1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,115 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,235 --> 00:00:25,955 Speaker 1: needed just four hours and twenty five minutes to violate 3 00:00:25,995 --> 00:00:31,155 Speaker 1: the terms of his bail. Lock him Up. Trump was 4 00:00:31,155 --> 00:00:34,675 Speaker 1: granted pre trial release on two hundred thousand dollars bond 5 00:00:34,755 --> 00:00:37,715 Speaker 1: in Atlanta at three point thirty pm yesterday, and at 6 00:00:37,755 --> 00:00:40,915 Speaker 1: seven fifty five pm yesterday he violated the terms of 7 00:00:40,955 --> 00:00:44,315 Speaker 1: that bail. And now let's see what Fulton County Superior 8 00:00:44,355 --> 00:00:48,595 Speaker 1: Court Judge Scott McAfee is made out of Item four. 9 00:00:49,355 --> 00:00:53,155 Speaker 1: The defendant shall perform no act to intimidate any person 10 00:00:53,235 --> 00:00:55,795 Speaker 1: known to him or her to be a co defendant 11 00:00:55,835 --> 00:01:01,595 Speaker 1: or witness in this case, or otherwise obstruct the administration 12 00:01:01,955 --> 00:01:06,075 Speaker 1: of justice. This shall include, but is not limited to, 13 00:01:06,235 --> 00:01:09,995 Speaker 1: the following. Then, in paragraph E, the above shall include, 14 00:01:09,995 --> 00:01:14,275 Speaker 1: but are not limited to posts on social media or 15 00:01:14,435 --> 00:01:20,795 Speaker 1: reposts of posts made by another individual on social media. Unquote, 16 00:01:21,435 --> 00:01:24,555 Speaker 1: he didn't even make it four and a half hours, 17 00:01:25,595 --> 00:01:28,195 Speaker 1: confirming CNN's report that he will be booked in Atlanta 18 00:01:28,195 --> 00:01:31,955 Speaker 1: on Thursday, Trump called the prosecutor a quote radical left 19 00:01:32,075 --> 00:01:35,515 Speaker 1: district attorney who is overseeing one of the greatest murder 20 00:01:35,555 --> 00:01:39,515 Speaker 1: and violent crime disasters in American history. She campaigned and 21 00:01:39,635 --> 00:01:42,955 Speaker 1: is continuing to campaign and raise money on this witch hunt. 22 00:01:43,515 --> 00:01:47,315 Speaker 1: This is in strict coordination with Biden's DOJ. It is 23 00:01:47,475 --> 00:01:51,235 Speaker 1: all about election interference unquote, none of which is true, 24 00:01:51,275 --> 00:01:53,835 Speaker 1: and all of which is an attempt to obstruct the 25 00:01:53,915 --> 00:01:58,235 Speaker 1: administration of justice, and was made via quote posts on 26 00:01:58,315 --> 00:02:01,955 Speaker 1: social media or reposts of posts, and which should be 27 00:02:01,995 --> 00:02:05,515 Speaker 1: greeted Thursday by the booking officers at Ice Street Jail 28 00:02:05,555 --> 00:02:09,195 Speaker 1: in Atlanta and an order from Judge McAfee to detain 29 00:02:09,315 --> 00:02:17,235 Speaker 1: him period trouble afterwards. Lindsey Graham's riots in the Street, 30 00:02:17,875 --> 00:02:23,035 Speaker 1: Trump's own threat of death and destruction, the countless bleatings 31 00:02:23,115 --> 00:02:27,075 Speaker 1: of the sheep, like Trump horrors like Tim Poole about 32 00:02:27,155 --> 00:02:31,675 Speaker 1: civil War. I'll just quote another Trump flunky, Jeffrey Clark. 33 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:37,275 Speaker 1: That's why there's an insurrection Act. Trump is now out 34 00:02:37,315 --> 00:02:44,355 Speaker 1: on bail in three different states and the District of Columbia. 35 00:02:44,555 --> 00:02:47,275 Speaker 1: He has certainly violated the terms of that bail with 36 00:02:47,315 --> 00:02:50,635 Speaker 1: his spasm of threats against Judge Chutkin and Special Council 37 00:02:50,715 --> 00:02:54,715 Speaker 1: Smith in DC. Now he has certainly violated the terms 38 00:02:54,715 --> 00:02:57,795 Speaker 1: of that bail in Georgia, and soon or late the 39 00:02:57,875 --> 00:03:01,675 Speaker 1: remaining sane people in this country are going to have 40 00:03:01,795 --> 00:03:06,035 Speaker 1: to re establish the rule of law, or to call 41 00:03:06,075 --> 00:03:08,075 Speaker 1: it by the name that Trump and his cult actually 42 00:03:08,115 --> 00:03:11,915 Speaker 1: perceive it to be the rule of being afraid they 43 00:03:11,955 --> 00:03:15,555 Speaker 1: will get caught and sent to prison. We are going 44 00:03:15,715 --> 00:03:20,075 Speaker 1: to have to take the action without fear of taking 45 00:03:20,115 --> 00:03:24,235 Speaker 1: the consequences, or the very meaning of law itself in 46 00:03:24,275 --> 00:03:27,555 Speaker 1: this nation will not just be erased, but it will 47 00:03:27,595 --> 00:03:34,315 Speaker 1: be rendered impossible to restore for decades to come. I mean, 48 00:03:34,475 --> 00:03:40,875 Speaker 1: Judge McAfee put Trump specific language in that bail document, 49 00:03:41,315 --> 00:03:46,635 Speaker 1: and Trump specifically spat all over it. And if this 50 00:03:46,835 --> 00:03:49,675 Speaker 1: is not clear cut enough, that post about Fani Willis 51 00:03:49,755 --> 00:03:53,075 Speaker 1: is hardly his first. It was hardly his first gest 52 00:03:53,115 --> 00:03:55,875 Speaker 1: from yesterday, and it can be read as a continuation 53 00:03:55,955 --> 00:03:58,475 Speaker 1: of what he had posted in the morning before the deal, 54 00:03:58,475 --> 00:04:01,475 Speaker 1: in which he called her crooked and incompetent and in 55 00:04:01,515 --> 00:04:04,155 Speaker 1: support of impeaching her, and in support of this six 56 00:04:04,275 --> 00:04:07,875 Speaker 1: TOAs state senator's stunt to call for a special session 57 00:04:07,955 --> 00:04:11,115 Speaker 1: too impeachure in nearly the same breath in which he 58 00:04:11,155 --> 00:04:14,235 Speaker 1: gave voice to his delusion that the defendants in that case, 59 00:04:14,275 --> 00:04:21,235 Speaker 1: including Trump, for somehow facing quote lethal injection. There is 60 00:04:21,395 --> 00:04:26,635 Speaker 1: nothing new about Americans, or American businessmen, or American rich people, 61 00:04:26,875 --> 00:04:31,155 Speaker 1: or American politicians who have excelled at evading and erasing 62 00:04:31,235 --> 00:04:35,995 Speaker 1: the law. Trump did not invent any of this, but 63 00:04:36,115 --> 00:04:39,195 Speaker 1: he did open the Pandora's box in which the entire 64 00:04:39,395 --> 00:04:43,795 Speaker 1: ethos of a political party could begin to rest on 65 00:04:43,835 --> 00:04:47,155 Speaker 1: the premise that not just the laws do not apply 66 00:04:47,275 --> 00:04:50,635 Speaker 1: to them, but that the government, the Liberals, the Democrats, 67 00:04:50,915 --> 00:04:53,555 Speaker 1: that they would not dare to try to enforce those 68 00:04:53,635 --> 00:04:57,995 Speaker 1: laws against them. Behind that, of course, is the Trumpest 69 00:04:58,035 --> 00:05:02,475 Speaker 1: fascist Maga Republican party conviction that Democrats and peace officers, 70 00:05:02,595 --> 00:05:04,915 Speaker 1: for whom politics is not an excuse for corrupt in 71 00:05:04,995 --> 00:05:07,915 Speaker 1: Malfeasi's they would not dare to try to enforce those 72 00:05:07,995 --> 00:05:13,475 Speaker 1: laws because Trump's mob has all that firepower. That was 73 00:05:13,515 --> 00:05:16,675 Speaker 1: the underlying premise behind January sixth, and that was the 74 00:05:16,755 --> 00:05:20,275 Speaker 1: underlying premise behind the pole watchers two months prior, And 75 00:05:20,355 --> 00:05:23,515 Speaker 1: that was the underlying premise at Charlottesville. And that was 76 00:05:23,515 --> 00:05:26,835 Speaker 1: the underlying premise at every Maga clan rally and every 77 00:05:26,875 --> 00:05:30,315 Speaker 1: Trump event and every one quarter step towards the abyss 78 00:05:30,555 --> 00:05:34,515 Speaker 1: of twenty first century America as one giant, continuous, unending 79 00:05:34,635 --> 00:05:40,675 Speaker 1: Wild West cliche of rule by vigilantism and violence. It 80 00:05:40,755 --> 00:05:44,355 Speaker 1: has been far too long since the bullies on whose 81 00:05:44,435 --> 00:05:49,115 Speaker 1: backs Trump has risen to his sleazy, slovenly power, have 82 00:05:49,195 --> 00:05:52,075 Speaker 1: gotten the crap kicked out of them by the laws 83 00:05:52,155 --> 00:05:54,955 Speaker 1: and the law keepers of the United States of America. 84 00:05:55,835 --> 00:05:59,475 Speaker 1: It is more than just eight years of Trump in 85 00:05:59,515 --> 00:06:03,315 Speaker 1: the spotlight. This has been building since before Oklahoma City 86 00:06:04,115 --> 00:06:07,275 Speaker 1: and before Waco. It has been building ever since a 87 00:06:07,355 --> 00:06:10,995 Speaker 1: large swath of our media, and our clergy and our 88 00:06:11,115 --> 00:06:16,035 Speaker 1: politicians began to stop trying to fix stupidity in their 89 00:06:16,075 --> 00:06:21,115 Speaker 1: constituencies and started instead trying to encourage it. We are 90 00:06:21,275 --> 00:06:25,515 Speaker 1: surrounded on all sides by the idiocracy. I was looking 91 00:06:25,515 --> 00:06:28,195 Speaker 1: for one of those threats of trumpy and civil war 92 00:06:28,275 --> 00:06:30,555 Speaker 1: as I sat down to write this, when up popped 93 00:06:30,595 --> 00:06:33,795 Speaker 1: the always jarring list of what the search engine thinks 94 00:06:33,795 --> 00:06:38,355 Speaker 1: are related searches. And while the first one second American 95 00:06:38,475 --> 00:06:41,835 Speaker 1: Civil War twenty twenty four, as if that were not 96 00:06:41,915 --> 00:06:45,715 Speaker 1: disturbing enough, but one after that was in a way 97 00:06:45,795 --> 00:06:49,835 Speaker 1: far more horrifying. Quote what to do if a civil 98 00:06:49,915 --> 00:06:53,675 Speaker 1: war breaks out? Like Google was going to tell you 99 00:06:53,715 --> 00:06:57,435 Speaker 1: to make three TikTok videos stock up on batteries and 100 00:06:57,555 --> 00:07:04,915 Speaker 1: Netflix and chill. Imagine there are people actually asking that question, Jen, 101 00:07:06,595 --> 00:07:09,755 Speaker 1: because the top answer provided to them is quote. The 102 00:07:09,835 --> 00:07:13,515 Speaker 1: first one is stay in your home, and the other 103 00:07:13,595 --> 00:07:19,795 Speaker 1: one is to move to the safest location. Wow. Thanks, 104 00:07:19,835 --> 00:07:22,475 Speaker 1: I had thought of those my own home. You say, 105 00:07:23,075 --> 00:07:30,475 Speaker 1: any particular room. The problem is that that would probably 106 00:07:31,155 --> 00:07:38,955 Speaker 1: seem like sophisticated advice. Two thousands, maybe millions of Americans, 107 00:07:38,995 --> 00:07:42,875 Speaker 1: And once again, as has happened off and on for 108 00:07:43,635 --> 00:07:47,715 Speaker 1: thirteen or I think more correctly fourteen years, I have 109 00:07:47,795 --> 00:07:51,555 Speaker 1: been greeted by a memory of part of a speech 110 00:07:51,995 --> 00:07:55,155 Speaker 1: or an interview that I heard Lindsey Graham give before 111 00:07:55,195 --> 00:07:59,195 Speaker 1: he went crazy. I have never found a recording of this, 112 00:07:59,715 --> 00:08:03,955 Speaker 1: nor a story online, not even in the c SPAN archives. 113 00:08:04,235 --> 00:08:06,875 Speaker 1: I think it might have been on c SPAN, and 114 00:08:06,915 --> 00:08:09,715 Speaker 1: I have looked periodically, because when I have sought to 115 00:08:09,995 --> 00:08:14,155 Speaker 1: grasp the moment that at least I realized a vast 116 00:08:14,235 --> 00:08:17,275 Speaker 1: minority or maybe even a slim majority of this country 117 00:08:17,395 --> 00:08:21,755 Speaker 1: had jumped the social studies shark. It was when I 118 00:08:21,795 --> 00:08:26,955 Speaker 1: heard Graham tell this story and his tone of astonishment 119 00:08:27,555 --> 00:08:34,155 Speaker 1: and despair and deep personal loss. They were exactly right, 120 00:08:35,035 --> 00:08:38,355 Speaker 1: and they constituted just about the last time I agreed 121 00:08:38,355 --> 00:08:43,715 Speaker 1: with him on anything. Thus, I am recalling this from memory. 122 00:08:43,755 --> 00:08:48,195 Speaker 1: It was, I'm sure in two thousand and nine, I believe, 123 00:08:48,355 --> 00:08:52,275 Speaker 1: in late summer, after the disputed vote over Al Frankin's 124 00:08:52,315 --> 00:08:56,435 Speaker 1: election in Minnesota had finally been resolved, and Graham said 125 00:08:56,875 --> 00:08:59,915 Speaker 1: that as the Tea Party burgeons in South Carolina, he 126 00:08:59,995 --> 00:09:02,995 Speaker 1: had conducted a town hall in one of its major cities. 127 00:09:03,515 --> 00:09:07,315 Speaker 1: There After he somehow got them to stop booing and 128 00:09:07,435 --> 00:09:12,475 Speaker 1: hooting and mooing at him. He took questions, and the 129 00:09:12,555 --> 00:09:18,475 Speaker 1: questions were worse than the booing. Someone rose and indignantly 130 00:09:18,555 --> 00:09:22,795 Speaker 1: asked Graham why the hell he was trying to negotiate 131 00:09:22,875 --> 00:09:28,835 Speaker 1: with them democrats and find them by partisan agreements? Graham said. 132 00:09:28,835 --> 00:09:31,075 Speaker 1: He stared at the questioner and then said something like, 133 00:09:31,395 --> 00:09:34,435 Speaker 1: let me ask you something. How many senators are there 134 00:09:34,435 --> 00:09:42,195 Speaker 1: in total? How many people in the Senate silence a 135 00:09:42,315 --> 00:09:47,395 Speaker 1: room of two or three hundred people interested enough to 136 00:09:47,515 --> 00:09:51,835 Speaker 1: have come to a senator's town hall to have involved 137 00:09:51,875 --> 00:09:56,555 Speaker 1: themselves in something called the tea Party? How many senators 138 00:09:56,595 --> 00:10:02,475 Speaker 1: are there? Nobody had an answer. Finally, somebody in the 139 00:10:02,515 --> 00:10:09,195 Speaker 1: back Graham said meekly muttered one hundred. Graham said, good, 140 00:10:09,435 --> 00:10:11,715 Speaker 1: at least one of you knows. Now, let me ask 141 00:10:11,755 --> 00:10:14,955 Speaker 1: you another question. How many of those hundred are Republicans 142 00:10:15,075 --> 00:10:19,395 Speaker 1: like me? Graham said. The answers came much quicker this time, 143 00:10:19,955 --> 00:10:24,795 Speaker 1: and they were all too large. He heard seventy five 144 00:10:24,915 --> 00:10:28,835 Speaker 1: and eighty and sixty five and one hundred and every 145 00:10:29,035 --> 00:10:32,715 Speaker 1: number in between. Wrong. He told them there are forty 146 00:10:32,835 --> 00:10:36,835 Speaker 1: Republicans and sixty Democrats. And he said what he heard 147 00:10:36,875 --> 00:10:39,635 Speaker 1: next sounded like the rush of air when a large 148 00:10:39,915 --> 00:10:46,355 Speaker 1: balloon is popped, followed by genuine, pained expressions of disbelief. 149 00:10:47,235 --> 00:10:50,835 Speaker 1: There are forty Republicans. Technically there's only fifty eight Democrats, 150 00:10:50,875 --> 00:10:53,315 Speaker 1: but the other two are independents who vote with the Democrats. 151 00:10:53,595 --> 00:11:00,875 Speaker 1: We are the minority party. Everybody gasps. Shock. Somebody shouted, 152 00:11:01,315 --> 00:11:04,915 Speaker 1: you got to stop that, Graham. He explained that they 153 00:11:04,915 --> 00:11:10,035 Speaker 1: had all been elected in the other states. More gasps. 154 00:11:10,555 --> 00:11:15,155 Speaker 1: Not everybody in that room knew that that was how 155 00:11:15,995 --> 00:11:24,115 Speaker 1: it worked. This was the starting point. These were the 156 00:11:24,315 --> 00:11:31,075 Speaker 1: politically active people of South Carolina. These were presumably those 157 00:11:31,115 --> 00:11:34,555 Speaker 1: who had voted for Lindsey Graham, and they did not 158 00:11:34,875 --> 00:11:41,115 Speaker 1: know how many senators there were, and they did not 159 00:11:41,355 --> 00:11:44,435 Speaker 1: know that their party was not the majority, and many 160 00:11:44,475 --> 00:11:51,915 Speaker 1: of them did not know how senators got to be senators, 161 00:11:51,955 --> 00:11:55,795 Speaker 1: and they did not know what they also did not know. 162 00:11:59,155 --> 00:12:02,555 Speaker 1: Joke frequently here about the baseline of stupidity among Trump supporters, 163 00:12:02,595 --> 00:12:04,435 Speaker 1: but as always, it is far far worse than we 164 00:12:04,435 --> 00:12:08,515 Speaker 1: could possibly imagine. There is a reason that they lose 165 00:12:08,635 --> 00:12:13,195 Speaker 1: their minds over football players kneeling during the national anthem 166 00:12:13,955 --> 00:12:18,915 Speaker 1: or politicians not wearing flag lapel pins. Is because those 167 00:12:19,315 --> 00:12:29,755 Speaker 1: are the only things they know about America. They've heard 168 00:12:29,795 --> 00:12:33,715 Speaker 1: about the Revolutionary War, but it wasn't about actual tyrannical 169 00:12:33,755 --> 00:12:36,995 Speaker 1: government by a king who was so far removed from 170 00:12:37,035 --> 00:12:39,875 Speaker 1: this land that he might as well have been ruling 171 00:12:39,955 --> 00:12:44,235 Speaker 1: from the moon. The Revolutionary War was about overthrowing a 172 00:12:44,275 --> 00:12:47,875 Speaker 1: government you didn't like and being allowed to shoot and 173 00:12:47,955 --> 00:12:54,515 Speaker 1: kill people. And the American government is there to do 174 00:12:54,595 --> 00:13:00,715 Speaker 1: what you personally need, nothing else, nothing for anybody who 175 00:13:00,755 --> 00:13:04,315 Speaker 1: don't know, nothing for anybody who don't look like And 176 00:13:04,395 --> 00:13:07,715 Speaker 1: when the elections turn out against you, you simply refuse 177 00:13:07,795 --> 00:13:09,515 Speaker 1: to go along with them because you have been told 178 00:13:09,515 --> 00:13:12,435 Speaker 1: for the whole of your life that the Democrats are 179 00:13:12,595 --> 00:13:21,155 Speaker 1: foreigner alien communists and Americans are Republicans. And that was 180 00:13:21,235 --> 00:13:25,475 Speaker 1: fourteen years ago, and you saw how that turned out. 181 00:13:26,395 --> 00:13:30,795 Speaker 1: Like so many other weak, vacillating, lazy, greedy men, Lindsey 182 00:13:30,835 --> 00:13:34,915 Speaker 1: Graham stopped trying to teach South Carolina how many senators 183 00:13:34,955 --> 00:13:38,435 Speaker 1: there were and which party had fifty percent more of 184 00:13:38,435 --> 00:13:42,675 Speaker 1: them than the other one did He stopped paying attention 185 00:13:42,835 --> 00:13:46,635 Speaker 1: to the danger that Trump presented and started recognizing only 186 00:13:46,675 --> 00:13:50,195 Speaker 1: the magic that was in Trump's ability to gain power 187 00:13:50,755 --> 00:13:54,875 Speaker 1: for all who swore fealty to him. At least at first, 188 00:13:56,675 --> 00:14:04,475 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham forgot Trump's supporters forgot there are laws, break 189 00:14:04,515 --> 00:14:09,395 Speaker 1: the to hell with you. And it is god damned 190 00:14:09,595 --> 00:14:14,755 Speaker 1: time that we remind Lindsey Graham and those people in 191 00:14:14,835 --> 00:14:18,875 Speaker 1: that crowd, and every other crowd in which stupidity is king, 192 00:14:19,955 --> 00:14:23,075 Speaker 1: we remind them that whatever they think and whatever they want, 193 00:14:23,635 --> 00:14:28,275 Speaker 1: if they break the law, their asses are going to prison. 194 00:14:29,435 --> 00:14:34,915 Speaker 1: And the opportunity to do this this week falls to 195 00:14:35,035 --> 00:14:40,275 Speaker 1: a judge named Scott McAfee. You wrote it, judge, and 196 00:14:40,395 --> 00:14:43,675 Speaker 1: Trump already broke it. He's already going to be in 197 00:14:43,795 --> 00:14:50,235 Speaker 1: your jail on Thursday, Judge. Keep his ass there in 198 00:14:50,555 --> 00:14:59,875 Speaker 1: force the god damned law a couple of other headlines. 199 00:15:00,155 --> 00:15:03,115 Speaker 1: It ain't a declaration of war, per se, but Rupert 200 00:15:03,195 --> 00:15:06,955 Speaker 1: Murdoch took a surprisingly powerful shot at Trump last night. 201 00:15:07,035 --> 00:15:09,555 Speaker 1: He's not going to the debate to be televised by 202 00:15:09,595 --> 00:15:14,835 Speaker 1: folks tomorrow night, then neither are his surrogates. Trump was 203 00:15:14,875 --> 00:15:18,875 Speaker 1: going to send Junior and whatever happened to Baby Jane 204 00:15:19,035 --> 00:15:24,475 Speaker 1: Gilfoyle and Matt Gates and Byron Donald's and Carrie Lake 205 00:15:24,595 --> 00:15:28,515 Speaker 1: with the Weather to flood the post debate spin room 206 00:15:28,555 --> 00:15:34,115 Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, and Fox has now banned them and Carrie 207 00:15:34,195 --> 00:15:39,515 Speaker 1: Lake with the Weather, Rock wrote on Sports Earlier. Murdoch's 208 00:15:39,555 --> 00:15:43,875 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal editorial board hit Trump too and Tucker Carlson, 209 00:15:44,075 --> 00:15:49,955 Speaker 1: Remember Tucker Carlson. WSJ blasted Trump for doing an interview, 210 00:15:50,315 --> 00:15:52,835 Speaker 1: not the debate, and said Carlson was not actually going 211 00:15:52,875 --> 00:15:55,835 Speaker 1: to be there to interview him, just to be there 212 00:15:55,835 --> 00:16:00,155 Speaker 1: to endorse Trump's backwards views of January sixth, then Ukraine 213 00:16:00,275 --> 00:16:05,555 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. Trump continued to show signs 214 00:16:05,555 --> 00:16:08,275 Speaker 1: of weakness in the polling in Iowa. He's lapping the 215 00:16:08,315 --> 00:16:12,035 Speaker 1: field in the Des Moines Register poll, however, at forty 216 00:16:12,035 --> 00:16:16,275 Speaker 1: two percent. DeSantis is not even close at nineteen. Or 217 00:16:16,395 --> 00:16:18,595 Speaker 1: look at it the other way. Three out of five 218 00:16:18,715 --> 00:16:22,195 Speaker 1: Iowans do not support Trump, and a third of those 219 00:16:22,235 --> 00:16:25,915 Speaker 1: who do a third are open to a different candidate. 220 00:16:26,955 --> 00:16:30,355 Speaker 1: A new National Emerson poll has it Trump fifty six, 221 00:16:31,035 --> 00:16:36,835 Speaker 1: DeSantis ten, Ramaswami ten, and then in the election Emerson 222 00:16:36,875 --> 00:16:40,275 Speaker 1: has it forty four forty four unless you throw in 223 00:16:40,315 --> 00:16:42,755 Speaker 1: a third party candidate, in which case it is Trump 224 00:16:42,795 --> 00:16:50,955 Speaker 1: forty two, Biden thirty nine, Swift eight Swift, Taylor Swift. 225 00:16:52,595 --> 00:16:55,715 Speaker 1: Actually I'm shocked it's only eight percent for Taylor Swift. 226 00:16:57,515 --> 00:17:00,555 Speaker 1: And back to where we started. Two hundred thousand dollars 227 00:17:00,595 --> 00:17:05,195 Speaker 1: bond for Trump, which is hilariously stupid. And they're not 228 00:17:05,235 --> 00:17:09,195 Speaker 1: taking his passport. Maybe that could be an interim step 229 00:17:09,235 --> 00:17:11,115 Speaker 1: here if somebody is still afraid to put him in 230 00:17:11,195 --> 00:17:17,075 Speaker 1: jail tomorrow, Yeah, take his passport. Shot across the bow. 231 00:17:17,715 --> 00:17:22,035 Speaker 1: John Eastman also has to repeatedly check in with Atlanta authorities, 232 00:17:22,995 --> 00:17:26,995 Speaker 1: and if this ever happens to you, you may want 233 00:17:27,035 --> 00:17:33,955 Speaker 1: to rethink your personal code. John Eastman had to ask 234 00:17:34,515 --> 00:17:40,355 Speaker 1: for a postponement in his California disbarment hearing so he 235 00:17:40,395 --> 00:17:51,475 Speaker 1: could instead go to his George bail here. Also of interest, 236 00:17:51,515 --> 00:17:55,195 Speaker 1: here those photos of Tropical Storm Hillary, well that was 237 00:17:55,235 --> 00:17:58,955 Speaker 1: the maiden name. It's now post tropical Storm Hillary. Those 238 00:17:58,995 --> 00:18:03,235 Speaker 1: photos of the storm hitting La so bad it flooded 239 00:18:03,355 --> 00:18:08,075 Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. I tweeted them, except they aren't real. No 240 00:18:08,155 --> 00:18:11,475 Speaker 1: flood at Dodger Stadium. And there was one huge obvious 241 00:18:11,475 --> 00:18:16,995 Speaker 1: detail right in the middle that we all missed. I'm sorry, 242 00:18:17,475 --> 00:18:19,995 Speaker 1: I'll explain. That's next. This is countdown. 243 00:18:21,755 --> 00:18:39,355 Speaker 2: This is countdown with Keith Alber. This is Sports Senate. Wait, 244 00:18:39,515 --> 00:18:47,075 Speaker 2: check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith Alberman 245 00:18:47,315 --> 00:18:48,475 Speaker 2: in sports. 246 00:18:48,715 --> 00:18:53,155 Speaker 1: No, Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles did not flood. I 247 00:18:53,195 --> 00:18:55,915 Speaker 1: saw the picture for friends of mine sent it to me. 248 00:18:56,275 --> 00:18:59,595 Speaker 1: I tweeted it. I'm not casting stones here, but Dodger 249 00:18:59,675 --> 00:19:03,955 Speaker 1: Stadium did not flood. Not only did the images taken 250 00:19:03,955 --> 00:19:06,475 Speaker 1: from a helicopter make it look like the low level 251 00:19:06,715 --> 00:19:09,955 Speaker 1: nearly below ground level parking lots beyond center field at 252 00:19:09,995 --> 00:19:13,675 Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium were under several feet of water, but that 253 00:19:13,835 --> 00:19:16,995 Speaker 1: there was even some flooding in the home plate parking lots, 254 00:19:16,995 --> 00:19:20,395 Speaker 1: which are literally several stories higher than the ones in 255 00:19:20,435 --> 00:19:25,275 Speaker 1: the outfield. Optical illusion explained the Los Angeles Times photographer 256 00:19:25,355 --> 00:19:30,675 Speaker 1: Robert Gautier. It was just reflected light off very wet surfaces. 257 00:19:31,155 --> 00:19:34,475 Speaker 1: Gautier says, the same reflection occurred after a minor storm 258 00:19:34,475 --> 00:19:37,275 Speaker 1: in two thousand and five, and photographs were taken then, 259 00:19:37,595 --> 00:19:39,595 Speaker 1: and it looks like it's under twenty feet of water. 260 00:19:39,635 --> 00:19:43,515 Speaker 1: Then two. He was over the stadium yesterday morning, Gotier says, 261 00:19:43,555 --> 00:19:47,275 Speaker 1: and it was completely dry, and the tell is obvious 262 00:19:47,355 --> 00:19:50,275 Speaker 1: in retrospect once you think about it. Though, the parking 263 00:19:50,315 --> 00:19:54,395 Speaker 1: lots look inundated in the photos. The playing field doesn't 264 00:19:54,395 --> 00:20:36,995 Speaker 1: even look wet, which is impossible. Thank you, Nancy Faust 265 00:20:37,595 --> 00:20:41,115 Speaker 1: and Robert Redford, Dateline, New York. The ever popular New 266 00:20:41,195 --> 00:20:44,675 Speaker 1: York Knicks just got even more beloved. The basketball franchise 267 00:20:44,715 --> 00:20:47,915 Speaker 1: has sued a former employee who was hired away by 268 00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:51,035 Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors, and the Raptors and their head coach 269 00:20:51,075 --> 00:20:53,675 Speaker 1: have also been sued, and their player development coach has 270 00:20:53,715 --> 00:20:56,555 Speaker 1: been sued. The Knicks claim that when he left the club, 271 00:20:56,635 --> 00:21:00,475 Speaker 1: their ex employee took scouting reports with him. He stole 272 00:21:00,595 --> 00:21:04,515 Speaker 1: play frequency reports, a prep book, a link to third 273 00:21:04,715 --> 00:21:09,235 Speaker 1: party licensed software, thousands of proprietary files, and the New 274 00:21:09,275 --> 00:21:13,395 Speaker 1: Toronto employers told him to access them and feed the 275 00:21:13,435 --> 00:21:17,595 Speaker 1: New York information into their system. The main complication in 276 00:21:17,675 --> 00:21:20,155 Speaker 1: this suit for the Knicks, who last won the NBA 277 00:21:20,275 --> 00:21:22,955 Speaker 1: title in nineteen seventy three, have and only finished higher 278 00:21:22,995 --> 00:21:26,235 Speaker 1: than fourth in their conference once this century. The main 279 00:21:26,475 --> 00:21:30,835 Speaker 1: complication in the otherwise strong Knicks lawsuit will be to 280 00:21:30,955 --> 00:21:36,235 Speaker 1: convince a jury that any other professional basketball team would 281 00:21:36,235 --> 00:21:41,915 Speaker 1: want to use their scouting and player development methods and dateline. Columbus, 282 00:21:41,955 --> 00:21:47,515 Speaker 1: Ohio Gannett newspapers are experimenting with artificial intelligence to write 283 00:21:47,635 --> 00:21:53,035 Speaker 1: some game stories, especially high school sports game stories. The 284 00:21:53,195 --> 00:21:58,475 Speaker 1: first results are not not what is the word? Well, 285 00:21:58,515 --> 00:22:01,515 Speaker 1: don't ask AI. It certainly doesn't know that many of them. 286 00:22:01,595 --> 00:22:04,075 Speaker 1: Let me just read this one from the Columbus Dispatch. 287 00:22:04,795 --> 00:22:11,835 Speaker 1: School hyphenated Westerville North escapes Westerville Central in thin win 288 00:22:12,155 --> 00:22:17,595 Speaker 1: in Ohio high school football action by lead AI. The 289 00:22:17,635 --> 00:22:21,875 Speaker 1: Westerville North Warriors defeated the Westerville Central Warhawks twenty one 290 00:22:21,915 --> 00:22:24,555 Speaker 1: to twelve in an Ohio high school football game on Friday. 291 00:22:25,915 --> 00:22:29,755 Speaker 1: So far, so good. Westerville North edged Westerville Central twenty 292 00:22:29,795 --> 00:22:32,315 Speaker 1: one to twelve in a close encounter of the Athletic 293 00:22:32,555 --> 00:22:36,595 Speaker 1: Kind at Westerville North High on August eighteen in Ohio 294 00:22:36,715 --> 00:22:40,555 Speaker 1: football action. I think you said that in the first paragraph. 295 00:22:40,675 --> 00:22:44,355 Speaker 1: Westerville North opened with a seven nothing advantage over Westerville 296 00:22:44,395 --> 00:22:47,835 Speaker 1: Central through the first quarter. The Warhawks trimmed the margin 297 00:22:47,915 --> 00:22:50,875 Speaker 1: to make it seven to six at halftime. Westerville North 298 00:22:50,955 --> 00:22:53,555 Speaker 1: jumped to a twenty one to six lead heading into 299 00:22:53,555 --> 00:22:56,995 Speaker 1: the final quarter. The Warriors chalked up this decision in 300 00:22:57,075 --> 00:23:03,115 Speaker 1: spite of the warhawks spirited fourth quarter performance. Check out 301 00:23:03,195 --> 00:23:06,115 Speaker 1: our complete boys foot ball round up to stay up 302 00:23:06,155 --> 00:23:10,995 Speaker 1: to date on all the action. What is it, I'm 303 00:23:10,995 --> 00:23:14,315 Speaker 1: feeling like something is missing. Oh, I know it's missing 304 00:23:14,395 --> 00:23:18,755 Speaker 1: from this game story. The names of any of the 305 00:23:18,875 --> 00:23:39,075 Speaker 1: players involved still ahead on countdown. MSNBC fired Rachel Meadow. 306 00:23:39,955 --> 00:23:42,075 Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, no no. This is 307 00:23:42,115 --> 00:23:45,475 Speaker 1: not breaking news. This is something that happened in August 308 00:23:45,635 --> 00:23:48,835 Speaker 1: of two thousand and five, and when they fired her 309 00:23:48,835 --> 00:23:50,995 Speaker 1: in two thousand and five, they fired her from her 310 00:23:51,115 --> 00:23:57,675 Speaker 1: job on the MSNBC Tucker Carlson Show. No, I'm not kidding. 311 00:23:57,795 --> 00:23:59,875 Speaker 1: Coming up in things I promise not to tell first 312 00:23:59,915 --> 00:24:01,435 Speaker 1: time for the daily round up of the miss Grants 313 00:24:01,435 --> 00:24:05,475 Speaker 1: Morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days 314 00:24:05,555 --> 00:24:11,195 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world. The Bronze Michael David Fox 315 00:24:11,275 --> 00:24:14,675 Speaker 1: of Las Crusis, New Mexico. Turns out, mister Fox made 316 00:24:14,675 --> 00:24:18,035 Speaker 1: a threat against an unnamed Houston congresswoman in May and 317 00:24:18,115 --> 00:24:21,275 Speaker 1: has now been charged with a federal crime. He told 318 00:24:21,275 --> 00:24:25,235 Speaker 1: the representative she was quote literally a tranny and a pedophile, 319 00:24:25,555 --> 00:24:27,435 Speaker 1: and I'm going to put a bullet in your effing 320 00:24:27,515 --> 00:24:31,355 Speaker 1: face un quote. Did this in a voicemail, And he 321 00:24:31,435 --> 00:24:33,555 Speaker 1: did this in a voicemail because these guys have the 322 00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:37,155 Speaker 1: hearts of assassins, but the intelligence and aim of squeaky 323 00:24:37,275 --> 00:24:41,915 Speaker 1: from Fox explained he determined all this about the congresswoman 324 00:24:41,995 --> 00:24:45,835 Speaker 1: because he'd made measurements of the congresswoman's skull and he 325 00:24:45,875 --> 00:24:50,275 Speaker 1: had learned about the world cabal of transgendered people. Sorry 326 00:24:50,355 --> 00:24:53,955 Speaker 1: Jewish people, you've been replaced in the cabal by transgendered people. 327 00:24:55,115 --> 00:24:58,235 Speaker 1: He was just following this online video he saw called 328 00:24:58,435 --> 00:25:02,555 Speaker 1: que the Plan to Save the World. Not sure how 329 00:25:02,595 --> 00:25:06,395 Speaker 1: we're going to cure these qanons paths, but we're out 330 00:25:06,435 --> 00:25:10,635 Speaker 1: of options here if we don't. The runner up, Howard Kurtz, 331 00:25:10,875 --> 00:25:12,795 Speaker 1: you may remember him from the days when he did 332 00:25:12,835 --> 00:25:17,115 Speaker 1: more or less coherent media criticism and media reporting for 333 00:25:17,235 --> 00:25:20,395 Speaker 1: The Washington Post and CNN and The Daily Beast. It's 334 00:25:20,435 --> 00:25:23,715 Speaker 1: a decade ago now when CNN and The Daily Beast 335 00:25:23,795 --> 00:25:26,715 Speaker 1: fired him. The Daily Beast said it was for quote, 336 00:25:26,835 --> 00:25:31,835 Speaker 1: serial inaccuracy, and he went to Fox News, where serial 337 00:25:31,875 --> 00:25:36,635 Speaker 1: inaccuracy is encouraged. Recently, there have been signs that Howard 338 00:25:36,795 --> 00:25:40,235 Speaker 1: may be trying to get coded messages out of Fox 339 00:25:40,795 --> 00:25:43,835 Speaker 1: as a hostage mite. The latest of them a tweet 340 00:25:43,915 --> 00:25:48,075 Speaker 1: that nominally references one of those Foxfield propaganda guys who 341 00:25:48,115 --> 00:25:50,595 Speaker 1: pretends to be an actual news reporter, a guy named 342 00:25:50,635 --> 00:25:54,955 Speaker 1: Griff Jenkins. Only in the tweet, Kurtz did not write 343 00:25:55,075 --> 00:26:05,275 Speaker 1: Griff Jenkins. He wrote Griff Jerkins, Hey, Griff, Griff Jerkins, Howie, 344 00:26:05,475 --> 00:26:07,675 Speaker 1: if you need us to rescue you. Put out another 345 00:26:07,675 --> 00:26:11,355 Speaker 1: tweet that misspells Jesse Waters name is Jesse What the 346 00:26:11,635 --> 00:26:14,715 Speaker 1: f is wrong with this? Kidders, We'll be right over, 347 00:26:15,515 --> 00:26:18,755 Speaker 1: but our winner. Mary Ellen Gerwitz, chair of the Michigan 348 00:26:18,795 --> 00:26:22,755 Speaker 1: Board of State Canvassers, which has approved a recall petition 349 00:26:22,795 --> 00:26:26,595 Speaker 1: against State Rep. Sharon McDonald. She is from Troy. She 350 00:26:26,715 --> 00:26:29,715 Speaker 1: is a Democrat. The grounds of the recall are that 351 00:26:29,835 --> 00:26:33,915 Speaker 1: McDonald voted for a red flag law, a bill that 352 00:26:33,955 --> 00:26:36,875 Speaker 1: would give courts in Michigan the right to temporarily take 353 00:26:36,955 --> 00:26:40,795 Speaker 1: guns away from those deemed to present an immediate danger 354 00:26:40,795 --> 00:26:43,675 Speaker 1: to somebody. It's a bill favored by three out of 355 00:26:43,675 --> 00:26:47,195 Speaker 1: four Michigan residents. But the Republicans are trying to recall 356 00:26:47,395 --> 00:26:52,875 Speaker 1: six state representatives in swing districts because they're Democrats and 357 00:26:52,955 --> 00:26:56,795 Speaker 1: the balance of power is tight. Now. This board rejected 358 00:26:56,835 --> 00:27:01,235 Speaker 1: the other five recall bids, but Sharon McDonald's was approved. 359 00:27:01,635 --> 00:27:04,115 Speaker 1: They want her to face recall because of how she 360 00:27:04,275 --> 00:27:09,195 Speaker 1: voted on a gun bill. No scandal, no not showing 361 00:27:09,275 --> 00:27:14,355 Speaker 1: up for work, no tawdriness. This was approved in part 362 00:27:14,435 --> 00:27:17,475 Speaker 1: because while the Republicans on the Board of Canvassers voted 363 00:27:17,515 --> 00:27:21,715 Speaker 1: mostly on party lines and the McDonald recall was orchestrated 364 00:27:21,715 --> 00:27:26,115 Speaker 1: by Republicans, the chair, Miss Gerwitz, the Democrats still thinks 365 00:27:26,115 --> 00:27:30,715 Speaker 1: this is nineteen sixty five and bipartisan this and bipartisan that. 366 00:27:31,115 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: So she voted with the Republicans and the other Democrat 367 00:27:34,595 --> 00:27:36,515 Speaker 1: on the board didn't even show up for the meeting. 368 00:27:36,515 --> 00:27:38,595 Speaker 1: And if you're not going to get serious about this, 369 00:27:38,795 --> 00:27:43,995 Speaker 1: miss Gerwitz, get the hell out. We do bipartisan after 370 00:27:44,475 --> 00:27:50,435 Speaker 1: we stop the QAnon Racism and Authoritarianism party, not before 371 00:27:51,475 --> 00:27:58,195 Speaker 1: Mary Ellen preserve representative government. Then by partisan Gerwitz two days, 372 00:27:58,915 --> 00:28:00,835 Speaker 1: worst person. 373 00:28:01,435 --> 00:28:02,075 Speaker 2: And no Word. 374 00:28:18,715 --> 00:28:21,115 Speaker 1: Finally our number one story on the countdown things I 375 00:28:21,235 --> 00:28:25,995 Speaker 1: promised not to tell, and back to my favorite topic. Me. Well, 376 00:28:26,155 --> 00:28:29,355 Speaker 1: actually not just me this time. This is an important 377 00:28:29,355 --> 00:28:32,995 Speaker 1: anniversary for an important TV news show, and I don't 378 00:28:33,035 --> 00:28:36,875 Speaker 1: mean one of mine. August third, two thousand and seven 379 00:28:36,955 --> 00:28:39,595 Speaker 1: was near as I can calculate the day I first 380 00:28:39,715 --> 00:28:44,635 Speaker 1: met Rachel Maddow, So August fourth, two seven, fifteen years ago, 381 00:28:45,235 --> 00:28:47,835 Speaker 1: was when I started to push MSNBC to make her 382 00:28:47,915 --> 00:28:51,475 Speaker 1: a host, specifically the guest host for my show, with 383 00:28:51,515 --> 00:28:54,715 Speaker 1: an eye towards eventually getting her to host her own 384 00:28:54,755 --> 00:28:58,595 Speaker 1: show which would follow mine, which happened almost immediately just 385 00:28:58,995 --> 00:29:03,435 Speaker 1: thirteen months later. On the other hand, two years earlier 386 00:29:03,475 --> 00:29:06,435 Speaker 1: than that first meeting, August eight, two thousand and five, 387 00:29:06,635 --> 00:29:12,635 Speaker 1: was the day MSNBC had cleverly fired Rachel Matdow early 388 00:29:12,635 --> 00:29:15,355 Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, before MSNBC moved to thirty 389 00:29:15,435 --> 00:29:18,035 Speaker 1: Rockefeller Center in New York from the Charms of the 390 00:29:18,155 --> 00:29:21,795 Speaker 1: row of factory outlet discount stores in which it had 391 00:29:21,835 --> 00:29:25,195 Speaker 1: been nestled in in Secaucus, New Jersey since its inception. 392 00:29:25,795 --> 00:29:28,715 Speaker 1: My executive producer Izy Povich had walked into my office 393 00:29:28,755 --> 00:29:32,115 Speaker 1: and asked me if I remembered Rachel Matdow. Of course, 394 00:29:32,195 --> 00:29:36,115 Speaker 1: isn't she on Carlson? I stopped myself. She had been 395 00:29:36,155 --> 00:29:41,315 Speaker 1: a regular panelist on Tucker Carlson's last non Nazi TV program, 396 00:29:41,475 --> 00:29:46,155 Speaker 1: which incongruously aired right after mine at nine o'clock on MSNBC. 397 00:29:47,035 --> 00:29:50,555 Speaker 1: Rick Kaplan, then the ex president of CNN and shortly 398 00:29:50,595 --> 00:29:54,355 Speaker 1: to be ex president of MSNBC, had first foisted this 399 00:29:54,515 --> 00:29:58,315 Speaker 1: repulsive scumbag on us and then asked me to play 400 00:29:58,395 --> 00:30:02,435 Speaker 1: his liberal foil in all the Carlson pilot shows, which 401 00:30:02,515 --> 00:30:06,515 Speaker 1: Kaplan then demanded. One night, it dawned on Kaplan that 402 00:30:06,555 --> 00:30:09,875 Speaker 1: if he made me Carlson's co host, he could use 403 00:30:10,075 --> 00:30:14,875 Speaker 1: our initials and title the show TKO. And as he 404 00:30:14,995 --> 00:30:19,515 Speaker 1: pitched me the idea, he could not have been happier 405 00:30:19,555 --> 00:30:23,275 Speaker 1: nor more surprised if he had invented the alphabet himself. 406 00:30:24,595 --> 00:30:27,595 Speaker 1: When I pointed out to Rick Kaplan that I already 407 00:30:27,595 --> 00:30:29,955 Speaker 1: had a show and it already took me all goddamn 408 00:30:30,035 --> 00:30:31,875 Speaker 1: day to do it, and I had no desire to 409 00:30:31,915 --> 00:30:34,395 Speaker 1: add three hours to my schedule, nor to ever work 410 00:30:34,435 --> 00:30:37,635 Speaker 1: with Tucker Carlson. He had the new show's producer Bill 411 00:30:37,635 --> 00:30:42,515 Speaker 1: Wolfe search around for other potential liberal foils. Wolf found two, 412 00:30:42,635 --> 00:30:46,795 Speaker 1: our old sports colleague, Max Kellerman and this Air America 413 00:30:46,915 --> 00:30:51,475 Speaker 1: radio host Rachel Matdow only as is. He asked me 414 00:30:51,555 --> 00:30:53,755 Speaker 1: that day if I remembered her? Did I realize that 415 00:30:53,795 --> 00:30:56,555 Speaker 1: I had not seen Rachel Mattow in our studios recently 416 00:30:56,555 --> 00:30:59,835 Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Oh, it's well over a year, she explained. 417 00:31:00,115 --> 00:31:03,155 Speaker 1: When Tucker's show started to die and they trimmed salary, 418 00:31:03,155 --> 00:31:06,315 Speaker 1: they had to cut back to just one. They kept 419 00:31:06,315 --> 00:31:10,035 Speaker 1: Max Kellerman. I found that astonishing, even though I had 420 00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:14,075 Speaker 1: only met Rachel maybe three times in passing, once at 421 00:31:14,115 --> 00:31:18,755 Speaker 1: Air America's launch party, and we'd interacted superficially for maybe 422 00:31:19,035 --> 00:31:22,715 Speaker 1: I don't know a minute in total. They kept Kellerman 423 00:31:22,875 --> 00:31:27,155 Speaker 1: over her. Who kept Kellerman? I like Max? But who 424 00:31:27,515 --> 00:31:31,315 Speaker 1: would keep Kellerman? Izy Povich was not sure. We both 425 00:31:31,315 --> 00:31:34,995 Speaker 1: guessed it was Phil Griffin, who was basically running the place. Anyway, 426 00:31:35,075 --> 00:31:37,515 Speaker 1: Somebody suggested she would make a good guest on almost 427 00:31:37,515 --> 00:31:43,155 Speaker 1: anything political, and I interrupted, Izzie, God, yes tonight. Izzy 428 00:31:43,275 --> 00:31:45,915 Speaker 1: laughed and said I'll go book her any segment in particular, 429 00:31:46,155 --> 00:31:48,315 Speaker 1: and I said we should adhere to our usual high 430 00:31:48,355 --> 00:31:51,795 Speaker 1: and discerning standards. One of the segments we haven't booked 431 00:31:51,795 --> 00:31:57,955 Speaker 1: a guest for yet will do. Rachel, of course, was erudite, succinct, knowledgeable, compelling, 432 00:31:58,035 --> 00:32:02,115 Speaker 1: self deprecating, and she wasn't another guy. We began to 433 00:32:02,155 --> 00:32:05,795 Speaker 1: book her to talk about pretty much almost anything every week. 434 00:32:06,355 --> 00:32:09,275 Speaker 1: Soon it became twice a week. She also had fun 435 00:32:09,355 --> 00:32:13,595 Speaker 1: on TV without overdoing it. The in house phrase was 436 00:32:13,835 --> 00:32:17,275 Speaker 1: she plays and she played. Despite the fact that we 437 00:32:17,275 --> 00:32:19,955 Speaker 1: were always in different studios. We would either throw her 438 00:32:19,995 --> 00:32:23,635 Speaker 1: into a one camera room called the Nook, literally converted 439 00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:27,275 Speaker 1: from a third floor broom closet at thirty Rock, or 440 00:32:27,315 --> 00:32:29,915 Speaker 1: we would rent some time at an All Networks live 441 00:32:29,995 --> 00:32:33,595 Speaker 1: shot assembly line studio called Media three, which was a 442 00:32:33,595 --> 00:32:37,235 Speaker 1: few blocks further downtown. I would remain on the ever 443 00:32:37,355 --> 00:32:43,395 Speaker 1: increasingly antiquated Lazy Susan set at MSNBC in Jersey, and 444 00:32:43,515 --> 00:32:46,755 Speaker 1: as these appearances started, this was when the love letters 445 00:32:46,795 --> 00:32:49,555 Speaker 1: to her and to us began to show up on 446 00:32:49,635 --> 00:32:53,515 Speaker 1: the website, The Daily Coasts. As the ratings rose that 447 00:32:53,595 --> 00:32:57,515 Speaker 1: spring and MSNBC's moved to New York in October, loomed. 448 00:32:57,515 --> 00:33:00,435 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin had offered me a perk as long as 449 00:33:00,475 --> 00:33:03,635 Speaker 1: the viewership totals held. He said, I could skip the 450 00:33:03,675 --> 00:33:07,355 Speaker 1: weary commute to Secaucus on Fridays. I could write the 451 00:33:07,395 --> 00:33:10,475 Speaker 1: show in my apartment on Central Park South. I could 452 00:33:10,515 --> 00:33:14,075 Speaker 1: have an early dinner with my cohabitant, Katie Turr, actually 453 00:33:14,115 --> 00:33:16,955 Speaker 1: in our home. I could walk over to thirty Rock 454 00:33:16,995 --> 00:33:20,995 Speaker 1: at seven pm and do countdown from that aforementioned nook. 455 00:33:21,835 --> 00:33:26,235 Speaker 1: This was balm for my soul until word came down 456 00:33:26,275 --> 00:33:28,755 Speaker 1: from the office of the Director of News for NBC 457 00:33:28,915 --> 00:33:31,195 Speaker 1: that for some arcane reason, the knook had to be 458 00:33:31,275 --> 00:33:33,875 Speaker 1: rebuilt and it would be out of commission for like 459 00:33:33,915 --> 00:33:37,395 Speaker 1: two months. To his credit, Phil Griffin now ponied up 460 00:33:37,715 --> 00:33:41,595 Speaker 1: his offer of Jersey Free Friday continued, and he was 461 00:33:41,635 --> 00:33:44,555 Speaker 1: willing to rent me one of those studios at Media 462 00:33:44,595 --> 00:33:47,915 Speaker 1: three and I could anchor the show from there. Thus 463 00:33:47,995 --> 00:33:50,115 Speaker 1: did it happen that, as I breezed in for the 464 00:33:50,155 --> 00:33:53,195 Speaker 1: second week in a row to Media three at seven 465 00:33:53,195 --> 00:33:55,875 Speaker 1: point thirty on Friday, August third, two thousand and seven 466 00:33:55,915 --> 00:33:58,675 Speaker 1: and made my way to the makeup room. Our now 467 00:33:58,875 --> 00:34:03,275 Speaker 1: go to countdown guest, Rachel Meadow was already sitting in 468 00:34:03,315 --> 00:34:07,515 Speaker 1: the chair as previously. We had met before in passing, 469 00:34:07,835 --> 00:34:10,075 Speaker 1: we had not met since she had become a regular. 470 00:34:10,555 --> 00:34:14,035 Speaker 1: She rose instantly and unnecessarily. And as she did and 471 00:34:14,075 --> 00:34:17,875 Speaker 1: we exchanged pleasantries, I noticed she had one sheet of 472 00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:21,715 Speaker 1: paper in her hand. It had clearly been computer printed. 473 00:34:21,995 --> 00:34:23,995 Speaker 1: There was a line or two of texts at the 474 00:34:23,995 --> 00:34:27,715 Speaker 1: top of the page, then about half a sheet's worth 475 00:34:27,755 --> 00:34:30,395 Speaker 1: of words written by hand, and then there was a 476 00:34:30,435 --> 00:34:34,195 Speaker 1: second line of computer printed text and another half sheet 477 00:34:34,235 --> 00:34:36,595 Speaker 1: of longhand, and the back of the paper had the 478 00:34:36,635 --> 00:34:41,675 Speaker 1: same format. I can read upside down. I mean I 479 00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:44,475 Speaker 1: can read a paper or a book when the paper 480 00:34:44,555 --> 00:34:47,195 Speaker 1: or book is upside down. It's one of my few 481 00:34:47,235 --> 00:34:50,235 Speaker 1: parlor tricks. It took only a few seconds for me 482 00:34:50,275 --> 00:34:53,675 Speaker 1: to realize that the computer printed lines of text were 483 00:34:54,195 --> 00:34:58,715 Speaker 1: the questions I had composed for Rachel's segment that night. Then, 484 00:34:58,835 --> 00:35:02,515 Speaker 1: in her excellent penmanship, what are the answers to those questions? 485 00:35:02,955 --> 00:35:05,595 Speaker 1: It looked for all the world like a high school 486 00:35:05,675 --> 00:35:10,395 Speaker 1: or college short essay exam, Page four short questions and 487 00:35:10,475 --> 00:35:17,195 Speaker 1: four half page answers. My astonishment was completely organic. What's that? 488 00:35:18,915 --> 00:35:23,035 Speaker 1: Rachel was embarrassed. I just sorry, I just she hid 489 00:35:23,075 --> 00:35:28,875 Speaker 1: the sheet behind her back. I just do some prep 490 00:35:28,915 --> 00:35:31,195 Speaker 1: for the show. It's my prep sheet. I don't read 491 00:35:31,235 --> 00:35:32,955 Speaker 1: from it on the air or anything, but I like 492 00:35:32,995 --> 00:35:35,595 Speaker 1: to write everything down, Longhand, because it helps me organize 493 00:35:35,595 --> 00:35:37,435 Speaker 1: my thoughts, and I like to have it in front 494 00:35:37,475 --> 00:35:40,115 Speaker 1: of me in the studio in case. I interrupted her 495 00:35:40,195 --> 00:35:42,395 Speaker 1: now and said, in case you freeze or you get 496 00:35:42,435 --> 00:35:46,275 Speaker 1: interrupted or distracted by the idiot host. I pulled from 497 00:35:46,275 --> 00:35:49,955 Speaker 1: my pocket four folded up pages of my own on 498 00:35:50,035 --> 00:35:52,395 Speaker 1: which I had printed handwritten notes for each of the 499 00:35:52,435 --> 00:35:55,715 Speaker 1: scheduled interviews. I said, I find it's writing it by 500 00:35:55,755 --> 00:35:57,435 Speaker 1: hand that really helps here. It's I think it's some 501 00:35:57,475 --> 00:36:01,155 Speaker 1: sort of memory trick. Her gasp of astonishment turned into 502 00:36:01,155 --> 00:36:04,595 Speaker 1: a warm laugh. She and I used the same tea 503 00:36:04,755 --> 00:36:08,995 Speaker 1: be shortcut. Without knowing it. Now, something else popped into 504 00:36:09,035 --> 00:36:11,995 Speaker 1: my head. I said, you do realize you are more 505 00:36:12,075 --> 00:36:15,595 Speaker 1: prepared for your four minute segment than I am for 506 00:36:15,715 --> 00:36:19,555 Speaker 1: the entire damn show. Right, She laughed again, and I 507 00:36:19,595 --> 00:36:22,595 Speaker 1: waved my folded crib notes. You do realize that nobody 508 00:36:22,675 --> 00:36:26,355 Speaker 1: does this except you and me. It's lack of confidence 509 00:36:26,755 --> 00:36:30,555 Speaker 1: meets paranoia meets fear that you'll forget your good lines. 510 00:36:31,595 --> 00:36:33,795 Speaker 1: I squinted at her as the thought came to me, 511 00:36:35,075 --> 00:36:38,835 Speaker 1: have you ever thought of hosting one of these shows? 512 00:36:40,595 --> 00:36:43,315 Speaker 1: Rachel suddenly drew her head back as if evading a 513 00:36:43,395 --> 00:36:47,875 Speaker 1: right cross. What. No, I couldn't, I said, we haven't 514 00:36:47,875 --> 00:36:50,875 Speaker 1: had a good guest host in a long time. The 515 00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:53,515 Speaker 1: makeup artist moved to attempt to straighten up my hair. 516 00:36:54,155 --> 00:36:56,875 Speaker 1: You want to give it a try, she seemed to 517 00:36:56,915 --> 00:37:00,115 Speaker 1: go a little pale. No, I don't think so, really, 518 00:37:01,155 --> 00:37:03,875 Speaker 1: but I don't. How difficult could it be if I 519 00:37:03,915 --> 00:37:06,595 Speaker 1: stepped in here no experience and suddenly I had the 520 00:37:06,595 --> 00:37:12,915 Speaker 1: most popular liberal news show pick Up two? How good 521 00:37:12,955 --> 00:37:19,555 Speaker 1: you know? I'm tom three two to one? How difficult 522 00:37:19,595 --> 00:37:21,435 Speaker 1: could it be if I stepped in here with no 523 00:37:21,555 --> 00:37:25,555 Speaker 1: experience and suddenly I had the most popular liberal news show, 524 00:37:26,995 --> 00:37:29,675 Speaker 1: And then I did it again eight years later. She 525 00:37:29,795 --> 00:37:33,595 Speaker 1: looked unconvinced. I mean, you already do the prep. What 526 00:37:33,795 --> 00:37:38,195 Speaker 1: worries you? She looked away from me and mumbled, prompter. 527 00:37:39,355 --> 00:37:43,995 Speaker 1: I laughed, Did you say prompter? The prompter? The teleprompter. 528 00:37:44,595 --> 00:37:47,955 Speaker 1: She looked away again. I don't think I could use it. 529 00:37:49,155 --> 00:37:52,875 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I said, with mock anger. Have you padded 530 00:37:52,875 --> 00:37:56,195 Speaker 1: your resume? Didn't you get one of them? Rhodes scholarship 531 00:37:56,235 --> 00:37:58,915 Speaker 1: be things, and you go over to England to study stuff, 532 00:37:58,915 --> 00:38:01,275 Speaker 1: and you think you can't learn how to use a teleprompter. 533 00:38:02,035 --> 00:38:04,115 Speaker 1: For God's sake, I learned to use a teleprompter in 534 00:38:04,155 --> 00:38:07,355 Speaker 1: ten minutes from Stuart Effing Varney at CNN. There's nothing 535 00:38:07,355 --> 00:38:12,075 Speaker 1: to it but practice. Rachel was not convinced. I said, 536 00:38:12,115 --> 00:38:14,475 Speaker 1: get made up, Come into the studio, sit with me 537 00:38:14,595 --> 00:38:16,875 Speaker 1: off camera. I'm just sitting in there reading the show 538 00:38:16,915 --> 00:38:19,915 Speaker 1: off the teleprompter. Watch you'll see. Let me ask you this, 539 00:38:20,035 --> 00:38:22,115 Speaker 1: if you knew how to use the teleprompter, if you 540 00:38:22,195 --> 00:38:26,755 Speaker 1: already knew, would you want to try hosting? Her eyes 541 00:38:26,755 --> 00:38:30,395 Speaker 1: got a little smaller, and she seemed nervous and very quietly. 542 00:38:30,515 --> 00:38:36,435 Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow said yes. We would travel a million bureaucratic 543 00:38:36,555 --> 00:38:40,715 Speaker 1: miles and a year together before we actually sat down 544 00:38:40,755 --> 00:38:44,395 Speaker 1: for prompter school. After one of her guest hits on 545 00:38:44,475 --> 00:38:47,755 Speaker 1: a Monday edition of Countdown, she and I and two 546 00:38:47,915 --> 00:38:51,715 Speaker 1: their credit Countdown's technical director Brian Nailsnik, and much of 547 00:38:51,755 --> 00:38:55,355 Speaker 1: the crew stayed for an extra half an hour. We 548 00:38:55,475 --> 00:38:58,395 Speaker 1: put two cameras and two monitors almost next to each 549 00:38:58,395 --> 00:39:00,995 Speaker 1: other so she could read the prompter along with me, 550 00:39:01,715 --> 00:39:04,315 Speaker 1: or watch the other monitor to see where my eyes 551 00:39:04,395 --> 00:39:07,635 Speaker 1: were at as I read from the prompter. And then 552 00:39:07,675 --> 00:39:09,715 Speaker 1: after a while we fixed it so I could read 553 00:39:09,755 --> 00:39:12,395 Speaker 1: along with her, or watch the other monitor to see 554 00:39:12,395 --> 00:39:15,955 Speaker 1: where her eyes were as she read. We read my scripts, 555 00:39:16,075 --> 00:39:19,115 Speaker 1: we read scripts that she had written. I gave her 556 00:39:19,115 --> 00:39:24,155 Speaker 1: the Tom Snyder prompter trick. Okay, here's the Tom Snyder 557 00:39:24,155 --> 00:39:29,035 Speaker 1: prompter trick. Try to see and read entire sentences, not 558 00:39:29,315 --> 00:39:33,275 Speaker 1: individual words. Focus your eyes not on the pain of 559 00:39:33,315 --> 00:39:36,955 Speaker 1: plastic where the words are projected, but focus several inches 560 00:39:37,075 --> 00:39:39,875 Speaker 1: beyond it, where the lens actually is in the camera. 561 00:39:41,235 --> 00:39:43,635 Speaker 1: I told her tonight, this is your freshman year. Tomorrow 562 00:39:43,675 --> 00:39:47,155 Speaker 1: will be sophomore Wednesday's, Junior Thursday, Senior Friday's graduation, and 563 00:39:47,435 --> 00:39:49,595 Speaker 1: also the homecoming football game in grad school, and the 564 00:39:49,635 --> 00:39:52,435 Speaker 1: alumni Association will be hitting you up for your money 565 00:39:52,475 --> 00:39:56,475 Speaker 1: on Saturday. Rachel Maddow came in every night that week 566 00:39:56,515 --> 00:40:02,315 Speaker 1: to practice overcoming her biggest fear. The teleprompter. I stayed 567 00:40:02,395 --> 00:40:07,195 Speaker 1: late again on Friday. What do you think, Rachel asked me, 568 00:40:07,795 --> 00:40:11,595 Speaker 1: who cares? I answered, what do you think? She straightened 569 00:40:11,595 --> 00:40:14,555 Speaker 1: her practice script by tapping it against the anchored desk 570 00:40:15,275 --> 00:40:19,875 Speaker 1: like an anchor does, and said, I think this is 571 00:40:19,915 --> 00:40:38,035 Speaker 1: the greatest invention in the history of mankind. I've done 572 00:40:38,035 --> 00:40:40,195 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 573 00:40:40,235 --> 00:40:42,715 Speaker 1: Countdown has come to you from our studios high atop 574 00:40:42,755 --> 00:40:46,835 Speaker 1: the Sports Capsule building in New York. Here are the credits. 575 00:40:46,915 --> 00:40:49,515 Speaker 1: Most of the music arranged, produced and performed by Brian 576 00:40:49,595 --> 00:40:52,915 Speaker 1: Ray and John Phillip Shanel, who are the Countdown musical directors. 577 00:40:53,315 --> 00:40:57,155 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Shanel, Guitars, bass 578 00:40:57,195 --> 00:41:01,075 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. Another 579 00:41:01,075 --> 00:41:03,835 Speaker 1: Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by the group 580 00:41:03,875 --> 00:41:07,555 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Olderman theme from 581 00:41:07,755 --> 00:41:10,675 Speaker 1: ESPN two and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis 582 00:41:10,675 --> 00:41:14,715 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments by Nancy Faust. The 583 00:41:14,715 --> 00:41:17,915 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my 584 00:41:17,915 --> 00:41:21,555 Speaker 1: friend Kenny Maine. Everything else was pretty much my fault. 585 00:41:22,035 --> 00:41:24,235 Speaker 1: That's countdown for this, the nine hundred and fifty eighth 586 00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:27,635 Speaker 1: day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 587 00:41:27,635 --> 00:41:31,075 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Arrest him again while 588 00:41:31,115 --> 00:41:35,515 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins 589 00:41:35,555 --> 00:41:39,275 Speaker 1: as the news warrants till then, I'm Keith Olreman. Good morning, 590 00:41:39,315 --> 00:41:52,715 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman 591 00:41:52,875 --> 00:41:57,355 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. 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