1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:30,235 --> 00:00:35,595 Speaker 1: Roy Cone. Roy Cone died thirty six years ago this month. 3 00:00:36,275 --> 00:00:41,115 Speaker 1: Roy Cone was Trump's first mentor. His attorney from three 4 00:00:42,635 --> 00:00:46,075 Speaker 1: defended him cut a deal when the government charged Trump 5 00:00:46,115 --> 00:00:50,315 Speaker 1: with racist rental practices. Reportedly, it was roy Cone who 6 00:00:50,315 --> 00:00:53,275 Speaker 1: introduced Trump to an immigrant businessman trying to make his 7 00:00:53,395 --> 00:00:55,395 Speaker 1: move in this country in the early nineteen eighties, a 8 00:00:55,395 --> 00:01:01,475 Speaker 1: man named Rupert Murdoch. Thoughts of roy Cone encouraged me 9 00:01:01,555 --> 00:01:04,395 Speaker 1: to remind you again of what I referenced here last 10 00:01:04,675 --> 00:01:08,475 Speaker 1: today about the inference that Trump stole top secret classified 11 00:01:08,515 --> 00:01:12,555 Speaker 1: documents related to nuclear weapons, namely that as recently as 12 00:01:12,635 --> 00:01:16,475 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty three, this country executed two people, a husband 13 00:01:16,515 --> 00:01:21,475 Speaker 1: and wife, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, for having provided documents 14 00:01:21,515 --> 00:01:25,555 Speaker 1: related to nuclear weapons to a foreign government. The Rosenberg 15 00:01:25,635 --> 00:01:28,995 Speaker 1: trial turned in large part on the testimony of Ethel 16 00:01:29,115 --> 00:01:33,195 Speaker 1: Rosenberg's brother, David green Glass, who said that he had 17 00:01:33,235 --> 00:01:37,275 Speaker 1: given the nuclear documents from the Manhattan Project to his 18 00:01:37,355 --> 00:01:39,955 Speaker 1: sister and his brother in law, and that they gave 19 00:01:39,995 --> 00:01:43,955 Speaker 1: those nuclear documents to the Russians. The assistant United States 20 00:01:43,995 --> 00:01:47,915 Speaker 1: Attorney who conducted the direct examination of green Glass, who 21 00:01:47,955 --> 00:01:51,835 Speaker 1: so dramatically drew out green Glass's implication of the Rosenberg's, 22 00:01:51,955 --> 00:01:54,915 Speaker 1: who would later claim he also persuaded the judge to 23 00:01:55,115 --> 00:02:00,995 Speaker 1: impose the death penalty on the Rosenberg's was Roy Cone, 24 00:02:02,035 --> 00:02:07,675 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's Roy Cone. Mark Twain did not actually say 25 00:02:08,235 --> 00:02:12,275 Speaker 1: history never repeats itself, but it rhymes. But it rhymes 26 00:02:13,395 --> 00:02:17,395 Speaker 1: Roy Kone, and the Rosenbergs and Trump are relevant for 27 00:02:17,435 --> 00:02:20,515 Speaker 1: more than just the wow factor of Cones role in 28 00:02:20,715 --> 00:02:25,755 Speaker 1: ending the Rosenbergs and his role in starting Trump. The 29 00:02:25,875 --> 00:02:30,555 Speaker 1: Rosenbergs were convicted on Marche they were not executed until 30 00:02:30,675 --> 00:02:36,475 Speaker 1: June nifty three, and for two years the aftermath, the 31 00:02:36,595 --> 00:02:39,275 Speaker 1: doubts about the propriety of the trial, the doubts about 32 00:02:39,435 --> 00:02:43,035 Speaker 1: Roy Khone, the argument that electrocuting both parents of two 33 00:02:43,075 --> 00:02:46,355 Speaker 1: small children, whatever their crimes might have been, was barbaric 34 00:02:46,475 --> 00:02:50,075 Speaker 1: and beneath us. Two years and nearly three months of 35 00:02:50,115 --> 00:02:54,475 Speaker 1: the Rosenbergs and their fate and their nuclear documents dominating 36 00:02:54,475 --> 00:02:59,955 Speaker 1: the national conversation, and here perhaps we go again. The 37 00:03:00,035 --> 00:03:04,355 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal reported wait Sunday afternoon, quoting unnamed officials, 38 00:03:04,755 --> 00:03:07,875 Speaker 1: that the FBI search of Mari Lago was principally about 39 00:03:07,915 --> 00:03:13,435 Speaker 1: one thing, and one thing, only retrieving classified information. What 40 00:03:13,595 --> 00:03:17,595 Speaker 1: follows that mattered and matters. But the point was to 41 00:03:17,675 --> 00:03:21,755 Speaker 1: get the documents, the top secret classified documents related to 42 00:03:21,835 --> 00:03:27,555 Speaker 1: nuclear weapons back from Donald Trump. Investigators are now pursuing, 43 00:03:27,675 --> 00:03:31,475 Speaker 1: right three journal reporters the next steps of the Department's 44 00:03:31,475 --> 00:03:34,915 Speaker 1: criminal investigation into the handling of national security material and 45 00:03:34,955 --> 00:03:39,835 Speaker 1: presidential records, a process that may take many months to 46 00:03:40,075 --> 00:03:48,435 Speaker 1: play out. Many months, many months of last week repeated 47 00:03:48,515 --> 00:03:52,075 Speaker 1: over and over again while we wait on tear hooks. 48 00:03:52,875 --> 00:03:55,435 Speaker 1: Last week, a week in which Merrick Garland's confirmation of 49 00:03:55,475 --> 00:03:58,755 Speaker 1: the search at Trump's crapshack was delayed by more than 50 00:03:58,795 --> 00:04:02,395 Speaker 1: half an hour, apparently because at that time somebody was 51 00:04:02,515 --> 00:04:06,115 Speaker 1: relaying a message from Trump with a passive aggressive threat 52 00:04:07,115 --> 00:04:10,875 Speaker 1: to Garland and to this nation that millions were enraged 53 00:04:10,915 --> 00:04:13,715 Speaker 1: by the search, and quote the country is on fire. 54 00:04:13,995 --> 00:04:16,835 Speaker 1: What can I do to reduce the heat, which is 55 00:04:16,915 --> 00:04:20,195 Speaker 1: of course a Trumpian blackmail way of saying I can 56 00:04:20,315 --> 00:04:25,955 Speaker 1: light the country on fire, you better let me skate. Months, 57 00:04:26,875 --> 00:04:31,235 Speaker 1: many months full of last week when Trump docked the 58 00:04:31,355 --> 00:04:34,475 Speaker 1: FBI agents involved in the raid, when someone tried to 59 00:04:34,515 --> 00:04:38,435 Speaker 1: breach the FBI office in Cincinnati and armed thugs surrounded 60 00:04:38,435 --> 00:04:41,555 Speaker 1: the FBI office in Phoenix, when Homeland Security and the 61 00:04:41,595 --> 00:04:45,195 Speaker 1: FBI had to issue a warning to personnel to be 62 00:04:45,275 --> 00:04:48,475 Speaker 1: on the highest alert for domestic terrorism, when Fox News 63 00:04:48,555 --> 00:04:52,315 Speaker 1: tried to pass off a photoshopped image as proof of 64 00:04:52,355 --> 00:04:55,555 Speaker 1: a tie between the judge who signed the search warrant 65 00:04:55,715 --> 00:04:59,595 Speaker 1: and Jeffrey Epstein, and two days later, Junior Trump spoke 66 00:04:59,635 --> 00:05:03,995 Speaker 1: of that tie as if it were fact. Months many 67 00:05:04,075 --> 00:05:08,315 Speaker 1: months of last week, again and again last week in 68 00:05:08,355 --> 00:05:12,075 Speaker 1: which Sean Hannity reassured us Trump can run for president 69 00:05:12,155 --> 00:05:16,315 Speaker 1: while in prison, in which every possible permutation of what 70 00:05:16,515 --> 00:05:19,955 Speaker 1: is and what is not classified was screened by thousands, 71 00:05:19,955 --> 00:05:23,555 Speaker 1: except the notation that if Trump can snap his fingers 72 00:05:23,635 --> 00:05:28,275 Speaker 1: and declassify something or everything, president Biden could just as 73 00:05:28,275 --> 00:05:32,995 Speaker 1: easily snap his fingers and reclassify something or everything, in 74 00:05:33,035 --> 00:05:37,835 Speaker 1: which every expert shouted every possible outcome and totally drowned 75 00:05:37,835 --> 00:05:42,515 Speaker 1: out the only relevant one, the calm observation of Charlie Savage, 76 00:05:42,995 --> 00:05:45,155 Speaker 1: the expert in the field from The New York Times, 77 00:05:45,195 --> 00:05:48,555 Speaker 1: that of the three statutes referenced in the Trump warrant quote, 78 00:05:49,435 --> 00:05:53,115 Speaker 1: none of those laws turn on whether information was deemed 79 00:05:53,155 --> 00:05:59,875 Speaker 1: to be unclassified months, many months full of last week 80 00:05:59,915 --> 00:06:03,595 Speaker 1: again and again months of last week, in which, by 81 00:06:03,595 --> 00:06:07,195 Speaker 1: my count, Trump and his apologists, his cover up team, 82 00:06:07,315 --> 00:06:10,995 Speaker 1: his co conspirators after the fact, offered at least thirty 83 00:06:11,035 --> 00:06:16,155 Speaker 1: one different flavors of excuses for him. Namely, Trump did 84 00:06:16,195 --> 00:06:18,795 Speaker 1: nothing wrong because Trump says he declassified all of it, 85 00:06:18,835 --> 00:06:21,595 Speaker 1: even though there is no record of him declassifying any 86 00:06:21,635 --> 00:06:24,195 Speaker 1: of it. Trump did nothing wrong because, even though there's 87 00:06:24,235 --> 00:06:26,635 Speaker 1: no record of him declassifying it, he says he had 88 00:06:26,675 --> 00:06:29,515 Speaker 1: a standing order that anything he took to the Oval 89 00:06:29,595 --> 00:06:33,355 Speaker 1: Office was declassified. Trump did nothing wrong because, though he 90 00:06:33,395 --> 00:06:36,715 Speaker 1: disagrees with Trump, Jason Miller says Trump had a standing 91 00:06:36,795 --> 00:06:40,875 Speaker 1: order that anything he took to Marilago was declassified. Trump 92 00:06:40,955 --> 00:06:44,275 Speaker 1: did nothing wrong because Cash Patel says, even though there's 93 00:06:44,275 --> 00:06:48,035 Speaker 1: no record of him issuing a standing order to declassify 94 00:06:48,075 --> 00:06:52,275 Speaker 1: anything he took, quote, he can literally stand over a 95 00:06:52,315 --> 00:06:56,235 Speaker 1: set of documents and say these are now declassified. Trump 96 00:06:56,235 --> 00:06:58,435 Speaker 1: did nothing wrong because even though there's no record of 97 00:06:58,475 --> 00:07:01,435 Speaker 1: him standing over documents and saying these are not declassified. 98 00:07:01,955 --> 00:07:05,635 Speaker 1: Charles Stimpson of the Heritage Foundation says a document is 99 00:07:05,715 --> 00:07:11,755 Speaker 1: still declassified even if Trump only told himself declassified even 100 00:07:11,835 --> 00:07:15,995 Speaker 1: quote if a president has decided but not communicated it 101 00:07:16,115 --> 00:07:22,235 Speaker 1: outside of his own head. Trump did nothing wrong because 102 00:07:22,235 --> 00:07:24,355 Speaker 1: Trump says there were documents in the boxes that are 103 00:07:24,355 --> 00:07:26,915 Speaker 1: covered by attorney client privilege and he wants them back. 104 00:07:27,715 --> 00:07:30,715 Speaker 1: Trump did nothing wrong because Senator Ron Johnson thinks Mari 105 00:07:30,795 --> 00:07:34,155 Speaker 1: Lago is a pretty safe place. Trump did nothing wrong 106 00:07:34,195 --> 00:07:38,035 Speaker 1: because Senator Rand Paul says the Espionage Act is un 107 00:07:38,075 --> 00:07:41,275 Speaker 1: American and it's from World War One, and yea treason. 108 00:07:42,635 --> 00:07:45,955 Speaker 1: Trump did nothing wrong because North Carolina Congressman Dan Bishop 109 00:07:45,995 --> 00:07:49,275 Speaker 1: says the FBI director is deep state and corrupt. You 110 00:07:49,315 --> 00:07:53,515 Speaker 1: know the FBI director Trump appointed. Trump did nothing wrong 111 00:07:53,555 --> 00:07:56,995 Speaker 1: because you talk congresson Chris Stewart says, heck, maybe it 112 00:07:57,115 --> 00:08:01,315 Speaker 1: was aliens. Trump did nothing wrong because Florida Congressman Mike 113 00:08:01,395 --> 00:08:07,075 Speaker 1: Waltz says Trump didn't prosecute Hillary Clinton when she her emails. 114 00:08:08,195 --> 00:08:11,435 Speaker 1: Trump did nothing wrong because Ohio Congressman Mike Turner says 115 00:08:11,435 --> 00:08:14,475 Speaker 1: he just checked out books too long from the archivists. 116 00:08:15,475 --> 00:08:18,795 Speaker 1: Trump did nothing wrong because Ohio Congressman Mike Turner also 117 00:08:18,875 --> 00:08:22,355 Speaker 1: says many of the nuclear weapons quote you can find 118 00:08:22,475 --> 00:08:26,915 Speaker 1: on your own phone. Trump did nothing wrong because Ohio 119 00:08:26,955 --> 00:08:30,795 Speaker 1: Congressman Mike Turner also also says the documents were two 120 00:08:30,915 --> 00:08:35,075 Speaker 1: years old. Trump did nothing wrong because Junior Trump says 121 00:08:35,075 --> 00:08:38,035 Speaker 1: the judge you signed the search warrant was Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer, 122 00:08:38,275 --> 00:08:41,075 Speaker 1: even though he wasn't Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer, and Junior Trump 123 00:08:41,115 --> 00:08:44,235 Speaker 1: just made that crap up. Trump did nothing wrong because 124 00:08:44,235 --> 00:08:48,235 Speaker 1: Brett Bear says there was only one box containing top 125 00:08:48,315 --> 00:08:53,155 Speaker 1: secret or sensitive compartmented information. Trump did nothing wrong because 126 00:08:53,195 --> 00:08:56,275 Speaker 1: Peter Navarro says the nuclear secrets weren't secret and revealing 127 00:08:56,315 --> 00:09:01,075 Speaker 1: them means more jobs. Trump did nothing wrong because John 128 00:09:01,155 --> 00:09:04,835 Speaker 1: Turley says a subpoena was enough. Trump did nothing wrong 129 00:09:04,875 --> 00:09:08,475 Speaker 1: because John Turley also says January six really screwed up 130 00:09:08,475 --> 00:09:12,115 Speaker 1: Trump's calendar and he may have been too busy. Trump 131 00:09:12,115 --> 00:09:15,275 Speaker 1: did nothing wrong because NBC sources say he didn't think 132 00:09:15,275 --> 00:09:19,115 Speaker 1: he was leaving, so he had to pack in a hurry. 133 00:09:19,395 --> 00:09:22,515 Speaker 1: Trump did nothing wrong because David Martosco says he didn't 134 00:09:22,555 --> 00:09:27,035 Speaker 1: personally pack the boxes. Trump did nothing wrong because Sebastian 135 00:09:27,035 --> 00:09:30,035 Speaker 1: Gorka says the FBI only went into Mari Lago to 136 00:09:30,195 --> 00:09:35,355 Speaker 1: plant listening devices. Trump did nothing wrong because Devin Noonas 137 00:09:35,355 --> 00:09:37,795 Speaker 1: says the I R S and Benghazi and the government 138 00:09:37,795 --> 00:09:41,995 Speaker 1: did January six That's why Trump did nothing wrong. Because 139 00:09:41,995 --> 00:09:45,595 Speaker 1: his spokesman says, everyone winds up bringing work home from 140 00:09:45,595 --> 00:09:48,795 Speaker 1: the office. Trump did nothing wrong because he says the 141 00:09:48,795 --> 00:09:52,795 Speaker 1: TV ratings for the January sixth Committee hearings haven't been 142 00:09:52,835 --> 00:09:56,955 Speaker 1: good and that's why they rated his house. Trump did 143 00:09:56,995 --> 00:10:01,795 Speaker 1: nothing wrong because at five pm Thursday afternoon, Dana Perino said, 144 00:10:02,035 --> 00:10:06,355 Speaker 1: it's not like these were nuclear secrets. Trump did nothing 145 00:10:06,355 --> 00:10:09,955 Speaker 1: wrong because Monica Crowley says there were nuclear secrets, but 146 00:10:09,995 --> 00:10:12,475 Speaker 1: they waited a year and a half to search for them. 147 00:10:12,595 --> 00:10:15,475 Speaker 1: Trump did nothing wrong because Brightbart says they waited the 148 00:10:15,515 --> 00:10:20,795 Speaker 1: whole weekend before searching his dump. Trump did nothing wrong 149 00:10:20,835 --> 00:10:24,355 Speaker 1: because Will Kaine says Nixon said when the president does it, 150 00:10:24,475 --> 00:10:28,155 Speaker 1: that means that it is not illegal, even though Nixon 151 00:10:28,235 --> 00:10:31,515 Speaker 1: walked that back seventeen days later to say he only 152 00:10:31,555 --> 00:10:34,835 Speaker 1: meant in national emergencies. And oh, by the way, Nixon 153 00:10:34,915 --> 00:10:39,635 Speaker 1: had to resign for doing illegal president things. And of 154 00:10:39,675 --> 00:10:42,635 Speaker 1: course Trump did nothing wrong because they all say the 155 00:10:42,715 --> 00:10:46,075 Speaker 1: FBI found nothing, and nothing they found was classified in 156 00:10:46,155 --> 00:10:49,635 Speaker 1: any way. All of the nothing they found was all 157 00:10:50,155 --> 00:10:56,915 Speaker 1: planted by the FBI. Planted by the FBI, even though 158 00:10:56,955 --> 00:11:02,035 Speaker 1: according to Trump's attorney Christina Bob Trump and family members, 159 00:11:02,675 --> 00:11:05,595 Speaker 1: We're in New York, a couple blocks from where I'm 160 00:11:05,635 --> 00:11:11,195 Speaker 1: recording this, watching the feed from the various security cameras 161 00:11:11,635 --> 00:11:17,795 Speaker 1: at Mari Lago as the FBI searched it planted invisibly. 162 00:11:20,715 --> 00:11:24,715 Speaker 1: All of this, of course, obscures the only real debate 163 00:11:24,795 --> 00:11:30,395 Speaker 1: we should be having. Trump stole nuclear secrets. The standard 164 00:11:30,475 --> 00:11:34,675 Speaker 1: sentence for violations of eighteen USC. Seven nine three is 165 00:11:34,755 --> 00:11:40,075 Speaker 1: ten years per count, but under Sarbanes Oxley, the bill 166 00:11:40,115 --> 00:11:43,035 Speaker 1: passed in two thousand two to cover the destruction of 167 00:11:43,115 --> 00:11:47,795 Speaker 1: documents involved in a federal investigation, it's twenty years per count. 168 00:11:48,275 --> 00:11:50,115 Speaker 1: So which do you pursue him with or do you 169 00:11:50,155 --> 00:11:53,835 Speaker 1: go back to the actual Espionage Act and pursue him 170 00:11:53,835 --> 00:11:57,195 Speaker 1: as they did the CIA officer Aldrich Ames, who spied 171 00:11:57,235 --> 00:12:00,275 Speaker 1: for the KGB and got a life sentence in and 172 00:12:00,515 --> 00:12:04,395 Speaker 1: is still in there as of today in Tara Haute, Indiana, 173 00:12:05,995 --> 00:12:09,915 Speaker 1: life sentence. Well, because we are not the same barbaric 174 00:12:09,995 --> 00:12:14,315 Speaker 1: people we were when we executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg 175 00:12:14,355 --> 00:12:18,595 Speaker 1: in Ninette after they were convicted of giving nuclear secrets 176 00:12:18,595 --> 00:12:23,075 Speaker 1: to Russia. Convicted thanks to the work of Roy Kone, 177 00:12:23,995 --> 00:12:37,675 Speaker 1: the future teacher of Donald Trump. Still ahead on Countdown, 178 00:12:37,675 --> 00:12:41,315 Speaker 1: Why aren't more people recognizing the disaster of baseball's marketing 179 00:12:41,315 --> 00:12:45,755 Speaker 1: poster boy being suspended until next year for using steroids? 180 00:12:47,075 --> 00:12:50,515 Speaker 1: Plus the day I met Salmon Rushdie and wondered if 181 00:12:50,515 --> 00:12:54,875 Speaker 1: he had enough security in worst, the murder of Freya 182 00:12:54,955 --> 00:12:59,235 Speaker 1: the Walrus in Norway. And it is Elvis Presley Week 183 00:13:00,315 --> 00:13:02,995 Speaker 1: And guests who probably did the last commercial for an 184 00:13:02,995 --> 00:13:09,835 Speaker 1: Elvis Presley concert? Me, I'll play it for you. That's next. 185 00:13:09,955 --> 00:13:23,795 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith old Woman 186 00:13:28,355 --> 00:13:32,795 Speaker 1: just ahead, the day I met Salmon Rushdie, worst persons, 187 00:13:32,795 --> 00:13:35,355 Speaker 1: who really are the worst? And Elvis Presley died forty 188 00:13:35,395 --> 00:13:37,555 Speaker 1: five years ago this week, And I cannot be certain 189 00:13:37,595 --> 00:13:40,715 Speaker 1: I was the last. But if I'm wrong, I'm still 190 00:13:40,795 --> 00:13:43,435 Speaker 1: one of the last people to be the voice of 191 00:13:43,435 --> 00:13:47,635 Speaker 1: a radio commercial for a live Elvis Presley concert. Yes, 192 00:13:47,995 --> 00:13:50,475 Speaker 1: I'll play it for you, and I have a major 193 00:13:50,515 --> 00:13:53,795 Speaker 1: complaint about it. First, in each edition of Countdown, we 194 00:13:53,875 --> 00:13:56,675 Speaker 1: feature a dog in need somewhere in this country whom 195 00:13:56,715 --> 00:14:00,115 Speaker 1: you can help. Every dog has its day today. That 196 00:14:00,155 --> 00:14:03,595 Speaker 1: dog is cheer Bear, three years old, twenty six pounds, 197 00:14:03,715 --> 00:14:06,475 Speaker 1: very active, loves long walks and long naps. Loves other 198 00:14:06,515 --> 00:14:09,555 Speaker 1: dogs who will play with him, big smile, jet black hair. 199 00:14:09,635 --> 00:14:13,075 Speaker 1: He is at Hounds and Pounds our friends in New Jersey, 200 00:14:13,115 --> 00:14:16,115 Speaker 1: waiting for his forever family. If you are interested, go 201 00:14:16,195 --> 00:14:18,875 Speaker 1: to my account for Dogs in Need Tom jumbo Grumbo 202 00:14:18,955 --> 00:14:21,795 Speaker 1: on Twitter to see cheer Bear and get the links 203 00:14:21,835 --> 00:14:23,675 Speaker 1: that will take you to the website where he is. 204 00:14:24,315 --> 00:14:27,715 Speaker 1: You can also help cheer Bear by retweeting my tweet 205 00:14:27,755 --> 00:14:30,675 Speaker 1: about him spread the word. It is at Tom jumbo 206 00:14:30,715 --> 00:14:46,835 Speaker 1: Grumbo on Twitter. Thank you kindly. Coming up on countdown. 207 00:14:46,875 --> 00:14:51,115 Speaker 1: Why would a baseball player already making forty million dollars 208 00:14:51,675 --> 00:14:56,035 Speaker 1: take steroids and three people who are truly the worst 209 00:14:56,035 --> 00:14:58,395 Speaker 1: persons in the world but now postscripts to the news, 210 00:14:58,795 --> 00:15:07,595 Speaker 1: some headlines, some thoughts, some snark. Date Line Washington the 211 00:15:07,635 --> 00:15:10,635 Speaker 1: latest hip faux outrage from the right that as part 212 00:15:10,635 --> 00:15:13,555 Speaker 1: of the Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden will sign 213 00:15:13,635 --> 00:15:16,995 Speaker 1: this week, the Internal Revenue Service will hire eighty seven 214 00:15:17,035 --> 00:15:21,155 Speaker 1: thousand armed i R S agents I R S agents 215 00:15:21,195 --> 00:15:25,435 Speaker 1: with guns. Oh knows, Brian, kill me too, Fox Nudes. 216 00:15:25,755 --> 00:15:29,235 Speaker 1: One of the dumbest people there said they are quote 217 00:15:29,315 --> 00:15:31,795 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's new army. They will hunt down and kill 218 00:15:31,875 --> 00:15:35,715 Speaker 1: middle class taxpayers who don't pay enough. Apart from the 219 00:15:35,795 --> 00:15:40,075 Speaker 1: widely noted facts that dead taxpayers can't pay taxes and 220 00:15:40,075 --> 00:15:42,115 Speaker 1: are thus of no use to the i r S, 221 00:15:42,955 --> 00:15:45,715 Speaker 1: the other flaw in the paranoia is it's not true. 222 00:15:46,035 --> 00:15:49,195 Speaker 1: For one reporter in Washington comes this calculation, less than 223 00:15:49,275 --> 00:15:51,915 Speaker 1: one per cent of the seven thousand new hires at 224 00:15:51,955 --> 00:15:55,475 Speaker 1: the i r S will be criminal investigation special agents 225 00:15:55,595 --> 00:16:00,595 Speaker 1: who may carry firearms. Most will be public specialists who 226 00:16:00,595 --> 00:16:03,995 Speaker 1: will answer the phone calls from citizens, or I T 227 00:16:04,115 --> 00:16:05,995 Speaker 1: specialists to will try to make the i r S 228 00:16:06,035 --> 00:16:09,395 Speaker 1: computers work for a change. And this report was reported 229 00:16:09,395 --> 00:16:14,755 Speaker 1: by the White House correspondent of Fox Nudes Dateline Silt. 230 00:16:14,955 --> 00:16:17,315 Speaker 1: Colorado locals are trying to figure out if there's a 231 00:16:17,355 --> 00:16:19,755 Speaker 1: cover up or just not enough to prosecute. In the 232 00:16:19,835 --> 00:16:23,395 Speaker 1: latest case of Jason Bobert, the ne'er do well husband 233 00:16:23,395 --> 00:16:26,355 Speaker 1: of the second dumbest Republican in the House, Lauren Bobert, 234 00:16:26,635 --> 00:16:30,035 Speaker 1: the Denver Post obtained nine one calls from panic neighbors 235 00:16:30,195 --> 00:16:34,115 Speaker 1: who claimed Bobert had threatened them with a gun, might 236 00:16:34,155 --> 00:16:36,395 Speaker 1: have been drunk and had already run over one of 237 00:16:36,435 --> 00:16:39,875 Speaker 1: their mailboxes with his car on August four. Quote. This 238 00:16:39,995 --> 00:16:42,715 Speaker 1: was clearly a serious situation, as there were two nine 239 00:16:42,715 --> 00:16:45,555 Speaker 1: one one calls, five deputies, and at least four families 240 00:16:45,555 --> 00:16:48,075 Speaker 1: involved that according to David Wheeler, the head of an 241 00:16:48,115 --> 00:16:51,835 Speaker 1: anti Bobert group called American Muckrakers, the good news is that, 242 00:16:51,955 --> 00:16:55,315 Speaker 1: unlike the two thousand four incident involving Jason Bobart, he 243 00:16:55,395 --> 00:16:57,915 Speaker 1: did not expose himself to young women at a bowling 244 00:16:57,955 --> 00:17:02,235 Speaker 1: alley and dateline, Pennsylvania. The news continues to be positive, 245 00:17:02,235 --> 00:17:05,475 Speaker 1: if not exactly good for Sir Salmon Rush day after 246 00:17:05,515 --> 00:17:08,115 Speaker 1: he was stabbed on Friday while on stage at a 247 00:17:08,195 --> 00:17:10,955 Speaker 1: literary event in upstate New York. And as you probably know, 248 00:17:11,475 --> 00:17:14,955 Speaker 1: he's off the ventilator, he can talk, he has made jokes. 249 00:17:15,675 --> 00:17:18,235 Speaker 1: Questions remain about the apparent lack of protection for the 250 00:17:18,275 --> 00:17:21,275 Speaker 1: seventy five year old writer under an Iranian fat wash 251 00:17:21,315 --> 00:17:25,155 Speaker 1: since nine and the one time I met this man 252 00:17:25,395 --> 00:17:30,395 Speaker 1: underscored the inconsistency of the protection he gets. Fifteen years ago, 253 00:17:30,835 --> 00:17:34,155 Speaker 1: my then girlfriend Katie tur was a huge Harry Potter fan, 254 00:17:34,715 --> 00:17:37,515 Speaker 1: I have no problems mentioning that I liked the books too. 255 00:17:38,275 --> 00:17:41,675 Speaker 1: Somehow this news got around to the publishers, and the 256 00:17:41,715 --> 00:17:44,395 Speaker 1: next thing I knew, I was introducing the author J. K. 257 00:17:44,635 --> 00:17:47,715 Speaker 1: Rowling at Carnegie Hall, and I was invited to the 258 00:17:47,715 --> 00:17:50,235 Speaker 1: party that preceded the release of the Last of the 259 00:17:50,235 --> 00:17:53,475 Speaker 1: Potter books. At twelve oh one a m. July one, 260 00:17:53,635 --> 00:17:56,275 Speaker 1: I think it was two thousand seven, Katie and I 261 00:17:56,355 --> 00:17:59,755 Speaker 1: were in line to pick up our copies. MSNBC sent 262 00:17:59,795 --> 00:18:02,715 Speaker 1: a camera crew to record this historic moment, and the 263 00:18:02,755 --> 00:18:05,635 Speaker 1: photographer rushed up, stood in front of us and pointed 264 00:18:05,635 --> 00:18:08,555 Speaker 1: the camera back towards us. Just then the man ahead 265 00:18:08,595 --> 00:18:11,235 Speaker 1: of me in Lyne ducked kind of freaked out and 266 00:18:11,275 --> 00:18:13,555 Speaker 1: told them not to videotape him. What are you doing? 267 00:18:13,995 --> 00:18:16,955 Speaker 1: The photographer said, who are you, and, pointing to me, 268 00:18:17,115 --> 00:18:20,635 Speaker 1: said we're here to shoot this guy. The gentleman in 269 00:18:20,675 --> 00:18:23,795 Speaker 1: front paused, then laughed, then turned to look at us. 270 00:18:23,875 --> 00:18:26,835 Speaker 1: It was Salmon Rushdie, and I don't know which one 271 00:18:26,835 --> 00:18:29,155 Speaker 1: of us was more surprised to see the other. He 272 00:18:29,275 --> 00:18:31,635 Speaker 1: was very pleasant. He had apparently seen the show. We 273 00:18:31,675 --> 00:18:33,995 Speaker 1: talked about the books. He also thought they were real 274 00:18:34,035 --> 00:18:36,795 Speaker 1: well done. I didn't ask him why there was no 275 00:18:36,875 --> 00:18:40,675 Speaker 1: bodyguard with him apparently, nor apparently anybody at all with him, 276 00:18:40,715 --> 00:18:43,155 Speaker 1: But coverage of the nightmare last Friday seems to be 277 00:18:43,195 --> 00:18:46,835 Speaker 1: pretty universal. He tries to live a normal life whenever 278 00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:50,915 Speaker 1: he can, and maybe, just maybe, the apparent lack of 279 00:18:51,235 --> 00:18:54,435 Speaker 1: security at the Chautauqua Literary event in upstate New York 280 00:18:54,475 --> 00:18:58,915 Speaker 1: was not entirely the organizers doing. Every time since our 281 00:18:59,035 --> 00:19:01,675 Speaker 1: brief meeting that I have seen or heard a Harry 282 00:19:01,715 --> 00:19:04,995 Speaker 1: Potter reference, I have thought of Salmon Rushdie and hoped 283 00:19:05,355 --> 00:19:08,195 Speaker 1: that he indeed knew best on the subject of when 284 00:19:08,275 --> 00:19:25,715 Speaker 1: to bring along a friend. This is Sports Center. Wait, 285 00:19:25,915 --> 00:19:33,955 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith. Just 286 00:19:34,235 --> 00:19:37,355 Speaker 1: one sports story that, because of its implications, should be 287 00:19:37,395 --> 00:19:39,715 Speaker 1: the only thing being talked about right now, at least 288 00:19:39,715 --> 00:19:42,315 Speaker 1: in baseball. But instead it has almost fallen off the 289 00:19:42,435 --> 00:19:45,675 Speaker 1: radar in less than seventy two hours since it happened. 290 00:19:46,115 --> 00:19:49,795 Speaker 1: The man whom Baseball chose eighteen months ago as the 291 00:19:49,875 --> 00:19:55,155 Speaker 1: centerpiece of its overall marketing strategy V Star moving forward. 292 00:19:55,515 --> 00:19:57,675 Speaker 1: The guy they put on the cover of their most 293 00:19:57,675 --> 00:20:00,875 Speaker 1: popular video game, whom they put in every commercial for 294 00:20:00,875 --> 00:20:03,315 Speaker 1: the sport whom they had say in these commercials, I 295 00:20:03,355 --> 00:20:06,395 Speaker 1: am here to change the aime whose team gave him 296 00:20:06,435 --> 00:20:10,355 Speaker 1: a fourteen year contract extension where three forty million dollars 297 00:20:10,355 --> 00:20:14,755 Speaker 1: guaranteed just last year. This guy has been suspended for 298 00:20:14,915 --> 00:20:18,515 Speaker 1: using steroids. He will not play another game until May 299 00:20:18,675 --> 00:20:23,115 Speaker 1: of next year at the earliest. But there's nothing to 300 00:20:23,155 --> 00:20:26,915 Speaker 1: see here. There's no new steroid problem in baseball. There's 301 00:20:26,915 --> 00:20:30,235 Speaker 1: no scandal. It's just one guy who didn't know he 302 00:20:30,275 --> 00:20:32,955 Speaker 1: had to use the masking agent in addition to the steroid. 303 00:20:32,995 --> 00:20:35,435 Speaker 1: It's not a tornado on the horizon. It's not worth 304 00:20:35,515 --> 00:20:38,555 Speaker 1: even wondering if anybody else is doing steroids at the moment. 305 00:20:38,715 --> 00:20:44,715 Speaker 1: He's just a lone wolf. Well, even if Fernando Tatis Jr. 306 00:20:44,955 --> 00:20:48,395 Speaker 1: Is a lone wolf, even if already making three forty 307 00:20:48,435 --> 00:20:51,555 Speaker 1: million dollars, he took the old school steroid clost the 308 00:20:51,555 --> 00:20:55,835 Speaker 1: ball to what build even more muscles so he could 309 00:20:55,835 --> 00:21:00,475 Speaker 1: get an even better contract for the season of Even 310 00:21:00,515 --> 00:21:03,155 Speaker 1: if he's a lone wolf, it's a big old fashioned 311 00:21:03,195 --> 00:21:07,835 Speaker 1: baseball scandal. Tattis explained he had inadvertently taken cost of 312 00:21:07,875 --> 00:21:14,315 Speaker 1: ball to treat the fungal skin infection pleasantly known as ringworm. Unfortunately, 313 00:21:14,435 --> 00:21:17,115 Speaker 1: his team, the San Diego Padres, are beginning to wonder, 314 00:21:17,795 --> 00:21:20,995 Speaker 1: and their general manager blistered tatts on the record in 315 00:21:21,035 --> 00:21:25,035 Speaker 1: an interview hours after the suspension was announced. Last year, 316 00:21:25,075 --> 00:21:28,915 Speaker 1: Tattis suffered a confusing shoulder injury. Last winter, he broke 317 00:21:28,995 --> 00:21:32,595 Speaker 1: his wrists supposedly in a motorcycle accident, and initially told 318 00:21:32,675 --> 00:21:36,155 Speaker 1: no one, but it's possible. Whatever is wrong with tattiss 319 00:21:36,355 --> 00:21:38,835 Speaker 1: health is the least of baseball's problems here. It's been 320 00:21:38,875 --> 00:21:43,075 Speaker 1: eight years since any superstar was dogged by accusations of 321 00:21:43,115 --> 00:21:46,035 Speaker 1: the use of banned performance enhancing drugs. That would have 322 00:21:46,035 --> 00:21:49,475 Speaker 1: been Alex Rodriguez, and nearly twenty years since steroids were 323 00:21:49,515 --> 00:21:52,995 Speaker 1: the enhancer of choice. It had been human growth hormone 324 00:21:53,035 --> 00:21:55,835 Speaker 1: most of the time since then. In the time since 325 00:21:55,915 --> 00:21:59,035 Speaker 1: the Rodriguez era and before that the Barry Bonds era, 326 00:21:59,675 --> 00:22:02,635 Speaker 1: a new time developed in the game, the three True 327 00:22:02,715 --> 00:22:06,235 Speaker 1: Outcomes baseball version. It seems as if every batter gets 328 00:22:06,315 --> 00:22:08,675 Speaker 1: only one of the three results of walk, strike out, 329 00:22:08,755 --> 00:22:11,835 Speaker 1: or a home run. In two thousand nineteen, major league 330 00:22:11,875 --> 00:22:14,395 Speaker 1: hitters broke the all time record for total homers in 331 00:22:14,435 --> 00:22:19,595 Speaker 1: one season by eleven percent. The home run splurge, which 332 00:22:19,675 --> 00:22:23,515 Speaker 1: may have plateaued, has been attributed to better instruction, teaching 333 00:22:23,515 --> 00:22:26,915 Speaker 1: batters about launch angle and barrels only hitting the ball 334 00:22:26,955 --> 00:22:29,435 Speaker 1: with the mediest part of the bat. I have not 335 00:22:29,555 --> 00:22:31,875 Speaker 1: been alone in wondering, as the history of Major League 336 00:22:31,915 --> 00:22:35,155 Speaker 1: Baseball exceeded the one and fifty year mark, if there 337 00:22:35,235 --> 00:22:38,595 Speaker 1: was really enough new coaching methodology to account for the 338 00:22:38,715 --> 00:22:42,555 Speaker 1: latest explosion in home runs, or if maybe we were 339 00:22:42,595 --> 00:22:45,675 Speaker 1: experiencing and just didn't know it yet another era of 340 00:22:45,795 --> 00:22:50,155 Speaker 1: p E d s. Who knows, Maybe Tatiss really did 341 00:22:50,195 --> 00:22:53,195 Speaker 1: get ring worm and really did use medication without checking 342 00:22:53,395 --> 00:22:55,875 Speaker 1: if one of the ingredients was a steroid so old 343 00:22:55,915 --> 00:22:59,115 Speaker 1: school that an earlier version was the primary drug used 344 00:22:59,155 --> 00:23:01,995 Speaker 1: by those doped up East German Olympians of the sixties 345 00:23:01,995 --> 00:23:05,955 Speaker 1: and seventies, and those weird, sudden dramatic injuries he's had, 346 00:23:05,995 --> 00:23:09,195 Speaker 1: the kind so often associated with the side effective steroid use. 347 00:23:09,395 --> 00:23:15,235 Speaker 1: Those are just coincidences, maybe, or maybe Tattoos has just 348 00:23:15,355 --> 00:23:19,275 Speaker 1: joined the Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Jose Canseco, Roger Clemen's Society. 349 00:23:19,835 --> 00:23:22,515 Speaker 1: And this is the real problem nobody in baseball is 350 00:23:22,555 --> 00:23:25,035 Speaker 1: talking about, as they never talked about it until it's 351 00:23:25,075 --> 00:23:28,675 Speaker 1: too late. One thing has always been true about that 352 00:23:28,715 --> 00:23:32,715 Speaker 1: society of p E D users. There are always other 353 00:23:32,795 --> 00:23:50,675 Speaker 1: members waiting to be discovered. Still ahead, Elvis Presley is 354 00:23:50,755 --> 00:23:53,595 Speaker 1: still dead. I will play you the commercial I made 355 00:23:53,595 --> 00:23:55,755 Speaker 1: for him when I was eighteen and when he was 356 00:23:55,795 --> 00:23:59,435 Speaker 1: still alive. First the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons 357 00:23:59,435 --> 00:24:04,155 Speaker 1: and dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons 358 00:24:04,155 --> 00:24:09,515 Speaker 1: in the world. Old Our Bronze winner Texas Perpetual Embarrassment 359 00:24:09,555 --> 00:24:13,675 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz speaking at a fascist fish fry and gardner Ville, Nebraska, 360 00:24:13,715 --> 00:24:17,275 Speaker 1: on Saturday, making not one but two transphobic slurs to 361 00:24:17,355 --> 00:24:22,435 Speaker 1: the maddened crowd. Cruz insisted the swimmer Leah Thomas quote 362 00:24:22,475 --> 00:24:25,875 Speaker 1: is a dude. He looks like Michael Phelps unquote. Then 363 00:24:25,875 --> 00:24:29,635 Speaker 1: he said, of an actual working senator, quoting Elizabeth Warren, 364 00:24:29,715 --> 00:24:31,835 Speaker 1: told reporters that a guy came up to her and said, 365 00:24:31,875 --> 00:24:33,675 Speaker 1: I would have voted for you if only you had 366 00:24:33,715 --> 00:24:37,355 Speaker 1: a penis in today's Democrat Party. How do we know 367 00:24:37,475 --> 00:24:41,355 Speaker 1: she doesn't? How could you possibly know? Well this much 368 00:24:41,395 --> 00:24:43,515 Speaker 1: we do know. After he failed to defend his own 369 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:48,635 Speaker 1: wife against Trump, Ted Cruz doesn't have any testicles. The 370 00:24:48,675 --> 00:24:51,875 Speaker 1: silver winner House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. If you actually 371 00:24:51,915 --> 00:24:54,435 Speaker 1: still need a reason to vote Democratic in the fall 372 00:24:54,515 --> 00:24:56,835 Speaker 1: after the you know, the coup thing and the nuclear 373 00:24:56,915 --> 00:25:00,035 Speaker 1: secrets thing, just remember how stupid this man who might 374 00:25:00,075 --> 00:25:03,195 Speaker 1: be speaker is. Let me ask you this question he 375 00:25:03,275 --> 00:25:06,635 Speaker 1: wind on the House floor. Is America better off today 376 00:25:06,635 --> 00:25:10,115 Speaker 1: than they were two years ago? Let me see two 377 00:25:10,155 --> 00:25:13,555 Speaker 1: years ago? Is what August of what's going on in 378 00:25:13,595 --> 00:25:20,515 Speaker 1: August of pandemic raging, uncontrolled, no vaccine, insane, President posse, 379 00:25:20,755 --> 00:25:23,915 Speaker 1: murder of George Floyd. Yeah, you know what, keV. America 380 00:25:24,035 --> 00:25:27,035 Speaker 1: is way better off now. But there's a second part 381 00:25:27,075 --> 00:25:31,435 Speaker 1: to this. Let me reread McCarthy's quote. Is America better 382 00:25:31,435 --> 00:25:37,515 Speaker 1: off today than they were two years ago? Chris McCarthy 383 00:25:37,555 --> 00:25:40,275 Speaker 1: could be the Speaker of the House of Representatives and 384 00:25:40,315 --> 00:25:45,395 Speaker 1: he is a flat out moron. But the gold goes 385 00:25:45,475 --> 00:25:47,435 Speaker 1: to and and usually the worst person in the world 386 00:25:47,515 --> 00:25:50,115 Speaker 1: is not actually the worst person in the world. It's 387 00:25:50,195 --> 00:25:53,555 Speaker 1: it's hyperbole. I think you caught on by now about this, 388 00:25:53,635 --> 00:25:57,235 Speaker 1: but this one is legit worst. I may or may 389 00:25:57,315 --> 00:26:00,115 Speaker 1: not have these names right. I've researched as well as 390 00:26:00,155 --> 00:26:04,515 Speaker 1: I could in somebody else's language and within somebody else's bureaucracy. 391 00:26:04,915 --> 00:26:07,355 Speaker 1: But I believe the awards should be shared by Live 392 00:26:07,595 --> 00:26:12,075 Speaker 1: Holme Fiord, chief of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, old 393 00:26:12,115 --> 00:26:15,675 Speaker 1: Off Lek for spokesman for that directorate, and bejord our 394 00:26:15,755 --> 00:26:20,035 Speaker 1: Selness scared On, the Minister of Fisheries of Norway. This 395 00:26:20,195 --> 00:26:23,755 Speaker 1: is about Freya und pound walrus, who has for many 396 00:26:23,755 --> 00:26:27,235 Speaker 1: weeks been cavorting around the waters of the Norwegian capital Oslo. 397 00:26:27,955 --> 00:26:30,195 Speaker 1: She should not have been there. They think her real 398 00:26:30,235 --> 00:26:33,835 Speaker 1: home was twelve hundred miles north. They think climate change 399 00:26:33,915 --> 00:26:37,875 Speaker 1: drove her south. Freya jumped onto piers in the Oslow 400 00:26:37,955 --> 00:26:42,315 Speaker 1: waters and climbed onto boats big and small, sometimes sinking 401 00:26:42,315 --> 00:26:46,395 Speaker 1: the small ones because she thirteen hundred pounds. She chased 402 00:26:46,395 --> 00:26:49,835 Speaker 1: people on kayaks and paddle boards, probably because walrces are 403 00:26:49,915 --> 00:26:53,355 Speaker 1: very social creatures and she appeared to be alone, and 404 00:26:53,395 --> 00:26:55,475 Speaker 1: we guess she's just sort of thought she could play 405 00:26:55,515 --> 00:26:57,635 Speaker 1: with the humans since there were no wal horses to 406 00:26:57,675 --> 00:27:01,875 Speaker 1: be found, and those humans, including Fisheries Director Holme Fiord 407 00:27:01,915 --> 00:27:05,795 Speaker 1: and Fisheries Minister scared On, warned people in Oslo that 408 00:27:05,955 --> 00:27:08,315 Speaker 1: they could get hurt playing with her or taking pictures 409 00:27:08,315 --> 00:27:10,435 Speaker 1: of her trying to feed her. So naturally, if the 410 00:27:10,475 --> 00:27:13,195 Speaker 1: people didn't stop doing those things, the government would have 411 00:27:13,275 --> 00:27:18,995 Speaker 1: to kill Freya the Walrus and Sunday, the Norwegian government 412 00:27:19,275 --> 00:27:22,995 Speaker 1: killed Freya the Walrus because people were too stupid to 413 00:27:23,075 --> 00:27:26,555 Speaker 1: leave her alone, or because the government was too stupid 414 00:27:26,555 --> 00:27:29,715 Speaker 1: to think, hey, uh, you get those people who want 415 00:27:29,755 --> 00:27:33,115 Speaker 1: to take that risk. Okay, fine, sign waivers. You get hurt, 416 00:27:33,155 --> 00:27:36,435 Speaker 1: it's your problem. They also did not explore tranquilizer darts 417 00:27:36,515 --> 00:27:39,555 Speaker 1: for Freya or for the idiots who interacted with her. 418 00:27:40,075 --> 00:27:43,515 Speaker 1: The fishery spokesman Mr. Lek Vers said moving Freya somewhere 419 00:27:43,515 --> 00:27:46,635 Speaker 1: else was quote too high risk. He did not explain 420 00:27:46,715 --> 00:27:49,755 Speaker 1: to whom it was too high risk. Clearly it couldn't 421 00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:51,595 Speaker 1: have been more of a risk to Freya since the 422 00:27:51,635 --> 00:27:56,395 Speaker 1: Norwegian government chose the other option of killing her. Spokesman 423 00:27:56,475 --> 00:28:00,035 Speaker 1: lek for Director home Fiord and Minister Scarron did not 424 00:28:00,195 --> 00:28:03,035 Speaker 1: say how they killed the lonely Walrus. They claim it 425 00:28:03,115 --> 00:28:05,875 Speaker 1: was humane. One wonders if Frey have viewed it as such, 426 00:28:06,715 --> 00:28:10,755 Speaker 1: But there are also several larger points here. Exactly when 427 00:28:10,795 --> 00:28:13,235 Speaker 1: did we humans get the idea that our species is 428 00:28:13,235 --> 00:28:17,315 Speaker 1: more valuable than frays is. Have you seen what humans 429 00:28:17,315 --> 00:28:20,035 Speaker 1: have been doing lately? You want to compare Freya to 430 00:28:20,155 --> 00:28:27,715 Speaker 1: say Ted Cruz, Johnny Depp, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump. More particularly, 431 00:28:28,715 --> 00:28:31,155 Speaker 1: she moved to Oslo because of climate change, which I 432 00:28:31,155 --> 00:28:34,715 Speaker 1: do not think has been caused by walrus's and ultimately 433 00:28:34,755 --> 00:28:37,595 Speaker 1: on the subject of somebody getting injured, humans or Freya. 434 00:28:37,675 --> 00:28:39,955 Speaker 1: To be blunt about it, there are apparently only two 435 00:28:40,835 --> 00:28:43,235 Speaker 1: thousand walrus is left in the world, as opposed to 436 00:28:43,715 --> 00:28:48,115 Speaker 1: five million, seventy nine thousand Norwegians. You do the math. 437 00:28:49,035 --> 00:28:51,395 Speaker 1: It would not surprise if this story, which had already 438 00:28:51,395 --> 00:28:54,715 Speaker 1: gone worldwide by midday Sunday, costs two or three people 439 00:28:54,755 --> 00:28:57,595 Speaker 1: their jobs. Maybe more than two or three people, because 440 00:28:57,635 --> 00:29:01,435 Speaker 1: even in a small country there are always bureaucrats in 441 00:29:01,435 --> 00:29:04,875 Speaker 1: the middle happy to anonymously kill an animal to act 442 00:29:04,875 --> 00:29:08,955 Speaker 1: their own tourist trade. But for now, live home. Fiord, 443 00:29:09,155 --> 00:29:13,475 Speaker 1: Director of Norwegian Director of Fisheries, Olaf Lechford, Director at 444 00:29:13,475 --> 00:29:17,115 Speaker 1: spokesman and Minister of fisher Aias bring our selness, Scaron, 445 00:29:17,755 --> 00:29:19,515 Speaker 1: what do you think of the ratio is of the 446 00:29:19,555 --> 00:29:23,115 Speaker 1: remaining Walruses to the number of useless bureaucrats in Norway, 447 00:29:23,715 --> 00:29:48,315 Speaker 1: Today's worst persons in the world. Finally, our number one 448 00:29:48,355 --> 00:29:50,875 Speaker 1: story on the countdown. Back to my favorite topic, me 449 00:29:51,075 --> 00:29:53,715 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell. And this you 450 00:29:53,715 --> 00:29:57,635 Speaker 1: will see far and wide is Elvis Presley Week because tomorrow, 451 00:29:57,675 --> 00:30:04,915 Speaker 1: Tuesday is the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. August six teen, 452 00:30:04,915 --> 00:30:09,195 Speaker 1: seventy seven. Elvis dies not on tour, but on toilet 453 00:30:09,475 --> 00:30:13,635 Speaker 1: in Memphis, Tennessee, leading to the timeless question does this 454 00:30:13,715 --> 00:30:16,515 Speaker 1: mean you don't get paid? And at the age of 455 00:30:16,555 --> 00:30:20,715 Speaker 1: sixty three, I may be the youngest person alive who 456 00:30:20,755 --> 00:30:24,635 Speaker 1: can say this. I did a commercial for an Elvis 457 00:30:24,675 --> 00:30:29,555 Speaker 1: Presley concert in August of nineteen seventy seven. Elvis was 458 00:30:29,555 --> 00:30:31,995 Speaker 1: scheduled to do a series of live shows in the Northeast, 459 00:30:32,075 --> 00:30:35,075 Speaker 1: and the day he died, he was leaving for Portland, Maine, 460 00:30:35,115 --> 00:30:37,555 Speaker 1: and two nights at the then brand new Cumberland County 461 00:30:37,595 --> 00:30:39,995 Speaker 1: Civic Center there, then you Utica, New York on the 462 00:30:40,835 --> 00:30:43,835 Speaker 1: Syracuse the next night, the Nassau County Coliseum on Long 463 00:30:43,875 --> 00:30:48,195 Speaker 1: Island on the twenty one, then rupp Arena in Kentucky, Roanoke, Virginia, 464 00:30:48,235 --> 00:30:50,555 Speaker 1: two stops in North Carolina and wrapping it up with 465 00:30:50,635 --> 00:30:54,675 Speaker 1: two nights at the Memphis Mid South Kylseon. Having lived 466 00:30:54,715 --> 00:30:57,515 Speaker 1: through the end, I have to say that by this 467 00:30:57,555 --> 00:31:00,715 Speaker 1: point Elvis Presley was something of a self parody. Arriving 468 00:31:00,755 --> 00:31:04,395 Speaker 1: at one concert he fell out of the limo. He 469 00:31:04,515 --> 00:31:08,635 Speaker 1: was enormous, he could barely sing, and when he sang, 470 00:31:08,675 --> 00:31:11,515 Speaker 1: he was now essentially a country Western singer, and not 471 00:31:11,835 --> 00:31:15,675 Speaker 1: a very good one. We had an album oriented commercial 472 00:31:15,755 --> 00:31:18,515 Speaker 1: rock station run by Cornell students in Ithaca, New York, 473 00:31:18,555 --> 00:31:22,595 Speaker 1: and I do not remember ever hearing an Elvis song 474 00:31:22,755 --> 00:31:24,995 Speaker 1: played during one of the regular shows, maybe on the 475 00:31:25,035 --> 00:31:28,475 Speaker 1: Saturday night Oldies show, but the thought of playing hound 476 00:31:28,515 --> 00:31:31,515 Speaker 1: Dog or jail House Rock, which are genuine rock and 477 00:31:31,595 --> 00:31:35,395 Speaker 1: roll classics, would have provoked laughter or maybe a walk 478 00:31:35,395 --> 00:31:39,155 Speaker 1: out by the disc jockeys. So when our advertising sales 479 00:31:39,155 --> 00:31:42,635 Speaker 1: manager walked into my office in July and said we 480 00:31:42,715 --> 00:31:45,835 Speaker 1: have a one hundred spot by from Elvis Presley's concert promoter, 481 00:31:46,275 --> 00:31:50,755 Speaker 1: there was only one possible answer to this. Why. Well, 482 00:31:50,795 --> 00:31:52,995 Speaker 1: it turned out we were an hour or so from 483 00:31:53,035 --> 00:31:55,795 Speaker 1: the War Memorial Coliseum in Syracuse, where Elvis was to 484 00:31:55,835 --> 00:32:00,075 Speaker 1: play on August, and the promoters had bought time on 485 00:32:00,235 --> 00:32:04,475 Speaker 1: every radio station that played music between Syracuse and US. 486 00:32:05,555 --> 00:32:07,715 Speaker 1: They got out of map, pulled out a protractor and 487 00:32:07,795 --> 00:32:11,275 Speaker 1: drew a circle representing a sixty mile radius. There we 488 00:32:11,275 --> 00:32:14,355 Speaker 1: were w v B r f M, New York out 489 00:32:14,395 --> 00:32:18,115 Speaker 1: at the edge. That summer, I was the operations director 490 00:32:18,115 --> 00:32:20,155 Speaker 1: of the station. I was in charge, filling in for 491 00:32:20,195 --> 00:32:22,595 Speaker 1: the general manager who had a summer job in Rochester, 492 00:32:22,675 --> 00:32:26,235 Speaker 1: New York, Larry Epstein. Why Larry thought I would be 493 00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:30,635 Speaker 1: good at this, I will never never know. In any event, 494 00:32:30,675 --> 00:32:33,035 Speaker 1: the sales manager next asked me who on earth could 495 00:32:33,075 --> 00:32:36,035 Speaker 1: do an Elvis commercial on a rock station that was 496 00:32:36,115 --> 00:32:40,235 Speaker 1: known for playing entire Jethro Tull album sides after eleven 497 00:32:40,235 --> 00:32:43,475 Speaker 1: at night. I said, I had no idea somebody who 498 00:32:43,515 --> 00:32:45,875 Speaker 1: would want the five percent commission for making the ads? 499 00:32:45,875 --> 00:32:49,115 Speaker 1: And he said, how about you? The buck does stop here, right, 500 00:32:50,075 --> 00:32:52,075 Speaker 1: And he handed me the script they wanted and I 501 00:32:52,115 --> 00:32:54,595 Speaker 1: swallowed hard and read it out loud. And I don't 502 00:32:54,635 --> 00:32:56,595 Speaker 1: still have a copy of that original script, but I 503 00:32:56,675 --> 00:33:01,395 Speaker 1: know this is a real close recreation, because you don't 504 00:33:01,395 --> 00:33:05,755 Speaker 1: forget something like imagining the impact of this playing on 505 00:33:05,795 --> 00:33:09,955 Speaker 1: the coolest FM rock radio station in four adjoining counties. 506 00:33:10,755 --> 00:33:16,475 Speaker 1: Here goes Elvis, Elvius Elvis Live Live Live, Elvis Presley, 507 00:33:16,555 --> 00:33:18,995 Speaker 1: the one and only, the Immortal Elvis Live at the 508 00:33:19,035 --> 00:33:23,275 Speaker 1: Onondaga County War Memorial at the Tournament Syracuse. Elba's Elbus 509 00:33:23,315 --> 00:33:28,355 Speaker 1: Elvis One night only, Saturday Night, August Elba's Elbas Elvis 510 00:33:28,475 --> 00:33:34,355 Speaker 1: Live Live Live. Yeah, turned out, of course it was Elvis, Elvis, 511 00:33:34,395 --> 00:33:38,595 Speaker 1: Elvis dead, dead dead. Anyway. There was something in there 512 00:33:38,635 --> 00:33:40,915 Speaker 1: about prices and where you could send a letter and 513 00:33:40,955 --> 00:33:43,475 Speaker 1: a self addressed stamped envelope for tickets, and it was 514 00:33:43,515 --> 00:33:46,755 Speaker 1: supposed to be done in full reverb, that old time 515 00:33:46,795 --> 00:33:50,955 Speaker 1: am radio echo effect defect effect. I think they wanted 516 00:33:50,955 --> 00:33:54,155 Speaker 1: one or two soundful pops from Elvis's greatest hits. And 517 00:33:54,195 --> 00:33:56,555 Speaker 1: I wondered if in our library of five thousand or 518 00:33:56,555 --> 00:33:59,715 Speaker 1: so records in the back we even had Elvis's greatest hits. 519 00:33:59,755 --> 00:34:02,595 Speaker 1: And I'm not exaggerating about that script. There were at 520 00:34:02,635 --> 00:34:06,115 Speaker 1: least two dozen exclamation points on that age. We would 521 00:34:06,115 --> 00:34:08,395 Speaker 1: not have put on a commercial with that many exclamation 522 00:34:08,435 --> 00:34:10,515 Speaker 1: points in it, even if it was for a Beatles 523 00:34:10,515 --> 00:34:14,195 Speaker 1: reunion live in our back studio. We can't run this, 524 00:34:14,755 --> 00:34:17,515 Speaker 1: I told the sales manager, they want everything in the 525 00:34:17,595 --> 00:34:20,595 Speaker 1: A schedule, the sales manager said, meaning they were paying 526 00:34:20,595 --> 00:34:24,995 Speaker 1: our top rate. Did you ask korn? I asked, invoking 527 00:34:24,995 --> 00:34:28,355 Speaker 1: our program director Glenn Cornelius. He says, we can run 528 00:34:28,355 --> 00:34:31,075 Speaker 1: at no Elvis songs in it. But and I said, 529 00:34:31,315 --> 00:34:34,115 Speaker 1: not like this. Did you call them? Will they let 530 00:34:34,155 --> 00:34:36,915 Speaker 1: us tone it down a little? And he said, the 531 00:34:36,955 --> 00:34:40,075 Speaker 1: account is yours. Rewrite it, tone it down if they 532 00:34:40,075 --> 00:34:43,115 Speaker 1: say yes, this is what fifty bucks for you. Now, 533 00:34:43,155 --> 00:34:45,715 Speaker 1: don't laugh about the fifty bucks in nineteen seventy seven 534 00:34:45,755 --> 00:34:48,075 Speaker 1: money in Ithaca, New York. My rent that summer per 535 00:34:48,115 --> 00:34:52,515 Speaker 1: month was fifty one bucks. So I toned it down. 536 00:34:53,635 --> 00:34:55,635 Speaker 1: Turned out the promoters didn't give a crap if I 537 00:34:55,675 --> 00:34:58,675 Speaker 1: toned it down. They just wanted something played about Elvis 538 00:34:59,395 --> 00:35:03,755 Speaker 1: every hour. I recorded it, and soon the mystified listeners 539 00:35:03,795 --> 00:35:06,635 Speaker 1: of the coolest ham rock station in four adjoining counties, 540 00:35:06,915 --> 00:35:10,555 Speaker 1: we're hearing my flat, still slightly nasal, eighteen year old 541 00:35:10,635 --> 00:35:14,675 Speaker 1: voice saying the same thing like six seven times a day, 542 00:35:14,795 --> 00:35:17,595 Speaker 1: and like everything else. I made a copy of this 543 00:35:18,475 --> 00:35:20,635 Speaker 1: n I swear. I used to record my broadcast and 544 00:35:20,675 --> 00:35:23,515 Speaker 1: listen to them later and say, I've got to get better. 545 00:35:23,755 --> 00:35:26,675 Speaker 1: Am I getting better. This doesn't sound better, So I 546 00:35:26,755 --> 00:35:29,995 Speaker 1: still have this on a cassette, and I have a 547 00:35:29,995 --> 00:35:36,555 Speaker 1: cassette player. So here it is Elvis, Elvis, Elvis Live Live, Live, 548 00:35:37,155 --> 00:35:42,755 Speaker 1: Toned Down, Toned Down, Toned Down Elvis Presley Live at 549 00:35:42,755 --> 00:35:47,475 Speaker 1: the War Memorial Auditorium and Syracuse Saturday, August thirty pm. 550 00:35:47,595 --> 00:35:51,075 Speaker 1: Tickets priced at fifteen dollars, twelve fifty and ten dollars 551 00:35:51,075 --> 00:35:54,515 Speaker 1: plus twenty five cents per ticket service charge. Tickets are 552 00:35:54,555 --> 00:35:57,635 Speaker 1: on sale now at the Auditorium box office and by mail. 553 00:35:57,955 --> 00:36:01,755 Speaker 1: Send a self address stand envelope to Elvis Auditorium Box Office, 554 00:36:01,795 --> 00:36:05,635 Speaker 1: five fifteen Montgomery Straight, Syracuse one three two o two. 555 00:36:06,075 --> 00:36:10,475 Speaker 1: That's Elvis Live at the War Memorial in Syracuse. Aug Hey, kid, 556 00:36:10,515 --> 00:36:14,555 Speaker 1: you have a deviated septum. Actually it's not bad for 557 00:36:14,595 --> 00:36:19,755 Speaker 1: age eighteen. Anyway, there were people I knew then at 558 00:36:19,795 --> 00:36:22,635 Speaker 1: the station and in town that lovely summer of nineteen 559 00:36:22,675 --> 00:36:25,995 Speaker 1: seventy seven who just assumed who just told me that 560 00:36:26,035 --> 00:36:29,635 Speaker 1: they assumed that that commercial was some kind of satire 561 00:36:29,795 --> 00:36:31,875 Speaker 1: or gag on my part. So at least we knew 562 00:36:31,875 --> 00:36:35,755 Speaker 1: they were listening. So this is how this turns out. 563 00:36:36,155 --> 00:36:39,395 Speaker 1: We did a nightly half hour newscast called World Report 564 00:36:39,475 --> 00:36:42,035 Speaker 1: at five thirty every day, and it was a good newscast, 565 00:36:42,035 --> 00:36:45,595 Speaker 1: and that title was neither ironic nor undeserved. We were 566 00:36:45,635 --> 00:36:48,555 Speaker 1: affiliated with ABC Radio. We ran the Howard co Sell 567 00:36:48,635 --> 00:36:51,355 Speaker 1: sports commentary every night, We had a stock report, we 568 00:36:51,395 --> 00:36:55,035 Speaker 1: had local reporters. I did a sports cast, and our 569 00:36:55,075 --> 00:36:58,875 Speaker 1: news director and my friend of forty seven years, Peter 570 00:36:58,955 --> 00:37:00,835 Speaker 1: shack Now, who was still on the board of directors 571 00:37:00,835 --> 00:37:03,555 Speaker 1: of the radio station and still in the business at CNBC, 572 00:37:03,955 --> 00:37:06,955 Speaker 1: he did the news. Pete had just gone into our 573 00:37:07,035 --> 00:37:09,795 Speaker 1: main announced booth and I was just polishing my sports 574 00:37:09,795 --> 00:37:13,395 Speaker 1: copy when every bell on our United Press International Wire 575 00:37:13,435 --> 00:37:16,115 Speaker 1: Service teletype machine went off. And this is where that 576 00:37:16,235 --> 00:37:19,515 Speaker 1: timeless question I mentioned several minutes ago comes into play. 577 00:37:19,755 --> 00:37:23,155 Speaker 1: The U p I bullet in five PM, I think, 578 00:37:23,435 --> 00:37:28,595 Speaker 1: datelined Memphis, Tennessee, urgent music legend Elvis Presley dead, aged 579 00:37:28,635 --> 00:37:32,715 Speaker 1: forty two. As the clanging of the bulletin bells faded 580 00:37:32,715 --> 00:37:35,075 Speaker 1: in the background, I ripped the death notice off the 581 00:37:35,115 --> 00:37:38,075 Speaker 1: wire and sprinted. And I could still sprint then to 582 00:37:38,195 --> 00:37:41,915 Speaker 1: Pete's announced booth. The sweep hand of the giant clock 583 00:37:42,035 --> 00:37:43,755 Speaker 1: right in front of him. So giant was twice. The 584 00:37:43,795 --> 00:37:47,075 Speaker 1: size of my head was nearing the twelve. I think 585 00:37:47,115 --> 00:37:49,715 Speaker 1: this is your new lead, Pete. I'll run in whatever 586 00:37:49,755 --> 00:37:54,515 Speaker 1: else they send, and I jammed the door open and closed. 587 00:37:55,155 --> 00:37:57,395 Speaker 1: He read the copy, looked up at me, listened as 588 00:37:57,435 --> 00:38:00,355 Speaker 1: the dish jockey introduced him, and pausing only to separate 589 00:38:00,395 --> 00:38:04,315 Speaker 1: the wise crack from his actual broadcast, he says, does 590 00:38:04,355 --> 00:38:07,995 Speaker 1: this you don't get paid good evening. I'm Peter shack Now, 591 00:38:08,035 --> 00:38:11,155 Speaker 1: and this is world report. Elvis Presley has died, a 592 00:38:11,235 --> 00:38:16,075 Speaker 1: bulletin report from United Press International, et cetera. I then 593 00:38:16,195 --> 00:38:19,555 Speaker 1: raced into our main studio to physically remove my commercial 594 00:38:20,275 --> 00:38:23,035 Speaker 1: from the rack of cartridges in which the ads all sat, 595 00:38:23,075 --> 00:38:25,715 Speaker 1: because my main concern now was that it had to 596 00:38:25,755 --> 00:38:28,155 Speaker 1: be scheduled to play soon on our air, maybe in 597 00:38:28,195 --> 00:38:30,235 Speaker 1: the middle of the newscast. And honestly, the last thing 598 00:38:30,275 --> 00:38:33,155 Speaker 1: we needed was me on tape suddenly appearing on the 599 00:38:33,195 --> 00:38:40,195 Speaker 1: air saying Elvis Presley live at the War Memorial Auditorium 600 00:38:40,195 --> 00:38:46,795 Speaker 1: in Syracuse Saturday, August PM. Tickets priced more like the 601 00:38:46,835 --> 00:38:49,995 Speaker 1: Elvis Memorial, Am I right? So that was my concern. 602 00:38:50,075 --> 00:38:52,875 Speaker 1: It was not Peter shack Now's. Well. I was frantically 603 00:38:52,875 --> 00:38:55,875 Speaker 1: looking for my Elvis commercial cart and we were playing 604 00:38:55,875 --> 00:38:58,835 Speaker 1: an ABC News report from cars bonn at Russell's Spur 605 00:38:59,275 --> 00:39:02,515 Speaker 1: in Hong Kong. Pete spoke over an intercom from the 606 00:39:02,515 --> 00:39:05,355 Speaker 1: announced booth and he asked me again, no, seriously, just 607 00:39:05,555 --> 00:39:08,755 Speaker 1: mean you don't get paid for the commercials. Guess what, 608 00:39:09,715 --> 00:39:11,595 Speaker 1: it's sure as hell did me and I wouldn't get 609 00:39:11,635 --> 00:39:18,635 Speaker 1: paid to this day now, five freaking years. Maybe Elvis 610 00:39:18,715 --> 00:39:20,875 Speaker 1: is dead, Maybe he's alive, Maybe he can be found 611 00:39:20,955 --> 00:39:23,355 Speaker 1: sitting home all alone a D seven. If you can't 612 00:39:23,355 --> 00:39:26,955 Speaker 1: come around, at least please telephone. I don't know, I 613 00:39:26,995 --> 00:39:32,235 Speaker 1: don't care. All I know is Elvis Presley. You owe 614 00:39:32,235 --> 00:39:41,195 Speaker 1: me money. I've done all the damage I can do here. 615 00:39:41,915 --> 00:39:43,835 Speaker 1: This is where I ask you to rate and review 616 00:39:43,835 --> 00:39:47,835 Speaker 1: the podcast. Lie tell them it's great. Don't mention the 617 00:39:47,915 --> 00:39:52,075 Speaker 1: eighteen year old me clip. The Countdown theme from Beethoven's 618 00:39:52,155 --> 00:39:55,395 Speaker 1: Ninth The Range, produced and performed by Countdown musical directors 619 00:39:55,435 --> 00:39:59,315 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip Channel. All orchestration and keyboards 620 00:39:59,315 --> 00:40:03,395 Speaker 1: by John Philip Chanelle, guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray. 621 00:40:03,875 --> 00:40:07,595 Speaker 1: Produced by t Ko Brothers. The Elvis Presley clip we 622 00:40:07,635 --> 00:40:10,875 Speaker 1: did not play was not by Elvis Presley. The other 623 00:40:10,915 --> 00:40:14,235 Speaker 1: Bethsoven selections have been arranged and performed by No horns allowed. 624 00:40:14,595 --> 00:40:18,475 Speaker 1: Our sports music the Olderman theme written by Mitch Warren 625 00:40:18,555 --> 00:40:23,035 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy ESPN, incorporated musical comments by Nancy Faust, the 626 00:40:23,035 --> 00:40:26,235 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announced today was the 627 00:40:26,235 --> 00:40:28,875 Speaker 1: great Jonathan Banks from Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad. 628 00:40:28,955 --> 00:40:32,235 Speaker 1: Everything else is my fault or the fault of the 629 00:40:32,315 --> 00:40:35,355 Speaker 1: eighteen year old version of me. All right, that is 630 00:40:35,395 --> 00:40:39,595 Speaker 1: countdown for this six day since Donald Trump's first attempted 631 00:40:39,635 --> 00:40:42,395 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 632 00:40:42,595 --> 00:40:46,035 Speaker 1: A new episode tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, 633 00:40:46,035 --> 00:41:03,155 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman 634 00:41:03,315 --> 00:41:06,795 Speaker 1: is a production of I heart Radio. For more podcasts 635 00:41:06,795 --> 00:41:09,475 Speaker 1: from I heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, 636 00:41:09,515 --> 00:41:12,915 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.