1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:19,795 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,395 --> 00:00:29,195 Speaker 1: Oh God. I so wanted Trump to declare last night, 3 00:00:29,435 --> 00:00:33,915 Speaker 1: we were so close. He was so pissed at descant As, 4 00:00:34,195 --> 00:00:37,275 Speaker 1: He was so pissed at the descent as Son of 5 00:00:37,355 --> 00:00:41,075 Speaker 1: God commercial. He was so pissed as Santas is trying 6 00:00:41,115 --> 00:00:45,755 Speaker 1: to steal his Jesus Freaks. He was so ready to 7 00:00:45,795 --> 00:00:48,235 Speaker 1: declare in Vandalia, Ohio, that he was gonna run in 8 00:00:48,315 --> 00:00:50,155 Speaker 1: twenty four is if we all didn't know already he 9 00:00:50,195 --> 00:00:54,075 Speaker 1: was gonna run, so ready that the right wing fop 10 00:00:54,355 --> 00:00:57,755 Speaker 1: Benny Johnson tweeted Trump would be announcing it during the 11 00:00:57,795 --> 00:01:01,395 Speaker 1: Fascist rally, so ready that he could have said twenty 12 00:01:01,435 --> 00:01:05,475 Speaker 1: words that would have completely eclipsed every republic Can candidate 13 00:01:05,795 --> 00:01:10,395 Speaker 1: from Officer Dr. Lieutenant Herschel the trained seal walker to 14 00:01:10,595 --> 00:01:14,515 Speaker 1: carry Eva Brown Lake, and made every voter with the 15 00:01:14,555 --> 00:01:17,755 Speaker 1: slightest hesitation about him at least rethink a vote for 16 00:01:17,795 --> 00:01:21,395 Speaker 1: any Republican anywhere in the country. Trump could have come 17 00:01:21,435 --> 00:01:23,795 Speaker 1: through for us like he did in Georgia for Warnock 18 00:01:23,835 --> 00:01:27,195 Speaker 1: and oss Off. He could have snatched defeat from the 19 00:01:27,275 --> 00:01:31,755 Speaker 1: jaws of Republican victory as only Donald john Trump can 20 00:01:32,795 --> 00:01:36,675 Speaker 1: God damn it, somebody talked him out of it. He 21 00:01:36,835 --> 00:01:41,355 Speaker 1: actually listened for once. We want nothing to detract from 22 00:01:41,395 --> 00:01:45,555 Speaker 1: the importance of tomorrow. As the Maga Jesus Freak music 23 00:01:45,595 --> 00:01:50,435 Speaker 1: played in the background, he announced an announcement next Tuesday 24 00:01:50,475 --> 00:01:58,675 Speaker 1: at Mari Lago, oh helthough if Merrick Garland has conies, 25 00:01:59,275 --> 00:02:03,635 Speaker 1: he did indict Trump Tuesday morning, mark five hundred bucks 26 00:02:03,635 --> 00:02:08,715 Speaker 1: if you indict Trump Tuesday morning. Anyway, I am not 27 00:02:08,755 --> 00:02:11,395 Speaker 1: going to give you a raw ross speech on election Day. 28 00:02:11,475 --> 00:02:14,275 Speaker 1: I think I know who is listening more accurately than 29 00:02:14,315 --> 00:02:16,555 Speaker 1: I have known who is listening or watching to any 30 00:02:16,595 --> 00:02:19,755 Speaker 1: of my work since I started doing this forty seven 31 00:02:19,835 --> 00:02:23,395 Speaker 1: years ago. You are not undecided, and you are not 32 00:02:23,515 --> 00:02:27,875 Speaker 1: uncertain about going to the polls. But there is some 33 00:02:27,955 --> 00:02:30,115 Speaker 1: stuff I came across I think I can bring to 34 00:02:30,155 --> 00:02:33,195 Speaker 1: your attention that might help you digest whatever happens today 35 00:02:33,395 --> 00:02:36,555 Speaker 1: and in the weeks ahead of counting and recounting. And 36 00:02:36,595 --> 00:02:39,675 Speaker 1: it starts with the startling but nowhere near inexplicable truth 37 00:02:39,715 --> 00:02:45,395 Speaker 1: that three late reliable sober polls affiliated with major both 38 00:02:45,475 --> 00:02:49,955 Speaker 1: sides this news organizations, three of them show the Democrats 39 00:02:50,075 --> 00:02:54,595 Speaker 1: ahead in the generic congressional ballot, But each poll so 40 00:02:54,755 --> 00:02:57,395 Speaker 1: disturbed the narrative of the red wave that the three 41 00:02:57,435 --> 00:03:01,835 Speaker 1: major both sides this news organizations dismissed their own polls. 42 00:03:03,075 --> 00:03:08,755 Speaker 1: One of them said the democratically quote spells trouble for Democrats, another, 43 00:03:08,755 --> 00:03:12,115 Speaker 1: which showed a five point democratically, dismissed the five point 44 00:03:12,155 --> 00:03:16,435 Speaker 1: Democratic lead as a quote outlier and pleaded that the 45 00:03:16,475 --> 00:03:20,475 Speaker 1: results vode ill for Democrats, and the other one, showing 46 00:03:20,515 --> 00:03:24,475 Speaker 1: three different kinds of democratic congressional leads, simply left all 47 00:03:24,475 --> 00:03:27,995 Speaker 1: of them out of its news story and headlined it 48 00:03:29,355 --> 00:03:34,915 Speaker 1: Biden approval takes downwards. Don't get me wrong, It is 49 00:03:35,035 --> 00:03:38,635 Speaker 1: absolutely possible that the Democrats will lose the House or 50 00:03:38,635 --> 00:03:42,195 Speaker 1: the Senate or both. But there is a phenomenon that 51 00:03:42,355 --> 00:03:44,795 Speaker 1: is at play and will remain at play no matter 52 00:03:44,875 --> 00:03:48,195 Speaker 1: what the outcomes are. I have mentioned it before. The 53 00:03:48,275 --> 00:03:51,835 Speaker 1: corporations which own the major news organizations in this country 54 00:03:52,195 --> 00:03:56,875 Speaker 1: all live in abject terror that their profits might become 55 00:03:57,035 --> 00:04:00,515 Speaker 1: at risk. They have had internal meetings about what to 56 00:04:00,555 --> 00:04:03,235 Speaker 1: do in the event of another full Republican government or 57 00:04:03,275 --> 00:04:06,395 Speaker 1: just a Republican House or a Republican Senate, but especially 58 00:04:07,035 --> 00:04:11,835 Speaker 1: of a full fascist takeover. The first conclusion is always 59 00:04:12,395 --> 00:04:16,675 Speaker 1: foot Republicans on TV and do not challenge them, which 60 00:04:16,795 --> 00:04:19,795 Speaker 1: is why Chuck Todd has a job at NBC and 61 00:04:20,355 --> 00:04:24,035 Speaker 1: Dana Bash and uh, what's your name, Holly Popover have 62 00:04:24,155 --> 00:04:28,675 Speaker 1: one at CNN. The second rule is higher Republicans, which 63 00:04:28,715 --> 00:04:31,875 Speaker 1: is why McK mulvaney and Chris Licht have jobs. And 64 00:04:31,915 --> 00:04:36,515 Speaker 1: the third is never be seen to be favoring Democrats 65 00:04:36,715 --> 00:04:42,515 Speaker 1: in anything, so Politico can, in all seriousness put out 66 00:04:42,555 --> 00:04:47,155 Speaker 1: this headline voters appear ready to blame Democrats for economy inflation, 67 00:04:48,595 --> 00:04:52,035 Speaker 1: followed by this lead paragraph, voters approval of President Joe 68 00:04:52,035 --> 00:04:55,795 Speaker 1: Biden remains deep in negative territory. It is not until 69 00:04:55,795 --> 00:04:58,435 Speaker 1: the second half of the third paragraph before we get quote. 70 00:04:59,035 --> 00:05:01,875 Speaker 1: Many polling averages indicate that voters are more inclined to 71 00:05:01,955 --> 00:05:05,155 Speaker 1: vote for Republicans. As a result, the Political a Morning 72 00:05:05,155 --> 00:05:09,155 Speaker 1: Consult poll is an outlier on this question, showing support 73 00:05:09,195 --> 00:05:13,875 Speaker 1: for Democratic congressional candidates at five points above support for 74 00:05:13,915 --> 00:05:18,155 Speaker 1: Republican candidates. It's the fifth paragraph before they mentioned that 75 00:05:18,195 --> 00:05:20,355 Speaker 1: the five point lead is more than twice as large 76 00:05:20,355 --> 00:05:23,275 Speaker 1: as their own poll's margin of error, and they never 77 00:05:23,315 --> 00:05:27,475 Speaker 1: address anywhere in the story why Politico is throwing its 78 00:05:27,475 --> 00:05:30,635 Speaker 1: own polster and its own credibility under the bus, and 79 00:05:30,675 --> 00:05:36,995 Speaker 1: we are left to assume it's just because I will 80 00:05:37,035 --> 00:05:40,555 Speaker 1: spare you the full mental gymnastics that Yahoo, living down 81 00:05:40,595 --> 00:05:44,075 Speaker 1: to its name, used to repudiate its own Yugov poll, 82 00:05:44,155 --> 00:05:46,475 Speaker 1: except to say that it mentions the Democrats are up 83 00:05:46,515 --> 00:05:49,835 Speaker 1: by two points, but that's a tie because the margin 84 00:05:49,875 --> 00:05:53,075 Speaker 1: of error is two point seven, and then it underscores 85 00:05:53,115 --> 00:05:55,955 Speaker 1: that since September this represents a three fold reduction in 86 00:05:55,995 --> 00:06:00,275 Speaker 1: Democrats lead in the closing days of the campaign. It's 87 00:06:00,315 --> 00:06:03,675 Speaker 1: Reuters with its IPSOS poll showing the Democrats that had 88 00:06:04,715 --> 00:06:08,875 Speaker 1: unlikely forty among registered and thirty seven thirty six among 89 00:06:08,995 --> 00:06:13,675 Speaker 1: all adults. Routers simply wrote a two word piece about 90 00:06:13,675 --> 00:06:17,075 Speaker 1: Biden's unpopularity and about the House. It quoted the University 91 00:06:17,115 --> 00:06:20,595 Speaker 1: of Virginia's Center for Politics and left its own poll 92 00:06:20,675 --> 00:06:25,515 Speaker 1: out of the article Entirely. It's nuts. The people writing 93 00:06:25,515 --> 00:06:27,435 Speaker 1: this crap and the editors putting it out had to 94 00:06:27,435 --> 00:06:29,755 Speaker 1: twist themselves into so many pretzels that the world of 95 00:06:29,755 --> 00:06:32,315 Speaker 1: the political pundits will now we'll be seeing an epidemic 96 00:06:32,315 --> 00:06:40,035 Speaker 1: of torn rotator cuffs. Ah I am not going to 97 00:06:40,075 --> 00:06:42,515 Speaker 1: go race by race for you, and frankly, I don't 98 00:06:42,555 --> 00:06:45,755 Speaker 1: know what tomorrow's podcast should be about, because I don't 99 00:06:45,755 --> 00:06:47,755 Speaker 1: know what I'm going to tell you that will still 100 00:06:47,795 --> 00:06:52,075 Speaker 1: be valid even three minutes after I record it. I'll 101 00:06:52,115 --> 00:06:55,715 Speaker 1: think of something. Maybe ninety seconds in the first section, 102 00:06:55,755 --> 00:06:58,195 Speaker 1: in fifteen minutes in the second section, and twenty minutes 103 00:06:58,195 --> 00:07:00,635 Speaker 1: in the third section. I don't know. But there is 104 00:07:01,435 --> 00:07:04,515 Speaker 1: one other trend that is already self evident, and maybe 105 00:07:04,515 --> 00:07:08,435 Speaker 1: this will be the lead topic tomorrow. Trump, the Republicans, 106 00:07:08,555 --> 00:07:11,755 Speaker 1: the fascist News channel, and therefore all the mainstream media 107 00:07:11,795 --> 00:07:15,955 Speaker 1: in the terrified mode mentioned earlier, will push the following narrative. 108 00:07:16,035 --> 00:07:19,835 Speaker 1: They have already started. It only vote totals from tomorrow 109 00:07:19,955 --> 00:07:23,955 Speaker 1: night count. Anything that's still undecided Wednesday morning or later 110 00:07:24,435 --> 00:07:28,235 Speaker 1: was fixed by the Democrats. This simple lie is what 111 00:07:28,355 --> 00:07:32,595 Speaker 1: all Trumpian election denialism has hung from for two years. 112 00:07:33,235 --> 00:07:36,875 Speaker 1: It is idiotic. It does not match anything in our history, 113 00:07:36,915 --> 00:07:40,235 Speaker 1: not even just our history this century, think about two thousand. 114 00:07:40,835 --> 00:07:46,275 Speaker 1: But it has very similitude. It sounds right to people 115 00:07:46,315 --> 00:07:50,475 Speaker 1: who know nothing about whatever subject is in question. Not 116 00:07:50,635 --> 00:07:53,995 Speaker 1: only did one of Trump's lawyers pitch this in Ohio 117 00:07:54,115 --> 00:07:58,515 Speaker 1: last night before the Fere's speech. Only vote totals Tuesday 118 00:07:58,555 --> 00:08:00,835 Speaker 1: night count no mail in votes, no Democratic votes, no 119 00:08:00,955 --> 00:08:04,635 Speaker 1: votes on Wednesday, but at least two Fox hosts did 120 00:08:04,755 --> 00:08:09,275 Speaker 1: it too, and with his usual restraint, Jimy Glick, Tucks 121 00:08:09,275 --> 00:08:12,555 Speaker 1: and Carlson explained that the ordinary counting delays are in 122 00:08:12,595 --> 00:08:16,795 Speaker 1: fact a Democratic plot to steal the election and threaten 123 00:08:16,835 --> 00:08:22,115 Speaker 1: a civil war. Some late predictions from more or less 124 00:08:22,115 --> 00:08:25,875 Speaker 1: credible pollsters to note cook political categorizing at least lean 125 00:08:25,955 --> 00:08:29,155 Speaker 1: Republican versus at least lean Democrat has the Republicans up 126 00:08:29,155 --> 00:08:33,035 Speaker 1: two and twelve seven with thirty six toss up. If 127 00:08:33,355 --> 00:08:36,755 Speaker 1: that is accurate, Democrats could win thirty of those toss 128 00:08:36,835 --> 00:08:39,715 Speaker 1: ups and the Republicans would still control the House two 129 00:08:40,355 --> 00:08:44,995 Speaker 1: to two hundred and seventeen. Larry Saboteau, who is often Okay, 130 00:08:45,195 --> 00:08:50,435 Speaker 1: calls it Republicans to five thirty eight. Models suggest the 131 00:08:50,475 --> 00:08:53,555 Speaker 1: Republicans have an eight percent chance of winning between one 132 00:08:53,715 --> 00:08:57,875 Speaker 1: and thirty three seats. Of course, if Politico reuters in 133 00:08:57,955 --> 00:09:00,955 Speaker 1: Yahoo were writing up those forecasts there, they would explain 134 00:09:00,955 --> 00:09:04,435 Speaker 1: how much the Republicans were slipping. Actually, the Republicans are 135 00:09:04,435 --> 00:09:07,435 Speaker 1: slow thing. Trump lost forty seats in his mid term. 136 00:09:07,795 --> 00:09:10,755 Speaker 1: Obama lost sixty three in his first, Clinton fifty four 137 00:09:10,795 --> 00:09:13,315 Speaker 1: in his first. If the Republicans take the House, the 138 00:09:13,395 --> 00:09:16,875 Speaker 1: Saboteau prediction of a thirty nine vote margin is the 139 00:09:16,995 --> 00:09:20,755 Speaker 1: largest of the credible predictions. No matter what the number is, 140 00:09:20,755 --> 00:09:22,635 Speaker 1: even if it is one, even if it is two, 141 00:09:22,755 --> 00:09:28,195 Speaker 1: an eight seventeen Biden will get pilloried anyway. One other 142 00:09:28,275 --> 00:09:31,275 Speaker 1: development from yesterday will probably get no traction when it should. 143 00:09:31,755 --> 00:09:35,995 Speaker 1: You have Getny Progosian prutents chef, the goon behind the 144 00:09:36,035 --> 00:09:40,275 Speaker 1: Russian mercenary gang trying to stave off defeating Ukraine. You 145 00:09:40,355 --> 00:09:43,995 Speaker 1: have Guny Progosian, long suspected of playing a central role 146 00:09:44,075 --> 00:09:47,475 Speaker 1: in the Trump campaign conspiracy with Russian hackers and politicians 147 00:09:47,555 --> 00:09:50,515 Speaker 1: to interfere with the two thousand sixteen presidential election, and 148 00:09:50,755 --> 00:09:53,555 Speaker 1: just as long adamant in his denials that had happened 149 00:09:53,835 --> 00:09:56,075 Speaker 1: or that he had anything to do with it. Suddenly 150 00:09:56,235 --> 00:10:02,075 Speaker 1: yesterday you have Getny pregosition confirmed it. Gentlemen, his company's 151 00:10:02,115 --> 00:10:06,675 Speaker 1: press service announced on social media. We have interfered, are interfering, 152 00:10:06,995 --> 00:10:11,795 Speaker 1: and will interfere carefully, precisely, surgically, and in our own way, 153 00:10:12,995 --> 00:10:16,075 Speaker 1: what did he do? He didn't say, it doesn't matter, 154 00:10:16,755 --> 00:10:19,435 Speaker 1: might have done nothing. Just saying it now on the 155 00:10:19,515 --> 00:10:25,075 Speaker 1: eve of the midterms constitutes interference by itself. And lastly, 156 00:10:25,155 --> 00:10:27,555 Speaker 1: to circle back to the media and the narratives, just 157 00:10:27,715 --> 00:10:30,475 Speaker 1: to add to this perspective that the media is lined 158 00:10:30,555 --> 00:10:33,835 Speaker 1: up against reality on behalf of the Republicans and their 159 00:10:33,835 --> 00:10:39,315 Speaker 1: own asses. Think the new CNN hosting Rona Romney on Sunday. 160 00:10:39,355 --> 00:10:42,875 Speaker 1: Think MSNBC's liberal hosts like Meadow completely as it turned out, 161 00:10:42,915 --> 00:10:46,595 Speaker 1: ignoring the firing of Tiffany Cross to appease Fox and Carlson. 162 00:10:46,875 --> 00:10:49,995 Speaker 1: Think the pole twisting by Ruyters Political and Yahoo that 163 00:10:50,035 --> 00:10:56,435 Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier. On April, Elon Musk tweeted quote, for 164 00:10:56,595 --> 00:10:59,715 Speaker 1: Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral. 165 00:11:00,635 --> 00:11:05,555 Speaker 1: Yesterday Elmo tweeted quote, I recommend voting for a publican Congress. 166 00:11:06,675 --> 00:11:10,355 Speaker 1: I think that tweet came after his daily Nazi meme, 167 00:11:10,915 --> 00:11:13,395 Speaker 1: but I might be mistaken. Might have been Nazi meme 168 00:11:14,075 --> 00:11:18,035 Speaker 1: after the call to vote for a Republican. A Twitter 169 00:11:18,195 --> 00:11:21,595 Speaker 1: user named Kenneth Laster wrote, Elon Musk right now is 170 00:11:21,675 --> 00:11:24,595 Speaker 1: like if Elmer Fudd bought a website of bugs Bunnies. 171 00:11:24,635 --> 00:11:27,435 Speaker 1: It's a great line. Elon Musk right now is like 172 00:11:27,595 --> 00:11:30,795 Speaker 1: if Elmer Fudd bought a website of bugs bunnies. But 173 00:11:30,995 --> 00:11:33,355 Speaker 1: it reminded me of the Family Guy episode where Elmer 174 00:11:33,395 --> 00:11:35,915 Speaker 1: Fudd approaches Bugs who says, what's app doc, and then 175 00:11:35,955 --> 00:11:40,315 Speaker 1: Elmer just shoots him point blank four times. Also, please 176 00:11:40,355 --> 00:11:43,995 Speaker 1: note this is Elmer Fudd. Musk, whom The Verge reported 177 00:11:44,075 --> 00:11:46,635 Speaker 1: last night, has at least discussed the possibility that his 178 00:11:46,835 --> 00:11:50,555 Speaker 1: real genius idea for making money with Twitter replacing his 179 00:11:50,715 --> 00:11:54,755 Speaker 1: last ten laugh out loud disastrous genius ideas for making 180 00:11:54,795 --> 00:11:57,795 Speaker 1: money on Twitter. His real genius idea is to put 181 00:11:57,915 --> 00:12:02,675 Speaker 1: the whole thing behind a paywall. Put Twitter on a 182 00:12:02,795 --> 00:12:10,155 Speaker 1: subscription basis question e Lawn's Nazi memes. Are they included 183 00:12:10,195 --> 00:12:27,075 Speaker 1: with the subscription or are they extra? Still ahead, Steve 184 00:12:27,115 --> 00:12:30,835 Speaker 1: Bannon is not going to prison, not yet anyway. On 185 00:12:31,115 --> 00:12:35,915 Speaker 1: any given Sunday, the New Colts Coaches Saturday, these are 186 00:12:36,235 --> 00:12:41,715 Speaker 1: the days of the week. Spoiler alert, Crystallism may have 187 00:12:41,835 --> 00:12:45,395 Speaker 1: produced the greatest in his series of all time great 188 00:12:45,435 --> 00:12:48,795 Speaker 1: conventional lack of wisdom both sides is m columns for 189 00:12:48,955 --> 00:12:53,675 Speaker 1: CNN Worst Persons coming up and the day the dish 190 00:12:53,755 --> 00:12:56,235 Speaker 1: jockey who had been in a German prison camp for 191 00:12:56,395 --> 00:12:59,715 Speaker 1: eighteen months got mad at me for criticizing the New 192 00:12:59,795 --> 00:13:03,155 Speaker 1: York Football Giants and he tried to kill me and 193 00:13:03,355 --> 00:13:09,595 Speaker 1: then get me fired. Plus a complete vintage one KO sportscast. 194 00:13:10,875 --> 00:13:18,955 Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith 195 00:13:19,035 --> 00:13:26,675 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on Countdown. Oh, Chris Silissa has finally 196 00:13:26,755 --> 00:13:30,155 Speaker 1: reclaimed the honors as worst person in the world Wait 197 00:13:30,235 --> 00:13:34,835 Speaker 1: till you hear what he wrote? And my sports cast 198 00:13:34,875 --> 00:13:37,755 Speaker 1: from one and the dish jockey at the station who 199 00:13:37,835 --> 00:13:41,235 Speaker 1: wanted to kill me for criticizing the New York Football 200 00:13:41,315 --> 00:13:45,075 Speaker 1: Giants on his show. First any tradition of Countdown, we 201 00:13:45,115 --> 00:13:46,955 Speaker 1: feature a dog in need whom you can help. Every 202 00:13:47,035 --> 00:13:50,155 Speaker 1: dog has its day happy news to start. Ace Ace 203 00:13:50,315 --> 00:13:53,395 Speaker 1: was the pup who faced death in New York unless 204 00:13:53,435 --> 00:13:56,835 Speaker 1: somebody adopted or fostered him. We mentioned him yesterday. He's 205 00:13:56,835 --> 00:13:59,835 Speaker 1: been reserved. He should be safe if it all happens 206 00:13:59,995 --> 00:14:04,235 Speaker 1: as planned. Ya today Angie in Brooklyn, a m a 207 00:14:04,315 --> 00:14:10,395 Speaker 1: Animal rescue is trying to get Angie home. She is loyal, healthy, young, smart, patient, beautiful. 208 00:14:10,795 --> 00:14:13,915 Speaker 1: They describe her as a sweet for angel. She likes 209 00:14:13,955 --> 00:14:17,275 Speaker 1: other dogs. She loves walks. She's a gray and white 210 00:14:17,395 --> 00:14:21,915 Speaker 1: pibble mix, fifty pounds, gorgeous, floppy ears. She needs a home. 211 00:14:22,515 --> 00:14:25,515 Speaker 1: Angie is the pinned tweet at a m A Animal Rescue. 212 00:14:25,555 --> 00:14:28,435 Speaker 1: She'll be my pinned tweet at Tom Jumbo Grumbo as well. 213 00:14:28,795 --> 00:14:31,635 Speaker 1: Respond if you might be her forever human or just 214 00:14:31,835 --> 00:14:35,635 Speaker 1: retweet her free, unconditional, Your love can be yours. Thank 215 00:14:35,675 --> 00:14:44,955 Speaker 1: you very much. Pot Scripts to the news, some headlines, 216 00:14:45,035 --> 00:14:49,555 Speaker 1: some updates, some snarks, some predictions. Dateline, District of Columbia. 217 00:14:49,635 --> 00:14:52,275 Speaker 1: Judge Carl Nichols with a two fur He did not 218 00:14:52,555 --> 00:14:56,155 Speaker 1: toss the dominion defamation suit against One American News, but 219 00:14:56,275 --> 00:15:00,235 Speaker 1: he did delay the incarceration of Steve Bannon until his 220 00:15:00,315 --> 00:15:03,515 Speaker 1: appeal is concluded. Obviously, the prediction here is Bannon is 221 00:15:03,515 --> 00:15:05,995 Speaker 1: trying to run out the claw and somehow get his 222 00:15:06,075 --> 00:15:10,835 Speaker 1: contempt of Congress conviction overturned if the Republicans control Congress. 223 00:15:10,995 --> 00:15:12,915 Speaker 1: I don't think it works that way, but lord knows, 224 00:15:12,955 --> 00:15:16,395 Speaker 1: they'll try to make it work that way. Dateline, Forsyth County, 225 00:15:16,475 --> 00:15:20,675 Speaker 1: Georgia State Senate candidate Brent Binyon there says his Twitter 226 00:15:20,755 --> 00:15:24,995 Speaker 1: account has been suspended permanently on the eve of the election. 227 00:15:25,155 --> 00:15:27,995 Speaker 1: Well it's interesting timing, he writes from his campaign account, 228 00:15:28,195 --> 00:15:30,995 Speaker 1: But my personal Twitter account has been permanently suspended for 229 00:15:31,155 --> 00:15:36,315 Speaker 1: no reason whatsoever. I wonder what will happen aftermorrow. I 230 00:15:36,355 --> 00:15:41,315 Speaker 1: guess Brent's party got it in one. Guess he's a Democrat. Dateline. 231 00:15:41,355 --> 00:15:44,035 Speaker 1: Houston police arrested a man who hit ted Cruz with 232 00:15:44,115 --> 00:15:46,475 Speaker 1: a can of white Claw during the Houston Astros World 233 00:15:46,555 --> 00:15:50,555 Speaker 1: Series parade Monday. He threw it. The man faces assault charges. 234 00:15:51,195 --> 00:15:54,315 Speaker 1: I hope the white Claw is recovering well. But wait, 235 00:15:54,835 --> 00:16:01,635 Speaker 1: Texas police acting against somebody committing violence. Are they allowed 236 00:16:01,675 --> 00:16:04,835 Speaker 1: to do that? Don't they just have to go to 237 00:16:04,915 --> 00:16:07,675 Speaker 1: the crime scene and stand there and pose and look 238 00:16:07,715 --> 00:16:25,275 Speaker 1: good for the cameras. This is Sports Center? Wait, check 239 00:16:25,355 --> 00:16:33,955 Speaker 1: that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith in Sports. 240 00:16:34,075 --> 00:16:36,675 Speaker 1: It might be the oddest NFL coaching move since the 241 00:16:36,795 --> 00:16:39,755 Speaker 1: Rock Island Independence fired their coach in the middle of 242 00:16:39,875 --> 00:16:43,955 Speaker 1: a game after they lost to three to New England. Sunday, 243 00:16:43,995 --> 00:16:47,115 Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts fired coach Frank Reich and named as 244 00:16:47,235 --> 00:16:52,235 Speaker 1: his interim replacement. ESPN analyst and X All Pro center 245 00:16:52,315 --> 00:16:55,275 Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday, who has never coached in the pros or 246 00:16:55,315 --> 00:16:58,235 Speaker 1: in the colleges before. Apparently that is a first, though 247 00:16:58,275 --> 00:17:00,875 Speaker 1: he did coach three seasons for prep school in Georgia. 248 00:17:00,915 --> 00:17:04,075 Speaker 1: And more importantly than all that put together, Jeff Saturday 249 00:17:04,155 --> 00:17:07,515 Speaker 1: has dream eyes. I say this as a straight man. 250 00:17:07,595 --> 00:17:11,355 Speaker 1: He has dreamy eyes. He just does. Our sources indicate 251 00:17:11,395 --> 00:17:14,195 Speaker 1: the Jeff Saturday's assistance with the Colts will be former 252 00:17:14,315 --> 00:17:18,955 Speaker 1: Vikings guard Milt Sunday, former Duke punter Will Monday, actress Tuesday, well, 253 00:17:19,035 --> 00:17:21,635 Speaker 1: the legendary Wednesday, Adams and Ruby Thursday, and of course 254 00:17:22,715 --> 00:17:27,115 Speaker 1: seven Bills replacement guard Larry Friday. By the way, firing 255 00:17:27,155 --> 00:17:29,475 Speaker 1: a coach mid game, that really did happen. I didn't 256 00:17:29,515 --> 00:17:34,275 Speaker 1: make that up. On October one, the Rock Island Independence 257 00:17:34,515 --> 00:17:36,995 Speaker 1: of the NFL that was going by its old name 258 00:17:37,075 --> 00:17:40,075 Speaker 1: then the p f A A something or another. They 259 00:17:40,155 --> 00:17:42,475 Speaker 1: had just gone in front of the Chicago Cardinals, who 260 00:17:42,515 --> 00:17:45,035 Speaker 1: exist in the NFL today in a different city fourteen 261 00:17:45,115 --> 00:17:47,755 Speaker 1: to seven, when the owners sent a player into the 262 00:17:47,835 --> 00:17:51,435 Speaker 1: team huddle on the field to tell lineman Frank Coughlin 263 00:17:51,515 --> 00:17:54,155 Speaker 1: that he was no longer the player coach, and that 264 00:17:54,315 --> 00:17:57,635 Speaker 1: quarterback Jimmy Consulman was now the player coach. Middle of 265 00:17:57,715 --> 00:18:00,875 Speaker 1: the game, middle of the huddle. Not as crazy as 266 00:18:00,915 --> 00:18:03,955 Speaker 1: it sounds, that was the first minute of Consulman's fifteen 267 00:18:04,115 --> 00:18:07,875 Speaker 1: years an NFL coach, and he won two NFL championships. 268 00:18:08,675 --> 00:18:11,115 Speaker 1: So as to Jeff Saturday, check back with me Monday 269 00:18:11,195 --> 00:18:13,035 Speaker 1: after his first game Sunday. Thank you for your time 270 00:18:13,115 --> 00:18:16,715 Speaker 1: this time until next time. Baseball free agency news Jeans 271 00:18:16,755 --> 00:18:20,475 Speaker 1: Sigura dropped by the Phillies. Anthony Rizzo of the Rizzoo 272 00:18:20,755 --> 00:18:24,435 Speaker 1: Quality Assortment opts out from the Yankees. The next Baseball 273 00:18:24,555 --> 00:18:26,875 Speaker 1: Veterans Committee Hall of Fame vote to clean up all 274 00:18:26,915 --> 00:18:30,275 Speaker 1: the mistakes of the writer's votes announced as December four. 275 00:18:30,795 --> 00:18:35,195 Speaker 1: The contemporary era ballot eight nominees revealed. The voters can 276 00:18:35,275 --> 00:18:38,155 Speaker 1: only vote for three the candidates Barry Bonds, H G. 277 00:18:38,395 --> 00:18:41,995 Speaker 1: H In a Suit of Armor, Roger Clemens, Royd's and Amphetamines. 278 00:18:42,395 --> 00:18:45,475 Speaker 1: If either is elected, some Hall of famers will start 279 00:18:45,715 --> 00:18:50,075 Speaker 1: boycotting the Hall of Fame. Raphael Palmero angry denials in 280 00:18:50,155 --> 00:18:53,115 Speaker 1: front of Congress, including pointing and wagging a finger that 281 00:18:53,235 --> 00:18:57,715 Speaker 1: he ever did Royd's then tested positive. Albert Bell rage 282 00:18:57,795 --> 00:19:00,835 Speaker 1: without the Royds, although lots of Royd's rumors and his 283 00:19:00,955 --> 00:19:04,115 Speaker 1: career war wins above replacement is lower than that of 284 00:19:04,235 --> 00:19:10,075 Speaker 1: David Justice, Kurt Schilling, hot and cold running scumbaggery Fred 285 00:19:10,195 --> 00:19:13,835 Speaker 1: McGriff FO nine three legitimate home runs, maybe the most 286 00:19:13,915 --> 00:19:17,355 Speaker 1: underrated pure slugger of the twentieth century, except for Dale Murphy, 287 00:19:17,675 --> 00:19:20,675 Speaker 1: two time m v P, who was not satisfied after 288 00:19:20,795 --> 00:19:22,235 Speaker 1: one of those years that he won the m v 289 00:19:22,315 --> 00:19:24,355 Speaker 1: P and spent the next month trying to improve in 290 00:19:24,475 --> 00:19:28,395 Speaker 1: the Florida Instructional League. They should both go in McGriff 291 00:19:28,435 --> 00:19:31,435 Speaker 1: and Murphy. Maybe Don Mattingly the eighth nominee. I've been 292 00:19:31,435 --> 00:19:35,675 Speaker 1: a friend of his sincere. Maybe Mattingly should get a 293 00:19:35,795 --> 00:19:38,915 Speaker 1: co Fax exemption because of a career ending injury. He 294 00:19:38,995 --> 00:19:41,315 Speaker 1: was a great fielder and a better hitter, but I'll 295 00:19:41,315 --> 00:19:45,315 Speaker 1: stay neutral. One real crime here, Keith Hernandez is not 296 00:19:45,435 --> 00:19:49,235 Speaker 1: on that ballot. Easily the most impressive defensive player I 297 00:19:49,355 --> 00:19:52,635 Speaker 1: have ever seen, and I include Ozzie Smith and ray 298 00:19:52,755 --> 00:19:58,595 Speaker 1: Or Doniz and Jim Edmonds because Hernandez performed aggressive, original intelligence, 299 00:19:59,155 --> 00:20:02,915 Speaker 1: valuable defense from a position simply not known for that 300 00:20:03,115 --> 00:20:06,995 Speaker 1: first base. He's a Hall of Famer like McGriffin Murphy 301 00:20:07,075 --> 00:20:10,355 Speaker 1: and they should put him in. Just don't get him 302 00:20:10,395 --> 00:20:21,115 Speaker 1: started on politics. I had. I was twenty one years old. 303 00:20:21,195 --> 00:20:23,435 Speaker 1: I was on a top New York radio station and 304 00:20:23,515 --> 00:20:26,035 Speaker 1: the disc jockey who had been on the air since 305 00:20:27,355 --> 00:20:29,875 Speaker 1: decided he was going to kill me and then get 306 00:20:29,995 --> 00:20:32,835 Speaker 1: me fired. Plus, I will play you one of those 307 00:20:32,875 --> 00:20:37,995 Speaker 1: sportscasts of mine from first the Daily Roundup of the misgrants, 308 00:20:38,035 --> 00:20:42,035 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst 309 00:20:42,075 --> 00:20:45,275 Speaker 1: persons in the world, The Bronze the CNN Morning Show, 310 00:20:45,315 --> 00:20:49,035 Speaker 1: which I believe is titled Fascists, Please let Us Live. 311 00:20:50,075 --> 00:20:53,955 Speaker 1: After a fluff interview with Kevin McCarthy Don Lemon, formerly 312 00:20:54,035 --> 00:20:56,275 Speaker 1: the lynchpin of their prime time lineup who has now 313 00:20:56,315 --> 00:20:59,595 Speaker 1: been banished to Mornings with Poppy Somebody, and the woman 314 00:20:59,675 --> 00:21:03,595 Speaker 1: from the Daily Caller objected to well, Don objected to 315 00:21:03,675 --> 00:21:06,515 Speaker 1: McCarthy lying and not getting any pushback from the reporter 316 00:21:06,555 --> 00:21:10,355 Speaker 1: who did the nonsense interview, quoting Don he misled people 317 00:21:10,395 --> 00:21:13,315 Speaker 1: about ventnyl in that there's a lot that needs to 318 00:21:13,355 --> 00:21:15,395 Speaker 1: be fact checked when it comes to what Kevin McCarthy 319 00:21:15,435 --> 00:21:18,355 Speaker 1: said about ventnyl seized at the border, that ventnyl is 320 00:21:18,395 --> 00:21:21,075 Speaker 1: not the number one cause of death for Americans. I 321 00:21:21,115 --> 00:21:23,635 Speaker 1: think it's important to have Kevin McCarthy on, but it 322 00:21:23,715 --> 00:21:25,715 Speaker 1: needs to be fact checked. A lot of what he 323 00:21:25,755 --> 00:21:28,995 Speaker 1: said in that interview was not factual. My guess is 324 00:21:29,115 --> 00:21:33,315 Speaker 1: Chris licked well now moved on to overnights on weekends 325 00:21:34,635 --> 00:21:38,875 Speaker 1: on Headline News. The runner up Brit Hume, who was 326 00:21:38,955 --> 00:21:42,115 Speaker 1: once an actual news correspondent for ABC, but who has 327 00:21:42,115 --> 00:21:45,635 Speaker 1: spent the last twenty five years prostituting himself for Fox News. 328 00:21:46,195 --> 00:21:50,755 Speaker 1: Hume made a rare a live appearance yesterday. And how 329 00:21:50,835 --> 00:21:53,595 Speaker 1: old he is? He's two and six. He made an 330 00:21:53,595 --> 00:21:56,235 Speaker 1: appearance yesterday, and since it was seventy six degrees here 331 00:21:56,275 --> 00:21:58,835 Speaker 1: in New York City in November, they did the interview 332 00:21:58,915 --> 00:22:02,915 Speaker 1: outside on sixth Avenue. It was that nitwit Harris Faulkner, 333 00:22:03,395 --> 00:22:06,115 Speaker 1: along with generic Blonde is number forty and number two 334 00:22:06,275 --> 00:22:09,835 Speaker 1: three nine and the generic brunette. Uh, what's her number? 335 00:22:10,595 --> 00:22:13,675 Speaker 1: Number one sixteen? That's right, Faulkner says to Hume, quote, 336 00:22:14,315 --> 00:22:16,355 Speaker 1: you are here in the nineteen seventies, and you say 337 00:22:16,435 --> 00:22:20,155 Speaker 1: New York fails like that now and and remember they're 338 00:22:20,235 --> 00:22:22,875 Speaker 1: on a New York City sidewalk, as Hume says this. 339 00:22:23,235 --> 00:22:27,635 Speaker 1: Hume says, quote, the streets are chaotic. I see dirt 340 00:22:27,675 --> 00:22:32,195 Speaker 1: and trash on the sidewalks. I also see dirt and 341 00:22:32,315 --> 00:22:36,755 Speaker 1: trash on the sidewalks. It's called brit Hume. But our 342 00:22:36,795 --> 00:22:41,595 Speaker 1: winner Chris Saliza of CNN years ago. He was with 343 00:22:41,715 --> 00:22:43,875 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, and when we couldn't get anybody else, 344 00:22:43,875 --> 00:22:47,435 Speaker 1: we would put him on countdown. He was okay, pleasant, friendly. 345 00:22:48,635 --> 00:22:51,235 Speaker 1: Somewhere along the line he earned the top spot on 346 00:22:51,315 --> 00:22:54,875 Speaker 1: the Mount Rushmore of tone deafness, a place on top 347 00:22:54,915 --> 00:22:58,635 Speaker 1: of the pyramid of both sides? Is him political group think? 348 00:22:58,755 --> 00:23:03,755 Speaker 1: That's him conventional lack of wisdom. Chris Saliza, the House 349 00:23:03,835 --> 00:23:08,915 Speaker 1: majority whip South Carolina Congress since nineteen Jim Clyburne, history 350 00:23:08,995 --> 00:23:12,795 Speaker 1: degree from South Carolina State, former high school history teacher, 351 00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:16,475 Speaker 1: told Fox Over the Weekend, quote, the facts are very clear. 352 00:23:16,595 --> 00:23:19,075 Speaker 1: I've studied history all my life. I've taught history, and 353 00:23:19,115 --> 00:23:22,515 Speaker 1: I'm telling you what I see here are parallels to 354 00:23:22,635 --> 00:23:25,155 Speaker 1: what the history was in this world back in the 355 00:23:25,275 --> 00:23:31,915 Speaker 1: nineteen thirties in Germany, in Italy. But Chris Saliza knows better, 356 00:23:32,275 --> 00:23:35,475 Speaker 1: because Chris is a very serious political reporter, and he 357 00:23:35,595 --> 00:23:39,595 Speaker 1: went to Georgetown and he hosts political trivia night. So 358 00:23:39,755 --> 00:23:43,475 Speaker 1: Chris Soliza wrote, quote rule number one of politics goes 359 00:23:43,595 --> 00:23:47,955 Speaker 1: like this, don't compare anything to Nazi Germany. Just don't 360 00:23:48,275 --> 00:23:53,035 Speaker 1: unquote Ah. Isn't that sweet? Chris thinks there are still 361 00:23:53,195 --> 00:23:56,995 Speaker 1: rules here. To quote James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams, 362 00:23:57,235 --> 00:23:59,915 Speaker 1: there are rules here. No, there are no rules here. 363 00:24:00,675 --> 00:24:03,395 Speaker 1: I'll go on quoting Chris before we go any further. 364 00:24:03,555 --> 00:24:06,435 Speaker 1: It's worth noting here that pairing anything to the Nazi regime, 365 00:24:06,795 --> 00:24:09,475 Speaker 1: which led to the systemic murder more than six million Jews, 366 00:24:09,835 --> 00:24:12,875 Speaker 1: is a mistake. It just is. There is nothing in 367 00:24:12,955 --> 00:24:17,515 Speaker 1: our current moment that suggests we are anywhere close to that. Well, 368 00:24:17,555 --> 00:24:21,195 Speaker 1: you're wrong about that. But firstly, Clyburn was clearly referring 369 00:24:21,195 --> 00:24:24,235 Speaker 1: to the start of Hitler's reign in Germany and Mussolini's 370 00:24:24,595 --> 00:24:28,235 Speaker 1: in Italy. He said back in the nineteen thirties. He 371 00:24:28,395 --> 00:24:30,915 Speaker 1: was not referring to the nineteen forties or the Second 372 00:24:30,955 --> 00:24:34,075 Speaker 1: World War. Hitler did not get sworn in and then 373 00:24:34,155 --> 00:24:37,115 Speaker 1: opened the death camps later the same afternoon. He began 374 00:24:37,195 --> 00:24:41,715 Speaker 1: a series of escalations, including demonizing minority groups like Oh, 375 00:24:42,555 --> 00:24:46,835 Speaker 1: what's that guy's name? Uh Trump, who demonized every group 376 00:24:46,875 --> 00:24:50,875 Speaker 1: from Mexicans to dredged transgendered kids. And then Hitler called 377 00:24:50,915 --> 00:24:53,795 Speaker 1: for cleansing Germany, and then he staged political violence, like 378 00:24:54,355 --> 00:24:56,635 Speaker 1: what was that thing we had here? What was that? Well, 379 00:24:56,715 --> 00:24:59,715 Speaker 1: they went up on the wall and they and they Nancy, Nancy? 380 00:24:59,875 --> 00:25:02,275 Speaker 1: What was that? Or when they went to Nancy's house? 381 00:25:02,315 --> 00:25:06,355 Speaker 1: What was that? But January six and even if Clyburne 382 00:25:06,795 --> 00:25:09,555 Speaker 1: didn't mean the start of fascism, let me quote a 383 00:25:09,635 --> 00:25:13,675 Speaker 1: tweet that's relevant to this, Crystaliza quote, America needs a 384 00:25:13,795 --> 00:25:17,195 Speaker 1: total cleansing only Trump can do with the help of 385 00:25:17,315 --> 00:25:22,715 Speaker 1: true patriots unquote cleansing. That tweet was in response to 386 00:25:22,795 --> 00:25:26,315 Speaker 1: the nut job lawyer Lynn Would calling for the execution 387 00:25:26,355 --> 00:25:29,515 Speaker 1: of Mike Pence by firing squad. And that tweet calling 388 00:25:29,595 --> 00:25:31,795 Speaker 1: for a total cleansing of America only Trump can do 389 00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:36,395 Speaker 1: that was sent by Herschel Walker, who may soon be 390 00:25:36,915 --> 00:25:44,755 Speaker 1: Senator elect. Herschel total cleansing of America Walker, But Chrystaliza 391 00:25:45,515 --> 00:25:49,355 Speaker 1: go on. Chris writes that the election deniers like Herschel 392 00:25:49,395 --> 00:25:53,115 Speaker 1: total cleansing of America Walker quote represent a serious threat 393 00:25:53,155 --> 00:25:55,555 Speaker 1: to our way of life. After all, if we can't 394 00:25:55,595 --> 00:25:58,555 Speaker 1: accept that our leaders were fairly elected and have faith 395 00:25:58,635 --> 00:26:01,955 Speaker 1: in the system, it's very hard to imagine how we 396 00:26:02,035 --> 00:26:06,995 Speaker 1: could expect anyone to effectively govern. Chris thinks the only 397 00:26:07,075 --> 00:26:13,515 Speaker 1: consequence of election denialism is inefficient governance. It's not going 398 00:26:13,675 --> 00:26:18,195 Speaker 1: to be infrastructure week quite as often. It's that that's 399 00:26:18,195 --> 00:26:20,235 Speaker 1: the real problem here, not you know, the end of 400 00:26:20,275 --> 00:26:23,315 Speaker 1: representative government in the United States and a Trump usurpation. 401 00:26:23,595 --> 00:26:26,595 Speaker 1: Trump who kept a book of Hitler's speeches in a 402 00:26:26,755 --> 00:26:30,035 Speaker 1: bedside table, and who believes the military and everybody in 403 00:26:30,155 --> 00:26:33,835 Speaker 1: the government must be personally loyal to him, and who 404 00:26:33,915 --> 00:26:37,515 Speaker 1: asked his chief of staff, General Kelly, quote, you effing generals, 405 00:26:37,595 --> 00:26:40,035 Speaker 1: why can't you be like the German generals in World 406 00:26:40,075 --> 00:26:43,915 Speaker 1: War Two? Meaning loyal? And when Kelly told him, you 407 00:26:43,995 --> 00:26:47,075 Speaker 1: know some of the generals trying to kill Hitler, Trump replied, no, no, no, 408 00:26:47,435 --> 00:26:51,075 Speaker 1: they were totally loyal to him. Go on, Chris, about 409 00:26:51,115 --> 00:26:56,715 Speaker 1: how much trouble a fascist coup, another fascist coup would 410 00:26:56,795 --> 00:27:01,595 Speaker 1: do to government efficiency quote, which is bad, very bad. 411 00:27:02,075 --> 00:27:06,195 Speaker 1: But it's also worth remembering that democracy held even while 412 00:27:06,235 --> 00:27:11,075 Speaker 1: it was under active assault from Donald Trump and his minions. Yes, Chris, 413 00:27:11,195 --> 00:27:14,115 Speaker 1: because as whoever was your exact match in the political 414 00:27:14,235 --> 00:27:17,475 Speaker 1: landscape of eighteen sixty would have said, it's worth remembering 415 00:27:17,555 --> 00:27:20,595 Speaker 1: that democracy has held since seventeen eighty nine, and the 416 00:27:20,715 --> 00:27:23,675 Speaker 1: Union is held ever since seventeen eighty nine, even while 417 00:27:23,715 --> 00:27:26,915 Speaker 1: it was under active threat of secession by John Calhoun 418 00:27:27,075 --> 00:27:30,995 Speaker 1: and his minions. This is the essence of political thought 419 00:27:31,075 --> 00:27:33,675 Speaker 1: in America today, or more correctly, the essence of lack 420 00:27:33,755 --> 00:27:39,475 Speaker 1: of political thought. It hasn't happened before, therefore it can 421 00:27:39,595 --> 00:27:44,395 Speaker 1: never happen. Chuck Todd is a master's degree in this. 422 00:27:44,955 --> 00:27:49,835 Speaker 1: But wait, Chris still has more. Quote. We absolutely should 423 00:27:49,875 --> 00:27:53,155 Speaker 1: be vigilant about the potential rise of authoritarian politicians who 424 00:27:53,155 --> 00:27:55,475 Speaker 1: would wipe out things like the rule of law to 425 00:27:55,595 --> 00:27:58,835 Speaker 1: further their own political ambitions. I'm glad you're concerned, Chris. 426 00:27:59,915 --> 00:28:04,395 Speaker 1: Stay vigilant over there on Political Trivia Night. But let's 427 00:28:04,835 --> 00:28:11,915 Speaker 1: making the Nazi Germany comparison for all of our sakes. Unquote, Chris, 428 00:28:12,195 --> 00:28:13,995 Speaker 1: I could go a lot of different ways here to 429 00:28:14,115 --> 00:28:17,995 Speaker 1: explain to you how tragically wrong you are here, but 430 00:28:18,115 --> 00:28:20,835 Speaker 1: let me just stick to a story in today's news. 431 00:28:20,995 --> 00:28:24,875 Speaker 1: The guy who just bought Twitter, who had demanded that 432 00:28:24,955 --> 00:28:28,035 Speaker 1: it needed to remain politically neutral to have any credibility, 433 00:28:28,955 --> 00:28:30,675 Speaker 1: and then he bought it. And then he told his 434 00:28:30,755 --> 00:28:35,195 Speaker 1: one fifteen million followers yesterday to vote Republican. The guy 435 00:28:35,235 --> 00:28:37,475 Speaker 1: who on Sunday liked and responded to a quote that 436 00:28:37,555 --> 00:28:40,235 Speaker 1: was falsely attributed to Voltaire was actually spoken by an 437 00:28:40,235 --> 00:28:44,675 Speaker 1: American neo Nazi and pedophile Elon Musk. You've heard of him, Chris, 438 00:28:45,115 --> 00:28:47,875 Speaker 1: who yesterday tweeted the photo of a Nazi soldier from 439 00:28:49,435 --> 00:28:52,235 Speaker 1: two Days two Nazis. That's a lot of Nazis, Chris. 440 00:28:53,315 --> 00:28:56,755 Speaker 1: The Nazi compy is legit, and you should be worried 441 00:28:56,755 --> 00:29:00,595 Speaker 1: about what happens to you and me and everybody else, 442 00:29:00,995 --> 00:29:04,395 Speaker 1: especially the enemies of the people that Trump has declared 443 00:29:04,475 --> 00:29:07,155 Speaker 1: us to be. You should be worried about that. In 444 00:29:07,315 --> 00:29:12,675 Speaker 1: case you're wrong, and Chris, you're always wrong. Worry about 445 00:29:12,715 --> 00:29:15,075 Speaker 1: that instead of worrying about correcting a history teacher who 446 00:29:15,115 --> 00:29:18,995 Speaker 1: has also been in Congress for thirty freaking years. Chris, 447 00:29:19,315 --> 00:29:21,635 Speaker 1: When you're wrong and they put us in the journalistic 448 00:29:21,715 --> 00:29:24,475 Speaker 1: detention facility, you and I I just pray them in 449 00:29:24,515 --> 00:29:30,595 Speaker 1: a different barracks than you are. Solizza, Today's worst person 450 00:29:31,875 --> 00:29:45,195 Speaker 1: and the world choose the number one story on the 451 00:29:45,235 --> 00:29:48,515 Speaker 1: countdown on my favorite topic, me and today's things I 452 00:29:48,635 --> 00:29:51,515 Speaker 1: promised not to tell, And with the NFL in full 453 00:29:51,555 --> 00:29:54,835 Speaker 1: swing and the New York Frontball Giants with a surprising 454 00:29:54,955 --> 00:29:57,795 Speaker 1: six and to start, I thought we could all use 455 00:29:57,875 --> 00:30:03,555 Speaker 1: a little comic relief. At my expense. This remains, in short, 456 00:30:04,075 --> 00:30:08,915 Speaker 1: as terr rifying as anything else in my career, death threats, 457 00:30:09,435 --> 00:30:13,395 Speaker 1: fake antrax, What New York felt like post nine eleven, 458 00:30:13,795 --> 00:30:17,075 Speaker 1: the frozen feeling of realizing you've made a terrible, damaging 459 00:30:17,155 --> 00:30:21,275 Speaker 1: mistake on a story, even working for Rupert Murdoch. Worse 460 00:30:21,395 --> 00:30:25,795 Speaker 1: than that. Forty two years have passed since this event, 461 00:30:26,275 --> 00:30:29,675 Speaker 1: and nothing has dimmed the memory, nothing has reduced the 462 00:30:29,755 --> 00:30:33,475 Speaker 1: palpable sense of anxiety in every joint in my body. 463 00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:39,395 Speaker 1: On Sunday, December twenty one, nineteen eighty, the Oakland Raiders 464 00:30:39,435 --> 00:30:41,915 Speaker 1: defeated the New York Giants thirty three to seventeen to 465 00:30:42,115 --> 00:30:44,955 Speaker 1: end the Giant season at four wins and twelve losses, 466 00:30:45,355 --> 00:30:47,715 Speaker 1: with the most points they had given up in one year. 467 00:30:48,195 --> 00:30:52,875 Speaker 1: Since nineteen sixty six. I was the backup sportscaster at 468 00:30:53,035 --> 00:30:55,835 Speaker 1: w n e W Radio in New York. We carried 469 00:30:55,915 --> 00:30:59,315 Speaker 1: the Giants game broadcast. In fact, we had carried them 470 00:30:59,355 --> 00:31:01,955 Speaker 1: since I was two years old. I was now a 471 00:31:02,075 --> 00:31:05,355 Speaker 1: month shy of twenty two, and it being Christmas week. 472 00:31:05,395 --> 00:31:07,875 Speaker 1: I reported bright and early to the studios at forty 473 00:31:07,915 --> 00:31:12,235 Speaker 1: one Street and Third Avenue on Monday, December. My first 474 00:31:12,435 --> 00:31:16,355 Speaker 1: sportscast was at five thirty am. There was a theme 475 00:31:16,475 --> 00:31:20,075 Speaker 1: song which invoked the name of the regular sportscaster, John Kennelly. 476 00:31:20,555 --> 00:31:23,795 Speaker 1: It said sports and Commentary, and my first few weeks 477 00:31:23,835 --> 00:31:25,995 Speaker 1: filling in that year, I stuck mostly to the sports, 478 00:31:26,075 --> 00:31:29,155 Speaker 1: with just an occasional commentary, but mostly a joke or 479 00:31:29,235 --> 00:31:33,955 Speaker 1: pithy observation, well kind of pathy. But that first weekend 480 00:31:33,995 --> 00:31:37,035 Speaker 1: of winter, the Giants stink was all that we could 481 00:31:37,115 --> 00:31:38,755 Speaker 1: smell in New York, and I felt I had to 482 00:31:38,875 --> 00:31:42,795 Speaker 1: point it out, pointed Lee, and so while I observed 483 00:31:42,875 --> 00:31:45,195 Speaker 1: that there was a positive they had started one and eight, 484 00:31:45,275 --> 00:31:48,275 Speaker 1: but then had actually won three of their last seven games, 485 00:31:48,315 --> 00:31:52,515 Speaker 1: the rest of my commentary was cynical, cerbic dissatisfied, in 486 00:31:52,635 --> 00:31:55,475 Speaker 1: other words, the average day of the typical New York 487 00:31:55,555 --> 00:31:58,915 Speaker 1: sports fan. I ended my show right on time at 488 00:31:58,955 --> 00:32:01,875 Speaker 1: five thirty five am. And to my surprise, I heard 489 00:32:01,915 --> 00:32:05,675 Speaker 1: the disc jockey skip his usual posts boards cast remarks 490 00:32:06,035 --> 00:32:08,355 Speaker 1: and instead simply play the next record, which I think 491 00:32:08,435 --> 00:32:11,995 Speaker 1: was Frank Sinatra's The Way You Look Tonight. We were 492 00:32:12,035 --> 00:32:15,195 Speaker 1: a big band station. I stepped out of the booth 493 00:32:15,275 --> 00:32:18,155 Speaker 1: and took the dozen scrides through the newsroom, busy even 494 00:32:18,195 --> 00:32:20,355 Speaker 1: at that hour, with eight or ten staffers, and I 495 00:32:20,475 --> 00:32:23,195 Speaker 1: was sitting down at my desk when the door from 496 00:32:23,235 --> 00:32:27,595 Speaker 1: the main air studio slammed open. In the doorway stood 497 00:32:27,635 --> 00:32:29,475 Speaker 1: the dish jockey, and he had a message for me. 498 00:32:29,835 --> 00:32:35,075 Speaker 1: The message was you punk. The disc jockey's name was 499 00:32:35,195 --> 00:32:38,275 Speaker 1: Ted Brown. On the air, he was your morning man, 500 00:32:38,435 --> 00:32:42,995 Speaker 1: Ted Brown, speaking upbeat drivel mostly two women who loved 501 00:32:43,035 --> 00:32:46,435 Speaker 1: the mellow sound of his voice. Off the air. W 502 00:32:46,675 --> 00:32:49,835 Speaker 1: n EW was his station and the morning show was 503 00:32:50,155 --> 00:32:53,315 Speaker 1: his show. He would fight for it. In fact, he 504 00:32:53,435 --> 00:32:56,515 Speaker 1: had fought at least two news reporters in his time 505 00:32:56,675 --> 00:33:00,075 Speaker 1: in the studio. While Frank Sinatra records played on a 506 00:33:00,155 --> 00:33:03,315 Speaker 1: turntable thirty ft away. Ted Brown was a big man 507 00:33:03,555 --> 00:33:06,835 Speaker 1: six three six or maybe by this point I don't know, 508 00:33:06,955 --> 00:33:11,875 Speaker 1: two thirty forty to fifty thick tortoiseshell glasses. He was 509 00:33:11,955 --> 00:33:15,555 Speaker 1: a sports fan, a huge gambler racetracks. Mostly the Giants 510 00:33:15,595 --> 00:33:18,155 Speaker 1: had begun on w n W nineteen sixty one. Ted 511 00:33:18,235 --> 00:33:21,515 Speaker 1: Brown had begun on w n W nineteen nine. And 512 00:33:21,675 --> 00:33:24,235 Speaker 1: he was tough, and it was not even the New 513 00:33:24,315 --> 00:33:26,635 Speaker 1: York tough I had grown up with. This guy had 514 00:33:26,675 --> 00:33:29,835 Speaker 1: been a tailgunner on a B seventeen during the Second 515 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:32,595 Speaker 1: World War, and the Nazi shot him down, and they 516 00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:35,915 Speaker 1: took him to Stalag nine Sea near Leipzig, and they 517 00:33:35,995 --> 00:33:39,635 Speaker 1: kept him there for eighteen months, and basically he chewed 518 00:33:39,715 --> 00:33:42,955 Speaker 1: up and spit out guys like me for breakfast. And 519 00:33:43,115 --> 00:33:47,155 Speaker 1: I respected him. You punk, So you don't like how 520 00:33:47,195 --> 00:33:50,195 Speaker 1: the giants? Did you think any of us do? He 521 00:33:50,395 --> 00:33:54,035 Speaker 1: gestured towards the newscasters and staffers. Nobody looked up. You 522 00:33:54,155 --> 00:33:57,675 Speaker 1: know how easy it is to sit there in a nice, heated, dry, 523 00:33:58,075 --> 00:34:04,115 Speaker 1: comfortable newsroom. I was in Stalag nine c. His contempt 524 00:34:04,155 --> 00:34:07,795 Speaker 1: for the I of the newsroom was amazing. You sit 525 00:34:07,915 --> 00:34:12,755 Speaker 1: here in your newsroom and pontificate while men, men in 526 00:34:12,915 --> 00:34:18,475 Speaker 1: helmets with mud on them, their bones, breaking, their hearts pounding, 527 00:34:18,835 --> 00:34:22,395 Speaker 1: They are out on the field, fighting and tackling and 528 00:34:22,555 --> 00:34:26,715 Speaker 1: working on the field of battle, so you can sit 529 00:34:26,835 --> 00:34:33,195 Speaker 1: here in your newsroom. It was at this point that 530 00:34:33,275 --> 00:34:35,435 Speaker 1: I remembered where I had first seen a photograph of 531 00:34:35,475 --> 00:34:38,555 Speaker 1: Ted Brown. He was in a booth at Yankee Stadium, 532 00:34:38,835 --> 00:34:41,595 Speaker 1: where the Giants played in the nineteen sixties. He was 533 00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:45,475 Speaker 1: the third man, a combination color announcer and host on 534 00:34:45,715 --> 00:34:50,235 Speaker 1: Giants radio broadcasts on w NW. He was the worst 535 00:34:50,475 --> 00:34:53,475 Speaker 1: possible person to have heard me rip the New York Giants, 536 00:34:53,915 --> 00:34:57,355 Speaker 1: even the four and twelve nine New York Giants, even 537 00:34:57,395 --> 00:35:00,875 Speaker 1: if editorially I was completely correct and not nearly as 538 00:35:00,915 --> 00:35:03,035 Speaker 1: hard on the team as its own announcers had been 539 00:35:03,155 --> 00:35:07,515 Speaker 1: on our station the day before. What did you do 540 00:35:07,755 --> 00:35:12,395 Speaker 1: to earn your spot here? Punk Ted Brown was turning red. 541 00:35:12,795 --> 00:35:15,715 Speaker 1: One of his fists was already clenched, while the other 542 00:35:15,955 --> 00:35:19,635 Speaker 1: arm cut through the air to emphasize how much I sucked. 543 00:35:20,675 --> 00:35:23,235 Speaker 1: I truly believed he was about to take a swing 544 00:35:23,435 --> 00:35:26,355 Speaker 1: at me. Then from behind him, the door from his 545 00:35:26,475 --> 00:35:29,675 Speaker 1: studio swung open again, and the elderly engineer, the man 546 00:35:29,715 --> 00:35:33,155 Speaker 1: who actually spun the records on Ted's show, came through it. 547 00:35:33,955 --> 00:35:36,355 Speaker 1: Ted I just had the segue out of Sinatra to 548 00:35:36,515 --> 00:35:40,355 Speaker 1: Jimmy Cagney singing Yankee doodle Dandy, and the general manager 549 00:35:40,475 --> 00:35:43,235 Speaker 1: called and he said, I should tell you w ANW 550 00:35:43,515 --> 00:35:46,475 Speaker 1: does not segue no records, don't do it again. You 551 00:35:46,555 --> 00:35:50,315 Speaker 1: better get back in here. The Cagney's almost finished. The 552 00:35:50,435 --> 00:35:54,275 Speaker 1: engineer then vanished silently back through the door. This warning 553 00:35:54,355 --> 00:35:57,955 Speaker 1: did nothing but make Ted Brown even angrier. The general manager. 554 00:35:58,115 --> 00:36:02,955 Speaker 1: Have you met the general manager? Punk? Jack Fair? And 555 00:36:03,275 --> 00:36:06,275 Speaker 1: Jack Fair gets in here at eight twenty every morning 556 00:36:06,395 --> 00:36:12,075 Speaker 1: on dot clockwork Punk. When you finish your eight thirty sportscasts, 557 00:36:12,555 --> 00:36:18,595 Speaker 1: I'm dragging you into meet Jack Fair, the general manager. 558 00:36:19,075 --> 00:36:23,235 Speaker 1: And that punk is when your career at w n 559 00:36:23,275 --> 00:36:27,835 Speaker 1: e W Radio will come to an abrupt end. You 560 00:36:28,155 --> 00:36:30,955 Speaker 1: think the New York Giants had a bad night, how 561 00:36:30,955 --> 00:36:35,955 Speaker 1: about your punk when your career ended? Because the real men, 562 00:36:36,355 --> 00:36:38,715 Speaker 1: the real men, are out there on the playing field, 563 00:36:39,035 --> 00:36:45,435 Speaker 1: not sitting inside a norse room in a slatter. This 564 00:36:45,595 --> 00:36:50,515 Speaker 1: continued for some time. The engineer returned, Tennant's there again, 565 00:36:50,595 --> 00:36:54,315 Speaker 1: I just segue to Samel tourmey. Ted Thayer wants to 566 00:36:54,355 --> 00:36:55,995 Speaker 1: talk to you. He thinks maybe you're not here, and 567 00:36:56,035 --> 00:37:00,315 Speaker 1: I'm covering for you. Ted Brown turned and swore dark 568 00:37:00,395 --> 00:37:02,915 Speaker 1: oaths against the engineer, and for that matter against the 569 00:37:02,955 --> 00:37:06,475 Speaker 1: general manager, Jack Thayer, and for that matter, against Mel Tormay. 570 00:37:07,235 --> 00:37:10,435 Speaker 1: You and Ma Punk eight thirty five, the end of 571 00:37:10,515 --> 00:37:13,955 Speaker 1: your career, Punk. He lunged at me. Suddenly the engineer 572 00:37:13,995 --> 00:37:18,475 Speaker 1: grabbed him and pulled him back through the door. In 573 00:37:18,595 --> 00:37:23,355 Speaker 1: the newsroom, there were only two sounds, one my heart, 574 00:37:23,595 --> 00:37:27,875 Speaker 1: which I suspect was audible, perhaps the next block, the 575 00:37:27,995 --> 00:37:31,675 Speaker 1: other typing. Nobody said a word, Nobody looked at me. 576 00:37:32,035 --> 00:37:35,755 Speaker 1: A phone rang, the production assistant sang out, w any 577 00:37:35,915 --> 00:37:38,875 Speaker 1: W news. I went over to the newscaster who had 578 00:37:38,915 --> 00:37:41,595 Speaker 1: been the most supportive of me to that point, Bob Hagen, 579 00:37:42,475 --> 00:37:45,635 Speaker 1: and through my shaking, I said extra to help Bob. 580 00:37:46,595 --> 00:37:49,715 Speaker 1: Bob did not look up from his typewriter. What he 581 00:37:49,795 --> 00:37:52,755 Speaker 1: said a matter of factly Brown, I said, yes, Brown, 582 00:37:53,035 --> 00:37:56,795 Speaker 1: he's gonna get me fired in three hours. Bob Hagen laughed, No, 583 00:37:56,955 --> 00:37:59,355 Speaker 1: he's not. I said, he just spent I don't know 584 00:37:59,355 --> 00:38:01,715 Speaker 1: how many minutes he spent three records screaming at me. 585 00:38:01,795 --> 00:38:05,675 Speaker 1: Didn't you hear him? I heard him. We all heard him. 586 00:38:06,155 --> 00:38:08,595 Speaker 1: We've all heard him every time he said that. He 587 00:38:08,755 --> 00:38:11,195 Speaker 1: said that to every one of us out here. He 588 00:38:11,315 --> 00:38:13,315 Speaker 1: said that about every one of us out here. He 589 00:38:13,395 --> 00:38:15,675 Speaker 1: took a swing at eyes grow over there. What was it, 590 00:38:15,755 --> 00:38:19,915 Speaker 1: Jimmy two months ago? Ignore him, I said, I failed 591 00:38:19,915 --> 00:38:21,835 Speaker 1: to see why any of what he had told me 592 00:38:21,875 --> 00:38:24,795 Speaker 1: should encourage me to ignore Ted Brown. When we had 593 00:38:24,835 --> 00:38:27,435 Speaker 1: a meeting with the general manager at eight thirty five, 594 00:38:29,475 --> 00:38:32,515 Speaker 1: Bob Hagen now stopped typing and smiled up at me 595 00:38:32,795 --> 00:38:37,955 Speaker 1: reassuringly from his chair. Keith, you do a good job. 596 00:38:39,435 --> 00:38:43,035 Speaker 1: Ted is nuts. Ted is mean. Ted is a crazy 597 00:38:43,115 --> 00:38:46,155 Speaker 1: Giants fan. Ted is also still better that he's not 598 00:38:46,235 --> 00:38:48,995 Speaker 1: on the radio broadcast of the Giants games. But Ted 599 00:38:49,075 --> 00:38:55,195 Speaker 1: has also been doing morning radio almost every day since Keith. 600 00:38:55,275 --> 00:38:57,955 Speaker 1: That's thirty five years of getting up in the middle 601 00:38:57,955 --> 00:39:01,995 Speaker 1: of the night, and many many years ago Keith. Ted 602 00:39:02,155 --> 00:39:07,075 Speaker 1: stopped remembering things like what somebody said on his show. 603 00:39:07,355 --> 00:39:11,355 Speaker 1: He doesn't remember, he won't remember. Just finish off the 604 00:39:11,435 --> 00:39:14,515 Speaker 1: next sports cast with one of your clever, funny, little 605 00:39:14,635 --> 00:39:17,275 Speaker 1: kicker stories. And even if he somehow remembers what you 606 00:39:17,355 --> 00:39:19,315 Speaker 1: said about the Giants, when he hears a good laugh, 607 00:39:20,395 --> 00:39:24,235 Speaker 1: all he'll remember is the laugh. I tried to be 608 00:39:24,315 --> 00:39:26,755 Speaker 1: respectful of Bob, but I told him I found all 609 00:39:26,875 --> 00:39:31,195 Speaker 1: this hard to believe Keith. He also drinks, he has nightmares, 610 00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:34,995 Speaker 1: he has pow nightmares, and he gets up at three 611 00:39:35,115 --> 00:39:39,875 Speaker 1: am every day. He does not imprint new memories anymore. 612 00:39:41,115 --> 00:39:43,235 Speaker 1: But no, why why should you listen to me? I've 613 00:39:43,275 --> 00:39:45,675 Speaker 1: only been on his show for ten years? Why would 614 00:39:45,755 --> 00:39:49,395 Speaker 1: I know? I'm telling you get a good, funny kicker 615 00:39:49,435 --> 00:39:53,835 Speaker 1: for the six thirty and he'll love you. I nodded grimly. 616 00:39:54,715 --> 00:39:56,755 Speaker 1: I did not believe Bob Hagen, but I knew he 617 00:39:56,875 --> 00:40:00,115 Speaker 1: meant well in anyway. He had started to type again. 618 00:40:01,795 --> 00:40:05,315 Speaker 1: The clock now moved impossibly quickly in credib. I did 619 00:40:05,475 --> 00:40:08,475 Speaker 1: find just the kind of funny, clever kicker story Bob 620 00:40:08,555 --> 00:40:11,755 Speaker 1: suggested I should use to close the six thirties sports cast. 621 00:40:12,035 --> 00:40:14,715 Speaker 1: I minimized my assault on the Giants and then finished 622 00:40:14,755 --> 00:40:17,035 Speaker 1: off my report with some story that shed a good 623 00:40:17,115 --> 00:40:21,075 Speaker 1: light on Montclair State College in New Jersey. I could 624 00:40:21,195 --> 00:40:24,115 Speaker 1: not have known, and I swear I did not know 625 00:40:25,035 --> 00:40:30,355 Speaker 1: that Ted Brown's sister had graduated from Montclair State College 626 00:40:30,395 --> 00:40:33,555 Speaker 1: in New Jersey. I finished off the sports cast with 627 00:40:33,635 --> 00:40:36,515 Speaker 1: the story something that made Montclair State look good A 628 00:40:36,555 --> 00:40:39,355 Speaker 1: little chuckle, and then Keith all rimmon for John Kennelly 629 00:40:39,795 --> 00:40:44,475 Speaker 1: on the Ted Brown Show ominously again. To my terror, 630 00:40:45,075 --> 00:40:47,475 Speaker 1: Ted Brown now said nothing on the air. I could 631 00:40:47,555 --> 00:40:49,995 Speaker 1: not see him through the window into the main air studio. 632 00:40:50,315 --> 00:40:52,675 Speaker 1: The engineer played a record instead. It may have been 633 00:40:52,955 --> 00:40:56,875 Speaker 1: the Montovani strings play the Beatles. I opened the door 634 00:40:56,915 --> 00:41:00,315 Speaker 1: back to the newsroom slowly and with trepidation. I crouched 635 00:41:00,435 --> 00:41:02,915 Speaker 1: as I moved back towards my desk. And that's when 636 00:41:02,955 --> 00:41:05,355 Speaker 1: it happened. The door from the main an air studio 637 00:41:05,515 --> 00:41:08,555 Speaker 1: slammed open again. It was Ted Brown again. Where is he? 638 00:41:09,235 --> 00:41:14,195 Speaker 1: Where is he? Montclair State? My sister went to Montclair State. 639 00:41:14,315 --> 00:41:18,275 Speaker 1: What a story, what a great laugh, perfectly delivered. My god, 640 00:41:18,395 --> 00:41:20,715 Speaker 1: that was the best sports cast we have ever had 641 00:41:20,795 --> 00:41:23,635 Speaker 1: on this station. Don't you think so freely? God? Love 642 00:41:23,715 --> 00:41:26,115 Speaker 1: you kid? What a talent? I laughed out loud, Kid, 643 00:41:26,235 --> 00:41:31,355 Speaker 1: I don't laugh out loud. It was the same Ted Brown. 644 00:41:32,235 --> 00:41:33,955 Speaker 1: I stole a quick glance at the news room to 645 00:41:33,955 --> 00:41:35,715 Speaker 1: see if this whole thing was some kind of act 646 00:41:36,275 --> 00:41:40,275 Speaker 1: being filmed for a hidden camera TV series. Nobody looked 647 00:41:40,355 --> 00:41:44,195 Speaker 1: up again. Nobody looked up Ted Brown, The man who 648 00:41:44,235 --> 00:41:46,875 Speaker 1: an hour before was ready to beat me up and 649 00:41:47,035 --> 00:41:49,875 Speaker 1: get me fired, was now repeating again and again that 650 00:41:49,955 --> 00:41:53,475 Speaker 1: I had just delivered the best sportscast in the history 651 00:41:53,595 --> 00:41:57,795 Speaker 1: of w n W radio. That's when his engineer came 652 00:41:57,795 --> 00:42:00,235 Speaker 1: back in. He had said, guy from Montevani to Perry Como, 653 00:42:00,275 --> 00:42:03,035 Speaker 1: and the general manager had called. And now Ted Brown's 654 00:42:03,115 --> 00:42:06,955 Speaker 1: eyes widened behind the thick glasses. The general manager Jack, 655 00:42:07,075 --> 00:42:10,955 Speaker 1: theyre say, Keith, have you ever met Jack there? This 656 00:42:11,115 --> 00:42:13,395 Speaker 1: gives me a great idea. Jack Thayer comes in here 657 00:42:13,435 --> 00:42:16,515 Speaker 1: every morning at eight twenty like clockwork. Look. I love 658 00:42:16,635 --> 00:42:19,635 Speaker 1: John Kennelly, he's great, but you you were exactly the 659 00:42:19,755 --> 00:42:22,595 Speaker 1: kind of new, fresh young voice we need on this 660 00:42:22,755 --> 00:42:25,675 Speaker 1: radio station. Damn it, I need on my show. When 661 00:42:25,795 --> 00:42:27,715 Speaker 1: Jack Thayer comes in here at eight twenties this morning, 662 00:42:27,755 --> 00:42:29,115 Speaker 1: you and I are going right in to his office 663 00:42:29,395 --> 00:42:31,475 Speaker 1: and we're gonna get you your own sports cast on 664 00:42:31,635 --> 00:42:33,795 Speaker 1: my show. We can do two sports cast an hour. 665 00:42:33,875 --> 00:42:36,955 Speaker 1: We'll take it out of the stock report. Montclair states. 666 00:42:37,075 --> 00:42:39,955 Speaker 1: I'll get you a contract you and Kennelly will seventy 667 00:42:40,035 --> 00:42:42,115 Speaker 1: five grand be enough for your kid. You're gonna hit 668 00:42:42,155 --> 00:42:46,275 Speaker 1: the big time here, my friend, and out the engineer 669 00:42:46,395 --> 00:42:50,235 Speaker 1: came again. Jack Thayer had again called in fourth time 670 00:42:50,275 --> 00:42:52,875 Speaker 1: that I knew of he really needed Ted back in 671 00:42:52,955 --> 00:42:56,835 Speaker 1: the studio to talk to the women. Ted Brown happily 672 00:42:56,915 --> 00:43:01,155 Speaker 1: shouted okay, okay, and began to back up into the doorway. 673 00:43:02,315 --> 00:43:05,595 Speaker 1: The look in his eyes towards me was one of 674 00:43:05,915 --> 00:43:11,875 Speaker 1: unimaginable love. Come here, here, come here, wait, come here, 675 00:43:11,955 --> 00:43:13,835 Speaker 1: come here, come here, and he lunged at me and 676 00:43:13,915 --> 00:43:17,835 Speaker 1: grabbed me into a bear hug. Just brilliant, Montclair State. 677 00:43:18,035 --> 00:43:20,675 Speaker 1: I gotta call my sister and tell you see in 678 00:43:20,915 --> 00:43:29,075 Speaker 1: Jack's office at five, I stood there, having now been 679 00:43:29,195 --> 00:43:33,075 Speaker 1: pummeled by two hurricanes arriving from different directions in the 680 00:43:33,155 --> 00:43:37,275 Speaker 1: span of one hour. All was silent in the w 681 00:43:37,475 --> 00:43:40,875 Speaker 1: n a W news room again but for the typing. 682 00:43:41,675 --> 00:43:44,875 Speaker 1: But it was silent only for a moment. That's when 683 00:43:44,955 --> 00:43:47,915 Speaker 1: Bob Hagen addressed me again. He did not look up. 684 00:43:48,595 --> 00:43:54,235 Speaker 1: All he said was Keith, he won't remember that either. 685 00:44:01,475 --> 00:44:04,755 Speaker 1: I still have nightmares. What I also have is a 686 00:44:04,875 --> 00:44:08,355 Speaker 1: cassette tape of a sportscast from w n W from 687 00:44:08,875 --> 00:44:15,075 Speaker 1: December with Ted Brown and me, and I will play 688 00:44:15,115 --> 00:44:17,035 Speaker 1: it for you at the end of these here credits. 689 00:44:17,275 --> 00:44:19,115 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thanks 690 00:44:19,155 --> 00:44:21,715 Speaker 1: for listening. Follow this podcast if you're not already doing so, 691 00:44:21,995 --> 00:44:24,755 Speaker 1: and tell somebody. Most of the music, including our theme 692 00:44:24,795 --> 00:44:28,395 Speaker 1: from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian 693 00:44:28,515 --> 00:44:31,355 Speaker 1: Ray and John Philip Chanelle, who are the Countdown musical directors. 694 00:44:31,675 --> 00:44:35,875 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle, guitarist, bass 695 00:44:35,955 --> 00:44:38,715 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, produced by t Ko Brothers. 696 00:44:39,195 --> 00:44:42,915 Speaker 1: Other Beethoven selections arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. 697 00:44:43,315 --> 00:44:46,315 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from Me ESPN two, 698 00:44:46,755 --> 00:44:50,475 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical 699 00:44:50,555 --> 00:44:53,715 Speaker 1: comments by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever. 700 00:44:54,155 --> 00:44:57,235 Speaker 1: Our announce you today, Larry David. Everything else pretty much 701 00:44:57,275 --> 00:44:59,835 Speaker 1: my fault. So let's countdown for this, the six hundred 702 00:44:59,875 --> 00:45:03,115 Speaker 1: and seventy second day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 703 00:45:03,595 --> 00:45:07,315 Speaker 1: Chris Saliza against the democratically elected government of the United States. 704 00:45:07,395 --> 00:45:10,795 Speaker 1: Arrest him now while we still can a new episode 705 00:45:11,035 --> 00:45:14,875 Speaker 1: of some kind tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, 706 00:45:14,915 --> 00:45:17,555 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. And now, thanks to 707 00:45:17,595 --> 00:45:20,635 Speaker 1: the fact that I am a pack rat, we take 708 00:45:20,675 --> 00:45:23,915 Speaker 1: you back to w n W Metromedia Radio in New York, 709 00:45:25,315 --> 00:45:32,115 Speaker 1: December nine, yours truly filling in for John Kennelly on 710 00:45:32,275 --> 00:45:36,475 Speaker 1: the Ted Brown Show. I'm Dave Spencer, w W News 711 00:45:36,715 --> 00:45:39,915 Speaker 1: and now w n AW Sports and Commentary with John 712 00:45:40,035 --> 00:45:44,115 Speaker 1: Kennedy and Good Morning Keith Olberman for Big John Sports 713 00:45:44,235 --> 00:45:46,515 Speaker 1: is brought to you by Amtrack America is getting into 714 00:45:46,595 --> 00:45:49,835 Speaker 1: training with Metro Honor Service thirteen times every business day 715 00:45:49,875 --> 00:45:52,755 Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. They run from Penn Station and if you 716 00:45:52,795 --> 00:45:55,835 Speaker 1: were there last night, you've probably heard some noise from upstairs. 717 00:45:56,275 --> 00:45:59,195 Speaker 1: It was Ranger fans celebrating the new year. A little 718 00:45:59,235 --> 00:46:02,155 Speaker 1: early hairs at center, that's in l A left wing 719 00:46:02,275 --> 00:46:04,755 Speaker 1: feat right white, A nice cup. Two seconds to go 720 00:46:05,115 --> 00:46:10,555 Speaker 1: and that's it. Standing ovation for the Rangers. Have to 721 00:46:10,715 --> 00:46:13,595 Speaker 1: pete at the Islander is six to four The Sam 722 00:46:13,755 --> 00:46:15,555 Speaker 1: Rose and play by play here last night, as the 723 00:46:15,635 --> 00:46:17,955 Speaker 1: Rangers wrapped up a marvel at six to four victory 724 00:46:17,995 --> 00:46:20,435 Speaker 1: over the Islanders, their first win over the Cup champs 725 00:46:20,475 --> 00:46:22,715 Speaker 1: in nine games. It was tied four four with a 726 00:46:22,755 --> 00:46:25,275 Speaker 1: little over three minutes left when Andre Dorry fed Dave's 727 00:46:25,275 --> 00:46:28,515 Speaker 1: silk silk slapped Don Maloney put home the rebound and 728 00:46:28,555 --> 00:46:31,075 Speaker 1: the Rangers were ahead to stay very Back had a 729 00:46:31,115 --> 00:46:33,635 Speaker 1: goal to celebrate his return from the suspension. Do Gay 730 00:46:33,675 --> 00:46:36,595 Speaker 1: had a pair to up his total to two. The 731 00:46:36,715 --> 00:46:39,515 Speaker 1: Rangers are gonna trade Dean Telfus and Jerry Gillis today 732 00:46:39,555 --> 00:46:42,675 Speaker 1: to Quebec for Robbie fitz tok. This guy is your class. 733 00:46:42,715 --> 00:46:45,155 Speaker 1: A diminutive set are here. He works very hard. He 734 00:46:45,195 --> 00:46:47,555 Speaker 1: has a long track record of busting his body parts 735 00:46:47,595 --> 00:46:50,515 Speaker 1: for some pretty mediocre teams. He is thirty years old. 736 00:46:50,955 --> 00:46:53,635 Speaker 1: Her Brooks thinks he will help her. Brooks should try 737 00:46:53,635 --> 00:46:55,995 Speaker 1: to get Wayne Gretzky. Now what would he cost anyway? 738 00:46:55,995 --> 00:46:59,555 Speaker 1: A few billion, fifteen players and Brooks first born. He'd 739 00:46:59,595 --> 00:47:02,195 Speaker 1: be worth it. Gretzky got five more goals last night 740 00:47:02,235 --> 00:47:04,995 Speaker 1: in Edmonton's seven to five went over Philadelphia, meaning he 741 00:47:05,115 --> 00:47:08,075 Speaker 1: cracked the fifty goal mark in thirty nine games, eleven 742 00:47:08,155 --> 00:47:11,035 Speaker 1: games faster than the previous record, which was shared by 743 00:47:11,155 --> 00:47:15,075 Speaker 1: Rocket Richard and Mike Bossi. Gratzky's biggest fans, his parents, 744 00:47:15,155 --> 00:47:17,395 Speaker 1: were to fly to Vancouver tonight to watch him play 745 00:47:17,435 --> 00:47:19,555 Speaker 1: there and try to get the record. He says now 746 00:47:19,635 --> 00:47:21,755 Speaker 1: he's almost sorry he got the five last night. He 747 00:47:21,915 --> 00:47:26,035 Speaker 1: didn't want to disappoint them. Neither local basketball team disappoints. 748 00:47:26,155 --> 00:47:30,715 Speaker 1: That and more after this from Amtrack. Now there's a 749 00:47:30,795 --> 00:47:38,435 Speaker 1: brand new express service, the New York Roodies, better known 750 00:47:38,515 --> 00:47:40,755 Speaker 1: here is The Knicks come from a twelve point halftime 751 00:47:40,835 --> 00:47:43,675 Speaker 1: deficit to beat Cleveland in overtime last night by dred 752 00:47:43,715 --> 00:47:45,995 Speaker 1: and ten to a hundred and eight. The Knickerbockers are 753 00:47:45,995 --> 00:47:48,675 Speaker 1: now a game above five hundred on the road and 754 00:47:48,755 --> 00:47:51,235 Speaker 1: a game below five hundred at home. That is not 755 00:47:51,315 --> 00:47:53,915 Speaker 1: supposed to happen in the NBA. The Nets one last 756 00:47:53,995 --> 00:47:56,755 Speaker 1: night too, only they did it at home one nineteen 757 00:47:56,795 --> 00:47:59,675 Speaker 1: over Detroit. After one and a half periods of feeling out, 758 00:47:59,875 --> 00:48:02,075 Speaker 1: the Nets took command. Their lead down the stretch was 759 00:48:02,115 --> 00:48:04,635 Speaker 1: in the high teams. The liberty ball last night was 760 00:48:04,715 --> 00:48:07,555 Speaker 1: supposed to be an Ohio State blowout, but quarterback Arch 761 00:48:07,555 --> 00:48:10,475 Speaker 1: Schleister inconveniently had a bad first half and the Buckeyes 762 00:48:10,515 --> 00:48:14,035 Speaker 1: wound up beating the Navy by only. This was rather 763 00:48:14,155 --> 00:48:17,675 Speaker 1: unfortunate if you took Ohio State, they were fourteen point favorites. 764 00:48:18,195 --> 00:48:21,275 Speaker 1: Not quite. Finally, they call it disastro turf, and the 765 00:48:21,355 --> 00:48:23,395 Speaker 1: closer and closer we get to game day, the more 766 00:48:23,435 --> 00:48:25,315 Speaker 1: and more likely it is the Giants won't get to 767 00:48:25,395 --> 00:48:27,995 Speaker 1: practice on it. As the steady rains continue in the 768 00:48:28,075 --> 00:48:31,275 Speaker 1: Bay Area. The Forts continue to suggest that the Giants 769 00:48:31,355 --> 00:48:34,275 Speaker 1: canceled their scheduled Saturday practice at cattle Stick Park for 770 00:48:34,315 --> 00:48:36,915 Speaker 1: the good of the bad field, which means that the 771 00:48:36,995 --> 00:48:39,635 Speaker 1: first time folks like Rob Carpenter will get their feet 772 00:48:39,635 --> 00:48:42,315 Speaker 1: wet literally will be when they come out for the 773 00:48:42,355 --> 00:48:45,995 Speaker 1: game Sunday afternoon. That sports brought to you by Amtrak 774 00:48:46,275 --> 00:48:49,675 Speaker 1: America's getting into trading with Metroliner service thirteen times every 775 00:48:49,715 --> 00:48:52,995 Speaker 1: business day to Philadelphia. I'm Keith Olberman for John Kennelly 776 00:48:53,075 --> 00:49:02,075 Speaker 1: on The Ted Brown Show. Good morning everybody, Thank you Keith. 777 00:49:02,115 --> 00:49:05,355 Speaker 1: It's twenty one before seven and count Down with Keith 778 00:49:05,395 --> 00:49:08,595 Speaker 1: Alderman is a production of I heart Radio. For more 779 00:49:08,755 --> 00:49:12,115 Speaker 1: podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, 780 00:49:12,195 --> 00:49:15,515 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.