 357 00:25:41,115 --> 00:25:46,875 Speaker 1: they're all black. Woody Johnson, thank you Harris Faulkner for 358 00:25:46,915 --> 00:25:53,075 Speaker 1: explaining this. But our winner even uglier Johnson, Dwayne the 359 00:25:53,235 --> 00:25:57,275 Speaker 1: Rock Johnson. I always wondered why they called him the Rock, 360 00:25:57,355 --> 00:25:59,875 Speaker 1: and now I got the answer. It's a description of 361 00:25:59,915 --> 00:26:03,075 Speaker 1: his head. Dwayne Johnson went on Fox and said he 362 00:26:03,115 --> 00:26:05,635 Speaker 1: would not be repeating his twenty two endorsement of Joe 363 00:26:05,675 --> 00:26:08,675 Speaker 1: Biden and not Trump, and for several days it was 364 00:26:08,755 --> 00:26:14,315 Speaker 1: the lead story Johnson will not endorse Biden, will not 365 00:26:14,555 --> 00:26:18,835 Speaker 1: endorse against Trump. That was the lead story, quoting him 366 00:26:18,915 --> 00:26:22,075 Speaker 1: in his appearance that started this. The endorsement that I 367 00:26:22,115 --> 00:26:24,115 Speaker 1: made years ago with Biden was one I thought was 368 00:26:24,155 --> 00:26:26,795 Speaker 1: the best decision for me. At the time. I thought 369 00:26:26,795 --> 00:26:28,995 Speaker 1: I'm in this position where I have some influence, and 370 00:26:29,075 --> 00:26:31,715 Speaker 1: I felt it was my job then to exercise my influence. 371 00:26:31,995 --> 00:26:34,115 Speaker 1: I was then the most followed man in the world 372 00:26:34,195 --> 00:26:37,435 Speaker 1: and am today, and I appreciate that. But what that 373 00:26:37,635 --> 00:26:40,675 Speaker 1: caused was something that tears me up in my guts, 374 00:26:40,995 --> 00:26:48,795 Speaker 1: which is division. That got me. I didn't realize that then, unquote, 375 00:26:49,995 --> 00:26:54,115 Speaker 1: what the hell is he talking about? Division? Well, Dwayne 376 00:26:54,155 --> 00:26:57,035 Speaker 1: Johnson was on Fox to promote his return to this 377 00:26:57,155 --> 00:27:02,435 Speaker 1: WrestleMania thing WWE, and when he says division, he means 378 00:27:02,715 --> 00:27:05,715 Speaker 1: some of his fans got mad at him reposing Trump, 379 00:27:06,675 --> 00:27:09,275 Speaker 1: and that presumably has shown up in his bank account. 380 00:27:10,195 --> 00:27:13,635 Speaker 1: Wrestling is real. They actually do throw each other around, 381 00:27:14,515 --> 00:27:16,115 Speaker 1: but we seem to have forgotten that the rest of 382 00:27:16,155 --> 00:27:18,995 Speaker 1: it and everybody in it is fake, as fake as 383 00:27:19,075 --> 00:27:25,075 Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson, and as cowardly and is stupid. Interactive Polls, 384 00:27:25,115 --> 00:27:27,835 Speaker 1: which is tied to that polymarket gambling site I cited 385 00:27:27,915 --> 00:27:31,555 Speaker 1: last week, had it Trump forty three forty one in February. 386 00:27:31,595 --> 00:27:35,155 Speaker 1: Now they have it Biden forty three point forty. That 387 00:27:35,395 --> 00:27:40,995 Speaker 1: is a five point swing even after a Rasmussen poll. 388 00:27:41,075 --> 00:27:43,755 Speaker 1: The Republicans who founded ESPN then sold it for like 389 00:27:43,835 --> 00:27:48,355 Speaker 1: seventy dollars and some magic beans. Even with that measured 390 00:27:48,395 --> 00:27:51,035 Speaker 1: in which had Trump up by a the Real Clear 391 00:27:51,115 --> 00:27:55,155 Speaker 1: Politics poll of polls, which is itself a right leaning statistic, 392 00:27:55,475 --> 00:27:58,515 Speaker 1: it has Trump now up by three tenths of one 393 00:27:58,555 --> 00:28:05,035 Speaker 1: point the conservative Real Clear Politics RCP pole. So, mister 394 00:28:05,195 --> 00:28:08,555 Speaker 1: the Rock, nice job to get on the sinking ship 395 00:28:08,795 --> 00:28:12,075 Speaker 1: just in time, so everybody will remember your cowardice if 396 00:28:12,075 --> 00:28:18,355 Speaker 1: and when Biden wins. Dwayne Johnson trying to avoid division, 397 00:28:19,715 --> 00:28:22,915 Speaker 1: division of himself from a few million dollars in income 398 00:28:23,035 --> 00:28:25,595 Speaker 1: that kind of division. So he made two hundred and 399 00:28:25,595 --> 00:28:28,595 Speaker 1: seventy million in twenty twenty two, but less than half 400 00:28:28,675 --> 00:28:31,675 Speaker 1: of that last year according to Forbes. So you can 401 00:28:31,715 --> 00:28:35,275 Speaker 1: see that the financial division is just killing him and 402 00:28:35,355 --> 00:28:40,955 Speaker 1: he can't have any more of this costly, damaging concern 403 00:28:41,235 --> 00:28:46,475 Speaker 1: for his country. Twayne the Rock division No. Two hundred 404 00:28:46,515 --> 00:28:51,315 Speaker 1: and seventy million dollars y as Johnson two days wast 405 00:28:51,795 --> 00:29:11,275 Speaker 1: Pyson And to the number one story on the countdown, 406 00:29:11,315 --> 00:29:16,835 Speaker 1: and my favorite topic, me and I once saw a ghost. 407 00:29:17,435 --> 00:29:20,155 Speaker 1: I have never talked about this before, not publicly anyway, 408 00:29:20,515 --> 00:29:24,675 Speaker 1: but I once saw a ghost and it wasn't one 409 00:29:24,675 --> 00:29:26,995 Speaker 1: of these vague things where you're not sure what you're 410 00:29:27,035 --> 00:29:29,355 Speaker 1: seeing or who you're seeing. I know exactly who the 411 00:29:29,395 --> 00:29:33,315 Speaker 1: ghost was. I will get to this story, but first, 412 00:29:33,795 --> 00:29:38,715 Speaker 1: the setup requires a cassette tape I found that dates 413 00:29:38,715 --> 00:29:42,795 Speaker 1: from February nineteen seventy seven. And the damnedest thing about 414 00:29:42,795 --> 00:29:44,915 Speaker 1: this cassette tape is, if you were familiar at all 415 00:29:44,955 --> 00:29:48,115 Speaker 1: with cassette tapes, they used to have little pinholes at 416 00:29:48,155 --> 00:29:50,555 Speaker 1: the top, little pieces of plastic that you were supposed 417 00:29:50,595 --> 00:29:54,875 Speaker 1: to break out or break off or punch through after 418 00:29:54,915 --> 00:29:56,675 Speaker 1: you were done recording on the tape, so you could 419 00:29:56,675 --> 00:29:59,715 Speaker 1: not accidentally record over the tape. And when I found 420 00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:02,435 Speaker 1: this cassette the other day, these little things that you 421 00:30:02,475 --> 00:30:06,235 Speaker 1: had to make not intact anymore. We're still intact. So 422 00:30:06,395 --> 00:30:10,515 Speaker 1: this tape has survived not only intact since nineteen seventy seven, 423 00:30:10,635 --> 00:30:13,555 Speaker 1: but it has not been accidentally erased, even though I 424 00:30:13,635 --> 00:30:18,275 Speaker 1: left it eligible to be accidentally erased every day since 425 00:30:18,315 --> 00:30:21,955 Speaker 1: February nineteen seventy seven, and it contains, among other things, 426 00:30:22,515 --> 00:30:25,995 Speaker 1: the voice of the ghost. The setup here is. The 427 00:30:26,115 --> 00:30:30,035 Speaker 1: radio station involved is called WINR in Binghamton, New York. 428 00:30:30,795 --> 00:30:33,675 Speaker 1: The man you will hear calling himself Tom Daniels, is 429 00:30:33,675 --> 00:30:37,355 Speaker 1: actually named Glenn Cornelius. He called himself Tom Daniels because 430 00:30:37,355 --> 00:30:40,595 Speaker 1: that's what the jingle package said, and they had a 431 00:30:40,675 --> 00:30:45,075 Speaker 1: variety of Tom Daniels's's over the years at WINR in Binghamton. 432 00:30:45,635 --> 00:30:48,955 Speaker 1: He was our friend Glenn who worked at WVBR, the 433 00:30:48,995 --> 00:30:51,755 Speaker 1: Cornell radio station. I have mentioned m teen thousand times 434 00:30:51,795 --> 00:30:55,675 Speaker 1: on this podcast. He was going to be the program 435 00:30:55,715 --> 00:30:58,195 Speaker 1: director and tried to become the general manager of the station. 436 00:30:58,275 --> 00:31:02,355 Speaker 1: And he was my original frenemy best friends. Helped me 437 00:31:02,355 --> 00:31:05,035 Speaker 1: out in a thousand different situations as I did. He 438 00:31:05,675 --> 00:31:08,075 Speaker 1: and we once had a fist fight over a girl. 439 00:31:09,115 --> 00:31:12,875 Speaker 1: He won the girl, and of course that turned out 440 00:31:12,915 --> 00:31:15,355 Speaker 1: to be the best thing he ever did for me. 441 00:31:15,595 --> 00:31:18,795 Speaker 1: But that's another story for another time. As they say so, 442 00:31:18,995 --> 00:31:22,555 Speaker 1: Glenn is portraying Tom Daniels. And one weekend in the 443 00:31:22,595 --> 00:31:26,355 Speaker 1: winter of nineteen seventy seven, he brought his friends me, 444 00:31:26,835 --> 00:31:30,035 Speaker 1: Peter shack now and Pat Lyons that's now Patrick J. Lyons, 445 00:31:30,155 --> 00:31:33,515 Speaker 1: executive Foreign Desk editor of The New York Times. He 446 00:31:33,595 --> 00:31:35,395 Speaker 1: brought the three of us down there with him to 447 00:31:35,435 --> 00:31:38,115 Speaker 1: see a real radio station, and he put Peter and 448 00:31:38,195 --> 00:31:40,635 Speaker 1: I on the air, Peter doing a newscast and me 449 00:31:40,755 --> 00:31:43,915 Speaker 1: doing a sportscast. The only part of this before I 450 00:31:43,995 --> 00:31:46,795 Speaker 1: play this tape that requires a setup is the explanation 451 00:31:47,155 --> 00:31:50,715 Speaker 1: of the vitamin B twelve joke. Peter used to introduce 452 00:31:50,795 --> 00:31:53,675 Speaker 1: me on the newscast at WVBR, and he used to 453 00:31:53,715 --> 00:31:56,635 Speaker 1: ask me a trivia question every Tuesday and got so 454 00:31:56,795 --> 00:31:59,795 Speaker 1: frustrated in my always getting the answers to his trivia 455 00:31:59,915 --> 00:32:02,755 Speaker 1: questions that he changed the trivia question from a sports 456 00:32:02,755 --> 00:32:05,555 Speaker 1: trivia question to a question, the answer to which was 457 00:32:06,035 --> 00:32:10,035 Speaker 1: vitamin B twelve. And I didn't get it, and it 458 00:32:10,115 --> 00:32:13,515 Speaker 1: became a running joke inside the studios of WVBR for 459 00:32:13,595 --> 00:32:17,595 Speaker 1: quite a while. That's the setup. And then there is 460 00:32:17,595 --> 00:32:22,075 Speaker 1: the additional detail that Glenn Cornelius portraying Tom Daniels on 461 00:32:22,115 --> 00:32:24,675 Speaker 1: this next tape was the ghost I. 462 00:32:24,635 --> 00:32:27,315 Speaker 2: Saw sixteen minutes after one o'clock in the morning on 463 00:32:27,355 --> 00:32:30,395 Speaker 2: a Sunday, which is now February twentieth, nineteen hundred and 464 00:32:30,395 --> 00:32:32,715 Speaker 2: seventy seven. My name is Tom Daniels, and I have 465 00:32:32,795 --> 00:32:35,315 Speaker 2: a question for you. If I was as old as 466 00:32:35,435 --> 00:32:38,475 Speaker 2: Joe Nameth's football number, how old would I be? Well, 467 00:32:38,515 --> 00:32:40,835 Speaker 2: of course I would be twelve. And on that note, 468 00:32:40,875 --> 00:32:44,715 Speaker 2: we'll have the sports. 469 00:32:45,555 --> 00:32:47,235 Speaker 1: Here's wy on r sports. 470 00:32:47,835 --> 00:32:50,195 Speaker 3: The Oclonas have sol relief pitcher Paul Lindbley ad to 471 00:32:50,235 --> 00:32:53,275 Speaker 3: the Texas Rangers, despite Baseball Commissioner Bowie kwans edict that 472 00:32:53,355 --> 00:32:57,915 Speaker 3: no such players sales be made without his approval. Oakland 473 00:32:57,915 --> 00:33:00,675 Speaker 3: owner Charlie Finley, who likes to let jingle very much 474 00:33:00,795 --> 00:33:02,995 Speaker 3: number one of Kewan's best friends, says he'll ignore Hwanes 475 00:33:03,075 --> 00:33:04,955 Speaker 3: ruly and may just sell ace pitcher. 476 00:33:04,755 --> 00:33:06,235 Speaker 1: Vital Blue to the Montreal Expos. 477 00:33:06,555 --> 00:33:08,515 Speaker 3: On the sports scoreboard last night in the NBA, the 478 00:33:08,555 --> 00:33:10,075 Speaker 3: New York Nets came from behind to beat the New 479 00:33:10,155 --> 00:33:12,795 Speaker 3: York Knicks eighty six eighty five. It was Cleveland ninety 480 00:33:12,795 --> 00:33:15,315 Speaker 3: two Phoenix eighty eight, twenty three points and eighteen rebounds 481 00:33:15,315 --> 00:33:17,875 Speaker 3: for Jim Jones. Mac Calvin, signed as a free agent 482 00:33:17,875 --> 00:33:19,595 Speaker 3: the other day by Denver, led the Nuggets to a 483 00:33:19,595 --> 00:33:22,075 Speaker 3: one thirty three, one twenty four win over Portland. Some 484 00:33:22,115 --> 00:33:24,595 Speaker 3: other scores Washington one to oz five, Detroit ninety five, 485 00:33:24,755 --> 00:33:27,235 Speaker 3: Buffalo one o three, Seattle one hundred and Kansas City 486 00:33:27,235 --> 00:33:30,235 Speaker 3: one fifteen, Houston one oh nine. In college hoop action, 487 00:33:30,355 --> 00:33:33,275 Speaker 3: Anthony Roberts porty in sixty six points as Oral Roberts 488 00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:36,315 Speaker 3: beat North Carolina A and t won ten to sixty four, 489 00:33:36,595 --> 00:33:39,315 Speaker 3: which a taw State ruined. Marquette coach Al McGuire's last 490 00:33:39,315 --> 00:33:41,915 Speaker 3: home game, beating the Warriors seventy five sixty four, and 491 00:33:42,035 --> 00:33:45,595 Speaker 3: some other scores Kentucky ninety, LSU seventy six, Oregon toppling 492 00:33:45,675 --> 00:33:48,395 Speaker 3: UCLA sixty six six is fifty five rather and it 493 00:33:48,395 --> 00:33:51,195 Speaker 3: was Michigan eighty nine Minnesota seventy on the ice last 494 00:33:51,235 --> 00:33:53,195 Speaker 3: night in the NHL, Rene ro Bear scored a late 495 00:33:53,235 --> 00:33:55,595 Speaker 3: goal lead Buffalo over Detroit two to one. The New 496 00:33:55,675 --> 00:33:58,275 Speaker 3: York Islanders smashed the Rangers by the score of five two. 497 00:33:58,555 --> 00:34:01,635 Speaker 3: Yvon CORNWAYA scored two goals, including number four hundred, as 498 00:34:01,675 --> 00:34:04,835 Speaker 3: Montreal beat Philly five to two. Rookie Bernie Federko he 499 00:34:04,835 --> 00:34:06,755 Speaker 3: has a funny name, scored his second hat trick in 500 00:34:06,795 --> 00:34:09,595 Speaker 3: only two weeks of play as Saint Louis toppled Washington 501 00:34:09,595 --> 00:34:11,795 Speaker 3: will four to one. And Derek Sanderson, back in the 502 00:34:11,915 --> 00:34:14,275 Speaker 3: NHL with Vancouver, had a goal and an assist tonight 503 00:34:14,435 --> 00:34:16,795 Speaker 3: as the Canucks beat Atlanta five to one. Of their 504 00:34:16,795 --> 00:34:19,035 Speaker 3: finals Pittsburgh in Toronto, a six to sixth tie in 505 00:34:19,115 --> 00:34:22,235 Speaker 3: Minnesota Beach, Chicago six to two, and that's WI and 506 00:34:22,355 --> 00:34:30,515 Speaker 3: R sports. Great, mister. 507 00:34:31,795 --> 00:34:34,795 Speaker 1: So I will come back to that cassette from February 508 00:34:34,875 --> 00:34:37,035 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven later on to give you a few 509 00:34:37,035 --> 00:34:39,795 Speaker 1: more laughs. But now to the little story about how 510 00:34:40,395 --> 00:34:47,315 Speaker 1: I saw a ghost and it was Glenn. As I said, frenemies, 511 00:34:49,035 --> 00:34:52,395 Speaker 1: I think the last conversation we actually had sometime in 512 00:34:52,435 --> 00:34:55,635 Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties was about the fact that I graduated 513 00:34:55,675 --> 00:34:58,995 Speaker 1: on time, beating odds of probably five million to one, 514 00:34:59,195 --> 00:35:03,275 Speaker 1: and he did not graduate on time. That was probably 515 00:35:03,315 --> 00:35:07,195 Speaker 1: an even bet. But nevertheless, at the actual graduation ceremony 516 00:35:07,235 --> 00:35:09,715 Speaker 1: at Cornell, with me and my cap and gown drinking 517 00:35:09,795 --> 00:35:11,715 Speaker 1: champagne at ten o'clock in the morning with all the 518 00:35:11,755 --> 00:35:14,835 Speaker 1: other graduates and just happy to get out by hook 519 00:35:14,915 --> 00:35:19,115 Speaker 1: or by crook, Glenn looked up towards me and had 520 00:35:19,155 --> 00:35:22,835 Speaker 1: the forlorn look of sadness that I can't quite describe, 521 00:35:23,115 --> 00:35:26,355 Speaker 1: and I may have given him a popular three thousand 522 00:35:26,395 --> 00:35:31,315 Speaker 1: year old Anglo Saxon gesture involving fingers. Later on, in 523 00:35:31,355 --> 00:35:33,515 Speaker 1: what I think was the last conversation we ever had, 524 00:35:33,995 --> 00:35:36,475 Speaker 1: he said he deserved that, and I said, yes, you did. 525 00:35:37,115 --> 00:35:39,395 Speaker 1: On the other hand, I shouldn't have done it, and 526 00:35:39,435 --> 00:35:42,515 Speaker 1: he said, no, you probably shouldn't have. And that was it. 527 00:35:44,635 --> 00:35:48,835 Speaker 1: That would have been somewhere in the eighties. Early in 528 00:35:48,915 --> 00:35:52,875 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, Glenn, who was then thirty nine years old, 529 00:35:53,395 --> 00:35:57,035 Speaker 1: died suddenly while he was giving a lecture about radio 530 00:35:57,155 --> 00:36:00,395 Speaker 1: at Katz Radio in New York. He had a hidden 531 00:36:00,515 --> 00:36:03,755 Speaker 1: heart defect that could not have been identified, certainly not 532 00:36:03,835 --> 00:36:06,715 Speaker 1: then except in the autopsy. It killed him before he 533 00:36:06,795 --> 00:36:09,995 Speaker 1: hit the floor. And so the rest of us, Pat 534 00:36:10,035 --> 00:36:12,515 Speaker 1: and Peter and all the rest of us from that 535 00:36:12,595 --> 00:36:17,795 Speaker 1: era at Cornell at WVBR reunited recreating a film. And 536 00:36:17,875 --> 00:36:19,835 Speaker 1: as always when you get to recreate a film, it 537 00:36:19,875 --> 00:36:21,395 Speaker 1: is not the one you want. It is, in fact 538 00:36:21,435 --> 00:36:24,195 Speaker 1: the one you want the least. And it was the 539 00:36:24,195 --> 00:36:28,555 Speaker 1: big Chill. And so we said goodbye to Glenn. And 540 00:36:28,955 --> 00:36:31,195 Speaker 1: I don't think a month has passed, maybe not a 541 00:36:31,195 --> 00:36:36,595 Speaker 1: week has passed without my thinking of him. And then 542 00:36:36,595 --> 00:36:38,955 Speaker 1: there was the time I saw him after he died. 543 00:36:40,475 --> 00:36:42,875 Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety seven, Dan Patrick and I wrote a 544 00:36:42,875 --> 00:36:46,275 Speaker 1: book about sports Center called Surprisingly Enough, This is Sports Center, 545 00:36:47,435 --> 00:36:52,795 Speaker 1: and simultaneous with its publication, accidentally with its publication, I 546 00:36:52,835 --> 00:36:55,075 Speaker 1: was invited to come back to Cornell for the first 547 00:36:55,075 --> 00:36:59,555 Speaker 1: time in fifteen years to give the graduation party, the 548 00:36:59,635 --> 00:37:05,755 Speaker 1: annual graduation party speech. At the graduation dinner of the 549 00:37:05,835 --> 00:37:09,395 Speaker 1: Cornell Daily Sun newspaper, which I had worked for for 550 00:37:09,635 --> 00:37:12,795 Speaker 1: one day in nineteen seventy five before, they said, well, 551 00:37:12,795 --> 00:37:14,875 Speaker 1: you have to choose between us or the radio station 552 00:37:14,955 --> 00:37:16,955 Speaker 1: that you also want to work for. And I said, well, 553 00:37:16,955 --> 00:37:20,915 Speaker 1: that's damn stupid, especially since the Cornell station. The radio 554 00:37:20,955 --> 00:37:24,315 Speaker 1: station is just kind of a slight walk up the hill, 555 00:37:24,555 --> 00:37:28,155 Speaker 1: but the one to the Cornell Daily Sun newspaper is 556 00:37:28,235 --> 00:37:30,595 Speaker 1: then down a twenty minute hill and then back up 557 00:37:30,595 --> 00:37:33,835 Speaker 1: a twenty minute hill. I'm going into radio in any event. 558 00:37:33,875 --> 00:37:35,435 Speaker 1: They asked me to come up and give a speech, 559 00:37:35,835 --> 00:37:39,675 Speaker 1: and I arrived by car. I said, send a car 560 00:37:39,715 --> 00:37:42,875 Speaker 1: for me, and I brought my stuff with me and 561 00:37:42,955 --> 00:37:46,835 Speaker 1: got into the Cornell Hotel and checked in and had 562 00:37:46,835 --> 00:37:49,275 Speaker 1: some time before my speech that night, and I went 563 00:37:49,315 --> 00:37:54,515 Speaker 1: over to WVVR, where I had not been to see anybody, 564 00:37:54,675 --> 00:37:57,235 Speaker 1: not since Glenn's death, in fact, not since nineteen eighty two. 565 00:37:57,275 --> 00:37:59,915 Speaker 1: It had been fifteen years since i'd been there. Now 566 00:37:59,955 --> 00:38:02,795 Speaker 1: I had this book. I had just done the Boston 567 00:38:02,835 --> 00:38:04,995 Speaker 1: Market commercial which made me a lot of money, and 568 00:38:05,115 --> 00:38:07,355 Speaker 1: I was and I think it was already out. Then 569 00:38:07,395 --> 00:38:10,435 Speaker 1: I was going to leave ESPN to go somewhere else. 570 00:38:10,435 --> 00:38:12,355 Speaker 1: We're even more money, and I was beginning to run 571 00:38:12,395 --> 00:38:16,075 Speaker 1: into tax problems. And that sounds dull and conceded, but 572 00:38:16,355 --> 00:38:20,635 Speaker 1: there's irrelevance to the story. So I get it to 573 00:38:20,955 --> 00:38:24,955 Speaker 1: the radio station at WVBR to twenty seven Linden Avenue. 574 00:38:26,075 --> 00:38:28,755 Speaker 1: It had not been cleaned since my last appearance there 575 00:38:28,755 --> 00:38:31,795 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty two, and probably had not in fact 576 00:38:31,795 --> 00:38:34,555 Speaker 1: been cleaned since my first appearance there in nineteen seventy five. 577 00:38:34,635 --> 00:38:36,595 Speaker 1: And I buzzed my way in and the first person 578 00:38:36,675 --> 00:38:39,195 Speaker 1: I saw was a man named Phil Shapiro, who was 579 00:38:39,195 --> 00:38:42,675 Speaker 1: a salesman who had come to WVBR in about nineteen 580 00:38:42,715 --> 00:38:46,355 Speaker 1: sixty seven and never left. He managed to make a living, 581 00:38:46,755 --> 00:38:50,675 Speaker 1: just barely a living, selling time on a nominally college 582 00:38:50,795 --> 00:38:53,475 Speaker 1: radio station that had advertising. I won't go and do 583 00:38:53,595 --> 00:38:56,915 Speaker 1: the explanation as to why we had advertising, but Phil 584 00:38:56,915 --> 00:39:01,075 Speaker 1: Shapiro stopped and stared at me, and he said, what 585 00:39:01,115 --> 00:39:03,435 Speaker 1: are you doing here? He also did the Folk Show 586 00:39:03,475 --> 00:39:06,995 Speaker 1: every Sunday night, folk Music Live festival show, bound for 587 00:39:07,075 --> 00:39:10,875 Speaker 1: Glory from the law school at Cornell, and he had 588 00:39:10,875 --> 00:39:12,715 Speaker 1: one of those voices, and he did a lot of 589 00:39:12,715 --> 00:39:16,235 Speaker 1: commercials and he just had enough money to get by. 590 00:39:16,515 --> 00:39:18,515 Speaker 1: And he said, what are you doing here? And I said, 591 00:39:18,555 --> 00:39:20,915 Speaker 1: I used to work here? Remember? He said, no, of course, 592 00:39:21,075 --> 00:39:23,555 Speaker 1: of course, of course we remember you. What are you 593 00:39:23,595 --> 00:39:25,995 Speaker 1: doing here now? I said, well, I'm up here to 594 00:39:26,035 --> 00:39:28,835 Speaker 1: give the speech to the Daily Sun people. And you 595 00:39:28,875 --> 00:39:30,955 Speaker 1: know that's of course I'm going to come over here. Now. 596 00:39:30,995 --> 00:39:33,155 Speaker 1: I walked around campus for about five minutes and here 597 00:39:33,195 --> 00:39:34,955 Speaker 1: I am, just like the old days. He goes, no, 598 00:39:35,035 --> 00:39:37,715 Speaker 1: why are you here today? And I said, I'm not 599 00:39:37,715 --> 00:39:41,035 Speaker 1: getting your point. He said, we are holding a board 600 00:39:41,075 --> 00:39:45,275 Speaker 1: of director's emergency meeting in one hour, and we're going 601 00:39:45,355 --> 00:39:48,315 Speaker 1: to shut the radio station down for the summer. And 602 00:39:48,395 --> 00:39:51,995 Speaker 1: I said, what, you can't shut the radio station down 603 00:39:52,035 --> 00:39:53,715 Speaker 1: for the summer. It'll never go back on the air. 604 00:39:53,875 --> 00:39:57,355 Speaker 1: He said, I know. I said, well, what happened. Well, 605 00:39:57,395 --> 00:40:00,035 Speaker 1: now we go to the explanation as to what happened. 606 00:40:00,555 --> 00:40:02,715 Speaker 1: They ran out of money, But they didn't run out 607 00:40:02,715 --> 00:40:05,435 Speaker 1: of money. The place was still making advertise money enough 608 00:40:05,435 --> 00:40:07,595 Speaker 1: to make a profit every year. Although we couldn't keep 609 00:40:07,595 --> 00:40:09,995 Speaker 1: the profit because of the hybrid nature of the radio. 610 00:40:10,035 --> 00:40:13,635 Speaker 1: You don't care about this part. They had borrowed so 611 00:40:13,755 --> 00:40:16,875 Speaker 1: much money in the eighties for various capital projects that 612 00:40:16,955 --> 00:40:19,955 Speaker 1: the debt was killing the radio station. And the only 613 00:40:19,995 --> 00:40:22,435 Speaker 1: solution they could come up with was to take the 614 00:40:22,555 --> 00:40:26,515 Speaker 1: radio station off the air for the summer and then 615 00:40:26,555 --> 00:40:28,555 Speaker 1: bring it back in the fall when the students came 616 00:40:28,635 --> 00:40:32,275 Speaker 1: back and there were more listeners and therefore more profits 617 00:40:32,275 --> 00:40:34,555 Speaker 1: to make, or some profits to make, and they had 618 00:40:34,555 --> 00:40:37,635 Speaker 1: a chance of paying off the debt. And we all 619 00:40:37,755 --> 00:40:39,435 Speaker 1: knew that if the radio station went off the air, 620 00:40:39,435 --> 00:40:41,515 Speaker 1: it would never go back on the air. They would 621 00:40:41,555 --> 00:40:44,395 Speaker 1: sell the license to somebody else, carve up the money, 622 00:40:44,435 --> 00:40:49,315 Speaker 1: take some sort of AM carrier, current radio signal, and 623 00:40:49,475 --> 00:40:54,995 Speaker 1: reduce this factory of broadcasters that everybody that you could 624 00:40:55,035 --> 00:40:57,835 Speaker 1: think of, whoever went to Cornell and went into broadcasting, 625 00:40:58,195 --> 00:41:01,995 Speaker 1: went through. They're going to take it off the air. 626 00:41:02,595 --> 00:41:05,515 Speaker 1: The place that I owed my entire care or two. 627 00:41:05,795 --> 00:41:09,475 Speaker 1: And I sat down and listened to Phil and he said, 628 00:41:09,515 --> 00:41:11,515 Speaker 1: let me get the general manager. And they brought out 629 00:41:11,515 --> 00:41:14,435 Speaker 1: this fella from the class of ninety eight, and we 630 00:41:14,515 --> 00:41:19,195 Speaker 1: sat down in the business office, and the business office 631 00:41:19,395 --> 00:41:22,555 Speaker 1: was really just big enough for four large desks, and 632 00:41:22,595 --> 00:41:25,115 Speaker 1: the promotion director had a desk, and I believe the 633 00:41:25,195 --> 00:41:28,275 Speaker 1: music director may have had a desk, and the program 634 00:41:28,315 --> 00:41:30,435 Speaker 1: director had a desk over in the other corner. The 635 00:41:30,595 --> 00:41:33,675 Speaker 1: fourth corner was saved for the copying machine. That's how 636 00:41:33,715 --> 00:41:39,675 Speaker 1: small a business office it was. That far corner, essentially 637 00:41:39,715 --> 00:41:43,155 Speaker 1: the upper left hand corner of this office had been 638 00:41:43,195 --> 00:41:47,115 Speaker 1: Glenn's desk, and every time, for probably two years, even 639 00:41:47,155 --> 00:41:49,955 Speaker 1: before he was program director of the radio station, when 640 00:41:49,955 --> 00:41:52,635 Speaker 1: I would go into this office, I would see Glenn 641 00:41:52,715 --> 00:41:56,035 Speaker 1: on the phone with his feed up talking to a 642 00:41:56,195 --> 00:41:59,555 Speaker 1: music rep from Los Angeles, trying to get free radio 643 00:42:00,755 --> 00:42:05,475 Speaker 1: players of various kinds and performances or records or leased 644 00:42:05,635 --> 00:42:09,595 Speaker 1: or tickets to concerts or something, and ultimately to get 645 00:42:09,675 --> 00:42:12,635 Speaker 1: himself a career in the business, which I admired him for. 646 00:42:12,795 --> 00:42:15,235 Speaker 1: He was really good at it and it worked. But 647 00:42:15,315 --> 00:42:18,035 Speaker 1: I could see him then, And it occurred to me 648 00:42:18,075 --> 00:42:22,355 Speaker 1: as I sat down, to my surprise, that I could 649 00:42:22,395 --> 00:42:26,795 Speaker 1: see him now, not if I look directly at the 650 00:42:26,875 --> 00:42:29,955 Speaker 1: corner of what was his desk, but only if I 651 00:42:30,075 --> 00:42:33,235 Speaker 1: maintained my eye contact with the general manager of the 652 00:42:33,315 --> 00:42:36,435 Speaker 1: radio station and with Phil Shapiro, who was basically explaining 653 00:42:36,475 --> 00:42:38,275 Speaker 1: to me. The two of them were that the radio 654 00:42:38,315 --> 00:42:41,555 Speaker 1: station was going to go out of business shortly, like 655 00:42:41,995 --> 00:42:44,475 Speaker 1: forty five minutes from now, and I just happened to 656 00:42:44,515 --> 00:42:47,835 Speaker 1: wander in for the first time in literally fifteen years, 657 00:42:48,075 --> 00:42:50,275 Speaker 1: on the day they were going to vote to take 658 00:42:50,315 --> 00:42:54,075 Speaker 1: the radio station off the air. So that was Phil 659 00:42:54,075 --> 00:42:57,315 Speaker 1: Shapiro's question, what are you doing here today? And I said, 660 00:42:58,995 --> 00:43:02,435 Speaker 1: I don't know. Now I begin to understand what I 661 00:43:02,515 --> 00:43:05,755 Speaker 1: was doing there, because and I did not look into 662 00:43:05,795 --> 00:43:08,515 Speaker 1: the corner that had Glenn's desk in it, I could 663 00:43:08,555 --> 00:43:11,675 Speaker 1: see him quite clearly with his feet up on the 664 00:43:11,755 --> 00:43:14,955 Speaker 1: phone and now hanging the phone up, and now putting 665 00:43:14,995 --> 00:43:17,675 Speaker 1: his feet down, and just sort of sitting back in 666 00:43:17,715 --> 00:43:21,395 Speaker 1: the chair with his hands behind his head, rocking back 667 00:43:21,395 --> 00:43:25,475 Speaker 1: and forth in that chair and smiling and smiling more 668 00:43:25,555 --> 00:43:28,435 Speaker 1: and more broadly at me. And he was there. And 669 00:43:28,475 --> 00:43:31,395 Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever told anybody about this, but 670 00:43:31,515 --> 00:43:33,995 Speaker 1: I could see him. If I snapped over and tried 671 00:43:34,035 --> 00:43:37,195 Speaker 1: to catch him, he wasn't there. If I looked at 672 00:43:37,195 --> 00:43:39,955 Speaker 1: the general manager and at Phil Shapiro, he was there. 673 00:43:40,715 --> 00:43:42,795 Speaker 1: And they began to explain to me the whole history 674 00:43:42,795 --> 00:43:46,235 Speaker 1: of the ten or fifteen year decline of the finances 675 00:43:46,315 --> 00:43:49,035 Speaker 1: of w FBR, which apparently was the last radio station 676 00:43:49,075 --> 00:43:51,395 Speaker 1: in this country to try to go top forty for 677 00:43:51,435 --> 00:43:55,115 Speaker 1: some reason in the mid nineteen eighties. And that's where 678 00:43:55,515 --> 00:43:58,635 Speaker 1: the financial problem, which was not truly a financial problem. 679 00:43:58,635 --> 00:44:02,395 Speaker 1: If they could get rid of the debt, they'd be 680 00:44:02,475 --> 00:44:05,435 Speaker 1: making money. I mean, it sounds act academic, and for 681 00:44:05,555 --> 00:44:09,275 Speaker 1: my financial cuman, which is almost nothing, it is kind 682 00:44:09,275 --> 00:44:12,275 Speaker 1: of academic. But literally, if they could just wipe out 683 00:44:12,275 --> 00:44:13,915 Speaker 1: this debt, but there was no way to wipe out 684 00:44:13,915 --> 00:44:16,955 Speaker 1: the debt, they could never get out from under it. 685 00:44:17,115 --> 00:44:19,435 Speaker 1: And that was what the meeting was about. And the 686 00:44:19,515 --> 00:44:21,755 Speaker 1: votes were there to shut the radio station down and 687 00:44:21,795 --> 00:44:25,395 Speaker 1: there would be no chance it could ever resume. It 688 00:44:25,475 --> 00:44:28,075 Speaker 1: had to stay on the air during the summer, for 689 00:44:28,315 --> 00:44:30,635 Speaker 1: if no other reason, in the summer was when the 690 00:44:30,675 --> 00:44:33,595 Speaker 1: real training was done. The people who aspired to be 691 00:44:33,795 --> 00:44:37,355 Speaker 1: professionals in radio stayed in Ithaca, New York for the 692 00:44:37,395 --> 00:44:39,475 Speaker 1: summer and were on the air five six days a 693 00:44:39,475 --> 00:44:44,275 Speaker 1: week as disc jockeys, as newscasters, as sportscasters, as salesmen, 694 00:44:44,995 --> 00:44:47,515 Speaker 1: as running a radio station for three months in a 695 00:44:47,515 --> 00:44:50,955 Speaker 1: small town. I did it for one summer, and it 696 00:44:51,515 --> 00:44:55,235 Speaker 1: doubled my ability in three months, and so everything I 697 00:44:55,395 --> 00:45:03,155 Speaker 1: had owed to WVBR and I knew it, and the 698 00:45:03,195 --> 00:45:07,395 Speaker 1: ghost in the corner knew it too. And now I'm 699 00:45:07,435 --> 00:45:10,595 Speaker 1: waiting for the punchline to this how much money they 700 00:45:10,715 --> 00:45:15,235 Speaker 1: have and how much money they owe, and what the 701 00:45:15,315 --> 00:45:18,435 Speaker 1: debt service is, and how much money there is standing 702 00:45:18,475 --> 00:45:22,555 Speaker 1: between them and the apocalypse of shutting down for the summer. 703 00:45:24,275 --> 00:45:28,955 Speaker 1: And I'm waiting to hear half a million dollars, seven 704 00:45:29,035 --> 00:45:33,275 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars, even three hundred thousand dollars 705 00:45:33,355 --> 00:45:38,835 Speaker 1: something enormous. Remember at ESPN doing Sports Center, I never 706 00:45:38,835 --> 00:45:41,155 Speaker 1: made three hundred thousand dollars, not in the nineties, and 707 00:45:41,195 --> 00:45:45,275 Speaker 1: I was the highest paid guy doing SportsCenter. They didn't 708 00:45:45,315 --> 00:45:48,275 Speaker 1: even offer me half a million dollars to stay in 709 00:45:48,355 --> 00:45:50,755 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven. They're never going to pay anybody to 710 00:45:50,755 --> 00:45:57,795 Speaker 1: do SportsCenter for that much money. So I'm listening, and 711 00:45:57,835 --> 00:46:01,435 Speaker 1: the only thing that occurred to me was, well, maybe 712 00:46:01,555 --> 00:46:04,155 Speaker 1: maybe I can throw some money at it and we 713 00:46:04,195 --> 00:46:07,835 Speaker 1: can delay this a couple of weeks. Maybe because what 714 00:46:07,875 --> 00:46:10,675 Speaker 1: had happened was because of the book, which made me 715 00:46:10,715 --> 00:46:13,995 Speaker 1: some money, and that commercial when I fell off the cliff, 716 00:46:14,075 --> 00:46:16,515 Speaker 1: the Boston Market commercial which I'd made, had made me 717 00:46:16,595 --> 00:46:22,035 Speaker 1: some money too. My tax guy had told me that 718 00:46:22,155 --> 00:46:26,955 Speaker 1: I had to find a charitable donation to make to 719 00:46:27,075 --> 00:46:32,475 Speaker 1: a nonprofit of some sort. And WVBR qualified as a 720 00:46:32,515 --> 00:46:37,875 Speaker 1: nonprofit because of this byzantine tax structure and legal status 721 00:46:37,915 --> 00:46:41,355 Speaker 1: granted by it the FCC to it in nineteen thirty nine. 722 00:46:42,595 --> 00:46:45,755 Speaker 1: It had those properties. But what good would it be 723 00:46:45,795 --> 00:46:48,595 Speaker 1: if they needed ten million dollars I had to give away, 724 00:46:48,595 --> 00:46:54,595 Speaker 1: according to my accountant, about fifty thousand dollars, or just 725 00:46:54,595 --> 00:46:57,035 Speaker 1: give it to the irs. So he said, be on 726 00:46:57,075 --> 00:46:58,995 Speaker 1: the lookout. You have about a month to make up 727 00:46:58,995 --> 00:47:02,395 Speaker 1: your mind. And I listened to this nightmare. I listened 728 00:47:02,435 --> 00:47:05,275 Speaker 1: to Glenn's radio station about to go off the air, 729 00:47:05,355 --> 00:47:08,315 Speaker 1: and Peter's radio station, and Pat's radio station, and my 730 00:47:08,515 --> 00:47:11,755 Speaker 1: radio station going off the air, because among other things, 731 00:47:11,755 --> 00:47:14,275 Speaker 1: I hadn't paid any attention to it for fifteen years. 732 00:47:15,875 --> 00:47:21,195 Speaker 1: And Joyce Brothers worked at that radio station, not with me. 733 00:47:21,315 --> 00:47:25,355 Speaker 1: She was some years before. And I listened to this, 734 00:47:25,475 --> 00:47:28,475 Speaker 1: and in the corner of my eye, in the corner 735 00:47:28,515 --> 00:47:30,755 Speaker 1: of the office, I could see Glenn and I what 736 00:47:30,995 --> 00:47:34,635 Speaker 1: could not understand about this. It made absolute perfect sense 737 00:47:34,635 --> 00:47:37,515 Speaker 1: to me that Glenn Cornelius's ghost would be in the 738 00:47:37,555 --> 00:47:40,395 Speaker 1: corner of the business office at WVBR, and my first 739 00:47:40,435 --> 00:47:43,195 Speaker 1: appearance there in fifteen years, when I happened somehow to 740 00:47:43,275 --> 00:47:47,635 Speaker 1: have been driven there in one hour shy of the 741 00:47:47,675 --> 00:47:49,475 Speaker 1: moment that they were going to take the radio station 742 00:47:49,555 --> 00:47:51,675 Speaker 1: off the air. That I happened to be there that day, 743 00:47:51,755 --> 00:47:54,475 Speaker 1: I could understand why Glenn's ghost would be standing there 744 00:47:54,675 --> 00:47:57,315 Speaker 1: or sitting there in the corner, staring at me. What 745 00:47:57,395 --> 00:47:59,515 Speaker 1: I could not understand was why he had a smile 746 00:47:59,595 --> 00:48:02,115 Speaker 1: on his face. This did not seem to make any sense. 747 00:48:02,275 --> 00:48:04,195 Speaker 1: That was the part that disturbed me, not that I 748 00:48:04,235 --> 00:48:06,795 Speaker 1: could see him even though he had been dead for 749 00:48:06,835 --> 00:48:09,875 Speaker 1: more than a year. Not that part. It was that 750 00:48:09,955 --> 00:48:16,675 Speaker 1: he was smiling at me. That's when I cut to 751 00:48:16,755 --> 00:48:19,595 Speaker 1: the chase with Phil Shapiro and the general manager of 752 00:48:19,635 --> 00:48:23,995 Speaker 1: the radio station. I said, how much do you need? 753 00:48:25,835 --> 00:48:28,395 Speaker 1: And I'm waiting for the answer three hundred and seventy 754 00:48:28,475 --> 00:48:31,835 Speaker 1: nine thousand front and the guy goes, well, I haven't 755 00:48:31,915 --> 00:48:34,275 Speaker 1: checked it today, And I'm thinking, oh my god, it 756 00:48:34,395 --> 00:48:37,435 Speaker 1: goes up every day. Oh my god, why is Glenn 757 00:48:37,515 --> 00:48:41,035 Speaker 1: laughing at this? It can't possibly be something I can 758 00:48:41,115 --> 00:48:44,315 Speaker 1: help with. It'll be a drop in the bucket even 759 00:48:44,315 --> 00:48:47,435 Speaker 1: if I had to, he said, But I think the 760 00:48:47,515 --> 00:48:49,275 Speaker 1: last time I looked, earlier in the week, it was 761 00:48:50,555 --> 00:48:56,195 Speaker 1: forty nine and eighty three dollars and twenty seven cents. 762 00:48:57,435 --> 00:49:02,555 Speaker 1: Now I saw Glenn's ghost burst into laughter silently. Of course, 763 00:49:03,475 --> 00:49:08,435 Speaker 1: I burst into laughter full volume. I said, say that again, 764 00:49:08,715 --> 00:49:14,435 Speaker 1: forty nine and twenty seven cents. And I said, Okay, 765 00:49:15,315 --> 00:49:18,235 Speaker 1: you're not shutting down the radio station on my watch? 766 00:49:19,075 --> 00:49:26,195 Speaker 1: Can you keep it open until tomorrow morning without any help? Well, 767 00:49:26,235 --> 00:49:32,115 Speaker 1: I suppose, I said, okay, because here's the deal. My 768 00:49:32,275 --> 00:49:35,955 Speaker 1: accountant wants me to give away fifty thousand dollars in 769 00:49:36,035 --> 00:49:38,555 Speaker 1: the next month. And I happened to be here an 770 00:49:38,595 --> 00:49:41,555 Speaker 1: hour before the meeting at which you're going to shut 771 00:49:41,595 --> 00:49:43,875 Speaker 1: down because you don't have fifty thousand dollars. So here's 772 00:49:43,915 --> 00:49:46,395 Speaker 1: what I proposed to do. In addition to the fact 773 00:49:46,515 --> 00:49:49,875 Speaker 1: that I had to pay for the limo to take 774 00:49:49,955 --> 00:49:52,915 Speaker 1: me up here from New York, and I thought it 775 00:49:52,955 --> 00:49:55,755 Speaker 1: was going to be one check for the trip up 776 00:49:56,195 --> 00:49:59,755 Speaker 1: and one check for the trip back. In fact, they 777 00:49:59,835 --> 00:50:02,275 Speaker 1: demanded the round trip in advance, so when I got 778 00:50:02,275 --> 00:50:04,115 Speaker 1: out of the car an hour ago, I had to 779 00:50:04,155 --> 00:50:07,395 Speaker 1: give them a round trip fee on one check. I 780 00:50:07,395 --> 00:50:10,555 Speaker 1: still have one of my corporate checks back in the hotel, 781 00:50:10,915 --> 00:50:13,995 Speaker 1: so I have a check, a blank check, and I 782 00:50:14,035 --> 00:50:17,155 Speaker 1: have a need to give away fifty thousand dollars, which 783 00:50:17,195 --> 00:50:20,035 Speaker 1: is slightly more than you need by about thirteen bucks. 784 00:50:20,395 --> 00:50:22,875 Speaker 1: So here's what I want. I want you to rename 785 00:50:22,955 --> 00:50:24,995 Speaker 1: that studio over there where you do most of the 786 00:50:25,195 --> 00:50:28,595 Speaker 1: music programming from. I need you to rename that after Glenn, 787 00:50:29,235 --> 00:50:33,155 Speaker 1: and I want a party tomorrow with cake, and I 788 00:50:33,195 --> 00:50:37,515 Speaker 1: want balloons, and I want this announcement to run just once. 789 00:50:38,275 --> 00:50:43,275 Speaker 1: You're listening to WVBRFM ninety three point five Ithica, New York, 790 00:50:43,755 --> 00:50:47,555 Speaker 1: an Olberman Broadcasting Empire station. You don't have to run 791 00:50:47,555 --> 00:50:52,595 Speaker 1: it once. And they went what And Phil Shapiro went 792 00:50:52,635 --> 00:50:55,275 Speaker 1: white as a sheet. I said, I'm giving you the 793 00:50:55,395 --> 00:50:59,515 Speaker 1: money you need. How's that? Can you stay open until 794 00:50:59,555 --> 00:51:03,035 Speaker 1: tomorrow without it? Because I have it back in my 795 00:51:03,195 --> 00:51:05,395 Speaker 1: room and I really don't want to go over there 796 00:51:05,435 --> 00:51:09,435 Speaker 1: and come back again today. I'll come back tomorrow. I mean, 797 00:51:09,475 --> 00:51:11,955 Speaker 1: I'm not criticizing anybody, none of you are the ones 798 00:51:11,955 --> 00:51:15,355 Speaker 1: who are responsible for turning this into a top forty 799 00:51:15,435 --> 00:51:18,595 Speaker 1: radio station in nineteen eighty five. That wasn't your fault. 800 00:51:18,635 --> 00:51:21,715 Speaker 1: It's nineteen ninety six. Those people are long gone from 801 00:51:21,715 --> 00:51:28,875 Speaker 1: this radio station. I said, okay, can you just not 802 00:51:29,835 --> 00:51:35,155 Speaker 1: shut down my station, Glenn's radio station. Can you just 803 00:51:36,435 --> 00:51:40,235 Speaker 1: stay on the air and stay in business till tomorrow morning? 804 00:51:40,795 --> 00:51:42,835 Speaker 1: And Phil Shapiro, who I thought was going to faint, 805 00:51:43,315 --> 00:51:45,715 Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, oh great, now there'll be two ghosts 806 00:51:45,715 --> 00:51:50,915 Speaker 1: in this room, Phil, and I think we can handle it. 807 00:51:50,955 --> 00:51:52,875 Speaker 1: What do you think? And the general manager just looked 808 00:51:52,915 --> 00:51:54,875 Speaker 1: at me like, oh, thank god, how did you come 809 00:51:54,915 --> 00:51:57,955 Speaker 1: here today? I went, I looked over in the corner 810 00:51:57,955 --> 00:52:00,555 Speaker 1: of the room and there was no ghost anymore. And 811 00:52:00,635 --> 00:52:07,195 Speaker 1: I said, someday I'll explain it to you. The radio 812 00:52:07,195 --> 00:52:09,635 Speaker 1: station survived. They managed to keep it open till the 813 00:52:09,675 --> 00:52:11,195 Speaker 1: next day, and then we had a party, and then 814 00:52:11,235 --> 00:52:12,955 Speaker 1: they put up a plaque that called at the Glenn 815 00:52:12,995 --> 00:52:16,475 Speaker 1: Cornelius Memorial Studio. And then they got into other problems 816 00:52:16,475 --> 00:52:18,475 Speaker 1: that really were not their fault, where we had to 817 00:52:18,475 --> 00:52:21,835 Speaker 1: build them a new studio in about two thousand and 818 00:52:22,035 --> 00:52:23,955 Speaker 1: ten or so, and there has a little bit more 819 00:52:23,995 --> 00:52:26,275 Speaker 1: money circulating through my life, so I helped them out 820 00:52:26,275 --> 00:52:29,755 Speaker 1: there too, and now they operate from a much nicer 821 00:52:29,875 --> 00:52:35,715 Speaker 1: multimedia facility called the Olderman Cornelius Studios, which I claim 822 00:52:35,915 --> 00:52:38,795 Speaker 1: are named after Glenn and after my father, because my 823 00:52:38,835 --> 00:52:41,155 Speaker 1: father put in such effort to getting me into that 824 00:52:41,235 --> 00:52:44,235 Speaker 1: place in the first time, and into Cornell in the 825 00:52:44,235 --> 00:52:49,155 Speaker 1: first place. But obviously it also the other Olderman in 826 00:52:49,195 --> 00:52:52,435 Speaker 1: the equation is me, but it's Olderman Cornelius rather than 827 00:52:52,435 --> 00:52:55,475 Speaker 1: Cornelius Olderman, because as I think Glenn would have agreed 828 00:52:55,515 --> 00:52:58,275 Speaker 1: with me, the damnedest part of this would have been 829 00:52:58,315 --> 00:53:00,755 Speaker 1: if somebody someday had thought there was actually somebody named 830 00:53:00,795 --> 00:53:04,235 Speaker 1: Cornelius Olderman, so we wouldn't have that, neither he nor I, 831 00:53:05,195 --> 00:53:11,795 Speaker 1: and so it is now today the Olderman Cornelias Studios. 832 00:53:11,915 --> 00:53:19,075 Speaker 1: But I saw him laughing his ass off. Something put 833 00:53:19,115 --> 00:53:21,915 Speaker 1: me in that studio an hour before they were going 834 00:53:21,955 --> 00:53:24,835 Speaker 1: to go out of business after not being there for 835 00:53:24,875 --> 00:53:28,235 Speaker 1: fifteen years, nor worrying about their financial status. Something put 836 00:53:28,315 --> 00:53:30,955 Speaker 1: me in that studio having to give away fifty thousand 837 00:53:30,955 --> 00:53:36,195 Speaker 1: dollars for tax purposes when they needed just slightly less 838 00:53:36,195 --> 00:53:39,555 Speaker 1: than that. I'm happy to say that they spent the 839 00:53:39,755 --> 00:53:50,235 Speaker 1: additional thirteen dollars on the cake. I saw him, didn't 840 00:53:50,235 --> 00:53:57,355 Speaker 1: hear him, didn't ask him questions, didn't say anything. I 841 00:53:57,395 --> 00:54:09,595 Speaker 1: saw him. And then the other day I found this cassette. 842 00:54:10,955 --> 00:54:13,795 Speaker 2: All right, that's what I like to see, a record 843 00:54:13,795 --> 00:54:16,275 Speaker 2: that's hop skipping and jumping. There all the young dude'es. 844 00:54:16,355 --> 00:54:21,715 Speaker 2: Just listen to this, folks, you are and are Wait, 845 00:54:21,795 --> 00:54:22,595 Speaker 2: that wasn't your cue? 846 00:54:22,595 --> 00:54:22,995 Speaker 1: Hold it. 847 00:54:22,995 --> 00:54:24,075 Speaker 2: We're not quite ready yet. 848 00:54:24,275 --> 00:54:25,755 Speaker 3: Time out one? 849 00:54:25,955 --> 00:54:26,155 Speaker 1: Two? 850 00:54:26,235 --> 00:54:28,475 Speaker 2: Okay, wait, don't go yet. Well that's three and a 851 00:54:28,475 --> 00:54:31,275 Speaker 2: half minutes before two o'clock. We're w I at R Binghamson. 852 00:54:31,355 --> 00:54:33,075 Speaker 2: My name is Tom Daniels, and we're going off the 853 00:54:33,115 --> 00:54:34,835 Speaker 2: air in a very little while. I'll be back tomorrow 854 00:54:34,875 --> 00:54:37,635 Speaker 2: morning and maybe at ten o'clock, and i'll be here 855 00:54:37,675 --> 00:54:40,595 Speaker 2: through four Dandy Don Morgan at at four o'clock, And. 856 00:54:40,675 --> 00:54:46,035 Speaker 1: Now this message, why are well? 857 00:54:46,075 --> 00:54:49,235 Speaker 2: The world may never recover from this. I certainly won't 858 00:54:49,235 --> 00:54:52,555 Speaker 2: ever recover from this. But Al Stewart's gonna come and 859 00:54:52,595 --> 00:54:54,315 Speaker 2: he's gonna sing a song, and this is entertaining. It's 860 00:54:54,315 --> 00:54:55,515 Speaker 2: a nice song to go to, bit too. 861 00:54:55,755 --> 00:54:57,795 Speaker 1: It's all about that you're the cat. 862 00:55:09,035 --> 00:55:10,835 Speaker 3: Yes, I know. 863 00:55:13,035 --> 00:55:19,755 Speaker 2: All right, Hurricane, list enough, Hurricane you're not listening. We're 864 00:55:19,755 --> 00:55:21,795 Speaker 2: gonna have to take acisive action here. A hurricane doesn't 865 00:55:21,795 --> 00:55:32,235 Speaker 2: watch out. I told you weren't nice. Well, the views 866 00:55:32,235 --> 00:55:34,995 Speaker 2: and opinions expressed by this activity do not particularly reflect 867 00:55:35,035 --> 00:55:38,275 Speaker 2: the opinions or the views of anyone, most especially Keith 868 00:55:38,355 --> 00:55:40,475 Speaker 2: or Peter or Bad or anybody else like that. Thirteen 869 00:55:40,475 --> 00:55:42,675 Speaker 2: before one o'clock at w I n R. That was 870 00:55:42,715 --> 00:55:45,155 Speaker 2: a little bit of Hurricane Smith. Luckily not a whole lot, 871 00:55:45,195 --> 00:55:46,075 Speaker 2: though eagles are here. 872 00:55:59,115 --> 00:56:00,995 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 873 00:56:01,035 --> 00:56:04,075 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and John 874 00:56:04,075 --> 00:56:08,195 Speaker 1: Phillips arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. Mister 875 00:56:08,355 --> 00:56:11,675 Speaker 1: Ray on guitars, bass and drums. Mister Schanelle handled orchestration 876 00:56:11,755 --> 00:56:16,875 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Produced by TKO Brothers. I saw him. He 877 00:56:16,915 --> 00:56:20,795 Speaker 1: was a ghost. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, 878 00:56:20,795 --> 00:56:23,915 Speaker 1: were arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 879 00:56:24,315 --> 00:56:27,275 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, 880 00:56:27,315 --> 00:56:31,115 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our 881 00:56:31,235 --> 00:56:34,355 Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the 882 00:56:34,395 --> 00:56:37,435 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today is my 883 00:56:37,475 --> 00:56:40,395 Speaker 1: friend Larry David. Everything else was pretty much my fault. 884 00:56:41,675 --> 00:56:43,755 Speaker 1: Could I have not really seen him and just seen 885 00:56:43,795 --> 00:56:48,035 Speaker 1: him in my mind's eye. That's countdown for this the 886 00:56:48,035 --> 00:56:51,115 Speaker 1: two hundred and eleventh day until the twenty twenty four 887 00:56:51,195 --> 00:56:55,555 Speaker 1: presidential election, the one one hundred and ninetieth day since 888 00:56:55,595 --> 00:56:59,355 Speaker 1: dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 889 00:56:59,395 --> 00:57:02,755 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Use the fourteenth Amendment and 890 00:57:02,755 --> 00:57:05,875 Speaker 1: the not regularly given elector of Objection option. Use the 891 00:57:05,875 --> 00:57:09,235 Speaker 1: Insurrection Act, the justice system, the mental health system to 892 00:57:09,395 --> 00:57:12,755 Speaker 1: stop him from doing it again while we still can. 893 00:57:13,555 --> 00:57:17,515 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins is the news 894 00:57:17,555 --> 00:57:21,395 Speaker 1: warrants till then. I'm Keith Oulraman. Good Morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 895 00:57:21,675 --> 00:57:36,555 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olreman is a production 896 00:57:36,795 --> 00:57:42,075 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 897 00:57:42,155 --> 00:57:45,555 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.